Live from Vancouver, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering OpenStack Summit North America 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat, the OpenStack Foundation and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back to theCUBE. I'm Stu Miniman with my co-host John Troyer and happy to welcome to the program, fresh off the container keynote, Chris Hodge, who's the Senior Strategic Program Manager with the OpenStack Foundation. Thanks so much for joining us. Oh yeah, thanks for having me. All right, so short trip for you. Then John's coming from the Bay Area. I'm coming from the East Coast. You're coming up from Portland, which is where it was one of the attendees at the Portland OpenStack Summit. They said, OpenStack has arrived, the cube's there. So shout out to John Furrier and the team who were there early. I've been to all the North America ones since and you've been coming here for quite a while. It's now your job. I've been to every OpenStack Summit since then and to the San Francisco Summit prior to that. So that was, yeah, I've been a regular here. Okay, so for those people that might not know, what's a foundation member do these days other than you're working on some of the tech, you're giving keynotes, what's a day in the life? Yeah, well, I mean, for me, I feel like I'm really lucky because the OpenStack Foundation has kind of given me a lot of freedom to go interact with other communities and that's been one of my primary tasks is to go out and work with adjacent communities and really work with them to build integrations between OpenStack and right now, particularly Kubernetes and the other applications that are being hosted by the CNCF. Yeah, so I remember and I've mentioned it a few times this week, three years ago, we were sitting in the other side of the convention center with the cube and it was docker, docker, docker. The container sessions were overflowing and then like a year later it was, you know, oh my gosh, Kubernetes and this wave of, does one overtake the other? How do they fit together?  So what are you seeing? I mean, it's almost, yeah, I mean, I mean, saying that it's one of the other and that one has to win and the other has to lose is actually kind of a, it's kind of silly because when we talk about Kubernetes and we talk about Docker, we're generally talking about applications and you know, and with Kubernetes, when you're very focused on the applications, you want to have existing infrastructure in place. I mean, this is what it's all about. People talk about, I'm going to run my Kubernetes applications on the cloud and the cloud is infrastructure. Well, OpenStack is infrastructure and in fact it is open-source, it's an open-source cloud and so for me it feels like it's a very natural match because you have your open application delivery system and then it integrates incredibly well with an open-source cloud and so, you know, whether you're looking for a public cloud running on OpenStack or you're hosting a private cloud, you know, to me it's a very natural pairing to say that you have OpenStack cloud, you have a bunch of integrations into Kubernetes and that the two work together. I think this year that became a lot clearer both in the keynotes and some of the sessions in the general conversation we've had with folks about the role of Kubernetes or an orchestration or the cloud layer, the application layer, the application deployment layer say, and the infrastructure, somebody's got to manage the compute, the network, the storage down here. At least in this architectural diagram with my hands. But you can also, a couple of the demos here showed deploying Kubernetes on bare metal alongside OpenStack with that as the provider. Can you talk a little about architectural pattern? It makes sense, I think, but then it, you know, it's a apparent contradiction. Wait a minute, so now that Kubernetes is on the bare metal? I'm gonna talk about that a little bit. So, but I think one of the ways that you can think about resolving the contradiction is OpenStack is a bunch of applications. When you go and you install OpenStack, we have all of these microservices that are some are user facing and some are controlling the architecture underneath, but they're applications and Kubernetes is well suited for application delivery. So, say that you're starting with bare metal. You're starting with a bare metal cloud, maybe managed by OpenStack. So you have OpenStack there at the bottom with Ironic and you're managing your bare metal, huh? Well, you could easily install Kubernetes on that and that would be at your infrastructure layer. So this isn't Kubernetes that you're giving to your users. It's not Kubernetes that you're making world facing. This is internally for your organization for managing your infrastructure. But you want OpenStack to provide that cloud infrastructure to all of your users. And since OpenStack is a big application with a lot of moving parts, Kubernetes actually becomes a very powerful tool or any other container orchestration scheme becomes a very powerful tool for saying that you drop OpenStack on top of that. And then all of a sudden you have a public cloud that's available for the users within your organization or you could be running a public cloud and providing those services for other people. And then suddenly that becomes a great platform for hosting Kubernetes applications on. And so the layers kind of interleave with one another. But even if you're not interested in that, like let's say you're running Kubernetes as bare metal and you want to have Kubernetes here providing some things, there are still things that OpenStack provides that you may already have existing in your infrastructure. Because Kubernetes kind of wants to access some storage. It wants to consume storage, for example. And so we have OpenStack Cinder, which right now it supports over 70 storage drivers. Like these drivers exist and the nice thing about it is, you have one API to access this and we have two drivers within that, it's two Cinder drivers, you can either choose the flex volume storage or the container storage interface, the CSI storage interface. And Cinder just provides that for you. And that means if you have mixed storage within your data center, you put it all behind a Cinder API and you have one interface to your Kubernetes. All right, so Chris, I believe that's one of the pieces of, I believe it's called the Cloud Provider OpenStack. You talked about in the keynote, maybe walk us through that. Yeah, so Cloud Provider OpenStack is a project that is hosted within the Kubernetes community. And the owner of that code is the SIG OpenStack community inside of Kubernetes. So I'm one of the three leads, one of the three SIG leads of that group and that code does a number of things. The first is there's a cloud manager interface that is a consistent interface for Kubernetes to access infrastructure information in clouds. So information about a node, when a node joins a system, Kubernetes will know about it. Ways to attach storage, ways to provision load balancers. And the cloud manager interface allows Kubernetes to do this on any cloud, like whether it be Azure or GCE or Amazon, also OpenStack. Cloud Provider OpenStack is the specific code that allows us to do that. And in fact, OpenStack was one of the first providers that existed in upstream Kubernetes. So we've been there since the very beginning, like this has been an effort that's happened from the beginning. Well, I mean, somewhat non-ironically, right? A lot of those things we talked about, the OpenStack foundation and this OpenStack summit, a lot of the things talked about here are not OpenStack, per se, the components. They are containers. There was the OpenDev conference here, co-located. Is there confusion? There's doesn't, I'm getting it straight in my head. Is there, was there, do you sense any confusion of folks here? Or is that if you're in it, you understand what's going on and why all these different, these threads are flowing together in kind of an open infrastructure conversation. It seems like the community gets it and understands it and is broadened because of it. Yeah, I mean, to me, I've seen a tremendous shift over the last year in the general understanding of the community of the role all of these different applications play. And I think it's actually a testament to the success of all of these projects. In particular, we're building open APIs. We're building predictable behavior. And once you have that and you have many people, many different organizations that are able to provide that, they're all able to communicate with one another and leverage the strengths of the other projects. All of a sudden, yeah, a standard interface, low and behold, right? You know, a thousand flowers bloom on top. Yeah, it essentially allows you to build new things on top of that new, more interesting things. All right, Chris, any interesting customer stories out of the keynote that we should share with the audience? I mean, there are so many fantastic stories that you can talk about. I mean, of course we saw the CERN keynote where they're running managed Kubernetes on top of OpenStack. They have over 250 Kubernetes clusters doing research that are managed by OpenStack Magnum. I mean, that's just, to me, that's just tremendous that this is being used in production. It's being used in science. And it's not just across one cloud, it's across many clouds. And, you know, we also have AT&T, which has been working very hard on combining OpenStack and Kubernetes to manage their next generation of telco infrastructure. And so they've been big drivers along with SK Telecom on using Kubernetes as an infrastructure layer and then putting OpenStack on top of