And we can argue that it's worked. We have finally introduced the discussion of what is potentially a fatal suffering into the vernacular. Hurray us. Flying in the face of it all, non-medical approaches continue to get outstanding results for many. And as we teach in our mental health essentials course, an effective approach to mental health is intrinsically flawed if it doesn't include the many other approaches that work. We've decided to introduce you to some effective approaches that work, but you wouldn't normally associate as having a therapeutic effect or you might never have heard about. Let's start. Relationship therapy. What is it? According to Dr. Steven Gilligan, there's a whole school of psychology that claims that mental disorders are nested in relationship troubles. That means that, whether you realize it or not, anxiety is based, at some level, on either poor relationships or the threat of a relationship dying. Extreme? Psychologists often are. They have to be, that's where our psychological demons often reside. So, a good dose of counseling on relationships might do the trick, especially if it's your romantic relationship that's on the rocks. Then, consider attending together before it's too late. What can you expect? Set up a meeting with a fully qualified psychologist or counselor and discuss how you handle your relationships. What's working, what isn't, and what could be better? For example, if you are not that happy with your romantic partner, or if your partner is not so happy with you, who would have thought, right? Then go together before it is too late and one of you doesn't care anymore. It happens often, it's called apathy, and it is the death knell of any relationship. Avoid it at all costs. Whether you like or dislike this approach, you have to agree that it's worth consideration, right? New Code NLP. What is it? This is probably the weirdest. Although technically not a therapy, but many people are claiming miracle results with this one. Now, in this one, you get to talk to your unconscious, so you might want to sit down. What's the thinking behind it? Well, you see, what we are conscious of is about five plus or minus chunks of information, the rest is unconscious. The unconscious mostly operates without any input from you, yet it is considered to be very wise and effective. For example, consider your breathing, it does what it wants but it's pretty effective, right? So, what you and I are aware of is minute and what our conscious part of ourselves comes up with can be a little silly, to say the least. It is said to be lacking in wisdom, even if our ego tries to come up with reasons to make us look wise. What can you expect? A strange session in which the practitioner helps put you into a mild trance and requests an unconscious signal from your unconscious, signaling, yes, and another one for, no. Then a series of questions are asked to help your unconscious stop some unwanted behaviors. For example, anxiety from coming up at times when you don't want them to. Massage therapy. What is it? Surprising, isn't it? Who would have thought? Good old massage. Any type of massage where you get touched is fine. Apparently, touch makes you feel emotionally connected, and it is theorized that that's what causes the mental health benefits. So, it is important that you get touched. In a way that is appropriate for massage, of course. And always safe. The research shows that it significantly helps ameliorate depression. What can you expect? If you like to be touched, then you'll have fun with this one. Or at least you'll get very relaxed. There are many massage therapists out there and most do a great job. Find one you connect with and like and apply regularly. Relax into it and enjoy. There you have it. Three approaches that most people don't think about that many claim help them. Relationship therapy, new code, NLP massage therapy. Can you think which one you'd like to try, or who else should have this information? Feel free to share, liberally. So, make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself, your colleagues and your loved ones.


So again, running bosses over and over to test loot is something that I really enjoy, I've done it a few times already but today we check out 200 runs of the OG Demo Captain people. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more outriders on a daily basis, be sure to subscribe. So with many people now believing loot and legendos have been stealth nerfed, I thought I'd go do another boss farming video where I run the same boss 200 times on a world tier 15 and bring you guys my loot results. Now I will state that what I am doing here isn't to try and disprove expeditions are the best farms for legendos. So can all the people suggesting I farm expeditions for legendos have a day off? I think everybody knows expeditions are the best besides exploits so please please please calm down within those comments sections telling me this is pointless and I should be farming expeditions. I know this but legendos do you drop elsewhere and today guys we have the results of 200 towering farmer with tan captain runs the OG Demo Captain. Now what's great about this captain farm is within every run you can also indeed kill two marksmen who also have great loot within their loot pools and drop them very very often indeed. So although this is 200 captain runs it's also 400 marksman kills at the same time. So each run I was averaging 40 to 45 seconds and this is only because the marksmen were all over the place. Within the demo I would normally see them right by the captain but here when farming sometimes these run up is its size so for the 200 runs it took me about two hours 20 minutes give or take. Okay so from the 400 marksman kills I got a grand total of 77 rares and 121 epics which isn't bad at all people. The rares dismantled resulted in 4560 iron and 7881 leather. The epics dismantled into 1694 titanium but also people from the marksmen I got a whole two legendos. I got two legendos within 200 runs. What is going on here guys? So from 400 kills I got two legendos here which isn't bad whatsoever. So on to the captain. So here in terms of titanium I got from him I got 1363. I also got 133 rares which when dismantled I got 17920 leather and 6519 iron. In total from the captain here 200 runs I got 174 epics which when dismantled I got 2088 titanium. Also from the captain guys 200 runs I got two legendos so that's four in total so not a bad run if I'm honest so if we calculate my entire rewards here I had 210 rares 295 epics and four legendos so I ended up in total from this farm four legendos 11079 iron 25801 leather and 5145 titanium and when we compare this to the vanguard captain I ran which you would have saw that video already 200 times and I wrote tier 15 taught me about an hour and 30 minutes I got one legendo here two hours 20 minutes I got four legendos and a ton more materials so this is definitely a better farm in my opinion and way more efficient for that loot and there we have it people it isn't all that bad and to be honest I am quite a lot of materials from this and another thing I will add too from just over the two hours here I've had four legendos doing expeditions the last night maybe three or four times longer I didn't see two so yeah who said the campaign buses ain't worth farming because it seems as though whoever came up with that is talking absolute noodles but there we have it people 200 runs and the olg captain and guys the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here want to see more outriders on a daily basis be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


I'm happy to be a part of this important event. My name is Vasilisa. And I represent today a physics part of IHS. And I will tell you about a very mysterious thing, which is gravity. Sorry, it is not easy to talk about such an impressive thing. I'm impressed since I entered the university. So I study generalized Einstein-Carton theory. If we talk about, oh, it doesn't work. Sorry. Yeah, it works. But by the way, if you have any problems with sound, please don't hesitate to tell me. If we talk about gravity, we should start from general relativity, which is a geometrical theory. The main idea is that gravity is geometry. And the geometry of the world around us is defined by the material content of the world around us, which means that these processes that we see, something falls down. All this is defined by the objects of the world around us, the earth, the sun, everything. And the main equation of general relativity is here, before your eyes. On the left-hand side, we have geometry, which is the curvature of spacetime. And on the right-hand side, we have material content of the universe, of the world. And so this is a very elegant idea. And this theory, Einstein's general relativity, agrees for now with all experimental data, such as various solar system tests and direct observation of gravitational waves and direct observations of black holes surrounding, which you can see here.  And on this part of the picture, which is brighter than another part, these are the main confirmations of general relativity. So everything looks fine, but there are two dark clouds on the perfect blue sky of general relativity. And the first dark cloud is related to the fact that if we look at some galaxy, it can be our galaxy or it can be any other galaxy. We can see that the stars, which are far away from the galactic center, which is supposed to move slowly because they are far away. They don't care about what happens in the galactic center. Actually, these stars are moving very fast. They are rotating very fast around the galactic center. They should not rotate that fast. And the only way to explain this phenomenon within general relativity is to admit that all the galaxies are put in some large, enormously large hollow of invisible matter, which is called dark matter. And these hollows are 10 times larger than the side of the galaxy. So it means that there is a huge amount of dark matter, which surrounds the galaxies. There are a huge amount of dark matter in the universe. This is one dark cloud, and another dark cloud is the fact that in the end of 90s, the accelerated expansion of the universe was discovered. And again, the only way to explain this accelerated expansion within the general relativity is to admit that our universe consists of not only matter, but also some unclear and known new type of energy, which is called dark energy. And this dark energy amount, 70% of the universe content. So it means that in the universe, who have 70% of dark energy and 30% of matter, it's risen to 25. I'm sorry, I forgot how to add numbers. But only five persons of this 30 persons of matter is actually a real, visible matter, which means that if general relativity is absolutely right and correct everywhere, we live in the universe which is full of matter and energy with nothing about. And I say now, 70% and I remember how 15 years ago, my professor gave a talk, and he also said, 70%, which means that 15 years passed and nothing changed. These dark clouds, these two dark clouds remain. And scientists still don't know how to correctly explain them. Experimentalists try to find dark matter particles already for 30 years, and they did not yet succeed. And this is why the following