Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so I've got a few things to show you. First of all I'm going to start off with a charity shop find and that's this here which you're probably looking at thinking ugh and I must agree it's brown and yellow it isn't the best of colours but this is a Lazy Susan it was £3 in the charity shop and it was new old stock so it was completely sealed in its original packaging so and I just thought you know what look it spins around and they are really big knife size like storage and I just love it again I always say it but if you've been following me for a long time you know I love these kind of charity shop really original wow who's going to have one of these let me know if you do but um you know they're just you don't find them anymore and it's just really handy because it spins around it's made in Italy I did have a look at this bit and it says here cos cosmaplast made in Italy so Alimenti uh yeah there you have it they're like little cake kind of um you know slices and you've got what I've got there five and it just sits on this Lazy Susan so there you go for £3 I thought yeah that's going to be great and I like it because it's clear so I can see everything in it I mean it is like it's a nice attractive look it's just I would have loved it if it was in more of a kitsch kind of you know the bright colors that would have been really really cool but yeah oops you can see the plate there where they all spin so I'm just gonna flip that back over there okay so that's that then I picked up these these are more things that I'm going to be using in the Easter series so I know a lot of you have started collecting bits and pieces that I've been sharing already so these are all individually wrapped which is what I like because then I can take them apart and I got these in Iceland and it was two packs for £3 which for Lindor I thought was pretty good um they're delicious these are the white chocolate eggs so I've got those then I was watching Hachanda I have it a lot on my iPad when I'm crafting because it's always on on YouTube so I can just watch it live and they had I think it was pink was it pink frog I think it might have been anyway I'll share the links below but I don't know if you're still going to be able to get the offer that was on because they were spinning that wheel that they spin every hour I think it was and you get a different discount and this one was during 10 percent so I picked up these here which are 12 by 12 super smooth 300 gsm white cardstock and this is it was 999 but I got 10 off so I've got 50 sheets which I thought was really good um it's alcohol friendly because it's so smooth so it's going to be nice to stamp on but it's obviously great for making you know my more unusual card bases and also any 3d projects as well so yeah I just thought for white as well I'm going to grab those and whilst I had that this was the best one and you know what this is this is a three holographic cardstock again it's 300 gsm and these are how many packs was in this one so I've got a hunt that that was it so there's 50 here but I cut mine in half so I've got 100 a4 sheets for 1998 and I got 10 off so to put that to break that down the dove craft which is the one that I link and the one that I use is 299 for a pack of 10 so to get the same quantity if you brought the dove craft would cost you 30 pound so you save 10 pound you know if you've got these ones and the other ones is the craft UK ones that I link and that's they're a4 and that is you can get a pack I think there's is a pack of 25 and they're 649 so again to get 100 it would end up costing you 26 pound so to get 100 here I mean I know there's 50 but I will cut these down so they fit into my trays for 1998 and then minus 10 I thought was really good and it is it's lovely I mean you can see the patterns there that you know it picks up it's in the plastic still but I will I just sit down and just run it through my guillotine and just cut it exactly through the middle and then I've got a4 but I might keep one pack in a3 because it's really nice to make large gift bags yeah so I grabbed them so yeah I mean some of you might think oh I don't ever really go on there you know they do do like flexi pays and all that kind of stuff as well if that's if that's something that appeals to you but you know they do do some really good deals and I couldn't see online anywhere else that was something like you could get 100 sheets for you know for that price so if anybody does know and I've been you know robbed let me know but I think I've got a good deal there for the holographic card and this is 300 gcm but I it almost feels like it's more because when you compare this weight to the white card stock this certainly feels heavier so but I use this all the time and now I've got it in this a3 I can yeah it just kind of opens up ideas to make you know more larger or more you know unusual cards so watch your space but you'll see this used all the time then I picked up this there was actually a lady selling this one on ebay so I got it for 4.99 and it is the fuse tool and it's you've got decorative tips you've got fuse tip and you've got the cutting tip so I already have these ones however these ones here especially this one here will actually seal perfectly for any liquids that I use so the liquid cards that I've made the gel card that I've made I've always used this one here which is actually the cutting tip however it does work but this here is guaranteed and it's like a double seal kind of thing so although they're decorative this one here does work for you know sealing your liquids could you go one way then you go back the other way or something like that but it's um yeah so I thought I'm going to get that I was looking into getting a one of those the actual seal machines the vacuum machines um a lady actually said about them I think it was on our facebook group it might have been on a comment on youtube so I had a little look and there are loads there and the prices you know they vary I guess if you want to get a good quality one you're looking you know 30 pound plus but they do have handheld ones but when I've read a lot of the reviews a lot of people were saying you know don't trust these reviews they're the reviews by the supplier and I used it once it was rubbish they look great and I've seen them on a couple of facebook ads and stuff so if anybody does have one and they are really good then then do let me know but um these are decorative as well so when I've done like I've shared before pocket letters and just nice to do around shaker cards as well clear shaker cards it's a really nice effect and I just thought for the price I'll get these because it's something that I will use but yeah if anybody does have any kind of handheld sealers or recommends a not too expensive vacuum one I mean you don't have to have the vacuum side of it on but just the press seal because I'm only going to use it in my craft room I don't really want to be paying 30 pound I'd probably pay 10 something like that so again if anybody's got one that they use and they really like it then um yeah if you can share any links in the description you know in the comments that'd be great so that's that and then lastly I got the new papercraft society this is box number six and this is by Christina Griffiths but I'm not going to do the um unboxing now that will be in a separate video because I know not everybody you know is interested in seeing all the detail inside but if you do like this then check out the video that will be shared very very soon if not before this goes up so but either way it will be linked here if it has gone up beforehand and then I just thought I would quickly pop these magazines into this video so yeah I've got them and I thought oh whilst I'm editing this video I will share these ones as well so this one I get sent but this one here I've bought myself and I'll show you that one in a minute the free gift this month is clearly besotted April showers really really cute little umbrella um stamps there and then you've got the dye to cut them out as well and the inspiration I had a little look when I was drinking um having a cup of tea and they're really colorful really bright you can see just one idea on the front there but uh this is issue 185 as well if I forgot to mention that one but you've got love you rain or shine bring me flowers feeling under the weather happy birthday and April showers and you've got the rainbow there as well on some clouds so it's really really sweet I do like that one and then the card I featured in this one which I'm sure many of you are going to recognize because you've totally loved doing this one and it's the starfold and I loved doing this one so I've used the first edition this was under the under the water under the sea stamp set I'm sorry dye set that I used for that one and I love it and then I've done a simpler designed version there with only your single kind of mats and then this one here you've got mats and layers and lots of decoration and as always step by step but if you see my video then you will um you'll know what you're doing with that one it's just such a fun card I really enjoyed doing this one as well for the magazine so that is issue 185 of papercraft essentials and then this one I saw it and I I mean I've been a huge fan of creative stamping magazine for many many years I have loads of their stamps and they are like collectible stamps so I just adore them I've used I use a lot of them there I kind of go to them a lot especially for sentiments and things like that but this one here it is this which is called well the top piece there is the great out well the whole thing is called the great outdoors I believe actually but this top one is for the lover stamps you can just see where the green background kind of finishes there I love for the lover stamps anyway by hunky dory I have many of theirs as well there's just so many lovely like this scene love that scene really really nice with the you know the mountains and the forests and the river but you could have that as snowy mountains you know you can really change that up but I also love this signpost and it's a wooden one and you've got escape journey adventure home happiness and love which will all fit in there even these tiny like little they could almost be like little badges you know like on the backpack or something they're just really cool you've got the like a what would you call that when you've cut it's looking at the the stump of the tree trunk you know when you count all the rings to see how old the tree is but I don't know if that's got a name for it like that I know there is I'm sure there is anyway that's what that is and then you have the canoe always paddle your own canoe then you've got fishing let's go hiking camping life's about the journey not the destination I like that one you've got the silhouette there so you could do some really you've got quite a few silhouettes here because you've got the tree you've got the dog you've got the the hiker there so you could do those it was last Christmas and I done like the ball ball silhouette cards and they were really popular and the the company cardio do amazing you know inspiration and all of their kind of stamps are these silhouette style and you could do that with this that certainly gives me an idea maybe looking through like a camera lens and you could have like a silhouette scene or something I think that'd look really nice I love that one there the happy birthday really nice font and then you've got life's a climb but the view is great that's brilliant really like that saying not all who wander are lost again another nice sentiment then you've got trees you've got a little hip flask there and then you've got best wishes and with love just it's lovely it really is and I love the hiking boots and then you've got like the dragonfly and the little trail compass more boot marks because you've got them there I don't ever mention them and those would look really good for Father Christmas you know steps you could certainly use this with like white embossing powder at Christmas time I think that'd look brilliant and you've got happy trails time to explore and the the kind of camping mug there I love it I think it's such a nice one and you always get value for money I mean it's a big A4 you know sheet there of stamps they always stamp lovely and yeah I like said I'm a big fan of this magazine but the nice thing is I don't I used to subscribe I subscribed for quite a long time and got them all the time now I've stopped subscribing because I obviously work on a lot of different magazines and now I can kind of dip in and dip out and get ones when I you know when I want to and this one I just rushed to get straight away because I loved it so it's issue 82 packed full of inspiration even that card on the front is like a kind of like a concertina cut style card there but I just love that backpack as well I don't think I mentioned the backpack there really really nice so I'm definitely using this one I've got an idea already and I think you're going to like the card style that I'm going to share using those ones so yeah so a couple of more magazines to share with you okay so that's it this week a very quick video I will link this here because even if it's not got the 10% off I still think it's a good deal so if the holographic card is something that you do want to get your hands on and you use it as much as I do look out for the video for that like I said and the tutorials for the Easter series are going to be coming very soon so look out for those and yeah this will be in a future craft room tour no doubt I will do one don't worry because I get everybody asking me but at the minute I'm sorting a lot of things out so once I'm settled then I will definitely be doing a craft room tour but until then thank you for watching please give me a you know thumbs up if you've liked this video subscribe because there's going to be loads of cool tutorials and I have some amazing ones that I've already edited and I can't wait to start sharing them all so yeah see you all again soon bye


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So I think that's made a, that's brought football, sorry, soccer into people's consciousness. Then you've got the fact that the World Cup's here in three years time. And the way America does sporting events, however much you hate soccer, when it comes, you'll know it's here. There'll be so much media. There'll be so much coverage. It will be everywhere. And it's in the Americas, so it'll be Canada. I think, yeah, all of North America. Yeah, so it'll be all of North America. The way the Americans will do it, it'll be like 50 Super Bowls in a month. So it'll be huge. So the soccer fans will lose them. But I think it'll be amazing for the sport to have it here, because you just won't be able to avoid it. And then I think the fourth piece is Lionel Messi coming here. And again, he's one of those sports stars who transcends the game. So if somebody in the world knows one player's name, it will be his. They won't know the offside law. They won't really understand the game, but they'll know who he is.


