Update 15 arrived in Elite Dangerous yesterday, Frontier said there were big things waiting for us to discover together as a community and did we ever just do that. If you've not delved into Update 15 then everything we are about to show and talk about can be considered serious spoiler territory. So buckle up because we're going into the centre of the Thargoid Maelstroms. If you enjoy our videos please do hit the thumbs up, subscribe and ping that little bell so you see all our Elite Dangerous content and to directly support our work here at the Burpit you can also join our Patreon, links to that and everything else are below. Regulars to this channel will know that it's honestly not often that I'm lost for words but Update 15 may have finally broken me. After the content reveals last week we knew some of what to expect and as I've already mentioned Fdev had said that big things were waiting for us and they wanted quite rightly for the community to discover these things for themselves. The new Pulse neutraliser technology from Professor Palin and 100m Egon Spoonrace 3rd place metal holder Ram Tarr was the key that would lead to what most folks guessed was likely going to be the headliner for the update, the centre of the Thargoid Maelstroms. I'd honestly had a degree of nervousness around unlocking the neutraliser itself, it was an absolute necessity to be carrying one of the new Pulse unpulsifiers if you wanted to visit the centre of the mysterious clouds. Like a lot of us I recently unlocked the Caustic Sync modules and whilst they're not absolutely necessary to get through the horrific face melting gases in the Maelstrom they really really help and unlocking those had been a significant challenge. You'll find Alec Turner's notes on going through that process linked below if you need some help. Going into update 15 we didn't know the full blueprint recipe for the neutraliser aside from one Grelik and like a lot of folks I think I was somewhat concerned that the bar might be equally as high, turns out not so much. The recipe is on screen for you now if you've not seen it and the bar is actually mercifully low. The propulsion elements and sensor fragments are, as at the time of recording, currently only available from fargoid scavengers or from killing fargoid interceptors themselves. According to a post from community manager Sally Morgan Moore this looks to have been an error and they appear to be missing from the loop tables of caustic generators in the Maelstrom, meaning fargoid combat was never intended to be part of their acquisition loop. They're anticipating that will likely be rectified in fairly short order. Unclassified relics are a commodity and whilst they can't be traded from a carrier they can be passed between players or just created without too much trouble at all. I've linked to Commander Psykit's guide on creating those below if you need it. An energy surge analytics are easily acquired requiring you to just butt heads with the Maelstrom pulse itself. Turns out I already had all the materials needed completely by accident. So on to the Maelstrom itself then, I've wrestled a fair bit with how to articulate just what it's like getting to the centre of the Maelstrom or what it was like for us personally here achieving that goal. Rini was riding shotgun for all of my runs into the centre on launch day and I can't think of an appropriately arty or interesting way to get across what happened to us or what we both saw. I can say that the experience is now absolutely and very firmly seated in my top two gaming experiences ever. When we approached the pulse wave front and successfully fired off the neutraliser that first time what awaited us had our chins absolutely on the floor. Having moved into unknown territory just past the wave front we were presented with an asteroid field not dissimilar to a ring system around a planet. That will need investigating and AX mining might be about to become a thing. Beyond the asteroids a colossal Thargoid vessel slowly emerged from the misty no longer caustic surroundings as lightning continues to crackle in the distance and there's the rumble of the resultant thunder you are faced with this gigantic organic spiralling kilometres across clearly Thargoid in design Titan mother ship.  These moments aren't set pieces they don't happen just for you at that moment it's just the way the game sometimes is and the centre of the maelstroms is the singular most cinematic sci-fi spectacle moment I think I've ever had in the game. The Titan for we now know it's officially called that emerged from the mists like Veja in Star Trek and then it just hangs there brooding. Our first visit was fairly brief and perhaps unsurprisingly ended in a spectacular explosive rebuy screen but on the 3 to 4 subsequent visits we found we were able to loiter for extended periods and observe what was going on for there is indeed stuff going on and we were able to begin investigating and collecting materials and commodities. It's very early days yet but here's what we learn. There appears to be multiple points of entry and egress to the Titans all of different sizes watch for long enough and you'll see the new glaive hunter vessels emerging you'll also see scouts and interceptor classes leaving and arriving at the central large opening which we believe is called the Moor. Each opening is covered by an almost gloopy viscous membrane which glows bright yellow when a ship enters or leaves the Thargoid vessels are able to phase through this membrane we it appears cannot not yet at least we couldn't currently at least find anywhere else on the outside of the vessel to land a ship there are what appears to be heat venting events at various outlets on the vessel which periodically open up expelling gases from the interior one of the most surprising things we've seen is that the pulse generation that would normally drive players away can still be seen happening when you're at the Titan itself the actual wave front is generated away from the Titan beyond the asteroids but if someone else is attempting to pierce the maelstrom and the pulse is generated you will see what that looks like at the Titan level and that alone is worth the price of admission we're working on doing that event justice in video form at the moment but I can tell you that if you don't know already it's very apparent where the Thargoid scream came from after the Proteus detonation in HIP 22460 this kind of stuff is frontiers attention to detail at its absolute best the vessel is covered in turrets at various points that fire either projectiles or a form of explosive seeker missile that we haven't seen before the latter is fairly slow moving and I was able to outrun them most of the time the glaives and the gunfire however not so much there are small bright green abrasions on the Titan's surface I fired AX missiles at these in the name of science obviously and I was able to retrieve a material called hardened surface fragments we've also seen materials called phasing membrane residue and heat exposure specimens being collected by other commanders likewise there are various Titan related commodities which have now appeared in the fleet carrier commodity market management screen on at least two occasions we appeared to be observed by a glaive and not immediately attacked we sat looking at it and in return it just hung there for an extended period looking at us on one occasion eventually turning around and leaving us alone whether this is intended behavior or not we don't know but I think it's worthy of further investigation perhaps by the pro Zeno players just what the Titan's specific gameplay loops are we have yet to fully uncover it's possible for right now that we're looking at purely material and commodity gathering and investigation and that perhaps more may be revealed in the coming days and weeks via galnet from a technical standpoint overall update 15 was delivered with the minimum of fuss the servers came back right when they said they would and the patch seems to have been delivered very smoothly as best we can tell update 14 and the arrival of the maelstroms was a big deal for frontier and update 15 and the reveal of the Titans is clearly something they've been building up to and looking forward to for some significant time it's been delivered largely seamlessly frontier should be roundly congratulated for that what update 15 has shown us so far has left us all here stunned and we do know that this is still not the end of the Tharngoy journey there is yet more to come what the Titans deliver next we'll have to wait and see but here at the burp it we couldn't be more excited what was your experience like on patch day have you visited a Titan yourself yet and what do you think is going to happen next let us know in the comments below that's it for now thanks very much for watching if you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now


Live from San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE, covering VMworld 2015. Brought to you by VMworld and its ecosystem sponsors. Now your host, Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely. Hi, welcome back to VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. I'm Stu Miniman with Wikibon and this is SiliconANGLE.tv's live continuous coverage from VMworld 2015. Joining me for this segment is Brian Gracely, my co-host here on the director's set and we're very excited to have one of the keynote speakers, regular friend of the cubes, Rodney Rogers, CEO of Virtue Stream. Rodney, thank you for taking time to join us today. Always a pleasure to see you guys. All right, so Rodney, big acquisition recently, you joined into the Federation, you're reporting to Joe Tucci, lots of intrigue out there as to what's going to happen with the Federation, but let's talk about the Virtue Stream Acquisition. Give us a little bit of insight as to what happened and what you've been doing since then. Sure, so we had built a pretty strong commercial business over the course of the last five, six years and we had gotten the business's revenue run rate into kind of that $100 million a year type of range, which typically is sort of that first qualifying hurdle to be able to credibly look at potentially public offering, taking the company public. If you look at the venture-backed cloud software and services space over the last five, six years, a lot of great engineering, a lot of great technology, not a lot of commercial success, it's somewhat rare. So we separated ourselves from the pack in that regard and towards the latter part of last year, early part of this year, I was really somewhat consumed with evaluating what our IPO potential was. We were within the short strokes of selecting a banker and beginning to write an S1. We'd done some pre-IPO roadshow checks where I'd gotten in front of large institutions, got a great reaction. A lot of the technology that you may have seen from the keynote this morning, drives sort of a, helps us on the margin equation and things of that nature. So we had a bit of a unique growth margin combination and as often happens when you go through a process like that, your suitors emerge and we had a number of large technology companies emerge, you could probably count on one hand, the companies that we were strategic enough to that would step up and take the value that we felt would be commiserate to what an IPO value would be and the like. And we got into that process, we did not run an auction, I didn't even hire a banker for the sale process, I did that myself with the advice from my board of directors and the like and just got into much more of a point dialogue with these companies. Got to a point, we had the great fortune to have a couple of term sheets and that at the end of the