You're welcome back, it's still plus politics and we did promise you that when we return we're going to be talking something else. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEG, has warned politicians and their supporters against bullying and hate speeches during electioneering campaigns. Dr. Hurley Longpad, Kogi resident electoral commissioner, gave the warning during the commission's engagement with representatives of political parties, traditional rulers and religious and community leaders in Lokoja, Kogi state. Longpad said that the warning became necessary because due to recent cases of abuse and derogatory statements issued or used by party candidates against one another. And joining us live to discuss this is Alessia Wilcox, a public affairs analyst, and we're hoping to be joined by Adewale Ademola, who is also a public affairs analyst. In the meantime, Alessia is standing by. Alessia, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, it's my utmost pleasure, thank you. Okay, well, we're talking about bullying in the political space. Let's try to get a context here. What would you describe as bullying when it comes to politics and politicking? Well, the word bullying, I wouldn't want to know how in what context I'm going to speak in the political campaign. I think bullying mainly has to do with when a, I mean, a junior person is having a taken advantage over somebody that is most senior to the person. So that's where bullying comes in. But when we are dealing with political campaign, I think every one of them is equal footing because nobody's master or servant in that kind of relationship. So the word bullying, I don't know where that would come from. But if you look at hate speech, yes, hate speech can be situated in the context of a political, of a politicking. Because doing politicking, politicians seems to employ all kinds of tactics, sometimes to instigate and to incite. I see speakers of you, when you use speeches, when you use words that are inciting to the other person that will incite the public on institution against the other person. So I think that's, I think you can say more in that space. But as for bullying in politics, if you are not strong, then you don't go to the ring because all kinds of things will be thrown at you.  So I like it is right to question political parties. Of course, their continuous question of political parties will, they don't have to create stability within the, within the policy, so it's part of their responsibility to moderate political parties, how they go about their campaign. So, they're perfectly in order. Yeah, but when they were trying to define what bullying is, what you defined or what you also mentioned as hate speech was a part of it and they use specifically that you're using derogatory words against your opponent or words that will bring down the image of that person just because you want to climb to the top. So their definition is quite broad, but it's almost like it's a norm in Nigeria that when they are politicking, when they are campaigning, they use this kind of words a lot of times they don't even speak to the issues that need to be spoken to and you have said that when you want to join politics and you want to contest, you should expect those kind of things, should we continue like this because we need to hear what plans they have, not how to bring down the next person. No, you see, we cannot say because we are Africans and we respect elders or we respect people or we want to cover or so to say and then we do not present the candidates the way they are. Part of politicking is to bring out the character of the other kind of opponents and bring out his antecedents. It's everywhere. I don't think our politics is that bad as like that of the Americans where we copy from or that of the Britain where we copy from. As you were back, what you did in secondary school, we brought to the table against you and that has cost a lot of candidates their positions or even their nomination. So I don't see anything wrong in presenting or extreme candidates. That is part of the politics. It's not too out of the ordinary. You must bring out the character of the candidate. It's allowed. But you don't bring out falsehood. What you do not need out to do is falsehood, deliberate falsehood on a thing that you know it is not true and you are presenting it as to be true. And then secondly, you are instigating either a tribal section or ethnic section or religious sentiment, bringing it up against a candidate, against a party. That for me is a no-no. But if you're talking about people's antecedents, people's past record, track record, people's record, people's actions and inaction in the past. Of course, this is a part of politicking. They must be brought to the fore because for Nigerians, for people to make up their mind as to who to vote, we must show that person both his character, both his past, his antecedents and what is it today. So I don't see anything wrong in that. We must bring out the candidates and we must express them. That is obviously part of the politicking. But you don't bring falsehood. You don't create lies against the candidate. You do not say things that you know in your mind. You know this is not true. You don't call out the things. If it is clearly what a candidate is, put it out there for Nigerians to know that's candidate. So that people will make up their minds as to who they want to vote for. So not falsehood or hate speech. I mean, I don't see you presenting candidates' character or candidates' antecedents as bullying. It's not bullying. It's not hate speech. You're only presenting them. And it happens everywhere. People must attack the character of the other person because the character of that person is what brings them to office. His antecedent is what brings them to office.   No, it's who the person is. But don't bring falsehood. As long as a man is promoting, is promoting tribal violence or a demographic ethnic agenda or is promoting religious agenda. Those are obvious lies. And so that's what constitutes speech. And so those are the things that was the guidance. But talking about the candidates and their character and their antecedents, I think that is to be allowed. That should be encouraged. So an engineer will know the truth of the persons that they have, that they want to give their mandate to, so that they can verify their actions and inaction in line with what they're saying at present. But sometimes these things, the real issues get lost in this trying to expose the other person. It's like you're asking out a woman and then you're trying to run down the present boyfriend just to get what you're supposed to get and not promising anything. So we tend to lose what these people who are coming, who are saying that they are going to govern us, are going to do. They don't say it. And they just tell us about the next person and leave what their programs are. Are we not losing enough information that we should have used for or against these people in just the cause of trying to expose the next person? No, we're not losing. Every party has its manifesto. Every political party has its manifesto. And politicians go about selling their manifesto. That's where they have 10-hole meetings. They don't go to 10-hole meetings and start criticizing their opponents. They have 10-hole meetings. They have campaign rallies. They have all the engagements with stakeholders. That is where they sell their manifesto. So they have ample platform to sell their manifesto. But even the cost of selling your manifesto or in the cost of answering questions, you take a jab at your opponent, which is allowed, which is normal. It doesn't prohibit the party not selling your manifesto. I'm sure that all the political parties they have their manifesto, they have it in written form. They have it in booklets form. And they have distributed it. I'm sure they've grown far and wide all the people that they could distribute to. I'm sure they also have the campaign rallies, where they go, and also reverse those manifestos. They also have public spaces. For instance, the APC President candidate was at Chatham House, where he delivered his manifesto, where he answered question-building, but what do most Nigerians do? You see, sometimes the Nigerians are the most funny people. Rather than listening to what the manifesto, the APC candidate went to present at Chatham House, they are looking for the force on the things he didn't do right, or why he has to pass questions to his team to answer. As far as that place is concerned, he didn't talk about his opponents. He talked about his favorite manifesto, and it was widely publicized. And rather than, if you ask most Nigerians are talking about why they didn't pass question A to B, ask them what the man said. They will all be lost. They don't know what the man said. All they are after is to find critical thoughts in what he did and what he did not do. So even when Nigerians were also very, very complex, even where the candidates are presenting their programs, we are not looking at the programs. We are looking at how to ridicule the candidates. But they are selling their programs. So let us pay more attention to listen to their programs, and pay less attention to the jobs. You must do the jobs. It's not strange. You must do the jobs. Today, Donald Trump's tax records is a source of good news, right from when he was running for office, when he left office, even though he wanted to run again. His character, his businesses are off of scrutiny.  So these are part and parcel of politicking. If you know you cannot stand the heat, then don't enter the kitchen, because that is where, that's the place that is hot, and you are, you'll be extract. It's not, it's not a, it's not a religious setting, where you say the touchdown of my 90, don't do my pride, no harm. Neither is it a traditional setting, where I say the king does not do wrong. So this is, this is a political setting, quite different from the, the religious environment, different from the, from the traditional environment, but where your countries will vote. So your character, your conduct, your antecedent must all come to the fore. For Nigeria to make adequate choices. And who is best to expose this thing, whether it's other than your opponents. Your opponents should have to debate you that they were exposed. But listen, but what I'm saying is, people should say you don't see lies. You don't spread falsehood. You don't spread things that are not real. You must look for your facts, you must get your facts clear, and you must present those that are factual, not hate speech, not things that will, that is inciting tennis against the, either the constituency or against their, I mean their people, or essentially of the country. No, those are hate speech. But in terms of throwing the jabs, we must show the jabs, and the jabs will be thrown.  