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Out there, there are any number of organizations, the New York Times is one of them, the Big Foundations are another, universities, many of them are complicit in this in many ways, have a very distinct political agenda. Now, political agendas involve moral campuses and that's fine, as long as you respect, to my mind, the basic, what, logic, evidence, truth, the search for truth. And the search for truth has been suspended in favor of social justice. In other words, I mean, I don't think that you can have social justice and not have the truth. In fact, it's very dangerous, because if you put social justice as the end of what you're inquiry, that leads you to very, very dangerous places. Because who's to say what social justice is? One of the problems with woke culture is that it's on both sides, I think, a mistake about scale. So on the one hand, of course, there's a huge scale. There's the history of slavery in the United States, which is this massive, profound thing, which infects everything, the architecture of the cities, the economy of many parts of the country still. And so that seems very big, but it can't be addressed on a large scale. It has to be addressed with real people, with real human beings, in a way that has a real impact on their lives. And the same at a university. You have many groups of people, as Leon was talking about, lots of universities are more diverse than they used to be. And you have also universities reducing everything to economies of scale. So they're teaching at a mass level, these people from all over. There's no community. There's no respect for the individual. There's no sense that the inevitable conflicts that are going to arise when you mix these people together have to be resolved in real human relationships person to person and face to face. So I just wanna say, I think the problem of education is it's very, very big, but it's also very, very small. There's a local aspect to it. And same with world culture. There's a lot that can be, I have seen incredible difficulties diffused by a conversation. I've seen it again and again and again. And I've seen real reconciliation take place in conversation between real human beings, one of whom is suffering and one of whom caused the suffering. And that seems to be the place where we should be thinking about. Because it's not gonna be solved at the level of destroying global capitalism, or encouraging global capitalism, or promoting democracy or whatever. It's gonna be solved by real human beings gathering together and using what forces they have to make a living. I think, certainly in America, we are suffering from a disastrous over politicization of the entirety of life. I think it used to be that Democrats and liberals and conservatives, one of the few things they could agree on was the limits of politics. That there are places into which politics should not be allowed to penetrate. And one of those realms would be culture, I hope. Though of course, as we know from totalitarian societies, in order for that politics to succeed, culture is the very first place they wanna penetrate. Politics should not penetrate in what Sean called the search for truth. A journal that I edit, we chose a motto from Maimonides. Every issue has this sentence from Maimonides. And the sentence is, accept the truth from whoever utters it. When you think of it that way, you've depoliticized the conversation completely. Later, you can get into the irony or the outrage that so-and-so has the temerity to say X and Y. But the first thing you need to do when you hear X and Y is ask, is it true? Is it true? And if you are not asking about the truth of the proposition first, then you have allowed politics to enter into a place where it does not belong.


OK, let's start the next lighting talk. Let's welcome Chris, speaking of Android on Raspberry Pi. OK, well, good afternoon. It's dark evening. And here's my talk about Raspberry Pi. So first question, who here has a Raspberry Pi? Yeah, almost everybody. Who here has a Raspberry Pi running Android? Two, three. Who would like to run Android on their Raspberry Pi? OK, that's what we're about. So let's go for it. So let's skip that. Little bit of information here about me. I'm a freelancer. I've been training and teaching Linux and Android for a long time. But the main question then is why? Why would you want to run Android on a Raspberry Pi? And from my point of view, my motivation is really educational. By doing this, I learn a lot about Android. So it's not to say that the end product is actually all that useful, although it could be, with a little effort. But for me, the journey is the important part. The destination is not so important. So it's a good testing ground. And it's fun. Yes, it really, really is fun, so long that you enjoy long hours sitting watching things compile. So more generally then, what do you need to run Android? So you need this bunch of things here. You need a processor that Android supports, which is basically ARM, x86, and MIPS in various variations. It needs to have support for a fairly recent version of Linux. So if you're looking at Android Pi, then that requires Linux 4.4, for example. You need a reasonable amount of RAM. You can just about run Android in half a gig, although a couple of gigs works better. And you need a gig of flash memory, again, ideally eight or 16 gigs works better. You need some kind of display. It doesn't really make that much sense to run Android without a display, although there are people who do that. But generally speaking, you need some kind of display. And talking about displays, you need some kind of video drivers. So you need support for OpenGLES for Android to work at all. And that tends to be the sticking point. And I'll address that later on. So kind of things you can use.  So there's a Beaglebone there. There's a Raspberry Pi. There's a Dragonboard there, I think, and a few other bits and pieces. So these are the typical things that I use to run Android at various times. So why out of that bunch choose the Raspberry Pi? So the Raspberry Pi makes quite a good dev platform. It's well supported. It's easily obtainable. You can go and order it from Amazon or wherever else you like. It's cheap, which is a good thing. It's hackable. But mostly because it's there, it's capable of running Android so logically it should run Android. So that's what we want to do. Hasn't this been done already? Well, yes, obviously. So I know it's the first person to want to do this. I just want to go through a little bit. I'll go back, it's going to be echoey. I just want to go through some of these things on this slide. So probably the most important one is the top one, the Android RPI project, which has been going for a few years now. And if you go look at the GitHub for that, you'll see it has been forked over 100 times. So that means there are at least a hundred different versions of Android running on Raspberry Pi. Next one, LinearJOS. So Consta has done a version of LinearJOS 15.1, running on Raspberry Pi. So some of that work is based on the Android RPI project, plus merging in, of course, the LinearJOS stuff. And what I'm going to show in the next few slides is kind of based on Consta's LinearJOS 15.1 version. Next on the list, so RT Android is another interesting one. So RT Android came out of a research project by Igor Kalkov. And the particular attribute of that was to run a real-time Linux kernel. So take Android, take RT, a real-time Linux kernel, you have real-time Android. And then he spun that off into a company that's now called Interior OS. And they have kind of commercially supported Android for Raspberry Pi. It's not open source, but there's a free version you can download if you so wish. And then last on the list, a little company called Google also do this. So Google have this thing called Android Things, which is their IoT version of Android. And one of their supported platforms is the Raspberry Pi. And as a result of that, actually, they did some work on the graphics. They did some work on this thing called Swift Shader, which is the graphic GPU that I'll be using. So if you want to go ahead and do this, what do you need? The main thing you need really is patience. Yeah, time and patience are the key requirements here, because you're going to end up building Android many times over. And if you've ever built Android from AOSP source code, you know it takes an hour, maybe two hours, depending on your hardware. So what follows then is kind of my interpretation of this. Now, the kind of reason I got into this is that I wanted, so I run training courses on how to pour Android to various things. And I wanted the platform to do this on, but it has to be running a current version of Android. So mostly what I've done is I've taken Consta's lineage 15.1, which is based on Android 8 Oreo. And I've updated that to run Android Pi. Hence, on the title slide, this is Raspberry Pi meets Android Pi. Things that tend to go wrong when doing this, or particular aspects of the Raspberry Pi. First of all, the graphics. We'll come back to that in a moment. Another little itty bitty thing which kind of is annoying is that the Raspberry Pi doesn't have a USB on the go port, which means that it doesn't support ADB particularly well. And if you are familiar at all with Android, you know that ADB is one of the key tools for developing Android. Yeah, this graphics thing then. So this is always a problem with mobile platforms. Most mobile platforms expect to require some kind of 3D acceleration of the graphics. But because of the complexities of the embedded GPU market, there is various amounts of support for the GPU. So generally speaking, what you end up doing is your first option is to take the OpenGL binaries from the vendor of the chip and hope they work. Unfortunately, Broadcom don't support Android, so there is no built-in support from them. So that doesn't work in this case. Another option is to use the soft GPU called Swift Shader. That should always work because that's purely software, but it's kind of slow. And then another option is to use the community open source MISA OpenGL libraries with DRM HW Composer. So HW Composer is the component in Android, which interfaces from Android to the video controller. And DRM HW Composer is a component which does that using the internal direct rendering manager support. So Swift Shader is kind of the simplest thing to do, and this is what I actually have currently in my Raspberry Pi Android implementation. So in this case, you build Swift Shader. It's part of the AUSP code base now. Although for various reasons, the one that's in AUSP isn't the best one, you really want to go upstream and get the latest Swift Shader. But plug it in, compile it.  And it pretty much works. Or you can use the hardware-accelerated stack based on OpenGLAS. That uses a DRM HW Composer, and there's also a DRM Growlick component. And you'll also need DRM support for the video controller you have, which in the case of the Raspberry Pi is the VC4, the Video Core 4. That kind of works, except I couldn't actually get it to work in the last couple of days when I was trying this out, so I actually ended up using Swift Shader. And then the final thing is ADB. So ADB requires a USB port that is in peripheral mode, not in host mode. And usually it is done through the OTG hardware. Annoyingly, the chip itself, the Broadcom chip actually has an OTG port, but it's used internally within the Raspberry Pi to create the bridge to the ethernet and the actual USB host, so we can't actually use it. However, you can do ADB over ethernet. You use the ADBConnect command, and you can either put android.local, or you can give an actual IP address.  So it kind of works, but it's a bit annoying. So currently what I have is this stuff here. So it's Android Pi 9 release 30. And there's a screenshot of my rig, as it was last Thursday. A little bit messy. Still, many things don't work. So don't expect this to be a fully working system, but it will improve over the next few months. This is a quick plug for myself. So I'm basically a freelancer. I work for myself. I do trading courses. I can tell you in much greater detail how to do this, not only for Raspberry Pi, but for other targets. Relevant links then. So the stuff I'm talking about is up on GitHub, as you can see there. The slides should be available on the FOSDEM website, but they're also on SlideShare. And if you want to contact me, directly go to tunet.co.uk. So we now have exactly two minutes. Does anybody have any questions? OK. Well, whatever. OK. Over there. Please wait for the mic. Do a little dance while you're waiting. Thank you very much for the talk. I was just wondering whether you have tried any QT applications on your port of Android to the Raspberry Pi. Have I tried QT on? No. Simple answer. No. Well, insofar as you can run QT on Android, it should just work. But I've not tried it. Anyone else? Right in the middle. The hardest possible place to be. Thank you very much for the great talk. I was just wondering, which are the recommended Raspberry Pi displays for this port of Android on Raspberry Pi? This place with touchscreen for Raspberry Pi? Well, I didn't put it on slide. I just use a cheap, the cheapest possible 7-inch touchscreen. So that, I think, is from a company called Elcro. There's also one called Wave Share or something like that. Just go to Amazon and look for the cheapest HDMI touchscreen you can find. It probably will work. It should also work with the official, well, actually, not true. This particular version won't work with the official 7-inch touchscreen because I haven't actually tested it. But with a little tweaking here, it could be made to work quite easily. OK. I think we're out of time, but thank you very much. Thank you.


