Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. This time each carrier torch and each was burned by it. They heal the hero worshipper in the hot-bitten blonde and all because of a woman already two days dead. From the pen of Raymond Trantler, outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. In just a moment tonight's story, but first a message from the Ford dealers of America. Tonight more than 110,000 enthusiastic motorists own new 1950 Ford's. Here's what Donald L. Gibson, a pilot from Kansas City says about his 54. As a pilot I'm naturally interested in engines and that's why I bought a 54. That V8 really ticks along and ticks is just the right word because it's smooth and quiet as the Swiss move in the good watch and it's not just the Ford engine that's fine. The ride is just like flying in smooth air and the car handles like a dream. Anyone who's thinking of buying a new car should certainly take a check ride in the 54. We Ford dealers are swamped with comments like that. But don't take anyone's word for this new 54. Prove it for yourself. Look up your nearest Ford dealer in the classified phone directory or perhaps you know him personally. He'll arrange a test drive in the 54. Test drive it for comfort, for power, for safety and for the quietness, which is its mark of quality. Yes, before you buy any car at any price. Test drive the 54 at your Ford dealers tomorrow. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, the torch carriers. The eight hours that had just slipped away had been a noisy assortment of big people with little troubles I hadn't wanted to help and little people with big troubles. I hadn't been able to help. So by the time it was all over and I was heading for home a cozy quiet cocktail seemed like a good idea. One down and one to go and ease up. But even as I relaxed the tension between the couple sitting at my left became more and more apparent. I looked down the bar, the girl was young, pretty and obviously afraid of the little man with her. What only asthma where a voice should have been. Now, have I made myself clear? I don't know what you're talking about. I look sister Larry, so it doesn't go for people snooping after a night. I need to do I. It gives me work to do that sometimes rough on a party. Great boy.  Hey, take your hands off me. As soon as you relax.  I can lose my license for it. Now you leave at once. Wait a minute, Baldi. You heard him, Buster. Okay. I said what I come to say on you. Walter, Walter, stop playing. You all right, Miss? Yes, yes, thank you. Are you sure? Would you like another drink? No, no thanks. I think I'll go back to my villa. Oh, you're staying here at the Wilshire Gardens? Yes, villa 12. It's just around the corner. Maybe I better see you as far as the door. A little pal of yours might still be around. Well, thank you. It's all right. Come on. This is really very nice of you, Mr. Marlowe, Philip Marlowe. What about you? What? Clare Ospring. Well, now look, Clare, I'm not trying to pry to your business, but in a way, people like Larry Solver are my business. Larry Sol- How did you know about him? Your little pal on the bar wasn't whispering. I'm a private detective, Clare, and I see a lot of people get in over their heads.  You know, these people play rough, usually for keeps. Maybe you better tell me about it, huh? Well, this is my place. Oh. Mr. Marlowe, I'll be frank with you. A month ago I got into a jam. It was an investment. I'd made some stock. A sure thing I was told. And they usually are. Anyhow, the certificates weren't quite guilt edged, and they took a dive, a deep one. And to protect myself, I needed more money, so I took a bracelet. I had a diamond one and got a loan on it. From Larry Solver? Yes, from Solver. A friend, a person I thought was a friend, recommended him to me.  Yes, but Solver isn't around. He's hiding. How do you know? Well, I went to the club. He runs up on a strip. I overheard it there. Two men spoke of him as being on an extended vacation for his health. Of course, I didn't believe that, so I went around the back, found a door open, and got into Salter's private office. Maybe that in itself is a wonderful way to get into trouble deep. Yes, I know, but I just had to find out where Salter could be located so I could pay him and get my bracelet back. Here, look, this paper. It was folded under Salter's memo pad. On one side it says, Madge Gladstone 274. The last number is missing, Tornoff. And on the back, meet at 101010. Can this help us, Annie? No, it might. But first, Claire, a couple of questions that might help even more.  One of the men I overheard talking at Salter's club. He must have seen me and then followed me here. Good figures. Now, look, honey, you're scrambling awful hard for a thousand-buck bracelet. What's the rest of it? The rest of it? But you're out of your... Honey. Oh, what's the use? That's pretty. I might just as well tell you. The bracelet isn't mine, Mr. Marlowe. It belongs to my aunt. I live with her in San Diego. Oh, you borrowed it while she was away, maybe, huh? Yes. Oh, please, I've learned my lesson. I only want to get that bracelet back now, Mr. Marlowe. Please, please, will you help me? I'll pay you anything. Never mind that now. Oh, please, I must know where Larry Salter is. Okay, Claire, we'll try to find out. But I want condition, huh? Which is what?  Agreed? Oh, yes, agreed, Mr. Marlowe. Thank you very much. Maybe it was because the sweet young kid had the kind of voice you could still hear long after she was gone. You know, one of those lingering sounds, like the echo of a train whistle hanging on crisp early morning air. But when I was at a pay phone, I stopped wandering and started dialing numbers prefix Gladstone and followed by 274 and then in order 123 and so on until after no answer once, Wisecrackers twice, and a babysitter who thought I was a masher from a high school. I finally scored at number five. The answer took me to a dame named Madge Gilbert, a place called the Beekman Plaza. It wasn't the kind of place you'd go for mother, and Madge Gilbert wasn't the kind of girl mother would put up with. She must have been nice to look at once. And from the smile, pleasant to know. Okay, Mr. Busy Guy, now that we're together, what is it? Well, for one thing, the name's Kirby and you can drop the fancy handle. And for another thing, Kirby? I want to find Larry's salt of it quick. Got a proposition for him. He won't be interested. How can you tell? You don't know what it is. No, but I do know what, at the moment, Larry is. And in three letters, my friend, the word is sad. He lost his lady love. Drink. No, thanks. What do you mean his lady love? I heard that you and Larry... Never mind what you heard. All that used to be. The pre-Janice trial period. Sad comes from Janice finding a better deal, maybe, huh? No, she was killed. Automobile accident. Night before last. Saw the wither? No, again. She was alone and drunk. And that's probably the way Larry is right now.  Fill it up, will you? Sure. Look, baby, believe me, it won't put out the torture, Karen.  Sorry I broke the whole thing up.  Well, Larry, exclusively. Where is he? The Foundry on Cushing. The Foundry in Least Los Angeles. Hey, wait a minute, Kirby. You seem kind of lost for a friend of Larry. I'm just fuzzy on locations, that's all. How about numbers? The address down there, what is it? Come on, Pat. Ten-ten. Unless it's been changed recently. That hasn't. Okay, busy guy, you're still all right. Thanks. And if you play it real close, I think you'll be too. See you, Madge. Cushing Avenue in East Los Angeles is an industrial, literally wrong side of the tracks and about as non-Hollywood as an honest day's work. And all the way there, I kept blessing the dumb luck that had made me answer ten-ten for the address before I'd even had time to think. When I pulled up and parked away from the place, I hoped that luck would continue. Because ahead was the Foundry, or what remained of it, and in no sense did it look like friendly territory. I found a metal staircase climbing from what had once been a loading ramp up to the odd foreman's office, where a single, staring, unshielded light inside said that somebody was home. And when I quietly got up those stairs, I saw through a glass door who that somebody was. Larry Salter, alone next to a telephone and pitching dots at a smiling face on a calendar across the wall with red, January 1928.  Make yourself at home, neighbor. Be with you in a minute. Aha! I did it. Your front tooth have been trying for that all night. So glad you made it. Now we'll be on your mind while we talk. About what? Bracelets. Bracelets? Neighbor, this is an iron foundry. What you want is a jewelry shop. Let's save each other a lot of time and level, huh? I'm a private detective named Marlowe Solder and at the moment working for Claire Osborn, who now has the price of a bracelet. Once it back in a hurry, do we do business? No, we don't. And it's not because I don't like your neighbor. What? But because, one, I never heard of any Claire Osborn. And two, bracelets are stuff for second-story men. Which I am not.  You've been followed all the way through the yard and up the stairs and into this room. There's no gag, Solder. No, no gag. So while you still can, you better put that gun away because my boy Kovar takes a strange delight in picking people up real bad. Your bracket had chum. You better drop it fast. Yep. That's better. Now, Marlowe, without any double talk about babes and bracelets, let's have it. You're one of Freeman's best boys, aren't you?  You're here to square things away. That's it, isn't it? No, it isn't.  