of the United Press, reporting from Saipan on a story of revenge, a story that began on April 18th, 1942. Army flyers headed by Major General James Doolittle have found military objectives in Tokyo and four other Japanese cities. Americans were jubilants, but the jubilants was changed to horror a few days later when the Japanese radio announced. The sacred soil of Japan has been defiled by American fires. Several American fires responsible for this outrage have been captured and shot. The United States government made vigorous representations to Japan for this inhuman treatment of prisons of war. But out here in the Pacific, the pilots, the bombardiers, the navigators, and the gunners of our Army Air Corps were not thinking about representations. They were thinking, remember, remember those dead comrades when you get a Jap zero in your sight.  Remember and let your answer be the destruction of Japan. Yes, the men of our armed services remembered. They remembered when they smashed a Jap invasion fleet in the Carl's sea, remembered when they invaded the Solomon's, the Gilbert's, New Britain, the Marshall's, pushing inexorably through the enemy's outer defenses, smashing, driving closer to Japan. Yes, on the day of revenge was at hand when we invaded the Marianas and captured Saipan, 1600 miles from Tokyo. The Americans speak of revenge when they are 1600 miles from our sacred soil. Fools! They have found by now that the Marianas are a mass of coral. It is impossible to construct airfields there for long-distance bombers. We Japanese dare the Americans to try it. We dare them! What's new with the United Press today? Well, that's what just what I was going to ask you. We've only been in Saipan six days and with the plighting still going on, you're engineered. Yes, my engineers are busy preparing a little surprise for those sons of heaven. Around a few weeks I'll show you something that'll knock your eye out. Don't worry, Colonel, I'm not going anywhere. All right, it's finished at last. What do you think of it, Johnson? Well, I... it can't be real, Colonel. But it is. You're looking at a B-29 airfield. Yeah, runway. It's terrific. How long would you say it is? Well, it looks like it runs all the way across the island. That runway, Johnson, is exactly seven miles long. Seven miles? Every bit of it. Those big super-portresses need plenty of leeway to take off. Why, do you realize that one B-29 carries one full tank car of fuel oil? Super-portresses? B-29s? Say, Colonel, what are you cooking up now? You tell me, Johnson. You tell me. You didn't have to tell the Colonel. All of a sudden Saipan knew what was coming. Knew that most of the credit would go to those hard-working aviation engineers. They accomplished the impossible. They moved four million square yards of rock coral. They moved one entire block to carve a B-29 runway virtually the distance of the island. A few days later from the east came the drone of a mighty armada of planes. Answer for United Press. Super-portresses. B-29s, Johnson. Greatest long-distance bombers in the world. Hey, look at those babies. Got to that. They can land on Saipan. They can take off from Saipan. Come on. Let's go meet the pilot. This reconnaissance flight last night, so I needn't go over the details again. However, let me review it briefly. Make straight for the target. No roving around looking for a flight. You have one job to do. Photograph strategic targets in Tokyo and get back here to Saipan as fast as you can. The route out will be direct. Route back, direct. Any questions? Good flying, gentlemen, and hurry back. Congratulations, Major, on a fine job. Thank you, Colonel. I want to meet Mac Johnson of United Press. Hello, Mac. Congratulations, Major. Thanks. Say, uh, Colonel, how does the photos come out? Well, take a look for yourself. You too, Johnson. Yeah. Amazing. Not bad. Not bad at all. Not bad. For your information, Major, those photos you took are the best pictures of enemy targets ever taken. Thank you, sir. Do you have any trouble on the flight, Major? Well, nothing serious. A couple of zeros jumped us, but we'll chase them off. Maybe it'll be different next time, eh, Colonel? No. Your guess is as good as mine, Johnson, but I know how you can find out. Yeah? Huh. Our day is coming. Well, the sooner, the better, sir. All the men are anxious. Yeah. How much would you like to come along, Johnson, for the ride? Oh, you mean... These United Press correspondents catch on quick, huh, Major? Everybody here, Major? Yes, sir. Where's Johnson and United Press? Over here, gentlemen. Oh, all right. Men, your attention, please. Your attention. Quiet. You all have the details of the formation. First squadron forming the leading element will take off at 0640. Group assembly will be over reference point J, 7,000 feet. Reconnaissance indicated we can expect a warm reception from anti-aircraft fire and fighters. If you're forced down, you know what to do. The main objective, gentlemen, is to get to Tokyo and farm hell out of your targets. Any questions? That's all. Then go get them. One of our best B-29 pilots. Thank you, sir. Good luck, Major. Hit him one for Doolittle's men now. We'll hit him plenty, sir. All right, Johnson. Up you go. Hey, mate. Number one runway and take off when ready. Clare to taxi in. Peter Press still with us? Yes, sir. Stand by, everybody. Approaching target. 25,000 checked. The barbaric treatment of General Doolittle's courageous fliers had been avenged. One of our leaders summed it up when he said, This first B-29 raid on Tokyo was a calculated extension of our air power. No part of the Japanese Empire is now out of our range. No war factory too remote to feel the fury of our bombs. The battle for Japan has been joined. Aid on the Japanese capital. We will present another in this series in the near future. Be sure to listen. Meanwhile, remember to listen for United Press news and the air. Look for United Press dispatches in your favorite newspaper. They are your guarantee of the world's best coverage of the world's biggest news.


Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel, Apple's NTR, so today I'm doing kind of a different video. I am sharing a really awesome website where I got some super affordable swimsuits for our spring break trip in a couple of weeks. So the company that I bought my swimsuits from is called Cupshe, and Cupshe offers super affordable, super adorable swimsuits for the summer 2019 and the spring 2019. My husband and I rarely go anywhere for breaks, and so this trip is like super important to me, super exciting, so I thought I would splurge and get a bunch of swimsuits to take on the trip with me. So I actually picked out four swimsuits, and I cannot wait to show you guys what these swimsuits look like. Here, I'll give you a sneak peek. When you order your Cupshe swimsuits, they will come in this super adorable bag. Guys, I wish I had this wallpaper to like, line the background of my video. Wouldn't that be super awesome? 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So the next high-waisted suit that I purchased, these are the bottoms, and these are like one of my favorite things that I ordered, and they're these like cute like flowered pattern, and these are another high-waisted option, except for this one does have like the scrunching on the side, the black ones did not have the scrunching on the side. I love the way these look on me, and then I love that there's like this little bit of like an orange burnt orange gold kind of color in there, which ties into the top. This is the top that came with these bottoms, and you guys, I am loving this. It has this cute little like peplum design, the back is adorable because it crisscrosses, and I just love this swimsuit, like I cannot get enough of this one. I got all of these in a large by the way, and that is just because I do have like not a bigger bust, but I'm bigger around. I think my bust is like 35 36, so that is a large, and so this is the next suit combo, and I will show you guys what this looks like on the model here. Okay, so the next two suits that I purchased do not have high-waisted bottoms, and that is totally okay because remember what I said about these black ones that you can really pair this high-waisted bottom with pretty much everything I bought. So this next suit is a striped suit, and it is a navy color. It's not black, which I thought it was black on the website, but I actually am really glad that it's navy and very nautical. So this is the front, and it's just a regular triangle bikini top, and then the back has all of this crisscross detailing, which I'm obsessed with this. It looks so cute on the back, and it really just like accentuates your back muscles, and I really like this top. There's that, and then the bottoms that come with this is just a regular bikini bottom, and they are blue again, and then the back. These are nice because they're a little more cheeky. The next one that I bought is this really super cute floral suit, and what I like about this one is that it is reversible. So I can actually wear this as a floral swimsuit, or I can wear it as a striped swimsuit, and this would be black and white. So I really like this one because I love the top, the front, how it ties like this, and kind of peeps open, and then I also love the clasp on the back. It's this really cool feature, like you slide it up, and then it's supposed to close. So it closes like that, so it's way cuter than just a regular clasp. So this one came through like that, super cute, and then the bottom, same thing, you can reverse them. So you have your floral side, regular bikini style, or you can do the striped side. So I'll probably just cut, once you cut this tag off, you can wear it anyway. So I thought this would be cute. I could totally pair this, this top with those high-waisted black bottoms, or flip it over and do that as well. Okay, so now I'm going to share with you guys the prices of the swimsuits, and guys, I will have each one of these swimsuits linked down below in this video. So this first swimsuit that I showed you guys, this one is $28.99. This super cute reversible swimsuit is $27.99, and again that is for both pieces. My personal favorite, the floral bottoms with the yellow mustard gold top. This one is $25.99, and again that is for both pieces. And then the last one, the blue nautical striped one is $26.99, and once again that is for both pieces. So if you guys are looking for some affordable swimwear for your spring break 2019 or for summer 2019, you should definitely check out Cup She Swimsuits. They are legit the bomb. I actually have two other ones from last season. One is like a military green, and the other one is so cute.  Like I said, I will have all of these swimsuits linked down in the description box below, the exact swimsuits that I ordered. Even in my size, it will be linked down below. I'm super super excited about these swimsuits because I'm going on a cruise for spring break. We are going to the Caribbean on a Royal Caribbean cruise, and we'll be going to Jamaica, we'll be going to Labadi, and we'll be going to Cozumel, Mexico. So I'm really really excited to be getting all of these amazing swimsuits for our trip. Also, I do plan on doing a spring break vlog while we're on our cruise. So if you want to see these swimsuits in action, make sure you keep your eyes peeled for that video. Hey guys, sorry for the random break in the video. So as you can kind of tell, it is much later in the day. I have my hair curled. My makeup is worn off, but I wanted to let you guys know that I did receive a coupon code from Cupshe for you, and the coupon code is capital Y, capital T, capital A, capital T. The coupon code is for 5% off if you spend $45. Now I got four swimsuits, and I believe I only spent $80. And I'm pretty sure if you buy a swimsuit at Victoria's Secret, it's going to cost you like $80 on its own because each piece is like $25, $30. If you guys use my code Y-T-A-T, you'll get 5% off of that $45 purchase. So I know it's like a ton, but it is something, and it will help. So definitely head on over to Cupshe.com and check out their super adorable swimsuits. You guys can also check out Cupshe on Instagram. These swimsuits are really well made, and you can tell that they were not mass-produced either just by the way that they're made. Anyways, I'm going to give you guys five minutes to head on over to Cupshe and order your new swimsuits for your spring break 2019. Okay, I'm done. I hope you guys enjoy your swimsuits. I know I will, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys.


