Mae'r ffordd am amlwysgau a'r dwylo gael llwyeddau yn dda, oedd y gyfnodd y web i ddweud i'r ddweud yn dweud rhywunol. Felly mae'n gydag ymddur i'n dweud. Mae'n ddweud i syniadau i'n ddweud ymddur i'r ddweud i'r ddweud am y ddweud o'r ddweud nyfydig o'r ddweud.  Da oes y gallwn ni'n fawr i dda'i ddweud y ddweud o ddweud, i ddweud o'r ddweud o ddweud, wrth ymlaen i ddweud o ddweud. Ac y cyfnodd cyfu sydd wedi bod cyfeirio i gael cyfnodyniadau cynserau yn ddigonol wedi ddegwyddarhau. Yn y dweud erbyn gyda'r cyfnodd iawn maen nhw'n ddefnyddiad ym mhawr hwnnw a'r cyflodydau cyffinodd yma hyn yn dweud, ac eftanol Ewfio cyffinodd o'r cyflodydau cyffinodd o gyflodydau cyffinodd o'r cyflodyd acau'r cyflodydau cyffinodd o'r cyflodydau cyffinodd. Ond, ydy'r clubs ei physio o'r ffordd, o'r ffordd, o'r busio cyfrannu talog, o'r bwrdd, o'r fforddau lliar. Yn gyfnod i'n cael ei phirio, mae byddai'n eistedd ymlaes i gŷtio'n du o'r ffordd i'r gweithio yma. Dyma'r dwi'n gwheil ychydig oedd gwahanol i ddechrau i'r newid yma. Yn cyfnod i ddegwyd ar gyfan, rydyn ni'n fwylo, y cyffredin ni'n rhanol i ddweud bod Nigel mae'r natur o'r holl hwn yn gweld o fewn hyfforddiad, o'n dweud o'r hanfforddiad ar y gof rebell surrender a'n celf a'r holl sy'n gweithio wahanol. Mae'n dweud oherwydd maen nhw'n cael unrhyw hwn o'r gweithas yng Ngheilwyr'r Ddes Gweithléol o'r oeddod o fi'n meddwl hwnnw a chi'w Gweithlion Dysgrifennol o'r pryd yn gweithio ddim. Felly, dwi'n rhoi'n credu'r ffasau o'r hyn o'r hynod oherwydd y cynddo is that there are an uncountable number of different kinds of impacts that you might want to create and all of the interesting and important problems are very complicated and generally require data from lots of different sources collected in different ways. So I think the way that we're trying to think about this challenge is that before someone creates a positive impact, so deciding what's the best medical treatment for some kind of condition or what's the best way to run our education system. Before you get to that point, that decision maker has to be informed by some complex analysis by a skilled data analyst. That data analyst needs to get hold of their data and to understand what it means. That data needs to have been collected and processed and managed by someone. So we're kind of going upstream in what is a fairly complicated and supply chain, a kind of value chain, if you like, that has lots of steps and you only get to the point of creating some impact at the end of it if all of the steps in that value chain exist and are well supported. So I think where we face big challenges at the moment, we've got massive opportunities but also we're not achieving those opportunities as quickly as we might. So one is just that there aren't enough good data analysts around. So it was great to hear what Jill was just saying about the work of the data lab to try and almost creating a new profession of data scientist that is bringing together some traditional data analysis skills with working with different kinds of data and different ways of delivering data to meet some of these problems. And we definitely need a lot more of them. We see that in our government work that there's a lot of data there but it could be used much more effectively if more people working in those organisations had the right skills to exploit it. Some of it's just an awareness problem. They don't know what's possible but some of it is that there's only a small number of people that do it and the good ones are always vastly overworked and underfunded and so on. So increasing the size of that profession is a very important thing. But I think the big obstacle for us is that this is really still a cottage industry that the analysis work that goes into supporting these kind of decisions is that you're dealing with generally highly skilled analysts but if they were cabinet makers they'd still be going out and chopping down their own trees. Anyone who's actually tried to do this sort of data analysis work know that you'd spend, I think somebody's quoted a figure of 80% of your time gathering and cleaning the data. And I think our value chain here is crying out for some industrialisation. We need some standardisation, kind of componentisation, enable things to be automated so that the work of the data analyst can be that much more efficient because we have say thousands of different kinds of problems that need to be solved and we don't want each of those people to go out into the forest to start chopping down their own trees. The upstream parts of this process can be improved. And so one of the projects that we've done is the one that Roger mentioned. We've worked with his department and the Scottish Government on the statistics.gov.scot site. And I think one of the reasons that I think that has gone very well and relatively smoothly is that Roger's group has responsibility for a wide range of different topics of data. And so we're able to apply a bit of central standardisation and good practices to data about health and crime and education and environment and so on. And therefore come up with a data resource which is kind of well integrated with itself, if you like, and covers a broad range of things and therefore has a lot of standardisation built into it and so can support effective use of that in lots of different ways and effective combining of data about different topics in a single way. So that's all very well but say if you look at the kind of broader picture of government where what if you want to combine that data from Roger's group with stuff from DWP or from local authorities or from businesses. So there's a big standardisation challenge there and the lack of that standardisation I think is the thing that gives data analysts who should be doing highly skilled work and awful lot of donkey work that they have to do before they can get there. So what I think we should be doing to try to increase that impact is to look at each step in that value chain and think what can we do to move to a kind of more mature model of delivering all of that stuff. And we see ourselves as sitting somewhere in the middle of that. We're providing tools that help the owner or manager of some collection of data to curate it and deliver it to people in ways that save time for the analysts. But our bit of the puzzle can only work if somebody else is collecting data and obviously there are all kinds of new ways of collecting data available now. Someone has to collect that and to process that and to document it and to deliver it in a way that is amenable to use. And similarly our bit of the puzzle is of no use whatsoever unless there are data analysts out there who can take that data and apply it to a problem. And so part of our work is to try to make life easy for data analysts. So I suppose kind of what I'm saying is that I think we should be trying to do and groups like this can hopefully contribute to that is to think about how these different roles in the final delivery of impact together and try to move towards less of a cottage industry and more of a sort of industrial revolution of creating impact from data. Thank you.


