to see the project. Look Mavs lost OK to the Kings. It was an overtime there. But we got to see Luca and Kyrie. Everybody is waiting on that. Luca afterwards said it's only our first game together. But it's so fun to play with this guy. He's an amazing basketball player and I think it's going to be really fun first game. It was really fun. Mark that quote down for months from now. I just want to make sure we remember all those words. It's only one game Chandler. Have you seen enough. Is this thing going to work. Listen I think it's a one game process but I do think these guys understand what has to be done. They're both smart enough players are both so advanced and so good offensively that this should be able to work. And I think when you look at where they are they're right there in the thick of things in the Western home court advantage. They got better. They definitely they got better Kyrie Irving especially I went to the game against the Clippers and it seems very positive. Everyone's excited. Obviously it was the first game but there's a lot to go with this and I think they know this is this is kind of a this is a trial period and everyone's kind of on their best behavior. Everybody's trying to do the right thing here. But I think offensively this is a perfect match. I think these guys know how to play with other stars. They know how to shoot the ball and how to play make the know how to space the floor. They've done a good job kind of adding shooting around these guys but to me the Mabs that Josh Green and Jaden Hardy these are two guys that have gotten no love all year long and when I went to that game and I watched them these guys can really play. They play hard. They can score the ball. These are two guys that they're going to need to kind of have the impact off the bench moving forward but there's holes defensively there's holes with their size. I think they need to get Maxi Kleber back. He's going to be big for them but I do think this will work and I do think there's going to be a lot of challenges throughout the rest of the season but this was to me was a great move for Dallas and again it's the same thing with Phoenix you want to go get a Kevin Durant. You're going to have to give up some stuff and it's going to be some sort of a risk. He's 34 years old etc. Same thing for the Mabs you had a chance to go get the best player available at the time. They did it.  What I wonder going forward is how they work them together. You know when when Kyrie played with LeBron he was a screener a lot for LeBron at the point of attack and and like Chandler mentioned he knows how to play with other stars he's done this and he's he's thrived in this role and I wonder when they get into that when they get into that plays like that and pet actions that will make them better. There was a lot of hot potato a lot of your turn my turn and a lot of and they ultimately lost so their defensive struggles were persistent and they do at the bend quite a bit to cover for a Luca who kind of just doesn't defend and Kyrie who has his struggles on that in his will but they're they're good enough to talented enough offensively and and like like Chandler mentioned the young the young boys they got waiting in the wings those are snipers out there who can make some stuff happen so this is going to be a very incident team watch going forward and they're going to be dangerous out in the playoffs.  To me I'm a homer I'm going with the Mavs. They have the same record the same record at home the same record on the road so we'll see which trade kind of work better from this moment forward but to me it's the it's the depth of the Dallas Mavics and the two kids I just mentioned they have they still have guys like Christian Wood Tim Hardaway Junior Reggie Bullock to me they have more outside those two stars and that's huge to me obviously they have their holes with depth they have their holes with defensive defensively size etc but when you look at this team this is going to be an offensive jug or not and Kevin Grant is older and age Chris Paul is older and age Deandre let's not forget about all the issues he's been through in Phoenix so to me I think this pick is Dallas but man it's hard to bet against Kevin Durant. That's that's crazy yeah four or five is a man let's start to let's start him today might as well we know where everybody is going to be not this year Shams look for those of us who are not capable of living in the now and we just want to look ahead this time next year Kyrie will he be in that Mavs uniform what are we thinking here I think if everything goes well the rest of the season and then in a summertime listen he's going to be a free agent he's going to be going through another free agency process take meetings that's something he did not do last go around in 2019 when him and Kevin Grant went and went to the Brooklyn Nets they didn't really meet with Sean Marks and Kenny Accus and meet with other organizations before they made that decision so now I think him having a actual free agency as long as everything goes well the remainder of the season the Mavericks were one of his preferred spots we saw at the end at the end of it it was Lakers sons Mavs I don't think Kyrie had a problem going to either of those teams and I really think in Dallas he has a great fit with Mark Cuban as the owner Nico Harrison who him and his family know Jason Kidd vouched for him heavily throughout this season this is something that's been in play for the Mavericks ever since really November ever since that tweet went out with the anti-semitic material movie and everything that happened that kind of thing. But then the. Kassid Kyrie's future up in the air and now he is the Dallas Maverick and I think we'll see how the remainder of the season goes. Yeah I agree I mean this again this is a wait and see kind of thing and hopefully this goes well for the for the Dallas Mavericks but. He has to be or this is a very very very bad trade for the Mavericks and you would think there would be some sort of deal here in place but he's going to go through free and see he said I'm not talking about free and see I'm not talking about extending my contract. You know tell the summer after seeing Kyrie talking to him in LA, he seems happy and he wanted to go to Dallas. Like Sharps just said, he had a couple of teams, but he was open to going to Dallas. He has a great relationship with Mark. He's got a great relationship with J-Kid and Nico. It seems like a good fit. Obviously, a lot of things can happen throughout the rest of the season. But yeah, I'm with Sharps. I think if everything goes well and they make a nice little run there, I can see him getting, you know, three to four year deal extension and for a max in Dallas. Eddie. So the options are he either stays in Dallas or he asks for another trade. How shocked would you be? Listen, if it doesn't work in Dallas, no one else is paying him. So if I'm Kyrie... Oh, please! Yes, somebody will pay him. They're not giving him multiple years.  That's why, that's why. Somebody will. It's like we fall for it every single time. So if somebody falls for it, right? Like he's not us. What do you think, Eddie? Would you be shocked at all? I wouldn't be shocked at either direction. I wonder what works is like, are they, they win a playoff series? Does that works? If he shoots bad in the, you know, the conference semis, is that, that linger into his free agency? If he's taking 10 meetings, is Mark Cuban sitting there a little miffed about that? Like, hey, I really went out on a limb for you. I wouldn't say anything is a sure bet with Kyrie.  I think he means well. I think he's a great guy. I think he's an incredible player. And I think he wants to stay in Dallas as of right now. But what is this? February, March, April, May, June, just five months is a long time. Five months is a long time. That's forever. That is a really long time. It's like, this is why you don't mention divorce and wedding vows. It would be a little awkward, but I feel like that's Kyrie Irving in a nutshell.


You're listening to the ECB podcast bringing you insights into the world of economics and central banking My name is Katie Ranger Welcome to this slightly different episode Every six weeks the ECB's governing council takes decisions on monetary policy Determining what should be done to keep prices stable Our president Christine Lagarde explains these decisions in a press conference And from now on you'll also be able to listen to them on this podcast It's Thursday 16th of December 2021 and here is today's monetary policy statement The euro area economy continues to recover and the labor market is improving helped by ample policy support Growth is moderating, but we expect activity to pick up again strongly in the course of next year The latest pandemic wave and the Omicron variant have prompted some countries to reintroduced tighter restrictions Energy prices have gone up significantly And in some industries there are shortages of materials equipment and labor These factors are restraining economic activity and are a headwind for the near-term outlook However, although the public health crisis is still ongoing Many people have been vaccinated and booster campaigns have accelerated Overall society has become better at coping with the pandemic waves and resulting constraints This has lessened the pandemic impact on the economy Inflation has risen sharply owing to the surge in energy prices and also because demand is outpacing constraints supply in some sectors Inflation is expected to remain elevated in the near term, but should ease in the course of next year The inflation outlook has been revised up But inflation is still projected to settle below our 2% target over the projection horizon We judge that the progress on economic recovery and towards our medium term inflation target Permits a step-by-step reduction in the pace of our asset purchases over the coming quarters But monetary accommodation is still needed for inflation to stabilize at our 2% inflation target over the medium terms In view of the current uncertainty we need to maintain flexibility and optionality in the conduct of monetary policy So with all this in mind the governing council took the following decisions First In the first quarter of 2022 We expect to conduct net asset purchases under the pandemic emergency purchase program At a lower pace than in the previous quarter We will discontinue net asset purchases under the PEP at the end of March 22 Second The governing council decided to extend the reinvestment horizon for the PEP It now intends to reinvest the principal payments from maturing securities purchased under the PEP until at least the end of 24 In any case the future roll-off of the PEP portfolio will be managed to avoid interference with the appropriate monetary policy stance Third The pandemic has shown that under stressed conditions Flexibility in the design and conduct of asset purchases has helped to counter the impaired transmission of our monetary policy and Made our efforts to achieve our goal more effective Within our mandate under stressed conditions Flexibility will remain an element of monetary policy Whenever threats to monetary policy transmission jeopardize the attainment of price stability In particular in the event of renewed market fragmentation related to the pandemic PEP reinvestments can be adjusted flexibly across time asset classes and jurisdictions at any time This could include purchasing bonds issued by the Hellenic Republic over and above rollovers of redemptions in order to avoid an interruption of purchases in that jurisdiction Which could impair the transmission of monetary policy to the Greek economy While it is still recovering from the fallout of the pandemic Net purchases Under the PEP could also be resumed if necessary to counter negative shocks related to the pandemic fourth In line with a step-by-step reduction in asset purchases and to ensure that the monetary policy stance remains consistent With inflation stabilizing at our target over the medium term We decided on the monthly net purchase pace of 40 billion euros in the second quarter and 30 billion euros in the third quarter under the asset purchase program the app From November from October 22 onwards We will maintain net asset purchases under the app At a monthly pace of 20 billion euros For as long as necessary to reinforce the accommodative impact of our policy rates We expect net purchases to end shortly before we start raising the key ECB interest rates We also confirmed