Good evening and thank you all for coming especially those of you who literally came right from the airport You know who you are It's a special pleasure to welcome all of you tonight to this the fifth annual gala of the National Museum of Mathematics You know MoMath is a place that was once written up in the press with the headline Museum of math it just doesn't add up and there were many who heard the idea originally and scoffed Stating with assurance that nobody would ever come to a museum of math Well five years later Almost three-quarters of a million of people have proved them wrong very wrong Five years later MoMath is not just surviving it is thriving The National Museum of Mathematics is a place that appeals to all ages and abilities It has achieved local national and even worldwide prominence and it is now poised to move into an exciting new phase programmatically technologically and mathematically I'd like to take a moment though on this occasion of our upcoming fifth anniversary To reflect on how we got here I'm deeply gratified that Glenn Whitney recruited me to help make this museum a reality And I am honored that there are a number of people from our original working group of volunteers Who are here with us tonight? Together we helped Glenn bring his glorious vision to life I'm delighted that our group has stayed together and worked together for more than 10 years now So thank you five years after MoMath first opened its doors I stand here proud of the bridge that Glenn and I built together in those early years A bridge that continues to allow people adults and children alike who come in thinking of math as rote boring incomprehensible and sometimes even just plain awful To enter into a world of wonder and beauty and to be transformed by the experience I'm overjoyed every time I see an open-mouth child at a MoMath exhibit or hear the words That's so cool reverberating throughout the museum I'm also proud of the team that Tim and I have built in more recent years that makes this transformative experience possible for so many people Thousands upon thousands of people from every state in the country and now from dozens of countries around the world 364 days a year I Could not ask for a better partner nor a better friend than Tim Nissen Nor a better team than the one that we've built together Our team now includes not just those of us who work daily in the museum But a worldwide network of friends supporters and advisors I'm proud that our advisory council includes Eric Domain the youngest ever full professor at MIT Manjul Bargava who's here with us tonight a recipient of the Fields Medal mathematics highest award and Most recently our newest addition to the MoMath advisory council the man who proved definitively that athletic prowess and mathematical competency don't have to be mutually exclusive Thank You John Arshall I'm also proud of the new ideas. We've spun off the connections We've helped to create and the work of established mathematicians that we've stimulated in the research area I'll never forget hearing from a young college freshman at MIT who told me her determination to enroll there Began the day she encountered Eric Domain at MoMath or the letter I received from a young adult who quit his job to pursue a graduate degree in data science After listening to Jennifer Chase give a talk in the museum It was through our connections with the fine folks at Princeton University Press that a long languishing 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland with beautiful illustrations by Salvador Dali Was finally made available to the general public Mathematician Po Shen Lo the two-time gold medal-winning IMO coach who is also here with us tonight Has been known to show up to lunch and learn with a group of MoMath college interns Renowned mathematician John Conway has been spending his weekends holding court at MoMath Delighting all visitors adults and children alike with his unique brand of wit and wisdom and Just last week Stanford mathematician Percy Diakonis presented me with a copy of his most recent paper Joint work with Ron Graham and thanked me for creating the energy that inspired him to write that paper I'm proud that after five years MoMath continues to make a difference to so many people in so many ways From the children who scamper through the museum with delight to the students who stand mesmerized by some new mathematical discovery to the math teachers who finally have a way to inspire their students To the adults who never really liked math, but nevertheless find something compelling within our walls To the mathematicians who have finally found a home and a venue from which they can share their work and their enthusiasm MoMath is making a difference Perhaps most importantly. I love the idea that together We are making the connections and building the bridges that will inspire our nation's youth to become the next generation of mathematically creative scientists mathematicians and engineers I'd like to close by giving special thanks to David Turok the vice chair of the MoMath board and the chair of this evening's event Whose graciousness generosity and kindness seem to know no bounds My gratitude also goes out to this evening's co-chairs to Matthew Goldstein a champion of always doing the right thing To Robert Fry who has the distinction of being MoMath's very first trustee and believing in the museum when it was but a whisper and a dream To Oppenheimer funds and its CEO Art Steinmetz our most recent past chairman Whose grace in the boardroom is eclipsed only by his comedic talent in front of hundreds of squealing children and To Pete Muller whose contagious enthusiasm for both mathematics and music is both impressive and inspiring This evening would not have happened without the commitment of each of you and I thank you and Finally to MoMath's board of trustees led by chairman John Overdeck The museum exists because of you You were the early champions of the museums when so many believed it couldn't exist You provided the sustenance that fed the museum's early growth and it is your ongoing support That will now allow an exciting future to unfold on a personal note I want to thank so many of you for your support your strength and your friendship Please stand to be recognized Thank you and enjoy the evening


Babylonia was an ancient Mesopotamian state comprising of modern Iraq, Syria, and Egypt. The capital city, Babylon, was about 60 miles from modern Baghdad. Babylonians offered an early intuition on the infinite process. This is different from the base 10 or the decimal number system that we use today. Babylonian mathematics recorded their research and observations on clay tablets called cuneiforms. This is a famous cuneiform that shows that the diagonal of a square is root 2 times its side. They were also able to define other numbers with potentially infinite precision, like the length of the year, or even represent the value of pi, fast forward to 300 BC.


