We're back. It's still the breakfast on plus CV Africa. My name is Kofi Bartels. Let's get to our first major conversation this morning. We have a guest already on standby. And the coalition of aviation workers unions is threatened to proceed on an industrial action in the next 14 days. If the anti-labour, what they call anti-labour clauses in the new aviation law currently awaiting the ascent of the new aviation bill currently waiting the ascent of the president is not removed. The coalition is made up of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals, and the amalgamated unions of public operations as well as the civil service technical and recreational service employees. Now specifically the unions decried what they termed a quote a subtle attempt to restrain and obliterate unionism in the aviation sector end of court. They also lashed an unknown persons in the sector, instead, inserted rather repressive clauses into the new bill's governing affairs of the NCAA that's here, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and four other aviation agencies. They are demanding that the leadership of both the Senate and House of Assembly committees on aviation withdraw the bills and expunge the controversial clauses before the approval of these clauses by Mr. President. I'm glad to say joining us to discuss this latest development in Nigeria's aviation sector is Assistant Secretary General of Aviation Safety Roundtable Initiative, Olumide O'Hunayo. Glad to have you Olumide. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thanks for having me. Good morning. Fantastic. Do you agree with the, I would call them amalgamated unions of in the aviation sector that the current aviation bill as it is been presented to Mr. President must be changed? Well, not in totality because the group was still changing. The first time the Senate was inserted into the act, then later I heard now it's now a different act. But the truth is that that section that is generating this fury was in the Civil Aviation Act in 2006 that was just re-enacted and passed by the Mr. President, you know, and signed by Mr. President. It was there. That has always been in the bill. So just wondering why all of a sudden it's starting to an issue for the union. All right. But some have said, you know what, this is their chance to get a change if they didn't have that before. This is their chance to get a change. And of course, the fact that we look at the labor laws in the country, anything that should affect unionism in any part of the, you know, any institution in the country, not just the public sector, but the private sector should be discouraged, you know. So what do you say to this? If it's something that was there in 2006 and simply repeated in the new law, does it mean that they should not stand up and fight it? Should we be looking at the heart of the matter? Whether this in session or this provision rather helps things? That's the need both I gave in my opening statement that I would support it a bit as well. They need to look at it and have it adjusted. But you see the truth here is that all the world that that particular clause has been in the act, they've always gone on strike or without anybody holding onto that or obeying that clause. So probably they're looking at the future whereby the rule of law would take this effect and it might probably be used to hold them down. But let me just have a little look at it. That's clause. That's on article 67 of the General Service Section of the Civil Aviation Act. And it says, the minister may by regulations prohibit all or such class or classes of workers, officers and other employees of persons, whether corporate or natural, engaged in a provision of the services specified in section one of this section from taking part in a strike or order industrial action. Now what are the services? They are all services which facilitate and maintain the smooth orderly and safe take off flights and handling of aircraft and the disembarkation and the evacuation of passengers and cargo respectively in all aerodromes in Nigeria are by designated as essential services. Now this clause is for actions within the aerodrome area. Aerodrome area here is about, we're talking about the wrong way area, the tax, we are aircraft land, critical sterilized safety area of the aviation industry. Well, so on who's spot, I mean at the end of the day now and you have this workers who are saying we're backing on a strike action and on the other hand it's because of a certain reason which the government is involved and who would you say is actually right or wrong here? Well, like your colleague there said, if this was in the act before and you now want it removed or expunged, then you have to go through negotiation, mix awareness about it and see how it can be expunged. But to say it was just smuggled in, that is not the fact. So that's why I've read the 2006 act that was that was that was repaired and not reintroduced and signed by Mr President and still in the in the new act. Now under this act, now what that's actually that it's those on the aerodrome side but look at that aerodrome side, the air traffic controllers are on that side and as a two days ago they still went on strike in Kanu because of the issue they have with the fan authorities over power supply to the to the to the building of the air traffic controllers to the to the residential quarters that was cut off by fan. The 87 men there in Kanu went on strike and grounded all flights in Kanu which also bridge this coast because that's an aerodrome area. The law has always been there. The labor labor have always done what they want to do. So I didn't understand why we're having this parade this time around. Okay, they have protested suppose they just missed their flight because they caused some traffic at the airports and just missed their flight. They have written to the minister, written to the Senate Committee on Aviation, the House Committee on Aviation and every other person they've copied with respect to their opposition to that law that issue exposes. So and they have within 10 they've given about 10 for we have about 12 days left now after the after the protest it was 14 days after the protest. So we have about 10 days left to see what can be done, how all parties can come together and agree on it. But for me, I feel like if it was there all the while and you still do your thing and you felt like it's been felt, why bother this time around? That's what I say. So look at the heart of the matter.  If you look at the you know ex illegal experts have said that you look at the common law in Nigeria, you know workers are entitled to go on strike or industrial action, provided they give sufficient notice. In this case the aviation units are saying this law is going to prevent us from you know embarking on a strike, from picketing, from shutdown, from lockdown. But if you look at apart from the Nigerian laws, you look at the Trade Disputes Act or the Trade Union Act rather and even the Trade Disputes provisions, employees have the constitutional right to embark on industrial action. So this is the right that cannot be denied them. We also look at international law, I mean you look at international law, international best practices, workers are right to strike is protected or governed by international legal instruments. You have the conventions of the United Nations, the international labour organizations as well as provisions by bodies like the African Union. So these are guarantees, international guarantees. Let's look at the international practice across the aviation sector around the world. Don't we have aviation sectors in other countries including the advanced or more advanced countries going on strike or industrial action? Well I agree with you, it's just an actual knowledge aspect of the industry but what the closest delving at right now is on the aerodrome side, which has to do with safety. They're saying that it should not affect the landing, takeoff, the evacuation of passengers and the boarding of passengers on the aerodrome side. We can do all you need to at the airport terminal in and around the airport in your offices but not on the aerodrome side. That's where the sterilization is not being tampered with or risked. So this law has always been there and the unions have always gone on strike and had their way and whatever decision they wanted the government of where the agencies act upon was dealt with based on them using that instrument, that strike. So I don't think that that power has been taken away. Again the air traffic controllers are the one on the aerodrome side who should have to be the one that should have kicked against that clause. But the air traffic controllers still go ahead with their strike. But this time around what they do is that they start the notice to airmen and that they will proceed on strike so that airlines and operators can prepare for the day that they're supposed to proceed. The one that happened in Cano was spontaneous. They did not give any notice. They just stopped, they just didn't operate, allowed any flight to takeoff, didn't give any startup or allow any aircraft to land. So that happened in Cano on Monday. But like I said, it's the aerodrome side and I think for me, a person that I don't see any drone with this, this time from timing memorial, we know that unions have always used their right and use it effectively, you know what they want.  You know, you've talked about what happened in Cano if some some airline is on the way from Dubai to Cano and then maybe it's also land at 12 p.m. or at 1 p.m. And then at 12.55, the Unicell were going to strike then of course the airline safety and aircraft safety will be compromised. So shouldn't we rather than say you cannot embark on such industrial actually if you are in the aerodrome axis of the airport, you know, like you've said, shouldn't we say we should conform to the laws of the land, you know, which I mean the trade dispute act is quite techy if I must be be be honest. But shouldn't we say that okay, let's conform to the best practices looking at the laws across board, give us ample information, let us know so so and so days ahead, let's sit around the table and agree that if you're going to go on the strike, you're going to tell us that you can go at this. And why I'm asking this is because I asked again, sir, across the world, what are the international best practices do, you know, workers in other parts of the country work in the aerodrome area, do they go and strike or not? And I've said, I don't know, do they go and strike a lot because we can look at what the other countries are doing to to learn from the industry around the world. Strikes are legit and allowed both on the airside and on the on the terminal side of the airport. So unions have a way to of going on strike and they keep notices ahead for those in the critical areas. We've seen air traffic controllers in other countries refuse to to work and the Air Force personnel are brought into martial some flights and commercial flights are reduced or stopped abruptly only for emergency flights to be allowed to land and just to take care of the situation while they negotiate with air traffic controllers. So there's all the labor unions around the world have always going to strike whether they will work on the aerodrome side or the inside because necessarily arrangements and information are available to the authorities and what are the plans I mean. Okay, but, you know, let's come back and also look at some of the issues. Apart from, you know, union issues and the class, you know, in the bill that you have workers of the aviation sector protesting. Let's look at the issue of, you know, the aviation fuel and the fact that, you know, the prices of flight bays, I mean domestic flight have been on the high on the other side and at some point, you know, they have also threatened to hold work. We also hear the minister saying that it is within, you know, out of control for the sector, whatever crisis they're faced with, especially with the aviation fuel, it is out of their control and there's nothing that can be done. Now, what are your thoughts on this? The tickets are