Hi, I'm Paul, a learning designer at the Open University, within the STEM faculty. And I'm Chandra, also a learning designer at the Open University, and I work with STEM faculty too. The irony of an asynchronous presentation about asynchronous working is not lost on us. This presentation is about asynchronous working, and what we mean by this in our work context, how we go about our working in this way with module teams, reflection from those engaging with the process, and what our vision for the future of this way of working is. We should clarify that we don't use the term asynchronous with the teams that we work with. We simply discuss the process, as outlined a little later in this presentation, and plan our work accordingly. The resources vary on the type of session. They may include screencasts, audio, and mind mapping tools. For the storyboarding sessions, we've developed templates on Miro and Padlet. In order to personalize the resource for each module team, we scope out certain requirements as part of the planning. For example, for a student experience storyboard, we look at the titles of blocks or units and the amount of weeks needed for each part. Once created, this is shared with the module chair and relevant module team members in order to sense check the plan, allowing time for fine tuning if required ahead of step two. This is the supportive onboarding section of the process. We come together to discuss the practicalities of the task and ensure that participants feel comfortable and confident using Miro. We agree a timescale to complete the task that's feasible for all parties, taking into account current work demands and any pressing deadlines that fall within that time period. The team is then given the space and time to engage with the work at a pace that is right for them. They are able to contact a learning designer during this period if required, or to update with progress. At this stage, the work has been completed and some kind of output has been generated. Sharing this output with all relevant stakeholders helps to provide an opportunity to develop and to refine the information before collectively reflecting about it. The reflective meeting gives us a chance to discuss and consider the output with all relevant stakeholders. The key focus of the conversation here is, so what next? What are the practical next steps to take with the outputs created? Using a flipped approach to design work helps us to develop a context in which design conversations can happen at a pace and time that works well for all. It can help time poor teams plan and use their time to engage with and develop their thinking about design in an iterative manner. It provides defined points in time to check in and support each other in the design process. My thoughts are that the Miro board activity was very useful and could become a standard part of the production process. Seeing outputs in the visual format has really helped the module chair. It has been useful for an overview of the module to see the variety of learning experiences. It was harder times to get my thoughts down in a coherent way on the board, but I found the process really useful to help me better understand how the module fits together. I think it's very good and can be exceedingly good as a tool for discussion and planning for module teams to all come together and map out key learning outcomes, key concepts and approaches. There's a range of positive impacts that this approach provides. It allows a richer, more developed discussion to take place about the content and important design decisions. It allows module teams to work at a pace and a time frame that considers their current workload demands. It enables the design to be more holistic and organic than simply idea creation and metaphorically wrestling with drawing ideas out of the team's collective mind. And lastly, it gives ownership of the process and of the artifacts and outcomes that arise from this method to the module teams. So what's our vision for the future? We envisage being able to offer all module teams the targeted support that they need in a manner which creates empathy around both needs and time constraints between all parties involved. Our aim is to create different supportive routes towards world-class module production. One route for further research at the OU on this topic would be to analyze the impact of asynchronous working across the different faculties in order to develop the best possible design support during module production.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network We've got game number two between the heat and the next coming up tonight And also game number one between the Lakers and the Warriors a lot of fun in the NBA playoffs We'll break down both those games for today and take a look at the Wells Fargo Championship by talking to Brandon Goodula getting his read on everything going on across the next couple of days welcome on into covering the spread That's right here on the Fandall podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonness. I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire Joined here as mentioned by Brandon Gadoula check him out on Twitter at Gadoula 13 He is a senior managing editor of number fire calm Brandon welcome back to the show. How you doing today? Good good. I had a good weekend with the golf Recommendations. Yeah, you did as good as it can be technically.  I'm ecstatic So I don't care if they're a favorite or not plus 850 is plus a 50 value is value. You said he should be 7 to 1 Anyone so There you go We'll talk about the full and it wasn't just Fienao to Joseph Bramlett top 10 It was a he was chopped but like, you know Dead heat but like it's still top 10 got a good payout there Wyndham Clark over Gary Wood then we'll go through all of last week's best recommendations and talking about Some draft stuff later on too, but hey, you know Draft had this long-running joke on the show about how you'd come on the show and then the next week You'd recommend a winner, but you've recommended a couple winners in the past month on the show here now So maybe maybe you're getting your timing correct and not recommending the good stuff at the wrong times I'll try to do better with that But yeah, like the weeks that I miss, you know I have someone I recommend and and back who who wins and I'm glad to kind of get a couple of these on Are you talking I'm assuming you're talking WWE draft? No, it's okay. Definitely not I may need to lean on you more for golf though because Ross Chastain cannot wreck a lap car to ruin net golf bets Whereas you can for NASCAR. So it's true But that's a positive. We're talking about those two NBA games first We'll start off there and then dive in to The PGA tour at the Wells Fargo Championship in just one second First a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast We're going to have a Kentucky Derby podcast coming up later on I mentioned yesterday There would be up last night, but had some technical issues. 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What's your read on this game here game two between the heat and the Knicks? Yeah, unfortunately Jimmy coming down with the ankle Can't imagine that in any any way shape or form He is a hundred percent for this game, which is someone who does you know modeling stuff It's hard to account for okay. Well, Jimmy might play but be Less efficient. How do you kind of a factor that in I think I saw somewhere that someone said his ankle was the size of a baseball Which ain't great. Which part of the ankle? I don't know Loved on top of like the ankle like I've got a If this is like on top of your ankle, that seems not great. Yeah Visual medium shout out YouTube. I don't know. I can ask my brother like my brother's a physical therapist but I'm more than clueless when it comes to like the Human anatomy and how that would even happen, but unfortunately, I mean obviously for Jimmy. Unfortunately, he's he's not a hundred percent But the Knicks also Listing Julius Randall was questionable Randall of course missed game one, but Jalen Brunson also questionable Uh three ankle entries here really making it hard to break things down For this game a Knicks coach Tom Tibido said on Monday that Julius Randall was doing pretty well Don't know if that's Good news for hit like his ability to play don't know really where Jalen Brunson is gonna wind up I'm assuming Brunson is more likely to play than Randall But I really don't know of course, this is a much bigger deal for for Jimmy baller to miss for the heat their net rating jumps down from a plus three With Butler active and some other controls and they're like the Tyler hero situation down to a minus 4.3. So As I'll get to in a second It's not it's not always the case whenever you take a good player off the floor that a team is but like below average It's just not always the case, but it is the case with with the heat and if anyone's really been watching the heat in the playoffs they they realize like If Jimmy baller's not going this team has some issues the Knicks with him without Randall or a plus five with him and A plus 4.3 without him respectively. So like That's not too bad without both Brunson and Randall. They're still a plus 1.9 which gives them an edge if Jimmy is out. They would be Word a worse team With Jimmy active assuming Jimmy's fully healthy. Then he got a factor in home court all that kind of stuff So I'm really struggling with this one, you know, if this was a full regular season slate I wouldn't even look at this game really. I just I just frankly wouldn't but The thing is in game one the Knicks lost despite a better feel effective field goal percentage 51.7% to 50% which are both not not particularly good there The heat just didn't really turn it over Which helped them like absorb the elevated offensive rebounding rate for the Knicks One of the biggest differences was free throws 23 of 29 for Miami 12 of 20 for New York the Knicks shot just 25% on wide open threes There are four of 16 and the heat 9 of 18 which is 50% but You know that the underlying data for game one says that the seven point game was more like a 2.4 point game Butler's not gonna be 100% even if he plays Randall's, you know on-off impact isn't that huge And so if I can sit here