Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Red Hat Summit 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat. Hello everyone, welcome back. This is day three of theCUBE's exclusive coverage of Red Hat Summit 2018. Live in San Francisco, California at Moscone West. We're out in the open in the middle of the floor here. I'm John Furrier, co-host with my co-host this week. John Troyer, co-founder of Tech Reckoning, advisory and community development firm. Our next guest is CUBE alumni, Kim Stevenson, senior vice president and general manager of the data center group solution segment at Lenovo. Ready to see you? Yeah. Hey, how are you? Thanks for coming on. So Red Hat Summit, Lenovo. Okay, how does that fit together for you guys? Data center obviously is cloud now, and you got on premise. We're both in Raleigh. You know what? You moved to Raleigh? What's the update? Where's that connection as fiber cloud is taking this world by storm? Yeah, so we're, you know, we're a great partner with Red Hat, and we're very focused on enabling that hybrid enterprise through a hybrid cloud. So one of the things that we've done, we do a lot of co-development, but one of the things is we've taken our systems management software, which is X-Clarity, and we're the first to embed that into cloud forms so that we can move assets, you know, public assets to private assets and vice versa. And that wouldn't be possible without working really closely with Red Hat, so. Oh, Red Hat's been very strong at support, and if you look at the Rale side on the operating system side, very reliable, it's had years and years of experience, but it's always been kind of, let's certify the hardware, but now that you have hardware at the baseline, moving up the stack, you have OpenShift, getting huge success, Kubernetes, now you've got multiple clouds, which has other hardware. Security becomes a concern we hear about, okay, security being on top of that's a really big deal. How does that change the game for you guys? How are you guys adjusting to that? Because it requires everyone to do more work, but now you've got automation playing role. Take us through that relationship between from the hardware all the way up to the stack. Yeah, and it is, it's the weakest link issue, right? That every piece of the solution has to be secure in its own right, and the solution has to be secure. Right, so we do a lot in the hardware environment through our supply chain. We have efficacy of every part and component that goes in, every piece of software loaded through manufacturing, the one of the benefits of having your own manufacturing organization. So we know what we give is a secure platform when there is ready to go, but then as you start to add the software, this is where things like containers become really important, and the ability to do monitoring of the environment without having to stop the environment. And so we have a lot of investment going in OpenShift, and we've launched recently a DevOps practice based on OpenShift to actually accelerate the deployment of more and more containers to again figure out the security by design versus security after the fact. The problem with monitoring is after the fact, you want to design in, and you need to rethink the application structure in order to be able to do that. Talk about Lenovo's strategy and innovation around enterprise and emerging tech because consumerization of IT has been a topic we talked about going way back many, many years, but actually the role of consumer hardware products is becoming more and more enterprise as IoT, for instance, becomes a critical piece of the network, whether it's you wear a bolster of humans or security camera on a network, the edge of the network is now the IoT device, but also the data center can be considered an edge, a big edge, right? So you have now devices everywhere that's not so much consumerish. It really has to be enterprise and cloud enabled. What are you guys doing in the innovation area there? What are some of the things that Lenovo is doing to move the needle on really making a seamless IoT edge secure and functional? Yeah, so one of the things, if you look back at the last 10 years of IT, right? We've spent a lot of time as IT organizations consolidating data centers and then basically getting rid of people in IT, right? The simplicity of an AWS and Azure stack has actually driven down the number of operational people in IT. And now you're hitting this wave where on-prem private clouds are becoming more and more important. It could be the analytic workloads, it could be your blockchain workloads, but the workloads that you want to keep on-prem and you're going, holy crap, I need a robust operational organization to actually make this come to life. So that was one of my predictions for this year was operational simplicity rises in importance. And our response to that from a Lenovo solution is to build fully integrated appliances. So we have fully integrated private cloud appliances based on Azure stack, based on Nutanix, based on VMware's vSAN, ready nodes, so that you can pick either at the software layer only or you can pick a fully integrated appliance where it's integrated in the factory. It's what I call rack and roll, comes with white glove support and you need far less operational people. And if you want to know, I mean it's mimicking that simplicity that AWS offers, right? So it's really an application team that now can manage this entire operational environment. So is that targeted towards folks who are transitioning to cloud operations? So one of the things about true private cloud is they're essentially rebooting their organizations to be cloud operations, essentially. That's right, yeah. And so they want that plug and play, if you will, I hate to use that to old term, but just out of the box and then it becomes a resource on the network. Yeah, well everybody says, they say the hardware doesn't matter. Well, it matters, you know, because it's what makes everything run. But what they mean by that is they don't want to mess with it.  It needs to be there like a utility, but not have to have the resource dedication that used to exist where I needed storage admins and database admins and server admins. That level of monitoring and management has to be abstracted to the software layer and you have to then be able to integrate your resource components to be able to do that and look at it as a system, not as a component. And that's where we're headed with our strategy. Yeah, that's a great consumption model, right? An increasing part of the market, converged infrastructure, hyper-converged infrastructure.  Rack and roll, I like that. But the hardware does matter, right? A few years ago, we were just, you know, if you'd listened to some people, you know, it was, we were going to be inside public clouds with some sort of undifferentiated pool of X86 servers out there, but it turns out the actual hardware and the integration pieces do matter. John mentioned IoT, you know, AI, we've seen some examples of it here at the show, real-world examples. And then for that, hardware really starts to matter well. Can you talk a little bit about how Lenovo's looking at some of these emerging tech? At the beginning of the year, we formed an IoT division specifically to focus on IoT, and it really is bringing the edge to life. That's the mission of that particular organization. And so we see sort of the remote office, branch office concept that, you know, has long since, I mean, that goes back to AS 400 days, right, that you had branch office computing, but reinventing itself in a modern way into these edge servers that can be ruggedized for, you know, we have edge servers in windmills, as an example, to manage and monitor a windmill farm, right, to optimize generation with windshifts, those kinds of things, but it could be a closet, right? And it- It's not a data center. It's not a data center is in a physical construct of a data center is in the functionality provided, it is a data center. And so we have from our PC group, one of the things I'm pretty interested about is we have these things called stackables. So they're about, you know, five by eight inches of a PC, and then you can magnetically connect a battery to a magnetically connect a projector to it through magnets, and you can get basically a stack of computing power. So we've looked at that from our PC colleagues and said, huh, that's the future of the edge, but it needs to be Xeon class, it needs to be enterprise manageability, right? And so it won't be five inches by eight inches when we're done, right? But it will use some of that IP in the stackable