Thank you Schuert for that nice introduction Yes, today welcome all. I'm happy to see there's a lot of you here. I'm going to do a talk about Gutenberg Which you probably know but I'm gonna ask some questions about that later I'm gonna do a talk on Gutenberg to let you know what it is what it does What it tries to do what it can't do yet? And most of all I'm trying to inspire you to start playing with it Test it give feedback to the development team and make this whole Gutenberg product better and Make sure that it works for everybody as soon as it arrives in wordpress 5.0 So a little bit about myself Schuert introduced a little bit about myself Now my slide is gone cool And my mic I'm totally off the grid now. Oh That's cool. Hello Okay, I think there's something very going wrong here There we are we're back It went to sleep. Okay.  Okay. We're back. Sorry for that Technical difficulties difficulties always happen when you don't want to to happen. So I'm a business owner I'm a developer. I'm a salesperson. I do. I'm a treasurer for my own company. Basically. I do everything and in my company, I do a lot of wordpress stuff and Besides that besides consuming wordpress as I heard somebody said this morning. I also give back a lot of Time and effort to wordpress. I help organize work camps. I was the lead developer for wordcam Netherlands in 2016 who was there? Just a few maybe there's another one coming up. So Keep an eye on that and I'm also lead developer or lead developer lead organizer for wordcam, Rotterdam, which is coming up on the 23rd and 24th 4th of March and We have some tickets for that Available. So if you want to come to Rotterdam please visit the website and Buy a ticket and Meet us there So what do you know about Gutenberg who heard of Gutenberg? Okay, that's a lot of people who has installed it on his local development on his live website and Who has really played with it made some posts added blocks those kind of things? Okay, cool So there's a lot of people in here who haven't played with it. We don't really know what it is except heard of it and Are there any people developing stuff for Gutenberg? Okay, the hands are disappearing quickly. So and Who has never seen Gutenberg in action who really doesn't know what it does Okay, that's a lot of people.  Oh, exciting and Of what Gutenberg is what it does and what you can do with it and How the team behind Gutenberg and also myself see Gutenberg as a bright future for WordPress and a very new future for WordPress So Gutenberg who who is he Gutenberg is a guy who? Has the full name of this you honest hands fly sure laden soon Gutenberg so we will abbreviate it to Gutenberg, which is easy for us and He was born somewhere around 1400 and they're not quite sure when he was born probably because of GDPR in that time and He invented a machine to Print stuff usually people wrote stuff on in that time which well didn't really cater for mass production and he invented a machine which they call the movable type press and There's probably another CMS around here, which has his name derived from that, but I'm not gonna go further into that They're totally revolutionized Book printing and they started with the Bible and enabled the Bible to be mass distributed well to everywhere We all know what that led to Here you see a picture of him, which is supposedly him because well We didn't have pictures in that time so somebody drew him and he must have looked something like that And this is a piece of the machinery that dude visible I hope but which consists of a lot of letters you place them on a piece of wood You put them in a machine paper through an ink and then you have a Bible When we look at the wordpress editing experience as we have it right now We're all used to that we are used to working with the editor editing editing text adding all kinds of other stuff and To be honest, it's not that good and I'm gonna clarify on that because it works for a lot of people it works we can Put some plugins in it to use other stuff and add blocks not blocks. Sorry. I have to come to that We add widgets. We had embeds. We add short codes and other kinds of stuff and This is basically well very familiar for all of us. We have this Text editor and we have a lot of stuff around it in which you can add content to your post your page or whatever content type you're using and there's a lot of stuff wrong with this and I'm not going to criticize us on how wordpress has been evolving the last few years But we are at a point now that we know that we can do better as a wordpress product What you see is what you get is the name of a tab on the content editor on the text editor But in most cases, that's not really what you get you add some short codes You add images and it's always or always and sometimes it's a big surprise to see how that ends up On the front end of your site. So it's not really what you see is what you get We have widgets in which you can configure all kinds of stuff which appends. We're gonna do this again no Which appends all kinds of stuff to your site and Go on again I'm gonna try and switch off my power thingy, which I should have done I've added my power cord so it should not go to sleep, but hey, we're doing a presentation. So why not do it? Come on. By the way, I'm since I started my company. I've been using Open-source software for everything I do. So basically this is Linux you're looking at and It doesn't really kind of behave nicely when we are doing presentations So that's a point of learning for me. So next time I'm going to Well, probably use another operating system to do my presentation. So we don't get into this trouble again. Are we back up? I don't want to report a problem Let me just Figure out how I put off my power our Let's go I Start up not to spend do nothing That's it, okay Back to go, okay Sorry for that again. So we're back with the short codes You add short codes to your for your content You don't really see what the short code does in your text editor unless you do a preview of your post then you see what it generates in the in the front end and Also, there's media which you can add you can add videos you can add images or PDFs or whatever kind of media Which you don't really see in the editor what it ends up with so when we go to Gutenberg, sorry when we go to Gutenberg It has blocks and the blocks in Gutenberg basically define how you build your page or your post content You have a block for text. You have a block for an image for a video, etc. There's a lot of blocks and I'm going to show you in the demonstration and These blocks allow you to do direct manipulation So in contrary to the thing you do in the current text editor you have to go to the front end look what it does what it looks like and In Gutenberg, you can definitely see in the editor how your content is going to end up on your website So you can directly manipulate your content the other thing about Gutenberg is that We as a WordPress product can Provide a new way of editing content But we have to make sure that everything that has already been published with WordPress, which is almost 30% of the internet Still works after we launch Gutenberg and after Gutenberg becomes the default setting of editing content so that's a major challenge for The development team and for all contributors who are working on Gutenberg and that's something that's being thought about and being tested constantly Another big question is When is it ready? And that's a question that I can't answer right here. I've done a lot of investigation about it talk to people No one really can give an answer When we did this then it's ready. So that's very difficult because constantly there are coming new enhancements to Gutenberg Which are good, but it seems like the project is being stretched until we don't know when and When we really want to use Gutenberg and we want to put it in production we need to have a end to the project of Gutenberg as a Minimum viable product to to use this term so it was basically done and after that we can start adding new stuff changing stuff and Making it even better if that's possible I'm trying to move my mouse a few times so it doesn't go to sleep again So when is it ready? This is not really visible. I had to switch down the resolution but this is a screenshot of the the github repository for Gutenberg and You cannot read it. I cannot even read it from here, but it says 606 issues open that means that if you Have a product that you want to launch in the first quarter of 2018 bless you what has been said by Matt Mullenweg in Paris onward from Europe That's a very challenging that line and I'm not saying it's not gonna be done I don't know there's a lot of people contributing so these issues might disappear in a few weeks I don't know but there's constantly coming new issues and there's constantly coming new changes So it's it's difficult for the Gutenberg product to be defined as a product then okay. It's ready right now So how do you start with Gutenberg if you haven't done that yet well, it's basically one step with a few mini steps, but one step sounds pretty cool, right and You go to your your WordPress dashboard you go to your plugins screen and You search for Gutenberg basically you don't even have to search anymore because it's added to the Screen of How do you say that featured plugins and so you can select it right there? So you can see the nice logo up there. It's also right here on my shirt Install that plug-in then activate it and you're done. So that's one step if we then Memorize the editor, which we all knew like we currently have it This is the editor you get when you activate Gutenberg What's the first thing you see what's what's the first thing you notice? Anyone no meta boxes Anyone anything else? What do you notice? No tiny mce that's correct Anything else It's clean. That's exactly the word that I wanted to hear it's clean and When it's clean it means that people who write content they can concentrate on writing that content When you see the previous editor or the current editor you have a lot of things around it And of course you can select those widgets in in your top screen in your screen settings and you can disable all those boxes So you only have to focus on your your content editor Or you can you can launch the full screen editor, which is currently in the editor to Disable all the clutter from the side, but this is basically the Gutenberg editor as it is So shown screenshots of stuff that's being developed. It's not that handy I created some slides for this presentation when I was building it and As soon as I had 10 15 slides of this with screenshots on it. I got a notification Gutenberg has been