Hi everybody happy new release Wednesday hump day Wednesday as well 2022 Pnini National Treasures FIFA world FIFA Road to the World Cup No, the no definitive article here Road to World Cup soccer one box picking team number five a lot of great stuff here Big thanks to and break five is from a fresh case one box from a fresh case right here big Thanks, everyone here for buying their teams straight up. I always appreciate that makes life a little bit easier Did a quick little random number block to That we did in a different video. It's uploaded a different video No matter how you got in I appreciate it So basically it's just a serial number break for those teams right there And only for this one box break obviously All right, so let's set this next to me over here and now let's pop this baby open. Let's see There it is Fresh case World Cup soccer Let's see which box we're going to do All right, so we're mark mark mark those boxes one two three four and We'll roll the die and we'll go one two three and four on the dice roll if I roll five or six I'll roll again that let's roll again Let's roll again And it's one So we're gonna do box one next time We'll just go one two three four five six on the dice for Ryan. Good luck everybody great time to be collecting the soccer with the World Cup coming up in About a month. Oh hi mark. I don't think you're in this one double check though Just so we didn't make sure we didn't make a mistake. This is a picker team one or a picker team five that is Yeah, I don't like that Diego. There have been a lot of injuries kind of cropping up Leading into the World Cup. Yeah, if it was in the normal summer most players would be able to To kind of recover from the rigors of the regular season and then be fresh for the World Cup But we're seeing some some knocks here and there Hopefully not too much more. We'll use this blank card here To slow play some of the hits. Good luck everybody. We're gonna lead off with Frederico Chiesa 33 out of 99 for Zazzouri that goes to David in Italy Here. All right next one Is a one-of-one For Argentina, it's Rodrigo de Paul and that is for Wen Shun Who picked up Argentina straight up? Nice and out of fives and under as you know All aboard the big hit express And then a redemption it is Wow definitive ink Ruby on to Fati for Spain and Spain is a number block team and that goes to James Zero gets any and all redemptions Now, what's that Ruby parallel? number two definitive ink Ruby it says so on to Fati is out of 99 Ruby according to cardboard connection comms is 25 or less. I like the or less part So redeem it you'll find out a young and up-and-coming talent. I don't know how much you're gonna play with the national team, but But he's still really young how does he 19 maybe 20 19 years old turns 20 late October on the 31st We got William Carvalho 41 out of 49 for Portugal his teammate. Yeah, Diego is saying Conte possibly missing the World Cup is a big injury and Diablo Jota I think might be at a risk for missing the World Cup as well for Portugal. That's for Sean and Portugal Next up is 75 out of 99 Marco Veradi Forza Zuri for David. It's gonna be weird seeing the World Cup in During Thanksgiving for us anyway I guess it won't be weird for the rest of the world who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving just for us 14 out of 99 Robert Lewandowski to color Jersey Going to will and Poland last Bob Mojo already making a mark on his new club team We've got some autographs coming up Jersey and Otto. That's Lotaro Martinez 27 out of 99 piece of his Jersey and autograph Lotaro Martinez Nickname what nicknamed the bull I love that plays for plays in Syria up Inter Milan Nice for a nice one for Wen Shun Next up is 12 out of 99 pure list autograph For the orange that you're in Timber The Netherlands are a random number block team. So if you're not familiar with it, we go by this digit right here To So that'll go to Brian Heyman There you go, Brian. I like I like looking up these these players that I'm not familiar with Because we might see them in action So he plays for Air Devisse The Air Devisse club Ajax plays for Ajax, which is one of the big clubs in the Netherlands there is a Fabio Canavaro 31 out of 49 a pure list autograph for Zazuri that goes to David B and Italy and the last one here is oh a nice one Roberto Firmino for Brazil that goes to James who got Brazil straight up Course plays for a place from the club that I support Liverpool Nice patch Nice autograph and a one out of five out of fives and under get the train whistle He's already got like five or six goals this season He only scored like five or six goals the entirety of last season. So he might be finding his goal scoring form Lately which is which I'm sure Brazil will be happy about and All aboard the big hit express And there you go boys and girls We just cracked open a fresh case. We got three more from this case So keep going keep getting in on it Jasper's case race calm I'm Joe and I'll do some more footy with you next time. Bye. Bye


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Lack of requisite education and academic qualification are the reason why a majority of people with disability PWDS are unable to secure competitive jobs in the labour market. In line with this, government at all levels have been urged to provide grants and necessary funding to help children and young adults with special needs to be integrated into society and live valuable lives. The advice was given by the founder of Autism Awareness Foundation, or Moteco Ayo Ulu Budde, at the end of a training to educate and empower young adults with disabilities who are often stigmatised and lack jobs. This works within and other facilitators, thanks to government to provide infrastructure and mobility aids that will make lives easier for the PWDS. People with disabilities, most times they are stigmatised in the community and the lack of job. That is why these skills and position is put together for people who are in care, who are on the wheelchair and so on and so forth. The program today is to study play games and to give them a sort of income as they go forward to their individual lives. There are a lot of challenges faced by the individual living with disabilities. Either autism, cerebral palsy, dancing and so on and so forth. Some of it is the challenge of accessibility, you know, going to school, either school, either work, NMBA. Sometimes our roles are not accessible in terms of maybe people using wheelchair or people who are visually impaired. So the challenges are from school to getting a job and you know, if you don't get to school, how is it easy then to get employment in the long run? From a very young age, do not despise these children. Look at them as a gift that you can work with, that you can train. They all have skills. Even those that have behavioural challenges, even those with cerebral palsy on a wheelchair, they have skills, they have talent, they have gifts. And if we develop these gifts early enough, when they are getting older, we can fine tune it to make it into a vocation that they can use in their adult life. The challenges they are facing are enormous and one of it is social stigma and another is social acceptance and another, of course, like we say, is finance. So these three areas need advocacy, either from organisations such as this or from the individuals themselves, as well as provision of financial backing from philanthropists, from corporate organisations and from the government. For children with autism, the convener was quick to advise parents and caregivers not to feel despondent or seek necessary support. Please don't feel to them with disability at all. Don't think they have from maybe a punishment or they have witchcraft or they are possessed or something. Please bring them out for help and support. We tell to NGOs, there are a lot of NGOs that are doing wonderful things to help bring out these skills and the ability of these children. This programme is very important. This will help us to impose employment, make us employable because we are people with disability. This commission will help us to discriminate and train us. Can you give us the pleasure to do that? It will help us to do business for ourselves. So far, so good. I have been exposed because I learnt digital marketing. Prior, before now, I had engaged myself in a little business which I started earlier this year to support my education as well. I have been doing more of the physical delivery, trying to sort for clients and all of that. Due to the fact that I am visually impaired, it is not really easy to mix all of these together.


Miki Adams scores a win against Goukesh, the second youngest grandmaster in history today at the Gibraltar Masters. Let's find out what happened in the game. Miki, you were playing against Goukesh, the youngest grandmaster and the second youngest grandmaster in history. What happened today in the game? Yeah, I managed to win. I thought, well, it's probably my only chance to beat him. I had white, so I thought maybe I have some chances today. I should have a very nice opening, but then it wasn't a very clean win. I kind of stumbled over the line, tricked him sometimes with my knight at the end when he was short of time. But I'm happy to get the win. When you say your only chance to beat him, do you mean get them before it's too late? Yeah, I think that's the theory and he seems to be improving pretty quickly. I'm not sure I'm quite going that way, so it seemed like a good chance. Nah, he's very strong already. Such a young guy. Now, when you were preparing against him, how did you feel about his games? Actually, I was quite happy with the position we got because I was really just trying to go for some position he never had before. And I knew he didn't have any games with this rookie one, or at least I didn't see any. And he seemed to spend quite a lot of time in the opening and didn't seem so happy. Probably I got lucky, but of course he has a lot to learn in the opening still, but that's very normal. Of course, he will improve a lot in that part of the game naturally. Right, now with your experience, give us some insight. What is the strategy when you're playing against somebody who's much younger to you, who's a really strong upcoming player and a super talent? What is the strategy when you're about to play? Well, I just hope to get him somewhere he didn't really know because some lines I can see he still knows extremely well. You know, he already has a lot of experience, but I thought at least try and get him somewhere where he doesn't know so much. And I thought actually maybe he would try and play a bit like this because he will compare it to another line. I saw he played that was similar, but it's not quite the same. So maybe that was part of the reason he wasn't comfortable today. You also had one of your favourite openings on the board, the Rossellimo. We've seen you play that quite a few times. Also, it's gaining in popularity. Yeah, quite a lot of people were playing it with white. I don't think I've won with it for a while, so it's nice to actually score a win again for a change. Right, well, we wish you all the best for the remaining games. Thank you for joining us. Okay, thank you very much. Thanks.