day, chose this path of the emcee and it's one of the things I say a lot, when you're a venture-back company, regardless of all the really happy platitudes people say after you get acquired, economics really drive where you end up, you have VCs on your board, their job is to not get sued by their LPs for taking a transaction that was under another potential path or another transaction. So we were fortunate to get the future value, discount back the present value of the IPO, had pretty good data around that, around where we would price and a number of interested parties. We had a very large private investment offered and we had a couple of different acquisition paths. We had all those values in a relatively tight distribution. So when I stand up and say we chose this path, it's actually, we actually really did choose this path. We had a couple of different options and I'm really glad we did. It's been an extraordinary experience so far in the three months or so. You guys, you and I have known each other a while, I know a little bit about what VirtuaStream does. Saw the other day somebody called you guys a unicorn, partially because of the billion dollar valuation. I kind of consider you guys a little bit unique because of all the sort of cloud players, the big clouds, you guys always focused on enterprise and big complicated applications. Walk somebody through, we hear from a lot of people that go well, enterprise applications, on-prime applications can't move to the cloud. Walk through why you guys were able to make that happen. Yeah, sure, so you're right. One of the things, we made plenty of mistakes building VirtuaStream, it's never a perfect process building something from scratch and building a venture backed entity. But one of the things I think we did well was we didn't pivot from our original aspirations. When entrepreneurs fail, they tend to deviate away from building what they know and selling it to whom they know. So my co-founder Kevin Reed and I, we were kind of like the antithesis of the Silicon Valley hipster. We were like the least cool guys in the cloud. We were these East Coast guys that knew, we grew up around enterprise. Both came from the IT services sectors and the like. And we said, you know, large enterprise spends anywhere between 50 and 70% of their entire IT budgets, well over a hundred billion dollars a year supporting these mission critical, core order through cash, spinal fluid apps. Why couldn't we apply the principles of modern multi-tenant cloud architecture to that? You have to solve three or four things, right? Those applications are very burdensome in terms of their memory requirement on the underlying infrastructure. You don't get the benefit of infrastructure where it triggers in the apps themselves. Resiliency is not handled at the application layer. And so, you know, if you're going to build something that has truly the automation, the efficiencies, the agilities, the economics of a true multi-tenant architecture and be able to deal with those inefficiencies in the actual product itself and avoid the concept of resource contention. At the end of the day, when these companies put these apps in the cloud, they can't take risk around their revenue cycle apps, you know, having issues. And so it's a lot of hard engineering but it was an engineering problem that's really driven more by the IO intensive nature of the app itself, the volume of the exchange of data between the app and the database as opposed to simply doing a thin transaction a million times an hour, right? Which typically are more compute intensive consumer oriented technologies that the cloud was founded on. And we have a ton of respect for that use case. We think it'll continue to grow and the like. We just didn't see anybody solving this problem. And it was a hard problem to solve but that's kind of, we kind of stuck to our guns and built a lot of that engineering into the infrastructure provisioning and the cloud management platform software that manages that infrastructure instead of depending on the app to do it because these apps were architected before, you know, sort of the modern era, gotcha? So I got to ask, you're now part of EMC, you're part of the federation, you have a huge amount of potential resources at your disposal, a huge amount of sales force and branding and so forth. But selling large application transformations is not, it's not a simple transaction. How do you scale that? I mean, services has never been something that's simple, easy to scale. How do you envision scaling that to the size of what EMC can do? Intuitive question, right? For the last six years, I went to bed at night and woke up the next morning worried about incinerating my balance sheet before I could create value, right? We had to punch above our weight, we had to innovate with software and compete with the industry titans. Now I go to bed every night, wake up the next morning worried about tipping over based upon demand that we have, right? And it is something that I don't have a simpler, easy answer to yet. This isn't like one of the key things that we're working through. We're doing things that sound somewhat simple but have been incredibly helpful, such as setting up a filtering deal desk that has multi-tierers of qualification, right? The thing that's most dangerous in this is unqualified leads, right? If we get a high degree of quality qualified leads, then it's a numbers game. It's a matter of first scaling your solution architects. Those guys are the most important guys in the sale. These tend to be highly engineered type of solutions, right? But you're absolutely right. It's not frictionless selling. It's something that you've got a really size engineering solution architect and sales resources to fit. And when we found the thing that's really helped us is filtering through the quality of the leads to get to a point where we can effectively size that, then it's still hard to find and hire the people, you at least stand a chance. Yeah, so Rodney, one of the things we've been discussing just early in this week is really the management of kind of that hybrid cloud environment. The keynote this morning, the VMware folks were talking about that unified hybrid cloud, but the reality is today is we've got a multi-cloud world and it's changing greatly, and there's not the best, customers, you don't have a leading dog out there that says this is the way we're going to manage all of it and who has it and puts it together. It can give us your thoughts as to the management piece and how are customers looking at this multi-cloud environment? Absolutely. I think hybrid washing is the new cloud washing, right? A couple of years ago, everything that wasn't a cloud was a cloud, everything today kind of gets that hybrid label slapped on it. I will tell you the Federation's assets, VMware's assets, EMC's assets, in my opinion, the best in the world relative to addressing and solving this problem. I mean, what else am I going to say, right? However, I would tell you that we went through, again, having a couple of different options and a couple of different paths, it allowed us to kind of have the luxury of really evaluating, almost doing reverse diligence on the technology that companies that were looking to acquire us. And I can tell you the quality of this asset base is really strong. The pervasive use case is still ahead of us in the marketplace, right? People are just starting to buy hybrid cloud. They typically either bought off-prem solutions or on-prem solutions. They're now starting to really see how these work together. It's all about the common control plan of software. It's about hybrid, it's easy to place a VM image in another location. It's another thing entirely to place and manage a workload based upon some economic formula that derives the best performance or best economics for that workload. That's the more sophisticated stuff. And our core micro-VM technology also allows you to sort of normalize the from to on the workload. So our technology is going to be quite helpful in this stack here going forward. But it will be the thing that the market will essentially value in this point forward. I find it's a controversial thing, right? There are plenty of guys out there that say if your app's not smart enough to use public cloud, then rewrite, re-architect the app. We think we don't subscribe to that. We think there'll be a multi-decade business cycle where all this will occur. And there's huge economic efficiencies to be borne out by that. We're doing it today for some of the biggest companies in the world. We have a Coca-Cola's, we have a video in our booth here at VMworld where the CIO of Coca-Cola Bottling is talking about how we're doing this for their apps. At the end of the day, the idealist, the Fortune 500 Enterprise IT is a place where I think the cloud idealist goes to die, right? There is every use case and every derivation of every use case. And I think if you can embrace that and be able to handle a common control plan over a number of different formats, you're going to win this game. And I think VMware or EMC is in the best position to do that. Got to do it yet. Yeah. I got to ask a question. So now that you're part of EMC, we're here at VMworld, part of their tagline is any application, one cloud. How do you rationalize the one cloud part? If you're talking to a customer and they say, well, one cloud, but there's the Virtustream cloud, there's VCloud Air, there's Pivotal Web Services that runs on AWS, like how does that come out to be one cloud? Or how do I think about that as a CIO for one cloud? Yeah, you know, again, I think you come back to it. I'm not sure there's a general answer for that. I completely understand the question and we've got some work to do to, I'll say normalize assets in that regard, but all of that is recognized, right? We're working through all of that. I've also heard, you know, CIOs, Fortune 500 CIOs refer to their cloud as a cloud that will have multiple cloud solutions under it, right? So the very top of the Fortune 500, you're most oftentimes going to have multiple providers in that company. Mid Fortune 500 down, you'll have the scope and scale of those businesses will tend to be a little bit more open to holistically outsourcing to a single provider. We have, you know, examples of a Fortune 400, 500 companies, you know, that type of size company running all their apps on our cloud. But at the end of the day, again, I think it's going to be how well you address the seams and connectivity and the intelligent placement of those loads, whether it's in your cloud or not, you know? It eventually all of this will aspire to the cell phone roaming concept, right? You know, and, you know, underlying infrastructure is going to have to get more sophisticated and customer use case will, that's the direction it's going. Right, right. Well, and we've seen that in our research. I mean, we're seeing certain big names have got a lot of revenue, but, you know, at least 50, 60% of the revenue is other, because it is so fragmented. And so, it's that trying to rationalize what is, is there really a hybrid cloud, like we talked about, should you really think about it as one, or do you think about it like you said, I need to manage this thing as if it's IT and resources, public, private, whatever don't really matter. Yeah, I agree. You're looking at crowd chat right now, we should be. Yeah, so, sorry about that. Yeah, Rodney, so, how can your public cloud, we're looking at reaction to get the stuff live. People are making some comments on here, but, you know, what about the Azures and the Amazon to the world?  They just, yeah, you're going to have some public clouds and there's going to be service providers. I mean, they're growing at such a fast pace.  