I have a very simple agenda. The agenda is why do we need hybrid meetings? I will be covering how to set up a hybrid meeting, we'll have a small demo, and finally, if you have any questions, I will address them in the Q&A session. First of all, I want to talk about why we need hybrid. Think about in your office what's happening, especially if you're in IT, you're in some kind of management, you will be experiencing hybrid meetings. You will be sitting around on the table, and then you will be having some discussions with your vendors from a different country. You might be having a demo of a product hybrid, you want to do it because it is a future. And the reason why it is the future is when the COVID struck and we were dragged to adapt to online. And we learned as we started figuring out how to do work online, how to do work remotely. Eventually, we figured out how to use Zoom, how to use Teams, and get our work done. But that was, of course, for a short period. That was the need of the hour. But what happens now that the COVID is over? We can all go back to work, right? We can all do things physically. But really, yes or no? Because I think what has happened in those two years is that technology has advanced so rapidly to take care of remote work that organizations have suddenly realized there is value in it. There is value in running remote projects, there is value not traveling to a different country, but using the technology which is now available, which we were not used to. And therefore, you need those face-to-face meetings. There's no doubt about it. There is nothing that can replace the experience of talking to somebody, shaking their hands, right? But there are huge cost savings. If you work remotely, if you get your projects done remotely, if you outsource to a different country, and that's what's happening. People are outsourcing even HR. People are sitting in India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and getting their work done. But how do we communicate with them? How do we communicate with them effectively? So hybrid is, therefore, that's the future. And therefore, as those masters, I believe it is important that, first of all, we get on the stage, get that excitement. But when we can't, like my wife now, is in India, and she can't be here, but she can still be part of this meeting.  I can hear you. All right. Okay. Thanks for the clarification. And that's why we need to add up. It is to give us the best of both worlds. It is to give us the ability to experience physical meetings as those masters. But then we cannot or when there are members who are interested to join those masters, but they can't travel, they still have that opportunity. And when they can, they will come in. So that's how we need to think about this hybrid meeting, why we need hybrid meetings. It is the future. It is the best of both worlds. It saves money and cost. And most importantly, it gives you the ability for a global reach. Today, QA challenges has members from Saudi Arabia, from Nigeria, from Sri Lanka, from Egypt, and even from USA, we have a member. So it allows us to grow. And at the same time, have members who want physical experience. And that's why we as food challenges, we have embraced hybrid meetings. We see it as a vehicle for growth. My objective today is to show you all what is it that you need to do to have an effective hybrid meeting. Now what happens is many clubs, they will try hybrid meetings and the experience that the members get is not good enough. The online audience, especially, they feel left out. You are 10 people here, enjoying, having fun, having snacks, and they are looking at you. The experience has to be inclusive. If you really want a good hybrid meeting, then the online audience should feel the same experience as the one of you. And therefore that means there has to be some kind of a minimum standard that you need to have. And what's the minimum standard that whatever is said in this room, you all should be able to hear us and whatever you say, we should be able to. And that's the key, hearing. If you can hear, I think the rest of the challenge is easy, which is to see. There is a saying which says, audience will listen to you if they can hear what you're saying. They'll forgive you if your video is bad, but they'll not forgive you if they can't understand what you're saying. So the first part that we need to solve is the audio. And that will depend upon where are you having the hybrid meeting? Is the hybrid meeting in a small room, in a conference room, like this, for example, which we have here, which sits about 20 people? Or is it a big hall? Because for each environment, your setup, how you create that hybrid environment will change. If you can overcome that challenge, overcome the challenge of people in the online able to listen to what the physical audience is saying and us in the physical room able to hear what you're saying, you have corrected the code of hybrid meeting. And we usually suffer from it. Why? Because we try to use our laptops. We try to use our phones. And the problem with that is that these phones and these laptops will never design for hybrid. They're designed for one person sitting maybe half a meter. The moment you step back two meters from the laptop, you lost the audio. And I'm sure you face this experience whenever you try to do maybe a contest and you want to stand up and deliver your speech. And suddenly you're two meters away from the laptop and your judges can't hear what you're saying. So you need to correct the code for the audio. How could I set up a hybrid meeting for a room like this? One of the Toastmaster clubs would have something like this. The only investment if you are as a club going to do is the investment in the audio. And this I believe is the lowest bar you can set yourself. You can go higher but this could be for a room of this size minimum. And so what is it? It is what we call the speakerphone. It works as a two in one device. Costs around 30 KD. It can pick up the sound from the entire room. And also the audience can hear from this speaker. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to connect this device to a mobile. And this mobile will run the Zoom meeting. The first thing I would do is switch it on. And it's going to run on Bluetooth. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to run Zoom on this. I'm not used to iPhones by the way. This is my wife's old phone and I'll join the meeting. Here's the password. And now comes the most important part in hybrid meetings, what we call Echo. If there are two devices connected in the meeting then they will cause an Echo. Right now there is one device which you are listening to me. And if I was to do it, shall we try it out? What happens? Recording in progress. So I'm sure you are seeing now the Echo. How do I get rid of the Echo? Go here. Go here. And I disconnected the audio from this device. So only one device is running. And that's very important. Right now I have a couple of devices here, some laptops here. And I have made sure that they are all disconnected from the audio. If you click on the participant list in the meeting room you'll find that some of the users don't have their audio symbol next to them. That means they are not connected on audio. And that's why we are not getting Echo. What I do is I normally put this over here. A tripod is nice. Not necessary, but it is nice to have a tripod. So this is the device or the phone that will be used. Notice that I have connected it to some power bank so that we can last for the two hours without any problem. The meeting is running on the phone. And if I was to stand here and deliver, and perhaps the traffic can spotlight me now as a speaker, this is the view that the online audience will see when a speaker is on the stage. So a very simple setup that connects the phone. So that's one view. The mobile phone connected to a good audio device that has both microphone as well as the speaker.  So what I'm going to do is notice also that this is not connected to audio, right? It is also disconnected. But let me switch on the video. So this is the view of the audience and what I have done is I have connected a laptop with a simple webcam over there and finally connect the laptop to a TV. In this case, we are blessed with a very nice TV over here. Let me switch it on. So our hybrid meeting essentially is set up. And what we have done is we have a mobile running zoom which will display the switch with a speaker and a laptop connected to a TV and a webcam. Now this webcam I think is optional because some people what they can do is they could place the laptop itself little higher so you can get the view and that would be perfectly okay. So that is how we can set up hybrid meeting but now we are actually in a hybrid meeting. All the time I was just demonstrating on another phone but now this is what the experience of a hybrid meeting will look like a phone connected to a small audio device and a laptop connected to a TV. With the simple understanding of audio and acoustics and what works within this room we can have a reasonably good hybrid meeting. Now what I am going to do is we are going to demonstrate to you how this setup would sound like for you all and for us because at the end of the day the experience should be equally good for not only you but also for us we should be able to hear you and you should be able to hear what we are saying. And the best way to do that is to run a simple table topic session and to do that we have a wonderful lady who will act as a table topic master and we will have some table topics that are addressed by some audience members physically and some online. So to run the session I call upon Dr. Nasreen to guide us through a short table topic session as a demo of a hybrid meeting. Dr. Nasreen over to you. Thank you so much Toast master of the day and our trainer DTM Kajatin. Good evening everyone I welcome one and all to this wonderful training session and specially to the table topic session. So what is table topics? Well table topics helps our members to practice the art of improvisation and also helps us think on our feet. This helps us to develop four vital communication skills listening thinking organizing and delivering. Here you are given the opportunity to practice impromptu. The first question is if you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain. There is our DDE very fast and prompt. Toast master Shiraz if you want the rainbow you have to put up with rain. Ladies and gentlemen if you want the rainbow it has to be rain. You have to first train then rainbow. You have to make some efforts first to get the rewards. A person says no I don't want to make any efforts I want to sleep and I want to wake up plate but I want all the rewards I want money luxury life and I want everything how can it be? If you want something you have to satisfy something. I remember my father always used to say that when visitors come to my home Shiraz go and speak to them why are you always at home inside your home you are staying go there are people go and serve them but me a backward person used to always sit behind ok papa I will do it just grab something and give it to them and go back and do my own work which affected me that I feel nervousness when I am coming in front of you this is I felt it till now my father has told this 15-20 years before but still I feel it and now I don't regret because I am in front of you all front of the whole audience and online audience and I am speaking to you all so the best thing best part is you have to make efforts you have to make efforts to get the rewards you need rain to get the rain thank you so much thank you so much now over to our trainer and TMOD thank you Dr. Nasreen for first of all demonstrating to us how a hybrid meeting can be effective and quite engaging in fact we had fun during the table topic session we could hear everybody clearly and we could of course engage with the person who is standing on the