Live from Palo Alto, it's theCUBE. Covering Women Transforming Technology 2017, brought to you by VMware. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of the Women Transforming Technology Conference held at VMware here in beautiful Palo Alto, California. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight. I'm joined by Yan Bin Li, who is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Storage and Availability here at VMware. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me, Rebecca. I'm so excited to meet you, actually. I've done quite a few QVs.  You're the first female host I got to talk to, so I'm really excited meeting you. Well, it's a pleasure, the pleasure is all mine. So Business Insider calls you one of the most powerful women engineers in the world in Silicon Valley. It's exciting to be talking to you. VMware is committed to diversity and inclusion. We're here at a Women Transforming Technology Conference. You're hosting the conference. Talk a little bit about your experience and what you're involved in in terms of that emphasis on diversity and inclusion here. Yes, certainly, being part of VMware and certainly being a female engineering leader myself, this is very near and dear to my heart. My experience, actually, involvement in women leadership initiatives started many years ago when I was actually based in China. My career at VMware, I've been here for nine years. You led the Chinese operation for a while. Yeah, I was leading the China engineering operation in China for a few years. And when I was based in China, I started a series of women technology conference in Beijing. So we started in 2011 and that quickly turned into an industry event, kind of very similar to what's going on here at Women Transforming Technology. So this has been certainly close to my heart and I've been involved in starting the initiative in China. And when I moved back to Palo Alto, I have been part of the Women Initiative. I was part of a dialogue circle. And this year, we expanded the initiative, all right, since last year, from just the women focus to now a much broader diversity focus and certainly being Chinese myself, I'm also representing the Chinese community at VMware. We have a Chinese VMware circle that create that community feeding for all the Chinese and Chinese Americans working at VMware. Can you talk a little bit about what you've observed with the women in China and the women here in Silicon Valley? Are the issues the same? Is the culture similar? What are your experience? I think there is a lot more similarity than differences. China, there has been a stronger emphasis of women contributing to the society for the past 50, 60 years. So you see a higher percentage of women working. You see a slightly higher percentage of women in tech. But the issue are still the same, how we deal with stereotype of women, especially how we overcome unconscious bias and how we overcome the lack of women in technology and lack of women in leadership. I think these issues definitely transcend culture and community. It was interesting, we hosted an APJ discussion on diversity in Sydney. So this was part of our APJ initiative. And there were tables of people from different countries talking about the women issue, the gender issue. And the simple question was, oh, is there a glass ceiling in your country? And I guess every country's answer was yes, except for the table of Japan. Because their answer was they didn't have a glass ceiling, they had a steel ceiling. But you get the point is, yeah, this is an issue that's everywhere. And did you find your Chinese colleagues in China were as mobilized to work on them and to make changes? Yeah, I think definitely you see that coming down from the leadership level. I think when you have initiatives like this, often sometimes you have grassroots initiatives, but it's much more important to up-level that to a business focus. And I think that is what VMware is doing by starting VMware women several years ago and now extending that to VM inclusion. At VMware, the leadership team definitely see this as a business imperative, rather than just something we want to do good to the society. So there is a balance of trying to do good, but also trying to do smart. How we move the needle from a business outcome point of view. We've been very open about our diversity data. We've been tracking them as part of leadership MBOs. So I'm excited to see the levels of investment and emphasis that we as a company is putting on. As a leader, you are a senior vice president here.  How do you work on yourself and your day-to-day practice as a leader and a manager? Yeah, I think it's along our career, we've seen a lot of things like sexism or how people apply unconscious bias toward women and certain stereotype view of women. I think we've all experienced that. And I can think of lots of example on a daily basis, I was having dinner with a male co-worker, which is a very important way for us to build a strong relationship. And as we were eating, we were mistaken as on a date. All these subtle things that remind you somehow, people see women, not necessarily, even if you're having a business setting, they tend to not assume the same. So I think that's happening all the time. So my approach toward this has been recognizing that it happens and have a good way to diffuse it. And because most people are doing it in a very unconscious way, and when you have a way to diffuse it, you help have a positive impact on that person. To give you an example, I think for women, we're constantly introduced as a women's something. One year I was speaking at an event and when we were doing the rehearsal, the senior leader was introducing me as a women engineering leader. So I just generally said, hey, look, people can tell I'm a woman. You don't have to say it. The dress gives it away. Yeah, and that made him become aware. Yeah, the merit you're standing on, is not because of your gender, or shouldn't be limited by your gender, rather than because of the message or the business or the technology that you're bringing to the audience. But that's not always easy for people to do, to use humor to diffuse the situation. We just heard from Kara Swisher, the founder of Recode, and one of her pieces of advice was to be authentic, be genuine, be original. Your Twitter handle is why be high heeled. I love it. Thank you. But it is this mix of professionalism and femininity. Right. Is that hard to do? Is it hard to pull off? It is hard, and I have debated over and over. You know, where I got my Twitter handle, actually, one of my co-workers, my team members, for many years ago said to me, you're the high tech girl in high heels. And I kind of liked it. It felt like very me. But there's been lots of people telling me, oh, is that really good? Is that insulting? Or is that demeaning of the levels of the position, the type of job you have? And I actually felt otherwise. First of all, it is fairly authentic of me. And if people who, you know, I remember when I was leaving one job and my male boss was commenting, saying, Yan Bing, you didn't leave very big shoes to feel. You live very high shoes to feel. So I'm known to like high heels. And people, and I've also learned that once you establish your competence, this does not become something that is negative.  As long as you're confident about who you are. And so I find that, yeah, I'm having lots of fun with my Twitter handle. Right, right, right. But as you said, as a woman, you have to also prove to yourself and that you are smart. And just because you wear high heels and you like high shoes, you also can get the job done. Yeah, and it's not just high shoes or whatever shoes of choice that people have, I think is, yeah. And we are most comfortable and most successful where we are truly authentic to ourselves. Being who you are at work, at home, in your private life. So talk a little bit. The last time you were on the show, you talked about the hyperconverged world. Can you give us a little bit of an overview of what's going on in the software space and what you're working on now? Yeah, it's a very exciting time. Certainly as part of the storage business unit, a key initiative that we're working on is VSAN, this is VMware's leading product in hyperconverged infrastructure. And what we're seeing certainly is this fundamental disruption that's going on in storage and data centers infrastructure in general. And if you think about what is one of the highest gross market segment that's happening in data center and infrastructure today is actually hyperconverged. You know, as a market, this is quickly disrupting the traditional way of delivering storage and it's growing as 60% cager for the next few years. And we as a business has been growing triple digit. Last year we almost tripled our, the size of the business and we're seeing tremendous customer momentum and tremendous customer adoption and seeing hyperconverged is really becoming a mainstream way of delivering infrastructure to our customers. So very exciting time. It is exciting. And yet it's hard to think beyond hyperconverged because if everything then becomes one, what's next? I mean, what do you see down the pipeline two, three years from now in terms of how businesses deal with their storage? Yeah, so certainly, VMware being a leading infrastructure software vendor, we're going through a fundamental transformations of providing not just the best in class software for your data center, how we modernize it, how we provide higher levels of automation and in the private cloud, but increasingly there is a shift towards service-based consumption and cloud-based delivery of infrastructure. So, and I think the same thing is happening in the storage space. Certainly with a hyperconverged infrastructure, not only we see a highly high degrees of integration automation, but we're also seeing the same architecture is extending into the cloud. And as we look at the cloud, we also constantly think about, how do we take the value prop of just building the best infrastructure, the best storage, take that infrastructure play now to an application play or a data play. And certainly from a storage side, we're increasingly focusing on how we make data better managed, better governed, how we provide more insights through data. So taking that storage levels of innovation to focus on data. Which I'll do. Yeah. Understanding what the data is telling you and making that data work for customers. What are you hearing from customers in terms of what is keeping them up at night? So, you know, the keeping our customers are all facing the challenge of how they keep up with their business demand. You know, as we look at it, every company is now being transformed into a digital business. And suddenly the role of IT become so much more interesting and exciting and it's really about enabling business. And so that put demand on, you know, how you deliver things in a much more agile fashion. You know, how you keep costs down so that you can invest for really where the business value at is. And how you can ready yourself to, you know, adopt a new way of building your application for the future. So these are the typical challenges that we hear from our customer is really to keep up with their business demand. And we are certainly excited to see, you know, VMR is playing a very vital role in helping solving our customers' digital transformation challenges. Yeah. So the role of Silicon Valley looms large in our business world. And also just in our imagination, what do you think the media get wrong about Silicon Valley? And just what do you think is the line out there that you wish you could dispel in the sense of this is not right, this is not the way it happens? Yeah, so, you know, I have lived in Silicon Valley for the past 20 years, except for a few years where I was back in Beijing. You know, I decided to move back because I just feel for being someone in tech, this is really just an amazing place to live in. And it's definitely the epicenter. You know, I have three children and then I just see, you know, how privileged they're growing up, being exposed in this very dynamic, innovative, vibrant environment. So this is what I absolutely love about Silicon Valley.  You know, there is so much technology, so much access, so much wealth being created here. Sometime we tend to forget life is different outside Silicon Valley. And so I think having that perspective is very, very important.  And what do you wish for your children? I don't even know if you've got daughters or sons. But in terms of, you know, just getting back to why we're here, breaking barriers is the theme of this year's conference, Women Transforming Technology. What barriers do you want to see broken for your kids, for the next generation? Right, I'm excited. My kids certainly being part of Silicon Valley and being in this very dynamic environment right now. I think there is incredible levels of awareness in them about what's going on in the world. It was funny, I was just talking to my son. He's got a new shirt. And he's 13 years old and I didn't know where the shirt come from because I didn't buy it. That turned out it's the first shirt he bought using his own money and he bought a pink shirt. And he told me that he wanted to get a pink shirt because he wanted to break the gender stereotype. And I certainly wasn't thinking anything like that when I was 13 years old. And this is just being exposed to certainly what's going on in Silicon Valley, being exposed to working parents and being exposed to what's happening in the political arena. That led him to make a very interesting choice. And I have two 11-year-old girls and I wish they can grow up. They love technology to begin with. Their Christmas wish was to build all of their Christmas card using some online language. And so we all got all these electronic, animated things from my girls and they want to write video games. And so I wish they grow up in an environment feeding when they have that social awareness. Being female does not create a barrier for them to pursue what they love because they genuinely are excited and interested in technology. And I'm hoping that's the environment we're going to help create for them. But I'm also very excited to see at a very young age, they have demonstrated a levels of awareness that I certainly didn't experience when I was young. And just speaking about that level of awareness and you brought up politics and sort of what's happening on the national stage. So much about this administration really does go against what our core values of Silicon Valley and particularly in terms of immigration, in terms of gender issues, transgender rights, gay rights. Do you feel that Silicon Valley will take a leadership stance on these things and stand up and... I think we should. We should, because Silicon Valley has benefited tremendously from the success of our technology and success of our businesses. And so with that, we have incredible power, incredible platform that's been created out of Silicon Valley. I think, yeah, we should play a role in advocating for what we believe in, just like VMware and other partner companies are taking a leadership position to advocating women transforming technology, the role women play in Silicon Valley and in technology at large. I wish all of the companies here have the willingness to really stand up for what we believe in. So given the power that we have and given the influence that we have, not just in this country, but all over the world. Yeah, and then Lee, thank you so much for joining us. This has been a pleasure talking to you. Thank you, Rebecca. I'm so glad to have spoken to you. Thank you for having me back at theCUBE. Thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight. We'll be back with the CUBE's coverage of women transforming technology here in Palo Alto.


