Has the lockdown got you down in blue? Well do not fear as we are here to rekindle the magic that is content creation. Hey guys this is freedom quick tips and today let's talk about the lockdown. We know that it's kind of paralyzing to say the least but as content creators we push through and do ways that can spark creativity back in our lives. Let's talk about that.  You might not know it but there are a lot of content ideas you can actually create to make content in the comforts of your home. Want to know what these are? Well let us tell you the ideas that we can think of on the top of our minds. Number one let's play videos. In your lifetime as a content creator you want to record your games and show it to the whole world. Well it's not too late to do that. In fact this is the best time to create content because of the lockdown. So grab your phone, maybe your laptop, console or desktop and start live streaming or recording your games. People out there need to be entertained and it's your job to keep them entertained. You can play a plethora of games from role-playing games, real-time strategy games, esports games, first-person shooters and a lot, a lot more. Take your pick, start recording or streaming or both and keep entertaining people. Number two is ASMR content. Do you know those very relaxing and calming videos where people are in front of a microphone and speaks very softly or slowly? Sometimes they don't speak at all, they just run objects on the microphone and it sometimes makes you relax. Okay to put things into perspective, ASMR means autonomous sensory meridian response. Experts or psychologists define this as a feeling of euphoric tingling and relaxation that can come over someone when he or she watches certain videos or hears certain sounds. So for all those people who think that this is not good quality content you can do at home, well it actually is truly legitimate. So grab your brushes, feathers or maybe just run down your fingers on a microphone and see where the magic takes you. Number three is the mukbang challenge.  If you have, congratulations, you're one of the people who are in the know. So a little bit of a background regarding mukbang. This is a kind of video originated from South Korea and it started around 2010. Typically the video is just a person in front of a camera eating food they have created or they didn't create, depending on the creator. We're guessing you don't know what mukbang means. Well to put it simply, mukbang is a put-man-to-word that is a mix of two words smushed together. But when it comes to the phonetics and root word mukja means eating and bansong for broadcast. Basically it means eating broadcast. In a way it makes sense why it's called mukbang and with that being said your opinion about this kind of video might change. We definitely suggest you should try it out and let your viewers salivate to the sound of you chewing. Number four is a workout challenge. This kind of video is all over the internet where bodybuilders, celebrities and basically healthy people do when they are in the gym. Basically it's the same thing, the only difference is you get to do it in the conference of your home. You can maybe mentor people on how to do push-ups, how to do good burpees, or curl-ups. You'd be surprised there's a lot of people who actually do not know how to properly do exercises. Number five is vlog videos. These are one of the videos that will never grow old. Some people lead very interesting lives when people get a glimpse of it. They could feel that they are with them in their adventures. Well do your vlog videos at home and you can actually invite your viewers into your humble abode. That way they can feel very welcomed and have an amount of closeness between you and your audience. We definitely recommend it. Number six is singing content. Okay there's a lot of videos out there that people show off their singing prowess. Some of them do covers and some of them create their own original songs. What we say you should do both. If you are a musician this is the time where it can mostly shine. You have a lot of time to practice your craft, create a song, cover a popular song, maybe rearrange a particular song to your liking and a lot more. Let your imagination run wild. Number seven is dance content. We mentioned that you should let your imaginations run wild and this is true for dancing content as well. If you are really good with a pop and lock maybe R&B, hip hop, break dancing, or other form of dance you should definitely record yourself and make video. Seriously people would want to learn your dance moves and in this lockdown period people would definitely appreciate and love your dance creations. Maybe you can also host a mentoring live stream session. That is a great idea right there. There are a lot more when it comes to content during these lockdown periods. You have given your hour picks and top of the mind ideas for this unfortunate time. Do you have other ideas? Let us know down below. Do you know any of your friends that are having a hard time making content during the lockdown period? Share this video to help them out. Before you leave guys you know what to do. Like, subscribe, and gong that bell. This is Freedom Quick Tips and I'll be seeing you again in the next episode. Goodbye!


Good afternoon everybody and welcome to unfiltered Pastor David welcome. Thank you pastor recently I was reading somewhere and I don't know the exact amount for the Ukrainians But it's in the thousands of dollars per household when you look at the total package that the United States have given relief and aid to families Versus the seven hundred dollars per family in Maui and I begin to look at our our administration and the Corruption in that here. We are having a state devastated one of our own states devastated by fire and disaster And families are getting seven hundred and fifty dollars per household when the cost of living in Hawaii is expensive and Then Ukraine the United States is sending millions of dollars Which would mean that there were thousands of dollars given per household in Ukraine. What do you make of that? I think that's corruption in in politics. I think this is something that Americans many Americans have become aware of the news really doesn't cover it because if it isn't something that makes the Democrat Party look Good, they're not going to cover it or they're going to explain it away But I think it's terrible. I think what we're doing is where we're neglecting our own You know, there are so many people who had such a problem with the with the phrase That Trump made famous, you know make America great again and all of that and they got really upset with the the term America first To the point that they really don't realize That that really should be a priority I I don't necessarily like slogans and all of that. I think that they very often are tried or shallow but But the fact is is that we need to take care of of the nation that we belong to that we live in and in Hawaiians in American citizens in Hawaii is an American state and And there are many in great need, you know at the moment, I mean they have they have lost hundreds hundreds are still missing children are still missing and We have a president and I'm sorry to say but it's true who is apparently it apparently more bent on taking his vacation than he is Taking care of the people that that he elected him Hawaii is a blue state and yet you're you're seeing that The people are being neglected the help is not coming through thank God for churches and for chattel organizations that That actually care about people our church included We we already have teams that are being assembled to go and to do Cleanup and help in Hawaii and no it's not because it's just a beautiful state and everybody wants to go to Hawaii It's because there's a real human need there that that we have disaster relief teams that go and help people in such things We've had them go to various states here, you know in Louisiana and and other states many other states over the years And we've been involved in that for a long time because we realize that that the greatest help that we can give is Is help that's needed at this time? You know Paul said that we were to be trained to to meet urgent needs and these are urgent needs But we don't rely on the government the government shows us what the priority is when when they take our tax dollars And and give it to Ukrainians when they're worried about shoring up the borders of the Ukraine and ignore the borders here in the United States both north and south incidentally and We allow, you know hundreds of different countries and and Millions of people who really ought not to be here when we allow them to come in when we dismember portions of a wall that had been built to make a Statement, you know, and then people just began walking through those those walls and all of that We're living in a bad time where America is not loved by those who are governing and I believe it's my personal opinion But I know there are many others who agree That the one who's holding the highest office in the nation and the most powerful position in the world is is is very incapable of Managing the job. I don't believe he's the one who's doing it I would not be believed if there's somebody else who is doing it on his behalf Wouldn't even here we go wouldn't even be surprised if oh Obama is the one who's giving orders and and And Biden basically is just a puppet because you give him some money and he seems to be happy and so Now, why would I expect this man who doesn't even acknowledge he has a grandchild? Why would I expect this man to care for somebody else's children? Why would we believe that a man who was so patently? patently Incapable a man who can't give a speech and and I'm sorry for that. I really am I don't mock him for that But he can't give a speech Why would I expect him to be able to reason through? Solutions for problems that we have in the United States or in the world Why would we believe that he couldn't lead us and so no, I'm not surprised at what happened in Hawaii any more than Then what happened in East Palestine, Ohio, you know, there is a neglect if it doesn't profit And that's the problem and that's what we're seeing right now and God help us all. That's what we're seeing unfortunately. Yes, and So that means sad but corrupt Thank you guys for tuning in who wanted to do invite you to our Wednesday evening services at 7 p.m As you're taking us through Romans 12 Romans 12 the gifts of the spirit Yeah, I want to invite you guys to come out and join us and that's at 7 p.m We do have child care available. We do look forward to having you guys come out and join us Thank you for tuning in today. Pastor. Thank you for sharing. God bless you guys and we look forward to seeing you soon


