Now guess what? Mommy's home. Mommy's home. She's back. Can we get to see her? Oh my God. Let's go say hi. He was freaking out. He's like, who is at the door?  I know. You were out there for a while. Is your nails done? Woo. Let's see him. Um, ooh. You don't like him? No, of course I do. We got to see him at Better Lightning though. So get over here. Ooh, these are nice. You don't like them? Is that the color that you picked out? Yeah. Not one of the, which one? What do you mean, what color? What color did you say that you picked out for your nail girl to order? Well, it was, it's just a polish. I don't know if she actually ordered the actual one that we were talking about. Oh, okay. I don't know though. Maybe I'm wrong. Wait, so are you home for the night? Home for the night. So thus starts the night routine? Yes, it does. Mama Squad, it is currently 5.30 in the afternoon. And people might call us crazy. What? But this is when we usually like to start making dinner. This is when we eat like literally dinner. Like we eat around like 5.30 to 6.30. I just always grown up with my dad coming home from work and making dinner at like four. Like that's how I- Oh, maybe that's for you.  She would cook dinner, babe. And we would eat by like 5.30. So my mom did the same thing. So I figured like that's why.  But the thing is my mom, my mom's like that. My mom doesn't make dinner until 8 o'clock. So I can't imagine doing that. But I'm so used to my dad always making dinner and certain, I don't know. I just feel like I get hungry and I want dinner. Well, I'm extra excited for this night routine because- It's a little different. Is it a little different? I was gonna say that. It's cause Mariah's gonna be- Cooking dinner. Cooking dinner tonight. She literally like, okay. So she doesn't cook dinner a lot. But there's one thing that she does cook and it's her stuffed green peppers. Here's my mom's signature stuffed green peppers. It's a secret recipe. And I'm telling you this stuffed green pepper recipe is literally to die for. So I leave it up to her because you already know if I ruin it, she will never let me see the eye day again. I don't even need to proportion anything. I just know what I'm doing. I just get all, I just go cook. Or maybe I'm just hyping her up just so she can cook dinner. So. I was gonna think. During the night routine. What's going on? Sometimes we let the kiddies out. What? Would you want to let them out for a little bit? When is that in our night routine? I just feel like sometimes we do. That is- And it's with them. It's a little cooler outside. It's outside. I don't know what Mariah's talking about. I'm fine. Yeah, I understand. He wants to go outside. Outside? I understand that they want to go out but I do want you to know. That's usually not part of our night routine. Yes it is, sometimes. So sometimes we go outside and then we have a new night routine let them out for a little bit. Okay, so this is gonna be a, this is our made up new night routine video. Get to cooking, girl, cause I'm getting hungry though. Excuse me. Look at this dude. Wanna go outside? Where are you going? So like Mariah was saying, sometimes in our night routine, like at the end of the day, we do take out this little guy and cause he barely gets to go outside since our cage is still broken. But when I tell you, it is his literal favorite thing in the world to just be out here, run around as you saw and just cruise. What are you doing? Go play. Sometimes I could chase him and he'll run. And it's so funny cause it's like playing like tag and he'll literally like sprint so fast. Where are you going? Oh my God. All right you guys, please ignore all of the garbage this week. In my defense, we came home and I was all out of wax and LA. We were in LA for two weeks.  So by the time I came home, I forgot to take it out and it was already full.  Also what makes this night routine a little bit different is this is an engaged night routine.  No, this is our first and last night routine as an engaged couple. So next time that we ever do a morning routine, night routine or anything, it's gonna be after we actually get married which is like insane to think about. We'll be husband and wife. Night routine as a married couple then. Oh my gosh.  And this is our realistic engaged couple night routine that we're putting out for you right now. We came back home from LA. That we do every night. Let's go. So first step into making my supreme peppers is I get my peppers, I cut them. I got my tomatoes. I got my onions. And then after I do all of that, I'll then cook my ground beef. And then I also, this is key, minute made rice. Oh my gosh, this is actually my favorite rice. I feel like it's like the easiest to make. Before I cut my green peppers, I then boil them in this pot for about like five to 10 minutes to kind of soften the green pepper. And that is the key to make your green peppers not like hard, it's you gotta boil them before you do it. Into the last steps. Now we've got to cook up the ground beef. And then after that, we add the rice in the mixture of that. We put in some no sugar added ketchup because we're on a little bit of a diet. And then after that, we stuff the peppers. I'll show you guys like the aftermath of it all done. But this is what it looks like before. Ooh, this is looking so tasty. I cannot wait to eat. So this is what it looks like. We literally ran out of ketchup. So we had to incorporate with tomato sauce. Which is like the same thing as ketchup. Tomato sauce, so what we will do is we'll stuff the pepper. We'll put the tomato sauce on and then five minutes before it's done, we'll add more tomato sauce with some cheese, with some cheddar cheese. So the whole point of having a stuffed green pepper is now taking the mixture that Mariah made, hand putting it, stuffing the pepper. Just like that, look at these, literally so good. We topped them with the tomato sauce. Now we just gotta pop these in the oven, 350 for like 45 minutes.  But the good part is when they're done, they're gonna taste so good. Are you ready? I'm excited. You excited? All right, so sometimes while the dinner's cooking or before we actually cook dinner, you like to game. Which I have been recently getting back into Fortnite because I've actually been missing it a lot. This girl, don't mind the fact that she lost that last video's challenge, the chip challenge. Okay. She is competitive and when she plays this game, she's actually good. I'm good, right? I'm good. You actually do decent. Guys, I've literally, listen, I have to play on this big TV, okay? Let me show you what Bill gets to play on. He gets to play on this little monitor where he can see everything so clearly. The fact that I've been almost getting more kills than you do, and I'm on this big TV sitting all the way over here, that's some game. That's some game. That's actually really good, right? That's pretty good. That's pretty freaking good. So typically now we like to just game, you know, talk with our friends or just FaceTime. It's the end of the day. We really don't have to do anything. I can go outside, I can go swimming. The house is pretty much clean, honestly besides like the dishes, but that'll be done later. And then the garbage over there that Bill forgot to do.  I don't know why, but is it just me or like, every like once a month, we always get the garbage super full? Yes! How do we have- It's just the two of us though. It's just the two of us though. No, it's not, I can take it out every day. It's just the two of us. Just the two of us. We can make it if we try. Just the two of us. I mean, we are making it. I know. Make it at a wedding. Come and see. Wow, look at this. Marvel theaters. Look at those nails. Coming down below to get your tickets to Marvel wedding. Oh, we can have some supporters come. Maybe. Stay tuned. Dinner is done, but I want to say this. Me and Bill never sit at our kitchen table over here. And Bill was literally the other day, like let's get a new kitchen table, but I'm like, no, like let's wait. I want to wait to get like a really, really nice one. I don't think I've ever actually sat there for dinner. But I want to get a really, really, really nice one for our next house. And I feel like that's going to be like our, not like a forever home, but like our home for a very long time. Like that's what we're going to have like kids in. Yeah. Cause I think we plan like next year, we want to get a new house. But that's why we never sit at the kitchen table. We always sit up here at the island. It's just easier right here at that island. It's like in the middle of the kitchen. I don't know. It's just nice. I don't know. We like it. I think we'll have to get a nice kitchen table. I think we'll actually enjoy it. Oh my God. But guys here. Look at this. Look at that. Look at the steam coming off that. So I took it out of the oven. I put cheese on it and I put it back in for another like three minutes. So the cheese- He didn't put enough cheese on it for my liking. I did. I put a bunch. It's just that big one. I didn't put a lot on it. So let's taste test it. Let's see how it tastes like. The peppers are super soft in it. I know it's cause I boiled the peppers for a long time. Good. See the taste though? Because we didn't have enough ketchup. Cheers. Cheers. Oh yeah. That's good. I like it. It definitely needs more, a little bit more ketchup. But- We ran out of ketchup. We didn't have it. I didn't realize. We always were always stacked up on ketchup aside. We had a lot. So we must have used it all the last time we had this. Cause we had like three ketchup bottles that all were like a quarter full in there. But it still wasn't enough cause we made so much of this. We could have fed like a family of five. Honestly. Honestly though. It definitely needs a little bit more. It's a little bit