The Clyde Batey Show! The greatest wild animal trainer Clyde Batey with an exciting adventure from his brilliant career. The circus means thrills, excitement, snarling jungle beasts. The circus means fun for young folks and old, but under the big top you see only a part of the story. The real drama comes behind the scenes where 500 people live as one family, where Clyde Batey constantly risks death in the most dangerous act on earth. This master of the big cats has journeyed to Africa and India, hunting down his beasts in their native jungle. All of this is part of the Clyde Batey story. Here in Mr. Batey's own words is the adventure he calls Noah's Ark. If you've ever thought of making circus life your career, remember this. The circus packs up and moves at least 170 times during a 200-day tour.  Change is the rule, change and movement. In all sorts of weather and under all kinds and varieties of conditions, the community of hundreds comprising the circus is constantly on the move. The worst possible of all these conditions is storm. When a sudden rain squall hits, when gusts of wind blow out the side walls, rip up tent states and balloon the canvas at the big top, there comes the time that's dreaded by circus people. Most affected are the animal handlers. When the storm really gets underway, their charges grow panicky and unmanageable. Though the circus audience is never exposed to any danger whatever, nothing disturbs me as much as the thought of thunder and lightning catching up with me when I'm in the ring with my lions and tigers. We return to Clyde Batey in just a moment. And now back to Clyde Batey's adventure entitled Noah's Ark. One day, the circus trains pulled into a small town in the southwest. Although it was early morning, already it was hot and dry. The razorbacks and polars were grumbling and sweating as they unloaded our wagons in equipment from the trains. Sure hot, ain't it? Oh, hello, Mrs. Riley. Yeah, plenty hot. How's the unloading seem to be going? From the grumbling going on, I'd say we was right on schedule. When the boys don't sound off, you have to worry. Glad I don't have to push that heavy stuff around on a day like this. I bet you none of them fellas had swapped jobs with you, though. Well, I better get back and see what they're doing with the wardrobe. All right, Mrs. Riley, call on one of the girls if you need any help. I've been looking all over for you.  Hi, Harriet. I'm just watching the boys unload. On a day like this, you should be resting for the Madden May. Just wanted to check things. Couldn't you check things in a cooler spot? I'm worried. I don't like the feel of this weather. Clyde, baby, you're as bad as those cats of yours. The least change in the weather in Europe is nervous as any one of them. It's so hot and oppressive. I'll bet it storms. Boy, there's not a cloud in the sky. I know, but it feels like rain. The town papers says they haven't had rain around here for months. The ranches are complaining. Well, they're gonna have a change. Why be so worried? A little rain never stopped a circus. It's not the rain I'm thinking of. What then? You know how I feel about electrical storms. Of course. We all hate that. That's just it. This part of the country is noted for them. Clyde, I was sure we had all the folks in town of the Madden A, but tonight they're all back, plus every ranch's family for miles around. What's that, Norman? A good crowd? Yeah, it just came from the ticket wagon. It's a straw house. Sell out, huh? You don't sound very pleased. I'm not. What? Norman, it's gonna storm. It's clear as a bell out there. It's more like the inside of a pocket, I'd say. The cats are restless. I don't like it. No, a few hours from now the show will be over. The train's loaded. It'll be rolling on to the next stop. Yeah, that is if we're not blown out all over this prairie. Clyde, you worry too much. Just the same. I've ordered everybody on the grounds to be set for an emergency. Well, I guess you mean it. I've been around you too long to know that you're seldom wrong about your hunches. Well, I better double-check, see that your orders are carried out. I was about two-thirds through my act when signs of what I'd feared became a certainty. The 40 lions and tigers in the arena became more and more restless. They grew hazy about cues and unresponsive. I could hear the loosened poles of the tent structure bobbing up and down, an unmistakable sign that a heavy gale was blowing outside. As the gusts of wind intensified, the van played louder to be heard. Suddenly there was a terrific clap of thunder. Lucky you was near the safety cage, Mr. Beatty. That thunder's got them cats scared to death. Yeah. The winds died down, but a thunder storm will make them even harder to handle. Might get that van to play real loud. Mr. Robber's in signaling them to start up again. That's better. It'll help cover the sound of the storm. Man, look at that mess of cats in there. I'll get them straightened out. Clyde, you can't go back in there. The animals are in a panic. They're fighting and clawing each other. Don't go in, Clyde. Let them fight it out. See that the van keeps playing real loud. Might keep loading revolvers with blanks. I'm gonna need them.  Here I go. Back in the arena, I found most of the cats completely uncontrollable. Eventually I managed to get the worst ones back on their pedestals. I sensed that the crowd was worried in my behalf. I knew their peace of mind depended on my conduct. I had to make it appear that I wasn't frightened. He's got them all back on their pedestals. He's terrific, Mrs. Beatty. Why doesn't he let them out now? He don't want the audience to think he's scared. He'll probably do the rollover. He's queuing Venus down for a trick. That'll be a good finish if they can make her do it. He'll make her do it. The wind is not blowing. Now, if only the thunder quit. Oh, look. Venus refused to come off her pedestal. Oh, there she comes. I see. That's all she needed. Venus is frightened. She's cowering back to her pedestal. This is worse than the wind. That big lion has dropped on him back of him. Watch out for Nero, Mr. Beatty. He's jumped down behind you. Up you go. Up. Down, Venus. Down. There. All right. Over. Over, Venus. Roll over. Again. There. There. Good girl. I didn't think Venus was going to perform. She was scared. I don't blame her, so was I. You all right, Claude? Sure. Well, Norman, the public get enough? Oh, they sure did. Okay, then, get him out of here. Because now it's really going to rain. You see? Beatty, you're the greatest weather prophet since Noah. My friend and manager, Norman Carroll, made a reference to Noah. A comparison between that stalwart captain of the Ark and myself took on added significance as the deluge continued. By the time the last of the audience had left the big top, the circus area was a quagmire. To move a circus is always a race against time and train schedules. On this occasion, our movement was slowed to a walk, or rather a squish. All of us from the roustabout to the star slushed through mud in a frantic effort to get our equipment packed and rolling. I'm sure we should deluge on this, Claude. Can't you