The aliens are back at it again, folks. For years and years, we've wondered, is there life outside of Earth? There have been UFO sightings for decades and decades and decades. And even last year, this year, the United States government even recognized that, yes, there are aliens. And then there was that weird little alien from Mexico or something. Yeah, these little guys. But today, we're talking about a new alien sighting. This actually just came out on TikTok last night, or, well, I saw it first on TikTok last night. Apparently, there was a 10-foot alien spotted outside a mall in Miami. An incident at a Miami shopping mall, which resulted in... Wait, hold on, I can't read that fast. It resulted in the rest of four teenagers on January 1st. This sparked the spread of a bizarre theory. Wow, look at all the detail in that photo, dude. Suggest the alleged presence of aliens at the Florida establishment. More than 60 police cars swarm the Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami. Wait, why? To shut down a fight involving a group of teenagers who are also throwing fireworks at each other in an open-air shopping mall. So this is the thing that people are getting all crazy about because there were so many cop cars. Let's get a more reliable source. Let's go to TikTok. Miami Alien footage, three different angles. From Patriot Ghost, you know that we can trust them.  They know that I'm onto something. They understand. They know that I'm about to find something huge. The little FBI guy, my little FBI guy. His name is James. He knows I'm up to something. He knows I'm on the precipice with Patriot Ghost. This is supposed to be the alien. It's supposed to be 10 feet tall. If I'm honest, that just looks like a dude. It just looks like a guy. The FBI is out of the game. James, just let me make my video, please. This is what you do in Opera GX when you don't have internet. Kind of sick. Opera GX, can you sponsor me, please? Thank you. Shocking how all of this footage is horrific. That, OK, so this looks like multiple people. This just looks like multiple people walking. Why are people saying it's an alien?  Why would they send so many police officers just to stop some kids from fighting with fireworks?  Oh, this is the real one. Guys, this is the real deal.   That's just a guy. That's a five foot eight white guy just standing in a parking lot. The alleged alien. Damn, that looks real, dude. High-rise image. I'm trying to cover up something from us. I had in the area to the mall to deal with some teenagers that were fighting with sticks, OK? 10 foot tall alien. I don't understand. Deleted and removed by the men in black. But some people were able to get a footage. Wait, what? The men in black? Some people were able to get this footage. Oh, what? What? Rain alien. Wait, now hold on. Is it six feet or is it 10 feet? Are we talking about dudes lying about their height on Tinder? I was told 10 foot tall aliens. I want them to be 10 feet tall.  And they're probably not even six feet. They're probably 5'10 or 5'9". Now, obviously, the footage that we have here is very low-raised. It's very pixelated. But I actually have access to an AI service. They can help up-raise the images so we can see what was actually going on here. I'm sure this will be good. I'm sure this will be good and reliable and will give us the real scoop on what's going on. You ready? Let's see what's actually going on.  You had me! Don't hold on. I thought that this person was completely serious. Oh, that's so good. I want Crazy Frog to be real soon. Hold on. Let's go to goodolex.com. Because we want the ground. We don't want the news articles. We want the ground footage. Who, OK, who is believing this? Who is believing this? Who is actually believing that? That looks so bad. Also, again, everything is blurry. Like phones are better these days. Bro, bro, everyone's going this way. Who is believing this footage? Yo, yo, what is that? What is what? What are you looking at? None of this speed. What is this footage? No one's phone looks like this.  Miami is done for. Miami is absolutely done for, dude. OK, here we go. Here's the video that a lot of people are looking at. It's this thing right here. OK, that's what people are thinking is the alien. It's literally just three people walking. That's all it is. It's just three people walking. I know that I'm being negative here. Let me take off my tinfoil hat for a minute.  I do. That would be sick and terrifying. And at this point in our good lords year of 2024, what's the worst thing that could happen?  It would be sick to get real alien footage. I'd love that. But this is not it. Now, what I will say, and again, this is all of the research that I've done. So don't even think for a moment that I've done proper research because I haven't. But from what we've read today, the situation is there were four teenagers that were having some sort of either celebration with fireworks or altercation with fireworks. Supposedly four teenagers causing a ruckus. It doesn't make sense that there would be this many cop cars for such a thing unless they're responding to a shooting, which I don't know if that's the case with this either. I'm not sure. You need to get the boy. You need to get the boy. I mean, to be honest, I don't really know what that is. But what I will say is in Florida, they do rocket launches all the time. Had the Kennedy Space Center question mark? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that is. Looks kind of cool, though. I want it to be an alien, but I don't know. But it could just be a rocket launching because I know that they do that because my dad grew up in Florida and he saw rockets launch all the time. It's so funny.  I don't know who's believing that that's real. It's so funny. Okay, wait, this is what I wanted to look up. I forgot about this. This is what I wanted to look up. A bunch of people are saying Project Blue Bean. I don't know what that is. What is Project Blue Bean, vault.fbi.gov? If it's a .gov, that means it's real, right? Project Blue Book original, oh, this is Blue Book. Project Blue Book originally Project Blue Book was the Air Force name for a project that investigated UFO reports between 1947 and 1969. In 1989, an organization calling itself the new Project Blue Book contacted the FBI. This file consists of correspondence concerning the organization. How many pages do we have here? Only 13. Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book. Total UFO sighting. So the total between 1947 and 1969 was 12,618. And the total of unidentified was 701. What does that mean though? Like that they confirmed only 701 of those 12,600 were confirmed as unidentified meaning that the other basically 12,000 they figured out, oh, it was this, I don't know. I have no idea. Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory about supposed projects whose purpose is to create an artificial second coming in order to control people. As per the alleged theory, the New World Order's purpose is to one, abolish all Christian and traditional religions in order to replace them with a one world religion based off the cult of man. Two, to abolish all national identities and national pride in order to establish a world identity and world pride.  Miami Bayside Mall aliens debunking posts. January 1st, 930 PM, a black infinity and gray Kia crashed near the Northwest Fifth Avenue and 177th Street causing the vehicles to overturn with Miami Gardens Police and Miami Dade Fire Rescue Units responding to the scene. Crash vehicles struck an electric box causing a power outage in the area. That's why 66,000, would that really cause 66,000 homes to go out? For 40 PM, first reports of police activity on Mayside Mall mentions of a scuffle on the citizen app. Police arrive, people push out of the mall, but a number of people already outside begin scuffling with bystanders. And at the same time, posts emerge on X that show teenagers kicking people in the Dade area. 8.04 AM, AM. First articles about the incident are reported and police announcements are made. Four juvenile perpetrators arrested, no flight restrictions or airport closure were actually reported or occurred. So that's a rumor. According to this, power outage was caused by aforementioned crash. Police scanners were active and not shut down during the incident. Okay, but what the fuck? Why? Where did the alien thing come from? I don't understand. The Enderman. It all comes down to the Enderman.  Perhaps you saw this, a video posted online claiming it was doomed to an alien sighting in that area. So what really happened? Well, look at that, police presence. Guys, there's a light. Come on, come on. Police, a real short 50 teenagers started a fight after setting up. Hold on, was it 50 or was it four? We need to get our facts straight.  It does seem weird that there are so many police there. That seems weird. And maybe, maybe a lot of people are conspirorizing that this is being spread because the list of the Epstein stuff has been surfaced. So that could also be a thing they're trying to distract. I don't know.  I don't know, but I wanted to make a little video about this, just talking about my thoughts and looking into it more because I saw it literally on TikTok last night.  It does look to me like it's just either one person or three people.  The police presence does seem weird, but yeah, stranger things have happened in Florida, honestly. I'll see if there's more info about this soon, but it seems to just be a lot of really blurry phone footage and a lot of people saying a bunch of different shit. Anyway, let me know what your thoughts are. I don't even know what this video was. This was kind of all over the place. I was just looking into it and obviously looking on the best place possible for the most accurate information possible, which is on Twitter.com and TikTok. So obviously we're not getting any false information here. It's all been peer reviewed, peer edited, good research, yeah. Anyway, see you guys on the other side. Don't get abducted by aliens. I'll see you in the next video.


