In two previous videos I have shown you what you do if you have uncertainties in measurements and then have to do some calculations based on those measurements. There is a video, what you do if you have additional subtraction and another one what you do if you have multiplication and division. The links of those videos should be somewhere below in the description. Now the question however is what do we do if it gets more complicated? What do I mean by more complicated? For example if you have a vector of length A at an angle theta and your length of the vector has an uncertainty as well as the angle and what you want to do is figure out the Y component of the vector. So AY of course is A times sine of the angle. So I have multiplication but on top of that I have the sine of division. So what do we do? We use the minmax method. The minmax method you already know it from estimating uncertainties where we used it. Also the link to that video should be somewhere below in the description. We take the best possible value to that we add and subtract the uncertainty of the maximum possible outcome minus the minimum possible outcome divided by 2. So in my case my AY best is simply 5 newtons times sine of 30 degrees. I just realized there was a mistake here of course the angle is measured in degrees and not in newtons which gives me 2.5 newtons. So I know the Y component the best case is 2.5 newton and now the main question is plus minus how much. So what do I do? I look at all possible combinations. So in my case what is the biggest angle? What is the smallest angle? What is the biggest amplitude? And what is the smallest amplitude? And then I make a little square here and then write my highest angle that was 40 degrees. My lowest angle 30 minus 10 is 20 degrees. My biggest amplitude 5 plus 1 is 6 newtons. My smallest amplitude is 5 is 4 newtons and then I'm calculating all possible combinations of this. So in this field I'm doing 6 newtons and sine of 40. In this field I'm doing 6 newtons and sine of 20. Here I will do 4 newtons times sine of 40 and here I will do 4 newtons times sine of 20. So let's calculate this. So I have 4 newtons and this I have a maximum possible outcome of 3.9 and for my smallest angle I have 4.1 for this one here I got 2.6 and over here 1.4. So now once I've done this I'll have to look in my values which one is my highest which is this in this case and which one is my smallest which is this in this case and plot it in here. So I have plus minus 3.9 minus 1.4 divided by 2. Now if I calculate this this gave me 1.2 newtons. So as those of you that have watched many of my videos yet I like to round this to one significant figure so I'm going to report this with one significant figure on Newton of uncertainty and my Y component round it so that only one estimated digit is 3 newtons plus minus 1 newton and this is my final answer.


More than 10,000 asylum seekers at the southern border have been sent back under the controversial Remain in Mexico policy as their asylum cases are processed in American immigration courts. And we've learned the Trump administration wants to expand this practice. Typically, refugee status is not granted just based on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood. CNN seems to incorrectly think that Donald Trump is the president of Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. And he was elected in large part to deal with the massive illegal immigration problem at the southern border. He's actually had a lot of success, something that CNN is clearly pissed about. That's thanks to him convincing Mexico to hold these large caravans of people on the Mexican side of the border. Up until there, so-called asylum cases can be heard. However, as we know from the Obama administration, the vast majority of these people are economic migrants. They're not asylum cases. Typically, refugee status is not granted just based on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty. Don't get me wrong, I do feel bad for these people, but if they want to come here, they've got to come legally. While you and I and millions of Americans may see this as a success, CNN doesn't think so and they are apparently upset that there are millions of people just streaming across the border unchecked. They seem to be very supportive of open borders, something that they have claimed over and over again that Democrats aren't supportive of. They seem to be very supportive of open borders, something that they have claimed over and over again that Democrats aren't supportive of. We'll get right back to this media meltdown in just a second, but let me take a quick moment to thank this channel's new sponsor, PatriotLegacy.com. PatriotLegacy was nice enough to send me over one of these units to test out and give you an honest review of. This survival slash tactical flashlight has a lot of neat features, most prominent the solar charging panel, which will actually charge using normal light.  You might have also noticed this little guy here, which is used to break out your windshield or car window in the event that you're stuck. And I imagine it would be pretty useful for a defensive weapon if you needed it. It's also got an array of six flashing light options that are really useful if you are in a car accident or just stuck on the side of the road, or possibly even lost in the woods. People are going to see these lights when they're flashing. And then of course we have the main function of the flashlight, which I can assure you is extremely bright, 500 lumens to be exact. They also have this compass that is removable.  Say you're in a dark parking lot and somebody attacks you or you think somebody is going to attack you, you hit that alarm and anybody in the area is going to hear it. You see under this cover, you have a couple options. Either you can charge other devices off the flashlight or you can plug in the flashlight through USB and charge it. In conclusion, I love this tactical flashlight. It's got everything you would ever need. Six overall lighting functions, escape features like the window hammer and the seat belt cutter, solar charging so you don't need batteries, a power bank for charging your phone and other devices, and a removable compass with access to a personal safety alarm. Patriot Legacy supports veterans and YouTubers like yours truly. So head on over there and make sure to use the promo code DRONE20 to get 20% off your purchase. Thank you. President Trump insists things are better along the U.S. border with Mexico, but in reality the humanitarian crisis is getting significantly worse. Nick Valencia got a first-hand look at conditions and one makeshift tent camp. I just want to quickly point out the obvious emotion and opinion this so-called reporter is already injecting into the story. It's what's called an appeal to emotion and it's a logical fallacy. It's most certainly something that you wouldn't see with a professional journalist, but rather a propagandist or an activist. And for people who constantly tout that nobody is above the law, they certainly are very selective about how they'll apply those standards. This reaction from CNN is kind of baffling, especially considering that Obama took the very same stance about asylum cases and openly said that if you don't meet these criteria, you shouldn't come here. Some Republicans have suggested there's an open border policy or the president hasn't been tough enough. Listen to these tough words here. Our message absolutely is don't send your children, so that is our direct message to the families in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they'll get sent back. It was never a controversy or a scandal. It's part of the Trump administration's migrant protection protocols, a policy which now requires migrants like her to remain in Mexico for their asylum cases to be called on if they cross illegally or without proper documentation. Great. What's wrong with that? If she's a real asylum case, then she's going to end up getting preferential treatment over immigrants who are trying to come into the country illegally. Remember, nobody is above the law. No one is above the law. Nobody is above the law. We must ensure that no one is above the law. No one is above the law. This is as a result of U.S. policy. ACLU of Texas staff attorney Rochelle Garza says the migrants are being denied due process. She says their fate is being decided in an unprecedented way and makeshift tent courts. Wrong. These people made the choice to illegally enter the United States and they can make the choice to go back home. The U.S. is under no obligation to accept a never-ending stream of economic migrants. We can't even take care of our own poor and veterans, much less millions of poor from other countries. We had an election and as you all like to remind us during the Obama administration, elections have consequences. He was elected to do something about this problem and he's doing it. Nobody elected CNN or left-wing extremists to dictate our immigration policy. Again, and I want to keep reminding you of this, the vast majority of these people are not asylum cases. They come from poor, bad neighborhoods. Yes, but that's not the criteria for asylum. Typically, refugee status is not granted just based on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty. ACLU of Texas staff attorney Rochelle Garza says the migrants are being denied due process.  It's gotten better because they feel like they've gotten rid of the problem. This is entirely our fault. Sure. Yeah. Okay.  What they just said there doesn't even make sense. If their cases are being heard, then they're getting their due process. It doesn't matter if the court's in an office building or in a tent. Where would these people be if they weren't in that tent city right now? They would be in detention centers and no doubt CNN and left-wing activists would be outraged about that too. They just want us to let all of these people in unconditionally. The only thing that would make these people happy is to just open the borders. Thanks for watching. This channel is under constant assault by YouTube and almost nothing is monetized. So I depend on my donors and sponsors to keep this channel going. If you enjoy my content and you want to support this channel, please consider subscribing to me on Patreon or SubscribeStar. I also accept donations on PayPal and I deeply appreciate it. Thank you for all the support that I've gotten from all of you and keep coming back. Thank you.


Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to add water or a wet look to clothing and or sweat. Basically you want to make the stock footage which I have here. I've got a stock photo of a guy working out. I want to make it look more realistic and I want to add in like he's been exercising type of look and I've gone ahead and done that here. This is a rough cut so it's not 100% perfect but it's the technique that counts. I'm going to show you step by step so let's just go ahead and take that off and I'm going to create this step by step starting here. The first step of course is you want to drag and drop the image that you're going to be working with into Photoshop. So I'm going to start from scratch and do it again. I'm going to open it and boom, there's the image kind of pretty close. There we go. We got the guy's got a Spartan shirt on. He's rolling the next step here is you're going to see the lock button over underneath the panel here. Left click because this layer is partially locked. Just unlock it just like that. Now the next step is I'm going to go down to the bottom here and actually you know what? Before I do that I'm going to duplicate this layer. It's better to do it this way. So just so that we're working non-destructively. So I'm going to left click on the layer. I'm going to drag and drop it on that plus sign and that creates a layer creates a duplicate layer. Pardon me. So I'm going to turn the bottom layer off. We're going to work on the top layer. So we have something to compare it to as well. The next step making sure you're selected top layer. You want to create a filler adjustment layer. So left click on this little button down at the bottom here. The half circle, so to speak. And we're going to go and select the brightness and contrast option. Now you want to dial this in like I dial it into. I want the brightness to go to about minus 80. So we're going to reduce the brightness considerably. I'm going to dial it in minus 80. And then for the contrast, I want the contrast to go way up to 80. So this is because we're going to be working with masks next and I want to have this type of look. So there we go. We've got our adjustment layer. We're on our way. The next step and this is a very important one is you want to invert the mask. We want it to go from the white mask, which is the default to a black mask. And the way to do that is to hit command if you're on a Mac or control if you're on a PC and hit the I button or the I letter. Boom. Now it's a black mask. Perfect. The next step, making sure you're still selected on this mask is we're going to now brush in the wetness or the sweat or the discoloration, so to speak. So left click on your brush tool like this. And for me, for this type of work, I work with a soft round brush. So I'm just going to drag this out a little bit. It's under general brushes, soft round. So you can always select that if you're following along with me. Also, I leave the opacity at 100% as you can see up top here, but I reduce the flow down to 40% because it allows me to be a little bit more precise and I'd rather paint a couple times and get it just right as opposed to painting once and well, hoping it's right. So those are the key attributes that we're going to work with. Let's carry on. The next step here is we're going to go ahead and now brush in the color. So making sure that you have white selected. So when you're brushing, the foreground color is set to white. We're going to now brush in some of the sweat and some of the wet look. So I'm just left-clicking on it and I'm just adding it in. So again, this all depends on the type of work you're doing and the type of discoloration you're looking for.  And then at the top, I want to paint in, you know, maybe he's been, he's got some sweat going on up here kind of thing. Again, this is totally up to you, how you guys do it. But this is just to show you the technique and yeah, let's go with something like that. What do you think guys?  He's been training and I don't know, something like that, right? Like let's go, let's try and make it believable, right? Like he's just been training hard and he's got some bits and pieces. All right, so we've added in some, some of the coloring that we're looking for. Perfect. Now, let's go ahead and make a few more adjustments. Right clicking on the layer here, I'm going to right click and you're going to see something called blending options. Make sure in case you don't see this, if you right click over top of the mask or you right click over the layer thumbnail, you might not see it. So make sure you're right clicking outside of that. Click on blending options. All right. Now, I'm going to move this out of the way so you guys can see a little better what I'm doing here. But on the underlying layer over here on the white side, you can actually separate this indicator. So I'm going to hold down the alt key or the option key if you're on a Mac and I'm going to move this a little bit. So I'm just dialing it in just to get it a little bit closer. This is not a necessary step but this is just something that I like to do just to give it a little bit more of an organic feel. Again, not a necessary step. I'm going to now left click on okay and we are on our way. Okay guys, so we can make a few more things here. The next step is we're going to duplicate the layer at the bottom here. So I'm going to take this second layer here. The one that we're working on, I'm going to duplicate it. I'm going to drag and drop it on top of the plus sign. So now we've got another layer on top. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to convert this into a smart object and there's a couple ways to do it. I like to right click on the layer, drag it down, convert to smart object and you'll know it's a smart object because you're going to see the little objecty, smart objecty thing in the bottom right of the thumbnail. I really should increase the size of my thumbnails but we'll do that in a future video. Okay, so now the next step, making sure you're on the top layer here, we're going to go to filter. We're going to go to filter gallery and we're actually going to apply a filter to it. Now there's two that work well. One is called plastic wrap and the other one is like kind of like a watercolor. So I'm going to go with, well, do we want to do watercolor first or not? Let's see here, I'm going to zoom out. Let's go with watercolor first.  Not to worry, we're still good. We're going to go ahead now and we're going to go back to the filter here. So I'm going to left click on the filter and I'm going to paint a little bit more. Not too much. It's not doing a whole lot here, if I'm being honest, but we've got that water filter look perfect. I'm going to reduce the opacity of this layer down to about 30%. And now we're starting to get a little bit of a nice looking look here. So it's not, it doesn't look like it's been painted on. It's looked like it's natural and that's what we're going for. Okay, perfect. The final step here is I'm going to apply a second filter. I'm going to go to the filter gallery again and this one is the one we talked about earlier, the plastic wrap. Now the plastic wrap, again, it's just to give it a little bit more of an organic look. I'm going to reduce down the look here to 12 detail for smoothness for and I'm going to hit okay on that. That basically just adds in a little bit of a look to it. Now I'm going to go ahead and yeah, I'm going to go ahead and add in a little bit more here. I'm going to go and take a look at deeper look in here and see, okay, look, look at his body. You're going to see here that it's got a little bit more striations. It's got a few things inside the pick or inside the the watery component or the sweat component. And from there guys, that's how you add in that type of look using Photoshop 2021. I hope this tutorial helped you out. I got a lot more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Fortinet Accelerate 18, brought to you by Fortinet. Welcome back to theCUBE. We are live at Fortinet Accelerate 2018. I'm Lisa Martin with my co-host Peter Burris and we're excited to be joined by Mick Conrad, the VP of Product Management at Ribbon Communications. Mick, welcome to theCUBE. Well, thank you very much and it's great to be here. So tell us about Ribbon, your technology alliance as partner. Tell us about Ribbon Communications and what you guys do with Fortinet. Okay, so a few things. So Ribbon Communications, we basically are a security and cloud company in the voice and video space. So what does that practically mean? That means we sell something called a session border controller, which is a voice and video firewall, into both service providers and into enterprises. So an example would be when you make a mobile call with AT&T or Verizon or Deutsche Tell or whoever your particular service provider is, that voice session becomes an IP packet, winds its way through the network and as it's winding its way through the network, it has to be potentially encrypted, has to be protected, denial of service attacks, all of that stuff, that's what we do. Now, how does that work into what Fortinet does? We are a part of their cloud security fabric and we have the ability with a new product that we're launching or have launched this week or announced this week, it will be actually GA and available in the summer. We will be included in passing information into the security fabric. So we protect voice and video, Fortinet protects data, web, email, everything that they do very well. What we are, what this new product that we call Ribbon Protect is going to be a bridge between the voice and video world of IP communications and the data world that Fortinet works with and we're gonna be passing information and talking between those two worlds and therefore adding an extra layer of security to that. So that's how we work with them. So voice and video have some certain special communications requirements and basically you're bringing the capacity to do voice, video, security and the special requirements associated therein into the Fortinet ecosystem. Yeah, so a great example is right now in most, so let's use an enterprise as an example, right?  You know, somebody along the lines of a bank of American, I'm not saying it's Bank of America or Wells Fargo or say I'm not naming anyone, but just along those lines, big bank. You probably have a SIP trunk, which is an IP trunk and IP packets for communications coming into a data center or multiple data centers around the world and into individual branches of all your retail locations. And those are voice and video packets and your tellers or your contact center agents are picking up the phone and that's all IP audio and video or they might be using a handset. And again, that's all IP to the laptop or to the handset and they're having these conversations. You may want to encrypt those conversations. You definitely want to make sure if a contact center is up and it's doing mortgage calls, it's taking individual check requests for checking account balances that that contact center stays up. In the world of IP, especially in SIP communications, it's very easy to send a denial of service attack against, for example, a contact center and bring that down. So nothing keeps somebody from generating from a single laptop, 20 gigabytes, 30 gigabytes or petabytes worth of calls into a contact center and that will bring down the infrastructure unless you're protecting that infrastructure with a denial of service type of device. Similar, very analogous to what you would see in a DDoS device that, for example, Fortinet sells, on the data side to protect your web servers and your email servers and all the other things except on the voice side. So that's what we do. And now with Ribbon Protect, we're going to be taking all the information that we're gleaning as these ports are being open and closed and as we are getting attacked on the voice and video side, so IP address comes in. We've decided that there's a lot of bad calls coming in from that side of the fence. We blacklist that, right? We will then pass that information over to the data side of the house, right? Through the security fabric, we will pass through and then Fortinet can on their side say, hey, this is now blacklisted also. So any IP, any packets coming from that IP address that are doing something else have nothing to do with the voice and video because it's two separate networks typically will now be protected out of the bank has an added level of security. And Fortinet propagates that, cascades it throughout. Cascades it throughout their entire partner ecosystem, right? So that's what we do, and we have deep visibility into SIP. So one of the things as an example, firewalls are very good at opening and closing ports. And the default for most firewalls is port closed. Problem is with SIP, it's a phone call. Ports are typically closed. Call comes in and it's ringing, you answer. And when you answer, the UDB port has to be open so that a media stream can come through and cut through the call so you can actually have a conversation. Otherwise the packets will get blocked and there will be no conversation. You'll get one way audio or no audio. We have very good visibility into which ports are being assigned the duration of that call, right?  