Welcome back to VMworld Live 2010, live at the Cube in San Francisco, California, Moscone Center at VMworld 2010. Please welcome this morning's press conference with VMWare, Compellant Technologies, and their customers, Heineken from the Netherlands. Speaking today, is Todd Nielsen, Chief Operating Officer of VMWare, Phil Soren, CEO of Compellant Technologies. And from Heineken, the Netherlands, Mike Robers, Virtualization Team Lead, Lucian DeKoenig, Project Manager. And now please welcome Todd Nielsen, the Chief Operating Officer of VMWare. It's great to be here, and we'd like to welcome you to the Compellant VMWare press conference. And I want to say a couple of words about Compellant Technologies and our partnership with them at VMWare. They've been a great storage partner of ours, have a number of customers together, a number of our partners. And we really like working with them to drive value to our overall customer solution set. That we announced yesterday at VMWare for every dollar of license revenue that VMWare sells. Our partners or our ecosystem is able to add on or to drag with that $15 of ecosystem revenue. And the Compellant folks are a great example of a partnership with VMWare solutions work well together and we do some exciting things. We're going to hear from the president and CEO of Compellant and one of their customers. But before we do, one of my favorite twists of this press conference is a differentiation of Compellant is the fluid data architecture. And I think it's somewhat ironic after last night's beer crawls at VMWare 2010 that Heineken happens to be the customer on stage. So I'm sure there's a story there and I would like to introduce Phil Soren, the president and CEO of Compellant to tell us about the company and about the Heineken beer crawls. Great, Todd, thanks a lot. We're just thrilled to be up here on stage with you, being participated in the fantastic show you have in operation here at Moscone in San Francisco. And we're thrilled to have a joint announcement with our customer Heineken here and to have them come over from the Netherlands to share the excitement with us. But let me tell you a little bit about Compellant. We're a data storage company with the fluid data architecture. We've been really the innovator. If you look at primary storage innovation over the last decade, things like thin provisioning, sub-lun, automated tiered storage, tiering disc platters, flexible volumes, portable volumes, thin provisioning. You look at all those types of innovations over the last decade that storage has come out and Compellant has been the leader in that whole space. And I think we'll be able to get ahead of some of the incumbent vendors with our innovation and we're in really fast growing. We grew about 38 percent year over year last year. We're one of the fastest growing sand vendors in the world, and we're hoping to keep that growing. We have about 2,100 customers in 34 countries. Heineken being a good example in the Netherlands. Of those customers there, they're running their mission-critical enterprise applications on us for their worldwide operations. And I would say of the 2,100, about 2,090 of them are also running some form of VMware. So this partnership with VMware is very, very important to us, and we're real excited about it. Talk a little bit about our patented technology. We call it the Fluid Data Architecture, and we thought no better customer to do a joint press conference with on our Fluid Data Architecture than Heineken. So the ultimate Fluid Data Architecture is the combination of Heineken and Compellant.  So we like that there. So Heineken in the Netherlands is our customer here. We have Mike Rovers and Lucien Dekonic. And we're real excited to hear about their story. They're part of a global enterprise of customers we talked about. We have customers in all industries, verticals, geographic areas. We're announcing actually this week, we're announcing our expansion of our Australian operations, where we have dozens of customers already, but we're announcing the expansion of our Australian operations. And now let's take it back to the Netherlands and let's hear a real customer story about how VMware, Compellant can really cut the total cost of ownership in a data center by more than 50% with the combination of our two efforts and also improve the operational efficiency of those data centers. And let's hear Mike and Lucien to tell us a little bit about it. Thank you very much, Phil. I guess I don't have to introduce Heineken as a company itself because we all know what the core business of our company is, brewing beer. And not only the beer, we brew great beers and great brands. And that makes us the number one brewer in Europe. And the number three in volume in the complete worldwide. We have over 200 regional and local beers and ciders in total. And when we look at our breweries, we have almost in every country, we have a brewery or it's Heineken is deliverable. When we look at the Heineken International, we're a very large company, almost in every country, as I just said before. And we have 130, 140 breweries in more than 70 countries, which is good for a group beer volume of 200 million hectoliters of beer a year, as includes the ciders. When we look at the Netherlands, we have only three breweries that's where it all started. We have 18 million hectoliters of total supply, but we're not drinking at all ourselves. The domestic market is only about 5 million hectoliters, and the rest of the volume is going to the USA. So it's all export for us, and that's where all your beers coming from. A nice touch is that we've introduced Heineken Light several years ago that's especially made for the USA market because we don't drink it. OK, when we take a look at the virtualization roadmap for Heineken, we started about six years ago in 2004. VMware was the only real player in the market at the moment. We introduced it when we were consolidating our data centers in our main location, Zutowoude. We came from about 12 server rooms to one major data center, which we used storage from HP at the moment, and we used the HP Blades infrastructure, and we decided to go with VMware for all our DTA environments, so the test and acceptance environment. After several years, we outgrew our storage capacity, and we needed to upgrade, so we changed the EVA with a fork lift upgrade to another EVA. We also introduced a new version of VMware. Again, a year later, we thought everybody was ready to go to use production, so everyone used the DTA, and everyone was confident it should work on production also, so we started with the bronze servers, that the servers are not mission-critical for us. Those were great success, and last year, we started a new project to virtualize every gold and silver system we have, and that means every mission-critical and priority system we use for brewing, packaging, and distribution. Just the latest news is that last weekend, we migrated one of the last warehouse management systems that's also virtualized now, and it's running perfectly. Where are we going? We are looking at the end of the year, we're going to vSphere 4, of course. That's the main thing, and last year, we decided to choose for another storage solution, and we chose Compellent. Well, this is something where Lucien comes in. He can tell about the choice