stage as well as when you are delivering speeches online we could hear clearly of course you have also seen the challenges of hybrid meeting it's not the technology generally the breaking point or the weakest link is usually our internet connections said so a mobile phone is good enough to run hybrid meeting with a laptop and a small display but you need to have good internet connection because if you don't then you will have the experience that is not optimal so if you have a good and especially in COVID I don't see it as a problem everybody's phone has a 5G in fact I'm running all of this on phones only I don't have any Wi-Fi or special router this just has 4G somewhere this one has a 5G and that's it this is part of our package that we are using the solution was used other than the audio take care of the audio I would just like to share my experience with the hybrid setup my club is purely online so we have online meetings and alhamdulillah we are doing great only once we happen to have a hybrid session during one of the event gathering that we had conducted and we didn't have any complicated stuff there was only laptop and mobile and alhamdulillah I think we did fine the last DTAC I was participating and somewhere down the line or in my heart I always had a feeling that if you are participating or contesting in a hybrid setup the chances of winning is low but trust me when Toastmaster Namedi won in table topics it really boosted my confidence to all those who have not yet started the hybrid thing or have not experienced and thanks to our trainer and district 20 go for it you can not only have wonderful meetings and connect with people globally but you can even contest and win so this is what I wanted to just add that it is a beautiful thing and we should upgrade ourselves and hybrid setup or hybrid meeting is the thing and it is doable you can win it we have a winner here thank you so much trainer and now I would like to hand over the podium to our PR manager of the district 20 let him share his thoughts how he thinks and maybe for any initiatives he has for hybrid meetings he has experimented with hybrid meetings before I know that so I would love to him to share with us his insight on the whole topic thank you medium question thank you so very much well coming straight to the point what is the future of hybrid now I know the very term hybrid itself it means combining two elements and here we are talking about an element of an environment where we are in physical meeting and online meeting the very word itself means it is quite special it is hybrid and it talks about inclusiveness now the hybrid meeting actually the future is quite promising because it revolutionize the way how we have been interacting how we exchange our ideas and how we participate but also how we forge large contracts I'm sure hybrid is not something actually new because if you see your board meetings or probably if you have seen the movie Charlie's Angel Charlie is actually having a hybrid session with his angels and he got it right the audio has to be correct so that's how it is it is not something very new I know the skills and we are also facing a lot of challenges you when you adapt to a new environment you will face challenges but understand once you go about the learning curve and when you have your own checklist all these things will become very simple because you will not be restricted to boundaries and it could save you a lot of financials save you a lot of logistics an airline travels to a local transportation in a traffic so something in that variety of spectrum it helps you in that with the logistics so I think a hybrid has got a lot of future and it is just that we have to go understand the skills and make it more simpler and standardize so that anybody can use that that is what I feel about Latif is an expert also in hybrid meetings he runs amazing hybrid meetings for Bhavan Stores Masters Club let him share his thoughts on how he does it and from what we have done today is it something different or is it the same but in a different package? Thank you DPM Catherine lovely audience and audience online my only thing was you learn by doing the moment we shifted from zoom meetings only after COVID to hybrid meetings initial settings were really difficult as DPM Catherine said that yes it has to come one hour before I used to also struggle a lot then we bought one device another device finally now the setup is so well we can use of this speakerphone we use a speakerphone speaker connected to bluetooth and the camera and speakerphone is connected to the laptop so and we have a projector so everything is connected the projector is connected with the another PC laptop of the school so the purpose all last few meetings for the last couple of three months we are going live streaming if you get a chance you can look at our meetings and you will feel the difference thank you once again if you feel like doing it don't think about it just start thank you finally let me invite from a division director perspective can you why point of view of hybrid meetings previously we conducted our meetings our area division DTECH was hybrid but area and division was online meetings most of the member our member said why we do not have physical meetings why we do not have hybrid meetings now it's an opportunity because this trick has announced that if we want we can have hybrid meetings and I would like to thank DTM Kajdan Dr. Kajdan it is really she is very forgiving to say doctor because you are specialized in technology so I request all the members try it in your clubs you can fail first time, second time, third time full time you will be achieving your goals and objectives so try it and I will be trying in my club as well because we have few members abroad in UK and mostly we are having physical meetings we will try to connect him as well with hybrid meetings if you want to try just try it, if you fail no problem, no harm done you have learned something in the process and learning is always good and learning hybrid I think is a skill that will help you in your work or anywhere you go


preview show in three months. It's great to be back and BBC Radio Solence Chris Temple is virtually alongside me as we look forward to Premier League football returning to Vitality Stadium this weekend. Here's what's coming up. We discuss project restart and what lies ahead for the cherries. Aaron Ramstell joins us and sheds light on his coronavirus experience. And finally we look ahead to the weekend as Crystal Palace visit Vitality Stadium. Well plenty coming up today but before we go into that Chris it's great to be back isn't it? It is good to be back it's obviously good to see your face first and foremost so I haven't seen you for a while since since it all round down really so yeah it's great to get it all in motion it's great that we've seen a couple of games now as well just to get a flavour of what it's going to be like you know mixed reviews in terms of a lot of the things that have happened in the first couple of games we've seen obviously Friday night will be the next couple to sort of look at before everything gets going for the cherries on Saturday. Well as you say football returns for us on Saturday I was actually going to ask you what you made of those two games that we've seen so far this game games happening on Friday and you know it we had our first taste of it was certainly very surreal wasn't it? Yeah I mean first and foremost I was watching without crowd noise I know that was quite a sort of lots of people were messaging by WhatsApp groups were going backwards and forwards with you watching with or without crowd noise I was watching without and the reason I was was because that's the environment I'll be in commentating on the Bournemouth games we will be in the stadium for BBC Radio Solent and obviously AFCB TV through the website as well so for me I'm going to be commentating in silence so effectively I didn't want that candid noise I wanted to hear what it was genuinely like I did flick over to the crowd noise selection I didn't like it it was it just didn't even feel realistic remotely it just seemed like someone just put a CD on in the background I know they're trying hard with the use and the Rs or whatever but the crowd doesn't stay the same volume for the whole way through I know some people enjoyed it and actually I saw a survey that said two-thirds of people preferred it it wasn't for me but yeah in terms of other things that happen in the game I mean everyone's going to talk to death about the goal line technology failure which my only sort of thing I would add on that is that I think the linesman's got to get involved he's got the best view he was banging line yes I know they don't like to overrule technology and the technology is there for a reason but the linesman in that situation has got to get its flag up or at least talk on the comms to the ref and say that looks very close that might be worth checking and so that's my observation really from that that fiasco wasn't a great game that it should be united was it and actually to be honest thank goodness Billy didn't go on and win it after that clangor because that would have really you know butchered the cherries where it hurts if you like and so I guess anything that kept Villa below Bournemouth was it was good and now it's a level playing field if you like everyone's played the same number of games and then city against Arsenal I mean David Lewis had a nightmare city looked pretty good and I think that would be a you know that's going to be a tough game as we know it would be when Bournemouth eventually go there so lots of little bits I'm sure the players are watching on with interest at quite a few of the protocols I wasn't sure how good the social distancing was and a lot of the protocols that have been put in place about celebrations and handshakes and all that sort of other stuff because it was quite a bit going on but again I think that's it's only natural people have done the same thing for years and years and put yourself back in that environment it's like any environment you are going to take a bit of time to get used to change so I think as you know there'll be a little word in the ear of few people to say just watch the handshakes just watch the hugging when you score Chris Wilder and you know was hugging people at the end so I think the sort of the upper bodies will be looking down to say just be careful of that be careful of that and from a Bournemouth perspective nine games to go you know all to play for do you think the break came at a good time for Eddie how in a squad two ways to look at it yes in terms of injuries because of course we know how thin the squad's been this season and any if you if you said right you can have David Brooks on at Dan Juma Lloyd Kelly Steve Cook you know just to name a few off the top of my head you can have all of them back for the last nine games of course you'd say yes please the down so there's that actually Bournemouth we just pick it up a bit of a momentum I just found a little bit of a formula albeit they were sort of forced into it with the personnel they had they switched to the 433 let's not forget last time out in Liverpool feels like an eternity ago but for James Miller scooping that one off the line from Ryan Fraser Bournemouth could well have got a point in Liverpool obviously you know the draw with Chelsea you know good performances in other games as well so I thought from a first sort of a momentum of the season point of view it probably came at a bad time but from a fitness point of view of the players and yeah and of course the other the other side of it is that now presumably Ryan Fraser won't be involved so again you sort of you're bringing back a few but you're losing a good player as well so probably 50-50 did it come at a good time yes and no which is not really helping is it well we mentioned well you mentioned several names there Steve Kirk, Chris Mepper, Manat Dan Juma, David