from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California. This is a CUBE Conversation. Hello everyone, welcome to this CUBE Conversation here in Palo Alto, California. I have remote Sarah Varney, who's the chief marketing officer at Tulio, a company we've covered for many, many years, one of the most successful API, now public company. Sarah, welcome to the CUBE Conversation. Good to see you remotely. You're in San Francisco, we're in Palo Alto. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. So you guys have been really a powerhouse company, Tulio, we've been following the rise and success. It just seems just success at the success, success, go public, stock keeps growing. Big acquisition with SendGrid for $2 billion in October, we covered that. But really kind of reading the tea leaves and connecting the dots, it's really the continued evolution of cloud SaaS, where APIs are becoming more and more the lingua franca for the next generation wave that's coming, but it's going into a whole other direction.  You're the chief marketing officer. It's a hard story to tell because it's kind of under the hood, nerdy, but it's also really big business benefits. So as the CMO, how do you get your arms around that? You've been in the business for a while, take them in to explain the strategy around how you're handling the Tulio marketing. Sure, yeah, I mean, I do, I agree that Tulio is very much an ingredient brand, but at the same time, everyone is interacting with Tulio in some shape or form probably every day whether or not they realize it or not. If you're getting an appointment reminder from your dentist confirming an appointment, that's probably Tulio behind the scenes. If you are communicating with your Uber driver to say that you are headed outside, that is normally powered by Tulio technology. So even though it might be a technology that exists lower in the stack and something you might not physically see, it is very much something that people everywhere are using every day. And our goal really is Tulio is to make sure that we're helping companies across the globe from all different types of industries of all shapes and sizes to bridge the communication gap with their customers. Every day there's a new channel to keep up to speed with, there's a new way that people are customers that are demanding to be communicated with and we want companies to be out in front of that so that they can connect with their customers on any channel if that's WhatsApp, if that's SMS, if that's voice, if that's even fax, we want to make that a possibility. I love the position in cloud communications company, that's kind of what you guys are core because you're bringing it all together and I think the mobile revolution starting with the iPhone in 2007, you look at that as a seminal moment and you say, okay, mobile device, it's a phone, it's a computer, it's got applications on it. This is a device that's unique to the rest of the infrastructure but developers are programming on it and those things all integrate together, that's where a lot of people kind of saw that for the first time. Then you add cloud to it, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, the top three Amazon dominating, really kind of brings the API focus even more to make these services, these web services, go to a whole other level and that's the big wave that we're seeing. I'd love to get your thoughts and you worked at salesforce.com which really pioneered SaaS and they were the first real cloud company before you started to see Amazon real cloud infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and softwares as a service evolve. You were there early, you had a lot of experience working with app exchange, app stores, early on at salesforce. How does that compare to now? What is the trajectory and how does it all connect? Yeah, I mean I think when I, my joke is always that when I started on the app exchange at salesforce, the Apple app store didn't even exist so the explosion of mobile devices was just, we weren't even there quite yet and I was working with ISVs to help them think about how they could launch big businesses in the cloud and I think at that point, people were rotating hard away from the world of on-premise which required a ton of investment from a hardware perspective and services perspective and in the process of that, rotated very almost over corrected towards package solutions and I think over the last few years what we've seen and something that Twilio is definitely behind and you can see in the vision of our product roadmap is coming back to the middle where you have the benefits of the cloud, the speed, the ability to stand something up very quickly but you also have unlimited customization ability and you can really put that, the ability to build powerful applications that bring the best of different solutions and different applications through APIs in the hands of your developers. I think that's- And ultimately, sorry, go ahead. I think that's a great point. I want to just double down on that for a second to ask you how you guys are seeing the developer traction on this because one of the core things that we've been reporting over the past couple of years this year in particular is the rise of things like Kubernetes, Cloud Native where developers now have a seamless way to program the infrastructure, the hard stuff. So you're seeing a faster development cycle for those application developers. Is that where the customization piece comes in? Is that where you guys see that connection point and what does that mean for customers? Yeah, I mean, I think that's part of it but at a higher level, we really want to empower developers to create a connected journey across all different parts of how a customer is interacting with the brand. If you think about, I had a recent incident with an airline that'll remain nameless but I left my laptop on a plane and to get that laptop back took multiple calls to the customer service desk. I was bounced around to a bunch of different people. The tracking of that computer was near impossible. At one point it traveled from New Jersey to Ireland. There was just so many different points of that journey where there was disconnection and I began to lose trust in the ability of this customer service department. You know, if this company had an API based approach, they could bring all the data from these different systems from their ERP, from their CRM, from their shipping vendor all in one place and I wouldn't have had that experience with that particular airline. So you see APIs as a data connector model, really connecting data sets together fast and easy. I do, I think it's a way, and I think developers love working in APIs because they can bring all the, they can pick the best of breed solutions and bring all that data into one customer, you know, united customer experience so that your customer doesn't have to do that heavy lifting, it's all there for them. You know, one of the things you see from companies like Salesforce pioneering early days of SaaS and cloud, I mean, Andy Jassy at Amazon many times and he always uses the expression that they use on Amazon called you got, you have to be misunderstood for a long time if you want to be a leader in an emerging new market. You guys at Twilio kind of have done that and continue to surpass expectations because you've been kind of skating through where the puck is now, which is the cloud native wave, third party applications, IoT security, all kind of come together for developers. So as a company