Okay. Well, you mentioned Chatham House. There's so much to talk about, but that will be digressing. So let's talk for another day. But in the meantime, I was laughing inside when you were talking about the manifesto, because was it the former president of Lusie Goomba Sanjo who said that if you want to hide something from a Nigerian, put it in a book, because Nigerians don't like to read. Okay. But if you give them the opportunity to hear you talk, it does a whole lot of good to them and all that. They can make their choices and all that. But now the question is, if these are very, very normal things in the political setting, when every time they gather after four years in what I would like to call a political Olympic, to do what they do, bring down the opponent so that their own star will shine, what then is the need for INEC to even issue this warning? How is it going to impact on the next election? How is it going to make a difference by just issuing this warning? Well, that's always a borderline. And I've just said that that's always a borderline. And that borderline is when you begin to incite and throw things that are not true. That's a borderline. And so these are the red lines that you must not cross. These must not be confined to factual issues, truths, things that are verifiable, things that are real, things that are true about the candidates. So these are within the confines of any politically, but not to go overboard or to go beyond the borderline. So that's why INEC needs to watch what is happening because if you allow men, like some of the people that I see speak, of course, sometimes they go overboard.   So you must always be guided by the code. There are codes of operation. And nobody says the local sales should not expose the debts of your opponents. These are parts of politicking. Who is best to expose the character or the inaction of the opponent other than the contestant themselves? That's why in a race, everybody runs to win. So those are the things. But you don't run in another man's track. Okay. I'm sorry. So talking about Nigeria has talked with it. Yes, that is clear. But who do you blame? You know, if manifestos have been shared to everybody to do their plans and you don't want to read it, all your apps are used to look at the man's age or the man's what to speak, what he didn't speak, how he pronounced his word. There you are the one. That is the problem, not the candidate. And again, the candidates also are probably manifestos. Like I said, they have town hall meetings. They have press conferences. They have town hall meetings. They have rallies. And you see, let me also show these things. Most of the jobs do not come from the candidate themselves. Not all the jobs come from their, I mean, their media men or their team. Not from the candidates themselves. The candidates are busy selling Nigerians, selling the candidates, they are probably Nigerians. Well, of course, their media men or their council members are the ones that take on the opponents vis-à-vis whatever they can, because the candidates don't have the time. But once in a while, the campaigner is asking questions, demonstrate jobs as the opponent. But the main dirty job is done by the handlers. And we have seen it very much in this campaign. So that is just, as I'm concerned, there must be a borderline which you don't cross and which, of course, when you want to cross it, the authorities must call it order. And INEC is doing that in order to see that there's this sanity within the, within the, within the policy. Okay, just a quick one there. Just a follow-up there. When you mentioned INEC, some people have expressed worry that INEC may not be equipped enough to carry out all the things that we expect them to carry out. And they are also saying they will carry out. Vote-buying, they will prosecute the people, people who do hate speech, they will prosecute them, and so many things that they have mentioned. And some people are proposing that a body should be set up that can handle electoral problems that INEC should focus on organizing and executing elections. Do you buy that proposal or you have a different idea about it? Can INEC handle everything that they are proposing? Well, in time past, it has always been said that INEC is overboding with all the processes that has to do with election from voter registration to registration of political parties to conduct a election, and then defend the electoral results in court. And now talking about prosecution of misdemeanors within the electoral processes. I think that would be too much really. If you ask me that would be quite, quite too much on one particular body. INEC do not prosecute the police do. INEC do not even have the power to arrest the police do. So it is not the duty of INEC to prosecute vote buyers. It is duty of the police, because INEC do not have its own security of course. They do not have their own prosecute officers. What INEC is a civil organization. So if there is, so those other persons, those in security, those in other, I mean stakeholders within the electoral processes, so they should be more involved. But that is not to say that INEC cannot be unbounded. Maybe this is about political party registration and maintenance should go to different body. About voter registration should go to different body. And then INEC concentrate on, and then this about security of all those other aspects, should also be more intimate within the police or the court agencies. So that INEC concentrate. But really, if you look at all the, all that the law gave by INEC, it is being unbounded. And most of them they cannot do it. INEC cannot prosecute. INEC cannot arrest. I said the court agencies to do that. So it's like giving the man a responsibility that he needs, he needs and that person to solve for him. So I mean, it's a matter of, I'll put it that way. But as not to say that INEC has not been performing all this while telling that elections don't matter how imperfect. They keep improving on the electoral process every year, every time there's election. So let's keep encouraging them. This is just 24 years of democracy. I'm sure by time we'll, but I mean others took them long time to even get it, get it right. So we are 24 who are still, I'm sure we're not doing badly at all with respect to this electoral process. We're not doing badly. Although we can do better. We can really do better. But let's also, let's also have to fit in the same way, we're not doing badly. And keep going INEC. I think that the need to embody that INEC, to add to, I mean to smaller units so that there will be more efficiency within the system. Just finally now, 2023 is around the corner. The election is like 75 days away or so. And a lot of people have expressed confidence that this is going to be like a decider for Nigeria. It's going to be something a little bit different from what we've been experiencing, except for June 12, that was like the free, freeest and fairest election that the history, we have ever recorded in the history of Nigeria, the option A4. But people have so much faith in the next election. If you also have this much faith, what are the things that are giving you so much faith in the 2023 election that is going to be a really good one? Or at least better than what we've had in some years now? I'm not fit in all of the election. Every year I've seen me, I've got some votes. And my votes count, even if my candidates have voted non-win all the elections. So I have explicit confidence in the process. I have fit in the election, just as I've had. The only difference in this election is that there's a heightened expectation because unlike before, when there are two dominant parties, now we have a third fold that is also showing some strength within certain constituency. So it's going to be very interesting because people now have more than one option. And that's also a fourth candidate. A lot of them talk about Kwakwansu. People considered on talking about Tobii, BAT and their TIKU. People don't talk about Kwakwansu. Of course, Kwakwansu is also a fourth that costs a lot of votes off some of that candidate. While P2B is also going to chop up a lot of votes from a particular candidate, Kwakwansu will also do the same. But the truth of the matter is Nigerians are expectants. The mobilisation is very high. People want to go out and cut. That's why I see that those who registered during the restriction processes are very much and that should top the electoral register. And now people are looking at PBC. People are interested in the election. The aspirations are very high. The interest is high. That is the only difference. The interest is high. And people talk about it everywhere. There's, apart from the two dominant parties, there's a third candidate that's also pulling with. And people are talking about it. So it's good. And that's why the campaign processes were expected to be more of a rancourous one. Because you must, before you be doing one candidate, you are talking about two dominant opponents. So you must be able to do things to which is credit them and make sure that your opponent is very well. So let's, let's be hopeful. Let's be very expectant. Let's hope that INEQ will live up to his expectation. And let's hope that the season we have them say it is, it is, INEQ can do their own bit, but it is we that will give ourselves on the day of election, another election. And I said the result as it comes in, not because it's a candidate that you've been hyping aspect of me, you know me, they want to bring down heaven. So you want to think that the election was rigged. Now your own best is to come back with a candidate, be able to sell a candidate and sell him very well, not insulting people, not being rude, not being forceful, not violent. Let's sell your candidate and sell him with all his part, our citizens and credentials and all what you think and selling me. And that is the only way that we can go for us to have a perfect election that will be peaceful before, during and most importantly after the election. Okay. Thank you very much Alesta for being a part of our program today. It's wonderful having you. It's my pleasure. Thank you. I'm always available. Thank you. Thank you. We've been talking with Mr. Alesta Wilcox. It's unfortunate we couldn't be joined by Deweyle at Demola. He will be with us another day. And we were talking about the warning that I and I gave to the political parties and their contestants, people who are standing to gain political positions in 2023 should be mindful of what they say during this campaigning. Don't bring down the other person. Like Alex Alesta said, if you're bringing down the next person, let everything you say be true. But we're expecting that 2023 will be a decider for Nigeria and let's hope that you too will play your part. If you're up to 18, go out and vote. Get your PVCs now. PVCs are very close to you these days until the 15th of January. After that, you might not have the opportunity to go very close by to get your PVCs until you go to the local government headquarters. So do yourself this favor. Let's make Nigeria the Eldorado we've always dreamed of. Until we meet again tomorrow, same time, my name is Nyam Gul Aghaji, signing out.


