Well, another good Friday evening. Purim and Pequot Lakes look to be in the thick of things when it's all said and done in section 388 or section 83 yellow jackets. Two and 0 Patriots one in one. Get ready for a battle tonight with two offenses that can score in a hurry. Let's head to Pequot Lakes for a big section battle between these two teams. First quarter Patriots getting on the board first. This pass from senior Blake Lane, the classmate Austin Young for the easy six. Pequot up seven, nothing. Purim though didn't take long to respond. Jensen Beachy finds Ty Moser wide open across the middle. He'll find the end zone a failed two point conversion though. Means the yellow jackets trailed by one then we go to the second. It's Pequot again extending its lead. 40 yard run by Nathan Trott and the Patriots are up seven after a missed two point conversion. Yellow jackets find momentum though with Beachy putting the team on his back. This run in the end zone they trailed by two but Pequot would respond again. Next possession second point and Lane finds trout on the screen pass and he does the rest 73 yards to the house for the score. Our last updated score on this one Pequot leads 19 to 18 in the fourth quarter. Nine man football Kelleher North home hosting floodwood opening drive for the Mustangs trace Grunmeyer fools everyone and breaks free on the sideline gets down to the two yard line that would set this up a couple plays later and it's Grunmeyer fooling everyone again even the cameraman me for the first touchdown of the game. The Kelleher North home gets it done defensively and look at the play by safety and new Steven the track star also getting it done knocking down passes. This one's last updated score eight nothing Kelleher was winning in the second quarter. Clearbrook Godvick at home tonight hosting fourth rink Steven Argo. The game was delayed an hour due to weather conditions. Steven Argo quarterback Hunter Yatzarenka rushes for a dirt first down during the storms opening drive then Clearbrook Godvick steps up defensively. Jami Hamas makes a critical tackle on the ball carrier than more from the Bears Reese Danielson Richard Hale get the backfield for the loss. This one was scoreless. Our last updated score is zero zero in the first quarter to Proctor we go. Grand Rapids paying them a visit. Thunderhawks looking for their second win. First half rails put it on the ground. Zach's rapid Zach Engin is there to stop thrown in the backfield. Then later in the first half nice boot by Proctor's Cody Hampton gets a nice bounce that pins the Thunderhawks on their one yard line. Then a few plays later a swarm of rail defenders tackles the Thunderhawks ball carrier in the end zone. Chalk it up as a safety in the first points of the game. Look at this final nine nothing Proctor tops Grand Rapids. Also in the Duluth area Esco and Greenway Nashua Kiwam battling it out scoreless until the late first quarter Greenway in the red zone that Jessica gets in on the full back dive for six. Two point try fails Titans lead six nothing Esco though would tie it up on a bot putt and the extra point would be critical Cameron Osterling splits the uprights to take the lead and that would end up being the final seven six Esco beats Greenway. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


If you're lucky, right now you're aging at a rate of one year per year that is, your biological age is the same as your chronological age. If you are unlucky, you might be aging faster biologically than you're aging chronologically. You might be 40 for example, but the general condition of your body may be more like that of a typical 50-year-old. Really lucky people may be aging slower biologically speaking. They might be 40, but they're as fit as a typical 30-year-old. As far as we know, no one is so lucky that they age in reverse and get biologically younger with each passing year, but a 2019 study seems to suggest that something like that can be done and it has to do with your immune system. Welcome to X10, your one-stop YouTube show for all things life extension. Learn the science, keep up with new research and live longer and healthier. If this is the first time you pop by, subscribe to our channel to learn all about aging and rejuvenation. Don't forget to hit that bell icon too and select all notifications to stay in the loop. Your immune system is a complex network of biochemical mechanisms that protect you from all manners of external and internal threats. It's not only able to tell friends from foes, it can also learn to recognize new threats and react accordingly. This is all made possible thanks to a tiny, innocent-looking organ sitting behind your breastbone. The thymus. Ah, no, not that thymus. Yes, this one. Thank you. Oh, well, where was I? Ah, yes. The thymus' job is to train immune cells to know the difference between your own bodily tissues that need to be left alone and enemies that need to be mercilessly slain. And guess what? The thymus is the one and only organ in your body that only gets better and better as you age. I bet you didn't expect that. And you were right, because it's not true. Actually, the thymus is among the first things that fail in your body. Before you're even out of high school, it starts turning into a disgusting blob of fat. I'm not even kidding. Thymic involution, that is the gradual replacement of functional thymic tissue with fat, is nearly universal in mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and many other animals. It starts very early on in life, well before any sign of age-related decline appears. In humans, researchers think involution may begin as early as the first year of life or at least in childhood, but there is no doubt that by the time we're teens, it's already happening and it progresses throughout life. As the thymus turns into mostly fat and its function declines, the population of fresh T cells, that is cells capable of learning to recognize and kill new threats, shrinks, leaving us more and more open to diseases. That is one of the reasons why elderly people are more vulnerable to infectious diseases and don't respond to vaccines very well. T cells don't recognize only viruses and bacteria as threats, they also target cancer cells. This ability lies at the core of modern cancer immunotherapy which seeks to fight cancer by using the immune system against it. Research suggests that as the immune system declines, so does the ability to fight cancer which may partly explain why cancer rates skyrocket with age. Some researchers go as far as to suggest that while DNA mutations are necessary for cancer to happen, the faltering of the immune system induced by the collapse of the thymus may be a more important factor in age-related cancer than DNA mutations. Scientists aren't sure why thymic involution even happens. Given that it begins so early in life, researchers hypothesize that it's not simply a consequence of the negative effects of aging, though it does contribute to making aging worse. A number of hypotheses have been put forward to explain involution and you'll find links about that in the description below. But whatever the reason may be, researchers think that restoring the thymus back to its youthful glory may be very important for preserving our health later in life. That's precisely what a group of researchers set out to do in a small trial between 2015 and 2017. However, what they did seems to have done more than just regenerating the thymus. It appears to have partly rejuvenated nine lucky guys. The trial was called Trim, standing for Thymus Regeneration Immunorestoration and Insulin Mitigation. Trim enrolled nine fairly healthy men between the ages of 51 and 65, the age range right before immune collapse really begins, and treated them for a year with a mix of human growth hormone and two other compounds known as DHEA and metformin. Previous studies in both mice and human HIV patients have shown that growth hormone safely induced regrowth of phylic tissue. That's why Trim patients were given it. However, administering growth hormone can induce side effects similar to diabetes and that's why researchers add the DHEA and metformin to the mix. They're known for their anti-diabetic effects. The Trim trial culminated in a paper published in 2019 and the results went far beyond what the researchers were expecting or even looking for. Seven out of the nine volunteers displayed significant thymic regeneration, meaning that the excess fat in the thymus was replaced with functional tissue. The other two volunteers happened to have low thymic fat to start with, so their gains weren't very pronounced. The treatment also increased the production of different types of fresh T cells, which is pretty much what the researchers wanted. But as boosting the immune system might have the side effect of increasing inflammation, the researchers looked for markers of that. Interestingly, they found that inflammation was either decreased or unchanged. Administering growth hormone might also cause an increase in prostate cancer risk, but a risk index analysis showed that the patient's risk for that particular cancer had decreased. As far as unexpected effects go, Trim had many positive ones. One of them was a decline in the number of T cells with a protein called PD1 on their surfaces. A high number of PD1 positive cells inhibits the ability of the immune system to seek and destroy cancer, so this decline was a good thing. Trim patients also had an increased lymphocyte to monocyte ratio. Lymphocytes and monocytes are two different types of immune cells. And Trim patients ended up having more of the former than the latter, which indicates a reduced risk of contracting different types of cancers. It appears that a high lymphocyte to monocyte ratio also correlates with better outcomes for other age-related conditions, such as heart disease, and even with all cause mortality. During the trial, some of the patients had their hair grow from white to dark again. This wasn't true for most of the patients, and the researchers couldn't properly document the phenomenon, but it was an intriguing side effect nonetheless. Still, reversal of epigenetic age takes the cake as the most remarkable, unexpected effect of Trim. Tests known as epigenetic clocks measure specific features of your DNA to estimate your biological age as opposed to your chronological age. People with a lower biological age than chronological age are aging more slowly and vice versa. The biological age of Trim patients was measured using four different epigenetic clocks at different points during the treatment and after its conclusion. All four clocks showed similar reductions in biological age, meaning that the patients were getting biologically younger. The data showed that this