I am Laura Cristina Zapata-Volkmore and I am from Miami, Florida. Miami has so much to offer in its beauty and its culture. When I talk to people about being from Miami, the one thing that I tell them that they're going to love about Miami is that people are still warm and they're still welcoming and it is Miami. People in Miami love to love people, especially if you're in the military, you know? I am hospital corpsman second class Zapata and I am a corpsman here on the U.S.S. New York. They call me the mom of the ship. I care about the people that are on the ship, not only as my patients but as people. You know, growing up in Miami there's a big issue with immigration. I am an immigrant. I'm from Columbia. At age 25, I finally received my green card and the hustle and bustle of being an immigrant here in Miami.  You have to renew your license every year. You know, it's not easy. Not everything is handed to you. Like, you're paying your own scholarship and all that struggle. And I finally was able to sign and leave and deploy and, you know, become a second class and get married and have a baby and then in two years I'll commission as an officer. You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been. It's kind of going back in time and saying, wow, I've been through all of this and here I stand back home but I'm a success story. It's like, hey, you know, I made it. I made it. In the middle of the trials and tribulations that I lived in the city, I mean I made it and I come back, you know, victorious. I come back, you know, on top to be able to embrace and give back. I think that's wonderful.


We're back, this is Dave Vellante with David Floyer, and we've been unpacking Flash and the relationship of Flash to Oracle and increasing performance, cutting costs, changing applications, changing the way in which customers are designing their applications. Ken Grohwe is here, we're going to talk more about that. Ken, welcome back to theCUBE. Thanks David, theCUBE's been good to us.  Only a month ago, yeah. And then, you guys just announced you were selling the company for like $680 million. No to other vendors out there, go on theCUBE, things happen. Sell on theCUBE, right? Sell your company. I said things happen. Good things happen. Good things happen. Nobody's ever been fired for coming on theCUBE. No, no. We've enjoyed it. Thank you for having us on here. Well, yeah, you're welcome. Welcome back. So, yeah, big news. That's awesome. And it kind of shocked everybody, you know, that it occurred, when it occurred and to whom it occurred. So, congratulations. Well, thanks. We're excited to be part of H-E-S-T. It's not official yet. We expect there are other governing bodies that have to be involved, but we do expect around middle of October. We'll be a big part of the family and it gives us more resources, gives us more feel in the street, gives us more engineering talent. It should be a very good force in the flash space. So, in the last 12 months, you guys have kind of transformed the operation and really got focused. Talk about that a little bit. Where have we come from in the last 12, 15 months? Well, it's, what we've decided to move, I recently read a book Blue Oceans. What I mean by that is, it's, everyone else is competing on the hardware space. I'll just move into the software space, be able to share it, David, I've met with you at our place a couple of different times, really go into the new ocean, try the new space where you actually have new sharing software, new VHA hardware, failover, and then actual caching. In fact, it's ironic, we're here at Oracle Open World, and some of our customers at the booth, I think it's about 10 feet away from us, are meeting with us because they're looking for an affordable solution for Oracle Rack. And what better than having V-Share, the ability to use between the different different cars. That's really where our investments through our boss, Mike, I was just sitting on the board, have been in the software space, because that's how we're really leading a flash platform transformation like I talked about last time, because I think if you go hardware only, you're going down a trail that you're not going to like in five years. Well, you're going to compete against the big fabs, you're going to compete against SanDisk and guys that, you know, love that business, they love that low margin, right? I mean, software is where it's at, we write about software-led infrastructure. So what's different about your software approach than, say, some others? It's designed with a flash, actually the flash kernel and expertise. Our founders actually started seven years ago, I think David, you know this, actually with a newer appliance. That's right. Two types of, two types of flash. They chose newer, a little bit faster, get in the kernel and actually put it in there, a very, very helpful way to go through it. But they took that expertise, learned through the scar tissue and took the scenic route, as one of our founders talks about it, to get to the end. But for the last two years, we've really been dominating first with hardware and now with software. I'm curious, David, your take on our software strategy. I was privileged to hear two presentations from you guys. One was, I don't know, about a year ago and you were looking down some difficult paths or different alternatives. And then the second one, which was about the software that you had put in place. And then the one thing, piece of that software, which really, really impressed me, was the ability to back up databases, the ability to do that. Absolutely, availability across the servers. And that's something, it's okay for the people who are writing software where they're going to take care of that themselves. So those are the hyperscale people. But for the other 95% of the market, they need that capability. And I think that was a game changer. That was really a great piece of software. That's my take on it. And how's it going? You've got customers that have got that installed yet? Where is it going? I've got hundreds of people using the product today. Really excited about it.  I'd like to make an announcement. Now, last time I was here, you said I was the only one who brought a prop. So I figured, keep it going. In my hand, and we'll be announcing it out to the public tomorrow, but for the people watching theCUBE today, I have in my hand a half height, half length, 4.8 terabytes. David, I said 4.8 terabytes. Amazing. 4.8 terabytes on a PCI Express card. We talked about having vShare and Oracle Rack in the past. You know, you actually have the two cards across the servers and actually share the information. That should look like a decade or so ago what you would do with the sand. So at the speed of microseconds, 50 microseconds or below, as far as having the number of hundreds of thousands of IOP, she can get out of a 4.8 terabyte card. This is the announcement from Verden today. We think we bring it forward. We believe it's three times more dense at a half length format than our competitors. And we're seeing a lot of uptake for the product as it is now. And we'll announce it to the world as far as our press release tomorrow. So this is always the big problem, right? These are essentially direct attached devices. They didn't talk to each other. You guys are essentially creating a sand-like capability through software that allows you to recover from failure, to move data, to share data, access data, all the things that you expect from the sand. All the things, Dave, you and I were both in the business when people were selling RAID storage, very application by application. I happen to be a member of the sales force that when sands came out, it wasn't to improve the speed, it was to improve the access, the availability, the usability. That's what I think is going to make this flash more pervasive. We're leading a flash platform transformation, and by having that software, people in the enterprise space can feel as comfortable as the scale of customers that you and I deal with every day, David. So that's a big move for us. I don't want to say it's just the hardware, but it's really good to have the world's best hardware when it comes to flash. It helps sell the software and they pull each other. Why, David Floyer, what was the technical challenge in achieving that? Why did, because the industry used to say, remember, we would give presentations back in 2009, and say this is the future, and people say, oh, how are you going to solve this problem? What's the technical gate there? The technical gate within that was, A, focusing on it, but because the hyperscale people solved it that way.  Okay, you said that. But secondly, and more importantly, to do that, you actually need the two controllers to be talking to each other. You have to have it right down at the kernel level within the controller within each of those spaces. It's not a big investment. It's not a trivial investment. If you don't have that communication at that level, then you can't have the single point of control if you like, shared across the two. That's the technical reason. Most of the other systems in this area, the point of control is in the server itself. It's at the time of commitment. Here, they talk to each other, so there's dual commitment happening all at the same time. Ken, what have you got here? The VIP impact program, what's that? You're the best straight person of all time, David. I appreciate it. A lot of people have come to us, especially on the channel, saying, we get it now. We know Flash is the building block. So a quick prop for everybody. Last Tuesday, we announced the VIP, Verident Impact Program, last Tuesday. And what it's allowing people to do is not just have our own Salesforce, RIOEMs, Build and Lead, the Flash platform transformation, but instead having the channel, the people actually put the servers together. And that certainly helps. In fact, announced today, and big of announcements today, we're also announcing something called a VPAC. So small VPACK, or VPackage, what we'll do is every new VIP partner between now and the end of the year, we will actually include a piece of our software for all the hardware they sell. So you find a new customer in Illinois or Iowa or in Milan. We'll include one of our pieces of software, your choice, VCash, VHA, or VShare, which is a demonstration of the booth just right next door to get rack affordable as part of the program. The other logo I wanted to show, and what I've become a fan of, and this is Verident Validated, what I've