the level of the key ECB interest rates and our forward guidance on the future path of policy rates This is crucial for maintaining the appropriate degree of accommodation To stabilize inflation at our 2% inflation target over the medium term We will continue to monitor bank funding conditions and ensure that the maturing of Teltro 3 operations Does not impair the smooth transmission of our monetary policy We will also regularly assess how targeted lending operations are contributing to our monetary policy stance as Announced we expect the special conditions applicable under Teltro 3 to end in June next year 22 We will also assess the appropriate calibration of our two-tier system for reserve remuneration So that the negative interest rate policy does not limit banks Intermediation capacity in an environment of ample excess liquidity the governing council stands ready to adjust all of its instruments as Appropriate and in either direction To ensure that inflation stabilizes at its 2% target over the medium term I will now outline in more detail how we see developments in the economy and inflation I Will then outline our assessment of financial and monetary conditions So looking at the economic activity We expect the economic recovery to continue driven by robust domestic demand The labor market is improving with more people having jobs and Fewer in job retention schemes This supports the prospect of rising household income and consumption The savings built up during the pandemic will also support consumption The current fiscal and monetary policy support together with a continued global recovery Should support growth Economic activity has been moderating over the final quarter of this year and This slower growth is likely to extend into the early part of next year We now expect output to exceed its pre-pandemic level in the first quarter of 22 To cope with the current pandemic wave Some euro area countries have reintroduced tighter containment measures This could delay the recovery especially in travel tourism hospitality and entertainment The pandemic is weighing on consumer and business confidence and the spread of new virus variants is Creating extra uncertainty In addition rising energy costs are a headwind for consumption Shortages of equipment materials and labor in some sectors are hampering production of manufactured goods Causing delays in construction and slowing down the recovery in some parts of the service sector These bottlenecks will still be with us for some time But they should ease during 22 Looking ahead we expect growth to rebound strongly over the course of 22 our euro system staff projections foresee annual real GDP growth at 5.1 percent in 21 4.2 percent in 22 2.9 percent in 23 and 1.6 percent in 24 Compared with our September staff projections The outlook has been revised down for 22 and up for 23 Targeted and growth-friendly fiscal measures should continue to complement monetary policy This support will also help the economy adjust to the structural changes that are underway An effective implementation of the next generation EU program and the fit for 55 package Will contribute to a stronger greener and more even recovery across your area countries Let's look at inflation now Inflation increased further to 4.9 percent in November It will remain above 2 percent for most of 22 Inflation is expected to remain elevated in the near term But we expect it to decline in the course of next year the upswing in inflation Primarily reflects a sharp rise in prices for fuel gas and electricity In November energy inflation accounted for more than half of headline inflation Demand also continues to outpace constrained supply in certain sectors The consequences are especially visible in the prices of durable goods and those consumer services That have recently reopened Base effects related to the end of the VAT cut in Germany are still contributing to higher inflation But only until the end of this year There is uncertainty as to how long it will take for these issues to resolve But in the course of 22 We expect energy prices to stabilize consumption patterns to normalize and Price pressure stemming from global supply bottlenecks to subside Over time the gradual return of the economy to full capacity And further improvements in the labor market should support faster growth in wages Market and survey based measures of longer term inflation expectations Have remained broadly stable since our last monetary policy meeting in October But overall these have moved closer to 2 percent in recent months These factors will help underlying inflation to move up and bring headline inflation Up to our target over the medium term Our new staff projections foresee annual inflation at 2.6 percent in 21 3.2 percent in 22 1.8 percent in 23 and 1.8 percent in 24 Significantly higher than in the previous projections in September Inflation excluding food and energy is projected to average 1.4 percent in 21 1.9 percent in 22 1.7 percent in 23 and 1.8 percent in 24 Also higher than in the September projections Turning to risk assessment now We see the risks to the economy out economic outlook as broadly balanced Economic activity could outperform our expectations if consumers become more confident and save less than expected By contrast the recent worsening of the pandemic including the spread of new variants Could be a more persistent drag on growth The future path of energy prices and the pace at which supply bottlenecks are resolved are Risks to the recovery and to the outlook for inflation If price pressures feed through into higher than anticipated wage rises or The economy returns more quickly to full capacity Inflation could turn out to be higher So looking at financial and monetary conditions now Market interest rates have remained broadly stable since the October governing council meeting Bank lending rates for firms and households remain at historically low levels Overall financing conditions for the economy remained favorable Lending to firms is partly driven by short-term funding needs stemming from supply bottlenecks that increase their Expenses for inventory and working capital At the same time corporate demand for loans remains moderate because of retained earnings and generous cash holdings as well as high debt Lending to households remains robust Driven by demand for mortgages Euro area banks have further strengthened their balance sheets Thanks to higher capital ratios and fewer non-performing loans Banks are now as profitable as they were before the pandemic Bank funding conditions remained favorable overall In line with our new monetary policy strategy Twice a year the governing council assesses in-depth the inter-relation between monetary policy and financial stability and Accommodative monetary policy underpins growth Which supports the balance sheets of companies and financial institutions as well as preventing risks of market fragmentation At the same time the impact of accommodative monetary policy on property markets and financial markets warrants close monitoring as a number of medium term vulnerabilities have intensified Still macro prudential policy remains the first line of defense in preserving financial stability and addressing medium term vulnerabilities So summing up the euro area economy Continues to recover despite a slowdown in the near term The sharp increase in energy prices and demand outpacing constrained supply in some sectors are pushing up inflation Inflation will remain above our target for most of 22 but is likely to ease in the course of next year At the same time given the progress on economic recovery and towards our medium term inflation target We can discontinue net purchases under the pep in March But monetary accommodation is still needed Including net purchases under the app and our forward guidance on interest rates For inflation to stabilize at our 2% inflation target over the medium term Check out the show notes for the full transcript of the press conference including the discussion with journalists We'll also link to an easy to understand overview of the decisions You've been listening to the ECB podcast with Katie Ranger If you like what you've heard, please subscribe and leave us a review We'd love to hear from you. 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We'll begin our examination of all the tenses by first looking at the present tense. There are four present tenses and we'll begin with the present simple tense. It's the most common tense in the English language as it talks about things in general. General facts, routines, habits. Those are usages that we'll look at in a little while, but first let's focus on the form of the tense. Here we've got our subjects, I, you, we, they, and the base form of the verb followed by the rest of our sentence. Here for the he, she, and it subjects, we have to conjugate our verb and in this case we've added an es for teachers followed by the rest of our sentence. With subjects I, you, we, and they, the pattern stays the same throughout. We use the base form of the verb. However with subjects he, she, and it we have some patterns for verb conjugations that we need to have a look at. First and most common we added simply an s for verbs like work, play. This is what we typically see within our language. However when we have verbs with spelling patterns such as ending in ch, sh, z, s, and our shorter verbs do and go we have to add our es. Then for verbs that end in a consonant and y we drop our y and add our i, e, s. Finally we have our irregular verbs be and have. For subject I we use am. For the subject he, she, and it we use is whereas with you, we, and they we use are. Finally we have have which stays as have for these subjects i, u, we, and they but for he, she, and it we change have to has. For statements in the negative form what we have to do is add the auxiliary verb to do. For subjects i, u, we, and they we simply leave do as do. Use the word not and keep the base form of the verb now for the negative statements. However for he, she, and it we have to conjugate our auxiliary verb into does. We still use not and we still keep the base form of the verb. The pattern for forming questions is very, very similar to the pattern for forming negative statements. However what we've done is invert our subject and our auxiliary verb so that the questions read the auxiliary verb first. Of course again we use do for i, u, we, and they and use does for he, she, and it. In both cases we've left our verb form as the base form of the verb as there's no need to change it. The two most common usages for the present simple tense are habits and routines as well as general facts and truths. Our example of routine would be I teach every Monday. We've used our subject i, our base form teach, and every Monday speaking about the routine that I have. We also have our general facts, the sun rises in the east. Here the sun would follow under the pronoun it so we've had to conjugate our verb per our pattern and finish our sentence. We can also talk about general truths such as likes or dislikes. I like football or he likes football. Of course there are other usages but these are the two most common. Before looking at specific teaching ideas for the present simple tense let's first look at some considerations for teaching ideas in general. We have to remember that these activities will be used in the activate stage of your lesson. Here the focus will be on building fluency and using the language in a bit more of a free-flowing way yet still focusing on that class's language point. We also have to consider the appropriacy for a number of factors, timings, whether the activity will be too short or too long. We want to look at ages making sure that the activity is appropriate for young learners or for adult learners. We also have to take into consideration our language levels. Will the activity be appropriate for our starters or pre-intermediates or our intermediates? Will the activity be appropriate for a small class or a large class? And last but not least certainly we have to take into consideration our students culture and their interests making sure that the activity is appropriate for either one. And finally we need to make sure that we're maximizing our student talk time. Are the students using the language as much as they possibly can while they're still in the class? Remember that the more appropriate the activity will be the more student talk time will get. Our first example of a teaching idea for the present simple tense will be a