updated Okay, so there we go. I needed to make new screenshots After one iteration. I thought this is not gonna happen. This is not gonna work I'm not gonna finish my presentation for word camp and work, which is not gonna be fun if I don't finish it So I had to figure out something else. So as a developer. I have a local development environment running on vagrant and If you want to talk about that we can do that later on and I have a WordPress setup right there and I'm gonna show you now in a live workshop drumroll, please how Gutenberg is Thank you how Gutenberg works and is it okay if I sit here for a video. Yeah, okay So we're gonna switch to another browser and This is my development website on my local environment and I've got a Guten test pressing content like a block and I've created a post Which is a rather simple post has some text has a paragraph with a drop caps Which is the the big letter T there and that's basically it. I added a paragraph and a read more and that's it So if we look at that in the Gutenberg editor Basically what you see and of course this is a basic site with a 2017 Theme and no further. Well thingies around it. So It basically is what you see is what you get Well, except for the read more dashed line, but well, that's basically it and This is the editor. It has a post title Right there. It has a paragraph and as soon as you select the paragraph. We have a slimmed down tiny mce editor right there and if you select a block you can see all kinds of Attributes for that block. So every block in Gutenberg has attributes You can change the font size and you immediately Immediately see that it changes in the block itself and we can put it at that size We can make a drop cap on it. We can change the background color to well French fry color Hmm not very good for French fries this color, but you get it We can change the text color. So it's not well, it's still a bit accessible I hope and we can align the text to the left or to the center and We can add additional CSS classes, which might be handy if you have a theme that tries to Style everything in a certain way. You can add a CSS class here You can add the CSS class to your style sheet and then voila.  I don't are there any people who don't know what filtering means in WordPress Okay, it's just a few I'll explain it a bit all the code in WordPress or most of it Enables developers to filter it. So at this moment the the the block attributes have well background color and text color And with the use of a filter we can say I don't want to show the background color And I don't want to show the text color So if we can change the core functionality with a own plug-in or a few lines of code code in your functions PHP Basically if there are any questions while I'm doing this please raise your hand or just ask the question because I like to answer a lot of questions about this stuff and I'm going to take a look at some other blocks that are available if you have your page in in Gutenberg You have a special box on the On the bottom in which you can add stuff. So here you have the add block button And you can add what recent blocks. These are the most used blocks that you have done. Well, I haven't been using it this long. So there's not a representable number of blocks in there But when you look at this This is basically a list of all the blocks that are in here Not surprisingly subhead a quote a paragraph a video Custom HTML a pull quote a verse which is basically a pre-formatted piece of text We can add buttons and all the people are gonna like that one because I know there's a lot of plugins out there that help You generate buttons for your content In which you have to create a shortcode And possibly other other stuff in that shortcode and now you can just well, let's just add it We can add a button Sorry There you can see that it's sometimes still a bit buggy You can basically say click me right here We can change the background color to green and the font to black I said black. Thank you and And the glitches you see here that well sometimes things just disappear and that's basically the signs of things that are not yet finished and All these things are hopefully registered at issues and in GitHub and when you play with Gutenberg And you see these kinds of kinds of things happening please report it and tell it to the authors and the team of Gutenberg So you can have them fix it or have other people fix it who contribute to the To Gutenberg. So if we now update this Post in which we have changed a few basic things you can see that in the front end It looks exactly except except for the dashed line of the read me read more Line it looks exactly as I had it in the Gutenberg editor and this is basically the The first and the only reason that Gutenberg is going to be a great product people like to make content Formatted in the way that they want it in the back end and then show it on the front end like they have thought of it Go ahead boss Because Yes, exactly well, that's what I said with the filtering all all the attributes all the attributes of all the blocks that are in there Are or will be filterable so that we as a developers We can switch that off for customers who like to play with colors like I'm doing right now Which is not going to help with accessibility and readability and those kinds of stuff Two or three options or is that not it? Yeah, you can you can extend a block with this with its own attributes You can add new attributes remove them change them For color except for example, if you've built a theme for a client, which is well like 2017 white and black text you can define your own color set that you want the customer to be to choose from and You know you can basically Well put a fence around the option that a client can use Okay, thank you for your question Because otherwise you just the time you spend on kind of hacking into the ones that are already there You might as well I'll repeat that for also for the video what Tarkas was saying is that the attributes that are in currently blocks they disable them for Making it impossible for customers to use it and to well abuse it basically Abuse it. That's what you say. Okay. Thanks for that talk Okay, so this is this is what you can do with with Gutenberg in the basics Of course, you can add a lot of other things and the thing that they're working on right now because and I'm going to Walk around a bit because I don't like sitting and talking Gutenberg right now is an editor that Basically if you have a site structure with a header with a navigation with a content area possibly a sidebar and a footer Gutenberg positions itself in the post content. So everything around your post content is not Affected by anything you do in Gutenberg. So if you want to see Gutenberg as a page builder who uses page builders Okay, that's a lot of people and I sound surprised and that's correct, but because I am I'm Gutenberg at this point is not a page builder and It probably will be one in the far or near future. I don't know one of the signs that It's probably gonna be one is because of a block. They have introduced Which is called and I have to show it right here, which is this block It's a columns block. It's experimental basically saying it doesn't work because I tried it and You get two blocks and I'm of course I'm here and I'm showing it so I can show it to you. So I'm gonna add this Well to columns block. So what you see here is you get Two columns. Okay, so that works and if you now want to see Where is the advanced so here's the advanced settings I'm now trying to look at the advanced settings Which I did yesterday evening before I went to sleep to just walk around this and test it again and I had an attributes How do you say an attribute part here in which I could say I want two three four five columns and well at this moment moment, of course, that's not working and basically you should be able to add other blocks to these columns and Which is kind of called nested blocks so you can have a block within a block inception and If that happens and if that works Gutenberg can be extended about above and beyond the post content and it can really be a Piece of well it can be a tool to be a page builder and Whether you want it or not. Well, you can use it if it's there another thing that enables Gutenberg as being a page builder in the far future is that you can save blocks for reuse You can convert a Button like this click me button for instance, you have a lot of pages where you want to use the same button And you don't want to create that button every time you can make it a reusable block. You can give it a title This is the click me. Oh, sorry the click me Block you can save it and then later on You can use it in another block You know or in another page. I'm sorry So this basically enables you to make a structure for your site Make reusable blocks for your header for your footer Possibly for your sidebar in which you add another block with some kind of widgets And this basically enables Gutenberg to be a page builder. This is for a future talk I'm not sure whether this is going to happen, but the functions that you see landing in Gutenberg right now Might indicate that it's gonna go that way Another issue for Gutenberg was the How do you say the compatibility with meta boxes who doesn't know what a meta box is Okay, I'm gonna explain it because there's one guy in here. He doesn't know it I'm not gonna look at him. He's right there And A meta box is a box which can have one or more input fields Which you add to a post? A Good example is the Yoast meta box. It adds a lot of options to a post or a page Which you can set for that post Which is basically all in a meta box in Gutenberg in one of the first releases There were no meta boxes. So all developers were like, well, I don't have an animated gif about that, but they were in panic Because there's no meta box and you can imagine Well to get Yoast as an example again, if that meta box is not gonna land in Gutenberg Well, basically the Yoast plugin is unusable because you can't add it In further releases of Gutenberg meta boxes have been added Plug-in developers well became a bit more happy But then they saw that they needed to do a lot of work to get their meta boxes working in Gutenberg Well, basically a lot of plugin developers are working on that to in to integrate their meta boxes in Gutenberg I know advanced custom fields has it and I know that because basically on the bottom here are custom fields Which I have added In a different tab right here For the people who don't know advanced custom fields this enables you to create own fields which you can add to posts or pages and reuse later on in your