14 we finally made it through this With your 14 tips to cutting hair better. This tip has to do with dry cutting. So we got out our dry cutting scissor This is the Mizutani puffin. This is a five and a half inch stole this from Dreya So we're gonna go in and I'm gonna show you guys a Technique called stroking. It's a very popular technique in Japan But also become popular in the United States as well a lot of really great artists Use this technique and really what it's all about is just a different look to a point cut It also gives you you can have a nice precision feel to it But really it's just kind of a cool technique. So I figure for our 14th step why not give you guys something fun and creative to do so we're gonna go through my favorite dry cutting technique So this is the first one. We have our previously cut Bob Section on the bottom here.  So I'm combing this way combing away from my body looking at the section And then I'm gonna go over top and what I'm doing is I'm just coming down onto my hand here And closing and as I close I'm gonna release the hair and push the hair away and what that's going to do is just give me a nice Worked line and what you'll see is as I'm peeling my hand away, but that line is still being cut. So Let me just show you that again So we're gonna section it down Tiny section.  I'm working that line in As I do it. So what we're doing is Opening as I come up closing as I come down and just working through the hair that way Peeling my fingers away as I close. Those are the really the only tips that you're going to have Just keep trying it because Really with this technique the only way you get better at it is if you use it a lot It's not something you're going to do right away and feel comfortable with So practice it on a mannequin someone you don't like. I don't care But just make sure that you practice and do it that way now next tip or the next technique that I love I love doing a tease cutting technique It's one of my favorites and all I'm going to do is pinch it in my hand Let the hair fall out and then I can come in here just pretty much like the stroking technique But now I'm half closing the scissor in and as I half close the scissor in It's just slightly teasing the hair and cutting through what this does. It gives it a nice softer Line to the haircut So you can still work it in the bob So let's say our guide is there I'm just going to work my way up Nice soft line peeling the hair away And that'll start to cut in there so I can just keep over directing everything I do comb to take my section once I have my section. I just pinch it in my hand And work my way through that way a slight bit of teasing done deal So really just with that technique focus on where you're over directing the hair to Where you want to push the weight to and you're good to go there Let's see and the last one here that I love to do I know fad loves this one as well, but this is my last tip when you're working on a face frame I like to part the hair behind the ear and we're going to pull so let's say we want to face frame this fringe in So I'm going to take my section Which is just vertical down and then over direct it out And all I'm going to do is I'm going to work that guideline there I'm going to take my scissor. I'm going to put my finger in the opposite direction So just if you're trying this at home take your thumb take it out put it in the other end Doesn't sound right Take it out put it in there and then work your way down The hair shaft that way so Here we go flip it and we're going to be cutting down So I'm just going to work that line in Sliding my hair in my hand through here. Now the reason that you would choose to do this Technique over others. So it gives you kind of a fun face frame textured feel Is this is pretty simple to go through Um, but if I were to try to cut this face frame A lot of times I'd be going like this or backhanding it trying to work in there And that's a difficult, you know, it's not as easy as just going through like this. So we'll do it. Oh same thing Drea that was close most about Drea a new pair. Um So we're going to take Comar section out and then instead of backhanding through which is not a big deal You just flip it like this and you can work that face frame in Sliding through this is beautiful with a dry cutting scissor No tug whatsoever And then you got your nice little textured front It really brings this haircut to life Having that put in there. So Definitely a cool technique This is the blacksmith fit puffin. I love this scissor For that reason just going through gliding through practice the stroking technique the teasing technique and then your little reverse cutting Thing with bob that's what we'll call it the thing with bob cutting technique But you guys hopefully this helps you Hopefully these 14 tips helped you if you're just watching this for the first time we have 13 others Go watch them. Make sure you subscribe to us on youtube. 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In this video, I will be sharing the top reviews of the book called, It Ends With US, authored by Colleen Hoover. This book is on the New York bestseller list for the last seven weeks and has been getting a lot of good reviews lately. But before I get to the review part let's see a little bit of what this book is about. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. Lily's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up. She graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.  He's also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks and scrubs certainly doesn't hurt.  But Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his, no dating, rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan, her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. Now let's start the reviews. Estes from Canada says holy wow. It ends with us as one of the most powerful books of 2016 and one of the rawest, honest, inspiring, and profoundly beautiful stories I've ever read. It wasn't anything like what I expected, but it delivered so much more than I ever hoped for. This is the kind of book that I want to give to every woman and just be like. Read this book. Now. Come to think of it, all the men should read it too. Everyone should read this book. Absolutely everyone. It's a story of unshakable love and finding the strength to make the right choice in the hardest situation. I honestly don't think I've ever been prouder of a heroine. I've loved Colleen Hoover's books for a long time because she always writes unique stories, and this one left a lasting mark on my heart. It is a must read. It's a Colleen Hoover book. That should be enough to tell you it's amazing. But I really feel that you should just dive into this book without knowing anything about the plot. To be honest, I'm usually the kind of reader who likes to know every little thing about what to expect in advance, but I've really learned to trust Colleen's writing and her storytelling so even I went into this book without knowing anything at all. And I was blown away by the story. Christie from Fairfield says want the naked truth about it ends with us? Reading this book will change your life. It's so different from any of Colleen Hoover's other books. You can tell it's heavier, more personal, just more. This book is deep. It's profound. It's a book that needs to be read. I'll repeat. This is a book that needs to be read. This story is moving. It will make you think about things that are uncomfortable to think about.  It will move you. It's powerful and intense in the best way, but also has hopeful and lighter moments. The story itself is one that has been heavy on my heart from the moment I finished it. Sometimes, I read a book and it's so beautiful, influential and emotional I will cry just thinking about the characters and their story. Not in a bad way necessarily, I just get that moved and that emotional while thinking about it. That is this book. Trying to find the words for this review is bringing me to tears. It's hard to explain the story completely spoiler free, but this isn't a, sad, book. It's a strength book. Because dealing with the issues in this story took so much strength.  This is unlike anything Hoover has written before. I have so many emotions right now that it's hard to know where to start, but I think everyone should read this book. That's right. I could easily give everything away. I could, but I won't. If you go looking for lots of reviews, it won't be hard to work out what it ends with us is about. And if you do, you should still read it, but I think it's better if you don't. I think you should go into this book knowing as little as possible. Just realize that this is something very different from Hoover's usual new adult romances, that I admittedly have had all kinds of problems with. So I don't want to say too much, but this is an extremely powerful story and it's not what most people will be expecting. It gets its power from the singular first person narrative. I'm honestly not a big fan of the alternating male, female Pov romances, and we experience everything through Lily's eyes. When she falls in love, we fall in love. When her heart is broken, our heart is broken. When she gets it all wrong, so do we. I cannot stress how important and damn smart this book is. There is no black and white characterization, it's much deeper and more complex than that, and therefore, far more emotional. Angela from the States says it ends with us. Wow, I really don't know what to truly say about this novel. This review will be a little light because, like most coho books, you'll want to go into it with little to no information. I went into this book thinking it was going to be this one thing, and it turned out to be the complete opposite. Finding out how important this book was for her to write will hit you hard, but I hope she also knows how important it is as a reader to read. Knowing where an author gets their ideas from can change your whole outlook on a book, and this one. This one broke me. Thank you Colleen Hoover for continuing to gift the reading community with your words. Candice from the States says, Phenomenal. This book will make you fall in love, rip your heart out and force you to reconsider your preconceived ideas about abuse. This is the most moving book that I've read in a long time. It was absolutely addicting but so difficult at times.  It's been a couple of days since I finished, it ends with us and I'm still thinking about Lily's story. It's one that'll hang with you. In so many ways, her story gutted me. Yet, it was also inspiring. Lily grows up in an abusive household. After watching her mother suffer for years at the hand of her father, she tells herself that she'll never allow any man to treat her that way. She grows into a strong and independent woman, leaving behind the horrors of her childhood. Or so she thinks. I have read so many reviews but this book literally got some of the best and detailed reviews I have ever seen. So I can assure you if you are interromantic and that sort of novel, then you are definitely gonna love this book. I picked these reviews from the Goodreads website, please feel free to check them out from the link. Thank you for watching this video.


