Last time you were like offering the whole time. Okay, I did pay attention. All right.  Did you fully? Fully what's the word? Metadata eyes the person who managed his museum. I curated all the videos You didn't do they didn't edit all the metadata All of them are all in a show that makes sense. All right. Well do you want to post the news? Yeah, I'll make a new post tonight. We'll talk about it. Put it in the meta moment. We'll talk about it in the meta moment. I'll post the news separately. I might give it more prominence too We'll see. Right now the thing that's there most recently is always these shitty live like G plus streams. I think the important thing is bad audio. Let me check. I don't remember if I added video. I don't remember if I added RSS for it. I have to check it. Let me check it out. That would be the useful feature of it, right? Is the RSS part? Yeah, sort of except Anyway, I'm gonna do the opening bit. Well you do that No, I didn't make RSS for it. I will Anyway It's Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 on rims. It's a long long day And tonight on Geek Nights, we're talking about Polar Bear Cafe kids on the slope and Voltails from Japan. What was the last Wednesday show we did? Now that I think about it. I'm gonna look that up so I can note how long it's Is there a Wednesday show on the homepage? Nope. We'll click on archive. Yeah, and then click on Wednesday. Wednesday. May 9th. The churn. Okay It's been a while. All right, let's go in here. I thought I had to do the opening a little different because I realized last time we did a Wednesday show was early May. It's late June. And that show, we basically just talked about anime everyone forgot about kind of an ad hoc crowd of people fashion. I think we're getting some show ideas, so we're gonna have a period of time here where the getting is good. Getting is getting better. Before this, I'm sure there'll be adult rooms after it, but for now we got some time. It's goodening. We came up with a Monday show I did. And actually we got a lot of Wednesday stuff to do.  You could also, I've already previously watched a bunch of stuff. If you watched any of it.  You don't have to watch them all. You don't have to watch enough to do a show. I could do a show on Fist of the North Star. Yeah, we actually have never done a Fist of the North Star show ever. I feel like we could do it. It might be time to do it. It's always time. But guys, a lot of people are complaining now that you guys will care since no one listens to the show right as it comes out. But it's warm today. It is. It was not warm yesterday. But it is warm today.  They basically take data from civilian and I don't know if they take data from other weather stations. But they take data from weather stations and it's like an open source weather website. According to this, the weather where we are right now, it is currently 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit. And it feels like 105 in Celsius for you foreign peoples. I'm clicking the Celsius switch right now.  That's right. It is 36.3 and feels like 40. It is so awesome.  The thing is, when I'm biking, the tiniest bit of chilliness if you're moving fast. But other than that, it's warm. Yeah, I'm pretty much taking this granted. To be fair, the only time in my life I've ever not had air conditioning in my primary residence was when we were at RIT in Rochester. It didn't really matter. We had air conditioning. No, it didn't. I guess not. Wait, why would you think that we had air conditioning? Trying to remember. We schemed about having air conditioning. In the winter, because it got damp, we left the window open all the time. Anyway, there is something. You got something to say? You got nothing. I forgot. I was just going to say the comment I've been making all day repeatedly, which I won't make after today. Won't you say? No, because I'm not rimmed. Won't you say? I like how when you open the door to the outside and you close your eyes. Yeah, you already told me that. Yeah, but I didn't tell you on the show. You've already said that anecdote though. I know. So you can't tell it to another audience. I'm not going to say it ever again. But you already said it twice. But when you open the door to the outside, it feels like you're opening the door to the outside. Yeah, I heard that. No, they haven't. Yeah, apparently. How does it feel? I kind of want to bring some pizza outside just to kind of let it cook in there. We could go cook an egg on the asphalt. I've done that before. You need an egg to find glasses. Oh, you know. No, just crack an egg on the asphalt. It's not an egg. It just cooks. It's not an egg right now. Also, the egg would be mad dirty. I don't need it.  But like what? The thing is, if you put it on someone, like clean a windshield off and use that, then you'll be able to eat that. True. A windshield or a hood of a car? A hood of a car. Because I was going to say windshield probably not the hottest thing in the world. It'd be pretty hot. Not as hot as the hood of the car. Anyway, let's end this fascinating conversation. Black car. Black car. I went to see a cat in Paris with Emily at the Angelica. You went all the way to Paris? Yeah, there were commas in that sentence. I mean, there must be a lot of cats in Paris. Which one did you see? There's just one apparently. Okay. And now there were some other cats in the opening bit. And now it's a French animation. What was interesting, I saw the dub. And it was dubbed by none other than our friend Sinter Niklas. Okay. And the main character was played by none other than Mr. Blue. Uh-huh. Spike Spiegel. All right. The dub was fine. I don't know how it compares to the sub, though, because I've never seen the sub. But do geek by it? It is a fantastic movie. You should just go see it, however you can, apparently. It has the opposite of the Wonder Woman problem. I haven't seen it, but Rim says it has the opposite of the Wonder Woman. Yes. Then you look at the movie poster. It looks like some amazing different kind of animation with a particular style. It looks exactly like that poster the whole time. That's good. Amazing. Super flat. Not super flat, but it's just really flat. There's no depth perspective. They're really looking at the poster and knowing that it looks like the poster makes me want to see it. It's pretty good. And I don't really want to say anything else about it, so consider this geek by it to be. Go see this movie or get it, however you can. Amazing. Isn't it an anime or is it French? It's a French animated movie. What's it about? It's about a cat in Paris. You know plot summary? I don't want to summarize it because I wouldn't do it without knowing what it's about. It starts out and you're like, alright, there's the cat. Alright cat, it's pretty cool. What is the central conflict revolver? Jewel thieves and a crazy guy and a murderer and some cops. Now we have a better idea. It's better going into it than not really knowing. All I got to say is when you see the gigantic Giants penis, then you're in fact in the right movie. There is a villain. The villain is described early on as a raving lunatic. And when you meet him, he is a raving lunatic. To a degree, it was Chekhov's lunaticism. We would have reviewed it, but Scott couldn't even pirate it. It was possible theoretically, but yet difficult to get a subtitled version. People are like, oh, download the French version here and get the subtitle file. No, no, no, no.  It's like, yo, 1997 digital fansub style. Yeah, so if somebody out there wants to go through this trouble and go through all these sketchy websites, one website I went to was like, here, download the whole thing. I'm like, okay. Don't move.exe. Right, it was like blah blah blah.exe.  So if anyone else wants to get viruses and somehow put together a non-virus file with some English subtitles built in that are properly synced and such, put that on the FireFade. But if not, I'll just wait to watch this somehow otherwise. Yeah, it was a good movie, though. It was refreshing, because for me, this was pretty good. But I went out of the theater like, hi. I went out of the theater, you're like, oh, yeah. So there's not really much news in the anime right now at all.  Yeah, whatever. I haven't done Scott's Box in forever, just so they sort of stop doing that. I'm going to maybe bring it back with increased production, but who knows what. But so I figure, hey, here's a way to cop out of the news. I'll just quickly go down the list, not of what I received, but what I just ordered today, because it's set in my order form today, right? No, from DCDS. Yeah, so now you will know what to order. But in particular, one of these items is going to be my news. So I'm going to hold that one for the last item, right? It is the order real quick. All right, I'm ready. Dynamic Rebel Flying She-Devils, specific number three. I don't know. Bakumon volume 14. Again, we lose 14 volumes already. Madoka Magica, the manga volume two. Now that manga is written from the anime, right? I have no idea, so I'm ordering it to find out. I can probably find out. Anyway, go on. I'm going to check it out anyway. Worst case, it's out to hook up. Yeah, you might say worst case. I read a volume of the Escaflone manga. I can just tell it. I still read the first volume of the Brave Story manga. I can tell that bad things can happen. Anyway, Essential Warlock volume one. I've been waiting for this. If you don't know, when you buy Marvel comics, they have lots of different kinds of trades, but pretty much just regular trades, which is a recent comic. We bundled six issues into one volume. They have Marvel Masterwork, which is you buy a trade or hardcover of some incredibly old comic, all collected in order, nice like. You can buy like Essential X-Men, or not Essential, like Marvel Masterworks X-Men volume one. And that has the beginning of X-Men, so many issues, all in full color, beautiful paper fanciness, very expensive. Or you can buy Essential.  