and say like we know Jalen Brunson's going to play which I'm not saying that I don't know but like if he were fine. I'd say I feel good with the Knicks money line I see that I see the path to that I Ran all the different iterations of how this game could wind up based on the health of those three guys and You know, it's basically a Knicks wins so long as they're not without Both of those guys because I don't see how Jimmy but there's 100% and I don't know who's gonna step up In Butler's absence and you know, frankly one thing to think about is The Knicks were not particularly pleased with the officiating seems like they were wanting a lot more calls Again, nine fewer free throws. I think that kind of levels out For game two. So if I had to bet anything I'd go Knicks money line Frankly, I'm fine waiting throughout the day until I get a little bit more Information that could put me behind a ball But I think that that's something that I feel comfortable doing because I don't want to back a team that has No, Jalen Brunson or really is Randall and a non-bed is always better than a bad bet So never a bad thing the Knicks money line right now minus 290. It sounds like you're okay Just passing on that entirely correct. Yeah, I would rather pass on it If I had to bet if I had to recommend anything like I said, I would just go because you can't just say Okay, all these guys are out. It's gonna be an under that's all the counter for cuz the under so low, right? Frankly, these teams are not shooting particularly well, but they could clean the offensive glass get easy put back So, yeah, I would go I would go Knicks if I had to go anywhere But frankly, I'm just I'm more interested in the nightcap for tonight So let's talk about the nightcap right now We've got the Lakers and the Warriors for game number one warriors are four and a half point favorites total here is 228 and the Warriors needed seven games to get past the Kings and Lakers resting up since Friday Is that rest enough to cover a four and a half point spread here? Which has tightened since things open because it was five earlier on Yeah Look the the Warriors are still scary and frankly the Kings Crown them in game seven They made Kevon Looney look like Bill Russell they could not slow down Steph Curry I mean Clay Thompson was off. They didn't really get a whole lot of help. Otherwise. It was basically just It was tough. I'm not saying that the Lakers don't have that Ability to to let the the Warriors come out and get it get off to a great start in the series But they've been playing so well with their core of LeBron James Anthony Davis and D'Angelo Russell Altogether, I know I talk about that. It seems like I talk about the Lakers on every Tuesday Let me do this. I guess that was Wednesday last week. I don't even remember but They're 12 and 3 with all three active their point differential was a plus 10.9 10 and 5 against the spread They're just a different team. So this is something that you know, we're not gonna get into like I Mean we've gotten in in the past is what I mean like with how I model stuff And it's based on active rosters and rotation and health if you look at like long-term data You're gonna have trouble with with With the Lakers and so a lot of long-term models just kind of a lot higher on the Grizzlies than they were on the Lakers But yeah, so for me I'm pretty high on the Lakers right now And it's because I have reason to believe that there as you would say their most relevant sample is that of her really strong Team now the Warriors are 35 and 9 at home in the regular season and playoffs Frankly both had pretty good first-round opponents And if you look at just the data of how they each team played the Lakers played better than the Warriors You alluded to it in the fact that the Warriors went to game 7 The Lakers closing it out earlier than that. So my model for tonight likes this still new look Lakers a good bit. I Loved it at 5. I still love it plus 4 and a half for the Lakers taking the points there and My model also likes the under at 228. These are too Good to great defenses. There's not quite enough pace to overcome it I could really see the Lakers coming out and slowing things down trying to mitigate The offense of the Warriors So I you know, I could also see the Warriors just lighting it up because that's always the case and betting under Against the Warriors is one of the more nerve-wracking things you can choose to do to yourself But for me my favorite place for the night across both games are The Lakers plus four and a half and the under at 228 Now let's talk about the Lakers side here. You mentioned how your model likes the spread of plus four and a half Do you give any consideration towards the money line? It's plus one sixty two right now at Fandall Sportsbook Is that long enough where you're tempted at all or do you want the safety of the points? I'm tempted it is good value Frankly, I have this one close to a pick them. I just don't always I don't really like to go So again, here is the case where I'll talk about this a little bit with the golf model as we talk about golf The model says mathematically Lakers The slightest favorites for me. I see some other models that are similar to that but I'm factoring in the the Warriors trying to build off of a Game 7 rally where they looked untouchable again I Don't love that. So I'd rather just take the points frankly, but I wouldn't fault anyone For for going the route of a Lakers Upset, you know, technically there as their underdogs a Lakers upset in game one I'm just being a little bit more cautious and just taking the points. I took the money line I love it. I will not blame you if it doesn't go well just like again on me You you laid out the pros and cons. So you did your job. I Just took my preferred Playoff basketball is such a combination. That's why I like golf because it's like math but like the eye test and certain different things you can throw in but playoff basketball really feels like You know you can Like you you can like a game and be off by 2030 points of this because like just of how things snowball and it's really tough and things are magnified So I'm just I have flashbacks of classic Warriors to the point that for me right now Just give me the points and and I'll feel better that way But again, I wouldn't fault anyone for the money line. So I think you did the right I think you did a very acceptable thing and again My motto has the Lakers Like favored by point one points that implies value on plus 161 62 Yes, value is value as we discussed last week in the PGA So Brandon likes the Lakers plus four and a half not the money line But then does like the under 228 for that game as well Well, I'm I'm reckless.  Well, I think to the the maybe a line of distinction here is I Watch a lot more basketball than you do. So I don't want I've had plenty of it on recently but but over the years whenever Steph Curry's out there dropping 50 and No one has any way to like, you know, well, also It helps if you can push off it's been two full days since he last dropped 50 in a playoff game Brandon Like let's not live in the past here. Like come on two full days. It's it's it's ancient history at this point Speaking of value is value. Let's talk now about the PGA tour They are a quail hollow for this week for the Wells Fargo championship And we'll talk about Rory McElroy being a prohibitive favorite for this week in a second But first what should we know about quail hollow before replacing our bets this week? Oh, yeah Long par 71 winning scores historically around 10 under although Rory won I think by seven shots at 21 under a few years back the kind of course where it's a We haven't had like it's a it's a storied course but we haven't had We haven't had this event at this course yearly it's been like up and down so last year the president's cup hosted So no event from last year at this course. It was a TPC Potomac But in 2021 we had it no event in 2020 But in 2019-20 so basically 2018 2019-20 21 are the recent years with with a you know Wells Fargo data for quail hollow so just keep that in mind if you're someone who does like to look back at it that finishes and performance at a particular course, but overall, I mean distance matters pretty typically it's Just kind of like a tough all-around test, which is why the winning scores are around like 10 under Pretty much nothing's easy here. Just makes for like a good all-around setup. We got the designated field You know the thing that I always say is it's somewhat similar to like a major where the fields are really good And the course is not you know, you're not gonna win at 28 under par unless you're You know Rory going even crazier than he did a couple years. I can remember the year, but yeah I think it's a it's a good it's a good week for golf. It's one of my favorite weeks favorite types of week where 10 under can win that makes the The top of the field basically rise to the top And the top of the field is rising in the odds board too because Rory McElroy is seven to one to win over at Fandall Sports Book You mentioned his history here at quail hollow But Rory right now coming off a brief hiatus missed another elevated event after the Masters missed the cut there So there's some shakiness in the form for McElroy, but good quail hollow history Seven to one the market believes in Rory. Do you do you believe enough in Rory to see value at seven to one? I don't know and my model does not either She's got three wins at this course He's a bit overvalued I can see why he shortened from plus 750 to plus 700, but I'm not batting him personally He is long off the tee. We know that it's gonna gain strokes He gains throws off the tee every single week and that's a really gives him a really high floor But the irons hasn't haven't really been up to par for him And the short game itself is never his like true strength, but it's a lot better than most people realize people Really like tend to dog Rory for like the putting and in the chipping and stuff, but he's generally pretty solid there At least relative to what like the Rory haters would think but for me I don't see the value there. I think he's a little bit Too short at I thought he's too short at plus 750. I definitely think he's too short at plus 700 now Okay, so