post content and Well, I've added some extra information, which is basically a text field and I've added the user group for that so going back to this we see this Sorry, we see this extra information meta box in which I added a picture of sir Gutenberg and I've added a thingy that I was building to make this post accessible for a certain user So I've done a little bit of programming with that added a box in advanced custom fields And you can see that this meta box is well showing right beneath Gutenberg So Yoast is working on it advanced custom fields is working on it and basically has something that really works and I know gravity forms so a lot of hands going up in the air in previous presentation Of people who've been using gravity forms so that's a good thing that you can add gravity forms and use it with with Gutenberg and Immediately to immediately see your form in the content editor because the people that are using gravity forms know that if you add a form Which has a nice button at form you can select the form But in the end you get a short code in your content and well, you don't really know what the form looks like So this is a good thing for Gutenberg That a lot of developers are picking this up and making Gutenberg accessible for all these plugins and making it a better product in the end Are there any questions about How Gutenberg's looks right now and what you can do with it. Are there any concerns? Okay, go ahead Nothing No No, you can you can select that the question was if you activate Gutenberg on your site and What is going to happen with all your other posts? Well, basically the answer is nothing because When you add a new post Let me see how I do that. Yes, I'm gonna leave this page. Sorry for my edits When you activated Gutenberg This thing comes up when you add a new post So you can select whether you want a new Classic editor post or create a Gutenberg post and all your existing posts will just display as they would Then I see a question. Yes. Okay, great Yes Will I'm not sure if that's gonna be Happening I think it will because if you totally flip the switch on one time when it will be released It's scheduled to be released with WordPress 5.0 Which were well, we are approaching that release But I guess there are not going to flip the switch one time right now You can only do Gutenberg posts People have to adapt have to try and work with it because not a lot of people are working with it yet It Gutenberg plug-in has about 6,000 installs. So there's not a lot of people using it That's not 30% of the internet. So there's a lot of people who need to use it and Test it and give feedback about Yeah, that depends the well the backwards compatibility thing is something that plugins need to Plug-in developers need to check out themselves and they need to work with Gutenberg and see how their plug-in interacts with Gutenberg And fix where necessary Thank you other questions Sure Okay, okay, I'll try to translate this What she's saying is that when a Well colleagues of her are trying to edit content when Gutenberg is activated that it basically messes up content of Classic edited posts and I'm not aware of that. I don't know You mean HTML code, which is not valid. Okay Yeah Yeah, yeah, okay, basically, that's the same thing that happens if you do it in a classic editor if you start editing HTML there Well unexpected things are about to happen So that's maybe something that Gutenberg will pick up But if you really have an issue with it, you should go to the github repository and write this case to the developers And maybe they can do something about it. So thanks for this Okay, I see a hand there in the in the back Disable Yeah, what was the name of that plug-in Just classic editor. Okay. There's a thanks for that Rion. There's a plug-in available With a lot of developments within WordPress Which make changes to the way people work with WordPress There's always people who don't like the changes or need more time to adapt to the changes And that's the freedom of WordPress that we have we can create a plug-in that disables the change And same thing is for Gutenberg There's a Gutenberg coming up if you don't like it or you need more time to adapt to it or adapt your own software to it There's a plug-in which is called classic editor which basically Disables Gutenberg as soon as it arrives in WordPress 5.0. So if you need time as a as an agency to Give workshops to your clients of how to use Gutenberg And want to postpone the time that you flip the switch to Gutenberg Install that plug-in and give your clients more time to learn how to work with it. Thanks. Yeah boss You told me yesterday for two weeks full time to make the presentation. So thank you very much Thank you. Thank you question for you The project Gutenberg sounds really separated from WordPress Which makes it possible that Gutenberg will work on Drupal and Magento in a few years or maybe faster What's your vision? Will it be bigger than WordPress? My vision. Okay. This is being recorded. So I have to be careful No, I'm well the question basically is What my vision is on how Gutenberg will evolve will it will it? I'll be only a WordPress thingy or will it be able to go well Abroad and well, maybe go do other CMSs or five years and in five years that's In five years. I think Gutenberg is a grown-up. Yeah, sure go down. I don't need you anymore I'm sorry. I have a few slides left, but I'm not gonna do this again. I've got five minutes left also, but the Gutenberg will be a a grown-up product and there's a lot of websites who Enable clients to build their own websites who are using editors which look a bit like Gutenberg and WordPress cannot stay behind if WordPress doesn't do anything about the editing experience I think WordPress is going to decline looking at market share. So Gutenberg is going to be a great way for WordPress to Keep or even grow the the market share of CMSs and it will be a total new Editing experience for all of us. So I really urge everybody to well make some time for it and use Gutenberg Tested report and those kind of things. So thank you, boss I had a few slides left on here and I'm not going to to try and launch it again right here One of the things is that I'm wearing this shirt today, which has the nice Gutenberg logo on it And a wapoo on the back and if you like Gutenberg and you want to show people that you like it You can buy this shirt. Not in my own shop. No in the wordpress.org merchandise shop, which is mursantile Wordpress.org it's in my presentation, which I will share with all of you through Twitter and through the the WordCamp website and Well, you can buy it there basically To to continue on my vision of Gutenberg It's going to be the future don't Well stand back and wait for it to go away because it will not Gutenberg is here to stay. It's a little baby right now It's trying to grow up and we all need to help it grow up and we all need to help it learn stuff how we use Wordpress so I'm going to call again use it test it report create issues and make this product better for WordPress in the near future That's going to be my last Sentence of my presentation We have room for questions Yeah, great, then we're going to do that questions, please Yes, you can you can all the blocks that are created you can convert them to HTML blocks And you can well edit the HTML if you want it and if you adhere to all the HTML standards You can also revert that back to the basic block So if you have an image block in which you want to add some stuff in the HTML You can also refer it back to an image block. So, yeah Okay No, basically if the question if is is Gutenberg still based on short codes The simple and short answer to that is no What Gutenberg currently does it it adds? Meta information about your blocks as HTML comment, which also makes it possible to create things in Gutenberg and Revert if you don't want to use Gutenberg again You will see your content in normal text or normal images. Yeah in raw text Exactly in in the classic editor mode Yes in that text mode, correct. Yeah. Yeah, so there's no more short codes involved So we don't want to we don't want to bother users again with short codes other question That's a good addition This Yeah, that's right. Thank you Torsten for the addition. Yeah Paul go ahead How do we prepare our customers for Gutenberg? That's a difficult one. You can start right now. The question was how do you prepare your customers for working with Gutenberg? As I was saying I've been working with it a few weeks and I constantly see changes So you can start a workshop. You can build a workshop for your customers You can give the workshop But basically in the end it may change again The basic functionality will remain the same, but there are a lot of stuff tiny little thingies Which we all hate in WordPress because if a tiny little thing changes it might break something So it's really difficult. You have to inform your customers. Maybe that it it's coming. It's there There are changes coming and if you want to know more about it well schedule a meeting or talk with a client and inform them that's basically what I am doing and Customers like it.  They don't want to use it. They're well running away from it But it's coming and you have to inform your customers that it is coming and you have to Or have to it would be good to have your customers work with it and test it and see what it's going to be like to work with We're pressing well one two years Okay, other question Inside I'm not sure the question is can you use short codes which are available by plugins that you've currently installed if you can use it In the current blocks I'm not sure. I haven't tested that out. I know is there somebody here that tested it to use short codes in Text blocks in Gutenberg. No, nobody. I have to check that out. There's something that I would like to check out Initially the goal of course is to totally eliminate eliminate short codes Short codes should be blocks if you go the Gutenberg way So we'll have to test it. Maybe it's something for you to install Gutenberg try it and if it doesn't work report it Excellent. Thank you One final question. Sorry Yeah, I've seen or saw something read something about it, but I'm not sure so we'll have to check it out. Well, thanks Yeah, okay one final question See one question there. Yes Nesting you mean the nesting of blocks Well, the development team has been has started with it They've published the block You can use it which doesn't work yet, but initially I think it's going to happen and Being able to nest blocks and create columns and stuff will totally put Gutenberg in a next level of usage And it will happen. Yeah, I'm sure of what I'm sure of that. Yeah Yeah, that's going to happen But basically what what you see right now is you can add a block which provides two columns, but you can also have a block which provides Well text combined with an image in a video. I don't know you can put that in one block within a column basically and That enables to do a lot of magic with Gutenberg, which you can't do right now without a page bill Okay, thank you very much if you have further questions try and look up the guy with this yellow shirt because there's only one of me and I want to thank you for your For your attention and wish you all a good work camp and work