reversal accelerated as the treatment progressed, and as with many effects observed in this trial, this benefit persisted for months after the trial was concluded. One of the epigenetic clocks, very aptly named Grimage, is able to accurately predict the patient's remaining lifespan and age of death. According to this clock, the patient's lifespan was extended by about two years. This is all great, but of course, there are caveats. A key limitation of the study was the number and diversity of patients. There were only nine of them, and they were all male. Also, Trim did not have a control group, and no one has replicated its results yet. Even though the biological age reduction measured by the epigenetic clocks is nothing short of amazing, what epigenetic clocks measure isn't exactly the same as aging itself, and of course, none of the patients have actually lived longer than expected yet. Additionally, DHEA and Metformin, the two compounds administered together with growth hormone, are known to have anti-aging effects of their own, so it's possible that some of the effects observed in Trim were due to them rather than to the regeneration of the thymus, so it's definitely early to draw conclusions. To address some of these issues, the researchers are planning a new expanded trial called Trim X. This new trial is going to be very similar to the previous one, except it will study many more men and women of all ethnicities between the ages of 40 and 80. Trim X will be a randomized trial with a control group, will last 12 months, and is expected to be completed in October 2022. We're looking forward to the results, and we'll be sure to make an episode about that. So if you want to be sure you don't miss it, you can subscribe to our channel, click the little bell icon, and select all notifications. 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Hey guys Chris Birch here in the create DC print shop going over today You ever see these forms like if you go to Like a auto mechanic and they write up this order They tear it off and then you get your own copy and they keep a copy So what that's called is NCR paper and I have a pack over here and NCR means no carbon required and if you're old enough You'll probably remember when you used to have these receipts. There was that little black Like film sheet that would go in between that would then transfer your handwriting down on to the bottom sheet So if you want to learn more come along with me, let's go. All right, so we have this pack here it's a two-part two-part NCR and It's basically you'll have The mate the master copy is what you're writing on and then when it transfers that image down To the second sheet that will then go to your customer so I actually have this job already set up and All we're gonna do is kind of fan the paper out get some air in between so it prints nice and even and Then it doesn't pick up a second sheet In our Xerox V80 And you'll see it start to feed these sheets and then what you have When it comes off on the other end Now have a printed image, so I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna let that print and We'll come back to how We put this back together As a finished item All right, so we're back at the cutter. So now we have all these loose, you know sheets It's already printed. It's ready to go So what we're gonna have to do is jog the paper up get a nice and even nice and square And because this job is not a full sheet, it's not a full sheet of eight and a half by eleven paper We're gonna actually trim it down Before we glue it make our second cut now. We're gonna take the top part top edge as you see the printed this is this is the edge that is gonna get glued and Let's go do that right now So we have everything trimmed down the size We got our whole pack of NCR paper here And we're gonna seal this edge so now Some larger shops and we even have one here have what's called as a padding station So I could I could stack up maybe 4,000 sheets at one time, but this order is only for 500 Which is 250 sets when we're when we're finished So what I do is you're gonna need three you're gonna need three tools to do this You're gonna need your brush just a regular painters brush you're gonna need your padding compound right and Then what I use to pad it Excuse me to to clamp it as you want to have pressure Pushing down on the sheets is I just have some quick vise grips and a block of wood And then all I have to do is place that That block of wood on top Get my vise grip and the key here too. You want to keep this surface flush You want to keep it flat, so we're just gonna put some pressure down with a grip on one side and on the other side we're gonna take our padding compound, which is just a Liquid form glue it's just a padding glue the top off I don't know if you can see that in the camera, but it's just a it's a glue.  It's not that difficult I'll jump back on and show you the final product and show you some other sizes and dimensions that we can use which is great for receipts for Any any sort of like a delivery slip confirmation slip any any form that you know You can have it or you would need excuse me that you would need a duplicate copy of all right, so We're all dry now, so I'm gonna take the clamps off as you see here You now have a full set Already padded glued So now you have the nice even to copy So if I were to take this receipt And maybe fill out the fill out the form for one of my customers Then when I write on it You now have the carbon that comes through on the bottom sheet So guys if this information was helpful Do me a favor hit the thumbs up button subscribe to my channel Continue to bring you behind the scenes in the print shop also behind the scenes in some of the real estate and some of the investments that we're working on so I'll talk to you guys soon NCR. Oh, actually, you know what I wanted to show you so you could actually even Take these NCR paper and Create a book out of it. See how it's stapled at the top there So now what they with this company? It's a High-tech accessory cell phone repair right so cell phone repair what they do is they create a book of Multiple receipts and then they we inserted a Bottom layer sheet so it doesn't transfer all the way down to the other sheets We also have some that we do for tow companies. Just a real quick two-part NCR So guys, I love bringing this information to you Smash the thumbs up down below subscribe to my channel. Love to bring you more information On some of the services we provide and how we produce them talk to you guys soon


In this video, I recap issue two from Boom Studios' Expanse mini-series, bridging the gap between seasons four and five. Bobby and Avasarala continue their struggle to uncover the truth of a secret cabal claiming they can unite Earth, Mars, and the Belt. If you need to catch up, click the card in the upper right corner for issue one onto the recap. Bobby Draper's pursuers follow her footsteps and find they suddenly stop. Where did she go? They surmise she must have had an accomplice with transportation. They run off as the one in charge says, Come on, if we hurry, we can put a stop and search on every returning craft in this sector. Bobby watches from a distance as she clutches a bullet wound on her right arm. Guess training isn't what it used to be, she thinks, because there is no way I did that good a job erasing my footsteps, not one-handed. Then, stranded on the empty landscape of Mars, she calls Cal for help. All right, Mr. Good Business, she thinks. It's time to put some things to the test. Meanwhile, on Luna, Ashanti asks her mother, Christian Avasarala, to see her off. Christian is too busy to do so, but at least tries to get her a better seat. She looks over the passenger list to see who owes her a favor and is surprised to find one of her subordinates, Lance Slavitt, on the list. On second thought, Avasarala says, I will come with you. At the terminal, Christian says goodbye to her daughter and adds, pretend to listen to your father. That's the best way to care for him, all right? Ashanti disagrees, you coming to visit would be the best thing for him. I'm not so sure about that, darling, Christian replies. They part ways and Christian spots Lance. She questions him on why he's so suddenly heading to Earth without a return ticket. Cornered, Lance admits that he is resigning. He's found a better job where he gets to work on something he can believe in. No offense, Lance adds, that's just not something you can offer me. On Mars, Bobby hitches a ride in Cal's transport. I can't imagine what you were doing out there at this hour. Cal says, after confirming that Cal can keep a secret, she admits, well, what I was doing wasn't exactly sanctioned. I was trying for some salvage off the books. Cal chides her for her recklessness and she defends herself. Do you see much more work around here? Sometimes you take what you can get. Cal responds. Bobby, what if there was something better? I know you once told me you'd never leave Mars. Has that changed? Hmm, Bobby answers. Let me ponder that while I slip into your cargo hold and try to find your first aid kit. At the sector entrance, Cal's stopped by some guards. They insist on searching his vehicle, but with Bobby in the cargo hold, he claims to be traveling alone. The guard is unimpressed, but once Cal shows his identification, the guard apologizes and allows him to proceed. Once safely inside, Bobby asks if Cal will finally elaborate on whatever scheme he's involved in. And risk there being no reason for you to call me again, Cal says. I think I'll save it for another night. Then he offers Bobby a nightcap and she politely turns him down, but offers that tomorrow is a new day. It's a date, Cal says, then they part ways. In her apartment, Bobby tends to her wound and records a message for Avacerala, saying she's not any closer to discovering who is behind the weapons sales. But she adds, I did get a promising lead on, well, I'm not really sure what it is yet. Back on Luna, Christian listens to Bobby's message. Then hears a noise and checks the hallway. When she sees no one, Christian reassures herself. Get a hold of yourself. Whatever trouble Bobby has gotten into is a long way from here, unless she calls an old belter friend of hers, Justin Whiteley. And does some of her own investigating. She asks if he's noticed people being hired away by mysterious conglomerate. At first, he dodges her questions, but finally, Avacerala insists. A blunt answer, please. Is there someone with a lot of money hiring away your people? Well, yes, Justin replies. Both from this project and across the belt. But we don't know who is behind it.  You get someone trained and suddenly an intruder appears behind Christian, interrupting the call and grabbing her phone. She is, of course, unintimidated. It's customary to knock before entering, she says.  