We're back here live at day two of HP Vertica's end user conference at Silicon Angle and Wikibon's theCUBE. We're day two live all day here. Yesterday we had a great day. Talked to all the top executives of HP. We still have the top executive EVP, George Kadeep, coming on shortly. Stay tuned to be on our next guest after this intro. I'm John Furrier with Silicon Angle and Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org. Dave, I want to ask you what's your take on yesterday, day one, we did the wrap-ups on YouTube now, but quickly, good day two, day one wrap-up and what do you expect for today? Well, John, day one here was all about customers, use cases, how people are using Vertica, from really good, strong testimonials. You know, you can kind of tell a good testimonial from one that's not so good. Not only on theCUBE, but also in cocktail receptions at dinner last night in interactions that we've had with practitioners. Very, very strong testimonials for Vertica. In particular, evaluating Vertica relative to traditional databases, relative to other emerging MPP databases, including, but not limited to, the likes of Teradata, Astrodata, Green Plum. We heard practitioners consistently telling us they were evaluating those. So I was impressed, John, with the passion that the audience and the practitioner audience in particular has for Vertica. And then the second thing is it's very clear that HP is embedding Vertica as part of it, a fundamental part of its software strategy. And that's really what leads us to Haven, which is what we're going to talk a lot about today. So I think one of the things that's impressive is that George Kadeep was up on stage today here. He's the executive vice president of the software group. And the software group has really done a great job, Dave, of looking at the future and setting the course for where the openness of the web needs to be. Couple major forces, in my opinion, driving this change to open source, although there's not a lot of open-stack conversation here, we're hearing a little bit about that. But more importantly, in the big data area, you're seeing the hardening of enablement platforms like hardware like Vertica. And where Vertica's not trying to be a lock-in spec, they're actually trying to be more of an enabling platform to eliminate all the complexities around managing systems and clusters of data. And the hard part is people want to bring in data fast, multiple data types and diverse sources, and write software. And I think the key to HP right now is that they're enabling multiple platforms, whether you want Hadoop, or you want another platform, or you want HP proprietary software, it's great. And I think that's where HP's going to win. It's kind of like the enterprise version of freemium. You have the public data that you can get off the web that's going to come in as unstructured. You obviously have enterprise data, existing legacy data sources, and other platforms like Hadoop and third-party applications. They build connectors to those. And then finally on the left, all the way to the other end of the spectrum is the HP's proprietary software, or their own software that they wrote. So, and they're offering that to customers. If you want a buffet of solutions, you can go public, social data, public data, enterprise solutions that pre-exist, and we'll build connectors for those, whether it's Hadoop on the open source end, or somewhere else on a proprietary end. And then obviously HP has Vertica, Haven, Idle, and a variety of other sources. So, to me, I think that's a really, really good strategy. They put in the choice into the customer. And the customers are responding. And the hallway we're hearing that, that's resonating well with customers, Dave. And I think that is something that I like about HP. And the other thing I like about what's happening with HP right now is that it's not a lot of grandstanding with HP. A lot of shows we go to, the vendors are pumping themselves up and promoting their wares and hyping up their capabilities. Here, they're downplaying HP and upplaying the customer stories. They're letting the customer speak for themselves, they're letting the customer's stories be the lead gen for more business. And it's producing results. And I was talking candidly with George Kedifa, and he's really happy. I can't really talk about some of the specifics because we're under non-disclosure there. But I will tell you, smiling, and we're going to hear from him shortly, Dave. And I think it's exciting for HP. Well, here's the challenge for HP software, is they've got a bifurcated business. They've got a legacy business, and they get this new business that they're trying to build around Vertica. And big data is a huge opportunity, but nobody's really making a ton of data, I'm running off of big data today, although George Kedifa did say, in their belief, HP is the number one vendor in big data. And he says they're doing billions of dollars in big data. So obviously, the market sizing is in the eye of the person who writes the definition for what big data is. So that's fine if they want to call some of the things big data. But we know, John, by definition, a lot of the action, a lot of the revenue and big data right now, specifically is around services. Now, HP has a big service as business, so does IBM, so do others like Accenture. But really, that's where all the action is. We've got HP as one of the top, I think. Two is, it's not number one in our numbers, but it's right up there. So it's vying for that number one slot with the likes of IBM. Now, to me, the key, John, is, as I was saying before, two years ago you're wondering, what the heck is HP doing with Vertica? Why are they not being more aggressive with this? And I think internally, HP was having some serious conversations. George Kedifa was coming in saying, all right, this is a jewel. Of course, we all know about the autonomy issues. But while they were dealing with that in public and dealing with all the fallout from that and the shakeup for that, internally they were figuring out how do we leverage this asset? The product people, that's not their problem to communicate to Wall Street. Their challenge is, okay, how do we leverage this to our advantage? So by combining Vertica with autonomy, bringing in the enterprise security piece and making it attractive to developers, voila, you've got a platform there. Now is it a fully baked out platform? Well, no, but nobody really has a fully baked out platform. You know, look at Pivotal. Pivotal kind of took what I call misfit toys, put them together and said, okay, we're going to do the big data platform for the next generation. Yeah, but Dave, that's a good point. The Pivotal thing, I think, highlights what's happening with HP. You've got a unified front with autonomy in Vertica. Vertica clearly putting themselves out on the front and leading, because that's where the hardened solution is. In my opinion, I think what HP struck gold with Vertica is. And this is, I don't think this was kind of by design. I think this is kind of, it just played out, this is where the wind just shifted at their back on this one, is that Vertica is a hardened platform for managing massive amounts of data at very, very high speeds. And that takes into account the cloud trends. So I think focusing on Vertica on the front end is really critical, because they don't have to push idle and then push autonomy for their customers. Let autonomy settle in where it makes sense. Harden out the access of data. That is a smart move by Kadifa, and I'm telling you, this is a good play for HP. And this kind of points to what Pivotal's trying to do. Focus on the software. Focus on the application developers. Focus on the application economy. Let the haven, let the Vertica work. It's very similar to Pivotal. Get cloud foundry, platform as a service. And in essence, Vertica is a platform as a service kind of hypothetically for big data. So when you look at the big players, EMC slash VMware slash Pivotal, Cloudera, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, and you lay those guys out, Oracle and IBM have big database businesses, and they're obviously trying to protect those. When HP bought Vertica, it really didn't have a database business, so it said, okay, hey, we've got this emerging, you know, high speed, massively parallel, columnar database opportunity. You know, let's go after it. Paradata, of course, is the other big one who bought Astrodata. So the big question, John, is this unstructured data, this new style of computing data, you know, the data behind the new style of computing, as Meg Whitman calls it, is it going to ultimately overwhelm the traditional relational database model? That's an interesting debate. That's something I want to talk to Kurt Monash about. George Kadifa, and we'll talk to him about this as well, is laying out in his total available market slide that he showed this morning a massive 100X opportunity, 100X larger than the traditional relational database market. So that's HP's strategy. You called it, you know, they got the wind in their back. They are trying to, so, you know, the old cliche, skate to the puck. They're trying to anticipate where the market's going. They're trying to put their resources behind it, build a platform out, and compete, in my opinion, head to head with the likes of Oracle and IBM. And that's a critical part of HP's software strategy. Without it, HP will remain a niche software company. Kadifa understands the software business. He's got a background at Oracle. He understands Oracle. And it's his intent, I'm sure, and speaking to him privately, that they want to be a major player in the software business. It's going to take some time, and I think, John, it's going to take some tuck-in acquisitions. That's why it's so critical that they pay down their debt and become an acquirer of technologies again. Well, I think one of the things that I'm excited about is obviously in the big data space. Dave, we've been covering, going back to, you know, the second Hadoop world with Cloudera when we were early on, and Cloudera had like 30 employees, Mike Olson and Elmer Awadala told me early on that, you know, the future will be different. We talked about this yesterday, and that they've seen the future. And a lot of the web scale companies like Yahoo were setting the standard. And you saw Yahoo spin out or let the core Hadoop guys go out to inform Hortonworks, which became a competitive Cloudera. And then you saw a massive competition in the big data space. Since that time, three years ago, what was it, four years ago? I can't remember. You're seeing the maturization of what's going on in the space. And that is, is that in the enterprise, you're seeing people wanting these unstructured platforms, but it's not mutually exclusive and not dedicated systems. You've got to be coexisting and interoperating with multiple sources. And that is fundamentally shaking out. And that's the way we called it. I think remember talking about early on, we asked Pat Gelsinger when he was at EMC, can there be a red hat for Hadoop? And his answer was no. And I think Pat absolutely was correct. There is not going to be a red hat for Hadoop. I think you're seeing that right now in the distributions of Hadoop.  