Let me just read you a few things. In 2015, while Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education, promoting and incorporating a critical race theory lens in education, you can still find it on the Department of Education's website. Still there. In February 2019, a superintendent memo for the Virginia Department of Education promoted Chris a race theory and the idea of white fragility. It's not part of the curriculum. I looked at it yesterday. I do want to ask, well, it's not in the curriculum. Just to be clear, it's not in the curriculum. Fine. It's not part of the curriculum. I would like to move on with you. How crazy is that? Despite being clearly refuted, she continues telling this lie that CRT is not in the schools, like a good little Democrat Party mouthpiece. What even is this segment? Democrats are the one in charge right now, but all she wants to do is deflect from that and focus negative attention on her political opponents. Why? Because she's worried about Democrats losing power in the midterms. The Virginia governor's race, is that the GOP playbook for the midterms, basically ignored Donald Trump? Well, I hope the Democrats continue to do what Terry McAuliffe did. Terry McAuliffe ran his campaign. He did two things. But you don't have control over that. He says it's all about Donald Trump. You only have control over, say, the Glenn Yonkin in this case. So I'm asking you, as someone from the Republican perspective, because I'm pretty sure you're not advising Democratic candidates. Nope. That's clearly your job. And why shouldn't he be responding in the way he is, since you're clearly a bad actor who's trying to set him up? Now, this is about to become infuriating to watch as Breonna Keeler takes on this almost sedated, passive-aggressive attitude and continues to lie, despite all the examples of CRT and Virginia schools that are listed off by Rick Scott. Terry McAuliffe wanted to say, oh, there was nothing about critical race theory. We know it's true. Parents know their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory in Virginia. And the Democrats wanted to deny it. I mean, well, it's not in the curriculum. And so the parents showed up because they don't like the unlike you. Just to be clear, it's not in the curriculum in Virginia. Oh, Breonna, would you like to meet her?  In 2015, while Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoting and incorporating a critical race theory lens in education, you can still find it on the Department of Education's website, still there. In February 2019, a superintendent memo for the Virginia Department of Education promoted critical race theory in the idea of white fragility. It's not part of the curriculum. I looked at it yesterday. It's still there, Breonna. I do want to ask you just to be clear about where you are. Breonna, wait a minute. Listen, let's all agree. They were trying to indoctrinate kids. Terry McAuliffe denied it. It's still on the website. This is happening. And I hope Democrats continue to say it's not happening because parents are dumb. They can see it. Your parents are dumb, you said? Aren't dumb. I'm sure you have the level of seriousness on display here.  She's not interested in reporting facts or even appearing professional. Nope, she's just there to make Republicans look bad for opposing a far-left ideology that attempts to normalize anti-white racism.  Gee, I wonder why they started saying that. No, they're not. I think parents are smart. My parents didn't have much of a formal education, but they cared about what I learned. Parents are smart. I just want to be clear, okay, Senator, I just have to be clear. It's not... The Virginia public education promoted critical race theory, and Terry McAuliffe said they didn't. I hope Democrats keep doing that all across the country. Fine. It's not part of the curriculum. I would like to move on with you. Of course, everything that Rick Scott listed here is absolutely verifiably true. The Virginia Department of Education website promotes CRT, despite McAuliffe and his media mouthpieces claims that it's never been taught there. On their website of books they're reading, it's a list of CRT-derived books. How to Be Anti-Racist by Ibrahim X. Kendi. Oh, okay. A guy that believes that white people aren't even human. Which is clearly anti-racist, right? Oh, and here we have Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education. Kind of weird that CRT has never been taught in school, but the books that they're reading are about the foundations of critical race theory in education. And the title of this book basically says the quiet part out loud, that while CRT, the legal theory, may not be taught in school, it's the snake oil that's derived from CRT that's being injected into the curriculum. Like Scott mentioned, in 2015, then-Governor McAuliffe's Department of Education told Virginia public schools to, quote, embrace critical race theory in order to, quote, re-engineer attitudes and belief systems. Also on the page, they call CRT a, quote, best practice and derive their definitions of racism, white supremacy, and education equity explicitly from critical race theory. It's right there on their website. McAuliffe and the Virginia Department of Education are openly embracing critical race theory in the schools. In 2019, Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane sent out a memo to Virginia public schools endorsing, quote, foundations of critical race theory in education, calling it, quote, an important analytic tool that can further spur developments in education. Loudoun County schools also hired a consulting firm to implement, quote, critical race theory and develop a high school class explicitly teaching CRT. The district superintendent even admitted that they want the curriculum to, quote, align with the ideology of CRT. Again, right there, it is undeniable. In February 2019, a superintendent memo for the Virginia Department of Education promoted critical race theory in the idea of white fragility. It's not, it's not part of the curriculum. Well, it's not in the curriculum. Just just to be clear, it's not, it's not in the curriculum. Fine. It's not part of the curriculum. I would like to move on. What's going on here is that we have Brianna and these other dishonest snake oil hucksters who are playing semantic word game. It reminds me of getting into an argument with a 12 year old. Got a bed. You're the boss. I told you to go to bed. Yeah, right, bread. You said go to bread. I said go to bed. No, CRT, the legal theory is not being taught in school. There's no elementary, junior high or high school class that teaches CRT the actual legal theory. However, they are indoctrinating kids with a far left curriculum that's derived from CRT.  I mean, it's the very definition of racism. Remember, CRT is a Marxist ideology that's derived from critical theory, which was used as a justification for political violence that led to millions dead in the Maoist revolution. This is dangerous stuff that at the very least deserves critical scrutiny. But instead, we're getting this cult-like adherence to denial despite the truth being readily available and in your face. Not a good sign in my opinion. All right, that's all I have for this one. As always, thanks for watching. Make sure to head on over to my Teespring store and check out my new line of Let's Be Brand in hoodies and teas. If you enjoyed the video, hit that like button and let me know what you think in the comments.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So for today's video, I am going to be doing my final tutorial video for the Norvina Volume 3 from Anastasia Beverly Hills. If you missed out on my Volume 1 and Volume 2 video, I would recommend you to check those out just to see those palettes and the kind of looks I created for those. But if you want to get some inspiration for this particular palette and just kind of hear my thoughts as I go along, then just continue watching. So I don't want to spend too much time on this because I've already said it twice before. So this is time number three, but this is the ABH Norvina Volume 3. This is obviously the third palette in the whole collection or whatever this whole release fiasco is. I don't really know, but it's the third palette. Volume 1 is more of a purpley pink palette. Volume 2 is a little bit more green and blue based. And this one is a very interesting color scheme. I would say it's like an orange warm based palette, but we also have quite a lot of greens in here. Very interesting. I don't, I don't know. But anyways, the packaging of this of course is the same. I really like this packaging. I love how big it is with all of these colors. I think this was the prettiest with the orange background and the gold butterflies flying on it. I think it's the cutest. This has a great giant mirror. That's like very good. Don't look at that. Oh my goodness. But it has a really great quality mirror in here. And then you have like the most interesting color scheme. If you ask me, I think this one's going to be the most popular because it does have the most wearable shades in here. But also, you know, there are so many shades. You can create a lot of different looks with this one in particular. I don't know. This one is just like an interesting mix of colors. But something about this palette is that it's swatched so pigmented and creamy. If you watched my volume 2 video, you would know that those shades were a little bit iffy and patchy with their swatches. Not this one. This one in volume 1 for some reason. The swatches in here were just so strong and beautiful. And I'm still collecting my thoughts on this one. But this one might be my favorite. I will for sure let you know at the end of this video which one of my favorite is. But like this one just has an interesting layout of colors. And I think I just like that it has more colors that I'm more comfortable with.  