that's been different and been disruptive, as the CMO, how do you take that vision and mantra to the next level as you market the solution because you are kind of different, you are not new per se, but you're a new way to create value for customers. How do you go out and tell that story? What are some of the marketing things that you do to take that Twilio to the next level? I mean, I personally, in my experience, I think the easiest marketing jobs are the ones where you have amazing customer stories and there is no shortage of amazing innovation in our customer base. And I think if you think about the companies that are making the news, if that's Lyft, if that's companies like Airbnb, they're not, if you think about their business, they're not inventing something brand new that Uber didn't invent the taxi, Airbnb didn't invent a hotel room, but they invented a new way to consume their product, to communicate around their product. And I think it's very easy to show the power of Twilio and how we've evolved through some of these customer stories. And it's not just the kind of Silicon Valley, fast growing startups that we're all familiar with here, just living and being located in the region, but we're starting to see this more and more in the enterprise as well. And people really harnessing communication to make sure that they themselves are not disrupted. Yeah, of course, we love that the enterprise hot, we've been doing it for 10 years now, everyone, Docs Enterprise, because the confidence of consumerization of IT is happening, it's the lines are blurring. Share some customer successors, because I think this is a great, great example of just great marketing, let the customers do the talking for you. I mean, you always got to do the standard operational things and have some tech stack and all that good stuff. But at the end of the day, when you have your customer sharing their success, that's really the ultimate testimonial. So share some cool examples of notable customers if you can. Yeah, we have a wide range, I'll tell you three. MedTrona, one of the largest medical device companies in the world, they provide a solution for type one diabetes, they provide a pump that is constantly monitoring the glucose levels in someone's blood. What they've done with Twilio is now they're layering on messaging capabilities. If someone's glucose levels fall to a level that's unsafe, they can be messaged and that's not just for the patient, but if you think of a young child who suffers from type one diabetes, this can be a very stressful situation for their parents and their caregiving team. And now that team can constantly be in the loop and they don't have to worry if they are at work and wondering how their child is doing at school or if they are on the soccer field and concerned about how their condition could be affected by them participating in that sport. So completely different from your more straight down the middle startup that we see here in the Valley. So basically messaging is the key value, it's not so much a tech thing, it's more of the outcome. It's a critical service piece to have those kind of real time communications. Yes, absolutely, because I mean if you think about it, monitoring your glucose levels, that's not a new phenomenon, people have been doing that for years, but layering on communications on top of this has brought a real time element to monitoring this condition and has liberated people with this condition so that they can get back to the things that they've always wanted to do without having to worry about the state of their health. It's like infrastructure as code for DevOps, you guys are for communications, you make it easy to do that for things like that. Talk about the impact of scale over the years because now we're seeing the data tsunami happen every day, IoT devices are coming on, everything's got a sensor on it, you got doorbells, you got everything out there now, it's got an IP address and connected in that could potentially be a messaging unit of data. This is just getting massive, how you guys see scale and how are you guys getting around the next wave on that piece? Yeah, I think one of the huge benefits in working with Twilio is our super network. So we are constantly maintaining relationships with all of the key carriers across the globe to make sure that we can get to our customers the best routes and so that means also that they can stand up business virtually anywhere across the globe as they're entering new markets and IoT, this is especially true for anyone who is in the IoT space. If you think about the dockless category, companies like Lime who are delivering rental bike services and a market where market share, just grabbing as much market share as possible, it seems to be the name of the game, they're able to partner with Twilio, embed SIM cards and all of their bicycles and now be able to track all of those bicycles across the globe as well as scooters and then take that information, figure out how customers are engaging with their product and ultimately build a better solution long term. Real-time messaging will never go away as value as I see, just like data, so it's going to get faster and larger amounts of messaging, making sense of it, do the heavy lifting, it's a great story you guys have done a great job. Sir, thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective. Get the plug-in for Twilio real quick. What's new with the company, employees, obviously the public companies, you really can't talk about futures, but what's on your plate, what's on the horizon for Twilio? What's the update? Yeah, I mean, the company is growing extremely quickly. We're really excited about the Context Center market, especially we launched our Flex Context Center solution. It was made generally available just this past October and as you've mentioned, we're super excited to welcome Sengrid into the family of products and to really round out our full set of communication APIs so people can communicate with their customers in any way possible. And it would be a crime for me not to mention our user conference coming up this August, August 6th and 7th at Moscone West and that's called Signal. So I highly encourage you to attend. It's a great opportunity to hear from experts in the communication space and also our customers. Well, we love the name Signal, extracting the signal from the noise was our original kind of tagline, really appreciate it. And with all those customers must be a hard challenge to have a customer conference doing the keynote selections and figuring out what to do.  What's the format for the event? Yeah, so it's a two-day session at Moscone West. We have a number of breakouts. We have hands-on training, which we call superclass. We have keynotes last year. We had interactive performance with the band OK Go. We had the creators of Westworld on stage.  And it's just a great, exciting two days. And we also this year, given that we're hosting it during the summer timeframe, we have a camp experience for your children. If you're looking to combine it with a summer vacation. So we're super excited about Signal. It's two of my favorite days of the year from a Twilio perspective. And I'd love for everyone to come join us. Well, you got a great customer success over the years and great names. Congratulations, Sarah. Thanks for spending the time here in theCUBE. I'm John Furrier here in Palo Alto. Sarah Varni, the Chief Marketing Officer with Twilio in San Francisco via remote. Thanks for watching this CUBE conversation.