I don't know this problem. It's one of my favorites. It involves a 3 by 3 gear board which is one of my favorite resources. The first two parallel lines vertex to only the midpoint of the opposite or one of the opposite sides. So I now continue that process of drawing these lines and you can see a shape in the middle. So what questions can you ask? It looks like a square. Is it a square? What proportion of the area of the grid is this central square? It looks a bit like a quarter, but is it? So two questions to start you off. You may be able to think of further questions. Plus how many different ways can you do this problem? I've come across, I won't say hundreds, that would be a major exaggeration, but I've come across several approaches that will work. So I offer that to you, for you to work on. Thank you.


From the SiliconANGLE Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman, and welcome to theCUBE's Boston Area Studio. Welcome back to the program. CUBE alum, Ashuk Ramu, Vice President and General Manager of Cloud at Activio. Great to see you. Happy New Year, Stu. Happy to be here. 2020, hard to believe. It feels like we're in the future here and talking about future. We've watched Activio for many years. We remember when copy data management, the category was created. And really, Activio, we were talking a lot before cloud was the topic that we spent so much talking about, but Activio has been on this journey with its customers in cloud for many years. And of course, that is, your role is working, building the product, the team working all over it. So, give us a little bit of a history, if you would, and give us the path that led to 10C announcement. Sure thing. We started the cloud journey early on in 2014 or 2013, when Amazon was the only cloud that really worked. We built our architecture. In fact, we took our enterprise architecture and put it on the cloud and realized, oh my God, you know, it's a world of difference. The economics don't work, the security model is different, the scale is different. So, I think with the 8.0 version that came out in 2017, we really kind of figured out the architecture that worked for large enterprises, particularly enterprises that have diverse data sets and have requirements around, you know, marrying different applications to the data sets anywhere they want. So, we came up with efficient use of object, we came up with the capability of, you know, migrating workloads, taking VMware VMs, bringing up on Azure, bringing up on GCP, et cetera. So, that was the first foray into Actifio's cloud. And since then, we've been just building strength after strength, you know, it's been a building block, understanding our customers. And thank you to the customers and the hyperscalers that actually led us to the 10C release. So, this I believe, you know, we've taken it up a notch wherein, you know, we understand the cloud, we understand the infrastructure, the software auto-tunes itself to know where it's running on, taking the guessing game out of the equation. So, 10C really represents what we see as a launchpad for the rest of the cloud journey that Actifio is going to embark upon. We have enabled a number of new use cases like AI and ML. Data transformation is key. We tackle really complicated workloads like HANA and CyBase and MySQL, et cetera. And in addition to that, we also adopt different native cloud technologies like cloud snapshots, like recovery orchestration of the cloud, et cetera. Yeah, I think it's worth reminding our audience there that, you know, Actifio has always been software. Absolutely. And when you talk about, you know, I think back to 2013, 2014, it was the public cloud versus the data center. And we have seen the public cloud in many ways looks more and more like what the enterprise has been used to. Absolutely. And the data centers have been trying to cloudify for a number of years. And things like containerization in Kubernetes is blurring the line. And of course, every hyperscaler out there now has something that reaches their public cloud into the data center. And of course, technologies like VMware are also extending into the public cloud. Or we've looked SAP, of course, is now in all of the cloud environments. So with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud as kind of the waves of driving, you know, help us understand that, you know, Actifio lives in all these environments and they're all a little bit different. So how does Actifio make sure that it can provide the functionality and the experience that users want regardless of where it is? Absolutely. And you said it right. I mean, Actifio has always been a software company. And you know, it is our customers that showed us by cloudifying their data centers that we had to operate in a cloud. So we had on-premises VMware clouds a lot before we were on Amazon and Azure and Google. So that evolution started much early on. And so from what, you know, Actifio is a very customer-driven company, be it, you know, all segments of the company are driven by the customers. And in 2019 and even before, when you see a strong trend to migrate workloads, to move workloads, we realized there is a significant opportunity because the hardest thing to migrate is the volume of data because it's ever-changing and it is ever-growing. So the key element of neutrality was the application itself. Microsoft SQL is SQL no matter where you run it. It could be on a big Windows machine in your data center or in GCP, it makes no difference. So Actifio's approach to start application down basically gave us the freedom to say, are we gonna treat SQL as C? I don't know if you're running in Azure, Google, your data center or Ali cloud, it makes no difference to me. I understand SQL, I understand SQL's availability groups, I understand logs, I can capture it and give it back to you. So when we took that approach, it kind of automatically gave us infrastructure neutrality. We really didn't care. So when we have a conversation with a customer, it basically goes around the lines of, okay, Mr. Customer, how much data do you have? And what are your key applications? Can you categorize them in terms of priority? It usually comes out to be databases or the crown jewels. So they're the number one priority in terms of data management, migration, test dev, et cetera. And then we basically drill down into the ecosystem that databases live into. So because we walk application down, the conversation is the same whether the customer is in the data center or in the cloud. So that is how we've evolved. And that's how we're thinking from a product standpoint, from a support standpoint, the overall company is built that way. So it makes it easy for us to adapt a new platform that comes in. So when you talked about how does each cloud is different, you're absolutely right. The security concepts are different. Microsoft is built on Active Directory, Google is built on something very different. So how do you neutralize and how do you make this work? We do have an infrastructure layer that basically provides cloud-specific capabilities for various cloud platforms. And that has gotten to a point where it understands and tunes itself from a security standpoint and a performance standpoint. Once that's taken care of, the rest of the application stack, which is over 90% of our software, stays the same. There's no change. And so that is how we kind of tackle this, because in the ecosystem we live in, we have to keep up with two people. We have to keep up with the infrastructure people who are making it bigger, faster. And they also have to keep up with the application people who are making it fancier and more complicated. So that's unfortunately the ecosystem we live in and taking this approach as given as a mechanism to insulate us from a lot of the complexities of these two environments. Yeah, that's great, because when you talk to customers and you say, what's going on in your environment, change is difficult. So how many different pieces of what I'm doing, do I need to move to be able to take advantage of the modern economics? On the one hand, if I have an application and I like it, well, maybe I could just lift and shift it. But if I'm just lifting, shifting, I'm not necessarily taking advantage of the full cloud native environments, but I need to make sure that my data is protected, backup, you mentioned security are of course top concerns. So it sounds like in many ways you're talking, helping customers work through some of those initiatives, being able to take advantage of new environments, but not need to completely change everything. Maybe I'd love to hear a little bit when you talk about the developers and DevOps initiatives that are happening inside customers, where does that impact, where does that connect with what Actifio is doing? I think that's a great question. So let me start with the real customer example. So we have this customer, ACI investments who basically their business model is to grow by acquisition. So they're adding on tens of, hundreds of developers every quarter. So it's impossible to keep up with infrastructure needs when you grow at that pace. They decided to adopt a cloud platform. And with each cloud platform comes some platform specific piece that all these developers now have to retool themselves. So I'm a developer, I used to come in the morning, open up my machine and start working away on the application, now I have to do something different. And if there is 300 of me, and the cost of moving to the cloud was a lot less than training the developers. It was much harder to train the developers because it has to be an ongoing process. So we were presented the challenge of how do you avoid it? So when we are able to separate the application layer from the data layer because of the way we operate, what we presented a solution was to say, just move your, what is the heaviest layer you have? That's the database, okay? And what are the copies you're creating? I'm creating hundreds of copies of my Oracle database. Okay, let's just move that to the cloud. All of the front end application doesn't see a change thanks to the great infrastructure worth