Oh yeah.   A manga adaptation of the series and two spin-off manga series. Nice. Alright, so. All based on the anime. We'll find out later. Essential Warlock volume one, I mean Adam Warlock, that's my guy, so I gotta check that out. You probably shouldn't. Starman Omnibus volume two. So the deal with this is there's this DC comic that people can't shut up about that's kind of old and it's sort of famous. Wait a minute, the last time that happened, I read that God Alamo Green Lantern thing. Yeah, but anyway, this isn't something that really ties in so much, right? This is more like somewhere between Sandman and Green Lantern. Sort of a halfway point. Are there Green Lanterns in it? I don't know, but it's about Starman primarily, right? I don't know who that is. Yeah, that's why I'm checking it out because it's Uber famous, people can't shut up about it, and it sucks, I'll sell that to you. So here we go, ready? Pokemon Adventures box set volume two. This is like seven, a bunch of volumes of Pokemon Adventures for $33.  No, I'm pretty much box one and box two, and that's it. Now I'm gonna buy box three. Why?  What if it keeps up with the goodness? How can it possibly be good after Yellow Capillero? I actually kind of lost interest, even by the time Yellow came, I was like, I just want more red. That's right. The only reason that Yellow is such as good is because red is still this legend that the legend of red still goes through. The legend of the first kid who actually paid attention to what Pokemon I was strong against was Pokemon. That's right. And it was still better than his friend who also paid attention. Also, this is awesome, right? There's a Tessica manga called A Message to Adolf, and it was in print a long time ago in English, and it's been out of print and difficult to purchase forever. It is now going to be in English and easily available again. So buy it while you can before it again becomes difficult to get and out of print and such. Not bad. So a very important, famous Tessica manga about Hitler and the most important thing, Amazon link on our website. Go and click it. This is mandatory purchase for all Geek Next listeners. Mandatory purchase. If you do not buy this, just stop listening to Geek Nights and also kill yourself.  All right. Underwater welder by Jeff LeMere. $10.39. If you don't pre-order this, you are subhuman. It is mandatory purchase again by this book. When's that shipment going to arrive at your apartment? Two months from now. July, September. Pre-order price guarantee from Amazon. Amazon, this Amazon actually, the Amazon date is September 11, 2012. All right then. Mandatory purchase, this book. I was going to say, when's that shipment going to be short? Whatever. Even though we hardly ever do one. Eh, short one. I mean, all the items I'm watching right now, I'm watching a lot. Look at the cover. We've already talked about. I saw that cover. The shows we're about to talk about now. And older, say it sir, I'm powering through. Oh really? I should watch that. Good. We can watch it. You want to save for dinner? I've got to watch the beginning. Do you not know the plot of her, say it sir? We've only watched two episodes. Alien girl shows up. Torture is this dude. Nah, it's a little more than that. So Alien girl shows up, right? Randomly.  I should beat this in this game. Dang it, game of tag. So it's Rass Lore. And we pick you, our main character, to be the Rass Lore. You have to touch the horns of my beautiful daughter before ten days are up. And the whole world is watching and I know she can fly. You can't win. One thing leads to another. And she actually tries to get away. Yeah. He goes first. She's like whoo. And then basically, he wins through some shenanigans. And she thinks he proposed marriage. And she says yes. And then it's 198 episodes for torturing him. That is the, That's what I just said. Yeah. But there's more to it than marriage. The game of tag at the beginning. That's also the ventura, ventura, space of people. Oh, I moved the chair. Moved the chair. Well, I have a good thing on it. Let's do the things of the day. You shouldn't have to let it be. You said you can move the chair. I thought you moved my chair. No. Why would I move your chair? No, it happens. All right, let's do the rest of the show. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to bed. I'll go for a run because it's nice and warm. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go bike somewhere. I'm going to go bike somewhere. I'm going to make these Swedish meatballs first though. Anyway. You see, you need to move these things of the day. Yeah. But anyway, things of the day. So I found this video kind of randomly. And I want to use it because I feel like this kid, who keeps up this level of video, is going to go in the same direction as the Angry Video Game Nerd at like. There's a video about the mystery of Lavender Town. Since we're talking about Pokemon, you may remember Lavender Town was the creepy town with the Pokemon Tower, aka all the dead Pokemon and the ghosts. It was the good part of Pokemon where Cubone's mom is in there, but she's a ghost. And you get the Cubone and there's Gasleys and it's good times. And isn't the story also, no, you use the Pokeflute to wake the Snorlax. Basically he explores, you know, the music was creepy and everyone, like he points out, like everyone thought the music in that town was really creepy. It is creepy. And he's like, you want through? Look at YouTube. The video of the, that song has way more views than any other video of songs in Pokemon ever. It's true.  I was a little older, so it didn't scare me, but it was creepy. Yeah. It's weird. I don't know, as a kid, I didn't know when Pokemon appeared. I just, like, when I first learned about Pokemon, I felt like it had always existed. No, I see the thing is, I actually saw Pokemon appear in my GamePro, because I'm already a GamePro. And I saw this and I'm like, oh, Nintendo's coming out with some kiddie game, whatever. And then, you know, when it actually came out, my brother got it. And I was like, yeah, that's a thing for kids, whatever. I was a kid too, but, you know, I was older, right? So he had a Game Boy Pocket with Pokemon Blue and then I had my own money and I bought a Game Boy Color and got Pokemon Red and that was that. All right. So this video is pretty good. It talks about blues, eradicate, and whether or not it died, and all sorts of interesting stuff. And I was making Scott watch it. And the whole time, he's like, oh, the kid's wrong, and then the kid would be like, no, you might be thinking, ah, well, it turns out. Yeah, the kid knew everything that I knew about Pokemon lore and more. So, mad points that he answered the exact things that I would question. So kid, props to you. I like this video. Yeah. All right, so check this out. I'm kicking. So there's a book you probably don't know about it called Ohatmu. It's the official handbook of the Marvel Universe and it has been published like all superhero comics in many different forms and formats and things all over the years. So it's not like you can just buy the whole thing from beginning to end.  It's got a term, Ohatmu, like PHB, or DNB. Right, the official handbook of the Marvel Universe. And basically they published parts of this at times. And the way it works is it's most, most of it is just one page, one character. It's a lot like a monster manual of Marvel superheroes, right? It would give you their name, their relevant information, their origin story, and a picture of them, and all that stuff, right? So this blog, OhatmuRedux.blogspot.com, basically as every entry in this blog is a scan of a page from Ohatmu accompanied by some indie artists rendition of that character usually in that same pose, but in a new style. And a lot of them are way awesome, especially the ones by Patricio Oliver are the awesomest. Oh my God, I want Patricio Oliver to just draw a whole comic book. I would buy them all. There's also a Rocket Raccoon by David Peterson. Oh yeah, Rocket Raccoon. You should come to this blog just to see that and not alone. Also the blog updates very frequently it's pretty much just awesome. It's an awesome blog with awesome superhero arts. Oh my God. Awesome. So... Meta moment. Meta moment. Connecticut coming up real soon. You should go. July, what, 13, 14, 15? Something like that. In the hard group convention center we run the battle department. There's a bunch of stuff there, a lot of guests, team four star, John St. John. We tried to get the pony guests to actually kind of hard now because ponies is really popular, but we tried and we're going to go for it next year even harder. And the thing is, it was funny. We were not the ones who were like, guys, get poke, or get the, unless it's Pokemon, get ponies and they're like, no. I was like, guys, get ponies. They're like, are you kidding? We've been trying all year to get ponies. They're like, can you get us ponies? Do you know these people? Yeah, right. Well, they actually thought we did because we know all the anime voice actors. They're like, you know any other voice actors? I'm like, no. You know John St. John 90s anime voice actors. That's it. That's it. But yeah, that's coming up. Pac's Prime is coming up. Labor Day. That's not that far away. It's not surprising. We're going to write this new goddamn panel. I guess. The new triple threat. Seattle. Seattle. Not Walla Walla. Seattle. That's right.  