It's my 17th season as a pro. Wow. And who have you ridden for during that time? First I started in Fonac. It was a Swiss team. Then I went to longtime BMC. I was racing for Kedel Evans. How long for BMC? Eleven years. Wow. Yeah, eleven years. It was a nice time. The BMC racing team. We did a lot of races internationally. Kedel with Greg Van Avermaet, with Phil Schielbeer, George Henkepe, which was a big mentor for me. It was good times. And now I changed to Ashid Jezair, French team. Still racing for Greg. We actually stayed together over all the years. We were roommates for many, many over, yeah, over 10, 12 years. And there came all the new leaders for the GCE into the group, which is Ben O'Connor, was fourth in the Tour de France, the Australian. And yeah, nice to be racing for those big leaders. Absolutely. So what's your role within the team that you've... It was all the years, the same role. I'm a domestic rider, just riding for the GCE guys and also for the classic guys. I'm a bit diverse. I can get used to the classics, to make approaches for important cobbled sections or little climbs. But also I'm quite light for my size. So I could pass over big passes and big climbs pretty well. So I can do also like grand tours. So I did a couple Tour de France. Wow. And you say your size, how tall are you? 1.96m. Wow. Six foot five. Six foot five. Yeah. And how much do you weigh? 77kg. 77kg. Wow. So we were talking about training earlier and you were saying how much it's changed over the years. So when you first started to become more professional, what year are we talking? Yeah, it was 2006, starting being professional. Okay. Then the sport was very different. It was more you trained from home. You had a home trainer that gave you the training and we just did actually just long hours. It was all about volume. Yeah. It was really volume, volume. We did the longer the ride, the better it was considered. Okay. Means we did five hours, six hours, seven hours. The 200k day was always a good day. Right. And mostly if you arrived empty and tired and the more fatigue you could accumulate, the better the training was for us supposed to be. That was the mindset of the old pros. And you were telling me earlier about the nutrition intake as well. Was it so different then? What happened? Yeah, there was a big change. At the beginning we just went out mostly not small breakfast or even empty. We did low carb rides a lot, which is not done at all anymore nowadays. So we went out, let's say for a five hours ride, two and a half hours in. No food, no, yeah, maybe a bottle with a little bit of syrup inside. Then we stopped at the bakery, which just took a Coca-Cola or a coffee and a big croissant or something, some pastry and just spiked the sugar again, totally, to sprint out of the coffee again. We had lots of fun doing that. Yeah.  Yes. So there was no structure. You just went and did whatever. Yeah, we did whatever.  That was fun. Yes. So if you have two, three guys and you start dropping him or start having tactical games against each other, it's a lot of fun. Right. You sprint to a sign of a village and this has totally changed. Wow. Now you do sprints, yes, but you do 10 sprints and the trainer puts on your even, on your Garmin, the section where you do the sprint and you do it just randomly on a straight road. So there is no goal, there is no village sign, there is no fun to it. It's just like robots putting one and then two minutes exact recovery next sprint, two minutes recovery next sprint. So before it was maybe five and a half minutes recovery or 30 seconds only. So it was more random. Yeah, okay. And did you have power meters when you first started to get into training? Yeah, no, into training not like when I really started no power meters, but it was about the time 2007, 6, 7, where the power meter SRM arrived. Yeah, okay. We had it and we also had training pigs already. So that's actually quite nice. I can look back all my history. Yes. Because I had a login since 2006 to training pigs. Wow. And I do this mostly because not of the values of the watts, you cannot really compare. It's more about the comments I wrote. So I go back to Paris-Roubaix 2007 and read my comments. It's super interesting to see now still my analysis of these races, to implement into the races nowadays. Yes. So what did you analyze when you saw it? I'm pretty precise there. I really say which cobblestone or which little corner, which little church you have to look at. It's the most tactical thing. Okay. It's not a training thing just to see where you make the best approach. And that's how I evolve or try to improve myself year by year. Yes. So going back to the training when you first started, was it this common for most cyclists? Yeah, there were some cyclists really who were heart rate based. Yeah. They did a lot on the heart rate. Yeah. There were some guys that did them on speed. The Belgiums, they always have to come home on a 33 average speed in training. Yeah. Which is fun. And the watt based training, I would say around 2010-11, really came more and more important. Yeah, okay. So when did you notice the shift starting to happen from random volume into more structure? Has it been just recently or was it a while ago? The first shift, I would say, was like five to eight years ago. Right. Where the new generation came up that we really structured on the watts. We were not training anymore together. Each rider had his personalized training plan. So every guy went alone because he come to it together the same. Even in the team? Yeah, the team training camp is together. There they'd really try to make groups of eight to 10 riders together. But at home, like my group of training buddies, oftentimes we called in the morning and they're like, it's too big of a hassle to go out together because you've got to do three times 20 minutes in 10 and I have to do a sprint day and you have a rest day. So it was a bit, there I started a drift apart as soon as we were riding individually. Then the second big drift was COVID. Like since COVID, I think training has changed totally. Really? Because the indoor racing came. A lot of, you know, digital Swiss five. We had this indoor Tourist Swiss. And the young generation, they just jumped onto the train of indoor cycling so much and pushed themselves really on the limit with these races. And also the trainers, they saw this has potential and they put a lot of training. Since then, definitely the bunch has changed. And a lot of my teammates, we analyzed that oftentimes on the dinner tables that we say. Since this infamous Tour of Dauphiné 2020 was one of the first races back which we were just flying. Like we came in and we raced full full. It was just from the start. There was no pit stop anymore. We go out and we choose to race. It was bang bang. Yeah, it was bang bang. Yeah. And that has changed a lot. And yeah, I think. So it's made people stronger. Yeah, we are stronger for a shorter time.  We're looking at it as a competition that counts. Before, we had a head building up races. I did a little bit Valencia, a little bit preparing races for the classic, you know, small stuff where no pressure, nothing. That doesn't happen anymore. Because before COVID, I had 98 race days a year. Now this year, I had 58 race days. That's a lot less. Yes. And that means a lot less race days. It's a lot less, a lot more pressure on that actual day. You're much more prepared. So everybody's more prepared to lift. The level is higher. Yes. Also the kilometers a year. My normal years was 37,000 kilometers a year. And this year, I did only 27,000. That means 10,000 less is almost 30% less, you know. That means every training is more structured and more precise. So I go out now. I go sometimes two and a half, three hours. 