Good afternoon. So all good things come to an end.  So let me point out a few things that what the idea behind such a program was was not so much to teach people physics because all of you are physicists and the level at which we are talking about is the first year level because that was the mandate of this program. The idea was that to take you back to teaching first year again and see whether all of us have some things which needed clarification and in our limited way we tried to do the best that we could. We have had, I would measure the success in terms of the queries that kept on coming while we were talking about it. On an average day we received over 100 questions and in fact we could not take up more than 20-30 questions per day among four of us because it would then eat into our regular timing. We are glad that we are able to be of assistance in clarifying some minor doubts that many of you might have had. In this work we were greatly facilitated by many people. I cannot thank all of them and all of you in your own way have contributed to this program. Thank you very much. But since I have been interacting with a large number of people on a day to day basis and our people have been doing that so the back office team you will remain unnamed because most of the time I do not know the name but I know you by face and I really thank you for doing whatever you are doing behind the scene. I must put on record a big thanks to the eStudio team led by Sajjan, administrative team led by Mrs. Muktava Atre, the managers of this with whom I really interacted regularly were Rachna, Kannan, Mahendra and Sandeep, a big thanks to all of you. Another back office this person was Mrs. Jai Gaithande because without her this we will not know what to do because she is the accounts manager and again thanks to her. Before we bid goodbye to you and take your feedback it is my pleasant duty to introduce Professor Tommy. Professor Tommy is an experimental condensed metaphysicist currently heading the department of physics in this institute and well I will not go through his bio data but as you know that he is he did his PhD from TIFR spent a lot of time in UK and other countries abroad and he is a I mean whenever he is not doing administration he tries to do experimental condensed metaphysics. So only restriction is he is not going to be answering any questions on physics today so therefore welcome Professor Tommy and maybe we could have some comments by you. Good afternoon welcome you all and thanks to the organizers for giving me this chance to say few words during the closing ceremony of this function. I am sure that all of you would have been going through this program for the last 2 weeks very intensive program and you would have been lucky enough to listen to some of the best teachers we have in our department as well as in our institute and I am sure that you would have learned something even if you learn something at least if you have understood something you try to learn more from that one because the aim of this project is to make sure that more and more information goes to teachers across the country and as you know that when you are all teachers the more information you get the more confident you become the more confident you become the better teachers you become and the better teachers you are then you will be able to motivate more and more students to us whichever subjects you are teaching it does not matter it need be physics but any subjects you are taking. So in that regard I am sure that this what are the physics you learn or what are the experiences you had during these program during these 2 weeks or even those who participated earlier also will try to give it to others also like or like this program will continue also because this program basically says that train 10,000 teachers a project under Yamachadi and I can see that people have been participating as well as there are senders also just like in the standard term we say from Kashmir to Kanyakumari as well as Jaipur to all the way to Assam there are all the people all the people are there from all these places which means that there is a very good spread across the country which people have taken participated and if you felt that or if you found that this is a useful program then you should also encourage others to apply and participate so that they will also benefit from the same program then other than that one I am sure that as physics department so as an HOD I can tell that in addition to whatever you have heard if you look at our website you can see almost all the teachers we are doing research in different research areas and not only the basic physics even if you think that some advanced topics if you want to get some more doubts because which would not have been covered here but surely if you look at the physics website you will see process working in different areas and if you think that some of the areas you want to have some more information as I said that information or some ideas please feel free to conduct the faculty with you can even say that with a copy to head physics always it will be answered we will try to help our colleagues also wherever they are for example these are the people even you can see that even when required we once even taught in a center school also for six months so it is that it is basically our responsibility as well as we take it in great pleasure to help our colleagues across the country it does not matter whether the school teachers, college teachers or even our colleagues in IITs we are always there to at least minimal that does not mean that we have a lot of time to spend on these things because we have our own teaching our own research but at the same time whenever we see whenever we think that some help is needed by others we surely give it there as an HOD I can tell that anytime you any of you want to visit our department maybe for a day or two have a look around IIT please feel free to write to us we will try to arrange your visit maybe in a good time we will be able to even make some accommodation arrangement which is the most difficult part in even inviting anybody to our places. So with this one I again thank you all for attending this seminar and I am sure that you will continue to spread this news and get more and more people interested as well as participating in the problem thank you once again. Yeah okay so we have come to the final stages of this program in fact when I came for the first lecture I was somewhat nervous nervous not because of the anything else but because thinking that how I will be able to talk to an audience where actually nobody is sitting after the first lecture I realized that that problem is not there because as soon as I finish my lecture there were maybe 50 questions through various forum so after that I never had any problem I thought I was actually talking to a live audience as if they're all sitting here so we are getting so many questions as Professor Ghosh mentioned that actually is a response so I think you should also do the same thing when you teach because you should get encouraged students to ask questions in fact when I give a lecture here at the end if I don't get a question I feel that my lecture was bad so fortunately these last two weeks I did not have this problem because every time there were questions and even though we have not been able to answer many questions but we have seen all the questions that you opposed either to us personally or through the fora and we will try to answer all the remaining questions very soon in fact this week was quite hectic for us so we'll be able to work on it now and we'll write down and send you the answers just one point I want to make in this we were actually in a hurry to finish lot of things because of that we could not do justice I mean probably the way you thought I don't know maybe you will tell in your feedback but maybe you just got a flavor of what is going on in IIT so I think that is enough you can actually take it up from there and I'm sure all of you will do in fact we got very good questions some of the very good questions we have seen we have tried to answer also maybe some things are remaining but definitely some very good questions we could get and this I think will continue this process I think it will go on and definitely as the head of the department has mentioned so we'll be always ready to help you to the best possible manner that we can do all the best we have some questions coming up but we'll go for the feedback and please Rangaswamy College go ahead good evening sir good evening you need a group of participants from 1313 K Rangaswamy College of highly tank our management and organizers of two week ISTP STTP on engineering physics conducted by IIT Bombay for enhancing our educational needs through this workshop the core content of workshop covers all the main areas of physics in this workshop every concept were delivered in the manner from fundamental basis to advanced level the workshop is well-paced within the allotted time the handouts of every lecture were presented in a in an organized manner obviously we felt that once again we were sitting back to our postgraduate classroom the clarifications are immediately rectified through online the clarifications from our center have been immediately answered and we thank once again here sir be interested in attending a follow-up or a more advanced level workshop in the area of physics we will recommend recommend this program to other conservators also however we suggest since the subject is engineering physics we wish to have lectures which have give real-time applications with animation to cultivate our end minds of our students thank you sir thank you madam for the query i will we appreciate your kind words and we will communicate to our you know other project people who are doing this project your comments and your suggestions thank you very much yes knowledge in shop technology yes good evening sir good evening the topics covered like electromagnetism quantum ideas magnetism unsuperconductivity that very much interesting the lectures given by eminem professors has given us a clear idea about the topics all the derivations were solved in an excellent way our doubts were also cleared very well by the professors we feel that more animated videos and real-time applications can be given related to the topics topics like material science thermal physics and nano technology can be included in the forthcoming workshop and we will thank our management for giving this opportunity finally we thank all the professors for conducting this type of workshops for engineering faculty sir thank you very much sir thank you very much we really appreciate your words good afternoon everyone present it's been a real pleasure in attending this 10 days IST workshop on engineering physics it was really