classic activity called find someone who. Here we'll be trying to find someone who has a general truth such as the ability to play a musical instrument or the fact that they have a brother and a sister. This results in students going around the room asking questions in the present simple tense such as do you play a musical instrument? Are you a teacher? Do you have a brother and a sister? The answers resulting will also be in the present simple tense. They will be generally yes I do or no I don't. The students will go around trying to find somebody who fits the general truth and when they do they will write their name in the appropriate space. The students will mill around the room for generally five to eight minutes depending on your timing of your class. When the teacher feels it's appropriate he'll have the students sit down and begin feedback. Feedback will also be in the present simple tense resulting in questions such as who goes to bed before eleven o'clock. Students will raise their hand and also report in the same tense saying the name of a student in the class such as Jim goes to bed before eleven o'clock. During the feedback the teacher can also expand upon these general truths when the teacher hears that Jim goes to bed before eleven o'clock the teacher can ask why do you go to bed before eleven o'clock? Do you always go to bed before eleven o'clock? The same can be done for musical instruments. What musical instrument do you play? Here's a teaching idea that focuses on two very specific aspects of the present simple tense. One of which will be making statements about a habit and a routine. The other will be conjugating the verb into the he, she or it form. Here we'll present students with a picture. They will see various objects in the picture. Based upon the presence of these objects in someone's room the students will have to make an observation such as she drinks coffee, she plays the guitar, she watches television, she doesn't smoke. Again it's very specific used for the he, she or it form and habits and routines. At the end of the activity the teacher will have the pairs or the small groups report back their various findings. Another idea for the present simple tense will be the classic twenty questions. The teacher could frame this into the context of what's my job? Who am I? Or even what am I for objects? In order to set this activity up the teacher will ask a student to come to the front of the room and the teacher will give him or her a card. For jobs the card will obviously have jobs such as doctor or architect or even teacher. From that the students will have to ask questions to find out the person's job. These typical questions might be do you work Monday through Friday? Do you work in an office? Do you work with people? The student at the front of the room will also be answering with present simple short answers. Yes I do, no I don't. The teacher will give a time limit for each student at the front of the room, perhaps two minutes. At the end of those two minutes the students in the room will be asking are you a doctor? Are you an architect? Or even are you a teacher? Hopefully by the end of those two minutes based upon the information given the students will be able to guess what that job was. The same can also be done for famous people, who am I? Of course that famous person would still have to be alive as have they passed away we would speak about them in the past tense. You can also use it for objects as well. Now let's take a look at the present continuous tense. The continuous tense is used to talk about actions and progress at the time of speaking or around the time of speaking. The first thing to notice with the continuous tense is that we must use the verb plus ing form, also known as the present participle. You'll see it in any continuous tense, especially with the present continuous. We have three different forms of this tense. First we have the subject I, used with am, teaching. Then we have you, we, and they, are, teaching. Finally we've got he, she, it, is, teaching. The am, are, and is are forms of the verb to be, and here with this tense is used as an auxiliary verb or a helping verb. In order to form negative sentences we simply add the word not between our helping verb and our main verb plus ing. To form the questions for the present continuous tense, again what we've done is inverted our helping verbs and our subjects, resulting in questions like am I teaching? Are you teaching and is he teaching? The two most common usages for the present continuous tense as it relates to speaking about things in the present. We have actions and progress at the time of speaking, specifically right when it's being said, so I can say I am teaching right now. However, we also have actions and progress around the time of speaking. I'm reading a good book. Now of course I'm not reading a book just now, but I started reading a book in the past. I am reading it perhaps today, sometime, and I'll finish reading the book at some point in the future. Again, I'm not doing it just now, but around the time of speaking. And now we'll take a look at a few teaching ideas for the present continuous tense. The present continuous tense is quite a visual tense, we use it to describe actions that are happening at the present moment. So we could give our students a picture such as the one seen here. It is important that in the picture there are many activities going on. The teacher can give a time limit to pairs or small groups. In that time limit, the pairs or small groups will make various sentences based upon what they see in the picture. These sentences may include, he is taking a picture. He is throwing a boomerang. They are playing with the ball. He is digging a hole. At the end of the time limit, the teacher will ask for some feedback and get feedback from the pairs and the groupings to see what different sentences they were able to come up with. Hopefully at the end, the students will have made statements using as many of the pronouns as possible. In this case, at least he, she or they. Here's another teaching idea for the present continuous tense. Here now, we'll ask our students to compare two different photos with a number of activities going on in each one. The students will be paired up in student A and student B. The teacher will give the pairs a time limit in which to make statements about each one's picture, hopefully in the process identifying differences. What we'll have the students do is make statements such as, the man is looking at the statue. Student B will then find a man near the statue and say, oh, in my picture, the man is taking a picture of the statue. They'll pan the room, find the various differences and make a note of them. At the end of the time limit, the teacher will gather the students up and ask them to report their findings and their differences. In this activity, remember it's absolutely crucial that the students don't show each other their pictures, but rather describe them verbally. Another idea for the present continuous tense focuses on the action of miming. Because it's in the present continuous tense, it'll be critical that the student who is doing the miming continues to do the miming as the students guess what he or she is doing. In order to do this, the teacher will ask one student to come to the front of the class and present them with a card. The card at low levels will just be one word such as sleeping, surfing, eating or playing. As soon as the student is able to mime any one of those actions, the students continue to guess with, you are sleeping, you are eating, you are surfing. Now at higher levels, what you could do is continue on from the base of the action and include something like you are playing football or you are playing video games. You are eating spaghetti or you are eating spicy food. Once the student at the front of the room doing the miming has successfully gotten their fellow students to guess the action, he or she then has a seat with the rest of the group and somebody else will come up to do another mime. Only by the end of the class, at least all of the students will have had a chance to come up and mime a certain action. Now we'll have a look at the present perfect tense. The form for the present perfect tense is again, our subjects here, our auxiliary verb or our helping verb, in this case it's have. For subjects I, you, we and they, we leave the auxiliary verb as have. For he, she and it, our auxiliary verb needs to be conjugated or changed into has. Following these helping verbs, we have our main verb in the past participle form. Here we have the verb to play. To play is a regular verb. So for regular verbs we simply add ed. The result is sentences such as I have played football today or he has played snooker today. As mentioned earlier, to form this tense we have to use a special form of the verb. Technically it's called the past participle form. With irregular verbs of course these past participle forms change quite a bit from its base form of the verb. Here are a few examples. Go moves to gone, be moves to been, right to written, speak to spoken and read although very confusing for the non-native speaker doesn't change its spelling but does change its pronunciation resulting in read going to read. As mentioned earlier our example sentence has used a regular verb to play. With the regular verbs we simply add ed. This spelling pattern changes for words that end with a consonant and a why. Try goes to cried, try to tried. Another spelling pattern we have to be aware of is our consonant plus vowel plus consonant. In these instances we double the consonant used, shop needs the double p and ship needs the double p. With these spelling patterns and most spelling patterns in general for the English language there are always exceptions to the rules. So we have to be aware of those exceptions, we also have to impart those exceptions on to our students. We can do so through various exercises and various activities to end our class. To form the negative sentence here again our subjects or in the beginning of the sentence we keep our helping verb whether it be have or has and between our helping verb and the main verb in our sentence we of course add the word not. To form in the question of the present perfect tense again we're going to follow on with our form of inverting the subject and the helping verb. Now we'll begin with have or has. So we end up with questions such as have I played football today or has she played football today? The main function for the present perfect tense is to relate something in the past to the present. We can do so in a number of ways. We have indefinite past actions. I have been to Italy twice. We're not concerned with when it happened. We just simply want to say that it has happened in the past. It's a fact of something I've done in the past but yet it's still true in the present. Unfinished past actions. I have lived here for three years. I started living here in the past and it's still true now. With this usage you will typically see time expressions. Finally we have past actions with present results. I have lost my keys. It's implied that I still haven't found them. I lost them in the past. I don't have them now. I've lost my keys. Here now is a teaching idea for the present perfect tense. If you'll remember back one of the main usages of the present perfect tense is to talk about past experiences at an indefinite time. Here we'll be having students work in small groups. Each small group will receive a prompt. This prompt has various past experiences, however not conjugated into the question. The challenge for the students will be to take one of these prompts and to create a question based upon it. For example, here they see win and a competition. One at a time the students will take turns forming the question. Have you ever won a competition? The other people listening to the question in the small group will exchange their past experiences either yes I have and perhaps tell a bit about the competition or simply no I haven't. At the end of a certain period of time the teacher will ask all the students to stop and share some of the experiences included on this prompt. Then based upon having done this with the aid of a prompt the teacher can then challenge each group to come up with their own questions for other past experiences not seen here. Again, each student will take a turn forming their own questions. At the end of a certain period of time the teacher will ask the groups to stop and again share