we made and why we did it. Okay, Mike. Thank you. Well, we'll tell you something about the project itself, the whole migration, and why we chose Compellent in the first place. Well, we really needed to look for other solutions, because especially in the two main sites, Zootovouda and DeMos, we had some serious problems, especially the support costs, because after three years, you pay an enormous amount of money for support from HP. Also, we had our capacity problems and also experienced severe performance issues in Zootovouda, so that meant that we had to take action fast. Also, we were stuck on the EVA 5000, which didn't allow us to upgrade to a newer version of VMware, and also we couldn't use WinnerServe 2008, which was very high on our priority list. Furthermore, business continuity is on the plan for early next year, so we wanted to have a solution which could provide us that. And also because Heineken has got a new, but it's not really a project, but the hunt for cash within I.T. Heineken Island meant that we want to reduce I.T. costs as much as possible. So, and another problem was that we had a major issue with reporting from our current Zen infrastructure. Why did we choose for Compellent? Well, it operates with every operating system, and that's very important. It's one solution that fits really everything. That's what we experienced as well during the migration. We could start with replication early next year. That's also very important, and we needed a high-performance solution. What it eventually meant, why we chose for Compellent, that it's excellent value for money. The Fluidata concept really was a concept that what we can use and give us high flexibility and one of the major pros is that the excellent reporting facilities is, well, I've never seen a better reporting functionality inside a project such as Compellent. And what is also very important that we got 24-7 proactive support. And that's something you never get for free. So, okay. Well, as a result, we have at least 60% virtualized. And actually, like Mike said last week, we went to 61% because we virtualized two more machines. And the speed we are going now, it really looks that we are in 2012, we are going to for 90%. And I think it's really feasible. The number of disks significantly reduced, which meant lower, how do you say that, lower on power, lower on cooling, lower on the rack space. For example, the EVA 5000 costs us 1 1⁄2, 19-inch rack. And right now it's about 12 views, so it's a real big difference. The performance we see on all layers, not only on the Windows servers, but also on the AEX systems, we see an enormous improvement regarding performance. We did have to do some optimization, but with the support of co-pilot in the last months, we had an excellent result, and we even have a much better performance than we ever had. So, and because, yeah, we are finally using solid state drives, because we really needed that for a SQL reporting server, which is very business critical. And on the old EVA, we reached performance for about 25 minutes for a report, which needed to be ready before a certain time, and now we even got times under 20 minutes. So, let's see how fast it really is. So, we're next week, actually, the final virtual machine will be migrated from the old EVA to a component, and that will finalize our migration on both breweries.  So, we're very pleased. Perfect. So, that's our part of the presentation. Thank you. Somebody talks out of the sky now, right? Any questions? Well... The question was, with all the savings he's got in his data center, can he lower the cost of Heineken beer for everyone? A new kind of Heineken light, right? Yeah. We could do that. That is not up to me. We really want to thank you guys for sharing that story. I mean, it just hit all our bullets about, you know, the future built in, performance, flexibility, fluid data, VMware, compelling, working together, and we're just really, really excited, and we appreciate you sharing your story with our viewers and our customers, and our prospects out in the audience here. Thank you very much. Thank you guys, yeah. Okay.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. We did it. Jaspy's 21 box finals basketball mixer in the books featuring a Kobe box, Break King, all sorts of fun. So that hit parade, three Pete back there, memorabilia inside, pretty awesome stuff, all card ship. Wow, so there's a lot of huge potential there. Big thanks to this group right here for getting in on the action. There are the teams right here. Let's do it. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Two and a two, four times for the hard way. One, two, three, and four. So that's Sean O down to Brad after four. Two and a two, four times for the teams. One, two, three, and four. After four times, we've got Grizzlies down to the Nets. Mack, are you laughing at the idea that there should be an assistant here? Sean O with the Grizzlies, Roy with the Raptors, Sean with the Lakers, Mack with the Hornets, last bottom mojo, Sean with the Spurs, Daniel with the Bulls, Brad with the Hawks, Sean O with the Blazers, Gretchen with the Timberwolves, Brian with the Heat, Tom with the Wizards, Sean O with the Magic, Austin with the Pistons, Dmitro with the Jazz, Asa with the Pacers, PJ with the Kings, Robert with the Sixers, Brad with the Warriors, Igor with the Nuggets, Daniel Katz with the Rockets, Austin with the Mavs, Lonnie with the Clippers, Greg with the Thunder, Sean M with the Pelicans, Daniel with the Knicks, Sean O with the Cavs, Michael with the Bucks, Sean with the Sons, Aaron with the Celtics, and Brad with the Brooklyn Nets. Let's get all this on one screen. We're gonna pause the video for just a little bit, and we're gonna give people a chance to trade if they want to. When we come back, we'll see if there's any trades, and then the break, stick around. All right, welcome back, folks. There was a lot of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals were done. Maybe disaster averted? I don't know, who knows? We're gonna find out when we rip open these 21 boxes. Thanks, everybody. So I know it's kind of hard to see all the boxes on the camera right here, but trust me, there's 21 here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. There's three boxes each, and 21 back there, three items in there. So let's just, I'm just gonna grab what's in front of me, and let's just rip and go. I think maybe I'll try to catch, do some of the boxes with a lot more cards in there kind of first. All right, so there's to 149 Seiku Demboya, the Relic, oh, Relic and Autograph, Cam Reddish. 21 out of 49. Two-color Dual Relic and Autograph, Rookie, Cam Reddish, going to Brad and the Hawks. All right, I got Deandre Hunter as well and Jared Culver. Just in the interest of time, those numbered cards will have our shipping team, sleeve and top load those before they go out. Oh, this was an exclusive edition of Chronicles, oh yeah, this is the Lucky Envelope Chronicles. All right, we got Darius Garland to eight. It's a lower number, so let's just leave that one up right away, and a PJ Washington Jr. Hometown Heroes also numbered to eight. Nice, so Darius Garland going to Sean and Cleveland, the PJ Washington Hornets, that'll be for Mike, Mac in the chat. All right, this is a certified Asia edition, Devin Booker, Shay Gilgis Alexander. We got a Rookie OV Toppin and a second year's Ion Williamson.  