Alright, if you're looking to replace or buy new wireless headphones, this video is gonna be the video for you. Most likely because you're probably trying to decide if you want to get either the Power Beats Pro or the AirPods 2. Let me go ahead and just save you the time and just get the AirPods 2, forget the Power Beats Pro. Like seriously, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing here? I was just suggesting to the viewer here that they get the AirPods 2 rather than getting the Power Beats Pro. Oh, no, no, no. Yo, if you want the best wireless headphones in the game right now, get the Power Beats Pro. I promise you. Excuse me? Steve Urkel right here. Steve Urkel? Yo, I don't like your tone right now. What? You mad? I just want to finish how you're talking to me. You want to fight? Of course not. Of course you won't. I don't fight. I don't fight. You have AirPods. That's why. Okay, yo. What is that supposed to mean? You know exactly what that's supposed to mean. You know what? That's what's wrong with you in games, man. Like Power Beats users. You get just so aggressive.  Come on. Come on. Yo, you know what? I don't even need to deal with the ignorance. Let's go. Bye. Yeah, get out of here. What is up, everybody? It's your boy, Noah. It's your first time here. I make videos on cool tech and products that help improve your life. If you haven't already, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. So which new wireless headphones should you buy? Should you get the AirPods generation 2 or the Power Beats? Now this has got to be a very big one up for debate. These had just came out. These are my favorite headphones, but I also know a lot of people love themselves with AirPods, and I was a big lover too. And for all those really people who are really looking closely, yes, these are the AirPods one. The AirPods 2, I did a review on them. I did have them. I did wear them. I gave them away in a giveaway because I just didn't think they were worth it to me, but I wanted to go ahead and show because they're basically the same thing as these. But yeah, I'm going to go over the pros and cons of each one. So at the end of the video, you can decide which one really fits your taste the most. So we'll start off with the Power Beats. I love these headphones. If you didn't see my unboxing, these are amazing headphones. Some of the pros that I really enjoy, of course, are the music quality. Like, oh my gosh, like the bass is great, the music, it's a full noise. It's not noise canceling, but it almost feels like it is. I can really, like when I'm in the gym or I'm on the train, I really feel like it's just me listening to the music or listening to a podcast. And I love it. It's a 10. It's a solid 10. The second pro that I like is the wrap around feature of the headphones. This is something that I am a big fan of because of the fact that I know for sure that these will not fall out of my ears.  I don't have to worry about it knocking out at all. And then the third pro that I really enjoy about these Power Beats Pro, the third pro that I enjoyed about these Power Beats Pro, it's a lot of pros. So the third pro that I really like about these set of headphones is the battery life. Now the battery life, I think on the website it says it has like nine hours of battery life. From a personal perspective, I don't really count how many hours I just kind of see how many times I wear it at work and then like during the day or commute and then when I get home what it's like. So there was a time where I was listening to music for about like 20, 30 minutes, listening to a 40 minute podcast on a phone call and I looked at the battery of my headphones and they were literally at like 80%. Like I never have to be like oh I need to charge these. I can wear them, honestly I can wear them all day at work and be completely fine. Now the cons for these guys are actually the case itself. This thing is huge compared to the AirPods case. Like this can easily fit in my pocket. This on the other hand like I don't want a big bulge in the side of my pocket. I do wish the case was a lot smaller and I don't know about you guys but I dropped this a couple times because I had to put it in a pocket of my gym bag or something and it fell out and I was like don't you hate that especially when it's something really nice and you like look around and make sure there's like no scratches on it but it does have a scratch.  When you get one of those scratches, that's the one thing you see all the time. Like I see it right now. So that's the one thing. I just wish the case was a little bit smaller. I understand that since these do have the wrap arounds that it is a little bit bigger but it's still con. And now for the AirPods generation 2 pros and cons. The first pro is that this thing is small. Like this thing is tiny. Like look it looks like the size of the ear. Maybe not my ear. Maybe like Will Smith's ear. This thing is tiny. Super, super, super small. I love how it's such a low profile you can barely see it. I think the second pro that I like about it is it's cheaper than the PowerBeats Pro. The PowerBeats Pro right now are running around like $250. And on top of that I think they're like on a huge back order. You can only buy the black pair. So it's like availability is very, very low. Now for the AirPods generation 2 they are everywhere now. You could pick up AirPods at whatever Apple store you want to or even on like Amazon if you want to. They're really accessible and I think these are now $160 or $170. So a lot cheaper compared to the PowerBeats Pro. And now for the cons. I think the biggest con for me is the sound quality. Whenever I found myself on the subway to listen to a podcast or listen to music as soon as that subway started going I couldn't hear it. I literally paused whatever it was that I had. I couldn't hear it at all. I could maybe hear a faint noise but it was just useless and that was the one thing I hated about it was that to me the sound quality just really wasn't that good. I didn't feel like you know everything was isolated when I used it. They were just decent when I was in the office and it wasn't too loud. Another con of this was actually the fact that I know they stay pretty tight in your ears but honestly these things can fall out. I know if you have long hair sometimes the AirPods can get stuck in there and like if you're moving around your hair and it comes out or if you're just being really really aggressive or really active you know they can come out or if somebody bumps into you one of my biggest fears is I would jump into like the drain on the streets.  It's great that they're super small but the fact that I don't have 100% confidence that they could say to my ear makes it a con for me. And I think the last con and it's not like a crazy thing. I didn't have too much of an issue but the battery life you know they only last for me about maybe like an hour or an hour and a half and then I would have to put them in the case. The good thing is once you put them in the case they charge pretty fast but I did find myself consistently having to put my AirPods in the case compared to the Power Beats Pro. So which of these two should you purchase? My first recommendation would be the Power Beats Pro. Like these headphones you get the best of both worlds. You get the complete wirelessness from the AirPods but then you also have the nice wrap around future and the sound quality of the Power Beats series. So that's why this to me is like my favorite piece of tech of 2019 like no joke. It's awesome the case even though it's a little bit big a lot of us now we have bags we have a backpack or something we can put it in or if you want to force in a pocket you can but this is awesome. I would suggest maybe get the AirPods if you are on a budget especially if you can find the AirPods like first generation get those if you can maybe find on eBay or Amazon I'll put some links below if I can find some and you also don't want to wait on the back ordered of the Power Beats then go ahead get yourself some AirPods I think these are definitely worth the wait a hundred percent and especially if you like to go to the gym these are a no brainer if you're somebody who does a little bit lighter activity and maybe like jogging walking cycling here and there these would be these were suffice they would be fine but yeah that would be my recommendation of which one to buy which one are you leading more towards the AirPods generation to or the Power Beats let me know in the comments below which team that you are and I would love to hear like what the poll might be and also let me know if you have any questions on that I maybe didn't address so again I hope this video is extremely helpful if you have already can pal that like button subscribe if you haven't already catch you later you already know embrace the hype


