It's the end of the day, so I appreciate y'all being here. Even my peeps in the front, yay. So as I said, my name's Dara Dotz. I want to tell you a little bit about my journey in tech and trying to save the world, right? So a little bit about myself. I'm an industrial designer. I've lived and worked in over 37 countries. I primarily focus on working with communities in need. And I like to use technology to benefit the other 90% of humanity. In fact, I like to say that I use Moore's Law's table scraps to aid those at the edges from disaster survivors to astronauts. Speaking of space, why the heck aren't we an interplanetary species yet? It's 2018. I thought we'd be running around in hamster balls, having flying cars. You know, what's going on? What's preventing us from living in space? Well, there's a lot of reasons, of course. First space is trying to kill us. So we actually have to create a really safe environment for us to be in. And it actually means that we can't really take everything with us. So it's incredibly expensive to take things to space. It takes a year, two, three, to set up a mission. It also is incredibly dangerous.  And so with that, I think I was trying to do the numbers. And I believe the last time I checked, it's around 40,000 euros per kilo to get things up to space. So that means that we can't bring it all with us, right? So we have to start building things from there in situ with the materials we find. So I actually worked at a startup called Made in Space. I'll give you guys a guess as to what we did. Anybody? No? We made things in space. So what we did is we tried to work on actually creating a gravity-independent 3D printer. So it worked in zero Gs, right? So what we did is we actually had a 3D printer and we did over 400 flight parabolas. And after that, we had a lot of very expensive, horrible, plastic-tasting spaghetti. But we had actually achieved printing in zero G. And as a startup, there's not many startups that can say we actually launched on a rocket. So this is SpaceX 4 Falcon 9. And it was a pretty exciting day for us. And we actually, it did dock with the ISS. The rockets before actually blew up the entire rocket so we were concerned. So there is always still that risk. And here it is. This is our printer that we put in the science glove box, as they lovingly call it, on the ISS. And the reason it's in this box is because we have to make sure the astronauts are safe. We have to make sure that nothing can go wrong. When you use a 3D printer here on Earth, you can open a window to let fresh air in for the off gassing on the space station. You can't do that. You could, but it would be the only time that you open a window. So this is Mission Commander Butch and Samantha Christopher Reddy from ESA. They're pretty excited about the printer, as you can tell. We actually sent up all the files with the printer because we wanted to make it easier for the astronauts to use. And it turns out that they actually wanted to play with it themselves. So Samantha spent all of her free time learning how to use our printer. We had one more file that we were actually going to test and send from Earth to the space station so that we could preemptively create a plan if there was ever another disaster, like Apollo 13. And what we heard on the radio is that Butch actually said he wanted to test our samples. So what we did is we scratched our file and we custom made him a ratchet, emailed it to space, fastest ever delivery. And it cost virtually nothing, because we already had the systems there. So it's pretty awesome that we could do these kind of solutions for people in space. But what about here on Earth? Don't we have issues where we need crazy engineers and solutions? So does anyone remember Haiti or the earthquake? Not too many people. So that's kind of the point, right? Once a disaster happens and it's no longer on the headlines, we kind of forget that they exist and what's going on. And so I went down to Haiti to see what phase three of a disaster was like, two years after the quake. And this is the kind of stuff I saw. It was as if the earthquake had just happened. And it had an eerie similarity to space. It was incredibly time consuming, incredibly expensive, and very dangerous to get the supplies that you need. This is my friend, Nurse Maeve. She's one of my personal heroes. She was actually delivering a baby one night while I was there. And what happened is she didn't have any supplies left, because nobody was donating. So she had to tie up the umbilical cord of the infant. And so she needed something sterile. So all she had left were her last pair of latex gloves. So she actually cut the fingers off of her gloves to tie up the infant, which is a great fix when you think about it. The only challenge is that she didn't know she was going to have to deliver four more babies that night to potentially HIV positive women barehanded. When I heard this story, I thought was enough was enough. I got really angry, actually. And I realized that those umbilical cord clamps were just simple plastic parts. And it occurred to me, I bet you we could 3D print those. So the next time I had power on internet, I got online and I asked social media if anyone had a 3D printer. And lo and behold, I wound up learning how to 3D print in a shipping container in Haiti, hiding from hemorrhagic dengue and malaria. So it was pretty cool that we got to make parts for Maeve. So now we have clamps in Haiti, yay. But what does that mean? Because there's a lot more nurses than just Maeve, right? She's not the only one in this situation. And if you actually want to scale and teach people, what about teaching locals to provide their own solutions? So this is Johnson and I teaching him how to CAD. He's from Sitte Soleil, which is the Slum Porter Prince. And teaching him how to CAD and make medical devices. And here's some of the parts we're doing to get more people in oxygen. And this is actually my favorite photo from all the work that we've been doing. This is Johnson teaching other Haitians how to make their own supplies. And I think that's really powerful. It's not about treating people like victims, it's about treating them like creators. And the most important way to scale, as we all know here, is to have a kick-ass team, right? So as all startups grow, we want to spread out. You got to have people you can have fun with, especially if you work in war zones and crisis zones. You got to be able to laugh and have fun together. So our first big project as an NGO was actually responded to the Nepal earthquake. As you can see here, this is up by the Langtang region and the roads are completely knocked out. Nobody could get supplies. I was on the ground within 37 hours. Other planes couldn't bring supplies in because they were out of gas. So the planes could come in, but they couldn't leave. So these are kind of situations you deal with in crisis zones. So we, as a nonprofit, our goal is to really empower people in these communities, right? So what we do when we go to these communities in crisis is we identify the problems with them collaboratively. We never assume that we know what they're going to need. We actually ask the survivors what they need so we make sure it's actually something they're going to use, concept. And then we co-design with them to get their input so there's a sense of agency and ownership of that solution. And then we manufacture those solutions, primarily actually trying to use what's locally sourced. And then what we do is we leave the equipment and knowledge behind so that when we return home, they can continue forward and keep on solving their own problems. So essentially what we do is we really focus on getting people what they need, where they need it and when they need it. And I don't think you can get a much more perfect example of direct to consumer, right? So we drive up there, we ask them what they need, we create it and build it right there. So that's what we've been up to ever since. And this is an example of a, this is a baby incubator that was in a hospital in Kathmandu that was being unused. This is the corner of it. You wouldn't want to have an infant up against this raw metal, right? So we found the old part, we added a new fix, turned out stronger and better. And we were able to get this $100,000 