become a fan of is building a huge certification program. So if we just keep it to the 200 or so people within Verident and keep it within that ecosystem, that's great. But if we extend it to channel partners, that helps the system, but if we extend it to professionals, so think of the people you call in the end-user community. If they build out their first Flash network, and then they move to a different company for whatever reason, or decide to become a consultant, that logo stays with them. So they go through the due diligence of actually taking the test, become a certified professional like you'd have many other vendors take. But we want to be the leader and the thought leader and the Flash experts, and that's what Verident Validated has become for a certification program for those inclined to build out a Flash platform. So you guys have some pretty impressive performance stats that I've seen, independent, like sniffing around at different labs and, you know, people running iometers. The Verident, you know, product keeps popping up as a leading product. You know, why is that? What is it about your system, your architecture that makes it go so fast? Well, I think David hit a home run before. It's not just a software. The hardware is designed from the Flash translation layer right from the very beginning. So we designed it so your sub 50 microseconds on reads, sub 50 microseconds, sub 25 microseconds on writes. And what I'm pleased to say is, because of doing it at the kernel level, at the Flash translation level layer, you'll be able to put redundant server actual software, VHA hardware between the two and the software. You can keep that same low latency. It's all about going after latency. You had said before how people went to the sand type bases and like the usability. If you change the building block to Flash and you keep the nice usability of sand, you get the best of both worlds. But that's what Verident is best on. We came from the newer appliance basis, moved it to NAND. Once you've made an appliance based on Flash, it's easy to make cards. So I wonder if we could talk about sort of the industry trends and some of the transitions we're seeing. For the last several years now, we have seen some major storage exits. You saw the tier 1.5 guys get absorbed. I felt like that wasn't as transformational as Flash is going to be. Now you're starting to see, you guys have announced an acquisition. You're seeing some companies go public. You're seeing some moves in the chess board. Cisco made a move. Dave and I have talked about this a lot. We feel like it's different. It's not like a one time Ddupe hit. Ddupe location came and went. It's there still, but it's sort of embedded in. And maybe Flash gets embedded in the same way. But we feel like it's all about the application. The applications are changing. I wonder if you could talk about what's changing in your customer base or your customer's customer base from the standpoint of applications. Well, you can't fight physics. So if people are moving the applications to the web, that's what really changed it all. These devices that we all run around with, we're trying to do everything. I noticed you've been on the web right before. We're using this as your first or second device. You're actually approving and actually making applications stand up very quickly. I saw through, I think it was Mark Hurd's presentation earlier today, he mentioned that the average application, legacy application, is 19 years old. Well, by the time my kids get in this workplace, that's going to just be unacceptable. 19 years ago, that's 1993. That was before Twitter was out. It was before most of Internet was out. You could find it. The web was back then. We were using Mosaic back then. Or AOL and using Dial-up Modems or whatever. We designed applications at microsecond speed with flash inherently in there. I'm seeing Oracle embrace it. I'm seeing some of the other application partners embrace it, but you can't fight physics. So if you had to do it all over again, which is why we're doing so well, we talked about this when we were at our location, why we're doing so well with China. China has to go right to flash. They don't have to roll out of sand and then undo the sand half a decade later. They can go right to flash and then bypass it. Go right to mass transit and forget the car, for example. Well, that brings up an interesting point because if you can compete with a clean sheet of paper, you can get a much more competitive advantage. A lot of people will say, well, people aren't going to rewrite applications. You know, there's the inertia of the install base and nobody knows that better than we do. But at the same time, you know, you mentioned China. If they're developing applications on a greenfield basis, doesn't that give organizations like that a huge competitive advantage? And doesn't that entice others to really think about rewriting applications for a new medium? Absolutely. You can learn how to swim much better at five years old than you can at 50. And the point being is, you don't have to learn how to do a bad application before you go from the very beginning. So clean sheet of paper, you're able to design everything with a web in advance and with mobile as far as in advance. In fact, the last announcement I wanted to talk through is some of our customers, so I mentioned the partners are coming towards this. Some of the professionals are coming towards this, which is why we announced VIP and Verden Validated. We have denser cards we announced just, you know, five minutes ago. The last announcement we have is some of our customers who have bought early stage flash. So some of the early movers in flash, you probably have some of the people here earlier today. The cards were great, but there was sub one terabyte or maybe sub two terabyte. Believe it or not, those folks, some of those web scale comes, have approached us saying, hey, can you take these cards back in trade? Because we want to get as quick as we can to the fastest 20 nanometer, fast microsecond type speed, 4.8 terabytes in a half height, half length type format. So can you take these products back in trade? So we're announcing a great investment protection for our customers who want to trade those products in towards the denser cards. That enables their investment protection and able to get over to a Verden card maker. Competitive products. Competitive products. Yes. I'd like to go back to this whole area of how do you get new applications out there? Where do you think the seed bed if that's going to be? I mean, there's clearly a complete rethinking of how you design the system, how you design the import, how you design the analytics to be near real time, complete rechange of how you can do that. We've talked about China, within the Europe and the states, et cetera. That's still the biggest market. Is it going to be a new cloud provider who's sitting in some garage somewhere? Who are the people who are actually leading this? One of the more innovative users, and they're large, they're probably the places we might shop in a weekend, starts with a W, starts with a T. They're huge users of e-tailing. So they're trying to compete with, I'll say the names, the Googles, the Amazons, in many ways the LinkedIn's and the Facebook's far attention off the web. So it's the brick and mortar companies that are billions and billions in size, but they're not just competing with same store sales, they're competing at the web type accounts. So e-tailing is a huge use case for us. It's all about the application, but applications are made up of nothing more than databases. So whether it be freeware, NoSQL, MySQL type databases, that's really the engine that we really get improved. That's where time is money. And the last thing, and I've seen some presentation today, analytics, and external analytics. Those are the three use cases we're seeing from it. As far as geography, we're doing a lot in the Northwest. We're doing all across the bay. A little bit slower embracement across Amia, but China's a big hotbed for us, and good global business for us, good balance, but we are seeing pockets of improvement outside of e-tailing around the scale-out type business. But great question. All right, Kim, run up against the clock. Really appreciate you coming back, sharing the props. Sure. Always a pleasure seeing you. Thank you, David. Thanks, go Veridun. Right there, buddy. Ray Wang is here. He'll be coming on theCUBE. Ray is an Oracle Watcher, Enterprise Software Analyst, head of Constellation Research and a longtime Cube guest. So keep it right there, but right back, this is theCUBE.


Uh, John, I have a cool stuff found that I'm going to throw into the mix here. I, I don't know if any of you can tell the difference, but for the first time in certainly over a decade here in the studio anyway, I am using a different microphone. Um, I've been talking with the folks at earthworks and they said, you know, you might want to check out the icon pro. It's a, it's a built to be broadcast mic. Uh, and it is a condenser mic. Which is sort of against my religion when it comes to broadcast mics, because you don't want it to pick up anything else in the room and condenser mics generally, but not always will be more active in their listening, if you will, whereas a dynamic and I'm oversimplifying this and actually saying it incorrectly. But, but the way I think of a condenser versus dynamic is that a dynamic mic gets its energy from the sound that you put into it and a condenser mic actually gets its energy from the microphone preamp via phantom power. So this is a condenser mic, but it is built and tuned to be a broadcast microphone and it is super responsive to gain. And when you've got the gain set right, which wasn't difficult at all, then you get this smooth, rich sound. It's got a higher top end. I think it goes up to 30 kilohertz, um, which is of course beyond the range of my human hearing. And I think everybody's human hearing, but, um, but by going up that far, you don't get that distortion roll off that happens in the top end of mics that might just go 20 to 20 or something like that. And it I, and I find it's a little smoother than the previous mic that I was using in the mid range. It just kind of gives me that nice low, you know, it responds fast. And so there's no, um, is that there's no, there's no honkiness in the, in the mid range either. So I'm duly impressed by this thing. I'm not sure how long I'll be using it, but I'm happy that I'm able to use it right now.