We're going to be in Wildwood this weekend if anyone's in Wildwood. Great. Tweet at us. We'll meet you on the beach. But, we're pretty much going to be laying on the beach. So another news is, right? First of all, you know, we know I've updated the website recently. But in addition to Not that you go to the website. Not that you go there. But I just added, because now that the website's updated, I can update it a lot in small increments. I added the video section to the website. You're probably thinking why don't I need go to the website, video section to the website. I can just go to the YouTube. You're absolutely correct. You can't just the videos on the website have collected, for now, a bunch of videos from other YouTube accounts you might not have known about. Yeah. And basically, you can just come to the website and you'll find all of our relevant geek nights related YouTube videos. Also, I'm going to add some RSS to those videos, which it doesn't have them right now, so that'll make it even easier to say subscribe to our video. It might also let you realize, you know, a lot of people don't see that a lot of our panels and things like that. So, you might have noticed we're doing a Google Plus Hangout of every episode, too. So, there's video of us actually, like, on the site, and you get to see, like, you know, we do the show, but you can see what happens before the show, after the show, what we say about you're giving people the finger on the website. I'm not giving anyone the finger on the website. So, I'm not giving anyone the finger. Okay. Also, I want to remind people, the new website, since it was upgraded, right, has added a very powerful feature that people do not know about, which is Wiki Show Notes. You can write show notes for Geek Nights episodes, if you want. The way it works is this. I could have done a standard Wiki, but the problem with standard Wiki is spam. Spam! Spam! So, it's a repository. If you fork that, you can then, you create there's a text file per episode, you just have to create a text file in the correct folder with the correct name. And in that text file, you put the show notes, you can put any text you want in there. And then you send me a full request, and if I accept that full request, your show notes will then immediately appear on FrontRoadCrew.com on the page for that episode. It's a pretty crazy system where all the show notes are on GitHub, but it totally works and we started this before we had like a thousand existing episodes. I know, but we didn't GitHub didn't exist, and I wasn't smart enough to think of that clever idea. So, but now it does, and you can learn Git, you know, and if it really is not hard, you can actually do the whole thing from GitHub.com. You don't need a lot. Okay, we don't have a thousand episodes. We have 830 episodes. Good job. Some of the episodes, because somebody went, there was a guy who was writing show notes to GitHub. So, good job on that guy. Whoever did that. And so, there's already some episodes of show notes. So, you should go and help out on this if you are interested or not. Why do you work for free? I don't know. Yeah, but you know, one request we've gotten, I mean, you know, we never really read emails on the show. In fact, we tried to always avoid even talking about the meta of the show until we made this like one meta moment, like this specific place where we talk about any convention is people who are, for whatever reason, fans of this and they want to get more involved in the Geeknet community in, you know, what little there is. But it's actually a lot. It's just all in the first form. So, there are ways to get involved. You don't want to go into that scary form where everyone yells at you about grammar. Right. You can contribute to the show notes by going to GitHub. You have some sort of like vested political angle. You can get your angle into those show notes. We're not really accepted by me as a pull request. So, it's pretty much going to be a thumbs up or thumbs down. Yeah. But if you're like, stop was wrong or rim sucked in this episode, we're going to let that in.  Notice I said with no other content. As long as it's actually show notes and not just, you know, links to Viagra. Right. Anyway. Otherwise, you know, like I said, you know, seriously, if you wanted to come to a convention, if you are not the person who rungs that convention, don't tell us to go to a convention. Or rungs at least like the panels or the guest department. We're not going to go to the convention and say, hey, can we come? It's the other way around. You have to tell the convention to ask us to come, right? You're just a convention goer. Don't ask us to go to the con. Ask the con to bring us there. Because I've had like three situations of standard responses. Yeah, you know, it's far away, so we need, you know, X, Y, and Z, and then yeah, we'll come. What do you want us to do?  Right. It's like, no, the con has to call us. Well, the con has to call us if it's not on our list of cons we already go to like packs. Exactly. There's a very, we have a short list of cons if you want to bring me to Essent, I'll go. Yeah, I'll go to Essent. Yeah, all right. All right. So we've actually, despite not doing a lot of anime shows, we've been watching a lot of anime lately. I haven't been watching a lot, but there are three shows we watched quite a few episodes of. I mean, right now we're watching The New Lupin, but we're recording parts about that. But I haven't watched that in a while. And we can't really. I've watched like seven or eight episodes. Yeah. But we'll do a real review once it's done. Of course. We've been watching Polar Bear's Cafe. Yeah. Because Mike Tool told me to. I watched one episode. I saw one tweet about it. And he, and I was like, what Polar Bear Cafe? I wonder if that's literally, and then the next tweet from him was like, yeah, it's really just a polar bear. And kids on the slope, which, pretty good. I watched seven or eight episodes. And then Hotels from Japan, which is I watched two episodes. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Why are we talking about that first? Okay. So Hotels from Japan is one of those short shows, but instead of being short episodes, it's a full-length episode that has three short parts. Yeah. But otherwise, I think I'm adding it to our Bite-sized anime panel. First of all, this show is so cute with its drawing. And the drawing style is pretty different depending on the legend being told. Like, it's just, I don't know. It's just so cute. And the animation is so cute. And it's really simple. Like, they're saving money. It's obviously not a big budget production. It's got two narrators who basically tell you the story. It's the kind of thing like when you were a kid, you would have to see on PBS or maybe not even PBS. Maybe like, you could see it like at the library, you know, but you could never, you know, it doesn't seem like it's a real TV show, but it is. It's the kind of thing that you, like when you have a substitute teacher in a big-tail and it's a narrator and, you know, the characters, the characters don't really talk that much and everything's very simple. But despite all that, it's like, you know, the budget being low, the production is not low. You know, to go with the budget being low, even though it's simple and cute and there is a lot of animation going on, you don't need that much tell these stories. And what they do, everything they put into it is so great. It's like, every animal is cute. It's awesome. It's a cute thing. Well, I think really the strength of it is that, you know, being not Japanese, like I know the kind of like really big Japanese folktales, kind of like how people around the world know a lot of the big American folktales. There's like a collected set of folktales and legends that most people know about, but I don't really expect someone in Japan to know about Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan, necessarily. Exactly. granted, Paul Bunyan might be more well-known now but, you know, beyond like Momotaro and a certain like set of Japanese folktales, I don't know most of these stories. No kidding, because we didn't grill up this element. And Japanese folktales have a pretty different wilts from the folktales I'm used to from how I was a kid. So pretty much all of them are the same. There's a someone who does something good. Okay, here are the common trends in all of these folktales from I've watched two episodes. Should we tell them the trends? Let's just tell them the lessons. A person always gets gold as like a reward. And the nosy neighbor gets fucked.  But it's always pretty specific. It's something good happens to someone because they're a good person.   Do not play the stock market. That is the lesson. I think your friend got rich betting on horses. Don't bet on horses.  Yeah, don't be a Greek, right? Leave the neighbors alone.  