I've never heard of them. Yeah, just kidding. No, so again, to me, this all comes to, it comes around a use case, right? You know, at the end of the day, people tend to group AWS, Microsoft and Google together as really ultimately the web scale leaders, public cloud leaders, peer public cloud leaders. I don't look at them in the same light. You know, AWS has done an extraordinary job of developing a business that was based upon providing ubiquitous access for development platforms. You know, they're project oriented and the like. Our aspiration is to really lead with this mission critical sort of vector and then draw in supporting workloads for that. I see Microsoft as a little bit different. Microsoft somewhat in between kind of what our focus is and what AWS's focus is, specifically associated, or specifically focused on the mid-market. They did a wonderful job with 365. Sort of a launching pad into the cloud. And then, you know, what Azure has done in the mid-market developer ecosystem has been impressive, right?  And so I believe that we'll establish our leadership position by focusing on our strengths. And I think our strengths will be hybrid and leading with mission critical. Our IP and what we do in that space is truly unique. We do that as, I believe, better than anybody in the world.  The big guys look at you a certain way, you know that.   Why would somebody use virtual stream now that they're, what do you expect that conversation look like? Well, again, a lot of people when they purchase, a lot of customers when they purchase these solutions, start the conversation with security. They'll talk about agility. Regardless of what anybody may say, the conversation always includes cost, right? And so, you know, what we're doing is focusing on taking this sort of precious kernel of IP that we've developed as virtual stream and extrapolating it across the reach of the federation, but maintaining those principles. We, you know, again, what we've done with this abstraction and how we've essentially granulized the usage to the point where it's based on true consumption as opposed to allocated cubes of VM-based resources, we think is quite powerful and we think that's an entirely scalable principle, right? So, we're going to keep doing the things that we're doing. Again, we're going to bring in a number of assets. You know, we're going to leverage a number of assets, I should say, across the federation to accomplish that. But, you know, again, I think it comes back to, if you're chasing the taillights of another company's, you know, go-to-market and, you know, essentially their development roadmap and the like, you're not going to win that game, especially given who those players are and the type of market share they command. What we're hoping to do is create another example of that in an enterprise-enterprise-application-centric marketplace.  And that might sound a little crazy, but that's what my aspiration is. All right, so what's the developer angle for what you're doing? Yeah, so a number of different avenues. The, we have launched our own self-service, self-registration process, VCloud Air also has that capability. And one of our priorities is launching a Pivotal Cloud Foundry service on the virtual stream cloud here. That's in my near-term roadmap. I am so impressed with the Pivotal guys. You know, just what they've been able to do over such a short period of time of capturing platform three application development in a large enterprise is extraordinary. You know, we're in the large enterprise every day and they are the product everybody's talking about. And, you know, interesting, a lot of that development hasn't occurred on public clouds. A lot of that development's actually occurred in-house. And one of the things that we think we offer is this really unique kind of option to where a large enterprise doesn't have to, you know, provision the infrastructure themselves, but yet you get something much more secure and hardened from a performance perspective than just a general-purpose public eye has. So we're quite excited about that element of it, that aspect of it. Any final questions, Brian? No, I think this has been great. I like, you know, we talked about, we'd love to find out what's totally coming next. I know you guys have some things that are a couple of months out. Yeah, we do. But no, it's exciting that, you know, obviously you guys are doing well. The acquisition obviously shows what you're doing is doing well. Thank you. You know, I think people are excited to see what you can bring to the Federation, the Federation Cloud story, because, you know, you've got that experience, and experience is huge. Yeah, we, I say this, you know, my wife can't quite figure it out, right? I'm as excited about all those things, and I've sold three companies in my life, two for over a billion dollars, and I've never worked harder in the last three months. I can't quite reconcile that other than, you know, just the opportunity is so enormous. And so we're excited about it as well. Yeah, yeah, so Rodney, help us close out the segment. You know, why don't you just go follow the heat for the next season? What are you so excited about? And what do you want people to take away from this show about the Federation and Cloud? I'm kind of broken in that regard. I don't know what's wrong with me. I can't quite explain it. I'm kind of an addict for building things.  I mean, this is such a step change. I was around, I'm old, man. I was around like in the early 90s as a programmer and an analyst when client server kind of came onto the scene and then made it through, you know, the emergence of the internet which just changed everything, right? Just created ubiquitous access and automated everything. And this is a step change that is as substantial.   You know, it's something that we have the burden of being effectively, we have to effectively articulate our capabilities. That's one of the things that I see us having an opportunity to improve upon. But if you look at the suite of assets from infrastructure through software, through now, the services component of that, I believe it's unparalleled and it's an organization that has a lot of strength and a lot of reach.  All right, well Rodney, thank you so much for joining us and we'll be right back with our next guest here from SiliconANGLE TVs, coverage of VMworld 2015. Thanks for watching.


Let's cut to the chase. Does flirting actually work? Psychologists would say very much so. In fact, according to an article by self-help blogger and psychology writer Eric Barker, research has proven that flirting and signaling your availability to someone is a better predictor of romantic interest than attractiveness. Generally characterized by specific gestures, body language, and direct or indirect social cues, sex educator and relationship coach Kelly Gonzalez defines flirting as any method you use to signal to someone that you find them interesting and want to engage with them further. Usually a fun and lighthearted activity between two people who find each other attractive and flirting should feel good for both parties involved and spark feelings of curiosity and excitement. With that said, if you want to let someone know you're interested in them but your fear of rejection is stopping you from saying it outright, don't worry, here are seven subtle and psychology backed ways to flirt. Number one, flirtatious facial expressions. Because it's often more socially acceptable for men to make the first move, women tend to flirt mainly through facial expressions and other nonverbal cues. Psychologist Jeremy Nicholson states that some of the most common examples of these include turning your head to one side, tilting your chin down slightly, tossing your hair over your shoulder, and biting your lip while smiling. As for men, number two, smile slowly. While it's not unheard of for men to follow a few of the same flirty facial expressions as women, according to psychologist and professor at California State University, Dr. Pamela Reagan, smiling is the single most effective and most universal method to convey romantic interest, to be more specific. When a man smiles slowly at a woman, it's less likely to be mistaken as just a casual smile of friendliness. Number three, brief glances. Similar to the last point, glancing briefly at someone only to look away is another subtle but well-known flirting technique often done by both genders. In Dr. Pamela Reagan's book, Close Relationships, she writes that doing so indicates preferential attention and is a clear sign of positive romantic intentions. So if you want to flirt with someone but fear rejection, just steal a few glances at them from time to time until they notice. Number four, feather light touch. Still, self-help expert Eric Barker insists that the flirting technique that works better than anything else is a simple touch. But don't worry, you don't have to invade someone's personal space and worry about making them uncomfortable with your touch, just to let them know you're interested. There are some ways of flirting through subtle touch, such as a light brush against their shoulder or forearm, a lingering hand on their waist or casually touching their hair. Number five, mind your appearance. Another great but subtle way of flirting with someone is to be more mindful of your appearance when you're around them and know that doesn't mean always checking the mirror while they're talking to you, because that may make you seem vain and uninterested, but simply making a bit of extra effort to look nice for them and yourself, think a fine hairstyle or some nice new clothes. Psychologist Jeremy Nicholson categorizes this as a physical way of flirting, along with practicing attractive body language and using touch to build attraction, like what we talked about earlier. Number six, tickle their funny bone. Thinking of the different flirting styles, another one is the playful flirting style, wherein the goal is more about having fun than trying to start a relationship. In an article from Psychology Today, Dr. Nicholson stated that playful flirts know how to keep people interested by showing off their fun-spirited personality and great sense of humor. So if all else fails, you can always try your luck tickling the other person's funny bone. Always try to make them laugh and finding ways to have fun with them to let them know your true feelings. Number seven, be more yourself. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, as cliche as it sounds, being your authentic self with someone you like is a great way to flirt with them. Why? Well, according to dating coach Clara Artswacker, thinking, okay, how do I flirt better? I think this is the very thing that kills our ability to have that kind of interaction. Instead, she suggests that we approach flirting by being more ourselves and feeling more at ease with ourselves around the person we like, and with this, we'll come to a winning sense of confidence that can draw people in and make them more interested in you. In summary, successful flirting starts with a friendly and inviting approach, engaging conversations, social interactions, and a mutual physical and emotional attraction towards one another. Still, psychologists and relationship experts such as Artswacker do maintain that because flirting is so personal, there is no single foolproof way that will work for everybody on everybody. So aside from following these empirically based tips, it's also important that you work on being more at ease with yourself and around the person you like. Have fun when you flirt, try to make some sparks fly, and see where it goes from there. Be sure to let us know some of your own personal ways to subtly flirt in the comments down below.


