Hey everyone today. We're doing something different I am going to show you how to play a card game called swoop and I'm betting that you have never heard of it And if you have let me know down in the comments because I searched the internet couldn't find a single thing about it Anyway, I'm showing you this card game today because I just learned how to play and I really enjoyed it and I think it's a great way to get together with some family and friends and Just spend some time having some fun And of course you're going to need some food to go with that and of course I got you covered with lots of appetizers and Dessert recipes on my channel that you can use This is a fun card game pretty easy to play just a few rules and things, but once you see it You'll get it. It's pretty simple. I'm actually going to show you You know explain it to you a little bit and then actually deal out some cards so you can actually see how it works In action, let's get started and go over those Instructions and I'll show you how to play the game So the object of the game is to Go out by getting rid of all of your cards Now all of the cards are worth a certain number of points And so if you have cards left in your hand when someone goes out those points are going to count against you so what we tend to do is we like to play we'll say well We'll play to five hundred points and then you know whoever gets there first ends the game and then the low score wins the game Now we're going to need three decks of cards including the jokers You want to keep those in there now you'll notice here that I have three decks and they're of different colors That just makes it easier for me at the end of the game when we want to put the cards away It's easier to sort them by color instead of having to go through and you know match up all the suits So if you have that it works great, but you can play with you know Three decks of cards that are all the same color if yet if that's all you have now here's how the scoring works Aces are worth one point Face cards are worth ten points and then all the other cards are You know the value that they are okay, so a nine is worth nine points Etc. Now the tens and the jokers are worth 50 points And they're also called swoop cards and we'll explain that a little bit more a little bit later So along with your three decks of cards you'll also want to have a piece of paper and somebody will be the scorekeeper and So what we'll do is we'll take our three decks of cards and we're going to just mix them all together And what we do is we just throw them on the table and everybody helps to kind of mix them up like this Okay, and we want to keep them all face down So once we have all the cards mixed up on the table each player will draw out 19 cards and keep them face down so you can't see them. Okay, so you're going to count out eight like I said each player is going to take out 19 cards Once all the players have their 19 cards Have everybody go through and just pick a card to see who goes first high card goes first So I picked a 10 a swoop card That person got a two and that person got a three so I get to go first I get to start the game so we'll take all these cards and we are going to just push them aside On the side of the table. They are no longer in play All right, so now each player takes their their little pack of cards and they place four of them face down Then you're going to place a card on top of each pile face up So now you want to take the rest of your cards and place them in numerical order so you can see here. I've got the swoop cards the two 10s and the Joker over here and Then I got a couple of kings and then I'll put my queen and my jack You know you get the idea. I've got a couple of nines there Let's see. I think that's pretty good and Then we're ready to play and so since I'm the first person to play I'm going to want to play a high card So my options here I would probably play these two kings and I would take them and say two kings and place them out on the table All right, so I played two kings right player number two is now Gonna play their hand and they need to play either a king or several kings You can play you know as many kings as you have that would be a good thing to get rid of as more the most you can And that would be a called a swoop So if you play any four or more of a card that's called a swoop That's a good thing the cards will then be pushed out of play Okay, and then that player that same player gets to start a new set Okay, they can play whatever they want from their hand and Then the next turn after that will then have to play either at it or below it Let's say they play two nines All right, then the next player would have to play some more nines Maybe make a swoop out of it to get rid of it or they play under it If you can't play under it Then you have to play Whatever you have and then that means that you have to take the pile and put it in your hand So I'm going to go through a few rounds of the other hands here So you can see how the game is played and some strategies, but I'm not going to play the whole game because it'll take too long Okay, so let's just follow the play here. I've got my two kings that the player number one played. That's me And this is what we have in our hand now You also want to take into account these cards up here as well Now they're all pretty low and the highest card that I have I don't have any kings or queens or anything like that is nine Okay, so I have two nines so I would play two nines and I would call Oh wait, I have three nines. I would call out three nines and then it would be player number three's turn So let's go over there. Now. Let's look at player number three's hand Everybody got them all lined