actually on the high. I mean, tickets have actually gone up to as much as 50,000 error and above. And, you know, in some cases, you have these sectors saying airline saying they're not going to fly. There's a lot going on, especially for the domestic flight. I'd like you to show your thoughts of it. What are my thoughts? I think I'm also as confused as the rest of the industry. Why would have to say the option of solving up the petroleum crisis is based on a long time plan? Like the minister said, the minister got us all confused there. He's looking at the option of a decoded refinery on its completion. That would help. And then when the government finish turning around the FIP leptic protocol and a cardinary refinery, for us, that's too long. There's no certainty in those options. But the certainty we have right now, that the mapinari can help us with the a vision for a crisis at times, is to look at the modular refineries that are on ground in Nigeria. We have about 20 of them who have been working for over a year to be allocated crude oil. For God's sake, over a year. They're not allocating, but they're sitting abroad. Now, in this modular refineries, happily for them, or locally for them, a vision for this is deregulated. This is deregulated. This is deregulated. So there's no subsidy to be paid. So it's after their course, at the time of the pride, they were sent to airlines. So it's good to build just a lot of the modular refineries to start off with their a vision for oil. And there are about two or three of them. Again, in the interim, because of the high cost of the oil price in the international market caused by the one Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, I think the landing cost at the port and the tax at the airport should, for the moment before, at this period, be waived so that we can, so that the price can drop. We started the year with $119 per liter, and today it's about $900. Which is almost $40. So if the a vision for that cost about $7,400 of its price in January, and the ticket has just moved from about $25,000 in January, to about $150,000, which is about five times the price in January, then you will see that the airlines have tried not to move to much the level of the increase in the fuel price. So that's the decision we're in the industry. The fuel price is killing. The airlines are not getting strong. We have lost two airlines are down now, Aero and Dana. We just hope we don't add more to it. But we need to expand the capacity. And in expanding the capacity, the condition of the operations, the cost of operations must be favorable to expand capacity to improve the process from the airlines. All right. Thank you so much. So what we have on ground is that the unions have given this 14 the ultimatum and they're saying that the clause in the electoral act, sorry, the aviation act within the presidency. It goes against all international conventions and laws and practices in the aviation sector. So 14 days hence, we might say a total shutdown of the aviation sector in Nigeria. I mean, probably we almost had a shutdown because we had the airports scanty these days. But of course, we're getting towards the end of the year where people will be traveling around and traveling for the holidays. We expect to see, I'm sure you'd agree, increased activity at the airports. Let's see what happens. They have also said that the issue of essential services was not discussed at any time when the six bills in consideration were discussed at the National Assembly level. So they think that this was smuggled in, you know, further. I can only appeal to the unions to please handle with care, get there with communication. They should see how they can improve their communication before they get to that last thing, which is strike. And hopefully, I don't think we could get there. But you see, when you say it was smuggled in. No, they said. Yes. When they say it was smuggled in, it was in the last act. And the actuals they produced to update it. So at that point, we're all at the same. I was there, they were there. At that point, they would have, they would have objected to that close meeting in 2006. I said they should not put it back in the new world. But Mr. President, and that last minute, that's what they say. They're looking at it with fun, with fun acts that they had before and they're not being smuggled in, in order to stop them from getting the concession. I think that's the issue now. Mr. Honore, we have to go. I mean, I'm glad you've clarified this as you were there. And we'll see what happens. But Evasion Sector is very critical. I'm sure you already know this to the Nigerian economy. And it's in the state of crisis right now. Thank you so much for your time. And look forward to seeing you again. Thank you for having me. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Thank you very much. Of Evasion Sector or Safety, rather, Roundtable Initiative. We have our next conversation up next. Of course, a guest standing by. I'll be right back after this to continue on the breakfast.


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Tom's hardware is among those that have published critiques that despite implementing the C type connector, Apple did not update the USB technology inside. Will, what do you think? The power delivery and the data transfer speeds are typically independent of each other. So you can have a USB-C connector with a USB to data rate and a USB PD 40, 60, whatever watt charger. And typically you do that because the device that you're plugging in can't actually support the higher speeds that the higher USB spec allows. And so it's just overkill. So you're spending money on something that no one's ever, not only are they not gonna be able to use it, but the machine is physically incapable of using it. My guess is the memory controller, whatever in the iPhone 15 is the last year's SOC. So they're not gonna do a new SOC that supports USB three on that for sure.


Mike What are the murmurings or otherwise about whether there is a serious any numbers backing for a cunnathal Hiç- kal Prestu I mean November. What is it they call it October is the processo of couples Or is it November? Is to you got any kind of grounds at the moment to even be agitating Or is the matter pretty much resolved The matters resolved for the moment But there will be minor rumblings So they won't be terribly happy with the pole haza'n down, reili, within the margin of error. I actually think Shira's got a big challenge just ahead of him, and I'll be very interested to sit and watch this, and that will be his speech to the Labour Party conference, which I think is in a fortnight's time, might be a week. Got to remember that when they had those meetings of activists after Phil Goff indicated he was going, they came down fairly heavily in favour of David Cunliffe. So since when, Shira has been around the party organisations and done a selling job, and I've seen it and I think it was effective. So let's just have a good look at the speech, and everyone else within the party structure will be looking very hard at that speech.


problem. Just one more thing. All right. Mark, what have you seen so far up to this point? Well, I'm maybe a little old-fashioned. When I hear an interview with somebody, I usually like, you know, a few facts. I like to hear some feelings. And I like to hear a bit of conceptual stuff as well.  I hear a lot of conceptual stuff here. I hear, you know, a little bit of feelings, but they tend to get chunked up more for me in concepts. And I hear very little factual detail, if any, really. And so, the more I listen to Jada, the more confused I get. And I don't think that's because of my intelligence level or not really being able to, you know, understand the layers or even that I haven't read the book. Though some of this does really convince me that I should go out and buy the book so that I really can understand every potential, you know, context for this and understand it so much better, you know, what is going on here. But I get left, I would say, a little bit hollow by it. And maybe there's an irony in that that I get left hollow. Chase, what do you got?  And why didn't you talk about them doing this for their kids? You know why we didn't talk about it? Because they didn't say it. And this is artificial transparency. This shows a consistent use of vague and evasive language, suggesting that there's a whole book you can go by, but there's also an effort on her part to appear profound while I think avoiding anything of real substance. And we're seeing just repeated needs for validation with this right and all of this stuff, which I think might go to her personal psychology. And I think Jada positions herself as a passive recipient of external events, avoiding a lot of responsibility. Then when it comes to the mention of healing, what needs to heal? Wounds need to heal. And the way she refers to healing as being in progress would suggest that none of the wounds have healed yet. Some people talk about their wounds, which should have turned into scars a long time ago. So be careful around those people, especially old fashioned kind of people like Mark who just want to hear facts and real things in a conversation. That's weird, Greg. Mark, take one for the team. Read the book. Tell me what's in it. Not interested yet. Yeah. You got it. I've had enough. Like I said, two and a half hours of this, I might go slap Chris Rock for Will Smith. I just, it was just too much for me. A lot of feelings, a lot of, and you said it probably better, a lot of ideas, concepts about feelings, not real feelings. Hey, I felt this way. He did this. He did that. My guess is deep buried in all of this, if we were to get their therapist to talk is they have some egregious problem between them way back when that caused all this abrupt changes. But that coming together and going, we all know that the more cloistered you are, the more likely your ideas are to become strange. Every one of you, there's a pandemic.  Think about what that did to your psyche in that short period of time. Now plug yourself into an environment where you are sequestered because the nature of their life. And if you don't take some kind of input, then you start getting very naval gazing kind of mindset ideas.  So you have to be very careful how you approach this. And doing this therapy talk with a person where we can all listen to her might reinforce the beliefs that other people had. And it might not be true. It might be that Will Smith did something horrific and she's angry and she's holding vengeful thought to him. It might be that she's trying to make the best of things. We will never know that. We can only say what we see. Scott, what do you got? I'm with Mark. The sesquipidalian pros of Jada Pinkett Smith has left me hollow. I don't have that stuff. Just there's nothing there. There's a fellow named Stephen Bishop. And one time he said, I feel so miserable without you. It's almost like you're here. And I would surmise. I would believe that's probably the way Will thinks. When he sees things like this. When he hears what's happened. Gosh, this is so negative. But I don't think she's probably not a horrible person. I don't think she is. I don't think she is. I don't think she is. Chase, I think if she were not saying all this stuff, you probably would like her in the conversation. She's pretty nice woman. You enjoy talking to her. And she's not doing herself any favors is the problem. The more you spill your psyche and you play that card. I mean, you hit it early on. That should be a role. Should be a role. Sorry, Scott. I interrupted you. No, it's totally cool. No, I was finished anyway. But I did hear like a from a person who dealt with her said she was the sweetest person in the world and so nice and so once he couldn't go on enough about her. So he said she was really wonderful. So I'm more apt to believe the guy. I think she's probably wonderful. And this is probably just something she's doing as her persona to. And that's possible, sure. Protect yourself for to be the person she wants everybody to see. So fellas, thanks for another good one. And we'll see you next time. So what do you got?


