And we are back Agnes. What do you have for us now? What does Agnes have for us now? Great news. Thanks for your quick thinking at the casino We now know what we know how to defeat male How do we defeat a male now? Before we get into that here's one more status update on our war for oh my god. Let's see how much percentage we have run it down 40 50% We didn't really do much my god. It's half ways Mount the villains are curling. Yes 50% dude. That's still a High percentage that is half the world So what's this about the power of music exactly man? That's what I was asking myself In the past the power music has been pretty to feed many of the world's villains Oh my god, that is a battle with guitar that thing looks awesome If we get our hands on that guitar we should be able to use it to defeat male ones and for all Okay, so now we have to go steal a guitar to defeat male Destination temple of music operation temple run. Hey temple run isn't that a game?  Let's go find this guitar. Let's do what it's all about. Oh No, no, I missed the speedy thingy Okay, so now oh, there was a shortcut back there man Wait, we go this it right We don't hear something. I Don't want to look back because I know I'm a fall. Let's just keep going man We don't want enough. We don't want to fall down because I'm gonna try to get that little ray this time. Let's go mister Pick up the speed My god, we're on stage 44 So how many stages did you put in your shovel where I guess he assumed 40 levels isn't enough man. Oh My god, we'll just follow it. It's kind of tricky Move out of the way mister This temple looks pretty cool Okay, now what where do we go? Can we straight? Oh my god checkpoint Okay, nice. We're at a checkpoint. We're at a minute so far usually the best times are like two minutes Oh my god, that was so close. Let's keep going man. Oh No Okay, let's take it Let's take it a little slow man because I feel like we keep going a little faster. We're gonna fall Is that a lot more in here? I swear that's a lot more Okay, we were up this way. Oh My god now this way Did you got to be kidding me man? This is like the most impossible Abbey Okay, there you go finally we get close to the temple use a feed boost 146 I don't know man. Let's see what we get here Hey, we got a badge. Oh, we got a S Finally we get an S. We got a spank. We just spanked that level. Yo, what's up, Alex? Yeah, you know bruh. Tell me about it man We're on stage 47. Oh my god. We got the whole squad here too, man Hey, hey, hey, that's the first S we get that's it man. I quit Night no longer do this. I got an S already stage 11 Macho Mexico temple of music Macho Mexico come on. Oh, we're gonna fight Macho next which he said we're gonna save him last Then we're gonna fight Mal. That's what I think Because they did say Macho was gonna be the last fighter we fight. So here it is the temple of music Yes, it is grew My god, that guitar looks pretty epic the other crew and I will stay stay here and watch out All right, man, whatever you say that means it's your time to shine which is us Oh my god, it seems like we're gonna have to solve a red or something. No Hopefully it's not too hard Come on hurry up. Oh my god. We're in the temple now There goes nothing man Temple has What's going on? Except in one. What do you say grew able to use calm? Oh?  Okay, so we can't talk to grew. We're by ourselves here. Oh god So quiet in here man. Can you like the water drips?  I will fight you male now. We'll bring it down. I will teach you fear that pain and then then what Well, at least the fear of pain and will end once you didn't even know what to say at the end Come on male. You got to be you got to be swifter than that Okay So now we're gonna fight mouth that we're supposed to fight macho What is that? What is what Ashley? I can't see what you're looking at. Oh, no, it is now It's how many seconds last all right man.  Yeah, I didn't even touch me Wait, we kind of all right. That was too high up. I was about to say we can't even reach up there, man Oh gosh, we got to be careful with those cubes that are moving around Yeah, Mel because I'm boss Right, we have her half ways man looking good out here Not too shabby can we should go? Okay, wait mouth a guy right? I mean a girl, but she had like a guy boys No, she defeated us once. Okay. She hit us once. Oh my god. We have to dodge all these farts and these cubes.  Come on. This is the lesson. There you go Dab on her. You think you've won. This isn't over. Gotta be kidding me, man. When is this over? We're on stage 50. Oh my god stage 50 Feel like I've been here forever Okay, 59 seconds.   Let's go We got another slap There's smack or sprank. This is sprank or smack. I think it was sprank or super.  Let's go. Let's go stage 12 city mouse mouse base What does that mean? Does Mal have a spaceship? Nice job partner. Now. Let's get the power of music.  Oh my god. What's that? It was a fake one Mel she tricked us Did you really think it'd be that easy why we did beat you what is that what is that man?   He's in my new ultimate power. I created around where absolutely nothing exists Why I mean your realm exists in the Realm, but something exists.  Oh Gosh should not wear in mouth space.  Oh my god, this looks pretty cool. Okay, let's get out of here Well, it's just like a basic one. Okay, this should be a little easier than the other ones wait those things are moving This is garbage people actually like this apparently they do grew Okay, so off we go.  This wasn't where we supposed to end up So why do we why don't we head back? Shift to doubles boost. Oh, we're supposed to press it No, oh Nothing can contain the two of us that max power not even mouth space.  Oh like a Funko pop of a minion. Sup everyone. I miss this place Oh my god, the robot minions what happened grew you two have just ended up and disappeared Why we're coming back Agnes. Don't worry about it Nothing happened literally now. Let's track down male. Okay, so now we're going after male What's in forever?  Oh Do those things shoot rockets at us So with the music some like some anime music going on. Oh My god, no watch out with those It's pretty cool. They shoot rockets at you. Oh I thought we were about a father What's up with this world the dog trash? Well, I thought I was a rocket but that was grew his body. Oh No, be careful with the rocket man Leave me alone. You evil minion robot, whatever you are transformer Okay, we got this man Let's go. Oh My god, we almost fell. Okay. We got this checkpoint fifty three seconds. Oh My god, we're gonna have to dodge those things Can never now we're gliding that's mouth fortress up ahead the younger group will meet you on side It's time to end this I agree Agnes this once and it's time to end this once and for all We're coming for you man darn right go We're gonna end this once and for all wait my god.   Oh my god This thing looks crazy. Oh man. This used to be the most funnest place on earth Mel has gone too far this time. I agree lick them They look like maniacs Oh god Mel's lab is at the top of the center of the tower the three of you will make it together to make it stop Okay, that thing looks like the power core. We have to stop that thing Oh my god a giant minion Okay, so where do we start over here? Look at the minions having fun in the roller coasters. I want to ride the roller coasters too, man. I'm tired of doing the zombie Geez, oh my gosh stage 57. You gotta be kidding me, buddy Oh great now there's lasers You just had to put lasers, huh? You just had to put lasers somewhere Okay, let's go. Let's go Oh great. I thought I was gonna hit the thing. It was gonna make me turn But it did it. We just ran straight into the ball of spikes Okay, let's go up here Oh, I was gonna try to do a shortcut, but it didn't work out Hey, see that's what I was waiting for. I didn't do it the first time whatever man Okay, let's get that super power up Oh Oh great. Now we have to use the minions as the ladder Which is pretty cool We're at 51 seconds. I feel like we're gonna do this bad, man. Oh my god No double jump. There you go. That's kind of afraid there that we're about to fall down Let's keep going grue Don't let these minions stop you Come on, grab it.  These trolley things are cool. Oh, you guys heard that scream Oh No No, I'm sorry grue. He just burned into a chicken nugget Grue is not with burnt chicken nugget you guys. Wait, do they spin? You got to be kidding me, man Okay, be careful here Oh gosh This just had to be spinning lava, right? He just had to be spinning lava, man. Okay, let's go Go up this way Okay, grab the banana so we can get the super power and we missed the jump. How did we miss it?   