What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video We got another episode of NFL questions from subscribers. I know it's been a very long time And trust me people that have asked questions. I know it's gonna be kind of hard because some of the questions are They've been answered already based on how far to the how far into the schedule. We are So my apologies for that, but I still answer them anyway appreciate that cool stars. Thank you But this came from my boy. What's up, Jay money? This came from my guy Lewis Shout out to Lewis shout out to his fiance shout out to his son over there in Dominican Republic right now I hope y'all enjoying your vacation But even though he's vacationing. He's still thinking about his stills. He's still thinking about his stills Thinking about his boys and I would be doing the same thing too. I think about Ravens when I'm at work I think about him when I'm at home. I think about him when I'm away. I think about him whenever because being a football fan it uh Takes a big chunk of your life, man. It takes a big chunk of your energy as you all know It's a lot, but that's why we love because it's a lot of fun Anyway, mr. Coolpans appreciate you. What's up, Kimberly, but Nia. What's up, Anthony earthquake? I was going on today Baltimore bird gang. It's William Anthony forward. No, Dwayne LD Hawk Appreciate all y'all coming through man. Thank you. I'm really quick. Let me introduce myself. What's up, boss? Me I'm engraving vids. This is my YouTube channel engraving vids, and I'm a Ravens fan I'm a Ravens fan a big Ravens fan. Maybe the biggest one, you know, I don't know I'm not sure maybe maybe not but either way on this YouTube channel. We talk about the Ravens But we also talk about still as we talk about playoffs. 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So make sure y'all leave a like on the video It's 30 people in here, but it's only 14 like come on y'all could that thumbs up button, but anyway My boy Lewis asked Are the Steelers in better in a better playoff position since they will be the right now They're the number two seed Are they still in a in a good playoff position or that are they in better playoff position as opposed to the Patriots? And when he asked that question, he also mentioned that Because the Steelers in the divisional round since they got the first week off since them but the Patriots and them had the first week off Are they in better playoff position based off of their opponent because if the Steelers Whoever the Steelers play it'll be between The winner of the Jaguars and whoever the Jaguars play in that in the wild card around So it'll be between one of those two teams so if Jaguars play the Beals or the Titans or The Chargers whoever it may be whoever the Jaguars end up playing Then the winner of that game Will go on and face Pittsburgh in the divisional round and then Whoever plays and this is not necessarily set, but it's really whoever plays the Jaguars whoever plays the Jaguars will go on and Whoever wins between the Jaguars and whoever their opponent is they'll go on and play the Steelers in the division around now whoever plays the Chiefs Because everybody has been talking Ravens. Everybody has been saying Ravens, but it's not even a lock yet. It's not even a lock yet So hopefully in two days or two and a half days because the game is that in the afternoon It should be leading up tonight, but hopefully in two and a half days It will be the Ravens and Jose Mahia. I hope you're a hundred percent right about that. He said Ravens gonna repeat 2012 I mean they could they could I believe they were ten and six that year and they got into the playoffs and you know the rest but Everybody is saying that it's gonna be the Ravens, but it's It's not a lock yet. Hopefully it becomes a lock, but it's not a lock yet But anyway, what he was saying was Because the Patriots since they'll play the winner of the Chiefs and whoever the Chiefs facing it in the wild card round The the Patriots could end up end up taking on either the Chiefs or The Ravens or if somebody else gets in there, but the two teams that he mentioned were the Chiefs and the Ravens The Chiefs and the Ravens Reason he mentioned those two teams I believe is because what's up Malik appreciate you, man It's because the Chiefs they already beat New England this year and I know at the beginning of the season I know they're two completely different teams right now. I know that I understand that But they would and they beat them in New England So they know that they know that they can get the job done in New England Chiefs already know so they can go Into that game if they beat whoever in the wild card they can go into that game with so much confidence because they've already beaten They've already beat them and Then Ravens, I mean y'all know the history about Ravens and the playoffs against New England. They Like I always say I would rather than play a playoff game against New England and New England because I feel like when they go there They just show out They show out They show out So they don't always win of course and it's it's always a heartbreaker or not always a heartbreaker, but um They it goes back and forth man. It's always a really good game a really great game, but either way Ravens could they know what they can do they in their defense is I mean, they're not gonna have Jimmy Smith for whatever happens going forward, but um Their defense has been a lot better than past defensive that or recent past defenses that have gone in there to New England so We'll see but first Ravens even they got to get in the playoffs First so all the playoffs talk it means nothing if they don't even get in But again his question was Are the stillers in better position since in a divisional round? They wouldn't be playing if the Ravens make it They wouldn't be playing Ravens and they wouldn't be playing Chiefs They will be playing the winner between either the Jaguars possibly the bills possibly the Titans and Stretch the check the charges they will play the winner of that So again, it's still a it's still a scary match up for Pittsburgh to because we remember what the Jaguars did to Pittsburgh And I believe that was in Pittsburgh to and Jaguars are a team that's Not even a different team. They pretty much the same team because they've been they've been winning a lot too They've been winning pretty much everything. I know they had that 49ers game, but they've been winning They've been winning winning winning winning and Pittsburgh ever since that that Jaguars game and skipping the New England game They've been winning winning winning winning winning two winning teams two tough teams so Are you told one of your Jaguars boys if they make the Super Bowl you give them a $500 never know man Never know you never know Never know that's the thing about the playoffs everything's out the window Everything's out the window, but I feel like still is this it's not um either way to my boy Lewis question It's a what's up J-doll. Oh Wow, good point J-doll said all the other teams on the bike have been beaten by the teams in the wild card round. Oh wow Okay Richard Sherman and Jaylen Ramsey. I say Jaylen Ramsey Richard Sherman older now facing some injuries and whatnot Jaylen Ramsey young Stuck man healthy guy beast So I hope that answer your question type I think what the Jaguars did to us early in the early is the reason I don't fear playing them again I guarantee Ben won't throw five picks again You could be right about that man Or you could throw even more you could go either way man. It could go either way That's why playoffs are so exciting because anything could happen literally anything could happen That's why we enjoying so much. What's up, Chris? But yeah, it is a very different team than the one in London.  It could happen It could happen Now do I think it's gonna happen? I don't but we'll see you never know because they could be playing the Bills They could be playing the Titans They may be the charges by a long stretch, but We just don't know and again. It's any given Sunday doesn't matter any given Sunday Any given Sunday Yeah, Louis, you're right. It's that I believe it'd be scary for the Patriots facing the Chiefs of Baltimore since they have They've had success in Fox bro. Yeah, what's up Nick? But same for Steelers too if they face the Jaguars, um, I mean it should be a little less scary If they play like the Bills of the Titans, but I mean we'll see when we get there I think either way it's scary the reason what what makes it scary for both teams for all teams is that There's no Okay, you know what we lost this game, but we'll get better next week. No There's none of that because it's playoffs There's none of that because it's playoffs. It ain't no, okay. We're a group We'll go over the film with we'll study that and we'll get better next week No none of that None of my fault Eric. I've been missing your comments, man Let me go back to the one that you put before if you think about it Ravens can beat anybody in the AFC I know Jaguars killed them earlier, but that wouldn't happen again. They match up well against everybody don't sleep on it Yeah, I mean we ain't sleeping. We can't it'll be hilarious if Steelers get their revenge and beat the pass in In New England in the Patriots in the playoffs assuming they both get to the AFC championship We'll see. I know that's what the NFL wants right now because that's the drama right now That's they love that drama We'll see how it goes man. We'll see how it goes He also said I saw something on ESPN the other day that said if the Jaguars are the Patriots number one threat And I could see I could see it, but I don't know about the Jaguars and the playoffs still a young team They might choke I mean I wouldn't even consider it choking if they uh If they lost in the playoffs now if they just got embarrassed like zeroed or something If they didn't score any points or they only scored three and the other teams scored like 30 or 40 something Then I would consider that choking, but If they lost in a respectable fashion I wouldn't consider it choking one because like you said, they are a young team Um and two because they They didn't they they're not sneaking in the playoffs. They didn't just barely make it They earned their spot in the playoffs So I wouldn't even consider the choke and even if they don't go forward Even if they don't win a game in the playoffs, even if they don't advance I was still for them. I know I know ultimately it's about the Super Bowl That's what it's about They know consolation prize. They know first second. I mean, they don't know in no second third place It's all about the Super Bowl in that set But for Jaguars for as much as they've been through recently just not having winning winning seasons But people always saying oh, they got so much potential Wish they have had I already considered this season for them a big success a big turn around in the right direction And for them to be able to be able to actually compete in that afc south Because usually we would think oh, yeah, it's already the coach division It's already the Texas division But now that afc south Especially next year they're gonna have so much great competition because mario to be healthy andrew luck. Hopefully