question arises. Is a general relativity 100% right or not? Because look, these two phenomena I was talking about here, they are large scale phenomena. These are cosmological phenomena, something which happens on the large scale. So maybe there exists some other theory which coincides with general relativity on the small scales like solar system, but which differs from general relativity on the large scales. Does there exist another gravitational theory which explains these two dark clouds, these two large scale phenomena, better than general relativity? And many theories actually were proposed. And I will talk about the one theory, which as exactly as a general relativity, this theory has a geometric origin. Because soon after Einstein's general relativity was proposed, mathematician Ely Cartan realized that the geometry used by general relativity can be actually generalized. It is very interesting to see how it happens, so I will explain you. Let us take some curved manifold, some, for example, curved surface. Let's take a point at this surface and let's introduce a vector. Of course, vectors cannot exist on the curved surface, so we have to introduce a plane, which is called a fine space. And now I would like to move this vector along some close circuit. Of course, I will move it together with this plane in some way. For example, I can roll this plane on this surface and after I will do it, I will see some closed trajectory on the surface and also I will see some trajectory on the plane like this. And generally speaking, the trajectory which I will see on the plane will be not closed. And the fact that this trajectory is not closed is expressed through the new geometrical notion, which is called torsion. And also the initial vector and the final vector will have a different orientation, which is expressed by curvature and this was already known from geometry of general relativity. So as a conclusion, one can see that Einstein's general relativity is based on curvature. While in the theory of Kaftan, there are two actors, curvature, the same as in general relativity and also torsion. And if you remember my first slide, curvature interacts with matter and torsion should also interact with something and it's supposed to interact with spin of particles. So we see that geometry interacts with some properties of matter. And so Kaftan asked, could there be a theory of gravity based on this generalized geometry? And he proposed one model which had no experimental consequences. But after that, people still asked again and again the same question because this idea, this beautiful mathematical idea is attractive. And at some stage, people came to the theory which is called torsion by gravity. I must say, so the term torsion by gravity was introduced by me and Thibaut Damou. Actually, many other authors worked on this theory. But me, I concentrated on the real observational consequences of this theory and I work on it. Why it is by gravity? Because roughly speaking, we have two gravitons in this theory. We have usual massless graviton and we also have massive graviton with mass kappa, which is here. So I did some studies of this theory and my last studies, me and the professor Thibaut Damou, my last studies are about black holes in torsion by gravity. Namely, we found recently that there are two types of black holes in this model. The first type is a usual black holes, exactly the same as in general relativity. Maybe not exactly the same, but it's another story, roughly speaking, exactly the same. And another interesting type of black holes also exist. Exist in the limit when mass of the second graviton is small. This second type of black hole which is called torsion hair, which means that outside the black hole there exists some additional field, additional to matrix, which is torsion. And the impressive part of this study is related to the recent Nobel Prize of this year, Nobel Prize, which was given for the study of supermassive, compact object in the center of our galaxy, which is admitted by most of the scientists to be a black hole.  And these stars are the object of particular interest of astronomers, especially one star which was observed very accurately. This star, which is called S2, among other characteristics of this star, there is a thing which is called periastron precession, which this is an effect, a phenomenon of precession of the orbit, which means that orbit is not just an ellipse, a constant ellipse, but this ellipse moves exactly as you can see on this picture. This ellipse slowly, slightly rotates each time. And the periastron precession of S2 star was measured very well to compare the predictions of general relativity and of other theories of gravity with reality.  What we see in this case, what are the observational consequences? And one can calculate the periastron precession of the star S2 around my black hole.  It would be much, much bigger than the periastron precession in general relativity, which means that if the object in the galactic center is my black hole, it means that the torsion by gravity is restricted. Namely, if you remember the Lagrangian, which is here, I have here the parameter eta, which is a coupling constant of torsion. So, this test, this periastron precession test, gave a huge restriction on the coupling constant. If I assume that the central object is my black hole, of course, it is not necessary. Maybe it is not my black hole.  So, this is what I do, and this is what I will continue to do. So, I will continue to look at the observational consequences of this interesting theory of gravity, because, again, this geometrical idea on which my model-based is very attractive. The question which I would like to answer is, is this model viable? Can this model be really... Sorry for the English word. Does this model describe the reality better than general relativity or not? We'll see. This is what I wanted to say.


from San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's theCUBE, covering Big Data SV 2016. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Peter Burris. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Silicon Valley for Big Data SV, Big Data Week as part of Strata Hadoop. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE. This is our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my host, Peter Burris, head of research at Wikibon Silicon Angle Media. Next guest, Dan Graham, general manager of R&D of Enterprise Group of Teradata and Stephanie McReynel's VP of marketing, Nalation. Welcome to theCUBE, good to see you again. Thank you, good to see you. Happy anniversary, your 15-year wedding anniversary today. It is today, today. And I was playing it with you. I've got to take the hard path. Hold my hand. Congratulations, it's a big accomplishment. You're five years older than Hadoop on the wedding side. I know, actually, our first son was born at the same year as Hadoop, so that's a special connection. I won't go there, but that's a good, we're gonna come back to that later after hours. So Dan, so at Teradata, obviously we were having a great conversation earlier today and all throughout the week, how big data and certainly data warehouses is changing. We had Jerry Heldon, Berkeley guys, done those databases and went through at Oracle. And he's on a lot of boards and his view is the transitions we're in. So I want to get your thoughts on the R&D view of the transitions because the word retrofit has been kicked around, not rip and replace, that's kind of the old word we knew from the 80s and 90s, but retrofitting is what people are thinking about because data warehousing is not going away, but it's being scaled differently. What's your thoughts on that? Because this is an area that's been getting a lot of discussion. Well, I think the data warehouse, particularly the technology, has started to grow into some of the things that the open source community started us and sort of poked you about and said, we need this and we need to change. So putting things like unstructured data in the data warehouse has been going on for quite a few years. Teradata's got it, IBM's got it, Oracle's got it, I can't speak for everybody, but we're not dumb, we're sitting there saying, okay, what's the trend, what do we get going on? So it's easier for us to put in a little feature than it is for others to build an entire ecosystem and reliability and performance and all the security. So it's not really a struggle for us, and so we've got quite a few customers doing weblog analysis, doing Internet of Things sensor data inside the data warehouse. I think it's a mystery to some, but I do agree with you that this is really a coexistence or an augmentation relationship. Teradata, my company, was very instrumental in saying, look, the data warehouse is gonna be here, Hadoop's gonna be over here, Discovery Zone's gonna be over there. The data warehouse was the only game in town for a long time, and we were not ashamed of that, but the reality is it needs to break out and has broken out into these other camps which all should be working together to help the customer. The customer has to have choices for a whole bunch of reasons. There's a lot more choices than just costs associated with this stuff. Yeah, you make a good point about having Hadoop kind of be on, so Cloudera's shift from, with Impala, someone was saying, oh, they're trying to be, they're trying to be teradata, they're trying to be a data warehouse, and let's just not playing out, and we had Rishi Yadav on earlier, he says, structured data's winning. And although unstructured data's certainly out there, everyone's using it, but everyone ends up coming back to some structured data, so is that how the cases we're gonna have this coexistence, and what does the coexistence look like, because now we can store our data, not only in a data warehouse or data lake or whatever we could call it, it's other places, so the diversity of storage becomes big, but the need for structured data. Let me give you a good example. Sensor data is about to flood the world and make big data look like really small stuff. It's gonna dwarf big data as we know it, so sensor data's gonna be huge, but because of the nature of the data, you wouldn't wanna put that in your data warehouse. It's kind of difficult to work with at first. It's very repetitive, and it's expensive if you put it in a data warehouse. So you put this in Hadoop. You put the less than ideal data in Hadoop, this data that's raw, needs a little bit of cleaning, needs a little bit of work, and you're gonna throw it away in three to six weeks. So I go to all the trouble to model it and put it in the data warehouse and store it at a high cost. If really all you're going to do is use it for a short period, have Hadoop grind it up and refine it, hand that refined information to the data warehouse where it can be put together with the other parts of the organizational model. So now I can see the sensor data in the context of labor costs. I can see it in the context of what am I doing on the production line from suppliers, from channels, from sales. So I can connect all the dots in the data warehouse, but Hadoop did the heavy lifting. So these two begin to work together. We're seeing this everywhere we go. It's not really a problem. We're working together. Great comment. I