that and then delivering applications with that. And so those are, you know, we, the OpenStack Foundation just published on Monday a new white paper about OpenStack, how OpenStack works with containers. And these are just a couple of the case studies that we actually have listed in that white paper. Chris, you're at the interface between OpenStack, which has become more mature and more stable, and containers, which is, although it is maturing, is still a little bit, is moving fast, right? And containers and Kubernetes both, right? A lot of development, every summit. A lot of new projects, a lot of new ways of installing, a lot of new components, a lot of snaps, all sorts of things. What are you looking forward to now over the next year in terms of container maturity and how that's going to help us? So, so much, people are talking so much now about security with containers. And this is another really exciting thing that's coming out of, you know, coming out of our work because, you know, during the container keynotes, one of the things that was kind of driven home was containers don't contain. And, but we're actually at the OpenStack Foundation, we're kind of taking that on and we, and I, and my colleague Ann Bertucchio has been leading a project, has been community manager for a project called Cata Containers, which is, you know, you could almost call it containers that do contain. So I think that this is going to be really exciting in the next year as we talk more and more about, we're building more generic interfaces and allowing all sorts of new approaches to solving complex problems, be it in security, be it in performance, be it in, you know, logging and monitoring. So I, you know, so the tools that are coming out of this and this, you know, creating these abstractions and how people are creatively innovating on top of those is pretty exciting. Yeah, the last thing I'm hoping you can help connect the dots for us on is when we talk Kubernetes, we're talking about multi-cloud. One of the big promises about Kubernetes, you know, came out of Google from, you know, if you just say, visit, why would Google do this? It's like, well, there's that one really big cloud out there and if I don't have some portability and be able to move things, that one cloud might just continue to, you know, dominate. So help connect OpenStack to how it lives in this multi-cloud world.  Yeah, so this is happening on so many levels. We see lots of large organizations who want to take back control of the cost of cloud and the cost of their cloud infrastructure and so they're starting to pull away from the big public clouds and invest more in private infrastructure. We see this with companies like eBay. We see with companies like AT&T and Walmart where they're investing heavily in OpenStack clouds so that they have more control over the cost and how their applications are delivered. But you're also seeing this in a lot of, you know, like especially municipalities outside of the United States, you know, different governments that have data restrictions, restrictions on where data lives and how it's accessed and we're seeing more governments and more businesses overseas that are turning to OpenStack as a way to have cloud infrastructure that is on their home soil that, you know, kind of meets the requirements that are necessary, you know, that are necessary for them. And then kind of the third aspect of all of this is sometimes you just, sometimes you need to have, you know, lots of availability across, you know, many clouds and you can have a private cloud but possibly in order to serve your customers you might need public cloud resources and federation across this, both in OpenStack and Kubernetes is improving at such an incredible pace that it becomes very easy to say that I have two, three, four, five clouds but we're able to combine them all and make them all look like one. All right, well Chris Hodge, we really appreciate the updates on OpenStack and Kubernetes in all of the various permutations. Yeah, it was great talking about it. This is, I mean, this is work that I love and I'm excited about and this is, you know, you know, I'm looking forward to it. I have fun with it and I keep looking forward to everything that's coming. Awesome, well, we'd love to be able to share these stories, the technologists, the customers and everything going on in the industry. For John Troyer, I'm Stu Miniman, back with more coverage here from OpenStack Summit 2018 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Thanks for watching theCUBE.


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Welcome to a UBC Open Badges video about creating a quiz using the Learn-Plugin in WordPress. In this video, we will cover how to add questions to a quiz. This is the second of three videos about creating quizzes. The third video will cover publishing a quiz. We'll begin at our WordPress dashboard, where we'll click on Advanced Quiz. From the Overview page, we'll click on Questions under the quiz we're working on. From here, we'll go to Add Question. The title field is optional. We're going to leave it blank, which means the title will be automatically generated. The questions will be titled Question 1, 2, 3, etc. The next field is about assigning points. The default is to award one point per correct answer. We'll leave it at the default setting of 1, although you could decide to reward more points for certain questions. Next, we'll enter our question and select which type of answer is required. There's more information about the different answer types available on the Learn-Dash website. In this example, I will create a very simple multiple choice question and then select whether this is a correct answer. My first answer will be the correct one. Next, I will add a new answer and enter an incorrect answer. When I have finished adding answers, I will click Save. To add more questions to a quiz, go back to the Overview and repeat these steps. We can see the questions we have already added on the Quiz Overview page. When you have finished adding questions, you will be ready to link your quiz to a page and publish it. That will be covered in the next video. Thank you for watching this UBC Open Badges video. For more toolkits and video guides, go to our website at badges.open.ubc.ca.


Felly mae'n gweithio i'r hwn o'r ddifwylo cymrydiaeth eich ddarparu yn ei ddifwylo. Mae'r ddifwylo yn gweithio'r ceisio'r rhai ddiweddol yng Nghymru. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r hwn o'r ddifylo'r newydd, yn ddifylo'r ddifwylo o'r ddifwylo, o'n 0-11, yr ydych yn ymgyrchu, ac yn gwahanol. Mae'n syniad ar gweithio'r ddifwylo ac i mi, i fydd yn ddigon, i ddifwylo cymrydiaeth eich ddifwylo. y cwestiynau y byddwn yn sefydli i'n gwybod y prymian ar y gen 5, oedd rwy'n rwy'n gwybod i'r 2 o 2 o 2? Felly mae'n ddifffodus ychydig yma. Yn yw'r gweithio, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio a gweld yn cyfyrdd. Rwy'n gwirionedd, rwy'n gwirionedd ac rwy'n gwirionedd arall. Mae'r gweithio'n gwirionedd yma. Rwy'n gwirionedd, rwy'n gwirionedd, rwy'n gwirionedd a'r rwy'n gwirionedd. They've also got exactly the same shaft in each of these clubs and I'm looking down at some dry ball data that I've already collected and it is very interesting indeed I might prove the exact type of information that you're gonna need if you're considering buying either of these 2 models. Now I am of course going to talk about price because the difference between gen 5 and O two 11 is premium entry level. Price is obviously a key factor. Ond mae'r ddodf yn gwaith bod hynny'n ddim yn ddodru'r rhoi bod erosio. Ond fe'n rhaid i'r ddweud yw i'r ddaf i'n ddaf i'ch pethol, oherwydd i ddweud y dyfodol yw'r ddwylo mae'n mewn ddaf i'r prifeth gwahanol o'r 800 o rhan i'r 0-11 o drwy, i mi ddweud o'r 5 o'r 0-11. Mae ydych chi'n 80 peth o'r dysgu mewn ddaf i'r rhairwyr, a 70 peth o'r dysgu efo'r hibrid. But in recent days that information is already out of date. This is filmed in late November and just recently this Gen 5 driver, the premium line up driver is 319 UK pounds, which makes it exactly the same price as the O211. So that is that kind of dilemma that is always thrown into the mix and makes this kind of thing very difficult to give you precise information, up to date information in terms of what PXG are doing with that pricing right now. Well let's assume there's a bit of a sale going on, that price is going to go back up, the O211 is going to go back down because surely there's got to be a difference between these two product line ups. So we've got a significant price difference, especially when you consider you might be buying a couple of fairways or a couple of hybrids, there's a lot of money to be saved by that entry level product. So the question is in terms of performance, what is the difference, what are you getting for your extra dollars in this Gen 5 line up. Well I think we'll all agree that whichever line up you go with PXG are really producing the best value products right there out on the marketplace. That driver at 319 pounds is obviously significantly different than all the other big boys that are out there, so there's certainly value to be had. Before I go to look at the performance differences, what is the sort of technology differences at least that PXG are claiming to be built into their products, their Gen 5 premium line up that would justify that price difference and have you paying that extra money. Right, so alongside me is hopefully some information which shows you what the differences are and what the similarities are, and to be quite honest with you there are more similarities than there are differences in terms of technology or materials used because you can see that very much the same type of