Good day, fellow investors. One of the largest fears circulating in the investment environment in the last few years since 2015 has been that China will experience hard landing, so that the growth will be much slower, which will lower demand for commodities, which will impact the whole world and probably lead it into a recession. However, China is still growing above 6% and the latest economic data shows that China has beaten expectations. The second quarter of 2017, China has grown at 6.9%, which is higher than expected 6.8%, and we can see that the slowdown in the Chinese economic growth has reverted to growth again. This is huge news because it derisks the country, it eliminates the fears that have led to very low valuations and to very cheap stocks. I have been very bullish on China for the last two years because a country that's growing at 6 or just 5% what were the fears is still a country that's growing at 5% and much better than a country or a continent like Europe growing at below 2%. So the market always likes to compare the trends, but 5% growth will always be better than 1.5% growth. So I'll leave that to the markets and what they think I'll look at the fundamentals and the macroeconomics to make my investment decisions. What's very important for China is that its GDP is just one seventh of the US GDP, so there's plenty of room to grow. Of course growth won't be linear, but it for sure will be there for the next one, two, three decades. So I think every portfolio should be exposed to China. Now this positive economic trend going on in China has improved the perception that the market has about Chinese stocks and Chinese stocks are up about 30% year to date, which is an excellent performance. Now 40% up is great, is it now overvalued or Chinese stocks are still undervalued. Let's see. I have here made a table with the top 10 holdings of the China ice shares ETF and as you can see price earnings ratios differ and the growth differs. Tencent, Alibaba and NetEase have growth rates of above 50% and their price earnings ratios are 50, 60 and 21 respectively. There are companies however that have growth rates around 0 and a few percentage points and their price earnings ratio are around 6. Those are mostly banks with dividend yields of 5%. Normal companies with growth rates of around 15% for pink insurance and 6% for China Mobile have price earnings ratios of 13 and nice dividend yields of 1.6 and 3.3 respectively. So price earnings ratio of 6 for a stable company, for a stable bank, price earnings ratio of 13 for a company growing from 6 to 15% per year, that's still extremely undervalued. Even if we compare the growth companies, the Alibaba, the Tencent with Amazon that has a price earnings ratio of 188, those growth companies growing at 50% per year are still very cheap when compared to their price earnings ratios of just 50. So in general the Chinese market is very very undervalued, still undervalued and has plenty of room to grow, especially as the inflection in economic growth in the trend will bring much positivity to the market, perhaps even euphoria in the next year too if the trend continues, which is all a self-reinforcing cycle. So we might see really the Chinese market boom in the next year too free, especially as its fundamentals are still very very undervalued. So we have an economy that's growing 7% a year, its GDP per capita is just one seventh of the U.S. so huge margin of growth and its stocks are very undervalued. Price earnings ratios of 5.6 dividend yields of 5% provide a huge margin of safety or growth rates of 50% are extreme bargains at valuations around 50. If you put two years of growth of 50% after two years the price earnings ratio of 50 is just 12.5 so it's a huge bargain. Therefore really digging to China there is still plenty of room, we'll continue with our series on Chinese stocks we have already covered free, I'll be soon making a few videos where I cover additional Chinese stocks so please subscribe to be noted when a video comes out leave your comments below share your knowledge on interesting Chinese stocks and I'll see you in the next video


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Tell us something that we don't know about Mogadishu Somalia. Something that you don't know about Mogadishu Somalia. Mogadishu Somalia is actually safer at night.  But here, when it's nine o'clock, you can say, you know what, now I'm not afraid. I could go outside. There's not going to be any bombings, you know. So that's something interesting. Are you kidding me? You got it right there. Man, that's just fun. So now, order you drink. I'm ordering. Don't worry. It shows how authentic you are. Okay, you have fans here. Hey, I have fans everywhere. Hey! How are you, man? I'm good, man. How about you? Welcome to Mogadishu. Thank you. How are you feeling so far? I mean, feeling great, man. No bombs, right? No. Say that again. Say that again. No what? No explosions function. Like I said, no explosions, yeah?  But your boy is not hiding bullets. I'm actually hiding from fruits, bro. They are even kidnapping kings. You, you. Who died and made you here? Then you go and do it. It's still night time here. And we're still riding in the dark, man, in Mogadishu. So, as you can see, in the dark, and no one is coming to clean up me. No one, absolutely no one. Yes. To check out how Mogadishu looks at night. Yeah. I mean, we are right now in the Bacchaj. Yes. I know the name Bacchaj, yeah? Yeah, it's Bacchaj. I mean, people call it to the Dishu, man. It's such a colorful city at night. Look at that. Yeah. It's life, man.  Yeah.  So, you can see. This is how it is. Just to let you know that it's safe to move around in Mogadishu. You know, I'm not saying that it's perfect, but it's not the way. Whoa, look at this guy. About different countries in here, and this guy is doing it. Okay. Yo, come closer. Okay, okay. Come closer. Okay. They end up making money. A crash? Cheese, man! I got dressed. I told him I can't. Hey! No! Oh, my God! What? He's laughing. I'm curious, man. Yeah, it was the adrenaline, man. Yeah, but I... I asked exactly. You know, there's, you know, there is a famous saying by me. I say, like, Hamari Bacchaj is like, most of it is. So it means, like, like, and Bacchaj, it's like eating the rice with banana. Ah! Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!  Yeah. Why?  You need a bit of sweet with savory. Cheese. I mean, you can only find this in Somali, man. Like, anywhere you see a Somalian, give him a banana. Yes. What? Banana. Smooth, smooth, smooth. Follow me. Smooth, smooth, smooth. No banana. Are you? Are you? Thank you. For the mousse. Mousse. Yeah. Mousse. I'm more like a Somali right now. With every banana you intake, you're becoming more Somali. Thank you. Because it became part of the culture now. Wow. Basically, you see a tuk-tuk of Bacchaj everywhere now. Everywhere. You see? Welcome to Mogadishu now. This is... Yeah. We chillin' right here. You can see, man. This is me chillin' in Mogadishu. Lively, man.  The lights in here, it's amazing. Oh my goodness. I'm so glad that I came to Mogadishu, bro. Yo. This is the shop. Yeah, man. Yeah. I didn't mean to tell you guys why I stay. I've been here for the past three days and I live at Mahaba Hotel. I don't know what I'm pronouncing it right. But the reason why I chose that place is because of security. I was basically scared. So I wanted to replace that. They've got good security. But coming in here, I never regret it, man. It's such a beautiful place. And I think I need to show you guys around, man. Wow. Celebrating more. Hey, hey, hey. Okay, we're still walking, bro. You didn't hear that? Yeah, I can see, I can see. They said Mogadishu is the first guy to use drones in the whole of Somalia. Man. So Mogadishu is a celebrity, man. He's a pioneer of drones in this country. Bro, bro. You gotta stay humble, man. You gotta stay humble. No. No, no. Talk about yourself. We're tired. So basically, I'm just like the water maya of Somalia, man. I'm the maya of Somalia, bro. So I've been doing this for long. But nowadays, you know, I'm doing freelance work. So basically showcasing the beauty of Somalia. I'm really happy to host my brother here. It's not only me. Everybody actually happy to have him. Charlie! Charlie! I'm from Somalia. Are you from Somalia? I'm from Somalia. Born and raised in Somalia? No, I'm from Toronto. Toronto? Yeah, yeah. Why is it everyone lives in Toronto? Like, almost, I think... No, no, no. Everyone lives in the world. What about you? I'm from Italy, yeah. You see? As I was walking in the street of Mogadishu at night, I found out this interesting thing and I think I need to share with you guys. Yo. I want some fresh juice, man. Are you the guy behind it? You know, Mogadishu team, man. Oh, really? To find them. I'm here, I'm here. Right, I do have a new day. Yo, I just want to know why you started doing this in here. I need a cup, right? But I just want to know you own this shop? Yes. It's for you? No, it's... Both of you? Both of you. Oh, okay. Why you have to start something like this in here? Business development team and wealth team and financial development. Financial, financial source. Okay. You... I mean, like, did they just finish investing in here? Yo, it's been running for like about a month. How long have you been doing this? Two weeks. Two weeks? Two weeks. It's new, man. They're pretty new. Look how many people. They got a lot of customers. Yeah. The quality's on point. They're making a lot of money, huh? Yes. They're making a lot of money. You got to make it rain. You got to make it rain, right? No, man, they're doing amazing, man.  You know what I'm saying? I came here. I knew this guy for a while. He's a young guy. He's a hustler. And he found his calling. You know what I mean? Man. Fresh juice. They don't add no water. They don't add no other preservatives. So this is where I stay, man. But I want to let you know until I get out of here. Yeah. Stay here. You don't have to go out to buy stocks. Everything is mutual in here, man. I'm definitely going to pick something. I'm not going to pick. Yo. Pick something, man. Pick something and then you go out. So this is how it is in the hotel that I live in. That's why I love living here. Because I don't have to go anywhere. I have security. I have mall inside. I have even a barbering salon. So I got everything, man. Coming to Somalia was such a fulfilling journey because I was able to meet incredible people doing incredible stuff in such an incredible country. Even though my time was short, but I really had a good time. And I hope to see you all once again in Mogadishu. Long live Mogadishu. Long live the people of Somalia. If you are new to the channel, my name is Mr. Ghana Baby. Don't forget to like and share. And please help us reach 900,000 subscribers. Don't forget to share the video to friends and family. I will see you in the next one. I am Maya. Peace out.