do something about turning it off? Well, upstairs there's a man who fixes things. You better talk to him. I have been. Looks like the ranchers got their prayers to him first. Well, Norman, this ought to make the grass grow. Well, Claude, if it keeps up, the ranchers can start raising goldfish instead of cattle. And we could have an aquacate instead of a circus. Mr. Bady! Mr. Bady! Over here, Mike. The catfish say the tractors is far down. They can't move the cages. They're getting flooded. The cage covers up. Yep. And lasts some tarps over them, too. Have Rockwell get his elephants down there to pull the wagons to their trains. Right, Mr. Bady. The thunder and lightning, Claude, had those elephants kind of skiddish. I sure hope Rockwell calms them down and up to work. Well, I hope he can try. They can't be made to work. We're really in for it. Well, Harriet, at least this pullman's snug and dry. The boys finally got everything loaded. Trains are ready to roll. Good. Now you can get those wet clothes off. Not yet. I want to see that the animal cages are mopped out. We don't want to flock in ammonia cases on our hands. What about you?  Hi. That you, Norman? Hey, you look terrible. What's up? Plenty. We're stuck. But the trains are all loaded. We're ready to move. That may be, but we're not moving tonight. What do you mean? The bridge across the Royopah had just washed out. And the tracks in the downgrade behind us are under four feet of water. Well, at least we're safely on the train. In the middle of nowhere. Yeah, water's rising all around us. I hope this train can float. Well, let's hope it can, because this is no longer a train. It's just become Noah's Ark the second. We continue with Noah's Ark after this message. Back to Clyde Beatty and Noah's Ark. Clyde Beatty's circus playing a one-day stand in a small southwestern town was struck by a wind and electrical storm. The heavy rains have left the circus trains marooned, isolated between a washed-out bridge and track four feet underwater. Old man Noah must have been the greatest of all animal trainers. He battled the elements for 40 days and nights aboard an Ark loaded with wild beasts. I'd have given anything to know how he fed them, because although we didn't expect to be stranded that long, we numbered over 500 people with two train loads of ravenous animals. Well, Clyde, here's the bad news. The Forage and Commissary reports, eh, Norman? Yeah. We can serve breakfast to the crew tomorrow, and if we go real easy, maybe lunch and dinner. What about the animals? One round of fresh meat for your cats. That's all. Hay and grain? Five tons of hay, 700 weight of grain. But, Norman, the elephants alone will finish half the supply by tomorrow night. And no horses and camels and the other animals will finish the rest. Brother, are we in trouble? Can't we get some supplies in town? No, I doubt it, Harriet. Clean them out, feeding the circus today. Well, we'd better go see. We might at least pick up some hay and grain. How will we get there? Swim? It's a half mile of town and the flood water is now running five feet deep all the way. Ah, great. Don't worry, boys. I've got an idea. Oh, I have Rockwell. Bring out a mayor round. Mayor Fletcher! Hey, come here. Look out this window. There's an elephant with three people on its back swimming down Main Street. Oh, easy, Sheriff. Easy.  No, no, I tell you, there's an elephant out there. He's climbing the courthouse steps. Yeah, is it a pink one? Come see for yourself. Well, I'll be doggone. It is an elephant. See, I told you. Yeah. Then people are coming in here. A real elephant coming into our courthouse. The situation is desperate. I can see that, Mr. Bailey, but what can we do?  Oh, yeah. Well, let's see. What was it, Sheriff? 32. Dang near Warsh the town out of the state. Did it rain like this? Four days steady. Four and a half. Four days. That's right. Never let up. Town was cut off almost a week. Everybody liked a star before the tracks was fixed and a train come in. We can't wait a week or even four days. If we don't get forage for those animals by tomorrow, that circus train will be a madhouse. Don't look like the rain will let up that soon. Something's got to be done, Mayor Fletcher. Well, Fred, we can't do much. You say there's 500-odd people to be fed? That's right. I reckon by rationing the grub in town, we might could take care of them, but the animals, Fred, we couldn't handle that job. Isn't there any forage available? Oh, you folks got what we had. What about the surrounding ranches? Ranches will need that to feed their own cattle and livestock. Yeah, even if they were to let you have some. How'd you get it in? Ain't a boat within a hundred miles of here. Sheriff, if elephants don't have feed in front of them all the time, they make trouble. We've got 18 of them, and each one eats 100 pounds of hay and 25 pounds of grain every 24 hours. Ain't that much forage in the county? We've got 40 lions and tigers. They've just eaten the last of our meat supply. They'll need a thousand pounds by tomorrow. Ain't a head of beef in town. And don't expect the town's focal to sell you their horses. Do you suppose we could get some cattle from the ranches? The nearest ranch is 10 miles away. This time of the year, there's no town how far out in the range the cattle is. But there must be something we can do. I don't know what, ma'am. A telegraph and telephone lines are down. No radio station. They're cut off from everything. We've got to establish communication by tomorrow night. But there's only one thing we can do. What? What is that, Ty? I hope you have rifles and ammunition, Sheriff.  There's nothing else we could do, Harriet. We couldn't risk the consequences of a trainload of hunger-mad wild animals. Them cats know it's past meal time, Mr. Beatty. I know, Mike. We're gonna have to do something and soon. It ain't a nice thought, but, uh, we'll... Couldn't we use a couple of the horses? No. Well, it was just a thought. Well, forget it. Rockwell says the hail only hold out another eight hours. Yes, and I'm more worried about those elephants than I am the cats. They'll wreck the trains when they get hungry. What are we gonna do, Mr. Beatty? I don't know. I just don't know. I'm going up to the office car. Call me if you need. Oh, where'd Clyde go? I suppose he's with his beloved cats, Norman. Poor Clyde. I thought he might have to destroy those animals. It's just killing. Oh, it'd be tragic. The rain would only stop. There might be some hope. Oh, we'd better face it, Harriet. We'll be lucky to feed the troop. We're afraid we'll have to sacrifice the animals. Oh, hello, Clyde. Been down with your pets? Yeah. It's past their dinner time, and they're raising canes. Poor things. Looks like the end of the road. I guess this is the finish of the Clyde Beatty Circus. There must be something we can do. It's a bum break for you, Clyde. It's a bum break, all right, but not just for me. I'm thinking about 500 people being put out of their jobs in the middle of the season. Oh, well, that's just part of show business. Those folks are all troopers. They know in this business you eat one day and starve the next. As for me, I should have gone to law school like my father said. If only we could communicate with the outside. Maybe they could send a plane and drop a supply. Sure. And if we had a plane, I could fly out and get... Wait. That's an idea. I just remembered something.  