Hey you guys, I'm going to be starting this twist out on weak, old, dry hair so it's time to moisturize. I'm going to separate my hair in sections to make it easier for styling. So I'm going to be starting off with some water using the Onion Honeydew as my leave end. I'm going to yell pomegranate and honey twists and souffle that's an oil mixture in my wooden comb. Starting at the back I'm going to lightly mist each section, apply my leave end, paying close attention to the ends because that's the oldest part of your hair, okay? And then of course adding the leave end styler. So now you guys, my hair, I unfortunately use the leave end shea butter that I showed you guys a couple of days, excuse me a couple of weeks ago. I tried to use that as a styler and it did not work well because it didn't offer an uphold. So my hair, like I stated earlier, is very old. It's about, I would say we're at eight days right now. I am going to get quite a bit of shrinkage with this twist out. I'm assuming I am because the twists are very short, but I'm okay with that. So I'm going to continue here to apply the products and I hope you guys enjoy this video. Take care. Okay, so two days later I'm getting ready to take down my hair, using a little bit of grape seed oil to help unravel and avoid frizz. The only thing that I really do change as far as my twist out routine when it's cooler weather, and let me just say this, I live in Phoenix area, Zana, and the coolest you'll get here is 60 degrees. So right now it's between 65 and 70 in the daytime. The only thing I really change out is my oil mixture. I tend to use heavy oils such as castor oil or olive oil. I also like to use a shade butter as my styling, but I figured I would use the miel pomegranate and honey since I had quite a bit of that product love. So I'm going to go ahead and unravel my hair and separate in the sections that are hard. You don't want to, you basically don't want to work against your hair. If it looks like it's not going to separate, don't separate it. The areas that are very defined that are a little bit harder, you want to go ahead and separate those areas. So I'm going to separate quite a bit here because I'm looking for volume. And yeah, you guys, this is about nine days old, like I said, and I'm going to stretch this for a good two weeks. So I hope you guys can enjoy the rest of this video. Take care. Bye.


This is a sad story of people living in Asable in the central region of Ghana where their major source of income is planting oranges but at the moment there are no bias of the oranges therefore the oranges are left to rot. Look at where I am standing, every single orange that you see my feet on is rotting. I mean it's left to rot because no one is buying at the moment. But guess what, two people decided to come together and change that narrative. This is why I keep on saying even though agriculture is the backbone of this country but value addition is something that I believe that so many Africans need to look into. This narrative needs to be changed and I'm so glad that two people have decided to put their heads together to change the story of the people living in this community. We welcome to our citrus value chain processing which begins from the farm through haulage to the factory to processing to the finished product. That's really incredible. You know I always said that agriculture is the backbone of Ghana's economy but added value actually has more power. That's what we're trying to do here because there was a pity state here so many years ago driving by we saw a lot of oranges later in the ground. We're wondering what's happening because oranges are much like oranges are expensive and so you wonder why there's so much orange. So we got into the story and then we know there were deeper insights to this story so you come into the enclave itself and you find that most of the farms have actually been abandoned. Because there's no major processor here so with all of these farms here you know they harvest and then a small percentage will go to the farms to the market. And then there are others that are waiting for buyers who are coming from as far as Côte d'Ivoire to buy them. It has its own challenges because by the time they get here if you've harvested one you've taken it off the tree so now it's begun its way down going bad. Then these people there's no contract so they set up from Côte d'Ivoire and they would just call you and say we're coming this week. So what do you have to do because they will not come to your farms you have to do all the harvesting and then dump by an aggregation site by the roadside. So by the time the guys come here it depends sometimes they don't come at all because they are moving their truck from Côte d'Ivoire and they are buying from all the way from western region to this point and beyond. So if they get full along the line then they leave you out there. So you go to the roadside and you see all that orange down by the roadside. So we thought they had to be in need to change this narrative. Give value to it because there have been some attempts in the past that haven't worked. So we said okay let us take a learning from all that has happened in the past and then do something that's going to be sustainable and change the life of the people. And that's what we're doing. Can we give them a round of applause? Because you guys are really changing that narrative. Listen you all should need to do this for me first of all like this video and share this video so that all this can have a piece of this because I believe that what these guys are doing the world need to hear about it. I mean if I understand you all these farms especially where we are used to be abandoned. So how you see abandoned when you do a reclamation you have all these creepers and other plants cohabitant with the citrus. So once we take over your farm we go under an agreement, a ten year agreement to manage your farm for you. There's an agreed price to pay if you are doing it on your own. So we do that and then we introduce the professionals to do all the cleaning, do all the agronomic practices so that the yield will come up. Some of these things are well over 30 years old. So if you don't give them the best of agronomic practices you will not have the fruitings. But I believe that at the end of the day you are empowering them because coming here is definitely a struggle. When you harvest you have to carry it on your head to get to the roadside. So I'll give you the scenario. So this is where we came from is about four or five kilometers. Okay so the road was bad because this was just a path. So what you see here used to be just a path that we used to get to the farms deep down here. So we brought in as part of our social community social impact program some graders to be doing this road work. So in all in these communities we've done close to 200 acres of these roads that go into the debts of the farm. So we can have access to the citrus that is stuck here in the farms. So that's what we've been doing and we keep expanding. What do you mean citrus stuck in the farm? Okay so these farms are deep into the bush not close to the community and it costs them so much to harvest and send to the roadside which is referred to as the aggregation point from where the buyers will come to get them. Normally the unfortunate thing is that they get to the roadside and then these buyers some don't come, some don't come on time and all of that. So at the end of the day you have a lot of oranges stuck by the roadside and going bad. So the farmer loses one on the farm itself when he fruits and he has to do harvest. They will shed some here because they go bad. Then what they carry to the roadside they will have to pay for it upfront. So they keep paying and waiting for whoever the buyer is. By the time the buyer gets here 40% of it has already gone bad. So they lose. So I mean it is no wonder that they abandoned the farms. You know what I don't believe you. I just need to see one abandoned farm and also get an owner of a farm and just talk to them so that I will get the rest. I mean sometimes when interview entrepreneurs like they will tell you all the sweet words. But for me to confirm my sweet words I need to meet one person who used to own a farm. Mummy what happened to you? What happened to you? How many years now? I don't know how many years have passed. How many years have passed? How many acres? 20 acres. How many years have passed? How many years have passed? I have no children. My children are children's parents. How many years have passed? How many years have passed? 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To the extent that I saw my first ever passion fruit in Kenya. I never knew they got it right here in Ghana. Right here. So as you can see, we have passion right here because we use passion for an eski, one of the varieties that produces that we do. What we do is to grow everything we use for the juice. So we grow passion. But this is so huge. I mean the ones that I saw in Kenya were smaller. Okay so one secret about this is that we've given them very good agronomic project so you can see the spacing. Okay so what it does is that it gives the plants more space to show out their flowers. You know their flowers should get pollinated by the butterflies. So when you give them spacing like this, the butterflies come and then all the flowers are exposed to the pollination process. Instead of keeping them close, where some flowers will be hidden under the leaves etc. So when they are all open and they get pollinated, then they get the fruits. What is the size of the whole passion fruit plantation? So this one we have other sites but this site has 360 acres. Wow of passion yes. So it's like different sites. It's not just one place. No so you don't want to do all at one point so that if there's a problem at that point everything goes down. So we have different sites that we said that we have a 400 acre on one side we had a 200 acre on another side this is a 360. You guys don't want to make coconut juice? No so we'll get there because we'll get to another point where we are planting coconut because we're doing juices out of coconut. But these are very old coconut trees like over aged coconut trees from which we now have to get these planks. These two by four planks that we are using all over the place. So this way from the old coconut trees that we found here, those that have arrived and used them. Instead of just dumping them and burning them, we turn them into these two by four wood for the other planks we are using for the passion fruit. All that you see here are either the coconut or bamboo that we can find here so you see bamboo all over the place. Wow that's really innovative. Utilization of the resource. I never knew you can actually get two by four wood from here. Sure. This is very good wood that some people use for building. Really yes. I guess this is what you're talking about. Sure. These are rots in orange. Yes they are. Very sad. Because this place was abandoned as I mentioned so when it fruits and it gets ripe it just drops to the ground. So this for example is a reclaimed farm. So after reclaiming then we can get what is remaining on the trees while we proceed with the agronomic practice. So from next year we're going to get the best of fruits coming from this side. I guess this is how a typical abandoned orange farm