The dissemination and exploitation of results shortly called DEOR is a crucial part of the project design and the application. Dissemination is a planned process of providing information on the results of the project. Exploitation is a planned process of transferring successful results and convincing others to implement these results in their practices and policies. So DEOR is about making the impact of your project visible and communicating the outcomes and successes to others so they could use them. Making others aware of the project will make an impact on other organizations in the future and will contribute to raising the profile of the organizations implementing the project. To increase the impact and sustainability of your project, it is important that your outcomes are shared broadly and freely and they are easily accessible. To effectively disseminate the results, an appropriate process must be designed at the beginning of the project. It should cover why, what, how, when, to whom the results are targeted both during and after the funding period. Parkners should make a plan together and agree on realistic targets and deadlines for progress monitoring. Align dissemination and exploitation activities with the key stages of the project. Offers sufficient flexibility to respond to the needs of the target group as well as wider development in policy and practice. For good dissemination, you need good visual materials and good texts from the beginning to the end. Visual material is very useful to reveal the atmosphere and value of the project. Make sure you make pictures and videos from all parts of the project. Even before applying, the same goes for texts. Collect quotes of participants and partners throughout the project. A list of interesting quotes may be useful and spice up your texts later. Dissemination is quite challenging for organizations as youth workers tend to focus more on the implementation of the project than on the sharing of results. Therefore, you should also consider dissemination as an essential part of implementation rather than an appendix to your project. Good dissemination allows your project to be successful and known to a wide range of stakeholders in your region, your country or in Europe. A solid dissemination strategy includes all measurements for targeted field, organizations and individuals, meaning how many people, organizations and institutions you are targeting, directly and indirectly. Possible target groups could be young people in your local community, your country or even Europe. It could also be your colleagues and other youth workers from youth centers, clubs and other kinds of organizations working with you. If your project reaches out to other fields, your target groups may be people working in organizations from the field of formal education health, sports or social care. If you also want to influence decision makers, you may need to direct your dissemination actions towards regional or national governmental structures. It is good to know the exact number of people and organizations your project wants to reach. Be ambitious but realistic. What is the best way to reach all these different targets and which channels are the most appropriate? In a complex project, like a strategic partnership, many channels can be used. The easiest way is to use the existing contacts and networks of all partners. You can share your project outcomes on the website of the project, websites of the partner organizations and the platform of Erasmus Plus project results. Social media and mass media such as newspapers, radio, TV, YouTube, Flickr, videos, podcasts or apps are easy to use dissemination channels with large numbers of direct and indirect targets. More specific dissemination channels are information and discussion platforms such as workshops, seminars, exhibitions, demonstrations and public events. Dissemination material supports the visibility of the project while logos and visual materials strengthen the branding of the project. Parkners could make reports, articles, newsletters, press releases, leaflets or brochures. Not all target groups can be reached by the same channel. Be creative and innovative in your dissemination strategy to ensure a more complete and interesting dissemination of the results. Nowadays, social media and the digital world can play a huge role in your dissemination plan, but it is not enough to just mention the project on a website or make a Facebook page. Maybe there is an annual educational conference for teachers where you could do a workshop. Maybe your city hosts an intercultural festival where you could have a stand. Or maybe you can have a presentation in a local council meeting. Of course, it all depends on your topic and your outcomes. Maybe one of the partners has good expertise in marketing. If not, you may consider spending a bit of money to have marketing specialists involved in designing your dissemination plan. Or maybe your dissemination activities could be an interesting practice for someone who is studying event management or marketing. Only in strategic partnership projects aimed at supporting innovation multiplier event is an added possibility to disseminate your intellectual outputs. These can be national and transnational conferences, seminars or events to share and disseminate your results to a wider audience. It is interesting to map out all potentially interested targets. Usually, there are much more of them than you think. Use your networks to invite people from the target groups mentioned earlier. Don't forget to invite your National Erasmus Plus agencies and the media, local or regional newspapers, radio, television, young bloggers, etc. Partnership projects will be assessed on two main elements of the quality of their dissemination plan. First, where the measures aimed at sharing the results of the project within and outside partners are appropriate. And second, how the products and media produced outputs will be made freely available without too many limitations. For many organizations, dissemination is the hardest part to design and explain. Some applications do not reach the minimum requirements and therefore are rejected. Another reason to invest time and energy in making a good strategy for the dissemination and exploitation of the results is to have a better chance for your project to get approved and for others to enjoy the results together with you. You can find an extensive chapter on DEOR in Annex 2 to the program guide. This can support you in developing your dissemination strategy.


Let's solve a couple of questions on first law of thermodynamics for the first one We have two cylinders a and b of equal volume which are filled with the same motor towing gas Cylinder a has a fixed volume while B has a movable piston attached on adding q on adding heat q A's temperature rises by 40 kelvins. How much will B's temperature rise on adding the same amount of heat q? Okay, as always pause the video and first try this one on your own All right, hopefully you gave this a try now Let's try to see what the question is saying. We have two cylinders. So first let's make those two cylinders So this is the first one and the volume of the first cylinder is fixed. All right So we make we fix this. This is not moving anywhere This is cylinder a and then we have cylinder B. So here we have the second cylinder But now this one has a movable piston. So let's show that with this Here is the movable piston and this is this is B Some heat is added to cylinder a because of which the temperature rises by 40 kelvins Now, let's think about how that could look like the volume of cylinder a is not changing So from the first law of thermodynamics, we know that when heat is added to a system that q This is equal to the change in internal energy plus the work done by the gas now There is no change in volume. There is no Delta V Delta V. Basically, it's zero So if you think about the work done in the first case in in cylinder a work done We know this is equal to P Delta V But if Delta V is zero that means the work done is zero So all the heat that is added it is used to change the internal energy of the gas in cylinder a So this q really this is equal to Delta u for the first case And and that's right that a to show the change in internal energy of a and the heat that is added to cylinder a But for the second case when we have some heat that is being added Let's show the heat. So this is this is on look. Okay. So here is here is heat This heat is being added to cylinder B, but this piston can move Let's think about what could happen when we add heat to a cylinder of some gas So the gas molecules, they will gain some internal energy, right? They will start moving faster they will start colliding with the walls faster that will that will lead to increase in the pressure and Those gas molecules they will also collide with the piston of this cylinder So the piston will move up and it will move up and the final position could look somewhat could look somewhat like this So let's say the piston has moved up slightly and we can ask ourselves till when will the piston move up? So there is some pressure initially that this gas has there is some pressure initially when we add some heat The gas molecules they start moving they start colliding with the piston The piston moves up and finally the piston can stop moving when the gas regains its original pressure when the pressure again is P But because of this there is some change in volume. We can see the volume has increased in this case There is a delta V. So there is some work done by the gas So now again, let's use the first law for the second case So we have Q which is equal to delta U plus W. Now here W really that is P delta V There is some change in volume and Delta U for a bonatomic gas we can write that as 3 by 2 3 by 2 n r delta T So heat added to the second cylinder Q B. This is equal to 3 by 2 n r delta T plus P delta V So now we know that the heat added is the same. It's the same heat So we can equate Q a with Q B and when we do that for that, I have to make some space So let me do that Now here we have Q a which is equal to Q B. So we can write we can write delta U For a and that is 3 by 2 n r delta T This is equal to 3 by 2 n r delta T for B plus P delta V and using the ideal gas law We can write P delta V as we can add P delta V as n r delta T for B So when we do that this becomes 3 by 2 n r delta T This is for a this is for a this is equal to 3 by 2 n r delta B Delta T B plus n r delta T B So one thing gets cancelled off We can see that 3 by not 3 by 2 but n r this gets cancelled off and what remains is 3 by 2 3 by 2 into 40 So let's place 40 here for for a this is equal to 3 by 2 Into what we need to figure out. Let's call that x plus plus x some more So 3 by 2 x plus x the right-hand side becomes 5 x by 2 and this is this goes by 20 and this becomes 60 So 60 is equal to 5 x by 2 just again reminding x is delta T B And when we solve this x comes out to be equal to 24 24 calibers So this right here, and this is 24 calibers. All right, let's look at one more question Here we have five moles of a gas which are taken through two processes as shown below We can see that a b and b c the gas starts at 400 kelvin set a all right Let's also write that 400 kelvin set a and when it reaches C it returns to the same temperature So this is also 400 kelvin Also in going from a to b the gas expands seven times in volume find the total heat absorbed by the gas All right, we need to figure out the total heat So let's try and think about this total heat. We need to figure out q again Let's let's think back to what the first off thermodynamics is So first off says q this is equal to heat that is added to the system This is equal to change in internal energy plus the work done by the gas So now here we see that the two processes they start off from 400. They all they're also ending at 400 There is no change in temperature, which