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How's it going guys my name is David J and if you enjoyed the video leave a like it really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Okay so we all know this game holds an amazing mount for you which allows you to traverse this massively open world like nothing else. To get it you actually get it well you can get it pretty much straight away and this is how you do it. So on the map up here this is the way you need to come the church of Ella.  Now she needs you to take her with you you can accept or you can deny you can refuse if you accept guys she'll carry on talking and she'll give you a ring if you refuse then what you need to do is that well back out of this site of grace go back into it and you'll see it says one option at the bottom that says talk to Medellina just above leave here you need to accept guys then she'll give you the ring and you're good to go on from here people what you need to do is to actually equip this ring it's straightforward so you want to come to this menu here so press your start button on console you can see on the right hand side you've got pouch and you can see at the bottom for me on xbox it's got clothes and switch so for playstation users that will be triangle it shows you just press what you press switch and here you can just simply equip it it is as simple as that and now we can see guys that the spectral steed whistle which you whistle your horse in is right there then what you do is just obviously find a nice little empty area nice to hold y or hold triangle and then press on your d-pad and there you go just write your d-pad depending on the way you've actually put it in your patch and there we have it guys it is as simple as that and this is toriu the beast by the way it really is not that can catch as fast as gold sheet thing whatever it is but you know and this dude can jump up ridiculous heights as well guys so yes double jump look at that it's like a unicorn a magical unicorn we love it we love it we love it but yeah guys there we have it and i hope you enjoyed the video and i really hope it helped you out a short but sweet one for today guys as i know a lot of people confuse as to where you get this thing well here we have it what is it a horse a bull a horse bull i don't know but it's cool guys i hope you enjoyed the video if you did leave a like really helps out and hopefully people i will see you on that next one


Trini girl natural. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. So as you know from my last video I went to the natural Easter hair show. I also went a little bit to the hair show so check out that video as well but Here is where I do the haul and show you everything and I got So I got this TGIN triple moisture incandescent conditioner So I really wanted to get them DC even though it has silicones because I used the DC Just before I get my hair blown out for my trim So I was gonna go and grab that since everything was like $12, but they were out of the DC So I decided to get this. These are the ingredients So I finally found Alodia and I was able to say hi to the owner.  This is the deep conditioner It has my honey and silk amino acid has some essential oils like basil oil and so on. These are the ingredients Overall, it's a nice formulation. So even though it has that polyquod, I'm still kind of interested in trying it It's kind of low down. I'm going to give it a go. Then we have this nourished hair cream So the ingredients are actually pretty similar to the deep conditioner Probably just different concentrations of each and the last thing I got from her is this cream gel It goes water then honey, which is really interesting These are the ingredients Pectin and Zantum gum, which I like and then aloe vera juice, which is good I'm not a fan of the EDTA I'm not a fan of the KABOMA and this doesn't have the Essential oils at the bottom So maybe she thought we didn't need to tingle all the way through because when you open a deep conditioner, you definitely smell the peppermint and stuff So the last things I got was from this company called Free Naturals So the stuff was really expensive. It wasn't on sale, but the ingredients were so interesting I decided to try it out Her customer service is even kind of poor at the end But since I already kind of had everything in my hand and I was curious I decided to kind of go through it and get it But unless her stuff is super amazing like Small businesses, customer services, super important PSA So let me just get into what I got from her and then I'll tell you what happened. So I got this hair milk. So that would be interesting to try I'm not sure what my kind of wiry texture is going to do with that because my hair is kind of stiff and wiry But I'm willing to try it These are the ingredients This deep conditioner, really tiny deep conditioner A blue fig and lotus flower were the like main points of this deep conditioner So the lotus flower stuff is like at the bottom of the ingredients The deep conditioner is interesting. It's kind of whipped out and give you a review I got this conditioner bar. The conditioner bar was super interesting because I'm like, this is not a shampoo bar It's actually a conditioner bar So somehow this bar is supposed to condition my hair Somehow like I highly doubt that she might have she made this soap bar pH balance So it's I don't want to like test it like I have pH strips. So I'm going to test it And when I'm doing my review, I'm going to include a mention of that. So We'll see what happens with that She told me that she didn't have the packaging for this. She just gave it to me like this And then she gave me like a label loose Gave me the parts of the product in my hand asked her well So would you do a discount for all of this? Which was like no like you rude cheap heifer while you asked me for a discount So how many of you give me my product in pieces and you won't even give me a discount or the very least apologize If you could give me a discount I just thought it was really rude and the customer service is really poor And that reminds me of another small business product junkie naturals I guess maybe you saw the instagram that I ordered from them The package was leaky and she sent me a half a bottle to replace the one that like it was literally half And then she had a note for telling me when I asked her about it that that was full to the right amount So why would you a bottle that's half full of kind of packaging strategy is that So now the word she was just being petty and cheap So she decided to send me a half full bottle to replace the one that leaked because I don't need that much But it's probably just a small leak So But in pieces and then if something leaks you just give them the amount that's filled basically It's just petty and short silent because you're going to lose the customer They're going to probably lose more customers who they're going to tell other people about it And it's just not the way to grow your business. So Wanting to small companies don't be like tree naturals.  It's probably in my car somewhere. So Yeah, I'm just kind of annoyed with her. But I guess I should be doing it myself. It's probably should have just dropped everything at that point and not bought it It was just because I was curious and I was like almost had a check on the side of just okay Let me just you know finish it off and buy it. So anyhow two people have one thing So it's not it's not a lot I guess But it is something definitely supporting small business.  Thanks for watching Subscribe for more content and I will see you in the next one


New America's Education Policy Program in partnership with the Joan Gaines Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is launching a new data visualization and policy analysis tool called Integrating Technology in Early Literacy, also known as Intel. The tool maps the location, work, and supporting evidence of early learning programs that are using media and interactive technology to engage with parents, strengthen community programs, support ties between home learning and classroom learning, and otherwise augment efforts to help children develop early language and literacy skills. This interactive map is displayed on New America's Atlas website. This video serves as an Atlas user's guide for policymakers, researchers, educators, and the public. The project can be found by putting atlas.newamerica.org in your internet browser and by selecting View All Projects and then the Integrating Technology in Early Literacy square. For an in-depth project description, select more underneath the project subheading. This hyperlink brings up an overview including the project background methodology, a description of our Evidence of Impact Rating system, how to submit an entry, what items will be coming soon on the map, and finally how to contact us for more information. Users can explore the various Atlas maps by clicking the ellipses to find out more about the five ways in which programs are filtered, including by program type, Evidence of Impact Rating, Primary Technological Tool, Program Languages, and Ages Served. The initial map sorts programs by type. To view which programs are in each category, hover your cursor over the check mark next to the program type. To view only the programs geared toward home visiting and family engagement, remove the check marks from all other program types. The map can be dragged using your cursor and zoomed in and out to view certain regions or states. Users can click on a program to view individual profiles. For instance, by selecting Parents and Children Together, users can see a quick overview of the program, the program description, the Evidence of Impact Rating explanation, and all of the program's locations. The ellipses can be used to return back to the list of indicators to access the other maps. If you choose the Evidence of Impact Rating filter, you can learn more about how programs were categorized by the evidence that they provided for their level of impact. To learn more about our rating system, you can click here. Programs are rated by four different levels of impact, strong, promising, emerging, and developing. If users wish to download data, they can select the icon in the upper right hand corner. The Atlas map will be updated with additional program entries on a rolling basis. Users can direct questions to atlas at newamerica.org.


