elders and elders, it is a great bounty and great ni'mat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you know, each and every week that we come to his home to offer the prayer and congregation. It is something, you know, the speakers before me and something that has been mentioned again and again, but it's something we must not lose sight of, inshallah, especially given the circumstances in which we're emerging from. It is a great blessing and bounty from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he has allowed us to come back into his home. And it is not of our doing, it is the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when we come to his home, especially on Friday, it's good to just reflect week over week, you know, what bounties, what blessings, what ni'mat Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has bestowed upon me and my families and our community as a whole. And we must make shukr and thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for this. Some of us here might have been present for the Eid prayer here. Sheikh Ali Atayah gave one of the hutbas for Eid prayer and he gave a very powerful hutba and something that stayed with me that I, inshallah, want to draw upon for today is, you know, the lens in which we are living today or the lens with which we are looking and perceiving this dunya. And from that perception, we're living our lives. An example that I want to draw on is, you know, everything, we look at everything with logic. We're looking at things, we're looking at the devastations in the world and we're asking why, you know? And then there's a common question, you know, for those that are in high school or college or at some point were, probably got this a lot.  How can your God do this? How can your God allow bad things to happen? If your God is al-Rahman al-Rahim, you know, merciful and all of that, then why is he allowing all these things to happen? These are the kinds of questions that I'm sure many of us have faced. And I think Iblis, you know, in his cleverness, he makes us think like this and he makes us have doubts in our heart.  And that, and we think that, you know, we're so advanced in 2021 that no humans before us had logic or asked questions or were intelligent enough to think the things we do or to view the world in this lens of modernity that we do today, right? So Sheikh Ali Atayi, you know, he spoke a little bit about this and he asked us to, you know, to correct our ways, essentially, in that, and, you know, especially during Eid time, when we make the sacrifice and we talk about the story of Ibrahim s.a.w. and Ismail s.a.w. and how Allah s.w. commanded him to sacrifice his son through a dream. And, you know, the beauty of this story is when Ibrahim s.a.w. approaches Ismail s.a.w. a young boy, right? And he tells him that this is what I've seen in my vision from Allah s.w. And this is what he's commanding me. And Ismail s.a.w., you know, with no hesitation, says, if this is what Allah wills, I'm ready.  And this was a test from Allah s.w.  Wow, this is so, this is so that. But it's because our lens is not the lens that we should be using. If these are the kinds of thoughts we're having. Rather, it should be understanding Allah s.w. Rather, it should be understanding our maksad and our purpose in this dunya.  And the analogy there was that we go after this dunya, which is essentially a handful of dirt because the acharat is the gold, right? But our lens is so dunya oriented that we're not able to see beyond that. So the question then becomes that, you know, if we're in this state that we have questions or we're surrounded or within an environment of quote unquote, intellectuals and we're constantly being challenged on our deen, on our iman. And this is something, you know how beautiful it is that Nabi Karim s.w. predicted this, right? He said, he mentioned to his sahaba, he said that there will come a time when holding on to your deen will be like, you know, holding on to like a camel or a horse and the rope is not done, is not tied and it's trying to hold on to that. Another narration was that it's like holding on to hot burning coal. That's how difficult it will be. A time will come to hold on to our deen, to hold on to our iman. And we're in those times today. So where can we start? You know, a popular theme in media these days are origin stories. In fact, origin stories are so popular in comic books and TV shows and movies that they're doing origin stories of origin stories of the origin story, right?  And so we must ask ourselves that what is our origin story? Maybe that will help us understand Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Maybe that will help us understand La ilaha illallah, Muhammadur Rasulullah. Maybe that will help us understand where we came from in our beginning to understand our destination, our akhirat. And so, you know, one of the things that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has told us and the one thing we have to hold on to in this time is the Quran Karim, right? This is the one book, this is the miracle that is available, you know, in every Masjid, in every home, inshallah, that we can open it and our questions will be answered. We can open it and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there for us. He is speaking to us, he is talking to us. And just as we are so diligent, right? And this is gonna come later in the talk, inshallah. We're so diligent in this dunya, right? Creating our security financially, socially, with our jobs, with our careers, et cetera. But are we attacking our akhirat with that same intensity, with that same desire, with that same sort of focus is the question? And if we're not, the best place to start is in the Quran. And where better to start in the Quran than the first verses that were revealed to Nabi Karim, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in Surah Alak, right? And just some backstory on this, Nabi Karim, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, in his late 30s, Aisha radiallahu an'a mentions through Imam Ahmad, Rahmatullah alayh, that the first signs, the beginnings of his, of the signs of him being a messenger, is that he started seeing these dreams. And by the midday, those dreams would become reality. Those visions would become real. That's, those were kind of the first signs. And then Nabi Karim, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, decided, started to seclude himself. He wanted to understand his purpose. And he was curious, so he isolated himself, right? And some scholars mentioned, this was during the months of Ramadan, that he would go to the cave of Hira and he would isolate himself. And he would just sit in his solitude and thinking and pondering over Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And again, this is Nabi Karim, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right? So if we just pause here for a moment and ask ourselves, you know, how much have we pondered over Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? You know, when we're, when we're Googling, when we're Wikipediaing, when we're CNN newsing, and we're, we're, we're hearing all these thoughts and these perspectives and these ideas.  You know, if this question can help us understand what maybe we need to do as first steps, inshallah. But going on in the story, eventually Jibril alayhi sallam comes to Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right? And he, he is ordered to read. And Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, you know, I cannot read. And Jibril alayhi sallam asks him again and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam keeps saying again. I don't read. I cannot read. So Jibril alayhi sallam embraces him and after this exchange three times, then the verses are come. Iqra' bismi rabbika l-ladi khalaq, khalaqa l-insana min alaq, iqra' warabbuka l-akram, alladi allama bil qalam, allama l-insana ma lam ya'lam. The first five verses are revealed, right? Read in the name of your Lord who has created, created man from a clinging or dangling substance. This is the second verse, right? Created from a clinging or dangling substance. And if we pause here for a moment and just, just we think of the magnificence of this deen, of this Quran and of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and of Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right? 1400 plus years ago, the verse is created man from a clinging or dangling substance. And we can, you know, do our research, but it's incredible that that is so scientific and so specific in its definition. But, you know, Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not know how to read or write, yet this verse was a second verse revealed. And this is, again, from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so we know, and we read on that the verses came, Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, goes home and he's telling his wife, Khatija radhila wa anha.   And Khatija radhila wa anha, he tells her, he says, you know, I'm worried. I'm worried something bad is gonna happen. He's so scared. He's so in shock of what just happened. It is also mentioned that after this revelation, there was a break between the next revelation. And in this break, Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would be so anxious that he would sometimes walk all the way to the top of the mountains. And, you know, he would be like, I don't know what to do with myself. And that is when Jubilee Islam would come to him and keep reassuring him that you are the messenger of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. You are the messenger of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so on. And so we know how the story goes, but what I want to address, inshallah, is some of the first verses and their meanings, inshallah. Iqra' wa rabbuka al-akram. Read, and your Lord is the most generous, alladhi' al-lamab al-qalam, who has taught by the pen, al-lamal insana ma'lam ya'lam. And he has taught man that which he did not know. So these verses are also very, very powerful. Who has taught by the pen? It is mentioned in the hadith that Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, created some things just, he said, let it be, and they came. One of these was the pen. And if we think about the function of a pen to write down knowledge, right? There's three different kinds of knowledge. One that is intellectual, one that is spoken, and one that is written down. What needs to happen with knowledge that is written down is that it needs to be either spoken or in our intellect before it is written down. This is what the Shuyukh mentioned to us, right? That the knowledge that is written down has to come from a source. But the knowledge that is not written, that is in our minds or spoken, doesn't necessarily need a source because that comes from Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So this verse that's talking about knowledge that Allah has given us, right? The Shuyukh talk about many different manifestations of this knowledge, but they use a child as an example or an infant, right? A crying infant comes out of the womb. And the child is crying, it knows how to cry. It knows that by crying, my parents will attend to me. And it knows kind of innately and naturally that I need to go to my mother for food or for sustenance if I'm hungry. These are behaviors that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is knowledge that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us from birth. This is just one example of that. That these are things that a child or an infant does that comes from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. That is not something that we learn somehow. It is something that innately is there. This is from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is what Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is