means there is no change in internal energy So delta u really, this is just zero That means that a heat that is absorbed by the gas that is equal to the total work done So if we are able to figure out the total work done then that's a heat now The question is how do we figure out the work done? Well, this is a PV curve So the area under this curve that should give us a total work, right? And things are a little simpler because for this process BC There is no delta v for the process BC delta v is zero So work done in this process in the process BC that is zero So that means we need to figure out the work done in the process AB and that will be the area under this under this line So work done in the process AB Work done in the process AB. This is equal to area area under the curve AB Okay Now this we know is p delta v This is p delta v But the problem is that we don't know what p is. We don't know what delta v is We know that the volume is expanding seven times So that really means that really means that volume at a if you call that v a the volume at b would be 7 va It is expanding seven times that will be the volume at b, but we don't know what the pressure is Let's see what we know. We know that temperature is 400 We don't know what temperature at b is but if we can somehow figure out the temperature at b We will know what delta T is and from ideal gas law. We can write p delta v as n r delta t Delta T is T b minus T a so all we need to do is figure out the temperature at b When we do that we use that over here. That is the work done. That is the heat absorbed by the gas Okay, so now can we do that can we figure out the temperature at b? We know that the pressure at a and b are the same So let's let's write that pressure at a and b. It's equal to each other What is pressure that is n r? P a would be n r t a divided by v a this is n r t b divided by v b Well, n r gets cancelled now. We have Va vb we know what vb is right vb is 7 v a that's given in the question It is just 7 v a so even the volume factor is getting cancelled. So that's that's good va gets cancelled now We can figure out tb tb really comes out to be equal to 7 t a t a is 400 so 70 a this becomes 28 100 kelvins All right. Okay. So now we can work out the work done. So this is n r T b minus t a 2800 minus 400. That is 2400 We know what n is right? That is five moles. We know our it's there in the question 8.3 I encourage you to pause the video and work out this calculation n r delta t Okay, when you do that, you should get work done as this is 99,600 joules and the work done by the system is equal to the heat that is absorbed by the gas because delta u is 0 So this comes out to be equal to 99 6 0 0 that is the heat absorbed by the gas All right, you can try more questions from this exercise in the lesson and if you're watching on YouTube Do check out the exercise link which is added in the description


Fy rhan i dda ni, o'r unrhyw o'r parlyg, sydd wedi cyfnod ar y Myllgor Cymru, a byddwch ar y myllgor Cymru, a rwy'n bryd eu myllgor gyda'u gyda'u byrddog y Chymru. Ieddwn ni'n dechrau 31 cwrddol, 2022, yma, ac mae myllgor Cymru yn ymylfaith ni'n golygu, felly ti'n cwrddien na'r rhan o'r hyn o'r cynllun i'r rhaearóa wled. Felly sefydli chanwys, yn ei llefnod o'n cyfriffyrd yn yr hynw. Ieithio. My name is Councillor Joe's Hales, and I'm the Chair of the Grants Advisor Committee. For the information, members of the public, the role of our committee is to consider and make any recommendations to the lead member for finance, which is Councillor John Williams, who is viewing in remotely. On applications made under the council of grants scheme, Councillor Williams then makes his decision, taking into account our recommendations. Okay, so on the agenda of the day, agenda item 1, the Polities for Abstance, please. Mae'r ddechrau. Mae'n rwyf yn digwydd y cyfnodd ar y bydd ymlaen, mae'r hyn yn gweithio'r hyffordd, mae'n gallu'n bwysig am ychydigol. Rhaid i chi'n cael ei gynweddol. Mae'n cael ei wneud ar y bydd yma, i'n cyflwyno'r hirthfaedd. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno'r pethau. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno'r cyflwyno. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno ar y bydd ac yn ei ddweynt. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno. yn cymdeithasol ysgol. Rydyn ni yw Emmer Dyer, rydyn ni'n cymdeithasol ym ysgol. Rydyn ni'n Cathryn Hawkes, yr unrhyw oedd yn y cwmniadau. Rydyn ni wedi cymdeithasol ysgol, rydyn ni'n cymdeithasol ym Mhwyllfa i ddweud, ac rydyn ni wedi'n Llesin Macphalen, ddweud rydyn ni'n cymdeithasol o'r cwmniadau ar y sylwyr ar y sylwyr ymgynghwyl.eddwn i ddim oedd ychydig i ni'n ddweud o fy ymateb olyw yng Nghaerffordd ar y rymlu. Yn cael ei ddalun o'r oedd y peoliadau mewn gweld gan glir. Yn ddweud o gael gael ei gael'r gweithretoedd? I'm Claire Daunton, and I'm one of the members for the Fendit and Foreboard Award. Thank you very much. Okay, just to confirm we're caught at that right, Aaron. Thank you very much. Declarations of interest for members. None. And we'll go to the minutes of the last meeting. Please do the usual process, page one, two, three and four, etc. So page one, everybody's happy, might I take that? I've been able to sign those off. Thank you absolutely. Yes, Aaron. Okey-dokey. So now we're going to agenda item number four, which is the Community Chest Funding Applications. And is that you, Emma? That's correct. Thank you. Would you mind leading on that name? Thank you. Absolutely. Okay, so on page seven of the agenda pack we have Sing Papworth. So Sing Papworth are a community choir founded in 2013 with approximately 35 members. The choir is open to anyone, regardless of their musical ability. Each member pays a subscription fee of £27.50 per term, which includes venue hire, insurance and music. But with costs rising, for example, room hire, music purchasing and insurance, they are seeking funding totaling £595. Of this, they would like £420 to allow transportation of disabled choir members to events outside the village. This being six return journey trips, sorry, £70 per trip over the next 24 months possibly longer. And £175 for a digital piano amplifier to enable them to hold outdoor events and rehearsals. So a bit of the background to Sing Papworth. The Sing Papworth digital piano was funded by the Community Chest Fund a few years ago. But unfortunately, without an amplifier, it is not loud enough to accompany the choirs at outdoor, sorry indoor concerts such as local churches or outdoor situations such as the Papworth Village Fates or outdoor rehearsals, particularly in 2021. The previous music director of Sing Papworth did have an amplifier, but he has now moved on. And as already mentioned, the choir also has disabled members and they usually fund the cost of a taxi to get them to concerts outside of the village, usually two to three times a year. They also try to hold at least one concert in Papworth, but as the village hall is the only suitable venue in the village, they often hold them in nearby villages too. So the funding would mean disabled members would not be excluded from these additional events. The quote of £70 per trip is based on the cost of a return taxi fare from Papworth to Eltersley in December 2021. The parish council are very supportive of the choir. In the past, they have funded the concert venue fees equating to the value of £130, allowing the choir to rehearse and hold concerts in larger venues but also keep the ticket prices low or free to the local community. They also fund the annual carols around the Christmas tree events. So due to these financial contributions and the fact that taxi fares are to allow members to get to concerts outside of the parish to benefit others in the district, they don't want to ask for any match funding. Councillor Mark Howell supports this application and he also supported their recent caroling events, carols around the Christmas tree, and he's attended their concerts in the past and publicly thanked the choir on Facebook for running events in the community. So £595 for Sing Papworth. Many questions. Thank you. Colleagues, and I've got your questions. I just want to understand the funds for the taxi fares that will be short term. I think it's for the next two years or maybe longer. Okay, so I suppose my question, I'm very much in favour of this is music, but my question is what do we do after that? Have they got any long term sustainability plans for funding taxi fares? Not that they put on their application though, I'm not aware of that. Thank you. Anybody else? Bill? I don't really have anything to add, I'm in favour. I'm very much in favour and I think it's good all round, not only they're singing, entertaining people but also because they're disabled showing that they can do this and the amount what it does for their mental health as well. I think it's a win-win whatever you're doing. Thank you very much. Colle. Yeah, as I said before, I'm very supportive of this but I just wondered if they could, if they'd been in touch with any other organisations to support disability and whether they would be able to find additional funds for taxi fares in the future and whether we can point them in the direction of other funds. Absolutely, I can put them in contact of people that I'm aware of to help that. It might be an idea bearing in mind what Clarissa said Emma, it perhaps put them in contact with the local community transport schemes because they're considerably cheaper than the 70 quid round trip so if you book it well enough in advance they will use the system we also fund. I'm taken from comments that we're all in favour so John this is over to you, we're in favour here for this one so that would be our recommendation unless you are very much against this. I'm very happy with this application, I don't have any issues with it. Thank you and I stated Councillor Howell, Mark Howell from Papworth, a member from Papworth is very very supportive in an email. I think some of you may have already got that but I don't know who I certainly do so. Thank you. Okay Emma, check him on please. Okay so on page eight of the agenda pack we have Histon Bowls Club. So Histon Bowls Club is a lawn bowls club situated on the Histon and Impington recreation ground. It was formed in 1910 and consists of 56 members. Membership is open to all. Most members are retired members of the community. The club is clearly advertised to all on a large banner at the entrance to the wreck as well as in the quarterly village newspaper on notice boards and on websites. The club offers social engagement, team camaraderie, team spirits, team competitions and social bowling plus visits to opposition clubs within a 20 mile radius across the summer months. For away games players are often picked up from their own homes and the club also has a well attended annual dinner event in late summer. The club are requesting £520 in funding for the purchase of eight new bowls gatherers and these are lightweight metal frames fit with rollers which glide over the green taking them with them a number of bowls at the same time. So one gatherer is needed for each end when four rinks are in play. So just a bit of further information. Bowling matches usually last just over two hours. Players are on their feet bowling and walking up and down during this time. The existing bowls pusher and gatherers are about 25 years old and not easy for some members to use. So the new ones are sturdier, have larger wheels and coasters enabling easier movement. They are better balanced and need less effort to manipulate and push when gathering the 16 to 18 bowls up after each end is completed. Games usually comprise of 18 ends and the bowls gatherers will help minimise trip hazards and enable more players to participate. The bowling green is managed and maintained by the parish council and they rent it out to the club between April and September every year. Annual rent is about £3,000 payable in a rears in October. The club has not approached the parish council for funding assistance as they have already significantly reduced the annual rent for the past two COVID affected seasons. This equates to a saving of around £2,300. In 2020 all league games were cancelled, heavily impacting club income. In 2021 league games were reduced as several teams did not take part, again reducing club income. So again £520. Any questions? Thank you Emma. Colleagues? Yes I feel this is one we should support, a good COVID recovery activity. I'm very happy to support it I think. It's a good activity for elderly people and I can well understand 18 ends moving all those bowls from one end to the other and things is our work. Clare? You're okay. Okay then that's the recommendation for support majority unanimous rather sorry over to you John for that one, thank you very much. Okay that's it isn't it Emma? Thank you very much indeed and as I said earlier welcome back even though you haven't gone for long. Right agenda item number five now if we may and this is going to be the children and young people's grant funding applications. Which one of you two ladies Catherine or Leslie are going to be presenting this up Leslie? Okay in that case Leslie over to you please. Just sort of at my mute. So yeah this is the children and young people's grant funding that we brought to grants advisory advisory committee in December but at that time committee members felt that there wasn't enough information on which that they could make an informed decision. So we hopefully have addressed that and since then we've also been very fortunate enough to receive an additional £40,000 towards this grant funding from the county council. So that's taken the initial pot from 38,000 up to 78,000 and this has really enabled us to pretty much if you in agreement with yourselves fund most of the applications in full which met the criteria. So our recommendations are summarised in Appendix A and I've detailed the information which was requested at the last grants advisory committee in Appendix D and what I've done with the suggestion of JOS is that they're listed in the same order. So we can go through them one by one if you wish but I'm happy to be guided by you or you could just focus on perhaps some of those applications that you have queries on but again I'll leave that to you how you wish to run through it. Thank you Leslie. Right colleagues I've read through, I've compared it to the original to this one as well. Now as Leslie said I spoke with Leslie and Catherine about this and made a couple of requests which they've done which is fantastic. What would your feelings like to be? I personally would not want to go through every single one. If you have ones that stick out like a sore thumb in your heads then should we go to those ones for any kind of chat about it but essentially the officers have done what we've asked and they have categorised and gone through the the system of being a qualification if you like so we are where we are on this one so obviously you would like to go first. Bill please. I agree with you chair that we I don't feel we need to go through everyone individually we did cover them in some detail didn't we in was it November and perhaps we should just um look at the ones that are near the near the line that maybe that's where we really need to go. 61 and the 45 perhaps the brakes in there. Yeah okay well the 45 doesn't qualify by looks for anyway so it's just the the 66 and the 61 those that be the kite trust and the Cambridge acorn jazz so that we are you're asking to do. So on the on the sheet is where we've got the 78,000 that literally said we've got 77,920 and 33 pre-total so we're just under the 78 and if you said about the ones with the lowest scoring I hope you that would be the 61 and the 66 score which are the two mental health ones that's the kite trust and the Cambridge acorn jazz they're the two with the lowest score so if you wanted to have a I don't think Claire will no doubt um I personally mental health is incredibly important um I I'm not really going to cover to be honest. Thank you Claire Sue would you have any Claire? Yeah so we had quite a discussion last time and the two that I remember being concerned about were unique feet and blue smile so could we just look again at those and I think Sue there were a couple that you had a concern over weren't there so maybe if we could just look again at unique feet and blue smile. So the unique feet application they had applied for £8,000 the majority of that or a large portion of that was on funding events and day trips so we we know that if we didn't give them the full amount of funding they would still be able to proceed with that project so for instance on that one they have requested £8,000 and we are awarding them £7,500. Thank you Leslie and the other one which is blue. Blue smile so yeah they were the it's a local charity that it's a school-based kind of arts therapy project for children at Histon and Impington school. I think that your query last time perhaps was over the reach of of that programme so it targets I think they target 20 individual one-on-one sessions with children that have been identified as having difficulties but they also provide group sessions as well and they work with the school to provide a kind of a more holistic approach to mental well-being so it's not just the 20 children actually the whole school it would seem benefit from the input plus the school also part fund this so that they match fund per term for £3,666 which is quite a generous amount. Okay thank you and could I just make a general point as well and and that is that on all of these will we be getting some kind of feedback to the committee on on the success of this yeah thank you. Furious nodding I saw that so that's good. Okay and Sue do you have any point? Yeah I just wondered why the County Council have given us an extra 40,000. Did we ask the right questions or ask the right people because it clearly has helped us through organising this whole grant and I think that's really great but just wonder why. I think before you answer there's the other part is the fact that this committee is stonking and there's the other part but I'll let Leslie tell you the official version. The official version is that the County Council had some COVID recovery money to the tune of £50,000 that they wanted help from the district councils to help so when Gareth mentioned this that they had this large sum of money and what is there is there a way that we could create kind of immediate impact it just seemed to me to make sense that we have these amazing organisations doing amazing things with the young children and that there were basically the up and ready projects for them to for us to distribute that money to some really worthy causes to which Gareth agreed and so we were able to secure and of course John Williams to secure the additional £40,000. All I can say is thank you very much. I know I've frustrated you or the committee frustrated the move forward on this at the last meeting and I felt quite bad about it but it's nice to have good outcomes. That was the silver mine. There, do you have anything else to say? Me, the other one that I just wanted to draw attention to was the Cambridge joint play schemes a local charity which provides holiday play schemes. Do we know again what the reach of that is? It mentions 30 families, is that district wide? They are within the district yes so that was one of the criteria for organisations to be able to apply would be that the funding would reach children specifically within the district. I think Catherine you've worked with this organisation in the past as well haven't you? Yes, I've worked with them. They've been around for a long time and I've funded them in this role through Southcamps but also in previous roles that I've had in the voluntary sector. Can I just make another comment chair? Because it seems to me that they do such good work. I mean we know from talking to residents just how important Saturday clubs and half-term activities are and I just wondered if, I mean we are giving them this money but it's a one-off. I'm just wondering whether we might be able to fund them in future as well. I think when we had the last workshop for the service support grants we had discussed having a specific fund for children and young people moving forward so I understand from Catherine as well that we are planning another workshop where we can review the kinds of projects that we would be looking forward to support in the future. This scheme was meant to be a pilot for what we might include in that funding stream next time so it will indeed help us to work that out. Good. Thank you. I'm happy about that. Thanks. Okay thank you. Catherine. I just wanted to say that there are also drawing attention to the two that we are recommending were probably more appropriate to be funded through the community chest so there are two the details of which are on page 52 I think of your agenda pack. The North Stowe Scouts and Trumpington Scouts applying for 4,105,924 respectively but actually what they're asking for is the sort of purchase that we would normally fund through the community chest and we just felt that they were more appropriate for that fund and could probably go through with support for the maximum amount but from that pot rather than this one. Well the pot's gone up as well isn't it so it makes a much bigger difference now. Okay thank you. Would we be confident in saying that either you, Leslie or Catherine, sorry Catherine, Leslie or Emma would contact these two scout troops and give them that information when you tell people whether they've got their funding or not? I'm assuming you will yeah. Yeah are you making a decision today then to agree to fund them to the full amount? I'm just about to ask that. John? Yes just to confirm I would be more than happy if you did that. I'm quite happy to give both of these the maximum community grant £2,000. Great thank you. Thank you. Great stuff so Leslie is that your bit complete? Thank you very much. Okay members we've asked our questions are we all happy with this arrangement? The others have done for us. I'd just like to say thank you very much. I suppose this is what we're here for is to ask questions and make sure we're happy so as long as we haven't upset you um if we have we apologise but um it probably done for a very good reason and but we are I'm looking around the room we are unanimously in favour uh for this recommendation to go through to John so thank you very much again ladies that was brilliant much obliged. Thank you. I'll just check are we back on the Christmas card this John? Bill said yeah. You've got another 10 months yet. And thank thank thank thank you all the officers for really good reports thanks. You're welcome thank you. I was just going to say that I actually found it really helpful to have the cost breakdown it really helped me make up my mind about that you know just the additional detail because actually the grant's quite large and so I felt it was important as a member to agree to it that I had the further detail so thank you. Okay right that's business concluded on that one then John you've got a riffing from us is anything you need us to know John um or are you happy and content? I'm happy I'm happy to yeah thank you very much for your decisions yeah super okay um in that case then that concludes business for the day thank you very much indeed members and officers so the date of the next meeting will be Friday 25th of February of this year so thank you very much indeed for coming. At 2pm? Ah what what time Aaron would what time are members like? I would like to too please. Clear you're a 10 by looks a bit Bill tell me what Aaron we'll come back to you via email but essentially it's going to be on a Friday the 25th at some point all right so thank you very much indeed and goodbye.


