Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com with a dual case break of 2023 hip-rate football autographed platinum edition Series 25 20 total boxes a random team break only a hundred boxes produced ten cases of the good stuff This is what we could potentially find in these two cases a very big. Thanks. Everybody here for making it happen Congrats to the people who won their way in via those mega boxes John with last-bought mojo all 32 football teams are in Let's roll it randomize it three and a six nine times each one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time After nine we got drew down to grant three and a six nine times for the teams one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time After nine we got the Denver Broncos all the way down to the Los Angeles Chargers the Bolts All right drew you got the Broncos Michael with the Patriots Ryan with the Giants Kym with the Colts Charles with the Texans and my Raiders Jalen with the Ravens Joe with the Niners Simon with the Chiefs Justin with the Cardinals John with the Rams Matt with the Panthers Eugene with the Bills Grant you got the Jags Michael with the Eagles John with the Seahawks Nicholas with the Falcons Michael with the Titans Jared with the Dolphins John with the Bears Matt with the Cowboys Lucas with the Lions Scott with the Commanders Riley with the Steelers Michael with the Jets Matt with the Packers Kevin with the Bucks Christopher with the Vikings Travis with the Saints Kym with the Bengals Lucas with the Browns and Grant with the Bolts the Los Angeles Chargers Let's alphabetize by team And we are gonna pause the video for a little bit when we come back we're gonna see if there's any trades and Then we will have the break so stick around we'll be right back All right. Welcome back everybody. Look at this. There was a trade Could this be a future Super Bowl matchup Simon's thinking Simon and Matt doing a spicy deal here So Simon is out of the chief spot and into the Packers spot Matt is out of the Packers spot and into the chief spot Who knows what could be in here? So Good luck to both of you I'm on both of you to hit. We'll put T next to the team names So we know that that's part of a trade if you're keeping track of this at home All right, so here is the final printout hot off the presses Shook up the toner a little bit if you've been if you've been on toner watch with me And now we've got a little bit better here All right, so there's the trade. It's all official There's everyone else Thank you and good luck Appreciate everybody getting in They're the hand numbered boxes here. Good luck everybody. All right first one out of the gate is Anthony Richardson X-factor autograph rookie auto Nice one for the Colts that's gonna be for time in the Colts Tag this Our team knows that this goes to the Colts awesome Nice start remember. This is platinum edition Which is a notch above Above limited edition and just a notch or two below sapphire edition and this is also autograph edition So they're they're all autos nice start Next box is a Dan the man marino Teddy's gonna like this one Nice on-card autograph. I'm not sure what set this is from but some 2022 Very nice dolphins. That's gonna be for Jared and the Finns Switch over to the tab that has the cell sheet hits. So let's see Let's see if we can spot any of these as we go along There's Caleb Williams on the cell sheet. Obviously. He doesn't have a team yet So everyone has it. We'll have a shot at that. We'll do a randomizer for that All right, next up is Deandre swift Rookie edition of Deandre swift for color patch on card autograph mentee football 64 out of 99 Thick card right there nice one for the Lions and it'll be for Lucas one that spot in the third There any other collegiate cards in here? We'll go by the the checklist for that year. All right our first graded card is Is is say Kwan Barkley Giants three color patch autograph one out of ten Rookie patch and autograph Nice looking one here. Your grade is a nine Nine ten on the grade Centering a nine five edges are the eight eight five That's what brought it down a little bit but corners and surface are a nine Try to trade couldn't trade mojo for Ryan my safe one a little surprise if the Giants and it retains a bomb Barclay, but It's Emmett Smith six out of 25 From 2017 immaculate collegiate Very nice. I'm almost certain that he is a cowboy in this collegiate set Unless if there's the no checklist rule if there's no checklist Yeah, actually they did not sort this by team So as you as everyone has read in our frequently asked questions area There's a product of no checklist We go by our no checklist rule if they're a retired player the team that he played for the longest obviously the Cowboys So that's gonna go to It's gonna go to Matt and the Cowboys Yeah, Jilo. What's up? Actually there was a trade Packers for chiefs Potential Super Bowl matchup future Super Bowl matchup. That'd be good for the hobby All right. Next hit is is another cowboy flashback autographs Tony Romo 12 out of 25 Another one for Matt. Was that Super Bowl one? Chiefs Packers. Oh There's the case hit right here. I Like that. They do this now. We might have to we might have to steal this idea I'm gonna do that last And we've got Jordan Addison Rookie Jersey and autograph nice RPA for the Vikings and that is 11 out of 80 From Phoenix football that's gonna be for Christopher Christopher 80 Maybe could be Edie, but if I pronounce it Christopher 80 it would it would be nice because that card was numbered out of 80 Little a mojo. All right. Next up graded card PSA feels like a PSA slab It is it is Kieran Williams PSA 10 Rams that's gonna be for John Jackson and the Rams whose house Rams house Yeah guy does. All right. We got a breeze hall two-color patch and autograph Spectre RPA to 10 That's great. Nice low number Michael H with the J ETS jets jets jets The case hit good luck everybody the case it is gonna be Bob Justin Herbert rookie patch and autograph 17 out of 25 from certified football Who's got the Chargers Grant right has the Chargers? That's right Congrats the Herbie wait. There's more. We got another case Good luck dual case break 20 boxes total Good luck everyone The Jean Robinson nice RPA three-color patch silver ink autograph 118 out of 199 who's got the dirty birds. That's Nicholas with the ATL graded PSA and it's DK Metcalf PSA 8 Jersey and autograph is that his rookie year 4 to 25 2019 he was drafted in 2019. Yeah, this is rookie. I don't know why there's no RC logo here, but maybe they forgot it that year nice one for Seattle John Jackson last Bob Mojo strikes again 70% of the time last Bob Mojo hits 100% of the time What time's in Turbis fire? I wonder who told Ohtani? Because Ohtani understands English. I'm sure they can find another Japanese speaker pretty quickly, too There's Rishi rice rookie Otto for the Chiefs That's Matt Drawing first blood in the trade So let's see if we can even it out. Let's see if we can get a hit for Green Bay Right world champion. Sorry Jilo apologies got it world champion Chiefs Rishi rice He has a ring. There's Devontae Adams Right on the other side Simon got the Packers in the trade gets rookie Devontae Adams Two-color patch autograph 104 out of 199. He's gonna be in a new Netflix show receivers That's awesome from 2014 limited football ladies and gentlemen 2023 limited football out today Let's uh, let's fill let's fill up a break or two of that Jaspy's case rakes comm ABC always be closing So each person the trade getting something Better than nothing. There's the case hit Right here. So we'll save that to the end. All right. Good luck with the rest What's everyone hoping for case hit wise? If you go back to the product page, I think I may have hidden the product already, but If you remember the product page remember if it's Caleb Williams Everyone does get a chance. It will just randomize all your names. All right. We got illustrious legends. This guy knows Bo Jackson for my Raiders two out of five Charles with my Raiders all aboard the big head Express Out of fives and under get the train whistle Ra Next Jalen wants Lamar Jackson. That'd be nice Yeah, there's looks like there's a there's a heartbreaker on this one. There's a Eagles Cowboys one It'll be a randomizer Maybe a Justin Fields a Jameer Gibbs Aaron Rodgers that Prescott Josh Allen CJ Stroud Jordan Love Caleb Williams Joe Burrell Lamar Jackson and there's Jameer Gibbs Jersey and Otto Not the case hit version 60 out of 149 Nice that goes to Lucas with the Lions You think do you think the interpreter was just taking the fall for Ohtani placing the bets? It's possible but unlikely because Why would why would Ohtani make wire transfers under his own name? He would just put it under the interpreter's name.  I want to say Jilo. So I think more than Justin interpreter He's almost like a personal assistant as well Big big baseball drama Big baseball news drama not on the field but off the field. Oh once again Terry It's more of a personal assistant Rather than just an interpreter So I think their relationship was a little bit closer than that Jerry Rice legendary contenders Three out of 25 nice Jerry Rice boat Jackson there Jerry Rice That'll be for Joe Lawson and the Niners Although one thing I am suspicious of though I believe in Occam's razor the simplest answer is usually the correct answer It's why a lot of conspiracy theories usually fall apart once you put attached logic to it, but The thing is that first story might have been true. I think the interpreter initially said that he That he had asked Ohtani for a loan so he could pay off his gambling debts Maybe Ohtani actually did do that and then realize oh that's probably not a good legal his lawyers like what the f did you just do and then Did that so that's the simplest answer I think Simplest answer show how you made the bets. No, I don't think so 32 out of 75 wanted gunslingers die cut bow nicks also The MLB rules do say you can bet though But just not with a book. All right, so everyone's gonna get a shot at this. I don't think I think Ohtani is very very Aware of his brand and how carefully he crafts his brand. I don't I don't think he was making bets Case it now if this was some college kid or something like that. I'd be like that kids probably making bets If the story said Caleb Williams interpreter, I'd be like, no, that's Caleb Williams All right, it is Wow Jalen you called it. It's the Lamar Jackson RPA Triple relic autograph 14 out of 75 from absolute football back in 2018 Centering a nine five surface a nine the edges in the corners are an eight That's what drags down that great a little bit and the autos a nine But still the Lamar Jackson RPA There it is Congrats. All right now. Let's randomize that bow nicks. Where does everyone think bow nicks is gonna go? I just did that just in case that was there was another College hit, but I like these the die cut autographs 32 out of 75. All right, let's flip back to the list Let's gather everybody's names one through 32 And everyone in between And name on top will get the bow nicks Good luck name on top after 12 6 and a 6 12 times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 and 12 in final time. Good luck everybody name on top gets the bow nicks Jalen very close to getting another hit there, but just not quite you'll have to you'll have to settle for that Lamar Jackson But two through 32. Thanks for getting in appreciate everybody, but the name on top is Michael Johnson. There you go, Mike. I don't know if I called your name all break But you get the bow nicks He had the Patriots could bow nicks go to the Patriots It's possible. There you go Michael. Congrats. Thanks everybody. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us We'll keep chatting sports and Otanis involvement in all this all night long all week long as as news develops appreciate you We'll see you next time for the next one. I'm Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm. Bye. Bye


Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound. Those words resonate with me because the lyrics are all about being lost and now found. The regret of so many things and the hope for the opportunity to do better and be better. I am Wanda Heading-Grant, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. And I welcome you, my UVM community, my UVM family, this afternoon to join me and others to reflect, remember and recommit ourselves to racial equity and racial justice. Even though we are physically apart, we are sewed together in spirit and in hope and in action collectively. You will hear from President Garamella, Provost Prelock, staff, students and faculty. Amazing Grace will showcase members of our community reflecting, educating and honoring those who recently lost their lives to institutionalized racism, like Breonna Teller, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and so many others. We want you to know that black lives matter. Black lives matter here at UVM and we stand together. So thank you, thank you for joining us and enjoy. Hello everyone. Thank you for coming together for this event. I'm hopeful it will bring healing to us all. Even more importantly, I hope it will help put us on a pathway to positive change. The killing of George Floyd was as tragic as it was wrong. But sadly, it was nothing new. The history of our nation is scarred by so much injustice and lost potential. There are so many names to be remembered and spoken. And I struggle with the understanding that an incalculable number of them will not be heard or recognized. They can however be acknowledged and honored and the power to do that rests in our hands. The events of the past couple of weeks have shaken me on many levels. As a father, a friend, a colleague. But today, as an educator, I want to focus on potential. Our potential is precious. It is a gift. And to waste it, to thwart its growth or cast it aside is a deep injury to our well-being as a society. I do not have all the answers to fight systemic racism. It terrorizes and diminishes us all. And it is time for it to end. But as an educator, I commit to you that I will do everything in my power to harness and develop potential. Black lives matter. And I'm here to ensure the talent, experience and perspective of black lives are fully represented in our community. We cannot delay this work. As I shared last week and in the words of Langston Hughes, I too am America. That is our North Star. Thank you for allowing me to be part of this important event and to share my support for the black and African-American members of our UVM, Burlington and Vermont communities. I would like to take this opportunity to also extend my deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd, whose death was horrific and senseless. The events of the last several weeks have been heartbreaking. I know that as deep as my pain has been, the pain, anguish and anger that black and African-Americans have experienced has a depth and a breath that I cannot begin to imagine. In the most recent days, we've been hearing the question, what's next? My role as Chief Academic Officer of the University of Vermont allows me to work with talented and committed people who want to help answer that question. We share the goal of identifying and dismantling institutional racism and the systematic barriers to change. This begins with our curriculum. We are a research university rooted in the liberal arts. The liberal arts help us understand our past and our present and the forces that hold us back and move us forward. They help us tell our stories. They help us express our sorrows and our hopes and all that it means to be human. We will use the power of our new general education curriculum to support and prepare the leaders of tomorrow. We will do this through a broad set of newly adopted academic requirements that will provide our students with the knowledge and skills necessary to build a better world. This work builds on our existing diversity and sustainability requirements. Included in that, I've identified several action steps that will help us to achieve our goal, many of which are already underway. Let me just share a few of them with you. Our reappointment promotion and tenure guidelines are being revised and many consider how our faculty demonstrate their commitment to our inclusion and diversity goals in their teaching and advising. We have also revised our approach to recruitment and expanded our efforts to collaborate with the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to recruit more diverse faculty, including Henderson Fellows. Deans, vice provosts and directors are expected to provide annual updates on their Inclusive Excellence Action Plans and to demonstrate how they have integrated feedback from the university's 2019 climate survey into that plan. We are also building research collaborations and beginning to create curriculum bridges with an institution that is one of our historically black colleges and universities. We are also more carefully examining our social justice activities across campus and we're mapping a plan to increase collaboration and integration of these activities. The events of the last several weeks have been swift and dramatic. The work that comes next is equally important. Our progress will come through a series of collected and individual actions that will be both public and private, great and small, and rapid and methodical. Each member of our academic community has a role to play and duty to contribute to a just and equitable future. I look forward to working together to make that change happen. Thank you. I'm here for students of color and I come to you today with a heavy heart. It belongs to be comforted by justice and real change. I begin this reflection with a few words from an Inuit prayer and there is only one great thing, the only thing to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world. End of quote. You and I were blessed to open our eyes this morning. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, their eyes are forever closed. Never will they saber the sweet morning sunlight again.  Wrench from them and us by the savagery of racism. We can never bring them back. They will have no more morning jogs, cuddles with partners or quick stops at the corner store. They are gone except in our memories and so we say their names. Ahmaud, Tony, George, Breonna. What's in a name? What do we conjure when we speak the name of our kin? Imagine the joy, pleasure and hope that accompanies the naming of a newborn. The chosen name identifies the unique and sacred life force present in the tiny bundle of humanity. Some names connect the little one to ancestors or goddesses. Others are ingenious creations of parental imagination. With our names we are entwined with our families, loved ones and the human tribe. Our names portend to promise and launch us into the life to come. Our names become our very selves, encapsulating our miraculous lived experience. To speak the names of our departed is to hold on to the reality of their precious lives, to keep them with us, especially when they are shockingly taken before their time. As an act of resurrection and resistance, we say their names to demand justice for each black life destroyed by racism.  We say their names so that in our multicultural nation our racial identities will not relegate some of us to life and others to death. We say their names now so that one day we never have to add another name to this infamous list so that one day murderous racism will never prevent a precious, sacred black life from seeing the light of day. Mariana Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and the innumerable named and unnamed black people taken by racial violence. We pledge to work for justice and real change so that your living and your dying will not be in vain. Thank you. Hi, my name is Major Jackson Richard A. Dennis, Professor of English. I would like to read my poem Invocation which was written in response to self-isolation shelter in place as a result of the global health crisis. But I also had in mind maybe prescient even the police brutalities and intolerance in our country. The poem is titled Invocation. Down here we've inherited an arcade of stars and want kindness that can stop a bomb. We want intelligence that survives mutation. No more rallies of hate. No more stone mountains. Just proliferating peaks in the presence of friends like magical wands. We want the father in the park running after a child peddling into her future. We want to turn a corner and stumble upon the muted concert of two people in an embrace with entangled eyes. We want to hear a faraway train whistle cast a spell on the coming night. Back in that faraway land we were nurtured once on a dance floor, blazing in some tribal purity, probably near some bribe, probably swirling in sweaty laughter as we reach for the tips of each other's fingers streaming their ambient light. Such were the new bursts of ourselves breaching horizons like a sting. This is not the ending we imagined. We want to see each other again. Strangers walking through curtains of rain, storms lighting up streets laden with blossoms. Thank you. I hope you are well and I hope you are experiencing joy in the possibility of tomorrow. Over the past couple of weeks there have been an increasing amount of riots and protests all over America and in other countries such as the UK and New Zealand. Black lives matter urges for one simple thing, the respect and consideration of black and African American lives. We realize that we cannot have true peace until there is equity among all, until we look at one another and don't make quick assumptions based on their race. As a result of many people joining in the fight to spread awareness of Black Lives Matter, we can see some hope for our future and for the future generations to come. It is amazing to see many people of many ethnicities, cultural backgrounds coming together just to fight for one simple cause. I truly believe that maybe one day that we can change some minds of others of those who see Black people as inferior and switch it so that they may see us all as equal and see us all as one. My name is Gerald Coleman and I'm director of custodial services, waste management, recycling and university surplus at the University of