next step in dumbbells so by now the dog knows when you give him the pipe he holds it and then he knows to be rewarded and so now we need to introduce the movement the dog needs to move with that right and so I also want to introduce the command bring and so I'll show you where we at first and then we'll move on to the next step let me show you what we have so that's where we at right so we've been doing this couple of steps and he knows to hold with the couple steps so now we need to introduce the bring command and a little longer distance come on he's hiding in the shade because it's super hot today come on come on come on hey give it to me give it to me give it to me come on come on atos wait wait good boy I'm gonna have to spray him with the water a little bit sit atos sit sit we'll finish at that because it's very hot but you guys saw the principle pretty much just move further back and help the guy the dog with your guide commands and then kind of make sure that he learns to run up to you on command bring so I'm gonna fade out command come eventually and it will be just bring and he'll have to run up and give it to me and then on the next step we'll have to introduce bring being going from me so that's kind of their idea happy training


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering DevNet Create 2017, brought to you by Cisco. Hello everyone, welcome to the special presentation of theCUBE here in San Francisco Live, for two days of wall-to-wall coverage for Cisco Systems inaugural developer event called DevNet Create. The hashtag is DevNet Create. This is a new opportunity for Cisco, a new event, again inaugural event. Peter, I'd love to go all the first time events cause you never know it was going to be the last event. inaugural event, but really Cisco has very successful DevNet developer program, all Cisco. This is a new effort to go out and talk to cloud developers in the DevOps community. This is Silicon Angles, two days of coverage of Cisco's foray into the DevOps world, really bringing app dynamics and all their great stuff above the stack together. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Peter Burris, the next two days live coverage. Peter, big story here is that Cisco is moving up the stack because they are the leader in networking. They have been for years. We've been joking on theCUBE for many, many months now. Plumbers are turning into machinists. Machinists are being automated away by machines. The value of the network for infrastructure at code becomes super paramount now that automation is starting to happen at the application layer where data is being used for value purposes to create new experiences for users. I think this is an important story here of Cisco systems as they move out of the network guys, plumbers, network box guys, who have been incumbent data center presence, as well as powering the biggest and basically the internet. This is a big story. What is your analysis? What's your take? What's your view of Cisco's DevNet create opportunity? Well, I think there's three things we should be looking for over the next couple of days, John. The first one is the very, very big strategic picture is that the world wants to better understand how to program the internet. Now, if you think about it from a computer science standpoint, the internet is still a computer and we're still trying to find those ways where we can apply any process, any data, any time, any person, anywhere. Now, there are some physical limitations of being able to do that, but the basic model for how we're going to do internet scale computing still isn't obvious, it still isn't clear. In many respects, the cloud is an approximate to that and we'll get there. Cisco's going to have a major role to play. On a tactical level, one of the reasons why Cisco has been so successful and remain so successful in that networking space is because of this enormous body of experts that are still using the Cisco command line interface to set up routers, to do configuration in the network, to do an enormous amount of work down at lower levels inside the pipes. Now, that group also has to be modernized along with the technology and Cisco wants to bring those people along and having them become full members in this whole dev ops transition is going to be really crucial not only to them and their businesses, but also Cisco. And I think you mentioned the third one at a very practical reality level, Cisco needs to bring app dynamics out to a position of, I don't want to say primacy, but certainly importance within the overall Cisco ecosystem. And so this show is going to be one of the ways to make progress on that. And Peter, I got to say the research that you're doing at Wikibon.com for the folks watching, go to Wikibon.com. Peter's been leading the research team there and it really has some amazing research. Key stakes in the grounds of the two big waves that are happening, cloud computing, aka dev ops and other things, and the role of data, data science, what are we going to call it, data in cloud. Peter, the wave that's hitting its musical chairs and the music stops and you're a big player like Cisco and you don't have a play in cloud or data, you're screwed. And so it's clear to me that with the app dynamics acquisition of Cisco, again a foray into establishing the relationship between applications and code of the network really gives them a unique opportunity to add a lot of value and have a big seat at the table of those next two waves. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, John. In fact, the research that we're doing is very, very compelling and starts to point to the idea that we used to have hardware as infrastructure, now we're doing or hardware to find infrastructure and now everyone's in this grip of software to find infrastructure, which is really important and we'll be here for quite some time. But as you start thinking about the real asset that's going to dictate how digital business works, how it gets, how businesses get reconfigured, how they re-institutionalize the work that they need to do, and how infrastructure ultimately gets deployed, in many respects it's time to start thinking in terms of data-defined infrastructure. And it's a term that we're starting to play with inside Wikibon to see how far it actually goes, but I think it's got a lot of prescriptive potency to it. But the idea is, increasingly, your digital business is going to be a function of where your data is, what you can do with it, how fast, all those other things, and its notion of data as the asset that ultimately guides and shapes the characteristics of what customers want and what businesses can do is going to become increasingly important and this conference and the people here are absolutely part of that change. The reason why I like this event and why I'm here and why we're doing this small little event is that I think this is a tell sign, a canary in the coal mine of what's coming on this big wave, and I'll give you an example. I watched Cisco dominate the internet generation because they connected the networks together, they moved and created great value in connecting offices and then ultimately internet-working the rest is history. We are now at the next seminal moment of internet scale going cloud and data. So to me, there are two main storylines that I'm watching and I want to get your reaction to on this. One is customer facing digital transformation. Every customer is trying to figure out how to transform in Cisco's- Every business. Every business is trying to figure out or Cisco's customers or potential customers have to transform and be a better business. You look no further than the Ford CEO being fired for less than five years on the job.  You can't. Pressure stocks down for 39%. He's ousted by Wall Street. This is the pressure on the real world. Two, the notion of cloud computing. And machine learning and AI. Application-specific goodness of DevOps infrastructure code is bringing up the issue of automation, jobs going away. So two major threads. Growth with digital transformation for Cisco's customers. And two, the fear of what will cloud do for my job. It's the number one question asked in our crowd chats and our conversations on theCUBE is, hey look, there's a fire going on around us. Where the machines are going to take over our jobs. There's going to be a further gap between the haves and have-nots as Sarvita and Joe Hall just mentioned on Twitter as I tweeted a Jazzy thing, but it's come up on all the crowd chats. Jobs going away as an impact personally, I think they're going to shift, but that's my opinion. Your reaction, digital transformation and automation machine learning, these things automating away jobs. Well, let's start with the second one because in many respects, it's the practical test of what happens with that first question about digital transformation. First off, I agree with you. I think we'll see tasks go away and jobs reconfigure. And the better way of thinking about this is his businesses have historically institutionalized the work that they perform around the assets that they regard as most important. In a very practical sense