their feedback. All of the sentences created whether they be questions, positive or negative statements will of course be in the present perfect tense. Here's another teaching idea for the present perfect tense. If you'll remember the present perfect tense can be used to talk about present results of past actions. Oftentimes these will be changes. In this picture here you'll see that there have been many changes made in picture B versus picture A. You can tell your students that in this picture it's nine o'clock. Yet in this picture it's 10 o'clock. Now we'll ask our students to make sentences based upon the changes that have been made. Here as a prompt the students have been asked to make sentences using these words. The teacher will give the students a time limit in order to make those sentences and of course ask for feedback at the end. Here we can see that possible sentences would be he's done the ironing. He's hung up the towel. Now this is just one idea using this particular picture. After starting with the basics we could ask our students to do something a bit more complicated such as perhaps even bringing in a picture of themselves from years past. You could make sentences based upon the changes that have happened in the appearance of the student. You could also talk about changes within the local town or even perhaps within the country. And now we'll have a look at the present perfect continuous tense. As its name suggests what we're going to do is combine the present continuous usages and the present perfect usages into a tense that basically expresses the fact that we've got an action continuing up until the present point in time. For the form of this tense again we're going to combine the various aspects of both the perfect and the continuous tenses. If we have a look we always begin with our subjects. Then we have our two now helping verbs. The helping verb to have for the perfect tenses as well as the helping verb be for the continuous tenses. For our subjects I, you, we and they we leave have as have. For he, she and it we conjugate it to has. Because it's a continuous tense of course we need to use the verb plus ing. This results in sentences such as I have been teaching quite some time or she has been teaching for 15 years. The negative form of the present perfect continuous remains the same as the positive form and we simply add not in between our two helping verbs have and be. In order to make the present perfect continuous questions again following with that pattern of inversion what we've done is put the auxiliary verb have at the beginning of the sentence followed now by the subject. Have I been teaching for five years? Could be a sentence used there and again we're going to conjugate our verb to has for he, she, it resulting in has she been teaching for five years? The usages for the present perfect continuous tense are very similar to that of the present perfect tense but here the focus is on the action and the fact that it has been continuing for some time leading up to the present. Let's have a look. We've got incomplete and ongoing activities with duration. I have been teaching for 10 years. Then we have our recently finished activities with present results. So our recently finished activity is chopping trees but the present result is he is tired. So results in a sentence reading he is tired because he's been chopping trees. Here's an idea for teaching the present perfect continuous tense. However, in this activity what the students will be doing is comparing and contrasting this tense with the present perfect tense. This is something that a teacher will want to do after they've explored both tenses and because both tenses are quite confusing we'll ask the students to compare and contrast the two making sure that they can tell the difference. In this activity the teacher will have cut out each individual card. The teacher will distribute the cards to the students and ask them to have a look at both sides. After a minute has gone by the teacher will then ask the students to fold their cards over and get into a pair. One student in the pair will then present a certain result and ask the student to form the question. Here with the prompts why be angry? The student will of course ask why are you angry? The other student will then flip over the rest of the card and read wait for you since six o'clock and hopefully come up with a statement because I've been waiting for you since six o'clock. However with this card we won't be using the same tense. Again we'll be asking why are you hungry? And the student will have to answer because I haven't eaten all day. Hopefully by the end of the activity the teacher will be able to recognize that the students are correctly deciding which tense the activity needs to be put into. Here's another activity for comparing and contrasting the tenses. Focusing here in this activity on the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. So in the activity students will start at the start and roll a die. Perhaps they could roll a five. They will read something you've been learning for a long time. The appropriate sentence may be I've been learning English for a long time. The next student may go and roll a four. They read a beautiful place you've visited. Then rather than the present perfect continuous they would use the present perfect tense. I've visited Paris. You could encourage students to even ask follow-up questions which would also include other tenses. What was so beautiful about Paris? Now this activity will be particularly good for your more advanced students who are capable of using various tenses accurately. It's also good in the beginning of your course when students perhaps don't know each other very well and they're using this as a way to learn about their past experiences. Now here's a teaching idea for the present perfect continuous tense. If you remember we use this tense to talk about actions that had been continuing up until the present moment or very recently. In this activity you'll be giving a student a card that card will include the past activity as well as some results. This card says you've been driving in the rain on your motorbike.  The results are you're all wet and your clothes are too. You'll present that information to the rest of the class and therefore it's up to the class to guess the action that was occurring up until the certain point in time. What will happen in this activity is the student at the front of the room will express the present results. Clothes being wet, I'm all wet. The students in the group then will form their questions obviously in the present perfect continuous tense such as have you been swimming? Have you been playing golf in the rain? The student at the front of the room will form his answers in the similar tense. No, I haven't been or yes, I have been. If there are troubles guessing the activity, the teacher could perhaps prompt the student in the front of the room to use a mime and they will obviously mime in this case the driving of the motorbike. Eventually, the idea will be to guess that activity that again had been happening up until the certain point. We've seen the present tensors in isolation. Now let's look at them together. Our first example is I play football every week. This is the present simple tense and it has the structure subject, I plus verb play. This is quite a simple tense for students to form, however they have to be aware of the third person singular form, he, she or it, which usually adds an S or an ES then to the end of the base form of the verb. I play football but he plays football. Also the question and negative forms using the auxiliary verb do or does. Do you play football? I don't play football. Does she play football? She doesn't play football. The present simple tense is used to talk about habits, routines, facts and general truths. And as such, it's probably the most commonly used tense within the English language. Our second example sentence, I am playing football at the moment, is the present continuous tense. This has a different structure. It has the subject, I, the verb to be in the present tense, am, is or are. Plus the verb with an I in G on the end. So here I am playing football at the moment. Whereas the present simple tense is used to talk about habits, routines and facts, the present continuous tense is used to talk about actions in progress at the time of speaking or around the time of speaking. Our third example sentence is the present perfect. I have played football twice this week. Here the structure is the subject, I, auxiliary verb have or has, plus the past participle. The past participle is usually formed just by adding E-D on to the end of the base form of the verb. However, students need to be aware of the many irregular verbs, such as no would change to known, go to gone, understand, to understood, and so on. Unfortunately, there are no rules for this and they just have to be learned individually. The present perfect always relates the past to the present. This can be through the unfinished past where we're expressing duration such as I have played football for 10 years. The indefinite past expressing experience in your life, such as I have been to Italy and Spain and also to show the present result of a past action. I have broken my leg. I broke it in the past and it remains broken in the present. Our final present tense is the present perfect continuous tense. Our example sentence here, I have been playing football for 10 years, has the structure subject, plus auxiliary verb have or has and then a second auxiliary verb here, been plus verb ing. I have been playing. Very much like the present perfect tense, the present perfect continuous relates the past to the present but more focus on the continuity or the duration of the action. It can also be used to express the unfinished past such as the example here, I have been playing football for 10 years an action that began in the past and still continues in the present. We can see that this particular usage of the unfinished past can be used for both the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. Where we've got action verbs, we usually prefer to use the present perfect continuous. However, there are state verbs which don't usually go into the continuous form such as no. We would say I have known her for 10 years, not I have been knowing her for 10 years. So when we have the state verbs such as no, be, seem and appear, we would usually put these in the present perfect but with the action verbs such as play, cook, work, we will use these in the present perfect continuous normally. We also use the present perfect continuous fairly frequently with words such as just or recently. To express a recently completed action with a present result. For example, I am tired because I have been playing football. Here now are some tips on the successful completion of your three tense units. First, when identifying a sentence as tense, focus on the structure of the sentence rather than its usage. The structure is what dictates the tense used. For example, if a sentence lacks the auxiliary verb to have, it cannot be a perfect tense sentence. Similarly, if a sentence lacks the present participle used as the main verb in the sentence, it cannot be a continuous tense sentence. This can also be helpful for creating sentences. Once you've created a sentence you feel is appropriate, have another look and analyze that sentence's form before looking at its usage. When asked for reasons why you've identified a specific tense, be sure to list a usage. If you're able to do this correctly, your answer will most likely be correct. When asked to explain something to a low level student, be sure to word your answer as if you're really explaining it to the low level student rather than your tutor. Be sure to use basic language and be as clear as possible. Finally, when asked to give an activate stage idea, please bear in mind the aims of the activate stage. These are, one, to maximize student talk time. Be sure that your activity allows for the students to speak as much as possible. Secondly, be sure that the students are using the language freely and in an open-ended way so as to maximize or improve fluency. Three, focus on the target language. We always want to be ensuring that our students are using the very language point that we've been explaining. Finally, keep in mind that these shouldn't be worksheet-based activities where the worksheets are more useful for the study stage rather than the activate stage.