machine originally back online again for 50 cents worth of plastic. This is a water pipe fitting. We were requested, it sounds kind of funny. Most people can walk to the hardware store to get a pipe fitting. In this case, this was up in the Himalayas. So the snowmelt was really critical for Nepal because so much of the water is contaminated. And so what they needed is a pipe fitting. And for a normal person to get a pipe fitting, they'd have to walk all the way down. It could take anywhere from three to four days to get to a village where they could buy the right pipe fitting. That's if they buy the right pipe fitting when they get back. So it just wasn't feasible. And also, we actually usually train people how to use the 3D printer and the CAD. And the idea of training someone 80 hours to make a simple part seem kind of unrealistic, especially if they live in a tent, right? So we're kind of challenged with, how do we remove the friction? So what we did is we partnered with the university in the UK and made an app. Yay. OK, so this is the first app we've ever made. So I was pretty stoked on it. And so what it is, it's make my pipe. So you don't actually have to spend 80 hours whittling away on solid works or whatever or fusion. You can actually, it's like a generative design software, right? You just put the two measurements in, out pops the 3D model, and then hit Print. Voila, pipe connectors. So it's been really interesting to see how you can take things from the extreme to apply it here. I'm sure you guys can see how this would be very handy here if you have your plumber at your house and you need a custom part. Instead of waiting a week, he can actually make it in his van. So it's kind of fun to think about, right? And then our team lead in Nepal, our designer, Rahm is, I'm going to let him tell you guys about an entrepreneur that he worked with. Local innovator, Mr. Casey had an idea of improved cookie stroke burner, but he couldn't make it because of the level of complexity in his design. So Mr. Casey was planning to go to India to find a CNC machine to make his new design into a prototype because no local run pattern maker were able to turn his product into a prototype. So when he found Filderly with 3D printer in Nepal, then he came to us and shared his design idea. And then we were able to turn his idea into prototype in less than a week. This new cookie stroke burner has a better biomass efficiency. So it consumes less firewood and is good for environment. And also, it produces very less smoke. So it's good for users' health. So what was neat about this is that the product was made by a local entrepreneur. It wasn't a whole new system of how to burn less wood. It wasn't something we had to ship the culture. It already fit within the product. There was no adaptation phase, right? So it was immediately adopted. And what's great about this is it was new technology to make the mold, but traditional casting technology to make the parts. So it was still just augmenting what was already there and not taking away other jobs. And the best part is actually he got a contract for 210,000 of these stove top runners. Which means that in the next, should be in the next 10 or 12 months, 1.2 million people will be positively impacted by this little project. So it's fascinating how you can impact people by just giving them the strength to help themselves, right? And this is another disaster. Yay, crisis. So this is a Hurricanes about a year ago. Hurricane Maria and Irma. This was the devastation that we saw. And I found this particular photo interesting because it's a solar farm and you can see how it's completely decimated on one side with mango metal and another part, it looks like nothing happened. So you never know how the destruction is gonna be tearing places apart. So we got there about a week after the Hurricanes had left. It took that long to get in there to help. And what we found was that there was challenges with power. People couldn't actually charge their phones to even call the mainland to ask for help. So what we found was tons of garbage and broken solar panels. And we were thinking, what if we can repurpose these solar panels or get some little bit of life out of them to get them working again? So what we did is hack, test, rinse, repeat, right? I don't know if any of you guys are hackers, but it was a lot of testing, a lot of prototyping and a couple of broken batteries and other things, but it was a lot of fun, right? So you're in a mess and you gotta get something done and you're on a time crunch, right? So we actually wound up figuring out how to get them working again. We used garbage bags, duct tape, and chewing them. Not even kidding you, like best prototype ever. But once we figured out a safe way to do this and to teach others, we actually had a system and we taught our local partners on the ground there how to reproduce it. So this is my brother's workshop and they actually teach at-risk youth job and construction skills. So now these kids are spreading the information around the island. This is the first Wi-Fi station, completely powered off of garbage. On the island it was a safe area with lights and a way to charge phones. And the really cool part about this is that now these kids know how to make their own solar charging station. So unfortunately there are gonna be more hurricanes. This is not the last they're ever gonna see, but now they can actually help themselves before FEMA and the like even touch ground. And I think that's really the piece about resiliency that I love. This is another happy area that I work in. Our team, has anyone here heard of the white helmets? Few of you, awesome. Oh wow, okay cool, people actually know. So the white helmets are real life superheroes. They are the Syrian civil defense. So when the regime goes in and drops bombs, they actually chase the cars so they can be the first ones there to pull people from the collapsed buildings. We were contacted by one of their partners. They needed more search and rescue tools and they were wondering if we could help them. And so what we discovered is we needed a way to lift buildings off of people, right? And we heard that only three inches is sometimes all you need to save a life. So we had to figure out, because it's in Syria, we couldn't cross the border, we couldn't count on electricity and we certainly couldn't count on any kind of technology getting over the border. So we had to figure out how to make a solution out of what was locally available.  So how are we gonna do this? Well, we basically wound up making really strong bladders or balloons. And they were awesome and they're excited because you would never know he's in a war zone, right? Because he's actually making a difference. So we made these really strong balloons that could actually lift buildings and it was super cool until it wasn't because it turns out they kept puncturing. So you're like, what are we gonna do? And then we realized in the back of the cars there's actually rubber mats that you can take, right? Because they're strong, they're resilient and we sewed them over the bladders and it actually prevented them from puncturing. So here's the system. And we were able to make this system for $50 in spare parts. And do you guys wanna see this in action? So here's the testing. So as you see it lift, these can actually lift nine tons. That's about nine or 10 cars. And it's all out of garbage. And the best part about this is that now, this is Usama, he's our team leader in Syria, has made over a hundred of these kits and distributed them around Syria to help the Syrian self-defense. And the really cool part that I love is that this is like lessons we've learned from a war zone, right? But where else can we use things to lift buildings? Earthquakes, right? Other disasters, things like that. So now Usama and his team are actually teaching our Nepali team how to make these airbag lifters to help them apolly government for the next time there's a big earthquake. And our hope is to take this around the world in the next year and teach more people how to save lives. So these are the areas we've been working with other crazy projects. If you guys are as excited about this as I am or wanna learn more, please reach out. And I'd love to hear from you. Thank you so much.