within IT, you can track the history of IT by watching how CEOs and businesses configured the work of people within IT around the assets that the business regarded as most valuable. When a mainframe costs 50 or 70 million dollars, not surprisingly, that's what you configured around as moving to the client-server domain, it became the PCs and the applications. And the data center. And the data center. Now we're moving to data as an asset and work will get re-institutionalized that as well. But data has some very specific and interesting characteristics as an asset that maybe we'll get into. But I think what it really points up is not that we're going to see people suddenly be thrown out of work. If you've got knowledge and you can apply that knowledge and you can work with other people, the world is going to continue to find a place for you to make money and to add some value. So that's not to say that this notion of being thrown out of work isn't important, it's not going to have a major implication. But more likely what we're going to see is, data as an asset is going to force a re-thinking of how we institutionalize work, which is going to force a re-thinking of what tasks do and do not create value and what we can automate. And that's going to give people an opportunity to learn or not. And if they don't learn, then yeah, there maybe are a lot. We're old enough with our gray hairs to say that we've seen some waves before and I broke into the business with the computer science degree in the late 80s. And so I was on the back end of that punch card and mainframe generation. I watched people clutch onto the mainframe and the jobs just did go, they went away. And there were a few people who did maintenance and they kept their jobs, it became a political football and people got laid off, but they got shifted. They got shifted to the mini computer and then the data center. So the same exact things happening and this is why I like this show, because Cisco has to move from those plumbers, the networking guys, the guys who were the A1 resource, networks were the kingpins of the enterprise. They ran the show, they ran the networks, tier one personnel now being commoditized. And if my advice to my friends in the networking business, and this is why the show exists, you got to shift your skills to the next value proposition that's data. By the way, it's still the internet, so I think they're going to be in good shape. If you're a networking guy, you got to go to the next network effect, that's not necessarily boxes, it's still packets, it's still policy, it's still good work. Still security. So let's think about what you just said, John, that you move from a world where I perform the tasks on a particular set of Cisco boxes to I am responsible for ensuring that distributed data works. That's not subtle. I mean, it's a major transformation, but we are going to have an enormous need for people that can handle and deal with distributed data. I'm going to come back to something you said earlier. And that was the mini computer revolution. I've been around for a long time too, I came in just before you. What killed the mini computer was not the microprocessor. People could easily put microprocessors in the mini computers. What killed the mini computer was that digital had their own proprietary network, IBM had S&A down to system 36, AS 400, et cetera. You had Prime and DG, everybody had their own proprietary network to handle what they did from a business standpoint, from a business value standpoint within the businesses. What killed the mini computer world was TCPIP and this company, Cisco. Now the question is, three comm was involved in that, so let's not forget, three comm was involved. Oh, three comm, absolutely. Three comm and Cisco, the internet working class. But it was this company in particular that said we're going to flatten all those networks, put them into TCPIP, here's the routers. Three comm and Banyan and a whole bunch of others were very important. Coming back to this show at this moment right now, we also see on the horizon, a focus on cloud and not data. Focus on your supplier and their wants and needs and not data is going to lead to a world where inter-cloud connectivity and computing is going to be a major challenge. That's ironic, inter-cloud is ironic because I talked to Lew Tucker three years ago at OpenStacks, Cisco CTO, and inter-networking parallel to inter-clouding. Now Cisco- It's even worse. It's more complex. Cisco canceled the inter-clouding initiative, but if you look at where this is going to that point, it's semantics. Multi-cloud is the hottest trend right now because hybrid IT, hybrid cloud is the gateway to true multi-cloud. And I think you're doing a lot of research on that, but let's talk about that. What TCPIP did for inter-networking, you could argue that data and cloud does for multi-cloud. Well, I would say that somebody, the data becomes the determining, data becomes the most interesting thing to worry about. And then the question is who's going to do that? Are Amazon and Microsoft and Google going to get together and say, here's a set of cloud standards that will ensure that you have seamless end-to-end computing? Maybe, probably not. Will OpenStack emerge out of Red Hat as the kind of the universal, well, it's not happening.  Probably not. Here's a question. This notion of end-to-end is going to be really crucial to a business, really crucial to architects, and really crucial to development. And how you handle that end-to-end is something that has to start emerging. The answer to those questions has to start emerging out of conferences like this. And Cisco certainly has to make this move now, otherwise they'll be driftwood if they don't get out from that next wave and ride this wave. But here's what's interesting. They call this the IoT Cloud Developer Conference where applications meets infrastructure. Kind of clever wording, but very specific in the wording. And I want to unpack that and get your reaction. AppDynamics coalescing with Cisco's network knowledge. Because some people are like, oh networking guys, how could they be DevOps guys? They're just configuring networks and they're not relevant. Here's the issue. IoT is a network issue. So you're doing a lot of IoT research. So IoT, I would still classify as in that network pool of talent and domain expertise. Now AppDynamics, which Cisco had acquired, brings the application stack to the table. So you got the collision between AppDynamics and classic Cisco DNA into a melting pot. This is a huge opportunity and I want you to get your reaction. How important is IoT and how important is the AppDynamics component for this new vision of Cisco? IoT is essential. AppDynamics, they have to make it important. That's on Cisco to make it important. Quite frankly. And I think that's again, I think that's one of the things that the show has to do. But you know, it's interesting, John, as you mentioned that, let's unpack it even a little bit further. You said it's a networking issue and you're right. Network's clearly part of the component. I mentioned earlier, it's a distributed data issue where the networks has a major impact on that. We might even say it's a distributed application issue. The point is, we are still in the midst of creating the language that we're going to use to describe how to approach and solve these problems. That hasn't been done yet. I mean, people say, oh yeah, let's talk about blockchain and security or let's talk about data gravity or all these other concepts that we're throwing around out there. We need more precision. We need more conventional agreement, consensus. There's a lot of work that this industry has to do to really address the challenges that Cisco and the people at this conference face as they try not only to ensure their relevance looking forward, but very importantly, to solve these extremely complex problems of how we're going to dramatically expand the distribution function and the distribution of data while at the same time increase things like near real time. So I like to say, for example, John, I like to say that the edge is not a place, the edge is a time. That at the end of the day, what's most important is can you process something in the time envelope required and the place is just a way of measuring that. These are all major challenges that Wikibon research is focused on, but also folks at this conference are going to have to address if we're going to solve that next generation of business opportunities. That's Peter Barris, Head of Research for SiliconANGLE Media, also a general manager of wikibon.com. Check out the research. A lot of great stuff going on. Digital transformation, evaluation of data and certainly cloud computing infrastructure and the impact for customers. Check it out at wikibon.com. I'm John Furrier. We're about to kick off two days of wall-to-wall coverage with Cisco as they put their foot in the water in the cloud DevOps developer community for IoT and applications. It's where applications meets infrastructure. Infrastructure is code. We'll be right back with more coverage. Stay with us for two days at Cisco DevNet Create.