So. IBM, Fujitsu, and Disco. I mean, it's starting to have that. And HP's choosing not to do a distro, which John, I think is smart because the Hadoop distro is like the new hypervisor. I mean, it's a race to zero. It's like a device driver all the time.  It's not like a device driver, but it could be coming on time. No, but in terms of how much money people are going to make out of it, it's going to make not much more than device drivers, right? You know, and I've always said, the Linux, the Linux pressure to create that standard around Linux was driven by the fact that at the time, Linux was at the point of crossing over to being critical mass standard, where Red Hat actually made a lot of money and went public, and we know the rest is history, was that there was a lot of pressure from HP, IBM's son with proprietary operating systems. And that was a call to arms for the open source community to come together around Linux. I just don't see that dynamic happening in the big data world. I don't see that threat. I think it's a completely green field opportunity. I think everyone can have their cake and eat it too. It's just different dynamics. So for that reason, that's why I think that you don't see that pressure for the open source community to consolidate. Now, Hortonworks and Cloudera are playing nicely in Apache to get the core system developed because of the pressure of fragmentation. That might be the way I see it coming together. Well, and the other thing too about Red Hat is it took a decade or more to play out and the industry largely left them alone. The big guys weren't sharpening their knives. They had support from guys like IBM who was funding open source. They had support from Oracle that wanted to bet the house on Linux. That's different now.  I'm not going to let Cloudera or Hortonworks run away with it. So we're here. This is SiliconANGLE, Wikibon's exclusive coverage of HP Discover. We're watching the hashtag, HP Big Data 2013. You can go to atthecube. 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Okay, so this is the Weaving the World Ops call on Wednesday number third 2021. I'm going to screen share, connect this to SETI because they're homophones intentionally. So there's that. And then I've got this with communicating with animals. And I've got dolphin communication already under it. And I should have military dolphin stuff. I don't know. I don't have a lot here, do I? John Lilly. So I will add some more here. Human Binding Computer Isolation Tanks Center for the Cyclone. The Order of the Dolphin. I've forgotten about that. He studies psychedelics. So dolphins plus psychedelics, what could be wrong with that kind of a career? I'm just saying. And I've got Lilly under famous LSD fans. Carrie Grant, did you know that? No. Stanislav Grof, Timothy Leary, of course, Artie Lange, Francis Crick, Dick Finan, yeah, all famous LSD fans. And Al Hubbard, the guy kind of sewed LSD across the West back in the day. So Hubbard turned Willis Harmon onto LSD from Ions and I'm going to connect Willis Hubbard to famous LSD fans. And then I will stop sharing and pause the recording. So fun digression complete. So I was interested in kind of co-working to do some of the standing up, some of the episode, I haven't replied to. So for Stacy and Hank, I sent an email to Ken Homer saying, hey, Pete had a very good idea, which was let's do a very short Weaving the World episode 10, 15 minutes max. And then let's do all of the moving parts that the episode needs to have. And so it's basically a practice run, a dry run. But that forces me to have an intro and an outro or an end screen on the recording or for us to step through what the different phases are of processing the recordings. I then need to stand up the anchor account to get an audio podcast started and figure out what that little process is. I really need to get some simple art up so that there are some banners and icons. All those things are like things I need to do. And I'm also keeping in the back of my head what Mila advised, which was just do the simplest thing, my language, do the simplest thing that could possibly work, just start small and don't worry about not having art, for example, what at the beginning, which I agree with. So Ken said, sounds terrific, would be honored to hang with you all anytime. Anytime that works for us all. His mornings are full, but generally after one or two PM Pacific is more open. So I'm thinking let's find a time, let's schedule, let's find a couple of times that work for us within that window and I'll propose those back to Ken and that'll lock down the launch date time. And then also I want to, I think what this also implies is launching the mirror session or the post-processing to fungus session that matches this session because we actually need to walk through the whole process. And so I think we should also kind of book that and invite Ken to it because the invitation I think will always be open for whoever the guest or guests were to join the post-session, the post-party, it could even just be called a post-party. Oh, good. From my surgical acid from, or got to me, exactly. Or got fungus. Thank you. So anyway, does that make sense? Yep. Yep. Cool. And I knew I had or got an agrodomene, there we go, but I don't have or got an agrodomene connected to LSD, which is just really strange. So I just made that link. Harry, did Darryl ever answer you that? Yes, so Darryl Davis, one of my heroes, is the guy who says how can you hate me without even knowing me. He, I friended him on LinkedIn. Then I sent him an email invite, which I don't know if it even got to him, but then I went back and pinged on LinkedIn and I said, hey, sent you an email invite. I'm trying to invite you to a podcast. And he said, yes, but I'm really busy. And we picked December 9th as a date with the understanding that that date might have to wiggle around a little bit. He was like, my schedule frees up and I'm back home kind of early December. So he picked December 9th. So we've got a time set as a working start for when to have a call. I would love to have three or four actual full calls booked before December 9th. So he's not our first, he's not the first episode, but he's in line to be a weaving the world guest, which I'm thrilled about. I also need to somehow send some energy toward Mila and Amber and Joe because I had asked them, the three of them to create an emergent call. Well, to create a call around the issues that we've been talking about. And Mila said, let's make an emergent. I was like, great, but their schedules are really messy and we haven't been, I haven't been able to pin down when that would actually happen. So kind of need to do that. If you guys haven't seen Daryl Davis just talk about his experiences. It's completely worth it. He's just a lovely soul. There's also a documentary about his work, which is really good. And I think I mentioned this in a check and call long ago, but toward the end of the documentary, this just stays in my head a lot. For the end of the documentary, two young black male activists show up. And they really don't like what Daryl is doing. They don't like that he's going and talking to the KKK. They think what you should do is other kinds of activism and fight them and all that. And they're angry at him. And the documentary is really sort of nice about showing this. And that part of it doesn't really come to a resolution. But I just think Daryl is an incredibly brave hero. Because he's dissolving the anger on the other side. And that to me, it's like patience and respect and love are universal solvent of sorts. It's what I take from his activities in the world. And that is actual progress. If he has 300 robes from KKK members, some of whom are grand dragons and senior ranking people in his garage, that's progress of some major sort. Right? Yeah. So anyway, let me pause. Thoughts about all this? Where's the calendar? Yeah, exactly. And actually, let me be a little bit more specific. Where's the production calendar? Separately, there is the publication calendar for the public. But for us working on episodes, getting stuff ready and where do we keep that? Exactly. So I haven't created separate calendars for reading the world yet. So I think you're saying I should crank up two more calendars? I wouldn't use it. I wouldn't keep it in Google Calendar. It should be in Google Sheets or AirTable or whatever. OK, so you mean just a place to track? You don't mean calendar to public? Because one of the things I was thinking was embedding a Google Calendar on the website someplace so that people can see what the episodes are. Something that people can watch and subscribe to. That's probably a Google Calendar, but as volunteer production staff and as chief production staff. So let me share the spreadsheet that I've got going already to start this, which several of you have seen, but not everybody. And it's busy painting itself on my screen right now. Probably in there, there's also stuff confirmed. This is an idea that's in the pipeline or something like that. And we're slotting it for February-ish. Exactly, exactly. Man, this is slow. The little share screen is just busy loading with a spinning spinning wheel. There's a there's a new AirTable-ish clone very much like AirTable, actually, without without quite as much fancy stuff that Vincent would use, but it's really heartening to see it pop up. And it's mostly open source. What's it called? I think it's let me figure it out. OK, and I'm going to Hank already has access to