So today we're talking about Breath of the Wild 2. I know how original a bunch of my YouTube friends have actually been talking about Breath of the Wild 2 today and we'll get to them in a moment, but this video is actually brought to you by ourselves. We are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED, one of these bad boys here, or a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X to 1 lucky winner this month. All you have to do is head down to the pinned comment in the description and, you know, enter from there. We have a Gleam.io link. The only base requirement is that you are subscribed to the channel. If I do draw your name and you find out you're not subscribed, we will just redraw a new name. Not that much to ask, I think. By the way, if you're new to the channel, drop a like and all of that jazz. All right, let's just talk about Breath of the Wild 2 for a moment because today is a bit of a monumental day. I actually wrote up a smidge of a script I'm going to read for a brief moment. It's really not that much. It's the weekend and E3 appears to be coming back, which we all know. Obviously, you know, we heard the news. E3 appears to be coming back. They're at least reaching out to developers to start setting up the show. This sparked all sorts of conversations and ideals to look forward to. As Nintendo fans, of course, we have one game on our minds, quite interesting considering that all of the games that are coming out are pretty amazing this year for Switch. As it sparks a hope, heck, we haven't seen that since E3 last year. Maybe it's paying out of three. We only saw that game once. We need to see more of it. After all, we're kind of overdue for information on that game. But obviously, you know, Metroid Prime 4 is it, right? That's what we're looking forward to is Metroid Prime 4. After all, it was revealed that E3 2017, of course, we're actually just talking about Breath of the Wild 2. So yeah, I might want to just ignore that everyone else has been talking about it lately too. So actually, here's some clips of some of my favorite YouTubers today and a few choice things they said along the way. Enjoy for a second. Because of Pokemon that's coming out this year Scarlet and Violet, that somehow that pushes Breath of the Wild 2 to next year. But one thing that Nate from Direct Feed Games had to say is that he stated that he already knew that Pokemon was going to be a 2022 title. Also, Jordan Fringe, Pokemon Superfan, also felt that that was going to be a 2022 title. But the big thing here is that Nintendo already knew, the Pokemon company Nintendo already knew that Pokemon was going to be a 2022 title before they announced the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 4 2022. So if Nintendo was going to delay it because of Pokemon or anything like that, they could have just done it back then. There was no reason to still go forward with saying, hey, it's 2022. If you knew that Pokemon was already coming, right? But with E3 2022 seemingly being on the table, we go back to the question that we just had. Well, why is the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 not at the February Nintendo Direct? So with E3 2022 seemingly happening, we have to start to look towards the Nintendo Direct that's going to take place during this. Nintendo always does a Nintendo Direct and they're usually really good, but I almost feel like the lines have been a bit blurred with this rise of the digital era and the rise of the digital age because you could argue that the February Nintendo Direct that we got could have been an E3 one. Like if you would have thrown in another game or two, like that thing was stacked. That thing was stacked to the brim with game announcements, trailers, gameplay, everything you really want from one of these presentations. So we have to circle back to the main question. Well, why wasn't Breath of the Wild 2 at that February Direct? Is it going to be at this summer Direct? And when the hell is this game coming out? Because I'm still of the mindset that this is not guaranteed to be a 2022 game. And I know that's going to upset some people. I know that that's going to be, you know, a bit of a hot take or a controversial topic, but we're seeing this happen with lots of games. Think of how many games were supposed to come out in 2021 that ended up getting delayed. Think of how many games that were supposed to come out in 2022 ended up getting delayed. I mean games like For Spoken was supposed to be out like around this time and now it's not coming out until October. Gotham Knights has been delayed as well. It's happening a lot more in the video game industry because of the change in work conditions and things of that nature. Welcome everyone. This is Honest Restart. And this time, we're talking about why the sequel to Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is taking so long. Why are we waiting so long for Breath of the Wild 2? Wasn't this game supposed to be out already? This game is a sequel from Breath of the Wild. It has a foundation with that game. It's been in development for years. And at this point, the development time is looking to be even longer than Breath of the Wild. So I got to thinking. Alright, I was biking around as you do in March when you live in Arizona and it's 82 degrees. You know, I was shooting some B-roll out by the school and I was thinking about this year for Switch. Man, is it amazing. You don't need to hear that from me. You know it. The games just keep coming and the list just gets larger and larger. It's an insane year, probably the best ever. But I was thinking about it in a different way. Like if we get Breath of the Wild 2, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Splatoon 3, Legends Arceus, New Kirby, New Mario Strikers, New Fire Emblem and more, Metroid Bayonetta even, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, what next? Is Nintendo, and pardon me here, blowing their load in 2022 and will that be a problem going forward? Breath of the Wild 2 does drop this year. Switch might be in a little bit of trouble because of how massive the lineup this year is. How the heck can they follow it up? Of course, you could argue that hey, they're not really blowing their entire load. We don't have a new Mario game after Mario Odyssey. That could be something for 2023. Metroid Prime 4 probably going to be a 2023 game. Of course, they don't know what else they're going to come up with, one other sequels or maybe we get a new Paper Mario next year. I don't know. There's a lot of things that are up on the table for debate. But I actually find this topic to be quite interesting because Breath of the Wild 2 is clearly going to be the big game at E3. You know, if E3 happens, which it certainly looks like it's going to, which, oh my god, I can't wait. We have such a massive event for you guys. In fact, we already have a couple giveaway items. Maybe if you guys stick around to the end, you'll see a couple of the items we're going to be giving away during that E3 show. By the way, the show extends Summer Game Fest and E3. So six or seven days long, it's going to be insane. But here's the thing. Breath of the Wild 2 is one of the most anticipated games, I think that's ever existed. And that's quite interesting because obviously, Breath of the Wild became a massively anticipated game after E3 2016. But seeing that the game has sold 27 and a half million units, if you count Wii U sales, which are only about 1.69 million. So it's not like it's a huge amount, but you include that into the total sales number. And yeah, Breath of the Wild is probably going to cross 30 million by the end of this year. That's insane. And that's without a price drop. That's without being bundled in with Switch at any point during its life. That's even without some sort of major sale. Like, yeah, you can regularly find it on Amazon for like $45. But that's Amazon discounting the game. That's not Nintendo. Nintendo did not discount that copy when they sold it to Amazon to resell and upcharge. So yeah, Amazon's just taking out their profit cut and selling it to you for cheaper. But Nintendo hasn't lowered the MSRP. It hasn't had any major sale, hasn't had any major new bundles. I think the last major bundle happened in 2017 or 2018, where they put like a little strategy guide in with it. And it really wasn't a bundle. They just sold it for the same price. And for a time period, you got like a little guide thing with it, which was it was kind of neat. But you know, kind of unnecessary to my opinion. But yeah, Breath of the Wild obviously, recently at IGN actually ranked as the best open world Zelda game of all time. Wait, did I say Zelda game? Sorry, I meant best open world game of all time ranking ahead of Red Ember Demption 2 and Elden Ring, and many, many others, the Witcher 3, etc. It is at the top of the mountain, according to IGN. And we can all talk about how we don't care about these outlets. But the fact remains that 5 years in, Breath of the Wild doesn't seem like it's any less impressive in 2022 than it was back then. So naturally the sequel to one of the greatest games, one of the highest rated, one of the best selling games to ever release, especially best selling on just an individual platform, 25 million units plus, almost 26 million on just the Nintendo Switch alone. That is massively impressive. Horizon Zero Dawn, 20 million units across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC, and they had to discount that game a year later to $10, and they gave it away for free on PS Plus last year for a time for like a month or whatever. So yeah, all that considered to get close to what Breath of the Wild was doing sales-wise on a single platform. Just let that sink in. Breath of the Wild is popular, right? We all know it's amazing, it's stunning. Something about this game from a gameplay perspective just clicks.  