Yes, yes, everyone. Welcome back to another video. I'm here with none other than the myself big Steve How you doing good? Yeah, good good to be here On the back of a defeat, which is not always the best, but Good to be here. Yeah, and we're gonna go through like obviously Madrid We'll have a look at Chelsea and we might touch on transfers of your time for transfers and stuff Usually be a live show with things out of the big Steve show Record this one get it out today before Chelsea and that it's a good time to do it You haven't already do the favorite like button and subscribe channel if you are new Trying to bring some different kind of content with multiple camera angles and that But I guess there's only one place to start we'll get the I say bad talk out of the way What are your thoughts coming out of out of Wednesday? Listen, it's hard to be mad at them because over two legs We we we tried our best we went to the Bernabeu and we give it a go And then on the other night we give it a go. We couldn't get through But I feel like we just we let Madrid off the hook over two legs. I feel like we didn't do enough To win the game It's all right having possession. It's all right forcing the game But we've got to unpick the lock, you know, I mean and what I think is this season The final third has not been the same as last season. I think There's a couple of key issues Read Mares, Ilcaigundo and players like that. We had to come off the bench and unlock and lock games I don't think we have that now, you know, I mean we've seen in recent matches that early in Harland and The team it's not linking up, right? So I think there's a there's a whole lot of factors in it Overall, we tried our best. We went for it. We didn't we didn't Disgrace ourselves, but we didn't get the job done and at the end of the day Real Madrid were there for the taking so I think the players and the manager is going to be disappointed Yeah, I think My my I've said this quite a few times on my I think coming out of it was more It's annoying that we didn't get beat by the better team. It was not like we've gone out Not to a better team. It's not around we did turn up on the day And yes, I had that stressed me out more if we turn up on the day in Real Madrid better That was because I believe that we are a better side than Real Madrid however, just the fact that They weren't the better sign and still went through it if almost feels like a little bit unfair But when you let it go to penalties, that's obviously it's a lottery at that point You can you've got a look at the goals we conceded. Yeah, two in the Bernabao were terrible Oh, yeah, we get our noses back in front and then we concede late on it was a great goal So we're going away from the Bernabao with a result that we all said before the game We take let's take a draw back to the Etihad and beat him at the Etihad We get to the Etihad and we gave him a goal and that killed us because then they had something to hold on to the dug in team Kevin De Bruyne missed a few chances, but it just didn't it just didn't flow the same this season in the Champions League I don't know what it is last season. It just felt like everyone was together You know, we were we were going and I don't think anyone could stop us But this year just feel like the defense and the way we're playing There's something missing and I addressed it on a stream of mine the other day that There's an early in Harlem problem and whether people like it or not. There is a problem We've got the best number nine in the world. We're not playing for him People are saying yeah, but he needs to get involved more and stuff I don't think he does because last season we proved that if you if you've got that player that can unlock and play them balls in like Don't do and did and things like that. He scores goals I feel like Jack Greenless is getting to the final third and and there's no crosses coming in I think Jeremy Doku. He's very very raw. We know that but I'm gutted because I'm looking at who's left in the Champions League and thinking we're better than all We should agree, you know, I mean, and that's the problem. I think everyone's frustrated. Yeah, it's a I Think at the moment as well. There's a lot of reactionary stuff coming out and But I think because if you take the car back up out of it and mean it shield out of it I know I've said come up as a couple. I love the car back up. I always want to win it But if you take those out of it We've not we've not felt this for a long time. Obviously it was real Madrid last time when they knocked us out Yeah, we've not felt this kind of this pain of going like to the last stage is then getting knocked out for a bit Obviously because of last year's treble win. So I feel like it does feel a little bit wrong I think it's okay to like feel gutted after the match. Um, personally, I'm proud of the way that we played because we dominate after their goal I think that if you look at the first half and all 20 minutes or so you could see both sides Really didn't want to be the team to go I was a bit of nerves in there respect for each of a little bit too much And and then when they got their goal then which I don't think they expected in their game plan I don't think they was expecting to go a one to look at any ball so early They just into a switch like that. They was like, right. Okay. Let's hold this now and It was all about us then trying to break them down. I know Kyle Walker was at fault for their goal but I think he Made up for it in the game. He made up for it like going for the game. I think it said He had a really strong second half I feel like there was the one-on-one with Vinny as well Where Vinny ended up pulling up. He did really well there and that's basically why we needed Kyle Walker in that game but I Think there's There's positive to take because of how we played against a side like Real Madrid But it's just upsetting that we had to go out to that Real Madrid side And and what what happens is when you get beat everyone starts looking for different answers So people have got their own theories and that you know, I've heard Arlen's no good Yeah, Vinny Bruins finished. Yeah, we need to play with Alvarez as a false nine We play better with this we play better with that and at the end of the day, it's all Said in the emotion at the end of the day if you take the season over all this season, we haven't been our Best but we find ourselves top of the Premier League with six games to go, you know We're taking that so I feel like yeah this year. We didn't quite have enough to do it It happens with these been years when in the Champions League when we've been favourites We've gone out to Leon. We've gone out to Spurs. They hurt a little bit more than this But at the end of the day We're top of the league and we're in FA Cup semi-final I'm a bit worried about the semi-final because I think our players look dead on the feet the other night There's a few people holding the groin and stuff like that And we've got some tough trips coming up But listen if anyone can go and win these two cups now it's city and I think we've all just got to get behind them and You know from where it was a few weeks ago when it was in Liverpool's hands It was in Arsenal's hands now all of a sudden it's out in our hands You know, I think you can't ask for better than that at the minute. Yeah, it looked You mentioned there that our season this season I think one of the one of the key issues as well has been finishing our chances Which goes back to early Holland Goes back to the fact that we're not playing it I feel like we're not playing to his strengths anyway, especially recent times and then But then Harlan himself has to hold his hands up a little bit as well There is sometimes where he's been through one-on-one you're lucky and even shooting straight at the keeper The Luton game the Luton game should have finished first time. Obviously it was early boy He ended up getting the goal. Well, obviously it was an own goal We're fortunate but he should have finished that and we've seen that kind of same situation Multiple times a season so he'll be disappointed in that fact But then also I think a little bit of lies on pep and the way that we play football right now isn't suit in Harlan people coming out saying always being used to Fight with the centre-backs keep the centre-backs away from the midfield Leave the space for folding everyone to go in there, but that's fine. But Phil Folden, for example, he's playing central scoring goals Kev comes back He's playing wide And you like we didn't have Kevin De Bruyne in the burner bow Why not just leave Kev on the bench and start with it back You need Kevin De Bruyne last 20 minutes or a second half facing the south stand bring on a fresh Kevin De Bruyne Because I feel like others could have done a little bit of a job first half. We didn't have to go gung-ho And Kevin struggling with that injury no matter what anyone says every two games now He's pulling up with it or he's tweaking it or we're resting him So I know people don't want to hear it, but I feel like Kev's obviously the age and everything's creeping up with him that injuries Obviously not right And I think the plan going forward has got to be Phil Folden to take over the Kevin De Bruyne place for me This is something that pep doesn't really want to risk but something that I really want him to do is them two in the midfield because Bernardo Silva I think plays really well in the right wing Yeah, he does and in the midfield Bernardo Silva and this is his whole career to see it never gets you numbers He never gets you know the G&A isn't there yet He gets goals for the season obviously, but him getting assists from the middle of the middle of the practice doesn't happen So I think I'd Get info folding there where we know he's playing well, but I don't silver can play right wing I'm happy for them to exchange for at the match and be a bit fluid with it But I just think starting with Phil Folden as the 10 You could even drop kev a little bit deeper I think we've got a bit of number 10 sat there on on the left wing Yeah jack realish in my opinion. I feel like that's that that's the biggest wasted signing that like not wasted signing in that sense Because I think he's done really well at city But I think it's a missed opportunity to never have played jack realish in the mid late games jack realish in the 10 Going left going right shooting getting the fouls winning the free kicks doing all that I think it be that's his game that I think some of the best games that you've seen realish in is when He When he drives tired forward. Yeah I've got a cat in the room Jack I just think jack realish in the 10 will do bits and some of the best games that we've seen jack realish play Like for example United when we're playing against United really should Come inside and when they allow him that space he dictates the play course I just think we should have we should have at least tried that a few times Often it because you don't want to undermine your manager Um, but we are entitled to an opinion. We pay our money. We go and watch them week in and week out And it is good to discuss it. We're not slagging anyone off But it's just like sometimes why not, you know, I mean sometimes in games. I think to myself Why don't you swap wings? You know, I mean, it's not work. Yeah, if it's not working switch it up Yeah, you know, I mean jerry docu for me plays better on the right Yeah, so he's been recently he has been switching it like So we've seen jerry docu coming on this right on side and maybe like just not for a full game But then just feel a little bit trying to them right and I I agree. I think he's been playing really well off that right inside It's and it's just it's just frustrating because I feel like they were there for the taking and we just fell up short But I think I think what's happened is um I don't think he's got the creativity in the middle of the park to to Unlock harland. I feel like We are playing harland's playing so high. There's no spacing behind But he's sacrificing the space in behind to create the space in front So fold and banado de broyne can all get it. But for me, if I'm carlo enchilota and ruben diaz manual a canje Guardio and kyle walker are on the edge of my box with a ball. I'm fine with that I'm absolutely fine with that because in my opinion, I'll say let Manchester City think They've got control.  