back to Think Tech, I'm Jay Fidel. This is movies you can learn from. And we have a very interesting movie. It was nominated for an Oscar. And it's a movie you haven't seen before. And it's called Lunana, the yak in the classroom. How about that? George Casey and I are going to review that today. And it's very different from really any movie we've looked at before. Welcome, George. Thank you, Jay. Yeah, welcome. Thank you. Why don't you lay out the environment for this movie? Environment is a carefully selected word. Basically, this movie is filmed in the country of Bhutan, both in the capital where this young school teacher was raised and went to school to become a teacher. And in this community called Lunana, which is way up in the Himalayas, it's in the mountains. There's no road that goes there, right? You have to trek over streams and whatever. It's only accessible for six months of the year when the winter comes, the snows, they're blocked in for the winter. Okay.  This young student, his parents had died when he was very young and his grandmother raised him. And she wanted to get him a career that he could survive on. So she went to have him train as a teacher. He trained as a teacher. And then he signed a contract with the Bhutanese government to teach five years. And after the fourth year, he was really unhappy. He didn't really want to be a teacher because in the schools in the capital, food, right? So he goes, he wants to quit, right? Break his contract. And he wants to go to Australia and become a singer. He's a good singer. He has his guitar, right? So he meets with a supervisor, a hiring supervisor. And she's very upset with him. She says, you know, she says to him, I've never seen a student, a teacher as unenthusiastic as you about teaching, right? And then she gives him this assignment, this the fifth year in Lunana, which is this isolated remote village. And he says, oh no, the altitude, it bothers me. And she says, no, it's your attitude. It's not an altitude problem. It's an attitude problem.  So a lot of this is in their local, something with a D language, you know, a lot of it's in English. So you can still have subtitles. So this is basically, and then he has to go to that village. So he goes up to that village, and it's unbelievable to get there. I mean, bus and then, and then you yak and then, and then, and then the end, they have to stay in tents to get to the village. There's no place there. There's one halfway house on the way from the main from the one of the ganja, which is a bigger, bigger village. And then, and then there's a halfway house in the middle of nowhere. And then it's all tents.  He's got regular shoes on his feet are all wet because the shoes that he bought in, in thin food, they said, Oh, it's waterproof, not waterproof, when you're swimming in puddles and lakes and rivers, you know, so basically he gets there. And immediately he tells the, the, the, the village head, you know, I really don't want to be here. I want to go back. But they needed about three days to get him back.  And she's a local. She's not a trained actress. She comes up to him and she says, Oh, we really wanted you. We really, we're waiting for you. So he sort of has a change of heart and he decides he'll stay the winter, you know, because his, his papers for Australia haven't come through yet. So he figures he'll stay the winter. So he stays the winter and he does a good job, you know, because he has none of the amenities he had in thin food. He has no blackboard. You can see the classroom is all filthy from the winter, you know, the dust and everything. So he's got to clean it up and he does this and he gets it. He gets some of his friends in the capital of him to send him some supplies for the kids. So he becomes a good and these kids just love him. They're totally immersed with him, right? And then at the end of the winter, you can get into a little more what happens on the different episodes. And then he finally gets to Australia. And I won't hit say what's going on, but when he gets to Australia, that's a very emphatic, profound ending to this movie. So you can fill in a little more, Jay, to this.  And she basically brings a yak to him into the classroom because the yaks are yak milk, the yak hair, the yak meat. And also the dung is how they keep warm. They fire that deck. There's nothing else to keep, you know, can't light a fire. And that's their existence up there. They're literally in symbiosis with the yak. The yak is their survival mechanism without the yak. And they bring the yak in the classroom because they want to keep the yak warm. And then the yak's there in the classroom as he's teaching. And it's really symbolic too that the yak is so central to their existence. I mean, each of us, we think of ourselves in our current environment, right? But we don't understand that in parts of the world, the whole environment gravitates around one animal, and that's the yak. So I'll let you fill in a lot of things on this, but that's the basis of this. And then we'll get into the nitty gritty of what lessons are being taught in this movie, profound. Okay. Yeah, that was a terrific summary, George. You're really getting good at this. Well, I loved this movie. I loved it because of the way the director caught the relationships between this young man and these kids who were a challenge for him at first. But he, they liked him, he liked them, and they bonded up like forever. He was the best teacher they had ever had, and they all loved each other. And life in that classroom was in heaven, literally. And he taught them stuff, and they learned stuff, and they were, they cared deeply about him, and he cared deeply about them, and he would do anything for them. And the strange thing about it, you know, you've described his ultimate goal of going back to Sydney and playing a guitar and a bar, it all seems kind of trite compared with the experience he had in Lunana. Why would he leave Lunana and go to a bar in Sydney and play the guitar for guys drinking beer, really? What a mistake that was. And that's what I got out of it. It was a mistake. He made a profound error with his life. That young girl who taught him how to sing, she taught him her special song. They sat and looked over this fantastic landscape, looking into the mountains. It was unbelievable. I mean, the camera work on this and the, you know, the production values were extraordinary. And they sit together and they overlooked this mountain scenery, and they sing her special song.    They obviously like each other. She's very pretty. But, you know, she lives in a small mountain town and in the middle of nowhere. And I guess he just couldn't, he couldn't make peace with that. Well, but she's a major character in this, in this movie. Keldon, the actress is Sheldon.  But, you know, one of the things she does tell him that she doesn't even want to live in the capital thin crew. So if they're going to have a relationship, he's got to, he's got to stay in that community. Right. That's what she was saying. And that's what he was entertaining. Maybe he never really committed to it. But that's what, that's what you, as the member of the audience, were entertaining. Maybe the guy would stay there. Because this was Shangri-La. This was as close as you get in the world today to Shangri-La, heaven on earth. Exactly. This town where, you know, and first of all, I have to start with Bhutan. Bhutan, they say, is the happiest place on earth. The people are happy. And you can see that in the movie, their relationships and their, you know, general attitude. They had, you know, no, no negatives at all. They all loved each other. The old and the young, you know, the girls and the boys, the parents, everybody. And it reminds me of a short story, which I'll take a moment and tell you, you know, there's the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Waikiki. And they bring in people from all over Asia and they, and they put them up in hotel rooms in, you know, Waikiki and everything.  They're hard to deal with. They're kind of retentive. And the Bhutanese are fun. They make jokes. The Bhutanese are always happy. So I was really amazed at what happens when you put a Chinese guy, really stiff, you know, trained in the army or whatever. Okay. Together with a Bhutanese guy. And living in a small condo in Waikiki. Well, the Bhutanese guy was ruining the show. He was so funny and he's always making fun of a Chinese guy. And the two of them got over the several weeks of this program. They got to be lifelong buddies, even though the Chinese guy didn't make friends very easily.   And they're kind and gentle and honest. And, you know, great, great culture, great culture. So, you know, I think that's a big part of it. And he learns, our teacher, he learns that he immerses himself in that. He immerses himself in the simple life, if you will, where for paper, the windows of his little classroom, in which he slept, by the way, lest we forget, were made out of some kind of parchment or something. And the kids had no paper. So he took the windows, his own windows down, and he gave them the windows to use as paper. That's an example of where we are on this. And he, you know, he made, he actually created a blackboard out of wood. He had some of the elders in the village to give him some wood.  And he got some chalk. And now you have a blackboard. So all these things were so simple, so basic. So what's the word? Fundamental human experience is what it was. And, you know, I'm afraid, I criticize the character because I don't think he understood the fabulous experience that life had given him on top of the mountain with these kids and the young girl and the elders who liked him a lot. And it was, you know, to me it was a big mistake that he left. But let me, let me go to something else, why this movie is so interesting to me, why it was and increasingly is interesting to me. There was, there was no war. There was no news of war. There was really no connection with the outside. They lived in exquisite peace and harmony every day. They, you know, they were spending their time alive on the planet in a way that we should, we should all envy, you know. And I must say that it was a relief to get away from the news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which we've talked about, and the horrible massacre in Israel and, and all the trouble in the Middle East and riots and crowds and the United States where our democracy is frankly, in my opinion, falling apart. They didn't have anything like that. This movie had nothing like that. And it was, it was a relief to get away from that. I turned off cable news. This was much better than cable news. This was a tonic figure sold this movie. Yes. Visibly. I mean, you knew while you were watching the movie that this was a relief from the ordinary stress and strain of, you know, finding out what's going on in our perverse world these days. So that's why this movie teaches you something. If you look at the reviews, they were really good reviews on this movie. It would have, it would have gotten an Oscar except that the government of Bhutan had some bureaucratic problem and they handed it in late. So it never got submitted on time. That's why they didn't get her, you know, an Oscar. But, but let me say though that this movie was different than anything else that you and I have reviewed. This movie seemed at first pretty simple, but it wasn't simple.  