Fandalin, a town where adventurers begin and legends are born. Rumors of a dragon nearby strikes fear into the hearts of citizens. Perhaps this is your chance to make a name of yourself. Dragon of Icefire Peak is the beginner adventure for the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit. Set a few years after the events of Lost Minds of Van Delver, this adventure has you investigating the new issues that plague the town of Fandalin. Hopefully, you defeat the evil that lurks and gain some reputation along the way. Your adventure begins in the town of Fandalin. Fandalin is the developing town thanks to a local mind that has been discovered in the recent years. The increase of wealth attracts the attention of many travelers along the Sword Coast, including miners and merchants. Unfortunately, rumors have it that the newfound wealth also caught the attention of a white dragon. The townsfolk are afraid, and the streets are now quiet from fear. You take the initiative to mingle with the townsfolk to find out what's going on. After some time exploring the city, you find the Town Masters Hall where the Town Master hides himself behind a locked door. He has posted some quests on a board nearby for you to consider. If you complete these quests, he will compensate you for your time by sliding your rewards beneath the small gap below the door one coin at a time. You first begin your journey by selecting some quests among the many on the board posted at the Town Masters Hall. The notice on the board tells of dwarves that are nearby ruins. Due to the dragon, they need to be warned of the danger in the area. You make your way to the dwarven ruins where you meet two bickering dwarves named Dazzlin and Norbus. They recruit your aid in exploring the temple within the ruins and together you venture in and find a bit of treasure.  The quest board has a sign recruiting the aid of adventurers willing to travel to Gnomengard and gather the magical inventions of the gnomes that reside within. You take note of the quest and head southeast to the caves of Gnomengard. Here you find gnomes who are governed by two married kings, Nerkly and Corbos. King Corbos has gone mad and locked Nerkly and himself in their bed chambers. After exploring the area and defeating a mimic that has been devouring the gnoming inhabitants, you convince King Corbos that the threat is eliminated. This brings Corbos back to his senses and you find a magical hat and a wand in their bed chambers. You return back to Fandalin and hand over the hat in which the town master pays you fifty gold pieces for. On the board is a request to bring a local acolyte named Adabra Gwynn back to Fandalin from Umbridge Hill. With the white dragon roaming the area, it is not safe for her to be there alone. You head to the hill to find a building under attack by a manacor. Defeating the manacor, you enter the building and meet Adabra. She refuses to head back to Fandalin capable of defending herself. You head back to Fandalin where you provide the town master the news in exchange for your compensation. After completing a few of the quest, more notices appear on the board. Additionally, you hear talks of a lighthouse near the coast that holds a great amount of treasure. It is a tall tower shrouded in the thunderstorm with a shipwreck at its basin. Here you meet a giant crab that asks you to lay its master, a sea elf named Maral to rest. In exchange, the crab offers treasure for your aid. You head to the nearby cave where Maral resides as a Banshee. Defeating her, you return to the crab where she thanks you and hands you some treasure. Exploring the tower, you defeat an anchorite of Talos by striking its heart which resides at the top of the tower. Down below at the shipwreck, you navigate through shark-infested water to find more treasure for your taking. Satisfied with your riches, you travel back to Fandalin with gold-filled pockets. A request to save Alphonse Calisorm from an orc threat at Butterscroll Ranch is posted at the town master's hall. You head there promptly to find him hiding in a cellar of Butterscroll Ranch. Helping him find his lost cow, you take him back to Fandalin where he is safe from the dangers of the orcs. A camp deep in never winter woods, owned by the town master's brother, is in need of supplies. On the board is a request to deliver said supplies to the location. The local provisioner provides you with the delivery in which you take north into the woods. On the road, you find a suspicious boar watching you from the woods. This boar is an anchorite of Talos in disguise. If you spare the boar, it runs off to warn the other anchorites at the woodland manse. Regardless of how you deal with the animal, you make your way back to the camp to see the sight of ankhags littering the area. Defeating the ankhags and a cursed totem that brought them there, you deliver the supplies to the camp and head back to Fandalin. You read an advertisement on the board from a man named Don John Raskin. Raskin is the new overseer of the mountain's total gold mine, requesting that someone escort him there. You find Raskin at the local inn and begin your journey northeast to the mine. At the entrance of the mine, you find six dead orcs and within the caverns are the culprits. A were-rats infest the area as they have been pushed out from their original camp by the orcs. You deal with the were-rats and leave Raskin to figure out the rest. After completing a few more quests, you find more notices littering the board. It seems like trouble is certainly brewing in the town of Fandalin. On the board is a request from a man named Falcon. Orcs have been spotted near Falcon's hunting lodge and the owner needs someone to make a preemptive strike before things sour. You head to the hunting lodge to speak with Falcon who offers you a handsome reward to eradicate the orc threat. You can't help but feel a bit of malice towards the orcs from Falcon. Heading to the woodland manse, you clear the area of anchorites of Talos and secure the location, finding a map to a mysterious location in the middle of Neverwinter Woods. On the way back to Falcon's hunting lodge, you find it overrun by orcs and learn that Falcon has escaped back to Fandalin. Seeing as this is a threat much too great for you to handle, you travel back to Fandalin and claim your rewards from a frightened Falcon. With the threat of a dragon present, the town of Fandalin is in need of the dwarven fortress of Axelholm as a safe haven. The notice on the board provides a lofty sum of money to those who clear the fortress. Heading south of Fandalin, you find a fortress carved into the mountains. You eliminate the ghouls and banshees that reside within and travel back to town opening up a safe refuge in the event that it may be needed. Legends tell of a dragon-slaying sword that was buried somewhere on the high road along with some warriors. A sign on the board requests that someone retrieve the sword in the case that the dragon should be encountered. You begin your search northwest of Fandalin where you find a centaur named Xanth telling you of a half-orc evil deep within the woods. Xanth decides it is perhaps best to wait until you finish your search of the sword. Searching a burial mound nearby, you found a barrow haunted with the tombs of adventurers who once slayed a green dragon. Finding a sword embedded in the skull of a dragon, you acquire the weapon and make your way back to Xanth. Xanth leads you to a location deep within the woods. You observe that this location is marked on the map found at the Woodland Mance. Here you find more anchorites of tallows performing a ritual around a circle. Defeating the half-orcs, a boar emerges from the circle known as Gorthog, the Thunder Boar. You slay the beast and head back to Fandalin, hopefully putting an end to any strange rituals. In the town, you hear of talks about the Shrine of Savoros east of Fandalin near the town of Coneberry. It is said that the town of Coneberry was once attacked by barbarians and its residents escaped to the shrine. From here, the townsfolk fled or were slaughtered but rumors have it that it hides the gold of the locals. Travelling to the location, you find the ruins of a temple. Investigating the altar, you are presented with visions of a white dragon residing in the Ispire hold. Underneath the altar, you find some gold for your troubles and make your way to the Ispire hold. When arriving to the mountains near Ispire hold, you find a fortress atop the peak of an icy mountain. Travelling through the fortress, you find a band of thieves along with the remnants of frozen and dead orcs. The band of thieves wishes to plunder the dragon's treasure and view you as competition. At the roof of the fortress is a sleeping white dragon. It awakes when you enter and defends its new home violently. You strike at the young dragon and manage to barely slay it. After the brutal battle, you head back to Fandalin to alert the townsfolk of your success. They hail you as a hero and thank you for saving the town. Hello everybody. Thank you for watching my story run through of Dragon of Ispire Peak. If you enjoyed the video, please like and subscribe. It would really help me out. Thanks!