welcome back to my channel today's video is so exciting it is a unboxing of my very first Gucci bag and I'm working with such a cool company I haven't worked with a company in a long time but this company just really stood out to me because it's something that allows me to experience having and owning a Gucci bag the company I'm working with is luxury fashion rentals and basically it's just renting a bag so let's go ahead and open this on up and see what's in the box it comes in this little box it has a zipper it has a closed seal right here and then it has all these stickers on it fragile this side up handle with care do not stack fragile and then obviously the front has like the tracking and everything let's go ahead and open this on up so I'm just gonna carefully clip the zip tie I'm so excited I've always wanted this Gucci bag in black they didn't have the black one but they had the pink one which is really cute anyway opening this on up oh my gosh okay so this is what the inside of the box looks like it's just plain black and on the top it says hello enjoy and it says luxury fashion rentals with the logo and then the bag comes in oh my gosh oh I hear the chain okay I'm getting way too excited all right so I'm gonna open this on up so here it is here's it in the dust bag oh my gosh a Gucci dust bag oh my gosh look in here comes everything you need to return it that's a really pretty envelope okay so in this envelope you get two zip ties these kind of secure the bag when you return it which I will go over the process after I unbox it and look at the bag and everything and also they pay for shipping so when you send it back you just stick this on top of the box and then send it back so now we're gonna open this bad boy up oh my gosh the dust bag is so soft it's a lot softer than Louis Vuitton I am impressed oh my gosh look at how freaking cute it is so cool I've always like kind of wanted a Gucci bag so this is a great way to like see if I'd actually like consider purchasing one so oh my gosh that is so cool so this is a little tag that they put on the bag and it just reads read before removing please remove this tag to enjoy returns will only be accepted if this tag remains attached to the product is sent back within two business days of arrival the following are not considered normal wear and tear denim stains makeup stains ink stains food stains so this is the bag this is the Gucci padlock in pink and gold obviously and it's the tiny one they have a larger size but I went with the tinier one oh my gosh how cute that's like a piece of fabric so this is the front of the bag it's showing up a little bit lighter on camera but this is what it looks like this is the padlock obviously and you can actually lock it with these keys as you can see you can physically lock it obviously I just kind of use this as a decoration I wouldn't actually lock my bag this is the side of the bag this is the back and it has this little pouch back here this is I guess I don't know really what you would put in here maybe if you had like some receipts this is the other side of the bag and this side has the little keys on it they essentially go in the little pouch like so so they're not like clinking and how you open the bag is you just pinch these two little circles together then opening it on up it's kind of stiff like it's definitely not like a floppy bag it's very stiff rigid it has a lot of structure and this is what the inside looks like it's made out of this like suede material okay so I just wanted to show you guys how you could like wear this bag because I think it's so cute oh my gosh this is how it looks kind of crossbody I normally wouldn't wear bags the short crossbody you could also wear it a long ways I don't know I guess I just call it long ways you can wear it like this the chain is kind of heavy so if you guys are thinking about like getting this bag like that's something to consider chain is kind of heavy but honestly that's the whole reason why I love this bag I absolutely love the Gucci print the G print on there and then also you can wear it shorter so I'm sorry this these are like puffy puffy sleeves you could wear it like on the shorter setting like this and just have it like right underneath your armpit kind of like this so cute see with this bag I really really want one of these in the black because I love the chain and I would probably want it in the bigger size I love the design of it I love the color of this one but honestly like for my lifestyle and what I do this bag probably wouldn't be the best investment for me at this time in my life so renting it and just like experiencing it and having it in my hand to like hold and everything is awesome and then like you just return it so you're not spending like $2,000 on a bag like this you're only spending like 200 so basically that's the bag now I'm gonna kind of get on to what luxury rentals is and what they do so basically all you do is go on their website they have so many brands you could choose from so they have Chanel Dior Gucci Hermes oh my gosh guys they have Hermes that's the really cool Louis Vuitton and Moschino you can get it for 14 days or 30 days I chose to go with Gucci because this is like a legit bag like I said that I've been contemplating and I kind of want so I wanted to have some time with it just so I could see it and everything in real life you go on their website you pick a bag that you've been wanting or you want to try out they actually have the mini Palm Springs backpack on there so you guys have been wanting to try it or want to rent it or are contemplating on buying it I suggest like renting it and then you can see if you actually want that something that I was crazy and I did I impulsively bought the backpack without even seeing it before which is kind of crazy if I had known about something like this I think I would have tried it out before I just dropped all that money kind of like what I'm doing with this bag I really really like it I will tell you why I haven't like purchased it and why I think it's better to like rent one because I don't ever like go out anywhere I know that sounds crazy I go to Disney Springs but like this is kind of like a fancy bag and I will not be carrying it to like a Disney car because if you don't want to be carrying this to someplace where it could you know get damaged or dirty so I was going to take it to my mom's birthday I was gonna insert some pictures for you guys but with the whole coronavirus and stuff pretty much Broadway shut down and we're gonna go see a show and everything so that's not going to be happening but other than that I really don't go out places don't really go to like out to dinners I mean I wouldn't carry this to Chili's you know what I mean also I just want to mention it was super easy getting this so you just check out and then it only took a few days to get here after I purchased the rental I did have to change the date when it was delivered I just wanted to let you guys know you do have to sign for this bag to let them know that you got it so you have to be home or wherever the address you have sent this to from luxury fashion rentals you need to be there to sign for it so I actually ended up paying $5 because I wanted to change the date when it was delivered so basically what you're gonna do after you have used it for the time being you're gonna empty it out gonna put it back in the dust bag kind of like the way you found it and everything put it back into the black box and then you're gonna use one of those zip ties to secure it and then you're just gonna stick that label right on the top of the other label and hand it to your UPS person and it'll be off off and away so it's super simple to use I hope you guys try this out if you want to try out this awesome service you can use my coupon code for 25% off of your first rental it's Alex Jane 25 so you can use that at checkout and get some money off of your first rental thank you so much luxury fashion rentals for allowing me to do this because so many people say like Alex you need a niche you need something that you're passionate about and that you love to talk about and everything and that would definitely be luxury I love luxury I'm very fortunate enough to own a couple luxury pieces but honestly like I couldn't base my whole channel off of luxury I'm not in that financial situation right now so doing and getting to work with a company like you is amazing and getting the experience to have an item that I've never owned a Gucci before like getting to have that opportunity is awesome check out their website everything is linked down below so you can check out their social media and everything anyway I think that's about it for this unboxing I hope you guys enjoyed this video give it a thumbs up if you did and don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video bye