It's a difficult concept leadership and so to try and make it as concrete as possible at least to get started Let me let me provide you with a with an expression or a metaphor that I think begins to capture the subtleties and the difficulties involved in the notion of leadership It's the expression of a textu to tango and tango itself as an expression of what or a metaphor of what? Leadership is about at least when it happens well And so imagine you have a dancing space, which is quite crowded. We have quite a few couples which are dancing tango together And you as a couple are in the midst of that dancing space and you have to find your way through the space You want to dance together? There are other couples there so in a sense It's like other couples which are present opportunities also threats You have to find your way some places will open up to dance other ones will close down I think that that is a metaphor what it is to be a university that is in the middle of Society as it were that has other universities with which it's competing collaborating. There are social actors There's a broader domain within which it has to excel as as an organization now What what this means in terms of what it takes to tango? Became clear for me because I actually happened to love to dance tango. I'm not a good dancer I'm a lousy Dancer and this is not to to be an sort of act of self-modesty in the in the framework of this of this meeting I'm not a good dancer. My partner is and Because she's a good dancer. She can compensate for a lot of my my faults And so my tango teacher wasn't particularly happy with me So what he invited me to do was to dance with someone else who didn't who hadn't danced with me And so who wouldn't anticipate turned out to be a dancer who was much much much better than what I was and She was actually several levels above me and So the tango music began I walked up to her I courageously asked her to dance She stood up and then so we got ready and I began to move and nothing happened Niente nothing It was like she was a sack of potatoes and I don't know what whether she didn't like me I don't know if whether she wasn't in the mood but I had to actually push her into movement and then Dancing afterwards was a torture because it was like like I tried to swim in molasses And when the dancing ended I you know, I was just I was just thought my gosh if this is what tango is about You know, I can't I can't deal with this and in a certain sense This was a moment of reflection for me and I thought what went wrong here And what what were my preconceptions about what tango is about in what way were those preconceptions wrong? I Think that what this showed me is that in a certain sense if you compare that image of my you know That failed tango to the to the image of the tango couple that is you know effortlessly dancing through the space You would think that that second example of the couple who which is effortlessly dancing through the space and Navigating its position within a complex field that what you have is a guy there who is the leader and someone who follows and That that precisely is because there's someone who follows and someone who leads that it's successful But in a certain sense, I think that that's not really what was what's at stake in in leadership I think that the difference between the two situations is that in a certain sense unless who follows also leads and leads by Anticipating and already being prepared to receive and to move in a certain direction Nothing will happen, which is what happened with this partner of mine who acted like a sack of potatoes And so what happens is when you have a good tango couple which are dancing beautifully Is that there's someone who leads but in the very process of leading you're also following and That who follows also leads and so in a certain sense Yes, there's a leader and there are followers, but in a certain sense at each level of the organization Who follows will also have to lead in the sense of anticipating and want to cooperate to take that organization a step further Now this is of course a metaphor Tango and so let me try and generalize it a bit to make it a bit more Concrete in terms of what it means for a large organization like Tilburg University Let me do so by drawing a distinction which is common or prevalent in common in collective action theory Which is a domain of philosophy. I happen to be a philosopher So distinction between we each and we together But that means is this the the lady and I that just couldn't get our acts together That was we each Two individuals. They're standing side by side, but not really doing anything together and The example of that couple that dances beautifully weaving in and out of the spaces of the opportunities and threats Which are available on that dancing space is we together Now it seems to me that what leadership is about is trying to articulate in a dialogue with the participants of that we together What it is that we're doing together What is it that we are about as a university in an ever-changing context which brings threats and Opportunities think of the tango example. You're you are weaving your way through a more or less crowded space Opening up possibilities closing down other possibilities. So in a dialogue with those who follow But to the extent that it's a dialogue There's also a leading which is taking place there try to articulate what we are about as an organization And what we are about as an excellent organization And that also therefore means that you have to accept the fact that it and there's a difference with that That is not merely about being able to come together and enjoy Dango, it's also the fact that in an organization there will be conflict There will be conflicted and conflicting positions about what it is that we are as a collective and what we ought to be as a collective But I think that what leadership is about is accepting that What we're trying to do is articulate what we are together and who we want to be together But also accepting that we are we each that is to say that there are different perspectives on what it is that joins us together and Wanting to have that moment of we each be part of the articulation of what we are together It seems to me that this is at the core what we are trying to do in this connected leadership Project and initiative and it seems to me that this is something that doesn't happen only at the level of the rector It doesn't only happen at the level of the board of directors This is something that happens all the way through the collect through through this organization in different ways Certainly, but throughout the organization as a whole


Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I'm your host, Josepha Hayden-Champosi. Here we go. About 18 months ago, the openverse project became part of the WordPress open source project, and at roughly the same time, we also welcomed in the photo directory. Since that time, we've seen growth of teams supporting both of these initiatives, but if you're not involved in the day-to-day, it can be hard to know how those two things fit together, or if they fit together at all. Today, let's take a brief tour of those two projects and why they came to be. In my timeline, work on the photo directory started before the work on openverse, so that's where we'll start. For as long as I can remember, the WordPress community has raised the need for WordPress first ways to have and host GPL-compatible photos for use in themes, site builds, and marketing efforts as a whole. As recently as 2016, that was still coming up as a question at various flagship events and among the career photographers that contribute their time to WordPress. In 2017 and 2018, as attention started to turn toward rebuilding the CMS using blocks, it dropped down the list of priority items, but it never really went away as a thing that people were hoping we could do for the project as a whole. So in 2019, it was becoming clear that having open-source-first tools of all varieties for people whose businesses were built on our software would help broaden the availability of the open-source freedoms we believe in. This began the work on the photo directory with the intention of providing a GPL-friendly community-driven repository of images. It has since launched, and we have photos in it now. We have a whole team around it. It's wonderful, but that is how that all kind of came to be. Openverse, on the other hand, was launched as CC Search in 2019 with the laudable mandate to increase discoverability and accessibility of open access media. Late in 2020, while work on the photo directory was underway, Matt shared with me that the team was looking for a new project home. When I first met with them, they shared an overview of the product, which they shorthanded as an open-source search engine that searches openly licensed images. We were working on a repo of openly licensed images, so clearly this was all written in the stars. And so you might be asking yourself at this point, great, how does it work together? I think for most of us, the timeline there kind of covers the question of what is the difference between these two things, but because I never know which of you will want to strike up a conversation about open-source on an elevator, I've got the elevator pitch version as well. Openverse is an open-source search engine that searches, indexes, and aggregates copy left media from across the web, using sources such as WordPress's photo directory, Flickr's CC tagged media, and Wikimedia, to name just a few. Another key difference between the photo directory and openverse is that in order to contribute to the photo directory, now that it's all built, that's mostly done by submitting photos or reviewing photos. So you don't really need to be a developer to join in. Openverse not only is a developer-centric contribution opportunity, it also uses a different text stack than WordPress as a whole, so it's a good place for folks to go if they're looking to broaden their horizons. So that's your elevator pitch of what is openverse and how does it use the photo directory. You have a couple of ways that you can get involved with these two projects. For the photo directory, as I mentioned at the start, you can always contribute photos and they could always use more photo contributions. I'll include a link to the submission guidelines in the show notes below, and as I mentioned, it is a no-code way to give back to the WordPress project. So no code is required, no development environments, no testing skills. The photo directory team also could always use more contributors to help with the moderating of photo submissions, and so I'll link to their making WordPress page in the show notes as well so that you can get started there. And as I mentioned before, openverse is an aggregator, so it doesn't host any media itself, but it is always accepting suggestions for new GPL-compatible media providers. I'll link the area where you can leave suggestions in the show notes as well, and if you are more code inclined, there's an open issue for adding openverse browsing to the block editor right now. So I'll link that issue in the show notes in case you thought to yourself, gosh, that sounds like my most favorite thing to do. That is where you can go. Which leads us now to our smallest of big things. In case you missed it, WordPress 6.1 is now available. It launched on November 1st late, late, late in the day, and so it was easy to miss if you're used to seeing it at a particular time. We were about six hours later than usual, but if you go to WordPress.org slash download, you can get your own copy there. The second thing on our smallest of big things is that the docs team had a contributor day. It was excellent. There's a recap post up. I will include that in the show notes. And then the final thing is that there was a recent hallway hangout that talked about the site editor and block themes. The video for that is also published. I will also share that in our show notes. And that, my friends, is your smallest of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress briefing. I'm your host, Josefa Hayden-Champosy, and I'll see you again in a couple of weeks.