Brooks all these players they've been pictured in training since you know the lads were back and even for Eddie Howe and the rest of the boys to have them back in training what a massive boost yeah brilliant I mean you look at the squad now and I just written down sort of on a bit of paper that the positional sort of challenges for each position you look at the defenders now suddenly you've got Kelly, Mepper and Francis back fit Steve Cook back fit to add into the IELTS of ACA and Stacey and Smith and Rico and Jackson to the course so there's a lot of options all of a sudden there you throw you know the midfield five to be fair essentially have been pretty consistent all season in terms of they've all been relatively fit I think Phil Billings the only one who's picked up a bit of a problem in in this sort of mini preseason if you like but I think the wide positions in the attacking positions where it's going to be really interesting what shape Eddie goes with he's obviously got to accommodate if he's fit the likes of David Brooks I know you've missed a couple of sessions I think but he seems to be back amongst it which is good Dan Juma obviously Harry Wilson's been occupying the wide positions is there an argument and I've been arguing this for a lot of the season that he should play as a number 10 and play more centrally does the sort of presence back in the squad of Brooks and Dan Juma allow you to shove Harry Wilson in field does Brooks play more centrally as he's done before we imagine Fraser won't be involved so therefore that's there's sort of another wing slot opening up if you like so and then obviously where do you fit King in if you're playing Harry Wilson as a 10 Solanke Callum also obviously you know will be in as a nine so I think the attacking part of the field I think the back four will probably pick itself I think it will probably be the back four that you pick so probably Stacey Akke Steve Smith and Smith at left back I would think because that's the way they went when they had those guys fit pre pre the lockdown but yeah I'm fascinated by how it's going to line up attacking wise and you talked about Harry Wilson there obviously signing a contract and extension you've got you know the other four that have signed theirs you know until the end of the season and we'll wait and see what happens until then but for them to have that all tied up and they can just focus on the nine games ahead that will be again another added bonus yeah it's a decision that you know probably no footballers will never have to make again and haven't had to make before is do I agree a contract extension for nine games when I thought my my time either was winding down or I'm not sure where my future lay I think obviously the four guys you have signed are all in you know completely different parts of their career than the Ryan Fraser for example who hasn't signed so yeah I think the future for them is obviously they will have had talks behind the scenes I'm not party to those talks to Charlie Daniels has got the toughest job because he hasn't been fit for a year and the best part you know really so do they give him a chance to sort of have another year and to get himself back involved now that they've got Rico now they've got Lloyd Kelly fit now they've got Smith that can play left back as well with Stacy doing so well at right back so I think Charlie Daniels has got a tough job on Andrew Sermon obviously slid down to sort of four and the fifth central midfielder now behind the other four you have two for each position so does Andrew Sermon become surplus to requirements I don't know there's there's some difficult decisions Simon Francis is your club captain does he add in the you know Steve Fletcher would would keep getting contracts a year a year here and there because of what he brings as well as his his football what he brings to the place and his experience so Simon Francis probably got that on his side so yeah there's an utter barrage of course seems to be getting fitter and fitter even though he's about 84 so there's you know there are decisions to be made there I'm not sure all four will still be here next season I'd like it if they would because they're all great lads and they've all been a part of the journey for a long time and they you know they really have contributed a number of you know key key roles if you like down the years but of course romance is one thing and you know the part people play just look at Mark Pugh for example either Ryan Fraser to a certain extent although that's a relationship that's gone a bit sour but yeah it's it's difficult times for them and I'm not sure how much will have been decided already because they don't know what division they're gonna be in and just finally here when you look at the running as a whole what do you make of it I mean there's certainly some very tough games in there but there's also games where you've been looking at getting some points from yeah I mean I've actually I've actually sort of I've had plenty of time on my hands as you have as well so I've had time to divide the nine games up into sort of three sections if you like I've got two marks next to the ones where I think they're absolutely must wins and two of those are in the first three games Palace and Newcastle at home I think I've got to be must wins I think six points from the first three games is a minimum really Wolves away I've got one in the mark next to was a sort of it would be nice to get something there you know possibly a point but it's certainly not a must win Wolves are chasing the Champions League of course so that's going to be tough but again not to you know not to underestimate the fact that some of these places that are hard to go to without crowds they're not going to be quite as as hard to go to still good football as you're playing on the pitch of course and then you look down at men United away man City away you're putting them down as blanks to say you get in there brilliant but that's not where you're gonna that's not where you're gonna stay up talking about home and Leicester at home again the fact they're at home the only problem with those games is they do come when everyone's probably kicked into their stride a little bit and then of course at home and Everton away to finish with you know so that's at home I've got that as a must win and you wouldn't want to be going to Everton on the last day having to get too much let's face it although they might well be in mid-table and and sort of drifting I think the key to key to it all and as we saw a bit in the opening games on Wednesday night it's who's going to be the least rusty out of all the teams because people are going to be rusty I'm not sure it's a huge advantage for Bournemouth to have big games straight up they've got no time to ease into all this new surroundings and everything they've got to get straight at it I know that he's clever he's been having them training under lights and sort of re re-enacting if you like the way things are going to be but I've got to beat Palace and I've got to beat Newcastle at home some of the walls would be lovely so there's no messing around here they can't blame anything for you know it took us a while to get going we're not fitting up blah blah blah that may well be the case but still got to get results absolutely well we are just one day away from that Premier League return and someone who's been enjoying a brilliant season between the six is Aaron Ramstell let's take a look at his best for that young man more pay with the shot what a save again for the high flying Aaron Ramstell he's shot top save again from Ramstell terrific save Mason mounts and deflected and brilliantly saved by Ramstell let's find the gap he seems to getting better and better Calvin the win will give chase Ramstell is out quickly enough he sets up again Ramstell and it's a terrific save from Aaron Ramstell Ramstell this season and we are delighted to say that Rambo was dropped in on our preview show this week Rambo thank you for joining us I'm sure the first question on everyone's mind is how are you doing and how are you feeling thanks for having me first of all yeah I'm fine obviously what went on was a strange time but luckily I wasn't affected affected by it so the time and isolation was reasonably okay and now yeah back to normal I've been for a few weeks so get that routine in and be back with the lads was it was great fun and now we look forward to the next few weeks and sort of for you preparing to come back to training I know you were up north and then you came back down so preparing to come back it's all starting to come together and then you get told you have to isolate seven days what was that like for you mentally yeah it was tough being back up in Stoke was was great I got to to be with my family I haven't been there that long since I was in school so it's been a good five six years and they were helping me with my fitness and stuff like that knowing that I was there for the whole of lockdown and I was fine I was negative with my tests and things that was a huge relief mentally that obviously I didn't pick it up when I was in in Stoke with my family and obviously they were okay because my previous test was negative and that was the last time I saw them so that was one sort of side of it and over than that it was just sort of I was confused just because you hear of some of the stories and the news and obviously it sort of gets blown out of proportion or the ones which get reported on are the severe cases and I just wasn't feeling anything I was feeling fine I felt cold I was in training that week and then obviously just staying at home not allowed to do anything just in case something happens or something flares up and it was just almost like a week would obviously taken away from me where I could have been a week ahead of where I should have been so after the first few days I got my head around it I was fine now you're back in training how nice has that been and how nice has it been not to do it remotely it's been great to see the lads training with the lads obviously with social distancing it's been hard you want to just go and sit next to your mates and have a good chat and obviously we're always made aware and we all know from seeing things we're doing the rules that we have to be a distance but just being back and just being having that sort of competitive edge and seeing the lads and getting the spirit back with the team it's just been fantastic and hopefully we can take some of some of that into the last few games and I know you said before about how tight all your goalkeepers are it must have been great to get back and see those familiar faces. Yeah it definitely was I would say it was for young lads and then just loads of energy and then Arthur came back and he was like he was 20 again scoring celebrating making saves and it's just people must look over at us and just think everyone thinks we're crazy and weird but just must think we're having a great time and we are we're working hard and it's just great to see them them free when things go well and big smiles on all of our faces it just brings back good memories of obviously when you first start the game or just something which happened I don't know in the season it's just being great fun being back with them diving about and getting stuck in and one thing that you've also done since being back is you went to go and visit young George on his birthday just tell us about that because we all saw how emotional he got you know when he'd not been very well during lockdown and seemed to find cool for me. Yeah so his dad still sort of keeps in touch with us oh I drop a message every now and then asking how he is and he's still waiting for one of his test results sort of any day now really and it was his birthday and they were just sort of having a drive by party they were just in the front garden and it was like it's almost like going to football there was like designated spots for people to park their cars on