So let's have a quick look at linear momentum. So I just want to show you quickly how to do this. It's very simple. I think let's start down here. We just see linear momentum. That's just a scalar times a vector. That's mass times velocity. That gives us linear momentum, and we know velocity is the first derivative of position. So if mass stays constant, now if you think of a rocket with a chemical type fuel going up, the mass of that rocket is going to change over time. So that mass becomes a function of time, but if mass stays the same, mass is just a scalar, linear momentum is just mass times velocity. So let's have this vector up here. We make a position vector. It's the cosine of 3t in the C coordinate system in the x direction and sine of t in the y direction. And then the v of t, the computer variable v of t is just my r of t. It's first derivative with respect to C in that Cartesian coordinate system. And let's just run that, and indeed we get negative 3 sine of 3 times t plus the cosine of t in the C coordinate system in the x and y directions. Just going to introduce variable m there as a mathematical symbol. In a file now we're just to say p of t is now m times the v of t. Quite simply there, m is just multiplied into both coordinates there. It's just a scalar times a vector, no problem. Just to show you that you can also just write m times the r of t, diff t of c, of course you're just going to get the exact same answer. No problem there. Let's go on to something much more interesting, angular momentum. It is the cross product between the position vector and the linear momentum vector. So it's usually written as capital L as angular momentum in time. It is the cross product of the position vector and momentum vector, or then the position vector and the mass times the first derivative of the position vector. Now how do you do these cross products? I'm going to show you quickly. Let's create two simple vectors. I'm going to have x1 in the x direction, y1 in the y direction and p2 is x2 and y2 in the x and the y directions. If we run that and I take the cross product of p1 and p2. If I run that, there you see the cross product of 2. You'll see that it's only in the z direction. It's x1, y2 minus x2, y1. So it's easy enough. We've seen before how to do the cross product. But let's just scale things up a bit. Let me just show you. If I were to make a matrix x1, y1, x2, y2, which is just combining these two vectors up there, but I make it into matrix form. And I take the determinant of that matrix. Remember that's x1, y2 minus x2, y1. If I run that, off we go. That's where you get x1, y2 minus x2, y1. Now what about scaling things up to three dimensions? If I were to run that, I'm just showing you I've got this. So what I do with my two vectors, which are now in three dimensions, x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, I put a i, j and k for my x, y and z directions on the top. And I get the determinant of this. Look at this. If I were to run that and I get the determinant of that. Now it's not going to split things up nicely for you, but you see there's an i there and there's an i there. So in the i direction, we have y sub 1, z sub 2, minus y sub 2, z sub 1. There's the next two in the j direction and the last two in the k direction. Now here's the exact same two, x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, vectors and I take their cross product. And lo and behold, you'll notice that the determinant and the cross product there is the exact same thing. So my c coordinate system sub x there, that's i, there's my j and there's my k and you'll note that the two is exactly the same. So to take the cross product, you just write it in this form with i, j and k at the top, you take the determinant of that, that would be the same as the cross product. So let's do the cross product between the r of t and p of t of our example above if I were just to run that. Lo and behold, three times the mass of sine of t, times sine of three times t, and the rest there all in the z direction. So this angular momentum of two vectors in the plane will point perpendicularly away in the z direction. What is torque? Well there we have the equation for linear momentum. We start off with that r cross p. If I take the first derivative of that, that's going to be r prime of t times, now look at the second one, just the product rule of the cross product of two vectors. This is the product rule as per normal. So I'm taking the first derivative of the first factor there, cross product, the second one, plus the first one cross product, the derivative of the second one. So it's just that. At the frontier we have r prime of t and cross product r prime of t, remember if you take the cross product of two vectors, similar vectors, or even though this one's multiplied by a scalar that is zero. Because remember you multiply it by the sine of the angle between them, sine of zero is zero. So that term first cross product there is going to fall away. So we have that the rate of change of linear momentum. So imagine something is spinning and I want it to spin faster or slower. I have to apply torque to it. If I apply torque that would be analogous to applying a force in a linear fashion for linear motion. I'm going to apply a twisting force, that's called torque and that's going to give me a rate of change in my angular momentum. It's going to spin faster or slower. So that rate of change in angular momentum, in other words torque equals r cross m r double prime of t. We know that force equals m r double prime of t, force equals mass times acceleration. In other words torque is the cross product of the position vector and the force vector. So we're looking actually at the orthogonal component of one multiplied by the other one. Because if we're just looking at magnitudes, it's the magnitude of this times the magnitude of the second one times the sine of the angle between them. We want the maximum of that, the maximum would be sine of 90 degrees or pi over 2 radians. So if I were just to run it on the example we had above, we had the angular momentum there. If I take its first derivative with respect to t in the c, I'm going to get 8 times the mass times the sine of t times the cosine of 3t in the z direction. Again in the z direction. If I just look at acceleration, that will just be the v of t diff.  If I cross r of t and f as I do there, I'm going to get this exactly the same as up there, l of t prime and the cross product r of tf. It's exactly the same. I can test this with a Boolean. Is l t prime equal equal? That means is it equal to? It's going to evaluate that across. If I run that the Boolean value is going to return 2. So I can do the cross product or I can just take the first derivative of the angular momentum. I'm going to leave this last bit. It's quite a bit of fun. I'm not going to do a lecture on it. I'm just going to leave it in the notebook. You can run through it. If you just launch something initially you can look at all Newtons equations. You're going to end up with this position vector here and you can answer a lot of questions if you were to have this position vector to start off with. Good.


A massive pillar of smoke and fire was seen burning outside an office in Tianjin, China on Tuesday after the building's wall caught fire, local media reported. The Tianjin Fire Department said in a statement posted on WeChat on Tuesday that 284 firefighters and 62 fire engines were deployed from 23 fire stations after it was alerted to the fire at Zintiandi Building on Nanjing Road. Reuters was able to confirm the location of the videos as Tianjin, China from nearby buildings which match street view and satellite of the area. Reuters was not able to independently confirm the date the videos were filmed. The Zintiandi Office Building has 26 floors and an underground level.