Let's get into this look right here. Alright, so for this first look, I wanted to do a look that was pretty wearable. Very much in my own personal comfort zone. So I know you can go a lot of different directions with this palette. First shade I'm going into is B5. As you can see, this is a great transition shade. I don't know. And just after those first two palettes, which are just so comfortable, it's just kind of refreshing to be able to just easily look at a palette and know that I'd be comfortable wearing it out. Obviously you can go kind of crazy with this palette, but it's nice to have the option of also not having to go crazy. So we're going to deepen that up with D1 right here. And just be aware with this particular shade, it definitely comes off much more orange than it does in the pan. So this is what kind of created that very Thanksgiving-y kind of look if you ask me. But yeah, this palette is definitely more fall compared to the other two. So to deepen it up, I'm taking E5 right here and this color, I feel like makes the look super Thanksgiving-y looking. But I'm not mad at it because Thanksgiving is going to come sooner than you know it. And we're going to kind of blend this everywhere. And I just really like the contrast that the gold gives this reddish shade. So I'm all about putting this shade everywhere. And I'm going to go in with that initial transition shade and kind of have some of that warmth pop through. Right, so we're going to take C1. I'm just going to apply that with my finger. This particular shade you will find does not have as much of a pigmented base. It's all about that shimmer and glimmer. One thing that I love about this collection of palettes is I love this formula that they have in here where it's just super glittery but still like a shimmer shade. It's not going to fall all over your face and the way it reflects the light is just really pretty. So this particular formula has been scattered throughout the three palettes and I'm just in love with it. It's glitter without being over the top and without needing a glitter glue. Now, if you were to add a glitter glue, that would be insane. And it would just really amplify the look but it doesn't even need it. And that's how you know it's a good shadow. Now for a fun orange-y pop, I'm taking some of D2. This shade is a touch more deep than that golden color but it adds just like a fun orange pop. On a pencil brush, I'm taking some of E2 right here. I wanted to use a pencil brush so I just really wanted to keep this color very concentrated. Normally, I do more of a blown out or a lash line. Today, I just felt like keeping that definition a little bit tighter to the eye. So this is basically it for the look. Once you see it in play with liner and lashes, you're gonna fall in love. So just wait, I'll be right back. Alright, so with liner, lips, and lashes, and this is what we're working with, I've definitely created this look on my channel multiple times but I just, I was feeling like full and Thanksgiving and I just wanted to show you that you can create a look that's like this pretty simple using this palette. You could even go more neutral but I couldn't help myself. I had to lean super duper warm but every color in here worked beautifully as expected. These Norvina palettes have such an amazing formula. It's crazy. So now let's move on to a different look using a whole different color scheme from this palette. So for this next look, I wanted to do something a little bit more pinky purpley because there are some purpley tones in. You guys know how I feel about purples. For the transition color, we're going into A3. I very lightly tapped that on my brush and I am very softly working that into my crease just to get a color to soften the edges out when we put actual like bright colors down. But this color is a great transition shade. It has a little bit of yellow to it and it's really pretty and this would be really good for more like neutral wearable looks as well. So I wanted to play around with this hot pink right here because it was calling my name. This is B3 and I'm going to pat this into the inner half of my crease kind of blend that up. This can really pack brightly if you would like to build it up or you can keep it a little bit more soft as well. So I really like this color. I was expecting a little bit more from it because there's some other colors from ABH that are like this one's pretty good and it is pretty customizable, which is nice. So the next shade I'm taking is before right here, which is that purpley violet shade. I have to say the only thing that I don't love is I feel like that hot pink we just put down B3. It blends out to be pretty close to B4, which is this purple. So as you can see, they are like slightly different but it's not that easy to tell them apart. So just be aware of that. I mean, it's nothing like a deal breaker by any means but it is something I did notice because I was expecting that hot pink shade to be much more vibrant and while I'm at it, I'm going to take those two shades and kind of work them along my lower lash line. We're already working at it. For those of you who like just don't have a lot of brushes, I literally am taking this big fat blending brush and running it along my lower lash line because I'm too lazy to dig out for one of my smaller brushes. So the next shade we're taking is C4 right here. This is such an interesting shade because it can be used in like reddish looks because it's a little bit cranberry but it also can be used in purple looks because it also was like a little bit more plummy. I do wish it did add just a little bit more dimension but it still is that nice deepening shade and we're definitely going to go back to that color. So I'm not going to talk while doing this but I'm taking the ABH eye primer and my ABH brush right here and I'm going to quietly do a cut crease to the best my ability. So this shade was the one that was calling out to me the most. So I'm going to put that right on the inner parts of my eyelid where I have the concealer down. Now this shade I was a touch disappointed by because the shimmers in these three big palettes are super amazing and this one kind of falls flat compared to the rest of them but it is still really nice. I feel like I'm talking so negatively about all of the shades I used today for some reason. They're not bad but all of them there's just something that's not perfect. So even if I have something negative to say that doesn't mean they're not good. It just means I feel like it could be back. So I am slightly wetting my brush as well to see if I can get a little bit of pizzazz from this purple shade because I really want it to just stand out and it does help to wet it by the way really does and I'm going to take some of C4 which is that dark deepening shade and I'm just going to reapply it to the edge here because I'm not looking to have a sharp edge on the edge. Did that make sense on the outer edge of my eye for my inner corner highlight. We went out of the ABH range and I'm playing with these new Kaleidos highlighters. They're super awesome you guys. So I'm taking Cometcatcher right here and I'm going to apply that to my inner corner and this one is super pinky. I think if you have a medium skin tone or a deep skin tone, oh my God, this is going to look incredible on your skin but just to lighten and brighten that up I'm taking Star Surfer which is a bit brighter. It's more crystal-y. Do you guys see that? My goodness. And by the way, I mixed those two on my cheeks. That's what that highlight is. So I'm going to finish the rest of my face, do some liner and lashes and I will be back to show you the final look. All right, so here is the final look that I just showed you. I know it's like a lot going on. I'm not used to wearing the lashes these big. I normally don't or hoops. And I'm wearing the sweatshirt I wore to work today. So there's that as well. But yes, I did play with more of the purple tones in this palette. I think it's really pretty. I think the quality of the shadows were quite decent. None of them were bad at all. They're pretty good. And yeah, I really like this look. This is very of my alley color story wise. So I'm going to lead you into my last and final look using a different group of colors from this palette. So if you hear like rain or stuff going on in the background it's because it's like a really bad storm outside. So sorry in advance. The first color I'm starting off with is C2 which is a reddish shade. This is totally a very risky place to put a red eyeshadow because it's seriously risk making you look sick. I really wanted the red to start off the gradient for some reason today. I just have never done it before and you definitely are going to have to go back and reapply to make the shades more bold. So this is just kind of laying down that initial blend. The red's going to bleed into orange so I'm taking some of A2 going to blend. Oh my gosh, it's raining so hard outside right now. So next we need a yellow shade. So I'm taking some of E4. This shade is a little bit more soft so it does require a touch of building. Next we will be taking some of D3 which is a green shade. This look is actually very very easy and this particular green shade is the perfect yellow to green color. We're going to use some of B2 right here which is like a very blue teal green. This is going to start adding some depth and I just think it's a really great blending shade. To add the final layer of depth, I'm digging into E1. Okay and then before I go on to the lid color, I'm going to very quickly kind of deepen up the shades once more. The next shade we are going into is B1 right here and I'm applying that all over the lid. This shade blends surprisingly well even into the red tone. So I actually quite enjoy this shade all over the lid for this look. I'm noticing I blended this side out way more than this side so let's make them a little bit more even. So at this point now I'm going to finish the rest of my face and then I'll be back to work on the lower lash line. I'm a total dummy and I completely forgot to show you how I did my lower lash line. So what I've done, I've taken A4 and put that all over the lower lash line. Then I've blended in some of D3 on the outer half, put B2 right on top of the outer half and now I'm taking E1 and this is going to blend into that definition right here. Pretty simple and now I did it on this side, but I'm taking some of C1 right here and I'm going to put that right in the inner corner. Now, this is going to stop that red bit from looking weird and like you have an eye infection. Make sure you wear a gold highlight to complement your inner corner color. All right, cool. So I'm going to put liner lashes and all of that good stuff on and we will be back to reveal the final look. All right, so this is the final look, no jewelry or anything because I'm about to go to bed tomorrow's Friday. But here is the final look and I wanted to do this look mainly because I wanted to do three very different looks with this palette because I feel like this palette in particular in the collection is one of the most versatile. I mean, you can see in my three looks, they're complete opposites and honestly, I could really keep going with this palette with the looks. This palette leaves me feeling so inspired and I really love this look. I wanted to get a really fun rainbow one in for you guys. So overall, my thoughts about this palette is that it is wonderful. Of course, I'm just really loving this collection. I think you can get some really neat, unique looks with this palette and this is a palette. Surprisingly, you can create like a rainbow look with this palette and it definitely runs more warm, but there is a great mix of colors in here. I wouldn't say this is my favorite though of the three. Volume one is still my favorite, but this one is definitely my second favorite and it's very good. It's not too far off from volume one. I think this one honestly is going to be most people's favorite though. So I would recommend picking up at least one of these guys. Pick the color scheme that fits your lifestyle better. If you like pinks and purple like me, that's why I like volume one. But if you are more of a neutral wearer, but you want to explore more, I think volume three is a great one for you. So that's all I have for today's video. I finally completed a video for each palette in the Norvina collection, except for the many ones that just came out. I'm not picking those up, but as far as the big ones go, this is the last one. If you haven't checked out the other videos for the other palettes, I definitely recommend that you do. I will link them down below for you guys. And if you aren't subscribed to my channel already, do it. And I will see you guys in the next video. Bye guys. Have a good one.


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What's different about studying online versus on campus? Is everyone judging what's in the background or what I'm wearing? How do you start getting distracted at home? I think the biggest distraction for me is the fridge.