want to highlight a tweet that Ash Perk sent me. He's from Informatica, another company because I threw out the chum in the water on Twitter. Hey, you know, data warehouses is failing because certainly if you try to do something that's not meant for, it's going to fail. So I'd like to think everything's failing or if you're out in the media business, everything's dead and that gets instant reaction on Twitter. So I threw it out there and I said, you know, the data warehouse market delivered value but not where we wanted it, says Peter Burrus, or Peter was talking to a previous guest. And highlighting your point Dan, which is there's a lot of stuff going on where there's a roll for data and Ash Perk said, isn't it rather about the right tool for the right job for data warehousing? Hadoop and Data Lakes have a job to do too. That's your point. That's what you're basically saying. It'd be terrible if Hadoop became a data warehouse. It's got so many other important things to do. It's just a big, big mistake to try to make it into a data warehouse. I mean, it's not what you should do. You're right, best fit engineering is what you should be doing. Take the right tool for the right job, fit these things together. And you know, that includes price points. That includes a whole bunch of technologies. What's exciting about this is that it brings up the whole composability kind of DevOps theme. And Stephanie, I want to get your thoughts because you have a lens into the analytic world. And one of the recurring themes has certainly come up on theCUBE certainly the past year or more. And then last night, twice at our event, a customer raises his hand and says, how do I get actionable insights? Or how do I get the insights? And how do you make them actionable? Is this fantasy or is this real? So if you don't have the right architecture or the composed backend for data warehousing and do data lakes, the insights, the analytics become a problem. So what's your thoughts on that? Is it not actionable? Is it a function of getting the right insights? Is that having the right data? What's your thoughts about this? Getting the actionable insights surfaced and delivered? Well, there's the data, the diversity of that data when we restore it. And then there's an equal perspective, which is what is the diversity of the users that are going to access that data? And when you look at the user base now with all these self-service BI initiatives, we're getting access to everyone. We're saying, open the floodgates, let everyone access the data, let them figure it out, have a very iterative model for analyzing. The challenge of that, of course, is you need a little bit of structure and a little bit of governance to do that right and keep people kind of in their swim lanes and make sure they have a positive experience. So we're very much focused on, let's make sure that folks have access to the data, but they also understand the nuances of the underlying data and how it's structured and how they can apply it to the analytics. And when we can get that, we can get the whole organization ideating around analytics and how to apply them in the business and then really getting ROI from these great systems that DevOps has stood up and made available to the organization. So we've seen an explosion in data volumes, and you mentioned, Dan, that sensor data is gonna even eclipse all the data volume that other types of systems have created. We've not seen a comparable explosion in the number of users to access that. We had someone yesterday talk about the idea that maybe we're at peak saturation point or peak need for the old BI model because the number of users doesn't seem to be growing at the same rate. Now, software can fix that, can improve that. But from your perspective, how do you anticipate the user community is going to evolve to make use of a lot of the technologies that we're talking about? And I think it really depends on who you're classifying as the user community, right? Well, that's what I want you to do. How would you classify them? Well, so you have the traditional BI players and their model was deliver a dashboard, deliver metrics that we're gonna monitor the business by. And that's a very rigid model. What you see happening now with the advent of data science and the addition of a lot of data science teams to almost every business is you have individuals who are really trying to hypothesis test against the data. And while a data scientist has a PhD to do that and a lot of statistical techniques typically behind them, what we're seeing now with Tableau and Click and the more modern approaches to data visualization is a larger group of users can be given access to that same type of hypothesis testing approach. Now, that only works if you have some sort of central point of reference to what that data means. So there's a lot of education that needs to happen around data literacy and how to interpret data points and how to apply the right algorithms if you're gonna broaden that user base. And to be honest, until quite recently, we haven't as a community focused on developing and delivering tools and technology to help out there. We're so focused on getting the infrastructure down and making sure we can handle sensor data and high speed streams. We're now at a point where we're not gonna hit the return on investment unless we solve those problems of human interaction with the data, human interaction with one another so that we can have a language around analytics that everyone from the manager down to the IT or the DevOps guy really understands. Are we gonna change the people though or can we do things in software to make it more available and obvious to them? Yeah, I'm a firm believer that we should be doing things in software and technology. And I think if you look at human-computer interaction design and some of the breakthroughs that we have there about predictive transformations, predictive interfaces that can guide people with machine learning and AI to the right path, I think there's a big opportunity for innovation there. And we're doing a lot of that at Elation, but we're not the only vendor in the market. There are other companies in the big data space and self-service data prep in the visualization layer that are really pushing the envelope of how do we think about this differently? How do we think about crowdsourcing some of this information? Let's move away from a totally manual process of only the IT guy can define this stuff to opening it up to a broader audience and having the right tooling in place so it becomes very social and almost like the consumer apps that we're used to interacting with now. How do we get that experience more into the enterprise and use that to really create knowledge around the data in the organization and how to apply it? So to go back to your question, you were asking, are we gonna hire 500 or 600 more people because of this data explosion? The answer is no, based on what you just said, you're gonna make them more productive. You're gonna make the people 20, 30, 40% more productive and that's pretty much what your company does. I think there's also this notion that the size of the data has some relationship to the number of people, it doesn't. That's the computer's problem.  We are hitting a wall in the sense that we're not going to get a lot of budget to expand our data science team, to expand our business intelligence team. So we're gonna just have to be smarter down there in those groups. Now, that doesn't mean there's not a lot more interest in this and there's some new budget but you're not gonna get 50% more budget or 100% more budget. And that's where the relationship comes in. Well, if the top line increases though, this is where the interesting budget is, that the budget is a percentage of revenue, then that could be, that's where interesting opportunity. I don't see CEOs thinking that way. But let's talk about that. And by the way, Dan, maybe offline, we could talk about the relationship between adding new sources and adding people because I actually think there's gonna be a little bit closer relationship than you're suggesting, but we'll talk about that some other time. But on this notion of the CEO, we are talking here about the idea of thinking about data as capital.  I think we need to say, opportunity, what kind of data are we gonna need? What kind of information are we gonna need? So when you think about this relationship between people or the action, the people that need to take the action and the information they're gonna need to act properly, that's, I think, where we're going. That's more than just looking at a visualization tool. It's something deeper than that. So, Stephanie, what do you think about that? What, I think the interesting thing is it's not just about the data. The data isn't the only capital. I think you're right. We have to think about data as capital. But when I look at the landscape, I really think about the algorithm as capital. So the intellectual property is in the algorithm. It's not in the data. We need the data to feed the algorithm. And so it's important to store it, but you need the algorithm to make decisions. So to be clear, I totally agree. But most algorithms today are still stored as data. But you're absolutely right. Right. But it's interesting because when you look at the space and you look at what we obsess about and what we optimize, it's not always optimizing the storage of the algorithm. It's optimizing the storage of the data. And the algorithm is where there's a lot of confusion too in organizations. So if you're gonna change the behavior of a business manager, business managers, there's been a number of different studies and somewhere between 50 and 70% of business managers are still making decisions based on gut feel, even when they have a report or a dashboard or visualization right in front of them. And the reason usually is because- They don't trust the data. They don't trust the data. And because the analysts can't, you can send two of your best analysts out on the same inquiry and they come back with two different answers because they've transformed the data in a different way and they're both gonna be accurate. And so until you understand the transformation, the algorithm, you don't really understand how to apply that insight. And so if this is all gonna work, we gotta figure out how to be more descriptive about the algorithm and how it can be applied. Last night, I called that management by astrology. You have a model, which is the gut feel, but you negate the data which may deny that gut feel. What's about the operationalizing? It's one of the themes in our opening. Top three topic here was the operationalizing of it. And this really gets down to some of these concepts. And the people conversations is interesting. I throw out if the revenue increases, maybe you're getting more budget. But that brings up the people issues. So one of the things that I'm looking at is the indirect people component, which is the people who run around BI and the data, that's maybe that number's fixed, or maybe reduced with software. So there's some inefficiencies there for that. But the people who are using the data, the actual casual user might be an indirect user because they're also now tied to the data, whether it's gesture data or if it's machines and sensor data, that now that is where the actionable insights at the edge of the network might be. So that's where you get to the algorithm. So this comes back down to the operationalizing it. What is your guys' view on that? Because that is on everyone's CXO's agenda because they have some back room operations building up the infrastructure, the data warehouse to do data lake. Now the business owner says, okay, I want to put it in practice. So how do I operationalize an investment? Which talks about the people and the users. So that kind of thing. So your thoughts on operationalizing it. I mean, it's interesting. If you look at some of the technology organizations that have really built out their data team, there are the data scientists and there's data engineers. And the data engineers think about how do we operationalize and scale this?  