Nice, to 49. Daniel Katz with the Rockets, R.J. Hampton. Nuggets, Autograph, going to Igor and the Nugs. Aaron Naismith, Mo Bamba to 49. Nikola Jokic to 99. J.N. McDaniels will go to Gretchen. All right, how about some Crown Royale, 1718, Crown Royale. There's some Rookie Tatum right there. Going to Aaron and the Celtics. Back here we've got Donovan Mitchell. Wow, Jersey and Autograph, Donovan Mitchell. Rookie Silhouette, 78 out of 199. Four, Dimitro and the Utah Jazz. Nice, congrats. And we got Frank Jackson, piece of his jersey back there. Yeah, that Donovan Mitchell is really nice. Donovan Mitchell win an MVP someday? Big Logan, you and I were talking about that a few days ago. Here's Magic Johnson. Choice, 2019, 2020. What happened with the, what happened with the Suns yesterday? They've lost three in a row, which is pretty uncharacteristic in the playoffs. I feel like someone was chatting about that for a moment. Was it Ben maybe? Oh yeah, Ben was saying the Bucks have been bad in games one and two in every series, but then dominant in the games after. So just in series adjustments. I suppose that's what's happening. Zach Levine, Monsieur Little and Bruno Fernando. And behind Bowl Bowl is Tramont Waters, 32 out of 88. And Darius Basely, signature series for OKC. That's going to go to Greg. It's just the, it's just the Greek freak factor. I know we might need to do a wellness check on Joe P. And there's Bowl Bowl. All right, should we do this? We might as well. There's a lot of cards in here. This is 1996, 97 upper deck SP. Yeah, I'm sure you can find some of this guy, but Kobe rookies. So Sean O'Leary with the Lakers. Time to perk up a little bit if you're watching. Also looking for film insert cards and whatnot. Actually was, actually was hanging out with a buddy of mine last night and kind of missed the, kind of missed a good chunk of the game. That's nice. But what happened? What happened in that game last night?  I guess I'm looking at some headlines here with his parents in the stands, Drew Holiday stole game five for the buck. So maybe a little, little inspirational performance from Drew Holiday. It's just Yannis. Ooh, Justin Singh, Gretch pulled a nice hologram Kobe on Instagram from some loose packs of this the other night. Nice. The bucks were making everything when they needed to. I'm not sure, Eric. Check the filler page and see if that's the last one, it should say. So I'm just looking at box score here. Yeah, Yannis had 32 points, nine rebounds, six assists. Yeah, Middleton scoring 29 points, definitely helps big time, seven rebounds, five assists. And yeah, Drew Holiday, 13 assists along with 27 points and a few steals, a block. I mean, it's not like the Suns had a bad game. You know, Devin Booker had 40 points, two other guys in 20 points. I did notice that. I thought, I think I saw the bucks were down big early on.  It's gonna go back to Milwaukee. But I was surprised that they took it. I did end up watching like the last minute or two of the game. I had kind of written it off. Suns had a trust in saying, Suns started so hot. Yeah, 16.9 the first. And then within 430 to the second quarter, they were down already. Yeah, I'm looking at the box score here. Looks like Milwaukee put up 43 points to Phoenix's 24 in the second quarter. Can't do that. Well, the next game, so who does everyone have in the next game? The next game is on Thursday. I'll be here. Thursday, six o'clock LA time. No, I'm sorry, Tuesdays, tomorrow. Sorry, Thursday is the game seven if necessary. Game six is tomorrow. Not tomorrow. My schedule's all off now that we changed it up. Tuesday, not Thursday. Tuesday, six o'clock Pacific. Cards can get stuck together, but what happens? I do like these. The hollow in the background there. Nice Ray Allen, Patrick Ewing, KG. Is Derek Fisher a rookie in here too? So I guess we've got a few cobbies here. So I guess all these cobbies could add up these prospects cards. And I suppose, Sean, you're gonna send these out to get graded and then hopefully some of them gets, some of them end up coming back with very nice numbers is what we wanna see. Yeah, I'm getting used to this new schedule here. AI, here's the glove, Gary Payton. Kids, if you're watching, this is what basketball used to look like in the 90s. So Justin's saying there's about three cobbies to a box from what you've seen on the Instagram channel. We've got a few already in this box. Maybe we'll be lucky I have to find some more. Here's Kevin Johnson. Wasn't he the mayor of a city at some point? Yeah, I set aside that Iverson too. Great movie. Charles. Remember all card ship. Right, Ben's right. Yes, Kevin Johnson was mayor of Sacramento for a little bit. Stefan Marbury. Nice, there's Shaq. Was he a, oh, gotcha. I was about to ask if he was a good mayor and Ben saying he was until until he started touching people inappropriate. Yeah, don't do that, folks. Pretty easy, pretty easy. Aaron likes these like what high school, like yearbook photo type poses here. Yeah, I kinda do too. The nineties were a wild time. These surface grades might be a challenge. Although, thankfully with those Kobe cards, I think none of them seem to, none of those Kobe rookies seem to be stuck together with another card. So a consolation. I mean, that's the risk you take with the older product like this. It's grand. Now, look how young Allen Iverson looks there. Those are for the Sixers, Robert Flores, with those AIs. All right, so Ben is saying, Justin was saying, sons in, sons, well, he wants, Justin wants his game seven. He's saying sons are gonna win the next game. He's, they're gonna, they're gonna make a game seven happen. Ben saying bucks, the, they took the son's heart. Yeah, and they'll be in Milwaukee. Mac is also saying bucks. There's Jermaine O'Neill who, Justin's saying he looks so weird in these cards. I think no, the no headband thing probably throws me off for Jermaine O'Neill. Yeah, I could, I could watch, I could stand to have a few more games in this series. But there is, there is a weird pressure on the bucks though, because they are in Milwaukee in a clinching game. And that could get, that could get pretty difficult in front of your home fans. Oh yeah, NBA definitely wants a game seven.  Yeah, I don't think I've seen an MJ card in this, right? I'm, my eye is kind of geared towards Kobe's and, and possible Michael Jordan's and not trying to ruin these cards, but it's going to be tough. There's another Allen Iverson, but all card ship lays in Jermaine. So you'll get all these old school cards too. I think, I think this is what makes the break go for much longer, not the number of boxes. Hey, there's an MJ Chicago Bulls. That's Daniel Katz. I don't know what those go for. Maybe a lot, maybe a little, I don't know. But for what it's worth, it's still a Michael Jordan card. Nice. And I failed. Very good. I'll let the recalibrate those down in history by looking at Clara Jung's old solitude, the open rally that set the first back on the field in BC on the quadrants and Max described it quickly. Max, Max got a, already bored with basketball topics. We're in the middle of the NBA finals, man. But, um, Max wants to know who do you think the Seattle crack in the NHL team grabbing the NHL expansion draft. I say, being the hockey expert that I am, I say you go with, you go with just one great keeper, goal tender, keeper, tender, one great defenseman and just one great center.  