Today we're taking a look at the Voltron 84 classic legendary blue line. So stay tuned Hey guys, welcome back to come again TV. We're all geek culture collides If you're new to the channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos today on the show We're taking a look at the Voltron 84 classic legendary blue line. So let's go ahead and move these guys out of the way real quick We're gonna take a look at the packaging As you can see here, you got Voltron 84 logo. You've got the original Voltron Beast King go line Fire missiles classic legendary blue line with the blue line there Legendary series form 16 inch classic Voltron combine all five lines The blue line is the right leg of Voltron now streaming on Netflix and this was made by Playmates toys Let's go ahead and flip it around Voltron defender of the universe from days of long ago from uncharted regions of the universe comes a legend the legend of Voltron defender of the universe a mighty robot loved by good Feared by evil her royal highness princess Elora from of planet eras became pilot of the blue line the right leg of Voltron of course The first pilot of the blue line was actually Sven Who was hurt after in episode 6 and couldn't go on? He was sent to another planet. He eventually got captured by Zarkon and became a slave I will go in more into that in my Voltron history Sven slash shiro video which by the time this video comes out We'll already be up on the channel. So go find it as you can see blue line comes with a jaw blade 15 plus points of articulation missile launcher and a beam emitter and he also comes with directions and a little mini catalog We don't really need the directions, but I'll go ahead and show them to you guys real quick All right. There you go Get that out of the way. Then we have the catalog here We've got a lion attack Voltron cannon fire Voltron sword attack Voltron blue line yellow line black line red line green line a Keith shiro page Lance hunk and my Zach Then we've got the metal defender series eight inch Voltron combined all five lines Then there's the legendary series and ultimate Voltron so now What we're gonna do is we're gonna take a look At the Voltron 84 classic legendary blue line And then we're gonna compare them to the Voltron legendary defender Legendary blue line So let's go ahead and move this guy out of the way real quick And we'll take a look at the Voltron 84 classic legendary blue line So as you can see Like with all my Voltron lines, I have him posed in a very different stance than what most collectors have their lines Displayed as most of them will make their legs straight Like that You know Or they'll bring him back like this. I don't like that. It doesn't look very cat-like to me What I like about this Voltron these lines that the originals I Don't think you could really do as you can kind of Bend their knees to a point where it's more of a cat-like stance Very nice So as you can see he comes with his tri-blade here and It does fit into his mouth just like all the other bladed weapons of Voltron There's a little square peg there and that fits right there inside his mouth. I Really like the detail on this guy very nice. The only thing they could have really done better is added the numbers So anyway, here's the laser and These can plug in anywhere on vote on the blue line. It doesn't have to be on The front half or on both sides you can put them on either side you can put them on one side or the other It doesn't really matter Here's the missile launcher, which let's go ahead and fire that There we go takes a little bit effort okay so you've got to actually push on the Sort of thing. It's not a button So anyway, there's that It is a little funky to get in the laser doesn't really do anything But as for blue line Okay, so it said what 15 plus points of articulation So let's see here the head Can kind of rock back and forth up and down That's not bad So there's one point of articulation The mouth two points of articulation and there is a little bit of a missile in there doesn't come out, but So there's two points of articulation then three points The tail is four points of articulation Then we have one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 So I'm only counting 12 points of articulation Yeah, it says 15 plus points of articulation on here I'm only counting 12 and less of course They're adding in this Which would be 13 points of articulation. I'm not seeing where they're getting 15 points of articulation Um This the the neck rocking action. I only count that as one point of articulation because It's all as you can see it's only a bar that goes through there. It's not It's not a ball joint or anything like that It's just a bar and there's just a little bit of wiggle room for that bar To be able to kind of go like that. It's not like you can completely turn his head or anything So like I said, I'm not seeing where they're getting the 15 points of articulation from them, but that's besides the point The paint on this guy is really nice. I Never had the blue line growing up. The only one I ever had was a black lion and We moved so much. I lost him as I mentioned in my black lion review and so getting this guy getting the complete Voltron for the first time in My life was a dream come true. It really was So now let's go ahead and bring in the legendary defender of legendary blue line Now I can't remember how many points of articulation. It said this lion had I believe it might have been 15 No, I'm not sure he did come with this water cannon that goes on his back Go ahead and take that off for now set that to the side And The jaw on the mouth on this guy opens a lot wider Then on this one as you can see You could barely get his blade in his mouth Will the blade fit in this blue eyes mouth? Yes, and it fits Pretty good. It's not bad Not bad at all It's not super tight, but you know, they've got that part there Teeth will go through it kind of Steady in place It's not bad. And as you will see This blue line has The red crest on his head Well, this one has green green light type thingy Which would have been really cool if they made it like a green transparent that could light up that would have been really nice and as you can see they are Pretty close to the same height This blue line is slightly taller But it also depends on how you have them standing as well I have these two standing Pretty much the exact same way and this line is still a little bit bigger than this one and They are Roughly the same length I'd say The legendary blue line has the longer tail But from but to snout This blue line is longer So let's go over articulation for the legendary defender blue line Okay, so you've got one then two Three four got five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen I think they said is 20 plus points of articulation on this guy I'm Only getting what 18 or 19 points of articulation so Anyway, that's how you transform that one into the leg For this one fold the tail in The head goes up The legs it's pretty much the same exact way Aside from the tail and I will say as with in my other videos you can actually Mitch mismatch The lions between the classic and the legendary Voltron's You can if you wanted to you could have two blue lions as Voltron's legs Have them be you know and two red lions as arms whatever you want to do They did make these to where you could mix You could mix and match which is very very nice. I really like that idea So anyway guys there you have the classic Let the Voltron 84 classic legendary blue line And I compared them with the Voltron legendary defender legendary blue line. I Hope you guys enjoyed this review Make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos I'm Shannon for comic NTV Next Thursday right here. We're gonna be taking a look at the Voltron 84 classic Legendary yellow lion and then the following Thursday. We're gonna be taking a look at the Voltron 84 classic Legendary Voltron fully assembled and comparing him to the Voltron legendary defender legendary Voltron fully assembled So make sure you tune in here every Thursday for new toy reviews right here on comic NTV I'm Shannon for comic getting take care This is the story of the super force of space explorers Especially trained and sent by the Alliance to bring back Voltron Defender of the universe


The end-to-end encrypted protocol that powers the signal private messenger, as well as other more popular proprietary messengers like WhatsApp, Facebook messenger and Skype, which collectively have billions of users, recently got an important update that's going to give the people using these messaging apps, resistance to quantum computers. The name of this new quantum resistant encryption protocol is called Post-Quantum Extended Diffy Helmet or PQXDH. And for you more technical viewers, I'm gonna leave a link in the description of this video to the white paper that explains the protocol's details. But for the rest of you, let me just explain why this new protocol is so important and why we really need more post-quantum encryption protocols in our applications. So you've probably heard that several big companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, they have developed these record-setting quantum computers that they use for various applications. And also countries like the US, France, China and Russia, they have their own quantum computers as well that they use for research and for military applications. And both big government and big tech would gain a lot from being able to use quantum computers to break various encryptions that you and I use on a day-to-day basis. With governments, there's already a standard in place, a standard protocol called Store Now and Decrypt Later where they're collecting all of the encrypted communications that are going over the internet, especially from targeted people and they're just storing them until the day that they have a quantum computer powerful enough to decrypt all of those messages. But in my opinion, that day is already here because last year, IBM unveiled a quantum processor called Osprey, which featured 433 qubits in the processor, the highest number ever achieved in a quantum processor. And by the end of this year, they're expected to complete work on their new quantum processor known as Condor, which is supposed to be the first one to exceed 1,000 qubits. The number of qubits in quantum processors is increasing exponentially in a way that's similar to the doubling of transistors that we saw with Moore's Law and classical computers. However, unlike the classical processors in your phone and computer, the actual computing power of a quantum processor doesn't just double when you double its qubits, it doubles when you add a single qubit to it. So take IBM's Osprey, for example, they could create something called Osprey XL, which has just 434 qubits and it would be twice as powerful as the regular Osprey. And just like we saw with classical computers, the cost per qubit is also coming down substantially as well. In fact, at this point, I think the most cost prohibitive thing with running quantum computers is the refrigeration system that's necessary to cool it down to like almost absolute zero so that the computer doesn't generate any errors. I think they use liquid helium or some other kind of exotic cooling system that's more expensive and even colder than liquid nitrogen. Now, you're probably wondering, what is it about quantum computers that make them so good at breaking encryption? More specifically, it's asymmetric cryptography or public key cryptography, that's the most vulnerable because these cryptos work by using mathematical functions that are sort of like one-way functions. They're really easy to do one way but difficult to undo. And in the case of elliptic curve cryptography, it relies on discrete logarithms, which in general are very slow to compute on regular processors. And in some