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So welcome back everybody for another wonderful, wonderful Thursday. It has been a great market for all of us. This is what, you know what? It's not really that bad to stay home. It really isn't not that bad.  We're getting, you have to be quarantined. You know what? Where do you find a stock in pre-market like MFA like this one? You know what's so funny? I did an Instagram post and we were looking at the GM, the GPMT and we killed it on that one. And that stock was up pretty big. I don't know if everybody's following me on Instagram and that we could have had that stock. We'll talk a little bit about it. But this one, boom, look at it from nowhere. Shake, shake, shake. It was just unbelievable. But when do they get to spend it, Falstow? What, when they graduate, but yeah. And I think they're gonna graduate after three days. They're gonna graduate after three days of, after homeschool and my wife said, that's it. Oh my God, look at this thing go, go, go, go, go. You know why I averaged it up and I averaged up and I averaged up on it. So listen, the news is this. The new coronavirus stock watch list is mortgage stocks. Mortgage stocks, mortgage stocks, mortgage stocks. That's what I'm seeing on the watch list. Let's go check it out. Biggest one right here, GPMT. Look at that one. We saw it at this morning, eight o'clock this morning at 3.60. Everybody should have been in, boom, the thing ran to over $4. Actually higher, a little bit of shake. This stock was an $18 stock. Look where it dropped down to $2.25. Stock is up pretty big. If you go down the list, that one also, what do we have, what else do we got? Oh, NYMT, whoop, spelled it wrong. NYMT. All right, there's another mortgage stock. It's not up a lot, it really didn't move yet. I'm still watching it. But this one, $6 stock down to $1.30, New York Mortgage Trust. Looks like it really didn't pick up momentum. Maybe people don't know about it yet. MFA. All right, so now it's doing a little shake. We got it, it's a little shake that's going on. Listen, if you remember when we were trading in the pre-market, I was telling you guys, iceberg orders, iceberg orders and iceberg orders. Remember, what do we teach you here at Cyber Trading?  And sure enough, if you go back to the chat, I kept on telling you there was no orders out there. I didn't see any orders to sell, but I did see some limit orders to buy. So that stock, obviously, we're seeing it. Now it looks like it's doing a little bit of a shake right now. Hopefully you get a little profit taking that's going on. But the stock traded almost, look at it, 11, 12 million shares already traded so far. Look at that stock. Obviously, whatever it is, they love it. And what do I think it has to do with? This could be the new coronavirus stock, remember. What was the one, before we started back in February, it was all the pharmaceutical stocks. Who had the, who had the recipe to save the virus? After that happened, what was the second recipe? I mean, it was the second Corona stock movement. There was all the brand name stocks because they got destroyed. We killed it in Boeing. Boeing, we killed it. Look at that beauty. Stock is up already 9%, $172. You know, and like I said, I'll repeat it again. I bought it at a buck 70, I got crushed. I averaged down at a hundred and I'm looking pretty damn well right now on all my positions. I love this stock. Where do you see a $350 stock? You go buy it, $90. Win, another one, did phenomenal. Where do you, the stock was 140 down to 40, almost doubled already. Win, that was another great stock. Unbelievable stocks, look at that. Win still making a nice big move, a win. Now remember, markets up 120 points. Obviously, the job claims are really not that bad. But I am gonna be concerned for next month's job claims. But that one's doing great. What else we had? IVR, another one I found. Another mortgage stock right here. $18 stock went down to $250. This one's not as crazy, up 26%, but almost 273,000 shares. So we got a couple of good moving stocks going on. So anyway, I really thought today was going to be not really a good day. We keep an eye on my MFA. I didn't think it was gonna be a really good day today because they kept talking about, listen, they passed a $2 trillion bill. I'm still skeptical about the house, okay? Remember, it's a Republican president, it's a Republican Senate. Now you're gonna deal with a Democratic house and they didn't impeach him. You don't know, I mean, listen, these people playing politics, so I'm still very skeptical and wondering if they're really gonna pass that bill, they're gonna wanna, they're gonna start doing some changes or whatever. So let's not, listen, we still did not, I'm not sold on this $2 trillion bill that it's gonna be sold yet, okay? So let's see what the house does when they pick it up on Friday. But I heard the house will vote tomorrow morning. Yeah, Donald, well let's see what happens, what they do. I don't, you never know what these people, you know, everybody likes to throw that two cents in and which is what happened and this should have been passed last week, not yesterday, okay? This should have been passed last week. But anyway, that's good that you get some camaraderie, you get people have misunderstandings, that's good, that, you know, it's good policy. But let's not get people starting out. Remember, this whole purpose is because of the coronavirus, not because everybody now wants to start saying, oh, we got this big deal, let's throw it in there. So I'm really cautious of what's gonna happen with tomorrow morning. But anyway, damn, Donald's stock's going down. Just one of the problems about when you're doing events and you're teaching the same thing is like, you know, you always get, you always get conflicted. But anyway, I think MFA is gonna obviously, any orders coming out there?  We got a big order out here supporting it, big block orders out there. Remember, I didn't see any orders over here. That's what made the stock run. You're getting one right now over here, but no orders what made this stock made a nice little run right there. Anyway, we're gonna keep an eye on those orders. Anyway, so you got it, not a big watch list, same thing as yesterday. Brand names, brand names, brand names. Walk it right now, it's down about, up about 45. It looks like it's Tita tottering here, but it looks more or less that these mortgage stocks are obviously gonna be the, be the Kevin that just came out, released an investment trust, investor leverage, resistant mortgage assets, included residential mortgage backed securities and the whole lot.  All right, it looks like we're gonna come back out of support, oh man, you know what? Gave back a little bit of money right here. All right, no big deal, no big deal. I mean, I still own it right around the buck 80, but and I averaged up at $2, so I'm still doing pretty well. Let's see what happens, otherwise, I'm gonna have to take a profit. But I wanna get back to this stock, everybody. Let's get back to the trading room. Listen, hopefully all you new members here, trial members are enjoying it. I just wanna repeat one thing because I see some of you guys keep asking the same question. Please, guys, this is not a teaching room. This is a trading room, okay? You all have access to a education advisor. Hope you spoke to him and you explained it to him in detail with it, but if you like what we do and you wanna learn and have an understanding why these are going up and down, do what we think, this, that's not our job. Your job is to figure it out. Your job is to see if other people make money doing this.  We only invited you here to do a $9 trial to see if all the people are making money doing it and this is something you wanna do. And then you make a decision from there. Cause remember, this is not for everybody and that's okay. But you could see how we're all having a fun time doing it, being quarantined at home. You know, what else are we gonna do? Graduate my kids after three days. All right. Well, anyone, guys, good luck today, happy trading. Most importantly, remember, today is a very big important day. Today we do have open house, okay? At 12 o'clock, open house, tweet it, Facebook, everything, tell your friends about it. Let them realize that it is now time to say, you know what, you could trade for a living.  If you're an entrepreneur, why not trade the market? Everybody wants to trade it, but they just don't wanna take the time to learn it. So let's go out there and come and support us, come and join us today at 12 o'clock for the open house meeting. All right, guys, good luck today, happy trading. Benito, you already made 13 cents. All right, give him a round of applause on that stock. I even hate to ask you how much hemmity shares you traded on that one. All right, but it looks like she's starting to trend back up again. You could see how she's starting to move up. So that looks pretty good. Yeah, I see about an 80, 90,000 share seller right around 245. But you know what? I could see the stock hitting three. You know, that's where I see resistance levels are. So you could see it now it's starting to go back up. There we go. Not too bad. Guys, listen, like Grant just mentioned, welcome new cyber traders and just the three famous words that we go by, the three L's, look, listen and learn. Good luck everyone, happy trading. Let's make some money and let's enjoy this great open, all right? It's been fun so far.


