From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS re-invent 2020. Special coverage sponsored by AWS Worldwide Public Sector. Hi, and welcome to theCUBE virtual and our coverage of AWS re-invent 2020 with special coverage of the public sector. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight. Today we have two guests for our segment. We have Kevin McCallum Jr. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Maximus. Thanks for joining us, Kevin. And we have Steve Ziperman, who is the Vice President of Consulting Services at Insight. Thank you so much for coming on the show, Steve. Thank you, Rebecca for having us, appreciate it. So I wanna start by asking you both to tell us a little bit more about your companies. Kevin, let's start with you. Tell us a little bit more about Maximus. Yes, thanks for having me. Maximus is a 40 year old company. We partner with state, federal and local governments to provide communities with critical health and human service programs. We leverage extensive experience to develop high quality services and solutions that are cost effective and tailored to their unique needs. One of the things that we do is offer governments the ability to implement programs rapidly and scalable so that we can focus on the automation and their operations. We do services from Medicare to Medicaid, welfare to work, and we have comprehensive solutions that help the governments run effectively and efficiently. Great, Steve, tell us a little bit about Insight. Yeah, sure. Insight is a Fortune 500 company in 2020 and will roughly do probably eight plus billion dollars in revenue, a global company. We have thousands of strategic relationships, but I'd say we have probably a couple hundred partners we focus on. One of those key partners to us is AWS. As we go to market, as we start working with our customers around the transformation of which we're gonna talk a little bit about that today with Kevin. As it relates to Insight public sector, it's a pretty sizable part of our business. We'll do about a $1.5 billion in revenue. We have 200 plus contract vehicles that will work out there, over 500 plus teammates. And we're seeing that business grow quarter over quarter, 20% growth. So it's a big investment for us. And really looking forward to hearing Kevin talk about Maximus to the team because obviously it's a big lever for us for Insight public sector to get the word out there about the great transformation work we do with our customers. That's a great segue. So let's go back to you, Kevin, and talk a little bit about Maximus' cloud transformation. Why did you hire Insight to help you with this? Yeah, as we started our journey, one of the things we realized is as we were moving to the cloud is the experience we needed a trusted partner. And we ran an RFP process looking for partners out there that have done it that have done major data center programs, you're moving large companies. We're moving about 6,000 workloads, 160 plus applications. So it was not a light or easy project. And Insight fit that. As we went through the interview process, it became very clear that they have done this for Fortune 500 companies in the past. And their experience is beneficial to helping us drive to the future. And the other factors is we wanted to make sure that once we were done with the project, we had the experience internally that they helped us with to drive forward. So talking about the importance of a trusted partner, which is such a key component of digital transformation cloud journeys, tell us a little bit about the strategy tied to the data center transformation and why you chose AWS. Sure. So as we started doing our research, we did analysis across all of the cloud providers that were out there. AWS is a clear leader in the marketplace. Their technology is better aligned with what Maximus has as the underlying technologies. We're a majority of Linux based. We also have Windows, we have Oracle, which with the AWS depth and breadth of our offerings tied better to what we had. The other thing we were looking to do is get rid of our monolithic off the shelf products and use more of the cloud based products that are out there. Amazon has a very deep native technology that allows you to replace your old services where you had to bolt on or purchase another product to something that is integrated in Streamline, down to how do you monitor your systems? How do you do logs, things like that? And as we looked at the timeframe we had to deliver this, they had to be able to grow with us. So as we were building out new infrastructure, we're able to build where previously internally with data centers, you have to buy infrastructure, you wait for it to arrive, you install it. Amazon has it at the click of a button. So we're able to basically have environment stood up in a day rather than having to wait weeks for it. So, and the last thing was uptime. So Amazon, there are five nines plus in uptime. And most of our contracts are three nines or better requirements. So we had to find a vendor that had multiple availability zones and regions that allowed us to be flexible in how we deployed. So talking about the convenience and the ability to Streamline and also the need for flexibility. In the COVID era, of course, the word hybrid work environments has taken on a new meaning, but I wanna ask you about how you see the hybrid era in the long-term affecting Maximus. Yeah, since Maximus is a government contractor we will always be in a hybrid setup. So some of our contracts are very restrictive, especially