Hi there! Welcome to Tourism Matters, a program that explores issues about tourism and why tourism is an important part of our lives. This is brought to you by UPAIT and TVUP. Tourism Matters tackle broad topics and are divided into three series. Number one, tourism policy and governance with a specific focus on issue on over-tourism. Number two, tourism education and human resource capacity. And number three, tourism industry, market, and enterprise. We hope you find the series interesting, educational, and fun. Hello, Rika. Hello, Trisha. Nice to see you. Hi, I'm Lui. Sorry. It's called me Lui. Okay, nice to have a gathering of AIT graduates. So, I'm Lui Santamaria. I'm presently working with Microtel here in UP Techno Hub. So, I finished AIT way ahead of you guys. What batch? Seventh batch, 1982. So, obviously I'll be getting my new ID card next year. Why? You're serious? Yes, yes. Enough of me, please. I'm Rika Bueno. I'm now working at the Department of Tourism. I also graduated UP AIT, Batch 18, so a little bit far from you, Lui. I entered AIT in 1983 and I graduated in 1987. My name is Trisha. I am an entrepreneur right now. I entered UP in 1994 and graduated 1998. So, me and my husband now are managing two companies, RDA Foods Corporation. So, that's what we do now. So, you went out of the industry and supplying the industry. Yes, yes. I'll tell you more about it later. Okay. So, I guess this is a nice gathering and maybe it's a good time to talk about our AIT days. I mean, was it, how did it help in our, obviously I'm still in the industry, though part of my career or half of my career was out of the industry. Meaning? The first, well, as I finished in 1982, I joined the Mandarin group as a front office and salesperson and it went on to Sheraton, Accor until after 17 years that I decided to end my 24x7 career in the hospitality industry. And then I moved to a completely different industry, but automotive. I joined the Ayala Automotive group. So, it really went from hospitality to technical. On operations, not on sales, not on marketing, operations.  So, we were forming the corporate sector. I see. And I think that's where my 17 years of customer service and marketing services came into play. Because they wanted to consolidate and be customer centric because it's a technical product. At the end of the day, customer service. Still related to tourism. Tourism is service and people-to-people industry. So, customer service is really at the forefront of tourism. That was 18 years again and I decided to end my employment career. I had to take care of some personal matters and took a semi-retirement and became an entrepreneur. Really? Consultancy for two and a half years until the personal matters have settled down. And the opportunity came again. It's a micro-tell you protect. So, I said, go back to my first love, which is really the hotel. And the AIT neighbor renovated everything. So, I said, it's a good providence. So, I got back in 2018 until now. So, you're the GM of micro-tell? I am the GM of micro-tell. Techno hub? U.P. Techno hub. Just beside AIT? Yes, beside AIT. Love. He's really coming back. He's coming back to Commonwealth. What did he say? He said, start and end my career. In the hospitality industry. Rounding up near UPA, I think, in your career. So, obviously, I said another ID next year. Next to me, you're the most senior. And you are in the government. Yes. All my life, I've been in government since I graduated in UP. So, when I graduated in 1987, I had a short working period at the House of Representatives. So, President Cori? Three months, yes. And then after that, there was an opening by the Philippine Convention Visitors Bureau for an international hosting of the ASEAN Tourism Forum, the first time that the Philippines would be hosting. So, I took the chance to apply as part of the ASEAN Tourism Secretariat. And then after that, that was like preparatory to the actual hosting of ATF in 1988. And then that was around eight months. But after the Philippines hosted it, I applied for a Permanent Shepherd, from PCVC and the Department of Tourism. And then they told me to apply for a permanent position at the Department of Tourism. And that's where I started my career with the DOT. I'm, you know, 30 years this year. So, all my life, a government service. What's the vision? Hi. DOT? The Department of Tourism, I was first assigned at the Office of Product Research and Development. So, this is more on planning and development. So, there were also programs that we catered to the marginalized group and students from public schools, where we would bring them, because there was a program on the Department of Tourism that was called, Don't Be the Johann in the Seryling Bayan. And we give opportunities to the marginalized sectors of the society, the out-of-school youth and students from public schools, to go around the country, grade five and six for the elementary and then third and fourth year high school. So, after that, 2000, because I was in the planning sector for 15 years. Even the first master plan of the Department of Tourism, where we had that grant, technical assistance from the United Nations World Tourism Organization. I was tasked to handle one of the flagship projects, which is now in Bukhol, Panglau Island. There's a master plan there, Panglau Island Tourism Estate project. So, we handled that. So, everything, because in the 90s, the Department of Tourism was very heavy when it comes to master planning. So, I was in master planning for 15 years and product development. And then I moved on to, during the time of Secretary Dorano, I was assigned to handle international promotions. So, from planning, I moved to international marketing. I handled our promotional efforts within the Asia-Pacific market, for seven, eight years. And then after that, I moved around now within the Department of Tourism Operations, because I also had a short assignment in our regional office. So, around 2010, I went to Region 7 for a short while to be the officer in charge of DOT Region 7, Central Visayas. And then there was a change in... Based in Cebu? Based in Cebu. It was six months, seven months. And then there was a change in administration from GMA, of course, to President Aquino. And then I was recalled to the head office. And then handling now operations, which is tourism standards and regulation. I think in my career in DOT, this is the most challenging to be a regulator, because I was handling planning, international promotions, and then regulations. And at the same time, training of our tourism workforce. So, the long, very important aspect in the development of our industry. So, until now, I'm in regional operations and regulations and industry and power development. Like myself, after AIT, we plunged into the tourism industry. Yes. After AIT, so we were practitioners. You, all throughout, I had another industry than BAP. Yes. So, I'm an entrepreneur now. Actually, I've never really been employed to our industry, but in all of my experiences, I went to where I am now. It's really related to what I studied in my college years. In 1998, the graduate, right after graduation, I was hired by a semi-government, I may not in government agency called the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines. Here, I have convention management because we do conventions every quarter in all the different parts of the Philippines. It depends on you. So, I was doing this for all the vice-governors elected during that time. And then afterwards, so that's all convention management. And then after that, I was also hired by De La Salle University to teach convention management. Because that's when the new colleges like the Hotel School of Beniold came out. And then at the same time, I was also part of the Sea Games 2005. So, during that, I was part of the secretariat of that event. So, that's where I really go. Everywhere I go, I really use what I'm learning during the AIT years. The subjects in AIT. The convention management and then sales and marketing are marketing. Even though the subjects are very diverse, we were exposed to different kinds of sectors in the work. So, wherever you go, you're really good. You taught me. I taught you, ma'am. You taught me too. Yes. I was a lecturer for Intro to Hotel and Restaurant Management. Four years. AIT then. We still have teaching. That was my commitment to Danny Corpus. And then after that, I had to share, I paid for work for four years until conflict of schedule. So, I had to... Lecturer, I don't know if I can do it because I don't have a Ph.D. No, I don't have a Ph.D. No, I don't have a Ph.D. I'm a Ph.D., right? AIT, if you need help. You'll apply, right? I handled resort planning and development in AIT for two semesters. And then, I also had the opportunity to teach at Philippine Women's University on special topics. That's true. You were into the... Yes. So, it's like giving back. Apart from as a professor, that's what we call him. After my convention work, then we built the business in 2009. So, in 2009, we started the manufacturing... In 2009 to 2012, we started the manufacturing business. We're actually producing cookies. And then, in the cookies, even though it's a business, tourism became my student. Because our line of business went into souvenir products. So, we're right now in the culture, duty-free. So, on that path, now we're featuring domestic areas of the Philippines in our boxes. So, it's like, even though my heart is still there to promote the beauty of the Philippines and then, still within the industry, at the same time, we're also like, we're going to be exposed by the DTI Expert Marketing Bureau. So, it's like, I joined the convention or the expositions abroad. So, it's beautiful because I'm exposed to the industry. Is it for a particular region, or cookies, or it's just a homemade... It's a homemade, but we feature flavors of the Philippines, like to try mangoes from Cebu, Malagos, chocolate from Davao, calamansi, so the Philippine flavors. So, you've got the thing of every province and you've developed it. That's right, Louis. Because the DOT now is promoting one of the thrusts for our secretaries, Secretary Berna Puyat, who was also an Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture, is food tourism and farm tourism. So, it's very... If your business is right for your timing because now is the time for the Philippine food to be elevated in the international... Not only Adobo and Balot. Not only Adobo and Balot. Yes, yes. But all others. We have a lot. We have a lot. It seems that we really are into wherever we go that tourism blood is in us. Yes, yes. Definitely. It really goes out without me... There's no conscious effort, but it's really, it just really comes out of our work. So, they're just not... I mean, to put it, we all have our career goals, right? Timeline-wise, it just flows it. To reason, because it's so fluid. Correct. I didn't set any timeline for myself, because I wasn't expecting that... In fact, in my 30 years in government, I also had thought of moving out. Moving out. But maybe because there was a time that, of course, it wasn't smooth sailing, all the way. So, there are... Especially in that time, I remember. There were some business. So, I also thought I would move out of the government, but maybe there was a mission if not... Because you're going back and you're going to give a new opportunity to handle something where you can contribute more. So, when I started in DOT, I didn't have a timeline. Five years, I'll be in this position, or nothing. It's just that... It's the love and passion for... It grows in you. I didn't think about it. Time just goes by. And you enjoy the journey. If you love your work. If you enjoy working.  