Okay, I won't touch you again. But that's more than I can say for Kovar. Yeah, lots more. It was a toss-up, were they? Kovar's gun on the side of my head. Or the side of my head on the floor had done the damage. By the way, it didn't seem to matter. Because I couldn't make it back any further than Larry Solder's voice. It sounded like it was coming from the bottom of the well. Even though I could see him talking out of the telephone. But then... I couldn't even see that anymore. Will it... Will it 12, please? Hello, Claire. Listen, I'm over in East Los Angeles. Yeah, I think so. 8100 North Lucerne, it's up in Hollywood near you. Now listen, Claire, about the bracelet... There is no bracelet. What? The stock market and no loan made. Where do you want to know where Solder is? What do you want from him? His life. Goodbye, Mr. Marlowe. Wait a minute, Claire. Claire, listen to me, I... I wouldn't try it, Cham. What? Hey, Kovar, listen, I...  You don't have to go no place until Larry Solder comes back and says so. Now relax, Cham. In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first, a brief message from the four dealers of America. Over 100,000 motorists are experiencing the engineering leadership built into the 54th. As owners, they already know that it's the one fine car in the low-priced field, and it's personal experience that counts in buying a car. That's why the four dealers of America are issuing this special invitation to test drive this new 54th for yourself. In the classified phone directory, you'll find the name of your nearest Ford dealer. Perhaps you know him personally. He'll be delighted to arrange a test drive tomorrow. So get behind the wheel and test drive it for the comfort of its midship ride, and its unmatched roominess. Test drive it for the power and quietness of the only V8 in the low-priced field, the kind of engine found in America's costliest cars, yet priced lower than 10 different six-cylinder cars. Test drive it for the safety of its own king-size brakes, largest in the low-priced field. Before you buy any car at any price, you'll find it to your advantage to test drive the 54th at your Ford dealers tomorrow. Now with our star, Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of Philip Marlowe, and tonight's story, The Torch Carriers. I turned to the poker-faced Culver and the 45, both staring at me from across six dusty feet of concrete floor that made the ancient East LA foundry seem colder and even more lonely. You don't stay put so good, do you, sweetheart?  You want to try again, sweetheart? I'll pass. Standing here staring at each other is up to good dull, don't you think? That's entirely up to you, sweetheart. You bleed pretty. You'd like that, wouldn't you, kid? Look, just so I don't get plugged by mistake.  Help yourself. Over there on that box, though, we keep me between you and the door. That's right.  You've got no idea. Hey, come on. How long do we play like this? I'll tell you better when Orville the Squeak gets back. What's Orville the Squeak? He runs Aaron's Ferrari, like finding out what's phony about a certain young babe in her bracelets that don't exist. So that's where the bird with the whiskey soprano fits. That's the way the punk operates, huh? Well, that way, Kovu will both die of old age before... Well, why don't you hear that? Somebody move downstairs. Maybe this is visitors' night in the old foundry. Don't get your hopes up, sweetheart. Those live here, they're rats.  And one thing more, mother... This... What's that for, punk? Dropping your hands out of your lap where I couldn't see him. Don't try it again. Don't put it on your bill.  Maybe you better tell me... Sure, sure. Only first I want to know something. What about the late Mr. Freeman best? Freeman was scum.  Nobody misses him. I mean nobody. And Larry didn't kill him. That's odd. But he was connected, wasn't he? And there was a girl named Janice Trowell. How does she figure? You better let that one set, sweetheart, for your own sake. Now let's have your end in fast. What's supposed to happen? Did you hear it? Yeah, what?  Excuse me. All right, give. Come on, wise boy, jabber. Look, Kovu won't do you any good.  There was something.    Is that you? Who's out there? Answer me! As Kovu raged out of the room, I fell along the side of the box I had been sitting on for a jagged chunk of metal slag I had spotted earlier. It was about the size of a baseball and heavy. I picked it up and moved across to the opposite wall near the door. You, get out of here. The box is through with you. Now feed it. I stepped out and saw Kovu standing at the head of the stairs as back to me. I threw the lump of iron slag with everything I had.  I caught a glimpse of a woman ducking out a sight behind the foundry furnace. It was Maj Gilbert. You killed him, didn't you? Kovu's dead? I don't know, and I don't care. What are you doing this boarded up rat trap? There's nobody else here. Just us and Kovu. Creepy number they call all of the squeakers do any minute.  You made your bed, baby, but let's not get lost. What are you after in here? I've been thinking plenty about that torch you're talking about. I decided if you carry the same old one long enough, you're bound to get burned. Finally felt the heat, huh? Yeah, plenty. So I came here looking for you, or Larry? Couldn't make up your mind. Certainly. I wanted to tell Larry I was through with him. Need to beat you to it, but you found me so. Okay. But if Larry or the squeak come back after what I'm going to tell you, you got to help me get out of here. Larry'd kill me. Okay kid, let's have it. You wanted to know about Janice Traff. Yeah. Okay, I'll tell you. She was beautiful. I'd be the first to admit it. A brunette like every woman wishes she was. And Larry fell for her.  Only she was rotten.  So says the jealous lover. Jealous? Sure I was jealous at first. And just hurt and disgusted. She was double-crossing Larry every time he turned around, but there was nothing I could do. I tried to tell him anything. Or it's strictly stock, man. Yeah, all but this. One time I made it stick. She borrowed Larry's car to take that slimy Freeman best out for a ride in it. With extra laughs because it was Larry's car, mind you. And Freeman best in case you haven't heard. I've heard. Well, I got a lead that they were going to wind up at the bridge café. I made Larry take me out there to prove what I'd been telling him about Janice was true. You proved it? We waited for him at the bridge. They showed up all right, doing 90. She couldn't make the curve and they hit the bridge rail and killed them both. Wait a minute, wait a minute, you're stretching, baby. Freeman best body was found 30 miles south. Sure, sure it was because Larry couldn't bear the idea of Janice Trowby and found the Freeman best. He tried to protect her and keep everybody from finding out what a tramp she really was. He pulled Freeman's body out of the wrecking hall that cleared down the Long Beach and dumped it. I watched him do it. And all this business is just to keep that secret about Janice Trowby. Sure, can you imagine a love like that going to waste? Even with her dead, even now he won't as much as speak to me. I'm not so bad. I've tried and I've waited. But he won't drop it. So it's all yours Kirby and take it. I hope you put it right where it hurts him the most. Kirby was a stall. I'm Marlowe, private detective. What? Gee, how cheap did I sell out anyway? It depends. The only ax I'm grinding is for a girl named Claire Osborn. Have you heard of her? No. That's funny. For some reason she hates Solter even more than you. Listen, it's horrible. It's horrible. You stay where you are. I'm scared of him. I'll pull his fangs. Just don't get absent-minded about which side you're on. Where's Larry? I don't know. I've been waiting for him. Where's Cobra then? I got something important. Cobra? He went out for a few minutes. Yeah. I don't like this sister. You and he all by yourself. Something's wrong. What is it? Come on. What's the matter? Hold it, all of them. You. Why the gun? Yes. What do you know about Claire Osborn? I don't think I know the party. Sure you do. A cute little brunette named Claire Osborn. I want it now, not later. Hey, go over. Hey, go over. Answer my questions, you creep. You won't get anything out of me. Larry will take care of a book.  Maybe there's something on that will give me an answer without talking back. Look, he always wrote things down in a little notebook. It's inside his jacket. Yeah, you're right. Here it is. Let's see. I'm not sure if this is it. Claire Osborn arrived from San Diego last night by plane. I just did it at Wilshire Gardens as Claire Osborn recording the driver's license. Her real name is... For Pete's sake, no wonder. I'll see you, kid. It took me 20 minutes to get from East LA over to Lucerne and another five to find the bleak white bungalow that belonged to Larry Salter. Its front windows were dark when I drove past it parked on a side street and walked back. But in the real, one window showed a light. The screen door was open, so I eased myself into the service porch where I could see Salter sitting at a kitchen table.  I couldn't see it was facing him, but there was no mistaking the voice. It was Claire. I've already told you once, kid, you're making a mistake. No, I'm not. You're going to pay for my sister's death. No court will ever call it murder, but that's what it was. You did it just as surely as if you'd strangled her with your own hands. And now I'm going to get even for Janice. Claire! Give me that gun, Claire. I know you stay out of this. You can't stop me. Nobody can.  Now listen to me. Before you start pulling that trigger, you better know all the facts. Everything Salter here has done since your sister's death has been a shield and protect what little she herself left of a good reputation. She turned bad, Claire. You're lying. No, no. What reason have I got to lie? I'm telling you this because it's true and I can prove it. I don't believe you. You're trying to trick me.  