You think you know something about us, but we're fairly sure you don't, the intruder says. Is that a threat? Christian asks. Not at all, she responds. She asks for her phone back and the intruder hands it to her with a smile. I'm here to offer you an opportunity, as a gesture of friendship. You have my attention, she replies. However, the intruder grabs her again when she notices Avacerala attempting to quietly call security. Then lets her know it wouldn't work anyway. They've blocked all local communications for the next six hours. The intruder pushes her against the table and continues the pitch. You knew a lot about how to run things on earth not long ago. But did anyone really listen? No. But what would you say if I told you that I know a place where people would listen? Wouldn't that be a place where you could create a paradise? Meanwhile, Bobby's evening has grown much quieter. In her room, she wonders if Cal is the reason she hasn't been taken in yet. She definitely left some blood behind after the gunfight. Maybe he sells get out of jail free cards, she wonders. Or maybe get off the planet free cards, maybe. Just maybe, that wouldn't be so bad right about now. Then she heads to bed, determined to get a rare night of real sleep, and makes her to put her phone away somewhere far from bed. I'm sleeping in tomorrow, she thinks, no matter what. Avasarala continues her less than friendly discussion. Where exactly are you building this Shangri-La? Certainly not earth. Not even close, the intruder says. We're building something new from the ground up. Obviously you've noticed, and if you noticed, others have too. She wonders aloud why they would contact her now, given she's in no position to help them. The stranger insists that's not true. Avasarala has eyes and ears everywhere. They would make it worth her while to get those eyes and ears to look the other way. Avasarala quietly lets her bracelet slip to the floor while the stranger speaks. Then she grabs it and throws it in the intruder's face, giving her a chance to run. At the door, she spots a man she doesn't know walking through the halls and quickly joins him. What's your name again? She asks. I'm Jebin, the man replies. Jebin Cartner. Jebin, Avasarala says. I don't believe we've been formally introduced prior to this moment. Walk with me, won't you? Her intruder watches the two leave, unable to act with this new witness present. They are followed, however, as she accompanies Jebin on his train. Once they reach the station, one of Avasarala's pursuers holds the train for her. I'll hold the door for you, ma'am. I do believe you've traveled too far. Jebin leaves and Avasarala runs. She finds a place requiring authorized access where the man chasing her can't get in, though she'll have other dangers to contend with. In 68 minutes, the atmosphere will cycle and supplementary oxygen will be required, something that she does not have access to as the only suit she could find did not have a helmet. She makes her way through the temporarily livable quarters and has a thought. According to her intruder, local communications would be blocked for another five hours. But what about an off-world call? She sends a message and thinks, now for the hard part, waiting. One second later, a phone rings on Earth and it is ignored while Avasarala's daughter plays at the park. One minute later, another phone rings on Earth and the call is declined. Christian's husband Arjun just isn't ready to talk to her yet, unless she wants to do it in person. On Mars, 22 minutes later, Bobby's phone rings uselessly in a drawer, far from her bed while she sleeps soundly. 30 minutes later, on the russinante, James Holden notices that he has no phone signal.  Then she sits and quietly hopes for someone to call back. And that's where issue two wraps up. Let me know what you thought of the issue in the comments, where you think it's heading and how it will lead into what we've seen of season five. And if you enjoyed this video, please go ahead and hit the like button, hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon. That way you'll get notified as we post more Expans content, including a similar video for issue three. With that, thanks for watching and see you on the next one take.


I hold your hand and I trust in you, holy There is one question that you can have with anything and that is what is it for? And there's a little book that we have at the back that says purpose is the only choice We have to realize that when we get all entangled in this world the ego has invented many purposes What is the purpose of a cup? What is the purpose of a shoe? What is the purpose of a microphone? What is the purpose of a phone? Eden talks about what is the purpose of a telephone in the workbook He says you believe it's to reach someone who is not in your proximity That's the purpose of the telephone You believe that's the ego's purpose for a telephone What's the holy spirit's purpose for the telephone? He says the real question you should ask yourself is what do I want to reach them for? What's the purpose of the phone call? You see the difference between the level of form where the ego's made up the phone We don't have to have telephones in heaven We don't even have words in heaven Words are but symbols of symbols twice removed from reality But the spirit's taking us inward and saying what do you want to reach them for? So like when Kiske was talking about her job and relationship and those kind of things Instead of just accepting, okay, I know what the purpose of the relationship is and I know what the purpose of the job is in an egoic sense We have to have kind of an inner dialogue with spirit and start to really honestly deeply start to look at what are the deeper underlying purposes which is taking us more to a purification of motive A purification, you know, Jesus said, blessed are the pure of heart that they shall see God So I remember when I was in university and I was in grad school and I would go and burn the woods next to the University of Cincinnati and I would take these long walks and I would meditate and take these long walks and talk to Jesus and I was in university for ten years full time So I was like a professional student but they were saying to Squirrel, you know, undergrad and then more undergrad and then graduate school and taking a walk in burn the woods right next to the University of Cincinnati and talking to Jesus and I'm talking about us getting kind of stressful Master's thesis and on and on and on, you know, like how the woe is me I've got a really difficult complicated life and Jesus says, Jesus says, what's this for? What is this ten years of university for? And I said, well, it's for education He said, what's all this education for? And I said, well, it's to get degrees I'm working on my second degree here and I think at that point, I already had two, I was working for the third one He said, what's the purpose of a degree? I said, well, if you want to have a career it's good to have a degree and so I'm getting a degree so I can have a career He said, what's the purpose of a career? I've walked a long way There's plenty of questions Well, the purpose of a career is because I don't want to be flipping burgers at McDonald's I would like to have some substantial money coming in and not be getting minimum wage and so Jesus says, well, what's the purpose for this money? Jim here I'll go with you The reason I'm earning the money is because I want a relationship and down here on earth poor people aren't exactly when you go out in the first date and the date has to pay for the date and the second date I said, so there you have it I need the education, the degrees the money, the career and the relationship He said, okay, what's the purpose of the relationship? What's the purpose of the relationship? Intimacy That's what the purpose of the relationship is I want intimacy I'm going through all this all this work and getting all stressed out because I want intimacy So at this point Jesus starts talking and he goes, well, I said also I want some freedom Money, what if I want to travel? What if I want to do things? It's not everything in this world is free It's not like heaven, you have to pay You don't have to pay to get into the parks You don't have to pay So I said, I want to have some freedom I think the money would help out get the freedom and I think it would help a lot with intimacy and intimacy He said, you have every right to want freedom You have every right to want intimacy These are traits and qualities that you were given in your creation God created you free God created you with a deep sense of intimacy deep sense of connection and love But you are looking for love at all the wrong places You are looking for love in way too many faces You are looking for your intimacy in a way that you will never find it You are following a voice that will forever lead you on a sense of unfulfillment, abandonment rejection, loneliness We've all had that experience where you felt lonely in a crowd even when you're around a lot of people where at New Year's Eve and everyone's partying and all the noise is going and you feel melancholy We've had that experience where we feel extremely empty and lonely even when we seem to have a partnership So Jesus said, you have every right to ask for that That's your inheritance but you are going about it completely the wrong way And that means that all the things you've been doing to try to get the intimacy and get the freedom have very much of a body component to it In fact in A Course in Miracles if you read the Course pretty far in the text he will say things like What do you want? Freedom of the body or freedom of the mind for both you cannot have for both you cannot have That's pretty strong coming from the Master You can't have it both ways You have to go for freedom of the mind Think of people like Gandhi Gandhi stood up for some very strong beautiful principles non-violence and equality and he was locked up he spent quite a few of his years in jail He actually was fine with that because he started to have the realization from spending so many years in prison that he wasn't really imprisoned in prison Isn't that a wonderful realization? Wouldn't that be a spiritual insight if you spent years in prison and suddenly aha realized that you weren't imprisoned in prison and he realized that it was freedom of the mind freedom in his consciousness is what he really wanted So I've been working and talking to Jesus for these years and that started to change my perspective when I started to look at the schooling and I started to look at the jobs and careers and everything I started at that point to begin to question whether