And it's all about optimizing the skill sets and the flow of that data in the organization. And so I think we have to get much smarter about what are the machines really good at doing right now and what can you automate? And what are the different skill sets of users in the organization really good at? And how do you increase their productivity as much as you can? And that's different between different classes of users. And so what we're very focused on with Teradata is how can we make a Teradata platform and an architecture that maybe crosses Hadoop and a traditional Teradata database and asterisks to get ready to platform? And how do we make sure that the insights from all of that data that's been stored and managed there are available to the end users and clear what the role is of that data possibly in the organization and what role can it play? So how do we increase analyst productivity 20% to 50% is what we're seeing in our production implementations that we can get there by having the machine make suggestions and the analysts then finish the final mile. Dan, talk about the Teradata, because you're in R&D, which is a balance between trying to invent the future and match what the current market is doing. So the current market is saying, OK, here's how I store it. Here's how I process it. Here's how I operationalize. Here's the ROI calculations. And a lot of it's stuff around the corner they may or may not see. You have to see around the corner for Teradata. What's your thoughts on what you look for and what are the dots that we can connect here? Well, to connect this dot with the prior question as well, we have something called the sentient enterprise. It's a vision. It's a roadmap. It's a North Star for people to navigate by. And to connect those dots, I think the fastest way to be productive is not do the work. If you don't do it, you can do something else. And so as Stephanie was saying, we've got a situation here where we just can't hire enough kids out of college and put them in front of dashboards. It's not going to happen. No matter what we can pay them, I can't have 500 young people staring at dashboards falling asleep because it's relatively boring data at some point. You have to automate it. You have to take that automation step. And you have to take the algorithms, the neural nets, the Bayseans, the crazy algorithms that people are still inventing, and embed them in the software so that those decisions not only are made automatically, but the only thing that comes to the human is the anomaly. This one's out of bounds. This one's past a threshold. This one's worth looking at. I don't really want you to stare at these little needles going by all the time and wish that you had a better job. That's not going to work out very well. It's exciting data. It's the little outliers. It's the exploration, right? It's the problem areas that you need to go and dig into and solve that really have an effect on the company. And it's not just alerts and panics because if our alarm went off somewhere, it could be a long-term analysis that says, this is trending towards a bad bottom line in three months. That may not be a big deal today, but in three months, you'll get the phone call. So you need to automate things that are not just simple alerts and panics and anomalies, but you need to look at even deeper analysis that looks out a few months and saves your CFO from that rather testy boardroom meeting. I think sometimes too, it's a piece of data that might spark an idea or a thought. As we get more subject matter experts using data and looking for things in the data, they're gonna be thinking about, how do we optimize the business? It's kind of a change in mindset. You're going from a static metric and like, oh my God, we're under the metric and we can't make it. And you're opening up a world to, wow, how can we think differently about this business process? How can we think differently about how we approach the market? What's a trend that's happening that we might be able to jump on? And so it really, you build a tighter closed loop to how you're making decisions in the business and you start to see benefits from those small experiments. They give you confidence to make the larger that. Stephanie and Dan, thanks so much for sharing the insight here on theCUBE. I'll give you guys the last word. We have a few seconds left. What's the bumper sticker for the show this year? Here in San Jose, Silicon Valley, in San Jose for a big day to SV and Strata had to do. What's the bottom line summary of the event if you had to put on a bumper sticker? One word bumper sticker. You can do a sentence, just do it in 10 seconds. What's the vibe of the show? What's the, is it up trending up, kind of ho-hum? What's the vibe, what's going on? What's the theme? What are you seeing? I mean, I've been pretty laser-like focused on data collaboration and how we get humans and machines working together. So I've heard a lot about ML and AI and what's the next, what's the next frontier, how we apply all of that. I think Dan, you tried to capture that with the notion of the sentient enterprise. Right. Yeah, I would say it's best-fit engineering, the right tool for the right job. I think all the hype is starting to settle down and we're looking at the facts that not all of the tools are doing what they were originally promised, but they have good value in what they do. So let's put- Stand the tool set, don't be the hammer and everything's a nail, be everything. That's right, let's get all the tools. Just tools. All right, just tools. If you're a hammer, everything's a nail. Expand your toolbox, AI, machine learning, a lot of good technologies, business outcomes. This is the cue. We'll be doubling next week for Ireland, for Hadoop Summit. Check us out there. 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Crisis rocks the leadership of political parties as national party officers of the PDP resign and the APC have eyes set on them. And APC members seeks the solution of the governor, my Malapuni-led Kateka committee of the party. Well, this is Plus Politics and I am Mary Anna Cole. Seven deputy national officers made up of the deputy national publicity secretary, the deputy legal advisor, the deputy women leader amongst others resigned their position, citing bad treatment, the PDP national chairman. They were saying that this was the treatment they got from the national chairman. Now they also cited financial and discipline and poor leadership as reasons for their resignation. This latest event may fuel the crisis rocking the leadership of the PDP. What's running us to discuss this is a former special advisor to the river state governor, and of course we will be having join us the former publicity secretary of the People's Democratic Party in river state and the APC chieftain, but thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Inko Tare. It's interesting to see that, you know, we were just recently talking about the crisis rocking the APC, but it seems like the PDP is not left out on this drama. I mean, the PDP has lost soldiers. They've lost governors. They've lost senators. Now they're losing strong members of their party and they're citing bad treatment, you know, by the chairman of the party. Do you have any idea what exactly these people are referring to? Well, first, one is not really surprised. I'm not taking it back because there have been precursory signs of this to happen and many more to happen. In the past, the leadership has been accused of high-handedness and collusion with some governors. And most of you will agree with me that nobody wants to be treated with this thing. I mean, look who I'm accepting, it's much more bewildering than outcry rejection. And they have accused, they've planned their resignation on the disdain treatment they received from Prince Uche's deconditions. That being the case, but I believe, well, my conviction is that it has to do with Pekinari's reasons. When they say, they rightly said so too, but not necessarily on vile, fristic reasons. I believe that they carried out, they have got a resign simply because they've not been carried along financially. The problem was of the sideline and they must have had a Georgia president resignation which did not yield anything fruitful or reasonable according to them. So they have to resign rather than be sideline. This also tells you that the parties in crisis, just like the ATG, the parties in crisis and it also has also threatened the parties ability to take over come 2022. And talking about financial recklessness, because this is some of the things that were cited in the acclaimed. That is what they are led by financial recklessness. And you're saying that these people may probably have not been carried along. How do you leave a party that is in crisis? I mean, at a time like this, when political parties are supposed to band together, everybody's trying to realign, getting ready for 2023. How do you leave the PDP for the APC who's also having its own internal crisis? I mean, what's the sense in that? Again, as the PDP is seen depleting every single day, is there any hope for the PDP in 2023? Well, I just told you, there is the chances of the PDP hosting the APC in 2003 is quite slim. Given the defection that has taken place in recent times, nevertheless talking of defecting from the PDP to the APC, just as some members are defecting to the APC, some members are also defecting to the PDP.  They are all there. They are in politics for gastric reasons.  