he'll be healthy Um, the shan was gonna be coming back and then if jaguars, they'll be coming back too They pretty much healthy already right now, but it's gonna be everybody's gonna be healthy So that division is gonna be so much better. So like I said already consider this this season for the jaguars A success based off of how it's been in the past Um, vegan king said steelers fans are so annoying right now if he meant that much to the team They hope they wouldn't have cut him no matter what he even even he eggs Why not the mode in the practice squad only can blame the organization? Oh, yeah, that's uh That james Harrison thing is uh Yeah, people blown it out of proportion, but it is what it is Um, joseph mahiya said I want to see ravens and stillers in the afc championship a me too I would love that I would love I would love around three I would love around three And then I would want the third time to be the charm and for charm city So We'll see Wouldn't the cold effect of jaguars and piss burgers the weather is low. I mean Yes, but these dudes are still football players straight up. They still football players So these are guys that have probably been maybe in high school and college. They played in the cold. Um But even though not necessarily in january like that, but we'll see We'll see Logan says still it should be motivated for shea's ear. I mean, yeah, even without shea's ear Um without the whole shea's ear thing happening. They should still be motivated. You should still be motivated So we'll see man We'll see how it goes Anyway, appreciate y'all man. Appreciate y'all coming through Lewis appreciate you asking the question. Um, thank you And yes, no, yeah, and ain't nobody sleeping on the charges too if they even somehow managed to get in They need a lot of help, but it's a possible it's a possibility. Um, but I just need my reasons to get in make some noise make some noise make some noise Go to the Superbowl and go in go to the Superbowl and win it and I'll be good for a couple years I'll be good for even four or five years. You had other people with a Superbowl But let's just get this one. Let's get this one and we'll we'll chill for the next Four or five years. We'll be straight All right. Yeah, Lewis. Appreciate it, man. Hope you and your family enjoy your vacation Appreciate y'all. Hope you all enjoyed the video again. Make sure you subscribe to the channel if you haven't already Turn your notification on if you haven't already I don't know if y'all saw that person walking outside of like about 30 seconds ago, but either way Appreciate it, man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll see you all next time Make sure you leave a like on the video too if you haven't already and we out man. We gone


Hi, this is Stu Miniman with wikibond.org here with SiliconANGLE TV's live wall-to-wall continuous coverage from EMC World 2012 in Las Vegas. And joining me is Dominic Delfina from Cisco. Dominic, first time on theCUBE, thanks for joining us. Yes it is Stu, thanks for having me here, I really appreciate it. Great, so what we look to do here on theCUBE is we find the smartest and most interesting people with the most interesting stories and try to extract the signal from the noise, share it out there with the community, and help people understand some of the big changes that are happening in the ecosystem today. So Cisco obviously is a long partner of EMC's. Can you give our audience a little bit of a background as to your position at Cisco and how long have you been working with the Cisco EMC relationship? Sure, sure, thanks Stu. So I've been at Cisco now 12 years and I'm the senior director of systems engineering for the Americas for our data center product portfolio. Data center today includes our steroids networking products, our data centers ethernet switching portfolio as well as our unified computing system platform. I've been with the EMC relationship from day one. So about 10 years now I've been working very closely with them in the field and it's evolved many times over over the course of the last 10 years and I think the relationship is now as strong as it's ever been. So to be specific Dominic, I think we're talking about when Cisco actually got into solutions that support storage applications. Cause actually I worked when I started at EMC back in 2010, Cisco was a partner with some of the kind of the Oracle solutions. There was a kind of an ECO, the EMC Cisco Oracle relationship. So it is a long, deep relationship. Most people are where Joe Tucci and John Chambers have a long relationship, but storage side absolutely for the last 10 years and if you're handling the field guys, you're pretty much the Cisco version of Chad's Hackage. I am the Chad's Hackage for Cisco data center products. Okay, so what is face melting in your opinion with what's going on in the field between Cisco and EMC? You know, I think it's really interesting. You know, we rolled back the clock 10 years. You know, we were a provider maybe to EMC of storage networking technology, which was a small sub component over the overall solution. They would provide to a customer, but I think through our innovation in partnership with EMC and our joint solutions, we really started to take a systems approach with our customers where they saw a joint value out of that. Now fast forward over the course of the last 10 years and the evolution of convergent infrastructure, what we're doing with our joint investment, not only Cisco and EMC, but VMware and Intel with the VCE company, right? The virtual computing environment and the advent of Vblocks, which is our convergent infrastructure stack, in addition to now Vspecs, which is more an architectural reference based design, we're really to be able to bring to market a complete cloud solution for our customers. So the relationship is growing every quarter extensively. Our joint business is growing together extensively. Our number of customers, our number of references, the size of their infrastructures, the repeat business that we're doing at them has just really taken a relationship to the next level there. Okay, great. So, you know, Wikibon has done lots of research looking at this trend of converged infrastructure. And while it is relatively new, Cisco's been at the forefront here. One thing that doesn't get talked about a lot is, you know, we know about the hardware, we know about the software, but it's really the services. It's the people like your systems engineers, the VCE folks that are in the field and the channel is a very significant part of that. So, you know, how does the channel play into what your folks in the field are doing? Can you talk a little bit about kind of Vblock and maybe even Vspecs? Right, right. So, certainly Vblock is a very advanced solution. It's, you know, what we would refer to as Cisco as a whole offer or a whole stack relative to, you know, customers kind of had a choice in the market before it was kind of roll your own, right? Or maybe use an architectural reference and try to base your systems design off of that. So, with Vblock, it's a total converged infrastructure. It's a fixed configuration. It's standardized, it's tested. There's a single number for support. And we take it to market through VCE and our mutual channel partners between Cisco and EMC. Now, as you look at Vspecs, something that's more flexible, it's a very, very channel-centric program in order to get to the market. So, the Cisco proven partners, the EMC proven partners, my apologies, it will be the exclusive route to market for Vspecs. It gives that flexibility for customers who kind of want, I want to follow a reference architecture or design, but I don't necessarily want a fully converged infrastructure. I may want to deviate from it in some aspects in some areas in certain ways. And the channel partners will come in with their professional services in order to tailor that solution really specifically and finally down to those customer needs. Okay, so one of the biggest challenges we see in moving from kind of the siloed approach to more of the converged holistic approach is really skill sets. And your team has to be at the kind of forefront and have done this. So, the network silo, the storage vaults, cross-training, people can't know everything. We talked about automation is going to help that, but still, there's an evolution of the workforce. And so, in the channel side, we've seen some of the good Cisco partners have really started a whole brand new data center practice around what they're doing. I wonder if you've got any stories to tell us as to what you're seeing. It's a great point, right? Because as we look at converged infrastructure today, as we look at bringing compute network storage security together, that combined skill set doesn't really exist in the market today, right? So, it's typically those technologies have existed in silos or as my customers tell me, cylinders of excellence, right? But even as a challenge for Cisco, bringing UCS alone to market, where it's a converged infrastructure, where you require networking skills, you require computing skills, operating system skills, security virtualization skills, it creates a substantial opportunity for our partner base, right? You know, customers who have long standing practices with networking or storage or compute aren't typically going to go into those partners for help in those areas and for services to provide help in those areas. But when it comes to the more leading edge to converge infrastructure, that skill set that's not necessarily readily available in the market where it can go higher or rent some talent for a short period of time, they're really going to rely on those partners. So, those partners are investing early, building those skill sets, building those next generation data center practices within their organizations and they're seeing the services stream associated with having those practices and making that investment. Okay, so, obviously there's a long and deep partnership between Cisco and EMC. We've actually seen an increase of networking here at EMC World. For the first time in a few years, it's actually not conflicting with Interop, so maybe that helps get a few more networking people here, but we're also seeing some partners that hadn't been here before. So, Brocade and Cisco obviously have long storage relationships, but now Juniper and Arista are here, Broadcom's here, some of those partners. So, can you maybe kind of address what you think this means to the ecosystem and the relationship with Cisco and EMC? You know, I think it's a great point, right? So, as you look at cloud, right? Cloud's about a system, right? And a system is, again, the combination of compute, network storage, virtualization, applications, orchestration, automation, all of those things working together and in conjunction with each other. And I think as we look at historically how vendors competed for customers' dollars, it was all about price, performance, power consumption, latency, all of these finite, detailed metrics, which are still important. It's still important to be a market leader in those different technology areas, but now the real value that you bring to customers about operational transformation, right? How do I help you