A lot of firewalls don't do that. They keep the ports open because they don't know at that SIP level that a call is coming through, write this very second for Mick, open the port for three minutes because he's talking to his mom. Oh, conversation's over, close the port because they don't go to that depth of information on the SIP application level. We do because that's our job. And we then pass that information and say, listen, you should be closing this port or opening this port, right? We have a lot of visibility that firewalls just don't have and now as part of the security fabric, we're going to be passing that information onward. So now we're going to have a stronger security perimeter for enterprises as well as service providers that are using the combination of our session border controllers, Ribbon Protect, the new product that's coming out and the Fortinet Panappley of products. So if I'm a CISO at a bank and we were speaking with Fortinet CISO earlier today and kind of talking about the evolution of that, we talked as well, I think with John Madison about the security architect, if I'm a CISO at a bank or a service provider, what is my material value that this technology alliance is going to give to my organization? That's a good question. So there's a couple different aspects of this, right? So let me talk about Ribbon Protect and we frame Ribbon Protect in three different value propositions.  Another one is in cybersecurity threats. And the third one is network visibility. So I'm going to start with network visibility and work my way back up that chain. So there's a value proposition, not necessarily for the CISO, but for the CIO and the people running the communications network and having really good visibility into the communications network and end-to-end view across multiple different disparate items. So let me give you an example. Typical bank will have Cisco, they might have Juniper, they might also have an Avaya system when it comes to communications, they might have an old Nordtel system, they might have some cloud communications from a Vonage or a Fuse or Verizon, right? All these disparate systems all within the one CIO, all under this one CIO, right? And call comes in and nothing works. For some reason it's not routing correctly, the contact center agent doesn't know, isn't getting the calls, you know, have you ever called and you get transferred and you get dropped, right? That's the problem. And then when they try to troubleshoot that, it's very hard because there's so many disparate elements. So the first thing you need is visibility. So from a CIO perspective, this product Ribbon Protect will give you visibility into the network and that will allow you to troubleshoot and bring the network up. Then you go into the next level. So once you have visibility, so you can't provide security until you have visibility into a network. So now that you've got this end to end visibility, now let's talk about security. Two different types of security threats that our customers are seeing when it comes to communications. One is sort of robo-dialing toll fraud, right? And I would even put Denial of Service attacks sort of in there, Denial of Service attacks also go to the next level, which is cybersecurity. But robo-dialing, how many of you are getting calls all the time now? I'm getting on my mobile, literally, I get like three or four a day on my mobile phone from a different random number because they know my area code and they think if they mask it, it's a friend of mine and I'll answer the call, right? That's becoming more and more prevalent.  But then the next one is some where it can bring productivity way down. So there's that one area and then there's toll fraud, which is in the billions of dollars now of costs to both enterprises and service providers where people are doing things like calling Zambia or weird little countries and routing through enterprise networks. So that's another aspect of both that a CISO will be worried about. And lastly and the most important one is the cybersecurity issue. Pack it based on our service attacks across your entire system that can not only take down your web server and your email server, but also your communications, your real-time communications, but also exfiltration of data. So what we've seen is the following. A hacker comes in through the data side and understands the network topology, puts in some malware, but because they're using something from Fortinet or somebody else, they can't do anything with that information, there's no way out. But here's the SIP network, this UC network sitting in the system and it's sort of unguarded because it's not that there's no guards there in place, but the data side, I mean, if you look at everything that Fortinet and others have been putting out, that side of the fence is getting a lot of attention, right? And over the last few years, even more attention as hacks have taken place and PII has been stolen, right? But on the SIP side of the fence, that hasn't really happened as much. And so we believe that's the weakest chain right now will soon be the weakest chain and hackers will use the open ports because if you're just using a firewall, those ports are open, the range of UDP ports to make phone, to put media through is wide open. It has to be, otherwise it won't work. And so they can exfiltrate data through that, right? So they use some other means to find the topology of the network, get in and then they can pass data out through that, right? And it might look like a good media stream like a video call and we've actually seen examples where people have sent video and embedded underneath that data inside the video. And they piggyback it, right? So you're going to see the, so the value to the CISO is, listen, if you're concerned about people finding a different way into your network, you're protected against, or you think you're protected against malware, you're protected against email, you're protected against web server attacks. Well, have you really thought about the UC side? So if I'm a CISO, I should be really worried about securing that side of my fence because I haven't been worried about it for the last three or four years. And there's been an increase in attacks on that, or increasing amount of attacks on that side of the fence, right? And then there's these other values that of Urban Protect that hit other aspects of the IT chain, right? So we believe that there's a sort of three value, core value propositions, two that really affect the CISO, and one that's more of a CIO issue. Well, look, once a port's open, it's open. Correct, yeah. And video envoys do have characteristics that if a device is set up to introspect it and understand it, then it can recognize it. But as you said, your general purpose firewall typically is not looking at that. And you want, you don't want to introduce an entirely distinct and separate management platform and pain if you don't have to. So the CISO gets to see the same pain while the CIO gets to ensure that voice and video happens without being hit. Works, yes. And at the same time that the CISO is getting the pain that they need so they have some visibility into what's going on with it. Exactly, and that's the entire purpose of this product, right? And it meshes, we believe, it meshes nicely with what Fortinet's talking about in that they have their FortiGuard artificial intelligence product that they've been talking about and how it's detecting what's going on in the network and millions of nodes and features and really actually quite sophisticated stuff. I just sat through an entire presentation on it. We are doing the same thing with Ribbon Protect where we have an artificial intelligence layer that would sit inside the company, but it's specifically looking at the communications pathways. What's normal communications? What's abnormal communications? What's normal packet flows on the communication side? And abnormal communication flows. And putting two and two together and doing machine learning, similar analogous things to what they're doing on the data side and on the virus malware detection side is what we're doing on the communication side. And putting, again, putting together our own database. Again, similar to what they have where they have a database and they apply that database of known bad, known good to their, to their, and we're doing the same thing. And then we're going to share that information into the, into the Fortinet fabric. So you're really collaborating and it sounds like complimentary technology. Complimenting. Yeah. The customer benefits from, we've got about a minute left but I'd love for you to share maybe at a super high level an example of a joint Fortinet Ribbon customer that where the CIO and the CISO are being very happy with the technologies that you were delivering. So I can't, I can't name any names, unfortunately, but we are talking with a large service provider right now that is very enamored of Fortinet and uses them extensively on the, on the data side to provide services to their customers. Meaning, so as a service provider, you're providing data and managed services to your enterprise customers, right? And they also use us today to provide voice services to those same, to secure, to secure voice services to the same set of customers. And so now what we're talking about is marrying the two and us sending data to, to Fortinet. And what is getting the service provider very excited is to be able to offer a differentiated service to their enterprise customer base. Something that the other service providers can't because they either aren't using Fortinet and, or aren't using us, right? They need, they need somebody that is using both, right? And this, this particular one is, happens to be using both of us. So we can put Ribbon Protect into their environment, into their network and it'll start sharing the information. And what that will be, allow them to do is market to their customers at a higher level of security and even to the point where they might be able to go out and say things like the most secure voice video system out, you know, in the world today. Yeah, they're bringing, they're expanding the scope of a common security footprint and thereby allowing a new class of services to be provided to whether CISO or CIO. And they view it as a differentiator for themselves. That's exactly what I was thinking.  Well, here's one reason. Oh yeah, there's probably a few others but here's at least one reason. Differentiation, a key fundamental for digital transformation. Well, Mick, Michaela, thank you so much for joining us on theCUBE, you're now a CUBE alumni. Thank you very much, happy to be an alumni. Excellent. We want to thank you for watching theCUBE's continuing coverage of Accelerate 2018. I'm Lisa Martin for my co-host Peter Burris. Stick around, we've got great interviews coming up next.