10 years ago, I would not put my bibs on for two and a half hours training. You know, it was not even, it was a little bit of rest day, right? Yes. And now these two and a half hours are full, full on. I go out after 10 minutes. I push my set button and I do repeated efforts. Like, last time I texted Greg before Canada and I told Greg, you don't believe me what happened.  I was, you know, the effort of the training was so hard that I did like six times two minutes with two minutes recovery. Yeah. But this after the sixth time of the two minutes full out, I don't know, six, seven hundred once or something, I just collapsed. And I said, fuck, this never happened before. Before we just, you know, we just rode. So when you train hard now, you train harder. Yeah. Yeah. It's polarized. That's the other part that has changed. Yes. Polarized. We go either all out or we go endurance easy. Braw. The easier than we know because the old style of pros, you go out and you put the, you know, put the 350 watts the whole day.  The bigger the engine gets, the idea. And now our trainers always have to put us back and say, guys, go easier. Don't go those 300 watts all day long.  Just cruise for six hours and come home. And don't be totally empty on a hunger flat. You know how many times I'm living on a little hill? I always came home a hunger flat, like totally out of sugar. Sometimes I creeped up home. And now since two, three years, I eat like I have to eat in the proper strategy of food. You used to do the same before having a gel in the first hour. You never used to do that. No way. A gel in training. This was a shame. Really? If a Neopro took a gel in training, the whole group laughed. Really? Yeah, yeah. Wow. What about now? Now everybody orders the gels at home and we eat the gels the whole day. Right. Wow. Unbelievable. Changed a lot. Yes. And you were talking earlier about the juniors or the more elite pros seem to be getting younger. Why do you think that is? Because of the training? Yeah, they're younger and earlier ready to be pro. Because when I was pro, I was also early pro. I was 19 years old in a time where it was different. So I was getting pro and I knew nothing about the world of being pro. I didn't know about nutrition, about training, about anything. I was just getting, I got dropped in the cold water. Do you have a coach? I had a coach, yeah. It was my father. Oh, okay. You know. Right. It was not your coach. It was an old school. Old school. It was old school. Going riding and just going as hard as you can. Yeah. But now the young guys, they're so ready to be pro. Because they live, since in Europe it's like this, they go to sports schools. And when I was young, I had no sports school option. I was going to a normal proper school to 430 and then run home as fast as possible. Went on a bike one and a half hours all out. Came home, slept the next day school. And the young boys now, they go to the sport universities, the sports schools. So the afternoon is mostly free for training. Wow. So they have. And this is across Europe you were saying? I would really, yeah. All my French teammates, all did it. The Belgiums there, to be honest, not even in sports school. They're professionals with 15. They do nothing in school. Wow. It's really, it's shocking. In Swiss we also have a lot of good sports schools. Where the boys have good education and they do something well. But that means they have nutrition in the school. They have training science. They have training space for the proper training. They have core training. They have the whole package. So they are professional my point of view already with earlier with 15. So that means when they jump to the pros it's way easier. And how long has this been there for? Like the last three to five years it's been like? That's a bit longer. I think the sports course is around five, eight years. Yeah, okay. At least. And the training they're doing is more of the structured training. Less volume, more zone two, more high intensity interval training session. Exactly. Yes. Young guys they know a lot of how their body has to react on a certain high intensity training. Because that's actually what we need, you know. Cycling. Road cycling is often one to two hours hard at the start to have a breakaway. Then we go for two, three hours in a regular pace and then the end you go again super hard. So that means you need to train the spikes and you need to train the repeated effort. That's what I meant before. If you have super values, like once riding up a hill for 20 minutes or 10 minutes, that's quite easy. The issue is if you have to go after five or six hours or in minus on rainbow after 300k, you have to do the 10 minutes effort on the same level like you did at the start. Yes. And there you see the differences in talent and in training also. So do you prefer it this way or do you prefer it the old school way? I'm happy how it is. I'm happy I've seen both sides. Okay. Because I'm in a stage of my career where it's, you know, I'm a bit older. It's fine to test myself. I see it in a positive approach. See, I can test now my body where I actually can go to the absolute maximum. So it's nice. Now I have the better values than when I was 22. You do? Yeah. Right. So the training has worked. Exactly. Training worked and I cannot retire and say I have a regret. I didn't put everything out of my body. So I will retire and say, wow, I did the best of my absolute capacities with the leak or the lack of fun because the fun hasn't been missing. In the old days I had more fun. So I can say I have seen both sides. Yes. So I had my early years when I was 20 to 30 with lots of fun but less structure and also less performance. Now I have less fun but more structure. So I'm having, you know, I see it in this way. You're married with kids now so it's okay. Exactly. Yeah. But what about then to flip the coin the training is more effective but is it more of a burden for some cyclists that might mentally find it hard? Do you think more cyclists might get burnt out because of the structure or? That's fine. Yeah. That's what lots of people say now that the careers will not last. Have you seen it? I've seen lots of people come and go. Yeah. Right. I've seen in the sport, you know, some guys, they come to two-year contracts, they come in and come out. It's a rough, rough business. Yes.  But that's not so easy. Is that training related though or just the culture? No, that's the business. I think training related we will only see in a couple of years because this generation who came up with was that, you know, he's training that crazy and that focused is not, yeah, we need a couple more years to see this, the science behind. And I don't want to go like this because a lot of people say the younger pros, they will have shorter careers because I have now a 17-year career. They say this never happens anymore in the future. I don't think so. I think if a boy has a passion for sport and he loves his business, he can go on for a long time. If you find your happiness. Absolutely. So can we finish off, what's your favorite training session? You got two favorite training sessions, low intensity and high intensity? The low, just when he writes endurance go as long as fast as you want. Then I go on my favorite two climbs, which is in my home. It's a five hour loop with two one hour climbs, spectacular views. Yes. When I just go out, there's like a tourist and they just enjoy the views. Yes. And that's how I think I will ride for many, many more years. Yes, great. Well, thanks for your time and thanks for sharing. Thank you.