Actually, I don't have a timeline. Because when I was in college, I didn't have... I wanted to be in the industry. And then, opportunities came along. So, from the NGO, and then I went to the academe. And then I also worked for the government for National Youth Commission. Really? So, there... Youth events were coordinated. And still on events, still on conventions, still on training seminars, and all these other things. So, it's like... And then now, in business. So, it's like the other industries are also involved. Yes. It's a very dynamic, super dynamic industry. Yes. Awesome, ma'am. I was also part of Publicis Ama. It's an advertising agency, a private company. But I also handled events. I was doing the... the... the tambiolo. Yes. During that time, tambiolo pa yolo pa yolo pa. Yes. Yes, because of the digital. Yes, all those things. It's so nice because the course made you open your eyes to a lot of things. And you're not just here. Because of all the subjects that we have studied. Yes. You can really... What? You can choose where you want to go or where you really want to go. We were provided different, right? When we were studying... The foundation. The foundation is beautiful because in the tourism industry, there are many sectors. So, we were given lessons on the hotel industry, convention, travel agency, travel and tour, operations, airline. So, all of this, it's the whole tourism, value chain. And you have a background on management. Yes. On accounting. And even history. Right? So, it opens your mind. It opens your eyes. And you can't choose. But you remember our time. I know. Maybe Lui, we got a little bit of tourism.  And I remember we also got a little bit of male classmates. We still got a little bit. Because you, maybe I'm with them. Physically male. Yes, physically male. Maybe I'm with them. Out of 35 or 36, there were only six male. Really? So, just one block later, we're already three. We're already two. In the 90s. Yes. So, we got by batch, we're the first batch, second batch. Yes. Because it's only one class. One class. I'm 18. So, I guess we touch on almost everything. I mean, we, the fun and enjoyment of being in the tourism industry. And you mentioned the classes and subjects that contributed to how we were able to expand and work in the current participation. And if I may add, the academic influences and the community. Because my friends or my batch mates up to now, they're still in the industry. They're very excellent in what they do. They're already in higher positions. Yes. And they're doing very well. And because of that, you have a network. So, the community, the AIT community, you get to brainstorm or at least keep in touch and you know people are okay. She's from AIT. He's from AIT. He's already a GM. He's a manager of AIT.  So, is there something we can relate to or suggest to AIT about what can we include? What can we include? Because we know convention management, doctor operations, airline and all those research and language. So, in terms of moving forward. Moving forward. I mean, to strengthen better the graduates of AIT. Looking back, and then basing it from the experience that I had, I feel business communication, business writing. Business writing. Something that is really needed. Yes.  Yes. Because I struggled during the time that, okay, I'm in front of the computer. I have to do this thing, but how do I do it? Yes. Because of course, it's a bit practical. Yes. The office setting. Yes. Business writing is very important. Yes. But even if you're not an office worker, not an office worker, you will still have to write something. Yes. Maybe you can talk, but once you have to put down something in a formal proposal or communicate officially. Yes. It's different. Project proposals, draft or whatever. Yes. I agree with, I agree with Trish, that business writing could be strengthened in the preparatory course when we go out of college. It's more basic for me. I don't know the curriculum right now. But I've gone through a number of interviews, UP graduates and some, even some outside of UP and some what do you call it? State universities. It seems one of the things that they need is to communicate in English. Yes. You know, even if it's in UP, in Macabaca, in English. But this is an international industry. And, you know, people come here and Filipino is not yet. Yes. But again, in our business, day-to-day business transaction, we deal with tourists. And usually, they study an international language. Whether you're French, Japanese, or Chinese, they try to get into that additional language. And to me, it's English. Maybe to further, you know, enhance the communication skills. I know that in my time, or maybe... Do you speak English? Common. Yes. Common. Common. Common. Common. Common. Common. In Ann game, one of the things that maybe UPA.IT could really enhance or strengthen is really providing students with opportunities to have more exposure and linkages with the industry. I know that we have 1 or 2 tours or we... What about practical. Practice. But, you know, students will more and more make it now external rather than the classroom. Because you do different learning when you're exposed to the industry, right? So I think, I don't know, in all of the subjects, there would be that kind of opportunity for students to have linkages with an industry, a program or a project. So you're the practitioners, right? Practitioners now, inviting more of the practitioners to have, to have industry talks. Especially now that there are a lot of AIT graduates that are there on the high level. So that should be integrated in every semester, right? So there are even, probably not only here in the Philippines, but we can invite speakers from, you know, from abroad. We have a linkages, right? So then it's one way of really expanding the knowledge of our students. It's on the line now, it's a webinar. There are things like that. You're in touch with Europe, you're in touch with the States, you're in Singapore. So we should take advantage of that. So in those technologies, maybe you can also consider the digital marketing program. Yes. Because that's really it. It's really difficult. That's really it, right, sir? It's like we're already there. So we really need to adapt our course to what it is. That's necessary. Not necessarily leave everything before. Because there are still foundations. But still add to what we have. I believe now that in that curriculum, there are digital... Imagine digital marketing plus business writing plus communication. You know, it's really powerful. It's totally different now. So if AIT graduates are equipped, they will graduate, right? Yes, so I guess that's it. Very competitive. I believe that's our message to our institute. And for the forthcoming semesters and programs, maybe the enhancement would be, as we said, business communication. Strengthen the English language skills. Not only speaking, but really... Writing, speaking. Some of them can speak. However, when they put it down in writing, they don't coordinate the noun, grammar, everything. Or the other way around, sir. They can speak. But once they speak, it's like that. There are people like that. And of course, as you said, add on to the entrepreneurial... Yeah. Because that's the thing right now. Oh, I have something to add. Love for country. Ah, yes. Love for country. Love for country. You need to be independent. You need to be independent. They won't leave you alone.  I agree with you. If there are opportunities for a UTA, I think grad to work abroad. Yes, maybe for a time. But come back. Bring back that knowledge and experience that you have gained from working outside. And share it here in the Philippines. What are your expectations? Because we are trained in the office that I work with now. We handle training of the tourism workforce from the masajistas to the tricycle drivers. Everybody... It's like everything that connects to the tourism industry. Tourist, police. Manang that's being sold at the Sari Sari store. We provide some kind of training, customer service. We now have a program, the Filipino brand of service excellence. But because we pride ourselves that Filipino has that intrinsic nurturing and hospitable nature, caring and nurturing. Why don't we dream that the Philippines should be the center for center of excellence for tourism hospitality? Besides, we are known for that. That's why we are so in demand with the service industry, even abroad. In demand pinoy. Because that's where we are good at. Correct. We can all achieve that by working together. We should advocate the Filipino brand of service excellence. I'm not really working on that. I'm not directly overseas work. But I've been fortunate enough to be traveling something like six, seven months in a year in different countries. Every time I come back, there's something I can adapt and I share and I tell. If it's working in that particular country and it doesn't entail so much resources, but it's here, you know, hospitality and a little bit of tweaking comer. Because the fear of the unknown is one of the setbacks of pinoy. Where am I? Okay, here. Until something disasters happen, it's the only time they think. But we have to be more proactive with that. We have to be ahead and say, okay, this may be the scenario. I'll tow the line. I'll take this line. There's nothing wrong with adapting other practices, foreign practices, because that's how it enhance and the industry grows better. Applicability of whatever you learn from. So we agree. We should agree. We come together in really pushing forward the Filipino brand of service excellence in the tourism industry. We are already warm. We are already caring, nurturing, nurturing, hospitable naturally. But what we need to enhance is the professionalism and efficiency. Because it's very important in the tourism industry.  You can also miss the visit. So professionalism combined with the nurturing, caring, and hospitable traits of the Filipino service I think will be the benchmark for tourism hospitality.  Any Rarara? Yeah, for the AIT students or for the upcoming graduates or for the graduating students, just enjoy the journey wherever you go, whatever you do, do it excellently. Meaning you're going to do it anyway, do it excellently. Meaning you don't have to do it you just have to do it right. Always do it for for yourself and for our country. So that's it. So I guess we all have the same thing. And to me, as far as our future leaders in the tourism industry from AIT, it's a continuing process and learning. You can never stop learning because as she said, tourism is very dynamic, practices change, but the core is there. We have the heart, we have the attitude, we just have to keep it there. So customer service, English, we have to learn. We have to learn continuously. Yes, never stop learning. If you're in the tourism industry, you're in a right industry. Way to go. Yes, I agree. I think they all said tourism industry is really love of country. So that's I think it will follow, everything will follow if we first love the country and the right service to the country. Okay. Hey, nice to get together with you. Yes. So I'll see you again. Yes, see you around. Yes, I'm Filipino brand of service. Excellent. Thank you.