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com coming at you with a brand new release, 2020 Bowman Sterling Baseball Six Box Half Case. Pick your team number one from jaspyscasewrakes.com on a Friday, happy Friday everybody. Thanks everyone for getting to the end. No fillers or anything. We sold this baby out straight up. But thank you very much here on the 14th. Thanks, Rhea looks like had last spot in Mojo with the Astros, so thanks to Rhea. Thanks to everybody for getting into this action. I think they brought, after a long hiatus, they brought Bowman Sterling back last here, I think. And then here it is again. So it's six box, half case break, so let's pop this scope in, hey. Let's pop, ooh, blue boxes here, nice Dodger blue here. I guess if you're a Blue Jays fan, it could be a nice Blue Jays blue. Your Royals fan could be a nice Royal blue. All right, so we've got six on the left side, six on the right side. Similar box configuration as last year. Here we go, let's select a die, and let's roll the die. One, two, three for the left stack, four, five, six for the right stack. And it's gonna be three. So we're gonna do this left side first. This, I'm just gonna set aside on my couch here right here on the sofa, because that's coming up next. Pick your team two is coming up next. This is Pick your team one. Let's take a look at the box. Five autographs per master box. No design up there, kind of a blank design up there. Anything on the side that telling us about mini boxes? How many cards per mini box? The MLB logo, some stuff on the back. All right, let's see what we got good, luck everybody. We're even going sticker on the box here too. All right, yeah, looks like the same configuration as last time, each mini box should contain an auto.  Let's take out all the packs too, good luck. I think we have, I don't know if we have any personal boxes of this left. We've had some people curbside. We still can curbside, ladies and gentlemen if you want. Visit jaspys.com for a selection of boxes that you can get curbside. And all the group breaks will still live here on jaspyscasebrakes.com. All right, good luck, ladies and gentlemen. I should have enough, I don't know if I have enough top letters for this, I'll have to get some more. First pack, there's Jazz Chisholm for the Miami Marlins. We're playing some good baseball right now. Matt Manning, Paul DeYoung to 50. And Adley Rushman is our first auto, not too shabby at all, the big Orioles catching prospect from Oregon State, Oregon State, I think Oregon State. Did he go from an orange team to an orange team? I'm pretty sure he did. That's Eric Leal with the Baltimore Orioles, nice. And all of these cards will ship, ladies and gentlemen. So fear not, yes, I will need more top loaders. Need a second? What's up, Patrick? Dan's here too. Patrick's saying his local can't get sleeves and top loaders. I know, it's, there they are. There's a top loader famine happening. Not much out there in the world, but we were able to use our influence to get some. Not a lot, but. Ian Anderson to a 199, I think he made a start recently. And an out of five, Aristides Aquino. Woo, two excellent cards start off. Adley Rushman, big catching prospect, and then you got Aristides Aquino, three out of five for the Red Legs. DMACC, I feel like you should have made the team, but he didn't. He'll be fine. He's young. It almost looks sticker-y, but it's not. These are all on card, ladies and gentlemen. That box makes it look like it's a sticker, but right on the card. There you go. And a train whistle, out of fives and under, get the train whistle. So Darren, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! We've got Alex Kierloff, Spencer Howard. I think Spencer Howard's making a start today. Pop this open. We've got Mackenzie Gore, Brandon McKay, Hunter Harvey, and Josh Young, another big name for Mark Basette and the Rangers. Wow, so far the first three autographs. Pretty big names here. Nice Josh Young. There's Alec Baum or Bohm. I think he just got called up. So there may be some value there, man. There's a lot of things happening. Brandon McKay for the Rays, Aaron Tully. Next one. Jake Rogers, Shun Yamaguchi, Eris T. Zekino, and Quinn Priester for the Pirates. Ryan Maloney with the buckos. Oh, Bohm got his first hit yesterday, Siskay. There you go. So yeah, he is already up and already has a baseball to put on his shelf. Authenticated by MLB. There's Nolan Gorman, big name for the Cardinals right here, Speckle to 99. And another Speckle autograph, Rookie Mauricio Dubon for my rivals, Giants. Ria with the Giants. He's been playing some good baseball, though. Rich says the dual autos are pretty sweet in this. I can't wait to see a dual auto. Kyle Lewis, Raking. Aaron Tully with the M's. Nice, there's some nice little information. Good copy on the back of the card. I dig that. Remember, all card ship, that was just the first box. Next box. Good luck. Who do we have on the cover here? Now, Bobby Whit Jr. right here. Is that Tetease? With short hair? All right, next box. Andrew, you forgot what teams you bought? Well, thankfully, we send you order confirmations, which you should see in your emails with the break number and the teams that you bought. If you don't see it, check your spam folder. You can also check your account page. This is pick your team one, ladies and gentlemen. Pick your team two, second half of the case is coming up right after this. Next five autos, good luck. This is pick your team one, brand new release. We don't have any more. We already sold out of it already. We're gonna try to get more. That's a pink right there. We've got Aaron Saval, 47 out of 75, and the auto is Greg Jones for the Rays. 27 out of one, and there's a Jason Dominguez right there. Greg Jones, 27 out of 150. That'll be for the Rays. That's gonna be for Aaron Tully. I don't know how well these base Jason Dominguez is due. They're not like a first or anything like that, but I guess it's first one in Sterling, Brandon Thorpe, Nolan Jones. All right, next one. We've got Jazz Chisholm again, Matt Manning, Mackenzie Gore, and Kieran Parris for the Angels. That'll be for Andrew. Spoiler alert, Andrew S. You have the Angels. Zach Gallin and Edward Alzallé. All-Cards chip. We've got Hunter Harvey. We've got Logan Allen Blue to 125, and Matt Lugo. Matthew Lugo for the Red Sox, Red Sox autograph. Going to Mark Bissette. We've got Trent Grisham and Taylor Tramiel. Logan Allen goes to the Indians. That'll be for Andrew S. Spoiler alert, Andrew. You also have the Indians in this one. There's Brendan McKay on-card autograph for the Rays. Aaron Tully. Has he been playing? I don't think so. Maybe he's on a taxi squad. I feel like I would have seen him make a start or something like that. I don't think he's really doing anything right now. No, he has no 2020 numbers. I'm pretty sure he's on like one of the backup squads in case of injury or COVID or whatever craziness happens, but two-way player could be another Shohei Otani type. Last one out of the second box. Good luck. A lot of good stuff in here. There's Miguel Vargas. Just signing up Vargas for my Dodgers. That goes to Jorge, the Dodgers. Nice, Nate Pearson, there he is. And Videl Bruhan. Nate Pearson live arm for Nate Pearson. Joe Floor's random teams of Bowman Sterling? No, there is no more. We are all out already. We only got two cases. Half case, half case for Pick Your Teams and half case, half case, random teams. And that's it. Very, a very heavily allocated product. We will try to get some more, obviously, but at the same price, likely not. That's why we always encourage everybody, whenever you see new releases on our site, get in early and often, because the next round will always be more expensive. Well, generally, it will be more expensive. Jaspy's casebreaks.com, pro tip for shark collectors. There's Dustin May, Christian Pat, there's Grant Gambrill for the Royals. That'll be for Daniel Ruiz with Kansas City. Next up, we've got some orange coming up. We've got Pete Alonzo, 27 out of 50, and an orange auto, Jordan Yamamoto, 64 out of 75. The way this year, this 2020 is going, ladies and gentlemen, we'll probably see Marlins and Orioles in the World Series. At the rate they're going, Ryan with the Marlins, Andrew with the Mets. Joey Bart, another big catching prospect. Grayson Rodriguez, speckled in 99, and Jacob Amaya, another Dodger autograph. Jorge with the Dodgers, nice. I think it's either Amaya or Vargas, who's like a big international prospect. It's been getting some leverage, some traction, some height. Next up, we got Keoni Kovako, two out of 50, gold autograph for the twins. That's gonna go to Andrew, spoiler alert. Andrew, you also have the twins. Nice, twins playing some good baseball. There's Drew Waters, Nicoladolo, all-card chip, remember. And we've got Luis Petino, who I think was the victim of a couple Mookie Betts homers yesterday. There he is, he's playing. He's in the show. Aaron with the Padres, nice auto. Good penmanship, Luis. There's Boba Shet and Brewstar, greater all. He throws some heat, that's for sure. That Boba Shet goes to Chris Parent and the Bluebirds. The Buffalo Blue Jays. Buffalo, let's get the next box going. Coming up next will be another six-box break of Bowman Sterling. I think we're tiny bit behind schedule, but we'll get there. Yeah, it is five minis per box. Yes, each mini box has an autograph. It's taking me about five minutes a box. So maybe about 25, 30, maybe four, five minutes a box, 25, 30 minutes a break. So we got the second half, pick your team coming up, and then the next fresh case will be the two random team breaks. And that's it for Bowman Sterling for now. I'll try to get some more on jaskyscasebreaks.com. All right, I got Matt Lugo, Mark with the Red Sox. And I'm sure we'll get into the other new release today on jaskyscasebreaks.com, the football release. Check that out. So we've got a lot of fun things happening on the website on a Friday, boys and girls. Thanks for joining us. There's Jason Aminga's gold, 38 out of 50. And Gavin Lux Redemption. There's Gavin Lux right there. There's his card. I love that Tops now puts the team names on the Redemption so I don't have to mark them up. So there you go, Dodgers, Jorge with the Dodgers. Gavin Lux will be fine. He'll be, he might even come up later this year if someone gets injured. That's a refractor wave parallel, which is nice. And the Jason Aminga's is nice for BT. Brandon, Smokey Brandon with the Yankees. He's happy. There you go, nice gold Aminga's. 38 out of 50. And there's Miguel Vargas again for the Dodgers, Jorge. Oh, why are you saying good job to me?  Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I'm thanking you. Thank you. There's Jared Kalanick to 99, nice speckle. And a speckle, Shay Langlears for the Bravo's. Andrew, spoiler alert. You got one, you got the Braves too. Andrew S. Kalanick is nice for the M's, Aaron. And came over from that Met Steel for Cano. Mariners are quietly building up a pretty strong team, I think. Young team, we need a couple years to marinate, a few years to marinate, but there's Seth Brown to 199. And JJ Goss, that's what the wave will look like. 008 out of 125. JJ Goss, autograph four, Aaron and the Rays. There's Bechet and Brewstar again. All right, two boxes to go, 10 autographs to go, five per box. And they look like they're pretty quality autos too. So if you're like, boy, this stuff is kind of pricey, it's like, yeah, you get five high quality prospect autos per box. Do we have any baseball happening right now? I don't think so. Oh, we do. And we got Orioles at the Nationals. Oh, it's up 62, top of the 7th. All right, six to two. I don't know if I like this. I think I have, Strasburg have the start. Didn't, don't I have Strasburg on my fantasy team? I think so. Come on, Strasburg, 4.1 innings. Seven hits, five earned runs, a walk and two strikeouts. Unbelievable. I thought the tough arrests would do him well. No World Series hangover. They get a good chunk of the summer off. Yes, not Luis Robert. That's our first Luis Robert rookie card and Sammy Siani for the Pirates. Ryan Maloney, Strasburg's fantasy baseball's a wash this season anyway. Ryan Maloney with the Pirates. Of course, my fantasy season was doing well. I'd be like best fantasy baseball player ever. Luis Robert going to Matthew Shearer and the White Sox. There you go. Mr. L.A., what's going on? How are you? Luis Robert, he's pretty good. I've heard of him. Marco Luciano, Nico Horner, Sean Murphy and a Brendan McKay wave refractor autograph. 