Welcome to the Advocate, your Sunday reminder that important conversations are among the necessary tools for a senior society. I will be talking about Nigerian independence and solving the chronic illness of the past. If you pursue Elijah or a Coyote, we will be talking about Nigerian a great country. Comfort Boots will be talking about her short letter to Mama Africa. We will be right back after the break, stay with us. The Action Group, AG, supported primarily by the Yoruba's of the West, at the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, whose prime support came from the Igbo's of the East. These parties expect the whole country quickly to follow the Ghana pattern of constitutional change. But any elective central assembly was born to be dominated by the Norths, which had 57% of the population and whose economy and social development had lag far behind. The Norths, political leaders, most of whom were conservative Muslims, aristocrats closely aligned with the British through indirect rule. We are not all eager to see their traditional paramounts invaded by aggressive and bitter educated leaders from the Souths. The first political expedience was to convert Nigeria into a foundation of three regions. In 1957, this allowed the East and the West to achieve international safe government without waiting for the Norths. But it left open the question of how policies were to be conducted at the center and how Nigerian independence was to be secured. At this juncture, it occurs to the Northern leaders that by aligning themselves to one of the southern parties, they might maintain the local monopoly of power and gave prestige in the country as a whole. By asking for its independence ends the emergence of the Northern People's Congress NPC from the North and the National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC. The problem of central policies does resolve when the Northern leaders enter a coalition federation government with the NCNC and in 1960 Nigerian became independent. Without doubt, ideology, cultural heritage protection, power control among others have reshaped happenings in the government evolution from regional to central to military-led administrations and finally the current democratic dispensation with lots of wounds created with a proper healing. Our diversity has added diversity in the way we ensure results are delivered in unique ways. It is necessary we focus more on understanding the strengths in our diversity learn from the errors of my appear political sentiments, seek forgiveness where necessary and work towards building a better country. There are three major regions in Nigeria if operating in unity, we manifest our true potential as a country. The time is now, most especially as we head towards a change of government. What you said is a description of how we got to where we are. The question I always ask, because you have heard this narrative over and over again, but the question I ask is do we learn anything from this story whenever it is told? Because we have not been able to properly analyze our situation as a people. These are my views. Now, where we are as Nigeria, where we were back then, many countries, many diverse cultures were there at some point. But at a time, they got to realize that, listen, we need to live beyond the regions we represent. There is a nation that must be built. Fortunately for us, yes, we have education, yes, we have so many things, but we have not been able to forge ahead as a nation. So just before we have comfort to have our own view, I think what is missing is actually the goal. If we try to narrow it down, the regions are actually fighting for the goal, for the good development of their people, which is the goal. That is before, not now. That is what I am saying, which is the goal. The goal was to protect, the individual goal was to protect my people. It happens in all the regions. And if we all understand that we are fighting for the same thing, the same goal, it will help us to move ahead. But what we are not saying is, we are fighting for the same goal. At the same time, we are saying it must be somebody from my own region to fight for the goal. Even beyond that, one of the things I see is that, listen, whether we like it or not, colonialism and a fight for independence and all that happened, you see, each of the regions found it more convenient aligning with the west than aligning with any other region. It was because of the approach. What we feel to do is to come up with an approach that shows seeming sincerity because the sincerity of the west there wasn't really sincerity, so it was enough to make you down your tools and say okay, let me align with you. What we have not been able to do, and it might be because of our cultural values, which brings about pride, which brings about a very high esteem and all that. And the west have been able, what they understood was, make them feel good, make your chief feel good and he downs his toe.  And that's why to date, it's even gotten worse because our greed, our selfishness, bad leadership, poor development of the local community has made it such that so many parts of Nigeria are not developing. And now people have to move from their place of comfort and pride. This is where I come from. We need to go to another city to make a living. And when they get to that place, because of their normal pride, they come up with the same pride. And then you have another sectoral clash in that city. So we need to come to an extent where we need to come together as a people.  For us to come out of this room, we must work together. And that is where we are now. We need to work together as a people. So I agree with you. And I think before we can actually get to that point, we need to undergo a healing process. I will tell you why. You see, the formation of Nigerian came from the three major regions, which is the NCNC, MPC and ASEAN. But if you look at 1966 school, it redefined every other thing. So that means the Nautanas are aggrieved, because people that are aligned with the Nautanas are actually more of the people that went with the coup. And there was a retaliation coup back and forth. So everybody has not actually taken responsibility of their lapses. Nobody is perfect. And now today you see an Ausa man, seeing an Igbo man as a threat. Because we have not healed. We have our fathers' stories upon stories. You see the Biafra agitation. If you look clearly, you see that Biafra agitation is only talking about the further character. That why we, the further character, favor a path. Say the Sautanas are the Southeast and South-South are one. Southwest are also one. But all of them are Sautanas. That means we have the Sautanas to be three as against two before. Now we now have the Nautanas to just be one. But that's not true. You understand. So what I'm saying is we have the Nautan path, the Sautan path. When you are giving quota system, you give it to the Nautanas, the equal amount to the Nautanas, you give equal amount to the Sautanas. But by the time you share it, the Nautanas tends to have... And you see, before comfort comes in, right, that's why I believe that, yes, we need a healing process, but we need beyond that. We need to face the fact, wake up and smell the coffee. Number one, even based on what you are saying, the Noph, those who are in the Noph, if they tell you the differences in the Noph, you will marvel. The differences and the clashes between the Fulanese and the Aousa, the Kanuris and every other tribe, there are so many tribes in the Noph. But what they've been able to do is that they've been able, they are able to come together when it comes to leadership. Why? Because the people have come to realize and they sing one song. In the south, our pride. And one of the challenges we have in the south, which is what I see is that, we were educated early, but we had a wrong education. So the education we had then made all of us feel like kings in our own parts. So the easterners feel we are kings, we have this, the southerners, the westerners feel we are kings, we have this. Unlike the north where the education did not really permeate, so they still had the rural communal ideology. And they believed that let us forge ahead as a people. For us here it is difficult to move. If you hear today, people are telling you that, even the ruling party might not give it to the southerners because of the north. You see that mentality, that belief system is still there. Exactly. But for us, and that's why it is easier for an easterner to move with the north and a westerner to move with the north. Because the north now has a laissez-faire attitude. It's ready to move with everybody. As long as you're not too oppressive, it's ready to move with you. But these two guys feel I am big, you are big. You must, you must tell it back to me. We need to heal. But the healing, we need, that nest really is not healing. That is sensitization. Because healing is, you've heard me, and when we talk healing, I know comfort to come with us, she has a lot to say, but let me say this quickly. When we talk healing, look at, these problems have been there forever. In the 80s, it was tough. Now between the 90s and now. Okay, in the 80s, it was tough for a Yoruba person to marry an Igbo person. For an Igbo to marry a Hausa or anybody. It was a very tough thing. Even when you get there, you are not respected by the family. Exactly. Now between the 90s and now, it is easier to marry across Nigeria. We have an increase in cross-cultural marriages, yet we are saying we can't live together. That's why I believe that while we need a healing, especially with those that are now spreading falsehood, we still now need to sensitize ourselves that what is your problem. Exactly.  