up here. Oh Okay, so you can see here that player number three has a bunch of kings and queens, right? But we can't play those because we have to play under the nines Now if we had one nine that would be great because then we could call that a swoop because then there would be four nines And we could swoop it away and then start over But we don't have that so we simply here in this case Well, you could play your swoop card the ten right here. You could play that. That's an option But I think I would hang on to it for a while. There's some strategy here I would probably go with my next highest card. You see the five here and You see the five down here. So that's two five. So I would play two fives Now let's look at player number one's cards Alright, so what's played late last was two fives. I Only have one five here. So that's an option. I also have a lot of swoop cards I've got three swoop cards in my hand and I've got one up here You don't want to get stuck with those if somebody else goes out then you're stuck with either worth 50 points each So that's not a good thing But we're still early in the game. So What to do what to do I? Might play I think in this case I'm gonna just you know just for the heck of it I'm gonna play my swoop card, but I'm gonna play this swoop card so that I can start working on these piles So I'm gonna play this swoop card just to show you I play swoop and the cards go away They are no longer in play you just say swoop and they're gone now Since I swooped it now I get to play a card Okay, so what would I play I could play this because these are unknowns And if you get stuck with these sometimes that can be not a good thing So just for the heck of it. I'm gonna play it It's an eight now if I have any other hate eights in my hand I can add that to it and say two eights or three eights, but I don't so I'm gonna play one eight Here is player two's hand and he has one eight So I'm gonna play that and I'll say two eights because now there's two eights up there Now player number three is gonna look for some eights to see if maybe they can swoop it if he gets if he has two eights Then he could swoop it. What do you think player three is gonna do here? You got two eights up there. We have one swoop card here We have one card that we could play but it wouldn't be a good time to play it because You don't know if it's higher than an eight then you have to take the eights So that's a gamble So I would play under the eight and I would take the fours and look at I can play three I can get rid of three fours So that's what you call out three fours now. It goes back to player one So player one has three fours Facing him so he has to play another four or more or he has to play under it or play a swoop card I think that what I'll do on this particular occasion is I'm gonna play one two And the reason for that is I just I have a lot of soup cards yet And I want to hang on to him because everybody has a lot of cards and I just want to expose some of those cards that are Hidden his player twos options. He's got one two facing him So I would play Two more twos that's three twos So with three twos facing player three His best option is to play his one two Which will make four twos right up here and that is a swoop So now when he gets rid of all those cards to the discard pile, they're out of play and now he can play whatever he wants Now I would get rid of the two kings Okay, so player one now has two kings facing him has lots of options Now could play this card here not knowing what it is because chances are well It's going to be like a freebie right because you're going to play under it no matter what or Equal to it. So I think that's the best move in this case. Oh It's a swoop card. Look at that That means this pile goes away and it's still player number one's turn that being the case I would take a queen and play the next highest card one queen player two has some options Player two here can play. What's his next highest card a seven? You could play a seven you could play a couple sixes Or you could play one of these because it's a queen It's kind of high chances are better that you you'll be able to play under it I'm going to go ahead and take that chance It's a six. Okay, if you have any other sixes and we do We can play those as well. So there's three sixes Keep in mind that you always want to keep track of the other cards that the players have how many they have You know at the top this player here.  I'm also going to include Some written instructions in the description of the video Click down there. You could copy and paste it print it out And then that way would it would be a guide for you But it's pretty simple once you start playing and getting the hang of it It really comes together pretty pretty easily. So I hope you enjoyed that I hope you try this it's a lot of fun get together with family and friends and just have some real good quality time Enjoy playing a game and you know having some food make some of my appetizers and desserts and you'll have a great time Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you next time


