I am Captain Robert Watson. I serve in the Army of the Agenonics of Statov. My daughter is from Massachusetts, and I started to learn Russian as a student. I was born in New York. I was 10 years old. I was born in Chicago, Illinois. I was 10 years old. I was born in New York. I was 10 years old. Soil is our hint of truth in the West Area of Statov's Midos. I have started studying Spanish for a lot of those places. I am Captain Robert Watson. I was born in New York. I was 10 years old. I was born in New York. I was 30 years old. I am Captain John L. of the Navy of the Republic of Korea. As I hope you can tell, the language I am speaking is English. These men and thousands of others from all of America's armed forces and those of many foreign nations are involved in an intensive language training program unique in military history. It's a program involving some 65 languages and major dialects, from Arabic to German, from Korean to Serbo Croatian, from English to Vietnamese. America's role as a leading nation on a shrinking planet made this program a necessity. And today, the big picture examines how the Army and her sister services are building language power for peace. The headquarters of the Defense Language Institute is here at Anacostia in Washington, D.C. From these unpretentious looking buildings, it's directed and monitored a teaching activity that has centers at many military installations across the country and at some 50 nations overseas. It is a language training effort of a scope and proven effectiveness that has never been known before. Within the United States, D.L.I. has four resident school operations spread across the continent. One of these, the East Coast branch, is co-located with the headquarters at Anacostia. It provides basic courses in 10 languages. These include Arabic, German, Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, French, and Portuguese. Compared to the D.L.I.'s other resident school operations, the East Coast branch functions on a fairly small scale. Just over 300 resident students per year. However, the East Coast branch also administers or monitors language training in the Washington area by contract language schools for some 1,600 additional students each year in about 50 different languages. In California, is the Defense Language Institute's West Coast branch at the Presidio of Monterey. The Presidio is one of the oldest military posts in the United States looking down from high ground to the scenic Monterey harbor below. Here in 1846, Commodore John Drake Sloath landed and raised the American flag to claim California for the United States. D.L.I.'s West Coast branch is not only its largest school, it is in fact the largest language school in the world today. It graduates more than 5,000 students each year and teaches a total of 25 foreign languages. The Institute's English Language School is located at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. Actually, though English is the language taught here, it is a foreign language to every one of the students at this particular school. This facility teaches English to some 2,500 foreign military personnel each year. The more than 40 overseas countries they have come to take a basic and specialized 15-week course in preparation for their going to various United States service schools for military or technical training. This school, through the military assistance program, has also been instrumental in setting up more than 300 military language programs to teach English in 50 countries around the world. In fact, most students who come here have first attended one of these schools in their home country. To give them a start at one of the world's most difficult but most popular languages, English. A Fort Residence School has been set up at Fort Bliss, Texas. The Defense Language Institute's support command. This school was set up to accommodate the vastly increased demand for training in Vietnamese. Actually, Vietnamese is only moderately difficult for an American to learn. Not as easy as Spanish, for example, but not as hard as Chinese. Vietnamese only seems a bit baffling at first because it is a tonal language. A given word can have several different meanings, depending on the tone used in speaking it. So whether in programs which include only one language, as here at the support command, or at other branches of DLI where the language is number in the dozens, the objective is the same. To give American service people a new link of direct communication with people of other nations. The more than 12,000 Institute students who graduate each year do not learn their new languages by themselves. The hundreds of teachers who make up the DLI faculty are a key element in the remarkable success of this unique program over the years. To teach any given language at DLI, the teacher must first be an educated native speaker of that language. But in fact, it isn't uncommon for members of this faculty to be able to express themselves in as many as six different languages. Among their number are descendants of royalty, prominent artists, musicians, statesmen, educators, judges, former government officials. They are uniquely qualified for their specialized mission and they fulfill it in a uniquely effective way. These are basic and the ACT course? Not ACT anymore, but they have intermediate courses. Their students are selected members of all four armed forces. They spend from 24 to 47 weeks completely absorbed in the business of taking in the new language. And taking in is the right phrase. They get the feel of the language, the flavors of it. They make it their own. Just how this comes about is quite a story. For the student, it begins like this. When the new arrival first sees the volume of material he's going to work with, he's glad to remember that while he's here, his primary military duty is to learn his assigned language. It'll be a busy time and every hour of it is planned long before he gets here. They are ready for him. Texts have been created from scratch by the school itself to lead the student hour by hour through the hundreds of hours of instruction. DLI not only writes its own teaching texts, it prints them and this is no small-scale operation. Well over half a million texts each year and each book lesson has its counterpart recorded on tape. In order for each student to be able to hear his homework as well as read it, teachers put in many hours of painstaking work in DLI's recording studios. These tapes give the student a clear, correct speech model to imitate as he works on his own outside the classroom. From each master recording, hundreds of copies are made and these become as much a part of the student's equipment as his textbooks. They are in fact textbooks for the ear, an essential part of DLI's teaching technique. Educational television is another of the tools used by the Language Institute in its intensive training. Students may act the role of newscasters or there may be an interview session by a video tape. This cannot replace but it can certainly aid the face-to-face teaching, which is the primary tool, by bringing into the classroom situations not normally available. And while students are watching the video tape, an instructor can also be teaching a live class somewhere else. And the first thing to notice about a DLI class is how small it is. Rarely as many as 10 people, usually less. This is essential if each and every student is to get the benefit of intensive, individualized instruction. Very good. The institute teaches by the audio-lingual approach. The first step of which is to introduce the students simply to the sounds of the spoken language, as heard in real situations. Listen, repeat, mimic, memorize, over and over and over. At first the student is encouraged not to ask why, but to repeat, not to translate, but to think in the new language, to hear and immediately imitate. Repeat, repeat, repeat. As the learning progresses, the students learn more complex sentences. Structure and grammar are gradually introduced in terms of dialogue and pattern drills, not through emphasis on rules of grammar as such. The emphasis on real-life flavor carries throughout the teaching. Mr. Mayer, I'd like to thank you for a most enjoyable afternoon. Herr Bürgermeister, ich möchte Ihnen für einen schönen Nachtstag danken. Ich habe Ihnen zu danken, Sie waren so freundlich und die Sportgeräte für das Eisenhaus für Verstärkung zu stellen. I must thank you. It was so friendly of you to donate the sports equipment for our orphanage. I'm glad we could help you. Es freut mich, Dr. Hilsen-Kirnten. The boys in your band are really playing with gusto. The version in Ihre Capella spielen mit viel Spaß. Ja, sie spielen auch mit Schwung. Unsere Brauerei tut alles, um sie bei guter Laune zu halten. They're playing with a lot of energy. Our local brewery is doing everything possible to keep them in the right mood. Sehr gut, aber ich möchte doch einige Kleinigkeiten berichtigen. They learn in terms of authentic sentences, not isolated words and rules. And once they have gained confidence in using the spoken language, the next step is to acquire the written language. Before this student graduates, he will be able to converse, translate, read a newspaper or military publication in Korean. To acquire this level of proficiency in months instead of years takes precisely what DLI provides, intensive training. And intensive is the right word. Three hours of class instruction every morning and every afternoon three more hours. That's three hours at home each night. Nine hours a day, the equivalent of one to two weeks of normal college instruction every day. Thirty-seven to forty-seven weeks of instruction at this level of intensity is a lot of learning. In addition to face-to-face instruction, perhaps DLI's most important single teaching tool is the language laboratory. The students spend one or two hours each day working in this electronic learning environment. He can listen to the language correctly spoken on tape. Repeat, play back his own voice for comparison to the correct model, all at his own pace. He needn't wait for slower students or be rushed by quicker ones. The instructor can listen in to any booth, speak to any booth without disturbing the others or speak to all at once. The language lab provides an essential element of language training with minimum demand upon the valuable time of its teachers. It provides endless, tireless, repetition of correct speech patterns for the student to hear and imitate. Once a week, the students stand in section in ranks. This is one of the very few military duties aside from learning their assigned language that DLI students have. It would be hard to find another instance in which a single formation of military men on duty would include the uniforms of all four services, as this one does. Day by day, in class and out of it, DLI gives the student a whole new frame of reference that reinforces his learning of the spoken and written language by surrounding him with the feel of the culture out of which that language comes. Two types of Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, languages of Thailand, Tibetan, and Vietnam. All of these are on the list of far Eastern languages DLI offers. Today, of course, the one in greatest demand is Vietnamese. At the West Coast branch, classes are sometimes held in the Oriental Garden. In this setting, the students may find still clearer focus for his grasp of the new language. Gradually, the new language becomes more than just a jumble of sound symbols. It becomes a mental fabric in which language and the ideas it conveys are interwoven. An expression of thought is instinctive. The school has created three such cultural environments of gardens. In addition to this Oriental setting, there is the Mediterranean Garden which provides a sort of composite impression of the Mediterranean cultures and traditions. The clear water of the pool at its center. The typical stylized design of gracefully curved walkways. The colors and fragrance