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Good evening and welcome. It's live at Channel 17. It's our annual holiday party, and we're so glad that you can join us We're having a wonderful time. I was signaling to Albert and then to you So first I wanted Albert to come and join us. We're having a really fun time, and it's so glad that you came I wouldn't have missed it. Tell us some about your involvement here at Channel 17 and how we serve you well On two particular issues, I've been invited to appear Live at 525. Yeah the title and it dates back to When we were trying to get a legalized cannabis Yeah, that was that that was four years ago Wow, and Rob Yeah, Rob was Rob was very helpful And the second issue is the one that we're currently fighting over which is Trying to get the mural down off of the wall Over on Lehi way, and why are you trying to do that? Well, we think well we more than think The mayor's mural task force itself has concluded that it is Not inclusive. That's a polite way of saying that it's a racist mural. So if it's it's private space Um, where is it public space? Well, there's some dispute about that Ron Redman the director of The church Street Marketplace Said that that particular alleyway he thinks belongs to the city So that's a jurisdiction question, you know it touches on the bigger question of the commodification of the main street area It's kind of an interesting You know it goes way back in Burlington doesn't it and I'm so glad that you've been able to be here with us at channel 17 And be able to utilize these resources. We just appreciate your activism and your contribution. I watch it all the time You lent some space last night. I was here for a film that was sponsored by the What's it called? Democratic socialists.  I couldn't lavish enough praise on you, but let me just say we all Feel dear about you and I am aware of what's happening in terms of there I'm trying to cut back funding on a national level and I hope that people step one. I hope the people out there who enjoy channel 17 Will make their voices heard to stop that attempt to defund Community television and I would also hope that our own city council. I Monday night. I may heard you there making your plea I hope that they can Help fill in at least part of the financial hole That you guys are facing. Thank you Albert once again, you guys are great. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot We're here for Channel 17 CCTV solstice party and who better to share it with my old friend brand pine How are you great? Giving you time to finish? How are you chewing? Because the food is so good great food great people and a great cause free speech free speech 35 years and hopefully for infinity Let's hope so but free speech is under siege it is And it should be free, but there's a price for free speech for the best Because you came to city council the other night and made it clear that we have to contribute as communities to keeping this incredible vehicle for the people's voice unfettered access to the airwaves and the Digital, you know trying to trying to give people an access to Get their message out so and the walls are closing in they are by the FCC and cable companies, but not bt Of course, right, but um, you know, we've been fighting this fight Since the beginning since the 1984 act. There is Delphia cox cable cox cable way back machine I remember so we're just it was been a great time to be able to work with you during that period And we have you in our stacks from when you worked the burlington youth employment program I know it does go back a ways and I looked at the housing show on there So like we've been we've been at this for a while and you know what I think I've had more people Say to me that I saw you or heard what you guys were talking about because I tuned into channel 17 and so Folks wonder if it's it gets much viewership, but it really is clearly reaching people. Yeah, I agree And thank you so much. Happy having me same to you. All right So, um, we are celebrating the holidays here at channel 17 town meeting television And this is our regional government access tv and one of our Stars is marge burr told and marge you call me up every morning and tell me how helpful channel 17 is to you Let's get into the light and help the viewers see us Tell us why tell me why you call me every day to tell me that Well, because having my message heard by the tv shows that megan helps me with you know, it helps have my message heard For like what's not working in I don't go to the vermont mental health system anymore But vermont organizations that work with it. What's not working? It helps to get that message out and to have your story told can be very healing Well marge Your story is really important because you're able to bring policy makers to the table Which means you're starting to have some systems impact Yep, we had some of them for our guests Megan was very good at helping me to find guests To ask different questions to and your shows are really informational and we appreciate we've worked together a long time, haven't we? Yeah, we have I think 36 years one time. Yep. Maybe 37 may possibly. Yeah, probably around in that realm I don't want to get too far up there because that would mean we're both pretty old Well, that's right. We don't want to make us any older than we are Exactly. Well, thank you so much marge. Yep. Thank you. Happy holidays Julia Welcome. How are you? Good. We're with julia valera. Julia is a board member here at cctv center for media and democracy And also let's get in the light. She's a digital activist With a very interesting and very background and we met around your work about digital inclusion. That's true. Yeah I'm newish to to the area And it's been really nice getting to know people that are involved in digital activism and free speech And i'm so honored to be on the board actually it's been Really energizing to have our new board members on cctv And we're really working to increase our reach and our impact and spread the message That we really appreciate the support people give us and we also are asking for more support. That's true. Yeah, we We're working really hard on the board to figure out Exciting new ways to engage the community actually so the programs that run here are one wonderful option that we're going to explore Building on they're already really successful. So Yeah, the engagement the support that we can get from new community Members and initiatives is what we're really striving to do going into 2019 So one of the things I admire so much about you is that you ride your bicycle everywhere So what is it like to be a? All-in bicyclist in burlington in the area. Well, it's um, it's dedication because winters are harsh Here I was in new york city beforehand and I thought that was bad But you know studded tires lots of layers. I call this two pants season So you just always have two pants on all the time that helps a lot And then you know all that tech gear that you can find at At outdoor gear exchange in the basement in the basement That's the place to go and then you can ride your bike all year round Studded tires did I mention that you need those and are people pretty good about I mean our drivers. How do you find them? They are pretty good I mean it's dark here and there's not a lot of people on the streets like in the city So you have to be I find a little more cautious and I'll jump on the sidewalk at night if it's if I hit a dark patch But otherwise. Yeah, they're pretty forgiving and like give you space That's good to know because we're really obviously in burlington at least moving towards a pedestrian I mean a bicycle friendly infrastructure. Yeah the the protected bike lane is great I love I between like where my office is and home. I have protected bike lanes almost the whole way That's great. So that's helpful. Yeah, yeah Well, thanks so much for all your help and ingenuity and it's been great to work on the marketing and And we'll see you soon. Okay. Okay. Bye I just want to let you know that um