looks like. Because I can see a ripe orange out there. Definitely. This has been abandoned for about eight years. Eight years? Yes. And you know the citrus farmers had no hope any longer even attending to their fans. So they even started cutting them off until we set in. That's it. So we are bringing them hope after we are... Before you set in this road looks new. Yeah. Are you guys... It's part of our project. Yeah because we need to have access to our farms. Yeah because they have it even difficult when they even harvest those farms. They have it difficult to transport them to the roadside for buyers to come for them. So we need to create access routes to almost all our farms so we can do proper harvesting. See this is money. See there are inserts in it coming out. I want to say God bless you guys for giving hope to the people of this village. And also empowering them because I see young people working in there. I see a woman that I interviewed who was so happy that the fact that her farm is now back to life. So in total how many acres of orange farm have you guys claimed so far? So now we have about 5000 registered acres estimated. All the 5000 were abandoned. They were all abandoned because the farmers have absolutely no hope. Because when they harvest and put them by the roadside, the buyers will take them two weeks, one month before they come. By the time they come everything is already rotten. So they decided not to waste their resources. Look they will employ people to go and harvest. The employ people to go and carry the food to the roadside. And the buyers will not come. So that cost also goes to them. So in the fact they decided not to even attend the farm at all. So they total abandoned most of the farms. But once we are in, they are full. They are full. Does it mean that the same company employs these people? Sure so we have given life to these youth who ordinarily were not even interested in the farming. Because they have seen their parents as citrus farmers all their lives. And then the impetus is about zero. So now when we came in, we trained them. So these are guys we have trained. Many of whom were not even interested in agriculture at all. But they use machinery. So we get to one point and you see how they use machinery to do the weeding. And all of that they are spraying, they are pruning. So a lot more are coming on board to work as our gang teams here. And some on their own parents farms. So their parents get paid for the oranges. And then the youth also get paid for working on the farms. It's part of the model we are building. But this is really sad. And I'm so happy the fact that you guys brought this initiative to change lives in here. Is it so many oranges? It's a sad story here. But the narrative has changed. And it's going to change some more when they come in here. I guess like in so many areas in Ghana, we need value addition. When we take the primary product into the market, we are not doing anything. What we have to do is to give it a new life by taking it through value addition. So we have to go through the full value chain from agronomy right through production to the shelf. And that's what we are doing here. I'm not seeing a factory around me. So we are setting up a 15 ton per hour factory here in Asebu and Cleve to take care of all of these and more. Can you please take me there? So Maya, this is a game changer. For all that you saw, this is where we are going to do our production. This is a 15 ton per hour processing machine. We are going to process orange juice here. And more to that, we are going to process citrus oil here in this factory. And that's going to change, complete the cycle of the change of the narrative in Asebu. You don't think there's going to be more orange farmers now? So that's the story now. So when we began, there was this wait and see attitude from the farmers. When we brought in our farming management scheme, people were like let's wait and see. But now every day, every hour there's a knock on our door that we want to join. So as we told you, we're working on about 6,000 acres for now. But we have a request for more and more. Very soon we're going to take down a lot of the trees that are very old. So as you saw from the nursery, we are bringing in new variety, new trees to give new life to the citrus industry and to this Encleve. But why this Encleve? So this has been an Encleve that does oranges for God knows how long. It's been so long. This is known as an orange Encleve. So we do orange, lime, lemon, tangerine, all of that here in this belt. Stretching from Asin Fusu right down to this point and then off to Commander area. This is a citrus Encleve. Now we thought, I mean doing citrus, you can only site your factory in the Encleve. Bringing production close to the farmers. Believe me or not, this definitely worth a lot of money. You know, I told the rich people in Africa dress so simple. And they don't brag, you know, that's how they have me. But I just want to know, yeah. Did you guys fund this one too? Okay, so for this we got funding from the Agriculture Development Bank, ADB in Ghana to set up this factory. I believe that the bank trusted you because of your track record. Sure. Sure. So with a kumfi angle, I mean we have not shown what we can do. Okay. And what we can do with fruits, giving them value to the park that we saw. So we as a kumfi decided to consult for Central Citrus and this is the result. I believe that ten years to come we have so many of these factories across Ghana. Sure. What we have to do now is to share our experience as much as possible to grow many of these. Because we are still not filling the shelves. There is still so much space for occupation. The shelves are still welcoming foreign products, et cetera, that we need to take also. We are encouraging a lot of these to come up and we are willing and ready to join up. I believe the goal is to make sure that we no longer consume foreign goods in the country. So what we are doing is to give of the world best, which is also equally best for Ghana. So what we are putting out there is juice, which is juice in the real sense of the word. Juice should be an extract of the fruit only. No additive, no conservative. So that has been our business philosophy and that is what we are trying to spread out. So very soon we are going to have all these juices from Ghana that are zero preservative, zero concentrate, zero whatever with no drop of water, the syrup of the fruit itself. So when we say juice, we mean juice. What do you think is going to happen when we have more of these value addition factories in the country? So first of all the health of the people, which is important to us is paramount. Second is job creation. Third is value addition so that when we have to even export some of these things as we gain also foreign access to balance of the economy. So what we are doing here, you can see the construction is ongoing. A major part of the machines are already installed as we finish up here. So here we have a water bath where our fruits will come in here.  When we detach them within a few hours it has to come through this water therapy. So water therapy is what cools down the temperature is like a baby coming from the mother. The umbilical cord has just been broken. So this is just what we are going to have. I believe this is bigger than a kulfi factory. Sure, sure, this is far bigger in terms of the capacity. Although kulfi is also building its capacity more than it is. But as this one stands, it is one and a half kulfi size in terms of the production capacity and even the working area. What is the size? Okay, so this one is doing around 6,000 square meters whereas a kulfi is doing 5,000 square meters. But in terms of production capacity, a kulfi is doing 10 tons per hour but this is doing 15 tons per hour. When do you think the factory will be running? So the first point of installation has been done. We need another 60 days to complete the installation. So give or take by October we should be running. When I spoke to the farmers, they told me that the contract has already been signed. Which means that you guys are already producing using here or using the other side. So what is happening is that this extractor is ready. So at least we can juice here and sell the juice to another producer. But this company will also be doing its own juice. So that is when you have a full complement of the machinery. So for now we have the contract, we still do the harvesting and we bring them here to process only the juice. So we can sell the juice. That's really impressive. I can't wait to come here to see workers in here. What is in here? I'm so glad to be the first blogger in here. So you guys should appreciate him by liking this video. I want to say thank you so much for talking to me and I'll see you next time. Thank you.


Whenever I visit the Hi-Fi show or press introduction, I always have Shazam on my Apple Watch ready and whenever I hear interesting and good sounding music, Shazam is started. I have no pretensions, it's just music I like, music that sounds good or both. This time the harvest of the last six months. When boot hopping on a show, you'll hear both music that is known to be easy to reproduce in less than optimal acoustics and music that is the personal taste of the man demoing. The first group is great to enjoy your stereo, what I call ear candy. The second group is a good way to learn to know music that you have not heard before. Remember that until recently the record companies licensed music per region or country, often preventing the music to be promoted in other regions or countries. The internet has had an enormous influence on that, partly because the music could easily be shared from one country to the other and partly because releasing music internationally through streaming services doesn't require large investments in media carrier production. In this video I just mentioned all tracks I've found good sounding and or interesting musically, so enjoy. I made a playlist of these tracks in both Tidal and Kobus, see the links in the description below this video on YouTube. McKenneth is of Irish and Scottish descent and grew up in a time that folk music was very popular in certain circles. It is therefore not strange that Celtic music has inspired her. On this track the other inspiration, Middle Eastern music, is most obvious, although Istanbul is more Balkan than Middle East. The track starts with a drone and a bozuki, that sounds a bit like a mandolin although it has a far larger scale length. Then the big drum kicks in and it fills the track till the end. McKenneth's voice hovers above his firm foundation in a mist. Here the Celtic influence is obvious. All in all an interesting melting pot of cultures brought together in a credible way and recorded quite well. Malia is a singer from Malawi. I had not heard from her before. On this track she sometimes sounded like Amy Winehouse, although the composition and instrumentation couldn't be different. Where as blank is a name you most certainly have heard music from, for he was one of the two men behind yellow and that's clearly audible. Deep lows, quiet in the background and lots of small musical accents on all kinds of instruments. Earcandy of the sweetest kind. For lovers of yellow a must. Talking of earcandy, this track sounds great too, but it also is great roots music. This write worked with Joe