Rwy'n meddwl gwybod a gweld i'r Brytai, ac Brytai yn Europol yn y rhaid i'ch gwneud o'r cyfweld yma, gyda'n cyfweld i'r hyn amioedd ymgreadig. Rwy'n meddwl gydag am ymgyrch. Rwy'n meddwl i'n meddwl gyda eu Seminarsau Europol, ac rydych chi'n gweithio'r Brytiau ddod i'r Rhyw, efallai dda'r ffordd ar hynny. Rydyn ni'n gweithio arna i'n mynd i'r llyfr yn ymgyrch chi'n gwybod i'r cyfweld. I enw yw'n gwirionedd i gael y gweithio, ond byddwn yn credu y gweithio ar Eurwyrnig byddiwyll yng nghymru 2017. Mae oedden nhw'n gweithio yma yn 100% oed yn gweithio ar gweithio. Felly mae'r gwisbwynt yn Llywodraeth yn ymwyaf yr David Cameron yn ysgolio'r cydyn nhw'n cydyn nhw. A dyna'n ei chael arhoedd hynny. Ar hwnna dwi'n gweithio'n mynd i hynny, ond yn mynd yn gweithio'n mynd o, mae'r ysgrifennid hynny'n goch cymdeithio'r gweithio'n gweithio, ond hoffi'n gwneud am y tîm gweithio'i mynd yn digwydd. Y dyma yng Nghymru yn ff egweld i ymddangos rŷn gym� eich gweithio'r yr ennillu yn y blynyddiadu, ar y dyma i gael eich perosig, ein gwir yw'r holl variants. Roedd yma yn holl tîm ei heir o fransion, The House of Lords is taking its time with the referendum bill because the House of Lords has imposed a 4 month waiting period. By the time the bill passes, it will simply be too late to call a referendum for next spring. That causes a problem because, of course, the alternative date will be September next year people will talk about September 15, 2016 as a possible date for a referendum. The danger with that is that every September We have a migrant crisis. As you cannot hold a referendum on EU membership while the Mediterranean is flat, because a migrant crisis is grist to the middle of Nigel Farage and his allies, and it will increase the vote to leave. Leaves the government faced with a dilemma, they could try for a really risky November vote. November's problematic, we've had one set of elections in the recent past in November. er ffordd am roeddaeth ineswy. Mae cymryd i'n gweithio i'r gael â 12%. Fy chi wnaeth y cerddaeth o'u gweithio yn fath i November. Mae'r cyrfi yn cyfrifol o'r neo'r 2017, felly felly, yn gweld y bobl yma, rwy'n gyfl停 biodiversity ar ôl yn y cerddaeth yng Nghymru a'r pryd. Felly, mae'r femwysau'n cyfrifol. Yn ei wneud hynny, mae'r pobl yn yn ôl yn ycredigau. Mae'r pobl yn ein oedd o'r tro i ddiadau fel y llegadeth Cymru ychydigolodd, ond roedd gen i'r tyn�od o'r drwyddiad o'r awgrif iaith. Poeitio'r unigion y byddai hyn o'r pwrdd peirach ar y brifysgolio fel tynnais yn ei effaith o'r blaid i'r talogau niadol, a'r byddau yn cael eich mynedd a'u mawr yn effeithio'r peirach a'r holl bobl yn cael ei eu defnyddio.  It's totally pointless for at least three reasons. One because much of what Britain is trying to achieve it has already achieved. That is to say, if we want to legislate on migrants who don't have jobs we can do that through national law. If we want a European Union that is more committed to competitiveness and to growth, we got it already. We don't need to mess about. Dawg ddweud safeh hated infront of our eyes by the new European Commission. So many of our demand are already there. We have already also got an effective statement on ever closer union. There is a statement on ever closer union in the treaties that the Conservative Party never seemed to read because after the phrase on ever closer union it says none of this should undermine the fact that we are dealing with separate nation states with their own cultures, histories and so on. And of course we have the June 2014 European Council that said ever closer union might i'n mynd i'r wneud o'r ddysgu cyfnoddau cyfnoddau cyfnoddau. A os y gallwn y dyfodol yn cael ei wneud, os mae hynny'n gwneud. Y drwsgwr y dyfodol yn cael ei gweithio yw'r unig. Felly mae'r dyfodol yn cael ei wneud, mae'n cyd-bwynt. Mae gondol sy'n cael ei wneud, sydd yn cael ei cyfnoddau cyfnoddau cyfnoddau gwybodol i wneud cyfnoddau cyfnoddau arfer o'r eu ddiweddol o'r ddysgu cyfnoddau.yn yn cael ei d Campaign i ddim yn ei hunain drws gweithoedd.  Mae cyfnod oes gweld yn cael ei weld yn cael ei gweithio, ac mae'n cael ei gweithio. Mae'n cael ei gweithio ni'n cael ei gweithio yn cael eu leilwyr lle, ac mae'n cyfrifredin gyda'r newyddau ar gyfer y ffordd o'r cyfrifredin newydd. Ond, rwy'n meddwl i ddweud yr cyfnodol ffrifredin yn y EU, mae efallai cyfrifredin yn y bryd o mwyaf o gweithio yn y ffôr i mi. Mae'n gweld, byddwn i'n ei wneud fwy o'r Mae'r eich sgwpethau i'r Brytyn yn ymweld yn ymweld yn ymweld yn ymddangos, yw'r llyfr yn cymdeithasol i'r cymdeithasol i'r cyfweld i'r cymdeithasol i'r ffwg. Ym ymwyaf, o'r pwyntlwys i'r ymweld, mae'n ymweld i'r eich zon. Ymweld i'r ymweld i'r Brytyn yn ymweld i'r ymweld i'r union ymweld i'r eu rhaid i'r zon ond yn ymddangos y gallwn i'r ffordd yma sydd wedi'u ffordd a'r rhan o'r pannadau yn y maen nhw. Ond rwy'n cael ei wneud i fynd yn dweud i ymdangos. Rwy'n cael ei fod yn arferinol o'r cyfrifio sydd yn ymddangos, a'r ffordd yn arferinol, ac mae'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio sydd yn allan. Ond rwy'n cael ei wneud i fynd o'r cyfrifio sydd yn ansod. Ond yn ymddangos, mae'r credu yn ymddangos ar gyfer eu cyfrifio yn ymddangos ..a'r prosesau yn y Uniwyr. Felly yn ymdweud y euro'r rhan o'r gynhyrch yn ffyrdd ymlaen. Yn ymgyrchol, ymdweud yno? Yn ymdweud, fel David Cameron yn ymdweud yma. Yr ymdweud yw, yw'n gweithio'r refforddau... ..y'r gweithio'r refforddau. Yn ymdweud yw'n gweithio'r gweithio. Yn ymdweud, mae Cameron yn ymdweud... ..y'r gweithio'r George Osborne... ..y'r gweithio'r refforddau. Felly ydych chi'n cael eu refforddau? Yn ymdweud yw'n bwysig y gallu cyntaf fyddio... ..eitho'r trafyn ychydig iawn o'r un... ..y'r un i'r oedol am eu ystod o'r euwsguptych... ..ynt yn dechrau eich geilig... ..l nowherebain yma o'r blant ymlaen... ..i eisiau rhaid i bwysig... ..i wneud i ddechrau... ..yna ddiwrnod ymweithio'r refforddau... ..aeth y gallu Ideoliogon. Felly ond yw'r reaforddau. ymdyn nhw'n ei wneud ei fod yn cychwyn i chi'n gweinio sut yn meddyliadau ystod o'r pethau ar y cyfnodol o'r cyfnodol, sydd yn gofynu'r cyfnodol o'r cyfnodol i chi'n gwneud yn gweinio'r cyfnodol. Mae gennych chi'n gweithio yn ymgyrch yn cyfnodol yn y cyfnodol yn ei wneud yn gweithio'r cyfnodol. Mae gennych chi'n gweithio ysgrifennu, rydyn ni'n wedi'i chen nhw. If we can manufacture a fight with the Francois Hollande at a European Council, then come back and appear to win, that will strengthen the Prime Minister's hand immeasurably, regardless of what he managed to renegotiate for the country. It's also a sad fact that British public opinion responds incredibly well to this. There have been two spikes in support for British membership of the EU over the last five or six years. The first occurred when we, well in Britain we call it vetoed, I realise that's not true because you signed it anyway, but anyway, to use our language when we vetoed the fiscal compact. There was a sudden surge in support for membership of the European Union, and the second was when David Cameron made his Bloomberg speech. The fact of the matter is, and I'm not justifying this, the Brits like the feeling that they're out on a limb, they're fighting the rest and they're winning. That is good politics at home. So if you want to win a referendum, ignore the talk about let's have a positive campaign, organise a good fight, and give the appearance of having won it, and that way the people will come with you. So that's the renegotiation. On the campaigns, and of course over the last couple of weeks both campaigns have started launching themselves. We now have one remain camp and two leave camps. So let me start with the leave camps first. They are divided. They're divided between two organisations, one called Vote Leave, one called Leave.eu. Vote Leave is, if you like, the mainstream, what Nigel Farage might call the Establishment campaign. It's the campaign that's run by the guy who ran the No2AV campaign, the guy who set up the Taxpayers Alliance, and has a number of supporters among MPs, including, and I'll come back to this, Douglas Carswell, who is supporting the campaign that is different to the one that the rest of his party is supporting. Their focus is on trying to convince the people who aren't visually Eurosceptic to vote against membership. They are focusing on the A and B social classes and their arguments are going to be centred around two things. One, control the democracy argument. We are too big a country to be controlled by other people. We are big enough to go by ourselves. If we could make our own decisions we would be better and better off as well. And the second is the cost of membership. That is to say, this particular strand of the leave campaign will stress our contributions to the budget and how much better off we would be if we could spend that budgetary contribution on, well, filling the blanks as you see fit. They are saying different things to different audiences. So for some people they'll say we'll spend it on nurses, we'll spend it on the armed forces, we'll spend it on universities, if they're talking in universities, I mean they're very free and easy about how they will spend this money that we will save. But they're their core arguments. Leave.eu, funded by a multimillionaire who has bankrolled UKIP for many years now, includes all of UKIP apart from its one MP, who as I said is in the wrong camp, and various other Eurosceptic groups such as the BRUGE group. Their issue is the core issue that has motivated UKIP voters over the years, which is immigration. That is what they will bang on about. We cannot control our borders unless we leave the European Union and look at what's happening with migrants. It just gets worse and worse, doesn't it? Nigel Farage crystallises, if you like, the tension between the two camps. His view and the UKIP view is we run this campaign as an anti-establishment insurgency with our, as they call it, people's army. We get the UKIP votes out, we get the knocking on doors, and they criticise the in campaign for being too establishment.  Farage's opponents on the leaf side say he's a massively divisive figure and he will not persuade anyone who is not already persuaded because he's toxic.  