explaining to us. And the miraculousness of these first few verses, definitions aside, are that when Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed these verses to Nabi Karim, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, his first response or the first thing he said was that I don't know how to read or write. And this is again addressed in the Quran. This is in Surah An-Kabud, verse 48. You did not use to recite any scripture before it, nor did you write it with your right hand. For those who don't believe would have been skeptical. So this is something Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is addressing, right? That he chose for Nabi Karim, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam to be the last and final messenger. And he chose this to be a miracle, a miraculous revelation, because Nabi Karim, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam did not know how to read or write, yet this entire Quran came during his lifetime. And so even those who are the staunchest disbelievers, they can't quite explain how the Quran came to be. They try to say, oh, so and so is flawed about Islam, so and so is flawed, this and that. But they have trouble understanding how the Quran came to be, given that Nabi Karim, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam couldn't read or write. So this is another miracle that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has shown us just in the first few verses. In other words, no one had heard Nabi Karim, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam recite or write any scripture with such eloquence before the Quran was revealed. And had there been something like that, there would have been some doubt in the truthfulness of the Quran. But Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has taken care of this entire nizam through his will and through his infinite understanding. When we, inshallah, in the second part of the khutbah, we'll talk about the next few verses of Surah Alak, inshallah. Wa s-saqfiruhu innahuhuhu al-ghafuhu al-raheem wa rabbul-raheem, Bismillah al-Rahman al-raheem. So if we continue on verse six and seven, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about man's rebellion. And this is, inshallah, the final point we'll make before we conclude. Verse six goes, qalla innal insana layatukha and verse seven goes, arra'ahu staghna. Indeed, man becomes rebellious when he considers himself without need. And this is very acutely capturing kind of the nizam of the ummah today, right? Whenever we feel like we have enough sustenance, whenever we feel secure, we turn away from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. We feel that we are sufficient in what we have and what we need. And we forget that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has created us, gives us life, provides us our needs, is teaching us, manages all of our affairs, right? Deserves to be worshiped. And he will, inshallah, our inevitable destination is in the khutbah, right? Where we have to come back to him and our book of deeds will be in front of him and that is how we will determine our reward or our punishment to hear after. So the one lesson we can take from here, inshallah, is no matter how successful we are, there are two things we must keep in mind. Number one, it is from Allah. There is nothing of our doing that doesn't come without the help of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, without the will of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, right? If we're successful in school, if we're successful in our careers, or if we're successful in any other avenue, just know that it is through the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. For very well, he could have made us someone else, right? Our parents, our race, even our names given, it is because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala chose that for us. He could have easily made us one of the other seven billion plus people on this earth, but he chose us in this fashion so we must make shukr to him constantly. And never forget that anything we do, it is not our doing, it is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's doing. And then finally, verse number eight, Inna ila rabbika ruj'a, indeed to your Lord is the return. And this is, again, something that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is addressing very early on, right? He's saying that humans, the definition is one who forgets. So the assumption is that you will forget, you will be led astray, but you have to come back to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. It is mentioned to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the son of Adam, all of the people after Adam alayhi sallam are sinners, but the best of sinners are the ones that come back to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So this is how we will stop here, inshallah. These were the first few verses of Surah Alak. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala give us the ability to practice what has been said. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to gain an understanding of him, of his Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and allow us to gain a closeness to the Quran and allow us to spend time and devote time individually and collectively with our friends, with our families to understanding the words of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Ar-Rahmanir Rahim.


All right, folks, let's get started. There we go. All right, so my name's Hernan Alvarez. I'm the Chief Product Officer for Bluebox and now Director of Offering Management for IBM Cloud. My scope is IBM Private Cloud. And now I'm roast recently, IBM Public Cloud based on OpenStack. So a few things to talk about in regards to all that. And then today, we're doing a session on modeling, deploying, and managing applications with Bluebox Cloud and Cloudsoft. My friend Duncan Watt is here from Cloudsoft. He's going to talk to you a bit about his platform. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about our platform and how the two work together and develop great applications. To get started, we're going to talk a little bit about some of the guiding principles that IBM Cloud uses. I'm going to focus on the top three, where it's really most relevant for us today, choice with consistency. And that's the idea of being able to choose your deployment mechanism, but making sure that you have a very consistent experience across that as a user. Whether you're buying public, local, or dedicated cloud, you should get the exact same service or the exact same experience across there as well as consistency in the services and industrializing hybrid cloud. So no matter how many of those clouds we're producing, whether they're public or local or dedicated, is that they're again extremely consistent. And one customer's experience is very similar to another customer's experience. And then within a customer, that's the same experience. So there's not a huge amount of drift inside of that. In fact, there's no drift with the product that we're developing. And ultimately DevOps productivity is where Duncan's going to talk about. But the idea here is the guiding principles at IBM and IBM Cloud is that DevOps productivity means business velocity. Giving the developers the tools that they need to be able to build relevant, interesting, and game-changing applications for any industry. The IBM Cloud Platform. So the one Cloud Platform is built upon this idea, this notion that you can deliver comprehensive services across the three main deployment mechanisms and consumption methods for a customer, whether it's public, dedicated, or local. What we're going to talk about today is Bluebox. And Bluebox focuses on dedicated and local infrastructure service. But that means that there's really high levels of consistency across not only in the entire, the three deployment mechanisms, but also that platform. There's also with IBM Cloud, BlueMix, who you're all familiar with and all the services that come along with that, software and solutions, and ultimately cognitive solutions from IBM Watson. So again, those products are meant to be delivered and consumed in the way that's most appropriate for the business. And so customers choose IBM Bluebox because of a high level of consistency and operational excellence within our tools. So we build, deploy, and maintain the Cloud for the customer. So we take care of the troubles of OpenStack. Now there's a lot of companies here inside at the summit today that are this week that like to and benefit from being OpenStack experts. And then there's a lot of customers that want to leverage the benefits of OpenStack, but not necessarily become experts themselves. And this is where Bluebox comes in. We build, deploy, and maintain Private Cloud as a service for the customer, meaning that they're always up to date and they're always patched and they're always secure. So the idea with Private Cloud is, of course, that it's a very high security environment. It's dedicated to that single customer.  That customer has control over that environment. They can decide who comes in and when and how their neighbors come in and consume those services. And it's very predictable as a result of that. They know exactly who's consuming services inside. The Cloud, they're not dealing with the next Netflix coming in and consuming all their resources. So really, Bluebox is the best of public and private merged together. So it's a high level of elasticity with OPEX models and data sovereignty and cost predictability. So for those who've been around OpenStack for a while, you've probably understood that we are, remember that we got purchased by IBM back in June and it's been a very, very busy year. So we were acquired in June and then immediately we went into a product integration where we could deploy our products, which were, of course, based on OpenStack and delivered in our form and data centers across the world. But then ultimately into SoftLayer. SoftLayer has 34 data centers across the world and a lot more than our four. So we went into immediately to an integration expert there and got that rolled out to select SoftLayer data centers. And then in November, we built out our complete GA product and that GA product converged the best of what was happening inside of IBM OpenStack with the best of what was happening inside of Bluebox OpenStack. And then we also launched the Bluebox local product. So now we can take the operational excellence of Bluebox, which again is a curated, managed as a service OpenStack and then deliver that inside of the customer's four walls. Again, delivering on that overall cloud vision from IBM, which is the consumption method should be very easy for the customer and ultimately be very consistent across that. So we took the Bluebox dedicated code, moved it into local and based it on initially a Cisco appliance. And now we're working with Pure Team to be able to merge those together. So we'll have two hardware platforms coming out of this year that we can deploy inside of customer's data center. We grew the team significantly since the acquisition as well and then went into some really interesting and strategic installations with China. And then ultimately into Japan with some other customers where we deployed the very first Bluebox that was with Bluemix on top and Watson Cognitive Services on top. So within a really a few short number of months, we were purchased in June and in February we deployed the solution. We deployed a Bluebox managed cloud with Bluemix platform application and then cognitive solutions on top. So moving very, very quick, leveraging those really consistent APIs and really great engineering teams across the board. And then in March, we took those tools and we built a HIPAA ready solution. So again, taking those, the