cases would take lifetime of the universe for a supercomputer to compute. But because of the fact that qubits are able to hold multiple states instead of just zero or one like traditional computers, they're able to run quantum algorithms like Schor's algorithm very efficiently, which itself is the most efficient algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem which ECC relies on as well as the problem for finding prime factors in very large integers that RSA public key cryptography relies on. And remember, quantum processors can run those algorithms twice as fast for every one qubit that is added. And the number of qubits in these new processors is increasing exponentially. So non-quantum hardened public key cryptography is pretty much broken already in my opinion. I mean, if you're a person of interest, I'm certain that your encrypted comms that the NSA has stored years ago are being read in some underground government bunker right now. And if there's anything in those messages that they can use to suspect you of being a terrorist under the Patriot Act or whatever your country's equivalent thing is, then you can be certain that the van is probably heading to you right now. So I'm very glad to see the Signal Foundation introducing PQXDH and eventually implementing it in their Signal Private Messenger. And since other applications like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype use their protocols as well, I'm sure that they're gonna be implemented there too, although it is worth mentioning that those apps are absolutely proprietary and you cannot be sure that Facebook or Microsoft or whoever are not simply copying the private keys off of your device that's used to generate the public keys in this cryptography from the very beginning. The whole point of Shor's algorithm and store now decrypt later is to reverse engineer these mathematical functions from your public key so that they can derive your private key. But if the private key is just stored in a black box app with network access, there's no reason for you to believe that the private key can't just be copied off by that corporation whenever they want, whether they are compelled to by law enforcement or not. Since it is a non-free application, you, the end user, do not control it, that corporation does. But in the case of Android, iOS and desktop signal apps, all of those are AGPL licensed so you can have spook-free communications with them right now and into the future, no matter how many qubits, big tech and big government get in their quantum processors. And there's one last thing that I wanna point out about signals post-quantum encryption implementation and that's the fact that it's more of an upgrade than just a replacement to the old standards. It is important because there have been certain algorithms that were hardened against quantum computers that made its way a good way through the NIST testing but they were then found to be vulnerable to attacks from classical computers. You see, that's the catch that can come with, I guess, patching bugs and trying to increase your security. Sometimes you create new bugs or new security holes but with signal, they augmented their existing ECC cryptography with Crystal's Kuiper protocol, a NIST post-quantum finalist which claims to offer security roughly equivalent to AES. And in signals words, the attacker would have to crack both of these encryption schemes to decipher your messages. So if signal wasn't the most secure end-to-end encrypted messaging application yet, it certainly sounds like it is now but we can only really take advantage of this post-quantum cryptography in signal if people are actually using signal. Sure, what's up in others, we'll add it to their black box apps but those are still apps made by ad companies whose primary purpose is harvesting your data so that they can sell it. So share this video to spread the word of post-quantum signal so that more people will actually install and start using it. Leave a like and a comment on this video in order to hack the algorithm and check out base.win to get merch like this open base shirt that I'm wearing right now. Discounts are available store-wide when you shop with Monero. Have a great rest of your day.


So, about Niharika, she is a machine learning engineer at TCS and she develops NLP-based solutions for Walmart, US, and she believes in leveraging artificial intelligence to help people lead better lives and her talk at PyCon at Canada in 2019 focused on one such research project, AutiGlove, for autistic people, autistic children. So, when not at work, Niharika actively contributes to the Python community as a tech speaker, mentor and organizer, and of course, she leads the Pyleides chapter in Chennai. So, thanks a lot, Niharika, for agreeing to deliver this session. So, she has been a speed mentor as well in PyCon 2019 regarding the same topic winning your way through tech grants and conferences. So, enjoy. So, Niharika, over to you. Thanks Manasani, thanks for that introduction. All right. I think we can get started. So, basically, yeah. So, I'm going to be talking about winning your way through tech conferences and grants. And just to disclaimer, so all of these tips are either pre-COVID days or post-COVID days. These are not winning your way through tech conferences in a virtual format. So, these are all my experiences which I have learned throughout my two years of conference journey and what happens when you have physical conferences. Right? So, just a brief introduction. I think Manasani has covered most of it. So, I currently work at TCS. I also organize the Pyleides Chennai meet-ups and having spoken at various conferences like PyCon India, PyCon 2019, Canada and, you know, Virtual Conference of PyHoyo. So, I'm no expert, but I have definitely, conferences have helped me, you know, kind of helped me in both my personal and professional life and it has actually helped me move from an attendee to a volunteer, to a mentor, to an organizer, to a speaker. And it's been a great journey and I would like to kind of share that to you along with tips and tricks of how you can make the most of tech conferences. When I started attending tech conferences, it was probably you for me and for people around me. So, a lot of things I learned, a lot of things I made mistakes, a lot of things I learned after the end of the conference, what I should do. So, I hope through this you will be able to just kind of analyze how your conference was the last two days and probably make the best use of it in the next conference. Right? So, I have a question for all of you who are there here and right now I'm not able to see your chat, but if you can just put it up there. So, I just want to see in brief, is this your first conference, Picon India 2020? So, it will kind of be a very ask for all of you if this is your first conference. So, just put it up on chat, yes, no, and if it is no, then, you know, probably is it your second conference, third conference or have you attended other conferences before? Right? So, I have two questions for you. So, this is the first one. And for those of you who have answered, yes, that this is your first conference, then what, I'm going to show you what exactly conferences look like. Right? So, this is a picture from Picon India 2019, which happened in Chennai last year. This is how exactly tech conferences look. You will have huge, I don't know, people and it's kind of an experience in itself. So, just, so this brings me to my next question as to why do you attend a conference? So, for all of you who are attending this conference, although it is virtual. So, what pushed you to attend this conference? Was it a colleague who introduced you to this? Was it your friends? Because everybody around you is attending. Are you attending because you like the talks, which are scheduled? You like the sessions and you want to learn more? So, this is my second question to all of you who are there in the session. That why do you attend a tech conference? What are your reasons? So, with this in mind and with my journey. So, there are a lot of pictures which I've kind of put in to kind of make this person. Since I was told it's going to be an experience sharing. So, in my, literally my experience is out there for you to see. So, the first thing which we need to do. So, there are three aspects to my whole talk today. One is how can you make the most of the conference you're currently attending? How can you write top proposals which, you know, which gets selected? How you can basically go and write a convincing top proposal. And let's say you're giving a talk outside India. So, most of the conferences in India you can pretty much travel to another state. But then I had to travel to Bicon Canada to Toronto to attend. It definitely is a burden, a financial burden, right? From visa to, you know, the expenditure, the financial, the flight, it's all of that. So, a lot of conferences with grants. So, we'll also be touching on how you can, how can you find out about grants, what can you do, how to get right to a successful grant. So, what do you want out of conference? So, I think yes. So, these are all the different reasons. Again, just go one by one. One is the primary thing of conferences. There are all technical talks, right? So, first is you need to actually figure out what kind of conference you want to go to. There are a lot of many conferences happening. You have technology-based conferences. You have company-sponsored conferences. You have seminars, meetups. So, you need to focus on, are you, so if I am, since I am working in Bicon, since I prefer to, I want to expand my knowledge in Bicon. So, Bicon was the best fit. So, to expand one's knowledge, to learn what's new out there, you can learn about a new, let's say you're working on a business problem or you're working on a project and you find a talk session which is very similar to that. And you want to know how they have solved the problem, right? So, that is one main reason why, what do you want to get out of, you know, a conference? So, these points are very important to the next thing which I'm going to talk about is how can you efficiently, efficiently manage time.  