Vermont. And this is a revolutionary time in America's history and it will be televised. The racial and social and economic injustices that are so woven into the fabric of America can no longer be quilted. It is past time for us to tear the threads apart. As the revolution continues today, protests and protestors of all walks of life stand in solidarity against senseless acts of prejudice, mistreatment of a nation's people and murder and broad daylight, social injustices, economic injustices of innocent unarmed Black Americans. The world is watching as America tears herself apart and the peoples of the nation are joining in the movement for equality and justice for their fellow Americans. As a nation, we can no longer hide our heads in the sand and our privileged and safe spaces to watch our fellow man be mistreated, murdered and basically lynched in broad daylight. We're resilient people and we've suffered and survived for decades and centuries of afterthought and brutality and prejudices and the conscious and unconscious attempts at extinguishing Black people in America. We can't continue with this state of oppression. As Martin Luther King said in his letter from a Bremenham jail, perhaps it's easy to say that if you've never felt the stinging, it's time to wait, stinging of segregation. But we as a people can no longer wait. The oppressed cannot remain oppressed forever. This is our time to rise up and continue the revolution. Betty Jones, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and to all the Black and African American people out there that have been victims of racism, many might not understand the fear of going to a grocery store, going out for a walk, or the fear of simply just living. Many might not understand the pain and suffering of many Black families. But we stand with you. I stand with you. It is time for change. It is time for people to acknowledge their privilege and the role racism has in our institutions. It's impossible to be Black in this country and not be filled by a pervasive awareness of one's race, racism, and its impact on your personal and professional life. It's impossible to be Black in this country and not be filled with a sense of constant awareness of one's visibility, vulnerability, and the potential dangers that it poses. In the last few weeks, I have felt my awareness and sense of vulnerability heightened. My worries and anxiety for myself, my son, my community almost overwhelming. I am also aware that in the last few weeks, my anger and sadness as a systemic oppression, targeting, and marginalization of Black people by the police has been a constant presence. What I know for sure is that at the height of bubble, written expression, and emotional outpouring of anger, sadness, and fear lies hope. The recognition and naming of racism and racialized encounters with the police that many of us have experienced countless times. That in naming and shouting them from the mountaintop, that a revolution might reach its peak, that many of us might actually live to see its outcome. For anyone watching this recording, if you wish to create a more just and fair society, one characterized by racial equality and safety for all, one in which the police are held accountable for their actions and trained to offer low enforcement based on the principles of justice and fairness for all. Then show it in your actions and policies. The time for what alone is gone, we are now living in the age of action. I remain optimistic, and I hope that you too remain optimistic, and that this moment empowers you, energizes you, and reveals the possibility of unity, diversity, racial equality, social justice, and peace in our country. Our world. Thank you. For Brother George Floyd, Palante, Prendicione Palante. In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass, in a speech rebuking slavery, said, Ford is not the light that is needed, but fire. It is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened. The conscious of the nation must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be startled. The hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed. UVM, let us be thunderous.  Let us use the privilege and power of education to learn, and to grow, and to condemn structural and institutional racism. George Floyd's daughter, Gigi, said, My daddy changed the world. UVM, let's use our collective power of education to prove her right. I am Dr. Wanda Heading-Grant. I am the vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Vermont. I've been here for some time, and I'm sure some of you will recognize my name and my face. But what you don't know is that how important this place is to me, and this is why I continue to be here and do the work here. I intentionally chose the Davis Center to say a few words that were on my mind. I've spoken a lot, I've said a lot, and I've really just sort of felt perplexed in terms of which way to go next. I really wanted to be here, but felt really close to me next to David Jamison's portrait. David's portrait is called Self-Portrait at the University of Black Vermont. David and I went to school together. David and I entered into the University of Vermont together. We spent part of the summer together as part of the Summer Enrichment Scholarship Program. I loved David. We fought verbally. We talked and played. We slid in the snow together. We hung out. But David opened my eyes to a lot of things, and David was an activist. He advocated for justice and for equity, and I felt like this is the place I wanted to be. As we call lots of people's names, Breonna, George, Michael, Trayvon, Amadou, Diablo. I call David Jamison's name because he's so part of this community and its history. There's so much I can say. I've already said a lot. What I really want to do is call us into action. I want to be, and I believe I am, a part of the next steps. It's so important, my UVM family. We have to dismantle racism. We have to tackle this, inequalities, racialized practices within institutions here and beyond. I am ready to roll. I hope you are. I'm going to be asking you for help. But no, it's important to reach out to your Black and African American family and friends. Let them know you care, and the best way of letting them know you care is getting active. So my message to you is I'm remembering David right now.  Let's get busy. For real, let's get busy. I need you as a Black woman. I need you as a professional here at the University of Vermont. I really need you to care about this. Thank you. As an undergraduate, I had the opportunity to take a course titled The History and Development of Racism in the United States of America. That one course profoundly changed my life, and my experience speaks to the transformational power of education. In that course, I learned about some of the laws passed during the 1600s to begin institutionalizing racism in the colonies and how for almost 400 years many people, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, have fought for their right to be seen as human in both the eyes of their fellow citizens and in the laws and policies that govern our country. Due to that transformational experience, I committed my life to passionately pursuing justice to make the world a more equitable place. And I hope that many of you will commit or recommit yourselves now and in the years to come to help our communities be better, more equitable places to live and learn. This is a watershed moment in history, and I hope you will choose to be on the right side of history. I'm Alan Maynard, faculty member in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. It's important in these times to acknowledge that many in our community and beyond are hurting. There's anger, frustration, sadness, fear, and more. I think to our common ground, respect, integrity, innovation, openness, justice, and responsibility. These aren't just a common core set of values. They are etched in stone on our campus. They inform our framework for inclusive excellence that operationalizes these ideals. True academic institutions, our agencies of change. True academics are not interested in the status quo. And as we build academic community, let's be sure to be the embodiment of our common ground. Let's link arms together and walk one step at a time towards a better UVM, a better academic community, and bring those along with us that will help make this world a better place. We can do it one step at a time for Mott Strong. So, this is kind of hard. I'm feeling sad, angry, makes me unsure of what I really have to say to this. So I'm trying to use an image. This is a picture I took at the memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, the Peace and Justice Memorial. Each of those cylinders represents a listing for one county in the U.S., black men who are lynched. So it's not just Gregory Freud's death that comes to mind with what's happening right now, but a long, troubled history. And I'm getting a little old for this, right? I've just seen this happen so many times. And yet I know there's a wonderful book called Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derek Bell that surrenders just not a good option. Rather than my words, I'm going to give you a few quotes that have helped me and that I hope will help you, that will help us, black folks, to have grace. In the words of Audre Lorde, it's not our differences that divide us. It's our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. James Baldwin once said, not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it's faced. And Malcolm X reminds me, you cannot separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless they have their freedom. So in these times, let's hold each other close, at least in our hearts and our minds if we cannot, do that in person. And let's continue to push for changes, however slow, but without pushing, they won't happen. Thank you. Precious Lord, take my hand, let me stand, pressure. Yes, Lord, lead us on, at least lead me on, whatever moves you forward. Look at all the videos. I can't tell you how many times I cried. I can't tell you how many times I even just laughed at the fact that we're doing this together. It's so ridiculous. The only emotion that would come out was laughter sometimes. I just want to thank all my colleagues, all my friends who came together in their homes, in their yards, behind their desk to share their feelings, to acknowledge racism, to tell the truth, to tell their stories, to help us reflect, remember, and recommit ourselves. There are a number of other videos where folks have told their truth, have told their stories that call us to action. I want you to see them. I want you to hear them. I think everybody who has contributed. Please look at this program again. Go to the website where the others will be there. Thank you. I am ready for action. You will also find resources and next steps for where we're going as an institution. Yup. UVM. We're going as an institution and therefore we will be moving forward and beyond the walls of UVM because we will have an impact for difference, to make difference. So thank you again. Be well. Be safe. Let's roll y'all. Let's go.