our next guest, and we appreciate you, Zach Kiefer, who covers all things Colts for the Athletic busy, busy month for you. We've got BJ O'Doulari, who don't, if you think BJ that I didn't see you, stride for stride, step for step, chasing down Anthony Richardson, who broke a combine record, the fastest edge rusher alive, next. We're into April baby, that means it's time for these college studs to take the next step and level up to the NFL. We're gonna introduce you to some of these guys and I could not be more excited to welcome our next guest. He is an LSU alum, one of the top ranked past rushers in this year's NFL draft.  He was named first team, all SEC. Please welcome LSU defensive end BJ O'Doulari. Hey, how you doing? I'm great, not as good as you though. What are your days like right now leading up to this draft? Is it stressful? Are you trying to keep it calm? Yeah, I'm trying to keep it calm. You know, meetings gonna have some top 30 visits coming up pretty soon. And just, you know, trying to stay in shape getting ready for rookie mini-camp. I love that, but you still have time to somehow watch and cheer on your Tigers because big night last night, congrats to the LSU women's basketball team. They win their first national championship. You were tweeting about it.   All the stigmas, you know, early on. But I think they did a great job. They went to the tournament with a chip on their shoulder and they definitely prevailed. So it's a great win for LSU, you know, great head coach and Kim Mulkey. And, you know, we're just excited down here in Bad Roots just to celebrate them. Hey, now we all love it. We're wishing them luck. We've got the rest of the final four. The men are up tonight between SDSU and Yukon will see how that plays out.  You had your pro day at LSU. I know that you've been dealing with a bit of a hamstring injury. You've been very open and candid about it. Tell everyone how you were feeling and how you feel you performed last week. Yeah, I wasn't feeling a hundred percent, but I just didn't want to go out there, shoulder scouts that I'm still explosive and, you know, that I wanted to be out there. You know, I tried to do some drills, tried to do the L drill. Didn't feel the best. So, you know, I just cut a shirt right there. But I think my tape speaks for itself, that my explosive ability and play making ability as well. Now, before last season, you made a switch in your jersey number, which I have to ask you about. What is the significance of number 18? What did it mean to you that you were awarded that number? Yeah, being number 18, it really means a lot to me. It means the world to me really and my legacy.  So being number 18 is just a testament to the player's character, how they carry themselves on and off the field and just the way that they handle their academics and everything they do on a leadership standpoint. So it was definitely a great opportunity to wear number 18 and represent the state of Louisiana and all the number 18s that came before me. It's so well said and congratulations on that we cannot wait to have you in the NFL unless you're, of course, a quarterback in the NFL and then, oops, it sucks to be you. Listen, we have a friend over at PFF. They do all the analytics, all the numbers, his name's Mike Renner and he runs things over there and a lot of GMs, a lot of scouting programs, look at this stuff. He claims that you have the deepest bag of pass rush moves in this draft. How deep is that bag? I think the bag is real deep, you know, just being able to learn from the best, playing with the best going, gets the best in the SEC. So the bag is real deep. I have a lot of moves for different type of tackles and, you know, that's what it is. It's just a mind game on that field, a game within the game. Now we had, I had Dwight Frenion, he's probably going to the Hall of Fame. We had him on the show a couple of weeks ago. You know, he's got that spin move, that is his patented stuff. What is your patented move? Oh, I'll say, I'll set my ghost rush up with a long guard. So I'm going to hit that long guard with you and then when I feel like it's time to use it, I'm going to kick it out there. Show me a little bit, teach me. So once I'm going, I'm going to stab you, and keep stabbing you for a couple of rushes.  Oh, sorry, corner books. And listen, I know Bryce Young, I know Anthony Richardson, they've gotten that smoke, so we'll get to that in a minute.  Yeah, you know, I like to show my versatility. Coach House does a great job mixing it up, putting this in a best position to win our one on matchup. So I definitely like sliding inside, creating something new inside and using my speed against one of her heavier guard or slower guard. I'm just not sure there's anything that you can't do upfront, and I think it's important to say that.   Yeah, I just want to everybody know that my playmaking ability, of course, everyone knows I can pass us, but I can definitely create plays behind the line of scrimmage, get TFLs in the run, and you know, you know, just set us up, you know, four third down and long. So I just want everybody to know that I can also play the run, sit hard, strong edges and get after it. Now you led the entire SEC, that is not easy. You led the entire SEC and quarterback hits last season. You faced three of the top quarterbacks in this year's NFL draft, my friend, Bryce Young, Anthony Richardson and Will Leviss. And you've hit them all. You've got your hands paws all over them. So let's have some fun with this. I'm going to ask you some questions. I want you to tell me the answer is Young, Richardson or Leviss? Who was the most satisfying to get a hit on? To get a hit on, definitely Bryce Young, Heisman winner. So that was definitely going to satisfy. Is it because he's a Heisman winner or why? He's slippery. Yeah, he's slippery. One, he's slippery. He's hard to sack. He's the Heisman winner. And you know, it's just Bryce Young and he plays for Alabama. So that's a little of that. I like that answer. Which of these three are you most excited to play against in the NFL against? Definitely probably Anthony Richardson. I just want to see his athletic ability first. Obviously not against the team I'm on, but I just want to see all the great things that he can do, not just as an athlete, but as a quarterback. Which quarterback would you most like to play with in the NFL? Play with, you know, that can go for all three, really. I think all three are great quarterbacks. They did some amazing things against us. And they're all great and different in their own way. BJ, you would play with Bryce Young? Yeah, I'll play with Bryce Young. I'll just play with Bryce. Who's the quarterback who chirps the most? These quarterbacks in the NFL, always talking. When you get your hands on these guys and you've sacked all of them in your college career, who talks the most? Who talks the most? I want to say, they really don't talk too much. They let their game talk. They're always talking to their offense or something like that. When I remember playing all three of them, they really didn't say a word. So last, we were watching this in our 5.30 AM meeting. I told you this in the commercial. It's a bunch, you know, we're all, I haven't had my coffee yet, I'm whatever. And we roll the highlight of the last play of the half against Florida this year. Anthony Richardson, who just set a combined record for speed at the quarterback position, Mr. 4-4 speed, fastest combine. He, you know, rolls out, it's a Hail Mary situation.  Can you take him if it came down to it in a race? You think it'd be him? Can I take him in a race? Yeah. Would you be Anthony Richardson? I think I can. You know, when you're racing somebody, you've got to hear a different gear, especially when you're chasing somebody.  You have this next level speed. I mean, you closed it on him. You forced him to chuck the ball out of bounds. It was unbelievable. Now, you have a bit of a legacy thing going on here because your brother Aziz, he was a standout linebacker, George Bulldogs. He was drafted by the Giants in 2021. He is an absolute stud.  