Ahoy-hoy and welcome to the video. I'm Dr. Samarian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to talk about, well, the updates on the SCP legal case. But first, a message from our sponsor. Or more accurately, a message from me for our sponsor. So, um, the Escape from Site-19 guys are running a bit of a promotion right now. And if you purchase an Escape from Site-19 board game, which I did a whole review of on my channel, you can find a link in the description. But the long and short of it, and there will be also a link to their store and a coupon code for it. But the long and short of it is that it's a very high quality, well produced, SCP board game that I think you will really enjoy. But if you purchase one right now, you can get this, when day breaks, special 001 card. Which if you play the game, you'll know what these actually do. Basically, they set up tasks that you have to complete for the particular game that you're playing. 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A Russian man has illegally registered an illegitimate trademark for SCP within the Eurasian Customs Union. He has used this trademark to threaten and extort legitimate sellers of SCP merchandise. In addition, he has committed copyright infringement by violating the SCP content license. Creative Commons share alike attribution 3.0. It doesn't say attribution on here. It really should. We first updated the community about the situation six months ago, and now it has escalated. This man has recently resumed his efforts to threaten and extort competitors, and has now begun to threaten SCP itself. He has used the illegitimate trademark to shut down the official social media page of the Russian branch of the SCP Foundation Wiki, as well as a separate fan art page. We attempted to negotiate with VK, the social media company, in question, but so long as the trademark registration stands, they will abide by it. Now, he has followed this by making a ridiculous demand to be administrator of the Russian Wiki, and that said Wiki be twisted into an advertisement for his merchandise rather than the writing community that it is. These actions threaten not only the Russian Wiki, but every SCP branch writer and fan around the world. We stand with SCPRU, reject these threats, and are organizing a lawsuit to annul his false trademark. Prevent copyright infringement and protect the community. As an organization of volunteers, this is a measure we do not often pursue due to the costs involved. Last May, we received many offers from generous SCP fans offering to donate to a legal fund. At the time, we did not accept any offers, as we believe the situation could be resolved via diplomacy. With these new developments, this is no longer possible. As such, we humbly ask that anyone who loves SCP and has some money to spare, donate to our legal fund in order to protect our global community. This is, I believe, yeah, it's closed. You can't donate anymore. This is, again, this is an update for people who aren't familiar with the case. I could go through the 16 updates, but I'm going to just give you a basic summary of what's happened. They got a lawyer, I mean, they got a lot of lawyers, I think. They took it to the Intellectual Property Court in Russia, and the announcement of the case's conclusion made it seem really like a really good thing. There was a lot of focus on the positives, and there were some positives, let me be clear. But there was also one big negative, and we'll talk about that in this update, because in this update they reiterate what happened last time around. Hello everyone, we've got some news. It's not good, but it's not terrible either. On appeal, the previous court's ruling was upheld by the Intellectual Property Court. That is, the first court they went to made a ruling. As a reminder, the previous court ruled, and now we can explain what the previous court actually ruled. The SCP Foundation name and logo were created by parties other than Duxen, Duxen being the individual who is at the center of this problem. Duxen did not commission their creation. The parties which created the SCP Foundation name and logo did not transfer their rights to Duxen, nor did they ever intend to do so. The actions taken by Duxen may, this is an important word, may be an act of unfair a competition in and of themselves, and could lead to an illegitimate monopoly due to using said trademark towards where's works and services not protected by said trademark. However, that ruling also leaves the trademark intact. The court chose not to address the issue at all. They took no actions. As they say here, the case is far from finished, and I should say the original court decided not to take up the issue. The appeals court also chose not to take up that particular issue. The trademark is still intact. Nothing has fundamentally changed since the legal cases started. Let's put it that way. It hasn't gotten worse, it hasn't gotten better, but it was pretty bad to start with, so nothing changing is not great. The case is far from finished though, I'm reading again from the thing. We are planning on appealing the decision to the next court up the intellectual property court presidium to challenge the ruling. Hopefully we will not need to appeal again, but we will continue trying regardless until we have a definitive ruling protecting SCP for all content creators or all legal options are exhausted. We will continue to update you as the case unfolds. So I'm going to very briefly give you my opinion here, and this is very much opinion. This is not going to go anywhere. Asking for a variety of very political reasons that we do not have time to get into. So asking a Russian court to invalidate a Russian trademark when Russia is a first to file country, which means whoever files the trademark first gets it. But asking a Russian court to invalidate a Russian individual's trademark for non-Russian peoples, which is strictly speaking not wholly true, but since most of this is coming in from the outside and not from the creators who are actually affected in Russia. Anyway, since this is coming from the outside, this is essentially for non-Russian individuals was always going to be a very, very long shot. Russia is not going to do that. Especially, I shouldn't say they're not going to do that. It's possible that we could still see this be reversed and that the trademark will be annulled and or invalidated. However, it's very, very unlikely. If it was Coca-Cola making this argument over a trademark, they'd have probably enough pull and clout to get this done. I'm sorry, the SCB Foundation is not that important. Not important enough for Russia to make some sort of precedent ruling saying that, yeah, let's invalidate a Russian trademark for non-Russian individuals. It's not going to happen. It's just not. I hope it does, though. I really do. And there's two things I want to say about this because every time this comes up, people panic. This isn't going to mean anything for you if you're not in the, what is it, the Eurasian Customs? Well, let me double-check. Yeah, the Eurasian Customs Union, which is a alliance. It's a very small regional, well, small, Russia's a huge country, but a small in number regional alliance that deals with trademark in Eastern Europe, roughly. And I think Central Asia a little bit too. Regardless, if you're not in one of those countries, you're basically going to be unaffected by this. And even if you are in one of those countries, you're not going to be unable to consume SCP fiction. There may be some difficulties with the SCP Wiki, the Russian branch of the SCP Wiki, but I don't think they're intractable problems. Just put it that way. So this isn't going to have, this isn't going to have very major effects on the SCP community. However, it is still very wrong. And it is going to have an outsized effect on the Russian Wiki. And that is something that I personally, that's the part that bothers me the most, right? Like the main SCP Wiki is always going to be fine.  