I'm Paul Scanlon, I'm an introvert. It has been three years since my last party. I do not need fixing. There's nothing wrong with me.


Hi, I'm Dazza Greenwood, a scientist at the MIT Media Lab, and this is our first assignment video for all of you lucky students in the computational law course starting on January 16th. And we've got the whole team here on the video, but this is really for TMA to introduce yourself quickly and enroll and to provide the assignment. So TMA, take it away. Thanks, Dazza. I'm TMA. I'll be the team mentor advocate for the course. And so we want you guys, before the course starts, to go over all of the materials that we've posted for you and to go to the assignments page, which will be linked on the course page. And we want you to put in pigeonhole your feedback from watching the videos and lectures so that we have an idea of what questions and topics you want us to focus on for the first day. Exactly. OK, so thanks, TMA. And we look forward to starting the class with you and adapting the content on day one based on your feedback in the lead up. So see you soon.


Here with head coach Aldis Berzins following a 3-0 sweep of Widener to open Mack Commonwealth play here inside Owens Mills Gymnasium and coach how would you sum up a successful weekend a couple of wins including a big win last night you come back and get it done here today. Yeah the win yesterday unfortunately was on a Friday. They couldn't celebrate beating a ranked team like Rutgers was a really nice team they had hadn't lost except the Springfield the number one team in the country so that was a I think a real confidence builder for our guys because we've been up and down all year and then yeah and today yeah 1 o'clock have to turn it around and play a really tough Widener team they're really scrappy they have a really nice setter that always delivers a nice ball for their hitters to swing at and you know once we got our block going again like we did against Rutgers yesterday we were able to win 3-0 both times. And you're able to get a lot of the line up in particularly in that second set but two guys that stood out Tim Flanagan and Tanner Stover how would you sum up their performance they delivered on the stat sheet but they really kind of led you here this afternoon. Well Tanner is our senior captain and he's led us all year in swinging and in servings he's our anchor in passing as an outside along with Mason that two of them can almost take the whole court which helps Tim out which is a freshman in learning you know the pretty tough serves here at this level and yeah Tim and Tanner both you know just had breakout weekends well I'd say Tim in particular as a freshman played really well at the start of the season in California and then dipped a little bit like you expect a freshman to and now he's pulled it back up again and I think Justin it's also you know a sophomore setter he's really found a way to get a good rhythm got everybody like we sided out we were talking about stats like at 95% I think in one of the games against Rutgers which is like unheard of you know normally you're siding out 60 70% of time if you're winning but you know Justin did a great everybody's really played well got the middles going and Mason anchors you know our defense as for Libero and so it was a good start this this was important the conference right it's our goal is to win the conference so the Rutgers match was nice being at a conference but this one was almost more important to get a good start you know they're getting you know the win go ahead absolutely and after kind of getting back a couple matches in a row how do you use these two wins to sort of propel yourselves going forward well yeah it's it's great to win you know so all the guys I think are fired up like you mentioned I got a lot of that the players that haven't been playing a lot in which is important because he worked just as hard in practice in the weight room and they need experience to to push the the unit that's been playing more in practice because you know as you know we're practicing probably 80% of time or 90% time you know just play 20% of time so I think that was really good that we got them in and and they they held their own I think I put them in with a 10-point lead and they kept the 10-point lead to the very end so gave our guys a play more often a break and then we're able to close it in the third set congratulations coach we will see you next time for coach Borsens I'm Josh Hill here on go mustang sports.com


EMC World 2012, we're here live in Las Vegas. This is theCUBE. SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of EMC World. We're theCUBE, we bring you all the guests, all the information, the CEOs, the executives, the product experts, the analysts, the bloggers, the practitioners, CIOs, and we package that information and we provide it to you, our audience. And we love to extract the signal from the noise. This is again Dave Vellante. I'm joined with my co-host, David Floyer. David, welcome. Hi there. So yes, this is day two. Now we've got something special here on SiliconANGLE.tv this week. John Furrier, my normal co-host, is in California. So he was here yesterday, co-hosting the EMC World coverage with me. He has flown into the HBASE conference in San Francisco. HBASE is the database, the open source database for Hadoop. There's a lot of action going on around HBASE. Cloudera is a big player in that world as are many, many others. So theCUBE 2 is actually at the HBASE conference. So John is there, he'll be back tomorrow. So if you want to watch the HBASE coverage, go to siliconangle.tv and you'll see the HBASE CON 2012 and there's a link live on SiliconANGLE TV 2. You can click there to watch. They'll be starting later on today. But we're here live in Las Vegas covering end-to-end Walter Wall EMC World. Yesterday we heard Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger give keynotes. David, Joe Tucci took us through the waves, gave us a little history lesson. Now Joe Tucci's very fond of the wave analogy, but he took a little different tack this time. I mean, he's generally shown some waves in the past, but he demonstrated some deeper knowledge of industry history. Of course, Joe's been around for a while. In fact, he was going to retire last year, but he's decided to stay on. I'm sure we're going to talk about that more, but he really got deeper into the waves. I don't know what you made of that presentation. Well, it was great for me because I've been through a lot of those waves as well. So he started with the mainframes and even before then. So that was an interesting look back at history, but I think his main point was, was trying to predict what was going to happen in the cloud wave. And his key message all the way through was that there was a killer application which made each wave work. O-L-T-P in the mainframe wave. O-L-T-P X, or not Excel, but spreadsheets on the PC. In the desktop. We had talked about ERP in the client server phase. The client server environment, yes. So each of these had their particular killer application. His view of the cloud was that the killer application was real-time analytics. And I felt that he came a little short on that because I think there's something, what I call real-time inline analytics, which is what it means is that you're using that analytics to actually change the operational systems. You have a feedback loop into them. And that to me is where it's all going to end up. Big data is going to be integrated into the operational system. Isn't that what SAP HANA does? Yes, that's a good precursor and it's a great piece of software. Obviously, that particular way of doing it with battery-backed main memory, basically, is an expensive way of doing it. And there will be other more effective ways of doing that from a technology point of view. But from the fundamental process, yes, it's a good start. It's not big enough. It's not feedback enough into the main operational system. So it doesn't have those aspects, but it's a start. And there'll be many, many other starts on the road to that type of computing. Well, we also heard Pat Gelsinger talk about the Mega Launch 2, EMC's lineup of 42 products. He went through them in quite some detail. Yes, he did, yeah. And Chad Sackich was on stage with him. Chad and Pat have become quite a team. Chad is the demo meister. And as big following as we know, Chad's extremely competent individual and has a lot of good connections within the practitioner community. But generally speaking, there wasn't anything earth-shattering in the products, but it was impressive. The portfolio was impressive. I mean, it was a lot of bigger, better, faster, some new software, extending capabilities that they had announced previously. And generally, a pretty impressive, what was impressive to me is that they could coordinate everything and line it up and synchronize it.  But generally speaking, I thought they did a good job of packaging that up. That's not a trivial task to do. No, it was impressive in the breadth of all the products. A couple of things stood out to me. I couldn't help but thinking of the skyline equivalent, that this might be the last mega tier one type array announcement. You know, it says 3000 drives, et cetera. You know, with the advent of Flash and their Project X, which from IO Xtreme, which I think it's very interesting. Extreme IO? Extreme IO, sorry. What's Project X? Project X is the Flash-only array that they say that they're going to bring out later this year. So they're filling that in. I have that feeling that those are the products which are going to be the new tier one arrays in the future. Okay, so we're going to take a break. So now Don Bacilli's in the house and I think you guys mic'd up Chuck Hollis, but Don needs to be mic'd up. So Don Bacilli's the CEO of Violin Memory and he's been gracious enough for this time. He's going to come on and we're going to talk about what's happened in Flash. I mean, we've been talking about it. Right. Violin's a company that is smoking hot and Don has a good perspective on it. So we're going to bring him on. So we're going to take a break right now. We'll be right back with Don Bacilli, CEO of Violin Memory. Keep it right here.