In the days of austerity in England, after the Labour government had just gotten in, and I had arrived there for the command, royal command performance, and at the Savoy Hotel, I went down to the dining room and knew that there was rationing, and you couldn't get food such as we've had today, but then on the menu I saw pheasant, and I thought, well, you can't go wrong if you can get pheasant, so I ordered pheasant. I didn't know about their custom of serving game birds, and the waiter came in and with a flourish removed the silver lid, and I was looking at a bird that was looking back at me. The head and the rough were on, the eyes were open, the big yellow legs were there attached to him, and so it did kind of curb my appetite a little, but the very next day Virginia Mayo and her husband Michael O'Shea arrived, and we went down to the dining room together, and I saw his eye stop, I just knew, at the same place in the menu, I knew what was in his mind, and he ordered, and I waited, and didn't say a word, and the same flourish and the silver lid removed, and there was that bird looking at him, but he topped me as the waiter started away, grabbed him by the coattail, and the waiter's surprise stopped, and Mike said, bring me liniment, I'll have that bird flying again in 15 minutes. Now, that story has absolutely nothing to do with today's luncheon. Well, maybe if I reach a little it does, because we have some high flyers here with us today, and who have flown in the line of achievement in their own lines and in their service to humanity, very high. The President's Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor that's given in the United States. What the Olympic gold medal is to athletes, what the Congressional Medal of Honor is to the military, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is to the private United States citizen. The names of those who have received this honor are stars in the American sky, Helen Keller, Aaron Copeland, Walt Disney, Carl Sandberg, General Omar Bradley, Dr. Jonas Salk, Jesse Owens. The list goes on through the most illustrious and prominent of our citizens, and today we're adding the names of Charles Tex Thornton, a man whose energy and enterprise are symbolic of America herself, Morris Liebman, an honored American possessing a fine legal mind at a true humanitarian heart, Walter Judd, a doctor who ministered to the world's need for freedom and liberty, Bryce Harlow, an architect of public policy whose contributions have strengthened our democracy's political process, Ella Grasso, a genuine public servant who fought against death as she fought for political principle with dignity, and Judy Blake, an historical figure in American performing arts and one of the greatest ragtime composers and pianists. Now let me tell you how the six recipients have strengthened our freedom by reading to you something the historian Edward Gibbon wrote about ancient Athens, the first democracy in the fountainhead of Western culture. He wrote that when the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. The recipients today have given greatly to our society and music, public service, and humanitarian activities. They've met their responsibilities to freedom. By giving of themselves and their energies, they've kept this society diverse and in diversity there is liberty. Perhaps this award is called the Medal of Freedom also because our nation allowed these great Americans to pursue their interests unhindered. And when individuals are free to follow their hearts and talents, the common good benefits. America has given these honorees freedom and they've discharged that responsibility with brilliant distinction. Let me read the citation and present the medal to each recipient who then, we hope, say a few words to us. To Charles B. Tex Thornton, industrialist, warrior, and humanitarian, Tex Thornton's life has embodied all that is best in the worlds of commerce, military service, and civic duty. In all three realms, Tex Thornton has never failed to give generously of his boundless energy, his unfailing courage, and his deep love of country. In war and peace, the public service and in the private sector, Tex Thornton has earned the esteem of all Americans who value patriotism, enterprise, and compassion as cornerstones of our nation's greatness. And we regret and sorrow that because of his health, he cannot be here to accept this in person, but we're pleased that his son, Charles Bate Thornton Jr., is here to accept for his father. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm privileged to accept this award on behalf of my father, who, as you know, could not be here today. He wanted very much to come, however. He asked me to tell you, though, that he feels very fortunate to have had the opportunities afforded by this great country of ours and to have been able to serve it and to strive to contribute to its success. Perhaps only those who matured in the last depression, as he did, can best appreciate just how far we as a nation have come in the last half century and the effort and the sacrifice it took to get here. Even though his active role is drawing to a close, he is grateful to have played a part. He recognizes that the challenges before us remain enormous, yet is confident that this nation's new leadership will guide us on the proper course, a course which does not reject the past in which he has played a part, but which lets us build on our accomplishments and learn from our mistakes. I can think of no one more respected by him than you, Mr. President. It is therefore deeply touching that you have honored him in this way. And that makes this award all the more meaningful to him, to our mother, and to the two younger generations of our family here today. Thank you. Morris I. Liebman, attorney, teacher, scholar, and philanthropist. Morris Liebman is living proof that a full career in the private sector can flourish hand in hand with civic and humanitarian duties. As a generous patron of the arts and charities, as a legal scholar, as well as practitioner, as a founding member of the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as chairman of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Morris Liebman has served selflessly to make America a just, healthy society within a strong and secure nation without. Thank you, Mr. President. In the shadow of the assassination of recent hours, we thank the Lord that you, Mr. President, are here with us today, and we continue to be inspired by your courage and total commitment. I and the other awardees, I feel certain, are humbled by the privilege of participating in this ceremony. We