behind the camera tonight is michael blood michael is our archivist And he spends a great deal of time looking at the history Of cctv that goes back 35 years and turning our vhs tapes about eight hours a day Into digital formats so that we can put them online and people can watch them again So michael, thank you so much your person of many trades So you don't only do that, but he's behind camera and here is dan logan Dan dan is our channel coordinator and he is part of this remarkable Markable team Remarkable team that works here at channel 17 and this year. We have a special award for dan It's called the participation award You got it. You got it. Let's go find it. No, it's right over here. Here we go the 2018 participation award I can tell you for a fact I have participated. Yes, you have And so much actually all of the programming that you see here on channel 17 is because dan has essentially Booked it and made it happen along with the rest of the staff. So it's actually pretty impressive how much content You're generating on a daily basis. It would have been more impressive if I didn't win the participation trophy Since I am a part of most things you are but thank you I'm really really happy to be working with you and you've been here for I don't know eight months eight months four days In seven and a half hours. I don't know. It's eight months ish And what's your overall feeling about the mission of what we do if I could put you on this spot? You may put me on the spot I think it's very important. Um, and I think that was evident in traveling around to all the city councils and select boards and trusty meetings with you Um and talking about the future here in the future of our funding and it was really obvious how deeply people believe in what we do Um Paying for it is a different subject all together But like people are really invested in in our mission in our in our goals and our ideals. It was it was nice to see that support Yeah, it really was. Yeah, it's very moving and it's great to have all these folks here And the lovely sky Congratulations. You're getting married soon. And it's very exciting to have like new, you know Fiances in the in the building. It's very energizing. So there's free food. So we weren't gonna miss that. Okay Thank you. And thanks for everything. Congratulations on your award. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm gonna go over and participate Okay, good. All right. Thank you so much So, um, you know, a lot of people have been asking me lately. What about the funding? They've been hearing about the FCC threats to public access Funding and that's funding for public educational and government access channels And uh, the FCC wants basically write a rule that uh, reinterprets the 1984 cable acts Which is what enables us to receive funding from cable subscribers our channels are funded directly by cable subscribers and um Cable companies essentially would like to reduce the amount of money that gets Build on the bill that the cable subscribers pay And that would be a problem for channels like channel 17 or retn and vcam because we depend on the generosity of cable subscribers to bring you The 1300 hours of original program that we produce every year So we hope that you'll consider supporting us not just as a cable subscriber But as an internet user and as a donor to us at cctv and channel 17 So that's the pitch and we have some other folks that we're going to be interviewing And i'm just really hoping I could get shea totten over here Maybe you could maybe shea. Can I interrupt you? Would you mind coming over for a second? Shea totten is also on our board. Welcome. Nice to see you. Good to see you. Happy holidays. Happy holidays Let's stand in the light I was just up in the northeast kingdom and I just it there's something amazing about that place It's so expansive It is where were you? I was in uh saint j and then I drove up 91 where I saw one car to newport Oh, excellent. Yeah, well, I mean I grew up not too far I mean I grew up in worgen and holland and went to north country, uh union high school in newport So and I have dear friends who still live up there. So yeah, but you must feel when you go up there It must really move you it does I mean, you know because you know once you get over a certain crest of you know Once you get really up into the heart of the kingdom It's like, you know everything sort of expands and opens up really toward canada I mean it's you know, there's why there's a reason why howard frank mozier You know wrote the book where the rivers flow north because you know You know you're above you're up near the 45th parallel Which is the midpoint between the equator and the north pole and so everything starts to tilt northward So everything flows that way and including your eyes. You know, I mean everything does kind of move that way It opens up in a way that you don't get that sort of same dynamic southern from on has a little bit of that Expanses some of the valleys but not like the kingdom. Yeah, it was just beautiful and I went up because I was visiting um With jane kitchell is that a senator appropriations because she's up there in danville and I met with the access guide Jamie dimick and we talked to her about maybe a legislative appropriation to help offset some of the decline in revenue That's coming up. That'd be great. You know in public access up, especially up in you know Areas of the kingdom and it's extremely important because a lot of folks can't get to some of the you know Like newport city council and you know derby select board I mean they can't get to these meetings so like having stuff recorded I mean some citizens have taken up to just like live streaming it on facebook Because there's no other way to kind of get access to it It's like so it's it's extremely important because big things happen even up there, you know, we're supposed to be quiet You know that a lot of important decisions get made so you know, we need those kind of resources You know to to get access to like more like we do here Exactly channel 17. Well, we we are pretty media dense by comparison I mean they have the barton chronicle up there and they have the hardwick is that I mean they do have some outlets They do they do and that's where everything sort of takes place But like but not from sort of you know this kind of you know citizen led media That's really sort of holding you know not only holding accountable But actually having spaces where these kind of discussions can be made sort of in real time Yeah, it's you know, it's a more passive approach up there And that's you know, that's it's always been You know my hope that at some point, you know, we can Have more of that up there because I think it's you know, it's extremely that's that's a lot of people get their news that way And it's not that they're not disinterested It's that sometimes they just don't know things have happened until after the decisions have been made Exactly and that's when they read about it in the paper and like hey wait a minute. How come I didn't know about this? You know, that's where I channel 17 like you know, if you're really into process And you want to know every little thing that's being made and who's saying what when you know live coverage of of the meetings or even tape recordings I mean you can see that before the actual decisions are being made. It's It's important. It's an important. It's a valuable tool We've been hearing a lot about that and we just went to a meeting of access people all around the state And we talked a lot about networking and sharing programming around the state with each other That'd be great. Yeah, I'd love to see some kingdom programs.  