refreshing to see all the subject discussed by eminem professors I was very pleased to have it coming up and sharing their knowledge with all of us but my colleagues here feel if we discuss more of application oriented things on concept basis it would be more nice because students at their level they look for more of concepts rather than most of equations they prefer when we talk the physics behind any equations that's what they actually expect but we still enjoyed the lecture especially Professor Ghosh really inspired us at this age he was talking he was presenting all the lectures with so much enthusiasm and energy that was really inspirational and Dr. Prashat and others also have done their part very well thank you very much you have all placed on behalf of my colleague and college I really thank all of you and I also thank my college and our center coordinate for this wonderful opportunity thank you very much thank you so much thank you rbs engineering college please go ahead sir we want to thank IIT Bombay for organizing such a resourceful workshop in the field of engineering physics I would also like to present my sincere gratitude to Professor Deepan Ghosh Professor KG Suresh and Professor Oma Shankar for their inspiration work in this field we are highly motivated in this 10 days workshop presented by IIT Bombay thanks thank you so much sir thank you Srisant Gajanan Maharaj College we really really very enjoy the workshop from last two weeks the since we are in the field of education most of the thing we collect from the internet googles youtube etc but they are the way of presentation here is very special and especially talking about the discussion what the what is there in the form of questions and answers because there are a lot of questions in our mind as we are in the field of education but they are answerless we find we do we does not find the answer of that questions so many doubts are clear no doubt it will be fruitful for us for future we are very thankful to the people especially Prasad and Professor Deepan Ghosh I want to say that we become the habitual of this conference during last two weeks and it will be really hard to go away from you I want to say one share especially to Deepan Ghosh sir that thank you very much Ramakrishna Institute yes go ahead madam this is from 12493 Ramakrishna Institute of Technology good afternoon sir all the sessions in this odd-term program is very interesting on engineering physics and very much useful we could like to thank IIT eminent professors Professor Deepan Ghosh Professor Sita Prasad and Professor KG Suresh for their excellent lectures on electromagnetism quantum mechanics crystallography relativity and optical optics superconductivity and solid state physics high-temperature superconductor and they are the way of solving problem in tutorial sessions on quantum mechanics it was very interesting and useful for us thank you sir thank you so much thank you myself from here MGM Noida see I would like to be very frank with my experience firstly we really had to struggle hard in our colleges to get permission to attend this workshop and I attended for the first time this 15 day workshop my experience firstly here is that till date we as teachers were just lecturing the students continuously not really getting time to enhance our notes in engineering physics so this workshop has helped me out really with certain very good and new points secondly I would agree to what one of the sir said out here that whenever students really go into for any new information in engineering physics they google out the contents I have gone through these google contents many of them carry wrong information but here your ppt presentations were really very good first and secondly I would really like to say workshop really helped me out when I was made forcefully to solve those quiz that I picked up and went to the library to go ahead with the books and all I was not really doing all this from a long time and obviously I would like to attend such more workshops in future thank you very much to all the professors at the IIT Bombay who are on the screen and behind the screen they've done the collectively work very good and we enjoyed the sessions up to mark and I hope the learning objectives are achieved and returned into the learning outcome due to your teaching learning activities and the learning experiences were good and one solution sir next time in physics we certainly need the experimentation so that we all will view what kind of experiments are going on in the lab so that it will give us more practical way to visualize the content because almost all maximum content we covered are highly practical than the statistical one exceptional so we want experiments wherever it is possible so that we can give concrete information to our students when we are able to teach and one thing sir if we are missing in this video somewhere we have to understand strictly that we are behind the library and our books because to bring the connectivity we need certainly the books because there's a gap in the knowledge between you and us so to not to fill the gap we need to have the books so that is only the reason we'll find if some members are missing participants that they're certainly going for the laboratory or some library that's all and thank you very much sir on the 5-5 talk of the engineering and technology Mumbai on behalf of our management and the staff thank you very much sir and we have some other colleagues also here so on behalf of them also I would like to pay you very heartfelt thanks to you and congratulations and one more time let us say thanks to the Indian government to bring such kind of models through your brains and thank you first of all for your patience sir sir sir please claps thank you first of all patients that you people are having thank you very much thanks a lot appreciate your comments being there you have a lot of patience there sir thank you very much we learned the first one from you is the patients even if you are not there we are able to understand even if you are not there we are able to understand so I think everything is possible with you people thank you very much welcome thanks very much yes medicabs institute good afternoon sir good afternoon sir we are very happy to attend this workshop we have we have got a wonderful knowledge we have cleared all our basings to our workshop the things which we have not got through the books and the tools to have presented for we people that was very helpful for enhancing our knowledge and but sir one suggestion I want to give the lectures was very monotonous as far as all the theoretical things have been discussed in detail but if some practical knowledge could have been discussed it was it will be very much beneficial for good people in future thank you so much and I will communicate the comments that you made PhD college very good evening good evening yeah last two weeks really as if we have undergone a one-year physics course once again all the topics you know we offer in semester one and semester two for all the branches of study particularly with the present nba program connecting each course with the program outcome it has been you know well taken in the course of your delivery sir all of us we have taken up the courses as a department as a whole underwent these two weeks program 100 percent and little additional request from our side is sometime or the other laboratory exposure of this level we have gone to IIT Kanpur earlier for some workshop in this line and IIT Bombay also as a coordinator workshop my coordinator attended a little more practical exposure like this definitely we transform the overall academic curriculum in the country as such yes our heartfelt thanks to Professor yeah our heartfelt thanks to Professor Ghosh Professor Shivprasad Professor Suresh Professor Umashankar for taking the two weeks of time like anything you have dedicated your time for the nation's education process thanks on behalf of all of us and the management of PhD College of Technology thank you sir thank you very much here Dronacharya College yes on behalf of management and principal sir Dronacharya College of Engineering Gurgama and all the participants of this workshop I will like to congratulate congratulate you on organizing such a wonderful event in the subject of physics I think this has been the unique event and in a short span of time of 10 days the entire key points or the conceptual part of the syllabus of the engineering physics has been covered by Professor Deepan K Ghosh Professor Shivprasad and Professor K. G. Suresh I think it was impossible to cover such a long syllabus within 10 days but the selection of the topic and the presentation I think in Richard VP Pulse we have attended this workshop to a lot and in our classroom management I hope that which we have learned from this very workshop will be very much beneficial to our students in the college now so I again sir congratulate you for your presentations and the selection of the topics for this very workshop at the same time the conceptual part of the syllabus that you have selected that was very essential for the faculty members so that they can this learning process may be continued in the classroom management thank you very much sir thanks welcome to the group of institution please go ahead good afternoon sir good afternoon yes firstly I would like to congratulate and thank you all for organizing such an elaborate and comprehensive workshop I think much has already been said and no words can do justice to whatever you have put in but I think excellent is the word and it was it has been excellent in all the respects it progressed very smoothly and constructively and the teachers are really very informative supportive very learned and had a lot of enthusiasm and I'm sure every one of us is working away with a great knowledge and a new understanding to the concepts of physics and I'm sure you all have made us more confident as teachers and we are feeling well equipped to deal with our students now I would also like to thank the participants for their time to time valuable inputs and questions which made decisions even more interesting and last but not the least I would like to thank Dronacharya group of institutions for being such a nice force because I've come all the way from Himachal to attend this workshop and they have been a good host for thank you for their hospitality and all the arrangements and I'm very pleased to have attended this workshop so thank you very much thank you thank you for your kind words thanks behalf of Dr. Kamangalingam College of Engineering and Technology I thank IIT Bombay for providing wonderful opportunity for us all professors done a very well job your lectures are very nice especially professor Dipwan Ghosh and KG Suresh and Siva Prasad sir thank you for this