And there's no other way to put it. So it's very important, even if it's not going to affect them much. And even if it's not going to affect us, that we step up and help protect them as best as we can. I'm not saying that they're weak. They're just smaller. There's less people. And with less people, people, it becomes harder to defend yourself. I don't think one of the off branches alone could have raised $164,000 for a legal fund. But we as a whole community can. But first of all, so no, don't panic. That was number one. There's a second very important thing is, and this ties into what I was just saying is, don't blame the Russian Wiki or Russians in general for this problem. This is one guy doing something that is really annoying and very troubling. But it's not all Russian people. And it's definitely not the Russian branch who are the most victimized by this problem. Yeah, I just want to cover those two points because every time this comes up, one of those two things happens and it really bothers me. Either people blame Russia and or Russians in general, or they panic and think that the SCP Wiki is going to die. Even if we lose, you know, they say his trademark is legitimate. I don't know what you're talking about. He can do whatever he wants to with it. That's not going to affect people outside of Russia. It's really going to hurt the Russian Wiki. I'll tell you that that sort of, but we're not going to get there. I don't think we're going to get there. But it won't. 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Yashini, can you please introduce yourself? Sir, my name is Yashini. I am basically from Tamil Nadu, but I am born and brought up in an international position. I take my engineering, electrical engineering and since 2016 I have been working in RBI as the manager in Reserve Bank of India to London office. Alright, how do you find your job? It is a satisfying job, sir. It is a good job. Very satisfying. Then why do you want to leave it? Sir, in RBI also, whatever we do, we have a sense of satisfaction that we are serving the people. But our reach is limited, sir. We only look after the economic areas as the credit maybe. However, civil service gives me a broader horizon, economic, social, cultural, everything. Okay, you are already employed, but then a lot of other unemployed engineers. Why engineers are applying for the civil services these days? The vast majority of the applicants are engineers. Why? What's the reason? Sir, the reason actually, in my opinion, the reason goes back to their opting for engineering itself. These days, a large number of students are opting for engineering. Other profession is not given much thought. Only after engineering, other professions are given a thought. So as the number of graduates itself was more or engineers, so naturally they are coming more to civil service also, in my opinion. Okay, good. Interesting. So this pandemic, this corona pandemic has exposed some of the things in our armor. Millions of people were trying to go back to their homes by road, bicycles, trucks. So in the 70 years of Indian independence, this is the situation. What is the reason for this massive poverty and unemployment in this country? The reason for poverty and unemployment and the migration that followed post the lockdown. So in my opinion, it is more of a disbalanced regional development. Some areas of India, mainly the urban cities and the western and southern states, they have prospered compared to the heartland states. The states depend mainly on agriculture. There has been stagnancy in agriculture also and since over 50% of the population have employed in agriculture. So they have not been able to enjoy the fruits of development as we see in the rest of the countries. What are the regions which are well developed and what are the regions which are well developed? So the most important reason behind that is in my opinion, the stagnancy of agriculture. Agriculture holdings are small, not much technological improvement has happened and aggravated by natural incidents like floods and droughts. And bottlenecks are infrastructure, bottlenecks, 30% of foods and vegetables are getting wasted. There are middlemen involved. Licensing norms are there so that benefits of, even if price increases, benefits are not going to the farmers. Can you list out the first five states with highest per capita income in India? Sir, I am not very sure of the order, but top five states should be Goa, Chandigarh, Delhi and Kerala. Kerala is number 7 or 8, Tamil Nadu is above it, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra are above it. Are you sure? Yes sir, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra are above it. Okay, you are a student of international relations. Yes sir. What went wrong in the international relations between India and China that the Chinese army has to come and oppose some of the places, some of the disputed areas or at least in the LAC, the line of actual control. Sir, more than our foreign policy went wrong, I think it is a case of superpower going wrong. They have increasingly turned aggressive and assertive, not just with India, but across all the neighbors and other countries. Sir, that is the reason? Yes sir, here and coupled with the fact that we are developing our infrastructure capabilities which could change the status quo, the Chinese are in a better position than us in border areas, they have better infrastructure. Now that we are also catching up on that, so that made them act fast against us in my opinion. This is 2020, do you know the GDP difference between these two countries? Or at least per capita income of between these two countries? Sir, per capita income of China is roughly around 4 times more than us, ours is around $1600 and there this is around $7000. Even in terms of GDP, we are $3 trillion and they are around $12-13 trillion. What is the situation in 1962 when you had a war with them? We had the same problem in the same place almost in 1962 and again in 1965. At that point in time in 1962, do you know the per capita of India and China? How many times China was more at that time? Sir, I think in 1962, we were almost the same or India was slightly ahead I think. We are almost the same as them. So what happened between 1962 and 2020? What has really happened? Why we are lag behind or why they raised ahead of us in national wealth and per capita income? Sir, they searched ahead of us only from the late 1970s. Because of their liberalization program, their subsequent emergence as a global manufacturing hub, it is now an economic powerhouse which is also defining its military strength and reach worldwide. So now that it feels that it is a global superpower so it can flex its muscles and all the border tensions. The trade surplus are deficit between India and China. The trade surplus sir, around 60 billion dollars was there in 2018 which had dipped like this year, I think 50 billion dollars this year sir deficit. Alright, so Professor James Kuryan. Good afternoon, that's me. Good afternoon sir. Ashini, how you heard about Meethapadkar? Meethapadkar sir. What context sir? Yes sir, Narmada Bachawan Dulan sir. What was the problem there? What was the issue over there? Sir, vast tracts of land were submerged after the Narmada dam and she is leading the fight of the local like the tribals who have been displaced and not adequately resettled, we are rehabilitated. Yeah, every developmental activity will lead to some sort of difficulties for a small number of people. A few people may get displaced. If it is benefitting a irrigation in a large part of the country then displacement is natural for some people. Some villages may get submerged. But if you are an administrator, how will you look at this kind of a situation where benefits are more, disadvantages are less. And there are people who speak for that disadvantage to small sections in the society like Meethapadkar. What is the argument they are putting forward? What is the argument which Meethapadkar is putting forward?  