We see each other once in a while, you know So you could have a little hometown tv we could do a little kingdom section Little package. There we go. That's a great idea. There we go. Okay good All right. Shay Totten. Thank you so much for all your service. Yeah, happy to be on the board. Yeah, thank you. Take care All right, Kathleen Swanson. We have margaret herrington with us margaret is just one of our gems margaret You are a gem So great to see you lauren. Thank you for your programs And just you have been producing for quite a while now on channel 17, haven't you? Yes for over 10 years now And I really appreciate the The ability to do this to reach out to the community on issues like nuclear issues and All of the other Subjects that I do on my focus show and coming up in the new year We're going to do a little mini series on human trafficking Here in vermont with some professionals who are working on that issue And I just appreciate being able to to take the camera and get out there for the nurses strike I followed the nurses strike with the camera and and recorded that event that monumental event I think here in 2018 in burlington and Mercifully the nurses did win something on that and then the other document the documentary I did was the The border issue, which was Families should Families belong together and I did that with mega nor work Here working at the studio. I appreciate so much being able to do this So thank you very much lauren. It's just a pleasure to work with you We're so glad and you know, we're here. We're creating these resources So that our community will use them and tell stories that aren't often heard Yes, and that's how that's how I feel about reaching out to people who are on my shows That they have a lot of stories to tell and they're they're usually issues that go on and on and are not Resolved overnight by any means Well, thank you so much Thank you so much lauren. Thank you margaret. Thank you. Bye Richard Welcome How are you? I'm good. Good. I haven't seen you in ages. I'm so glad to have you here channel 17 Well, I'm glad I'm glad to be here. How old is channel 17 started in 1990 and cctv started in 1984 And so what my 35 years I know it makes it but I'm really still 25 Don't mistake it. Are you free to talk about what your daughter's going to be doing? My daughter stella rose who's 19 is having her gap year And she is traveling around the world. She's in the middle of it. Oh, okay. She may even be here at this party All right. Yeah, I think she might be yes. She's right there next to mark So I'll bring you over to meter. Yeah Someone someone told me about it and I said, oh nine countries at least Yeah, I know she's like a little mini kardashian, but I probably shouldn't say that on television. Oh, you are Richard thank you for all your service To cctv and free speech you were on our board for so long and made tv for so long But it's not over. No, it's not so i'm not eulogizing you yet Oh, richard camp richard did near and far for years and years and has been a progressive activist a city counselor In burlington and a good friend of ours So I just want to let you know a little bit about the awards that we have that we're we have Because there's some great ones here because wonderful people help make channel 17 10 meeting television a resource for the whole community and that includes sero flash who is viewer of the year sero watches channel 17 and calls us up when he sees things that need attention And we are so grateful for that viewer of the year was Previously held by dutch yafi some of you might remember and this award has only been given out twice Since 1990 so sero is viewer of the year diane meyerhoff Is a host of the year diane has managed our election coverage our live election results programs for town meetings and general elections for the past few years and she Appears on camera. She's always well prepared. She loves local politics and we're so grateful to be able to work with her Eric wells who works for the town of williston We gets the going the distance award because he's turned his love of media and his commitment to government into Regular programming from the town of williston Ed baker ed baker is a new producer here at channel 17 and he is all in He is an incredible resource his programs on prevention and recovery and the opioid crisis are Great series great content and catherine antley dr. Catherine antley Is also producing content in that area the issue of the opioid epidemic and innovative solutions and ways to Really turn the curve on the problem and she has the determined producer award She called us up and said i want i have four shows i want to do next week and we um, we slowed that down a little bit But she um is producing quite a bit and in a very determined way Kyle silman smith for the peace and justice center gets the gumption award And living well as the brand new welcome award their new program that we're very excited about And kaileen murphy who is the educator of the year she brings her classes from ccv here to channel 17 And we work with them over the course of their semester. It's a great opportunity for all of us and then We have the bhs register staff for their work on election day the quick study award Gave them cameras and they shot exit voices and edited them ready to get on the air within A few hours and with very little training.  He is our technical director and um He gets the creative mind award because he certainly does Solve problems in innovative ways Kathleen swanson. Why don't we just wrap up here? We got another minute Kathleen swanson our development director. How are you and thank you? I'm excellent and so happy to be here with the our tribe of free speech people here at channel 17 It's always so Uplifting to be here and here talk to people who care about the community and care about public access And care about how people get information to make informed decisions. So it makes a happy holiday for me Well, thanks so much and thanks for watching Aiden white has been our director michael blood behind the camera and here Come on up to channel 17. It's the Thirteenth of december and we're having a party for the holiday and the solstice. Thanks so much for watching


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Hello, everyone. Can you hear me? Yeah. Come on. Well, thank you all for coming. It's really an honor being talking in Madrid. I'm from Madrid, so yeah, but it's my first time I talk here. I've been presenting in data conferences, well, in different parts of the world. I've been really fortunate on that. I learn a lot from other people in this kind of conference, so I kind of feel that is my responsibility to give back a little bit to the community and explain my experience. I started working in kind of the big data area around four years ago. I was asked to build the data platform, let's say the modern data platform in Santander, UK around September 2014. I left everything I was doing and started on my own. Got a few people from the organization to start with me, and this is my last talk as part of Santander because I'm moving on to a new challenge. I'm leaving behind a team of 140 people that serve, primarily the whole organization, hundreds of analysts, and more than a thousand people in our Hadoop platform. And so we've moved quickly. We've broken up a few things, but nothing major in the last four years, and we learn a lot. So I wanted to share with you some of the things that I learned. This is my own personal take of the journey, obviously. I represent what we do in Santander, UK, but it's pretty much my own opinion. So I've worked in three, mainly in three countries in the group, and the three big, bigger banks in Santander, Spain, Brazil and the UK. I work in the UK only, OK? So the Santander group right now is a little bit desegregated. It's country goes on its own. In Spain, obviously, Santander is a really big bank. In the UK, we are the fifth bank in the market, which give us enough size, but also a certain position to present ourselves as challengers. So we want to disrupt dynamics in the market and defend the customer. OK? This is what Santander is all about. Creating value for customers and making customers and companies prosper. That's how we define our purpose. And in that journey, we decided around four years ago that we wanted to become a different company and transform it to a data-driven company and digital organization. OK? So that's a little bit of what I'm going to talk about. First, I'm going to start with our journey to give you some context of how we've moved. As I said, we've been around four years in the data transformation. A bit earlier than that, we started experimenting with new technologies, created an innovation area. And then we started testing the technology that was in the vanguard at the time. And since then, we've embarked also in an agile transformation and what we call a digital transformation. OK? So lots of transformations kind of happen in parallel, which for me means that the bank realizes that we cannot just change at a normal pace. OK? A transformation is something that is changing more quickly than you would expect. It's not normal evolution. It's accelerated evolution. And so it creates new challenges. OK?  