opportunity thank you sir thank you thanks very much sir thank you for the beautiful program coined by M.H.R.D and IIT Bombay we thank very much Department of Physics IIT Bombay for this beautiful program you're all very much enlightened by the expert lectures given by all of you Professor Ghosh, Professor Siva Prasad, Professor Suresh and I hope whatever we got from you we take it back to our students thanks a lot thanks actually actually some end exams are going on here so we got even though one week we are busy at one week we are able to concentrate very much on all your lectures thank you thank you very much sir thanks thanks a lot I appreciate it Bhagwan Parshuram College Delhi good evening thank you IITB and especially Department of Physics for bringing such a renowned professors for our development at our doorstep and especially thanks to the video conferencing technology which has given a platform to gather all the students of India at one place without this technology this would have been impossible now we personally thanks to Professor Dipan Ghosh Professor Siva Prasad and Professor KG Suresh and also Professor Uma Shankar to share the knowledge and experience with us which has opened our minds for various disciplines sir I would like to give one line complement to each of the professors if you permit can I yeah go ahead for you sir in spite of being physicists you are a great mathematician sir for Professor Siva Prasad sir you are an excellent teacher for a KG to the doctoral level and for Professor KG Suresh sir fundamentally you are a basic researcher indeed it was a great faculty development program and should be arranged for six monthly or yearly basis we are really honored to have you all on on such a great platform thank you for being with us and and in near future we expect you to be there with us thank you sirs thank you thank you very much thank you for such a structured program which was conducted of engineering physics teachers actually being in engineering faculty we have lost a touch with the mathematical physics part of many of the concepts and in this particular program that part was quite emphasized and that thing just revived us from that lost part we struggled a lot when we were solving the assignment then we were attempting the quiz so actually we enjoyed that struggle thanks a lot sir special thanks for every teacher who had shown us how to present the PPD shows I mean even that designing of the PPDs were also something which were teaching us which was teaching us thanks a lot sir everybody first welcome thank you very much can I do money for you please go ahead Good evening sirs thank you for this wonderful series of lectures and tutorials we enjoyed the quiz was a bit challenging and yeah thank you again sirs thank you thank you very so much yes I congratulate M.H.R.D and IIT Bombay with the remote center IIT Bhadil for organizing such a wonderful program it was very enlightening and very useful I think the teachers like you we're lucky to have your sessions and not only the content matter was good but the way of delivery and you know being patient it was again we learned from you we have a long way to go I have a suggestion sir like such programs are very informative but the purpose is defeated until and unless people more and more people take advantage of this so I think I personally suggest and I think like the bodies like AI technical councils AICT and UGC should intervene and make it mandatory for all the institutions to you know undergo such programs once in a year and every faculty should undergo such workshops so the quality of education has to be improved what we have learned that gets diluted because we are engineering people we are we are physics people when we you know teach engineering so part of that has been left out so the quality is to be improved not to be diluted so I think that like your initiative with the institutions initiative and the bodies like AICT and UGC should intervene for the promotion of such programs and make it mandatory thank you sir and I again say that programs should like this should be thank you very much okay I am told by Dr Atre that next year we are going to be collaborating with AICT at this moment we haven't but we take your suggestion you seem to have thought in advance what they are already planning to do thank you very much cannot account yes sir the two-week AICT program was very interesting and we learnt a lot and I hope this is what all the teachers we need and thank you for all the lectures what we have there thank you thank you so much yes good evening sir good evening special big thanks to TK team team as why on behalf of OPI Jindal University to accept our personal request to conduct with the three members only we have learnt so many things from your end and especially from professor goes how to respond the query from professor G. Suresh how to cover the use content within a short period of time effectively third professor Sivaprasad how to cover content in a lucid way effectively and especially from professor Umashankar the glimpse of the entire work how to we realize how to get the particular work and some again the tutorial faculties Mr Gandhi and Mr Kedia they have also taken a good job from our side we have a suggestion from not only from our end but on behalf of the 2450 teachers that is the queues level should be a little bit low level because we are not the cadets of the IIT campus the second little bit we require the time period move okay to cover it yeah sure sure that's not an issue certainly certainly we'll we'll look into it yes Amravati yes let's go to good evening go ahead sir it has been a very nice period we have been associated with you for this course and for this course I'm I would like to say that during this course the technical transaction was also very good at this center we didn't miss any of that slides or audio even so we are thankful for the management of this institute and the IIT team for that also otherwise in the previous session in the previous course we have been missing the audio or video occasionally sir the slides and the content of the course was very good you have taught us that how to be a good teacher how to be how to teach difficult topics in making them easy and simple even the aesthetics associated with the slides was also appreciable sir one one suggestion I want to make basically to Atrena assignments are given at the end of the course we are already we are already occupied away from the course we are already very much occupied so it would have been a great help had the assignments been given in the during the course itself so that those who had some time while doing the course could finish it early you may give some extra time after the course has been completed but please give the assignments not on the last date but at least one day one week ahead so so that we will be so let me answer that question don't thank you very much for other teachers if at all anybody is blamed it is us because we are so much pressed for time that we couldn't make those questions but on the other hand we have decided to give you 15 days more for the post workshop assignments hopefully you'll be able to complete it thank you but i'm sorry for not being able to thank you very much sir we all enjoyed it thank you thank you go on yes yeah we have thoroughly enjoyed this two weeks of excellent program on physics it appears as if a thousand kilo elephant has come down from our head we are feeling so much lighter and as teachers we know that students have nicknames for us and now we are the students and you are the teachers so you have kind of earned nicknames for yourselves am i permitted to go ahead go ahead go ahead go ahead certainly no problems at all sir you have professor gosh you have earned a nickname called del cross man okay process you have earned a name called the man of magnetism and uh professor shiv prasad if you can kindly convey the name to him he has been a man of recapitulation okay very nice thank you professor thank you we appreciate it basically the way the program was conducted has been very very good and it's actually has been an eye-opener for those of us who were not in touch with these topics we have kind of felt that we need to do more than what we teach in the institutions and we also have to keep ourselves abreast with what the new things are in this field and thanks to one and all at the ita Mumbai who have taken all the pains in uh in coming up with such a uh novel concept of such a program like this and i would like to thank the organizers which are goa goa engineering college yes for allowing us to attend such a good program as well and we hope to be meeting pretty frequently uh with such programs sir thank you very much i'm communicating your thanks to all the back office people who are sitting in front of me actually we are really thankful for uh such type of very nice organization from iit bombay and the topics which has been discussed during the whole program it was really intuitive and they uh through which we have got some basic uh uh root growths level of ideas which will definitely help us because you can see that we all of are basically very juniors in the same field so definitely it will help us and we hope that in future also if the same type of program will be arranged then you would like to be a part of the same thing on all behalf of of all my ita members i'm really thankful to all of you thank you very much thank you all it has been a great pleasure talking to you randha reddy andhra pradesh yes we got extra knowledge from your presentations in physics however we found some blood letters in some slides also kindly shows and videos related to applications so another thing is one of my professors uh sitting there uh i mean colleague he even changed his accent while teaching inside his class so we got motivated to come in sir thank you for your presentation okay thank you very much thanks a lot yes i will i will sort of communicate what we said sodarshan engineering college good evening learn at the end eminent professors of iit Mumbai on behalf of the management sodarshan engineering college purukkote Tamil Nadu principal professors and staff members we are extremely thankful for their value the let's us within class for the past two weeks in this record the tank for us are given coach for us is she prasad for the surash for the sir and other professors are there are value the let's us in the field of engineering physics a teacher is one who really inspires sir you inspired us for the past weeks thank you very much uh you know we are sort of running behind time and i know every center has put in a question mark now wanting to speak but what we'll do is this that uh with much regret we'll just take maybe one more center out of lottery any center that comes to his hand and then we'll close this session and thank you very much for all your kind words you please fill up the feedback form and we will take care of the specific suggestions that you give thank you IPS indoor we are ending with you so please go ahead on behalf of all the participants at our center that is IPS academy indoor i convey thanks to the organizers of this workshop i convey my special thanks to professor deepen gosh and shift prasad sir and professor surash for delivering such knowledgeable lectures um lastly i convey thanks to the management of IPS academy for giving us an opportunity to participate in this workshop thank you thank you very much thank you i think with this uh very regretfully we will bring this session to a close uh because i think particularly in eastern part of india it is already getting dark and so therefore people have to go home and uh thank you very much for places where they have arranged a cup of tea please take tea the other places with our regret but thanks very much