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Alright yo, it's good everyone. Nick Smith is back. So we managed to take game 7 up against the Los Angeles Clippers I mean at the start of the series we were down 0-2, but yeah we managed to gate we managed to take this series and We're going into the NBA finals, and you know what? The NBA finals is gonna be tough. We're down by 9 going to the fourth quarter of game number one up against Derek Rose and Jimmy Butler power the soul in the Chicago Bulls now these guys All I'm gonna say it's gonna be a tough series all of these playoff series that have been tough We faced up against in the first round the Warriors then the Thunder then the Clippers and now the Bulls I mean we we shouldn't have made it all this way. Honestly. I mean the team is nice But it's not this nice, but I know how to run this team I know how to work the guys that I got so it's actually been alright, and you know I feel confident that if we can take at least maybe One out of the first three games we have a chance to bring it to a game seven and maybe take an NBA finals Appearance home on our way back to LA, but as of now it's game one in LA and Yeah, it's not looking good at least we're only down by seven now with six minute left to make it a six-point game with 420 and Jabari Parker throws down the hammer Whoo, that's what I'd like to see right there So now it's a four-point game, and we're suddenly back in this game four-point game four minutes left Jabari on the rebound He gives it up to Dianne's the Russell from down Town Russell hits that three and it's a one-point game one minute fifty seconds left in this game Pad the soul in the post get that out of here to Marcus Custon says not in my house I'm back.  I don't know how but he's injured He suddenly got injured in this game feeds it off to Jimmy Butler, and it's back to a five-point game We hit some free throws in two minutes left Derek Rose, you know You know Derek good is kind of clutch he hits two back-to-back baskets right there making it a five-point game once again One minute twenty-two seconds in this game Rose kicks it out to joke him. No, it gets denied by boogie Get that out of here, and then we got Jabari Parker throwing it down once again I mean look at this play right here This is what I love to see by the Los Angeles Lakers getting defense on one end throwing it down on the other end I mean that's that's beautiful play right there. That's that's LA basketball Right now. I mean it's 2017. Is it 27? No, I think it's 2016. Anyway Boogie is just having a wonderful game to Marcus is getting all these blocks and the bulls just every time they come in this Pain either Hassan's gonna get a block or to Marcus is gonna get a block. Anyway, Bartler No, that was Rose Rose got the foul on Jabari Parker So Parker's at the line for two he hits the first one and you know He's feeling pretty confident, but he misses the second one. I have to fast forward this Somehow I don't even know how Rose got injured, but it's just a Derrick Rose thing Anyway, PJ Tucker misses that three-point shot right there We get a break and with 26 seconds left We need a two for the tie or three to take the lead to barry Parker I call for a screen with him to bias. That's a pretty good screen But I see a Sunwhites that open easy lab and he gets that to fall we tied this game up 15 seconds left all we need to do right now is play this clutch defense This man Butler gives it to Rose Rose at the top of the three-point line He's holding the ball until the last five seconds of this game. He's putting on the moves right now He goes inside boogie with the shock and test he gets found and he gets that to go Are you serious right now Derrick Rose? Why are you looking like an MVP when I play you? Why can't you looks like modern-day Derrick Rose?  We catch a break. He misses the free throw so to two point game 2.7 seconds. We actually have enough time to get a shot off We have plenty of time actually Russell from downtown fade away to point miss and he misses the shot I don't know what I said, but I just missed that and it's over. You'd lose game number one.  I Couldn't believe he hit that shot That was beautiful defense as well, but somehow Derrick Rose got that got that crazy shot He got 23 and 10 but anyway, I want to thank all you guys for all the support and by the way in game number two Well, yeah, couldn't do much here. The balls actually they just killed me right there I'm not even gonna lie 20 point win for the balls in game two So they take both games in LA But like I was saying I want to thank all you guys for all the support and by the way This this video is not even close to being finished. We've got game three coming up as well But yeah, I want to thank you all you guys for all the love and support that you guys showed on the last episode Just you know in general you guys make sure a lot of support. I want to thank all you guys for that I never really get to thank you guys as much So yeah, I want to thank all you guys for all the love all the support everything like that and you know It really I really appreciate it when you guys comment down below You know when you leave a like and if you guys want to see the next episode of this series leave a like more likes Means I know that you guys want to see this series and yeah I guess I'll upload the next series if you guys can leave a like much appreciate it and Yeah Okay back in game number three.  They're looking like they're gonna sweep us man I'm scared. I don't want to be swept, but if we win this game It's back to a 2-1 series and by the way this man has some white side He was blocking everything that that was a some white side block right there look like boogie But now that's the Sun White side Russell slams it down and you're gonna see a Sun White side Got so many blocks in this game but let's try to drive in no get that out of here This man so I saw it's a beast and you know, this isn't it. This isn't even good a Sun White side This is like I mean he's good, right?  This is why they're called The what do I call them one episode the twin beast or something like that? I don't even know why I called them that but yeah This man Miratich misses that shot Alex plant on the board gives it to Jabari Parker from downtown And we are starting this game out strong 12 to 4 I mean Yeah, great way to start out the game. Do you see how high Rose got for that rebound?  I sound like such a noob right there Yeah, I picked this card up in my team, which is that pretty cool I hope you guys up to an amethyst. I I don't know me He's kind of already got really good defensive ratings in 2k So I guess the only thing he can improve on is his scoring and then maybe a little bit of rebounding But and hopefully that gets him up to an amethyst, but I don't even know But anyway, we take the first quarter right there 18 to 16 great first quarter And then I was like, you know what let's just simulate and head off to the last quarter because why not? I mean why not? There's no point playing all these games I mean we should be able to take this win if I just simulate right now And then if I play it and it's close and they'll be good So I went to jump in this game right now and this is the biggest glitch I've ever seen it went black It went black like I couldn't play it went black And I was like, okay Maybe he's just gonna you know get up and back to normal because because you know the clock's not moving It's four minutes and 26 seconds and then it started moving and I'm like, what the hell is black? What am I meant to do right now man? So it just kept going and then I ended up having to simulate the whole game Which is kind of unfortunate, but uh, yeah, I guess you guys will have to see what happened if we won or if we lost but I Mean we're up by 11 right now with four minutes left. 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I'm deeply involved with our efforts on AI and Gen AI as a company. I break this down in kind of phases, right? So we're doing a lot of, I would say work in our cloud infrastructure to enable workloads to run, to enable Gen AI workloads to run, right? And our big push as a company on Gen AI is a whole portfolio that we've launched called WatsonX. Hi, this is your Supreme Bhartiya and welcome to your partner's room. And today we have with us Rohit Badlani, General Manager for IBM Cloud Product and Industry Platforms. Rohit is great to have you on the show. Thank you, Swapnil. It's great to be here. We are supposed to meet at VMware Word and discuss what work you folks are doing together. So let's just do a recap. Talk a bit about the announcement because you folks made a lot of so, your team made at the VMware Explorer in Las Vegas this year. And just talk about, of course, sometimes these companies do work together for a long time, but let's focus on this one. What are the ideas that you folks are either extending your partnership or opening some new doors? Thanks for the opportunity, Swapnil. So yeah, I mean, look, we've had a 20 plus year partnership with VMware, but having been the cloud for VMware for many, many clients, we continued kind of our partnership with them at VMware Explorer this year, where we announced a few things, right? One was around making sure that we're accelerating the modernization of kind of the combined power of IBM and VMware Hybrid Cloud, right? So due to support that, we've been building with them IBM Cloud VMware as a service. It complements our portfolio of kind of do it yourself set of VMware offerings, where we're building this with a cloud managed multi-tenant, we cloud director solution, and we're expanding that to our fleet of worldwide multi-zones. We also announced that to help our mutual clients, IBM will be the first public cloud provider to launch a new partner managed service based on VMware cloud additions as part of this VMware cross-managed service initiative. The forthcoming service that's coming out will provide customers with a hybrid cloud aligned with the NIST validated framework differentiation and allows clients ease of migration workloads from on-premise to IBM cloud environments with the correct TCO to help them kind of