But after a while, you realize the lesson was right there. The reviewers all said that the heart of the movie is that the simple life is best. But I think that's an understatement. I think that's, it goes further than that. This is humanity at its best. And you want to go there although I'm afraid I don't think I can handle the altitude. The altitude of that village was 11,000 feet, 3,500 meters. And, you know, it's probably tough to live there. But everybody was happy there. A PS, by the way, one of those school children, one of the actresses, the actress, those five or six year old school children who you love so much, died after the movie was made. It was made a couple of years ago, I think. She died of leukemia, which is really sad because all those kids were so beautiful with wide-eyed kids, like out of a keen painting, you know, wide-eyed, willing to learn anything, you know, sucking up knowledge from these young teachers, you know, finding everything that he had to offer. So it's, yes, it's a simple movie. It teaches you simplicity. It teaches you that the simple life is better. But, you know, that's not a simple lesson. This movie teaches you way beyond that. And you say to yourself, gee, why can't the rest of the world be just like Lunana? You know, he had not gone to Australia previously because he had that pamphlet showing Australia that he carried around with him. And, you know, a lot of young people, I have local friends here in Hawaii that at a young age, in their 20s, they born and raised here, they go up and they go to Vegas, they go to California, they go to the mainland. Sometimes they get stuck over there for school or for a job, but then they always realize that the end of the rainbow, it's not so perfect over there on the mainland, and they come back, right? And maybe get a lesser job, you know? Like, I left my great job on the mainland, and I'm not even a local person. I'm from, you know, East Coast originally, but, and then came here, you know, and because even with the economic negatives, you know, here, it's a very, it's a more peaceful, it's like a, in Hawaiian, I forget, it's like a sanctuary about against the craziness in the world. And this lunana was like a sanctuary, but at the end of the movie, as you alluded to, he sort of has a change of heart, and you can talk about this too, because he's in that bar, and he's singing, and nobody's looking at him, they're drinking, they're talking to their friends, and he's singing his heart out, right? They don't even look at him. So all of a sudden he stops, right?  And he starts to think for a minute, and the owner says, hey, again, you know, I pay you to sing, right? Sing. And he starts to sing the song that that young woman, so, so done, taught him up in the hills, about the yaks and their life up there, right? So it's sort of like he's having a change of heart, you know, after going, after getting his dream was to go to Australia, right? And then he comes, goes to Australia, and then sort of has a change in heart. Maybe that wasn't better, because those kids were totally dedicated toward him, they're looking at him, they're counting on him, and these people in the bar don't even know he exists, you know? It's background music. So that's pretty much the profound lesson, and that's how the movie ends. Sort of leaves you hanging. Does he decide to go back then? Because during the winter, there's no school up there anyhow. So maybe he decides to go back, you know? Because he was needed, he was loved, you know? And in Sydney, Australia, ignoring him. You know, not to say that eventually he may make a success because he was a really good singer. So you could add to that a little, Jay, and you've already filled it a lot. You know, that was very touching, you know, when he was playing, I don't know, bar music with his guitar, and he was okay. I mean, I don't think he was a brilliant musician. He was more a brilliant teacher, actually. And so when the proprietor tells him, keep singing, and he sings the mountain song, it's very touching. It's an emotional moment at the end of that movie. And it brings the whole thing into focus, you know? What is it really about for him?  Would he go back?  And this is not a true movie, but it's taken from stories that people have brought out of Bhutan. So it's a true environment is what it is. And his relationship with it was well portrayed. But I would say that that moment in the bar was a critical moment for him. And I think maybe the realization came to him that the simple life on top of the mountain with the music and with the music and the young woman and the kids and all that, were the best thing he could do in life. The problem is, you don't recognize that when you're young. You can write as those kids that go to Las Vegas, they're in for a thrill. When you're a little older, maybe you recognize it and you appreciate it. And maybe, maybe he was going through that kind of transition and the bar and the people in the bar, the proprietors and all that were, you know, teaching him something. But, you know, the movie doesn't move that fast. You have to watch for the detail.   And you say, I think I have to go back and look at it again. I have to immerse myself in this simple world. As I said, it's almost like you become part of it. It's a keyhole into this little village. And you're with him. You are him. You relate to this character. You say, I could do that. I'd like to do that. I like to be surrounded with these beautiful, beautiful children. I'd like to have them admire me the way these children admired him. And so, it's the simplicity that's so captivating. Precisely. Really, really amazing. Sort of an emotional thing, Ty, you know, if you get emotionally tied to the children, you get emotionally tied to the whole circumstance of him teaching up there and that symbiotic relationship he has with the kids, right? And then it keeps coming to my mind, the symbiotic relationship they had with nature, I mean, to survive up there, you've got to be in tune with the natural environment. That's the way our ancestors lived millennia ago with the natural environment before we had technology or farming, basic farming. So it's just, it really hit me like it did you emotionally. This movie was, you know, because I'm also trained as a school teacher, you know, Master's history teacher. Why am I not surprised? Let me say this, George, this is really interesting. In the reviews I read, one of them talked about something that you and I have not discussed here yet. And that is that how can this beautiful life, this pearl, this gem at the top of the mountains continue in a world of chaos, you know, in every direction around, you know. I mean, right now the Chinese are fighting with the Indians in the Himalayas. You know, we hear news about that every few months about this diffused border they have that top the mountains. And so, you know, the world is in chaos in so many ways. So much hotspots, so much violence, so much irrationality, so much craziness, you know, and a lack of caring about fellow human beings. It's awful what's happening. I am sorry that we have this, but we have it. So here's this mountaintop place where these people are like angels, you know. They're completely unspoiled. And in the review, and I didn't see this in the movie, maybe it wasn't in the movie, but there was a comment about a cell phone tower, a cell phone tower, that they were building a cell phone tower near this village. And now all of a sudden things were going to change. Now there were going to be cell phones and now they're going to be in touch with the world.  It's just some problem in the village, you know, call for help and talk to your family and friends elsewhere, whatnot, get the news. I mean, all of that. But the cell phone tower is an intrusion, you know, into the paradise of this village. And so that's, we should cover that George because this is like Shangri-La, ephemeral. There is this huge threat of a world gone mad, and not too far away. It's a huge threat of these people in their, in their paradise, losing their paradise. It's coming soon. So you cannot assume, and maybe he knew this, maybe the teacher knew this. You cannot assume it was going to stay like this. Rather, you have to assume that there will be an incursion of technology of, you know, a more uncaring society, coming from Bhutan or Tibet or India or any of the countries around there, coming from business, coming from government, coming from the military. You know, China is right there. And maybe China has plans on Bhutan, the way it has plans on everything. So I think we have to factor that in, don't you? Oh, yeah. And Asha, the village leader, he was talking about that these kids should not be only yak herders and mushroom. I forgot some kind of mushroom gatherers, that they should have the ability to do other things in the world. And that basically means that they're going to leave this pristine village and go to the capital or go somewhere else in the world. So even the village leaders encouraging, you know, change. And with this cell phone tower, as you alluded to, to a change everything. And then that way of life up there is going to change. You know, just I've been here like, I don't know, 30 years and Hawaii is completely different. We had all the little mom and pop stores, everything you got the big box now, the world with the internet is totally different today, you know, but we're instantly in touch with all the troubles of the world, which you have to be on our shoulders, you know, what's going on, we see all this gore and horrible things going on, people getting killed, boats flit, whatever that we never really had that kind of instant, you know, thing before that we can see. So yes, what you're saying, their way of life is changing the minute that, you know, just like in the Brazilian Amazon, right, those people as civilization comes changes everything. So very profound movie. I mean, I would say that I should watch this a few more times because it really hit home. As you said, it really was emotionally to me, it really hit home. Well, there's a certain sadness in it when you realize that these kids, you know, they're going to grow up, what are they growing up into? They're growing up into the destruction of their culture. They're growing up into being, you know, having to leave the, the mountain top community. You cannot imagine it lasting all that long. And that's why the movie is, it is, it's pristine, because you look through the keyhole and you see it in great detail, great cinematography.  And this is the way they live, this is their village. And so you say, I, I have the, you know, the advantage of looking in through, into the keyhole and seeing it as it exists today. It may not exist that much longer, but it's a joy to, to see it and see the way they are today. And that's why the movie is, is so touching. So what do we know? You know, we're near the end, we have to rate this J, because it's like, it's time to rate. I give this a 10 plus, you know, it, and the director, producer, they really understood that village because they're from Bhutan, you know, and, and, and then his name is also Dorje, just like the main actors, sure, I'm Dorje, last name, the producer, director is also Dorje, his last name. And he understands all this. So he presented this so realistically from an, as an insider. So as you said, the, the filming is beautiful. And you know, they had a lot of troubles. They, if it doesn't rain, it snows. So they had to play with, with generators and stuff to film this. This was not an easy movie to film. So it was really difficult for them to do that because at times they had difficulty even with sun or, or, you know, lighting and whatever. So really good. Everything, production value, scenery, acting, even though some of it was just natural, was great. And sure, up Dorje, the main actor was, he's a sort of a actor and a singer, you know, but he's Bhutanese. He's Bhutanese. He's a vocal. Yeah. So I'll give it a 10 plus. So I'll leave it to you, Jay, to give your rating. Yeah, I would also give it a 10 plus. I really, I love this movie. I want more of it, but I know that there'll be less of it going forward. I like movies that are international, but I love movies that show me things and teach me things that I had no idea about. And you, I give you credit for being able to pronounce their names. Those names, you know, of the people, the names in the movie, completely unpronounceable. And what's what I found interesting is that, you know, Bhutan is made of villages like this. They speak in Bhutan 22 languages, 22. They're, you know, one village then another village and so forth. It's really a study for a linguist. And that includes, you know, roots of Tibetan and Nepalese and Chinese and Indian. I mean, they're sort of, anybody in the Himalayas has got all these influences and that has influenced their language. But I don't think I could ever learn the language that they were speaking in this movie. I'm doing this for you that you can pronounce the names. Sometime I'll explain to you my own ethnicity history with China influence, Himalayan Indian influence, intermarriage that nobody knows, you know, there's a lot of still growth stuff that sort of gotten lost in the, what are they called, the somethings of time, you know, annals of time over the over the centuries of millennia that I will get into that sometime. It's really okay, but not we're not going to do that now because we're out of time. Not now. And I really enjoyed hearing your, you know, summary of this and your comments about it, George. And I think it does really reflect the two of us. We have the sensibility to appreciate this movie and to see it for a little piece of Shangri-La. Thank you so much. Your sentiments to Jay really were profound. Thank you as well. Thank you. Movies you can learn from here on Think Tech. Aloha.