Now there's more! The night she died, she was two-timing Larry. But even in spite of that, he risked his neck to move the body of the other guy just so she wouldn't be found with a kind of cheap trash she'd been running around with. And do you know why? Because Larry Salter there loved your sister, loved her every bit as much as you did. Loved her? Oh, no. No, this can't be true. Yes, it's true, kid. All of it. I loved her, all right? Just too bad that Janice went like she did. Oh, my love. Okay, baby, the hard part's over. Come on, come on, give me the gun. You don't want to shoot anybody, not now. You better not, Claire. Yes, I'll be all right when I get used to a few new ideas. Yeah. What's going to happen to me now? Well, that's pretty much up to you. How do you mean? The world spins like mad, honey. You have to keep up or get lost. Like I was tonight. I was lost, Marlo, terribly. Everything I had any faith in was gone. Yeah, I know. That's because you had blind faith, Claire.  I get it. From now on, it's me, on my own two feet and my eyes wide open. Well, take it easy, baby. It's fun to close them once in a while. After I dropped Claire off at her hotel, I... I remember the drink I'd started out to get and left half finished on the bar. But it was too late now to stop anywhere, so I drove home and poured myself a nightcap in my own apartment. I carried over to the window and looked out across the city at the endless miles of winking lights. Each one a torch. Everybody carries a torch for something. Some for a love they can never have. An ideal that's out of reach and some just... just for memory. Funny thing. So many dark corners get their only light from a torch that somebody carries. Philip Marlo will be back in just a moment, but first, here's a message from the four dealers of America. More than a hundred and ten thousand delighted motorists were already driving the new 50 Ford. Here's what Jack Ferrell, hotel manager, says. I did a lot of shopping around and chose Ford for styling. And I'm certainly glad because I found there's plenty of car beneath its beautiful body. There's plenty of power under the hood, too. And it's as comfortable as a high-priced car. I could go on for hours about the quietness, the economy, and the comfort of my car, but it all adds up to this. Ford's a mighty fine car to own. We Ford dealers are not surprised that new owners rave about their 50 Ford's. We've studied this new Ford from stem to stern. We know every detail of its 50 ways new for 50. But until you get behind the wheel, you won't be able to believe how good it is. That's the reason we want you to test drive the 50 Ford. The classified phone directory will give you the name of the nearest Ford dealer. Or perhaps you know him personally. Before you buy any car at any price, you owe it to yourself to test drive the 50 Ford. Be sure and be with us again next week when Philip Marlowe says... This time everything that happened from the orange-haired man with a map past the O for the pitchfork to the body at the covered bridge was wrong. Dead wrong. The adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman McDonnell and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Feature in the cast were Sammy Hill, John Daener, Vivi Janus, Harry Bartel, Wilms Herbert and Edgar Berrier. The special music is composed and conducted by Richard O'Rant. This is Roy Rowan speaking. 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a lot more time. I was there for the entire duration Thursday to Sunday and I spent a lot of time walking around and actually exploring the booths. I told myself though that I was not going to be buying any fabric. One, because I have a ton of fabric. Two, I had no way of getting it home because I was traveling for eight days in a carry-on and it was filled to the brim. Like I didn't have any other room.  There was no chance. So I really explored some of the like smaller little knickknacks I went into shops that or booths that I might not normally go into because they didn't have fabric. So I was like, well, let's see what's going on in here. I found a lot of cool, really fun things. So I want to show you all of those today in my Sew Expo haul. So let's go through it and see what I got. Hopefully you guys will be inspired too. Okay, so this first one is fit for art patterns and they have a really, really cool concept for their patterns. They have like three patterns basically and that's it. So you take the three patterns or one of the three patterns, you get it to fit you perfectly and then you modify that to make a ton of different variations on it. So being as that I was super inspired by pants while I was there, I got the fit for art Eureka pants that fit pant. So I'll have some more information for you guys on this, but it's a really cool fun concept, very smart. I think that, you know, when it comes to fitting and patterns and all of that people's brains work in all kinds of different ways. And I think I just haven't found the way that works with my brain. So I'm trying to try out a bunch of different ways to find the one that I like best and that one is very encouraging. Okay, so from, so I told you I got that textbook from Lorraine Henry. I also purchased her half-scale practice patterns and this is what you use to learn the concepts that are in the textbook. So this is a way for me to like take myself to school basically. So I got those. I also got her and this thing is awesome. Hold on, let me find the, all right. I also got the measuring made easy measuring tapes. You get two of them in there. One of them has the zero in the middle. Glee, you use this middle measurement, like if you want to find your shoulder to shoulder, you put the zero in the middle and now you've got your left measurement and your right measurement all in one.  So this is really ingenious. Um, what else? I got the Paradiso Designs Boho Frog. I actually got a bunch of stuff from her. I got the Boho Frog. I got the, um, oh shoot, what is this bag called? Oh no, no, this is the Leather Sewing Techniques Kit. So this is a kit that teaches you how to sew with leather because I also got the, not that, here's a Texture Discovery Kit, similar to the Leather one, but this one you work with cottons and interfacings and stuff like that. I got the Rose Bag Pattern from them and I got the Daisy Kit and the Daisy I'm actually going to be making in April out of this really pretty. Um, I don't know if you can see it very well, but it's like a really pretty black leather.  Um, so I'll be using this along with the Leather Techniques Kit and she's also, um, I think right now working on a sew along for the Daisy too. So I'll have all of those resources to help me make a really, really great, um, leather bag. She had some of them on display and they look like what you would find in the stores. So I'm excited about that. Next up, I got, oh, I won. I won something. So I went to the, um, American Sewing Guild chapter meeting. They have one there every year. It's like this dinner and they have speakers this year they had Anne and Bruce Whaley from Australia there. So that was fun. And like you put your little ticket into the raffle and they draw numbers. I never, ever win those things. Um, but this time I did, I won this from Olive Us Girls Aqua Chex Mix Table Runner Kit. So you make this gingham looking table runner and you get all the fabric and batting for it. So I thought that that was fun and free and I won. So that's cool. All right. So from, was it dry goods design? I think I got the Wireframe Cosmetics Case Hardware and this is to make, you know, a bag that opens up like a clam. So I thought that was really cute. Um, I also got from dry goods a, uh, coin purse hardware to make these really cute coin purses from scraps. Isn't that fun? I love that. I also bought the Angela Wolfe Rouge T-shirt. I took her knit at leisure class and after that class I came and bought this pattern so that I could practice some of the stuff that she taught us while we were in the class. But this one's really cool. Look at all of these different options all from one pattern. And then I think you can also leave the ruching out and she tells you how, how much to adjust the length if you take the ruching out. So thought that was really cute. I also bought, you know those sewing machine magnets that you put on your throw plate in order to help with the seam allowances? I got one in the shape it was sewing machine. I thought that was so cute. I need one, not for the five eighths inches, but once you go past that like one and a quarter, sometimes it's hard for me. So I just spent a little bit of money on this to get one of those. I also got two more enamel pins. If you've seen my denim jacket with all the enamel pins on it, all the sewing themed enamel pins, um, I'm trying to add to that collection. So I got one with scissors and one that says maker. And both of these came from some place with sisters in the name. I'll try to find, well, I'll find it and put it in the description box with a link to their enamel pins. Two sisters, something maybe. And then a needle pocket guide. I think they were just giving this away and a measuring tape. And that's it. That is it. Those are that's my haul from, um, so expo this year. And there you have it. Like I said before, um, I didn't buy any fabric, which is fine. You guys, it's fine even in isolation and quarantine. It's still fine. I promise. Wait till you see what I have planned for April. It's fine. Um, but yeah, so I found a lot of really cool, interesting, little, little things. Um, hopefully maybe some things that you hadn't heard of before either. Like all of these things were new to me. So I was excited to come across some new discoveries while I was there, which I think is like the whole point. So that was really great. But I'm going to have links in the description box to as many of these things as I can find that are available online. So be sure to check out the description box for more information. But other than that, that is going to do it for me today. And I will see you all very soon. Bye.