Okay, we kept putting me back, but we got up here There you go geez louise And now if we go I think we're about to get like a b now more like to see man Oh, no now vectors back. I thought we defeated this guy back there, man. You got to be kidding me Now we got a defeat vector once again Oh Maybe we have to be careful not to fall into the lava Isn't that marvelous So if we lose we have to start over Man, you got to be kidding brother Okay, so we can't afford to lose guys because if we do If we do we're gonna have to defeat this guy over and that is not cool at all. That is not cool We just found out This is a little more challenging Yes vector we know Very predictable But here we are And we just fell straight down having trouble. Don't worry. You can do it. Uh, fan. I got it. Don't worry Maybe I'll skip it if I can't defeat them. It's the I'll skip the level Because I've been playing for too long. I'm starting to see minions left and right even though they're not there But gosh Okay, man. This is not cool. This is not cool at all Yes, we're not vector. I think the best way to defeat this guy is to actually hit him from the side to stay on the side platforms Not on the right. I mean not on the middle ones Because then oh gosh Wait, oh, let's make it bounce. You gotta I thought there were coins the whole time Wow This whole time I could have just been doing this That is just great, man Okay, jump over. You see now it's like a hundred times easier We've got this man I'm not going to lose to you again. Yes, you are buddy. You're gonna lose to me mark my words But great now it's spinning quicker.  I swear if we lose this I'm gonna cry because we're gonna have to start all over We need like one more hit There you go Thank you. We defeated this guy.  Where do we go this way? Imagine we just fell down. He's like right here in the lava. I would totally just like quit the game Oh, no, my battery is about to die. You gotta be kidding me, bro Can you just keep going? Okay, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Oh my god. Nothing giant spider cookies. Wait, how do How do we get all right this way? I was about to say we can't jump through that that's impossible. Oh god Dude, we just went through those things Get out of my way your spider cookies. No we bow Oh my god, we need a checkpoint like we seriously need a checkpoint somewhere over here Just hit the dab boy You know you hit that dab It's not worth it because we just start all over. No the bananas are there Feed me the bananas. I want the bananas. Oh my god, I thought we were about a father Move out of the way, mr. Cookie.  You just had to mr. Shovelware Okay, so this is pretty cool Now if we go Jump up here Checkpoint. Yes Six minutes. We've been in this level for six minutes.  You guys saw that they like pop out. We've got to be careful with these things No Oh my god, that was so close. Okay. Now we jump up here Okay, now this way. Oh my god, this is getting confusing Confusion Okay, six minutes My god, when is this thing over man? Where do we go? Do you go down here? Okay, now we have to jump down. We have to be careful with the lava with the laser lava Enough we go Oh my god No, dude, that thing legit just pushed us straight into the lava That is not cool bro. Leo Okay, go down. Where do we go this way? No, watch it out man.  There you go.    We have to fight this dude again You got to be kidding me. How many times are we gonna fight these guys over and over and over? I'm gonna go crazy Okay, watch it. We got to defeat this guy Oh my god, he's just gonna keep going back and forth and we got hit by the laser That is just great, man Okay, yes, yes Yes, you've always been a bad boy now you're gonna get spanked Stage 65, dude, this is insane When it's just over Somebody help me, please Okay, be careful.  Oh my god I don't want to risk it.  Oh, man, can you come down here? Can you stop moving for a second, mr. Brat? Great. Now he just has us chasing him back and forth Dude Look, I'm gonna wait for him here. I know he's gonna come back. Oh my god. Now he's going down You better not move because I swear Okay, he's halfway. We got him halfway Now he's just gonna dance quicker. Whatever man. Do you know scare me? Okay, be careful with the laser It would be scarier if he would go around in the circle with his laser trying to kill us Come on. We're almost there one more hit.  You are cray cray Yes, you are best of me But El macho will make it will make quick work of you. We still have to find El macho. I totally forgot about that guy Jesus Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay. Where do we go? I thought it was over, but no we still have to keep going Stage 65 Oh my lord Oh, wow. We're running on the wall.  That looked like a close one. What if we just jump straight down there? Is that like a shortcut? Oh great We just got caught by the lasers No, we have to start all the way back here This is torture, man I'm telling you guys. This is just pure torture My god, I've been playing for like about an hour already Jesus No, oh my god. I have 13 minutes through my camera batter died. So now we're at 13 minutes So we're definitely gonna get like an f. Oh my god I so I forgot about the time man. Well, whatever as long as we beat the level man. So let's go.  Okay.   No, there's so many of these Please don't get me Okay, oh my god, I'm not where Where are we up to now? Okay. Now I'm starting to believe all these levels are looking the same Where am I going insane? I think I'm just going insane Because we've been playing this for like about almost two hours not like about an hour and like 20 minutes.  Oh, that is right, man. We just oof I have no idea you can fall through but now we do No, no so close dude. Those things are scary. I feel like they're gonna get you like the last second There you go. Okay. Let's be careful here not fall again Move out the way Roboto mr. Roboto Hey, I keep forgetting about that super ultra instinct mode. Oh my god, not the spikes. Oh Wait, how do you do this one? No Yes, I'ma skip it. Whatever. I'ma skip one Need three more robux. Oh, yeah, I spent on my robux trying to buy I mean buying the stuff for this like the farkens dance and the minion become a minion So now we're just gonna have to beat it like a normal person Let's go. Mr. I can't believe the other people are still here. They're trying to beat it too You guys are real ones, man Because I've been playing this for like about an hour or two and that's insane Oh my god I think this has to be the world's like longest roblox hobby move out of the way even robots. You're not gonna take me down Okay, uh No, you get past that one. I ran and I jumped But I mean if you try to I think you have to like time it Which is pretty hard because when you run and jump you jump pretty quick Oh god, no, please. No, please. No mister Okay, let's go up here Do this once again. It didn't even let me jump although. Yep. I feel you astley.  There you go That was like one of the other ways to beat it I was thinking of it the first time but I was kind of skeptical about it So I'm like, hey, I'm just gonna try it this time because I'm kind of fed up Getting caught by the lasers and it worked surprisingly. Let's go. Finally, we get a chain boy, man And we made it to the power core. Oh my god. You gotta be kidding me, man Can we just fight macho already so we can get it over with this? collect the bananas for the superpower Finally a macho's here.  It's gonna be you buddy not me Yo, oh Do we just smack that guy into another dimension?  I was taking my sweet time to change my battery And I forgot that about the grading system and the time But whatever man, like as we beat the level Okay, so now we're we're we're going so Are we gonna fight a macho now? A macho you're going down Stage four super what super silly fun land Uh-oh oops Excuse me Uh-oh is that mal We've come to put it into this mail. Yes, we have because I'm quite frankly tired of this We've been going at this for like forever There will be no end grew oh no melt doesn't want to give up man like a top notch Stubborn villain no entry yours. Oh my god Feel the true extent of my ultimate power.  What is happening?  What? Because now we're outside. So that's what he was doing What was he doing?  Oh my what? That's a giant robot mal. Oh my god. No. Oh no wait, that's our robot Nice. We're getting hold of this mega minion mech. Oh Oh, this is sweet man. That's like a two transformers going at it. You're a real asset to the team ricky Thank you girl. That means a lot, buddy Hope you know how to drive this thing. Well, we'll just figure out in a bit Oh my god, are we finally gonna take down mega mount once and for all? This is it rookie the final battle. We need to boost it to mouth or hurt him Collect the bananas to charge up and boost yourself into defeating mount once and for all Finally man Wait, where the bananas? Oh, it's a giant stack of bananas. Oh my god. Oh Wait, what I boosted into her Didn't even do anything You lied to me Well, maybe I have to be close. Oh, I did hit him. So I lied to myself There you go.  She's just running around destroying the city Hey Okay, almost half ways We got this man We got this. Let's collect. Let's fill up our bar so we can have two tries I was so close lag Recipes of that man. I joined after you Oh my god 49 Oh, no, I don't understand this night. I was supposed to be stronger Why'd you guess wrong male with the bananas feed me bananas? Give me other bananas now Oh That's pretty epic. We just like ramped through all the buildings Wait, can we do it from far? Oh, we can we don't have to be like right next to her Get out of my way buildings Wait. Oh, wow. We we jumped over here Okay, how many more times I think one more time after this one or can this be the last one? Nope one more Yes, finally we defeat male Wait, so a monster we just like That was a fastest fight. I thought you're supposed to be like the harder one Just takes like a second to fight him Oh my god, finally we made it the boost triple boost It's just it it's just the end Please tell me it's the end. Hello. My name is male Please tell me this is the end Then we finally take down male for good. I think we did Welcome back male. I was well and that ain't squirrel, right?   I'm sorry man. I tried my best Wait, are we even gonna get a letter grade for this? Yes, we got a letter. We got the badge. So did we get the s? After math through his house resistance phase. I thought it was over Oh, I think it's over.   I feel like this took forever Like a whole day to beat I don't know man. I shout out to shovel wear studios with this amazing hobby It's kind of like the movie in the knobby at the same time, which was pretty awesome All right you guys Well, thank you guys for watching thank you guys for the amazing support If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to slap the like button If you're new to the channel, make sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye


Good evening fellow citizens. We address you very very later tonight, predominantly because we had some technical issues, but here we are. Before we make a presentation on the DUNO, I would like to start with delivering a statement on the just released grade 7 and grade 9 results. In 2016, when we in the UPP proposed to do away with the examinations that eliminate our children, Zambian children at grade 7 level, we were criticized. And it was the people of Zambia, you the people of Zambia who are in the forefront to criticize us. You said education must just have a system to eliminate others. Only a few must progress to the next level. The people of Zambia said these things. And this culture I think has emerged in our country because we are used to suffering and we think that that is normal. Where suffering becomes normal. When we see something or when we are of something that can work differently, we don't believe in that because we are resigned that this is our destiny. We must suffer. We must accept substandards. We were criticized that we expect to have a pyramid. This was the argument of the people that how can you have enough classrooms to take all grade 7s when they progress to go to the 8th grade. You condemned us. Today we commend the government for the first time in the history of our country allowing grade 7s to progress all of them countrywide to the 8th grade. Fellow citizens, we want to commend the permanent secretary of the minister of education Dr. Calumba. He is one of the most prominent permanent secretaries that we have so far in Zambia. We've been following this debate. It's as if you are somehow ladies and under UPP manifesto. We have said time has come to change the education system in the country. We cannot continue with the same colonial style of education because at that time there was what was called African education and it was poor quality education where the citizens of this country, our children, were only exposed to learning about Vascodamas. You learn about European history. Why are we learning about all these things? Why can't we learn about our history? What do European history do to you? How will the history of Canada learn about about cotton production in Canada? How will that help Zambia? This is laughable. Go to geography. You find that all these subjects, some of what the subjects cover, cannot add value to this country's development. So we commend PS Calumba and we commend their appointing authority for this kind of quality, no kind of appointment. We need more of such permanent secretaries. Permanent secretaries need not just to be there, getting huge allowances and huge pay. There must be results. These are controlling officers. These are chief executive officers of ministries. So I commend PS Calumba once again. We want to say this, fellow citizens, that it's about time that our country set her priorities and education system must answer our country's needs. We need to change the education of philosophy altogether as a country. We need to do a critical assessment of where we are as a country and to find fields that are a priority. But at the same time, we also need to have an education system that produces learners who are explorers, who are going to explore, learners who are going to find solutions, learners who from the very beginning will be prepared to be active participants in the building of our nation. That's what education ought not to do. That's what all of us must begin to advocate for. Fellow citizens, we in the UPP, a feather, we look at our police, we propose that examinations must be moved from grade nine to the tenth grade. We need to go back to the system that put examinations at the tenth grade because by the time the child is grade 10, this child is around 16, 17, thereabout. It's very easy at that particular stage to have comprehensive assessments and be able to tell the strengths or the skews inclinations of a child at that stage, at that level, at the level of grade 10. So the examinations that must take place at the seventh and tenth grade under the PPP policy must be count based. The department on examinations at count level, that's district level. This is the PPP policy we are talking about because we take everything to the districts where the people are. There'll be nothing to do with implementation at national level or implementation who 100% go to where the people are. So the department on examinations at count level will examine students at the seventh grade, but those examinations are not for elimination. They are just meant to assess the students in order to begin to place them in the fields where they can excel. The next level of examinations at count level, meaning these will not be standardized because each county, the department on education will monitor the level of education in the district, the level of education in a given county. So the next level of examinations at the tenth grade level, that is from three, those examinations will not be meant to eliminate the students. All of them will progress. What those examinations will do simply to identify those students that are going to be placed in classes where they will begin to do practical skills, specializing in practical skills. You cannot force a child who cannot excel in physics to continue in that area. So it means that for those that excel in some areas, then those are the ones that will be placed in classes where they'll be prepared for college examinations. For those that clearly show that they cannot excel in other subjects, we need to look at what they can do so that the department on practical skills training, survival, practical skills training at school level, they'll be placed in those classes. And by the time that they reach the 12th grade, which is from five, they are already ready to be employable because we're also beginning to look at employability. We don't want to offload the students who are going to be on the streets without anything to do. And the department of labour at count level will connect to the industry. So by the time students are finishing, the industries that need certain skills will be known and those students will be linked. That will be the role of the department of labour at count level. For those students that are not able to find employment, but they have skills and they're employable, then they get the support from the department of commerce because when it's crap of CEC, the department of commerce will be at count level. So resources will be right where the people are. Fellow citizens, this is the only way that Zambia is going to produce students who are industries, students who are ready to save the country. And this must be the goal. We need not to have an education system that produces people who are not ready to save the country. So it must be about reparations. It must be about responding to the country's needs. And for those who have written the examinations, which will be now national, so from five level, examinations will be national. And this will be meant to let these learners find new places in colleges and universities. For those that will have more places, all the same, they will have acquired practical skills just like for those who are putting streams for acquiring practical skills. So we need to be identifying the strength of students at a very tender age. Fellow citizens, we the IPP also want to say this very clearly, that why should English be comparison?  You have a student with a distinction in physics, distinction in chemistry, and then in English with a six or seven, you say this student can't go to the university. This is laughable. This is laughable. If this student understands the English of science, this student must progress. So this is what you propose. We'll be talking more on this sector. We want to prepare and speak to you on our usual series, the series on did you know. Thank you very much. God bless you. God bless them.