nature that will allow you, then I can put that stackable unit on the back of a television monitor for a smart display, I put it back on a kiosk or a vending machine, or, and now all of a sudden, now I can get a really different customer experience at the edge, and then I can parse data, maybe I don't need that data to go back to the cloud, maybe I do need some of that for, you know, machine learning capabilities, I want to create big data sets back in the cloud, you can create that level of intelligence at the edge, and parse the data to where you think the appropriate destination for that data is. How important is the IoT edge for you guys, and what should customers who are trying to merge cultures of OT operational technology with IT? Because now you have IP devices, which, you know, creates a security potential, but there's now policy involved, you got to write software apps for, you got unique use cases, talk about the importance of the IoT edge for Lenovo, and what customers should be thinking about when they architect. So, you know, my starting point is every piece of equipment becomes an IP-enabled device that will generate and collect data. You're going to have to figure out how to use that data, right? I said to our facilities leader not too long ago, I said, what, I pointed the table, conference table we're at, what do you think this is? He's like, ah, it's a table. And I'm like, no, to me, this is a smart table. It could be connected, IP connected, and we could, you know, figure out, is it the right, you know, value for this particular room? And you could just get into these crazy things. Some won't make sense, some won't make sense. But basically, I think every company is looking at how do they make their products and services smart by wrapping them with IT-enabled services. So that creates a new edge. We used to think of endpoints as PCs and phones.  And that is sort of the new, that's where we are trying to attack from the IoT perspective. What we're trying to help customers understand is it's that data collection, use case analysis that will enable them. One of my favorite examples is Ford has a prototype product. It's not a car, it's a baby crib. Now why, right?  Everybody knows that when new parents have a cranky baby in the middle of the night, what do you do? You put him in the car, you take him for a ride, right? So this baby crib mimics the motion of a car, mimics the sound of an engine, and mimics the street lights. It's no more taking your baby for a ride in the middle of the night. We've all done it. Yeah, we've all done it, right? And this is why these endpoint devices collecting data to figure out these new products and services. And I just think whether they ever bring that to market or not is not the point. It's new experiences. It's a brilliant idea and gives you a really good illustration of how creating these smart enabled endpoints will allow you to generate new business opportunities. That's been a real theme here at the show, getting beyond the technology, right? To be transformation is kind of a buzzword, but I loved that they didn't put a huge amount of tech on stage. They really did talk to the people here, attendees, about look, you've got to step up. You've got to have new ideas. You've got to affect the business. How are you, as you talk with both of the customers and inside Lenovo addressing those kind of a transformation and business ad. Yeah, so like I said today, and I really believe this, there's a new mandate for IT. The table stakes of keeping the business running. Of course we have to keep the business running and running well, right? But really, every IT leader should be thinking about how do they redefine the customer experience for their organization? How do they drive extreme productivity through AI and blockchains? If there's, companies today are extraordinarily inefficient. We all live in a company and we can tell you it's inefficient. But you now have the ability to affordably drive out that inefficiency through this level of extreme productivity. And then there are, everybody needs to be thinking about the future of the company. What are you in the business of and how does that, how do you wrap those with new products and services, whether it's adjacent markets that you're going to create or it's enhancements of your existing product. So you can reach new customers, new markets. And that's a far more interesting role for IT, but you can't give up the ship either, right? You cannot let operational performance decline while you're operating on the new mandate, which is why new operating models for IT and the hyper-converged infrastructures and- Containers have been a great help there too. Containers, right? We just have to fundamentally re-architect so that it's easy to actually drive change into the flawless change into the enterprise. And the volume of change for our future is twice as great as what we've experienced in the past. And if you accept that as a premise, you'll rethink how you've done your architecture and how you promote code into production and how you manage that code going forward. We always love having you on the queue because you always do predictions. So I want to go back and get some predictions from you. What's your predictions next year? What do you see happening? Oh, by the way, you all have been right in a lot of their predictions. So let me go back, we have the tapes. We can go back and look at the video and say, ah, see you're right on that one. What's your predictions this year? I mean, obviously you've seen a lot going on. We're talking about here on theCUBE seeing what's going on with Kubernetes, containers, OpenShift, that a new internet infrastructure is being recast with compatibility modes with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration, cloud scale, you talk about IoT edge, a new infrastructure, an upgrade is coming. So there's a lot of things happening. So what's your prediction? What's going to happen over the next year? So I actually believe this is the first year that we have human capacity and IT organizations to reinvent the enterprise structure which comes led with an enterprise architecture discussion. We've been moving workload to the cloud, SaaS applications, infrastructure as a service. And that is now absorbed enough into that you can stand back and look at it. So I do believe that, I call it data centers go micro, that the era of data center consolidation is over, that there will be more data centers, they just will be micro data centers because they will reflect the edge of every company and those end points aggregation that you need to do to figure out what your data analysis is going to be. I also think that the operational simplicity that operating models are going to be redefined as more and more private clouds get deployed. The structure of an IT organization is typically looks like this. You have four basic functions. You have IT engineering, IT operations, application development and applications maintenance. That's typically the structure. I think you're going to see a collapsing of that. There actually is no reason for four independent functions. You need to organize by line of business and the business outcome you're trying to drive and workers are going to need to be more versatile in terms of being able to span. You're going to abstract a lot from the infrastructure. So you need to be able to manage at a higher level. Therefore you can't organize in that discreet manner. And I think you'll start to see that come to life. It's horizontally scalable. Sounds like horizontally scalable people, yeah. You've been a CIO at Intel. You had a lot of ride roads, you found some boards. You're now in an executive role at Lenovo. You're managing products and get your responsibilities, building, shipping and business performance as well. How has your role changed? You've been there for about what, a year and a half? Just about a year. Just about a year. What's the energy like? What are you bringing to the teams? What's your vision? What's your to-do list within Lenovo to take it to the next level? Yeah, so when I started with Lenovo because I considered Lenovo the underdog in the data center industry which was going through phenomenal change, right? And so the underdog has the best opportunity to capture hearts and minds and share when the industry is going through change. And so that's what attracted me. And it's been true. We organized about this time last year by customer segment to serve the unique needs of our customers in terms of hyperscaling customers, high-performance compute and enterprise both at the software-defined and traditional