operational excellence of Bluemix in Bluemox and deploying a solution that can service very specific industries. Now, not just going after general purpose IS, but industries such as HIPAA that require a high level of operational control and reportability. Then we're going into the Bluemix beta coming out of March as well. So now Bluemix local is available on Bluemox local for any customer that chooses. So again, very high level of velocity inside of the organization. So talk about local and dedicated, give a little bit more clarity there. We start at the very bottom with any customer data center. So it's the customer's data center or a software data center. And we can deploy on either one of those consistently. Those can be consumed in either an OPEX or a CAPEX model depending on what's most appropriate for the customer. In software, when it's a dedicated service, it's OPEX only, but going into the local where you're actually installing inside the customer's four walls, it can be consumed as OPEX or CAPEX, whatever's most appropriate for the customer. Again, that's choice with consistency. And then on top of that is a local or dedicated product. And then really what ties it all together is the common operational model. So it's the same code. It's the same operations team. It's the same release procedures. It's the same remote management technology, same monitoring that really ties it all together that gives a consistent level of services. So whether you're buying it in a local or a dedicated context, you're getting the same experience. And that's really a game changer. So we started out with a series of data centers inside a software. We started with just a handful. Now we've gone to 16 or 17. By the end of the year, or by the end of the quarter, we'll actually be able to deploy every single one of them. And then ultimately we can deploy in any customer's data center across the world. We've already deployed the local product in three continents, multiple customer's data centers and high security environments. And we can continue to do that. So customers are gonna be able to benefit from Blue Box's experience in OpenStack and IBM's global reach in the world to be able to build compelling services. And then I'm really pleased to announce that we're extending the Blue Box benefits across the board. Most recently we've taken on the Blue Box, we've taken on the public OpenStack inside of the Blue Box team. And we're now leveraging the same tools and technology inside of the public OpenStack environment as we are in the dedicated and local OpenStack. So really high levels of consistency. And really people are gonna be able to build interesting apps on top of that. So what it is at the end really tied together is a proven OpenStack deployment with really strong community ties. IBM is a platinum member of the foundation. We've been in the foundation for three years and we feel that IBM or Blue Box are uniquely positioned in this way. So customers can gain an immense amount of value from hybrid cloud. We've seen people really need to be able to build and deploy applications based on the business's needs both in a dedicated and a local context. Very high security applications that need to be well contained inside of their four walls. But also being able to burst out into dedicated or even public instances where they need to, where they can put workloads that aren't nearly as sensitive. IBM is positioned to be able to uniquely deliver this. Not only with software, software's reach of 34 data centers and IBM's global capacity to build and deploy infrastructure inside of any customer in any country's environment. And really customers wanna work with OpenStack not on OpenStack. We're seeing this consistently across the board by leveraging IBM's platform. They can continue to do that. And right now it's available. Public, local, or dedicated offerings, IBM Cloud. There's a blue mix on top of that and a wide variety of other services. There's also Watson services on top. So customers can leverage the entire power of the IBM platform, not only from an IaaS, Paz, and Cognitive Solutions. And then Blue Box, as we talked about just a minute ago, Blue Box is now the foundation for all three of the deployment mechanisms. Public, local, and dedicated, and this is really exciting for us. So with that, I'm gonna pause and bring up Duncan. Got his mic on. I think I'm live. Yep, there you are. Thank you. Cheers. Yeah, thank you very much. So I think it's a bit late getting to the podium here because I was actually tweeting, apologies, but the key takeaway from Hanan's talk is the fact that the Blue Box expertise is now applied across the board. So when we first engaged with them, the focus was on what they could do for us around Blue Box, dedicated and local, in the case of customers. But the fact that they are now taking that expertise and rolling out the public cloud, the public open stack cloud on software is I think a massive, massive step forward. So I'm gonna switch gears and talk a little bit about CloudSoft, what we're doing and why we chose to run the CloudSoft application management platform on the Blue Box dedicated cloud. So start with a little bit of history. So we're always looking at the future, always trying to imagine what the future may be like and a lot of people here are involved in creating that future. But I like to also look back sometimes. And so if we look back to probably around 20 years or so ago, autonomic computing came into the limelight, really powered and enabled by IBM itself through what they call an EBO, an emerging business opportunity. And that theme of creating an emerging business opportunity around autonomic computing was probably a few years early, but if you now look at what's happening in the world of networking within Etsy and so on, you'll see the future of the autonomic, sorry, there is a thing called AFI, the autonomic future of the internet. So we've taken that same idea and applied autonomics to really the management of applications and services. So what does that mean? It means you model your application, so you create a blueprint for the application. That blueprint gives you all the essential ingredients you need to actually understand how to not just deploy an application on any underlying infrastructure, but also how to manage it on an ongoing basis. And that's really where the autonomics kicks in, because you don't just instantiate an application, then walk away, but you constantly monitor it. You sense its performance. You take sense data from it, and then you react to that and your effect will change its behavior. So that sends certain effect to pattern, and the monitor, analyze plan and execute autonomic control loop is at the heart of what we're doing. So our idea is to take that and apply it to any application so I can take the simplest application through to the most complex distributed system and apply the principles of autonomic computing to it. So we talk about being able to model, deploy and manage any application in any or in or on, I always hesitate whether in or on, I guess on any cloud. We'll stick with that for now. I'll probably change my mind halfway through this, by the way, but the idea there is to be agnostic. So it's being able to actually take this blueprint and capture the best practices around how to manage, deploy and manage the application before you decide to land it anywhere. Doesn't mean you necessarily start with a completely green field. You might actually leverage what has gone on in the configuration management space, using tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Sort, and so on. But then it's taking that and then being able to constantly sense the environment. So this pattern of sense and effect comes through time and time again. So let's look at that in the context of the cloud. Well, the cloud is of course not the cloud. It's many, many different clouds. So these are just a sample of some of the clouds that we support. Now, when I say support, what I mean is we've leveraged other work by other people, in this case the Apache Software Foundation, to actually make this practical and make this possible. CloudSoft's own application management platform is itself built on another Apache project that we created a few years ago and contributed to the Apache Software Foundation where it graduated in November of last year. So last year was a big year for us because when a project graduates, it means a sufficient groundswell of people using it for it to actually make that sort of graduation step forward. So Apache, Brooklyn, J Clouds, all of these software, open source software components are packaged and bundled for you in order to actually deliver this cloud agnostic model, deploy, and manage. So that means taking this blueprint and running it in Bluebox, it's fine. We can run it on Bluebox dedicated local and obviously now we can run it on Bluebox Public although I'm not sure they'll be using the term Bluebox or the other thing we can do is work with more traditional clouds. So Software has its own API. There is an existing software, Public Cloud, 40 data centers around the world and growing. That number's probably wrong as I speak. So this ability to take the same blueprint and it is the same blueprint and deploy and manage it anywhere is critical to what we're doing. So let's look at a few use cases. So use cases vary enormously. I mean, if you were in the keynote yesterday, you'll have heard Donna Scott from Gartner talking about mode or IT, which is a Gartner concept around mode one, mode two and maybe there's something in the middle mode one plus. I was amused by some of the tweets that said, did somebody just kidnap us and take us to VMworld? I don't know if you've been to VMworld but it was a little bit of a strange moment there having an analyst kick off a conference like OpenStack having been to many of these. But anyway, I digress. So the first and most natural thing you want to do is take applications, take workloads and basically migrate those to the cloud. So there's two ways of doing that. There's the really, I'd say naive we're doing it where you lift and shift the application which I actually think of as more hit and hope. So you're really not actually adding value. You're just trying to scoop up what you have and hope to goodness that you can land it in a cloud somewhere. That really buys you know of none of the benefits of cloud. So the idea is to take a step back and actually understand, unpack that application, understand the components, the moving parts that make up that application and how they fit together, what the dependencies are and what are the best practices around how to manage those. Then of course there's being in the cloud using something like BlueMix or other cloud foundry based products be it from HP or Pivot or whomever where you have this very rich developer experience but you also want to be able to reach back into the enterprise and pull in data from the enterprise because you're not gonna copy an entire data set into your cloud foundry environment. I'm sure there are people who would try and do that but A, there are probably reasons not to from a governance and compliance point of view and secondly, it's a waste of time and effort. So the idea of being able to reach back into the enterprise to either stand up new services or to connect to existing services is a very important consideration.  