What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am Goldpony. I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube and today I am super excited We are in the new 2021 BMW 4 series coupe courtesy of Apple BMW in York PA They just got two of these things in plus an m5 plus an m2 So for more information on their inventory please feel free to check out the link in the description box below And of course I'm excited to be in this one today because it has been completely redesigned for the 2021 model year A wider track lower center of gravity 50-50 weight distribution. This is the new Bavarian masterpiece So what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and as always let's start with pricing But so as you can imagine there are a few different configurations available for the new four series coupe First one being the 430i starting at $45,600 then there is the 430i xDrive starting at $47,600 And lastly the one we have today being the m440i xDrive starting at $58,500 And so as you can imagine with those different trim levels there are actually two different engine configurations available for this one. First one belonging to the 430i trim levels being a 2 liter twin power turbocharged inline 4 cylinder. This one puts out 255 horsepower at 5,000 rpm 295 pound-feet of torque available from the power band of 1,500 to 1,400 rpm power sent to rear wheels or all wheels of course the all-wheel drive being the xDrive trim levels through an 8 speed automatic with paddle shifters giving you a 0 to 60 time coming in at approximately 5.5 seconds for the rear wheel drive according to BMW 5.3 seconds for the all-wheel drive and of course miles per gallon is not quite yet been tested for that one but then there is the other engine configuration of course belonging to the m440i that we have today this one is powered by a 3 liter twin power turbocharged inline 6 cylinder gotta love the inline 6 with a 48 watt mild hybrid system as well which is said to increase performance by up to 11 horsepower so that is pretty cool that BMW put that on this one as well but overall horsepower numbers come in at 382 horsepower 5,800 rpm torque comes in at 369 pound-feet of torque available from the power band of 1,800 to 5,000 rpm sent to all four wheels through an 8 speed automatic with paddle shifters which by the way you guys know we will be testing out it a little bit here but overall 0 to 60 time BMW puts it at 4.3 seconds again we'll be testing that out in a second and once again mpg numbers have not yet been officially released for this one but before we do any kind of paddle shifter test or acceleration test or anything like that i did want to mention there are some drive modes of course available for the four series coupe they will include eco pro comfort sport and sport plus adjusting plenty of different things like the shift points of throttle response the steering sensitivity and actually the suspension settings as well if you get the adaptive damping suspension that is it is an option for the four series coupe and of course that will also adjust the gauge setup ever so slightly as well they'll look to the gauges i should say but now having mentioned all of that what do you guys say i want to test out the paddle shifters here first i've never been disappointed with BMW so i pretty much already knew the answer i feel like but we're going to do it for the sake of this video let's go ahead and find a straight away and i'm going to put the shifter all the way to the back and to the left that is actually going to give me full manual shifting so therefore let's go ahead and test out the paddle shifters and see how quickly they react for us here still in first gear it is not shifting and here we go holy crap oh my gosh this thing is freaking quick man dang wow this paddle shifters are lightning quick who would have thought it in the BMW oh my gosh i am surprised no paddle shifters are like super car quick honestly they are well more than expected and it never surprised me with BMW though they absolutely kill it but let me put it back into full automatic mode here and got a car behind us but oh my god oh my god i love it die that acceleration is absolutely breathtaking in the m440i it's not going to be quite as good with the other engine configuration although it's still going to be well more than enough to merge you onto a highway of course but oh my gosh it makes you feel absolutely wonderful this is why i love cars that acceleration was oh my gosh i'm just going to keep saying oh my gosh because that was freaking wonderful anyways to go along with that acceleration as always braking is equally important so of course you will find ventilated four-wheel disc brakes in the front and the rear actually m sport brakes with blue cowpers coming on the m440i that we have here today and since we're coming up to a stop sign give me like three two one we're gonna come to a stop here yeah that works absolutely no issues with the braking feel whatsoever definitely feels nice in this one but continuing on touching on suspension and handling on this one up front you will find a double pivot type front suspension with spring struts and an anti roll bar in the back five-link rear suspension with cast aluminum upper transverse arms twin tube gas pressure eye shock absorbers as well m sport suspension coming with the m440i it's going to be a retuned version of course of the 430i so a little stiffer suspension there a little better handling on the back roads i guess you could say i suppose ride quality goes it's been honestly more than i expected sometimes with sportier cars like the four series coupe you don't always think they're gonna ride as nicely but this is a bmw you can't really expect anything less it does have really the best of both worlds in this thing it rides super smooth soaking up pa's road perfection's definitely quite nicely the steering feel something bmw always nails with their vehicles especially when you put it in that sport driving mode i just immediately downshifted for me i gotta love that oh my gosh the exhaust note is also different in sport driving but i don't think i mentioned that to you guys you get a little bit of poppage with it in sport driving mode gotta love it the steering feel is noticeably heavier as well so you are gonna have a much better feel to the steering feel when you're in sport driving mode better helps you point you in the direction that you want to go so you gotta love that as well touching on cabin noise when you put it in that sport driving mode you can hear that exhaust i tell you that much i'm gonna go ahead and take it out so i'm not competing with that exhaust note but cabin noise is perfect i was just driving at highway speeds around 60 miles per hour there was no wind noise whatsoever coming into the cabin again you hear a little bit of that exhaust note with the sport driving mode but other than that cabin noise is 100 on point as well that touching on visibility i could see perfectly fine out the back sometimes with coupes you don't always get that but quite honestly with the four series coupe you're good no issues with visibility whatsoever rain sensing windshield wipers actually do come standard on every single trim level of the four series coupe meaning when the car starts to detect any kind of mist even or rainfall it is going to automatically turn on this windshield wipers kind of like automatic headlights it's just one less thing you got to worry about there and a head up display is going to be optional for this one and so i do actually have that option today i am looking at my speed as well as the speed limit on my windshield right now just one less thing that better help you keep your eyes on the road it's also actually going to give you some safety features navigation information up there as well but that about rounds out this amazing performance section of this review let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of this brand new 2021 BMW four series coupe all right and so here she is you guys the beautiful new 2021 BMW four series coupe gotta love it completely redesigned for 2021 let's go ahead and start at the most controversial part of this one the front grille and i do want to know exactly what you guys think of this one so be sure to put it in the comment section below but of course the front grille previously being a horizontal design is now vertical and quite large of course so what do you guys think of that one of course it is that active kidney front grille you guys could probably see towards the top active meaning the shutters will open and close dependent upon the engine cooling needed so that's always very functional you will actually get chrome accents surrounding that front grille if you were to go with the 430i bronze or black accents are available as well for the m440i and so we do have the black accents up there today down in the corners to the sides there you guys could probably see you do have some air curtains directing air around the wheel entire combination for a little better aerodynamics that's always nice and when it comes to those headlights they are led headlights with cornering lights meaning when you're going around a bend at night those headlights will swivel based on your steering angle better help illuminating what is around that bend so it's going to be there for you as well led daytime running lights of course and do come with the automatic feature as well meaning when it starts to get dark and then light headlights will turn on automatically for you there it's all pretty basic stuff i guess at this point but there's an optional lighting configuration for the 4 series coup being the icon adaptive led headlights with laser light technology and so that is the very brightest lighting allowed by law right now so if you wanted super illumination at night it is available for you and i absolutely love the hood creases around this bmw logo in the front here as well bmw just did such a nice design in my opinion to the front of this i know it's controversial but i absolutely love the look of this one you guys gotta agree with me on this it might be a little bit polarizing but i absolutely love it now let's go ahead and make our way to the side of this one now it's in now since we are around the side gloss black windows surrounds do come standard on the four series coup body colored power adjustable side mirrors coming standard you will get bronze mirror caps actually if you were to go with the m4 40i or they can be available in black of course like you're seeing right now and those side mirrors are heated with led integrated turn signals then as well then taking a look down at the wheel set up 18 inch v spoke orbit gray alloy wheels with all season run flats coming with the 430i 18 inch double five spoke alloys coming with the m4 40i and so it is going to be that same size wheel setup just a slightly different design between the two trim levels there and again there's coming with run flat tires surrounding the wheels as well but now let's go ahead and make our way to the back of this one now but soon now since we are around back of course you do have that gloss black shark fin antenna up top you do get a small lip spoiler if you were to go with the m4 40i only the 430i is not going to give you any spoiler back there so we did want to mention that led tail lights of course coming standard across the board and you of course will find that badging back there as well the m badging specifically if you were to go with the m4 40i and you do have the x drive logo on the other side there taking a look down a little bit you will find a gloss black rear diffuser it is going to be gloss black no matter what color exterior that you get on this one so if you wanted it to kind of mesh in with the rest of the vehicle go with the black exterior like we have here today but I do like the look back there and of course to the sides even the exhaust setup is going to differ slightly between those two trim levels dual exhaust outlets with circular chrome tips for the 430i dual exhaust outlets with bronze or black trapezoidal exhaust tips if you were to go with the m4 30i so do you believe you guys know what we have to do next and again like I said previously the exhaust note is going to differ so I'm just going to throw it in sport driving mode here and enjoy the sound here you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip aren't you guys so now since we are around back of the 4 series cube here to go ahead and open that trunk there is a button on the key fob that is one way there's also a button on the trunk itself and yet another way is going to be on the driver's side door I did want to also mention there is a hands-free trunk if you were to go with the m4 40i that we have here today so that is yet another way go ahead and open the back up there but once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 12 cubic feet even if that was not enough space there actually are levers located in the trunk simply pull on them they will fold down those rear seats of course giving you a ton of extra space there if you needed it another kind of interesting feature I found in the trunk itself you find a lot of features back there that you typically