live from Nice, France. It's theCUBE, covering Dotnext Conference 2017 Europe, brought to you by Nutanix. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman, and we're here at the Nutanix European Conference Dotnext, and being in Europe, one of the hot topics of conversation, leading up to May 2018, is, of course, GDPR. So, happy to welcome to the program two guests that are here talking about this. Fanka, Krumm-Mueller, and Nina Fasalief. Thank you so much for joining us today. So, Fanka, we'll start with you.  Tell us a little bit about your background and what your organization does. Sure, so OpenCities is a consultancy.  We're based in Paris, and I'm here to talk about GDPR. All right, and Nina, your security and GDPR consultant, tell us a little bit about your background also. I used to work for a Volkswagen Group France, as CTO, and then as CISO, and then I was asked to work basically on GDPR and security as a consultant, because many companies want to be compliant by the due date of May 25th next year, and many companies are having a hard time, so I'm doing business analysis, audits, and creating roadmaps for GDPR. Yeah, that's great. Fanka, there's been many times when policy and technology come together, but GDPR feels like kind of this growing buzz. Those of us been around the industry, it was like, I've heard people, it's the new Y2K, it's this impending thing. There's a lot of uncertainty, it seemed, for something that has, there's a big legal document on it. Give us where people are, how are they feeling, how are you helping people go with it when there is so much uncertainty there. Yeah, so I mean, first of all, it's very interesting to know that a lot of companies, even in Europe, but also outside of Europe, who will be concerned by GDPR, are not even aware of the fact that this regulation exists and that they are concerned and they need to comply. And then the other half, roughly, it's unclear whether they will be able to comply by the deadline in May of next year, because it's a huge burden on a majority of the companies. They really have to review all of their processes, maybe do something new, get outside expertise on how to do so. So, and if they don't, they actually face huge fines from the European Union, which is obviously a way to try and incentivize these companies to do all that hard work to be able to comply. Yeah, Nina, as if IT organizations didn't have enough challenges to work with, it's like securities keeping most people pretty busy this day. So, where does GDPR fit into the discussion? How do they bring it up? Where in kind of the organization does it usually bubble up and which teams need to kind of address this? Well, GDPR actually concerns everyone, so really concerns the business, but IT has a big role to play in the sense that, for example, many companies don't know what applications they're running. So, I've seen three companies and they might be running, let's say, they say, okay, we're running on the cloud for the applications, but when they start looking at it with shadow IT, they might be running the triple. So, it's actually good because it's forcing best practice, it's forcing inventories, audits, and it's cutting costs at the same time. Yeah, I moderated a customer panel towards the beginning of the week here and there was one, in a research organization, they like, look, we've anonymized all our data. I think we're pretty good. One that was like, well, I'm doing a lot of cloud stuff. Amazon will take care of this for me, or something like this. But if you ask all of them, are you ready? Most of them kind of said, yeah, we think we're ready. What do you find, Nina? Are most companies really ready? I'd say most are not. I find that in the UK, they've understood most companies that they really need to be thinking about at the big companies. Some of the small companies are just waking up. In the US, they're really thinking about it too, how it's going to touch them, because all services and goods concerning European citizens are concerned. So companies are really, and executives are waking up. And for France, for example, I'd say about a third of the companies realize it's going to really hit them, and there's many others that are not ready at all. Yeah, you mentioned, Franca, that half of all companies barely heard about this. And absolutely, most companies today are global. Even if you're some local place, you have customers and everything. So what's the step beyond becoming aware? Where do people need to go? Right, I mean, there's several things they should be doing when they start to realize that they are actually concerned by this regulation. But one of the most important things is to just educate yourself about it. What do I need to do? Do relevant people within the company know that we need to respond to this? Are they aware that something needs to be done quickly? And then conduct internal information audit, like what data do we hold? Why do we hold it? Do we really need it? What are our processes? And then maybe appoint a data protection officer, somebody who is on the inside of the company and will have the legal responsibility to inform them about how to be able to comply with GDPR. Things like these, I think, are the most important things to do in the very beginning. Yeah, Nina, I've heard the most from companies that handle data protection, IBM, Veritas, Veeam, all ones that I've heard kind of a strong push from them. Is it a company like Nutanix? Do they fit into the picture? Is it just something that they're part of the landscape and they're trying to help be good citizens to make sure their customers are aware? What's from a technology standpoint? From my perspective, it concerns every technological company that's running a service concerning European citizens. So of course it concerns Nutanix. And yesterday we had a really great session for executives to explain, and quite a few of them were actually saying, hey, I didn't know GDPR really concerns me, and so it's good that Nutanix realized they need, they also need to wake up. And I mean, it does even concern companies who are not based in the EU, but simply by the fact of holding data that concerns EU residents, they need to combine. That's something which is obviously extremely important because it affects companies globally, even though they might think we're not based in the EU, we don't have any headquarters in the EU, we're totally not concerned. Well, yes, they are as soon as they hold EU residents data. Yeah, well, the clock's been ticking. I mean, it was only towards the beginning of this year that I kind of first heard about GDPR, I've done a number of interviews and talked to many companies. Any chance it's going to get delayed or are the lawsuits just going to start once we hit tonight? Well, I guess the authorities who will be responsible for overseeing where their companies are compliant, if there is a data breach or something like this happens, I think they will really look at the processes that companies have put into place and if there is a good amount of goodwill and work has been done and it's a minor breach to a certain extent, they will probably be lenient in the very beginning because they know what burden it is on companies to comply. On the other hand, obviously they need to also set a precedent and show that they're actually serious about enforcing this regulation. So depending on what company they have, if the Amazons and the Facebooks don't comply, that will be a huge problem. If a small business doesn't comply, that's maybe a little bit different. Yeah, yeah, just following up on that, yeah, boy, companies have so many different challenges that they need to work through. Any kind of first steps that they need to make sure that they're doing to kind of meet with what is expected? Well, I'd say just for them to be compliant to start with is to find out what they're really running on systems and on the cloud, applications, to do inventories, to do business assessments, to see what risk is involved around it. And I find that most companies that are starting to wake up, the first thing they do is they realize they don't know what they're running. So operations has a lot of work to do and the security staff. The other question I have is, we spent the last few years, a lot of companies are getting excited about what they can do with information. Is this going to be now a headwind that's going to stop companies and say, wait, hold on, maybe I shouldn't be holding on to everything or is it just having kind of the right governments in place to make sure I have protections for personal information as opposed to more anonymized information? I would think that it's the governance. It will make a big difference in many companies for the governance of IT. It might change the roles of CIOs and operation staff. I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, I mean, I think companies will have to reevaluate what kind of data do they hold and for what purpose. And ultimately, GDPR actually really introduces this principle of you need to have, first of all, consent to hold the data and then second, it needs to be data that you really need for your operations and to deliver the service or whatever you're delivering. So if there is no good reason for you to hold certain data, then you're actually strictly speaking, not even allowed to do so. So I think that should probably change a little bit how companies view the type of data that they hold and for how long. Yeah, and I've even heard, we talked about some of the global impact because even if this is the EU, but it affects people that work there, but other governments are looking and might copy that if this becomes kind of the template to go forward. Right, and we've seen already, I think South Africa, Singapore have published papers that are relatively similar. And it does make sense. It's a very, this regulation was negotiated for four years in the EU, so it took some time to agree. And if it's globally applicable and if it's extremely strict and high standard, it makes sense that it's being copied. All right, I want to give you both the final word as to kind of takeaways for this topic. Well, I'd say if anybody's thinking about GDPR, I know there are 99 articles, but in most companies, like 30 to 40 really concern the company. Not to be scared, you need to start from something and just to see what really concerns you. And I think the most important thing to know is that there are many legal and IT experts out there who really know this topic, which is very technical, extremely well. So it's probably a good idea to get outside consultants, look at your processes and how you should go about things. Nina and Fanka, I think that's part of the reason that Nutanix brought you in is to socialize some of their customers and even some of their executives with the expertise that you bring. So thank you so much for sharing with our audience. We'll be back with more coverage here. Getting towards the end of two days of live coverage from Nutanix.next, Indies France. I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching theCUBE.