the other side of the road and just went over and sort of showed my face obviously getting a pair of gloves and it was just nice he's doing well he's fighting he's a lot healthier than what he was before he's just waiting for the results to see what needs to be done further down the line but he's just buzzing that the foot he's coming back on and he gets to watch he gets to watch not just Doorsport the whole league and I think everyone is the same just want that to be on TV and I think everyone's counting down the days. Turning our attention to the weekend Crystal Palace at home how important is it to hit the ground winding straight for you? Yes it's huge no one really knows what this is going to be like over the next nine games no one's got an advantage everyone's at the same playing field so it's whoever goes into it with the best mindset who's prepared the best so if if you can get a bit of momentum going where in a place which won't have any momentum because the fans being taken away it can be huge and getting off to a good start not just in the game itself but against Palace hopefully getting three points everything you can just build so much momentum everything can roll into the match on Wednesday but it's going to be a bizarre feeling playing behind closed doors isn't it? Yeah I think those younger lads might deal with it a bit better it's not been too long ago when I was playing under 23s football and you've got a handful of fans there or an international friendly for the under 18s, 19s and you go into Slovenia or somewhere like that and there's only a small number of their fans so it's not something which is alien to me and possibly some of the young lads but I think if you if you go in with the right mindset that and not thinking about how it's an empty stadium it feels like training then we'll have no problems but it's definitely be strange in some ways obviously just warming up with no fans, celebrations things like that don't really know what I'm going to do when we score I don't really want a knee slide to no one in the stand but I'll have to figure something out and just finally we all know how much the fans want to be there but it's so important to reiterate the message of staying at home and staying away from the stadium Yeah, 100% we all know the rules which have been put in place and it'd be detrimental to the rules and obviously the fans came to the stadium to try and get pictures and signatures and obviously it would be hard not going to see the people obviously you adore and your support if something were to happen to one of the players and that was through people breaking rules and obviously it would kill us as a team and obviously the fans who come obviously don't want that either so I think the best way they can help is just by obviously supporting the hearts out at home and when they do that and when the time's right then I'm sure they can all pile back into the stadium but for now I think we all know the rules we all just need to stick to them and sort of be together and wait for the outcome Well Rambo thank you so much for your time thank you for joining us it's great to see you back out on that pitch and I'm sure I speak on behalf of all the fans wishing you the best of luck this weekend now this weekend is where our attention is going to turn to you next and that game against Bristol Palace and earlier in the week we spoke to Eddie Howe to gather his thoughts Thank you so much from the team that we saw the experienced team very well drilled very good defensively this season and a real threat with the attacking players that they have so a very well balanced team but very very pleased now to be back to football and the results will define our future not elsewhere we don't have too many players that I can say ruled out of this game you know our players 100% fit i.e. David Brooks are they 100% fit we might have a few doubts on a couple of players but as I said the squad is the healthiest it's been no one could have predicted what would have happened with the virus and the season shutting down and being extended and Ryan's then found himself in a very difficult position because of that so yeah not a surprise he has now played his last game for the football club he won't be involved with us for the last nine games I only want to players who are fully focused on the relegation battle that we have ahead and I'm looking forward to doing that with my squad well that was Eddie Howe looking ahead to this weekend's game now this is normally the bit Chris where we would go back and we look at Palace's recent form and we look at the players that are doing well for them but with a three month gap it all seems a bit irrelevant doesn't it well that's the thing isn't it I mean Palace had just actually found their stride before they got locked out so they've had a sort of slow start and in and out season really unspectacular season but they find themselves with an outside chance of getting into Europe and of course they're one of the teams now that can come back and have a right crack at this and you know if they get into Europe bring in if they don't they don't want to go down so they've got a proverbial free roll if you like they won the last three before locked down all by a 1-0 scoreline they don't score that many goals I think Jordan Ayu is their top scorer with three I think but they certainly don't score too many with Zahar and Townesend and obviously Jordan Ayu, Benteke you know dangerous player but can't score and of course the away game at Southhurst Park in early December or Tuesday night Bournemouth played against 10 men for the best part of about 70 minutes and lost 1-0 to a late goal and I think Eddie called that his lowest moment as Bournemouth manager and I remember it well because I just landed back from New Zealand that morning so I was sort of spaced out and jet lagged all over the place couldn't believe what I was seeing so yeah I'll be one that Bournemouth will look to be correcting I don't forget this fixture at Bournemouth it's been a good fixture down the years David Brooks of course scored his first Premier League goal against Palace on a Monday night so maybe a bit of an omen if he's to come back into the team but Roy Holston is I think Palace fans think he's done a great job they've steered him away from trouble managed to keep hold of their best players added quite sensibly as well the likes of Milovoyevich central midfield hardy campaigners the hustle and bustle with Lermer in there will be interesting to see it's not the worst game you can have it's probably quite a nice game in a way because Palace are not going to be yes they're chasing Europe but I don't think they're going to be all guns blazing like the teams down the bottom are when you look at the run in actually Bournemouth are the only team out of the bottom six who don't play any of the other bottom six pointers in there in terms of huge swings you know if you suddenly lose to West Ham or something there's a big swing in West Ham's favour but Bournemouth don't play any of those teams down the bottom you look at West Ham for example play three of the bottom six in their last nine games Norwich play three of them don't rule Norwich out by the way I want to throw that in there I think they've got a chance of if they can get if they can get out of the traps I think they have got a chance of making something happen they've got Southampton at home obviously and then Everton at home their first two games but in there Brighton, Watford West Ham they've got some six pointers in there against the teams down the bottom so I'm going to throw them in there and say don't quite rule them out just yet well funny enough I was going to ask you we've got Crystal Palace coming up this weekend Freddie Howe and his squad is that quite a good game to have back because as you say Palace they're not scrapping at the bottom they're not necessarily competing too much higher up the table and back at home and you know live on a Saturday night that's quite a good game Freddie Howe surely yeah I mean great great to be sort of a herald a new era in terms of being the first Premier League game live on the BBC as well as I've mentioned I think before before we did this program before we before the fixtures came out I think it's a great chance for people if they ever want to watch the TV and have the radio pictures the radio commentary from us on BBC radio so it syncs up and the fact that games on the BBC makes it a lot easier because anybody tries to do it when it's on satellite we know there's all sorts of delays but the BBC pictures should be roughly in tune so although don't do that because then you'll spot my mistakes anyway to answer your question I think it is quite quite a good game yes because Palace as you say they've got an outside chance nothing to lose for them which is sometimes the games where Bournemouth can express themselves or they don't like to have as much possession this season they've been sort of sitting back and catching teams on the counter attack so the wide open games haven't actually always you know been as as Bournemouth born with performances as they have been in the past but yeah I think I think it's not a bad game if you were sort of choosing somebody you want probably someone not I would say Burnley but not necessarily Burnley but someone who's maybe out of the out of the I mean Southampton wouldn't be a bad game if it wasn't a local game the fact that they're probably out of the relegation picture but not going to make Europe that would be the ideal game Palace is probably in the next tier and one thing we haven't mentioned is the additional substitutions that can be used for Bournemouth obviously we've talked about them having players coming back from injury that could be a really useful tool couldn't it it could I think it advantages the bigger teams more we saw Man City the other night make five subs and look who they brought on you know some unbelievable players, Aguero's coming on as the what was he the fourth sub or the fifth sub some fantastic players coming on so those with deeper squads those with better quality squads are going to feel the benefit of that it's great for as you say the guys who are coming back that they may well have themselves with some more match minutes and again the schedule three more games have been announced in the last couple of days of course it's mainly you know four or five day turn arounds and there's one seven day turn I think but mainly it's going to be pretty quick fire now we know the games aren't as intense because of a number of external factors you know we know the crowd makes a big difference and the fact that players are easing themselves back in so the early games aren't as intense but mentally they're still you know they are going to be intense mentally if not physically so I think we will see a little bit of rotation from Eddie but correct me if I'm wrong though but I think more than for one of the teams who voted against the five subs rule because I think they back themselves to be fitter and obviously bearing in mind that they didn't know who they would have back as well so I think it advantage is the bigger teams but it is a good chance for those guys who haven't played to get themselves on the field and just finally Aaron Ramstiles just touched on it but it is absolutely paramount isn't it that supporters stay at home watch the game when they're safe and don't travel to the stadium there's absolutely nothing to gain by travelling to the stadium you won't see anything you won't even see the team hardly coming into the ground because there are all the protocols in place you know Vitality Stadium is quite isolated in terms of the fact that it's in Kings Park and there's a lot of space around you won't be able to get near it so there's absolutely no point on BBC One people are making a good thing of Saturday nights as much as you can social distance following the rules having friends on video conferencing or however many friends you're allowed to have round if you've got a big garden and the weather's nice then follow the rules and take your TV into the garden or something but absolutely there's no point in coming to the stadium there's nothing to see there's no way you can support the team so I would say yeah make an evening of it in front of the BBC absolutely well that is all we have time for today as Chris has just said please avoid any travel to the stadium on Saturday for your own safety and that of players and staff wherever you're watching we hope you enjoy the game and we'll be back next week to preview the fixture at Goulds bye for now Gribble and James alright so stop recording for our loser alright see you soon boys