It's me JP. We're here for JP's product pick of the week. Thanks so much for stopping by We have people in our chats. Where are our chats? You may ask well check out YouTube We've got a YouTube chat and over there is Dave Odessa. Hello, and thanks for stopping by and then Check out our discord because that is our main chat And if you are somewhere like Facebook and you're wondering where the chat is happening go to a to fruit dot IT Discord and look for the live broadcast chat channel. It looks like that. That's the one right there and You can immediately join just by going to that a to fruit dot IT slash discord link jump on in and and hang out Let's see. What else is going on here? We've got a Very cool new product in the store. It's the one I'm gonna show today We're gonna do a little demo you're gonna get a big discount on it Just by heading to that URL right there. So go ahead and check out. It is product ID 5912 5912 If you go there either that URL or to that QR code You'll be on the product page and this show is being broadcast live from within the product page And it is half off. You don't need to use any coupon codes solve any puzzles do any tricks Just simply buy it at the price that it's at during this show So you can get a maximum of 10 no resellers allowed But while they last you can grab these for half off It's just as easy as throwing your car and checking out And the discount is automatically applied But before I say any more before I give you any more details about this Let's jump back just a little bit to the new new new segment that Lamar did on ask an engineer Take it away a little more Okay, I've got a lot of sandy 21 e18s And so you're gonna see a bunch of trinkets coming out as is the first one. This is by request Two versions of kind of the same trinket. It's got the sandy 21 power supply a little neopixel a reset button And then an sht 41 or on this one. We have an sht 45. This is basically It's wrong. Sorry now basically they are completely code compatible In fact, your code can't tell which one you've got this ht 41. I think is like 1.8 percent Humidity precision and the s ht 45 is one percent. So a little bit higher quality Some people really want, you know, the the extra precision that you get with the sht 45 Either way when you plug it in This is an Arduino and circuit python compatible mic controller board You plug it in and immediately start spitting out the temperature and humidity data Which you can then use to plot or to graph. I need it for down or if I go or you can You know pipe that data into excel or you can log it with python or you can use it in Visual basic whatever you just basically get the data coming out of usb Is it comma separated value file? There's also a touch sensor on the end That will that gold area if you touch it. It's a sensor. So you can use it as a secondary input If you want, there's a little keychain slot if you want to tie it to something And it's just meant to be very inexpensive way to just get Precision temperature and humidity data into your computer and you don't have to do any coding or soldering or wiring Because it's just like plug-and-play ready to go So I'll do a couple projects with this But I think there's a lot of people who are like, oh, I just want to get temperature and humidity data And then of course if you want it to be further away than your computer Just use a USB a extension cable which we have in stock with those three meter ones And then you can put this anywhere you like and measure the temperature and humidity that way Yes, indeed that is it right there. Look here's here it is in the overhead Little baby Trinkie the return of the Trinkie We haven't had new ones of these for a while and that little chip right there is the reason that's MD21 is the one We like to use on those And that right there that's the product pick of the week this week It is the sht 41 temperature and humidity Trinkie So a Trinkie is like a usb key or usb thumb drive sort of thing It just fits right into a usb port on your computer And this one can run circuit python. It can run arduino. It has as you'll see there. There's a little Carved out slot. I'll show that in the overhead in a second To thermally isolate the sht 41 so that it can do its temperature and humidity Things unperturbed by the actual heat of the board you'll notice on the end there That's a little capacitive touch strip. So you can just touch that to enter things to use that for user input There's also a neopixel built right on there. This can also be used for things like hid midi So if you wanted to build some sort of experimental humidity based midi synthesizer interface Maybe this is the one you want. You just plug it in and go Can store a little bit of code on there easy to iterate on Let's let's take a look before we go into a demo. Let's take a look at the site right there So product 5912 it is half off. It is $5.48. It's a real bargain And if you take a little scroll down here, you'll see we've got A bit of Stats here on it. So relative humidity accuracy is 1.8 Temperature accuracy plus or minus 0.2 degrees celsius on this one And then a little bit of more info on there if you click right here You'll see we've got the primary guide that lis wrote this actually covers both the sht 41 and 45 So if you see one or the other in the photos, don't worry all the code applies the same Really just the difference is that precision level on the 45 is a little higher And if you take a look here, we've got the pinouts Which are fairly minimal on it But sure enough, there's the there's the little pinout diagram for what we've got on there Which pins you'll find things like the touch sensor i square c neopixel And then we've got installation instructions for circuit python. We have circuit python essentials code here That's the the code i'll use in my demo and this shows you a couple of ways that you can Grab that data and display it on your serial port There's also an example here of logging the data using c python on your desktop So we have thanks to blinka the ability to use desktop computer scripts in python to read the data coming off of the chip and then you can do things like Publish that to ate a fruit i o which is really neat Uh and then here's the little little bit on that on the guide there And let's uh jump into a little demo i put together Just using that code. So here you can see I've got my trinky and as lady aida mentioned one really convenient way to use these is with a usb a extension cable so that just gives us a usb a port Right there and uh instead of reaching around to the back of a computer in this case Which is also going to give me some of the computer's heat coming out of the fans and vents This allows me to place that pretty much anywhere I want as a quick easy monitoring solution And you can see here this just slides right in And that's a thick enough board that it actually stays in there quite nicely I think we've got a maybe a two millimeter rather than a 1.7 millimeter pcb It's a thicker pcb. It works works quite well Just jamming it into the port there And now you can see this is up and running if I go over to my Serial output here you can see every two seconds. I have it logging the temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit so it's about 78 degrees in here right now and Humidity is at about 29 percent. I can probably skew that a bit either by just touching the the sensor that'll probably Warm it up a bit possibly Oh, it's cooling it.  We got it up to 83 degrees and about 80 percent humidity So you can see that it's working And then if you also do things like code it to use the touch sensor or the neopixel, you'll see those running on there So to to use this in code. It's really simple in circuit python. I'm just importing this adafruit sht4x Library i'm setting up i square c. I am creating the sht object on i square c And then the mode can be set in this case to uh, the no heat compensation high precision mode And then we are printing out the info about the Board when we first plug it in You can also then in your main loop go and grab the temperature and humidity off the board simply by saying sht dot measurements And that'll feed those two variables. And then i'm also setting up another variable here. That's running a little Equation to convert the Celsius to Fahrenheit and then i'm simply printing out those variables here Including the relative humidity and then every two seconds. We take a look at that again Uh, so yeah, something I says pretty low humidity. It is it is southern california. It is dry here Most of the time. So yeah, you have to be careful about static electricity. It's a it's a good point Let's see, uh dj devon 3 over in our discord says they have a nice snippet for a temperature adjusting algorithm useful for onboard temperature Sensors most sensors in the low humidity Environment don't require adjustment But if you're a human climate you can use an adjustment that deals with the humidity and I think we may have an example In the library example code that shows a way to use that Compensation as well, but if not check out over in the discord This link right here from dj devon 3. Thanks for sharing that All right, so Let's see. What else is there to say about it? Here's some pretty pictures of it. You can see front and back There's the little carve out for the chip itself that I mentioned and not much to it We've got three volt coming off of the Voltage regulator so five volt from usb then three volts goes to the chip And you got a nice reset button on there. You can use double click that to go into bootloader mode if you need to flash it Otherwise once you're running circuit python, you can just update it In real time by saving your code.py file to the drive This shows up as a little hard drive and then on the bottom side You can see there are some programming pins if you need to do some more advanced programming of the Of the samd 21 chip and you want to use some little pogo pins or solder to that You can use those at the bottom, but those are mostly for testing and and programming the chips at the factory And that is it that is the board nice and easy You can see there's also a little slot on there that you can A little slot on there you can use to attach a little string a little lanyard if you want to Have it on your wrist on a keychain on a necklace a nice Trinket earring or whatever you like Let's see. Let me know if there are any questions in the chats I will say hello to pixel tortell and yama school and kelly horn over on youtube Thanks for joining us and over on our our discord We have been joined now by who else here mike p dj devin 3 Todd bot c grover Liz blitz city diy mike p again. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thanks for joining some nice What else any other questions about this these are these are neat these are convenient these are really popular Chips for measuring temperature and humidity if you take a look at our Main site here out of the way in the download section of the learn guide you will see we've got a datasheet link here for The the chip itself for the temperature humidity sensor I'll give you all the details on that if you need More of the characteristics of it operating temperatures those sorts of things you'll find them in there Um The uh the question here this is a good one from mike p Could you use a usb a socket to type c plug adapter or similar to plug it into your phone? actually have a This is one of these sort of on-the-go cables for an iphone or ipad lightning connector has usb on That end So is possible if you have a serial terminal in this case you could probably plug this in and see See the data coming over there. I don't think it's a very high power Board so it shouldn't anger the the device So that's a that's a good question. Uh, yeah, you can probably use various adapters to plug that into mobile devices as well Let's see anything else. I think that'll cover it so Let's grab that out of there and we'll finish this up Don't forget to head here if you want to go pick up one or five or ten of these at the uh half-off price and That is my product pick of the week this week. It is the sht 41 temperature and humidity tricky All right for Adafruit Industries. I'm john park. This has been jp's product pick of the week and I will see you soon Thanks everyone for stopping by


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It's still the breakfast on plus TV Africa time for off the press. We will take you through the pages of the national dailies and also we have a guest who will be making sense of some of the big stories as Zika, yeah, I took it's good to have you join us this morning. Good morning. All right. Merry Christmas. All right. Merry Christmas. Okay. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning and we will be looking at the big stories on the leadership newspaper. The banner caption says retirees grown as state owned state owns billions in pension areas. Governors dancing on pensions grave. Kaduna platoon Lagos, Quara, Anambra or your Niger up to date in payment. Federal government releases 16.67 billion Naira for acute 2021 pensions. And talking about the 2022 budget, federal government most focus on power, agriculture to grow economy. This is what experts quoted to say and Garabashewu recovers from COVID-19. Super Eagle gets new coach.  President Mohammed Buhari demands progress report on solid minerals fund assures manufacturers of access to Forex and abductors or player two monarch demand 500 million Naira ransom more tributes for Desmond Tutu at Memorial service. And that's the much we can take on the leadership. To the punch new sweepers now, oil ownership, ACF backs or Bassenger, Pandev and others fume say constitution fraudulent. A men constitution if you're not pleased with a Bassenger's argument if ACF tells Clark and Pandev. Constitution flawed imposed by military. Ex-president mischievous says Pan-Niger Delta Forum. We can also find here pains prolonged as judges promotion keeps Nigerians in prison mocks justice system. Federal government borrows 13.6 trillion Naira via bonds in six months amid rising deficit financing. And also, MAN visits Buhari laments serial challenges gets Forex pledge. We can also find on the punch this morning. No van crushes ASP to death in Iqiti. Command blames mechanical fault. 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This is some of the headlines on the daily independent. All right. And good morning. Once again to Ezekiel. I talk. Thanks for joining us. Same to you.  It says ACF Baxo Basinger Pandev and INC fume. Say constitution is fraudulent. Of course, I'm sure you know the backstory to this, Edwin Clark, you know, accusing former president of Lusagor Basinger of hatred for the Niger Delta region and whatnot. And of course, back and forth concerning what the constitution really says concerning who owns the oil in the Niger Delta. Okay. We live in a country and I said last week where we don't seem to understand what nationhood. Nationhood means that you set a template where all the pressuring nationality come together on an understanding of equity, of justice, and relate to equality. What that means is that the national center favors all and is not biased against any. It is within that sort of context that you have what is called activity, every and society that makes for peace and progress. Now let's come to oil. If we happen to have oil as the only object in the country and if the, let me use the word let's say in a particular locality, there are two expressions that you expect. One consequence is that this commodity is national and the second consequence is that this commodity is destined in a particular country. Now they believe that the product of this country has been better and has better energy. In that of the oil, it is likely that the oil company will be resident within that locality and they will be developed in that locality. It also means that the people within that locality it will be easier to encourage them for certain types of jobs because the work of their houses so it's cheaper for them and it's easier for them. On the other hand, depending on the production question, it would have a terrible devastating effect on the environment, on the economy of the people, on the culture of the people.  It was within that concept that there was this concept of pressure to change the United States. They looked at the degradation of the environment. They looked at the pollution of the environment. They looked at the lives of people who are predominantly systems that are being installed. They looked at the health of the people. I am speaking professionally of my house in Puyo, which is so far complicated. And yes, if they are busy or busy and work outside on my property of the people, you will discover that the souls of your people are black. This is Puyo. Not to talk of business like what happened.   This is what the people are in the head. Some people, I'm very sensitive to that. When I'm in Abu Dhabi software, so we need to contextualize the issue of ownership and look at the quality. Now put that aside. Let's take another one. There's gold and all the solid minerals. And ask yourself, why is it that there is a certain level of discrimination in the exploitation of our people? Why don't we put in as much as to exploit our minerals of it, which is the main thing of self-sustaining global economy? Why is it that it's only oil that it depends on? How about agriculture? How about the vast lands all over this country, especially in the northern part of the city? So there's a many strength of our responsibility that makes a certain group of people to feel that, look, this is ours, let's exploit as the other people are also exploiting the other. It is within you that we now ask ourselves, how can we explore a template that is free and shared to all? I think that is much. Let's take on this. The issue of who owns it or not owns it. The condition is very clear. It's a natural asset.  That we see a state government exploiting the minerals and taking it to central banks to keep for them all to back up something. And you're like, are we having two different laws for the same country? Let's operate on everything. And I will be the first to say, gentlemen of United Delta, let us allow the federal asset because the gold is also a federal asset. But the mineral is also a federal asset. Ezekiah, I took less also take a look at the Daily Independent newspaper. And the concern here is about the fact that our Greek experts will see increased hunger in 2022. Now, this is despite the rise revolution that's ongoing by this administration. I think this is what it's like to sit here on a daily basis and see these terrorists stop the farmers from coming. We sit here and see the fedsmen take their cattle to farm land for those things to be eaten by their cattle. We sit here and we discover that as much as what the fedsmen accept their cattle, we need at least an expert to tell us that without falsification, there is going to be taxes. And when there is taxes, the price will rise. And in a country that has the poorest concentration of food in the world, is it rocket science or is it not that the poor will not be able to afford it? And if the poor cannot afford it, then in a visible consumption is hunger. That is what is so perfect that I will need a rich expert to tell us this. I just think that we have governance who really don't understand the extent of governance. That governance is a management of the resources of the people. I'm so happy that the first thing that we have seen is that the superheroes have just engaged a technical advisor of what the coach of education they're giving. They're going through a lot of processes to give off somebody that needs to be competent, has capacity, capability, has the residue, has the residue of knowledge and understanding of the game. We went through all that. And yet we don't put any emphasis on the recruitment of the head of the management team of the Nigerian nation. It's sad. And I think the time has already that call ourselves enlightened people to wake up and see politics at the recruiting agency for the management team of the Nigerian project. And if that be the case, we cannot be left with a chance of talk and people that supposedly have money. Governance must respect that. Governance must respect that. Governance must respect that. Once all this comes into play, then we'll be able to understand what will come out of an effect that we have seen today and wisdom demands that we respect it and meet in the court before we take that. Mr. Ayatollah, back to the punch in the newspapers. One of the stories there says, pains prolonged as judges a promotion keeps Nigerians in prison and locks justice system. Mr. Ayatollah, our judicial system has had challenges for a long time, the criminal justice system in general. And it's one of the reasons a lot of people have lost faith in it. But once in a while, some of the reasons that are given for prolonged justice for, of course, Nigerians being held in prison in police custody, awaiting trial for five, 10 years are really, really sickening. And this one now is talking about promotion of judges as a reason for prolonged judicial process. Is this fair enough? Or is this, you know, something to hear in a sane society? You see, they are, they are, I didn't quite see, but I think