Okay, we're back here live inside theCUBE. This is Sapphire now live from Orlando. This is Silicon Angles exclusive coverage of Sapphire. Now our fourth year here and we are in the global communications centers where all the action is happening around the world. They had the live press conference earlier with the co-ceos yesterday.  All the questions about the business model and the financial model. Obviously SAP is pumping on all cylinders and one of those areas is social. Bill McDermott said social is the new dial tone. Social is part of the new CRM. People see CRM and ERP. All the supply chain dynamics applying to people and obviously SAP is about people as Bill McDermott said. And we have Sameer Patel, the global vice president general manager of the enterprise social software team. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. I think you pretty much covered it well. I don't have much to add. Yes you do. We're going to dig in. We've known each other for a while. You're new to SAP but you're not new to the enterprise. Used to be called enterprise 2.0. So back, you know, just roll the clock back even eight years ago, kind of started the early adopters and the early kind of pioneers where we're really trying to read the tea leaves around. Hey, you know, the enterprise is shifting to cloud and we saw some really indications on that with democratization of media, blogging, podcasting, cloud hits a scene, now mobile obviously in 2007, the iPhone changed the game. So since then, dramatic change. Social media now is legitimate and some people say, you know, that's the new form of interaction and there's all big data around it. So there's a lot of stuff going on around social.  All these things are changing the way people work and the way they expect to be served and communicate. So there's a multiple variables. So how do you guys look at your social software and the enterprise group because the consumerization of IT is happening. All those things are blurring together. So how do you view all those dimensions and what's the current update? So you're absolutely right. Like I think we saw the changes happen on the social web, public social web and we saw tremendous new economies if you will emerge out of that with the kind of engagement we got off things like Facebook and Twitter. And for the last six years up until, I would say, 2011, we spend most of our time really trying to forklift these public social concepts and dump them in the enterprise. And said, hey, if Facebook can get the kind of engagement it gets, we should have one of these in the company. But it never came. Yeah, recycle forums, recycle, kind of Q&A. Right, we started looking at every new feature that came out on the social public web. It says dump it in the enterprise, right? But the reality is that you had this sort of fifth tab in my browser had the social network but work was actually happening in my CRM system or my supply chain system or my email for that matter or documents, right? And so the way we looked at it is, you know, you're right, I came last year and what we set out last year at Orlando was a very clear strategy on what does social need to be like if it's going to actually have value in the enterprise. Now, what comes out of that is, you know, instead of looking at it as this sort of siloed application of social that happens in a corner, it's really what is the confluence of people, data, business process and content to really be able to do this correctly. And so we went back to the drawing board on what social can actually mean in the enterprise by really looking at how do you infuse social collaborative concepts into the applications where work actually gets done and where you face problems, where you feel like you need the power of your network, an opportunity in CRM lands in your lab, that's the point at which you need, like who are the experts inside my 60,000 person company that needs to bring it? They don't want to silo, they do not want to siloed applications. They don't want to silo and they want one that has business context. So we infuse it in our business analytics application where you see a number you don't like, you know, we're going to miss the quarter, we're going to make the quarter. Jam shows up right in there to help you with decision-making tools on pro-conning and what we're going to miss it, we're going to make it. John said this, Samir said that and you start to essentially do what you and I would do in the physical world when you saw a number, which would be let's get in a room and let's have a conversation. We're infusing social into those very applications, right? And we're doing this across our on-premise applications or across our cloud applications and then what you saw in the press releases yesterday is also on HANA Cloud, so that it's part of the core platform. If you're building a new application and you need social or collaboration, you just pull it. And they're building some stuff, synonym analysis for example, into HANA. So there's a lot of stuff being embedded into HANA to enable that, right? Yeah, exactly, and I mean, I think that's one of the big use cases we're talking about here today, which is one of the newer things we did is service. So how do you go from sentiment that you've captured from the public web? Turning that sentiment because you start to figure out what are conversations I need to be a part of? What sub-sector of those conversations need to be turned into real tickets in my support application? And then when the knowledge base doesn't have the answer, how do I unleash the power of my experts inside my organization or even my partners to close the loop for these customers? Because what you know better than most people is the latency or the tolerance we all have as consumers on the web when we deal with businesses is if it's B2C, I want the answer now. If it's B2B, at least acknowledge you're working on it and don't lie. Yeah, a gesture, I'll get back to you. Right, but how do you do that at speed? The only way to do that is at speed is have the entire organization connected so you can find those experts anywhere in the world to wrap around a customer. Talk about how someone gets involved with the software and the application because Ariba's out here, $4 billion plus acquisition. That's a business network, you're connecting disparate, essentially extra nets, if you will, in a modern cloud version of extra nets and you have analytics and you have connections, so different databases, so they might have different, how do I get those guys involved? Is it specific to the company? Do they have to be jammed, subscribers? No, that's a great question. So one of the other bedrock, the first sort of design ethos was social where you need it, in an application, on a device, on the network. The second is exactly what you said when we designed and we said we should not be in the business to tell our customers that when you have a core collaborative need, be that in a marketing process or a product management process, that you should be able to bring your entire ecosystem in there. So out of the box, jam is designed where whatever that business process is in, if you're building a marketing campaign and you want to bring one of your suppliers in, you should be able to do that, right? So when you talk about, you know, Ariba is the business, it should be very easy. It should be easy and the other things is because we have the application context, it's not like, you know, it's just standalone social. The metadata we have on who are the right people to bring in is very, very different, right? We know the structured data and we can tell you well, if it's in CRM, it's a lead in the Midwest this size, use that data to find the right experts for your organization. So only because we're SAP and because we own the very applications, can we bring this sort of integrated view of social. Does that make sense? Yeah, so I was just reading some Twitter, Mark Smith from Ventana group, I just picked up a tweet from yesterday. SAP McDermott Snubbs salesforce.com's chatter in regards to SAP Jim, well good, they recognize the Benioff factor. SAP needs help in CRM.  Needs help in CRM. You should talk to Mark. Mark's here by the way, I said item. He is here. He is here, yeah, yeah. So look, I think, you know, the way we're looking at CRM and I think you may have heard Jeff Lautenbach speak, right, is, you know, it's a really, really exciting value proposition that he's put in place, which is stepping up from transactional CRM for a minute, right? And let's hone in on, if you're a VP of sales, what is it that's keeping you up at night right now? It's not necessarily a feature in CRM or a feature there. It is, I had all these sales reps, I need to ramp up, I need to get them productive, I need to get them working, I need to be better at forecasting, right? And I need to make sure that my best customers are my best advocates. And so, the CRM. And I would also add one thing is that they want to put the right sales guy in the right situation at the right time. You got it. That is part of the larger sales performance story. And I think they've, you know, I mean, I love it, I'm biased obviously, because these are my colleagues, but I think it's a brilliant way of looking at it, which is this idea of prospect to promoter. And how do you look across that whole chain? So you're building deeper relationships with your customers. So, you know, we, it's, this is not about just the jam pieces, one piece that enables that, but it is, yeah, it is, what is customer relationships in the 21st century? So, I think SAP is absolutely paying attention to CRM. I think the messaging is really refreshing. And, you know, we've got the team to execute against that. Right?  And so, but that's changing now. You have now a connected consumer. And you have a whole nother dynamic, so that's going to completely redefine the customer relationship process. Which is when what I call, you know, putting the relationship back in customer relationship management, right? We kind of forgot about that relationship word. It was really a very transactive process, right? Of like, it was really customer record management in some ways, but to truly build those relationships with customers if they're on the social web, if they're not on the social web and taking that and having a consistent view, is going to completely change how we think about what we formally call CRM, right? I think one of the things that we talk about and we study a lot is an interesting trend, which is, you know, you look at Twitter and look at the social interaction, people are exploding their relationships and their social graphs, their intent graphs, their transient relationships, et cetera, et cetera. But at the end of the day, the exact opposite has happened since they've expanded their network effect. They're also looking for personal information. So the marketing is changing and it's a persona of one, right? So now we have the opportunity to use things like Anna to say, hey, we can actually market to the individual. We can build relationships to the individual. At the same time, give them access to the entire world of relationships. I think that's one and the other powerful part of the HANA side too is, you know, the, your ability to do two things. One is at the speed at which today's customer expects, be able to have that 360 degree view of what they're thinking, right? And second is be able to also have the flexibility to build what Bill talked about today, which is B2B2C, right? How are we helping our customers actually build out the B2C element? If I'm selling into a big bank and