Henry as producer and used musicians in his bubble. The song was written by the Canadian singer, songwriter and activist Alison Russell. There are many songs where people in a backlog situation make clear they won't hang their heads. This version is very convincing and strong, but it's also a very fine sounding track. A song with a comparable message can be found on the 1986 album So Strong by Labi Sifere. The now 77 year old Sifere was very active in the mid 70s and between 1988 and 1998. His work is covered by madness while samples of his work are used by rappers like Eminem and Jay-Z. The realt piano is supported by bass and drums in a vertical way, both on the first beat with a light upbeat. The deep bass gives it an enormous authority, provided your stereo can handle it. Cassandra Wilson is frequently played on hi-fi shows, but this track won't be found often. Still, like most tracks I mention in this video, it was played on a hi-fi show in my country. Perhaps because the message of the song was not fully understood. Or perhaps because of the laid back, jazzy version and Wilson's relaxing voice. Listen to Billie Holiday's version and you'll feel the pain far more clearly. On the soundtrack of the United States versus Billie Holiday, there is a modern remake of Holiday's track done by Andra Day that comes close and sounds better. But Wilson's version was played on a hi-fi show, though so that's the one I mentioned here. And while playing, see the lyrics in a wider perspective. Also think of People Hung because they oppose the intelligent government of Iran. Or think of the Uighurs in China. And at the same time, enjoy the music. The Berlin-based piano virtuoso, singer and producer Dario Lessing, is known for his eclectic work and his collaboration with other producers and musicians. He also made music for commercials. He recently signed on the prestigious modern recording where artists like Pat Metheny and Robert Koch can be found too. This track has a rather directly recorded grand piano and atmospherical choir lines. As such it is a rather simple composition. It's the way it is played that creates a mindful atmosphere. So it's relaxing and air-candy at the same time. The Ukrainian jazz pianist and composer Michel Alperin has lived in several parts of the former USSR, Moldavia, followed by Romania, until he moved to Moscow. In 2008 he moved to Norway, where he also teaches. His works vary from jazz via chamber music to new age music bladed with influences from the former USSR countries he lived in. This track is the first part of Night, a suite for cello, piano, percussion, marimba and cleverson. It is rather avant-garde and not directly the kind of music I play regularly. But sound wise it's a nice track that I picked up at the Brussels Hi-Fi show 2022, where it was played on a set of BMC fenestrias powered by two mono-halcro amps, a Molo-Mola Makua with DAC and a Grimm Audio Mewon player. I later heard the same set up again at the Dutch Distributors, something I will not easily forget. Anyway, the percussion on this track is shockingly good, also on my own set of one. Definitely air-candy of that first kind. Scandinavia, the Nordic countries, is the birthground of many music, from ABBA to Nightwish. Annette Askvig is a Norwegian songwriter that studied music in Brisbane. After returning to Norway in 2011 she released the album Liberty, the track with the same name being the song I describe here. It's no spectacular track but rather a slow ballad with cleanly recorded vocal harmonies and only a limited use of instruments. That way it sounds open and intimate, just a nice contemplation that got my attention on a high-five show. That can dance is formed in 1981 by the Australian Lisa Gerard and Brandon Perry. A year later they move to London. The music they make is a mix of African polyrhythms, Georgian chant, Middle Eastern music, Gaelic folk and other world music influences. That makes this track interesting. Although disbanded in 1998, they came back together, split up again and toured Europe again last year. It's interesting music, recorded well. Melanie de Biaccio is from Belgian and Italian descent. She loves bands like Nirvana, Portiside, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. Studied flute from the age of 8 and joined the rock band at 15. After studying singing at the Conservaty of Brussels, she received an award with a degree of the highest distinction. The flow is aptly named. The song starts with an interesting and well-recorded jazz rhythm on drums, laid on top, long organ chords, supported by bass. The Biaccio's voice comes from a room in a dreamy way. Easy listening ear candy, that's what it is. American Jazz pianist and composer Marilyn Crispel on piano and American double bass player Gary Peacock on bass. I heard of Peacock because of his work with Keith Jarrett. Crispel appears to be a big name in free jazz. If you love jazz, this is very enjoyable and even if jazz isn't your first love, like me, only the sound of the recording is enough to enjoy the track. It's an eclectic collection of tracks that have two things in common. They sound great and I heard them on high-five shows. I hope you enjoy it. See you next week, Friday, at 5pm central european time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. Help me reach even more people by giving this video a thumb up or link to this video on the social media. It is much appreciated. Many thanks to those viewers that support this channel financially, especially in these times. It keeps me independent and lets me improve the channel further. If that makes you feel like supporting my work too, the links are in the comments below this video on YouTube. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.


Hello, the starting point for any auditory analysis of speech is the study of the anatomy and physiology of the ear and the brain. The focus of this e-lecture is the ear, generally referred to as the auditory system. It consists of three central components, the outer ear, which modifies the incoming sound signal and amplifies it at the eardrum. The middle ear, which improves the signal and transfers it to the inner ear, where the signal is converted from mechanical vibrations into nerve impulses and is transmitted to the brain via the auditory nerve. Let us look at these components in more detail. The outer ear consists of the visible part known as the oracle, or pinna, and the interior part. The oracle collects sound waves and is also important in our ability to localize the source of a sound. Furthermore, it can modify incoming sound, particularly high frequencies. From here, the ear canal, a 2.5 cm long tube, leads to the eardrum. The main function of the ear canal is to filter out tiny substances that might approach the eardrum. Furthermore, it amplifies certain sound frequencies, especially those between 3000 and 4000 Hz, and it protects the eardrum, also called tympanic membrane, from changes in temperature as well as from damage. The eardrum is set into vibration by the sound waves. This vibration is picked up by the bones in the next section of the ear, the middle ear. The middle ear is a cavity which is filled with air via the eustachian tube, which is linked to the back of the nose and the throat. When the eardrum vibrates due to the varying air pressure caused by the sound waves, it causes the three small bones, the so-called orcicles, to move back and forth. The ocicles, here in an enlarged form, are a system of three small bones which are named after their shape. The hammer, or malleus, is attached to the eardrum. The anvil is the link between the hammer and the stirrup, the final little bone. The stirrup fits into the oval window of the inner ear and transmits the mechanical vibrations to it. Together, the ocicles function as a kind of leveraged system, amplifying the vibrations by a factor of over 30 decibels by the time they reach the inner ear via the membrane covered oval opening of the inner ear. Now the inner ear contains the vestibular organ with the semicircular canals. They control our sense of balance. And then there is the cochlea, a coiled cavity about 35mm long resembling a snail's shell. The cochlea is responsible for converting sounds which enter the ear canal from mechanical vibrations into electrical signals. The mechanical vibrations are transmitted to the oval window of the inner ear via the stirrup. This conversion process, known as transduction, is performed by special sensory cells within the cochlea. And the electrical signals, which call the sounds characteristics, are carried to the brain by means of the auditory nerve. Let us look at the cochlea in more detail by means of a cross-section. As we can see over here, the cochlea is divided into three chambers by the so-called basilar membrane. The upper chamber is the scala vestibuli and the lower chamber is the scala timpani. They are both filled with a clear viscous fluid called perilymph. Between these two chambers is the cochlea duct which is filled with endolymph. On the basilar membrane rests the organ of corti, which contains a systematic arrangement of hair cells which pick up the pressure movements along the basilar membrane. Here is the basilar membrane. First, coiled like its original form within the cochlea and then uncoiled for a better understanding of its function. Within the basilar membrane, different sound frequencies are mapped onto different membrane sites from apex, that is the small end, to its base. The numbers that are given here provide the frequency in hertz. On the basilar membrane we have hair cells that bend in wave-like actions in the fluid and set off nerve impulses which then pass through the auditory nerve to the hearing center of the brain. Short hair cells respond to high frequencies and longer fibres respond to lower frequencies. So much for the three components of the ear. The outer ear which is filled with air, the middle ear which is a sort of mechanical amplifier by means of a leverage system and the inner ear which picks the impulses of the ossicles and converts them to nerve impulses transmitted to the brain. Let us finally see a short video we produced some time ago. This video summarizes the central functions of the components of the human auditory system. When sound travels through the ear canal, it causes the ear drum to vibrate. These vibrations are transmitted through the middle ear by three small bones, the so-called ossicles, to the cochlea, the main organ of the inner ear. When the cochlea is set in motion by an incoming sound, tiny hair cells convert the mechanical movements into neural activity. Well, that's it for now. Thanks for your attention and see you again.


Context is an essential element of successful implementation and the implementation of evidence-based practices. It is difficult to define and pin down, but its importance cannot be overstated. This commentary highlights the need for further research on how context interacts with implementation and de-implementation, as well as the development of culturally sensitive understandings of context. Additionally, there must be continued investment into providing a more comprehensive list of determinants, which should be accompanied by the development of practical methods and tools to support their use and application. This article was authored by Joe Rycroft Malone, Lisa Rogers, and Christopher R. Burton.