Tom here from Lawrence systems. I'm going to talk about how I became Tom here at Lawrence systems So if you want to learn more about me my company just keep watching his video I usually have a spiel I put in but I won't but Lawrence systems comm is my company's website and you can hire us for Projects and things that we talk about I started this video over a couple times because I'm trying to figure out how to articulate it So I'm going to just try to keep it to a few brief points and if there's enough interest I will make a longer more in-depth video, but I'm not always sure what people want to know now I want to do a tech video. It's rather simple Here is the beginning of the project follow these steps to complete this task and this is the outcome So how do you write a firewall rule? Well, we write the rule this way and then the firewall rule works this way That's not how business works at all and I made just at least a couple notes here on like Timeline and things like that so I can at least have some conciseness to this video But for those of you wondering how I started my company a little bit of my background first I did not go to college. I am only a high school graduate So that's the you know base level school no extra college because when I graduated in 1984 I did not come from a family of wealth and maybe there were low ends at the time. I don't know I didn't understand any of that I wasn't a really good student and I just was happy to be out of school and wanted to work So I actually went to a vocational school for tool and I and I did do some computer classes Briefly that they had access to in high school But this was 1992 and I did a Pascal class and a cobalt class. So on old IBM 1980s IBM XTs because that's what was available at the time Back then I started my first tech job in 1995 working for small business then I worked in a corporate area from 1998 till 2003 and then September of 2003 17 years ago now I filed my escort Lawrence technology services now The whole happenstance was the company I used to work for well things weren't going well And it made me angry because the owners had made decisions that was putting in a company in jeopardy and they filed for bankruptcy But not going out of business bankruptcy going out of business bankruptcy Happened a later date for them kind of but they split the company up and sold the transportation company into Different they referred to my shipping lanes, but basically there was more than one company handling all the freight business I seized the moment and started my company then because I turned those into my first clients And I made a lot of mistakes and even though I was being paid very well back then in my tech job it's really not the same because It's it was so much different starting the business because I suddenly had to deal with things like payroll And I was the first employee at my company and I had a set of payroll I hired an outside accounting firm I highly recommend that if you don't want to learn taxes They are complicated. There's a lot of rules. There's balance sheets and profit and loss I've at least talked about profit and loss to have a video on that But whether you understand the complexities of the US tax code provided you're starting a business here in the US The IRS really doesn't seem to care The agencies that are involved in collection of those taxes will collect them and if you Don't file things properly without a proper accountant They will collect them at a rate much higher than you may expect and your ignorance of the law is irrelevant to them They will you'll be in a lot of trouble So I do recommend an outside accountant unless you want to do that now I found my company as an escort also not based on my incredible knowledge of tax code But the knowledge of the accounting firm that I hired said that was more adventations than the LLC I'm not going to answer the question of which one's better do some googling To get a basis of what those are and then hire a professional to make a decision on your business If that's a good thing for you or not. I will mention briefly though I had a another company called suburban computers that lasted from 2005 and 2006 and you're like Tom I've never heard you talk about it. It's painful. I had a partner And so I've always had learn technologies and I took a partnership in 2005 and 2006 that Didn't go well. And so it was actually a company called suburban electronics I partnered with someone and their existing company and we built that company back up It actually went very well for the first maybe year and the next six months went downhill rather quickly things kind of fell apart Me and the partner had a lot of problems the shortest answer was the partner embezzled money I never went after him Legally because it really wasn't worth my time to do so. I'm not a petty person Could I have chased him legally wasn't really worth it. It's one of those Better to separate out from the company and do the next best thing which was start another Retail store right down the street because that one was in peril and then staff Right away when to come over and work for me because well part of what the partner had done besides take some money out Of the company for personal stuff and try to hide it from me was also not pay the staff and so they didn't have any trouble of who they were going to put their loyals to was The person who actually paid them properly and didn't screw around with their pay. So That little messy venture I had was an eye-opener And I decided from there forward at least for the next foreseeable future not to have a partner and so far right now I still don't have any partnerships. I am the sole proprietor and hundred percent shareholder of Lawrence technology services here in 2020 now PC pickup you may see that around here, and I've slowly been phasing it all out But I was that other retail store. I started in 2007 and that went all the way until 2017 when we moved from where PC Pickup was over in Taylor, Michigan to Southgate, Michigan In April 2017, which is the building we're in right now That's when we moved here And that's also when I started really focusing on YouTube because I started doing YouTube before them But it wasn't I if you go through the history of my channel It's laptop repair videos and things like that. I don't know. I was trying to figure out what to do on YouTube now I always had those corporate clients. I was always building them up over time I've got a couple of videos on relationship building and things like that which are really important on any marketing I did back in 2003 is not really relevant marketing. I did for retail in 2007 much less relevant Social media is more where it's at now in terms of ways to market, but still the basis is the same It's about you know relationship building and things like that Now we started getting rid of all the retail stuff around the end of 2018 We made a lot of changes and in 2019 we phased out retail services all together So I have slowly because of the way Google lets me rename things It's been a little bit challenging to get rid of the full PC pickup name because I've registered my YouTube channel with the PC Pickup launch system So depending on when you're watching this is whether or not I've got all the changes in place to get rid of the PC pickup and call me Lawrence systems only and that brings Me like I said all the way to present day and how this company operates. So currently we've got a group of on payroll regular Staff and we have contractors we use and we have quite a few contractors I may dive into that topic in another video and like I said I want to throw this out there to kind of give the brief history of my company and where we're at In terms of the way we marketed over the years. It's one of those dynamic things I can't just give you an easy answer for but You know, we did change with the times back I remember buying paper ads when I had surrender computers newspapers were still relevant They're much less relevant today in their form of like physical paper that they were back then But you know, whatever advertising means is you're gonna do is, you know, gonna have to change and evolve with the times We got heavy into social media and public speaking was a really big part of always how I built my B2B work And that was what led to YouTube because well YouTube is the answer of how do I scale public speaking? Well public speaking or even teaching people about technology to passions I have because I spoke at things like open-source conferences and stuff like that How do you get in front of more than 30 or 40 people that can squeeze into a room? You put it on YouTube and it's kind of where we're at today right now We decided towards sometime. I think it was beginning of 2019 or end of 2018 I didn't write these dates down specifically but I thought I can reference roughly when I just quit spending any money in advertising was then because 100% of our inbound leads are currently YouTube that comes up a lot And I bring that up because a lot of people say well I want to start a tech company and the most common question on any time I talk about a wiring job or Wi-Fi project or some of these on-site videos I do is how'd you get the client? How'd you get the client people thinking that there's some magic list of things where they can get these clients? That's not the case. It is the probably you know You may have some really good technical skills, but probably your biggest challenge is going to be Landing those clients unless you're lucky enough to have a family member who can refer you business a friend who can refer you business That's a lot of times when you see people or you've asked that question and scratched your head How does that person even have a business? Sometimes you dive into their history. You'll go. Oh, yeah Their whole family, you know handed them this or they share a last name with a large company in the area The owners of that company like oh, that's how they landed some of those clients, but That's an important part to think about and I don't want to sugarcoat it. That is something, you know Really really hard and I've brought this up many times I'm not overselling or ever try to oversell entrepreneurship because I think there's too many people trying to really sell you a book sell Yeah, you too can be an entrepreneur just follow these steps and procedures and it's way more fuzzy than that That's what makes these videos a bit harder To do and people ask me a lot of business videos and my honesty makes them a little bit more challenging because I Can tell you what I did but that doesn't equate to exactly like you should just do the same thing I mean, I'm gonna say there's some pretty solid advice I give in terms of get an accountant because that's probably good advice now if someone says how do you find a good accountant? Oh, I don't know. I got lucky. I like my accountant. He's really good Well, he now it was his mom's company who started it and then he took it over so the transition of power From her over 17 years towards him running it has gone really well But that outcome is not the same because I know someone who just It was asking me about a good accountant because they had such a challenge with their accounting firm and problems of them that filing their taxes properly It's the same problem with finding a good tech company You can tell people you're a good tech company, but people are always a little skeptical of it And these are reason why any of these service-based companies. It's hard proving yourself It's hard getting out there But you know, I want at least so this history out there if there's something specific you want me to expand upon I'm more than happy to do it I'll leave a link though to a couple videos that do expand upon a couple things like how do you hire someone and you know Process procedure workflows or relationship building. I think I have a couple videos on that I'll leave them link below. I have my whole business list video and I'll put a few of them Like I said down below to talk about that I can give you general ideas that I hope help you along the way But it's not like a tech video or a firewall video where there's a specific task and outcome Which makes these a little bit harder to do but I'm always watching the comments and you know, I have my forum So I'll leave some comments and I'll try to get back there one of more things on this particular topic Maybe that you might find interesting But yeah, this is 17 years in business, which is kind of a lot to think about because I have now Very much worked for myself far longer than I've worked for anyone else I mean 17 years doesn't feel like 17 years sometimes and I I know I've heard people say that I never understood that and I don't know how to add context if you're just starting today Going what is 17 years later feel like it doesn't it feels like I've always done this But I still remember having a job at some point, but I don't know if I could ever go back to having a job That's probably one thing I can say is the thought when people have, you know Made offers over the years to buy my company. 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gentlemen, let's take a solemn moment. Thank you for your cooperation. Your mic is over there by the speaker. Thank you, thank you very much. I'm your MC. Today, my name is Zao Tao, standing next to me is my co-host. Her name's Shal. Yes. Good morning everybody, and standing next to us are the more shows of today's parade. I'm very excited to be an Asian American Pacific Islander, cultural and the Indian American. All generally the past three years have been challenging for Asian Americans, but I believe in their strength and resiliency, and they will overcome whatever comes their way. But they cannot overcome each everyone marching together and hand in hand and appreciating each other as one community. So thank you, Mayor, for preparing this first ever historical parade. Let's take this first step to find unity in diversity together. Thank you very much. To see the surge of the unsettled disease, that's the suffering of the Asian people have been going through every day.  That's what it is. The Commission of Community Affairs Unit. Now think about this for a moment. This is the first AAPI parade of this magnitude in size. When the two of them came up with the idea, they heard so many reasons why it should not have happened throughout the years and why it couldn't happen. But I know only one reason why it should happen. They should happen because this community has given so much to the city and to be able to march and celebrate. This is your way of showing not only your political strength, but it shows how you are very much part of the fiber of this city. And so we only have one message to everyone. Get this done. We will march and have a parade when it is in our message that we stand against Asian hate. We stand against anti-Semitism. We stand against hate to other ethnic and cultural groups. Our brothers and sisters from the Sikh community.  We respect each other. So I'm happy that this year is the first year that we have the AAPI. And now I'll ask you a question. What is the fastest growing group in New York? And proud of this community, trying to write immigration laws that let many more Asian Americans and Asians and Pacific Islanders come to New York and come to America. Because the more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders we have in New York, the better New York is. But I am so proud to be here with all of you. And salute you, the future of America and the future of New York.