In fact, one of the interesting things that a pollster said to me recently is, I mentioned before that BRUGE support for EU membership rose steadily before the last election, and it rose at the same time as support for UKIP rose. The explanation that people give is that, yep, more and more people are inclined to support UKIP, but as UKIP became more prominent, being seen to be anti-EU was seen as more socially unacceptable because it was identified with UKIP. So if you like, the more middle class voters who might have expressed a preference to leave the EU started getting slightly embarrassed at being identified with UKIP and so changed their mind. And in a nutshell there, if you like, you can see the Farage effect. He can mobilise his forces brilliantly. What he can't do as well is reach across and convince waiverers, which is why we have these two leaf camps. The remain camp is far, far more simple. It's called Britain Stronger in Europe. Two things should strike you about that. One is the whole debate on both sides will be about strength and patriotism. You don't win a referendum in Britain by saying, but we're only a small country so we need the EU to survive. That is a losing vote from day one. So you have to say either we will be stronger out or we are really strong in, but strong has to be there and patriotic as well if you could fit it in in a cohesive sentence. The second thing of course is the name doesn't include European Union because it seems to me that the key that the in camp have identified is to mention the EU as little as possible in their campaign to remain within it. You talk about Europe, which just sounds a whole lot cuddlier and nicer and less threatening than the European Union. And you certainly don't say Brussels very much either. On the surface, the remain campaign is more united. They've appointed Lord Rose who's a Tory peer who was known previously as a Eurosceptic to try and get to those swing voters who don't want more and more Europe. They're not Euro files. They just don't want to leave. And he was chosen precisely to appeal to that demographic. They have supporters from across the political parties. They have support from a lot of business. They are attacked by Nigel Farage as being the Westminster bubble and the establishment. Their argument is that should be enough because ultimately if you have a campaign where people are worried, they will listen to the establishment more than they will listen to Nigel Farage. The interesting question here I think is what Labour does. Labour have launched their own separate remain in the EU campaign headed by Alan Johnson who's one of the most popular politicians of this generation of politicians. I'll come back to that in a minute because I think what Labour end up doing or how Labour voters end up voting is going to be absolutely central to the outcome of the referendum. The final issue is leadership. Neither side has happened upon a leader who can inspire. Both sides are desperately trying to persuade Boris Johnson that he's their man. Boris is known in Britain as the Heineken politician because he reaches the parts that the politicians cannot reach. And he's seen as absolutely fundamental by both sides as being able to reach across the divide and to persuade undecideds to come over. But neither side has yet has announced its sort of spokespeople. And as ever in today's world, the messenger will be as important as the message. If you can get a celebrity with X million Twitter followers to be on your side, that will have an impact. And I'm sure I know for a fact that both sides are out at the moment looking for their celebrity backers because that will weigh on this debate. Now I want to talk briefly about the politics which often gets forgotten but forgotten but which is absolutely central. For some people the referendum is just that, it's a referendum. These are the people who wake up every day either wanting a federal Europe or hating Europe so much they can think of nothing but leaving. And this is what dominates them and motivates them. They're a very small proportion of the British population. For other people and you take UKIP and the Labour Party, the referendum isn't just about Europe, it's about setting the political scene for the run up to the next election. So politics doesn't stop when we vote on Europe. Voting on Europe is a step on the way to a larger political objective and that is crucial. Labour and the Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary Hillary Ben has publicly said he's worried about the stronger in campaign because it looks too corporate, because it contains Tories and because it is linked to the Westminster establishment. And his worry is this will just reinforce the impression that was given by the referendum in Scotland amongst Labour voters in traditional working class heartlands that they're all the bloody saying why shall we vote for them and they will continue hemorrhaging support to UKIP. So Labour are very, very concerned about being part of this mainstream campaign because it might cost them even more support in their traditional heartlands. What Alan Johnson decides to do, how separately he decides to campaign is not clear yet but I would be very surprised if leading Labour politicians shared platforms with Conservatives during the referendum campaign. And that is if you like mainstream Labour. Corbyn Labour shows no interest in the EU. At the Labour Conference that I attended in Brighton a few weeks ago, there were sort of two conferences. There was one in the hotel where all the sort of old, well what we now, not old Labour, it's hard to get the terminology right, former Labour. The Labour that didn't vote for Corbyn were hunkered down in this hotel and in the conference centre were the Corbynites and the Corbynites didn't talk about Europe at all. It's not an issue. So I find it hard to believe that Corbyn will mobilise this new army of supporters he's got into the Labour Party in favour of EU membership. And also it's worth bearing in mind that actually it is quite hard to find a good social democratic rationale for staying in the European Union these days. It's pretty easy to say businesses do well. It's pretty easy also to say okay every single academic economist you could ever ask says membership of the single market makes the British economy bigger by one or two or three per cent. One of the problems you have with that is that in Britain since the financial crash normal voters will listen to that and say well you might get three per cent my standard of living hasn't changed for years. So aggregate growth doesn't mean anything for me what helps me. And Labour and I think social democrats in general in Europe at the moment are struggling to find a narrative that links those ordinary core centre left voters to European integration. Structural funds we get very little at the moment. Europe looks like a thing that helps big businesses and helps people who are relatively well off. Europe empowers capital but it relatively disempowers Labour because they're not as mobile as capital is. And the sort of declining industrial heartlands of England if you go and talk to them about the European Union it's seen as part of the great neoliberal wave. Finding a story to tell that class of voter will be absolutely fundamental and I see no signs of a convincing story yet. It is perfectly conceivable to me that Labour will win the referendum and lose the politics. That is to say that Britain might vote to stay in but Labour will hemorrhage more support to UKIP in the north and do even worse when it comes to the 2019 European Parliament elections. What that means I don't know if the calculation is if the polls show this is likely to be the case. I wonder if Labour won't be very half hearted indeed in its support of continued membership of the European Union. The whole thing puts Labour in a bind. Labour are being asked to want what is completely opposed to their own political interest. For Labour support of the European Union what we want is a Europe that is prosperous with a British economy that is doing well. With no major crises facing the government that remains relatively popular even at mid term and will vote with the Tories and will campaign with the Tories to keep us in the European Union. Imagine how that looks in the Labour heartlands. The Farage argument that they're all the same then becomes true. How Labour squares that is going to be very interesting to watch. On the other side the big question is Boris Johnson. I think it's probably fair to say that Boris Johnson expected to be leader of the Conservative Party in opposition now and he isn't. I've never met Boris Johnson I don't know him personally but the impressions I get is that he's not the world's most patient man. And that therefore the notion of playing nicely on the back benches until either David or George Daines to give him a decent job and get promoted through the usual channels might seem a little bit of a bore to him. I wonder whether in the back of his mind he isn't thinking the way to do this quickly is to head the out campaign. You could lose the referendum and win the Conservative Party. It's perfectly plausible to imagine a scenario where the majority of Conservatives vote to leave, the majority of the country votes to stay, the Conservative Party is split and Johnson wins the election to be leader of the Conservative Party. It is no coincidence that Boris Johnson has been talking to the out campaign about this two referendum scenario that some in London are talking about. And this is the scenario whereby we have a referendum, we vote to leave, the Europeans bless them are so devastated at the thought of losing us because they can't cope without us that they come running back to us and say look if you're really going to leave we'll give you anything you want promise please come back. We have a second referendum on the back of the fact that the Europeans have given us everything we could ever have wanted from them even if it prejudices the French and we vote to stay in. Which makes the leader who sees us through that rather convoluted and totally unimaginable process looking very, very popular indeed. I champion the Eurosceptic cause but I kept us in Europe. That really is the magic blend. As I said I think it's totally impossible but you can see why people like Johnson have been discussing it. If he leads the out campaign it could have an impact on swing voters. It could. I'm not saying it will but it's worth watching. So where do I think this referendum campaign is going to go? Several things. Turn out will be key. Turn out particularly on the left will be key I suspect. The skeptics will be out. The skeptics will be queuing at 6am to vote. It's the soft pro-EU people that we need to think about and particularly the soft pro-EU people on the left because A the leadership isn't committed to membership. We've seen that from Corbyn. Because B there will be a temptation on the left to see the referendum as Cameron's poll. I've got a friend who said to me the other day I'm going to vote to leave. I said why?  