But then why she came forward with the Narmada Bachawan Dulan? Sir, their argument is that the displaced people were not adequately resettled. If they are adequately resettled and in the planning stage itself of any project we involve the local community and discuss with them and proper environmental impact assessment is carried out. So such instances of protests afterwards can be minimized. But every developmental activity will have consequences. But we need to build a consensus so that the impact of protests are minimized. Vashti, you were in Arunajal Pradesh when you were student days. Something similar is happening in Divang Valley. What is the status of that? What is the issue over there? Yes, sir. So Divang Valley is a biodiversity hotspot. It is under the Bheem Divang biosphere reserve. There one hydro power project has been proposed, Italian hydro power project, 2 gigawatt. So that one, sir, local people and environmentalists, they are protesting against it. There are allegations that environmental impact assessment also was not comprehensive. Some intellectuals have come out against that report also. Post-independence period, immediately after independence we were saying our dams, especially for Kranengal and our dams are the temples of the modern India. How do you look at a dam as a source of energy and as a model for development? Big dams. Is it a good model for development? How do you look at dams? Sir, dams do have their benefits. Dam for flood control also, irrigation benefits also. For example, Damodar River, Damodar Dam, it tamed Damodar River which was called sorrow of Bengal. So dams have benefits. However, sir, we need to look at the cost as well. For example, Italian hydro power project, it is in a biodiverse area, it is in a level 5 seismic zone. So there, sir, dams, we can go for other alternative sources. We can explore other alternatives before a dam should be in my opinion. Now growing consensus is there, sir, and international bodies also. A dam should be the last option. Other projects could be in which we can run off the river projects or small hydro projects or other renewable energy. Even dams as a model of development, sir, in IPC, in Chudanathpur, also it has led to localized area of development. The entire area has not developed but islands of development is there. Why displacement? You know, when there is a bridge of project anywhere, anywhere where the project is taking place, there is a displacement. Now, is a displacement only an issue of compensation or is there anything more than that?  You are compensating it. Is compensation enough to solve the problem of displacement? Compensation is not entirely enough, sir. The certain areas they have, most of the development projects, they will be in and around forest areas for mining or for dam projects. So that is inhabited by indigenous people. And those areas might be the only home they have. And like the case of Meem Giri hills, those places might have religious or cultural significance. So all that is threatened when we shift the people from their places. To minimize the grievance, a compensation should be a well thought of compensation and it should include more than the land value and should include all these considerations. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. My questions are over, sir. Okay, okay. Now, the member, Boko Saravanan, please. Good evening, Ashini. And when I utter the word northeast, what comes to your mind? Sir, my home, sir. Other than that, you can say three to four sentences. Okay. Sir, Northpeace is a very beautiful place, sir. The first idea comes to my mind is rivers and mountains and greenery and the tribal people, sir. And as the tagline of tourism goes, paradise and explode. It is very less explode, sir. It has beauty, immense beauty. Okay, great. And geopolitical commentators call this northeast as troubled periphery. Why so? Sorry, sir. Geopolitical commentators in India and outside India call northeast as troubled periphery. Troubled periphery. What is the reason? Why it is called as troubled periphery? Sir, it could be due to the presence of many insurgent groups. There are Bodo insurgent groups. Alfa is there in Assam. In northeast, Arnachalandabad and there is NSCN. In Tripura, there was Tiger Liberation Force. Sir, can I have one moment, sir? Yeah, please, please. I am sorry, sir. No issue, no issue. Yes, sir. So, because of presence of many insurgent groups, I think that is why it might be called troubled periphery. And also to do with our neighbours who are there, like China and what not. Okay, I will forget about that. And recently the Indian government had abrogated Article 370. And I am not going to ask about Article 370. It had sent jitters across North East people. What is their apprehension about abrogation of 370? Sir, Article 370 had given special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Not alike in a similar manner, not similar also. But little bit on the same lines, many other states also had been given special provisions under Article 371. So mostly states of North East like Sikkim, Arnachal Pradesh, Nagaland. So these special provisions enabled them to protect their culture, have some autonomy in their administration and even in their socio-economic matters, socio-cultural matters. So there was apprehension that as 370 was revoked, it could have in future there also independence could be revoked. But in my opinion, sir, those doubts or those apprehensions were cleared by the Home Minister when he said that 371 will not be touched. And moreover, 370 was in the constitution itself. It was written that it is a temporary provision. But however, it has not been mentioned like that for other states in 371. Okay. And I have another question for you. This is a tool to add to this 371 only. What is the difference between NRC and PRC? NRC is National Registry. Yes, NRC and PRC. So NRC is a register of citizens. PRC is also a register of citizens only permanent residents. No permanent residents. Sorry sir. So PRC is a resident certificate. However, NRC is a register of citizenship. NRC is applicable only in the state of Assam as of now. Okay. That's it. PRC is for residents. Okay. Why there were protests in Arunachal Pradesh with respect of PRC? There were reasons we protested in Arunachal Pradesh against PRC. What was the issue? Can you elucidate? Yes, sir. Sir, in Arunachal Pradesh, there is a system of inner-line permit system. And also non-Arunachalese, they are, even to enter Arunachal Pradesh, they need a pass and they