I'm going to speak because my network is like a physical injury. But let me, let me talk about our justice system and therapy. The very first thing is this. How is our justice system operated? You are accused. And the next thing is that. The police probably stooping on you. A lot of time. Let me say this, which we know, but it might sound uncharacteristic to the very good kids that we haven't seen. It seems that the issue of bail, raising money to run the station makes it such that when you go, you just get everybody dies around. And a lot of time, it is those that do not have the capacity to meet what I would call bail conditions in parentheses, which to me is like they don't have money to pay and get it. So that inadvertently, because a crime was supposedly reported, the perpetrators of the crime more often than not have the money to pay and get the pay. So at the end of the day, it is the innocence that will remain in custody. And when these rules are eventually charged to court, the evidence is so much that persecution becomes almost impossible that if we had done investigation, thorough investigation, and arriving at conviction parameters, and then we stoop it on the press, we will be able to charge it almost immediately to court. And with the evidence on the ground, we'll be able to get justice. So because this process is turned on its head, what we have is a lot of people are waiting for trial. Why are they a waiting trial? Why are the cases not coming up? Why are the investigations not getting turned out? I think we need to have a very, very fundamental mind-set shift. Let the police be properly funded so that they do not have to export the public to run their sessions. One of the things that was said either on the session or one of the sessions was how a BTO has to run a session starting 14 or 28,000 and we want only one reciculant, abducted, and also like that. So they have to find a way to make money. So I think this is all about the enterprise of the justice system. It has been commercialized. So you cannot have justice on an object that has been commercialized. It's not possible. All right. Sadly, of course, we would have to wrap up the conversation here. Is it going to be interesting here in your perspective on these stories? And we wish you a very beautiful day ahead and, of course, compliments of the season once again. Very, very same thing. And I wish you and everybody close to the Africa. An amazing 2022. 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American Horror Story Delicate Part 1 has wrapped up and while we wait for the cast and crew to get back to working on Part 2, let's take a look back on all that has gone down in the season so far and let's just say I have conflicting thoughts. Let's start with the opening scene of the season which left me with an underwhelming feeling that I've not really been able to fully shake. It's the scene where Anna encounters an intruder in her bed and clumsily chases her out of her apartment. For me it just seemed like a really underwhelming sequence to start the season with and the end result seemed significantly more silly and less unsettling as the scene that played out in the book. I won't spend a lot of this review comparing the show to the book because I've already done an entire video comparing the book to the show which you should totally check out by the way once you're done with this video but nonetheless this scene felt like a very weak way to start. The title sequence this season though is really strong honestly. I'm not big on a couple of the CGI shots in the title sequence but the red color scheme, the metallic lettering and like 90% of the shots that are in the title sequence are really strong and I may not think it competes with some of the best title sequences of the series but I would say that there's definitely two or three that are worse than this one. Then as the episode goes on we get to spend more time with the characters of Anna and Dex and we start to get a sense of their relationship. I don't always see chemistry between these two to be completely honest and especially in this first episode it's really hard for me to believe that these two characters are a couple. The scene in this episode where they are discussing baby names is just so uncomfortable and even their body language just seems very off and weird at a point in the story where it shouldn't. Obviously as the season progresses Anna has reasons to be distant towards Dex but this weird conversation with forced laughter shouldn't have been their starting point. I hate to be negative really and I want to give this crew some benefit of the doubt considering how closely this production was to the onset of the writer strike. I would not be surprised if some of these scripts would have undergone significant revisions and rewrites if production did not start just a week or so before the writer strike started. And while of course I do have mixed feelings about the continuing of production during the writer strike and you know all my thoughts on that based on my news videos over the summer and I won't dwell on that here so with that said I do think that there are some issues with the first episode when it comes to writing. For one the character of Anna feels incredibly under defined to me. We never know Anna's true emotions and her wants seem to change at the flip of a coin. Her want for a successful pregnancy is presented as such a large part of her character but then time and time again she goes against doctors orders and the show doesn't do enough to explore why Anna may be shifting her priorities from a baby to an oscar. She is an unreliable narrator with constantly changing priorities and she is given almost all of the screen time in these first three episodes. Following an unreliable narrator can get exhausting and even annoying when you are never given relief from their perspective. In contrast American Horror Story Hotel balances the chaotic and ungrounded John Lowe storyline with other conflicts that have more concrete implications on the story like everything that goes on in that season regarding the Countess. And while around episode four of Delicate the season does begin to incorporate scenes centered on characters that aren't Anna episodes one through three do not have a single scene that is not focused on Anna and so much of what Anna is experiencing in these scenes could be seen as nothing more than a hallucination. And I think in large part due to Anna being underdeveloped in this season's scripts I have some problems with Emma Roberts performance. You've heard me praise Emma Roberts time and time again on this channel so believe me when I say that I know she can play a grounded realistic character unlike the mean girl stereotype that she is often pigeonholed into. Brooke Thompson in AHS 1984 to me was Emma's defining role in this series. So with my own confidence in her acting abilities I am a bit thrown off that I am struggling so much to connect with her as Anna. This is just my opinion and opinions are subjective but to me I think it comes down to a fumbled attempt of adapting the book character of Anna Alcott who in the book communicates all of her inner thoughts to the reader but in the show Anna rarely gets any chance to communicate in inner dialogue or to even state a clear priority on whether or not she wants to have a baby or an Oscar more. And in that same regard the show is fundamentally changing book Anna's clearly defined priority which was that she would definitely put her career on the line for a safe and successful pregnancy. Moving on though one element that is firing on all cylinders this season is the costuming the hair and the makeup as well as the production design. I consistently love Ivy's preachers and Siobhan's costumes hair and makeup and 99% of Anna's as well. The season definitely has a clear aesthetic that I think feels unlike anything American Horror Story has done before. While the aesthetic is clear I do think that the cinematography of the season tends to be a bit too understated for my tastes but don't get me wrong this season does have a lot of strong visuals but I definitely think that this is a season that could have really benefited from some more indulgence in visuals that are not grounded in reality especially since so much of the story is not grounded in reality. Think back to AHS hotel or AHS murder house and yes you may not like the constantly moving dreamlike cinematography of those seasons but I think AHS delicate could really benefit from committing to a similar visual strategy. Again that's completely subjective but to me it feels like a missed opportunity considering with how dreamlike and hallucinatory a lot of the season is but nonetheless delicate does make a lot of strong visual choices that I do love and the season looks especially incredible when it incorporates elements of the city like during exterior scenes or in Siobhan's office with the ginormous windows. In this first episode we really only get to know Anna, Dex, Dr. Hill and Siobhan. Dennis O'Hare as Dr. Hill is good but I'm getting a little tired of how this show keeps under utilizing Dennis O'Hare. It feels like after they gave him his strongest role in hotel they've since only given him minor roles without any big character moments and I think he deserves to be given a role that he can sink his teeth into as much as he was able to for Liz Taylor especially considering he's one of the only original American Horror Story cast members that is still making regular appearances in the show and he's the actor in this season at least with the longest history with the show so I do think he is good in the season but I wish his role could be heightened to the levels that I know he could deliver at. Kim Kardashian as Siobhan Walsh is not as bad as you think she's going to be in this season and sure she does have a few moments of awkward line delivery but she's honestly a scene stealer and provides a similar comedic relief that is usually only reserved for characters played by Leslie Grossman. Episode one also introduces Talia and Theo and then Talia shows up one more time before the two of them completely disappear from this half of the season entirely and in this episode there's the scene where Anna is the sole guest on Andy Cohen and the scene is just honestly so bad to me that it makes me laugh it feels like both Andy Cohen and Emma Roberts are performing this scene like there's a gun to their head and yes it does intentionally venture into the unsettling territory towards the end all of it just completely reads as comedy to me. While episode one impressed me visually I was left pretty underwhelmed with the story and some of the