That seems to me to be playing awfully fast and loose with the national interest for the sake of short term shard and froida but there will be people like that who say why should I bother to support Cameron and his renegotiation. If the left don't show the outers could win it seems to me. There's a whole load of contingencies that we can't control by definition. What's the migration situation like? What does a eurozone economy like? Are the Greeks having another crisis? What's the British economy doing? All those things will shape the outcome in very, very significant ways. Which is why the later we leave the referendum the more dangerous it becomes because you run out of wiggle room. By the time we get to September, by the time we get to June 2017 then we have to have the referendum that August and even if there's a catastrophe in the eurozone even if there's a migration crisis we have no flexibility left. So contingent events are going to be absolutely crucial. For what it's worth and I can assure you that it's worth very, very little indeed what I predict now would be we'll have a relatively close vote which will probably be for Britain to remain in. But it will be a relatively close and appallingly bad tempered vote because the inside will run a negative campaign. There is no narrative in Britain to wed us to the European Union. One of the reasons why we're a bit different from many other member states is for most other member states there is a European integration is an economic project that was designed for political objectives. So if you're one of the six it's a market to prevent war. If you're one of the eastern countries it's a market to bring us back home into Europe. If you're one of the southern countries, I mean that geographically not the way they use it nowadays. If you're one of the southern countries it's about an economic project meant to entrench democracy after dictatorship. For Britain European integration is an economic project for economic objectives and what that means is our consideration of European integration tends to be very cost benefit, very transactionalist. There is no positive political narrative. You can't go around Britain saying vote for in because of the dreams of political union because people will vote for out. So the case you make then is you will lose money if we leave. It's an automatically negative case and the remain campaign will make that negative case over and over and over again. You'll see business leaders. You'll see politicians coming out saying if we leave it'll be catastrophic for your jobs mate. I realise you don't like it. None of us like it but if we leave you're going to be out of work. What that means is if we do vote by a small margin to stay in we vote in a very bad tempered and grudging way. It means it is quite likely that post referendum UKIP surges because people take it out in the next election saying I feel bad about being bullied to vote against my heart. And that the referendum question remains on the agenda of British politics for the converseable future. That if you end up in a situation where UKIP poses a threat to the mainstream parties they will pander to it and how do you pander to UKIP you promise another referendum. I think if we vote to stay by a smallish margin we will do it again within the next 10 or 20 years with more uncertainty and more of this rather horrible spectacle. A couple more things very very briefly. One, if we vote to leave it will be a trauma because of the sheer complexity of the negotiations involved. And that for those in Britain who think if we vote to leave they will give us a very very good deal. The cautionary note I would sound is no government that faces a Eurosceptic party at home is inclined to make leaving look fun.  Because if we vote to leave and get a great deal what do you think Marine Le Pen will say the next day I'll have a bit of that. And then you have contagion gone wild. The second thing I'd say about if we voted to leave it is very very hard to see as adopting a Norway position. Much of the campaign will be about democracy and sovereignty. You can't campaign to leave based on arguments about democracy and then accept a situation where you have even less control than if you were a member which is effectively what Norway has. So I think we either leave or we stay but a half way house is going to be very very hard politically. And just to wrap up I'd say there are real parallels here for me with Scotland. That you have a negative campaign and you have a negative campaign which the status quo side wins because status quo tends to win in referendums if there's any doubt because people are scared about the unknown. But the people who are scared are not happy with themselves for being scared so continue to support the cause in other ways. For SMP in Scotland and UKIP in England. And that this continued uncertainty you know way back four five years ago when we were talking about referendums I used to think this is it. This is the thing that will mean it's a horrible analogy and I'm sorry for using it straight after lunch. This will lance the boil of British relations with the European Union. We'll go out we'll have the vote whoever wins wins that's it done. I no longer believe that. I now firmly believe that A the Brits are getting quite keen on their referendums and that B we're not the in camp is not going to win by enough to settle this once and for all. And so we will vote and this will fester on and maybe I'll see you back here in 20 years and we can do it all over again. Thank you very much.


Hello everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro 2022 tutorial. This one, I'm going to show you how to color correct and make it nice and blue looking kind of like you're looking at Ozark. Let me show you here. Here's the original shot here, just some stock footage, and then here it is with the color correction and the color effects applied. Now, before I go into the details, let me show you what I'm talking about. If you go here and you're just on Netflix, you'll see here that these are just snippets from Ozark. And then, I mean, this whole series, the whole fourth season is just blue. Everything's blue, as you can see here. I'm just clipping through and it's just blue, blue. This one's dark, obviously pretty dark, but I mean, blue, blue effect, really blue effect, little bit of blue effect, really blue effect. I mean, it's just blue. Everything in this series is blue. How the heck did they do it? Let me show you. Okay, there we go. All right, let's go back to work. Okay, first step, I'm going to delete this and I'm going to delete the composition. We're going to start from scratch. Drag and drop the footage that you want to color correct into the timeline like I've done here. And then I'm just going to take like a short snippet of it. So maybe like 10 seconds or something. Okay, good. We've got our 10 seconds or so of footage, eight, nine seconds of footage, good stuff. Second step, we're going to duplicate it. Hold down the Alt or the Option key, left click and hold up. And you're going to create a duplicate copy. We're going to work on the top copy because that way we can compare it. All right, the next step here is we want to go to our effects panel here, or alternatively, you can go to Window up here at the top and we want Lumetri Color is what we're looking for. Left click and make sure the check mark beside that. When you do that, Lumetri Color should load up right over here for you. Okay, let's get rolling. I'm just going to click through this very, very quickly. The number one thing you need to realize is that this is a temperature change. So when I watch what happens here as I'm working on the top clip, as I slowly move this to the left on their temperature, it's gone from bright orange-ish, which it sort of starts at, and we're moving it now to the left. This is cooling the image. This is called cooling, and it's very, very easy to do inside Premiere Pro. Now for some of you, that might be all you need to do. And that's it.  And then it does a whole bunch of calculations for us. And this just uses its Adobe Sensei AI technology. And this is what it thinks what the best settings are. Then I go ahead and I just pull down the temperature until I get that blue effect. And then if I close up, and I just see here, and then I just sort of scan through it, we've got the blue effect pretty much dialed in. Now I will note here that if you go into the curves, you can go in and open up these curves. This is where I do a little bit of extra work if you want to really go down the rabbit hole. For example, you can go into the RGB curves, click on the blue curve, and then if you want to add a little bit more blue in it, you can pull it up, and you can add some blue in manually. But nine times out of 10, you don't need to do that, guys. That's how you get the Ozark look in like two minutes inside Premiere Pro. It's an amazing program, amazing options. Thanks for watching, guys. A ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


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Hey guys, thank you for watching surf station board reviews today. We're looking at the Donald Takiama scorpion This board is shaped in Melbourne by Ricky Carroll and his crew at R&D surf But it's based on the template and the design of Donald Takiama The scorpion is a high performance Hybrid or fun board depending on the size you're looking at the size of scorpion ranges from 5 4 all the way up to 7 4 we traditionally carry more fun board sizes, but We can special order the smaller shortboard sizes as well This board is great for anyone who's beginning and looking for a Good fun board that can perform in a variety of conditions Or advanced surfers who are looking for something that's just gonna crush a pocket in a really really good way This board comes with a standard quad and long box Obviously you can ride that in a variety of fin setups in a variety of styles of surf You'll see that the tail is a pin tail and you've got a pulled-in V So this thing is a high performance fun board. It's going to turn really really well it is going to Move really really fast down the line and it'll hold rail real well and better better surf You can surf this board in mushy waist-high surf all the way up to clean well overhead lined up surf You got a little bit of rocker in the nose a little bit of concave in the nose You can do a little cheater fives and terrible surf or you could just crush some really really good waves on this surfboard So if you're riding this guy as a Shortboard you can ride it much shorter than your traditional shortboard because it's got so much volume It's got so much width and thickness In the middle and at the top So this board is great You know if you're looking for if you're moving from a long board down to a fun board and you want something That's a you know a high performance fun board This is your board if you're on a shortboard and you're looking for something That's got a little extra meat a little extra float to it. This is also your board We got plenty of Donald Takayama scorpions in stock at the surf station Come in check them out in the store or check them out online at surf station store comm


I'm passionate about physics and I'm also passionate about machine learning and how we can use machine learning techniques to help us understand physics, condensed matter, many body physics in general. And I'm also passionate about using quantum computers or future quantum computers and how we can use them to understand physical systems and also how to use them to improve machine learning. As of today, you can use some of the prototypes, you can use them online, some of them for free. They're at a pretty experimental stage, so kind of like research, but as the technology matures, computer scientists and physicists develop algorithms, then we'll start seeing this I think soon. Artificial intelligence I think is going to be a revolution, similar to the industrial revolution in some sense, right, like it's going to change how we work, how we interact and I think it's going to be overall a positive thing, so I'm an optimist. It's going to have a huge impact in society and it's going to be for good. Oh, lots of them. It's impossible to pick one, meeting new people, new culture. It's pretty, pretty amazing. It made the biggest impact because I hadn't been exposed to a research environment such as this at ICTP and I basically developed most of the intuition I have about condensed matter and quantum antibody physics during the diploma. Definitely, of course.