the cloud providers do, you have 10 gigabit to everywhere. So network is not a problem, compute is not a problem, it's just available on an API call. So you provision that. All they did was a data movement, moved it from point A to point B, gives you the flexibility to spin up any number of copies you want in the cloud. Now, your developer tool sets haven't changed. So there's no training required for developers, but from an operation standpoint, if completely ease the burden of creating 100 more copies every month, this cloud is built for that. So you take the elasticity of the cloud, advantage of that, and provide the data in the last mile to the cloud. Thereby, developers are able to access the application with the same level of ease. So that is the pattern they're seeing. They're seeing, in some of our customers, there is faster and better storage provision for Actifio because there are 190 developers working off Actifio where there's only about a handful of people running production, right? So it's a paradigm shift is where we see it. And the pace at which we bring up the application, we're able to bring up 150 terabyte Oracle Database in three hours. Before Actifio, it used to be maybe 30 days if you were lucky. So it's not just an order of magnitude, it is what you can do with that data, is where we're seeing the shift going to. Yeah, it's interesting. When you go back and look at some of the changes that have happened in the cloud, cloud storage was one of the earliest discussed use cases there. And backup to the cloud was one of the earlier pieces of the cloud storage discussion. Yet, we've seen changes in maturation into what can actually be done. Explain a little bit how Actifio enables even greater functionality when you're talking about backup to the cloud. Absolutely. You know, the object storage technology, it's probably the most scalable and stable piece of storage known to mankind. Because nobody can build that level of scale that Amazon, Azure, and Google have put into it. From a security standpoint, performance standpoint, and scale standpoint. So I'm able to drop my data in Boston and pick it up in Tokyo seamlessly. Right, that's unheard of before. And the biggest impediment to that was a lot of legacy application data didn't know how to consume this object storage. So what Actifio came up with our onboard technology was to light up the object storage for everybody. And basically make it a performance neutral platform wherein you take the guessing game out of the customer. The customer doesn't need to go research S3 or Google Nearline or Google Persistent Disk and say, I want 10 copies here versus five copies there. Actifio figures it out for you.  You get the multi-year retention for free. You get the GDPR, you know, app check, kind of protection for free. You get the geo redundancy for free. All of this is built into the platform. In addition, you also can run DevOps of the object store. You can run DR of the object store. So we enable a lot of the legacy use cases using this new technologies. That is kind of where we see the cusp wherein in the cloud there's always a question and a debate, does DDoop make sense? DDoop consumes a lot of compute, takes a lot of memory. You need to have that memory and compute whether you want it or not. We're seeing a lot more adoption of encryption where the data is encrypted at source when you encrypt data, DDoop is just a big compute churning platform. It doesn't do much for you. So we went through this, you know, this debate actively, I think four or five years ago and we figured out object store is the way to go. You cannot get storage. I mean, it's a bucket terabyte in Google and dropping. How can you get storage that's reliable, scalable at a lower cost? All we had to do was actuate the use of that storage and this is what we did. Yeah, I'm just laughing a little bit because, you know, gosh, I think back a dozen years ago, the industry knew that the future of storage would be object, yet it's taken a long time to really be able to leverage it and use it and the cloud, the hyperscalers, of course, have been a huge enabler on that, but we don't want customers to have to think about that it's object underneath and that's the bridging the gap that I think we've been looking for. Absolutely. There, what else? We talk about really being able to extract the value out of cloud, data protection, disaster recovery, migrations are all things that are top of mind. Absolutely, all those use cases and we're seeing some of the thought-lating CIOs talk about AI and ML. We've had a couple of customers who want to basically take their manufacturing data from remote sites and pump it into Google BigQuery. Now, we all know manufacturing happens in Taiwan and China and Singapore and all those locations. Now, how do you take data from all of those publications, normalize it into and pump it into Google BigQuery and get your predictable results on a quarterly basis? It's a challenge because the data volumes are large. So with our cloud technology and our on-world capability, we're able to funnel the data directly into Google Nearline and on a quarterly basis, on a scheduled basis, transform it, push it into BigQuery and bring out the results for the end user. So that journey is pretty transformative from a customer standpoint. What they used to have five people do maybe once a year, now with a push of a button happens every quarter. So it's a change in how the AI and ML analytics evolve. The other element is also our partnership with IBM, we're working very closely with their cloud pack for data. Cloud pack for data is an awesome platform built to analyze any kind of data that you might have. With the ActiveFuse normalization platform, you basically can feed any data into ActiveFuse, and it presents a unified interface into this cloud pack. So you can build your analytics workloads fairly easily. So we've talked a lot about cloud. One of the other Cs in the 10C, of course, is containers. If we look at containerization, when it first started, it was stateless applications. Most applications that are running in containers are running for a very short period of time. So help us understand where ActiveFuse fits there, what's the problem statement that you were solving? Absolutely. So containers are coming up and up and coming and out of reality. And as we see more applications flow into containers, you see the data that lives outside the container, because containers are shortly of their microservices, they come up and they go down, and the state is maintained in a storage platform outside the container. So ActiveFuse tackles containers by taking the data protection strategy we have for the storage platform already well-defined, but enhancing the data presentation into the container as it comes up. So a container can be brought up in seconds, maybe less, but the container is only brought to life when it can read the data and start working again. So that's the bridge ActiveFuse actuates. So we understand the architecture of how a container is put together, how the container system is put together, and basically we marry the storage and the application consistent data in the storage into the container so that the container's database or applications come to life. And that could be in a customer's data center in the public cloud, Kubernetes is enabled, all of that. Absolutely, it can be anywhere. And with 10C, what we've done is we've also integrated with cloud native snapshots. So if you talk about neutrality for the container platform, if it's on-premises, we have all kinds of access to the storage, the infrastructure on the platform, so our processing is very different. If you take it to the cloud, let's say Google, Google Kubernetes platform is a fairly, it's a black box. You get some storage and you get containers, and you have an API access to the storage. So in Google, we automatically auto-tune and start taking the Google Cloud snapshots to take the storage protection. So that's the other way we kind of neutralize the platform. Yeah, you've got a thinking about just from a customer standpoint, one of their big challenges there is they've got everything from their big monoliths, their major databases, through these microservice cloud native architectures there. And it sounds like, is that just one of the fundamental architectural designs to make sure that you can span across those environments and give customers a common look and feel in between those environments? Absolutely, the single pane of glass is a big ask and a big focus for us. Not just across infrastructure, it's across geos and across all platforms. So you could have workloads running AIX, VMware in the cloud all the way through containers and manage it all through a single console to know when was the last code backup, how many copies of the database am I running? And each of these databases could have their own security constructs. So we normalize all of those elements and put them in a single console. Okay, 10C shipping today? 10C shipping today. We have earlier access to a few customers. The general availability release is possibly in the February timeframe. Okay, and if I'm an existing Actifio customer, what's the path for me to get to 10C? Our support will reach out and do a simple software upgrade. It's available on all cloud platforms. It's available everywhere. So you will see it on all the marketplaces and the regular upgrade process will get you that. Okay, and if I'm not an Actifio customer today, how easy it is for me to try this out? Well, it is very easy. With our Actifio Go SaaS platform, it's a one-click download. You can download and try it out, try all the capabilities of the platform. It's also available in all the cloud marketplaces for you to go access that. All right, well Ashok, a whole lot of pieces inside of 10C. Congratulations to you and the team for building that and definitely look forward to hearing more about the customer deployments. Thank you. We have exciting times ahead. All right, lots more coverage from theCUBE throughout 2020. Be sure to check out at thecube.net. I'm Stu Miniman, and thanks for watching theCUBE.