cannot buy a property then. Land and property, they cannot buy. So, now recently protests erupted because government have decided that some communities which had been living there for a while, they would be extended these PRC facilities, residency certificates. So, for that protests had erupted, sir. In the communities, actually sir, what the contention of the people are, some of these communities like some Gorkha communities or some tribal communities of Assam, which have settled in that area. So, they have a larger number in Assam or neighboring states. So, if these people are given PRC, their numbers would increase and indigenous people will be affected. Sir, indigenous population there is only around 7 or 8 lakhs. Total population is around 213 lakhs. So, my last question for you, what is your idea of India? Idea of India. Idea of India is... What is your idea of India? So, my idea of India is a great nation, a historic nation with diverse population and aspiring superpower, aspiring global power and economic powerhouse. Okay, great. Thank you. Yashini, what's the exact reason why you want to go back to Arunachal Pradesh? That is your first choice, it seems. You want to go back there? Yes, sir. Sir... But you appear to be from Tamil Nadu state. Yes, sir. Born and brought up in Arunachal Pradesh. You want to settle down and you want to Arunachal Pradesh Carter. What is the reason? Sir, Arunachal Pradesh is not one of the very well-developed states of India. There is a lot of potential to work there.  So, I want to go back and serve the state, sir. In front of my eyes, I have seen... Okay, fine. You are a district magistrate of a particular district in Arunachal Pradesh. What are the plans that you have for the women of the district? For the women of the district, sir. Yes. Sir, for the women of the district, first thing would be, sir... If you want to empower the women? Anyway, Arunachal Pradesh women are generally better empowered than the rest of the country. Still, what district can do to empower them? Sir, women of Arunachal Pradesh, they are empowered, sir. But in terms of literacy, the women's literacy in Arunachal is the third lowest in India. So, women's literacy is there only around 57 or 58 percent. They are more independent than the women of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. They are more liberated. More liberated, yes, sir. And such social practices like dowry or impending right is not there. Yeah, yeah. What I can do is for women, one thing would be, sir, to focus on women education. Many schools, they do not have toilets or women or children. Kids are generally simple for hatching of goats and other stuff. So, that one focus would be on women education. Second thing would be on livelihoods, sir. Now women generally do all the sustenance livelihoods. They work for miles for goats and agriculture. Also, shifting agriculture is there. Second thing would be for livelihoods. Yes, and third thing would be for healthcare, sir. So, large parts of the state, even access to ambulance is not available. Motelty rates are high. So, in my opinion, sir, if infrastructure is given a push, infrastructure and livelihood, if it is given a push, all other problems you can address, sir. Okay. Socially and keeping Northeastern in mind, what is your take on decriminalization of adultery by the Supreme Court of India? Supreme Court has decriminalized adultery. So, today in India, adultery is not a crime. What is your take on that? Do you support this or do you think it's not a good idea? Yes, sir, I support the decriminalization of adultery, sir. At all, it should be a civil offense, sir. If it leads to suicide or abetment of suicide, then it can be investigated from that angle. However, adultery by itself, it should be a civil offense, sir. What ground and what ground this criminal section is repealed? Yes, sir. Sir, the adultery law was also very vaguely termed, sir. Only if I am sure, if I am correct, sir, a female, a wife did not have reports to it, sir. I think only a man, if, only if a man, if he has relations with a married woman, then he could be tried. It was more like women. Yes, sir. That goes to show that lady is the private property of a man. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay, Ashini, your interview is over. So, I will give a briefing about your performance.  I think you should be able to, for a very, very high marks, you are not bearing your specs.  Yes, sir. No, no. You are, you are in the UPSI hall, I don't know. Yeah, I have it.  Okay, now we can make out, it's you. So, so otherwise, otherwise, absolutely your performance is very, very good. You should be able to score a high mark. You are already a great B officer, very good back of India. So, it shouldn't be a problem at all for you, it should be. It's not making a serious mistake, like arguing with them or you're not, you're not done it. You're not done it and you're not also said something which is not correct. So, you're much, very much in control. I'm very sure you should be able to score a good mark. Yeah, all the best to you and Professor James Cooley. Ashini, you have done very well. You're very confident, you're doing very well. And we have a special setup, the way you are exposed at a very young age, you are exposed to have an idea of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. The southern part and the northern part of India, we have a similarity. And Arunachal, people will be a little interested to know, what are your views on Arunachal? Arunachal, there are a lot of issues concerning Arunachal, China's claim and all of that. So, you don't belong to the tribal community but then you have an idea of Arunachal and your idea of Arunachal, people will be curious to know about it. How familiar you are with Arunachal? Being away from South India, different lands, what you have observed, what you have seen, what are the good lessons you learned there, what are the drawbacks you have found. So, this is a special combination. Your exposure to these three states or those three or two distant places can invite some questions. So, otherwise you have done very well in Ashini.  I wish you all the best. Thank you, sir. Is your mother from North East or both of them from Tamil Nadu Kriji? Yes sir, my mother is Nepali from Assam. Okay, okay. That's his attachment to North East. Both are serving in... Your father retired? Yes sir. Both are serving in Arunachal Pradesh. My father is an engineer, my mother was in High Court. Both have now retired. Yeah, so, who goes around then? Yes. Ashini, you really did well and your answers came from the heart.  So, your answers were fine. Only one suggestion which I have for you is that you have some eye contact when you are not comfortable with the answering also. Sometimes when you are not comfortable with the answer, you are not very sure.  Otherwise you are fine and you are interviewed with joy as experience because I can see your stress with your work. Don't worry, your interview will go fine because it's a personality test. It is nothing like your information and whatever you memorize will be tested. Your personality is very amazing and you would carry that. So, don't worry about your work flow and just enjoy the interview but have an eye contact when you even don't know the answer your personality would ensure you would sail through. So, please have the eye contact. Otherwise you are doing fine. You would get very great marks. All the very best for getting Arunachal Pradesh. Thank you. Thank you.