after Rory there is a pretty big drop-off the next one up is Patrick Cantlay 15 to 1 So if we're not Ben Rory, we think he's overvalued. Is there value elsewhere in the outright market this week? Yes, I think it is on that name. You just mentioned with Patrick Cantlay. He's busy still 15 to one Okay Okay, so I have him at 13 to 1 I think he's the best value of the week Cantlay is Basically doing everything really well, but hasn't quite put it all together in the same week he's had a lot of like close finishes to winning and That's exactly what you want to see from a golfer who has just plus stats in every category But hasn't necessarily put it together. It's a good number It's a it's a value, you know, again, I have him at 13 to 1 Really good ball striker and he might not seem like it because he's like slow and kind of Like boring to watch but that doesn't mean he's not like long off the tee and has great iron. So I like him and then Here's the thing that I was kind of alluding to I Still see or at least my model still sees value on Tony Fino at 17 to 1 Slightly but it's there my model and you know, I don't change things to fit certain narratives or anything but doesn't really account for Like a negative impact after after like coming off of a win But then again back-to-back wins are not unheard of he didn't have to like grind out to a win It in Mexico last not like press tour you go after on after like the Masters and stuff like that either just you know It's a win. I saw it on the golf subreddit He was catting for his kids. Yeah, that's I think I think he's probably not not too fried if he's if he's done He probably would do that anyway because he's done Fino But he also won while his family was there with him. So full swing. You'll have to find a new new slant on It's a normal family fight in this land. Yeah But yeah, I think those two are the best values among the top of the board for this week, but I'm also I'm cool with Joe hatton and plus right. He's a 48 to 1 so I'm gonna have to tell you a lot of people think He's a top 10 ball striker in the field over the past 50 rounds according to data golf Tough event and he tends to play better at least from the eye test tends to play better At these tougher setups and I'll also throw in Sahith to gala for kind of the first time ever 50 to 1 he's long off the tee 34th and approach 14th in combined short game Love that fit and he's finally had a number that I think is comfortable. So I was not in on on Sahith Whenever he was getting a lot of buzz. I think that luster starting to wear off a bit and now again, what my model basically does is is Does all of like the objective stuff for me and tells me okay He's he wasn't worth it at like 30 to 1 but now that he's 50 to 1 in this field He is actually, you know worth targeting targeting there. So I'm Gonna keep it relatively short for the outrights With can't lay fee now and then Hatton and the gala are good enough numbers where I can get to them as well Yeah, the gala 50 to 1 Hatton 48 to 1 fee now 17 can't lay 15 And I went to check good old Rhode Island sportsbook to see where can't lay was like oh 15 to 1 a faddle You say 13 to 1 he's 12 here. So I need to move and I'm excited to do that Don't I'm sick of trips to Connecticut in Massachusetts. Let's get on out of here But good value of Patrick can't lay 15 to 1 if you can get that over at faddle sportsbook What about the non-outrights? What do you see in there for this week? I have a top 10 Tom Kim plus 600 Someone who's he was 50 to 1 to win But the top 10 numbers a lot better than that. I don't like him as an outright though That's not like I would Fight anyone who like I wanted to bet him. I'd hope not The the top 10 why fight you on stuff, but that's fair The the top 10 numbers good for him. We know he's a great iron player, but just mathematically that values there And then Kyung Hoon Lee top 20 plus 450 Just a well-balanced golfer doesn't really struggle Anywhere I always like that kind of profile for a course like this So those are the two finishing positions I like and then I don't mind You know, you could throw these in for outrights, but maybe first-round leader Keegan Bradley and Wyndham Clark Back on Wyndham this week after he was lost him for the first couple of days last week long off the tee though But that's the thing like you can't look at that and say, okay, I cannot touch this guy anymore That's not the case. You had a whole year or 50 rounds or whatever sample to get you to last week It was a good course fit Pretty similar course setup this week then last week Accuracy matters a bit more this week, but that's not it's not substantial So if you want some darts those two guys make a lot of sense from a ball striking standpoint to get out To an early lead and frankly, I'm always kind of okay with the long shots That I feel like our values, but I don't see if they're I don't see like Wyndham Clark holding off Rory and can't lay and The stone cold killer now Tony Fee now But you know their their first round leader odds are like a bit longer. Yeah, so it's like May as well just kind of back the The like iteration where they get out to a really hot start right Especially Keegan where we know that like the larger you expand the sample the odds that he torpedoes six off the greens are higher Yeah, so I don't mind those is like his partial units just for something else there I do and I do see why it's like I'm just looking for it just to kind of round things out But yeah, I think we're gonna get one of them one of the sort of favorites to win this week because it's a designated event And that's basically what's been happening. So keep that in mind and don't get don't get too over eager with Like super long shots this week. I'd say the Keegan Bradley first-round leader 60 to 1 Wyndham Clark 85 to 1 cage lead top 20 plus 450 and Tom Kim top 10 6 to 1 as well That is Brandon gondola make sure you check him out on Twitter at gondola 13 back with us later on again today We'll be talking about DFS stuff for the Wells Fargo Brandon. I appreciate the time as always congrats on the Tony Fina win last week We'll talk to you once again in the very near future Looking forward to it. Thanks for having me. Alrighty. That is Brandon gondola find him on Twitter at gondola 13 We'll have him on again. We'll talk more about the DFS side of things later on today on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed But for right now, we got to go back through last week's bets had to change the order of this not do it on Monday because NASCAR caught postpone to Monday So let's recap last week including the NFL draft We were talking draft with Dr. Ed Feng you can find Ed on Twitter at the power rank and Ed Had some close misses here in the draft The one hit was Paris Johnson to be the first offensive lineman taken that was minus 250 That did hit the Cardinals traded back up to six to taking we talked about Johnson the Cardinals specifically on the show last week Didn't bet that but he was minus 250 for first offensive lineman and that one did work The close miss for Ed was Dalton Kincaid had had him under 24 and a half at minus 122 But then the bills took him 25th overall So the over hit there couldn't quite get that one key Kincaid was the first tight end taken which we had discussed But it was not recommended not good enough value to bite there But hopefully he took the bait anyway couldn't quite get that one on Kincaid Ed had the Raiders taking a corner with their first pick at plus 175 There was a rumor from Peter King believe it Peter King saying that they were trying to trade up In that first round didn't trade up. They got a Tyree Tyree Wilson at seventh overall Devon weather witherspoon went fifth overall plus 175 Maybe that was their trade up target, but couldn't quite get there So that one did not hit as Wilson is a an edge player final one was Over four and a half quarterbacks in the first round is plus 144 would had recommended it It eventually got to plus 158 on the other side So you could have taken plus 144 over plus 158 under Hopefully did hedge we saw during the day on Thursday. Maybe it was Wednesday Thursday or Wednesday Where that number slid the other way so you got? Cov if you were able to hedge but if you actually look at it what it was when the draft started I believe it had gotten all the way back out there where the Over was pretty similar to what it was and we had talked about it because there was a lot of Decreasing hooker buzz will let this obvious amount of slipping. So hopefully you hedged we did talk about it But Ed said didn't want to so some close calls there We'll talk about the NFL draft with Ed we recap on Thursday We'll talk about the UEFA Champions League semi-finals as well We'll get back on here to close up thoughts on the draft And then find Ed on Twitter at the power rink and check out his work at the power rank calm Hopefully you were able to win some of that back with the Mexico open as discussed with Brandon good week there He's on Twitter. I could do a 13. He said he liked Tony Fina to win a plus 850 His numbers had Fina at 7 to 1 and Fina did win over John Robb So plus 850 winner there other outrides for Brandon were Luke List and Alex Smalley both at 65 to 1 Brandon also did hit a top 10 in a matchup. The top 10 is Joseph Bramlett's recommended a plus 410 It was in a tie for 10th. So Didn't get the plus full plus 410 the full plus 410 because of dead heat rules, but that did cash Matchup that was Wyndham Clark over Gary Woodland of minus 134 Clark finished 24th woodland 39th So good calls there by Brandon other top 10 that didn't hit was Lee Hodges 5 to 1 But overall great great week again by Brandon on his stuff Follow him on Twitter at can do a lot 13 and find his PGA sims over at number fire comm our EPL Guest was Austin Kass you can find him on Twitter at Austin Kass Another really nice week for Austin in the Brentford match Austin had Brentford to win a minus 155 and Yvonne Tony to score a goal a plus 110 Brentford was down 1 nil in the 80th minute But then our guy Yvonne Tony scored a tie things up at 1 1 Then Brentford scored again I believe in the 94th minutes when stoppage time to get the win So the minus 155 moneyline cashed the Tony goal cashed good call by Austin on both