You can just go all in with cloud. So all three of those are valid depending on what you're trying to do. And I think that's a theme I picked up this year at this conference is it is a broad church if you will or a big tent, maybe that's a less religious connotation given you've got this election going on at the moment where we don't really want to talk about a broad church at all. Well, you may but in Texas but in general. I'm digging this really, really big hole here. I'm hoping I'll actually get out of the door let alone the state. So what do I mean when I talk about sort of modeling something and then being able to migrate it and capture those best practices? It means I can take this blueprint and guess what? I can actually deploy it to my existing infrastructure. So that same blueprint can be replayed and actually I can reuse that existing environment. Or of course I can go with a dedicated or a local version of a private cloud or I can go fully public. Pretty straightforward, I would have thought. Where it gets to be fun though is when you're looking at the integration with, I've said Bluemix here but as I said we've worked closely with a lot of the cloud foundry certified providers. These are all people whose cloud foundry based product is certified to be interoperable. So interoperability is another key theme that came out in, I don't know if you were at Dom Rippert's talk yesterday but he was talking about OpenStack as a community has done very well when it comes to innovation, integration, okay. But the interoperability is still a big thorn on everyone's side. So the cloud foundry foundation have addressed that head on and I would certainly encourage people to look at the, if you like the grand challenge that I've ever thrown out, the interop challenge which is sort of running as we speak. But the idea is whether it's Bluemix whether it's the helium development platform whether it's Pivotal cloud foundry or even cloud foundry itself. It's this idea of being able to actually reach back and then deploy services or access services again and these slides become repetitive by the way which is the whole point, yeah. So you're taking the same idea and now you're saying well actually I'd rather work with containers, fair enough. A container service is just a blueprint. Once you get it into your head that you're dealing with software this becomes, I wouldn't say trivial but it becomes much easier to think about. So from our point of view if I wanna roll out a private container service it's just a blueprint. The software happens to be Docker engines or Docker hosts or the software happens to be Apache Maysauce. But the idea is you take that blueprint you deploy it and voila, you get in this case form if that's what you really want. The fun thing is then having got that environment certainly from our point of view can I reuse all those blueprints I built previously? Even if it's in just a dev test environment rather than in a production environment so I wanna quickly spin up something that's a, you know, at least a proxy or an approximation to my production environment. We'll do it in containers, take that blueprint and by the way deploy it but this time it will deploy as a set of containers but the same logic that blueprint has now been applied across all of those environments consistently. So one of the things and it's only just occurring to me as I'm talking about this is choice with consistency is a message that you heard from Hanan. We take the same idea but do it at the application level which is probably why we get on apart from, you know, it's good to hang around with you but that notion of choice with consistency not locking people in is I think hugely important. So then why are we doing this with Blue Box? Well, I've kind of hinted I guess at some of this. We wanted, and I love that phrase, we wanted to work with open stack not on open stack. When we come to these conferences it's to be somebody who's a, I would hope a consumer or connoisseur of open stack versus somebody that's really in the weeds contributing to one of the sort of projects. Instead, we're guys driving, you know, how we see it should be shaped, what we need from it in terms of networking, compute storage and all those things but we want to be able to take it and work with it, not work on it. I'd already worked for a number of years before working with Blue Box on the software public cloud. So as a company we've been doing a lot of work with IBM over the past few years and so what intrigued me was this marriage between Blue Box and software and I've got a slide in a minute that talks about the 2.1 edition of Blue Box and what that's brought kind of together taking these two products but the key for us was could we leverage not just Blue Box but Blue Box running on software. Why? Because they have this second to none private network that ties all of the software data centers together. If you're not familiar with this, I'd say Google it, software three layer network or something or private network and you'll get all the goods. They thought about the network when they set out long before they were bought by IBM to build out this global footprint and I think that's really, really important. It was very far-sighted. I can see other companies starting to do that and so that was really one of the things that I saw as being immensely valuable. Rock solid support from Blue Box on the open side coupled with the benefits of the software under the covers. So just in terms of personal experience, our first data center, our first Blue Box cloud running in the San Jose data center was spun up very quickly in a set of two weeks. I mean, it came up very quickly. They then do this very good onboarding process where although it's there, they actually spend time with you. You get a customer success manager who looks after you and understands your requirements and that relationship becomes really important. By the way, be careful when you fire a support ticket with Blue Box because you'll get an instant response, not from one but probably two people. So if you check the box that says extremely urgent, you'll be inundated with people trying to help you. So we've used that mechanism for both the dialogue with the support team over things as we're fine tuning the environment as well as obviously if we have an issue we run into. But it's very important that that support is there. And now we've rolled out across three geographies. So as we talked a bit about this just before the break, I'll skip this in the interest of time but just in terms of why do we care about networking? Well, this is I think, you heard, if you like, the money shot from Hanan was what Blue Box are doing is now being rolled out not just globally within the dedicated and local but in the public OpenStack cloud IBM. For us, huge value was finally tying software and Blue Box together at the networking level. So we're really excited about this because it means that we can take blueprints that know how to exploit multiple locations and decide which workloads should run well, which parts of an application should run well based on any number of different reasons, be it governance and compliance, be it ensuring you have software rather than hardware redundancy. So having something like a React multi-location configuration so you can do replication across multiple sites. That's now enabled by the fact that there is a software private network that shows up in my OpenStack environment whether I'm in San Jose or whether I'm in London or whether I'm in Singapore, as a private internal OpenStack network. But the magic is that it shows up in all three of the locations. If I had a fourth, same thing will happen. So sort of cement that in your mind, this is what it looks like. So you saw that graphic. So that's probably out of date but that's essentially a sample of some of the Blue Box dedicated locations. So what we did was, as I say, started in San Jose, went to London, find. We've got two unconnected but still pretty useful Blue Box environments, Blue Box clouds, but with 2.1 they're now connected over this private backbone. So of course, once we saw that was working, what do we do?  Why? We want to actually create a fully meshed set of these Blue Box clouds around the globe and leverage that private network, which is hugely important that we see with many of the workloads that we're dealing with. So that's for us the key takeaway. So I'm gonna end with a call to action. So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, act now. There is no planet B, okay? And so on that note, we'll close with a little vignette of what that might mean. 30 seconds and counting. Astronauts report it feels good, T-minus 25 seconds. 20 seconds and counting. T-minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, nine, ignition sequence starts. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, all engine running. Lift off, we have a lift off. 32 minutes past the hour. Lift off on Apollo 11. Tower clear. See we got a rolling program here. We got an Armstrong reporting and they're rolling to get your program, which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading. Just realized, by the way, I'm completely inept. You're still looking at blah, blah, blah. And I've just played you a video. Never worked with CEOs. It was fine on here. That, by the way, is the thing that kills me when a developer says, yeah, but it works on my laptop. Okay, so we just had a, yeah, but I could see it on my laptop. I do apologize. That's unbelievably inept. I will now blame Microsoft, by the way, because Oh my God. All right, so let me go back here. So, okay, so how'd I done that? Do we have time to play this one more time? I think we should, don't you? Sorry. All right. By the way, just so you know, that's what their knock looks like. So you never really ever get a glimpse of blue box's knock, but let me try again. Oh my God. You're not recording this, are you? Obviously the answer is yes. So. 30 seconds and counting. Astronauts report it feels good. T minus 25 seconds. 20 seconds and counting. T minus 15 seconds. Guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, nine. Ignition sequence starts. Six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, all engine running. Lift off. We have a lift off. 32 minutes past the hour. Lift off on Apollo 11. Tower cleared. See we got a roll over here. The alarm's gone. Reporting in their roll and pitch program, which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading. We got that in the end, so thank you for your patience on that. Obviously a very smooth transition there, as you have noted. So just going back and obviously now restarting the slideshow. Just wanted to sort of finish by play from the current slides. I'll spare you the entire presentation again. Just wanted to say that if you do go to cloudsoft.io forward slash blue box, then you'll see a tutorial that will let you walk through a real world example of what we've just described here, where you can basically spin up in this case a Maysauce cluster and then run the IBM day trader demo on that, which is used quite often in financial services as a kind of benchmark and is fun.  How do I know that?  So on that note, any questions for either Hanana and myself, and I've lost track of time at this point, but five minutes, great. Well, obviously planned to the last second, we have five minutes for questions. Or you get five minutes of your life back. And I just had to apologize on Twitter for letting you hang up there with the video not playing. That's quite right. Any questions? Okay, well, thank you very much for your time. Let's just leave you with, if I can get this thing to play nice. In, what, in about 10, 10 or 15 minutes time, we'll have Open Without Limits with Mark Shoderworth, who's a far more polished presenter, I assure you than I am, so I hope you can stay around for that and also for the rest of the afternoon. There's a great talk. I'm looking forward to myself on networking, which is linked to Project Curia. I think I've pronounced that right. I sat and stared at K-U-R-Y-R and I thought, yeah, of course it's Curia. It's obvious. Well, after a lot of staring at it, it was. And then finally, there's a kind of rappel and some traditional beers and whatnot at the end of the afternoon. So thank you very much. Thank you, Hernan. Thank you. Cheers.