end by looking at some landing gear of famous aircraft and try to familiar ourselves with their functioning. This is the landing gear of the F-22 aircraft. You can notice here that the landing gear is short and compact and as it retracts inside you have this conformal cover that will fit into the geometry and make the whole aircraft fuselage very much smooth to avoid drag. Here is the main landing gear of the Fokker F-27 aircraft which is now obsolete. It had long main landing gear struts with no side braces. So these were the landing gear struts which are quite long because it was mounted on the wing and the wing was a high wing. So on a high wing aircraft where the wing is above the fuselage when you mount landing gear of course they mounted it below the engine but still it was an example of a long main landing gear strut with no side braces. On a BI-146 aircraft you have to provide landing gear on the the landing gear on the fuselage because it is again a high wing aircraft and when you have turbo fan engines mounted on the wing then mounting the landing gear on the wing becomes a serious problem what we saw in F-27 was an exception. So in this case you have the landing gear mounted on the side of the fuselage but you need to have minimum some minimum wheel tracks so that you can get the where you can avoid the tip off. So therefore you have to have landing gear which is coming out of the fuselage and then when you retract it inside then you require a small blister. So you can see this is a blister in which the landing gear gets compacted and this is the covering for the blister so that the drag is minimized after the landing gear is retracted. The same covering can be seen here also. Let us look at the landing gear of an aircraft called as the Watt F-4U Corsair. This particular aircraft had engines embedded in the root of you can see there is some intake here and in this case the main landing gear retracts rearward into the wing so it goes back. If you look at the DeHavilland-Kalbu aircraft this has got a gull wing configuration and on the gull wing configuration because the landing gear is mounted below the engine and it is a gull wing so therefore you tend to reduce the strength the strut length of the olio strut on which landing gear is mounted. This is the landing gear of Airbus 380 you can see that there are four main legs there are two on the fuselage on the side and there are two on the wings. So there are 20 wheels in total there are six wheels on each of the main legs on the fuselage so 12 wheels here and then there are four wheels on the main landing gear leg which is in the wing. So on each side you have six plus four that means you have total of 20 main landing gear legs and then you have the nose landing gear also which has four wheels. If you look at the landing gear of AN-125 Ruslan aircraft this is a very interesting aircraft it is a cargo aircraft for transporting cargo over long distances so the nose of the aircraft completely bends up and you have as you can see five pairs of landing gear legs on the main landing gear and on the nose wheel you have two pairs on two nose wheels. Now this particular landing gear we can adjust the length of the struts so that the aircraft can be made to mill and that allows easy loading of cargo you can see in this configuration there is a ramp here and you just drive in with the cargo. Then let us look at the monster the largest aircraft that we have seen AN-225 Maria it is one step ahead from the Ruslan it has got seven pairs of main landing gear you can see there are seven pairs and you know in the nose also you have several landing gear. So seven pairs of main landing gear two pairs on the nose wheels two pairs on the nose wheel and you can adjust the pressure of each tire on the main landing gear and you can also retract or extend the each individual struts which allows you to change the tire. Finally we look at the landing gear of Boeing 787 and you can get an idea about the size by comparing with the person here and this particular video will show you how the testing is done. Okay thanks for your attention.


Hey, folks, Styler Patner here.  Now, first things first. Obviously, outside of the gun, you're going to need a few essentials. Number one is going to be air. Now, I like the 100 cubic inch air venturi bottle. This is going to be good for your use in the field. You could throw this in a backpack. It's going to fit nicely, not weigh you down. It's only a couple pounds about the size of a football. But this thing is going to be able to fill your gun a couple of times. Give you a couple backup shots if you need it. God forbid something happens where you need more air in the field. You're going to want to have it on hand. And carrying a hand pump is going to be loud, cumbersome, and, quite frankly, annoying.  Moving on, obviously, you need ammo. Ammo is going to be the most important thing you need. So you've either got slugs or, in the case of our dragon claw, if you're like me, I love hunting with these air bolts. They are awesome. You throw a broad head on it. There's not a lot that's going to stop it. But obviously, you've got to do your due diligence with whatever ammo you're shooting. So get out there, hit the range, and make sure you know your trajectory, you know your holdovers, that you're comfortable at different distances when you get into the blind or into the stand. And last, but certainly not least, get a scope that you are comfortable with as well. I like a 3 to 12, 3 to 9, something in that ballpark because it's going to give me a low enough magnification where I can scan things quickly and get a wide field of view. But it's also going to allow me to get in tight enough when I need to make a precision shot at a little bit longer distance. So something that works with your eye well, gives you a good reticle that you're comfortable with, is going to serve you very well in the field. Those are my three essentials for big game air gun hunting. What are yours? Let us know down in the comments below and we'll see you at the next one.


Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So I feel like in regards to my makes lately, it has been either a month full of making stuff or a month of making nothing. And as I started to pull out all the things that I made this month, I realized that this is a month where I made a ton of stuff. So I'm excited to show you everything. I will say most of these things have already been reviewed on the channel. Some of them, the reviews are coming in the next couple weeks, but if it has already been reviewed, then I am going to put a little thingamajig.  If you click that, then it'll take you directly to the video with the full length review where you can get all the pros and cons of the pattern and learn more about the fabric and see more close-ups of it and all of that kind of stuff. So if you want more information about any of these, not any of them, about most of the things I'm going to review, keep your eye on the top right hand corner. I guess it's over here. The top right hand corner of your screen and little info boxes will pop up throughout the video where you can find the link to that review video. I hope that makes sense. Okay, but I'm going to jump right in because I have a lot to cover. I think I might try and go chronologically. That might be the easiest for me. The very first thing I made this month was for Stylemaker Fabrics Fall Style Tour, and I ended up hacking a pattern. So I took McCall 7 6 6 0 and flipped the v-neck to the back, lowered the v, and then added some eyelets to create a little lace-up. A lot of you guys requested a tutorial on this, and that is something that I am working on, so stay tuned for that. But I ended up pairing that with the Style Arc Sally Jeans skirt, and I really love it. I think this is a super cute fall outfit for the south because it's like a light sweater knit with an open back, so it's kind of breezy back there, you know what I'm saying? And then it's a cute skirt, but in kind of like a mid-weight fabric, so it's a little bit warmer. But I had a lot of fun kind of pairing these two things together and like dreaming up what I would make for the tour, and this was just kind of a vision that I had in my head, and I think it came out almost exactly how I wanted, and that doesn't always happen as we all know. Okay, and then I went on a bit of a fall dress kick one weekend. I was just looking at my stash, and I was like, I have got to get rid of some of this stash. So I started with, oh gosh, um, McCall 7160, this version here, and I used a kind of like a lace bonded, a lace bonded ponte, I guess? It is my quintessential fit and flair style that I just love wearing. The skirt is like super flared because it is like a bonded ponte, so it just flares right out, and I just think it's so fun and flirty. I absolutely love this, and the color is fall-ish to me. I mean, it is on a white background, so it makes it a little bit more spring. I don't know, I kind of feel like this is just an all year round, maybe not in the dead of summer in the south, but most of the year, I think this is seasonally appropriate. It was super easy to make, just through everything through the serger. I did end up having to add a side zipper because it isn't as stretchy as you might think, and the waistband was not cut on the bias, so there was just like no give there whatsoever. I couldn't get it over my shoulders mostly, so really love that one, love how it came together. I always feel like really sassy and dressed up whenever I wear this one. Okay, and then I made... I don't have the pattern with me, but I will insert it here. It is this really cute double brushed ponte, sort of like unassuming at first, and then you get to the bottom and you realize it has this like pattern mixing, which I am really excited about. You guys freaked out over this one, both on social media and here on the channel, so it makes me feel super confident whenever I wear it because I know that so many of you liked it.  Oh my gosh, it's so pretty on you. People don't really do that.  Like, I'm not crazy for putting these two prints together. Like, I think I needed that vindication for this one. Like the blue dress, I just feel confident and naturally because it's just kind of not that out there. It's kind of expected and just, you know, a pretty dress, but this one, I don't know, some people might not like, and I started to get nervous as I was sewing it, so I was really glad to get that that vindication, but it's double brushed Ponty. It's super soft on both sides. It's very comfortable to wear. It's basically like pajamas. If it weren't a dress, I wouldn't have to think twice about it. I just, you know, can't flash anybody. And that is like really comfortable. It packs really well. It doesn't wrinkle like it's like dream fabric. So that one was really good. Then I made this one and this one has not appeared on the channel yet, but I have it scheduled, I think to go out in a couple of weeks. So you'll get more information about it then. But it's this pattern here with the short sleeves, Butterick 6449. And here's how it came out. Super cute. I love the fabric so much. It did come out a little bit like Sunday brunch after church kind of vibe. A little bit matronly, if I'm being honest. But that's okay. It is a different silhouette for me also, which I'm not super confident in. It's got a higher, the waistband is more of an empire waistband. And then these panels, I don't know, just aren't super flattering through the midsection. If you have any kind of belly at all, just stick with the flare skirt, circle skirt, pleated skirt, that kind of thing. If I would have thought about it, I would have just attached a circle skirt to this one and probably would give it a 10. But now it's like a seven probably just because I don't, I don't know, I don't feel super confident in the fit. But I am working on the midsection. Well, I'm working on all the sections to be honest. So maybe one day it'll get less inflamed and you know, not be such a downer for me. But I did enjoy making the dress. The pattern was super easy and the fabric is really cute and pretty. So it'll stay around for a while. We'll see how much I end up wearing it. So butter six, four, four, nine on that. And then this is my second time making this pattern. You guys know I don't usually repeat, but this is six, three, eight, this version here. But I made it with the like, I guess I just omitted the sleeve. There's like a drop shoulder kind of thing where you can have a short sleeve. So that's basically what I did. So I have a short sleeve, like jacar double knit kind of thing going on here. I don't know. This one hasn't been reviewed on the channel yet either. But I will get it up this month probably. But it's just kind of really comfy and kind of feels like wearing a blanket and is kind of like sporty in a way. It's a little bit a nod to the athleisure because when I wear it, I wear it with like black sneakers. So yeah, it's a different vibe for me. I'm trying to find ways to be casual, but still cute, like not always jeans and a shirt, you know. And so I thought that this would be a good way to do that. And this collar is super comfortable. I mean, it comes all the way up on your neck. So it's warm and cozy. Like I said, it's like wearing blanket. Okay, then I went off the rails a little bit and made something that isn't clothes. And that is my little toiletry kit. And what I didn't realize whenever I first made these is that this set is a lot like those little Japanese wooden dolls where they all fit into each other. So look, I have that big one. And then the next biggest and then it keeps going. And you can just keep