understand that on this occasion, we represent millions of citizens dedicated to our free society. This is an occasion of remembrance and rededication, remembrance of America's uniqueness, the noble experiment of government by a melting pot of free people, rededication under your leadership and guidance, to meaningful patriotism, to national purpose, to national will and strength and credibility. Our great American ideals and goals lose vitality without vibrant expression. You, Mr. President, have established yourself as the great communicator, a most important aspect of leadership in this world of competing and conflicting ideologies. A number of us present here today have struggled with the problem of improving the systems, forums and structures for communicating American foreign policy nationally and internationally. Under your leadership and under your presidency, we eagerly renew our dedication to this effort and look forward to working with you in your great responsibility for continuing the dialogue of Western civilization and the preservation of the free world. Thank you, Mr. President. Walter H. Judd, legislator, physician, missionary and orator. Walter Judd has served his nation and mankind with unfailing courage and distinction. As a youthful medical missionary in China, as a highly respected member of Congress for two decades, and as a lifelong foe of tyranny and a friend of freedom, both at home and abroad, the skills of a healer, the eloquence of a great communicator and his firm grasp of domestic and international affairs have made Walter Judd an articulate spokesman for all those who cherish liberty and a model for all Americans who aspire to serve mankind as physicians, spiritual leaders and statesmen. Walter. To respond, of course, Mr. President, to your conferring on me, so extraordinary as an honor as this means that I must borrow Mr. Shakespeare's words, I can no other answer make say thanks and thanks and ever thanks. I'm glad that this medal is called the Medal of Freedom. Concerned for that greatest of all, our blessings in this beautiful land has been, I think, a consistent and at least a major influence in my own life and motivation. Freedom has been central to the efforts I made as a missionary in China and as a political missionary in the House of Representatives and in these last 19 years is what might perhaps be called a missionary at large, especially to the colleges and high schools of our country, working with the youth to help develop a deeper understanding of what freedom makes possible as has been demonstrated in these other awards and what freedom requires. Whenever I find my batteries running down, I like to go over to the monument, not so far from here, erected to the memory of that great American patriot who wrote down in immortal words, the fundamental faith and philosophy which gave our nation its birth and its greatness, Thomas Jefferson. You've been there and on the corona in giant letters above his head are these words of his personal declaration. I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Now that, to the best of my ability, has been the basic standard by which I tried to judge which of the various solutions being offered for this, that, or the other difficult problem for our country was right or nearest right. And that's what we're trying to do in retirement. If followed those principles and policies, would they strengthen the oppressor or would they strengthen the oppressed? Where does the United States stand? With wisdom and recognition of timing and what's appropriate and what is possible at a given moment. Now I believe, Mr. President, that you and I and all of us in this blessed land were born to be free. And if we were born to be free then so were the Czechs and the Poles and the Cubans and the Chinese and the Cambodians and the Afghans. And if they weren't born to be free neither were we. Now this is not a note, I hope, a note of gloom or despair. On the contrary, it's the main basis for confidence and hope for our future. Surely the universe is on the side of human freedom including the nature of the man and the nature of the woman. They can be arrested, human beings. They can be imprisoned. They can be starved and brainwashed and beaten and sent to concentration camps and liquidated. But they cannot be separated in the end from that which is in them from their creator. The urge to be free. So Mr. President, it's an honor, not only for me but for all of us in this land to be joined with you in this noblest of crusades Freedom. You're never. Thank you, water, and now ladies and gentlemen, Bryce N. Harlow, counselor to presidents and sage observer of nearly half a century of Washington history, Bryce Harlow's vision, integrity and persuasiveness have helped to shape his nation's destiny as leader of the free world. Never a candidate for elected office himself, his experience and advice have helped bring out the best in countless public servants of both parties and in the White House, in the Congress and across the nation. Bryce Harlow is a sterling example of the positive side of politics. A life spent reconciling divergent interests, serving high moral principles and channeling the forces of public policy toward the public good. Mrs. Reagan, please don't consider me discurteous. I'm standing up. I thank you, Mr. President, very, very much. And that eloquent citation, I wish I had said it. I love every word in it. Thank you. The Harlow Contingent here very deeply appreciates the great honor of Patus, both by this very special award and by your personal participation. I mean that particularly, your personal participation in these proceedings because we all know the vast energy and time drain on the President of the United States. Now, this has come, of course, this award, no, those whole affair, has a tremendous surprise to me, as I guess it has perhaps to the others. When Mike Dever called me about it last week to alert me to it, I said, interrupted him, Mr. Dever, you've got a bad mistake on your hands. You have the wrong man and the wrong telephone number, and you'd better hang up and start over. But then he said the nicest thing in my life, he said, oh no. No, he said, I've got the right man, it's you, Bryce Harlow. And I think that was music. I was afraid I was right and he was wrong. Best I can figure, Mr. President, a part of this award that is concerned with, of me, is my public service, not my private service to the private sector. And the part, that's the part of concerns, the part of concerns me most, public service started when you were 27 years old. This was when I came to Washington from Oklahoma City.  