when you get into IRS, DOD and some of those agencies. You have a FedRAMP requirement as well with some of the federal agencies. So some of those components will have to stay internally. So where we can force, you know, moving to the cloud because of the flexibility we have to deploy that is the route we will go. COVID has introduced a new complexity. When it started back in March, you know, Maximus had 30,000 or so employees and we instantly were thrown into, you gotta make those employees, get those employees to work from home. So we used Amazon's workspace to push our employees to work from home where, you know, some of the employees and some of our contracts are customer owned equipment. So we couldn't actually take that equipment home. So we had to move to a BYOD model on Amazon Workspaces in order to get the users to work from home. And the complexity of that with what Amazon has to offer allowed us to quickly move over 25,000 employees onto Amazon Workspaces and work from home. And then keeping the data center migration moving in the middle of it has also been a challenge. So we will, and our federal space still have internal data centers. The integration points that Amazon offers with their interconnects is key to how we make it a seamless process because we may have a business unit that has stuff sitting in the data center and at Amazon and they have to look as a seamless package. Steve, I want to bring you in here a little bit into this conversation. Cloud transformation, digital transformation, these are difficult and huge undertakings in the best of times. How does this pandemic, this health crisis, emergency, how has that affected the way you help your clients, the way you work with your clients, collaborate, communicate? Talk a little bit about the effect of COVID on this. So I would, I'll answer the questions a couple of different ways. So I would agree with Kevin because forget about what we do with our customers. We had to pivot it really quick too, right? All remote workforce. I think about my team, 1,000 plus teammates, everyone's 80% travel, all of them think of an I, right? So everybody work in remote, everybody work from their homes. And but the challenging part was working with their customers. And I look at, I look at with Kevin, I've never met Kevin in person, frankly. And there's teammates that have come on to the project and executing this program remotely.  We have a proprietary tool called SnapStart that allows us to be able to scan environments, all that things done remote, migrations can be done remote. The hard part is when you have to go on site because there's stuff you have to go on site for around physical inventory to look at the equipment. But it just makes it that much harder. You know, I think he's taking advantage of these video tools like we're doing today. You know, I can't tell me how many Skype, you know, how many calls I've been on with Kevin like this and with his peers and with his leadership. But communication is really important to program like this because you know, in a program like this, there will be problems, right? And there will be challenges. And, you know, getting on a call and being able to look at Kevin face to face and see what his reaction is really key. But you got to work that much harder. You got to work that much harder now in the pandemic. You know, I have other projects right now I'll leave it with this other projects that frankly we have sold all remote and we're doing it all remote. And what I'm seeing with the pandemic is an acceleration of digital transformation. So other similar projects like we're doing with Kevin, we're doing rather large Fortune 500 companies because it's an acceleration of, hey, look, we got to be all digital now. So it'll be interesting to see, you know, how the pandemic affects us long-term because it is definitely accelerating out their digital transformation. If you haven't done it, you're in trouble because it's going to eat your company alive. So Kevin, he's taught, he talked a little bit about, the importance of communication, particularly when so many people are working from home. Talk a little bit about other best practices that have emerged, things that you have noticed, things that you advice you would have to your peers. I mean, as we heard from Steve, if you're not there yet, you're in trouble. But for the people, for the executives out there who are watching this, what advice would you have for them? Yeah, I think that, you know, this is brought to light. You know, there was always a view that you had to be in an office, on a whiteboard, and actually functioning in that fashion. So, you know, before the pandemic, I was traveling three weeks a month. And now not traveling, I feel that I actually get more work done. I actually feel that I'm closer to the team just because we've introduced a lot of different digital channels. So now we have Slack, we have Teams, we do Zoom. I require everybody to be on video whereas previously before the pandemic, you'd rarely have anybody on video. And you've seen a transformation is people pick up the phone a lot quicker than they did in the past. So it is actually, I believe, brought the team closer together because now, you know, everybody's on. The downside of it is everybody's on all the time. So you've also had to have people step away from work because generally when they take PTO, they leave the office, they go somewhere with their family. Now it's, you're kind of at home, there's not much to do and you kind of have to force them to take