Any magical instructions from any supernatural source, if a Buddha or an animal or a goddess or a princess or anything like that, those instructions and also the bad people are going to specifically not follow those instructions and they'll be punished for it and if you follow the instructions, you'll be rewarded for it. Unless the instructions come from someone who is obviously bad, then you're rewarded for not doing it. Yes, it's obvious to be able to tell what the good instructions are and what the bad instructions are. I think my favorite ones are, I really like the one about the old man with the bumps. You didn't see that one. You should be nice to all animals and you'll be rewarded. Yep, turtles, doggies, foxes, well there's the trickster fox but he got his. Yeah, fishies, anything that's nice you should be nice to it and you'll be rewarded for being nice to animals. You'll get to hang out with Hot Mermaid Princess in her palace under the sea for all eternity.  Yeah, that's another lesson. If you got it good. If you're in paradise don't leave. That's right. If you got the reward If you think I should really go out and see my family now That's the one thing I noticed right in an American folktale you would for a fairy tale you would often see a situation where someone get a reward and say no I don't just need the reward because I'm such a good person. And this it's like I got rewarded with gold enjoy the gold. Like there's one Don't be greedy looking for more gold right, you got the gold reward, usually gold because you were sometimes fancy cloth. Right, if you got really nice and honest and you got rewarded for it don't go greedy looking for more rewards because that turns into the bad person you'll lose the reward but and don't go just trying to be honest or you know on purpose to get rewards but if you got a reward Oh those monkeys carried that guy away and gave him gold I'll do the same thing he did.   Yotsuba has awesome neighbors up up here's Greenwood the neighbors are awesome but they're not good neighbors what neighbors are there in the other rooms in the dorm no that's dorm mates it's not the same as neighbors I'm talking about you're in a house and the people who live in a neighboring house the house next to it usually those people don't exist in anime that's what they're talking about right but in a lot Dennis Tometis neighbors and it's always bad so Steve Urkel man right but that's what I'm saying so wait in both Japan and the US if there's a neighbor in a story they are bad Mr. Rogers it was his neighborhood though maybe all his destiny and all his neighbors were good you know we have good and bad neighbors in a lot of right it seems that neighbors at least in animes and mongas at least in this one show that we're following better right the animes and mongas that I have read are rare and in my exposure to their folk tales their neighbors are frequent but always evil well not not really evil one of them was evil one guy was a dog greedy and mischievous they're greedy usually kind of dumb and nosy alright yeah and if you're ever in the mouse paradise don't pretend to be a cat that's right so anyway this folk tale show is totally awesome and you can learn not only you can not only laugh at these awesome folk tales and enjoy them especially in foreign culture I really want to see this show from other countries I want the Russian folk tale show the Indian folk tale show the African I want to see all the folk tales from the whole world like this there probably are shows from all the countries that I like French folk tale show hook me up give me a all and it's on crunchy roll you can watch all the episodes at least as they're coming and if you watch it with Scott in the opening credit when it says I'm always going to say it was the snake no funny every episode is the same it's always snake then chicken then bunny as the third one the snake chicken bunny snake is the best Scott pays a lot of attention to this snake is the greatest it's a pretty good show it's a really good snake so before I knew what Kids on the Slope was about I knew it was about jazz I knew it was by Watanabe with Yoko Kano so that's the thing all I heard was someone said there's a new Watanabe show coming out and Yoko Kano was doing the music and my brain said Cowboy Bebop it's going to be Cowboy Bebop or something like it I know it's going to be heavily musical just like Samurai Shampoo and also the show it's pretty good show it's not like Cowboy Bebop though no so I watched probably more episodes than Rib has I've only seen like four and I fell asleep during one because I just got back from a trip so what I actually like about the show so far number one it's about jazz but and it sort of leads you in this direction thinking it's going to be typical anime tropes right transfer student is sort of the main focus character moves into town goes to school there's some bullies and a girl and it's like I know where this goes same old same old but there's a jazz music aspect I thought it was going to do the twist of it's the same old show but it has the kind of like getting you into an anime about jazz right so I thought it was going to do that but it actually so far hasn't done that it's like the jazz is there but it's not doing a Hajime no Ippo Shonen Jump sort of or Bakumon yep it name drops but it name drops and though you should know right and all it does is jazz is just the thing that is bringing these characters together and it's mostly about the characters you know and you know their dramas and jazz just happens to be this thing in their lives that is like the good awesome thing that is awesome I like the show a lot the reason I like it is because after you watch a few episodes you can see that these characters do not behave the way the anime characters should behave for example what is a typical anime character doing as a girl avoid talking to her never right in this show it's like hey what's up totally opposite of what anime characters do if there's some bullies it's going to hang over one's head forever and escalate and escalate and be like a Bakumon and then they're only there occasionally if at all right and it really sort of gets into this sort of and a plot moves right it starts off but the school is a larger factor in the opening episodes because they're introducing characters you know and it's like oh the bad guy sits in the back class later episodes you're not even seeing the classroom it's not even there you know it's all this stuff his dad isn't around his dad is traveling military something like that you know his mom his who knows where you know it's like and you're like oh we'll learn the mystery of his family like episode 26 it's like no the episode that his family's going to show up right away no mystery at all and it's like oh we know where mom is let's go see her okay you know and I really like that moving around long not cutting corners and then the goalposts go farther out well you know another show that did that was Nana exactly Nana was like alright I expect the pot to be the thing about like meeting that guy again and then they get there they meet him again and then the goalposts exactly it's almost just like Nana and you know what I really like Nana it's a little less the property yeah a little less what is both the strength and like the worst thing I can say about the show I like it and you know I have no problem with it at all but it doesn't scratch that like crazy anime it's a good show to watch it yeah I think this will be you might as well be a manga anime wise it's mostly people talking and not a lot of action but with the music but you know the music yeah it's about jazz so how you know it's the same reason why the manga is a manga yeah but I couldn't read that manga it's actually pretty boring but then watching the show is there anything else to say about it? not really I mean I don't want to spoil anything we're just saying it's a show you should watch yeah it's not like all the other shows we don't have the negative thing about it I would say that none of the characters are like super awesome right usually there's someone in a show that's like that's the awesomeest dude there's like one Bouta yeah Bouta or you know who's the guy full metal audience who's the guy killed right you know this is just boiling yes there is no one in the show who's like super awesome the main character is like he's got good parts and bad parts who reminds me who reminds me of it's almost too realistic in that every character has awesome parts and not awesome parts but there's nobody you can really say like that's the awesome guy out of rooting for him all the time the main character reminds me a little bit of aspects of both main characters and card economy just a little bit like I thought he's got he's got some jerkiness going on that's not in character but I thought it was interesting to watch the other episodes I thought of Karakana a couple of times just when characters did certain things that's the show we never forgot about but anyway this is the end there's no awesome people but I guess maybe the dad who owns the jazz shop is awesome but he doesn't know how to see him at all other than that he's like he's barely in the frame and he says like maybe two lines he's very strict we get that especially about the jazz right you're not allowed to go in the basement unless you're jazzed and he plays the bass so polar bears cafe I only saw one episode I mean I only saw one episode okay it is a review of one episode that's fine you know what it is this is a show about a polar bear runs a cafe well that's the thing right the show is called polar bear cafe and there is a literal cafe run by a polar bear it was pretty cool but the first episode focused entirely on this panda who's trying to get a job there well he's trying to get a job well he wouldn't want to get a job his mom was making him with a vacuum cleaner right but anyway and that so this polar bear cafe was almost secondary