layer. And in that one year, we've won six out of the 10 top hyperscalers in the world from zero to six in a year. We consider that to be great. And we learn so much from there that they're doing a lot of customization and they're two, three, four years ahead of what the general enterprise will consume. And so we're able to take that and pull it back into our private cloud deployment strategy into our enterprise software management and strategy because we see what they're doing and use that as a virtual cycle of life. And we've got a lot of momentum in that area and our employees are just excited about how much progress we've made in a year. And I would say if you pulled 10 of them, nine out of 10 would have said they wouldn't have believed they could make so much progress in one year. And that's a good feeling to have. Now, there's more work to do. Yeah, you have product leadership, you've got some great products. It's now just focus and getting on the right wave, right? I mean, because the industry is changing. So you can move the needle big time. And we've chosen, from a software perspective, we've chosen a deep partnership model with Red Hat as one of the partners. And so if I look forward and I would say, look, we're going to have to go deeper and partner more broadly across the ISV sphere to continue to bring these tightly integrated appliances and simple cloud deployment models to the market. And that's what you'll see us do next. Well, it's exciting for you and congratulations. And they're lucky to have you. And we know from when you read Intel, you've seen the playbook. You know, there's a lot of change going on. So great to see you, congratulations. We certainly love Cover and Lenovo, a lot of great action. Thanks for your support. And thanks for coming on, sharing your insights here in theCUBE again. Appreciate it. Kim Stevenson here inside theCUBE for Red Hat, Summit 2018, live in San Francisco. I'm John Furrier with John Troyer. We'll be back with more after this short break. Often times the communities already know about a facility that's a problematic because they smell it, they see it. But again, they don't have the evidence to basically prove that whatever's happening with their health is related to that facility. If you have a low-cost instrument that's easy to use, then all of a sudden, science becomes something that everyday people can do. Hi, I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media and co-host of theCUBE. 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Hey everybody, this is Brian and welcome to the 26 Qt tutorial with C++ and GUI programming. Today we're going to cover the Q message box, so let's just go file new, new Qt GUI application and it's pretty much the same thing we've been doing. Put it in the usual location and we're going to give it a Q dialog. Just hit OK and finish and once we get our window here, let's just resize this a bit. I'm going to throw a few buttons on here and we're going to say information, question, let's probably make that a capital and let's line that up here, warning and let's just say custom. All right, let's set our layout and resize as needed. So we've got four buttons here, information, question, warning and custom and we're going to show a Q message box and we're going to make it different each time. So let's select information, go to slot, clicked and then there's our and let's just type info so we know which one this is and we need to add our includes before we do anything else. We're going to get some weird error messages here. So let's go include, QCore and include QCui. All right, save our work. Now the Q message box, you've seen this many, many, many times so far, so this is going to be relatively review for you, but we're going to show you a few new tricks so pay attention. All right, so Q message box information and the parent will be this and the string or the title. We'll just say title here and let's actually drop down the line and then we need the text and then you can actually keep adding things. For example, you can add buttons. We're not going to do that for the information. We just want a standard information and let's go back to our form but first we're going to copy this then we're going to do question. So just go to slot, clicked and it's pretty much the same thing. The only difference is you have to add buttons to the question because you're asking a question. So what sort of buttons do you want to add? Well the type of buttons depend on the question you're asking. So let's just say do you like cats and let's go down here and go Q, oops, something else popped up and stole my mouse, sorry about that. Q message box, yes and we want to do an or so Q message box, no. We just want to give them a simple yes or no and there are other options you can explore but for the Q question or I'm sorry the Q message box with the static question we're just going to do yes or no. All right, let's save and run this. Just make sure it works so far and click information and there's title here, text here, you see it's got the information icon and question do you like cats, yes or no. So one thing you might be asking is well how do you get the response back from the user? I mean how do you know which button they clicked? Well that's a good question. So let's say Q message box, standard button and we'll call this reply and then we're just going to simply say reply equals. So once you've said reply equals and then you can just grab the reply and let's just say if reply equal and we'll say Q message box, yes, then do some things. So in this case we're just going to say, actually I'll just copy this for the sake of argument we're going to just display an information box here saying you like cats. Actually we'll say you love cats. There we go. Let's get rid of that text. So just kind of over-inundating the user with message boxes here. So let's compile and run this. Uh-oh we have a bobo, invalid use of non-static message, expected before reply. What did we do wrong here? I think we have the wrong type, standard button, there we go, yes we did have the wrong type, we had the lowercase version, we want the uppercase version. The difference between those two is the standard button lowercase is an object, the standard button uppercase is an actual enumeration. So let's compile and run this. Do you like cats? If we say no, nothing happens. If we say yes, you love cats. So let's say you get the response back from the Q message boxes, you just do a Q message box standard button. Or the capital, and give it a variable name and then say variable equals, that's how you do that. Alright, now what about our others, the warning and the custom? Let's go to slot, clicked, and you guessed it, just warning. And it's got the same argument list so we really don't have to do a whole lot there. And then custom, and let's go to slot, clicked. And this way we're going to have a little bit of fun with here. So let's actually get rid of that. Let's say Q message box, question, this, this, and we want to do the title. So we'll say my title and then the text and we'll say my, whoops, having keyboard difficulties here today. My text here and then we have buttons. This is where the real power of a message box comes in. You can add all sorts of buttons. So we'll say Q message box and we'll say yes to all or Q message box yes or Q message box. No, I'm sure you've seen a dialogue similar to this at one point. You can kind of guess what I'm building here and we'll say Q message box and no to all. And add our semicolon here. So save and run this. Alright, now warning, warning has the typical warning icon. You've noticed that these dialogue boxes are all very similar code-wise but they look very different. It's all about relaying information back to the end-user and we click custom. My text here, yes, yes to all, no, no to all. So you could say something like are you sure you want to overwrite this file? Yes, yes to all, no, no to all. And then you can just simply grab the response back using this technique I showed you here. We'll just copy this and paste it. Whoops, silly me, I put it in the wrong one. Go down to our custom here. It's that simple. Working with message boxes is relatively easy in just about every language and Qt gives you an extensive amount of options with the message box. You can do literally just about anything you can think of with a message box. So by all means use them. Your users will love you. Don't pop one up on the screen every five seconds and well, you know how the users will act with that. This is Brian. I hope you found this video educational and entertaining and thank you for watching.