Hey, welcome to day 18 We're getting close We're getting real close I'm getting this to you a little bit late today, and I really do appreciate your patience. It's been a long day for us my daughter has a They pretty rare genetic mutation called retinoblastoma and it's a tumor and cancer-causing Mutation and she's she's been out of treatment for a while, but we have Yeah, mostly mostly a while But and we have these like quarterly eye exams that we have to do just kind of check and make sure that nothing's Growing again and whatnot, and she's been good for well over a year now So we're we're very grateful, but those take a really long time. We're usually gone for I Don't know like 10 hours The the best place for us is about two and a half hours north of us So it's a pretty pretty long day for a for an eye exam, but anyway, I Was just wanted to say that to tell you where I'm at today why we're a little bit late and also You know if you're going through some health stuff. I'm totally on your side I know how debilitating that can be at times and My heart goes out to you, and I wish you the best we've been going through this for like five ish years now and You know times. It's tough, but you know, we're really pressing on and pressing in and yeah So the best to you if you if you want to talk about it. I'm here for you anytime Now into the code So today first things first it is the 18th. I keep forgetting to do that for whatever reason I'm 18th now. I want to show you something really cool. Here's the problem When we tap on these The images can load kind of slowly so that one was that was one of them and it really Effects the whole layout of the page Now this isn't something that's new to react. This is just this is the this is just the browser So we're adding this element it's making a request to get that image and that image is taking a little bit of time to get back to us react carries on and renders The rest of the data that we have and then that image will flash in once it finally loads now this kind of sucks, this is an ideal and react now gives us a really cool way of Of managing that so I wanted to show you the problem first and Now we're gonna look at the possible solutions so One thing that I'd said earlier is is that you can Suspend around anything that is that you can put wrap a promise around Now one of those things is the resolution of an image Now I'm not fully a hundred percent sure how this code works So I'm gonna copy and paste it myself But it does work and you can use it without understanding really how it works either so I think we have visited this before if we have not This is your first time great. Um, the Facebook React project has a bunch of fixtures inside of it. I spat there I'm just so excited has pictures inside of it And if you go into those fixtures, you can see different things that are Used as test cases for reactive features now if we go into unstable async and suspense We can go into this source components and in this user page component There is a Little resource let me say I can find it now. I had it. Okay. There's a little resource it starts here and There's a component that uses it So it's an image Resource, okay, anything that you can wrap a promise around you can keep it a resource And so it does kind of what we've been doing which is unstable Create react we've aliased it. So it's just create react or create resource and So it takes a source it creates a new promise and we have a resolve function. Okay, it's going to Create an image variable create a new image This is like a like a DOM image and then on load it's going to Provide a function that gets called and it resolves with the source and then that we set the image source to source Okay, again, I'm not totally sure like but I can kind of read through generally what it does Now here's the magic. We create a new component That isn't just the lowercase image tag, but our own its components. We're gonna use a an uppercase I Okay, and then we're going to take the source the alts all that stuff and and return a Regular DOM image tag, but for the source what we do is we do this resource read We're using this resource here instead of just applying the source directly everything else the same no problem Got it So I want to show you what that does now. Maybe you don't fully understand it I don't really fully understand it either, but what it does is it opts these images into Suspense so that we can Suspend the rendering of view until an image comes back. That's the that's the idea So we got this detail. I'm just going to copy and paste what we found Okay, so image resource unstable create root again We're aliasing this up here. So unstable create root as I keep saying that unstable create resource as create resource so We're gonna use that again copy and paste of the code and we're going to create this new image resource and Let's see what we get Okay, so what we need to do is we need to find our image Which is here and we're going to change that to the component version Which has the uppercase I because our our defined components need to have the uppercase letter It's going to resolve to a regular image, but using that resource. So we will save that Give ourselves a little bit more room and What you can expect to see is that as I click these it's going to show that fallback Until the image resolves what that means is that you'll never see the image coming after and disrupt the flow of the page it will wait until we have that image with the data and Present it all at the same time. Um, this is Really amazing because it makes this view very stable and I don't mind waiting that extra couple milliseconds to To have the full view we've all been on pages where it's like I mean, it's kind of a joke at this point where basically stuff comes in and then you try to click on something and then something inserts itself right there Reflows the whole page It's a disaster. So this is really awesome. It makes your pages feel a lot more stable And yeah, it's great So that's it for today. It's um, it's pretty simple I definitely suggest taking a look at this and trying to understand it as best you can Because there are a ton of places where you can do stuff like this. So like with script tags My friend jerd Palmer has a library. I think it is called the platform Let's see. Yeah, Palmer HQ slash the platform and he has Created a bunch of components that you can load in this same way So image script video audio preload Style sheet, etc. So all of those are in this package called the platform Um, I definitely suggest trying to write your own. So think of a use case that you have, you know, maybe Stripe you want to have all of that Javascript load and know that it loaded before you can present the pay with strike button or whatever There's plenty of things that you can use this for So give it a try. Maybe just try writing it on your own. I'm just the image one This is a very useful practice and I think we'll start seeing more and more of this. So Thanks for hanging in there. We only got a few days left. I know you can make it. I'll see you tomorrow


Oh, look at this view. Whoa! Hi, I'm Lavi, and this is Oli. We are attempting a new Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. After riding 3,000 miles across Europe, we are now ready to explore the roads of North Africa. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey around the world, and let the adventure begin. Good morning, world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 58 on our round the world trip. So we are here on the outskirts of Marrakesh, staying in a little Airbnb. We had a really good night because this room has two windows. And in the night, it was actually nice and cold, and we had some wind flow going as well, so a natural air condition. Well, let me show you guys where we're heading today. OK, so we are here just on the outskirts of Marrakesh, and we are going to be heading back over the High Atlas Mountains, stopping off here at Imlil before joining back up and continuing our way south to join up with the N10, where we'll be making our way to the city of Tarudant. Now, this place, Imlil, is special because it's actually the closest you can get to Mount Tupkal, which is actually the highest mountain in Morocco, and the highest mountain in all of North Africa. So we're going to try and get as close as we can to that so we can get a nice view of it. In total, we have about 160 miles to cover, or 255 kilometers. We woke up quite early today. It's just 7.45. Now we have to set up Bumblebee, and then we are ready to hit the road. So let's go. Ah, yeah, you're getting there. Woo! Look at this beautiful breakfast. It's like oil and honey over some traditional bread. The mom from Watt and Ahmed is so, so amazing. She gave us some sweets for the road. She's a professional sweetmaker, and have a look at that. Check that out. And they just, you know, she just made it for us and it's just so nice. It's just really, really, really nice. I love you. Good morning, Bumblebee. Oh, it's behind the golden curtain. Thank you. Good luck. Here we go. Ready to hit the road. Yeah, it's 8.30 now. Not bad. It's OK. Not bad. It's already hot, though. What's the temperature? 24. So it's not crazy, but it's still a warm summer's day. Yes. Even at 8.30 in the morning. Yeah, but luckily we're heading into the mountains, at least for the first half of the day. We will be hopefully a little bit cooler. That's true. But anyway, it's always good to start early in the morning because you can see the traffic is not that crazy. Exactly. A little bit calmer in the morning, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Everybody's not yet fully woken up yet. It doesn't look like the people are waiting for the cars. They're just going for a day. Going for it. So now we're just going to head out of the city, say goodbye to Marrakesh. Goodbye, Marrakesh. And say hello to the Atlas Mountains. Oh, yes. We're going back up into the mountains now. We have left Marrakesh behind and are entering the High Atlas. The temperature has dropped down a little actually now, 22 degrees as we're climbing up, which is absolutely lovely. Nice and refreshing. Yeah, yeah. Just getting out of the city. You already started to get hot, even at 9 in the morning. So it's nice to get out on the open road. Yes. Climb up a bit. Yeah. And have the cool mountain air.  Yeah, this is a smaller road. It's like eight miles up this little road to get to Imlil. Oh, hold on a minute. Got some trucks talking to each other. But we're starting to get the views now. And you can still see a little bit of snow up on the mountains at the top. So it looks like even into the summer, you still got a little bit of snow. So here is the town of Imlil. We're just coming up to it. And behind us, up ahead just up there, that little peak bit that you can see, that is Mount Tupkal. Now Imlil, where we are now, is 1,800 meters above sea level. But Tupkal up there ahead is 4,167 meters. So that is a pretty tall mountain. Mount Tupkal, 4,167 meters. There you go. The tallest mountain in North Africa. I didn't really expect that Morocco had such crazy high mountains actually. I mean, 4,167 meters is really, really tall actually. So the Atlas Mountains, it's super impressive. Super impressive. Very impressive. So now we're just going to join back up with the mountain pass road that we just came from and make our way over to Tarudant. Lavi and the mountain. So now we have about 100 miles, just over 100 miles to reach Tarudant. But the GPS is telling us that it's going to take nearly four hours. So I guess it's 100 miles of windy mountain roads, which on a motorbike we are not complaining about. OK, we've come across what I think is a landslide because they're clearing the whole thing and they've cut it all away. So I'm pretty sure this was all, this all slid at some point recently. Yeah, I guess the whole cliff just kind of fell away into the valley. Crazy. Yeah. Wow. We're just stopping for a break here. A little water break, a little snack break in the middle of the mountains. Take a look. Nice views for the break. I'm just holding the umbrella because it's a little bit windy. So what do we have for our snack break? Some bread and cheese. Bread and cheese of course. More bread. Our leftover from Marrakesh yesterday. Yeah, exactly. As well some bread. So a lot of bread and a lot of cheese. Yes. We checked as well a little bit ahead and the road is absolutely crazy. It's just windy, windy, windy, windy. And we're still going over a pass, which is 2,100 meter high. And it's like for the next one hour, 45 minutes, just windy, windy, windy, windy. So it would be really tough, but very beautiful as well.  