I happen to really enjoy it, but it's not everyone's cup of tea. So Breath of the Wild 2 obviously is one of the most anticipated Zelda games of all time, and history will tell you of course that whenever Nintendo gives you a date for a home console Zelda game a year anyways, it's delayed. Twilight Princess 2005, except it didn't come out until 2006 and launched with the Wii. Skyward Sword, going to be 2010, except it didn't come out until 2011. Oh by the way, Breath of the Wild supposed to come out in 2015, then launched until 2017. So there is a pattern of recent history where Zelda games could delay, the link to the past was delayed back in the day, Ocarina of Time was delayed back in the day, so this happens a lot. There was an announced date and Nintendo didn't even see Firm on it. They said we are planning, we are targeting to get this game out in 2022. They didn't even see that Firm on it last year. But things I don't think have changed because at this point we're getting to almost three full months into the year, a quarter of the year gone by, and by now if the game was going to be significantly delayed it probably would have been announced. I don't think that there is any idea that it wouldn't have been announced at this point because people are obviously highly anticipating this game. And I don't think there's any doubt that at E3 2022 whenever Nintendo drops their Nintendo Direct during that event, that there's going to be a big feature on Zelda. I don't know if this feature is going to be five minutes, 15 minutes, two minutes. I don't know, but there are things I expect out of this feature. I expect the title. If it is coming this year, I expect an exact release date. If it is delayed to early 2023, which is why I said a major delay. Delaying it to January, February, March to me would not be a major delay. Delaying it to holiday 2023 or all the way to the next generation platform, that's a major delay. And those are the delays I don't think are going to happen, but they could obviously make it early 2023 if they needed to. I don't think that's going to happen though. I actually think it's going to be dropping this November and Pokemon surprisingly is going to drop in December. I actually think that's the plan and that's why they said late 2022 with the Pokemon game instead of holiday 2022 because late 2022 really infers December, whereas holiday 2022 heavily hints towards November. So I think that this was always the plan. Nintendo knew it. They organized it with the Pokemon company Zelda for November, Pokemon for December.  And this game holds a lot of hopes and dreams for a lot of people from Zelda fans to Nintendo fans to people worried about things like Val Steam Deck taking over and you know, oh my gosh, what's the point of Switch anymore? Val Steam Deck can play Switch games better than Switch, which it can't. Not really. The more intense exclusive Switch games like Super Mario Odyssey don't really run at what you would consider playable frame rates on Val Steam Deck. Now that might change, updates, optimization, all that. So eventually it might be true. The potentials there that it could outperform Switch with Switch games, but it's not there yet. So a lot of people are looking towards Nintendo to go, hey, we need these big games to come out to remind people that you know what? Switch ain't going anywhere. It don't matter what Val's doing. It don't matter what Sony's doing. It don't matter what Xbox is doing. Game Pass, incredible. Horizon Forbidden West, incredible. Elden Ring, hey, From Software, absolutely incredible. Game of the Year contender, little leading Game of the Year contender for general outlets at this time. Probably right now if the Game Awards was today would be Game of the Year. Breath of the Wild doesn't want to be forgotten. Breath of the Wild 2 doesn't want to be forgotten. And it will be interesting to see if it does still come out this year, because I think if they delayed it to next year, Nintendo would be sort of ensuring that Breath of the Wild 2 has a shot at Game of the Year. Whereas this year, that's stiff competition and it's just a shoe-in that it's going to beat out Elden Ring. And we got to get to the review scores even matching at first, let alone the sales. So we'll see what happens. But Breath of the Wild 2 is in a very interesting place, because Elden Ring, I think, rails the bar just a little. It took a lot of what people loved about Breath of the Wild with the exploration and expanded it in different ways, obviously using that Dark Souls formula. Zelda's not going to go with that Dark Souls formula, of course, but they are going to go in their own direction and expand upon what Breath of the Wild set up. And we don't know what that expansion is. We know about some of the new abilities, because they leaked in some patent documents last year. But we don't know how this is all going to come together. How is the gameplay of Breath of the Wild going to actually evolve? Oh, we're in the sky. Oh, we're falling down. Okay, we don't know Sheikah Slate abilities. Do these other abilities live up to the Sheikah Slate abilities? And do they add new fascinating brand new gameplay elements? Does the physics engine evolve? As Andres Restart pointed out, this game has had more development time than the original Breath of the Wild. Where I need to remind you, they had to build a brand new video game engine from the ground up to specifically make Breath of the Wild the way they wanted to. They did not need to do that for the sequel. So the expectations must be sky high. The pandemic can explain some of the time that it's taken, but not all of it. The polish put into this game must be absolutely insane. The size of the world, no matter what is there from the sky to the ground to the underground probably dwarfs Breath of the Wild. I won't be surprised if there's twice as large as Breath of the Wild when everything's put together in terms of just the world and the changes in the world and the craziness of the story. And what happens if Zelda is also playable in a different way? What happens if there's time travel? What happens if there's all this craziness and Skyward Sword and then what if Demise comes back and then, you know, Phi Phi Phophon pops out of your sword at one point because there was a reference to Phi in the original Breath of the Wild besides the Goddess statues? We obviously got Skyward Sword HD last year which could have been a heavy hint that there's a reason that people should be playing that game right now and why we haven't gotten Twilight Princess and Wind Waker yet because they don't want to take away from Skyward Sword that's going to help lead into Breath of the Wild. So Breath of the Wild 2 that is. So there's a lot riding on this game for Nintendo because this is the game that when this comes out we're not getting another one for probably five years. Even if this becomes a trilogy of games which it very well might be. If this is another Zelda game that moves 15, 20 plus million units, Nintendo is making the third. It's going to happen and when they do it's going to be on their next generation system. We're not going to see it. If it drops right now, we're not seeing a new Zelda till 2027 at the earliest. I mean it's possible they get one out sooner. I would suspect 2027 which will probably be right smack dab in the middle of Nintendo's next systems life. Now I do obviously think with the Mario Kart 8 DLC they're going to be launching the next system with Mario Kart 9 or 10 or whatever they end up calling it Crossroads. All the rumors out there. Maybe even the reason we haven't got a new Mario game is they plan to launch that next system with a new Mario game because they know Zelda is not going to be there. They're going to heavily push Mario which hasn't always worked out for them by the way. Super Mario 64 is amazing but the N64 didn't sell that well. So that didn't really work for them. New Super Mario Brothers U is a really nice game but didn't really help the Wii U push units. So Mario Kart though that early in the life cycle would probably be a nice big system seller and who knows what the hell Nintendo has worked on because all these franchises that we're getting this year were Kirby games every year. We're not Kirby games like this. A Kirby game like this probably going to be another two, three years before we see one. You know we got a new Xenoblade game dropping this year. Again probably going to be four or five years before we see a brand new Xenoblade game.  It's going to be five years before Splatoon 3. You know we got Animal Crossing back in 2019 but there was an eight year gap or sorry 2020. Eight year gap so we're not seeing that till 2028. Obviously Nintendo will port over a lot of games and do what they need to do even if it's backwards compatible. We'll pack all the DLC with these ultimate editions and deluxe editions and up res and whatever they got to do to sell those games again but bottom line is Breath of the Wild 2 has a lot riding on it because it has to compete with games that have learned from what Breath of the Wild set up yet it also has to compete with itself. Itself is its own competition. Breath of the Wild is so great can a true sequel be even better? You know what? I think we're going to find out later this year. You guys let me know about your hopes and dreams and your thoughts on all of this down in the comments below. I am Nathaniel Alplejans from Nintendo Prime and gosh any excuse to talk about Breath of the Wild 2 is always a great one. Catch you guys in the next video.


It's important not to lose sight of what drives us. Love. Justice. Reverence. But the moment you put your desires before my own, they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat. This is simply the truth.