Very good morning. It is Tuesday the 8th of October. Hope you are well Going to have a review of some updates on the ongoing trade war between the US and China ahead of top-level talks later this week Gonna have a look at Boris and Brexit. There was just some headlines that came out which have Put some downside pressure on the pound albeit in a fairly temporary nature Some German data this morning Samsung earnings overnight and then I look at the calendar for the rest of the day So that's what I'll cover on my side then Sam will come on and do the look at the charts from all technical perspective But first off before I go into the graphic. I'm just sharing with you there. Let's have a look at the charts overall this morning As you can see the center top chart is Cable so you just had a little bit of a leg glower This morning it was a course of the last half an hour or so Accentuated by a little bit of a spike in that wick you can see just a few moments ago move of just around 10 15 pips or so reiteration if anything from the UK government about the stance And we'll get into that in more details in reference to the credibility behind having a no deal obviously with that looming Brexit deadline at the end of the month But otherwise equity index futures in the US marginally Positive as I said, we'll look at some some graphics from yesterday Seemingly the market now taking that regular what we had seen Renewed lift at any signs of optimism of a deal between US and China market Markets just rally at that point and it was a little bit of a case yesterday Kudlow came out and talked about the fact that the administration in the US had begun studying US investor protections in China But the delisting Chinese companies traded on US to exchanges is not on the table If you remember that was one of the main stories that was moving the markets only about a week or so ago So that in combination with a few other things Leading to a bit of relief. I mean, let me just show you that graphic so you can see it Really here. You got the Kudlow comment two kind of green rectangles there showing the market lift China actually came out and said quite contradictory to what they said in the press This time yesterday when we were doing the briefing about the fact that there was limited signs of doing any type of deal a concession They were kind of making noises of the opposite and then markets kind of rallying again. So a little bit of a lift into what was then the latter part of Wall Street trade But going into the actual close. We did see a bit of a pullback albeit to just We've basically created a bit of a range if anything with pivot providing the downside support level in the in the spooze future And then we remain pretty mid that range at the moment European equities that's just a little lower. It's just broken through what was a fairly tame overnight Asia Pacific session As per usual a little bit of a run low on that break just targeting pivot Which was the lower bound of the price activity from yesterday's late US session Oil pretty quiet albeit minor positive up 37 cents Gold slight negative still sub 1500 at the moment Which is as I'm sure Sam will talk about a level of kind of near-term resistance on the upside Training down seven bucks at 1497 last so let's get stuck into a couple of these headlines then on The news perspective. This was the latest we've had overnight. So despite the seemingly positive comments and those developments I just discussed that saw out the end of yesterday's session Overnight the latest piece of information has been that the Trump administration has placed eight Chinese technology Large-scale firms on a US blacklist yesterday accusing them of being implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities in the country's far Western region of Xinjiang Think is the way that you say it The two or two of the companies involved include two large video surveillance companies In fact those two companies alone account for about One third of all of the global market video surveillance technology in the world It's obviously large companies the others quite a few of them are based around Market leading in the AI technology space in the Far East. So it's significant in that respect As you can see from the market so Not not a great deal of reaction I think a lot of this is because markets have become quite accustomed to the usual routine What happens at the moment is ahead of the high-level talks happening on Thursday and Friday There's kind of prep talks as the delegations arrive in Washington for these latest discussions So low-level talks happen now to set the ground for the for the big guns that come out The high senior ranking officials on Thursday and Friday and normally what you tend to see here is before the two Kind of sit around a table to renegotiate You get these kind of shots fired if you like and and this seemingly is this Repeat cycle of what we have been seeing through the entirety of the trade war dialogue between these two countries, so I think market fallout for the moment is contained interestingly one thing I was reading this morning was a Bloomberg article which was referencing a research note released from the Japanese bank Nomura yesterday who are basically looking and observing the the futures positioning That of hedge funds positioning in the market going into these talks and from a global macro hedge fund Perspective they appear to be building bullish positions in Asian equities ex-Japan before these US China trade talks and indicative that they're Relatively upbeat that there could be some kind of positive outcome To the discussions that are happening I mean this just gives you a bit of flavor for what that looks like the blue line is the global macro hedge fund exposure To Asian stocks ex-Japan and as you can see on the far right-hand side of the axis here You've had a significant spike here in the recent week or so So macro funds becoming more bullish on Asian stocks irrespective of the fact that the Chinese manufacturing PMI Is in contractually territory But if anything if you're looking at these numbers here it has stabilized if anything is moving further away from the initial low Point that we had right at the beginning of the year. So I guess maybe some of these had hedge fund Players in the market holding these more longer-term positions rather than trading the intraday perhaps looking at a bottoming out in this The significance of the economic impact on China in addition to the fact that ultimately in the longer term The trade war is going to be managed because both sides need it to be that way particularly on the US side with the domestic political kind of milestones with the 2020 push coming next year Otherwise other than that I would say a kind of word of warning is to remain a little bit agile I guess to the fact that there's probably likely to be more Trump tweets and things like that Rumors in various press articles being leaked. This is quite typical fashion as I said going into these these top-level talks. So Like what we saw yesterday, I mean the market seemingly still has the ability to react to these headlines in a fairly aggressive way so Again, I just think keeping a good ear open to the squawk throughout the sessions going into the end of the week I think it's probably the suit thing to do if you're going to be sitting trading intraday All right moving over to to brexit As I said, we've had a bit of a dip in the pound this morning, but before I get to that comment This is the latest. There's a magazine the spectator Publishes a message from an unnamed government official supposedly part of the government thinking and Boris Johnson is said to be preparing for Brexit talks to collapse and The magazine speculating that the Prime Minister will blame Parliament and Ireland and the EU So I think that that's absolutely not surprising And the fact that you've had a senior Downing Street source come out this morning and say unless the EU Compromises and does a brexit deal shortly then the UK will leave the EU without a deal So again, that's not Downing Street direct. That's a source, but we know that that's probably come from people like Dominic Cummings in particular just looking to position Boris Johnson and the Conservative government and for the inevitability that this Ben Bill From everything that I've read it seems that With all the legal minds that have reviewed that particular piece of legislation that it's almost impossible to get around meaning then that Boris Inevitably will have to write a letter to Brussels to ask for an extension on the 19th now What that means then is that obviously as we've discussed before he's put such emphasis on Do or die and so on on the fact of getting a deal done So all of this including that source comment this morning including this spectator piece Which I think is absolutely Being pushed internally by the government to drip it into the press so that both Europe and more importantly The public are aware that as far as Boris is concerned He is doing the will of the people He's trying his utmost to get a deal done and it is Parliament that is blocking him All of this is gearing up as we've said before for a general election the people versus Parliament And so absolutely nothing changes in my mind. I still Firmly believe that we're heading down that way And if anything I feel even stronger