From the SiliconANGLE Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, welcome to the special edition of theCUBE Insights powered by ETR. Over the past several weeks, we've been running breaking analysis on various market segments, and today we're going to talk about the robotic process automation market. The spending data from ETR really shows that that market is poised for continued growth, it's been rocketing. These segments are independent editorial, they are not sponsored in any way, although two of the companies that I'll be talking about today are sponsors of theCUBE Automation Anywhere and UiPath, both sponsor theCUBE, we attend their shows, but they have absolutely no input over these editorial segments. It's 100% data-driven based on ETR data and CUBE Insight opinions, in my opinions. So thank you for watching, let's get into it. So, Alex, if you bring up the first slide, I want to share with people what the robotic process automation market is and what you need to know about it. It's a small but very fast growing market, according to a combination of Forrester and Gartner data, it's around one and a half to $1.7 billion this year, and it's growing at over 60% per year. Gartner calls it the fastest growing software sub-segment that they track. Gartner just put out a magic quadrant on this space, which is always interesting reading, despite what you think about magic quadrants. It's essentially software robots that are automating repetitive mundane tasks, and I underline tasks in this chart because it's largely tasks, simple tasks, that are being automated in a big way, as opposed to really big complex processes. They tend to be targeted at a line of business users, and they're very popular in environments like finance and service roles and back office areas where there are repetitive common tasks that people frankly hate, and we're going to give you some feedback from customers. There are a number of upstarts in this space, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, these companies have attracted massive influx of venture capital, particularly UiPath and Automation Anywhere, over a billion and a half dollars in the last couple of years, they have monster evaluations take those three companies, their valuations are up over $10 billion and growing. UiPath, for example, several months ago announced that it had more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue. They were just at $8 million two years ago. So you're seeing just this massive growth, a lot of influx of capital and a lot of jockeying for position. Now users that we've talked to will express a great deal of business impact related to the introduction and application of RPA in their business. So I want you to take a look at this video of one practitioner that we interviewed at a CUBE event. Let's listen to see what Jean Younger has to say and then we'll come back and talk about it. It's interesting because I also teach the six Sigma courses there. And one of the slides I've had for years teaching that class is most business processes are like between 3.2 and 3.6, 3.8 Sigma, which is like 95 to 98% accurate. And I said that's all the better we can usually do because of the expense that it would normally be to get us to a six Sigma. You look at the places that have six Sigma, it's life-threatening, airline, airplane engines. You hope there are at least seven Sigma. Those type of things, but business processes, three, five, three, two. But now I get to change that because with RPA I can make them six Sigma very cheap, very cheaply because I can pull them in, I got my bot, it comes over, pulls the information and there's no double keying, there's no miskeys, it's accuracy, 100% accuracy. So this is a perfect example of how companies are applying robotic process automation to improve existing business processes. You would never try to get a standard business process up to six Sigma, it's just not worth it. And as Jean Younger explained, now she can get there very inexpensively with RPA. There are many, many other use cases, but I wanted to share that one with you. Now the next slide I'm going to show you comes from ETR. ETR is an organization that runs a panel, it's about a 4,500 user panel and they focus on spending intentions, they do periodic surveys throughout the year, they capture a fairly large number of users and what they're spending on, they've built this great taxonomy and we've been partnering with ETR to share with you some of that insight. So what this slide shows is really spending intentions from the July 2019 survey, asking about the second half spending intentions on the sector of robotic process automation. You can see here the end is 1068 respondents in that July survey, on the left hand side you can see four vendors that we've chose to profile, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism and Pegasystems, a company that's been around for a long time and is not exclusively focused on RPA, they've got more of a business process focus and I'll come back to that. But what this slide shows is really the spending intentions around four areas. The bright red is we're going to leave the platform, stop spending, we're out of here. The lighter red is we're going to spend less in the second half. The gray is we're flat. The dark green is we're going to increase spending and the lime green is we're a new customer coming on. So if you subtract the red from the green you get what ETR calls the net score and that is an indication of spending, intentions and momentum. So the higher the net score the better. You can see here UiPath leads the pack with an 81% net score. Ironically, that's the identical net score as was Snowflake in this survey. We profiled the enterprise data warehouse market and Snowflake was one of the leaders there. So UiPath and Snowflake, even though they're sort of different markets and different levels of maturity sort of around the same net score. So two very hot companies. And you can see going down the list, automation anywhere is 69%, blue prism 53% and PEGA systems 44%. Actually these are all very strong compared to some of the other market segments we track. Like for instance, if you look at the Discarray market and some of the legacy Discarray companies, some of the enterprise data warehouse companies you'll see sometimes negative scores. Now on the