Edge computing is projected to be a multi-trillion dollar business, you know, it's hard to really pinpoint the size of this market, let alone fathom the potential of bringing software, compute, storage, AI and automation to the edge and connecting all that to clouds and on-prem systems. But what is the edge? Is it factories, is it oil rigs, airplanes, windmills, shipping containers, buildings, homes, race cars, well yes, and so much more. And what about the data? For decades, we've talked about the data explosion. I mean it's mind-boggling, but guess what? We're going to look back in 10 years and laugh what we thought was a lot of data in 2020. Perhaps the best way to think about edge is not as a place, but when is the most logical opportunity to process the data? And maybe it's the first opportunity to do so where it can be decrypted and analyzed at very low latencies, that defines the edge. And so by locating compute as close as possible to the sources of data to reduce latency and maximize your ability to get insights and return them to users quickly, maybe that's where the value lies. Hello everyone and welcome to this CUBE Conversation. My name is Dave Vellante and with me to noodle on these topics is Omer Assad, VP and GM of primary storage and data management services at HPE. Hello Omer, welcome to the program. Thanks Dave, thank you so much. Pleasure to be here. Yeah, great to see you again. So how do you see the edge in the broader market shaping up? Dave, I think that's a super important question. I think your ideas are quite aligned with how we think about it. I personally think as enterprises are accelerating their sort of digitization and asset collection and data collection, they're typically, especially in a distributed enterprise, they're trying to get to their customers. They're trying to minimize the latency to their customers. So especially if you look across industries manufacturing, which is distributed factories all over the place, they're going through a lot of factory transformations where they're digitizing their factories. That means a lot more data is now being generated within their factories. A lot of robot automation is going on. That requires a lot of compute power to go out to those particular factories, which is going to generate their data out there. We've got insurance companies, banks that are creating and interviewing and gathering more customers out at the edge. For that, they need a lot more distributed processing out at the edge. What this is requiring is what we've seen is across analysts, a common consensus is that more than 50% of an enterprise's data, especially if they operate globally around the world is going to be generated out at the edge. What does that mean? More data is new data is generated at the edge, but it needs to be stored. It needs to be processed. Data which is not required needs to be thrown away or classified as not important. And then it needs to be moved for DR purposes, either to a central data center or just to another site. So overall, in order to give the best possible experience for manufacturing, retail, you know, especially in distributed enterprises, people are generating more and more data-centric assets out at the edge. And that's what we see in the industry. Yeah, we're definitely aligned on that. Some great points. So now, okay, you think about all this diversity. What's the right architecture for these deployments, multi-site deployments, Robo, Edge, how do you look at that? Well, excellent question, Dave. So now sort of see, you know, obviously you want every customer that we talk to wants simplicity and no pun intended because simplicity is reasoned with a simplistic edge-centric architecture, right? So because let's take a few examples. You've got large global retailers. They have hundreds of global retail stores around the world that is generating data that is producing data. Then you've got insurance companies. Then you've got banks. So when you look at a distributed enterprise, how do you deploy in a very simple and easy to deploy manner, easy to lifecycle, easy to mobilize, and easy to lifecycle equipment out at the edge? What are some of the challenges that these customers deal with? These customers, you don't want to send a lot of IT staff out there because that adds cost. You don't want to have islands of data and islands of storage in remote sites because that adds a lot of states outside of the data center that needs to be protected. And then last but not the least, how do you push lifecycle-based applications, newer applications out at the edge in a very simple to deploy manner? And how do you protect all this data at the edge? So the right architecture, in my opinion, needs to be extremely simple to deploy. So storage, computing, networking, out towards the edge in a hyper-converged environment. So let's be agree upon that. It's a very simple to deploy model. But then comes how do you deploy applications on top of that? How do you manage these applications on top of that? How do you back up these applications back towards the data center? All of this keeping in mind that it has to be as zero touch as possible. We at HPEs believe that it needs to be extremely simple. Just give me two cables, a network cable, a power cable, fire it up, connect it to the network, push it state from the data center and back up its state from the edge back into the data center. Extremely simple. It's got to be simple because you've got so many challenges. You've got physics, you've got what to do, you've got latency to deal with, you've got RPO and RTO. What happens if something goes wrong? You've got to be able to recover quickly. So that's great, thank you for that. Now, you guys have hard news. What is new from HPE in this space? From a deployment perspective, HPE's simplicity is just gaining, like it's exploding like crazy, especially as distributed enterprises adopt it as its standardized edge architecture, right? It's an HCI box, it's got storage compute networking all in one. But now what we have done is, not only you can deploy applications all from your standard vCenter interface from a data center, what we have now added is the ability to back up to the cloud right from the edge. You can also back up all the way back to your core data center. All of the backup policies are fully automated and implemented in the distributed file system that is the heart and soul of the SimpliVity installation. In addition to that, the customers now do not have to buy any third-party software. Intig backup is fully integrated in the architecture and it's VAN efficient. In addition to that, now you can back up straight to the cloud, you can back up to a central high-end backup repository which is in your data center. And last but not the least, we have a lot of customers that are pushing the limits in their application transformation. So not only do we previously were one of them leading VMware deployments out at the edge sites, now we've also added both stateful and stateless container orchestration as well as data protection capabilities for containerized applications out at the edge. So we have a lot of customers that are now deploying containers, rapid manufacturing containers to process data out at remote sites. And that allows us to not only protect those stateful applications but back them up back into the central data center. I saw in that chart that there was a line on no egress fees. That's a pain point for a lot of CIOs that I talked to and grit their teeth at those fees. So you comment on that or? Excellent, excellent question.  