I needed all of that to have the intimacy that I wanted in the freedom and then I went on a journey with Jesus and he said, here I'll take you there very directly, through miracles you are designed to be a miracle worker I'm calling you out of the world I'm calling you to be a miracle worker but yes, you are ready because I will do them through you I say you're ready and you're ready So suddenly, which I all those 20 some years had never when I was growing up as a child I never heard from my parents Hello little David, you grew up to be a miracle worker My parents weren't telling me I'd be a miracle worker My teachers weren't telling me My guidance counselors never told me I would be a miracle worker and then, you know even when you get maybe later on in the course of miracles groups your facilitator might have said well, you're not going to be a miracle worker you've got too long to go we can't hold on to any kind of limitations because Christ is calling us to be a miracle worker and to let miracles be performed through us for our own perception for our own expanded consciousness our own expanded perception and I simply started there in the woods by asking what Jesus said ask yourself these questions what is it for? what is it for? and I started to apply that with relationships and now that I've had people I've worked with for years they start to look at their relationships and they start to really ask the question what is this for? is this relationship really to maximize the healing of my mind? that's an interesting question to ask with a relationship is the relationship really here to maximize the healing of my mind or are there egoic motives that I'm trying to have this person act something out for me or I'm trying to think that I will be much better if I'm in a partnership for example like when you go in to trade in a used car for a new car why are you doing that? why do you trade in a used car for the new car? maybe the used car is older maybe it's more broken down maybe it's not so beautiful anymore why are you going into the dealership to upgrade? what if you try to do that spiritually with your relationships? what if you've got a single model and you want a couple model you want to go in for an upgrade I'm a lonely single model but I think I'll trade up for a couple model convertible when we try to shift our self-concepts to try to cover over unworthiness and try to make our self-feel more worthy and we trade we keep shifting the deck chairs of the Titanic not realizing that the ship is sinking and we're really trying to just get a better arrangement before the ship goes down we have to start to realize that we really need to be asking what is this for? when you go on a date the ego will tell you all the things that are ticked off that you want to have all the dates should go and what kind of partner you want and I see a lot of times people now are shopping for partners like they go and shop for meat in the grocery store or vegetables in the grocery store they're squeezing them and they're shaking them and they're testing them out what's the expiration date on this if you go to the grocery store you check out the expiration date if you're on the first date you say what do you do for a living? you check out the expiration date on their financial it's the same thing you might as well be squeezing the cantaloupe or something you know is just trying to evaluate the Holy Spirit if you say no the Holy Spirit bring to me the best relationship for the healing of my mind and for the good of the whole universe then it gets really interesting to see who shows up and when you get on the date you're just going oh, Holy Spirit this is terrible I wouldn't even let this guy through the door we would never have the first date if I was in charge of it I give the prayer to you and this is what you show this is how it works the Holy Spirit is going to help you undo the ego it's going to undo your self-concept it's going to undo your pride it's going to undo the things that the ego thinks you need in this world to be more worthy more intelligence more beauty more something a better form when people get on to weight loss and so forth they feel unworthy with a certain weight and then they feel they'll feel better about themselves when they're at a different weight actually the Holy Spirit doesn't think like that the Holy Spirit is not thinking oh, you'll be much more worthy if you don't die if you lose a few pounds that's not how the Holy Spirit thinks it really doesn't think that way at all the Holy Spirit loves to see mirrors come up and when you go oh, I hate that the Holy Spirit says oh, let's take a look what do they represent in your mind you can look at that with me and we can let it go together now that's how the Holy Spirit operates so it's a whole different way I mean if you truly invite the Holy Spirit into your life into your relationships things can get shaken up like the turkey pan pretty good and I've seen that in my life in the lives of many people I've worked with but actually it comes out beautiful you come out glowing and shining when you go through this purification process and just trying to cling to the old ways and try to go through self-improvement that's really the ego that's trying to do the self-improvement thing totally, it's honestly not a flippant question I'm just, it's rather personal but you're married I am not you're not? no, I have had like this band on my finger is basically I have all kinds of stories with bands because these are props to me and so over the years the figures have had the props on and off and everything but it has no meaning in fact in other cultures they tell me it means different things different figures and so on and so forth but actually this particular I can't even remember how this one came but I've had rings given to me by women men course inscriptions on and so on and so forth and to me it's just a beautiful simple symbol of no beginning and no end so when people say married I say married to God because in the truth that's where the union really is everything in this world just gets used to help us forgive the illusions that are keeping us from knowing our union with our source so yeah, that's I've never been legally what the world would call married I've been just used in purpose would you like me? if I already am that would be like saying I'd like to be pregnant with she's already pregnant that's a new point and if I'm already married and all the thinking I'd like to trade it in for something lesser model from the experience not from the form this is good you guys are getting down to it and this is all recorded for the whole world so we're trying to save time for the whole universe and you guys are doing a great job of it


Live from San Jose, California. It's theCUBE, covering Big Data Silicon Valley 2017. Okay, welcome back, everyone. We are here live in Silicon Valley for Big Data SP. This is our event in conjunction with Strata Hadoop, our companion event, the Big Data NYC, and we're here breaking down the big data world as it evolves and goes to the next level up on the step function, AI, machine learning, IoT, really forcing people to really focus on a clear line of sight of the data. I'm John Furrier with our analyst on Wikibon, George Gilbert, our next guest. Our two executives were trifecta, the founder and chief strategy officer, Joe Hellestine, and Adam Wilson, the CEO. Guys, welcome to theCUBE. Welcome back. Founder, co-founder. Co-founder, because multiple co-founders, I remember, because you guys were on the first sites to have the GitHub and the About section on all the management team, just to show you how technical you guys are. Welcome back. And if you're trifecta, you have to have three founders, right? So that's part of the track, right? The triple threat, so to speak. Okay, so big year for you guys. Give us the update. I mean, obviously we had Elation on, so there's partnering going on, some product movement, but there's a turbulent time right now. You have a lot of things happening in multiple theaters, the technical theater, the business theater, and also within the customer base. People, it's a land grab, it seems to be, on the metadata and who's going to control it. What's happening? What's going on in the marketplace and what's the update from you guys? Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, last year was an absolutely spectacular year for trifecta. It was four times growth in bookings, three times growth in customers. It's been really exciting for us to see the technology get in the hands of some of the largest companies on the planet and to see what they're able to do with it. I think from the very beginning, we really believed in this idea of self-service and democratization. We recognize that the wrangling of the data is often where a lot of the time and the effort goes. In fact, up to 80% of the time and the effort goes in a lot of these analytic projects and to the extent that we can help take the data from raw to refined in a more productive way and to allow more people in an organization to do that, that's going to create information agility that we feel really good about and that our customers are telling us is having an impact on their use of big data in Hadoop. And I think you're seeing that transition where in the very beginning, there was a lot of offloading, a lot of like, hey, we're going to grab some cost savings. But then at some point, people scratched their heads and said, well, you know, wait a minute, what about this strategic asset that we were building that was going to change the way people work with the data? Where is that piece of it? And I think as people started figuring out, in order to get ROI, we got to have users and use cases on these clusters and the data lake itself is not a use case. Tools like TriFacta have been absolutely instrumental in really fueling that maturity in the market and we feel great about what's happening there. I want to get some more drilled down before we get to some of those questions for Joe too because I think you mentioned you got some good growth. I just want to double click on that. It always comes up in the business model question for people, what's your business model? Doing democratization is really hard. Sometimes democratization doesn't appear until years later. So it's one of those elusive things. You see it, you believe it, but then making it happen are two different things. So I appreciate the vision there. But ultimately at the end of the day, the business model comes down to how you organize. Proof points, customers, partnerships, we had a relation on Stephanie McReynolds was on. Can you share just and connect the dots on the business model with respect to the product, customers, partners. How is that