Josh to do, good job for big kids. Elizabeth Olson will be referred to as the third Olson twin as she grew up alongside her world-famous sisters, Mary Kaye and Ashley Olson. I'm three hundred two thousand and I'm two thousand. Haha. Before Elizabeth Olson will begin her career off Broadway and eventually make her breakthrough into films, thanks in large part to her performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene. I felt like really uneasy. We want people to feel really sick while they're watching the brilliance.  We don't, we don't. We want them to feel on edge though, I know that. Yeah. I think that. That's what I want them to feel. Before Elizabeth Olson would join the Marvel Universe as the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Age of Ultron and eventually go on to start in her own spin-off series, WandaVision. Can you say anything? Can you tell us anything that hasn't already been revealed? No. No, okay. I mean, you know that, but I think I can say it's Wanda and Vision living their suburban sitcom dreams. Elizabeth Olson may have grown up in her older sister's shadow, but these days she's not only her own woman, she's arguably the most famous and popular Olson sister in the world. They would rope you in a couple. Yeah, it was like after school care. I'd remember like, I know it, I've seen it, but like the actual experience of doing it, I don't remember so much. After getting her started cameo roles in Mary Kate and Ashley Olson films, Elizabeth would consider doing other things with her life before getting bit by the acting bug once again in her college years. Rising up the ranks of the independent film circuit, Elizabeth would eventually land in some of the biggest pictures in the world, including Godzilla in 2014, and her first appearance in the Marvel universe came the following year in Age of Ultron. That type of success is a far cry away from where she was early on in her life when she considered changing her name to distance herself from her famous sibling. She told the Sun, I couldn't walk into a room without everyone already having an opinion. The thing about nepotism is the fear that you don't earn or deserve the work.  But when she started working, Elizabeth's love for her family wouldn't let her carry through with her earlier plans after she realized that sharing her last name with her sisters was nothing to be ashamed about. How's it going everyone? It's your girl, Kara the Vampire Slayer, and since Elizabeth Olson is super low-key and private, we're bringing you her before they were famous bio instead of her house tour. We usually do videos like this on our main channel, so they're much more over there if you wanna check it out. Today we're taking a look at everyone's favorite superheroine, Wanda Maximoff, aka Elizabeth Olson. WandaVision is currently one of the most popular shows, so with Elizabeth's visibility at an all-time high, what better time than now to take a look back at her life story. As always, don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat, and now let's get into this video. Elizabeth Chase Olson was born on February 16th, 1989 in Sherman Oaks, California, and is the third daughter of David Olson, a real estate developer and mortgage banker, as well as Jeanette Olson, a personal manager. Her older sisters are, of course, Mary Kate Nassley Olson, first known for their performance as Michelle Tanner on the family sitcom, Ol House. And Elizabeth was born two years after they first appeared in that series in 1987. As you might expect with a lineage like that, Elizabeth, whose nickname from early on was Lizzie, began acting from a young age. Before she turned 11, she would appear in her sister's films like How the West Was Fun, Our First Video, and the Straight to Video series, The Adventures of Mary Kate Nassley Olson. And all of these were my favorite ever as a kid. I was a mega fan of the Olson. After a few kind words, set to music, we finally convinced Lizzie to stay behind. This acting career began more like an after-school exercise. She would often be hanging out behind the scenes of Ol House alongside her brother Trent, and producers would simply stop by and ask her if she wanted to be in a scene that day. Elizabeth was always prepared to jump on camera because as a child, she took ballet and singing lessons. By the time she was in the fourth grade, she had begun to audition for television projects outside of her sister's work. In fact, one of her first auditions was for a role in the 2001 movie Spy Kids. My first, first audition, I was very little, so I have very odd memories. It was for Spy Kids, and it was to be the daughter in Spy Kids, and I got a call back and they gave me a script, and I just remember like looking at what looked like the Bible domain. I was like, I'm not reading, I'm like eight. But by the time she was 10, Elizabeth was already contemplating her retirement from the business. She told The Guardian, my parents made me write down a pros and cons list and the cons just piled up. So I figured I'd keep acting as a hobby until I was older because I felt that pressure, and that people would say, oh, that's nepotism. I decided that as long as I felt confident and worked hard for it, instead of having it handed to me, no one could take that away from me. I never got any job because of my sisters. After deciding to carry on with acting as a side hobby, Elizabeth almost quit again in 2004 after the media had a week-long feeding frenzy over rumors that Mary Kate was anorexic. At the time, Elizabeth was a middle schooler attending Campbell Hall, a private school in Beverly Hills, California, which she attended from kindergarten through grade 12. While there, she surrounded herself with super creative kids whose families were nearly as well off as hers. As an athlete, Elizabeth was exceptional in volleyball and even considered attending college on an athletic scholarship. But it would be a high school teacher who lured her back to acting as she began to study the history of theater and the many different playwrights. In her mind, theater offered a different experience than what she was exposed to growing up. She told Nylon, I just always thought that theater was different from being an actor in Hollywood. It was like this safe place where people aren't harassed. At this time, Mary Kate and Ashley were more or less retiring from the world of acting to focus their career in the fashion world. They had launched a clothing line inspired by their siblings, Elizabeth and James, which balanced Elizabeth's uptown sophistication and femininity with their brother, James, laid back downtown edge. So as her sisters were stepping out of the spotlight, Elizabeth decided to step into it, enrolling herself at New York University's Tisch School for the Arts. While she was there, other students would come up to her dorm room and knock on the door simply to stare at her, which only made Elizabeth want to prove herself more. She even spent a semester studying in Russia at the Moscow Art Theatre School in 2009. When she returned to New York, she began taking acting gigs at off-Broadway productions and underground art pieces that not a whole lot of people ever got around to seeing. More often than not, Elizabeth was the understudy in these productions, which means she was seldom called upon for duty. Instead, she had spent performance nights writing school papers on her laptop backstage. Eventually though, a Hollywood agent spotted her name on one of the playbills and reached out. Within a year, she had landed leading roles in five independent movies, one of which was her breakthrough role in Martha Marcy May Marlene's. This was in 2011, the same year she graduated from Tisch. Hello? Hi. Martha? Yeah. Where are you? But where have you been? Um, I'm not sure. Upstate, I think. That role in which she plays a woman who escapes from a cult, earned Elizabeth many film-critic awards and set her career on the path she's still on today. Following the success of that film, she would go on to appear in other indie films like Liberal Arts and Very Good Girl before breaking into the mainstream with her role in 2014's Godzilla. And while Elizabeth doesn't regret any of her career choices, she does wish she had taken a little more time at this point in her life to weigh her options. She told Vanity Fair, it just kind of happened quickly. I had to learn how to make work choices. I had to learn how to pick jobs differently. I went through a few years of kind of just doing things because I was so lucky and happy to be offered opportunities. In 2015, she was offered the opportunity to join the Marvel Universe after winning the role of Wanda Maximoff, better known as the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Age of Ultrons. Her role in that film was relatively small. Over the years, her character would expand into other films and after appearing in 2019's Avengers Endgame, the highest grossing movie of all time, her character was spun off into her own series to star alongside Paul Bettany in WandaVision. WandaVision was inspired by a combination of sitcoms from decades past. It's also probably the hottest show going on right now, which is kind of ironic when you consider that Elizabeth was once turned down in a role for a series that used to be at the very top of the mountain of much-swatched TV as well, That's right, Elizabeth actually auditioned for the role of Daenerys that eventually went to Amelia Clark. And after having been asked to deliver lines in both American and British accents, she remembers that audition as a low point in her career. From the lowest of lows to the highest of highs, Elizabeth Olson has seen it all in her life, but something tells me that from this point on, her career is gonna be pretty smooth sailing. As for the rest of the story, well I think that's a video best saved for another time. After all, this is before they were famous. What did you guys think about Elizabeth's story? Anything in particular surprised you? What's your favorite moment of hers from WandaVision? Let me know down in the comments. If you want some more Elizabeth Olson, go check out our new channel, Famous Fashion, where I just did a countdown on some of her best outfits. In real life, Elizabeth's style sets her apart whether she's on the red carpet or out running errands. So let's start counting down some of her outfits. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to follow me over on Instagram and I will see you all in the next video. Bye.