of Mediterranean plants and trees all add their bit to the overall impression. The third garden is the Papio Ibero Americano. This is typical of garden design in the Iberian peninsula with its central fountain and Murray-style blue tile. Here an 80th speaker of Spanish or Portuguese would find around him visual reminders of the cultural traditions out of which his language has come. And so do those learning a Latin language for the first time. All this is more than just an effort on the part of the institute to provide appropriate landscaping. It is part of the teaching philosophy to immerse the student in every way possible in the culture, the outlook and customs of the language area he is studying. And this effort is made not only in visual terms but is consciously used as a tool to bring to the students the feel of various languages and cultures. Each day there are two ten-minute periods of foreign music both indoors and outdoors. The nationality of the music has changed daily and this too with an integral part of DLI's teaching program. Here in the new buildings of the East Slavic Division the prime interest of course is Russian. Here we will read and translate the Russian newspaper Novere Ruske Slovo. Specialist Smith, you please read in Russian and you specialist Jones, translate. Zryf na elektrystansis Bostonia Explosion at an electrical station in Boston, Boston, 26 March. Zryf na elektrystansis Bostonia prize the show Zryf. On Tuesday morning at an electrical station in Boston there was an explosion. A doctor talk of pre-christilis. Pre-christilis. Pre-christilis. Pre-christilis. Pre-christilis. Pre-christilis. Among the languages taught by DLI, Russian is second only to Vietnamese in terms of the numbers of students involved. The use of realia is an important part of the learning process at DLI. A lot of good tricks and tricks.  How much is a small box? A small box is two. The alia is a term used to describe such real-life setups as this Russian retail store. The products are Russian products currently sold in Soviet stores. All right, give me a small box, please. Students played a part of clerks and customers interchangeably using ad-lib conversational Russian throughout. This takes the student to step beyond the prepared dialogues in class. Gives him a more vivid sense of reality. And so it goes on. Sometimes the setting will be a travel agency or a bank. But the objective of this educational play-acting is always the same. Give the student that extra touch of realism that will focus his grasp of the language even more clearly. DLI's realia concept takes many in varied forms, reaching even into the kitchen. Does the student learning to speak Greek, for example, gain a fuller insight from learning to prepare traditional Greek foods? DLI thinks so and makes this a part of the curriculum. All of the various language departments make use of this culinary language lab. The practical results justify the effort and time involved. In fact, foods prepared here often provide part of the menu for picnics, at which national holidays of the nation involved are celebrated. And the full flavor of normal social contact and conversation in the subject language can be experienced by the students. It is encouraging to a student to find that it is becoming natural to joke, laugh, enjoy all in the new language. It is fun, a break from classroom routines. But even here the learning process goes on and occasions like this are a carefully calculated part of DLI's purpose. Intensive, day in, day out exposure of the student to the living language he is studying in the context of its culture and tradition. The specialized terminology of the military also gets a workout in terms of Rialio. Like this sand table exercise in observation, analyzing a field equipment, movement, terrain feature. All of these aspects together make up a teaching program that gets results. But the search for still greater teaching effectiveness never stops. Experimentation with CAI, Computer Assisted Instruction is just one element of that continuing search. In certain phases of instruction this type of electronic teaching may prove invaluable. It works like this. The student notifies the distant computer that he is ready to begin work. The computer types out the first question, or example, a sentence in English, which the student is to translate into Russian. Then the student types the Russian translation. Immediately the distant computer types back. But it types only the correct part of the student's answer. Any wrong parts are left blank. The student retypes correcting his error immediately, which is of course one key to effective learning. The computer types out an immediate indication that he is right and presents him with the next example. The student works at his own pace and his instructor is a computer miles away, which is at the same time teaching all the other students in the room individually at their own pace. The project is experimental, but the idea offers promise and DLI leaves no possibility unexplored. The men and women graduates of DLI schools, for the most part, have attained what the institute calls the minimum professional proficiency. But that is no slight praise. It means that the man can readily take part in any general conversation in his new language. That his vocabulary is large enough that he rarely has to grope for a word or expression. That his grammar is good. And while he may speak with an American accent, he can speak fluently and read and write the new language with almost normal speed and ease. He is in short ready to take on the military job that requires his linguistic ability. And this is true not only of the American serviceman that DLI has taught a foreign language, but of hundreds of foreign service people to whom the institute has taught English. The graduate of the Defense Language Institute, whatever his branch of service and wherever his new duty assignment may take him, has taken a major step forward, both professionally and as an individual. He has broadened his comprehension of the world he lives in and acquired a vital new ability to communicate with it. Wherever he goes from here, his subintensive language training has equipped him to be, as one among many thousands, the wielder of a highly effective instrument. The armed forces ever growing, language power fall deep.


This is a photo of the Russian ship Renda which was brought in to save the Alaskan city of Nome in January 2012 with fuel that Russia brought in all the way from its territory over to Nome is notable today as we find Russia putting its navy in the northeastern passage and in the best position of all to exploit the Arctic in terms of energy we're now largely focused on the fracking of shale gas but in a decade or two the Arctic will be bigger than fracking is now there's so much oil and gas up there and global warming is making it available Russia has most of the Arctic oil and it is at the technological forefront of how to operate there shale is part of why Russia is in trouble now but the Arctic if Russia plays it well could help to rescue it


It's theCUBE, covering HPE Big Data Conference 2016. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillan. We're back in Beantown, everybody, host of our FVS series, the vice president of software engineering at Fidelis Cyber Security. Welcome to theCUBE, it's great to see you. Thank you. So another security discussion I was saying, I love these talks because it's such a hard problem. You're in an industry that's fast moving, you got bad guys, you got evil versus good. But so give us the update on Fidelis. So our mission is to protect the world's most sensitive information. We do that, whether it's in government, organizations, good countries, or the commercial sector. So we are very successful in both. We're not very well known, but we are well appreciated. Our core technology is based on deep visibility and real time analysis of data. So that's the core of our technology where we basically visibility first, right? If you're pumbling in the dark and shining spotlights on potential problems, that's a much harder problem to solve than if you have the full daylight visibility into full spectrum of everything that's happening on your network, and then use that as a core technology to then look for malicious activity or PII, or intellectual property, leaving your organization, or bad guys trying to get in, right? So visibility first in real time and then build on top of that, so. Okay, and as the head of software engineering, talk a little bit about sort of your focus on that core technology and how that's evolving. So the core technology we've had for a long time, what we've realized though is that you can't really catch everything all the time. You can try as hard as you can. Eventually you'll fail, right? You'll fail once and then you've been breached, the game is lost. So we still need that real time protection to stop 99.99% of the DAX, right?  We know that nobody solved the problem yet, so just dishonest is to pretend that you can. I think accepting that fact is very important. So a few years ago we decided that, hey, we need to realize that, we could do the best we can, we're not gonna be able to stop everything. When it happens in real time, what can we do about that, right?  It seems like a lot of companies are taking this analytical approach to security now. What does it do differently? I understand you have an endpoint strategy that's distinctive. Yes, so we have a comprehensive approach to network security. So we have, cover both the network side and endpoint, and they use those to the integration between the two to really enhance the way you can take action once you've detected a problem to go verify that the threat that's, the threat that you saw in the network is actually confirmed on the endpoint. Let's say you found a threat that attacks has a vulnerability on Microsoft Windows, for example. And then you check your endpoint, and the endpoint is not running that OS, or it's not running a vulnerable version, then you're safe, and if it does, you can confirm, hey, did it actually install this one? That kind of integration is important to us. And then, you're right, a lot of people are taking analytics, that analytic approach, and I think that's the right way to go. I would say one way we do it different is the data that we have to run the analytics on. So a lot of times, in big data, people forget the fact that the old garbage-in, garbage-out saying where you just take a lot of data and you hope for the best and hope that magic happens. It's hard to make magic happen sometimes when you have data that's not structured well, data that's missing information. So if you don't have the full spectrum visibility that I was talking about, then you have partial data that you can run analytics on and you can have smart people try to figure things out given that partial data, right? So it's kind of like seeing shadows and then trying to decide what's going on, rather than seeing a nice picture of events happening. So sure, you can use those shadows and run analytics on it, and then that way try to figure out what's going on, but that's just a much harder problem to solve. So we think that we have a data advantage where the data that we collect is so rich that it's so well-structured and stored in a great database. We think that gives us an advantage over other type of companies. So given that thwarting penetration is virtually impossible, it would stand a reason that security should be a board-level topic on a regular cadence, is it? I believe that it is, although what we've seen is almost some sort of numbing, I would say, to the problem. You've heard so many breaches happening in the news. You might have stopped paying attention, right? No, I pay attention.  