So, closing talk. We are still the world's largest conference. We have 788 events. We have tons of hours. We still have tons of artificial MAC numbers. This is the same text as last year for a very good reason, or almost the same. Of course, people are using privacy extensions. This is a good thing. We could try and identify you and we would probably succeed in many different ways, but we do not want to do this for obvious reasons, but others can. So, two years ago we felt the need to talk about what networks and what networks we do not run. Last year we felt the need to talk a little bit about men in the middle.  Generally speaking, whatever happens here, please be nice. And also, state actors are a lot worse than whatever people here can do. So, what can you do? Please use encryption, please use VPNs, use encrypted services, encrypt everything. Also, by the way, you can kind of use encryption. And if you find any of those people who do bad things, just send them by the knock. So, things are improving. You will be granted access to the WLC, which is the Wi-Fi controller for this whole site. So, next year hopefully we will be able to have a lot better endpoint security on the Wi-Fi than we had the last years. We'll have to look at this, like software versions, hardware versions, blah, blah, blah, but hopefully this will work. And just a fun fact, our monitoring is actually the number one user agent on this network, because the monitoring has become so aggressive and so ubiquitous. Really good news. You might remember we are the first non-networking specific conference which had an IPv6 only default network, the very first in the world. This was in 2015 and it got tons of people to fix their code and their services. So, this is the first year we had more people on the v6 only network than on a dual stack network, which is really, really, really nice. Second thing, most of the people on the v4 or on the dual stack network were using VPN services. And VPNs kind of don't like when you lie to them, which net6.4 does. So, this is a good thing. And this means that tons of people are actually using VPN services, even if they're still kind of stuck to v4 for this reason, but that's a good reason to be stuck to v4. So, we sold lots of stuff. I don't know why we had 301 of those fitted shirts and 1K of the others. That didn't really make sense, but we have odd numbers. And we actually ran out on the first day at noon of the L-sized hoodies, so we kind of need to bring more of those next time. You guys are hungry. And that wasn't the way we had brownies. Damn. Then, thank you to our sponsors. First and foremost, ULB. Then the corner store sponsors, which are Google and Red Hat, and all the other sponsors. We could have more sponsors, but we do not take on more sponsors deliberately. We cut off sponsorship relatively quickly, because you also donate to us, and it's really important for us to be, like, not on one single foot. Then there's tons of volunteers. And if anyone is here, just come up. We have a total of 170, so these are not all of them, then we have a few staff members. Those who are also wanted to come up. The staff you're not seeing here are doing video or cleaning up or are sick at home, so they're really busy. And also, thank you. As always, we depend on your feedback. We've made it even easier to give us feedback this year. You have the feedback section in the booklet.  You can also leave it, but whatever, do what you want. We have feedback links in the schedule, so every single talk you visited, it's really easy to just give quick feedback. And this is really important to us, because we want to know which talks are good, which talks are bad. Do you have any other concerns? Did any deaf rooms not function properly? Or is there one exceptional one, which you want to say thank you to? Or just something, we really depend on this feedback to make next year's edition even better, to just know what is good and what is not good.  This email might have been in Postgres error. Of course, we had some issues. If you don't have anything in the next few days, please send email to a video ad. If you have any other things, or if you as a user see any random and broken video on our site, just send to video ad, so we can fix it. Also, if you go to fastem-video on free note, you can volunteer to do reviews, because this is quite the task to do. So, fastem is a ton of work, and we are all tired. We actually overrun a little bit, so while all the others are already cleaning up, we will be late here. So, please, we need even more people than last year to clean up Jean-Saint. So, if you have some time, just stay down here. If you want free network cable, also go down here. If you take it out, it's yours, but only if it's ours, not for ULBs. And please stay here to help us. We really, really, really need those spontaneous volunteers to clean up, and we'll distribute and send you where you need to go. So, see you next year when we have our 20... No, I'm not finished yet. If you have any old photographs, or any documents, any talks, any videos, please contact us at Memories at Foslem Org, and we will collate this into something. We don't know yet what, but we will collate it into something, so we can do things like show pictures from 2001, or random vampires, which don't age over 20 years. Okay, so you don't recognize him? He recognizes himself. Okay, that kind of died. Okay, whatever. Anyway, we would like to do more of this, and we have obviously quite a few pictures and stuff, but still we would like to have more, so Memories at Foslem Org, please send us stuff. If you still have old t-shirts for the second day, for the closing talk, please wear the oldest shirts you have. We might probably take pictures like in order or something. If they don't fit, just bring them, just figure something out, and see you next year.


Hello everyone, and welcome back to theCUBE where we are streaming live this week from KubeCon. I am Savannah Peterson, and I am joined by an absolutely stellar lineup of CUBE brilliance this afternoon. To my left, a familiar face. Lisa Martin, Lisa, how are you feeling end of day two? Excellent, it was so much fun today. The buzz started yesterday, the momentum, the swell, and we only heard even more greatness today. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know, I sometimes think we'd hit an energy cliff, but it feels like the energy just continues to build. I think we're going to slide right into tomorrow. Yeah, me too. I love it. And we've got two fantastic analysts with us today. Sarbjeet and Keith, thank you both for joining us. We feel so lucky today. Great being back on. Thanks for having us. Yeah, it's nice to have you back on the show. We were, had you yesterday, but I miss hosting with you. It's been a while. It has been a while. We haven't done anything since pre-pandemic, right? Yeah, I think you're right. The before times. The before times. Yeah, back in the day. I always enjoy hosting Lisa, because she's so well-prepared. I don't have to do any research when I come on. Lisa will bring up some, oh, sorry, Jeep, I see that in 2008 you won this award for being just excellent at it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Keith, so. So did you do his analysis? Yeah. It's all done. Yeah, great. The only part was he's not sitting next to me, so we can't see it. So it's going to be like a magic crystal ball. So a lot of people here, you got some stats in terms of the attendees compared to last year. Yeah, Priyanka told us we were double last year, up to 8,000. We also got the scoop earlier that 2023 is going to be in Chicago, which is very exciting. Oh, that is nice. Yeah, we got to break that here. Excellent. Keith, talk to us about what some of the things are that you've seen the last couple of days, the momentum. What's the vibe? I saw your tweet about the top three things you were being asked. Kubernetes was not one of them. Kubernetes was not one of them. This conference is starting to, it still feels very different than a vendor conference. The keynote is kind of all over the place talking about projects. But the hallway track has been, this is maybe my fifth or sixth coupon in person. And the hallway track is different. It's less about projects and more about how do we adjust to the enterprise? How do we actually do enterprise things and it has been amazing watching this community grow.  And, you know, they're not wearing ties yet, but they are definitely understanding kind of the friction of implementing new technology in the enterprise. Yeah. Subjee, what's been your take? We were with you yesterday. What's been the take today, the takeaways? Not much has changed since yesterday, but a few things I think I missed talking about that yesterday were that, first of all, let's talk about Amazon. Amazon earnings came out, it spooked the market. And I think it's relevant in this context as well because they are number one cloud provider. And I mean, almost all of these technologies on the back of us here, they are related to cloud, right? So it will have some impact on these. We have to analyze that. Like, will it make the open source go faster or slower in lieu of the fact that the cloud growth is slowing, right? So that's one thing. That's put that aside. I've been thinking about the future of Kubernetes. What is the future of Kubernetes? And in that context, I was thinking like, you know, I think when I put a pointer there and think in tangents, like what else is around this thing? So I think CNCF has been riding the success of Kubernetes. That was their number one flagship project, if you will. And it was mature enough to stand on its own. It was Google, it's Google's Borg dubbed as Kubernetes. It's a geneticized version of that, right? So folks who do tech deep down, they know that, right? So I think it's easier to stand with a solid project, but when the newer projects come in, then your metal will get tested at CNCF, right? And CNCF, I mean, they've got over 140 projects right now. So there's definitely much beyond Kubernetes. Yeah, so they, I haven't seen numbers yet. 18 graduated, right? 37 in incubation, and then 81 in sandbox stage. They have three stages, right? So they have a lot to chew on, and the more they take on, the less quality goes into it. Who's putting the money behind it, which vendors are sponsoring like CNCF, like how they are getting funded up? I think it's great. Something I pay attention to as well. Yeah, at least I know you've got some insight. Those are the things I was thinking about today. I got to ask you, what's your take on what Keith said? Are you also seeing the maturation of the enterprise here at coupon? Yes, I am actually, when you say enterprise versus what's the other side? Startups, right? So startups start using open source a lot more earlier or a lot more than enterprises. Enterprises is what they need. Number one thing is that for the production workloads, they want a vendor sporting them. I said that yesterday as well, right? So depending on the size of the enterprise, if you're a big shop, definitely if you have one of the Fortune 500s and you're a tech savvy shop, then you can absorb the open source directly coming from the open source sort of universe, right? Coming to you. But if you are the second tier of enterprise, you want to go to a provider, which is managed services provider, or it can be cloud service provider in this case. Most of the cloud service providers have multiple versions of Kubernetes, for example. I'm not talking about Kubernetes only, but that is one example, right? So at Amazon, you can get five different flavors of Kubernetes, right? Fully managed, half managed, all kind of stuff. So people don't have bandwidth to manage that stuff locally. You have to patch it, you have to roll in the new updates and all that stuff. It's a lot of work for many. So CNCF actually is formed for that reason. Like the charter is to bring the quality to open source. Like in other companies, they have the release process and they're stringent guidelines and QA and all that stuff. So is something ready for production? That's the question when it comes to any software, right? So they do that kind of work and they have these buckets defined at high level, but it needs more work. So one of the things that kind of stood out to me, I have a good friend in the community, Alex Ellis, who does OpenFaz. It's a serverless platform, great platform. Two years ago or in 2019, there was a serverless day.  