dry. About center upper. But it's still so good. Mm-hmm. Since Mariah did all the cooking, I am more than happy to do the dishes. It's kind of like you have to have like a 50-50 split. Or like you gotta work it out. You know, if you're living with someone. So they do have to work. You do have to work. So it doesn't seem like it's so much at the end of it. But our kitchen's fricking dirty. Like we got dishes all over here. Garbage all over here. And then a stove that is completely destroyed at the same time. So we got a lot to do. This is definitely a huge part of the night routine. Because tell me you don't want to wake up to a house looking like this. Like imagine waking up in the morning and then you just see this. It's just depressing. So let's take care of this. And make this house clean again. Cause it needs to be. It's giving me anxiety, Loki. These make me feel like I'm a surgeon. Getting ready. Like I'm a doctor. How to operate on someone. And just like that, it literally took me like a half hour. So don't judge. But we have a lot of dishes to do. And here's the final result. Clean up the counters a little bit. Ooh, the stove is looking good again. And the trash is still crappy. I have to wait till Thursday, okay? Cause after Thursday the people come, they empty out our trash bins and I can throw this all out. But for what mess that we made today, it's all cleaned up or drying. Dishwashers running. And most importantly, I am happy and don't have any more anxiety anymore. Okay, after dinner, I typically then take off my makeup. I wash my face. Obviously I don't have makeup on today. I've been trying to let my face breathe. I have been breaking out these last few days because we got home from traveling. I have been stressed to the max. I literally just got off my period. But my skin has gotten so much better and I'm so excited and happy with my results. Pretty much a lot of it's mostly scarring now and now I just gotta go for like micro-dealing sessions. I actually need to go grab my ice globe cause I'm gonna like ice my face to get kind of like the inflammation down.  These are all the products that I use. In the night, I'll use my facial wash. I'll double cleanse. I'll use my facial wash, my creamy cleanser, my hydrating toner. I'll switch between the nutrient toner and the hydrating toner depending on my skin.  So let's do a little time lapse and make ourselves feel clean. My face is all done. Ignore how inflamed my acne is. Like I said, I have been having a terrible breakout again but it's okay, it's gonna clear up. I just did all my facial stuff. I feel so clean and got all the oils off. Now I'm pretty much just gonna like enjoy my night, play some Fortnite with my sister and then we'll catch up with you guys and we brush our teeth and do the rest of our night routine. I am already getting sleepy. I'm so tired. And we haven't even done like half the stuff we need to do. So what's next on the agenda for this? I'll get to do this brush our teeth. For this night routine. No we don't. Yes we do. What else do you gotta do? I gotta put an extra layer of deodorant on. Okay, I don't gotta do all that, I do. Oh, I gotta do some brush my teeth. That's why you stink in the morning because you don't got that extra layer of deodorant right here. So I already went ahead and took off my shirt that I was wearing. I got some pants on for now, but usually sometimes I sleep, it's weird. Sometimes I sleep with like pants on. I'm gonna go so I just can put underwear on. I just can put underwear on after now. Whatever you wanna do girl. I just can't put it on. Whatever you wanna do on by the way. I just can't put you guys without it. Yeah, so, see, doesn't that feel good? Okay, fragrance. So later spice it up, you know, you never know what's gonna happen during the night routine. So you always gotta put cone on boys. Look at, we're so cute. We got matching toothbrushes too. You're not a couple, you don't got matching toothbrushes. Look at that. Oh, wait. This one's nasty. I need a cleaner. Ew. Usually yours is nasty. No, I always clean it out. I clean it out. No, yours would be like dripping all over the counter. I swear, yours, oh my gosh. This is the one time Mariah cleans her toothbrush. I always clean it out. Your toothbrush water is always dirty. Mine's only dirty right now because I need to clean it. I don't wanna clean it. Don't even lie. I don't wanna clean it. You're lying to our family right now. I don't wanna lie. Yours is always wet and nasty and dirty. It always has like a layer of yellow, yellow, yellow. Oh my gosh, I can't look at you. I know, I can't talk to you anymore. Don't even say that, cause you know that's not true. I can't look at you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Ew. There you go, we got, ew, we don't wanna see that. Okay, see you in a while right now. If anyone's pet peeve is like watching people brush their teeth, I'm sorry. How do you feel that my teeth are clean in the years? Cause I just went to the dentist yesterday and they did a deep clean.  So I really have clean teeth and a clean toothbrush. My teeth are clean. All right, wait, so what do you put it on right now? You gotta explain what you do. I already did this earlier, but it's my lip mask. So Mariah's putting on an overnight lip mask. You can't just pee now. Wait, if you put this on earlier, it says overnight. Why did you put it on earlier? Cause I needed it. I needed it. Every time we go to bed, I try to kiss this girl goodnight.  Cause I got my lip mask on. I'm like. Yeah, I just say kiss me lightly. Sometimes you say no. You mean. Please brush me, T-boy. I just told Bill, I'm like, I need a full body massage. Let me tell ya.  Hey, good thing full body massage is not part of our night routine. Yes it is.  That is not part of our day in night routine. Yes it is. Okay, see Mariah's just adding stuff on. Over and over and over and over and over. Cause I need it. My body needs it and you love me, right? I'm taking y'all with me really big. I'm gonna go pee. Cause we gotta go check the house. We gotta go make sure that all the doors are locked.  Oh my God, babe. So we're not gonna listen to this girl pee right now. So basically what I do, and Mariah, she kinda sometimes does this, but I'll go around to all the doors, all the side doors, all the windows. Literally every square inch of the house, make sure that it's all locked up, all good. And which I already kind of did before I started filming. I'll also make sure our cats have food in because like obviously they want food over the night. We don't want them to starve. Which they do. That'll last them perfectly throughout the night. We got their litter box right here. Everything looks good. Snappy, ready to go to bed? This is another thing I wanna show you guys. I wanna show you guys right now. Ready? Oh and also, we do have our alarm system on all day long, but like we have an overnight mode where it's like an extra, extra. If anything gets opened, it'll go off instantly. So I already did turn our alarm on, but watch this. Watch what I teach Snapp, ready? This is how he knows we're going to bed. This is part of the night routine.  Come on, up up, you know. Watch, I bet you he goes on the bed, watch. Up up, come on, come on. Up up, go, go, go, go, go. Yay! Yay!  It's this little boy. Thor usually comes up on the bed and like sleeps after a while, but Snapp, he knows words better than Thor. So Snapp knows certain words. One of them is up up, which usually means like, no. Jump up, but he mainly goes to the bed when we say up up. Right? Right? Oh! He likes to bump padded. Ooty pads, ooty pads, ooty pads, ooty pads. Oh, whoa! What are you doing? Whoa, he loves his ooty pad. Look, he's going crazy. Whoa! Oh, we can go to bed now. Oh yeah, I'm happy with that. I'm gonna massage you then. No, you are massage with me. We're not getting over enough. I shouldn't have said anything. I'm gonna take off this hoodie though, but I can't do that on camera, so. But basically, we're gonna end out this video right here. This is it, Marvel Squad. This is our engaged couple night routine. Now there are some things that have been different, obviously, since we're being engaged. A lot of during the night, we're like looking at wedding, doing wedding stuff, because we don't usually do that during the day unless we have like a phone call. There's like, if every night's sometimes different, but like, this is like our generic, like what it looks like when we're not doing much. What else do we? Mariah, now that she has a ring, she locks up her ring every night, so that's like, you know, another thing that's different. It's weird, right? You have like a ring to like put away and like take out every day. It's like, it's cool. I'm just ready for bed. Are you ready to get married? How many months? How many months, I don't know. I think nine. Why do you look paner than me? My body's really tan, my feet. Yeah, why do I look tan? Why do you look like that? Why do I look white? Maybe I'm just red, I feel like I look more red. I'm like so tan in my arms and stuff, my face don't get tan. Tan check, tan check. See, but that doesn't, it doesn't show right. See, I calibrated this camera, so it just makes me a little bit and not you. Yeah, a little bit makes me, I don't look ugly. All right, you guys, we're gonna have the video right here. I can't handle it, I gotta go to bed. Marble Squad, thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed our official engaged night routine and our one and only. Yeah. Make sure to give this video a huge thumbs up, comment down below if you have any other video ideas or follow us on Instagram if you want to DM us some like prank ideas. But other than that, I hope you guys have a great night just like we did and we'll see you in the next one. But until then, peace. Love you guys.