But I never did happen. Things happened to me instead. The war came, that's for one. Then came Truman and Eisenhower and all the rest.  Somehow, and for reasons I don't to this day understand, I got entangled, embroiled, enmeshed in those activities, in those issues of those times. And in the course of that, I got embroiled and entangled with great host of our national leaders like the great Walter Judd and many others. And so, I spent nearly all of those years, Mr. President, working with the leaders of our country in the Congress and in the executive branch included here in the White House and the leadership of the armed forces during the war in the High Command. Now, the point that's relevant about that to this meeting is not that I consorted to the great but that I was never a leader in any of that. I was never the front man. I was never the boss or the chief. I was always the behind the scenes fellow. I was always the assistant, the counselor, if you will. Well, now, if that's true and it is, what am I doing here? I think that's a good question. Why would one with a career so unobtrusive, retiring, you know, be here, receiving an award so utterly prestigious? That fascinated me greatly when I was called by Mike Diva. And I came to this thought, apparently here somewhere and I hope it's you, Mr. President, came to the idea, well, this little golfer for Uncle Sam in all his wanderings for four decades did in his own right perhaps working for and through and around the great people, helping them enough for our country to make him worthwhile. Now, if that is true, and that's the reason that this comes to me, then I say it's absolutely marvelous, not because of me, Mr. President, but because I am projected across the country in millions of people who are working their tails off, getting no attention at all, who are working, who are loyal, who have the integrity, who are doing for their bosses and doing for the bosses' causes, expecting no recognition, whatever. And here's what I think may happen. Some of them will see about this award, maybe. Some of them may even see it somewhere or hear about it, read about it. And he'll say, hey, Joe, did you see where President Reagan gave a kind of a medal to this little fellow Harlow? And he'll say, no, what for? He'll say, if we're doing what we're doing, oh, we'd better work harder, hadn't we? We might get one. Mr. President, if it works like that, how beautiful it fits in with your program to constantly improve the quality, the standards, the productivity of American life. Thank you, sir. The certificate will be mine. The certificate will be mine. Rice, you know, it's been common language that this particular job must be a very lonely place. It isn't really all that lonely, and now we all know why. Ella T. Grasso, to be accepted by her husband, Dr. Thomas A. Grasso. Long before the women's movement had gained prominence, Ella Grasso had already begun the long, hard assent to distinction as an elected public servant. A fond wife and mother, she proved that it's possible to reconcile a full family life with a long and eventful political career. As a champion of moral as well as political principle, Mrs. Grasso won the respect of fellow citizens of both parties and served as the first woman governor to be elected to office in her own right. Tireless in the pursuit of duty and courageous in the face of illness, Ella Grasso has earned the admiration of all Americans as a legislator, a governor, and a woman of outstanding character and achievement. Dr. Grasso. Mr. President, I thank you very much for this signal honor. I haven't prepared anything officially. I'd like to speak to you from my heart. Today is a bittersweet day in my life. We have been here under five presidents, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon, President Ford, President Carter, and now you, Mr. President. I know this is the last time that I'll be here because it was through the good fortune of Ella, my dear wife, that we were invited here. A bittersweet, I say. It's bitter because of the loss of Ella. However, it's a happy occasion because she has been selected or was selected as the recipient of this medal. It's unfortunate that the other brand has to present it to us. Let me go over that again. Very good. Ella was an advisor to presidents, U.S. Senators, Congressmen and women, and people interested in politics. She was a strange mixture of many, many things. She had integrity, sympathy, understanding. She was straight as an arrow. She was a good wife, an excellent mother, and above all, brought to politics a certain integrity that our good president is attempting to bring. I think that this country lacks that type of person. I personally, and I know Ella admired President Reagan very much, you know, in politics you have to do many things. The first thing you must do is get elected, and many times in getting elected, you know, you have to get elected and you fill in the valleys about what I'm trying to say. Ella lived courageously. She died courageously. She died with a prayer on her lips. And I am indeed honored to receive this medal and I shall take it home. And of all the credits she has received, my son and daughter will not get this medal. I'm keeping it myself. Thank you. Now I'm going to switch microphones if you will be with me for a moment. This last one is to James H. Yubi Blake, last of the great ragtime composers and pianists, the son of slaves, and a pioneer crusader for black Americans in the world of arts and entertainment, Yubi Blake is a national treasure. As pianist, showman, and above all as composer, he's added immeasurably musical heritage and helped to clear the way for succeeding generations of talented artists who, but for his example, might have been denied access to the artistic mainstream. And I understand that Yubi is going to respond in his own inimitable, unique way. He is 98 years old, he told me. 98 and a half. Yubi, congratulations. From the bottom of my heart. Yes, it just happens to be a piano. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, I think because of six Americans, some of whom couldn't be here, but were represented, all of us go away a little bit better and better Americans because of them. And now, my saddest words, I have to say I have to leave you because I am scheduled to sign a proclamation for the fellow that I guess made it all possible. The Columbus Day Proclamation and the time is caught up with me so I'm going to go and say a thank you to Christopher Columbus and with the Spanish Ambassador because they did it together. And thank you all very much for being here.