Knative came into the CNCF fold when Google donated the project a few months ago or a couple of years ago. Now all of a sudden there's a Knative day. It's not a serverless day, it's a Knative day. And I asked the CNCF event folks like, what happened to serverless day? I missed having OpenFaz at serverless day.  Knative got big enough, they came in and I think Red Hat and Google wanted to sponsor a Knative day, so serverless day went away. So I think what I'm interested in over the next couple of years is they're going to be pushed back from the CNC, against the CNCF. Is the CNCF now too big? Is it now the gatekeeper for, do I have to be one of those 147 projects in order enough to get my project noticed? The OpenFaz great project. I don't think Alex has any desire to have his project hosted by CNCF, but it probably deserves shoulder left recognition with that. So I'm pushing to happen to say, okay, if this is open community, this is open source. If CNCF is the place to have the cloud native conversation, what about the projects that's not CNCF like? How do we have that conversation when we don't have the power of a Google or a Linux, et cetera? Or a Linux foundation. What are your thoughts on that? Is CNCF too big? I don't think it's too big. I think it's too small to handle what we are doing in open source, right? So it can become a bottleneck. I think too big in a way that it has power. From that point of view, it has that cloud fuel that people listen to. If it's CNCF project, oh, this must be good. It's like in incubators, like if you are a Y Combinator company, it must be good, you know, it may not be too good. I think there's a bold assumption there though. I mean, I think everyone's just trying to do the best they can. And when we're evaluating projects of very different origin and background, it's incredibly hard. CNCF is a staff of 30 people. They've got 180,000 people that are contributing to these projects and 1,000 maintainers that they're trying to uphold. I think the challenge is actually really great. And to me, I actually look at events as an illustration of what's the culture and the health of an organization. If I were to evaluate CNCF based on that, I'd say we're very healthy right now. I would say that we're in a good spot. There's a lot of momentum. Yeah, I think CNCF is very healthy. I'm appreciative for it being here. I love KubeCon. It's becoming the de facto conference to have this conversation. It has a totally different vibe. It is a totally different vibe. There needs to be a conduit. And truth be told, enterprise buyers, to Sarbjeet's point, with this something that we do absolutely agree on, enterprise buyers, we want someone to pick winners and losers. We do. We don't want a box of Lego dumped on the middle of our table. We want somebody to have sorted that out. So while there may be five or six different service mesh solutions, at least the CNCF, I can go there and say, oh, I'll pick between the three or four that are most popular and it's a place to curate. But I think with that curation comes the other side of it, of how do we, without the big corporate sponsor, how do I get my project pushed up? Right, elevated. Elevated and put onto the show floor. Another way that projects get notices that startups will adopt them, push them. They may not even be, I don't, my CNCF project may not, my product may not even be based on the CNCF product, but the Newstack has a booth, the Ford has a booth. Nothing to do with a individual product, but promoting open source. What happens when you're not sponsored? I got to ask you guys, what do you disagree on? Oh, so what, what do we disagree on? So I'm of the mindset, I can say this, I believe hybrid infrastructure is the future of IT, bar none. If I built my infrastructure, if I built my application in the cloud 10 years ago, and I'm still building that new applications, I have stuff that I built 10 years ago that looks a lot like on-prem. What do I do with it? I can't modernize it because I don't have the developers to do it. I need to stick that somewhere. And where I'm going to stick that at is probably a hybrid infrastructure. So Colo, I'm not going to go back to the data center, but I'm going to pick up something that looks very much like the data center. And I'm saying embrace that, it's the future. And if you're Boeing, and you have, and Boeing is a member of CNCF, that's a whole other topic. If you have AS400s, HPUX, et cetera, stick that stuff in the Colo, build new stuff, but and continue to support OpenStack, et cetera, because that's the future. Hybrid is the future. And Subjee, agree, disagree? Aye? Okay. On hybrid, nobody can deny that. The hybrid is the reality, not the future. It's a reality right now. It's a necessity right now. You can't do without it, right? And okay, hybrid is very relative term. You can be like 10% here, 90% still hybrid, right? So the data center is shrinking, it will keep shrinking, right? Is the data center shrinking? This is one quick engine collection. The cloud is growing by a clip. But there's no data supporting, David Litchom just came out with a report, I think last year that showed that the data center is holding steady, holding steady, not growing, but not shrinking. Who sponsored that study, hold on. So that's the question, right? So more than one million data centers have been closed, I can dig that number through somebody, like some organization, we publish that, maybe they are cloud people only. So when you get these kind of statements, it can be very skewed statements, right? But if you have seen the scene out there, which you have, I know, but I have also seen a lot of data centers walk the floor of 100,000 servers in a data center. I cannot imagine us consuming the infrastructure the way we were going into the future, okay, with one caveat. Actually, I'm not a big fan of broad strokes, like make a blank statement, oh no, data center is dead, or if you are- That's how you get those zesty headlines. Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm all about the zesty headlines. What is taking the ground? Actually, I think that you get more intelligence intelligence from the nuance, right? Small little details, if you will. If you're Goldman Sachs or Bank of America, you have so many data centers and you will still have data centers because performance matters to you, right? Your latency matters for applications, but if you are, even a Fortune 500 company on the lower end and or healthcare vertical, right? That, your situation is different. If you are, it's high growth startup, your situation is different, right? You will be 100% cloud. So, cloud gives you velocity, the pace of change, the pace of experimentation. That, actually, you're buying innovation through cloud. It's proxy for innovation, and that's how I see it. But if you have, if you're stuck with older applications, I totally understand. You need that on-prem or some time. I think the brilliant field, so what we agree is that cloud is the place where innovation happens.  You are not going to keep your old applications up to date forever. The math just doesn't add up. And where I differ in opinion is that not everyone needs innovation to keep moving. They need innovation for a period of time and then they need steady state. So, Sarbjeev, we're going to argue about this. I have a comment, too. I love this debate, though. I got to say it's the efficiency and stability also plays an important role. I see exactly what you're talking about. It's great. I have a comment to do that. Let me tell you. Why? Let's hear it. Because if you look at the storage only, I just took storage from a computer and network for a minute. There are three constructs and infrastructure, right? So, storage, early on, there was one tier of storage. You say, pay the same price. Then now there are like five storage tiers, right? What I'm trying to say is the market sets the price. The market will tell you where this whole thing will go. But I know that margins are high in cloud, 20 plus percent. And margin will shrink as we go forward. That means the cloud will become cheaper relative to on-prem. In some cases, it's already cheaper. But even if it's a stable workload, even in that case, we will have a lower tier of service. I mean, you can't argue with me that the cloud versus your data center, they are on the same tier of services. Like cloud is a better product than your data center. Hands down. I love it. We are going to relish in the debates between the two of you. We're mic dry. The energy is great. I love it perspective. It's not like any of us can quite see through the crystal wall that we have very informed opinions, which is super exciting. Lisa, any last thoughts today? Just love, I love the debate as well. And that's part of what being in this community is all about. So sharing, about sharing opinions, expressing opinions. That's how it grows. That's how we innovate. Obviously we need the cloud, but that's how we innovate. That's how we grow. And we've seen that demonstrated the last couple of days and your takes here on theCUBE and on Twitter. Brilliant. I absolutely love it. I'm going to close this out with a really important analysis on the swag of the show. As you know yesterday, we were looking at what is the weirdest swag or most unique swag. We had that bucket hat that took the grand prize. Today we're going to focus on something that's actually quite cool. A lot of the vendors here have really dedicated their swag to being local. To Detroit, very specific in their sourcing. Sonotype here has koozies. They're beautiful. You can't quite feel this flannel, but it's very legit. Hand sound here in Michigan. I can't say that I've been to too many conferences, if any, where there was this kind of commitment to localizing and sourcing swag from around the corner. We also see this with the Intel booth. They've got screen printers out here doing custom hoodies on spot. They're even like appropriately sized. They had local artists do these designs. And if you're like me and you care about what's on your wrist, you're familiar with Shinola. This is one of my favorite swags that's available. There is a contest going on here. Hello. Yeah, so if you are at KubeCon, make sure that you go and check this out. I talked about this on the show. We've had the founder on the show, or the CEO.  Since we are in Detroit as well, one of the fun things is cars. Yes. And StormForge, who are also on the show, is actually giving away an Aston Martin, which is very exciting, not exactly manufactured in Detroit. However, still very cool on the car front. And the 007 version, the best. I know. From the 60s. Love it. It's very cool. Two quick last things. We talk about it a lot on the show. Every company now wants to be a software company on that vein and keeping up with my hat theme. The Home Depot is here because they want everybody to know that they in fact are a technology company, which is very cool. They have over 500,000 employees. You can imagine there's a lot of technology that has to go into keeping that up wild to think about. And then last but not least, very quick rapid fire, best t-shirt contest. If you've ever been to one of these events, there are a ton of t-shirts out there. I rate them on two things, wittiest line and softness. If you combine the two, you'll really be our grand champion for the year. I'm just going to hold these up and set them down for your laughs. Not afraid to commit, which is pretty great. This is another one designed by locals here. Detroit Code City. Oh, love it. This one made me chuckle the most. Kiss my cash. Oh, that's good. These are also really nice and soft, which is fantastic. Also high on the softness category is this Opsara one. I also like their bird logo.  So unfortunately if you have the FOMO, you're not here with us live in Detroit. At least you're going to get a taste of the swag, taste of the stories and some smiles here from those of us on theCUBE. Thank you both so much for being here with us. Lisa, thanks for another fabulous day. My name's Savannah Peterson. Thank you for joining us from Detroit. We're theCUBE and we can't wait to see you tomorrow.