build and modernize. And now we on the IBM cloud side have added tremendous amount of differentiation working very closely with the financial services industry, but we believe 100 plus financial services clients where IBM does really well, but we believe the differentiation around security or hyper security as I refer to it and compliance and controls work that we've added into our offerings help any landing zones on our cloud to be validated against regulatory requirements. And so this is a very strong partnership with VMware on product to continue to help the thousands of clients that we already have on our cloud and new clients, right? A few of the other announcements we had were also ecosystem-centric. So Dizian, which is a digital workspaces provider, we've been working with them and VMware and we launched their VDI solutions on the IBM cloud built with the security and compliance capabilities that I just talked about to focus on super mission critical workloads on our cloud. And we provide them with the resiliency, the performance, the cost of ownership to demonstrate regulatory compliance. We also announced at this conference a key SI partner HCL tech as part of our ecosystem is launching a shared data center as a service offering built with IBM cloud for VMware solutions. And then finally, we announced a primary IO. They announced an availability of a disaster recovery as a service platform on IBM cloud called Protect IO. And it's exclusively for IBM cloud and consumable through our catalog again for a VMware set of clients. So you see, we've been building this portfolio where we've got thousands of clients on jointly, of course, close, close research and development and go to market partnership with VMware over the last several years, but now broadening the portfolio to if a client wants to do it yourself, you can. If you want to consume VMware as a true managed service, you can as well, well plugged into the joint go to markets, but a strong ecosystem of providers around backup, disaster recovery, workload placement like Disney in, and then a strong ecosystem of GSI partners on top of that. Ever since you folks came out with your cloud, VMware, some of these companies kind of pioneer some of even the whole virtualization technologies. I want to hear from you how you have seen the evolution of the cloud. Mostly companies talk about the big threes, of course AWS is there, Azure is there and then GCP is there, but there are a lot of other players as well. Sometimes it's like different needs. We talk about multicloud, we talk about hybrid cloud. So talk about how do you see the evolution of cloud and what role do you see of IBM cloud and this partnership with VMware is going to play in this space? If you reverse back a few years, right? And you look at the journey on cloud, you'd hear a lot of, I would say tech evangelists say public clouds the answer, what's the question, right? And you're gonna find that I think there's unanimous agreement right now in clients that hybrid clouds here, hybrid clouds here to stay and especially with things around regulations and risk. I see clients choosing not one, but many cloud providers. So there's a market for many providers as you're saying and it primarily is driven by things like concentration risk, by risk to the ecosystem for the client around data protection on the more complex workloads. I would say the lala phase of clouds gone, right? And you're now focusing on more mission critical workloads and many of those run a hybrid. So from moving from public clouds, the answer, what's the question, we've moved into a phase of hybrid clouds here, it's hybrid multicloud and I may choose a cloud provider for a unique capability or a unique set of workloads. I also see clients getting a lot more mature in their cloud journey and their thinking. So instead of going all in on, I'm gonna move workloads, they're way more thoughtful right now on defining landing zones, looking at which workloads that they can lift and shift, which VMware has done a fabulous job at, which workloads they need to modernize and which workloads they need to put in place because there are cost and financial implications of rewriting a lot of applications. So I do see in at least the biggest clients I serve, a well taught through journey being taught off with that's complimented by skills and IBM does really well and IBM and VMware together. And that's why this partnership works with thousands of clients is, we serve hybrid clients and we help them on the journey to cloud, thinking through the entire life cycle of their workload and the implications to their organizations and their regulators. Can you also talk as you're saying that there was a time when the cloud is here, that is the reality and what Apollo is solving, back in those days when we used to look at the cloud, it was like it's a magical place. Once you move to the cloud, all your problems are gone. Look at the CNC of landscape cloud native, you cannot even go through all the logos on a 12K monitor, you need a bigger screen for that. The point is that there is a complexity that comes to the cloud and the fact is that this complexity is not going to go away. All we can do is to help customers deal with it. So can you also talk about, let's just stick with this collaboration, how you folks are making it easier for customers to leverage some of these technologies or to focus on what they were meant to be doing. They should not get over, their developer team should not be stuck with the word we call it plumbing, all those unnecessary things. So talk about how you enable them. So once again, they can focus on what they can move fast, they can stay secure. You also talk about some security features also there. You also talk about backup and recovery there. So let's look at the bigger picture here. Our philosophy has been to make sure we think through the entire lifecycle of the end client and their workloads. So we've really focused our cloud efforts around key workloads, whether it's VMware and how we drive hybrid journeys or SAP or with a big partnership with them around financial services, business processes, like trade finance or payments or those kinds of heavy duty business processes that run across organizations. And our philosophy all along has been, we, in my view, all the cloud providers are kind of the same. They provide a catalog, they provide a set of services, and then you kind of build on top to your point, but it gets really complex from a manageability from a day to operations perspective. So what are we doing is, a core of our cloud is built with Red Hat.  And under it to your point of plumbing, we approach everything as a managed service. So we manage the life cycle off VMR as a service or Red Hat as a service. And under the cloud, we have hyper-secured it with controls that the regulators and the regulatory clients need, and with compliance and auditability so the developer can focus on innovation. They don't have to work about the plumbing. And that's the uniqueness about the IBM cloud that we've been working with partners like VMware, of course, Red Hat being an IBM company with Red Hat, et cetera. From the cloud's perspective, what scope do you see of generative AI there now? When I talk about a scope, I am looking at two things. One is generative AI as a workload. And secondly, generative AI helping some of the tools and products that you folks are working on. I'm deeply involved with our efforts on AI and gen AI as a company. I break this down in kind of phases. So we're doing a lot of, I would say, work in our cloud infrastructure to enable Gen AI workloads to run. And our big push as a company on Gen AI is a whole portfolio that we've launched called WatsonX. Think of it as the tooling needed to develop large language models, the data capabilities, the governance around AI which people seem to forget. It's a very important aspect of, is your data safe? Are you auditing it? Is it ready for Gen AI? So we've got a holistic portfolio around that. We are, of course, putting a huge amount of focus on generating our own language models. So think language models for code. We just announced this last week. Think code translation from 115 languages or driving the efficiency of documentation in code. So normally, are we launching our own trusted models? We're eating our own cooking. We're using it for our own developers. We are applying it to our own HR processes to your point on use cases. We are applying it to our own customer service and client service teams. And we have a whole consulting practice that is helping clients with these use cases around generative AI. So IBM's end-to-end across our infrastructure team, across our software teams on the tooling and the capability, and our consulting team. This is, I mean, which other provider to provide AI for enterprises than IBM? And we're all in on that. Last question before we wrap this up is KubeCon is almost here. I mean, it's still one month, but it is almost here. Talk a bit about what we can expect from IBM Cloud at KubeCon. Of course, there are things that you folks will be announcing at the event, but just give us a glimpse, just tease us. KubeCon's a very important event for us. I'm not going to give you all the announcements. You'll have to wait for a month. But we're doing a lot of work around AI, as you said. We're doing a lot of work in our platform as a service layer around distributed cloud. Think of it as, for use cases, off edge. A lot of work around our developer ecosystem. So you would expect announcements in those arenas. And of course, we work very closely with Red Hat. So the capabilities we talked about on making sure you have a hybrid cloud platform consistent across expect announcements around those spaces. Rohit, thank you so much for taking time out today. And of course, walk us through not only the collaboration between you folks and VMware, but also in general, where we are heading, not only with cloud, but also AI ML. Oh, not AI ML, like that's additional. Like, Genity, thanks for all those insights. And I would love to chat with you and also see your team at KubeCon. Thank you. Sounds good, Swapnel. Thank you so much.