I haven't voted yet, but I'm about to vote because it's the most important thing we can do if we want to keep our democracy. It's really important to have a vote. So yeah, absolutely. It's important on a local level, on a state level, and especially in this election, on a national level. I'm a pro-Trump fan. I want to make sure that he is represented. What little we have in Vermont, I want to represent him. That was the fastest I've ever been in and out of a polling place for a town meeting day election, and there weren't a lot of options to choose from. The Tracy Delphi is running uncontested. The moderator is running uncontested. This was a fairly light ballot. There's a lot of concern about school budgets and budgets generally. There wasn't a school budget on the ballot in Essex this cycle, so there wasn't that. It's uncontested select board race, so in Essex it was a fairly simple ballot this year. Taxes are getting way out of control, way out of hand, and I know we need a certain amount of expense to run the town and public offices and things like that, but it's going to be much worse. Yeah, there seems to be inequities in, like some of the issues where, like Champlain Water District, not everybody here in Essex gets Champlain Water, and it just seems a little inequitable to be voting on something that we don't even get.


The year of the snake. I was born into the night, blue bruised without breath, summer dusk in Santa Clara, pink and orange heat defrosting my blue. Steril hospital air slithered into soft lungs, and I coughed out a cry. They cut that snake of a cord that threatened to choke nine months of nourishment.  Admire how my skin could heal. Moments can turn sweet to sour, sour to sweet, blue to pink, and my birth in the year of the snake could have been my death. Between want and need. In the bathroom at the poetry reading, empty to cate cans on the shelf, a cup of paintbrushes, Meyers hand soap, and a mirror with the southeast edges divided into shards. I perch perpendicular, traveling the compass of reflection and find my face a cubist mess. My nose hangs to one side, and half an eye searches for the whole truth. The creases of my mouth are stained burgundy. If lips had lifelines like hands do, would you read this moment as an intersection between want and need? The way I parted my lips when he cast a gaze from across the room, the way parting the lips is a symptom of want, and I so quickly bite the line, like I like to be gutted and filleted and devoured by hungry strangers with cunning poems. Back in the room in the hum of post-performance poet chatter, back in my body, mouth closed, she kisses me. So I was recently published in The Spring Issue of Foreign Magazine. I got three poems published, which I was very excited about. So I'm going to read a couple of those. This one's called Uber Pool, which I actually wrote in the back of an Uber Pool.  The window is cracked and breeze weakens my knees.  So this next poem is a bit longer in sections. Something I've been thinking about a lot about misinformation and the order of misinformation that young girls get and how it shapes their image of their body and image of sex. So I'm going to read this one. This one's kind of a toddler compared to the other, so bear with me. Misinformation, one, on every silver screen, they lay missionary boy on top of girl, thrusting and moaning and magically, romantically, both reach orgasm at the exact same time. And the young girl thinks, this is sex, penetration. She is infatuated with the unreachable part of her body. Cosmo gives her tips on crazy positions to get to the big O. 90 ways to please him. And the young girl thinks, this is pleasure, co-dependence. Two, her body does not match his porn. He is disgusted to find so much hair. She shaves off her shame and he wants her again even if her lips are swollen and red with stubble and itch like his five o'clock shadow. Her friends do it too, and Victoria's secret models with their Brazilians ripping off nerve endings and lacy panties just covering the secret. And the young girl thinks, this is what it takes to be sexy. My natural body is repulsive. Three, her father chuckles walking in on his son, nose tucked into Esquire. Her mother winces walking in on her, explains it's not proper, shouldn't be talked about. And the films show the awkward teenage boy getting caught familiarizing himself with himself and everyone shrugs their shoulders and giggles. Boys will be boys and girls will be girls behind closed doors. Four, the MPAA rates films are if a man receives oral. The MPAA rates films NC17 if a woman receives oral. If a film is rated NC17, most major theaters will not show it.  The textbook does not say only 30% of women can orgasm from penetrative sex alone. She reads this much later after she begins to take matters and nerve endings into her own hands.  You really don't find this hot, her boyfriend asks, and she tries to pinpoint why. She wants to see herself on the screen. She wants to hear a moan that comes from effort, not direction. She wants to believe the girl on the screen is more than a vessel that sometimes she orgasms too. Seven, in the womb we all begin as female. The clitoris develops into a penis only when the SROI gene signals testes to grow in the second month. We begin as one form, yet claim that XX and XY are opposite binary beings. XX must not show signs, she is similar to XY. Meanwhile, XY has nipples and a faint scar down the scrotum where an opening could be. Retrograde. A child sneezes and a bud blossoms. A calloused finger strums strings and a picture frame shifts 0.25 degrees east on a summer afternoon with bees humming and dropping pollen like napalm while a man swallows the lemon seed in his iced tea. Meanwhile, the planet closest to the sun makes a ribbon-shaped pier away and the heel of a woman's pump catches between the ridges of an escalator step. Grandma gets vertigo while dusting the armoire and 50,000 people go to work groggy and sleep deprived. We are not immune to motion sickness. A single drop of water makes waves. Where's that? I'm gonna end on a more lyrical poem. Only mold grows in vases. Never, never may the flower be clipped and vase to bloom forever. One that cultivates love must keep it rooted. Though petals open opal, though bloom beckons touch, one that cultivates love must know it's enough to smile in the springtime and trust that winter will pass. No petals browned at bud, no stems stuffed into glass. Never, never may the flower be clipped and vase to meet its bloom. The seasons renew what's faded but not what's clipped away too soon. Thank you.


What is going on everyone? Jocelyn Jay here. Thank you so much for checking out this channel. I have been getting a lot of questions regarding computer science, software development and engineering and I am super excited to take the time out to answer your questions and give you career advice and academic advice like so if you're a high school student who is interested in becoming an engineer or a computer scientist I'm going to give you some advice if you are someone in college and you're trying to figure out like what type of job you want after college I can give you advice and for those who want to have a career change I can give you all advice too so before we get started if you haven't already please hit that subscribe button smash that subscribe button whatever you want to do it will be really dope because you all can join the family and you all can stay connected with me continue to give me advice on what type of videos you would like to see or just ask me questions in the comments so I'm literally just gonna go through my comment section and I'm going to just pick some questions to answer because one thing I've noticed in life is a lot of times the question that you're asking is the same question that like 50 other people are asking and just want to know the answer to so when do you go to sleep I try to get eight hours of sleep because as an engineer your job is pretty demanding and you need to make sure your brain is well rested and your body is well rested so you can really crush the next day all right next question okay I need to learn how to code lol where to start okay this may sound really cliche but the first place you want to start oh sorry about that the first place that you want to start is a google search like a simple google search so if you want to learn uh web development right like the basics html javascript css I would literally go on google and type in html tutorial for beginners or um simple website tutorial for beginners something along those lines the more specific you get the better like search you're gonna get and then I really like to use a site called w3 schools w3 schools is this amazing website that has tutorials on so many different programming languages everything from like javascript html css angular and so much more and they just give you the basics of what you need and not only do they show you how to build different components and elements within a programming language they also explain like what is going on which is really cool and the interface is really easy to follow which is a super important aspect of the website because if you have a website that is really bad or the explanation is bad or there's no explanation at all you're really just coding without any like understanding of what you're actually programming also believe it or not I like to use youtube because I'm a visual learner so I do w3 schools as well and I use like tutorials point and when I wanted to learn csharp I would go to like csharp corner which is like a specific website to learn how to do csharp but I really like youtube even though it's like hard to see it and watch a video for an hour I promise you it'll help you because you have a lot of experts that teach you how to program so really detailed things that you wouldn't necessarily learn from like just going to a site and just following along a tutorial you can learn so much more from that expert so I would advise your google search with like w3 schools and I would advise a youtube search kind of similar to google search but you get the idea okay someone said I want to become a software developer and I see you like that job I have one question is this work hard and how much okay so that is a really good question I would say preparing to become a software developer or engineer was probably more difficult than the job itself and it's not that the job itself isn't difficult because it is and in a lot of aspects it's even more difficult however think of it this way when you're in school as a software engineer major computer scientist electrical engineer whichever you aren't just focusing on your major but you have like gen eds to do and you have organizations to focus on and you have work and you're trying to like learn this really tough major and finish these projects along with doing other work whereas as a person who is an industry and is working full time in this specific field I'm focusing solely on that field on top of the fact I have a bunch of people around me who are professionals and experts in that field that can help answer me questions that would take me like 10 hours to figure out by myself at school compared to at work I could like learn it on the fly and I have all not all the time in the world but I have way more time to focus on a more difficult subject within computer science or software engineering than I did as a student I hope that answers the question so the work is difficult and not all of it is super hard um you have administrative tasks as well but you have a great group if you have a great group around you a great group of co-workers around you it can make it a lot easier but it's still not easy in a sense now the question everybody wants to know even though it's like everywhere on the internet but I'm still gonna answer it okay how much money does a junior software engineer make that is a good question I mean you know money is a reason why people become engineers