I don't have to. Didn't you see that hanger out near the circus grounds? No, I can't say I did. Well, I saw it. It means somebody in this town has an airplane. How do you know it's not a toolshed? Look, I've done enough flying to know an airplane hanger when I see one. All right, even if there is a plane, it's too dangerous. Now, that makes sense. I go in a cage twice a day with 40 lions and tigers, but you don't want me to fly because it's too dangerous. Yes, but Clyde... One more day and I won't have a circus. Come on, we're going back to town. Oh, there's a plane in that hanger, Betty. Four-play spacecraft and, uh... she's a beauty. That's wonderful, Sheriff. Who's is it? Mine. And Coyote's from there with it. Fly off on fishing trips and such. Will you let me borrow it? Your pilot? I hold a commercial license. How about it? Now, hold on now. Where do you figure to go? Oh, about 100 miles north of here. I don't know.  Wouldn't want nothing to happen to it.  I'll leave my personal check as a deposit until I return. Where are you flying to? There's an Army Air Force base up there, isn't that right? That's right. Well, I'm going to fly up and get help. Good idea, but you forgot it's still raining out. Oh, what's a little rain? No visibility. Sealing zero. I'll push up through it. The air base could be zero down too. Well, then I'll fly on. Kind of sad, aren't you? Well, it's important. Another question. My ship ain't fitted with pontoons. How are you going to take off? There must be some high ground somewhere around here. There's sort of a plateau about five miles from town. Good. I'll take off from there. I said it's five miles from town. The ship's here. We'll get it out there. Look, Normand, we've got a blacksmith and carpenters with the show, haven't we? Sure. What do you want them to do? Build your bridge? No, I want them to build a raft. A what? You heard me. Now get on back there and start the boys to work. Well, what do they build it out of? They can improvise something. They can cut up a box car if they have to. And how do we get this so-called raft out there? Get Rockwell to hitch up Anna May and one of the other elephants. They can pull it. Well, this is the craziest thing since you're Aya Green's flying machine, but you're the boss. Check the engines, baby. She's set to fly. Thanks, Sheriff. I'll never forget this. I still think you're crazy to fly in this stuff. Don't worry. I'll make it. This is a dandy little ship. Ain't worried about the ship. Just don't figure a lion tamer flying her. The word is trainer, not tamer. Get your way. Well, good luck, son. Thanks. Look, Clyde, I've had a tough time keeping this business from Harriet. She knows something's going on. What'll I tell her? Just keep stalling. Tell her I went fishing or something. He's awful suspicious, but I'll try. Have Buck start lighting those flares in about two hours. I want to find his place when I get back. Right. Good luck, Clyde. Hold on. Look here, Norman. Carol, Clyde's been gone for hours. Where is he? Oh, he just went fishing with a sheriff. Oh, nonsense. It's something about that airplane, isn't it? Well, yes, it is. Is he going to try to fly out of here? No. I'd better tell you, Harriet, Clyde's gone for help. Where? To an army air base about 100 miles from here. 100 miles? How? In the sheriff's airplane. Norman, you let him fly in this weather. Look, I've got news for you, Mrs. Batey. Nobody lets Clyde do anything. He does what he wants. I know what you mean. Oh, he'll be all right, Harriet. He should be on his way back by now.  How long has it been, Norman? It's five hours. I'm worried. Well, at least the rain has stopped. Make it easier for him to land. But it was raining so hard when he left. How do we know he made it to the army base? No, he scooted right up through the rain clouds. He's probably waiting at the base for the weather to lift a bit. Oh, Mr. Carroll. Yeah? The weather's clear. You still want me to keep all them flares out? No, you'd better leave a few, Mike, just in case. Oh, Norman, I can't stand this wait. Now, relax, Harriet. Relax. He'll make it. Oh, but it's this wait. Wait. Listen. Do you hear it? What? Wait a minute. Yes, airplane motors. He made it. He made it. Hello there, Sheriff. What do you think of your lion training, Al? I think he'd better lower his landing gear. He's going to smash up my ship. Is he in trouble? He's waving at something. Yeah, he's pointing down. What does it mean, Sheriff? Looks like the landing gear's stuck. He can't lower it. What will he do? Probably cut the motors and dead stick down for a belly landing. Will he crash? Don't worry, ma'am. That ground's so soft from the rain, it'll be just like jumping in a feather bed. He's coming in. Here he comes. Easy, boy. Easy. Now, let's go. Good to see you here. Oh, glad to see you. Well, it looks like I owe you, Sheriff. I'm afraid I messed up your ship a little.  Nope. But wait till you see what's following me. What? Well, I'll be. Hey, look up there. Say, that's the darndest contraption I ever seen. Looks like a baloney sausage bent in the middle with two windmills on top. Sheriff, that's the largest helicopter in the world. Those AirCorp boys can set that ship down anywhere. I told them to come down over the train. They got a load of hay, grain, and fresh, fresh meat. Oh, Clyde, that's wonderful. Well, folks, let's go. Dinner and served in a dining car. Clyde will be back with a preview of our next exciting story. But now, a message of interest to all of us. Here is the preview of an exciting adventure entitled God of the White Nile. This is a fabulous story that took place a few years ago when Clyde Beatty was on a safari in Central East Africa. It was approaching midnight as I crouched in the brush, watching one of the strangest rituals I'd ever seen. Our native boys were squatting on their haunches in a tight circle in the center of the clearing. Suddenly, one of them threw back his head, raised his arms high, and spoke. His voice came clearly through the night. Nearly as I could translate it, he said, there's a dirty job to be done, and one of us has to be selected. One by one, each of them reached into a pouch, withdrew a knife, and placed it before him on the ground. One drew a bloodstained knife. It was the leader himself. Without another word being spoken, the other natives proceeded to lash their leader securely to a stake in the middle of the clearing. This completed, they disappeared into the jungle, leaving the chosen one alone in the moonlight. You have just heard a preview of our next adventure, God of the White Nile. All stories are based upon incidents in the career of the world-famous Clyde Beatty and the Clyde Beatty Circus. The Clyde Beatty show is produced by Shirley Thomas. Noah's Ark was written by Frank Hart Tossing. All names used were fictional, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This is a Commodore production.