birthing toiletry bags one after the other. Isn't that fun? So it's a super easy way to store them because they all live within one another. You're not storing, you know, five separate bags, you're really only storing one. But I did this as a collaboration with by any.com and I just had a lot of fun doing it. And I think they turned out really cute. These were all done on my cricket with the easy press to get them pressed on real nice. So yeah, that was really cute. I'll be using these on a trip I'm going on very soon. So you'll be seeing some more of these shortly. But as I said before, the By Annie patterns are really, really great. You end up being able to accomplish something that surprises you. Like I'm surprised how professional these turn out every time I make one of her patterns. I'm just like, gosh, did I really do that? Like it looks really good. Like I'm impressed with myself even though I've only ever made like three bags in my life. So lots of practice though, since this was technically five of them. But yeah, these are super fun. And I'm really happy to have them just in my collection in my life to be able to travel or whatever. It'll be something really fun to pull out every time I go somewhere. So that was those. And then also with my cricket maker, I made another quilt. This is a holiday quilt. You can see my Santas in the snow globes. And I just absolutely fell in love with this fabric collection and then making the quilt was super simple with the maker. I'm going to end up doing a like five frequently asked questions about the cricket maker. So if you have questions about the maker, something that has been keeping you from buying one or something that makes you nervous about using it or something like that, leave those questions in the comments and I will add a few of them to the frequently asked questions. But in that video, I will show you a lot more of this quilt. But yeah, it's really large, but obviously was easier to make on my maker because it did all the cutting for me. So you'll see more of this soon. And don't forget to leave your questions about the cricket maker in the comments. And then finally, I made simplicity eight seven and four one. I posted this last week. And then yesterday I posted some tips on working with fur. So you guys will have all of those. Both of those videos available to you. The jacket turned out really cute, although it was funny because the day that I so I wore it like during the day day tonight really. And my boyfriend was like, I was like, so what do you think of my new jacket? And he's like, you're gonna wear that. And I'm like, yeah. And he's like, during the day. And I'm like, yeah. And he's like, okay, I'm like, what you don't think you don't like it. And he's like, it's just a little much. So I think that the guys might be having a hard time coming around to fur as like an every day type of not every day type of thing. But as a daytime type of thing. But I rocked it all day long. I never got too hot. Although I will say it was chillier. We were in Charlotte that day. So it was only in like the 60s and 70s. So it was a little bit chillier for me. But I walked it all day long. And I don't feel like I got too many crazy looks for wearing fur during the day. Is that a thing? Who cares? It's like white after Labor Day. It's like a rule, but rules were meant to be broken. So anyways, lots of content regarding this little guy here. So go check out both of those videos if you want to learn more about making your own fur cropped jacket. Love this guy. And that's it. That is all the things that I made in October. I've been very, very busy. I will have my plans video up maybe tomorrow. And I have a lot of things planned because I'm taking a location slash small like sewing retreat. There's only going to be three of us that are going to be there.  It's just a very intimate sewing retreat. We rented a little Airbnb nearby, like driving distance, but away from all of our homes. So it'll be four whole well three and a half days of sewing. So I'll have big plans for November as well. It is a lot. I've been a busy girl, but it feels good to be this productive and this creative and all of that. So let me know what you made in October, something you're super proud of. Are you doing so frosting? This was my so frosting entry. We will see there's a lot of really good so frosting entries. So and also some other fur coats. So I have no idea how they are going to pick a winner. But if you're doing so frosting, let me know what your Instagram handle is so I can go check out your entry and give you a double tap and all that fun stuff. But until next time, like tomorrow, I will see you all very soon. Bye.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Thank you all very much, and thank you, John Paul. And Mary Ann Stevens, Chesley Pruitt, Ed Bethune, I thank you all very much. And it's great to be back in Little Rock, and great to hear those seven bands, those terrific bands. And you know as president, a lot of important papers cross my desk. And one of them told me about some teams that are undefeated after seven games, nationally ranked, moving up, and that have some of the greatest football fans in the United States. I have to say the Arkansas Razorbacks and the UCA Bears are my kind of teams. Well today, I've come to Little Rock for a very special reason. Because I want to talk to you about a friend of mine, the next President of the United States, George Bush. For eight years, we've worked together to rebuild our economy, to get America on the move again, to make the United States, once again, the great arsenal of democracy. A light unto the nations, the champion of freedom around the world. For eight years, George Bush and I have worked side by side in the White House during times of crisis and times of historic triumph and achievements. I've come to know George Bush very well. The... I also know what is required to be President of the United States. I know who should be the man at the desk. And ladies and gentlemen, George Bush is that man. Now from top to bottom, from President to Congress to local office, especially here in Arkansas, this is what is at stake. The election this year is a referendum on liberalism. Yes, the choice before the American people this year is just as clear as it was in 1980 and 1984. A choice between, on the one hand, liberal policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness, and always, always blame America first. And on the other hand, what we believe, the policies of limited government, economic growth, individual opportunity, a strong defense, and always I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. When Vice President Bush and I took office eight years ago, America was in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. But today, America is in the longest peacetime expansion ever recorded in our history. 71 months. Now, of course, the liberals still don't understand how we were able to get rid of their economic crisis, their malaise. That was their word, remember? Their inflation, their gas lines. So they're promising to reverse everything we've done. Well, here's what we've done. We've cut taxes, slashed inflation by two-thirds, sliced interest rates in half, and since the economic recovery began, we've created over 15 million jobs. And in spite of what you might have heard from some people who are talking today, they were good jobs.  