specifically evolving? And give some examples. Sure, yeah, and I would say kind of, we felt from the beginning that we wanted to turn what was traditionally a very complex, messy problem dealing with data into a user experience problem that was powered by machine learning. And so a lot of it was down to how we were going to build and architect the technology and the affordances for really getting the power in the hands of the people who know the data best. But it's important, and I think this is often lost in Silicon Valley where the focus on innovation is all around technology to recognize that the business model also has to support democratization. So one of the first things we did coming in was to release a free version of the product. So Trifacta Wrangler that is now being used by over 4,500 companies, tens of thousands of users. And the power of that, in terms of getting people something of value that they could start using right away on spreadsheets and files and small data and allowing them to get value. But then also for us, the exchange is that we're actually getting a chance to curate at scale usage data across all of these. Is that a SaaS product? Is that a SaaS product? It's a hybrid product. So the data stays local. It never leaves their local laptop. But the metadata is hashed and put into the cloud. It has some instrumentation into that. Absolutely, and so now we can use that as training data that actually, as more people wrangle, the product itself gets smarter based on that. And so that's creating real tangible value for customers and for us is a source of very strategic advantage. And so we think that combination of the technology innovation but also making sure that we can get this in the hands of users and they can get going. And as their problem grows up to be bigger and more complicated, not just spreadsheets and files on the desktop, but something more complicated, then we're right there along with them for products that will then monetize. How about partnerships with Alation? How are they, what are the other deals you got going on there? So Alation has been a great partner for us for a while and we've really deepened the integration with the announcement today. We think that cataloging and data wrangling are very complementary and are natural fit. We've got customers like Munich Re, like eBay, as well as Market Share that are using both solutions in concert with one another. And so we really felt that it was natural to tighten that coupling and to help people go from inventorying what's going on in their data lakes and their clusters, to then cleansing, standardizing, essentially making it fit for purpose and ensuring that metadata can round trip back into the catalog. And so that's really been an extension of what we're doing also at the technical level with technologies like Cloudera Navigator, with Atlas, and with a project that Joe's involved with at Berkeley called Ground. So I don't know if you want to talk about that. Tell him about Ground. Sure, so part of our outlook on this, and this speaks to the kind of way that the landscape of the industry is shaping out, is that we're not going to see customers buying into sort of lock in on the key components of their infrastructure. So for example, storage, HDFS, this is open and that's key I think for all the players in the space that HDFS is not a product from a storage vendor, it's this open platform and you can change vendors along the way and you can roll your own and so on. So metadata to my mind is going to move in the same direction that the storage of metadata, the basic componentry that keeps the metadata, that's got to be open to give people the confidence that they're going to pour the basic descriptions of what's in their business and what their people are doing into a place that they know they can count on and it will be vendor neutral. So the catalog vendors are in my mind providing a functionality above that basic storage that relates to how do you search the catalog, what does the catalog do for you to suggest things, to suggest data sets that you should be looking at. So that's a value add on top but below that what we're seeing is we're seeing Horton and Cloud Era coming out with either products or open source in sort of the metadata space and what would be a shame is if the two vendors ended up kind of pointing guns inward and kind of killing the metadata storage. So one of the things that I got interested in as my dual role as a professor at Berkeley and also as the founder of a company in the space was we want to ensure that there's a free open vendor neutral metadata solution. So we began building out a project called Ground which is both a platform for metadata storage that can be sitting underneath catalog vendors and other metadata value adds. And it's also a platform for research much as we did with Spark previously at Berkeley. So Ground is a project in our new lab at Berkeley, the RISE lab which is the successor to the AMP lab that give off Spark. And Ground has now got collaborators from Cloud Era, from LinkedIn, Capital One is significantly invested in Ground and it's putting engineers behind it and contributors are coming also from some startups to build out an open source platform for metadata. How old has Ground been around? Ground's been around for about 12 months. It's very young. So brand new, how do people get involved? Just standard, similar to what the AMP lab was just jump in and code away. Yeah, it loads up on GitHub. There's Docker images to go download and play with. It's in alpha and we hold weekly meetings for committers and the usual open source deal. This is interesting. I like this idea because one of the things we've been riffing on theCUBE all the time is how do you make data addressable? Because ultimately, real time, you need to have access to data, really, really low latency to the inside to make it work. Hence the data swamp problem, right? So how do you guys see that? Because now I can just pop in, I can hear the objections, oh, security! You know, how do you guys see the protections? I'd love to help get my data in there and get something back and return in a community model. Security, is it the hashing? What's the, how do you get handle the security piece? And what are the issues? Yeah, so I mean the straightforward issues are the traditional issues of authorization and encryption and those are issues that are reasonably well plumbed out in the industry and you can go out and you can take the solutions from people like Cloudera or from Horton and those solutions will plug in quite nicely actually to a variety of platforms. And I feel like that level of enterprise security is understood. It's work for vendors to work with that technology so when we went out and we made sure we were curb-rised in all the right ways at trifacta to work with these vendors and that we integrated well with Navigator, we integrated well with Atlas. That was, you know, there's some labor there but it's understood. There's also- It's solvable basically. Solvable basically and pluggable. There are research questions there which you know on another day we can talk about for instance if you don't trust your cloud hosting service, what do you do? And that's like an open area that we're working on at Berkeley Intel SGX is a really interesting technology in that space. Probably a topic for another day. But you know I think it's important- We're certainly getting out of the studio in Palo Alto, we'd love to drill on that. Yeah, I think it's important though that when we talk about self-service the first question that comes up is I'm only going to let you self-serve as far as I can govern what's going on, right? And so I think those things really go- Restrictions, guardrails, I don't think you hear about handcuffs. Yeah, so, right. Because that's always the first thing that kind of comes out where people say okay, wait a minute, now is this, if I've now got, you know, you've got an increasing number of knowledge workers who think that is there, who believe it is they're an alienable right to have access to this data. Well that's the emphasis to democratization. That's the top down, you know, governance control point. So how do you balance that? And I think you can't solve for one side of that equation without the other, right? And that's really, really critical. Democratization is not anarchization, right? Yes, exactly. Yeah, but it's hard though, it really, I mean, and you look at all the big trends whether it was, you know, Web 1.0, Web 2.0 all had those democratization trends but they took six years to play out and I think it might be more accelerated with cloud to your point about this new stuff. Okay, George, go ahead and get in there. Well I wanted to ask about, you know, what we were talking about earlier and what customers are faced with which is, you know, a lot of choice and specialization because building something end to end and having it fully functional is really difficult. So what are the functional points where you start driving the guardrails in that IT cares about? And then what are the user experience points where you have critical mass so that the end users then draw other compliant tools in? You with me? Sort of the IT side and the user side and then which tools start pulling those standards? Well I mean, I would say at the highest level to me what's very interesting especially with what's happened in open source is that people have now gotten accustomed to the idea that like I don't have to go by big monolithic stacks where the innovation moves only as fast as the slowest product in the stack or the portfolio. I can grab onto things and I can download them today and be using them tomorrow. And that has I think changed the entire approach that companies like Trifactor are taking to how we build and release product to market, how we interoperate with partners like Elation and Waterline and how we integrate with the platform vendors like Cladera and MapR and Horton because we recognize that we are going to have to be maniacally focused on one piece of this puzzle and to go very, very deep but then play incredibly well both with all the rest of the ecosystem. And so I think that has really colored our entire product strategy and how we go to market. And I think customers, they want the flexibility to change their minds and the subscription model is all about that, right? You got to earn it every single year. So what's the future of data prep? Because that brings up a good point. We were kind of critical of Google and you mentioned you guys had saw some news you guys were involved with Google. Being enterprise ready is not just hey, we have the great tech and you buy from us, damn it, we're Google. I mean, you have to have sales people, you have to have