especially become software engineers or computer scientists so I'm it's a it's a vague answer right so it depends on where you are you got to look at the cost of living so I feel like the range is anywhere between like mid 40s uh low 50s to like maybe 80k and the data is a bit skewed because a lot of your software companies are in major cities especially major cities along the coast that have a high cost of living so for example a software engineer in Houston may make a junior software engineer in Houston may make 60k starting out or 55k starting out and a junior software engineer in New York City may be making 110k starting out so it really depends on where you live if you're in an area whose cost of living is higher it's going to be much higher so I hope that answers the question there I don't want to give you just a specific average right like you go online it may say the average is 70 something k but the data is skewed so if you're not making 70k and you're living in like Cincinnati starting out that's okay because your 50k or your 55k will probably stretch more than someone's 95k in Manhattan okay this is a really good question um this is actually probably one of my favorite questions but someone said why did you choose software I'm having a hard time deciding between studying electrical and electronic engineering or mechanical engineering okay so I'll never forget it was freshman year and there was a banquet going on and um basically what we did was we had dinner with faculty and other incoming freshmen who are computer science majors or electrical engineering majors so you basically sit at your designated like department table now never forget my department chair um and my department chair is a department chair of not only computer science but computer science and electrical engineering and I'll never forget I'll never forget he was like you know you look at society you look at the world and computer science is like where the world is going like that's the direction the world is heading and that's a huge reason why I was like you know what you're right all these everyone needs a website um all these different apps I mean even cars are controlled by micro processors and controllers who are programmed by systems engineers and software engineers and I was like you know what that's I want to do that and I felt like the field is very lucrative the internship opportunities are amazing don't get me wrong mechanical engineering and electrical engineering they have an amazing field too but there are a bunch of mechanical engineers out there there are um electrical engineers also do computer science stuff as well so they can kind of dabble in software engineering too but I really enjoy computer science because I said as a computer scientist I can do so many like jobs like I can work at a mechanical engineering firm someone needs a database handle someone needs an application bill but not every company needs an electrical engineer you know like not every a marketing company doesn't need an electrical engineer but they may need a web developer right they may need an app bill um a software company may not need a mechanical engineer but they definitely need software engineers a law firm definitely doesn't need a mechanical or electrical engineer but they may need a software engineer to maintain their app to maintain all the um customers that they have and all the data that they've got we get the idea by the way I apologize if I haven't answered any of your questions in the common section yet I promise I will get to all of your questions I promise I will and I know some people I've already answered these questions in the comment section but of course I can't answer them like as well as I can with this video so I didn't want to just give you all like you know a quick response I could try to respond as best as I can in the YouTube comment section but I really wanted to dedicate this video to you all and I wanted to be more elaborate with some of the answers that I have okay next question someone asked um basically they want to pursue a career in software engineering and they have a question regarding should they major in computer science or just as a software engineer with an emphasis in machine learning man you are on your way to be very successful in life with whichever path you pick so I recommend computer science um not trying to be biased but see it's almost a little bit contradictory wait is that is that the word it's almost a contradiction but so computer science isn't built to prepare you to be a software engineer it's it builds you to become like a computer scientist if that makes sense the thing is most like most jobs out of college for computer scientists are software engineering jobs however that isn't always the case like I have a friend who's doing like data analytics and um like he intern at quick and loans for um data analytics and computer science got him that opportunity because we focus so much on like on um algorithms um manipulating data manipulating data um engineering systems engineering we have a breath of pretty much everything we don't just focus on programming and also I you know correct me if I'm wrong but what I know software engineering isn't like a super accredited major around the country yet it's going to be and I know um right now other schools who are working on making it accredited but I know computer science within the engineering college is accredited also you may like software engineering now but what if you want to be like you know you want to work on big data later or analytics later well your strong math and science fundamentals that you learn during your computer science curriculum can help you get that job which is why I focus on computer science I don't get me wrong if you major in software engineering you're gonna have a job probably the rest you're probably always gonna have a job I don't see why that would be a problem however if you want to have a broader like career path I would do computer science because you could do software engineering and a bunch of other things too also I remember uh talking to a lot of my friends who were software engineers uh or software engineering majors in college they didn't um they didn't take as much math as me and they also didn't take some some of the engineering courses and there's nothing wrong with that but I really appreciate that as much as it was a headache for me um after getting my degree I really appreciate the fact that I took like microprocessors and controllers and parallel computation because it it opened up my mind to these other career paths like oh what if I want to be a systems engineer and I want to work for like you know um you know audio one day or a car company one day and I want to be a systems engineer so I've gotten this question a couple times um what company do I work for and how is it so I work for a company called Highland software and the product we create is on base and essentially we are a content services slash like enterprise content management company and I really love it Highland is like literally like the google of Cleveland is like its nickname and it's been on Forbes like top 100 best companies to work for the last like four or five years it's an amazing company with amazing people and it's so collaborative we work in an agile type environment so there's a lot of communication there's a lot of innovation that goes on there's no micro management if I think that this is a better approach to solve a software solution even if I'm an intern or an intro developer like I am right now my opinion and my voice matters okay second to last question how can you get an internship with no experience all right so for those who don't know I did get an internship with no experience however what helped me get that internship was the side projects that I had and just the fact that I was going out and looking for a job as an 18 year old freshman so that was the company thought that I was impressive and if I was your recruiter I would definitely feel like that's an impressive thing to do to get out of your comfort zone to work on your craft and become a better professional so if I were you what I would do is I would take an intro to programming class like your first semester and I would do some side projects work on some apps the project doesn't have to still even have to work or at least definitely doesn't have to be perfect but the fact that you're striving to do something outside of your curriculum shows that you have a passion for what you're doing and I promise you that will help you get an internship also look online for companies that hire freshmen as interns also if you're just looking for an internship and you're not a freshman consider going to your career fair and I so someone in the professional services department at my university he always told us if you apply 30 places 10 will reach out and then usually people get 10 interviews from those 30 positions they apply to and they get three offers I think that is very true however it depends on like what kind of companies you're applying to if you're applying to like 30 companies that are like insanely competitive the numbers might be a little bit different but definitely um critiquing your resume sending your resume over to someone who is has a lot of experience in critiquing resumes and templating out in resumes is really important because like that's the first thing recruiters look at is your resume so if your resume isn't appealing you're probably not gonna get moved to the stack the good stack right you're probably gonna be moved to the bad stack with that being said that is all I have for you all I hope this video was very informative and very helpful I am just so passionate about this like this makes me so excited and I love the direction of my channel is going and I love that you all are supporting me so um let's continue to stay connected like I said if you haven't already smashed that subscribe button give this video a thumbs up and um make sure you leave a comment below I love hearing from you all and continue to ask me questions I love it I love you all have a blessed week I will see you all soon peace


I need a crafting table. Hello. I'm Joseph George with Dell. Thanks for coming out to the Havana Conference today. We're going to spend just a few minutes talk a little bit about what's going to be happening this week. Some of the things that are happening that Dell is sponsoring. First of all, I want to introduce Rob Hershfeld. Rob Hershfeld also with Dell on the architecture side. Rob and I have had the fortunate experience to have been at seven prior design summits for OpenStack. This is our eighth one. And actually, Rob and I are both on the OpenStack board of directors. So OpenStack's been part of our heritage for a very long time. So really excited about the Havana conference here. Just want to give you a brief overview of some of the things we're doing. First of all, on behalf of the board and the foundation, we're just very excited to have the biggest design summit that we've ever had. As you can see, just overflowing with people interested in hearing about what all the different vendors are doing. I don't know if you actually sat in on some of these sessions. I had my eye on two specific sessions this morning. And I couldn't get any of either one of them. They were just so packed out. So it's a good sign that we're going the right direction. Dell's actually got quite a bit that's going on this week. We've got a number of sessions that are going on. I'll be hosting a panel on SDN on Wednesday. Rob is actually the chair for the ops track. You also are hosting a panel on reference architectures, I believe. The hot topic of the day, reference architectures. So Rob will be doing some monitoring a panel around that. We also have a number of, I think we've got 40, 50 some odd Dell people here today. Obviously Dell's been doing a lot of stuff with OpenStack since 2010. We've actually got an OpenStack solution in market, the Dell