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering RSA Conference 2020 San Francisco, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at the RSA Conference in downtown San Francisco in Moscone. It's the fourth day of the show, 40,000 some-odd people here. It's all about security. It's the biggest security show in the world, despite the fact that there were some challenges with the coronavirus this year, and people were kind of wondering how that was going to shake out. There's been a lot of kind of weird stuff going on in the conference scene, but a lot of people got here, a lot of conversations around security, and we're really happy to have, really a seasoned vet, he's been through this cycle of security a couple of times. I think he said he's done four different startups, so we're happy to have him. It's Oliver Fredericks, the VP security products at Splunk. Good to see you, Oliver. Thank you, great to be here. Absolutely, so let's take a step back. You've been coming to the show for a little while. What's kind of your impression of the show? Well, it's really interesting this year. I'd say the energy level is somewhat flat, and I think it's a sign of our industry maturing and getting to the point where you used to see some pretty big disruption every few years when compute changes, the threat attack surface moves, and the threats change with it, but things have been relatively stable. The cloud is really the biggest, most recent innovation, and so there really hasn't been, I think, any massive disruption in our industry for a little bit, but a lot of just continuous iteration and improvement on existing technologies. Right, there's some big ones coming down the pike, though. One of the big ones that's going to have a huge impact is 5G and IoT. Suddenly, now, these things, people think 5G so you can talk to your mom faster on the phone. That's not what it's about at all. It's a speed of machines, and the speed in which these transactions are going to be happening, not to mention all those connected devices, all those new attack surfaces, very, very revolutionary, and yet the theme here is the human element. So when you think about speed of machines and increasing kind of frequency of bot attacks, this and that, and yet there's still people that got to be on the hook and responsible for this stuff, how do you think about it, and how does you actually use things like AI to help the people fight the machines? Yeah, no, it's a really good question. So typically, over the years, attackers have targeted compute operating systems, applications, servers, and so on, but we've done a really good job of starting to lock those down, finding those vulnerabilities, patching them, fixing them. You know, it hasn't been solved, right? It's an ongoing issue, but attackers have moved on to the weakest link, which is people, right? If I can convince you to send me your bank account information or get access to your account and wire money out of your account, right? It's a lot easier than having to find a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows these days, which used to be pretty easy. Back 20 years ago, they were there by the dozens. Right, but now they're getting better on the phishing too, and now spear phishing, right? I had a friend in commercial real estate who told me about this email that he got from his banker, talking about a transaction with a business associate, using vocabulary words that would normally be used in their exchange to the point where he called the guy and said, did you send this to me? So the bad English, bad grammar, and kind of funky word selection isn't necessarily that red flag that it used to be that don't click on here.  So how do people get more sophisticated in light of kind of these more sophisticated attacks on the people? Yeah, so I think there's two things. One is, you know, hidden in there in that type of an attack is typically wire instructions, right? So if I'm buying a house, my escrow company or title company is going to send me wire instructions to send the money for the down payment on that house, for example. That's been a very, very common attack where title companies may not be the most sophisticated like many of the organizations that are here today, so definitely fall victim. So that's definitely a growing problem and a growing attack surface. We also see the need for new technologies like natural language understanding, actually understanding the context of the data. For example, what's the intent behind it? What's the meaning? Sure, it's not going to be misspelled, but can I find other relevant factors or attributes of that email that point out a red flag or something that I need to be concerned about before I actually click on it or open it or act on it? Right, so the company that you led before Spunk acquired you phantom, you talked a lot about, you know, trying to help the Seesawks do a better job, help them kind of filter what they don't need to respond to, prioritize what they need to respond to and then respond quicker when they do. That's right. Tell us a little bit more about how that works and what's kind of the impact of having that technology on the front line. Yeah, so five years ago, automation and security really didn't exist. We created a new category called SOAR, Security Orchestration, Automation and Response, and it's a technology that allows you to automate what a SOC analyst would typically do by hand. So typically, you know, if an analyst is looking at an event, it would take them 10 minutes best case, 11 hours worst case to analyze that and do all the work that they need to do to triage it. By automating, we're able to reduce that down to a best case of one second, worst case of 10 minutes using automated playbooks. So we're able to get a massive performance improvement by automating, by creating a playbook of those route routine things that an analyst would do by hand, and that frees up the analyst to do more proactive, higher order activities, things that actually require human thought versus the repetitive work, which we're very happy about. And are most of those types of processes that you automated, just checking boxes, if you will, almost like a pre-flight to make sure that you kind of have the simple things covered? Or, you know, what are some of the activities that you've been able to automate? Yeah, so it's interesting, these platforms have become very flexible and multi-purpose. So today we integrate with over 300 different security vendors that are on the showroom floor here today to let you automate activities in those products. So the typical large enterprise has maybe 60, 70 security products that they're all managing from a browser tab or a different login. What SOAR platforms do is they tie those together and allow you to manage those products very rapidly in the case of an event. So for example, you know, if I have a phishing email, I can take the attachment detonated in a sandbox for many of the sandbox vendors here on the showroom floor, look it up in my reputation service, like my virus total or reversing labs, for example, look it up on my EDR product on the endpoint to see, do any of my endpoints actually have this file? And then I could take remediative action and actually block the user, take the endpoint off the network using a NAC product that's here, and so on, or block it on the firewall. So there's many different types of scenarios. Is that whole chain that you just described potentially would be something that you build into this playbook and have that happen automatically? Exactly, yes. Oh, that's a huge time saver, huge time saver. So as you look forward kind of at the power of AI, right? Good news, bad news, right? Good news, you're going to have a lot more horsepower and computational wizardry at your fingertips. Bad news is the bad guys are also going to have a lot more computational power and wizardry at the end of their fingertips. So how do you kind of see the battle continuing to play out? Where do you really see great opportunities with this evolving AI to do things that you just couldn't do before? Yeah, look, attackers have been using automation and AI against us for many years now. So we're just starting to catch up and use it effectively to defend ourselves. You know, it'll be very interesting to see where this goes. I don't know if I can predict, but imagine machines fighting machines just like in real life, in robotics, and so on, in real physical kinetic warfare. Imagine the same thing happening in cyber. It is entirely conceivable, but I don't think we're quite there yet. I mean, we obviously see botnets and other automated attacks that are already very rampant and then automated countermeasures that are there as well. So it'd be very interesting to even have, you know, maybe one year here we'll have, you know, robot wars for cyber and have, you know, technologies battle each other to see who wins. But what's crazy is as much as the bots are fighting the bots, you know, we have people on my Rachel Toback who's been doing that a couple times. She's, she does social hacking. And she's basically 100% successful in just calling people on the phone and giving them to provide her the details. So it's still going to keep the people in the loop. We're still going to have to, you know, make sure that they're not the weakest link. Absolutely. Yeah. All right, good. So final thoughts as you head into 2020, the year we're going to know everything with the benefit of hindsight. Well, look, I think one thing we're seeing, there's so many vendors here. Things are coming together, you know, customers are looking to consolidate, they're looking to reduce. And one thing that we're very heavily focused on at Splunk is creating a single work surface for analysts. So they don't have to deal with dozens of different consoles, right? We're very, very focused on that. Working 70 tabs to work process is not very efficient. It's not ideal. No. All right, Oliver. Well, thanks for taking a few minutes to stop and buy and continued success for you and Splunk. Thank you. All righty. He's Oliver, I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. 2020 from downtown San Francisco. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