Back to for the second session of the track today. We have a great presenter for you presenting the open-stack way So I'd like to welcome to the stage Bill Franklin. Hello welcome to The open-stack summit. I got it. We've got people still coming in so if you can move that way that might be great I have a couple of questions just since you guys it's day one for you You're gonna be exhausted at the end of the week So if I get you to move and be a little bit more active it may be more comfortable for you For how many people in the room? This is your first summit. Okay. How many people in the room have been to at least five summits? Okay, so for those of you that it's your first summit and drink lots of water. It's exhausting It's a marathon. It starts in the morning. It goes to late at night if you're here for the design summit Really drink a lot of water because you're gonna be in rooms with lots of developers doing a lot of talking and often discussion start You know, there's a few developers in the room sometimes sometimes they add add things and it'll start at 7 in the morning It'll go until 9 or 10 at night So we get a lot done at these summits, but it's pretty involved One or two other really short questions. How many people are here because they work for companies that are interested in cloud computing? I mean most people maybe I don't know But how many of you are here because you're actually developers who want to work on or hack on Open stack itself Okay, so a number a number of you guys are building the infrastructure A lot of you are working for companies that are gonna either install the infrastructure or consume the infrastructure and run applications on it so what I'm gonna I'm gonna briefly talk about today in the I think I've got about 40 45 minutes left is Talk a little bit about the the landscape of Enterprise IT what's going on in enterprise IT right now and kind of where it's going Open stack and cloud software, but specifically in the enterprise right so so if you are You know here from a small research facility or something else, you know I'll be talking about how your facility might be using it, but I'm not necessarily gonna be talking about advances in open stack You know from a research perspective. That's one of my talks later I Want to talk a little bit about what we're doing at HP inside open stack and how we're trying to deliver Open stack solutions to the enterprise and then just briefly touch on if I have time at the end sort of this whole maturation of the open stack ecosystem for the enterprise so what's what's actually going on in Enterprise IT right now and and while trying to read white and blue on the slides at the bottom is really hard so IT has really become very very integral to business success more and more of Really is hard to read these more and more companies really need to Innovate really rapidly and quickly and change what's going on Give you an example of that. How many of you here from Europe? How many of you here have heard of Europe? Okay, that's good Imagine, you know grease exits the euro and we and we wind up into a two or three take two or three stage currency market Okay, the first investment bank that puts up the currency swap systems will probably Capture anywhere from two to four billion euros a month In terms of fees and benefits and other things associated with basically running that currency exchange Okay, so so that's a real-world situation in as rapidly as you can innovate to the changing times as to what happens You get to capture, you know revenue from that. Okay Another thing that's going on which is represented by here There's more than there's more people registered for this conference I think they're coming from more than a hundred and forty different countries, right? We all work for a very global workforce. We all have a very global customer base HP does business in more than a hundred and eighty come countries, okay? So you need to be able to cooperate with all those people and collaborate and The digital data explosion has just been absolutely mammoth, right? It's been it's been really huge and Then on the technology side, there's massive explosions with lots of things. We're seeing Sort of over the next two years at two to three times growth in global cloud infrastructure We're seeing a massive amount of growth in intelligent edge services. We're seeing anywhere from 50 to 80 percent increase of new cloud applications or cloud applications that deal with with big data And we're seeing a huge expansion of both cloud apps, but also cloud development And when I talk about cloud, I'm talking about dynamic elastic infrastructure. Okay People have talked about, you know Dense data center. Let's virtualize every application. I have I'll put a web front end on it and I have a cloud I'm not talking about that in the Second paradigm or second revolution of infrastructure computing you wrote your application If you wanted it highly available You clustered the underlying infrastructure if it wasn't running fast enough you bought faster machines, you know assuming you write You wrote toad cut tight code if you're in memory data set got too large you put more memory in it So you affected scalability reliability size by modifying the underlying infrastructure in the cloud world a cloud Native application needs to operate a different way. It's stateless reliability and other things are built into the app not the infrastructure So we consider sort of cloud computing when we talk about it at HP. We're really talking about this third revolution of computing So finally in this in this third revolution of infrastructure computing or the new style of it If you want to think about it that way people are really striving for no vendor lock-in They're striving for portability of their workloads and they're really concerned about driving down their their lowest cut their total cost of ownership Okay, if you deal with the financial market sector, what is the most expensive thing for them right now? It's actually capital As a result of both the layman collapse and a number of currency collapses The cash reserves that banks need to hold now are anywhere depending on which country you're in and what type of operations they do Anywhere from four times as large as they were 10 years ago to in some countries in some regulatory spaces 180 times more cash than they needed to hold before So for a significant amount of the financial industry and financial services the cost of capital to them is one If not two orders of magnitude greater than it was 10 years ago So when we talk about driving down total cost of ownership, it's always been a snag word that people go Okay, everybody wants to run run more cheaply But if I put it into real terms for you you deal with certain industries now for which they're available capital is far far different than it was 10 years ago and And that's sort of the business tone of what's going on also as machines become more and more efficient and more and more More and more powerful power consumption has gone up real estate has gone up So the desire to get smaller data data centers highly more efficient But also be able to flex when you need demand burst to other things firms are really changing how they work Right, so it becomes an internal service provider at a company okay, and The other thing that it is happening in industry is a term that HP actually started a long time ago Which seemed to make complete sense for me long time ago three and a half years ago in the cloud world Which is hybrid hybrid cloud computing? part of our fundamental core belief is that Enterprises will not move all to a public cloud. How many of you work for companies that have been in business for more than 50 years Okay, how many of you guys still have workloads in those companies that run on a mainframe? Eight or nine of you are raising hands. How many of you still have workloads that run on Unix servers? I Didn't say Linux. I said Unix Okay, so my point behind that is that stuff didn't disappear It's not going to disappear overnight. We're going to work in it We're going to work in an environment if you work for any company that's over a certain year a certain age Or that it's over a certain size you're going to have hybrid workloads. You're going to have Check clearing again in banks often part of it runs in a mainframe part of it runs on some Linux servers part of it Is web-based all those things need to come together right you may migrate some of those workloads to a cloud You may re-implement some of them, but you're not going to change them Okay, one of the largest banks in the world largest retail banks in the world 65% of all the code still running in production is written in cobalt and runs on a mainframe Okay, now I'll combine with that and say that 90% of all the new code that they write is written in one of two Languages and either runs on an open stack implementation or runs on a variety of other cloud technologies All right, so they are living in a world where they have both Legacy systems they have stuff running on their own private clouds internally their own private elastic dynamic Infrastructure, and they have some stuff that they've moved out that runs on Cloud technology managed for them by a third party not a public cloud. It runs in a single single tenant environment So that's that's what we talk about hybrid and what's happening now is almost 30% of All of the enterprises in in this particular frost and Sullivan survey, which was I think about 600 different companies 30% of them are actually either cloud is crucial to their business or a percentage of their workloads are already starting to run on cloud So this is a technology that is rapidly being adopted We are shifting to it and enterprises are using it and they are using it in a hybrid like manner okay, so All being most people in the room are engineers or have some engineering background or at least took up math class Or a science class at some point in their life So one of the things we do in sort of engineering and science is you know We get down to first principles and we talk about you know that classic word definition of terms So I'm going to define a few terms. I already talked about cloud elastic dynamic computing Infrastructure we talk a little bit about when I say traditional apps Right, I'm talking about the traditional way that we used to build applications, right? We would decide we're gonna have some applications We either write them in-house internally Let's not even get into how long that is Monty already gave you some illusions to that earlier But we write some applications or we purchase some applications. We want those applications to run So we need to provision some equipment for that often that means we need to actually go out and buy some things So we procure them we might have to talk to other services We need to get those services to give us access God forbid you want to do a table scan on a big installed Oracle database and a financial service So you got to get permission to do that you got to get all that stuff lined up Then you have to configure all of those resources Then after you've got all