Yeah, we're after we decide We're letting you pass it along and that and there's nobody can damage us where I think last season You bring on read mares. He can trap the ball from anywhere It cuts inside he goes on the outside and then you've got il kai gundo and arriving late. Yeah, really late. Yeah I feel like that was something we had in our locker last season that we Opposition teams didn't need in the last minute now. You're looking at our bench and you're thinking, okay We bring on alvarez, but we're taking off island and then you're thinking we can smooth forward into the middle But once real Madrid was settled and dug deep and they had the noses in front I feel like they were comfortable and and they took it to penalties. Like you say it was a lot trip to 50 50 We're not the best at penalties. We know that you know, I don't I don't think we practice penalties I'm sure I've seen a pet court he just goes saying that we genuinely don't This is the best penalty taker them that footage that come out before porto in 2021 final when he was smashing a top corner. Yeah.    What a penalty. Yeah, but um We've got to remember this year If man city win that penalty shootout The Spanish newspaper Mars or the Madrid paper and all the outlets in Spain will slag Real Madrid off How can a Real Madrid team Play like that defend like that. How can they do that the Real Madrid champions of Europe? It's a disgrace. You win the penalty shootout like they did absolutely fantastic performance Best river stage magical defensive display. Yeah, but really we know that it is where it is But listen, we've done it twice in the last two weeks. We've had two teams come to the Etihad Dig deep and defend and both of them have done a job so also and and Madrid so You know, he's got to come up with a formula He's got to come up with something to get him going now for six games. We've got six games to win the Premier League The thing obviously there's there's like I said, there's like just over a month left now I don't know it might be four weeks um the time for That the formation changes the risks the kind of the experiments. I feel like that's done I feel like now you really need to just decide on your best 11 Yeah, you need to be very consistent obviously barring injuries and in fitness and you need to just stick to a way and Go for that week in week out now if that's folding the midfield that's folding the midfield If Kev's been a little bit inconsistent in and out of it, then I'm fine with that I just think Happy to figure it out Just fun. I've got no problem me going to uh Brighton on a Thursday night dropping Kevin De Bruyne dropping early in Harland Starting off nice and slow get growing into the game If we nick it and we're winning a couple of goals and we don't have to bring them to one great bonus If we think you know what it's getting to like 70 minutes here We need to get them on and win it do it that way, you know, they both have to come off Kevin was old in his hamstring, which you know, he's had an operation six month out and Harland's had this foot injury Um, but if he's had a foot injury, why are we playing him against Luton at home? You know, this is my thing why playing against Luton at home? Um, I think Harland's suffering from a little bit of confidence issue. I feel like the body the body language is not there I feel like he looks very frustrated last season. He was like Harland Harland He was giving it all he was giving it a big and he was smashing people getting the crowd up and all that He just feels like he's a little bit laboured and let's not forget it feels flat with Harland at the moment like a young lad Yeah, and the standards he set himself last season was so so high I think that puts So much pressure on yeah, because the pressure was already there from the off because he's early in Harland And is this big time you got to strike in the Premier League stops now at Harland's goals, whatever it is in the league 20 It's a great season. Yeah 20 goal a 20 goal season striker is a great striker But but with him he's he's he's no it's not it's he you know, he's behind his total But I get it but I just think I said the other night on my show if I'm Alfie Arland I'm getting in at preseason and we're having to sit down with Pep and I'm saying look You know, my son's one of the best number nines in the world. You don't look like he's enjoying his football What's the plan if Pep turns round and says look, I'm gonna say we have didn't have the players to lock I'm gonna sign a paqueta. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna lose Bernardo, whatever This is how we're gonna play next season these two playmakers in front a bit like Iniesta Javi playing like that. Yeah. Yeah, then I'm convinced early in Ireland, you know, he's futilised at City, but if peps with this way of playing I don't see how it's gonna end if he doubles down on this style I think Harland will reconsider his future for when he I don't think you'll leave this summer No by any stretch of the imagination, but I think you'll be looking at after this contract He might go Yeah, I might not renew and go somewhere It's just frustrating for us as fans to know that you've got the best number nine in the world And if he's in any other team in the world that team works move And shift and the main to play to him. Yeah, we don't we don't do that We don't do that for anyone. No, we don't and this is the fact. This is all about the team and um We can't moan because of the trophies we've winning. We can't yeah, but we are allowed to feel frustrated I come away from some city games Frustrated. Yeah, it's not and we've won but I'm frustrated I don't know why it is I've been mates to go all you spoil and that and yeah, maybe we are spoiled but we are entitled to You know, we are entitled to have an opinion on it, but I just don't want to see a man like Harlan do last season Fucking destroy football for us and give us so much glory Look like he is at the minute You know, I mean you want to see him like and join his football doing bits like obviously scoring goals week in week out and Yeah, like it is at the moment It's a little bit inconsistent for him as much as we say this he has got over 30 goals of season in our competitions Which is still great. I mean, I think any any team in the premier. You said that 30 goals season Like yep, so I'm me up.  Keep the eye line You know and basically that's what people are saying. It's happening now and it's just weird, but um I think I just think Pet as I look at and he's not got the players. Yeah, I thread that ball through I think you like we know how much city wanted piqueta. Obviously the the The ban All of the you look at the treble documentary how many times gunder one's slide that ball through. Yeah, you know You look at rodry as well. And howland's link-up was so good. Rodry ain't doing it. No Cover chitchat ain't doing it. He's definitely not doing it.  Yeah, but we've got two wingers But the two wingers don't cross. Yeah, they don't so they come back inside So how the last year was making these runs Now he's not doing it because he knows that there's no point in me running because the ball ain't coming in Yeah, yeah, what what's more frustrating is when we when we bring alvarez on Yeah, like against you know, we start putting the ball in and i'm thinking who you doing that to Howland's already off the pitch. You should have been doing this throughout the match And that that's that's where that's where it confused me and Uh, I think only that's why peps are genius. Yeah, and we're here talking about that And that's why we're sat at home peps peps managing man Um, but obviously moving on from adrid Um, are you are you over it yet? Are you over it like really quick? You know what right?   I said, I remember coming to the eti ad Yeah, getting beat off a team that didn't have a shot We got beat by nil of Bolton. They didn't have a shot.  So he's getting off because it's a The best teams in world football I feel like there's a whole generation of city fans that if we ever have a A little wobble and we're like four for fifth. They just grab meltdown.  We can't be upset anyway because we've got a job to do That's things straight back on the horse. We're at wembley at weekend. There's no point moping We've got to get the boys over the line get to the FA cut fine. There is apps I said this yesterday There is absolutely no time to dwell on going out the Champions League You've got a semi-final to go to And then which is a massive opportunity to get to go again wembley and get into the final another competition And then we were top of the Premier League that we need to keep up Like there is no there's no rest. I feel like Saturday was going to be hard anyway because I think Chelsea's been brilliant against us last two games Yeah, and and recently Chelsea have looked like they're in good form. I just feel like they're a nightmare for everything We've got the they have the the conor Gallagher I say though Fernandez midfield which is just hanging So that just like tries to swarm all over Rodney and that's stopping getting the ball Then they have obviously copan copan point to prove Yeah, and and he's scoring for fun now. Mudrick and that mudrick and Jackson who's shit But all the shit ones always come out the woodwork against us for some reason It stinks of Jackson scoring Yeah, but and it just it's just one of them things You know in seasons you get teams where you just they've got your number a little bit and I feel like Chelsea You've got that I feel like the fresh and I feel like they've got nothing to play for so they're gonna go for it We've just got to be on our guard and and we can't feel sorry for ourself And I bet there was a few walking around yesterday with lips out and that like talking but We can't do it. You didn't the semi-final of the of the FA Cup We've got to go and win it and then we've got six games win the Premier League That's basically the beyond an end all of it all. Yeah Obviously, this was the same when the Champions League was thing But all I really thought about it yesterday was the next trophy that we can lift is the Premier League like so And we're so close to the end of the season that There's there's just no point dwelling on that Real Madrid game I understand the players are going to be upset about going out, but you've still got two trophies to win It's still a successful season. It's Premier League four in a row. You know, it's never been done It's sensational and it's just unreal what what we're doing at the football club Um, it's like I walk up and message is like, hi, where's your treble gone? And I'm like listen It would no man city fan was talking about the treble the treble is such a unique thing in football Right.  