they want to build applications for loyalty management, right? It's a natural extension of how they interact with their customers. All that has to be done consistently. So talk about content, right? So content becomes a very big part of relationships. People like to gather around the watering hole or the water cooler, whatever you want to call in the old world. And they talk, the gossip, whatever you want. It is content. So content's at the center of conversations and relationships, you know, the sports, hey, the Bruins winning over time. It's a great win. That creates a lot of, you know. You're Boston guy. Yeah, had to put the plug in for the Bruins. The people come in the cube and they talk and it generates relationships, conversations, gravity, and content. So how do you look at the content? Content could be, hey, this is the backlog report. So I think, I mean, it's a great point. I mean, if you think about what I started with, right? Like the core sort of framework around which we're building this is built around people, process, data and content. These are all core social objects, if you will, that drive conversations, right? So whether, to your point, whether it's, you know, it could be something that's in the specific content around support. It could be around, you know, we do, one of the things we've done with Jam is integrated into our LMS applications, right? So when customers are trying to do learning and they normally would buy LMS applications for courseware, we've integrated social and informal learning into that because the content that you and I would gather around is not just a PowerPoint, but it could be, you know, I learn from you as much as I learn from a PowerPoint if we work for the same company. And how do I take tidbits of information? We have a customer, for example, 3,500 nurses and they need to wear a glove in a certain way, right? For insurance and safety purposes. How do you do that in a PowerPoint? So this is where you pull Jam up, video based, take a video, say, so you tie it to make sure it doesn't do this, throw it out in two days, by the way and you publish that, not onto some feed where it gets lost but you publish it and make it part of the institutional knowledge. You start thinking about the value, like we talk about content from a marketing perspective often, you think about the value of that kind of content to really improve efficiency and lower risk inside organizations. That's like, that's why we call it sort of putting the business back in social business, right? So talk about like the customers, I mean, you know, as a general manager you get visibility on the product roadmap, you also have to talk to customers and you know, one of the ethoses of SAP and Schnabe is probably the most humble of all the executives in the industry around this is that they don't like to brag and hype up stuff but they also go out and do validation. He won't do a GA unless it's actually like he talks to customers and then he scales. So you hit him on the stage today. Once we talk to customers, we lock it in then we scale it up. Where are you guys in that process? Are you still? That's a great thing. You know, it's something that is extremely important to us and we have followed SAP's legacy on this as we built out, you know, Jam is, it's like a startup inside SAP. We're 9.8 million users, we're not a startup, we've scaled like this for a year. Out of there, it's about 23 million on SAP. On SAP, but remember this, that you know, this is, a lot of that is net new. It's selling with a lot of island mass products. Still not bad penetration. 9.8 million. I mean, I think net new to me is as exciting as penetration as well. Yeah, yeah, of course. But we've got exactly... I mean, Schnabe told me off the stage after the press conference, the third of their business on Haan is new non-SAP customers. So yeah, that's net new. And success factors does a lot of that too, right? So we integrate with our success factors applications, right? So we go along with that. Now, to your question, what do you exactly that? I mean, we had 3M, the global VP of e-transformation brought in by the CEO to transform how 3M works. Talking about how they're using social collaboration and jammers, that platform of choice to completely rethink how they're doing, doing innovation broadly. But like, I think one of the most exciting things I heard him in his keynote today was talking about how they're taking their industrial innovation success and commercializing it for individual consumers. And they're starting to use collaboration to make sure that those ideas that were done for big industrial process, astronauts, for example, how they're bringing that kind of innovation down, right? So I think that's a... Yeah, so let's talk about flexibility. So I buy that, but the other thing is, is that every use case is different because culture factors into a lot of these companies. So like, there's no one tool. So that has to be adaptable. Absolutely. So, because social is social. So what do you guys do to make that adaptable? So we did two things. One is is, we've, you know, for our own sanity, right? Because SAP has so many places we can infuse jam, right? We've sort of done two things. One is is, we've built out out of the box what we call high velocity, high value solutions like learning, like CRM. Then half of our engineering effort to date went into building our APIs. What we call the get out of the way strategy. Yeah, yeah, APIs are good. Where customers can innovate their own and can innovate around, you know, if you're in fraud management and core banking, you know, you're going to have uses, very unique uses in terms of how you work this. This essentially gets us out of the mix and says customers can innovate as faster than us if they'd like to. But we want to make sure that we allow them to do that as much as we build out of the box stuff. And to me, that's super powerful. Yeah, absolutely, right? Absolutely. I know you got to run. I got to run. So I want to ask you a few more last questions. One last question. Sure. Share with the folks what you've learned and what jam is doing that is amazing. And share one, the most amazing thing that you've seen with jam. Yeah, so, you know, on a personal note, you know, I'm the luckiest guy in the world, right? In that, you know, when I talk about, when we look at this flavor of social, remember, I have the luxury of 40 years of SAP being in the application domain business and in the industry knowledge that they have. So when we start looking at doing any kind of transformation work, we don't start with, you know, let's make you a social enterprise or let's put a blog in your company. We start with these core tectonic problems inside utilities industries. And we build from then on. And on big infrastructures.  Yeah, this isn't a startup. Big capability. Well, exactly. So we're totally blessed because we've got that kind of breadth inside SAP to be able to take real business solutions to customers, right? Second is because we have all the application stack. We don't get siloed in sort of like, let's just talk about social and CRM or social and HR. We've got access to water to cash. We've got, you know, the entire process. And that's pretty powerful because you start thinking about back to your original conversation about how social is taken over the public world. This is about, in my opinion, one of the real ways that it has a shot to take over how we work on a day-to-day basis. It's super exciting. I think you're at the tip of the iceberg here. I think it's not even the national anthem being sung here because it's not even entertaining in my opinion. I think we're going to see an explosive creativity. I think when you start unleashing the notion of merging data sets really fast in real time, HANA, Hadoop, all these new technologies, and enabling developers to actually write code as infrastructure as code, DevOps, all the stuff that we've been seeing. That stuff comes together. You're going to see, in my opinion, an explosive developer community. So then we're in an API society. The data center, as Dave Vellante always says, is the API. And so we're going to start seeing that notion where then you guys are going to be out with Jam and that we'll be interested to follow you. Great to have you on theCUBE. Sameer Patel, general manager of the Enterprise software group here at SAP. This is live from Sapphire. SiliconANGLE's exclusive coverage live from Orlando in the global press center here in Aflora. We'll be right back with our next guest.


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I will be all curing medicine, a doctor that can cure anything, a doctor that can cure countries, because there is no such thing as an incurable disease. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. Today, we are going to be taking a closer look at the adorable doctor, and let's face it, mascot of the Straw Hat Pirates, Tony Tony Chopper. Tony Tony Chopper is an incredibly cute humanoid reindeer with an expertise in the field of medicine. He is extraordinarily kind, loyal, entirely incapable of taking compliments, and possesses a dream of one day being able to cure all disease. Chopper was born on Drum Island in the Grand Lion as a regular old reindeer, well except for the fact that he had a blue nose, which proved to be quite a stigma actually, as his entire herd treated him as an outcast because of it. Chopper was further ostracized from the herd when he ate a devil fruit known as the Hito Hito Nomi, a zoan type fruit that allows its user to transform into a human. As a result of his newfound intelligence, Chopper became acutely aware of how he was being treated, and so Chopper attempted to find his own place of belonging amongst fellow humans. However, they considered him to be a yeti-like monster and shot him out of fear. Chopper would then be rescued by a complete quack by the name of Dr. Hiraluk, who was able to earn Chopper's trust by stripping naked, showing that he had no weapons or intentions of hurting the humanoid reindeer. Hiraluk then took him in, and Chopper experienced kindness for the first time in his life. Chopper then went on to become Hiraluk's assistant, and despite the fact that he was an absolutely abysmal doctor in almost every way, Hiraluk became Chopper's role model and taught him his philosophy of a jolly Roger being a symbol of strength and vitality. However, unbeknownst to Chopper, Hiraluk's health was decaying rapidly, which led the old quack to kick Chopper out as he did not want the young reindeer to watch him die. When Chopper became aware of the situation, he vowed to save his mentor and recalled a particular mushroom that was rumoured to heal every illness. He then raided Hiraluk's medical books and found a mushroom with a skull and crossbones next to it, which Chopper took to be the symbol of a jolly Roger, something that he had been taught was a symbol of strength. Chopper then journeyed across Drum in search of the mushroom, which required him to cross through the territory of his former herd. Upon seeing Chopper, the herd leader immediately attacked him with the intent to kill, forcing Chopper into a desperate battle for life, which he won, barely, and as a result, he was able to claim the needed mushroom. He returned to Hiraluk to present the cure, and unbelievably touched by Chopper's actions, Hiraluk ate the mushroom to show his gratitude, despite knowing that it was poisonous.  