Classic Sega. Okay Sonic team presents it's a die. What the heck? Quit right now before it's too late Yo, this thing is bad. Okay. This is not a normal rom hack. Delete it immediately Yo, what is going on? It's like this thing has a mind of its own. Your time is running out Run. Oh, that's pretty awesome All right. Oh The heck was that?  Okay, let's go go go fly We just crashed it to the wall.  Come on. You got it sales Keep flying bro. He just died out. What?  I thought I was trapped there What was that? Oh my god, everybody's dead Meet me at the beginning Yo, what is going on in this place?   Well, that's not very nice, bro At least a hello or something Why? What makes you enjoy all of this all of this so bad What we did nothing to you What does it mean, bro? Maybe tails was just right dude.   He's crazy. You are the one that deserves all the pain Dude, what is up with knuckles? You don't look right man Okay, I can't read that bro. What Sonic edible ramen has failed. Please like it to your career and internet connection Bro, did I just get hacked bro? What is going on? What you kicked me out of the game. This is pretty crazy. Oh Sonic tails and doctor Robotnik Wait, I am so confused right now That's gotta hurt. What is it? What is this game bro? This thing is crazy.  What is this thing man? Where is he in the back room? Come on. I'm trying to do the thing where he spins There you go. Oh no my rings. I just been robbed We're falling. Okay, what happened? Oh, he's drowning Okay, we're just like like nothing happened. Did I die? No, okay. Now we died What's run? What is going on bro? Oh my god, it's getting crazier.  Okay, why have we come to a sudden stop dude? Oh Access to webcam denied bro. Is it they trying to spy on me right now? Is this dude stop trying to get into my webcam brother Oh wait, that's us. Oh my god. Okay. It was playing on its own Like why did he stop? Have no clue what this is but something's about to go down Do something bro. What's up with these eyes? Like they're all white. What's going on here, bro What? Should have seen that coming. Dude, what is going on in this place, man? I don't want to play this no more. Wait, we just What? Okay Got to get to the chamber Of course Stop it. Stop it. Stop it Okay, did the game just break down? It broke down Okay, let's check one more time. Let's check one more time if we have to click this Okay, it's not the end.  We're about to die Oh Sonic Yo, this is twisted man. Hey Amy coming soon. Oh, okay, so it seems like They're gonna add that to the next update. They're terrifying my life


Live from Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering Mobile World Congress 2017, brought to you by Intel. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Palo Alto for special two days of wall-to-wall coverage with Mobile World Congress here in our new 4,500 square foot studio in Palo Alto. We have folks on the ground, analysts. We have reporters in Barcelona but we're going to be covering all the action here in our studio. We're going to bring folks from Silicon Valley who did not make the trek to Barcelona here to weigh in with reaction and commentary and opinions and analysis of all the happenings in Mobile World Congress. But first, as the day winds down Monday in Europe, we wanted to make sure we get on the phone and get with folks who were on the ground. And right now on the phone, we have Floyd Strimling, who's the global vice president of HANA Cloud, I'm sorry, the HANA Cloud Platform, which the big news was they renamed their product from SAP HANA Cloud Platform to SAP Cloud Platform. Floyd, Strimling, thanks for taking the time as you after your dinner. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm glad to be there. Happy to help out and give you some insights of what's going on here in beautiful Barcelona. It's actually quite warm there. Is it warm? I saw some umbrellas over the weekend but great city, I would love to have been there but I wanted to anchor the coverage here, one of my favorite cities. But first, tell me what's going on. Obviously, over the weekend, we were preparing, we were covering and covering all the content for the folks watching, cube365.net slash MWC17. The news is all there. Every single piece of signal is there. Go to our site, check it out. Floyd, what's happening? It's been a handset show all weekend. Obviously, Nokia making a comeback. Blackberry making a comeback. LG, Huawei has phones. They all want to be Apple, but yet 5G is also dominating as well. There's a culture clash. What's happening in Barcelona? What's your analysis? The biggest thing that I was surprised by is exactly what you're talking about. The number of headset announcements and the number of displays that are all based upon new devices and the nostalgia for Blackberry and Nokia continues. People are rooting for them to make a comeback. In the meantime, you've got new devices from Huawei, you've got Samsung, you've got announcements. You know you're in a show when Sony has a big presence in Europe with their handsets, which I don't see too much in North America, and it just seems to be everybody is gunning really further. Maybe what they perceive as a perceived weakness in Apple, just not going for the killer. Seven and really waiting for the eight to change the game and they're all going to try to knock them off the pedestal and there's some very interesting phones that are out there. 5G is definitely everywhere too. Everyone's talking about it. Everyone's trying to be the first. Trying to show, especially the streaming capabilities, what that they were able to do and what they were able to change. And then one of my favorite sections was the drones. Get to see some commercial carbon fiber drones that I never saw up in personals. See what's going on in there. A lot of interesting things going on with those things and more than just delivery, right? Everything that you could possibly do. So there's no shortage of IoT and connected this, connected that, but they're adding a flavor of AI now. And I think we still got to get to step one with IoT before we go to step two. So it's been interesting to watch people try to leapfrog each other and then move towards new technologies. How big is the crowds there? How packed is it? I mean, one of the things we were talking about was the identity crisis of the show Mobile World Congress. You mentioned people going after Apple, but also Samsung, remember, they're bailing out of the show. They had their own little presser conference yes last night. They're not active in the show and they have their own problems.  It's like a CES wannabe show for those guys at the same time, it's a serious meat and potatoes telco show with a lot of 5G, IoT, and I haven't heard anything about eSports. I saw a little bit with Twitch doing some stuff there, but for the most part, it's a digital show. It's a digital, so is there a huge crowd there and what's the demographics like there for the makeup of the attendees? You know what, I'm seeing big crowds, judging from how long it takes to take a taxi or get the subway, it's a lot of people there, and I'm seeing it's mixed. I'm actually seeing quite a few large enterprises from all over the world that are looking around, just looking at the technology and trying to make sense of what's happening.  I'm also seeing HPE and Intel on the same, at least the same chill area that we are on the other side that are generating traffic. I think the mix is pretty good this year and I will tell you, look, I've been to a lot of shows and I've seen some shows have trouble drawing people and this medium some people are saying is not going to survive and I'm, I love going to the show and actually feeling the energy because there's a ton of people here, there are a ton of large exhibitions with some really interesting stuff.  I thought that was kind of awesome to see that again. I mean, it's all over the place. So I think the show is extremely healthy and it's as busy as ever. The, one of the things about Mobile World Congress, it's a lot of business development too. There's some heavy hitters there. It's kind of like Sun Valley meets, you know, the CES shows really is a mix there. I want to get your take on some of the emerging areas that are really exploding in the mind of the consumer and these are, you know, forward thinking, categorical areas, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, smart home and the, just in general, this new IoT area. So what's your take on those areas?  Is there a lot of buzz there? You guys have a stadium exhibit. What's the sexy demos? What's the sexy areas? Yeah, I'll tell you a couple of things on this. You know, on autonomous vehicles, now it's not just autonomous vehicles, it's going to try to be the first 5K autonomous vehicle. You know, people are looking at just pushing the envelope on it and, you know, and I think in Europe, where people definitely love to drive, it's big, but I, you know, I don't know if I, it's got the same excitement as you do in the traffic jammed areas of the United States where we're constantly battling this and to put the car into autonomous mode and be able to do something else. So I'm stuck on the 405 would be a nice thing to do. I do think that the smart homes is extremely interesting right now. On the IoT front, it seems like some of the people are getting their arms around. And I'm starting to see people actually talking about it and, you know, a lot of people talking about smart things, you know, this ability to a single gateway to be able to connect to all different types of devices, to be able to hook in with Alexa and Google Home and to be able to actually do more things with it and trying to make it simpler. You know, so that I can do this reliably and easily. That's what everyone wants right now. On the smart city front, I've seen a lot of people talk about smart cities. I think we're still kind of in that experimentation phase, you know, a lot of geosensing stories I'm seeing, some power conservations for lights. The ones that I'm interested in are kind of like traffic management. I'm extremely interested in this where we finally can get even smarter traffic lights and systems where you can do things like turn a no left turn or make a lane that's all four lanes, you know, make it one direction, the traffic comes up. Very interesting concepts that people are trying out. You know, for SAP, the biggest thing that we got going, it continues to be our smart stadium demonstration. Every time that runs, it's standing remotely. People very interested about, of course, it's a football, European football, not American football, so we're showing what you can do and change the experience of watching the games and actually how you can change the experience of training and a tremendous amount of people interested in that. I mean, it's always an amazing crowd of people just because it's so intriguing and something we all can relate to because we want to have a better experience with it. You know, it's interesting about the smart stadiums is that, you know, Floyd, the smart stadium things is a really interesting thing. I just shared a link on the cube365.net slash MWC17, that's our URL for our new cube 365 all year long site. But one of the articles I shared was from the FC Barcelona Football Club and there was a speech at a Mobile World Congress with a president, gave a talk to explain the role FC Barcelona in the development of sports through knowledge and innovation to generate value for the club and society. And you think about the stadium aspect of what you were just talking about is interesting. It's a place where people get together in an analog world but yet when you weave in a digital services, the role of say an SAP powering the database and doing all the back office things to power the business, combined with IoT, you now can bring in real people into experiences that are tied to the sports but also you can go beyond that. You can take that digital interaction and take it to the next level. So there is a data aspect to a society role here. So you're seeing sports teams going beyond marketing their club to having an impact. Can you share any color on that? Do you agree?  