those Other Saturday bet was Brighton over one-half goals and minus 178 they won six nothing So cash that as well at minus 178 the loan miss for Austin was Alexander Esak to score at minus 105 Newcastle did score three goals, but Esauk was not one of them So all in all another awesome week for Austin find him on Twitter at Austin Kass and find his EPL betting guides over at Number fire comm Finally for NASCAR. I had a very annoying week. It was great very annoying an extended I had a Derek Krause a plus 600 for a top five Raleigh Herbst at plus 275 Herbst never super competitive Krause got caught speeding up it road I don't think you would have been top five anyway But kind of put the nail in the coffin there not ideal on the XINITY side of things and the cup series I had Kyle Larson to win at five to one Kevin Harvick top 10 at minus 160 and Brad keselowski top 10 at plus 140 Larson I think at the best car, but he got wrecked Ross Chastain has mentioned wrecked a lap car They spun Larson hit them He was super fast. He had worked his way up from 18th He was running second or third at that time when the crash or third I guess in the crash occurred I felt great about that bet at five to one Pretty big bummer to miss out on that one Harvick had a tire go down at the end of a stage lost a lap Never got it back. He finished poorly He was running like fifth or sixth or so before that tire issues. That was annoying Brad keselowski did cash or plus 140 He finished eighth. He had a pit road penalty, but still came back to win or not win finished top top 10 I had an outright on keselowski to thought he might have a chance in that last three star Because he had four fresh tires was others did not but he had pretty bad restart the entire day So couldn't quite get the outright, but the only recommendation here for the show was the top 10 at plus 140 So annoying week for me and NASCAR, but luckily Brandon able Brandon Austin able to help me win back some of that via the EPL and the golf recommendations That's all that we have here for today on Covering the spread as mentioned three more shows coming up this week got the Kentucky Derby We're gonna have Christina black or a fandal TV on to preview that depending on when schedules a lot Love edit on to talk about some UCL stuff. We'll talk some MLB some NASCAR some EPL coming up on Friday. All that is available on the covering the spread podcast feed So search for that wherever you get your podcast hit subscribe And if you like what you hear leave us a five-star rating as well big Thank you once again to Brandon. Good. Do let's check about on Twitter at Gadoula 13 find his work over at numberfire.com. I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J. I am S a and and yes want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your bets across the NBA for tonight. We'll talk to you once again in the very near future Talks in Kentucky Derby This has been covering the spread right here on the fan duel podcast network


Kia ora koutou, e hui hui mai nei tenei rangi, he mihi kau ana hoki, kite mana whenua, nātitua, te atiawa hoki. So our conference abstract mentioned a few things that we wanted to focus on today in our kōrero, but since we submitted that, what feels like many millenniums ago, there have been some significant shifts in the social fabric of the world. So today we decided to speak to the central intent of our website Tusk, that we provide a platform to keep the cultural sector strong from the ground up. Not going to lie, this is a bold aim, one that even we find intimidating. So how do we come through on this aim? In short, it's about having space. Something that working in an online environment has afforded us. It's allowed us to put a stake in the ground. Tusk is a space where we can challenge perceived, inherited, delivered knowledge. It is a space where amongst ourselves and our contributors, we can validate each other's opinions. It is where we can do without having to ask for permission. These were already things that we were thinking about and doing, but the last couple of weeks have really galvanised why this space is important. Firstly, this came through with some of our recent submissions for our current theme, digital platforms, in that having a social media presence affords us the ability to absorb information and form a picture of what is going on globally. It allows us to connect to wider issues. We were reminded of the importance of this passive interaction when we saw this tweet by Wellington author Branavan Ninalingham. It reminded us that in these times of fear and uncertainty, that it is now more than ever that we have a diversity of voices. Secondly, having this space also meant that us folk who are new to the sector could have a space to discuss all those things that we felt were owned by people further up the ladder. Since we started in September 2015, we've had submissions on concepts of nationhood, what it's like to be young and female in the sector, the financial barriers to accessing glam institutions for schools and early childhood centres, the need for an all-sector funding policy, a personal account from a Chinese New Zealander of feeling excluded in the arts sector by bi-cultural ideals, and so many other wonderful and powerful observations. To reiterate though, we are a platform. When we say that we want people to write about their experiences in their own voices, we mean that it is important that their viewpoint isn't edited out by us. By doing this, the voice remains unquestionably theirs, and by providing this platform, we're enabling these stories to be heard, and saying that we don't publish things that we find disempowering to ourselves or our peers. To link this again to the Trumpocalypse, as the results of the election were analysed, thousands of people shared this map that showed what the results would look like if millennials only were voting, heralding this kind of utopian future, aside from the fact that the data was from a survey, a monkey survey, from October, which you probably all know about being data people and visualisation people. What this redirect told us was that us liberal youngins are the future, but what this undermines is that we are also the now, and we're getting shit done now. We started task off an idea that had fermented into an unwavering need to be heard. We tried to get funding through the traditional route, the route that inherited knowledge told us was the only way creative New Zealand. This didn't pan out, so we took the cheap option of getting a square space domain. The traditional route, the inherited knowledge, told us that funding was the way to get this done, when in reality we would have been accountable to an external agency. What we needed and what the funding would not have bought us was time. We still don't have that much time, but we do anyway. And in high sites we realised that it would have also taken some of our freedom. Another interesting lesson in this situation was that for us to break out of the mould we had to fail in the prescribed route. This forced us to think laterally about our approach. That we got there in the first place by being on the unfulfilling hampster wheel of short-term contracts in the arts sector was also really enlightening. So freedom is what we needed. We needed to carve out a space of our own where we could create, experiment, make our own decisions, make mistakes, and be fully autonomous individuals within the wider framework of the cultural sector. Being autonomous also provides us with the opportunity to take risks, which can foster unexpected dialogue. Another risk or something we felt could be misinterpreted was the very simple fact that we wanted to be ourselves. When we first started task simply speaking in our own voices felt like a risk. Would we get flack for being too casual, too sweary, too opinionated? We wanted our online presence to be loose, reactive and relevant to our generation, but would this mean that the more established folk would struggle to take us seriously? These were valid concerns and continue to be something we should be mindful of. But what we actually discovered was that a large part of the sector was hungry for this kind of content. Hungry to not only consume it but to create it with us, which was incredibly emboldening. Not only was being ourselves okay, others wanted to be themselves alongside with us. So collectively we have built task, this website, and it is a collective that we are stronger. So I'm sorry if the gifts are distracting. I love gifts. So we like to think of task as a convergence point, ideas and perspectives to converge and swirl around together before shooting off into other corners of the internet or the world. Convergence and departure is the natural state of the internet and it is this that we must capitalise off. As an example we recently received a message from someone from the Immigration Museum in Melbourne who we had met briefly at the museum's Australasia conference back in May. She was writing to say that task had spurred something in her. Partly as a result of reading our content, she was motivated to interrogate her part, her role in the sector. She wasn't sure exactly what that was yet, what form it would take, or even indeed if it would ventuate into anything beyond developing her own thinking. But this meant so much to us. We had reached one person and that one person was moved to write to us. It meant that what we had collectively created was having an effect in the world. We also know that online spaces can offer unparalleled zones to enable us to communicate with the public and support. One example of this is the Tuakana profile that we established not long after we started. It has a tagline of, a Tuakana is someone for us to learn from in a reciprocal way. Tuakana inspire us and make the sector a welcoming and supportive place. This is a standardised interview where we ask all of our Tuakana the same six questions. We did it because we wanted to give props to people and immediately ask them the question, what do you think people in the early stages of their careers can offer the sector? Once this was well established, we realised that actually people at our own level were also doing some really great work and had valuable insights. So we started on the level profiles with a set of seven standardised questions.  