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So I got to go ahead and score man I can't you know not give up any more points Randy Moss right there man and one thing about the game man It looked like I could have possession caught that but man, you got a wide catch everything Why caught it was able to get my feet and bounds Uh speaking to get my feet and bounds Vernon Davis does not get his feet and bounds right there Got a third and goal we go stretch. I have a 26 cap running back. Joe mixing is my running back powered up to 26 cap He has 91 speed. I believe with uh Double I have 10 three spinner and I have coach Madden on my salary captain man If you want to learn how to do that make sure you hit the video below on my links about my salary cap team You guys can definitely get tier three spinner and salary cap And of course by now we all have John Madden coach Uh, let's say he runs the doos. He's using that my home's man really mobile I'm I'm assuming he has 105 throw power or something But he he kind of runs back a lot So what normally when I play doos or any compression set whether it be uh, you know tight flags or tight offset or even bunch Uh, I like to not baseline and blitz a lot of people. That's what I've started trying to do the verse carry here You know get him uncomfortable in the pocket But as the game goes on I realize as I get him to a fourth in two here I realize I can play coverage against this. He's going to run away with my homes So let me just spy a fast linebacker.  He really is But you know, that's what you get with the 99 man 99 speed all that he's going to be a punk That's his weakness And uh, he definitely did not strip the ball out from patreon homes there There we go saving time out so i'm going to possibly get something before to have all day right here As I see it now, I should have sent the spy a little sooner Dumps it off over there to joe mix and fights gets him through a third and short I have no timeouts left so carrot keeps it on the ground. We definitely fight holding back But by keeping it on the ground he's going to allow me to run run all the clock 22 seconds left man You know, most people would go ahead and sit on a ball maybe but I always take a shot I've played enough madden watch enough madden to know that you know stuff can happen when you take shots 10 seconds left. I'm just going to call play Especially if he's out here in nickel or whatever it is, you know I'm putting everybody on a fade and somebody's going to get a shot calvin hoolio moss somebody's going to get a shot And I'll teach you guys this one day man 500 likes.  I'm always going to take that one shot that one hell marrying to the end zone Especially if carried does something dumb like that and leave a one-on-one in that situation Uh, so we go up at halftime when it looked like we were about to be down But now we're up 14 to 10 Feeling good about where I'm at in the game even though I do pick the first drive to a to a running back playing linebacker But as you see now now I'm going to go ahead and it looks like I'm going to start rushing a little bit more Three and four people three man rush again. He actually hits the corner around now Had my uh match coverage flip the other way and and he really took advantage of that Big play right there picking up probably 60 yards to the hoolio Jones Next play hits this laser over the top the hoolio again on the pulse route Right down the field for carry to take that lead right back 17 to 14 Huh in the first play, you know, it's going to happen to somebody Boop right off the helmet right to him pick And Jamal Adams is going to go ahead and take this to the Baja 24 to 14 just like that. We were up for an hour back down 10 times to fight again But that's what we do here. There's still seven minutes left in this ball game Carry is manning up everybody on my field. I'm telling you this play cannot be manned up If you like any of the offense defense, you see make sure you hit that link below to go to man To check out the w saint's e-book this time. I quick snapped him caught him on the d lineman Give up the deep plays to hoolio Jones Back within three. That's what we got to do man. There's dudes close. I just gotta make sure I stop the run And honestly, uh, that's miles garret. This is miles garret really far from me 25 cap miles garret really was a fighter Here we go again No one really don't to but he gets this little playmaker over here to hoolio Jones hoolio Jones really killing me right now But I'm really just I don't want to give up another deep post or anything like that So I mean just like most of my games.  He's a monster They didn't see wham actually popping me for a little bit picks up 13 yards on that one We're inside getting close to the fourth quarter get some pressure right there by that guy calil mac That's my ends mac and laurence taylor along with miles garret at the tackle and gay martin Incomplete pass right there. We're gonna go ahead and get him to third down Sack laurence taylor going into the fourth quarter. We're gonna hold him to that three So we're down by six opportunity to go ahead here and get the lead First play once again. He's manning up everybody Hit this crossing round the malls and whoop two for one special in the juke department Down right there 75 yard touchdown first play last two plays were huge bombs I said carry doing this man up everybody man is really not covering anybody Quite the opposite of how I want to play. I just want to keep everything in front of me tackle get physical strip hit Let them know you're playing defense man. That's what it's about make sure they have a long day at the office Bang I need brian dawkins to just put your hands up and pick that off one time for me fourth and five goes to the wheel Round again Fuller almost hit some back behind the line, but chris johnson fights and goes ahead and gets that first down Now we're in trouble. He can run right here a field goal wins the game Gotta play aggressive. He's gonna run again get to the two minute warning and this play He goes ahead and passes here And before man rush gets nothing he lobs up this wheel round 99 speed chris johnson Dawkins has no chance But really that was the best case scenario for me because i'm going to get the ball back He has to go for two here to try to make it a seven point game Now he's in this wide ships on the center. I'm going to man up people. I'm expecting a run a stretch Or a dive. I man up my safety is the help on the run once he audibles to this Doubles north or whatever. I really don't know. I just expect to run runs the ball Bang club man makes a huge play now. I'm only done five now touchdown can win me the game And once again next play man's up everybody hit calvin johnson one cut right up the middle Take it to the Baja three straight plays one play touchdowns man And as good as that dude's closest man when you play defense like that is not going to get it done Now I need a two-point conversion as little things like that that win and lose you games madden I've been running this two-point conversion play for at least two years now. I definitely ran it in man 18 And man 19 is definitely in the warlands and it's a little zig route deep in route This button hook over the middle he goes for a button hook over the middle Hit that deep in route along the back line. Most people will high ball that but I'll tell you you can fit it in there without high balling it pause Here we go again. You see my home's just making so many plays like somebody needs to get some pressure before then Gets out of bounds right there with joe mixon Up by three gotta keep them out of field will arrangement. Everybody's pretty boxed right here gets the playmaker Over top of kyle fuller chris johnson right in field will arrange Big play right there man next plate first and 10 gotta go up the field laurence taylor colill mac meet at the quarterback Call timeout I snuck on aggressive for that pass rush next play again Brian dawkins you're in the wrong place just put your head on a swivel and catch me a pick Next plate third and 14 playmaker back across the middle Is he gonna get the first hit stick brian dawkins timeout 13 yard line Now he chooses to go for this the fourth and two man. I really don't want to give up a touchdown There's not much time left in the game. I don't think he's going to run. He's going to pass I'm going to guard the middle of field. It's going to be two type of crossing routes I'm not going to overplay. I don't want to give up a touchdown touchdown.  We're going to get to the line here We're in just a little ace or a little Whatever it is single back big three tight ends specialist And I see him getting physical right here and I have one timeout left I say little man tells me, you know, let's use this timeout. Let's talk to joe mixon and say joe mixon We can't have you fumbling this ball put it on conservative ball carry a half back dive We're just going to run it right up the middle. Nothing fancy. Nothing cute I don't care if I have to punt this ball. I'd love to get the first down, but I'm cool running right here. Boom Fall forward will fall sideways use he has one timeout left. I'm gonna come out quick snap this same plate as killing him He's on a delinement easy read wide open Randy Moss let him know about it then fall on the ground Gigi's in the chat for the carry man, dude. He definitely is a great offensive player Got real crazy on defense gave up three huge plays and you're never ever going to win games of madden When you let your opponent score in one play man one thing I'll never could tell you guys i'm a defensive stalwart like i'm the best defensive player ever But one of my biggest goals man is to make people take plays moving up and down the field One you have chances of hits you have chances of fumbles You have chances of sacks you have chances of tip passes interceptions Whatever may be but also you get to look at your opponent's offense You get to look at all their plays all the route combinations. What plays they like on fourth down What plays they like on this hash? What plays they like on first and 10? You know and it just gives you more information about their offense. So late in the game You know what to look for as you see that game I started off trying to send pressure at them But then I realized man I'm just going to go ahead and send three and four and just keep them contained keep everything in front of me No more big plays and me him giving up the big plays is what lost the game for him Great game to carry man. Make sure you guys hit that like button comment below