So along with simplicity, we have the whole GreenLake as a service offering as well, right? So what that means, Dave, is that we can literally provide our customers edge as a service. And when you compliment that with Aruba wide wireless infrastructure that goes at the edge, the hyper-converged infrastructure for simplicity that goes at the edge, you know, one of the things that was missing with cloud backups is every time you back up to the cloud, which is a great thing by the way, anytime you restore from the cloud, there is that egress fee, right? So as a result of that, as part of the GreenLake offering, we have cloud backup service natively now offered as part of HPE, which is included in your HPE simplicity edge as a service offering. So now not only can you back up into the cloud from your edge sites, but you can also restore back without any egress fees from HPE's data protection service. Either you can restore it back onto your data center, you can restore it back towards the edge site. And because the infrastructure is so easy to deploy centrally lifecycle managed, it's very mobile. So if you want to deploy and recover to a different site, you could also do that. Nice. Hey, can you, Omar, can you double click a little bit on some of the use cases that customers are choosing simplicity for, particularly at the edge? And maybe talk about why they're choosing HPE. One of the major use cases that we see, Dave, is obviously easy to deploy and easy to manage in a standardized form factor, right? A lot of these customers, like for example, we have large retailer across the US with hundreds of stores across US, right? Now you can up send service staff to each of these stores. These data centers, their data center is essentially just a closet for these guys, right? So now how do you have a standardized deployment? So standardized deployment from the data center, which you can literally push out and you can connect a network cable and a power cable and you're up and running. And then automated backup, elimination of backup and state and DR from the edge sites and into the data center. So that's one of the big use cases to rapidly deploy new stores, bring them up in a standardized configuration from a hardware and a software perspective and the ability to backup and recover that instantly. That's one large use case. The second use case that we see actually refers to a comment that you made in your opener, Dave, was where a lot of these customers are generating a lot of the data at the edge. This is robotics automation that is going up in manufacturing sites. These is racing teams that are out at the edge doing post-processing of their cars data. At the same time, there is disaster recovery use cases where you have campsites and local agencies that go out there for humanity's benefit and they move from one site to the other. It's a very, very mobile architecture that they need. So those are just a few cases where we're deployed. There's a lot of data collection and there's a lot of mobility involved in these environments. So you need to be quick to set up, quick to backup, quick to recover and essentially you're up to your next move. You seem pretty pumped up about this new innovation and why not? It is, especially because it has been taught through with edge in mind and edge has to be mobile. It has to be simple. And especially as we have lived through this pandemic, which I hope we see the tail end of it in at least 2021 or at least 2022, one of the most common use cases that we saw, and this was an accidental discovery, a lot of the retail sites could not go out to service their stores because mobility is limited in these strange times that we live in. So from a central vCenter, you're able to deploy applications, you're able to recover applications and a lot of our customers said, hey, I don't have enough space in my data center to backup, do you have another option? So then we rolled out this update release to SimpliVity where from the edge site, you can now directly backup to our backup service which is offered on a consumption basis to the customers and they can recover it anywhere they want. Fantastic, Omar, thanks so much for coming on the program today. It's a pleasure, Dave. Thank you. All right, awesome to see you. Now, let's hear from Red Bull Racing, an HPE customer that's actually using SimpliVity at the edge. Countdown really begins when the check and flag drops on a Sunday. It's so good. It's always about this race to manufacture the next designs to make it more adapt to the next circuit.  If we can't manufacture the next components in time, all that will be wasted. OK, we're back with Matt Cadu, who is the CIO of Red Bull Racing. Matt, it's good to see you again. Yeah, great to see you, Dave. Hey, we're going to dig into a real world example of using data at the edge in near real time to gain insights that really lead to competitive advantage. But first, Matt, tell us a little bit about Red Bull Racing and your role there. Sure. So I'm the CIO at Red Bull Racing. And at Red Bull Racing, we're based in Milton Keynes in the UK. And the main job for us is to design a race car, to manufacture the race car, and then to race it around the world. So as CIO, we need to develop, the IT team needs to develop the applications used for design, manufacture, and racing. We also need to supply all the underlying infrastructure and also manage security. So it's a really interesting environment that's all about speed. So this season, we have 23 races. And we need to tear the car apart and rebuild it to a unique configuration for every individual race. And we're also designing and making components targeted for races.  But we're also improving all of our tools and methods and software that we use to design, make, and race the car. So we have a big can do attitude of the company around continuous improvement. And the expectations are that we continue to make the car faster, that we're winning races, that we improve our methods in the factory and our tools. And so for IT, it's really unique in that we can be part of that journey and provide a better service. It's also a big challenge to provide that service and to give the business the agility it needs. So my job is, is really to make sure we have the right staff, the right partners, the right technical platforms so we can live up to expectations. Matt, that teardown and rebuild for 23 races, is that because each track has its own unique signature that you have to tune to, or are there other factors involved there? Yeah, exactly. Every track has a different shape. Some have lots of straights, some have lots of curves, and lots are in between. The track surface is very different, and the impact that has on tires. The temperature and the climate is very different. Some are hilly. Some have big curves that affect the dynamics of the car. So all that, in order to win, you need to micromanage everything and optimize it for any given race track. Talk about some of the key drivers in your business and some of the key apps that give you competitive advantage to help you win races. Yeah, so in our business, everything is all about speed. So the car obviously needs to be fast, but also all of our business operations need to be fast. We need to be able to design a car, and it's all done in the virtual world, but the virtual simulations and designs need to correlate to what happens in the real world. So all of that requires a lot of expertise to develop the simulations, the algorithms, and have all the underlying infrastructure that runs it quickly and reliably. In manufacturing, we have cost caps and financial controls by regulation. We need to be super efficient and control material and resources. So ERP and MES systems are running and helping us do that. And at the race track itself in speed, we have hundreds of decisions to make on a Friday and Saturday as we're fine tuning the final configuration of the car. And here again, we rely on simulations and analytics to help do that. And then during the race, we have split seconds, literally seconds to alter our race strategy if an event happens. So if there's an accident and a safety car comes out or the weather changes, we revise our tactics and we're running Monte Carlo, for example, and using experienced engineers with simulations to make a data-driven decision and hopefully a better one and faster than our competitors. All of that needs IT to work at a very high level. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, as a lay person, historically, when I think about technology and car racing, of course I think about the mechanical aspects of a self-propelled vehicle, the electronics and the like, but not necessarily the data, but the data's always been there, hasn't it? I mean, maybe in the form of like tribal knowledge, if you're somebody who knows the track and where the hills are and experience and gut feel, but today you're digitizing it and you're processing it in close to real time. It's amazing. I think exactly right. Yeah, the car is instrumented with sensors. We post-process it, we're doing video image analysis and we're looking at our car, our competitor's car. So there's a huge amount of very complicated models that we're using to optimize our performance and to continuously improve our car. Yeah, the data and the applications that leverage it are really key and it's a critical success factor for us. So let's talk about your data center at the track, if you will. I mean, if I can call it that. Paint a picture for us. What does that look like? So we have to send a lot of equipment to the track at the edge. And even though we have really a great wide area network link back to the factory and there's cloud resources, a lot of the tracks are very old. You don't have hardened infrastructure. You don't have ducts that protect cabling, for example, and you can lose connectivity to remote locations. So the applications we need to operate the car and to make really critical decisions, all that needs to be at the edge where the car operates. So historically we had three racks of equipment, legacy infrastructure, and it was really hard to manage, to make changes. It was too inflexible. There were multiple pains of glass. And it was too slow. It didn't run our applications quickly. It was also too heavy and took up too much space when you're cramped into a garage with lots of environmental constraints. So we introduced type of convergence into the factory and seen a lot of great benefits. And when we came time to refresh our infrastructure at the track, we stepped back and said there's a lot smarter way of operating. We can get rid of all this slow and flexible expensive legacy and introduce hyperconvergence. And we saw really excellent benefits for doing that. We saw about 3x speed up for a lot of our applications. So here where we're post-processing data and we have to make decisions about race strategy, time is of the essence and a 3x reduction in processing time really matters. We also were able to go from three racks of equipment down to two racks of equipment. And the storage efficiency of the HP SimpliVity platform with 20 to one ratios allowed us to eliminate a rack. And that actually saved $100,000 a year in freight costs by shipping less equipment. Things like backup, mistakes happen. Sometimes the user makes mistakes. So for example, a race engineer could load the wrong data map into one of our simulations and we could restore that VDI through SimpliVity backup in 90 seconds. And this makes sure it enables engineers to focus on the car to make better decisions without having downtime. And we spend two IT guys to every race. They're managing 60 users, a really diverse environment, juggling a lot of balls and having a simple management platform like HP SimpliVity gives us allows them to be very effective and to work quickly. So all of those benefits were a huge step forward relative to the legacy infrastructure that we used to run at the edge. Yeah, so you had the nice Petri dish in the factory. So it sounds like your goals are obviously number one, KPI is speed to help shave seconds all the time. But also cost, just the simplicity of setting up the infrastructure is- Yeah, that's exactly right. It's speed, speed, speed. So we want applications to absolutely fly, get to actionable results quicker, get answers from our simulations quicker. The other area that speeds really critical is our applications are also evolving prototypes. And we're always, the models are getting bigger, the simulations are getting bigger, and they need more and more resource and being able to spin up resource and provision things without being a bottleneck is a big challenge. And SimpliVity gives us the means of doing that. So did you consider any other options or was it because you had the factory knowledge, it was HCI was very clearly the option. What did you look at? Yeah, so we have over five years of experience in the factory and we eliminated all of our legacy infrastructure five years ago. And the benefits I've described at the track, we saw that in the factory. At the track, we have a three year operational life cycle for our equipment. When in 2017 was the last year we had legacy as we were building for 2018, it was obvious that hyperconverged was the right technology to introduce. And we'd had years of experience in the factory already. And the benefits that we see with hyperconverged actually mattered even more at the edge because our operations are so much more pressurized time is even more of the essence. And so speeding everything up at the really pointy end of our business was really critical. It was an obvious choice. So why, why SimpliVity? Why'd you choose HPE SimpliVity? Yeah, so when we first heard about hyperconverged way back in the factory, we had a legacy infrastructure overly complicated, too slow, too inflexible, too expensive. And we stepped back and said there has to be a smarter way of operating. We went out and challenged our technology partners. We learned about hyperconvergence. We didn't know if the hype was real or not. So we underwent some POCs and benchmarking and the POCs were really impressive. And all these speed and agility benefits we saw and HPE for our use cases was the clear winner in the benchmarks. So based on that, we made an initial investment in the factory. We moved about 150 VMs and 150 VDIs into it. And then as we've seen all the benefits, we've successfully invested and we now have an estate in the factory of about 800 VMs and about 400 VDIs. So it's been a great platform and it's allowed us to really push boundaries and give the business the service it expects. So was that with the time in which you were able to go from data to insight to recommendation or edict, or edict, was that compressed and you kind of indicated that, but... So we offload telemetry from the car and we post-processed it and that reprocessing time really is very time consuming. And we went from nine, eight minutes for some of the simulations down to just two minutes. So we saw big, big reductions in time and ultimately that meant an engineer could understand what the car was doing in a practice session, recommend a tweak to the configuration you're set up of it and just get more actionable insight quicker and it ultimately helps get a better car quicker. Such a great example. How are you guys feeling about the season, Matt? What's the team's sentiment? I think we're optimistic. We have a new driver lineup. We have Max Verstappen who carries on with the team and Sergio Perez joins the team. So we're really excited about this year and we want to go and win races. It's great, Matt. Good luck this season and going forward and thanks so much for coming back in theCUBE. Really appreciate it. It's my pleasure. Great talking to you again. Okay, now we're going to bring back Omer for a quick summary, so keep it right there. Without having solutions from HPE, we can't drive those processes. CFD, aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics, the simulations. Being software defined, we can bring new apps into play. We can bring new VMs, storage, networking. All of that can be added. Right, this is a hugely beneficial partnership for us. We're able to be at the cutting edge of technology in a highly stressed environment that is no bigger challenge than Formula One. Okay, we're back with Omer. Hey, what did you think about that interview with Matt?  So obviously one of the biggest use cases as you saw for Red Bull Racing is trackside deployments. There are now 22 races in a season. These guys are jumping from one city to the next. They've got to pack up, move to the next city, set up the infrastructure very, very quickly. And for average Formula One car is running with 1,000 plus sensors on it. That is generating a ton of data on trackside that needs to be collected very quickly. It needs to be processed very quickly. And then sometimes, believe it or not, snapshots of this data needs to be sent to the Red Bull factory back at the data center. What does this all need? It needs reliability. It needs compute power in a very short form factor and it needs agility. Quick to set up, quick to go, quick to recover. And then in post-processing, they need to have CPU density so they can pack more VMs out at the edge to be able to do that processing. Now, and we accomplished that for the Red Bull Racing guys in basically two RU of two SimpliVity nodes that are running trackside and moving with them from one race to the next race to the next race. And every time those SimpliVity nodes connect up to the data center, collect up to a satellite, they're backing up back to their data center. They're sending snapshots of data back to the data center. Essentially making their job a whole lot easier where they can focus on racing and not on troubleshooting virtual machines. Red Bull Racing and HPE SimpliVity, great example. It's agile. It's cost efficient. And it shows a real impact. Thank you very much, Omer. I really appreciate those summary comments. Thank you, Dave. Really appreciate it. All right, and thank you for watching. This is Dave Vellante for the Q&A.