That we mentioned earlier thusly expanded. TASC was never about us two. It was always about our wider community. And just quickly we needed to do a bit of a shout-out to all of our Tuakana and our on-the-level people who are here today and have given their time for these profiles. Having autonomy and ownership of this website means that we have the flexibility around content. So when our good friend, artist and curator Bridget Idiwete, needed a place to host a podcast she was establishing, we were able to give her space. So as a heads-up also, you should check out her first Flight Path podcast, which is up on TASC and has her interviewing Fijian Australian artist Salote Tawale, and she has a couple more coming up, which will also go up on TASC in the near future. This flexibility also meant that we were able to scale down our hashtag Wednesday for Cardo or Vox Pop to just one of our social media channels and the hits weren't proving to be enough to sustain it on two channels. So going it alone meant that we were able to try new things out and not to worry too much if they didn't work. It's quite a liberating feeling and one that isn't actually that scary, as it turns out. I think we think that as a sector we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get it right all the time. Of course it's essential to what we do as Kaitiaki of History and creators of public content, but can this make us too cautious and too conservative? As our collective presence as a sector is increasingly online, we're hopeful that this will lead to more calculated risk-taking and more tangible acknowledgment that the process of knowledge-making is one of co-creation, which might actually include making some mistakes. So we've made errors. I even spell one of our best friends' names wrong on the website, which I felt really bad about. But if we approach everything we do with the spirit of generosity and co-creation, suddenly making the odd mistake doesn't actually seem like the end of the world. This, of course, doesn't mean that we don't take task seriously. Creating digital content doesn't mean taking it lightly or being flippant. We live and work this stuff, as do our contributors. So who we are and what we do for a living are intrinsically linked. And it is within our Friday Fast Five, where this is most evident. We take turns doing a round-up each Friday of things that we've been thinking about in the past week and it is through this that we're not just linked to article studies, events in the sector, but all the other surrounding things that we're thinking about in our lives at any one time. As an example, the two most recent Fast Fives have seen us both grappling with the election of Trump and the recent earthquakes. My latest Fast Five was titled The Future Is Foked, a reference to the infamous The Future Is Female T-shirt and the despondency so many of us felt when America did not vote in what would have been their first female president. That Fast Five ended with a recap of what my work, this place here, our place, Te Papa, had done on their social media channels with subtle shows of solidarity and compassion. In the most recent Fast Five from Nina, titled People, People, People, Nina picks up this thread and offers more ways to find comfort from the world via poetry and Paul Simon. She also reflects on a keynote from Archivist Bergus Jules and urges people to go along to a talk by Vincent O'Malley that was actually at Auckland Museum last night. What this shows us is how interconnected everything is for us and for the people we work with and for. It shows that within both of us we have many different interests and opinions and it is imperative that these be fostered because of the diversity of the population that we as a sector represent. Though we've been going for just over a year now and we've got some really well-established content, it is no time for us to be complacent. As complacency could mean that this space that we've worked so hard to establish and maintain could erode. It's not always easy, it's a lot of work, but as we have said, now is not the time to give up. Those of us who have platforms need to use them. So we need to add our voices to the cacophony that is already out there and be noisy as Frank Howarth from Museums Australia so wonderfully reminded us at Museums Australasia early this year, the conference in Auckland. We believe that in order to do this we must bring our full selves to what we do and that's what we hope TASC works to achieve in some way. Creating TASC has made crystal clear the rather obvious statement that we are all complex and diverse and we interact with the sector in complex and diverse ways. We may be technicians or students working collections or front of house but our grasp on the bigger picture is not and should not be limited to what we get paid to do during the day. Part of TASC's co-papa is recognising and fostering that agency. Existing in a digital sphere is the only way we have found to do this effectively and with maximum impact. So TASC is about creating an environment where people feel confident enough to share their thoughts publicly. Developing and taking ownership of our sense of place in this sector has allowed both of us to grow immeasurably both personally and professionally. We have become more visible, which always helps but importantly, more importantly we have grappled with some big topics. As Matariki said earlier that were usually owned by people further up the ladder. Our ability to do so in this online space is only beholden to our own imagination, resourcefulness and energy. Our intention is to be expansive to stretch ourselves by considering the issues that affect our sector in the broadest possible sense which is only possible through the diversity of thought brought to the table by our wonderful contributors. We couldn't be less interested in siloing ourselves by narrowing our focus. We are way too greedy for knowledge for that, I think we all are. In museums we often say that context is king and for us TASC is an extension of that. It's about understanding our place in the global context. So this is where we're at. As Matariki said, now more than ever we believe that there is a need to collectively push at the boundaries be active, engage citizens and use whatever platform we have to question, stimulate dialogue and expand horizons. Which brings us to the phrase that has received a lot of airtime in recent weeks the echo chamber and more specifically how do we break out of it? How do we all break out of it? We all know that we spend a lot of time talking to each other and affirming each other's views of the world and the importance of the work we do and why that should be valued. But these kinds of conversations tend to stay within the family. Whether that be TASC or the wider glam sector of course digital allows us to bridge these gaps to a certain extent. But is it really enough? How can we bust down doors and bring our kōrero to the doorstep of people who aren't already a part of it? Because really we are here to talk about digital but it's all about people as we all know. And that's it. Please get in touch with us if you want to contribute to our website. Thank you.


I'm First Lieutenant Justin Lindstrom. I'm from Dallas, Texas. I'm an 0202 and 0203 ground intelligence officer, MacDuff intelligence officer. So we are currently conducting battle space surveillance company field exercise. This is intended for two parts. The first is for our meteorologic and oceanographic platoon to gather real world sensor data with their weather forecasting equipment. That enables them to create real-time weather products, real-time weather analysis, so they can assess the enemy and assess effects of the weather on friendly forces. The second portion of this field exercise is for ground sensor platoon to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance mission planning, infiltration, five-face reconnaissance and surveillance, execution of schema maneuver and mission planning. It also enables ground sensor platoon to conduct basic skills and prerequisite infantry requirements so that they can conduct sensor emplacement operations in a remote environment, in an austere expeditionary environment, while conducting distributed operations in accordance with the Combinance 2024 design. All of the Marines are out here for a purpose. They're out here to learn how to fight. If those Marines come out here and they don't understand the basic fundamentals of what it takes to conduct offensive operations or defensive operations, they could very well find themselves in a COC somewhere in the Indo-Pacific area and find themselves in contact with without the basic skills and the basic understanding of how to maneuver. That's the purpose of this exercise out here. The purpose is that every Marine is a rifleman and every Marine should be able to be able to fight, take the rifle and go close within destroy the enemy. So within Battlespace Surveillance Company we are collectors. Collection is a key part of the intelligence cycle. Once you gather information, you can take that information and analyze it, produce it, disseminate that information to a commander. Once that information that you have collected is given to a commander who can make a decision on how to follow on friendly forces, how to shape the Battlespace, that's when it becomes intelligence and that's what we do out here as collectors. We're doing things that are difficult. We're putting Marines in situations where they have to make decisions. We're putting Marines in a position where they have to collect on a notional enemy, on a real enemy. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the Marines are being trained in how to do their jobs out here. As Intel professionals and within the MIG, our job is to make sure that our Marines are ready for the next fight because it's coming and when it comes we have to win. We are training to conduct expeditionary advanced basing operations, to conduct distributed operations, to conduct independent operations. Every Marine is able to collect. Every Marine is a collector. The future of the Battlespace involves maneuvering in other information warfare operations.