Most people have a sibling. In fact, children in the US today are more likely to grow up with a brother or sister than with a father. Now, while a lot of social scientists research the impact of schools and parenting, little attention is given to a relationship that might be even more consequential. So what do we know about siblings, birth order, and why children from one family grow up to have very different personalities? Let's start with our analysis of the tragic story of the two most famous brothers in Western history. Once upon a time, there was a boy named Kane, who received all the love and attention from both of his parents. Growing up, the boy knew only one world, and he himself was at its center. Everyone around him cared only for him and nothing else. All that changed when his mother gave birth to Abel. Kane should have understood that his parents' attention now had to be divided between him and his brother. This was a revelation he wasn't able to accept, and he became increasingly jealous and sometimes even violent against his little brother. Kane, as the firstborn, naturally looked up to his father as his role model. Following convention, the father himself raised the boy with certain expectations. It was therefore especially painful for Kane to see that his father now cared so much for his younger brother. Abel naturally looked up to his brother for guidance. Things were not easy for him either, but unlike Kane, Abel knew no different. As the boys grew up, Kane gained a strong sense of responsibility and, following tradition, took over the family farm. Abel, who was free from any obligation, chose to become a shepherd. Kane envied his younger brother's autonomy because life as a farmer became increasingly difficult. And on the day that the brothers were to make a gift to their father, Kane only brought a few bundles of dry grass. Abel, who did well for himself, brought an entire lamb. When the father thanked Abel for his generosity, Kane felt a deep shame.  The first big contribution to the field of sibling research came from the Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler and his theory of individual psychology. Adler believed that the main motive of human behavior is our desire for power, partly in compensation for our feeling of inferiority. Hence, sibling dynamics play a central role in family life and personality development as we grow up. Adler argued that children who grow up in the same family experience the family differently. In particular, sibling rivalry over family resources influences the development of personality. As a means of reducing competition, siblings differentiate, develop different qualities, and choose different interests. When siblings don't find their niches, their relationship can suffer. The Kellogg brothers hated each other and fought in court over who invented corn flakes. The Darcelers competed in business after one started Adidas, the other founded Puma. But many siblings love each other more than anything. So what do we know about siblings in general? Here are six things science suggests to be true. Firstborn and single children look up to their father or mother as role models. The gap in mental and physical development between them and their parents may be the reason that they have, on average, a higher IQ. Parents tend to give their firstborn more attention and often set higher expectations. If they can't live up to those expectations, they may feel inferior, but on average, they seem to benefit from their position. Younger siblings model their development after their big brothers or sisters. They have a smaller developmental gap to overcome. They may also feel that they have less to prove, but as a result of a lack of parental attention, they develop social anxiety more often. On average, relationships between brothers are more conflicted. Relationships between sisters are more intimate.  Younger siblings even twice as much. Children with siblings are physically more active and less often obese. They are often happier too. Some studies suggest that they develop social skills faster than children from only child families, but the research isn't conclusive. Sibling attachment seems to be a strong predictor of well-being, sometimes more important than paternal attachment. This also means that if one is bullying the other, it can affect them for life. One Swedish study of people aged 80 years found that while closeness to friends did little for total life satisfaction, feeling close with a sibling did a lot. For those of you struggling with a difficult sibling, Adler had the following advice. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority, and you must deal with him from that point of view. 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My name is Yasmin Cuckoo and I was introduced to Hungry Generation by my parents when they had the Wiseman Harry Salvation and ever since then I just started going to church. I gave my life to Christ I think last year and ever since then my life has just been more positive. I've been surrounding myself with positive people and it's been very great actually 10 times better than what it was before. My life before was more basic teen life like partying, homework, sports, big thing. You know just doing whatever I wanted to not really listening to my parents but ever since I started going to church I just started changing my ways like listening to my parents more not partying and doing my homework and you know doing sports but participating in things that are like very very good for everybody else. My goals for this year is to bring more people to know God and to just make a difference like come to church more know the Holy Spirit speak to him more acknowledge him and just do what's right. I'm getting baptized to show everybody that the decision I've made to follow Christ in his footsteps. Yasmin do you believe in Jesus Christ as your as God's Son and your personal Lord and Savior? Yes. Now do you promise to follow him with good and clear conscience all the days of your life? Yes. Based on your faith and your confession and your commitment we will baptize in the name of the Father Son and the Holy Shades are broken cause you spoke it is finished at the cross


Okay, welcome to Coronado and the beautiful Lowry Theater. We all do appreciate your time here. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce the 75th Secretary of the Navy. He is a naval officer, a lawyer, a statesman, and a pretty fine actor as we've seen in the movies and on TV too. How about a great big Coronado round of applause for the honorable Ray Mavis. Thank you for that introduction and thank you all for being with me today. Y'all standing up, sit down. You know, forgive me a little bit. I can't see much from these lights. I'm going to be pretty brief and then I'll take questions from you and afterwards, if anybody wants to stay and take a picture or prove to your mama that you actually went to work today and that I actually showed up, I'll be happy to do that too. What the United States Navy gives to America is presence. We are everywhere and we're not just in the right place at the right time. We're in the right place all the time. We give the president, we give our leadership options. Options to respond to things like the storm in the Philippines, but also options for things like Syria. We didn't have to surge equipment, we didn't have to surge people. We already had ships in the Eastern Met, we already had ships in the Western Pacific. But to keep doing that, to keep doing that presence that we have given this country for the last 238 years, we've got to work on, I put them into four more P's. People, platforms, power and partnerships. Y'all represent the greatest expeditionary fighting force the world has ever known. We have the most skilled, the best trained, the most dedicated, the most competent force that we have ever had. And we've got to make sure that we keep that. We've got to make sure that you've got the tools that you need. Those big gray hulls on the horizon reassure our allies. They deter the people that may be our adversaries and they provide those options. But you've got to have enough of them. On 9-11, 2001, the U.S. Navy had 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military build-ups in American history, we were down to 278 ships and we were shrinking. And at some point, even though the ships we were building had a lot more capabilities than the ones before, at some point quantity becomes a quality all its own. You're not going to be everywhere you need to be. You're not going to be deployed in places that we may need, the country may need us to undertake a mission. In the four years before I took this office, the U.S. Navy put 19 ships under contract. That's not enough to protect the industrial base on the road at NASCO. It's not enough to halt the decline in the size of the fleet. Since I've been Secretary, the first four years we have put 60 ships under contract with a smaller top line. And we're on track right now with the plans that we've got to get back to 300 ships before the end of this decade. Every shipbuilding program that we have, and we've got aviators in the Saudis, every aircraft program that we have that the Navy controls, I believe is in great shape. We're doing stuff like a lot more competition, multi-year contracts, driving the price down, making sure the quality is up, giving you the tools that you need to do, the jobs that the country is asking you to do. Third is power, energy. Using fossil fuels is a military vulnerability for us. And that's why I've come up with the goal that by 2020 at least half of all naval energy will come from non-fossil fuel sources, and that's a flow down the shore. Now, even in America, produced all the oil and gas that we needed, oil is still the ultimate global commodity. So every time a Syria breaks out, every time some guy says, I'm going to close the straits before it moves, price of oil goes up, sometimes $10, $15 barrel. Every time it goes up a dollar, it costs them maybe $30 million in additional fuel costs. So in fiscal year 2011 and fiscal year 2012, we got a bill of $2 billion in unbudgeted excess fuel costs, because price of oil just went up quicker than we had anticipated. Now, there are only a couple of places to go to get $2 billion. One is in operations. So we train less, we steam less, we fly less. If the bill gets too big, we build fewer ships, we build fewer aircraft because we can't afford to power them. I don't think either one of those is a very good idea. So we've been focusing on platforms and power. And we're on track to do that, to get to that 50% goal, because we need a stably priced American-made source of energy for our basis, whether it's wind or solar or fuel cells or fuel thermal or hydrothermal wave and for ships at sea. And we need to be more efficient in the way we use energy. And we're doing that. And finally, partnerships. Partnerships is working with industry like NASCO. Partnerships is working with cities like San Diego. Partnerships is also working with countries around the world. In the first four and a half years I've been in this job, I've been to 107 different countries, and we're doing something with every single one of us. You can surge people. You can surge equipment. You cannot surge trust. Getting to know people, training with them, operating with them, exercising with them, builds that sort of trust. So that's the way I sort of organize my thinking toward this, and I hope that I believe we are making progress on all these. The other reason I wanted to talk to you is to thank you for what you do every day. The jobs that you do every day on behalf of America. The importance of those jobs cannot be overstated. I wish I could give you an absolute, with some absolute certainty, what's going to happen in Washington. We got a budget deal in December that if the appropriations bills are passed, we'll take us through 2015. And that's a good start, because under sequestration and under the continuing resolutions that come from not passing budget on time, we just couldn't plan. We didn't have any certainty.  