125 out of 125, the last one ever made. Going to Aaron Tully. There it is. Kind of hard to see the number in the bottom left-hand corner there, but there you go. Nice looking autograph, good looking card. Nico rookie card goes to Mark. And there's J.D. Ableday. I think it's a top five pick maybe for the Marlins. This last year? Not this year, last year I think. Ryan at Gamsby with the fish. You're on Alvarez active today. I think he just got called up in these making a start maybe. That's pretty good. With Adley Rushman again, 98 out of 99. Speckle and Alec Minoa for the Buffalo Blue Jays. Going to Chris Parent. Adley Rushman, Speckle to go along with your autograph, Eric Leal. Nice. And the last one out of this box, there's Bobby Witt Jr., Julio Rodriguez. Peter Lanzo, five out of five. That's nice. And the Xavier Edwards autograph for the Rays in the background. Nice. So Rays Otto goes to Aaron Tully. Nice, and look at this. The Polar Bear, Andrew. Salt Scaver. You've got the Mets too. And now you've got a train whistle. Out of fives and under, get the train whistle as you know. Sterling first signs. Five out of five. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. You go. Nice break for you, Andrew. You picked them right. You picked them right. All right, final box, second half coming up right after we cleared this break away. I'm gonna have to take a few pictures of these cards too. All right, final five autos. Good luck. Strasper gave up all five earned runs in the fifth inning. Come on, Steven. We've got Kwon Hyun Kim. Kim Kwon Hyun. 24 out of 50 gold. And he reveals Sam Huff and Puff and blow your house down 11 out of 25. Rangers, that goes to Mark Bissett. Blue Otto, nice. The Kim Kwon Hyun goes to the Cardinals. That'll be for Andrew S as well. Have all your teams hit? Or have all your teams gotten something at least? Well, all card chips. Most people are gonna get something at least. There's your waters to 199. Braves, Andrew. Alec Minoa, Buffalo Blue Jays going to Chris Parent. Think, I think Rockies. No, did we get something for Rockies? Maybe a numbered card for the Rockies. You have Rockies too. I know Indian's got a couple things. All right, well, let's see. We've got three packs to go. There's Bobby with Junior, Julio Rodriguez, Kevin Visio to 99. And then add the Rushman die cut autograph. 44 out of 75, that is sweet. That's for Eric Leal and the O's. Nice, pretty nice. Pretty, pretty nice. All right, two more to go. Good luck, everybody. Bobby with Junior's speckled two out of 99 for the Royals, that's gonna be for Daniel. And Reese Hines for the Reds. Darren McKenzie with the Red Lakes. And the last pack here in Pick Your Team, number one, thanks everyone for getting in. Really appreciate it. Well, like I said before, we'll try to be on the lookout for more and keep an eye on the website, jaspyscasebrakes.com. We're gonna close out with a second Sam Huff Puff blowing the house down. Mark Basette with the Rangers. Thanks everyone. There you go. Nice way to end things. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. Thanks for hanging with me on a Friday. I will see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Welcome to Think Tech Talks on Think Tech. I'm your host, Carol Monly. Our show today is called, A Career Beyond Coding. And we're going to talk about what it's like to be a tech executive and address the issues of whether being in the management of large tech companies is a very exciting experience. If you want to ask a question or participate in the discussion, you can tweet us at thinktechhi or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Our guest for today is Ralph Pacheco. Thank you for coming, Ralph. We appreciate your being here. Well, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me. OK, so tell us how. What kind of educational background do you have to get into the tech tech business? Well, I kind of, in a way, kind of semi-backdoored in that I wasn't a computer science major, per se. I studied languages, international relations, and did a combined master's PhD program, which I almost finished, except I got into the tech field, in instructional science. And basically, the first year of that was a lot of technology, because you have to use that. And where was that? That was at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. I see. Did they have a computer science major at that case? Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And taking those technology courses just kind of opened up a whole new world for me. I see. And I was very much into languages, real languages. And so I was just so excited, because all of a sudden, you have here these languages, and you can talk with these machines. And there's just like regular languages. There's syntax. There's semantics, in other words, the meaning of the different parts of the language. And it was a fabulous experience to do that. And as I got more into that, I realized, you know what? I think I'm more interested in this than in the whole instructional science big program. And so I ended up getting with a startup company. About what year was this? Oh, my. We're talking this is ages. This would be in the late 70s. In the late 70s, OK.  Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I. So right out of school with your background in your budding interest in hands-on technology, where did you go first? What kind of a start? You said it was a startup. Yeah, it was a small startup out there in Utah. And they were basically, this was the dawn of what they called mini computers back then. They didn't have the PCs even yet. And this was a vast departure. They were making huge inroads into the business because all of a sudden these were much more affordable than a big mainframe and a multi-million dollar contract. And so just as an anecdote, one of my first clients we had was the, we actually had rented space in a building that was owned by the Osmond family. Think Donnie and Marie, Osmond, et cetera. Well, and they had a, there was a Donnie and Marie fan club and pillowcases, posters, all the knickknacks that come with being a fan of a superstar, which I'm sure that practice continues today with all of our things. And what was your role as far as things? And so what I did was they basically had a, he took me to a kind of a warehouse building next door and it was filled with mailbags. And they said, you know, there are laws. You have to get this stuff out the door within a certain period of time.  So basically I wrote an inventory control in order fulfillment system for them and they were able to just knock that out and. So that was coding? That was, that was writing, that was programming. And that was where I took the principles that I learned in school and actually applied them to a real-life application. And that was just, that's just one example of what I was doing. And so then how did that evolve then to the next level? Well, then I came to a small company that was working in the same with the same kinds of computers back east and was there for just less than a year. And then a good friend of mine was with Sperry Corporation. It was Sperry Univac at the time, ultimately came Sperry Corp and now has of course been absorbed into Unisys. And so I became a systems engineer with them and was working with a number of really, you know, really large clients and probably one of the most fun experiences I had. So I was still, you know, I was working with a lot of people and then they had me kind of managing, you know, a group of systems engineers as well. But I, my particular project that I was interested in was with the Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where they had a contract to provide basically data verification, specialized hardware to provide data verification for data coming from these new satellites. And the programmers who were writing the applications, in other words, the people at Hopkins, they didn't have a way to communicate with these specialized hardware. So I took it upon myself to write a set of interface programs that are basically the tech world, we call it a subsystem, that allowed these programmers to talk to this specialized hardware. I see, and before your program, they couldn't do it. That is correct. Oh.  I mean, you have the satellite launch and then you have this and then we went and installed the system down in White Sands to Mexico. If you've seen the movie with Jody Foster Contact, they go out in the desert and they have these big, huge dishes there and it lined up in the desert. Well, that's where the system was actually installed. I see. It was down there. No, is that where you did, you said speech development recognition? So what I do is after a while, I had some contacts and this is important. Networking is really important, okay? So this is a suggestion for our young people who are in the field.   And so an opportunity came up with a friend of mine at IBM. And so they were in the process of staffing up some things and so I worked with some of their internal systems and then after a couple of years, I went and they had a lab there in the Washington, D.C. area in Maryland and it was dealing with the emerging field of artificial intelligence. It hasn't taken off the way it has now due to a number of limitations, but they had a product line. Are we talking about the 70s or the 80s now? We're in the 80s now. We're in the 80s moving in the 80s and 90s, early 90s. And so we worked with the expert systems and then IBM made some decisions about where they were gonna go and that kind of fizzled out. But at the same time, some of my colleagues had been working with Carnegie Mellon University and our CMU, which was fascinating and it was the whole area of speech recognition. Now the state of the art back then was basically you had specialized hardware, okay, and that you had to use. So it wasn't standard PCs, personal computers, and also you had to train the system to your voice. In other words, I would train my system but you couldn't come talk to it because it was trained to me, not you. And also it was the technology was isolated word, meaning you had to pause in between each word and dictation was the big thing rather than just commands the way you do now. And so our lab that I formed up, first of all, we got some sponsorship from within the corporation which was wonderful. And we formed a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and they had done a lot of very important work in this field of speaker independent, continuous speech recognition, which is what everybody's used to now with things like Siri, you know, et cetera. And I'm not sure what they call it but same thing in Android. And so we started that, we got that and we took that code and we assembled a team of just top flight scientists and engineers, okay. And developed a system that would run on standard hardware. It was continuous speaker independent. It was wonderful. We had privilege also of working with the, you know, the IBM research group up in Armont, New York, which had some very intelligent people but I must say the people that were part of my team were second to none. So how long did it take to go from the previous form to where you now have this voice recognition that is years, many years? No, no, actually, we moved really, really quickly. You know, we were starting to put stuff out and talk to clients about it within the first