Hey everybody, this is Brian and welcome to the fifth C sharp tutorial today. We are going to talk about the switch statement Now if you know visual basic the switch statement will be very familiar to We're just gonna make a very simple boolean here. We're gonna say right out of boolean juice. Sorry variable. We're gonna say int age Equals and we're just gonna say 10 Now what we're gonna do here is say switch and you have to give it the variable age and Then you give it a function block or a code block now you have to give it a certain amount of cases you say case and say zero Break Now You're probably looking at this going what in the world is this well, I'm gonna explain it very quickly After I add a few of these Now what we're doing here. This is similar to an if statement is we're saying okay evaluate this expression now switch and Each one of these cases is a different switch We're saying if the age is zero and then let's say if the age is let's say five and let's just say 10 Do something at each one of these levels. So if it's zero say console We'll say right line You have not been born yet You know, somebody's obviously trying to fool us in saying they're not old at all. So we'll show them console right line too young for school and console 10 Or console 10 cheese case 10. We're gonna say okay, you should be in school by now Now default is a special one default says you've gone through the entire Switch cases all of them and nothing has fit So say I don't know Now what's gonna happen here is we're gonna run this program. It's gonna go into the main function here It's going to say we have an integer of age equals 10 and you notice how when you highlight age I highlight see here also because it's showing you where it's used Now we're saying switch age. So every time we have a case It's going to say is age equals zero. Well, no, is it equal five? No is equal 10. Yes, it's going to print this Now break that stops what's called fall through in some languages. You can get rid of break and you can say For example zero five no break in between so it'll actually say is it zero No, keep going is it five and it'll evaluate. This is one big expression We don't want that and actually you cannot do that in C sharp So you have to have a break every single time If you're wondering why it looks like that. Well, it's because C sharp is very closely tied to C plus plus and It tries to mimic the syntax to make it easier on people So let's do that and then let's just add our console dot read line Or we just do a console dot read Press f5 to run and sure enough you should be in school because we said 10 now. Let's give it a different age here Let's actually say 43 43 wasn't in our our cases. So it's gonna say I don't know because it broke down into the default Down here. So that in a nutshell is the switch statement very simple very powerful Why would you use the switch statement? Well, if you didn't you would have to say if You know this else if This you know, you just keep going and going and going and it gets Maddening and you don't want to do that. So when you have something where you want to say, okay Do something at different levels if you're zero if you're five if you're ten use a switch statement This is Brian. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this tutorial educational and entertaining


Saturday's game, the Division 2B encounter, the Derby match with Derry, a depleted Doney Gaul and a new look. Doney Gaul in many ways, gave Derry a game, certainly in the first half it faded a bit in the second install, but a lot in the match. You're going to hear shortly a couple of interviews now, Clary, former Doney Gaul player and of course joint player manager at Satanta now and we're going to hear from Mickey McCann, Ryan Ferry caught up with him. After that we're going to hear from Chief Sportswriters of the Star, Kearn Cunningham and all the scenarios of the start of the GA football season. Of course what it's like, as opposed from the capital's perspective and sportswriters' perspective on Jim McGinnis and where Doney Gaul can go this year. Of course, Mary Coughlin's appointment as the chair and of course our wee man across the next county, Mickey Hart, what he thinks of Derry's chances of going all the way this year. Being always interesting and great to chat to Kearn. Just to be changed from what we were supposed to be doing this evening, John McNulty, the ladies boss, was to be on. John's going to come on another evening and we're going to hear from Maria Kelly known as Maria Deveney in GA Circles. She is in with Masters, the Compromise Masters. The Australian team is coming over to play in a lady's series and she is a selector and coach with that. She's going to give us an update on when that's all happening but let's say first up on the show we look across to the Hurlin and as I say Doney Gaul's defeat to Derry and Division 2B and first of all I caught up with, as I say, Niall Cleary. I'm here with Niall Cleary. Niall, Derry at home. It was build as a massive derby game. Derry, of course, coming down from 2A. It was going to be a difficult proposition, particularly with players missing the day, level at half time but Derry showing their class in the second half. Yeah, definitely. When you look at the game from the start, how many players Doney Gaul were down? Probably down seven or eight players and real big players were Doney Gaul, leaders. It was always going to be a challenge but they'll be delighted with the first half. Played really well, took some great scores. The goal just before half time or a few minutes before half time was probably a bit of a killer, a little bit of inexperience in the full back line. Just got caught under a high ball and going in at half time level instead of going in three points up against Derry is a big difference and then the second half has just been the opposite of the first half. It's just been Derry on top and which they were always going to have their purple patch but Doney Gaul are hanging in there which I suppose they'll be pleased about. 10 wades in that first half, Derry creating the chances. We say Doney Gaul holding in there and making the best of it. Just notable in the second half, the pressure that the Derry forward line putting on the Doney Gaul defence. That's huge, huge work, great cause and turnovers. I suppose that's what the modern game is about and that set the tail for Derry's dominance in the second half. Yeah, definitely Brendan. Derry probably commuted again expecting, you know, when you're favourite to come in expecting to win, maybe the forward to be slightly off it. I'm sure they got a bit of a tell off at half time. Come out in the second half, bit of a different proposition, you know, cause as you said, the ball, they were creating a lot of space in the first half. A lot of ball going in, especially into the full forward line. So that was always going to start paying off at some stage, which it has in the second half. But yeah, they started and then probably Carmichard, he was a fantastic hurler there midfield, very quiet in the first half but he's really started kind of running the game here in the second half. Yeah, yeah.  Yeah, definitely. I think they'll be happy with hanging in there, considering all the players, they're down. Like, they did have a few chances there.  It's just there, the kind of differences at this level. You have to be taking your chances. If you don't, you'll be punished up the other end. Yeah. Now, Tarone up next, there's a two week break, of course, maybe a chance to get a few of the shorter term injury players back to the derby games from your own experience. Does it put a different edge to these encounters? You know, you have Derry now and Tarone, the game coming up. Does it change in terms of the mindset against playing teams from outside the area? Yeah, it definitely does, because you know each other so well from club campaigns, but also just from playing each other. Like, we've always kind of been underdogs against Derry, so we've always been really looking forward to that game. It's always been a game you target every year to try and compete, see where you're at. Tarone had it over us for the first few years, then we had it over them and now it's back to, they've been on top, so definitely there's big rivalries there, and the proximity definitely adds into that, but yeah, really, they're really enjoyable games to play in. Yeah, and of course now you're up here, of course supporting your Santanta men and hoping Derry gonna work well as a coach now as well, and you're looking at this from a tactical perspective as well as a supporter. Yeah, definitely, you're looking at it there, you've the notebook in and you're trying to figure out little things like what are Donegal doing? Like, I see Derry are going sharp with their puck outs a lot there, how are they working it then, you know what I mean? Yeah, you definitely do start to look at things differently, not just coming to watch a game anymore. Maybe a future coach at Donegal? Ah, geez, I don't know, far too early to say that, because Mickey and Gabriel are doing such a good job there, you know, you couldn't be changing that, so no, maybe somewhere down the line, Brendan. Appreciate it now, thanks. Yeah, fair play to him. Now, Clary, they're always great to catch up, as I say after the game, Ryan Ferry of the Donegal News was doing updates for us and he caught up with Donegal boss, Mickey McCann. I'm joined here by Donegal Hurley manager, Mickey McCann. Mickey, your team have been beaten by seven points in O'Donnell Park by Derry, how did you see it out there? Ryan, we're very happy to have time, maybe not in the scoreboard, because we've put on a big shift and we went five points up and luckily we made a few on four stairs and stuff and the Derry back in and they're corner forward, maybe catch it near the square and get a soft enough goal you should be demanding the ball in that area, so we weren't happy with the goal, but overall I thought Donegal was everybody as good as Derry in the first half and if we could keep it going, but suppose we worked that hard, Ryan, in the second half we just couldn't keep that tempo up, you know, and Derry had more strength and depth, so overall we're not too bothered, it was a decent performance against a very good Derry team. Yeah, 12 points to 1-9 at half time, Derry had ten wades and obviously a bit of poor shooting from there, but a good defending from your lads putting pressure on, but you were five points up at one stage and you were playing very well, that George McGee chronally showing well at corner forward, Liam McKinney was going well, were you disappointed that you weren't fuller ahead then at the break? Yes, I suppose even your four or five up at half time, if you held on that read Ryan and give them give you a chance when they get a purple patch