Yeah, LSU, it really just felt like the place that I needed to be. I took a visit, it felt like home. The way they recruited me, they non-stop, non-stop recruitment. And I just felt like going to LSU was the right decision and I can accomplish all my goals at LSU. And really the culture, the city that I've been introduced to in Barreuse has only been great to me. So, especially being able to wear number 18 and continue my legacy at LSU, I definitely think I made the right decision and the best choice. BJ, was your brother mad? No, he wasn't mad. He wanted me to come to Georgia, but he wasn't mad. He definitely supported me. He was the one who even encouraged me to check everybody out. Look at other schools as well, but even though he still wanted me to play for Georgia. Well, now he's gonna champion you in going to the NFL, where he's a stud, by the way. He set the Giants record for Sacks by a Rookie with eight in 2021, super impressive. And we're big fans of him on the show. What have you been able to learn from your brother about this time right now that you're going through the draft process? Any pointers he's given you? Yeah, he wasn't able to go to the combine because of COVID, but pointers were interviews, just normal to expect, being able to cherish this moment once in a lifetime opportunity as well. And just take as much knowledge as I can from each interview and this whole process going forward. Before I get drafted, it hit the scene, but definitely enjoy the moment.  And then I'm looking at your Twitter this morning and your header is Lawrence Taylor. So, New York Giant Legend. I had told you I had Dwight Freeney on Dwight. Freeney said that he, that's who he would want to give him his speech and induct him into the hall. Are you trying to manifest yourself to the Giants?  I really didn't even think about that.  Do you guys talk about it? Do you think about it? You don't have to play with each other to start your career, look at the McCordies. They spent years and years apart. Then they ended up winning a Super Bowl together. You know, you have the Watts. Do you guys have that in your header?  That's the thing. Not really. Everything but us is competition.  That's, I can't, I can't, I don't really manifest. You know, if it happens, then that's a, you know, change the mindset, but everything that we do is competition. I manifest getting more sacks than him, and I'm pretty sure he manifests trying to be better than me. So, it's all- I like this. I like this, who's better? I'm better. Yeah, I figured you'd say that. Aziz and PJ coming to an NFL rivalry near you. Now, I'm told that I'm speaking to royalty right now. What can you tell us about your famous grandfather who is so impressive? Oh yeah, his name is Twin77. He's a great artist, very known musician. Very just high status man, very respected back in Nigeria as well.  But just being able to come from his bloodline and have his legacy is a big part of our pride.  PJ, his artwork was featured in the National Museum of African American Art at the Smithsonian. That is unbelievable. Tell me this, if there was one play from your career so far that you would frame and put up in the Smithsonian, what play is it? One play, I'll say when I sat, when I made a strip sack for Auburn, during the Auburn game for Scuba Score Touch now, I'll probably put that one in the Smithsonian right there. All right, and we'll leave plenty of room in that hall at the Smithsonian for your NFL plays. BJ O'Julari, we are so happy to know you, to meet you. And good luck, quarterbacks. Like, good luck, just good luck.  All right, I appreciate you guys for having me. I appreciate you too. We'll see you on the Giants, kid. All right, we'll be happy here after the show. We have John Rostin, big game tonight. Who will win the NCAA Tournament? Oh, a fresh cut on Mr. Rostin. I see you.


Hi everyone, yes my name's Margaret but please call me Meg, everybody else does, I think it's only my mum who still calls me Margaret. So I'd like to talk to you today about my experiences with testing for the upgrade process. I'd like to also establish I am not a developer. There's a couple of my development team in the room, I never understand a word they say. So I work for Catalyst, I work for the Australian team and as part of that team I'm an LMS consultant and we've worked, I've worked with universities, charities, government, retail, business pretty much the whole range. We've started in 1997 in New Zealand and have spread since worldwide so if you want to find out about any of our services please come and see us and also if you missed the lifesaver kit yesterday come and grab one we made some more up. Catalyst is a fun team, I really love working with these guys, again the guys in the room today have always answered my questions and I just so prepared to go above and beyond for our clients. We also do have a food obsession, particularly pizza. I'm an ex-high school teacher, I've been working with Moodle for over 10 years now, I think I started with 1.9, I've worked in different industries as well as with partners. I grew up in Newcastle Australia, which is a beach town now living in Sydney and range of different hobbies that I've listed there. The photo here today is of me with my mum. Now there's a reason I've chosen this photo if she finds out I'm in deep trouble. I consider my mother a saint now I know a lot of you will say the same thing but the reason my mother is a saint is quite simple. I'm the ninth of 10 children. She has done an amazing job with us and the reason I'm telling you about this is because as a parent she had to learn that she can't do the same thing with each of her 10 children. We are all very different from each other. She's had to learn to adapt and customize her parenting process. To give you an example, I was daddy's girl growing up. If there was a tree to climb then I was generally up at. I never ever had a Barbie doll. I had absolutely no interest in it. So at four years old my mother takes me to a vaccine clinic not unlike the ones we've seen over the last couple of years and we join the queue for the vaccines one gets at the age of four and the pretty little girl in front of me is crying and crying and my mother knowing my preference looks at me and goes you're gonna do that? Nope. Here's my arm. Still have no problem with needles to this day. So when we're talking about customizing your testing process and as much as Davo and the work he does with automated testing is fantastic we still need that human testing element. And when you go to upgrade the best time to start planning that testing process is at the very start when you are preparing for the upgrade itself. So why do we test? At Catalyst we've come across various issues that come up as a result of the testing process that we find with the testing process. It gets rushed, it gets glossed over, we're tired.  Simple things get missed, we often don't discover issues till after go live, let's be honest, students are the best testers. And consideration is often not given to our customizations and integrations. So when do you start planning? At the start. We can also learn a lot of information for the upgrade process as well when we start looking at how we're going to go about testing. So this means that we can make sure we cover everything and get through that process as best we can. I need to know how my site is used. What plugins do I have? What activities is used? What's not used, etc. So to give you an example, here's a plug-ins overview page. Always look at your plug-ins overview page for those additional plug-ins. Because what you might notice here is the dialogue plug-in. That first four digits of that number tells me this was done in 2017. Alert, alert, it's old. I need to stray the way to go. Hey Pete, down the back. Can you double check that plug-in and see whether we can upgrade it as part of the process? I haven't got to testing yet, but I've learned something that's going to help Peter with his process. The activities use page is another really good one to look at when you're planning that testing. Why? What's used lots, what's not used at all?  