Good morning, Cloud users, IT pros, and everyone else in between. It's Jay, and here with Rick, welcome back to this week, November 19, 2021's edition of AZ Update. Morning, Rick. I'm excited, man. Like, they actually let me do the show. First of all, thank you for asking me to be able to do the show. But it's been a long time since I've been hanging out here with the AZ Update crowd. I normally just lurk you in the comments once in a while. How are you doing today? I'm doing good. Pierre has trusted me for these last few weeks to take care of this. Yeah, that's a strong word.  It's that time of year where you start looking at how much you have left and paid time off if you're so lucky to. And you try to at least get it all in. Want to say hi to everybody who is in the chat. I see you all. You're all really great. We've got our regulars. We got Andrew here. We got Richard. How are you doing? Hey, look who we have. Old friend, Sarah. In the chat, hi. We miss you. Yes, good to see you, Sarah. So we've got a show full of a lot of stuff to talk about today. Before we do, I just wanted to recognize, you know, Rick, you were the first person, and you like to mention this story to me, that when I stepped onto the Microsoft campus for my first day when I flew from New York all the way to the campus, you were the first person that welcomed me. We end up in the cafe, had lunch, talked, and I've always enjoyed being able to have a good conversation with you. No, it was a lot of fun. The tradition is called NEO, or New Employee Orientations, stuff like that. I saw this guy coming out of the room wearing this New York ball cap, which of course, sporting, they're always good to have hats on the show. I don't know if Pierre knows that, but hats are always a bonus. There you go. And, you know, we got to welcome him to the campus and welcome him to the organizations, stuff like that, had a good lunch. And the, I'm curious, did you go and explore the campus at all outside of that one little tiny thing that we did for lunchtime on that first year? Oh yeah. What was your first thing that you did in New York? I was there for a week. So I tried to get around the campus. I saw some of the, like the visitor center, where there's like the little play area that you can go and like mess around with Xbox stuff. There was some great AI things. There's one great AI thing that, I'm not sure if the campus is open in that way, but when it does open up, and if you're visiting the Redmond area and you want to go, you can visit the Microsoft campus at the visitor center. And there's this kind of neat thing where it's, I think using the AI facial recognition technology that we provide for Azure, where it actually determines whether or not you're a dog.  I don't recall what dog I had, but I like getting my own dog. Nice. We've got some stories to talk about. You just got back from a trip. You're home, you're comfortable.  And I think we're ready to kind of get into some of the beginning banter, if you will. Oh, no, no, for sure. Like I was trying to pry a little bit to see if you did one of the things, the first things that I did when I came to campus, which was explore and try to find the Xbox area, the Xbox team, because in their lobbies and in their studios, they have all these life-size replicas of different halo characters and characters from their different games and stuff like that. And I was kind of alluding into that kind of prodding to see if you've been down that way, mainly because they just released and were talking about the 20 years of Xbox that was published. This one I think you've got up here is from The Verge with their good friend, Tom Warren, talking about the Xbox 20 year celebration.  This is the Halo Xbox Series X. And the reason why they have this one up is because there's a traditional thing that they always do, which is Easter eggs that pop up. And so what do you think of this one here, man? Would you have thought to like scan your Xbox S with a black light to be able to find this one? No, I guess I'm gonna have to invest in a black light so I can start using it for all of my at home technology. It's always kind of funny to see this kind of stuff pop up. It's one of those things where I think it's really neat that it's been such a cultural add to the world. Like, I remember I had the original Xbox when it came out. To see it go past 20 years now, it's pretty crazy. And speaking of compute, because you're gonna use an Xbox, you need to have some compute in it. There's a story that came up that Microsoft now has one of the world's fastest supercomputers. And no, it does not run on Windows for Linux heads like myself. We take a little bit of pride in that. It's called The Voyager, which, you know, as a Star Trek fan and I need also The Voyager EUS 2, which is in the East US 2 data center. It is using Ubuntu 1804 LTS and it has, here we go, you ready for this number? 250,440 AMD APYC CPUs. Yeah, it is absolutely insane. It's using the Epic processor comes with 48 cores. So it's got a crap ton, I think is the official term of cores available for this guy. And then some A10 GPUs as well for GPU capabilities. And as you mentioned, this is finally cracking the top 10 of supercomputers. We have five other ones that are also inside the top 500, but this is the first one for Microsoft in the Azure space. It's actually cracked that top 10. So definitely hats off to the folks that be able to pull this one together. Yeah, I think that there was a Japanese company that was previously the title holder of the fastest supercomputer in the world. It's nice because that ultimately allows things like, you know, medical data crunching, which I think is super important. And I know Microsoft has a huge commitment to healthcare organizations. And we think about the last, you know, 18, 19 months, that service between being able to share it in the cloud and utilizing teams, it's all that's so important to help us get a little bit closer to where we are at right now as far as the world kind of come back, people being healthy. So we've got some, oh, go ahead, sorry. I was just gonna say that, you know, other things that go off and do this for us, obviously weather pattern and weather pattern simulations and stuff like that for forecasting, climate change impact and things as well. I like it because in that particular article, they also talk about how these operating systems normally run a programming language like Fortran. So hats off your books from computer sciences. Yes, Fortran, geez, we're gonna talk a little bit about old school and we're gonna get into some assembler. So we've got a story for this week, which I think is really interesting because, you know, you're always looking for new ways to make it easier for you to pick what you need as far as what size VMs you might need. And so for you who are still not in that containers world yet, you still may be using virtual machines and there are a lot of you. There is now a virtual machine selector that's gone into GA. It allows you to take into account the right VM for your budget. It allows you to take your operating system, your disk storage. I'm gonna pull it up and we'll take a look at it. Did you get a chance to try it out? It was kind of cool with the way that they brought this up and made this simulation work for you. Yep, so I'll go by section and then we'll see we can pick our operating and I'm a Linux person. I want the free version. So I'm gonna go with Ubuntu. We just click next. Now as you're making those selections on the left, on the right hand side, it shrinks the number of available options that you have to narrow it down to the proper selection that's gonna recommend for you, which is kind of cool. So yeah, we can say I just have some compute intensive, go to next and you can see that there were things like GPU and all those different selectors, how many VCPUs, let's say 12 and we can see we're down to 65 different types. If we need some features as far as a GPU, do we need full CPU support? Also temporary, like ephemeral storage. So if we wanna have say two gigabytes or two terabytes of ephemeral storage available so that you can do some things, security features, confidential computing, making use of those Intel confidential computing CPUs. We get to next and eventually we can say I have made it where there are no, I broke, I broke it. I love that. The main thing is simply ease of use for discoverability of their propices. And then you can take the recommendation that it gives you and then plunk it into the cost calculator to get more detailed views on the cost and usage and where you can go off and deploy those things. So it's a cool new interface for being able to go and take a look at your selection of VMs. So if you wanna take a look at that