would find in SUVs but almost never coupes like grocery bag hooks I found a couple grocery bag hooks in the 4 series cube that's pretty cool also tie down anchors you almost never see that in coupes either also you had some storage on the sides of that trunk there with a little bit of netting as well so definitely a very functional trunk for the 4 series I will say that kind of surprised me they're quite honestly but then making our way to the rear leg room that comes in at 34.5 inches so for reference I mean even six feet tall this is how much space I had back there and of course those rear passengers are spoiled a little bit as well because they will have a rear center armrest with cup holders they also get rear ventilation another feature you typically will never find in coupes because they are smaller vehicles so you don't always need them but of course in a luxury vehicle like a BMW 4 series cube you got rear ventilation for those rear passengers that's pretty cool also phone charging ports back there and I was also surprised to find they also have their own climate control settings back there so they can set their own temperature back there as well and actually 34.5 inches going back to that it's actually a decent amount for rear leg room when it comes to a two door so we'll say that so I would imagine you can actually play around with these front seats a little bit to actually fit passengers more comfortably in those rear seats if you wanted to do that but then making our way to the front seats since the tech upholstery is going to come standard on all trim levels however there are optional setups but as far as the standard setup goes 10 way power adjustable front seats come standard two way power side bolsters I love that and BMW definitely helps hold you in place around the turns a little better I love that you can adjust that memory settings for up to two different drivers can be found on the driver's side door as well that's always nice and four way power lumbar also coming standard but having said that there are optional setups for the seating as well giving you full leather seating with plenty of different color options available as well like this dark red color that we have here today I absolutely love this look in the past BMW has used a brighter red and I actually do like the darker red in this one it's much more luxury like I guess you could say so I like that heated front seats are actually going to be optional and this one ventilated front seats also optional and with all those seating adjustments even with the standard configuration extremely comfortable seats this is most definitely a vehicle you can go on long road trips with just because the seats are so ridiculously comfortable part of what contributes to that is the lumbar support and the power side bolsters in my personal opinion but so I do like the seats but then taking a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping heated steering wheel is available but perhaps the first thing always noticed in BMWs is the 10 and 2 grips are mammoth I absolutely love it it fits your hands so freaking nicely and really for a sports car like the m440i these 10 and 2 grips are necessary so I absolutely love that they are so beastly I love that BMW always does that and you do have the m logo at the bottom portion of that steering wheel and if you did get the heated steering wheel option that is going to be located just above that you guys could probably see that there as well then take a look at the gauge cluster it is an 8.8 inch gauge cluster that is the standard setup and then there is the 12.3 inch digital gauge cluster that is optional that we have today so it definitely looks good you got the speed information on your left as well as a digital speedometer you got your tachometer on your right how many miles do you have left until you hit empty there's your outside temperature with driving mode you're in of course and those gauges are pretty customizable as well and they do adjust once again depending upon the drive mode that you actually put this thing in so that's going to be there for you they are pretty nice up there but then take a look at overall interior quality a power glass moonroof does come standard on every single trim level you got to love that universal garage door opener for up to three different garage doors can be found just underneath of that frameless rear view mirror that's another cool little feature the frameless part of it a lot of times it'll come with that black plastic surrounding the rear view mirror but the frameless is much more upscale looks a lot better in my opinion so you have the garage door openers anthracite headliner essentially what that is it's just a softer version of what you typically find so it's a very soft headliner i like that as well ambient lighting is going to be optional on this one it's definitely an option i would recommend because bmw does it very well in their vehicles and there's a ton of different colors you can pick as well it is adjustable there's bronze orange white blue green lilac the colors continue which can all be adjusted up on the tech display which i'll get to in a second here so definitely a cool ambient lighting setup to this one just in front of the shifter you actually have a wireless phone charger up there as well there is a usb charging port dual cup holders surrounding the shifter there is a very nice kind of hard finish it really doesn't feel like plastic and almost feels like a very solid aluminum finish surrounding the shifter which is a very high-end feel to it so absolutely love that it's not like a gloss black plastic that's gonna smudge with your fingerprints or anything like that so love the very high-end finish surrounding the shifter there behind the shifter of course you have a center armrest with a good bit of storage within that another phone charging port in there too so overall when bmw does interior quality they always absolutely nail it so absolutely love it it's all the fine details like the stitching found on the top portion of the doors there's also a soft leather finish with gray stitching just where you would rest your knee for the driver and passenger close to the center console here so gotta love the little things that bmw thinks of just like that but what i'm getting at is overall interior quality is absolutely amazing so no issues there from a touching on the tech display now like i was saying 8.8 inch color touchscreen display does come standard that's going to match with the standard 8.8 inch gauge cluster however then there is that optional setup you actually can get a 10 and a quarter inch screen available which we do of course have today and to control what is on either of these screens there's a ton of different options it is touchscreen like i was saying there's also a circular dial and buttons just to the right of the shifter that's another way there is also gesture control available i love that and bmw's whenever you want to turn the radio up for instance you just circle your finger in a clockwise like motion and it turns up the radio for you of course vice versa but there's tons of different gestures that you can use so really you don't have to take your eyes off the road to adjust anything on that display screen and of course there is voice activated controls for that as well so quite a few different ways you can adjust what is on there bluetooth and audio streaming coming standard android auto apple carplay actually as well factory navigation coming standard up there too you can check out your weather information up there driving statistics and your radio information as expected so when it comes to the sound system we're going to test that out here 10 speakers 205 watts is the standard setup however you do have an optional 16 speaker harmon kardon sound system that is available with 464 watts and you guys know of course we do have that sound system here today so what do you guys say let's go ahead and turn on the radio so we got playing this morning and let's test out the clarity of this one sound system was amazing that was fun oh harmon kardon well done well done that was a cool sound system i loved that but last thing i wanted to mention to you guys on that tech display is of course when you do put the four series cube in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board for every single trim level in addition to that there is a 360 degree monitor with a 3d view available with the parking assistance package that goes for $700 it comes with other stuff as well but that is going to give you that bird's eye view which is always is going to lead us into safety and so front side side curtain airbags do come standard but also driver and passenger knee airbags up front as well in the back you're going to actually have latch aka lower anchors and tethers for children if you wanted to put rear car seats back there automatic high beams do come standard as well there is frontal collision warning with automatic city collision mitigation and braking blind spot monitoring system coming standard as well there is speed limit recognition technology of course and back to that parking assistance package with a 3d monitor goes for $700 that also gives you parking assistance plus which essentially is where the four series cube parks itself that's always nice and front and rear parking sensors if you wanted to do your own parking as well and so overall when it comes to my final thoughts this is indeed a driver's car it's absolutely amazing wonderful car to drive it will immediately put a smile on your face when you hit the gas handling is wonderful the steering feel is great especially with these 10 and 2 grips ambient lighting is definitely a must have option in this one as well it's going to look absolutely amazing at night and there's so many different color options you can go with as far as the different trim levels go if you're spending this much money on a BMW just go with the m440i because that extra power is 100% worth it in my personal opinion it's breathtaking quite honestly as far as constructive criticism the only constructive criticism I really have is BMW does tend to put a lot of different options that don't always come standard on their vehicles to the price can tend to climb up quite high if you wanted to keep tacking on those extra options but other than that if you got the money for it dang this car is fun the interior quality is on point the driving dynamics are absolutely amazing I love the new look of that front grille in the front but let me know what you guys think in the comment section below that is about it for this one you guys I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did be sure to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen 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Central News Network Update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here for the Tiger Financial News Network, 9 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Update. And we're looking at the Dow Unchangered 30 2016 after a really sharp upside move yesterday. Just a kind of a combination of a relief rally, plus some buying, a lot of short covering. And we'll see what happens today, we'll talk about that in the next show coming up, which is the morning market kickoff with Tommy O'Brien, but Tommy's not, I'll be stubbing for him, then I'll do my show at 10 o'clock. We're looking at the S&P, this is the, I'll go to the E-mini right now, E-mini is up 5 at 41.91. It was a very good session yesterday, but on the chart, just looking at it visually, it should really have gone a little bit higher, we'll see what happens today. I believe that this was A low and not V low, we'll talk about that as well. The QQQ, that's the index 100, let me go to the NQs for the moment, the NQ trading down 275 at 14,400. Also pretty good session yesterday, but it has to have followed through at least a climb above the 14,531 200-period moving average in the next couple of days. Looking at the IWM, that's the Russell 2000, I'll go to the actual IWM because that's trading pre-market up 59 cents at 160,370. That has been struggling. It is on the verge of breaking key support from earlier this year, making this arch formation, going to watch this one very closely. Now here's the issue, Gold is down $1 at 2004. It's had a spectacular run and the Gold stocks are not actually participating as well, some are, but the majority are not. So we'll be watching this because the dollar is pulling back a little bit. The dollar is down 4.03 at 106.11, it's not breaking down, but it's really close to seeing the 9-period moving average, possibly turn negative, we're going to be watching that. We're going to go to the bonds. Now, this is going to be very important. We're up about a point in something, now they're up 18-30 seconds, about a half a point at 109.27, 30 seconds. In the sideways move, can the bonds, can the TLT, that's the Lehman 20 Treasury Bond Fund, push much higher here so that yields could come down and crude oil right now, crude oil is up 82 cents. I'll be back for the morning market kickoff show. Tommy O'Brien is not here. I'll be subbing for that hour. Basil Chapman, looking forward to seeing you in a few moments.