What's up, guys? This is Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com here with a layered haircut with disconnection. I love this haircut. We did it on FSE Live, but I wanted to break it down in a six-minute video so you could see the step-by-step on the original mannequin that we cut. So here we go. All right. So we start off the haircut. We're going to cut concave layers, but you'll notice that I'm not grabbing all of the hair and bringing it up. I clipped away from the occipital bone down. It's actually a little bit above the occipital bone, and I'll show you guys. You'll see it throughout the haircut. Everything's being over-directed straight back to the previous section.  That'll give us that nice, kind of bobbed, beveled look, but it's nice and light because it's layered and concave. Now I'm going to do the same thing on the opposite side, going through, taking my sections. The only difference is I'm pushing the hair towards the guide now, so away from my body and before I was pulling the hair towards my body. So just working through the back there, over-directing to the previous section, cutting those concave layers in the back. Again, I have the occipital bone down sectioned away, so that's nice and long hair underneath there, and that's what's going to create that disconnection in the haircut. Now I comb everything directly back. I'm working with the round of the head now, and I'm cutting everything at 90 degrees, connecting it to that concave layer that I just cut. So bringing everything straight out from where it lives, 90 degrees, following the head shape, and cutting right down to my guideline, which was the concave layer that we cut. Last little bit. We're going to do the same thing on the opposite side, using our previously cut first section as our guide, working our way through at 90 degrees. I love this cut, because it gives so much texture to the hair, and it all comes from this layering. It's really, really important that you cut these layers at 90 degrees, exactly 90 degrees around the head, because otherwise they're going to look too light, or they're going to look too heavy, and you're going to have a shelf. So just make sure that you go through there at exactly 90 degrees, follow that head shape, and you'll be happy with the cut. Now we're grabbing our guide from the back, shifting our finger angle forward. So we're pushing the weight to the highest point, it's going to be right in the center, high point of the head. You can see the angle there. So we're layering the bang, which in most cases you wouldn't want to do this. The reason I like doing it in this haircut is because that's making the front fringe or the front bang area nice and light. So then I can go in in the dry cut and soften it, and have a nice broken up fringe. I think a lot of people have a challenge creating a broken fringe in the front of a haircut. So this is a great way to know that you are layering it on purpose, but you can see how see-through that fringe is, and that nice U-shape that it creates in the front. So all those layers, now I'm going to take out all the disconnections. There was a disconnection in the temple area on both sides, and then a disconnection in the very back occipital bone area. And that's pretty much it for the wet cut. So you comb out those disconnections. Now you have the layers all over the head, and the long hair underneath. So now we're going to blow it dry really quick. Iron it. You can see when I work with the vibrostrate iron, I work all my sections vertical. That allows me to not have creases in the haircut, but it polishes out nice. You can see how seamless those layers fall. Now we're going to make them more seamless by going in and doing some point cutting. So I work across the fringe, because there is going to be a heavy bevel right at the top of the fringe line. So I go through horizontally. I hold up that hair, and I just go through and point cut just to soften that line across the fringe. Not trying to take out too much weight or recreate a line, I just want to go in there and soften what I've cut already. Now I'm going to do the same thing through the rest. So those 90-degree sections that we took through the top of the haircut, I go through, just lighten those up a bit. There you go, just a little bit more. Pretty much keeping the shir vertical. And if you guys are wondering what shir I'm using, this is the DB-20. It works on dry hair as well. That's pretty much my go-to shir I use all the time. It's the Mizetani DB-20. You can see it on freesaloneducation.com.  So I shift my scissor, I put my thumb in the opposite direction, shift my scissor down, and then I can slide cut into that disconnection just to connect it a little bit. This is the other way of doing a slide cut on the opposite side. I'm going to take a little bit of cream wax. This is a Bercato Carve. I like using a cream wax, especially in a haircut like this, because you can just see as soon as I get my hands in, it comes to life. That's what this haircut's all about. Creating all those layers. I hope you guys like it. Post in the comments below. Let me know what you think and what you want to see next. Thank you guys so much for watching. Share this with your friends. We'll see you on the next video.


Salaam from the People's Dispatch studios here in New Delhi. I'm Siddharth Ani and you're watching The Daily Debrief. On this week's starting episode today, we're looking at the crucial issues in the U.S. midterm elections that are coming up on the 8th of November. We'll also look at how they will impact wider global geopolitics, including what possible impacts they might have on peace in Ukraine and Russia, with news click edit and chief Praveer Pukhaistha. And finally, we look at the Indian Olympic Association and how its new constitution might provide a framework for countries from the global south and how they govern sports. First up, the U.S. midterm general elections like I was just saying take place on November the 8th. And though the news might have us believe that Twitter is where the election is decided, it turns out there's a lot more to it than just that. The Biden administration and the Democratic Party at large has struggled since assuming office to differentiate itself in any meaningful way from the legacy left by the Trump years. Poverty has perhaps never been as fractured or polarized and this course is continually moving into the realm of the bizarre. People's dispatches Anish follows U.S. politics very closely and spoke to us earlier by a video conference for an internationalist perspective of course looking at the key domestic local issues as well on why these elections are important and what the key issues in the U.S. are. Anish, another important election as all U.S. elections are I guess and they are perpetually in this sort of election cycle ahead of the midterms just ahead of the midterms November 8th is when Tuesday is when those when voting takes place. What are some of the critical issues and why are we watching this election so closely? Well, a lot of things are like a lot of factors come into play right now. And some of the things that we need to note is how certain issues certain key issues have taken center stage right now nationally speaking and that will be at the heart of the election campaign. Obviously the economy and inflation rising spiraling inflation is part of the is actually the biggest campaign issue right now which is where the Democrats are kind of floundering because a whole host of measures that they had promised during before the elections in 2020 they could not or did not pass or they were reluctant to go through it until there was like a popular upsurge demanding for instance. There were also issues of how Biden Biden administration's performance has been for the past two years and that will obviously also affect how it is going to take you know the kind of results that will happen that we will see in the next day after the election. Now, but there is also one important factor that will be not just part of the campaign issue but will also be part of ballot measures at least 60 which is abortion right. This is right after the road was made being overturned we had a series of state legislatures trying to push for different kinds of legislations that can actually limit abortion or make them criminal in some cases and we saw what happened in Kansas where a measure of that an attempt of that sort was defeated by a public referendum of six states will be going to the same sort of referendum. One of them at least Kentucky is will be having the same kind of questions that Kansas because it's a state led referendum. In three other cases you have wording that will actually enshrine abortion and access to contraceptives as part of healthcare and as an essential part of the constitution as well and then there is at least one which will change the kind of way access to healthcare will be given to babies who are still alive. It's a very weird term but still alive after an attempted abortion but whatever it be but yeah so we have at least in such cases abortion being a central issue right now and the results on that will be crucial in how the movement for reproductive rights will move forward. Obviously Democrats are trying to put their entire force behind such thing because obviously that has helped them in Kansas. They saw the kind of popular upsurge that actually led to it being approved by a vast majority of people and so another crucial public referendum that we need to talk about is what is happening in Tennessee which will be having a series of four such constitutional amendments up for ballot and one of that will be to which will actually be contingents another which will actually repeal slavery and forced servitude as a criminal offense in the state and so we are talking about and another that will actually take out measures that disqualifies ministers and religious figures from the testing election. So we are looking at a very crucial set of like obviously it's a state-level issue but if you look at the general overall tendency and when it comes to labor movements right