that maybe they've got to run on you, four or five that you'd still be well on the game level or whatever, but we just couldn't get that three-pointer on the day, Derry defensive very solid and they guarded the net, you know they got numbers on around there, so we never got inside away a lot and against teams like Derry and Hurlin you have to have them one or two goals like I did and it gives them a wee bit of day like you know two goals that they got, they've been one point game, so the fact we didn't get the three-pointer on the day was probably wasn't going to be enough to beat Derry. Yeah and you went 23 minutes in the second half without a score and just he seemed to lose away a bit and I know the likes of Carmichael Doherty in midfield for Derry started to take over and maybe just things started to go straight for you. Yeah a big momentum swing, they just kept clumping away, you know and before you know it in Hurlin your level one minute and five minutes later you're four or five down, it's not like football as such but we did, it was a bad 20 minutes to start the second half to put it first round, I think we had a point early enough, it was a point each and then after that they had five or six in the row, so you say 23 minutes without a score in Hurlin, it's not going to be enough against Derry team who's probably favours to under the division, so you can't have long spells to get in Hurlin with no scores. In fairness though there was good character showing that nobody threw in the tile, it got three points in a row then to bring it back to four-point game but Derry just started up then down the home street. Like they did and look they're super team and this is good at Derry team vaccine since I took the job maybe you know because the six very quality forwards there you know and a very strong one, Phil was Cormac and Rory Omanian who caused any team ball you know but overall we're very happy with this performance you know considering the amount of bodies we're missing and the big turnover from players from last year you know we're just counting as this 9-10 maybe seven starters like Euregard Fennel not out there so um you're asking young boys to go on there and play against Derry at no that's one of the four starts and it's going to be a big ask but it's good learning curve you know we know Derry is going to be the team debate but we'll just like our wins today and move on to the next match. Yeah so you have a you have a break now next weekend before playing Tarone is that correct yeah with Tarone Tarone away to Tarone and away to Roscommon and then home to London here on St Patrick's Day so luck if you can get a couple of couple of victories out of them three games Ryan it could put you in a position where you're in a top three spot and really really that's all we're after with it with the restructuring of the leagues this year. Yeah and are we likely to see any of those experienced men back for for the Tarone match? Well uh Sean McVeigh and Conor Grady are out of the country they'll be fully good to go training again Tuesday night and we're Rory Campbell who's carrying me niggle expect Rory to be grand come the troll match uh long term is Danny and Danny's and and Deckey's probably going to be the championship and Dara Malidia who's okay I have maybe maybe back towards the Roscommon game um I like to like uh Richie Ryan and McDonough and Jimmy Dermott wrapped it out this year so look big turnover Ryan if we get two or three back at a time and then go into the championship we should have another couple back and not to forget Ron McDermott just coming back from a crucial uh injury should be back the start of May so um we're we're down a lot of bodies I know excuse the day the team out there was well it was competing with Dara for long periods but a few a bit more strength and depth we maybe could have seen it better second half yeah thanks very much Ryan very great stuff Mickey McCann doing a 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now see if you old friends and catch up with a family hi and get a bit of skin in get a bit of skin if no like it is about if no like it is about yeah the big skin and that we used to joke there in the in the county squad with aftermatch pints and the crack that you know there's certain groups you needed to be in and if you weren't done them you could be getting skinned you know yeah if you're ridden the old group you're getting skinned anyway well I caught up with them recently there there was a we need to do reunion so I joined them for a wee while in sister Sarah's in Cairns place great crack I mean such a bunch of characters you know it was a it was a great couple of hours with them he's just a phenomenal memories and Cairn we love through them all had great times and in terms of those times Cairn you know that the second coming of gym of course of interest in your perspective from outside the county of course the first one you know changed the face of of football as we know it and maybe more so we actually Cairn was thinking about this today when we more so in 2014 and 2012 because they all conquer in dubs who were going to sweep everybody aside you learned that even a team as talented as them could be done by a tactical counter-attacking team and I think from then on I think that was maybe the bigger change yeah what what was your feeling the gyms first I suppose input at that time and then the change in nature tonight which is there's a lot to cover there well I remember to learn do you remember Ali Marafit used to play for me but Ali's great a great fellow like he keep you know you don't see him much around he's not somebody crops up in the media or you know once he hung up his boots he walked up in the sun said he was still playing around he's still playing in goals for his club I think around the age of 50 you know he's still kind of he's a great great great great character but I met Ali one time and I was talking to him and Ania and I was asked about me then I said like you said the foot and Dublin's throat for years like how did you get them let them get back in top and he says he says came we lost a bit of madness he says you need the bit of madness he says that you know a lot of Ulster teams at that and we and the thing is you know Dunning all had that bit of madness in a wrong way for a long time that probably held us back but I think Jim brought the right kind of madness like in 2011 it was more methodical and more organizing and being hard to score against and just get that Ulster title which was a huge deal for Dunning all because it'd be 19 years and then when the ambition when you got more ambition and worked on the transition game and the attacking game and I never for that I always hated Dunning all be described as defences after that because there weren't events of the country attacking and you saw that in the tallies that put up there were a lot up a lot of very big tallies in 2012 2014 you know because of injuries 2013 was a write-off but there was also the bit of madness like I always think if you watch Jim Gavin's Dublin a hugely successful but it's like if you take the soccer corpus because get into that because Jim has spent so much time learning from soccer but they were like wordy all as much as their city like they were just very calm and composed and just wanted out and like real people were saying they're quite kind of boring but I think Dunning all are more like clubs Liverpool and that even at Liverpool or 2-0 up with 10 minutes to go there's always a bit of jeopardy there's always there's still five or six people up pressing and a high line at the halfway line as anything can happen and I think it's brilliant to watch and I think like it knows we're only based on evidence of McKenna cup and a challenge match and two division two games but I think there's a jam or something there happening with Jim and like this year might be I might not have we lose you there Kieran we'll try and just get 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out more at fisheries Ireland dot ie slash careers the deal debate with sister Sarah's ladder canny serving food you'll love till 9pm daily in Sarah's kitchen and there's free admission entertainment every weekend yes welcome back folks Keirney you back on the line I didn't even realize I was gone I was talking away to myself sorry I do not try to ring you there the phone was going to answer machine we were we were queuing up a track and then funny Joe Dex is with me here and he was like what do you want to play do you want to play us but and I was thinking this track's going to represent me now and I was like no not that not that I was like what's wrong with my head and then you just landed back in Keirney good timing I'm good to get you back sir all right where was I what was I was sure asked me another question where were we I don't know where we were yeah we were we were around we were talking about Ollie Murphy and the and the badness I suppose you're on with Jim and the evolution of the team yeah how done it go we're actually a counter attacking team and you didn't like them being called defensive and and what Jim and yeah I suppose and you were saying then we're obviously very early into this tenure you know but you're seeing the seeds of of something good happening you are and I know I don't know if you heard it when I was saying that but I think I think Jim was you know Jim was obsessed with Mickey Hart and to Rowan when he came in the first time about breaking them because I think he thought if you have to you're going to have any ambition of doing something with a team Ulster team you have to break the dominant team and the dominant manager and I think he sees Derry as a dominant team now there's clearly the evidence is there that they have been the last couple of years so I think he will he will be gearing everything towards Celtic Park you know there's an argument that Ulster isn't anywhere near as important as it was because of the change in the All Island series and you know you look over the years since you like you mentioned 92 and meeting some of those boys like since Donegal we're in that no Donegal have only been in about one, two, three, four All Island semi-finals is 92 you know so you know since the same change in the system even when Donegal won quite a lot of Ulster titles they weren't backing them up with getting to the last four and like ideally for me if I was to say what ideally I'd like for this year when Donegal is getting promotion they get the All Island semi-final if they win Ulster it's a bonus but you know to expect them to win the All Island or be All Island contenders in the first year back you know with you know Jim is out a bit of a while getting to know new players them getting to know him and he live with new ideas and he wants to impose like it's so it's hard to do that it's such a short