They are not in politics for any Nigeria. They are not in politics to smoothing out the rocks in the society. They are in politics for their own personal gain. And so when they leave the APC, PDP for the APC, probably the most have reached accommodation with members of the APC for one appointment or the other. And that is exactly what has happened. So nobody should be deluded thinking that it's for autocentric reasons, not for acoustic reasons. What are the practices of since from 2023? It's a different thing altogether. When they get into that party, of course they'll work with the APC to ensure the APC perpetuates itself in office. Those that are going to leave the APC for the PDP will also ensure that the PDP allows the APC to come 2023. And that is it. Whichever way, well, that is different. I hope it will depend on the matter. But I said I hope that is in the elections that are not going to be reached because there are also preposterous signs that there are plans for the elections to be reached, given the opposition that visited the transmission of the results in the 2020 Congress. Let's even start by, I want us to, because I mean, you worked under a PDP government, so you have some insight into it. Now, let's look at the leadership. But I must state here now that I'm not an APC or PDP. I know that. But let's examine the leadership of Prince Uche Secundus. Now, let's not also forget that the problem that is rocking the PDP, the APC right now is also bothered on leadership. But let's look at the leadership of Prince Uche Secundus and the people that came before him. How well has he fared as a party chairman in terms of staring the ship, in terms of blurring the lines and strengthening the party? How well has he done? Let's take a look at his leadership skills. Well, I will be pontificating if I give a penetrating talk to Prince Uche Secundus leadership style, because I'm not a member of the party. That is number one. And most of these things are internal. They are intraparties. It's not like a government that is open to public prognosis. This is an intraparty matter. The only issue I have is that PDP has not been a very high-level position. That is given. That's one of the things irrefragable nobody can argue there. But to talk of the internal workings of the PDP, I know that there are a lot of disgruntled party members and they have to put that to high-handed net, not just from Uche Secundus, but by even some governments. And they believe that Secundus is being mostly controlled by certain governments. That is the truth. But I cannot tell you for say, I mean, when I talk about specificity, I cannot say this is the actual problem. But for what these people have said yesterday, when they resign, they talk of financial recklessness and high-handed net. Well, talking of the high-handed net, I can't really say, but they are strong that even while you have to get to that one, and so many other persons have to get to that. So that is one fact. But talking of the financial recklessness, I am not, PDP have no sense of their financial transaction or their financial dealings. So I can't really say, it is incumbent on them to apply the public of what they mean by financial recklessness. If they have received money, if they receive money at Secundus, you may not try to spend enough money without a cause to due process. Probably that is what they mean.  Some of the reasons why the governor of Cross River State said he left the party for the APC was that he was not allowed to be the leader of the party in his state and that, you know, a certain governor in another state was causing trouble within the party in his state. So you see the case of high-handedness. And if governors of states are complaining about the fact that they're not allowed to run the structure of the party in their state, again, the PDP is supposed to be playing a strong opposition to the APC as we saw when the PDP was in power how the APC was able to run them out of government. And we're not even advocating for anything, but we'll just say the duty of the PDP seems to be have, seems to have been abdicated one way or the other. Should this also be heaped on the head of the party chairman, or is it a blame that should be shared by all in sundry? Well, talking of being playing an active role in the opposition, let's also forget that under the Junotas administration, Junotan was quite impoverished, was quite tolerant. He tolerated a lot of views, dissenting views and so on. And he was more of a democrat. But in this particular instance, you'll find out that there are so many attempts, relentless attempts to muzzle the press and to change the freedom of information and expression. So when you say the APC was quite active when it got in the polluter, it was consequent upon the leader, the president after that time, who gave room and allowed a lot of things to happen. So you're saying that the Buhari, so you're implying that the Buhari administration is stifling the voice of the PDPs. Is that what you mean? The fact that you're saying there's no freedom of information. You're saying that the voices of the PDP members, or the voice of the opposition is being stifled. How? I am saying categorically, that under this present administration, the rule of law in case, and that we say of justice around the sub-battant, the agendas are trying to muzzle the press.  We are aware of the Twitter issue. We are aware of the NBC code. We are aware of so many of the admitted plethora of that in order to intimidate the press and suppress opposition. Because they see dangerous enemies in the Spanish Southern, the Syphus and the stuff behind every dissenting war. That is not endowed. Nobody can dispute that under this administration. But under this good law, do you know that the other one was more tolerant than this one? This one is impervious to criticism. Anything, they come up with a speech, whatever, may why there are laws to address those things. Estands laws to address what they are afraid of. The very thing they are working against was what they weaponized under the Jonathan's agreement to remove Jonathan from office. So you cannot compare when it comes to free press, freedom of the press. You cannot compare the Jonathan's decision with that of the Gwareka administration. That I can take up with those that are stand to the constitution anywhere. Interested. Let me go to Nzeke, go to Kunzeke, who's joining us on the phone. Have we lost him? Apologies, we have lost Nzeke. He probably will come back.  We know, as at a few hours ago, that Joy Maudi of the PDP has recently joined the APC. That's the only name that we can name right now. And we know- That's Benway, is it? Benway Street, is it? Yes. The Sunator. Yes, and she was part of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, but now she has joined the APC. This obviously means that, like you said, there's something within the APC that's attractive, and that's why they're joining the APC. We haven't heard from the other six members where they're going, but we know that they have resigned. The states that have the PDP seem to be southern states. And there are people who have, the pundits who have said that soon, the PDP might just become original government. You know, just like APCA is now a one state party. So do you see this happening sometimes soon that the APC might just, one way or the other, compress the PDP into just a few states in the south? Well, without any attempt to foreshadow, because every one minute means a lot in policy. One second. A lot of people, I mentioned yesterday, a lot of people that are dissatisfied to the APC today might go back to the PDP. If their terms, if their conditions are not met, because like I told you, they did not defect based on principle. No, it was for their own selfish reason. They just felt like those who talk of high-handed met, they just felt that their ambitions will not be brought to fruition in the PDP. So let us move to the APC. The same thing to be sure the APC members that are defecting to the PDP. So it is too early in the day because most of them might defect back to the PDP and most might go back to the APC. But if you compare the crisis rock in both parties, I think it's worse off in the APC. It's worse off in the APC. I was really hoping that you'd say that and then I had a question, because as bad as the crisis in the APC is, we still haven't seen anybody move grounds. And I remember talking to a member of the APC, but he just mentioned Joy. He just mentioned Joy was moving to PDP. No, just hold on. And a term move from APC to PDP? Yeah, well, but just hold on. Sorry, moving from PDP. A term move from APC to PDP? No, no, no, Joy moved from PDP to the APC. APC, what about that? Well, just hold on, I'm going somewhere. As bad as the crisis in the APC is, we've hardly seen anybody decide to move to the PDP. Now, I remember when I was talking to a member, a high-ranking member of the APC, and he asked a simple question to the opposing side, the person who was representing the PDP, that what does the PDP have to offer? That the APC is the party in power. And of course, if you join the party in power, there's a lot more to gain from it other than a party that's gradually dying. This was not, this were not my words. So really, if these people were to move to the PDP, what's the guarantee that the PDP has the power to give them what they want? That is the question I'm going to be posing to you again. As bad as the situation is, people are going to court. They're asking that Boone be removed as the head of the National Working Committee. All of the problems they're facing, the failed Congresses and the conversations around if they're going to have the Congresses all over again, the people have stayed put. What does that say about the PDP? Well, like I said, I really think that it's too early in the day because a lot of people, in less than 20,000 people can defend from one party, from one party to another. You keep saying that, but in the past few months, we've only seen a mass movement to the APC. We've seen the PDP lose governors. We've seen the PDP lose senators. Right now, members of the Board of Trustees are being lost to the APC. We're not seeing the same from the other side. Don't also forget that just 24 hours to the election, a lot of people might also move from one party to the other. That's what I'm telling you. And what I extrapolate from what you said, the other somebody against said, is that they are going to bring the appeasants to bear because the movement of fear, it was going to have effect. But the masses are the ones to decide which party is to win. And that is what we call for electorate voting. Now, a lot of them are moving to the APC. Even in the APC, you have to scot-and-beast tunes. The man who spoke with you, I don't want to mention his name, but I can guess, I can summarize, who spoke with you is not understand with the leader of the party. And don't forget, it has really nothing to do with the medical strength because you can be in a party and become a pit columnist. Like what happened in Riverside in 2019, where those party members were the one that truncated the participation of the APC in Riverside. So it's not all about that. It has to do with interest. So that's what I'm telling you. That rise might actually be too early to say which party will win. You might be surprised that even the first party might win. Because a lot of these APC members might also need the APC which are different to another political party. That was how the APC was formed. They also have the GDP. Before 2015, that was the APC. In 2014, that was the APC. Now now the APC was formed. So certain parties might also decide to come together to strengthen an existing political party for each to imagine to rule country 23. That's the point I'm making. Because a lot of people that have depended on the APC will not remain in that APC country 23. I bet you. Not most of them because the moment the ambitions are not met or guaranteed, they will defect. They are not doing it in the interest of the public. It's for certain reasons. It's for certain gains. And not of them are money buyers. So they cannot afford to finance or sponsor another political party. Let us use an Obama example. Who is the senator today? Who is