Live, from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Veritas Vision 2017, brought to you by Veritas. Welcome back to Las Vegas, everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. This is our second day of Veritas Vision 2017. I'm Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman. Jason Buffington is here, good friend of theCUBE. Senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, otherwise known as ESG. Jason, good to see you again. Thanks for having me back. You've been bumping into each other a lot lately. A lot of storage stuff going on, and you gave a panel discussion today. You had three of the four big cloud guys up there. No Amazons, Stu, they weren't up on the panel, but that was good. You had an interview with those guys, so congratulations on that, and welcome again. Yeah, everyone wants to talk about data protection, right? So there's- A lot of topic, isn't it? It is. Every time you go to a show, the last show that I was at seemed like over half the booths were talking about data protection. So to come here, Veritas kind of owns that as a name, and so it's been fun to just be part of the participants. So- Yeah, Jason, you cover the space, and you know Veritas well. There are people I talked to getting ready for this, and they said, we remember Veritas back in its heyday. Back pre-acquisition, during the virtualization era, kind of got quiet. I mean, they got acquired by Symantec, things went down, but now they're an independent company, and one of the shows that we've been at VMworld, absolutely, data protection's super hot. Product of the Year was one of those companies, whole lot of startups there, a lot of investment. What's your take on kind of the new Veritas, where they fit in that ecosystem with all those startups and everybody else? No, that's a good read. So let's talk about the market first, and then I'll put Veritas in it, right? So I think your spot on that when the virtualization wave came through, most of the really big established data protection vendors were not first to market, right? And in fact, every time that we see this, I've been doing this for 28 years, I've been backing stuff up, right? And for most of it, every time the platform shifts, the traditional dominant data protection vendors are not the first ones to jump on that new gear, right? Windows versus NetWare are now under virtualization, so we saw Veeam and PhD and VRanger and a few others that barely get an honorable mention in that line, right? We're in a really interesting time though, this time around, because every time in the past, when you moved off of the old platform, the presumption was you turned it off, right? This time around, we're on the, here's a fancy word, we're on the precipice of a new shift again, because we're looking at cloud as the new platform to move to. But here's the fun part, we're not leaving the old stuff behind, right? We're not turning off all the virtual servers and the physical servers on our way out the door as we go to cloud. We're embracing multi-cloud as the new destination, not this mid-step along the way. And I think that's really interesting, because just like in every time past, it means we're going to get a reset of the leaderboard when it comes to data protection. And just like in times past, the secret sauce that made you dominant on the last platform doesn't necessarily give you an edge technology-wise on the next platform, all it really does is give you momentum, right? So yeah, there's a few other folks that we could, you know, list that they've got some momentum going for one reason or another along the way, but from a marketplace, if physical and virtual and cloud are all going to be together, Veritas has been doing some of those for 20 some odd years. They've made some announcements around the rest of the suites. I think they're in a good place here. The thing I'm excited about from Veritas, and I do, I'm a fan, you want to root for them, right? I mean, 25 years on the bench, you want to see them keep going. I think the opportunity is that since the divesture from Symantec, they have a lot more focus, right? You know, it's really hard to tell a story that's everything from malware and cybersecurity all the way through to a breadth of data protection, but if you look at how they're talking about things now, and I really like the 360 narrative that kind of pulls it all together, every part of their portfolio kind of pulls the other parts together, right? It doesn't matter in data management whether you want to start with backup, or you want to start with storage, or you want to start with availability, anywhere you look on that circle, it's going to pull the rest of the line in. And these are all the things that folks are asking for from a customer base. So I like the tech that they've got, I like where the market is headed, and I think they've got a real shot to be one of those top three dominant names that we talk about moving forward. Yeah, so, I mean, it's 30 plus year history, and pretty amazing, I mean, this is an amazing story, this company.  You know, Al Shugart, when he sold that stock, basically saved Seagate with the cash infusion. So it was a long history, and then they kind of went dormant, whether for a while under the Symantec governance, and now, so the big question is, you know, Ken Veritas get its mojo back in the space and become that super hot company again. So by the way, sidebar, you talked about Seagate, I actually have a copy of Seagate back of execs sitting on a shelf in my office. One of these days, I will open up the Data Protection Museum, because I think I've got most of the pieces and parts laying around. So Ken Veritas get his mojo back. The thing that Veritas has to consistently remind people, one, we are not your daddies or your granddaddies' backup company more, right? So they're working on things like, they announced this week a new UI coming for NetBackup 8.1, and I thought they were going to crowd mob out of affirmation for that. People were so excited for, you know, finally we're going to get a contemporary UI that doesn't look like 1995 coming in NetBackup. So certainly some of the cosmetics, the standardization of that UI going across as many of those products as possible in order to provide more of a contemporary feel. That's an easy place to dig on, right? But I think what Veritas really needs to think about is they need to remind folks that while they are not the stodgy presumption of what people might think, this is not their first rodeo in any of these areas, right? We had new announcements on software-defined storage this week. Things like storage foundation and VCS, they've been doing that for 25 years, right? I mean, they've been doing software-defined storage before it was a thing, right? Availability, right? So we talk about, I like the VRP product. I think it's a cool architecture and something certainly that powers a lot of the cloud mobility type capabilities that are there. And I had the idea of a heterogeneous platform to enable higher levels of availability. I think the market's just now growing into that, right? So the trick is, we're not the old folks, but oh, by the way, we have reams of experience like you can't imagine. Let's put those things together and have an enterprise-level conversation. So let's lay the horses out on the track here. I mean, we were all at VMworld and we saw the, it was the hot, that in security, back up in security, like the two hottest spaces in the business right now, we saw the startups, the Cohesities, the Rubrics, the Zyrtos and sort of the upshots, the Veeams, a lot of action at their booths. Obviously Veritas getting its mojo back. Where's Commvault and all this? How do you lay out the horses on the track? What's the competitive landscape look like? Paint a picture for us. Yeah, so first and foremost, I always go back to what he or she calls the data protection spectrum, right? So the behaviors of archive, back up, snapshot, replication, availability, they are not interchangeable mechanisms. We call it a spectrum as a rainbow kind of feel. When it's last time you went outside, saw a rainbow in the sky and one of the colors was missing, right? These colors do not replace each other, snapshots and replication, et cetera. When you look at where the market's going, imagine a capital Y. In fact, if you go look up on your favorite blog site, I have a blog on why does data protection have to evolve. This is the answer to your question. The base of that why is just backup. Can you make copies of all your stuff? And even that, I think a lot of folks have a challenge with. Next step up is that idea of data protection. So backup plus snapshots, plus replication, single set of policies. Where the market's going and how it kind of lays out the horses is now we're at that fork in the road in that capital Y, right? And some of the folks are moving down the availability path, right? Think about that word for a second. You can remember the vendors who like to go that direction. Well, we're going from reactive recovery to proactive assured productivity, right? Because all the backup folks are just as down until somebody hits the restore button, right? That's the thing that no one really wants to talk about as opposed to if you have monitoring, if you have orchestration, if you have failover and rapid recovery mechanisms, now you really do have an availability story that comes out of