Ah, where's your double treble gone? It's like it's not even worth your It's not even worth a reply.  You know, I mean the thing is A treble isn't normal But rival fans are trying to normalize a double treble because never mind a single treble They're trying to normalize a double treble to ten to then use it against you fans saying, ah, you've gone out of the cup It's not for everyone. I'm like, are you not losing free nil to atalanta me? And I went out in the Europa League Europa League that when city was in it. It was a channel five cup and no one Yeah, no one cares about it.  I'm like, listen, we're always going to be that when you top of the mountain everyone wants to throw stones and knock you off um We dust ourselves off and we've all got to stick together We don't want these online fractions where everyone's going off on these tangents and we're all arguing about stuff. There's no point. We just got to Go there at weekend and get the results the result business now dig deep You know, there's some lads there that have didn't play at weekend nafe and ackee and that are obviously going to start Maybe coverage it will start um But I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Um, I think I back us. I don't know how Fit the team will be. I don't know. Do I mean we'll have to wait to the press conference? I was which is today the time to record this in a couple of hours. Um, we'll have to wait and see what comes out of that but There's no reason not to back us with what we've done in the past and I think Fans just need to get behind the team again. Like yes, it's upsetting to go at the champions league But like we're saying The season's far from over. Yeah, it's still too much Listen, we had a brilliant weekend last weekend Perfect weekend last week. I saw a little drop point. So it's like he's put us right in the mix um I saw her on the back Of slipping up at home to Aston Villa going out to to finger.  So that's ticking around in there Yeah, the mentality for them isn't there. They've not got over that line yet So then we know that we can win the FA Cup and we can do the Premier League And we know that we're in a great position. So it's just players like Rodry Ruben Diaz Stoneser Walker the senior players have got The leaders in the team have got to come together now and pick everybody up and say look, this isn't the time to feel sorry For ourselves. This is the time to Get back at it and get this one. Yeah, I completely agree um Right, do you want to give a score prediction? Oh, yeah this dude is I think I think we'll win two one. I think just I think, um We'll get it over the line, but it's going to be tough. I do think Chelsea will score Don't think on that. I think on that pitch is massive as well. Yeah, I think it's uh I think this is going to be one of the most difficult games of the season I think it will be yeah right up there. I've been feeling bantering Chelsea But like you say, they're a bit of a miss one minute.  I watched me against Everton and uh They were uh, they were brilliant, you know, I mean but You know, it's a semi-final anything can happen. We've just got to get there get behind the lads and that and no excuses, you know And just keep going. Yeah wise words, um Right, that's it everyone big up for Everyone who's watching subscribe to channel if you are new hit like on this video Comment below let us know your thoughts and everything that we've been speaking about today Chelsea obviously massive game tomorrow And get your score predictions in the comments big to big steve and go check out his socials Um, you know, I mean you're always posting on your socials, mate. Yeah, I'm trying. I don't do enough to be fair on my own channel, but um couple of shows Title talk with turkish Yeah, it's a good little show Liverpool fan Arsenal fan. I don't think they want to talk about the title though this week And they will not want to be talking about that But other than that, yeah, and it's a few little bits knocking about tiktok. I'm doing a bit of tiktok now Oh, look at you now do a few lives on there have a bit of banter and that but um Yeah, it's what it is. But yeah, you know where I am


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Svarbac nalazim je izgledač izgledač, izgledač editor, izgledač izgledač, vseznač je izgledač vseznač. Vsih vičutek sem spravil na 4 hrv. In vseznač ima vsezneč te vrteče, na kaj je vso spidersč. tako, da počebi ne verjati... tudi nekako, da zelo zelo, da nezelo... ...zelo, da vse očeš, da se je razlikačniko, počeš, da bozno, da je odličniko. Sreč je nezelo, da se da brinje 5 %. Vse zelo, da je odličniko, da se je odličniko. Je tudi 95 %. Vse se najšlič, da si pričeš in je tudi zelo na internetu, da je počeš, da je zelo počeš. But at least this gives us evidence of the changes. The previous system, the emails were lost. And we could not only because the journalist in some cases is not receiving our press releases sent an email like, Oh, I was receiving your press releases until August and then it's November, I don't receive them anymore. Now we can chase them immediately. I didn't chase them so far, because there was the conference, but on Monday when I'm back in Italy, I will start chasing these guys that have. Some of them may have retired, some of them, of course, there's not everyone is changing, but this helps us in keeping the main list clean. I show you the process to send out a press release. This is the press release that I've sent the other day about the 502. So I took the screenshots while I was creating the campaign. They call it still a campaign, because it's a marketing campaign. For us it's not a campaign, but anyway, I don't mind about the name. So you have an editor, actually they've just improved this. It's a basic editor, but I usually never write the press release here. I usually bring office, of course, and then I cut and paste it. They unfortunately have a paste from Microsoft Word, and I've suggested them to add another one that is paste from ODF, which would be nicer. Actually, it's not true that it's paste from Microsoft Word, because if I paste an ODF inside, it gets it. So it's probably paste from a word processor. It's paste, but remove a stupid... Yeah, exactly, it filters the additional stuff. So when I paste something using this, which is paste from Word, it opens a window and I paste inside that window. This is the text. Then you hit OK, and you have the text inside the dashboard. And then several journalists want the HTML, several journalists want the text version. So this allows me to generate the text version from HTML just by pushing this button. So I get the two versions and the journalists can decide, because each journalist has his own small dashboard and he can decide to receive text HTML or to receive only one message per week. All the options that a mailing list manager gives you. So this is the text version. And then you choose a format. I've created a system template, which is using the LibreOffice green. It's a simple... There is a header and a footer with the LibreOffice, but it's just for making it nicer.  I always send a press release with a small attachment. Even, for instance, in this one, there was nothing real that I could attach. So I attached the small splash screen of LibreOffice. Because editors today online, offline, you always publish an image inside the article. So I want them not to lose the time to look for the image. I already send them the image. Of course, if they are smart enough to have more images for LibreOffice, then they are free to choose their own image. But at least they get the splash screen to attach without looking for the image around the web. Of course, this is attached. As you see, it's a small one. I never send a large attachment, unless there is a specific reason to send a large attachment. And then I define the hour, because in this case I wanted to send it on September 23. This is before I move it. I've changed it. So you can decide which is the time, the press release will start leaving automatically. You don't have to be online when the campaign is started. Once you have set the campaign, it starts automatically. You say stop sending after, because if it bounces, it tries to send it again and again and again, until there are three bounces from an address. Then it will put the address aside and will send you the address in a list as a bounce address. You can repeat the campaign, which of course has no meaning with press releases, but could be an option sometimes. And you can read you, which means restart from scratch every now and then. Of course, this is more from the marketing side. But nothing tells us that we cannot use this as a newsletter, if we want, and therefore to use instead of press releases to send out a newsletter. Why not? And then I choose the list. The list at the moment are divided into global. I have Italy, because only in Italy I have almost 3,000 editors. So of course Italy is very segmented, because I have, this is my historical list of Italian editors. Then I have Europe, America, Pacific, Africa, Asia, Farist, Asia, Middle Asia, and Asia Middle East. Asia is such a huge continent that I had to segment it. Otherwise I was not finding the mailing list. This is for my use, it's easy to understand for everyone. Just because otherwise you take a huge amount of time to select the list. And then I have a list for platform, which means Android, for instance, iOS. This is not by language, it's by platform. These are the journalists that we have the Android one, because I sent out a press release about the Android viewer. So I created an Android mailing list. Of course I will improve the Android platform mailing list and nothing tells that I will add categories. We will probably have a cloud category when the cloud version will be available. Then you see, all subscribers are 13,090. The 1,290 are the journalists that have unsubscribed, which were on top of 13,090. Of course journalists, at the end of each message they find, if you don't want to receive anymore this message, you click here and you will unsubscribe. I prefer them to unsubscribe. They can subscribe again, of course. Instead of thinking that we send spam. So of course every time we have a little bit of some people that unsubscribe, I don't mind. I keep on adding more people than the people that unsubscribe. Test, of course, is a small mailing list that I used to test messages to see how they... It's for addresses where I am just to see how the message looks if necessary. And then these are the lists that I chose for this email. Clicks