Exactly. So that's why I say we need to wake up and smell the coffee. What do you think? What we think exists doesn't really exist. We are just impeding our growth as a nation because a lot more Europeans are marrying ebos. A lot more Haousas are marrying ebos. A lot more ebos are marrying effigy. We are marrying ourselves. And that is where it is more dangerous being able to cohabit in a home and a lot of them have happy homes. Exactly. So let us have comforts beyond this. What exactly do you want me to say because this country every time we talk about it, it's just a confounding issue. Now you have even gone as far as not talking about and I love the way you ended on the issue of inter-tribal marriages that what is the driving force and you see this it should be studied. It's a very good question. I agree. Why are the tribes finding it easier to intermarry but refusing for it to show in our political our economic lives and social lives even our social lives. Why as you asked is it because this person is from the south I'm not going to vote him because I'm a mother now. I'm not going to vote this person because he is a mother now. How come it's easier to do that but meanwhile in their houses they have that they have the relations the relations that are mine. In fact you hear them posting my father married a neighbor woman. My brother is married to an my house brother is married to an every woman. So I think it's not something likely we should take but we should look at it. There needs to be some empirical study about it but if you go down a gate another point that you made about how the three tribes behave the most consistent tribe among the three is the house because they are focused they have one interest is power how to get it how to hold it and they won't pretend about it and you see when you are sure about what your goal is what you are hoping to achieve as you said as you said they are going to have an attitude of whoever is ready to work with me according to this my interest as long as you don't come to impede it who will be going once you begin to impede it I like the way you said also about the Igbos Igbos are in silos the Northerners are not the Northerners are a community and that is how you perpetuate power because there is hierarchy but with the Igbos every man is a lord unto himself so how do you so there isn't a center holding there isn't a center that holds if all of us are gods in our own right as opposed to as I said where there is a community and there are the orgasms at the top and then the selves the followership so the followership will follow the leaders you have a pyramid you go to the south west as you said and they are more educated and if I am educated you are educated what am I what am I the only thing now unless as you no it's true unless as you said unless all these individual regions all the regions as we have broken them down now south west and east south south north north east north have one unifying factor we will never get it right even the so called religion that we are shouting isn't what it is it is still polarizing you would have thought that all of us since we all in quotes love God that we were religious every smut is about God you would have thought that that should be our writing point but because there are different forms of expression everybody is saying I believe in God in this way I believe in God that way it is even the one that has colorized us the more so what exactly then is going to hold the six regions for the purposes of this conversation together we don't have patriotism we are not patriotic we don't think that we don't think that we should think all collectively for the future of the country we don't everybody is in silence I really do not see how this chronic illnesses of I won't even give the past yet how long are we going to do when in the past crime of love how long you mean up to now both sides have not understood what even the tenants of their own religions teach which is forgiveness there has to be a place where it ends for it to say okay we are hurt we are healing but we for the better good of the majority we've let this go but I'm I'm happy to break it to you that I don't see it in the nearest future thank you Comfort I think one unique factor jokingly it will be money if I have to say because when you see when you see the legislator the executive talking money in the house there is nothing like religion there is nothing tribal and stuff like that that's one unique factor so I think we should be looking at business to unify us probably we should as individual as a country we should think about solving problem that will be giving some some money back to this legislator we need to look for a way around that because even in business you are allowed to bring my brother and you like to bring your brother in so we are fighting over who to dominate that business as well but exactly that that's it technology when we introduce technology it makes everything obvious who is dragging the team backward and we can actually move forward from that so look how it is nest stay with us after the break


Hello, welcome to my talk, leveraging an open source project catalog to select the right project. My name is Marcel Kotzman, and I'm from Germany. I work at Bosch, and they're specifically at Bosch IO. So our motto is we bring IOT to life. And within Bosch IO, I'm working in the IOT open source services. And here I run the open source office. In parallel, I'm also part of Open Chain governing board and try also to support the activities here in the community. Bosch and open source, where's the link? The link is that from Bosch IO, we try to connect all the Bosch things that make sense into the internet. And for this, we run an IOT platform, IOT Suite, and this is totally based on open source. So here we are part of the Eclipse IOT Working Group, also a member of the Eclipse Foundation. And here you see that was a lot of work. So it's not from one to another, but you have some steps that you have to go through, starting with mere usage, climbing up the ladder via contribution. And finally, we are so proud to be able to run some projects as project lead within the Eclipse IOT Working Group. And as this, we had a pleasure from the open source office side to accompany this over the last years. And when we saw, okay, our developers need to go through those processes with us, we had the idea, okay, how can we better fit this to their needs.  So we also set up our own strategy for open source office also to leverage open source tools and also material, everything and also to share with the public and collaborate with other companies. And that was already started a few years ago. Here my last talk I had in the summit was in 2018, I linked it here. And this is also one thing that went very well. And therefore, also we appreciate now this collaboration with the community. And today I want to give you insight a little bit more into our work in the open source office and giving you some ideas where we could also collaborate more on this. So our view, when we looked at all those topics that we tried to cover in the open source office, we made a little open source management process landscape and there we have those four big blocks in the process landscape. The one is the open source strategy and ecosystem. But this is rather high level, but on a daily work level, we have typically the open source usage and handling we have to care for. And on the other side and also the community involvement and contribution. And this is all done in the background we have this open source management system running where we also a lot of processes that we need to care of. And today my talk is about the experience we had in those processes caring about, especially the contribution. And as some of you might know, Bosch, yeah, we also have some requirements to ourselves. So on the one side, we try to protect our company. Yeah, that's clear. We're the open source office we need to protect them. But on the other hand, we also have then our developers in the field. So we try to also collect, protect our employees. On the other side we try to be a good citizen in the community as we value the community and in parallel we have anyway since the beginning our founder started with those Bosch values. So we have also certain responsibility in society. In this course of working and assessing open source projects for contribution we have those three aspects in our process the one is the employee who we check the other is the finally then the contributed contact but content but today I want to focus on the open source project. As the title is leveraging an open source project catalog for picking the right project to contribute to but also to to use it then. This is my main point I want to focus on today in my talk. And what's behind this so for assessing those projects we use three inputs as roughly so the one is the content so what is the content is done in the open source project is it in line with our business. The second is the context of the project where we observe from our open source office view. How do they handle licenses copyrights. What is the maturity of their open source management so therefore I took also this tomato picture are immature enough so if they are read and we can pick it. If they are still too green and we need to think about it and the third part is the contract so some projects already provide some contracts like CLA CAA whatever some use DCO or whatever you have different kinds of contract situations, none or as I said, and all this together is the input to our assessments that we need with that we do with the projects and at the end. This is typically not a go or no go, but it's it's assessment of the maturity level so this is what we try to do with our process. That we say okay, we collect the data that we have and then finally try to create a maturity level for that. And if the maturity levels okay, then we're ready to contribute. But if the maturity level is not okay. This is not not a blockers or something but then we need to think about okay how can we can we help the project or what can we do to raise maturity to a level that we would expect. Well, here in this specific case with the focus on open source management. Then how did this work in the past so this was also you will see I talk a little bit about the journey that we had now in the open source office until we came to this idea of this project catalog. So in the past, we got this request, we want to contribute to that project so we needed to collect some data, then we analyze that data, then we collect more data and more data and then reviewed, etc, etc. So it piled up really as shown here pile of information for each project, just to have the input to judge the maturity of that project. On the other side, it was not well distinct family project but it was really ranging from small libraries to frameworks that we need to assess on the one hand side. On the other side, it was the different domains as we are iot we will really connect everything so the one side might be a demotive and the other side industry whatever so we do not really have standardization and neither in the range and the size or whatever so we need to cover all projects that are that are there. And our observation when we looked at this is, as we had to process already now some of nice number of projects that there's a very heterogeneous situation on the one side is the availability of data so sometimes we try to find out okay what's the situation and specific projects, and then the question is, didn't we find it or isn't it there. So, and sometimes it's the data is just not there. On the other hand, we also observe, we have different structures and representation of that data. So sometimes you find a CLA there or there or the, yeah, how to contribute is written there or there or in different, in different ways. On the other hand, we try to also to leverage available sources like open hub, for example, but this is your rather the data that is provided there is not really talking about stuff that we need it for example where you can direct to check out there they have a CLA or DC or whatever. On the other hand, it's, yeah, it's black duck in the background and it's also, it's not complete so same with the projects lists and directories from the foundations there have a much better structure and in itself, it's rather standardized but it's also incomplete