also contested? In later ways, I'm telling you, why is it? Well, you realize that the ambition in the GDP will be very strong. Why is it so powerful? At this point, I'm trying to make it. Let's talk about, now that we're talking about other political parties. The former chairman of INEC, Professor Tahir Ujjigar, had a few words for Nigerians. And he did speak about the fact that Nigerians should dump the APC and the PDP because they have not served us since we decided to go down this road of democracy. And he also slid in the fact that he was also becoming a member of a certain political party that might not have been as big as the PDP and the APC. So my question now is, was all of the infighting and the big parties, do we see smaller parties emerging? Or like you said, maybe forming another front like the APC did. Do we see most of these politicians also moving to those smaller parties and trying to see if they can run? Because I asked the question yesterday, all of these parties, whether big or small, do they have ideologies? What are those ideologies? What do they stand for? And as you have said, since the politicians do not have ideologies, we keep criss-crossing. And why does that leave us as voters? We, the electorates, who have to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea? Do people really vote for political parties? That's where I call the Supreme Court judgment. But that's what we see on the ballot paper. We don't see the names of politicians. We see politicians. No, that's what I'm saying. That's why I call the Supreme Court judgment that says, you vote for political parties, I'm not going to be there. Marianne, we are not supposed to see ourselves. We all know that membership of a party is not planned on the ideology or constitution of that party. It is planned on your loyalty to a particular individual. I'm not the party. How do you mean? That's the truth about it. If I have a follower, and today, I'm a member, hypothetically, a member of WWW, the name of a political party, and I'm discussing to why, why, why, all my loyalists will follow me to why, why, why. They will not remain in WWW. That is the politics we play in Nigeria. So that's what I'm saying. Most of the, all the political parties are devoid of ideology. They should come up with, let me say, David Bowmy, the other part of the problem in this is because they have a KTNR community in Myanmar who is in, which is in view of their constitution. So nobody really will base constitution on nobody. It's fiddler to ideology. Nobody. It is all about the individual and personal interests. That's the point I am making. So if today, they'll know these money bags move from party A to party B. They are loyalists who move with them. And most of them can reach accommodation to say, okay, let us all support a particular candidate or particular candidate in some parties with our money and with our influence and with our clout. That is what we play out come 2023. So the victory of a party depends on the individual, not necessarily the parties constitutional, not necessarily the parties and procedures, not necessarily when the party can offer. Because if you talk of party, what does the APC offer? Nothing completely. What we have is cataclysmic leadership. Okay. Complete failure, this month's performance. So how is it based on rating on performance? What do the APC, how can the APC return to office in 2023? It's not possible. That's not possible. One last question before we wrap it up because we're out of time. We keep talking about the fact that these political parties have no ideologies and they have nothing to offer. But then we're asking Nigerians to become parts of these political parties so that their voices can also be heard and they can feel more represented other than wait till the party presents a candidate. So shouldn't we, as Nigerians who want to join political parties or shouldn't political parties in Nigeria start having the conversation about what the ideologies, the Klerkos ideologies are, as opposed to just moving from party A to B in order to strengthen the core of those parties instead of seeing these mass movements when it's close to election season? No. Membership of a political party does not really ensure change in that political party because you already have people with mindsets. You know, I mean, parties are ruled by leased laws. Those are called leased laws. You have the leased laws and you have the leased seven. So you already have those that are in charge of that political party and it is what they say that will be done, that will be carried out. So the only weapon the masses will have, the voters will have, is their voter card. And that is why we talk of electronic voters because at that point- Is that really a tool that they have? Because really, these parties have already decided whoever they want.  That's what I'm saying. You may not necessarily be who we want. So really, do they have a choice? That's okay. That's the card. So that when you say Mr. A, come on by four hours, go and vote for Mr. A.  And once Mr. B, Mr. A is out of office, that is the way nothing they can do. Most of these governors come to, by next year, mid next year to end of next year, you see a lot of women resigning from their cabinet, from the office. I'm telling you, do I go to there? Not because they are happy with the system, but because to market infrastructure, they have to survive. That's why most of them are still there. And most of these governors are aware. So all we need is our voter's card. That is the weapon we have. So that we say, okay, fine, collect this money from this man. We are going to vote for Mr. A sir, but we step out to vote for Mr. B. That's really what we can effectively change. But if you think that just being a member of a party, what are you going to do? You're just there to carry out orders.  Go ahead and carry out this order. It's as simple as that. There is really nothing you can do. All right. And if you saw, they say, if you are that brilliant and you are that politically sad actually, why are you not the government? Why are you not the minister? Why are you not the president? These are the questions they ask you. But the method that they did what they did and it took them to where they are today, they believe they are sad actually, and it is the best thing to do. Opponaboy and Kotaura is a former special advisor to the governor of River State. Thank you very much for speaking with us. We really appreciate it. My pleasure, Marianne. Thank you. All right. We'll take a short break. And when we come back, of course, we will talk about the ABC member asking the court to annul the congresses that happened over last weekend and sack the Booney-led committee. Stay with us. We'll be right back.


When we're live we're radioactive But as we go from flesh to bone to peat moss we become less so and why could be measured Why could some guy at a later date know the round 2008 some guy was here like doughnuts and smoked cigarettes? Anthropology escapes me and berates me and carbon dates me and I found that lately the time spent waking are just echoes of a lost dream Where some kind of lab coat cries although we died of a broken heart the doughnuts and smokes didn't help In a mass in a row all together here We go sliding headlong down a slippery slope to to when the question engendered existential crises It could be simply stated by great Danes or Lawrence Olivier's who bark and hark to ghosts dithering as they do I Dither to I had not thought the death that had done so many Physics doesn't dither the line from the singularity to the present day may move through time and space in a relative way But at no time does space time say um wait let's think about this Clocks and watches break But time doesn't wait and you don't need the FM band to play through your braces to know that gravity always wins At the end of the desert it said I've read their lives a promised land But when you're in the desert any place not desert has enough promise buck oh ins play guitar in a desert and Josh Joshua played a horn I can't even play drums Which they say anyone could play and if the world becomes desert I'm left I guess I won't be buck or Josh, but I will blow my horn at the crystal palace and watch the walls come down Because that's the nature of walls They fall and I looked over one in Berlin and it fell And they won in China the people steal rocks from to build houses with and they built these giant ornamental Islam-inspired buildings that Islam-inspired fellas broke down Spectacularly if gravity is the organizing principle of the universe, and that's true, and that's the case Then why is this place so messy? I sit atop a mountaintop and if I sit there long enough it will wear out beneath me And the Sun will expand to envelop me and gravity and entropy will dance as molecules expand over wide expanse I sit atop a mountaintop and hear them talking but see no faces and they will speak in a language You do not understand in a context that is alien to me of Generations long past and long yet to be and I don't care if your stock office worth $300 a share You still have to be nice Because gravity always wins and the universe will expand and Contract like the heaving chest of a sleeping puppy, and we might be at streams All the seals left the dock because All the seals left the dock, and I know they're not coming back And they don't have to because all the seals might have somewhere else to go Maybe they have appointments and commitments Maybe they have meetings on rocks where they have to talk and figure out where they have to be All the seals left the dock, and they're not coming back They figured they have enough not to think what we're all about and what are we all about Not what the seals want to think about and how much time do we have to make choices? Or all the voices we had all that mattered if I knew I would say something profound, but I can't All the seals bailed on us like Jesus and the world of the rest of us And I pray but my words can't find a name to pray to and I can only hope that hope has wings and carries souls on it Because my soul is small and caught up in well caught up in Everything well everything and I can't find a way away from everything, but that suggests more than I'm given I know that youth equals lies and time equals times and nobody in our life Will figure our life out and my life tells not enough to inform the rest of us So why am I on the dock looking around for a seal left alone left where they should be Where we told they they told me to be and now they all took off and I hope they come back Because the seals in San Francisco transcend metaphor And we know nothing lasts forever and I'm glad I don't because what good would that be? The seals know me and they're not even seals.  