that. And not all the vendors that you mentioned have that, right? Well, who are the leaders, right? So yeah, so certainly from a momentum and brand perspective, Veeam is definitely on the front line of that, you know, I think car racing is more easier for me. Because they got growth and they have momentum. They have certainly virtualizations to the sweet spot for the data center. Obviously Veritas is, they said 15 years in a row in the Gartner upper right. Okay, check. Dell EMC, broad portfolio there. Those are kind of the biggest three from who has all the check boxes they need to make sure they have a dialogue for the next conversation. And Commvault, you wouldn't put in that. So, well, I always think of three, you know, bronze, silver, gold, not in that order. It's like baseball playoffs. Who's going to get in? Who's the wild card, you know? So Commvault checks all the right boxes, right? They have all the right narratives along the way. I think the challenge is organizationally, they're a little siloed in how they tell the stories. And so sometimes it's hard to remember that they're actually the only ones to have a single code base. The ones that, you know, one set of tech that can check all the boxes. Everyone else actually has some myriad of pieces and parts that have to be assembled along the way. So that's both the strength and the weakness for Commvault, right? Yeah, the opportunities there to increase some marketing to tell one narrative. Kind of tivoli, same thing, right? Yes, same kind of idea there. And by the way, I don't count, let's call them Spectrum Protect now, but I don't count them out, right? So, Spectrum Protect took a facelift a couple years ago and really got virtualization savvy. They took the, they had the same gap that everyone else that you mentioned had, right? And what was it, six, four, a couple years back, they finally got around to that. And then they just announced Spectrum Protect Plus, which is really built for that VAD mineral. So certainly we've got good lens there. On the other side, just like in every other generation, you got some upstarts that are looking pretty good. Well-funded, some of it a hundred million. Some of them I think have kind of a little bit of a puffer fish, right? They feel bigger than they are, right? For the moment, and yet the tech looks really good. They want to have a dialogue that says, don't start with backup and try to grow forward, start over, right? Re-imagine what storage might look like in the broader range of things. And by the way, data protection is one of the outcomes for that. And so you put the Actifio, Cohesity, rubric kind of mix along the lines for that. You also get the catalogic stuff that goes into, that's OEM by IEBM kind of gets on the other side. I think that's going to be probably the coolest thing to watch in 2018. So here are the buzzwords of copy data management, right? Everybody wants to talk about some version of those three words. We think that the market's going to go either evolution versus revolution. So evolution is start with the data protection folks that you know, and those technologies are going to grow into data management type folks here at the show, right? So we saw Veritas Velocity is their first foray into that. CloudPoint starts to come into that mix as well, right? So the idea of keeping all you need, getting rid of it when you don't, and enabling, and here's the fun part, enabling those secondary use cases so that you can get more value out of that otherwise dormant data. Mike talked about that during the day one keynote. I thought he was spot on for that. So that's the evolution approach. Revolution, start over, better storage, get you the same results. Those other guys are old. And Bill Coleman saying it's ours to lose. He said that to us on theCUBE. They're obviously an evolution play. They've also heard, they've made the claim we've got the best engineering team in the business. Comments? So. Very competitive market. Yeah, it's hard to say best. I never like ultimate superlatives, but here's what I will say. I made an amazing number of engineers at Veritas who have been doing this 15, 20, 25 years. There's a lot of wonderful institutional knowledge that comes out of that that you don't get when you're three, five years, even if you come from multiple vendors and you kind of pop along the way, there are folks that their initials are still in the source code of Netbackup. And I think that gives them an edge from that perspective if they have a vision from an architecture and from a message perspective on carrying it forward and growing beyond just backup. Jason, I want to get your commentary on the customers. So one of the things we're trying to reconcile here is they've got a lot of Netbackup customers. Yeah. And then they're pitching this new cloud, hyperscale, distributed architecture world. Are the customers ready for that? Are they? Bill Coleman told us, five years, 10 years, maybe five years from now, every single product that's selling today will be obsolete. So are the Veritas customers today ready to make that move? What are you hearing?  How does this, you know, it goes to that kind of revolutionary, evolutionary discussion you were having. Good, so working backwards, I don't think the answer for better backup for the enterprise is cloud. Cloud managed, absolutely. Disaster recovery as a service, as a secondary tier for people who don't want to have dormant data centers. Yeah, probably. But we're still going to have a significant majority of infrastructure on-prem. That's going to demand for current SLAs to have recoverability on-prem as well. So I don't think it starts from a cloud angle. What I do think from the Veritas customer perspective is certainly, you know, Veritas's, their homies are the net backup admins. That role is evolving. Or maybe I should say it's devolving. You know, you're not going to have backup admins in the same way. Honestly, more and more we see that data protection should be part of a broader systems management, platform management conversation, right? Because if I'm an IT generalist, right? That means I don't have a PhD in backup and I don't want one. I'm an IT generalist and I'm the one who's responsible for provisioning servers and patching servers and providing access to servers. When those green lights turn red, I want to be able to be part of that process and not wait on somebody else. And if I want to be part of the recovery process, it means I'm very part of the protection process as well. So certainly Veritas is going to have to grow into some new personas of who they're going to be adding value to. IT ops is the big one, right? So the backup admin is starting to decline a little bit. The V admin from the virtualization role is starting to decline a little bit. That IT operations role is really taking a much more dominant share. That said, Veritas' best route to market is to go through the backup admin and not in spite of, right? Because you can turn that backup admin into a hero by saying, look, you know, you have a certain set of problems. Your adjacent peers have a wider set of problems and aren't you going to be the smart one to walk in somebody who can fix the rest of the problem while we're at it? And that's that 360. To your point, evolve or devolve that role. So we're out of time, but how about a plug for some recent research, what's hot, what's new? Anything you've worked on that you want to share with the audience? Yeah, so ESG, we just finished research on real-world SLAs and availability. So how are people doing that proactive lens as opposed to just reactive? Today, earlier today, I kicked off research with the research team on copy data management. So all that evolution revolution, we're in that right now. And then the next two projects we're working on, GDPR readiness and data protection drivers in Western Europe. Appliance form factors for data protection. So turnkey versus Ddupe is kind of the next one. And then we're going to refresh our cloud strategy data protection intersection. So BAS, DRAS, STAS, IaaS and SAS and how the protection strategy moves. Awesome, sounds like a good line of interest to see that GDPR readiness. We'll have to forecast that. That'll be fun. And then hit you up after that comes out because there's going to be some big gaps going on there. Hey, thanks very much for coming back in theCUBE. Good job. Thanks for having me. All right, you're welcome. Okay, keep it right there, everybody, Stu and I will be back. This is day two, Veritas Vision. You're watching theCUBE.


How would you practice that? What's your name? It's Fagun. Fagun? So Fagun and what's your mother's name? Daksha. Daksha and where were you born? In London, in UK. In London, in the UK? Yes, in Australia. In less. Fagun is the one that actually makes the decision in that moment to allow this entire system to bend down and surrender to what? Two, that one thing that her system actually knows because, and knows fully, because she knows it from childhood when the ego was hardly there, when the conditioning was hardly there. It is something known, it is deep and it is almost imperceptible in its impulse. It is what you call the soul, the Antar Guru, the Antaraatman. And that is what Fagun bends down to in that moment of pain and the pain dissipates instantly. It is a posture of humility, of humbleness, of surrender, of being actually the servant, the instrument of the soul.