automation mechanisms to create great products. Will the future of wrangling and data prep go into where does it end up? Because enterprises want, they want certain things, they're finicky on things, as you guys know. So how does the future of data prep deal with the, I don't want to say the slowness of the enterprise but they're more conservative, more SLA driven than they are, price performance. But they're also more fragmented than ever before and while that may not be a great thing for the customers, for a company that's all about harmonizing data, that's actually a phenomenal opportunity, right? Because we want to be the decision that customers make that guarantee that all their other decisions are changeable, right? And I go and I- They have legacy systems of record. This is the challenge, right? So I got the old Oracle monolithic. That's fine. And that's great. The more of the merrier, right? Does that impact you guys at all? How do you guys handle that situation? To me, to us, that is more fragmentation which creates more need for wrangling because that introduces more complexity. You guys do well in that environment. Absolutely. And that is only getting bigger, worse and more complicated and especially as people go from on-prem to cloud, as people start thinking about moving from just looking at transactions to interactions to now looking at behavior data in the IoT and sensor world. You welcome that environment. So we welcome that. In fact, that's where, you know, we went to solve this problem for Hadoop and Big Data first because we wanted to solve the problems at scale that were the most complicated. And over time, we can always move downstream to sort of more structured and smaller data. And that's kind of what's happened with our business. Awesome. Yeah. I guess I want to circle back to this issue of which part of this value chain of refining data is if I'm understanding you right, the data wrangling is the anchor. And once a company has made that choice, then all the other tool choices have to revolve around it. Is that a... Let's think about it this way. I mean, the bulk of the time when you talk to the analysts and also the bulk of the sort of labor costs in these things is in getting the data from its raw form into usage. That whole process of wrangling, which is not really just data prep. It's all the things you do all day long to kind of massage these data sets and get them from here to there and make them work. That space is where the labor cost is. That also means that space is where the value at is because that's where your people power, where your business context is really getting poured in to understand what do I have? What am I doing with it? And what do I want to get out of it? As we move from bottom line IT to top line value generation with data becomes all the more so, right? Because now it's not just a matter of getting the reports out every month. It's also what did that brilliant woman in sales due to that data set to get that much lift? I need to learn from her and do a similar thing. So that whole space is where the value is. What that means is that you don't want that space to be tied into a particular BI tool or a particular execution engine. So when we say that we want to make a decision in the middle that enables all the other decisions, what you really want to make sure is that that work process in there is not tightly bound to the rest of the stack. And so you want to particularly pick technologies in that space that will play nicely with different storage that play nicely with different execution environments. So today it's Hadoop, tomorrow it's Amazon, the next day it's Google, and they have different engines back there potentially. And you want to certainly make sure it plays with all the analytic and visualization tools. You want to decouple from all that. You want to decouple that. And you want to not lock yourself in because that's where the creativity is happening on the consumption side. And it's where the mess that you talked about is just growing on the production side. So data production is just getting more complicated. Data consumption is getting more interesting. That's actually a really cool, good point. So elaborating on that, does that mean that you have to open up interfaces, either at the UI layer or at the sort of data definition layer? Or does that just mean other companies have to do the work to tie in to the styles and structures that you have already written? In fact, it's sort of the opposite. We do the work to tie in to a lot of these other decisions in this infrastructure. We don't pretend for a minute that people are going to sort of pick a solution like Trifacta and then build their organization around it to your point. There's tons of legacy technology out there. There's all kinds of things. They got to change that immediately. Absolutely, so we, a big part of being the decoder ring for data for Trifacta and saying is like, listen, we are going to interoperate with your existing investments and we're going to make sure that you can always get at your data. You can always take it from whatever state it's in to whatever state you need to be and you can change your mind along the way. And that puts a lot of onus on us. And that's the reason why we have to be so focused on this space and not jump into visualization and analytics and not jump into storage and processing and not try to do the other things to the right and to the left, right? So final question, like you guys both take a stab at it. Just kind of pivot off what Joe was saying. Some of the most interesting things are happening in the data exploration kind of discovery area from creativity to insights to game-changing stuff. Ventures potentially. The problem of the complexity, that's conflict. So how does we resolve this? I mean, besides the trifecta solution which you guys are taming, creating a platform for that, what is, how do people and industry work together to solve that problem? What's the approach? So I think actually there's a couple sort of heartening trends on this front that make me pretty optimistic. One of these is that the incentive structures are enterprises we work with becoming quite aligned between IT and the line of business. It's no longer the case that the line of business are these annoying people that are distracting IT from their bottom line function. IT's bottom line function is being translated into a what's your value for the business question. And the answer for a savvy IT management person is, I will try to empower the people around me to be rabid fans. And I will also try to make sure that they do their own work, so I don't have to learn how to do it for them. And so that I think is happening.  So it works both ways. It does. And I see that that's improving sort of in the industry as the corporate missions around data change. So it's no longer that the IT guys really only need to take care of executives and everyone else doesn't matter. Their function really is to serve the business and I see that alignment. The other thing that I think is a huge opportunity and part of why we're excited to be so tightly coupled with Google and also have our stuff running at Amazon and at Microsoft is as people re-platform to the cloud, a lot of the legacy becomes shed or at least become deprecated. And so there is a re-platform happening. Or containerize or some sort of microservice. And so people are peeling off business function and as part of the cost savings to migrate it to the cloud, they're also simplifying. So and things will get complicated again. But there's an opportunity right now. There's a solution architect out there to kind of reboot their careers because the old way was, hey, you got networks, I got apps and stacks and so that gives the guys who could be the new heroes coming in and thinking differently about enabling that creativity. In the midst of all that, everything you said is true. IT is a messy place and it always will be and tools that can come in and help are absolutely going to be happy. I think this is obvious now. The tension's obviously eased a bit in the sense that it's clear line of sight that top line and bottom line are working together now on, mentioned that earlier. Okay, Adam, take a stab at it. It was hard to beat that one. I was just going to give an example, I think that illustrates that point. So one of our customers is Pepsi. And Pepsi came to us and they said, listen, we work with retailers all over the world. And the reality is that when they place orders with us, they often get it wrong. And sometimes they order too much and then they return it and spoils and that's bad for us.  So they said, we actually have to be better at demand planning and forecasting than the orders that are literally coming in the door. So how do we do that? Well, we're getting all of the customers to give us their point of sale data. We're combining that with geospatial data, with weather data, we're like looking at historical trends and industry averages, but you can see they're stitching together data across a whole variety of sources. And they said the best people to do this are actually the category managers and the people responsible for the brands because they literally live inside those businesses and they understand it. And so what happened was the IT organization was saying, like, listen, we don't want to be the people doing the janitorial work on the data. We're going to give that work over to people who understand it and they're going to be more productive and get to better outcomes with that information and that frees us up to go find new and interesting sources. And I think that collaborative model that you're starting to see emerge where they can now be the data heroes in a different way by not being the ones being the bottleneck on provisioning but rather can go out and figure out how do we share the best stuff across the organization? How do we find new sources of information to bring in that people can leverage to make better decisions? That's an incredibly powerful place to be. And I think that that model is really what's going to be driving a lot of the thinking at Trifacta and in the industry over the next couple of years. Great, Adam Wilson, CEO of Trifacta, Joe Halosin, Chief Strategy Officer at Trifacta, also a professor at Berkeley. Great story, getting the UX right is hard but under the hood stuff's complicated and again congratulations about sharing the ground project, ground and open source, open source lab kind of thing in Berkeley, exciting new stuff. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate it, great conversation. I'm John Furrier, George Gilbert. You're watching theCUBE here at Big Data SV in conjunction with Strata Hadoop. Thanks for watching. Great, thanks guys.