OpenStack powered cloud solution. We've actually been very active in the community. If you see Rob and I, our crowbar shirts that we're wearing today, yes, our contribution to what OpenStack users are trying to do to deploy OpenStack crowbar, an open source product, I should say, an open source community of things that are going on. So a lot of stuff that we're doing in this space, we're interested in collaborating with users, collaborating with partners, and just really getting OpenStack further adoption in the market and among our users today. I will say that we've got a booth about in that corner. There's a lot of people that are there to come to meet you and talk through some things. We are giving away these shirts. OpenStack game changers. Have you seen these? OpenStack game changers. You'll see people wearing these around. These are free. For this week only, these are free. So feel free to stop by and get one. No purchase necessary. What are they going to be after that? That's right. You have to buy a server. That's right. After that, we'll have to pay people to take them. But feel free to go by and get one. We've got a lot of little giveaways and stuff that are going on. Most importantly, probably based on what happened at the last event, we are giving away Sputnik laptop this week on Wednesday. Yeah. That's awesome. If you haven't heard about Sputnik, it's based on our XPS 13 laptops. Super thin, super light. We've got a couple at the booth today. But it is running the Ubuntu operating system on it. And it is specifically geared for developers. If you follow Barton George and any of the work that he's been doing, he's been our lead around Sputnik. He's actually here this week as well. So go check it out. Get in the drawing, and we'll be giving that away on Wednesday at 1 o'clock. It'll be lunchtime. There'll be people around. The t-shirts that we have. You are highly encouraged to wear your t-shirts on Wednesday as part of the giveaway festivities that will be going on. So be sure to grab one before Wednesday. And we'll all be wearing our Game Changer t-shirts that day. And then also at the booth today, we will have what Rob is doing and being very distracting about what I'm saying. I don't know if you've heard anything I said. So I'll hand it over to Rob. You should know Rob and I have been working together for many, many years. So we've got this down now. Rob, we're doing some really interesting things with Minecraft over at our Dell booth this week. You want to tell everybody what's going on? Sure. So one of the things that we've been doing is a cloud's nothing if you can't deploy an application. And so one of the applications that we've deployed and can show deployments of is a Minecraft server. It's one that a lot of customers have asked about. When are you going to have Minecraft support? We are completely going after the 12 to 18 demographic for our new line of servers. That's right. Hey, you know what? I'm pretty sure there's not a lot of 12-year-olds in the audience right now. But I'm sure they're all playing Minecraft. We're going to check IDs later. Yeah, that's right. Make sure. So if you have 12, actually six-year-old to 30-year-olds, Minecraft, Minecraft, you collect things and then you build stuff with it, is a very hot game. It is a sandbox game. Meaning that I have it running right here. And you can play it individually. You can play it on iPads. You can play it off of shared servers. And so I'm telling you, I've seen six-year-old girls completely engrossed in this game. It's a collaborative game. So when people play on servers, they actually build things together. And then you can actually get to the point where you build scripts and things like that. So my teenage sons actually build very sophisticated scripts inside of these environments. So you can make it into a shooter-type game. You can make it into a purely creative game where you fly around the world. You can do just almost second-life type hangout in virtual environments. The way this new generation of digital natives is using this game is truly impressive. So if your kids are asking about Minecraft, it is a safe game. It's a lot of fun to play with. It's not like World of Warcraft where they're going to get sucked in. Have a great time, but get sucked in. So Rob, what are we doing over at the Dell booth with Minecraft this week? So what we're doing at Minecraft is we have a running Minecraft server. And we can connect you up to it. We can show you how to deploy it using Juju off the Sputnik laptop. And then, of course, this session is to help you do the most essential part of that, which is actually play it. Now, what's it running in the back end? It's running. This is what Minecraft looks like. Hey, guys, it looks incredibly 8-bit. It's part of its allure. It's stunning to me how interesting this is. How many people have part of Minecraft? Surely we can't be. OK, so you guys know what this is. So how many people have played Minecraft? Wow. You guys can help me because I'm not much of a crafter. What I want to do is I want to show you enough that you can at least get started in the world. Because the way it works is you don't get anything until you've built something. And it uses the classic ASD navigation. So you can do ASDW, move around. And from there, you can take, if you hold down your left mouse click, you can start basically taking things apart. So this is the action.  And then it shows up in your inventory. There's not gravity. It only affects certain things. That looks dangerous, Rob. So yeah, my tree is just fine. But what happens is from there, once I have wood, I can then take the wood and actually take that wood and I can build something. In this case, sticks. So this is the way it works. I take my sticks. Once I have my sticks, I can create a crafting table out of my sticks. Hold on. So what I'm doing is I am right clicking to put, what I did was I put four pieces of wood into my crafting area to create what's called a crafting table. So this is minecraft. I take inventory items. I put them into the crafting table in interesting arrangements, and I get new items. That's the majority. And then what happens is, so I press E to get my item. I scroll my mouse to change my tools. If I walk up, I've already made a crafting table. Let me do this. Here's my crafting table. I just put the new one I just made down. If I walk up to the crafting table and press, where am I doing? Why am I not able to craft? There you go. If I walk up to the table and right click, then I can use the crafting table. You'll notice the difference now is that I have a bigger grid. Bigger grid lets me do things like take my planks. I needed sticks, so let me get my sticks. Oh, that's a pressure plate. Sorry, I needed sticks. So I take my sticks. So what you can see happening is I'm going through, I'm actually taking things. I need to build a, oops, I don't need more sticks. So here's the trick. What I want to do is I want to go and build some interesting stuff to make. So this is how I make wood. I can make sticks. I can make an oven. I can make torches. And I need some tools if I'm going to do something interesting. Almost out of time here. So if I want to make a wooden ax, which makes it easier to chop down trees, it's actually switching to different materials. I need two sticks and some wood. You see how I place them in here? So what I want to do is I'm going to take these out. And I'm going to take my wood. And now I have an ax. So I can take my ax. And now I can chop down trees. If I switch to my ax, I can chop down trees a lot faster. Or I can chop down hardwood trees. So all this is running, I know where I was going with this route. All this is running on an open stack cloud over at a Dell data center. We've got laptops over in the booth. Come out and play it. If you feel like you're not going to be good at this game, and I'm looking exactly at Wayne Walls, if you don't feel like you're going to be good at this game, you can get a version of it on your phone and play it real quick. But go check it out. It's very cool. Like I said, we'll be giving away some prizes today. And just as the last thing, if you'd like to learn a little bit more about what Dell is doing, not with Minecraft, but more around open stack, you can visit us at dell.com slash open stack. You can drop us a line at openstackanddell.com. We'll be here all week. We'll be doing sessions. I specifically do want to spend some time around crowbar. Rob is actually one of the founders on our team that helped develop the crowbar framework. Back in 2010 was when open stack was just announced by Rackspace, and NASA, as two pieces that were coming together, Dell was fortunate to be one of the first partners to support it, which is a great thing, because we were first. But it wasn't great because you've got two pieces of code that are munched together. And how the heck do you make something functional out of this? So our engineering teams actually had a problem where you would actually have to deploy this onto bare metal. It would take them days at a time to actually do it. And if you build clouds, clouds are about building them and deploying them, tearing them down, reconfiguring them, redeploying them. It's this whole process of things that happened. And every time you had to tear it down, it would take days to actually bring it back up. So rather than just building a tool for ourselves, we built a tool, a framework that we enabled for our open source community as well called crowbar. It allows you to deploy open stack, a multi-note open stack cloud on bare metal in a matter of hours, leveraging Chef as a configuration management tool, but also do things like BIOS configuration, RAID configuration, network discovery, network discovery, lays down Nagyos and Ganglia, a lot of those. So what Joseph isn't adding is that it's an open source tool, right? He said open source like four times. And we want you to collaborate with this, right? This is not just about Dell taking a product and deploying stuff. What we've done and what we've actually built a community around, because this isn't a Dell-only project. Crowbar is actually its own project. We are sustaining it. It's a Dell investment. But we want collaboration. We have people in the community. We already have grizzly cookbooks that have quantum and Cinder and all sorts of pieces. We're working on salamander and heat. All those things happen because people help us, right? We do a lot. We test a lot. We try and make sure all this stuff works. But it's the community aspects of this that are important. And we're using this work to help drive interoperability for the industrial panel. We're using this work to help drive reference architectures around ref stack. This work is something that we don't want to do alone. It's something we want collaboration on. And we've been very welcoming. We actually have a lot of people already playing. We want people to join. Yeah, the important thing to remember is a couple of things. We've done a lot of the investment in the work up front to figure out how you leverage DevOps as a way to actually deploy these clouds. And we've found ways to build best practices into crowbar. So a lot of that work has already been done. So we'd welcome you to check that out. Secondly, crowbar.github.com is where we're actually developing this in the open. As Rob said, it's not something we're trying to just retain. We actually welcome and encourage collaboration. So I'd recommend going out to the GitHub site, seeing what we're doing, and finding ways to participate. And like I said, you've got a lot of folks here at SUSE, at Intel, at Dell, a number of other places that are leveraging crowbar as part of what they're taking to market. Find anybody in any of those areas, and you can ask about what we're doing with crowbar. Happy to let you know more about what we're doing. All right? So with that, I think our time's about up. Thanks a lot for your time, and we'll see you over there. Thanks. Keep crafting.