I have been bike racing since 2004 all over the country I raced on big teams and did a lot of big races. So last year in 2018 I was in the best shape of my life ever and competing at a very high level on the podium a lot. One State Championships was second at Nationals and two races just really outstanding season and I went out with some friends tooling around one day at the end of my season and I had an accident and I broke my neck and it was a life-changer for sure. She had a ruptured disc between those two vertebrae and a piece of that was broken off and actually pinching a nerve and she had a fracture through the spine as well and a fragment or fragments of fractured bone were also pressing on the nerve and so between the bone fractures the disc rupture and the ligament injury which hold those vertebrae together I was very concerned that this was a highly unstable fracture and that she needed both surgery to relieve the pinched nerve but also surgery to realign and stabilize the vertebrae. Getting her back to full activity really required this extensive surgery and in that sense I really didn't see an alternative I think this is what she needed to make sure that she would be back biking again. Now it's been four months post-op and I just got cleared to ride outside so I've been outside once. I didn't have any pain in my neck and I was just you know able to look over my shoulder and look down at my garment and reach for my bottle and all the things you normally do. I'm gearing up for the season now I'm in the gym I've been in the gym my strength coach my bike coach my Kaiser Permanente team I have this team of people helping me and it's it's it's really great to have this to have this group I'm pretty grateful I found an amazing doctor I mean I wasn't expecting it and he's really outstanding so I'm I'm I feel blessed to have had him as my surgeon and the nursing team was so great they know what they're talking about I I could never give them enough thanks I guess is what I'm saying Kaiser Permanente has been good medicine for me


This time subscribers also get a 30-day money back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up. Okay, looking good, Billy Ray feeling good Lewis. We're very lucky today folks. Whenever I have a question that I can't get answered, I call someone that's going to be our guest today and his name is Bill Meridian of Cycles Research out of Vienna, Austria. Bill, how are you doing? Well, I'm good Larry. How are you? I'm very good. I have three questions here from our listeners to start off. Can I start with those? Because this is a new system that we have here at TF&A. It's called Discord. I know it's a strange name for a company, but it's actually a pretty good system. But it's not like the old Den that we used to have where it was easy to put in charts. So whether we have charts or not to show, I don't know whether we'll be able to do that. But the questions that I have are pretty important. Bill, in my 62 years of being in these markets, my first trade was 1959. And I have never seen it this squirrely. I've been through the Cuban missile crisis, the crash of 87, all the dot-com bubbles and stuff, a couple of assassinations. But my God, I've never seen anything crazy in the world that's going on. I mean, there's so many things that are going bad. Is this astrologically what's supposed to be happening? Yes. Listen, Bill, don't expand on it if you don't want to. Why is it so bad, Bill? I'll try to give you a brief explanation. Last time I was on, I explained that, I think it was December 2020. Wow. Two years already? Are in the year, I'm trying to remember now, we had an eclipse at zero cancer, eclipses at zero effect the whole world. Six months later, we had a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction that supposedly rules the political economic situation for the next 20 years. I think it may only be 10. But they were directly linked because the eclipse was at zero cancer and the sun at the moment of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction was zero Capricorn. This means these are the world points. That means the energy affects everybody. And if you remember on Bloomberg, they were coming on saying, we're all going to have to participate. We're all going to go through a change. And well, COVID affected everyone, slowed down the economies affecting everyone. But those are not friendly charts. And neither was the inauguration chart for the current administration. They're all very difficult. So that's the short answer. Okay, that's a good short answer. And the second question that someone's asked that's there from Tupelo, Mississippi, the home of Elvis Presley. And his question is, is there anything in the stars or cycles that you're looking at that would cause a crash-type environment sometime in October or November of this year? Well, it's a good question. First of all, I did a study. It's called the panic cycle. Most panics have occurred in years in October and November of years ending in seven or eight. So yes, October and November have brought crashes. I just have a funny feeling it's not right now. The market may go lower. But if you're looking for banks, Lehman brothers going out of business and things like that, I don't think it's right now. Okay, that's fair enough. That answers that question. And the third question is, how is the price? What is your feeling on the environment in Saudi Arabia? I know this is geopolitical, but it's an important question, I think, as a dude asked it. What is the geopolitical ramifications of Saudi Arabia not going along with Mr. Biden, President Biden cutting increasing production? Is that all part of a scenario that's working out in the Middle East? And I know that's one of your specialties because you lived there for so many years. Yeah. And I just spoke to them last week. Well, they're not happy with the president. And I think the feeling throughout the Middle East is, you know, their major concern when I last spoke three and a well be three and a half years ago, when I was this last physically there and I sat with, you know, all these guys were, when I got there, I was 40, all these guys were 25. Now they're running the country. I sat with the guy who's the minister of economics at his home. And what are your major concerns? Well, Iran and fracking. And so I think they want American help and defense against Iran. And if they're not getting it, they're not happy. And so it's sort of a double, you know, we could produce all the energy we need here. We could sink the price of oil, but we're holding it up. So they are arming themselves as fast as they can. And they would appreciate support from the U.S. government against Iran and other encroachments.   Is there a potential for a Armageddon type war here that President Biden mentioned this week, a nuclear war in the future? Well, there's always a possibility of anything. But is it going to, I have done, I have to review my work in that area because I'm not really up to speed. But all I can say is the horoscopes that I mentioned, I meant, you know, I, you don't know what to say in 2019 when I looked at it, I said, well, it's increase in violence. I left it at that. I'm in at all levels. I mean, look at the streets. Oh my God. The streets between nations, civil wars, things like that. Yeah. A nuclear, I don't think anybody really wants that. I wouldn't think so. But my goodness, you see it in the news so much now. It's scary. What's happened in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, I mean, your thing is there to scare you. That's it. Got that right.  Are you all right?  I mean, no, I'm in right at the moment. I'm in my home in Monroe, New Jersey, which is outside of Princeton. Oh, okay. Well, you're in a real nice area. That's really cool. Okay. One other question that we have here on the price of oil. Do you think we've reached the price of oils peak at 125 or do you think we could possibly go higher? Well, I've got that in the presentation here. But I think the odds of it going higher are low because you're moving into the weak part of the year and very seasonal. Okay. Since we can't post the charts, how about if you go ahead and talk about the charts? You can't see them because I've got them on the screen. They say that he can see them. Well, let's just go ahead. Maybe Al will tell me that I'm not able to see them. Well, he told me to start screen sharing, so I did. Oh, well, then let's fire away. Let's go. I can get those late. I can no figure out how we're ready to go, Bill. Go ahead, start out with number one. And when we come to the break, I'll, well, the break's coming up in just a few seconds here, but let's bring up the first chart and then I'll figure out how to, I will, I will be able to see it very, very soon. 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We're not there yet. So the bulls are on thin ice here. Rates are headed higher, which means lower bonds. Oil I think is moving lower in this Q4. And the real estate cycle which I presented on your show many times, I said 2023 would be the top. It's already creaking.  