year. Okay, so it was pretty. What's the name of that system? That was called, at that time it was called the IBM Continuous Speech System, okay. And ultimately, IBM, over time, IBM kind of faded from the speech record thing as they were trying to get a hold of what they were all about and they're still trying to get a hold of, you know, they're doing some great things, but at any rate, so we had a wonderful time working some large, large organizations and we're able to, I think, make a difference but really, really to change the focus instead of this more methodical, you know, step-by-step to move things really quickly. So within a larger organization like IBM, okay, wonderful company, they had a group that was able to, we operated like a startup. In other words, we were kind of encapsulated and able to move forward really, really quickly. We had supported management all the way up to the executive levels and so that was a great... And where's that software now? What is it called now? Is it still in the market? I have no idea, you know. So it's similar to what we experienced with Siri now, voice recognition and... It was that kind of software. Clearly back then, they didn't have the power that you, they didn't have cell phones, per se, except these huge things, you know? The bricks. So yeah, and so that was, so we were, now we're talking basically the mid-90s, okay? And as a result, we were, you know, we were able to make some really, really great strides and then IBM as they kind of shifted their focus, okay? Then we moved, you know, I began to think, okay, well, I kind of see where this is going, okay? And once again, leveraged some other connections that I had that were doing something else, this was outside of IBM, okay? And so we moved on to Computer Sciences Corporation. At that point in time. Well, let's take a break right now and get follow-up on Computer Science and some of the other software and interesting developments that you've been involved in from, looks like, sounds like from the ground up. So we'll be right back with my guest Ralph Pacheco, a retired technology expert. And this is Think Tech Hawaii, I'm Carol Monly. Aloha, my name is Steven Phillip Katz. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and I'm the host of Shrink Rap Hawaii where I talk to other shrinks. Did you ever want to get your head shrunk? Well, this is the best place to come to pick one. I've been doing this, we must have 60 shows with a whole bunch of shrinks that you can look at. I'm here on Tuesdays at three o'clock every other Tuesday. I hope you are too. Aloha. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, which streams live on thinktechhawaii.com, uploads to youtube.com, and broadcasts on cable OC16 and Ollello 54. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Welcome back, this is Carol Monly with Think Tech Talks and my special guest, Ralph Pacheco. Who is a retired tech expert, executive. So we were just speaking about your transition from IBM to Computer Services Corp. Where I know.  Sciences Corp. I see, and you were the chief information officer there. I became that ultimately. When I started, I was basically involved in with their consulting organization and essentially hooked up with a, it was actually an internal program that was called the corporate knowledge program. And that ultimately developed in, first of all, in the consulting business, there's a really kind of an important mantra and that is reuse is more important than reinventing. I see. So in other words, if you can take knowledge or software or documents or whatever that have been done, that have been used successfully in the past and you can leverage either the whole thing or pieces of those, instead of developing them from scratch, hey, you're ahead of the game, right? And so that's what a knowledge program is all about is the reuse of these assets. Now, CSC is a 90,000 person plus. International. International company, 160 countries or something like that. And so this program was to develop both communities, communities of practice, communities of interest among these, you know, thousands of employees as well as to provide an infrastructure that would allow the sharing and easily allow the sharing of information. So can you give us an example of how that was put into practice? Yeah, we, ultimately we, CSC felt it was important enough that they appointed a chief innovation officer, chief innovation officer. And so he did things across multiple areas, not just in the sharing of knowledge but in many other areas as well. And to foster innovation and just, you know, we could take a whole other segment just talking about him is just a brilliant person and a very good person as well. But essentially one of the things we ended up doing was we didn't have the capability to share information, to comment things. So think, this is a very simplistic way of thinking it but think Facebook within a corporation, okay?  And that was- So all through computers and technology. Yeah, technology.  So within your corporation of 90,000 people and how many locations around the world?  And so, but, you know, that's one of the miracles of the internet. I mean, as you can see, and of course that, although it sounds large in comparison to something, you know, like on the consumer end, like Facebook, it's very, it's very tiny. But the fact of the matter is that technology exists to be able to do that, okay? And so I think, you know, that the open-mindedness of the top executives, I mean, I was like one step, two steps away from the chairman of the board, you know, and, but the fact that our chief innovation officer and the corporate CIL were open-minded to this kind of approach, which was radically different than anything that had been done before was an amazing, you know, transformation. Right. Is that something now that we take for granted to most corporations now function that way in that open communication? You know, I'm not sure. I know, I certainly know that companies like, you know, IBM, Microsoft, Jive Software, all the, I mean, these are, these companies are providing and Google has a, you know, people are using these kinds of things now to, I think if you went into some companies now, you would basically wouldn't even be able to conceive how they could operate without this kind of functionality. Okay. And going to the extreme, you see now where private offices are no longer standard. Hours are not even standard. I know some of the new high-tech companies, you don't even have vacation anymore. You can take vacation whenever you want. You can work seven days a week. Of course, they'll feed you too. So is that also part of the type of innovation that you incorporated in your structure? Well, the system that I talked about actually facilitated the kind of home office-based or wherever office-based operation that we were able to adopt. Now to accept right. I'll give you an example. The people that were, you know, my direct reports, I worked with hundreds of people, but the people that actually directly reported to me, not one single one of them worked in a standard CSC office, except me. Okay, and I did because of that, all these other responsibilities that I had with interfacing with corporate staff, et cetera. And so this kind of technology enables companies to leverage that kind of thing.  You know, come back to the offices. IBM just gave their people an ultimatum. I haven't read the details, which basically said, okay, you have the choice of coming to work at office X, Y, or Z, or leaving the company. Okay. So it's kind of come around.  And he was leveraging things like wiki, think wikipedia and things like, but with the information that they needed to run their department of the government. You know, I think it was the EPA and we had him come talk to our group. And he said, you know, the stuff we're doing is really cool, but nothing beats a good in-person meeting. True. Okay. So what, if you compare, since you left school and started on this progress through the tech world, how has it evolved and where is it going now, now that you've been retired? Well, you know, the power on the hardware side is just amazing, okay?  Right. Okay. And I think about my, as an IBM employee, spending thousands of dollars for the PCXT, which had a whopping 10 megabyte hard drive. Oh my goodness. And so that was like the cat's meow.  And so you think about that evolution and then the sophistication of software where you're abstracting away from the hardware. So at the user experience, you're less and less having to be familiar with the machines.  Okay. You know, the joke used to be, imagine what it'd be like if computer scientists invented a toaster. You know, you'd have to, you'd have to boot the toaster. You'd have to, you know, I mean, way back then it was insanity. And you want to make things into appliances. Okay. So that they can really, you know. And that's where it's been going. Yeah. And where do you see it in the future? Well, I see that becoming even more ubiquitous. I see the, my view of things is, I see the cloud becoming more and more and more important as we go. That these devices where you can do important things on them, but they're basically becoming gateways, okay, to very powerful function that lives in the cloud. Okay. And I'm gonna have one last question, which is security. How do you see that developing? Well, I see that that is front and center in any kind of technology evolution. Okay. Not only in terms of security of transactions like banking and things like that, but also just privacy. Privacy is huge. Okay.  Is it encrypted? Okay. Can an engineer who's managing those servers just will we nearly go in and see your stuff? Okay. You know, that's, so it's a very important question that you asked. I see. Well, we only have a few seconds left. So I'm gonna let you have an opportunity to look into camera four and to give our audience some suggestions or recommendations or thoughts that you have. Well, you know, especially to those who are either just getting in or getting education or whatever, I see that the hands-on technical background that I received was fundamental, fundamental to my being able to move and progress because there were certain concepts, certain things that I was able to do and to understand that if I had just focused on the business, I wouldn't have been able to do that. At the same time, an understanding of the business that you're in is critical. So you need what they, the term of art is a double deep employee. You need somebody who can understand the technology, but he also knows why the business is operating and how the business operates so that they can bring everything to bear in terms of making things, taking the company forward. So, you know, there's a little sign in here that talks about lifelong learning. And you never stop learning. You've got to continue to learn. And when you stop learning, then you become stale, then you become unable to do that. So even now, I still have these tech, you know, feeds coming in so that I can do that. So that would be my suggestion. And so for the young people, learn the technology. Learn the technology. If you're going into business, that's great, but learn the technology so you can use it as well. All right. Okay, well, that was very helpful. Thank you so much, Ralph, for being our guest today. And that brings us to the end of our show. We've enjoyed bringing it to you. I'm your host, Karamon Lee, and our guest has been Ralph Pacheco. We've been talking about a career beyond coding and addressing the issue of whether being in the management of a large tech company is a very exciting experience. And the answer is yes. So thanks to our production engineer, Ray Tsangalang, and our floor manager, Robert McLean, and all the people who care and contribute to Think Tech Production. If you wanna see our show again, go to thinktechhawaii.com or youtube.com, thinktechhawaii.com, where there will be a link to more shows just like this one. Thank you for watching and we'll see you next time. Aloha.