Good morning to you all it's an honor to have been asked to present this opening address at this prestigious event and I regret that I'm unable to join you in person due to legislative business here in the house today Japan is one of the United States greatest friends and most critical allies and a partner in so many different areas My own personal experience with Japan and its people dates back to the early 60s when my father an Air Force officer Was stationed in Tokyo Living in Tokyo in those early post-World War two years and being fortunate to travel Extensively throughout the country as a high school student gave me a unique opportunity to experience the country's rich and fascinating Culture its traditions and its history Early last year. I had the opportunity to visit Japan for the first time in 50 years It was a long overdue return and I was heartened that in our many meetings That was abundantly clear how the relationship between the United States and Japan has grown and matured Rooted in our shared values and our common purpose the economic ties between our countries are abundant and important It is necessary to keep open the lines of communication So leaders of both our countries can explore ways to maintain and grow these mutually beneficial partnerships Japan is Massachusetts fifth largest trading partner and in my district There are companies in a diverse array of fields such as pharmaceuticals medical devices Manufacturing and electronics that are Japanese owned Supporting jobs and innovative new products in a wide range of areas This point was driven home to me during one of our discussions in Japan when I asked a Japanese business leader How his company innovates he simply stated quote we buy American companies unquote America's innovation economy is cultivated and nurtured by government investment We found that when the government partners with the private sector to encourage research development and innovation What we produce and have to offer is more internationally appealing Beyond the important area of economic cooperation The United States and Japan face many common security challenges in the region a fact Which has been underscored by the provocative actions of North Korea as of late and of China in the South China Sea Challenges in the region include cyber threats and illicit Trafficking as well. And this is an area where natural disasters have a tendency to persist as a senior member on the armed services Committee I have seen the ways in which our countries have partnered to strengthen the security of the Asia Pacific region and the world Our continued pursuit of cooperative efforts help to realize the immense potential for growth and prosperity in the region And I believe the dialogue and communication at every level are crucial to our long-term Relationship in speaking with officials and business executives I was disappointed to learn that the number of exchange students from Japan to the United States has fallen Significantly since the 1990s some 50% according to one study My experience living in Japan taught me how important these types of personal investments are to mutual understanding and cooperation I encourage all of those interested in continuing the progress of the u.s Japanese partnership to think about how this trend can be reversed These are but a few of the issues that demonstrate the breadth and depth of u.s. Japanese cooperation I remain encouraged by the political will in both of our countries to maintain this strong and enduring partnership Thank you all again for the opportunity to share this morning with you And I hope you all enjoy a rich and fruitful discussion throughout the course of the day


I used to have a mentor who started a company called Rykodesk, who said to me, you know, the company's kind of stopped being fun after we could no longer share two pizzas. So I don't know what's that like, depending on how much you eat is like eight or 10 people, right? But those initial teams are so critical to the success of any business. And I think in the history of any company, those early teams tend to be long forgotten like most people, they'll tell you who the founder is, but they have no idea who the second and third and fifth person actually are. And the second person is often the most critical person in the creation of something. But they're often confined to, you know, some asterisk somewhere if that. But for us, it was all about this shared interest. And because I guess it was easy to find that because Sonic Biz was in the music space. So music acted as this binding agent that no matter what walk of life you were from, no matter what passport you carried, no matter what your skill set quote unquote was, whether you were an engineer or, you know, salesperson or whatever. I think that commonality had reassured everybody that, you know, we vibe to use a music term. And in the early days that made all the difference, because vibe for me is another way of saying, I trust you because there's something that connects us there that's beyond whatever on a piece of paper or a resume or a LinkedIn profile. It's something that cannot actually be captured in any of these things. It's only something that you feel when you share either a room or maybe I guess a Zoom with somebody nowadays. I love it. And for AJ and I, we've been doing the art of charm for the last 15 years. And though we're quite different in many aspects of our life, we're always able to figure out a way to continue working together because the mission that we sent out on in the very beginning had never changed. Now if either of us diverted from what this was about, then we wouldn't be able to work together.


Alright, so now I'm going to talk about solving systems that aren't in like x equal or y equal. If this isn't already done for you, you need to solve for x or solve for y in one equation. Then you take that expression that you just found on this side and plug it into the other equation. That will be important. So now you solve the new equation, so now you've found out what that variable is really equal to. And then you plug that back into one of your original equations, either one, and solve to find out what the second variable is. Look at another system of equations. Remember we're looking for an ordered pair, x equal and y equal. This is our x, this is our y, what are they going to be? So in this case we don't have an x equal or a y equal isolated yet, so we have to do that first step. We have to isolate. Now we have two choices for x's and two choices for y's, whichever equation we want to take. I'm going to take the top equation. Can anybody guess why? It would be because this coefficient on x is just one, so that would be so easy to just solve for x. All I have to do is add across the equal sign. So we started out with x minus 4y equal 4. We're going to add 4y to both sides. So 4 plus that 4y. And now I've got my expression that I can substitute. Remember this is the part that we're going to substitute. We had negative 5x plus 3y equal to 14, but remember we're going to substitute for x. So negative 5 times our x, but this time x is 4 plus 4y. Remember this expression is what we're going to substitute. The rest of our equation was plus 3y equal 14. Now this time, since we have an expression that we are going to multiply by that negative 5, we have to distribute. So negative 5 times 4 would be negative 20, and negative 5 times 4y would be minus 20y. And plus our 3y is equal to 14. And now we're ready to combine like terms. Negative 20 is its own term. Combine those like terms right here, and we have negative 20y plus 3y would be minus 17y is equal to 14. My equal sign over there got messed up. And now we add 20 to both sides so we can take this to the other side. And we have, I'm going to write it over here, negative 17y on that side. Is equal to, you're adding 20 to both sides, we're going to have 34. And dividing by negative 17y is going to be equal to a negative 2. So our ordered pair so far, we know that y is negative 2. That's just the first substitution. Now we have to plug it back in to find the other variable. So we can go back to our original equations. When substitution, when you have to solve one equation for a variable, that kind of makes a nice equation and you haven't really changed the equation. So I'm going to plug mine back into that equation. So I'm going to come in here and say x is equal to 4 plus 4y and substitute in for the y. So x is equal to 4 plus 4 times that negative 2. So we're going to have x is equal to 4 minus 8, negative 2 times 4, then 4 minus 8 would be negative 4. So there's our x and our back up here at our ordered pair. We have negative 4, negative 2. And we don't have to check both equations if we're satisfied with what we did. But let's see if we can see that it really is that for at least one of the equations. So let's plug it into the easy equation. So x which is negative 4 minus 4 times y which is negative 2 if we did it right should be equal to 4. So negative 4 and then negative 4 times that negative 2 would be positive 8 and negative 4 plus 8 would be 4. So we know it satisfies the top equation and if it satisfies the top equation we should feel pretty confident it's going to satisfy the bottom one. You can check it on your own if you want to. We don't have an M equal or P equal equation and we don't have one that M or P has just a coefficient of 1. So we have to work a little bit harder on this one. So we can take either one of the equations and I like small numbers and we haven't tried the second one, the second equation we've always been using the first one. So let's just change things up a little bit. So let's solve this one and 2 is the smallest number so I'm going to solve this one for M. Again why did I do that? Just because these look like nice numbers, 2 is a small number to have to divide by so I thought that would be pretty easy. Actually either one of them works fairly easy in this problem. So if I solve that I have 2M is equal to 20 and then I'm going to add the 10 P to both sides and then I'm going to divide everything by 2. So this will be M, 20 divided by 2 would be 10, 10P divided by 2 would be plus 5P. So I'm going to use 10 plus 5P as what I plug into, to plug my variable into the top equation. So this time I have to go into, I don't have a choice because I solve the second equation, I've got to go into the top equation and I'm going to substitute for M. So 3 times 10 plus 5P, that's what we said M was equal to, minus 15P will equal 30. Again we have to distribute because we have an expression here. So 3 times 10 will be 30, 3 times 5P would be plus 15P, minus 15P is equal to 30. When we combine our like terms they actually cancel each other out because one's a positive P and one's 15P and one's a negative 15P. So this actually tells me that 30 is equal to 30, which is a true statement. It is true that 30 is equal to 30. So what that really tells us that all points, both these lines have all points in common or they are the same line. Alright so let's try a couple points that we know are on either one of these lines and I want to try the point 0, negative 2. So if I plug it into the top equation I have 3 times 0 which is N, minus 15 times negative 2 which is P is equal to 30, but 3 times 0 is just 0 and negative 15 times negative 2 would be positive 30 equal to 30, so it worked for the top equation and just to make sure that you really know this is true let's try it in the bottom equation. So 2 times N which is 0 minus 10 times P which we said is negative 2 should be equal to 20. So 2 times 0 is 0, negative 10 times negative 2 is positive 20 equal to 20, so sure enough it works for both those equations last problem. We have this system right here and 2x minus 2y equals 6, x minus y equals 29. The bottom equation hopefully you can see would be a nice equation to solve for x or for y because they both have coefficients of 1 and let me tell you a little trick this is a positive 1x and a negative 1y, so positive x would be the easiest one to solve for. We don't have to worry about our signs if we divide so x is going to be equal to 29 plus y adding y to both sides. Substituted into the top equation, the other equation we have 2 times our x but remember our x is 29 plus y and then minus 2y equal to 6, so again we have to distribute so 2 times 29 is 58, 2 times y would be plus 2y and then minus 2y equals 6, so combining like terms 2y minus 2y, again they can't reach other out and we have 58 equal to 6 which is a false statement. So if we had a true statement and it was the same line all points are in common then if it's false that would mean that they have no points in common and if you remember talking about special lines, if they have no points in common that means that they never cross or they are parallel lines and I would be fine with no solution.