I think workshops are a great tool, no one uses it. But maybe I can find out there's a champion for the workshop activity in my organization and they can help other people learn how to use it. You'll also notice something very interesting about the dialogue. It's not being used. So now I can say to Pete, Pete, get rid of the dialogue plug-in please for this upgrade. The other thing is, how is my site being used? It's unusual. This is the permissions page for a single activity, for a single assignment that I helped create with a client who had a very unusual situation where he needed his non-editing teachers to upload documentation into the course space. But students can't access it, students can't see it, etc. So we just played with the permissions so that students have no permission now in that activity and the non-editing teacher gets to submit. It's an unusual usage, need to make sure I test that as well because it's out of normal scope. And of course, the other things to remember, we need to look at our roles. Have we customised a role in any way? Have we created a custom role? What are our integrations? Do we need to go and look at our user tours again? Do our user tours test our user tours? Browser compatibility? Have you checked with Firefox? Have you checked with Chrome? Have you checked with that thing called IE? And also device, tablet, phone, etc. And go and test your new features. I do look at the new features page with all the tracker items. I do have a quick look at it. The bits that make sense to me, I go and read. The rest of them I don't. But also the new features page will give you things, go and have a look at them, go and test. And consider your roles. I actually had a client once who used to hire a student to test the site as a student. Make sure you've looked at all your notes, you've included everything. Develop that checklist to go through, be detailed with it and have more than one person on your team. You cannot be the only person testing. Once you've finished, make sure you give your results a good review, have a look through them, discuss them, get everybody involved with it. What might cause the issues for your users? What are they going to complain about the most? And therefore do my plans for upgrade need to change? Should I have the downtime for that upgrade? Longer, so we've got a lot of time to test. So start planning, review your usage, be aware of your new features, remember your roles, test your integrations carefully, have a detailed checklist, have a team and review your results carefully. Thank you very much.


To be a real housewife featured on one of the popular Bravo series, you must be beautiful, wealthy, and live in a luxury mansion. However, being an actual wife isn't one of the requirements, which was the case with Cherie Whitfield. The former cast member of the Real Housewives of Atlanta is a successful single mom, and she also owns a gorgeous mansion dubbed Chateau Cherie. She purchased the large lot about a decade ago, and in 2013, her amazing 10,000 sq. foot mansion was built where she still resides. Today, we'll be taking a look at this place as well as her former home we even found the listings. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses, and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Cherie Whitfield is best known for being an alumni of the hit reality series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, starring on the show as a single mother of three. Back in 2008, she was handpicked to join the cast, where she helped to quickly brand The Real Housewives of Atlanta as number one on Bravo TV. While she wasn't an actual wife on the show, prior to this, she was married to former NFL player Bob Whitfield, whom she divorced in 2007. Cherie is considered a socialite and resident of Atlanta, who according to her Bravo bio effortlessly manages her packed calendar as a single mother to her three children and always on the go, formerly traveling to different cities for her book tour as she's also an author. While moving on from her painful past in her marriage, she had a mission to help and encourage other women to heal and do the same. Aside from raising her kids, her philanthropic work, and her fitness projects, she also was a clothing and jewelry line called the She by Cherie collection. Online sources estimate Cherie's current net worth at around 800k to 1 million dollars, but often these are wrong, and these ladies have earned themselves a lot more. Considering the value of Chateau Cherie alone, I would definitely question that amount. Hey guys, it's Cherie the Vampire Slayer, and I'm bringing you another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. I've noticed a lot of copycat channels recently, but were the original source for celebrity house tours, so be sure to hit that subscribe button and show your support. We post a new video daily. Today, we're going to take a look at former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cherie Whitfield, who exited the show after season 4 and where she calls home. This includes the famed Chateau Cherie mansion she bought in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and her former abode. If you liked this video, be sure to check out our recent house tours on some of her former co-stars, such as Cynthia Bailey and Kenya Moore, which we'll link to at the end. As usual, don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat, and now let's get into this video. For the Wish Chateau Cherie, you already know there had to be another resident. Back in 2008 post-divorce, the former reality star's marital home, located in Atlanta, Georgia, was listed for sale at about $2.8 million. According to records, Cherie, or Cherie and her ex-husband, Mr. Whitfield, had purchased this mansion in 2000 for about $2.3 million, and it measured in at over 8,900 square feet of space, with six beds, eight full baths, and two half baths throughout. There was additionally a nanny or staff quarters located above the garage and the property spanned almost two acres of land. The front of the home offers a sprawling driveway or motorcourts, and to one side, there's a covered patio with beamed-wood ceiling and classy stone underfoot. For more recent listing photos, it would appear since Cherie moved out all those years ago that the house has been upgraded and renovated with a more modern look. The sprawling English cottage-style mansion has a spacious living room, which formerly had dark stained-wood floors and medieval-style furnishings, but seems to have been lightened up in recent years. In fact, listing materials which claimed the house was last sold in 2017 state there are new reclaimed wood floors, steel windows, and Venetian plaster walls throughout. Not to mention a full renovated kitchen and bathrooms. The combination living and dining room is bright, with high ceilings, fireplace, and walls of windows, while another separate formal dining room is located nearby. There's also an elegant office with another fireplace, and that gorgeous upgraded kitchen has beamed ceilings, a large Eden marble island, and one of those extra fancy fridges with the glass doors. Not to mention there's a sunny breakfast-snook decked out with full walls of windows. And can we talk about that master suite? It's gotta be one of the nicest that I've seen. Not only is it massive, the light wood with the white paint and the nook of windows here all comes together perfectly. Elsewhere in Cherie's former home, there's an entertainment room with projector screen and stone fireplace, as well as features like a wine cellar home gym and games room. The gated grounds had a large rectangular shaped swimming pool, and new limestone outdoor fireplace was added. And if that's not enough, the entire property sits on the lake. Now for the home you've been waiting for, Chateau Cherie. Cherie bought the 1.05 acre lot her dream home