right hand side in the black you see shared accounts. What this says, this is the number of accounts that were mentioned as intending to spend on or in the case of the dark red leaf or in the case of the bright green ad. But the number of accounts out of that 1068 corpus of data that mentioned these respective companies. So you can see relatively small, you know 68 for UiPath, 42 for automation anywhere, 45 for blue prism and only 27 for PEGA systems. But these I remind you are still significantly, statistically significant enough to at least get indications. So you can see again, UiPath leads but all of the companies are actually quite strong on a relative basis. So the next slide that I want to show you Alex, if you bring this up is a time series for some of these leading competitors over time. So we'll go back to January of 18 and the number of shared accounts back then was relatively small. It was in the low double digits and in some cases a single digits. But as we go to the right, you can start to see it. It increases in terms of the shared accounts out of that 1068 from this past survey. So you can see UiPath at that 81% net score very high but also automation anywhere, very, very strong. Blue prism, you can see the decline in that yellow line. But again, very, very strong with a 53% net score. So this space is new and it's very hot. I say it's new and it's been around for a while but it's really starting to take off. And then you can see PEGA systems lower than these other companies but still very, very strong at 44%. Now I'll tell you the folks at Wikibon, the analyst side of our house have gone out. They've done some research. Maybe it was about 18 months ago. They downloaded UiPath's community edition. They tried to do the same for automation anywhere in blue prism. They tried to get access to the software so they could apply it and run some robots against some mundane tasks. They were only able to get the automation of the, sorry, the UiPath software which was very simple to install and apply and some simple tasks. They couldn't get the automation anywhere in blue prism. They had to go to resellers and it was sort of this complicated setup. So that was sort of a red flag that we put up. But the UiPaths claims that their stuff is easy to use. Some of their users that we've talked to talk about it in the context of low code. And so we've clarified some of that. We don't have as much data on automation anywhere in blue prism although we've covered automation anywhere as events. Customers seem quite happy and reporting strong business impacts, don't have as much information at this time on blue prism. We have attended some of the PEGA systems events just as observers. I was saying before I come back to them, they take more of a holistic approach to business process. It's really not, they're not positioning themselves as a standalone RPA vendor which frankly I wouldn't do if I were up against UiPath and automation anywhere because they've got so much influx of capital. They've got modern platforms that are ostensibly easier to use. So PEGA system seems to be look going after RPA in a much sort of broader context around process, business process engineering. So in summary, I just want to say, it's a very fast growing market but there's a lot of competition. You got UiPath, automation anywhere, blue prism. There's about 15 or 20 players in this space that are sort of sizable. It's a combination of as I say standalone robotic process automation players with integrated BPM players like PEGA systems. It's important to remember, you're largely here automating existing procedures and tasks. You're not doing a lot of necessarily re-engineering. And so that's, some people are concerned about that saying, okay, we're kind of paving the cart path. At the same time, practitioners are reporting that it's having a major business impact. And although they've also said that's not likely to reduce headcount, rather we're redirecting resources. You're not firing people because you're bringing in robots. So people aren't necessarily losing their jobs over this. They're just shifting away from that sort of undifferentiated heavy lifting that they hate doing, mundane tasks, automating that and moving on to more strategic items. So a lot of discussion in the industry about artificial intelligence and machine learning. And some folks have said, well, AI and RPA, they have nothing to do with each other. I would say this that machine learning has been injected into the RPA space via computer vision. And a good example is to recognize a button like a send button. If you're sending out emails or pushing a certain button every day, you can automate that process. So computer vision is a key part of this. And again, it's something that certain RPA vendors are touting. I know UiPath again talks about that a lot. But the business impact is tangible. And this is based on customer feedback. A lot of customer feedback, generally speaking, you're seeing CFOs are hopping onto this. They're seeing this as a really good way to take out some of the inefficiencies in their business, refocus people on higher value activities. And so we're going to continue to watch this RPA space. I think it's going to be big. We see big SIs coming into this. We're talking about companies like Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, PWC, Ernie Young. Those guys are starting to go after the space. And I've always said this about the big SIs. They love to eat at the trough. So if there's money there, they find it and they go hard after it. So thanks for watching everybody. We're going to continue to report on this space. This is Dave Vellante with Cube Insights powered by ETR. We'll see you next time.