Well, I agree. I think that's much like racing is for the auto industry to bring innovation to the consumer side or you can even say NASA's and space that comes into all of our lives. I think that this sport is going to push the envelope even harder than other areas. Simply because they know that 100th of a second is the difference in winning and losing. You know, we've gone with McLaren for years working with them on tracking their race cars and building dashboards and giving them information and now to be able to bring that type of technology up to the stadium and bend the way that you actually have that interactive experience it actually makes it that you want to go to the stadiums which as you know, people are... It's a little bit of a hassle. You got the traffic, you got the people, it's like you could sit at their couch and watch it on your 4K television and be happy. I think that people need a way to actually draw the crowds in there. And I think that the interactions, especially with the work that we're doing with Apple and building native applications using our Fiori technology and our UI technology it's starting to really bring together those classical back end systems with all that rich data and bring it forward so people could actually experience what that data means and use it in different ways. So I definitely agree with you. I enjoy working with the sports teams because they're willing to try anything that gives them a competitive advantage. And it's interesting how we take that technology that applies to the consumer and the business world. Well, you know, we'd love to be called ESPN of Tech so we love sports here. So anytime you have a great sports event you can invite us to, we'd be happy to accept your invitation in advance. Appreciate that. Floyd, of course, great coverage. I'll give you the final word and next we have about a minute or two left. Obviously SAP, big announcement with the Apple software development kit, the iOS general availability now. You get native developer support. That's classic bringing cloud native developers into the SAP fold, which dominates the enterprise and business space from sports firms to large enterprises. Great marketplace behind that. But you guys are doing a lot more with IoT, AI and machine learning. Share, just take a minute to talk about the key things that SAP is doing for the folks watching because losing the name HANA cloud really emphasizes that SAP is satisfying their entire business, which includes things like microservices and having kind of IoT as a service and managing workflows dynamically in real time with a consumer front end field to it. Take a minute to describe the key important points of what you guys announced and are impacting. Yeah, I would say the biggest thing that we have gone really is two-fold. One, it's the elevation of this brand. SAP protects our brand. It's a very, very noticeable and valuable brand. To elevate the platform to a top tier brand basically is signaling to everybody, our customers, our partners, independent software vendors, our competitors, anyone else out there that SAP is serious about building a platform in the cloud that is world-class, enterprise-grade and has the capabilities that our customers need to make this digital transformation. And we're coming, we're gonna innovate at a fast clip and we're not that old SAP that people think about. I think the partnership with Apple further shows that. I mean, Apple is very choosy about who they work with. They're at our booth, they're helping us, they're showing the demonstrations they're working on the SDK and that realization that, hey, to build these world-class native applications using Swift and this SDK and the capabilities that we're bringing are now elevating that game in the mobile space for our customers, which is key. And I think it's a very powerful partnership because we're both such recognizable brands and we both have a really solid enterprise presence and a large ecosystem. On the services, you know, the big thing I would just say is the IoT services is ready for people to use now in the beta fashion, it's combining all of our assets so we could build a device cloud with a symmetric data model that's a little bit different than other people are doing and combining that with our Leonardo applications which give you a good idea of what's possible on the cloud and to be able to keep pushing that forward. I think it's key. You have the big data services which with the alpha-scale announcements, acquisition now being fully integrated into the platform which is huge, basically gives us world-class spark and a few services which we need to be able to compete in this world. You know, and I think that the service improvements are there, there's some good service improvements incremental and some things that our enterprises really want from us like workflow and the ability to put a little infrastructure in there with virtual machines and our data center build out. You know, friends don't let your friends build data centers, but some companies have to build data centers. So having the ability to have a data center now in Japan and in China is key to our customers especially with all this legal wrangling that's going on in cloud. So I think all in all for FAP, it's been a great show, great place to showcase that we're doing stuff differently and watch out for what we're gonna be doing in the future because we've got a lot more stuff coming and we're gonna be a player in this space and we're ready. All right, Floyd Shremling global vice president with SAP cloud platform.   Barcelona style? It is Barcelona style right now. I got to get some sangria, tapas and then we'll hit the places that the tourists don't go to and have some real good time with the locals still. All right. You can't come to Barcelona, go to sleep, that's not allowed. All right, you're not allowed. And hey, spread the cube love for us out there. Really appreciate you taking the time. Thanks, Floyd. We'll talk to you later. Thanks so much. All right, thanks. Okay, Floyd Shremling on the ground in Barcelona here on the cube, our remote coverage from Palo Alto. We're going to be going wall to wall till six o'clock tonight, eight a.m. tomorrow morning. And again, we'll have reaction from folks on the ground in Barcelona. Hopefully we'll get some folks late night and hopefully it might be a little bit of lubricated up a little bit, socially lubricated, get, share some good dirt. That's where all the action's happening up in Barcelona and this is the cube. We'll be wrapping up with more coverage, more now. So Tom Joyce coming in, industry executive to help me break down from his perspective, the horses on the track, which who's going to win, who's going to lose? And what's going on with NFV? Because NFV certainly now has a bigger opportunity with 5G connecting all these devices together. That's the big story as well as the big devices and the new upgrades. We'll be back with more after the short break.


Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David, and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the classic bicycle chainless back. Now, these cards were a reprints. Now, originally, these decks were printed way back in 1899. So, of course, me picking them up at a department store, they are reprints, but they're cool reprints. The tuck cases have all been kind of like tightened up and they have a really nice pop to them. There's a really cool embossing on the front and on the back. And they even have like a reissue of a vintage tuck seal on the top of the tuck case. But like I said, the reprints, these aren't valuable. They're just cool for people like me who are collectors that like to have some of the older style looking decks. And so, yes, this is a reprint, but the design for this deck has been inspired by the backside of the very first ever bicycle brand product packaging. It was originally printed in 1885. Of course, now the bicycle brand is an icon and it has been a staple in everyone's home for the past 130 years. Of course, you can see it does have the vintage bicycle logo. Of course, it does say Russell and Morgan right there at the top, playing cards there on the bottom. And it says Made in the USA and Eric Cushion Finish. The bottom of the tuck case, of course, has some ad copy. And the back design is, of course, the back design of the cards. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards were printed from the United States playing card company and they do come on their retail stock. They do have a modern cut and they do have Eric Cushion Finish. And if you'd like to learn more about stock, cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. The back design, like I said, is a reprint of the chainless back that was printed back in 1899. The deck was printed all the way up to 1917 and then it was discontinued. Chainless, this back design was only offered in red or blue and was meant to celebrate all the technological advancements made by the invention of the bicycle. Now what's interesting about the bicycle graphic is that the bicycle has been an integral part of United States playing card company's logo and design for years. But this back design printed in 1899 is the chainless, right? So it's a bicycle without a chain, but only in the last five or so years have a lot of these major companies started to experiment with belt drives and internally driven chainless bicycles. With this deck, you're going to get two standard United States playing card company jokers, both a full size color and a full size black and white. Also with this deck, of course, you're going to get an ad card for bicycle. And of course, you're going to get a descriptor card telling you about this deck. Everything else about this deck from the ace of spades all the way to the pips to the cords, everything is completely standard. The only thing new to this deck is the tuck case and the back design. All right, so that is it for my review of the chainless deck, the Russell and Morgan anniversary reprint from United States playing card company. And of course, you recommend that you subscribe to this channel just so that you can stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. Now, if you want to follow me on social media, you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy and instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy.