giving that Downing Street source and so on because there's there isn't Apparently any legal wiggle room for him to get out of the fact that he's gonna have to delay Brexit So now it's about how do you leverage this situation away from them? What you've committed to but using that almost as a strength to just further Kind of hit home the belief that it's the MPs that are stopping the Democratic vote. So again And What does this mean for the pound in the short term? Well, I mean you've only got to look at the pound this morning to see the reaction To that Downing Street source. I don't think I'm the only one of this particular view I think this is the market overall I mean look there the spike that happened was only about 10 pips and we've already recovered Any of that little grind lower that we've just had so Everyone knows this the case that this is what Boris is up to It's unsurprising from a markets point of view again, this is all kind of public perception. He's trying to manage gearing up for that election Goldman Sachs they've released their latest update They've said percentage wise that they still believe the most likely outcome is for the UK and EU to agree on a deal before October 31st, so they're looking at 60% For that now they're looking at I'll share the the link so you can have a read But they're looking about this whole latest plan that Boris put forth about a week or so ago and how it's kind of the best of both worlds of trying to get a Compromise for the solution around this Irish border issue and that this is the closest that we've been so far to potentially getting some kind of Compromise so Goldman's a little bit of an outlier. I'd say in that sense putting a 60% Probability on that as far as the timeline is concerned Remember there's the kind of self-imposed deadline from Ireland the EU including Macron It's one of the key players in the European side But then also from Boris Johnson is that if he's going to get this deal done it's got to happen by basically Friday And so you're probably gonna see a bit of a pickup potentially in volatility In the pound as we go through the latter part of the week And if anything I still think that there is if I was going to pick a side room for a relief rally Fundamentally on the confirmation of the delay happening now That's not because Brexit's gone through some evolution and game-changing factor. This is purely The fact that the cliff-edge scenario of that no-deal disorderly Brexit has been removed at least for the time being Okay Let's have a look at a few other things. We had some German data this morning Markets have really brushed over this And I think that's likely due to the the fact but I mean if you look at this data set for industrial production in Germany It does tend to be a little bit all over the place Albeit we had a positive surprise this morning at point three percent expectations were For a point one percent fall and then the other thing overnight that could Reverberate across some of the other chip makers both this morning and when the US come in and particularly in the tech sector is The Korean firm Samsung they've beaten forecast with a 56% fall in operating profit now That actually sounds a little bit counter-intuitive doesn't it they've beaten expectations Because they had a 56% fall and they're operating profit. That's actually good news if you can believe it The reason chiefly behind there behind this and the reaction in their shares overnight is because low chip prices are weighing on third-quarter guidance But analysts have interpreted the information that they've leased overnight as reckoning the worst is now passed for the sector So this could have repercussions for the the broader market in terms of that specific Chip-making sector later when the US opens so worth just bearing that in mind for the nizy open later on this afternoon The other thing is overall I would say markets so far have been relatively Quiet overall one thing I just wanted to remind you was that there's a couple things obviously that are big happening in the latter part Of the week the biggest of course being The resumption of those trade talks then you've also got US CPI which is probably one of the main economic data points this week And that's on Thursday, and you've got the FMC minutes on Wednesday night. So, you know if you were thinking About this whole week As a whole the composition of where the kind of ebb and flow might come as we go through the five trading days That comprise the week then I would say it definitely is going to be back-ended In that respect. So I think just a little bit of Patience not letting frustration kind of come in if you are trading, you know kind of throughout the intraday session There's definitely going to be plenty of opportunity. I feel to come if there's any you know It's a schedule and fundamental catalyst or anything to go by Okay, so for today's session just for the calendar What have we got? We just skipping ahead it's fairly quiet now for the rest of the morning. I got ECB's lane speaking with another More newly appointed Degoss speaking Later at 1030 Bank of England's 10 Ray Rose also taking part taking in that panel discussion Feds Evans later on this evening feds pow also speaks But it's a little bit of a generic kind of speech of view from the Fed wouldn't anticipate much in terms of real clarity Updates on the economic situation or all kind of forward guidance in that respect But always be aware power 730 Kashkari the biggest dove Talking at a town hall event later on this evening after the US close from a data point of view The main thing for this afternoon is the PPI numbers coming out of the US And you got the API infantry's later this evening, but overall relatively quiet. So still keeping it here to the ground obviously for Updates on the trade discussions is probably going to be one of the key things to bear in mind And then obviously the technical setup will be increasingly important with the kind of the lack of Calendar and significant events upcoming. All right. That's it for me Handles of Sam and I wish you a good day ahead. Thanks very much guys Hey guys, hello We're all doing well as salmon again and look at the the charts longer term and it's all still quite contained I think the the data calendar from yesterday was Relatively quiet, so it's not the biggest surprise in the world We we completed that gap into the afternoon See coming down to that the pivot just after cash open a good opportunity to have got long We didn't really Offer much insight from the close yesterday to where we're going to finish today So it's the same sort of levels of interest really can we you know for the balls want to see you know Confirm break really above this whole zone We had a couple attempts yesterday at trying to really break above it and we just couldn't couldn't couldn't get above But it's not like we broke but below the below the afternoon and the day and that pivot So 20 point zone that we talked about yesterday I probably would say is still in play and really waiting for a confirmed break lower It's going to be the way to play that I would would suggest for the S&P and the NASDAQ and And our likewise you can just see that we did at one point Into the afternoon into the back end of the session get above what was the previous load the first however again? Like the S&P that pivot holding firm to the downside for the for the whole day So the US equities you have your key levels I would say in play there the pound we had a that trend line on from the the previous days and that did however that did break and any I would say move to the upside today Just keep an eye on that just keep an eye on that trend that broke Over Say pretty more seven o'clock around there That's something I would would have marked up and and also by the time that could potentially push That trend line. We also had from the top Could well come into play around there as well as zooming in to see at the moment if that was to come in now I mean admittedly you'd have to get a spike there for that to happen. There's no data at 9 30 Then you know that would be coming in around the one twenty three forty two Also, but yeah, not the biggest move in the world to the downside failure here to make a and confirm a break below the The low of the third. So, you know keep an eye on of course those previous lows. We saw some really good opportunities yesterday with Gold of the the classics of the low of the day and again You've seen the pound do something similar in it breaks and low good areas for one two three break come back Good air resistance and we come back down. So yeah a bit fundamental reason But also the technicals nicely in play there the euro Had a go at trying to get back up to that key level Of Thursday and Friday's high just didn't want to really have a proper test of it And the R1 was in the mix there as well That's still the important level one ten fifty five give or take a few ticks to the upside or downside That's your zone and that will be You know a key level if it was to break to the upside as we've also got a trend line coming from Those highs that reside around the same sort of area to the downside I mean you could just argue this is now in a bit of a zone isn't it Thursday Friday low yesterday's low I mean today's low. I should say all really contained around one ten ten. So good range bound market