the time off. One of the major factors that has been interesting is we're doing this transformation in the middle of COVID with moving all of our resources to home. So we've had to take pauses to focus on getting everybody to work from home. Okay, now they're work from home, back to the project. And you know, it's kind of changed the timeline a little bit, but in the end, we have some hard deadlines to meet. So it's been an interesting transition. You know, Kevin, I want to agree with you two points is, you know, I think we're also getting not only your time but also senior leadership that I think frankly, we never would have gotten. You know, I've talked and, you know, your peers and your leadership, like I would fly for those meetings. I think about all the time that I've saved, but then again, it never ends, right? And never, it begins and never ends. And you know, one of the things I'm concerned about is, you know, the long-term burnout factor for these folks because depending on what state you're in, it never ends. You don't have anywhere to go, right? And you know, I think about teammates. I think, you know, Kevin and I have talked about this related to our project, like burnout's a real thing right now, for sure. Eight, nine months into this thing, it's a real thing as people only have to focus on is work sometimes. So it's a concern for all of us as a project team as we start to look at the executing, continuing to execute this program for the next year. And it really highlights the importance of visionary leadership and a leader who cares, who's empathetic, who is checking in with his or her team and making sure that the colleagues feel appreciated and cared for. I want you both to just give us, look into your crystal balls a little bit and talk about the, where you see things, 12, 24 months for now, hopefully there will be a vaccine and we will return to somewhat of a new normal. Talk a little bit about where you see the maximus transformation in two years. Absolutely. Yeah, start with you. So, our cloud migration, we have some hard deadlines through next year. So we have a focus with Insight to get that completed by September of next year because our data center contracts are up and we've got to get out. One of the advantages of where we're headed is to move into more of a DevOps model where you're able to enable groups that have previously not been able to do work just due to the way the infrastructure was set up. You're now enabling them to do deployments, get into production and to have full stack ownership. That's really where our focus is, is the enablement of the teams that couldn't do the work previously because now you're in a different type of environment. The other thing is being able to be more agile. So as we move forward into the cloud journey, we as a company can start contracts quicker. We are part of the contract tracing and unemployment insurance. We've done a lot of contracts with the states that previously most of our contracts are anywhere from a 60 to 120 day startup. These contract and contact tracing and COVID projects, we've had to start them up in three days. That's having 500 employees online, on workspaces, on Genesis Cloud and fully functional. And it has been a challenge, but it also has introduced a better way to do business because now we can move quicker for our customers and we can get contracts where they come and say, hey, I need something in the next couple of days. If you look further down the road, it's taking the advantage of what Amazon has to offer. Moving from our more monolithic programs like we sit on Oracle on Linux today, we can move into Aurora, which opens up the doors and plug gates because then you manage VR a little bit differently, you manage your data a little differently. That's really where I think the market's going and where we can actually transform our business even better to where we can be more flexible, we can start up quicker and do more things for our customers. Eve, final words from you. I think it's going to be a hybrid world, at least in the short term. And we believe it's all about the workload and getting those workloads or applications in the right spot where there'd be public or private and helping our customers with that journey, just to pile on with what Kevin talked about around DevOps. Once you get all the stuff over there, you still got to manage it, whether it's in AWS or on-prem, you still got to have a process to do that. So we see a lot of opportunity around modern IT operations and helping with that. And we want to continue to be a trusted partner to Maximus. It's been a great relationship and I want to thank Kevin and his leadership team for trusting in us. And we look forward to more success with him in the future. Excellent, thank you both so much. Kevin and Steve, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Absolutely. Thank you. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight. 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That's exactly what we were going to say. How about them Indians?  