by... There is... I gave the name, but then I put an explanation to make everyone aware. But when we will share it, I will run a webinar for everyone else to understand. So clicks by journalists are the journalists that have opened a previous email. And these journalists are receiving all our press releases because they have shown interest by opening one of the emails. Of course if they are not interested anymore they can unsubscribe. Then editorial team list is alias email of editorial departments. It's like for instance editors at PC magazine, editors at PC world, it's one alias and several people are subscribed to that alias. In some cases a journalist will unsubscribe from his personal email because he's already receiving the alias or vice versa. He wants to receive it on his personal he will unsubscribe the alias. Then inviting journalists, the journalists, I have pushed a little bit the number of journalists so I've invited journalists to subscribe to our emails but I'm not sending them minor releases. I send them only major releases with a small paragraph on top that says this is one of our major releases you will receive it only twice a year. You are of course invited to subscribe to our regular mailing list. If they subscribe they switch to the other mailing list automatically. Then there are journalists on list these are the journalists that I consider our friends. They did not open all emails but these are the guys that have told me that they want you to be on our list. Because before inserting a journalist into the mailing list I send him an email standard I've seen that you are writing about office software. Do you mind if I send you LibreOffice press releases? Or I've seen that you're writing about productivity or about standards or about do you mind if you receive our press releases? So these are the journalists on lists because they've accepted to be on our list. And then I've created for the LibreOffice 5.0 a special list of editors that are testing office suite. So I've called that LibreOffice 5.0 launch of LibreOffice 5.0 I might change the name of this list in the future so product review editors. But at the moment it's 5.0 it's okay for me. And when we launch 5.0 I created a special list of reviewers of Windows 10. So, you know, one week before the Microsoft launched Windows 10. One week before our launch of 5.0 so just by digging on the website I found all the editors that in that week did a review of Windows 10. So I sent to all the editors a special launch package that was you have reviewed Windows 10 LibreOffice 5.0 is compatible with Windows 10 you may want to review LibreOffice 5.0 And in the future we will do more and more and more of this because of course now I will make a main list of all the reviewers of office 16. Because it's natural that in Windows 10 you should test LibreOffice. Maybe you are more enthusiastic about office 16 but then you know LibreOffice. So this is and being a minor release I've sent only in English not in other languages. But we can decide to send minor release in other languages as well. That's not written in any way. By the way in this area there are Indian journalists in in Farista there is Taiwan of course there is China you speak the same language at the end so if you translate the press release I will send that to Chinese journalists and I hope you will not be offended by that. America of course is North and South America Africa we still we have a few journalists I think that Africa is a challenge that we have to improve because it's such a poor continent that they have other problems than installing software I totally understand but from what I understand they are really supporting free software because of course it's not just the fact that it's not a cost they are really concerned they have real ethical concern on one side and they are happy about the fact that we support their languages and they don't have to spend money to have a sweet in their language so they have for instance we have a library office in Swahili you can understand that all the central Africa is speaking in Swahili and it's not easy for them to find even books in Swahili so finding a software for them is a very important thing I will improve it I will improve it so I will add categories I will add the flexibility of the system is very good it's very solid so we will add countries we will add as I said now we have only one click by journalist my objective is to have click by journalist in every language so in every language should have two mailing list one generic and one with the address of the journalist that have opened our press releases and these guys should always get our press releases and not only these guys we should start poking these guys calling these guys at local level and talking to these guys and meeting these guys because they are interested in our stuff this gives you the numbers so all subscribers as you can see the editors obtain of course as no as no refusals all the others are people that unsubscribe this as you can see that as a problem as you can see the number of people that is receiving is a lot bigger than the people that haven't subscribed so it's a good for me is a good situation every list you can delete the list look at the list of course so look at the list of emails for several emails I also have the name of the journalist and the name of the magazine and I've added a number of fields which are covers, a platform covers as reviewed LibreOffice and so on and my plan is to improve this and in a way that in the future it will be easy to search the list and find the guys that have to receive a specific press release already on target you can look at the people you can add it and you can so these ones are public because I want the journalist these are the two I want the journalist to be able to access their profile if this is not clicked the list are private that means that the journalist update his profile on the list it's not that I don't want the journalist to do that but there is still not clean enough to show that to external sources if you think that this has been done in eight months it's quite a lot of work before it's clean enough to show to external sources it probably is going to be next year it's a rather demanding job then last thing you add the google analytics tracking code which is just in the message you don't need to reset the statistic I don't mind and then you hit this big button place campaigning queue for sending that means of course you send it immediately if you didn't change the scheduling tab otherwise it will wait until the schedule is leaving for it's usually as we decide before the time of the release I programmed this the evening before and I programmed giving me half an hour of time to stop everything so usually the press release start 30 minutes before our announcement just because I want to be sure that everything has worked otherwise I have 30 minutes to stop the campaign and to reschedule it at a later date because it's automatic of course and this just to again we looked at the the previous one this gives all the so sent as html 3900 as text 174 bounce 3076 open 394 clicked 15 I usually always have a link inside the release to see the people that are clicking of course the guys that are clicking on it are even more interested than the guy that are opening it so this is why I've told you forward it, it happened not that much but some press releases have been sent by an editor to another editor and I get an email that says that press release has been forwarded by Mr. X to Mr. Y so this is why I'm telling you that for the time being before we are able to have multi multi user account it is better than I concentrate all the sending of press releases and then I'm happy to share the statistics I'm happy to give you because this 394 if I click on that red number I get the list of emails so I'm happy to share with you the list of emails let's say of Indian Journalists that have press release and then you may want to send them an email in your language that says thank you for opening our press release we hope that you are happy with the LibreOffice 5.0 or 5.0 whatever if you want to get information about the LibreOffice community in India please poke me and so on and so forth because this way I think that that journalist will be happy to know that there is someone speaking in his own language will probably be happier to publish about LibreOffice because maybe you explained them that LibreOffice in their language there is a community and there is a number of people that are willing to inform in the right way in a transparent way we don't want him to write anything that he doesn't want about LibreOffice but of course we are more than happy to provide him all the materials that he needs to write nice articles and I know that that can probably sound a little bit unfamiliar to some of you but this is the way you do it there is no other way to grow your popularity amongst journalists either you have a huge amount of money to buy advertising and therefore the journalist will notice that in three pages in their magazine there is an advertising of your company but we don't have that much money so we have to to use what we can which is being nice gentle, collaborative provide information be transparent, be happy to provide additional information if we cannot meet a deadline I will tell it immediately to the journalist one journey from a Linux magazine has poked me the first day of the meeting of the conference and I answered Matthew sorry but I'm swamped I will not be able to send you anything before Friday so if it's still okay for you you will get my text on Friday evening otherwise thank you for the opportunity but I can't Matthew has told me don't worry to publish the article I'm waiting your quote probably if I instead of telling him immediately you have to wait three days I I wouldn't let him wait until yesterday evening or even was this morning to tell him that I was not able to send the staff not only he would have ignored us but probably would have said that son of a nice lady is creating me a problem because I I've left some space for his comments and now he's telling me that he's not able to give me his comments and this is just an example so tell them immediately I cannot we are all volunteers so we cannot work 24 hours for anyone especially if we are not paid so it's a lot better to tell people we do our best best effort because they will understand they will understand our good will to cooperate with them and that was already seen and these are all the statistics so these are all the you know this I think can it be in Hungarian paket of no no, okay, sorry this is English crowd this is German this I don't know this is Italian so these are the results of the press release is sent in there is Hungarian as well but it was probably one of the first that I so it's on the second page not on the first there are it's temper page but you see views clicks how many sent so it's important can give us a very good background on what we are doing okay and I'm finished thank you the software is available for free for us okay, but not for the community members let's say for example so this can be used for other purposes as well okay, so PHP list is a free