Hello everyone, welcome to theCUBE's coverage of AWS re-invent 22. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. Got some great coverage here talking about software supply chain and sustainability in the cloud. We've got a great conversation, Gunnar Helixson, vice president and general manager at Red Hat Enterprise, Linux and business unit of Red Hat. Thanks for coming on and Ednon EJAS, director, product management of commercial software services at AWS. Gentlemen, thanks for joining me today. It's a pleasure. You know, the hottest topic coming out of cloud native developer communities is supply chain software sustainability. This is a huge issue as open source continues to power away and fund and grow this next generation modern development environment. You know, supply chain, you know, sustainability is a huge discussion because you got to check things out. What's in the code, okay? Open source is great, but now we got to commercialize it. This is the topic, Gunnar. Let's get in, get with you. What are you seeing here? And what's some of the things that you're seeing around the sustainability piece of it because, you know, containers, Kubernetes, we're seeing that runtime really dominate this new abstraction layer of cloud scale. What's your thoughts? Yeah, so it's interesting that the, you know, so Red Hat's been doing this for 20 years, right? Making open source safe to consume in the enterprise. And there was a time when in order to do that, you needed to have a long-term life cycle and you needed to be very good at remediating security vulnerabilities. And that was kind of, that was the bar that you had to climb over. Nowadays with the number of vulnerabilities coming through, what people are most worried about is kind of the provenance of the software and making sure that it has been vetted and it's been safe and that things that you get from your vendor should be more secure than things that you've just downloaded off of GitHub, for example, right? And that's a place where Red Hat's very comfortable living, right? Because we've been doing it for 20 years. I think there's another aspect to this supply chain question as well as especially with the pandemic, you know, we've got these supply chains have been jammed but the actual physical supply chains have been jammed up and the two of these issues actually come together, right? Because as we go through the pandemic, we've got these digital transformation efforts which are in large part people creating software in order to manage better their physical supply chain problems. And so as part of that digital transformation, you have another supply chain problem which is the software supply chain problem, right? And so these two things kind of merge on these as people are trying to improve the performance of transportation systems, logistics, et cetera. Ultimately, it all boils down to it all both supply chain problems actually boil down to a software problem. It's very interesting. Well, that is interesting. I want to just follow up on that real quick if you don't mind because if you think about the convergence of the software and physical world, you know, that's IoT and also hybrid cloud kind of plays into that at scale. This opens up more surface area for attacks, especially when you're under a lot of pressure. This is where, you know, you can, you have a surface area in the physical side and you have constraints there and obviously the pandemic causes problems. But now you've got the software side. Can you, how are you guys handling that? Can you just share a little bit more of how you guys are looking at that with Red Hat? What's the customer challenge? Obviously, you know, skills gaps is one, but like that's a convergence at the same time more security problems. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And certainly the volume of, if we just look at security vulnerabilities themselves just the volume of security vulnerabilities has gone up considerably as more people begin using the software and as the software becomes more important to kind of critical infrastructure, more eyeballs are on it and so we're uncovering more problems, which is kind of, that's okay, that's how the world works. And so certainly the number of remediations required every year has gone up, but also the customer expectations, as I mentioned before, the customer expectations have changed, right? People want to be able to show to their auditors and to their regulators that, no, we, in fact, I can show the provenance of the software that I'm using. I didn't just download something random off the internet. I actually have like adults paying attention to how the software gets put together. And it's still, honestly, it's still very early days. We can, I think, as an industry, I think we're very good at managing, identifying, remediating vulnerabilities in the aggregate. We're pretty good at that. I think things are less clear when we talk about kind of the management of that supply chain, proving the provenance, proving and creating a resilient supply chain for software. We have lots of tools, but we don't really have lots of shared expectations. So it's going to be interesting over the next few years. I think we're going to have more rules are going to come out. I see NIST has already published some of them. And as these new rules come out, the whole industry is going to have to kind of pull together and really rally around some of this shared understanding. So we can all have shared expectations and we can all speak the same language when we're talking about this problem. That's awesome. Adnan, an Amazon web service is obviously the largest cloud platform out there. You know, the pandemic, even post-pandemic, some of these supply chain issues, whether it's physical or software, you're also an outlet for that. So if someone can't buy hardware or something physical, they can always go to the cloud. You guys have great network, compute and whatnot. And you got thousands of ISVs across the globe. How are you helping customers with this supply chain problem? Because whether it's, you know, I need to get in my networking gears and delay, I'm going to go to the cloud and get help there. Or whether it's knowing the workloads and what's going on inside them with respect to open source, because you got open source, which is kind of an external forcing function.  How are you guys helping customers with the supply chain challenge, which could be an opportunity? Yeah, thanks John. I think there are multiple layers to that. At the most basic level, we're helping customers by abstracting away all these data center constructs that they would have to worry about if they were running their own data centers. They would have to figure out how the networking gear you talk about, you know, having the right compute, right physical hardware. So by moving to the cloud, at least they're delegating that problem to AWS and letting us manage and making sure that we have an instance available for them whenever they want it and if they want to scale it, the capacity is there for them to use. Now then that, so we kind of give them space to work on the second part of the problem, which is building their own supply chain solutions. And we work with all kinds of customers here at AWS from all different industry segments, automotive, retail, manufacturing. And, you know, you see that the complexity of the supply chain with all those moving pieces, like hundreds and thousands of moving pieces, it's very daunting. So, and then on the other hand, customers need more better services. So you need to move fast. So you need to build your agility in the supply chain itself. And that is where, you know, Red Hat and AWS come together where we can build, we can enable customers to build their supply chain solutions on platform like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL, or Red Hat OpenShift on AWS, we call it Rosa. And the benefit there is that you can actually use the services that are relevant for the supply chain solutions like Amazon Managed Blockchain, you know, SageMaker. So you can actually build predictive and elliptics. You can improve forecasting. You can make sure that you have solutions that help you identify where you can cut costs. And so those are some of the ways where we're helping customers, you know, figure out how they actually want to deal with the supply chain challenges that we're running into in today's world. Yeah, and you know, you mentioned sustainability outside of software sustainability. You know, as people move to the cloud, we've reported on SiliconANGLE here in theCUBE that it's better to have the sustainability with the cloud because then the data centers aren't using all that energy too. So there's also all kinds of sustainability advantages, Gunner, because this is kind of how your relationship with Amazon's expanded. You mentioned Rosa, which is Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. This is interesting because one of the biggest discussions is skills gap, but we were also talking about the fact that the humans are a huge part of the talent value. In other words, the humans still need to be involved and having that relationship with managed services and Red Hat, this piece becomes one of those things that's not talked about much, which is the talent is increasing in value, the humans. And now you got managed services on the cloud. So it'll get scale and human interaction. Can you share how you guys are working together on this piece? Because this is interesting because this kind of brings up the relationship of that operator or developer. Yeah, yeah, so I think about this in a few dimensions. First is it's difficult to find a customer who is not talking about automation at some level right now. And obviously you could automate the processes and the physical infrastructure that you already have that's using tools like Ansible, right? But I think that combining it with the elasticity of a solution like AWS. So you combine the automation with a kind of elastic and converting a lot of the capital expenses into operating expenses. That's a great way actually to save labor, right? So instead of like racking hard drives, you can have somebody who's somebody do something a little more like, you know, more valuable work, right?  And then what do you do with that platform? And if you've got your systems automated and you've got this kind of elastic infrastructure underneath you, what you do on top of it is really interesting. So a great example of this is the collaboration that we had with running the rail workstation on AWS. So you might think like, well, why would anybody want to run a workstation on a cloud? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Unless you consider how complex it is to set up if you have the use case here is like industrial workstations, right? So it's animators, people doing a computational fluid dynamics, things like this. So these are industries that are extremely data heavy. They have workstations have very large hardware requirements often with accelerated GPUs and things like this. That is an extremely expensive thing to install on premise anywhere. And if the pandemic taught us anything, it's if you have a bunch of very expensive talent and they all have to work from home, it is very difficult to go provide them with several tens of thousands of dollars worth of workstation equipment. And so combine the rail workstation with the AWS infrastructure and now all that workstation computational infrastructure is available on demand and available right next to the considerable amount of data that they're analyzing or animating or working on. So it's a really interesting, it was actually, this is an idea that I was actually born of the pandemic and it's kind of a combination of everything that we're talking about, right? It's the supply chain challenges of the customer. It's the lack of talent making sure that people are being put their best and highest use. And it's also having this kind of elastic, I think OPEX heavy infrastructure as opposed to a CAPEX heavy infrastructure. That's a great example. I think that illustrates to me what I love about cloud right now is that you can put stuff in the cloud and then flex what you need when you need it in the cloud rather than either ingress or egress of data. You just more, you get more versatility around the workload needs, whether it's more compute or more storage or other high level services. This is kind of where this next gen cloud is going. This is where customers want to go once their workloads are up and running. How do you simplify all this? And how do you guys look at this from a joint customer perspective? Because that example, I think, will be something that all companies will be working on, which is put it in the cloud and flex to whatever the workload needs. I can put it closer to the compute. I want to put it