space of time that you have now like it wouldn't rule him out ending up in the final if they get to a semi-final winning Ulster but at the moment like getting promotion in the last four would be a great year. Yeah funny I asked him about promotion he's lying most of I says as a priorities as if we get promoted it is if we don't it wasn't you know I mean he actually like I talked to him a couple of times you're getting very very happy very content you know we could see you know back in the game you know that he grew up way in loves and you know you could feel that off him and such a pride and such a drive for the team and yeah and I like I heard the interview you did with him Brent like it was a very good interview and I've heard him after games a couple of times as well since he came back and he's been remarkably open compared to most county managers like he's explaining he'll explain after a game what he was trying to do and what didn't work and what did work and he's talking about plans you know that they'd like to be you know about how the game has changed and things that he other ways he thinks it might change and things he thinks he might bring it to it and it's really refreshing to hear that and you know and I I think people are kind of brushing like to me you know some people would throw it at Jim you know that he tried soccer and he failed but to me I like you look at the percentage of people to try to make it as soccer managers like there's stats there in England over 55% of them never get a second job after having a first job it's so hard to get into but what Jim will have learned is he's a 10 years of coaching at soccer and doing all the badges and coaching in different environments and in different countries and you pick up a huge amount of knowledge and I guess even something like a soccer now like Arsenal I don't know why more teams don't have it but Arsenal have a full-time set piece coach the improvement in their free kicks and corner kicks is unbelievable like the score so many goals from 11 set plays was one of the things that Jim concentrated on as a coach and I think there's room for imagination of that in Gaelic football like if you have there will always be a time in games or five minutes ago you need a goal you're going to get at that scenario some stage and you will get a free around the middle of the field at that stage you can work some kind of movement then that you create a goal chance you know that you just pull the defence out but you see it's amazing now like because soccer Gaelic football used to be sometimes compared to rugby or even rugby league but tightly it's so similar to soccer now in the emphasis on the attack and press on sweeper keepers on the goalkeeper being used as a playmaker on low no having two low blocks in defence when you don't have the ball you know I've tried trying to work turnovers as quickly as possible when you when you lose the ball there's just a lot you can gain from it and like it's really exciting when you see that attack and press when you're throwing so many bodies up and there is a risk reward thing to it and you will see that thrown at clubs Liverpool like people say that high line like one ball and the guy is in one on one but he knows that and Liverpool know that and all the coaches know that but they take the they've worked it out and they said we'll create more chances the other end by playing this way so we're sticking with it and sometimes people you know bravery brings its own rewards and I think you know you look at the 120 against Cork but getting that kind of score in January is a good sign no it's a good sign there's a lot to be positive about yeah this isn't great points Sarah Cairne and listen I think that's the case you just always I suppose even though division two has got stronger now particularly the resurgence of our man with Galway and those teams putting a squeeze on the whole division one the teams that tended to be about there remember it used to be Ross common and Kevin these teams would go up and they go back down but now certain teams are a lot of teams are getting their act together I still think there's a decent drop off to two and what Cork brought on the day predicting the second half was burned out we played well Cairne you're right and Jim himself says he's not finished with soccer yet he plans to go back to it and just imagine heart there and targeting heart and Cairne in terms of the season is it best then that we have Derry round one let's say we lose to Derry you're coming fresh at the group stages in many ways that is probably the best draw we could have got Derry first day if you beat them you're on a roll you probably you're in a great position to one Austin if you don't then you're fresh going into the group yeah you know the one thing I would say I wouldn't say like you're like it'll be a good big scale but I wouldn't say you're in a great position to what I'm not sure it's a great position to win Ulster because Tarone you know Tarona problems which you still go through the players they have they have a lot of quality nor are Ma have been very unlucky and you know a couple of penalty shoots in the last couple of years is stuck them from making big leap forwards you know they could have gone either way you know and Monaghan were very very close to making all island final last year and Kevin put it up to Dany Gull for a lot of the time last year there's a downer definitely improving under Connor Loverty so I wouldn't take anything for granted I think Dany Gull you know if it did beat Derry you know there'd be hard to beat but the hard one is interesting because I remember talking to Sean Cavanaugh about this and like I meant to check it just before coming there but Derry won the McKenna cup under Mickey there right I'm not sure how many he's won now I think it's might be 13 or 14 more he's won incredible amount of McKenna cups and it's Sean Cavanaugh was saying to me he just wants to win every game like everybody like you saw a couple like Armagh were playing a B team in the McKenna cup and they were setting their first 15 now to play challenge games against Dublin strong Dublin teams you know so they put more store and challenge against the McKenna cup but Hart always wants to win it and then he throw everything at the league as well then throw everything at Ulster but I think that could backfire on him like I think it's completely I think it's completely wrong that I know they've had a break now a few that went off to Spain I think the Glen lads the Conard glass and that but but I think going straight in to play Kerry you know a week after a lesson a week after when a club all Ireland having a year a year before that they went back to train in three days after there's no learning club find I don't think that's sustainable yes I think you do need a lot of very very lengthy break especially where the county season is now like those guys that come back they might have had a wee break now and they'll be back in this week but after that like it's bang bang bang very short break the championship the championship you're into the championship short break after the provincial champions at the All Ireland series when you ask yourself if you are like Terry and have ambitions to win the All Ireland is that is it possible to push yourself that far like I'm just feeling that could be a little bit of burnout coming with Terry yeah listen kid I totally agree I thought that was crazy and even I was at the McGillacup game where where Terry kind of showed where their level was at in the second half and it was McGillacup but the way they kind of bossed the game I know we were missing a few players but so were they but like that the heart said listen I'm leaving the door open I could not believe a way to carry to you of all things and you just mentioned there you know you highlighted the likes of me see around but that time all the Murphy and a bit of madness in that and you know Donny Gull at that time and surely then Cairn that in GA you still need that fire a bit of madness and that's there's only so much of that is in your head so if you keep going in the big game obviously Terry are targeting the league I think they could very easily won the league so those lads have to go up for that then you're in the All-Star net and the group stages of championship so when you want them at their best which is if they get back to where they were last year is a semi-final to take them into the final are they as you said I can't see how there wouldn't be some drain on them whether it be physically or mostly in terms of getting to that you know that high level you want to be at at the peak time yeah no I know it will we'll see down the road but I just think I think they're a very good team and they're a team that might well win All-Star again might well be in All-Ireland semi-final even get to a final again but I think that there are missing that bit of quality particularly in attack I think to win All-Ireland I just think there may be maybe even one quality forward more they need like if Shane McGuigan and Conor and Conor Glass had a quiet enough day or well held you know I'm not sure you'd be that confident that there's two or three others to pick up the slack yeah and I think you know I have seen comparisons made with Jim McGuigan you know Jim McGuigan is his first any goal team but I think Jim had far more an attack to work with you know and like it's telling like Jim wanted to make a Murphy back Jim wanted Ory McNeillish back like he did go to both of those and I think that you know that shows Jim wants all the best players there and you know that was a problem with Derry for for some years and under different managers not all the best players were in the squad like it hasn't really been a problem with Dunny Gull thankfully you know it last year it was an issue this year you know those both both those fellows are effectively retired so you could say it wouldn't mean a surprise if they came back but like he has got good fellas in there that I wasn't sure what buy into like even like Aaron Daugherty from my own club Aaron has never really you know he's been in and out of panels and hasn't really committed that heavily but like he's gone in with Jim and Jim can be very persuasive I think it shows that yeah certainly yeah listen I totally agree about Derry and this McGuigan is unbelievable but you're right Cairns should he pick up an injury or something he is so integral do what they knew you know that young Murphy boys come on well there you know what you said it sometimes will take them a few years to be that type of player you know lot of Murray there's a lot of boys shape son of him Derry 93 what he called the captain it's his nephew yeah they have some young guys coming through there that are good but whether they're up to that level here of where McGuigan is I think he's