I'm going to do my little blurby thing so that we only have to explain this. Once I'm says my parks. This is watch me work. Watch me work is a show where we create the action and the dialogue together. And it's basically an opportunity for you all to talk about your creative process. Okay. So watch me work the me in the title is you, you know, if you don't know, I'm a writer of plays and movies and teleplays and songs and all kinds of stuff. I'm also the master writer chair at the public theater. I've been doing this show. Watch me work for 11 years. Sorry, my son is yelling on his with his friends in the background. Quiet. You have a small apartment. Anyway, I've been doing this show for 11 years. Live, mostly in the public theater in the lobby of the public theater. I'm about, I don't know, five years ago, we started streaming. But with help from howl round. And so a big up to the public theater and howl round for making this way happen. I used to do it once a week. Yay. Once a week. In the lobby of the public theater. Now, because of this Corona. Thing. I decided I wanted to do it five days a week. So, so here we are. So here's how it works. Watch me work is a, a show. We're creating the action together, the dialogue together. What we're going to do is we're going to work for 20 minutes. I'm going to set my timer. This beautiful, beautiful thing that I'll talk a lot about later. If anybody wants to know why I love these kinds of timers so much. I didn't make them. I don't get paid to sell them. But we're going to work for 20 minutes. And together. Work on anything you want writing or anything. And then together, we will create the dialogue. You will ask me questions about your work. And your creative process. And I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about the dialogue. You will ask me questions about your work. And your creative process. What we won't be doing in this setting is we, I won't be critiquing individual work. So it's not like you're going to write and then read it to me for critique. We're not going to be doing that. We're going to be talking. Only about process, your work process. And how I can help it. Continue to merrily roll along. Questions like how do I get started? I don't know the story of my play. My characters in my novel are. Not cooperating. It's something like that. Okay. So process questions only. And process answers. And Audrey is our, one of our moderators. As Miranda and anything else, Audrey. Totally. So in order to ask a question, what you'll need to do if you are in the zoom is click on the raise your hand button. And you'll be in the participants tab, likely at the bottom of your screen. We also sent out a PDF today that explains how to do it. And so it should be in your email. If you have any questions about it. I just saw someone test it. I see a lot of people test in it. That's amazing. So. The other thing to know is that if you're watching the stream live on howl around.TV, you can ask us questions. Also via our social media channels. Just go to the public's Twitter or our Instagram. And you can also ask us questions that at watch me work SLP on Twitter and the hashtag is howl round H O W L R O U N D. And that's it. I think. We're all good. You're still muted SLP. Okay, you need to be quiet. Okay. 20 minutes. I got my timer. Are we ready? Here we go. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that was the. That was the action part of the show. And now we're going to do the dialogue part of the show where you guys are going to. Ask me questions about your work and your creative process. And I'll answer to the best of my ability. Incredible. All right. Anybody got anybody got a question. Yeah. So first person we have, I'm going to say, I think it's a lean. I'm. I'm muting you. I'm sorry if I pronounced your name wrong. Coming out very bilingual Spanish. And I'm excited by it as I write it because it's unlike. I've heard. On stage yet. It's like. Not even Spanglish. It's like really. Yeah. 5050. And I catch myself being a little nervous that. I'm worried about the. Understandability. For certain people. That would be, you know, only connecting to one of the languages. And also, I guess, Producibility because the last time I saw something bilingual in a very commercial space was like the. Last revival of West Side Story and everyone. Bitched about that.  And there's a part of me that. Aside from like the commercial implications, just the like. People missing out on not really getting it. So yeah, how do I. Stay excited by it without worrying about the shortcoming. Right, right. So great, great question. And say your name for me again, so I can hear. Lean. You keep cutting off right at the beginning. Yeah, my name is a lean. A lean. Okay. A lean. Okay, Elaine. That's a great question. A great way to, to start off. So. All right. So I'm going to play. Played, which is coming out bilingual. English and Spanish. Yeah. And. How far are you in the writing of this play? This beautiful play of yours. Right now, I'm very much still in the. Structuring. Side of things. I would say I'm. Very, very little in. Right. to work on dialogue and scenes. Right. So somebody in our group of almost 200 or more than 200 today knows what I'm going to say.  So I'm going to say, Elaine, those are really good questions that you have.  That's a great question and something that's very important to think about after you write it. Okay. Right. So you know the phrase, the cart before the horse. You know what I mean? You know, you don't want to put the cart before the horse. Maybe that's too old school. You don't want to, you know, or some of us are wondering like, why doesn't my Zoom work? Why doesn't my Zoom video work? Oh, you got to click the button. Or will I be accepted into this Watch Me Work class? You got to click the button. You know what I'm saying? So those are great questions to concern yourself with. But my feeling is that because you have yet to write your play, those are questions that are getting in the way of you writing your play. And my suggestion would be not to invalidate your questions, but that you need to write your work. And then once it's done and you have it in your hand, you can go, hmm, now let me have a read. You know, you go through the steps. You see what I mean?  Come on, watch me work. And they ask me, how do I deal with this play? It's not going to be producible because my mother's going to see it and she'll hate it. So I can't write it. You see what I mean? There's always something. Or how do I write this play? It's about, it's about current politics of the day. And I don't know how I want to talk about it. So I'm stuck. You know what I mean? You see, there's always something. And what I'm suggesting is that we put that something while it's not, while it is important, we put it aside. We do our work. And then we ask the next step questions of how can this be produced? Because the answer is, it can't be produced. Right? You know why? Because it's not there yet. Yeah, you got it. So go ahead and write it. Put those voices, let them chime in when it's appropriate. We're handing it to a producer and the producer says, I don't know, lady, you know? It's, oh, I don't know. The people who speak primarily Spanish, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever they're going to say. You know what I'm saying? But that's down the road. So as I go along, should I even try to make it like, like every plot point should be at least understandable in English, like even just a little bit of a guideline or just... Sure. If that's what you want to do, sure. Or maybe part of the story is that some things are not understood by in any language. Do you understand the plot point of today? What we as a world are going through right now? Something they're mysterious and some audiences can roll with that and some audiences can't. You know what I mean? Some audiences, like, when I'm in an audience, I don't mind going, I don't get that, but I'm willing to roll with it or I'm willing to kind of try to figure it out on my own. Some audiences like to be spoon-fed. It depends on the audience. It depends on the, maybe some uptown or downtown in New York or Broadway or some audiences in Berkeley or in the wild shit, some audiences in somewhere else might not be, you know, you don't know. So if now, if you want that to be your guiding light, then great. Go for it. Okay. Sure. But don't let it, you know, just realize though, I think the deeper answer is just realize that you're putting things in your way and instead of writing. Okay. So right, right, right quickly because the sensor in your mind is very slow, not to diss, you know, people who are, you know, more advanced in years, but the sensor uses a walker, you know, slow. And if you run, you know, they won't be able, because they're full of ideas and comments and critiques, you know, so they got a lot to say and they're kind of slow, not to say they're advanced in years, but they're just, you know, okay. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. So come and come back and visit us, you know, like make yourself a game plan and come back and check in with us because we're going to be here for a while. Yeah, I'm here at this day four. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Our next person is Madeline. Are you unmuted? Yes. Hi, Madeline. Madeline. Hi, Madeline. Hi. This may be something similar to what Aileen was talking about. I'm primarily an actress and I've had ideas to write for a long time and I get scared. Like I can't do it. Like I see other actors that like write really wonderful plays and wonderful shows and films and I'm like, that's what I aspire to, but I feel like because I can't do that, I don't put it down on paper. And I don't know if you have any suggestions or thoughts about, I guess, courage. Like I didn't go, you know, college to study creative writing or screenwriting or anything like that. But I know my taste. That's good. You know, courage is another way of saying heart, you know? So as an actor, does it take, would you say it takes courage to get out on stage in front of people and act? For sure. Right. Okay, great. So you already have courage. Oh, that was, because if you were like, no, then it'd be like, okay, how do we find it? But what we were talking about is a transferable skill, right? So you've already got, Madeline, you've already got a lot of courage. So what you're going to do is you're going to help, you're going to take your courage and have it help you do something that's relatively new. Okay. Okay. Although you've had a lot of experience interpreting other people's works and all that, you're going to take your courage and your courage will, will gladly help you do something that's relatively new. Okay. All right. That's what courage is for. Okay. So you're watching this show, which, right, because this is the pipeline to what you want to do. Absolutely. To the pipeline to what you want to do, right?  So do you have, you don't, not, not to tell us, not to tell us, keep it secret, but do you have a title or an idea or a theme or a character in mind or anything like that? You don't have to say it out loud, but do you have a character or a theme or a subject or an incident that you want to show us or something? Do you have something? Yeah, I do. Okay. Good. Okay. So could you, you know what free writing is? Free writing, like just getting your notebook and just like write about it, like blah, blah, blah, blah. This is what I'm thinking about my idea. No, I've never done that. Okay.  I have, yes. Awesome. So what you do is you get your notebook.  