There ain't no sun need to shine today We don't need no curing rain If a comet come hurtling towards San Francisco Let it be so Today's aura block out the cosmos Evaporate the clouds into rainbows and drop so big they hit the ground with a plunk plunk Washing away all the pee and funk of all the drunk south of market There ain't no day better than this one when polar bears feed they need nothing in the zoo But salmon's and each other They roll on their fronts and backs and they tuck into the zookeepers filets and sleep all day in the drowsy Sunshine and one polar bear say to the other remember Remember when we used to hunt ha Punt there ain't no day way there ain't no better day than this one I find your space from behind of the dogs in the park can't quite bark like you talked to the pillow in the morning sun And shine I wake out of a pile and smile looking around me and the dog says take me to the park with a bark And I climb past all the spiders and find pants and watch all the sleeping thinking there ain't no better day than this one With welcoming places soft and dark and sunny and grassy in the park meant for making out We're holding hands is erotic entry is elementary and I wonder how it works in the complicated world When all I am when I'm where I am is so easy to do Eat and drink and sleep and write this poem to you drink a vernet and a beer or two And I do know better But not today Because today there ain't no better way to spend a day than right here right now in this place with nothing to do But being with you in every imaginable way I've seen the world up close and it has a snarl on its face and Conspires conspires to put us in our place But there ain't no fall so fast as a fall from grace and it comes a pace of course But that doesn't mean there isn't a day or a day like this one Waiting to say hell things can be right with the universe and that we're in grace gives us gives me pause because it's way up there But hey Mountain climbers scratch and pray to say on a satellite phone guess where I am and Astronauts unlatched their seatbelts and let drops of tang float around the capsule and drink them through a straw And they know they're coming down again But that don't mean they can't enjoy being up there Because there ain't no day like today And that's what I have to say and so I have a plan while we can let's play cool I'm trying to remember first line to poem and I was trying to do the this next poem first And I still can't remember the first line to the damn poem Here goes. Oh, Tokyo. Oh Tokyo. Oh, Tokyo.  Oh God, no, I can't go to Tokyo I Remember a city where I thought was man. This place needs a visit from Godzilla With his neat ray and that neat screech and a twirl of the electric slide over a few buildings and Maybe a sports arena They had a movie with a robot Godzilla that the poorly dubbed could drive But robots have no rhythm and can't electric slide sigh Godzilla could walk under water and then he would leap up upon shore and All the people in Tokyo would say oh shit And he would pick up an electric truck car and shake and the people in that car would hold on Oh Godzilla. Oh Godzilla. Oh Godzilla. What was that sound that you made? something like yeah, but not quite and And I love that sound Because that sound meant Saturday mornings early before anyone else was awake and you stomped your way into them into my heart Oh, Tokyo. Oh, Tokyo. Oh, Tokyo. I've got to go with whatever you have wherever it is Yeah, I'll tramp. Yeah, I'll stamp through the plastic neighborhoods the power and a rubber suit Protected from the power lines that run over electric trains. Oh poor mr. Engineer too bad You can't steer you're locked on rails and doomed to fail, but sometimes we're in that car and Sometimes we're in the rubber suit and Neither place could be construed as comfortable In the week this was written a bridge fell into a river for no other reason But the weight of the cars it was built to serve and I know that Godzilla is just a metaphor for calamity Either of the seismic variety or like that bomb they dropped on Nagasaki And somewhere Under my feet There's an electric train running Then in 15 minutes will emerge in West Oakland and the people on that train Will look out the windows and what will they see? Maybe some bridges Maybe some cranes Maybe some fog and maybe Just maybe in the valleys of the Sun there are no long shadows in the afternoon because well you're on the Sun How do you tell time on the Sun? Can you? When you look up, can you see the stars or is it too bright just too bright? It's a given that you can't look down Because you shouldn't stare at the Sun If you find yourself in a valley of the Sun for most of the horizon, it's difficult to look up and it's hot Yes, it's that But if you can't handle the hot You shouldn't be on the Sun But under bright lights is now where the world is at in the light in the bright all of the time We live on the Sun and our shoes are melting and our eyes are squinting I have allergies and had a giant booger mostly in my nose I looked around and ducked down an alley and plucked it out looking up to see a security camera looking down at me Is there some tag or something that is now broadcasting this is there a secret picker video Will people comment on my picking style on my choice of fingernail little finger left hand am I now an instant International nose picker has my booger gone viral will or do people on the street give me that faint wait Do I know that guy look? People don't live on mountains probably even on the Sun goats live on mountains But really only mountain goats But people us people we live in valleys or on planes or coasts I met a Dutch girl tonight that works under the Matterhorn She didn't live on the Matterhorn. She lived in the valley beneath just peaks She has valleys some choose peaks some choose valleys on the Sun There must be valleys and maybe societies Math has invented dimensions We don't understand and the problem with math when it does that is Eventually we find a million little things that make the universe even more incomprehensible so trust me when I say there are valleys on the Sun, but believe me when I say what context they exist in I don't understand But still me still believe me when I say we live on the Sun and we have peaks Because we always have to climb and we have valleys that in truth probably resemble more the valleys of the Sun than that idyllic Swiss valley under the Matterhorn and now when we traverse that valley anyone could see because it's all so bright and I try to process your fear and I try to empathize with your heartbreak, but I can't understand I was born on Pluto, which is not even the planet. It was before and getting from there to here has worn out a lot of shoes But the journey has given me time to acclimate But imperfectly So the heat I can handle The light I'm still working on that All these things that become are made in the Sun And much smarter people that I can tell you what physics will do when it has the chance to But there's a who here that will tell you dear there is no there is so much that we don't know That makes these pursuits worthwhile Even though we still know Tomorrow will be wrong There's still a value in that and even more a joy Because tomorrow's truths are not a gift given us all we have is today


Red-haired Shanks, a character who despite being introduced to us in the very first chapter of the series remains much of a mystery. Will insight into some of his real-life inspirations be able to shed some light onto this enigma? Hello my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl and today we are continuing our series of videos where we examine the gallery of One Piece characters and discuss the various influences which may have inspired Oda in his creation and development process. If this is a series you're interested in, then I do urge you to subscribe and click that notification bell for discussions of other characters as well as a very diverse range of topics regarding One Piece. For this video, we will continue our examination of members of the Goldie Roger Pirates by looking at a former apprentice who has gone on to become the captain of his very own crew. When we consider that Oda didn't originally plan for One Piece to run as long as it has, the fact that Shanks had a close relationship to our main protagonist suggests that he was always going to be a very significant character, which is not only evident from the Redhead captain's role and actions within the story, but also the real-life figures who seem to have inspired Oda when creating Shanks, suggesting the great amount of thought and planning that was dedicated to his character. So without further ado, let's get straight into these real-life inspirations. The earliest sources of inspiration for Oda in creating One Piece were Vikings, or in particular, Little Vicky the Viking, a television series which sparked the mangaka's love for pirates. And whilst One Piece is largely premised on more modern-day concepts of pirates, it's clear that these Nordic early types of Scandinavian seafaring combatants continue to play a role in the beloved series. One of such examples seems to be through the character of Shanks and the parallels to a Nordic mythological deity known as Tyr. Tyr was one of the Norse war gods and most renowned to have presided over matters of law and justice. This Norse war god of justice has also been adopted into Germanic mythology where Tyr is associated with the formalities of war, especially that of treaties. The belief of Tyr's role as the divine jurist comes from the tale of the binding of Fnir. According to Norse mythology, Fnir was a wolf pup whom despite being only a baby was feared by the gods due to his alarming speed of growth and the prophecies which warned that Fnir would one day cause them harm. As a result, the gods planned to tie Fnir up so that he couldn't escape. After multiple unsuccessful attempts in keeping the mighty Fnir restrained, the gods finally created fetters which would be strong enough to hold him. The rope which was called Glenapyr was smooth and light as silk and was made with a combination of very strange materials such as the beard of a woman or the breath of a fish amongst other very unique things. Suspicious of the appearance of Glenapyr and fearing magic must be involved, Fnir declared that he would only let the gods place the fetters around him if one of the gods would stick an arm into his mouth as a sign of good faith. Out of all the gods, Tyr was the only one willing to comply. After tying up the wolf who soon found he was unable to free himself, Fnir bit off Tyr's arm. Tyr's actions not only symbolized his heroism by saving the rest of the gods from the fearsome creature but also the sacrifice of his arm made their actions in capturing and binding the young wolf a just and fair transaction. Thus warranting the respect of gods and humans alike. The connections between this mythological deity and Shanks is clear. The red-haired captain remains in our memories after witnessing his heroic action in sacrificing his arm to save Luffy in the very first chapter, an action which parallels Tyr's loss of his arm. Moreover, whilst being a formidable fighter, Shanks is also considered to be somewhat of a diplomat or the maintainer of peace and justice based on his various, albeit limited actions and decisions which we have seen. He is only seen to engage in violence when absolutely necessary, such as to save his friends from danger. And whilst his motivations are not transparent, Shanks seems to be preoccupied with keeping peace and saving humanity from unnecessary bloodshed above all else. However, Tyr isn't the only Nordic figure whom Shanks seems to resemble, leading us to the discussion of another historical figure, Eric the Red. Oda seems to have drawn inspiration from a well-known