At this time, then I would like to introduce my colleague, Professor David Kerr, one of our senior fellows in residence at LPI. As many you know, David has written extensively about education and early learning opportunities. His 17 books include Kids First, Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives in America's Future, and Improbable Scholars, the rebirth of a great American school system and a strategy for American education, which was named Outstanding Book of 2013 by the American Educational Research Association. Please join me in welcoming David Kerr. I think it's a pleasure to be here a little bit earlier than you might have expected to hear from me. We look forward to Roberto joining us soon. So I wanna begin with motto, the catchphrase that I use in thinking about anything that has to do with education or anything that has to do with kids. And it's the test, the talisman that I always use, which is simple. Every child deserves what you would want for a child that you love.  You start there, start with a child, and it's easy to see what is that so much attention is getting paid now and so much more attention needs to be paid to early education. As we heard earlier, there is no sounder investment in kids' futures than high quality programs for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. There, and Warren Buffett asked his kids to go find social investments that were comparable in that sector to the kind of investments that he'd been making so successfully. It's not a great surprise that Susie Buffett and others in the family picked early education as their focus. We have shells full of good research studies, and the results linking high quality early education to strong outcomes in school and beyond. Fewer kids left back, fewer children placed in special education, more high school graduates, more students going to college, more students working not on welfare, earning a decent amount of money, staying out of prison, raising families. That data is stronger than the evidence that links smoking and cancer. It's pretty powerful. Some of those studies have tracked students for 40 years into midlife, and those are the famous ones, Perry Preschool and the like. But as people say, that's a long time ago when there are small scale studies and they're right. Fortunately, we have a lot of studies, a lot of work that's been done in recent years on wide scale programs, the kind of high quality programs that are within the reach of states and the federal government. In New Jersey, for example, the research shows enormous and sustained gains for children through the fifth grade. Now they've tracked this one group of kids who'd received early education. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, about to hear results from a study that has taken these students into eighth grade and from what I understand, the impact is astonishing in terms of reading and math growth. There are other studies, places like Michigan, Georgia, other places that have produced really fine results. And by the way, we're talking about four states and I'll say a bit about how we selected them, but there's a lot of other stuff going on, both at the state level and the municipal level in the country and I don't want you to have any thoughts that we've slided those places. But there's one study, recent study, that got a lot of traction that had people shaking their heads, is it really true that pre-K works? So there's a study that came out of Tennessee, some of you will be familiar with, it was published this fall, showed that as a third grade, children who'd been in the state preschool program, were doing no better, no worse, no better than kids who hadn't had that experience. Well that's unnerving obviously as a result and any good policy analyst wants to know what's going on, fortunately, it's another piece of research on the Tennessee program done by the same researchers. They visited about 45 of the programs in the state to see what they look like and they were terrible. They had teachers who had no experience with pre-kindergarten, they're told okay, this year you're teaching pre-K, you got no counseling, no coaching, pick a curriculum and the only curriculum that they could get their hands around was a very strict, academically focused, direct instruction curriculum. So it's not a great surprise that that program didn't make a huge difference and indeed, it's the exception that proves the rule and the rule is this, for pre-K to work, it has to be high quality preschool. That's crucial to this story. So that's one point. A second point is that we know the elements of what quality means. We throw the term around a lot but we really have a research base and we've summarized it in a separate report which you can find online at the Learning Policy Institute website, the elements of high quality preschool but they include, for example, really good curricula that don't just engage kids' cognitive skills but really have to do with social-emotional skills, physical skills, health, all the rest of it that involve well-trained teachers who are being coached in the classroom to get better and better and we know that the more experienced teachers have and the more coaching they have, the better they wind up being. We know those things. So the question for the day and the question that lawmakers have asked and that we've tried to answer is so how do we make it happen? How do you go from, we know what quality is, we know how important it is, how do you actually do this? And while the federal government has played a significant role, the states really have led the way. There are 45 states in the District of Columbia that now provide funds. A year ago, the increase in funds was nearly 10%. There have been funding increases since the Great Recession and even during the Great Recession, many states held firm and quality is getting better. The best known states are places like Oklahoma and New Jersey. We wanted to focus on four states that haven't gotten as much attention but they're doing great work. Washington, Michigan, West Virginia, North Carolina and we picked those four states as you'll hear from my colleague Marjorie in a bit. We picked those four states because they represented diversity in all sorts of ways. Importantly, they're politically different. They're Republican led, they're Democratic led. If you take Michigan, it's Michigan and North Carolina have both been led by both parties at different times in this story. They're big, they're small, they're urban, they're rural, they're northern, they're southern and as importantly, they took different paths to getting to high quality early education. One of the big, big themes of this report is there is no one cookie cutter answer. There is no solution that Washington could be handing down. Lots of different ways of proceeding and you'll hear more about those. Other thing that's important to take away from this work is that we talk about pre-kindergarten but it doesn't stand alone. If we think about it as standing alone, we're in trouble because it's part of a continuum of education that begins at birth, early education of infants and toddlers where lots of work needs to get done, taking you into kindergarten and here's where North Carolina has led the way and then if you don't connect pre-kindergarten with K-12, if it just stands alone, all the gains of pre-k get lost and it's wonderful to see how in many states there are strategies in which it's clear that pre-k has a lot to teach the K-12 system, how to evaluate students, how to evaluate teachers, how to develop a curriculum, how to engage parents, these are all things that the education system can learn and I hope that you can learn a fair amount about what states have been doing and pass it on. I see Roberto has joined us. So I'm delighted to pass the baton to my friend and colleague, Roberto Rodriguez.