So always have to keep our eye on the money supply. You see here, this is the global money supply. It is contracting. So if you're looking for an expansive money supply or looking for a reason to own some inflation hedge, really the facts do not support that. You are running up to down escalator. And of course, credit is tightening. Percent of the world's banks hiking rates. I mean, you can see that is higher any times as 1985.  These are the only two I put in. This is incredible. We can see it. Mortgage rates hit 7% here in Tucson this week. Of course. Now, October from 1885 to the present in terms of the S&P in all months, it's up 56% of the time. October is the single most volatile month. It has seen the biggest one day declines. It has seen more lows and usually closes on the upside. And according to the descending pattern in years ending in two, October has bottomed a lot of bear markets. I don't know if we'll do it this year, but anyway, in years ending in two, which we're in, it's been up 31% of the time. In election two years past election, it's up 62% of the time. Both zero and elect zero, that should be two in election years, the combination of items two and three. Up 67% of the time. The month has been the highest and as the highest percentage return of 4.1%. It's been the most volatile month. So that's what we're facing right here. So usually, you know, very choppy in the opening and closing on the upside. Now, the one four and 10 year cycle, the one year cycle is the annual cycle in any year that the market is weak in the autumn. It is a strong in Q4. There's a spring rally and so on a summer top. That is the red line. The election year cycle is the green line. That is a four year cycle. It's actually 3.8 something, which has been attributed to the Federal Reserve. And the story goes that the Federal Reserve wants to support the incumbent president. So they juice up the money supply in the year before the election. So the year prior to the election, the market returns have been best the year after they've been the worst and the other two are in between. That is a good theory. But as my old pal, he and Natalie used to point out, there was a four year cycle before the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. And there's a four year cycle in countries where they have six year election cycle or no elections whatsoever. In other words, it's a four year cycle. And the decennial pattern is from Edgar Lawrence Smith of the Maritris Bank. And that is years ending in five have had the best returns years ending in zero have had the worst returns and all manners and shades in between. And if you look here, you'll notice there it is. It's it's bottoming right now. And this is the sum of all those cycles up here, the solid blue line. So you see, according to this, we should have started bottoming two weeks ago. And what I'm seeing here is a very weak, I mean, that the market can't really muster any support in my this, by the way, is a cycle I use in 2016 when I was ranked number one by time of digest. And then it didn't work as well. So I have other cycle that I used 17, 18, 19, 20. And I noticed last year in 21, this one fit the scenario. So I decided to follow this one. And you'll note that it projected a very weak Q2 and Q3. And there you see the week September right here. And it's been it's been very it's been the best of the cycle combinations. It doesn't always work every year. But it's working right now. Now that's the composite of the three cycles in Q4. So you'll see we are currently down right here right at the point of just above October 10. So the market is trying to bottom the technical problem that I see is if you look at the new lows, new highs, new lows have been dwarfing new highs, it started straight now. And then it went back to the downside. And even on updates, you're getting more stocks making new lows than new highs. So that is not a positive signal. And so I'm sitting on a lot of cash waiting for some signal. Now Q4, this is the, this is all years, two years best election that are also years ending in two. And you'll note they've only been six of them since 1885. You'll note, you see how weak September is? That's that does not include this past year. And then you'll note that October 4 is October and November, December are strong. But you'll know. So in other words, I confirmed the 1410 year cycle with this, I said Q2 and Q3 would be the weakest. Q4 would be the strongest. So this is where we are now. This is an extreme, you have not seen this before. This is only the Dow 30. I got into the habit of looking at seasonality. In other words, which stocks traditionally do the best? For example, we're worst in a month. The worst month to hold Apple is September. It's down 65% of the time. If Apple is down in August, which it was, it rises to 72%.  You would, I think, find that interesting. Anybody that'll flip a coin, I'll do it. You bet 75% is way out there. That's an outlier for me. And that's a good one. And October is the best month to hold it. So if you look right here, you see Apple and you'll see seasonal rank three. In other words, of all these stocks, the best performer, the third best performer has been Apple. The best performer has been GSO Goldman Sachs. The second best performer, Johnson & Johnson. The RSV is the relative strength. So this is seasonality. This is what the market is currently doing. We look for confirmation. And relatively speaking, the number one stock is CVX Chevron Texaco down here. So if we, it normally does not do well. It's 28th ranked out of 30 stocks for October, but it's ranked first. So its rank is the sum of these two divided by two. So I'll put the top as Johnson & Johnson. It's number two in seasonal rank and number seven relative strength. Now, I have been publishing this in Forbes and in the past 30 to 36 months, and this is not a managed portfolio. This is a test, but I put it out there. The numbers are that the top five stocks, if they are the longs, they outperform the index by about 30%, the index being the Dow Jones industrials. And the shorts are running around like 0.6 a point. In other words, at down 20%, 30%. So it's working exactly as a long, short equity strategy would work. And it's got two components, seasonality and relative strength. Of course, you can look at this and go through the top five and say, I'm going to rule this one out or that one out for some other reason, because it's in a weak sector or whatever. So this is, I ran this for the month of November, which hasn't even started yet. So I may have misspoken and said October, but for, and then I try to look for, notice J&J is a healthcare stock. Let's go down foreign as united health. So you've got two healthcare stocks highly rated, then you have Merck over here. So of approximately the top 10, three are in the healthcare industry. And of course, down at the bottom here, you've got Verizon, Boeing, Intel, Dow, Nike, IBM. So these would be the shorts. So this is a tool I've developed just over the, I was doing it by hand and we finally computerized it because it showed Merck. So now this is the S&P monthly and in 1987, the stock market crashed. I'm sitting in my apartment in Greenwich Village in New York and I called up Arthur Merrill who wrote behavior of prices on Wall Street and Fulton waves. And I said, Arthur, could this 1987 crash have been a mini bear market? They said, well, Bill, there are two considerations, price and time. 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Okay, we're back, folks, speaking with Bill Meridian, Cycles Research. Bill, do you want to continue, please? This is really interesting to me and I know the folks like it too, so please continue. Here's the S&P 100 monthly, so these are obviously Fibonacci retracements, but on any chart, I've kept this simple. I'll put on as much as you like. I put a regular trend line on, the GAN, one by one, one by two lines. Where they, Joe DiNappoli calls this confluence, where you see a high concentration of lines, it is thick ice for the bulls. In other words, if you walk out on the frozen lake, you're not going to go through into the drank. What is that area here? Well, first of all, you've got this move from back here, 87 crash. Look, that 87 crash panicked us all. Look at the size of it now. I know. It was 87. And then we start again here in 2009. And then we over here in, that's around 2019, 2020. So I picked 30, 30 because 3300. You'll notice it's 61.8% of the most recent rally and 38.2% of this rally. And if you go below that in an emergency all-out, 2,500 would be 50% retracement of the entire rally from the 1987 law. So 3,300 has been my target for a while, but obviously markets don't move straight down. They, you have bear market rallies, which are devilishly difficult to catch and lose a lot of money for you. So I find it hard to believe that we're going to have a strong market next year. I just think we're having a Q4 rally and you're this rally right