Money follows confidence. So if you want to make more money, become more confident. Now, how do we become more confident? Most of the marketing that's out there, I find, teaches us a lot of fake confidence, doesn't it? Fake it till you make it, use hype to get sales and then figure out how to serve them at that level later. It's not, eventually you'll burn out from that kind of fake confidence. Whether you make money or not, and a lot of fake confidence doesn't make money.   I'm holding this video, holding this phone by hand so it's gonna be a short video. So let's talk about how to generate authentic confidence. I feel like this is really what I take a stand for, that I really am trying to help all of you do. For example, I don't look like the typical Instagram influencer or YouTube influencer.  Got this at Goodwill for maybe $10. I wear really cheap shirts. I think I'm almost trying to, well, this is comfortable, that's why I wear it. 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And then Joe is also gonna hear about me from, from Mary and from Mike and from Susan and from Bill. Joe's gonna hear about me from all these different people and Joe is finally gonna take another look and a third look and a fifth look. And that's when Joe says, okay, I get it now.  I have found that to be true for the last five years ever since I switched my marketing from polish and looking persuasive and professional and all that stuff. Five years ago, I made a dramatic shift and I said, you know what? It's exhausting to pretend. And so I'm just gonna be myself. I'm gonna address whatever's comfortable. Some people might call this PJs or whatever. I'm gonna address myself, be comfortable. And I'm going to win people over because I have good skills, because I have good things to offer them aside from the polish. And yet, even for a marketing teacher to purposely not be polished is like, is like, it's kind of dramatic. But I find that, you know, I'm trying to prove the point that if even a marketing expert, if even me a marketing expert can make more than $100,000 a year consistently, right? I still do. I built my business one side, restarted my business five years ago. I had a big drop, but I've made it. Now I make over a hundred grand a year. But like, if even a marketing person is such a competitive industry where everyone else looks polish, can look like this and make so much money and do so well, God, you know, then in a less polish industry, if you're a life coach or a spiritual teacher or anything else that's not marketing related, you can certainly make it, being yourself, without having to dress up and put makeup, you know, whatever, if you like dressing up and putting makeup on, wonderful, then you have an advantage over other people. But if you don't like dressing up or putting makeup on or whatever, you don't have to. If you don't have a great looking website, you don't have to, okay? You can win people over because of your authentic confidence and how do we develop authentic confidence? We practice. We practice our skills and we serve as many people whoever wants to be served by us in the beginning. It may be volunteer for other people, okay? But we serve people, practice our skills until our skills get so good that we can clearly see the impact we're making on other people and that generates authentic confidence. This is why it's important when you're first starting out, don't get hung up that you have to charge certain rates. You would rather be doing the work for free than to, because you want to generate authentic confidence and notice the impact you're making on other people.  Okay? And the other thing about authentic confidence is some kind of spiritual practice that helps you to ease up on yourself blame because especially spiritual people blame themselves more than just about any other people. Oh, I should know better by now. Oh, I should have gotten all this together by now. How many years have I been working on this and I'm still like this? So much self-blame and self-blame is not actually spiritual, right? What God wants for us or what source wants for us, pick the term you want, what the universe wants for us is to use mistakes as lessons that we can, you know, when you next time you sense your self-blame, you have one of two reactions I recommend.  You are no good for me. So I'm not gonna blame myself. And instead I'm just gonna calmly say, what's the lesson I can learn here? Or the other reaction which I've honed over the years is just like just ignoring self-blame. If I sense self-blame coming on, I just ignore it because I know it's not good for me. And I just say, hey, what's the lesson I can learn from this, okay? So that I can practice, hopefully practice a little bit better next time. Even if I don't practice better next time, it's okay. What can I learn? I might have to learn the same lesson 5,000 times until I practice again better. It's okay, how many, I also think of to myself, I have the rest of my life to practice. I have the rest of eternity to practice. So there's no rush. There's no rush. You can make as many mistakes as you want. You'll always be taken care of. And what I mean, when I say that, I don't mean you have to have a trust fund. I don't have a trust fund.  But so most of us don't have a trust fund. You do, congratulations, but if you don't, just know that you will be taken care of by spirit, no matter what. You are here to practice and with practice comes authentic confidence. No need for self blame at all, just keep practicing. I hope this is helpful. My arm is getting tired. So I'll let you go for today, but I wish for you authentic confidence. Take care.