Hey Psych2Goers, thank you so much for all the love you've given us over the years. Your ongoing support has helped us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. Now, let's continue. Have you ever felt guilty for doing things that made you happy? Or felt ashamed about something but didn't understand why? While it's important to acknowledge when you've done something wrong and apologize for your mistakes, sometimes you can get stuck feeling guilty over something that you shouldn't. The psychological definition of guilt is a feeling of deserving blame, anger, or shame, often evoked when we consciously hurt others with our words, choices, or actions. Excessively feeling guilty and blaming ourselves for everything is an unhealthy attitude to have, and it often leads to feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and perfectionism. And if you're not careful, it can worsen into patterns of overcompensating and overthinking, as well as high levels of stress and chronic emotional distress. With that said, here are 7 things that you shouldn't feel guilty about. 1. Not Being Perfect Do you often tear yourself down for making common mistakes or coming up short sometimes? As frustrating as it may feel, the truth is, none of us are perfect, and we can't be good at everything we do, especially not the first few times we try something new. Albert Einstein put it best when he said, A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. When you beat yourself up over every little thing you do wrong, you initiate negative self-talk and devalue yourself. 2. Asking for help Another thing you should never feel bad about is asking for someone's help, especially when you really need it. Because no matter how hard you might try, you can't do everything alone. Nobody has all the answers in life, and nobody has it all figured out. There's no need to keep struggling in silence just because you're afraid of seeming like a burden to those around you. There's no need to feel guilty about reaching out to someone and asking for their help from time to time. It can be good to remind yourself that you're never truly alone in your struggle. 3. Being Successful You should never have to apologize or feel guilty about achieving your own success. Accomplishments deserve to be celebrated, but some people may feel jealous or resentful towards you for being so successful and try to make you feel bad for it. Don't give them the satisfaction of getting to you.  You worked hard to make something of yourself, and you should be proud of it. You do deserve your success, and don't let other people take that pride away from you. Or saying no when you need to. It's hard not to feel guilty when we can't give someone what they want from us. But there comes a time when we have to stand our ground and assert ourselves. Saying no to things you can't or don't want to do is a good practice in setting healthy boundaries for yourself. Otherwise, you might end up regretting your actions, hating yourself for it, and resenting the other people for ever putting you in that position.  Your wants and needs shouldn't have to come second to everyone else's. Number five, removing yourself from toxic situations or people. Do you have anyone in your life who has always come to you with their problems?  If you answered yes, then you've probably wanted to tell this person you're tired of listening to their dilemmas, and tried to distance yourself from them at one time or another. And that's okay. Getting caught up in another person's drama can be emotionally exhausting. So you shouldn't have to apologize for wanting some peace of mind every once in a while. Number six, ending toxic relationships. It can be difficult to accept that sometimes the people we love aren't good for us. But when you're in a relationship with a toxic person, whether that's a friend, family member, or a significant other who mistreats you and exploits you, you owe it to yourself to cut ties with them.   And number seven, wanting to be happy. Do you feel guilty for wanting to be happy, but don't know why? Do you find it hard to pursue the things that truly matter to you because of the judgment, negativity, and guilt-tripping from the people around you? Whether it means chasing your dreams, being yourself, or taking care of your personal needs, you don't owe anyone an explanation for how you choose to be happy. After all, nobody has the right to ask you to prioritize them over yourself or sacrifice all your hopes and aspirations for their sake. So, do you relate to any of these instances? Have you ever felt guilty about doing any of the things in the video? If you are someone who struggles with a lot of feelings of guilt and shame, it may be time to stop and ask yourself why you feel this way. There is no shame in wanting what's best for yourself, even if it sometimes comes at the expense of others' feelings or convenience. And there are certain things that you should never have to apologize or feel guilty for. Please, like and share this video if it helped you, and you think it could help someone else too. The studies and references used are listed in the description box below. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button for more Psych2Go videos, and thank you for watching. I'll see you next time.


Welcome to Amsterdam and KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2023. Join John Furrier, Savannah Peterson, Rob Streche, and UPSCOT as the Kube covers the largest conference on Kubernetes, CloudNative, and open source technologies together with developers, engineers, and IT leaders from around the globe. Live coverage of KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2023 is made possible by the support of Red Hat, the CNCF, and its ecosystem partners. Good morning and welcome back to KubeCon EU. We are here in fabulous Amsterdam. It's a little wet, not quite as sunny as yesterday, but the energy is just as high, if not higher, here on the show floor. My name is Savannah Peterson. Join with my new favorite co-host, Rob. What's up, Rob? Glad to be here. You staying warm? I'm trying. The weather is definitely not cooperating today. I wish I had my Silicon Valley like Vast on today. Speaking of comfort Vast, Venkat rocking it over here. We've got Venkat and Jella. We're going to have a customer story here. It's going to be a really interesting conversation, but actually, since we were talking just before we went live, I would love for you both to explain what you do. We'll start with you, Jella, to how you would explain it to your children. Right. I'm responsible, if we didn't see for our managed container service, which means that we designed this boiler thing. But what is a container? Of course, I know about containers for a long time because I've worked with network shipping even before Kubernetes was a word. You saw the analog version to the technical version. I love it. Everyone uses the analog of a container ship. When I was talking with my youngest daughter, she came up, she tried to explain and said, well, so it's like sharing a power bank for my mobile and with all different slicks, but it's all energy. So yeah, kind of things. It's more difficult, but yeah, it's very hard to explain to someone who is not familiar with it what it is because it's very abstract. Basically, you say, yeah, it makes applications run faster, easier and more flexible. Right. It does all the things on your phone and in your life faster. It's all the stuff we don't see on the inside a lot of the time. Ben Kat, what about you?  I tried explaining to him, then I said I work for a company called Portworx. So for a long time, he thought I was a worker in a harbor moving boxes. I love. So what do you actually do? You've been there for a while. I'm still trying to figure it out. They just keep you around on the payroll, just do what happens next? Yeah, I just show up and say, what the heck is going on here? You just put on your vest and everything goes smoothly.  Yeah. So yeah, I run product management and engineering for Portworx. I've been with Portworx since 2016. Kind of have seen the journey of containers and Kubernetes and a good old docker and all of the things. You came in right at that time. Exactly. I've had a lot of fun. It's excited to see how our community and the industry has evolved. And I think, again, we're well on our path to massive adoption and traction here. So yeah, excited to be here. But yeah, I wish the weather cooperated. It was sunny and warm and baking yesterday, and now it's cold and drizzling. Yes, we're back to normal. But I'm glad I have my comfort vest on. Security. I'm from here, so I'm used to this weather. No wonder you're so sunny and chipperious.  Venkat, you mentioned something right there that I want to dig in. And I love that we did that intro, right? The kids, no one, my mother doesn't know what I do. I mean, sometimes I say hello to her. Hi, mom, on camera. But other than that, yeah, I get it. But you mentioned the ecosystem and you also mentioned maturity. And I feel like, I mean, I've been at quite a few queue counts over the years. Not quite as OG as you guys certainly wasn't on a container ship. But I definitely feel that we've tipped over a little bit. The momentum feels like all the partners are there. The players are there. You guys are obviously bigger players in this space than some of the startups and projects that are going on. Do you guys agree? Do you feel like we're in a slot where, I mean, it's not just will we end up using Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a part of our operation. Yeah, I think it's, you know, I mean, Kubernetes is the new operating system of the cloud. Yeah. It's not just cloud, but for the data center, for the multi-cloud, hybrid cloud. So if you're building your infrastructure and if you're building your app now, or even like trying to run your infrastructure, and if you're not running it with Kubernetes, you're doing something wrong. You need to re-evaluate your strategy, right? Because there's enough tooling and enough orchestration that's built around Kubernetes. And the ecosystem is so healthy and vibrant. And there's so many choices that are available. I think it's a no-brainer to run anything on Kubernetes, right? And that's where the industry is. That's where we see from our customers. We'll talk a little bit more about, you know, how it's not just containers that are getting orchestrated with Kubernetes, right? Yeah. We see those off with our customers, as well. We typically have our large enterprise and government customers who are cautious about these things. They are