I love it. I think you're in the business, but the layperson, that doesn't, it's not that big of a news in another region. I'll be sure it'll take care of it. Well, I mean, the problem hasn't gone away. The problem is still big, but there is a level of numbing in the business, and a level of hopelessness, maybe? The people are given up, in a sense, and throwing their hands up. But we believe that there is hope, that right now, if you're being honest, we're behind, right? We're behind adversaries. They're a step ahead of us. Not necessarily because they have better technology, but because they only need to win once, right? It's a rigged game, where we play defense, and we win every time, but then you only need to lose once, and you've lost, you've lost. Plus, they're committed, like totally, completely committed. Not that the good guys aren't committed. They are, but... They have motivation. But inside of an organization, not everybody's committed. So what's the right regime for cybersecurity? Most organizations, true or false, the responsibility of security falls on an IT team, and not the business, and it's not a shared responsibility. Is that a fair criticism? That's fair, and it's even worse than that. Sometimes it's split, where the network security team is different than the endpoint security team, and they don't talk to each other. And the email team doesn't talk to the network security. And the business says it's somebody else's problem, even though my bad behavior is maybe the cause of the problem. I mean, we've seen that changing to some extent, where the organizations that take it more seriously are starting to change, and it's this full spectrum of different variety of face people are dealing with it. Some are still stuck in that mode. So... I'm sorry, Dave. Let's close on that. So the forward thinkers that I've talked to with the sort of board levels, executive level, are saying that you've got to integrate security as part of an entire risk management protocol and regime. And my sense is very few companies actually do that today. You know, maybe the top companies do. You know, maybe Starbucks does. Some of the high-profile brands do. But on balance, most, certainly most mid-sized companies and small companies don't, but is that a trend that you're seeing? Is it happening fast enough? Is it happening at all? I'm probably not the right person to give you... I mean, I could give you my sense of it. Coming from engineering, really trying to focus on solving the problem. And then hoping... This organizational issue is not really... You know, we kind of have to have faith in the industry and the good guys wanting to help themselves, right? And you're asking, hey, do you see that? And I believe we see enough of that at the end of your growing company and we've been growing year over year in a significant growth and that underscores the commitment. Yeah, that underscores that there is more spending going on and I believe that there is such a thing. But on the other hand, you kind of have to also understand our customer's point of view where they have been... It's not that they haven't invested. They have been investing, but they're still being breached, right? So, it's important that they don't obviously just throw their hands up and say, well, it's not going to work, so. Right. Let's talk about some of the technology you're bringing to bear using Vertica. We have all these new real-time, we're streaming tools like Spark Streaming and Flink and some of the open-source alternatives. How is this changing the game and security? This sudden, it seems like just the last couple of years availability of some really very powerful streaming data analytics tools. My belief is that this would be a game changer. That in a few years' time, we will have a significant shift in the dynamics of the capabilities of cyber attackers versus cyber defenders. In whose favor? In the defender's favor. Yeah. I mean, right now, we're way behind. And I believe that for a couple of reasons. Number one is the advanced analytics and machine learning. So I believe that we are ahead there, that the defenders have gone down that path a few years ago already. So we started thinking about how to apply advanced machine learning analytics towards cyber defense. Whereas I don't think the same thing exists on the open side. Number two is utilizing a massive increase in computational power. So we have the Moore's Law, where exponential growth in computational power, as well as the cloud that gives you the ability to use enormous amount of compute power to solve a problem. For various reasons, I don't think that cyber attackers have access to those similar type of capabilities. Think of a cloud, for example. It's harder for them to kind of, in the dark, spin up their attacking environment in a cloud. Right? They will get shut down, hopefully. Where else would you go? What's the dark cloud? What's the dark cloud? Even if they fade, right? We assume that the dark clouds will emerge, though. Yes, so they might have their own cloud infrastructures, but not at the scale of Microsoft and Amazon and Google. So those two things, hopefully, will give us an advantage where we turn the tide. And at least for a number of years, we'll have a leg up on them until they catch up. What kind of trends are you seeing, Scar? Oh, please, Scar. What kind of trends right now are you seeing in attacks and the way attackers are, the tactics that they're using? Do you have visibility into what they're doing? We do. We do. We do have a threat research team that's looking at emerging threats and try to protect our customers, writing policy and rules and analytics for our products, for our customers that we push down through the cloud to them. I would say, again, this is in my domain, per se, but the trends that we see, I don't know if they've been shifting necessarily in the, I mean, ransomware has exploded. We hear that a lot from our customers. Do something about ransomware, or I won't have a job, right? That's... But I want to follow up on that. Now ransomware typically is triggered by an individual employee clicking on a malicious link. And how do you stop that? It was in three seconds, their hard drive was encrypted. I mean, how do you stop that? Good question, good question. Multi-pronged approach, right? So you try to detect those messages coming in, right? Whether it's some sort of phishing, whether it's the website that they visit and inadvertently download something. So basically the first point of attack, you try to stop that. Believe it or not, you can actually detect ransomware as it's encrypting stuff. There's the pattern of the way it accesses the disk drive, for example. So there are types of signs to try to... But it's like anything that's based on human weakness, there's always that one time where it happens and you kind of have a choice, you pay out for it, right? I mean, I've heard this story where people call the police department asking for help and they're like, I don't know, I don't know what to do with it. People call the police department asking for help because they've been hit by ransomware and the local police department says, oh, you just pay up, that's happened to us. That just happened to us, too. That's what we did. I can't help it. So, I mean, it's a huge problem. So everybody cites these stats in terms of the number of days after you're infiltrated, the average organization that the average infiltration takes, whatever, that's 300, 200, somewhere in between there, days to detect that intrusion. With analytics, machine learning, you would think that you can start to attack that number. Can Fidelis help attack that number? Absolutely, yes. She ain't the time to detect, yes. Absolutely, so you're right, so you're right. So usually when a breach happens, so the breach, the end goal of the breach is to steal whether it's personal PIO information or your company's secret. That usually doesn't happen on day one. Where the first computer gets hacked, right? It takes a long time for them to propagate, get to the right places, get to the right servers, stage the data, and then pull it out. And you're right, it's anything between weeks to months that could happen. And that's another reason where analytics can, it has a chance of being very, very powerful because you do have the time to analyze the data and stop the eventual breach rather than stopping the initial malware, say, coming in. It's not all about 100% of the time stopping the first host that's being compromised. It's more, your overall goal should be to stop the final breach, and that's where analytics comes out, I can't be proud. They're going to get in, we've established that. Yeah, exactly. It's a certainty. It's a certainty that eventually they're going to get into one of your computers. That's established. You want to stop them from getting to your crown jewels and getting that out, right? You've got to find them, they've got to collect the data, they've got to stage it, sometimes they compress it, it's encrypted, and then pull it out, right? All that takes time, and you want to stop that. You're talking about a containment strategy, really. How do you advise your customers, assuming the inevitability of being breached, of what they should do when that happens? How do you contain? Once they realize they've been breached, you mean? Yeah. Well, I mean, then you call the pros, right? And there are multiple organizations that have professional services that are post-breach remediation. Fidelis does too. We have an excellent team where we do post-breach remediation, and you hear that in the news as well, right? That's when you find out that it was the Russians that broke into the Clinton service. Email service, yeah. So, and establishing, I mean, that's, hopefully it doesn't get to there, to that, but obviously when it does, you do need to disclose, you need to share, you need to contact the outside. You don't want to soup it under the mat and help for the best, because that's just going to make things worse. So, you predicted earlier that the scales will somewhat tip to favor the defendants. I have to warn you, I'm an optimist. That's good. That's good. I want my security people to be optimistic. The whole security industry better be optimistic or we're all in big trouble. And so, what's the, I mean, as an industry, what's the outcome that we can expect? Is it to keep pace, like radar detectors and police? No, that can't be our goal, right? That can't be our goal. So, you'll do better than that, right? Yes, yes. So, the goal should really be to get ahead, right? So, if you think of, you know, the viruses and your biology, the goal should be to detect that, to have the technology that basically detects the penicillin, right? Where we're, you know, for a long time, you're protected and we don't have to worry about bacteria anymore for a few decades at least. Now, with the past, you know, changing pace of technology, you know, hoping for many decades of relief, I mean, that's probably too optimistic, but finding that technology that gives us years of relief, I mean, that would be great, right? Where we could go back to just feeling safe. Now, criminals will probably find another target. Once we secure, say, once banks are secured, you know, they start robbing other places, probably, but at least we want to get to a point where, you know, we can feel safe that our money is safe in the bank, right? It seemed to me, taking this more analytical approach that sharing would be important, that if you were cooperating with all the other companies doing analytics-based forensics, sharing that data with each other as we could build large databases about looking for common patterns, I understand that sharing is not very common, though, in this field, am I wrong? It's true and false, I think it varies.  