On Linux, if you want to record audio, the best way to do that has almost always been Audacity. For the most part, there are several other ways of doing it obviously, but if you want to use a graphical audio interface of some kind, Audacity is probably the best choice and has been for many, many years. It's been around for a very long time. This past year has not been so great for the Audacity project. They got bought by some corporation. That corporation bungled their purchase and made a ton of people mad. It was a gigantic fiasco in the truest sense of the word. So after that all happened, several people forked Audacity in order to keep the bad things that that company was going to do with Audacity from happening. And one of those projects was Audacity. Now around that time, there were several different forks that were promising the moon, really. They were saying, oh, we're going to take Audacity and make it good again and prevent bad things from happening to it. For the most part, those promises have been completely not fulfilled. Any of the forks that I'm aware of are basically just branches of Audacity itself from prior to when the corporation behind Audacity put in telemetry. That's basically what all the forks are. And the only thing that varies between the forks seems to be the level of activity that they receive in terms of at least some minor updates. So a couple of weeks ago, Distritube did a video on a couple of these forks and honestly I hadn't followed the forks at all to tell that point. I was just happily using Audacity version two point something. I was still using the one prior to when they changed the file format. And I was happy with it, like as happy as you can be with a application that looks like it was developed in the 1990s, but it worked well and did everything I needed to do. And I was happy with it. Once DT did his video, I was like, you know what, I'm going to give one of these forks to try. Based on his video, I chose to use Audacity and I've been using it now for almost two weeks. I think I downloaded the exact day he did his video a week, two weeks. It doesn't matter. The point is I've been using it now for a while and I have some thoughts. So let's first let's go ahead and take a look at Audacity. This is what it looks like. Now, obviously I'm not going to be doing much in this while I'm recording because I'm actually recording my audio through this right now. I always record my audio separately.  But you know the funny thing is this is completely off topic. I watched one of my videos from like six months ago. I was using the exact same mic. The audio does sound better. I have learned some things. So that's good news, totally off the point. But the thing is this is Audacity. If you don't notice any differences between this and Audacity, I wouldn't blame you because there's not a lot of differences here. The only glaring difference is that this comes with the dark theme out of the box. And that's good. It looks better in a dark theme. It definitely does. They have done something to make a dark theme actually look good because you've always been able to do a dark theme in Audacity. You can either use their built-in dark theme, which wasn't very good, or you could use a custom like CSS file. I don't think it was CSS, but something of that vein to import your own theme. Those were good, but they were also kind of hacky. It was supported, but some of the themes were not all completed. Some of them hadn't been updated in ages and just kind of broke things. The point is that you could use those themes, but it was kind of your mileage may vary kind of thing. So the fact that this comes with a good dark theme is good. Outside of that, and a few things in the settings, and the lack of telemetry, at least supposedly the lack of telemetry. This is just Audacity. And that's the thing I want to talk about really today. So before I do that, let me just show you some of the things that I think have changed. Now, there's not like a dedicated list of things that they've changed, at least that I could find. Actually, I can't even enter the preferences while I'm recording. So that's going to be a complete fail. But they have gone through and added this theme here that you so you can change back and forth between this theme and the regular Audacity thing. I'm not sure whether or not the light one has actually changed because I never actually tried the light one because light themes shouldn't exist at all. Other than that, I didn't notice any significant changes. So the question is, before I get into the whole criticizing of this project thing, and I'm going to I'm going to talk a little bit about that. But the thing I want to make clear is that developing an application like this, especially when you're forking it from someone else and you don't know all the code is hard, like I'm aware that it's hard, or at least I'm somewhat, you know, I somewhat know that it's hard. I'm not a developer. So criticizing developers for not being able to develop something better for that is is like the height of arrogance. So I don't want to be that kind of guy, but I'm going to go do it do it anyways. But the point is I understand that creating something like this and then or taking something that's then making it better is hard. So we'll get that out of the way. But I wonder what the point was because the thing was with Audacity is that it works really well. It does. It's one of those apps that it doesn't look pretty, but it functions fantastically. It always has. And there's a reason why everyone who doesn't subscribe to 80 or $90 a month for Adobe Audition. That's why everyone basically uses Audacity. It's a very large project. And there's a reason why that company that bought Audacity wanted to buy them is because it's very, very popular. The thing is, is when you fork something and then manage to garner some following behind that fork, it gives you at least a little bit of a responsibility to maintain it. And I'm not convinced that this fork or any of the forks, I'm not just picking on Audacity, I'm really do anything to add to Audacity itself. Like, sure, all they've taken the security concerns away from what you would expect if you used Audacity itself. But outside of that, other than a dark theme, it doesn't seem like they've done all that much. And maybe I'm just expecting things to happen too quickly. Maybe these things were never going to happen. Maybe there was going to be no improvements whatsoever, simply because too hard. So they don't. I mean, it's probably just one person, really. They started it. I'm sure there's other contributors now, but there's just going to be a small team if there is more than one person. So maybe it's too difficult. That's a reasonable explanation. Also, maybe they don't think that it needs to be changed at all. You know, maybe the dark theme was the only thing that they thought they could add to add value. And they decided just to leave Audacity basically the way it is and just, you know, rebrand it and pull out the telemetry. Again, that's fine. I've enjoyed my time with Audacity, but my time with Audacity has been very similar to what my time with Audacity was. They are the same. There's no differences other than the, you know, the coat of paint. So I guess my point is so I guess if you were to ask the question, should you switch to Audacity from Audacity? The answer to that question would be, do you care to use the most recent version of the software? If so, you should use Audacity simply because a lot of distros aren't actually packaging Audacity for the new versions. Like, I know at least ARCO and ART seem to be in the two still in the version twos and, you know, that's a good decision, but it means you're not getting any updates whatsoever. It seems at least that by using Audacity, Audacity, you're getting somewhat more of a recent version, which is a good thing because maybe there'll be new features, you get a new theme or whatever. Security fixes, bug fixes, whatever, those will come through in the more recent versions that you won't get if your distribution is actually holding things back. So should you switch? Maybe. If you're, the thing is, don't switch because you're expecting something grand and new. You're not going to get it. You're going to be disappointed. It's just Audacity with a fresh name. The one thing I was really hoping that they'd change, like, I understand the UI thing is something that needs to be refreshed. And hopefully the mainline branch will have a new UI soon. That was always the hope when we still had hope that the company behind Audacity would do good things, is that they'd do a UI refresh. But one of the things I was hoping that Audacity would do was at least improve the startup speed. Because Audacity and Audacity takes just a ton of time to start. Sometimes upwards of 30 seconds. And that's just not a good experience. I mean, in the grand scheme, things not a big deal. But again, it's one of those things where you just notice it. So don't switch to Audacity. I'm simply because you're expecting something new. That's just not going to happen. It's just Audacity. So that's it for this video, a little bit of a Ramboley video. But I wanted to cover this because I think a lot of people when these forks happened were, I know I was like this, we're kind of excited because it kind of felt like it was going to rejuvenate Audacity. Just a little bit more and more people, it seemed like we're getting interested in Audacity simply because of the controversy surrounding it.  That doesn't seem to be the case. The interest in this has really died down. The one thing I'm really worried about is that the people who support Audacity, you know, the 10 or 12 people who are doing the development work on it, just lose interest because, I mean, basically all they seem to be doing is taking whatever new version of Audacity is released and pulling out the telemetry and they're releasing this. That seems to be what they're doing. And eventually, are they going to want to do that anymore? I don't know. So are we going to come to a point where you're using Audacity, but it's no longer updated ever again because it's been abandoned. That's also possible. I think that's possible for a lot of these forks because they just either don't have the resources or interest in maintaining it. So it's a conundrum for sure. 