The landscape is opening up and it's just epic in the mountains here. Yes, absolutely incredible. You can see over there like traditional houses and people are around, but it looks so remote in the middle of nowhere as well. People are just doing their thing here in the mountains in the hot, hot Atlas Mountains. Yes, yes, it's very hot. Or the bike temperature is 35. It's absolutely insane. It's really getting up there now. And we did start quite early as well, but time has gone on now. It's one o'clock. Wow, yeah. And now we're doing what we really don't want to do too much more as we head south, which is riding in the afternoon. And you can see 35 degrees. That's just, that's the limit I think. Yeah. I don't think we could ride in much hotter than this. That's hot. And the road stays windy. Yeah, exactly.  You just can't get very fast because there's just too many bends. Yeah. Oh, we're climbing up and up and up, which is nice because the air temperature is cooling down a little bit. And also the views are just going crazy. We're like right, right up in the mountains now. Yeah, it looks so picturesque really. This road is definitely worth the ride. Yeah, it's a lot of twists and turns. Yes. You have to be patient with it, but it is worth it in the end. Yeah. Yeah, but it is absolutely crazy and sometimes a little bit scary. Don't look down. Yes. 2,100 meters. Look at that. Tisian test. The pass. Yeah, let's have a look at the view on the other side. Yes. Oh, look at this view. Whoa. Wow. Oh my God. Wow, we got such a massive view in front. That's insane.  That's absolutely an epic view. Yeah, and we've got some epic switchbacks coming. It looks like. Yeah. Wow. Woo. That's one crazy, crazy view from the pass. Yeah, absolutely crazy.  Look at that. Oh my God. The guy at the top told us that it was like seven kilometers and then it goes into like a good road with two lanes. But yeah, we've got a crazy way down to do first. Yes. Wow. Wow. Luckily, the road is not too busy. I don't know how they manage it when the road is busy because I can tell you here's not enough space for two cars. No, not like the big trucks that we see going up and down. Exactly. Yep. They better hope they pass each other in a good place, I tell you. And then the guy at the top, he was saying to us, yeah, there's some nice dirt roads that you can drive around as well.  We had taken a break from dirt roads for a bit after our experience last week. Oh my God. Yes. Here's some goats. Whoa, look at this. Wow. That's such a big view. I can't believe it. Yeah, me too. How flat it is in the middle there, hey? Wow. I think that's basically where we're heading down to. Yeah. Wow. We are finally on our way down the other side. We still have a few switchbacks, but they aren't as crazy as they were before. And we have two lanes on this road. Whee. So now we don't have to worry about a truck coming straight for us on every corner. And we've still got the awesome views in front as we make our way down into the valley. But yeah, I think it's gonna be plain sailing from here. This is beautiful. Yeah, it's beautiful. Finally made it into Terudant after a long, long, long drive. It's now four in the afternoon and we left Marrakech at around 8.30, 8.45. It took us the whole day. Oh yeah. And of course now we're down in the valley again. It's just mad hot of course. It's 34 degrees, but we are now just one mile from our accommodation for the night and the swimming pool that awaits us there. Yes. Oh, look, here's the walls of the old town. That looks nice. Of the city of Terudant. Wow. Yeah, beautiful. The hotel we are staying at is a Riyadh. So a traditional house and I think it might be in the old town. Yeah. I know we promised ourselves to not book any Riyadh in old towns again, but. Yeah, because of that hike we had to do into Fez and to carry all our stuff in and it just took so much time and it was just a lot of effort. Yeah. But yeah, I think actually we have booked a place inside the old town again. Yeah. It was an amazing deal on booking.com and they gave us like a room upgrade and a discount and everything and it ended up to be only like 20 euro or 22 euro per night. Yeah, instead of 40. And I think breakfast is included as well. Breakfast is included. That's pretty good. We're just living the high life now. Yeah. This is it. I'm a luxury guy now. This is what I need. Swimming pool, you know, room service, breakfast in bed. Anyway, look, we are actually heading now in. So let's check it out. But our place is really not far. It's like 0.2 miles. That's good. Okay. It says turn left at the alley. It says. Oh yeah. How about? Okay. And now it says, ah, it says right in here. Hold on a second. Just gonna do a little turn around. Just gonna go around here. Okay. All good. To the left. And then I'm just gonna go along. And the Riyadh should be if I go left at the end here and then left again, we should be there. Yeah. Look at this. Driving in the old town, eh? Not bad. Ooh, a bit of a step. Hup, hup. Sort of says down here, no? Yeah, it does says down there, yeah. Okay, I think that's okay. Yep, Riyadh, Binyada, there it is. Ah, perfect. Look at that, we drove right up to it. Nice. Good evening, guys. Look what we have here. We already went for a swim when we arrived straight away. So we have arrived at our place for the next couple of days. It's called Riyadh Binyada, and it's just epic. Look at this. The big, big palm here in the middle. That's crazy. That's amazing, yeah. So it's another traditional Riyadh, just like we had in Fez. It was a really hairy ride today. I'm glad that we made it happy in our life. It was a bit longer than we were actually expecting, wasn't it? It just kept going on and on and turn and turn and turn and turn and there was the sun and the heat and it's getting super hot these days. So it was like, yeah, it was on the limit of the sweatiness, I can tell you that. But the ride was definitely worth it. It was absolutely stunning, like the landscapes and the mountains and the people and just everything about it. It was amazing. Yeah, it's always beautiful to ride in the mountains with Bumblebee. It's just amazing. So that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the episode. If so, please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, comment below, share with your friends and family. We will see you next time.


Maybe the local 5Ks and 10Ks will be happening in 2020? More so than the bigger marathon races? I don't know, we'll see, but that is the question of the day. Good morning, everyone. Really the first difficult night of sleep since Henry was born, you know? We just didn't sleep much last night, but we'll make it through. There's the little guy, he just, who knows what happened, but we'll take it three weeks into life and it's the first tough, tough night. We've had other nights that are a little tough, but this one was a doozy, so we'll see what happens today with respect to running and training. All right, love you all. Here we go. Oh man. Okay, there we go, everyone. Opted for the carbon fiber plate shoe from Skechers over the horizon varnish, but both shoes, incredibly lightweight. I think in my size, they're both under six ounces or really close, so that is light. Hold on, camera is falling down. Hold on, I need a new tripod. I've worn this tripod out. Okay, and the goal for today was to do my first baby threshold run, but with lack of sleep, we'll just see, I'm just gonna listen to the body, see how we feel, and yes, I'm gonna attempt to film again with this teeny tiny camera, but it is something's going on with the gyro, so it's spinning crazy.  I think that's it. Yeah, lastly, thank you. I think there's already over 200 comments and it's not even 8 a.m. yet on yesterday's vlog about thoughts and opinions on the spring marathon 2020. Yeah, I just appreciate you and everyone from around the world and perspectives from Italy, hard hit places, and I don't know if I saw any from China, but anyway, I just appreciate you chiming into the comments down below to help us get on the ground perspective. You know what I mean? Because you hear stuff in the news and it's like it's really nice to hear perspectives straight up from the ground. All right, shall we do this? Shall we do this? Let's go. Let me see if it'll film right now. There we go. All right, hopefully it's not spinning here. Oh, legs feel okay. A little sore in my right hamstring, but overall feeling pretty good. So hopefully we can get some of this threshold in or if not all of it. And I'm back from the double. All right, everyone. So here we go. As I said in yesterday's blog, the coronavirus situation is evolving not by the day, but by the hour. And there was a major update that happened just before the run. I'll get you that update in a minute in the marathon world. You probably already know what I'm gonna say. And it impacted our family today. So our kid's school is happening all across the United States. Our kid's school was canceled today until March 30th. So they were home today, which means I did not have nearly as much time in my day as I was helping out with the family and baby Henry. And it also is going to impact this first impression video of the Skechers Horizon Vanish because I did not have time today to do the research ahead of time about the drop of the shoe, the weight of the shoe. So I will do that and put that in titles once the family goes to sleep tonight. All right, does that sound good? So I will give you my thoughts about this shoe and compare it to the Speed Elite Hyper as well as the Reebok FlowRide Run Fast Pro. All right, so that is the update on my end as far as how the coronavirus is impacting our family. And this is the reality. And it's the reality of the, oh my goodness, of the spring marathon season, which is now becoming the fall marathon season. So this is what I posted on, excuse me, on Twitter just about an hour ago. I said, get your popcorn ready. A 2020 marathon racing calendar so far is now the Boston Marathon on September 14th, the Berlin Marathon on September 27th, the London Marathon on October 4th, the Chicago Marathon on October 11th, and the New York City Marathon on November 1st. It's gonna be insane. I said, it's going to be a marathon racing season for the ages. Obviously, if we can get the coronavirus under control. All right, everyone, so that is the update as far as London is officially postponed. Boston was yesterday, and we'll just continue to listen to the experts, the doctors, the scientists, and see what they tell us. Okay, first impressions of the Skechers Horizon Vanish. And again, over the next couple of minutes, you'll see the stats for the shoe pop up on the screen. So stay tuned for those. Here's the deal, everyone. Very lightweight, similar to the Speed Elite Hyper, although I don't know the stats, but I do believe I'm gonna put them on the screen right now that the Horizon Vanish is lighter. This is the same size, weighing them right now on your screen right now. I believe the Horizon Vanish is lighter, and I love it. Now, very, very neutral shoe, very neutral. In fact, if you have any issue with overpronation or supination, this