On the other hand, there are others that are realizing that being compromised isn't shameful, it's happening to everybody, it's a failure. It doesn't mean fire anymore. Exactly, so I think that's changing as well, and we've seen that in the marketplace, where there's some companies emerging that are basically about sharing, where they connect data from various sources. So as an optimist, we hear from a year from now, we have in the same conversation, it's going to take two years, what's the time horizon where we can expect to see the defenders actually get a leg up? So human beings, it's hard for us to understand the concept of exponential growth intuitively, right? So I think it's going to happen and it's going to happen fast. If you think about AI, how that was a joke for many, many decades, and all of a sudden it wasn't, and it's reality, and that's what exponential growth does when that knee kicks in, that's when it happens. Now, did people predict that need to happen much sooner? Sure they did, there were some that they were talking about intelligence being walking among us right now, it didn't happen, but eventually that knee kicked in. I believe because the problem, the solution that a lot of companies are pursuing is so much dependent on compute power, and big data, big data, big compute analytics, artificial intelligence, advanced machine learning, I believe that that will happen as well. We're a little bit behind because the problem we're trying to solve is slightly harder than the problems that have already been solved, if you're not vacuuming, that works really well right now. You can have an intelligent machine vacuum your floor, and those are excellent that is right now. Trying to solve a harder problem, that's why I think the knee and that curve is going to hit a little bit later. I can't predict whether it's a year from now or two, but it's not 10. But it could be around the corner or it could be a couple of years, three years. But near term, near to midterm. Yes, this is your prediction. Excellent. Okay, same, we have to leave it there. We're bringing you exponential content explosion on theCUBE. Thanks so much for coming on and sharing your segment. Thank you. Our pleasure. All right, keep it right there. Paul and I will be back with our next guest right after this. This is theCUBE, we're live from Boston. We're right back. We are here to win championships. We are here to win.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says convert the given fraction to decimal and the given fraction is 3 upon 7. Let's proceed with the solution now. We are given the fraction 3 upon 7 and we need to convert this fraction to a decimal. This fraction 3 upon 7 is expressed as a decimal by simply dividing 3 by 7. So we can write 3 upon 7 as 3 divided by 7. Now let's start dividing 3 by 7. Now we know that since 3 is not divisible by 7, so we put a 0 here and a decimal point here and again a 0 after this. Then again we put this decimal point after 0 in this portion. Now we have the dividend as 30 and the divisor 7. We know that 7 4 times is 28. We write 28 below 30. Now 28 when subtracted from 30 gives us 2. Again this 2 is not divisible by 7. So we put a 0 here and we bring this 0 down towards the right of 2 to get the dividend as 20. Now 7 2 times is 14 which is less than 20. So we write 14 below 20 and when we subtract 14 from 20 we get 6. Again the 6 is not divisible by 7. So we put a 0 here and we bring this 0 down to the right of 6 to get 60 as the dividend. Then 7 8 times is 56. So we write 56 below 60 and when we subtract 56 from 60 we get 4. This 4 is also not divisible by 7. So we put a 0 here and we bring down this 0 to the right of 4 to get 40 as the dividend. Now 7 5 times is 35 which is less than 40 and 35 when subtracted from 40 gives us 5. This 5 is not divisible by 7. So again we put a 0 here and we bring down this 0 to the right of 5 to get 50 as the dividend. Then 7 7 times is 49 which is less than 50. We subtract 49 from 50 to get 1. Now 1 is also not divisible by 7. So we put a 0 here and we bring down this 0 to the right of 1 to get 10 as the dividend. Then 7 1 times is 7 which is less than 10. We subtract 7 from 10 to get 3. This 3 is also not divisible by 7. So we put a 0 here and we bring down this 0 to the right of 3 to get 30 as the dividend. Now 7 4 times is 28. We write 28 below 30. When we subtract 28 from 30 we get 2. This 2 is also not divisible by 7. So again we put a 0 here and we bring down this 0 to the right of 2 to get 20 as the dividend. And we know 7 2 times is 14. We write 14 below 20 and when we subtract 14 from 20 we get 6. In the same way we proceed further in the division process. So we observe that this division process never ends. Since we do not get the remainder as 0. We see in the quotient that a particular block of digits get repeated. That is 4 2 8 5 7 1 gets repeated itself. So we can write the fraction 3 upon 7 as the decimal which is the non-terminating decimal as 0.428571 with a bar over the block of digits that repeats this quotient thus obtained is a non-terminating decimal. Since in this the division process does not end or does not terminate. So we have expressed the given fraction as a decimal which is a non-terminating decimal. This is our final answer. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution of this question.


any time I do like a reaction video I get a strange sense of joy at seeing myself fail. Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. I'm Megan. Today we're going to be doing a video that I saw on Mara from Books Like Wei's channel as many of you know. She is one of my favorite booktubers.  I just really love the way she talks about books. She was on mystery so I get a lot of my mystery recommendations from her so she did a video seeing how many of her anticipated 2021, yes oh my god the years 2021 releases she actually had read and I was like oh my god I need to do this right now because I think I would have done very well and I just want to see the numbers. I want to see the statistics. I know in my spreadsheet how many of the 2021 releases that I have not read roughly but I don't really know my like most what I put my most anticipated releases list because that's different things you know I mean they're different dynamics so I don't know how many of them I'm going to have read but I really want to look at this because I think at this point in my channel so at the start of 2021 this was my first time like really getting into finding out about new releases and like discovering them because before that I just like I didn't care like new releases I was like I don't really like I don't really care I'm not really care whereas now I really pay attention to new releases and but I feel like little little young innocent sweet old child Megan from the start 2021 was a bit like naive and just like chucking shit on the list wishful thinking yeah you're a dream are you dream a lot in your sleep which I don't do now I've tried to be a lot more selective of what I'm putting on these lists I think my one this year was a lot shorter maybe not actually I don't think it was but I'm gonna be more selective so it's gonna be interesting to see now I am in this video only gonna be reacting to the video that I did talking about the first half of the year because I do two anticipated releases videos a year one for the first half of the year one for the second half of the year if we watched both we'd be here for 10 years like literally like we'd be here forever so we're only gonna do the first half and if you guys enjoy this we could do the second half if you don't enjoy it we'll just forget that the possibility was ever there for that to happen okay we are going to pretend we didn't hear that Mara split it into four categories which I am going to copy um so we have read and liked unread and still interested read and didn't like unread and uninterested and then we'll kind of work out what percentage all of those were at the end okay are we ready I'm gonna turn my headphones on and we are gonna go do I want these or do I want my AirPods okay I'm back I know you're all so worried god fun eyeshadow I don't do fun eyeshadow at the moment so I'm just like I like to get really quick nowadays so I don't do fun eyeshadow as much I'm so nervous also my eyebrows they were blocky they were blocky coming out this year and hopefully you'll find some that you're excited about too first I think this will be coming out on the day this video comes out actually we've got The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor CJ Tudor wrote The Chalk Man so The Burning Girls I have not read but I am so interested I'm actually reading that in the next video that I'm making it's on my tbr for this month if I had read quicker if I had like if I'd been reading a bit quicker at the moment I would have read that already this year just hasn't been the vibe for reading for me it's not the vibe stuck but I'm gonna I was thinking to myself this morning I'm gonna become a real reading bitch again you know what I mean I miss like reading a lot and it doesn't help the vlog I'm working on at the moment is books I never would have read otherwise so I don't feel the same like excitement versus I would if it was something on my tbr that I'm really excited to get to but I just like I want to do more vlogs so anyway unrelated yeah so I'm reading that next week pretty much so if I'd read a bit quicker I would have read it already and it would have been a statistic that you know could make us happy but alas next is if I disappear by Eliza Jane Brasier I read and did not like we're not after the best start because you know another thing that you hate from this is that you're gonna like what you're putting on your most anticipated list is like you're gonna know your reading taste yeah didn't like if I disappear I feel like it was kind of universally disliked it was just weird it wasn't very well written and the kind of ending and the journey that the book went on was just very strange I don't want to spoil anything but like if you read it you know like how it ends you're like so yeah the resolution was very good I didn't think it was particularly well written but I'm glad I've read it you know what I mean we've read something so that's something at least I'm glad I've read it we get into February now February is it not because I've got 10 releases on this list 10 releases 10 releases go honey you've got a big storm it's the shortest month how is that even possible first is one of my most anticipated releases of this year I just spoke about Sadie by Courtney Summers now okay okay okay and let me just say yeah no I have read the project I loved the project listen it got mixed reviews but although he gave it mixed reviews are incorrect incorrect I'm an acquired taste you don't like acquire some taste I loved it I loved the project at this point I've read two of her books and they're both five stars if I read one more she's got one coming out called I'm the girl this year it looks very exciting so cool if I gave another one of her books five stars like favorite all-time legendary author legendary status icon icon yeah the project is this book about like sisters and it's emotional and I cry every time I think about it and it's about a cult that one of the sisters has joined and the other one's trying to find her oh my god it's just going yes it was so good it was so good corny summits I say this every time she knows how to kill you emotionally she knows how to like rip your heart out and stomp on it and then give it to you back and be like well at least it was stomped on by me you know what I mean next is what big teeth by Rose Zabo this is pitched as Miss Peregrine's home meets the Adams family which is very exciting okay it is exciting oh okay so I haven't read what big teeth and I don't know how interested I am his thing if it was like put in front of me and I had to read it for a vlog I'd be like yes like oh my god I'm so excited to read it but I don't know if I was like buying books right there's there's a lot of books I would buy before I bought this book but I would read it if okay I'll put still interested I'll put but like it's a bit it's a bit of a bitch to like get in the UK I remember it being really awkward to get um in the UK so I just I don't know I don't know dolls I don't know at this point tricks the dolls are the dolls