Welcome to Toffy TV and joined by Stephen Kelly. We are, as it's quiet, we're just going to have a chat about Everton's players who are on the outside, shall we say, of the managers thinking, and whether there's any that Steve would like to keep. A lot of players returning, obviously, back to the club next week when the club report back for pre-season training. Kevin Morales, Sandro, Janik Balasi, people like this, Cucamartina. As well as the likes of Joe Williams, Karen Dahl and players like that. So, there's a lot of talk this summer of how many players Marcel Brands and Mark O Silver have to get out the door to free up wages for new recruits and stuff. So, is there any of those players who were spent last season at other clubs who you think may still, however slim, have a future at Everton? Make it longer than the one-way dancer. Yeah, I think probably looking towards maybe Dahl, Karen Dahl maybe. I do think he will probably be sent out on loan again though. I don't think it might not be a bad thing as well if it's to Sheffield United, has been talked and also Villa, I think I've seen the other week. It's got to come to the point for him where he needs to make a decision on his career, basically, does he want to be second fiddle, third fiddle maybe to Sigarton. Joe Williams, I haven't really seen much of Joe Williams. I've read a few good reports about him, Loan Spells and he done all right when he was at Barnsley, wasn't he? That Barnsley, yeah. And then he would have back to get a bit of an injury, didn't he? I think an injury when he was at Barnsley or maybe Bolton. So I think out the lot and probably them too, probably looking at them too, seeing a few of the others like coming back like Balasi, Bezzich, forgot about Bezzich as well, yeah. I think there are times that are up to be honest with you at Everton. I think it's to the point now where we've just got to probably be a bit ruthless and be like, I think it comes to the point in the summer where brands could have different training sessions for players who are vented, because I don't really see, especially Balasi, I think Balasi, he didn't get the right money, I think they're talking about £7-8 million, which obviously we're going to be taking a big loss on. I think you've just got to take the money and run with that one. I think fitness wise, when he came back last time after his bad injury, just didn't look the same player really. He had a decent season over Andalec, didn't he? I think he played 38 games and got nine goals. But again, it's like we were saying before about whether he would probably, he's not going to be a silver brands type of player really, unfortunately. And then obviously you've got Sandro, the mystery behind Sandro. I think he's one of them players, isn't he? You want him to do well, because you've kind of got to the point now where you're feeling a bit sorry for him. Which is not good, and I think like we've said before about Everton didn't handle it great with Sandro when he first came in. He should have maybe given them a few games, took them out and then brought them in for games, which are a bit easier, rather than throwing them in against, throwing them in first game of the season and then taking them out and then putting them back in. Going back in against Chelsea away. Chelsea away. You could just tell how much he looked off the pace that day as well. But I think Dallon Williams maybe, but again with them too, they're just low and they're probably going to be low on that again. I suppose it's your Williams. He's had a couple of loans and done well. Yeah. But he'll be getting to the age soon where he can't keep going out on loan. I suppose this summer, I know that Marco Silva, excuse me, wanted to look at him last summer and he got injured pre-season, so that went by the bind and he went out on loan. Apparently there was a couple of clubs wanting to sign him in January permanently and Everton didn't want him to go with the manager. The manager wanted to look at him this summer. So he's got an opportunity, I suppose. Everton have confirmed the pre-season and now so there's a few decent games. So I'm quite sure he'll go to Africa with the first team and he may play in a couple of them and he's got a chance to show the manager worries about, I suppose. For the others coming back, Kevin Morales has got a year left. I don't see any future for Morales. I think if Everton get any kind of offer, he'll go. I think Cougar Martin has the same. He's got a year left on his contract. I think even if a loan was offered for Morales, they'd get him out because, like, look at the workings of Williams, he'll run out his contract. Yeah, yeah. I think Morales and Martin have got a year left on his contract. See, you think they've got more visitors and he's a decent player. It was a really good pre-season last year, didn't it? But I just think he's just a yard too slow, I think, for probably the way we want to play. I think he could play in the Premier League and do what they think. He's a decent enough player. He's not won that injury. That one lost that big injury last time. He's been here for five years as well this year. He's playing really well up until then as well. That's him, man United, the way he wasn't in that testimonial. Yeah, Truman wasn't it? Truman's first game as well, did you want it? It was a Northern challenge as well and he ended up going out. The likes of them, I think, they'll probably be moved on. James McCarthy, who spent, I know that's something you're a bit disappointed about. I really like James McCarthy. I think if he was fully fit last season, he was the type of player he probably could have done with. He's given that January-February spell because I know I've heard Pad speaking a few times about him. He's just nasty and he's that nasty type of player you need sometimes. He's going to leave one on someone and he's not really scared to get in people's faces as well. He doesn't really suffer any fools. But I'm a bit go to that one because I think he looks like he's an honest pro. He's just obviously looks like injuries again. I've just got the better of him. It's similar to what happened with Besage, Balasi. These big injuries catch up on you in the end and when you have one or two minutes, usually you end up having to drop a level. I think a move for him would probably be perfect, a move like Celtic. I think he'd look really good up in Scotland, really do. Or even a lower down Premier League team, Burnley, someone like that. I think he'd look good in like a Burnley team. Aggressive type of team. Dysha like him, he won't get around the pitch. Probably the most hopeful one out of all of them on loan would be Anthony Robinson. I think if he's got any future, I think he could have a future out of it. But I think it could be to the point where they may have to sell him and it could be one of them where they'd potentially bring him back in the future. A move like I know Barcelona have done that with a lot of their players. Where they've put like sold him for cheap and then brought him back for big money later on. He's had a couple of inquiries hasn't he, Wigan? Yeah, Wigan and Bristol City, yeah. He'll look on that and so there was a report just, you know, the earlier this week that Everton were thinking of selling him so maybe. Did be a buyback, but yeah I suppose for the majority of the lad to hear out on loan they'd probably knock on a future of Everton. I would say. I'm with Robinson though. I think Everton might be looking at that thinking. Obviously Baines, this will probably be his last season of Everton. They are going to need a backup left back next season again. So you don't know whether they might either send them on loan again and then see how he goes and then make a decision on it or take the money now and then potentially a year down the line he could flop at Wigan or Bristol or whatever and then you get nothing for him. I know it's only two million which is football terms. There's nothing really these days. Wages, that was supposed for a pair, isn't it? Yeah, but I think they'll be looking to get as many out as possible out of the ones that we've just mentioned. He's got that, but his name is old Tarish I as well. He's coming back. He'll probably be showing the door as well, I imagine. I mean there'll be a few that. There'll be a few that, can I? There'll be a few that you've just said they're loans and that's your contract done. They might offer a couple variation payments, pay them off basically for the last 12 months.  So you're not going to give that for that. There's people like Brendan Galloway, Luke Garber to another one. Oxford still won him. They want him to go back. He's one of them to me, we should just be like, let him go on a free transfer. Get his craze. We're just paying his wages for the sake of it. Next season I'm pretty sure brands won't want him anywhere near the under 23s, because he'll probably want to see someone come up and develop into that left-back spot. I just think players like that, I think you just need to pull the plug with them and just let them go on a free transfer. Does this just show before we finish the difficulty that Marcel Branders has got? This summer they're trying to get people out. And they're not the only ones. There's players we probably haven't even mentioned who he probably doesn't want. We don't know what's happening with Schneiderlin yet, Malkott, Luckman. He walked into a bit of a mess. We all know that. It's been proven that now. I think for us to move forward, we need to start getting some of those ones out of the door. That gives the opportunity for some of the younger lads maybe to get a chance. They're seeing Josh Boulder and stuff like that mentioned, but getting him into the first team squad rather than him in the squad than Morales and players who don't want to be there. I think it's a big job, but I'm confident that once we can get rid of the majority of the ones we've just mentioned, I think you'll probably struggle with one or two of them. You'll probably just be happy to sit on the wage. Unfortunately. But I think, for like Sir McCarthy, I think he's got to go out and get football elsewhere. He's not going to get it ever. He's kind of admitted it. I've seen Coleman having an interview the other week after the Ireland game and he said, James knows he's got to go out and play football. I think for players like him, Sandra as well, he's 25, 26 years of age. No, he's not that old yet. He's still only about 23.  He should be playing football. He should be happy just to be sitting on his 120 grand on every weekend. I do think he would like to snide, and I still potentially think snide and could leave as well. I think if he does get to move to France, he'll stay at everything. I think it's France or nowhere. It's going to be interesting, isn't it? I mean, obviously, the back next week, and we'll see whether... I think next week you'll start seeing a lot of movements. Out and in. Well, a lot of contracts finished on being and moving to the last year or whatever on Monday's show. And I think... The Domino Effect will be good. Yeah, definitely. It'd be sad to see a few of them players go, but that's football now. You've got to move on. Move on with the time. Let us know what you think in the comments. Is there anybody out who spent the season out on loan coming back to Everton who you think could still have a future at Godderson Park and the likes of James McArthur? Is it time for him to move on now to get games? He's only got a year left on his contract. Big thanks to Steve for coming in and doing this. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. And if you want more videos, get all that and join us on Patreon. See you later.