Does how powerful the Nintendo Switch actually is in comparison to other consoles and other video game platforms really matter? That's the question we're posing today and what is a new series that we're calling Prime Debate? And the point of this series is to ask a question and get you guys debating about it down in the comments while I give you some context and possibly my side of the story and the way that I feel. And the reason we're talking about this today is because of a reddit thread that came up and I'm just going to throw it up here and read off what's going on. A lot of technical jargon and we're going to talk about it after the fact. So here we go. Here is an Excel spreadsheet I made to determine the performance difference per theoretical computation difference between Maxwell architecture and Polaris architecture Xbox One versus the Nintendo Switch. Initially, I took frame rates from 26 games comparing the RX 480 and the GTX 970. Using that data I found a performance difference between the RX 480 and GTX 970. I also took the theoretical compute performance difference between the RX 480 and the GTX 970. Using these values I created a unit of difference which gave the relative performance differences per theoretical power difference. Then I used this unit of difference multiplied by the theoretical power difference between the Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch and calculated the performance difference between the two consoles which ended up being 2.37. Meaning that the Xbox One is 2.37 times more powerful than the Nintendo Switch rather than 3.33 times as the theoretical computational power would suggest. To determine whether this method actually works I took frame rates of the GTX 950 in the same 26 games. I found that the unit of difference between the RX 480 and the GTX 950 then used that and multiplied the theoretical power difference to get a theoretical performance difference. I then compared this to the actual performance difference and obtained a percent error of 1.33 percent meaning that this method is pretty reliable. However, after further research I found the Xbox One uses a GCN-1 Tahiti architecture. So I found benchmarks for the Radeon HD 7970 however due to the age of this card I was only able to find matching benchmarks between the HD 7970 and the GTX 970 in four games. I made sure to obtain all the benchmarks from the same source and made sure all the settings used and benchmarks were the same. I also obtained the benchmarks from the four games that formed the unit of difference between the HD 7970 and the GTX 970 and multiplied that to the theoretical computation difference between the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch and obtained a performance difference of 1.78. Again I compared this with the GTX 950 and found a percent error of 26.98 percent. This percent error is very high because I only had the four data points to work with. To long and read, the Xbox One is about 1.8 times more powerful than the Nintendo Switch rather than 3.3 times more powerful as the theoretical computation power would suggest. So yeah, there's obviously some issues with this comparison and for those who don't understand the technical jargon obviously concludes that the Xbox One is 1.8 times more powerful. Whether or not the Xbox One is 3 times more powerful, 2 times or 1.8 times more powerful. The question still remains, does the power of this system really matter? And it's something that constantly comes up because as we know there are games coming up for this thing like DOOM and DOOM doesn't even run at 720p in handheld mode consistently. It has drafts out into 540p that have been confirmed, dynamic resolution, everything in general looks a bit blurrier almost like there's a filter over it but the game runs which is extremely impressive on portable hardware. Now setting all of that aside, we just have to talk about the power in general. I don't think the power really matters when it comes to the Nintendo Switch because I don't think anyone's buying the system expecting it to be super super powerful. Now in the space of mobile tech it is actually a pretty powerful chip. Now it is going to start getting outclassed, there's now that with the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X coming out there are CPUs and GPUs out there that are starting to outpace the Tegra X1, the Tegra X2 exists which obviously outpaces the Tegra X1. It's not exactly the maximum possible power potential for a portable device anymore. When it first came out back in March the power of this system would be considered close to top of the line or if not top of the line just like a hair below top of the line in the mobile tech space but that's not even true anymore and when you compare it to an Xbox One to PlayStation 4 you're almost not even in the same ballpark. Now it isn't the say of the Xbox One which is the weaker of those two platforms is significantly more powerful to the point that this thing's embarrassing but you know they have the Xbox One X coming out now that has six teraflops worth of performance this isn't touching that. So the question obviously comes back to does this matter? Does it matter to you? And it's obviously going to be a personal thing. I didn't buy the Switch because it was powerful just like I didn't buy the Wii U because it was powerful or the 3DS because it was powerful. You see this 3DS right here that I'm charging? I didn't get that thing because it's super powerful. I got it because of the content. Likewise I got the Switch because of the content and ended up falling in love with the hardware. The hardware being things like detachable Joy-Cons that can become two controllers. The fact that I can play it on the TV at home and on the go rather easily. The fact that games like Breath of the Wild and NBA 2K. Look at this. Look at this right now. I am launching a AAA game, multi-platform this year, NBA 2K18 in portal mode on a Nintendo Switch. So is this thing like the most powerful thing in the world? No, but it's powerful enough for me. But reality is that this system is capable of running AAA games if companies want to do it. It is capable of running anything Nintendo wants to throw at it. And reality is I bought it because it has the content I want to play. But that's just me. A lot of people out there are still going to debate on the power of it. Obviously every AAA port that comes to this system is going to be weaker than it is on its contemporaries. But does the Switch really have a contemporary? I mean you could argue that its closest contemporary is the 3DS. At least in terms of gaming specific platforms. Otherwise you could argue its other closest contemporaries are mobile phones and tablets. It's not an Xbox One. It's not a PlayStation 4. And I don't expect it to perform like one. And I don't think most people that buy it expected either. Now because it has so many excellent games on it like NBA 2K18 and Breath of the Wild and such. You're going to see people constantly debating about its capabilities and console level gaming on the go. Is it really console level gaming? If it's not as powerful as the current gen consoles. And this is where I just throw the debate back at you. How much does power matter to you in your Nintendo Switch? Is it even something that we should care about? Is it something we should even debate about? Should it even be a conversation? Should I even report on news when it eventually comes out that the Wolfenstein 2, the new Colossus runs at sub 720p and 30fps which we all know it's going to run basically the same as Doom does. But again, is it a conversation that matters? Based on the viewership numbers it's definitely something people care about here in general on YouTube but that might not necessarily be you guys. That could be a totally different fan base slashing onto those videos. So you guys let me know in the comments below. Again, this is our first ever Prime debate. I plan to get these out several times a week. Enjoy debating down in the comments and I can't wait to respond to you at the end of the week. As always folks, I am Nathaniel Ruffigance from Nintendo Prime. If you like this video you know what to do and if you dislike the video, hit that dislike button. Subscribe for more content just like this and if you haven't heard, we're giving away a copy of Super Mario Odyssey. If you go down in the description below there is a link to Gleam.io which will allow you to enter the only requirement is that you are subscribed to our YouTube channel and we hope you're doing that anyways because we have a lot of great content on the way. 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My name is Kevin Fleischer. I'm from Johannesburg, South Africa, and amongst many other things, I'm a film producer. I'm an executive producer in the sense that I deal with the financing of films in South Africa, but also I'm involved at a very detailed level in the production of South African feature films. A lot of people, I think, take a very simplistic view of the process of creating a film. People often think of the producers, somebody in a limo with a big cigar, and the glamour roles are usually the actors and the director. But the producer is very, very important. And if you think of a business context, the producer in many ways is the CEO of the business. And the producer has to start long before the film starts figuring out how this is going to work as a commercial enterprise. So there is that initial phase of figuring out the script, getting it written, changing it so that it's going to work so that it will attract finance for people who think this is a good film, putting the financing package together, putting the production package together, hiring the crew, hiring the actors, working out where and when the film is going to be shot, doing the post-production. It is a challenge, let alone to get the film financed. I go back with my banker's hat, and this is how we deal with the financiers. And they say, OK, show us where you're going to make money back for us on this film. And we have to be able to say, OK, here are the slices of rights that we can sell on the film. And the obvious one is we'll go to the theatre and we'll put it in the theatre and people come and pay for their tickets and we'll get