Al, I come tonight to praise you, not to bury you, but I have to warn you that in the next couple of minutes I am going to bury you in praise. And one has to do this from the pulpit rather than being next to you because whenever one sees you, you always compliment the other person before anyone has a chance to compliment you. I think it is fair to say that Al Young would not have had the literary career he did anywhere but in California. But the other side of that is that California literature would not be what it is today if Al Young had not been here. I am going to explain that, I think, in four points.  A hundred and three years ago, California did something that was largely ridiculed across the United States. We created the office of the poet Laureate. It was done, I think, in an overflowing of California optimism. And for the next about 80 years, it was a kind of odd position. It was given for life and thought of as mostly honorific. When it was reestablished about a little less than 20 years ago, no one quite still knew what to do. When California had invented this, it had been spread across the country even to the position of about 30 years ago when the U.S. created a poet Laureate. But in California, I think the first time that we realized what the poet Laureate could be at a state level was when Al Young came into office. For the first time, we had a writer who went everywhere, who met everyone, and went and worked with everyone. He was exemplary in terms of what a public office might bring to culture, to arts, and to literacy. Al Young has been historic in the 70s. He and the now fugitive Ishmael Reed, who is on his way to the airport apparently, did something which I think was arguably the single most important movement in contemporary American letters, by which I mean multiculturalism. But a moment where most African American writers were caught up in a kind of polarity between white and black, Ishmael Reed and Al Young reconceptualized I think the notion of what America was in an act of both extraordinary realism and spiritual generosity, and created what we now, I think, take for granted the multiplicity and variety of voices that make up American literature. This happened in the Bay Area, and it is now international. Al Young is, I think it almost goes without saying poetic. I was trying to think of the poet that Al Young was most like. And as I went through the history of American literature, I think it is actually probably Kenneth Rexroth, a writer who in a sense brought from a popular culture, from high culture, was a poet of nature, a poet of jazz, a poet of Bohemia, an outsider who in a sense took part of outside identity and made it absolutely mainstream and universal. I am surprised when I read Al's poetry, how much of its nature poetry, how deeply and truthfully he has responded to the California landscape and the idea of wilderness, the idea of nature.   We walked across campus, we had an extraordinary conversation, which has really never stopped. I simply am one of about 53,000 people who can make this claim. And I think what Al has shown us was that you can be a major writer. You can be a major intellectual figure, and you can be human. You can be humane. You can be truly democratic. So Al, there's one bad thing I can say about you. You have greatly contributed to global warming, simply by the distance that the people in this audience have driven tonight to be here to celebrate and to praise you. So shame on you, Al, but we all love you.


Welcome back. I'm Jeff Kelly with Wikibon. We're here live at the Cassandra Summit in Santa Clara, winding up what's been a really long but really fascinating day, kind of getting to know the Cassandra community and talk to a lot of really interesting people. And we've got yet another interesting guest on with us today in this segment, Patrick McFadden, Chief Architect at Hobson's. Welcome. How are you doing? Good. Welcome to the Cube. I'm the last one. Well, we say the best for last. So why don't we start off with a little bit of information about yourself and your background and kind of what Hobson's does. You're in the education services and software field. Yeah. I mean, so Hobson's is an education services company, K-12, higher education. We, I mean, what we're trying to do is we're trying to help universities. We're trying to help K-12 institutions find and retain students. We do things like college applications, which is really one of our more important missions because that's a pretty critical part of a student life cycle. I think like retention and trying to keep students in school, which is a big problem right now, a lot of recruitment. So all of the things that have to do with student life cycle, we're pretty much involved with. So you spoke here today, a couple of different talks. You and I were speaking just before we went on air and you mentioned kind of a lot of interest in the talk you were giving about kind of developing on Tavel Cassandra. Yeah. And so talk about that.  And what did you focus on in your talk? Yeah. So speaking of education, yeah, I had to break up my professor hat. We were doing a, I did a talk on developing applications from scratch with Cassandra. So it was really kind of starting from beginning and trying to take that application concept through its life cycle. So the conceptualizing it, doing the data model and then deploying it out. And it was in a 30 minute talk. So of course I was talking fast, but it was more of an overview and I was really just amazed. It was standing or mowing. I really wasn't prepared for the amount of interest. I thought that this would be a conference where we'd have a lot of more veterans, but it was clear. I mean, with the size of this, this year is double from last year that there was a lot of interest for just how do I even start with it? And so I, after the talk, I got a lot of people asking me questions and I can tell that a lot of people showed up here trying to figure out how am I going to use Cassandra. Right. What does, what does that say about the community and kind of the state of Cassandra as a technology when you're, you know, you're getting so much interest kind of people. You know, we've talked to others today about, you know, the 10 needs and they seem to be really, these are serious smart people who are ready to really to take some action. They're not here just kind of, you know, thinking about big data. They know what they want to do. And now we're talking about, you know, listening to folks like yourself talk about developing applications, really deploying them in production. So, you know, so what are some of the, I guess, best practices that you shared with the group? And, you know, what does that tell you about the state of the community? Well, the state of the community is growing rapidly. I mean, it's gone beyond this early adopter phase. We're out of that. And, you know, there's large customers that are, that can talk about Cassandra and validate it. Netflix is pretty, you talked to Adrian earlier. So, you know, everyone's as well, I guess, if they're doing it, it's okay. So, you know, the early adopters like me and then others that have been in this community since 0.7 or before. We're now talking to people that have, are looking at it the first time with some sort of appreciation, which is good because we don't have to say it's going to work now. Now we're saying, okay, this is how you make it work. And so, I mean, the state of the community now is really cool because now we're getting a lot of churned people are moving from company to company to have experience and so it's starting to propagate out. So, I think this is a great place to be right now. So, talk about the actual developing applications. I mean, what are some of the key challenges specifically focused around trying to build applications on the topic of sound growth? Well, right now the biggest problem that I personally had with, you know, when I talk to developers is just getting over that relational model. So, most of us who have been educated in, you know, classic computer science classes where we take a data-driven application, it's always been on something like Oracle or MySQL or Postgres. And so, the data model has always been a relational model. Very rarely has it been anything else. And I don't think that that's really even being taught in curriculum right now. So, it's just getting past that hump. And it really isn't that big of a deal. I think that more people see it, they're like, oh, okay, it's not so bad. So, okay, we're just storing data. There is some nuance and some twists to it, but it comes with what you're getting with the deal. You know, Cassandra is going to be available all the time and hopefully. And you're trading off that eventual consistency and all the things that come with it that are good for maybe some things that you were used to in your relational world, like relational integrity and transactions and things like that. So, you get past that and it actually starts going pretty fast after that. So, talk a little bit about your experience at Hobson's. So, you know, did you guys start building your applications right on top of Cassandra to start? Or did you move off of another database when you hit some scaling issues or performance issues? Walk us through the life cycle. Well, I mean, it's a problem that I think a lot of people have as they run into a performance brick wall. We had a system that was collecting, it was running on Oracle, collecting our performance tracking data and our web log data. And it just wouldn't scale. And we got to the brick wall. We're either going to have to call Oracle and buy more of it. Which is exactly what they, that's their business model. Yeah, that's right. The Oracle scale is great until you run out of money. And then if you had unlimited funds, it would be no problem. Oh, yeah, sure. I mean, that's how we got to the moon, right? So, what we were looking at is an alternative. And MySQL is an option, but I wanted to use something that would scale a little more in a linear fashion. And so I had already known enough about Cassandra where I felt like that was a really good choice, especially if we're going to try to scale this thing without any knowledge of how this is going to go. I mean, it's going to go to X. And what X is, I don't know. So we needed something that would scale horizontally like that pretty easily. So we started pretty earnestly last summer. We transferred the whole system and getting rid of Oracle to do that was a really good idea. Because we just don't have a problem with it scaling anymore. It's running on Amazon and runs great. So I think it proved the point pretty quickly. So let's talk a little bit more about use cases is kind of what you guys are doing in terms of education services.  