One of the hottest topics right now in the world of influencers is definitely the drama between Tati Westbrook and James Charles. I'm almost certain everyone and their mother has heard about this scandal, but if for some reason you haven't, here's a quick rundown. Tati was basically a mentor to beauty guru and YouTuber James Charles, and when he recently took to Instagram advertising a product from one of Tati's so-called competitors, she was pissed. Although James deleted his post and posted an apology, Tati posted a video on her Instagram exposing some dirty little secrets about James, which caused a ton of fans to turn on him. This resulted in him losing about 3 million YouTube subscribers, which is record-breaking. There are two sides to every story and there is definitely way more to the situation than that. However, today we're going to be focusing less on this drama and more on Tati and her looks. Tati is a beauty guru and YouTuber who was 37 years old at the time of this recording. Her Instagram account has 3.1 million followers at the moment, and she's considered to be one of the first beauty influencers. Tati also has a brand called Halo Beauty Inc. What's going on guys and girls, my name is Kara and this series we have titled Before and After. We're going to talk about Tati's look, body and any cosmetic surgery and more. I've done other celebrity transformation videos on the likes of Trisha Peitas and Kendall Jenner, and we'll have links to those at the end of this video. If there's anyone else who want me to document, let me know in the comments down below. Now let's get into this video. Let's start with Tati's face. So for someone in their late 30s, I think that Tati looks amazing. Back in 2015, Tati answered a Q&A in one of her videos addressing the topic of plastic surgery, stating that a lot of her followers asked her about this. Here she claimed that she's never done any invasive plastic surgery as in any that she had to go under for. I feel like go for it, do what you want to do. I have never had a nose job, a boob job. I've never done anything where I've had to be put under. So in 2015, she claims no nose job, boob job, or anything of this sort. There aren't many old photos of Tati that I could find but looking at one from when she was a kid, her nose and features generally do look the same. Tati does confess in the same video that she gets lip injections. I do want to share with you guys the big lipped elephant in the room. I do occasionally get my lips injected. Sometimes you guys notice, sometimes you do not. I can always respect an influencer who's honest because it doesn't give fans the wrong impression and shows that they aren't afraid to admit they wanted to make some changes in terms of their looks. Looking at Tati's lips now, they're still looking false so I'm sure she probably still gets them filled from time to time. In some videos, fans were saying that her eyes look different or other parts of her face have changed. In that comparison though, I think she just has no makeup on in one and maybe she's gotten Botox as well. I don't think she looks all that different aside from more makeup and looking smoother. Tati has been open about what she does get done, which I mentioned, and she gets Botox as well. In 2017, she even posted a video of her going to get Botox so I really don't think it gets more honest than that. In the video, we can see that she gets some to smooth out the forehead. They also talk about getting Botox in the neck bands that acts as a mini neck lift and Tati went ahead and got that done as well, although it was her first time trying it. And I have to say, this was the first time that I got Botox in my neck. I only got 15 units and I really love it. I feel like it relaxed a lot of this crazy tension that I have in my neck. Clearly there are different reasons why people get Botox too and sometimes they aren't always for vanity. Either way, it doesn't seem that Tati looks any different since she recorded these videos so I still don't think she has gotten anything drastic done. I also don't think it's a big deal that she gets fillers in Botox. Let's move on to Tati's body. First of all, as I mentioned before, Tati has denied getting any intense plastic surgeries. Looking at some pics though, I find it hard to believe that she hasn't had a boob job. Tati doesn't seem to post too much content where she's showing off her body so it's hard to tell. But in some of these bikini pics, her boobs look way too perfect not to be implants. I could be wrong since Tati hasn't admitted it, but it's definitely a possibility. Tati's body looks great from what I've seen and that she's in good shape. She's opened up in past vlogs about her weight before too and that she struggled as well. A lot of you guys are saying that I'm pregnant and I've gained weight. I would like to clear this up immediately and let you guys know, yes, I have gained weight. When I started YouTube, I was super thin. My metabolism was just like boom, boom, boom. Like I could not put on weight. In a video from 2012, she opened up about when she was younger and shared photos showing that she was heavier back then and really not so happy with herself growing up. Tati definitely was bigger than now and you can tell she worked hard to be healthier and lose weight. Tati also shared in this video the things that helped her to get into shape. Her main tips were to cut out fast food completely, watch what you're drinking and stay hydrated so mainly drink water, try to cut out processed food and white starches and find healthy foods that you actually like to eat. Although this video was like seven years ago, I think it's still relevant. These days, Tati looks like she's thin, healthy and in great shape. Looking at Tati's hair and makeup, she almost always looks glam. It makes sense considering she's a beauty guru and loves makeup, but she still seems to have a consistent look that she's kept over the years. As far as I can tell, Tati has had long dark hair for a while. She's confessed that her hair isn't real though and that she wears extensions. What else? I wear fake eyelashes too, and my hair is fake. She's tweeted quite a bit in the past about getting extensions done. I like Tati's hair extensions and think they blend well and look natural. Without makeup, Tati still looks pretty. She's definitely a pro at applying makeup considering it's essentially what she's known for. Hey guys, welcome to today's video. We are going to be talking about Kylie Cosmetics, which is probably going to get me in a lot of trouble in the comments section, but I'm doing it anyway. It's easy to mistake one for the other, so read closely, pay attention. So let's do the shoulder test. These are just like very in your face, dripping in glow.  I haven't watched this in years, so maybe this is not the best idea, but you know what? Three, two, one, let's just go there and do a reaction video. This is the very first one, guys. Deep breaths. It's really cringy, super embarrassing. My roots look horrible. My skin looks horrible. I talk really slow. Okay. Oh, dear lord. Oh, Tatiana, the glam life guru. Oh, look at that shine. Although Tati loves everything makeup and really transforming her look with it, she also believes that practicing good skincare inside and out is extremely important for looking flawless. I couldn't agree more. Drinking a lot of water and having a consistent skincare routine is something you can't just replace with putting on makeup. So although Tati has been around for quite some time now in the YouTube and influencer world, she's really seemed to become relevant again due to this James Charles drama. I'm really not sure what's going to become of this situation, but Tati certainly has made herself the center of attention for the time being. Besides all of that, Tati looks a lot younger than someone in her late 30s. Just focusing on Tati's look over the years, she seems to have stayed pretty consistent with only some minor changes. She's gotten a lot more confident and sure of herself as she matured compared to when she was young. By being open with her fans about work she's had done, it also makes her more relatable. However, there are a few things she's denied getting done that I'm not so sure about, but who knows. All right, guys and girls, that wraps up this video here on Before and After. If you want to talk more about Tati's transformation, you can hit me up on Instagram. Let me know who else you would like me to make a Before and After video on and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye!