is not, I would not advise this shoe. I don't know if I've seen, let me just do the twist test. Yeah, I would say that the Reebok Flow Ride Run Fast Pro, which is a three ounce shoe from 2019, and the two is coming out very soon. I think the Horizon Vanish has more twist through that midsole, okay? A very translucent upper. It's kind of that classic Skechers upper that they've developed. You know what, it's actually similar to the vapor weave upper in the next percent. As far as the feel goes, I would say that the Skechers upper is a little more, it's a little more nimble than the next percent upper. If you are familiar with the next percent, here's the deal. Again, the stats are showing up on your screen. I love this shoe. I love it. I've now taken it out for two runs. Very, not snappy, but it's so lightweight. You feel so in control. You feel like your turnover is very easy. And as far as the midsole and the outsole on the Horizon Vanish, and yes, it is the same outsole design as you see on the Max Road 4. Okay, it has pods, these rubber pods that are raised up from the outsole. And I actually like the, I like the design, the feel underfoot. And I will mention real quick, ground contact feel, lots of ground. So if you let, this is the opposite of Hoka. If you like Hoka and that protection, that thick midsole protection, then you probably will not enjoy the feel of the Horizon Vanish. It's the opposite of Hoka, okay? And another point, real quick, on the upper is the heel counter. Look how malleable and flexible that is. I've really enjoyed the A6 lineup as of late, as you all know. I like that kind of that rigidity that you find in the glide ride heel counter and the EVO ride. But for some reason, I'm not slipping at all, even though this heel counter is very flexible, which they're saving a ton of weight through this heel counter, which is why the shoe weighs what it does. Well, one of the reasons why the shoe weight is so low. And the ultra flight midsole, again, it's not snappy, but it's so lightweight, you just feel like you can fly in this shoe. Now, as far as durability goes, I would say it's gonna be pretty low. If you can get more than 250 to 300 miles out of this shoe, I'd say you're doing great. It's not, I would say it is not designed to go the long haul. And as far as that price point goes, as you saw in the title, what, $100? How can you argue with $100 when everybody, okay, here's the comparison to the Reebok Float Ride Run Fast Pro. I believe brand new, if I'm not mistaken, this shoe was, was it, I think it was $250. It's been so long since I got this shoe. I think it was $250. There it is on your screen compared to the Horizon Vanish, $100. And this shoe is only two ounces lighter. I think that the Horizon Vanish can be the go-to affordable 5K or 10K road racing shoe of 2020. $100 at that weight, I am, I am bullish. I am excited about the, I really am everybody. In fact, I mean, it might be one of my go-to workout shoes as I start doing interval training moving forward. It's got me that excited, again, going back to the weight and no slipping in the heel. The upper, there isn't, okay, there is a little scrunching happening through the toe box. I don't, I usually don't like that, but it's not, it's not bothering me while I'm out there running, all right? And one last thought compared to the Speed Elite Hyper, like, I like this shoe. I'm frankly a little more excited about the Horizon Vanish at this point, especially at $100, especially at that weight. And I like this shoe, but I'm not saying it's blowing me out of the water compared to this guy. And yes, the question of the day, and this, I need your help actually, because I'm preparing for a half marathon and a marathon where I need to lean into your expertise. What is your, going to be your go-to racing shoe for 5Ks and 10Ks in 2020? And with all these marathons being canceled, we'll see what happens with 5Ks and 10Ks, but who knows? Maybe those races, which are usually smaller, maybe the local 5Ks and 10Ks will be happening in 2020, more so than the bigger marathon races? I don't know, we'll see, but that is the question of the day. What would be your go-to 5K and 10K road racing shoe for 2020? I look forward to reading your comments. Thank you for being here. Thanks for listening to all that. It's ever-evolving. We're in it together, as I always say, and I love you. Oh, we're gonna make it through. We're gonna make it through. All right, everyone, thanks for being here. Thanks for watching.  We'll go way back to the Reebok Float Ride Run Fast Pro. I think it was my full review. Well, we'll toss it back right there if you haven't, that was for a long time, almost a year ago, so that'll be there. Thanks for being here, thanks for watching. Onward and upward. All right, see beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell EMC World 2017, brought to you by Dell EMC. Hey, welcome back everyone. This is theCUBE live at Dell EMC World 2017. It's our eighth year coverage of EMC World now, first year as Dell EMC World 2017. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE. My co-host is Keith Townsend, CTO advisor. Our next guest is CUBE alumni Marius Haas, president and chief commercial officer of Dell EMC. Marius, great to see you. Thanks for taking the time. Thanks, John. I appreciate you having me on one more time. We know you've been up since 6 a.m. I'm your staff meeting notes to the grindstone, as they say, you pound in the pavement. You got a lot of clubs in your bag, a lot of stuff into the toolbox there from product standpoint. What a story. The Dell EMC portfolio is pretty comprehensive. Your job is to make it simple to sell across now a swath of clients across the board. So what's the update? Give us a quick update on status, traction, and your philosophy. Well, I'll tell you what's beautiful about the portfolio is that you can truly translate it into the digital transformation conversation with a customer. And I haven't had a customer yet that isn't in some phase of a transformation. Obviously, the way we depict it is around workforce transformation, IT transformation, security transformation, all encompassing then that drives what's the next new wave of how we do business. So every aspect of that, every customer, and regardless of what segment they're in, they're looking to us to really identify what's that path forward? What are the changes required? And then how do we best lay out the overall portfolio that truly is depicted in all of Dell Technologies to help make that happen? Yesterday we were commenting about to the folks, Michael in particular, as well as Howard Elias, that there really hasn't been many big, massive horror stories on the integration. Actually been pretty positive, very positive in fact. But the question I get a lot on this combination is, wow, you got a little bit of Dell, you got some EMC over here, you got VMware, a lot of piece parts that have been kind of loosely coupled. Now you got the digital transformation story which gives a holistic picture. We heard Michael yesterday say that we want to be the strategic partner to large enterprises and SMBs as they grow into large enterprises. So now bringing that together is kind of your job. So how hard has that been and what has been some of the proof points that the story is threading together? Well I think one of the things as part of the integration that was exciting to us is that the big surprise was that we didn't have any big surprises, right? You want to be able to figure out and plan the integration out well. You want to make sure that the team members are positioned to best serve the customers, best present the value proposition holistically. I think a lot of that has been put in motion in exactly the right way with again, no big surprises. Now yes, it was a loose confederation if you will or federation. And I think one of the key mandates from the customer base is bring it all together for us, make the engagement model consistent, make it from an ease of use, from an ease of engagement perspective as simple as possible. We're rolling out what we call TLA's, ELA's consistently across all of Dell technologies and making that available to our customer base. We'll also including easier consumption models which is based on pay by the usage and we're going to put as much of the Dell technologies portfolio into that again. What's an ELA and TLA just to describe that? You know, enterprise license agreement across all of Dell technologies. So they have one engagement, one commitment to them to make sure that we present. So we're kind of going back to classic IT but kind of in the new era as Michael says next three years. I mean, at the end of the day they want one throat to choke as they say, right? Or a single pane of glass. We see that in the product side with the management. How is that going? What's your plan to scale that out? Because that's a challenge. I mean, it's not easy. Oh, it's not easy. You don't do it overnight but we I think laid out the way to get it done and we're taking strong steps forward. I'll give you an example. Yesterday we were with the partner community, our channel partner ecosystem. We're having a big global summit here and that is their ask, is bring it together, make that engagement simple, make that engagement predictable and consistent around the globe. And all that feedback and we've always said we've got big years, we're listen and it's helping us involve our programs so that from again, from an engagement perspective we're simplifying it and it's all down to then execution and velocity of the business. Especially in my world and the commercial world it is truly how do we outrun the competition? How do we make that engagement model easier than anyone else? So we take that pretty serious. Channel partners are finicky too.  They have alternatives. They have alternatives. So I'm a customer and one of the things that exciting is just the depth of capability that Dell EMC, Dell Technologies brings from the endpoint, security, data center, virtualization, hybrid cloud. The challenge as a customer is that I've had these silo relationships in the past with the different silos of Dell EMC, Dell Technologies, et cetera. How have you guys helped bring that message to the customer, to the right customer and then help break down some of those silos? No, I'll give you a perfect example. I just had a meeting with one of the largest hospital systems that is based in Tennessee. Seventy hospitals around the United States, they have been served in that silo type of ecosystem in the past. The key message from them was, hey, I'm looking for one strategic partner. I'm looking for you to bring all this together, inclusive of VMware, because ultimately the way I look at it, the way I consume my take is in an architecture manner. It's a solution that I have to provide in order to provide the business services back to my constituencies inside the hospital system. So they don't want to be the systems integrator. They look to us to provide that. So that message gets reinforced every day. And again, it's our job to go make that simple. And in many cases it is with a broader channel ecosystem that does provide significant value add in many of those cases. Mars, we've chatted, I mean, years ago and seen you've had tons of experience on all aspects of the industry, but recently there's been a conversation we've been having on theCUBE around management style in this agile world, okay? So as Cloud comes to the table and all the digital transformation, it's a completely different ball game. And what we're curious on is your vision and the company's philosophy on how do you manage that? I mean sales in particular, commercial sales, is very challenging across large companies, a lot of touch points, a lot of things to manage. How do you guys manage that?  