And the unemployment rate in Little Rock has fallen by more than 20 percent. And statewide, real personal income is up by 16.5 percent. And today, in America, a greater proportion of our potential workforce is employed than ever before in the history of the United States. Now, I say that, but let me explain it to you. How the statisticians look at that. Did you know that that potential employment pool according to them is everyone in the United States 16 years of age, male and female all the way up? That and 62.7 percent of that population have jobs today. You and I and George Bush worked much too hard to cut your taxes to let our opponents come into office and raise them all over again. So on November 8th, go into the polling booth and do some negative campaigning on your own. The right kind of negative campaigning. Say no to new taxes and say yes to the Republican ticket. Now, what Vice President Bush and I have done with the economy is very important. And we must continue and expand, but what we believe in is much more than that. Our greatest treasure as a nation is our precious moral heritage. The basic values of faith and family that make ours a great nation. It is it's the power of the family that holds the nation together. That gives America her conscience that serves as the cradle of our country's soul. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the family is the back bedrock of our nation. George Bush believes that public children should be allowed to open their day with a voluntary prayer. Something the federal courts won't allow. He believes that we must have judges who interpret the law, not rewrite it. And who care not just for the rights of criminals, but have compassion for the defense citizens who are the victims of crime. And the Vice President knows the importance to our nation and to our children expressed in the simple words one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Now there's a new election before us. And I have little doubt that the people of the United States are going to do exactly what I did eight years ago. They're going to choose George Bush. Do you know who led the task force that cut away excess federal regulation which saves American people and communities and states from 600 million man hours of paperwork a year making our prosperity and millions of new jobs possible? George Bush led that task force. Do you know who led the offensive against drug smuggling at our borders that just in the past year alone seized a record 70 tons of cocaine before it could reach our communities? George Bush. And when we needed to work with our allies to strengthen NATO to counter Soviet intermediate range nuclear missiles who did I turn to to do the job? George Bush. Now today I don't think I need to review George Bush's resume or his heroism in war or his service to America in the Congress or the United Nations or China as ambassador or as director of the CIA. What I can tell you about is the man that I know personally a man who is strong decent, loyal wise, capable and a compassionate and a man who has the qualities necessary to fill the office of the presidency. That man is George Bush and on November 8th I hope Arkansas helps make him the next president of the United States. Now as for a certain governor from a certain New England state I'd best let someone else do the talking. Former congressman Ed Bethune said that he met this fellow 10 years ago and he said his reaction was and let me quote him now I have never met a person in my whole life who is more liberal. But we have to give equal time so here's the response that it's wrong to use labels because ideology doesn't matter. Well what I have to say how can a man running for president of the United States look the American people in the eye and tell you that his ideology doesn't matter. Ladies and gentlemen if he's saying to you that what he believes doesn't matter isn't he really saying that what each one of us believes doesn't matter either? And in fact a lot of Democrats around the country are saying that their party leadership has swung so far to the left so far out of the mainstream that the national Democratic leadership has lost touch with the rank and file of the Democratic party. Now I'm a former Democrat and I have to say I didn't leave my party my party left me it left me when it went left now whether it's their opposition to voluntary prayer in school support for gun control or the left wing judges appointed in a state like Massachusetts or a weak need defense policy that only McGovern could love their views can only be described by the dreaded L word liberal liberal liberal for example the liberals recently proposed federal childcare assistance but under their program if you want assistance and wish to leave your child with his or her grandmother the grandmother will have to be licensed by the federal government one of the congressional staff members behind that bill was asked by a reporter if this was true that grandmothers would have to get a federal license to take care of their own grandchildren and the reply came yes of course it's true after all and here's the quote how else can you design a program that receives federal funds licensing grandmothers can you believe it the next thing you know they'll say that grilling hamburgers is an environmental hazard but there's more in this election one of the candidates believes that no matter how horrible or brutal the crime he opposes capital punishment is that what you believe well George Bush believes that for the most horrible crimes like when a drug dealer murders a policeman in cold blood that kind of dealer or killer deserves and should receive the death sentence and if you ask me there are no Americans braver and no citizens more precious than the men and women who guard us our state and local police and George Bush and I stand behind them all the way you know violent crime has fallen significantly since 1981 George and I put criminals on notice we said make a false move and the next sound you hear is the clang of a jail cell door slamming shut of course what happens in Massachusetts is a little bit different in that state and only in that state first degree murderers not even eligible for parole were left free on weekend passes and some of them never bothered to return do you call that justice I call it the most liberal prison program since Billy the Kid sprung the Lincoln County jail now these same liberals say that the only people in the United States who should be permitted to have guns are the military and police officers is that what you believe I didn't think so so on November 8th be sure to go to the polls and vote for George Bush and Dan Quail just think of it as an act of self-defense besides fighting crime and restoring our economy we've made sure that once again America is respected in the world our armed forces are strong and our nation is at peace we and our NATO allies stood firm in the face of Soviet missiles pointing at the heart of Europe and Asia and Mr. Gorbachev got the message he did business because he knew we meant business and we still mean business but none of this my friends none of this could have happened if the liberals had their way there would have been no INF treaty or rollback in Afghanistan or democratic revolutions around the globe they opposed rebuilding our military defenses they opposed the deployment of the missiles in Europe to counter the Soviet threat they opposed the liberation of Grenada they opposed the blow we struck against Libyan terrorism they opposed our policy of helping freedom fighters fight communism and advance the cause of liberty around the world well George and I did all those things and I'll tell you proudly right now we'd both do every single ladies and gentlemen America needs the strength, the vision and the true grit of George Bush and Dan Quayle so let's remember what Yogi Berra said it isn't over till it's over no complacency or overconfidence we need you to work we need you to vote and if you would I hope you'll help win just one more but really let's all do this for America thank you and God bless you all I agree with you about the wisdom of passing on the stewardship of leading our nation in a free world to George Bush so we would like to present this enlargement of a popular Arkansas bumper sticker symbolizing our determination to add our states six electoral votes to his margin I know some of you out there can't read what this says it says I'm a Bush hog Hey Pig Suey Arkansas song we would like to share with you this morning a song commissioned for our Susque Centennial in 1986 Old Arkansas will be performed by you by the composer who is also our terrific entertainment master of ceremonies today Terry Rose It's the spirit of the river and the spirit of the lakes It's a spirit that's a need in every home It's a spirit of the people and the spirit of the land It's a spirit of tomorrow and today Arkansas Oh Arkansas friendship It's a spirit of acts every game they play It's the spirit that shines