now when it comes to changing or revising history and other measures that actually gives religious fanatics more control this is these are definitely some important measures that we need to watch out for. What are the prospects for the Democratic Party not looking too good it has to be said? Yes so obviously there has been a record for decades now where the sitting president's party often loses in the victims. Now this is also something that the Democrats are expecting at this at the moment right now we are talking about leads that range from between one person to five person depending on the poll that you're talking about but at least in the House the House of Representatives elections. Now that is where the Democrats often had an edge in the previous the last half of the Trump administration in both the cases the especially the progressives could lead through some of the legislation that were important now the thing is that losing that to the Republicans of four years would actually have a bigger problem in their hand because that would mean not only a half-and-half in the Senate but also a complete blockade that can happen if the more Trump-wide Republicans especially gains strength in the House of Representatives and this could mean that the next half of the Biden administration is going to be grim to put it more delicately. We need to also remember that the manner in which obviously it is a referendum of how the government performed but the voter turnout will also be quite significant because we need to remember that very often midterms do not have high voter turnout as compared to general elections the president which happens along with the presidential elections and if that if the voter turnout is still low that means that the historic tendency would continue and Republicans could win a majority not just from the House but also the Senate and that means the Congress and the presidency being at loggerheads with each other that could also mean they will just be blocking a whole host of measures not just domestic measures but also foreign policy measures in some cases that could be good but in a whole host of other things especially when it comes to you know progressive legislations that are still under consideration that would mean a bigger problem for the people of the House. All right thanks very much for summing up what is actually a vast array of issues Anish and we'll of course have you back on the show to talk about results and the impact of those results as in when we have them. Thanks again. On Friday last week German Chancellor Olaf Schulz went to China despite what a large section of the western press are calling both domestic as well as international skepticism about the visit. Skepticism of course might come from only certain parties. Schulz is the first leader from the so-called G7 grouping of industrialized nations to go to China since the pandemic broke and reported himself on having had candid conversations with President Xi Jinping on a wide range of issues. Perhaps most importantly the two leaders agreeing that threats to use nuclear weapons irrespective of where they might come from are irresponsible and not in the general interests of the planet. Newspaper editor-in-chief Pravir Pukhaistha is with us in studio to talk more about this visit and what wider ramifications it might have in the weeks and months to come. Pravir, good to have you back in the studio. A lot of sort of commentary on the meeting between Germany and China and the implications it might have. You of course been following very closely both the narrative that is being built as well as the content of some of these conversations and the statements that have been made when the meetings took place. What do you make of it? What is your reading of the situation? Well it was quite a surprise why did Schulz go to meet President Xi at all because it didn't appear that there was something cooking on both sides. So only thing that we can read between the lines that Germany at the moment does feel that it needs to at least try and build an independent identity for itself in the Ukraine-Russia crisis and perhaps try to build some bridges with China. There has also been talk about China and Germany's relationships economic ones that is also the issue that the German economy is facing a huge crisis particularly because of the energy price rise and therefore how it's engineering and other goods chemicals metals all these things machine tools all of this are at risk. The German economy is in a huge risk because of this and therefore is there a way for Germany now to come out of what they see as a crisis of Ukraine in which it is going to be the most hit in fact in the economic terms it's Germany the pre-eminent economic power in Europe that's going to be hit the most and if that happens of course other countries in Europe will also face the consequences but the really the heavy weight there is really Germany and therefore is Schulz trying to work out something with President Xi in terms of an intervention post the midterm elections in the United States at which time possibly there might be an opening for trying to get Russia and Ukraine back to the discussions back to talking to each other and therefore a path to a peace agreement which if you remember the first two months of the war it seems they were very near an agreement which finally didn't work out Zelensky walked out of it and till till then till that point of time we thought that maybe there is a quick war it would get to resolution on the basis of Minsk Accords and some amount of autonomy for the the Russian speaking population in the Donetsk region none of that happened and there's been till from that time there's been talk only of a victory of Ukraine which looking at the military scenario is impossible and the fact that now I think it's increasingly dawning on Europe more than the United States that this a war they are going to lose heavily so is this a rethinking on therefore reaching out to Xi you talked about the headlines the headlines have been that oh Germany and China have condemned Russia on the issue of a nuclear bomb explosion in Ukraine since Putin never talked about a nuclear bomb being exploded on Ukraine in fact he said if the existence of Russia is threatened we have discussed this earlier in which case all weapons that we have is at our disposal which is actually the nuclear posture review of the United States as well which is what they have expanded more on that recently as we have discussed so this is not the really not the issue which is what the headlines seem to suggest it is something more that is happening which perhaps we will see something after the bitter with the US and maybe in the in Bali where all these leaders will be there so maybe something may have may have come out there so that's something to watch I think also Schultz himself wrote an editorial that seemed like a justification of the entire visit and in that an element that did stand out was that we do live in a multipolar world something that increasingly the United States doesn't seem to officially recognize but in like cases such as this might be forced to how do you see that element of geopolitics kind of playing forward leading up to post the midterms and Biden's weakness and leading into the G20 summit well I think a lot of question marks over there because if the republicans emerge stronger what is their position going to be the ukrain war there have been marches now in Italy for instance against the ukrain war there are other places movements are starting to take place talking about peace in ukraine we don't want to continue with the war in ukraine the problems of how to fund ukraine because there's a huge yawning more of money that is going down and we don't know where it's going weapons etc so there is a huge drain that is taking place and european union we've always discussed is a net loser because it's not a major military power it's an economic power at best and given the way the sanctions are operating and what the us is asking european union to do that not buy from russia oil and gas but the same time pay much more much to the united states for the lng that they're supplying so given all of that i think europe whether it'll be able to maintain its economic autonomy is a big question and should the why if you remember the old slogan that the first head of neto is to again that basically neto is a way to keep Germany down russia out and us in europe now that was the argument given so whether the europeans recognize this and is there going to be change and i think the net thing net reality is if europe is willing to deal with russia on in terms of oil gas coal fertilizers etc and with china on the question of manufactured goods if they can mobilize the trade on that count and get a piece in europe europe get ukraine to come to the peace table i think that will step forward for the forward for the world otherwise this destructive battle is going to cause enormous losses for everybody including the crisis in the united states itself what we're seeing in terms of inflation and also lack of jobs etc etc so i think that all of this the economic crisis is not going to be for russia ukraine europe alone it's going to be a global crisis you already see that continuation of what is called stagflation inflation in one hand and stagnation if not a recession at that home so all of this portend a need for a peace initiative and hopefully shawls and she have been discussing it hopefully jai shankar is going to discuss it in his visit to russia and hopefully some thawing may take place behind the scenes in bali as there are hopefully some indicators off as a piece on news click by ambassador vader kumar also seems to indicate that some thaw or some change in the stance at least between the lines is beginning to happen and hopefully that proceeds we'll of course have you back prove it very soon to discuss the upcoming g20 summit and also post the midterms how things will play out in the scenario might look then but thanks for the update today at the moment it's very much between the lines so we still don't see outside the lines what's happening all right thanks very much for and finally the indian olympic association the body responsible for all things that have anything to do with olympic sports and games now has a new constitution of course this applies to india this is in line with the changing needs of our times for example keep taking into consideration the climate crisis the new document governing how much of sport will march into the future is being celebrated as the first of its kind for a couple of reasons prime among them are athlete