was built on back in 2011, and now all her hard work made the mansion worth at least 2.49 million dollars. While her beloved Chateau was said to be finished in 2013, Cherie claims it wasn't completely done until 2017, which is around the time that she unveiled it. Located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, her home is about 20 minutes away from downtown Atlanta. Cherie's home is full of luxurious amenities, and spans a sprawling 10,000 square feet of space with five beds and nine baths. Cherie loves to entertain, and when you first walk in you can see this, as the foyer is expansive with soaring ceilings and a large area to greet guests. There's also a dramatic staircase and overhead, a mother of pearl dome ceiling and sparkling chandelier. There's an open flow from room to room, some spaces only separated by marble pillars, such as the gorgeous living room Cherie calls the gray room. Here there's a modern feel with nearly 30 foot ceilings, fancy arched windows running up the whole wall, and a large double height fireplace too. There's even a look out from the upper floor so you can see what's going on in the gray room, or a look at that amazing chandelier. The attached kitchen is also modern and glamorous, featuring marble countertops, a metallic silver backdrop on her oven and stove, as well as a breakfast nook. There's even a large wine fridge perfect for Cherie to entertain her guests.  There's another sitting room with fireplace, TV and sectionals which is cozier and perfect for a girl's night. Chateau Cherie's basement has been a popular spot with the Atlanta house wives in the past, and guests often gather here. There's a full bar with a nightclub vibe, and when you walk down the steps, you first enter a games room with navy walls and tan furnishings, as well as a pool table and round table for playing cards. There's also a sitting room or VIP room with circular gray couch surrounding the whole room, and a TV as well as a fireplace with crystal logs which I would say is pretty unique. The ultra sleek lounge in the basement is definitely one of the coolest spots in Cherie's mansion, and elsewhere there's a theater with large sofas and a snack bar. Finally, Cherie even has her own spa down here with a sauna, hair wash and styling station as well as two massage chairs. Honestly, the features of Chateau Cherie are pretty much endless. Even outdoors, there are balconies overlooking the grounds from almost every space in the house, and the patio has a stone gas fire pit and fluffy cream colored couches. By the looks of Cherie's Instagram, she also has a pool outside. Alright, so I think that brings us to the end of our Cherie Whitfield house store. After checking out the former Real Housewives of Atlanta Stars properties, what did you guys think? Not only did we check out her famed Chateau Cherie, or her dream home she boasts from the ground up, we also saw her former Atlanta area residence that has changed a bunch since she last lived there. What were your favorite features of Cherie's mansion? Be sure to let me know down in the comments. I've also been reading all your comments on our house tours and I'm going to be shouting some of you guys out. These are from our recent Cynthia Bailey house tour. NOPA Eradigators said, This house is very much a reflection of Cynthia. Modern, peaceful, simple, and no fuss. I agree, and I love the peaceful lake house vibe in this setting is just amazing. And Jessica Garrett Rowe. Hi Kara, I love Cynthia Bailey's house tour, it's so beautiful and nice and big. I love the hallway, the living room and the dining area, and the large lake. You have a wonderful night Kara, and love the video. Thank you Jessica. If you guys want me to show you out next time, don't forget to leave me a comment about Chateau Cherie, and keep your eye out in the next video. Thanks for watching, don't forget to follow me on Instagram, and I will see you all next time. Bye!


Live from the Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering HP Discover 2015, brought to you by HP. And now your host, Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, we're back, this is Dave Vellante. Dennis Dean is here with Jeff Chuck, and Dennis is the Vice President and the AGM of the Alcatel-Lucent relationship at HP, and Jeff is the Vice President of the Global HP Alliance at Alcatel-Lucent. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Dennis, let me start with you. So what's going on between HP and Alcatel? Could you just describe the relationship? Absolutely, so it's a multi-relationship. Basically, HP has three rich markets with Alcatel-Lucent. We are their preferred partner in terms of providing their IT services for them, which we do through our Enterprise Services Division. We also have a very strong technology partnership in terms of supplying them IT infrastructure platforms as Alcatel-Lucent sell out towards their end telco customer base. And we also have a pretty interesting joint-go-to-market relationship. Yes, the joint-go-to-market is something that we've really been focusing a lot lately, and we've worked to get Alcatel-Lucent products embedded into HP's portfolio. So HP OEM, some of our technology, and calls it distributed cloud networking. They also have just at Discover launched taking our high-end routers into their networking portfolio, as well as some of our optical products so that they can do data replication with HP storage. So you primarily sell to telcos, right? Primarily that's where Alcatel-Lucent's heritage has been, is telco-focused, and that's one of the real strengths of our relationship with HP, is HP obviously has the tremendous heritage in the enterprise marketplace, and that's an area that Alcatel-Lucent wants to break into now, and so it's a natural fit for our two companies to really work together. And then is there another path as well for HP into telcos with things like NFV or? Absolutely, so you hit them now on the head. Now we see an emergency in the industry of a couple of sort of new megatrends. We have software-defined networking, we see cloud, of course, you know, NFV. And what's actually happening is this real convergence between the traditional enterprise IT worlds and the traditional telco worlds. I think what we're seeing is that the telcos are getting more familiarized and they can see the value of enterprise IT infrastructure, x86 platforms and so forth. And at the same time, as HP becomes more relevant in these telco sectors, Alcatel-Lucent also provides us with some additional technology capability to fill some gaps in our own portfolio. So what we've done is we've looked at not these two markets completely independently, but we've looked at them, what is our end-to-end offering as a joined-up portfolio? And how can we best address both the enterprise IT market, that it was a traditional HP space, as well as the Alcatel-Lucent telco traditional space too? We've certainly seen that there have been two worlds of IT and telecom and they truly are starting to converge more and more every day. Our portfolio, again, was based towards the telco marketplace, but the requirements that the telco had, we're starting to see become much more prevalent in the enterprise world as well. So when it comes to scalability, reliability, that was just table stakes within the telco world, that's starting to really have a relevance within the enterprises world. Yeah, you're kind of serving client bases that are sort of birds of a feather in the sense of the complexity. So the enterprise customers, they're a mess. They got a zillion applications, they're siloed all over the place, their organizations are not talking to each other, they're different hardware and software and services and the telcos, maybe even more so. I mean, I'm not an expert in that base, but there's a lot of heterogeneity. And then here they are, and everything's changing. They're competing now with Amazon and Netflix or so, they're thriving into their base. So can you sort of talk about some of the solutions that you guys have to solve those problems and where they fit in enterprise and where they fit in telco? Absolutely. So I think, I'll take the HP side, right? So I think what we've noticed is, as you mentioned before, the enterprises are becoming more like service providers.  