This is kind of the outline of the stock. So as Eric said, we first going to do an introduction to Python itself. And then as your schedules will show you this, tomorrow we are going to look at numpy and scipy and then look at wrapping, which is how you interface Python to high performance languages like Fortran and C and C++. And then later on get on to other aspects like creating UIs, making applications, doing visualizations and things like that. So today is primarily going to be an introduction to Python itself. So those of you who are really good at Python just bear with me, hopefully you will just brush up your basics and the idea is so that all of us are on the same page tomorrow. So all of us have the baseline skills with Python. So I usually have a bunch of introductory slides on Python and then I go on to a tutorial, a full-fledged tutorial and this is largely based on the Python tutorial, which is a very nice document. I usually recommend anybody who is new to Python to just read the tutorial because it is very well written. It is written by the author of the language, by the man himself. So as Eric mentioned, Guido van Rossem is the creator of Python and he created it sometime in 1989. So the language has been around for quite a long time, 17 years. So it is not a new kid on the language block. And Guido himself has experience with building languages, he has a lot of experience with that. So it is built by people who really know their stuff and it has been around for a long while and that is a testament to the fact that it is a strong language. The name Python does not have anything to do with the reptile, it has something to do with the comedy series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, which was a hit, still good fun to watch. The current stable version of Python is 2.5, the nice thing about Python is it is free and it is free in the sense that it is BSD style, which means you can do anything you want with it pretty much without suing the person who developed it. Python is usually available as part of any sane GNU Linux distribution. So pretty much anywhere you should be able to find it, if not that distribution is not worth using. There is a lot of information on it on the web. So this is just general resources that you can look at and the documentation is particularly very good. The first time when I wanted to look at doing something scripting, I had the choice of using Perl because I wanted to do some text processing. And I looked at Python because of Red Hat's Anaconda, it goes to this Anaconda and there is some .py extension and I looked at it and it is a script. So I said hey, this looks, it looks readable, I think I can follow it, I had a C background. And then I decided okay, let me hunt for documentation and I could not find, this was long ago, so maybe I was not, there was not a Google around at the time. So I looked for Perl documentation, I did not really find something that was very good. And then I said hey, let me try Python, there was a tutorial, the tutorial actually got me started. So that made a huge difference. So free documentation is a big deal. There are lots of tutorials and I really recommend reading the tutorial, I will just show you a quick screenshot. This is the documentation that I have on my machine and this is pretty much how the Python documentation layout looks like. You have something like a tutorial, you start here and you always have something called what's new in Python. So the documentation is targeted to a particular version of Python and it's always worth looking at what's new because you know what's have changed from 2.4 to 2.5, 2.3 to 2.2 and so on and so forth. You have a module index, of course you don't need that anymore with Google. Probably the most important thing here is the library reference and as they say keep this under your pillow. So basically it's very useful if you want to say I want to do this, I want to process, I want to fetch data from a URL and you really don't know where to look. Best place is to just go into the library reference, search there and then you find that there's a module that just does what you want and you don't even have to install a package for it.  So it's pretty much complete with respect to basic Python. This is really useful. I'm going to go through this very rapidly. In fact, the entire introduction to Python is going to be rapid. Hopefully during the lab sessions you'll have time to hone your skills. It's basically high level interpreted, modular and object oriented. I'm not going to explain more than what Eric has done already. It's very easy to learn, it's very easy to write code and it's very easy to read code which is very, very important. Because most of the time you learn language, you learn tricks by looking at how other people do it and this is how people learn languages per se. You learn by looking at what your parents say, same way you learn a lot by looking at somebody else's code and that code is readable, makes a huge difference. It offers a much faster development cycle in that basically you don't have a compile cycle and usually the slowest person developing the code is you, not the computer. The computer is much faster than you are. The problem is we take time to build algorithms. We take time to prototype things. We take time to think about things. And often with many other languages, you end up wrestling with the language. You're worrying about is this syntax right, is that syntax right? With Python, that's usually not a problem. So basically it allows for rapid application development. And one very, very important thing about Python is the interactive interpreter. So think of a shell. How many of you have used a shell? I guess most everybody has used a shell. So you type a command and it does something for you. And this is really extremely productive. And if you look at Matlab, as Eric was saying, the real power of this is that you can use it like a calculator. You can use it like, I just start up something, type something out, and I have my results right there.  It's just too painful. It's much faster doing it straight off the bat. The second thing is you'll notice that your shell usually has a lot of powerful features. It's configurable, it's extendable, and when you type things, it actually gives you feedback. So you type tab, for example, it'll complete the name. It remembers history. Things like this are small things, but they make a huge difference. The other thing with a shell is usually you have access to help, like a man page or something like that. So if you have a shell that builds all of these pieces together, that gives you interactive abilities, that lets you use things, use yourself, be efficient, and also gives you access to help and things like that, it's extremely powerful. So often, I usually don't have, when I talk to students, I don't actually, I don't have a single book on Python with me. I program extensively with Python. I do have lots of C++ books. The reason I can do this is with Python, I just start up the interpreter and type. If I forget what is the syntax of this thing, I just go in there and type and it's done. Whereas with another language, it's bigger hassle, so I have to read a manual or a reference manual. So the interpreter is extremely useful. And hopefully, you'll see that across the course. And as Eric said, one of the big deals for scientific computing is that you can interface Python with C, C++ and Fortran libraries. Now this is important in two counts. Lots of libraries, if you look at library market share, there are a lot of libraries out there that are C or C++ based. And lots of native codes in the scientific computing community are basically written in Fortran. And it's very important that you be able to use these codes. If you can't, you basically lost somebody. Basically, he can't use your line. I always give this quote about Python again. This is a quote by the guy who created NumPy. Same as Travis Oliphant and he says, I came across Python and its numerical extension in 1998. I quickly fell in love, not the word love, with the language, which is a remarkable statement to make about a programming language. If I had not seen others with the same view, I might have seriously doubted my sanity. So it's not a view shared by one person. A lot of people have a lot of passion for the language. Okay, so why not MATLAB? So MATLAB does all of this, not quite, but several of these things. Firstly, it's open source and free. You don't have to pay anybody any license to do the stuff. All the stuff we're doing in this course is free and it's all BSD licensed. So basically, there are no restrictions on what you do, how you do, where you do it. It's portable. It's a real programming language. It's not a specifically tailored numeric language. And it's written by people who are computer scientists and it's used by people who are computer scientists. So which means the language itself is rich. It is a full-fledged language. You can do more than just array and math. You can wrap large C++ codes. You can build codes. Any of you used make files? Okay, so basically make files let you build codes. Let's say you have 100 C programs and you change one of them. You want automatically some tool to build that one change thing. So you have make files to do this. Make files are a bit of a pain because at least I keep forgetting the syntax all the time. I have to keep reading the info manual and figuring out what is the right syntax. Turns out that there's a tool called Scones which is written in Python. And so your make files are Python files. And it's very convenient, very easy to use thing which lets you build C++ large code bases. It has a very powerful interactive and data analysis plotting suite which is on par with MATLAB. Of course as with most open source projects several of these things are not as well documented as they should be but they're getting there. You can build parallel applications. I don't know if you can actually do that with MATLAB easily as with Python it's not that hard to do. The biggest advantage is it doesn't just stop with your scientific computing or your interactive explorations. Lot of my shell scripts, a lot of useful tools that I write are written in Python. So I wrote a job scheduler which basically lets me schedule thousands of runs on a cluster of Linux machines. And it was like an afternoon's work. Okay, maybe if you're not very experienced maybe a couple of days work. And it's a demon that runs on multiple machines and lets me schedule runs from anywhere and have them run whenever the computer can run it. It's a poor man scheduler but I was able to do it because of Python. So basically it's just not as if you just do this domain specific thing. You can actually do a heck of a lot more with Python. And that's very, very important. So the idea is if you learn one high performance language if you're doing scientific computing and you really want performance and you have a scripting language that's powerful like Python, you're set. That's the important thing. So why not Python? Why wouldn't you use it? If you want high performance as I said you may want sometimes to write something efficiently in a language like Fortran or C++ and Python lets you do that. So it's really not a big issue.