Education being one of them we talked earlier with health care any time talking about kind of applying big data to health care. Education is another one of those use cases, one of those areas that's really, you know, we hear a lot about in the press about failing schools and how we need to do better. How are you guys actually trying to make that happen by applying big data? This Yeah, this is a current problem we're trying to deal with because I mean, when it comes down to a data drive so much, but in education, it's so important because there's so much meaning you can get out of data now, how students are progressing, for instance, retention is a huge problem. Right. Universities are, you know, it's that old thing of when you sit at the freshman day and you look to their left or look to the right, those people won't be there when you leave. That's the problem that you have to solve. And so data, the big data aspect of this is we're collecting a lot of data. How do you find those students that are potentially failing? And, you know, that that's not a bad mission to have. If you have a 50 or 60% retention rate, which is not uncommon, and you can bump that up two or 3% or even 10%. Those are people that kids that are finishing college and having an education, there are other challenges that they have, like they're going to be strapped with some debt. But it's still a big data problem in its core because we're collecting a lot of data about students. Right, let's dig into that. So what are the data sources that you're talking about? And how has that changed over the last five, 10 years, where we couldn't, you know, before the advent of what we're calling big data, you couldn't do some of these things. So what are the sources and what are some of the possibilities now that maybe we couldn't we couldn't do in previous generations? Well, what we know for sure is that students now, especially, are really active in social media. And they love to talk about what they're doing. It's amazing how much information we have a website collegeconfidential.com. That is, I'm always amazed by it. And what the mission of that website is really just to have a place where kids can talk about getting into universities of various kinds. So like a specific that maybe they want to get into Harvard or Stanford or something like that. They talk to other people and they they compare notes. And it's really an interesting place because there's so much data in that. And just mining that alone, we've looked at that as real, that's really interesting because you're going to find out that everybody's on the same track and you get some really interesting insights. We I mean, I just go on there and without even using search tools and looking at the forums and seeing what people are talking about or trending. And this really gives you an insight of what's on the minds of kids at that time. So even taking like traditional data like grades and things like that that we've always collected data on. We've never done any kind of data mining on that. We should. And I think there are some startups now that are doing that. And I think that's one of the exciting things is that education has become a really it's just a focal point for a lot of startups, a lot of big data startups. It's just a strata. There's tons of startups that are doing education based stuff. Yeah, there's a lot of opportunity, isn't there?  And there's so many new avenues now for you to kind of dig into, especially when it comes to education and dealing with kind of generation. It's really interesting insights. I think that we can get in the future, too, is if we just ask questions. I've one of the things I've always been amazed by is when you're when a student is in a cycle of getting ready to go to university, the amount of questions you can ask them is so much more than say if you're signing up for an account of Twitter, you know, I mean, you can't ask things like religious affiliation on your Twitter account, but I mean, it's a really, there's so much data we get. And some of it's very relevant to the university in hand, but there's just a massive amount of data. I mean, pages of applications.  That's literally pages of data. And it's not that we're using it for a bad thing. This is used for their betterment. And that's, I think that's really the key. So let's take a little bit more into your services, what you guys are delivering. And specifically, how are you leveraging Cassandra to kind of serve up, I'm imagining, some type of real-time application that you support, that you're sporting with Cassandra. Talk a little bit about what you guys are doing. Yeah, it's not, it's not on student side yet. We haven't started doing it on student side yet. Really, it's for our own back end that we replace this with. But what it does give us is that real-time look at all of our applications and URLs. How are they doing? How many people are using them, that sort of thing. And that's pretty important stuff too. We do most of our traffic in the last couple of days of the year, during application decision, the application time. That, if you had it, we had it on a 24-hour batch. If you do that on batch, you're missing a whole day of data, which is like half of the most important day of your entire cycle. Yeah, we've only got two critical days like that. You really, yeah, you can't. A 24-hour cycle is too long. No, no. And that's what we had for a long time. And so we need to have that real-time, we have a dashboard set up, and it just pulls the data real-time out of Cassandra, and you can see the nice fluctuations of things. And it's always, when we have the deadline for our applications, which is, you know, on January 1st, it closes at, I think, 9 p.m. at specific time. Everybody's watching the computer, and you just see this ramp, ramp, ramp, and it just drops off. And that's now being graphed in real time. And we could see, if we were having trouble, we could see that pretty easily. And that is so important, because if you think about what our mission is, what we're trying to provide is a good experience. I mean, think of the parents sitting there watching their kid fill out an application, and they get a, bam, a 503 error. What's that?  So we have to make sure that it's ready. It's our mission. So, final question, just we'd love to get your impressions about what you're seeing, and not just the Cassandra community, but the whole big data community. You know, we're seeing there's kind of all these competing, no-sequel approaches. You know, there's the Hadoop world, but that's, you know, more focused on batch, and you've got Cassandra supporting more real-time types of analytics. Just what you take on, you know, the last couple of years is we've seen this movement kind of ebb and flow, and kind of different horses on the track kind of take the lead, and Cassandra seems to be gaining some momentum now, and H-Base maybe was a little bit hotter, a little, you know, six months ago. Talk to me a little bit about what you're seeing in the community, and what that means to people like you, and the job that you do. Well, there's like some phases that we've gotten over, obviously. It used to be, how do you collect that much data? Check that box. Done. Got that. We can collect a lot of data. And then it was like, how do we analyze that much data? And I think we've, I think that's a solved problem. I believe that's a solved problem. It's now the nuance of how you do it, and you know, there's still a little bit of work there. Plenty of churn in that, but now I think the transition where we're heading is, now what do you do with it? And last year, it was all about how do you compress and crunch this much data. Now I'm seeing more visualizations. I'm seeing more dashboard type stuff. People are talking about the use of data, and that's really exciting, because it's like we got rid of the hard part. You know, the collection, the crunching. Okay, got that. Now, let's do something with it. And we're here. I think we're here. Kind of the creative part is here. Now, you know, some of the heavy lifting is over now. Let's really start to get creative and see what we can do with all this infrastructure we've built. Yeah, you hear the word democratization of data. And I don't think that before, you know, last year even really, it was that much democratization. I can't imagine everybody having access to data that easy. And now I think it would be iTools as they're maturing on top of these solutions. You're getting that now. Real time. So, you know, as we wrap up, so let's talk a little bit about what you guys are doing in terms of the future and the next year or two years. What are you guys doing around big data? What kind of innovations are you looking to build? What are kind of the biggest needs when you're talking to your customers and your users out there? Hey, this is the kind of thing we'd like to see. It's really, it's again the use of that data. I think that's, we're trying to figure out the best use of that data. That's going to be the most effective and we collect a lot of data in what's really unique about Hobsons is we have the K-12 all the way through HE, the higher education. So we can, you know, we can look at a progression over time and that's really interesting insight that we have. And that's, we are talking about that now. How are we going to use that for student success? To help our universities get the best students that they can and help them find students that may not be found that are lost, you know, so to speak. So that's, that's exciting. We're doing that now. It's very interesting stuff. Really cool. And a very, you know, very worthy, worthy goal as you mentioned. I can't imagine a better goal. Well, thanks Patrick so much for joining us. Really appreciate it. Hope you enjoyed your first time inside the cube. Hopefully we'll have you back. That is, it was great. All right, fantastic. So we'll be right back to wrap up the day here from Cassandra Summit 2012.