The Indians are doing fantastic. We're so happy. Just like you all up there. This is Mission Control Houston, the wake-up music today for the crew of Discovery was Talkin' Tribe, a song about the Cleveland Indians who are about 15s that came ahead in their division at this point in the Major League Baseball season. Four of the members of the Discovery crew are from Ohio and taking a lot of pride in the Indians' performance this year. Discovery, if you're not on the flight deck, you've got a fantastic view of the Nile Delta, the Pyramids, Cairo, Suez Canal coming up. You're right. The parade is beautiful. Discovery, Houston for Mary Ellen. No action on the BDS message. And we're ready to do the event early if you are Discovery. We're ready, Mark. Discovery, this is Houston. Are you ready for the event? Houston, Discovery, we are ready. CNN, this is Houston. Please call Discovery for a voice check. Discovery, this is CNN. How do you hear me? CNN, this is Discovery. We have you on, Claire. You guys look good this morning. We'll get started.  My order of battle here is to go Mary Ellen first and then Nancy and then Don. And if that makes, I'm going to try to do it as three separate things so you guys don't have to play past the microphone in this delay, you know, during the interview. Where are you? We're on the mid-deck of Discovery. Okay, great. I couldn't tell. It doesn't look like the mid-deck I know and love. It looks like something else behind you there. Great. Okay, here we go. This is actually the wall where we usually have sleeping bags and that's what's keeping us stable against the wall right now. I envy you. You talked about envy in the mirror gang. Geez, I envy the Discovery gang. Yeah. Okay, we're going to start with me, Joe. Here we go. We're joined by three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery orbiting more than 150 miles above the Earth right now. The team of scientists includes Mary Ellen Webber, Nancy Curring and Don Thomas. We're talking to them from the mid-deck of the Space Shuttle this morning. Mary Ellen, let me start with you. I'd like you to think back to launch day last week. I know this was your first trip into space. I want to know what was going through your mind as you left the Earth for the first time and what it was like to experience weightlessness for the first time. Well, it was really awesome. The thing that kept going through my mind was, we're really going. We're really going. It's really happening. And it was just incredible shaking, awesome sense of power. And that's what I was thinking about. And I was thinking ahead to what I needed to do once we got to MECO, our main engine cutoff. And at main engine cutoff, you instantly feel weightlessness. And it's pretty different. It's definitely interesting. I've done a little bit of training on a parabolic aircraft back in Houston experiencing microgravity, but experiencing it nonstop was awesome. Yeah. Did you or any of your pals get sick? One or two of us did get sick. That's correct. How bad is that and how long does it last generally? And what do you do about it? Not too bad. It comes in varying degrees with varying crew members. And we do have some medication that we can take that still lets us adapt to it while we're on the medication. But unfortunately, one of the side effects is that you get very drowsy. So typically, you only take that before you go to bed that night. But it usually takes a day or two to adapt. And right now, all five of us are up to speed. As I was preparing to talk to you this morning, I was sitting at my computer typing out questions and I discovered the A key on my computer doesn't work. Do you have problems like that when you're up there? I know I can take my computer to the computer guy here and he can fix it. Do you have somebody who can do minor repairs like that? And have you had many problems like that? Well, certainly with a vehicle that has millions and millions of parts on it. I mean, some of them are going to fail. And we do have two crew members. In this case, Nancy Sherlock, who's to the left of me and Kevin Kriegel, the pilot are trained for IFM or in-flight maintenance. And so we have a set of tools and various implements that help us fix things when they do break. And usually we can fix them. Yeah, I've been looking while we were preparing for the interview down here on Earth at a bunch of things that look like pictures through a microscope. I'm not totally sure what you're doing and how it's going to help people down here on Earth. What's your take on that? Well, that particular experiment is looking at fish embryos and it's looking at the way gravity affects embryos. In this case, fish, but it could apply to people and other animals. And even as an embryo, you're developing your sensors which will give you the indications of which way is up and which way is down. And what they're doing is they're looking at what happens to the fish that develops without gravity in that development stage. Yeah. All right, would you pass the microphone over to Nancy for a minute? Nancy, I've been a private pilot for about three months now. I've been training to do this for a long, long time. I know you've got 3,300 hours minimum, particularly in helicopters. How is it different to be on the space shuttle compared to being in a helicopter or being in a fixed wing plane on Earth? I think for the standpoint of being a pilot, I've probably seen it all before at treetop levels with night vision goggles in the Army, off-the-floor and total prop airplanes in the Army, G-38s with NASA at 41,000 feet and now the space shuttle at 260 miles and now on this mission at 160 miles. So I think in terms of aviation, I've covered basically all the ground you can cover. Is it a lot different in reality for the launch and in the practice that you've done for the landing? Is it a lot different as a pilot to bring this thing down than it would be to bring down a helicopter or an airplane? I was tremendously different, but Tom and Kevin had both been training for years to