Number SCP-1732 Object Class Neutralized Safe Special Containment Procedures As SCP-1732's death predates the establishment of the Foundation by more than 1,000 years, direct containment of SCP-1732 is not necessary at this time. Current Foundation priorities regarding SCP-1732 are focused on information management and on archaeological excavation, study, and preservation of SCP-1732's remains and artifacts related to SCP-1732. All primary historical documents and second-hand histories describing the reign of SCP-1732 are to be suppressed and replaced when possible with edited versions describing SCP-1732 as a non-anomalous human being. Comparing the likeness of SCP-1732 are to be described as portraying non-anomalous animals. The Foundation is to liaise with any institutions conducting archaeological excavation of Roman sites, contemporaneous to SCP-1732, and are to monitor their findings for any indication of documents, artifacts, or artwork relevant to SCP-1732. The remains of SCP-1732 are to be stored in a climate-controlled facility at Reliquary 68 upon their removal from the entombment site. Following a full physical examination and DNA analysis, a genetic study of SCP-1732 species is to be conducted to determine whether SCP-1732 has any living descendants, and if so whether any anomalous traits exhibited by SCP-1732 are present within the population. Description SCP-1732 was a male African lion, Panthera Leo Leo, born in approximately 188 CE, which from 193 CE until its death in 211 CE was recognized as Emperor of the Roman Empire under the name Septimius Severus Eusebs Pertenax Augustus, often abbreviated as Septimius Severus. The identity of SCP-1732 as Septimius Severus is attested to in several primary documents and histories written during and shortly after its reign, a brief autobiography attested to have been dictated by SCP-1732 itself, and representations on coinage and incivic artworks found throughout Roman territory. SCP-1732 was sapient and was able to read and speak fluent Latin with an accent described as typical of persons originating in the Roman Empire's provinces in central Northern Africa. Historical accounts indicate that SCP-1732 was acquired by the Roman Emperor Comedus shortly after its birth as tribute and that having discovered its knowledge properties ordered it to be given a full education and declared a commander of the Empire's military forces in the Balkans. Following the assassination of Comedus in 191 CE and the subsequent assassination of several successors, SCP-1732 is reported to have consolidated its authority among the military and declared itself Emperor in 193 CE following a brief civil war. SCP-1732's reign was marked by a series of military campaigns to consolidate imperial authority in the Roman Empire's provinces, increase persecution of Christians, and a brief revival of interest in the cult of the Egyptian goddess Bastet. SCP-1732 is documented as having faced stiff opposition from the Roman nobility during its reign due to its species and from Roman Christians who identified it as an eschatological figure. SCP-1732 died in 211 CE after being poisoned by a political rival during a campaign in Scotland and was succeeded by its adopted heir, Caracalla. Suppression of historical information regarding SCP-1732's species and origins began in the mid-3rd century under the reign of the Emperor Maximus Thrax, who is reputed in contemporary accounts to have faith threats to his regime from sapient lions descended from SCP-1732, culminating in a series of hunts beginning under Philip the Arab and ending under Valerian, which all but eradicated native populations of lions throughout Roman territory. Acquired the adoption of Christianity as the state religion of Rome in 324 CE, further suppression and destruction of historical monuments to SCP-1732 was organized by the Early Catholic Church, which destroyed most remaining copies of historical records directly referring to SCP-1732 as a lion. The Foundation assumed information management of SCP-1732 when the Vatican Holy Office for Secrets and Prophecies, Secretorium Cameras Prophedias merged with the Foundation in 1964. SCP-1732's remains were recovered in 2011 from a previously undiscovered tomb located adjacent to the tombs of several contemporaneous Roman emperors beneath the Castile Sanctangelo in Rome. Following its death, SCP-1732 had been embalmed in a manner similar to classical Egyptian mummification. However, use of inferior techniques has resulted in severe tissue degradation and has left little original tissue for examination or analysis. Full genetic examination of SCP-1732 is pending acquisition of a suitably intact D in a sample from remaining bone marrow. Addendum, the following excerpts regarding SCP-1732 are derived from Caceres, an early 3rd century history of the emperors of Rome by an unknown author. All known extant copies are currently in Foundation custody. It came to pass in the 8th year of his reign that Marcus Aurelius Commodus did pay a call unto the Consul of Africa seeking tribute by which to conduct the Gallic Wars. Gaius Viteus Sabiniatus provided him with 6,000 denarii and with spices and perfumes with jewels, ivory, and with live animals of note a lion cub taken from the southern reaches of the Principate. Marcus was most enamored with the beast's ability to parrot the speech of his keepers, and in a fit of peak proclaimed that he would make of it a finer student of rhetoric than the Consul himself, whereafter he named it Lucius Septimius Severus and mocking reference to the equestrian of the Consul's court and proclaimed it a senator to the consternation of. By the time that poopliest, healthiest, pertinax was murdered in the year of the five emperors, Septimius Leo, as his officers were fond of calling him, had become an accomplished orator and general and panonia. When word reached carnitum of the treason perpetrated by the Praetorians who had murdered pertinax and sold his throne to Marcus Deedius Severus Julianus, the soldiers proclaimed Septimius Leo to be their emperor, outlying himself with his fellow African, Decivious Clodius Septimius Albinius. Septimius Leo marched to Rome. In the fourth year of his reign, Septimius Leo met with a man named Victor, leader of the Christians of Rome. Victor had proclaimed Septimius Leo to be an unholy beast whose earthly reign was a sign at the end of the world, and the coming of the God of the Christians was soon at hand. Having refused to repent of their heresy and treason, Septimius Leo ordered the Christians executed by hanging from a wooden cross, as was their want. For Victor himself, however, Septimius Leo reserved a more ignomious death, challenging him the single combat before the masses at the Flavian Amphitheater, where he rent the bishop limb from limb. Having grown disappointed with his adopted heir, Marcus Aurelius Severus Antonius, Septimius Leo declared his desire to find a queen befitting his stature. Having found no suitable lions in Rome, the emperor ordered 101 fertile lions captured and brought to Rome from Africa. He found none suitable to be his wife, but how many he laid with before they were returned across the sea can only be guessed at, for it is said that a great many fell pregnant. By the 17th year of his reign, many questioned whether Septimius Leo had lost faith in the gods. Rumors spread that he neglected the sacrifice to Jupiter or to Mars, and bequeathed affections only to the cat god of the Egyptians. It is said even in some circles that he intended to replace the worship of our ancient gods entirely without a bastet. It was during the campaign in Britannia that Septimius Leo fell ill while drinking wine and preparing his plans for war against the Picts. Caracalla claimed that his brother, Publius Septimius Getta, was responsible and ordered his death, but Getta's supporters claimed the priest of Jupiter had arranged his poisoning and others still claimed that a spurned lover has sought his revenge against the emperor.