OK, so we've got another lightning talk from Philipp Durbin on advancing science with Dataverse. Thank you everyone for coming. Again, my name is Philip Durbin. I'm a software developer at Harvard University. This is a picture of our campus. We're across the river from Boston and the United States. And I'm here to tell you about Dataverse. So Dataverse is a community of data enthusiasts and specifically research data. So that means that we are scientists, researchers, and often we come from the academic library world. So librarians and data curators, data scientists, software developers like myself. These are some pictures from our annual gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We have our sixth annual Dataverse community meeting this June. And everyone is welcome to come. We always play what we call soccer. And more importantly, for Boston, Dataverse is open source software. We're Apache licensed. There are 52 installations of Dataverse around the world across six continents. It has been translated into 10 languages and there's an opportunity to contribute there for sure. Here are some stats from GitHub of our repository over 100 contributors were written in Java. But I'd like to emphasize that we have APIs and client libraries for a variety of languages such as JavaScript, Python, R. So if you would like to contribute to Dataverse, there are lots of ways to get involved. And Dataverse, again, is for research data. We would say that it's open source research data repository software. But what does that mean? Research data. Let me give you an example. I saw this on Twitter a few weeks ago and asked this scientist if I can put him in my slides. His name is Arvin P. Rabakumar. He's working on climate change. And you can see here that he is tweeting his heart out. He is preparing a manuscript, a paper for publication in a journal. And he is explaining his argument. He is making data visualizations and all of this. And then he asks hashtag academic Twitter, if I have primary data, what should I do with it? So in the past, he's saying he's always put it under what's called supplemental information in the journal article. But one of the reviewers of his paper is saying you should get a DOI for your data. Now, a DOI is a digital object identifier. It's a whole thing. I was just in Lisbon this week for a conference called PIDAPALUZA, PID being a persistent identifier. But in the academic world, this is how we cite each other's work. This is how we acknowledge each other. We build up a graph of this work is derived from this work. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants. And so with Dataverse, what we're trying to do is elevate the data set to be a first class research object. So instead of just your papers, think about a citation for your data. In the end, I'm happy to say that the scientist decided to put his data into Harvard Dataverse, and then this is what that looks like. So Harvard Dataverse, and I have these pamphlets here, is a little unique among the 50 installations of Dataverse in that we accept research data from around the world and we'll host it for free up to one terabyte. So this is just an invitation to the crowd that if you yourself have research data and you don't know where to put it, or you know someone who does, please send them to the Harvard Dataverse and we'd be happy to host the data for them. Another thing I want to point out about this data set is that his raw data, his primary data, is only about half a megabyte in size, and yet you can see how rich the data is. He's exploring the data with data visualization. He obviously has a lot to say on Twitter about his data. We might call this the long tail of science. If you work in, say, biochemistry, you might have a natural place to put your data. Maybe you put it in the protein data bank, for example. But for a lot of science, there is no place for their data. So that's part of the need that Harvard Dataverse and the Dataverse project as a whole is trying to meet. That we want to welcome all scientists from all disciplines to publish their data. I want to talk a little bit about cultural change. And try to explain that people like the scientists we saw are very similar to open source developers. You can see that we like to share code and we are seeing that researchers are willing to share data. But this is a relatively new thing. And this pyramid is a diagram that's based on a tweet storm by Brian Nosek from the Center for Open Science. And what it means to me is that first we had to build the ability to even share data at all. That's at the bottom. And then projects like Dataverse have come along to hopefully improve the user experience for sharing data. I've stopped by the open source design table this morning and efforts like that are great. Let's not just have open source software. Let's make the software usable. Let's make it painless to share data. And then as we go up the pyramid, what we're seeing now is some cultural change. So again, the reviewer of the paper is the one who said, hey, you should make your data set a first class sightable scholarly object. So that's great. That's exactly what we've been trying to do for years is get there where it becomes a good scientific practice to share your data with the world. And increasingly I will say that funding these days often requires you to share your data. So university libraries and other places have a reason to install research data repository software like Dataverse so that they can have a place for their community to share their data. Also, I'll mention that on the journal side, the places that are publishing these academic papers, they are now giving incentives to researchers to share their data. They're trying to also move research towards more openness and more sharing of data. All right. Now I'd like to step you through quickly this concept that we have in my world of what we call the fair data principles. Fair is an acronym that stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Let's start with Findable. Part of the idea with putting data in a repository like Dataverse is that other scientists can find your work and reuse your work. So when you publish a data set in Dataverse, we send metadata, that's data about data, across the wire to a site called a non-profit, they're called DataSite, and this is an aggregator of all sorts of scientific data. A new player on the scene is Google. They have just brought out of beta last week or the week before a tool called Google Dataset Search. And so we've been working closely with them and putting all of the right technology in place so they can easily crawl installations of Dataverse and find the title, the author, the description, and make them all available in their new tool. And this third one is from a project called Share. It's another effort within academia to make data more findable. In this case, they use the Dataverse Search API to pull in the latest records all the time. These are a couple of screenshots of what these tools might look like when you're searching for data. The thing I like about these tools is that they expose the number of citations to the data. And again, citations are sort of the currency of the academic world. So here's a data set with 13 citations. That means that 13 papers are making use of that data, reusing that data. So we're really happy to see that data is being reused. We're hoping that this advances science. The second part of FAIR is accessible. It's one thing just to throw an Excel file up on an FTP server, but with Dataverse what we're trying to do is give researchers tools to explain exactly what their data is about. So we support what we would say is a rich set of metadata fields and Dataverse is customizable to the scientific discipline. So for example, there's a group at Harvard Medical School that has structural biology data. So they create their own metadata fields that matter to them. That's for the humans to read on the one side, but then we also support lots and lots of standards for interoperating between other data repositories. So XML, JSON in variety formats. The Google data set search, for example, uses a standard called schema.org. JSON-LD