What's your philosophy, what's your vision on the management side? I think the first most important piece is how do we bring our team members together, right? How do we make sure that everyone's got on the same sheet of music as to what are we prioritizing from how we sell to what we sell? And do it for any size customer consistently. So just here, a couple months ago, we had all of our sales makers, especially our leadership team together, with Michael, with all of our product leaders to make sure that that message was loud and clear as to what the expectations were. Then now what we need to do in the field to your point is how do we now have, we've got the broadest depth, the broadest coverage and the broadest depth in general sales makers as well as specialty sales makers within the individual businesses that we have. How do we bring them together? How do we create a single architecture strategy for our customers? And that's what we're molding to now. And it does take some time. We've got phenomenal pre-sales consultants as an example. Well, a big portion of that community came from the traditional EMC side of the house. So they're very strong when you come at it from a data, from a storage perspective, but we have a phenomenal compute architecture strategy, great open networking strategy. Bring it all together, present it holistically to the customer from a architecture perspective. Bring in the strategically aligned businesses for, from secure works, from Pivotal, from RSA, from VMware. And again, it goes back to your point about such a great portfolio. It's our job to really bring it together. You know, it's interesting. I mean, having spent some time in my life in commercial sales with HP back in the 90s, I know how hard that is because compensation, organizational structure, there was a rumor that we actually was covered, we covered the story of Oracle's looking at reorganizing their sales force. They used to have a fin for yourself. So, you know, the same sales guide knocking on five different doors. So Oracle couldn't have like literally seven sales guys calling on a customer. That's been one approach. Worked well and it very decentralized. Some of it's specialties. How do you guys organize that? Because that's certainly going to define the engagement. No, there's no doubt. I mean, you mentioned it earlier, right? The customer's looking for a single throat to choke. So we want to have one account executive that's responsible for everything we sell into that account, right? So you have one quarterback. However, the quarterback in and of itself cannot and will not deliver the broadest breadth of capability. So how do you then effectively and efficiently align specialty teams to be able to have that transformation conversation and then close and deliver on it? It's like global account manager and then team, sub teams. And the beauty of being able to plan the integration that we did is that we had the time to make sure that we knew exactly for enterprise, for commercial, for our partner ecosystem, how do we align our team members? What are the optimal ratios of specialty sales to generalists that produce the highest level of productivity and efficiency, right? That is not a, here is the Nirvana answer once, right? That is an iterative process you work through and we've built out a very strong sales operations team to make sure we constantly measure that. Well, Bass, the CIO was just on, we're talking about self-service lights out, data center strategies. It's only going to get more complicated and challenging for you as self-service becomes part of it. So you don't take your medicine now and set the foundation. I mean, is that how you're looking at it? Because ultimately, customers will be buying potentially self-serve cloud technology. You know, you take the conversation, again, digital transformation. Typically, the customer will listen and look at the portfolio we have and say, yep, I get it, I understand.  So that's where Bass is a great partner of ours because he's like one of our best sales makers, right? Customers want to see, how did you do transform your own environment? What are the lessons learned you had? How can I go to best practices right away, skip a few of those tough steps and help me in this journey quickly? How have you done it in certain other verticals? The conversation that I'm having peracably as I get to host the public sector around the world, there's an example. Smart nation, smart city, e-government, everyone's asking the same questions, right? How do I provide more consistent capabilities and services to every one of my constituencies and every one of the metropolitan areas or nations that I serve? They all want to see what others are doing. They all want to understand how we best serve them and leveraging that expertise has been pretty darn cool because you have a lot to pull from. So, during this conference, Dale on down to Pat have been reinforcing that the value that Dale EMC brings, Dale Technologies, is a package solution. Move your internal teams higher up the stack, let Dale take care of the small details that add value at the bottom layers of the stack. Your sales team is normally lit upon as a solutions, not just technology solutions, but business solutions, as a consultant almost. How has the conversation changed or how have you guys handled trying to shift the focus of your customers from having that, oh, we want to know how the IOPS work to, you know what, these package solutions are what's best for your business moving forward for the digital transformation. No, Keith, great question. It's actually even further up the stack, if you will. The conversation really starts almost at the development level nowadays. It is truly, as a customer, I want to spend my time, my energy developing the applications that drive greater productivity for my workforce, provide greater level of services for my customers and it's got to be all mobile, it's got to be all secure. That is not an IOPS conversation, right? It is a conversation about what platform are you going to do that on? And then you bring in a pivotal, native cloud application development platform and start the conversation there. You don't even talk about compute. You don't even talk about storage arrays. It's really around the enablement of those services and having the customer spend their money on the things that's going to differentiate them. Especially when you think about this world where people are terrified of being Uberized, terrified of being Airbnbized. I've got traditional brick and mortar industries, companies that you would think are never going to get disrupted, are the actual, are the ones that are actually being almost more aggressive in trying to figure out how do they transform themselves before someone else does it to them. We were talking about the IoT wave is coming and it's an architectural question, not an IOPS question to your point. To follow up on that, I have to ask you on the synergies. We had Michael on yesterday, I asked him, where are you winning? He made a comment and I'm sure Pat's going to say, oh, we're winning, we're getting new deals. So I want to ask you, where are you winning? So talk about some of the wins you've had with the combination because we discussed yesterday where there's big EMC shops, we brought more Dell in. Where there's been big Dell shops, we brought more EMC storage. And so that's obviously synergies. What are the key synergies that you're seeing out in the field where you're winning? Well, I think one of the things, and I think I shared with you last time we were together, is that one of the key findings as part of the early discovery work was the overlap in the account base was actually very small, less than 20%, right? Which by definition meant tremendous opportunity, right? So you've got this phenomenal sales for us on the enterprise side, on the commercial side, great channel program to augment our coverage very well. And the field or that runway is so long. And with this portfolio that we got, it all translated into, again, how do we execute? How do we best align our team members and how can we execute at a velocity that no one else can keep up with? So, look, wins, it's hard to pinpoint one because you can go across the board. But a lot of wins. Oh, we're growing faster than we thought. Okay, so you mentioned 20% overlap. That's an opportunity for the sales teams, obviously. So I got to ask you the hard question. This is, put you on the spot. There was a video floating around around the green night when applying a competitor and implying that they're, pay your people more. So I got to ask you, are you comfortable with your compensation to your sales teams? Obviously compensation motivates behavior. With all this opportunity, how are you looking at comp? Do you feel like sales guys are going to make some good bank on the opportunities? Go ahead. I mentioned, I gave you the opportunity I gave you a small hint there that we're growing faster than we anticipated, which is always a good problem to have, right? And art sales makers are motivated. They're excited. Yes, compensation drives behavior. We're going to continue to keep tweaking little levers, not big levers, little levers to keep driving that collaborative discussion in front of the customer. That's critically important. But EMC culture was very compensation driven for the sales teams. They'll be doing just fine. They're motivated. So they'll be making a lot of bank there. They'll kind of connect the dots here. They'll be doing real well. Mario's final question, your thoughts on just the scene here. We're at the Snot EMC world, but it's a continuation of our eighth year covering the EMC world. Now it's Dell EMC world. Just kind of like, give us some personal color.  You've known with the M&A scene, like this is the biggest acquisition ever. Looking back now where you are today, are you kind of having a pinch me moment? Is this kind of what you had thought? Share some personal insight to the scene here and what it means for the combination. I, again, what I didn't realize before we finally got together and had an opportunity to really have that communication from the customer is again, what you already articulated. It's that breadth of the portfolio. There isn't a single conversation that we're having with a customer where the customer says, I'm not interested. Not a single one. There's always somewhere from an opportunity perspective where they say, yes, I want to learn more. It might be on the data center side. Clearly, we think we're obviously in a very strong position of strength there. But even on the client side, even on the managing remote devices with AirWatch, securing the network with SecureWorks, it's across cloud, it's across security, it's across your software defined data center architecture. All these areas are all right there in our wheelhouse. And as Michael would say, we're number one in everything we do and it's a great position to be in. And again, it starts with what we first discussed. How do we present that in a way to our customers? So from an adoption perspective for bringing them on this journey and this digital transformation, it is seamless plug and play for the customer. And you've been involved also, you've seen with Michael on the going private. How does that feel? Certainly a lot more latitude to be agile. We're thinking strategic, we're thinking long term. What investments do we need to make now to create long-term value in relationships with our customers and partners? It's night and day difference and it's exciting to be part of it. Marius Haas, President and Chief Commercial Officer Dell EMC, obviously senior executive in the industry. Also now Chief Sales for the big opportunities that they will be taking down and will be tracking the progress. Thanks for spending the time on your very busy day to come on theCUBE and thank you for support. It's theCUBE, I'm John Furrier with Keith Townsend. We'll be back with more live coverage after the short break.