After gathering the information and after selecting the sources for the supply, the retailer moves to the third step which is the evaluation. So, evaluation of products which the retailer going to buy. So, what is evaluation is about? The merchandise under consideration are normally evaluated and this evaluation is done either through the inspection or through the sampling. Depends on the nature of the product. So, normally, for example, if you are going to inspect a non-food item, then you normally acquire a sample or normally you acquire an inspection report or a quality report from the laboratory. So, this will really help you in identifying, in inspecting that particular product. And if it is about the food product, normally you go for sampling because or tasting because that will really help you in identifying that either this particular product is matches with the taste of the customer, of the target customer or not. So, in both the cases, it is food or non-food. Either you are going to get the inspection of the product or you do the sampling of that product, testing of the product. So, ultimate objective is the evaluation of the merchandise which you are going to select for your retail store. So, let me share with you the checklist of points to review while identifying while choosing the vendors because how you can evaluate, there is a checklist to it. So, the first point in the checklist is the reliability of the vendor. So, either the vendor which is giving you the product is reliable enough, the supplier will be able to consistently fill the promises which will be made with the retailers or not. So, either is a reliable supplier or a non-reliable supplier. This will be identified through a consistency of the promises, consistently fulfillment of the promises which the supplier is make with the market reputation because the market reputation will exactly tell you that either the supplier is reliable or not. Then you check about the price about the quality. So, who provides the best merchandise and of course at the lowest prices or at the very competitive prices because that would be the differentiation factor for the retailer. Then order processing time, which is the third point in the checklist. How fast will the deliveries will be made? So, if you are going to order for a particular product or service, then how much time would it take to the manufacturer or to the source of supply or to the vendor? How much time would it take to deliver to your store? Because if there is empty shelves, your customer will be annoyed. And then exclusive rights, very important point. So, will the supplier will give you exclusive rights of selling or will the supplier will make customized products for you? So, in both the cases, normally if you will observe internationally that for a particular retail store in case of food, the company normally designs or develop a different size of the product or different environment of the size of the product. So, what will happen in the case that you have the exclusive right of that particular size? For example, if the bottle is available in 500 ml or 200 ml and then maybe 1 liter. So, maybe for a particular retailer it is available 1.25 liter. So, that is actually the exclusive visibility. So, if the retailer, if the vendor is going to offer you some exclusive right or some exclusive product, some customized product would be an added advantage, will be a positive fact in identifying this vendor. So, what are the functions? Which vendor will provide you? Which vendor will the supplier will be giving you? Will it be giving you the transportation or delivery facility? Will they do storing for you, storage for you, warehousing facility to you? So, all different functions, if you need them, is the supplier capable to do that or is the supplier is willing to help you? Because normally the phenomena is that you work with the supplier that if you will grow as a retailer, the supplier will grow automatically. So, the next point of the checklist is about the information. So, will the supplier will be able to share the information, the necessary information about the market, about the competitor, about the customer, whatsoever he will have. Either he is ready to give you the information, if yes, it is a positive for him. If no, then of course company will be, retailer will be marking him negative in that particular point. About the ethics, so will a supplier fulfill all verbal promises and not engage in any unfair business or any labor law issues, some labor or labor practices. So, you are going to see either is a ethical supplier, ethical vendor or their practices are not ethical. About the guarantee, which is the next point in the checklist. So, either supplier have the proper guarantee or the supplier is able to fulfill its promise with respect to guarantee, if they are going to offer some warranty. So, then in this case, do they have the proper service center or the complete solution for it? Because if it is not there, then of course your customer will be disturbed and the customer will blame the retailer. The next point in the list is about the credit. So, either the supplier will be able to give you the credit or not because that is one of the key of the business model about any retailer because retailer, if they buy on cash, the business model will never work for them. So, it has to be on the credit. So, it is one of the key points on the list and that credit term should be suitable, should be viable for the retailer. So, if the supplier is interested in the long-term relationship because if the supplier will say that, okay, I am going to work only for six months, only for this season, then maybe that supplier would be question mark. But if the supplier is ready to work with you for the longer period of time, that is a positive point in this segment. So, reordering. So, will the supplier will be able to fulfill the orders, reordering will be on the promptee, he will manage the deliveries properly. We will be discussing in this point about the markups. Will price margins markup will be adequate? Will the retailers will get adequate profits, adequate margins? If it is yes, it is of course a win-win for the retailer and the supplier. Innovativeness. So, is the supplier line innovative or still is the following the conservative approach? The conservative in terms of the product, in terms of packaging, in terms of the business approach. So, normally the retailer prefer to work with the suppliers that are innovative in their approach of product, of packaging, of delivery, of placement of every single thing. And then local advertising is the next point in the checklist. So, is supplier normally is managing the below-the-line activities or the above-the-line activities related to marketing? If it is yes, then it is a positive point because the product will have the awareness and ultimately the customer will buy more and more products. Second last point on the checklist is about the investment, that how large a total investment cost with a supplier. And then the last point on the list is the risk, that how much risk is involved in dealing with that particular supplier. So, a retailer will evaluate that starting from the reliability and ending up on the risk. These checklists will be evaluated for all suppliers or vendors which you have just selected in the second step. So, this will really help you in moving forward to the next step in a very productive manner because if the selection criteria is not properly followed, of course, retailer will face consequences.