representation in decision-making and gender equality senior sports journalist sharda ugra spoke to us via video conference for more details sharda welcome back to the show you were very pleased when you read this new draft constitution that might be the way forward for the olympic movement in india and therefore impact the direction in which much of sport will take in this country but we're also looking at it from a slightly international perspective and how this could in in the ways that or the new elements that are being proposed provide a sort of roadmap or a template for other olympic committees to also build on particularly in a couple of key areas so i think the first thing that we want to get from you is a sense of athlete representation in the decision-making of the indian olympic association and how that in your opinion is a positive step forward it's it's quite a radical i mean we met when we when this thing first came to to uh to our notice it's quite a radical document in the sense but i think that's we are looking at it from an indian point of view because of the fact that you've got eight athletes that will be nominated or elected by the athletes commission an athletes commission will have to be formed now in india athletes have never had that kind of power that you see that they may have in other countries in in sort of developed sporting countries but if you could do this in india if it can actually come mean something i think that there is a great opportunity for countries that are there athletes from countries in the global south to be able to say look this is happening here why can it not happen with us you know and this has the approval of the international olympic committee which is very very important now to a lot of ways eight looks like a very small number in a large gathering of sports officials but it's better than zero it's eight times more than it used to be and this is like a structure that's been there now we know that on the 10th this is when this whole thing will come to pass with the general assembly with the assembly of the IOA meeting to say okay we stand by it right the other couple of things that are mentioned and again of course these are these are sort of guidelines or it's a charter so in that sense there there's very little in terms of specific programs that might come into place because of these changes but but there is a focus on anti-discrimination whether on the grounds of race religion gender ethnicity any of these things language of course and a focus on environment or being responsible or recognizing environmental concerns which is a major thing COP 27 of course is starting today and you know the global south like you were mentioning we have and south asia in particular is facing the brunt of the impact of human induced climate change so in that sense it appears to be forward-looking is it just language or do you think that this will actually have an impact on how programs and policies are designed going forward I think the the presence of these of these sort of phrases or this kind of documentation about anti-discrimination in some way about being careful about the impact on climate these are important because it gives everyone outside of the sporting ecosystem a chance to see how a sport is being run and maybe question some things that we take for granted you know that okay it's what we have to do it we have to be sort of you know it's fine to do these kind of things so I think the fact that it's there in language of course you will need to but it gives everyone who is concerned about this issue almost like a line of defense to say look this is unacceptable and it's unacceptable here and I can take this forward I think sexual orientation will also be anti-discrimination against sexual orientation is a very important clause to put down the answer look this is not acceptable if you treat people like this because in India we've seen that there are so many injustice take place against athletes using all these you know ethnicity language whatever to be sexual orientation imagined or real that it's important for this to be there because it is it is a way through it's almost like a tool with which or a weapon with which anyone who is action is taken against them can actually stand up and say this is unacceptable so they may it may look like words at the moment but these are solid words I'm glad that they're there I think you've summed it up pretty clearly and an important point you make there that like if the olympic movement is something that happens from the ground up and is meant to be inclusive and and based on how people want sport to happen then perhaps having all of this in the constitution is important because it allows those who are outside or on the fringes of the system to also challenge the system and say you need to change as well if you want to continue to survive thanks again Sharda as always for taking the time to chat with us that's a wrap for this episode of the daily debrief as always for more details on these stories and all of the other work we do we invite you to head to our website peoplesdispatch.org and don't forget to give us a follow on the social media platform of your choice as well we'll of course be back same time same place tomorrow until then stay safe goodbye


Live from the JSA Podcast Studio, presenting Data Movers, showcasing the leaders behind the headlines in the telecom and data center infrastructure industry. Welcome to our new podcast series, Data Movers. I'm your host, Jamie Scato-Cutaya, founder and CEO of JSA. And along with me, my friend, my co-host, top B2B social media influencer, Mr. Evan Christel. Hey Evan. Hey, how are you? Good to see you, everyone listening. And welcome to Data Movers, where we sit down with the movers and shakers in today's data telecom and data com world, and really interview a who's who of the industry. And we've had some great guests, and I look forward immensely to our guests today. Yes, me as well. And what a day today is, as we're recording this, the inauguration celebration is in the background.  And the nation, hopefully taking a collective sigh, and really call this call for unity, has me thinking about, you know, how we can even establish that, perhaps in our day to day moving forward. Yeah, at least a wish, not being a social media. Let's take the temperature down on social media. There are already reports that there's less victory all and anger and hate, now that we seem to move post-Trump, and let that be a sign of things to come. Let's look at the positive, the good side of social, that we all love so much, the educational side, the discovery, the science and the connection, and less of the darker side, so here, here. Yeah, and, you know, you think about our previous presidents, I feel like Obama and Trump are both social celebrities, and their own rights had huge Twitter followings before they lost their Twitter account, speaking about Trump, but social influence had really helped them secure the White House during their election. So Biden really comes in not only as the oldest president and a Catholic a second time, we have a Catholic in the White House, but also as not so much as social celebrities, so. Yeah, let's keep it that way, boring is good.  So on that note, I think we have a great guest today, Jamie. Yes, and talking about Unity, I'm so excited with our next guest here, Data Movers. Today we welcome Chin Fang, he's the founder and CEO of Zethar Incorporated. Thanks Chin for joining us. So I've been really reading your bio and your company background with intrigue and interest. So let's start off with the basics. Give us an introduction to Zethar, in particular the really cool science fiction-like name. Okay, Zethar, just by the way, is playing a poem on two words, okay? Zethar is time to the 23rd power, so it's a huge number. And Zethar is at least to computing people, it means tape archive. So it means also getting data together. So the two in combination means a lot of data together. That's what Zethar means. Yeah, and so what do you do at Zethar? I founded the company in 2008 upon seeing the AWS S3 came into sync around that time. It was announced in 2006. I had been in IT industry back then for quite a while. So I knew, well, this thing is gonna proliferate. And indeed, true. Now that you see many, many cloud providers, not just in compute, also cloud storage, okay? Azure, Google, that's the other two big ones. But back then there was only AWS, so-called simple storage service S3. I thought, no, this is not gonna be a stand-alone for sure. So I was looking into a so-called cloud federation, meaning how can you use multiple services in a simple, transparent manner? And now, even though it's still a challenge to a lot of enterprises, so-called multi-cloud is not that simple, okay? But then around 2014, I came to the realization, oh, cloud storage stores a lot of data. And moving a lot of data is actually a more challenging problem. That needs to be solved first. So I switch or what you call pivoted, okay? Into moving data at scale and the speed. That's how it got started. I hope that that answer makes sense to you so far. Yeah, in fact, we call our podcast Data Movers. So you're the penultimate example of our perfect guest. You've been around the block, you've been in many conferences, one of which you talked about the analogy to transporting water as data movement. Hopefully that's not because water's always leaking when you're traveling around. Oh, no, no, no. Help us understand that analogy for our listeners. Okay, I'm living and working in Northern California. So I tend to use a very famous late 19th century, early 20th century engineering fit in the United States as an example. It's the Hachi-Hachi Accaduct Project. It transports water from the Yosemite Hachi-Hachi Valley or reason war to the Bay Area to provide the water supplies. And as you can see crossing various different landscapes like mountains and plants and all that, it's a pretty significant engineering endeavor. So I typically post this question to my audience. For a large water transport project, what are the four major elements to make the project successful? And this question is innocently simple, but it also got people to think and scratch their head for a while. So I will just make the answers available right now. It actually starts off with a reasonable with sufficient water level. I mean, if you don't have a reasonable, how can you transport water? That's obvious, right? The next one actually is also obvious.  