Dear Tyrone, I'm a 16 year old high school student and I just changed semesters at my school and I have class with my ex-girlfriend who I have not talked to in about 6 months. She broke up with me last summer to be with a dude she called her brother.  She got a new phone and asked for his number. She said she didn't have her phone all summer so that's why she didn't hit me up. But we all know that's BS. As I asked people if it's true and lots of people said she had her phone but fast forward she has been flirting with me in class and texting me in class lately. What's wrong with her and what does this mean? Why do women and girls do this? Well, there's a few reasons.  The fact that she's talking to you again either, okay I'm gonna break it down. One reason could be she misses your friendship. That could be it. She may miss your friendship. A lot of times you make a great boyfriend but even better friend. So she may have felt awkward about talking to you while she was with him but now a certain amount of time has passed so she feels more comfortable with coming back and trying to at least keep a friendship with you. Another thing is that she may be getting tired of this guy and starting to miss you. Which is what I think it could be. She's flirting, texting you, I am in you. That could be it man. I mean to me that's where everything's pointing you know. I think she still cares about you. She may also not know what she wants. She left you, now she's with this guy and she doesn't know what she wants now. Maybe she likes both of you which can happen. She can actually love both of you.  People will say oh you can only love one person, no it's not true. You can actually love more than one person at the same time. You know it's just what happens especially when you date multiple people. Now I'm going to tell you this, if she's 16 you're going through an awkward time in your life emotionally. I'm just letting you know. I've been there and you're going to grow, I'm 35 years old, been there done that. You are not going to be the same person when you get to my age that you are now. So what I'm trying to say is that she's also changing as a person. I'm almost guaranteed that. It doesn't mean that it's a complicated issue but it just could mean that like I said I think she doesn't know what she wants or to me she doesn't know what she wants or she wants you back. That's what I think. And what I think you need to do is ask her what's up.  One thing that you do when you're younger a lot of people do is they beat around the bush.  Even people do it as adults in their relationship. Don't do it. You need to be directing. You need to ask certain questions up front so it's not bothering you. You know you got that pit in the middle of your stomach it's bothering you because you're worried you don't know whether somebody likes you or not ask period. So next time you see her you need to ask well you know what's up with how you're acting. And she says well what are you talking about? Well you've been flirting with me.  But I need to know do you want me or do you want him because here's the thing if you can be her friend and leave your past relationship behind go ahead and do that but you didn't let her know if you just want to be friends that's fine with me. But don't flirt with me because that's confusing and personally I don't like it. If we're going to keep to stay friends keep it friendly don't flirt with me.  Hope this has helped you man if you need anything other questions just make sure you email me. Talk to you later.


Okay, looks like we should get started. We're already 10 minutes late for our starting time. Good afternoon, everybody. And on behalf of ERIK and the ACA Congress, I would like to welcome you all to the opening session of this inaugural International Life International Policy Conference. This is a brand-new conference. This is the first time we are organizing this conference within ILC. Before I go any further, let me just tell you we have listened to many speakers this morning on the significance and importance of investment and policy with respect to global food security. Let me just go back to our first keynote speaker this morning, the Eifert President. He put it very eloquently that we are at a very crossroad right now. We have two paths ahead of us. The first path is we do nothing, which is the least resistance and face the consequence of what happens to the future. The second path is a difficult one with what it means to invest in agriculture to secure a right and secure future for the future generations. This conference is all about making sure we take the right path in the future so that the food security for the global world is secured for a long time to come. This particular forum is designed to discuss and present key issues on investment and policies that will be needed for a successful realization of the second-gen evolution. We already listened to many speakers this morning. We had a planning debate, there was a lot of discussion on what needed to be done to secure global right supply in the future there. One of the major objectives when we are brainstorming what we should be doing within ISE one of the things we thought it would be very good to provide a platform for the government officials and policy makers to showcase their investment opportunities in the country to donors, to corporate private investors, NGOs and other stakeholders in hand. Hopefully we will have next two days we will hear experts from both private and public sectors talk about investment requirement in the right supply chain and policy needed both at the local level, national level, global level to secure the food supply and hopefully we will have enough time to network with this unique group of people which includes experts from both private sector and public sector I mean I told you the uniqueness of this conference there is something for everybody from every sector hopefully we will have meaningful discussion, meaningful presentation and good interaction please don't feel to, you know there is nothing called stupid questions any question you have will feel free to ask it we will have enough time after the presentations to have a very interactive discussion there and this afternoon for this opening session we have three excellent presentations each of the presenters will give a very brief 20 minutes talk and after that we will have close to 30 minutes discussion and question answer from the floor with that let me invite our first speaker this afternoon this is Mr. Sam Dryden he is the director of the head of the agriculture development and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Mr. Dryden has extensive experience on food security and economic development he has worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East that means all over the world and prior to joining the foundation he sought as the managing director of a world-class company a corporate advisory and investment fund founded by the former World Bank president he has also sought as an advisor on rural development for the World Bank and Rockefeller Foundation until 2006 he laid emergent genetics which develops on market seats so he has extensive experience both from the private sector, semi-government and global international organizations and he also sought many other boards including Global Crop Diversity Trust South North Development Initiative and many other boards today he is going to focus his presentation on rice the significance of rice and nobody can beat rice that is the theme of his presentation with that we join me in welcoming Mr. Dryden just to begin the sentence of pleasure to be back in Vietnam, especially to celebrate the 50 years of great work with the areas we have been doing I was thinking back at the first time that I went to the areas a little over 25 years ago when the Rockefeller Growers Fund had put together a study group to look at whether there was actually an expanding technology gap between the developed countries and the developed countries in the plant sciences there had been great strides that had been made in the plant sciences particularly in the western crops of corn but we were concerned that no one was really focusing on rice so they put together a study group and it did look like there was an expanding gap that was the first time I went to the area essentially I visited the area a number of times as a member of the advisor panel of the Rockefeller Foundation advisory board on rice biotechnology this was the highly successful program that linked young researchers from all over Asia with 3D labs in the US and Western Europe to develop new rice technologies and as a result of that program rice has become a lot of crop it's on equal footing with any of the other commodity crops and it benefits from cutting edge research all over Asia and at Erie and it's because of that program where the Rockefeller Foundation put together it's important because rice isn't just another commodity and Erie will never be just another research institution not only does half the world's population depend upon rice for substance it's the principal source of income for millions in after the nation it's indispensable as we've heard this morning to local cultures between the welfare and national stability and I've even said that national security so rice will always be a national priority and an international imperative but unlike other commodities rice doesn't benefit from large global research programs within the private sector nor from within the large land grant university system that means that here with the national agricultural research programs our best hope for solutions feeding the poor and helping small farmers lift their families out of poverty and the challenges are only compounded by what we heard this morning we talked about the environmental pressures the rise of rising energy prices and the population growth so as the director of agricultural development for the Gates Foundation I have the privilege of working with colleagues to continue a distinguished history of foundation support for the area so my plans for this day are a key role in the history of the area as most of you know the story the Rockfell Foundation together with the Ford Foundation came together to form the area Ford Foundation built physical infrastructure and the Rockfell Foundation covered the operating costs as a result of that Asian price reduction double from the mid-1960s to 1990 outstretched population