So I work in a notebook, very expensive, not notebook. And I just, what you do is you at the, at 20 minutes, every time we're in Watch Me Work, I want you just to say, okay, here's the subject of the play I want to write. No, no, no, even better. Here is the subject of the play that I am writing. Okay. Right. Or here is the main character of the play that I am writing.  And you got to keep going. You know, this is a very old technique. Lots of people use this. You got to keep the pen, touching the paper and writing as fast as you can. Okay. Okay. What you're doing is you're getting in conversation with the work. Right? It's like dating. You show up. You show up.  Have you ever gone on a date? You know what dating is, right? People still date. Yeah. Okay. Unfortunately, yes. It is awesome. It gets you, it gets you to prove a couple of things. One that you want something, right? So you show up, right? And your work is the same way. Your work wants you to show up for it. So what you're going to do is you're going to build strength. You have courage.  You're going to build your writing muscle. Okay. Just like when you were an actor, you're starting out in acting. Maybe you didn't get, you know, the lead lead role in every single play you were in, right? You're building up your acting muscles, right? Okay. So every day when you're in Watch Me Work and on the Saturday and Sunday that you're not, because we don't have it on Saturday and Sunday, you're going to set your timer for 20 minutes, right? And you're going to just free write. This is what I know about the play I'm writing right now. This is everything I know, blah, blah, blah, but whatever comes out is good. Okay. Gradually subjects, themes, characters, ideas, plot points will emerge. Okay. Okay. You got to put the time in. Okay. Yes. Okay. And keep showing up here. It's a perfect way to kind of, you know, show that you're committed to your writing process. Okay. Thank you. I will. I'll be here. Thanks, Madeline. Right on. Thanks, Madeline. All right. Next is Ellen. Ellen, are you unmuted? I am. Hi. Thank you. Thank you again for doing this. So I had one question yesterday about work that I teach and during semesters, I have no time to write. So I write in between semesters and what happens is a project is almost at the end and unfinished. And then I come back to pick it up. And I'm not sure how to revive it. I'm always saying to myself, that's because I don't have enough time. I have to go back and teach again. And yesterday, when you spoke about the idea of things getting tangled for you, and when writing gets tangled, and you have to really look at it and try to end it. And I think you talked about Joan Diddian's, you know, saying that she writes to try to see what she thinks. It occurred to me that maybe that's part of what my problem is, that I'm stopping not because I have to go back to teach, but because it's tangled and I don't know what to do next. I'm curious if you have more ideas about how I'm curious about what that means to you and strategies like what do you do to untangle it and what do you suggest? That's a great question, Ellen. For me, the most important, the best tool that I have, or a couple of, I have a couple of good tools, but one of the best ones is putting the time in. Putting the time in. I think if ever I say like, oh, I'm having trouble writing that song, or oh, I'm having trouble working on that teleplay, or gosh, why isn't the novel working out or whatever, right? Again, it's like dating or relationship. You got to put the time in. So a lot of times in your schedule, you're teaching and then not teaching and teaching and not teaching is tricky because you feel like you can't put the time in as much as you might like to. And a lot of us have that, you know, problem, that difficulty, or that opportunity. So I would suggest two things. One, you find a way to put the time in, even when you're teaching, in your teaching semester. And I don't know, maybe you've got like 100 classes a day that you've got to teach. Oh my gosh, I hope not. But I'm more on the show, pumpkin pie. Daddy went for a walk. Sorry. But maybe you have, you know, a lot of classes to teach. But I would suggest trying to find a little bit of time every day. Okay, I'm sorry, hold on just a sec. Sorry. I would suggest finding a little bit of time every day, even if it's 20 minutes, which is why we do 20 minutes. 20 minutes is for most people, you've got kids, you've got a job, you know, a day job and all that. 20 minutes is manageable for most people. If it's not, and everybody's got a different schedule, but if it's not, don't worry, 10 minutes are also available. Right, Ellen. If 10 minutes are not available to you, not to worry, five minutes will also work just fine. Okay, so I want you to try to find a little bit of time a day. You'd be surprised. People think, oh, to write, you know, I mean, I used to go to those writer's colonies a long time ago, because, you know, the idea was to write, I need to, I need, you know, space and time and all this stuff, which could be true. But it also could be true that what we need is just to use the time that we have and make the best use of the circumstances that we have, not to discount everybody's busy schedule. Those of you who are homeschooling these days and you got a job or you're laid off and there's stress and all that stuff, not to discount any of that, but to say that if I put five minutes a day, so if I sit down with my work, right, for, I only got five minutes, I turn on the timer. I'm looking at it for five the timer goes off. Okay, now I go to do other things. It works as it would work if you were trying to establish a bank account, you don't need a million dollars to establish a bank account, you need to put a little something in your savings account, right? What is it called? Something interest, a crude interest, no, something like that, right? Okay, you put a little bit in, right? We put a little bit into the bank account of your work. It's pretty much how I get everything done, okay? So with the tangles, if you have something in your work that is tangled and it's very, very hard for you to look at, ah, it just makes you angry or upset or whatever, spend a little bit of time with it every day, five minutes, just even if you just do this, you know what I'm saying? Even if that's all you can do, some days I write songs, some days I just hold my guitar, you know, like that. That's all I can manage. There are people who are, have a very beautiful meditation practice. Some days they say if you can't meditate for an hour, meditate for less. If you can't meditate for anything, just bow to your cushion, okay? So make a commitment to showing up for your work and your work will show up for you. Also, just one more thing for you, Ellen, because you have to do a lot of stopping and starting. This will take away the problem of stopping and starting because you'll be familiar with your work every day. But if you have to stop anybody over a period of time, post-its are great. You put a post-it in your work. This is what I was doing on this day. When I start again, start here with blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever, right? Put a post-it in your work. When you come back to it, there it is. So that was a lot of answer for a little question. Thank you. Does that make sense? Go ahead. Perfect sense, and it helps a lot. And as long as you're talking about the timer, could you say what you wanted to say before about this? Assessing about my timer. Here's my timer. I do not get any money for these. I did not invent it, but it's for sale on places like Amazon or wherever, you know, with those brilliant and brave people who deliver things these days to us. The reason why I like timers, kitchen timers, egg timers, whatever you call them, is because that's all they do. Your phone, not only is it filled with germs, but it's also cracked. This is cracked, right? We know that. Your phone got all that wonderful stuff on it. This counts time. It's great. It's not like that tomato app. It's not on your phone. It's just a timer. It counts time. I love it. Okay. So when I meditate, I use it for my meditation practice, for my writing practice. When I give the kid a time out, I use this. It's good for everything. So I'm just obsessed with these timers that just count time. That's all it does. It does it brilliantly. When I look at it, I'm not also checking the weather, my newsfeed, my email, Gmail, you know. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ellen. All right. So next, we have Jan. Jan, are you unmuted? Hello. Yes, I am. Hi. I'm having some bandwidth issues. So hopefully that won't happen now. You are so wonderful. I know everyone here believes that, and we're just also grateful for you. Thank you for being here. Actually, the last couple of things that have been said really related to my main question, which, you know, I've sometimes, I'm a director, but sometimes I do a little bit of writing. Occasionally, something comes to me like all the whole thing, beginning, middle, end, like it's just there. And so something happened like that recently. But then all these little doubts started to come about how it would be received in the world, you know, or politically, like it doesn't really align with my politics. And I'm concerned about sort of how that would be in the world. And so, but I think what you said was you just got to, it's not written yet, right? So I just need to like write it first and worry later, right? Or maybe don't worry at all, just write it.   But, you know, it's like, there's a cloud, there's like things that I want to do. And it feels like the doubt gets in the way of the work of like actually applying myself. Do you ever feel that? Yeah, I had it on mute because there's an ambulance. Hopefully everybody's okay. There's an ambulance passing. Yeah. So I would say, considering the first thing, how it will be received in the world, I would suggest like we did earlier to write it. Because regardless of how it's received in the world, and regardless if it ever gets published or produced or whatever, the main thing, the main relationship is between you and the spirit. And for you to acknowledge that relationship by doing your work. You see what I mean? So that's the main, that's the most important thing when a piece of work comes to you. It's not, will it get produced on Broadway or will whoever, you know, Tom Hanks star in it or whatever, whoever, you know what I'm saying? The main thing is that you acknowledge the relationship except the gift that you've been sent and your work. That's what we're doing. That's our job when something comes to us, whether it's in bits and pieces or bits and starts or whatever, our job is to acknowledge that. So that's one thing. So yes, write it now and worry later. You can worry. I'm not going to say don't worry. Shit. Worry, worry, but write it. Okay. That's the first thing. But the second thing is the doubt, you know, doubt.  And if you're, I don't know, whomever, someone who's achieved something in the field, the doubt goes away. And you used to have doubt back there in your past. Now you're just, no, that's not true. You know, with, with, with, if you're really wise, you have doubt. Think of the people, the person in the news today who doesn't seem to have any doubt about how well they're doing. Right? Those of us who are reflective and wise do kind of go, hmm, is this really what I'm going, you know, we do, we do, we are reflective. We do ask ourselves questions. We do consider and all those kinds of things, right? We do engage often in self study, which we call in Sanskrit svadhyaya, self study, right? We look within and ask questions, right? We don't know it all, unless you're eight years old, like my son, he thinks he knows it all. I know it all. And you know, people, other people in the news today, um, doubt is not a bad thing. But again, your job is to recognize that you've been sent a gift and to hold hands with that gift. Thank you. And say thank you to that gift and, and go forward. And I'm saying it like it's easy. It's not. Yeah, it's hard. It's very hard because you have to tunnel through and push through all that, those voices that are telling you to go the other way or stop where you are or who are you to be a fill in the blank, right? You know, a writer, a director, an actor, a singer, a trapeze artist, whatever, right? Okay, so your job is to, to tunnel toward the gift. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.  So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Be back next week. God willing. Thank you. Be here. Yeah, we'll be here. How, how around in the public theater willing? We will be here. We will be here. Yeah. All right. So we've got about eight minutes left just to flag. And the next question is from Giselle. Giselle, are you unmuted? Yes, I am. Thank you so much. Hi, SLP. Thank you so much for your work and your gift to the world. I am adapting a political event between Iran and the United States in the 50s. Um, but I'm caught up in this question of how do I keep it? I'm trying to figure out what my point of view is. I know what my point of view is. My point of view is that the US should not have done what they did. Um, because it kind of brought us into our current situation with that country. Um, but I also don't want the peace to feel didactic.  Um, so I want it to be personal. And I don't want it to necessarily be pro Iran. Because I think that that isolates Americans watching it. Um, so I'm trying to figure out who my protagonist is. And it's going to either be an American or a Persian. And I feel like when I choose someone's nationality, I'm choosing that nation. So I'm just trying to figure out like how to keep it neutral while still having a point of view. I'm confused. I don't think you're confused at all. It sounds like you're right in something really great. And you're just, you know, talking about it. Yeah, question. Could you have a character from either side? Be the main character? Could there be more than one main character question? Yeah, that's possible.  Second question. What's your what's your favorite political play or political work? Novel, movie, anything? It's a German piece, which I'm forgetting the name of right now. Deutschland 83 is what it's called 83 83. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. What do you feel like that's didactic or any of those things that you know? Okay. Okay. So what do you think that they've done to make it interesting and moving and all those things? What do you think they've done? They yeah, they've made me care about. They've made me care about the characters. How do they do that? Do you know? By showing their inner worlds, I think showing challenges they're going through. Great. Okay. So you've just answered all your questions. So maybe you know, you want to choose a character who's an American person and a character whose version, right? That could help, right? Because then you're choosing you're not choosing once I mean, when you say when I choose the main character, I'm choosing a side. If you choose two main characters, then you're choosing both sides. Yeah, which will help. Okay. And you said this Deutschland an Axis, it gives us characters that we care about. It shows their inner life. So you're going to want to give us characters that we care about and shows their and we want to see their inner life. Okay.  Carol Churchill is awesome. You know what I mean? Her play Mad Forest about Romania is really interesting.  But you know, so there's but there's a lot of, you know, political plays out there. I think the to get to the heart of a play, no matter if it's political or not, you got to get into the characters.  Okay, so just get into those characters. Get to know them. Get to know them. And can I ask a follow up? Do we have time? Sure, we got time. We got nothing but time. We're just sitting at home. That's really helpful. And I think about I'm so the play rating that I'm more accustomed to is like one protagonist and then they have their own journey and all that. So I'm curious, like, if you could talk a little bit about what a two, like a two protagonist or like two main characters. Well, like off the top of my head, Beauty and the Beast. Okay. Porgy and Bess. Bonnie and Clyde. You know what I mean? Peanut butter and jelly. I don't know.  Yo, watch that movie. Just watch that movie. It has probably very little to do with what you're writing about, but just you see these two and they're two white guys, you know, okay, so whatever, but hey, it's cool.  You know what I mean? What was that movie that Homegirl just came out with? And I can't remember. Now I can't remember a title on something and slim, something and slim. Oh, yeah.  There's lots of two protagonist kind of plays and movies out there. And I would think of more plays, but I've been watching a lot of movies lately. Okay. Does that make sense? Lots and lots and lots of great models. Thank you. Yeah. Have fun. Have fun. Thanks, Michelle. All right, we've got one minute left. Do you want to do one more question? Great. All right. I'm going to say, Hey, Carol, are you unmuted? I hope I am. Am I? Carol, yeah. Is that Carol? I think it's Carol Carol. Turn on your video, Carol. We can't see you. You should get an ask. Is there a button for you to click? I asked you to turn on your video on the screen. Does it give you a pop up? Trying to pop, you know, it doesn't seem to be giving me any. That's okay. I'll try tomorrow. I've been here all week watching you, though. Figure all this out. Thank you for doing this again. Yeah. So life-saving in these days. Just, it's a sense of normalcy, even if it's just for a short period of time. Hope you're well. I'm glad you're here, Carol. I'm glad we're all here. It's great to see you, but I don't see you. So, but it's great to have you here. I did have a question. Yes, ma'am. I'm working on a scene in a play that I'm doing, and I wondered if you had any suggestions on how to get more action in scenes and less talking between characters, you know, like when it's non-physical activity situation, like in a hospital room or something, it's not like real active. But so it's a lot of talking, but I'm feeling it's too much talking. Right, right, right, right. You could, I mean, you could give the characters things to do. And that sounds silly, you know. I mean, I'm assuming one person is in a hospital room and in the bed. Right, right. Are they in a coma? No. Okay. Great. Great. Can they, can they do things like read a newspaper or can one character do the other one's nails? I mean, I don't know.   Like, okay, one character could be, could be teaching the other character to throw darts. Mm-hmm. They could be watching a TV show and kind of, or a movie that they've seen before and they're imitating the movie. Yeah.  I do have, I actually, I did, I did do that and it didn't work. Now that you mentioned it, I have tried darts.  Okay, that's a great idea. You know, and then just look at your list and go, well, that one is kind of fun. Mm-hmm. Try it and try it. Yeah. The right ones will be the ones that delight you and the ones that actually dovetail into the action of your play. Mm-hmm. So it's not just an action. Right. It's an action that actually is going to move your story forward in some way. Great. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. I'm wondering, or I guess it's what's going on in the world today. You know, I'm kind of always used to myself as being the one who's encouraging someone else to talk about or to do something. And I find it hard to let myself talk about what's going on today. Like if I'm writing about it, I'm writing about it. I'm not writing about my feelings. But today, just because I was doing the fast writing today was the first time since all of this crazy that I did write about it. So I thank you for that. There you go. Love you. Take care. Keep healthy. Love you. You guys too. Thanks. Thanks too. We will get through this.   So I'm sure everyone's got at least two or three online communities that they go to, you know, I'm just so thrilled that I actually figured out how to ask this question. My achievement of the day, you don't know. But a lot of a lot of people are figuring out all these new technologies. My son is in there with the zoom chat. He's eight. I know. I know. It's kind of great. And I'm going to be a great grandmother. Wow. And that I never thought I'd say. Congratulations. And it's going to be, it's so far we know it's going to be identical baby boy twins. How exciting is that? So for the world to know. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. So lots of live for a lot to make a better world for. Make a better world as we all do, right? So as we say to everybody, we're your school, we're each other's squad, you know what I mean? Exactly. Okay. So we're, we can be like squad for each other and cheer each other on through this, you know, and have positive energy to give to other people. Whether it's whether it's a grocery store clerk or delivery person or our spouse or our kids or whatever, you know, we do come in contact with. Yeah. And you're the cheerleader in that. So thanks. I'll bring my pom-poms next time. Okay. Thanks. Bye. Thank you. We're going to be back tomorrow. We're going to be back tomorrow. We're going to be back tomorrow. And then we'll be back next week as well. So as a reminder, the signups are on publictheatre.org. It has a day for a link for every day and we'll release next week's links tomorrow at five. What time, you know, tomorrow and then you have to sign in by three. It's by three p.m. Yeah. And I'm so sorry. We release the links tomorrow at noon and then every day you can sign up until three p.m. And then I'll send you the link. Okay. Thanks everybody. Love you.


Hi, in this tutorial, we're going to talk when to use var, let or const keyword for your variables in JavaScript or ECMAScript 6 code. But first of all, don't forget to subscribe to my channel. Things that I'm gonna say in this short tutorial may be gonna sound a little bit weird, because one of the suggestions when you're working in JavaScript or ECMAScript 6 is to always try to use constant keyword and always try to declare your variables to be constants. That means that your variables are going to be immutable, so you can't change them. With the usage of that, we can prevent our code of bugs, but if you at some point of time want to change your declared variables, then instead of const keyword, you can declare your variable with usage of let keyword. In that case, your declared variable is going to be declared in some block and it's going to be mutable, so that means that you can change its value. And if you define it inside some curly braces, that means that this variable is going to be visible just inside this code block between these two curly braces. And finally, if you want to have your variable to exist globally, then you need to use for your declared variable keyword var. It's going to be mutable and it will have globals. So to protect your code from getting bugs, when you declare variables, try to make them to be constants. And if at some point of time you want to change them, then convert your constant keyword to let keyword and that variable is going to be declared inside some code block. And finally, if you want to have that variable to be presented everywhere inside your program to exist everywhere, then you need to change that keyword to be var. That's all in this tutorial. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel. See you in the next tutorial.