Hi. I'm Chris. I've worked at Google for actually about nine years. That's the funny thing about this. It's really more like, this is sort of a story I've been telling lately about the meaning of Android and where it came from. A lot of people, they have all these assumptions about the origin of Android. But like the movie Wolverine Origins, it's not the truth. It's not good. So I wanted to tell the actual story of how Android got started as part of the story of where we are now in the mere 20 minutes, which I usually take just introducing myself. Yeah, so let's get started. So this is like, oh, look who I am. But if you don't know, I'm sure you can use your favorite search engine, whichever one it might be, to find out. Although on one of them, there's a scrapbooker who is more popular than me with the last name of Dubona. So that's something I'm conflicted about. But yeah, hi. So I'm Chris. I look after license compliance for Google. That's my primary job. I do these speeches from time to time, but my main job is making sure Google does not screw up compliance. And actually, most of that work is done by Daniel Berlin, who's over here in the second row. So he's like the true hero that allows me to go and do ridiculous trips like New Orleans and have a beignet in theory.  So the only thing I'm going to say about the summer of code during this is that if you have a college age friend or child or girlfriend or boyfriend, tell them about the summer of code. It's a great way to get introduced to open source software development. On average, for the last five or six years, although we've been running them for nine years, we've generated about 3 million lines of code for open source projects via this program every single year. And it pays. So it's like a little internship where they do it wherever they are. And we have a high school flavor of this, too. So any of you who might have high school students in your lives, tell them about the Google code and so that they can become one of us in this world of open source software. And I just saw a person in a penguin suit walk by in the conference hall back there. That was a little freaky. Because it's like, anyway. So 2005, late 2004, I was asked to take part in a study about how people get to their information and what they do with it when they get it at Google, where it was a nuclear at the time. I was brand new to the company. And we mapped out everything. We mapped out how mobile worked, how codecs worked, how people got to the internet via browsers and all the rest. Because we had this idea in our head that there was this platonic ideal going on on the internet where people could go basically to any website they wanted to go to from any sort of platform they were on. And that was an ideal. And it was an ideal that gave birth to Google in this sort of very fair and yet very, very competitive environment. And how did that happen? How did the internet happen? And we all know the story of the internet and servers and all the rest. And if you look at it now and if you look at it through the history, what was happening was you had multiple open source options competing with actually multiple commercial offerings to satisfy their end user or the developers who might use a tool like say Apache, which was competing at IIS and other options, or Sendmail, competing with Qmail, competing with Alwa, competing with Lotus Notes I guess at the time, which I know you're all huge fans of. So I don't want to forget about it. And that was a joke. Not because it was bad. It was very innovative for 1992. But let me continue. But if you looked at the way people were competing for users, it was when you had this platonic ideal of multiple open source projects competing with each other and commercial options competing too, that ended up resulting in a great environment for us to exist in, for Google to exist in. And so we're like, OK, what does 2005 look like to the smartphone user? At the time, smartphone honestly meant Symbian and maybe a bit of RIM, and a little bit of Windows CE slash Windows Mobile at the time. At that time, Symbian was around 84%, 87% of the market, and the rest was RIM and Windows Mobile. And we'd gotten wind about the iPhone and what people were thinking about that, and we knew it would be a very powerful competitor in the space. But I know that none of you have seen an iPhone. It's made by a company called Apple. And that was also kind of a joke. Just keeping you rolling here. But we also knew that to get Google onto these phones at the time was pretty grim.  And often, to get your website into these browsers, you would have to cut a deal with a carrier, a handset manufacturer, and it was bad. And basically, we knew. You didn't have to be brilliant. And a lot of people were like, it's the year of mobile, man. And it's like, wow, welcome to 1994. You didn't have to be a genius to figure out this is where we were going, that people are going to be carrying around mobile phones. They're going to be accessing the internet on them. Who knew? Well, everyone knew this. This wasn't brain's rocket surgery. So we wanted to make sure that they could have the same sort of experience they had on the desktop with multiple browsers competing to access multiple servers on the internet on their phones. But there was no real open source option that we felt would engage the user. And there were a couple of open source projects out there trying to do it. But nothing that we were convinced would actually do well. So we came up with Android. And we're like, OK, what would a good open source option in the mobile operating system space look like? Well, we knew it would have to be able to access the internet and get web pages just like a normal browser would. It wouldn't have that kind of gatekeeping mechanism where it would only go to those websites that were approved by the carrier. And we went a little further because when we were thinking about licensing and why we picked the Apache License as the bulk of Android, we knew that it would have to have a good patent grant attached to it. So that people would not be worried that Google would come and rent and seek against them as they implemented their Android phones. And so we came up with Android. This was the G1. That wasn't the one I gave away four years ago. I gave away the one right after this. And you didn't get one. So thanks, Jim. That makes people love the person talking. So they're like, you could do it really, no kind of. And so this is what we launched. We wanted to basically provide in some ways a new minimum that people would expect from cell phones. That no one would ever again think, you know what we need to do? We need to make sure that WebsiteX pays us before we allow you to access them. We were anticipating problems with net neutrality even this early on the mobile experience. So we basically wanted to make it really hard for people to compete in a marketplace of restriction. And so now where are we? So we're in this place now where we have multiple open source competitors, although most of them are Android forks, frankly, and multiple commercial operating systems all competing for user desire. And what that means is since the user really, really wants to get to their websites, they really want to get to applications too, that the cell phone operating system vendors can't basically compete by restriction. And we can't do it. Apple can't do it. And the rest, we have to provide a minimum level of freedom that allows companies like Google to continue to exist and yours to. So where are we today? For Android devices, we passed the billion devices shipped mark. And those are just the ones that have activated with Google. That doesn't include the many, many, many millions of devices from alternatives like Amazon, solid alternatives like Amazon's Kindle line, and others. And it's more than a million plus devices activated every day. And those are all running Linux. And Jim's talked about it, but the reality is that Android success has been very good for Linux. I think it would be very, very hard, for instance, for the Raspberry Pi to be as successful as it had without the system on chip device support that Android brought. So we work really, really hard to ensure that that continues. So for instance, just in the last month alone, we've released three different versions of Jelly Bean into the Android OpenSource project. We have KitKat on deck. I'm not going to say coming soon because I don't know the exact date of the KitKat launch for the Android Open Source project. But we keep on releasing software. And while it's more of the punctuated equilibrium model, it gets better every year. And four years ago, when I talked with people, they were still accusing us of operating a fork and wake locks from Satan and all of these things. But we stuck to it, and we kept working with the mainstream kernel community to make sure that all of our changes were frankly cohesive of what they were doing because we knew what shipping at the time, hundreds of thousands of devices in a week, would turn into. And we knew that if we could just keep as close to the main line as possible, it would be good for us and good for Linux. And that's where we are today, which is it's a pretty good place to be. So how do you know it's actually open source? Now this is a really important thing because we see people talking about open platforms all the time. And it personally bothers me. So let me just give you a little bit of a shorthand. So how you can tell something's really open source, something's really made from free software. Is somebody other than the company who made it shipping it? In competition with that original shipment. So for instance, in Android, you have Android phones coming out of actually, I have this on the next slide. Oh, did I go forward like 12 slides? It's like, anyway. So you have phones right now from Android, not a phone. You have the tablets from Amazon. You've got phones from Facebook.    And oftentimes, a number of these platforms, they never say word Boo to Google. They ship their own app stores. There's many, many flourishing app stores out there. They ship their own everything. And so this is one way you know that Android is actually released under a real open source license. And you'll also notice that we're not out there suing them for doing it, because we used a patent granting license that would preclude that. And it's also not in our nature. But the reality is, if we're optimizing for even an evil Google, which doesn't exist currently, you would know it. So when somebody says that they're shipping something open source, you should ask yourself, how are they actually doing it? You know, we even went so far as the robot up there in the upper right-hand corner. I'm sure you all have seen this all over the place. That was released under the Creative Commons by attribution license from the very, very beginning. And it doesn't have a cute name like Andy or Larry or something like that. It's just called the bug droid, because we weren't super creative about our naming. But even that was released. So when I bought a phone case from my recent phone, it actually came in a box. And the box actually had the licensing information for the bug droid, which I'd never seen people comply with, frankly. It's very rare to see that, because they're like, hey, I've got a dancing robot figure in my commercial. And they're not going to say anything. And sometimes you can track it down. But yeah, it's funny, because my job is licensed compliance. So sometimes I'll email a manufacturer and say, you know, it'd be great if you put this bug droid licensed under the hello, hello. So yeah, it's kind of interesting. But we did something a little different, too, in the creation of Android that a lot of people don't think about. How many of you are familiar with the intense system?  Yeah, so about an eighth of you, maybe a 16th or a 24th. Anyway, so what it does is basically when you have an application that's going to send an email, it tells the operating system I'm going to send an email. And that persistent comes back and says, well, here's how you're going to do it. And then you say, you know what, I'm going to install K9 Mail on my phone. So you install K9 Mail. The next time you go to send an email, the operating system is going to give you that screen. Which program do you want to run to send your email? And you can pick just once, or forever, whatever your choice is. Suppose you want to switch over to K9 from, say, Gmail. So you click that. That's the intense system in action. And if you add another email program, or if you reset it, it'll ask you again. And it's not just for things like email or going to a browser, right? Oh, by the way, we're the only platform that allows you to swap out the browser, too, which is nice. You can do it with lock screens. You can do it with home screens. You can do it with the SMS application, the dialer, contacts, anything. You can create your own intents. So suppose you have some app, like WhatsApp or whatever, that has a new kind of intent that it also wants to do. Well, you can do that. And we did this because we also knew that one of the ways that people would express themselves is by not allowing you to replace competitive offerings, right, like a browser, like a map system. So in fact, a lot of people don't know this. But when you use Chrome on an iOS, you're really using a wrapped Safari rendering engine with some Chrome bits around it, because we are not allowed to ship our own browser on that platform.  So we didn't want to be that company, right? And so we built that in from the very beginning in Android. So yeah.  It's funny, with the drama that's gone on with RIM, for instance, we've seen them say, well, we're going to ship a phone that can run Android applications. And the way they did that is they took the Android open source project and they just put the frameworks on top of their operating system. And they've recently said they're thinking about shipping RIM on top of Android as a home screen type replacement, I guess. I'm not privy to their plans because they don't talk to us. Why would they? They don't have to. Similarly, you've seen people take things like the old web OS operating system and port it to run on top of Android. And if you look at a lot of, frankly, some of the very exciting work that's being done with Firefox OS and a bunch of Edge and the rest, you can usually find some Android there, whether it's the driver layer or the service flinger layer or something else. And that's pretty great, honestly. And when I look at like, so I finally got to handle a Firefox OS phone when I was in Brussels recently. Not because it's the only place you can get it. I ran into a guy. And it was really pretty cool.  And Android has been created so that that works. And it's been ported to non-arm platforms rather natively.  And if you're creating a new platform, it's actually pretty easy to do. So often, usually the biggest trouble people have is getting video to work right and the other sensors, because of the vagaries of those businesses. So yeah, so that's where we are today. We have a place worth over a million apps, over 50 billion of them downloaded as of July of this year. And we're shipping the Moto X phone out of Motorola. But there's lots of great phones out there, the Galaxy S4 and all the rest. And they're all running open source software. Either software that we've released as open source, or frankly, your code that we've brought into the operating system in the form of the kernel and elsewhere. So that's sort of an update. And that's five years. And I said nine years because we did that study back in 2005. But you know what it comes down to is that the Android today is actually a really powerful thing. And I want people to understand what that power is. And it's really been informed by really what Apache did and what Sendmail and Qmail and all the rest did. And because of that understanding and because of what open source brought to us, and because of frankly the head start that using an open source kernel and the open source tools brought with it, we were able to make Android work for Google, but also for all these people who don't like Google. So it's a pretty great thing. And that's where we are today.