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That was vanilla ice, really? You know, you know it's getting to be a long day when I start seeing vanilla ice, ice baby. Oh man, it's all bad.  What in the world really, where are we now? Where are we now? Where am I now? Don't worry, I'm still with you. Now let's talk about osmosis. Osmosis has nothing to do with vanilla ice, ice baby. And it's, all right, take a deep breath. Osmosis is the movement of water. But it's the movement of water, movement of water. It's not just the movement of water. It's the movement of water across a semi-permeable mimimar. Semi-permeable, semi-permeable, what, go ahead and guess. I collaborate and listen. Membrane, oh man, osmosis is the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane, really? Here's, look, here's the deal. We can have particles. I'm going to draw some particles in here.  And I want you to imagine for a second, okay, think, think osmolarity. These are my particles. Give me a number. Which side of this little YouTube is more concentrated? There's more particles on this side. So this side has a higher osmolarity. Do you agree with that? Totally. So the next question is, well, what's going to happen? Where's water going to move? Well, we don't really know. If you had to guess about the movement of the particles, where's the, where are the particles going to go? Hopefully, you now know that the particles, right, are going to move across the membrane. And they're going to move across the membrane to what? Until the concentration on both sides of this U membrane are the same. Do you agree with that? We're going to, the diffusion of the particle is going to happen until the concentrations are the same on both sides. And when the concentrations are the same on both sides, after they're the same on both sides, then particles, water, everything, they're still going to be moving. They're going to just move to one side at the same rate that they're going to move to the other side. They're just going to diffuse around because of random molecular motion. But the rates that they move in different directions are going to be the same. They're in equilibrium. Before this all happened, before it all happened, is that equilibrium? No, it's not in equilibrium. We're going to have diffusion that takes place. The particles are going to diffuse. We'll write that down. Particles diffuse. And they diffuse if they can. And we can see that in this case, the particles are going to diffuse. You can imagine, like, would water go anywhere? Not really. Like, the water's not going to do anything in this particular case because the particles can diffuse across that membrane. That works for you, doesn't it? I wonder if I can erase this thing. That's magical. Really? That made me really happy right there. You know it's a good day when that makes me happy. So we're back to our original scenario. And this time, I'm going to change the characteristics of this membrane right here. I'm going to now say that this membrane is semi-permeable. I'm going to say that now, guess what? This membrane is semi-permeable. And that means some things can go through and some things cannot. And the characteristics of the membrane will determine what can go through and what cannot go through. But I'm going to say that this membrane is semi-permeable. And guess what?  Everybody's over here. It's like me cramming y'all in the corner. I'll cram you all in the corner. And what are you going to want to do? Get me out of the corner. Makes complete sense. Of course, you're going to want to get out of the corner. And of course, these guys are going to want to get over to this like open free zone. The molecules are going to want to diffuse, but they can't get through the semi-permeable membrane. The concentrations want to be the same. And so really, they want to be the same. I shouldn't ever say things like that because it's not like they're not little people. But look what happens if the molecules cannot move through the semi-permeable membrane. Water will. Water will move. Now you tell me what direction is water going to move? What direction is water going to move if it wants to have equal concentrations on both sides? Hopefully, you're like, I see, I visualized this. Water can move into the, like basically, for lack of a more scientific way of thinking of it, there's all sorts of math that explains this, which I am a fan of people who understand that. I'm cool with the visualization that there's a whole bunch of stuff over here and the water wants to come over and dilute it. There's all molecular and there's mathematical explanations for how and why this happens. But if water starts to move across the semi-permeable membrane to dilute this side, what's going to happen to the volume of solution on this side? Do you agree water's coming across and the volume is actually going to go up and the volume on this side is going to go down? I agree with that because the water's going to move. The water's moving from one side to the other side. It's moving into the really concentrated side because water can pass across that membrane. The particles cannot. That right there, that's the process of osmosis. The process of osmosis, can you visualize that? That could actually do work. There's actually pressure here. In fact, you could put a little, like what is pressure? It's force per unit area. You could put a little stopper in this and you could push down on the stopper and you could push that water back to the original equal heights and the amount of pressure that you would have to apply to get that to go back to the heights that it originally was. That amount of pressure is the osmotic pressure in this little system, osmotic pressure. If the osmotic pressure between two systems is different, then one of them is going to explode. Now imagine, if water is going to rush into a cell because of osmosis, water can go through our cell membranes. It just will diffuse right in. If water goes in because the cell has a concentration that's higher than the fluid around it, what's going to happen to our cell, dogs? It's going to pop. The cell is going to pop. It's going to explode. This is what we're doing in lab. We have two osmosis labs. I think the first one is we're going to explode some red blood cells for real. We're going to throw some molecules into our, some red blood cells into various solutions and we're going to look at the red blood cells in our microscope and watch them explode. Watch them get big. Watch them shrink. It's really cool because we can see the size changing as the water goes in and out of those red blood cells. I don't know what I did with your lab handout. This is an old lab handout. You need to read your lab handout before coming to class and read through the lab number one, whatever day I see, Monday. Read through the lab number one, whatever it is. I think it's the red blood cells. Read through that one and we'll talk about it in lecture if you have questions. If you're kind of like, I can't imagine what's actually going to happen here, then we'll talk about it in lecture. Also on your lab handout is this little cell activity. Cells are sitting inside beakers of fluid and you have to figure out like what's going to happen to the cell itself. Like is the cell going to swell? Is it going to shrink? Is it going to explode? Is nothing going to happen to it? Because that's actually what we care about. We care about how our cells are reacting to their surrounding. And if your cells are all exploding and popping, do you think that's a good thing? It's not a good thing. I feel like there's something else I need to tell you about osmosis. There's something else I want to tell you about osmosis. Ready? Let's draw this last thing. This is a beaker. This is what your little activity on your lab looks like. This is a beaker and inside this beaker is a cell. And does anybody remember what the concentration of a cell is? Go ahead. Maybe if you yell it really loud, I'll be able to hear it. Just kidding. We're just going to round it up to .3 osmols. And why osmols? Why not molarity? Because we care about osmolarity when we're talking about physiology. You're going to have to go between molar, molarity, and osmolarity, but we think about osmolarity. Now look and be amazed if the solution that this cell is sitting in is .3 osmolarity. Then what's going to happen? What's water going to do in this particular scenario? You know what? Water is going to go in and out. Do you agree with it? Water doesn't have any reason to go in and try and dilute this. There's a whole bunch of particles in here. But there's the same number of particles out here, right? So guess what? This is cool. The concentrations, the osmolarity, are the same inside and outside. But I'm about to make it a little trickier for you. If I make this particle a penetrating particle, that is going to change this scenario. It's penetrating. What does that mean, do you think? If the green particles are penetrating, what does that mean? That means that the particle can pass through the cell membrane most of the time. And we're just going to, we'll make this assumption that our .3 osmolarity, all the particles that are inside your cell that are creating that concentration, they're not penetrating particles. What does that mean? Those guys are not penetrating. What that means is that they can't go through the cell membrane. They can't go back and forth. So they're stuck inside, but the green ones can go in, right? What's going to happen to the concentration? What's going to happen to the osmolarity of that cell when those green particles go in? They're going to go down their own concentration gradient. The last analogy is that particles are like teenagers. They only care about themselves.  So these particles, they don't care. The green ones only care about the concentration of other green ones. The concentration of other green ones inside the cell is like, meh, zero. The concentration of other blue ones outside is zero, but the green ones, they can't get out because they're not penetrating. But the green ones can go in now. The green ones go in because they're going down their own concentration gradient. They're just going to diffuse in because they're penetrating. In they go. What happens to the concentration of the cell as those particles go in? Seriously? Probably if we ended up following this through, would you agree that inside the cell ultimately, we're going to get more concentrated? Do you agree with that? In fact, we probably are going to do something like 0.45 osmolarity inside and outside. We're probably going to be something like 0.15 osmolarity outside because the particles are going to diffuse until they reach their own equilibrium, equal concentration inside and outside. That works for you. The cell itself is now super concentrated. It's way more concentrated inside than it is outside. What's water going to do? This is so beautiful. The water is going to go into the cell. The water is going to move in. What's going to happen to the cell when the water goes in to try and dilute the super concentrated stuff inside the cell? Here's my original cell. Water goes rushing in. You've seen this in Bio 1. No. It explodes. It swells. A cell that swells in a solution, what that means is that the solution is hypotonic. Hypotonic. The solution is hypotonic to the cell. Tonicity is a characteristic that describes what happens to a cell in that solution. If the cell doesn't change, then that is isotonic. Again, review. This is review. Isotonic. No change. What if water leaves the cell? Anyone is it? Hypertonic. Then the solution is hypotonic to the cell because the water leaves and the cell hyperotonic. If the cell shrivels and shrinks, then the solution was hyperotonic to that cell. If the cell swells and expands, then the solution was hypotonic swelling. Oh, very big. Did you fall for that? Tonicity is actually, it doesn't care what the concentrations are. Tonicity depends on whether or not particles are penetrating. And really, all tonicity is a word to describe the solution in comparison to the cell. Now, we can also compare osmolarity. We can use all of our prefixes the same. And we can say, okay, something could be hyposmotic or hyperosmotic or isoosmotic. And in our original scenario, what were the solution to the cell? It was isosmotic. Do you agree with that? Whoa, how'd I get so big? It's isosmotic.  Where'd I go? How do I make this not happen anymore? Seriously, I have no idea what I hit. Should I try for the escape? Oh, if in doubt, hit escape. Escape. What was I saying? Hey, where am I? Really? There's a lot of stuff that has to happen to get ready for each little piece. Is this going to be one that the YouTubers are going to be like, dude, you got to re-record that one? Tough. I'm not re-recording this. What was I saying? Somebody yell it really loud because they can't remember. I was saying something about hypotonic penetrating. I don't know what I was saying. I know it was important. Isosmotic, that means we're done.  Please, pretty please be sure to go on top. I love you and you need to read the section on osmosis in some textbook somewhere. Read it because osmosis, I hope that you're feeling a little bit like, oh, really? And you probably are going to want to watch this part of the lecture a couple of times, even though I can't remember what I was going to say at the end. Maybe I will make a discussion board and you'll remind me that it wasn't important, but maybe it wasn't important. Because I think that we have everything that we need. Feeling a little uncomfortable about leaving with something else left to say, but I guess I can always record and add in them. Do you think I'm going to add in them this? There you go. I hope you know now why. Do never mind. I'm just going to leave now. It's been fantastic. And I will see you in five days. Goodbye.