Good morning, everybody. I do get to work with Chris Kenneberg. I guess officially I'm his boss, but it's more of a partnership. Dearborn Public Schools is a little bit unique in that we do service pre-K through 14, so through community college.  Yes, preschoolers can use Moodle, and they do a great job with it. Just to give you a little context, we're the third largest district in the state of Michigan. We have 1,486 teachers, roughly 21,000 students. We have a very large EL population as well. We're a little over 50%, so we have a bunch of English learners, and that'll come into play with a couple of the examples that I'm going to share with you, and about 40 schools. One of the things that we developed was the Fordson theme. Chris did the work on the Fordson theme, and this is why. Technology can be shiny. Teachers can get caught up in the shiny things, but it doesn't lead to real learning, and that's what we're focused on. We're focused on what students learn and what students need to learn. My background is actually principal. I'm a former classroom teacher and principal. So what we want to do is make sure that the kids and the teachers are focused on real learning in the classroom, real knowledge acquisition. So you'll hear a lot of places talk about entertainment or engagement, and our goal is to get kids to empowerment. We want to empower teachers and empower students to be part of that learning. So the Fordson theme really helps do that. We recognize that entertainment and engagement is important. That's why there's a lot of color in the theme. That's why we get them focused on what they're doing, and we have those controls grouped. One example that I also want to share is as a principal, I had a special ed parent come up to me and say, you're killing me. And I said, hi, how am I doing that? And she had two students in our school. We were six, eight school of about 1,000 kids. She said, I have 17 logins to check for what my kids are doing. And I said, you're right. That's too much. We brought everything back down into Moodle, and that's why we are so invested in giving kids and teachers both the power that they need and the alternatives that they need. So the Fordson theme really helps do that for us, and Moodle helps do that for us. It gives us one consistent place for them to go so that they know where they are and where they're going. In order to help with this, because we do have 1,400 teachers, I was able to bring in two, count them, two tech coaches, and they do fantastic work. There's a lot of good stuff out there. And again, a lot of teachers get caught up in the surface level of technology. We go from tool to tool to tool to tool, and we never learn how to use it in a very deep level with real kids in the classroom. So one of the things that the tech coaches do is they work with teachers to be able to provide that depth. Because one of the things that Moodle can do is it can provide real depth, real learning for kids. So instead of just entertaining them, instead of just engaging them, it can empower the kids, and it can empower the teachers to do what they need to do. So the technology coaches meet with the teachers on their prep, they work with them, they develop things for that teacher individually, but they also go beyond that. They actually develop model courses, and they share those model courses with teachers and others. And one of the things that I'm really excited about is the OER movement, both in Michigan and throughout the United States, in developing these things and sharing these things. And Martin talked about MoodleNet, and we're pretty excited about seeing that come into play. The technology coaches also work with the teachers in an ongoing fashion. So what they do is they will embed themselves, and because co-teaching has taken on kind of a lot of different meetings, we now call it technology partnerships, technology integration partnerships. So they will work with teachers on a two week or one week or unit basis, so that real implementation is happening in the classroom, and they do the on the job assistance as well. Here's some examples of things that they've created. At the elementary level, they've created a spelling course. We pulled some teachers together and they created a spelling course. It is amazing to me that back when I was in elementary and up to today, teachers would spend a lot of time on Monday, they would read the words, kids would take a pretest, every kid taking the same pretest, and then on Friday, they would take the post test. Why do we have teachers for whom time is crucial spend all that time doing a spelling course? When a lot of those kids already know it. So we've put the spelling course at the elementary level, we've done third grade and fourth grade so far. We've put that in a moodle and the kids can self-pace. They can take the quiz on their own. If they know it on Monday, they are done. They can move on to other things. There's lots that kids need to learn and need to do. So we have that, and then if they don't have them, they have a bunch of self-paced examples that they can go through and increase that. They're learning there as well. Come 11th grade, we have a social studies test where kids have not taken the material since eighth grade. So our 11th grade social studies teachers got together and put together a self-paced course for the students so they can go through self-paced, they can take it as many times as they want to and prepare for that big exam. And then finally, Chris has worked with a lot of teachers to present, to provide templates. For example, book reviews, lots of kids do book reviews. Our book review is a database module in Ilar, in Moodle, that allows the kids to create a very colorful book review. They can include video, they can include the book synopsis and their review, the genre and everything. And then that's shared amongst other kids. So kids can find other things that they might be interested, that their classmates were interested in. We created the Frere model, which is interactive and includes video. One of our teachers works with newcomers. So she's recorded a lot of the material in Arabic so that the kids can choose whether they listen to it in English or Arabic. It's about the material, not the language. And there's lots of other examples and we are more than willing to share those with others as well. And the clock caught up, so I am close on my time. So thank you and I will be around for questions now or questions later. Some great work going on in Dearborn. Does anyone have any questions for Troy? Just raise your hands and someone will come around with a microphone. Anyone with a question for Troy? I've got a question for you, Troy. What was the, so as I said, but to Chris earlier, I've done a lot of work in schools, used to be a teacher, used to be a directory learning. What was the thing which perhaps looked the easiest but was hardest to implement, would you say? Wow, that's good. I think that just the look and the feel in making it, it looked like it should be easy to make it easy to use and that was a lot of work. Fortunately, Chris does that work. I just go, yes, no, I like that, I don't like that, so. Okay, thanks so much. I know that a lot of the time, anything which looks straightforward and easy to use, there's been a lot of work that's gone into that. So it's a great work with Troy's team. If there's no more questions, oh, there's one here. We've only got time for one more. Perhaps you could catch Troy afterwards, sorry. This gentleman here has got a question for Troy and then we're gonna move on. Did you have another system that you were using before you started into Moodle? No, we had lots of other things. A lot of other teachers, one that were using Edmodo, were using a lot of. Okay, so my question is this, because I'm facing this issue right now as we had an old system and they were developing courses a certain way and they created these courses and it turned out that trying to convert them over to Moodle was very super labor intensive and I was trying to influence them to just learn how to use what's inside of Moodle because what was going on is the old way of doing questions for instance. The old way of doing questions didn't have all the features that Moodle had but they were stuck on it. It's like well we need our questions in Moodle to function exactly the way they did in this old system so I guess the question I'm getting to is did you encounter any of that and how did you get them weaned off of that the old instead of using that to use what was already inside of Moodle? Well we haven't, we just told them I am in a position where I can tell people you have to do it and we did because one of our keystones is you're always investing in someone. You're either investing in yourself or you're investing in someone else and we've gotta get people to invest in what we provide so that they can build off of it and do great stuff. So you just basically said this is the cutoff this is what we're using if it doesn't just absolutely get integrated into Moodle then we're not using it and just put the hard. That's where my technology coaches came into play because the technology coaches would go and work with them on how it is that it could work and how it could be better. So you have to have some of those models and some of those key people that can help out. Thank you. Thanks Troy, no problem. So just before we give a round of applause to Troy just to say that this is one of the really important things around openness in education. It's not just enough to have Moodle as an open source LMS. We need open educational resources. We need to work with educators to help them understand that putting things in a silo is not a good long term solution. So there is always a cost to switch but I think that sometimes when we talk to educators and we say, look, this is what we're trying to do here for the long term. My experience is that a lot of them get on board some of them the hardcore always won't but then they're the kind of people who won't get on board with anything that you do anyway. Thank you very much Troy.