All right, so Plex, they added this week a feature that has been, I had forgotten how long it had been on their request list. I had voted for it, they have one of these things online where you can like, you get, I don't know, five votes or something, and you can pick the things you wanna vote for. They added a watch list, and it's amazing to me that this has never existed before with Plex because it seems like such an obvious thing. Every streaming service has it where you say these are the things that I wanna watch. Yes, I have all this stuff in my library, but I wanna watch this movie next or I wanna watch this series next or something like that. So they added this watch list, it's amazing. They call the whole suite of features Plex Discover. I've used it, it's okay, it's definitely in beta. What the weird part about this, guys, is that Plex usually rolls out beta features to beta users and lets them sort of come to fruition. The whole new syncing downloading thing that now is the default for Plex was in beta for probably a year before it ever came out of beta, but the beta was a very public thing. I think with this, they wanted to make a splash. They saw this as a big feature. I mean, I see it as filling a huge hole, but whatever, potato, patato, they decided to do this and so the beta is in the public releases of Plex. It is not ready for prime time yet in my experience. It has gotten better since the day it was released. When it was released, I added a bunch of shows to my Plex library or to my watch list that were already in my Plex library and what's cool is the reason they call it Plex Discover is because you can add things that are not in your Plex library. You can tell it, I have Netflix and Apple TV Plus and Hulu and then you can add shows that you don't have the downloads for and it will say, oh, you can go watch, you know, when you say I wanna watch this, it says, oh, that's available on Netflix. You say you have Netflix and depending on the device you're on it'll even link you to that, which is amazing. So I added a bunch of the things that Lisa and I watched and then I went in and I marked episodes that we have already watched as episodes we've already watched. And the first thing that happened was it removed those series entirely from my watch list. So I was like, ah, it's cool. I'm like, I know that there are episodes we haven't watched, they should still be here and I went and it was like, do you wanna add this to your watch list? Yeah, just like I did five minutes ago, cool. But that's fine. They were able to fix that within hours. So that part was great. So that's fixed. You mark things as watched, they still stay in your watch list. The problem is, at least as of the last time I checked, when you go to, if I go into my watch list and I say I wanna play this show, it doesn't tell me what, first of all, it doesn't tell me which shows have unwatched episodes. So I have no idea whether there's new content for me or not. My watch list just contains everything which is better than it containing nothing. Like I get this, that's improvement but not the kind of usefulness that we want. They are working on this. So I think we have to treat this feature as beta because they call it beta, but it truly is like feature incomplete is what I will say. So maybe even alpha, right? It is not to the point of what I would call MVP, minimum viable product, right? I think you've gotta track and surface the status of whether things are watched or unwatched, especially when you start comparing it to what Netflix does or what Apple TV does with its watch next thing and all of that. But it's great to see this. So I'm stoked about it. In fact, really excited. Just wanna set everyone's expectations. Like you're not gonna turn it on and go, yay, or maybe you will, maybe it works perfectly for whatever you folks wanna do. But it's fantastic that they finally started this. So excited about it.


Hi, she was seven. Okay, so I got a video request and This is a good video request. So I decided to do it. Okay, so someone asked me to make a video about how to Stop jealous women from trying to steal your man and interfering into your relationship and stuff like that. Okay, I Have to think way back because I've been married so long But when I met my husband before we were married and we were dating and there was lots of jealous women out there Oh, there were lots of jealous women. Whoo. I had I had to deal with people trying to steal him I had to deal with Evil looks. I had to deal with gossip. I had to deal with being talked about. I had to deal with all of that but I Knew it was worth it. So when you find a man that you really want to be with you're gonna have to get through that test of jealous Angry women try to steal your man. Okay, so I'm gonna tell y'all what I did Okay, first of all, he brought me around his friends. I didn't have any friends. Okay, I didn't have any friends. So This has the friends I worked with and my best friend from like Elementary school but other than that, I don't keep friends like that Okay, so and have any girlfriends except my sister and her friends and they're like eight years older than me so she he took me around his friends and his crew and all the people he hung around his spots his little favorite bars and restaurants and stuff like that and A lot of his friends were guys and some of them were women and they were like trying to get to know me Who's this person? And you know, they were nice at first, of course They always are and then this the hating starts like who is this girl? Who does she think she is? You know blah blah blah blah blah and so how I made sure that other women were not going to succeed And taking them away from me It's dirty. I know but it works. Okay. Y'all y'all ask me for the answers. I gotta give them to you, right? We before you go out Be flawless Be flawless look look better than every girl in there if you can if you can't dress better do something One up on all of them. Okay, everybody got something they can They can do everyone has they can have nice Figures they can have nice hair. They can just have something That's better than all of them. Okay, so you find your your thing if you got all of it, you're lucky If not work on one part of yourself that just outdoes all them go all them girls, okay? So get that done get that taken care of so every time you go out be flawless and you're the best way you can Okay, so after that Make sure that his friends Acknowledge you as you know Beautiful acknowledge you as oh, he's lucky to be with you Make sure his friends is looking at you too and getting and getting the attention because the other and that's gonna make the other girls even work even even matter So now That you have all this attention from your man and his friends They're gonna start looking at the friends instead of just your man. They're gonna be like, why does he like her? I bet I can get him or what is you know?    Another thing is If it's like someone you can't see and you can't be around like a co-worker or just like an ex-girlfriend or whatever whatever Get have you want to on the side? Okay.  That's like your brother always around and see how comfortable he is with that and Let him make the suggestion. Oh, let's not have friends of the opposite sex anymore. I feel like that Okay, let him make this a suggestion And if you're just one of those women who are just gonna be jealous no matter what because you're insecure Then you need to really boost your self-esteem like like I said, you have to feel like You have a line of options. If you don't have a line of options. That's why you're jealous and When I say that it's not to be rude or anything like I'm saying you got to be someone He really wants and it's afraid to lose You got it You got to just have something that all his friends want to and if you can't figure out how to do that Then you need to seclude him. You need to hang out at places with not a lot of people You need to keep him to yourself. You need to keep him You know y'all need to move into another city Yeah, or something because there's always gonna be that X there's always gonna be those friends There's always gonna be those hating women and if you can't deal with that if you can't like Stand up to it and figure ways around it and make it work for you Then you have to move into a smaller town or you have to take all his money because You have to tie up all his money tie the knot with them give him a few kids So no women will try to mess with him because they know, you know, he's already taken, you know so Like and if you have a very attractive man, if you have a very attractive man, I'm just gonna tell y'all right now It's not gonna work never anyway, I just wanted y'all To know that those techniques if you have any questions put them in the Comments and I'll try to answer them if you have another video topic idea put it in the comments and I'll answer them Thanks for watching. Bye. Bye


Okay, hi. This is kind of my first time on the stage. I was on the 101 panel yesterday for just a minute. So I'll go into more detail about the badges. Yeah, I think maybe they're bringing one, I'm not sure. Okay, so I'm Mar Williams. I designed the DEF CON badge this year and a little bit more, so I'll get into that. First off, Sao Chifu Yop Mar. We are on southern Paiute land, and I wasn't speaking Paiute, but what I was speaking might help you later. All right. Oh, I can't see this very well. Is there a way I can help you? How do I make this bigger on my screen so I can read it? I'm going to squint. Let's try that. Okay, so you can see my art around con. It's on the signage, and, oh, look, there's a whole thing right there. Okay. Yeah, so I've been doing art for DEF CON for a good number of years, and my first art that I did for DEF CON was DEF CON 17, and I've been coming since whatever the last year at the Alexis Park was, if anybody knows the year for that. I think it was 13, I don't know. I've chaired and been a founding member of two Denver Hacker spaces. I've run a gallery. I've painted murals all over the country, and even did one in Beijing for DEF CON China the other year. I've had a Denver Art Museum residency in 2016 where I explored the interactions between people and their data online. I've been doing that for a long time. Yeah, and so a lot of people made this badge project happen. So I have Nutmeg here, and Ada, who is always my amazing helper. And Bonnie Finley is out there in the audience. She did the 3D modeling of the badge. Okay, and then we have Polar, Onk, Will Tuttle, Trash Robot, Kyle Kelly, and Edison. So thanks to all these guys. Okay, so what are the badges? The badges are actually penrose tiles. So if you put them together, you can see they kind of tile. So they're an example of aperiodic tiling. And this can get kind of complicated, and there's a Wikipedia article. You can read about it if you're really curious about how penrose tiles work. But Nutmeg here had a really good quote about it, which is, it's the most complex jigsaw puzzle you've ever done with just two pieces. And this specific example of penrose tiling. We've used two rhombi. One is a little fatter, and one is a little skinnier.  