it. Sea table. Stacey, you have access to it, too. Let me add Pete and Wendy. I'll try to add the right one, but it's time to talk about that. Sea table has been out from Sea Cloud, I think, which is a it's kind of like next cloud. It's a foul or interesting collaboration thing. But it's Sea Table is now a separate entity. Oh, that's really kind of Sea Table. I would have called it Sea Table, and I would have thought it was a restaurant reservation system. Well, like, oh, good. They're I think they're German. And I I had a little problem with some of the links on their websites because they're pretty new. And so I got a nice letter back from, you know, VP of something in it. I was pretty tempted to say, by the way, do you know in English that looks like you're talking about being able to sit down? It's a great name for a restaurant reservation system. And if they fail at this table thing. Exactly. So I said to put a link in the chat, given that you all now have access, edit access to the document that should work to get you in. Oh, but they do have a capital T in the middle of Sea Table. So makes, yeah. Yeah, if you're if you're careful with it, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And just from my days as a tech industry analyst, I never like if somebody's if somebody's product or company name was all caps, unless it was actually an acronym, I would never all cap it in the publication. But if it had internal caps, I always obeyed that. So so camel case internal caps. I was like, yep, that's a styling thing that I will I will observe. But if you're trying to attract attention by going all caps, screw you. Anyway.  I would never I would never honor 99 cent or $99 pricing. So if something if a private if an offer was 999, I always wrote it down as a thousand dollars. Like, no, not going there. Not playing not playing that game. Refuse to follow that sort of stuff. What a rebel. I know what doesn't that make me like totally a rebel? Yeah, it's like that's good editorial hygiene, I think. Yeah. Cool. OK, so there's the spreadsheet and I shouldn't have Daryl as number one. He should probably be number three or four. So let me just change that.  Yes. OK, that's what I thought. So we sat down, I think last week or week before we sat down and looked at this list and started moving people up and down. I was explaining who these people are and what the ideas were. I don't know how David ended up at the top because my attempt is not to be interviewing white men early in the process.  He is all about sort of the direction that we're heading in and how this all works.  Exactly. So it'd be like speaker parents. It'd be like I think I think Weinberger would go well with a muscat because he's kind of a cervix, so he needs like a sweet pairing. I have no idea. I don't know. Just kidding. A muscat muscat wines, muscat grapes are very sweet. OK. I love muscat grapes. Whenever I see them, I'm like, I buy muscat grapes. They're so good. So, yes, totally agree. And we started to sort of propose some of those things. Michael, awesome to see you. I'm going to post a link to the doc that we're staring at right now in the chat and check to see whether you have editor access. I think you do. Yes. So you are already an editor on this doc. And we're staring at the schedule of potential guests for weaving the world. Also, Wendy Elford put these four lines in, five lines in, I think, and weaving the weavers in particular is like a yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. This this feels to me like a really important thing to just keep in mind all the time, like diverse communities around the world are already doing this kind of weaving, bring them together, take one good idea from each of them and weave these together. That seems to me to be like a central function of weaving the world and the post parties. So let me pause for a second and ask what what's the most fruitful way to collaborate on the schedule? Should I walk through the people and talk about who I wear and we brainstorm more names and then sort them into an order? That would be totally great. Or something else in my experience, if you want to get something like this done quickly, it's good to have a date like not build the field and they'll come but build the date and there's something concrete. So regarding the let's say the dry run, we should at least have a date for that and then one or two people that we want to dry run with. So the dry run right now is with Ken Homer and and I'm and I'm I'm thinking we offer we so I'm also talking about the format, whether it's just Ken and me talking about issues so that it's the smallest possible unit or whether we, you know, say, hey, we're starting this thing and put it out to the whole GM community and see who shows up and and make it a more of a more open conversation, which then opens the question about what is the internal format of the call? Do I do I monopolize the the guests for a while and not? Et cetera, et cetera. So yes. And so Hank, my intention is to take the top four names on the list as sorted and send them notes that say, you know, and send them invites immediately that say, could you meet and and also to meet on their convenience that they are on their schedule, not on a fixed schedule? Because my my instinct is if we say that it's every Wednesday at 8 a.m. Pacific, that that suddenly complicates all the scheduling for any guest, because if you're like, well, I can make that time only in March next year, as opposed to the soonest I can meet I can meet with you is next Tuesday. Does that work for you? Sounds great. And then we do a pop up call for OGMers around it. And I'm interested in feedback around whether to make these group calls or whether to make certainly the post parties, certainly the post parties are open and invite to anybody to come in and weave, especially if you're a mapper and want to take a swing at mapping the conversation, all that kind of stuff. But my my my inclination is to make the initial calls community like open, but I feel like I'm adding complexity that way that may make things more. How do I say it complex? Agreed, I think, yeah, I agree. I think you should try to keep things really simple and then build from a kernel rather than trying to whittle it down. So then the so then I would have a call with can I would post process it some to tidy it up and make it look like an episode. I would send the bad episode with an invite to the post party to every to OGM and whoever else. And they would then need to watch the original episode in order to participate in the post party, which is kind of then becomes a requirement. If they if they can't be on the original original call, they will probably have to watch the original call to do any post processing for the call, which which then is like this one I would keep as simple as possible. You and can post processing and then add just a few more people in to make the the after call. So by specific invite, you mean? Yeah, yeah, I agree with Pete. Although you might consider can plus one person since I think in a lot of the episodes, you don't want to have two people there, so you might as well practice that. But if it's someone that can knows, it makes it easier. Right. And then on this, on this and I just picked Ken because he's been posting reviews of Graver and Warchaw's new book, which I completely love and agree with. And as a topic is also a topic that I'm extremely happy to dive into and have a bunch of stuff already in my brain about. So the weaving will be good right from the start. And I don't know who else is kind of passionate in his way about it, who is also not a white guy. So if we found somebody else, I'd be happy to invite them into that that session as well.  No, I was just going to suggest doing it as a fishbowl so that it doesn't add the complexity of other people speaking. But if they want to be present in real time, but just I just want to throw that possibility out. And that's if this was a more open invite, that's the format I would probably adopt. And then the question becomes, this is an honor system fishbowl. It's like, hey, you know, if you're if you're outside the bowl, use the chat or do this or do that. But, you know, don't jump in until the end of the call when we when we open the session to that or whatever. And I I could I could certainly enforce that. But the if I may, the way I see this this initial call, it's really to kind of stress test and learn things about the production process. So it's not really about content. And hopefully you'll have Ken for a real, a real session. But really anything that adds so even even the fishbowl thing, it's like, OK, so now there is scheduling Ken and Jerry and, you know, and oh, Ken had to to change the thing. And then I have to notify all of, you know, it's like. It's the simplest thing to make 10 or 15 minutes of recorded video. That's like, oh, my God, now we have to do something with this. It's kind of what I'm thinking. So this is more like the original hops of the star ship, except we're trying not to blow up on landing. Yeah. Yeah, maybe not pick that metaphor again. No, it's actually a really good one. That it's a superlative, agile, agile demonstration. Agile, agile demonstration.  It's amazing. We tried to stick the landing and we blew it up on the pad. And this is what we learned from it. And like, look, we have another one next fricking week. And you're like, how? Right. And and, you know, the previous out of demonstrations, it's like, oh, look, Spotify, you know, uses agile teams to implement features and stuff like that.  You know, just keep learning. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And they start simple and then they start adding components. Very impressive, totally impressive. Yes. I have a so part of I think that part of the production process, a big part of the production process, I think is described. I think that. Descript is fun and easy to start to learn. And it may be hard and take a lot of concentration to do it well. I think. The way I see that, Jerry, I don't I don't think that. Becoming a descript, my show is not the thing that I would put on your plate. And I have and the small grant for a couple of months of effort from the Jim Rutt Foundation includes some money for production, which I haven't really used at all. I haven't and I talked with Jim Rutt's podcast producer, who was happy to help and gave me an hourly rate that he'd be available for. And so we could also I could hire somebody who's good at descript or pay somebody who loves descript and wants to get good at it to do that. The only question in there is there's a lot of tight close in editing that you can do in Descript that I may want to be involved in, at least. I think she's involved, but the lesson for me is that sounds like something you want to pair with somebody. Right. So this is a little bit like this is a little bit like the saying in the breakfast of bacon and eggs that chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. Yeah, I don't know why I like that so much. It's a good one. So the way I would set it up is if somebody is kind of driving Descript and you're watching over their shoulder on screen share and you're going, oh, that's the sentence, you know, that's the goal one. Or yeah, sounds like all those things. Pete and I were on a call yesterday. We're at the beginning of the call. One of our friends mentioned a Zoom plugin that is a note taking AI note taking plugin.  And because these things are so young, they're not charging yet. So who knows what fees they'll end up on, but they're kind of free to try. So I was like, it seemed very tempting. But then the moment we start using a proprietary, whatever, just as part, which includes Descript, by the way, as part of our flow, we were suddenly breaking a little bit of our rules. But so, you know, we're looking at using platforms like Descript and Zapier and a couple of other things as elements in our work in our production flow, but there's newer and smarter tools just like popping up in the field all the time. It's really interesting, including the video, the preview video for this tool, basically shows during the live transcript of the call, you can highlight a phrase and turn that into a to do item for yourself.  I think we've bookmarks in the call, a bunch of other stuff. It sounded really quite cool. What's what's the rule that you're breaking just to make it to use? Open source everything and to leave our data in openly in the world and all that. So so if Pete writes a script that goes from A to B to C, he can write it in a language that is basically code that we leave on GitHub that anybody else can then go fork and use for free. That's great. If we start using Zapier or some other kind of online service or the script, then they must go get an account and very likely pay for it. And who knows? And we have no control over what that service does internally, right? How it changes and what it does over time. Thank you into that. This is something that I run into in multiple communities. And there's I'm thinking of it kind of a hierarchy of, you know, hierarchy is maybe not the right word or gradual levels or something like that. But the ideal thing is open source, open data formats. And then and then there's a few more things and I probably won't think of them in order. But one of the things is maybe the service isn't open source, but they offer, you know, a very generous free tier or they have a community edition or something like that. So diagrams.net is something like that where it's not open source, but they've kind of committed to make it, you know, they seem to commit to making it free forever. And they're very good with the the data format. It's an open data format, things like that. And then maybe there's something that's even more proprietary, but the data format is still importable, exportable. So maybe AirTable is like that. They've got a pretty good free tier. You bump into the paid tier a little bit sometimes, especially when you get long tables and stuff like that. But their import export is really good. They've got good connectivity to API stuff. So then the, you know, the thing that you don't want is something that's highly proprietary, costs a lot of money and is really hard to get your data out of, right? And somewhere in there, actually, by the way, so Miro is kind of a good, bad thing for me.  It's very expressive. But if you do a lot of the fancy stuff in Miro, it's hard to get the data out. They are nice enough to make sure that you can get, you know, I ended up exporting a Miro board recently. So I had some experience. You can export like the text and, you know, what objects have what. But if you start having composed objects with multiple text fields in them, you're not going to get them in order and things like that. Or you may not get them. You may get all of the text items for a bunch of things rather than piece parts. So there's kind of a scale of data complexity and data interoperability that Massive Wiki is on really one end where it's super, you know, super interoperable and another one where it's super proprietary. Miro is one of those things that's, even though they let you get the data, it's not as useful anymore in which you try to get it out. I think the Miro problem is a little bit like the brain problem, which is you can kind of get the data out, but there's no other tool that absorbs it and presents it the same way. So you've got a bag of objects. A small side note on diagram.net, which may interest you, Andy, which is that, and I think I sent you a edit privileges note at the beginning of this call so that you have access to the spreadsheet. So if you check your email, you might actually have that. If it doesn't, I'll check again and send again. But diagrams.net does layers, which is really nice. So Pete and I spent a little time yesterday redrawing the multi-layer, multi-plane camera mosaic view that I drew by hand in diagrams.net. We're not done, but I think that's gonna be super useful. Wendy, do you not have it? Shall I try again? Okay, I will try again. Second thing is I'm realizing that we're near the top of the hour. Hank and I are in a positive cartography session in an hour and somebody's going to join here in my Zoom at the top of this hour as a sort of getting to know you kind of call for that. So we kind of have like eight minutes left in this conversation, I'm afraid. Sorry about that. But thank you for your time on this. And let me go fix that with the spreadsheet. So, well, that's what I did. I was just thinking about the road to participation and how I agree with Pete, things want to start off really simple, technically and logistically. But maybe there could be some initial participation from invited OGM users or guest invitees that would yield some people listening to maybe the pre-production version of the podcast, asking some questions that you would curate. And then for starters, they might just be show notes or something written, but eventually they could be the equivalent of when you go to an event and people are asking questions in the questions channel and then the moderator is able to collect them and ask them at the end or make them ultimately part of the process. But the idea of having participation that goes beyond you and a guest seems like something to ease into in a gradual way. Yes, and I was half distracted. Wendy, I sent it to your everyone's wisdom account. Do you have a Gmail account that I should send it to instead? I don't have that. If you can put that in the chat, that'd be great. And I'll double down on that. So, Michael, you were saying other people could be involved and I missed exactly the detail of when they were at what point? Well, I was suggesting that it could be a gradual process that to keep things simple to start off with, let's take you and Ken, you record something, you have a select group of people listen to it and come up with some questions that you then give to Ken and they yield some written Q&A, audience Q&A answers. And that's as far as that goes, but then later it could happen in increasingly real time and it just would be a way to dry run the idea of participation in an asynchronous way that's more manageable. So a variant on that maybe, because I think what I need to also do is I need to figure out how to craft invites to the calls. I think part of the workflow is going to be an announcement of a call coming up and that partly depends on whether the initial call is just me, just a two-person interview or a three-person interview, et cetera. But once it becomes a broader event, I'm writing invites to them and the invite could point to a wiki page where people could pose preliminary questions or other kinds of things like you just described. And then that becomes an artifact in our whole workflow and we can kind of, you know, mind from those questions as we like as opposed to people sending the individual emails or whatever else, we can kind of do this in the public space as well. I like that. Wendy, you should have an email to your Gmail account to get you into the doc. Yeah, and then I'm making changes. Yes, excellent. And feel free to add names and if you want, let's create a field that says who recommended this name or something like that so we know who, what, where. I'm happy to talk about the people on the list if anybody is interested and really open to new ideas for where to go in the couple of minutes we have left. And I think Angel Acosta would be a really good, early guest. I was a guest on his podcast for the Garrison Foundation and one of the lovely things about that conversation was that he slowed us down by doing a breath meditation kind of in the middle of it which was really nice because I probably kind of need people to slow us down. Oh, good, Jenny's here. And trying to figure out how that works. So I'm tempted to send Angel and invite for an early conversation. Jenny, hi, you're coming to the end of our earlier call. You're welcome to be here. Happy to have you meet everybody. Oh, I've always liked to meet new people. Yes, I was very surprised. Who are these people? What's going on? Who are these people? Yeah, yeah, this is a busy room. So we're standing up a new podcast called Weaving the World. This is a standing call every Wednesday morning call which is the Weaving the World Operations call. And we've been talking through whom to invite and when, how to do a short test call up front. What does that mean? What are the formats? What are the moving parts? All of that kind of stuff. Okay. And these are all superheroes on the call. Okay. Jerry, one thought that I had as you were talking about people having discussions, having more than one person on the show. I wonder if in the spirit of Weaving, the idea of having almost a format