on the ground. Presented by theCUBE, here's your host, John Furrier. Hello everyone, welcome to the CUBE's on the ground segment here. I'm John Furrier, the host of theCUBE. We are at the IBM Open Computing Architecture Summit. I'm here with Dr. Sarah Cooper, the machine to machine intelligent course. Welcome to on the ground. Good to see you. Good to see you too. So a lot of rage on big data for the years, but now more than ever AI machine learning, it's the front lines of all the conversations, certainly hyped up beyond all recognition, but it's relevant. And so IOT right around the corner, all these unknown processes are coming that need to be automated, but yet no one knows how to automate them because all this unknown stuff happening. How are you guys seeing this big trend? Because this is some people scratching their heads on right now. There are a lot of folks scratching heads. There's a lot of, you got it right, with the unknown unknowns. You've got a ton of data coming in. Most of it is very low value. Healthy, I'm still healthy. I'm still healthy is irrelevant for most of the conversation. So there's an incredible amount of intelligence that goes into filtering and determining what is actually valuable data and getting that up into the decision and interpretation tools like the big data, the machine learning, Spark, some of the streaming analytics as well, and figuring out what questions you wanna ask today versus what questions you wanna ask next week or in five years is dramatically complex in the internet of things. That data goes from being really fresh as it's coming off the devices and valuable for making automation and closed loop decisions, but then as at ages, you're looking more at historical and predictive training models for some of that machine learning. What's interesting is that, we were talking about on our Cube segment a couple of weeks ago that the old days, client server days, you had known processes and unknown technologies. You put together to automate those known processes, HR, accounting, CRM, et cetera, et cetera. There it is. Now you have all these unknown processes and known technology. So the question I always get is, what do I do I'm an architect? I got to figure out an architecture that's going to enable me to take advantage of what might be around the corner, but yet I don't want to foreclose myself into it because the answer in the old sensor world was, I'm going to just have a vertically integrated stack. I'm going to maybe connect to IT, but I don't want to because those guys are different than I am. So you have the collision. We have collision between these two cultures of ops, edge, sensor, meets data. How does someone in IT build an architecture? I mean, what are you seeing as a step forward best practice? It's a big challenge. One of the reasons is that device vendors and manufacturers have shipped devices with an existing architecture, which is built around a device where the margins have been pushed down. So of course they want to sell you the analytics package. If you're a farmer and you've got one nitrogen sensor out in the field giving you an analytics package, that's not useful. You need an analytics package that's pulling in all of the sensors in that field and potentially publicly available data about weather, about historical tomato respiration. All of that information coming into one place is a very different architecture from the one device to one app. So that democratization of data layer is something, there are a lot of platforms out there. They're starting to move into that. You see a lot of vendors who have had strong data platforms trying to figure out how to pull in all of that machine data. And I think an architect needs to turn around and say, what are the key components? What are the key connectivity components, the security components, the ways I'm going to parse this information? And then how can I build them loosely coupled? So that way as maybe the next version of Spark is better than today, you can switch them out and you're kind of future-proofing your architectural and containers are a great way. So decouple and highly cohesive functional components, basically? Yeah, functional is the right word. The sort of functional equivalence of saying, hey, I need to filter. You can do that at a firewall, you can do it at the data layer, you can do it on a server, you can do it on a router. That filter function is what you need to write to, not the specifics of an architecture. So one of the things we were saying, we were just at HP Enterprise Discover and they had some IoT stuff. And one of the things I was saying was, oh, the iPhone was a great invention because it was a computer that had software that makes phone calls. Not a phone that has software to do text messages and do email, which was the old phones and iPhone is history. Now the premise is a data center that happens to have software that runs an edge device. So the form factors of data center power is getting smaller and smaller. So how is that going to change in your view? Because now machines are very powerful. Now you can have policy, you can have some software, but ultimately you don't want to rewrite software at the edge if the form factor is not built. So do you see a trend where new devices are coming out that are being deployed at the edge, almost like a data center? Absolutely. There's a company out there called Resin.io that's putting containers on embedded Linux so that you can do hot swap of applications on your endpoint. And that type of functionality pushes the DevOps model that we're all been talking about in the data center down towards the edge. And now you've got all of your IT guys who can move into IoT without the huge learning curve. And the more tools that kind of extend out, frankly, the better we all are in such a complex environment. We need that cohesiveness across not just day one deployment, but the entire operation scale. And that actually eliminates a lot of the running around that ops has to do. So that's- The big philosophical question is, do I move data around or do I put the compute to the data? Your thoughts? You have to move some data around. A single device only has perspective of its information. It doesn't know what its neighbors are doing and so its ability to interpret data is limited. You can ship a certain amount of context between devices, but that's very expensive, frankly. So there needs to be some centralization. It doesn't need to all get sucked into a cloud somewhere you can make intermediate decisions about the value of information and be able to dynamically determine, do I have a discrete set to make a decision here, or do I need to move up into the network or into the cloud? So that's really a function of the beauties in the eye, to behold, or it depends on the situation.  So it's a mix. It is absolutely a mix. And oil and gas is an excellent example. You've got, you know, drill heads that need 20 microsecond turnaround times for automation. That has to be done at the drill. That can't be done. We don't have the latency characteristics to do that back there. Final question, what do you think about IBM's open cloud architecture summit here? What's this all about? Helps the industry, what's your thoughts on how the openness changes the game? Obviously, security is a concern, more surface area? More surface area, I think with, again, the complexities and the heterogeneity and IoT opens the only way to go. It's the only way to pull all those pieces together and to leverage the workforce that is the open source community, particularly when you start combining things like hybrid and IoT, which we're talking about today. That's not something that anybody wants to go rebuild the proprietary solution around. So I think it's, you know. Sarah, thanks for sharing your insights here on the ground. I'm John Furrier. We're here on the ground at the IBM Open Compute Summit here, getting all the data, sharing that with you. Thanks for watching.


And let's put it together. So hello, everyone. We'd like to welcome you to the EuroPython 2016 session. And we're going to do the talk together. I'm going to do the first few slides. And then later on, Pavi is going to join in. And of course, if you have questions, just feel free to ask during the presentation. We don't want to put everything at the end, because then we used to lose the context. First of all, a question. How many of you know what the EPS is? How many don't know? OK. So the EPS was founded in 2004 when we found that organizing EuroPython. EuroPython started in 2002. And by 2004, we wanted to have an organization that basically holds the IP rights of the conference and makes sure that it's a continuous process, that the selection process works for each new location, that the transfer of knowledge works from one location to the next. And the EuroPython Society was supposed to back up the local organizers at the time. So the way that it worked was that the EuroPython Society had the trademarks, the logo. And it was supposed to have the social accounts for the conference. The EPS used to select, just select the conference location. It did not actually run the conference itself. That was being done by local organizers. But every now and then, when we switched, we had a CFP process to then determine a new location and then work with the local organizers to actually make it happen. In 2015, we realized that the old model of doing this would no longer work out. Because we had serious problems finding new local organizers doing the conference because it had grown this big. I mean, this year, for example, we have 1,100 attendees. Last year, we had 1,200 attendees. So that's a size where you cannot easily just do the conference organization like that on the side. Here, it's actually a full-time job for quite a few organizers. And so we thought that we'd use a workgroup model to make it possible to scale this up in a better way. And the workgroups are meant to allow work to be done remotely. So there are lots of things that you can do remotely. For example, you can manage the website remotely. You can do communications remotely. You can do marketing and these things remotely. And this is what we started this year for the first time. And it has not yet really worked out all the way. But I think we're doing fine in developing this kind of model. And we're definitely going to continue using it. One of the most important things there is that we wanted to reduce the loss of institutional knowledge from location to location. Because we always had in the past, we always had an issue having the knowledge that was gained at one location being transferred to the next location. Usually what happened is that we got a complete new website software set up. So EuroPython has, I think, about six or seven different website systems right by now. All the little details that you find when organizing a conference, those details were usually not transferred to the next year. So the same mistakes happened over and over again. And of course, there's a financial risk associated with this. And we wanted to reduce that risk and have the EPS sign contracts instead of having a local organizer sign the contracts. Now, this year, we tried that. It didn't work out because we couldn't manage the VAT taxes with the EPS. We tried to get a VAT ID for this, but the Swedish government wouldn't give us one. So we have to deal with that next year. So under the new structure, the local team is meant to just do the on-site work. And we try to do most of the other things remotely. Now, in practice, for this year, it hasn't really worked out that well. So what happened is that even though we had the work groups, most of the active members in those work groups were actually members from the on-site team, plus a few members from the EPS board. But we just started this year, so we have good hopes for the next years. Right, so just a few dates, maybe, to show you how the whole thing developed. In July last year, we had the election of the new board. Then in October, we did the CFP for EuroPython rather late. By December, we announced the winner, the ACPySS, the Python, Sans, Sebastian user group. And in January, mid-January, actually, we started to work with the ACPySS to run the conference. So the conference itself, the whole conference, was set up in a very, very short