Okay, I'll let the cameraman tell me when to start. Oh, I'm good Okay. Hey everybody, I'm Troy Dawson I'm a fedora KDE sig member More specifically I built the KDE in Apple so I built it for Well, rail rail compatibles It's let's start with a bit of history With rail seven KDE was in rail seven Along with QT both three four and five But that was KDE five with rail eight They ripped it out and by day. I mean I actually ripped it out. They told me to I've I've been a KDE user since well since I've been using Linux. I tried them so that's 99 I've been a KDE user so When I was asked to take it out of of rel eight I sort of it was mixed feelings I Was sad, but I was excited because I knew then I could take it over in in Apple and do what I wanted with it So where are we now so rel eight those of you that are still rel eight users actually there's a lot of rel eight users I shouldn't say those of you We are at Qt 5.15 Those that don't know Qt 5.15 is going to be the last of the Qt five releases From then on it's going to be patches. I don't know how long right now. We're at point nine Rel eight isn't expecting any other Qt updates unless they're critical security updates and For KDE plasma rel eight is that version 5.24 We're at 5.24 because I Basically can't upgrade anymore the libraries are so old all the other you know poplar GPG me there's like five others. We just couldn't get it any further So right now That's where we're at and that's where eight is going to stay For nine. That's the more exciting part nine currently we're We're in this transition With rail nine point two That has Qt five point fifteen point three and Cento stream that has five point fifteen point nine so in rail nine point three Qt is gonna get updated. It's not gonna get updated in rel eight Again, that's probably just gonna be critical updates for rel eight But with nine we keep pace with the The latest stable fedora, so we're not grabbing things from rawhide right now. We're grabbing things from f28 and what happens is we upgrade them on Cento stream so in this case apple nine next You'll see that they're both five point twenty seven Because Qt is not gonna get updated any more plasma From what we know and I wish Neil was here is Staying with five point twenty seven. I don't think it's gonna go to five point twenty eight But anyway, just like Qt. They're just gonna keep bumping that number up But Apple nine next is currently Well, actually it'll be starting next week. I'll be Updating from five fedora 38 we go into apple next so that we can stage them when you know, well nine point three comes out Everything's already stays. We've got to build dependencies. Everything's tested and then we can just sort of sink the The disk it repels over to apple nine build them. It's nice and quick and easy And fewer surprises. There's always a surprise. I'm amazed. There's always a surprise but it's it's a lot better than if it wasn't and This slide says what I just said It's staying the current release. Oh That's right. If there is a major security release. We will try our best to backport Backport it to eight If it's unbackportable We'll deal with that later, but eight also So we said it was five point twenty four five point twenty four is an LTS release So About once a year I make sure see if there's another release and I'll do that, but that's not a major upgrade It's usually just some bike fixes Well nine as I said, we're sinking twice a year with each release The reason we're sinking twice a year instead of six months or once a year Those of you remember last year or maybe a year and a half. We said we're doing it once a year That just wasn't practical KDE was going too fast and some other packages says, you know, we need the previous release to build so we're doing it twice a year and The up, you know, we test the updates. It's actually pretty stable and pretty good That's one of the reasons why I like KDE Now this is probably what y'all came for what are we going to do next? And for nine, it's not going to be too exciting It's not in this slide. So nine basically we're continuing what we're going to do until we can't Update anymore. We're going to follow the Qt five This is the current things Qt five versions of fedora 28 now at some point fedora is going to go to Qt six and Nine is gonna stay on five That is the current plan If we have time, which we probably will since like everybody could ask a question and we'd still have time If we have time I have other thoughts, but the current plan is we will stay with five Although Qt six is in five and we will continue to update it So ten what are we doing for ten real ten Real ten is in our eye sights Well, ten will have Qt six and it will have KDE plasma six. We will not be doing KDE plasma five We don't know how well they would match together. Anyway But we will have the Qt five point well fifteen point X Basically, we're going to be grabbing that from Well, real nine. Well, anyway, we're gonna Keep the latest one because real nine has to keep being supported by yon So real ten will keep that Qt five at least as long as real nine does But the well, let's go back a little bit So anyway, yeah But the the main desktop is supposed to be KDE plasma six with five this is This you might you'll look in this thing and this is actually on We had a discussion on the KDE SIG and you'll notice that most of these say should Can and things like this no firm things. Okay, so just keep that in mind So if things have to so most Qt five packages will go into Apple ten I can tell you one that's not and that's Qt five Qt web engine.  Yes, that's great Don't don't expect Qt five, but the other basic libraries as long as they aren't a pain in the rear We'll be going into Apple ten So if a Qt five package is no longer supported in fedora that package will be updated in Apple ten on a best effort manner Which means that it's possible. We might drop some Qt five packages down the road if there are some bad security updates I'm I'm a great packager and The KDE SIG is great with things But I am not the best security update person for Qt five Packages based on Qt five. There's still quite a few that are Qt five only if they can be Built with both Qt six and Qt five We ask the here's the should they should only be built on Qt six If you want to we're not going to force you to not build the Qt five version But we're recommending that you build Qt six only or have some plan of phasing into Qt six If it can only be built on Qt five Go ahead build it on Qt five, but I try to move upstream to get them to do Qt six I mean by the time I Know we're planning on working on Apple ten soon ish But by the time it's actually released. I mean that's still what is that it are we still two years out? Okay, it's still two years out Qt six should have been out for a good long while by the time Apple ten is actually released. So try to get a mall built on on Qt six.  Are you doing the live image? No, you're there Okay Yeah Oh It sounds like a one-person project, but Really the Katie e-sig I am the I'm the rebuilder the Katie e-sig And if Neil was here, I put he does a lot of things if he gets hit in the bus Me and him shouldn't be on the same bus that gets hit by but The Katie e-sig actually does a lot of work to make sure things build in Apple so that I only have to do a rebuild and And there is other people that can do it. I have my scripts people have my scripts I am nowadays Okay, the early days of rel 8 I was doing a lot of stuff but then the the SIG said hey, we're gonna make sure things build on both rel and fedora and they've been very good at putting those if statements and Anything else This last one of getting ready for the Apple 9 next. I literally had to do one package I I did the test builds on copper and went oh, okay And there was like one package. I did the pull request and to be honest it didn't build in fedora either So anyway, I built I found their So so okay Yes Why doesn't that fit you just said twice a year and then you said half a year that's six months No, we well we don't Right now I use They first off they don't the I should the the stable fedora. So right now it's for door 38 What fedora does they will put things in rawhide and they won't even put it into the next one until it's at least a point one And I won't bring it into the Apple until it's at least a point two So so it's a good point, but yeah, yeah Yeah, because we we originally said one year and like you said Katie is doing it every six months and It just wasn't working. So we shifted to every six months Yeah, but we've and that's what we stuck aid on but we were finding that That's what we tried to do for the year and but then when we tried to jump it was just easier to do the every six months Yeah, yeah, because it because it's we want to the bigger bugs to get shaken out first But thank you for the questions. Those are very good. Yes Okay, the question was when are you gonna put a change Change proposal to have fedora Katie e shipped in workstations instead of no, no, they are not fighting words I have I are any denom people watching this No, yeah Yeah, we Yeah, this is not the Katie e sick meeting. This is the Apple one. I Don't mind it being a spin. I did push Dramatically I am so grateful for the web redone do because when it has workstation Here's some alternate things that are coming up. Here's documentation. Here's something else Oh at the bottom of the page Be you know below testing and stuff is the Katie e spin. It's like yeah, that's sort of insult Oh, yeah, we've got the mic How does how does The Katie e spin Stack up against workstation just in in terms of usage. I don't have you look at the county data I can't answer that standing at this podium not because I don't want to but For my Apple talk, I use Matt's things and it has that. Oh, okay He doesn't ever say that I have it on my laptop Yeah, I know the data is there. I just haven't looked at I'm curious. I'll tell you about 20 minutes. I Never looked at that because it's on the Fedora graphs And I could be wrong. Maybe it isn't Anything else Actually almost took up my time I'm hoping other people show up because I'm supposed to give the next talk with somebody else They're not in the room Anything else we can end a little early if you want