growth in the early crisis the effort was so successful that Ford and Rockfell then went on replicating models to address other crops and other geographies which eventually led to the formation of the Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research the CGIR had enthusiastic support not only in the World Bank but the developed country, the other community despite the success and the proven record of return on investment in crop improvements donors eventually began to win donors supported them to begin to win in November 1970 nearly 75% of the CGIR the budget went for the crop of the productive improvement but in the early 2000s this had dropped to only one third at the same time the rice prices had dropped about 15% per year between 1996 and 2001 so the period of problems with rice production had been solved and donors decided to put the money elsewhere then as we heard again this morning in 2008 a food crisis struck and cut the world off guard and now in the aftermath of the global recession the FAO tells us that there's over 1 billion people under very strong light so at the Gates Foundation we're guided by the belief that everyone should have the opportunity for a healthy and productive life we also believe that agricultural development and particularly the essential to creating that opportunity so revitalization of crop-raiding programs is one of our top priorities which is the reason we support AIRI is among our top grantees and is one of our most attractive partners AIRI and the other CG centers are critical to ensuring development of important global public goods to that end we provide the CG with about $70 million each year which goes to crop and freedom in the past three years we've invested over $50 million in AIRI to address smaller rice productivity for example we're funding the stress-tolerant rice for Africa and South Asia program of straw size to help develop new varieties of rice that withstand extreme weather the straw fishing project has already demonstrated success in India where we're working with the Indian government as a partner we've been able to quickly release and disseminate these stress-tolerant rice lines to smaller farmers we're also working with AIRI and USAID on the serial system issued for South Asia to increase serial yields among other things this innovative program uses cell phone technology to send information about weather, about markets and recommendations for appropriate conservation techniques this means farmers now are just a phone call away from a more productive crop to tackle malnutrition we're working with AIRI with Syngenta and with the Syngenta Foundation on the government of golden rice and new variety fortified with vitamin A tens of millions of children suffer from vitamin A deficiency the World Health Organization says as many as a half a million are going to go far each year so if we can use rice to deliver this important micro enrichment we can make a crucial difference in people's lives in all these areas we're using technology to catalyze meaningful change more importantly we're working with AIRI in partnership with others partnerships are critical to our success but to meet future challenges I believe it's time to update our leadership in the area of national programs over the past couple of decades a number of very strong NARS national agricultural research systems have emerged in Asia it's time for them to assume the more leadership role of regional research and free area to focus on innovative discovery research and dissemination for example we're working with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences to disseminate a stress variety called green super rice which is more efficient in its use of water and nitrogen to produce higher yields we're also supporting research by bioconsortional scientists from area and China to transform rice from a C3 plant to a C4 plant making this biochemical process more energy efficient and saving scarce water and nitrogen supplies no doubt the greatest global challenge we face though is in Africa as the Rockfell Foundation did in the 1990s to bridge the independent technology gap we've engaged the talents of the leading Asian national programs along with the area in building strong rice research capacity in Africa today Africa's home of 19 out of 20 lowest human development in Texas it suffers from disproportionate property and hunger


Hi, my name is Rob Wynn. Where do I draw inspiration from? You know, I actually don't draw inspiration from any one particular source. I think I came to being an artist in an era where the actual making of the work was where you got inspired, the actual doing of it. So it's like one thing Max Ernst always said, never leave something unfinished in your studio. Always leave the end of something there so you can pick it up and start again. So I think inspiration is a little overrated and in fact it comes from thinking about and activating and doing your work. The inspiration comes out of your work.


The great achievement of Western civilization is the rediscovery from the Greeks of the role of reason in human life and the importance of the individual politically. That's what's led to the, you know, the prosperity we have today. Anybody ever seen, you know, the graph of per capita income or per capita wealth ever seen this graph? I'm going to draw it in the air. You know, so this is going to be wealth or income per capita and this is time. So 10,000 years ago, we're going to start 10,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago people made under $3 a day on average, almost everybody. And this is true for about 10,000 years. I mean there were periods when it went up a little bit, Rome, and then it went down during the dark ages, and then it stayed like this at $3 a day or under. And then what happened? Suddenly, out of nowhere, it went like that, like that. And what is that date when it went like that? Anybody know what that date is? Industrialization. Yeah, industrialization. What was the date and why did industrialization happen? What was the date? We suddenly went like that. When did we start industrializing? 1770. Why happened in like 1776? For two reasons. Two reasons. One, because a great book in economics was written. At the time, the first real defense of markets was that. Ascent the wealth of nations was published in 1776. But what else happened in 1776? The Declaration of Independence was written, in my view, the most important political document in human history. Because it is the first political document in human history to recognize the individual's right to his own life, which means the right for individuals to act on their own behalf in pursuit of their own values, free of intervention, free of force. And as long as you're not violating somebody else's rights, you can exercise, you can pursue your values that you deem necessary for your own life. You have a right to liberty. What's a right to liberty? It's the right to think whatever you want to think. It's the right to speak whatever you want to speak, to write whatever you want to write. It's the first political document to recognize this, based on the ideas of John Locke, based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. But the founding fathers of America put it in writing in a political document and established a country based on this specific principle. No country in human history had this in its founding document, to this day very few have it.  That's what's important. America was the culmination of the Enlightenment, the political culmination of the Enlightenment. It was finally a political entity established in order to recognize the value of reason and the value of individualism. When we lose free speech, we lose those values, we lose the promise that the Enlightenment provided us. Thank you.


Let's go around this corner right here and let's see what goes on over here Hi, hello. Good evening everybody. My name is Alan and I'm the CEO of Yano, and that's a company that makes robots. So here you see our robot bartender that is very unique in the world and We are going to show you now how it works The robot was an idea of mine since I have been running like 15 years night clubs bars restaurants and there was also always a staff problem, so I Try to solve it and the result is here. It's fully automatic completely autonomous Communicative fast robot bartender that also can talk to you So let me order a drink from here As you can see there are different drinks here that you can select let's go for sparkling water for for fun and The payment goes very easy. You just select your card either a real card or with a mobile phone you present it here and The machine is going to fix you a drink Here you go up here in the machine that's a thousand drinks and Glasses and the machine delivers a glass Then it goes to get some ice there's a nice machine inside and Then sparkling water and it's gonna deliver it up here in the dock and All these took I think maybe 30 seconds not more All together with ordering and everything Here you go. Cheers So yes, we have very different clients as it can go to nearly any venue. There's airports. That's That's of course bars restaurants night clubs. There's event marketing places There's sports arenas, especially where you have a short span of servicing and Here in Dubai, we have even talks with the government and some hotels. We are setting up right now the first two machines this year with a big cinema chain in Estonia the biggest in Baltics actually and We are right now looking for new partners to Start the pilots with The argument is that this pays for itself when you save the salaries of the bartenders Over how many months do you need to pay for this? It depends on the venue of course But if you sell 100 drinks a day, that means quite a small bar in the corner the machine pays itself back in one year 11 months actually and For regular bar the time span is usually two three maybe even four years depending on how much you invest in it the machine is quite expensive 150,000 but actually if you calculate that you don't have to build a bar that you don't have to pay salaries to many people then The return of investment is very fast and we also offer a concession model that means we bring in the machine for free and The machine pays for itself. So you don't take any risk actually you don't have to make your big down payments or investments and We share the revenue. So that's the way how to do it. How many different drinks does it host up there? In this machine you can have 45 different buttons up here and you as an owner decide what you put here This machine is a non-alcoholic because we're in Dubai, but You can choose whatever you put in there. Is it 45 of different gin? Is it some different liquors? Also, there's a soft machine a soft drink machine inside. So here we have chronic