Following this, Chopper was taken in by one of Hiraluk's colleagues, Dr. Kureha, who spent six years teaching him real medicinal practices, and Chopper himself made a vow that he would one day become a truly great doctor. Chopper proved to be an incredible student, and was even able to take his medical knowledge to the point where he began experimenting with drugs to enhance his devil fruit abilities. In particular, he developed the rumble balls, which allow Chopper to access transformative states outside of the standard three forms granted by a zoan fruit. Although this experimentation did also result in the discovery of a form too powerful for Chopper to control, known as Monster Point, which occurred when Chopper consumed three rumble balls in under six hours. During this time, the tyrannical king of drum Wapol was forced to flee the island after an invasion at the hands of the Blackbeard pirates, after which point Chopper and Kureha decided to set up shop in the drum castle. Shortly after that, the straw hat pirates landed on drum in search of a doctor to heal their sick navigator, Nami. After climbing bare hand to drum castle, Luffy delivered Nami, Sanji, and by that point himself, and all three of them were treated by the duo of doctors. After recovering from her sickness, Nami invited Chopper to join their crew, however he refused immediately due to his deep distrust of humans. This changed when Luffy helped them defeat Wapol, who had come to reclaim his kingdom, and Chopper eventually realized that he would need to set out to sea in order to broaden his medical knowledge and work towards his dream. From then on, Chopper has sailed with the crew from island to island and has been absolutely integral in quite literally keeping them alive. As the youngest crew member, Chopper fits in quite nicely with the more wacky members of the crew, such as Luffy and Usup, and quite frequently gets caught up in their shenanigans. Despite that, it should be noted that the crew treats him with the utmost respect, particularly Robin, with whom Chopper shares an affinity for reading and academic pursuits. Throughout his journey, Chopper has also abided by a strict doctor's code, prioritizing healing and kindness in every possible situation. Furthermore, Chopper becomes highly enraged whenever he encounters a doctor who does not live by these principles, such as Dr. Hogback or Caesar Clown. But in addition to his medical knowledge, Chopper possesses a variety of other skills, most notably in that he is able to speak to animals of seemingly any kind. Which sort of makes sense because he was originally a reindeer, but also doesn't because it presents the idea that all animals have some sort of universal language, but there you go. By necessity, Chopper has also greatly increased his physical strength while traveling throughout the Grand Lion and has even found himself in situations where it was necessary to activate Monster Point despite his lack of control over it. And all of those efforts have earned some recognition from the world government, who awarded Chopper a bounty of 50 berries, not 50 million, because in reality he was mistaken as a mere pet of the Straw Hat Crew. After being separated from the crew by Bartholomew Kuma, Chopper found himself in the Torino Kingdom in South Blue. Here, Chopper prevented a war between a race of humans and birds by acting as an interpreter between the two, and he then went on to spend two years studying medicine in their extensive library. When Chopper finally reunited with the crew, he brought a vast wealth of knowledge with him, as well as a whole host of new transformations such as Kung Fu Point, as well as finally being able to control the extraordinarily powerful Monster Point. And so, Chopper continued his journey by passing through Fishman Island and into the new world, diligently working towards his dream of one day being able to cure all disease. Some more fun facts about Chopper. Chopper's character is very possibly based on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer due to the similarities being shunned because of their uniquely coloured noses. Additionally, Chopper's birthday also happens to be on Christmas Eve. Chopper's Monster Point staunchly resembles the form of Wendigo, a figure of Native American folklore strongly associated with winter and coldness in general. And with that theme in mind, in colder climates, there is a particular running gag in the series, where a member of the crew will generally ask Chopper to take off his fur to be used as a coat, which Chopper always falls for before he exclaims that his fur cannot be removed. Chopper's favourite type of foods anything sweet, such as chocolate and candy. This has even led to him being given the epithet of cotton candy the other Chopper, by the world government on his bounty posters. Speaking of bounties, Chopper's was finally increased from a mere 50 berries following the events of Dressrosa, when it was doubled to, er, 100 berries. And finally, a truly useless fact. When Yuriko Yamaguchi, the voice of Nika Robin, was questioned as to which flower Chopper resembled most, she replied that he most resembles a tulip. And that pretty much does it for Chopper. 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We most recently covered the remarkable discovery fortunately made in the presence of numerous parties from a number of international research panels, including media personnel. Fortunately for reasons we previously covered in our last video regarding the difficulty when such an event occurs in such a situation to suppress it in the modern age, and the subsequent unusual characteristics of said discovery. A discovery the world has been fortunate to witness, further cementing mounting evidence for the past existence of an ancient giant civilization. With this next discovery, although completely different in characteristics, we feel its scale alone with other intriguing features makes it as equally perplexing. An apparent polar opposite approach in some areas, such as methodology and symbology, even including stone selected. Yet another enigmatic mystery currently sprouting up all over the Giza Plateau. What we found initially interesting was, just like the other enormous tomb we have covered prior, its sheer size estimated at nearly 9 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide just on the insides. Amazingly, it also initially appeared and was initially presumed to have still somehow been a mysteriously hermetically sealed tomb. This is where the open presses line runs out unfortunately. For although it would seem the sarcophagus has indeed been opened, it has been done privately by the Smithsonian Institute. The details of what was found inside, what sort of remains, and indeed their claimed identity, continue to be a closely guarded secret and a subject of hot debate. With the Smithsonian merely stating, further examinations on the body found inside are being conducted. According to the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, quote, there has been a remarkable find in the coastal city of Alexandria. During a routine excavation, experts uncovered a baffling Ptolemaic stone sarcophagus. It has been hailed as a major find, as it can provide insights into the great Hellenistic period in Egypt and its unique culture, end quote. Regardless of academic historians and certain institutions instantly pushing the notion that they know all about this incredible find, and also what exactly could have been found within that black sarcophagus, we find the ordeal highly compelling. There are varying unexplainable ruins, which either due to their location or sheer enormity are almost universally known and recognizable. Yet nearly all possess hidden factors and layers of truth within, simply unexplainable by mainstream academia. Yet along with these tourist magnets, there are an equal number of ruins not well known, due to their remote global position, but others due to being actively ignored, and it is these in particular, which are of interest to us. As this motivation to ignore such sites must be based on an ulterior motive. This lack of academic funding to explore such sites, we believe, and also have discovered to be true over and over again, lies within their controversial and inexplicable nature. Just like a set straight out of Indiana Jones, the claimed lost tombs of Mitla are of no exception. Hidden within the Mesoamerican sites of Mexico, it is indeed visited by tourists, yet many are left perplexed once they depart, this labyrinth of carefully constructed megalithic tunnels when looked at critically and honestly, baffle all who investigate the site. Factor include its unusual yet impressive structural design, its competent delicate stone cut patterning, not even attempted to be attributed to being Mesoamerican, and simply the overall bizarrely unique method of construction. We feel it has been claimed, and either lazily or conspiratorially simply written up as a Mesoamerican ruin, with its location nestled amongst this enormous, magnificent complex of pyramids, a still existing part of the lost ancient world, vastly helping in this attempt to explain away its origins. Some of the monolithic lintels employed in the passages of this site, some claiming as an ancient palace, while far more believing it to have once been the now lost tombs of Mitla possesses a particularly large collection of stones. Known as the Columns Group, measuring 6 meters long, a series of solid basalt megaliths with an estimated weight in excess of 30 tons. The stones came from quarries located a distance of over 10 kilometers away, carried from the lower side of a valley. As mentioned, the location has been coined the Lost Tomb of Mitla, yet the reality is that Mitla was not a person, but is a long sought location for the burial of incredibly important historical figures. The name Mitla derived from the Nahuatl name of the same spelling, meaning the Place of the Dead or Underworld. Thus it must be noted that although this site is of an extraordinary nature, 9 miles away other megalithic tombs built from equally massive megaliths have since been found, shedding even more doubt on its true purpose being that of the tombs of Mitla. Yet regardless, to academic claims that it is a standard Mesoamerican ruin, we find such sites highly compelling.  