now. I mean, the S&P is right now, off 11 cents as I'm talking, that's not much of a rally. But this is what I'm keeping my eyes on. I think this is one of the key charts to watch. And composite, didn't we just have that back here? Anyway, I think I put this in here twice. Composite of the three cycles in Q4. Now, let's move over to bonds. Now, first of all, I'm sorry, things were a bit out of place because I'm traveling and having a computer problem. So bonds have hit a retracement level of 78.6 of this rally from 05 up to here. And from 1982 to the high up in 2020, that is a 38.2% retracement. It's right there. So as my old friend Tony Plummer in England says. Yeah, it's Elliott Mann of England. Yes, you betcha. Yeah, if it exceeds 38.2%, that usually means some fundamental has changed. In other words, the investor's view of the fundamentals has changed. The fundamentals may have also actually changed. But if it violates 38.2%, it tells you that the previous trend may not be valid or it's weakening. So right here, I'm just saying that I'm very negative. I'm very bearish on bonds. But right here, you may get a bit of a bounce. And this is in the wrong place. If I can get back to bonds. Here we are. Sorry about this, folks. It's okay. You're doing great, buddy. Well, here we are seasonally. Here we are in October. This is 40 years. The red is the probability of a rise on that day or time period. So here, January, we read the right scale. That's almost 70% chance of a rise in the month of January. But look what it drops down to in March. That's about a 30% chance.  I said to the late Richard Moghi, Richard, is it my imagination or when you're looking at a new market with cycles, you should start with the annual cycle of the year. He said, yes, Bill, that's what I have found. And so this is the annual cycle of the year. And July and August were the best months. October is up slightly. And then November and then it weakens. You'll notice you sort of hit the peak up here. You're sort of swimming upstream here. But this is working against this. This is the U.S. national debt. It's 1972. And interest on that has to be paid. So I have had a boss, I've had very good people around me older in my life. And he said, the longer term you go, the more the fundamentals play a part. He said, so the shorter term, it's supply-demanding balances. You measure that with technical and market analysis. So he said, now everybody tell me what's going to happen in two to three years and I'll give you the ideal investment strategy.  You want to know what's going to happen tomorrow. And that is the composite cycle, which I think you have seen before. That is my program which extracts the cycles using spectral analysis, but then tests, which I don't think any other software program. It runs a buy and sell signal test. Well, if that's the amount of debt, and that's the seasonality, and that's the dynamic cycle. In other words, that's all the cycles on a monthly basis that are currently active and making money. So we just don't look at the one year cycle, which is the annual cycle. We look at, well, this is the vacuum cleaner, or as they say in Europe, the Hoover that hovers up all the other cycles. So you put the two of them together and you're off to a pretty good start. Let me just see what the next slide. Okay, I want to go back now. This, I'm sorry for this being out. Oh, hey, you're doing great. I remember the last time you were on or very close to the last time, you were very negative bonds and thought that gold was going to have a significant correction over the next year or so, and you certainly been right on both of those. So keep on going. You're moving great. Hey, we got bills to pay here in just a few minutes, but keep going until we hear the music and then we'll... Okay, let me get back here. This is a book I wrote, Planetary Economic Forecasting, which I wrote in the early 90s. Okay, Bill, here's some, we've got to pay the bills now. We'll be back with in just about two minutes, okay? Bill Meridian folks, cycles research. We'll be right back. The Opening Call Newsletter at TFNN.com. The Opening Call Newsletter is written by Basil Chapman, creator of the trading methodology known as the Chapman Wave. 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Yeah, well, Planetary Economic Forecast was written back in the 90s, and I took the Business Activity Index from Ameritrust Bank. They took every stitch of economic data they could find from, I think it was 1780 up till the present. They were taken over, I think in 88. The first thing you do is you fire all the creative people who do this. And so I've been attending to numbers myself ever since. And so I tested planetary cycles out. Six showed great promise. The major one is Jupiter going through the signs, which is a 12-year cycle. That was way ahead of whatever was in second place. And I don't have the chart here, but it very clearly showed the 2007-08 top, which was the real estate bubble. Then it showed a flat market for eight years, and I was in London explaining this, and some white-haired gent who was a walking history book on economics and history said, well, why would the economy remain flat for eight years and thinking on my feet? I said, they'll elect someone like the Carter administration that's not friendly to business, which is what happened in 2016. It took off. And so I predicted whoever won, there was going to be a rally. So back when we initially did this, I ran the projections to 2020 and not any further, unfortunately, but I figured out a way to get them out. Now that is 2022. And we are right now, we are over here. So this is all the news you've been hearing about weakness in the economy. And this is business activity. So it's anything that a merit trust could find, and they stitched it together, and it's a long explanation that was stock averages. And since 19, it's the end of the World War II, it's the FRB index of industrial production fed into a regression analysis. And so that's what the numbers are. And this is 2023. So it indicates actually things ain't that bad in the economy. I don't know if I really trust the cycles, but they haven't failed yet. But this is 2024. Now the odd thing is I was speaking to Felix Zuloff, who was the most successful fund manager in Europe. And by going long technology, he used to come to Abu Dhabi, used to come to my place. And so I always like to compare notes. And he, when I last spoke to him, he said he thinks the real trouble is coming in 2024. Well, that's what this chart says. Because that's a steep decline for this index. And that is 2025. So it indicates from Q1 of 2024 to sort of Q3 to 2025, a sharp drop in industrial product, in business activities, the proper term. So a lot of people have asked me to update that. So that's the updating. So now we go to gold. And as you can see here, the gold dynamic cycle bottoms now. Let me first say that September is the single best month to hold gold. It's up 61% of the time. And this cycle actually pointed up at that time. And I went long gold and got, I mean, there was a 70% chance of gold going higher, and it did not. So that tells me there's something fundamentally very wrong with gold. So now I'll tell you a story of some guys in New York that I know who had a currency trading program. And they, in the very early days of social media, and that well, they went to news feeds, and they hired a PhD in linguistics. And they said, take words like, you know, buy the pound or sell, sell the yen and search for those and that effort failed. So finally, before they gave up, they used, I think they used a test called multiple discriminant analysis. So they said, go to highs and lows and just figure out what the words were, whether they make logical sense or not. That worked. And those guys had a very successful currency trading operation that was super secret. When the euro was introduced, it fell apart. Now I think gold is having trouble for two reasons. One is cryptocurrencies, that a lot of the money that would normally go into gold is going into crypto. And number two is the strength in the US dollar, which I'll get to. So this, and there is a gold seasonality. See, as you can see, it declined in September, which is very rare. And right now we're in this period. So we may have, I think, a strong finish here in November, December to the year, year, but I'm not too bullish. I think, and I'll just get into Bitcoin cryptocurrency for a minute before he passed away. Matthew Mellon and I met from the Mellon banking family. We met three times and he was the backer of Bitcoin. And he said, I'm, you know, tired of these guys and get besides of getting out of this, the government has contacted me and they want to create a government coin and they want me to help them. Well, as you know, the current administration has already issued plans to do so. And globally, they want to do this. And I said, aha, that's the fundamental. That's why that's why Bitcoin and cryptos aren't going anywhere.  