Yes, we are back with Why End the Morning, and it's entrepreneurship Tuesday on Why End the Morning, and we'd like to focus on the public transport system. So the public transport system dates back to the 1930s in Kenya, and it has evolved over time, and now we have over 80 percent of Kenyans using the public transport system. And talking about evolution, now we are looking at having the introduction of the bus rapid transit. We have the Chairman of the Matatu's and Boda Boda Owners Federation in the studio with us to talk more about this, and let him introduce himself, Garibu Sana. Hello, Sana. Yes, my name is Kushian Mushiri. I'm the Chairman of the Matatu and Boda Boda Operators Federation, and yes, I'm here to discuss Matatu and Boda Boda. Yes. Right after there were complaints about the Matatu's Matatu Owners Association of Kenya, right? So maybe you can paint a picture for us. What led into the, what led to the formation of this federation? Because Kenyans already knew about the Matatu Owners Association, so they were kind of getting confused in the, in between here. I understand that. I understand the confusion that Kenyans were in. And this confusion was brought about by our laxity as the, as the Matatu Owners. You see for the last 35 years, we've allowed cartels to run this industry. Any time you talk about issues Matatu, the first thing that will come to mind of any Kenyan is the name Kimutai, the name Bogwa. People who have been here for over 35 years, they dealt, they started dealing with the Kenyatta, they dealt with the Moe, they dealt with Kibaki, they dealt with the Uhuru, now they want to even deal with the grandson of Uhuru. These are the kind of things that we've now said they have to come to a stop because by then you see the Matatu industry is self-regulated. And everybody is, gets, is up to get something for himself. So we didn't very quite much rely on associations or anything. So that's how we were able to allow them to sneak through and the Papus to represent us. But the minute they stepped on our tools, and I can tell you they stepped hard. They went to government, some few elements in government, high placed, and they told them that here, we have a deal, the Matatu owners have agreed to move out of the CBD. They have agreed to face out the 14 sitters so that we can decogenze the city. And the government through the CS transport and the architect of this thing, PS, namely Hingamuora took those people, a group of 18 Cattels, they took them to, now 16. They took them to China, took them to Bogota, took them to South Africa. Where they even were able to talk about these buses, get a price for them. And that's why we are here. Alright, so are you against them working with the government or are you against, let me phrase it this way. So you guys are not going to collude with the government in terms of providing better transport solutions for the Kenyans. I think that is far from the truth. We will work with government, but as the real owners of these vehicles, as the real investors, and as the real elected officials, you see these guys do not go there so that they can help the Moana Inchi. Case in example, these buses, these 64 buses that are in the high seas coming to Kenya, government through the CS Masharia for transport, contacted GM, they contracted GM. GM contracted a well-known company, Lab Singh Hamansing, which is just there near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Those are renowned people who make buses for East and Central Africa and locally in Kenya. They made those BRT buses. If you want to see those buses, you just go to GM. Those buses are there, the BRT, the high capacity buses, they are there. They made them, but P.S. Hingamuaura and the group of, they were 18. They were 18, of which after the 18, six, or the only six members had vehicles. And two of those members are the ones that came out and gave us this information and told us, guys, as you are sleeping, our birthright has been sold. The remaining 16 colluded with P.S. Hingamuaura and decided that these buses that have been made locally by our local industries will not benefit them. Why? Here in Kenya, they were worth less than 10 million, actually below even 8 million. But in South African China, they were getting a deal of 25 million. And this is not the first time we are hearing of such a case scenario in this country. Now, your guess is as good as mine. Where is this extra 17 million going? So this is not about bettering the transport system in Nairobi or CBD or in Kenya. It's about some selfish individuals who want to make a killing out of the government will to better the transport industry. We appreciate the waste of blowing, but would you consider the Federation having a national appeal as compared to the Matatu Owners Association of Kenya? Because we've known this Matatu Owners Association for a while. We grew up with it. No, we've not grown up with it. We were born and found it there. It has existed almost 40 years. So do you think your Federation has that national appeal and can represent each and every Matatu Owner from Mombasa to Busia, from Namanga all the way to Turkana? It's not a matter of believing. It's a fact. It's a fact because the Federation, even its representation, like now, this Federation is for Matatu and border-border operators. Now, this Federation is formed of associations, circles and companies limited from Kenya. And just to be clear, we recently had his Excellency, Governor Ferdinand Waitito of Kiambu, who has for the last two months been coming out strongly because he understands that Kenyans have been duped. And even the government has been duped by Cattails through this P.S. Hinger. The C.S. has been misled to being told things that are not true. Now, Governor Waitito realized that the problem we were having in this country is that we had so many associations trying to fight the Cattails. And he took the initiative, his county being one of those counties being affected by this BRT, we call it the Namata, where we have five counties. That is Kajiado, Machakos, Nairobi, Muranga and Kiambu. These are the five counties being affected now for the pilot project. So he convened the meeting whereby he called all those county officials that are affected, but it became better. The whole, the 12 Mount Kenya counties heads all decided to come to Kiambu at Ruiro Stadium whereby we discussed all issues that are affecting this industry, including those Cattails that have been able to penetrate the government. Everybody was included. Everybody was included, the 12, from the 12 counties that are affected. Yeah, of which five are the ones that are adversely affected. They came and the membership decided to conduct an election so that we can have representatives who can go to government and be there to work with government because we are not opposing the implementation of the BRT system. All we are saying is that we are the real stakeholders. We are the ones that need to be involved. Those guys that are sitting there in the apex bodies are Cattails. People who don't even own a border border. And don't understand the transportation. Let me tell you, this whole thing you are seeing here in Nairobi, it's a well orchestrated plan. I am even sure that his Excellency Governor Mike Bovissonko, whom I have a lot of respect for. I have gone to him personally when I had problems with some of my bosses and he assisted me. I can tell you he's been misled because there are people, even this pushing of the county parking fee from 300 shillings to 200 shillings which was done in the assembly. I can tell you for a fact those few county assembly members that pushed for that are being used by those Cattails so that they create an artificial crisis in Nairobi. So all these things are planned? Let me finish. The problem we have in Nairobi, in the CBD especially, of high traffic congestion is caused by the high intake of private vehicles. Those that we call personal vehicles or actually vehicles that are coming into the CBD. We've done a survey and we found that out of every 50 vehicles that access the CBD, 50 private vehicles is only one matter. One matter? It beats logic. And sometimes you only have one passenger in one personal vehicle. So most of the time there's only, even in my own private vehicle, the one that I came using, actually I had to, we were two, just me and my driver. And I had to abandon it at Garden City and took a border to town because had I not done that I would have arrived here at 11. So there are other ways to approach the decongestion problem? Yes. Before we delve into the decongestion problem, I'd like to know apart from hosting out these Cattails and the people who are involved in manipulating the system, what is the mandate of the Federation so far? What can we look up to the mandate to do for us as the people who use the public transport? As we are talking now, the Federation already has its leadership elected whereby I'm chairman. There's a border, border, border guy who has taken the deputy chairmanship. We have representation downward from both the sectors. And the problems that we are facing now that we are together, we realized that the border, border and Matatu is one industry. Because where we, as the Matatu people, drop passengers, the border, border take from there. And where the border borders drop, the Matatu stick from there. So we are one industry. Almost most of the border borders are owned by our Matatu drivers. And even some border border riders have Matatus. So we are one industry. And the problem we are facing, especially here in Nairobi, let me tell you a case in an example. In Nairobi, they used the excuse of insecurity to drive out the border borders. But the truth is, the United Border Border Association and the safety, the Border Border Safety Association of Kenya, those two groups had marched and made, even went to the governor's office where they were somehow blocked by most of the officials. But they were able to present a document whereby they told the county government, allow us, have routes. Let us manage our routes. In a suspicious border, border or motorbike that comes into the CBD, we know ourselves. We shall identify that border, border, those that are used by gangs, criminals. We shall identify and we shall work with the National Police Service so that once we identify, we call them, they come and take them. But now, since they're facing out of the border borders from town, the truth is, even, you know, I've come with a border border myself. So how are they faced out if they're still in town? If you go to town, there are a lot of border borders. Fact be told, the border borders that are there belong to most of the county officials and security operators or people. Those border borders pay a fee of 200 shillings to those small, small county officials so that they can be allowed for their border borders to operate in town. Any border border that is not, let me tell you the truth on the ground. Any border border that does not belong to these small, small county officials is always detained. People have been maimed.  