When my son was two years old, one day I showed him the character Yi on a piece of paper. The next day he will point to the different Yi in the street, including this huge upside-down Yi painted on the football field. I was amazed that he can learn and generalize from just one example. When my little daughter saw this Picasso painting, she screamed, phase, right away, even though she has never seen such a distorted phase before. Of course, being my children, they are naturally very smart. But how is that possible? Computers today aren't this intelligent. Computers can only do things that they are trained for. For example, after the Boston Marathon bombing, human FBI agents have to come in to watch our surveillance tape to identify the bombers. Computers cannot do that because they don't even know who and what to look for. We can train computers to learn to recognize objects by giving them millions of examples with the correct answers. A human baby, on the other hand, learn to recognize many concepts and objects all by themselves, simply by interacting with a few examples in the real world. My research at Carnegie Mellons involved looking inside the brain to study what is going on at the levels of individual brain cells and circuits when the brain is seeing and learning to recognize objects. We want to use this knowledge to make computers see and learn like humans. For humans, seeing is a creative process. There is a distinction between what our eyes take in, which are fragments of the world, and what we perceive. We rely heavily on our experience and knowledge to make up the image that we see in our mind. These pictures illustrate what I mean. On the left, you see a red translucent surface, but really there's no red surface, only fragments of the back ring have been turned red. On the right, you see a white triangle, but in reality it's not there, it is an illusion. What we see in our mind is our interpretation of the world. The brain fills in a lot of missing details to make up the most probable mental image that can explain what comes into our eyes. We see with our imagination, and we create an image that we perceive in our mind. Creating this image in our brain involves the interactions of many levels of brain circuits in the visual cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for processing visual information. During perceptions, information flows up and down across the different levels to integrate global and local information. We have observed that at the high level, neurons can see the white triangles, but only firstly. Neurons at the low level can see more clearly, but initially they only see fragmented wheel of the world. But after a brief moment, they start to represent the white triangle as well. We believe that the brain created this image as a way to check whether its interpretation of the world is correct. This is the result of a computer program we roll based on the same principles. Given an image, the program has to interpret its 3D structures. For each interpretation, it can imagine what it expects to see. And if the imagined image matches the input image or explains the input image, the program knows he got the right answer. So the brain, when it is not interpreting and perceiving the world using this process, it can use the same circuit to imagine how an object might look like under different situations. So in this way, it can actually generate a huge amount of big data based on a few examples to train itself. So our natural impulse to daydream, to imagine the future and to do creative things and our innate need for artistic expression and art-making could actually be all byproducts of the same program and process running constantly in our brain. So these activities could be key to the development of our abilities to learn from a few examples and to recognize objects that we have never seen before. So we want to give this capacity of creativity and imaginations to computer so that they can learn automatically like a baby. As a part of this large-scale Apollo project of the brain, recently launched, we at Carnegie Mellons are studying the actual neural circuits that enable our visual system to see and imagine with imaginations and we want to put this to work in computers. So we hope this work will not only help us to understand the brain better but to make more flexible and intelligent robots. And the question I want to leave with you is can you imagine what machines can do if they have the powers of imagination? Thank you.


So natural beauty writes, how do you break and disconnect yourself from a soul tie after a breakup? How do you disconnect yourself from a soul tie? So I'm assuming you mean soul mate or even the idea of a twin flame. How do you disconnect yourself? I don't believe in disconnecting yourself. I believe in actually leaning into your self-love. Again, my book, what the heck is self-love anyway, just to begin part of the journey. There's so many, folks, you know, I recommend book after book after book after book. I believe in doing a deep dive into personal development. I'm a big proponent of Joe Dispenza, for example. I'm a big proponent of Wayne Dyer, of Abraham Hicks, of Marianne Williamson. I highly recommend reading Marianne Williamson's book, Return to Love, because that's what's missing is when you're disconnected, we are disconnected from our heart. It's as if our heart just stopped. And if we wanna start our heart back up, we have to resuscitate it. So the best way to resuscitate our heart is with love. Love for self, love for humanity, love for the person that even ended it. Because when you can lean into loving another human being, even though you may not want to, you connect solely to your divine self, your inner spirit. This isn't masculine or feminine energy. This is empowered energy. And that's my invitation for you. Hope that helps. Thank you so much, Natural Beauty. Great question. All right, we are rockin' and rollin' today. By the way, I notice we have a super sticker here. Thank you so much from Patricia. Thank you so much. By the way, folks, if this is resonating with you, purchase a super sticker, purchase a super chat. This lets me know I'm providing value to you. Please let me know I'm making a difference in your life by doing so. Thank you so much. All right, CB says breakups are essentially hard because they also trigger old childhood wounds. Yes, come back to this book. Actually, you know what I wanna talk about in another book? Personhood, the art of being fully human. This is an amazing book to connect with your heart, folks. Listen, I'm not trying to sell you on some gigantic program because everything is in these great books. I highly recommend reading the Four Agreements, the Four Agreements to connect with yourself. All of these books I'm talking about allow you to connect with your inner spirit because that's oftentimes what's happened when we are triggered or disconnected is we are disconnected from our divine self, our self-worth, self-esteem, self-confidence, our self-love. The more work we do. Listen, folks, I talked about Connor earlier. It wasn't easy to be able to accept it, it was not easy. And I mean, I have, wow, I'm shaking right now. I have pain on a regular basis. How I navigate this is I know he would want me to be happy. I repeat that, I know he would want me to be happy. So in his honor, I choose life in his honor to love on myself. He was the inspiration for this book. I started writing it two months after he passed away. Not just for me, I did it for all of you. And I got it, I'm smiling because my book is on top of Amazon on a regular basis in the top 10,000, I'm so grateful. And it's because of Connor's spirit that this happened. So in his tragedy, I was able to find something I didn't have before. And that's my own self-love. And I hope you can do the same for yourself. And doing the work gets you there. And that's my invitation for you. I did a lot of work before he passed away. I think that helped prepare me.


Every believer has the Holy Spirit. The baptism or the immersion with the Holy Spirit isn't about you getting more of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit getting more of you. Baptism with the Spirit isn't rain from above, but a flood from within. To receive the baptism, simply surrender to the Holy Spirit. Whatever you surrender, he will feel and baptize.