OK? And what happens in revolutions. OK? So around four years ago, we started testing Hadoop. It was in the news. It was in the Harvard Business Review Magazine. Data scientists are the sexiest jobs here on the future century. And so the technology was mature enough. It was open source, but there were also enterprise-graded distribution like cladera. So that's what we chose. We started testing it. We saw the potential of it to change significant dynamics that we had in the organization around data. And we started testing performance, scalability, things like that. And we decided to embark in, well, bet in it and start investing in it. And we started doing some analytics projects. OK? The analytics projects that we started doing were quite successful, even though we didn't really have tools on top of the platform. We were doing basically impala queries, SQL, simple visualizations. But we partnered very closely with the business. We partnered very closely with people that had the knowledge about the problems that we were trying to tackle. We applied some design thinking. We got into a room. We painted. We looked. We were very pragmatic about what we had available to us. And we created value very quickly. And that created a very good showcase for what analytics can achieve. And then a few months later, in July 2015, we were launching in the UK Apple Pay. So we created a real-time streaming application that it goes to the customers. Customer facing is called Spanletics. And it gives analytics to the customers. It was a very advanced architecture at the time. It was a lambda architecture using streaming architecture at the time, Flume and Kafka, using H-Base and exposing data to customers and giving it to them, giving the power of the data or the value of the data to the right owners because the data belongs to the customers. That was our understanding at the time. And obviously, GDPR has validated that. And it was a very important, it was very well-designed. So it became the showcase of what data can do, which is not just analytics. It revolutionizes the way you offer data to customers, what you can do with data, including in the channels that we offer to them. So from here on, once we demonstrated that technology can be put in production, can be maintained, can be scalable, can be replicated, highly available, and so on, we started opening up for the rest of the organization. Okay, what I call broadening. For the next few months, we started implementing a new operating model in which we were opening up the platform and the data for self-service, which is a very different challenge to implementing data in a closed, for a closed area, for a closed analytics team that is very well-defined in an organization like Santander UK. We are 20,000 employees, and we are aiming for everyone to have access to data at the right time with the right information in their hands. So we ended up finding the most friendly business areas and partnering with them, getting their feedback, and building the foundations for the platform. And a lot of it was around data governance, which the previous talk has been about. So definitely finding the right metadata in your organization is gonna be key. Putting the security as a first step, as a foundational step, without security, everything can break down. That was very important at the time and we continually reinforced in the foundations. And then we started scaling up. So that's when we started opening up for business to start doing things by themselves. And we had the challenge of growing well, more than 10 times in the volume of data that we were processing and the projects that we were doing. But obviously the number of people that we had could not grow 10 times. That is impossible. It's very, basically, the talent is really scarce. So if you guys are doing big data, you are very rare in the market. So ask for more money from your companies. And this is very, we had to be very effective so that we could scale the use of data and the value that the company was creating, keeping the headcount in the team as low as possible. Then we started democratizing. And democratizing for us means as people start using the data by themselves, they need to start giving back to the project, to the platform. So we ask people, we have our own tools so that when people are identifying, creating insights, they can publish them and they can be searchable. People, other people can discover them. And then as they find issues in the data, they can publish them, they can report them and they can be made available to other people. And they have the rights to use the data but they also have responsibilities, okay? This is a quite different concept. We call it data citizenship and it's very difficult to make work. And honestly, we haven't made it work properly in some other UK yet, okay? But the goal was to become data driven. And we haven't got there yet. If you see, I've put kind of phases year after year and I am now in beyond the 48th month of the journey and we haven't achieved this because this requires a significant cultural change that we haven't been able to make. So data is a big asset. We are using it at scale but we haven't got to the objective that we had which was to change how people perceive data and what they do with it, okay? And that's the next part of the conversation today. So where we are is represented in a few slides. Hopefully this is a view of a bank, okay? So we split our organization in domains and we are representing here how many data sets we have in each of them, okay? So these are data sets that typically we bring to the platform every day. Most of them are some of them are parameters so we bring them weekly or monthly or something like that. And we have more than 4,500 data sets now in the data platform. So that's more data than we had in all the other data warehouses that we had in the past combined, okay? More data than ever, basically. But people still keep asking for more data because they don't seem to find what they want. Curiously, okay? Around 300 of those data sets are being streamed now which is a big part of the evolution of the platform, streaming architecture. I'm gonna talk about that a little bit. And we have implemented BI on top of the platform very tightly integrated micro strategy, in this case, with very tight security so we don't need to replicate and we don't have any leaks. More than 500 analysts now working in micro strategy and more than 1,000 users on Hadoop. As you have seen, we are serving the data to all our channels now. So the app that I showed before, the online banking, the mobile main application, the brand systems, all of them receive data from the platform but are also around 1,000 users using it for operational purposes internally, okay? And we've been trying to explain to the organization in this drive to create a cultural change. I've been trying to explain to the organization what we do in the platform and it's really hard. I don't know if you have experience with that but people don't really understand data at all in our organization. So we talk about ingesting, we talk about streaming. Most people don't understand really any of those concepts, okay? They can hear about it