No, I did not hear about the latest 86 Jordan sale. What's the story? Did it go for a lot? Did it go for a little? I actually don't know what the market is on Jordan. 86 Jordans are right now. Tell me the story, Justin. All right, there you go. Thanks for your patience on that. What was it graded to? That's pretty cool. Anthony Hardaway. You can fiddle around that card right there too. Orlando magic, Sean O'Leary, 2012, 2013. Limited. Oh yeah, slides out. It's a PSA 10 is to 840. What have the PSA 10s usually been going for recently? I guess maybe including pandemic pricing. 88 out of 99. We've got Jersey and Otto, Anthony Mason, material moniker.  By the way, for some of these older stuff, remember Charlotte stuff will go to Charlotte and anything that says New Orleans will go to New Orleans in spite of what their mascot name is. Center stage KG Relic. Oh, so the latest PSA 10 was what, 200K, 400K. And so for this PSA 10 to go 840, people are talking shield bidding. What platform is it being sold on? These all of course go to the Lakers. Sometimes they're numbered or, I think on a rare, rare occasion, they can go for a, there can be autographs there too. Arthur is asking, yeah, I'm not too familiar with the situation but I'll need everyone's help on this. But wasn't the, Arthur Sears is asking, wasn't that Jordan that sold considered the top 5% of the PSAs? Like the best of the best? Is there a way to distinguish that? Is it possible that whoever was selling it just did a better job of getting eyeballs on it? Got a Patrick Williams rookie card. Zion Williamson shock wave. Daniel with the Patrick Williams. Sometimes you can get autographs out of this. It's Kyrie, Jordan and Wara. Marvin Bagley, Astro Parallel. Another Patrick Williams. Drew Holiday impact to $149. He's been a great addition for the Milwaukee Bucks. Michael with the Milwaukee. Let's keep going. Mosaic hanger box. The reactive orange. It's 2019, 20 edition. So Justin is saying that rumor has it that the person who got that Jordan is gonna crack it and it's gonna go for a BGS 10. What's it worth? Whatever someone's willing to pay is what the usual claim is. So maybe it just got lucky. I mean, if it was eBay, maybe the shill bidding argument could be a thing but if it was from an auction house, I would imagine they have, I mean, they have protections against that. So, I mean, I don't know. I don't know how that works. Zion Williamson, rookie card, Pelican, Sean Matic. But yeah, hard to tell what you can believe, right? Was there a guy that stole something at the Dallas show? Texas is the right place to be stealing things from people, especially if you're stealing it from a Texan. There's Jaylen Smith. Let's see what we got. Oh, nice Lamello ball origins card for Mac. That looks real sharp, Mac. He stole it Saturday and then came back on Sunday to sell it with another vendor.  This must be like an 18 year old kid. Not quite a criminal mastermind there, huh? Is that a variation too? Ben thinks it's a variation, Mac. Double check that, but still nice to get those base cards. There's Nico Manion Relic for Brad and the Warriors and the auto behind Damon Lillard is Danny Avigia. Big rig, yeah, most criminals aren't too bright. Yeah, I guess everyone in their head thinks they're like Lex Luthor. They're like, oh yeah, I'm Michael Corleone. But then like, that's how they see themselves. All right, ooh, some prison retail. I like that part of it on that side, on the right side.  Don't do that, folks. Don't steal things. That's the worst. Oh, Justin's saying apparently the buyer of that Jordan is the same guy who bought which National Treasures logo man for $4 million? Those logo men are nice. You can get the worst logo, the quote unquote worst player that has a logo man on there. I'll still probably sell for a minimum of $1,000. Got a Kyle Guy Silver for the Kings. That's gonna be for PJ. And there's Kellen Johnson. There's an RJ Barrett. Oh, the rookie Luca logo man. And Luca's gonna be pretty good, huh? They gotta put some, they gotta give him some help though. What are the Mavs gonna do? They gotta add some pieces. Just like how they added some pieces with, ooh, nice Kobe Silver. How they added some pieces around Giannis. Now they're on the brink of winning a championship. Mark Cuban doesn't strike me a guy that is frugal. Nice PJ Washington Junior autograph. Rookie Penmanship from Mac and the Hornets. I feel like, I feel like Mark Cuban will spend a little bit of money, get some players in. All right, Court Kings, 2021. Court Kings. They gotta move for Zingas. Who's gonna take for Zingas? I feel like if he could stay healthy, that would be a great one-two punch, but he's oft injured and then just hasn't found his consistency. Kawhi? After that knee surgery? People are confident in taking, maybe, I don't know. I mean, I guess, I suppose he hasn't made the decision of whether he's gonna opt in or out. Got a 149 second year, John Moran. Got a rookie expression, Anthony Edwards, Minnesota. It's gonna be for Gretchen. Get Damian Lillard down there? Jason Williams. Nice, brushed strokes, autograph. Every time I pull a Jason Williams autograph, which is not too often, this goes to PJ and the Kings. Reminds me of a video from a handful of years back where he was still playing Wreck League basketball and still got the handles. Definitely dad-botting it a little bit, but those handles aren't going away. 1718 status. Does Mark Cuban wanna build a rocket? Is he on the rocket train? Does that work? On the rocket hype train?  The Cuban missile crisis sounds like a 1980s professional wrestler, pro wrestler, WWF guy. Maybe not even WWF, like local wrestling. Small town local wrestling. Cuban's a big fan of the crypto, Logan Singh. Well, if he's maybe he's making money on the crypto, sign some guys. Get Lucas some help. Now, I think that Mark is saturated for those rich guys, Mac, because it's Branson, Bezos, and Musk, right? I don't know if there's room for a fourth. I think that the rocket market, the space market is a little saturated. Cuban's too late. All these other guys are like years ahead of him. To 149, factions, Tony Parker, Mono Ginobili, and Tim Duncan for the Spurs. Rookie credentials of Fox in the Box, Darren Fox, what's that Star Wars thing on the left? That's the child, that's Baby Yoda, Grobu. Keeps me company during group breaks. And we got Zoo Key for the Houston Rockets. This is the way, Aaron. This is the way. Rookie credentials, Darren Fox. All right, we are cruising, breaking. Lonnie says, I met Mark Cuban, his first year's owner, as he walked up to me and said, who was gonna win the game? I told him Clippers, because the Maverick sucks, had no idea who he was then. And now you ended up with the Clippers in this mixer. Yeah, who ended up winning? Tommy's saying Chinese players have huge demand for some reason. I mean, it's a pretty big country. A lot of basketball fans there. See what we got here. How far, Arthur's wondering, how far does the rocket to the moon market go? The sky's the limit on that. We got John Collins up and coming autograph. He's pretty good. Brad and the Hawks. So we're getting into some nicer stuff here. Graded card. PSA-8, 