as they only care typically about their own projects. And the third part was that we were in contact with some of the people from the European side that they had an idea about the FOSC catalog. European FOSC catalog so this is still open. So that might be an idea. And here we open for discussion and later. And this was also the idea to form a new community about about this meta data that we collect here. Finally, what happened in our journey is that because we had to work on it. We needed to handle that different situation because we needed the standard virtual we had all the developers that waited for the answers and then finally, we created a standardized structure to to collect that data. And the initial structure to be honest that was nice to watch. But it was huge. It was complex and it was really you needed a special training to fill it out because it was so huge. And then also the question, well, is this really necessary to collect that data? What do we need it for? And then we came up with the need. Okay, we just potentially only need a landing page where we can start. And if we need more information, that's, that's enough because the information is there you only need to know where it is. Then the solution also for the complexity was that we try to make it go a little bit simpler where we said, okay, let's split it up in sections. Because the one who initiates that only needs a few information does not need to provide everything. But the next step as you have seen earlier, we had to process that and then we needed an every step different, different data. And this could be processed by different parties. And finally, as we always as the open source office we try to release to get them to take as much burden from the development teams as possible so that they can really concentrate on their work. And the same here so that we try to release them and providing too much data and spill time with searching for that because this is sometimes really necessary to search, search, search. This is the first step. So we reduced the basic information that we need from the initiator typically a developer developer development team. So what do they provide to us to start this workflow so and really try to reduce that to this basic setup. Data set. And this is the project name than the URL and typically as we said okay the developer he anyway he uses it and and is on the web page anyway or has some more information. So everything that was trivial to and just additionally so also we put in this basic checklist, but the mandatory fields on the name and the URL, and that helped us okay to do the next step then in the following in the following steps in the workflow. And then once we got this request, then we enrich this with additional data and when we did this. We saw okay. There's another thing where we saw it okay. What do we do here we primarily just collect the publicly available data and just put it in a different format. On the other hand we had a lot of information that we need internally like as I said if we handle CLA is we need to know okay or is it there already or not it was assigned. On the other hand, okay who might be a good contact person to get more information about this. So this is things that we mainly need for internal reasons but all this other data. Publicly available so this is potential community data and there's a high potential to share as well and this also brought me to this talk here. But more about this initial idea so with this starting request from a developer typically. What do you need to do he will he provides us a project name here I made a picture here in this case except talk that he provides a project URL. And this is also as it is already available on the homepage also the link to the repository and get so that's trivial and by the way, we also have the description. So this is a question of some some minutes. If at all to provide us, but typically developer also same for you and me potentially if you need to switch your media you're not really happy about this. And so as the get is typically used by the developers and the developers would be the main target group who provides us with those requests. We thought okay it would be nice to use then also get to to process this and then the question okay would form it and here we try to use this markdown. Because on the one side, it might be electronically possessed on the other side it is also nicely rendered and most of the UIs from from the get repositories and even search is possible. So I was astonished I for the preparation I checked it. So I have a lot of functionality already from scratch without even having an extra media or nor UI that I needed to create extra and just as some experience. From the beginning when we try to do this with our wiki and Excel files whatever it was a huge initial effort on the one side. So you don't want to do this again. And second, the question was, okay, how can we send it. And there the use of get also was well accepted by most of the developers because this is lower hurdle they already know get they know how to use it. On the other hand for all those office users like us. We also have now nice wiki marker that renders also this rapport content in our wiki. So both sides were happy with this. And it was really easy to handle. The other thing is that with this get systematic in the background. We can also use this and do the increments because it starts with this basic information. Then we add more and more data. On the other hand, as the projects change and potentially mature over time we also need those updated data. And this will quite perfect to use get for this. And finally, this is what we currently think about is also to you, because at the moment we still use our issue tracker for doing this. Yeah, kind of approval in assessment workflow. So that we potentially might also use the pro request and review methodology. That's already pretty well known from the software element also for this internally that we can also feedback to the developer. Okay, now we got your pull request we recommend and then you get your result and everything is then locked into the system. So it's an idea we didn't implement yet, but I think there's a lot of potential so in this in this setup. But most important, as we have all this data now get we're technically ready for collaboration. And so as I said, the data that most of the data is is publicly available so we just invested the time to collect it selected together and compile it in one in one's file. And there, the open question that I had, because I looked at SS had in all those project directories and open up and things like that. So, where could we share this because the existing system. I wasn't really sure if that's the right way to do this. And also, perhaps we should also first talk about is this the right material so do we need additional data fields, things like that with which community we could, we could have those discussions. And second, as this was in the in the beginning, mainly focused on the project itself. The question is how could we also do the link them to the components because we have on the other side and a lot of component databases. And so typically open source project has an out as an output has the component. So that would be nice to also have that link so if I go to the components see okay what is the mother the mother project of this or or in the other way around so what components are produced by that project to have that in such a dialogue. And the other thing is, then also what's the future so is the structure sufficient or would we need some more structure. I tell you this now and here also feedback is welcome perhaps after my talk, or if you approach us also in the communities like in the tooling group or whatever from open chain is that okay if we come to the point where I would be good idea and but please add this and this in this field. We should rather start this discussion now than later because if we collect that once I told you, I don't want to repeat this and if we can already identify fields that make sense for the future. Then we can directly collect this information right away now without the need of doing too many adaptations later. So, feedback is welcome and this is also all the main idea of my talk to really invite you to come into this discussion, potentially also will having birds of the sessions in one of our community meetings as I said open chain. By weekly meeting here from the tooling group and also in open chain on the on the mailing list. And what about potential because as you might imagine I had already a few talks and two people and if you dream around then there might be other potential places to do this. So, potentially, there might be and this is also potentially one idea than in this European foster catalog that you really have a catalog, not only for the reason that I need because in the open source office this is really my daily work but there might be other people that try to get an overview of available projects open source projects about governance, funding, things like that, addressing the the rears perspective at that point. The other thing is, I search for a specific product here. This is then domain specific potentially already available. So there are some directories where you can search for this and that and this and that, but this might be a side effect of this if I search for something. And I can see, okay, there's already an open source project. And same for the next points, either community or market analysis, we said, okay, we do not need to start a new one, because we have potential contribution. Do we need to build up our own project or is there a project in the same domain or with the same focus so that we could build a new community around it and to connect to each other. And then, yeah, potentially there also put could be possible to have additional fields like, okay, comments and likes things like that. I don't know I fool around here but this could be something would be really cool. Also for us. We get more input for our maturity assessment if you see okay. This is a well accepted project and yeah, there are a lot of likes and whatever. That could be also a potential new input to our assessment is it and will adopt it and so on. Okay, so I added then also some in my backup I can show you later for discussion also some examples would go in here, like here I have it also using my other talk so that's what how it would look like it's the raw data. Just that you can see that's possible here on the left side. We have those basic information about okay name. You are all short description and on the right side and more deeper information about okay where can I find contribution process is there a CLA yes or no. And all this communication channels. Who can I contact is the mailing list. Things like that. So I will add that to as the backup slides for your information later. So that once the slides are shared, then you're welcome to browse it through and also feedback to me if you have what do you what do you think about it and if you have any suggestions to improve and I would be happy if we could come together to form a new birth of feather even find a community to talk about details more deeply. I thank you very much. My name is Marshall Chris man here my contact details, but you can reach me ideally then also in the open chain reference tooling group. We have discussions like that and there you welcome and also welcome your your your contributions. Thank you very much.