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Okay, and last team we're gonna hear from touch young arrows. Hi everyone. How's everyone feeling? Luke warm. It's okay. We're warming up with a fiery passion This is team TYA TYA stands for touch young arrows, which is the NGO we're working for. I'm Clara This is said. Oh, sorry. Sorry This is Chelsea and that's Sally so While during this process we were coached by the man with the iron fist His name is Gegos, but it's too hard to pronounce. So most people just call him Greg So for I'll just give a quick introduction to touch young arrows These are some of their lovely faces. I mean, you can't really see their faces, but they're quite lovely. Anyway, so There are service of touch community services. There are not-for-profit charity organization, obviously They mainly serve children from six to 12 years old from two groups low-income and single-parent families and They will provide educational social and emotional support for them and they do this through activities plan for them Firstly through weekly programs. They give them 1.5 free academic coaching Sorry, 1.5 hours of free academic coaching and one hour of creative learning and correct the development activities On top of that, they have year-round family bonding events and correct the development camps So when TY came to Tech Ladies, they were facing quite a bit of admin struggles Mainly due to tedious data management using multiple Excel sheets They were unable to find and extract data easily and this is important because when donors come to them They were asked for like say give me the percentage of like say your Chinese Students who come and they would have to manually sell through all the Excel sheets to get the info required Updating client info on a weekly basis was very difficult and time-consuming. They had to put in regular behavioral progress academic progress and the notes on the family situation and all these were done in like Excel sheets Excel is also not very friendly, which is a problem because a lot of the volunteers at the events they would use their mobile phones And they will end up with multiple copies and versions of files at all of their events Which left them feeling a little bit like this So to help you guys understand our app later on a little bit better. Let's just go through the structure They have 24 club locations And three types of users the staff are full-time people on board and they will have access to all areas of the app The supervisor and club leaders are actually volunteers. They only have restricted access to certain portions of the app the weekly events are held at their respective clubs and Clients which are the students that attend the events When they are at the club gatherings, they would have their attendance and behavioral notes recorded So let's show you what we've built Can we go to the Yeah, this one Sorry for the slack technical difficulties. Anyway, okay So this is an actual sample of what touch young arrows use for recording data So you can see it's quite inefficient because like they will have to manually enter data like this like this and like this and Let's say if they want to find out say how many Primary one kids they have they would have to do like a manual telly like OPU and then they do like some equals Bracket blah blah blah. Yeah, you guys all know how Excel works Yeah, and let's say the volunteers wanted to key in some information about the Clients they would have to do it over here like oh this children was hot or this child was hard to handle Yeah, so you can see it's quite difficult for them to read and retrieve information So we solved that for them. So let's go and take a look at our app now So this is the app we built for them. This is actually live on Heroku and Once you go to the URL, you would be forced to log in using a staff email address Yeah, sorry Heroku takes a bit a while to load Okay, so once we have entered the app you can see that this is page that shows you all of the clients and If let's say I wanted to find out like oh, what are the clients that in Boon King Club? I can do it through the filter here And it would only show me the clients that in Boon King Club If let's say I needed to export this data to give it to a donor. I could just click It's Exported to a CSV which I can manipulate and send to whoever was asking for it Also, let's say I wanted to sort The date of birth or their level I could do so like that Yeah, I can also add a new client from this page. You can see here. This is quite self-explanatory Can key in your details click create client and they would be entered into the system in a friendly manner If I wanted to find out more information if let's say of one of the particular clients, let's say a million ton Okay, so we can see her lovely place here. She doesn't really like taking photographs Yeah, so we can see her profile her first name the club. She belongs to her status in the club some other details If let's say during the event I found out. Oh, she has a medical condition So I can just key in here and if we found out that she had a certain hobby for example and we can just click update and The information will be populated here available to anyone that is interested in finding out about a million ton for all the other volunteers and stuff to see and The next section in the client's profile. It's the family Household section where we can give can enter info about their parents or siblings or guardians So the important part here is possibly the monthly income We can key the monthly income of all the household members and At the bottom here and the fine family finances This will be totaled up automatically and also the income per capital will be calculated automatically for them Previously, they'll have to do this manually using formulas and Excel sheet, which is difficult cause it always breaks Yeah, okay for the next section. I'll pass it to Chelsea Okay. Hi guys. So Each client will also have a series of school grades because TYA wants to track the client's academic progress throughout the few years that they're with them So as you can see here, it's very easy to add a grade. It It comes out in a modal and you it's fairly self-explanatory too So you can just add a grade here and it will be displayed here And it can be edited and deleted in the same place So you can also view less and view more View more would toggle the next five grades and view less will shorten everything to five grades And this makes it also easier for TYA volunteers to take a look at their progress over the years For example, you can see that Amelia's math has improved over From P5 to P6 So aside from that Each client also has their own notes. There are two types of notes general notes and notes tied to an event I'll talk about events later, but for general notes it could be from Home visits that the staff conducts for the clients aside from the usual club actions So I can just add a note. It's a very simple modal here, so I can I'm just gonna Do a short one. Okay. So there's method data added here So there's a date that's be edited 17 gen and the user that I'm in right now There's also attendances so each client will have a series of attendances here. We have displayed a List of the events in her club. So she's in Boon King Club So these are all the events in Boon King Club and the ones that she has attended for The rationale of this is so that the volunteers can see very easily her attendance rate over the past few sessions because it's sorted by date So we can flag up a possible issue if she hasn't been coming for her sessions, etc So the events the attendances and the notes tie very closely to the events and you can access them individually here or from the navigation bar So the navigation it works similar to clients. You can filter it by club. So let's just go to Boon King Club and So these this is an example of the event page and what it looks like So the main use case for this is actually on mobile. The idea is that each club leader on the event day itself will create an event and Be able to mark attendances for each child So here we have a table rendered for all the clients with all the clients within that club So for example, here's the list and their tendencies as well as their level and gender. So this is actually optimized for mobile So it's easier for them to mark their tendencies and at the end of every event during the debrief and review session the club leaders can add their own notes about, you know, the different clients behavior and The fields here are going to be populated in the client profile page that we saw earlier on so, yeah And if we go back to the client's main page the attendances that I mentioned earlier, you can actually export them by club So for example, I can go to Boon King Club and I click export attendances And this will export a list of all the attendances for the clients in Boon King Club throughout all the events that they have attended Now I'll pass the mic to Sally to talk about our user permissions All right, so I'm Sally and I'll take you through the club and users sections of the app I'll first talk about the club section so as Clara mentioned touch young arrows have 24 clubs located all over Singapore so in our app we have a clubs drop-down menu and it lets you pick a club and it filters by Clients and events so each user client or event is assigned to a club So let's go to the clubs page Each club belongs to a zone Central East West and so on you can add a club Edit a club or delete a club. So that's all for clubs. It's relatively straightforward Now let's move on to the users part of the app, which is a bit more complex. So touch young arrows have three different types of users Who are contributing or working in the organization? Namely, it's a club leader staff and supervisor One of the problems that touch young arrows face with spreadsheets is that they can't actually restrict permissions of the spreadsheet to certain people so The organization did not want certain people to have information to restricted data like someone's financial or family situation So in this application we created there are three different account types with different levels of access So right now I am at the staff account and here at the users page. I can view and manage all the users Also, the staff user type is able to access all the clubs as you can see here and When we go to a client's profile so Amelia's profile the staff will be able to view a date and input all the client details So in this account the user is able to add a family member and They're also able to have a look at the family finances Okay, so for the second user type Which is that of a club leader? So