Region 5 Development was recently selected to be one of 29 projects to be given over $400,000 from Art Place America.  After an intense application process, Region 5 Development Commission was awarded $440,000 from Art Place America's National Creative Placemaking Fund. And what that is, is it's a fund that helps organizations better the economic development, better agriculture, better educational systems, so they have kind of a bunch of different categories that they fit this in, but it's all based around arts and culture in the end. Region 5 Development is planning on using the money to support a local food processing facility in Little Falls, called Sprouts Growers and Makers Marketplace. Over the next three years, I'm at the Sprout Marketplace in Little Falls, which is a 20,000 square foot processing facility that has a community kitchen in there, an open space for marketplace, vendors, things like that. So we're going to be having all of our events and activities based around economic development and arts and culture happen at this marketplace. The money will go towards several projects. There'll be cooking demonstrations. We'll have some cooking classes. We might do some sort of a chopped kind of thing with cultural ingredients in the basket. Region 5 Development believes this grant could be life-changing. The experiences that people will get to have because of this grant is so important. The people that it'll touch because of this grant, because of it being in our community, is huge. In Staples, Logan Gaye, Lakeland News. The next Sprout Growers and Makers Marketplace event will take place on January 28th. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


One of the things would be relevance, relevance to their lives, relevance to their stage of development, relevance to their interests. So the examples, the types of examples that you use would be examples that they can relate to. The types of assignments that you give would be not your tried-and-true old essay with the topic that they can go on a website and find, but something that engages them to go and ask questions, to do inquiry, to something that appeals to them, something in their community, for example. Something that gives them the impetus and the motivation to stick with it, no matter how hard it is, because at the end of it is some reward for them. They really want to know this thing. I try to make sure that all the assignments that I have are fun on some level. It keeps them engaged, keeps them working. The gamification helps out. The third year course I require now that the project always has some sort of a community-engaged scholarship or community engagement component to it, so that the students are actually working with a real client. They're not just building something for me that's going to be, you know, here's your marks and no one really cares what you've just built because it's just for an assignment. When the students are engaged by the community, they know that they're building something that might make a difference in someone's life. They're far more motivated to show up. And it's been the difference in the classes where I've had some sort of motivational factor involved versus the classes where I don't. The attendance rates are vastly different. We're talking like 50% of the class showing up versus 97% of the class showing up. And they are motivated to the extent that this course is either a choice or a must, and that that's going to impact the way that they work in the course and the meaning that they take from the course. I try to work on meaningful learning. I try not to give them irrelevant information. I try to make it, I try to connect as much as possible to the lives that they're living, which I try to connect to the get acquainted activity. So I build in enough latitude in the course that the questions that I want to ask and the activities that I want to do, I can massage it if necessary to the lives that they're living. For me a big part of motivation, you might think it's related to the teaching component, and I'm sure it is, but from a measurement perspective, I think there's an incredibly powerful role that developing relevant assessments can have on motivation. I think the one thing that we do see is that when we're asking students in the context of assessment to get into something that is closer to what happens to the world that they're going to, that they get a lot more excited. And in that process, so the richness of assessment is actually the vehicle that increases motivation in the classroom. Assessments, if they're inspired in their design and in the way that they are executed and in the kinds of learning that they allow students to engage in, whether it be on an individual level, within group settings, in the classroom or outside of the classroom, those kinds of inspired designs of assessments actually motivate students to participate and to succeed. At that point, there's a certain level of not just extrinsic motivation, but intrinsic motivation. You have to consider what motivates students, and one of the challenges is grades motivate students, and you have to be frank about that, that what you need to do as an instructor is signal which parts of the course you really want them to focus on by how you distribute the grades. There are many things we can do to improve motivation of students in the class. For example, we can try to implement Don Keller's motivational model. Keller based this model on years of research in psychology and on the topic of motivation, and he came up with a list of four categories that we should think of and apply in the design of instructional activities. And these four categories are attention, relevance, confidence or challenge, and satisfaction or success. Since this model was designed, it has been successfully tested and implemented in many different environments, and many strategies were designed to put this model from theory to practice. I certainly use this model when I design courses, and it is something I would suggest anyone who is interested in a motivational state of students in the course to look further into and to try to implement in their course design.


There's just some holiday launches that I will never stop buying and the NARS Holiday Blush Palette is one of those, so for today's video I'm going to be reviewing the new NARS Rising Star Cheek Palette. I'm going to compare it to last year's and of course demo all of the shades. So let's go ahead and get into it. So I picked this up from the NARS website, you can also get it at Coles and Sephora. I will have everywhere, you can get it linked down below now. I'm not sure if this still applies, but when I ordered this off of the NARS website, I found a code NARSFFF20 saved me 20% off this brand new item. So make sure you go ahead and give that a try, I'll have it linked down below. But yeah, I was pretty stoked that I was able to pick this up for 20% off and like that counts for the whole website as well. So definitely worth a try. It saved me a little bit of a coin. I said this is the new limited edition blush palette from NARS for the holiday 2020 season. You can get it for $60 and it's described as NARS award-winning blush formula in six limited edition shades designed for all skin tones. And then the claim to the formula is that it's very lightweight, has micro fine pearls in here that's going to give kind of a glowy, lightweight look to the face. So let's take a look at the packaging, shall we? When you get this, it's going to come in this box covered in stars. You can see a rising cheek palette. The palette is made in Italy and it has an 18 month shelf life. If you need to look at the ingredients, take a look right here. Palette itself is going to come like this. It feels nice, very well made. And here's the packaging itself. Now at first I thought it kind of looked a little childish kind of juvenile, but I actually quite like it for the time of year. I think it looks nicer in person. I don't think it's as cool as last year's, but it is more of that sleek NARS design with the stars on it. And then here on the back, you have the names of the color, the size, all of that. And it is not a magnetic closure. It's a snap closure, which is not very easy to open ever. What I do like about this is that it does stand up on its own, so you can place this on a windowsill or vanity and you're able to use the palette. It's something that's not that important, but when you need it, it's really important. So I'm happy that this will stand up on its own. And then here are, that's just lovely. I'm freaking out when that happens and it just nicked my blush. Well, if you want to see what it looks like out of the pan, if you were to depot it, it doesn't have a metal protection around it. Anyways, I'm just going to hold this right here. And here is the palette. I'm looking at it compared to what we see in the photograph. It looks more deep and almost neutral than it does in person. The colors have much more pop to them. It looks more orange in the photo than it does here. It looks more peachy. This definitely looks a lot more deep in the photograph than it actually is. So yeah. And then these two shades are definitely brighter in person than they are in the photo, so just keep that in mind. So we are going to go ahead and swatch these. I am going to swatch these three first. Unfortunately, I can't hold it up and show you because my palette is broken anyways. So here's how they look on the finger. You can see guilty pleasure right here. Looks like it could be a highlight, especially if you have a medium skin tone. So guilty pleasure, then we have famous. And then we have limelight, which I am struggling to swatch. This one is quite bright. And you can see they all have that sheen. Guilty pleasure in particular has more of a sheen. Let's get into the bottom shades next. Oh, and excuse me. I said that this was limelight. This is not. This is guilty pleasure, famous, golden age. And then this next one is limelight, which is a really pretty neutral blush. And then we have paramount, which has more pink in it, but still very neutral. And then premier, which is the deepest shade. We're going to see that pigmentation level on the face. But these are the six blushes. You can see all of them have a very similar sheen to them. These are pretty much the exact same formula as the blush palette from last year. So if you picked up last year's blush palette, if you weren't a fan of the formula, probably not going to like this. So and I'll be honest, I wasn't the biggest fan of that formula. So take this review with a grain of salt. But this is how the blush palette looks. It looks very blushy. So let's hop on and put it on the face. Did clean my brushes for this, by the way. So I want