in Schumacher, Civil Health Defense, and it's another episode of Tactical Book Review. So today's book is Pistol Craft by Reed Hendricks of Valor Ridge, out of Tennessee. And I got this book just a couple days ago, actually it's 2019, February 2019 is what came out. So it came out pretty recently. And I gotta say, I surprisingly really enjoyed this book. I say surprisingly because I have been a Reed Hendricks fan in the past. I was about to take a Reed Hendricks class, he put out some videos that I wasn't so hot on and so I kind of backburnered him a little bit and I thought, we'll see. And then I kind of been, you know, so-so on Reed and his videos. And then I thought, well, I'll get this book and see. And I think it is an excellent book on Pistol Craft. I think Reed clearly knows what he's talking about. And not only that, but he delivers it in such a way so that you can know what he's talking about. So I would feel very confident handing this book to someone who, you know, doesn't know much or maybe does know something and be like, read this book and do everything he says in here and you're going to be better off. Phenomenal book. Of all the shooting books I've read and I've read a handful and we'll eventually get to them all in this series here. But of all the shooting books that I've read that are instructional shooting books, this one is the clearest, it is the most succinct and it is the most potent. So I highly, highly recommend Reed's Pistol Craft. I think it's a great book. It just goes through all the basics of Pistol Craft, you know, marksmanship and reloads and one-hand manipulations and different shooting positions, etc., etc., etc. So fantastic book, obviously no substitute for taking a real class, however, a absolute great supplemental material. So highly recommended. Read it. Like I said, after I read this, Reed is back on the menu for me, so I'm excited to hopefully get out there at Valoridge at some point and take his Pistol Craft class and hopefully learn more and be able to do all the stuff he talks about in Pistol Craft. That's it. Get it. Read it. I'll put a link in the Amazon description below. Do brave deeds and endure.


Let me just first start off by saying I had a conversation with Craig Alkerman of going to move on and make a make a change there and their leadership on a special teams unit. I'm excited about, you know, the possibility of Tom Quinn leading that group. Tom's going to take over those duties, brings a lot of experience and knowledge.  So I want to thank Craig for what he's done for us. Certainly in the time that I've been here, but I felt like this was the best thing for the team and for, you know, the players moving forward. Most importantly, the players. So with that, take some questions on the game and upcoming game here with the Dolphins. That decision was that like something over time?  And I just felt like, you know, this was the timing, what it needed to be and felt like it was best for the team and for the players, especially going forward. I don't recall you making an in-season move before. No, Corey.  It's, you know, you try to get a feel for, you know, what's best and what's needed. And whether we've done something in the past, there's, you know, times in, you know, we haven't run a certain coverage or we hadn't run certain plays. And I think those decisions are about timing and feel. So that's the decision that was made. And, you know, again, we're going to get back to work here moving forward and trying to get as healthy as possible and go down and win a game against a very good opponent on a road and a big stage. Back at those two block punts. Was it a scheme issue that they took advantage of?  Whether that's blocks on kickoff return, protection on a punt, you know, understanding from the specialists of where pressure may come from just like the quarterback. And you talk about punt protections, about building a pocket.   How do we want to attack certain things? Or how do we want to play against them, you know, in the red zone or third down? Same thing would be said on special teams. And, you know, everything we do, we want to be sound in and make sure that we play with great effort and that there's execution.  And you had any major issues with the special teams unit before yesterday's troubles? Well, I mean, there's always positive plays.  And so, again, decided to make a change. I guess Derek being waved to the sideline. Do you have a concussion? Is there any protocol? Derek, you know, just to touch on that a little bit, what was removed from the game, I saw it, you know, so I was, I was headed out there just because I saw the, you know, how he got up. And so did the trainers and so the players, which was great and then came over, was checked. They deemed him, you know, not able to return. But then it's doing great. Zero symptoms worked out this morning. So not in the protocol as of now, but we would monitor how he's feeling and any symptoms that may come up just like we would do any player. So again, as of now, it's doing great. And that's great news, exciting. How does that work when you're pulled out, but then later you're not in the protocol? What's the process for that?  It's like we checked on him last night. We check in with him and, you know, like we do every player that's, you know, injured or doesn't finish the game. Then he, you know, we check in on him in the morning. If he's able to come in, come in, does the, you know, takes a symptom score and that gets reported. And if there's a symptom score, then they enter into the protocol. And then when that symptom score, if there was a symptom score, then they would report it each day when it gets to a certain level. They start conditioning. They start weight training. And then they see an independent doctor. They take an impact test and then an independent doctor ultimately. So as far as like trailing just to kind of give you some context, you know, he was reporting zero symptoms, which allows him now to practice last week, take the impact test past that, have a full practice, and then get cleared on Saturday morning by the doctor. Could have been Friday afternoon, but they were in brain surgery. So they thought that that was more important than getting him cleared from the protocol. So if that helps, that's kind of how it goes. If a player reports zero symptoms, it would be hard to put them in the protocol, but you would monitor his, how he feels. And after it works out, check on him good. Let him go through today. Check on him again later on. And if it's still at zero, then I would assume that there's not a protocol to enter into. Is Stoney's situation season ending? Yeah, Stoney's going to have to have surgery and get fixed and come back stronger, stronger than ever and ready to go. So certainly don't want to lose players and that's unfortunate. Do you proceed with caution with Derek or just to kind of monitor how things are Wednesday, Thursday and if everything continues to look good? Sure. Yeah, I mean, we would, you know, I think we would do that with any player that was in that situation, whether it was Derek or anybody else. So hope that he continues to have zero symptoms and, you know, not that I'm a doctor or any visual test, but when I spoke with him after the game, him and I were probably one of the last two to leave. You know, having been in this and seeing guys that were in the protocol, Derek appeared normal and he went home. We followed up with him at night and again today. So, you know, whatever that is, we'll monitor through the week. Very like how Tom Quinn has done since he's been here and what's that like in season, having somebody, a new voice maybe leading that group? Well, I don't think any of us know and I told Tom that, you know, we would meet more this afternoon and that, you know, this is his opportunity, you know, to continue the stuff that we do well and, you know, we got to work hard to fix the stuff that, you know, has become or that is issues. We'll have to find a new punter, which is a new holder and, you know, but Tom's been great.  Have you had an opportunity to talk with the team about the movie editors to meet him kind of later in the day? No, our players will be back in a team setting on Wednesday. I feel like the best thing to do is, you know, get them some rest and recover, treat, you know, make sure they lift and they're through the building and we'll see them and just, you know, haven't had that conversation yet. Is Brett Kern an option or is he...  What's the division of labor challenge when you're making a movie like this?  I assume other people are going to take that over. How do you manage that? Yeah, I mean, I feel like we have plenty of guys that can, you know, that can help if needed. I don't anticipate there being, you know, it's just about conversations that we have about making sure that, you know, who we're going to use, who's available, and making sure that the players understand and making sure that, you know, they're able to execute to the best of their ability. Defensively, did great in the red zone. We gave up a lot of explosive plays that put you in tough spots when you look back at yesterday. Yeah, just explosive passes. No. What did you see good and bad? You didn't have a chance to answer Jimmy's question. I was pausing to think how I was going to answer. Yeah, you know, I'm into gadget, which, you know, give credit to them. You know, they hit a play just like we did for a couple of hours. You know, they just, you know, they...unfortunate to hit one over the top there. SMB was, you know, pressed and challenged. And, you know, and then, you know, Elijah, that's just, that's a mistake. You know, we have to... You know, there's a difference between handing it to them and making them earn it. And there was a clear difference in those two plays. They still got the yards, and they still won the football game. So, you know, you can see how many good plays are in there, third down, run defense, swarming, handling the RPOs, being locked in, knowing what's going on, and then, you know, one-play, you know, Cauchy. Will said that he felt yesterday was his worst game since he took the starting job. What was your assessment of how he played after watching the film? Well, I certainly appreciate that attitude. I think that's what you have to be able to do.  