materials are being used in both products right throughout the line ups. So the question is if the tech is the same, if the materials are the same why are we being asked to pay more money for Gen 5 over 0 to 11. We're getting there. Now when I say we're getting there we're getting towards the performance and which is coming very shortly and that's where to me ultimately where the truth lies but the main difference that you're paying for in terms of technology in my opinion is down here. It's adjustability. Whilst there is limited adjustability in the driver at least from the 0 to 11 range, there is zero adjustability in the fairway wood and that of the hybrid. So whatever loft and liangle you buy that in, that's the way it stays. There are some adjustments to be made in the driver but then you consider the Gen 5 line up and not only is there adjustability in terms of loft and liangle in all of the products mentioned but then there's this clever little waiting system that again appears in everyone, the hybrid, the fairway wood and the driver which makes custom fit. Well it takes it to a different level in terms of the options that your custom fit release has to make this product work best for you. And that's a significant difference but I've been custom fit for the Gen 5. I've not been custom fit for the 0 to 11. They do have the same shaft in or at least they will have. There's a slightly different one in the driver right now. They will have exactly the same shaft in all the numbers that you see and the question is has that adjustability made that product worth that premium figure that I need to pay to access it? Just before we do get to those numbers and I promise you we will very shortly I suppose we've got to quickly talk about aesthetics because generally that can be a separator in terms of at least when there's a significant price difference they will say the same thing in these videos, a question set of what am I losing in terms of quality of components we've already seen that materials used are very similar but in terms of aesthetics it's a really interesting one and I mentioned in the 0 to 11 review that I did very recently that I'm almost favouring the looks of the 0 to 11 range than I am of the Gen 5. They've certainly toned it down Gen 5 in terms of the crown. It used to be a sort of very bright white triangle element in there which it wasn't keen on. They've toned it down but with the 0 to 11 they've gone very much classic in their looks and like I said and then from a shelf appeal perspective not a lot to split them to be quite honest with you and I really can't tell you just how good this 0 to 11 line up looks. Anyway let's hit some balls. What I'm going to do is I'm going to hit a couple of drives on camera in fact. What I'm going to do is hit a couple of drives on camera to see if we can pick up any differences in terms of sound. Unfortunately I will have to stop and change the shelf so this is the 0 to 11. I mean again going back to my original review sounds really good. It's got that good mix of feels like it's shooting out there but soft enough because I do not like the sort of loud bang and hard feel that came off the original 0 to 11 line up. So bear with me I'll just go and swap shafts and we'll try Gen 5. Right we are back. Let's see what this thing sounds like. That's really interesting and I found it throughout the testing and I hope again that you're managing to pick that up. The audio is never that great inside here but interesting enough there's a slightly harsher louder sound that comes from the Gen 5 and from a sound perspective if I'm being quite honest with you again I prefer the sound that comes out of the 0 to 11. Again Gen 5 fairway 5 would really like these things. I think again the interesting bit for me is from a profile perspective let alone a looks perspective they're both very very similar in their shaping and styling. Sit really neat behind the ball low profile which is something that I really like indeed and again. Do you know what I mentioned the difference in terms of sound when you're into the driver when you're into the fairways and into the hybrids they sound very similar. I don't get that same kind of noise difference but performance wise there's a little bit going on that seems maybe slightly different but we'll get to that very very shortly. In fact we'll get there now because I could go on to hit two hybrids. The difference with the hybrids the only mention I'll make is the shaping and the profile. It's a slightly smaller compact head in the 0 to 11. I'd say perhaps more traditional old style players hybrid if you like in terms of the shaping and profile but from a sound perspective again very very similar indeed. But I do think these are the only two from a driver from the fairway shaping profile very similar address hybrids slightly different and may sway you if you've got a particular preference to how you like your hybrids to look. That's enough let's have a look at the data. I'm going to quickly show you one other thing that is different and that's the quality of the head covers. The premium line up in PXGs head covers always been really really good. Clearly there is a difference in what you get in 0 to 11. It is without doubt cheaper materials being used there but I'm sure that's not going to sway you one way or the other when you're choosing your golf clubs. Let's get into this information. Let's start off with a hybrid at the bottom end of the bag and then go through ball speeds. As you can see a little bit quicker with gen 5 launch angle arguably very very similar when you consider over a number of shots as is that spin number. Peak height absolutely nothing to separate it whatsoever. 185 carry on the gen 5 181 on the 0 to 11. I would say nothing to separate them. Yes there's four yards difference in terms of carry. Be a lot to do with the launch and the spin number that determine that that ball speed like I said a little bit faster out of gen 5 but nothing to separate them in that 22 degree for hybrid. Next up is the 5 wood and again very marginally but slightly faster ball speeds coming out the gen 5 launch angle and conditions very very similar again as is the spin. Peak height my god these are like inseparable again. We've got a 196 carry 5 wood on the 0 to 11 a 201 carry on the gen 5. Both those numbers and even the four hybrid slightly down I would say we're using range balls this morning in slightly wet and damp conditions so the numbers are down slightly but finally we go into the driver. It's an interesting one this the 0 to 11 ball speed at 141 mile an hour was faster than that of the gen 5 but and there's a big button I think this is key to this really launch angle on the 0 to 11 17.4 as opposed to 15.8 on the gen 5 spin number lower on the gen 5 peak height lower on the gen 5 overall carry greater on gen 5. Why is that so important? Well if you think about it the things that went wrong with this is it probably launched a little bit higher and it spun a little bit higher. And if those two things were changing the gen 5 driver in the 0 to 11 driver or you had the ability to change those numbers and have an impact on those numbers then arguably the performance at the club head itself would have been very very similar. I was custom fit for the gen 5 and the changes that were made are always to get the optimal performance out of the club in your hands and for me the optimal numbers in terms of the gen 5 driver are far greater than that of the 0 to 11. And you can see that from the launch angle the spin number and then ultimately that is in carry distance so it goes back to what do you pay your extra money for. Well you pay your money for the ability to get custom fit in a much more intricate way in terms of detail than you do with the 0 to 11. The question is, is that enough to justify the price difference? Well that's a question you need to ask yourself. I think arguably you could say four or five yards difference per club and I'm going to pay £70-80 maybe £100 difference per club. Is that really going to be beneficial to me? Hmm maybe not. Then I think you've got to ask yourself what kind of help and adjustability you want in your club head because if you're looking to really work against a draw or a fade bias, the ability to change the waiting system to help correct that, straighten it a little bit however driver club technology is supposed to work then you could say that yes it is worth that help. So it's not about distance, it's more about ability to help or limit my bad shot in my bag. So for me they're the considerations you need to make but I'll go back to the beginning and the big thing for me right now is PXG, love them or hate them along the way in this journey, what they're doing yet again is always upsetting the marketplace and certainly with this price and structure they've got throughout any of the ranges you look at it's extremely competitive and I'd argue that it is the best value product out there right now, it really is doing an incredible job and I say long may it continue. The problem is when you buy your product beware because you do not know what's going to happen next in turn to that price and structure either. Right I hope that gives you some kind of guidance and help if you're considering purchasing one of these lineups then that might have helped pointing at least in the right direction but as ever the point is go out and try it yourself and learn for your own testing what it did for your game or didn't. Right as ever thank you for watching, it is absolutely miserable here in the UK hence we've been in here all day so we might have a few videos that are well led, data led and not so much out on the golf course but thanks for watching and I'll see you all soon.