to see how golden age looks on me. Golden age is this shade right here. I suspect if you have a medium complexion or deeper, this is going to be a highlight. I'm getting it on my Sydney Grace brush. And it really is not showing up too much on me. Now with this formula, if you have a heavy hand, you'll like it, but you do need to kind of dig in a little more. So this is more so just giving me a sheen and pretty much no color at all. So I suspect this is going to be more so of a highlight. I'm going to go ahead and take a Sigma soft blend concealer and see if I can use a denser brush. Yeah, so this is definitely just going to be a highlight if you have more of a fair complexion. The shade is not going to do too much for you, honestly. But that's pretty. Next, we're going to play with Limelight, which is a little bit more of a neutral color. I think I'm going to like this. And I'm going to put this towards the front of this cheek. This is an Angie hot and flashy, a 507. And that deposited a good amount of color, immediately different from the guilty pleasure shade. This is pretty, it is bittable. It's pretty sheer. It pulled more pink than I had thought. But this is kind of an everyday color for me. So I really do like that. With this formula, it's very forgiving. So if you have a heavy hand, I think you'll like it if you're very fair. That's really great that it doesn't carry too much pigment. If you like a pigmented blush, you're not going to like this formula. I'm going to head on over to Paramounts right here, which is also pretty neutral. But I'm interested to see how this pulls on the cheek. So I'm going to wipe off this brush. I'm digging in here. I am not being scared because it's not going to show up on camera. If I don't press in a lot, that's pretty. And this is just like a very light sheer layer. So this palette's going to be great for fair skin tones in the first three shades that I tried. Now I also didn't really care for last year's blush palette because I felt like all of the shades literally looked the same on the cheek. I couldn't tell a difference. At least with these first two shades, I can tell a difference. This is more orangey. This is more pinky. And they have that really pretty sheen that I did not appreciate last year but I think I'm appreciating more this year. I'm going back into Guilty Pleasure, which is the highlight shade. And it actually works as a gorgeous highlighter now that I've accepted it as such. Like very subtle, but very pretty. So Guilty Pleasure for the highlight. Then I have Limelight on this cheek and then Paramounts on this cheek. And I think it looks really pretty. We'll use those as eyeshadows in a moment but I'm going to clean up my face and we're going to apply the darker colors. All right, let's get into these deeper colors to see how they pull on my skin tone. And I'm going to start off with this shade right here which is rather bright. It actually has some depth in there. This is famous. I'm going to use my Angie Hot and Flashy Brush and I just use a little bit. So let's see. So this has some brightness, but I can still layer it.  I don't really like these kind of baked gelet formulas. They aren't my favorite. It's not that this is not a good formula. It's not just the application I prefer. I don't really care. Like I like a sheer blush that's buildable, but this is, you got to put too much work. Get the product on the brush. I'm keeping going back and building. That color is really pretty. That added a lot of brightness to my face. Now I am over-applying simply so that the colors pick up on camera better. But yeah, I'm putting in a lot of elbow grease and then let's try this one right here, Golden Age. This is the one that fell out so I'm going to be very careful. And again, that's a lot of color on there with a lot of pressure in the pan. Okay, this one is quite bright. I did not need to go so hard. Wow, ooh, I like this shade. This is different than what I'm used to. I'm going to blend it out. It is quite easy to blend out though. I think that's just because it generally doesn't give you too much pigment, but that's pretty. This one looks different too, which I'm happy about. That was my biggest con with last year's palette. It's all six looks the same. These don't. They look a little bit more different. They're still blushes. They're still close. They're still pinky, but they look better. And that looks pretty, right? I like that. Okay, I'm going to stick with this brush and we're going to use the last shade that I haven't premiered. So I imagine if you have a deeper complexion, let's see if this will work for you. So I went like this, not as hard as the others. Okay, and see that's good. I think this will work for deeper complexions. I really do. Now, deep dark complexions I'm not too sure about because these don't have the pigment that you would probably need. They just don't pick up on the brush honestly. So if I had like a deep dark complexion, I would not recommend this formula in general. It's just a bit too much to get the pigment onto the brush. Even me with a lighter skin tone, I have to dig in especially with the lighter shades to get it to show up and get the color that I'm looking for. This premier shade is stunning, but the fact that it can work on me kind of says a lot and I did not use a light hand with it. So I'm going to tone down the blush really quickly with just less sponge that I used for foundation so that I can go out in public. And let's put a little bit on the eyes. I do like to use these palettes on the eyes for quick looks. I only have mascara on. So I'm going to start off with some of golden age right here. And I'm just going to blend this in the outer corner to start and then work it through the crease. Just something really subtle. It's going to give a really pretty monochromatic look. But as you can see, the proof is in the pudding in terms of pigment. This gives more of a wash. It's not the best to use as eye shadow, but if you want to get that light wash for something monochromatic and quick, you can do it with this. I'm just going to brush a little along the lower lash line as well, though it's not going to do much honestly. And I'm going back and forth in the pan to get more color, by the way. Did that make my eyes look irritated? It did a little bit. Oh well. And then we're going to go into Premiere and we're going to see if I can build depth. Okay, it's adding something, a little something, something. I am going very heavy handed in these pans though. So keep that in mind. And that added the dramatics of today's look, right? Hey, that's pretty though. I'll give them credit. I'm going to dig into some of paramounts now. So I want to see how the peachy shade looks on the eyelid and I'm just going to put this on the center. And I think using a finger will be easier. I don't got time for a brush. So now you can really see the pigment difference and the color difference on the eyelid. And then we're going to finish off with some of guilty pleasure and just pop that on the inner half of the eyelid. It is quite a sheer shimmer, which isn't as dazzling on the eyelid, but it's pretty and subtle. Okay, that created a pretty look.  Okay, so here are my final thoughts about this palette. Is this palette absolutely amazing, breathtaking, top of the line? I'm going to say no. Is it a good palette? Yes, is it worth $60? Questionable, is it worth it on sale? Yes. Now, it's just simply not my type of formula though. For me, I don't like putting so much effort into digging into the pan to get it to show up on my cheeks. However, if you're heavy-handed or very fair, you might like that. I don't think this is the most inclusive blush palette, but it's not bad. Can build up the colors if necessary, but you're going to have to build them up. But I do feel like the shades look pretty different on the cheek, not as different as I would like from one another, but not, I need to stop doing that, but not bad. So, anyways, overall I like it. It's not a must-have palette for the holidays. The must-have palette for the holidays, in my opinion, are the Hourglass cheek palettes, but I'm not mad that I picked it up. So I want to compare this to last year's holiday palette because this is the palette that's definitely the most similar. Formula-wise, it's pretty repetitive. So last year's palette was the Hypofile cheek palette, and my kind of thing with it, because these are so sheer, they pull pretty similar on the cheeks because they all have a very similar depth. What I like about this year's is they have different depths, which I think really helps with these not looking so similar. So here's how they look one on top of the other, but I did swatch them side by side, so let me get up. So the bottom is the new Rising Star cheek palette, and this is last year's palette. Last year's is definitely more warm and neutral. This year's pulls a lot more pink. By looks though, I would have chosen last year's palette. However, these actually pulled quite pink on the cheek, and I feel like these actually quality-wise are a bit better in terms of performance. So I do prefer this year's palettes even though this color story is prettier, but yeah, they're pretty much the same formula. I would say last year's felt a little bit more smooth and powdery, whereas this one's is a little bit more tightly packed, but they have the exact same look on the cheek, pretty much the same formula.  And at least color story-wise though, I find they're pretty different. There's some shades that kind of look similar, right? But not terrible. So there we have it. If you were interested in this palette, I hope this review gave you a little bit of insight. I would give this like a seven out of 10. I think it's a really good product, but I also don't think it's mind-blowing, especially for the price. Now, if this formula sounds like something you'd enjoy, go for it. I think you will really like it. However, if you're more on my side in terms of how the formula fell, if you tried last year's, if you just tend to like things that I like, this is an item that I would wait to go on sale to purchase.  I think that would be a good time to purchase this. I was happy with the 20% off. So yeah, I mean, Nars did once again, a pretty solid job with their blush palette this year, but it is a blush palette. It is repetitive as to what's launched in the recent years, how different can blush looks on the cheek considering how much we spread out the pigment. So if you collect a lot of blushes, it's not a must-have, but if you just want that one blush palette to use for the year, a nice, good, fresh one, I do enjoy this one. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and found that helpful. 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