time, as you can see. In January 2015, we also, because we started with the work groups, we set up all the infrastructure for the work groups. So we're using a meeting list for that. We're using Lumio for voting. We're using Trello for a few work groups to manage various tasks. We set up a pre-launch website because people were starting to ask where the website was. And we set up this pre-launch website because it took a bit longer to actually launch the final version of the website. Then in March, we managed to get the final website running. The website was using the code base that was used in Florence because that was very complete conference software. And as you can see this year, again, there are lots and lots of cool features in that software. And once we managed to get it working, it really worked very nicely. And so we didn't have to do anything much to make it work like what you see now. So then in March, we also launched ticket sales. And then we ran the call for proposals, again rather late. Then in April, we had this podcast issue, which was actually the first bigger COC issue that we had. In May, we had the FinAID program set up and announced and the talk voting was started. Talk voting was not done last year, it was done in Florence and it was also invented in Florence. It was a very good kind of, it turned out to be a very good way to figure out which talks, talk proposals to accept. It works kind of like crowdsourcing effort. So basically all the people that have bought tickets can then go to the website and vote on the different talk proposals. And then the program work group would then take those results and based on those results would then go ahead and actually do the selection. So the selection was mainly done based on the results from the talk voting. But the program work group, of course, also took care to, for example, increase the diversity of the speakers, of the number of talks that were done by women. It also took care that each speaker only, well, we try to have each speaker only do one talk so that we can get more and more speakers instead of having one speaker do five talks and the other just maybe one. So I think I'm one of the notable exceptions here because I did one talk for your Python in the Python context and I'm now together with Fabio doing two other talks, just the EPS stuff. But this is more on the side of the conference, it's not really the normal case. Right, and then in June we had the schedule online. It took a bit to get that set up, again, because we had a few issues with the website. But we finally figured out how to actually publish the website, the schedule on the website, and then in July we followed up with the Guidebook application and now we have EuroPython and today we have the General Assembly. So overall it took just six months to organize this conference, which I find really interesting. And we really have to thank the local team because without them this wouldn't have happened. So I think we should give them a good applause. So thank you for that. Right, and just to give you an impression of how the development was with EuroPython, it started very small, and with 240 people in Charleroi in Belgium. And then every year the attendee size increased a bit. When we went to Vilnius in Lithuania it went down again a bit because it's a bit far away for many people, but it was still very interesting in Vilnius. Then in Birmingham it picked up again and last year we had with 1200 we had the peak so far. In Bilbao it decreased by about 100, which is not really much. And given that Berlin is right at the center of everything and it's very easy to get there and there are very good train connections and everything so it's not surprising that Bilbao has decreased a bit. We hope to increase that again a bit by maybe a few hundred next year. We'll have to see how that happens. I think that when people go home again and they know how well organized this conference was and how beautiful the location is and beautiful Bilbao is, I think they will definitely come back and get us more attendees next year, which is good because more attendees of course also means more work, but it also means more sponsors and sponsorship is very important for the EPS because in the long run what we would like to be is something like a European kind of version of the Python Software Foundation so that we try to use the conference to make money and then to redistribute that money to the European Python community so what we ideally in the long run would like to have is a grants program where you can go to the EPS and ask for grants for running smaller conferences or running projects in Python and so this is our long term goal for this and for that we need to increase the sponsorship from what we currently have. At the moment for this conference for example the sponsorship revenue is about 175 or 180,000 euros, which is really not much, I mean if you look at Python US, Python US has way over a million dollars in sponsorship money every year, so there's quite a big, they have about well between 2000, 3000, I think it's about 2500 at the moment. So I mean compared to Europe Python, Europe Python has about a thousand, but I mean it's just quite double the size and but the sponsorship money there is, well I mean in the US it's much easier to get sponsors because they're very open to sponsoring things and in Europe it's not that easy so we have to try to talk to all the big sponsors that you have at Python US for example, whether they would like to do the same kind of thing in Europe, you can see that with Google for example it has worked out great thanks to Fabio's good connections to the Google sponsor contact, they really invested a lot of money this year, we're trying to do the same with Intel, we're trying to do the same with Microsoft and with Facebook so we need to get better connections to them, build better relationships with them and then make everything bigger. So now I'm gonna pass over to Fabio, he's gonna talk about the work groups. Okay. We have a slide. We have a slide for that, yes. I think it's on the general assembly, right? Yeah, maybe it's not on this one, let's see. One thing, a couple of things I wanted to mention, as sorry, I know Bilbao is in the center of the world but Berlin is more connected, that was the statement. And the other thing was I wanted to mention is that I had many people asking about around regarding the website and how they could, that it was hard to help and how we chose, how come we chose the Italian version instead of the last year version and the background is that we contacted both the main developers of the Italian and the German versions and based on the support because we didn't have much resources. Both were very, they said to be very honored for the request but the Italian team turned out to be ready to do more work. So it's to say that both software work great software as well. One, so the work groups, the work groups concept we had in mind is that we had one group, work group chair person or two, depending on the work group size, working members that would focus on specific topics on specific things of the conference that could work remotely and we could organize those work groups with voting members and a few other working no voting members. The teams were, sorry, were built looking to set to tackle the conference administration so having to run contracts with the venue, tickets, support one finance group to control our budget, do accountings, billings, check out the connect with other work groups that needed something from the budget. Sponsors, so for instance, sponsors and finance work very connected work groups. Sponsors of course were in charge to contact new sponsors and all sponsors logistics, explore sponsor's needs and everything, communications, do press release community relations, work on the diversity and outreach, code of conduct, follow up with meeting lists, the support, help desk, sorry, contact attendees, help with business, financial aid, handle the grant selection, set up grants, aid, organize aid, put up information marketing, do their jobs, the program that Mark, Mark and I already told about, which is repeated, the web work group to handle basically the website and everything related, the media team to do video recording and translations and of course the most important team and the on-site team to handle as a glue for those work groups and work locally on all the providers, the venue and all the needs regarding catering, printing, logistics and everything. We thought since the beginning this was quite important to have guidelines to get communications right, avoid putting people in a place where they couldn't actually understand where they could help. The guidelines are necessary for those groups also because to welcome new people and address how they could help to keep the knowledge and hopefully act as a code base to improve and then near the new additions. The purpose is that the guidelines evolve pretty much in line with the conference's additions so every year we learn something new, every year we have new members, new ideas and we really think that those guidelines should just be written by the volunteers and the people doing the conference and hopefully from the feedback from the people enjoying the conference as well. We did a lot of, we had a lot of content to Wiki and a new Wiki with the content. We set up a few procedures and documents to handle all the communication, the conference workflows and needs. So at the end of the day, this year was pretty much a dense year. Hard year but an overall I think this year was really a big step forward on building something that can stand for the future additions. We built a lot of things. Many things may not be great on the workflow side of things but we really, I think this is a real proof that we can handle this. If we could, especially the team from Yubao could organize a conference like this in six months with a lot of attention, a lot of small time and many unplanned surprises like for instance starting with a number of volunteers and ending up with a fraction of that number pretty soon. That proves that we really can do incredible stuff if we have time we can do even better. So I guess that's that. Those are Yubao Society contacts for information you can check out the website. We have a blog and every request, there are many channels you can contact the Yubao Society even through the board or the mailing list or other channels. So I invite everyone that wants to help to step ahead, help propose ideas and keep helping us doing what we do. That's all. Thank you. Anybody got questions? So thank you very much for organizing it. It's an amazing conference. I have just two things I wanted to raise. So talk voting, so it was really amazing compared to some centralized commission which was picking up a few years ago. The only thing is I think that everyone should have a limited amount of votes that you can give because otherwise you have a lot of talks that had very catchy titles. They were not fulfilling the promise and I think that the catchy title itself because of the freedom of voting for as many talks as you want I think that it biased those catchy titles towards actually being selected soon. Perhaps Alex wants to say something about that because he is one of the, well, one of the two Alexes anyway. It's just my only thing is like whenever you are going with the model of crowdfunding or crowd voting, it's like you always seem to introduce the concept of some kind of currency. Otherwise if it's unlimited, then you introduce a lot of biases and it comes from the fact that because everyone has a limited time here. So basically it makes sense that everyone can vote as many talks as you can attend basically a 20 or something and that's it. So basically I can answer that directly from the Voted Program World Group. Thanks for the import. Basically I have some similar results because but on talkwalking we spend a lot of time on the algorithm comparing and it was not just like a number of votes. It was one more complicated thing. It is an Oswald algorithm. It's more like preferences. So it doesn't really matter if you voted for many talks because we didn't not only sum up the points. We did comparison averages and said and we finally used the algorithm with also Italian brought to us. We changed it a