Welcome to my review of Pokemon Legends RCS. I bought the digital copy, but I got sent all of this from Berksala, Norway's Nintendo distributor. Thank you. Pokemon has with their newest entry Pokemon Legends RCS for the Nintendo Switch truly innovated. This game does not play as any other mainline canon Pokemon game, but Game Freak has also said that they consider this game to be canon mainline. This is its own whole new thing, this time being a more open world Pokemon experience with a much more action styled combat approach. I very recently also reviewed Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on my channel. Just make sure you watch that review as well, which is a more traditional Pokemon game. Now let's have a much deeper look into RCS. And what I have to say about it, story. RCS, the legendary godlike Pokemon, speaks to you and you choose your gender and starting look. At this point I recommend that you go with your desired skin color, the skin color that you want to have in the game, and not go by the hair color or the eye color, because you can change hair color and hairstyle and eye color later, just remember that. You are then dropped through a time rift, sent back several hundreds of years to the old island region of Hisui, where you are met on the beach by a Pokemon Professor. You help him out a bit and he takes you into the nearby village, where you have to work for your food and shelter, basically. Therefore you join their corporation, who wants you to help out with cataloging all Pokemon on the island. The village people are skeptical towards you at first, but very soon they will grow to love you. So much in fact that they will ask you to do all sorts of side quests for them, known as the requests. Now the quests in this game, they are separated between the main line, main story quest line, and the requests, which are side quests. And I'm dead sad to do it all in this game, already. I'm invested. Some examples of how the side quests are. One quest is about helping out with a Mr. Mime that acts suspiciously and sets up invisible walls. Another involving catching three troublesome bee doofs around the village. And some villagers want to see certain Pokemon.  So the lore of this land is that in Hisui, the people of the land, they don't know much about Pokemon, so they're scared of Pokemon. But you are not, not even a tiny bit. The Professor and the Corporation always finds more things for you to do, especially problematic are the rifts happening across the land, making Pokemon frenzied, which basically means they have gone crazy. The story takes you through several big and open biomes, each area with a ton of Pokemon for you to catalog. I like the story, I like the setting, and I like the lore. I feel very at home in Hisui. I'm already familiar with townspeople and I feel like I'm a part of this community now. Gameplay. The starting village acts as your main hub area, where you have a home that I rarely even visit, actually.  This is Jubilife Village, which centuries later will be known as Jubilife City, in brilliant diamond and shining pearl. Fast traveling is great, you can travel to all discovered camps and the loading screens, they are fast. I love fast loading screens. Ah, looking at USS Scream Valhalla. This is an open area world. Each huge biome is separated, but they absolutely feel like open worlds, because they are huge. The maps of the areas are also great, I can appreciate maps like these, where you can also put down pins for when you want to remember to check something out later, so the map is customizable. So let's talk about the main part of the game, the Pokemon. Creatures that you catch by throwing pokeballs at them, making them become your friends and companions. Catching and collecting them is seriously addicting. Countless of times did I feel overly excited when I discovered new types that I hadn't seen before. You catalog them in your prehistoric version of a Pokedex and each entry has several research tasks to complete. These tasks can be to catch a certain amount of a species, defeat a certain amount with a certain move, evolve them so and so many times. Now you don't have to do all of this. Doing 10 of these tasks is enough so that you get the pokeball icon on each entry in the Pokedex, that means you have completed that species in the Pokedex. But can you imagine the people that are going for perfect Pokedex pages on all entries? I would love to see that. That's gonna take some time to put it lightly. With me, for example, I like to throw food at every Pokemon as feeding them a certain amount of times are sometimes one of the tasks to get research points fast. It's so addicting. As we are used to, you can have six active Pokemon with you at all times and get this. You can throw them out of their pokeball and look at them and pose with them for screenshots. I've never seen this happen before in a Pokemon game, not that I can think of anyway. Evolving your Pokemon is optional and I have so far decided to keep my Ole, a cute little Ole, roll it. I don't like his later evolutionary stages so I'm keeping him cute. I also very early on managed to catch a Eevee and I evolved it to a Flareon using a Firestone that I found in the rocks scattered across the land. So that is pretty easy to do, straight in the beginning of the game actually. You throw a Pokemon at these rocks or at the Berry trees to have them collect materials for you to use in crafting. You can craft pokeballs, potions and all sorts of stuff that you have gotten the recipes for. You can purchase recipes in town. I have to say I'm loving the new pokeball designs. I'm loving it, it's so cute. You can also see in the corporation building if you go into first person mode you can see where they make these balls. I'm gonna show that in a gameplay right now. That was a cute detail. There are other collectables like collecting the over 100 wisps hidden everywhere in the game. I rarely see people mentioning this but that is a collectible and I like it. It sort of reminds us of Korok hunting in Breath of the Wild. Just way more simplified. There are also secret notes to collect but I haven't delved too much into that yet. Through the main story you will get rideable mounts making traversing even more fun. There are also traditional Pokemon battles against other Pokemon trainers but you can move freely. This feels super fresh and super new. I'm loving this. Also if you want to run from a Pokemon like out in the field you just run. You can exit and encounter it by just running away from it. There are also the option to do fast or strong style versions of certain moves for the more tactical heavy battles I guess. Also if you are unfamiliar with Pokemon games because some people are unfamiliar maybe this is the first Pokemon game for some people. I'm gonna put it like this. The battles are very focused on elemental weaknesses so there you have it. Also when catching Pokemon sometimes it helps to weaken them before trying to capture them. Other times it's best to just silently sneak up to them while hiding in the grass. So it's some Assassin's Creed stealthy moments going on. I mentioned Assassin's Creed twice in this review. Wow. As you can probably tell already there are a ton of things for you to do in Pokemon Legends RCS. I mean my very first play session with this game lasted eight hours. I couldn't put the game down. I'm serious I couldn't put the game down. I lost sleep that night. I couldn't put it down. There was just no way. This is exploration and collect-a-ton heaven. There are also plenty of clothing to customize yourself with and a huge part of the gameplay is to hunt shiny Pokemon. You will be doing that. Graphics of a section that you're probably the most interested in because I have seen what other people are saying. Tiny Hats for example. She said on the podcast yesterday listen to her podcast.  