Nordic Viking from the medieval era named Eric Thorvaldson, who was given the epithet Eric the Red due to the colour of his hair and beard. Eric is known to have left Norway for western Iceland at a young age around the mid-10th century after his father was exiled for manslaughter. As a boy, Eric is said to have grown up brazen and volatile, which also seems to have contributed to his nickname. After his father's death, Eric moved to northern Iceland where he settled with his wife. However, Eric was once again forced to move, this time travelling further north with his family after being banished due to a fight he had with his neighbour which resulted in Eric killing his neighbour's kinsmen. But even in his new village, Eric would continue to get himself into trouble. The Viking explorer entrusted his ascetic to another settler named Thorgast who later refused to return the artifact, a special wooden beam with Viking symbols which held mystical value in Nordic religion. Eric was able to take the beam back but fearing retaliation, he set up an ambush which led to a massive brawl where two of Thorgast's sons were killed. This again led to Eric's exile for manslaughter. Like his father who moved a long way to Iceland from Norway after being exiled for the same crime, Eric too decided to leave Iceland altogether. Traveling a massive 900 nautical miles or over 1600 kilometres of open ocean to arrive at a large landmass west of Iceland which he heard was discovered almost a century prior by another Norwegian sailor. Eric and his family were able to mitigate the dangers of such a voyage due to the advanced design of the Viking ship and Eric's own superior navigation skills. Eric became the first permanent settler of Greenland giving the island its deceptive name in hopes of inciting others to come settle there. When Eric's exile expired, he returned to Iceland and brought more settlers to his colony. His eldest son, Lief Ericsson would go on to become the first European to have set foot on Northern America arriving there approximately 500 years before Columbus. Eric was actually meant to accompany Lief on this voyage but decided not to after falling off his horse which he believed was a sign from the gods to stay home instead. According to legends, Eric soon died after the new millennium possibly due to complications from the injuries sustained during this horse accident. Perhaps the most glaring detail connecting shanks to Eric is their bright red hair colour resulting in their similar epithets. Aside from this obvious detail however, there also seems to be other inspirations which Oda drew from Eric such as the designs of the ships of the red hair pirates. Both shanks' crew's former ship which you saw in the first chapter as well as the Red Force have figureheads resembling that of a dragon head. This seems to be modelled after the design of classic Viking ships called Drakkar which Eric is thought to have sailed on. And though this next one is a bit of a stretch, like how Eric is the settler of Greenland, a country north west of Iceland, shanks is known to have hailed from the west blue. Furthermore, while shanks hasn't been displayed to be quite as volatile as the Viking, shanks does nonetheless have a reputation of being a fierce combatant as well as not hesitating to bring justice to those who deserve it. But moving on from Vikings to more modern day renditions of pirates, another real life figure who seems to have been an inspiration for the character of shanks, Captain John Calico Jack Rackham. John Rackham was a well-known English pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, also infamously known as Calico Jack given this epithet for the Calico clothing which he donned and Jack being a nickname for John. Calico Jack was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas and Cuba in the early 18th century. Not much is known of his earlier days before he became a pirate with the first record only concerning how he served as the quartermaster for pirate Charles Vane in the New Providence Island which was notorious for being the pirates republic. Jack was voted to become the captain when Captain Vane retreated from battle against the navy whilst Jack argued that they should fight, gaining the support and respect of majority of the crew. After being voted the new captain, Jack gave Vane one of their fleet ships as well as a decent supply of ammunition and goods as the former captain left with only a small number of men. As the new captain, Jack and his crew continued operating in the region, usually targeting smaller merchant and passenger transport vessels. Apart from targeting merchants, Jack also attacked smaller pirate ships though it is said that rather than viewing them as competition and enemies, Calico Jack would invite them to join his crew after defeating them. During one of his exploits, Jack managed to gain control of a large Jamaican vessel named the Kingston which was the largest prize he had ever managed to attain in his operations as a pirate. Unfortunately, this victory took place within sight of the Port Royal Harbour where many government officials and merchants witnessed the ordeal. Not raged by the pirates actions, they commissioned a pirate hunting Spanish ship to capture the captain. Though Jack and his crew were able to escape by taking advantage of the low tide which prevented the Spanish ship from approaching, they also had to leave their prized ship and treasures behind. This resulted in the crew taking up the amnesty which had been granted to all pirates in 1719 by the English government by pleading to Governor Rogers that they had been forced to become pirates by their old Captain Vane. However, this pardon didn't last long because while at port in the Bahamas, Jack began an affair with Anne Bonny, the wife of a sailor who worked for Governor Rogers. And as a result, the new couple and the crew had to escape to sea. Interestingly, Bonny wasn't the only female pirate on board as Jack is well known for being unique in that his ship carried two women, the other being Mary Reed who hid her gender from others by disguising as a man. Jack's operations as a pirate didn't last long as in 1720, the captain and his crew were captured whilst anchored in Jamaica. Pirate Hunter Barnett was able to surprise the pirates who were drunk from partying and though Anne Bonny and Mary Reed led a fight against the capture, the entire crew were ultimately caught and sentenced to hanging for their crimes of piracy. Captain John Calico Jack Rackham was executed in November 1720 where he was hanged, gibbeted and put on display to serve as an example to all other pirates on the Caribbean. Whilst Jack's stint as pirate captain didn't last long nor was he very successful in amassing great amounts of riches or power, he has remained a well known pirate for his era. This is primarily for having two female crew members as well as for establishing the modern image of pirates through his Jolly Roger. Whilst most pirate crews used to design their flags using the whole human skeleton armed with some weapon, Jack promoted the now iconic design of the human skull with two crossed swords. And indeed, this Jolly Roger is one element which seems to connect this real life pirate to the character in focus of today's discussion. Whilst most of the Jolly Rogers in the series follows the now standard design of featuring a skull rather than the whole skeleton, the Jolly Roger of Shanks's red head pirates is one of the very few in one piece which also features the double swords rather than a crossed pair of bones. Making it more similar to the flag sported by Calico Jack's pirate crew. Another detail between the two figures is that of their unique actions or fighting styles. Rather than being renowned as a tremendously skilled combatant, Jack is more remembered for his cunning mind and tendency to use politics and interestingly, backstabbing to further his goals. Whether the backstabbing nature of Calico Jack will one day be incorporated into Shanks's character is the big question. However, it is nonetheless arguable that the red head pirate has been shown to avoid fighting where possible and has displayed more diplomatic tendencies instead. Even shown to interact with the world government, though the reasons or outcome of this is unknown. And whilst we're on the topic of speculations, it's worth noting that it's often speculated or joked amongst the fan base that Shanks is the father of Makino's baby. Which if true, would seem alike the scandalous love affair between Jack and Bonnie. But while speculations aside, now another figure we could find some connections to, though this one is a bit questionable. Captain Red, a pirate character who first featured in 1994 as part of Valiant Comics. Considering that Captain Red only first appeared a few years before 1P started, meaning that some of the characters traits may have been developed over some years, thus perhaps parallel to when Odell was writing his story, it's difficult to say that Captain Red has likely influenced the development of Shanks's character. Moreover, as a fictional character himself, it seems more probable that Captain Red was influenced by the same figures we have mentioned so far. However, there are some similarities between the two, which does make it seem possible that Shanks's character drew some inspiration from Captain Red. Apart from the fact that they share similar nicknames and the fact that they are both pirate captains, Captain Red also lost his arm during the series, which is now replaced with the prosthetic. Captain Red has a bold flamboyant, passionate and fearless personality, which, apart from flamboyant, are adjectives which seem fitting of Shanks's character. Furthermore, Captain Red is a skilled fighter who wielded both a cutlass and a pistol as his weapons. Shanks is known to wield Gryphon, a sabre which is similar to a cutlass in that they're both curved blades, though a sabre, and Gryphon in particular is much longer than a cutlass. As for the pistol, Shanks himself isn't known to carry one, though many of his crew are known to be formidable shooters, and one of Shanks's best quotes uses a pistol as an analogy for how people should act. Or perhaps, this is a fighting style which we have yet to see from the Redhead pirate, as this is an area that does indeed remain a mystery. And now, onto another real-life figure whom Shanks resembles, and one confirmed by Oda himself, is actually Oda himself. In SBS Volume 24, Oda answered that Shanks is the character most like him, citing a clever mind, cool and calm personality, as well as stand out attire as the reasons why. Though this comment did seem to be somewhat of a joke, with the mangaka implying that he doesn't think many fans will believe this is true, so perhaps this answer was just a case of wishful thinking on Oda's part, or maybe there's a side to Shanks which we have yet to see. In which case, I would love to see it. And that brings us to the end of this discussion. Please let me know of any other figures whom Oda may have drawn inspiration from when creating Shanks by leaving a comment below, and please subscribe so that you don't miss out on the next video discussing real-life inspirations behind One Piece characters. This is Joygirl, and I'll see you again soon.