accomplish this approach of landing. I used to work as a flight simulation engineer on the airplane that we use, the shuttle training aircraft, which is an excellent simulator of the flight dynamics of the orbiter during the approach of landing phase. So they're more than ready to go. They have a minimum of 500 approaches in that airplane before they ever land the orbiter. Yeah, as the shuttle was going up, one of the things that NASA was trying to find out was how does this new improved main engine work? I'm sure you couldn't tell it ever since how it felt, but could you see any difference on the meters that you were monitoring in its performance compared to the other two? The performance of all three engines was as stable as ever. The ride up hill was a smooth. I've only had two launches, but as smooth as I've ever felt. You know, I'd use a description in second stage once the solids were off. It was more or less an electric ride. It was just as smooth as can be. The parameters of the engines all looked nominal, and all three engines operated just excellently.  And as you say, you've done it a few times now. What do you think about? Well, down in our classmates, we were both selected in 1990. We celebrated our fifth anniversary of being selected as astronauts yesterday. And when we came out of the hold, we gave each other a thumbs up and kind of a high five because we knew what was about to happen. And we also both had mirrors out so that we could look at the overhead windows and not only watch as the main engine flipped, but watch as we rolled heads down.  You know what to expect. You know when to put the mirror down and immediately put your focus back on the instruments that we have inside the cockpit to monitor all the parameters during the effort. Yeah, there are dozens of experiments on board. Tell me what is most interesting in those experiments to you, which if there's one or if there are a couple that are more interesting to you than the others. Well, we have a couple that I think complement each other very nicely. We have one that say protein crystal growth experiment and we're going out to interfere on crystals. We went ahead and activated that right after the deployment of the TDR satellite on the very first flight day. So those crystals have been forming. We'll continue to do so until landing time. And I'll say interfering is an antibiotic on anti-cancer drug and it's development here in space. We can develop crystals in a much more pure form. We also have another experiment called a micro-encapsulation in space which by micro-encapsulating drugs you can induce long term effects for example for vaccines. So I think in terms of pharmaceuticals we're doing quite a bit of work up here during our eight day mission. How do you think and how long do you think it will take for things that you are working on today to actually come into use particularly these medical things down here on earth? When can I go to the hospital and get a micro-encapsulated drug to give me some medicine that I need? Well particularly when you're talking about pharmaceutical testing you have a problem with the testing required for the drug and the length of time required for that due to FDA standards. So I think probably within seven years, ten years at the latest before you actually see some relative feedback into the community in general. Yeah, how's your vision? And are there any other physical changes that you are poking you and your colleagues and plotting to try to find out how your bodies are different on this trip? Well I always enjoy space because you tend to grow about one percent and being five foot it gives me a chance to be actually five foot one or five foot two for a short time. The other interesting thing that I noticed this mission much more so than my first one is that near vision, particularly adaptation from looking at far vision and backing close to perhaps a checklist or to read procedures takes much more longer period of time for your eyes to adapt to that close end field. Yeah, all right, pass the mic over to Don Thomas if you will. Obviously you've been smiling through this whole thing and I hope you'll keep smiling as we talk here. I want to find out... I'll try, Josh. ...about the experiments you're running. You're known here on Earth as the zookeeper in space. How's it going with the live animals and the eggs and the embryos? Well, as you know, we have ten pregnant rats on board. This is an experiment with the National Institute of Health that we're working in cooperation with them and the Ames Research Center. And the investigation is focusing on looking at the muscular development and also the bone loss mechanisms in rodents. And hopefully we'll be able to translate this over to humans on the Earth. It's particularly important for elderly people where you have osteoporosis, a weakening of the bones. If we can understand bone loss mechanisms in space, maybe we can understand why elderly people lose calcium and have weakening of the bones and be able to apply this to help many people back on Earth. Yeah, you're excited about this, aren't you? I'm pretty excited about it. I love the research we're doing up here and you can't get a better laboratory to work in or a greater group of people to work with than those associated with NASA here. Yeah, Space Program is getting a lot of publicity right now. Last, this month's docking mission with the MIR was pretty exciting. What you were doing, I imagine, is just as exciting to you. There's this Apollo 13 movie right now. Do you see the support