She did say that. Let me address this. I am only playing this in handheld mode and I am enjoying the graphics. I don't think they are nearly as bad as other reviewers has raged about. Now I did see a dancing onyx and I loved it. No seriously. I think this game both looks good and runs well and if some textures on the ground look a bit low res I'm sure there is a good reason for it and that is most likely to have this game run as smoothly as it does and with such fast loading screens. I think they sacrificed a bit on the graphical department especially with the textures to have the game run smooth and have fast loading times. Why am I doing this? Not even to mention that this is a handheld game. The Switch. It is not the PS5 and it doesn't even try to be. Both NPC characters and all Pokemon has lifelike animations and personalities that come to life through these animations. I also have to regretfully disagree with the people that say that the world feels empty. That's just not my experience with the game. Have we been playing the same game? But full disclaimer though. Most of the footage that you're looking at right now in this review. They have been recorded using the in-switch record feature. So these are the handheld graphics. I can also now in edit show you some docked footage. I play in handheld it's just the way that I am. You can also walk around in first person mode like I mentioned briefly to look up close at things. There is a day and night cycle also weather effects. There are graphical poppins sometimes. And I'm sure you've heard about that. But the sky looks good. We already went over how the ground textures could have looked better. They could. But I was never annoyed at the graphics I have to say. Music. We must have a moment to discuss the entire sound of the game. Which is easily overlooked. The entire sound of an open world game is essentially important. It is what makes the world feel real and believable. You can hear pokemon cries off in the distance. The grass that you walk through. The wind. The rain. The birds. And the soft little soundtrack in the background. Satisfying sound effects too. For everything that you do. It is just good. Every single pokemon has their unique cry and sounds. Like the flapping of the wings of a flying pokemon. And their footsteps. Also your own footsteps. All of these things sound believable. The town music. Although good. I got tired of it because I hung around in town so much. All other soundtrack is fine. Some music. Some places. Sounded slightly familiar to me for some reason. So I'm thinking a bunch of remixes of old familiar music is taking place in this game. The sound of the game is good. Verdict. I had a 13 pages long review. There was just a lot to cover. I feel utterly addicted. I feel like this is the pokemon game of my dreams. They have truly innovated with the series and now there's just no turning back. This game feels like the best pokemon game if not ever. It is definitely now my favorite pokemon game. If you are unsure about this game know this. I approve of the game. It has me completely hooked. It feels very open and free. It feels so new and fresh. This is the correct direction to go with pokemon in the future also. And if you love exploring and collecting in games like I do. This is the game for you. I truly hope you will enjoy this and find as much joy and entertainment in it as I have and still do. Pokemon Legends RCS is sliding straight into my top 10 switch games ever played. It is Pokemon Breath of the Wild. There I said it. Did I find any flaws with this game? I wish I could sort my pokemon in the pasture boxes and I'm also hoping for a ton of DLC to this game. There's a ton of more pokemon that could be released with DLCs and new areas and stuff. I'm just hoping that they will keep adding content to this game. Now I have talked about my ratings before and I was thinking 9 out of 10 but there is no reason for me to not go full out with 10 out of 10 on this game because I have gotten and I am getting what I am looking for. I enjoy this gameplay. There is no reason for me to not go all the way so I am saying 10 out of 10. Maybe I will regret that score later but we can talk about that later I guess. I'm having a ton of fun. I'm gonna go play it now but actually I have to edit this video but then I will play it. I am loving this game and I hope you will too. Now I hope you want to listen to my podcast with tiny hats and follow my Twitter and Instagram. Hit like on this video and subscribe and hit the bell. I need you to hit the bell. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you later.


making some very happy customers today. The yard manager took care of that, took care of that privilege. Very, very carefully. The yard manager, Bill. So if you want to know what it's like to drive a Lamborghini, ask Bill. Late in the morning, for sure, we unloaded that for the customer. I had to pick up some cattle guards or cattle fencing into Winnipeg here. Gotta go pick up a bucket. I don't know what kind of bucket. They never told me. They just said, Josh, we need you to go pick up a bucket. I said, I'm your man. I'll go get your bucket. I don't know. What is it? Is it like a five gallon bucket? Maybe it's a big front end loader bucket. Maybe it's a little anti-biddy excavator bucket. Maybe it's a skid steer bucket. I don't know. Maybe it's an ice cream bucket. All I know is I'm going to go pick it up back of this trailer and it's going to Montana. The cattle fencing I got on my trailer right now is, uh, it's temporary cattle fencing. And it's going to, uh, also going to Montana and part of it's going to California.  So after I get this mystery bucket back to the yard with the rest of this stuff, I'm going home, I think. I've had two long days in a row. So I wouldn't mind going home then. Uh, it's one 30 right now. I've got to pick this bucket up at two just down the road here. So I'll be early. I'll probably back at the yard around three. I'd be leaving home at about four. That's about a normal time, I guess. A little earlier in the last couple of days anyway. I wish I could show you the feeling in your chest when that Lamborghini starts up. Oh, you can just feel it right down to your bones. You can feel it in your soul. It's so good. So good. Nothing like it. Nothing like it. I didn't sit in it. I didn't even touch it, but just being that close to it. We've had those come through before, but I'm not always there to see it. And this time I was actually involved in it. I had to bring it into Winnipeg to get some paperwork done. And then we brought it back and unloaded it for the customer. Tell you what, if that guy ever offers me a ride, I'm just saying I'm not going to say no. I'm not going to say no. It's definitely not an ice cream bucket. I wasn't really expecting that, but that makes sense. It's a bucket. It's a big truck bucket. So this is being pulled. I don't even know. I guess I got to check where the destination is. Somewhere in Montana. Somewhere in Montana is getting a new truck box. Congratulations. You know how I said they fixed my interior lights without even telling me? I was very thankful. They've also been messing around over here. Look at this. This is new. That's new down there. An exhaust leak that was down here is now on and fixed. I don't know if I'm sad about that or glad. They did some work on the other side too. I don't know when they did this. It's also been an evening shift overnight. Look at this new pipe from all the way here. She still sounds great though, so that's all that matters. And interior lights. I am very thankful that they fixed those because in wintertime when I'm going to be driving this truck, I'm going to need these because it's dark all the time. But my only other thing I wrote it up for now was that the air conditioning doesn't work and summer's coming. So I hope they fix that for me because otherwise it's going to be a very sticky, soggy kind of summer. You want to see how crooked some of these guys parked the trailers? This is nice and straight, right? Nice and straight. Look at this. You could fit another bobtail in here. You can't fit another trailer in there because you can tell it's obviously crooked on the concrete path there. I don't know what that wood is. Someone left that woodline there too. I don't know what's going on. Plays as a mess. I don't know what's going on here, but I parked it straight along with all of these trailers. All those trailers are all crooked, waste of a spot. All of those trailers to fix it because every single one of them is crooked. I have to convince myself that that's okay because I didn't park those trailers. That's if I want to go and move every single one of them. In which case I need to go get the shunt truck, but we'll hold off on that a little bit. Maybe they're crooked for a reason, unbeknownst to me. Oh, did I hit the concrete? Is that going to be on the concrete? Yep, and you can see my trailer's straight, see? Landing ear lines up. I could go back about six inches just so I'm in the center, but as long as I'm on the concrete pad, that's all good.