Hi, this is Stu Miniman coming to you from Wikibon World Headquarters in Marlboro, Massachusetts. Going to be focusing on big data for this CUBE conversation. At Wikibon, our research agenda is covering cloud, big data, software-led infrastructure, how all of these disruptive technologies are blending over, and of course we always want to allow IT practitioners to share with their peers and doing that through deep conversations as well as some surveys. So joining me for this segment is our lead big data analyst, Jeff Kelly. Jeff just completed an extensive big data survey. Can you tell us a little bit about that survey and what was the goal that we were looking to get out of it? Absolutely. Great to be here, Stu. So, we set out to survey the big data community to really understand how big data analytics is being applied in the enterprise, kind of the state of deployment. Where are we in terms of maturity of the market, maturity of the practitioner community? And of course, another key area was talking about the challenges and the barriers that practitioners are facing in terms of getting the full value of the investments they've made in big data technology. We do hear a lot of talk about all the promise of big data, but we wanted to find out just where are we in that journey from all that talk to reality and actually delivering on that promise of big data analytics. So talk to a little over 300 practitioners from a number of industries, some are IT practitioners, others were line of business practitioners, so some really fascinating insights. All right, Jeff, can you help unpack for us what were the top level findings that you've received from the survey? Sure. So I think from a very high level, we were just amazed by the general opinion that practitioners have around the promise of big data. So 90% of respondents believe that big data is either critical to the competitive nature of their organization going forward, or at the very least an important complement to some of their existing data warehouse, BI, and data management capabilities. Virtually under 5% thought big data was just a meaningless buzzword or was ill-defined and really didn't have application in their enterprise, which if you think about terms like big data previously cloud, go through these progression of how practitioners view them, whether that's, again, just a buzzword or something that's really going to have an impact. And the fact that big data has come to this point where the vast majority of our respondents believe it's so critical to their business, I think that's something about the technology and the approach and the impact it's going to have on the enterprise over the years to come. Yeah, so Jeff, I know we've looked at getting beyond the definition, talking about some of the struggles users have been having to really get value out, and it seems like we're kind of turning the corner in some of that adoption. We are. So we asked our survey respondents about where are they in terms of their deployments? Are they in production? Are they doing POC kind of experimentation phase?  About 30% of our respondents said they are actually supporting applications running on big data infrastructure in production. So that's a pretty reasonably high number considering where we are in this market. It's a fairly new market.  So the fact that we're that far along, I think it says something about how rapidly this market's maturing. That said, that still leaves about 70% that are either simply experimenting or even just evaluating their options when it comes to big data. So there's still a long way to go. So that was, you know, one of the areas we focused on. We also talked kind of a little bit more in-depth about what they're doing with Hadoop specifically. You know, about a third of our respondents are actually using Hadoop in their organization today. And very interestingly, this is one of the more surprising findings from the survey. Only about a quarter of them are actually paying customers of one of the Hadoop distribution vendors. And the majority, over 50%, are actually using essentially roll your own Apache Hadoop that they downloaded for free. So, you know, again, what that tells us is we're still very early in this market, huge opportunity for those Hadoop vendors to capture that business. And I think we're reaching a tipping point where a lot of those practitioners who are not yet paying for support from a vendor such as the Hortonworks or Cloudera or MapR are going to come to the point where they're going to have to make a decision with which one of those folks to go with as they go to production. So we're getting to that tipping point and it's important for the Hadoop vendor community to really be aware of this and be on their game for the next 12 to 18 months is going to be critical for those vendors in this market. So I want to talk about kind of the old way versus the new way. If you talk about kind of traditional data warehousing versus Hadoop, is this a zero-sum game? Was this new projects that we were using big data in Hadoop for or are we starting to see an erosion of the data warehouse market and the shift from where customers are going to be going? Well, it's a little bit of some contradictory findings on the surface. So we found that close to 50% of practitioners, as I mentioned earlier, see big data and things like Hadoop as complementary to their existing data warehouse and BI and data management practices. Yet we also found that over 60% of practitioners who have deployed Hadoop today have migrated at least one workload from a data warehouse or mainframe or some other legacy system to Hadoop. And a lot of those are for cost savings reasons. Hadoop is a tenth the cost of your traditional data warehouse. So those seem to contradict each other. It's complementary, but you're seeing disruption. I don't find them complementary. Sorry, contradictory that is. To me, complementing doesn't mean there isn't some disruption going on. So while we don't believe that Hadoop is going to replace the data warehouse, at least certainly not in the short to medium term, there is no question that there's competition going on for the different workloads where the two do overlap. There are certainly areas where the enterprise data warehouse is going to excel over Hadoop and there's going to be things that Hadoop does much better than the data warehouse, but increasingly there's this blurring of capabilities one over the other. And that's where we're seeing competition from the Hadoop side of the house with the data warehousing side of the house. So we're definitely going to see some of these workloads migrate. It's going to be interesting to watch how the data warehouse vendors react to that to try to maintain their business, whether they embrace Hadoop or try to put it in a small box off to the side. It will be interesting to watch. But it's certainly complementary, but we're seeing this disruption still happen for particular workloads where there is overlapping capabilities. So you mentioned that one of the things that surprised you was what distribution people were using. I'm wondering what other nuggets you found in the survey, things that challenged your existing beliefs or general practices out there, or just generally surprising? Well, one of the more surprising elements was around the use of public cloud to support big data analytics projects. We think here at Wikibon that long-term, cloud and big data are going to be intertwined significantly, but we're talking long-term 10, 20 years. What we found was that again about, I believe it was over 60% of practitioners are using the public cloud for some element of their big data analytics project. Now that doesn't necessarily mean they're using Hadoop in the cloud. It could mean any other component in big data analytics takes into account things like