Video games as a medium, I feel like it's really hard to vote on what the best one is. Even more so than like the movies and the Oscars, I think movies have a formulaic approach at this point. They're like an hour and a half, two hours long. They usually set themselves up with a premise, have conflict somewhere in the middle and they resolve it all in a neat little bow by the end. It's like a three act procedure and then the one with the best cinematography and music typically wins at the end of the year. Video games are so much more complex. You can have a five hour game or a hundred hour game. One can be a hack and slash, one can be a point and click. Some games do have incredible music and then other games have fantastic narrative or gameplay. I just don't know how to quantify it. How do you get to the end of the year and pick the best one? That's what we're doing today. You know the drill. We do this every year and it's always the same. 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You need to monkey, do go to the website and buy all the grips. They have everything there from chimpanzee to chimpanzee. You can get it all, satisfied.com. That's all from me, Crazy Grippers Joe. And I just want to give you a big arena, thank you in advance for going to my website and grabbing some satisfied grips. I love you all. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. What was that, Rick? Oh, I'm coming. So as always, they start with some eSports stuff. I'm all here for it. I love it. I have no idea. I started playing Valorant this year. So sure, why not? Let's vote for Valorant. Best eSports coach, I usually go by the best name. So we have Blade, Buzka, Doom Bros, Robin and Score. Those are all pretty bad. I'm just going to skip that category. Best eSports team, moving on. Best eSports athlete. Look, I don't, I'm not trying to make fun of eSports. I know nothing about it. Best eSports game, you know what? I can vote on this. Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Liga Legends, Rocket League and Valorant. I'm going to vote for Valorant. But can we get some new eSports games in 2022? Have there not been any? Most anticipated game. Final Fantasy, Roman Numeral, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4, Remake, Starfield, Zelda. I got to be honest. I feel like it's got to be Zelda. I think people are pretty hesitant on Bethesda games right now. And it's not like it's another Skyrim. It's a new thing. Resident Evil 4, sure. I'm a lot of people are probably excited about it, but we kind of know what we're in for there. We've had a couple of remakes already. I think it does come down to Hogwarts Legacy and Zelda. And I just, I don't think you could compete with the hype of Zelda. Surely that one is going to win the category. Best adaptation. Oh, TV. Oh, this is wild. Did we have this category last year? I heard that the Liga Legends anime was actually really good, but I've never played the game really, so I didn't watch it. I also heard the Cyberpunk anime was really good and got people playing the game, which I'm sorry. If that was the order that you went about things must have been a shock after seeing something that was actually decent. Cuphead Show, I watched a little bit of, and I got to say that's a pretty great adaptation. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was probably my favorite thing on this list, but I don't know if it was a true-to-the-game adaptation and then Uncharted, which I watched a little bit of, I think, on Netflix. Some people liked it. I thought it was cheesy. Actually, I'm going to go Sonic because it's the only one on here that I've really seen the whole thing of, which means I must like it. Best debut in... Oh, my God. We are in my wheelhouse right now. Neon White is sick. Norco, I actually haven't heard of. Stray is nominated for Game of the Year right now. Tunic is also a fantastic Zelda-like, Dark Souls-like game, and Vampire Survivors, I haven't played, but I've heard a lot of really good things of. Yeah, that's a toughie. I've got to imagine Stray is going to win. I mean, it's up for Game of the Year. Yeah, I think it is. It has to be. I played Stray on stream. It is really, really cute. They made an entire game work with you playing solely as a feline. It was something that hasn't been done before. Also, it was the studio's debut game. That's the one that stands out the most to me for, holy crap, this is your first time making something? I want to see what you do next. Oh, okay. This is probably the fifth year, I think I've done this now, and every single year, it's streamers. No YouTube content creators, and I barely ever know who any of them are. The two people I know, Ludwig and QT, I heard a lot on Twitter about Nibble, is apparently a Twitter content creator. It's obvious that Scott deserves to be on here at some point, right? Like, hello, didn't he have Monopoly this year, or was that last year? I can't vote on this, because I don't know. Best multiplayer, Call of Duty. We could go ahead and just ignore that one. Multiverses, I actually do like that game a lot. Overwatch 2, no. I liked Overwatch initially, and I was excited to dive back in with the second one, and I couldn't even tell what was different. Splatoon 3, similar story, but definitely felt more like a sequel. And TMNT, Shredder's Revenge. I'm seeing that more as a couch co-op game than like an online, well, it does say including co-op and MMORPGs. Those are three very different things, in my opinion. I breeze past Call of Duty, because I don't have it in my heart to vote for it over Splatoon, but I will say they at least have a ton of modes and a ton of ways to play the game with your friends, whereas Splatoon 3 really only has a couple of modes. That said, it's gonna take my vote because I love the game and had a great time with it, and I see it more as a multiplayer game than TMNT. Best sports racing, oh, it's gotta be all the only world. That might not be everybody's vote, but it's the only one here I've played, and it's sick. Wild that it's being nominated against FIFA and racing games and NBA, all these serious sports games. Best sim strategy, Dune Spice Wars. Never heard of it, actually. Mario and Rabbids, Sparks of Hope. I finished that recently. Total War, Two Point Campus, and Victoria III. I really wish I had played all of these games. I've only played Mario and Rabbids, and it feels cheap to vote for Mario and Rabbids when it's the only one I've played. I'm just gonna breeze past this one. I'll do it for Nintendo. It's just not, it's fine. All right, here we go, Nintendo. What did I tell ya? Nintendo's category, whatever. Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Lego Star Wars, Mario and Rabbids, Nintendo Switch Sports, and Splatoon III. Family Game to Me says a game you can sit down and play with your family. I think of cards against humanity, board games, Mario Kart, Mario Party. I don't really get that feeling from Kirby, which is a single player game. If you wanna give Nintendo a category, just give them a category. The best game here, hands down, is Kirby, but it's not a family game. Is it family-friendly? Yeah, but that's not what the frickin' thing says. Also, Splatoon III, I wouldn't say, is like a play with your family game. I think the obvious winner here for the actual category is Nintendo Switch Sports. It has family games in it. It has bowling, it has tennis. So what do you do? Do you go against the category, or do you vote for the one that fits the category?  I'm voting for Kirby, but it doesn't belong in family game. Best fighting game, Shifu? Game of the year, read your own categories for the best game design, primarily around head-to-head combat. It's rolled out of its own category, because it's a single player game that you just fight in. If this is the case, you can go ahead and add Bayonetta III. You can add God of War. I'm gonna pretend it's not there. I don't know why it's in this category. It deserves to be nominated. It's a great game, but not for best fighting game. I actually really did like multiverses. I'm not kidding. It is a fun fighting game. I haven't played JoJo or DNF Dior, but I think it's hard to beat a King of Fighters game. It's literally King of Fighters. I played a little bit of it, but King of Fighters games are always sick. I really love them. I think that's an easy dub.  Oh, oh, oh, this is on Nintendo. Best role-playing game. All of these are great, live or live. I haven't got around to playing that yet. I really do wanna play it. I heard great things. Legends Arceus was one of my favorite games this year. It's not a great game. It's just the fact that it's Pokemon and it's what I wanted for so long and it's a step in the right direction. And there was fun to be had in it that I do like the game, but it's not great and it's definitely not beating some other games on this list. Triangle strategy. I personally didn't care for that one because there was just a lot of dialogue and I couldn't get through it. Xenoblake Chronicles 3. I hate that I never made my review. So I'll throw you a bone and say that it very much does belong to be in this category and it very much does belong to be nominated for Game of the Year and that is all I'm saying right now. However, the choice is Elden Ring. Elden Ring stole my heart, man. I finished that whole game on stream and I had fun every second of the way. If you wanna vote on a role-playing game, it is the role-playing game. Best action adventure, combining combat with traversal and puzzle solving. The Plague Tale Requiem, I have played very, very little of because there are too many games coming out right now but the first one, I loved that game and I've been so excited to play this next one. So I'm assuming it's better than, in which case, incredible. God of War, I'm playing through right now. It is a diamond-shaped cut version of a action adventure game. Horizon Forbidden West, I would also say is that but with the added open world element to it which does provide a lot more adventure, of course, a lot more exploration, Dre doesn't have any combat. Tunik, I would say that it has good competition there. Tunik was a very fun, cute little action adventure game and it's a lot like Zelda, so obviously I love it for that but I'm gonna put it between God of War and Horizon because it's got the puzzles, man. I think as far as the action and adventuring part, it does go to Horizon because you've got the open world. God of War is so linear. There's not really much adventuring to be done other than following through the story but I think two out of three gives it to God of War but Horizon was very good. Best action, I am so excited to see Bayonetta 3 in here. Call of Duty, Neon White, Sifu and TMNT again. All of these are great, fantastic action games. Neon White, is it focused primarily on combat? No, half of the game is a speed running game and platformer. I am torn here because as much as I loved TMNT, you can't really think of an action game without thinking of Call of Duty. I mean it is like the quintessential action game. Bayonetta 3 has so much more to offer in my opinion than just action even though it's my favorite. So even though I don't love Call of Duty, I think that is the winner of this category. Not voting for a Call of Duty game for anything. So Bayonetta 3. Best VR AR, I just played Among Us VR a couple of nights ago to try it out and it was very fun. I haven't played any of these other ones. I am going to check out all of these games if you're telling me these are all good VR games but Among Us VR is actually very fun. So I'm just gonna vote for that even though I said I wouldn't do that if I only played one game, okay. Innovation and accessibility. Accessibility options, people with disabilities, different ways to play the game. I wish they would tell you why they were nominated for this in God of War. Every five seconds the NPC characters you're with will ruin the puzzles. You accidentally missed the first time, now go, maybe you could try hitting the wall. What about freezing the guys under the wheel? There should be a way to turn the wheel. Yeah, I am. Yeah, little long story short. I went into the settings to see if I could turn off that nightmare. You can't. I was still impressed the whole time thinking, wow, look how many fricking settings they are for accessibility options. But I also heard Last of Us is good at that. I played Monkey Island. I don't know what Monkey Island did but I love that it's being nominated here because one of my favorite games of the year. I'm gonna vote God of War just because I have a point of reference there. Best community support. I've always loved this category. It's just, it's so nice to see an ongoing game receiving support. I can't speak much for games like Apex and Destiny. I feel like Fortnite should always win this category by default because they just, they get their ad stuff every day, man. But that said, Final Fantasy has had a ton of support this year and every year and my vote is No Man's Sky. That game is incredible. 