Well, good morning, it's 5 34 right a.m. Right? I think that's think that's about I think that's about right All right, listen, I want to move away from this podium, but I don't think I can I Need you to do me a favor All right. Yes. Yeah, all right. I need you to watch me It looks like I'm tipping over my eyes about their clothes You know you pound on the on the table, right? and at about 905 If I'm still talking I'm still talking at 905. I want you to stand up and do like You with me Can you do that? I need a backup person. Let me see I need a backup person I need somebody just in case she drops the ball on me You got me all right cool. All right, that's good. That's good to know. All right Thank you for having me here. I really appreciate it I had a conversation with David about this. I don't know when it was but it was in the spring and I argued with him profusely because I Should not be here That's my my my view of it. I can think of a dozen people better suited To start this conference for you. I Lost the argument. I Think I was on the right side of the argument, but I still lost it. All right so I Did what people do when they lose arguments I sought advice and counsel about What I should actually come here and do or or say I started With experts because you know, I am on my own learning curve or a journey where oh ER is Concerned it is true. I've worked for the guy a couple of different times Who at Hewlett? 16 17 18 years ago really at least launched the foundation's exploration into this Mike Smith and Mike is the kind of guy who if he thinks you're Slacking off or you've sort of lost your way He will call you over to the Starbucks in Menlo Park You know and sit you down and sort of go back over things with you until he thinks you've got a clear mind So I talked to him about this talked to my colleagues about this and I started thinking about Well, I'll come with slides and I'll impress you with how much I have learned and I let that go Then I talked to my comms person glad she's not here Glad she's not here. Well, wait a minute, you know, I have a communications officer But they refer to themselves. This is important as comms people, right? That should make you nervous right right there, right? They think about they want to analyze your audience. Okay, Kent. Who's who's going to be here, right? Let's think about what your core messages are and Maybe we can put Images running in the background something like that. Oh my god, I said So you're getting no images for me And get those from Jess You got a lot of sessions, there'll be plenty of slides At the end of the day, I am more of a conversationalist. That's why I gave you that assignment, right? and So you'll get a story or two out of me, but no pictures and And and I actually have about three that I and I will sort of back into the OER things that are on my mind in Process of telling these these quick stories But let me pause and give kudos to the program committee. The only mistake you made was me But beyond that I think The program and the kinds of topics as I peruse through it You know ethics efficacy attention to underrepresented groups of accommodations for special populations Sustainability I could keep going these seem like very much the things We need to interrogate And so I'm really happy about about that Let me just say as I've gone on my own arc Into the OER work, you know, I have lived in higher ed I was a dean for eight years. I Am still recovering from that It's about three or four years of recovery for every year in service I've been on a school board for eight years I'm still recovering from that actually I had just spent What four years in DC working in the government Another four years working in New York City running a research company And my wife called me She's gonna show up more than once in this talk. My wife called me and said Kent It would be really great if you could figure out how to do a job Where you actually lived right we lived in Philly I Was working in DC and then New York. I Got away with that because my in-laws moved around the country with us but They were getting to a point when They needed our care More than providing the support that they had been but my wife called it kent's Seven-year adventure. It's what she called it. She said could you please come home? And that's when I became a dean but no sooner than I got there someone asked me to run for the school board and I Lost that argument too. I decided to do it and my wife was the person outside Roberts elementary school with the sign do not vote for him He knows not what he's doing right but I was the chair of the curriculum committee and We were trying to figure out Where good content would come from and How we could engage our teacher work force in using stuff Other than the basal readers and the stuff that came Sort of canned with these sort of you know very little opportunity for adult learning You know that that you know that came with it. That was really my first Introduction into the OER World just trying to work through that and I think the values of the community of transparency access inclusion innovation collaboration these are all things that I Don't know if you can't appreciate just how in demand they are So let me tell you story number one I Have a hard time saying no to people although given the work I now do I am learning how to say no God got no choice right one person. I can't say I'm hardest person at that time saying no to is Angela Because she shows up with a smile on her face Very warm you know this about her if you've matters hard to say no to her I'm gonna try harder But I Sit on a committee at the Academy of Sciences. I actually chair it that's looking into how to fill the pipeline of of STEM majors and graduates From underrepresented groups We've been working at it For more than a year in fact if I don't run out of here after I talk to go write the preface for the report I'm in real trouble but As we got into this issue We decided to go take a look At the schools that were really getting it right. What am I talking about? I'm talking about tribal colleges Hispanic serving institutions HBCUs both four year and two year and a large number of Community colleges around the country we went to see them We went to talk to the students in these programs. We visited with the faculty and administrators and a couple of things surface right away number one These under resourced Institutions are the very ones where the students can hardly afford To spend two three hundred bucks for a text If a car breaks down or a sibling or a relative has a problem That margin is razor Finn and they get off to a remarkable in their borrowing money in the first place, right? They're borrowing money in the first place The second thing we learned was they know about open They know about open But there are a set of underlying questions. I'm sure some of you are aware of them around levels of engagement and motivation and The difference these institutions make There's an intentionality about the work that they do Is they bring this sort of cultural lands with them Too much of the content they can't find their their their own identity themselves in that content It would be easier to engage them if some of the problems they got to work on Were issues that surfaced in their own lives environmental justice criminal justice the interplay between transportation and housing policy and opportunity health care and wellness I could keep going all things by the way That we need a the masterably more diverse workforce in the sciences If this country Is going to thrive we our strategy up to now has been to try to import that diverse talent From around the world that'll only get us so far and it turns out there were real issues in being able to sustain that and so There's a challenge That is crying out for the open community to really go after and embrace it has Not as much to do with getting the cost of materials down We're headed that way for sure. It has a lot to do With what I think of as open practice or open pedagogy And really fostering more innovation in the use of the materials that are available to us Story number two I Am in the middle of what at Hewlett We call a strategy Refresh, I don't know anybody else in the real world uses that that term, but look I'm not in the real world. Who would move the men low part If they were in the real world wouldn't do it and And But that's what we do we have a we we have a very deliberate organized process by which we try to Look back and take stock of what we've been up to and where we've been Make sense of the moment that we are currently in and then try to think about where to go in our grant-making and the like We're about to do that, you know, we are Almost as soon actually we're already getting started with it before we're really done with the work in what we have called deeper learning right One of the things I've been on record Literally walking in the door at Hewlett was to say look We've got to think about our agenda around learning and our agenda around open as Moving toward each other. I went back in chat with Mike and said am I missing anything here? And he said no It's always been about learning That's where we started But of course As we got into this we didn't know exactly where we were headed with this Um, Mike by the way was the last person at Hewlett. I would argue Referred to me as sort of a gun slinger. He could just throw money wherever he wanted to and just kind of see what happens, right? New president shows up and sitting Doing any more of that we got to have our outcomes and our goals and our strategies and Hewlett became known for something called outcomes based philanthropy and That's when we really zeroed in okay. What exactly is it? We're trying to do How exactly are we going to go about it? What will be the strategies we pursue to achieve those things? And how will we know if we have and that's what these strategy refreshes are built To create this kind of profound logic around around the work And Mike said It was important to get at these questions of Build infrastructure it mattered To try to build the capacity To license and govern You know what it means to be open we have to work on building a community And establish trust And relationships and all of that Hewlett has kind of worked diligently on over over 16 years or so There's more work there for us to do we're not gonna drop the ball on infrastructure or Field building or any of that, you know, don't worry But I do want us To return To this question of to what in For what purpose? And how do we use what I think this community in many ways is uniquely built to work on Kind of really find out how to make a difference on the learning frontier the Demographics in this country have changed markedly Which takes me to my third story. I'm on another committee on another panel This one is working on Trying to build a set of equity indicators For the nation Remarkable how much harder that is to do