The Cube, at OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014. Is brought to you by Brocade. Say goodbye to the status quo, and hello to Brocade. And Red Hat. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Stu Miniman. Okay, hello everyone, this is The Cube. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's flagship program, The Cube. We go out to the events, Georgia for, we are, Stu, OpenStack Summit, and I'm your Stu Miniman, my co-host for this week, Stu. Welcome in from Boston, I flew in from California. OpenStack Summit, 4,500 attendees here to find out what is going to happen with the open cloud, the open cloud initiative. A lot of action going on in hybrid cloud. We've been in all the different events, IBM, EMC, you name it, we've been covering cloud up and down and around Amazon as well. Stu, I got to get your take, first of all, a lot of great keynotes here. The theme of OpenStack this year is, you know, kind of a Star Wars theme, the rebel army, but basically it's about putting it in an orbit, it's about putting the open source philosophy of open cloud into reality where it's going to move from a vendor fest, contribution from a code standpoint from the developers to customers. So I got to get your take, 4,500 attendees, about the same size as last show, but the vibe here is very much like we're happening, we're happening, we're happening. Is it happening? What's your take and what do you expect to see? Yeah, John, so, you know, you're right. We need to switch from kind of that vendor fest to the customers, you know, Rackspace comes out and talks about the Rebel Alliance. I like what they talked about this morning. We need to go beyond just the developers and talk about the operators and the users without getting too many silos and being able to really have that DevOps mindset. And if you, John, the inside baseball at the show is you look at some of these keynotes and you know, there's a bunch of names that you know in there, of course, Rackspace is there, helped create OpenStack and you know, now have they lost their mojo in OpenStack because there's a lot of companies, if you were to ask who are the top, you know, two or three companies in OpenStack, I don't know that I would start with Rackspace. But there's a couple of companies that got kind of pushed out of the top keynotes slots because there's only so many slots and there's a lot of companies that are all, you know, going for that land grab and want to be, you know, be a big part of OpenStack. Yeah, and the key thing is about 4,500 attendees and this is like a lot of players here. I mean, the key is you're seeing a lot of the developers obviously developer conference focused but you're talking about massive penetration by the big whales, the big vendors, IBM, HP, VMware, Rackspace, IBM has an announcement today with some storage, so huge vendors are in here as well and a lot of startups. So some news, you see here, Piston Cloud has got support from Swisscon, huge for the telcos. You see OpenStack really not only just for the enterprise, it's for service providers. You're seeing all this discussion about net neutrality, the telcos and the service providers. Certainly have a huge opportunity with OpenStack and finally the ecosystem in terms of development and support, Stu, are looking at, you know, as Troy pointed out as keynote, the top three proprietary cloud vendors have committed to spend $25 billion on cloud in 2014 alone. The spend and the effort in this land grab called the cloud is critical and the debate happens on CrowdChat even this morning about how much is on-prem and which will go into the cloud. Obviously the cloud purists will say, hey, it's going to be all cloud but we're hearing, you know, certainly from the analysts that on-premise will not go away anytime soon. We believe that. You'll see a nice combination between the data center and the cloud and finally the key message of the keynotes this morning was software-defined culture. This is right in our wheelhouse. I mean, I think David Floyer at Wikibon was the first analyst in the industry to publish the software-led infrastructure paper going back a few years ago. That now has really kind of set the table for what virtualization has done with software-defined data center, et cetera. So a lot of action happening, a lot of news. I got to ask you from your standpoint, what do you feel is the most important thing and what is the biggest surprise that you think is going to happen here at the OpenStack Summit? So John, the first question is, what is OpenStack going forward? It's supposed to be open and it's supposed to be a stack. There's a lot of kind of, if you ask the average end user, what is OpenStack? They think they're going to get cloud in a box. And of course, that's not what you're getting. It's not even just a full layer. Some people have called it that really at the end of the day, you've got a kernel. And one of the things I'm looking at is there's dozens of distributions out there and the question is, are we going to get some leaders in the space? Who are the lead horses? It's good that there's a lot of players. It's good that there's a lot of action but a customer can just be buried by all the different options that there are out there. And John, you talked about kind of the public versus private. That's obviously something that's an important topic. If you look at, Amazon obviously has got huge growth. Google and Microsoft are chasing them. And if I look at the big players here at OpenStack, John, some of them are building their clouds. IBM's got their soft layer acquisition that they can put OpenStack on top of it. They've got their Paz layer, BlueMix on top of it. HP just made a big announcement last year with their Helion. It's Helion, right, John? Helion, Helion is the HP framework but it's based on Cloud Foundry and it'll sit in OpenStack. Yeah, so right, as you build that stack, even OpenStack alone is not enough. There's that Paz layer on top of it. When we were at Red Hat Summit just a few weeks ago, Docker really stole all the buzz of that show. One of the real values of Paz, Platform as a Service is supposed to be that portability of applications that I can separate my application from my infrastructure and Docker helped to do that. So HP and IBM building their clouds, Rackspace of course is hosting and all of these guys that sell infrastructure, not only you guys that sell infrastructure but a lot of them that sell services are helping customers to deploy OpenStack in their private environments. Well, I want to say that we would not be here if it wasn't for Red Hat and Brocade and this Red Hat supply is great. What are the mugs here? And theCUBE is the independent media operation. We're funded by our sponsors. We want to thank Red Hat and Brocade in particular. Of all the vendors, they are the best here this week in my opinion for stepping up and supporting theCUBE and theCUBE, we work hard to bring you the news, the analysis and the commentary and that would not be possible without Red Hat and Brocade and we want to thank those guys. They are clearly the MVPs this week. Let's talk about Red Hat for a second because obviously with the Red Hat Summit we had theCUBE there. They're not involved in Cloud Foundry as Stu in the past layer but also they have the Linux market. They've been in that for a long time and Linux is what's made all this possible. They're really the DNA and all the messaging from the other events we just were at were Linux for the cloud. And that's really kind of what people are talking about. So what is Red Hat's opportunity? What do you think Red Hat should do here at this event? Yeah, John, so Red Hat Summit was about the same size of this event and if you look last year, Red Hat was a billion three, which is good revenue, especially if you think that what they're trying to do is sell free software. When we had Jim Whitehouse on theCUBE, he said, we asked him, why aren't there more billion dollar open source companies? And he said, selling free software is hard. It's not selling the software, it's everything that they can wrap around it. And OpenStack is a huge opportunity for Red Hat. Anybody that's got support with Red Hat are comfortable with them. They know that Red Hat has experience taking something that's an open source project, making it enterprise ready and giving a distribution that customers can trust and they know that that support. So Red Hat has got a good partnership, partner ecosystem out there and they have the potential to be a leader in this space. They've got close partnerships with Dell. IBM is a partner, but IBM also has their own distribution. So there's a lot to work out, but Red Hat could be an important player here. As you mentioned, they're not part of Cloud Foundry, so the past strategy with OpenShift does put them at loggerheads with some of the other players out there. But Red Hat definitely a big player that we expect to hear lots from here at the show. Again, a lot of developer focus, IBM recently with Blue Mix in the past, certainly is key HP with their Helion approach. Red Hat has their OpenShift, certainly past has always been the battleground, the middleware environment, but OpenStack is more than the past. There's a lot going on at the storage level. We've always felt for many years at Silicon Eagle, Wikibon, theCUBE that storage is really the heartbeat of what's going on with all the innovations on the disk side and certainly the flash side. That's changing the game from a programming standpoint and those guys will win there. But you're seeing big presence here from IBM HP and Red Hat and certainly Rackspace is out there as well. And again, Stu, we got some startups that we're going to talk to. We're going to talk to the founder of Ubuntu, StackStorm, obviously Randy Baez and always a favorite I'll have on theCUBE. Controversial from CloudScreen. He's going to give us the update on the board meetings and the governance side. A lot of debate, but the ecosystem is ultimately still a fragile piece of the OpenStack Foundation. You're seeing some competing efforts, if you will, with the Cloud Foundry. I always point to that because I love the action there. But Stu, the ecosystem is critical, right? It's obviously strong and I say fragile. I don't mean it's weak.  