transform your operation, make these things, deliver on the promise of cloud, make these things easy to use, make them work in conjunction with each other? Does the virtualization guy know networking? No, but he has a lot of networking implications on deploying virtualization, so how do I bring some of the simplicity of networking into technology like vCenter, right? And give him the abstraction mechanism he uses to administer an environment while maintaining the security and diagnostics from a networking perspective. All of those things are very important. It's more and more as you look at the data center as a system, if anyone component along the way breaks, it doesn't work. So it's about bringing these things together as a system now, that's delivering on the promise of cloud. Okay, so just change direction a little bit here. If we look at the networking industry itself, to be honest, if you look kind of through the late 90s and most of the 2000s, it was almost a little bit boring. Cisco just dominated the market. In technology, we were going kind of in step functions, but there's so much innovation happening in networking today. We talk about flattening the network, things like fabric path from Cisco, SDN and OpenFlow are lots of discussions. Can you tell me, where do you find your field force educating, what's the hottest technologies that customers want to learn about and what things are people actually deploying today that people might be surprised to find out about? Well, I think on the theme of convergent infrastructure, obviously you see converged IO or unified IO, whatever term you want to use for that. Extremely hot technology, if you look at- So just what technology specifically, are you talking about FCOE? Fiber chair over here today, FCOE, I think the skepticism on the adoption of FCOE has been quelled at this point, particularly with the success of the So let's dig into that for a second, because if we look at FCOE adoption, I think there was a huge hype that it's going to kind of knock off fiber channel and it kind of changed this market. And it's right now mostly at the server end, either embedded in blade servers or because some of the top of rack, obviously the Nexus product lines. And obviously I think we have some proof points that Cisco has of end to end and broader deployments, but most people I think would say that it hasn't reached general adoption and fully out there, and it seems to be Cisco leads a lot of that conversation. So do you have any metrics or adoption stories you can share? I can tell you for this, looking at FCOE in an existing production environment, nobody's going to shut down their servers, rip out their NICs and their HBAs, replace them with CNAs, bring them back up. So it's more a brownfield, greenfield opportunity moving forward. So if you look at our 13,000 plus UCS customers, 90% of them using FCOE as their predominant mechanism for access to IO. Yeah, and you see on HP's latest generation and even IBM on the blade servers, they have lots of FCOE inside. It just doesn't get talked about a lot because it's kind of hidden from everybody. And now combine that with SDN, right? And you know SDN, it's kind of like using the term cloud meets a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I'm sorry, was that cloud or cloud? Yeah, cloud, sorry. It's all right. I'm sorry to slip maybe. Some of the big terms out there. But you know, I think if you look at SDN, right? There's a lot of different methodologies for SDN. OpenFlow is one of them. Overlay Networks is another one. Control Plane Centralization, Control Plane Separation, and a combination of those will play out over the next few years as this starts to mature. Look at the concept of a unified port on a Nexus 5000, right? The ability to program my infrastructure to be whatever I need it to be for the deem requirements for that infrastructure, right? So do I need it to be Ethernet? Do I need it to be 5.1 Ethernet? Do I need it to be native fiber channel, right? So that is a mechanism of SDN as well. So I think as you see these different things playing out here over the years, you will see that FCE adoption continue to increase further and further as we go along, okay? Great, so can you tell us a little bit about what have you seen here at EMC World? Have you been to the show before? Where are you spending your time this week? Probably my seventh or eighth time here at EMC World. I think they've got a room named after me here at the Palazzo. There's a meeting room named Elfino. So again, I think as we see continued emphasis and interest for our customers on convergent infrastructure, we certainly see continued emphasis and interest in the green plum solution for Hadoop type environments or big data requirements. Certainly lots of talk about V-Specs, the Cisco EMC relationship, the Cisco EMC VMware relationship and where that's going to their next level, what are the solutions and whole offers we'll bring to market. Every year you kind of come back and there's always a little level of skepticism from the client base about what the latest things EMC and Cisco are doing together are and are they real? And then kind of the next year you see the interest level, all right, we really want to talk to you about this. Spent a lot of time with the folks with EMC and many various customers while I'm here today, definitely seeing a lot of talk about next generation data center architectures and again, cloud and how we bring this to market there as well. Okay, well Dominic Elfino, thank you for joining us here in theCUBE, exciting times in networking, lots going on obviously between the Cisco and EMC relationships and with VMware, big data, lots of coverage on the Data Scientist Summit here at EMC World. So thank you for joining us here on theCUBE and hope you'll join us again sometime. Thanks again for having me Stu, pleasure being here.


Screen-printed electrochemical sensors are a cost-effective way to bring electrochemistry from the lab to the field. However, it is important to measure the real electrochemical surface area of the sensor to ensure accuracy and consistency. This paper discusses two methods, cyclic voltammetry and chronicalometry, to determine the real electrochemical surface area of screen-printed electrodes. These techniques require careful consideration of experimental parameters such as scan rate, potential sweep amplitude, and temperature. The results obtained from these experiments can then be used to compare different types of screen-printed electrodes and assess their performance. This article was authored by Alejandro Garcia Miranda Ferrari, Christopher W. Foster, Peter J. Kelly and others.


Welcome back to another video, and today on Jurassic- Uh-oh, that's the wrong one. Jurassic World Alive! We're gonna be looking at said scorpions. Why? Why not? So today is the day. It is scorpion day We've probably already had a video like taking on this scorpion boss So if you haven't seen it do check it out But today we're gonna be looking at the like the rest of the scorpions because of course Lydia has made. Oh, yeah, also we got a ref skin. Which we're definitely gonna use We've got this thing. You can buy two of them because of course you can buy two of them Oh, well, we're going to do it because this is what we do Anyway, yes, we're doing that. It's wonderful wonderful times here on the Game and Beaver channel, please Can you like I should be shaking a jar, please help I'm here asking for your financial support So we're gonna do that We're also going to get the lantern skin for ref. I'm just gonna have a look to see if there's anything else Oh, of course, you've got a can you buy you buy two of those? Scorpion thingy as well. Oh, this is interesting. Do I have already have one of these a Halloween scent? Look you can get all the atrocity. I'm you know what? I might even have a Halloween scent. I will just double check I have four Halloween scents Interesting now I deliberately keep these scents for you know over the years Because you never know when one might just you know might get a glitch where maybe like a hundred percent every time to get A super rare one and so now we have the scorpion in it. What do you think the scorpion could be in well? Anyway, we will now unfortunately go and buy Oh, and you know what it is We may even be able to see its hybrid because we're starting to get the ingredients and it will be unlocked in the game Right, so yeah, there's the 50 the 50 of that the 50 of that brilliant and the 1000s of Paul mercenaries go obvious as well as an incubator. Let's see what we get in this thing Loads more coin wrap to which we definitely don't need for a source gen 2 which actually kind of do closer to gen 2 Which we haven't maxed out You don't have to which I haven't maxed out either and it is oh, but what's the other one? It's around about the same day. Oh a Lanquan great, but I don't need it because Actually out of all of the things that I need it is not a Lanquan It is the triceratops that I need to stop using this because we are we are getting there We're almost there to a level 30 of this thing might as well do two pops. I mean we got a 30 there We'll see what we can get with this one 10 okey-dokey, so we tried we're still like 400 off and We are gonna get a chance to dot this thing However, it's gonna be super hard like to I'd imagine to Donna, but here we go with the scorpions pull men a scorpus Yes, it's gonna do that bad the bash No, it doesn't oh, but it looks exactly it looks very similar to the one from walking with beasts What a great series that was Nigel Marvin probably hates it because it got bitten by it So here it is these sunga Scorpius and we do need this guy to be in a level 20 now I think this is Miragaya and Sundopterus Although I'm not expecting to make maybe we can attempt the hybrid at the moment But I don't think we're gonna make it because we still need to get the pulmoner scorpius to level 20 And we've just got it to a level 11 at the moment. We can probably get it to Maybe in a push We'll see we'll see I mean 35% armor and 15% chance to create I mean it's 50% chance overall out of 200% but yeah, that's that's a good toss up I'd rather have the 35% armor in Well 35% in armor then creature, so we've got it to level 15 We're halfway there, but we're not rainy because now it's gonna We're probably gonna get to like 17 or something like that. I don't know Does it say where this guy appears? Does it appear on the map keep an eye on weekly calendar events for the awarding this dinner? Well, we're gonna be able to dart it this week But it's a bit of a shame that we're not able to just find it on the map Which again it means that we've got a hybrid that if it's very good is locked behind a paywall Which kind of sucks, but we will level this up a couple more times and then I'm gonna put it in a sanctuary I kind of terrified, but we need it. I want to see how it kills ago I really don't want to but we need to see it so you can get a total of 2400 Scorpion DNA by opening these incubators and stuff That's another thousand. Yes, and the other one is I think 200 guarantee you and maybe you could get more in these incubators Maybe there's a chance like a very small chance Verizon we want triceratops. Do we get triceratops? No, we gotta go on a door. It's actually isn't too bad Question to I don't think it's a hybrid but that but that was everything and two and seven for stick Yeah, what we didn't get that and then oh, I mean, I'm not one to buy into these I didn't get the test of cobanous skin because it's test of cobanous and we're never gonna use that thing But a ref skin, you know what I kind of I'm up for a ref skin It's a shame that it's cause like 18 quid which is on par with like a premium pass But you know what we'll do it because It's my job you should get something extra for just spending money on the game rather than just a skip But you know there it is I suppose you don't even get DNA towards it. I think that's this the kick it There you go lantern a ref skin a beautiful and the other scorpion is 200 you can get two of them Don't really want to do it. I mean we'll get tiger actually. I haven't even unlocked this guy So I think we're missing one of the atrocities we got three I think I think there was supposed to be four I I love that you know these games just a world the game and just a world alive and even the toy line I'm Mattel are pushing the atrocities so freaking hard as if they had some relevance on the narrative But really they did it They had barely any relevance on the narrative and yet they're like as if they were the raptor squad at least And I think that's what dominion was it was just trying to recap to the magic of basically the first one You had a final battle fight with you know a big bad dinosaur.  