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Welcome to Jalassette News. Take your top stories in Cryptocurrency Jalassets, break them down to bite-sized pieces. So today, this is the interview that we've all been waiting for. Steve Erlich from the CEO of Voyager. Thanks for coming on. I've also got Alex Massioli. He is the head of institutional services for Bequant and also founder of Trade the Chain. So first of all, Steve and Alex, thanks for coming on the show. I really appreciate you guys taking the time. Thanks for having me. Happy to be here again. Great. You're welcome. Let's get into it. So this thing happened. It was called Voyager and it went down on Friday and Saturday. And there's been a lot of different activity and people came to me and said, hey, Rob, you told us that this was not going to happen. They're not like Coinbase and Coinbase goes down all the time. And now you're saying that Voyager was not going to go down and here it went down. We missed a lot of opportunities. There's a lot of different things. Now, I will just start like with this. I like Steve.  I like Voyager. I appreciate that. I like Alex, but nobody gets a free pass on the show. So let's break into it. Tell us what happened and how we're going to move forward. Yeah. At first, I think I've been doing this a long time, 26 years in electronic brokerage. I was at E-Trade 99 and I saw the exchanges go down. New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, I saw everything go down. Look, what happened was we got inundated with nothing I've ever seen before. And I've spoken to ex-CEOs of E-Trade, CEOs of other online places and banks. Nobody has ever seen 100 accounts a minute, 180,000 downloads in a shorter period of time. Nobody's ever seen that. They're built and I know there's a lot of people that say, well, just throw more database, throw more CPU at it. It doesn't work that way. The system itself was built for scale, but that scale was something that was unforeseen and we are now changing and we've rebuilt our systems and the team that did the work basically took a system and rebuilt it in 15 hours, give or take, over that, make sure that we can handle all the customers. But it happened and we were down and at the same token, it was really unprecedented and I think the market seen that too. I mean, we also said we did 250,000 downloads in a 72-hour period and where we are, it's unforeseen. I mean, it's unprecedented, unforeseen. We're excited about our growth, but we want to make sure that on a go forward basis here as we're scaling it out. I've been in as you guys know, like, did you get any sleep? Yeah, I got very little. We've been going back and forth with Oscar Salazar, Oscar actually helped scale Uber way back in the days and they had the same problems. So we've been in contact all weekend long, bringing more, making sure that we change some of the things we do to continue up and support our customers. Great. Okay, so let me follow up with this. So we know that there was a problem, there was an issue. It's not just about adding servers. There's a lot of different aspects to it. So moving forward, going into the future, I don't want to, nobody wants to hear the same song and dance that Coinbase is doing all the time like, hey, you know what, we're going to fix it and then it never gets fixed. So what are we doing here to make this thing right? Yeah, I mean, no one could have a better team around us than we do and bring an Oscar in and extra resources that he's brought in to help us here and to continue to just keep scaling the business. We're working on scaling the platform to minimum 10 million users up to 100 million users at one time. That's what we're working on. And I know I told, since you guys earlier today, I remember back in the E-Trade day, I was talking to Jared Lillian last night about this, is they built an infrastructure in Alpharetta, Georgia that powered the entire city of Alpharetta and they still went down. So we look at it as like we got to keep scaling this, bringing more resources in, working towards making this so 100 million people can get on our app throughout the globe. And that's what we're shooting for. That's what we're working towards. We'll continue to do that, but it doesn't get done by throwing another server out. The microservices that have to get done, there's pricing engines, there's OMSs, there's databases, there's so many different components that's so different than a website. When it just takes emails in, there's so many different pieces and we're building into that. So we're going to continue. We're going to continue adding customers on a very judicious manner to make sure that we can support all the customers with the void that they're used to seeing and just take us a little time as we onboard all these customers. Great. And last thing before we get to Alex's questions, speaking of customers, especially ones that are just coming in right now, I'm going to show my screen real quick. So this was from James. And James asked a pretty important question. He says this, well, he makes a statement and a question, use caution with Voyager. People are saying that they cannot access their funds and their active accounts. Voyager is placing active accounts on the waitlist. I don't know if it's true, but the company's not making daily reassurance statements regarding their waitlist issues. I can testify for sure that I've been waitlisted for the past four days and there are many hundreds of Reddit customers saying that they also waitlisted for five. U.S. citizen with U.S. bank, social security number, etc., U.S. phone number. There's no reason on my end that they would not set up my account. Very hard to believe that an exchange that wants to take part of the market from Coinbase is so unprepared on an infrastructure level.  All right. So scroll up to the beginning there. So I want to, mind please, when he says people are saying that they cannot access their funds. Not true. Anyone who has a penny in their account has access to their account. So that's just an unfair untrue statement. It's being moved and pending to come in.  Far as the rest on the waitlist, we're looking at it, analyzing data like I haven't slept in days, literally three to four hours a day over the last four days, five days. We're looking at the data. We're trying to make sure that the usage of the system and we'll start bringing the link off the waitlist and keep adding a mean so they can trade and they can trade freely without any worries about the system going down. So to that email, sorry for your delay in opening a voyage account. Be patient. You will be on the platform soon. But no one who's got a dollar in their account or a penny in their account doesn't have access to their account. Okay. And then Alex, before we get to your questions, let me just say this. There are no CEOs coming on this show to explain when things go down. It just doesn't happen. I'm not going to see Brian come up here and go, hey, sorry, no, we messed up. So just remember always invest in people. So Steve, thanks for coming on answering the hard questions and not dodging them like some people might have done. So I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. I mean, again, as always, thank you. Yeah, no, I mean, first of all, let me just say a lot of people have been covering Voyager a lot for the last week hard. And to Rob's point, it is about the people. And so I cover Voyager. I'm a fan of Voyager because of the team that Steve has built and Steve and I have an additional side. He has gone through and led many teams through those 20 some odd years that he spoke about and problems. Everybody can play the armchair chair quarterback, but you have nobody better suited to be in charge of problems like this. And Steve, one of the two questions I have for you, Steve, one is going back to the wait list. Some people are asking about how long is that wait list taking to go through? In other words, you know, let's say you have 50,000 people, are you doing 10 a day doing 20 a day? How long is that that process taking? Well, first, thank you for the kind words. I always appreciate that. I think, as you noted, it takes a village takes a list. I'm really proud of my team and the way we reacted during this. It might not be what everything wanted. Best we could in the situation and scaling the team out. And I have seen this. I mean, E-Trade, Lightspeed, this stuff happens. I've seen, as you and I spoke about, I mentioned earlier, NYS, NASDAQ, ETN, everybody went down. And that happened last week, right? E-Trade, Ameritrade went down. How could that possibly be? This would, you know, $20 billion companies go down. So on the wait list, look, I think there's, we're hopeful to get it all cleared over the near future. We want everybody on our platform. So we're not incentivized to keep people on the wait list. We're incentivized to make sure that we get them off the wait list as fast as we can to experience Voyager, use our platform. We make no money by having someone sit on the wait list. It's like, you know, it's at a restaurant. You know, if you only use five tables and you got 50 of them, oh, that's New York City these days. But besides that, you know, if you got, if you only use in five and you're keeping everyone out outdoors, that doesn't make any sense. Now we just want to make sure when we bring everybody in, they can have a great experience. So we're going to do it as fast as we can. All I can ask people is to have some patience. We love every one of our customers and we want every one of them to be using our platform. I mean, Steve and the team wants to take your money. They just have to do it in an orderly fashion. I don't want you to make money though. I don't want your money to come in. I want you to earn profits on trading and I want you to create wealth. That's our story. It's plain and simple. There's nothing more to it. You don't make money as a retail broker by taking money from your customers. We're not, you know, we're not Harris or the golden nugget or, you know, that's not our game. Our game is to create wealth and that's what we're trying to do for customers. We just want to do it in a really effective manner and make sure all customers have a great experience. Sure. The next question comes off the heels of all of a sudden, Voyager having this go down issue, nobody experiencing it with Voyager before. And it has to do with insurance. So people are saying, now listen, when is Voyager going to get insurance for the assets that they managed? Do they need insurance? Where's my security come from? You and I spoke before the show that you already do this in essence. It's just it's offset to elsewhere. Correct. That's part of the model we built was that, look, I knew when we set up the Voyager model that, you know, with the business we had, the team we had focused on one thing and we focused on trading. Then we added the interest piece and the investing of that side. And we said, look, we're not going to be the ones that build out the self-custody solution. It's expensive. It's being, you know, it's fairly cheap to kind of get, you know, custody services at multiple places these days. It's not overly expensive. And, you know, those people that do that are really good at it. And, you know, we have partners with, you know, we're partners with Fireblocks and BitGo and some other sort of Galaxy and some of these others that do custody for us. And, you know, we leave that to them, you know, and so therefore we get coverage on insurance on the assets we hold with them through their policies, which is the great way. Ledger is another one of our partners. And so we've always taken that approach that we're not going to build up our own HSMs and build on our own, you know, key sharding and all that stuff. That's not who we are. Leave that to the guys that have built those infrastructures. We'll level off their infrastructures, their insurance policies. At the same time, we are looking to add additional insurance on top of all that. It's not the easiest thing in the world. It's still crypto. It takes a long time, as you and I were talking about, you know, before the show, too. We're working towards it. You know, it'll just take some time. It's from a company perspective to deliver it where we are today with the market cap we have today to where we were six months ago. We're an easier company for people to insure as well. So we're looking at all those things. And lastly, I will just say that, you know, I gave, I gave, when I went out into the community, when this happened, I gave everybody the opportunity to throw up some questions when Rob graciously invited me to be here. So if I haven't asked a question or a hard enough question, that's because somebody didn't, nobody delivered it to me. So that's on them. The second thing is, is that, you know, Rob is right when, when other exchanges go down, those CEOs don't hop on YouTube with, with people and explain it. So I want to give you all the credit for that. And I want to say I'm glad if we were going to go dark together, Steve, I'm glad we went dark together. I appreciate that. That's kind of funny. I appreciate that. I hope we don't go dark ever again. And we never have to do it again. So that's my goal. That's a team's goal. And that's, that's what we shoot for. And, you know, you know, but I'm not going to be sorry for bringing on 180,000 downloads or 250,000 downloads in the 72 hour period and, and building our business to where it is today. We've got more to come, more product to come, more international expansion to come. All those things are coming. But we do it in a really judicious manner. And we just grew so fast, unprecedented, like I said, from conversations with CEOs of other financial services companies that we're excited about where we're headed for the rest of 21. I'm good. But one more time, Rob. I'm sorry, Rob's going to never have me back. What you just said is so important that people understand. You just compressed about two to three months of Voyager growth into two to three days. People need to understand that when we come out of what just happened, the situation, Voyager's a different company. You know, I use an analogy I've used in this one. Basically, you know, I'm a sports fan, huge sports fan. Everybody left giant stadium capacity about 100,000, or maybe even take Michigan Stadium, you know, the big house, 110,000, and they were all going into one bar across the street all at the same time. You know, I'm not sure the bar across the street can kind of even Zinghamans in Michigan couldn't handle it. So I think, you know, that's effectively what happened. You're right, we took two or three months of growth and compressed it into two or three days. I know there's unhappy people, but we will make you happy. I can tell you that we will make you happy. You'll like our service. You'll like our product. Just give us a chance. Yeah, it only makes sense. It's everything you've always said. It's the same. Me and you have the same philosophy. Just make sure that your customers are happy and then do everything for them. And it kind of works itself out. And that's what I see is actually going to happen. Yeah, we're excited about our future and we're excited about all the new customers that have come to us. Every one of them, as I told you, is important to us. You know, there's no levels of importance. They're all important to us. And so we're excited about that. We're excited about some announcements coming up in the future here, you know, and where we're going as a company. And having you guys, you know, I appreciate you guys giving me the opportunity to come talk to everybody here. Love your shows. Love being on your shows. And then, again, I really truly appreciate you giving me the opportunity. Yeah. Thanks for coming on, Steve. I know you're busy. I know you've got a lot of things to do to make things perfect. So we're not going to keep you. But thanks for coming on both of you guys, Alex and Steve. Thanks, guys. All right. Thanks, y'all.