When you think of power couples, one that definitely comes to mind is Jay-Z and Beyoncé. The two have been married for over a decade now and combined their successful hip-hop careers to form quite the legacy. Beyoncé is one of the world's best-selling music artists and is the most nominated woman in the Grammy Awards history thus far with a total of 19 wins. She's a singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and let's not forget Mama of Three. At the time of this recording, she's 38 years old and has a beautiful family with her man Jay-Z. Jay-Z, on the other hand, born Sean Corey Carter is 50 at the moment, but he doesn't look a day over 40. Of course, he's also hip-hop royalty and regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Like his wife, he's won a ton of Grammy Awards, 22 in fact, which is the most for a rap artist. If that's not enough, Jay-Z was named the first ever hip-hop billionaire. Aside from Jay-Z's music career, he's found a ton of success as an entrepreneur, producer, and record executive. He's had multiple million-dollar business ventures, including his clothing line Rock-A-Ware and is also known for being the CEO of Def Jam, where at the time he put Rihanna on as a new talent. Just reviewing both Beyoncé and Jay-Z's accomplishments, you already know the two have built a crazy empire. Apparently, Jay-Z is the main breadwinner in this couple, but Beyoncé still brings $355 million to the table. Together, they're worth an estimated $1.35 billion. With that kind of bank, Jay-Z and Beyoncé have been able to live in any mansions they want, whether it was renting or buying properties over the years. The couple's main house in Bel Air cost them a humble $88 million, and it's not the only real estate they own. Hey guys, it's Kara, and today we're doing another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. Some of you guys requested this video, so today we're going to be looking at Jay-Z and Beyoncé's homes, including their mega mansion in Bel Air. I'll also give you the details on where they used to live and other properties the couple owns. If you like these videos, make sure you're subscribed and ring that bell to be notified when we post so you can always be up to date. We've also done house tours on Cardi B and Offset's new mansion and Rihanna's homes, and we'll have links to those at the end of this. Be sure to follow me on Instagram because I love connecting with you guys. I've also been reading all your comments and I'm going to be responding to some at the end of this. I need you to let me know who to do next in the comments down below and whose homes you'd like to see. Now let's get into this video. Let's start with where Beyoncé and Jay-Z grew up just to get a little background. Before Jay-Z was one of the biggest names in hip-hop history, Sean Carter grew up in less than lavish situation. He grew up in Brooklyn's Marcy Houses, which was in a pretty rough area. According to Jay-Z, his humble beginnings helped shape him and he constantly shouts out his old hood in his work. Beyoncé, on the other hand, lived pretty comfortably in the suburbs. She grew up in Houston, Texas in the historic Third Ward area on Parkwood Drive. The columns and driveway on her childhood house make the place look picture perfect. So let's fast forward to when Beyoncé and Jay-Z joined forces. After the two got hitched, they bought a Miami Beach mansion, which was part of Indian Creek Village, an exclusive pricey island in Biscayne Bay. This spot had seven beds and eight baths, but the couple didn't stay here too long. They sold it for 9.3 million in 2010. Beyoncé and Jay-Z also own a fancy-looking property in Beyoncé's hometown, Houston, Texas, but apparently they bought it for Bey's mom. The couple spent about 6 million on this place, but it definitely looks like money well spent. The Houston mansion is 25,000 square feet and has 8 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and 4 kitchens. The home is European style and has one-of-a-kind architecture, even stained glass windows and painted ceilings. It looks like somewhere a queen would live, so I assume Beyoncé's mom has been more than happy here. One of the more unique houses on Beyoncé and Jay-Z's real estate portfolio has got to be the church they bought in New Orleans. In 2015, the couple got this historic church in the Garden District of New Orleans that was converted into a mansion. It was originally built back in 1925, but since its transformation, it looks completely different, of course. It's over 13,000 square feet and is made up of four distinct living spaces, including a main home and three smaller apartments that are spread over three stories. Beyoncé and Jay-Z's New Orleans mansion has 22 rooms in total, including 7 beds and 8 baths. There's also a step-up dining room, loft-style sitting room, and a library. Not to mention the historic house has 26-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling pillars, and arched windows. Moving on, you already know the power couple has staffed some real estate in the Big Apple, especially since it's Jay-Z's hometown. Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchased a penthouse in the Tribeca area of NYC back in 2004 that served as the couple's primary residence for quite some time. They spent around 6.8 million on this apartment, which is 8,000 square feet, and occupies the entire seventh floor of the building. Their Tribeca condo would also serve as the place Beyoncé and Jay-Z tied the knot in a private ceremony back in 2008. We know that Beyoncé also sold an additional NYC condo back in 2017 that the couple used to house guests and visitors. This apartment was 2,669 square feet and had three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, as well as high 11-foot ceilings. But as Jay-Z and Beyoncé planned to spend less time in NYC and more time at their newer properties, which I'll show you in a sec, the couple didn't really need this condo anymore. They sold the place for just under 10 mil, and whoever could afford it also got some amazing views of New York City. Jay-Z and Beyoncé had their sights set on the Hamptons for a while. After renting vacation homes there a couple times, they finally bought their own estate in 2017, known as Pond House. The Hamptons is famously known as a rich vacation spot located on the east end of Long Island. It's a group of seaside communities reserved for the wealthy and affluent New Yorkers, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z fit the bill, of course. The pair rented a spot in the Hamptons back in 2012 called the Sand Castle, and they spent 400K to stay there for the month of August alone. Beyoncé and Jay-Z would rent a second home here to follow, upping it to 500K a month. And finally, they found a Hamptons family home they wanted to purchase for good. Jay-Z and Beyoncé settled for Pond House, which cost them just under 26 mil to buy. They're managed in the Hamptons sits on two acres of land with 203 feet of direct waterfront. The main house has seven beds and nine baths, and there's an additional 1,800 square foot guest cottage, complete with two beds, one bath, a living room, and kitchen. Jay-Z and Beyoncé's Hampton estate underwent serious renovations before they bought it too. Jeffrey Cole was in charge of the renails, and he even rotated the house 90 degrees just so the living room could face the water. Outside, there's an infinity-edge pool and spa on the pond side of the property, as well as an outdoor grilling area. Pretty sure Beyoncé and Jay-Z can have their entire family here for a vacation, considering how big the Hamptons' estate is. Finally, for Jay-Z and Beyoncé's main mansion and family home, let's take a look at their Beller mansion. It was reported that the couple paid 120 million for the home, or at least offered that much against the $135 million asking price. But in the end, they got an off-market deal which came out to 88 million for the home.  The amount that the power couple paid was still the sixth-highest price ever paid for a single-family home in L.A. at the time. As you probably know, Beller is an area in the west side of L.A. by the Santa Monica Mountains that's very popular among celebs. So all the homes here are well in the multi-million dollar ballpark. So what did 88 mil get Jay-Z and Beyoncé while essentially a compound? Their Beller home is made up of six glass walled buildings with around 30,000 square feet of living space, along with eight beds and 11 baths. It is on almost two hillside acres of land and is kept totally private behind massive iron gates. Beyoncé and Jay-Z's mega mansion was designed by the architect Paul McLean and he recreated the property to be ultra-modern.  Not to mention, there are bulletproof floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the house that open with the touch of a button. Other features of their family mansion include a home movie theater, multiple kitchen and living spaces, and separate staff quarters. Looking outside at the additional 10,000 square feet of living space, there are four pools, a 15-car garage, a full-size basketball court, a spa and wellness center, and more. Each one of the four pools provides a different and beautiful view, but the one perched on the roof probably has the best. And some say that the huge white space on the top of the home is a helipad, but if it is, I'm not sure how often that gets used. Although Jay-Z and Beyoncé's family home in Beller might seem over-the-top, especially since it was the most expensive sale in all of LA in 2017 when they purchased, it's well-deserved. A pair as successful as Beyoncé and Jay-Z deserve a trophy house like that, and it really shows you how much the power couple has accomplished. Personally, it's a little bit too big and modern for my liking, but I'm sure since they got it, they've made it feel more like a family home and added some personal touches. From the house Bey got her mom in Houston, their renovated church in New Orleans that's now a home, their Tribeca penthouse, and their house in the Hamptons, the list is endless. Which one of their spots did you guys like the best? I personally like their Hamptons mansion. Okay guys, now I'll be reading out some of your comments from previous videos. On our recent Adele Before and After video, Bonberto's fang commented saying, Adele looks awesome. I'm positive she feels great and is being healthy. I'm hoping her weight loss is due to new eating habits and not a fly-by diet. People need to understand healthy weight loss can be forever. Overnight weight loss is temporary. Keep it up, Adele, you look great. Also on the same Adele video, Dolores not Lida said, she's always been beautiful and talented, so as long as she's happy and healthy, there shouldn't be an issue. I agree that she looks great and that she's healthy and happy is all that matters, not what the tabloids say. And finally on our Rihanna house tour vid, Snow White said, Miss Boss Beauty Queen always has great taste in everything she does. We love our queen sis. Alright guys, that's all I got on Beyoncé and Jay-Z's real estate, including their $80 million family home. I wish we could see how the couple decorated the inside though since they've been living there a few years now. Oh well, what do you guys think of their new place and their other spots? Be sure to let me know in the comments and let me know some other celebrity houses you'd like to see. Follow me on Instagram if you want to chat more and I'll see you next time with some more videos. Bye.