There'll be a lot of leaks. So what's your take on what needs to happen from the ecosystem side here? Yeah, so John, there's a lot of players. I mean, I don't know. I think there's, I'm trying to think how many thousands of contributors there are to OpenStack. But there's a lot of players. We're going to have, you know, some of John, as you said, the big whales. So if you look at HP and IBM and Red Hat, lots of developers, IBM's got over 400 people contributing to OpenStack. We're going to have Lou Tucker from Cisco, who's got a new business unit that has Cisco's inter-cloud offering. So Cisco, of course, you know, is known as being the networking behind everything. So, you know, how does cloud, you know, how does Cisco stay ahead of being disrupted by all of these cloud players? Because the mega cloud guys, you know, aren't looking to buy Cisco hardware. You know, talk about ecosystem, John. You know, VMware, you know, is an important part of this ecosystem. If you look at the networking components, NYSERA, which VMware bought, is a big piece of what goes into Neutron. So, you know, it's a very complex and nuanced ecosystem. As you said, there's competing, you know, forces in here. There's some projects that get spun up. You know, the one that caused, you know, a lot of buzz in the industry was when solemn came out and that seems to have died down and I'm not sure if there's anyone driving it.  OpenStack is not a single, you know, product. It is, you know, multiple pieces that make up the stack. Kind of like if you look at the big data ecosystem.  And the thing for me is if I look at the enterprise, John, you know, enterprise likes simple solutions that are pre-packaged for them. So I expect the converged infrastructure is going to be important in this space and, you know, people have to simplify that, give that orchestration layer, automate the whole thing and enable not just the developers but everybody that managed the whole infrastructure. And as always, we'll be on crowdchat.net slash OpenStack. We decided not to use the OpenStack summit hashtag for the crowd chat this week because mainly it's just too long for hashtag. No offense to the show here. They got to shorten that down a little bit. But Tim Crawford's out there. Hey, Tim, say hello. He says a comment already. Arguably the ecosystem will make or break the ability for the platform to succeed. I totally agree with him on that one. There's already some jokes on Twitter like, hey, they imagine Dragon's going to be the live band for the OpenStack summit given that they played at the past three week of tech shows, back to back to back. But Stu, in all seriousness, the ecosystem is critical. I do agree with you there. But if you look at what's in that room, the room is packed. I mean, standing room only. I mean, this is what I love about this event. This is why we're here. I mean, we wish we had more support from some of the vendors out there to do more of a bigger production. So we have limited slots available this week. But it is where the action is. And that's our philosophy. We go where the action is.  I am looking and watching for cracks in the foundations. We can identify them and talk about them. But really, the news is pretty positive. You're seeing certainly the telcos with the pistons, very good news today. Also, you're seeing a lot of stuff on the enterprise. You're seeing the discussions going from vendor, Olympics, jockeying for who's got leadership to actually buying and they're seeing some purchasing. So we will be focusing on that this week. So anything else to chat about, Stu, before we wrap up? Yeah, I mean, if you talk about on-premise, maybe we can get into a little bit of the economics of this. How is it going to make enterprise IT's life easier? How is it going to be cheaper? Because if you just look at, it's not necessarily simple for a customer to put all of this together. And if I'm putting it on-premise, how is that cheaper than what I was doing before? We're going to dig a little bit into some of the security items, John. I was talking to a friend of mine worked for a pretty large security company and they just had their customer counsel and they said, from a security standpoint, I don't want to go to the public cloud because I'm worried about the NSA. I'm worried about Heartbleed. I'm worried about so many different things. But my concern is if I do it internally, is that kind of private hybrid cloud really going to save me any money over what I was doing? So John, I know you're going to dig into the DevOps angle here because that should really help the agility of what companies are doing. And from an infrastructure standpoint, if customers aren't making changes or adopting something new, then they're not going to kind of save what they need to to be able to deal with the onslaught of growth that they have of all of their data. Yeah, I mean, the game is still the same. The players are moving around. The dollars are coming in. You're starting to see some formation. You're starting to see the swim lanes, as it's being talked about in the industry. But ultimately it's still a jockeying stew for who's going to have what position. It is totally a land grab in the open stack area. Cloud certainly will be a disruptive massive force that's going to change the economics. Yes, well documented. Certainly we've been doing that for two years. Certainly this past year has 100% dedicated to the conversation of mobile, cloud, big data, and certainly with social connected consumers with the phones. You're seeing an absolute disruption that will be at the cloud level. The cloud is the engine of the economics. It's the engine of the innovation. You're seeing new experiences, new stuff happening. So we're excited. This is theCUBE live here at the OpenStack Summit. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. We'll be right back with our first guest after this short break.


Yeah, like just less is more, that's what I like, less is more. Alright, so remember last time, we were talking about, not last time on camera, but off camera, we were talking about like, what it's like to be, what it's like to be fine and, why are you going like this? Nah, because I think it's an interesting conversation, but like what, how do men interact with you, just based on how you look, what have you noticed? We'll go from there.  Say more, what is that? Like, okay, let me give you an example. I can post a regular selfie, right? And not even doing nothing, like a real snap.  Some of them are like, you got some nice lips and this and that, but you get niggas that just do too much.   DSLs, huh?  That ain't even funny. I didn't know that's what it was. Yeah. DSL, huh?  Oh no, middle school, you went to. But so, you know, we're talking about how women go to the gas station and stuff, and they always get harassed and stuff. Like what is, as a dude, I don't really understand that, but what's the experience as a woman? Harassment. Like walk me through it. Like what type of dudes? That's all. It ain't going to be nothing else other than, hey, hey, that's it. I want you to keep walking. So what's the right way to do it? If you had to sit and you had to sit and you would come put men on there.  Like I'm not even trying to be in there for no more than five minutes. So I'm already going in with the thought process of getting in and get out. It's the gas station. So I'm going to try to avoid any type of interaction period. So what's a good place? If somebody is really trying to get at you, what's a good place? Or is it less about the place and more about the person? Both of them. Oh, they said tell me more. Both of them, like at a public event, that's okay. I would say at the gas station, that's like similar to, I really can't even pinpoint what's the best place to highlight a female. I really can't say it. It really all depends on the female. I would say the worst place to even try to even do that is the club. I would not talk to nobody. Why? Because like, come on now. Just think about it. You at the club, that ain't even, you already know what type of people you're going to meet at the club. So typically, typically the type of person you're going to meet at the club.    I do not want to talk to people who, I mean, I do not want to like meet nobody at the club. I will not allow that. I don't want that. But I'm saying like, a lot of people do say nobody at the club is looking for something serious or nobody at the club is a good person or whatever the case may be. But if you're at the club and you consider yourself a good person, it could be other good people at the club. I never said that. It was bad people at the club. No, I'm not talking about you. I'm saying some people say that. Like, if you want to meet somebody, go to church or go to this or go to that, but the club is not the right place. Well, that's me personally. I don't want to meet nobody at the club because it's just not a type of environment. I don't want to meet somebody with, meet somebody if I'm going to be like talking to somebody. To a church for you.  So where is the ideal place for you? I can't even say it's no ideal. We can be crossing the street and you bump into me. If somebody bump into you, you'd be trying to fight.   Not a dude. And I've been bumped on purpose before just for a negative try to get my attention. That's crazy. So that doesn't work? It just depends on me, man. I don't know. I'm just not very, I don't know. I'm not got a problem, okay? Because I don't be liking nobody. It's okay. If you can't give me advice on how to get somebody like you, just in general, if you were a dude, I think I asked you this last time, but if you were a dude, how would you, you know what I'm saying? How would you approach women? What have you seen that, okay, if I was a dude, I'd want to do it like you did. I would be cool. This is the thing.  But if you're cool, I don't know. My personality is just silly, funny, goofy.  Do something make me laugh. That's like, you know what I'm saying? It's gone. It can possibly spark an interest because now without you even trying, we just like connected in some sort of way, you know? So it just all depends on the female or depends on the dude or depend on where you at. Because if you in the club trying to talk to somebody, music, like I don't just get out of my face. I don't even, yeah. Even if it's, who's celebrity you like? After the club. What? Who's celebrity you like? Like Michael B. Jordan. What celebrity?  He can get away with it. Roddy Rich. Okay, so if Roddy Rich tried to talk to you at the club, that would work. But he would have to stand up on his tippy toes and try to talk. I don't even know.  So I don't know. I know he's short though. He's like five. Five. You probably talking to him. If we the same, I mean. He probably like five four. I'm not even joking. But he's Roddy Rich there.  Well, not short. I mean, you're not short, like shorter than me, but at least my height are better. So right, but you say Roddy Rich. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Like I really don't even know if he really. So he's short. I don't know. I mean, I can, he might can give. So famous niggas have a good first. I like Roddy Rich. Gotcha. This, yeah. So if you're famous, it's a little different. No, it ain't got to be the difference at all. Yeah, I got nothing to do with Roddy Rich. If Roddy Rich was a regular dude, you wouldn't like him. And he was still, okay. So take away the fame and the money from Roddy Rich and he a regular nigga. But I still think like if he, it just got a lot to do with like just your energy and your vibes and like your charisma.  