software you can install your own instance on your server it's rather easy I've installed one instance on my server I've not used but I wanted to see how difficult it was it's not incredibly difficult you need of course a server somewhere but it's rather easy to install online the importance is that they maintain that for us so we don't have to upgrade it we don't have to make any change that they are doing the management which can be quite a lot of time so of course for us it's free for TDF as long as you do that for TDF is free for all of you I think early next year there will be the multi-user version so everyone will have a multi-user version we'll have an account the account will allow to use all the main list to send the campaigns and so on of course myself as a manager I will get emails for all the ideas but we need someone that controls the use of the platform it's not to control you but of course we have to coordinate stuff one question in the multi-user environment for translated cross releases so how do you communicate in email address? no absolutely not let's say that probably we will agree on a sequence as it says if you want to know about the TDF this is the address and it will be my address if you want to know about LibreOffice your address for Iceland and it's your address of course there is a signature that every user can decide so in the template you decide the signature at the moment there is only of course one but each user when you configure your user environment you have to configure your signature so all your messages are the same signature of course we will agree on a signal that is similar for everyone to be consistent which I think it will be question to TDF this address question about LibreOffice this address question about the Icelandic community this address there should be some protocol involved we have to be consistent communication is different for each one because otherwise it looks like a mess and we would look unprofessional this is the problem Microsoft is using Burson Mastela Burson Mastela is a very good PR agency they look very professional we should look as professional as Burson Mastela even if we are not Burson Mastela and again if you are not on the private marketing list send me an email because you should get into the private marketing list myself so feed me any myself so feed or Florian we are a person that are looking after this kind of send us an email after the conference make sure that you are on the right on the right marketing list


So there's a lot of speculation about why Elizabeth Warren's reign as the frontrunner is now over and there's a lot of Reasons why I think that she's starting to plummet in the polls But part of the reason why I think that's the case is because she is not able To not respond to every criticism from her opponents. So for example, Trump called her Pocahontas What does she do? She creates a video where she goes over the results of a DNA test that supposedly prove that she does in fact Have Native American heritage Obviously that backfired and it was incredibly Cringe-worthy on top of that, you know her opponents in the Democratic Party primary Pressed her to figure out a way to pay for Medicare for all without raising taxes in the middle class What does she do? She appeases them by coming up with a plan that would fund it with the regressive head tax And on top of that she moved away from Medicare for all by putting it on a back burner and saying She's going to prioritize a public option So when people see this they realize that she's weak She can't not respond to every criticism when her opponents They're criticizing her because she's running against them, right? You're never going to be able to appease your opponents and they're just going to keep moving the goalpost What you need to do is create good public policy that is good public policy Don't take into account what your opponents want because you're running against shills who don't actually care about the American people And they're just making bad faith arguments against Medicare for all Because they are bankrolled by the health insurance industry, but because she couldn't help herself Now people see that she's not the real deal. She's weak. She caves the pressure and as a result Would probably be a liability against Donald Trump in a general election Now the ladies on the view decided to speculate about why Elizabeth Warren is starting to plummet And they came to the opposite conclusion rather than, you know, logically deducing that she probably is starting to Plummet because she's backing away from Medicare for all Well, they're saying that she actually embraced Medicare for all Too much and that's what turned off voters and the rationale that they use Was just nonsensical so this segment is probably one of the worst that I've ever seen from the view and I've come to the conclusion that anyone who watches the view Is coming away much stupider as a result because they just they're not just out of touch But they're uninformed and do zero research. Take a look So senator Elizabeth Warren was gaining ground in the polls for a minute But according to another poll, you know, I hate polls unless i'm dancing on them I'd love to see that What me dancing on a poll We'll show you the pictures joy and I have pictures about So Half of her supporters seem to have bailed on her in the past month And some folks are saying well, did she push for Medicare for all too hard? Why are people Moving away or is this just part of the natural Thing that happens you're hot for a second and then you're the cooler person and then the next one is hot Or is this what normally should be happening? Well, she was attacked because she was the frontrunner for for a second And I think her The weakness is that medicare for all because it's just not that popular across the board You know, I think many people feel well, everyone should have health care But if you have health care that you enjoy now, you don't want to give that up So, you know that that's a sticky point for her and also she never in my view really explained how she was going to pay for it Talks about the wealth tax a lot. Does bernie does it? No? He didn't explain it either and he actually takes credit for it, right? He says I wrote the bill He sat at the table and said, you know, I I I did that. Yeah, but how do you pay for it? Well, and it sounds like In her plan if you actually dig deep into it the taxids could go up for the middle class To get this medicare for all and I've struggled with this She's talking about No one really understands to your point where the money's going to come from but It's going to have to come from somewhere because it's a lot of money to pay for that I think she thinks I'm a well this country. I'm a socket paper. I'm a socket paper This country was founded on choice. Yeah, right and and this I think goes totally against what this country is And what it always has been and you can't take choice away from the american people And that's been her problem from the beginning and and we've talked about you say this all the time She's not going to be trump because people are scared people are scared of those types of policies And I think rightfully so if you want someone that's going to be trump Well, I think they're they have obama care I think my feeling is the people who are saying build on it Are doing a better job of convincing the american people and not scaring everybody because I have friends republican friends and Democrat friends who other than me besides you Who say that they will not they hate trump the republicans. I know or I wouldn't be friends with them That's not true. Happy thanks. That's not true. I mean, I don't expect my friends to be in love with trump And hang out with me to tell you the truth But um, they also they say not elizabeth warring now No, no, no, and I have a big argument with them in a way because they want to hang on to every dime They've got these people. They're very rich And um, but you know having said that I don't think it's plausible that she could she's going to make a dent with that with this plan I I think you have to be practical in this country. Yeah, you know her Her plan was it was the green new deal of healthcare It didn't make any logical sense for how anyone's going to pay for it And by the way, I know you hate polls would be and you do me a solid by placating me because I love them But a big jump 28 to 14 percent since october is hemorrhaging She's flatlining right now, and it's very if you're on her campaign right now You should be very very very concerned seeing the trends going down may or Pete's going up But again oppo dumps everyone it makes an impact and I think she hasn't done An efficient and and concise enough job explaining just the simple question What for people who don't want it taken away? What are they going to do the people who don't want their health care taken away? Americans do not like things being taken from them across the board Well, not at this point since so much has been taken away from it, you know 90 99 percent of the folks are working to pay those damn tax that segment made my blood boil That was infuriating because that was nothing more than lies from elites Who literally never have to worry about health care ever in their lives? They will never go bankrupt never die If they don't have health care and they talk about choice as if we have a choice now Our choice is to either die or go bankrupt if we don't have insurance That's the choice that we have but our current health system is phenomenal because it works out for them People who are multimillionaires who again never ever have to get on the phone and fight with etna to get them to cover a bill That they're refusing to cover that they say that you know their coverage Expands to or some shit like that.  She said uh the weakness with elizabeth born is medicare frail because it's not just that popular It's just not that popular across the board Medicare frail not that popular This is a policy that 70 to 90 percent of the democratic party base supports And there were a couple of polls back in the summer that show that a majority not a plurality A majority of republicans supported medicare frail.  Who are you speaking to it's popular within the democratic party and it's even popular with some republicans So that's just the bold face lie She also said also elizabeth born in my view never really explained how she's going to pay for it Sonny I don't support elizabeth born, but she released a gigantic fucking plan that explains How she's going to pay for medicare frail To the penny now I don't like the way that she funds medicare frail because again I am in favor of a 7.5 percent payroll tax To cover the bulk of that federal increase in spending So I don't like the head tax that elizabeth born is proposing. I think it's regressive I don't think it's the best way to fund medicare frail that being said for you to say She hasn't proposed the way to pay for it.  