that's a bit of a funny one I think I took it off my amazon wish list did I I don't know we shall see but yeah I'll put still interested it did get mixed reviews but I feel like it was the kind of mixed reviews that means I would still enjoy the book like it's weird it's a bit nonsensical it's a bit dark so oh I just choked so we'll say still interested but like it's debatable next I think this is the only middle grade on this list I don't tend to read a ton of middle grade but this is me my dad in the end of the rainbow by Benjamin Dean I loved me my dad in the end of the rainbow I read it and I liked it yeah I really liked me my dad in the road gorgeous oh I can't speak for my gorgeous story of like acceptance and I think it's so important for kids to read um he's got another book coming out called the secret sunshine project oh my god s's were a problem for me when I was a kid I had to go to speech therapy so if I mess up my s's please don't come for me um yeah it was just like the ultimate wholesome lovely middle grade I absolutely loved it and I'm gonna read everything Benjamin Dean puts out in the future another one of my most anticipated is Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson also coming out okay this one is debatable hmm I read it I didn't love it it was like a three star but like a pretty low three star so do I say I read and liked it or read and didn't like I think I'm gonna say read and didn't like I well it wasn't that I didn't like it but it was I didn't like really like it either I just kind of felt ambivalent towards it it just wasn't as strong as Renee Watson's other stuff for me it just felt like a bit like nothing happened and like the plot was very short nothing really happened I didn't get any character development I felt like the issues it was trying to touch on weren't really touching that well and it feels kind of forgettable sadly oh I'm being mean I'm being mean I'm being mean at least it's another one I've read though next is Across the Green Grossfields by Shona McGuire yes I've read it I have read and I loved it Across the Green Grossfields this is one in the way with Children's News by Shona McGuire which is like a portal fantasy of these kids going into these magical worlds this is one you can start with if you've never read anything from the series and you're not as interested in the first couple this is one you can start with it's about a girl who goes into this world of like horses and centaurs basically and it's so cool and I really loved it I was never a really a horsey gal I mean I did like sometimes I'd go to my grandparents this place where you could like ride on a horse for like two seconds like when I was like a four-year-old but I was never like a horsey girl you know but I did really like the the relationships in this book I thought it was very beautiful I thought a lot of it was very poignant I thought it was a really great installment in the way with Children's Series so you've never read any of the books or maybe you've read like the first few I think you could read this one at any point basically is what I'm saying oh my god there's a lot of ads on this video Megan okay really really excited this one this has been on my anticipated for so long the next one is Fat Chance Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado I'm doing so well I'm doing so well okay I read and loved Fat Chance Charlie Vega oh my god you're the best thing about winning it's winning I always quote that wrong I never get it quite right you're the best thing about winning it's when you win you know what's the most exciting thing about winning it's when you win I love that feeling I really loved Fat Chance Charlie Vega I gave it five stars I think it was one of like the only like YA contemporaries I gave five stars last year I thought it was beautiful I thought the romance and it was amazing I thought it was so well written I'm so excited Crystal Maldonado's release this year which I have already got yeah it was just like one of the best YA contemporary romances I've ever read I just felt like it was like perfect in how it was written and the audience it was trying to go for and I just thought it was great we are doing well actually I'm pretty proud of how I'm doing I'm pretty proud of how many I've read and how how many I've liked we were all so happy that day it's it's actually hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become next just quickly is where hope comes from by the key to go the key to go as a poet okay yeah okay I've read the key to go in the past I've read great goddesses and I enjoyed it so that's why I put this on this list it's hard because like again if this was if I was given it and told you have to read it I'd be excited to read it but do I think I'm ever realistically gonna get to it no so I'm gonna put on red and uninterested which is the first one that we have of them but yeah I just don't think I'm ever gonna read it I didn't hear much about it and I think if I was to read Nikita Gill I'd maybe read some of her older stuff I had a bit more buzz around it like some more I feel like she's a really Greek poetry inspired book it's hard to say oh I'm uninterested because I never really say that I'm not the kind of person who really ever says I'll never read that do you know what I mean I'll pretty much read anything but if I'm being realistic it's not realistic it's just not realistic so yeah uninterested oh my god I feel harsh I feel like I'm like really savage right now next is a sanatorium by Sarah Pierce this comes out on the 18th of February genuinely I am iconic because I have read the sanatorium by Sarah Pierce I liked it I would say I think I give it four stars maybe looking back it's like a 3.5 because the ending to this was annoying as well it was a bit preachy it was a bit like hamfisted is that a term oh my god it was a bit like on the nose about what it was trying to communicate in the ending I didn't think it was done very well but I loved the isolation I loved the setting I loved some of the twists particularly like at the midpoint to like two-thirds point were really really good like really high tension and I'm gonna continue on with this series as well it's a series it turns out who knew I mean listen trying to sabotage me making me pick up books when I think they're stand-alone and then making them a series the next is Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers this comes out on the 23rd of February fuck off I loved Honey Girl I am doing so well I I really loved Honey Girl oh my god great romance if you're into romance pick up Honey Girl it's it's such a gorgeous romance but it's not really a romance so I lied did tell a bit of a lie I tell a bit of a lie there I did tell a bit of a lie there but I did tell a bit of a lie there it's really more of a story about like pressure and pressure when you when you get to a certain point in your life and supposed to have everything figured out and burnout I don't need this like I think just after I finished uni I read this so I could relate to it because a bitch was burnt out a bitch was tired a bitch was exhausted I really loved Honey Girl I thought it was an amazing book and again I will continue to reach from Morgan Rogers but thank you and the last of our February releases is Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh this comes out on the 25th of February okay I I'm gonna say unread and uninterested for this I saw why I never want to read from Nalini Singh actually funny enough Nalini Singh is like an author that Mara really really likes but I didn't really know anything about this book I think he was like on the list of like top thrillers coming out this year on Goodread and I was like oh that sounds interesting let me put it on my most anticipated list when I've never read from this author never heard of this author before this have no context of what this author has written before mm-hmm that's a good idea would not do that now wouldn't do that now not very interested it's probably better I feel like if I were to read from Nalini Singh I wouldn't start with this book if that makes sense so first is The Conductors by Nicole Glover okay so that's another unread and uninterested I'm not interested in reading The Conductors anymore partly because it hasn't had very good reviews since it came out I feel like it had very mixed reviews and so you know when a book hasn't had great reviews and it wasn't a book that was like wedded to reading in the first place I'm kind of like yeah listen there's only so much time and so many books in the world and also this was on this list because I believed I was going to be getting an arc of it and then the arc never came I'd put it on this list because anything that I thought I was getting to review obviously I wanted to put this list because I thought I'd be reading it soon and then the arc never arrived and then the reviews came out and they weren't great and I thought I'm more interested in getting this for myself if that makes sense so yeah next is A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Nouvelle I loved History of What Comes Next it was a controversial book not everyone loved it but I really loved it I've spoken about this a lot I thought well I gave it four stars I didn't love it but I look back on it I'm like that's a bit of an iconic book a little bit of an iconic move there Mr Sylvain Nouvelle by the way I think I always say his name wrong I apologize but now I've said it Sylvain Nouvelle for so long um don't think I'm gonna be changing how I say it who is she who is she next is The Mirror Season by Anna Marie Mackamaw okay listen Anna Marie Mackamaw is an author that I always want to read and never end up reading so I have not read this but I am still interested yeah I don't know I just like a wild beauty as many of you know has been a five star prediction for so long um and I've just haven't read it I own two Anna Marie Mackamaw's now and I haven't read either of the books from them that I own and it's shameful because like how do I keep doing this and the thing is Lakelaw by Anna Marie Mackamaw is on my most anticipated releases for this year so maybe I'm just gonna have to like read three Anna Marie Mackamaw's one day who knows next is Every Value Break by Peter Swanson oh okay unread and uninterested this is good though I feel like unread and uninterested like we're culling what I'm no longer interested in and that's that's positive that's positive yeah every value break by Peter Swanson again didn't get very good reviews but Peter Swanson's next book Nine Lives which is coming out this year is all I'm most anticipated still of this year because it has been getting better reviews and it's more of my kind of thing I feel like Every Value Break was like I'm husband and wife like I don't care about husbands and wives I really could give less of a shit but Nine Lives is more about like people getting killed off one by one so that's more in the vein of what I would enjoy but yeah Every Value Break just did not get very good views even from people who really love Peter Swanson stuff Roll of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo okay I have not read the Roll of Wolves but I am still interested I own it I need to read King of Scars and Roll of Wolves why did I pet this is the thing why do I pet Roll of Wolves on my TBR when I hadn't even read King of Scars when I hadn't even read Six of Crows and Crookie Kingdom at this point I will just say that um I I sabotage a lot of things oh and yeah okay I am still interested in reading this I think I just put it on here because I love the cover I really love the like pink whiteness everyone else hated it but I I really love the cover first is Pride and Premeditation by Piazza Price I have not read Pride and Premeditation but I'm still interested okay we're slacking a bit now I feel like my the earlier in the year that they were the more time I had to read them I'm gonna be reading it hopefully this year at some point