Hey, guys, good morning. Thank you very much for joining me in this session. First of all, I'd like to apologize. I couldn't be there in person. Thank you very much to Force Asia for still allowing this to happen through recording. Okay, without further ado, let's start. Just a little intro. My full name is Rikius Tiawan. I've been doing database and operations engineering for the past 20 year plus. I've been exposed to open source since I started working in Oracle MySQL. That was 2012. And then I never look back ever since. Now, I also a DevOps consultant. Having a lot of fun. Helping companies to transform their culture into DevOps culture. Without further ado, let's start with what is Kubernetes? Kubernetes was originally developed by Google. Its aim is only to manage distributed container instances across thousands of nodes or servers in Google. There are other similar competing products like Maysauce and DokaSwarm. But Kubernetes by far has much wider adoption. And now the de facto standard for container management. I'd like to quit a little excerpt from Red Hat. So basically, according to Red Hat, Kubernetes helps you to easily and efficiently manage those clusters, containers clusters. Clusters can span host across public and private and hybrid clouds. For this reason, Kubernetes is an ideal platform for hosting cloud-native applications that require rapid scaling. For instance, like a real-time data streaming. Now, before we go further, let's step back for a bit and take a look at what is the difference between container and VM. So VM, as you might already know and be unaware that each VM has its own operating system files. So each of them can have different operating system. You can have Linux, you can have Windows, you can have free DSD, anything. It doesn't matter what the host operating system is. Now, that means it has a pretty good isolation. Now, let's go to container. Container, or the other hand, is sharing the operating system with the host. It only encapsulates the processes and software it's supposed to run on the container itself. So all the OS files is shared across all the containers and the host. Why would anyone want to run application on containers? First is because it's much less bulky and require less resources compared to VM. It is faster to spawn lightweight as well because it doesn't need to have OS files inside the container. All OS files sitting on the host. Second is the process isolation because each of the process which is supposed to be on specific container is all isolated with any other process. Third is easier management due to dependencies and encapsulation. OS and patches, basically you only need to patch one time and all the container will enjoy new patches. As compared to if it is in the VM you have to patch every single VM because every single VM has its own OS files. Application environment and application code and dependencies are all encapsulated within each container. And due to the encapsulation this is one part that makes it easy for continuous testing which is part of DevOps workflow. To show you the proof Kubernetes is very fast adopted by companies based on study conducted by Nirmata at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 from over 150 IT professionals. Basically 78% are using or plan to deploy microservices on Kubernetes. The rest of them, as you can see they might deploy other application like 3 tier big data, AI on NML, IoT, networking, and so on and so forth. Based on the same study it also shows that 52% are using Kubernetes in production and nearly 40% are using it in development and testing environments. Now let's take a look at architecture. Every Kubernetes system always have a master node. This is where the Kubernetes software resides. And then you'll see on top of it you have a Kube CTL this is the command line tool to send commands through the master node into the nodes. On the right hand side you see nodes. Normally a Kubernetes system consist more than just one node. It comprise of multiple nodes to form a cluster to have certain high availability. Inside each node you will find a number of pods. Pods basically is a group of containers. Each pod has its own network system and other resources and hosting as well. So all these containers within one pod will have to share all these resources belong to the pod. Underneath is basically the Docker software. Now that we know about Kubernetes and its architecture let's go into MySQL InnoDB Cluster. As you know MySQL is the most popular open source database in the world. It's widely used everywhere in any applications. Now MySQL InnoDB Cluster is basically the HA solution high availability solution built on top of MySQL replication technology. It's comprise of three main components which is MySQL group replication which is in this case in this diagram comprise of three nodes three database nodes. On top of it you have MySQL router and on the right side you have MySQL shell which is the tool to manage InnoDB Cluster. Now the group replication comprise of three database nodes. One will become primary the other two will become secondary. The primary is available for read-write the two secondary available for read-only. And MySQL router will be the one to manage failover. Anytime the primary is down MySQL router will check and find out which one will become the new primary and it will redirect the traffic into the new primary node. Now, why we want to run databases on Kubernetes? Simply because of support for the microservices architecture is faster to spawn lightweight containers does not include OS files and especially when your application already running microservices model. Next is to eliminate hefty license cost when you are using enterprise databases. Quite simply because many enterprise databases like MySQL and MariaDB they are actually licensed based on server where in this case let's say you have 3 physical nodes 3 physical servers a powerful one and you can run let's say in maybe 30, 40 database containers it's totally logical and it's actually pretty common these days. Last one is a good HA feature even though you are running only a single instant data of MySQL so there is no cluster attached there only a single instance and Kubernetes will still handle the HA because Kubernetes will simply spawn another container when the database container failed. To go further why MySQL in ODB cluster now ODB cluster offer you a higher level of availability than just a single instance. It is also affordable as you know because MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL very very affordable licensing especially MySQL and MariaDB is running licensed based per server also on the other hand it's very easy to scale the read because every ODB cluster by default you have 3 nodes and 2 of them which is available for read only that means you can actually road balance your read only between these 2 secondary nodes Last one is multi master mode also available and it actually perform very well when you configure properly with some condition attached and do do take note of these conditions before you decide to go for multi master because this is very important and it can make or break your application On with the challenges on Kubernetes now first is IO because by default database is currently IO intensive so there is a challenge to be able to decide which storage required and on top of that different databases have different requirements maybe one database is database needs SSD one database need simply can run on HDD one can run on rate 5 properly the other one really really need rate 10 and then maybe some other databases require hybrid storage so they have different storage requirements Next is the different configuration different database different database have different workload pattern like online and let's say transaction processing or even let's say analytical maybe reporting maybe data warehouse load so different database have different configuration and and then also different way of application to connect into the database so this makes it more complex to manage the configuration for each and every container next is because of the nature of Kubernetes top is mortal so Kubernetes is by default designed for applications so it is easy for you to simply restart whenever the container is down Kubernetes will do it for you automatically but here the problem is database has to be persistent it has to run on persistent storage so that is why any database deployment on Kubernetes has to run on stateful sets remember these stateful sets do not use normal deployment because by default Kubernetes use deployment now resources resources is shared across lots of containers remember what I said earlier Kubernetes cluster is running let's say on a few physical service but on top of that maybe hundreds of containers that means all database containers will be sharing a number of lots of resources database containers will share all the resources of these physical nodes so resource management can be very complex security and audit policy compliance every databases have different security and audit policy compliance this make it hard as well and the last one is of course skill set of the people who manage it so this is at this moment based on my experience doing a number of consultancy and certain companies not many engineers actually have a proper skill set on Kubernetes because Kubernetes itself is still considerably new so people need some time to take up and be familiar with this technology so yeah that is a pretty good challenge there now that we know about the challenges how to overcome it we have a first is we have to analyze the database environments and analysis in the beginning is very important and this will determine whether you will make it or you will break it in production a couple of questions and we can ask ourselves before we decide to move the entire workload to Kubernetes is first whether it is already running on docker containers if it is already running on docker containers then it is a no brainer to simply move to Kubernetes it makes it easier for you to manage now if it is still monolithic we need to ask ourselves is it possible to turn it into microservices model now also whether apps support splitting these databases into smaller channels some certain apps does not support it they simply connect directly using one connections and they cannot be changed so no choice but certain application especially the custom application they can change it they can support splitting the databases into a different smaller databases next is what benefits for the database to run on microservices versus monolithic don't get me wrong it is not it is not a bad thing it is not a bad thing do not fall into this this notion where everything has to run on Kubernetes no no and no something that is running on monolithic and runs fine that's it do not touch it you better it is actually better for you to focus on new application instead of changing whatever you already have on monolithic and run very well how much effort you require to transform to microservices model this is something also you need to think about how much blood, how much tears how much sweat you need to spill in order to transform whether it is worth your time whether it is worth everybody's time in your team this is something that we need to think about next is the database is basically is commonly used on Kubernetes is commonly used for caching layer is because caching layer does not need to be persistent let's say when the container is down the Kubernetes simply pack up again and the database is empty and the application will simply affiliate that again so not a problem next use cases is normally database sharding database sharding is a good one because why would anyone want to shard a database is because they want to have a better performance because by having a smaller database smaller it is they can run more they can run on concurrently they