pepsi juice and Sparkling water, but you can choose whatever you want to have there Yes so The argument is that this could sell Resolved congestion in the bar where there's so many people waiting for their drinks You could have the app and order your drink and go pick it up Just when the robot is ready to give it to you. Absolutely. There's two kinds of apps One is here and the other one is in my phone That also allows you to order a drink The machine has it in queue. So you walk to the machine and here's The special code that the machine gives you so you enter your code and the machine knows that you are here And it makes your drink. So if there's a queue then it's handled in a very elegant way It could even recognized by Bluetooth or something. Absolutely. Yes Yeah, and and then there's no more waiting in the bar for guys to get their drinks Last there is three different kind of stations where you can order so that it can service three people at a time and You might think that In a bar the process is faster, but actually it's not I have been measuring during those years I work in the bar many times the order process is The fastest you can get these two three minutes because you know people decide they talk they look for their Card or cash and they then the bartender does his job and so so the process is usually Two to ten minutes here You just pay and the machine makes your drink 30 60 seconds So in a minute you have a drink and it goes to the next one so it can make hundred drinks an hour and If you have one ingredient drink like we just had then even faster and even more How many do you have the points of right now? This one is second is still a prototype and we are building now third and fourth and next year. We are planning to go to the mass production and we have a Partner factory also in Estonia that has been producing for Ericsson and Nokia for years. So we are Producing with them hundred machines a year 2022 Already where would the country's be for the customers? Sorry, where where do you? Hope to be selling in which countries I think the main playgrounds for us is Europe as we are also in European Union in Estonia that makes the doing the business there very easy and second Market is here in the Gulf region because there has been a lot of interest from here I don't know why Seems that Emery is very tech savvy also from Saudi and Oman So that's why we are here also to To approach the local market and then find interest here and of course America but it takes a bit time to get there because of the licensing and the regulations but those are our main What can you do to get around the regulations? Because it's good to get to the American market. No, absolutely. It's our one of the big goals, but We have a very good team of lawyers who are making sure that we comply with everything. For instance We need to build a system or we are building a system that Restricts the mind to get alcohol. So that means we are Having a three-layer system for that the card payment Kind of checks the person's age in connection with the bank and also we have the identification app that scans your ID card and Identifies how old the person is Yes, that's a good question the designers that have done the machine they are big science fiction fans So when we started doing this, we went crazy right away. So it is kind of a a Digital bartender you see there are eyes in the in the sides those shiny ones and it kind of is as a An entity it's it's as a living thing but in a digital way So that's that's why this shape and also the round shape allows more people to gather around it And it makes it much more compact. So our machine is the only one that is mobile So we can move it around it has small wheels and you can pack it in four hours and take it to another place. So that's something that That is unique. You can't usually pack a bar or of course if you have it on wheels then yes But but not the automatic. So it's just like two Teslas, right? Yes, it's not that expensive When you think about it or like a bar bars, especially with this period with corona.  They need a robot. Yes and yes and no Actually, it's kind of a cliche that everybody talks to about my experience over these 15 years Is that nobody in the rush hours talks about it that they yell at the bottom? Where is my drink?  So We are never or not right now going to the bars where you have those bartenders that talk to you and take time and make some Crafty cocktails. So this is something where that is not our playground today Where we aim at is the places where you have a lot of people a lot of turnover You have a lot of customers you need to move fast. You need to have the constant quality of drinks So that's that's what we go. Can we see one more drink? Yeah, sure. Absolutely. Thank you. Let's see. Okay. Let's do a room cola That has more moments. Okay, you order here then you need to pay with your card Here we go. Okay So it's actually set up with a real payment terminal and everything. Yes, absolutely That's in your mobile app, of course the payments go in the background because you have spent your card there already This rum and whiskey here are quite funny because they have both been produced in UK But they are without alcohol. So sometimes the UK people come here and I was very surprised that UK produces whiskey without alcohol But that's the regulation and How can how can people customize their drinks? Maybe people have like they want a little bit more of this a little bit of this of that And that's totally possible. That's all possible But the the experience is that when people start mixing drinks that the drinks are not so good anymore. So we advise the owner that has a special back-end app to go and Kind of Prepare the drinks and the recipes themselves. Yeah The professionals will be Suggesting what to mix, right exactly. Yes, but that's an idea to make a kind of option for the customers to to select some components for instance if you want the double Double rum cola or double whiskey or something then you should have two shops definitely


October 5th. Global James Bond Day. Us Bond fans were once again left disappointed with no new news on Bond 26. In fact, Barbara Broccoli once again confirmed recently that nothing is going on in that department. 4 years since no time to die finished production. Nothing. Oh yeah, but they did release that trailer of some new Amazon Prime Bond spin-off show. 007 wrote to a million. That was what we got on Global James Bond Day. Personally, for me, that flew over and didn't really excite me too much. I did see the trailer at the time, and yeah, the concept seemed promising, but it left my mind pretty quickly. But now the show is actually released, and I figured, while I am super occupied with all the Bond 26 hype, I may as well try and squeeze in what little time is left before Bond 26 releases to watch this show in between. Ah, who am I kidding? So yeah, wrote to a million it is. Let's give it a fair shot. My expectation on the show beforehand was that regular people were going to be invited to compete in an action-packed reality competition, in which they needed to complete all kinds of Bond-related missions and stunts, like maybe jump the GoldenEye Dan, or ski from a cliff, or have a tarantula walk onto you, or jump over crocodiles, or maybe seduce a woman, or play a game of poker, and in between answer some Bond trivia questions here and there. And only those with the strongest stomach would advance to the next missions. Sort of a fear factor Bond edition. And well, I did get the regular people thing right, but that was about it, at least for episode one. Here's the concept. Brian Cox is the controller and is sort of presenting the whole thing, supposedly overlooking the contestants from a secret room. Presenting is probably a strong word. It's more or less calling nine duos up from random phone booths or laptops, giving them instructions and then they have to cross some field or hill to go to a lake to answer a question that is completely unrelated to Bond. If they get it right, they win money. If they get it wrong, they're out of the show. That's it. It would have been great had they be able to actually get someone from the Bond franchise, like Judy Dentz or Ray Fiennes or heck, even Ben Wishar or Nahomi Harris. Anyone would have worked for this show. It would have been an instant connection, but I'm not hating on Brian Cox, but you know, there's just nothing related to Bond with him. Now, the episode starts off quite promising. All kinds of Bond music plays us out, teasing you with various Bond references. It constantly has the soundtrack from the Daniel Craig movies on and it all looks very cinematic and gorgeous. It does feel like you're about to watch a Bond related show here. No complaints on the camera work or the music. It all looks and sounds great. I mean, as a Bond fan, it's obvious why they are in Scotland at a skyfall location. And then later on in the episode, in Venice, where Moonraker and Casino Royale were filmed, the contestants really have no clue though. Never for a minute do they even seem aware that they are in a James Bond show. At the time this was filmed, it very likely wasn't even a Bond show to begin with. It just seemed shoe-worn in later in the hopes of it selling better or something. But then again, they are in fact in all of the Bond locations. The opening teaser even has them in Matera. It seems super exciting, but then it just isn't and it's extremely underwhelming considering the potential of such a show. For starters, why not get actual Bond fans aboard for a quiz like this? Still regular people, but actual fans of Bond that actually know why they are where they are. People that know that their role's Royce is from Goldfinger. People that understand why they are in Scotland or Venice or wherever else they go. But there is nothing of the sort. It's just random people being asked non-related Bond questions. It may as well have been weak and millionaires, but then set in Bond locations, without the contestants being aware. That is what this show is. This is not a Bond show. It's a quiz where people have to answer questions at certain locations. And I think that's what's so disappointing about this show, or at least about episode one, because that's the only one I ended up watching so far. And honestly, for these reasons, I really didn't feel compelled to continue watching the later episodes. Which, admittedly, may not be fair. Maybe in the later episodes, all of this changes. And yeah, I did see some teasers of the later episodes of them driving the DB5. Surely they must be aware what car they're driving. But still, if you're going to market this as random people being put in James Bond situations to see how far they will go for a million, why not actually do that? Why not push people to their actual limits? We're just