performances in the episode so unfortunately I would give this episode five preachers out of 10 but let's move on to episode two Rockabye. These first couple of episodes have elements of understated camp that I love like this moment where Anna sees Ivy across the street but when she looks again she sees a toddler wearing a toddler version of Ivy's costume that was a small but great moment that makes me wish these episodes indulged a bit more in that camp because later on in the season the camp truly takes center stage and I think it improves the season for the better and in another instance of Anna and Dex's weird chemistry this season the scene in episode two when they take the pregnancy test Dex is giving off a shady vibe from the start so once he eventually gets distracted by a phone call from Sonia it's not that dramatic of a shift. Emma on the other hand is really good in this scene and it's a rare moment in the season where I can actually feel the character of Anna's want to be a mother but I think Dex's shift of focus from Anna to Sonia would have had a bigger impact if Dex ever put on a bigger show of affection and excitement for Anna that then could be quickly pushed aside for a call from Sonia. The character of Babette is introduced in this episode and she proposes a really interesting angle to Anna's character how does she feel about growing older in Hollywood and competing against someone so young for the same Oscar. The show however never lets Anna divulge these feelings. I wish we got more best friend scenes between Siobhan and Anna where Anna could actually express these types of things but even those scenes that we do get where Anna expresses doubts about Dex or worries about her image to Siobhan. Siobhan is always quick to shut Anna up and she never validates any of the things that Anna brings up so the majority of Anna's thoughts about Dex, Babette, and everything going on is communicated only with Anna's facial expression. Then in the episode there is a sequence of memorable scenes that take place at the Gotham Awards where again the hair, makeup, and costuming are firing on all cylinders. The scene where Anna encounters slash hallucinates an overzealous fan is both unsettling and unintentionally funny. Then Anna's acceptance speech is just so peculiar and gross that it will probably be ingrained in my brain forever. I do wish that especially during these scenes when Anna is hallucinating that we had those moments of fluid or disorienting camera work. This vomit gate scene specifically could have been really amped up if the visuals were less grounded and more heightened. When the show starts to deviate from the book to me it starts to come into its own for the better. With a dramatic yet silly set piece of the Gotham Awards episode 2 gains some footing but Hallie Pfeiffer and Emma Roberts are still struggling to give Anna an identity. So I would give episode 2 6 preachers out of 10. Like I said the first three episodes feature zero scenes without the character of Anna and episode 3 in particular features almost no scenes that are grounded in any reliable sense of reality. This episode is kind of just a series of hallucinations separated by incomprehensible time jumps. Anna sees preacher in a tree, she finds satanic tunnels under the basement, she experiences a creepy encounter at the pharmacy and all of these events happen when Anna is alone with no witnesses. Only at the end of this episode does Kamal appear to have seen Miss Preacher but that is the only event in this episode that the audience can truly trust actually happened. And I don't love these lapses in time that are introduced in this episode, I think it further alienates the audience who already has had to follow this unreliable narrator for two episodes prior. Episode 3 is where we also finally get to meet Nicolette, the character that MJ Rodriguez is playing this season. And while it is great to finally see MJ in AHS, I think the season is criminally underutilizing her character. To me it seems obvious that they are setting up a twist on the character of Nicolette but instead of presenting us with one defined character only to later flip our understanding of her, the show is instead just teasing the full scope of her character which hasn't been revealed to us yet. And the result is unfortunately that MJ isn't being given full reigns to tear up the scenery. Characters like Margaret Booth, Donna Chambers, or Mr. Jingles come to mind. These are all characters that were clearly defined one way at the start of the season but by the end of the season we discovered that what we thought we knew about them was actually a complete fabrication. Nicolette on the other hand hasn't really been clearly defined. She's this house manager with very unclear and suspicious motives so I can't imagine it'll be very dramatic once the twist on her character is eventually revealed since we don't have a clear understanding of her character to begin with. While Anna's hallucinations in episode three provide for more eye-catching visuals and food for fan theories, it feels like the story comes to a halt in this episode in favor of an indulgence in fantasy with little to no plot progression. So I would give this episode five preachers out of ten. Moving on to episode four which I think is potentially a turning point for this season. While Delicate has had elements of camp in previous episodes like I've said, with some of its costumes and performances, episode four for me was when the season really indulged in the camp factor that is so ingrained in AHS. And it really helped breathe light into a season that was starting to get lost in a melodramatic pool of ambiguity. I love the Queen Mary flashback in this episode even with how silly it becomes with the Ashleys and I think the season was long overdue for some classic AHS comedic relief and the Ashleys and their reel definitely delivered that in this episode. The season was also overdue for some flashbacks, something that is integral to any AHS season and something that was also integral to the book. It's actually crazy to me that it took four episodes for the show to start utilizing these flashbacks that happen so frequently in the book. At this point in the season though, I've given up trying to understand this TV show version of Anna Alcott so I just have to laugh when she is uncharacteristically rude to Nicolette as she sneaks a dead raccoon into the basement to tuck it into a crib. But in reality I'm just as unconvinced on who this character is as ever. With the Queen Mary flashback and the introduction of Virginia, we finally have some scenes that aren't centered on Anna and thus are grounded in a more concrete form of reality. That aside, the Virginia scenes are really engaging because Debra Monk is giving a great performance and the writing is only giving us just enough to form our own theories in our minds. And then in another non-Anna scene and completely out of left field, Siobhan and Hamish's affair is revealed to us. This scene threw me off, made me laugh and is another example of this episode going all in on the campiness that is ingrained in the DNA of AHS. This is immediately followed by Anna's reel which is geniusly shot, cleverly written, and perhaps the defining moment of part one of this season. Emma's great in the reel too, but it may be because it's the first time this season has allowed her to venture into the Madison Montgomery or Chanel territories. This episode would definitely be my pick of the litter of this half season with a flashback to the 16th century, a satirical reel, the introduction of Billy Lord and Leslie Grossman's characters, but the unsteady foundation of this season is still leaving me wanting more out of these main characters. So I give episode four seven preachers out of ten. Now let's talk the mid-season finale preach. Firstly, I like how the preacher flashback scene leaves a lot up to interpretation. I've now watched this scene three times and I think I've interpreted it three different ways each time. So I really hope that the show eventually revisits this flashback to fully color in all of its missing context. I'm also glad that in episodes four and five at least the show gives enough screen time to flesh out Dex and Virginia's relationship as Virginia seems like a complex and layered character and these scenes with her and Dex give much needed depth to Dex, who in the first three episodes was a pretty shallow guy with few levels. Babette was a fun character who was brought back into the fold in this episode, but I have to say she feels completely underutilized. Not only does the ageism in Hollywood angle remain understated, but the character of Babette gets killed off at the end of this episode with just only those couple of scenes where she briefly interacts with Anna. Then there are the scenes with Virginia and IO preacher and it's really the first time we get to see preachers speak aside from a brief sentence or two and now seeing this performance in its full capacity. I love Julie White and the show's portrayal of IO preacher and I really hope she continues to get explored in more depth and with more dialogue in part two. Episode five is a bit front-loaded with preachers backstory at the top of the episode providing more intrigue than anything that followed, but with Anna and Dex's relationship at odds and a mysterious death at the end, episode five provides enough of a cliffhanger to keep me thinking over this potentially long mid-season break. So I give episode five preach six preachers out of ten. Although this season's slow and ungrounded start left me wanting more concrete conflict and horror, these early episodes displayed a strong visual style that stands on its own in terms of cinematography, costuming, hair and makeup. Episode four presented a potential turning point in the season with an increased indulgence in camp and satire that, if continued with in part two, could save the season from its unfortunately weak performances and inconsistent writing. I know this review skewed negative, but I am still having a lot of fun with this season and I'm really into a lot of the things that the season has on the table. The eternal Ashleys, demon babies, characters with ulterior motives, satanism, and who knows what else part two has in store for us. It's been so fun covering part one of this season. Be sure to check out my two other videos I just did on the season. One is a book to show comparison laying out every difference between the show and its source material. And the second is every easter egg and reference that I found in this half of the season. And with that, subscribe for more content and I will see you guys next time.