bit. So there was no possibility of down voting. But there are some things I think we can improve on the voting process because it's for me it's a bit limited only to people having a ticket. I want to suggest that we include people probably having attended one Euro Python because basically we want to build a great conference for attendees but we don't want spamming with people making multiple counts. So basically yeah. What was good last year is that there was like some kind of feedback you could give. You could ask questions to the people creating the talk. So this year there was no... So my only issue here is like it's actually amazing that you decided to go this path rather than actually making the whole voting closed. But I'm saying like if we really want to achieve the transparency of the selection, either we go with the crowd voting and then like crowd voting that is fully transparent or like some hybrid system where you say like you can vote but actually you don't vote because after that there will be some algorithm that would do something with whatever you did actually. Whatever you vote for. It's all available on the website and it's just nothing really hidden. The way that it worked was that we basically used the system, looked at all the voting results and then the voting results were then used by the program work group to then make the actual selection. So what for example the program group did was instead of having 10 talks about maybe I don't know I think IO, which is very popular this year, they just selected a few of those and then instead gave the preference to other subjects which were a bit underrepresented in the talk voting results. So the voting results were used as basis for the selection but I think it's already a large step forward because you don't have this kind of committee decision process for the talks. We sometimes get biases from those committees into the talk selection. So that happens sometimes with conferences. Yes, that's really good but if everyone is voting and it's like a decision of everyone to have certain kind of talks and I think that's a community decision. Like the community decided they wanna have 10 async. I just wanted to make one comment that takes account also like why the talk voting was introduced in 2011 and there was a progression on one side imagine handling what 300 talks that you need to review, look at it and it turns out that public voting if you see the people voting, I don't think anyone vote all the talks. I can't remember anyone that actually voted every talk. It's, you need to spend the whole day clicking, clicking. I totally agree. It's a very difficult thing and it's a very interesting topic. We picked what seemed to be the better compromise. That's actually that there are many theories about how we should do this. It's a very interesting discussion. So although the source is open source, we could try and maybe put some link regarding the algorithms we have used. If you care about that and you want to improve it, I would really invite you to make suggestions or try to improve that. We are open to improve next year. Oh yeah, definitely. I'm saying this from the perspective of a person that is willing to contribute to that. No, no, sure, sure, sure. It's not like really a completely clean discussion. It's really because it's a hard thing to do and the thing that we chose to not do everything voted is because to avoid some sort of bugs in the attendees preferences. Like we care a lot about diversity. We care a lot about giving the opportunity to everyone to talk. So people are biased by their friends, by people that they already know. So it would be hard for someone like young that don't have enough experience, that don't have enough visibility to get into talking just because someone that is really known have 10 talks, you know? So it's a hard thing to balance. It's really hard. And just to close, this year that the program work group was fairly limited. Like you can understand by people laughing, okay? So the program work group is really like more or less in the front row. So, no, no, there are more, there are more. It's just to say that we had a lot of, yes, yes, sorry, I don't know. But I can count on two hands. And we made a lot of requests for people to contribute. So really, if you care or other people care about doing this, we are. I just wanted to add one thing because we have to switch to the general assembly now. If you want to sign up for one of these work groups and you're interested in helping out and improving your Python, how it's organized, then please submit an application request for that. You go to our website, where's my mouse? There it is. You go to the website, you go to your Python work groups and this lists all the work groups again and at the very bottom, you, where is it? There you go. At the very bottom, you see this, the mailing address here, the board mailing address and then you just send an email there, say, okay, I would like to work in this and that work group and then basically we set you up for it. No, no, you don't have to re-sign up, no, no, no. The whole, the idea behind the work groups is that they persist from year to year and you can stay as long as you want to. If you don't want to be on the work group anymore, you can just tell us and then we just remove you from the work group again. So it's a very kind of open process. We were not making any big restrictions there. The only thing that we sometimes do is we ask the chairs of those work groups whether they need more help in a specific area because sometimes people sign up for multiple work groups and then we sign them up for those work groups that need more help rather than work groups that are very popular. For example, the program work group was very popular so we had lots and lots of members in it. Unfortunately not all these members were really active so in the end, even though we had lots of members in the work group, the actual work was only done by very few people and we've seen similar things in other work groups but for the program work group it was really an exception. So we're trying to change that and if you have suggestions on how to change that that would be very welcome because we don't really know how to address this. One suggestion that was made was for example to assign tasks to people and do that specifically so tell someone to do a certain task and come back maybe in two weeks and with that finished task to do it that way so that people feel addressed and don't just see something happening on the mailing list and then thinking that well someone's gonna do it anyway so I don't have to look into this. That may be one way to try to improve this. We'll have to experiment with that a bit. If you have other suggestions please tell us because this is where all volunteers we're all working together and we don't want to put too much pressure on people but on the other hand we also don't want to have a few people burn out because they have to do too much work. There was one question back there, yeah? Over here, yeah, Mashi. I wanted to, first of all, all of you have to know that I was involved in the program workgroup. I saw people corresponding in email at two or three in the morning, right? They worked very, very hard, okay? All of us, I made a very little contribution but all of you was something huge, the work that you did here. For my point about the voting that we were talking now I and I think other people were in some kind of deadlock situation. I wanted to come here, I submitted a proposal when it was the submission of proposals and my university financed my arrival here in condition that my proposal will be accepted but I could not vote if I not pay the ticket but if I don't have the budget I cannot pay the ticket but I don't have the budget because my proposal was not accepted. Then it was a deadlock. The last day I paid from my pocket for the ticket and then voted and my proposal was accepted as a poster and then I received the financial aid of the university. Then we have to find some way that people that presented and submitted a proposal but did not pay the ticket will be able to vote for all the proposals, right? And then when they have the money they will be able to pay for the ticket. It's a complicated situation, I know. It's not something so simple but we have to think what is the best solution for this deadlock situation. We'll have to experiment with that a bit. We actually, we simply took the code that was there and just switched it on and basically let the web code take care of this and I'm not really sure. I did one experiment and I found that you don't actually have to buy a ticket to do the talk voting but maybe that was just because my user account is switched on as a staff account. I don't know, could be. So we definitely have to look into that for the future. I actually didn't want to refer to that but I'll quickly add to that that other people who ask for financial aid and won't know for a while if they get it and can come here would be cool for them to also be able to vote. But what I actually wanted to say is about the work groups because I just said a look and the program work group is indeed huge online. Wouldn't it make sense to maybe kick people out again that do not contribute because otherwise the groups will increase in numbers. So number of members and it doesn't make sense to have like a huge list of people to refer to that don't do the work and it's just, I don't know, a handful of people who actually do the work. Yeah, that's a very good suggestion. I think we should probably have some kind of policy for this. Maybe if a member is not active for a few months then we maybe just then remove that member from the work group because otherwise it wouldn't make sense, like you say. Yeah, Jacob. And that's the last question because we have to start with you. A last comment about as we are having about a lot of ideas and new things. Actually another thing that we would like to is to be more, try to be more open and transparent during the process to also let people know more about how much we are spending or on financial aid, how much we spend because financial aid is a very difficult topic because it's hard to say how much we'll be able to spend. Many times we did financial aid and helped with a red budget situation. Risking a lot of things just because. No, no, no, no, no, no. I wanted to add this to the discussion saying that as much as the community understand the difficulties of doing this, the more maybe people can make suggestions or ideas about how we can tackle this problem. I would like to look a little beyond 2016. I think it's really, really important for Europe Python to have a vision about where we want to go. I'm actually somewhat involved in how Europe Python got to where it is today because I was the founder of the Europe Python Society and I influenced the decision to go to CERN, to Vilnius, to Britain and to Italy.  We went to Vilnius because we want to spread Python in Eastern Europe. We need a vision in what we're doing and it's not enough just to think about what are we going to do next year. We have to think about what direction do we want to take. Something I see as a problem right now is that I find many of the talks rather boring. There are no really new, inspirational talks at Europe Python this year. And I think that's something we need to address. Yeah, I agree. I mean, we need to do this as well, but yes. Sorry? It's one opinion. No, no, it's an opinion. I fully agree, I fully agree. But I also think that this vision should be shared with more people. This year was a turnkey year and I think that we need to build something that is more than a group of people and is a more engaged community that drives those decisions, drives those decisions. It's a hard problem. It's easy to just take for granted that it's going to be a new Europe Python next year. And I would like that it would be like, not obvious, but this vision is much more open. And we have a lot of people, vibrant people from Eastern Europe. That means that we would like to have more teams proposing from Eastern Europe. We would like to have more workgroup members from that part, that region of Europe. So that's part of the plan that we are trying to bring. And I think we are running out of time. Okay, we need to start with the General Assembly.