You kind of have to put all your effort, all your focus, all your time to take notes, to attend these sessions, to plan out your schedule. But if you're going to attend conferences to make connections, just to network, to know more people, I think hanging out around the conferences, the booths, the company booths or the networking areas, the open spaces are your way to go. If you want to, let's say, find a job, if you want to look for an internship, if your course is that, then I think, you know, spending more time on visiting the company booths, the sponsor booths and talking to people, talking to mentors will be the way to best utilize your time in those two days, right? So, you need to figure out before the conference as to why am I attending it, what is it that I'm expecting out of a conference. And if you are attending it for conference wax, this is something which I think all college students probably might be on top of their bucket list that, oh, I'm going to get a lot of conference wax, no. I think swag shouldn't be the only reason why you are, or the main reason why you are attending a conference. So, just try to, since you're going to spend two days, try to understand why do you, what do you want out of these conferences, right? So, the next few slides are going to be my Python journey. So, when I started, it was in the year 2018, and you can just see a very serious need standing alongside my college major and all of us and learning about speaking, hearing, understanding what the community is about. So, I was new, I did not know anybody, I did not know anyone. I had traveled from Chennai to Hyderabad along with my four college friends just in order to attend the conference. So, everything was new, and this is what I was facing with. So, by current year 2018, I was a first-time attendee and when I entered, these were all the things which a conference, you know, kind of offered, technical talks, lightning talks, keynotes, job boards. So, they give you a whole big schedule, you have chapter booths, you have company booths, you have quizzes which are going on in between these sessions. So, one tells you come to a booth at two o'clock, the other one tells you come to a booth at four o'clock. There are, you know, open spaces, workshops. So, it's very easy to get kind of individuated and not knowing what to do, where to do. So, this is where what happens is the first thing that you need to do is kind of manage your time, you know. When you get your schedule and you go through it, that the schedules are put up way before in the website. So, what you should do is kind of plan your schedule, because all talks happen finally. So, most of the times, they kind of happen finally. So, even in Mike on India, which you saw. So, you need to kind of figure out what are your must-see talks. So, are they related to your current job project? Are they really interesting or something which I want to? I may not know a lot about it, but it's a good beginner level talk and I kind of want to know. So, there are two kind of talks, must-see talks and you can see those talks if you have time. Right? So, the reason why you're doing this is because when you have must-see talks, you kind of make sure you are right out there, attend the talk. And the can-see talks are where you can probably venture out, may not attend those talks because it's not in line of your interest and try and navigate through the other aspects of the conferences. So, the second one is the company booths. So, the picture which you saw, kind of, you know. So, there are a lot of company booths which are out there or let's say chapter booths.  So, if you are the person whose reason of, you know, attending a conference is to, let's say, find a job or find an internship, you would need to kind of sacrifice a few talks and attend these booths or talk to the people in these booths when, you know, when the talks are going on because that is the time you can actually save. Once you can save a lot of time in talking and even the person who's there at the company booth can actually give you this time and listen to you and have more meaningful discussions. So, this is something which I think in my first time of attending I was like all over but probably the second and third time is where you understand how you can, you know, make the best use of the conference. So, this is just my own personal tip. Obviously, all of you are best at, you know, see what works for you but this is what I experienced during my pipeline journey. And, yes, so you can always meet people, join with discussions, you know, using breaks and give the best time to network. So, just explaining to you, this is again a screenshot of Picon India 2019 in Chennai. So, if you see, you know, there are so many booths and so many people out here so this must be probably one of the time when there are no talks going on. So, it's, you know, you kind of need to figure out where you need to be when and then make the best use of these conferences. So, the next one which comes is, so as a student, so when I attended my first thing, I was a student, right? So, I was like, how can, why would somebody listen to me or what do I want to talk to them? I just started working on data science machine learning projects. So, the best thing about this is about the conferences at least Picon India is basically all of you have badges. There are different identity badges. There are volunteer badges. There are mentor badges. So, this was something which I really liked that, you know, there are some people roam around with mentor, like in mentor, like, you know, or so it's really easy to, let's say, to reach out to them and I'll just discuss with anybody. You're talking to somebody and you're saying you're working on this project and this is where I'm stuck. So, this, personally, this happened to me. So, my, since I was in my final year of undergraduate, I was working on a major project idea and I was, me and my friend. We were kind of having various approaches of how to do it. So, we were discussing this with one person and then that person reached, you know, connected us with another mentor whose name is Saptar. And he, he has done something similar in building his undergraduate days and gave us a, you know, very good approach and kind of gave a lot of insights as to how we can go about it. So, when I said it is a, you know, Picon helps me nearly personal journey is because that topic, that major project went on to become my top proposal for Picon Canada. So, it, it helped me to, you know, take it from ideation to the entire finalizing and actually doing that project. So, the best thing how to network is, you know, you can reach out to a speaker after talk and obviously ask sensible queries. You should always prepare some conversation starters and the last part especially is, you know, exit at the right time. So, sometimes you're kind of stuck in an awkward situation when you have other things to do and, you know, and the discussions keep going on. So, you should try and manage your time effectively and try to reach out to people at the right time. Right? So, the next thing which I have seen, which was even new to me and which I kind of asked a lot of people is what to talk? Why did somebody listen to me? So, or, so especially for students, this is kind of, I'm just a fresher. So, what to talk is basically what to talk in a company group or a response group and why would they hire me? Why should they listen to what I'm doing? So, one thing which I realized is I think elevator pitch concept is something which really works. So, for those of you who don't know, you know, elevator pitch is basically a 30 second thing about who you are, what are you working on, where are you, you know, which college or which company are you working for? What is it something called unique about you? And what is it that you're expecting out of this 30 seconds after this 30 seconds? So, probably you can ask about our sensible queries, ask questions, all of those. So, it's very, since conferences are the place to, you know, network and to talk, you'll feel free to, you know, ask about let's say there are openings in your company or if you can connect. So, I think LinkedIn always, this is something which I have a tip for myself. After every conversation, which let's say exceeds more than five minutes, I make it a point to either connect or five minutes, I make it a point to connect with that person either on LinkedIn or Twitter or send a personalized request because we had meaningful conversations and obviously you can't spend hours and hours talking to that person in the conference, but you can obviously catch up after the conference, right? So, this is the next part. So, after the conference, so I think, so a lot of times what happens is, so you have to make a conference and then you just shut shop, right? So, that's not how it, that, so actually after conference is as important as what you do during the conference and before the conference. So, following up, reaching out to people on LinkedIn, but you know, collaborating on projects. So, the mentor of my told you, so we kind of, you know, collaborated with him, kind of took his opinion, took his advice throughout our entire final semester when we were working on our project.  So, in 2018, there was this really awesome concept of job board. So, where, you know, all people were attending, putting up their names or their email IDs and if they're actively hiring or not. So, this is just one such example. So, you can either collaborate on projects after conference, fill them up for jobs or internships, you can always reach out. So, this is just a student to me who went a verse sec and reached out to everybody application for internship because I found out them, you know, through them in job board and I was and to my surprise, I actually converted, you know, few of these applications into internships which is what is my personal outcome of, you know, attending a conference. So, when somebody asks me why do you have to go and why do you have to attend a conference, what is it, it's just we're just going to attend talks. So, this one conference was really eye-opener for me and so I pledged to give it back to the community by creating the Paileri Chennai community since we didn't have one in Chennai and this, you know, such conferences, basically like Manaswini said in a previous talk, it helps you increase your peer group, the right kind of peer group who talk about tech, who talk about the field you're interested in and who work on projects which you are interested in and so one thing leads to another Paileri Chennai led to meet us, it led to me getting introduced to the Python community and to all Chennai Paileri team and to a lot of other people who are already actively participating in this Python community and getting back to the community, right. So, after this, so the next, you know, this was kind of the major thing which really helped me to get into the whole thing and then there are Python India 2019 was, you know, it helped me organize PPLB on the other side of the conference, helped present my own poster so I still had, I'm still not very confident of submitting a talk so I ended up presenting a poster and then I ended up, you know, giving the same, the same thing which basically the software helped me, my major project ended up becoming my drug proposal for the Python Canada and so what you see is basically in one year it things really changed for me because of how conferences and how you can basically make best use of them. So, now I come back to the last two things of, you know, of the talk, basically how can you write a successful drug proposal and how do you apply for grants. So, the main thing about call to proposal is, so this was again something which I only got to know after the first conferences, there is something called call to proposals and it usually opens let's say months before the actual conference. So, a lot of us don't know about the timeline so it's very important so if you know that there is a conference that's happening six months later, this is the right time to submit a drug proposal. So, know your timeframe, stick to your deadlines and it's easier to, and it's better to submit early. So, a lot of times teams give feedback. So, wherever whichever conference you submit to they kind of give feedback if something is missing they reach out to you. So, always do that and the first thing of, you know, writing a proposal is basically you need to finalize the talk topic and not just any talk topic, you know, you need to be you know, thorough in it, you need to know it in an hour, you need to do your research and it is something that you have worked on because you want to talk about it so people think you are subject matter experts in that and you want to talk about it. Is it relevant? So, this is the last question, this is the question which you always have to attend. If this topic is basically there in the conference schedule and you are an attendee, will you attend it? So, if the answer is no, I think you need to revisit your proposal and go through it once again. So, then what you need to do is decide on whether you want to give a beginner level talk and intermediate advanced level. So, is this fit enough for an advanced level talk? Am I confident enough to talk about this topic or this algorithm or this new tool which I have built? And this is the next line is basically something which I have seen from my experience as a CFP reviewer last year is do not repeat talks if your audience is going to be the same. So, if