a hundred times but they don't place it in their heads and they don't. So we ended up talking about these simple verbs, okay? And well, more or less, this has helped in the conversation with many parts of the business. So we just talk about acquiring data, we store it, we do computation on it, and we exploit it, okay? Obviously we manage all of that. We, very critically, the data is nothing unless you understand what it means, right? So understanding the data is a key initiative that we have and then when we find something of value, we serve it to anyone that wants to consume it. We expose APIs with it, okay? So that's what we call our conceptual architecture. And we open up all of those concepts in smaller verbs as you can see here. So streaming, obviously here we now talk about ingestion but we talk about access, monitor, support, and in this part we talk about transforming and organizing the data in a common model. We analyze it, we iterate on the data, we create a model, et cetera, okay? And we use this to also show what technologies we use in this next slide. So you can see, on top of the conceptual architecture, you can see the technologies that we use. Most of it is open source based, although we use cloud-era distribution of Hadoop and we use some components, Kafka particularly from the confluent community version. And obviously we have some products that we buy it. So we do use an issue for metadata but also for change data capture and micro-strategy and we built our own products in some cases. Right, so we have a whole data platform now that we can use for analytics, we can use for operational reporting, we can use for regulatory reporting, we use it for regulatory reporting, we use it to serve data to our channels, okay? So now the next stage is to move in the middle to move to cloud. So we are already, we have already implemented, I'm gonna show you now the streaming architecture in a cloud, in a private cloud model using Docker and Kubernetes and the journey in some of the new case to try to do as much as possible in a cloud paradigm, architectural paradigm. Using Red Hat, by the way, OpenShift, okay? So this is our streaming architecture. We ended on this top corner, we have our APIs that we serve to our channels built with microservices on top of Apache Jays and Apache Phoenix and we wanted to do that at a scale. So we ended up buying Abinicio because it's the most effective change data capture that this is now. So we use Abinicio to take the data out of our core banking system, which is a mainframe, IBM mainframe, and as things happen in the mainframe, we stream it out of the mainframe, putting it in Kafka, create different raw topics for each of the tables that we streamed, so around 300 now, and then we transform those streams, we merge topics and all the processing that we do, instead of doing in Kafka, we do it in OpenShift with Docker, in Red Hat OpenShift with Docker and Kubernetes. So it's all streaming to our private cloud and streaming down again, and then we load it in the different databases, so we have a polyglot architecture in which different databases are used for different purposes, and we use HBase for real time access, we use something called newDB, which is a distributed relational database and it's gonna be key for our core banking, and we use Apache Kudu or Cloudera Kudu for streaming analytics, and this makes the backbone of our future core banking. So the core banking on the left is a monolithic, so we have channels that contain presentation layer, business logic, application layer, all in the same application. On the right-hand side, we are building a microservice reactive architecture using APIs that serve the different channels and that can be reused, okay? And all of that is based on, well, gradually adopting a reactive architecture using streaming and with Kafka as the database. For analysts, we are implementing what we call data service. The point being, if you want to implement self-service, and you have hundreds of analysts let's say we have 500 or so, and you have a single team doing data governance as we were talking before, or one single team doing data architecture, those things become bottlenecks, right? So you need to remove yourself from the process as a central center of excellence team, remove yourself from the process and make it all automated and as a service, right? So that's the idea. So we have a portal where you can search starting from the top over there. You have a portal where people are supposed to search first, right, to see if what you are trying to do is already assist. And if it does, you use it. And if it doesn't need necessarily what you want, then you are supposed to iterate on it and improve it. If it doesn't assist, then you find the data, right? So that's another portal that we have where we've published all the data that we have. We have documented it with metadata. And now you can search in that portal and find the data and how the data relates, how one data set relates to another. So we built a graph, which is kind of an ontology or a knowledge graph, it doesn't go as far as that, of course. But it starts opening up the data for people to understand it by themselves without asking any expert or anything like that. Assuming you have the data, then you can use it. You can put it together, you can transform it. If you don't have the data, we are building what we call ingestion as a service with my friend Guillermo Almonathy-Rans. And the idea is that if you have the data in a different database that is not in the Data Lake, but you have the metadata of that data, then automatically you can bring that data into the Data Lake because we have all the knowledge that we need to make the decisions about security, personal information, PII information for GDPR, data architecture, and so on. So then we can bring the data automatically. The user can bring the data automatically without talking to IT. Well, so now we have the data in the Data Lake. You can put it together according to the data model and we are gradually building the data model of the bank in an open source model. So as projects do create a data structure for a certain part of the bank, we plug it in the common data layer. And you can transform the data, then visualize the data, potentially model the data, and everything that you do, you publish it back so the next person can find it, okay? And overall, where we are is that data is now considered a critical business capability, okay? And I'm gonna talk a little bit about that in the next section. And this relates as well to the presentation about Data Owner that we just saw if you were in this room. And we have defined it, we have defined 12 data capabilities. We define what we do around data in the organization. My team, well, now we have an area called Data Services in Southern UK, which manage all of this. Well, it's the privacy and information security which are managed by independent areas. The 10 ones on the left are managed by Data Services and basically six or seven of these are managed by my current team. And this help us organize the maturity of the capabilities in the organization and where the investment needs to be. We put a person responsible for its capability and each of them work kind of as a separate startup within the organization in that they have to provide value and provide a service to the rest of the organization and make their customers happy, okay? So how have we grown to the place where we are today in four years? For first, we take the business capability and I kind of say there is part of it that enables learning and parts of it that enables value creation, okay? So you are gonna create value with the data, the process and the technology, but obviously all of that needs to be operated and informed by people, okay? So for us to be able to grow the capability we need to grow both the learning and the value. So starting with the value, what you always hear in these conferences is, well, start small, create value and so on, yeah? Which is fine, it's true, and