It's a lot of niggas with like Roddy Rich energy who work at the factory. Who what? Work at the factory. Or they flipping burgers. They just haven't, you know, they haven't made it yet. I don't understand. You know what I'm saying? So it is the fame. You can't separate. It's nice. It's nice. You wouldn't know who he was. Because I like Roddy Rich in general. Like he just. What do you like about Roddy Rich?  He a really low key dude. Like he don't, you know, put himself out there until he wants to.  Like he quiet. You know what I'm saying? But it's other five, four dudes who the same way. They just not rich in fame. But it's just the fact that it's Roddy Rich. Okay. You want me to name something?  Yeah, name a bro nigga. I don't know what, whatever bro nigga I name. It ain't like they going, anybody going to know him. So. I think what I'm trying to get at is like for, let's say it's a 17 year old watching this, 18 year old, 20 year old. They're trying to understand women, understand how they could be more successful. Like. Like how they, like the 17 year old can be more successful with like getting good women. Like what can he take from what you've observed with Roddy Rich or somebody else? I wouldn't say like try to go be like nobody. Just. You know what I'm saying? Like you know how we take pieces of people. You know what I'm saying? I like how he do this. So I'm going to take a piece of that. Okay, okay. Another example, Roddy Rich ain't one of them niggas that be just out here like, hey, hey, hey, flashing this and that and all that stuff.  Just be real subtle and like really tone it down. Humility. Yeah. Like just less is more. That's what I like. Less is more.  It's just really obnoxious and it's just doing too much. That's not going to move me. But a lot of females ain't like this. So, you know, some females like a niggas to do all that.   That's low key might confuse bitches that need to see the glitter and glam for her to know that that's what it is. And it's like low key niggas that really be having probably way more than the flashing niggas. So, I know a couple of dudes like that. Like too much, but I ain't do little, but really have a lot. Yeah. And it's a lot that do a lot and don't got nothing. So that'll be confusing to females too. So just don't even worry about it and just be yourself and just be yourself. That's the best advice I can give somebody. All right. So let's talk about the last interview and the reception you got and the comments you got and the things that you said.  So I saw how a lot of people were complaining about how I be saying, about how I say like a lot and I can't like, like, like, but I'm gonna work on that because I do need to stop saying them. Yeah. But other than that, I just, a lot of other stuff I went back and watched.  So I can, I feel like some of the things I said, I can look back now and be like, maybe that ain't the right way to look at it and stuff like that.   But I get like what they were saying because I was looking in, I would consider like their points of view as well because, you know, I never said once ever that my own way of thinking was the right way is just my own opinion on things. So yeah, went like, okay, for instance, the video, the one on like being submissive and stuff and how I feel like it's conditional. And somebody in the comments was like, submission is a requirement, not a condition. And when you were explaining it to me, I mean, I get what you were saying because like as women, it should just automatically just be within us. And I was saying that it just depends on the man. And I kind of agree, and I kind of disagree still. So I'm kind of still stuck in the middle, but I'm still like working on it. So let's talk about it. You think submission should be not all the time. I just feel like it just depends on the person.   And things change. And you know, over time, people will eventually reveal who that really are. So then what if she don't want to be submissive no more because of like how she's being treated in a relationship or how he's conducting himself.  Now there's a problem.  It's just, I just, I don't want to put it in a way that like, I want to put it in a way that being submissive comes with conditions, but I just want me to acknowledge the fact that they played a role also in how a woman treats you or is towards you or how she conducts herself like in the relationship with you. Like that's all. That's how I look at it. Because the reason I say it's conditional is you just never know who you deal with.  That's not fair.  No, my opinion don't matter because I'm a woman, but you want me to just lay down and just listen to everything. And that's not fair. That's not fair. Like because at the end of the day, like why do we have to be so small and why we got to shrink ourselves for a man to be a man?  Why we can't pull our own way either? And the fact that women today in modern, in the modern world want to pull their own way around here is like, I'll be wanting to fight us for that. Like why we got to be all that just because we want something for ourselves? Should masculinity be conditional? Like should men take that same approach? You already had said that before. And I, okay, how about this? How about this? How about this? Let's put it like this. I got two things to say. One, should masculinity be conditional? I don't think it should be, but I will say this. You know, for example, people say treat a female how she deserved to be treated. So however somebody care of theyself, if a female don't respect herself, would you respect her? But I'm not talking about just any female talking about the one you're with. Just like with a dude, the dude you're with, you should submit to him. And the woman you're with, you should cater to her and provide for her in the whole nine. But you're saying that people change.  That's not how I was really saying it though. But that's how a lot of women move though.  And dudes can, we can feel that. Because it's certain dudes, they've done everything, they've checked all the boxes. Everything that you might say is a condition. They've met all the conditions and they still don't get submission. So like, what do you say to them? And when I talk to women, they say something similar. Oh, he might switch up or you never actually know how people are. But things don't ever remain the same.  And you even said men get tired. So what's the difference? Y'all are what you say, we're made to move on and want better. Who said? You said, you said that. No, different. I said we want different. Different, better, same thing. It's not the same thing. When it comes to this type of situation, yes it is. It's not the same thing, it's not. Because at the end of the day, like. Women want better, men want different. I'm just talking about how we're wired. Like if we talk about like white men cheat versus white women cheat, for men most of the time it's about different, it's not about better. But we'll get there. This is the thing. This is the thing. This is the thing. Okay, talk to me.   But that's saying that like most men or the majority of men cheat. That's not true. Even if like biologically we might want to, most dudes just want a good woman they could build with, they can grow old with. But if you're going in with bad expectations with like bad faith then you're not setting the relationship up for success. Could you see yourself with one woman for 20 years? Me? Yes.  The body that changed the, I mean the kids that changed the physical form of her body from once. So she not gonna look the same from when you met her if like in 27 and now 20 years later she's everything to change. She's you know. When I'm ready to settle down. Everything dropping and she like so. When I'm ready to settle down, yes. Absolutely. When I'm ready to settle down. When you're ready to settle down. But you didn't say that when I just asked you could you be with somebody for 20 years? Yes. When I'm ready to settle down. It could be both. Now I'm admitting that. We can't be with one man forever. Y'all can't be with one woman.  Let's talk about it. That's bull, that blows me. Let's talk about it. Okay. So why do you think men can't be with one woman? Let's really get to the side. It's not about why do I think. It's things I've learned over time. Things I've seen. Things I've been told. Things I've stumbled over and you know figured out all my own. So it's just like one of the things you gotta accept. Because at the end of the day men and women were not created equal. It's the reason why it's so much power and masculinity. And it's the reason why women have to be down here when men while men are up here. It's the reason why women gotta sit at the house with the kids.  It's the reason why we're only for nurturing and y'all are only for all the hardships. That's not true. Shit like that. That's not true. Especially now. What's not true. It's changing. Like women are just for nurturing. No, I don't think that. Okay, but what's not true. But no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying technically speaking like that's how it supposed to be. That's how it was built to be. Going all the way. My granddad had two wives. One woman you know in Nigeria can go to Nigeria and say she want two husbands. Or anywhere else in the world. Because it wouldn't work. Exactly. But that's my point. I want you to answer this.    But I'm just saying like y'all gonna go be with another woman anyway.  Not necessarily.  Okay, so let me ask you. You don't let me with a dog. Fokie. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Street smarts, oatmeal stomach. Is Russell Wilson going to leave Sierra? Because he want other women. Nah, let's talk about it. Is Russell Wilson gonna leave Sierra because he want other women? Because you said men are gonna, men are gonna, men are gonna. So answer. I ain't got nothing to say about it. The answer is no. You don't know that man, you don't know that man. You don't know that man. You don't know her, you don't know him. I know certain type of men and the point is you don't know him. You ever had a conversation with him? You met him? I know Russell Wilson. You be in that house? I know Russell Wilson. You in that business? I'm using him as an example. You was there when I got married? It's an example. You can see it to the future? Yes. What is wrong with you? The point I'm making is certain types of dudes, everything you're saying is true. Other types of dudes? No, they want somebody they could grow with. Okay, the majority. Because listen, having a majority. Russell Wilson is like out of the... It's more Russell Wilson's out here than futures. You crazy. No, you crazy.  Because y'all want future to act like Russell Wilson. No. Yeah, that's what it is. That's what it is. Y'all want future to act like Russell Wilson. And it's like you want two different types of men and one... But you know what though?


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