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Live from Madrid, Spain. It's theCUBE, covering HPE Discover Madrid 2017. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Welcome back to Madrid, everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage, and this is day two of HPE Discover 2017. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host, Peter Burris-L.N. Andrioli is here. He's the senior vice president and general manager of the hybrid IT group at HPE. Great to see you again. Great to see you, David. Great to see you, Peter. So a lot of good energy here. The story, Alan, is coming together. We've seen it over the last five years, but really fine-tuned the organization and seems like things are going well. We have more clarity on our strategy that I've ever seen in a company. And this was not easy to do because the market is changing so fast. We are addressing $120 billion market in hybrid IT. We lead the market in compute. We lead the market in storage. We lead the market with private cloud. We have invented composable. We are ramping up our hardware converge offering. And now on top of the infrastructure, we're building this layer of one sphere which is managing a multi-cloud environment for the data. And we adjusting our services to become advisory and consumption models. This is having such an impact on our customers. 74% of our customers are going for hybrid IT journey. So we have organized ourselves to make this journey to be basically the partner of choice for our customers as they go through that. I mean, it's so cloud of the last five, seven years, cloud and open-source software have really disrupted our industry. You've had to respond to that. And basically bringing cloud-like operating models to your customers. Yes. Have you done that? How do you rate your progress and where are you to date in that regard? So, you know, the first decision we had to make is are we a neutral party to help our customers? Yeah. We need to redo it. Yeah, yeah. They're getting you back, right? No, I don't know if you can see that. L.A. came by on his scooter. Here we go. Let's catch this. Here we go. This is called Payback. Okay. So, Terran Dr. Tom's interview. L.A. came by with his scooter. I can't get you out of there. I will get you out of there. I will get you out of there. I will get you out of there. It's great fun of the kid. We can keep it. That's all right. That's good. So, the decision we had to make is are we the partner for our customers to go through the cloud? Or are we saying on-frame is better? And we've decided to be this partner. Because we believe there is value for everyone. And we believe it's not a one-way street. And we see actually that 32% of the customers who have moved workloads to the cloud are bringing these workloads back on-frame. So, we are the advisor. We help them go through this journey. We really mean it. We help them to go on Amazon. We help them to go on Azure. We help them to go on Google. And we help them make it work. And this is why it's a service-led journey. The problem if you go in the public cloud is that we don't really know how much it's going to cost you. And you don't really have a single pane of glass to have all your data being managed across what is now an ecosystem. We enable them to do that. And the market we are directly addressing on-frame is not shrinking. We still see huge pockets of growth in flash storage, in HPC, you've seen the results we have in HPC, in Mission Critical x86, in Hyper Converge. So, we are basically moving from the one-size-fits-all type of organization offering x86 and start-up storage to become a company that offers value to customers in specialized pools of compute, of storage, of networking, and offering them the end-to-end journey across the different stack. What I think is going to make a huge difference, if you look at the five-year horizon, is the growth of the edge. And the fact that 70% of the data are going to come from the edge. And then you really see the power of our strategy of hybrid IT, which goes from the edge, to the core, to the cloud. Because we will be able to enable our customers to have their data moving seamlessly across this journey. And we have exactly organized the company that way. One of the obvious use cases from what I like to call machine intelligence, or artificial intelligence, is really infusing artificial intelligence into infrastructure for predictive analytics and predictive maintenance, IT operations management. InfoSight, you got through an acquisition of Nimble, and they've been impressed with the pace at which you've pushed that throughout the portfolio. I wonder if you could address that. We've been ourselves, I would say, we've been almost surprised. We looked at, we wanted to become the Flash company because we saw that the market over three years would completely move to Flash. And when there is such a pendulum shift, you want to be at the forefront. So we looked at all these companies who were having very strong position on Flash. And Nimble intrigued us because they had, by far, when we talked to their customers, the highest customer satisfaction. I think it was something like 87%. Yeah, the NPS is off the chart. The NPS is off the chart, right? And then we peeled the onion and we saw InfoSight, which was almost enough to start south because it was not part of our list, right? Initially, of our list of, you know, this is how we're going to select the company we want to acquire. And when we got into InfoSight, how it works, how we can actually port easily this to TreePower and then to SimpliVity and then to the rest of the portfolio, we felt, this is the crown jewel that is going to be the foundation of us. And not just the storage portfolio. And to end, so we're going to do this for everything. Now, we're going to do it in one day. The priority was to give a seamless experience to customers going TreePower on Nimble. So we've done that very quickly. We acquired a company six months ago and it's already there for TreePower. Next one will be SimpliVity, very, very soon in a few weeks. And then we'll go to the whole compute platform as well. And finally to networking. I hope, it's not a commitment that, I hope that by the end of next year, calendar year, we will be done for the whole infrastructure portfolio. And explain the benefit to customers. And then the benefit is that you basically have, you eliminate the need for level one and level two support because it's proactively, now, you have to be wanting to have your device calling