schema.org, the data set part of that. And then older standards like Delta and Core are in XML. There's a whole variety of that to make data accessible. For interoperable, the third letter in FAIR, I wanted to mention that the Dataverse is not trying to be all things to all people. We're trying to focus really on the research data, but we're very happy to interoperate and integrate with other platforms. So if a researcher is happy to use Dropbox for the early work in their study, that's totally fine. They can just get it into Dataverse later. Or other complementary tools like Open Science Framework, RSpace, it's like an electronic lab notebook, open journal systems. And then once the data has been published, we are happy to integrate with, or even before publication, I would say, that we're happy to integrate with computational environments. So Jupyter notebooks, for example, can be opened up in Binder. You just punch in the DOI of the data set from Dataverse. And there's a group called Holtail that is all about reproducibility. You may have heard that in science there is what we call this reproducibility crisis. And I'm not saying we're going to solve that problem, but we're trying to make an effort toward that. Reusable. And back toward that reproducibility problem, one thing we're seeing is that journals are increasingly requiring the publication of data in order for the paper to be published. This is a very positive thing. It's a bit of a big stick to hit researchers with to say, we're sorry you can't publish your paper until you publish the data set, but for scientific reproducibility it's a wonderful thing. Here's an example of this. The American Journal of Political Science has a replication policy that says you have to give us the data and also the code. And then there are a group of analysts at the Odom Institute at the University of North Carolina that will make sure the code executes, make sure that the plots in the paper can be reproduced. And then they give it the stamp of approval, and then the data set can be published, and then the paper can be published. So that's part of the story of reproducibility. The problem is that these poor analysts are downloading all kinds of software all the time through laptops, trying to reproduce the work of random data sets all over the world. The next step for us is to partner with tools like Code Ocean, again, Hotel Renku and Jupyter. These are reproducibility platforms. So instead of that analyst trying to reproduce the results on their laptop along with a lot of other data sets, what if they can click a button and have a Docker container spun up that has all the bits that they need to reproduce that work. So again, DOIs for Papers, DOIs for data sets, and maybe in the future DOIs for what we would call like an execution environment. So a Docker file, a Docker image, that's sort of where our thinking is going in the future. These fair data principles are in an academic paper that you're welcome to check out. And I'd also point you to a recent talk by Merce Croceus who's been leading the Dataverse project for over 10 years. We had an event in Tromsø, Norway just a couple of weeks ago where there were 19 countries represented and she gave a talk explaining this fair data concept from the Dataverse perspective. And I'd like to note that when I landed here on Friday, I was invited by Yusuf and others from the State Archives of Belgium and we had a nice little meeting of representatives from six countries all running Dataverse. And so thanks again for that. It was great to see friendly faces upon arriving in Brussels. I have a little bit of bonus content, two minutes left. This is sort of a thing that I believe strongly in that in the past, open source has been very open in its communication. Whether we're talking about the announcement of the GNU project or the announcement of Linux and discussion about open source and free software throughout time, we can still go back and look at that communication today. But what I see more and more is that lots of projects are using Slack, which is fine. We use Slack to say things like, hey, I brought in donuts, come on by. You know, it's great for that. But when you're thinking about your communities and you're making decisions about your projects and the direction you're going, I'd just like to encourage everyone to continue to hold to our tradition of openness. And so if there can be an acronym called FAIR about data, I thought I could make an acronym called SLOPI about communication. So SLOPI stands for Searchable Linkable Open Public Indexed. So I wrote a little blog post with more about what SLOPI is. That's that. Last thing is there's a group called Chaos. That's around. There was ChaosCon on Friday. And there's a project at Harvard that is called the Open Source Software Health Index Project. The idea here is that something developers like us naturally do all the time is compare two projects and say, well, which one is healthier? Which is the horse to bet on? And what we're trying to do is get towards a way to quantify some of this. So Chaos has built this awesome tool called Augur that will collect data about projects from GitHub Repos. And we're starting to mine that data a little bit. And I just want to put this project on your radar. And with that, I just wanted to say thank you. I don't think we have time for questions unfortunately, but please find me online. We have a chat room, chat.databurst.org. Here's my email, my Twitter. And thank you very much for your attention. Thank you.


Welcome to the last set news like a top stories in crypto and bring around a bite-sized pieces. So today, just as the thumbnail suggests, is the mother of all crashing coming in? And that is the theory as proposed by Michael Burry of the big short fame. So we'll take a look at why that could potentially be true. And really, we're going to dig down into it and just talk about why it's probably not. Also, we'll take a look at what the big hubbub is about Solana going crazy. Also the USDC partnership. And we're going to take a look at having an interview with Unstoppable Domain CEO, BradKam, and then also we'll do a final thought. So today, it is Monday. You may notice my voice is a little bit better. Just getting over a cold or a flu or something. And yeah, not so bad, just a little bit tired. But here we are. And what a great last week. And even this week, doing pretty good. So it is August 16. And here's the numbers as they are. So Bitcoin holding out pretty steady. We're looking at 45, almost 46. So over seven days, 6%, pretty good. ETH is down a little bit. And there is Cardano down 4.5%. But look at those runs over seven days, almost 50%. But that's not the big story. Cardano did great. But there are some other ones that just absolutely blew it up. Look at XRP, 57% for the week. Now it's down 10%. But hey, you know what? XRP is on a tear. Watch out. Dogecoin, it was up massively because Cuban, Mark Cuban came out and said that it's the ultimate form of payment, which he agreed with the car salesman. And sure, let's see how that works out for him. I have nothing against Dogecoin. I just don't know, because it seems like there's just a very limited amount of wallets that hold the vast majority of Dogecoin. And I don't know how many developers are on there, but we'll see how it works out.  Stablecoins, dot and everything else. But look at Solana here, 74% up. And also, I think there was another big one where we had Luna up 71%. But Solana has just been an absolute tear. And I own both. I own Solana and Luna. And again, I always thank James from Invest Answers and Mike for Mike, the investor, getting me on to Solana, but 74% in a week. And today, one of the big winners at 20%. So we're going to take a look at potentially why it is and what Solana is all about just real quick. So what I want to do is let's just break into today's top story because I was just perusing the news on Twitter and what not. And this came up and I was like, wow, that's kind of negative. So what do we have here? So Michael Burry, Michael Burry of big short fame. He bets against Kathy Wood's arc. So when you see something like this, I wanted to bring this out because in all honesty, this is a FUD article. This could potentially be spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt. So hopefully by you clicking on this video and that fantastic thumbnail that I made, hopefully you're not here.  