watching random people go to a lake in Scotland to answer a question about Shakespeare. And they mention it took them seven hours of walking. We're not even shown any of the struggle. We just see them walk to a hill, and then seconds later they arrive there. For all we know, the production may as well have driven them there. We're not shown any of the trip. And then when they arrive, all of a sudden they find exactly what they need. Clearly, the production must have helped them off camera. It's just so forced. And then two random girls, also in Scotland, have to answer something about hunts and vikings and romans. Why not ask them something about Skyfall, the location they are in? Why not add some mystery as to where they need to go next? I mean, the production clearly just takes the duo up to Venice. We're not even shown how they travel there. It would be so much cooler if these contestants were on actual missions instead of them just going from point A to B to answer a multiple choice question on a laptop. And there were nine duos too. We're not even shown all of them in episode one. They're not even in the same missions. It's all separate from each other. I doubt the contestants even are aware who else was competing on this show. It's kind of unexciting, even if I were to judge it as a show that had nothing to do with Bond. Well, technically that is what it is, but there's no real sense of competition or logic. The episode ends up with one duo being in Venice. Again, so much Bond potential in that city. Instead, they need to measure a snake and the cliffhanger is whether or not these guys measured the snake correctly. And it brings in the Dr. Nose circles, fading the show out as sort of a tease. And I was like, oh yeah, it's a Bond show. You completely forget because apart from the locations and the music, it really has nothing to do with Bond. Again, this was just episode one. Maybe I'm uploading this quick reaction to a poor opening of a series, and it actually does become mind-blowingly good in the later episodes. But from the reactions I'm seeing appear within the Bond community, this disappointing feeling stays in the later episodes too. Such a shame, because it's fantastic that they're visiting all these Bond locations, but man would it have been so much more fun with actual people that no Bond. We're not that hard to find. I do like the Bone Brothers duo, which you see in episode one. While it's unclear whether or not they are actual Bond fans, they do seem like very level-headed, fun guys you could hang out with. You do end up rooting for such regular guys, I give them that. It must have been very fun to compete in this show. And again, camera work, music, nothing wrong with it. But please, this is not a Bond show, let alone a Bond spin-off. The producer David Glover even mentioned the idea is really to put ordinary people into a James Bond adventure, and we didn't quite know how that would work out. And that totally shows. The idea is great actually. They had the budget, clearly, to turn this into something exciting too. But in my opinion, they completely missed the mark. So apart from being reminded by the locations and the music of Bond films, you end up feeling you would much rather watch one of those films than to see two girls play a high-stakes game of trivial pursuit on some hill that happened to be in the background at Skyfall. So if you haven't seen the show yet, I'd say don't bother. If you did, what did you think of the show? Am I being too harsh, or maybe not fair, since I only really saw episode one? Or do you agree with my thoughts? Let me know what you think. 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A canal in Paris was drained for the first time in decades and what was found was really bizarre. Welcome to Viral Stories, Secrets, Facts and Strange Stories from around the world. If you find yourself amazed at what some of our fellow humans and animals can do, this is the place for you. This is a channel you are going to want to tell your friends about. Be sure to subscribe and hit that bell icon to be notified of our new uploads.  The Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, France is one of the most historic sites in this beautiful city. But, Parisian authorities had no idea that there were hidden secrets buried under the water's surface. And when they drained the canal after 15 years, they unraveled some unbelievable secrets from the past. Every 15 years or so, the city of Paris, France, drains the approximately 5 km long Canal Saint-Martin. But they hadn't done this since 2001 and it soon became clear that it was time to do it again for the sake of the local businesses in the area. In recent years, the area has turned into a hotspot for tourists and bobo's, a group of people with a bourgeois bohemian way of life that are reminiscent of hipsters. New cafes, trendy bars and quirky restaurants have also popped up in this region. But, attracting tourists wasn't what Napoleon originally intended for the canal. In 1825, the canal, which was commissioned by the future French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was finally completed and it had a purpose. In those days, Paris's population was growing exponentially, which increased the spread of diseases like cholera and dysentery. So, the canal became the city's saving grace and there are plenty of reasons for it. Bonaparte hoped that the freshwater would diminish the spread of various diseases by keeping the streets clean. He funded the canal's construction by imposing attacks on wine on the population and soon the great work began. The network of canals included the Canal St. Denis, the Basin de la Villette, the Canal de l'Orc, and last but certainly not least, the Canal St. Martin. Eventually, the networks led to the construction of something that changed the Parisian economy. The construction of Canal St. Martin led to the construction of two ports that allowed boats to enter the city to provide locals with building supplies and food. This gave Paris a leg up in the trading industry and helped push their economy forward. But the canal was almost destroyed a couple of decades back. In the 1960s, city officials discussed the possibility of draining the canal completely and filling it up so it could get paved over and turned into a highway. Fortunately, that didn't happen and the lovely canal serves a different purpose today. Canals turned the banks by the canal into a cultural hub full of nightclubs where tourists often head to to have a good time or walk to the nearby bridges to take some unforgettable selfies. But, the influx of people has had an unfortunate side effect that no one had foreseen until the canal was drained. As the area around Canal St. Martin grew, people from far and wide started turning it into something that was the total opposite of what Bonaparte had envisioned all those centuries ago, and it was getting worse with each passing year. When the canal was last drained in the early 2000s, workers discovered that the bottom had become some sort of time capsule full of discarded items. Some of them had no value, but others could have ended up in a museum. Among the various items found at the bottom of the canal were gold coins, 275 mm shells from World War I, and a couple of less interesting but ultimately strange items like washing machines. But this wasn't the most unusual thing they found in the past. Ever since the city started draining the canal, about 50 vehicles have been unearthed and pulled out. But what did they find that was so shocking when they went back to drain the canal in 2016? Once they drained the canal, the workers went into the canal bed to start the cleanup effort. They knew it wouldn't be an easy process, but it had to be done. Soon, the water was so low that some locals thought they were witnessing a miracle. Locals found it unusual to see their precious canal drained as it was. In fact, some folks could literally walk across the canal without fear of drowning because the water was only ankle high. But if they knew what was lurking underneath the canal, they would have thought twice about stepping foot in these murky waters. People had been throwing mopeds and bikes into the canal all these years, which remained buried under the water until the workers uncovered them. But there was a reason why these folks took such drastic actions with their vehicles. Some of the bicycles and mopeds had been there for quite a long time, while others appeared to have been thrown in a bit more recently. But most of the items seemed to have some sort of backstory to them. The workers had found items that were pretty old and full of history. They weren't just discarded junk. They represented the city's diverse history, and also one of its latest developments. Paris launched Velib, the city's largest bike-sharing service, which has a fleet of over 20,000 bicycles and 1,800 bicycle stations. The canal seemed to be plagued by Velib bicycles. But that wasn't the only thing the workers unearthed. Workers found a number of chairs, supermarket carts, dust bins, fire extinguishers, and other items, like umbrellas and even street signs. They also found a collection of items that posed a threat to local wildlife. There were lots and lots of water bottles in the muddy bottom of this iconic waterway, and some locals weren't happy about this or any of the other junk that was discovered by the workers. A public sector worker who was present during the 2001 cleanup told the Guardian, The last time I don't remember seeing so much rubbish in it, I despair. The Bobos are using it as a dust bin. The worker was right about the canal being turned into a dust bin, because unlike previous times the canal was drained, it took a long while to clean it all up. It took an estimated 3 months to scour through the entire canal and remove every bit of junk that people dumped since the last cleanup. Even tractors were brought in to help with the cleanup process, so it's hard to imagine that anything could have lived in the canal during that time. Before the workers started the cleanup process, they went in with long nets to catch the fish that were living in the canal. They didn't have a lot of time, and they had to make sure all the fish were accounted for before they got taken to a safer location. The cleanup project was a costly one for the city. In the end, it set them back more than $10 million, but it was worth it to ensure that one of Paris' most historic canals didn't remain a waste zone. And when a politician noticed the project was getting tons of publicity, she saw a major opportunity. Parisian deputy mayor Celia Blauel urged the local population to stop throwing things into the canal. Just as an incentive, she explained that by doing so, the canal St. Martin would be clean enough for people to swim in, sometime in the near future.