a share of that. And they say, what else? And they say, well, we'll put it on DVD and we will sell DVDs. And nowadays we're saying, well, we might sell some DVDs, but there's a terrible problem is that the pirates may be selling most of the DVDs instead of us. And the bankers say, well, in that case, I'm not accepting your DVD revenues as real. And so they cross it out of your model and they say, what else? And you say, well, we can sell it on television. And they say, which television and where? And what will you get for it? And we have to be able to say, we have the rights for a certain territory or a certain platform for television. And we know that they are worth a certain amount of money. And they will accept that and say, OK, fair enough, you should be able to make that revenue. And you go level down. They say, what else? And you say, digital, online, streaming, video on demand. And they say, well, what about piracy there? What about people downloading for free? And we don't accept that because there is a risk that this will be pirated or will be downloaded illegally and there will be no revenue back to you and us as the investors. There is a second challenge. Once you start to distribute it, to get it into the hands of the consumers and to get them to pay you for the content they're using. Let's talk about piracy. Now, that's very close to my heart. And I'm going to tell you tell a story that will really make it live for you. I've been involved in several films now. And on three occasions, I have been driving in my car in Johannesburg with a new film that is about to be released. And I come to the stop light and somebody walks up next to my car and he says, would you like to buy a DVD? There's this great new movie. And he shows me one of those cheap packaged DVDs with a color photocopy of the DVD sleeve in the window. And it's my movie. It's not even released yet. And it's available for $2. And he says, it's a great movie. You really got to see it. It is absolutely soul destroying. Not just for me, but for the people involved all the way through the value chain. It really is a great social ill, I believe. For us now, the absolute key is we have this film. We have the film in a digital format and it is ours. And the rights are where the value is. And theoretically, I can split those rights into whatever right I can imagine if I can get somebody to pay to appreciate that content.  So I'm a firm believer that at the end of the day, this has to be about business. And if you can't trade on your rights, then you don't have a business. The creative industries have to be a business. If you leave it to a market that doesn't have copyright protection, the cost of production will come down and down and down until you get essentially to an amateur level. The quality will just gradually deteriorate down that the industry itself will virtually disappear. Those rights, above all, are absolutely crucial for us. And the idea that the internet is a great leveler and that you can make it available and there's the revenue model in itself, that just isn't the case. You know the story people always say to filmmakers, what are you working on now? I'm working on four films at the moment. But I think only one of those, if I'm lucky, will actually get to the screen. It's not like making a sandwich. You don't just take a piece of bread and put butter on it and you have a sandwich. You really have to work for many months, often years, to get a script into the stage where it's actually out of development and into production. And that costs a lot of money. Nobody's paying me to do that. I wish they would, but that's not how the market works.


What is the record for most strikeouts in one inning? At first, this might seem like a silly question. Most people's initial reaction would probably be that well, there are only three outs in any given inning, so obviously a pitcher can only strike out three hitters. It's tough to fault your logic there, but unfortunately you would be wrong, because ninety-one times in the history of Major League Baseball, a pitcher has actually struck out four batters in one inning. You may recall the rule that a catcher must legally catch a third strike to a hitter in order to complete that strikeout. If he drops the third strike and first base is open or there's two outs, then the batter can make a run for it and try to reach first base. If the batter is successful in his sprint up the baseline, then he is now a base runner, even though his at bat is still recorded as a strikeout. Back on a Wednesday afternoon in 1885, a pitcher from Philadelphia named Robert Matthews not only struck out four hitters on Pittsburgh in one inning, but two of those four hitters reached base. Having two strikeout victims reach base in the same inning is something that has never happened since, although perhaps it's an offensive strategy that Pittsburgh hitters should look into because they've been struggling to generate offense these last few decades. This situation would have given Matthews the opportunity for five Ks in one inning, which he seems to have blown, and it has never happened. Unfortunately for Matthews, that game was in the American Association and therefore does not count as a Major League game. The first official MLB occurrence was a few years later when Ed Crane, no relation to the long-legged bird, struck out four Chicago White Stockings players in the fifth inning of a game in October of 1888. Nicknamed the cannonball for his size and strength, Crane was known for his enjoyment of eating, quote, an order of a dozen soft-boiled eggs served in a soup bowl, which he liked to top off with an order of two dozen clams, end quote. Sadly, the cannonball acquired a taste for alcohol on a trip to Paris, and he went on to drink himself to death, although others speculate that he actually died of suicide from drinking acid. He was 34. Anyway, what were we talking about again? Oh yeah, so for a while after that, teams limited their strikeouts in an inning to three, although a few guys like Walter Johnson did come along and manage four. Orville overall, who sounds like a character from a tongue twister come to life, became the first pitcher to do it in the World Series for the Cubs in 1908. But then from 1916 to 1956, it never happened, not once, until a Sunday afternoon in the first game of a doubleheader when Jim Davis struck out four Cardinals in the sixth inning. It happened occasionally after that, with Hall of Famers like Don Drysdale, Phil Necro, and Bob Gibson, no relation to the guitar, adding their names to the list too. Pete Richard became the only pitcher to do so in his first game, and then we made it to the 90s. The 90s were a crazy time, when you had to read a magazine to see what was on television, your pet was probably a tomagotchi, and you had to rewind your movies before taking them back to blockbuster video. The 1990 season was also a crazy time, because it was the first season in which four batters struck out in one inning twice, then in 1996 it happened thrice. In 1999, things went haywire and it happened six times, including twice by Chuck Finley, who became the first pitcher to strike out four guys in an inning twice. People thought that was cool, until at least the following season, when he did it a third time. Since then, AJ Burnett, Zach Grenke, and Craig Kimbrel have all pulled it off twice. All of these guys being recent pitchers, their feats have contributed to the huge increase of occurrences over the last two decades. It happened eight times in 2012, which if I'm remembering correctly, that was one of two predictions that the Mayans made regarding 2012, although they did get the other one wrong. Pitchers nowadays throw harder, they throw more breaking balls, and batters strike out a lot more than they used to. Because of all that, I imagine we'll continue to see more than three hitters striking out in an inning for years to come, at least on occasion. Maybe someday we'll get to five.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industrial trading down 14 Nasdaq is up 87 S&Ps are up nine gold contract trading up $22.40 at 18.44 an ounce. We have silver, I mean silver, silver is up 41 cents, $21.96 an ounce, light sweet crude up three bucks, $112.41 a barrel, notes and bonds, a 10-year note, up a tick trade in 1922, the 30-year up nine at 140.18 and $Kingdala, $Kingdala's down 1,077.6 at 102.734, just might have a failure in the dollar which very well is helping this market, it's helping this market right now that's for sure. The year is at 105, he ends at 127 and the British pound is at 124 to 1 US dollar. We get up and we take a look at the S&P, what you have out here folks, bottom line, you come down, you did reject price at $387, the low out here was that $385, bottom line, you know, you're going to have light volume so we'll see what kind of a bounce you can get going here. NDX 100, same type of setup inside the NDX, NDX right now, we get down to a price point of $287, now the difference in the cues are the cues are going to have volume, so we'll see how the shakes out coming into the close. You know yesterday we did $79 million, we're going to do more than that today, so you're going to lower price, but if you can hold price the bottom line you can get a little bounce going. Now divergence we have and this is what it is, so you get over to the Dow, the Dow broke the B point and the bottom line is that the B point in the Dow was this $31,226. You got to $31,016 and then you're going to go back to the day that we're talking about on the break is the 12th, okay, so what you're going to be looking at coming into the close out here is the 12th we had volume of, yeah you're not going to break this, yeah, the Dow's not, oh no, wrong one, let's see, and he's sorry, here we go, 12th, okay, so the 12th did, yeah we're not going to do it, you broke the B point but it's not going to be with volume because we did $1.4 billion on the 12th, so bottom line we'll see whether we can get any type of bounce, the scariest part of where we are right now folks it would have been to me it would have been better if you actually did a spike low before it had something like this because we very well could be building cars at this particular point. Stay right there folks, come right back.