of, well, while you're the host, the conversation that you guide might be between two people who you pick out for their interesting potential interaction on a subject. So that it ups your chances of diversifying your guests and maybe having some provocative other people who you wouldn't wanna have on solo to give the megaphone to necessarily which is sort of an endorsement, but if you're having two people with slightly different takes on a subject, it just could be an interesting thing to kind of work the weaving toward. And so I just last week did some story threading which is very related here of a conference called I'm finished 2021. These are the story threads that I did. So I story threaded a conversation between Tracy Ryan's and Aaron Solomon. Here is whenever the permalink for their conversation shows up from the conference organizers, which should be a couple of weeks from now, I will add that to this thought. And then here's how I curated that conversation. Now I was not anywhere near their original interview, it was shot elsewhere and I got to just watch that session and then this is my note taking from that. And then I created this video and I'll send you guys a link to the unifying thoughts so you can watch all these if you want to because the videos that I put up on YouTube right now are unlisted, but as soon as this all kind of opens up, I'm gonna just make them public, no big deal. But I've kind of done a piece of that recently without me involving the original interviews. And I'm wondering what a good balance here is because in part this let me hit pause all the time. I was kind of doing call and post-call simultaneously because I would pause and go do a bunch of stuff and then come back and pick up and listen to the session which was totally fine and fine, it took quite a while. So this is like a 45 or 50 minute interview that probably took me three hours to story thread, not counting recording the video afterward, right?  So it was really, really easy to just draw a link between him and the call, but then I started looking around here going, all right, he's the dad of the Naya Delay Khan, et cetera, et cetera. I didn't have Shikantaza, which is a kind of silent meditation, but I did have the Cow Dome School and Soto Meditation and Zazen. So I made those links and I was busy like improving my brain as I did the story threading. None of which shows up in my story threading. Oops, there goes my brain. Let me stop sharing and restart my brain. So anyway, that's what was happening and we've just passed the top of the hour. But I'm very interested in some of the nuances here of how this works, also because my tendency is to run pretty fast and to talk quickly and do a bunch of stuff at once and be all excited and I'm not sure that's going to help in this situation. I think being more considered in the pace will help a bunch in making things on the one hand, easier to process and weave. And on the other hand, not whipping past important questions or issues. So all thoughts welcome and we should probably melt this call and Hank and Jenny and I can shift into the next call, but feel free to add anything to the spreadsheet and we've got a Weaving the World Ops channel on Mattermost also for this conversation. So, does that make sense? Rockin, thank you so much. Ploop, ploop, ploop, ploop, ploop, ploop, ploop, ploop. Cool, Jenny, nice to meet you. It's a pleasure. Hank, do you wanna? Yeah, okay. We had a two-hour conversation during the Poslipic Cartography Mapathon with all kinds of old folks. Sorry, Jerry, if I include you with the old folks. I'm an old folks. They're supposed to have young people who never showed up. So that was of course one of the conversational themes of it, but another rather interesting conversational theme was this idea of stocks and flows. I think the context was, or the original context was there's so much information coming at us, data, knowledge, opinions from all kinds of media and some of that might be stocks, but most of it is flows. And how do you know what's a stock and what's a flow or how do you shift from one to the other? And I think there were several other ways we thought about the relevance of stocks and flows. One thought that I kept from that conversation was Lave-Edwardson saying we should become curators of the upstream. And Jenny after the call was quite interested in that theme and she went off for some time to France after that, that was in Germany after that, but now that we're both back.


clear the shelt estuary in the Netherlands was a prelude to the mammoth coordinated drive now moving to the Rhine. British and Canadians embark equipment and men for the landings on the South Beveland and Valkyren islands spearheaded by fleets of Allied bombers. And South Beveland control the sea approaches to Antwerp and the German garrisons on the islands had been ordered to hold their positions at all costs. These pictures show British amphibious landings, their immediate objective to capture the port of Flushing. After stiff resistance the Germans finally surrendered but Allied casualties were heavy. Retreating companions on the mainland the Germans fought back desperately. A sort to it that the German defenders on the islands were kept isolated while the Luftwaffe was driven out of the rain-filled skies rescued from a burning shelter. Many of these troops had fought their way up from the African deserts. Now their objective was to clear the way to Antwerp Great European port vital to the planned Allied drive on the Rhine. Marshal Rokossovsky, commander of the Soviet armies in Poland, watches his men advance to the crossing of the river Bug on the road to Lublin. Flies of the Red Air Force have proved more than a match for the Luftwaffe. Farge the Russians forced the crossing of the Bug River to lay the town of Helm. The German defenders were driven out leaving the starved Polish civilians to welcome the victorious Russians. In the Russians came Polish contingents. Nazis watched with joy the route of the Germans. Life itself, though for many of their companions the rescuers had arrived too late. Once again Britain's Prime Minister poses for a photograph with Joseph Stalin in Moscow. Winston Churchill on this occasion were at Antony Eden Britain's Foreign Secretary. Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister and Avril Harriman representing the United States. After the successful conclusion of a series of talks Winston Churchill was off on the return trip to England to put the Allied discussions into effect. Time on record Stalin came to the airport to wish his guests Godspeed. Tates, Russia and Great Britain must become cornerstones for a world structure for peace. Yet to secure that peace decisive victory must be achieved. At these conferences another vital step was taken. A step which has since resulted in the combined Allied offensive on the German fortress from both east and west.


more exo zeroes content. In today's video, we're going to discuss all the details about chapter 15 and how to clear it. But before that, if you want updated exo zeroes content, please hit the subscribe button. So hey guys, here we are at chapter 15, weight of blood. So as you can see, I have already cleared every episode of chapter 15. But I'll go through what are the key factors that you should prepare for when you're finished with chapter 15, or when you're going to play chapter 15. So I'm going to go through the couple of enemies, key enemies that you'll be facing for chapter 15. So we'll start off with the Banshee. So Banshee is, it's like the, I think the minion of, I think it's who's the guy? I forgot his name. For Belish, sorry for Belish. So the minion of Belish are the Banshee. So the skills of this creature is touch of death. So deals 20% of targets minimum health as damage upon dying. So additional damage upon he dies reduces normal damage received by 65%. So very tough increases attack at the start of the round by 20%. Grunt's tenacity mark to self. If break status is triggered on self reduces the duration of break by two turns for each tenacity stack. Okay, so take note of that and deals 200 damage to one enemy. So not a biggie, just make sure that you have enough health so that, what do you call this, so that you'll withstand his damage upon dying and also make sure that you bring high damage heroes to your team as well. So most of the stages are, your opponents will be Banshee and also these guys. So most of them are Saint Elite, Brotsman. So nothing special, just counters. So be careful with counters as well when you have, when you're playing this chapter. So more or less the same for Nero when you encounter Nero in episode seven. So attacks an enemy if takes damage and its health drops to 10% or less. Okay, so status effect immunity. So immune to all status effects also reduces damage received by 65%. So basically the theme for chapter 15, I'm just gonna move ahead even up to the last episode, which is chapter, the last episode that you're going to fight with is chapter, sorry, episode 13. It's usually damage reduction. So the key here is bring in high damage units, preferably with signature force. The stages are not easy to, are easy to clear, sorry, but it's more of, it will really take time and it will be a grind and some of the stages you won't even, what do you call this, you won't even have a three star. So some of the stages that I have right now, I'm only up to two star, but most are in three star. So again, toughness is actually their main theme, damage reduction and 65% is actually a big amount. Okay. So special, increase on attack by 50% for 10 turns when only turn reset decreases hit of all enemies by 70% every two rounds. Okay. So take note of that. So again, Nero is not really, not really a threat in terms of progression for chapter 15. You all you have to consider is making sure that you have bigger damage with bringing in heroes. So where are we? We're at episode eight. No, none. So same here. So damage reduction as well. That's basically the whole theme of this chapter. Again, damage reduction, nothing really significant. The most significant enemies will happen from episode 11 to 13. So for 11, you have here tantalo, so also has damage reduction and has provoked, heal over time, tenacity, heals 1.5% of own health at the start of the turn. So it's also important that you bring Ramji here for nullify heal. So he has