Sally is logging into a club leader account now instead of a staff account where permissions are different and certain info will be hidden for them So we are right now at the second user type the club leader so at this account type you can't actually add Users you can only manage your own account. So here you can edit your own account and They're only able to access the one club that they belong to so in this case This user belongs to the Boon King Club and he or she can only view this club and on the client's profile Let's go to Amelia again As you can see it's quite different from what you can see in the other count So for example, you can change the hobbies and medical condition but when you click on family background, you can't add this and Also, there's no button for you to add the family details here and You also can't see the family finances at all on the profile as you can see there's differences between the two different account types and and There's the third account type which is the supervisor account It's similar to that of the club leader. So I won't show you this So that is all for the demo of the app with these features touch young arrows can input the information that they need and They can also determine what information is seen by who So next we will Share the lessons that we have learned from building this app. So we'll move on to the PowerPoint slides So these are my reflections Okay, so First of all, you don't have to be great at maths or science to be good at coding I Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and I'm not a maths person, but I really enjoy coding and Also coding is not as rigid as I thought it has a creative side and this is how I feel when I code I feel colorful and I can create magic with code Yeah, and also Modern programming like new teachers like Ruby and Python can be easy to pick up all you need is a tiny bit of maths basic algebra and and You need a lot of patience and persistence and you have to be you have to persist up only because you're gonna I Mean the break the app is gonna break a lot and you need to try and try again until you actually managed to fix the app and Now I'll pass it on to child cell who will tell you more about what she has learned Thank you, Sally. Okay Yeah So the main thing I picked up from tech ladies bootcamp is that programming is a lot about iteration and experimentation So it doesn't matter if you're a beginner or professional the feedback loop you go through is more or less the same So mine looks a little bit like this. I write some code I test it I wait for a response and I fix it and after a lot of tries I get to celebrate So that's the program process of me writing my own program All the TYA app But the thing is to improve as a programmer We have to improve on the speed and the accuracy we make these kind of loops, right? and the way that we can do that is through Making more iterations and making putting in more practices and making more rounds And I think the way to do that is to Fun, which is to fail and learn and not be afraid to take what you've learned and write your own code and Write your own wrong code and let it fail and fail fast so that we can learn to fix even faster and make these kind of repetitions with increased accuracy and so don't be afraid to make mistakes Don't be afraid to look to fail and just make sure you learn from them And now I'll be passing on to Sally up to Clara. We keep getting our names wrong Anyway, by the way, she's only 17 years old this year. So I think it's pretty amazing Okay onto my reflections Okay, I have three programming piece that I've sort of gathered throughout this process The first one is patience It was important for me to remember that I was learning something new after all and not to be Too hard for myself on myself when I was failing because it just added a lot of unnecessary stress when I pressured myself like this Next persistence, I think it's like a common thread in everybody's learning lessons You will run into errands at our errors and hard to solve problems Sometimes you just need to keep trying and just know what to put into Google and eventually end up at Stack Overflow and yourself your problems Thirdly practice practice and practice There's just no other way to get good at programming the more you code the more you screw up the more you fix them The more you learn last one focus. No, not really Focus. Okay, so set aside chunks of time to quote at a go without distractions I found it more effective for myself when I had like maybe two to three hours chunks Well, just sit there and quote non-stop rather than do it in bits and pieces So I found that that was what worked best for me because you just need a lot of RAM and I don't have a lot of it Yeah So to sum it up those were my three P's and one F So the three of us actually actively looking to enter the industry so Please adopt us Put us on your hiring radar Yeah, so three of us are really seriously wanting to enter this industry and we are very open to opportunities We are looking for internships to whatever you can throw at us really. We just want to code more and learn more This is our contact information You Can thank you. Thank you. You can snap a picture of it or just come to us. We'll be very happy to put our numbers into your phones Okay, thank you. Oh So thank you to our mentor Elisha and everyone who was part of this amazing journey and all the other girls as well I'm glad we went through this together Yeah Okay, so any any questions, but clear I thought you started an internship already I did I'm actually I actually have an internship right now, but yeah, I'm it's for the next three months So I'm open to other stuff. Yeah So does anyone still want to take their photo? Should I go back to slide? Oh, yeah, please Okay, oh, oh, sorry. Yeah, put us on your hiring radar Yeah, that's our contact information So right now you want to check those people who are taking photos because those are the people No, you want to talk to them later? Okay? Yeah Okay, thank you so much


inches to a team that has been fairly successful this season. Nicholas Clarke, of course, the captain and he's, of course, between the sticks. Barton Price, Odin Pernicook and Richard Brown, the back three, in the middle of the back, Alton Lewis, Kevin Garnett, Howard Morris and Kino Simpson. And up top we see Nikita Fuller. Justin Dunn, of course, was four goals. His name so far this season and their number 11, Anthony Nelson looking to be a part of the scorecard. Yeah, a lot of firepower up front for Tivoli Gardens, a lot of youth, full exuberance also. Humberline hoping to roar this evening. Prince Daniel Smith himself, a roar is between the six. They have a back four of Fabian Pascoe, Riccardo Cambo, Timor Colesbrun and the veteran Zavian Virgo in the middle of the park of Fiba Chambers. And Giovanni was a couple goals to his name so far this season and, of course, the aforementioned Jardel Williams. Up top they are looking to be on the score sheet, not quite yet as sharp, including their number seven, Rushain Sharp, Andre Klenen and Germain Christian. Yeah, a lot of strength for Humberline in their midfield. They mentioned their captain, Andrew Vanzi. He's probably the most dangerous player from set pieces in this league, but also look out for Jardel Williams, a young player in attack. As we take a look at the full-time highlights here, this game was going at a mile a minute and Tivoli Gardens got the goal early.  Good give and go with Morris and done with the finish. Again, some good work to be had here and done with the effort that was just wider the mark. Smith was sprinting across trying to get there. They had opportunities done again, orchestrating this one, swept that ball inside to Morris and Morris knew he should have done better there. That was a big chance. Morris was rubbed off the ball and it went the other way. And they were back in the contest. It's a free goal here. Byrnton Price thinking that his keeper was on the goal line wasn't the most convincing header anyway. It was dangerous regardless of whether his keeper was back there. Dangerous play and you can see what he said there. He's not speaking to me. Didn't know exactly where his keeper was on that occasion. On that occasion he was on the end of another good ball, couldn't find the target and then done. Look at the work here. Then Lewis and then on the platter for Morris. And Horace Morris getting his goal there the first of the night. Lewis serving it up easy for him and they were ecstatic. And in the second half opportunity that was brilliantly taken. Just in done. What a finish that was. And he was overcome with emotion. He was looking for Andre Klenan and how did he miss that one? That should have been an target. He knows it. And they had opportunities here. And took forever to make his mind of when he actually did shot was off target Javon Smith knew he should have done better there. But this game had a whole lot of chances. And Duns ball inside found Morris who got his second of the night. Really good game. By both these players Morris getting his second. What a game for Tiffany Gardens. As we take a look at the full time statistics here. Tiffany Gardens. They had 10 shots. Seven of which were on target. They were pretty accurate, weren't they? How blind didn't have a shot on target. They committed 16 fouls though. Three more than Tiffany Gardens. They also had the majority of the yellow cards in this one and the majority of the corner kicks as well. And Tiffany Gardens with most of the possession at 53%. I'm here with Justin Dunn. Man of the match for the game today and this must be a common feeling for you now. Second straight man at the match. How are you feeling about the game? Well, I'm very elated about my performance. I've been putting in the work from pre-season. I know it's pain now. That's how you get a little bit emotional after the second goal this evening. What was that about? Because for this season the main objective is to get a contract overseas and the performances are coming in. And I am loving that for myself. Yeah, they're definitely coming in. Not only goals scoring, but you're looking really good creatively as well. Is that something about the game that you've been wanting to show off this season? We've been doing it in training. The small passes and playing all from the back. And as we displayed tonight, it was a well-teamed performance. Excellent performance tonight. Another two goals and best of luck for the rest of the season. Thank you.