We weren't putting money against strategy. Now the American people have got every right to believe and to expect that defense spending will come down. We're coming out of two wars that have consumed more than a decade, but we ought to be smart about it. How we cut, what we cut. Sequester continuing resolutions really don't let us do that. So it's a good first step, but it's important to remember that it only goes through 2015, and it could be back in the same place. It's also important to remember that since 2005, we have never, since 2005, had a budget passed on time. For the Navy, that's almost as damaging as sequestration, because you can't put a ship in a shipyard under a continuing resolution to get repaired because that's called unused art. You can't spend any money on aircraft maintenance. Than you did the year before, or different aircraft maintenance, than you did the year before. Because that's when you start getting to spend money on it the last year. We've got to not work from crisis to crisis. Give us some flexibility. Give us some adaptability and the ability to put money against strategy. To put money against this defense strategy that is so maritime. And we'll be fine. As I said, we've got a little certainty we're able to plan a little bit because this runs through the end of 2015, but the issue is still there. And because of what you do, you deserve the American people. Deserve more certainty than that about the people that they're asking to take on the job of protecting them and this country. So to all of you who serve, thank you and thank your families for doing that. This, and I'm repeating myself, but this is the greatest, the most flexible, the most adaptable, the most legal and greatest expeditionary fighting force. The world has ever known. We have to keep it that way. All right, who's got a question and how am I going to see you if you do? I have a tradition. First question gets a call. Can you please use the microphone? Thank you. We should have people. There you go. Thank you. Testing, testing. Good afternoon, sir. My name is Aviation Maintenance Administration in the hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Been in the Navy for about a year and a half and I'm stationed onboard USS Ronald Reagan. My question for you today, sir, is kind of the deal with what you were talking about with the spending and benefits. I know that recently there was a bill passed and I don't know if it's been on the Commander-in-Chief's desk or not about the, about our retirement getting cut for 20 years of service for about a percent for 30 years of service. My question being is, why is it that we, that now we'll be getting less than 50% of our pay for 20 years and 75% for 30 years, yet members that represent us in the House, the Senate work two years, get a six-figure salary and they walk away with that until the day that they hit the earth? I'll deal with the first part of that question. I'm going to let them explain the second part. Number one, my understanding of what Congress passed in terms of retirement was that it was not a reduction in retirement, it was a reduction in the speed of increase in terms of cost of living allowances. And I do have to say, well, first, whatever requirements some of you joined under the current one, that's the one you're on retirement. There looks to be another way that there's a type of retirement system that will happen where not to make guesses about what Congress is going to do or not do, but everybody on active duty is my understanding would be grandfathered in. This system would be the one that you will retire under if you spend your career here. But if we don't get a handle on paying benefits, personnel costs, there can be a lot fewer of y'all. Only place we've got to go if paying benefits and that counts retirement get too high is to cut personnel. That's it. There'll be a lot fewer sailors. I don't think that's a very good idea. We'll also build fewer ships. We'll build fewer aircraft. And we're there. Personnel costs are going to eat up half of our budget. And so the choice we're making now is whether we give you the tools to do your job whether we keep the force that we have today. And we've got to get a handle on things like health care costs for working age retirees who have health care through where they work.  If you're doing tricare as a working age retiree, you're going to pay about $500 a year. That's a deal. It's also eating up budget. It's also eating into how many sailors we can have. Eating into how many weapons we can buy. I don't think it is unfair to ask people to pay a little bit more. Particularly if you tear it, particularly if you say the increase for your health care cost as a retiree will depend on what your retirement is. So if you retire as an E7, you're going to pay less of an increase and if you retire as an O8 or O9. It will still be the best deal available. But if we don't do this, if we don't, I mean, this is the point we're at. There's no getting around it. The budget is coming down. American people have got a right to expect the budget is going to come down on the fence. And if pay benefit and retirement keeps going up, there will just be a lot fewer sailors. There will be a lot fewer platforms. That's a trade you want to make. I think we've got to be fair. I think we've got to keep our promises. And I think we've got to keep faith. But I also think that it is not keeping faith if you make somebody leave because you don't have the money because those benefits rose too fast. So you probably don't agree with me. That's where I am. Good morning, sir. Thomas Merrill for the USSS6. OSSA coming from Poteet, Texas. My question to you, sir is we know times are tough. We know the economy is tough. We know that I experienced it back home before I joined the Navy. What is there a plan out there to still improve our Navy even though our budget is falling? Thank you for the question. Absolutely. Part of what I talked about is we make cuts. What we've got to do is cut things that are less essential. What we've got to do is make sure we put money into the warfighter. Make sure we put money into the platforms that we need. Make sure that we're funding the strategy. And to do that, we've got to have a great Navy. We've got to have a great Marine Corps. And I talked about how much the Navy shrank. Between 2001 and 2008, we had 49,000 fewer sailors in 2008 than we did in 2001. And during that same time, the Marines grew and the Army grew. And that makes sense because the Navy was in the Navy for years. But now that we're drawing down and the Marines are getting smaller. The Marines are going from 202,000 to about 174,000. The Navy to provide that presence has got to get bigger in terms of platforms, in terms of where we are and what we did. So, yes, it can't be derailed if the budget sequestration comes back in or if we keep not having budgets on time. I'll just go and walk up to the microphone because I really have a trouble seeing how long. Good afternoon, sir. Wyandt 3 Shirley. USS Essex, LHD2. Sir, is there a possibility that all four branches of the military will wear the exact same uniform in the future? Uh, no. Yeah. I think what brought that question up is Congress has mandated that we quit having as many camouflaging forms. And we got until, I think, 2017 or 2018 to come down on the number. And I think they said no more than three or something. But that's very different from all uniforms. Y'all didn't join the Navy to wear an army uniform. So... Thank you, sir. Thanks. Mr. Secretary, aviation electronics technician, first class, Brandon Mosley from Bend, Oregon. My question to you is in regards to the USS Ronald Reagan. We have a couple of other officers to ensure that the radiation exposure from Fukushima is not exceeding that of the Geiger readings they're getting inbound and outbound. Um, well, number one, during the, um, during the relief effort, we had a lot of monitors on the Reagan. Um, we... that was a special mission. Number two, during that relief effort, we did the best, um, that we could do in terms of keeping the Reagan out of the, um, and supporting ships. Another ship that came, uh, we had ships that came up from, um, Sassbow and other places into that relief effort, keeping them out of the main plume. Uh, same thing for the pilots and the aircraft that went in to deliver relief supplies. And we have, um, continued to make sure or to monitor the radiation levels. Now, the levels that the Reagan was exposed to and, uh, during that time and the other ships that were in there, uh, were, were way within normal specs. We're gonna keep watching. We're gonna make sure that there's, um, nothing, nothing there, but we try to do that not only for that sort of thing, but for all sorts of health issues and potential, um, problems for, for people. You, you work in a, uh, just day to day. If you're on board a ship, there's probably hazardous environments. I mean, one person explained to me when I was on my ship, said, yeah, you're on a steel ship, in the middle of salt water filled with high explosives and electricity. Uh, sometimes it's not a good combination. We take these things very seriously. I have not seen anything. And nobody in the Navy, to my knowledge, has seen anything that indicates that there is a problem, was a problem, or be a problem for the, uh, level of radiation that, uh, that the ships that responded to that disaster will have. But that doesn't mean we're not gonna keep watching very closely to make sure that's the case. Hello, sir. I'm Bianca Blanchard from, uh, U.S.S. from Oregon, LSS, and Blanchard. And my question for you is, now that, um, enlisted women are eligible for submarines and seals, for the women who are interested in taking that as a career path, why for those career paths in the future? Um, mainly, talk to your detailer, volunteer. Um, I mean, I was one that made a decision to put women on submarines. And, like you said, we're, we've done every class of submarines now for officers, and we're moving to do it for, uh, enlisted. And that's not something that's gonna change. That's not something we're gonna reverse. So, there is a career path there.  