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It's one time when I don't mind being interrupted. What's on your mind? Uncle, are you going to use your canoe paddle this summer? Well, I hadn't planned to. Gene, you don't have to have a canoe that goes with it. Well, I used to have a canoe and a guitar that went with it. Yeah? Where are they? It's a long story, my boy. The young lady I was entertaining at the time didn't know much about paddling a canoe. It's tipped over, huh? Yep. The guitar sank. The young lady waited home. And all I've got left is the paddle. What do you want with it, Leroy? I thought I'd take it with me to camp this summer. Camp? Yeah. I'm getting my equipment all set.  Looks like I'm the one who should be going to camp. Well, I'm taking my own bathing trunks. Well, in mind, you'd need a compass. Boy, am I going to have fun at camp, but can't wait for schools out.  I don't think so. Sleeping bag, fishing rod... No, no, no.  I seem to recall a little agreement we had made when the subject of camp first came up. Yeah? What kind of agreement? Yeah, I'll refresh your memory. I agreed to send you to camp if you brought home a better report card. Report card? That thing you bring home from school with Cs and Ds on it, you know? Oh, that. Yeah, that. You were pretty low on a couple of subjects, but you agreed to pull them up in exchange for a summer at camp. Did I agree to do that? Must have been out of my mind. It's just about report card time again, isn't it? Yeah, tomorrow. The kids call it terrible Thursday. Well, I can see you're not worried about it. I'm not? You must be pretty confident in getting out your camping equipment and all.  I guess so. You bet. When I was in school, my boy, I never got a grade below C plus on my report card. And you know you can do as well as I can. I can? Yeah. So have fun getting ready for camp and let me know if I have anything else you'd like to borrow. I wonder if I can borrow one of his report cards. Marjorie? Yes, Bertie? What's wrong with Leroy? Leroy? Look at him out the window there. Drag him home from school. Where, Bertie? Coming down the sidewalk, kicking a can. Uh-oh. This is report card day. The way he kicked that can, the news must be bad. Oh, I hope not, Bertie. His crypto camp depends on this.  Hello, Leroy. Hello, Leroy. Hi. Anything happen at school today? Let's not beat around the bush. I don't get to go to camp. Oh, little Leroy. May I see your report card, Leroy? If you want to. It's in the envelope. These grades don't look so bad, Leroy. Yeah? When did you get down to the E in English? An E. Miss Turner gave it to me. Oh, well, you haven't till June to make it up. Yeah, but this is the report card that uncle's checking. An E in English. Why don't I give up? Not Leroy. Don't you be discouraged. Well, an E isn't passing, Bertie. Well, maybe the school changed the grading system. Maybe that E's there for the excellence. Oh, Bertie. Oh, I sure didn't get a single A. Well, maybe that's good. It could stand for awful. Bertie, I know you're trying to make Leroy feel better, but I don't think you can sell that to Uncle Mort. No, ma'am, I guess not. Well, I guess I better put my camp and equipment back in the attic. Can't use it this year. You're going to give up so easily, Leroy. Gosh, there's nothing I can do, Bertie. Okay, that was a time when Leroy would find a way, but I guess that day is gone. How's it means that this time? Okay, Leroy's through. Put the camp and stuff away. The sleet and bag you was going to curl up into the campfire, or go to New Pall, you said you were going to win a race with, and that fishing rod you were going to catch that big whopper with. Don't put anything away yet, Bertie. That's more like it. Leroy, you can't change that E. No, ma'am, but he can change his uncle. Report card to Uncle when he comes home. Well, you have to know about it sometime, Leroy. You have to take it back to school. Miss Turner and her E's still have to take it back. Piggy Bacon lost his report card one time and couldn't find it for weeks. Leroy, you have it right in your pocket. It isn't lost. Well, I've got a lot of things in my pocket that have gotten lost. Marbles, jackknights, bubblegum. I'm capable of losing a report card. Well, Uncle Mort will be home any minute, and if I were you, I wouldn't try any funny business. She doesn't know I'm giving up. She's never been to a boy's camp. I wonder how Piggy lost his report card.  Duffy in here. Why don't I open the window? Nice breeze. Now, I'll put the report card in the envelope and lay it on the ledge. If anything needs air, it's this report card. Of course, if the breeze happens to blow it away, and Uncle asks me where my report card is, I'll just have to be honest and tell him I don't know. Well, I guess I might as well go downstairs. And if I leave the door open, it might create a draft. There it goes, fluttering out the window. Nature sure is tricky. When you can blow that report card into the gutter, it can go from there into a storm drain and float out into the river. It could go anywhere, around the world. Well, I might find it floating in the lake this summer when a mountain lake should move. Hello, everybody. I'm home. Hey, Zunk, you got lost just in time. Coming up the walk, I found this envelope with your name written on it. Is that a note from your little girlfriend? This girl has no friends. Thank you, sir. Now, if everybody will excuse me a minute, I'll go get a cigar. Everybody stay at the table, please. Hey, beginning to sound like a meeting. I'm probably going to ask about your report card. I'm surprised Auntie didn't look at it when he picked it up in the yard. He thought it was a note from some girl. I sure thought he's going to bring up that report card at dinner. Well, I kept him off the subject, but from now on, you two have got to give me some help. Leroy, I don't know why you don't show it to Auntie and get it over with. Mark, I've got to have time to figure out something. I'll have a second cup of coffee now, Bertie. Yes, sir. Your cigar for you, aunt. Thank you, my boy. You're being unusually thoughtful tonight. Well, I always think about like your cigars, but sometimes I don't get around to doing it. Ah. Anything interesting happened here at home today, mind you? Um, nothing really. I tried to think of something. Bertie, anything new with you today? Yeah, Bertie, tell us what happened to you today. All day. Well, I'm trying to think of something, but I can't think of anything except what I'm thinking about. Big help.  Yeah. Tell us about your day, my boy. Anything important take place at school? Well, trade. Well, thank you. Now, tell us about school. Speaking of last day. Leroy, I have a feeling you're trying to change the subject. There's something of importance that happened to you today. You do? Marjorie, I found an envelope in the yard this afternoon with Leroy's name on it. Yep. I was just turning in the yard when I saw it blow out of Leroy's window. You did? I assumed it was a note from one of Leroy's little girlfriends. Was I right, Leroy? Uh-uh. Let's not talk about my girlfriends. I bet when you were in school, you got a lot more notes than I ever will.  Don't you mind talking about it, huh? Right, George Leroy, you're taking me back a good many years. Good. And once I start reminiscing, I can go on all evening. You know, I think I'll go upstairs and find my old high school manual. Sure, I'll clear an excuse. Some of those girls got pretty mushy when they signed their names in my yearbook. Later, Leroy. Yeah, all right, Anki. Leroy, you're not gaining a thing by postponing the inevitable. Marge, I know what I'm doing. You see how slick I got him off the subject? I sure thought he had you cornered. Yeah, not me. I like to match wits with old lunk. I guess I'm just too sharp for him. You know, it's strange to me that Anki mistook a report card for a note from a girl. Yeah, anybody should be able to tell they have a note in it. They don't have a note in it. What? The Great Gilda Sleeve will be back in just a moment. Do you know why it is these days so many women are serving salads with their own homemade French dressing? It's because they've discovered this is an easy way to get more variety into their meals. In a minute or two, they can mix a wonderful dressing that gives new interest to even the most ordinary salad. Just to show you how simple it is, Kraft has attached a recipe folder to each bottle of Kraft salad oil at your grocers. In the folder are recipes for six different easy-to-make French dressing. There's a cranberry French dressing that turns cottage cheese into a feast. And a rope-for-dressing that the swankiest restaurant would be proud of. And an out-of-this-world French dressing for your next tossed salad. The real secret that makes all six of these dressings so easy to shake up and so extra good is Kraft salad oil. This is a special kind of salad oil. Kraft oil is the one oil that is superfine to give it a lighter body. It blends better with the other ingredients the recipe calls for. Tomorrow morning, pick up a bottle of superfine Kraft salad oil at your grocers. And be sure to get your free recipe folder that tells you how to become a real master at making French dressings your very first try. Troy's report card is causing him a little embarrassment. He got a low grade in the English. He tried to lose his report card by letting it blow out the window. Well, we hate to say it, but it served Leroy right when it blew right into the hands of the great gilded slave. How did you know I was trying to lose it? Leroy, I couldn't help being a little curious. When I saw you open the window and stick your report card way out on the ledge. No camp this summer, huh? No camp. According to our agreement, you had to be up in all four subjects if you wanted to go to camp for four weeks. I was up in three subjects and down in one. How about going to camp for three weeks? What? You can knock off a week for the E in English. No, Leroy, a rule is a rule. This has become a matter of principle. You shouldn't have tried to put one over on me. Gosh. If I really wanted to trick you, I could have. Watch this, my boy. I could have put my report card in the furnace and you'd never have seen it. But I wouldn't do that. I was a good little boy and practically dropped it in your lap. No, Leroy. Hey, why didn't I think of burning it? No, you might as well forget about camp. I'm sorry because I was hoping you'd get to go. To you that the only subject I got a low mark in was English. I? That teacher could have had it in for me, you know. Leroy, let's not try to shift the blame to your teacher. Oh, I'm not.  