Hey everyone welcome to this week's video update today's Saturday morning April 13th Hope everybody had a good week of trading Let's take a quick review of the markets, and then we'll jump into my trades for the week. All right, so Vicks Popped its head above 19 briefly before retracing and settling in at 17.31, but that's the highest Vicks print That we've seen since October Basically end of October about the 27th or 30th was when we were higher so Will this volatility continue? Well, that's the magic question, right? I guess it depends on a lot of different factors You know what's gonna go on with Iran and Israel.  I think the the Middle East war situation was was the bigger Factor for the spike here on Friday in the Vicks But we'll see what happens, but the reality is we have as premium sellers. We have some higher juiced up premiums, which is nice S&P obviously on the downside Gave back all the gains that it's accumulated for the last month basically NASDAQ not quite as weak relative to its recent lows, but still a big big down day, especially Friday the Russell puking Dow puking Gold and silver rocking higher gold pushed new all-time high before a big reversal Same with silver Notes and bonds bounced on Friday, but weak overall 10 year yield stronger and a little pullback on Friday settling in at 4.5 to Oil big reversal on Friday kind of sideways for the week natural gas A little back and forth on the week soybeans Bounce on Friday, but down for the week same with wheat corn sideways Euro and the pound really weak Wednesday Thursday and Friday versus a strong US dollar and then Bitcoin Pullback on Friday to the tune of about down almost 5% settling in at 67,000 445 all right, so let's jump into my trades So it was a a red week for me My normal trades overall were down net net down And then I just had I had one big just stupid Blundered discretionary trade that I'll talk about too. All right, so let's start with zero DTE on the AM trades three of those Two losers one winner minus 3k on those In my challenge portfolio Which is my one DTE my ricks and my re-entry zero DTE's If I look at just the challenge portfolio together down about 10 5 If I break these down by the different categories, I've got my one DTE was green Three out of four trades winners plus 2100 my re-entries Well, let's do one on the one-to-ones a little bit red minus 1500 the three twos really got hit down 19 And then just one day of power hour And that was on Thursday Yeah, the 11th That was a winner my plus 8500 on those No ricks this week. No Mahomes. No FOMC my one DTE hedge Two winners two losers net red Come back to that one Ndx So Ndx was red for the week should have been green shoulda coulda woulda On this one, I did have a bot error where it picked the wrong width on my strikes Instead of fixing it I decided to let it go and then we had a huge drop and so I closed it out and wouldn't you know it It would have bounced back and been a winner. So that was a that was a $2,600 loss that should have been a $2,000 winner so But read on those for the week My power hour outside of my challenge portfolio get all these checked Red for the week. Let me uncheck that one Yeah, minus 4600 you can see the ninth and 10th were we're pretty bad and then I Had a little winner on the 10th there and then the 11th and 12th were green For power hour My PM trades good just had two Basically two trades But they were good One was the PM tranches that I do So all those hit for plus 4200 and then a PM update iron condor for 3,000 so plus 7,000 on those trades all together My price action Iron condors Four for four plus 5,000 on those My quad 41 DTE so this is something that I just started testing you see I'm only doing a couple lots one winner one loser I'll put that on my trade plan if I like it by the end of this month still Quiet midday tranches Just one day all five hit plus 2700 And then my re-entry is outside of my challenge portfolio minus 11k No ricks my O2 call calendar two trades one winner one loser small red and Then my one DTE outside of my challenge portfolio small green All right, so that is zero DTE Let's go to I'll come back to that Iron ducks just one trade Let's get rid of that give her that Just one trade minus 628 Dynamic butterflies Yeah, no no closing trades just one open Dynamic calendars had a good week in calendars only one losing trade and that was a 3 5 DTE all the rest were winners a 3 6 a 3 7 a 4 5 a 4 6 a 4 7 a 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 3 6 7 and a 1 2 That one came off the same day So almost 5,000 on the calendars for the week option selling Got smoked out of a gold trade So lost 4,300 on that had I been a little bit more patient I'd still be in it with that reversal in gold that we saw Friday, but could not hit my exit point So just had to bail So that was a $4,300 loss and then a couple other small winners in ES and MES and then portfolio margin Had it had a close to manage risk had to close a shark for minus 5,000 didn't want to hold that over the weekend Small loser or small winner or $1,400 winner on our verse vertigo and then a small small loser on a Humpty So that is it for my trades. The only other thing I want to talk about is Let's go to there So this is a trade that I took That was just selling puts in SPX Not part of my plan not part of any plan Just decided that I thought I knew something just decided that I knew that I knew price was at a short-term bottom Well, guess what? I was wrong and I was wrong to the tune of 35,000 bucks and so this is You know, this is something that I mean my note to myself. I think kind of says it all one word dumbass so this is this is something that You know, I've been trading for 24 years now and this is something that has Happened more than a handful of times where I will be Doing good following my plan trading my plan Making consistent money. Everything's going great and then I'll open the window to a little bit of discretionary trading and That goes great for the for You know a long time Staying small keeping my position size in check It's actually enhancing the rest of my trading because I'm scratching that discretionary itch Staying more in tune with the markets because I'm following the flow of the markets and trading it and that's all going good and then All it takes is one day where I'm not dialed in I'm not locked in and I go off the rails and do something stupid like this and It's it's happened like I said more than a few times and so Until I can Trust myself again to not do something like this. I am I'm putting myself in time out from any discretionary Directional trades so that includes futures Discretionary directional trades with options whatever it's it's I'm in I'm in time out. In fact, I Haven't decided yet. It may be a permanent ban because I've proven to myself that for whatever reason I have this little guy inside me who rears his ugly fat little head every once in a while and Decides he wants to be a gambler with size and something like this happens so Anyway, you know, I share this with you for a couple reasons a just because I share all my wins and my losses and my Mistakes and everything else and and hopefully it you know if it helps one person who kind of struggles with that same kind of thing You know like I've been trading for 24 years and the fact that this would still happen at this point my trading journey is Extremely frustrating But it is what it is, I guess and and so again that you know until I can figure out How not to have that little lapse in judgment After being so good for such a long period of time Then I just I can't I can't do this because I just I I don't like that I don't like $35,000 losses in one day and one trade for no reason no plan nothing So anyway, if that helps one person, I guess it was worth a $35,000 loss to me You know, it's just so frustrating anyway That's it for me guys.  All right. Have a good weekend everybody. Take care