My name is George Barlow and I teach freshman physical science, AP biology, and biotechnology at East Valley High School in Spokane, Washington. And when you start to develop that, that layer of biophilm, the project that I'm working on is called biofouling, it's a sticky situation, and biofouling is the attachment of living organisms to the hulls of ships, and it ends up costing the Navy an extra quarter of a billion dollars a year in added fuel costs and increased drag to the ships. For a long time, people have been trying to figure out a way to stop these organisms from attaching to the hulls of ships. And so they've come up with some really good ways for doing it, but the problem is a lot of those, the paints that they use on the hulls of ships are also, they're very toxic. So I'm having my students work on some ways to try to figure out non-toxic methods of preventing the biofouling of hulls. What I want to do is let them realize they have the ability right now to start solving some of these problems. Science really should be hands-on, the kids working on things, getting their hands dirty, coming up with their own ideas. It's not opening a book and answering questions one through twelve on page 86. We're growing barnacles. For what purpose? Oh, to see like what, isn't it like what type of materials resist the barnacles? So what is it about those materials that you think the barnacles would not attach to? They're very slippery and water resistant. All right, let's see what you have. A sponge, a carpet, glue, an ibuprofit, and ointment. Our experiment is testing how different blood thinners affect how barnacles adhere to each other. All right. This is a project that is aimed at getting the kids excited about science by giving them a real-world problem. Science isn't this big, big scary thing that you have to be some elite scientist to solve and it's not just reading and answering questions out of the book, but it's just using your mind and using it to the best of your ability and to solve these problems.


Gene Grant, good to see you all. Always nice to see everyone here bright and early in the morning. How's everybody doing? Good to see you, Nita, good to see you. Everybody on YouTube, Facebook Live, welcome back. It looks like we had another couple of nice moving stocks this morning. TKLF, my God, look at this thing. Cheap stock, started around eight o'clock this morning at $1.63 and we're up as high as $2.38. Backed off a little bit here, got some good movement in the stocks. Couple of them are moving from yesterday and today that start trickle into war. Day trades into swing trades. We'll talk a little bit about that. But pretty excited about what's happening with some of the stocks. So anyway, another beautiful day here in New York. It's gonna be hot. Looking forward to the weekend. It's gonna be like almost a hundred years. So I'm looking forward to doing some fishing, doing, getting at some boats. I don't know if anyone heard of where we live here in New York. We're getting attacked by sharks. So much bait in the water, it's a reason why. So I'm gonna try to be a little careful. But if I get any good pictures, if I see anything cool, I'll definitely show you guys. Hopefully I won't catch one on my line. But to pay for that stuff, we gotta go out there. We gotta make money in the market. So let's talk about some of the stocks that are moving. I wanna start off and talk about what happened yesterday. There were a couple of really, really nice stocks that made some big moves. I wanna start off talking about TBLT. All right, there we go. And we still put up a two day chart here. So TBLT had a great move. This stock, you could see, not only has it been a really good day trade, it has obviously turned into a little bit more of a swing trade. $2 stock went as high as, we're up as high as up in the 650 price range. You could see it the afternoon run up right there. Let me just blow this up a little bit bigger so you could see it. Really nice move right here, around 130. Started around 480, started to keep going. Beautiful higher highs, just gorgeous. Had a nasty shake you could see here right around the last 15 minutes of the close. But anyway, really nice movement over the course of the day. You guys did great on that one. So hope you guys enjoyed that. Whoever caught on to it, guess what? She's going back on the watch list again. So we got another nice little move right here. Another stock that moved pretty nicely yesterday. Where are we? Type in wrong window. The ADX entry, that one was so much more nicer than the other one. That was a gap fill. You could see it right here. Red at nine o'clock, great in pre-market. Cheap low stock, dollar 40, boom. Thing all the way up, up until almost 11 o'clock. Random size, $2.50. You're literally talking about a 100% mover. People can't even make, would die to make 100% on the money a year. Okay, here you have something that did it in a day, in less than an hour, and it was a very cheap low stock, great movement, awesome move stock out there. You know what? If you caught even maybe 20 cents of that move, like even right here around 10 o'clock, and you got this shake and you sold it right here around even two, you still made yourself 20 cents, do it every day. $200 on a thousand chairs, $50,000 a year salary. I don't think anyone's gonna complain about that one. All right, and these are nice little cheepers that made some nice moves in the morning. Another couple of stocks I wanna talk about, nice push hires was Mara. Mara, we watched it over and over and over again. Not only this stock has been a phenomenal day trade, it has been a great swing trade. And we've been trading this stock for the past several days, so if you've been here, you watch our videos, maybe you're watching this later, maybe you're on live now. Mara's been also all over our watch list. This stock was as low as $5 a share. We're getting close to that 15, just a low 15, I think it's gonna test the 16 right there. Still got some good movement. To a little on the volatile side, it's a category three, but she's been doing pretty well for us. So Mara's also been doing well with also Riot. Riot also very similar stock in the blockchain stock, and they did it also well too. And then last, one stock I just wanna bring up, it was a really good short on UAL yesterday. That stock had a great sling shot from 39 down to 37.50 and just came right back down. Airlines obviously not doing too well. You could see, but didn't affect Delta or anything else, but UAL, I don't fly UAL anymore, American Airlines. I used to fly it, but I'm just a big fan of Delta. I think Delta's, I don't know, may call me biased, maybe they gave me good status, but United, still an expensive side. I always judge a company on what the price of their stock is. So, what's the other one? We have a save, right? Save at 24, that one, what else do we have? There's a couple of them. We have JetBlue. JetBlue's a little bit on the cheaper side, but Airlines, like I said, be very, very careful on them when it comes out to, oh, and then forgot to mention, we had that really nice short a couple of days ago. Looks like some of the, got a nice little bounce on some of the crew stocks. So, they also made a little bit of a comeback. Now that grants us matters over 14. Yeah, I mean, listen, stock's got a great push. You could see it right there. Good call on that one, but really, really nice push. You could see when we started, it's already making a nice little run right there. But blockchain, I've always been a big fan of them. You know what? We saw these stocks take big hits, but it has been some really, really good buys. Also, a couple of the long-term trade stocks that we've doing, Amazon, obviously, has been really well for some of you. Got in around the 106 price range, doing pretty well. Did also pretty well with Carvana. So, holding on that swing trade on that one, I got out of Merck about two days ago. I was testing this big resistance levels. I didn't want to break it, so I got out of that one on the swing trade. And then I got out of TLRI. We were doing really well with that one. She's got a lot of support and resistance levels here around 380. So, I thought we had a nice little push right here. I thought it was gonna make a little breakout, but it didn't want to, started coming down. So, I pretty much got out of that one. Anyway, let's turn the page. Let's focus on what's moving today, okay? So, we got any swing trades, got any day trades? Listen, there's a couple of nice, interesting stocks I wanna talk about. Let's start off with the TKLF, what do you say? So, this stock right here, I'm popping over here on level four. And there are a couple of not huge iceberg orders out there. You could see there's a couple, there's a big one right here, but this guy's way out of the way. We're talking 135, but we're over here right around the 230, fours. We got a couple of resistance levels right here. We could see that there was a ladder effect on the downside, so they keep buying it, buying it, buying it. So, kind of got a support level around here on 220, but we got a little decent sell here at resistance. That one, you know, great movement, good stock. I'm not too crazy about the, but the levels on that one, and you could tell kind of made that big pop right after around 830, really hasn't gone anywhere within, you know, 10 minutes, 10, 15 cents right there, but nice spread, 8.5 million shares, everything we're looking for, and we've seen some of these things pop, so put this one on our watch list, TKLF. All right, a couple of the ones also showed up on here, and you could see then the all, the big percentage gainers, SDIG. Nice little move on this one too, when I hopped over here on level four, we got a resistance level right around $4, and a couple of big buyers around 360, you know, for, you know, decent shares, 17,000 right there. You can see it right here. It was a guy here for about 26,000, looks like he pulled his order, but it looks like, obviously, it is more than one person out there that's doing it. So it looks like we're in that range, but really nice move. The stock also, not only has been a good day trade, it turned into a swing trade, it was roughly around the $2 price range, you're talking about 100% mover in three days. Now there's some big resistance levels right around here around the four-ish price range, so be very careful of that too on that one. APLD, let me go see, I had this one, she started to back off, I thought she was pretty good. Yeah, you know what, the buyers came up and they started getting out of it, so they start pulling the orders. I might put this one on the B-list, APLD. And we're at number three. I mean, this is pretty cool, but that's a lot right there, it's a lot. Everything else, I didn't see anything else. Oh, this one just, jeevo, man, this thing just came out of nowhere. What happened here? Huge volume spike on this one. This one just came crashing down, huh? Oh my God, we gotta keep an eye on that. 2.4 million shares. I mean, it doesn't look good now, it's on a downtrend, but I like that, I like that move right there. Somebody came out there, and we traded this stock before, many of times, jeevo. So I thought that went on a watch list. All right, couple of big losers. We all know about the FFIE, we did awesome with this stock. For some of you who didn't watch this before, we've been trading this stock around $2.30. This thing went from like 260 to 350, went all the way up to about $8 a share, it was a great, great day trade. And now, guess what? Bye-bye, it was a great short squeeze. That's basically what you have right there. So now she's starting to trend down. I'm just bringing this up, not that we would trade it, but we did trade it, you know? Cause I always get people always ask me, oh, well, why is this stock down now? We were day trading this thing, and we were doing short-term swing trading on it, but it was a nice little stock. I just wanted to show you, this is why you don't hold positions, and you gotta know when to take losses. Remember the biggest thing we teach you at Cybertree University? It's not about how to make money, okay? We don't like to talk about the winners, we wanna teach you the losers, because once you learn how to stop losing money, the winners take care of themselves, and this is what happens to a lot of people out there. They don't know how to take losses. Same thing with ADXN, great mover, we did great, stock was up huge, it was all about being a day trade. All right, Snapchat taking a very big hit today, you could see it, people talking about it on TV, everything else, you know, we're not gonna, I've traded Snapchat before, but Snapchat is not looking too well, looking too good right here. I mean, this stock is breaking, is that old-time lows? Oh, no, no, we still got some lows here. We still got, we still got room, we got room around 820, we're at 11, so you gotta go way back to 20 to find support levels on that stock, but listen, we're not gonna, I'm not a big fan of it, but I'll put it on the C list.  