I don't know. I'm not a very popular kid with Miss Turner. Leroy, no teacher would give you a low grade on purpose. Well, maybe she doesn't subconsciously. Like I say, she's the only one who breaks me down. Looks fishy. Yes, yes. You should see some of the ridiculous marks she gives me on the themes I hand in. Pretty bad, huh? The themes are good, but she graves them bad.  I'll say. She tries to funk me at the end of the year. I'll need them for evidence. No kidding, there's wealth. Wouldn't surprise me if I turned out to be a writer. Well, you tell a good story. No kidding, huh? I've been getting a raw deal. All right. Call your English themes down tonight, and I'll read them. Yeah?  How do you like that? Crap myself again. The themes you'll know I deserve that low grade. In fact, Miss Turner was being real nice when she gave me that e. If I can get Mr. Peavey and some of his friends to come over, I might forget about them. Sure, Mr. Peavey'll help me. He's a good guy. What can I do for you today? Mr. Peavey, can you remember when you were a little kid? Again?  About like me. No, Leroy, I remember very well when I was your age, strange as it may seem. Well, when you were a kid, did you ever want to go to camp? Yes. As I recall, I wanted to go to camp with Teddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders. No, I mean going to boys' camp this summer. Mr. Peavey, would you help a little kid swing it? Why do I have to buy it to help the cause? Well, you don't have to buy anything.  That'll get you to camp? Yeah, well, I'm promised to send me to camp if I got good grades on my report card. Well, one of the grades didn't come out so hot. English. He's not giving me a last chance by reading my themes tonight to see if they're any good. And I take it you don't want that, Sam. I sure don't. If you come over and visit with him, maybe he'll forget to read them. Well, you know, I'll make a deal with you. Gosh, I always have to make a deal. If you were promised to pull up your grades before school is out, I'll do what I can to get you to camp. Oh, boy, will you, Mr. Peavey? I know your uncle would like to see you go. Oh, hey, he's parking out front. I bet he's coming in here. Where can I go? You better scoot out the back way. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Peavey. All right, LeRoy. Well, I'm not accustomed to inviting myself to people's houses, but here goes. Well, hello, Mr. Guilnessy. What can I do for you today? They'll give me a coat, Peavey. Well, huh? Yeah, it's getting a little warm outside. Well, if something will be glad to hear it. Here's your nickel. This one's on the house, Mr. Guilnessy. Oh. And what kind of cigars do you like? Mr. Peavey, you know the kind of cigars I buy.  Well, at the annual waterboard meetings, I usually break out one of those 50-setters. Very well. Here's one on the house. Peavey, are you running for office? Oh, my nose. Well, thanks. Quite a cigar.  To my house? I thought I might call on you for a while this evening. Well, any other time, I'd be glad to see you, Peavey, but I'm going to be busy tonight. You mean you don't want me to come? I didn't say that. Well, that's the impression I got. No, Peavey. Of course, if you haven't time for your friends. Peavey. I thought you'd come in here, but if I'm not welcome at your house, I... Oh, my goodness. I give you free coax, free cigars. I try to hold up my end of the friendship, but if it comes to the breaking point... Peavey, for goodness sakes, come over tonight. And now you'll be interchangeable. Mr. Guilty, is Mr. Peavey coming over? Yes, Bertie, he is. You staying in or going out tonight? I don't know what Peavey wants to do, Bertie. I don't even know why he's coming over. But before he does, I wish you'd send Leroy into the den. I want to go over his English beans. Yes, sir. I'll send him right in. I'll do that right away. Yes, sir. Leroy! Mr. Guilty bars you and them things in the den. Yeah? How you gonna hold him off till Mr. Peavey gets here? Gosh, I thought I had that taken care of. There's the doorbell. I got it taken care of. I guess you're in time, Peavey. Right on the nose. Come in, Judge. Thank you. Who is it, Leroy? Ah, guess what? Your old friend Judge Hooker came to call on you. Hello, Gilda. Judge, I didn't expect to see you tonight. I know you didn't. But it seemed the most appropriate evening to call. The judge was very nice to think about you, aren't you? Well, make yourself at home in the parlor, Judge. I have a little business to take up with Leroy. Say something, Judge. Yeah. Gilda, this is a fine way to treat a caller. What? Give me off the minute I get here. Judge, I have to closet myself for a little while and do some very important reading. Do you mean you prefer to go off someplace and read while I, your guest, cool my heels in the parlor? Oh, Goli doesn't have heels. He has hoofs. I don't know when I've been sewing something. No, Judge. Why does everybody insist on visiting me tonight? It shows how popular you are, Gilda, in spite of your rudeness. Peavey, everybody. Peavey? Oh, it's Peavey. Oh, Judge. Nice to get to know you. Here's that other cigar I promised you. You all right, Peavey.  I didn't know you were coming over, Peavey. I didn't expect to see you here either. Doesn't it make you feel good to have so many good friends drop in on you? Well, there's a little flattering Leroy, especially the way they insist on coming. Oh, hello, Mr. Peavey, Judge. Hello, Margaret. It looks like a convention. Oh, excuse me. I'll get it, Auntie. It's Floyd. Oh, is he coming, too? Mr. Munson said to tell you he couldn't come over tonight. Okay, okay. Did I say something wrong? What's going on?  Well... Horace, did you know I plan to spend the evening checking Leroy's English themes? Don't cross-examine me. I'm a lawyer. Peavey, I suppose you came over tonight just to enjoy my company. No, I wouldn't say that. March into the day. You and I are going to read those themes. I'll see you and the judge know where the cribbage board is. I'll see you later. All right. Yeah, we're good nation to take my cigar and go home. Now, Leroy, let's have them. Here they are. No, no, no, not the one off the top. It's probably your best one. I'll take one out of the middle. And here. Uh-huh. Here's one, Miss Turner-Mike, with a big red E. And what's the title? My favorite subject. My boy. You don't spell favorite. F-A-V-R-I-T. Don't carry on. Don't read it. I'll give up trying to get to camp. Leroy, you're going to sit and listen and suffer through it with me. Now, let's begin. When I am asked to write about my favorite subject, it's easy. Favorite. He is a subject that is very close to me. It is too bad other kids do not have one as good as me. Leroy, that's very bad English. I know. I don't blame Miss Turner for grading you low. Well, let's wade through it. Have you guessed who my favorite subject is? No, he is not a dog. He is the City Water Commission. He is also my uncle and the best uncle a kid could have. Leroy. And that is why I say it is too bad other kids don't have one as good as me. See, I don't see anything so wrong with this. Good job. Well, I can see how Miss Turner could give you an E for grammatical errors, but by George, the subject matter deserves an A. Here, let me go on. He is a big man who aren't afraid of nobody. Yes, Pee-Vee, come see what little Leroy wrote. The Great Guiltlessly will be back in just 30 seconds.  There's one oil that's different, and it's called craft salad oil. This oil was created by craft with exactly the qualities needed for perfect homemade French dressings and for finest baking. Craft oil is superfined by an exclusive process. That means it's lighter-bodied. It actually blends better with other ingredients. Get lighter-bodied craft oil when you shop tomorrow. It's $1.60 and $25. Well, Leroy, what are you doing by the phone? Adding up my money. I'm writing a dough to pay my expenses at camp. Yeah, good for you.  Thanks, John. You may not be the smartest, but you've got character, and that's what counts. Yeah. Good luck with your project, my boy. Thanks, John. Now, who's next on the list? Here it is. Point it for you. Two bits of copy results guarantee to your money back. The Great Guildersleeve is played by Willard Waterman. The show is written by John Elliott and Andy White. It is partially transcribed. Included in the cast are Walter Cutley, Mary Lee Robb, Lillian Randolph, Earl Ross, and Dick the Grand. Musical composition by Jack Neakin. This is John Easton saying goodnight for the Craft Foods Company, makers of the famous line of craft quality food products. Be sure to listen in next Wednesday and every Wednesday for the further adventures of the Great Guildersleeve. This week, the Craft Foods Company salutes home demonstration clubs in more than 60,000 American communities. 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Hello, today I want to show you a method to quickly analyze the malicious word documents that have been going around lately. Here is a sample, so you have my Oledemp utility, and it shows you all the streams in this OLE document. Word documents are actually OLE documents. So you see that stream7 here contains a macro that indicates with the mflag here. So we are going to select stream7 and then decode the macro. And then you can see here the VBA macro dumped to the screen. Now I saw this a lot of times now recently is that it contains an obfuscated method to download and execute an executable. And here with the chrw encodings you actually have the URL. So what I'm going to do is extract and decode this because you have to do this with VBA normally. Here I'm going to show you how you can do that without any Microsoft technology. So first of all I'm going to select that URL, that encoded URL with the pcrregrep. And I have a regular expression for that, this one here. So this selects me the line that contains this chain of chrw. But I'm not interested in the complete line, I'm only interested in the chrw expression. So I'm going to use option minus O of pcrregrep to select only the chrw. So here we have this and this is a visual basic expression. If you run this with a visual basic interpreter you will see what string this represents. We cannot do this here, we are going to do this with Python. So I'm going to transform this visual basic expression in a Python expression then have it evaluated by Python. So first of all I'm going to change this expression into a print statement. So the beginning of the line I'm going to add a print like this. So now here I have print chrw. Now chrw that is a visual basic function and in Python the corresponding function is chr all lowercase. So we are going to replace that like this. And then the ampersand here in a visual basic is actually the ampersand, the concatenation operator. So we are going to replace that with the Python string concatenation operator which is the plus. So I replace ampersand for plus like this. And now I have a valid Python expression that I can pipe into Python. And then I have the URL here of the malware, the Trojan that will be downloaded and executed.