Hey friends, you're watching behind the scenes divine intimacy radio Today we're going to be talking to a parish priest that really tugged on my heart in a in a private conversation a few weeks ago and I was So moved by what he had to say. I thought you know Every every faithful Catholic ought to hear this who's listening and every priest who listens to us ought to hear it as well So I'm excited to introduce you to him and to talk about the crisis in the church and particularly how it affects the diocesan priesthood and our parish life and Parishes closing everywhere and all the different challenges we're having But how do we navigate that? More deeply oriented to Christ so that we can be part of the solution rather than just Complaining and and lamenting How do how do we? How do we how can we become the instruments of the Lord for the renewal of the church? rather than just standing and staring at the Challenges or the wreckages and that sort of thing that was great. Are you gonna repeat that again when we start the show? Should I okay? Yeah, cuz you just set it up and it's not recording. So we've just missed all that Really well it is it's on the live stream. It's boring, but I yeah, I'll thank you okay, and you can ask me You know prompt my so good for the show my tired brain. 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I don't think we have very many seats left.  I'll be talking about our next divine intimacy in marriage Retreat, okay, and your market said go. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke Welcome to divine intimacy radio your radio haven't impressed your hermitage of the heart your monastery of the mind Where we draw upon the wisdom of the saints and the church and the long-standing tradition of the church To help us to understand how to see God's will in the midst of the storm How to see God in the midst of the storm and how to navigate the storm how to keep our eyes on him how to keep Our keep our eyes on him. So today I'm excited to have back with us. Dr. Joseph Holcraft who's head of our high-calling program which provides Men prepares men for seminary and I don't know How many dioceses are we in now dr. Holcraft? Yeah, so We're onboarding men and diocese as we speak and it'll be the land this year somewhere between 40 and 50 and Also this year. We are Working with Mount st. Mary's Seminary, which I'm uber excited about yeah Well, of course the spirit of direction program which feeds and forms priests To help men better discern that's also Gonna start here in about a month. So what going on? God has blessed us for sure man. I just couldn't imagine. I mean Just thinking my conversion in 2005, you know, I'm I'm I'm an Anglican seminary and just You know struggling like crazy trying to figure out. Okay, Lord. Is this your church? Yes, okay? I'm in and then going from that to helping to heal the church to to Serve the priesthood and priestly formation and I mean it's just been a dream come true To be a part of all this and so grateful Joseph for your amazing work in priestly formation and and how this Effort continues to expand more and more guys are coming our way for formation whether they're priests or or they're discerning the priesthood and What a gift. Yeah, absolutely It's so grateful to have you here and our our next guest is Father varier, he's from the diocese of Peoria and he is the Parish priest of two two parishes and we should shout out to them and Hopefully some of them are listening to St. Joseph's in Broomfield if I remember that right and then st James and Williams field did I get that right for the barrier St. Joseph Broomfield and St. James Williams field Illinois correct Fantastic. Well, it's great to have you on So, Diane, I saw Diane so Dan Dan Burke. My goodness. Wow, you're wondering Sorry, so Dan. Yeah My right before the break. Yeah, you were setting this up for us beautifully You want to let us, you know remind us why we're here today today. Yeah Yeah, so I my you know a passion of mine is healing of the church and and we're I think it would be Not serving the church well to underestimate understate our current problem We have the average age of priests is 67 years old right now, which is shocking which is shocking the scary actually to me Yeah, we're really looking at I mean Like I said, I don't want to sound crazy because people are not looking at this every day are gonna think you're exaggerating I'm not we're really looking at the collapse of the American church and I don't mean the failure of it in its completion because that can never happen but what I mean is that Vocations are dramatic have been in dramatic decline and The average age as 67. There's this crisis looming because what's happening is We have fewer men who are going to be managing more Parishes and of course many Diocese and our cites is are closing down many parishes. So and that's just a matter of biology. It's a matter of math Yeah, I mean just by all yeah exactly and yeah, please can only go so far, right? And so the problem is then The diocesan priesthood is hard enough and it's way harder than I think I wish I wish parishioners knew what we know Because we deal with so many priests and serve so many priests personally behind the scenes with healing and with You know with care the pressures out of our diocesan priests are quite extreme I mean everybody thinks There's is the only problem and so they go to the priest and take up not that they shouldn't go to their priest but They have an agenda or they have their issues and they don't realize there's there's a thousand others in line as well There's a lot of just different factors that really I Think Threatened the spiritual health as a norm. Yeah of diocesan priests. I think that's really important because the Lord, you know the work We know that the harvest is rich and the laborers are few We've known that from the beginning of the birth of the church, right? Our Lord told us that but I think what is is really really important that you talked about is The spiritual health of our priests. Yeah, because if they're spiritual health Including physical health emotional health all of those things because it all ties together If it's not taken care of You know, their knees will buckle like with any human being it's like a mom who doesn't get proper care With all of her children or a father who doesn't get proper spiritual care So these are our spiritual fathers in our parishes with many many many many children Yeah, lots of problems lots of things going on and it's a joyful beautiful vocation But we need to help our priests stay healthy In all those facets so that they can continue this work that they've been given Yeah, to bring it to a point and then just get Father Barrier's comment on this as he lives the reality What we're talking about the normal diocesan priesthood is challenging just on its face now you have the pressure of priests taking on multiple parishes or too few priests and really large parishes you have those pressures I Those are normal pressures. I think then we have the pressures of a very sick culture and all the things going on I For I think the church in America can revive and become healthy and strong again but if all of these Factors and in particularly the newer factors of of the you know, the retirement age and all of these things happening Are not mitigated in the way that the priest lives his life and and protects his Relationship with the Lord Then it's just it's going to get worse rather than better But I think if a priest does the opposite and we help him to do that as parishioners whatever Then I think we can see a revival and renewal of the church out of the ashes so to speak or or as Cardinal Rads or Radsinger long time ago Predicted, you know a smaller but stronger church that that then can come forward. What what are your thoughts about this Father Barrier? Well, I I think you've hit it on the head free surrender a lot of pressure usually multiple parishes and sometimes parishes schools prisons and The only way to Stay alpheus to stay centered in Christ First of all when you get up and you spend time with Jesus to mental prayer and then prepare yourself for a holy mass and for me Mass and hearing confessions is the center of my vocation. That's where I feel most like Christ But also 15 years ago. I was invited to join a pre-support group called. Yes, you carry toss there's six men in there and There's a core Habit that we have we meet for lunch and dinner But after lunch we go right into holy hour and that's something we never omit And we have the rosary and we end with daytime prayer, but mostly silence And we're bringing our needs the needs of each Priest and the parish and all of our needs to Jesus and the holy blessed sacrament So I think Eucharistic Gaderation is the core of our yeas of carry toss and praying the rosary together so I would say those two things and And then after the holy hour we have a book discussion We're just about to begin a discussion on a book called holy order by avian neckles and and something to Deepen our our appreciation of the priesthood as a gift And then we have sharing of facts, which is maybe the most cathartic thing We we talk about one thing In the last month that has been a challenge in our priesthood Something positive something negative and then to have brother priests who love you and to help you to give you some advice And but the most especially the prayer support is is so uplifting And then after that we do evening prayer We have dinner and fellowship and we had had back to our parishes. So that's the first Monday of every month and That really may be saved by priesthood because I have a tendency to be depressed and anxious and Just knowing that I'm going to be meeting with these priest friends is just so beautiful And the other thing in my parish that really helps me is I decided It's hard enough to get through the week But hump day is always the hardest day Wednesday. So Wednesday evening. We have adoration for about two hours With confessions in my parish and for me, it's relaxing And anybody who just wants to come and just spend time with jesus or go to confession Um, I found that's a great benefit to my parish and to me personally as a priest You know, what I'd like to do a follow-up on this show is I want to take that outline because you you just gave us a diocesan priest survival guide That's how I get back So I I what we'll do is we'll create that outline and we'll make it available for for listeners to To share with their priests and maybe along with the show or something like that But joe I want to jump to you and and talk Have you talked speak to Why mental prayer is so important because that's where father barrier began and why it's You know Preeminent in our work as we do priestly formation to make sure Those who come through our programs are all practicing daily mental prayer Yeah, so When you talk about prayer as the life support of everything We do just not as you know Christians and Catholics, but you know father barriers you're speaking for all the priests those things priests It really forms and informs everything right because the mental prayer as we begin to speak to it in conversation with God It is really entering into that listen dynamic that reveals to you. Maybe something you didn't see before You know or or as I work with guys and work with priests I hear often I hear often you know I was thinking I was going to do this today and yet the board had something else for me to do And how did they discover that? Because they were contemplating truth You know jump all to one set Let all our action yield to the contemplation of truth Hey, and so Yeah, what we have in high calling program and and our other programs Of course, we root it in prayer that we might begin to understand that A