for what you are doing in space growing back here on Earth? We sure do. We have an amateur radio on board here and we've been going around the Earth talking to many schools during the last five days. And the kids who are as enthusiastic today as I was when John Glenn first went up in 1962. So I really see kids being enthusiastic and these kids today are going to grow up to be enthusiastic scientists, engineers and carry our space program into the next century. Yeah, one of the most unusual things about this mission to me and I think to other people here on Earth is that it came so soon after Atlantis landed. Just a few days later. Did you have any apprehension about the fact that you were going to go up so soon after another shuttle had been in orbit? I had no apprehension whatsoever. The same people that launched Apollo 11 26 years ago yesterday are down at the cave the same caliber and we have the greatest group of people working at the Kennedy Space Center to get vehicles ready. They got Atlantis on the ground after the 71 mission and within a few days we have another team getting us ready for launch. So I think it's a tribute to the Kennedy Space Center and the great group of people down there and their can-do attitude that we were able to launch successfully right on time. Yeah, I've talked to a lot of young people in the past couple of weeks about the fact that I would be talking to you today and they said to me, well, we want to know about some of the weird things that you can do in space that you can't do on Earth or that you can't do in space that you can do on Earth. Is it true that you can't whistle? I never really whistled that well, but you can still do it up in space. What about smell and taste? One of our assignment editors said, how bad is the food up there? The food is typical like camping food. I've had better food in restaurants and I've had worse food than up here and it's good enough to get us through the mission. Some of the selections that we get to make, I really enjoy other ones. I'm not too wild about. It's really an individual thing here. As far as taste and smell goes, some astronauts experience a blandness in space where they need spicier food, but for myself, the same foods that I enjoy on Earth I enjoy up here are such as stadium mustard from Cleveland, Ohio. Now, while you guys have been up there in relative comfort, there has been a monstrous heat wave down here on the Earth. It's been above 100 degrees in the Midwest for a few days. It's been near 100 and over in the Northeastern United States.  I know that if you get spare time, you like to look out the window at the planet below. Does it look any different down here right now, particularly in the U.S., Midwest and Southeast? Then it has on your previous trips with all this monstrous heat. Well, I flew in space exactly a year ago. I was on orbit aboard STS-65. That was a 15-day mission. Got to look out the window a lot. And the cloud patterns have changed and some of the ocean currents are different. But basically the planet looks very similar to what it did a year ago. So there's nothing we can see up here that gives us an indication of why it's so hot. But we're welcome to share our Houston weather with the rest of the country. Last question for any of you who want to take it. What's the most amazing, surprising thing that's happened to you on your trip? The view out the window. It is just incredible and amazing. Last night before going to bed, the last thing we saw was a sunset and it was just spectacular. Words can't describe it. All right. Thank you all three for joining us on CNN today. Thank you. Good bye. Houston, CNN. That concludes the event. Discovery Houston. We're about a minute to the ZOE. We'll pick you up again at 2214. 2214, Mark. Great interview. Now coming into view from Discovery is the Baja Peninsula, the southern extreme of that peninsula, and the Gulf of California. The view in the center of the screen is Miami. So it zooms in. And now coming into view of the Bahamas, the island of Andros. This is Mission Control Houston. This view from Discovery showing a tropical depression forming in the Pacific south of the tip of the Baja Peninsula. This is an as yet unnamed storm, just a tropical depression in its early stages. Again off the Mexican coast in the Pacific. Discovery Houston, we had about 10 seconds of that pinched cable. Now we have the picture again. Okay. Again, we're a pointer right there. That's where we found pinched in the door in M57 Alpha. And the vacuum cleaner stopped. And that's where we found the pinched wire. And actually it was when we started up the vacuum cleaner going from the pantry food and WCS is when we found out that it didn't work anymore. To inspect the wire further, we had two other places. Those are two other places we discovered on the wire that also had some damage. So we cut the wire and the wire status right now is. And do you need anything further there, Houston? Kevin, if you just tell us where that spliced section is in relation to the connector cable, and otherwise we've got a good video of it. Only one break in the wire, correct? When you see the full wire coming out, that attaches to the vacuum cleaner. And we have about three feet of wire to the vacuum cleaner. And then the rest of the wire goes to the connector. Discovery, if you just hold this view, understand this is a taped downlink. We'd like to get a rotation of that spliced section so we could see all sides of it. Discovery, we have all the video we need there. Thank you. Great work.