So far. Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to talk about my fp experience week number nine. This is my last one of these you guys. I think I might be doing another video like recapping the whole thing because I think I feel like that's a whole video within itself.  I'll be right back. I might need the book you know I'm fine. Alright so let's flip to what this lesson was called. I remember this lesson being called something very interesting. Today is actually Monday and I have these classes on a Sunday or had them on a Sunday because it's over now. But I just did not get to this yesterday. It was just a super busy day and I just couldn't get to it you guys. But it's still happening. Alright so this week is called the Great Misunderstanding. Essentially what the Great Misunderstanding is. This is all about giving. Like this whole chapter or lesson was all about giving. Just to be forewarned this lesson was probably the most religious of all of the lessons. He talked about the Bible quite a bit. He talked about Jesus and God and their teachings and all of that stuff too. I myself, I know that I've said this on my channel many times. I am not a religious person at all but I feel like with this program like you can definitely take something out of it for sure regardless of any religious affiliation even if you're not Christian beliefs or anything like that. It's totally fine. This is all about managing money in the way that works best for you and you understanding how to control your habits and I feel like that's the biggest lesson you know. So when you get to the last lesson for some reason you're in some other kind of religion it's totally okay. I definitely got something out of it too. So really the Great Misunderstanding is that to be wealthy and to control your money you have to have a tight tight grip on it and when you open your palm a little bit more and you give your palm is open to receive more money too to do great things with. Also to be creative with your giving as well I shared with the class that since I've been putting giving kind of more at the top of my budget even though I'm not giving to a religious affiliation I'm giving to different organizations or just random things in my life I feel like that has made me a better person and that's really all that this is about is being a better person in giving. I feel like it's kind of karma you know like what goes around comes around and that money will come back to me someday and if it doesn't it's okay too and I would rather give it to an organization or an individual that I feel is worthy of that. It actually gives me a lot of joy and fullness to give. I really really enjoy giving. It is like one of my favorite favorite things regardless if it's $20 or if it's $200. I just feel really great after I give and knowing that the money is now in someone else's hands that they can do good with whether they're using it to buy their lunch or whether they're using it for some joy say they're wanting to buy something for someone else I don't know I mean I feel like it gives me such a mood booster too not that I really need a mood booster because I'm usually always kind of in a good mood but it just makes me feel really good and I really enjoy that feeling and that's kind of what keeps me motivated to keep giving and I really really like it. Now that being said a lot of you know that I'm on a house buying journey and the giving isn't gonna stop when the house buying happens it's just gonna be a whole lot less but I'm still gonna be doing some sort of giving and you guys will end up seeing that in the budget once I actually buy a house and stuff like that too but this lesson was really all about giving and I really feel very passionate about giving and it's not really about the size of the gift it's how it makes like you feel on the inside. So that's really all this lesson was about and I really really enjoyed the class like I said I'm gonna do a separated video talking about all the things that I learned or my top couple of tips so if you guys want to see that make sure to give this video a thumbs up and let me know. Also I wanted to share what I wrote in my one minute takeaway I think I've shared most of my one minute takeaways in my workbook but not all of them and I felt like this was a really good one to share. From this lesson which is obviously the last lesson the one minute takeaway from this for me in my own words was giving will always and I like underlined it a few times giving will always make me better it will make me a better person to give it will make me feel better to give so that is something that I need to be more mindful of as well as put that in my monthly budget and just kind of always have that in the forefront of my mind where I'm thinking about giving. So I would love to hear if you guys have any giving strategies down below or maybe some organizations that you feel really passionately about put them down below I'd be really interested to check them out not that I'm gonna make a huge difference or maybe just to share because it's kind of neat to talk about different organizations or different things that you're passionate about as well as maybe some strategies that you and your family have on giving so I hope you guys enjoyed this video series make sure to give it a thumbs up I will be keeping with the Financial Fridays just FYI I know this video series is kind of over with but I will be keeping with Financial Fridays as much as I possibly can so if I have financial content I'll always try to post it on a Friday so make sure to hit that red subscribe button if you haven't already I do post every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. central standard time and that way you don't miss out on any of my videos if you'd like to come back and check it out I'll just be hanging out in your subscriptions until you want to watch so anyway I am gonna get going thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today and coming along on my FPU journey with me I really appreciate it and I will talk to you all in my next video bye guys


Hello and welcome back. Today you're going to learn how to open up a PowerPoint slideshow and give a presentation. This is very similar to a Google slideshow. You're just locating the file in a different area. And so once you locate your PowerPoint slideshow you'll see the first slide here and you can come down to the lower toolbar and click where it looks like a movie screen and you click on slideshow or you can click on the top tab button that says slideshow and you can start from the beginning. Okay? So today my presentation is going to be on Bangladesh talking a little bit about cross-culture communication behaviors. My name is Deb Ramirez and welcome to my presentation. Okay now when I'm getting this presentation I'm going to use this show as a reminder of decisions that you need to make for your PowerPoint project. So you're going to decide if you're going to work alone with a partner or on a team, where you're going to choose a country not your own, how you're going to choose your method of presentation which could be a PowerPoint, a research similar to a book report, making a poster board, using the overhead projector or a game like Jeopardy. When you have to choose when or when and where you will meet with your partner or your team and which choose your own rubric how you want to be evaluated and that will be either by your classmates, a self-evaluation or your instructor. The basic part one. Okay we have the basics part one. On this slide you can see I have a lot of information. This is way too much information for you to use. Your audience will be reading the screen and not listening to you. So maybe pick one or two items on here, talking about greetings or communication style. Okay I'm going to the next slide. Basics part two. Personal space. So I have a hyper, what we call hyperlink, I put in the website address here. So I will click on that and it'll take me to the culture crossing. This is where I got my information on Bangladesh and I'm not going to read this but I'll just highlight the points. Talking about that an arm's length or more personal space is usually how they communicate in a formal way in business situations. Members of the same sex it's okay to hold hands or touch the arm. The younger people tend to be more Western in their approach. Okay let me go back to my show here. And in eye contact I have a personal experience that in Bangladesh we do not look at anyone for long periods of time. This is showing respect. Basics part three. It's considered a taboo if you kiss or hug in public or if you demonstrate loud behavior or you give or receive anything with your left hand. Now like in the United States it's okay when we do some teamwork activities and we hold hands. These gestures are not as acceptable in Bangladesh. And the business part comparing and contrasting the differences in similarity so I'll show you the difference between the United States and Bangladesh. I'm also going to be talking about the other items. How they dress, gift giving, meetings and negotiations. Class rules and socializing. So I'm going to give you information similar to giving a book report. Now I'm at the end of my presentation. I always leave time for my audience. Does anyone have any questions? Thank you very much for your attention. Have a great day.