Then the committee thought When we got together we thought all this will be a piece of cake There are all these big longitudinal national data sets out there Technology and digitalization has actually made it easier to store Manipulate and report the facts Boy were we wrong? Well, I mean all of those things are true all of those things are true But the conclusion we reached midway through our deliberations was that if we couldn't come up with an indicator system that People could actually do something with What would be the point? Let me say that one more time Very frustrating To come up with lots of indicators of things For which there's no evidence About how you would intervene Once we placed that burden on our process Thinking about indicators got way harder Because there's a lot of noise There's a lot of Debate and there's a competition of ideas about How to get better learning outcomes for young people We're swimming in data that shows glaring stratification by race and income to some degree by gender Immigration status and the rest language but The knowledge base around how to close those gaps and break the links between circumstance and Outcomes is lumpy and pretty thin And again We found ourselves in a conversation about teaching and learning and Then a conversation about what we know about the effects for instance of curriculum and It points to this gap. We need to close in the open community around even more evidence on efficacy We're gonna try on My watch in the little bit of a way that we can to close that gap, but the further we get away From The norm Further we get away in K-12 at least from reading and math In the early grades The less we know Not zero, but the less we know and so we've just got to really dedicate ourselves to bringing more evidence to bear and I think the thing we know for sure is That stand and deliver sort of like I'm doing now. How much time do I have I've got to get through with this, right? Thank you, am I That's way too much time I can do this Further we get away from from the kind of standard pedagogy the less we know and yet Standard pedagogy is the very thing that's not getting us where we need to Yeah It's the very end. So I think This is a moment Where the folks in this room and the community of which you are a part need to lean in on really Experimenting and demonstrating How open practice and pedagogy And it can make a big difference for kids So Jess I'm gonna do what David didn't do I'm from Lansing, Michigan Hey Must be some mission. I should have asked Let me let me find out who's here. It's what my comms person said to do Big mistake why she's not here Who who's in higher ed, I just want to see who who lives in higher ed here Wow Most of you Who who works in the K-12 world a small but vocal Presence it's good to see this is good to see so I grew up in Lansing, Michigan My dad Was a union guy He was a shop committee man in at the Osmobile plant and ultimately he became the education director of Region 1c, right? my mother Was an elementary school principal Well, actually she was a teacher right for many years and Then she became a principal down parenthetically that's when the labor management argument started to surface at the kitchen table right boy but And I was the oldest of three kids and I developed early on a reputation I don't know why for being argumentative I was the guy who would sort of Debate the facts When the facts didn't seem to be going my way, you know weren't in my favor, right? I didn't just do this at home. I had a way of doing it at school and There were some contexts in which that helped me but most of them know not not so much and I thought that if I could Take the facts that have been presented Put a rival argument on the table Question people if isn't there more than one way to think about this I Didn't have the term handy at the time. This was a long time ago not going to say how long ago it was But it was sort of like deeper learning All right, I was trying to use the information available sort of think my way around the problems um Recruit other people to my point of view Some people called me a politician I Did win the race for a homecoming king in high school twice I was the Representative the student representative on the board of education Twice right, so there was something going on here, but often it was not received. Well, it was underappreciated And my style did not comport with the kind of order an organization in the typical classroom and So oddly My GPA was lumpy You know, there were I was good in civics But man the further away you got from civics and social studies the rockier things got for me Because I just wasn't sort of towing the line. I Yeah, I actually flunked Jim You know How can you do that? I went I I went the problem. I went I went and This question of how can you do that was the question that my dad asked me he said, how could you do that? You and the problem was I had a lot to say to the gym teacher. I think was the problem Right, you know like I don't want to do those push-ups. How about sit-ups, right? You know that kind of thing but I think we're at a moment with this new diverse majority in this country Where if we can't Move off of the standard design to dramatically different ways of engaging young people Dramatically different ways of bringing the information and content to them ways of engaging them more fundamentally in the Experience and use of it These big gaps these stubborn and Unrelenting patterns so Correlated With circumstance they just won't move It is not Just a K-12 issue This is fundamentally about the connections between higher education and K-12 I remember at Temple The achievement gap I had there Was substantially with women in man We couldn't get or we didn't want to Get a set of young women Who we had failed for the first time in their secondary school experience past praxis one Praxis one it was about an eight grade achievement level in Mathematics it was a explanation for why the enrollment in elementary education in my college was full of women they were Avoiding the math requirements. I Went over to the math department asked the chair of the math department to take the test paid him to take it Because I wanted him To come back and tell me Whether or not the test was worth passing and if it was what changes in the experience He would recommend Then I tried hard. This is the life of the deed to get my own faculty to take the test Don't ask the faculty to take tests. Oh My god That's the worst thing you but you know I was this was early in my deanship, right and I said hey the test isn't gonna go away and The president of the university is not gonna blame the math department if our students can't pass this test And we have an obligation to our students To help pull that off guess what we had to do we had to open things up We had to create our own content That met our students where they were and were out from there With the kind of scaffolding and support so we could change the distribution of achievement In our of our own graduates if we couldn't do that We were gonna be sending teachers Into Philadelphia Not well prepared to work with a population of kids there Who had very little going for them you think about the zip codes Around temples campus it would have been like the blind leading the blind So we're at a moment quite frankly in this country where Thinking about these two systems as ships passing in the night that we have we just got a change that and So all of us who are working on the post-secondary side Got to engage the folks this this there's a small group of them. They feel like right in here Right on the K-12 side to see if together We can't change this distribution I have one asked I meant to tell you that at the beginning Because I think of my ten minutes is just about up, right? I'm very optimistic About things being open we're already there It's gonna go that way there's some things to worry about along the way We should gotta figure out how to work with ed tech people and the publishers We can't You know because they just got too much money. They're not going away, right got to figure that out The other thing we got to do is We have to worry a little bit about the intramurals sport in our community You know we are Words matter positions and stances matter. I'll probably take some that you guys should Rough me up about over time But my point is the more we argue in public big arguments in public about small things That's not help. That's not helping But the big ask I have for you Let me pause You know I should pause there because there's no reason you should clap for anything else. I've had to say but But that's the big arguments about small things is confusing And it doesn't help us see the larger prize, right? That's a really important thing Happens in the Academy all the time But here's the ask I think at the end of the day the thing that's going to make the biggest difference for us is if we could open up the community a bit more and We could get Me pause on that. Yeah, pause on that if we could open the community up a bit more The potential for us To generate a fact That would really change The state of affairs is unlimited If I had more time I'd tell you about this self study I'm working on now around issues of civic learning and participation We're at a moment where young people I worry a lot about Whether we can even argue the fact whether we can discern fact from fiction and Whether unless we're using our devices we can even get in a room together to talk about stuff, right if We could just open this community up and Bring more diverse players and voices and actors into yet bring more cultural relevance and Diversity into the content That's going to have a Multiplier effect on our ability to engage young people up and down the system It's going to have a multiplier effect on our ability to sustain what we're up to It will extend our reach In ways that are irreversible and so I just ask You to work with us on Coming up with strategies that would give rise To that. I'm over my time. Well, maybe not this clock says I'm good I'm going to yield the balance of my time We need the balance of my time to jazz So she can use slides, you know and visual Bring you some facts But I so appreciate you're hearing me out I look forward to spending time with you As much as I can while I am here But then I have got to return to Menlo Park because After a year of trying to convince my wife that she could actually join me out in California She did Like two weeks ago. She did Someone needs to applaud that I mean somebody come on somebody My god Lord that but she told me She said Kent You know the last time you moved me It was to Atlanta a strange pattern developed you Next thing I know we moved from Philadelphia to Atlanta and suddenly every two weeks I was in DC New York City in Philadelphia Other places each she said keep what why in the world did you move me down here? If you were just gonna spend all your time back up on the East Coast So I said well, I just who knew But it will not happen again She has a memory been married 35 years. So You're somebody I should applaud that too for crying out loud So she says all right. I'm gonna separate from my pediatric practice I'm gonna put Distance between me and my grandson Alexander and I'm gonna come to Menlo Park And we're gonna move into a little box You know, that's like a you know Atlanta Menlo Park Right I'm moving into the box, but you sure and heck better not start traveling on me again Like you did when we moved to Atlanta and I looked at my calendar And I said that darn David. Why did I agree to this? Every week between now and Thanksgiving I got somewhere to be So I got to go back to Menlo Park tomorrow afternoon Because my poll numbers are low Pulled up with a dropping right and so I got to work on that But I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna be here I'm gonna learn as much as I can from you while I'm here and thank you all very much It is 9 15, which is when I was supposed to be done. I appreciate it