Azerbaijani President accuses France of sowing instability in the South Caucasus. France encourages separatists and provides weapons to Armenia, setting the stage for a new war in the South Caucasus. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in a welcoming address to participants at a conference titled Decolonization, Empowerment and Development of Women. Apart from its former and current colonies, France is also destabilizing our region. The South Caucasus, by supporting separatist tendencies and separatists providing weapons to Armenia, imposing a military policy, encouraging revanchist forces in Armenia and setting the stage for a new war in our region. Aliyev said in his address, which was read out by Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev. According to Aliyev, France also seeks to take advantage of its permanent membership of the UN Security Council to conduct political intrigues in various regions, while Western organizations use Paris to put pressure on other countries. The conference, Decolonization, Empowerment and Development of Women is taking place as part of Azerbaijan's chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement. The movement brings together countries that have declared non-participation in military and political blocks and promote peaceful coexistence based on the principles of independence and equality as the basis of their foreign policy. The movement includes 120 countries, while a number of nations including Russia and international organizations have observer status. Azerbaijan assumed the movement's 2019-2022 chairmanship following the 2019 summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku. The country's chairmanship term was later extended for another year.


So it's been a full year since I've been using the Galaxy S10+, now we know that the S20 line is coming up, there's a lot of hype about it, but let's take it back a little bit. Let's look at the S10+, because this thing has been a game changer. Now I know 2019 had so many devices and S10+, was looked over by a lot of people and I have to say coming back to 2020 beginning of this year, this is a prime device to pick up and the reason is because yes the pricing is much better, it's about $749 brand new, you can get it cheaper, you know $550 or something, maybe $600, you know if you buy any use, but it packs in so much and Samsung has done the work to keep this device relevant. So the very first thing is that look it's running OneUI 2.0 on Android 10, all those updates are out there, you've seen videos, so for better detail on OneUI 2.0, check out my buddy Jonathan Casey's video for that, but it runs really smooth and you know you can see it's running Android 10, you've got all those Android change features, the gestures, those little things that make it feel good and snappy and it does feel snappy with that too, dark mode, all the things you want, that's the same software will be running on the S20 and S20+, S20 Ultra, so you're not missing much there, right, except maybe for direct hardware feature differences, this is one of the best devices for me to hold and use and navigate, it feels very light, you're holding in your hands, doesn't feel like you're carrying something too heavy and it's very easy to just kind of swipe through, move around, you've got big hands like me, you're gonna love that 6.4 inch display and boy does that display look vibrant, sharp, it's really good, I think only the Note 10 display to me beats out the display that Samsung has to offer right here, now you're going what did you use this device day to day, what was my use case scenario and the first thing I'll say is gaming, right, I do a lot of gaming videos, I'm a gamer, it's powered by the Snapdragon 855 which is no slouch and yes we know the S20 will have the Snapdragon 865 processor which has a much better performance but 855 does the job quite well handling any of the games, whether it was PUBG playing on there or playing you know called Uni Mobile which everybody loves to play, this thing does a really good job but it's also the flexibility of gaming I do like with this device, one of my very favorite controllers last year was and still is the Razer Jungle Card waiting for that key sheet to come out and the Jungle Card is so versatile because it does come with a case for the S10 Plus, I can slide in those Joy-Con controllers and I have a mini Xbox with me to go, that to me is great, the fact that I can play my Android games I can log into my xCloud and play that as well and it gives me full functionality, I mean like that's awesome so the funny thing that most people don't know is that it's been my de facto gaming smartphone for last year, yes I love the ROG phone and I was school but just having that ability with it to me has been so easy and so good that this has been my de facto, anytime I've done a video about xCloud I use my Galaxy S10 Plus right that for me has just been the main thing so that aspect works really well the other thing too is it's got a headphone jack and that's something that literally only LG has kept, even Samsung has walked away from it so you want a Samsung phone that has a headphone jack that's the one phone that has it plus it has an SD card slot too so you've got that as with added storage so you know when I'm testing out these brand new headphones from AI AI AI which I might do a video for my dude something as a roundup really good headphones but you need something to