can achieve highly parallel processing so this is this is a very good use cases one of the most popular choices for data sharding solution running on MySQL, MariaDB or Percona is actually Vitesse you might have heard about this before it is very good very reliable piece of software you might want to take a look at that if you have interest in it next one is test and test and test I cannot emphasize more the importance of testing now moving from bare metal to VM is already require a big paradigm changes moving for bare metal directly to containers it's even more changes a big huge changes so there will be a lot of unknown situation where you will never think about so do test any scenarios that you can think of this is very very important I've seen a lot of problems with companies that move from bare metal directly to containers simply with because they are not doing enough testing testability especially on database workload search now database can search due to maybe due to underlying problem within the database due to bug maybe due to to the nature of the application let's say if it is an e-commerce running on Black Friday there will be a high search on that area I think you what about the story from Amazon story from Alibaba as well right that they suddenly have a lot of transaction coming in on Black Friday on the 11-11 12-12 you name it the next one is the no skill set in no time if you have no skill set and you have no time to do all this testing I advise you to engage professional health if you want to still pursue and explore going to Kubernetes do engage professional health how to start you can get a mini cube if you want to play around on your own laptop on your own time go ahead and download it on the Kubernetes website from the MySQL part you can go to the github from Oracle this MySQL operator is created by the Oracle MySQL team you can get it there from this link now let's say you have a big team we want them to get familiar with Kubernetes you can grab a managed Kubernetes engine most of the cloud provider provide one for you there are a lot of choices there most of them offer free credits for trial and even some of them offer for 12 months so do make use of their generous offer and play around in the cloud finally we are at almost at the end already let's see the key points do tour analysis first we need to do analysis properly and thoroughly this is very important this will just determine whether we break it or we make it in a production next is do test and test and test test any single scenarios that we can think of anything put it into the system and test it because anything can happen especially on a workload search database workload can search at any time due to anything like i said before so and this can impact not just your database also other containers as well other containers might also have other databases that is used by other applications so this is very important do test monolithic is not is not bad if you have application or database that is already running monolithic model at this moment leave it aside if they are already running well leave it aside do not touch it hands off concentrate on new applications leave it aside do not touch it last but not least find strong reasons to justify and get the top executive support this is very important you don't want in the midst of your journey to transform to Kubernetes suddenly the management come down and stop everything you don't want this to happen so do get the management support first before embarking on the journey the next few slides will consist of other steps for you to set up a mass scale operator for Kubernetes you can follow them i believe our friends from force Asia will put this online so everyone can see it everyone can download it and just follow the steps to get it up and running on your own system or probably in the public cloud as well alright guys this is it thank you very much for spending about 28 minutes with me here thank you our friends from force Asia every anyone that wants to connect with me, go ahead this is my contact let me know if you guys suddenly think about having coffee and you need some friend call me up ring me and we have a coffee session while talking Kubernetes thank you very much thank you


My name is Aristide de Tannas Yadis. I'm chair of Circular Economy and Urban Metabolism at the University of Libreau-Brosel And I share this chair with my colleague Stephen Kampelman, but I'm also the co-founder of the non-profit organization called Metabolism of Cities And in general what I do is research on urban metabolism I analyze cities, their flows, I try to compare cities between themselves to try to understand if there are any commonalities I also try to understand what are the drivers behind these flows and also the creation of their stocks And more recently, since the chair, I also try to understand how urban metabolism and circular economy are related But also how urban metabolism can be applied or is it applied in policy and in practice The first time I heard about urban metabolism I think was back in 2010 And back in the day I was doing a master thesis research And what I wanted to do was a life cycle analysis Well no, actually what happened is that I heard the word life cycle analysis A friend of mine was doing life cycle analysis for buildings And I was very intrigued by the whole concept of following a product or an object from the extraction to the waste processes So every phase of this product, sorry, from the beginning till the end And I was quite fascinated by this methodology and I said to myself perhaps we could do that at the scale of the city Not only the construction material, not only the building but perhaps the city level And then a lot of questions were added to that How many objects do I take into account? Is it enough or how do I classify all of those flows and all of that And I asked some questions to a professor and he mentioned the term urban metabolism And I was surprised by this metaphor at the beginning and then I did some research And I found a number of articles quantifying all of the flows entering and exiting cities And I was completely really interested by this topic And I said ok this is the topic I want to focus on But then by reading more and more I kind of saw some other papers that were discussing urban metabolism And didn't have this quantitative aspect, I remember the paper of Matthew Gandhi in 2004 about something about urban metabolism and water And it had almost no figures on it, almost no tables in it And I was very surprised, at that stage I thought that this is not what I... well I thought this is not urban metabolism At least that's not what I thought was urban metabolism And it took me some time to understand that actually urban metabolism is not a coherent whole or a consolidated field That has only one definition, a number of researchers use different definitions And that's when I got interested into as well the different aspects more and more of urban metabolism As I said before I'm an urban metabolism researcher so I mainly research on this topic What I do with it is mostly again understand, quantify some flows and understand how this is related with the functioning of a city I feel it's very important to quantify flows because first of all you have a solid baseline of what is happening in a city But also you eliminate some ideas, some bad ideas that you thought were good ideas Meaning that if you quantify some flows you know how many you have in your city You know how much that would result into developing new jobs or developing new spaces for storage or for recycling What type of infrastructure you would need, what are feasible solutions and what are unrealistic ones So I really think that by measuring flows you already understand more of the physicality of your city And I wanted to better communicate with city officials and administrations to figure out whether their mobility plans or waste plans or other plans are conflicting The energy plan with the water plan perhaps they have very common challenges that urban metabolism lens can help us to make something more coherent And negotiate between one and the other but also it really helps us to create a dialogue amongst many people Because what I understood as I mentioned before is that urban metabolism is not only about quantifying flows but also understanding who are behind the flows Who control, who govern the flows, who is losing by some flows, who is winning by other flows And therefore it's more of a negotiation and coordination tool that can help many stakeholders come around the table and discuss about some bigger urban challenges This metaphor has been used, I did an urban metabolism study for the Brussels region, so for Brussels-Environment back in 2014 And back in the day it was a very dry analysis of flows with a methodology and some action points that we found very prominent What were the promising sectors and some promising actions to make the city more circular So this preceded already the circular economy plan of Brussels And back in the day I thought urban metabolism was just a quantitative tool But because it was commissioned by two different administrations, one was state of the environment, the other one was transitional economy or the new economy I quickly understood that it's not just about quantification, it's also about how urban administrations can use this tool to answer their own challenges And the challenges of these two administrations were very different And that's where I understood that actually, well, urban metabolism brings forward some challenges that can be answered by different point of views And therefore I think what happened in the last five years, we kind of discovered new applications of urban metabolism Urban metabolism is not just a dry inspection of numbers and developing a baseline and a monitoring framework of flows This is one essential part, but other parts also start to appear Urban and territorial development, for instance, is now really connected to it So what type of city do we have? How the city that we have and the city that we want to have is going to be affected by flows So there's a whole new discipline around this There is more and more political ecology, so the politics of actors and also the agency of actors behind the flows that is now getting revealed But also there is behind all of these action plans, there is no coherent tool so far to help steer regions and cities around these complex issues And urban metabolism could have the possibility to provide a systemic understanding and at least a lens to better understand challenges that might seem diverging But at the same time they are happening in the same city, so we need to find a solution and we need to find something that is good for all the challenges simultaneously I think what also happened over the last five years is that we've done some trial and error We've rediscovered what happened with Duviniot and his colleagues as well We have seen what happened elsewhere as well, so I think we're getting a bit more mature with a group of researchers and also policymakers and some practitioners We're starting to get a more common debate, start to understand as well together in the same way And we're building a common trajectory, I think That's not to say that there is not conflicting views and diverging opinions on the challenges and how to resolve them But I feel that there is some vocabulary that is converging, that urban metabolism can be a useful tool That it's not only about numbers, that it encapsulates as well urban manufacturing, the productive city It encapsulates challenges of circular economy, sometimes of nature-based solutions So it has become a broader concept that tries to bring together people and to answer even further challenges than material flows It's still a relatively new word, we've seen it being used already for five to more years in Brussels Well, if you take into account Duviniot's