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An official report produced for the armed forces and the American... 1775. A nation is in the making. The flame of liberty spreads from Lexington Common. Out of the ferment grows a desperate need for spiritual and moral guidance. The need is met. A voice rises proclaiming man's right under God to be free. It is heard from Plymouth Rock to the Virginia Cape. The voice of the minister, respected leader in the community. Religious freedom. Political freedom. He teaches that they are inseparable. From Bunker Hill to Brandywine. From Valley Forge to Victory. Ministers not only speak. They fight alongside the men of their parish. These are our first army chaplains. Hardy colonial preachers. Equally at home in Battlefield or Pulpit. In the struggle for independence, these men of God are in the thick of battle. Ahead are many bleak days. But the ordeal of our fighting men is given meaning by the presence of the chaplain. Each man to worship with the chaplain of his faith. This is the wish of General George Washington. Earliest of American military leaders to realize the spiritual need of the soldier. War between the states. A war that brings more men to battle. And brings to a growing need for more chaplains for both the Union and the Confederacy. In some of the more permanent camps, the dominant feature is the chapel. More often services are held under the open sky. Commanders come to regard the chaplain as an indispensable member of the regiment. Though the Civil War finds the army chaplaincy still in its formative stages. The dedicated and widespread work of chaplains is recorded in many accounts of the war. Usually the best educated man in the regiment. The chaplain often acts as school master, librarian and unit historian. But his true role as a clergyman in uniform, meeting the spiritual needs of the fighting man, comes to be fully recognized. War one. General Pershing orders a sharp increase in the number of chaplains. One for every 1200 soldiers. Appointing a senior chaplain to coordinate the activities of all chaplains of the American Expeditionary Force, he asks that those selected be of the highest character with reputations well established as sensible, practical, active ministers accustomed to dealing with young men. Though Padre, serving with troops under all types of field conditions, gains the deep respect of the dough boy, continuing a tradition of fearless and dedicated service. In the front line areas of France. Communion before entering the trenches. A Passover service. A hymn before going into action. One chaplain comes to symbolize the humanity and sacrifice of the American Padre on the western front. Francis P. Duffy of the Fighting 69th. Beside many medals, Father Duffy wins the affection of countless soldiers as well as fellow chaplains for his outstanding qualities as soldier and clergyman. At the beginning of World War II, for the first time chaplains with a military background prepare to serve the religious needs of the largest army in America's history. Before the war is over, nearly 9,000 clergymen in uniform are active with our troops. Bringing hope and comfort where courage alone is not enough to meet the strain of combat. During moments of trial, it is to the chaplain they turn for spiritual strength. In front line areas, the chaplain becomes a familiar figure to the fighting man. Many are decorated for gallantry and distinguished service. Many give their lives. April 17, 1943, somewhere in the Atlantic, the army transport Dorchester is sinking. Four chaplains, two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish, give their life jackets to others. Before go down with the ship, Clark V. Polling, chaplain, United States Army. George L. Fox, chaplain, United States Army. John P. Washington, chaplain, United States Army. Alexander D. Good, chaplain, United States Army. The Korean War, Americans plunged into battle suddenly are faced with a problem of spiritual as well as physical readiness. Once again, chaplains serve with distinction in the rough hills of an unfamiliar land. Bringing spiritual comfort to our men, fighting to stem the tide of communist aggression. Chaplains in Korea maintain the tradition of devotion and courage established in the past. Along with his front line role, the chaplain begins to undertake a new responsibility, providing for thousands of children orphaned by the Korean War. Today the role of the chaplain has broadened to include a wide variety of religious activities, ministering not only to the serviceman, but to his family as well. For the parish has come to the army. All over the world, the chaplain is the spiritual leader of the military community. Staff officer as well as pastor and counselor, he is at the center of a widening circle of religious ministrations. Lay activities are an important part of the chaplain's program. Army leaders at the highest level take part in these events. A Catholic Holy Name Society breakfast in Mainz, Germany, an organization founded in 1955, Protestant men of the chapel helps carry out a broader religious program for Protestant servicemen and their families in Europe. The Convocation of the Torah, a ritual carried on among Jewish servicemen to keep alive the religious traditions of their home communities. The theme of our Torah Convocation and our chaplain's retreat this year is ethics, Jewish ethics. We began yesterday by discussing the ethical dilemma of modern man. To improve music at worship services, the Protestant Choir Clinic in Germany, organized by army chaplains, conducts study classes in religious music for servicemen and their families. During the choir clinic, smaller groups practice under expert guidance. The problem is constantly the very last part of the beat. When you're jazzing it up, fine, hold it any way you want it. You can go for as long as you want it. But when you're singing, you really want to get a message across. You cut that ing off on the very last part of the beat. So remember that you cut that off and at the end, don't try to be pruning this thing. But you want to be a crooner. Our retreat house in Berchtesgaden, here under the guidance of the chaplain, servicemen and women are given an opportunity to gain spiritual refreshment through participation in special religious activities. Well, gentlemen, welcome to the retreat house at Berchtesgaden. My name is Father Foley. I'm the retreat master.  