provoke, paralyze as well. So it's also important if you have what they call this machine garden stones, you can actually have it have your heroes equipped by machine garden stones as well. So if I may suggest actually starting from tantalo, moving up to or from episode 11, moving up to episode 13. So again, for dark, I'm suggesting number one is Ramji because number one, he is he is a dark hero. Plus he has an AOE spell. You will need those in breaking garden stones. So if you can see here, the the garden stones that appear in this chapter are light, darkness and nature. So make sure that you have heroes available for that. It doesn't really have to depend. It doesn't really have to be a nation based team for for this as long as you have leveled them up and they can be actually they're at a decent level like level 90, at least, at least, I think rank one, rank one gear, not really leveled up decent enough that they could survive and they could deal damage, preferably high damage heroes. Again, because although you'll be clearing, most of you guys will be clearing chapter 15 up to episode 13. But again, I told you that some of you or most of us actually will not be able to clear or not able to have three stars. Okay, so we will have to make sure that we deal more damage because there are some hurdles in in in playing the the the episodes because your one of them is actually your hits will be limited. So if you can see here, so you had a hit limit of 45. Sometimes you will exceed that because you can't kill the enemies that fast. Okay, that's most of the hurdles that I've had in playing this game. So more or less again, for dark you bring Ramji, probably Shufraken in the mix for for light heroes preferably you bring Garf. This Garf was an AOE at the back or you bring Schmidt. Schmidt is actually good so that his his S1 is actually an AOE. That's so that you could break garden stones. An option is also Iris. Iris is there to break single garden stones, but she is there to bring to give you mana for your team so that you can you can use burst spells if you have them on your team as well. And for nature, nature, you have Jenae, tantalo, these are options that you could bring Rudley and Talia. It's also important that you bring what you call this, you bring healers to the team like Rudley, Talia, whatever healers you have at least bring one because you need to survive the enemy. The enemy is actually very tough. It's a very tough damage reduction and matches actually are longer with chapter 15 not really that that hard. So I'll have demos later. Tantalo is not really that tough. You just have to make sure that you deal big damage and try to try to make sure that you aren't paralyzed but by his S2 by bringing in machine garden stones. Okay, so we move on to episode 12. So for episode 12 you'll be your opponent will be Benton. Benton is actually annoying as well because he's immune to status effects, reduces the damage as well. And the counter is actually very annoying because if you have weak heroes, he will really crush them. Again, bring tough heroes, bring heroes with high health so that you can actually withstand attacks or counter attacks from Benton. So he has a burst for all enemies as well, so be careful about this but nothing big in particular that you should be worried about. So for the final stage, actually for episode 14, it's just a simple stage that you have to go through but the highlight of what do you call this? Of chapter 15 will be Belish and his Banshee. So for Belish, so let's go through his skills. So his passive is removes enemies buffs and gains one mana. Take note of that. So removes one mana, the target and gains mana, blah blah status effect community immune to all status effects and also again reduces normal damage received by 65%. So this game will be very long again because not only is he reducing damage, he actually revives all dead allies. So take note that even he's dead allies, the Banshee have reduced normal damage. So episode 13 will be a pain in the neck because they will be very hard to crack. And also he has nullify heal for his S1. So take note of that. So you have to make sure that you can survive this. You have tough units as well, hard hitting tough units and also again for his S2, he afflicts stun which again you have to have machine garden stones for this one. So I'll have a run at a what do you call this? A run at trying to defeat Belish for you guys so that you can see more or less who I brought. So this is actually what I brought or who I brought. I have to bring Iris here for burst of Redlee, Ramji, Garf, and Jinai at the back. So we'll start. We'll have a one round with them. So it's going to be this easy especially if you have leveled up most of your heroes. They're already at rank one weapons level 60 and they're at 90 or level 90 or up. And also take note signature force is very important because signature force deals additional damage. I'm not sure if you don't have signature force that you can more or less deal that much damage but I would highly recommend that the heroes that you bring also has signature force. So I was playing this in auto and I'm playing this in auto now as long as again you have built your your heroes with high damage, toughness, healing, you'll be fine. And also one thing that I'd like to point out if you can see here the hit limit, the hit limit actually will go up and you have you will have to deal damages quicker so that you could you know you could have the three star for this episode as well. But for me I wasn't able to three star this so I'll have to find ways on how to three star this next time. So I need to to level up my heroes more probably up to level 100. I don't know. I still have to improve on so far with this team. I'm focusing I have actually signature force 2.2, 2.3 for wasted red that is why I'm bringing in wasted red here majority. The problem with wasted red is I cannot bring most of them like Annie because they are of red element so I'm forced to use other heroes here. The only ones that I could bring here for wasted red would be Redley and for Garf. Redley is good because his elemental damage for signature force is also light because of Garf so that is why I he's a good fit for this team. Garf very good for survivability. You can actually up to bring in Tantalo here if you up to bring him but he has small damage that is why I didn't bring him here. What do you call this? I have here Junai also for green as additional damage for nature to break guardian stones. So Iris again this is an option you can actually change Iris if you want to use this team. Ramji is for me is my staple here. I don't think I could put in Shufraken but you can if you don't have Ramji leveled up. So Iris can be changed to somebody else that has higher damage so take note of that because if you can see my hit is already up to 33 so a little bit more and it will exceed the limit which is 45. So this is already wave two so I'm actually going to wave three which is a little bit more a little bit more um what do you call this a little bit more tougher because of the revive of the of the of the damage reduction of 65 percent. So I'm going to manual this to have a quicker battle so that you guys will be able to see the end of this more quickly. Again I still I'm not I'm actually still considering replacement for Iris just in case I want to to what do you call this I want to to to three to three star this level. So if you have any comments guys on which hero that I will bring in and replace Iris please write them down in the comments below so that I could make adjustments to my team. So feel free comment um also guys don't forget to to subscribe to my channel also like this video if you find this interesting and um try to support my channel please it really helps me a lot. So to continue with with this wave three so I'm I'm I'm if you if you can see here I'm ready to hit over the hit limit so all I have to do now is to finish off Belish but I think he can or he has the ability to bring back his friends the banshee so this might take a quite quite a bit longer time so he's actually broken now in which I will have to chip away damage I hope that he he can't recover from this I'm already half of his life so we're down to one third hopefully this will be it so I like the color of all black ramsey actually kind of hardcore so for my team for my pvp team I've adapted more or less a black green and white um color theme the green is mostly olive drab or darker shade of green so I'm nearing the end of this battle he still survived the break so we'll have to see if how long I can hold him see he revived his friends but it's okay I have AOE to finish them off or to finish him off so we're near ready um I think this is it for him no not yet one more hit one more hit one more hit for Belish Bailey you're dead yes but you have to clear the rest first so the rest will be you know will give you another nuisance in terms of clearing the stage so again for chapter 15 it's not really as difficult as the previous chapters um it would it's actually better for for everyone because um again I find this more enjoyable clearing it with a relaxed manner everybody would be able to clear it as well as easy um as possible um I know you guys don't have uh haven't had your some of you guys haven't had your heroes to level up as much but I think um the stages here are pretty much very easy and I think you can you can try to clear some of the stages as well without you know without having any that any much problem so there are the banshee there is zion and this is their cutscene so anyway guys so that is it for me um hope you enjoyed this video for chapter 15 take care this is The Warden and I'm out