And all the little cryptocurrencies will sink, like they used to have so many car companies, Studebaker, Doos and Barrier.  Well, my client came in Friday night from the Bahamas, we had dinner in New York, and I said, what's going on in the Bahamas? And he said, well, do you remember what you said about the words I just said?  Now, if the US government did that, Bitcoin, I think an Ethereum would survive, but all the little ones will get sucked. And they also probably they'll hit them with a lot of regulations that a lot of the smaller ones can't afford. So that is why Bitcoin is flat as a pancake. And in Tony Plummer analysis, it couldn't even retrace 38.2% of the last loss. So I'm not a buyer right here. Okay. Wow. Here's oil, you can see the seasonality, we're in October, look at this. So it's up, let's read the right schedule, 42% of the time. Next month, it's 38%. The blue is the average percentage change, which is losses of about two and three percent. And the green is the product of the two. So you're sailing into a headwind here, if it's if you're looking at oil. Now, the daily histogram for oil this month, and I'm now impounding the table here. And the second half of the month, look at that. That's how in the month of October, that's how weak oil is, and particularly the 19th and the 22nd. So I went bearish because it was a projected turning point on oil on Friday. And I doubt I'm going to come off of that till the end of the month. Wow. You hit it right on the high, it closed on the high on Friday. Well, and now why is gold having so much trouble? Well, this, is this a contrary opinion signal? This is from last week. Well, I have, you'll see why. When you do this, you have to, when you get into it, you know, you buy the technical analysis book, you go to the course or whatever, and you think you've got the grandmaster key to forecasting the markets. And then you start working and realizing by the time you're done, half of them point up and half of them point down and you're sort of back where you started. So this looks very bullish. And this is the US dollar seasonality. You'll notice we're in October, which is kind of flat November, but look at December. And then look at January. This is a real flip flop here from the very bearish December to a bullish January. Well, we've got to, we've got to pay a few bills and someone's asked the question already, which currency would you move to? We'll be right back with Bill Meridian folks, cycles research, two minutes. Vista Gold owns and operates the largest undeveloped gold project in Australia, the Mount Todd Gold Project. Vista Gold just completed their feasibility study, resulting in a 7 million ounce gold reserve. Vista Gold has all major permits approved and has retained CIBC capital market assistance in evaluating alternatives and in completing an accreted transaction. 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The major graph I'm looking at is this from the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, which down here where I have the pointer, I ran those cycles that come from my software on a monthly basis and it showed a rally. I said, well, if it rallies, it's going to break this trend line. So that's what I predicted. Once it got up here and got overbought and as we all know, after a major breakout, you get a consolidation.  I said it's going to break out over here. Well, that counts up to about 115-120. We're not there yet. So I think we've got to get up there. So let me see. There's the US dollar cycle. That's the current cycle. And it doesn't top until sometime later next year. Now, I was on the phone with Felix at Switzerland and he said, well, Bill, do you know where the dollars are strong? And as we both know, it's the reserve currency of the world. So if you want to trade with someone else, you've got to convert your currency, whatever it is, into dollars in order to trade. That's what holds the dollar up. It creates an artificial demand for the dollar. But he said, the reason it's so strong is the economy's slowing and people want to borrow money with interest rates. And he said, so it's loan demand and the loans are denominated in dollars. And he said, fundamentally, I don't see this stopping until sometime later next year, which is what my cycle says. So that's what's behind this. It's loan demand because people want to stay afloat and the economy is slowing. And so the answer to the question is, I would stay with the dollar. I would not try to trade off into another currency because this cycle has worked all year long, people have been arguing with me since 2019 about this. And how the feeling. See, I was looking at this. I was looking at this as I'm thinking, well, if they ask you what the dollar is, is bullish or bearish, say bullish, just think of this graph. And so that's the dollar index. Well, that's it. Hey, buddy, we're going to have you on again in a couple of weeks. Okay, Bill. Thank you so much, my friend. Look at how trading cards are being purchased. Oh my God. Thanks, buddy. We'll see you later. Bye bye.


Yeah, okay, so would you have the business? Yeah, I'll give you just after the video. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, so who are you? Yes, I'm a Lisa and nice to meet you. Yeah, this is This is this is our new product SOS and this is the same SIM card and used in the SOS and used in the older people. What is the SIM card? And 2G or 3G, yeah, in here. Yes. So, so you can use the children or the older people. Yes, it's okay. And this is a catalog you have right here? Yes, this is a catalog, yes. And this is the SOS alarm? Yes, SOS alarm. When you push the button through the SIM card it calls one number, right? Yes, yes. And the number can be maybe on the phone like this? Yes, phone like this. And this is, you can set the phone number one, two, three. One, two, three phone number. Yes. Yes, you can, yeah, one, two, three. And all these buttons, you can also call for help here too. Yes, yes. And then it goes to a normal phone line. Yes. I think you are an engineer. No, you told me before. That's right. I just remember what you said. Yes. And here is also VR technology. So as a smart home, you have many different smart home products? Yes, so this is alarm, also in the home. Yes, this is a connection with a different sensor. And people can find more beyond technology. Yes, yes. And over here, this is Haiko booth. You also have Ada Panak over here. Hello. Hi. Hi. What are you showing here? Yes, this is our new product. This is a stereo Bluetooth speaker? Yes, yes. It has two models. One is with PC and one is Bluetooth. PC is for charging, right? Yes, yes. Charge from computer. The audio cable? Yes, this is the charger. And here you use the ear to power it on? Yes. And then the volume here? Yes, yes, yes. Correct. The ear to power on? Yes. And here is a bigger one? Yes. Yes, this is for the volume. The volume and this volume is the bass. All right. Different is this Bluetooth and this model is for the computer. You can do bass and treble? Yes. And then you also have a speaker like this? Yes. Oh, cat. Yes, we have the pattern for this model. As your design? Yes. Nobody can copy this? Yes, nobody can copy it. But it's an open mold, the cat. Everybody in China have a cat? Yes. To say hello? Yes, hello. All right.


Hi, everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. May the fourth be with you. That's today 2020 2021 upper deck sp Game use hockey spg you Spagoo hockey five box Random team break number eight one spot gets you three teams and triple entries in that promo to So let's triple you up And you're thinking Joe that's only 30 spots. They're there 31 teams in that combo spot Anaheim and Arizona Combat up. Let's roll it randomized names and teams five at times one and a four one two three four and five Got a lot of Steve Burch's after five I Keep hitting that copy button today. They switched the buttons around on me Little bit lower. There you go copying that empty cell. Okay, so Five times so we do five times for the names one and a four or five times for the teams and Fifth and final time after five we got the Preds down to the Dallas Stars Not Asheville, but Nashville All right So Steve with the Predators devils flames and blues Jonathan with the bluejack at Steve with the Flyers Rangers and Bruins Roy with the Canadians Steve with the black Blackhawks maple leaves Robert with the cap Steve with the Red Wings and Golden Knights Hank with the wild Roy with the combo team The ducks and the coyotes Steve with the Kings Sabres and penguins Robert with the abs Steve with the Oilers and lightning Roy with the Islanders Robert with the Senators Jonathan with the Canucks Steve with the Panthers Hank with the Hurricanes Jonathan with the Sharks Hank with the Jets and Steve Birch with the Dallas Stars Let's get all this on one page here And let's sort by column B by team And here are the boxes right here for break number eight. We're gonna pause the video see if there's any trades when we come back We'll have the break stick around All right. Welcome