Not only are such readings and results regularly scoffed at, and any subsequent finding, all stemming from their honest admittance that their data showed evidence of inhabitation with quote, underestimated prehistoric dates. Many of these artifacts and ruins, claimed as being a mere few centuries old, we have, due to extensive research into similarities and differentiations at many of these sites, managed to locate signature stonework within the structure's outer walls, clearly submerged and perfectly preserved for untold millennia, indicative of many inexplicable sites around the world which some even claim are upwards of 300 million years old. The Great Pyramids, along with their great sphinx, we feel with the substantial evidence we have previously put forward, is a treasure trove of examples, for when one becomes aware of Giza's anomalies at least, can expose those fed a lie, the impossibilities within said conspiracy theory, and begin to realize more and more unexplainable anomalies, helping others to realize just how impossibly difficult these structures would have been to create. A feat when considered by many, especially those with a good idea for the sheer size of this place, find the reality that the plateau was possibly man-made, very hard to conceive. Subsequently, still concealing many secrets, which we feel, is the purpose of the plateau being created in the first place, and although it seemingly spans far from the feet of the gigantic Pyramid trio and their accompanying sphinx, we feel this was deliberate and not naturally formed. According to computer engines, the stresses within the Great Pyramid itself were perfectly calculated. However, the main strut or lentil in the Grand Gallery is cracked, indicating polysysms or other heavy technology was still atop the structure once built. This extra weight has been hypothesized was an oversight. Furthermore, any attempts to reconstruct these incredible buildings by using computer systems to simulate supposed slave attempts, we still, to this day, cannot find a valid working technique. However, if one ups the size of the being, their strength, and indeed their intellect, not only were the pyramids within reach, but also many other baffling megalithic areas, such as polygonal masonry, all could be explained. Additionally, along with this hypothesis, many giant-sized sarcophagi have been found throughout Giza, yet we feel covered up, dismissed as clearly what they are, tombs, in favor of explaining them away as storage cases. Who built ancient Egypt? When did they build it? How did they build it? Questions which need to be answered, questions which we find highly compelling. On the 25th of January 2011, the streets of Cairo were being ravaged by a rioting population, demanding the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year regime. While the world was distracted by the dramatic scenes of chaos upon the streets above, deep within the ancient dusty tunnels, a team of archaeologists led by Suzanne Bickel of the University of Basel in Switzerland was quietly making one of the most significant discoveries of the past century. They had initially found the top of a large round stone at the eastern end of the valley of the kings. The archaeologists suspected that it was just the top of an abandoned shaft, but before they could investigate, due to Egypt's political process regarding finds within the valley, they had to cover the stone rim with their own locked iron door, inform the Egyptian authorities, and apply for an official permit to excavate. A year later, after gaining approval to excavate, Bickel returned with a team of two dozen people, including field director Elena Paula-Goth of the University of Basel, Egyptian inspector Ali Rita, and local workmen. Each took turns lying on the ground, head pressed against the shaft wall, one arm through a small hole next to the capstone, snapping photographs. They left little doubt that it was indeed an ancient tomb. On top of the debris rested a dusty black coffin carved from sycamore wood and decorated with large yellow hieroglyphs on its sides and top. Bickel has stated that she has never seen an Egyptian coffin in such a good condition before. The dating of fragments of pottery made from Nile silt and pieces of plaster commonly used to seal tomb entrances in ancient times, together with the age of the other nearby sites, have indicated that the tomb could be more than 3,000 years old. The hieroglyphs describe the tomb's occupant as being named Nahimi s Bastet. Egyptologists currently believe she was a lady of the upper class and of Amun. People have been claiming there was nothing new left to find in the Valley of the Kings for almost as long as they have been digging there. The Venetian antiquarian Giovanni Belzoni believed he had emptied the last of the Valley's tombs during his 1817 expedition, while Theodore Davis, who excavated there a century later, came to a similar conclusion right before Tutankhamen's burial chamber was found. Fortunately, there is a growing number of people who are beginning to suspect that there is a wealth of discoveries still left to be made in the Valley of the Kings, the Nile Delta, and Egyptian as a whole, and thanks to discoveries such as these, interest in these existing mysteries grows by the day. It is interesting to see that in this period, even a wealthy girl was buried with quite simple things, Bickel says, comparing Nahimi s Bastet's coffin and steel with the elaborate pottery, furniture, and food found in earlier tombs. Her wooden coffin was certainly quite expensive, she says, but nonetheless, it lacked the elaborate inner coffins found in similar burials. Is this the burial chamber of an extremely ancient queen? After reinforcing the coffin and securing the mummy, Bickel's team have transported across the Nile to Luxor, where a full investigation is currently being undertaken into the true identity of the mystery female. With substantial insight into the controversial finds within ancient Egypt, we personally suspect that often the tombs, which appear the most crudely designed, containing wood and sarcophagus, are generally found to be the most ancient. Furthermore, their hieroglyphic writings were often far more exquisite in nature. Could this be the discovery of an original burial, and the crude hieroglyphic claim of the occupant's identity of fake? Hiding the delta's true antiquity? A secret many fringe scientists have begun to believe is being protected by Egyptian antiquities. Many have come to suspect the Egyptians merely copied the original builders of the pyramids after taking occupation of their structures many years later. Supportive evidence for these claims comes in many forms. Erosion upon the pyramids, and especially the Sphinx, including over 100 underground chambers we are currently researching, discovered under Giza in 1995 by a team led by Kent Weeks, which also show strong evidence of several flash flooding events involving seawater throughout their long existence. The lack of any written detail pertaining to the construction of either monument in any hieroglyphs found in ancient Egypt, and so on. We find it incredibly intriguing that more was not made public regarding this amazing find, which leads us to suspect it may be a highly important, albeit highly controversial, discovery. We will continue to do research on Nahem's Bastet, and we'll endeavor to keep you all informed regarding any notable findings. In 1879, British archaeologist Weynman Dixon successfully retrieved a number of mysterious artefacts from within the infamous lower northern shaft of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. One of these artefacts was a small piece of a square wooden rod which has since disappeared. The only artefact to conveniently go missing, and the only artefact which could have produced an accurate dating for what seems was a rather elaborate prior attempt to overcome a sophisticated array of blocking stones and vertical passageways, which confront all who try to breach the innermost sanctums of this mysterious pyramid. The reason for this past mission, or indeed who undertook such an attempt, remain a mystery, but their motive will soon become clear. One of Weynman's other finds resembling a small grappling hook with two rivets matches two holes in a square rod still lodged up in the vertical northern shaft, clearly left by these wannabe tomb raiders. It seems that these highly talented acrobatic grave robbers couldn't make it any further, and once one becomes aware of the existence of a large hidden chamber built into the pyramid's design, placed just above this unexplored shaft, you will inevitably begin to wonder, what could possibly be hiding up there? Indeed, it's a well-known fact that the builders of these structures were notorious for their superhuman efforts in concealment, huge multi-ton blocking stones in front of the entrances to their kings and treasures, and indeed in front of virtually every interior shaft and room within the great pyramid of Kufu. The upper region of this northern shaft constitutes the last remaining unexplored areas due to the impossible access angle. We know it's there, and all we have to do is apply existing technology in getting in there, Rudolph Gatenbrink told the press. It must be noted, although the mention of tombs has been made, the evidence, to suggest such, is based solely upon a number of parchment and a single mark found within an interior chamber of the pyramid, naming a gang and the fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh, Kufu. Egyptologists have taken these fragmentary factors and concluded that all pyramids were therefore built as tombs, the great one being built over a 10-20 year period concluding around 2560 BC. It seems the entire thesis of ancient Egyptian legacy is built around a few mentions of the pyramids as tombs. No mummies or burial artefacts except a tiny box claimed to be that of the sarcophagus of Kufu has ever been found in the pyramids. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, Kufu's Egyptian civilization, along with all subsequent and prior dynasties, catalogued tremendous details regarding their existence, yet all, for some reason, seemingly forget to mention the construction of the biggest, most mysterious structures on earth, or indeed how they did it. What could there possibly be hidden within this chamber? This unexplored and clearly sought after secret room, a room which is seemingly unrobable. With mainstream Egyptologists, archaeologists and academic historians alike insisting that these amazing pyramids were once unquestionably tombs which were robbed completely over the millennia. Whatever this room contains may settle this once and for all. How can one still claim the pyramids to have been tombs when they are aware of the astounding burial chambers found within the valley of the kings? With the tomb of the sons of Ramses II being not only the largest, but what many archaeologists believe, second to the pyramids and their accompanying sphinx, is the next greatest discovery ever made within ancient Egypt. A literal labyrinth of chambers, it was initially discovered in 1825, yet due to its gargantuan scale, it wasn't until 1995, and thanks to an Egyptologist known as Kent R. Weeks, that we have begun to re-establish its true possible size. The tomb was examined several times, even being investigated by Howard Carter himself. Yet due to the outer tombs having been looted in antiquity, he simply used them as a dumping ground for rubble. It was not until 1995, during the Theban Mapping Project, when Weeks decided to clear the outer tombs. Approximately 70 rooms lined along long corridors, running far back into the hillside were found. The number of rooms were then said to correspond to the number of sons the pharaoh sired. However, further excavations have revealed that the tomb is even larger, the size of an underground town cut directly from a granite hillside, its true scale still unknown. As of 2006, at least 130 chambers have so far been discovered, yet work continues on clearing the rest of this underground maze. We feel that although a later civilization, one lacking the knowledge to build such monuments, came along and claimed these relics as their own, with the possible motivation of an illusion of power, like that of the many other sites we cover worldwide, predictably, now also conveniently tied to these groups in academia. Yet the true feat these chambers would have been, along with the riches these pharaohs often left behind, are not only proof that these creations and collections of wealth were not only far beyond the ability of copper-wielding academically claimed builders, but that the archaeological evidence does indeed support the theory that these kings either ruled during the creator's civilization or built these monuments themselves. Yet how remains an infuriating enigma? We also feel their age and indeed original lineage in the true history of the Giza Plateau is what ultimately becomes convoluted. Yet I digress. Who built KV-5? It is a place we find highly compelling.