I'm gonna do it on it. Oh god sake right the question is do we get any DNA that we need? no so far and no so far and I mean, maybe if we wanted that like hybrid for that but of all that we got 310 DNA we actually wanted all right here we go. What will we get? I mean, of course you get the 200 So there you go. I thought it would be a case of you know You get it to level 20 which then you can start fusing if you just bought everything, but no You're still a whole level off. So anything rare that we need maybe and definitely not but what about the epic? Yeah, definitely not and the other one I definitely don't really need that either sweet. Okay, but at least we can get the pulmonoscopy is up to level 20 Oh, sorry level 19 my bad. There you go. We're almost there. We just need now 750 but we will get nine attempts coming up this weekend to daughter So we should at least you know be able to attempt to do it. So why not? Let's put it in the sanctuary There we go.  Look at that. It's gorgeous Yeah, somebody's favorite in the in the walking with dinosaur series was walking with the air monsters It's interesting that the first one is the only one that has shadow the rest ones don't well I'm gonna play I love that they're giving them like a personality like scorpions would never do this at all, right? And now the one we're dreading. Let's have a look Let's see how it kills a goat But oh wait it spawned another one. Oh, oh Okay, okay, there's an invisible goat, but I'm very happy about Brilliant, okay. Yeah, let's exit all the way out and see if That fixes it. Okay. They still don't have shadows. We'll click the oh, yeah No, okay, it's still not fixed sweet And this is the animation that they were kind of like the hinting towards but it looks like they all Stabbed the goat and then do a dance about stabbing it. So wow, okay. Oh, we didn't put the ref skin on Oh bug. Okay. Hold on. We'll be right back. All right. Let's get ref skin on the go Yes Pretty it's a shame.  Yeah, I'll take that that is cool. Will we get the ref with the skin and will we get new dinosaurs? Oh, we got all three. Okay. Let's have a look at the new ref. That's always a good one to stop I like a ref Come on then What are you gonna do? Yes? Oh? It's a cop surrogate will it be level 30. It's a level 30. I really need to boost this guy's attack Like I don't know how much by but I think even if I get a crit. I don't feel it It's a bit unfair because Cops eruptor is the perfect counter for a breath especially at level 30 when it just has the health to tank that hit And at this point he could do whatever he wants like he could go for his priority Actually, I just did a battle that I didn't you know show but I went to switch and he went for his priority to stop me from nullifying him I assume but I'll go for this anyway to see if maybe that's what people do now Like he'll go for his priority just to like not have the nullification. Oh Okay, so he decided to get help rather than be nullified. Oh, okay. Okay That's fine. That's fine. You can get that back cool cool cool now You're not faster and you also don't have cloaks. I think you get that for two turns at least the speed you get for two turns So now you may as well you might as well just go for I think you do get cloaked if you go for if you're secure No, you don't you only get cloaked if you're threatened. Okay, so chances are he's gonna do a like three thousand Oh, he treat you switches. Does that hit everybody? Damn if only man if only Right, okay. Oh, it's a ref. Oh, he has this skin as well Okay, that's fine. That's fine. At least we're gonna do some damage to him because we're gonna do one thousand four hundred Do we get the crit though? Oh, we do Wunderbar, right? Okay, so Here's the thing Now we do have Do we take the first hit I Think we do I think we do we're gonna take the first hit on the ankle of Sarah tops now I've since my first Recording on the first live stream. I did with this. I haven't been doing too well with it I'm gonna be honest So this is gonna be interesting every time I switch it in to something that I think it's gonna be like really good against It ends up dying That could be me. However, Toronto Don or Toronto Valkyrie has a really good move which hits all flocks So I think I might start working towards Toronto Valkyrie as well Because what you need Basically in this game at the moment is to one of two things you either need a flock or you need something That can hit all flocks.  You're good man. Oh Okay, okay, so now he's probably just gonna go for a big hit and that being said oh It's the Imperator sutures Okay, okay, so I mean he has a counter to break my shield. So he's very good against it You know what I'm thinking I'm actually thinking of putting in My own Imperator sutures Yeah, yeah, you know what? Yeah, let's do that because I don't think you can lock me in. Oh, we can lock me in Oh, no. Oh this not good. I forgot about this. Well, I do my invincibility But then he does get a giant hit and I'm also on a slope, but he's quicker than me. Anyway, I Guess I could have got a hit off now. I guess I died Oh Yeah, this is a 3-0 win man. Wow Okay. Well, I mean this is me told I'm learning. I don't use that thing normally and now Oh What could I do? The thing is he's got his comp so raptor. So it's it's not really looking good for me Like my rex he needs to be above a certain amount of health just to tank its priority Which is gonna do about 3,000 damage and I don't think I'm gonna be there even after this like attack I've even if I do devour I Don't think I'm gonna be there.  Oh, he's just going straight for the swap. He's probably swapping in his comp so raptor. Oh, no It's okay. Well, maybe it's gonna be a 3-2. Maybe it's gonna be a 3-2. Yeah, I mean he knows I mean he's gonna reduce my attack, right Not enough he might have a cloak if I don't go through the club I definitely lost this guys. It's whether I lose 3-1 or 3-2.  Well gg that was That was probably a full power on me for the fact. I didn't I swapped out my Toronto Triceratops thing when I probably should have went for a hit You know, we live in there. Let's do the next one. Hope it'll be better. Ha! Yes. Yes Come on. We got this. We got this. I believe It's not a bad team, but it's also I need a flocks man If I had if the switch out the Sarko Apex for a flock I think I'd be pretty set But I'm gonna put it in the nemes first Oh, I can still breath interesting. Okay. Do I resist I? Do kind of resisted interesting But I'm gonna switch in the triceratops just because I know that I can cleanse myself I can get health and whatever he does now Is gonna do no damage to me That's that's the thought process in James's big brain Yep, so you shield that I mean, I'll take the damage reduction I'll take the bleed, but at least his main hit did nothing. Look at that Nothing except for the thousand other things, but hey, you know, we live in them Okay, so now we're gonna try and bleed him cleanse itself get a shield and hear ourselves I think we cleanse. I mean there's enough icons in there. I'm sure they couldn't also put in the cleanse So paratops into why? Okay. I you know what he's putting a paratops in I feel like we're in a good position here. Is he is he faster than me? I don't think he is. No, he's not okay So here are dragons flight. Yes Beautiful. So this is his flock killer, but we don't have a flock. So There is that he does heal himself, but then the bleed Around about the same amount of time. So now we can probably stun him Or maybe not. I don't know is it resistant to stun? Okay, so he's probably just gonna go for a heal now And let's see what he can do. I should what I should have done really Is my invincibility because he's got nothing to go through me And I could yeah, I could just do invincible alert here. Yeah All you're doing is giving me a health buddy. I don't have a counter, but hey, oh I am faster now. Oh wait. What is God? Okay, cleanse get some more health and now in comes the big it Well, we should be switching actually now that I think of it We should be switching because I'm pretty sure he's only got a 33% chance to avoid a stun That was a 75% chance to get the stun. But if I switch in Like in denemies chances are I get a free switching, right? I can get free switching Yeah, it's 33% chance to resist it and then and now I can go for a big Because he's gonna go for his like removing of the cloak. I think It's probably gonna go for that one in case I went but yeah, I mean he had a kind of So that's a lot of damage like what is the attack on this thing? Probably max probably max attack lemon paratroops So deadly here we go So I get loads of health and now it's up to him and what he does And I kind of just want to stay in and get another thousand help Yeah, see what happens. Does he have anything that can swap in and do a hit to me because unless he's got Alberta So yeah, I don't really see it and I'm gonna kill at least one flock if it's a comp syrup that comes in Yes Okay, okay now I switch in the Draco seratops against the comps are after and lost so I'm a bit hesitant to do it now So we are still gonna do a lot of damage There you go, and we are more importantly going to get another thousand help back Now incomes the interesting thing whereas I could swap out now take a big chunk and Then swap out but at the same time I could go for a cloak Could go for a cloak and then take a less damage overall when I swap out. We'll see okay Let's say just to go through my cloak. So that's one thousand now. It would have been I would have taken 3700 So now I'm gonna swap out. I think I do know he's immune to that. Okay Right, I don't think I have anything that goes through everything and at this point What can we do? What can we do? I'm just gonna do this just gonna do this. I think he's probably just gonna go for Rampage and run possibly maybe I shouldn't have swapped into ref I should have swapped into the dragon, but he might predict to be swapping into the dragon. So you never know Let's see. What's it gonna do? Don't go for Rampage run.  