drive it 32-bit audio through the headphone jack it's rare I mean it's diamond doesn't it this is one of the few devices that are good not just the cheaper devices I have headphone jack like of course the Pixel 3a but a good device that actually can do a lot of things that has a headphone jack I think it's just something to know what away from now photography is another thing that comes to mind you know that's one of the things a lot of people use their smartphones for because we don't buy cameras anymore or point and shoots for that kind of purpose photography has been good I mean the S10 Plus has still one of the best wide-angle cameras out there now in other aspects though it's not going to compare to say the iPhone 11 Pro Max which in terms of video does really really well trust me the S10 Plus is no slouch you've got steady shot which I love I love to use works out really well but the you know but it's low-light photography is not as good as some of those guys and I wouldn't be with you to it's got a little bit better you know the scene detection has gotten better but it's not the same and maybe that's where the S20 line comes up and gives us something more we do know the S20 Plus will have a bigger display of 6.7 inches we'll have a new camera set up with two 12 megapixel sensors the main sensor 12 megapixels but with a bigger microsecond micron size while the telephoto will be 64 megapixels now if you move over to the ultra the big boy that has the 108 megapixel main sensor would you be insane plus a 48 megapixel telescopic lens and give you up to 100x zoom I mean that's like nuts absolutely not so those kind of things make this device feel a little different right and going S20 might give us a lot more but look back let's look at some of the images the S10 Plus actually can give and it does a really good job and that's the thing you have to look at you got to look at the images look what they're producing you go like you know what it's good for me it works well I'm not saying you have to settle I'm just saying that look if the cost benefit is there we don't know how much the S20 will probably be priced at and that sounds like a beast but this device here is about 749 right now and it's gonna give you this kind of imagery this kind of photos and also some really good video with stuff like your steady shot so I think those things come into play now battery life is the last aspect I really want to talk about because the S10 minus really carry this new battery legacy for Samsung the Note 10 also has been really good with batteries the S10 plus started off with its 4100 milliamp battery which back then when it first got it last February basically gave me a full day's worth of juice now in 2020 late January it's still giving me a full you know day's work of juice because battery optimization has been good the software updates with Android 10 and one UI 2.0 have been great the ability to actually get that into a device has been so good makes so much more sense and it feels really fresh trust me navigating through this thing is really good plus you've got all those little additives where you've got reverse wireless charging it's built into it you can recharge your Galaxy Buds whatever device you want to recharge you know might take a little bit of time but it packs all the things you're looking for there's a lot to say about the S10 plus I really like it I think it's something you can pick up right now I mean there's some things that I don't like I don't like the fact and again this is probably for all smartphones last year you get a lot of micro scratches on Gorilla Glass 6 so that's more of a Gorilla Glass 6 thing and I also wish that you know the photography was much better especially in low light but I think overall though if you're thinking do I want to spend much more money on that S20 Ultra or even the S20 plus again we don't know how much or do I just save some get myself either brand new S10 plus or use S10 plus I think getting to use S10 plus makes a lot of sense I don't see anything wrong with it I don't think you have to spend too much I think Samsung has delivered something that has lasted more than a year and a couple more years to come that you will go I like my phone I think it's really soft so there you have it if you agree with me about the S10 plus being a value today right now I'll let me know leave your thoughts out down below if you disagree I want to hear your thoughts as well thank you very much guys don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment


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Hello and welcome to the session. Let us understand the following problem today. Write the following function in the simplest form. We have tan inverse of 1 by under root x square minus 1, where mod of x is greater than 1. Now let us write the solution. Where x is equal to sec theta, then under root x square minus 1 is equal to under root x square theta minus 1, which is equal to tan theta. Therefore tan inverse of 1 by under root x square minus 1 is equal to tan inverse of 1 by tan theta, which is equal to tan inverse of cot theta, which is equal to tan inverse of tan of pi by 2 minus theta. Which is equal to pi by 2 minus theta, which is equal to pi by 2 minus sec inverse x, because x is equal to sec theta, which implies theta is equal to sec inverse x. Therefore the required answer is pi by 2 minus sec inverse x. I hope you understood the problem. Bye and have a nice day.