with a series that I'm starting on my channel it's just like it sounds like a fun campy murder mystery as I'm retelling a Pride and Prejudice I mean you can't lose really it's gonna be fun even if it's like not amazing next is Malice by Heather Wolter this comes out on the 13th of April okay Malice unread and uninterested oh no this has now gone downhill this was another one where I was under the impression I was gonna be getting an arc and the arc never arrived so that was why it was on this list and again I probably would have read it and reviewed it if I got the arc but then reviews came out and like this got pretty good reviews actually this didn't get bad reviews but I just like lost interest I lost interest I was a lot more into like high high fantasy at last or start of last year and I haven't been reading or drawn to like as much of that other than what I've already got established on my tbr do you know I mean I've tried to be a lot more selective so that's probably why I wasn't as interested in that oh I'm super excited for witches a steeped in gold coming out on the 20th of April okay this is a funny one I have not read witch a steeped in gold yet we're slacking now we are slacking now I am still interested in it now this got bad reviews it got quite bad reviews but I own it and I still want to read it I love the additional bit that they have and I want to give it a go even if I end up like dnfing it it's okay I am trepidate trepidatious that's a big word to go into it because it got bad reviews but like who knows maybe awful in love first is projectile mary by mb where this comes out on the fourth of mays I love projectile mary oh my god one of the best sci-fi ever written no it was great it was really really amazing I read this on holiday actually and I had just such a great time reading it it's got great characters it's got a great storyline andy where just knows how to write sci-fi that you will be interested in he just knows how to write it that like you'll you'll understand it do you know what I mean that like it it makes you feel clever because you're like oh my god I understand science even though I don't but like he makes me feel special you know what I mean next is the ones we're meant to find by jone okay another sci-fi that is right behind me here here they are that I have read and I did not like I didn't like the ones we're meant to find I feel like again this didn't get great reviews it was just confusing and I was bored I was just like really bored the whole time we're reading it which is like so mean so mean it's so mean then we have she's too pretty to burn by wendy had so this oh my god okay I have not read she's too pretty to burn I think I'm no longer interested in owning this physically and reading it physically and prioritizing it as something I buy but I am still interested because I am gonna read the audiobook of it I have the audiobook on script so I'm gonna read the audiobook on there at some point it's not very long it's like a picture of Dorian Gray retelling I didn't hear a lot of people speak about it but since I have access to audiobook and it's not very long I will probably get to this quicker than some of the physical books that I'm more interested in oh okay when I'm super excited for next super excited by River Solomon coming out sick of May this is okay I'm read and still interested I don't even own this which is so painful to me why have I not bought this yet I'm like I just I really want it I really want to try River Solomon I take flop girl you have done it again constant lowering the bar for us all and I own the deep as well which I'm hoping I might read next month if like all goes to plan I don't even own it like what the hell why am I just like I'm trying to save money guys I'm trying to not buy too many books and I have over 200 unread books now that I own so I'm trying to be like not buy all the books when I could but like I'm trying to be more constrained I want to get that down to like 160 this year that would be nice by the end of the year well before Christmas let's say that before Christmas to get that number down to like 160 I need to start reading a lot more to do that because I've not been reading enough this year another one I'm very excited by is switched by AS King unread and still interested oh me and AS King have a funny relationship I often say this where I either give her books five stars and they are like outstanding some of the best books I've read that year or I give them like two stars there's like no in between generally has not been an in between for me and this got funny reviews but I'm hoping I still love it because it's weird and like oh I'm really excited another one that I might I'm doing like a video next month where I don't know what I'm going to be reading next but I'm hoping you're going to be reading short books I won't know till I'm like in the process of filming the video what I'm reading and this is another one that's kind of like on my mental possible tbr for that another one one of my most most anticipated reading at the day it comes out that was fucking scary my heart's going pitterpatter pitterpatter I feel sick like I could throw up I have read Heartstop of Volume 4 my babies Nick and Charlie I love you all know it's like my favorite graphic novel series ever some of my favorite characters ever I did read this I don't think the day it came out but like I read it like very soon afterwards I did a whole blog for it it's only one graphic novel but like this was when I was finishing uni so like I needed like some quick videos to get out because like a bitch was fucking stressed so I think I did a whole vlog on it and I loved it I mean they're just amazing I feel like I need to like reread the whole series one evening then we have Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins read coming out on the 27th of May okay I read and loved Malibu Rising it's one of my only five stars I gave out this year it was my book club pick for my patron in January and it was like the only book that we've all really enjoyed like we haven't had very good luck so far this year or just in general with our book club the pick this month has been controversial already so but we love we all pretty much loved Malibu Rising I feel like it was a pretty positive month for us and yeah I absolutely loved it I know a lot of people haven't rated it as high as like Evan Hugo or Daisy Jones but I loved it just as much I just thought it was something about Ted Jenkenry's writing where I'm like you are you've got the money now I mean you've got the money you could like take forever to write books but I need them like step the next is The Baby is Mine by Oyen Can Brathway okay yeah I read The Baby is Mine and I did not like it I didn't like it it was a really short novella like a thrillery novella and like whilst I admire it for what it was trying to do it just didn't land for me like we didn't have enough time to like fully get into it it just you know no no no it was a strange reading experience I remember I read it in like an hour and I was like what the fuck did I just read it's very strange and like I admire it because it was written for this like organization called The Reading Agency which is meant to help people get into reading who have not been reading and so I admire the whole ethos behind this book and the idea behind this kind of collection of books that came out in this quick reads series from The Reading Agency but for me and just my person enjoying then I didn't I didn't enjoy it what is The Dinner Guest by B.P. Walter I haven't read it but I'm still interested yeah this one is like one of my top thrillers to read I have a video idea which it can fit into so like I should just read it for that I should just do the video but like we know I haven't been reading get your fucking ass up and work it seems like nobody wants to work these days I need to I need to become a bitch who reads a book every day to like do all of my best video days of vlogs all of the vlogs and I'm not reading like this week my reading is gonna have a resurgence and we're gonna like be our best selves all of a sudden is oh it's gonna happen so anyway yeah I'm still interested in reading it I own it and I'm very excited to get to it oh my god the first is A Tea Dragon Tapestry by Katie O'Neill I haven't read The Tea Dragon Tapestry but I'm still interested in and I need to read the second one which one of my patrons Lisa like oh my god it's like the best thing I've ever received sent me the second one the pre-callback but yeah I haven't read either these yet but hopefully I will read them soon because Tea Dragon Society is one of the best graphic novels it's like up there with hearts up with me and how much I love it and how beautiful I think it is then we have the chosen beautiful by Nevo coming out the 1st of June okay I'm just saying at June obviously I didn't read these books um chosen beautiful I haven't read still interested it's another book I don't know if I'll read it for that vlog I'm talking about but it's a little bit too long but I am excited it's had again mixed reviews but Nevo oh I love Nevo's writing like beautiful lyrical amazing like gorgeous like oh I love Nevo's writing so I'm hoping that I will love it I'm hoping I mean and it's a great Gatsby retelling and I just feel like I'll like the weirdness that other people didn't enjoy as much then we have one last stop by Casey McQuiston I know red white and royal blue was one of my works last year okay one last stop unread and uninterested say why would you say something so controversial yet so brave yeah I just decided Casey McQuiston probably not for me after how much I really didn't like red white and more blue I thought to myself do I really want to read this or do I just think I want to read it because everyone else wants to read it and it was the latter I didn't actually want to read it so came off my tbr I just wasn't interested and that's okay I don't have to be interested in every book that everyone else is interested in which is what I thought I did have to be for a while and I don't we live in Winnan we age and we grow we grow and we age okay whatever then we have another one of my most anticipated releases is Darling by Kay Ankrem this one yeah I think I'm gonna say unread and uninterested here's the thing Kay Ankrem I've read two books from Kay Ankrem and they were both like five stars basically like four high fours to five stars but Darling again just didn't get great reviews and I heard it was very different from Kay Ankrem's other stuff that I just don't know if I'm interested now Kay Ankrem did talk on Twitter about how important this book was in like being able to actually do more of the weird shit like publishing this book is what's enabling doing more of the weird shit but um I just yeah I don't think I'm interested this was like one of my most anticipated releases like up up up there but then hearing people talk about it who love Kay Ankrem like I'm thinking of Mina and Kayla um they didn't really like it so I just don't think I'm gonna prioritize getting to it then we have Blackout which is actually an anthology yep I read and really love Blackout I thought it was a great read it's a great quick read it reads it's like a whole story I thought they did great a great job as a collaboration um and yeah I really enjoyed it and I want to read more from like the other authors in that anthology that I haven't read from before and then my last anticipated release oh my god we're there of 2021 of the first half that survived the night by Riley Sagar coming out the 29th of June yep I read it and I didn't like it I feel like no one likes the night but here's the thing I look back on it fondly because I went into it by the time I was reading it uh if you've watched the vlog it was in your know I went into it with such low expectations like I was like you're not you know I'm not going to enjoy this that when I actually read it I was pleasantly surprised by not how much I