Live from San Francisco, California, it's The Cube at VMworld 2014, brought to you by VMware. Cisco, EMC, HP, and Nutanix. Okay, welcome back, we're live here in San Francisco, VMworld 2014, this is The Cube, I'm John Furrier. Really pleased, 50 year now broadcast in The Cube at VMworld, and it's been an amazing run. VMware is changing, every year it gets bigger and bigger, but it's still a geek show, and it's just a great company. Brand new campus in Silicon Valley at Pat Gelsinger on yesterday, and one of the things that's happening at VMware is the story is there's a lot of alumni that are flying from the NAS that have been there from the roots, and CEOs starting companies, but most importantly, venture capitalists in Silicon Valley starting, helping companies start, companies fund them, and our next two guests are two great VMware alumni, Jerry Chen, who's a general partner at Greylock, and Pete Soncini, general partner at New Enterprise Associates, or NEA. Guys, great to see you guys in The Cube again. Great to see you here. Thanks for having us. You guys are the money bags for all the startups, and Jerry, you and I talked at Amazon re-invent, I think last year, you were looking for your first deal, you know all about VMware, you kind of know what's going on in the market, and Docker was just starting to float around, got a lot of traction, and you reeled that in.  I mean, that's a good deal. Tell us about Docker and all the success, and the ride Docker's been. Look, I felt like maybe it was rookie luck or something. It was my first investment, and largely because when you see Docker, you just realize the value he's going to bring, and Pete and I saw that from the early days of VMware, and so I understood kind of the value VMware had in the early days, that combined with some of the knowledge it had around how apps were being built for tomorrow, I'm like, this just makes sense, and I'll be honest, I mean, I knew Docker was a great technology, and the team was phenomenal, but to think open source projects been around for less than two years was like on the keynote at VMworld, it was pretty amazing to think about how far it's come. And of course, Amazon owns public cloud, the DevOps movement isn't full tilt, but the enterprise is really a huge start. I was calling Amazon the tsunami that was going to wash up on shore, and the question is how much of beach will they take, and who will step up and put that sea wall up to stop the onslaught for Amazon? So Docker really becomes a key linchpin in that formula because all the same buzzwords are around interoperability. These are enterprise terms, I mean, it's an enterprise opportunity. Do you see the same thing? Well, I think it crosses through consumer software, enterprise software, public private cloud, and it's the thing, Pete and I see the same thing, there's probably no startup that we see today that's not using Docker, right? Every VP of engineering, every CTO that's coming through our offices, he's using Docker as this Lego building block is a atomic unit of the cloud. So the beauty of Docker is you can make what you want out of it, and if for enterprise use case, you're going to see a whole ecosystem grow up around it, around the enterprise. Pete, I want to ask you a few questions around the enterprise space. Obviously you're, you know, we've all enterprise guys, and it's now sexy to be in the enterprise.  You've been doing a lot of enterprise deals, Excal, Grad, a lot of stuff coming out of Berkeley, that's software, so the enterprise really has this kind of OS software play. We talked about software stacks in the last segment. What's your take on the enterprise transformation? You're doing big data deals with Databricks, you've been in the enterprise, what's going on in the enterprise? Why is it so hot? Break that down for us.  It's, you know, there's just a lot, I think the biggest reason why it's hot right now is because there are these incredible open source disruptions that are going on, and it's, there's just several of them that are just completely shaking everything up. And I mean, you look at, of course, started with Hadoop, and then you look at Spark that came through, we're talking about Docker now, there's OpenStack, there's, you know, Cloud Foundry, I mean, there's these incredible things that are going on caused by these open source disruptions, and it's shaking everything up. I mean, people have jumped on Docker so fast, and what's interesting to me is how quickly, you know, kind of the big incumbents have started to embrace these open source projects, and it's, it kind of used to be that they were kind of lying in wait, and maybe they'd come in and plunge in and make a big acquisition like a Zen source or something like that, but now they're, I mean, from Hadoop to Cloud Foundry to Docker to on and on, these large incumbents, VMware, are embracing them early, which is really creating a very strange kind of dynamic. So to answer your question, it's these are major things that are going on, and they're these open source projects, and the question is from my standpoint, is, you know, how do you make money off them? And so that's what we look to do for our LPs, and we can go on and on about that. But that's why things are not. I love that answer because, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs get on core reading, all this myth about venture capitals and startups. At the end of the day, it's a money making proposition. You guys, they're not philanthropists. You're there to fund innovation, but you brought up the enterprise thing and then all this disruption. The time to value now on startups is much different. Talk about the cycle times and the enterprise deals. Used to be the slow boat to China kind of thing or the airplane that needs to ramp up to 30,000 feet, whatever metaphor you want to use. It used to be in the old days, you can track these deals and now they're happening faster. What cycle times are you seeing in terms of funding, valuations, exits, growth? Is it faster or what's going on? I don't know if it's faster. I'll take two points, I love to hear Pete's opinion. I think with startups versus incumbents, it's a race between technology and distribution. So the large incumbents have channels, sales forces, like install base of customers. The startups typically have better technology or new innovation. So it becomes a race between these startups trying to build distribution and get to the customers versus the incumbents trying to build or buy the technology like Pete just said, like buying in Zen source to compete. And so what we're seeing now is a race between startups growing fast, building the go to market in addition to the technology versus the large incumbents like VMware trying to buy or build the technology to be relevant. And I think what we're seeing now is there's a crossover in kind of the playbooks, right? So when I was a VMware, we made that decision to open source cloud foundry to kind of take a play from the open source market. Now you're seeing startups out there thinking, okay, how do I build a channel? How do I leverage guys like VMware or Google as a smaller company get to my customer? So it's kind of funny to see that the playbooks between the two different species, if you will, are changing. And obviously there's a lot of flow back and forth of individuals and talent. Pete, you're taking on that? So well, I totally agree. And there's the obvious thing that there's this componentization of code so that it's a lot easier to get a company up and going by calling on APIs and pulling in building blocks. So that's very much driving a lot of the startup activity. They can focus on adding value on top of these reusable components. So that's an important trend that is very much alive and is continuing. And like we were saying, you open source a project, it can take off in 18 months. And so you get massive awareness and you can go to market through that route and then the flip side of it is how do you make money on it and so that's, it's a balance you need to strike. So I got to ask you guys both the question from the entrepreneur's perspective out there, watching and watching the video on demand is, they all want to get an appointment so you guys are hard to get so they'll get an intro so feel free to call them. I'll give you their cell phone numbers. But the real question is, guys, what do I'm an entrepreneur? What do I need to do to get your attention? Are there some key performance metrics? Are there growth hacks? What do you guys look for for an enterprise deal in this new modern era of cloud convergence and user computing, software defined data center? I mean, it's a whole new ball game. There are some transformational shifts. What do you guys look for in the team, in the business model? Are there table stakes checkboxes for enterprise deals today from your standpoint? Go ahead. Pete, you've been at this long, I mean, I think- And don't say, oh, I need a good team. That's as soon as you have a good team. The first point I want to make is that it's, there is a lot of very high quality projects going on. So it really is just awesome to be in our business right now because you see so many incredible, great things. So you need something to jump out of you because of that. I mean, this is not a time where, I mean, we're spending our time, I mean, we definitely are open to taking meetings, and you know, but there's only so many hours in the day. So you need to, somebody needs to jump out of you. At the end, that's really, I mean, to net it out. And it can be the team, the market, the technology, I'll give you the same old cliches, but because of the time we're in, it needs to jump out. It can't be an email with a dear sir, you know. Well, let me get more specific. Still on the consumer side, it used to be 10 millions, a new one million users. So you have to see some growth.  You can get some validation there. It's been de-risked, if you will. Enterprise, are there different mechanics involved? Because it's different criteria, CIO, it's infrastructure, is it compliance? I mean, these are the things I'm looking for. It's like, I'm an entrepreneur, I did a prototype. That's kind of like what I'm looking for here. I think it depends on the stage of the company and also what you're trying to do. In general, the enterprise, I feel like it's more deterministic what's good or bad.  But in enterprise, either you increase revenue or you decrease costs or both, right?  And that's the key. So in the enterprise, we're not looking for a 10 or 20% better, a 3% better. You're not going to get a CIO or a CFO's attention for a small improvement. But you can do something where you're 10 times faster, right? So Pure Storage, a flash storage company invested in, there's 10 times faster than disk but at the same cost. Or Docker, right? You get better density, better performance of your application and portability so it reduces costs as well. So I think if you look at one of those axes and if you do exceedingly well in one, you have a good investment. Great, and also now, new dimensions, you're seeing big data, Pete, you recently are, I wouldn't say going off the reservation because it's in your reservation, but it's big data, it's in the mix. Big data is being discussed here in VMworld in the enterprise. So what's the boundary, I guess, that's the question for you on the enterprise? Where is the reservation kind of, where do you go off the reservation on deals? What's not the enterprise from an venture perspective? You mean what is a technology that does not apply to the enterprise? Yeah, what doesn't hit your radar? As Pat Gelsman said, it's what you don't do that people want to know about. What deals don't you do? Well, I mean, I'm focused on the infrastructure layer all the way up to the app layer. So I'm personally looking at all of the above. And that's tons, I mean. So I, there are my partners that focus very much on security, I know a little bit about security but I'm generally going to pawn off security focused deals with my partner, the two or John. I mean, it's, you know, we at NEA will do everything. I think enterprise related, infrastructure related. Me personally, I will look at everything that is and- So I'll put you guys both on the spot. Today's Tuesday, yesterday's Monday, it's Monday partner meetings. Did you guys fund any companies yesterday? Greylock and NEA, partners meeting.  Trade secret. Do you fund every, do you guys fund startups on every partner meeting? No, I think it's an exception, right? You know, as Greylock, we look at, each partner does, you know, one to two new investments a year. So you play that out, the probability of us funding a company any given Monday is very low. This is like this image on there, sitting there putting money in a table every Monday. That's not like that, it's pretty much mellow. Well, we do a lot of, I mean, we've got a big fund, we've got a $2.5 billion fund. So we're doing, you know, 50 deals. You throw in our seed deals, we're doing probably 60, 70 deals a year. So we're doing a lot of deals. Most of them are series A, series B. The partnerships designed to scale that way.  So yeah, I'm looking at a deal right now. I went to my partnership with it yesterday and, you know, we'll see if it gets there. Share, please, share, no. So I want to bring back more of the VMware conversation because you guys both were VMware. Pete, I think you were an early employee. What employee number were you at VMware? 