this is what you should be doing, find value, find something that is useful for your organization, fix that, show improvement in that and someone will advocate for your initiative and then you can keep resolving more and more problems, okay? If you don't have enough people, well, find other people to help you that are committed and interested in solving that problem, okay? If you give them the right tools, the right training, people start solving problems by themselves, that's the whole point of self-service, right? So you keep growing by finding a use case, that use case typically has other uses in other parts of the business, so you can take the same use case and with a small change it's applied to several problems and you keep multiplying like that, almost like a tree that keeps opening up more branches, okay? Except that you need to be careful because if you have very slim foundations and you keep opening more and more branches in that tree, there is a moment where the tree starts shaking because it's not strong enough, okay? So as you grow, you need to continuously reinforce the foundations and improve your platform, okay? The other thing is that you need to keep learning because no matter how effective you are as you grow to the scale of 20,000 people company with 40 million customers, you are going to end up needing to grow your team and finding the right skills is really difficult. So this is the model that we use for a data science team in which we bring together people from three different backgrounds, data scientist, software engineer, data domain, and we try to put them together so they learn from each other. If they have enough common knowledge, they can learn from each other. Typically, they don't, okay? So then they don't, okay? We've tried this for two years and it's really difficult. So now we try training, we try collaboration with universities, we try software to help them, and we try metadata tool so people don't need to have so much knowledge of the data because it's documented. But anyway, the whole point is that you need to keep growing the knowledge of your team, okay? If you do both things and you manage to do both things, then you can grow by applying this model that we have used somehow, which is mitosis. If you have enough, think about a cell in biology, if you have enough sun and enough food, then that cell opens up in two. There's enough cross-pollination so it splits in two and then we can put one part of the cell in one domain, another part in another domain, and then you give them the opportunity to grow, right? So you've taken maybe six people, they have learned from each other for six months and now they have enough knowledge to separate in two teams of three, put some three new people in those teams and they go on their separate ways, start creating value in the organization in that way, okay? So basically, you started with these people, now you have 12 because you've plugged other people that were already in the organization or that you brought from outside. The other way we've been growing is by thinking about product teams, about creating product teams and thinking about them as startups. So you think about it, you have a capability, as I painted before, the capability has people, they have software, technology, they have data, and they manage some processes, right? So a capability and a product team are very similar concepts. And what we do in a product team is we separate certain people, multi-functional people, we give them a challenge, we give them a value goal or they define their own value goal and they try to deliver that value for the organization by themselves. And if they do it well, they create value for the organization and the demand that comes to them keeps growing, right? As they keep growing, they start identifying, they get feedback from the consumers, from the users of their service and they keep growing their service and making it better. And there is a point that there is no more value to be created. In that process of creating value, they may come up with more services and split up in several cells as well, okay? And at the end of the day, the organization ends up being hundreds of small different teams, which obviously creates a challenge of ensuring that all go in the same direction and with the same goals, okay? So scaling agile is a big challenge. Each of these things should create a successful proposition, which is not necessarily easy, but we think about it in this way. Obviously, starting with customer value, it needs to be a value for the company as well. We need to, we try to be forward-looking and go past assisting mindset restrictions into what the future would need and what is the actual customer need, not just what the customers declare, let's say. Think about customer experience. We, the market is talking about, instead of minimum viable product, we are talking about minimum lovable product or something like that. So you need to add experience to the product so people really feel that the product that you are creating has the value that you aim for and try to demonstrate value quickly and reduce uncertainty, ideally differentiating the company from the rest of the competition. If you do that, you get some successes and then you try to make sure that the successes are across the whole organization. So you get someone from the top, I don't know, an executive member to sponsor your initiative and give you some money, but that's not enough. And if that person leaves the organization, then potentially your initiative is finished. So you need to create a report and advocacy at all levels, ideally in different business areas, the managers of the data intensive teams and the analysts, right? And hopefully you get some feedback from them and you learn from them. And if you have the ability to adapt to what they need, then you can continuously create a product that they value and they are gonna help you in the journey by selling the successes for you. Okay. And then going back to biology, if you do that, then you have the ability to partner with the business. So your team, you can put some engineers on your team in a product team and maybe in the first stage of that product team, you need to put three or four engineers, but then as the business users, if they are technology savvy, they start learning from your engineers, then you can start removing engineers and dedicating them to something else until the product team is independent and or they have kept one of your engineers maybe and you can multiply the number of product teams or you put people by partnering with the other areas of the organization, which is basically what we aim for and we have some what achieved, although not to the scale that we would like, okay? Because they are challenges. So the first challenge I already mentioned, you create quick value, but sometimes you grow too quickly and then your platform is not as robust as you would like. So you need to be worried about that and always trying to make it as robust as possible. Almost I would say also as simple as possible because we tend to think about improving the platform by adding more complexity and in many cases the best solution is to remove complexity and make it simpler, okay? Technology is evolving really quickly. So if you are looking for a tool and you don't make a decision in a year, likely who is the next year, there's gonna be another tool that is better than the one you thought you were gonna get. You need to be conscious that you start using, I don't know, you start using Spark and maybe in a few years you're gonna need a different tool. So almost you need to be ready for that and make the organization ready for that because there are gonna be investment in, people are gonna feel that you are wasting money by investing in something that maybe a few years later you need to invest in something in the same space, but that is much better. And obviously I think it's very important to be always looking at what the industry is doing, coming to these events, looking at the Apache