enjoyed it because I didn't enjoy it but it was just like I let go of any any hope so it was just kind of like a funny reading experience so I actually look back on it quite fondly even though objectively I didn't like it okay let me take oh my god I'm taking my ear pods out I my ears I'm alive again oh my god anyone else feel like there's like suffocating anyway so let's total up read and liked we had 11 read and didn't like we had five unread and still interested we had 12 and unread and uninterested we had seven I read 45 percent of what was in this video I read 45 percent which you know what it could have been worse it could have been worse I love that off what I have read I liked 68 percent which I feel like again that's pretty good like it could have been worse to be fair I feel like considering I was so new to this I was so new to picking new releases I was so new to like making sure I read them which isn't really happening but whatever that I'm okay with it and especially because I mean these past three months could have been time for me to read a few more of these that were on the unread and still interested I mean I've touched it a little bit a lot of shit's been happening in my life and I really struggled to like get on my feet like I would like to in this start of this year I feel like now that it's spring I feel like also a lot that will do my seasonal factor disorder and this year I feel like it just manifested in me like finding it really hard to do shit they're basically in January and February but now that it's sunny I feel like I'm really getting back to it my reading could have been better if that hadn't been happening and I could have finished a few more of these off so having read 45 percent not ideal not ideal but it's not horrific and actually if you take out like the seven that I'm just not going to read I've read 57 percent of what is on this list so that's a bit better like I've read over half of what was on this list like still out of what I actually want to read now do you know what I mean so I'm pretty happy with that 16 read 11 liked five I didn't like and seven books that I culled and I wasn't interested so 20 percent 20 percent of what was on this list actually I am no longer interested in reading which is interesting as well but I think that's good you know we're growing we're learning we're listening to reviews and you don't have to be wedded to what you put on this list once you hear reviews and you're no longer interested so I hope you enjoyed this video I feel like it was 10 years long let me know which of these books you have read and enjoyed or read and not enjoyed or unread and still interested or unread and not interested let me know all of that down below I would love to know if you've gotten to the end of this video put the headphones emoji because my earphones really hurt me and I wish I wore my headphones put that if you got to the end listen I love you guys so much if you're new to this channel make sure you subscribe I upload videos Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays and I'm literally I'm back on my bullshit like I'm back like the videos that I've got coming are so exciting and I hope you're excited for them so thank you so much for watching I will see you very soon in another video bye


using, say, speak, talk, tell, and discuss. This video is sponsored by the following English learning websites. The verbs, say, speak, talk, tell, and discuss can be confusing in English. Many people get them mixed up. This video will teach you when and where to use these words, which have very similar meanings. The differences among these words usually depend on what comes after them. 1. Object. 2. 2 plus object. 3. Indirect object. 4. With plus object. 5. About plus object. 6. That noun clause. 7. Reduced noun clause. 8. Adverb. 1. Verb plus object. Almost all of these verbs can take a simple object, but the objects are often different. See the examples below. Verb, object, types of objects. Speak, yes, a language. Say, yes, words, phrases, sentences, a prayer. Indefinites, such as something or anything. Tell, yes. A story, a joke, the truth, a lie, the facts, the difference. Discuss, yes, a topic, indefinites. Talk, yes, but this is not common. Nonsense. For example, Kyoko speaks Japanese well, but I only speak English. Say, uncle, come on, say it. I say, aunt, you say, aunt. Can you say, one runway runs one way and one runway runs the other way? You're telling a good story. Tell the truth. Discuss the weather, politics, anything. Just discuss something. Now you're talking nonsense. This is somewhat informal. Feel free to use this tongue twister anytime. Just don't forget where you got it. Test yourself. Which word? Say, tell, speak, talk, discuss. Need more time? Feel free to pause the video if you do. Answers. Tell a lie. Speak Vietnamese. Say anti-disestablishmentarianism. Discuss this topic. Tell a joke. Say chrysanthemum. Speak swahili. Talk nonsense. Say a prayer. Two. Verb plus two object. Some verbs can be followed by two plus an object. Verb, two object, examples. Speak, yes. Please speak to your brother. Say, yes. What should I say to him? Tell, no. Use indirect objects instead. Discuss, no. Talk, yes. I'll talk to her tomorrow. Say usually requires another direct object in sentences. Say it to him. Do not say, tell to someone. Three. Verb plus indirect object. The only the verb tell is followed by an indirect object. Verb, indirect object, examples. Speak, no. Say, no. Tell, yes.  Discuss, no. Talk, no. Four. Verb plus with object. Some verbs can be followed by with plus an object. Verb, with object, examples. Speak, yes. Can I speak with you for a minute? Say, no. Tell, no. Discuss, yes. Don't discuss business with him. Talk, yes. I'll talk with the boss. With discuss, you need a topic before with. Example, discuss it with her. What's the difference between speak or talk with and speak or talk to? These phrases are nearly the same and are often used interchangeably. However, there can be a slight difference. Speak or talk to someone. Speak face to face, me to you. One person talks, the other mostly listens. One has important things to say to the other. Speak or talk with someone. Think side by side with each other. This usually implies there is a discussion among equals. For example, I talk to my son about his behavior. This implies that the speaker has higher status than the listener. But not always. For example, she spoke to her boss about the incident. This implies that the boss is the main listener. She is the main speaker and has something important to say. With with, there is a more reciprocal relationship. The other speakers are equally involved in the discussion. One person does not dominate the interaction. I spoke with my colleagues about the issue and we all came to an agreement. What's the difference between speak and talk? These words are often used interchangeably as well. Speak tends to carry a more formal tone. Talk is less formal. For example, would you like to speak to or with the CEO about that? I can talk to my best friend about anything. Five, verb plus about, an object. Some verbs can be followed by the preposition about. We talk, speak, or tell about a topic. Say is not as commonly used here. And there is also an object before about. Verb, about plus object, examples. Speak, yes. Speak about another topic. Say, yes. Say something about the company's vision. Tell, yes. Tell us about your vacation. Discuss, no. Talk, yes. Talk about a controversial issue. Don't say discuss about. It sounds redundant. It is generally okay to end these types of questions with a preposition, to, with, or about. The object is implied. You talked to someone. Who did you talk to? Whom did you speak with? This is quite formal. What did you talk about? Ready for some practice? Indicate whether the following are correct or incorrect. Feel free to pause the video if you need some more time. Answers. Indicate whether the following are correct or incorrect. Please tell to the children a story. Incorrect. Please tell the children a story. Two, I will discuss the new plan to my boss. Incorrect. I will discuss the new plan with my boss. Did you talk to your sister about the party? Okay. You can also say with or speak. Martha said to her father-in-law. Incorrect. Martha said something to her father-in-law. I will speak with my friend tomorrow. Okay. Also, talk or to.  Incorrect. She talked to or with her mom. Seven, have you discussed with Jim? Incorrect. Have you discussed it with Jim? Noun clauses with these words. Two types of noun clauses can be used here. Noun clauses with that or noun clauses with other words. For example, he said that he would love her forever. She told him what he should do. Six, a verb plus noun clause with that. Only a few verbs can be followed by that noun clauses. Verb, that noun clauses. Examples. Speak. No. Say. Yes. He said that he was going home. Tell. Yes. She told him that she was staying. Discuss. No. Talk. No. Sentences with tell require an indirect object here. Six, be verb plus noun clause with other words besides that. Other verbs can be followed by different noun clauses. Verb, other noun clauses. Examples. Speak about. Yes. She spoke about what she needed. Say. Yes. He said whatever he wanted to say. Tell. Yes. They told us where we should go. Discuss. Yes. We discussed when we would meet. Talk about. Yes. I talked about how I met my wife. Noun clauses serve as objects and use words like who, what, when, whatever. The preposition about is required with speak and talk here. Seven, reduced noun clauses. In some cases, we can omit or change words to reduce noun clauses. For example, he said that he would always love her. He said he would always love her.   We told them where to go. They talked about what to do. Seven, a verb plus noun clause with that. The word that can often be omitted when followed by a new subject. Verb, that noun clauses. Examples. Speak. No. Say. Yes. He said that he was going home. Tell. Yes. She told him that she was staying. Discuss. No. Talk. No. He said he was going home. She told him she was staying. Notice how we omit the word that here. Seven, be. Verb plus noun clause with other words. Some verb forms are changed when the subject is omitted. Verb, other noun clauses. Examples. Speak about. Yes. She spoke about finding a new job. Say. Yes. He said which one to choose. Tell. Yes. They told us how to do it. Discuss. Yes. We discussed when to meet. Talk about. Yes. I talked about playing racquetball. Noun clauses serve as objects and use words like who, what, when, whatever. They can be reduced by omitting the subject and replacing the verbs with to plus verb. In some cases, we can use verb plus ing forms after about. Exercises. Make the sentences shorter by reducing noun clauses. Omit or change words wherever you can. Need some more time? Feel free to pause the video if you do. Answers. Omit or change words wherever you can. Kelly said she would be home for dinner. Johnny told us what to say. Tony will talk about how to fix the car. Tony will talk about fixing the car. We discussed where to hold the party. We can also say we discussed where the party would be held. My parents told me they would be here soon. Casper will speak about how to play chess or Casper will speak about playing chess. Sue said she saw a super shooting star. They talked about whether to go or not. Adverbs. Some verbs can be followed directly by adverbs. Others require an object first. Verb. Adverb. Examples. Speak. Yes. She is speaking nicely. Say. Object plus adverb. Say it correctly. Tell. Object plus adverb. Tell it to him slowly. Discuss. Sometimes an object plus adverb. Discuss it carefully. Sometimes we can say discuss carefully. Talk. Yes. She talks quickly. Hope that was helpful. Remember to click the thumbs up button if you like this video. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Thanks for watching. If you have an idea for our next video, please let us know at the link below.