home, right, because otherwise if you want your device to be in the data center and insulated from communicating with the network effect, then it's not going to work. So, but assuming you want your device to be connected centrally, so that it can be monitored centrally, the artificial intelligence that is embedded in InfoSight is basically going to monitor the behavior of your device compared with hundreds of thousands of other ones. And therefore anything that is deviant will be flagged as a potential problem and resolved before you even know about it. That's one. So when you end up having a problem eventually, which is becoming very, very rare, then you directly call a level three engineer who is an expert and who has on the screen the behavior of your device for the last month compared to others and the resolution is in less than a minute. So it's a revolution in the way to do service. So one of the things that we've observed as we've talked to customers is that the characteristics of the problems that they're now trying to solve have real world elements and that's really what the edge is about in many respects. For the first 50 years of IT, we were doing accounting and HR and supply chain and we were able to define what the data models look like. We could therefore say the data's going to be here, the processing is going to be here, we could build data centers. Now, as you said, 70% of the data is going to be coming from the edge. It's not clear necessarily where the best place to process that data is. Where's the compute going to be? How's it going to integrate with people? In many respects, hybrid IT is about diminishing the degree to which infrastructure dictates the way the problem gets solved. Would you agree with that? It's kind of like, let the data reside where it needs to reside and then make sure that the business has a natural infrastructure that reflects and corresponds to the work that needs to get done. I totally agree with your problems statement and the way you position the equation. In terms of semantics, I would just say we need to make infrastructure invisible. It's still there, because it's all running on infrastructure, your iPhone is infrastructure, your PC is infrastructure, I mean, your camera is infrastructure, it's all there. A CIO said to me not too long ago. We are having this interview, we are not thinking about what makes it happen. Our business is to talk and to communicate right now. This all has got to be seamless and that's how we need to make IT seamless. I had a conversation with the CIO. Invisible. Yeah, who said that the value of my infrastructure is inversely proportional to the degree to which anybody knows anything about it. So is that kind of what the HP promise is? We're going to let the data and the workloads define where the infrastructure goes and ensure we have those options. It's exactly right and the vehicle to do that, we call it autonomous data centers. Your phone is a data center. Your data center is a data center. Your off-prem cloud is a data center that you are subcontracting, right? So we want all of these to be autonomous and autonomous in terms of self-healing and everything else. And then the intelligence of where this data being moved and how you use what and when is this single pane of glass that we are developing around once fair? And how to get the customers to move their workloads and their business around that is what we do with Pointnext with services. This is our strategy. So let me see if I can, let me break that down a little bit. So we've got devices that are powerful enough that we could put new types of control, new types of workloads if we wanted to. We've got now the ability to package infrastructure and have a single pane of glass and have a common management framework. But when you say the Autonomous Data Center, it's we have a common business approach to thinking about policy, thinking about value, thinking about how we're going to do things. And we can put that into this entire vision and let it actually execute how that manifests itself from a business standpoint. But is that that right? It's exactly right. I love the way you put it. That's exactly what we are trying to do. It's not going to be done in one day, but that is our strategy and we have organized once again the whole company around it to execute this strategy and to make it happen for our customers. So if we think about what an HPE customer is going to look like in a really good HPE customer in 2023, what, what time? That's the whole time you're like. That's five years. No, I'm giving you that much runway because it's, you're right, it's not there yet. And if it's too ambitious and so be it, but how is a business person going to think differently about working, about the role that IT is going to play in the business and work what it means to have a great partnership with a company like HP? Yeah, so we are basically we, our motto is one size doesn't fit all. So we are first trying to understand the business of the customer and then we will apply solutions to enhance this business or to empower this business, right? So we have the biggest breath of infrastructure that you can think of, think about this infrastructure becoming self-healing, but this infrastructure is more and more specialized. There is HPC, there is Mission Critical, we just launched Superdome Flex for SAP, there is, we have all this specialization that allows customers to optimize their business outcome.  And then our point next services are going to work with the customers to architect their IT model in a way that their workloads are optimized. And one of the key is the right mix. The right mix of, you know, what you do yourself, what you got from multi-cloud, how much do you pay for it? How much do you anticipate that you're going to pay for it? Do you want this to be CAPEX? Do you want this to be OPEX? And then how do you manage the edge? And with Aruba, and with Edgeline, and then with our U IoT platform that can manage the data across the edge. We have the capability also to have the customer decide, do I want a lot of analytics and decisions to be made at the edge in my devices? And this is highly variable depending on what customer business model, you know, we're talking about. Or do I want all the data from the analog world to the sensors to come straight back to the ranch? All these decisions, we going to have platforms to allow customers to make these decisions, to decide kind of templates if you want, this is how I wanted to run and to be executed and then to be automatically, autonomously operating. That's our vision of how we can help our customers moving forward. Last question. So the attendees of Discover, your customers, when they go back and he or she talks to their boss, what do you want them to say about Discover 2018?  It was really exciting because I felt that it's like a new company. It's the company I know, I know that they are customer first and customer last and they are the ones who helped me when I have a problem, whether they created it or not, they are here to help me. This is not going away. But they are taking us to the new world. They're going to help us to build our hybrid IT model. And I think we need to trust them to have a seat at the table when we make these decisions, boss. Intimacy, innovation. Yeah, innovation. Trust. HP is no longer wandering in the desert. Alan and really, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. It was always a pleasure. It was a pleasure. Take care. Keep right there, everybody. Peter and I will be back with our next guest. Right after this short break, we're live from Madrid. You're watching theCUBE.