Yeah, I probably should have seen that one coming Even even if I had seen that coming. There's nothing I could do I Guess I could have swapped I Probably could have swapped to my dragon but that would have been very risky and It would have it wouldn't really benefited me at all So I may as well just go for hit here. Yep. He's got his own ref, which is interesting. Okay. Okay, I Know he's got a breath. I know he had a breath and now I mean if only I had a flock damn it But I don't although I don't think it would make much of a difference in this situation But I will go for my dragon heel now his ref has no way of cleansing itself Um Think this is good for me I'm gonna cleanse everything and then heal and then bleed him and do some damage Oh, this one's a really really close one. It's a nail biter. All right this one Now he could Go for his bleed or he could swap. I think he's gonna go for his bleed and this way I think I cleanse myself 100% shield for eight turn eight attacks on one turn. Okay. I don't I think I cleanse myself if I'm threatened So I may as well just go for this one. Yeah, I had a feeling he was gonna go. I Don't think it's priority. I'm still not threatened even though this is happening to me However, I'm doing very little damage to him. I do resist it, but yeah, not much at this point Let's be honest. So there it is. Oh, he stunned as well. Oh, actually, that's is that good?  I may as well. He's probably gonna swap the comps around it. Oh, it's a hydra bower Okay, again, you do not see Cleanse reduce damage. Okay. Do not see this thing too often.  Yeah. Yeah, of course. It was gonna do that Now does that have a chance of crit? I don't think so. I'm not very high. Oh 30% ice. That's a really high That's a really high. So dragon's flight. That's all right I'll take that we can't switch out and then he's getting me into a dangerous dangerous situation With with the comps are active because I won't be able to swap out. I am threatened so I don't think he's gonna die from a bleed and then he's just gonna I'm gonna have to Fable by like I was tempted to cleanse myself here, but at the same time I don't think it makes much of a difference because as soon as the Comps are afters come in. I think I'm pretty much screwed because I don't have anything to take them on Yeah, and now he's just gonna put them in be like God yeah, although I don't have a shield for one more turn So Yeah, he can do whatever he can do whatever here So I'm just gonna go for regular hit. Yeah, there it goes. Okay. What's good is now. He's got a cool kind of two on this What's the chance of him surviving us? Oh Yes, maybe it's not over. I haven't revealed this trap card And now think I can just go for yeah. Oh May make I don't know he's gonna do a lot of damage to me either way I have so much freakin what to call it. Oh No, I don't know. I don't know man. The cops are up. That's just too powerful He's like people now. I don't think I think this is actually working out for me here He could go for his rampage run, but of course, I'm gonna oh Oh Okay, there is a new precedent being set in the Metro at the moment. I'm saying Hyderaboa used way more I think I need Trano Valkyrie and I need more than one flock if I make those changes and boost Trano Valkyrie I think it's actually a really good dinosaur because I've seen it used against cops are up to and just obliterate So yeah going forward will probably add those in but if you've enjoyed this video leave a like and until next time I'll see you cuties later. Bye. Bye


they used to be called factory schools. For a long time, they were literally called factory schools. Why? They were training kids to sit at a desk, follow orders, do their little tasks, be a cog in a machine, raise their hand if they needed to go to the bathroom. And it was widely perceived in a very positive way that this was going to help prepare kids for having good jobs. We see this today, even though we have a totally different economy, though we have the same education system from a century ago that was for a different economy. But we see it today with things like Common Core and No Child Left Behind and other emphases that are focusing on what are called college and career readiness. So the purported purpose today of the K-12 system is to basically prepare children for higher education and for the economy. What's fascinating, I unfortunately don't recall off the top of my head who did the poll. We cite it in the book, but just a few months ago, this huge poll came out. And they did a really interesting, had an interesting methodology. They were asking parents their own perspective of how they prioritize K-12 education. In other words, why do you think K-12 education is important for your child? But then they also asked them how they perceive others rank that type of perception. So college and career readiness, right? Parents for their own children prioritize that very low on the spectrum of priorities. They de-emphasized that, they didn't think it was that important. However, when they were asked what they perceive society and their peers prioritize it, it was very high. Because everyone thinks that that's why we educate kids. That's why we put them through all the misery of all these years of schooling, is so that they'll have a good, is so that they'll be prepared for the future. What ranked at the top for parents? Two things, practical skill development. Not these abstract ideas of getting it ready for a future career, but very practical skills, financial management and everything else. And number two is critical thinking. And if you were to assess the modern education system based on those things, I think it ranks very poorly. The push for charter schools, as you point out in the 90s, I think is best contextualized as coming on the coattails of the reforms in the 80s with homeschooling. Homeschooling was effectively illegal in most states until a lot of court battles throughout the 80s that really sparked a wave of parental rights and educational reform and interest in saying, hey, we need alternatives. There had been a large underground homeschooling movement, of course, but this was kind of brought above board in part with the supportive groups like the Homeschool Legal Defense Association that went and fought and knocked down a lot of these state laws. Leading us to the 90s, as you point out with the charter school movement, this idea that rather than a one size fits all approach, rather than we do it this way in this school and here's the conveyor belt, what if we could create some flexibility within the system? They weren't questioning the system overall. They weren't saying, let's have educations, savings accounts or vouchers or whatever, but hey, could we have schools that look a little bit differently, that operate a little bit differently? I'm ultimately not a big fan of charter schools just because I don't think that they lived up to the vision of their original proponents. A lot of times they devolve into kind of lipstick on a pig in the sense that they have superficial differences and some marginal differences, but fundamentally they're all following the same curriculum standards and required to do things largely the same way that happens in the public schools, but you can certainly see in the early stages of those battles, again on the coattails of the homeschooling reforms, an increased desire which now is substantially larger for parents to say we need something different because the status quo isn't working. What for you, what is the vision of, what is education for? In two minutes or less, here we go. Okay, so the root word of education when you look at the etymology, it is to draw out. The modern school system is trying to fill in cram kids full of knowledge, just in case they ever needed 30 years from now and need to remember that the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell. I think by contrast, true education is trying to draw out it as a Socratic method. It is trying to challenge kids and adults to think critically about their own ideas, to identify where they can find that information from. So I think what we ultimately need is educational entrepreneurship. It's why I'm so bullish on micro schools because what you're finding is a lot of teachers who are fed up with the bureaucracy, they make way more money and have total freedom starting their own school and then they can cobble together curriculum and activities and projects from a variety of sources. My own kids go to an Acton Academy. I'm a huge fan of Acton Academies. They're all over the country. Can you explain what that is? Yeah, yeah, they're kind of a Montessori-like private school. Typically they're micro schools. These are small schools, but they're very Socratic in nature. It's project-based learning, it's self-guided. There are no teachers. The kids are in charge of their own education. The adults are what are called guides. So they're there to help when needed. But they provide all these resources to kids. They provide them the time and the educational freedom to follow their curiosities and figure out what they wanna do. They have a peer community there to kind of debate and challenge ideas and work together on projects. And it provides the children not only a lot more self-ownership to direct their own education, but the freedom to do so. The biggest thing that we stifled for kids that was stifled for me as a graduate of what I call the public fool system was that I had no education freedom. I would be curious about things. I would raise my hand, hey, why are we learning this? Oh, put your hand down, it'll be on the test. So fundamentally, Corey mentioned this earlier, it's a pseudo monopoly. Fundamentally, what I believe the school system needs is competition. We know that that's how things improve and prices go down. I'm not a central planner. I'm not gonna say we should re-architect all of K-12 education based on this. I think though systematically what we need is to introduce competition to the system and unleash education entrepreneurship to find a diversity of approaches and curricula and options that can best resonate with each unique individual experience. We don't really have that. We have a small amount, but with all these states passing education savings accounts and other reforms, I think I'm increasingly hopeful about the future that we're gonna have more of a marketplace of educational approaches to help kids in the future. That was an excerpt from Reasons Livestream with Corey DeAngelis and Conor Boyack. The authors of Mediocrity 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today's Students. If you want to see the full conversation, go here. If you wanna see another excerpt, go here and make sure to come back next Thursday. Every Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern time when Zach Weismiller and I are doing a livestream with somebody very interesting that you are definitely gonna wanna know about.