2015, that game released to a commercial flop. They could have gone away and just scrapped that and moved on. Instead, they spent up until now and to this day and continuing from now to improve this game, add content to it, make it better. They introduced a fully VR version of that game that you can download. They put it on Switch, added a ton of content into the game and they have never asked for a single extra dollar. I love that game, man. And I love what they're doing to it. So, whee, best mobile game. I have heard such good things about Marvel Snap. I played Apex Legends Mobile actually. That was pretty fun. I think the winner might be Marvel Snap because of how many people keep saying it's legitimately fun but I can't vote in this one. It feels weird to have best indie and best debut indie where like three of them or two of them are in the same category. I think it's gotta be Call of the Lamb. I think that was a phenomenal success. The Twitch integration they launched alongside that game blew it to insane levels of popularity and was so much fun to stream on the platform. Splicing the sim management and then the dungeon crawls. I think Neon White was a more refined and for what it aimed to do, a better experience for nailing its intention. Sifu was really good, but I do like the other two more.  So it's hard. And then tune it, sorry for the bump. I voted for Stray once already. I'm gonna share the indie love. I think that and Stray is tied for me. Best ongoing. I don't know why this category exists when we already have continued community support. I feel like those two things go hand in hand. I think it's one of these three. I'm gonna say Final Fantasy this time. Games for Impact. A Memoir Blue, a Duskfuls, Citizen Sleeper, Endling, Hindsight, and I was a teenage exocollidness. I've never heard of any of these so they didn't make a pretty big impact on me. Oh no, I have heard it. I bought that. I haven't played it though. So these are like thought provoking games that have a message. I haven't played any of them.  They probably just haven't released on Switch. That one has, which is why it's the one I bought. I can't vote for one. Sadly, I'm gonna continue. Bet, ooh, I was wondering. What is that photo you used of my man? It looks like he just sneezed. I probably shouldn't be mean. Maybe that's a completely normal photo. It just looks like he's gone. Horizon, Forbidden West, we have Aloy Ashley, a Plague Tale, Requiem, God of War, Immortality, God of War, Sunny? I don't think I'm up to that part yet. I'm gonna go Chris. I think he nails that role. I think he just is Kratos. I don't think there's another answer here. Best audio design. I think Doctor Disrespect would slap me in the face if I picked Call of Duty. So it's between Elden Ring, God of War, Gran Turismo, and Horizon. I haven't played Gran Turismo. I know those games have great design. I'm playing God of War right now with Surround Sound and it's sick, but I think Elden Ring did so much with that audio. Actually, oh no, I've already, I can't even take the vote back. I can't even take it back. I voted so quickly. No! Horizon had great audio design as well. I'm not upset with what I accidentally voted for. I think Horizon had more working with it though.  And that was like, just hop, hop, hop, hop. I might have voted too early on that one. Best score and music. Oh, I heard Metal Hellsinger had fantastic music. I do like the Xenoblade music quite a lot. Elden Ring and God of War, and I haven't played enough of Plague to hear the music. I am going to place my vote between the three that I played. All three of these, all three of these, baby. It's Elden Ring, dude, that was sick. Nah, it's Elden Ring. That was like our full orchestra. Wow, that was amazing. Best art direction, Elden Ring. The reason why I voted for Elden Ring just then was because of the characters, the bosses, the enemies, the world. Like, those enemy designs are wild. God of War, I feel like the enemy designs and the player and the humans are like good, but they're like, they're, you know, they're good. The world of Horizon is so beautiful. What have I done? No, no, it's Horizon. It's Horizon. I've changed my mind. The character design and the outfits and the players and the NPCs, all fantastic. The fricking robotic mechanic dinosaurs and all the little intricate details and the way they moved and they bent and they, oh, God, that game, I messed up. Best narrative. I feel like Elden Ring's narrative is mostly told in the things you find around the world, but I don't know if the story telling in the way it was told to you is as direct or as thoughtful as maybe something like God of War, but there's way more lore. You just have to seek it out. Immortality, I haven't played. A plague I haven't played enough of. Horizon Forbidden West did have a good story. I kind of feel like I prefer God of War's narrative and how it's paced and the story as a whole. I think it's God of War. If we want to go with lore, it's obviously Elden Ring, but as far as a story that is told to you while you play, it has to be God of War. Best game direction. Stray's great. It's very linear. Immortality, that's the twice I've seen it. I've got to play that. Horizon Forbidden West, pretty good game direction. I mean, I have nothing against it. If you're going to compare the game direction of Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring as open world games, one lets you literally go anywhere and do anything Breath of the Wild style right from the start in any order that you want and the other one is very tailored to your experience and you do have some choices for where to go and what order to complete tasks, but ultimately you do have to follow along with everything and I think Elden Ring takes it hands down over the two open world styles. So I really thought that one out before I clicked it. Okay, we're at game of the year. I know what I'm voting for, but let me break it down real quick. Xenoblake Chronicles 3, I believe deserves to be here for a game that hasn't even sold 2 million copies. No matter how I feel about it, good or bad, if you can't tell by context clues, it doesn't stack up. I love that it's here. I wish I could vote a Nintendo game for game of the year this year. It just doesn't stack up to some of these other experiences. I haven't played enough of Plague Tale, but I'm pretty confident that it's not going to beat the game that I feel is the obvious number one. I love that Horizon has that open world and that freedom. I am sorely missing it in God of War as I'm playing. It feels very linear. You don't really have any different ways to experience the game. But even with that said, even with how restricting God of War is, I think that tailored experience is just a lot more refined. I think just God of War just has more of a clear, concise package. And I think the story is definitely better and the narrative is definitely better. It comes down to Elden Ring and God of War. I think it's insane to think Elden Ring won't win. We want to talk about games for impact. The entire world was playing and talking about that game for like three months after it came out. God of War is great and it's selling record sales, but I'm already just not hearing as much about it as I did Elden Ring. That was insane. God of War is fantastic. I love it. It's a sequel to a game that I really enjoyed, but it's the same thing that I played five years ago. It hasn't done much to innovate or change the genre, innovate or change its own series, innovate or change God of War. It's just more God of War. It's a lot along corridors. It's a lot of talking. It's a little fight scene.  And then it's all over in a puzzle and then rinse and repeat. There's no exploration. There's no real adventure outside of the tailored experience presented to you. Elden Ring shuts up from the start, throws you out into the world with a hope and a dream and tells you good luck, Sunny.  Good luck with the rest of the game. And it is an absolute joy from there.  And no playthrough of that game has to feel the same. Everyone has a completely different experience with that game. And even you can replay the game 10 times and it'll feel completely different every time. It is one of the best games I've ever played. I put it up there with my Zelda's, but it's one of the best games that have released in the recent years, if not half a decade. All right, that's everything. Please leave your votes down below with what you're gonna pick and I'll put this in the link down below as well so you can nominate what you wanna actually vote on and like, comment, subscribe. If you still like these videos, I'll do another one next year. I got a ton more content coming out this year, so you better subscribe and get ready to watch.


Lesson 341, I can attack but my own sinlessness, and it is only that which keeps me safe. And what is a miracle? A miracle is a correction. It does not create nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus it stays within time's limits, yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and loves awakening, for fear must live away under the gentle remedy it brings. A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received as one. And thus it illustrates the law of truth the world does not obey, because it fails entirely to understand its ways. A miracle inverts perception, which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. Now is perception open to the truth. Now is forgiveness seen as justified. Forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands corrected in his sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love, and each is laid before the Word of God upon the universal altar to creator and creation in the light of perfect purity and endless joy. The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind has been made ready to conceive what it cannot see and does not understand. Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really there. And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it and show it rested on a world more real than what you saw before. A world redeemed from what you thought was there. Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from heaven on a dry and dusty world where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. Now they have water. Now the world is green, and everywhere the signs of life spring up to show that what is born can never die for what has life has immortality. Lesson 341. I can attack but my own sinlessness, and it is only that which keeps me safe. Father, your son is holy. I am he on whom you smile in love and tenderness so dear and deep and still. The universe smiles back on you and shares your holiness. How pure, how safe, how holy then are we, abiding in your smile with all your love bestowed upon us, living one with you in brotherhood and fatherhood complete, in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of sinlessness conceives us as his son, a universe of thought completing him. Let us not then attack our sinlessness, for it contains the Word of God to us, and in its kind reflection we are saved. Amen.


And welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here at theCUBE. We're in our Palo Alto studios for a CUBE conversation. You know, it's kind of when we get a break. We're not at a show. It's a little bit quieter, a little calmer situation, so we can have a little bit different kinds of conversations. And we're excited to have our next guest and talk about a really important piece of this whole cloud thing, which is, not only do you need to turn things off, but you need to also turn them off. And that's what gets people in trouble, I think, on the cost comparison. We're joined by Krishna Subramanian. She is the co-founder and COO of Comprise. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me on the show. Absolutely. So just real briefly, for people that aren't familiar, just give them kind of the overview of Comprise. Comprise is the only solution that provides analytics and data management in a single package. And the reason we started the company is because customers told us that they're literally drowning in data these days. As data footprint continues to grow, lot of it is an unstructured data. And data, you know, what's unique about it is that you never just keep one copy of data. Because if your data is lost, like if your child's first year birthday picture is lost, you wouldn't like that, right? I should not bring that kind of stuff up in an interview. We don't want to talk about lost photographs or broken raid boxes, that's a different conversation. But yes, you do not want to lose those pictures. So you keep multiple copies. And that's what businesses do. They usually keep a DR copy, a few backup copies of their data. So if you have 100 terabytes of data, you probably have three to four copies of it. That's 400 terabytes. And if 70% of that data hasn't been touched in over six months, 280 of your 400 terabytes is being actively managed for no reason. Right, right. And Comprise analyzes and finds all that data for you and shows you how much you can save by managing it at lower cost. Then it actually moves and archives and reduces the cost of managing that data so you can save 70% or more on your storage. Right, so there's a couple components of that that you talked about. So we'll break it down a little bit more. One is how actively is the data managed? How hot is the data? How, you know, what type of storage the data is based on its importance, its relevance, and how often you're accessing it. So one of the big problems, if I heard you right, is you guys figure out what stuff is being managed that way as active, high value, sitting on flash, paying lots of money that doesn't need to be. That's exactly right. We find all the cold data on your current storage and we show you how much more you're spending to manage that data than you need to. So how do you do that in an environment where that data is obviously connected to applications, that data might be in my data center, it could be at Amazon or it could be at GCP. How do you do that without interfering with my active applications on that data because even though some of it might be ready for cold storage, there might be some of it obviously that isn't. So how do you manage that without impacting my operations? That's a great question because really, data management is like a good housekeeper. You should never know that the housekeeper is there. They should never get in the way of what you're doing but they keep your house clean. And that's kind of what Comprise does for your data and how do we do that? Well, we do that by being adaptive. So Comprise connects to your storage just through open protocols. So we don't make any changes to your environment and our software automatically slows itself down and runs in the background to not interfere with anything active on your storage. So we are like a good partner to your storage. You don't even know we're there. We're invisible to all the active work and yet we're giving all these important analytics and when we move the data, all the data looks like it's still there. So it's fully transparent. Okay, you touched on a couple of things. So one is how do you sit there without impacting me? I think you said you partner with all the big data or excuse me, all the big storage providers. You partner with all the three big cloud providers. You just won an award at re-invent, congratulations. Thank you. So how do you do that? Where does your software sit? Does it sit in the data center? Does it sit at Amazon? And how does it interact with other management tools that I might already have in place? It's a great question. So Comprise runs as a hybrid cloud service and essentially there is a console that's running in the cloud but the actual analysis and data movement is done by virtual machines that are running at the customer site and you literally just point our virtual machine at any storage you have and we work through standard protocols through NFS, SMB SIFs and REST S3. So whether you have NetApp storage or EMC storage or Windows file servers or Hitachi NAS or you're putting data on Amazon or Azure or Google or an object storage it doesn't actually matter. Comprise works with all those environments because we're working through open standards and because we're adaptive we're automatically running in the background. So it's working through open standards and it's non-intrusive. Okay and then if you designate that some percentage of this storage does not need to be in the high expensive environment you actually go to the next step and you actually help manage it and move it. So how does that impact my other kind of data management procedures? Yes, so that's a great question. So most of the time you'd probably have some DR copy and some backups running on your hot storage on your flash storage say and you don't want to change that and you don't want users to point anywhere else. So what Comprise does is it takes the cold data from all that storage and when it moves that data it's fully transparent. The move data looks like it's still there on that storage. It's just that the footprint is reduced now. So instead of a 100 meg file you just have a one kilobyte link on that storage and we don't use any stub files we don't put any agents on the storage so we don't make any changes to your active environment. It's fully transparent. Users and applications think all the data is still there but the data is now sitting in something lower cost and it's dynamically managed through open standards. Just like you and I are talking now and I don't need a translator between us because we both understand English. But maybe if I were speaking Japanese you might need a translator. I would, yeah. Yeah, so that was just a guess, I didn't know. So that's kind of how we do it. We work through the open standards and in the past solutions wouldn't do that. They would have a proprietary protocol and that's why they could only work with some storage and not all and they would get in the way of all the access. But do I want it to look like it looked before if in fact it's ready to be retired into cold storage or glacier or whatever? Because I would imagine there's a reason and I don't necessarily want the app to have access. I would imagine my access and availability of stuff that's in cold storage is very different kind of profile than the hot stuff. It depends. Sometimes some data you may want to truly archive and never be able to see it live like maybe you're putting it in glacier and you can control how the data looks but sometimes you don't want to interrupt what the applications are doing. You want to just go to a lower cost of storage like an object storage on premise but you still want the data accessible because you don't want to break user and application behavior. Right. Okay, so give us a little bit more information on the company.  We talked a little bit before we turned the cameras on. You know kind of how many people do you have? How many customers? How many rounds of funding have you guys raised? Compress is growing rapidly. We have about 60 people. We have a headquarters in Campbell, California. We also have offices in Bangalore, India. We just hired a new VP of worldwide sales and we're putting field sales teams in different regions. We have over 60 customers worldwide. Our customer base is growing rapidly. Just this last quarter we added about four times the number of customers and we're seeing customers all the way from genomics and healthcare to big insurance and financial services companies anywhere where there's data. You know universities, all the major research universities are our customers and government institutions state and local governments, et cetera. So these are all good markets for us. And you said it's a services like a SaaS model so you charge based on how much data that's under management. Yeah, we charge from a data that's under management and it's a fraction of what you pay to store the data. So our cost is like less than half a penny a gig a month. It's pretty interesting. We just got back from AWS, reinvent as well over 40,000 people, it's bananas. But this whole kind of rent versus buy conversation is really interesting to me. And again, I always go back to Netflix. If anybody uses a massive amount of storage and a massive amount of network and compute, what do they own? Like I don't know, 50% of the Friday night internet traffic in the States is Netflix and they're still on Amazon. But I think what's really interesting is that if you, the flexibility of the cloud to be able to turn things on really easily is important. But I think what people often forget is it's also you need to turn it off and so much activity around better managing your investment and the resources in Amazon. Use what you need, when you need it, but don't pay for what you don't need when you don't. And that seems to be something that you guys are right in line with and consistent with. You know, they continue to grow. I think that's actually a good way to put it. Yeah, don't pay for data when you don't need to. Right? You can still have it, but you don't need to pay for it. Right. Well, Krishna, thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day to stop by and give us a story on Compose. Yeah, thank you very much. Thanks for having me. All right, pleasure. She's Krishna. I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. We're at Palo Alto Studios' CUBE Conversation. We'll see you next time. Thanks for watching.


I get asked this question all the time. What does crime scene cleanup cost? So there's many variables in calculating a crime scene. Was it a suicide? Was it an unattended death? Or was it just an accident maybe cutting some wood with a saw? There's so many variables. So we've had some really small situations and some very large situations. I think the largest crime scene cleanup we ever had was a shotgun suicide in an attic that literally dripped down into the second floor. We had lots of demo there. Insulation, sub flooring, drywall, a lot of flooring removal. So that one was well over $20,000. But then we've had very small ones as well where that's the size of a dinner plate. And the time that we're dispatched also plays a huge variable on it. He averages $4,000 to $6,000. But please know that it can go higher than that depending on the situation. If you like this video, please share it with a friend and don't forget to like and subscribe.