back everybody. So we do have a trade So Jonathan is out of the Vancouver spot and into the Blackhawks spot and Steve Birch is out of the Blackhawks spot and now in the Canucks spot And there you go Let's print and let's rip. Let's see what we got in here. Good luck everybody. Do I have enough top loaders? Sure There we go, so there's the final print out hot off the presses Thanks everyone for getting in. Oh, that's a relic on the bottom. Okay I think this is where after this base card. That's the auto, right? I think that's the auto Right there. So let's do the relics first Or we got tonight's lineup. That's pretty cool That's part of the the part of the lineup card And that's a one of one as well Steve Birch And the Buffalo Sabres Buffalo Whoever this person is There you go, but that's pretty awesome Steve all aboard the Big Head Express We got Quinn Hughes two-color dual relic That's for Vancouver Steve Getting the Canucks in a trade And got max packy ready For the Vegas Golden Knights, that'll be for Steve as well There's a Tyler Bertuzzi First year all-star fabrics And that's for Steve was Detroit And nice Alexi Lafreniere Here as well It's just Canada Juniors gear, but that'll obviously go to Uh, the Rangers which Steve has and there's Conjury Miller Revealing a Jeff Carter autograph Nice one for the Kings, that'll be for Steve Nice, no number on here, but pretty nice nonetheless All right, next box We've got authentic rookie relic Alexander Romanoff For the Canadian's Roy with Montreal Yeah, I think that was a personal box for Steve, right? Nice Behind John Daveris Is Brandon Hagel for Chicago Jonathan And we've got NHL Stadium Series fabrics Gabriel Lanskog For Colorado, that'll be for Robert And Kevin Hayes Reveals a 17 out of 65 Jake Evans Nice runs for us That'll be for Roy All right, 91 out of 150 Mark Shifley For Winnipeg, that'll be for Hank And got Tyler Benson, authentic rookie relic for Edmonton Steve And Zach Parise For Minnesota It's gonna be for Hank and the Wild And behind Mitch Marner to 265 is Alexander Romanoff another autograph for Roy and the Canadians. All right, two more boxes to go Big patch auto right there looks like All right, there's Pavel Francois For Colorado that's gonna go to go to go to Robert There you go, Robert And we've got Maxim Lutinov For Jonathan and San Jose And then behind Igor Korsakov is Brayden Point Tampa Bay C. Birch with the lightning And behind Dominic Haschik Is oh, that's awesome a piece of the all-star game net cord Jake with Slavin for the Hurricanes 35 out of 35 And that's gonna have to go into a little slider box Um Once again that is uh for the Hurricanes Carolina Hank It's pretty awesome. There you go. I thought it'd be a little more low number, but still really cool Really cool visually All right, and the final box for a random team break number eight All right, there it is. All right four color quad relic and looks like it's Two uh abs and two kings So I'll be a randomizer at the end We've got Keegan Coulsar Vegas Golden Knights To be for Steve we got Jeff Carter Kings Steve Birch And the final autograph here in this break is gonna be Ty Dela Andrea one of one autographs nice So he's in his Canada gear Who does he play for? I don't I don't know hockey very well Let's see what guy He is a north star There you go, so that goes to Dallas that'll be for Steve Birch Another train whistle for you in this break All aboard the big hit express Nice and the randomized unless Steve has both no Steve has the kings But robert has the abs so we got to do this randomizer too. All right, so let's go over here Got colorado and the la kings And the team on top gets it after 11 one two three And 11 the final time after 11 it's gonna be for colorado. It'll be for robert runkle.  I'll see you next time for the next break


I'm in the DeVista booth now with Yoos Young, like I said from DeVista, and he didn't realize he was writing to the person that really wanted to hear about it was he's got a voice over calendar app. How are you doing? Yeah, nice. Thank you. How are you doing? Yeah, yeah. So, what was the reasoning behind creating this and how does it work? Yeah, that's kind of funny. Two years ago we developed an app with two other guys, a single guy company. But these other guys, an easy calendar app, very easy to enter events. Oh, sorry. That's the voice over radio show unit. But somebody here from San Francisco was asking me to take care of voice over to make sure really just fine tuning, you know. It works from the basics, but not in every corner of it. And I had a look at voice over and say, hey, you know what, if I would make a calendar for blind and visually impaired people, I would start from scratch. Because the whole thing is, if you make it for sighted people, you design screens for those people. Sure, sure. And the targets aren't the right size and that sort of thing. Yeah, so I did two things actually. First thing is make better summaries. So if you go to a week, you see a week once at a time, and it tells you where the events are. So not just counting, it says three events, Monday, Saturday and Sunday, you say, hey, Saturday, and then remember, and you scan with your thumb to Saturday. So the second thing is, this is fixed screen format. So you can scan it with your thumb and then tap with your other thumb. It depends on your preference. You can count on things to stay where they're supposed to be then. Exactly. There's just on a list and you can turn it around to flip the sides when you're left-handed. And the second thing is, the whole navigation is always in that same way.  It works. The standard app works for a voice over.  Okay, well, let's take a look at it. Or let's take a listen at it, I guess. Yeah, I could show it blindly, but I'll show it on the camera if you like. Okay, so you hold that up high, I'm going to go down to the voice over. So let's make sure it works. I think it's off now. By the way, for those just listening, Yos has a JBL speaker hanging around his neck. So, tap so that we can hear. Yeah, so this is the week view and the idea is that if you... Next week, no. Let's say I go to the next week. The week of February 4th. Next week, two events. On Tuesday and Thursday. That's the summary. And the standard app cannot do that because it just tells you there's a header for the 4th of July and then there's some events and it doesn't really summarize anything. Now if I now go to a day. Friday, no events. Tap twice to open. Tap twice. I can use two terms and one just explain, but that's depending on your preference. So you can just double tap. So what we're seeing is a list on the right and then a big area where you use your other thumb to tap it to say select. Yeah, so the layout always is from the top. You get all the events or days or whatever, so the content. From the bottom up you get the action buttons like go to the next week or add a new event. That's why they're blue for us to recognize and for people that are partly sighted. If you enter an event. Enter a new event. No. Select a day. So you don't get those dials. You just say it's going to be afternoon. It's going to be three PM. Let's say it's going to be three o'clock PM. Oh, I see what you mean about not dials. So he's tapping on three PM, four PM, five PM. But it started with regions of morning, afternoon, evening, that kind of thing. So you narrow down into it without having to flip the little scrolly thing. And you have to narrow down because the screen is not that long. So just an extra additional step, but it still makes it easier. Now then something that I've seen blind people do. Tank up, follow text in. Blind people do it very quickly. Capital T, W, S, T. And if you're done, no. You get a confirmation. TWS, Friday, February 8th, three o'clock PM. That's again something that's standard. Oh, it doesn't do that. You have to go back and tap on it and request it to get it. So now, do you have friends who are blind or you just because somebody came up and asked you about it? Yeah, I was actually that guy from San Francisco. I can mention his name, Bill Uber. Yeah, I like this guy. I met him yesterday here. It was quite late that I informed him about it because I started with a Dutch version language, so no English version yet. I'm just promoting the English version here now for the first time. He came in when I emailed him saying, I live very close.  Oh, that's fantastic. What a great story. Well, I wish you great luck. How much is the app cost? I didn't make it cheap because of the lower numbers. It's $10 and during the trade show it's five. I'm just promoting it. But I think I want something that's sustainable and I can support for years. Yeah, so what is the actual name of the app? Sorry, D. What is the actual name of the application? Oh yeah, it's VO Calendar and VO is for voiceover. Perfect. And the company again is DeVista. And now what's your website? That's vo-calendar.com. Dot com. You can find it in the App Store. Okay. Thank you very much. Yes, this is very, very cool. Thank you for your time.