Just looking at it, some people looking at me like, how do you go through that so quickly? These are things that we teach you, Pinterest, a big fan of that, obviously not doing too well. Look at that, what an interesting stock on that one. Verizon else is on this list, wow, Verizon taking a very big hit, huh? Whew, a lot of big brand names in the big losers list. Even W, wow, even that one's out there. KO, let's see, an ETF, QD, that's not a one. Oh, look at that, shop is even on there too. Ah, it's only about 2%. All right, so we got a pretty decent watch list. Listen, today is Friday, so let's not get too crazy. Today is a very big day also, at 10 a.m., I'm going to be doing a live demonstration on how to trade today's markets. I post a link up there. I know some of you in the cyber group room, you're gonna be trading, but Josh and Rich will be able to run, is gonna be running the room. I'm gonna get ready for this meeting if you're watching YouTube or you're watching Facebook. Click on there, I'm gonna talk about coffee futures. We'll talk about four or five, I got my friends of four or five that are watching live right now. I'm also gonna, once again, coffee, you guys are making a lot of money in coffee, my God, I know it was a 95% profit on that thing. So anyway, great coffee, great, and like I said, future's been doing unbelievable too. I'm gonna show you, we could probably find some of them towards using it towards level four too, to kind of keep an eye on that. But let's go out there and see what's going on. And then also, just remember, don't get too crazy and cocky today. Fridays is, listen, people here in New York are gonna be running out to the Hamptons. They're gonna start, you know, I don't know if you guys watch the Hamptons, but it's a really big place over here. It's where all the millionaires and billionaires go. They're gonna leave early, it's a really hot, probably it's the hottest weekend of the year. Believe me, they're gonna wanna enjoy it. So I don't think it's gonna get too crazy today. So don't get too cocky, all right? Both of you, just make your money quick and then just go. That's how I usually play it. But listen, Friday afternoons, make sure you're connected to our app. Our alerts, if something comes up, we'll go out there and share it with you. All right guys, good luck today, happy trading, and we'll see you on the trading room. If not, I'll see you at 10 a.m. in the live trading with Bausto and how to use level four at 10 a.m. All right guys, good luck everyone, happy trading.


and I'm sorry that I probably bored half your audience to death no it's good sorry reading the warriors it's good it's good to learn about these things back to another video and I'm here because we have a special guest hello my name is Brennan I'm Laura's husband here's my husband yay so as you can probably tell by the title of this video we are gonna talk about African literature yeah so Brennan why are you in this video well so I was born in Nigeria just Nigeria to be specific and I moved to America when I was 13 West Africa in particular has a very meaningful history to me and I think that African literature is too often ignored and that should be fixed I completely agree especially with February being Black History Month we want to celebrate it not just with Valentine's Day or extend Valentine's Day to show the love to all people all cultures all backgrounds etc and so forth so and it's a conversation we should be having more than just on February definitely definitely and that's why this video is coming out at the end of February so that we can see it at the end of February and continue to think about it through March and hopefully April and honestly hopefully just through the rest of the year yeah so let's get started tell us about literature in Africa the history of it where it comes from where it's at today give us a brief overview of the yeah so a few caveats here before I begin firstly I'm not an expert I'm just a college student so I know a few things but not everything secondly I'm going to be speaking in generalities here Africa is not a country it is a diverse continent full of different regions different climates different people groups different languages in Nigeria alone where I was born over 400 languages are spoken so spread that out across the continent yeah if you know me and if you've seen my video booktube about me if you haven't seen it I'll link it up top here and also in the video description below I talk about the importance of translation and the importance of translating books and so just hearing like how many different languages can be spoken in one country out of an entire continent it blows my mind and so I think it's very important for us to learn about it and to also think about translating these books so that we can read all of the knowledge through creativity and all these different things that could come out of Africa just like we do with other countries so today what I want to talk about is um African history and and its literature so we when we read western texts um we already have the connotations and the history and the knowledge the cultural knowledge to understand the tropes but with Africa we have because of colonialism and uh other reasons we have uh we're very unfamiliar with the histories and the African um storytelling and its tropes so I'm just going to give a quick overview of um some African uh storytelling methods and some uh tropes Africans are rich storytellers um before colonialism they had a long oral tradition um with a lot of gods um lots of storytelling moral storytelling so stories that would tell lessons that would pass on lessons to the next generation um oftentimes uh anthropologists would look at these stories and um authors would look at these stories with disregard because they weren't written down um but through these stories they're incredibly important because through these stories we've been able to learn a lot of ancient history if you look at the Bantu migration we've been able to piece together the movements of um entire population group over 5 000 years ago um based solely on stories um and that that's frankly incredible passed down from generation to generation and these stories are incredibly creative um please look for like Ashanti the trickster spider um I grew up on stories of how he would outwit people um and and there are just numerous numerous tales um though this again um not every part of Africa follows this trajectory um Egypt for example uh was one of the first um uh areas to ever have written a language um uh in the form of hieroglyphics uh and Ethiopia has a long literary tradition um checkouts uh Zera Yocab um he he was in the he was a theologian in the 1600s who um predated Descartes um with ideas of uh think I think therefore I am and uh beautiful ideas of uh and reasonings for uh faith and why we we must believe in um God while still being incredibly progressive he argued against polygamy um as well as uh other um accepted practices of the time um unfortunately then we come to a rather terrible part of African history that has really shaped what African literature is today you can't understand African literature unfortunately without understanding colonialism and imperialism colonialism took away um many of the storytellers took away a lot of freedom from Africans and two stories emerged out of colonialism one coming from the white man and the other coming from uh the agency of African actors fighting to express their own narrative and um bring freedom to their people so the uh white man's story uh was often tied in self-interest um and economic interest it argued that um they were liberators they came to Africa as heroes so you'll see a lot of these um authors like Cecil Rhodes um and even the more considered progressive authors like Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness still use Africans as a foil um and as props for their own stories and so uh we see this archetype of the um at either the white savior or the a big white hunter yeah i remember reading Heart of Darkness in high school and just the way that the natives in Africa were painted they was they're savages they don't know how to live life they can't do anything without the white man and oh i just hated reading it it's a terrible book well it it was good at recognizing that we are all kind of a little bit insane but it used Africans as the point and case of look at Africans they're so primal wait a second i'm primal too my god and Joseph Conrad does a good job of that and he's one of the first authors to also recognize he has a chapter in there where he talks about just how bad it is in the Congo for Africans but and that's one of the first times that a white author is like hey maybe we shouldn't be beating slaves and African senseless um just a suggestion but still white authors of colonial periods were still very much tied to their ideas of uh self grandeur and self importance but then we see African resistance so we see authors like Kwame Nukrumah, Franz Fanon um and they create a pan-African literature and an anti-colonial literature that takes um ancient African storytelling and unites it with uh modern literature but then we see African resistance Africans take the tools provided by western education and turn it against their colonial oppressors so Kwame Nukrumah and like Franz Fanon they write prolifically and brilliantly um and form a pan-African movement calling for independence and um calling for the abolishment of colonialism and this is where this time period um around independence and after independence is we where we see some of the most brilliant um African lines at work this is where we get Chinua Chebe and I know many of you probably recognize that name from Things Fall Apart but I highly encourage you to check out his other works including his poetry and also check out his daughter as well she is a professor at the um Michigan State uh where she uh is a expert at um uh African queer identity and exploring that area and you actually got to meet her I did I was it was very interesting he totally fangirled it was great I got I got her signature on um my copy of Things Fall Apart wait you mean my copy of Things Fall Apart our copy of Things Fall Apart guys I have a exciting book yeah yeah no but definitely do check her out I didn't even realize so then so with with these movements of um anti-colonialism you see these really powerful books um but then we and these um books come in tandem with um outside help um such as Malcolm X we have a book we have a book um this this is more of an educational book so I don't know how how many of you will be interested in it there will be more other books later on in the video Laura Laura takes it back takes it back to more fun books I'm a little bit more of a heady uh kind of academic he's an intellectual reader I'm a creativity reader we have discussed both are good I do enjoy a good fun read every once in a while just true but this one so this book um Black Star Crescent Moon um analyzes um the alliance between third world countries thank you third world countries and muslim countries uh so uh Kwame Nkrumah and like Malcolm X meet together and talk about uh alliance scenes and um allyship uh with each other um and so this this documents some of that history um unfortunately as the years go on in the 1980s 1990s we see neoliberalism rise and structural adjustment occur um and so what this does is it's um at home in the U.S. the back to Africa movement um was suppressed by the CIA and FBI who were afraid that the Black Panthers um and Black uh pride um and oppressed local leaders and in um Africa neoliberalism and structural readjustment um hindered African expression in literature and forced it into more of a commodity-based economic situation um so all those dreams um of uh independent Africa and Pan Africa um were slowly crushed under debt and um structural adjustment um so where does that leave us with African literature today so now it's I'm actually fairly optimistic about African literature um because I'm seeing uh revival of um creativity um and I'm what we're seeing is a bottom up movement of authors um and people are becoming