So the way that their network architecture is actually constructed is very similar to a telco, it's just at a smaller scale. But in terms of their problems and the challenges that they face, their requirements in terms of latency, in terms of security, it almost starts looking like a real service provider. Similar, like you said, Amazon, Netflix. I mean, these are players which are now pushing out video, it's on demand, it's in the clouds, all of a sudden they're starting to look much more like a telco than actually an enterprise space. So what we've done is we've taken a good look at this and we've said, okay, we need some carrier-grade technologies to support HP's existing enterprise portfolio. So one of the key assets has been the high-end router from Alcatel-Lucin. It's a 7750 service router, we're really excited about. It's been positioned within the HP networking family of products and we will take that to market. The second part is the optical switch, the 1830 PSS from Alcatel-Lucin. Super high speeds, very, very secure, speed of light, right? That's what the optics are all about, which is combined with our storage. So HP storage is already a great value proposition, now we have the transportability to connect data centers at the speed of light together. So we're super excited about that. And then finally, we look at the application side and we're seeing some convergence in the communication, so video and voice. And what we've done there is we've taken Alcatel-Lucin's rapport solution, which is based on their IMS application and we've pulled it together with our HP Helion Cloud. So the three assets are being launched here at Discover, we're really excited about it. And we see them being extremely relevant in the HP enterprise space. Absolutely, to continue on to Dennis's comments. With Alcatel-Lucin, we've been helping our telco customers for years, effectively deliver cloud services. If you look at something like IPTV, which we helped launch all around the world, that effectively really is a cloud service. And so the capabilities that we've had with those telco customers for years when it comes to managing multiple points for a single user, getting in and actually looking at the specific service of that user as opposed to a port. For example, the ability to rapidly turn up and equally as importantly turn off services, those are things that we've been doing in the IPTV world for years. And working with HP, we can now leverage that capability that we have inherently within our portfolio and our areas of expertise and take that into the enterprise world and the cloud environment also. So Jeff, let's unpack that a little bit. So you're talking about granularity of services and the ability to turn them on and off sort of real time essentially. What does that mean for your and customers and their monetization strategies? So if you take, for example, distributed cloud networking that HP uses today, if you think of your cell phone, when you flew out here, you didn't have to coordinate with your cell phone provider ahead of time to tell them, hey, I'm going to be in Las Vegas and when I get there, I'm going to need all these features, right? You came here, turned on your cell phone and it works. And that's effectively what DCN or distributed cloud networking does in the data center as well. It's a policy based system so you can set up and say, okay, I need a new virtual machine. That virtual machine has a certain profile of characteristics, DCN will build a network connectivity within the data center automatically, nearly instantaneously in the same way that your cell phone works, effectively. So take that through a little further to the enterprise customer. Give me an example of how somebody might use that. How it drives business. Yeah, no, it's a great question. So I think we've been playing in the virtualization market for some time so HP has been very strong in the data center space but now what we're seeing is rather than virtualize a server, our customers are virtualizing whole data centers and then the question becomes, what do you do when you have multiple data centers spread across multiple regions? Why do you need to have the physical boundaries anymore? I mean, at the end of the day, the software and what the client experience the users want to see, they don't care where it's hosted from a physical perspective. What they need is the right service at the right time, at the right speed. So with technologies like DCN, what we're able to do is actually create the optimized path of the network, irrespective of the underpinning network actual infrastructure, doesn't matter which switch it is, doesn't matter which carrier it is. So technology from Alcatel Lucen allows us for our enterprise customers, just by flicking a switch on the policy based system, they can create a VM wherever it's needed in any data center of the world in any manner they need it. It could be a large application, it could be a small one, it could be for a branch office, it could be for the head office. So that kind of disaggregation of the physical layer and the virtual layer is really starting to pay dividends for enterprise customers because they no longer have to marry the two together and do painful configuration of port by port, they can actually build application centric profiles and then the technology from Alcatel Lucen will help build the appropriate paths throughout the network to ensure the right client experience. Is there a, okay, so that's, I get that and that sounds like you're solving, there are largely a hardware problem, is there a software analog as well, my software management layer on top of that? Can you? There is, there's a couple of different assets. I mean, we talked to, when you think about the software behavior when a client is using it, right? You usually run into a couple of traditional pain points, right? One of them is, for example, the speed, right? The latency, the actual response time of the application. The second thing is security, right? So actually, how are you building that? How are you routing that? Where's the packets going? How do you do it? And the third thing is scalability.  You might need to burst out and get some additional compute capacity. That's usually been a bit of a manual effort so far. With this kind of technology, what we're able to do is have the actual compute layer as well as the networking infrastructure respond to exactly what that application needs when it needs it.  So that's a good enterprise example. Now let's come into the telco side of things. And I don't know, is the telco world even more, I said it before, heterogeneous than the, I mean, enterprise world is largely Linux and Windows OSes, right? The telco world sounds like it's got a lot of more specialization. It's certainly evolving very rapidly and particularly when you look at the go to market, how we as Alcatel Lucent have been taking some of our network functions to market in the past, such as IMS that Dennis just mentioned, you know, you'd also touched upon NFV and that certainly is the trend that the industry's adopting is toward NFV. We as Alcatel Lucent, we've had a long history of working with HP and using the HP hardware as the underlying capabilities on top of which our software then wrote. And so we see now where the telcos are trying to decouple those two. They want to build this NFV environment and then they want to buy the network functions directly from various vendors and have one common NFV environment. So we're working very closely with HP to make sure that our network functions can work well with HP's NFV environment as well. And vice versa, you know, it's important for HP to work back with Alcatel Lucent to show that the NFV architecture that HP is proposing has wide industry adoption and interoperability. So