Why pipes plural? It's because the rates, the volume and the redundancy, what if the pipe is leaking? You just mentioned the leak, right? So what can you do? So you need that, so pipes. How about the third one? Electricity, of course, you need it to power everything. Then finally, what is it? Pumps, again, plural, why? The volume, the water volume, the rates and the redundancy again, okay? What if a pump, single pump fails? You need redundancy. So these four actually are the essential elements. I hope so far I am understandable and you agree with the way I explained it. Absolutely, yeah. Reservoir, pipes, electricity, pumps, building in that redundancy, I love it. Yeah, yeah. To moving data. In fact, moving data requires almost logically the same elements, four elements. And without a fast storage, how can you fill the rest of the path with data?  Can you transfer a lot of data long distance? No way, right? So you need a formal, serious, enterprise-grade, fast data storage to begin with. Then you also need fast connections. I mean, if you use your home connection, obviously you cannot go very fast. If you're on a Wi-Fi, especially a low-quality one, oh, come on, even your Zoom session may flip, okay? So, so connection, the bandwidth is important, just like the pipes. Then the third one is, I mean, if you are on a very, very old computing device, say something from like 2000, can you do your job well? Not even running Microsoft Word will be a pleasant experience, right? So computing power. Now, finally, the software. And it has to be highly efficient. Otherwise, just like a pumps, I mean, if the pumps are not well-built, well-designed, how can you pump the water? So, exactly the same four elements. So the water transport analogy is an excellent analogy to make people understand. And people learn best, often from learning from examples. Oh, I love that. So, so Zetar ZX is your platform. Yeah. When you talk about simplicity and scalability and efficiency. Yeah. How long has that platform been in development and underway? Since 2014. And we initially recall what we discussed a while ago. We paid attention to cloud federation. Then we came to the realization, oh, no. I mean, actually federating a cloud or using so-called today, in today's words, it's called multi-cloud. Actually, you need the ability to move data around. I mean, between cloud from your premises, on premise to a cloud and all that may be coming back. So, in 2014, we started pivoting to moving data. And then that's the beginning of it. And if you have any folks related follow-up question, just pump me. Oh, I'm sure we have lots of details to dive into. Oh, sure. But before we do, we love to get a sense of the stories behind the leaders like yourself in our industry. So, let's take a little step back. I see on your bio here, you're originally from Taiwan, you came over to the US. Yeah. You immediately got a master's degree and a Stanford that went on to get a PhD at Stanford. Is that because you were rejected at Harvard and MIT? You were headed there. You know, my folks were living in California even as a really tough guy, okay? I can tell you, he asked the tough questions. So, I have a soft answer about that. Actually, my folks who were living in Los Angeles area, I didn't want to go too far because they were old. So, I applied to East Coast like MIT and all that, but Stanford gave me a mission first, okay? So, I said, oh, I mean, that's only 400 miles, not that much by United States standard, right? So, I just took it and went to Stanford instead. So, it's not because I have something negative to say about MIT or East Coast Ivy League colleges, okay? No, no, no, they are excellent colleges. Yeah, just I like to be close to my family, that's all. That's lovely. And then, how did you go from a PhD to launching a career in IT?  And it's actually what you call serendipity. Serendipity, yep. Yeah, my PhD advisor, back then he was the chairman of Stanford's aerospace department. He gave me a PhD topic, dissertation topic that turned out after some sleepless night to be a very, very difficult problem to solve. It's called design a thick composite, but if you translate that into a mathematical formulation, okay, it actually is one class of the most difficult solved mathematical problem called discrete optimization. So, I, because of that, I needed a lot of computing power. And luckily, the Stanford computing center back then IBM donated a bunch of very powerful force workstation called RX-6000, as in Richard, as in Smith, 6,000, that's the number, okay? So I hopped up as many as I could and finally, my activity called the upstairs system managing people, especially the manager's attention. One day he called me up, he said, Chen, would you like to work in my group? Well, the rest is end of the story. I love it, history in the making right there. And I also, because the dissertation is so computational intensive, so naturally I became better and better in software. IT staff in general is special with the mentoring of my manager back then at Stanford computing center. As someone who keeps a very tight pulse on the industry, what do you see as the biggest trends in IT in the next three to five years? Yeah, actually you already, we already see it, it's the adoption of the cloud storage services. And but right now, one big hindrance is that many people still do not have the knowledge, solution or skill about moving data at a scale and the speed. So, and as you know, cloud is a remote resources. And if your enterprise or institution wants to interact with cloud, the data must be moved. Otherwise, without data, you cannot do compute, without data, you cannot have the information available in the cloud anyway. So once this stage is overcame hopefully with our solution and the software, then it will be accelerated. So that will be more and more. So people can do more AI in the cloud, for instance, can do more machine learning in the cloud, for instance, can do more like biomedical research in the cloud, for instance, it will good for everybody. So that trend will be accelerating with the moving data and the scale and speed. And you think the pandemic really fast forwarded our adoption? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a trigger, what I call, at this stage, it's a trigger, it's a motivation, very strong motivation, because as you can see that the revenue of major cloud providers or even a second tier one all went up, have gone up, not just went, have gone up. Yeah, being able to move data at the scale and speed efficiently and simply, transparently, scalably will accelerate this process. And the cloud is a good thing to have for everyone. It's really the foundation of digital transformation, right? Oh yeah, oh yeah. And we've seen the cloud wars emerge with AWS versus Azure versus Google Cloud and Alibaba, this whole landscape.  Or is it, you think it's just win-win for all the major players?   My answer is simple, let them fight it out, let the market decide. Yes. Is that a good one? It's good, worked so far. So I don't think it's too after this. Yeah, no, it's a great marketplace, a great time to be in our industry. So let's, let's shift fire, have a little bit of fun. We want to give our listeners a little more insight into you and your personality. So let me ask you a few trivia questions. Let's call them. What's the most used app on your phone? iPhone, Samsung, whatever it might be. What do you use, like daily, hourly? I use Samsung. And you will be surprised that the app I use most often depends on the time of the day. So in daytime, I tend to use text messages. And I also make phone calls. Of course, that's what the phone is for. You're very old school, very traditional here, yeah. No, no, no, not really, not really, not really. I tend to work with both European customers and Middle East customers and customers in the APAC region. With them, I use a WhatsApp. And you don't use it just for text messages and phone calls. And you can use it for many things, even forward pictures and forward shop documents. It's a quite versatile tool. So what, what, what next question? What technology or innovation do you personally look forward to seeing in the years to come? Is it a gadget, a device? Is it a technology? Is it VR, AR? I mean, what are you personally excited about on the tech front? I think the most exciting technology in developing and it's progressing is the persistent memory. The Intel is working on, but I'm very, very sure. So no later, other competitors will come into thing and probably give Intel a hard time, just like AMD and ARM have given Intel a hard time these days. Yeah, I think I know the answer to this, so what's your favorite subject in school when you were young? I'm guessing math, but please correct me. No, when you said, when you were young, I'm really, you need to define that it's a preteen or teenager or in college, okay? York, yeah. So I will give you three, okay? Initially, I think I like history a lot. Nice. Then I like in early teen, I like literature. Then in late teen, I became fascinated with the physics and the gradually math. And in college, sure, math. I did my dissertation with the statistics, Monte Carlo simulation. Nice, nice. So it evolves, it doesn't really always the same. And I'm back to history again, so I don't know. It's like we always go back to what fascinated us as kids. And how do you spend your time when you're not working long hours? How do you like that, how do you compress? That's why California is still a great place, although Bay Area is extremely expensive and it just has such a fantastic outdoor environment. I love outdoors. Yeah, the right place.  I'm based here in Boston and I miss my trips out west. And Jamie, I'm sure you miss your trips out east. Yeah, I agree with you, Chen. There's no better place to survive the pandemic than out here in the beautiful San... Oh, yeah, yeah.  But even within 150 miles, there are lots to see. So I don't really feel that bad.  Oh, yeah, oh yeah. Absolutely, absolutely. Right? Yeah. So congratulations on all the success and we look forward to watching your big data grow story, grow even bigger. So thanks for coming on the show.  Thank you so much for being with us here today, Chen. For our listeners, if you enjoyed today's Data Movers podcast, be sure to check us out, jsa.net, slash podcast for upcoming Data Movers episodes. We release them every other week on Wednesday morning. So go ahead and listen in. And additionally, you know, I'm not sure if you're on Twitter, but if you are, follow us at Jay Scotto and Evan Kirstel and you can get back to normal Twitter, let's say our pre-Trump Twitter and take the temperature down. So look forward to chatting more after the show. Yeah, all right. Well, thank you guys again and for everyone out there, happy networking.