more interested in um Africa and African stories which they should because Africa tells a unique story it's one of the story oh it Africa has such beautiful people um their stories come from a place of pain but they're still able to express and experience such creativity and joy so there are there are a couple books that Laura has read um yes that so I may have talked about these books a little bit before my channel but just in case you haven't heard of them one that I recently read is a song of massive ruins and this is by Rosanne A Brown she immigrated from Ghana and so there's a lot of West African kind of Ghanaian mythology in this book this book is about a competition so it follows two different main characters one is the princess and the other is a boy who is an immigrant and he has two sisters and one sister ends up being taken by a deity and he needs to get her back and the way that he does this is by killing the princess and the only way that he can kill the princess is by getting close to her through competition and the competition is all about different contestants represent their deity and whoever wins that deity gets to be like the ruler of the next year so whether it's the sun or the water or life all different kinds and so it's about his journey trying to get with the princess and the princess kind of sitting there like I also may need to kill someone we'll see um so it's a very fun competition book with West African mythology and then another book that I want to quick talk about that I've also read are the Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adayemi there are actually two books out so far a third one is coming out soon and I'm so excited oh my word I love both of the first two books um again she so she is actually from Nigeria as well represent and um but they always refer to Nigeria as Orisha so Children of Blood and Bone is about so there are some people with magic and you tell if they have magic if your hair is white and you're called a magi but not everybody has magic and so the royal family was super afraid of all those with magic and so they decided to oppress them and be jerks and not treat them equally so sad and so it is about the main character and her brother who go on a quest to try and bring back magic so that they can take back their rightful place within the kingdom and live in harmony with those without magic rather than try and retake the land which I thought was really cool so if I may interrupt you of course so the both of these books you can read on your own and they're still really enjoyable really fun but if you learn about the history of Nigeria or learn about the history of Ghana um and its mythology it it unlocks like another level they're like easter eggs um like when I watch Black Panther I would be like oh oh oh that's can't take clock can't take clock and like or or I'd see something that just get me excited because uh it's a little nod to something and it helps you understand the book better as well because you're understanding the culture where it comes from so Brennan actually has another book that he's going to talk to us about this is a book that neither of us have read but we both have on our tbrs we're super excited to read it so this is called Homegoing by Yaggyasi it starts in the 18th century in Ghana with two sisters one is uh taken and is married to an Englishman and while the other is taken in a raid and sold into slavery and shipped off so I'm particularly excited for this book because it analyzes and kind of puts into story um the sort of historical and generational impacts of slavery um I actually got to visit Elmina castle um and got to see uh where um thousands of thousands of slaves were sold and it's a very humbling and humbling experience um and I think this book is going to be really it's going to be a tear trip oh for sure it's going to be one heck of a tear trip um and it's not that long of a book either no like it's really only not even 300 pages and it's recommended by npr so yeah it's got a lot of different endorsements here on the back and on the front so we're really excited for this one and I'm sorry that I probably bored half your audience to death no it's good it's good it's good to learn about these things thank you guys so much for joining us on this history lesson as well as book recommendation um if you have any questions either for Brennan or for me or both of us either about history or african literature even the books that we mentioned comment them down below we'll get back to you on that give this video a thumbs up if you want more videos like it talking about like the history of literature or just giving more specific recommendations about african authors and not as well as african american authors that will be coming up in another video soon as well we'll talk about some african american literature woot woot um and if you're from like east africa south africa central africa north africa anywhere but west africa anywhere but even west africa i'd like to meet a friend yeah feel free to put down a book recommendation i've been meaning to expand and we'll just we'll find an author and we'll just read all of their books but yeah no just seriously guys put things down below any kind of question comment recommendations and uh we hope that you have a wonderful rest of february and until we see you guys in the next video we both wish wish you a happy reading


Well, I think big analytics, we started the company last August. We're a professional services company providing professional services both on the engineering side of Hadoop ecosystems as well as data science and analytics solutions on top of Hadoop. So we don't sell software or infrastructure to take referral fees. We strictly have the expertise to deliver solutions to enterprise clients. So tell me about the role as you see it of services in this Hadoop environment. We talk a lot about challenges around implementing Hadoop and really getting value out of it. What role will services play as we kind of, as the ecosystem matures and as organizations are looking to get actual real business value out of Hadoop? Yeah, so I think the big role that I think big analytics plays is we're kind of a mini version of a large global systems integrator and we 100% focus on Hadoop inspired architectures. So we work with clients to figure out what does Hadoop do, what type of value does it bring to the organization, how do I plan for it, how do I budget for it, what skills do I need to bring into my organization to manage it, to build solutions on top of it. So I think we play a really unique role in the ecosystem right now because the deals in the last year, year and a half have been kind of more pilots and getting going and yes there's some enterprise clients but I think from an ecosystem perspective we're really bringing a lot of solution creation on top of the platform. So folks like Cloud Era and MapR and kind of the Hadoop vendors Hortonworks, they provide support services and distributions on top of Hadoop but then we kind of come in and help clients build solutions on top of it.


Systematic reviews summarise all the best available research evidence to inform decision making and health. Research had been done that looked at whether steroids were helpful in improving the maturation of premature babies' lungs. The review showed conclusively that giving steroids saved lives among premature babies and that has probably saved many thousands of lives. For a typical review we might well have 20,000 citations to sift through as a team. It can take two, three years to complete. Project Transform is an artificial intelligence project that brings together the technology that's able to manipulate and analyse data very efficiently. We've been able to create a data set that can train the machine to help us do this task so that we can then better direct human effort where it's most needed. We're using Cortana Intelligence to enable us to develop and deploy these machine learning applications in the cloud. We've got a series of different classifiers where we narrow the scope of what a particular citation is looking at. What we're able to do is to be able to identify the research which is likely to be relevant for a particular review. I'm using Azure Machine Learning Studio to develop and deploy web services which make these classifiers available. We're then able to visualise the performance of a data set across the set of studies. We find most of the relevant citations much, much earlier in the process. What I love about all of this is that it's all about that partnership between the human and the machine. Artificial intelligence will allow us to answer more complex questions more efficiently and with more precision, improving decision making and therefore helping patient health.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering IBM Think 2019, brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to intermittently sunny San Francisco. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We're here at day four at IBM Think. My name is Dave Vellante. I'm here with Stu Miniman, John Furrier. It is also here. Wall-to-wall coverage Stu, the second Think, first big show really of the year at Moscone, the new Moscone Armando Ortiz is here. He's the vice president and partner for mobile and extended reality leader at IBM IX, an interesting part of IBM that you may not know about, Armando. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yes, so tell us a little bit about IX. So IBM IX is a part of IBM services. We focus on user experiences, whether it's a consumer experience or an employee experience. And the way we look at it, user experience is really kind of stitched together and allow you to unlock the value of all the technology investments that companies are making. So you guys aren't making headsets, or are you? No, we don't make hardware, we just put hardware to work. So talk a little bit about the sort of state of whether it's augmented reality or extended reality. Lay out the terminology for us, if you would. Sure, sure. And as part of the role I have, I lead our mobile practice as well as the extended reality practice. And this kind of all relates together. We use the term extended reality to kind of encompass all of the different technologies along that spectrum, from augmented reality to mixed reality to virtual reality. And of course there's a lot of technologies, whether it's the glasses on your face, like the wearables, or it's in your hand, as a lot of mobile platforms today like Apple's ARKit and Google ARCore allow you to have AR experiences within your mobile apps. Yeah, I wonder if you can expand a little bit on that. We're all ready for the rollout of 5G and that's going, you know, it holds the promise at least for a lot more bandwidth and a lot more applications. And that's one of the linchpins we understand to kind of make your world more of a reality. When do we see that rollout? You know, what devices are going to happen? You got a preview of the next iPhone for us? I certainly don't have a preview of the next iPhone, even though I do lead the Apple partnership for us in North America, the Apple IBM partnership. When you look at 5G, obviously some of the use cases for extended reality in enterprise are around field services. And 5G will have an amazing impact on the ability, not only because of the bandwidth, but also the low latency that you have for 5G. So we're excited to see that rollout in the different markets around the world and, you know, the pilots and things that are starting this year. There are going to be a lot of great devices and I think for handsets all the way to the wearables, it'll really allow us to put more use cases on these devices. Can you walk us through some of those use cases? Any specific customer examples you have that might make our audience understand a little bit more what's really available today? Sure, I mean, in the XR space or in the extended reality space, there's a lot that we learned through what we've done in mobile for years. I mean, even our Apple partnership for the past five years and things we've done across the 16 industries we work on. But the initial sort of wave one use cases that we are really seeing today kind of fall along these categories of work related use cases like that are in field services, training related use cases that go all the way from virtual reality, immersive training, like teaching someone how to do something in a dangerous situation or you want to simulate that all the way to on the job sort of training and step by step guidance that you could get with AR. Step one, attach the cable here, step two, check this over here. You know, those kind of use cases and then into use cases related to shopping and retail. If you look at what augmented reality is going to do for shopping and retail, allow people to assess sort of fit and purpose of something that they want to buy. Does it fit in my home? Does it fit in my life? And then also even in the stores as people in retail sort of navigate a store they can use AR to help understand and add all that metadata to the in-store experience that we've all gotten used to in our online experiences. And the last broad category, we sort of call it share ideas or sharing of ideas, which kind of spans the gamut from collaboration to even having like AR brochures and augmented reality tools to help people understand a product or a service that you're offering. Imagine that we could just kind of spawn a piece of equipment here on the table, walk through it and help understand how that piece of equipment's going to help your business. Oh boy, you're giving me flashbacks. I remember IBM had a huge initiative in like second life and it was like, come build an island and we're going to do recruiting and things like that. So tell us why this generation is going to be better for business and not have everybody put some money in and have it stolen by us. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? It's funny you should ask that. The second life topic actually came up was the one I was speaking to yesterday and it's come up before. I think there's a significant difference between what second life was trying to be and what extended reality is going to be and it already is. I mean, when you look at extended reality today, I think one important thing to think about, this is not future tech, this is not some sort of dream of sort of like a ready player one type of situation, but more it's looking at real enterprise use cases that are already driving a value. Time savings on inspections, productivity enhancements for people assembling, consistency and increased safety. All the key performance indicators and value drivers that we had for mobile. So there's a real path to business value and the use cases are much clearer than it might have been in the days of second life. Less mistakes, less rework. Armando, what kind of infrastructure would a consumer need? You gave the example in retail for instance. What kind of infrastructure would I need? Am I just, is it just my mobile phone? Am I going to wear headsets? What does that look like? So when we talk about extended reality, we tend to keep one foot in today and one foot in the future because it's changing so fast. When you talk about retail, there's the sales associate side of things that might be helping you decide an automotive.  Maybe you're looking to look at a piece of furniture or something that's not on the showroom floor. Now those experiences can start today with tablets and iPhones and other devices, but we see also as well devices that people be wearing wearables that are available today and that trend moving the glass kind of from your hand to your face is going to be something that's going to really be accelerated.  Is that right? And you would envision that people will purchase this infrastructure for a variety of use cases, not only to see how things look, but maybe there's gaming, maybe it's a multi-use kind of environment or not necessarily, is it more specialized to you? No, absolutely, it's important that it's good that you brought up sort of gaming as well, because obviously we all know gaming has been kind of the forefront for virtual reality, but when you look at gaming and entertainment, those are going to also include many use cases. When we look on the enterprise side, we're kind of focused on those other wave one use cases, but I also expect in that sort of share ideas category I spoke of marketing and sales activities will also include AR experiences to help people understand the product or service that you're positioning. And what's the state of adoption? I remember if you always joke about Google Glass and remember the movie The Jerk with the Opti Grab and the guy was like cross-eyed. So that didn't take off, but what's the state of hardware and hardware adoption today? So I think what's unique about this technology and what's happening now, the technology we already all have in our hands on our mobile phones is already there and that's where you're going to see it happen first. I think the number is by next year, like 3.4 billion phones will have an AR capability. So the technology is already with us and the next sort of technology set that we're talking about is getting to the wearables. And of course we see things today in the VR space that's much more available in the consumer side, things like the Oculus Go, but in the enterprise space, you also have headsets from many manufacturers that maybe grew up doing things in the military that are now being more commercially available. Think of like someone trying to repair something that needs to be hands-free. You're seeing those technologies readily available in the enterprise. All right, so tell us about how AI fits into this new world. It's a great question. If you think about it, it's really kind of a really great combination. You take XR extended reality, so whether it's AR or VR and you add AI to it, you kind of give AI the ability to kind of enter the 3D space. So as you think about AI solutions that we had in the mobile world where you might be using AI to solve a problem or diagnose a problem, visual diagnostics or acoustic detection, AI can kind of give sort of superpowers to an employee. And at the same time, we see that the experiences that we have in the extended reality space get really enhanced because you now have the ability to democratize expertise with AI. You take all of the expertise of your organization and that one technician who's only been there for 10 days now has the power of your entire collective knowledge. What about privacy? Any time you hear some of these and I think about, we're going to have wearables out there, there's concern about, facial recognition is going to be everywhere, like privacy is going to be invaded. What's IBM's positioning and where does that fit into this whole environment? Yeah, of course we take privacy very seriously. And when we talk about our AI and Watson, your data is your data. And if you look at some of the things, I mean, you'll make decisions, enterprises will make decisions on the same way they did with mobile devices. Is it okay to have a camera in this environment? And if I do have a camera in this environment, what's my cloud strategy and where am I going to host this data to make sure that I have not just privacy but also IP concerns considered. So all of the same things we've learned in the mobile world are going to apply to this. And it'll get even a little more important as you think of the different types of sensors that are required to make these experiences happen. So I wonder if you could help us understand how much of the prerequisites to do things like a technician actually, troubleshooting a problem.  And it's really very cool. You can look inside and inspect the different layers. What has to be done? I mean, I'm inferring from what you're saying that a technician would be able to inspect live real-time a device and identify problems on that device. So what has to be done? It has to be instrumented. It's going to have, you know, cameras installed. What does that infrastructure build out look like? Sure, I mean, when you look at, let's take the technician scenario for a moment and kind of unpack that. When you look at that, there's a couple things that are already happening. Like in a lot of major pieces of equipment are instrumented. So you have the Internet of Things data, sort of the data streams coming off of that. How do you make that available to that technician in the moment? Sort of thing is the vital signs of that piece of equipment that you might be operating on. So having all that information, like temperature and all the things from an IoT perspective, that's one angle of it. But the other side of it really is, when you think of failure of equipment, usually at some point, there's a situation that technician may not have encountered before, but maybe someone else has.  So having all that information available and using cognitive processing to kind of navigate that unstructured data, that'll let you kind of navigate that. And voice will be a part of this interface as well. I think voice is an important part because you're going to be hands-free and you're going to be having a dialogue with Watson, let's say, to help diagnose the problem. How about healthcare? It's not something we've really talked about a lot. Just in terms of applications, whether it's for the operating room of the future, remote guidance from a doctor, training. Do you see those kind of use cases emerging? Yeah, absolutely. All the way from training through execution of surgery and other things. And this is where the 5G topic really comes into play because low latency is really required if you're talking about surgery and other things like that. Give me a few minutes. Give me a minute, we'll get that round-trip of that signal going back and forth. But I think when you think about the VR side of things for training is immensely powerful, the AR side for during execution of procedures will also be powerful as well. And it comes back to that general theme of democratizing expertise because now one expert that's physically in this part of the world can serve many people that need their services around the world. It sounds like there are a lot of uncertainties in terms of how this is going to evolve. First of all, is that a fair statement? And given that, notwithstanding that, can you give us a sense of sort of expectations for how it will evolve and the adoption levels that you expect over the next two to five years? Five years is a long horizon for this technology. Too long, perhaps, okay. So we're talking, what's more fair? 18 months? Let's talk for immediate, yeah. I mean, I think when you look at, there may be some uncertainty in terms of which use cases will drive the most value, but there are already many use cases that companies are publicly sharing information about. Like some companies, especially inspection use cases, there's a company that published 96% savings on time because really you're using AR to document, okay, inspect this point, this point, this point, this point, assembly use cases, diagnostics with AI and AR working together. All of these are already happening. So what I think is going to happen is enterprises are going to be able to more and more easily justify the spend to make these investments because the ROI is rapid. Just like the ROI in mobile was rapid for enterprise, the ROI in XR will be extremely rapid. Armando, for people that didn't come to IBM Think, give them a little bit of a taste of what they missed from an IEX standpoint, some of the conversations that you've been having. Yeah, when we look at, IEX across the IBM Think, we've had a lot of conversations and a lot of sessions around how experience is really driving business value and also around marketing technologies and marketing services and all of the things that relate to experience on the consumer side and the employee side. We've really enjoyed some great showcasing of our client stories and the works we've done and everything from mobile to commerce to a marketing platforms to Salesforce across everything we do in the IBM services part that we're in. How long has this business been around? IBM IEX? Yeah. IBM IEX has been a part of IBM originally since the 96 Olympics in Atlanta and I've been with IBM about 25 years and this space has kind of really evolved in terms of the position of user experience and design. If you know how IBM has become really a design focused company and you look at enterprise design thinking and everything we do, so this is really kind of a part of our business that's really become focal point as companies start thinking more about design. Well, it's been a long time but it's certainly not mature but it's a revenue generating business obviously. Yeah, and a very high growth part of the company. Awesome. Well, Armando, thanks so much for sharing this part of IBM that's not well known, really exciting futures and we appreciate you coming to theCUBE. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Appreciate being here. All right, keep it right there everybody. Stu and I will be back day four. 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