And so it's a good idea that you get very clearly in your minds what a retreat is so that you can make a good one. A retreat is a withdrawal from the ordinary occupations of your daily life so that in a spirit of silence and prayer, you may understand more deeply than you did before what you are doing in this world. What is your precise relation to God? What is your mission here? So that again, in this spirit of silence and prayer, you can look into your souls and see how much you measure up or fail short of measuring up to the ideal set before us by Christ, our head. Religious education of the children of servicemen has become one of the chaplain's increasingly important tasks. A Protestant Sunday school in Heidelberg. Every day and when we play, when we learn and when we pray, hear us holy Jesus. Thousands of children receive religious instruction under the supervision of the army chaplain. The meaning of the mass is described during its performance to the children of Catholic families. Whenever conditions permit, the chaplain conducts ceremonies which bring to the soldier and his family the surroundings of his church or synagogue. Here a Methodist chaplain performs a baptism. He might touch them, but the disciples rebuked those that brought them. When Jesus saw it, he was much displeased and he said unto them, suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such as the kingdom of God. He took them up in his arms and put his hands upon them and blessed them. What name shall be given to this child? Mary Elizabeth. Mary Elizabeth, I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty God, grant that this child as she grows in years may also grow in grace and in knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. A Jewish chaplain prepares a serviceman's son for Bar Mitzvah, the ceremony in the Jewish faith marking a boy's entrance into manhood. You stop with the prophetic portion of the music. For A behold, nossatilo fornachur, I accept before you hayong, this day asah hayim ve s-hatof life and good ve s-hamovest ve s-horror. You see pardon me. you see pardon me you see this verse itself alludes to your bar mitzvah the purpose of your bar mitzvah you are deciding this day which path of life you shall follow you can either follow the path of righteousness or the path of evil that's why you're being confirmed today I have said before you I own this day count on October the 29th is that right that was quite a problem I know as you mentioned before the chaplain as counselor I had one time that that I often relate to couples such as you you know when I got married or just before I got married I took my fiancee with me to buy the ring this was a real proud day for us and right away I found just the ring for and taking it out of the little case you know I said hey Jay look at this isn't this right then I could see in her eye that she liked it but it wasn't the ring you know it's not the one she wanted so we looked a little further and finally she found the ring well now it was a nice ring but I guess she saw in my face that that I didn't like that ring too much you know well let's look a little further and finally we found a third ring and it was just right it was the one that we both liked and we bought it and she's wearing that ring today I believe if a man and a woman sincerely attempts to find a third way that their problems can be resolved and that there can be the blessing of God in any home really beloved we're gathered together here in the sight of God and in the presence of these witnesses to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony marriage is an honorable estate instituted of God blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ signifying unto us the mystic union that is between Christ and his church it is not therefore to be entered into lightly nor unadvisedly but reverently and soberly and in the love of God for as much as Richard and Anne have consented together in holy wedlock and have witnessed the same before God and this company and have there to given and pledge their faith each to the other I pronounce that they are husband and wife in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit amen make us the bride the chaplain's ministrations reach wherever there is a need for spiritual comfort often among army hospital patients medical repair is slowed down or stopped for want of spiritual strength or morale here the army chaplain aware of the patient's emotional needs becomes physician to the soul and is often instrumental in helping the patient recover for those unable to attend group worship he conducts individual services although prepared for his work as clergyman by his college and seminary background the present-day army chaplain is required to prepare himself for his role in the military by several months of training at the chaplain school since he will be a staff officer he is obliged to have an understanding of military tactics and principles exercise in the field of command the staff procedures applied to a tactical situation we are a division infantry division in the defense we have our staff here g-staff and chief of staff I'm going to pose a few problems to them and let them take over to see what they do about them chief of staff we got a possibility we are on defense we have a problem of a counterattack the first of the 61st why didn't they call back as soon as they got hit and tell us that they were being hit at first they thought they might be able to hold them back is a possibility that they will use airplanes for a landing to our rear with our air superiority I think we can prevent that situation on their port also let's get on with the problem whether we knew about it or not we're hit now and let's take it from there our next sequence of ask a chaplain bar to be the chaplain for us he's agreed under duress but he agreed nonetheless all right our man is chaplain combs who is role-playing now when you see him he'll be private Roy Johnson if you'll just take your blouse off and come on in the chorus and counseling prepares the chaplain for the many situations in which individuals will come to him for guidance they can't keep me here I've got to straighten this out I can't be a soldier I can't train I can't I can't work until I get this thing straightened out would you like to enlarge on the letter that you have here that you've received well this girl and I we are gonna get married here in a year or two and this guy is supposed to be my best buddy and soon as I go off to the service and he tries to muscle in on me now he she's going out with him and I just got to get home right now and find out why and what's going on I got a so I can have some peace of mind get down to work again but I can't go on until I get this thing straightened out and I know if I get home I know I can straighten it out make a recommendation to you before you go suppose you and I get together for almost two centuries the chaplain has met the spiritual and moral needs of the men of the United States Army his work has varied with the needs of the troops today the United States soldier serves in many distant areas of the world wherever the soldier is the chaplain is there in peace and in war the presence of the chaplain gives purpose to the soldiers mission over the years of our nation's history the role of the army chaplain has changed but the spirit of his service remains as it was in our earliest days this is always my custom when we have a religious service in the field I take the opportunity to give you what I call a word for the week taken from one of the psalms under which I myself attempt to guide my life during the week in which I hope you too will help guide your life during the week let us pray oh Lord we beseech thee mercifully to hear our prayers his selfless devotion his spiritual strength and moral courage continue to be an enduring light and vital force of inspiration to the American soldier giving him the strength the will and the determination to see that this nation of free men under God shall not perish from the earth keep you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you the Lord lift his countenance upon you and give you peace amen