Sonny hosten responded by saying no Bernie has a list of options as to how We fund medicare frail Now Bernie doesn't fund it to the penny Nonetheless the way he funds it is more progressive and that's assuming we even have to fully fund medicare frail And shouldn't just deficit spend because it's a crisis and it would require that But nonetheless again, um, we're not dealing with good faith actors These are out of tech elites who don't want the system to change one because they don't want their taxes to go up And two because it's working out phenomenally well for them because they have money. They're comfortable I'd be hudspin then chimed in and said it sounds like taxes on the middle class are going to go up and nobody really understands Where the money is going to come from except It doesn't really matter if taxes on the middle class go up in actuality because if you're going to net save money Because we're getting rid of these monthly insurance premiums What difference does it make? Well, the difference that it makes is that people who make more than 400 000 per year like them every single one of them They will actually be paying more for health care and they don't like that So they don't care that the peasants will go bankrupt and die They just don't want things to change for them. So they're trying to convince their viewers who trust them That being against this policy that could one day save their lives Is uh beneficial for them I mean, this is gaslighting one-on-one right here Now sonny huston chimed in again and said I think that elizabeth warren Believe she can pay for this with a wealth tax No, again, not an advocate for elizabeth warren But that's just a small portion of how she plans to fund it like these people did zero research I mean, it's unbelievable that they feel confident talking about this as if they are, you know Unauthority on this issue when they didn't even do a five minute google search I mean, how do you not feel some type of responsibility to at least arm yourself with a little bit of knowledge before talking about this really complex issue This is a life and death issue and the fact that you didn't even bother to google Anything about medicare for all or elizabeth warren and bernie sanders plans I mean, it just shows that you are bad people Because you're apathetic about the plight of the working class as you claim to care about the working class And taxes going up on them like be real.  You care about your own Wallet, that's what this is really about now abby huntsman said this country was founded on choice This I think goes totally against what this country is. You can't take choice away from the american people Yes, because if we decommodify healthcare and remove that profit motive from our healthcare system, that's taking away choice It's like saying if you support abortion, you are in favor of baby killing That's the level of you know, disingenuity that we're dealing with here Again, we have no choice in this system We can choose to either die or go bankrupt if we don't have insurance and the choice that we want isn't between Public insurance or private insurance.    I'm gonna give you a sandwich Would that qualify as taking something away from you if you're getting something that's better for your health? I mean You are a stupid motherfucker if you literally believe that medicare for all is taking away something from people It's not taking away anything from people But it is taking away something from corporations a profit motive But guess what they shouldn't be allowed to profit off of our health's We should have a health care system that has the goal of delivering health care not profits To the shareholders of private health insurance companies But because megan mccain Is uh the daughter of parents who are rich beyond Anyone's wildest rames her mother I think inherited billions of dollars She doesn't have to worry about it.  I got mine.   I mean People need to stop watching the view like why do people watch shows like the view?  I'm sorry because like People have to fight with these health insurance companies as michael moore put it recently on msnbc We hate our private health insurance providers. We hate them. We can lose it, right?  She's not plummeting because she embraced medicare for all too much Bernie sanders is rising and we know that he actually supports single payer medicare for all elizabeth warren Is plummeting because she backed away from medicare for all and it is a popular proposal But these elitist assholes wouldn't know that as they look down at us peasants from their ivory towers


Second inning of this game this video is brought to you by JM baseball YouTube channel for baseball lovers that pitch They wanted as a strike. They didn't get it. He says enough stop. He says all right that hit that hit That hit the zone. I liked it. Maybe they wanted that one too nice pitch by Mino. He's got his stuff dancing every direction He's dancing around the edges. All right. Come on now. Let's do it. That's pitching coach Pete Walker ground ball There's out number one curve ball to carpenter on the 1-2 pitch is Minoa gonna catch it. No way out number two Vlad he's got to climb the mound. They have a good laugh about it now Grisham's up and that's strike one Grisham doesn't like it But it's a nice pitch and then that ball dances the other way for strike two oh and two they go low He doesn't bite so they go high. He doesn't bite strike three They say nope that was high and everyone's a little upset about this one We know I handles it pretty well.  Huh? He's getting antsy umpires like I hear you. I don't want to hear you anymore though at back continues That's a foul ball. They don't look happy at all the two two That's ball three. They still very frustrated over there up top again Don't get it again. So a walk so pitching coach Pete Walker comes to the mound and he's got one thing He's got to say and it's not to the pitcher Minoa looks at his catcher says that was up. He's handling it. Well now There's an a lot of amount of time the coach has to talk to the pitcher and usually the umpire is gonna walk out and then he can have some words with him if He wants it's a sneaky way to do it without showing him up And you can see the catcher kind of turn and be like where's the ump and you see the umpires coming right away He's like I won't even give you the 30 seconds. I know that you want to talk to me not him So here we go.   Oh Yeah, okay All right You touched my hat a little bit. That's a fine. Now.   You walked to him.  That's fine I hope we didn't get fine for that the league should look into that like no umpire walk towards him Manager Schneider comes out and he's like hey Blue blue blue blah blah blah blah blah and Pete Walker walks off the mound. He got ejected He gets a standing ovation the inning continues to two pitch another high to seem fastball And this one is caught at the track So no damage done on that walk besides the ejection and maybe the hat kiss fine Hopefully that didn't really happen if you enjoy baseball and you want to be in the daily know of what's going on in MLB You like trivia and game shows then check out JM baseball YouTube channel dedicated to baseball fans


This paper reviews the applications of gas hydrates in industrial processes and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of current methods used to improve efficiency. It also examines the potential of small chain hydrocarbon additives to enhance hydrate formation and reduce the need for additional gases. This article was authored by Alberto Maria Gambelli and Federico Rossi.


The nitty gritty dirt band finally made their stop in Bemidji tonight and fans will tell you the show was definitely the American dream. Reporter Cheryl Moore takes us into the show. It was a packed house in the Bemidji High School auditorium as the nitty gritty dirt band took center stage. We're really happy to be in Bemidji again coming back to Bemidji's beautiful town and being here this time of year is awesome. Got to walk around the lake a little bit today, very cool. Now we had our ghosts of wild rice were good. The band has been together for 52 years and tonight fans got a special treat with a few new members added to the lineup. This summer we're having a great time we got a couple new guys in the band my son Jamie Hannah and a buddy of ours Ross Holmes there's a great fiddler and mandolin player and we're uh that's opened up some real great opportunity opportunities for us. Music and musically. Yeah yeah. There are more than a few pairs of cowboy boots in the crowds. Fans say they were just excited to hear some of their favorite songs played live. It's a band we've listened to for a long time love their music great sound they were actually I think a little ahead of their time but they endure and that's the name of the game in this business. As a family listening to the older country music Mr. Bojangles you know an American dream um fishing in the dark but it was just a staple in our household was was country music so I'm excited to see him again and I want to share that with my daughter Katie. And tonight's show also doubled as a fundraiser for Lakeland PBS which the band says they were more than happy to help out with. We love PBS I just want to tell you that uh we were really excited when they picked up our special Circle and Back live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville that we did a little while back and uh it's been a great opportunity for us to you know sort of give back to PBS. Reporting of Bemidji, Charlmore, Lakeland News. That concert at Bemidji High School tonight the next Lakeland PBS concert will be Celtic Thunder in October. We have ticket information on our website at lptv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Do you know what this crack is? What? It's a crack. Wow! News flash!  So I've casted a little seven-year-old, aren't ya? I've tried myself on it. Yes, I'm sure. But yes, this isn't just a crack in your wall. It's not even in the wall. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put. The crack? Well, if it's not in the wall, then where is it? Everywhere. It's a split in the skin of the world. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched pressed together. Right here in the wall of your bedroom. Sometimes. Can you hear her voice? Yeah. Two actually. Two guys. Two men on the other side of a Charles' bedroom. That's never a good sign. But let's say hi anyway, shall we? Wait, what? What are you doing? The best way to think about this crack is that it's not a crack. It's a door.  Right on cue. Yes, sir. Now then, who's in here? Hello! I'm the doctor. Not anymore, you're not. So get out of here before you make time super duper wibbly wobbly. I know this is your first adventure, but this is going so, so, so boring.  You're welcome. Oh no, you won't! Oh my goodness, are you Peter Capone the actor? Oh, I'm such a big fan. Uh, yeah, exactly. As you're my biggest fan, you won't mind if I take over the reins. The reins of what? I'll tell you what, jump out that window, and then you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. No, that sounds awful!  Right, so this is too much for my first adventure. Sorry Amelia, I need to go out before I have a double heart attack. Where's he going? I don't know. Well, he's tired, this is locked for the start. I forgot to say why! We should go. Yeah, good idea. See you later, little pond. Sweet tweets. Why? This makes me want to be a kiss-a-gram in 20 years. Amelia!