unbelievable by the way and he can be the difference and everyone there maxes but should he have an offday be marked out of it as the same scenario I suppose is clever and carrying it as well than Terry Gull nature did but Cairns just wonder but yeah go ahead sorry Joe yeah just a quick one that Brendan because I was looking at the players that are available to Dunny Gull like you are going to get injuries and maybe suspensions at different stages but it's you have you have forward options that you haven't always had there like you could pick out and we'd all probably have different six that you would pick and you were still looking say well there's three four five maybe even six good forwards there that'll be happy enough to put on one and often it was a case you would one or two forwards on the bench you would trust but I think there's more than that now and that's really important you know whether you know we have to obviously have to keep it up at the other end and have to be competitive in midfield which has been an issue in different games but we still come out of it but I think there's there's a positive there yeah yeah totally agree Kieran Kieran we question be I'm not keeping much long romance thank you so much for giving up of your time it's brilliantly chatty the change in there we had obviously a very traumatic last year in Dunny Gull GA and you know there was look there was a lot of people looking for a new direction particularly from our our county board our former former Thomas to Mary Coughlin I know your man knows his way around the political landscape but what did you think of of her coming in as the new chair in terms of of what she can bring to Dunny Gull to me it looks like a positive because she's hugely experienced she's a huge amount of contacts and no she's been all sort of tricky scenarios like you look at when when Mary was tarnished to like it was it was a very grim time in politics you know with the bank crashes and everything else looks as she you know she's she's used to dealing with all sorts of stuff being thrown at you and she's a very straight shooter I think I find with Mary like she she'll be very blunt and she might put some people's nose out of joint but something that no harm with that and I think she will be an asset as well in terms of fundraising and you know whether we like it or not money has become so important in an inter-county game like it's become a crazy arms race in many ways but if you want to be competitive or if you would definitely if you want to win silver where it would be the business and the championship it's going to cost a lot of money and both Jim and Mary coming in will help Donnie Gull in that regard yeah and I suppose Sinead Breen's in there as well and we've got some new some new ideas and she's very positive you see around the games and that she's she's such a love of the game and the whole setup of it and it was it was a pedig who's did her dance a few weeks back and Mary was there and you're right Karen and she's she's so adept at at handling situations I think from the back of last year it can only positive Karen the money thing just last question on that you mentioned the Premier League the side that spent the most money there I think the majority of the Premier League teams won the championship now we have the case of the highest ranking teams in the country you could put them in their place by money as well you know that impact is is massive and it's changed the whole nature of of County GA yeah and and you don't see the full picture either like we like if you look at Harling and JP McManus and let me click JP McManus gives a million Euro to every county board in the country and one of the things I was thinking about when that happened is that God I wish a hundred much he's given to Limerick over the last 10, 20 years because we don't know but like it it clearly has has helped them you know like in terms of they're incredibly well conditioned you know like they're so well looked after and you know the facilities everything they've had has been put in place for them and it's like you look where Donegal or not compared to when you're playing Brandon like you know that you know you have you know you have the center of excellence like you know it's not everybody's wearing training gear like it's not like you're you used to go to training you know you have 20 different jerseys of training like it was yeah it's just a different world now and like it all costs money it all adds up but you know there is hypocrisy in the GA as well that you know we're still amateur I don't think it's a very, very loosely amateur organization because so many people are paid you know there's a sentimentalization of the club game where a massive amount of managers are played like I sometimes find that hard to take like you'd see all the or you read these pieces or see or hear people going on about a club and what a great club it is and you know how rooted in the community and everything else and then you're looking at the manager and the coach and think they have a year ago they'd never given that club a moment's thought in their lives you know but suddenly they're all aboard of the club what attracted to this club Glen's a great example of that I suppose, Gairn in terms of you know what well, don't name any names yeah well listen it's basically at this point but it is a reality like you look at it's now it's it's I don't like that like I like manager to be from your club I honestly I think you have to and manager in your county like you see that with Jim you were talking about his pride and passion and he got it it's very real and it's very strong I've heard him speak at different events like at business events and everything and he really it gets done he got people in the palm of his hand when he's talking about it and I think the same thing happens you know an outsider never has that field for your club like it's a gig it might be another gig for them next year or the year after somewhere else even in a different county yeah yeah totally agree that's why I'm helping out we better it's in your hands yeah all for the love Gairn you're right thank you you can't escape it Gairn listen that was phenomenal talking to you sir much appreciated and keep flying the flag for us Donnie Goh boys up in the capital there sir okay no problem Brent okay take care cheers Brent thank you Gairn bye bye cheers bye cheers Gairn Cunningham our chief sports writer with the star that was brilliant and if you always great chatting to Gairn great great insights say after the break we're going to speak to Maria de Ville the DL debate with sister Sarah's letter Kenny serving food you'll love till 9pm daily in Sarah's kitchen and there's free admission entertainment every weekend hello Jedward speaking sorry Edward speaking hey bro I'm glad you picked up who is this it's me John I'm literally outside in the landing I don't know any Sean lose my number hello Edward don't hang up I'm sorry for saying a handyman could fix the gas boiler please forgive always use a registered gas installer or you could risk everything find one at orgii.ie the DL debate with sister Sarah's letter Kenny serving food you'll love till 9pm daily in Sarah's kitchen and there's free admission entertainment every weekend yes welcome back now we talk to a woman she's got two names actually she's uh Daveney and she's Kelly she's Daveney energy world so that's what we're going to call her now how are you Maria hi um brilliant present thank you very much sorry Helen about that now obviously she's hitched up to a good mayo man uh Helen Kelly uh Maria the the news broke in the family there that you were asked to join in with a new compromise rules masters ladies squad and Maria could you give us a bit of background into how how all this came apart and when it's coming up yeah brandon thank you I suppose it happened fairly quick it was like an early Christmas present today the truth that happened in December and uh the international rules masters men over 40s and over 50s is happening in march the 9th and the 16th and the Aussies are bringing two big strong teams coming over for that but they also announced that they were bringing for the first time ever and over 40s masters women's team and uh you know john patchard is over the the masters group here in Ireland it's a big task we don't have a masters women's team in any of the counties but fair play he says yeah let's do this in this short notice let's pull a management team together and uh so there is one person from each province and i'm representing Ulster we've michael moise from mail who had no bread and played for mail and managed the mail ladies played international rules as well tg collins then from a monster who's down with url ladies ga and the secretion and Samantha lampart and uh used to be past captain of tip rary and then emerald brian as well he would manage a lot of teams women's teams in uh leash so great management team and in fairness the i suppose it was a less headset for me or head pain for me is that the 23 errors were already selected by the each of the masters teams throughout the different counties so we didn't because you don't have time for trials so we were given the the list of players and some in play counties some haven't and we we've we started our training plan and we're tracking towards now the 19th and 16th march and maria just that list who was able to comp play that so they basically gave you the cream of the crop of players of that age but that would take a bit of work getting getting that all together and just figuring out because obviously you you'll want certain players to do certain roles in that so it's a huge thing to kind of pull together a squad legat and get them ready for it for a game because i suppose you're thinking what are the Aussies doing on the other side of the world are they are they are they secretly training this last good few months and got this really good team there i suppose that's a small bit of a a fear in the background yeah well you said a bread and i might go and write okay what is this Aussie teams because they you know lot of girls would have played professionally at a well and and uh and then you know i'm trying to sneak photographs of i'm training going jeez they're very tall they're really what are we up against here but yeah this is before you'll play in a year to count down know so many players throughout the the country and probably would have loved a chance to play but it was because of the time lines were very were very tight that really each of the the masters that exist in the the 23 counties they nominated i'm not too sure how that came about whether you had to still be playing or or or what the the protocol was that was but we literally were were given the the 23 names and as you said you know you're looking to be a goalkeeper do you