And there, Will had some really cool, positive plays in there, sometimes where, you know, I'm sure he would have liked to look somewhere different or deliver the football. He had some good throws in there, and, you know, 50-50 decision there on a mirrored route to hops on the left and nicks on the right, and, you know, the guy on the right bit on a double move and the guy on the left in it, and he looked to the left, and I wish he'd looked to the right. That's how it goes. But there were still some really, you know, cool throws in there. And then just continue to see the picture when, you know, if a guy is cut, you know, the corner cuts and drops, you know what I mean?  You know, I know he'll keep working hard and he'll keep, you know, finding ways to help us move the football. A combination of the toughness that you kind of alluded to yesterday and then just the awareness of seeing a guy fumble the ball, go force a fumble, recover the fumble, return it, all these things. How rare is that in a guy at quarterback?  Aziz trying to play to the recovery. I mean, in a dead sprint after we hit the quarterback one time. And so, you know, he asked about Will and that was, you know, there was certainly an energy and an effort and, you know, go tackle the guy with the ball. You've seen quarterbacks kind of in the past stay out of the fray and, you know, that doesn't look good. And I think that the message it sends to the team is a real positive one when you can say, man, I don't know if that was a fumble. I don't know if he intercepted it. I'm going to let him sort it out, but I'm going to go do my part. And, you know, he wasn't the only one, you know, but it was great to see him do that. But then also, let's not lose sight of the other guys that did that as well. What are you dealing with? Jeffery Simmons injury? Jeffery will be, you know, he'll be out here for a couple of weeks. You know, we'll see where he's at, but he'll be unavailable on Monday. The run blocking from Jaylon Duncan, that was good, but on the opposite, the pass pro wasn't. What were some of the things that you saw from him? Well, I would say to that, I may probably disagree on how good, you know, if you just look, I think it was inconsistent. I think there were some really good things that improved from last week. I used Derek's first touchdown as an example, talked about trying to get in on the backside, get in to the line of scrimmage on the backside so that the big fella doesn't have to go and check, you know, his feet. He kind of rolled and was able to then run by the corner, something that was very positive. Other blocks, you know, in the run game, need a little bit of work. Some things that we focused on improved, much like in pass protection.  So I would say in both of those, you know, whether it was a run or a pass, that you could find positive plays and then things that we need to improve on from Jalen.  And I said, well, at least you care. And that's a great place to start. And he'll continue to improve and just try to do a little bit better each and every week. He rolled a lot of guys at him, good players. And like you mentioned, there was some good plays in the run game, some good plays in pass protection, but then also some things that we'll have to continue to improve.  But for just a few starts or whatever second start, you know, we're just scratching the surface. What can you do better against, like, the speed, rush, equity, pain, and also the power that have you come through? Yeah, you have to be able to know who it is that you're playing against, you know, stance and how are they coming?  And, you know, we talk about speed rushers. It's, you know, you got to get them at the top of the pocket. You can't be, you can't, they can't corner at seven yards. They have to corner at nine.  But if they're cornering at seven yards, then it's not reasonable to think that the quarterback has a whole lot of room to step up from there. Just like Arden Stripsack last week, you know, Jeffrey pushes the middle of the pocket. The quarterback can't step up so Arden can corner at nine yards.  Jaylen and Peter, how do you feel the communication? Yeah, I think it's going okay. Yeah. I mean, I think it's going okay. It can always be better.  But I think that they're working hard to communicate and whether that's with the guard and the tackle or the tackle and the tight end on some of the blocking schemes that we were able to hit, which were cool. Had a bunch of double digit runs yesterday and had some ones that weren't efficient. But, you know, it was good opportunities for all of us to be able to run a football. Looks like there's a little bit of an emotional exchange, I guess, between Will and DeAndre there at some point. Are you okay with the way Will handled that? Or would you kind of want him to do that a little bit more privately?  Unless they go into the blue tent to handle things privately. These games, there's a lot of emotion that's involved and, you know, I think that as long as there's respect, I think you have to understand that sometimes those conversations, you know, are, I wouldn't say heated. I think, you know, those things kind of happen and you get them fixed and addressed and, you know, move on and try to find ways to help us. Yesterday about having Colton up, Kyle down and getting Traylon back into the mix, but he wasn't, it didn't seem like it was full go for every rep, I think he only had 10. Yeah, I was just asked about that yesterday. I only got 48 spots. Eric's been catching punts for us. So special teams and the role that it would play, I would say that Colton's impact on special teams has been noticeable and been really fun to see and cool to see. Wanted to try to get Traylon back going, whether that was for the amount of snaps he played or maybe, you know, a few more. Not sure, didn't know. It's hard to tell kind of going into a game exactly how many snaps, but knew it wasn't going to be the full amount or 40 snaps. So hopefully that could increase. And, you know, I know Kyle will be ready to go. It's just have to try to make a decision on how many players, you know, come to the game based on who does what and the role that they'll play. The last time you were in Miami was what, an $8 game. What are some of the things like when you guys were on that first intermission and then the longer one? I know like in Miami, some of the players like they ate barbecue to eat mac and cheese. We were eating pan pizzas from upstairs. The ops guys went upstairs and they were getting many pizzas from the third deck and brought them down because, you know, we ran out of food. You know, I mean, the catering wasn't coming until after the game or whatever it was, but certainly interesting and unique way to start my NFL coaching career. What do you do to like keep them ready? Not a whole lot.   So I have to be ready for everything, I guess. This year against, you know, their weapons and their speed. Well, that's what it is.   There's a timing element and then what they do after the catch has been impressive, you know, their ability to translate that speed into the run game has also been something and then obviously the defense is playing well. You don't see left-handed quarterbacks very often. What does that change in terms of how you attack them? Well, when you start talking about matching a hand and making sure that, you know, you're trying to match, you know, normally which would have been with, you know, your left, trying to find ways to impact the ball the way that it comes out. Some of the RPOs come out much quicker, you know, to his left than what tradition he would. When you look at your run game, it appeared you guys were a lot stronger on the first down yesterday and how important is that moving forward, especially against team with Miami on Monday night, people continue? Yeah, you're going to have to possess the football and we're going to do everything that we can to try to possess the football. And again, it was about just getting into the line of scrimmage. Baxter did a nice job. I thought Derek ran with a purpose. We gave him, you know, some places to go. I thought Tajé ran with a purpose. You know, it looked like kind of what we wanted to look like. Not that everyone was perfect.  We gained some yards. I thought, you know, receivers did a nice job for the most part trying to get the support player and, you know, helping us get some extra yards. Do you think one of you improved level of physicality in the run game, working bad at style?   And, you know, that's a fine line of doing that and trying to stop their charge so somebody else can take them over and then trying to get to the second level. Had some good opportunities to that and, you know, we'll need a lot more. We'll be able to run a football and marry up that run game with our play pass. Yesterday, coming in at the end, and I guess this Christian, you know, the hamstring got him again there? Yeah, yeah, the hamstring got him again there and, you know, everybody's got to prepare as a starter. I mean, you never know when you're going to go in there, what you're going to have to be able to do, whether that's a defensive lineman, if a player goes down, it's an inside linebacker, Tajé, you know, going in there and just more of the load or an offensive lineman. We've seen that happen over and over.  Jeff went back in. Was he just testing the injury? Was he just kind of what was the process? Yeah, I think he really, you know, did everything that he could, you know, and even made a play and he just wasn't going to be able to do anything and if you can't protect yourself out there and nobody wants to put a player in harm's risk. And we're going to trust Jeff to say when he can go and when he can't, but certainly don't want to put any player at risk and they can't protect themselves, especially inside playing defensive line where there's a lot of bodies that are coming after you and they, you know, are trying to get you. So, never want to put a player in that position.