For our next talk, I'd like to welcome to the stage Laurel Dixon Bull and Randy Langehenig. Laurel is the IBM Offering Manager for Urban Code Deploy. She manages the business end of the product focused on pricing and packaging, while also keeping close to the product's technical capabilities and client feedback. In her 17 years at IBM, Laurel has worked in a variety of areas, including internationalization and localization, the client early access programs, and software release management. Randy started his career at IBM right out of college. He started in the testing organization for the AIX development team and has had different roles inside of IBM, from developer to testing lead, to client facing technical specialist and several others. Randy's area of focus though has been DevOps, including build automation, automated testing and continuous integration and deployment. He has been applying these DevOps principles with the clients that he works with for over 15 years, and he's passionate about seeing folks achieve success with their business goals. Today, together Laurel and Randy will share with us how to transform legacy IT into a ZOS DevOps team. Now you may be thinking to yourself, when I came to KubeCon, I did not expect to hear about the mainframe. This reminds me of a time I was speaking with an IT leader of a large enterprise and they shared with me, my organization is a museum of technology. And I think this is true for many large organizations where they have many different exhibits that are different technologies from different eras and they all coexist within the same organization. And so for many of you, I'm curious if you wanna share and chat.  So these teams need to work together and sometimes it can be very, very difficult across those different disparate types of technology. So today Laurel and Randy will share the core principles and fundamental concepts behind how to transform a legacy team into a modern one and they'll even give us a live demo of how GitLab Ultimate on ZOS works. Let's check it out. Thank you for joining Randy and me today for this talk about GitLab Ultimate for ZOS. The title of our talk is how to transform legacy IT into a ZOS DevOps team. Randy and I, we work in the IBM DevOps team and our mission is to help customers deliver quality software faster. Randy is a DevOps technical specialist at IBM and I am a product manager in the IBM DevOps team. In case you're wondering, ZOS is the operating system used on mainframe computers. You might be wondering, why are we talking about ZOS at KubeCon? Do they have anything to do with each other? Well, yes they do. Most, if not all organizations are investing in hybrid platforms and solutions. So most organizations have a combination of legacy and more modern technologies and platforms. And this has been accelerated by the pandemic. Everything has changed since the pandemic. More work is done online, more buying is done online and we have very little tolerance for slow or clunky systems for purchasing or working. Consequently, agile teams are working hard to go faster, to deliver changes and legacy teams are struggling to keep up. GitLab offers a DevOps platform to help the agile teams work faster and the legacy teams to become more agile. This year, IBM and GitLab partnered to add ZOS features to GitLab Ultimate. IBM of course brings a lot of experience and skill in mainframe or ZOS technology. And GitLab obviously has a lot of experience in software delivery platforms, which with key collaboration, integration, security and delivery capabilities. To give a quick refresher on why GitLab is so important to DevOps teams in general, take a look at this summary from a forester study about how DevOps platform like GitLab solves common problems for businesses. In forester study, they found that more than half of the customer surveyed use six or more tools in their software delivery tool chain. And over 70% said that end to end governance or visibility is a challenge and no wonder with six different tools. And understandably, almost 70% said that handoffs between the teams slows down product delivery. The reality is that organizations could improve their software delivery speed and quality by reducing the complexity related to having multiple tools, like one for code repository, several for tests, collaboration deployments, et cetera. Because when you have all these tools, many people are involved just to maintain them. And then the integrations between the tools can be tricky and awkward. And this complexity also drives up cost and while it slows down speed. Now, imagine that we're talking about a ZOS software team. If you're new to the topic of ZOS, keep in mind that 70% of the world's data still resides on the mainframe. And if you're using the ZE operating system yourself on day-to-day work, you know it's a legacy system, but it still does most of the processing and transactions for banks, retail, and healthcare systems today. And if you spend more time with modern technologies, you might not realize that the mainframe can process over 30 million transactions a day. That's even more than Google. And IBM's latest mainframe hardware can process up to 146 million transactions per second. So that's why it's still around and vital to the global economy. And here's a fun fact, the Z in ZOS means zero downtime, zero downtime. It's not only incredibly fast, it's stable. Hardware related faults are less than three seconds a year or seven nines, that's 99.59% availability. It's really the holy grail for availability. And you don't have to replace the Z machine every year and machine hardware is designed for redundancy and very few operating system updates. Another fun fact is that 90% of credit card transactions go through Z systems. For example, if you pay bills online, you use a nice front end that's user friendly, it's modern looking, it might be personalized with your name and your account information, but the actual transaction processing that pays the electric bill, that's done on the Z back end. And this is true almost anywhere. If you order a Porsche or a Corolla on a cool web front end and you make all your selections and pick out your accessories, maybe you use a marketplace and then you can follow the delivery of your new card down to the hour. You're using the front end, but we know what system is transacting all that data. That's the ZOS system. So through the partnership with IBM and GitLab, IBM has added functionality to the GitLab platform for Z developer teams. The biggest contribution is the build system for ZOS languages like COBOL and PL1. This is the build tool called dependency-based build or DBB. You plug DBB into the GitLab platform and you have the ability to adapt GitLab to the needs of the ZOS team for ZOS application builds. GitLab for ZOS also takes care of the translation for ZOS languages from the Git repository and adds a CI runner for Z. And we have more features underway. There's also easy integrations with other IBM Z tools like those for tests, deployments, development, if you want or if you already own one of these specialist tools. So why is GitLab so valuable and that specifically GitLab for Z so valuable for a Z team? Well, GitLab addresses major pain points common to the ZOS software development. First of all, those teams are generally isolated from the rest of the application team. The Z team works separately and so many times when I visit customers and I meet an application development team and I ask, who runs your mainframe dev team? I'd like to talk with them. Nobody knows. It's not always the case, but a lot of times it's true. They're so separate, they don't know each other. So DevOps really should be bringing everyone together. So if you're doing DevOps, but we can see this, this isn't often true and that's why we're offering GitLab for Z to make that possible. Another pain point for the Z development team is that they use separate non-agile tools. The Z application team typically uses legacy tools. A lot of times they're green screen and these legacy tools are not agile and changes to Z code is actually seen as risky. The Z platforms run enormous applications. Now keep in mind that source code management is the core of everyone's pipeline and in ZOS application development world these tools are decades old. The ZOS legacy tools have become a hindrance to the Z dev teams and it's also becoming clear that they cannot move as fast as the distributed teams. So having a modern source code repository like Git gives the Z dev team all the code at their fingertips, not just the code being changed. And once you have a more agile SEM and with a build tool like DBB that can build not only what's changed not the entire application like is done with the legacy tools development becomes much more agile. And then there's this opportunity to move faster because you know, you can only move as fast as your slowest contributor. And then finally, another pain point is that ZOS development skills are becoming rare. And this is something to consider. ZOS developers are quickly aging out and retiring. Many opted to retire in the wake of the pandemic before the pandemic, the average age of a Z developer was over 55. It's under 50 years now. And by the end of the year, we expect the age to be 45 fast approaching. So we're losing a lot of the older devs and we're quickly onboarding replacements and onboarding to a modern tool like GitLab it's gonna be a lot easier than a legacy tool. And you can move your developers around now that you have a common platform. They don't have to be so siloed and the silos won't be as stark once you can move people around on the same DevOps platform for the enterprise. And the pandemic has also accelerated interest and investment in hybrid platforms and solutions to support the business flexibly. So hybrid systems provide security, stability and the scale of the mainframe and also the agility of the front-end systems. So really development needs to be hybrid as well and there really should be one platform to support all developers. So these things, the siloed nature of the Z team the tools they use, the rarity of Z skills they all combine to slow down delivery, introduce risk and keep special Z skills in a separate team. And those are the big problems.  