86 Fleer, Isaiah Thomas. Detroit Pistons. Austin with the spot that he won. And we've got a Luca Donchich, just speaking of. From 1819, Panini Chronicles basketball. PSA-10, and that playoff design. Luca Donchich, Austin with the Mavs. Logan's gonna try to buy Lord of the Rings pinball machine. We have a Avengers pinball machine here at the shop. And when a hero comes along, Tyler Hero. 2019 Panini Mosaic basketball, PSA-9. That is for Brian and the Heat. I think Brian's in Florida. Might be a Heat guy. There you go, Brian. Next graded card at PSA-10, Lonzo. He kind of fixed his shot a little bit. I think he's a restricted free agent. Could be an interesting one to hold on to, see what happens to all Lonzo. That'll be for, that's Lakers edition going to Sean. Next up is red, white, and blue Trey Young. I hope the Hawks keep doing what they're doing. Keep adding to that team. Keep investing. Keep Trey Young there. He was a lot of fun to watch in the playoffs. Brad with the Hawks. I've not seen the Mandalorian pinball machine. A P.J. Washington, PSA-10 for the Hornets, Mac. Yeah, Brad's happy about the Trey Young. I think that red, white, and blue parallel looks really sharp too. And he got Ja-Marant, PSA-10. Tommy, you saw some graded PSA cards for only five bucks at the shop? Yeah, that is a bargain. Did you take advantage of it?  And we've got, ooh, some Joel M.B. Trust the process, 2014 Panini Select Basketball. PSA-9, mint nine. Nice, that'll be for Robert and the Sixers. I'll have to check for that pinball site there. Arthur saying, I guess the demand will drive up the cost to go into space. All right, it can't be cheap, even if it's more available, like what's, I mean, really, really for commercial purposes. I don't know if it's really gonna go anywhere for maybe you and me. But I think the idea is you're sort of paving the way for, you're paving the way for future space travel. Could that pave the way, could future generations of whosoever rocket ends up being the better one can lead to technology that'll develop, that'll get us to the moon more quickly? Build a colony there? Who knows? That's the future. 2019 Panini Prison Basketball, Brandon Clark. PSA-10, Sean O'Leary, Memphis Grizzlies. Next is Ben Simmons. Nice, he's got a big off season ahead of him.  He's gotta work on his shot too. 2016 Panini Select Basketball, PSA-10, Ben Simmons. And another graded card, Luca Donic. PSA-10 from 2018 Panini Hoose. Nice, that's Austin with the Mavs. Tried to trade, couldn't trade Mojo. Will he shoot a three, yeah. Those are some really fun prop bets. Like over under Ben Simmons, like three points made and it would be like half a point or half a free throw. Or half a three, that is. There's Hachimura, PSA-9. That's gonna go to Tom and the Washington Wizards. A lot of graded cards here. We got Jason Tatum, nice. From 17, 18, Doneriz Optic Basketball, PSA-10. Aaron with the Celtics. And another Trey Young, PSA-10. Atlanta Hawks, Brad, another box. I think he was maybe fishing to see if he could get like multiple team offers or something like that. But hey, no harm, no foul. Didn't happen. We've got Marvin Bagley, the third, PSA-10, Sacktown. Bay Area and back down. That goes to PJN, the Sacramento Kings, King Me. We got a PSA-10 and when a hero comes along, PSA-10. Tyler Hero from Mosaic, Silver Prism. Where'd you find that emoji? A heart on fire emoji or heart burns? Aaron with passion and love. And a Zion, Blue Velocity Zion, PSA-10. I know it looked kind of hazy because it's still in the team bag, but that's a sharp looking card right there. Shawn Matic and the Pells. All right, look at this. Last box, it's Hit Parade Basketball, autographed three-peat edition series two. I think there's three pieces of memorabilia inside here. All right, oh, there's a basketball in here. So remember, there's no checklist for the live memorabilia. So if it's the basketball, for example, unless there's like a team clearly stamped on that basketball, it'll go to the team that they played for the longest if they're retired or the team they're currently on if they're active. Eight by 10 is, it's that Joe Kim Noah. Nice, that's a good action shot of him there. Daniel Katz and the Bulls. All right, nice. Daniel here on the 18th and the 21 box mixer. Where'd my screen go? Come back, screen, there it is. All right, there should be another thing in here. Here's the basketball. Here's the jersey. The jersey, who is an officially licensed jersey? So we'll do a quick who am I with this character here? Active basketball player, a center, 6'11", 250. 11th overall pick back in 2015. He played for one team my entire career, two-time NBA blocks leader. Who am I? NBA All-Rookie second team, two-time blocks leader. I went to Texas. Looks like a couple of seasons in Texas before being drafted in 2015, first round 11th overall. There you go, yep, Jordan, you got it. You're right, Miles Turner. So there's his autograph right there, very nice. His number, Turner, NBA logo. So he should have all the officially licensed goodies on there. A Nike fanatics jersey, pretty sweet. That goes to Asa, Luke, and the Pacers. I don't think I called your name all break, Asa. That's pretty nice. And the officially licensed jersey is really nice too. All right, who am I? I'm a retired basketball player. 45 years old, went to high school in West Virginia. Went to college at Marshall for a couple of years, and then Florida for a couple of years. Was drafted in 1998, first round, seventh overall. Played for one, two, three, four teams my entire career, a one-time NBA champion, and I was an NBA All-Rookie first teamer. And we were just talking, yeah, but Ben, you shouldn't have answered that so quickly. I knew you were gonna get it. Yeah, it's white chocolate, Jason Williams. Jonathan got it too.  That's pretty sweet. Game ball series. All right, there's his autograph right there. And on the box in here, says Jason Williams as well. Just in case, hard to see that. You look at the top camera. Gonna get in there, it's gonna say Jason Williams. All right, so what team did he play for the longest? Cause there's no, it's just a black basketball. There's all the authentication stuff here. Yeah, I would do the elbow pass, but I'm not Jason Williams. Let's go to basketballreference.com. Must be the Kings, right? No, he actually played for five seasons with Memphis, only three with the Kings, three with the Miami Heat, and then two seasons with Orlando. So that goes to Brian S. and the Miami Heat. He was drafted by the Kings, but spent a longer amount of time with Memphis. And that goes to Sean O'Leary, who has the Memphis Grizzlies won that spot as well. There you go. There you have it. What a nice break, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for watching and joining. Oh, did I say heat? I meant Memphis Grizzlies. Sean O'Leary has the Memphis Grizzly, sorry. Losing my mind.  All right, quick little recap here. Really nice stuff. Joe L&B, a lot of graded stuff out of that hip parade was really sharp. Pulled some nice relics and autos out of there as well. Jason Williams, Kings edition. Lamello ball was really cool too. Got some Kobe's out of that old box. That was really nice. Michael Jordan, Donovan Mitchell, Silhouettes RPA. And we started off with a Cam Reddish, which was really solid. Thanks everybody. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and that was Jaspys 21 box finals basketball mixer. Thanks for being a part of this. Whether you were watching or joined the break or tried those fillers, we appreciate it. Thanks very much, everybody. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