for euro. I Personally probably would wait for a break either way You know favoring probably the downside just because I do still think the dollar is overall going to be stronger If you can get it higher fantastic But worth keeping an eye on that range in euro oil just catching my at the moment just Trickling lower and if we have a bit of a trend line on from the low of yesterday evening I mean, it's not amazing actually to be fair Let's have a look and see if it comes into play around this one from this morning a bit better But to be honest, you know worth keeping an eye on this this move here in all because you've got the similar Sort of price action that we saw in the pound earlier and gold Yes, then you you get this solid base of support and then these these levels break. So worth having you know these Previous lows that's marked up and an area of interest. I guess looking also around 53 dollars Now as an area of resistance should we come back oil? Yes, they did push higher into the morning and then afternoon continued before Falling back down into the evening 52-24 is the level I've got marked up on my charts not just because of the s1 But also you've got the lows from Friday and then the second as well. It's quite a key area I know we'd have to get through yesterday's double bottom for us to get there 52 58 But I'd just like the look of a you know key level around 52 24 also to the upside. I know we broke through it as well 5335 the high that we had back from Friday We had some nice practice action around there yesterday So as a range goes I thought oh, I'll be looking for it to be contained within here Or you know a significant move either direction if it was to break to the upside or the downside Quick look over at gold and we'll go through those trades from yesterday as they were just you know really really nice You had obviously here you see it still marked up the blow of the day came back to find resistance once and twice Before continuing lower there We also had a couple of trend line breaks as well But before that you can see again. What was the load they came back and found resistance again before a push down to yesterday's Well, what would have been where we're saying yesterday yesterday's loads of Friday's low good area of support really nice Just price action all over for gold Which it can't always be said to be the case That's some really nice opportunities there where we've now trading is that very important 1492 93 level depending with where you take It of course and you can just see the significance whenever we come to this level It's important. That's your line in the sand to to be aware of you get a close Below there then we can start looking back down towards 1480 and of course then the low of October to the upside Well those previous lows from yesterday that which offered good levels to get short on breaks or long from support So 1501 1506 1510 if you want to say as well They're gonna be key levels of resistance as well worth keeping an eye as well with gold and Any market that does just drift lower like this is if we can like we've got now get this one two three tests of The trend and then you know then suddenly you get a really big push above that trend line What suddenly looked a good area to go short at 1501 now doesn't look as good Just because the speed of that break of that trend However, of course, you still got a bit of time before we confirm this is a real strong resistance But it's just interesting to see initially on that first test we're finding some resistance on there The Dax just drifting lower coming in down to the pivot So of course for us X this is keep an eye on that and then actually around this Zone if you like I would say it's pretty significant just having a look at yesterday as well You've got a high around there You've also got the Friday finish of the day that high point and also some nice price action from the second So again, can we confirm a break below here? You've also could argue we are now on the wrong side of a few of these Trends from the lows of the month, but this one here is somewhere. I would be keeping an eye on is the Well, first of all if we can break the pivot below But also you've got the the round number 12,000 potentially on the third test of this trend nine where we've got the low the third and the fourth and of course potentially today We've also then got some support from the seventh as well So as an area perhaps that it would be drawn towards 12,000 for me looks pretty key as usual any questions, of course, please do let us know I've been trading live or on YouTube But I hope you all have a good trading day stocks just coming down a touch The the dollar relatively fat flat the pound Still below that trend line to keep a close eye on that euro range bound As well and gold just coming up to what was a really key level yesterday, but keep an eye on that trend


Live from the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE at Dell World 2014. Here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to Austin, Texas. Everybody, you're watching theCUBE. We're about two miles from where it all started and Michael Dell, it is our pleasure to have you back in theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. Glad to be with you. So it's been an amazing transformation. I got to say, two things strike me. One is you're taking the company private. It couldn't have been time better. Like you said, all the headlines were dead wrong. And the second is you actually beat the great icon at his own game. So congratulations on both of those. And that doesn't happen a lot. Thank you. So talk about being private and what it means. I know you've written a lot about it. You were on CNBC with the circus clowns yesterday. You were very nice to those guys. I know you weren't calling them circus clowns. But it's been all the news. You've been very vocal about it. But tell our audience what it means to be private. Well, a year ago when we completed the privatization we had an event inside the company. And we were playing loud rock and roll music and we had chains unleashed and we just told our teams we're going for it. We're going to invest. We're going to grow. We're going to go take over the enterprise, the data center. We're going after security and software. We're going to grow our share. And we've invested in the business and it's working. And we've unleashed a kind of passion and energy among our teams. And here at Dell World we're showing off the inventions and the innovation that we've been able to create just in the last year. And it's resonating unbelievably well with our customers, the partner community. We've got incredible momentum in the business and growing all across the world in every single business. And so it's a lot of fun. Not managing with the 90 day shot clock. So being in control of our own destiny and having all these wonderful customers giving us great feedback, it's all good. Well, you talked about, you wrote about and talked about the plague of short term thinking in our markets. And they were asking you yesterday on CNBC do you think that can change? Do you think it should change? I mean, U.S. companies have done very well with that short term thinking. But I feel like there's all these things happening in the business. People are splitting up. People are selling their businesses. People are paying people to take businesses. And it's all due to this financial pressure. What's happening? You know, I think anything taken to an extreme can be bad, right? Whether it's shareholder activism or anything else. But it's not always bad. But you kind of have to step back and think about, first of all, what is the purpose of an enterprise over a long period of time and who does the enterprise serve? And so when I look at the things that are going on, I kind of ask myself two questions. First, is this really good for the customers of the business itself? And if it's not, that ought to raise some questions. Second question that I ask is, okay, if the principals own the entire business, is this something they would be doing? Or are they doing it because there's a short term influence in a particular period of time? And, you know, that may not lead to the best outcomes over a long period of time. And so this is just a different perspective. So John Furrier couldn't be here. He senses best. And so I was talking to John beforehand. I said, what should I ask Michael? He said, okay, here's the deal. I asked Michael this. Like I said, we're two miles from the dorm room. You're 18 years old again. It's 2014. What do you got cooking? You know, I think definitely starting a business. Let me tell you. You've got kind of a big dorm room here, Michael. This is pretty good. Well, you know, here we got the world's largest startup. So the great thing is we have capital and intellectual property and customers and momentum. So, you know, we're doing it all over again. But look, we're in an incredible time where there's just an amazing set of possibilities around the impact technology can have in our world. You look at what's going on in what we call the data economy as sensors are, you know, out there and instrumenting everything. The cost of silicon keeps coming down and companies, organizations are rethinking what they do with all that information. You look at what's going on in biotech and being able to now unlock a