work and his team's work, that's already 40 years ago But over the last five years you can see it here and there in some documents and policy, in practice Much more in academia, there is a strong regiment of researchers that is now behind this field And I feel that in Brussels, well in Belgium, sorry, we have a strong team of people that is behind this concept But I feel that we're still figuring it out, there is no real consensus Some people use it for urban design, other people use it from an industrial ecology and methodological point of view Other people use it for governance, other people use it from an operational point of view So a lot of different facets, other people use it from a history point of view So a lot of different facets, none is really predominating I feel that we're in this phase that we're exploring the next phase We're exploring the next use of urban metabolism We're exploring how we're going to really settle and perhaps converge towards a tool that can accept many disciplines at the same time I think right now we're struggling to make it a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary field We're all bringing our small stone towards the bigger building that is urban metabolism But we're still struggling to connect all of these pieces together What I hope with urban metabolism in the future is that it becomes a common ground That it's something that we can use collectively amongst a vast range of stakeholders So not only researchers, not only within researchers, not only industrial ecologists, so people that are really quantitative I really hope that it's going to become just a basic layer of understanding that we can stack things upon it And make our understanding even more complex But also to take it out of academia, I think a lot of things have been happened over the last 40 years in academia And yet it's still not very usable today in other fields It's still about understanding and less about acting And so I hope it's going to become not something that offers clear guidelines and operational tools But at least to have a better interaction or feedback loops between what happens in practice So between a very specific action on the ground and then going back to what is the policy behind it Has this policy really changed any of the metabolism of a city? And then we as researchers kind of analyze those and then also go on the ground to better understand which actions work which do not So I really hope this is this tool and this is going to help us to better collaborate between fields So between researchers, policymakers and practitioners And just be the tool that helps us be around the same table and challenge ourselves with similar tools A similar language, similar analytical tools, similar visualization tools So I think what we lack today and what urban metabolism can help us with is to develop a certain amount of common tools That will help us rediscover some challenges that are predominantly based in one of the three categories I think what's great in Belgium right now is this group of people that's behind this topic It's not recent, we've built that over time And I think there is this real envy to change things and to make things happen And a number of people share this feeling and we share that doing work on our own is not sufficient So we are very eager to hear what our colleagues elsewhere are doing And how can we be helpful to them and how they can help us in our own endeavors And so because there are so many projects, events, etc, etc on the topic We get to see the same people over and over again And we get to have a small family of people that share the same concerns And want things to move faster and forward So by finding each other and by discussing between coffees and things like that We are thinking about how do we go from five minute talks between coffees in an event To something more structured where we find time and we dedicate time to see each other and to work together For that I really think we need some neutral places and neutral where we find each other And we take out our personal hats which is an academic hat or a policymaker hat And we just keep our expert hats So we know a bunch of things around this topic We enter the room and we share with others on our expertise And we forget about kind of the obligations that all of us have in our own topic So I think to structure this community we need a place We need to find each other relatively frequently every couple of weeks, every month or something like that We need to have a common place where information is there Where we don't have to find all over again documents and data and plans and all of that We have all this information it's there and we can directly go to cut to the chase and work there And we also need the topics, we need common topics that we try to work from A to Z together And so we discover the facets of all of these challenges together So we get into each other's shoes Again I think this relates very much to the previous question which is We need to have very similar approaches, we need to have similar places, tools I really think that we need some analytical tools that are common to everyone Of course we're not all into analysis but if we manage to have one place where everything is stored Where everything can be easily visualized and on top of that we can build some models to say What will happen to one of our cities if that And then we test scenarios and these scenarios can help us negotiate Say this is not the future we want for Brussels, Antwerp or any other city or for a region But today we're guessing many things because we don't have any solids Well we have a good understanding of things by looking in the past But we struggle to kind of build many scenarios for the future And I think by putting associations, citizen groups and all of that behind these scenarios, behind these possible futures We can now feel involved into a future Right now we're more defensive, we don't want something but we don't know yet what is the future we want Because we don't know all of the potential futures So I really think that if we have these analytical tools, visualization tools, understanding tools that we build all together We can really step up and bridge these three fields Just some last thoughts and going back to what has changed since the masterclass that had been done Designing with Flow's masterclass that was co-organized by a number of people including OVAM, Architectural Workroom Brussels and Metabolism of Cities I think there was a lot of energy back in the day and it's not lost, it perhaps dissipated in many other efforts So a lot has changed and been developed since then But I feel that that's the challenge, the dissipation How do we manage to keep the momentum and to understand that we're still doing the same thing? We might do it in many other projects and events simultaneously But it's still there, we're still trying to better understand, better analyze, better communicate with our peers But we need to have this common exchange, this common exchange can be through continuous engagement and communication Small videos, podcasts, texts, whatever, but continuous communication to keep this community alive Continuous informal events, but also bringing other people on board We just mingle with people that we know, we just mingle with people that agree with us But it's very high time that we include practitioners, citizens that are not familiar with what we do That do not understand why this is relevant and perhaps it's not relevant for them So we really need to make some extra effort to communicate to outside of our common people and peers And figure out what makes more sense, what are the preoccupations, what are the worries of our colleagues That we can then help transform our common tools to answer this type of questions


Is objectivism a value to the common man who just wants to get by in life? If so, how do we sell it to him? Well, what does it mean to just get by in life? I don't think the common man just wants to get by in life. I think he's being sold on. Just get by in life. The common man should want to live the best life that he can within his abilities. And how do we sell it on it? We sell it, I think, to him on the basis of if you want to live a good life, if you want to live a happy life, if you want to live a successful life, which I think all people, certainly common people want or should want. Then here is the way to do it. Here is the methodology to achieve it. If you just want to get by, then yeah, forget it. You don't need philosophy. You don't need the objective philosophy. You can slush around, somehow survive, somehow get by, somehow, just on a lot of other things. So even if you're not excellent at something, you still want to live the best life that you can live. You still want to be happy. Then this is a philosophy for you. This is not a philosophy for people who just want to be get by. And not everybody needs to be an expert at the deepest possible level too. Yes, and then of course, in an objective world, most people won't know the solution to the is-or problem. Won't know where the virtues exactly come from. They'll know it's connected to human survival. But they won't be able to do the induction that is necessary to get from the is-to-the-art. But they will know what the virtues are. They will know the virtues and they'll know the virtues and they'll know that the virtues lead to happiness. And they'll practice the virtues, not out of faith, but out of a sense and practice and firsthand experience that the virtues work, that the virtues actually lead to success. And success is measured by happiness, by survival as a human being. They'll know something about the connection between reason and survival. So again, they'll know enough philosophy, enough philosophy to guide them in living. They won't know concept formation. They won't know the intricacies of concept formation. They won't know the intricacies of inductive knowledge.  He doesn't know what he's talking about. Why don't know what he's talking about? Because he won't give me a definition. They'll know enough to do that. Even the common person won't know enough to do that. And they'll know their virtues. They'll know basic principles in epistemology. And they'll know a lot of the principles in ethics because that's what it takes to live. So, and then they'll be able to understand that in order for them to live an ethical life, in order to them to practice the virtues, they have to be free. And that's the connection with freedom. So they'll have that. And that's enough for the common man. And again, just getting by, nobody should want to just get by. How does objectivism differ from the philosophies that many of us have been exposed to in our youths? Philosophies based upon religions, theologians, dogmatists. The very first difference. Objectivism tells you that it is not right. It is not proper to men to take anything on faith. Religion is a matter of faith. You accept a religion emotionally or because you were born to it. You have not chosen it rationally. What objectivism will tell you is that reason. Man's reason is his basic means of survival. That is the most important faculty which he has. And he has to guide his life and make his choices by means of his rational faculty. He has to make his own choices, but he has to know how to make them. It is immoral for him to act on his emotions, to be guided by the whim of the moment. That objectivism holds as very wrong, very immoral. And morality, in fact, consists of following your reason to the best of your ability. So that rationality is the basic virtue from which all the others proceed. Using the super chat, and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity, go to www.uranbrookshow.com slash support or go to www.subscribestar.com. You're on Brooke's show and make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this going. I'm not sure when the next...