Hadoop and NoSQL, but also to some extent traditional databases, data integration tools, other data management tools. But nevertheless, that's a pretty high number, 60 plus percent using the public cloud for some aspect of the big data analytics project. So that surprised me because we do hear a lot about the concerns, particularly from enterprises in highly regulated industries and we're security and privacy are a concern, about moving data from their internal data centers out to the public clouds such as AWS or Microsoft Azure or somewhere else. So that number caught my eye and what I think is going on here is we're seeing a lot of the early experimentation happen in the cloud. AWS in particular does a great job of offering really easy to use, easy to spin up capabilities around things like Redshift and EMR. So the developers can go into that environment, create prototype applications and test those out. And I think that's what we're seeing a lot happening to some extent data scientists going in there and using some of the kind of data sandboxes there to do some experimentation. The next question of course is going to be as we move to production workloads, are enterprises and practitioners going to bring these back in house or are they going to keep them in the cloud? I think that's an open question, but I think there's an opportunity both for those vendors that can provide a private cloud environment so that they can shift what the work they've done in the public cloud, move that to a private cloud environment, bring some of the benefits of a cloud-like deployment, a service-like deployment to those internal big data analytics projects, but also obviously AWS would like to expand those to really enterprise-grade full production deployments. So we'll see how they attack that problem. I would say both a perception issue as well as an actual technology capability issue around things like data integration and data movement. Jeff, so I mean you know cloud is an area that I focus a lot on, so just a follow-up on that. Are people just using the cloud as a platform where they can do test or are they using the services? So you mentioned things like Redshift, Google with Google application engine, are they building the apps to be kind of a board in the cloud app that's going to live there? Is it just a platform that they can do test on? Are they really using some of the more advanced services they have? It sounds like it's a bit of a mix. It's a bit of a mix and this is an area where we're definitely going to do a lot more investigations part of our big data service and we're going to continue to do these surveys and other work with the community both qualitative and quantitative research to try to determine some of these questions. So we're working on that now and I think it remains to be seen. It's an open question and it's going to have pretty big implications for whether it's the cloud providers or the more incumbent IT vendors. Sure, absolutely and definitely AWS has the lead in this space. Google has some nice tools there and then of course you've got IBM with Bluemix, HP with Helion and many others that are trying to challenge in that space be interested and see what they can do in the second half of this year and beyond. Last question I have for you is from a research perspective active in following up on this survey, what next steps do you have? What are you going to be looking at later this year from follow up? So this was a pretty extensive survey, the one we've just completed. So in fact, we've got lots of data that we're still going through now. You're going to see from Wikibon a number of research notes that are going to roll out over the course of the summer and into the fall, the draw on a lot of the findings we have in this survey and also with the ongoing outreach we have with the community and our other research efforts. Then in Q4, we're going to do yet another survey. In fact, you're going to see this as an ongoing area of exploration for us. We're doubling down really in the research studies and the survey work we're doing. So you're going to continue to see surveys coming out. You're going to continue to see forecasts. We're going to be publishing our Hadoop and NoSQL forecast, market sizing and revenue forecast for the remainder of the year. You'll see that in the fall. So yeah, stay tuned. There's a lot happening. We're really excited about our research service here at Wikibon around the Big Data Space. All right. Well, Jeff, thank you so much for spending the time. Of course, go to wikibon.org, big data, find all the research. Go to siliconangle.tv to see the upcoming events. Jeff will be hosting many shows in the Big Data Space throughout the rest of 2014. And thank you for joining us for this segment of Cube Conversations.


So here's the Huawei MateBook. This is a Ultra Thin. This is not a Chromebook. No, it is not. It is a meaningful way. It's not a Chromebook. It's not an Android device. It's a Windows device with a high pixel density. And with touching and Windows stuff so you can go in a recycle bin. You can copy your file from different quick access and go in a C drive. And you can download all the program files if you want. And this is a keyboard. So it's a special keyboard. Maybe it's good for that kind of keyboard. Could you hold it right here? Let me try to go in Chrome. And I'm going to type armdevices.net. Okay, I'm going to write here. I am writing some text with this keyboard. It seems to jump a bit. But it's okay. So keyboard is okay. It's functional. And can you show this? Okay. So there's a special mate pen with a laser sore. So you get included laser. And how many euros it costs? It's nearly 700 dollars. And 2000 euros for maximum CPU. And then it can go here or there. Like this. So this is not an arm device. It's not a Kirin. It's an Intel Windows device. You can also put the tablet mode. Which will show you this type of menu, which is different. It's way bigger. Then we can check those guys. It's two of the same guys. And how do you take a picture? Do you want to go back to the PC mode? There's no camera in tablet mode? Yeah, for sure. You can find it. You have to search for the camera, yeah? You can put the app out here. So there's no Android version of this, right? No. There's no internet. There's only Wi-Fi. There's only Wi-Fi. And it's 2000 for 500 GB. Like the Arcus from 10 years ago. And there you have all this stuff. And let's see what's going to happen. How you close it like this. And then you can take it over here. And then you can carry it if you like. Is it a real cow? Is it a real leather cow? Or maybe it's a lizard or something. Maybe it's a... And then you have this one. Does it have battery? No, it's not heavy. No battery, huh? There's only all the docks. There's no battery inside, right? Let's try to connect. USB Type-C. I wonder if I can use this one with my Dell. So then you have HDMI on this side. And USB and Ethernet. And there's no power. So there's no charging in this. And then you have a little hole here. You can put some suites if you want to hold some suites. Or M&Ms here. And then you can put it right here. And hold it somehow. Alright. How soon is it available? We don't know yet. We don't have this information. Okay. Can I take it? No, it's not for free. No? It's too expensive, right? We cannot give it out. Let's take a nice picture. But I need to search for the camera app. Search for the camera. These guys, they found it. So they probably went and deleted the camera from Windows, I think. You can search, maybe Cortana knows. Oh, there. Camera mode. You have to push on the camera. Take a picture. Oh, there. Cool. So now I'm in the Windows. There it is. And I can play with it with filters. Can I play with it? There. I can do some... I cannot play with it. Okay. But you can buy a play app in the Microsoft.