the machines and you've got it all configured And you've got all of the permissions to talk to all the different things you want then you actually get to install the software and then you actually have to integrate all of it and This stuff takes often weeks to provision and this is being carefully generous when one particular company I talked to from the period for which they decide they're gonna do something and they get the budget approved It takes 18 weeks to get through their procurement cycle even if HP is really blazingly fast they get hardware in maybe four weeks and Then it takes them and this is the one that I found astounding it takes them nine weeks to get it off They're loading doc into a data center and get it available So the period I just described is you know It takes less time to actually have a baby than it does to actually get this hardware For that particular company, okay So you can only imagine why people wanted to move to a scenario where they could automatically provision things So what kind of happens in the cloud world just again my sort of definition of terms Let's talk about cloud native apps. These are the applications for which, you know, it's somewhat stateless They run in this elastic dynamic infrastructure So the developer actually gets to build the app and the application and specify how it's all gonna work All right, they then push that code out into the cloud for this is a DevOps model I could use Andresen's term, you know in infrastructure as code, but it pushes it out there and you instantly provision the environment and then the cloud if it's a well-written application and it takes advantage of all of the native cloud services It can automatically scale some of its resources. It can do a lot of Resiliency restart it can do a lot of self-healing and a lot of other things This environment is usually instantly provisioned and the application winds up being managed as a service by the application developers themselves in a traditional DevOps model Okay When you do that, okay, we're trying to extract the development experience away from Needing to basically configure and run all of the infrastructure Okay Now how many of you out there actually are programmers or started your careers as programmers or have some amount of technology behind it okay, so I Started my career a really long time ago And I my first job out of school was actually I was a Unix kernel engineer hacking on writing device drivers for a living So I spent the first five or six years of my career writing system level kernel code My point behind this is that you know my view of the user land application developer with somebody who called the system call interface I then moved along in my career and started managing an applications development group and found out that nobody calls the system call Interface they all sit in a much higher level my point behind this is that the application developers of today particularly in the cloud space They're not writing code all the way down necessarily at the open stack API level They're writing code at a slightly higher level of abstraction. They're writing code often at a PAS layer That's cloud foundry pivotal everything's that live in that world or they themselves write an abstraction if you deal with a large bank or you deal with If you heard the Walmart keynote or or others people write an abstraction above that infrastructure So that they write all their applications to that and this cloud native app model supports a lot of that type of capability So you wind up with cloud native apps They don't assume node failure. They avoid local storage. They're stateless Often there are multiple processes and where they need to deal with state Excuse me. They're talking to servers and services that are Reliable and they're doing and speaking to those through service connections and those connections need to be able to be transient Just as we have sort of a open source manifesto and a number of different things around agile development and others If you're really curious about this way of building cloud native apps There's kind of a manifesto in this space called the 12 factor app You can go and you know Google it on the internet or go to 12factor.net, but it speaks a lot about this concept of cloud native application development so if You want to move to the cloud and you want to start building applications that live in this space Today we kind of live in the traditional world where you have it ops. They're over here Usually they have people guarding all of their equipment and it's behind fences and they run all of that And you know I go back to the early days of Unix and usually the sys admin guys have big hiking boots on and jeans and Carabiners with large amounts of keys and all sorts of stuff and Those are the people who manage the network and the storage and the operating system Partially the virtual machines and then developers lived way up higher than that and often they were in different buildings And you know the stuff didn't work very much with each other now. What's kind of shifted is That IT operations winds up really building a bunch of automated application services Compute as a service storage as a service all the things that open stack has been building for the last four years and Then developers are consuming those services and sit on top of it and they orchestrate or marshal How all of those services work together? Okay, we are shifting one of the things that's happening in open stack as Monty was talking about earlier And some of the other people will be speaking about later today We're shifting open stack a little bit as a community not not necessarily our product directions Open stack as a community is starting to shift to the aspect of we now need to cultivate Application developers to write the applications for our infrastructure. We built really cool infrastructure But infrastructure without apps to run on it is not necessarily very exciting Unless you're an operating systems geek and you're just interested in about building the operating system So open stack is doing things. That's partially why we have the product working group I was co-chairing with Chris Kemp and activity around the developer ecosystem So that's another thing that's happening. I think the ISV Ecosystem thing is on Thursday So please come to that if you're interested in how we make open stack more attractive to ISV's and software as a service companies But as we move from the today world to the future world on the cloud native apps a couple of other things also wind up happening So if you if you want to build a pass layer or an abstraction or make an environment where enterprise IT builds these applications You you have to have both a combination of infrastructure as a service and this has type of abstraction It has to support a broad Environment right a polyglot of of environments Java. I'm an ex-sun guy So Java is first on my list Python Ruby even dot net and a whole slew of other things and People want to be able to move things around in a variety of different ways Right, so they're looking at open stack. They're looking at cloud foundry from a past perspective They're looking at Docker. They're looking at different types of virtualization strategies different types of orchestration strategies So where we're really moving to is this capability of enabling cloud native applications with a rich set of support for for different environments and ensure portability and flexibility and What's also happening though in parallel with all of this is companies are shifting more and more from using traditional proprietary software products To a broad adoption of open source okay, and 30 years ago 40 years ago Right all software was pretty much proprietary Companies wanted it that way when we sold them software there were escrow agreements There were all sorts of other things in case anything happened Right and and that provided a huge amount of lock And you had things like Linux you had things like Apache you had things like the GNU project you had a variety of things and a bunch of things happened that shifted so Enterprises now are more interested in getting open source technology than proprietary. Why they don't have vendor lock-in They don't deal with complex software escrow agreements. They don't deal with a lot of other things But it's also much easier to find people who know how to program in all of these technologies and administer all of these Technologies and when you have a problem, there's a huge community. You can go to to get information about it So we're seeing this massive massive adoption of open source. It's really been going on for the last 20 years so that a Combination of both this migration to cloud and movement to cloud it being hybrid and open source are really the three things that frame HP's overall strategy of what we're doing. So what HP's done is Our vision is really to build HP healing on which is a portfolio of cloud products and technologies from infrastructure as a service platform as a service AWS solution built around eucalyptus a variety of other technologies and we're really building HP healing on based on Open-stack technology is the bottom from an infrastructure perspective In a developer led completely open source based distributed world Okay, and we're focused on on doing that To be able to deliver really what we feel is open source that's enterprise ready For companies so using the drivers that caused enterprises to choose open source Excuse me cost savings portability Don't eat two handfuls of cashews before you speak Most of the drivers around open source as I was saying cost savings portability Really, it's an open standards type way of doing things Avoiding an aspect of being locked into anybody because you can somewhat switch from one vendor to another if they're all based on the same open source technology And then what we've done at HP is add to that 24 by 7 by 365 global support Fairly rich integration space Done work in areas around security maturity and building out the overall ecosystem HP actually is one of the people who leads the security working group and activities around Open-stack Monty didn't allude to this earlier But we do a huge amount of the work of running all of the continuous integration and the smoke testing the tempest environment and everything for the Open-stack community So if you ever do a put back to Open-stack, how many people in the room have ever committed code to the project? one two three four five six, okay All of your code all that put back goes through a whole bunch of infrastructure that HP hosts and Takes care of for the whole open-stack community So we do a lot of this work around part of this But those benefits provide not only to the community, but also to our customers who consume this All right, because it allows it allows us to do things so what we've done Is HP is built a product called HP healing on Open-stack, which is based on it's a standard Standard distribution of Open-stack that all of you are pretty familiar with And then we built on top of that a development platform based on cloud foundry called HP healing on development platform