60, something like that. Sub-100, early days. Jerry, you, when did you? About a couple hundred. Couple hundred. So talk about the culture. I want to ask you guys specifically, there is a lot of VMware alumni now. You and I were talking prior to the VM role. Some other firms have some junior partners coming in. You're seeing startups out there. There is a V-Mafia developing that has that DNA. What is, in your opinion, share the folks out there that early Diane Greene culture from the Stanford, I mean, it's a real geek culture. And how is that transforming? How do you guys see that now on the outside developing? I think you're probably seeing a category of VMware executives both on the product side, the business side, and the engineering side that have been alumni starting companies the past few years because VMware was just like once in a decade or once in a career platform opportunities. We saw the intersection of software, hardware, stores, networking. So anyone that was coming out of VMware in the early days has such a great perspective of the whole infrastructure stack, which is why you see A, a huge success like this, and B, a lot of alumni starting companies. And I think Diane was a great leader in the early days. She instilled two or three things. One, just like relentless quality around the product. The engineering team and the technical team there was like bar nuns and the best engineers ever worked with. And then also just ruthless pragmatism trying to add value to help the customer. So I think you have that cultural intersection plus where we sat in the technology stack that made it a very special place in the early days. Yeah, no doubt. I learned a lot from Diane to help me with the venture business in sizing up entrepreneurs. Was a lot different working for her than it was reflecting on the learnings of her as a hard charge. She was a hard charge. She was such a great entrepreneur. Yeah, so I mean, what can I say? I learned a lot from her as to what it takes to win, how to be a chess player, how to grind it out, and you know. I think we're getting the hook here. We're not going to stand for a little bit longer. I want to get one final question and sorry to interrupt you, but they're trying to get in the next segment. But my last question is really more of a market one. You know, the IPO window is open and I want to get your both take on this. A lot of companies are raising a ton of dough. Pure, obviously your portfolio company raised a ton of dough, big valuations. And there's a pre-IPO market developing with liquidity.  Is that a Sarbanes-Oxley issue? And Jason brought this up on some crowds storming he did on Twitter around this comment. But it used to be, you get public, everyone gets exit, everyone's happy. Now there is this little pre-public kind of thing going on. Is that good or bad for the industry in your perspective? I mean, it depends on the company's strategy. You raise a lot of capital at high valuation then in the public market may not, you know, be able to stomach that valuation. And so it means you delay going public, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what your objective is from going public. If it's to get liquidity, then you can get liquidity by doing some of these rounds of course. I tend to, you know, I like seeking the public markets at the right time if your company's ready and avoiding these late stage rounds and having the overhang, because it does complicate things. So I can't comment on the Starbucks stuff, but I think strategically it's nice to get a windfall at a high valuation, but it doesn't come without its exposures that you need to factor in as a shareholder, as an investor's employee. I think overall it's probably a good thing because now you have different options at a stage. If the company makes sense to go public, then you should go public. If the company for one reason or another needs to raise that $100, $200 million pre IPO round to fund development or, you know, international expansion, I think it's a nice option that they can raise that capital knowing they're still in a heavy growth phase that they don't need to screw in the public markets. So I'm the CEO. Actually, I think it's better. Also as a board member, it's better for us too, because now we have different options to raise that last chunk of capital that could play better with the strategy. I think, and sometimes- So you're saying the revenues aren't there yet, they're still in build out mode. Why go public and have that tax? Sometimes they could do, they have the revenue to go public, but there's two or three chess moves left to play. You know, either one, there's another product offering I want to invest in under the business, something I would acquire, or I want to get international as a big, expensive one, which is like, hey, I want to go to China and Europe. That requires a lot of cash. Doing that as a public company is okay, but you have to deal with screwing the public investors. But if that's the right strategy for the company to do it while private, there's capital to do that. So it's not right for every company to do that, but it's also not wrong. And I think if you're starting a company now, it's kind of nice to say, look, I'd go public if that's the right story for me, but if I need to raise the money to do a strategic acquisition or growth, I can do that as well. And so I think that option benefits everybody. I mean, the old days, IPO was about fundraising. You raise money on an IPO. So if you can raise $200 million in a private realm with the complications, it might be worth it. So guys, you guys are pros. I love talking with you here on theCUBE. Great to see you guys. VMware, alumni, tier one VC firms, NEA and Greylock, really pros. Congratulations. I'll give you guys the final word. I want you to share with the folks out there the hottest thing you're looking at right now from a technology perspective, not company, an area where you're digging in and you're peeling back and you're getting in without revealing all your secret sauce. But what you're looking at, what's your focus? Well, obviously, with the Docker investment, I've been spending a lot of time around that whole ecosystem from storage, networking, security, to management. So that's a whole thesis that I've been spending time on. I'm still bullish on it for obvious reasons. You know, spending certainly a lot of time on that. And also, I think there's this strategic question about Amazon, if they're going to take over the world or not, and the implications on that with infrastructure investing, and if they take over the world, then we should just be focused on the app layer. But a lot of people, that's not going to happen, but a question is who and when and how you play it. So I think trying to really figure out how that's going to play itself out has the biggest implication on that lower level investing. Certainly great time for entrepreneurs. I mean, I love the opportunities right now, I think, with confusion as opportunity and right now the market is shifting. And Docker is a great example, and you guys are doing some great investments with open source and this action. It's going to be fun. So good luck guys. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. This is theCUBE with two awesome VCs, Jerry Chen and Pete Sancini here at VMworld 2014. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.


Common Studies of the English Language Variance The new paradigm of teacher training in the system of higher pedagogical education is the concept of psychological and pedagogical training of a teacher as a holder of world culture. The study of foreign languages expands intercultural, inner-ethnic communication. The use of the linguistic cultural component in the adaptation of educational language programs, allows you to implement the principle of communication, to organize interested communication, and interaction of students in the language, and thus, open access to the culture of other people and provide a dialogue of cultures. Linguistics and Culture Therefore in the modern method, much attention is paid to the linguistic and cultural aspect in the preparation of a foreign language teacher. This aspect includes not only cross-cultural studies, but also linguistic training, including knowledge of the peculiarities of various territorial and social varieties of the language being studied. English is multinational, the British version marked the beginning of the American version, and then the Australian and South African. At present the American version of the English language has become particularly widespread in a number of areas of human life and activity, in the field of material culture, economics and finance, education and health, and many other areas, the American version is increasingly spreading around the world and has a tendency to ousting British version. The largest number of English speakers currently reside in the United States. It was America in the 20th century that contributed most to the spread of English. Preferred variant of English. However despite this, the teaching of English in many countries including Russia, for many years was focused on the British language, while the American version had to be mastered in practice, and very few by those who, in connection with their professional activities, needed it was to communicate with Native American English. In the best language universities, the British version was traditionally taught, and mainly British teachers were invited as foreign consultants and methodologists. There are few professional American teachers. But at the present stage of development of teaching English, it is impossible not to take into account the fact that students, not only students but also school children, almost daily come into contact with the American version of it, watching American films, listening to American music, and reading labels on American products and goods. The global computer network internet and correspondence with American peers, make their contribution to the language practice of modern school children. Of course, they notice the differences in the version of the language they face in practice, from the one they learn in school. Therefore an English teacher for successful collaboration with students, should be competent in the issues of differences between American and British language options. Lexical differences between American and British varieties of English. Such differences are due to numerous borrowings in the American version of the language, from Indian languages and from Spanish. We present a summary table of some differences in the lexicon of these variants of languages. American variant versus British variant. First floor, ground floor, second floor, first floor, administration, government, apartment, flat, appetizer, starter, assignment, homework, auditorium, assembly hall, baggage, luggage, basement, cellar, bill, banknote, billion, mill yard, blue, sad, can, tin. To sum it up, between American and British English is quite noticeable. However the opinion of significant differences between American and British versions of the English language, just a myth. In fact there are not so many of them. It is sometimes difficult to understand whether a book, is written by an American or British author. Nevertheless, there are more and more differences between these two language variants every year. Therefore the teachers face the question, what language do we teach students, British or American? Now we can talk about the emergence and consolidation of some kind of averaged universal English, which incorporates features of different languages. This, and not American, not British and no other, option is the language of international communication. It is naturally easier to understand. Firstly it is neutral in coloring, secondly foreigners speak English more slowly, make sounds in isolation, and the words are clear. In addition it is more convenient, do not strain, trying to get closer to the purely British or purely American pronunciation. Modern Researches According to many Russian linguists and teachers, the correct language is the British version, more correct that part of it which is called the accepted standard. Correct basic English is needed, by the way in order to understand other language variants, dialects, and features. And to be able to master them, a person with good classical English will not have problems anywhere, and if necessary will be able to readjust rather easily, to get used to another modification of the language. According to some teachers, everyone should start with the British version also because it is the most complete and rich language. American grammar is considerably simplified in comparison with the British. American English can be called casual language. The British version is more particular, more scrupulous. There is a huge number of intonation models in it, unlike the American one, where there is practically one, a flat scale and a descending tone. This intonation model determines the entire sound structure of the American version. In British English there are a lot of scales, descending and ascending, stepped and sliding. The same goes for tones. Sometimes the accent does not produce the sound but the temporal characteristics. If you tighten the sound a little or not, the foreigner will be recognized in you. The Americans themselves by the way treat British English with piety. British English Americans call refined, this language they never had, as there was of course, and what is called English traditions and culture. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. All this, naturally, speaks in favor of the British option for studying at school. But the teacher of course, needs to explain to the students the main lexical and grammatical differences between the two language options, such work should become one of the main ones in the study of linguistic and cultural material. In this case, the main should be the British version of English. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


But before we start, let's talk a little bit about fondant. Now this is fondant you may or may not have heard of what fondant is, but it's actually an elastic type of icing that you can roll out and shape and cut and make all kinds of different decorations and things for your cupcake. So I'm going to show you how to take this fondant and color it so that we can make our designs for our cupcake. Now to make your fondant is super easy and I'm going to put the web link on our page so that you can see how to make that fondant using marshmallows. You can also buy it from the store. Now notice that I am putting on my gloves because fondant is considered a ready-to-eat food and we do not want to be using our bare hands to handle this fondant. And also the icing color can get on your hands so you want to protect your hands to protecting your hands and protecting the food. So now we're going to color this fondant and here I have some color gel. You can buy this at your craft store at Walmart and it basically you pick the color that you want your fondant to be. So I'm just going to take the little cap off and we're going to just put a couple of squirts, a little couple of drops on the fondant and kind of fold it in and then we just start to work it. So I'm just basically showing you how to color the fondant and you can see that it's turning green. We have a green color because we are getting ready for the holidays and see how pretty that's turning really easy. Now a lot of times you can buy this already colored but when you buy white or make your own in white you can just color whatever color you want and look at that it's already green. How pretty is that? All right here we go. We have our green fondant.