community and other open source communities and trying to experiment with the tools that are coming out. So you can select the best for you, okay? One key aspect for me is the people, right? So it's really difficult to find good people and you can have the best technology and whatever, but if you don't have the right people, nothing matters much. So it's really complicated to keep growing and creating value quickly and keeping people in a peaceful state, okay? I kind of joke that we've been running for four years in sprints, right? So you imagine a user involved running a sprint of 100 meters or you imagine Mo Salah running a marathon, but you don't imagine a user involved running sprinting for 40 kilometers, right? And sometimes we are trying to do that and the team gets burned and you lose them. So these are very important balance between working intensely but then having some break or working in a certain, you know, special project that gives you more, you know, more adrenaline maybe, but then working in another project that is more lower-paced, okay? You can have the best engineers in the world, but everyone ends up cracking under pressure if you apply too much, okay? And then, as I said before, this is a transformation on top of another transformation on top of another transformation. So really it's a revolution and in a revolution there are people that are gonna suffer. There is gonna be conflict. Sometimes you want to avoid it, but sometimes you need to seek it because you are not gonna do our, I mean there are very few revolutions that have happened without conflict, right? There are gonna be people kind of at the top that are not needed anymore. People at the bottom, they don't have the right skills and they are not gonna get the right skills. And the people that are driving the revolution, well, you have been in the forefront of the revolution and sometimes you get shot and joking, of course, metaphorically shot and you also leave the organization because when you are driving the transformation, you also get burned in the process, right? So not everyone should survive it. There are people, if this is a real transformation, you are very young people, most of you, but so maybe you are not gonna suffer it, but maybe you suffer it in 10 or 20 years. Some people are not going to survive the transformation, okay? And the sooner we realize that, the healthier it's gonna be for the whole company, in my opinion. This is personal opinion, okay? And all of it is a cultural change. So it's very good to be creating value, but what are you trying to do? Are you trying to create value or are you trying to change the company? Or maybe you are trying to change the company through creation of value, definitely, right? But if you are trying to change your company, you need to think about slightly different things, okay? And the last idea for me, this is something I added yesterday because of some people that I came hearing about, is a few of these comments that you hear all around, okay? Everything should start with the business. Technology is not important. Big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence are just technologies. I mean, I don't know if you hear these things. I heard some of these in a couple of sessions yesterday. People don't mean exactly this, okay? But this is what they say. Everything should start with the business. It's not everything should start with the business. It's everything should start with the customer needs, okay? That's what they mean. But is the business in your organization tuned to the customer needs? Really? Do they really understand the customer needs? Do they need data to understand the customer needs? Or they think they do, but they don't, because I don't think they do, right? So not everything starts with the business. Everything starts with the customer, okay? That's different, it's a different thing. Technology is not important.  Everything is driven by technology, right? I mean, if there are big oil companies, because there is an engine that requires oil, that's technology, right? There are companies that are, the internet is technology. I mean, the wheel is technology. Is that misunderstanding of what technology means? Right? Technology is not a computer. That's a piece of technology, of course. But technology drives the evolution of the human being. So of course, technology is important. And in the digital, in the digital era, data is also very important. So I think what they say is technology is not important. What they mean is it's not sufficient. Well, technology is not sufficient. You can have the best technology and use it for nothing. And if you don't create value, it's not gonna help you. Same with data. But customer value is also not sufficient. Nothing is sufficient in this world. You have to combine all of these things, have a strategy, add some innovation, differentiate your product, and definitely be efficient. Hopefully you think about the overall good of the society and create value for your customer and then maybe you get somewhere. But definitely bring technology and data to your strategy. Try to get that into your organization as much as you can because that's the only way organizations are gonna survive, in my opinion. And that's it. Thank you very much.


Dear students, in this topic, we shall discuss the role of testes as endocrine tissue. You know that testes are male gonads, which are primarily involved in spermatogenesis. In addition to this function, they also act as endocrine tissue and produce two major types or groups of male sex hormones. These hormones include inhibits and androgens, which are the male reproductive hormones. Dear students, in a cross-section, testes have two major parts. One, the semiferous tubules and number two, the interstitial tissue. The semiferous tubules are lined with two major types of cells. One are the germ cells, which are involved in spermatogenesis. The other type of cells are the sirtuli cells. These are the cells which function as endocrine cells. We shall discuss in detail the role of sirtuli cells as endocrine cells. Sirtuli cells synthesize and secrete a hormone inhibin. Inhibin is secreted on stimulation from androgens. It locally regulates the process of spermatogenesis and also involved in the downregulation of FSH hormone from the pituitary gland. The interstitial tissue lies between the semiferous tubules. It constitutes about 20% of the mass of testes. The endocrine cells present in the interstitial tissue are the leading cells.  Androgens have three major hormones. The first and most important is testosterone. The second is dihydrotestosterone. The third is androesthenydeone.  It is the most abundant of the three. Dihydrotestosterone is more active hormone in the target tissues. So most of the testosterone is converted into this form by the target cells. The third type of endrogens that is androesthenydeone is a weak endrogens. It is formed as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of testosterone. Dear students, now we shall discuss the details of secretion of testosterone. Testosterone is secreted when its concentration is lowered in the blood. It gives its signals to the hypothalamus which produces gunadotropin-releasing hormone in response to lower concentration of testosterone in the blood. This gunadotropin-releasing hormone promotes the release of FSH and leutinizing hormone from the anterior pituitary gland. These two hormones that is FSH and LH act on the leading cells of testis and stimulate the synthesis and release of testosterone. Dear students, when the level of testosterone in blood rises to a certain level, then it causes the production of inhibin hormone from the cell-to-line cells of testis. This inhibin along with the testosterone provide a negative feedback to the hypothalamus which decreases the synthesis and release of gunadotropin-releasing hormone that decrease results in decrease in the secretion of FSH and LH by pituitary and ultimately it results in decrease in the production and release of testosterone.