lot of the mysteries of health and science with all this computing power. So there's just a ton of opportunities. We got plenty on our plate, you know, as Dell and we're growing nicely and we'll continue to invest. Stu, I know you're dying to jump in. If I don't let you, you'll never get a word of it. So go ahead. Thanks, Dave. So Michael, you talk about being the world's largest startup in innovation. What I want to understand is inside the company, you know, have you made or is there a plan to kind of change things inside? Because obviously you don't have to answer the Wall Street now and that does change yourself. And we've talked to some of your general managers as to how that trickled down. But, you know, when you look at big companies, you know, big companies typically don't create a lot of the new innovations. It's the small little startups, you know, just large organizations, organizational size is usually the antithesis of allowing me to move fast and nimble. So what are you doing to, inside, to kind of change and incent that innovation? Well, you know, we have a number of startups with Dell and we keep starting up new businesses. I think at the core of your question is the acceptance of risk. And you have to re-inject the acceptance of risk in the business. And if you're managing with a 90-day shot clock, you don't take a lot of risk, right? Because you want to meet that guidance. And so that's all gone, right? We are accepting risk. And we are placing bets across the business. As Tom Sweet, our CFO, and I travel around the business, we, you know, hand out more money to go take risk and go invest in the business. And not all of them will work. That's fine. But they're mostly working and the business is doing just fine. We also have Dell Ventures. And, you know, we're continuing to invest in interesting startups that are doing great things out there. You're right. You know, that over time has a better record than large companies. But Dell itself has a record of expanding organically and with acquisitions into new spaces. And we've built, you know, some pretty impressive businesses in the enterprise and software and security and services, both with a foundation of acquisitions and continuing organic investment. You've done very well with acquisitions. I wanted to ask you a question on the record here because when you went private, some of your competitors said to me, oh, Dell's in big trouble now. They're not going to be able to make acquisitions because they paid for it with their free cash flow and now they won't be able to do that because they're paying off debt. I said, wait a minute. I started to squint through the numbers. I said, Dell throws off enough free cash flow and now that doesn't have to pay dividends and to shareholder stock buybacks, it's going to be able to continue to fund acquisitions. Can you clear that up, Morris? Yeah, so if you look at it just from the cost of what did we spend in dividends? What did we spend in share repurchase and what did we spend in interest expense? It actually costs a lot less to be a private company than it costs to be a public company. And so we actually have more capital. So we'll continue to make acquisitions. But I think the important thing is not just make the acquisitions. It's how do you make them successful? How do you buy a company that has 6,000 customers and over a period of few years, get it to 150,000 customers?  Yeah, you're clearly one of the top acquirers of companies. I was doing some research. I would say in the last nine months you probably know this, but you've probably done 50 launches. At least. I wonder which ones, maybe pick two or three that excite you the most. Maybe there were some yesterday. Share with our audience. Well, you'd have to say the 13th generation PowerEdge. I mean, no question that that is the core of the data center. And we're big believers in software defined and software based networking and storage. And we've seen this trend for some time where because of virtualization and cloud-based models workloads are moving into the compute layer. And you look at the R730XD as an example of this, a 2U server, 36 microprocessor cores, up to 1.5 terabytes of DDR4 DRAM, 440 gig ports, 100 terabytes of storage, all on a 2U platform. Just amazing performance. That kind of data center is clearly an important one for us. Yeah, at a price point that brings that kind of technology. And we're gaining share. I think you saw in terabyte shipped, some people like to talk about revenue, that's all fine. Revenue is great. We got revenues too. And the revenues are growing, trust me. But in a world where the game is changing, where the network is becoming software-defined, the storage is becoming software-defined, yeah, look at the whole thing. Internal storage, external storage, combined all together. We're number one. We're growing. Other guys are shrinking. And look at what we talked about on stage just yesterday with our new PS42110 igniting the whole ecological install base. Six times performance improvement from the prior generation with a starting price of $15,000, an all flash array under $25,000, the lowest entry price. And then this XA90 DCS server, 720 terabytes in a 4U platform. So whether it's software-defined, all flash, we are really setting the pace for the data center of the future.  And I think if you're going to be end-to-end, you have to have both ends, right? Or else it's the end. Who would have predicted that? So you obviously, Dell, made a name in Direct. Cloud appears to be the new Direct model. So how do you stay relevant in Cloud? I think there are, you know, certainly lots of, you know, interesting growth vectors around Cloud. What we see primarily from the enterprise customers is the growth of the private Cloud. And, you know, if you think about what's going on in the world, software is really advancing rapidly. And when I look at the public Cloud, if you think about the public Cloud, if you think about the public Cloud as kind of perfect efficiency, the private Cloud's getting better and better, okay? So we saw Evo Rail. We saw the Microsoft Cloud Platform system. We've seen what Red Hat is doing with OpenStack. And by building these hyper-converged systems, we're able to now give the customer the efficiency of the public Cloud with the privacy and security of the private Cloud. And we certainly have, you know, tools to help customers manage whatever Cloud platform they may want to have. But we think the answer, there isn't just one answer here. And we're seeing tremendous growth in private Clouds. And of course, you know, we've got the hardware, the software, the services to help make that happen. Well, your competitors must be seeing that growth too. But unlike your competitors, you don't feel compelled to own your own data centers globally and start selling services. We're not competing with the public Cloud partners. We provide them a lot of infrastructure. We have this great marketplace. So our, you know, you've got 600 telcos out there, all getting in the Cloud space. You have all the, you know, well-known companies getting in the Cloud space. Those are our customers. And, you know, as, you know, lots of customers want to go to the public Cloud, will help them go there. They want a private Cloud, will help them go there too. And you got to manage this whole federated world of public and private. Will help do that as well. I was struck two nights ago when I got here, walking the show, networking Flash converged. I had to write it down. Oracle systems, Flash, Cloud, OpenStack, VMware, Docker, NFV, IoT, Big Data, Hyperscale Services, Security, System Management. What'd you expect? And I'm just scratching the surface here, right?  You know, your colleague, Joe Tucci, says it's better to have overlap than it is to have gaps. Do you agree with that sort of scenario? I think in the software-defined world, you know, you've got to give customers choice. And, you know, you think about the major providers today like Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, certainly work very closely with all three. We can't just pick one, right? We pick a ball, right? And customers decide. So we're big believers in choice. Yeah, so we're getting the hooks shortly, but I have to say again, you know, having the founder at the company, John and I have always talked about you and your leadership and how great that is. We said the same thing about Larry Ellison. I mentioned Joe Tucci. Somebody in the crowd asked me, asked Michael, what would you do if you were Joe Tucci and Elliott Management had you in a headlock? His name's not Egan. He's done a lot. What would you do if you were Joe Tucci? Well, you know, I talked to Joe a little bit about that and I'll keep my conversation with him private. Right, fair enough. So he sought advice. We'll leave it there. Michael, congratulations on everything. As they say, Stu and I and John and the Cube team are just honored to be here to document this. We'll be watching. We think it's going to be one of the greatest moves in the history of the business. And we talk about the VMware acquisition all the time. We think actually you could create more value, which is a lot. So well done. Congratulations. Thank you. Thanks very much for coming on. Thank you. It's a pleasure. All right, keep it right there. We'll be back with our next guest right after this.