I welcome to the Society of Antiquities. My name is Stephen Johnson. I'm the treasurer of the Society. It's my pleasure to welcome you here on this public lecture occasion. You're in a room which has been used by the Society of Antiquities. It is one of the six societies around the fortnight. Since about the 1850s or 1860s, these apartments built for us. They are filled with all sorts of goodies from the past, which have been left to us by antiquarians, fellows like me of the past, including the portraits you see on the wall here, and some of the pictures you see on the wall there. Our absolute star portrait is Mary Tudor, who is actually on loan to someone else. That's a facsimile at the moment, but she's off on loan in an exhibition somewhere. She was painted by a painter called Hans Ewan in about 1554-55. That is a contemporary portrait of Mary Tudor, of course, Henry the Edd's daughter. We have a number of other portraits around the room, which I'm sure will attract your attention in due course. Outside, if you're interested in Richard III, there is the Cross, which was found at the site of the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, where Richard lost his life and Henry VII became king. Anyway, enough of the history lesson, but we're here, and I'm very pleased to be able to welcome so many members of the public and of course members of the MCC who are here today, including your president's wife and David Morgan. We're very pleased to see you all here. I'm very grateful that you've all come to this public lecture. Now, we always try to improve our public lecture series, so on your seats you'll have either sat on or picked up a little piece of paper which actually says, how are we doing? What can we do better? And if you're doing the course of today's lecture, not Howard, of course, but if you're doing the course of today's lecture, you can think of ways in which we can actually make this better for the public, the better for the people who come and visit, then please let us know. There will be a tray somewhere, that blue tray by the door, if you'd like to dump your comments in that, that's great. We launched this public lecture programme a couple of years ago to promote the work of the society and we've had a whole eclectic series of lectures of all sorts of subjects. This is the first time we've dealt with cricket. I presume we're dealing with cricket because Simon was from the Pavilion and so many members of the MCC here and I hope there might be something to do with cricket. This is the first time we've dealt with cricket and the heritage of cricket. Now, Howard Hanley is not only a fellow of the society here, but he's actually a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry as well. He's got a wide range of interests in publications which span things like social history, English literature and English art, as well as cricket. So I've looked forward very much to his lecture today and his lecture is called Silent Voices from the Lord's Pavilion. I call out the pressure. You can hear me okay for your back please. No, this is enormous pleasure and honestly a great compliment to me to be allowed to give this lecture. Someone said it's a lot better here than somewhere like Layton Town Hall or something like that. Frankly, the address of giving a cricket lecture to a Burlington house especially coming from Australia does me some plus points very much. But I would like to thank not only the society, but you individually, Rene LaDou and Rola Zullig outside who did, I know how much work it costs in time to put on a lecture like this, especially dealing with crusty or egomaniacs and so on. I thank you very much. First of all, the two people who have to be thanked seriously is Neil Robinson, I'm glad to see you here from the MCC and David Studham from Melbourne Credit Club, who unfortunately is not well and couldn't come today. Without the resources of their libraries, this would be absolutely totally impossible. And not only did they allow me to look at the resources, but they actually volunteered information. So thank you very much, Neil, and thank David, please, Robbie. I'd also like to thank my niece, Lynne, who couldn't come today because she's got work to do and your family always, it was a bit like me down, I imagine. But she did quite a lot of work with the photography and stuff and it's a great shame she's not here. Right, let me make a start please. Simon Vices of this work, Simon Mackman. The Pavilion, of course, is the Lord's Pavilion, which must be known to all of you, but not necessary as well to some of the others. That's the famous Pavilion of Lords and just for the background. If you're not familiar with this, the Lord's Laws is not related to the Purige. Quite the contrary, Thomas Lord was an ordinary bloke. He was a very enterprising man. He was pallied with the first members of what we now call the MCC, literally friends and they trusted him. They asked him to build the grounds of which to play. The Lords, we now know, in St John's Wood, was open for play in 1814 and I should say that they're celebrating the bicentenary of this event. The interest of the society here is a great two heritage building, it's brick and terracotta, and it was opened in 1890. That total cost of £21,000 is possible minus a bit, but that's kind of absurd to build this. The architect was a firm run by Thomas Berryty, and the firm still exists. He was a very famous man at the time. He designed not only Lords, but he designed the Commonwealth of West End Theodos and had to do a lot of the structures that you take totally for granted now. Something to do, I think, with the Victorian Albert Museum and the Albert Hall and other stuff. So this is non-trivial of this building. It's not just a brick and terracotta building, it's a serious building. Now I'm going to make the statement, I hope no one here argues with me. This is the most famous single structure in all sports. I would never say all sports, I mean all sports with the qualification maybe of team sports. I read somewhere that if someone who played in 1890 was played today at Lords, they'd recognised where they were, and you can't say they're at any other ground. I think it's also symbolic, not just of the cricket connection. This is the beginning of what we might call the modern age of sport, 1890 or plus or minus a bit. This is when sport became popular, big crowds, media coverage, all to the personality, bribes, good things, bad things, tabloids, and if they had television they'd be right there. This is the beginning and Lords' Pavilion is the symbol of the beginning of this era. I also think there's a big social history context to this. If you do nothing about the social history of, let's say England and the Empire in time, and you look to the records of the MCC, I think you'd get a pretty good idea of what was going on in the social life of England because the members of the MCC had a considerable influence in the country. They still do, especially in those days. So how the MCC reacted to games and what they did with the professionals, how they handled people, et cetera, et cetera, to make a nicer essay on the history of English cricket. So I'm saying that. If I didn't start this way, I'd start talking about cricket signatures and I bore you all to death. I notice there's no portraits of Donald Brown and more and more. Which is an oversight. So now I start a lecture. This is one of the tiles of the pavilion. This is what I'm talking about. This is a balcony. It's a bar behind the balcony. You see here the people doing what you have to do. They may have a drink and watch the cricket. That's just the beginning of my story. I have the privilege of being a member of going to that bar fairly often. Surprisingly, I looked down about four years ago. I was out on the balcony there with my beer in one hand and I looked down and I saw this written, scrolled on the balustrade of the balcony. Now I know my cricket. That's immediately W Armstrong, Warwick Armstrong. The signature thereof. Underneath that's a little one, Lightning, 1899. Lightning's another signature, a chap named Charlie McLeod. He was called Lightning because he was always late for me. That raises an eyebrow.  