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Let's see what's on my subreddit today. Prove as soon as a time traveler. Yes, that is me as a woman, very good. The account of Monty Crusade. Look, you guys just love finding these kind of pictures of me. It's not me, okay? You, okay, Frick, I don't have problems at all. It's just like the go-to. People will probably end up asking like, why did I get this? So I got this because I was seeing cranes all over the place. We're doing? Wait, what? I'm so confused. Hey, welcome back, everybody. People will probably end up. That was creative. But what's wrong with the computer? Okay. Question about, I don't have a boyfriend, even though I've always posed like a boyfriend-style picture. I don't have a boyfriend right now. But no, because I love dicks. Good. Okay, the doorknob's been saved in this clip. Okay, I think it'll be great. So anyway, let's watch this clip. I got to distract him.   It was the first time, so it felt special to me. Why is he?  Decided to check on me through my bedroom window. What? And ask for help taking off the pool cover. He looked through and looked at me. It was awkward eye contact. He quickly looked away. I saw him look away. I know he saw what he saw. You couldn't miss it. And he looked away and said, when you're finished up in there and come help me with the pool, I just said, okay. No way, dude. Dude, I just did. Why would even? Just pretend like it didn't happen. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of a sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control. So he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. Okay. Didn't know S-Fan was a TikTok. Look, guys, this is not me, okay? Maybe if I eat a few more of these breadsticks, it'll be me, but this is not me, okay? He does look very handsome though, I have to say. As many as I was in AEW. What is AEW? American Eagle West. This is not me. Guys, this is not me, okay? This is not me doing pro wrestling. Dude, I swear, I don't know how you guys even find these. This has been the weirdest because in real life before I started streaming, I never got this, but now, every time I started streaming, people always find other things that look like me. It's crazy. I don't know how you guys find something like this. As S-Fan talks about the new Minecraft update, what is this? No, some people like to build wooden roofs in my house. This is not, wait, what the hell? This looks like me and Poke combined. Yo, Poke! Look! What is this? Do you think he plays probably that? Even build a wall of roofs? Probably. Looking at me. Right. No. If me and Poke did fusion, we would look like this. So, how long is this banned for? Lucari was playing Yakuza last night. Okay, is this why you guys keep trying to get me to play Yakuza? You guys want me to get banned? Have you seen the clip? No. Is the clip in here? Who snitched? Okay, hold on. This and this happened. Let me see. 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It's officially 30 days until the start of the first GCSE exam and if you're in 11, time is something that's quite precious to you at the moment. So what I wanted to do, guys, was to literally give you a bite-size video of everything you need to know when it comes to Christmas Carol. If you're sitting this as part of your set text for the English literature, paper one exam. Okay? So this video, what I wanted to do was to offer literally everything you need to know when it comes to context, theme and key quotes for the main characters within this novella by Charles Dickens. So as you can see behind me, basically I've created a mind map of sorts, okay? So it's kind of like a little bit of an elaborate mind map where I basically outline the main context points to remind and remember, okay? So if you forget everything else when it comes to context, and this is really important for AO3, literally just remember these main points and you're fine and you're covered for context. Of course, also what you need to remember if you forget everything when it comes to themes, these are the main themes to remember. And of course, when it comes to the main characters including Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, as well as the three ghosts, Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, the main quotations to memorize for all of these characters. Now guys, I actually created this and put this into like a little PDF file. So guys, if you want to download this and have this, a copy of this, just literally follow the link below and you can download it for free, okay? Well, what I want to do guys is to literally begin by going over the definitive context you need to know for Christmas Carol themes, as well as the main quotations that you can talk about. And then what I'm going to do is to go through a model answer that I've prepared for the 2020 paper. So let's begin with context. These are the main four context points to be aware of when it comes to Christmas Carol. Remember that Dickens, his own father went to a debtor's prison when he was just 12 years old. And as a result of going to debtor's prison, he had to be put to work at 12 years old. Okay.  Okay. That's the first contextual factor to be aware of Dickens actually wasn't writing about all of these kids who worked as chimney sweepers and so on. And of course, in Christmas Carol ignorance and what he wasn't talking about it from a place of just ideas. He directly experienced what it was like to have to be put to work at a young age. Okay. Because his dad went to debtor's prison. So he had to work for a bit when he was 12 years old in order to try and provide for the family. That's the first context point you need to remember and to understand. Hence Dickens really empathized with the poor. The second context point to remember is of course the 1834 new poor law. It was basically a law that was passed, which basically stated that if you're poor and you're unable to look after yourself, the government can help you as long as you are willing to work for free in a workhouse, which is going to provide your accommodation in the accommodation that workhouses tend to provide was basically the cold factory floor. Okay. This obviously, this poor law was seen by Dickens is actually punishing the poor for their position and he was very critical of it. Of course, this poor law is alluded to and referred to by Scrooge when he says that they're no prisons or they're no workhouses. Okay. This is showing obviously how insensitive he was. The third context point is to remember is to do with a guy called Thomas Malthus. Thomas Malthus basically came up with a fairly harsh theory. What he said is overpopulation is one of the reasons why there's lots of poverty in Victorian England. And you know, there's just a problem of poverty. There's just way too many of us.  Now Dickens, when he read this theory was very, very critical of it. He saw it firstly as very insensitive. It's almost like saying that the poor deserve to die because of there being too many of them. And of course it also takes the pressure away from the government to do something to help the poor. Okay. So Dickens again talks about this and it lose to this when Scrooge refers to the surplus population, the better die and reduce the surplus population. It's a reference to Thomas Malthus who Dickens was quite critical of. The fourth context point to remember if you forget every other context point is to do of course with the industrial revolution. Dickens is a Victorian writer. He was there at the height of the industrial revolution. Whilst obviously it bought lots of progress when it came to factories and so on. Dickens was also highly critical of the fact that the industrial revolution created an even worse social divide. Okay. So the divisions between the very few factory owners who became quite rich versus the poor on whose backs the industrial revolution was built was something that Dickens was quite critical of. Those are the main context points. If you forget everything to do with context, if you're not sure, you know, you look at an extract and you're like, I literally do not remember everything. I've got a blank. Just remember these four context points and you are good for the upcoming English Literature Paper One exam. Now let's talk about themes. The main themes that you need to be aware of starting with Christmas. Now remember Dickens was writing for firstly a very religious audience. Okay. People were quite religious at this time and he wanted to use a Christmas Carol as a novella to remind them firstly of the importance of Christmas. Christmas was a time of being charitable and giving. Remember God gave his only son Jesus. Okay. He was born on Christmas day. But also, so not only was it a reminder to his readers that they need to be giving. Of course, it's also a reminder of the importance of spending Christmas time with the family and the loved ones. That's the first theme to remember and to obviously talk about if relevant to the question. The second theme to bear in mind is of course the theme of redemption. Dickens didn't want to use Scrooge to just scare his readers and say, Oh, look at, you know, how terrible he is. All the bad deeds he's done.  Actually Dickens wanted to use this story as a really positive story in the sense that it has a positive outcome if you genuinely change. Remember redemption is the idea of forgiveness.  As did the ghosts who gave Scrooge a second chance. Okay. As long as rich people, factory owners, business people change their ways, the kinder to poor people that pay the workers more fairly, actually they are capable of redemption. That's the main thing that Dickens was trying to illustrate through Christmas Carol. The third theme to remember and to be aware of is of course the theme of charity. The whole story is based on charity and the importance of giving to the poor. One of the things that Dickens wanted to do was to encourage his rich readers. Remember at this time, the people who tended in Victorian era to have the time and, you know, the leisure to read Dickens' stuff wasn't working class people who are busy working. He was writing usually for an upper class rich reader who was somebody of leisure. Therefore, he was writing to remind them of the importance of giving charitably to the poor, of being generous, of paying them higher wages. That's the next third theme to remember. The fourth theme is of course to do with social injustice. This novel criticizes the very massive gaps in Victorian England between the few rich who were like Scrooge who were very comfortable but also a little bit miserly that weren't paying the workers fairly versus the vast majority of poor people. Now Dickens, not only did he want to criticize his rich readers and obviously rich businessmen and so on but also Dickens was quite critical of the government because the government basically passed laws such as the 1834 Newport law as a way of protecting the rich rather than looking after the poor. So of course, he was also quite critical of the government in terms of helping out the rich and