Wala Tinobu has assured that he's committed to rebuilding nation, noting that Nigeria has no reason to be poor considering the vast natural resources the country is blessed with in almost every part of the country. The president echoed his commitment when he received traditional and political leaders from river state. The leaders were of solidarity and thank you visits for the appointment of former governor of river state, Nyesom Wike, as the Federal Capital Territory Minister. While receiving them, the president also vowed not to disappoint Nigerians, recognizing the trust and magnitude of expectation and responsibility bestowed on him. I am the captain, the chief salesman of the country right now. We have to reverse the trend. We have to make what appear difficult very easy and achieve possibilities within a very short period of time. Our people are expecting a lot from us. As long as it's lamentation possible, I'm not the president that will give excuses. I want to work hard for our nation. A nation united by single purpose, development, focused, determined, make wealth, prosperity, a target for all. We have no reasons to be poor. President Tinnable encouraged Nigerians to look beyond the present situation in the country and see the bigger picture. Don't just call for the visit, but be committed, spirit of oneness, have embraced that. We need to talk to our youths. If we are going to invest in their future to bring about success, progress and development, we need to hear from us that it's the need for mindset, changes of mindset. Earlier, the river state governor, Simin Ali Fubara, called on Nigerians to exercise patience with the policies of the president for future dividends. We humbly urge Mr. President to note that access to the refinery on the east-west road is in most deplorable state, and we appeal to Mr. President to approve the reconstruction thereof so as to facilitate the transportation of petroleum products from the refinery. On our part, the state government has, in demonstration of our love and support for your kind effort, commenced the construction of Muoji-Aleto-Alesa refinery road, which also leads to the refinery, to provide a temporary alternative road for commuters to the refinery and surrounding areas, while you embark on the construction of that section of east-west road. Former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Joe Okochia, who spoke to newsmen after the meeting, said the delegation requested the rehabilitation of the east-west road leading into Port Hackett refinery to ease petroleum product transportation, as the president had promised to revamp the refinery. We have come first to show solidarity with the president and to express our gratitude for his recent developmental strides, particularly as you know, approving that very, very valuable investment for Team Billion US Dollars by Indorama Petrochemicals Company in river states. The promise to revamp the Port Hackett refinery, and indeed for the appointments of eminent river sands that have been made into the federal government, led by Nyesum Weke, our former governor who is now the minister of the FCT, Juri Ingella-Leh, the president's spokesman, and members of the Niger Delta Development Commission Board and the South Isabellopment Commission Board. So we are grateful to the president and also have come to assure him of our total loyalty and support. Other members of the delegation of the river state dignitaries include elders and traditional rulers among office. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome back everyone, we're here live in Las Vegas for IBM Pulse, IBM's exclusive coverage by SiliconANGLE and theCUBE. It's our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract a signal from the noise, and John John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, join me with my co-host Dave Vellante, co-founder of wikibond.org, and we have one of the superstars on theCUBE, CUBE alumni, tech athlete, women in tech, leader of our playlists of all-time views. Inheach, you saw, thank you for coming back again. Oh, my pleasure. On theCUBE. I'm excited to be here. Thank you.  Keep going. Yeah. You're the GM of big data, and it's a hot area. I'll give you my cell phone, you can call my husband. That's how we meet that. He's watching right now. So tell us, what's up with you? We're excited to have you here. What's the update? What's going on? Big data, we're here at the Cloud Show. We've seen some big data messaging. Well, it's what it is. It's clients are first recognizing that data is transformative for their organizations. I mean, just new opportunity, new business models. Oh, that actually reminds me of a story. So we're gonna have to come back to this one. Cloud, the intersection of Cloud. Cloud's more transformative, not just from a delivery standpoint, but also fundamentally the expectation which gets into social, which is really the engagement side. People are all about being on demand. I mean, the days of just being able to do email is a little bit passe. People want to be on text, communicating real time in the personas that they represent. So it's not just your work persona, but let's say your personal hobbies. They want to be interacted with relevant in the time and context. And this big news, obviously, what's app got bought by Facebook for $19 billion, including the three billion retention bonus. That's, I mean, that's a game changer right there. Yes, absolutely. It's kind of a poster child for the massive, some say bubble, but some say sea change of what's going on in the world right now, which is anything could pop in terms of an application. Oh, yeah. You know, what it is is really the consumer aspects in terms of the consumer expectations of the interaction self-service, the quality, the fact that it's seamless and easy. You have that expectation, not just in terms of your personal life. You're actually bringing that expectation into the work life. And so there's a higher level of overall expectation around the experience that users have, business users have, technical users have, but now in the world of big data, the business users are saying, you know, I'd like access to the data. I would like to play with it.  People want it on demand. We had Lance Crosby on CEO software who's the center of all the attention. You know, at the cloud show and we asked him about what's that. He's like, it's disrupting $100 billion telco market. And so I want to get your perspective. Obviously the telco is an area where there's not a big data you're involved in. Mobile World Congress is going on. Mark Zuckerberg was giving the keynote and oh no, we're not trying to take over telco. Sure he is. But what's your take on that? I mean, telcos have been at the center of cloud, center of big data. They just seem to be late to the party every time. Is that the case? Or they just- You know what it is? I think it's both the opportunity of having, first of all, generating a ton of data. So a couple telcos both in the United States as well as internationally. Like one generates about 42 terabytes a day. Another is handling six billion called detail records a day. And just the sheer volume, they've got tons of infrastructure, right? Have invested a lot at all levels, BSS, OSS, as well as even trying to do more customer analytics in real time for not just quality of service, but now for marketing and campaign management and customer experience. But the challenge is, how do you do that in a much more effective way, more and more optimized way, more predictive way? And that's really the opportunity. And we actually acquired a company called the Now Factory in October, really around that end-to-end experience. So how do you quickly access the data in the networks? How do you actually process that and curate that in real time? And then consume it in terms of understanding the data models that are developed as well as running the analytics. And then act on it. Absolutely. It's a customer retention asset. What are they doing with the Now Factory? Oh, they're doing several different things. So let's say in the operators, network operators, the quality of the service calls, it's much more about how do I shift from a responsive, reactive kind of scenarios to be a little bit more proactive and also understand, hey, when a person was actually dropped from a call, when were they? Did they just board a flight? Then they landed, they landed, now they're checking their Facebook, Twitter accounts. What's the degree of activity? And you can see whether or not they're supposed to have a downfall or not based on the time. I mean, that's getting at a level of individual user and user access on a device. So the second question is, a lot of times folks aren't sure exactly what's wrong with the phone. Is it the battery? Is it the, you've got 15 applications running on it and it's dying. So understanding exactly where the quality of service and issues are, is important. They came on theCUBE. Now, Factory, I think we, let's get it. Oh, good, good. And this is a huge, huge aspect actually at Mobile World Congress. So tell us a story. You're, we had a great interview with you. You had great storytelling. Tell us a story. What's going on? That represents kind of the culture of what's happening in cloud and big data and the world. Well, you know, I had a, I had a really interesting, smile, I had a really interesting conversation with a couple clients. One in banking in, based in Europe and one in insurance based in the US. And they were commenting about, you know, customer retention is actually huge, both for revenue and profit. Revenue from a cross-seller products and profit because the longer you can retain the clients, it's better. So human logic or expectation is, hey, you know, if you want to retain a client, what do people think that they need to do? Maybe you get better products, higher levels of discount. One of the human behavior traits we discovered is if you actually lower the price points, i.e. change the rate, change the available prices for certain accounts and products, it actually causes the customer to leave. And the reason it causes them to leave, even though you would think it would cause them to stay. After it hits a certain threshold, what happens is the human nature says, oh, well maybe I might be more attractive to other vendors as well and they start going shopping. So one of the things we've started to look at, actually recently is looking at online dating surveys and information that's captured from online relationships because what people say that they're going to do and what people end up actually doing, sometimes aren't. It's not like the dating profile, the picture from like 20 years ago. Yeah, but you're actually starting to marry that kind of insight with more business type information to really understand human behavior traits. I mean, even though it's not intuitive, it actually makes sense because a lot of these decisions are emotional. It is. It's like going to the racetrack. I'm going to bet on that, you get to the window, I'm going to change my mind. And then you end up making a different decision based on something that some guy next door said, whatever it is, all kinds of information. Do you change your mind a lot at the window? I do, actually, it's not a good strategy. Actually staying away from the racetrack is a very good strategy, especially when you've got kids. I used to spend a lot of time there, but now that I have four kids, I have better things to spend my harder and money on. But that's a good story, right? And one is an example of some of the non-intuitive things that you find in the big data world when you actually have access to the data. Well, and also that you're marrying industry perspectives about people, profiles, entities to get a more comprehensive understanding that you wouldn't necessarily have ever thought to put an insurance company with data sets around personal preferences. Any, I got to ask you, what is the coolest thing you've seen here at IBM Pulse? Besides the Cube? Oh, of course, of course. Well, you know, I'm a little bit biased, I would have to say, but the announcement of Cloudint, you know, it's a really exciting announcement for us because it's about being present in the ways in which clients are actually developing the next generation of applications, especially at a serve for mobile applications as well as what they're doing in the cloud. And it's such a unique business model. Were you involved in that deal? Yes, it's part of, it actually sits within the information management organization, and that is run by our general manager, Bet Smith. And so, Sean Pooley, who's my peer, actually has that core responsibility for Cloudint. So this is a core part of the game for us. I know the founder, a friend of mine, Rich Leventoff, did the seed round. Those guys were MIT guys, did a good job. How big were they when you guys knew it? What's the size of them now? Well, we don't actually talk about it because it's a private... No, they're employees.  