and it focused mostly on this lazy ass panda who wasn't getting a job who was laying around his mom's house all day doing nothing and wanted to do nothing he was super lazy because he's a panda he just wanted to eat bamboo because that's a panda suit and I wonder if in the later episodes the focus goes off the panda so these other characters I'm pretty sure it does it's not the panda bearer's cafe yeah but really I've modified out about the polar bear and his cafe I don't really care that much about learning anything more about the panda but I like it it's one of those odd shows it's very atmospheric it's very punny like the lines of jokes all the time the panda bear is a pretty serious dude except for when he always does a million puns whenever he can you know and that's like his deal but here's the one the first I like the voice actor like of the polar bear you know what that is it's the talking hero of Sakurai if I don't remember him he's the main character in Gatekeepers okay you know Shun yeah Gatekeepers that was the biggest show for a little while for a while and RIT because it was the only digitally fenced up show yep and then Gatekeepers 21 which I never even watched I watched like one episode yeah but for some reason that show for us at that time was the best show ever for like five minutes yeah let's open it let's do a show Gatekeepers okay we gotta watch it have we done the no way I'll search anyway but anyway something else I found out this is directed by the same person who directed Cheese Sweet Home it's got almost the exact same kind of piece like a character will say something and then is there a manga for polar bear can't fake I don't know this is why we're not Anime World Order yeah anyway it does that thing we're like a scene just sitting there for a while and then someone says something and then the camera stays there for a little while after it's very short on dialogue they don't say any words they don't have to say Mr. Yuki Masahara I didn't know who that was until now okay but Cheese Sweet Home I can see I also learned there's a sequel to Cheese Sweet Home that I didn't know about I feel like I'm gonna get back into the anime loop a little bit so the other thing is the way the show works right it's like a cafe it's some world that looks like modern day Japan except there are normal people for humans 100% just humans and there are animals and the animals aren't like furry animals they're really like cat people they're just animals it's just it is a polar bear it wears clothes but it is a polar bear I love the polar panda is a panda I love how at the zoo the interviews for a job it's like the panda at the zoo but these animals interact with society and are persons right so even though it's you know biologically a panda it talks it has I guess the equivalent of a security card it has jobs and a house and money and you know well he does now a job but I mean it might as well be a person that is just biologically a panda with a human brain capabilities so maybe we were talking about this we watched the show maybe it's all just people and these characters are being represented it's actually all people literally but instead of drawing the panda who as a person who has the spirit of a panda and acts like a panda they draw him as a panda and call him panda but it's really a person but it doesn't matter if it's really a person that reality will be ruined in episode 3 where the photo falls someone randomly and the show goes back to the world so it's kind of funny he gets a job at the zoo right and he has to perform for the nursery school but that other panda is a full time panda he was just a part time zoo panda a part time panda yeah but what's funny was the nursery the nursery school kids all seem to be human right did you see any animals in the nursery school? animals don't go to school I don't know I was under the impression the panda was in school but graduated and didn't want the animals it's cool how the animals you know it's sort of like Damago do it in which the animals express their nature the panda acts like a panda he's lazy and he wants to eat bamboo and that's it but it's not like that because polar bears aren't necessarily known for their puns and cafes maybe they are in Japan I don't know but the difference from Damago do it is Damago do it to the animals with the opposite of their nature right so the wolf was all you know sappy or whatever in this the animals match their nature right so if there was a wolf in this you would be all eating people but he's not what were the other animals there's a sloth right yep the uh I don't remember I don't remember we just watched it I know anyway the animals the animals are like the best characters it's a cute show yeah very good oh right there's a whole part interviewing animals for them everybody's and all the animals match their nature so none of them were good for working at the cafe so then he's like I decided to hire this girl the human girl is the best worker for the cafe for you these shows I'm gonna eventually watch all these shows yep I'm gonna finish Lupin first definitely that's a hire for a show but yeah there's a lot suddenly right there's no big name new awesome anime like Modoka unless there's one I don't notice happening right now I think we notice I mean remember when Modoka came out we noticed Modoka till 100% done yeah but we noticed I knew what they were talking about so there doesn't seem to be a big anime right now Modoka style that we want but there are plenty of good anime happening right now suddenly that are smaller under the radar anime that are good for people like us but maybe not good for the anime community at large you're not gonna see down maybe the conventions ahead of the Bleach cosplay Bleach I think you mean Homestock right exactly but anyway there are these good under the radar small time shows that are kind of awesome and you really need an anime to watch and you really and guess what they're all just on Crunchyroll you can watch them legally yeah you can watch all these things legally I think they're all on Crunchyroll Crunchyroll Bupandis Funimation all the rest of them really need an anime you know it's an aside but like we talked about in the churn something that's happened is that for internet types anime's gotten pretty mainstream and a lot of people watch these shows a lot of people like anime but they don't engage I know people are watching these photos it's worthwhile for Crunchyroll to pay to get the rights to put it on Crunchyroll and to sell ads on it but I think what happened we talked about in the last show too but specifically I don't think are engaged in anime fan culture yeah I think those people who go to Crunchyroll who are watching these shows not going to cons not going to message boards not reading anime news network not doing anything like that they're just going to Crunchyroll watching these shows I think there's three categories there's what you said and then there's the people who do those things and go to anime cons so they seem to get the anime cons now but there's stuff like the research anime the end of that stuff they'll post on the anime news network they just don't go to cons at all because the cons have a lot less anime stuff than the internet does yeah I mean Homestuck is the best anime right both the most popular anime sure that and my little pony yeah okay we're done I think we're done okay cool


Welcome to the Remedy Force Winter 18 Early Access Program. I am Nikhil Deshpande. I am a Product Manager for Remedy Force. In this video, we will see how the user experience of approvals in Self-Service 3.0 has been improved. This is our legal notice, letting you know that what we are showing you today is regarding a future feature of the product. This information is under NDA and our Safe Harbor Statement applies. Any purchasing decisions should be based on what is generally available today. The Manage Approvals page in Self-Service 3.0 enables clients to approve records. In this release, this capability has undergone several usability improvements. The Manage Approvals timeline now appears more like the My Activity timeline because of formatting of records and links for approval actions. Let us now look at a demo of the product. On the Manage Approvals page, you can see all pending approvals. You will notice that the pending approvals timeline now resembles more like the My Activity timeline. Every record is represented by a summary record card. You can choose to click on Show Details to view all the details of the record. You will notice also that the description is now formatted better. You will also notice that labels and values are formatted differently and this formatting is more consistent with formatting on the My Activity page. If I want to reassign this record to another approver, it brings up the lookup of the user object and allows me to reassign this approval to another user. Let us approve this record. You will also notice that the Approve and Reject buttons now appear on one form. I am adding a note and approving. Thank you for watching this overview of Self-Service 3.0 Manage Approvals. We look forward to hearing your comments on the upcoming Remedy Force Winter 18 release.