you are, let's say talking at Paili B's Chennai Meetups and you are also talking at Chennai Paili Meetups and Pipe on India is also happening in Chennai and you are going to repeat the same talk everywhere. So, even for a person who is reviewing or let's say or any person, so if your audience is going to be the same and they already know and they already heard your talk previously so it is best practice to not repeat talks at different places. And the last one is my own personal tip that I personally have to have done talks which are application oriented. So, I have used Psychic Learn to do something but I have used this tool or this package to build something new. So, rather than explaining to me how it works or what it is. So, this is just my personal view that if they are application oriented where you used it to build something amazing then I would definitely be the first person to present your talk. So, the next one is when you actually submit a proposal, what all do they require? So, they require many things. So, whether they ask for it or not, whether generally CFPs have a structure. So, they kind of give you what they need. They need a talk title, they need description, they need outcomes. So, but even if they don't the right practice is to basically have a very inquisitive topic, a very interesting talk, let's say title. And the description kind of make it elaborate. So, a lot of times, a lot of proposals which I have seen which are there in the public forum is probably the description is just three four lines. So, for a person who is reviewing, he won't know what you're exactly, why would somebody why should he give 30 minutes of this conference, it would be on top. So, you need to make it elaborate as to why are you doing this. So, there are three questions. What does the talk about why somebody needs to hear your talk and what are you going to cover in the talk and how your talk is going to impact the audience is going to attend it. Right? And also split. So, if you're going to talk for 25 minutes, it's very nice if the organizers can see how you're going to structure your 25 minutes, how are you going to start, what are you going to focus on, what are your main points of focus. So, a time split of your talk will really help in making the organizers be more confident about your talk. And the key objectives and the audience takeaways are something which are really helpful because you're telling them what the audience is going to learn from your talk. So, and the next one is basically practice, practice, practice. So, I think this is something which is, you know, just before the talk, which you need to do. So, when I had to give my talk, I had, you know, done my major project reviews, I had three reviews in college, I went into the poster presentation, I spammed my family and friends, gave them my talk, and then eventually. So, this basically helps you improvise, get feedback. Somebody will have some opinion about what they understood, but they didn't understand, so that will help you to, you know, improvise on how you present and what is it that you want to present about. So, last year, so I have this example, how I hand coded between learning and strategy. So, this is a top proposal. I'm just going to share you this screenshot of a person called Arjun Paturya. So, I was going to all the proposals and of last year, and this was one of the proposals which really caught my eye. So, I will definitely, you know, kind of share the link. So, to all of you. So, it's there in the public forum. So, if you, the way he structured his top proposal, the way it was written. So, I think he did speak in last year's conference. But this is something where I always take inspiration from when I talk, when I write my own top proposals as to how we can write a convincing top proposal. So, if you see about the agenda, the, the what, the outcome, the outline. So, I think it's it's perfect, right. So, for all of you who want to just you know, get to know, you can always go into this. So, the last thing which we're going to cover today is basically how to write a convincing grand proposal, right. So, some conference tickets are something which you can always, you know, which you can sponsor yourself. But what happens if you are talking at a conference, which is not in your country, okay. Or let's say even if there are some conference tickets are let's say a lot more than your budget. So, different ways.  So, the first thing is you need to just kind of find out whether the conference is giving certain financial aid. And if they are, then how do I go about it. And even if they're not, it's it's good practice to kind of mail them and ask them what they're doing. And if not, then there are although other organizations which help sponsor you, right. So, there are, for example Grace Hopper Conference. So, I think every company out there, the sponsors attendees of Grace Hopper. So, you have Google, Facebook, Microsoft attending. So, similar to CFP, you should know your time frame of when to apply for a grant and you don't review the guidelines, whether they require cover letter, they require recommendations, what it is. So, and then basically what you do or what you need to do in your grant is it's kind of, you know, it's very similar to how you write your statement of purpose. You need to condense the other person as to why they should fund you. So, what you can basically write, let's say Python conference, right. How do you use Python?  Why, if you attend, let's say Python India, what is it that you're expecting out of it? And once you do attend, how is it that you're going to give back to the community and how is it that this financial aid, how you can make use of it. And it's very important to write in a way that it convinces that person that, okay, you are a person who is worthy of giving a financial aid for you and you need to kind of customize it for every conference, not that you have a generic template and you send it out to multiple conferences. So, the main part what you need to focus is what do you want to get out of the conference and how do you use Python and how you attending the conference is going to help you as well as the conference organizers, right. So, I think that is something which, so it's basically an essay or a cover letter and it's kind of like a purpose as to why you want to attend and why should they fund you. So, just to brief, so when I had written my grant proposal for Canada, so I had, you know, I had gone back and seen about the previous versions and since I was talking about the topic which was for autistic children, so I found a link where Python Canada had actually supported some autism speech where they had supported a group like that previously in the year 2015. So, I had pulled that out and kind of added it to this and sort of tried to make it more relevant, right. So, these are just a few tips as to what works for me and I hope it works for you and I hope you make the most of your next lectures. Thank you. Thanks a lot Niharika.


Hi stampers! Welcome to Watch It Weekly Wednesday. Today I'm going to do red and white cards. I love red and white. You can't tell. Look at my nails. They're all red and white and sparkle. So it's one of my favorite color combinations for the holidays. I just love it as you can see. Aubrey gave me this for my birthday. And anyway, I just love red and white. So I'm going to show you this stamp set. The Frosted Gingerbread stamp set and the dyes. They're really a lot of fun. And then I really love this Holly Jolly Wishes too. I think it's very complimentary with the different Sains in this stamp set so you can mix and match them. And I want it a little bit bigger of a Sain Merry Christmas to you. So I'm going to use that in this card. And I love the peppermint candies in here. So I'm just using these two stamps and a Sain. So let me show you what I'm going to do. I'm going to do just a little background around here, tone on tone. And you can just have your stamp go back and forth and just turn it. Have it go off your paper because it looks better. At least I think it finishes it off. So I just kind of turn the paper as I'm stamping. Have some come off a little bit here. And if you want to go back, you can go ahead and put this in it. But I think I'm going to use that for the paper. I'm going to go ahead and stamp this little piece.  So I'm kind of making my own DSP here. Designer Series Paper. And but I want to be able to use this little other stamp. So I'm doing the bigger pieces first.  Just a filler. It's kind of like a splatter stamp. It fills in the blanks where you, if you want to. But it's fun to be able to have. And you can even have it stamped on top of. And red sometimes on my stamp pads, it needs a little bit of drying. So let me go ahead. I'm just going to make a banner with this. I'm going to go ahead and cut in the center and then go up to the center to make a flag. Got one. Now I'm going to take the gingerbread DSP2. They come in six by six. And the cool thing is they have the red and white plus they all have the gingerbread color. So it's a really good combination of a suite with all these beautiful colors. But of course they have red and white. So I've got this little design here. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm not popping these up. I'm just going to pop up the same. So this is a very simple design. And I use this a lot on masculine cards because it's just super simple. And if you have designer series paper and a saying for a masculine card, it works great. Okay, so we've got the other banner like that. Now I'm going to go ahead and do Merry Christmas to you in the railroad. Merry Christmas to you. Of course we need dimensionals on this to pop it up. And I'm going to kind of make it look like a ornament, this round size. And it's about a two and a half inch circle from our circle dies. I'll put four on here. I won't get too crazy. Okay, so this is kind of where I want the Merry Christmas to you. But I'm going to go ahead and put a piece of our little cording on there. And I'll use a glue dot for that. I'm going to kind of stick it behind. Go ahead and put it down here. And I'm going to stick it behind the paper. I'm just going to lift it up a little bit. I'm going to take the glue dot and put it right here. I'm going to go ahead and snip this a little bit because I just want it to go around the flag of the designer series paper that I made with. Put it up there so you can see. Okay, so it will stick there. And then we're going to put this right here. And I think it will look like once I put the bow on it, it will look like an ornament on this red and white card. So it says Merry Christmas to you. And then I've already made this cute little bow. And you just double the cording. And it's a double bow. And I think it is really cute because it makes just a little bit more shine on it. Okay, so Merry Christmas to you. We've got this red and white card. Let me show you a few others. This is just red and white with them cut out and a little splatter put on it. The same way I did this to make the ornaments. So just another way to look at it. And this one, love this one. And the cool thing about this is it's the photopolymer so you can look right through and you can see where you're stamping to make your designer series paper. And then this one is just the snowflake. I made this a gift card holder. I just trimmed the card stuck right here and I only adhered it on the bottom and the side. So you can put a gift card in there. And this last one right here, it's got a fun fold and we'll be doing a future video on this fun fold. So stay tuned for that. I don't think it will necessarily be for Christmas, but we'll do it some other paper, but it's a really fun fold. So I hope you've enjoyed seeing my red and white cards for this year. Have a good day and we'll see you next time on Watch It Weekly Wednesday.