not the early adopters, typically. But now we see that they actually are moving towards containers. They say, yes, we want to go there. Please help us, because we have all these legacy of applications that need to go there. And how do we build new applications? And that's why we come in to help them to get to using Kubernetes at scale, but also at a really reliable thing and enterprise-grade solutions to run their very business-critical application source. So that's what we do. I always say we do the difficult stuff. So it's not like just spending up a Kubernetes platform. That's it. We integrate it. We make sure it fits well into their environments. And that it is well-supported and meets all their business needs, including business continuity to get to where the port works place. Decreasing complexity is such a pain killer. And it's really been the conversation and the barrier for Kubernetes adoption out the gate. I'd love to hear that you're doing all the hard stuff. Y'all have been partners for quite a while. Five years, you mentioned. Talk to me a little bit more about that, Ben Kett. Yeah. So Portworx was a startup, and we're trying to kind of build out our business. DXE was one of the critical partners for us to take us to customers in EMEA, especially, right? And we had some very successful installs and some very large European companies with DXE. And so we have a long history of partnering and maturing the products together and making it work for our customers. And after the Pure's acquisition in Pure has a much bigger strategic partnership with DXE as well. And we're in a lot more customers. It's cool that that wasn't happening on both sides. Exactly, right? Made it easy to continue the partnership. Yeah. And expand on it. And it's expanded to a global level and to have more traction and work together. I mean, Pure is a very strategic partner for us. Of course, we work with many partners. And actually that's one thing that we combine. We combine the partnership with Pure, with the partnership with other Kubernetes vendors and infrastructure vendors to really create solutions, integrate solutions that combines the best of all worlds. So, and I love this actually. I hadn't thought about the maturation of both your products together and collaborating on that. What's the communication like between you guys? Are you collaborating on your product roadmap and offerings and things that are going to go on? Tell me a little more about that. Yeah. So, we have like two weeks, every week we have a meeting to discuss strategy of sub-sales, also product development, technical questions, architectures. Been working also. You're communicating a lot then. Also working together. Yeah, that's awesome. We'll go to marketplace, pipelines, potential clients, all kind of things to really address the market together. So, in our offerings, I'm responsible for our managed container services globally to provide those things. We include Portworx as our default solution for many of the solutions we build for our customers because it's, we think it's a very reliable product. I was just going to say, and why is it that default? It works. Yeah. To give an example, and it's a use case. Please. So, we have, we had one of our clients, a German bank, where we, as part of an outsourcing deal, we inherited their container platform, which managed by one and a half person, outdated versions. Bless that person. Yeah. So, what we did, we not only upgraded to the latest and greatest version of, in this case, OpenShift, put that into our leverage teams, that we have scalability, put in best practices to really make it to integration. But they also had a need to increase the business continuity of that. Because being a bank, heavily regulated, they cannot afford to have those applications not run if something happens to the data center where they run it on. So, they're running it on-premise to DXC managed data centers in Germany that are twin pairs. So, then we looked at how can we accomplish that. We looked at various alternatives and then decided to go with Portworx, implemented that to provide a constant synchronization of the stateful application state towards the disaster recovery side, but also of the state of the container platform itself. So, this is synchronized in real time, five milliseconds. And so that, in the end, we achieved an RPO, so a recovery point objective of virtually zero, five milliseconds, and then RTO, so time to be up and running again in 15 minutes, which is quite aggressive and quite good. That is a bold claim, but also that's awesome. Not seen before. We actually presented this also at other conferences, which was called as well. And actually, it is the only solution that we know of that actually works and delivers this. You can do backups, but then you always lose data. And this time you have a real success. And that was a great success, and we're now expanding that to using the same solution for other clients, reusing these things, working with Portworx to make that happen and to build up new solutions on top of that. Yeah, I think coming out of that, what's been great, and we had your colleague on yesterday talking about some of the more trends and some of the pillars that you're going into. You're my boss. We're all equals here. It's a very community-driven. So where is Portworx and pure going with this? Because there's a lot of creative stuff going on in this industry. There was a lot of project updates just this morning trying to keep up with them and try to tweet about them was near impossible. So, what's going on inside from a product perspective? Well, thank you. First of all, what Yala mentioned is that you can see how customers are really pushing the armill upon running machine-critical workloads on Kubernetes. When somebody wants a really significant lower RTO and failover and have that SLA and they are putting their applications on Kubernetes, it's way past, it's not just prime-time discussion. It's way above the prime-time. That means it's not just early majorities, like late majorities, like kind of customers. So, we see that a lot and to talk about the future, we actually learn a lot from our customers and partners. So, to Yala's team and other customers, we have learned tremendously from them and how to build what they are trying to solve, what are their pain points and scale. What we have kind of come to observe is that the market especially with the cloud-native, Kubernetes and the overall infrastructure market, it's kind of like a three market place. One is our self-service DevOps platform where the biggest challenge the platform teams have is that they have thousands of developers and very few platform engineers that support them. They have the resource imbalance. It's tremendous. How can a few people support a large development team? So, making the platform engineers life easy, it's kind of our life-mission here. They are the superheroes that are managing tremendous different kinds of apps and making their life easy and giving them their quality of life back and enabling them to be successful. It's something that we take very seriously. That's our mission. It's a huge theme. This is something that we take a lot of pride in to building the solutions for our platform teams. There is a slightly adjacent thing that happens also is databases are hard. There's a proliferation of databases. There's a ton of choices and almost every developer has their own preference for databases. If you ask these organizations that are trying to support these modern apps, they struggle a lot to keep these databases running. So, what we are doing, we're making it simple. We're kind of idiot-proofing the databases. So, we're coming up with kind of debats for the masses. So, you can run databases.  I'm loving it. I'm feeling it. You gave a motivational speech two seconds ago. You've got some really nice one-liners.  I'm trying. I'm trying. So, the database is a service for everybody. For DBAs who don't want to manage all these databases. For platform teams who don't want to own and say, look, how do you troubleshoot like this nifty new database is developer to score and wants to run it in production, but the user experience is tremendous with it. But, hey, so what Portworx does is with Portworx Data Services and our single-click DBAs anywhere, we enable databases to be running in production day-to-day too and from deployment to running in production. We also manage them. So, we manage everything. Data operations, installing, patching, upgrading. Neither the platform teams nor the DBAs or the application owners have to ever worry about managing these in production. But the good thing is, it's not tied to any cloud. It's multi-cloud. You can run it on any of the cloud providers if you have a Kubernetes or even if you don't have a Kubernetes. You don't need to even know about Kubernetes to run this. We handle Soop2Nuts, the entire management. And we can run your data center too and it's fully managed by Portworx and our partners can manage it. There's a ton of options our customers get. The other most important thing that is happening is kind of like, you know, Kubernetes is a phenomenal virtualization platform. It's a containerization platform but you can also virtualize apps. So, we see a lot of customers kind of going to kind of a bare metal Kubernetes play and run apps, virtualized apps in that. And we see a big movement towards that. We're seeing a lot of customers doing that. There's a lot of economics argument, convenience argument and automation argument. It cuts your optics down significantly and all of that. Hot topic right now too. And we see that a lot and in these economic times it's extremely important and critical for customers. So, the cost savings argument drives a lot of that too and performance. And we see, you know, customers are perceiving Portworx as kind of essentially a vSAN for Kubernetes. So, if you look at it, now Kubernetes is kind of becoming the platform of choice to run any workload and orchestrate anything.  D-Vast for the masses, I'm going to be I'm going to be remembering that all day. That's really exciting. Venkat and Yela, thank you both for being here. This was very insightful. We've got a lot of taglines. We can now talk to our folks and I hope everybody's life gets made easier through both the work that you're doing and hopefully we're making your life easier at home, folks. Rob, thanks so much for joining me for this fabulous segment. We are in Amsterdam at KubeCon EU. You are watching theCUBE. My name is Savannah Peterson and we're the leading source for emerging tech coverage.