And once a border border is detained, I can tell you right now in Nairobi, it has become low, 5,000 shillings. 5,000 shillings. Which is money they don't even make in a day. And if you don't part with the 5,000 shillings, your border border is detained, taken there to the holding facility, where you are charged 2,000 a day for storage. You are taken to court, where you are fined around 10,000 shillings. So if you take one week to get the 10,000, you add 2,000 shillings per day. So you'd rather have 5,000 on your phone just in case you are detained. But while this is happening, there are border borders everywhere. So we can never get the clear picture. Now there comes the insecurity. The insecurity is there because these border borders, because now it's illegal. Even the actual border borders that are operating illegally cannot detain these illegal border borders. Because if you detain yourself, you are also illegally in town. So you and the criminal end up behind the incels. So this is the problem we are facing in the border borders. And in the 14-seater case of being faced out, they are being faced out with the reason. Right now, even a 14-seater, you rarely find it full capacity, having 14 passengers inside. Go to Kencom. All these buses, the ones that go up a hill, where you find there are three-seaters, most of them are 51-seaters. Most of the seats are always unoccupied. So why are you telling us you want to bring a 100-seater bus? Even a 14-seater is being auctioned by auctioneers because the owner has been unable to pay it because of insufficient passengers because almost every Nairobier now owns a private vehicle. So it beats logic. This is a white elephant. All right, I'll get to your point right there. But there's a lot of criticism when it comes to the Matatu industry. And people will say the last 90 years, if we date back to 1930s, we have been paying for our Matatu rides the same exact way for 90 years. So there are claims that the Matatu industry are not incorporating technology as much as they are supposed to if we compare to other developing nations such as Singapore and we have the likes of other countries that are developing or developed countries rather. So how is this new federation going to incorporate technology for ease in transport and at least incorporate the youth when these colleges were studying technological courses? Yes, what I can tell you from that one is that we admit as the owners of the vehicles we dealt so much on making a profit and forgot that... Progress, there needs to be progress. Things like progress. Now that the cartels have stepped on our foot, they've made us be very much awake. We are awake, we are out of slumberland now and as a federation now this is our professional body whereby we shall work with government internally and we shall be able to do all these things that are needed as long as we are working with government. The cartels were there for their own selfish interest to malign their pockets and the last results was them going to Mombasa, sharing buses among themselves whereby they shared five buses, the leaders, those leaders. The company is called the Regional Metropolitan Transport... Yes, the company, I have been on various TV shows giving these... Now I don't even carry, I have the pictures for Hingamu Aura and this group of 18 persons and the two that exited the company and we saw blue what was happening. They were offered the four buses each. This is Honorable Lucy Washuka who is the treasurer of our federation and there is Mr. Kauvin Nyaure who is the Secretary General of our federation. They were both members of Regional Metropolitan Transport Company which has the directorship of one Kimutai, the Matatu Owners Association Chairman, Jimar Ibrahim and Simon Bogua, people like Mount Kenya, something karaoke, all those people and another guy called Gatogo Karagasha, a group of, they were 18. So the two came out and said no. You see the leadership, the ones I've mentioned were being given five buses each out of the 64 buses that are coming and they were bought with Kenyan taxpayers' money so that they can support the face-out of the 14 sitters, support the face-out of the border borders, hence create a market for these high capacity buses. But the question is if these buses were to come and the 14 sitters are there, would they have leverage? What would be the use of having a 100-sitter bus which only has 14 passengers inside? Read this money and I'm requesting government. This money, we have a lot of issues, bad roads, everything. Let this money go to help those people. If it is a matter of decongesting the CBD, I highly recommend that the problem we have in Kenya is lack of enough sufficient packings and if the intake of private vehicles is more than the packings we have in the CBD, why doesn't the government encourage the use of public means? Because these PSVs do not pack in the CBD. What they do is drop, pick and go back. But these private vehicles are packing from 6 to 6. You come from Nakuru, you get nowhere to park. So I'm saying this, even in modern countries, it is quite an expensive affair to have a private vehicle going into the CBD. So why does the government, why would anyone drop the packing fee to 200 shillings We are actually recommending that the packing fee be taken to as high as 1000 Kenyans shillings and you will see the traffic flow. This one, we have a rate of 50 private vehicles to 1 Matatu. It will drop to 25 private vehicles for every 1 Matatu. And I can assure you Nairobi will be a place you can go anytime So that's your solution for decongesting the city? Yes, it is the law of supply and demand. When the supply of any commodity is high, the price is low. Now the supply of the packings is low. The price has to be high. Why don't you go to the Sarai Naevre? Because it's expensive. So it's simple economics. Why are we telling the government to use billions to create a lane for BRTs? To use billions while we know in Kenya right now we have more than 3.6 private vehicles. And these are vehicles that somebody can pack at Kasarani. Use, pay 20 shillings and come into the CBD. Pay 50 shillings, come into the CBD, pay 50 shillings and go back to Kasarani or there at almost the airport area, those ones. We have very big packing bays there, pack there and it will be less costly. And we even save the Kenyan economy. A lot of money. We use almost 5 billion on fuel. The viewers have issues as well. Because they are stakeholders as well in the public transport system. They use the Matatu. Somebody is asking, this person is saying they have been robbed in a Matatu before. And he is not the only person because when he shared his story on Twitter, he had some other people who have had the same experience. So a matter of security is also here at hand. Telling somebody who is driving their own personal vehicle with so many valuables on them to leave their car somewhere and take a Matatu without the assurance of security is quite difficult. So what would you tell us? Let me tell you my take on that. Insecurities everywhere. Even our private vehicles, even here in the CBD, we pack them and we pay packing boys to watch over them. Because if you don't pay those guys, you might find the side mirror is missing. Private vehicles are being hijacked every day. Actually, it's even the hijackers avoid the Matatu. Because there is a lot of traffic. There's a lot of people inside. They prefer the private vehicles. So on Matatu, this is isolated cases. So I believe it's even safer. It's even safer. Even if you want to do a meeting with somebody, you don't think very highly of insecurity-wise. You meet that person in your house or in the hotel. You meet that person in a public place. So the public means is safer. Go to the police and I can assure you most of the hijackings and everything happen on private vehicles. Not in public. So as we come to the end of this, every whistleblower, whistleblowers have something in common. They're always scared for their lives. Are you scared for your life? Let me tell you, brother, if I become scared about my life because of these cartels and some few government officials that wish to make 17 million out of every bus in 64 buses there's a plan for another 900 buses. And I get scared. I assure you dead and Kemathi will be running in his grave. He fought so that this republic, we can be able to have self-rule and be able to be free, have freedom of speech, freedom of expression. Now, if we fear for these things, let me tell you, we will have thrown our country to the dogs. Has we wind up a message from the Federation to the public as the chairman? I would like to thank all the people that are in support of our Federation. I would like to give special thanks to His Excellency Governor Waitito. He did a very nice job bringing us together from various associations. And I would actually like also to reach out to Governor Mike Bovi Sonko so that together we can work for the betterment of this Nairobi. And I'm sure together we can. Actually, that is our slogan. Together we can. Together as the Matatu owners, as the operators, as the passengers as well. Matatu and border-border operators and our passengers. And together we can, even with our government and county government. Thank you very much, Mr. Mushiri, for coming through. We appreciate you so much for what you do into the operators and the passengers as well and your cause and what you believe in. We appreciate you. Thank you very much. I also appreciate you for calling us here so that we can be able to enlighten the Kenyans on what is happening. But right now you can take it to the bank. We are moving places. And we will make sure that we straighten this sector to the benefit of all Kenyans. Thank you. Mr. Mushiri, the Chairman of the Matatu and Border-Border Operators Federation of Kenya right here on Why in the Morning on Entrepreneurship Tuesday. And we are just discussing the future of the public transport and how does it affect you. If you'd like to engage us in a conversation, you can contact us on Y254 on Twitter, Y254 on Instagram and Y254 on Facebook. Hashtag is Why in the Morning, hashtag Entrepreneurship Tuesday. Or you can hit me up directly at It's By Morning, every social media platform. Joy Muchachi is coming up next with another amazing interview, so don't go nowhere.