Now they can both be more agile. So with that now that I've given you a bit of a runway and context I'd like to give Randy a chance to talk. Randy is going to give you a demo of GitLab with dependency-based build to illustrate the ZOS build capability and a couple of other things. Randy, I think you want to see a chart first and then you'll go into the demo. Right? Yes. Thank you Laurel. All right. Okay, in this demonstration I'm gonna be playing the role of a mainframe developer that's responsible for an application called Catalog Manager. Our team is working to modernize the way we develop our Z code to adopt more agile methodologies moving away from the waterfall approach we used to follow. To help us with this modernization we are using GitLab as you can see on the slide to drive our development including using GitLab from an SCM and Git from a source code management perspective as well as using the really nice pipeline capabilities from a CICD perspective as you see on the slide. We're also using some great IBM Z DevOps tooling to help us achieve our goals to deliver quality software at a much quicker pace than what we had in the past. Let's go take a look at this new modern environment. Let me share my screen. All right. For this demo I'm gonna be working again with this application named Catalog Manager as you can see here. This is my project within GitLab and this application is written in COBOL and it uses CICS or Customer Information Control System to handle the transaction processing on the Z operating system. Now let's take a look. One of our testers found a bug in the program and opened the new issue as you can see here. Let's open up that issue and take a quick look. All right. We can see that this issue's been assigned to me and I've got a milestone as well as a due date here and some labels, all the great features within Git that we all, for GitLab that we all love. You can see in the description of the bug he's provided a really nice set of screens to show me. This is sort of the 3270 view, green screen view of the application and you can see that as he gets to our item this item 0010 and clicks on that. The description that's displayed for this item on this page is showing a debug message. This is what we're gonna fix in this demonstration today. So what I've done is I've actually already created a merger quest for this bug. Let's go to that merger quest really quick here and you can see that I've already committed some code to fix this problem. Let's look at that, that the code change really quick in the code. Before I do that though, I do wanna show you with IBM Wazi Analyze. If you are a new developer working on a program like this one, catalog manager, using Wazi Analyze we provide a developer with a visual of the interactions between the programs. So you can see the sort of a call chain that's happening with your program. And I can see here, as before I did my changes that we were making a call to an assembler program called wait and this isn't actually a good thing. This looks like a bug to me. So having this visualization of these Z related programs is very helpful for our developers, especially as we onboard new developers as Orl's mentioning earlier. Okay, so let's go back and look at our code change actually. I'm gonna open this up in the web IDE within GitLab to show you the changes that were made actually here. And if we scroll down, you can see that there was a bit of code that I had to change to fix this bug and here it is right in this area. And you can see that it was making a call to that assembler program called wait that we saw earlier in that Wazi Analyze view. Now I've commented out these lines to correct this bug I believe I have and I've run my pipeline against my feature branch to do some validation of those changes. One thing I just would like to point out here from a mainframe developer perspective, a lot of our clients, they use intelligent IDE. Examples are IBM developer for Z which understands, you know, cobalt code, PL1 code. It allows you to kind of, you know, view your cobalt code and your copy books if you have those side by side as you're doing your development, it's really quite nice. And if you want to, a lot of our clients are using Visual Studio to do that same type of work from an IDE perspective. And of course that's easily done as you integrate with GitLab and with our IBM tooling. So this looks great. Looks like this was committed for our merge requests. Let's go back to that merge request really quick. And for the purpose of this demo, what I'm gonna go ahead and do is of course I could have somebody on the team that would approve this change. In this case, I'm bypassing that. And I'm gonna go ahead and mark this merge request as ready so that we can take a look at a running pipeline and kind of what's going on behind the scenes. I'm gonna go ahead and click the merge button here. Again, there will likely be somebody else on the team that would do this, but I'm gonna go ahead and do it here for us so we can take a look at a running pipeline here. Right, so this will begin to run our pipeline against the, in our case, the main sort of the master back to main is our development branch. And so we're going to begin the running the pipeline there. Let's go ahead and take a look at it as it runs. You can see now it is running the build phase of this pipeline. And this is really where IBM dependency base build comes into play as Laurel was mentioning earlier. And what it's doing, it's initiating what we call an impact build or sometimes it's referred to as an intelligent build. And I say that in that it detects the code that you've modified or changed since the last commit to development and it will compile that code along with any other program that was dependent upon the code that you've changed. So it's much faster than what we used to do in the past because in the past as a developer we're working on a program that included let's say a hundred COBOL programs it would have to compile all of those and it would take quite a bit of time. You can see that our build is already completed here which is fantastic. So it's an intelligent build and along the way let's take a look at that build process where DBB was called. You can see the output here. As we scroll up in this output log you can see that the build finished a clean state which is fantastic, good to see that. One of the things as we're moving faster and becoming more agile we wanna do that but we also wanna ensure that we have good quality code. And for the mainframe developers IBM has an ability to run Z unit test cases very similar to what you would do on the open system side or cloud native side where you have N unit or J unit type of tests that are run automatically at build time. We're doing the same thing here from the Z unit perspective. And again it's intelligent. It knows what code you changed and based on the code you changed it runs the corresponding unit tests based on that code change. So we can see the results and another thing that's nice here is we transform those results into a J unit report format that you're able to see within the GitLab interface which is really quite nice. All right, so this is fantastic. Now let's go back to the pipeline. We can see now that's running the analysis phase and we can see that it's running a code quality check. Essentially what's happening here this is again is having another level of quality completeness with our work. It's checking to see if the code you changed is meeting rules that your company has set up to ensure quality. And these rules are specific to COBOL or PL1 programs out of box but you can write your own rules as well. Rules, a few example rules. One being avoid language elements that are obsolete in enterprise COBOL 5.1. You can check for that and if you find those you can alert the developer of that situation so they can remediate it. Another example of a rule is avoiding a select star in your exec SQL code. If you had that in your code we'll identify that and alert you of it and of course they have different severity. So if it's a high severity we'll fail to build at that point so that you can remediate that issue very quickly. Very quick feedback loop for the developer again ensuring really good quality code. Then of course you can see my pipeline's already run. That's how fast it is. It's already completed the packaging phase and packaging what we're doing is we're integrating with Urban Code Deploy to package up the artifacts of our build and then creating a mutable artifact that's pushed in this case to Artifactory which is a definitive asset repository and it also integrates with Urban Code Deploy to make it aware of this new version. The version label is typically the build tag or the pipeline IID in this case but so you have really nice traceability all the way back to the build and this is fantastic from that perspective but you can see this is using a command line client for Urban Code called Buzz Tool to integrate and to push these artifacts over to these different tools, Artifactory and of course Urban Code Deploy. And then to finish this all off the remaining steps now are just to do a deployment. So we have triggered an automatic deployment in this case into our integration environment using the integration with Urban Code Deploy and this integration environment allows us to do some initial testing of our changes integrated with other applications just to make sure there's not any integrated integration issues that need to be resolved. In this case, we've done our testing everything looks okay. So we've set up our pipeline and GitLab to allow us to do a manual sort of step here of initiating the deployment into our acceptance test environment. I'll go ahead and click that button. That acceptance test environment is actually a much more production like environment with a lot more data. And so we can do additional testing in that environment before we go into production. Now, if we go back into Urban Code Deploy this is the Urban Code Deploy web console. Let me log in really quick to it. We're gonna take a look at the application catalog manager. It leverages a really nice application model so I can see first part of the model are the target environments. And then of course we have our components here that are being deployed and it tracks inventory and those what's deployed where which is really, really nice. Let's look at the history. It's got a rich history of everything that's taking place. We can see we've added another layer of governance here just to add an approval for this deployment into our acceptance test environment. Let me go ahead and respond to that so we can kick off that deployment there. And when I do that, you can see this interface gives us a really great trail of audit. We can see the sort of the who, what, when, where, how, details at the top. We can see who approved it. And then of course, if we go down further, we can actually see the deployment process as it's running. And you can see how quickly it is. This is so great because in the past with our legacy solution from a mainframe perspective, when we needed to promote a change for our application from dev to test, we couldn't just deploy our changes. We had to deploy all of the programs and promote all of them to test and then promote all of them to production. There's a very time consuming process and risky as Laurel was mentioning earlier. But you can see here, there's no need. It's really simple and much more agile. We're able to deploy our updates into the environment. You can see it's complete. And in this case, it's doing a phase in the kicks application so that it's updated to include the new changes that we've just put in place. So with that, I'm gonna go back to Laurel so we can see the end result of these changes. Randy, thank you. That was great. So we have now back in the issue that you originally found for yourself, right? A screenshot from the original report. The person who originally reported the problem with the good result, right? You don't have that debug message in there anymore and the catalog entry is perfect. So that was a great demo. Thank you for that. So what you really showed was how the pipeline leveraged dependency-based build to perform an intelligent build of the application that includes quality testing with ZUnit and code quality to ensure that the code meets standards of quality for the corporation or the enterprise. And you also showed how you can perform incremental deployments quickly to the ZOS LPAR on the mainframe system using IBM's Urban Code deploy. So this is an exciting new world for our mainframe teams using more modern tooling to meet goals of quicker delivery with great quality. So we'll end the presentation with a suggestion that you listen to the replay of a webinar that a colleague, Chris Trowbridge did with a customer from OneMain Financial and they talked about using GitLab with DBB for IBM Z applications. And it's a really interesting webinar and there's a lot of discussion about the cultural differences and how to introduce new modern tools to legacy development teams. So with that, I'll end the webinar and I wanna thank you all for joining us today. Thank you.