for yourself, you can head to the blog post aka.ms slash VM selector. Go ahead, give it a shot, find the right VM for you and get building something because we're trying to empower you to do more. You got it, you got it. Now, you mentioned VMs as a good way to start with the VM selector. I'm actually talking about something called VM applications next as far as a news article is concerned. Now, as you mentioned, like VMs are still the majority, well ahead of the majority of what's going on inside of the cloud when people go off and deploy stuff inside of Azure or any of the other Hyperscale clouds. And so when you deploy VM, normally you would go to a gallery and you would install a VM with applications already installed on it like SQL or MongoDB or other stuff like that or you pre-configured and ready to go. The problem is with those VMs you deploy like that, if you need to go through and do an update of the OS to something new, you then have to go and pull down that particular application package or pull down another VM pre-built with that thing on top of it or do something manual on top of the board. Well, we've in public preview, you got this thing called VM applications where you're able to go in and basically make your package of the application you want to deploy inside of your own gallery and then go off and deploy it against a VM that you've just deployed or a new VM that's part of an automation have the VM package deployed on top of that basically think of it like compartmentalizing the metadata about the install files, how to configure them, how to go off and using them that kind of sits as an object inside of the infrastructure that now you can go off and apply with rules like if this doesn't exist already please deploy this on top of this VM inside of this group because you can actually use roles-based access control and policies to be able to go off and get those deployed. So now we have a scale set that has like a hundred different VMs that are on it. You do an OS upgrade on top of them. You can simply use again, a VM app package to go off and have this automated and deploy down to it. Now it's important for you to know you got to make this package, you got to make the scripting but now we give you the infrastructure in the repository or where you can hang on to it inside your Azure infrastructure and then even replicate it amongst different regions so that when it goes off and deploy to your VMs you're good to go. So we build an infrastructure prior to this like how would you do this in the past life? Like you literally would have to go in and manually copy down pieces from different locations and then run your bash scripts or your PowerShell scripts to go off and do these automated deploys. Now we give you the ability to have it done for you if you go ahead and you make those in individual VM applications. Pretty cool stuff in general preview right now. What are your thoughts, man? You know, it's great that one, you can add some versioning to your actual VMs that you have. So if you've got different things or different releases that, you know the way I always kind of remembered deploying VMs at scale as I at least liked having a gold master image which I knew had, you know on it all the right security patches it had the dependencies that I might need to run my software and then I knew I could just, you know auto scale that image and it would just work. And it's nice to see that we're trying to, you know, ultimately technology tries to create easier packaging methodology. You know, that's the reason behind something like Helm for Kubernetes. That was the reason why NPM for JavaScript was created. It's all about reducing the complexity to be able to present dependencies. And so here's just another way of, you know giving people a way to package things and present them so it's a lot easier for them. There's a couple of quick limitations in size, obviously. You can only have up to a one gig application that's going to be installed with all the individuals supporting files. You can only actually have five of these packages deployed to an individual VM. And it obviously requires a VM agent for a level of automation that's in there. So. Yep, and there's some information. Yeah, there's some information in this doc that you can go to. So if you want to learn some more go over to aka.ms slash VM apps preview. We've got a link directly and it'll be in the story notes or the show notes. Now another way of making things easier that I really liked that came out this week. And I was playing around with this a little bit is Run Command, which allows you it's now in public preview, the ability to manage VMs by remotely executing scripts. And so I have been a system administrator in the past that had production systems that I might need to have run one off commands on. And that meant modifying network access to be able to SSH and to be able to make that change then sit and watch it and then make sure that I actually closed that network connection on my way out the door or make a VPN connection or whatever, but I was on call sometimes and doing these things would take a ton of work because you're hopping between networks, you're trying to make sure because you could be on some wireless networks that don't allow VPNs. And I'm sure we've all been there. I've definitely been on an airplane and someone said, hey, this is down. I know you're on an airplane, but could you take a look at it? And I would be telling you more. No, that's the, you're somewhere someone wants something. So with run command, it actually allows you to run scripts. And so you can run scripts in your Windows VM or the thing I used recently was the Linux VM. So I wrote myself, there's a two different major features that you can do and let me scroll down to see that it allows you to run if config commands, which is Linux networking. And then, and this is a really cool example of like an ARM template or a JSON for ARM, you can go ahead and just run ad hoc scripts. So sometimes if you want to be able to, and this is a really good use case, let's say that you wanna do something like I need to get some information out of a log and then have that go through my Linux machine or even my Windows machine, local MTA, so that I can eventually send off what's in that log to a specific place. Maybe it gets pushed to some sort of like disk repository. Maybe it goes into an email. So run command allows you to just go ahead and on the fly execute scripts. If you'd like to, you can see, let me see if I can get it a little bit more visible. Run shell script executes a Linux shell script and it's built right in and you get the standard out from what you're doing. So this is an example of the virtual mean machine if config and then it also allows you to run some PowerShell. You can limit access to your run command. Like I was just saying before about all these other things we're about reducing friction to be able to work with these services. And I think that it helps to be able to do things like, all right, well, let me go into the portal and let's get say something as quick as, I did a hello world. So I just went and I wrote a quick bash script that echoed hello world and redirected that into a file and then catted the output of the file. And then it came right in my output. So I thought that that was a really neat way to simplify work for people who have still some administrative tasks that can't let you be completely, as they say, no ops now. Yeah, and obviously this is an update to the existing functionality. And it's as you mentioned is to be absolutely clear. It doesn't require you to go in and do anything to the machine. You can just go in and run the command from the CLI to be able to reach into that box and go off and do stuff. Now, one of the things that you used to be able to do or would need to do or is common to do when you're managing your VMs is access files and grab files from someplace else to go off and do stuff and manipulate them, install them or do something on that machine. And we obviously have blob storage as one of the ways that you can go off and store stuff inside of an environment. But typically blob storage was only accessible if you're using other APIs or other custom tools or AZ copy or good old storage explorer to be able to go off and talk to storage environment. And if you wanted to have a way for your machines who don't have that functionality built in to access them, good old fashioned secure FTP was the way to do it. But you would have to stand up your own secure FTP system and then attach it to the blob storage at the front end, if you will, to be able to go in and attach up to it, which was a bit of a pain in the butt. And so we've now enabled, again, in preview mode, your ability to go through and have