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Religion and World Politics Part 14 The Hindu State Or is there actually any such thing as a Hindu state? Mr Modi, the Prime Minister of India is the representative of the BJP the Bharatiya Janata Party which stands for Hindu values Hindu values as foundation values for the Indian state and yet it's very difficult to talk about such foundation values for an Indian state as if it had existed since time immemorial but the very claim of the BJP and Hindutva the ideology of all embracing, all encompassing in dunas is very much that what we're looking at in terms of an Indian identity is something which is holistic, encompassing and stretches back through time try to make this into a national ideology for the modern age but also using this as a modern ideology of exclusiveness of standing apartness of being in some way competitive with other identities for instance the Islamic identity of neighboring Pakistan and by direct extension the Islamic minorities within India poses all kinds of difficulties for how we conceive of an international relations and a citizenship built upon belief that has several very very overarching religious elements to it and yet when we look at the history of India we're actually looking at a history of fragmentation even the British Raj, the British colonial experiment over India divided India into two very very large portions one was underneath direct rule from the Raj the other was the indirect rule via 175 princely states with 175 princely states with many languages being spoken with many different histories the claim of one India is one which has to overcome and navigate a past history full of multiplicity and this multiplicity stretches back through time so the idea of a hindunous from time immemorial is something that deserves interrogation what you're looking at in fact is an earliest civilization in India really from about the fourth millennium BC but really it's about from about 2000 BC that we start to see something which can be identified as a mark of Indian organizational capacity and that's the foundation of cities all built along similar lines cities built around rectangles and squares on lower ground and an acropolis or a public space an administrative space of government buildings of temples of meeting halls and public baths on upper ground so the organization of society the organization of urban society was a characteristic which was identifiable in many parts of India in 2000 BC but those were not the Indians that survived down unsullied until the present day is what you heard from about 1700 BC were major waves of migration Aryan migrations from Mesopotamia that is today Iran and they brought with them all kinds of new influences they brought with them for instance early forms of Sanskrit so what is regarded as the heritage language of India is in fact something which was brought in an original form by outsiders then diluted mixed and developed in terms of its interaction with local influences and was really only about 1000 BC about 3000 years ago that the Vedas, the holy songs, the holy poems the Garen characteristics of a Hindunas began to be composed and began to be sung and began to form something of a sacred canon at each stage of Indian history one encounters admixtures of the external and the internal you have the advent of Buddhism in 400 BC followed very very quickly by the invasion in the northwestern part of India of Alexander the Great and his Macedonian phalanx army it was followed by the nationwide adaptation and adoption of Buddhism underneath the emperor Asoka underneath Asoka we have the very first manifestation of something that resembled a united India a politically united India won by conquest and given a national doctrine in this case Buddhism adopted by Asoka because he was so horrified at the carnage he had caused in uniting India that he turned to the ways of peace in his late age but that was as recently as about 268 BC so all of the great manifestations are recent and in fact the Indian pantheon of gods like Shiva gods like Vishnu really only took place at the turn of the millennium between 200 BC and 200 AD the writing of the great books the Mahabharata the Bhagavad Gita all of those come from that point in time consolidated finally into an institutionalized ethos in temple Hinduism only about a thousand years ago so looking back you see Hinduism as recent even of course if a thousand years is a long time for something to settle and consolidate but we're not looking at something historically monolithic and the idea of using Hinduism as a national ideology and its consequences for international behavior against all of those with different confessional beliefs can be something which is seen as problematic the relationships with Pakistan for instance Pakistan and India achieving rival independences after much communal bloodshed in 1947 those two countries continued since that point in time to lead fraught competitive existences the Indians developed nuclear capacity and the bomb first the Pakistanis some years later particularly going on to a crash course after the wars with India over the independence of Bangladesh so that now you have nuclear stock powers in the two countries of roughly about 120 nuclear warheads for India and about 130 nuclear warheads for Pakistan it's entirely possible to articulate the relationships between the two countries along the lines of balance of power it's also entirely possible to interpret the Indian assistance for the independent struggle of Bangladesh in terms of weakening what was once a united Pakistan by separating from what is now Pakistan its eastern portion and turning that into a state which could be more easily dominated by India India in any case has had many problems on its borders quite apart from Pakistan the 1962 war with China which India resoundingly lost is a case in point but what is the real problematic aspect of relationships between Pakistan and India remains today the status of Kashmir there have been a number of wars between the two countries over Kashmir 1947, 1965, 1999 each of the two metropolitan states claiming that they should be the rightful government of the troubled province but within the troubled province itself a very very strong and very very visible minority but insurgent group of Kashmiris wanting to go it alone and have independence underneath their own rubric underneath their own identity what you have in the Indian subcontinent are the politics of contestation an unsettled region after the departure of communism after the end of the British Raj which once stretched as far as Burma which tried to take Afghanistan which in the end gave independence to rival countries eking out their rivalry now almost as sacred totems that rivalry being almost as sacred a totem as Hindutva is claimed to be one for India


What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind? Slavery the Holocaust dictatorship No, it's the tool with which all that wickedness is built And that is an ashen says that is altruism and and yes, I I put a twin to altruism Because altruism almost always comes and certainly was originated farm mysticism So the combination of mysticism and altruism Are the biggest lie ever created the existence of God the idea that we must abide by Something written in an ancient book and lived by it The idea that there are people Who have the truth the truth? And we must be subservient to them and of course what God and what all these people demand of us is That we sacrifice that we give up our personal interests That we give up our own lives For the sake of others for the sake of God for the sake of the tribe for the sake of the nation For the sake of Allah for the sake of something As long as it's not you as long as you're not being self-interested as Long as you're sacrificing as long you're living for others So epistemologically and metaphysically The great evil that's out there is mysticism the whole variety of mysticism from Plato to of course the thing that impacts us most in the West Christianity to everything in between and extensions to new age to Ultimately communism and Nazism which I consider just forms of mysticism forms of Platonism Epistemologically and metaphysically that is the great lie.  He rules by telling you That you must live for others Fill in the blank who those others are it could be anybody so yes Altruism is the destroyer of the world and I think I ran said we are Dying of an orgy of altruism altruism is everywhere the idea I mean just just look today at everything from from the intersectionality where there's a competition and who is more needy who is more miserable Who is more discriminated against who is more? deserving of your sacrifice Across the entire spectrum of the left which is dominated by a philosophy of need and need and need so absolutely it is altruism that is That is killing this world killing this world And altruism does not mean being nice to people and of course The same is true on the right which expects you to sacrifice for the state sacrifice for God Sacrifice of the community sacrifice for the common good One thing the left and right completely agree with is The idea the primacy Moral primacy of altruism and they preach it at every opportunity and at the end of the day it is the way in which they You know control people. It's the way in which they control the culture Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to Iran book show comm slash support I go to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those any one of those channels also if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow Please consider Sharing our content and of course subscribe Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get announcement when we go live and for you Those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show Thank you. I very much appreciate it