Yeah, it's a small team. No, no, it's not huge. It's a small team, and actually what we have been, yeah, what we've been talking about really is more about kind of the, I know, I'm sure you can find out in a nanosecond there, is more about the clients and the clients that are actually using it. Both the clients that are actually paying for the set of capabilities as well as the clients that are just using the freemium versions. So, and that's actually quite high. That's almost like 20,000. So talk a little bit more about cloud. It's databases of service. It's no sequel. Talk a little bit more about what they do and then why it's important for a cloud-based offering. How are you going to bring it into SoftLayer, maybe discuss that? Yeah, so first of all, cloud has been a strategic partner with IBM on SoftLayer. It's actually the preferred for Cloudians to get started. Now, the thing that's been interesting for IBM in general is the innovations that are happening in the data world have spanning the spectrum from no sequel to not only sequel to sequel, right? It is all about clients wanting to both leverage new capabilities that allow application agility and flexibility. They want capabilities around enabling higher performance and speed and also cost reduction. And the pattern that I'm actually seeing is, for example, like even in the Hadoop world, a big movement toward being able to apply sequel, right? Because there aren't enough map-reduced programmers. And part of the value of also no sequel in areas like Cloudant is about allowing application developers to be able to write and quickly program things that they need without necessarily having to have the number of traditional resources. So this is all about speed. It's speed in terms of the data, speed in terms of the application agility. And flexibility too. You can store data and not knowing what you want to do with it. Yeah. No sequel's beautiful because you don't have to go into a schema design. That's right. And when you do know, you can just throw some sequel on it and apply that. Given no sequel's been popular with modern developers, it also has been a real boom for the social media world. So I want to get your take on social data. As it moves out from social media being kind of a promotional PR thing to actually more of an engagement. You guys are talking transactional. There's a lot of analytics. Watts has got this discovery capabilities. All this stuff's happening around big data, around social interaction. You mentioned human behavior with dating. You're seeing the humanization fusion of data. So I want to get your take on two things. Social media data. What that means for engagement. And the fusion of data. How does that get fused into practices? Okay. So, well, both questions a little bit loaded. I'm going to give you a real tangible example. One of the things we're really trying to do in the context of big data is that it's really about uncertain data and putting some degree of understanding around it. Not you don't have to necessarily know everything to the end of the degree, but it's some degree of order and indexing and searchability and discoverability. So one of the things we've been doing recently is, and we have a couple of examples of clients wanting to do this in healthcare as well as financial services sector, is most clients have what? An enterprise warehouse of some sort or transactional system that says, hey, you are in fact John and you are in fact Dave, but you may have 50 different social handles that are very different than an enterprise ID that says here's name, address, email. So we have a capability called Big Match which takes capabilities like probabilistic matching, traditionally found in master data management capabilities and enable that for you to apply with a higher degree of confidence to resolve entities and IDs of people even when their social IDs may not be apparent that they are in fact those individuals. And so we, yeah. You can infer from fuzzy information more about that individual. With a high degree of probability. A lot of people are working on that, that's a hard problem. Well, and I'm going to give you a data point. So we actually ran an internal task and we were able to identify 10 million IDs in one second on Hadoop. Wow. Yeah, yeah. So that's at the scale of several times faster than what you would expect out of not only traditional relational database management systems, but the degree of precision around knowing those entities is really exciting. That's called Big Match. It's called Big Match. And that's in production now? We do, we just delivered it in the fourth quarter and the original genesis of it was actually to use, you guys know Jeff Jonas too. Some of the capabilities. The puzzle piece, man. He's always talking puzzle pieces. Superman. It's all about what actually, and what Jeff and I recently had a conversation, we're actually calling this space in general around context computing is what we call it. So making sense, putting context to the data. It's an incremental programming thought which says every piece of data could actually cause you to step back and relook at your expectations or assumptions around the data set. And Big Match is just fantastic because it's about people that we're trying to not be found and now we're using that for areas that are for good. Not just that. So one big conversation here is the developer ecosystem. How does a startup that wants to work with IBM engage with you guys for big data? So say random, the next WhatsApp's potentially out there. You have six guys working on a product that's somewhat shipping and it's big data, social data. How do they engage with IBM? Is there a partnership program? Do you guys have an ecosystem? We do, we do. We actually have just launched BlueMix which I think everyone is aware of now. And also on software, we're enabling a lot of our middleware services capabilities on software. And we actually just enabled both BlueStratus which is our DB2 Blue acceleration capabilities or in memory capabilities on software. So really a self-service BI data warehousing capability. And then we're also enabling our big insights Hadoop services, so MapReduce on software as another capability. And we're very focused on an entire ecosystem. So the ecosystem is a set of clients and partners who want to expose particular APIs, who want to make certain sets of applications available as well as even data sets available for the marketplace. So I would think it's a big data exec. You want to bring as many big data services whether Hadoop or other into the cloud. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And most clients actually want to marry their data with third party data and another data set and derive some, you know, in public data to derive some meaningful insight. And to do that, it means that we've got to have a lot more common interfaces to be able to access the data and be able to also run analytics. So what should we expect there? The IBM Hadoop distro, I mean other analytics services. More services, you know, we're really shifting toward enabling agile analytics and we're also shifting toward what I consider more continuous insight and actionable insight in the middle of a process, right? In real time, in context. So what's the big milestones for you this year to knock down in terms of on the business front, partnerships, competition, landscape, revenue, projections, can you share some data? Oh, sure. So the biggest, I would say one of the biggest areas that I've interacted with clients recently is even in the telco space and financial services data monetization, like how do they do it? And one of the things that they've said is now I want privacy baked in into the capability. So historically you would have thought investments around privacy, security, governance where after thoughts are because of either breach or risk or, you know, risk. Now people are actually being much more proactive in saying I actually want to set money aside from a growth standpoint because I realize this has huge value. Is it an insurance policy or is it actual products they're buying? Oh, products, real products. So it's actually methods and products. So the method meaning what's the stewardship? What's the data steward role? What's the data officer, chief data officer role? Who actually has the rights on determining what data has, what value set? What are some of the techniques to apply in terms of user authentication and access? In terms of growth, my expectation is we're going to continue to see huge growth. We actually saw in some of our key technology areas over 100% growth last year. I mean, huge. So this is an exciting place. My expectation is I don't look at the competition maybe not the way everyone would expect, which is my belief is in the market right now because people are both understanding and trying to develop new applications and what some of the new technologies provide you is an opportunity to actually grow the entire market. So my preference is more programmers, more data developers actually engaging, actually drives a bigger market opportunity size for everybody. You mentioned the chief data officer. What are you seeing in terms of trends for the CDO? What industries are taking up the data czar, the CDO? And is that individual reporting into the CIO or is it a separate autonomous organization? So we've had, that's a good question. We've actually, and even Gartner's done a study on it recently, so this CDO role has been emerging almost growing at double digits, both at the C-suite level as well as one level below. In many cases, they're actually bridging between both either the IT organization or in the business organization. In some cases, they've actually pulled it out separately. I've seen it most in financial services sector, healthcare and government, mainly because it's highly regulated, right? Any industry that's highly regulated in terms of how that data is handled. The last piece too, in terms of the role is they really sit in between the organization, IT, technical and business and having an understanding of the key metrics and having the right people in the organization to say what are the key sources? What degree of control? What degree of sandbox experimentation that the provision for their multiple requests and teams become really important? Yeah, we're doing a conference in July with MIT. It's a CDO symposium. They're doing a lot of research in this area, so look for that. Inhi, I want to ask you a final question because we're on time here. Always great to have you. What are you personally excited about right now in the world with an IBM, outside IBM? What's got your attention right now? Probably the most exciting aspect is real time and context computing, the combination of the two. I mean, just being able to not only enable not just machine to machine and connected core type scenarios and deep industrial sector, asset heavy intensive industries with a lot of data, but it's actually also about enabling everyone. I mean, it's really democratizing the ability to have insight for everyone without necessarily all having to be a PhD or a data scientist or a big quant guy, right? So the thing that's exciting for me is- Liberation. Yeah, it really is about liberation. So it's being able to apply much more kind of insights at the moment at the right time context place for the individual, knowing the entity fully. And then the second is just enabling everybody, the masses, everybody to be able to play. I always said, you know, we are into crowdsourcing and crowd dynamics. We do a lot of research. It's about behavioral and contextual. The behavior is the crowd and the context is everything. So I love that context angle. I think that's really cool. I love the agile analytics. I think that is going to be like a search engine, you know, Watson-like. I mean, although Steve Mills was saying that Watson is going to be the source of truth. Dave was rolling his eyes. Dave was rolling his eyes. Cause we're always like, is there one version of the truth? And he's like, it's Watson. Yeah. I mean, Watson is absolutely phenomenal. It's just great humanization. He clarified it. Statistical version of the truth. Yeah, that's what he said. He had to back pedal. But it was a good conversation. Great to have you on theCUBE. Great to see you again. Thanks for meeting with us last night. It was always good to meet some of the team. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. 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