Live from Midtown Manhattan, the Cube's live coverage of big data NYC, a Silicon Angle Wikibon production. Made possible by Hortonworks, we do Hadoop, and when this go, Hadoop made invincible. And now your co-hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, we're back, this is Dave Vellante. We're live here in the Big Apple at the Warwick Hotel on Sixth Ave, right across the street from the Hilton where Hadoop World is going on. This is the Cube, we go out to the events. This is our fourth year at Hadoop World. We extract the signal from the noise, bringing the best guests that are at these events. Horan Oberoi is here, he's the director of product management for BI at Microsoft, and Bob Page is VP of products at Hortonworks. These guys are big partners, and we've had a number of guests from each of your companies on before on the Cube. Welcome. Thanks for it. Good to see you guys. So Horan, let's start with you. Microsoft, you're in every market, you can't name a market where you're not, even hardware now. Yep. So what's the bumper sticker on Microsoft's big data play? Sure, so the big thing for us is, we've always been about simplifying things, bringing things to the masses, and so the big theme for us this morning was how do you bring big data to a billion people? And one of the big things we're looking at is, A, how do you simplify things within the enterprise? And B, really, how do you get the insights, ultimately, from the data to the individuals that need them? And so a lot of the investments we're making, for example, in Excel, the investments we're making in natural language search, in addition to the investments we're making in Hadoop, a ways in which we want to connect the dots between the people and the data to bring this to the masses. Yeah, so a lot of the sandbox activities that you see in Hadoop are just very narrow, and in typical Microsoft fashion, you bring in a lot of different tools to the problem. How's that going? What's the reaction been in your customer base? Sure, yeah, and there's really two pieces to the story. One is the work we've been doing with Hortonworks, of course, which is how do we simplify Hadoop and bring Hadoop to the enterprise, and that includes the investments we're making in security and the investments we're making in manageability. Of course, a lot of the work we've done together has been porting it to Windows. And then the other part of the equation is about bringing it to the users, which is the investments we're making in the BI side of things with Excel. And so we've seen some great reactions on the integration work we've done with Excel, and we've got some demos, we've got a booth back in the conference, and everyone who walks in and sees big data showing up in Excel and a really rich 3D visualization looks at that and saying, wow, I didn't know Excel could do that, so we're getting some great reactions. So you mentioned the Hortonworks partnership.  What was that conversation like back then? Was there a debate about that, or was it a no-brainer? Well, initially it was a little bit of a debate, but it got to a certain point where Hadoop did become the de facto way to store and process, distribute the data. And at that point, which was about two years ago, it really was a no-brainer, and we made a bet and we partnered up with Hortonworks, and here we are two years later announcing the GA of HD Insight on Azure, so it's a beautiful thing.  And then once they joined forces with Hortonworks, it seemed like the roads were paved, you know, the snowstorm, right, and the plows came through, and then boom, things really started to take off. Is that a correct perception, or I wonder if you could take us back? I like your analogy. It brings to mind many other possible analogies, where in some ways, you had Hortonworks, which was kind of the engine, but you didn't have some of the infrastructure, maybe the front plow you needed to clear out some of that, some of the snow. But together we're able to do that. And we're now at a place where all the projects, all the core projects and most of the associated projects are not just Linux and then port to Windows, they're both simultaneously. And so we saw that just recently with Hadoop 2, the core which shipped to GA a couple of weeks ago. And then the last couple of weeks, we saw a pig and HBase and a number of others that are now not just Linux native ports to Microsoft Windows, but are Linux Windows simultaneously. So Hortonworks obviously very proud of its contributions to Apache, maybe give us a quick update on that. And I'm very interested in Microsoft's role there. How do you guys collaborate together? Maybe start with you, Bob. Well, I mean, our commitment is as strong as it ever has been. Everything we do is 100% open source. Every piece of code we write goes back to the Apache Software Foundation. We don't own the IP there. We want to make sure the community owns it. That's the only way that we know of that's going to create this ecosystem for Hadoop, this platform that is going to de-risk any of the investments that businesses will make. And you won't have multiple Hadoops. You'll have one Hadoop and that'll be the one that Apache has. So we're dedicated to that. It's going quite well. And Horan, talk about Microsoft's stance on open source. Sure, yeah. I mean, this was a relatively simple decision for us. We had a common goal here which was bringing Hadoop to Windows. And when we looked at what's the best way to bring Hadoop to Windows, it was to partner with Hortonworks and then contribute back into the Apache open source community. So ultimately, we did want to have Apache Hadoop for Windows. I mean, there was a whole half of the market that didn't have access to Apache Hadoop that we wanted to enable that. And that then allows us to bring other things to life like the Excel integration and natural language search and things like that that we talked about. And so a lot of the work we did hand in hand, I mean, really putting engineers together for a long period of time was to help port Hadoop to Windows. And then as we do that, we're making Hadoop better on other projects like Stinger and Tez and then making Hive more performant. All those things make Hadoop better and that benefits Microsoft but it benefits everyone as well. You guys have massive resources, huge product portfolio. So what do you do?  So how do you decide where to put the resources? You look at your portfolio of products and say, okay, where's the biggest potential? How can we help the community the most? And then what? You actually provide committers, contributors, what role do you actually play? I mean, of course, we do want as many Microsoft employees to also be committers. That's a process that takes time and it takes the more time you invest, the more committers you end up getting. And so that is part of the reason why we did partner up with Hortonworks because Hortonworks had been doing this, understood the process really well. And so when we started two years ago, we were learning the process from Hortonworks. Now it's very much a hand in hand process where we're all contributing to the same code base and then it's just a function of which individuals are contributing more and committing and getting the specific contributions passed by the community. So let's talk about HD Insights and Excel. And I presume this is how you're gonna get to a billion users. So big data for a billion users. Where'd that come from? What role does Excel play? What role does HD Insights play? Sure, yeah. So if you think about just some of office users on the planet and there's over a billion office users and giving them, ultimately the value of big data isn't just what you can do in Hadoop. It's the insights you get from the data. And those insights shouldn't just be limited to a small group of data scientists. Like we really want those insights to be limited to a much broader set of end users. And so the work we're doing to integrate, make Excel a first class BI tool and then integrate Excel with Hadoop and make the movement of Hadoop data into Excel as well as the BI infrastructure behind it. As the more we simplify that, the more we believe we can start to make this accessible. And what role does Hortonworks play in that whole ecosystem? How does the integration work? What role do you play in specifically in that integration? Well, we have regular engineering meetings, roadmap meetings, et cetera. So where we're meeting regularly, we're working together, we're coding together, designing sort of what are each of our customers hearing the enterprises and how do we best meet their needs? So it's a true partnership, not just to go to market, let's put some marketing dollars behind it, but we've got folks flying back and forth and writing code and doing reviews and it's a full-on partnership. The resulting effort really is, HTTP on Windows and then HD Insight on Azure really gives you that one-two punch in terms of deploying Hadoop on premise and then deploying Hadoop in the cloud. And regardless of what kind of deployment model you have, whether it's one or both, a hybrid, being able to use Excel and BI tools against either one in a consistent way, that becomes a lot more simplified when you have people working together like that. So everybody's familiar with Excel, right? So it's a comfortable reference model. You mentioned before trying to make it more, BI robust, at the same time, you have a base of users that is very comfortable with it. I mean, I'm comfortable with Excel. It scares me a little bit. I say, okay, I'm not sure. I do want to get into the big data space, but I'm not sure I'm ready for BI.  So depending on what your level of comfort is and how far you want to go, I mean, you can start small and do easy things, but as you progress, that progression should be simpler. One of the things we'll start to do, and you'll see us do more, is as well as provide cloud services like Office 365 and what we're calling Power BI for Office 365 to light up Excel. A great example of that is if I'm in Excel and I want to search for how many attendees visited Strata last month, I could actually in the context of Excel do a search and if that data happens to be public and we index it in the Bing search, then that data shows up in the context of an Excel and you just pull it in and it'll figure out how to put it in rows and columns for you. So examples like that where you can take simple idea like search, connect that to external data, integrate that into Excel, so someone like you who's using it in context can work with it, things we want to do to make it more accessible. So let me make sure I understand this. So you're sort of automating the Excel schema, if you will, using whatever, semi-structured query, pulling in data and then organizing it in a way that at least gets me started. Yeah, and we're using the power of cloud in Office 365 to light up what you can do in Excel beyond just some of the traditional experiences you might have had. So as Office 365 becomes more popular, as Excel starts to connect better to the cloud engines and services, the types of things you can do will become easier and more powerful without a whole lot of effort being put on behalf of the user. With a collaboration component, obviously, included as well. Excellent. So what's going on over at the show at Hadoop World? That's great, we've got a booth, we've got a great visualization showcase, we're showing some of our great new tools like some of the 3D geospatial visualizations that you could do in Excel if you didn't know that. So we're showing some of those things. And then of course we're talking about HD Insight and the GA and the work we've done there in terms of security, manageability, and then just the integration with our BI tools. And so we had a session earlier this morning where we showed a customer, it was a city of Barcelona that's using big data to make city services better. And so we're doing some real world showcases as well. So lots of exciting things going on. How about the Hortonworks booth? What do you guys get going on over there? Well, we're showing the HDP2 and we're talking a lot about HDP2 which is based on Hadoop2. So that's our yarn-based distribution of Hadoop. We firmly believe it's going to change the world but we're not stopping there. We've got Tez coming and we think that's going to be as big a change in Hadoop as yarn is going to be in Hadoop. So we're just talking about that. We've got several speakers, sessions going on where we're training folks and letting them know what we're doing. Again, we're doing everything in the open and come by the booth and check it out. Yeah, we had a rune on earlier, talking yarn, he said, I feel like I've been in a cave for two years it just came out. Yep. Sun's still rising but things have changed a little bit All right, gentlemen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. We really appreciate the insights. Congratulations on the partnership and the momentum going forward and good luck getting to that billion. Great, thank you. Keep right here, everybody. We're right back with our next guest. This is Dave Vellante. We're live at New York City. This is theCUBE.