Hi, guys. This is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson, I'm going to talk to you about the importance of playing a triad with an extra note. So by default, a triad has three notes, right? Root, third and fifth. I don't know why I took D flat for this example. You could take anything for that matter. You could take D major, C major, maybe an E minor. So all triads have root, third and fifth. So what I'm proposing in this lesson is you take, let's say, a D flat major chord and instead of playing it as D flat, F, A flat or a C major chord and instead of playing it as C, E, G, you're adding the top octave to the chord. Now, you may be wondering what is the value of doing this? It's not really adding a new sound, right?  You're not really changing the tonality of the chord. It's still the same emotion. So that's pretty much what this lesson is about, to encourage you to, at some points in life when you play the piano, try to not play chords like that, play it like that with that additional note. So either you're looking at this as a triad like this and then you take the top note down and add it there or you play a triad like this and then take the bottom note and then add it there. Again, you may be wondering why can't I just play it like this and that's the whole point of this lesson. And I'm going to give you five ways of using this technique, five ways of playing a triad with one extra note and I think all the five ways we have for you are going to be quite musical. They do have musical applications. It's not just to, you know, make something sound bigger or fuller or anything. It's actually going to help you play specific kinds of music.  Before we do, there's a subscribe button somewhere there. Hit it if you haven't already. And there's a bell icon where you'll get notifications for all of our lessons whenever we drop new content. So hit that bell. And if you'd like to explore the channel further, you could head over to our playlist. There are a lot of categories on hand independence, arpeggios, learning songs, of course. You can also go to our website, which can help you learn all this stuff in a lot more organized way. And there's always Patreon, which can give you all of the supplementary material for a lot of my lessons, including notation, MIDI files, my handwritten notes, and so on and so forth. Let's get cracking, guys. So the first thing I'd like to talk about when using a three-note chord and when you add one more note is the topic of line cliches, as we call it. Now, a line cliche basically means you could start with something static, like the major chord. In this lesson, I'm taking the D-flat major chord for our study. So with a line cliche, what you could do, you can do stuff like this. Look at my pinky now. It's on the D-flat. So by playing a triad now with this extra octave, otherwise it would have been this. Adding that extra octave gives you the possibility to create a very interesting chord movement around the same tonal center, which is D-flat. So you go something like just wandering around the octave, major seventh, dominant seventh, right? You know, so many songs like this. You can use it also for suspensions like... Sus two, major sus four, major sus two. Let's do this on a few chords which you may not get that scared about. Let's take C major, for instance. Let's do this on C minor, for instance. Now, what did I do there? I'm now messing with the middle note of the chord. Earlier we messed with the top note for the top line cliche. That sort of stuff. Now if you take the middle note, what is my middle finger on now? G, right? So let's get some James Bond going into the picture. And this would really open out your playing and be very much more possible only when you start playing triads like this and not like that. Because then your fingering tends to go all over the place and it gets a bit disorganized. So anyway, you can do a movement of a semitone or a tone or a down-up, you know, one step at a time. With any note of this chord. So if you take the minor third... Now move the middle finger. Make a melodic movement out of it. Don't just plonk the chord. You can make a melody out of it. You can also use this as an anchor. Keep the right hand pivoted and then move some bass as well. That's what this piano is very capable of doing. You have the right hand. There's a lot of stuff going on there. There's still one more hand waiting. So that's a really nice use for playing a triad with that additional note. It gives you that possibility of exploring one of these voices and just moving them down or up. What we call as a line cliche, you can call it whatever you want really. You're just messing around with one note of the chord, which I think will sound a lot nicer when you play the chord with four notes. In this case, C minor. So another reason why I would recommend you to play chords like this with a kind of a fuller sound with that additional note is if you're trying to play some melodic movement with arpeggios. So let's say an F major chord. Just stuff like that. It serves as the starting point to kind of build a tune. And a lot of piano melodies are played like this. All these songs are out there. There's so many of them to be a bit careful when I'm playing them. I don't want the video to be taken down or something. But anyway, so I'm taking like an F sharp minor chord. So if you arpeggiate your chord in such a way that it's an irregular pattern, not something like that, that, that, that. That doesn't sound very much like a melody. It's not going to go anywhere. So what you do instead would be... A nice style to start off which is actually this Thresio phrase which is ta-kitta, ta-kitta, ta-kitta, ta-kitta, ta-kitta, ta-kitta. Maybe and so on. Stuff like that have this whole Thresio movement. So an arpeggio melody is nothing but an arpeggio which is rather irregular. So you could go one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.  It won't just be... Obviously that's not a melody. Nothing's moving. So what people do? I really think this video may be taken down with all of this stuff I'm playing. It all sounds familiar. I just don't have a clue what I'm doing. Moving on, hopefully you found part two useful. Why you need to play triads with four of them rather than the three of them as the word suggests triad three. We're trying to add that four to add more options on the piano. Moving on. Yeah, so if you're like me and if you like to play a lot of fast stuff on the piano, what guitarist I like call a shredding, you know, you can do that really well on the piano, especially when you have that extra note. So if you take a D minor chord and just go... Let's say here. You want to play it like super fast and show off, for example. Now that sounds nice, but it can sound a lot nicer and strangely enough, a lot easier on your wrist and your forearms if you add one note. That's a weird thing to say, right? You're adding a finger. It's supposed to be tougher, but trust me, it's going to be easier to do some of that shredding. So if you take D minor now like this and now roll with it. Let's say a one, two, three triplets like this and speed that up. Get some nice speed. Of course, you need to control this. Now, you may be arguing this is going to burn my hand or probably fry an egg from where you're standing if there is an egg next to you, but you don't...  So what students tend to do is as they keep playing, they will slouch the wrist. The wrist will keep dropping and if you look at it logically, when the wrist drops, it's going to put more pain on the forearm muscles, the triceps, the shoulder, and eventually even your back. So what you want to always do is play it with a light and a floating wrist. So you go... See, even though I'm playing this fast, my wrist is actually doing a dance here. See, it's just going down, up, down, up, down, up. Pretty much that. And that's the secret to playing this sort of stuff for a long, long while. Yes, your hand will eventually burn up, but this is the idea. Whenever you get more and more pain, push your wrist even more inside. So all that will do is it will push it, push the stress to this part of the hand and then move it outward, you know, and so on and so forth. Also while playing fast, also remember that the bigger muscles of your upper body, like your back and your shoulder, are also very important while playing the piano. So you need to activate your back, your core muscles, and also your shoulder. Your shoulder... I see a lot of people dropping the shoulder and what this is going to do, it will put all the weight on the weak muscles of the piano.  So while I like playing these triads with that extra note, is it gives me that shredding possibility, those quick arpeggios where you can compete with the more chaotic people like the guitar player in the band. Okay, moving on to the next point. Right, so a very important requirement why you need to play the triads with that additional note is when you're playing music on a six by eight time signature or a 12 eight or triplets as we call it, you know. Now if you played it without the extra note, it'll sound like this. Sounds nice. But it'll sound a lot more, you know, six eight always in a gig, at least when I play gigs or watch gigs, whenever the band plays a song on six eight the audience is expected to sway, you know, and sometimes you just do it as a natural response, otherwise the singer will have to force you to do it. Now the good thing about six eight when you toggle it like this with the root and the octave on top is it gives you that swing sensation because the pitch is actually swing. So you go, it's nice when you're accompanying.  So whenever you're playing any song on a six eight triplet feel or 12 by eight, do consider playing triads in this spread version. So we have one more style before I sign off another important reason why you would play chords in the spread way. It's what I call as anchor notes and anchor notes or pivoting notes are notes which will not change throughout the duration of the chord. Now if you anchor the whole chord and play the chord for a long, long time then the chord will end up being boring for the listener. Listener will not find any harmonic movement in the chord. The harmony will feel very static even though the time is moving. Harmony will feel static in the harmony axis. So what you want to do is check this out. You have, let's say a D major chord. This is not chord dependent. This entire lesson assumes that it could be any chord of any chord progression. So if you take a simple vanilla D major and play it like that and then you anchor the top note. Let's say you anchor just the D and keep this as your base. You can do things like thirds. You can do D with F sharp, E with G, F sharp with A, G with B, A with C sharp and you just keep that D anchoring. I find this very useful especially playing folk music because folk music is trying to emulate raw organic instruments like the mandolin or the banjo. Those are very reminiscent of folk music or the vina or the sitar from India. So if you keep all these instruments in mind the root and the fifth or the sa and the pa end up being very consistent or pivoted or anchored throughout. So this strategy will allow you to play a lot of the fusion and the folk music out there. So the strategy in a nutshell would be get your voicing to be 135 with that additional octave and explore maybe thirds. Thirds sound really nice. You see what Billy Joel did right there. So it's not like your left hand needs to sleep. Your left hand can also complement the right hand in due time. Right guys, so I hope you found the lesson useful. This was just a lesson to share with you how you can take a triad. Add that extra note which a lot of people tend to take for granted. Why bother adding that octave? It's the same note D plus D is D. It's like red plus red is red. But there's a huge huge application on the piano as you just observed with all these five pointers. So go through it in detail. Study it well. Practice it hard. And do leave us a comment if you have any doubts and also what you thought about the lesson. Again, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. Do give the video a like, a share. Subscribe if you haven't already. Head over to Patreon for all our handwritten notes which supplement the exercises quite well. And I will catch you in the next one. Cheers.