I understand that Dijinta is like a university program that's land-based? Yeah, so it's a land-based university program that takes its organizing principles and knowledge base largely from indigenous knowledge, particularly the Dene. We work closely with elder professors and community experts across the north, but center on the Yonah's Dene First Nation knowledge because that's largely where we operate, even though we have started to extend a word into other regions in Dene. What is the age group or like the target audience for the program for Dijinta? It's pretty wide ranging. I think historically the program has had youth kind of right out of high school, so 18, and I think our oldest student was around 60, so but for the most part I would say that average is kind of out of high school into into your 20s and even early 30s. That's because it focuses on northern indigenous students that have kind of experienced barriers towards post-secondary education, economic barriers to kind of family responsibilities and community responsibilities that have kind of created barriers for Dene students to enter into university programs, so Dijinta kind of emerged at least in part as an attempt to kind of get over those obstacles and provide post-secondary education in the north that was accessible, but also relevant to indigenous community that's experienced in the north today. What in your opinion makes Dijinta an example in excellence in indigenous education? I think it's super innovative in terms of its programming. It was one of the first land-based post-secondary education programs that existed anywhere in Canada. We draw off of a wide range of well-respective faculty, both from post-secondary institutions in the south, but also in terms of expertise from community in the north. It really focuses on the land as a form of learning, so the land is central to instruction, and I think that this is important and excellent for indigenous education because colonialism has systematically attempted to separate indigenous peoples from the land as a source of knowledge, and what this program does is it attempts to mitigate that, if not totally transform it by reintegrating indigenous peoples into those relationships with land as a teacher, as a form of education, and then the knowledge holders that start to translate that to students. And how do you measure this as success of your program? We really do rely on the narratives and stories told by the students that have passed through the program. So students like yourself actually have really been the champions of Dijinta because it's been difficult working with scarce resources, with precarious funding with people kind of either volunteering or kind of trying to keep the Dijinta going off the sides of their desks, so it's really kind of, we've really depended on the success stories of students getting out there and sharing how transformative the experience has been for them because they're the ones who the program's developed for and who get to just kind of immerse themselves in it, whereas a lot of other folks involved in the organizing and have been a stressful kind of activist program to keep running. So we've really depended on students like you to and talk to community and bring the news back to those folks because it's your experience that counts. And tracking success has been pretty easy as I come. In terms of the data, it's like there's been a very, very, very slim rate in terms of dropouts. Students have expressed how incredibly empowered they are. And if you look at some of the alum, they've gone on to be really important things, whether political careers or emergent activists and kind of central voices and I don't know more nor all these sorts of things. It's really proud as a kind of a teacher and instructor to see students go on and do such transformative work. Seeing how the students are doing and what they've learned and everything that's like the success. Yeah, how they're able, their ability to kind of articulate what they've learned, the skills that they acquire on the land, the confidence that they demonstrate, and then getting out there and going and making a change in their communities is super inspiring to see. And I think that that is the measure of success that the teacher relies on in order to get the word out about the program and stuff. From your perspective, what is an Indigenous education? Well, I think your Indigenous education is pretty diverse and happens in lots of places. Not always, obviously in a classroom setting, like I'm accustomed to when I'm reaching out of Vancouver at University of British Columbia. And I think that the important point that distinguishes Indigenous education from other forms of education is the sources of knowledge that we're supposed to be drawing on. And that's knowledge that has been systemically erased from classroom settings historically. So that's the knowledge of elders and community experts and the expertise that they often have is embedded in place and relationships to land. So this is why I think that the ginger is so important because it's getting students out of that classroom setting, that institutionalized kind of approach and getting them out on the land, whether creating that space of learning in relationship to the land and the elders that know the most about it and the knowledge that it holds. How would you define education as an Indigenous person? Again, I think it's the same. I have a pretty diverse understanding of what education is. So I've been educated in both systems. I've learned a lot from my elders. I'm listening to kind of their histories and their philosophies and all this sort of stuff on particularly colonization and decolonization.  So I think that for me, education kind of encompasses navigating both of those trains. And I've kind of strived to do that in my work. But I think kind of I've come to learn over time that it's more important for education to be an embodied practice, one for Indigenous people that is grounded in that knowledge and relationships to land and community. What is your vision for Indigenous education over the next 10 years and your community and in Canada? Well, for my community, I think it's the kind of keep providing programming that is relevant to their experience and to their knowledge for students that is providing employment opportunities that doesn't rely on kind of extractive industries and becoming wage slaves within that framework, numbers as instructors and professors that work with people like me in order to kind of develop curriculum and then execute it on the ground. That is accessible and ultimately ideally I would want to see it as free for Northern Indigenous students. I think that everybody needs to have access to this education and I think that it's a right that is enshrined in many of our understandings of treaty. What is what ought to be considered owed to us as Indigenous people? Like if you could have a vision for Indigenous education in 10 years for Canada, what would it be? Well, I think it would and keep on including kind of the opening up of autonomous spaces within universities where Indigenous peoples can do programming that's not subject to kind of white demands and chains of authority so where you can create these spaces within Southern institutions or Indigenous peoples and knowledge can really thrive but also taking, this is super crucial to me, is taking students out of that kind of colonial space with universities and work with communities to develop curriculum that's kind of related to their knowledge systems and the places that house it. So like those spaces on the land that hold that knowledge and I think that those types of communities or those types of community-based education projects depend on a network of support in order to thrive. So I would like to see programs like the Chinta Pop up all over what is now Canada and be working together in order to kind of provide that framework of solidarity where we can learn from each other's mistakes but also from our successes and support ourselves doing this decolonizing education and that can extend beyond the kind of arbitrary borders of Canada too. So last fall the Chinta Hale they were hosted, we didn't hold a meeting but the partnership kind of opportunity that I got here at UBC so we had a little bit of money to try and gather representatives of land-based education projects that are happening all over the world essentially. So we had people from Hawaii doing their projects and then people from all over Canada. The idea was we need to get these practitioners and kind of educators together to troubleshoot to think like what have been the best stories of your programming, what sort of funding arrangements have you been able to create or tap into that didn't depend on you changing or compromising your educational pursuits in any sort of way and just getting kind of a sense of what people are doing out there in order to better understand and support those projects. What information materials and resources do you need to achieve that vision aside from funding? That's a good question. You need dedicated people that are doing it because they think it's just and good. I think right now you need support from southern institutions that are willing to kind of let Indigenous faculty and recognize Indigenous community members as faculty without putting restrictions on that. Man, I think ultimately one of the things that the Chintu has been striving for is to have its own independent study as a degree-granting institution because then a lot of those sorts of kind of restrictions and barriers start to be less formidable but that's in our context and I know that some people would see the university status as a trap because you have to conform to preconceived non-Indigenous kind of structures of knowledge and so on which can pose their own sort of limitations.