widening this gap. Poor people were not really looked after, they weren't really helped. If anything, they were just sent to prisons or workhouses whilst the rich were protected by the government. Dickens was both trying to trigger his wealthy readers to change but also he was criticizing how the government was in its approach towards the poor. The fifth and final theme to be aware of if you forget everything else is of course the theme of family and this is most clearly illustrated through Scrooge and Fred. Okay, so Fred illustrates the importance of family. Family offers you a source of support. It's also a source of strength through hardships. And Scrooge, unlike all the other characters who have families within this novel such as Fred and his family, Belle and her family as well as Bob Cratchit and his family, Scrooge is actually very isolated. Okay, so also Dickens wants to use this novel as a way to illustrate the importance of family in providing us comfort, in providing us companionship and also solace, a place to go to in times of hardship. This is something that Scrooge neglected and ultimately he was isolated as a result. Now let's look at the main quotations if you literally forget everything else with key characters. These are the main quotations to just commit to memory and remember. Let's start off with obviously the first main character which is Scrooge. Of course, this simile, solitary as an oyster encapsulates Scrooge as a character. It captures this essence of what Scrooge is like at the beginning of the novel. He's quite solitary, he's totally cut off and also his greed only makes him more miserable. If anything Dickens is trying to show that when he became more charitable, he was also around other people, people loved him and he was less solitary. That's the first quotation to remember necessarily. The second of course is when he says bar humbug, okay, when he's basically saying oh what rubbish. Again, what we can see here is he disdains Christmas and of course this changes. The third quotation is when he's directly alluding to the new poor laws are there no prisons, dot, dot, dot, workhouses. If you wanted to say, you know, you can add, are there no prisons, rhetorical question one, are there no workhouses. So it's two rhetorical questions and of course what this illustrates is how Scrooge at first is very, very uncharitable. He's very harsh towards the poor. He's quite miserly, quite greedy and he almost sees the poor as inhuman, okay. They are, you know, good enough to be thrown into prisons and workhouses and he doesn't see them as deserving of his charity. Of course he changes because this is illustrated when he gradually realizes when he's taken to see Fezgywig's old boss and the ghost of Christmas past mocks the party that Fezgywig threw for all of them and especially Scrooge as an apprentice and Scrooge says, what do you mean? You know, it's a small matter what Fezgywig did. He did such a positive thing for us and he had the power to make us happy or unhappy. Now Scrooge is speaking here using oxymoron, opposite words and what he's basically saying is employers, businessmen just like him have the power to really change the lives of their workers, okay. And it's up to them with what they're going to do with this power, okay. And of course what this novel is trying to illustrate to Dickens readers is that they need to think about this immense power that they have especially if they have employees in making their lives easier or harder. The final quotation which obviously illustrates Scrooge firstly being offered a chance at redemption, at redeeming himself, okay. So the ghost of Christmas yet to come basically gives him yet another chance so we can see he's forgiven and given a chance at redemption and of course he genuinely changes is when he says I will live in the past dot adopt present dot adopt future, okay. So past, present and future this is rule of three. Here we can see that Scrooge has completely transformed, he's changed and how he has changed is what Dickens wishes his wealthy readers would transform into, okay. So those are the main quotations to remember with Scrooge as well as the techniques that go with them. The second key character of course is Bob Cratchit he is a symbol of the poor, okay. Now in terms of Bob Cratchit these are the three main quotations to remember if you forget everything to do with Bob Cratchit or other poor characters mentioned in this novella, okay. The first quotation is when we learn how he's described, right. How withdrawn he is initially when we see him in Scrooge's office. We learn the clerk's fire was so very much smaller. So now here we can see this comparative adjective smaller as well as of course the noun fire. What does this illustrate? What this illustrates is how miserly, how mean Scrooge was but equally how Bob Cratchit like most poor people are very accustomed to being mistreated by their employers, okay. It symbolizes how lots of working class poor people in Victorian England were really accustomed that were used to be mistreated by their employers. The second quotation which is related to Bob Cratchit's character is during the Christmas meal. We can see that he's still really, really happy with the little his wife is able to cook for them but the narrator Dickens still admits it was a small pudding for a large family. Now what you want to emphasize here is the oxymoron small and large. It's illustrating how Scrooge underpain Bob Cratchit led him to not be able to provide very well for his family. They had such a small Christmas meal but then on the other hand even if they didn't have a great life they were still very happy because they were together as a unified family. The final quotation that illustrates Bob Cratchit's character is of course when Tiny Tim dies and Bob Cratchit is crying out my little little child which is an exclamatory sentence as well as the repetition of little. Here we can see the direct consequences the direct impact of Scrooge's behavior on the working class poor. He has indirectly led to the death of Bob Cratchit's own son. Now the other key character of course is the ghost of Christmas past. So of course it starts with past, present and future, all right. So let's have a look at the ghost of Christmas past. The first quotation is how he appears, okay. He seems like a child dot dot dot like an old man. This simile which juxtaposes how the ghost both looks like a child and an old man is really powerful because what this is illustrating is a symbolizing the child aspect is symbolizing the spirit taking Scrooge back to when he was a child. It came to remind him of his childhood and his innocence. And of course the old man symbolizes Scrooge in his current state as an older adult who's quite bitter and also whose innocence has been robbed through his greed and his selfishness.  So of course the ghost is making fun of Fezziwig's party saying oh it's not really a big deal but of course Scrooge says no it's a massive deal. Fezziwig has the power to render us happy or unhappy. Of course what the ghost is doing is he's transforming Scrooge, is making Scrooge realize the power he had to make Bob Cratch's life easier. The final quotation for the ghost of Christmas past is when we learn once Scrooge is starting to absorb the lesson this is towards the end of that state okay. The ghost it's light was burning ellipsis bright and here we've got alliteration of the plosives B. We can see here that the spirit is starting to see that Scrooge is transforming. He's starting to internalize how he should change. Those are the quotations for the ghost of Christmas past. Now with the ghost of Christmas present the first quotation is how he's described as a jolly giant okay. Jolly which is an adjective actually contrasts our expectations as readers usually when we think about ghosts we think about them as being these scary evil malevolent forces but actually this ghost is almost a little bit like Santa Claus okay. The other quotation is of course when he presents the two children to Scrooge and these children symbolize the impact of poverty on young children okay. Young people the future generation it robs them of their innocence and this is illustrated through this list yellow meagre ragged okay. Yellow meagre ragged scowling wolfish if you wanted to also add those extra adjectives. Now what this listing is emphasizing is how people like Scrooge and rich readers actually caused the young children okay so the children of the people they employed to suffer. Their innocence was robbed they looked really unnatural okay and it was all down to people like Scrooge. The final quotation for ghost of Christmas present is this boy's ignorance this girl is what remember ignorance is used to represent children who never go and get an education right.  The other of course symbol of the girl being want want just means lack of right wanting basic necessities like clothing and not wearing rags okay a lot of these children were ragged children that's why they even went to ragged squads okay because they literally wore rags wanting just basic housing and so on okay so the girl symbolizes just children who lacked just the bare minimum the bare basics and the best necessities. The final quotations and the final set of quotes to remember is of course to do with the ghost of Christmas future he's the most sinister ghost and the first quotation relates to how he is dressed in a deep black garment the adjective black emphasizes this sinister appearance but also it foreshadows the death of Scrooge. Remember the color black is related to coffins and death okay and of course its appearance foreshadows Scrooge's eventual death when he sees his gravestone. The second quotation is how the phantom pointed a litteration of pea hair illustrates that it's unyielding it's pointing and almost showing Scrooge that your fate is set you're going to become like Jacob Marley. However the final quotation which illustrates that the spirit decides to forgive him and gives Scrooge another chance is when we learn the kind hand trembled and of course kind which is an adjective illustrates that the ghost believes Scrooge can be redeemed he can be forgiven so he forgives him and gives him another chance. So as I mentioned if you literally forget everything else just remember this and you're absolutely fine when it comes to the upcoming exams and as I mentioned