But mainly, if you want to do that, uh, you do it like any other. If you're changing your rating or want to want to go to, um, to do something different. Talk to your detailer and volunteer. And we need you. So, hope you do. Good afternoon, sir. I'm MCSN Younger, station here. I'm MCSN Younger, station here at Ampace West. And, um, I have a question from the, uh, the online viewership. So, um, I'll ask, what is the biggest challenge facing the Navy now? Well, I think, I think we talked about it. The biggest challenge is making sure that as we draw the budget down, making sure that as we, um, spin less on defense, that we keep the force that we have. We keep the level of skill, the level of training, the level of education that's represented here today and out around the fleet. Second, that, um, that we keep giving you the tools that we need to do, that we are smart in how we, in how we cut things, how we cut the budget, how we reduce the spending. Um, it's not an argument to say we shouldn't be reducing. It is an argument to say we need to be smart about how we do this. We need to be flexible. We need to be adaptable in how we do this. And, given that flexibility and that adaptability, we will keep the great Navy and the great force that we have. Hello, sir. Uh, petty officer 3 class, Evan Kenney, from Slade, Ohio. Continuing on with the topic of budget, I was wondering if you'd be at all in four or supportive of reinstating a gold standard, um, possibly auditing and maybe eliminating Federal Reserve as they are currently diminishing the value of our dollar and the Petra dollar is resulting in us going overseas, more troops, um, Iraq playing for no reason, really. Um, I'll just be real frank with you. We made the decision on that in the 30s. Uh, it's not going to happen. And it should. Thank you, sir. Good afternoon, sir. I'm Wyanty Thomasy from the Unmanned Helicopter Reconnaissance Squadron 1. Um, my current command is actually being disestablished due to lack of funding. And I've been assigned to the LCS community. Upon researching this community, I have found nothing but negative responses to it that it doesn't appear to be capable of fulfilling its mission that it was made for. And my question to you is, is this new platform going to be able to accomplish this mission or are we pumping funds into a failing program? Um, the LCS, tutorial combat ship, uh, program started in 2002. First two ships were built were experimental ships. Uh, they were built with research and development dollars, not shipbuilding dollars. Those two ships are out there today. The freedom just got back from a deployment to Singapore. And one of the things you have to expect from a first ship of the class, and we've got two variants. We've got one built in Wisconsin, one built in Mobile, Alabama. Um, is that you're going to have some issues. And it did. Uh, first ships of the class, these two first ships of that class had some issues. Now, we've taken those, and we've taken lessons learned, and we are putting it in the next ships that are being built. And we're building, we're going to have 24 LCSs. We've got that many under contract right now, or in the water right now. They're modular.  As technology changes, you change those weapon systems. You don't have to change the ship. You don't have to pull into a shipyard and spend eight months there changing a weapon system. You pull next up here and you spend a couple of days doing it because it's modular. I think a ship that the LCS is one of the big futures of the Navy. It's a very fast, very shallow draft. It can go places and do things that no other ship than what we've got it can do. And to answer your question directly, yes, it's going to be a fulfilled mission. And there are missions that we don't know about today that LCS is going to meet. Um, you know, it's had its critics. Some in Congress, some in the Navy. Um, but if you look back when we started building DDG-51's the Arleigh Burke class, incredible criticism against that.  Well, that obviously had been the case. When we built the Virginia class submarines, the very first of those, same thing, huge criticism. LCS doesn't look like any other Navy ship. The fields are different. Need and it's built different. Yeah, you're going to have critics. But yes, that ship can do the job and it's going to, I think, show why it's going to be one of the backbones of this fleet. Because yet we're still coming up with concepts of operation. The weapons system is still being developed and but they're already, the weapons system, we've got subsea, anti-submarine, anti-mine and anti-surface. A lot of those weapons systems for LCS are already better than their counterparts that we've got on ships today and they're getting better all the time. We're doing something called spiral development. Everyone is going to move from the one before. We're also crewing those ships differently. The three, two, one, three, three crews for two ships. One training all the time. It allows us to keep ships forward. It allows us to do that present. I think LCS number one is here to stay and number two is going to be a very important part of the Navy in the future and I think that 20 years from now whatever the new ship is in we'll get the same sort of questions about it but not about LCS then. I'm going to do one more and then like I said, if y'all want to I'll come down in front if you want to do. First I got to ask some people to run my lives, my staff, if I can do that. Okay. So one more question. I am information systems technician third class John Booker of the USS Ronald Reagan and with RIMPAC taking place this year I was wondering what are your thoughts on RIMPAC and the effects that it has on naval operations of the international community. I apologize. I'm going to ask you to ask a question again. I was getting some sort of reverberation and I was catching about every second or third word. There you go. Thanks. Plus I'm an old guy. Great question. Y'all probably heard the first time but the effects of RIMPAC and the effects that it takes place and the effects on the international community RIMPAC the largest maritime exercise in the world over two years off the coast of Hawaii. A lot of y'all have participated in. One of the best examples of we've got over 20 countries sending ships or sending people to RIMPAC learning to be interoperable with these folks learning to how other countries operate learning how other countries do things getting to know them I think it's one of the most important things that we do and it's particularly true with our allies that send ships here it's also true we may not be our allies China's coming to this world let them see some of our capabilities and ask them to assume some of the responsibilities that enable power all to have don't be surprised in terms of how people operate so I think exercises like RIMPAC and that's the biggest one but the exercises that take place almost every day all across the globe to allow us to operate with other navies no matter how big we are we can't do it alone and we've got to be interoperable I'm a big fan of things like RIMPAC and oh by the way for those of you who saw the movie Battleship the guy who said RIMPAC


Namaskaram Sadguru, this is Rakul and my question to you is that in today's time we see that the assault against women has really increased the amount of rapes, domestic violence and all of us really feel bad about it. We do want a change to come in. Every day when we read in the newspapers we do feel very bad about it but what in your opinion can be done to bring this change? We all know stricter punishments is the way out but somehow that isn't happening. So what do you think can be done to bring a stop, to put a stop to this violence against women and make India a safer place for all of us? Namaskaram Rakul. Yes, women's safety and the levels of exploitation is definitely of a serious concern, a very grave concern indeed. Particularly in India but actually everywhere in the world. If we have to refer to India, while you said stricter punishment is the way out, well I don't think stricter punishment is the way out.  So many fundamental issues in this society we have not addressed. The most important thing is education, general evolution in the society of accepting of female as a part of everything around us. This is a society which is moving in from a generation of women who were largely homebound to a generation of women who are moving out on the street to do almost everything that generally a man does or used to do in the past. So there needs to be a certain evolution in everybody's minds that this is a normal thing. People are not used to close proximity. So many things are happening. Enforcement of course is important but enforcement always comes after the assault has happened. Yes that is important but that is not the key. The fundamental thing is right now there's a whole lot of young youth, male youth particularly who are moving from villages to city for the first time. And we have not addressed the fundamental human sexuality, we are not even willing to debate about it between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five when the impact of hormonal influence on a human being is at its peak. There is no solutions. We have modalities which were fine in olden times but we are in a time where generally an organized settlement to these issues in the form of marriage comes after twenty-five largely. It used to be settled at the age of sixteen or seventeen, now it's coming after twenty-five and there is no solution as such and it is time we as a nation, we as a society debate this. How are we going to address this? How are we going to help people to address this in a civilized manner? It's something that we have to come to terms with. Just law enforcement is not going to solve this. Education, evolution of the society and enforcement together is a solution but it is important all of you who have some influence and certain amount of following particularly those of you in the film world, all of you should address this openly so that it becomes part of natural conversation in the society that there is something called as human sexuality which needs to be addressed. Not everybody is going to become an ascetic and transcend their needs. Most human beings have to address it in a different way. How will a society facilitate this possibility is something we have to look at. If we want this kind of assaults to go down, if we want women to be safe in our society, this is very important that we address a few fundamentals.