that kind of marries a combination of Open-stack Combined with cloud foundry Can block can combine with all of the things that an enterprise would want Running a distribution like this on top of things that are all based from open source And from the drivers of cloud enabled tech of cloud enabled application development So it's really kind of this nexus of these three activities We are currently shipping HP healing on Open-stack. I think it's a one dot one dot one and cloud foundry our dev platform also did a recent release and When Tim who I saw sitting somewhere He'll be up in a while with a number of customers of ours That'll talk about their engagement with HP and some of the technology I've always found I can stand up and tell you all about what other people are doing or I can have them stand up and tell you about what they're actually doing. They're far more interesting than I am anyway So what are the things that we felt were crucial to delivering into these so we've spent a lot of time working on Issues around security On issues around configuration as Monty was Monty was showing you earlier some of the challenges of Standard Open-stack, so we've spent a lot of time really focused on this Some of our newer newer releases include things around encryption of data and transit a lot of visibility around some of some of the Transactions and logging that's going on one of the other things that HP is capable of doing is we have a wealth of Enterprise class applications out of HP software Things around security things around networking things around identity things around storage also significant things around Application development application lifecycle application test So we've done a lot of work on integrating HP's broader software portfolio into this so things like specifically around Arc site the HP's product CSA Ops where a lot of the other technologies that HP has many of those technologies are probably already in your enterprise and part of our hybrid strategy is not only Just the fact you're gonna have hybrid clouds But bridging to the technologies that you're already using in that space meaning if you have a bunch of unix machines and Linux machines and they're being managed by HP technologies now You should be able to add cloud technologies and have those same management tools be able to work with them as well So we've tried to focus on being able to extend those and that goes to a lot of our security products I've already mentioned some of the some of the cloud management aspect But more importantly, we've also done a lot of work with storage How many of you are familiar with cinder? Okay, so as you know cinders highly pluggable so a lot of our Three part product products that have HA capabilities and other things We've tried to make those storage products work really well with with cinder. We've done a lot of work around Not only some of the DDU capabilities some of the HA capabilities and some of the encryption capabilities We also do a lot of work to ensure that our product works well with a variety of different things If you were at the keynote this morning you saw or come by the HP booth, right? HP Helion doesn't just run on HP hardware It also runs on other people's hardware it runs wins with other people's storage so we've tried tried to work on ways of extending that and We try to work on increasing the support for all of them So we work on we work on that We also support a number of different hypervisor technologies and continue to move forward trying to support all of those and then finally talk a little bit about what's going on from an an ecosystem perspective If you Harken back a small amount sort of in history back to earlier days of Linux in the early days of Linux as Linux was being developed Originally it was a set of people who were interested in building the operating system right and Linux was really successful for three for three reasons right small amount of computer history One Leonis and others picked a an open-source license that most people understood Some some enterprises weren't necessarily all that comfortable with but everybody kind of understood it And it met sort of the needs of both IT companies Enterprise companies Universities and software developers so it was a license that most people understood The second thing was Linux was almost kind of a movement. It had a vibe a I'm trying to think what the hip term is But you almost had like the equivalent of developer raves that went up which are now I think the current buzzword is meet-ups But you had an environment where people really got together and wanted to advance this and it was as much as social Phenomenon as it was a technical phenomenon and the third thing that made it really successful was Four companies five companies right at the early stage of Linux HP Intel IBM One or two others Invested money in that movement and that activity and helped create a foundation around it We've only seen that happen two other times in the history of open source One is Apache and the second one is the other one is OpenStack, okay, but in all three of those instances You created an environment where people participated in it and they were excited about it But how could enterprises tell that it was starting to mature and become sort of fit for prime time? And and where that comes in is when people start not only enterprises looking at consuming it But people in that ecosystem start consuming it meaning when you see ISVs start talking about okay Well, we currently run on Amazon, but our next aren't the next release of our product is going to run on OpenStack or people start looking at OpenStack that way you have services companies that operate in it. This is my Eighth or ninth OpenStack summit the first one. I went to was I dropped by the one that was in Santa Clara But the first one I was actually And and in Boston, but the first one I was registered at was in San Francisco in San Francisco There were about 800 people there and almost everybody showing there or Boston there was about 300 Everybody's showing there down in the vendor floor. We're basically all all vendors trying to talk to each other Okay, now when you walk through the vendor floor here You're gonna find consulting consulting services people have applications that run on this stuff people that make logging tools make systems management tools Make other things right now you are in a situation where you have customers that are using this But when they get up on stage and talk about it, they're not talking about how they took OpenStack and they built it themselves They're talking about how they are using OpenStack and they're using it with these three other vendors And they're collaborating this way and they're and they're using this public cloud and this public cloud my point behind it is that is that a Sign or evidence of maturation is a rich growing ecosystem It took Linux about eight to ten years to get to that degree of Maturation it took a while everybody adopted the you know Apache web server Web server, but it took a while for everybody to get to the stage where all of those tools were really rich and There were things for managing and others the case of OpenStack We've really been running in earnest for four and a half years And we're already seeing that we started seeing this Certainly in Atlanta, which was a year ago in terms of a lot of people there If you saw Concast on the rolling living room, they've done a huge amount of things with this but where we're starting to see it is in a huge amount of Sort of partner spaces validating third-party hardware working with different bare meddling provisions working with different types of Technologies that are all coming in and the companies are collaborating with each other we also see it in the aspect of Very rich activities that HP has been doing around its own life cycle management capabilities But also how it plugs into others. So we built things around Centralized logging for cloud health. We built things around Parallels automation, but we've also built things around our stuff working with with other people How many of you are familiar with TSA net? Nobody in the room so if TSA net is the backbone that whenever you do enterprise software, right? You'll get you know Oracle running on something that's running on something else that's talking to some automation problem And if you're a big bank and you're dead in the water and it doesn't work You pick up the phone and you scream at the first person who answers the phone But the problem most likely involves four separate companies working together the thing underneath it that allows us to transmit Problem cases and everything else to different vendors is TSA net. So if you go look at TSA net's website You will now see tons and tons of open-stack providers that are in there So the ecosystem is reaching a level of maturity where you can call you can be running HP Helion on You know HP hardware. We're talking to a third-party storage device. You call us with a problem with Helion We treat we we realize it's the interaction between us and that storage vendor We have the capability of routing that trouble case to them now and others. It's reached that degree of maturation So it's become a very mature environment So I want to close with Ten things you probably don't know about HP Helion development platform and open stack one and hopefully you got it from at least part of my talk We have a fully featured pass So platform is a service that's really ready for enterprises and it's running on top of what we view at HP Certainly is as a need as an enterprise ready packaging of all the open-stack technology And some of the speakers that Tim has I think will give you some evidence and proof points for it We have a fairly tight integration between cloud Foundry and open stack because frankly Those of you that are old enough to remember how to write in C How many of you have how many of you actually wrote applications where you talk directly to the system call interface? Okay, well actually I should say how many of you are actually old enough to write applications in C um But most of you probably wrote to an abstraction at a layer higher than that and that's really why we're focused on this It comes hopefully I've at least been able to exemplify to you that it's it's kind of flexible and I've talked to you about the importance of Portability being able to move workloads from a private cloud to a managed cloud to a public cloud and more importantly The ability to move workloads across different things in open stack and we focused a lot on making it easy to administer and Open stack is pretty difficult as Mark said this morning, you know, you shouldn't need a PhD to be able to run this and And he's pretty true. We've tried to focus a lot on a modern developer experience I mean I make jokes about C, but nobody really writes much in C anymore unless you're an operating systems geek, right? Most people are probably writing in Python writing and writing in Ruby writing in a variety of different languages Their developer experience is much much different than it was, you know, when I started my career The type of support that developers want is drastically different than the type of support that sys admins want so we've spent a lot of time with our Platform as a service organization Building the types of support things that developers need from a support perspective HP is pretty much noted for providing 24 by 7 by 365 World-class developer support So I don't think there's much question around that. We also have a pretty rich professional services organization product and deminification and and as a last comment and sort of a tribute to Mr. Jobs and just one more thing This maturing ecosystem, you know, the one more thing things should have gotten a laugh at least from one person and So the final thing and I guess it's the evidence for me that open stack is really here is This maturing ecosystem and as you walk around the conference particularly those of you were here for the first time Look at how sort of seasoned this has become not in terms of how slick the presentations are because they're not very slick but in terms of Who's actually here and you should be able to go from the bottom of the stack all the way up to the top so on that Thank you very much. I want you to Have a wonderful summit and We are very committed to open stack We are very committed to the open-source nature of all of it and thank you for your time And I wish you a wonderful summit come by the booth come by the the pub crawl this evening and certainly come by the HP party on Tuesday night. Thank you