How easy is it for life to fall into a regular routine? This feeling of a grind, normalcy, repeating pattern. And now there's many advantages to that. We can have a lot of efficiency with having routines. We can get a lot of good healthy habits rolling. Have that sense of order and get a lot done. But there's, of course, something that gets lost by living for too long and too much in this routine mentality. And that's why we all need some kind of feeling of adventure. The feeling that we don't know exactly what is going to happen each day. We don't have the whole weekend, month and year planned out.  Situation where many surprising things could happen. And not all of them good. There's the hint of danger as well. We don't know. Going into the unknown. The sense of chaos has increased. The sense of possibility has also increased. So I had this thought hearing from a friend of mine who was planning to go on a great adventure traveling around Europe next year. And just hearing about this brings it up to mind. It brings back those feelings of what it feels like to have an adventure plan, to know that there is something to look forward to beyond a continuation of the routine. And really, even the preparing phase, the getting ready for travel is so much a part of the enjoyment of it. Researching places to go and preparing, imagining different possibilities for what we can do with our lives. Like we're designing a life. We can study what's possible. And then we can choose to make sort of an outline of what we want to do. While of course the details are always going to be filled with surprise and unknown. We can't design our lives down to the last detail. But we can decide some of the major decisions. Where are we going to go? Because our overall plan, our overall approach to life and what we're doing. So that feeling of adventure, it's connected with stepping into the unknown. Stepping into something that is new for us. A situation where there are a lot of unknowns and a lot of novelty, a lot of uncertainty. A lot of opportunity for challenges and changes, learning, growth. And when I look back at the times that I've had adventures in my life. This is where I get some of my best memories. It seems like when traveling like this and or whatever form the adventure takes. Travel is the classic form but we can have that sense of adventure in so many ways. Just having that an attitude of adventure and a situation where that is open and unknown. And that is when I have some of my best memories and it almost seems like condensed memories. It seems like condensed life. It's like the memories in a month of adventure can outweigh the memories of a year of routine life. And yeah, during those adventure times, I probably lost a lot more money than I made and it wasn't sustainable. And so there's of course all the practical benefits of grinding out a routine. But when it comes to the memories that I can hold on to and look back on as having truly lived. It's in those times of adventure stepping into the unknown and really facing the world in this direct open way. That is when it seems the best days of our lives can be made. So one way or another, I believe that I certainly, I could say we all need but I'll at least say I need some of that feeling to be there. Even though I don't want that all the time, there is a great joy in the comfort and routines of home. But it always must be balanced. And the more I adventure, the more I appreciate home. And the more I'm at home, the more I appreciate adventure. So this cycle of going out into adventure and then coming in to home and routine, this is a good cycle to have. And yet how easy is it to just let that home side, that routine side of the cycle just carry on and on and on. And ideas of adventure being put off. It's time. I can feel the call to adventure returning. And even if I don't know yet when it will be. Just having that feeling that there is this kind of adventure coming up really heightens the feeling of being alive. It's as if we need to be reminded regularly of what's beyond the routine we're living in so that we can always be fresh in our view of the world. Just like it is on an adventure when you wake up in a new place, you know nothing and you have no idea what's happening. And you have sensory overload of all this new experience hitting you. And the one thing you conclude is this is great to be alive. And that's why I love adventure. Whatever it means. It can mean so many things. But we all need a taste of it.


18 Idiomatic Expressions with Hand from EspressoEnglish.net Idioms or idiomatic expressions are short phrases that have a different meaning from the individual words. In this lesson you'll learn 18 idioms all using the word hand. 1.  For example, we had to call the police after the party got a little out of hand. 2. Experience firsthand This means to experience it yourself. For example, I didn't understand how hard parenting is until I experienced it firsthand. 3. Change hands This means to pass or sell something to another person. For example, this house has changed hands several times in the past ten years. 4. Have your hands full or have got your hands full. This means to be completely busy or occupied. For example, they have six kids and four dogs. They've definitely got their hands full. 5. Try your hand at This means to try an activity for the first time. For example, I've never taken guitar lessons but I'd like to try my hand at it. 6. Give a hand or lend a hand This means to help somebody. For example, I can't carry all these books by myself. Could you give me a hand? 7. On hand This means available. It's used for objects, not people. For example, I like to have a dictionary on hand when I'm reading a book in English. 8. Wash your hands of This means to stop being responsible for a situation or problem. For example, the manager washed his hands of the situation and told us to resolve it ourselves. 9. Hands are tied. This means not to have the ability to help or take action. For example, sorry but my hands are tied. I can't buy the equipment without my boss's approval. 10.  This means to know a place extremely well. For example, she lived in Miami for 20 years. She knows the city like the back of her hand. 11. Hands down This means obviously or without a doubt. For example, Sarah was hands down the best skater at the competition. 12. A hand me down This is a piece of clothing that belonged to an older brother or sister and is passed to a younger brother or sister. For example, my mother never bought me new clothes. She just gave me hand-me-downs for my sister. 13. Second hand This means previously used, not new. For example, I bought my microwave second hand at a garage sale. 14. In good hands. This means in the care of someone good or knowledgeable. For example, William's an excellent mechanic. Your car's in good hands. 15. Have a hand in. This means to have a role in. For example, my cousin had a hand in getting me my job. He knows the company president. 16.  This means to take action on a problem yourself because other people have not done so. For example, my secretary kept forgetting to make my hotel reservation so I took matters into my own hands and made it myself. 17. Tip your hand. This means to reveal a secret about your plans or opinions. For example, the famous director tipped his hand on plans for his next movie. 18. On one hand, on the other hand. This is used to compare two aspects of a situation. For example, on one hand my job pays well, but on the other hand it's very stressful. Visit www.EspressoEnglish.net for more English tips. If you like this video, please share.