So, we used to have separate detail pages for each and every single product variant, but since there's a lot of content overlap, certainly SEO-wise, if your product descriptions are all the same. So we decided to merge them into just master pages that load the product variants via JavaScript. And we also have a product finder, which is basically a solution that they wanted to sort of install booths or on tablets, on consumer stores. So customers can just fill in some questions, and they are suggested with the products that they need to buy. This is fully configurable by Sudo, and it's just a way to show that we can make the data available to a React app. We also have the internal website search. So we noticed in Google Analytics that a lot of visitors were using the internal site search actively. So we tried to optimize it as good as possible. So we used Solar and Search API for that, and we're using, of course, Google Analytics to really look at the data and see how people are using it. So we're really trying to improve that internal website search, and it's proven to be very useful. We also have a very neat functionality here, country detection. It's not a pop-up, per se, but it is a model that is showing up on top of the screen. So this is something that shows up when, for example, you have multiple countries that have the same language. And when somebody searches in Google, they might land on the wrong country. So for example, if somebody from the Netherlands who speaks Dutch type something in Google, he might land on the Belgian website, because that is Dutch as well. Sometimes Google just gets it wrong. So whenever the IP address of the visitor doesn't match the market that is currently shown, a model like this is shown. So this is saying, okay, we see you are located in Belgium. Would you like to switch to the Belgian market and see the same content? So this is something that's very useful. There's no auto redirect. Just to clarify, auto redirects are a no-go for SEO reasons, because Googlebot, the spider, is mainly browsing from the US. So if you always auto redirect based on IP, then you'll do bad stuff in terms of SEO. So never do an auto redirect, just give people an option to switch. That module, you can see we have Belgium selected by default. That is based on the country you're located in, of course. And you can change that selection, you can accept the selection, or you can remove that model and just continue browsing. We're also keeping a close eye on the analytics for this. Oh, and also important is that there's a very complex redirect logic in place for this, because every product, the 12,000 products, they all have their own nodes. And we really have to match them. If you switch to another market, it's another node. So there's a really complex logic in place to make sure when people make the switch to another market, if they accept what is suggested here, that they land on the same page, but on the different market, on the market of their choice. So we're not redirecting to the home page, because that would be a very, very terrible user experience. We're based on a redirect logic, redirecting them to the correct page on their chosen market. This is how we're following up on that. So this is another Google Data Studio dashboard, which is connected to Google Analytics. And using this dashboard, we can really see which markets are showing the model a lot of times. If people are accepting it, if people are changing the pre-select, so really to analyze the usage of this functionality. And then we have the exception, Soudal China. So in order for you to serve, or for us to serve in a .CN domain, the server needs to be hosted in China, but we have the platform centralized. We had some challenges, which was the time zone difference. We had the three hours window, and we've discussed a lot. Most of the times, it's pushed to the next day. Also, the language barrier, because we translate sometimes a lot of stuff, and emails get bigger because of going back and forth. We had to strip all the Google, Facebook, and US base tools because we would be penalized for sure. For example, the website not being served for 10 minutes, being too slow or just blocked. And then the most complex one are the legal requirements. They have one thing called the Internet Content Provider, and it's kind of an authorization that we have to request to the government, and it ties the domain with the IP. If you change one of those, it needs to be authorized by them, and they, before, will look to the website and check if it can be proved and served in China. And this can vary a lot in China because it depends on the type of the company, but it also depends on the region, and it's really hard to understand. So as a solution, we had to trust on a Chinese partner that is responsible for the infrastructure and for the hosting, and sometimes to help us on this legal process. And in terms of the platform setup, what we did, we set up a read-only instance on a Chinese server where we up sync the data every day with one day of delay. So basically, the Chinese people are managing the content in the main platform, and then we up sync the data, and it's served on China. Also another good or fun result of what we did is that we really have a happy customer. So what we see here is an email from Herbin, which is the product owner on the side of Sudol. And whenever we release a new market, he sends us an email congratulating us with the release of the new market. So this really proves that we are working together, Dropsolid and Sudol, to make the Sudol platform a really successful project, and it shows that we're not just working for the customer, no, we're working together with Sudol to create the fantastic experience that it currently is their platform. So it's really, really fun to receive emails like that, and it's because of all the hard work we put in, Sudol and Dropsolid, to really make sure that we connect, we communicate, and we have a good result. Let's also talk a bit about website performance. So a project or a platform doesn't end, of course, when it is launched. So there's a lot of maintaining, optimizing, and improving going on. Modules might become outdated. There's releases of new versions of Drupal, SEO-wise as well. So we've talked a bit about SEO already. There's something called the core web vitals. I don't know if it rings a bell for some people, but the core web vitals are technical factors which are important for SEO. And back when we launched this platform, those web vitals didn't exist yet. So we have to really follow up on everything and maintain and improve the platform as we go along. So how are we doing that? Well, we're using multiple tools for this. First, we're using Google PageSpeed Insights, of which you can see a screenshot right here. So this is really to get a general feel about the performance score. Get some tips from Google as well. This is the desktop score for, I think, the Belgian website, but each page has a different score. Notice that this score, it might not be the Holy Grail, but of course when potential customers look at your websites, the sites you developed as a company, as an agency, they usually use tools like this to decide if your website is a good website or not because they're not the experts. Maybe you as a developer know that this score isn't everything, but your potential elites might really use this score to decide if you're the party to go with or not. So really try to improve the score. I don't only try to improve the score, but improve the website. And if you improve the website, then the score will follow. So you shouldn't try to gain the system. You should really try to improve it performance-wise and the score will follow. Another tool we're using is Google Search Console. So if you're not using this yet, I highly suggest that you do because it is a really useful tool to follow up on SEO and it's free to use. We also use GT metrics and a web page test, which is mainly to follow up on the page speed and see if any modules or plugins are hampering the website performance, especially the web page test one. This is a really, really useful tool. It's free to use, so I highly suggest that you dump your websites in there and see what comes out of it and really have a look at it. We also set up Google Analytics custom notifications. So whenever Google notices, for example, that the bounce rate went up 20% day over day, then we get an email notification for that and we can check out if something is wrong with the website or not. So yeah, all of these tools are really useful to use and to monitor your website performance and to really improve it as you go along. I could talk about this stuff for hours, but let's just keep it going. Sometimes all you need is a spreadsheet. So there's a lot of tools, but we also use regular spreadsheets. This is a Google Sheet and we are just monitoring some core data, in this case. There's data from GT metrics right here and data from Lighthouse as well. And here you can see on the left hand side, we have the same page and we just monitor it as we go along and we check out the scores to see if we're improving or not. So in a column that is cut off on the right side, we really mentioned which updates were pushed in that time period, so we can really closely monitor which updates had the biggest impact on certain metrics. For example, the first contentful paint or the largest contentful paint. This is maybe a bit too technical for most of you, but these are all core web titles, these things you see here, and it's really useful to get them all in the green at the bottom there. And the result of all that is that we have a graph that goes up and to the right, and that is what you want at the end of the day. So what you see here is a graph of the organic traffic, so not the total traffic, but the total organic traffic, so traffic coming from Google search, from Bainsearch, from Yahoo, from any organic search index. And what you can see on the left hand side is that we have a very steady amount of organic traffic. This is their old platform, as you can see in the date here, it's 2018, and as soon as we launched in 2019, the traffic started going up, which is of course what you want, so currently you're at about four times the organic traffic than they used to have, and it's still going up, so it's a very good thing. There's some key learnings and takeaways. So first of all, communication really is key, and so is expectation alignment, so really try to communicate often, communicate open, and make sure that the customer understands everything. Don't try to use difficult words, really try to explain to them in layman terms, so they know how the project is going, what you are doing, what is expected of them, and so on and so on, so really open communication, not only in business, but also in your personal life, it's really important to have good communication. If you feel that something is wrong, you need to change, because probably it's wrong. I can give you one example that happened with us so previously. We had separate tracks for development, for the service delivery manager to follow the budget, and for performance, and we felt that sometimes we worked back and forth with some shared knowledge that was kind of separated, and we promoted with Sudo, that we should have those meetings together, just to have better expectation management and communication. You should also always try to give options to your customer, so let's say you have a quick and dirty solution for something that they want, but you also have a solution that is a lot more work, but is the cleaner solution development-wise, and you should try to present both solutions to the customer and let them make an informed decision. So don't make assumptions, don't think, well, they won't go for the expensive option, they will definitely go for the quick and dirty one, just they hired you to be the expert, so user expertise to clearly explain the differences between both options, give the benefits, give the pros and cons, and then let them make an informed decision about which path they want to take. And as a team, we always incentivize everyone to pick up the tasks or pick up the tickets and contact the customer. We feel that this is really important. Of course, the people who is going to pick up the task needs to be comfortable and has the expectation it can deliver, but also, for example, if detects on or we demand like on early stages, if they detect that it's not possible, they just need to raise the flag and ask for help, the team will be there helping. And also, we don't want to create bottlenecks, everyone is free to contact the customer, as long it keeps the project, yeah, the product owner and the service delivery manager on the loop. So as Philippe just said, yeah, if you suspect you will fail, raise that flag as soon as possible. So let's say you're a developer, you've been working on a task that's budgeted to two days, for example, and after a half a day, you notice that it's going to take double, it's going to take four days. Don't try to shove that information under the rug, don't try to rush it and think, yeah, I will probably make it if I push it, if I put it in an effort, and then at the end, it seems you didn't make it after all, and you have to say to the customer, when you already spent two days, well, we're going to need two more days, he won't like that. So really try from the moment you notice that you might fail or you might just need more time, just communicate that to the customer and work towards a solution, how you can fix it. Just don't try to hide any information because that will cause distrust and you definitely don't want that. Also try to have a mix of different types of work in each and every sprint. So try to have a mix between maintenance work, back-end work, front-end work, visual changes, because we made the mistake in the past that at a certain period in time we were working a lot on maintenance tickets, we were doing a lot of back-end work and improvements, but really if you went to the website now and two months ago, you didn't see any visual change. Although a lot of things did change and did improve, when some stakeholders from Sudal went to the website, they didn't see any change. So they rang a bell and they