where does people play but i think the whole point of this was was going to be enjoyable it's never been done before masters where i cannot tell you the bulls from the gears because this opportunity to play for your country we've never had that before and i'm from a masters perspective and these gears are just bulls and we've had two sessions now so far and you know the hype and the excitement and they are getting stuck in and if anything it has opened up the door to a god you know maybe we could be doing something like this because the the Aussies have this set up the last couple of years they have this masters over 40s where they play and come together and you know maybe we've done it from an interprovincial perspective because now we're in our 40s and you keep getting younger Brett and you're nearly younger than me now at this but they uh you know the ball can be so so senior county or club football and the demands and your mark and a lot of people are younger than you you know the appetite may not be there but something like this where you train or you know a couple of weeks and you play you play over a weekend could give the the over 40s or women who've played football or something to to a goal that they could achieve to because as I said the appetite is definitely there and these women are flying and their foot Dan Thomas representing or Dan McGlin married the great Frank McGlin she's representing Dunnegal and absolutely flying they're doing the running and they're just getting all geared up now for for these two test match yeah and just on that fitness really then is there I remember way back in the day they're playing the Aussies and we had to do fitness tests because the game was so physical and that and say you know at that stage I remember the first year 98 it was still knockout championship so you could have a good few months before there was a trial so I think the guys were worried maybe you wouldn't be fit enough for this you know the way in a trial you can do so much but maybe not be the fitness but we had those load of bleep tests we had to do them got a horror I hated them so you had to get the whole night measure over yeah I think you had to get the over 11 or something to even be in contention I remember doing it up and double and I don't know if you put the girls through that well if I did we wouldn't probably see anybody again put them off no we haven't you know Michael Moyes is amazing and he's kind of manager and he give them all fitness regime to follow over the 78 weeks before we meet but again the premise is that you know it's 18 minutes four quarters and five minutes subbing on and off it is the unknown we've never done this before and we don't know what they're like but you know I was really surprised some of these girls I remember marking give me nightmares breading and I'm like I would say that to them I've fallen around the punch when I was playing for Donnie Gaul but she's doing great ship and you know we kill a downy there from down could still be playing on full forward she nearly put him in and all in the back of the left there last Saturday and we're learning that I suppose that the new rules as well and the tackling and things like that but I mean they're going for it there was no standing off it was going all in they're physical you know but we're having the crack as well and that's the big part of it these people are going to be bringing their families down to these games there are a lot of them of children they're going to see their mothers play for Ireland it's incredible it's really great and you know the men's to you you know Paul Callum playing for the they were fifties and you've corner McShane here too part of my club we're in poor masters playing for the we're forties and there's so many people going down and to watch them and I just think it's incredible that you can see your mami in your forties playing for Ireland and these all the rules so they're going to be special memories and Marie tactically in terms of the Aussies it'll supposedly so mad you have the two games so the first game all you can go on is maybe if you can find some bits and pieces of of video information on the players to kind of highlight who's the danger you know who's the good forwards or who's the hard running midfielders you've got to get all that together and of course in the first game then it's bang and it's in so I'm sure there'll be such a massive jump from the preparation to game one and then into game two when you've actually seen them first hand and you can kind of get a more of a tactical plan but I suppose that's the same for both teams yeah it's the same for both teams and you know we the the big thing is the phone but at the same time as you know yourself and any of those guys walking on there's this competitiveness can be and they'll want to win no matter what obviously and I know I talk about the phone and all the rest but it is the unknown like we met the Aussie team management team on Sunday morning nine o'clock through teams and they've been training away and you know we've only had three two sessions did you lie did you lie you start lying and yeah we've we've been together from one share oh yeah yeah it's all about playing my games but yeah we're all right okay but we are you know as I said the guys are put their foot and you know tactically you're right Brett look we're just going to go out play our game you know you hear it all the time we only know what we can do we've we've seen the guys we know the positions they like to play and they're they're eager they're as I said training they're getting the fuckers up ready for these games and you know we have the sub on sub off and you know as you said like we I've been looking at photographs I've been looking at some of the the cups that the Aussies have put up and I suppose because it's a round ball we'd be more used to that so the fun at you know so the marks and things like that we hopefully move the ball up a bit quicker but you know you really don't know to that first game and then you've only the couple of days before the next game so get the bodies rested and and ready to go for the 16th hmm Henry is this LGFA affiliated who's who's organizing this who's who's backing this in terms of your setup now this would be the the Galex Masters Association of Ireland and I so they're right on their own um I wish it was all in one because it would help a lot of these guys are are fitting their own balls heading down covering costs and stuff like that because you want to play for your country but that what is the Masters thing though Maria are they backed up with the GA or is this kind of no it's all it's all run independently of the Bells yeah yeah all yeah now hopefully there's no bad coming in you've got that wrong Maria but no I I've John Pat Sheridan he's based on my oh lovely man he kind of started it and I think they've put it out a few times but it hasn't actually happened yet again I could be wrong and um put a disclaimer in next week you can correct me Brett oh listen if I am but I think they are independent yeah so um and again this women's it's it's these guys volunteering that's keeping us all together and running the show and I'm just so delighted that they didn't say oh god we never done this before we're not going with it they've decided to do it because what it's meant to these these players has been huge and uh we've been getting all great and really enjoying it and you can really see that there's an appetite there so who plays something more will come of it yeah well listen of course the LGV and the the GA taken which is I can't believe it's taking them along they kind of partner up probably I think the likes of the masters not should all come on to the the one umbrella because Maria Oligers is playing have given their life to their club in their county and if there's something in this that they're again willing to progress and put on and uh I think they deserve all the support they can get yeah I think they have that mothers and others that the ladies the LGFA have and it's it works for it and I would have done it for my knee just won't let me play anymore if players would only run in straight lines I could play style but unfortunately the twists and turns so that's me out but uh you know but that's non-competitive and you know there's as I said when you go out to that pitch it's a natural and us because as you said you played for 20 years club county you can't drop that competitors now the mother and others fantastic played a great crack and it's it's trying to embrace and be inclusive of everybody but you know there's definitely no more like there's an appetite for the men now we've been over 50s which is amazing an international team as well there is definitely from what I've seen and from girls giving me calls going geez how do we get on this rare and I was at the team selected because of the time frame but they would love to the opportunity so I imagine I'm hoping that this will start that you know the platform that we see it move on and see it progress to more counties or even in the in the different provincials and of course we have the last question to you we're down the last couple of minutes the way trip everybody's thinking if it goes well let's go to Australia that's the shout what do you think take I'll come with you if you need a kit man I'll come off the phone and I'll come on with you and I said to my husband going oh my god I'll just you know this opportunity come up but that's the first thing he said it's a return trip just yeah I got it but uh we'll see I mean it'd have to be a huge sponsorship because as I said there's nobody only ourselves that's it's covering the cost I mean the Aussies are covering they've got some sponsorship but a lot of them are coming over with their families and they're fitting a lot of the bulk of themselves you know so um hopefully uh we don't mess up totally and uh there would be an opportunity I would be on that plane and gone of course but uh yeah so fingers crossed as I said you know um it's thank god our um well Alan anyway because I'm gone that much that he's he loves the GA and he's like yes do it uh and I'm sure he's thinking there might be a drop on here for me after it's yes there's a long plan Alan it'll all come good for you then Maria of Magic as ever thanks for joining us this evening on The Day of the Bacon good luck we'll we'll get a wee bit update for me after the first game brilliant thank you so much Brendan thank you very much it's Maria the Vinny there fair play the horror folks well that is a wrap uh the two that are called Jules Hollins are uh waiting to come in Rudy's there as well they're kind of telling me to get off time's up Brendan listen folks thanks for what you're doing this evening thanks Joe Dex for producing get a sport I shall kill you I'll speak to you all next week