Why don't any of you listen to me? Why is it whenever I say stop doing something or I'm not doing anything anymore? Everyone decides to start doing that thing and do it more than before! I cancelled my fan mail videos throughout the whole COVID situation. Not that it's over by any means. I just want to throw out there. But the post office kept ring ding dingling me and yelling at me to come pick up my stuff because y'all didn't stop sending things. In fact, this is the most stuff I think I've ever seen. Wanna see? To start with I want to throw out I'm being as safe as possible. Got hand sanitizer. I'm gonna squish squirt this thing on my hands in between every package. Little bit of rubber dub dub to make sure that I don't get sick. Anyway, let me show you. Got this, got this, that. Alright, I'm already tired. Just beat this part up. What did y'all do? If I find out this is all Steven, I swear to God! I don't have time today to fool around. I'm just gonna blast through these things as quick as humanly possible. To start, I will say brand new merch, brand new shirts over on the old website. Check it out now that that said let's open some things that you guys shouldn't have sent in the first place. Oh, sorry my bad. I know. What about my favorite part of the video? I got you. Now we can go anywhere we like. Wherever your dreams may. Wherever you want to. Let's go. This is my favorite place in the whole world. It's like, where else would you want to be other than here? Oh, Kim's right here by the way. My little moral support. She can yell things at me. Kim, what do you think's in this one? A puppy. A puppy?  A box within a box. Oh, oh, what the heck? It's a Miniatari flashback. Who sent me this? It doesn't say who it's from. Usually there's a little Amazon. I don't know who this is from, but it's an Atari flashback, gold deluxe edition, very fancy shiny box. Thank you. That's really, that's really Nido. Let's open this package. Oh, wait, I got a squish squash. Nintendo 64 to HDMI. Original game console to HDMI converter. Oh, well, I probably should have figured that out. But that's really Nido. I was actually thinking of streaming some GameCube and N64 games over on my Twitch. Follow me on Twitch, twitch.tv, forward slash, beatemups, wood. And I can actually use this thing. That's so nice. It's really random though. I didn't tell anyone that I wanted or needed this. Maybe it's from the company. I don't know because once again, there's no no. Oh, it makes me so angry. That makes me want to go to my angry place. Thank you whoever that was. I really need to get some like notes up in here so I can actually thank people. This came all the way from customs declaration. Sweden. Oh, it is a wonderful country. Both Sweden and customs declaration. Okay. We finally have a note. Hey, listen. That's what it says. Hey, listen. Some word. Here's a little something all the way from the far away magical land of Sweden. I've been following your channel for about a year now and well, what can I say?  But every now and then you put out a decent one. All right. We have a breath of the wild t-shirt. Lovely, chubbly. Love it. You'll love to see it. The legend of rain at inconvenient times. I missed that when I was opening. I also missed that. Yeah. I actually really like that. Thank you so much. Oh, no. They brought us snacks. There's like so many Sweden snacks. We got the Dumults. Those are great. I bet. Got and bland ant. Oh, these look fun. These look like those little witch hat things with chocolate. Yeah, brugles. But like a chocolate kind of brugle. We have a weird Kit Kat. But like the Swedish version. Oh, I bet these are good. Villar. What do you want to try, Kim? You want to try these?  What do you mean the card is full? Oh my gosh. Look at all that sweat. I shouldn't use my new shirt for that. What do they taste like? Bugles with chocolate on them? They actually do taste like bugles with chocolate on them. Thank you so much for all that candy. I'm actually trying to diet right now. So Kim will probably end up eating most of these. But thank you. Look, I haven't worked out today. So I don't want to eat too much. But I feel like I didn't really interact with any of the stuff I got today. So I'm going to eat a damn. Also, this has probably been sat in my car. Oh yeah, probably melted all over the place. Damn. Yeah, that's actually really good. Thank you. Thanks for the entertainment. While we were quarantined, enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work and closures. A little thank you. Hope you enjoy Chad. This is from a Chad. Usually we don't like Chads, but in this case, I love Chad. Although to be fair, I don't know what Chad has sent me yet. Chad has sent me a Mountain Dew candle. That's way better than just a Mountain Dew. I was going to say, this is a really heavy Mountain Dew. It smells like Mountain Dew. It's a Mountain Dew scented candle. That is really adorable. Check them out if you want a Mountain Dew candle or a candle of your favorite fabric. This camera, never freaking focus it. There you go. Candle galore. Check out the candles so you can get a candle sent to your house straight from Chad. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Okay. Sorry, I get really excited when I do this. I was so upset that I didn't order this in the end because I didn't realize how much I was going to love the game. Look. I know. But again, I didn't say that anywhere. I didn't tell anyone. Y'all are just like entwined in my brain space.  I don't know how you guys do this. It's Steven. Why is it always Steven? Why? That is beautiful. That is beautiful. Thumbnail? Oh my gosh. Thank you so much, Steven. Get out of here, Steven. Get out of here. Oh, this one's weird. This one feels like Power Up Perler Etsy store. Thought it was cute and you might like it from the same person that sent you the Slowpoke Trophy. They're like little soaps with the flash inside. This one's Pear. This one's got a Slowpoke inside. Focus. We got the flash. We got Slowpoke. We got Millhouse. And we got Toad. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. If you want to buy some Power Up Perler soaps for yourself, check them out. Ink and the shrink swag. What do we got? I'm loving all these little Etsy things. Oh. Oh. Oh. It's all the Harry Potter books. Hi, Wooden Kim. My kids and I enjoy y'all's videos. Thought of y'all when I saw these cool little books. I'm in Brentwood, Texas. Y'all come visit. Thank you so much. Oh, no. If this is from Steven again, I swear to gosh, I'm going to scream at him. It's Keanu Reeves. In my most anticipated game of the last half a decade. I'm not even kidding. I used the friggin desktop wallpaper for my computer back when I was like 15. I was so excited for the game. I'm still waiting. I don't see a thing in this. Yeah, it's from Best Buy this time. There's no note.  So, thank you so much. You ever sent this? That's friggin cool. I'm so hyped for this game. I'm so hyped for Keanu Reeves. So sexy. Keanu. Keanu. Oh, this one's from Steven as well. This is the one that the post office called me about because they put his name in the two instead of the from and they were like, it has other people's mail sent to you. You know what's funny though? My name is also in the two section. It says my name and then his name. Well, in the future.   I can't open it, but it's very nicely wrapped. I don't know why. I don't get it. Steven sent me a pro controller. I don't know why. I don't need this money pro controller, so I'm going to give away the one that 2K sent me. You can find the link down below and I'll keep the one Steven sent me. Oh, I haven't hand sanitized in a while. Oh, so I've been talking to Steven or yelling at him, but I was also like, why did you send me another pro controller?  Oh, wow. It's all painted, but it's like super well done. I'm so baffled by it. That is such a good paint job. I like it a lot. It's like this really nice navy blue on the back, really nice maroon on the front and then these really glossy blue glossy blue. Hey, this is from Mr. Logan. I got a package from my kitty cat. Well, that just makes me happy. Take me to my other happy place. Welcome to the Himalayan. I am so freaking sweaty. Oh, there's a lot in here. Kimberly. There's a little letter for you. Open that up. Tell me what it says.  Pokemon Go Online? Okay, so I got a picture of Link. I got Mia's Hollow Knight. Pokemon Stickers? Oh, I got a Deku. These are all real good. Thank you so much. And then in the box we have, I've never even heard of River King Mystic Valley. Maybe it's good. I got a little Zelda Breath of the Wild Houch to store my rupees in. Oh, I got a freaking 3DS with the Pokemon on it. That is a really cool one. You can't get these anymore. Oh, why did you send me this? That's so nice. Thank you so much. What the actual Hecaronys? There's a used Band-Aid in here. So that's nice. I'll save that for when I get an Abubu. And then there's Zelda. Who bought that carry case? I'm gonna take this to a convention and be the coolest kid with a knapsack around. Dearwood, I started watching your channel a while ago, but only just subscribed. But I assure you, as soon as I got the email, sorry, PewDiePie was first? What? Dumbbomb PewDiePie. Small peepee, no leg-having, floor-gangle. PewDiePie was his first subscriber. Well, that makes me mad. Now I'm gonna have to fight PewDiePie in a boxing ring. Look, this is me. This is PewDiePie. We're fighting. This package says it's actually Monday. Jokes on you. It actually is Monday right now. I'm filming this on a Monday. Oh, it's a mouse pad with a cat on it. That's cool. My voice goes so high when I get things. Eat a mouse pad with a cat on it. And then two cat badges. One for you, one for me. Dearwood, thank you for all the wonderful material you've created on your YouTube channel. We appreciate your efforts in bringing awareness to the issue of mental health in our society. To show our appreciation, Monday is sharing a few gifts for your studio space. We hope you and Kim and Simon enjoy