We're here at ITU Telecom World 2015 in Budapest, Hungary, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Ms Fatima Barros, who is Chair of BEREC and also Chair of the Board of the Autoridad Nacional de Comunicassois, Anacom in Portugal. Ms Barros, thank you very much for being with us today. It's a great pleasure for me to be here and have the opportunity to share some views with you. Now the theme of ITU Telecom World 2015 is accelerating innovation for social impact this year. How have you seen ICT innovation directly impacting on socio-economic development and people's lives in Portugal? I can tell you that, well, as you know, Portugal has been through a very serious economic crisis during the last few years. And one of the main problems that we faced were, in fact, people losing their jobs. So unemployment became a very special problem in Portugal. We were not used to such a high levels of unemployment. And what was really important and what we could see was the shift in mentality from people that were not used to face the risk. I think that in general, Portuguese were used to have a job for life. And during these crises, they were forced to find other ways to survive, let's say. And what you could see is that there was a development of entrepreneurship culture. And most many people, not just the young people, but many people, decided to launch their own enterprises, their own businesses. And many of them were, in fact, based on ICT, on new technologies. Because many of these SMEs or many of these startups were based on e-commerce. So this was one way if you want for people to find a job, to create their own job. And right now, you see a vibrant ambience, environment in Portugal, in what relates to entrepreneurship. And if you ask young people, even kids in college, what you want to do when you graduate, you'll find many times, it's very frequent to listen to these young people saying, I want to launch my own business. And this is totally different from what it used to be several years ago. Another important aspect was that because the internal demand, domestic demand shrank, SMEs were forced to look for other markets. And so there was an incredible boost in exports. And the rate of increase in exports in Portugal was much higher than in the average of the European Union. And what you can see is that also these exports are essentially based on innovation. And innovation-driven entrepreneurship became, if you want, something very important for the country. And of course, behind this, you find software-developing companies. You find many SMEs that, let me just remind you, 90% of companies in Portugal are SMEs. So you can see how important it is for SMEs. And they learned how to incorporate ICTs and the new technologies in their businesses and products innovation. And so this had a strong impact on exports. In your opinion, can the digital single market contribute to the creation of a European culture of entrepreneurship and innovation? Well, I believe it will because the DSM strategy, in fact, is taking some action points that connect different areas in the digital economy that are crucial. For example, the development of e-commerce. And one of the aspects that is important for the development of e-commerce is the cross-border parcels delivery. You know, if people don't trust e-commerce activities or if people believe that they must pay very high prices if they buy from another member state, this will, of course, have a negative impact on the development of e-commerce. And so many of the actions that are in this digital single market, of course, will have a strong impact on the development of the digital economy. And I believe that it will have a strong contribution for the creation of new jobs. Generally speaking, what can regulators do to promote investments in high-speed networks fit for purpose in the coming decade? Well, you know that, let me just connect these with DSM. So part of the DSM is related to the review of the regulatory framework because according to DSM there is the recognition that the development of telecommunications networks are fundamental for the development of digital economy. And therefore, regulators are right now working at a better level on the review of the regulatory framework in order to give an opinion to the commission. We were requested by the European Commission to give our views on the review of the regulatory framework. And of course, connectivity is crucial because if you don't have connectivity in Europe, you face the risk of a digital divide. That means that part of the population in Europe will not have access to fast broadband. And therefore, we must create the right environment for investors to be able to put their money in the development of these networks. So first of all, the review of the regulatory framework is important in order to be sure that we regulate or we deregulate what is essential in order to create this environment that is favorable for investment. On the other side, we are also facing a situation in Europe where we have 28 different markets. We have different levels of maturity. And therefore, regulators cannot use the same tool for every type of market. So we believe that one size doesn't fit all and so we need flexibility in terms of regulation. So this is something important that we should introduce in this framework review is the possibility that different markets and different regulators in those markets can use different tools in such a way that all of us will work in order to achieve the same goals, the goals that are defined by the digital agenda for Europe, the goals that are defined according to the need to build this internal market. But at the same time, we have flexibility to use the appropriate tool. So we need the same common toolbox but with different possibilities for each market. And of course, something important is that we must have some regulatory certainty because this is crucial for investment and of course to build trust for investors. Well, there are many other issues that are more technical but probably you are not so interested in learning about them. But in general, just to conclude, I think that regulators are in fact working in order to create this environment that will boost investment. What's the major value for you? What's the importance, the real reason that you're here at ITU Telecom World? Is it for the exchange of ideas? Is it to find out what your colleagues in other countries are doing? What's the main reason for your presence here today? Well, I should say that this year that my presence here is rather special because I'm using the head of Barrack Chair for 2015 and therefore somehow I'm promoting the vision of Barrack in terms of regulation for Europe because ITU is about the entire world and in this case, Europe is not so well-known among all our colleagues. So this is also a good opportunity to share with our colleagues what's going on in Europe and what we are doing in terms of regulation. Thank you very much for keeping with us today. It was my pleasure, thank you.


to Armo, founder, owner, the stock swoosh to talk all about the markets, some names she likes, the bullish names, the bearish names. So let's just start with the big picture here. Melissa, how are you feeling about the markets now when you look at what's going on here? Big picture markets. I'm saying I'm giving it about two years and that's a long time out for the possibility of another major sell-off in the market. So right now I'm bullish on the market. We're heavy today. We could fall again. We fell yesterday, but you can't deny the fact that the market has been in such a strong uptrend and we've been making new highs in quite a lot, particularly in the spy that may be because of the out of Tesla and the strength we've been seeing in the banks this year. But I think that at some point we are going to see the effects of higher corporate taxes. If in fact this goes through the lingering unemployment, cities like New York City that have been closed and even though Mayor de Blasio is reopening them July 1st, I don't think the city is going to come back to normal this year, you're going to see the effects of, again, the foreclosures because they keep pushing back the moratorium on the evictions. At some point these things always have a, it takes longer to see the effect of some of these negative implications. Right now we're seeing job growth and economic growth because of the fact that things have just reopened because people couldn't go to work because things were closed, not because they didn't want to work. So it's really not new jobs. It's just where it looks like new jobs, but it's not new jobs. We're putting back the same jobs as we had before COVID. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. So how are you deciding your bullish and bearish lists here? Let's start with the bullish names. I know you have UPS and Target there. Yeah, UPS and Target. I really, really, really love UPS. Not as a strong company that could easily go to 2225. That could even go to 250. They had amazing earnings. And one of the reasons I like UPS is and Target too. Target may new highs in the last few days as well. Those earnings for Target are May 19, but UPS is my top bullish watch. And the reason is because it's on its own. It even rallied yesterday when the market sold off. UPS is so strong, it's on its own. And my advice to people out there right now, because I don't know exactly when this effect, like I said, happens when we have it sell up in the market, it could happen at any point or it could be a while from now is pick selective things to invest in, pick selective stocks to trade. Pick things that are really, really strong if you're going to go long or pick things are really weak if you're going to short. Now, one of the reasons that I also like the bearish picks I picked with what one of them was Netflix is Netflix had not so great of earnings. For that stock normally has a big move on earnings up or down. In this case, it had a big move down in earnings. And even though it has a fully broken 500, it's touched it. It's nibbled at it. It's tried to break it. It did a little bit the other day. Once Netflix seriously gets through that 500 level, it has a long way to go down. That stock has had tremendous growth. That stock has over 200 million subscribers. And the problem is that even in expectations for subscribers, they were supposed to hit, I think, 2 million and they hit less than that. At some point, they have so many people now that are subscribers. They're trying to grow globally with the slowing of COVID and people going out more. It's going to be harder and harder for them to keep getting as many new people. And they need a lot of revenue because remember, Netflix has spent a lot of money on new production and series. In fact, there's some really good series that you can get on Netflix. Once people start to go out more, they may not subscribe continuously like people were last year. So that is my top bearish watch for things to do. I know you have that on there. I thought that was interesting. I understand why you have UPS and Target. We're certainly seeing a lot of shopping and curbside pickup and things that are happening in those. To stay to the downside in addition to your Netflix call as a bearish call, you also have a few others including Microsoft, Tesla and Peloton. Can we start with Tesla? Well, Tesla's earnings, if you look at the chart, if you like to look at earnings or played stocks on those days, which I like to do. And the reason I like to trade stocks on earnings days is because they tend to have big moves or the biggest moves on the day of the earnings or the day after the earnings. Anyways, when you look at Tesla, if you look at the chart, you couldn't even pick out the day of the earnings. It basically was a nothing burger. It really didn't move that much, which is very surprising for that stock. So they really didn't make any sense to me. While they have tremendous opportunity for growth, I think this short term, even though it's an uptrend, short term Tesla can go all the way down to 650, 625, 600 before it goes anywhere back up again to new highs. The next earnings on Tesla are months and months away. So for now, it's trending to the downside. And again, that has a big room to move down to. And that stock, if you've ever traded it, is a lot easier to trade as an option that is an equity trade or swing trade just because of the cost of it.