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Whoa, the rookie getting the start Hello goga, suggs, vogner, and it's black. I think it's because they want coal come off the bench Nice nicklis I don't know if that I don't know if that's good or bad No idea Nicholas is our Sports reporter Sports reporter. It's giving us all the updates. I love it. So you must know that the magic are gonna win the night Yeah, give us some updates on the magic numbered cards. You got drew jones edwin solano michael harris the second raymond demola Jackson choreo alexa merez havia revoss twice on the blue refractor yasa mercedes Fletcher on the orange autos of kenny gomez johnny perron vinten perrozo junior maren oh marie daniel clark elliott louise guanipa Lamar king jr. 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Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of here's the news. We got some great stuff for you It's going to be some capcom e3 news Some other stuff about how Nintendo pulled a switch update and more So for our first storm to reference my phone here We got a couple times to the reference my phone because we have some interesting stuff happening including something with Sega That's very weird, but let's first get into the capcom showcase, right? So the capcom showcase happens at 4 30 p.m. Central time on June 14th We'll be live streaming that and reacting to it But I kept going ahead and announce what they're showing they have a half hour show and they're going to have ace attorney Chronicles or I'm sorry the great ace attorney Chronicles Monster Hunter stories to monster hunter rise and resident evil village I feel like that might be all they have in this half hour showcase although there could definitely be some surprises So this is something obviously we need to pay attention to and see what the heck capcom is doing again They have one of the shorter showcases although There's actually another one like Eureka studio that only has a five-minute thing feel like it's just a trailer for one game or something I have no idea so it is just something to keep in mind that capcom's obviously gonna be 83 and they're letting this know I kind of like when companies let us know what to expect and what not to expect I kind of like with Ubisoft if you didn't know Ubisoft is a preview event where you can expect updates on currently games that are out there So a lot of their you know for honors and stuff like that will probably get some news there And then maybe even like you know rainbow six seeds or something But then obviously Ubisoft said their new stuff is gonna happen their actual forward So Ubisoft almost has a two-hour event because of the pre-show and in the real show. It's kind of weird I don't know why they call it a pre-show and they'll just have it all be one show But it is what it is and it's what's really weird about that. They have Ubisoft which is Saturday So we Saturday is a we have a pre-show to E3's pre-show. That's a pre-show to Ubisoft pre-show So we have a pre-show to the pre-show to the pre-show Yeah, that's something that we just realized yesterday on the podcast All right, speaking of Sega earlier our next story comes with Sega because they sent out some strange emails to some fans And all that and I actually got the access to this email. Thanks to Sonic Man the best one of our mods and followers on Nintendo Prime in fact, he's also a fellow youtuber I'll put a link down in his description a link down to his channel into the Description but I'm gonna read with Sega sent him because I find this to be really strange And now it's been independently verified by a number of people confirms is real This isn't spam is coming from Sega Here's what the email says you're invited to a one-on-one interview at Sega We want to make sure your voice is heard So we'd like to invite you to participate in a one-on-one virtual Interview to share your ideas and opinions about video games in return. You'll receive a Sega shop voucher Or an Amazon gift card worth $20 Interviews will be held at 2 p.m. Pacific time via Microsoft Teams and will last around 60 minutes Your feedback will help us make better products and experience for all of our fans and then RSVP link Then it says interested in RSVP Player engagement at Sega America comm with your preferred days of the week if you're selected will follow up with additional details and include a Mediate link spaces are limited and blah blah blah So what's interesting about this of course is that obviously Sega is paying people to give Interviews to get feedback. I I find this fascinating because I don't know why you need to Pay people for feedback. I think that's what really confuses me in this Why would you need to get feedback in this way? It doesn't make any sense to me fans will give feedback for free Nintendo does these polls all the time and they ask for feedback from their fans all the time they have Nintendo accounts I don't really understand what Sega feels like we need to pay you and we need to do this In this team meeting thing over Microsoft teams, you know, it doesn't really matter if they use teams or zoom or any other app Discord even it's confusing to me that they're like hey if you're selected We're gonna give you a $20 game voucher or Amazon gift card for spending time with us on one hand That's neat on the other hand. Can you get honest feedback if you're paying the people? Who are giving you that feedback? That is something that's always interesting and it's always one of the conundrums in the video game industry when you have Companies that might advertise on a YouTube channel or advertise on a website That's also doing a review of the game people always wonder is there some tainting there and while they're reaching out the fans here And you know, why would fans be tainted in their feedback? Well, if a company's offering you compensation even small Compensation it might lead to you being more willing to be give Favorable opinions when they're supposedly looking for critical feedback. I I don't really know Maybe has to do with the sonic presents thing up here, which I know this guy It's you right now Roger Craig's with this a little bit blown out because the cameras focused on me And not the light from the TV so but yeah, I don't know I find this whole fat thing to be absolutely enthralling and fascinating that this is what Sega is doing But hey, you know what at least they're looking for feedback, which is better than many other companies So interestingly enough, I got this story from gaming leaks and rumor read it where they thought this dock and these designs in the Background were actually brand new and referencing Breath of the Wild 2. That's actually not the case It comes from a puzzle design that's publicly available and can be purchased right now Well, what's interesting here is that this is a new officially licensed Zelda charging stand for Joy-Cons Obviously have skins on them or something because that Zelda design on those Joy-Cons has never existed and at least as far as I can Remember and there's tons of skins for Joy-Cons and switching all that especially from companies like Hori Now Hori isn't officially licensed partner with Nintendo and these are really cool because it could charge up to four Joy-Cons And it plugs right into your switch dock. I find that to be really nice We're giving away a charging thing dearly through like we got this one right here This is a Ford and center switch four and one mini charging dock This is one we're giving away, but this isn't an officially licensed one from Nintendo. So This one's really neat. It has Zelda on it. That really excites me right now. It's coming to Japan only I would be shocked if it did not come to the United States I wonder if it's part of the 35th anniversary of Zelda that they're just you know slowly maybe getting into this year. We hope I hope they do something with it So yeah, hopefully that's what this is and this does eventually come to the United States I think it's really neat I think it's something I'd be interested just to have laying around as I kind of cool little Dock charging situation besides using obviously the rails on your switch Which is the most common way to charge Joy-Cons. So I don't know you guys let me know What you think about this if you're interested in it is four thousand three hundred eighty yen Obviously, you can't buy it in the US. We'll have to see what it costs if it ever Now our last story for the day has to do with the update we talked about yesterday with twelve point zero point three Which was supposed to fix some errors with Nintendo switch online connectivity that were coming up Well, Nintendo apparently failed to launch it because it actually removed it before bringing it back today What happened is people who updated to it early were seeing their connections completely dropped and blocked and tired of that You couldn't even access the e-shop. It was kind of nuts Nintendo's never released an update like this that broke people switches So fundamentally when it's trying to actually fix a problem with connectivity now It's been obviously fixed and re-released and I have it downloaded and everything's working just fine I actually just downloaded a game this morning. So everything's cool, but it's one of those situations where man Nintendo You really made a big oopsies So yeah, at least it's fixed now and we can kind of move on So I want to thank all you guys for tuning in I am the tender up a chance from Nintendo Prime Hopefully you enjoy this shorter episode of here's the news. It's been kind of Today I've had it's been a very interesting morning in my household. So I hope that I'll catch you guys later today I'm hoping to get another video out, but we'll kind of see where the day takes me. Alright, folks I'm then a RoboJazz from Nintendo Prime, and I'll catch you all in the next video