the sign of gratitude. Oh, there's a calendar too. It's the kitty cat all over it. All right, well, check out Monday, 2020. I don't know what it is, but it's got a cat and I like cats. I gotta speed this up. I got a lot more to get through. This is from Hano Pop. You know what? For this one, I'm gonna show you guys before I see it. All right. Okay. You know what? I'm still gonna try, but I gotta open this first. Kim, I need your reaction to whatever this is. Oh, it's a girder, is it? You wanted this at one point. I wanted this. It feels... I have no idea. I'm just gonna look at it. Oh, what is it? It's growing in the bathtub. Thank you. I'm gonna put that in my glass case downstairs. I'm running out of glass case space. Wow, that's so cool. I'm gonna have to open that in a second. What? I thought that... Okay, it's from Steven. Thank you, Steven. Oh, wait. Where's my hand juice? My hand's all juicy. Wait, what? Why? Oh, my God. If this is from Steven as well, I'm gonna be so mad at him because this is too much. What the f***? I'm like shaking right now. There's nothing on it that tells me it's from anyone. It looks like it came straight from, you know, like the company. No, I didn't pre-order this. I can't afford this. Look at this. I don't even know what... It comes with a freaking controller that looks cool as heck. It comes with a... Yeah, it's an Xbox. You didn't know what it was? Why are you holding it up when it weighs five pounds? Yeah, it is pretty heavy, but I've been working out. It's an Xbox. It's an Xbox One X. It's the good Xbox. It's the Xbox. It's the Xbox. And it comes with the game. Yeah, it's really nice. But who gave it to me? Thank you. It's just so cool. You should put it in your glass case next to your Keanu statue. Yeah, I think these would go really nice in the glass case together, but I would have to open this for that to happen. Oh, sorry. My heart is a flutter. Thank you so much whoever sent that. We're not done, by the way. We have more things to open, but what the actual holy fudge buckets. Wait, let me just ask him. Okay. I just texted Steven to see if that was from him. So now we'll wait for a reply. Let's keep going. I'm so happy, but at the same time, I'm also kind of mad. I don't feel like I had an appropriate reaction to opening this. If you're new here, I need you to understand that Steven sends way too much stuff. I yell at him every time. It's frustrating, but like, I also appreciate it. So I don't really know how to react. Hope that makes sense. The Xbox. What's from Steven? Of course it was. Of course it was? Thank you, Steven. Why is your eye twitching? I hope you've appreciated the wild ride that's been going on behind me throughout this video. It takes a lot of work to edit these. I don't do them. My editor does, but can we all take a second to appreciate him? Actually, it's Zach's first time editing one of these. So, thank you so much, Zach. You're doing a great job. Keep it up. I'm proud of you. What? What? Don't judge me. All right, let's open the box, but there's a little tiny letter that was on top of it. So let's open the little tiny letter first. Oh, it's got a little bracelet in it. Hey, word. My name is Brayden. Although I've only been watching your videos for like a little over a year, I absolutely love both you and Kim's channels. I even recently bought Raycons through your coat. Best choice ever. See? I told you. People tell me all the time, oh, I bought Raycons and I love them. I wasn't lying. I mostly wanted to send this letter to show my gratitude and to send this Switch Joy-Con inspired bracelet. I didn't even notice that. It's kind of obvious now. Made it for you. Hope you enjoy it. I hope you and Kim are both staying safe and healthy during these crazy times. Brayden, you are amazing. Kim, can you please help me put this bracelet on? It's a little tight. It's okay. I don't need this hand. Actually, I'm left-handed. I do need this hand. Anyway, thanks so much, Brayden. That's really cute. Stuff like this, honestly, I love just as much as stuff like this, but like for a whole another reason, it means a lot to me. Thank you. All right, now to open another. This is from Anderson. So whatever is in here, I can get equally excited for without getting mad about. I love when I get those really big packages, but they're from other men. I can get really behind those ones, yeah. Oh, it's a backpack. It's a Butterfinger bag. Oh, wait. Two things here. One, Butterfinger, I don't know why, but they reached out to me before the quarantine and asked if they could send me a little promotional package, which means for the last three months in my hot garage, I've had a backpack full of Butterfingers. Oh, we got Butterfingers. They actually feel like they're okay. And I got to say, I love Butterfinger. Butterfinger is the official sponsor of the beat them up shirt. It's not actually, I am not paid for this in any way, but hey, grab yourself a Butterfinger today. They're creamy, crunchy, crispy and peanut buttery. We have a sweatshirt that would have made more sense to open up three months ago rather than in the middle of summer. I'll hang on to it until next year. Thank you so much. Can I say as well, this is a very nice backpack. When we go on our next trip to Japan or whatever, this is over. I'm going to take this backpack. We have a Butterfinger controller case. It's actually really sturdy. More Butterfingers. So many more. Do you like Butterfinger? Of course you like Butterfinger. Who doesn't love a crispy, crunchy Butterfinger? Oh, look, a cloud. That's how long ago this was. This game probably just came out. That is adorable though. Oh, Kim's immediately grabbing out for it. There you go. You can have that. I'll have cloud. We can fight. We can fight on the weekends. And then at the very bottom of this is actually the coolest thing, I think in this entire package. Yet another crispy, crunchy Butterfinger. We want to thank you for making gaming better for our community. With some gear and crispy, crunchy Butterfingers. You're a great part of the gaming community and we hope that you enjoy all the goodies we're including in our Game Better with Butterfinger Gamer Kit. Be sure to check your email for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Launch Day. Wait. What? For your digital game code? They didn't send me a digital game code? You and your followers can score more codes for in-game armor and accessories that boost stats and abilities in the game by buying Butterfinger Baby Roots or Crunch Bars. Okay, so I'll leave that link down below for you guys to check out. And then I'll tag Butterfinger and stuff to say thank you. But thank you so much, guys. Again, not paid or anything. They just wanted to send stuff to be nice and I really appreciate it. Kim's literally eating the Butterfinger. I was just checking if they're still good. Are they still good? Were they melty? Oh, they're still good. Butterfinger. They don't melt in a garage, even when left in there for three months. Okay, I got a bunch of open letters off camera because I like reading them in my free time. But sometimes they feel like they come with little trinkets. Attention, Kim's craft room. Oh my gosh. Oh, Pokemon cards. Ah, I dropped my Pokemon cards. Well, you like Pokemon cards, right? There was no name on that one. Thank you, though. This one says please don't rip. Pictures of me. Pictures of you. Dear Wooden Kim, I absolutely love your videos and I'm always among the first to watch them. They always cheer me up. In the envelope I added some drawings I made. They took way longer to make than I would like to admit, even though they completely sucked. No, they're great. I mean, I managed to make a drawing that looks more like Bob from Wolf Den while having, believe it or not, a picture of a wood in front of me. That does look like Bob from Wolf Den. At least it was fun trying to draw portraits. I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe. Sincerely, maze. All the way from the Netherlands. Thank you so much. Oh, there's something in this one. There's a little, a little gifty in this one from Matthew. I mean just Matthew. I'm not going to say his last name. Okay, I think it was actually just a real folded up letter, but that's okay. There's a picture of you getting carried away by Yoshi by the look of it. Thanks so much, Matthew. This is from Revolent Play. Okay, we're running out of locations. So we're just here now. I know it's not the best place. It's not somewhere any of us really want to be. None of us really even want to see this. I know some of you are trying to eat right now. Maybe you're watching me during lunch or dinner. So I apologize, but it's just one of them things we had to go there at least once. Mad matter. The unbelievable dough you build with. Oh, it's like stretchy dough. We can play around with that later. It's like slime. Love this stuff so much more than kinetic sand helps me a lot. Cheers to you and Kim from Madeline. In a video I made a long time ago, I talked about what helps me relieve my stress and I had that kinetic sand on my table that Kim gave to me. Madeline seems to think that this is better than that. I'm inclined to possibly believe her. This is from Amazon Fulfillment Center. Lovely chat. Got to know him a lot over the last few years. Oh, it's from Matthew. Matthew always sends me the Zelda soundtracks and Zelda related things. Thank you so much, Matthew. Thank you everyone that sent something. It means a lot to me. Thank you for the letters and the fan mail. Thanks for the Mountain Dew candle. Thanks for the HDMI thing. Thanks for the Backpacks Butterfinger. Thanks for the Butterfingers. The crispy, crunchy, delicious Butterfingers. Everything that I already have and then everything from the other videos that I'm giving away, you can find links to down below. Like the video. Subscribe if you want to fix my air conditioning if you can. And I'll see you, I don't know, whenever. I don't know. Next place! Oh, I didn't want to go here. That's better. Stay safe.