you're essentially virtualizing the network function and then sort of abstracting that from the hardware. So now my hardware problem goes away. Same question though. I would think there's an even worse software management problem in the telcos. Is that a problem that you guys can attack yet or is that sort of? We work together with that. So if you look at the open NFV architecture that HP has, for example, you'll see distributed cloud networking as one of the components in the open NFV architecture. So the capabilities that Dennis was describing in that enterprise environment are very true in the telco world as well. And it's that burstability. And again, it's not only bursting up, but one that application is not being used. It's the ability to go back down and free up those resources for some other application that may be bursting and requiring those. And that's the capability that we help bring. I think, you know, what Jeff is saying is it's a similar behavior in the enterprise is just at scale. I mean the carriers at the end of the day they have to make a decision in terms of how they want to run their operations. They have a series of extremely powerful apps, how our cell phones work, how our fixed line works. These things need to operate. So in addition to having their network as virtualized as possible, there's also a secret sauce in terms of how they orchestrate those VNFs. And that's where we have a lot of good discussions between us in terms of what does that optimized stack look like? And the truth of the matter is it's a relatively nascent industry. You know, we're talking here 12, 18 months old maybe. And at the moment we have different joint customers who are doing different things. Some are in trials. Some are actually, they've made a big bet, you know, they're in production. And I think it's exciting because I have a couple of, you know, we've got some very good telco customers we've engaged with together and we show up as a team and we say here's the HP perspective and the Alcatel Lucent perspective and this is what we think is going to be the winning combination. And I have to say it's starting to pay dividends. You know, they started to recognize that the combination of telco and IT technologies as well as our respective points of opinion are helping them differentiate in the marketplace as well. So how do you guys look at the market? You've seen customer problems, there's some similarities, you get together, hey, we can help solve these problems, we can make some money at it. So how do you look at the market?  How big is this opportunity? Yeah, and certainly we've looked at whenever we've added products to the HP portfolio we've done business cases for each one of those. And then certainly with NFV that's a whole other area as well. You know, with NFV I know that that's one of the big bets of HP as well. And it certainly is a huge opportunity I think for both companies.  I just know it's big. And it's in the beads. Yeah, it's in at least 10s, maybe hundreds of beads. I don't think hundreds of beads. That's the way that things are going, right? I mean, people don't want to have hardware that's dedicated to a specific application because like you said, it creates this environment of so many different varieties that you have to then manage. They want to try to simplify that world. You do a commercial off the shelf, underlying technology, hardware technology, and then have the applications run on top of that common information. Yeah, I mean we learned from the hyperscale guys that homogeneity is the key to scale. And if you have all this diversity you're going to limit your scale. That's really true in the telco business. Increasingly, if you want to go into the digital enterprise it's true in your country. When you look at the digital enterprise, when you look at how many end points you as a user have today, that's something that's just rapidly growing more and more, right?  You may have a desk phone or you may not even have a desk phone anymore. Maybe you have an application on your tablet that is your old desk phone. There are all those new trends that are out there. So it's not even you as one user anymore. You as one user now have multiple devices that you're working with that the IT departments need to manage within that enterprise. So now a 10,000 employee enterprise really is like a 40 or 50,000 user enterprise, right? And more and more what we're seeing, it's trying to predict the future with a crystal ball. As much as the products that both companies have, we feel they're industry leading, we try very hard to have them. It's about the solutions and it's about repeatability. So what we're trying to do is develop this winning combination of solutions that address certain problems. And the way we do that is we take a look at our flagship products. We say, how do these coexist? It's going to be a little bit of a competition. Sometimes we partner with a lot of people, so does Alcatel Lucent. And at the end of the day, we think about the customer problem, not from how can I put this particular product in that particular customer. It's what's the problem they're trying to solve and then what is the aggregated solution? And within that solution, you're going to have some HP technology, some Alcatel Lucent technology, some services wrapping around it. But at the end of the day, I think what's very exciting in this space is we take these different assets, whether it be a hardware underlay, network infrastructure, compute servers, or whether it be software assets, orchestration, helium, I mean, any kind of virtual environment. And I think that's what's exciting right now. Every engage when we do, we're starting to recognize certain characteristics that they all require and look for. However, the actual end solution is still down to customer choice and their particular problem, right? Where they're based, what they need, what their size is and so forth. So it's an exciting time for both of us. So what should we look for going forward? Out of time, you guys got to catch a plane. In all this digital world, it's still got to fly. It's physical. One day we'll teleport. Limitations. So what should we look for? It's sort of indications of progress, signs of success, things that are going to make you guys happy. Yeah, we're certainly continuing. You know, we're adding more capabilities together as we work more closely together. We're looking to do things to help automate the rollout of, to address the small and medium businesses with some things. And I don't know how you want to describe that. The virtual CPE. We're trying to, we have our basic building blocks today. The three solutions that Dennis mentioned, the Distributor Cloud Networking, the resale of our routers, the resale of our optics. We're adding the rapport capabilities in for a next generation type communication suite to offer people. And then we're also trying to simplify the approach of rolling out those services to end users themselves. So we're also, in addition to working directly with enterprise customers, we're also seeing a major opportunity to work with large service providers to help them reach enterprise customers in an automated fashion. I think, just spot on, at the end of the day, what it means is you'll see a lot more HV Alcatel-Lusen partnering in the field. We feel that there is a winning combination here in terms of a strong network equipment provider like Alcatel-Lusen and a player like HP. You got two powerhouses. I mean, it's not a Barney deal. A lot of times, I didn't know what to expect. And a lot of times people go, eh, we get a press release. But no, it sounds like you guys are really tightly working together. And that's because the dollars are big, big opportunity, and the problems are large. And time is now. Awesome. Well, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, sharing your story. Appreciate it. Right there, everybody. We'll be back right after this. This is theCUBE, we're live from HP Discover. HP Storage Guy Calvin Zito, and I want to help.