This is the speaker that I am honestly most excited to hear from in all of SoCAP this year. I had a call with him earlier this year. He's the first Skoll awardee that is a for-profit enterprise, but that's not really the thing. This story is an amazing story, and it was really fun actually to hear that when this effort first started, the first conference that this amazing entrepreneur came to was SoCAP. So please welcome to the stage Kola Masha. Good morning everyone. Good morning. My friends, we have a problem in Africa. That problem is rising in security. Since 1997, researchers at the University of Sussex have monitored global trends in armed conflict, and their research clearly shows that from 2007 to 2017, the number of armed conflicts in Africa went up sevenfold. Let's think about that. Sevenfold in a single decade. Why is this? Well, we believe as oxygen is to fire, so are unemployed youth to insecurity. And we have a lot of unemployed youth in Africa. Youth like Sandra, who on the morning of March 14, 2014, woke up excited at the prospects of getting a coveted job at the Nigerian Immigration Services. Thank you. At the Nigerian Immigration Services, she left her home, kissed her daughter goodbye, never to return. Sandra and 15 other young Nigerians died that day, trampled to death in the ensuing stampede as tens of thousands of people applied for a few thousand open opportunities. In Nigeria alone in the last 20 years, roughly 20 million youth have entered an oversaturated workforce, causing youth unemployment to skyrocket, triggering not one, not two, but three insurgencies. Today, with a median age of 18, half of Nigeria's population, about 80 million people will be entering this workforce. My friends, we have no time. I ask you, if 20 million youth entering an oversaturated workforce triggered Boko Haram, the Niger Delta Insurgency and the Falani-Hertzman crisis, what will four times that number do? Most people that hear this statistic say, wow, this is a ticking time bomb. I think not. The bomb has already exploded. To do my part to solve this crisis, in 2012 I moved to a small village in northern Nigeria to the center of the area most recently impacted with the spread of insurgency, brutal bombings, and searing poverty with an idea. Could we halt the spread of insecurity by creating an economic buffer, by unlocking the power of agriculture as a job creation engine? We knew this had been done before in countries like Thailand, where in 1980 they suffered from similar economic challenges to us. But today Thailand produces two million cars a year, more than the United Kingdom, with more than 30% of their population as profitable commercial small farmers with an unemployment rate of less than 1%. How did they do this? Thailand accomplished this by investing in the 80s in dramatically improving the productivity of their small farmers, coupled with the devaluation of their currency to enable them to start to dominate export markets for agricultural produce. Leveraging on this strength, Thailand began to attract investments to backward, forward integrate into manufacturing, being able to export higher value products like starch from cassava. Finally, with investment in education, they were able to further expand into higher value manufacturing. We knew to make our dream a reality and enable millions of farmers to be lifted out of poverty. We had to make youth interested in farming. A young man from northern Nigeria for today's purposes will call Samino, made it very clear to me that this would not be easy. Samino grew up in a beautiful village in northern Nigeria. He tells wondrous stories of playing for hours with his friends running up and down the beautiful rock formations that dot the countryside around his home. Despite this beauty, Samino knew at the first chance he got he would leave. He never wanted to be a farmer. He grew up seeing his parents work so hard as farmers unable to get by. As he says, they had babu, nothing. Small farmers like Samino's family do not have access to the cash to pair with their hard work to become successful. When their harvest comes in, under significant cash pressure, they sell most of it at fire sale prices. If they could just wait six to nine months, they could get up to 50% better pricing. So Samino left, moved to the city where he soon realized that life was not easy. He borrowed a tattered old motorcycle with tires that were more patches than tires and became a motorcycle taxi driver. He lived every day in fear that his precious tattered motorcycle would be ripped away from him as it once had. Thankfully, he got it back. But he knew of other youth who were not so lucky. Youth that once they lost their precious motorcycles became destitute. Samino told me they joined insurgencies, often becoming getaway drivers in bombings and kidnappings. To end this cycle of insecurity, we must make small farmers successful, enabling them to make a life for themselves and a future. The question now is how. 100 years ago, my grandfather was a small farmer in South Dakota with similar challenges to Samino. Yet he was able to chart a path out of poverty for himself and my mother through the power of farmer cooperatives. Inspired by my grandfather, I set out to study farmer cooperatives around the world and recognize that a strong farmer cooperative needs three things. Grass root level leadership, fellow farmers leading fellow farmers, professional management and investment to scale. Recognizing that this grass root level leadership existed in Africa, we simply developed a model to bring the two missing pieces to these grass root level leaders. We called it babangona, which means great farm in Hausa. So in 2012, to launch our model, I went to this small village and literally went community to community trying to convince other farmers to join us. We failed woefully, that year barely recruiting 100 brave souls. But we persevered. We kept doing what we promised. Slowly, we built people's trust and more farmers joined us. Over the last six years, with the tremendous support of our many partners and a passionate and committed team, we have grown to now serve close to 20,000 small farmers, enabling them to double their yields and nearly triple their net income relative to the average farmer in Nigeria. What we are most proud of is the fact that nearly half of our members are youth. Young farmers like Saminu, who left the cities to come home to join us along the way, returning his tattered, borrowed motorcycle. As a member, Saminu got access to an exceptionally comprehensive package of inputs and services, ten times the size of the typical agricultural development program. He got access to soil testing, field mapping, farm analysis, incredible seeds. A person that visits his farm every couple weeks to give him advice and guidance, all the way down to harvesting where he gets the thresher, the empty bag, even the needle and the thread to sew up his harvest. In addition, he got access to labor-saving services that often scare many youth away from agriculture, all on credit. When his harvest came in, he deposited it at our warehouses, we collateralized it for him, get him a loan against it, and then he's excited every quarter as we sell his produce for him. He gets profits. Fast forward three years, Saminu has made enough money to buy three goats for his mother to start a goat-rearing business, owns his own retail shop, and bought not one but two motorcycles with vanity plates but Banguna. My friends, in the next 20 years, 400 million Saminus are entering the African workforce. Nearly half of them will have opportunities in agriculture. To unlock these opportunities, they would require about $150 billion in financing. It's a big number. But if we can tap into commercial debt, it is a small number. Only 0.1% of all the debt in the world today, that's 10 cents out of every $100. It's for this reason that we designed our models to be very different from traditional agricultural development efforts. In a few short years, we proved that our model works, is high impact and can turn a profit. Attracting commercial investors that don't typically invest in small farmers in Africa. We accomplished this by leveraging social investors to invest debt in us to de-risk us, catalyzing in three to four times more debt from commercial investors. Now, let me be very clear, our model is not perfect. As we march towards serving a million farmers by 2025, we will face a million challenges, which we will have to solve one at a time. Now, we all have a role to play in raising this $150 billion.  As a financing institution, the risks you see can be mitigated. We've operated for six years and operating at a 99.99% repayment rate, leveraging technology such as satellites to help develop models to monitor our farmers' fields. As a company that sells inputs to farmers, give your products on credit. You can mitigate the risks by partnering with grassroots organizations. As an organization that buys products from farmers, offer them forward contracts, empowering them to go out and mobilize capital. As a philanthropy, think beyond giving grants. Look at non-traditional partners and think about how you can leverage your investment to crowd in commercial capital to enable impact at scale. In closing, let's close our eyes for a moment. And imagine a world where a young man or young woman does not live in fear that if their precious motorcycle is ripped away from them, their only option is a life of crime or terror. Imagine a world where these young men and women have other options. I know these ambitious, dedicated youth will make the right choice as long as they have a choice. Thank you.