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Welcome to MIT Supply Chain Frontiers, where we discover the future of global supply chain education, research, and innovation. Brought to you by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, every episode features center researchers and staff who welcome experts from the field for in-depth conversations about business, education, and beyond. Today, CTL research scientist and sustainable supply chains director, Alexis Bateman, speaks with Ares Agmoni, head of supply chain warehousing and distribution America at Merisk. Take it away, Alexis. Today, we're really fortunate to have Dr. Agmoni with us. He is the regional head of distribution and warehousing for Merisk. He has a bachelor's, master's, and PhD from Assumption University in Thailand and 20 years in logistics and supply chains. Thank you, Alexis. As Alexis mentioned, I'm looking after the warehousing and distributions for Merisk for North America. I did a few different roles in the company. My previous role was supply chain design and engineering. So we were looking after supply chain of large customers and finding solutions for them to improve it. And that kind of gives some insight to the work I'm doing today and bringing quite a better understanding of what is it that we should do for our customers. Ares, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today. Thank you very much, Alexis. Really appreciate and honored to be here. And so what I'm about to share is a little bit an insight from the way Merisk seeing things right now and definitely the Merisk perspective is coming from a global supply chain. But today, what we're basically doing is an end-to-end supply chain for customers. And that's allowing us to basically get and support the customer's request. If we take 10 years ago, we had the volcanic ash cloud over Europe. In Iceland was an eruption of volcanic that basically disrupted totally all the flights into Europe. That caused a huge supply chain disruption. People that needed to move goods fast didn't have the ability to do it by air freight. And that's kind of created some disruption for the Europe continent. Just a year after in Japan Fukushima meltdown in that region, in that area of Japan, there is certain memory that has been produced. And that's created some supply chain disruption, at least for the PCs and computers and high tech industries. So similar to that in Thailand at the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012, we had the floods in Thailand that Thailand is the capital of the world in terms of hard disks. That's created a huge disruption into the tech industries. A few years after that, 2014-15, the worst-cost labor strikes that shut down ports. In 2017, MERSC was one of the impacted by the not-pety-ass virus. All our system went down within a day. No more IT system to support the operation and that was MERSC as the largest carrier in the world with about 20-25% of the ocean containerized logistic. That's created a huge disruption in the market. It was not only us, of course, it was many other companies, but only that. And the ports that related to that, it's already was a huge disruption. Of course, COVID-19 that started the end of 2019 and we are in the middle of it right now. That's creating and bringing the awareness of disruption once again. With that in mind, you can see that, of course, it's pandemics, but it can be human-made problems, it can be natural disasters, it can be labor availability and strikes, it can be IT failure and IT related, which is also kind of a main made. Definitely bringing us to kind of, we need to get prepared. We need to be ready. If you're not ready, there is a huge potential for companies' corruption and I'm sure that some of the companies will not make and will not survive this current disruption. Those kinds of unpredictable markets' demand and volatility creates different needs for supply chains. You can get requests from customers to get cargo much earlier in their supply chain or in the DC. You can get requests that the warehouse is full, you need to actually change things. You can get requests, please bypass this disease and go directly to final customers or to the store. There is a lot of different requests that supply chain needs to be started to look into and become much more flexible than it used to be. You cannot just have a supply chain that is built on one set of rules and you don't have a backup to that. Flexibility is speeding up, slowing down. It's definitely a key to sustain volatility in supply chain. One of the things that can support such design of network is a promise of an end-to-end lead time guaranteed. A normal transit time from Asia to the US, for example, from the moment it's ready at the factory until it's arrived to the DC, it's around 40-45 days plus minus 13-15 days. This is a huge variation across the supply chain. It's very difficult to plan and decide things based on such a huge variation. Reduction of that lead time variation is definitely a key to the future of supply chain improvement and resiliency. Visibility all the way of your supply chain. 100% visibility is crucial to have it and you need provider or support from providers that have an end-to-end capabilities to actually execute the supply chain as such. For example, you need to come with a certain amount of days from origin in Asia to Memphis DC. The easiest way to do it is, of course, coming to the West Coast, enter over there and of course, truck from there to Memphis. You arrive to the destination, but is it the right way to do that? Probably for certain times, but not always. You definitely need the flexibility to say, hey, now I don't want to go from the West Coast. I actually want to delay it. I'll come from the East Coast or maybe I would first bring it into DC or a warehouse that can actually store it for a while and act on it only when I need it, or some places that can actually, a deconsolidation place that can actually give me the ability to go and distribute it to different destinations. That can actually be a cross-stop kind of capabilities.  This is kind of just an example of an end-to-end reduction of our ability that we worked with one of our customers. Originally, it was about 40 days with a plus minus 13. So, anywhere from 27 to 53 days that they can arrive to the destination all the way from origin. We built a solution that is 29 days plus minus three. So, yes, in the origin solution, you can come 27 days. You have a good chance to come very fast, but at the end of the day, there is a lot of uncertainty when this will arrive, when cargo will be there, and that's creating a much more inventory acquisition. We're basically starting to build more inventories in a warehouse, which costing us definitely a lot of more money. So, reducing that inventory is the safety stocks in our warehouses basically help to actually reduce the final amount of money that we're spending on our supply chain. Another quick example on that is an example of a normal regular solution where cargo arrives at the port of these cases in LA. It basically goes to the inland port, so there is another move of the 40-foot containers goes to the surrounding of Memphis. And then from there, you have another provider come and take this 40 and bring it to the final here. It's actually Fort Worth Dallas. There is multiple handovers and your 40-foot container is keep moving around and actually this is the one that moving to the final destination. Because of the multi-vendors and multi-handoffs, the transit time from arrival to the port all the way to destination is something between six to 10 days, something that you have a variation. The cost of that is actually more expensive. An alternative to that is basically you're taking it into a warehouse located very close to the port. You convert the forties into 53 trailers. You can save on the environment impact. You can save on the movements of 53s that actually move to your destination. And you can create much better accuracy of the transit time. And we can see in this example that we have eight to nine days. So yes, it could be, it is still higher than the six to the six days that we have in the original example, but it's definitely much more accurate and you can plan much better around this. And of course, at the end of the day, it's also creates some cost reduction to the customer here in this case is $300 saving. Yes, it sounds more expensive to have flexibility and solutions, but there are ways to actually go around it and create some kind of measurement to actually that help you to save. Having all those type of preparation definitely help, but it's not all. You need to build solution in advance.  