access to your blob storage using secure FTP. Now, to do this, again, it's in preview, go sign up and try it out. You will need to go off and obviously authenticate to that environment and we support two different levels of authentication. First of all, you have to have a local user that gets created for you when you set it up. And then we assign you or give you the choice of using an assigned secure password. So you have to copy that down and use it that represents that local user or you can use your more traditional public and private key sign with a key sign with SSH. So your call and how you want to go off and talk to that particular box and authenticate to it. But once you do, it literally functions and works like an everyday SFTP system that you could then access using whatever client you want to be able to go off and have access to it. Now, from a security perspective, just like SFTP, right? Once you attach up to that particular blob storage container, you then can go in and evaluate the different containers you have access to. Yes, no, yes, no. And then when you're able to access that particular container, all the standard read-only updates, that kind of stuff, those particular security parameters are available for you and you can have granularity with having different authentication users with different rights to different areas inside your blob storage. So we handle it for you now. It's in preview to be able to go off and to use it. You can even define a home directory that you land in when that user logs in. So to me, man, this is like taking me back to the old transfer days, man, with the old files that I used to use on the Windows side, to be able to go off and transfer files back and forth between systems. What do you think about this, man? You know, I used to work in situations where I had to have logs moved from a server to another place so that they can eventually be saved and processed in other services, like Splunk and things like that, but we'd have to move them off of the actual machine. So the big problem with that was maintaining certificates that go along for open SSL if I was working on a Linux machine and then also managing the actual storage. So if you're using a storage array, and back in the day, we had like our three pars and our different types of ways to connect, you know, sands or NASs, it meant another thing to maintain, including the operating system that came on top.  With this, now we're talking about, as we do with almost everything, is how do we offload that to a service? How do we reduce complexity? And it keeps coming up. How do you reduce complexity and increase the level of performance that you as a person can have individually because you're not doing these minutia tasks? Oh, all right. Well, I got to write an SFTP command to pull this down and put it into a storage server that eventually, no, and the other thing that's great is like, let's say we need to set up temporary access to a file. You know, that's a great thing about the blog storage is that we can just send a URL using an HTTPS link where someone can go and maybe you specify by IP address, maybe you specify it by Azure AD login, whatever it is, you'll be able to get someone kind of gated to a particular file so that they're able to access it for just a short period of time or a long, and then you can add expiration, which I think is another thing. So you can say, well, these files should only be in this particular blob for X amount of time. Let's set up an expiration policy. And the other thing that I like is that if we wanted to use something like Azure Functions to actually, you know, access these and then do something with some sort of code, whether it's like Java or Go or JavaScript to take these things that we move along, it helps kind of like a, just improve how every connected thing is available within like a same network and none of it has to be managed. So Anthony wants to know if someone can ICQ link him to the latest QTFTP client. Yeah. Oh, I think was that, that was the, uh-oh, one, I think. Yeah, I'll just go off and just mention again, this does require that you sign up for the preview. It's only available in select regions, but they do have the list and the documentation which regions are available. Currently it's free, doesn't cost you anything other than your storage costs, your network egress and stuff like that, you normally would be paying. There may have a charge associated with it when it gets out of preview. And then as I mentioned, there's no integration at this time with Azure AD user accounts inside your tenant. This is a standalone local user that gets created specifically for the SFTP connectivity. So go ahead and try it.  Cyber ducking away. So we're at that point where we're gonna start mentioning what's going on out here in the community. And one of the things I really think is great is our friends Richard and Gregor they have put together this festive tech calendar for 2021, they're there in our chat. We wanna say hello and thank you very much for always showing up. I want you to go and check out, there's lots and lots of content for the community by the community. There's prizes that are gonna come from all this. You can see they've got sponsors. So go ahead and check out the festive tech calendar. It's gonna run through the entire month of December. So you finish up your November holiday here and get to learning about what information and interesting articles that the community has to share with us. Have you participated as a presenter in the festive tech calendar in previous years, my friend? I have not, but that's because I'm not the most festive. I'm not the most festive person. What can I say? And holidays are coming up here in the States but you may not be in the States. And if you want to remember that there are still Microsoft events that you can go and check out, here's the one that I thought was really interesting on the 23rd, you could run this event where you can learn about running Windows, SQL, Linux workloads using Azure Hybrid benefits. Hello, Thomas, we speak your name. Go and check that one out. And then there was just a big conference yesterday, I think it was through the day before. It was early this week and I just want to make a tip out of the hat to that one there. That is the Azure IaaS Day that the Azure Compute Team pulled up. And that one there, currently it's over but you can get in replay mode. So if you go and follow the link, you're able to register for this still, just use your email and sort of stuff to be able to get past the registration page. They'll email you the link to go see the on-demand content and the on-demand content is available for, I believe it's almost a year but really I think of it more like 90 days or so that's available from this particular link. After that, it kind of migrates its way over into the YouTubes and into other pages as well. But it's a really cool content in there from my folks and my friends from the old Azure Compute Team that did the Azure IaaS Day just recently. Yeah, it looked like there was a bunch of interesting stuff up there. And want to get all the way to the end because we're just about out of time. I know that there are lots of great places to check out more content around Azure or ITS. And I know Rick, you normally do patch and switch. I'm sure you're taking next week off but that's one of those shows that you can go check. So keep your eye on at Rickster CDN and you also have a patch and switch Twitter, correct? Yeah, at sign patch and switch. We're gonna be doing a show not next week but actually two more shows in the month of December. One basically on the third and then one probably on the 17th or something like that before we kick it off in the new year. Yep. Well, I think next week Pierre is going to have us back.  But Rick, I just wanted to say thank you so much for doing this with me today. Thanks to everybody who are in the comments. We really appreciate you watching this. And thanks to all of you for letting me kind of guide you these last two weeks through the show. Hey man, thanks for stepping up. I really appreciate it. It's a lot of fun. No problem. So everybody, we're gonna give you the wave. Goodbye. Thanks so much. Have a great weekend and we'll see you next time on AZ Update.


All right, I am checking in from the temple of iron and I'm checking in with a PR 7 repetitions at 80 kilos So I'm trying to get all of the repetitions as explosively as possible So you can see there nice clean good explosive repetitions trying to look through the window is a good technique You can use when you do overhead presses So the first few repetitions all good Nice and clean and then you see the last one there a bit of a grind that was needed to get all of the repetitions up