You knew, or I knew, that he played for Australia in between 1902 and 1921. Clearly he was at Lord's otherwise. Now I've got me thinking. The cut along is a huge long story short. This is a photograph of the 1902 Australian team in England. Every one of those members, can I move this? Here's Warwick Armstrong. With exceptions, captain. I think he might be there. Every one of this team has a signature or initial scroll on that balcony. Even more, the voices are these people. Not only is it 1902, which I'll just show you in the picture. The Australians toured England in those years, 1902. Every, there are about 50 odd players who toured during that time. That was about 40 would have been different because they would have become more than once. Of that 40 odd, I can easily recognise 20 of the signatures. Not necessarily from 1902. I'll show you a few from 1890. Clearly, this was a fashion, a thing to do. That's the voices and the pavilion, of course, is the Lord's pavilion. Now, this is where belonging to society really helps. It's frankly not very difficult to record the signatures and write a brief article with lots of pickies because they're right there in front of you. But when you delve into this kind of thing, you get obsessed, frankly, I'm afraid, and you begin to live these times, what they're doing. And you mentioned, or Stephen mentioned briefly, Richard III, there was a lecture here on the discovery of his remains. Well, I hope that the people who discovered that, not only were, unbelievably proud of the enormous significance historically, but they must have felt they were living in that time. So they didn't just look at the bones, they looked at how he died. I mean, they must have been there. Now, I don't think that Richard III is quite as important as the signatures at Lord's, but the context is the same. So that's what really is going on from here on now. So let's go back to the days when these signatures were written. 1890 to 1992. I should say before anyone asks, in 1992, the dressing rooms were changed to what you know now. They were not dressing rooms then. So after 1992, there are none of these signatures. Right, we go back. This is actually 1896. Here's a pavilion. Here's the balcony. A couple of blokes there, watching. Now, this is just a parathentical remark, but I'm not going to flash that image I showed before. This is a pavilion today. If you compare the two, I mean, the MCC should take enormous pride in restoring or keeping this building in such a historically faithful manner. Though I was reading one or two of the old tour books written by the Australians who toured in the 1980s, 90s, 1900s. One of the comments they made was they went enough lavatories or shouts, and I think that's been improved now. It is still a bit of a problem. Anyway, so there's a pavilion, but I would say the same. Then, now, isn't it then? Right. Now, this is behind the pavilion. If this works across fingers, this is behind the pavilion in 1898. Now, if you don't recognise one of these gentlemen who shouldn't be here, here comes W.G. Grace. You can see his character in a second. See? This is the bullshit, even in those days. Right? Now, that was taken in 1898. I'm pretty certain it's one of the oldest. This is actually gentlemen players. We won't talk about them because they're not Australian. Grace, of course, you can't do that. This, I think, must be the oldest critic photo. Is it not any one critic photo? Did anyone see anything older than that? I am. Never mind. Move on. Okay, now this to me was a gem. I can read it if you can't see it at the back. Darling acknowledges the cheers of the crowd. Joe Darling is one of the players of the 1902. He was a captain, I'm sorry, in 1899 and 1902 and other teams. He was one of the... I couldn't find his signature, but I'm sure it's there. Anyway, England lost to Australia in 1899 and had lost at Lord's. He's acknowledging the cheers of the crowd and good heavens. I'm sorry, this was by a chap named Frank Gillett in the daily newspaper called The Daily Graphic. There's totally contemporary. No cheating. There is the balustrade absolutely. That's where the signatures are. I was very nice. Thank you. Okay, now here's another thing. What did he look at? What did he see, Mr Darling and the rest of them? That's where... That's the Lord's Ground. I'll read the bottom. This is from the Australian newspaper, 1899. Obviously written just after the test started in 1899. It says, Warol Batting, darling with him. That's the guy in the balcony here. Lily, when you keep a random stitch in the slips, the test is in England versus Australia's second test match at Lord's. That was taken without any shadow of doubt by Frank Lever, who was a member of the team and a keen photographer. So now you get some idea of standing in their footsteps.  Admittedly, it's slightly different than it is today. This was taken from the roof a little bit higher than the roof.  But come on, use your imagination, get rid of that. It's not so much different from that. It's not the same. But the layout of the ground and so on and so forth is very much the same. So now you understand, I hope, where all this is coming from, but we came here to see something in the signatures. And I can't show the ball because there are about 20 or so, and we're not a rather obvious sum of numbers. Let's have one or two. The first one. JJL is Joe Lyons. 1890, clear as anything. Now he was a flash opening batsman. Very fast scorer, personality. He's here because he was probably the first man to put his signature on the Pavilion. The Pavilion was opened in late May 1890. I should say it's not particularly difficult to make a pretty good guess exactly when they did these signatures. Because first of all, if you're going to score a signature, you've got to have time to do it. So if you're in the field, you don't have time. If you're batting extremely well, you don't have time. If it rains, you have lots of time. My best is, this was June the 2nd in the afternoon. And if anyone cares to bet, I will take it. You've got to remember, we're all sobs now, but we're talking about, guys, a 2021. Nowadays they would have the iPhone and tool in the way when they had nothing to do. Here, why not do a signature? Anyway, he has cried a place. I changed the colour here because I hope you see it. That reads, I just changed the colour. E. Jones, 1899 June. That would be about June 12. Ernie Jones was the first true Australian fast bowler. And he is in legend of cricket history. Cos he bowled, he was bowling to the great W.G. Grace, the chap I showed with the big beard. A boulder ball which went through his beard. No doubt there was a frank stage of views, but Jones said, according to legend, sorry doctor, she slipped. Now whether Mitchell Johnson would do the same nowadays, or Brawl or someone, I'm not sure. But there you go, you see. This is a group, this is typical of a group of three. This was done in the Lord's test in 1992. This was done after lunch on the first day because it rained and the rain thing was rained out. There are three names. They may not mean much to modern people. That's S.E. Gregory R.A. Duff and A.J. Hopkins. We are doubted that many people have heard. He played for Australia without real distinction. But in this game, he had a bowl. England lost two wickets, both to him and there were two most prolific batsman of the day. Maybe Ranjit Simsie and Fry. He got it out from Dutch. Then it rained. Right. The early, rather aggressive looking bloke is Mr Warwick Armstrong later life. Later for him, I would say 1929. At the chap who did the signature when I first showed it to you. Now I may be reading a bit too much into this, but you can do this if you've got nothing else to do. You notice this guy obviously took some time and care to write his full name. But he completely overwrote some poor chap we did in 1890. Now this was done in 1982. Now, it's a mild indication of a fair amount of, I would say, selfishness, maybe? I don't know. But Armstrong is famous for one of the most absolutely unbelievable incidents in Tess Cricket. He bowled to it as a succession. Now, if you don't know the cricket laws, it may not mean much, but that is so staggering. It's like playing the British opening golf and taking missing two or three times until you get the ball on the green. I mean, it's just not done. He got away with stuff. Unfortunately, of course, he's long dead now. He turned out to be a rather aggressive sportswriter. Here's another one. MA Noble, 1899. MA Noble was a very nice man, a very good captain of Australia, much respected. But again, he's rather famous for a reason he probably would like to forget. He bowled in the, this was the MCC versus Australian game, August 1st, 1899. He bowled a ball that was hit over the Pavilion of Lords. I've got an image here, not of him being hit over the Pavilion of Lords. I think this is staggering. The pitch is not very good, but I hope you can hear that. Here's a good old Pavilion, of course. He's bowling from this end. Sorry, the bowler is bowling from this end. Yeah, sorry. Noble is bowling from this end. The batsman, who's a trot, was at this end. And whoa! Now, come on, guys. Nowadays we have 20-20 games and everyone gets hysterical and lands there for six rounds. Now, bear in mind in those days, let's face it, men were not as strong. The bats were thinner, the ball was larger. That was an incredible feat. Never been done again. There you go. Now I come to these, might say the key piece. I think I'll ask the audience, what's the key stand for? Thank you. Victor Trumper, 1899. Clear as a bug. Right? Victor Trumper was one of the very few iconic sports players, little picketers, who was clearly, I have to use the word adored, by the public. He played, this is his first series, cricket series in England. He played seriously for 1898 and he died unfortunately, I'll come to this later, in 1915. During this time, he established a reputation of being not only a wonderful batsman, but fluidity, grace, charm, et cetera, et cetera. And even after a hundred years, there's still debates in Australia how good he was compared with Don Bradman, which of course the combination is nonsense. Don Bradman to those who don't know is unbelievably the most prolific batsman ever. Anyway, this is his photo. Now this is worthy of a lecture in itself. This was taken in 1902, actually at the Oval, not at Laws, by a man, George Belden, who was a good bowler for Middlesex. Now just have a little think on this. This was done obviously at right angles to the action. It was staged in the sense that he was definitely going to hit the ball, but he was not part of the match, it was before the match. Because there were no telephoto lens and shutter speeds were less in those days. But I can't help thinking about this picture a lot. First of all, look at this. Look at the movement in this picture. That foot's coming down to the shadow. Look at the symmetry of the X here. It's a prolific picture. But what is so good about it? You see a combination. This young man he's a handsome fellow. You see a fluidity to him. But look, I would like to get in front of him when he's driving the ball at me. I mean he's a serious man.  