Hello, you're watching the International Lady Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at the headlines. Julian Assange granted right to appeal extradition. Xiomara Castro condemns hijacking of Honduran Congress. Third journalist killed in Mexico in 2022. Rich countries increase international recruitment of health workers. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to appeal his extradition in the Supreme Court. However, the UK High Court has denied his direct appeal. This means that the Supreme Court will ultimately decide if it wants to hear the challenge. In December 2021, the higher court overturned the lower court's ruling, which blocked Assange's extradition. The order had declared the extradition as oppressive on account of Assange's high risk of suicide. However, it was dismissed by the High Court after so-called assurances by the US regarding the conditions of Assange's imprisonment. His defense team rejected these assurances, pointing to their conditional, unilateral and reversible nature. Assange is facing 18 charges, including seven counts under the Espionage Act. These are related to release of classified documents, which exposed horrific abuses by the US military. If convicted, he could face up to 175 years in prison. After last month's ruling, Assange asked the High Court to certify points of law of general public importance. His right to seek appeal was granted based on one such point on January 24. This could have a far-reaching impact and set up precedent for other extradition cases. Assange's team will now have 14 days to submit its application to the Supreme Court. Honduran President-Elect, Xiomara Castro, has condemned attempts by right-wing forces to hijack the country's Congress. The crisis is centered around the leadership of the Legislature's Board of Directors. On January 21, Castro announced her liberty and re-foundation, or Libre Party, had expelled 18 lawmakers. This was after these members opposed the candidacy of Louis Redondo as president of the board. Redondo's appointment was part of an agreement between Libre and its coalition ally, the Salvador Party of Honduras. In response to the call by Castro, hundreds of Libre supporters gathered outside the Congress building on Saturday night. A formal session to elect the board of directors was convened on January 23. The Libre Coalition candidate, Luis Redondo, was sworn in before 48 legislators. The current crisis could also threaten the Libre Coalition's position in Congress. The National Party has already offered to take in the 18th dissident lawmakers. In our next story, we go to Mexico, which has recorded the killings of three journalists in 2022 so far. Luz Maldonado was killed in the bordered city of Tijuana in the evening of 23rd January. As per local reports, she was shot inside a car. Maldonado covered corruption and politics and had been previously targeted for her work. She was under the Baja California Protection Program for journalists in 2021. In 2019, Maldonado had approached President Lopez Obrador saying that she feared for her life. She asked for his help, support and for labour justice in the ongoing case. Jane Bonilla had been the candidate for governor from Obrador's Morena Party at the time. Just days before her death, Maldonado announced on January 19 that she had won the lawsuit. Her killing follows day after the murder of another journalist in Tijuana. Photographer Mara Grito Martinez was shot and killed outside his home on January 17. He covered crime and violence in the city and had also been placed under the State Protection Program. And finally, a nurses body has raised concerns about a growing move by rich countries to recruit medical staff from poorer regions. The International Council of Nurses has warned that this is further worsening staffing shortages in these areas. Absentee rates during the Omicron surge have reached a level not yet seen since 2020. This has been driven by sickness, burnout and starve departures. ICN data shows that there was a global shortage of 6 million nurses even before the pandemic. 90% of these were concentrated in low and lower middle income countries. An estimated 180,000 health workers worldwide have also died due to COVID-19. The ICN says that it has witnessed a rise in recruitment to the U.K., the U.S., Germany and Canada. This is fueling global inequity in pandemic response. It has argued that this scenario is similar to that of vaccines where rich countries have used their economic might to buy and hoard critical supplies. These countries have focused their recruitment efforts in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Caribbean. Nurses are often offered a higher salaries and a preferred immigration status. The ICN has retaliated the need for a coordinated and collaborative global effort. This is also highlighted in the WHO's 2010 Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment. Well, the countries are urged to recruit through bilateral agreements which include health support for source countries. And that's all for today's episode. For more stories visit our website peoplesispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.


Welcome to nursing school explained and this video in the new series of care plan help particularly how lab values and your patient need to be correlated. So care plans are this very nice opportunity for you to show that you understand and critically think and link the theoretical knowledge and the patient that's in front of you in clinical and see how that all relates. So this particular video will focus on lab values specifically white blood cell count and nursing considerations. So here white blood cells when we have white blood cells on the result for our patient we should always think about potential infection or inflammation. So don't jump to the conclusion that the patient has an infection there might be some other things going on but there are certain things that we can do for our patient to assess their vital signs and their white blood cell status and keep an eye on maybe trending up of those white blood cells. So vital signs that relate to inflammation and infection are always temperature right your temperature is going to go up and then it might also reflect in the heart rate and the blood pressure meaning the patient would be tachycardic and potentially hypotensive. We'll go into the purple here in a little bit. Then complications that arise from hospitalization always include think about the lungs and the urine because patients might develop some sort of adelectasis or even a pneumonia and or urinary tract infections. So we always want to assess the lung sounds and their urine and that doesn't necessarily mean a urine sample we can just gather subjective data how's your urination any burning any changing color and so forth and then we want to check any kind of surgical sites or wounds and that includes drains and maybe burn injuries any kind of skin breakdown that could be the cause for this underlying inflammation and infection. We always want to check other pertinent sites so look at the admission data and see what else the patient might be at risk for giving their past medical history and then think about any potential complications of the diagnosis and the main problem that the patient is there for. So anybody whose bed bound is at risk like I said for lung complications and urine complications but if there are underlying condition that has to do with their kidney so their liver or anything else any immuno compromise we want to specifically tie that into the patient's analysis and so then over here I came up with an example very simple example of a patient of 45 year old female who is status post-colossus tectomy so she had her gall bladder removed past medical history includes diabetes hyperlipidemia and she's a smoker. So now when we think about those white cells we can assess their vital signs like we already talked about and then interventions over here are in purple so we can give her antipyretics to get that fever down we can also give her IV fluids to keep her hydrated get the heart rate down and the blood pressure up we can encourage the use of an incentive spirometer and or maybe check a urine analysis if that's indicated for any surgical sites after we assess them we want to check for dressing changes and any wound care that we might need to be providing and then if we think about any potential complications so in this patient who is also a diabetic post-surgery we know that hospitalizations cause stress response and so the surgery so we want to keep a close eye on the patient's blood sugar see how much she's eating note the percentage of the meals and then give her insulin to keep that blood sugar down to make sure that she can heal properly. So these are all tied into the patient's white count first we assess and then we intervene and if you can show this relationship on your care plan your your instructor will be very happy with you and you'll get a good grade plus it'll foster your critical thinking. Thanks for watching check the other videos that pertain to lab values and nursing considerations on your care plans coming up in the next few weeks thanks for watching