Anyway, I'm out in the garage, as you can see, on the treadmill, kind of sweaty and dripping, watching movies on my iPad while I'm on the treadmill, because that's what I do, otherwise I get bored. Sorry, sweat's dripping into my eyeball. But making sure I get my steps in, it's a great way to start the day. I've got video to edit, last week's vlog to edit, and I think there's other stuff on the camera now. It's been a while, I forgot what's on there, so I'm gonna work through all that today, and I'll be back. It is Friday, October 19th, a little troublemaker's here, with her parents, it's family dinner night, we're working on a puzzle of the Capitol, no jumping. Go play with Bandit. Anyway, we're working on the building puzzle of the Capitol, and we are having a hard time. See, they're all in there, working on the puzzle, I'm trying to cook the ravioli, yeah, anyway, I'll be back. Guys, it is Saturday morning, October 20th, I think, or is it the 21st? I don't even know I've lost track, anyway, it's Saturday. I think it's the 21st, I think actually yesterday was the 20th, and I think I said it was the 19th. You know, you guys all should know by now, I have no sense of direction, and I frequently have no idea what day it is. Anyway, this is the finished puzzle we did last night, it's our most challenging one yet, all these little pieces of the Capitol ceiling, yeah, these were hard, and these buildings, they were really, this particular building was really a pain, but we got it done, so a lot of fun. So it's our way of having sort of family togetherness without the TV on, or the devices, we actually have to talk to each other, I love that. So anyway, alright, I'm going to go get ready and get on the treadmill, and get my steps in for the day, and then we'll see where we go from there. It's Sunday, October 22nd, and we're getting ready to go out and run some errands. Yes, my hair is all wet again, we're going to go to the bookstore, we're going to go to the hardware store, and to the grocery store, so I'll be back. So we're out running some errands, and of course I talked the husband into going to Barnes & Noble, because you know, I needed more magazine for my hoard. I found this magnet, I'm going to stick it on the cart, metal cart in my art room. Do more of what makes you happy, I like that. Sunday afternoon, and we've been running around the house, doing chores, there's Mr. Krabby pants, let's close the door so he can't get in the house, I've been chatting with friends, washing out my brushes, my husband says, come here, come here, we have a little visitor on the garden gate, here in the house, and I start to hear this whack, whack, whack, and it's the husband outside taking an axe to the old broken hose thing, so he can get it in the garbage can. I wasn't sure what exactly he was whacking on, but now I know. There's old Mr. Krabby pants, you're good now, huh? Because the little troublemaker is not here today. To drive your old butt crazy. It is Monday, October 23rd, and I have spent most of the morning in meetings about the MyCreative Year Facebook group, an art video group that's going to be on, mainly on Facebook, but the videos will be aired on YouTube. Anyway, if you want to know more about it, you want to join the group, there'll be a link to a video and description in the description, and a link to the Facebook group in the description. It's a year-long free mixed media group, anyway. So it is almost 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I've gotten like nothing done. I have to go get the mail. I'm starving, so I need to eat lunch. So we're going to go get the mail first.  I did get the IKEA cart cleaned out, which I intended to do. I did that while I was chatting with people on the computer. But I have to film a journal flip and do a couple other things still today. But yeah, I need to stop and eat and get the mail first. All right, that's it right now. I'll be back. So does it seem like it's dark outside? Because it is dark outside. It's almost 7 p.m. and I got talked into meeting the husband at the Masonic Lodge for work. I mean for work. For dinner. I was not planning on attending, but he called me and said, when he met us there, said, I'm dressed in my panty. I'm not leaving the house clothes. He said, it doesn't matter. Just come. I said, okay, I'll be right there. So here we go. As you saw, I was on the treadmill earlier and while I was on the treadmill, I was chatting with my art friends in our weekly chat session. I also got some laundry started. The dishes done. The coffee pots all cleaned out and I have a KCAP machine. So that's not easy to clean, but it's clean. And I got the giveaways mailed off for the matchbook journal. So if you're watching this and you were one that entered the giveaway, the two winners were picked. In fact, that reminds me, I've got to mark the video closed, but they were picked and they're mailed. And I had some Etsy orders that also had to be mailed. And I finally got Facebook to approve a name change on my business page on Facebook. Yay. And yes, I do have a business page on Facebook. And I will put it in the link tree link, which is in the description below. You can click on the link down there that says link tree. It says link tr.ee slash Gina B. Arons.  All my different store links, all my social media links. You're even going to get a copy, a link to the LinkedIn site where my resume is. Should you need it? I don't know, but it's there. I don't know, there's a lot of stuff. I've had extra coffee today that probably wasn't a good idea. I don't know.  So I'm going to go in the house and sit down. My daughter's over visiting with her puppy because they lost power at their apartment and she works from home. So she's like, can I come over and borrow your electricity and Wi-Fi? Like I'm going to say no. Of course I didn't say no. She and the puppy are over and they're inside, I'm sure. Lily is a very sweet puppy, but she's a puppy. So her nickname is the little troublemaker. In case you haven't gotten that clue yet, and this is your first vlog. And my dog is old and cranky. So, you know, he's Mr. Cranky Pants. Anyway, I think that's it right now. I need to have some lunch really bad and then I've got to work on some fabric stuff and reorganizing a little bit of stuff in my art closet. Again, today that's kind of the job today and tomorrow. And yeah, I got some sewing to do. And I'm going to film some of it for my creative year for next year. I also have some repairs to do and I may or may not film that too, but I've got a handbag that needs repair. So I got to do that too. That's it right now. Okay, it's Tuesday evening. I'm out. Ooh, the phone's gonna fall. I'm out in the front room of my house and no one's home. I am going to work on Inktober for today. The prompt for today is blind. So I'm going to do a continuous, I've done this before, but it's been a while, continuous line, blind drawing. So not only am I going to keep my eyes closed, but I'm not going to try to lift my pen up. I'm going to try to do something that has some facial features, maybe. I don't know. We're going to find out. It's going to probably be a hot mess, but you know. So let me set up the camera so you guys can see what I'm doing. And yeah, we'll take it from there. There are ways to do these kind of drawings where you don't lift your pen up. You can look or not look at the paper. I've done them where you're staring at the subject you're drawing and you're not looking at the paper. In this case, I just kept my eyes closed. She's an interesting cute hot mess, but yeah. There we go. All right, that's it for today. I'll be back. It is Wednesday, October 25th. And I'm going to go run one really quick errand. And then I'm going to meet my student, Laura, for a art coaching tutoring session thing. We don't exactly know what to call our sessions, but yeah. That was all fit. Anyway, I'm going to go do that really quick and then meet with her for a couple of hours and then try to go run a couple more errands, I think. So we'll see what happens. I've already had an early morning before dawn business meetings with Cindy Utter about things coming up for next year. And she asked me why it was so dark. I was sitting in the dark. I said, I have the lights on it because it's not dawn yet here on my side of the world. So anyway, that was pretty funny. Yeah, so here we go. I'll be back. And I just stopped at the grocery store and picked up some lunch.  I need that. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Wednesday evening. It's just after eight o'clock. I have had quite the day. I had everything, as I said earlier, from early morning meetings to meeting a student in her house for some art coaching and then coming home to do some filming for my creative year for next year. Yeah, next year. I did say next year. And then squeezing some chores in there somewhere, you know, dishes and laundry. And I did have to finally vacuum the floor in here because I did a few projects in the floor was just full of bits and pieces and scraps and it was bad. So it's all clean now. See, nice. Well, except for the paint stains, but you know, it's clean-ish.  So anyway, it's been an interesting week and it's all good. My friend who I mentioned earlier, but I'm not going to name that sick and had surgery recently. Her results are not good. So everybody, you don't know her. I'm not going to name her, but throw some good energy out there for her. I would appreciate that. And everybody else who's suffering right now, they could all use it. That's it for today. Don't forget to check the video description for any relevant links, including the link to the my creative year next year, the free online mixed media teaching group for lack of a better term. It's not just journaling. We're going to be doing all kinds of things in there and there'll be classes, the videos will be here on YouTube, but further instruction, direct communication, materials, lists, the free downloads, all that's going to be over in the Facebook group. So if you want to be part of it, join the group. Link is below and I know there's, I do actually have hair. It's just, yeah, it's there. I don't know. Distracted by the way the top of my head looks. So all those links are in the description below. My tip jar link, if you want to support the free content here on YouTube and the content on Facebook, is in the description. My Amazon wish list is down there. My happy mail address is down there, all that stuff. So check out the video description. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. And above all, go out and have a great day. Have a great week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I will see you later. Bye, guys.