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There are a lot of issues going on in America right now, but this one, interestingly enough, is rising to the top of people's minds. Welcome, everybody, to the hot pop boys. David and Andrew here. We're talking about a topic that people ask us to talk about. We don't usually talk about it on our channel. Transgender issues. They are trending right now because, as you may have heard, Leah Thomas, a transgender swimmer from UPenn, was on the men's team first, and then transition and now is winning races as a woman. Also, Kintajin Brown Jackson, Supreme Court Justice nominee, said she cannot define the difference between men and women because she is not a biologist. And if you guys are enjoying our hot pop boys series, please hit that like button. Hit subscribe. Let's go. We're going to be addressing Leah Thomas, and I think we're going to be addressing it on a micro, mid, and macro level. First, the micro. Let me just tell you this. I do not have a lot of Asian friends that actually had strong opinions or posted about the Leah Thomas controversy. But who's posting about it? A lot of white people and a lot of black people. And particularly, I feel like a lot of guys are weighing in. Now that might be because this is a sports issue and men love sports. Right? I think particularly, jocular or athletic guys that, you know, really value that world. Asians, Andrew, obviously we have talked before. They tend to care about what? Economics, academics, crime, you know, not really within our sphere of like thinking. But I did notice that maybe it's because white and black people are the mostly composing the athletes in D one or pro sports. Same with Kentaji Jackson. That was like maybe even bigger. I want to say in the African American black community than it was in the white community. And Leah Thomas was bigger in the white community because most members are white. Yeah. And honestly, a lot of Asians, they're not voicing their opinions in my opinion, because one, I think Asians only have like a certain amount of political energy that they put forth to things. I will say this, that I noticed that a lot of black people commentating on this issue always bring up LeBron playing in the WNBA. Yeah. Well, that's actually a Dave Chappelle joke, but I just noticed that I see that trope a lot. Yes. They're using as example as if LeBron were to transition into being a woman and wanted to play in the WNBA. Would they stop him from playing because he would probably drop? Well, Dave Chappelle said 450 points a game. But realistically, I think because of the defenses, they would start to double team. He'd only average like 75, but plus like 30 assists. Right, right, right. So now we've gotten through who does seem to really have this top of mind, who doesn't? Let's get to the mid. I think the mid picture is how do we get past all this, like digging our heels in the sand and like beefing with each other, like this clash thing? And how do we just like come together to figure out a solution? Well, because I think the solutions talk has to start because we're not going back in time. This is where this generation is at. This is the future now. Yes, identity politics or identity talk, whatever you want to call it. It is what it is. Asian identities, LGBTQ, a huge identities like this is here. So you're not going to turn back the clocks of time, but a lot of people are like, Oh, we should keep men and women separate. I'm not saying that there's not like a point to that argument. There's a lot of valid arguments, a lot of valid arguments, but I'm saying you got to start thinking solutions because there is only going to be more and more transgender athletes. So that's it. By the way, guys, I support Leah Thomas. I support her identities to represent herself, however she wants. People should call her whatever she wants. And I actually think that she should be allowed to compete as a woman. I will say this. I do think it could make sense in division one sports that whatever you enter as, whatever you got your scholarship as, I think that you should have to compete as a male if you declared as a male. Okay, that makes sense. And if you declared as a female, compete as a female. Guys, let us know in the comments down below if you like David's solution. I think you really have to look at do transgender women athletes potentially take opportunities away from women, women, or I guess is women, right? And I think if it gets to a point where maybe all the top 20 athletes, women athletes are transgender women that were formerly men, born as men, then maybe that's something that you'd have to be like, yo, I don't know. Do we give them their own race or give them their own league? This is kind of like taking opportunities away from women. You're saying if Yukon women's basketball team is like all Juwanna man. This is not going, this is what people are extrapolating. I don't know if this is what happened, but if you took like five like top male prospects of basketball and they were like, hey guys, we feel like women and legitimately they do and then they become women and then they all play and then they just dominate, dominate. Is that like, should you do something about that? Should you step in an intervene and be like, hold up. This is not right. So, so I do think that visual aesthetics play into it because when you looked at Leah Thomas on that, like the top four finishes, she did look like obviously like way larger. Yeah. So she looked way larger, but it is important to note that her testosterone levels were below what they're supposed to be regulations just like in the Olympics on testosterone level. So the question is, is testosterone level the only thing you're judging on? Anyways, another possible option is you have women athletes vote on this. I don't know. They're the ones that going to be affected by it. I'm not affected by this. I'm not a female athlete nor am I a female.  So let female athletes vote on it, I guess, and then you can revisit the vote after 10 years. Right. Andrew, this brings us to our final macro takeaway from all this talk, whether we're talking about Kintaji Brown Jackson or even some people are even drawing some comparisons to Ukraine right now where obviously if you are a transgender, you are being turned back at the border by the military to go back and fight for Ukraine because on your passport it says you're a man. Right. Which means you're able-bodied, they'll get my hand you an AK or whatever. It's a tough situation, honestly. Yeah. Very, very, very complicated and obviously just a terrible situation all around. We just have to understand the moment we're in in history. People have to study history and they have to study where societies are at. America has achieved a lot economically. A lot of people have a lot of things like Andrew, I see people who are like, I don't want to compare it to other countries, but like even a poor person in America can't have an iPhone. You know what I mean? Like we kind of like reach this level where society can talk about these type of issues that are more higher on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Okay. And obviously there's other places you see Ukraine, they're not there. I mean, there's a lot of other parts of the world where on identity issues, they're like 30, 40, 50, 60 years behind potentially. It's a little bit like 1850s France in Paris. They would love romanticism. There was so many different art movements.  Like look at how different the two societies like where they were at in their stages of development. You're saying that a lot of Americans don't want to acknowledge that America actually has a lot of other huge issues that are potentially symbolic of America crumbling, but they don't want to think about it and they want to focus on women's sports because it's sports. It's an easy topic to attack. Yeah. But here's the thing Andrew, that's literally being the pattern in a lot of societies. Man. That's why I said the Roman Coliseum. Let us know what you guys think in the comments section below. What do you guys think about the current culture war over trans issues in America right now?  We're just here to spark discussion, show you how we're thinking about it. And yo, shout out to our non Asian friend for pushing us to make this video. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching hot pop boys and until next time we out. Peace.


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