Crafting a great horror film is creating a balance between tension, atmosphere, and mystery. It's very rare when any movie is able to utilize all of these elements to help tell its story. The shining's ability to create horror and psychologically resonate with the audience is unrivaled, but it doesn't stop at just being a great horror film. Because outside of the element of horror, the movie is one that creates a discussion. There's an ambiguity that is found within every scene and down every hall of the overall hotel that is begging for further inspection. Because of that, the amount of discussion surrounding the film is unparalleled. There have been countless articles, videos, and even books written about the film. The mass majority is focusing on different meanings that the film is hiding. Rather than adding to that area of discussion, today I want to focus on the five techniques that Stanley Kubrick, along with all of his collaborators, used to create the greatest horror film of all time. You know that something is building up in this place, it's holding back this extraordinarily emotional, powerful, dramatic punch that's going to happen. You know it's going to come somehow, at some time, and it just creates such suspense. Of the utmost importance to the shining is the inevitability, knowing that something is going to happen. The film never tries to hide the fact that Jack is dangerous. Within minutes of the opening of the film, we're told of his previous wrongs. On this particular occasion, we just used too much strength and he injured Danny's arm. We're also told that isolation for long periods of time can cause people to go insane and on a homicidal spree.  He ran a muck and killed his family with an axe. Moreover, after Danny learns that they'll be going to the hotel, he blacks out. Even before we arrive at the hotel, we know that it is dangerous, and once the family arrives at the hotel, things don't get better. Throughout the movie, Kubrick uses visual hints to suggest the imminent danger, hints like knives being placed directly above Danny, here and here. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, Jack stops spending time with Wendy and Danny altogether, leading to his insanity. He chooses to do everything alone, and whenever one of them reaches out to him, Kubrick again shows us off visually. Once they reach the hotel, it's rare to see Wendy and Jack in the same frame. Kubrick creates isolation by keeping them apart, and even when they're in conversation together, it's rare to see them together, and on those rare occasions, one is in the foreground whereas another is in afterthought in the background. As Jack descends into insanity, he is doing it alone. We can see it whereas Wendy and Danny cannot. Kubrick uses dramatic irony or the audience knowing something the characters don't to create horror through inevitability. In addition to being cut off from one another, the family is also cut off from the outside world. We know that they are going to have to face Jack and won't get help from anybody else. Through this inevitability comes tension. After an information overload in the first 30 minutes of the movie where we were introduced to the characters and learned what the central conflict will be, the movie seems to pull back. The family arrives at the Overlook Hotel, and we spend 20 minutes just watching the family, seeing their daily lives and as aforementioned, watching Jack distance himself from his wife and son. During these segments we follow the three family members around most of the time with a Steadycam, at the time of its release a relatively new tool for filmmakers. The camera, which is often low to the ground, seems to glide around, and has a mind of its own, giving the audience the feeling that something is always watching, like the hotel is alive. The movie takes a long time before anything substantial happens. In fact, it's about 45 minutes into the movie before conflict starts to build, and an hour and 45 minutes into the movie before Jack goes crazy and starts trying to attack his family. Last week in my video about the Twilight Zone, I spoke about tension and how the longer it takes for tension to be built, the more effective that tension becomes. And from the very start, this movie effectively creates tension that lasts until the very end. Part of what makes this film so great is that it's a collaborative effort. Everyone came together to ensure that every aspect of the movie is able to achieve its purpose. The original music tracks composed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind are a perfect example of this. These tracks were composed for an analog synthesizer keyboard, as the main instrument, creating an unnatural feel. The main theme, which is based off a dream of a witch's Sabbath from Symphony Fantastique by Hector Berlioz in a traditional requerim Dias Irae, uses a low melody that resembles a combination of tubas, trombones, and French horns, which create the dark foreboding, ominous feel that can be found from the very opening scene. We're looking at what should be a beautiful mountain scape overlooking a lake, but the music tells us something is wrong. In throughout the entire movie, Kubrick and music editor Gordon Stainforth used the haunting soundtrack to make what looks normal and calm feel eerie and foreboding, but it doesn't stop there. There are a number of abrupt and shrill shrieks in the music like this. These alone put us on edge with the idea that an attack can come from nowhere. They're also used to intensify a scene. During the iconic bathroom scene, for example, when Wendy yells, the music does the same, making the screen feel much more dramatic. In addition, the soundtrack has human voices mixed in.  Another part of the soundtrack is this low and ominous hum that plays in the background of several vital scenes. It represents the physical effect of the shining, that is the magical ability. Whenever we are hearing it, we are seeing the horrors that come from the shining, but it achieves a lot more. It actually comes from David Lynch's Eraserhead. A film Kubrick called his personal favorite movie. In Eraserhead, this is used to separate reality and fantasy, to show us that we are part of a nightmare. It's used in a similar way in the shining, but the constant dark undertones also help to put the audience in a mindset that will disturb them. One of the most effective elements of the film is how eerie it is. This eeriness is great in a lot of different ways. One of Kubrick's favorites was moving furniture around. Oftentimes chairs are misplaced to move around from scene to scene, and sometimes small subtle changes are made within that scene. This shows us that the hotel is alive. It's haunted by something and even though its effects are subtle, they can be found within every scene. He did something similar with Jack's typewriter, making it go from this to this. But this eeriness doesn't stop there.  These simple cuts are used to great effect throughout the entire movie. It shows off the torment that Danny is facing, or just cuts to different parts of the hotel to show that it is alive. Another transition that is used quite a bit throughout the movie are cross dissolves or superimposing images. Throughout the film we watch as Jack seems to melt into the hotel, as he is consumed by the evil of it. It is also used to infuse Jack and Danny together. Oftentimes before Danny sees anything supernatural, we see a cross dissolve going from Jack to Danny linking their stores together and linking Jack to the torment that Danny faces. This can be interpreted any number of ways however, which brings me to my fifth and most important area of discussion. Throughout the movie we are never given a definitive answer to anything. We're never told what the shining is other than a way to communicate. We're never told when Jack finally snaps. We're never told how much he hallucinates and how much is real. In fact, we're never even definitively told that the hotel is really magical. There are so many questions surrounding the film that it hides its true message about an abusive relationship and the impact that has on everybody involved. One of my favorite readings is that everything we're seeing, all the magic, the ghosts and everything else, is Danny simply trying to rationalize his abusive father. Another major idea is history repeating itself, how the genocides of the past that the film references are still felt in the present, and that the violence just manifests itself into other areas. This idea is supported with the end of the movie, despite a positive ending where the heroes live and the bad person dies, it feels so unsatisfying. We don't know if they're going to make it down from the mountain and we don't know what will happen next or how they will be traumatized in the future by the past. The story may have finished, but they still have their lives to live, futures that will be haunted by the past, the same as the hotel. This movie succeeds because it doesn't tell us everything we want or need to know to understand it. A lot is left open to interpretation, even though it's one of the most discussed and studied films of all time, it remains a movie full of mystery. Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed. I love The Shining so much, it was one of the first movies that really made me appreciate filmmaking, and even though I've seen it over a dozen times now, I'm always finding new details that add to the horror of the film. This is one of those movies that I've wanted to cover for so long and I'm so glad I could finally make this video. So in preparation for it, I ended up reading a lot of different articles, interviews, books, and a ton of other resources. I've put links to just about all of them that I consumed over the past month or so in the description. I would highly recommend checking some of them out, and if you enjoyed this video, be sure to hit that subscribe button to check out my other videos. I put links to my last video on the Twilight Zone, my previous discussion of Eraserhead. Thanks for watching, and I will see you next week when we finish up Horror Month.