there. If I want to leverage more storage and networking, well, I'll do that too. It's not one thing. It's got to flex around. How are you guys simplifying this? So I'll give my point of view and then I'm very curious to hear what Edna has to say about it. I think about it in a few dimensions, right? So there is a technically, like any solution that a non-team and my team want to put together needs to be kind of technically coherent, right? That things need to work well together. But that's not even most of the job. Most of the job is actually the ensuring an operational consistency and operational simplicity so that everything is the day-to-day operations so that the things kind of work well together. And then also, all the way to things like support and even acquisition, right? I'm making sure that all the contracts work together, right? It's a really, so when Edna and I think about places of working together it's very rare that we're just looking at a technical collaboration. It's actually a holistic collaboration across support, acquisition, as well as all the engineering that we have to do. And on your view on how you're simplifying it with Red Hat for your joint customers, making collaborations. Yeah, yeah, gonna go with it. Well, I think the benefit here is that Red Hat has been the leading Linux distribution provider. So they had a lot of experience. AWS has been the leading cloud provider. So we have both our own point of views, our own learning from our respective set of customers. So the way we try to simplify and bring these things together is working closely. In fact, I sometimes joke internally that if you see Gunnar and my team talking to each other on a call, you cannot really tell who belongs to which team because we're all of us figuring out, okay, how do we simplify discount experience? How do we simplify programs? How do we simplify go-to-market? How do we simplify the product pieces? So it's really bringing our learning and share our perspective to the table and then really figure out how do we actually help customers make progress. Rosa that we talked about is a great example of that. You know, together we figured out, hey, there is a need for customers to have this capability in AWS and we went out and printed. So those are just some of the examples in how both teams are working together to simplify the experience, make it complete, make it more coherent. Great, that's awesome. Next question is really around how you help organizations with the sustainability piece and how to support them in simplifying it. But first, before we get into that, what is the core problem around the sustainability discussion we're talking about here, supply chain sustainability? What is the core challenge? Can you both share your thoughts on what that problem is and what the solution looks like and then we can get into advice? Yeah, well, from my point of view, it's, I think, you know, one of the lessons of the last three years is every organization is kind of taking a careful look at how resilient it is. Or I should say every organization learned exactly how resilient it was, right? And that comes from both the physical challenges and the logistics challenges that everyone had, the talent challenges you mentioned earlier, and of course, the software challenges, you know, as everyone kind of embarks on this digital transformation journey that we've all been talking about. And I think, so I really frame it as resilience, right? And resilience is, at bottom, is really about ensuring that you have options and that you have choices.  And so I know that that's how I approach the market. I'm pretty sure that's how Adnan is approaching the market, is ensuring that we are providing as many options as possible to customers so that they can assemble the right pieces to create a solution that works for their particular set of challenges or their unique set of challenges and unique context. Adnan, does that sound about right to you? Yeah, I think you covered it well. I can speak to another aspect of sustainability, which is becoming increasingly top of mind for our customers. It's like, how do they build products and services and solutions and whether it's supply chain or anything else, which is sustainable, which is for the long-term good of the planet. And I think that is where we've been also being very intentional and focused in how we design our data center, how we actually build our cooling system so that we, those are energy efficient. We are on track to power all our operations with renewable energy by 2025, which is five years ahead of our initial commitment. And perhaps the most obvious example of all of this is our work with the ARM processors, Graviton 3, where we are building our own chip to make sure that we are designing energy efficiency into the process. And we, the on Graviton 3 ARM processors chips, they are about 60% more energy efficient compared to some of the X86 comparable. So all those things that are also, we are working on and making sure that whatever our customers build on our platform is long-term sustainable. So that's another dimension of how we're working there in our platform. That's awesome. This is a great conversation. The supply chain is on both sides, physical and software. You're starting to see them come together in great conversations. And certainly moving workloads to the cloud, running them more efficiently will help on the sustainability side, in my opinion. Of course you guys talked about that and we've covered it. But now you start getting into how to refactor, and this is a big conversation we've been having lately is as you not just lift and shift, but replatform and refactor, customers are seeing great advantages on this. So I have to ask you guys, how are you helping customers and organizations support sustainability and simplify the complex environment? That's a lot of potential integrations. Obviously API's help, of course, but that's the kind of baseline. What's the advice that you give in customers? Because it can look complex and it becomes complex, but there's an answer here. What's your thoughts? Yeah, I think so whenever, when I get questions like this from customers, the first thing I guide them to is we talked earlier about this notion of consistency and how important that is. It's one thing, it is one way to solve the problem is to create an entirely new operational model and entirely new acquisition model and an entirely new stack of technologies in order to be more sustainable. That is probably not in the cards for most folks. What they want to do is have their existing estate and they're trying to introduce sustainability into the work that they are already doing. They don't need to build another silo in order to create sustainability, right? And so there has to be some common threads, there has to be some common platforms across the existing estate and your more sustainable estate, right? And so things like red enterprise Linux, which can provide this kind of common, not just a technical substrate, but a common operational substrate on which you can build these solutions. If you have a common platform on which you are building solutions, whether it's RHEL or whether it's OpenShift or any of our other platforms, that creates options for you underneath so that in some cases maybe you need to run things on-premise some things you need to run in the cloud but you don't have to profoundly change how you work when you're moving from one place to another. And what's your thoughts on the simplification?  So, but the good news is you don't have to do it by yourself. Customers don't have to do it on their own. You know, together AWS and Red Hat, we have a rich partner ecosystem, you know, AWS has over 100,000 partners that can help you take that journey, the transformation journey. And within AWS and working with our partners like Red Hat, we make sure that we have all, in my mind, there are really three big pillars that you have to have to make sure that customers can successfully replat from, refactor their applications to the modern cloud architecture. You need to have the rich set of services and tools that meet their different scenarios, different use cases, because no one size fits all. You have to have the right programs because sometimes customers need those incentives, they need those, you know, that help in the first step. And last but not least, they need training. So all of that, we try to cover that as we work with our customers, work with our partners, and that is where, you know, together we try to help customers take that step, which is a challenging step to take. Yeah, you know, it's great to talk to you guys, both leaders in your field, obviously Red Hat's full story history. I remember the days back when I was provisioning and loading OS's on hardware with CDs. If you remember those days, Gunner, but now with high level services, if you look at this year's reinvent, and this is kind of my final question for the segment is, then we'll get your reaction to it. Last year we talked about higher level service. I sat down with Adam Sileski, we talked about that. If you look at what's happened this year, you're starting to see people talk about their environment as their cloud. So Amazon has the gift of the CapEx, all that investment, and people can operate on top of it. They're calling that environment their cloud. Okay, for the first time we're seeing this new dynamic where it's like they have a cloud, but they're Amazon's the CapEx. They're operating. So you're starting to see the operational visibility, Gunner, around how to operate this environment. And it's not hybrid, this, that, it's cloud. This is kind of an inflection point. Do you guys agree with that or having a reaction to that statement? Because I think this is kind of the next gen super cloud-like capabilities. It's we're going, we're building the cloud. It's now an environment. It's not talking about private cloud, this cloud. It's all cloud. What's your reaction? Yeah, I think it's very natural. I mean, we used words like hybrid cloud, multi-cloud. If a super cloud is what the kids are saying now, right? It's all describing the same phenomenon, right? Which is being able to take advantage of lots of different infrastructure options, but still having something that creates some commonality among them so that you can manage them effectively, right? So that you can have kind of uniform compliance across your estate so that you can have kind of, you can make the best use of your talent across the estate. I mean, this is a, this is, it's a very natural thing. They're calling it cloud. The estate is the cloud. Yeah, so yeah, so fine. If it means that we no longer have to argue about what's multi-cloud and what's hybrid cloud, I think that's great. Let's just call it cloud. And what's your reaction? Cause this is kind of the next gen benefits of higher level services combined with amazing compute and resource at the infrastructure level. What's your view on that? Yeah, I think the construct of a unified environment makes sense for customers who have all these use cases which require, like for instance, if you are doing some edge computing and you're running a WS outpost or wavelength these things. So it is, it is fair for a customer to say, think that, hey, this is one environment, same set of tooling that they wanna build that works across all their different environments. That is why we work with partners like Red Hat so that customers who are running Red Hat enterprise Linux on premises and who are running in AWS get the same level of support, get the same level of security features, all of that. So from that sense, it actually makes sense for us to build these capabilities in a way that customers don't have to worry about, okay, now I'm actually in the AWS data center where it says I'm running outposts on premises. It is all one. They just use the same set of CLI, command line, APIs and all of that. So in that sense, it actually helps customers have that unification so that that consistency of experience helps their workforce and be more productive versus figuring out, okay, what do I do? Which tool I use? We're here. And you just nailed it. This is about supply chain sustainability, moving the workloads into a cloud environment. You mentioned wavelength. This conversation is going to continue. We haven't even talked about the edge yet. This is something that's going to be all about operating these workloads at scale and all with the cloud services. So thanks for sharing that. And we'll pick up that edge piece later, but for re-invent right now, this is really the key conversation, how to bake the sustained supply chain work in a complex and why I'm making it simpler. And so thanks for sharing your insights here on theCUBE. Thanks for having us. Okay, this is theCUBE's coverage of AWS re-invent 22. I'm John Furrier, your host. Thanks for watching.