See that? That device is a router and it's giving internet to 10 to 15 other devices including my smart TV and Your smartphone can do the same thing and that's what I'll show you today Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Don of AhmedDon.com today I'll have another episode of the smartphone tips and tricks video and I'll talk about how to tether from your smartphone If this is your first time or repeat visit. Thank you for your support on this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you appreciate variety, please come back for more if you only like smartphone tips videos There will be links in the description box below so today I'm going to show you how you can tether from your smartphone and This is a very simple process and I'm not going to go into Different options. I'll only talk about the wireless tethering and that's what I'll show you But there are other ways to tether which I'll just you know briefly go over it so what is tethering is that your phone just works like a router and it can give internet to other devices for example will the end of our video you'll see that this tablet is getting internet from this phone and This is very handy if you're traveling or if you'd like to share your internet connection with someone else and this internet connection actually is that internet connection from your Telephone service provider just make sure that you know they allow tethering and you're not breaking any rules or Laws because some providers or service providers may prohibit you from tethering your phone and share the internet connection so just to Be clear.  So if you exceed the limit there might be additional charges And also as I mentioned before just make sure that you know tethering is not prohibited under your terms and agreements I have had a few Service providers in the past and I never had an issue that you know They are prohibiting or it's not allowed to tether but definitely you're going to just check You know based on where you're located or who is your service provider? so To keep everything simple I'm going to show you just wireless tethering You're not connected to any USB or you're not connected to Anything else. So this is just the simple tethering and I'm going to be showing you on an Android phone I do not have an Apple phone So I have no idea how to do it on Apple But my guess would be that you know the steps are very similar if not 100% the same so you can try it But this is going to be based on my Android phone And if your Android phone looks a little bit different, that's okay Basically, you're just looking for the same settings, which I'm going to show you right now. So let's start from here so the first thing you're going to do you're going to go to your phone settings and This is kind of the whole button right here. So let me just bring this little closer and You're going to click on it and Here you're going to see a few options So you're looking for Network and internet mobile Wi-Fi and hotspot. So hotspot is what we are looking for. So basically When you tether it's going to be, you know Your phone is going to act like a hotspot and it's just giving you connection to other devices So now once you click on that you can see here that hotspot and tethering off And you want to turn this on. So let's click on here Now you can see here that there are different types of you know tethering USB tethering This is just like in your sharing your connection via USB. We're not going to go into more detail Bluetooth tethering We're not going to go into more detail and ethernet tethering. We're not going to go into more detail So what we're looking for is Wi-Fi hotspot So that means that you know Your phone is going to act as a router and it's going to share its Wi-Fi Which is coming from this phone service provider or it's your data plan and it's just sharing with other devices So the next step is going to be click on here and you can see that that Wi-Fi hotspot is off So we're just going to turn this on So just click on here So now we have the Wi-Fi hotspot on and you can see that there's kind of tiny icon right here Just let's bring this a little closer and you can see there's something right here So that means that Wi-Fi hotspot is on and this device is tethering right now or in other words This device is giving internet connection now and you have to just like you know Log in from your other device to catch the internet from this device now here you're going to see an option that You have hotspot password. So what is this? Just you know, you can choose your password so not everyone else can like you know get your internet from your phone and Here there's another option turn off hotspot automatically if no devices are connected and Here you can see that the different type of security settings. You can just go with the default I'm not going to go into detail more here. I'm going to just leave everything as is So what happened here now? I turned this on and this device can now give internet to other devices So now I have my Chromebook or tablet right here And I'm going to try to connect to the internet of this device from this device so in order to do that you're going to have to go to settings of the Tablet or the other device. So you're going to click on the Settings or internet for your other device. So I'll just click on the internet right here and Here I'm going to connect on internet So what it's doing is just you know taking internet from my Wi-Fi which was already connected But if you take a look here, then you can see that it also has the option of my Internet from my phone, which I just tethered So my pixel for a 5g is appearing here and it is just acting as a router So in order to connect to the phone what I need to do. I'm going to have to just click on pixel for a 5g So if you're using your phone, your phone's name is going to be appearing right under Wi-Fi Under network. So if you just click on here Then you're going to see that you know it's asking you to enter the password So if you just you know enter the password So I entered the password and here you can see an option that allow other users of this device to use this network Which you don't need so just click connect and You can see that the other device is connected right now and let's click on the internet It should give you an idea. So right now you can see that you know this one pixel for a 5g is the internet This device have right now Which is coming from this phone Right here right now this tablet is connected using the phone's internet, which we just you know tethered Via Wi-Fi hotspot setting. So this is what this internet is showing So if you want to Do a quick Speed test So I'm just going to do a quick speed test. So we have the speed test website and if I click on here So it's connecting but here you can see that it has the name of the Internet I'm using for this device, which it says freedom mobile and That's actually name of my service provider, which I have on my phone So right now it's using internet from my service provider Which is my cell phones? Network and that's the freedom mobile. So that's how you can use your phone or smartphone or mobile phone to tether and Give Wi-Fi to other devices using Wi-Fi hotspot feature, which I just showed you So thank you for watching this video. There will be more videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you


Lukashenko filed a request to flee the country. At the beginning of Russia's large-scale attack on Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was considering fleeing through Poland because he did not trust the Kremlin. Polish journalist Parofinovich wrote this in his book Poland is at War. Polish officials told the journalist on the condition of anonymity that in the first months of Russia's intervention in Ukraine, Warsaw was seriously worried about Belarus entering a possible war. The Poles were not limited to concern and began to prepare a scenario to send anti-regime sabotage groups in Minsk to sabotage the rear of the Belarusian army. Lukashenko himself was so afraid that he was even allowed to cross the border to Warsaw through various channels and fly from the nearest Polish airport. He started sending requests about whether it would be granted. He knew very well that if the war went according to a bad scenario for them, the Russians would not allow Batia to fly from the Belarusian airspace. Polish journalist added, At present it is known that Belarus has been collaborating with Moscow in the forcible transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied Ukraine in a program directly overseen by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko. According to research from Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, Russia and Belarus are targeting children for removal from Ukraine, coordinating their transport from occupied Ukraine through Russia to Belarus and subjecting children to re-education, sometimes including military training.