Childhood trauma can be invisible to others. It can even be unrecognizable to victims themselves. Did you know that parentification is a form of invisible childhood trauma? This is the kind of trauma that forces a child to take on the role of a caregiver. They have to emotionally act as the adult while the parent depends on the child for emotional support while seldom giving any back. Someone who's been parentified may also act as a caregiver to their siblings as well. Some may choose to look at some positive effects that can occur such as being highly responsible, but there are some troubling negative results as well. So how do you know if you or someone is being parentified? Well, here are seven signs you or someone you know was parentified during childhood. Number one, you like feeling in control. Do you feel a strong need for control? Does this intense urge to be in control take control of your life sometimes? According to licensed psychotherapist Whitney Goodman, a sign that you were parentified as a child is if you like to feel in control. Someone who's been parentified as a child may have gotten used to taking control of certain decisions or situations. This may result in a feeling of wanting to be in control often as an adult. Number two, you never felt like you could express your negative feelings. Did you ever have a hard time expressing any negative feelings you had as a child? You were so busy listening and reassuring your parents they were experiencing their negatives that perhaps you didn't want to make things worse by venting about your own. This may happen when a child is the emotional caretaker. They simply feel their emotional venting would make things worse so they listen to their parents vent about how they're feeling instead. Number three, you grew up with a heavy weight on your shoulders. Think back to your childhood. Who carried the responsibility? Did that weight rest on your shoulders? If you grew up feeling as if you had to be responsible, this can also be a sign of parentification. While this can have a negative impact, there is hope for some good to come from this as well. Psychotherapist Whitney Goodman explains in an article for Psychology Today that there are also qualities that arise through parentification that may benefit you in certain areas of your life, like being responsible or a great caregiver. But she does note that we have to find the right balance between responsibility and structure, play and fun. Number four, don't have any memories of being a kid. Let's go back to childhood memories. What are your fondest ones? What about some fun, relaxed childhood memories? Do you have many of them? Do you remember feeling like a kid most days and being able to do things other kids were doing? If you don't remember many memories of being a kid, it could be because you were too busy with other responsibilities to have any childhood fun. Number five, you struggle with relaxing and playing. You're older now, and while you aren't necessarily playing with toys anymore, you do have a hard time playing and relaxing in a moment of fun.  This, along with other points, could be a sign of parentification. Number six, you feel you need to take on the role of peacemaker. During an argument, are you the peacemaker? When you see others argue, do you feel you need to maintain the peace? Those who have been parentified as a child had to take on a caregiver role, which means they may have had to resolve certain situations or problems quickly to keep the peace in the household. Now, as an adult, this responsibility to maintain peace likely has transferred over. Number seven, a great deal of empathy. Taking on the emotional role of a parent or caregiver at an early age can provide someone with a great deal of empathy for others. They try to look at everyone's perspective and take both situations into account. Since they're also often taking the role of peacemaker, being empathetic is a necessary skill and trait. If you feel you can connect to others easily and are highly empathetic due to your caregiving childhood, this could be an additional sign of parentification. One or two of these signs alone may not mean that you've been parentified, but if you relate to several of these points, it may be a fair idea to ask yourself what role you were taking on during your childhood. Were you the child or the responsible adult? If you feel you've been parentified, finding a healthy balance between structure and a bit of play in your adult life might be a good goal. If you're struggling with the trauma, it could be a good idea to talk to a mental health professional, such as a counselor or a therapist for help. Recognizing and acknowledging these feelings is already a great first step towards healing. So do you relate to any of these signs? Did you know what parentification was before this video? Let us know in the comments below. We hope you enjoyed this video and if you did, don't forget to click the like button and share it with a friend. Subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more content like this. As always, thanks for watching.