said, what are you doing? And even though the main stakeholder, like the product owner, Herben, he knew what we were doing, some other people at the company, which is a big company, Sudal, they might not know that we were doing a lot of back-end improvements or performance improvements. So even though it seems like a small thing, like even some colors that change or some elements that change position on the front-end, just try to have a mix of all those different types of work so everybody can see that work is being done on the project. When local markets, well, local markets, especially the newcomers, will challenge, we have the experience that they will challenge the platform and they will require new features or improvements and we gladly accept that because they are experts or on their own country and sometimes they have really good ideas and we try to fetch them and to make it available for the whole platform. Also keep in mind that the result of small improvements, they will compound over time. So especially when we're talking website performance-wise and page-speed-wise, if you do a small update like enabling GZIP or something, it won't have a very big impact on your page-speed but if you continually invest in doing small improvements, then the result will show in the end. So this is called a theory of marginal gains and in the cycling world, to make it full circle, in the cycling world, it's heavily used as well. So really trying to optimize small things, get small improvements, small gains in the long run, they will really show that the website improved a lot. So even if you push a small improvement and you don't notice any big difference, keep in mind that if you continually invest in small improvements, then it will pay off. And in the end, you see a real big difference if you go to the website now versus one year or two years ago, it's performance-wise. It's way better even though those small little improvements you might not notice them, but they do pay off. And for me, the most important one is never deploy on Fridays. We tried to deploy especially on Wednesday and we were able to do it for four years. And even on Mondays, we try not to do it because we like to be prepared. We only had one exception, which was subtle China. The ICP feeling was delayed a lot of times and the people on China put a lot of effort and the expectations were high. So we kind of opened an exception because the model was aware of the risks and we felt we should do it to make them happy and we did. It was the only exception, really. Every time we deploy a big feature, it's usually on Wednesdays. So what is next? So for Sudol, we will continue to release new markets. We have a couple of them or more than a couple to join the platform. We have a big feature to release. I'm sorry not to say here, but they need to announce internally first, but it will have. We will continue to do the continuous improvements that we are doing now with content and performance and we have to soon update to PHP 8 and update to Drupal 10. What's next for Drupal? So we're very, very excited to announce some very, very high level Drupal top notch stuff here today and for that I would like to guide you to the trees notes tomorrow at the auditorium. Yeah, that's all be there. And if you want to see a different perspective, there will be a session tomorrow about the multi-markets vision in Drupal. That's mostly it. I would like to thank you all for listening. If you want to get in touch with us or with Dropsolid, you can come visit us on the floor. We have a booth.  So thanks for listening. Do we have any questions, any burning things if somebody wants to know, wants to find out? There is some question here. I will give you the mic. Thanks, very simple one. Since you have multiple domains, multiple languages, multiple everything, I'm curious, did you engage Drupal multisite or you approach it somehow differently? It's a hard question. So basically we try to adopt some country modules, but we had to do some custom coding to glue everything because mainly Drupal, it only has content negotiation. So you don't have more, sorry, language negotiation. You don't have more, so you have to have some kind of tricks to make sure that Drupal understands which market are you serving and which language are available on that market. It's really hard to explain because it's very technical. I'm really glad if you want to join me, I can explain. But I have a question for you. If we can make a session about this, would you attend? Because we can make a session about this. Probably we'll take the same amount of time, but we can do a session and explain our vision about this. It's my everyday concern, yeah. But are you okay with the answer? Yeah, yeah, okay. Thank you. Any more questions in the audience? Yes, over here. Okay, thank you. If you had to start everything from scratch again, what would you do differently? Are you speaking in terms of development or? We will do it, and I will explain why. So when we started back in 2017, it was two years after Drupal was released, everything wasn't stable or we're not mature enough. So we are still digging some stuff from the past and we are still fixing some issues. So I believe if we would do it today, I think we will have the same result and we will work the same way, but we wouldn't do the same mistakes. I can give you one example in terms of solution. So when we started, media was not a big thing. So we used File Entity. I'm not glad to say that because we have a lot of problems still and we now are doing the media migration, migrating File Entity to the media. Of course, if we do it now, we will do on media, but at that time we had no solution. So I think in terms of that decisions, Drupal was not mature enough at that time, so we had to adapt. But now knowing what we would result, I think we would try to achieve the same thing to have the same result. Yeah, another thing I think we would change because it's one of the key learnings we learned in this project is that we now combine our bi-weekly meetings and we combine performance and budget and development tickets. And as Philippe said earlier, those tracks were previously separated. So the person involved with optimizing performance or analyzing SEO was not following or was not in the same meetings when it went about budget or when they were talking about actual development stuff. So we noticed that we needed more communication and more openness internally as a project team. So we merged those meetings into one and that is really a key learning and that is something that we would really do from the start for every new project. Okay, I hope that answers your question. Any more questions? I think I saw somebody at the back earlier. Yes, I will give you the mic. Thanks. Just first I want to say that I would be also interested in that session if you would discuss more the markets and the languages and everything. So that'd be great. I can try to do for example the next Drupal Developer Days. That'd be great. Everyone that wants to be more, you are welcome to join and I'm happy to discuss it. Okay, thank you. My question would be more about the client. It seems that you really had a reasonable client. How much did you have to educate them yourself or did it just happen that they had a person with a lot of experience or how did that go? Because I've seen same issues with small companies, to large enterprises, completely unreasonable expectations, want everything tomorrow and that kind of things. Yeah? Yeah, hi Paulina from FFW. So I would be interested because you mentioned you're also working Agile which would imply an autonomous and self-organizing team. So what experience do you have with that? And also somebody asked in the app, did you consult Scrum Master? So how is this all set up working for you? Yeah, it's kind of related, so maybe you can cover both. Yeah, I can explain. So basically we work Agile and we have a Scrum Master. So we kind of do the planning and of course based on the amount of work we have, we just plan it. So the customer, we just define with the customer what are the next things you want to work. And that gives us more or less an amount of work. Then we try to, with the Scrum Master, we try to plan it on the sprint and we work on the sprint with all the resources available to make sure the tasks are completed. And then the customer, for those tickets that are assigned to the project, he can be involved. We just ask him for example, once it's Q8, we ask him, can you just do the UAT and accept it? We will be deploying on this day. So it's the same way of working as Agile. The only difference is like the customer is a little bit more detached because we work with multiple projects and it will not be possible to have all the customers on the sprint and doing retros and doing stand-ups. So basically that's why we have a PO, internal PO for each project and that PO is responsible for communicating with the customer. Maybe to come back to the original question as well. So we really have a very good project owner at the Sudall site as well, which makes a very big difference. And I think in here, if you notice that the project owner on their side, their side, your customer side, is not that good or you're having issues with communication or with expectations, as you said. I really, I would like to go back to the first key learning we talked about which is communication is key. And if you notice that it isn't working, you should be able to flag that and say, hey, this is not working. We're running in some communication issues. There's some expectations that are not being aligned. So early on in the process, you should try to clear that up. So you're not working on the project for three months and then you have to change your whole way of working. So as soon as you notice that something is not working, openly communicate that and try to fix it. And yeah, maybe not every customer will be able to fix it, but maybe a switch of PO on their side is possible and really a good PO on their side is real, you really need that because that makes a very, very big difference. So if something doesn't feel right, just flag it as early as possible and try to fix it. I just want to add that we all learn a lot from the beginning. It's a relationship. I think it's more than four years, but active development, we all learn, the customer learn, we learn, but we are very lucky because the customer, well, in this case, Gerben, is the single point of contact. So everything that needs to be handled for Sudol, it passes by him. So it really helps a lot. So we don't have to speak. Of course we speak with multiple people, but then to decide if we need something from Sudol side, we know that we can rely on him to make sure everything goes as expected. Yeah, you really need a decision maker on their side because we also had customers in which they started arguing amongst themselves. And then you're just in there for no good reason and you think, well, why don't you clear this up internally and then we'll talk and give our input. But you really want a single point of contact, somebody that will make the hard decisions and yeah, communication really is key in that. Does that suffice as an answer? Okay. We have one more question. I think it's going to be the last one because we're out of time. First of all, there is a live questions and answers on the application. I thought they will be read first, but nevermind. It's more like a technical question there, but my question is, you guys mentioned that there might be some developers who is starting to do a kind of a ticket. You know, okay, after two days, I know that I have to take two more days to finish it. Do you have any processes like estimations like, I don't know, presales for a feature or like a team lead person who is an Ohio level and who knows what the customer wants and doing the slicing of the tickets and the less the lower level developers will eventually take these tickets, well described and then do it. I think it's a kind of a nice solution to have in a kind of a huge project like this because it's really huge and it's like a monstrous one. So you need to somehow stable it and maintain it. So that's why I think there's not something wise to allow anybody to start doing something medium to complex without any estimations or research or something like that, if it makes sense. I can explain you. So basically we have the meetings with the customer and I'm more of the technical contact with the customer. We try to understand what they want. So we do an estimation and we estimate and we estimate the effort and sometimes it's harder but we have to do it. And then we do refinement and then we can rely on the team and normally to the refinement we rely on the most expert people and we just refine the ticket and say what needs to be done. Of course you have tickets that are more complex and less complex, more certain or less uncertain. I'm not saying when I said pick up any task of course we don't expect like a junior to pick up a big migration. And of course we are aware of that and the one he wants to pick we have to speak with him. But for example if we feel like it's really important for him to work we have a ticket estimation but if we feel like he needs to start what we do is we have extra time just for learning and he can start working. And if he doesn't feel comfortable he asks for help then we can decide. We have decided a couple of times has a team including the person. It's not going okay I don't feel comfortable I need someone else to pick up on the ticket. We just want to give the opportunity and make sure people can choose and be responsible and accountable for their decisions. Of course this is very pretty but we are not allowing in commerce like everyone to pick very complex tickets if they we know that they can deliver but we want to give an opportunity and we want people to learn because otherwise if you try to protect people they will be continuously doing the same thing. And now with the new resources and the world of talent we also need to push people and to incentivize them to work. Okay I think we're out of time if anybody still has questions feel free to catch us outside of the room here or just come to the drop solid booth where we'll definitely hang out. Thanks again. Thank you.