What is up guys? Karma Medic here and welcome back to another dose. If this is the first time you're watching one of my videos, hi, my name is Nasser and I'm now a third year medical student studying at King's College London. You can also follow me over on my Instagram page for more daily updates about my life at medical school. But for now, let's jump straight into the topic of this video, which is what my study strategy is at medical school and how I can consistently score well. Now throughout my academic life, I've managed to be not stressed or not worried for I'd say about 95% of the exams and tests that I've taken. I've also managed to score well on something like 95% of the tests that I've taken. And that's not because I'm a genius or I'm really smart and it's also not because I lock myself in my room and study for hours on end. It's because I study smart and efficiently and I think the mentality that I have around studying and exams and succeeding is a little bit different than most people. So today, what I want to share with you guys are some of the studying strategies that I use to be able to score well, so consistently over the four years of my undergraduate degree. All right, so let's start by talking about my mentality when it comes to exams and assignments and tests. Whether I have a final worth 40% or a midterm worth 20%, I will still work as hard as I possibly can to succeed in both of them. There's no point in me thinking, oh, this quiz is only worth 2% or oh, this assignment is only worth 10%. Let me not work as hard on it. And I'll have to make up for that extra loss when it comes to other parts of the course module. Another point about the mentality when it comes to exams, exams are hard. Exams take a lot of time to study for and it can be stressful. But the truth is, after I've spent a couple of weeks preparing for an exam, I've known that I've studied my best and I've put in the hours and I've put in the effort.  And if I don't do so well, that's OK. I've already done everything that I can in my power to put myself in the best position to do well. If I don't end up doing well, that doesn't mean that it wasn't worth it all the work that I put in and that doesn't mean that I didn't make the right decisions when I was studying. That mentality of knowing that you're doing what you can, you're putting in the effort, you're putting in the work is what helps me de-stress and not worry about upcoming exams. So when we have an exam at the end of the year or at the end of a semester, we'll usually have somewhere between one to three weeks off from school in order to study. During that time, of course, I study very, very hard and I do a lot of work. However, in reality, I've actually been working towards studying for this exam from the very beginning of that school year. And that's because I take my notes every single day, whether that's for lectures, tutorials, workshops, whatever it is, every day I put in a small amount of work. So for example, today I have five lectures scheduled and that means by either today or tomorrow, I will have written all of my notes for those five lectures. So when it comes exam time in December, all I have to do is read them, learn them, memorize them. And I don't have to start from scratch writing those notes or learning that material because I already did it a couple of months ago in September. I will have already seen all of the material that's going to be tested at least once. So when you're reading it again, it's almost like a second read through. It's like you're building on the foundation of knowledge that you already have. Secondly, around exam time in those one to three weeks that we have off in order to prepare for exams, I really do put in the work. Of course, I still maintain a balanced life by going to the gym, doing exercise, seeing my friends, etc. But here the priority is studying for my exams. And during this period, I always study for the exact same number of hours and I always study with the exact same routine. I set myself a goal of eight hours of studying in a day. I wake up at seven, I'm at the library and I start studying at nine. I study from nine till one, take a two hour lunch break and chill break from one till three. Study again from three till seven. Now following that timetable, I've already studied for eight hours in the day and it's only seven PM. And that's honestly already very good. If you can keep up eight hours of studying a day for one to three weeks, you're going to be able to cover a lot of material at seven PM. I can either take off the rest of the day, make sure that I can relax, enjoy myself and maintain a balanced life so that I can continue studying for eight hours a day for the coming weeks. Or if I'm still in the studying mood and I feel like I can do more, I'll take a one hour break from seven till eight and then study from eight till nine or eight till 10, depending on how I'm feeling or how close I am to the exam or how much material there is left, etc. So this structure that I have, this consistency that I have when it comes to studying for exams is something that's very, very beneficial.  And that really makes it simple for me. It takes out all of the stress about having to plan when I'm going to study, having to plan my revision timetable, etc. I know that it's always going to be the same and that's just how it's going to be. And before we move on to the next tip, I want to give a quick shout out to the sponsor of today's video, Skillshare. 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Anyways, on to the next tip. Now, let's talk about studying smart and studying efficiently for a second. On any given test, and I believe this is especially true if you're studying medicine, 80% of the marks that you're going to get are going to come from about 20% of the material that you have to study. These are the topics that come up over and over and over again. And that's because they're the ones that are most important because you're going to see them most commonly when you're working as a doctor, etc. I make it my goal to cover all of the material that could come up on a test. But my farm, most importantly, and especially if you're crunched for time, high yield material is where you have to focus. OK, now let's move on to talking about time management. You heard before that I have that very strict studying schedule. So obviously my time management skills are quite good and something that really helps me stick to this schedule and something that really helps me be OK with the amount of hours that I put in studying is very strongly differentiating my work time from my studying time. When it comes time to studying between those hours of nine to one and three to seven, I am only studying. I put my phone behind my laptops that it's not even in my field of view. I don't open Facebook. I don't open YouTube. I just sit down, I lock in and I focus on my work. Now, outside of those times, I can do whatever I want. If I want to binge Netflix shows on my bed, if I want to go for a run or go to the