What alternative do I have for certain things that I'm depending on? And as I mentioned before, one of the things that can create some disruptions, it's actually the human being. We have shortage of human being work willing to working in certain environments and I'm not thinking that people will disappear from warehouse anytime soon, but definitely we need to have alternatives and we need to have certain potential ideas. Just certain things that we are working on. This is autonomous vehicle that we are testing basically in the yard. And the idea of that is to create another set of pool. For example, in the middle of the night when people do not prefer to work in those shifts, we can actually rearrange all the containers in the yard and bring them into the right position that we can actually work early in the morning when people arrive. Another solution that we're exploring right now, it's container unloading. And there are different type of machines doing that today, going inside the container and starting to unload cartons and bringing them to a conveyor that wait behind that and start to sort. I'm calling this machine the Cookie Monster. It sounds like it's going inside and eating the boxes with sections and with other kind of equipments that bringing it in a much faster speed than we could do manually. Beside automation, of course, any company that would like to be ready for such a disruption or such a volatile time need to build a business continuity process. The number one is to ensure that safety of people and then you have safety of infrastructure. That's the second thing. If your infrastructure is still available, accessible, that's definitely help you to be able to work on solution and create solutions. Of course, there could be times that infrastructure goes under the water. For example, literally in Thailand, the floods or other different things that you just can't access those infrastructure, then you need to have some continuity planning where you're going to move people. Will they work from home? Will they work from a different location? So the crisis management is the next things that needs to be executed. Structure training crisis management team needs to be in place and needs to be the one that's handing everything. We call it the war room basically. People that are capable to give the right communication, ensuring that people getting one source of information and correct source of information. It's very crucial to success in managing any crisis. And then at the end of after this initial plans, the business continuity planning needs to take over, creating a business risk assessment, ensuring that all the offices, we have documentation of what you do, how you do things, what is happening with the operation, who is doing what. For example, what happened if you have somebody infected with the coronavirus in your facility, what is it that you're doing, how you return to normal operation and making sure that the operation is really capable to do that. Of course, the process needs to be planned with the business continuity planning. You need to document and ensure that you have the right infrastructure. People know how to do things even they are not in the office. IT needs to be supported. The first few days of this coronavirus, we saw that IT bandwidth started to get heated by all this conference call and video calls took about two days to execute the plans and we back to normal operation that people could actually do all those video conferences and video calls over the internet without disruption. That is definitely one of the key things in order for us to success in mitigating those kinds of situations. Great. Thank you so much, Reza. I was really insightful, really interesting and brought some good perspectives. My question is, how do we deal with this when it's such an extended situation where it's not a few days long, it's not a few weeks long, it's going to be months long to a year long. How do you see mayors responding in that way and in general, any suggestions you have for those on the line? Definitely, the number one thing, as I mentioned, is definitely ensuring the safety of the people, both our own employees and the people around and everybody in the community. That's the number one priority that we have to take care of. The second thing is communication. We have to build some communication methods and skills that ensure that the visibility kept going and people understand what is it that's happening. The whole chain needs to be communicated constantly, even daily or multiple times a day. Definitely, if it's becoming an extended impact and situation, I do suggest and I think that we are also taking the same approach is delay unnecessary projects. You will need a cache very soon, things will change and in order to free cache, any unnecessary project delay it or stop it for now. One of the things that we see with our customers, the feedback that we get from them is that they're really happy that they're working with a logistic provider that can give them the flexibility and the solution on the end to end. Alternative routing, alternative solution, different ways to do things and make sure. I think one of the important things to remember is don't panic. Everybody learn about the bullwhip effect. When it's reached to a point that we're starting to react with no control, we're creating a huge supply chain's effect and that's definitely something that needs to be kind of been taught and planned and see do I do it because I'm panicked or do I do it because this is the right thing to do. Supply chains were largely invisible to the lay audience, to the public, to many people and now they're in the limelight. We're seeing the critical role of supply chains. Can you talk a little bit about what you think emerging role of the supply chain professional will be? I do advise people to keep search and explore for alternative out-of-the-box thinking and ensure that the business continuum plan exists. It's crucial to have it and make sure that you and your provider have those kind of planning around. Are there things and you've alluded to these but maybe pinpointing them some future oriented practices that companies can think about now to internalize as we enter a period of recovery? I think there's a lot for us to do to build for the future, to be ready. One of the things will be to build a cross-functional team, senior management and experts in different fields just to be sure that we are addressing all the supply chain risks and we're preparing for them. We call it war room in the bigger scale and when we talk about different locations we call it cockpit. So definitely that's kind of an important thing to do and to plan for. Decision that you make definitely make those decisions to protect the bottom line, not the procurement cost. I will challenge you guys to think about the bigger picture, the bottom line and protect that one. Definitely this is important. Another point is definitely to develop supply chain visibility. Without the visibility you cannot take action. You are basically causing the dark and we see that certain companies that do not have the visibility, they have no clue where the cargo is, where the PO is, when it will hit this location or that location. So in order to actually have actions you need to have the visibility. So that's definitely something to be prepared for. Use more integrated supply chain providers, as I mentioned before, it helps with the flexibility, the visibility and they reduce the time to market. Of course, if you can, consider multi-country sourcing or different locations to be sourced from. Not always easy but definitely something important to think of. Definitely request your supply chain providers to share their plans for destruction time. So if they have any plans, that's definitely need to be shared so you can actually work together to come up with solutions for that. This is great. Thank you. One question from Amanda is, is the Cookie Monster also available for pallets? Yeah, I saw solutions that are available for pallets. It's not exactly the way the Cookie Monster work but it's going to be, I don't know, a mini Cookie Monster. There are solutions to unload pallets from containers. Is the Cookie Monster doing damage to the packages cartons that are moving through? So the testing that we are looking after, there's basically so far was no damage or less than 1% of damage in the one that we tested. We are testing a different one right now that is basically zero damage. It's moving as fast as the Cookie Monster but in a different way and that's definitely zero damage for now. Great. Thanks. So Crystal asks, what do you see about the trend for, and we're going to try not to get too political here, but de-globalization. Is there a trend for dual supply chains to cope with these global trends and your perspectives on that? Definitely it will impact the supply chain prices, will change, people will have to rethink where they're sourcing their goods but that's bringing us back to the idea of let's create more than one locations that we are sourcing because even if we want it or not, we cannot just eliminate China or eliminate Mexico or eliminate somewhere else around the supply chain. There is going to be always a need both from supply and from demand to keep working with the whole work. I know that there is a lot of different voices nowadays that we need to definitely look at our own people first but if we want to keep the way of living that we live today and all the accessibility that we have to product, we definitely will have to keep the ability to work globally rather than just locally. So then we have a big question from Sumia. How does Maersk incentivize supply chain partners to share data? I think the best way to incentivize people that can share data is to give them data back. So that's kind of the best way to do that. We have to also remember that a lot of the data that we have is actually generated from within the company because we own both supply chain management so we have all the information from our customers on the PO level. We're helping with the vendor management, we have that information, we have the ports with the APM terminal ports, we have the vessels themselves. So many different type of information is already coming within the company itself. Of course, it's limited for our own kind of capabilities so when we need the effort type of information or other carrier information or trucks information, definitely the number one is give and take. The second one is of course you pay per use when needed. Right, thanks. So now this one's going to really press our our brains here which is we have this ongoing crisis with COVID-19 and now in Southeast US we'll soon have a hurricane on top of the COVID situation. Does