union with God isn't something in the abstract. There's a tendency. I think To look at prayer and it's up here somewhere Well, in some cases it is Because we're moving our hearts and minds to Christ But the whole idea is that Everything we do is is made concrete and made real and it receives its shape and form in Christ Jesus that that our friendship with Jesus is tangible and So as we talk about mental prayer and begin to speak into this for priests You know, it's it's nothing to It's nothing to put off Right, because what we have is the present moment you were talking then Earlier before we went on air that uh, you know priests a lot of priests listen to divine infancy radio Sunday morning and men if I could encourage them if they're preparing for mass to just take that quiet moment That extra quiet moment to be present to what the Lord might have for them in that moment. So um, absolutely foundational Uh, you know, I was listening to you father very your talk about Praying the litter to the hours and how beautiful is that because in praying litter to the hours You're faithful to that canon two seven six that speaks to Your responsibility, but not as as this utilitarian thing I need to get something done in the functional sense But rather in the very personal sense that hey joe this is this is important I gotta head to a break when we get back I do I want to continue to talk about the connection between mental prayer and Um, the the the divine office and how powerful and important that is in terms of obedience But also how they enrich one another. So we'll be right back after the break So we did we did basically 14 So we'll do, uh 11 30 Right. Yeah Yeah, okay. So we'll do 11 30 on segment two reset so before we jump back in Uh, divine intimacy marriage you want to tell folks about that? 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We're talking about mental prayer and then you you went into um the divine office And the power of that and the importance of that, uh, please continue Yeah, so The importance of following through on that promise You know father varrier that you made as a priest And really as all cathedrals, you of course should be praying for the three hours something i'm i'm struck by Father varriers as you were talking it is when you look at You know the word obedience, you know oba virae many of us know it needs to listen But maybe we miss it's actually a word that that best translates as to be in tune you know my my uh My children are very involved in music My son and daughter oldest that they play the guitar And they're constantly retuned right, you know word expands contracts and they need to constantly retune Because if they don't retune what they play is going to be all a lot of sorts. It's going to be very discordant to be able to Pray the office to be obedient to to that promise is to enter More deeply into mental prayer right because again Obedience is to be is to listen to be in tune with god to be in accord with god To set your days to the ribbon and tenor of prayer. I know stephen you like you like use that phrase pace of prayer like that The the vitality of praying the office faithfully really When we put in the context of mental prayer meditation is quintessential because It really Draws you deeper into the mystery of what it means to follow the father's will. It's interesting That word obedience is juxtaposed juxtaposed against absurd because absurd means to be out of tune or discordant literally No, the world looks upon the Catholic church and says you're absurd No The church looks at the world and invites what is absurd into be you know into the Into god's will and what needs to be in tune so Father Barry when you were speaking I was I was really touched by that because Your priesthood is speaking to me your joy What you're communicating to me is is a priesthood that is in tune with christ and of course The fellowship you speak of beautiful a lot of the guys Talk to me You know those who join the icon program and talk about Fellowship being this unexpected grace A true joy. I hear that a lot and I that's what I was hearing with with what you're saying And before we go back to father varrier, I do stephen he wants to touch on something I'm pretty sure I know where she's going. Yeah, yeah No, I this was just really beautiful. I love where this conversation is going And as father varrier was listing out all these beautiful practices that he partakes in in the yasuk caritas group What I kept hearing and what dion was talking about is connected also to warfare and this idea of obedience and this being in tune And and that just as a husband and wife in marriage Stay rightly ordered through Ephesians five, right? They're out of reverence for christ, right? That provides protection for me as a wife It gives me safety It makes me in tune with my husband and he in tune with me And we can run after the lord and the lord can just do a mighty thing, right? Well, the same happens with our priests That through this act of obedience of being in tune with the body of the church with with the Heart of christ himself Then that provides spiritual protection And and then your priesthood bears great fruit And you're protected from the whispers and the wiles of the enemy because I think We would all be kidding ourselves if we don't realize that where all of us have some anemesis that's assigned to us You have probably 10, you know, I don't know out there. I've heard too, but I don't know I've seen some priests that look like they're getting pretty battered pretty hard And but this provides protection this this life of prayer Eucharistic adoration Remaining in obedience with the holy office and your promises keeps you safe Did you want to talk about that father very? Yeah, all of everything what you just said is so paramount to have Every single day so you stay on track with god's will so you can always pray help me know and do your will But what you introduced the show with sepani was mama mary as a rock star Today's the queen ship of mary and I prayed to mary that this would be a fruitful interview so that would help other priests You know Run to mary's mantle and one of my favorite devotions that I got from another priest is to say the first Saturday masses with the prayers and the processions and Confessions of that Really helps people stay connected to the heart of christ when you're so close to the heart of mama mary And st. Joseph too. He's the terror of demons, but he's also my spiritual father In a real way. So one of my favorite prayers. I say multiple times every day Jesus mary and joseph I love you save souls. I say that all the time. I found that prayer in 1983 And during a silent retreat. I've never had a silent retreat and I didn't know what to do So I found this prayer and I just kept praying it over and over and over. I still make that Important prayer every day you know I We're We need more time. I do you have time to do a second segment father. Sure. Okay Well, the one thing I want to just reiterate something and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I I don't want it to make sure that we have Super sharp clarity on this point. So not too long ago Had a priest come and asked for some help who's struggling beautiful priests good good man You know really, you know orthodox, you know in keeping with church teaching but Struggled to pray the liturgy the hours and wasn't being faithful to that And I asked him it was a very powerful conversation. I asked him can you just lift help me lift the hood in your soul a little bit and Tell me what is that sin? like, how do you like what do you confess when you failed to to pray the liturgy the hours and he in he and he named good things, you know, he talked about the sin against justice With respect to the the virtue of religion These sorts of things and I said I said what about disobedience and it caused a pause Which goes back to Stephanie's point which is so Because we've been in extra system ministry. This has been hammered into our dna like both of us are Hyper focused on this issue and Stephanie said it but it's so much. It's so important The second a priest begins to step outside of his canonical obligation He becomes The sin the most grave sin is disobedience and I'm gonna try to I'm not trying to condemn anyone I'm just saying I'm just saying this is probably more dangerous than most notice So you step out of disobedience into disobedience now Who's domain are you living in who whose authority have you opened yourself up to it isn't gods Right and who's feeding the your priesthood because you know, we have to really understand that to be a priest Is to be An imitator of christ to be another christ and the lord himself said I came only to say what the lord told me He was that his primary virtue Was obedience right because he came to say only what the father told him to say and listen. I pray the Hour I pray four of the hours every day and I don't off there. It is often. I don't want to I mean I always want to it's it's it's a weird thing to talk about I want to so I go to the chapel, but I don't feel like it. Maybe it's better way of saying As a priest we just want to say to you all out there The priests who come to us. We're struggling the most That is always happy that is always the case that they've set aside that And and I think the reason it affects them so much is this issue of obedience and authority So I don't know joseph. You want to comment on that? Yeah, you know simply same. Well didn't say lord. Listen. You're serving to speaking but speak, you know if you're serving this lesson Yeah, and that's what we're talking about right that I love how you focused on the heart earlier stephanie Uh everything we do here at apple every every arm You know is tied to the the sacred heart of jesus Um, and that's what that's what feeds us and and if our disposition is one of Yes, we speak we dialogue but first we must be disposed properly disposed from us, you know And I would say uh, and I wonder father very you would confirm this I once had a very holy priest Who was with us on pilgrimage? We were talking we had a private conversation and he said so you're saying to me If I struggle with the liturgy of the hours Mental prayer Can help solve that Because you know, he's just reiterating back because it helps me to to orient myself more deeply to jesus to know him so that when I enter into this more formal kind of prayer which doesn't feel quite as rich or Or emotive or whatever I enter in with that power of mental prayer And that deeper relationship father very or do you find that? Connection to be true. Yes, uh when when you start your day with daily mental prayer You're really Centering your heart on jesus. I always say jesus. I don't want to live today I want you to live through me. I want you to be my mind my heart My my my joy And then when you start your liturgy of the hours And jesus is connected to every person And so there's people out there who are feeling, you know lost or or You know apathetic or are excited or joyful or scared or but Jesus getting connecting with jesus you're connecting with all the people in the world So your prayer for the church is entering into whatever you're feeling You have to remind yourself You're united with jesus and love is in the will and will isn't the will is to do the father's will's Obedience that that was jesus that my food is to the will of him who sent me amen We've got it. We've got an end on that perfect note But we're going to do a second segment so folks make sure you log back into spiritualdirection.com youtube page Stephanie if you would take us out Until next time may the god of peace make you perfect in holiness May he preserve you whole and entire spirit soul and body irreproachable at the coming of our lord Jesus christ amen Yeah