And when I see stuff like this, if it concerns me enough to stop and pay attention, I think it might concern other people. So I want to talk about this article and just bring it to light because if we don't talk about the FUD articles and just kind of push them aside, and then we only talk about the good stuff, what happens is, is that all the newbies that get into it don't understand everything. They're like, oh, this is awful. I got to get out of here. And before you know it, we got a mass exodus. So let's just talk about this story, shall we? All right. So Brewery, Michael Brewery's scion asset management owned bearish put contracts against 235,000 plus shares of the arc innovation ETF ticker arc, the innovation ETF, all about cryptocurrencies and stuff at the end of the second quarter. The new position was valued at almost $31 million. That's pretty good. And Brewery has been warning about unsustainable valuations in the market for months. In June, he cautioned that retail investors could be getting drawn into the mother of all crashes by investing in cryptocurrencies and meme stocks. And I got a tip in my hat to him, great timing, because he kind of called it because after that, there was a pretty big pullback. And we saw Bitcoin around April or May or something like that go from 64,000 out of 30, 29, 28,000. So yeah, that was a pretty big crash. But he is still going even further. A put contract gives sign the right to sell shares in the ETF before a certain date. And it previously agreed price value increases if shares drop below the threshold, the exact terms of the puts, and when they were purchased are undisclosed. So I want to make something very abundantly clear here. So for these put options, he doesn't have to exercise that those rights. It sounds like shorting a stock where you actually sell those things first. He has the option to not exercise that right now. He will owe a little bit to get that contract out, but he doesn't have to exercise it whatsoever. So when we take a look at these put and options and things like that, just know that take away the grain of salt, because that's just a pretty big bet. And really, there is massive upside if he is correct. I don't think he's going to be correct, but I'll tell you why in a second. But he does not have to exercise these. And that's the whole thing with these types of puts or put contracts. And then the big thing here is the exact time of the puts and when they were purchased are undisclosed. Brewery has been indirectly betting against Wood for some time via a big position against Tesla, one of our top picks and biggest holding. So here's the thing. So when we take a look at all these stuff, and we go, well, that's that's pretty awful. But if they understand that these these puts, I mean, they could be that there is no real, it doesn't say the time frame, there's no actual definitive information about when those can be exercised or not. So going for a very long time, and it could happen. I mean, we could see quite a bit of a big pullback or retracement because that's pretty much what happens in crypto. And Michael knows that it's not like it's going to happen tomorrow. It's not like it's going to happen next week or whenever else. So just take it with a grain of salt. And also, there's another thing I want to talk about Michael Brewery is famous for the big short for the 2008 crash, as far as like, for all of the different housing markets that just decimated the global economy, essentially, for for quite a long time. And that was one way to play it. It was a it was a pretty good, you know, short of the market worked out pretty well. But it was the other way to play it. And had a friend here, his name is David. And he had a great theory, which was he was just going to wait for all the houses to drop precipitously, and then pick them up. So what he did was, I know when we talk in the channel about cryptocurrency and and how people think cash is trash, cash is in white trash, cash in this situation was king. Because what he did was he let the price valuation of all those houses and all those units and all those commercial properties drop 50, 60, 70%.  He scooped up a bunch. And he is a multi multi millionaire back then. And now he is like way beyond that. And all he did was just pick them up. And then in a year or two years later, he sold them for a massive profit. And some he didn't, some he sold and some he just held on to, and actually just, you know, rented him out. And now he doesn't really have to do much. He was already a millionaire, so it didn't matter. So again, when you take a look at these stories, don't look at it like, Oh, this is happening tomorrow, or this is going to happen next week. Bernie knows that this is really the long game. And he could be right later on, we're all waiting, even if you have the theory of elongated cycles, like maybe you don't think that's going to the whole bull market's going to end right on December 31. Maybe it could go in January, February of March, where we see that big hockey stick. When it happens, maybe exercise them at that point. So I just want to bring this to everybody's attention. And we talk about FUD stories. It's not like it's the end of the world. All right, so let me know what you think about that in the comment section. Now let's get into Solana and why this thing is just going crazy. So Solana, I was checking their Twitter feed. And I have to tell you, I've been dollar-cost average Solana for months now. And it's like one of the best ones I've done so far. And then Solana, this was a couple, three or four days ago, and it talks about Soland is here. Solana is now live on Solana mainnet at Solend.fi. So I took a look at this real quick. And this is the autonomous interest rate machine for Solana. But just you know, total assets applied to 5.2 million total assets by 1.4 million. So this is a very, very early stage. And Solana hasn't been around for a whole heck of a lot of time. Actually, we take a look at this and bring this up. Let me blow this up here so you can see it. If we take a look at, let's scroll down and go to all time or let's go max. Yeah. So look at this back in the day, April 2020. I mean, they're looking at the very beginnings. It was 95 cents. Geez Louise. And just didn't do much of anything for quite some time. But in only, gosh, a year, a year plus some change, they are making massive headway and they're in the top 10 already. And they already have DeFi looks like it looks like they have massive partnerships and it looks like they're doing the right thing. So Solana is just one of those things that's just been blown up. So, but why? Why is this one going through? So it could be something like this or a Solana. I don't really think so. But also, you've got these things called quick nodes, boost your Solana endpoint in seconds, not days. We make it simple to power your blockchain applications and scale up as you grow. And as from Ian, he says, quick nodes are super easy to set up with just one light of code. They provide support for multiple chains and make it easy to scale as our usage increases. And there's a pricing thing down here. So, well, maybe something like that. That looks like a pretty big win for Solana.  And this was actually from Jeremy Allaire. He is the head of Circle, which are the ones that created USDC, which I am a big fan of myself. And he says, this was just, gosh, was it three days ago or so? No, August 10th. Excuse me. So we're looking at six, roughly six days ago. And he says, hey, huge shout out to Solana team now with one billion USDC in circulation. And people are just building on Solana and massive things are going. So I always see like these big projects doing really good things. Sorry, big projects that are partnering up with USDC, because I think stablecoin, this stablecoin essentially is going to do very well. Some in circle partnership with Visa already. And then, of course, Circle is also, we just covered this a couple of days ago, where they're trying to become a national digital currency, full reserve bank, not fractional reserve, but a full reserve bank and everything else in there. So that's huge. And then this is from the Circle blog post. And this is what I found most interesting. I think if you're going to really get into mass adoption, I think Solana kind of hits it on the head because you want something easy and you want something cheap and you want something fast. Well, Solana supports more than 50,000 transactions per second. Let me say that again. 