And the skinny one is the inhuman. So in physical space, you can actually get a bunch of friends together and put them together, and you can make a mosaic, which is kind of cool. So what I wanted to represent by doing that was that the DEF CON attendees, we can connect and create these broad and infinitely unique communities. In order to visualize that, we have a project online.  And if you look in your badge pack, there's a UUID or on the back of this little guy right here. And there's something that you can type into the website. And that gives you your own unique tile that you can add and place as many times as you want. So you can get together with friends or you can just kind of see how this is evolving naturally over time. So check it out. It's going to be up and down because it's DEF CON and we're all hackers and who knows what happens. But check back if it's down for sure. So you'll be able to select your color, shape. You can put your handle in if you choose or you can leave it anonymous. And yeah, we'll just see what it looks like. There's, I'm not sure the number of humans this year so far, but like 26,000, something like that was the last number that I was aware of. So let's see if it renders that bitty. So here's kind of what it looks like. Last time we got a screen cap of it. So it's growing a little bit at a time. Okay. And yes, thank you to Nutmeg for the amazing front end development work creating this. How long? Yeah, like six weeks. Like super fast project. Yeah, they're amazing. Okay. So physical badges. All right. So now we get to the part where half of you are very upset that you didn't get the real badge. So I'm going to talk more about the manufacturing issues and what happened there and what we're trying to do to make it right and what we've been trying to do to make it right. But let me talk about what they are. So your human badge is made of polycarbonate plastic. And it's got a clear polycarbonate chamber on it. The reason I chose this material is because I've been to so many cons where my badges are bumping around with my badge life stuff and things are popping off and I'm losing LEDs. And I just wanted something really sturdy that I wouldn't break. So I haven't seen a broken badge yet and hopefully we're still good for a while. So it even has these little feet that pop off and on and it's nice that you can just pop them off and on and they don't break. Knock on wood. So that's the badge as intended. So because of manufacturing problems we had to do a backup badge. And early on we decided to put out this shitty add-on, right? It's the inserts for your badge and it's the non-electronic shitty add-on. So you can make it electronic. So we had released the specs for the chamber on Defconn.org. If you caught that maybe you made a cool PCB or something else that fits into this chamber. So we didn't want the people who have created something to be out of luck.  Let's move forward a slide so you can actually see what I'm talking about. There we go. So you can see the actual human badge there and then the backup badges, which about half of you have, they're meant to hold an insert of any size. So it's kind of like a floppy plastic material. It's flexible. I don't have one in here to show you on the stage here. But it'll fit any thickness, right? So if you have a PCB with stuff all over it you can pop it in there and you notice these two little tabs. There's some little flanges basically. So you can also put a paper insert in there and it won't fall out. So that was our, that was the solution for the last minute badges. So hopefully that's been working out for people and yeah, doing the best we can there. Okay, so yeah, I'll talk about what the design process was for this badge. So we started way back in January. Was that right? Okay. Yeah, January. And we were looking at all kinds of different concepts like we were trying to figure out if we could do like blow molded badges and have like ferro fluid inside and you could interact with magnets, you know, all kinds of stuff and we just threw a bunch of ideas around and eventually kind of trim down and then land on something. And so we landed on these penrose tiles. So yeah, from there I'll go to the next slide so you can see it. Yeah, so this was sort of the sketching concept portion of it. Making our first mock-ups out of, you know, paper and laser cutting stuff and 3D printing. So we hit a lot of challenges but, you know, true hacker fashion, we just go into stuff not really knowing what we're doing. But that's the point. So, you know, there's some challenges there. We had to create a 3D model that was set up for injection molding. So you have to do very specific things there. Like make sure that, where's my notes here? See Bonnie should be up here because she could speak to it a little better since she did the 3D model. But basically you have to make it so that it pops out of the mold easily and the plastic flows around the way it's supposed to. And so that was a whole learning process there. More than that, manufacturing challenges. So let me take you on a little ride here. So we started out trying to figure out how do we print on these in a way that the print isn't just going to scrape off. Like we didn't initially want to use stickers because, you know, then stickers come out and get put everywhere. So that kind of thing, once we started to get into the process and they're being actually produced, we ran into issues with custom colorants. There's 11 of the inhuman badges and they all need to be a specific color and manufacturers don't carry all those colors. So like I'm on the phone with manufacturers trying to get, you know, just the colorant people. Trying to get them to send colorant to places and they're running out of colorant and then like we're having to do backup colors and all this stuff. And then right as we're starting to get our badges in, the molds break, right? And these are the permanent, they're made out of steel or something. They're not supposed to break, but they broke. And they're like, that's okay. We'll repair that. And I'm like, well, do we need like a backup mold? And they're like, no, no, no. Once you repair one of these things, it's like setting a broken bone. Like it'll be even stronger the next time. Okay. We don't need a backup one. We'll keep going. And so we got the backup one go and popped out, you know, a couple thousand badges and then it's down again. And what happened? Oh, my God. Oh, you know, this just happens sometimes in manufacturing. So I've heard that story a lot. This is just how it happens. But it's always like after the fact, right? So anyway, so the broken second time takes more time to get it going again. Third time. That was about a week ago. So the mold is currently backup repaired again and in production. And if we all cross our fingers really tightly, there might be some badges to trade over the weekend. And those of you with the floppy badges might be able to trade in. So we're working on that as best we can. All right.  We had to swap some of our pad printing for stickers. We actually were trying to make backup badges at home just for the inhuman badges that we were missing. So we're like, we got piles of silicone and like polyurethane and we're pouring badges and we actually have some cool artful badges that we made out of that process. Luckily we didn't need those, but like we went to great measures to try and get these, all these badges in here. All right. And so then the other, oh yeah, I have some photos here of, there's like a badge on a floor tile in Nebraska somewhere. Lincoln Nebraska, your badges visited Lincoln Nebraska on the way. All right. Yeah. So and then if we can't get you all badges, we're looking at a plan, no promises for if you attend next year, bring your floppy plastic badge and then we can trade it out for the real badge next year. So at least you have it then. Okay. So the lanyard puzzle, if you've noticed on your lanyards, there is some characters. I can't say much about what it is, but you have the weekend to try and figure it out. You won't find an Uber lanyard until Sunday. So there's an image up of the Uber lanyard. So give it an eyeball if you're working on the puzzle. All right. I have been a working artist for all of my adult life. And one thing that I know well is that good design is invisible. And I think they say the same thing about cis admins, right? So like an example that I can think of, our logos are an art of subtraction. So it's not immediately apparent what happens behind the scenes. There's just a lot of tweaking and research and all of that and so until you get it just pixel perfect, right? This is a non-electronic year, right? So working with those own bounds, there's no bells and whistles to show off. You can't see all the parts that are going into this. So we end up with something that is rather simplistic. And then my hope there is that in interacting with these, they do what we want them to do is to get you all to showcase who you are, to use these chambers to put, to basically repeat what happens at DEF CON, but give it a place, right?  And so that's the point of this, is that there is so, there are so many artists in this crowd, it's so adjacent to being a hacker. And I love to see it. So that's what I wanted to do there. So thank you for allowing me to share this process with you. And thank you for being so understanding the people that I've talked to about the badge issues. And I hope we can make this right for everyone. Okay, so Yelko Ki, shoot any questions at me. And after this talk, you can find me on Instagram as Spuxo, patreon.com Spux. If you like my work, I send stuff in the mail to people monthly. I've been doing that for some years, so it's pretty fun. And then I'll also be in the vendor area, selling art and swag. So yeah. I don't have my glasses on, so you're gonna have to like wave yourself around if you want to ask me a question. All right, well, okay, sounds like a plan. Yeah. Alright, so this is after the talk, instead of before the talk, because we ran out of time. But first time speaker, do a shot.


Once we turn 40, we actually were able to tap into this thing we've been talking about, which is feelings. And more than any other device or anything, we actually have been able to ask ourselves now, what is my desire to train? And then we work our don't based on how we feel. You know, why? Cause it matters. It matters. We're both very motivated trainers. We love to work out and we always want to move. So we really have tried to listen to that voice that's saying, I don't actually feel that well. And on those days, we just walk. We work with this professional cyclist who's local named Kate Courtney. She's a mountain biker, world champion. And the morning that she won one of our world championships. And a complete athlete. Complete athlete. Like one of the most complete athletes of ever. She is total complete, amazing athlete. But she woke up on the morning of her world championship and she had like a 12 in terms of her recovery score on her ROOP, like deep red, the worst red you can get. And she actually had the wherewithal to be like, that's not how I feel. I feel great. She went out, destroyed everybody, won a world championship that day. And then she called WOOP and said, hey, your algorithm's wrong. And WOOP was like, no, it's not. And then they went back and like, did their secret world stuff. And they're like, you're right, the algorithm was wrong.