It is the most famous picture in cricket. You'll see it. Even every day, any Australian cricket book I'm guaranteed to have it somewhere. If I die, I would like this testament. I don't think I'll die.  This is a cartoon by Frank Reynolds. 1909. Trump had toured England in 1909. I've written out that on the top is what's written on the bottom. Tell you what, you be England and I'll be Victor trumpet. Now notice it's not Victor Trumpa. It's Victor trumpet. So isn't that a compliment? Now he died at the age of 37 in 1915. And I now have a movie of his funeral in Sydney. This to me is staggering. 1915 this was August was the ending of the disastrous Darbyn El's politically campaign which is huge in Australia. It's called Anzac Day. And a lot of people say it defines Australia. It's a mature nation. Australia loss of life. Of course English was elsewhere was too. But people were unbelievably sad at this time in 1915. 20,000 people turned up for his entourage and his funeral. That's his entourage. In the middle of the war for a guy who's just a sportsman. Pretty good. Now I'm going to change mood a little bit. What I've been talking about is called the golden age of cricket which indeed was in many respects. But there was a downside to all this. This was the time of the late beginning of the industrial revolution where England was becoming unbelievably prosperous. Everyone knows books of countless books will be written on this about the social problems in England and elsewhere due to this. And frankly, until fairly recently most books about the golden age glossed over it. Recently that has changed. Not all the people on that who scrolled their signature were heroes, young men, wonderful guys. Here's another one and this is how a tabloid described him in Sydney. OK. Now I think even in this day and age the newspaper might hesitate to write that. This was Arthur Cunningham. That's a conny I. Definitely there I had to change the colour a little bit. Now he only played once for Australia but he had enormous distinction. This is 1893 when he played this. I'm sorry, he scrolled this. But he played for Australia in 1994 in Australia, for Australia. He has a distinction. His first ball in test cricket got a wicket and that was not only his first ball he was the first ball of the test match. Not bad start point. He was dropped out. He also was a hero because when he was touring in 93 he rescued a boy from drowning in the Thames. That's the good side. I'll read this. At the end of the tour in 93 he was in Blackpool and he was fed up and he started a little far on the outfields. He was fed up on the grass and stuff. He was tired on the grass and fed up. The next line he's soon a Catholic priest. You can read that at the back. This is totally non-proving. Absolutely. This is 1900 of rocks. In 1900 the Catholic Protestant issue was very much a sticking point in Australia. He was Protestant, the Catholic priest obviously was Catholic. Now the Catholic said that he didn't want to sue him. He didn't want to go over the balls trial. The blackmail of the Catholic priest was hoping to get money. His wife agreed that she hadn't behaved and in fact Cynon himself said that at the time of conception of the alleged child he was not capable of suffering due to her cricket injury. I'll let you all shudder about what industry might it be. Anyway, he had one trial which was a missed trial and the second one he went into was the revolver and he lost. Anyway, that was really serious. He was sent to jail for fraud later on. He was divorced by his wife for committing adultery. I liked the little phrase in the beach house so that's a bit of colour to it.  Now we're making a little bit of a joke of this I'm going to show you something where all this stuff is not a joke. I'm going back to a remark I made about the downside of the late Victorian era and the Edwardian era. There was a great deal of discontent in the cricket world which was glossed over. Particularly the English professionals had a very rough life. Even if you played for England it didn't guarantee you anything much. There was a strike in 1896 against the professional strike against the selection committee it was available. They actually backed down. They wanted more than £10 a game for playing for England. Sham amateurism you know that phrase was very popular. W.G. Grace made a fortune he made a total fortune out of the game which I guess he deserves. I'm laughing at him. Anyway there's a great deal of discontent. Don't look me down and spoil everything. This is the Melbourne Cricket Club sorry the Melbourne Cricket Ground Scoreboard 1895 right in the middle of the era I'm talking about and many of the players of course not the English but the Canadian players who played in this test match did put their signatures on the Lord's Pavilion balcony when they came to England. I'm just going to make this comment of the people you see here two committed suicide Trot and Stollard two ending their life in a Rooney Bin Trot and Brockwell and of the 22 players who played in that game four committed suicide and eight guided a little tick assignment. Now eight out of 22 is of Admiral percentage I'm bringing that up because frankly I find it fascinating and I don't think Mr Fruth is in the audience but he wrote a book David Fruth on the I won't say Admiral but certainly way above average suicide range and there's a lovely article by Peter Robach who himself committed suicide Peter Robach was a journalist and a big argument is what does cricket do to you or have you got the temperament that makes you like cricket but also has these bad things now that's awfully gloomy let's end on a more cheerful note Quiz Name those two people please and chat with the Moustach Schluisey Correct Arthur Conan Durham Name the chap, the younger man on the other side I know someone who knows the answer Correct PG Woodhouse Okay Both these guys played on the same team several times around this time they played for teams like authors vs artists or someone vs publishers and that sort of thing they played at Lord's this is documented they played at Lord's and I know that they were in that dressing room where the so-called famous players were I've looked hard to see if at least I could see a PGW but I haven't but I'd like to end on rather a nice note I think through if I'm right Woodhouse well first of all before we get to that people should know if you don't know already that Conan Doyle was a complete cricket nut cricket tragic he's called in Australia Sherlock Holmes is named after Shylock a knotting lotting fair player and Woodhouse the famous jeems is named after Cricketer Percy Jeems that's definitely Woodhouse Conan Doyle got one wicked first class cricket it was W.G. Grace but they were playing together and Woodhouse made his name as an author sort of a semi autobiographical around 1900 plus or minus a little later he had stories about a chap named Mike Mike's story started out with him as being a senior schoolboy but then he went into the city because his parents couldn't afford him to take time off to play cricket and he hated it and he ducked out to play cricket now Woodhouse did that himself but the stories are about Mike doing exactly the same thing and one of the short stories called Mike at Lord's Mike gets a phone call from his brother who played for Sussex who's playing middle sex at Lord's the brother says please come right now to Lord's we need you to play I mean he was good enough to play Mike so Mike dashes over to Lord's and he's worried about losing his job because he's missing the bank but in the book I now quote this is what Mike does after getting there he changed and went out and the little pavilion looked about me the top of the pavilion I think that means that Woodhouse was there without any shadow there so one day maybe I'll find his signatures and I think at that point