Look the best exercise for your lagging body part is not the one that you're doing for it How do you know that? There's a big deal. You know what it is is that? We there are here's a challenge with lagging body part first of all It's challenging because it's a body part that doesn't respond like the rest of your body We all have that right? Yeah, but the challenge is glutes are a very common one. They are except for you Respond exceptionally the exception the problem is that we we have a lagging body part And then we pick what's typically known as the best exercise for that lagging body part And then we keep doing that exercise and it's not working and we're like what's going on not realizing that There are muscle recruitment patterns. There are ways that muscles fire and connect to many of these exercise most of them being compound lifts and so we keep doing them and we keep developing the wrong muscle groups like for example I'll use an easy one, right? Let's say your chest is a body part that's lagging and you're like well bench press Bench press is a great exercise for chest and you keep benching you keep benching not realizing that you're benching a lot With your shoulders and triceps and so those develop really well Chest never really catches up, but because you're stubborn about it and doing the same exercise over and over again Nothing's working. It's like a mystery.  I think this is like a single topic episode because it's I think it's more nuanced I think there's a lot more there's a lot to it. Yeah, that could be tension potentially going on, right? I would agree that a majority of people it's a poor exercise selection I also think just the attention to it one of the the biggest things that I think made a difference in my lagging body parts was Prioritizing it in the workout and in and in the week, right? So like for example as a young kid that was lifting like when I would lift in the past I would and you know because everybody is consistent and then we all have our moments where you fall off for a little bit if I fell off And I returned I always returned starting back up with the muscle groups. I love it's never one Yeah, my favorite one the ones I'm stronger or more developed because you like to do that and you'd never miss that one But the ones that were lagging or that I hated to train I never and that when you've been lifting for a long time that cause that starts to compound It makes a big difference and simply going, okay If I fall off for a week or even a few days and when I go back You just I always start back and I started doing that like so even when you have like a let's say a Four-day break you have like let's say you have a routine where you're training four or five days a week consistently for a long time And you don't miss very long, but you just miss four days, you know Technically most people would probably just keep pick up right where the routine is I wouldn't I would start back With my lagging body part so anytime I gave myself a break longer than three days In a routine that I was following by going back and always starting the next the next day I lift again with the lagging body part as a focus that really helped bring that that's great That's really good advice, you know, but some people do that they do all the stuff They do all the volume they do the priority the priorities in terms of training that body part first and all that stuff And I guess not working like to be more clear, right? You can you can squat you could do a barbell squat and make it mostly about your quads You could barbell squat and make it more about your glutes You could bench press and make it more about your shoulders and triceps than your chest or vice versa You can row and make it more about your biceps and your forearms Then your back and not realize it right not realize it because that's the way you've been practicing that exercise for so long and Oftentimes what it requires if you don't have a coach who can watch you and say wait a minute I know why your glutes aren't developing. You're this is you're using all quad You can't feel and see that yourself sometimes what you need to do is change the exercise Let me do something else and really focus on feeling that muscle group develop it a little bit then go back to the Southern exercise.  Have you ever no seriously? Like I'm gonna be very honest right now like I know you understand what needs to be done. Like you understand the science behind it But have you ever cared enough to to put that much emphasis on a lagging bar?  I I'm definitely more movement focused in the broad scale of it, but If if I do see my myself and I and I do some checkups in terms of like Like I know that my chest hasn't got worked in in quite a bit and so I'll put some emphasis there If I like really to me It's more of a scale of like my pull-ups like are really hard and that pisses me off And so I'll go in that direction or you know, it's really a more of a like what I'm not touching in terms of like What I'm not incorporating my programming because all the whether you do it or not You do fall into patterns of what your strengths are right? And so I try to challenge myself to see like where the The areas I haven't been focusing on but in terms of like something that's not responding Like I would probably look at it differently more like you said it perfectly you you or more performance bit You look at and go like oh, I'm not very strong here. I need to dress Yeah, I got to do more pulling right or I noticed that I'm losing some of my shoulder mobility So I'll say incorporate more stuff like that. So it's interesting. I used to do this thing where At some point it was like a great to be honest a sales tool And I would have a potential client come in and if they were relatively, you know Kind of sharp and and I could explain things to them in a particular way I used to do this example where I'd say okay You have forward shoulder, which is like 90% of anybody that I would meet that didn't work out Especially here in Silicon Valley everybody working on the desk, right? And forward shoulders exactly how it sounds right shoulders come forward and I'd say a good exercise to correct that is A cable row right so I would sit down and I'd show them the cable row and I'd show them like what we're gonna use We're gonna focus on pulling the shoulders down and back work on what's called scapula retraction Strengthen the muscles that hold the shoulders back once those get stronger You'll have better posture and I would bend it I would explain all the benefits then I'd sit them down I'd have them do the cable row and I'd put them in good position have them do it right and they like oh My god that feels really good Then I'd take my hands off of them and I'd say do six more reps and we're talking lightweight This is a lightweight and then their form would slowly start to change and go back to their old recruitment pattern Then I'd stop them and say hold on let me fix your form again, and I put them in position. They go Oh my god, I didn't even notice that my shoulders started doing that. I said okay Although the cable row is an excellent exercise to correct forward shoulder you can still do a cable row in a way that makes forward shoulder wrong and Because you don't necessarily feel that yet I'm gonna be here correcting your form making sure that you pull those shoulders back But if I wasn't here Eventually what you would end up doing is pulling with this forward shoulder position not really I'm exaggerating it But it would be more like that you would actually strengthen the forward shoulder And so then here you are working out, you know for six months You're like I'm doing this exercise to fix my posture. It's not working my neck still hurts What's going on? Yeah, it's like you're not you're not doing this in a way to achieve the particular result You're looking for and this is what happens with a lot of lagging body parts people press pull Squat whatever in a particular way to where that lagging body part is playing Secondary will you fall to your default patterns? And I think it's really like if you were to if you don't have a coach a coach is the best way to do This to get that external feedback But if you video yourself and your objective about your form and your posture It'll it'll do wonders for you if you if you are in that position where your muscles isn't responding properly. Yeah Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe


Two years ago, Callaway introduced two models into the Apex Forge range. It was the Apex Pro, the Apex Standard, and there were very much two different models for two different types of players, one very much at the players market, the other perhaps for the aspiring player. They look fantastic, they performed extremely well, but in 2021 they've introduced one more model into that range. It's the DCB, the Deep Cavity Back, and what that means is there's now an Apex Forge for every level of golfer out there right now. Now you could argue that starting a review based on its looks is not the best way to start because well it's very much subjective and it's also who cares what a club looks like. I suppose it's all about performance but I don't necessarily buy into that. I think shelf appeal is massive and for me I've got to like the look of something even before I start to try it. These three irons are in my opinion arguably some of the best irons that are out there right now. They look absolutely stunning and what I like about it is it doesn't matter which sort of profile you put yourself in in terms of category that you put yourself in. They look good as a player's profile, that Apex Pro is stunning. They then look into the standard product which is maybe more where I put myself in terms of the category and then you look at the DCB. The other thing they've done incredibly well we'll talk about later is the idea that you can streamline possibly even all three of these sets into a combo set to make sure that you're optimizing every opportunity that Callaway are giving you with these irons but that's enough for that. I'm going to hit some golf balls but I'm just going to give you a little bit of detail tech spec why they've made these so special in terms of I think consistency is the key word in all this. It's an interesting story from Callaway and the tech is really led by computers it's more of AI design and I think what it's done it's led to very much individually designed irons. That means you've got different face patterns for not only each of the different models within the Apex range but you've got different face patterns for every single iron within each of those ranges. You've got different amounts of tungsten placed in each of those irons and the positioning of the tungsten is also different in every one. It's almost like having a bespoke iron design for every single model that they've got in their range and every single iron from our wedge right through to the three irons. What does that mean for an average golfer? Well I think with Callaway paying such attention to detail in in the design of each of these irons it means that we're getting optimal performance out of each club but you're also getting a high level consistency and the consistency is about ball speeds it's about launch angles and it's also about spin numbers and that's really really important especially from when you go from these things used to be achieved in a player's iron but you used to forfeit forgiveness and down in the sort of game improvement iron they were the kind of things spin numbers, consistency of ball speeds were always issues so for them to be able to streamline that throughout these three product ranges is an incredible feat at least that's what they're saying they've done but will that ring true when I get out there and eventually test these things but before we leave the tech spec what I want you to have a look at is this quick drawer and it's a heat map and it's a comparison between the CF-19 model and the CF-21. A heat map which shows the decrease in ball speeds when not finding the center of the club face and if you look at that CF-19 comparison to this model you start to see how these new versions become more forgiving and that sweet spot is getting ever bigger and that's got to be good news so that's it we don't need to know any more in terms of tech spec what we want to know is how these things performed in my hands so let's get back to foregolf. Yeah it's an interesting tech story and I think tungsten has played a major part in every one of these clubs I think first of all from a looks perspective top line is a big deal and there is a very noticeable difference as you can see between the three it's very easy to identify which is the pro and which is the dcb and again depending on where you sit what profile you fit into is what you will choose but I think if I was looking on the shelf I'm drawn immediately to the apex pro it looks absolutely stunning one of the best-looking eyes it's out there right now but then reality hits and you've got to think to yourself and what level do you play at and can I really get the performance out of the pro so then I'm shifting myself perhaps down into that standard category and that idea of mixing the standard in with the dcb is a real interesting combination but I'm going to collect data and see if that rings true because I've said before there can be a preconception that I can't play which is what is in my hand is the apex pro we've got three seven irons one from each of the range I'll see how they perform differently they're lofted differently so we expect different yardages bridge they're going to be different spinners they're going to be different launch angles have a look at all those things and then I'll give you a bit more of an opinion in terms of how I think these things play