gym, if I want to go play video games with my friends or play video games on my PlayStation 4 here, I can do that. I make sure that I'm doing something that I actually enjoy. I don't think about work for a second. I try and relax. I enjoy myself because if I have so much fun during those times, when it comes time to study, it's fine. I've already chilled. I've already had fun. I've already binged four shows of the latest Netflix series. I don't feel the need to do that because I just did that. Now it's time to study. So that's sort of the relationship that I have with my work and that's how I separate my work from my chill or my fun time. Also hugely important to me is stress relief. Luckily, I think I'm a person that's able to sort of put different things in boxes, you know, if I'm working, but I'm also really stressed about some other life thing that I have to do. I can sort of put that in a box and put it in a side, focus on my work for the next two, three hours, whatever it is I need to do, and then I can worry about those other stressors. So that sort of compartmentalization or pushing things aside, putting things in boxes is something that if you can train yourself to do, I think would be very, very valuable because it allows you to focus on the task at hand and deal with other things later when you allocate time to them. Also speaking about stress, you know, naturally you're going to get stressed at university. There are going to be times when you have lots of different things to do and you're gonna feel overwhelmed. For me, whenever that happens, I just take a step back, write everything down on a piece of paper, allocate specific dates and times for when they're gonna get done. And that makes me feel good because I know that they're gonna be finished and done with at a certain period of time. But inevitably, and especially at medical school, there's always this sort of underlying baseline level of stress. So what I find very, very good for that, besides obviously chilling with friends and going out and having fun, is just the gym or physical exercise. Going for a run or going to the gym is something that I couldn't replace with anything else. So if you can do some sort of physical exercise, whatever that is, I would highly, highly recommend that. Now, after having taken all these things that I just talked about into account, when it comes to exams, when it comes to preparing for exams, I honestly can say that I feel almost zero stress. I know that I've either already put in the work or I'm going to put in the work to put myself in a position where I have the best chance of succeeding. If I don't succeed, that happens sometimes. And you know, you reflect on what happened, what went wrong and how you can change it in the future. And if you do succeed, you can think about what went well and what you're going to keep doing when moving forward. These are all the reassurances that I could possibly give myself that I know that I'm going to work hard, that I know I'm going to do my best. And that's all that I need to clear my conscience and not feel stressed about upcoming tests or exams. And finally, on an important note, studying is equally as important as enjoying yourself, going out, relaxing, chilling with friends, doing exercise, whatever it is that makes you happy. I think that balance is really the major key that helps me not be stressed before exams, tests or assignments. And with that, I think I'm going to sign off this video here. Thank you so much for watching. Please do leave a like on this video if you enjoyed it and also subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me in the future. And I will see you in the next one. Peace.


In order to form a no-perfect union.  The nation. We sustain it. We are sustained by it. We move through it. And we change it. We, the people. America today has over 200 million people. It has been ever since the first shiploads of settlers began arriving almost 400 years ago. 200 years ago, America was organizing itself into a republic of four million people. A nation of farms and scattered settlements in a few cities emerging on the edge of a vast wilderness. Since then, the growing population has spread across the continent in cities and towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific, even out into the Pacific and north to the Arctic. The framers of the constitution were planning a rational and stable government for a nation whose future was for them a dream filled with unknowns. But they counted on growth. To maintain proportional representation in the unchartable future, they required a periodic enumeration of the population. More than 100 years before the invention of the motion picture, it was perceived that a sequence of still pictures could provide a sense of movement, a way to observe a phenomenon that cannot be stopped for analysis. Colossal growth and movement. For 200 years in America, the principal constant has been change. A detailed family portrait. Like an epic home movie, the census is about us. We the people. On April the 1st, 1970, we were 204,765,770. In 1790, we were 4 million. In 10 years between 1960 and 1970, we added six times the population of 1790. As a percentage, our recent growth has been less than in the 19th century, when during many decades the population increased as much as 30%. Yet with a large population base of 1960, even a low growth rate, the second lowest in history produced the second largest numerical increase for a single decade. We are numerous. We are growing. We are moving. Each year, one of every five Americans moves to a new address, to the towns from the farms, from the small towns to the suburbs, from the cities to the suburbs. Growth from migration and natural growth from the birth of babies converge in the urban areas. Almost all our growth is urban. Almost three-quarters of us live in urban areas, in towns of 2,500 or more, in or near cities of 50,000 or more. In our large numbers, we are gathering together. One-fourth of the people live in the 10 largest metropolitan areas. Growth and migration patterns are changing the shape of urban settlements. Slow growth or loss of residential population in the central cities. Rapid growth in the surrounding urbanized areas. More people live in suburbs now than in the densely settled cities. We speak now of the metropolitan area, the city together with its suburbs. Large urban concentrations of population. In these metropolitan areas, the city limit is merely the line between one jurisdiction and another, instead of the boundary between city and countryside. As the edges of the metropolitan areas spread out across the countryside, several may grow together, forming a megalopolis. The largest of these, jokingly called Boss Wash, joins several of America's oldest and biggest cities. Cities formerly distinct and distant from one another, now form nearly 500 miles of virtually continuous urban settlement. A giant super-urban complex, home to one-fifth of the nation's population. Half the population lives within 50 miles of the shoreline. The Atlantic Seaboard. The Great Lakes. The Gulf of Mexico. The Pacific. The people are gathering at the water's edge. The American people are unevenly distributed. Nearly 75% of the population lives on 2% of the land. Unevenly distributed, growing and moving, moving to the