energy, which is this quantity here. So, irrespective of the answer that you choose to represent the Gaussian wave function of the Hamiltonian, it always, this quantity always goes on to the exact length of the energy. So this is just completed by using the statistical average where the spins are sampled up to the absolute value squared to meet this vision. And so there's no sign to an interest cycle in the VMC. And next, how do you update the parameters of your ANZAC is simply by following the gradient. So this is the exact formula of the derivative of the variational energy with respect to the variational parameter, which is given by this, and you just replace the quantum, the quantification values by the statistical one. So you can choose whatever flavor of atomizers to update your parameters. I just took a cigarette and some went to so-called solution. But also we use other because it was better for me and it was using the flow. So next rich kind of answer that we use, as you guess, we use a channel networks where there are so many different. We chose actually, we chose neural language models. These are models that I use in neural language processing that powerful model that they were to capture correlation between words in natural language. And for example, giving a word is able to present what it makes for the case. And there are so many application, one of which I believe all of us, most of us are familiar with, is synthesization. For example, I'm sure when writing your email, you've seen like at a Gmail, so they're seeing how to complete this interface. It's because they are powerful neural networks behind that affluent correlation between words in English or whatever French what they're using. A high level explanation of how this could be done before going on a neural network. And that say you're writing an email, you have a name, and you're writing it on the subject of an email. You give it to an iron and cell and it predicts what the first word of your email is going to be in this field. So in this sense it has learned what is a conditional code, this is distribution of sample with first word. And it uses that first word as an input to the sample next word, and so on and so forth. So here it does learn the conditional probability solution. So if you keep on going, you've learned a bunch of conditional probability solution, and if you multiply them with the general probability solution, you have basically learned the probability to sample the first sentence of your email given an input. So how does it relate with also wanting to solve optimization problems? So today we want to sample a spin configuration which hopefully will be the result see of an optimization problem. We could use the same sampling which is an autoregressive sampling to literally sample each spin of our configuration one at a time, and using again the general probability solution actually obtain the joint probability solution of sampling as a spin configuration, which is very interesting in a way of functioning just to do square root of it. So this is how we can use this powerful neural networks that are using in natural language to actually encode the state of the quantum system. The h here is called the hidden state encodes information about the spin, I'll give you more detail in a little bit later. And the way in which this autoregressive sampling is a question. So the way in which the samples are generated, they are generated exactly as node to correlation time compared to if you have to build a mark of change, for example, you always have to go to the correlation time. And for us, it's very interesting in solving like these other systems of systems, for example, I mean we imagine that into question time we mark of change really for very long time, so we kind of avoid this by using this, this kind of assets. So this is one of the reasons why for example, we didn't do something like the circuit machine conversion network. Another reason is that by construction, the way function will probably see this is normalized to unity and as we see it will be very useful to complete some quantities that we otherwise be possible. All right, so next I will tell you what this ironing service that we use in our work. I will use the so-called denserized ironing cell which has this recurrent form and this is kind of the architecture that we use. Here the T is a denser, which is that's fine. It doesn't need to optimize on the train. Beta is also variable that we need to train. And this is the traditional recurrent relation, let's say for the value and where we have the recurrence here. So the reason why we choose this is a little bit inspired by tensor network. So yes, is that here we have a local hyperspace that interact with the hidden state in a very compact way. And also we have this non-mereactivation function whereas in the vanilla ironing you just have a concatenation of them and they only interact with some sort of non-mereactivation function. So we saw that, I mean that this representation is more compact and it has a higher representation of power than just using vanilla ironing. And the check that we compare with its simulations on the point is in chain. And we look at the variance of the local energy, the low 80s, the more accurate your results are. And we compare by nine and respect the tensor, I mean at the critical point and we saw that it is better result. And we also benchmark with some more sophisticated version of RNAs like dry use for those who are familiar with STN and we also find tensor ironings. So next for randomism chains or for systems, local problems that we look at that have this order. For example, we saw that using the so-called no weight sharing that at each lattice point that we generate is spin, we use a different weight embarrasses. And basically we saw that it is, I mean it's way much more accurate than sharing weights across lattice sizes, what's typically done for example in machine learning. So we use no weight sharing for this other system. And the language interacting system like the so-called sharing, sharing the key parts spin glass we use the most sophisticated network architecture that use skip connection they were introduced in machine learning to deal with definition gradient problem. But yeah, we saw that it is accurate to capture the language permission that we have in our program. All right, so next I talk, I need to go faster. So I talk about the quantum annealing algorithm. So what we do is that we want to provide a system to an onion that is easy to prepare a spin point the excitation initialize the RNN with random weights embarrasses and to prepare the system we just do a gradient descent step. And yeah, we learn on the initial ground state right. And next we do an in step that is we change the transfer field, we use it and we introduce a point and that makes us to shoot out of the instant grass state so we need to fall back on the instant grass state. So we have to prevent some gradient descent step. And then we should we are again on the instant grass state so we change again the onion and fall back again on the instant grass and so on and so forth. We reduce the quanta fluctuations so that at the end when all of them are removed we expect to find ourselves in the ground state of deployment. And we came up with a theory that there's also the normal mouse. So if you know most gauges instead of the we need to remain a diabetic that is bounded by the, but the universal we got minimal gap and even squared. The cost function is different is the version of free energy, which is an expectation via my point on our version of state and then we have a time dependent temperature yes linear with this von Neumann entropy. So this von Neumann entropy is estimated with the iron and if the iron was not normalized it won't have been possible to estimate this thing efficiently. So that's one reason why we chose to receive. So next I will present some results on the random is in chain. This is the Hamiltonian we look at this quantity, the result energy which is a different between the expectation value of this from the end of a million minus the exact one for different system size. At the end of the annealing we generate a million samples with the network so we look at 25 years of our realizations. And we see that when you look at it, we see respect to the number of an instep at short and mean instead we mean she's like red link kind of quenching I don't think we're quenching. We see that quantification quantum annealing is superior but at long and any times where we are more adiabatic, we see that this is where the victory and this is in contrast to what was observed this paper where they actually simulated annealing by using Monte Carlo. And they saw that. Wait, so they simulated annealing both classical and quantum annealing now they use. They use a master equation for classical annealing and it did the exact simulation using book of the digital equations for quantum and so not Monte Carlo. Yeah, and yeah for but for the simulations quantum annealing was pure to classic and which is contrary for us here. And basically for them, simulated annealing and also coring quantum annealing the real time dynamics had a logarithmic scaling on this program but for us we have like a preliminary scaling so we do see an advantage of this kind of neural annealing procedure. So next we have a result on the two days on this on spin glass we did use a different RNN auto is something that encodes kind of a snake like something that encodes like the two the architecture of the spin glass. And we saw that here again VCA is superior to to figure that the blue data is brought to which data to the green data here. Another interesting interesting thing is that when we decide we wanted to benchmark whether annealing was actually relevant here. So we directly optimize like this program with Tonya. And this red data just respect the number of gradient descent step and we see that as we do train the neural network, the reason it decreases but it's out of magnitude very far away from from what we do with with with an annealing party party. So we do see that doing annealing is important here. Since VCA was superior to VQA we benchmark it against traditional heuristic simulated annealing simulated quantum annealing. And we saw that at long and in time VCA can be like up to a hundred like here is three other of magnitude superior to to both submitted quantum annealing on 1600 experience. And next, you have the shape of key project model and also here we see that VCA is constantly consistently superior to simulated and simulated quantum annealing. We did for the check we look at the last data points, we drew an histogram of the solutions we have 25 data points here. And we see that VCA also find solution more often than simulated quantum annealing and SA that mostly that stop often to local minima. And when we look at the probability of success for each these other instance which is the ratio of the number of spin configuration that actually find a constant respect to the number of configuration that we had. We see that, except for one instance VCA finds all the solution compared to the other ones. So yes, with this I conclude that you've seen that an insertion version of spin seems to have performed such a complex space that VCA is more efficient than the version and emission of quantum annealing and it's more efficient than the traditional simulated and simulated quantum annealing and we advocate that it could be good candidate to solve the optimization crimes. Yeah, we've seen that one network powerful and that for VC and VQA and they tend to depend on the kind of work we are doing and that we have the architecture. And with this, I would like to thank my collaborators, especially Mohammed who is one of us designed all the networks. And I'd be happy to take any questions if you are. Thank you very much Estelle. A special, special thanks to these last speaker also because she accepted so kindly to give a seminar at 6am local time in Canada. So, it's not it's quite an early time. Are there questions. Hi Estelle, I'm Andrea. Hi. I have a question probably you mentioned it but I'm not sure I got it so view as you are saying VCA is more efficient than other methods. Because I mean if you if I mean when you, I mean computationally speaking. How is it doing so I mean you can determine better the the ground state energy or whatever but I mean if I mean in terms of cost. Oh, that's a good question. In terms of computational cost is actually is actually cost effective compared to rational quantum annealing is running faster. I know I has a bit of skating as well, but compared to simulated annealing simulated annealing runs very fast, like maybe in practice. How do I say, maybe 100 times faster but the point is that even if you run it forever for example here if you keep running it you are not going to. So, yeah the computational cost of the cost of each run. Is it the same or one requires much more computation than the other so that you know. So, SA runs very fast, for sure. But the point is that even if you run it, so the scaling is what matters right so even if you run it for long you are not going to go anywhere right you will still be. I mean stock in local minimum for example for here. Right, but it is so. variational classical annealing and quantum annealing we run it on GPUs because yeah you have to use neural networks and we have to use. I mean all the in builds advantage of being able to do, for example, back propagation in an efficient way. So, simulated annealing submitted quantum annealing we run it on just one single laptop. So, okay. Okay. Thank you. Are there other questions. If not, we thank gain Estelle for this kind talk. Nice talk and all the speakers of this morning session. Let me. That people in presence are probably supposed to have the photo group photo now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.