but for now I just love the look of these apex pro and based on that one we'd be all right but this is only a seven iron in hand the apex standard is very much the middle ground it kind of it's got a thick enough for top line to inspire confidence in their head we know it's a massive big deal you see the apex pro you see the thin top line perhaps a little bit of doubt starts to creep in questioning are you really good enough to play that iron and do you want to see a bit more mass and I think that's what straight away stepping up into the standard is what you start to see again solid strike you can tell even from I've literally gone from the pro into this I'm now going to hit the dcb and quite honestly you can see the difference in yardage straight away comment on the dcb it's definitely goes into that game improvement category inner forged iron which I think is fantastic the top line becomes noticeably different but not in a way you don't see any of the backside of it there's no major looking it's clearly more offset I don't know the where that's technically correct but it certainly looks that way but it's not to a degree where it would have me majorly off putt will be made the off putting and again I've hit three solid irons with each of those three solid seven irons and he's gone collect a fair bit of data and like I said I'll give you an assessment of all three but I'll tell you something now before we go much further these are an absolutely built-in set of irons I don't care what that stator tells me I can tell you at this point having hit each of these and a number of shots with them they're very very good indeed that's a great feeling and I think what I've tried to do there is I've hit one iron after each other just to try and ascertain the difference in sort of sound and feel and there clearly is one I mean these are all the same in terms of a forged head with tungsten in its makeup but there is definitely a softer feeling from the apex pro to the dcb and I think the standard product that sits in the middle is almost that happy perfect medium I think that really does take a lot of boxes for a lot of golfers you know and like I said it sounds and feels absolutely spot on so you've got my general feel on this I'm pretty impressed with what I think they've done and as I said are relevant of data but let's have a look at that and I'm going to throw the three average straight on screen for you now so don't forget this is seven irons the important thing to notice they are lofted the pro model is 30 degrees 30.5 on the standard and 33 degrees on the dcb the numbers and start with at the bottom there you've got the pro which is six eight spin 150 carry 18.6 launch 110 ball speed 40 60 degrees descent angle that to me is a a number that you'd expect from a player's iron that 150 carry seven iron six eight spin was it and that descent angle that is absolutely perfect it's optimum numbers and that ball speed of 110 was very consistent I can tell you that if you then move to the standard product we've got half an inch stronger 154 carry it starts off with six three spin 18 degree launch 112 ball speed 40 60 descent angle again a minor drop off in spin but still that ball is doing nothing but stop at that descent angle and that amount of rpm spin on it and again ball speed and distances increases just that little bit and it is almost that half a degree that you'd expect and then you go into the dcb model this is stronger by three degrees from the pro model and you'll see five eight spin 161 carry 159 launch 115 ball speed 44 descent angle and again probably everything you'd expect in terms of data you've seen there but it's a consistency that's the key element that that I think is important and even if you go to the dcb model so we class that definitely as a game improvement style design it's still produced incredibly good numbers the consistency was fantastic I literally hit quite a lot of balls with each of these the difference I mentioned was sound I think there's a much purer feeling from the pro compared to that dcb but again you're really trying to pick minor errors I think the biggest thing they've got going for them again I mentioned earlier is the ability to blend sets and I can almost see the the the idea of blending right through from pro into the shorter irons mid irons to be the standard and then maybe sticking a four or five iron in the dcb would be the perfect combination and don't forget you'll be able to bend these and adjust lofts to make sure that fits absolutely perfectly in fact I think that's something a standard offering from Callaway in that that's how you can buy them with the lofts already adjusted so it all sits very nicely which is a great idea the final thing I want to mention a lot of people always ask me about price I never always quote it because rrp that we get but it's 1099 is the is the retail price I'm told they're going to they're going to be about 150 british pounds per club and I think that puts them for this build of product and what's built in in terms of the technology story it puts them right in the ballpark where they need to be it's competing exactly where it wants to be with all its major players but I think what they've done is produced definitely a set or not not a set a model range that is pretty much unparalleled I think the only range that springs to mind is again what mazuno did with the mp20s a similar sort of concept in being able to go from that sort of chunkier game improvement right down to a player's blade I suppose they did something similar but I've got to say that's off to Callaway it's a fantastic product and a real great set of irons and from what I've seen certainly want to beat for 21 but as ever you know that's my opinion looks is a major part of it because I don't look fantastic all again pretty subjective stuff but I think performance wise it's hard to argue with my interest is from you is from comments down below again what you've seen so far what are your thoughts on these Callaway irons and are they going to be on your to try list this year right that's me done as ever thanks for watching thanks for sticking around because you're bombarded with this stuff I know at the moment and it's not going to stop by that we've got another one out tomorrow night so maybe if you like what you've seen consider subscribing hit that like button and I'll see you all soon


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. This week, we are looking at the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic over this past week and the obvious persisting news is the direction that the new Omicron strain is giving to the spread of the pandemic. India's numbers as well as numbers elsewhere in the world make it quite obvious that the rate of increase of the numbers of cases, the daily increases in the numbers of cases, makes it very clear that even though the Omicron strain has not necessarily been identified in each and every case, there is very extensive spread of the Omicron strain in a very large number of countries across the world. This raises two or three critical issues in terms of public health policy. The first is, is enough testing being done to identify all the cases? My familiarity with India's examples makes me give those as cases in point where in Calcutta, for example, in India, the test positivity rate, meaning the percentage of tests done that are coming up as positive for COVID-19 for the SARS-CoV-2 virus is anywhere between 40 and 55% depending on which day of this past week that you're looking at. Clearly, as the test positivity rate increases, it becomes more and more apparent that very large numbers of, increasingly large numbers of actual infections are being missed and are not being identified and diagnosed at all. So one way of beginning to look at this is to think that the test positivity rate is a major indicator of how much undercounting of cases is going on. But there is a second issue involved here and that is connected to the fact that the Omicron strain has been quite regularly argued over the past three or four weeks to be a milder illness, to be associated with a milder illness. Whether this is true or not, we will come to in a moment. But if it is true, then the argument has become, why are we counting the numbers of infections anymore? Why are we not simply counting the numbers of people who are severely enough ill to need hospitalization, to need critical care, to need perhaps other rare or not unlimited resources such as medical oxygen, why are we not counting deaths and so on and so forth. And those are the two issues that really need to be thought about at this juncture. Number one, is the evidence clear that Omicron is a milder illness. Now the South African numbers that have come out over this past few weeks do indicate that, that the case numbers went up, but the case numbers split toward and began going down fairly rapidly in the province in South Africa and in South Africa in general. And while hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and deaths did go up, they didn't go up to the same extent, they didn't go up proportionately. And this is a claim that is also being made in a few other places. Government officials in local government authorities in New Delhi, for example, have been quoted as saying that corrected for case numbers, Delhi's hospitalizations are about a quarter of what they were seven or eight months ago. And that would indicate that the Omicron strain is causing severe COVID illness at a lower frequency. Against this are numbers that the New York Times has put out in New York where corrected for case numbers, the reduction in hospitalizations in intensive care admissions and in deaths seem to be reduced to only by about 20-25%. So clearly the communities in which Omicron is spreading, also the characteristics of the communities in which Omicron is spreading also have an effect on just how severely Omicron is going to lead to hospitalizations. And that is going to have to be a major factor in deciding whether we should stop counting cases or not. The point that I would like to underline here, particularly for all of us in Global South, is that this is a stage in the pandemic where a data gap that is prevalent in the Global South is becoming more and more important. And that data gap is, we don't know how many people are getting hospitalized with COVID on a daily basis. We don't know how many people are getting admitted to intensive care on a daily basis. All we know is case numbers and deaths that are much later. We need these intermediate numbers, if public health policy, if hospital facilities, if medical resources are to be carefully and precisely targeted on a daily basis. And that's a major data gap that will need to be brought out and discussed and demanded from governments. The second point is that there is a distinction between additional doses of vaccines and how much protection dose provide for Omicron versus whether the basic two dose, three dose vaccinations will provide sufficient coverage. And the major limitation there, as we have pointed out in the past, is that in communities of the Global South where there aren't enough vaccinations achieved with the basic basic vaccination protocols, talking about additional doses is essentially simply going to delay the vaccination of communities. And this is where the rapid spread of Omicron converges with the vaccination campaign limitations because when people are not vaccinated, these are not individual people scattered randomly through communities who are not vaccinated. These are small, marginalized, disenfranchised communities, working class communities under privileged communities where vaccination rates are low. And in those communities Omicron can spread extraordinarily rapidly, creating virus populations where further virus evolution becomes possible, creating situations where communities that cannot access medical care particularly well are then becoming the selective targets of the Omicron spread. And this is something that I think is important to note so much for this week.


Welcome to the rundown. September is suicide prevention month and it's an opportunity to remind us to take care of ourselves and each other, to talk openly and honestly about stress control and psychological health and to seek help when we need it. The Navy wants each sailor to challenge themselves to one small act each day to build healthy habits for themselves and to be there for every sailor every day. For more information on suicide prevention or to get help for yourself or someone else, here's a list of helpful resources. The Navy has announced the recipients of the 2018 Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award. Commander Michael T. Lisa, former commanding officer of Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ 135, is the Pacific Fleet recipient. Commander Allen M. Segrist, commanding officer of USS James E. Williams DDG 95, is the Fleet Forces recipient. The award was established in honor of Vice Admiral Stockdale, whose distinguished naval career symbolized the highest standards of excellence in both personal conduct and leadership. It is presented annually to two commissioned officers on active duty, integrated of commander or below, who serve as an example of excellence and leadership who were nominated by their peers, also eligible for the award. Congratulations to all the nominees and especially to the two recipients. That's all for this week. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, at USN People. You can listen to our collection of sailor sailor podcasts at Navy.Mail slash CMP. For any questions or to sign up for our monthly newsletter, send us an email at usnpeople.fct.navy.mail. For the Chief of Naval Personnel, I'm MC2 Tyler Preston. Thanks for watching.