50,000 TPS per second. I think Bitcoin does 9 to 13. I think Ethereum does around 45 TPS. And I mean, these are the legacy systems. I mean, now with E2.0 coming around, maybe it definitely will hopefully scale up, but when? How long is that going to take? I don't know. But it says 50 K TPS with block production and settlement finality in 400 microseconds and extremely low transaction fees of a fraction of a cent. Let that sink in a fraction of a cent. Wouldn't that be nice to not have to transfer Ethereum and things that are being built with everything being built in Ethereum, but you only use a fraction of a cent. These are the things that are coming. That's why I hold a lot of Ethereum, but I have to tell you, I'm not sure how much it can maintain that top spot. There's always somebody behind you who wants to do it. And then there was this great video here. I'm not going to play it, but this is Antoli Yoko Yokovenko, founder and CEO of Solana. And he just talks about how easy it was to actually partner up with USDC and how it actually all worked out and how they were like actual innovators. So when I take a look at this, I just think to myself, I think Solana is just doing the right things and they're doing the right things at the right time and they're just massively scaling up by just grabbing in partners and doing a lot of great things. And I think this could be a massive big project and maybe a top five, but who knows. So that is what is going on with Solana and USDC and everything else. Now what I want to talk about real quick is because if we look at the good projects that are partnering up with the stablecoins, we covered this a couple of weeks ago when I was in Puerto Rico actually, how unstoppable domains, they actually partnered up with them so you can actually instead of here, I'll just show you this graphic. It's a lot easier to show you this instead of you, someone asking you, Hey, can I send you USDC or send you crypto? Yeah, just send it to 0x53573541. Like what the heck was that? So you can just go over and stop all domains and purchase your name joeblow.coin and then they can send you USDC. It's pretty simple. And I just look at these things and I'm like, these are things that will lead to mass adoption. I want it cheap. I want it fast. And I don't care about what's going on underneath the hood, just make sure it gets me there. And I think that's where we're at. So what I want to do is I wanted to bring in one of the founders of Unstoppable Domains, Brad Cam. I want to talk to him about if this is true what the CEO of Solana said about how easy it is to actually partner up and work with Circle and USDC and what's going on with Unstoppable Domains. So let's just jump right in. One of the founders of Unstoppable Domains, Brad Cam, just to talk to him, just ask him some questions about is it really that easy to work with Circle and get a USDC integration and what's and how tough was that and what's the plans for the future. So Brad, thanks again for coming on and taking time to talk to us on the show. I appreciate it. Absolutely. Glad to be here. Yeah. So you had thanks, man. So just talk to us.  You guys do everything you're supposed to do as far as business and getting things going. But talk to us about how it led up to you guys actually talking with Circle, this multi-billion dollar company, and going, hey, let's integrate USDC into a domain NFT as far as like dot coin. So I've been following Circle, the company for quite a long time. And right now, so now they're very, they're essentially a B2B company. So they're providing services for other crypto companies. Right. At one point, I think maybe five or six years ago, they were trying to build a consumer app. And the whole idea was to abstract the crypto parts away, make it super duper easy for people to just send digital dollars or whatever currency they wanted to anyone in the world. Super easy, like a decentralized Venmo. So I knew they had been big believers in this vision for many, many years, but they've gone a slightly different direction with the business. So they were just kind of a obvious fit because they're sort of in a similar place as we are actually, trying to integrate their tech, in this case, USDC, into all these different crypto wallets and exchanges. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And how easy was it to actually work with them? Because it seems like some companies, it's like trying to pull teeth with getting things done. Other companies are like, hey, let's just go forward. Here's what you need. Let us know. And then off we go. Super easy. They're hustlers. They're moving past right now. And you can just see this from looking at the USDC market cap over the past year or two. It's just going like this. Yeah, great. Yeah, that's what we need because it seems like every day, things change so fast. And then was this, as far as stable coins go, was this the big one that for you guys to get or has any other stable coins reached out, like a tether or something like that? Well, so in terms of the way the unstoppable domains works, you can attach any cryptocurrency to any domain name that you want. It's really a question of who is being encouraged to use it. So USDC is the only stable coin partner we have currently. But the whole idea there is to get people who would be integrated both with Circle and with unstoppable domains to be using dot coin for their USDC payments by default, like have the addresses just automatically assigned whenever you get a domain name inside of whatever app you're using. Make it like so easy that all you really need to do is just start telling me what your username is. Yeah, man, that's that's perfect. And that's what I'm talking about here with this one. Because when we take a look at it, like, for everybody who sells online, you're usually going to use like a PayPal or a Stripe and you're looking at between 1.99% or 2.99% plus 30 cents per transaction fee. So if you have something like this, like Brad, like what you're just talking about, just like what you guys do perfectly, you get a domain, you set it up and all of a sudden you have this dot coin, your first name, your last name, your first whatever else it is, it just makes it very seamless. And that's what I like about this because if we're looking for mass adoption, we have to do these things. No one's going to say, hey, what's your address? Oh, it's 0x53572589999, whatever else. I think it's just best just to go joesmith.coin and that's it. And something that's been pretty, you know, pretty, pretty smart that Circle has focused on, I think you've already highlighted recently with the billion dollars of USDC on Solana is that they've been blockchain agnostic in terms of where the USDC is actually living. And so what winds up happening for the user is that you can have your app just say, hey, what's the cheapest place to send USDC right now? Okay, I'm going to send using this one. And that is, I mean, that's, that's awesome. Like, I mean, if you think about it from the user experience perspective, like, do they really care if it's this blockchain or that blockchain, they probably care a lot more about fees. That's like the thing they care about. And if it's USDC on all these different chains, so that that's another thing that Circle's focused on. That's been quite, I would say, quite important from a user experience perspective. Yeah, that makes sense. It's almost like using the hotels.com. I don't care. I'm going to care kindly where I stay, but I want to make sure it's cheap and good. And if I can do both those things and just shop around, yeah, it makes sense. Perfect. All