crisis response or planning take into account multiple emergency events at one time and what are your thoughts on that? Definitely multiple things needs to maneuver and take care at the same time. I think it will impact the way we work. It's going to create us, look at things in a different way. The way we are handling that is as I mentioned before is having a war room plus cockpits in the different sections within the company to ensure the flow of information, the flow of communications is coming and going from the different angles of the business that is moving around. So Musas asks are you seeing a difference in how companies are moving their goods? Are there certain trends you're seeing there? Definitely, there is a huge change under the 80 degree change of the way people used to do things until a month ago and how they're moving today. The number one things that we see is a huge request for air freight and charter, air charters, operations. This is everything that needs to be done fast for all the medical support and sanitarian equipment, etc., etc., is today moving by air freight. There's no ocean involving that there is, but the number one thing is going by air freight. So huge constraint and remember that most of the capacity in the air freight world is in passenger aircraft. I would estimate it to be 60-70% of the world's capacity is actually in the belly of passenger aircraft. When those aircrafts are not moving, we are moving to charters and there is a certain amount of charters or freighters available in the market. So we see airlines that taking the seats out of the passenger or other airlines that putting cargoes on top of the seat and putting nets. So that's number one thing that's happening. When we're talking about oceans, a lot of the distribution centers are full and closed and they cannot take more cargo anymore because all the stores are closed and there is no release from the DC. So people are looking for store containers for us. Can you reroute it via different locations so it will arrive later than before? So cargo that used to go into the west coast now been requested, please route it into the east coast. Let gain another 10 to two weeks time on the water so we don't need to find solution for that and by then hopefully things will change. People are asking to, they want to reduce the detention, the marriage on the containers. So they're asking for solution to get off cargo and put it in temporary storage in warehouses. Get different requests of can you now break the cargo, take only the emergency goods or the things that needs to be used for emergency, bring them to the final destination and the rest you hold for now. So there is multiple different requests nowadays to change supply chains of the customers. Right now, super interesting thinking about all the different changes going on right now. So David asks, is mares making agreements with third parties for increasing capacity or is that managed internally any additional advice related to flexibility? The simple answer in terms of do we do capacity management with others? The answer is yes. There is alliances in the world today and definitely each carrier has backups including mares with other carriers and increasing capacity. But the main flexibility is not coming just because of you get more capacity. A lot of the time actually the carriers would like to reduce capacity because it's impacting, you cannot operate a capacity if it's not bringing a certain amount of income because otherwise you're actually losing money for every voyage. So there is a lot of times that you actually reduce capacity just to maintain certain rates. But the real potential thing in order to create flexibility is to be able to have your own capacity and control of every element in the supply chain. So if for example the ocean port to port is being slowed down because of whatever reason and there's always something can happen. You cannot create a bulletproof point-to-point supply chain. You can create a much better resilience end-to-end supply chain by being able to actually control everything in the supply chain and mitigate those problems along the way. So if you have all the end-to-end capabilities and you have the ocean portion is actually being delayed right now or alternatively arrive earlier you can actually slow down or speed up when you move things through the warehouse or through the trucking or through... So that's basically the way we're creating flexibility and on top of that you have to have the visibility. As I repeatedly again visibility is the key for everything. Do you have a prioritization or a classification that prioritizes humanitarian cargo and how do you deal with that? Yes definitely. We have a government and aid section within the company that supports FEMA and all the other kind of global organization that definitely gets a number one priority for this type of equipment and goods that needs to support the life of people we are prioritizing. Jose now asked could you say something about the current shipping container shortage? Definitely a lot of the cargo is as I mentioned before has been stored in containers nowadays. People are asking to find solutions for the yard and impacting the ability to move containers into the location. Certain companies that need those containers for exports we see them willing to pay money to move empty containers from the ports into the inland portions of the country. Certainly something that you don't see in normal days. Normal days they are taking advantage of the empty containers being in those places. But nowadays when you have a shortage people get creative and find a solution to get that but the more cargo will be stuck inside containers the more we'll see shortage with that and we'll have to find alternative solutions. One of the ways could be to move things in the 53 trailers bring them into the port if you need to export and basically convert it back to 40s in the port area. That could be an alternative solution that we're working with some of our customers nowadays. Thanks for that. So another question for Sovren is asking about oil prices right now and the fluctuation. How is that impacting you know Maersk's strategy in any way? So I'm not an oil expert but I know that the way we're dealing with oil is based on on the market. We're not bankering any oil or fuel in advance because that's kind of becoming more of a gambling exercise to understand. So we take and push back this up and downs with the customers and we work with them to ensure this is sustainable to all. Carlos asked do you think this global situation will create new business models for the supply chain? I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will. As we spoke before people are looking for different ways to move the cargo. I think at least the way we see it internally one of the key things to enable companies is the end-to-end supply chain guarantee of transit time or reduction of variation. So Rui asks in Maersk is there a team or any individuals fully allocated to emergency response crisis management? Oh yes definitely. There is a team that dedicated to that. We have the protocol of these people are not sitting idle the whole year round. They are coming from the different businesses and they are part of a disaster recovery team and the moment that something goes on basically we initiate this team and bringing them back to the war room and ensure that there is an execution of the plan that we set in place. So those teams are fully aware what they're supposed to do. They're part of regular discussions and building up the recovery plan during the year. So yes. Great thanks. So we're coming to the end of this awesome session. I just want to thank you so much for taking your time. I know you are managing a million things right now so I really thank you for taking the time. Final final question any words of wisdom as we sign off? I can only offer wisdom when in supply chain. Definitely see the bright side of things. Supply chain is being disrupted but it shows that it's necessary to plan and necessary to build things. So in the last 10 years we repeatedly have different disruptions maybe not in this magnitude that the whole world is shut down but there are constantly things that are disrupting our supply chain and when it happens people yeah we need to do that we need to do that and then the moment it's over yeah let's go back to normal we forget about this. So definitely encourage you to work on that make sure that you have this protocol in place and you actually refresh them within time and checking that they're still valid and workable. People that might be impacted in the short term in terms of work I believe that you definitely going to find yourself in a good situation after it's all over when more and more company will want to have those expertise and capabilities in place so definitely remember that keep doing the good stuff that you're doing because I think people that are in the supply chain are the number one crucial to make sure things are moving and flowing so definitely a good job for everyone that's involved in supply chain. Thank you so much Reza. Those were great words of wisdom to sign off by thank you and everyone stay safe and healthy. Thank you guys. All right everyone thank you for listening I hope you enjoyed this edition of MIT Supply Chain Frontiers my name is Arthur Grau communications officer for the center and I invite you to visit us anytime at ctl.mit.edu or search for MIT Supply Chain Frontiers on your favorite listening platform until next time