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that being duplicating a couple tabs up top to put our financial reports and by right-clicking the tab up top to duplicate it right-clicking the duplicated tab to duplicate it again back to the middle tab so we can go to the accounting drop-down and pull up that balance sheet report tab to the right so we can go to the accounting drop-down again income statement P&L profit and loss whatever you want to call it back to the middle tab and let's do a change to the range a change to the date here to the 31st and update that's the setup process that we've been doing every time remembering that these are our two major financial statement reports all other reports typically given more information about one or multiple line items on these two major reports if I go to the income statement then we're gonna scroll down and we're looking at the sales items so now we want some reports that are gonna give us some more detail about the sales line item before we open them let's just give a quick recap of what's being reported on the income statement and why the sales revenue or income lines are typically recorded they way they are the income statement performance statement you will recall it's gonna show how we did over a time frame beginning to the end how far did we go how much revenue did we get how many expenses did we incur what's the difference between the two what's the net income in other words when we look at the income we usually have very few income accounts compared to the number of expense accounts because when you think about the types of things we do there's usually a specialization there's a limited number of things we do whereas the things that we purchase in order to facilitate the revenue generation has more categorization down below so in other words you might be tempted and this is important when you're setting up your company file to create multiple sales revenue or income accounts by say large customers you might say hey look I want to break out this revenue account by this customer you don't typically want to do that because for one you you might get that added detail on other reports and therefore you just typically want the sales by what you are selling inventory possibly and service items possibly possibly some large subcategories within them but you don't want to be breaking it out by every customer like a sales general ledger account the other thing people tend to do is have too many items breaking out their sales by item meaning inventory item or sales item which can make your income statement very long as well and you and that's usually not good for reading the income statement just generally and hopefully in many cases you can then generate other reports that will give you that added detail if you want it in that format breaking up the sales or revenue or income by customer so that's what we'll look at now so I'm going to right click on the tab up top and duplicate it and then let's go to the reports accounting drop-down reports and then you've got your sales by customer and you've also got the income and expense by customer I think it's income expense by this one income and expense by cuss by contact so contacts include customers so let's try this one off first I'm going to open this one up and this is a nice report that's going to be given us both the income and expenses but it's breaking it out by the contacts which are going to be of course customers in the case of the revenue items and vendors you would think general terminology in the case of the expense items now we just want the revenue items in this case so I can go up top and let's change the date range let's bring it for the full year of December so let's bring it to January at the starting point so January 1st to December 31st let's update it so there's our information now we're going to use our filtering tool I'm going to go to the filtering tool and say we just want the contact let's go to type let's go to the type and we just want the income items so we want all the income items and then apply the filter and update so then you've we've got our information up top that they're showing the multiple period comparisons by default what I'm going to do is turn that off right now I'm going to hit the drop-down and say none just to start off with an update okay so now we've got the contact which are in essence the customers because we're talking income line items and now we can see our income by customer so you so in this case you wouldn't then need to be putting all your customer line items on your income statement over here because it'll muddy up your income statement one and two you can run a report usually to give you this added information breaking it out by customer now note you would think that this total 30,000 65886 would tie out exactly to this number 30,000 it's pretty close but it's not exact and there's and there's a couple reasons it wouldn't be exact meaning if I looked at my flow chart for example we're on the revenue side of things and remember income is going to be entered into the system by when we enter a form either an invoice form or we can enter you know a form that would be a receive cash type of form like a check register type of situation so these are the natural two forms that you would use and usually when you use those two kind of forms an invoice or like a money in form you're going to be adding a customer field in those forms however it's possible to just enter a deposit and not add the customer and that could if you turn on bank feeds you might sometimes have a situation where the bank feed comes in but you don't have a customer name you just you have the deposit and maybe you don't add the customer in that case you might lose some of this added detail that you would get by breaking the information out by by customer so you got to be careful with the bank feeds can sometimes throw out these subsidiary reports although the ease of using the bank feed in certain situations like for example if you're just getting paid by YouTube or something is often worth worthwhile of the loss of the added kind of detail that you might get you can also enter a journal entry an adjusting journal entry that wouldn't use these forms and not include a customer and that will throw off your sub ledger from your income statements you got to kind of be aware of those things the sub ledger we looked at before the two we looked at before which were the accounts receivable let me change my date range didn't I change my date range I thought I did this to this should be 2022 we looked at the sub ledger for accounts receivable and the accounts payable now oftentimes software is more rigorous with these two accounts to kind of force your sub ledger to tie out by saying hey if you report something without a contact and it's going to be an invoice or a bill then maybe won't even let you report it right because we want you to basically tie these out they're not that strict with some of the other sub ledgers so with the income line item you can report something to the sales account without adding a customer if you want to but if you can add the customer you always want to do so because it's going to give you more searchability details within the system such as having your your income broken out by customers so now you can sort this data by customer now you've got your details to edit it up top so we saw before we have this comparison so I could compare like to the prior period as we saw with other kinds of reports and and look at what we did this year in a customer by customer two prior years and you can also of course export this report to excel which is a great tool because then you can sort this information say by who paid you the most kind of thing versus alphabetical order by contact and you can also do cool things there like make pie charts and whatnot this is good number to like make pie charts and whatnot with as well so that's that report let's make the other one I'm gonna right click on this tab duplicate it again and this time go to the accounting drop-down reports and this other one's gonna be a sales report I think it's all the way at the bottom sales by item which is kind of hard to remember sometimes you can also type it in here sales and you can find your different reports so a little confusing because you got the sales by item whereas this reports called income and expenses so they're using kind of different terms for sale for revenue sales income revenue but once you get this one open we can then say that this is gonna be I'm gonna go from January again January back on here first to December 31st and then I've got the item code versus the description I'll keep the let's see what it does with the description let's go to the description versus item code that we can sort the data on down below I'm gonna scroll in a bit and so there we have it now this one is giving us the item that we're breaking out by now the item is the thing that that we're recording on the invoice or the money in form so in other words if I go back to the first tab drop down and make an invoice then we generally want to sort our sales by item so these items here and that and that's a great tool even if you don't sell inventory items and you have service items because it allows you to break out in that format if you just have hourly work then you might not enter an item you might just enter your your price over here you know you might you know you might just say that you have a description hours you know three at $50 or something like that and you don't have the items over here but anytime even a service company that you can add the items it's often useful because it can help you with your billing process if you're doing the billing process and it can help you to sort your sales with a sub report by item now I'm gonna go back on over here now you can see that there's a big difference between the total by item nine thousand one twenty one twenty one and the sales line on the income statement thirty thousand six twenty three and that's because if I go to the sales line in here I believe that's because a lot of these invoices that were put in place to create this in the practice account aren't using the item see right here the item field is an input they just put the description and the quantity that's great you can still do that but notice you lose you lose the ability to sort by this sub sub ledger which maybe you don't need you know but if you if you add the items you get that more detail so in other words if I go back to my my flow chart over here if you have the kind of business where you're you're getting paid by like gig work first and you're just gonna wait till it clears the bank and then you enter it with a deposit form for example through the bank feeds then you're probably you're not gonna add items because typically you don't add items on just like a deposit type of thing right you're just gonna increase increase it there and you don't really need to track by the items because you have a fairly simplified system but if you're making sales at like a cash register or you're making an invoice then oftentimes you might have a more sophisticated system where you're selling different types of inventory or different types of services and there you would often want to be entering the item in here if you can because it'll give you it'll give you that added a level of detail that will able to sort our revenue out by item so we'd have our revenue line item that we can break out by basically what we sold up top so you can see here notice that they do tie it in they got the 30,000 6 58 86 which is which is the 30,000 6 23 and I think we might have like other income no but in any case it's pretty close but they got all the stuff down here here's your sales by item and then you've got other sales cash sales and and credits on down below so there's a fairly small amount of actual sales where they included the item in the invoice or the receive payment form so these these sub ledgers are not as reliable in that they're gonna tie out exactly to the income statement as the accounts receivable accounts payable sub ledgers often are more reliable to tie into the balance sheet accounts of accounts payable and accounts receivable that we saw before but the more you're using the actual accounting system forms which are invoices and they've received payments and the more you're assigning of course customers as you use those forms and items service items inventory items the more than these reports should should be accurate and line up and if they are then you've got that added level of detail and you can once again export this for example to excel and you can sort this data by item what you're selling you can make pie charts and whatnot out of that data for presentation purposes and so on


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