urban settlements, moving off the land. In 1970, less than 5% of the population was living on farms, about the same percentage that was living in cities in 1790. In the 10 years before the last census, the farm population declined by 38%, while the whole population grew by 13%. Fewer people are working the land to grow more food. Two-fifths of the nation's counties lost population, mostly farming counties, a pattern spreading down from the northern border through the Great Plains, across the south to the Appalachians. While the whole population grew, and the total rural population remained almost constant in numbers, over 5 million people left the farms in 10 years or gave up farming for a living. This is the face in the farming towns. Some of the towns are closing down. The average farmer now is older. Younger people, people with children, are moving out of the countryside, only half as many farm children in 1970 as in 1960. Staying put when others move. When older people do move, they turn their faces to the sun. 10% of the nation's population is over 65. In Florida, more than 14% are elderly. Go west, young man. Young woman. At any age, go west. Old tradition is a modern trend. The west is the region of greatest growth. Censors showed that California grew by 4.25 million, the largest increase in the nation, the first place from New York since 1810, the most populous state in the Union, helping to pull the center of population farther west. The center of population. America's human center of gravity. The point at which a weightless map of the U.S. would balance if an equal weight were placed where every citizen lived at the time of the decennial census. Starting 23 miles east of Baltimore in 1790, the center of population moved 700 miles west and 60 miles south by 1970 to a farm field near Mascota, Illinois, just short of the Mississippi River. Counties lose and gain. Regions feel the ebb and flow of the unceasing change. 1,400,000 blacks left the South. Once concentrated almost entirely in the South, today just over half of all blacks live in that region. And in the last decade, whites entering outnumbered blacks leaving, giving the South its first net migration gain in many decades. The black population now is more evenly distributed among the many regions, more concentrated in the central cities. 44% of all blacks lived in central cities in 1950, 58% in 1970. In 1960, there were only three cities of over 25,000 with more blacks and whites. In 1970, there were 16. The black population is growing slightly faster than the population as a whole. It was about 11% of the total population in 1970. People in motion, always moving to the cities, to the suburbs, toward the water, moving into the metropolitan settlements. Many are moving toward a better life, better housing. More housing units grew at a faster rate than the population. Housing is less crowded. The number of units with more people than rooms dropped by almost a million. More single people of all ages are establishing their own households a 57% increase in 10 years. The number of people over 65 who are maintaining their own homes by 3,800,000. With more people living in metropolitan areas, housing grows vertically. The number of apartments increased by more than 36%, single family houses by less than 10%. This highly mobile population has turned with greater frequency to mobile homes. The greatest rate of growth for a single category of housing was 170% for trailers and mobile homes. In 1970, more than 1,800,000 families were living in homes that could be moved. We Americans like a home of our own. 63% of all kinds of housing units were owned by their occupants in 1970. 65% of white families own their homes, 42% of blacks. In 1970, the typical house was more expensive to buy and more valuable when selling than the typical house of 10 years before. The median value increased from $11,900 to $17,100, 43% in 10 years. The median rent increased even more, 55%, from $58 to $89. An important factor in the median value in 1970 is the value of new houses. One out of every four housing units in 1970 had been built in the preceding 10 years. Even measured in constant dollars, the typical new house in 1970 was worth more than the typical new house of 1960. In fact, the number of expensive homes is growing very fast. In 1970, four times as many houses valued at over $35,000 as 10 years before. One-third fewer houses worth less than $10,000. But the increase in median value is not only a reflection of the growing number of high-priced houses. It reflects significant improvements and rising standards in the homes of millions of us who have moderate or low incomes. In 1960, almost 17% of all houses lacked basic plumbing. Hot and cold running water, a toilet, and a bathtub or shower. In 1970, only 7% of all housing units lacked these basic facilities. The change has been even more dramatic in the homes of black Americans. In 1960, 40% of all housing units occupied by black families did not have basic plumbing. By 1970, the figure had dropped to 17%. In urban areas, the races are almost equal. The greatest change, the greatest improvement, has been in the rural south, increasing in cost, increasing in value. Better housing reflects our ability to pay for it. During a period when the total population grew by 24 million, the number of people in the low income range declined more than 12 million to just over 27 million. The number of blacks with low incomes declined, but at the same time increased as a percentage of the total of all poor people. Now, 28% of all people in the low income range are black. 8% are of Spanish heritage. But members of these same minorities are increasing their proportions in higher income groups, moving, working and earning a better living. Cennial family portrait shows that by the most obvious yardstick, our mobility is strongly upward. In 1970, the median family income was $9,590, which means that even after 20 years of economic growth, change, inflation, and recessions, the typical family has almost twice the purchasing power that it had in 1950. For individuals, education has long been thought a key to prosperity. And in a reciprocal pattern, increasing prosperity broadens educational opportunities. Children, teenagers, adults, Americans go to school. True illiteracy is rare today. More people are finishing high school. 52% of all people over 25 have a diploma. In 1960, less than 25% were high school graduates. The change is even greater among young adults between 18 and 24, an increase from 63 to 75% for whites and from 38 to 57% for blacks and other racial minorities. More Americans of all races are going to school and staying there longer. College enrollment rose from 3 million in 1960 to 7 million in 1970. These increases suggest that more and more of us will participate more fully in America's economic and technical growth and that we will be able to sustain this growth and development. Moving through time, changing in many ways, housing, income, educational attainment, measurable changes that have an impact on the unmeasurable changes in the quality of our life. Our home movie, our family portrait has no end. The present is passing before the lens, unexposed film waiting for moments yet to come. Still the land of promise always moving.


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