right. And then Brad finally, anything else that's going on, because you guys are always innovating, there's always some things going on. So anything else that's new over there on Unstoppable Domains. I know there was a cake integration. Yeah. So, yeah, cake, cake wallet sending, sending, sending Monero. So that's a, that's a, you know, a top Monero wallet. And you can, you can send a private payment to a public name. So that's pretty cool. That's a pretty cool idea. It's something that you can't get currently with networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. So that's something that's kind of missing, so to speak, from the, from the feature set that the private currencies can solve. So that's, I think that's a pretty cool use case. That's much closer to how my Venmo settings work. I set mine to private. I'm not, I'm not publishing them to the world. So I think that's, that's a reasonable, reasonable choice. Yeah, makes sense. I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. All right. Sounds pretty good. All right. Well, Brad, I appreciate it. I know that your, your time is valuable. You got a lot of things to do. So everybody, if you're looking for that, just, this is not financial advice, it's financial opinion. But if it's me, I'd like to get at least my name, as far as like for dot coin or dot crypto or dot whatever else you want, because in the future might be a little bit easier to use links in the description. That's it. Brad, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. And we'll reach out to see is things progress. Thanks. All right. So that's it. So I hope that answered a lot of questions. Brad, thanks for coming on again. I appreciate it because when I look at these things, I just want to see, I just want to see how companies execute.  And I think in the future, what we're going to see is all these different projects that can't survive by themselves. And I think they're going to start doing mergers and acquisitions. And I think the more businesses and projects that actually start to work together and intermingle, I think of the ones that have a better chance of success, like Circle and Stophold of Mains and so on. So that's what's going on for today. So look, I know it was a little bit long. A lot of things going on. But if you made it all the way in, first thanks. I appreciate it. Also, if you liked the video, give it a thumbs up. That always helps tremendously. Consider subscribing. A lot of things to talk about are time sensitive. And that's it for today. And I have not forgotten about that Puerto Rico video. I think I'm going to do one, a double one today. I'm feeling pretty good, except my voice sucks. But I want to do that real quick and just talk to you about who my lawyer was, who the agent was, and my experiences, and just do like a two-parter. So I'll do that later, maybe today, and I'll put it out. So that's it for this one. Thanks so much. I appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one.


Hi, I'm Steve. I'm part of the buying team at Ellis Brigham and I've been involved with Ski Boots here for over 20 years So today I wanted to show you some of the new parts of our ski boot range So I'm not gonna try and go into everything I just want to pull out some new boots and new technology show you a few things that you might not seen before So I'm gonna start with the atomic Hawks Prime XTD's. So There's men's and women's versions of this Ultra XTD is a warp mode enabled backcountry boot. So it's lightweight, but it's got all the performance of an Alpine boot First you got the rocker on the sole and the compatibility with all sorts of different bindings Ultra was quite a narrow fit so it didn't work for everyone Prime's the medium fit from atomic. This will fit a lot more feet. It's got all the same features of ultra and this is gonna be Super super popular Closely related to that is a new liner now liners aren't necessarily the most exciting thing to talk about Because you mold them and they fit and hopefully they feel good Mimic from atomic's coming in their top boots. This is something that's almost between When people upgrade a liner they maybe go for a foam liner an injection liner something that's a lot more expensive But these this is somewhere between a standard heat moldable liner and a fully customizable liner And what it is is this back part of the boot can be molded very precisely to the foot And it's a bit firmer than you'd expect in a normal liner, but it takes on a much better shape So what that's giving you is a more even pressure And it's giving you a better hold so you get an increase in performance and an increase in comfort So not the most exciting thing but a big thing actually and I think a lot of brands are going to be looking at that and thinking We need to copy something like this. So mimic liners really interesting Moving on from there. It's not a new boot, but it's a boot that's getting a lot of attention And we've expanded our range and these are the Nordica pro machines men's and women's Women's Slimmer fitting boots probably the biggest category So we've now got flecks in everything from pro machine 85 95105 on the women's side What the pro machine is doing it's quite a light boot, but it doesn't lose any performance compared to some of the very top boots But you're getting a very nice close anatomical fit without any pinch points. So if you've got a sort of slimmer foot Take a look at pro machines. These are brilliant The Brand that's done a big update for this year. It's Fisher. So We've got whole new ranges of boots We're focusing on RC for the curved ones RC ones RC ones a little bit wider RC for curves the ones a little bit slimmer. This is a sort of a medium to slightly wider fit big things about the Fisher is fully customizable Put you on a heat the shell put you on a vacuum machine, which basically molds the whole boot around your foot These are going to be a really popular boot again this year and it's interesting that they should point out Everything's gone into grip walk on these so grip walks a little bit more rocker a little bit more comfort a little bit more safety when you're walking in it Something you may not be expecting to have seen in shops We're entry boot from Nordica. So it's called the HF hands free 40 degrees of movement to step straight in no hands needed pop it on your foot Clip it up with you the pole or the other foot. You don't even need to bend down away. You go It's nice and light It's actually a pretty good fit as well And yeah, you might have thought that rear entry boots were finished not at all So these are great for customers that maybe have ankle issues They can't bend the foot properly to get it into a ski boot or someone that just wants maximum comfort So if you struggle to get into four-put boots take a look at this It isn't just some sort of novelty Rental replacement. This is 110 flex boot. So it's good performance and maximum easy use new to us this year K2 boots back in what you get my K2 is a really light shell grip walk on it, but losing none of the performance and Ultra long line is as well. So you can mold these and take a really good shape Good good reception from staff and customers to these so far And then the last thing I just want to pull out is a new brand again to us and that's rock So put up some men's and some women's versions And often overlooked, but actually it's an Italian brand coming out the same place is all the other big boots they're making a name for themselves right now and You get a lot on this boots very light Very anatomical pre-punch. It's a PU plus shower with a griller mid as well. So Super light, but very high performance And then you've got an intuition liner in there as well, which keeps the weight down But keeps the customizable options right up there. It's probably one of the best liners on the shelf so Might not know him, but don't overlook him That's obviously not every boot that we stock or every brand But it's just pulling out a few highlights. What you need to do to come into one of the shops Book some time to spend with a boot fitter. We'll go through all your options We'll get you the best fit for you And so, yeah, we hope to see you soon