This is a video that will show you some of those things you can do if you could add extra media to labs So as you can see we're in the JHS environment and we'll open up one of the standard labs and There you see in green what I call the lecture part of it followed by the blue or the operation Sentences that have been put in by the lab designer the black or the results and then of course where the flashing cursor is You can add your own information to your own interaction So create a new lab in honor of the the J conference in 2014 in Toronto in July Good idea to go if or book into it if you haven't yet and Here we see two interactive windows running next to each other So on the left is the standard JHS with the information That I want to play around with and on the right is my shape and type window where I can Display some of the same information Except that it shows up a little bit differently So on the left you see the standard CCCC the four by the two by two Array what that looks like and then on the right you've got the green squares indicating characters Where this becomes important, and we'll see it right now when you go to a shape of one by one In the standard environment, there's no difference between a shape of one by one or a shape of one in the way it looks But you'll see it switch here and There you go. You can see that now. This is only a shape of one not a shape of one by one So the the rank actually displays that way you similarly with zero Values in the dimension you can see clearly where those zeros are and how they affect the shape And of course you can assign a type So for instance right now it's going to be a complex type Which in the standard environment Displays as you you might expect now that the variable is carried right over to the other one to the new environment And that's kind of useful and I can change this now to a extended variable number and when I Take a look at a now. I've reassigned it and it's in red showing. It's an extended and Similarly if I make it an integer now that I take that X off and now the display would be Going back to black as an integer So two environments both running at the same time and interactive Adding fractions and J is easy you can also Have the JHS on the left and on the right be running a video in this case a video from YouTube I had promoting rational arithmetic Pretty neat kind of a thing to be able to running a video to clarify a concept at the same time You're doing something on the left and you can interact there And of course this has got the standard JHS interaction You can use the usual Ripple and then wrapping it up you go back to a full screen which allows you to Be running J in the JHS and I'm just the way you'd expect we can go back to again to the standard lab And we're back to the lecture followed by the operational statements and results


How gratitude is calculated under the unlimited contract in the UAE, remember? Gratitude is just a token of money that is given to someone after completing a given number of years with a company. So thank you so much for coming back to this channel and if it's your first time to come across this channel, support this channel by subscribing and hitting the notification bell. Gratitude under the unlimited contract. Remember, when we are talking about the unlimited contract, we are looking at that contract where the number of years and the date are open. You know, the notice period for that contract you give to your employer as resigning or terminating your contract is normally three months because it is open in one or the other. But remember, the gratitude calculation also will depend on the contract which is sometimes very important to look at the contract or understand what clause is being put in the contract before you get to put your signature or thumb in your case. In this case, we are going to look at calculation of gratitude under what we call the unlimited contract. Remember, this will depend on the number of years in that company. And when you are less than one year, there is no gratitude. One to two years you are entitled to one third of 21 days of gratitude. Three to five years you are entitled to two thirds, two over three. And five years you are entitled to 21 days. For example, we are looking at a person who is earning 10,000 dirhams. So that means the daily wage will be basically divided by 30 days of the month which will give you 10,000 divided by 30 which will give you 333. That means this person earns that much per day. But again we want to see if this person has completed five years plus that means the daily wage will be calculated per 21 days. So 333.30 times 21 times five years that means it will give you 34996.58. That's what how much it gets per five years. Then we are going to still try to see how much that this person if he does not complete or in any case this person does not come beyond that five years. Remember, that's already we looked at the value of five years and five years plus. That's how much you get 21 days of every year as your gratitude because your number of days or number of years in that company is bigger. And the duration is also bigger. For one to three years the gratitude is one third of 21 days. So that means one over three times 699.30. That means you get 233.098 that is per one or two years. So you multiply that figure by the number of years. And if you've lived in that company for three to five years gratitude will be two over three of ten to one days which will give you 46661980. So you multiply by that figure at a time. Remember, that is what we call gratitude. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel. Remember to subscribe and support this channel's makes from the makes creation. See you again.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. And today it's time to get into something that people have been asking me to do ever since I began the channel and, you know, haven't really gotten around to, which is a ranking of all of the anime openings. So as many of you know, I'm quite critical in regards to the anime, however the openings aren't by far one of my favorite aspects of the adaptation. They usually contain some pretty solid animation and for the most part it's just really great music, much of which becomes incorporated into my permanent listening rotation. So I'm very excited to be sharing my thoughts on this influential music here today. Before I get started though, just a few notes about how I'm going to be ranking these. There are technically 22 anime openings, but two of those are just alternate versions of We Are, being the remix and the straw hat version respectively. Neither of which I'll be including here today because I think that they're a waste of time and space. So we're only going to be talking about We Are once instead of three times, meaning that we have a grand total of 20 openings to be ranked instead. And you know what, if you're really desperate for the sake of completion to rank the other two We Are's then just consider them 21st and 22nd in no particular order. But in this particular video we are going to begin by ranking openings 20 all the way down to 11. Also this probably goes without saying, but because this is the internet I'll do it anyway, I should point out that this is quite probably going to be the most subjective video I have ever made. Everything will be entirely dependent on what appeals to me and me alone through music and aesthetics. So just you know, keep that in mind as we go and feel free to share your own opinion in the comments, just do so in a civil way. But with that out of the way, let's begin. Welcome to the official Grand Line Review Anime Opening Rankings. Number 20. Kaze Osagashite. Alright so we're starting out quite negatively here because this is quite possibly the only one piece opening that I dislike with an extreme passion. So Kaze Osagashite is the 12th opening which covered the little East Blue filler arc which is already not a fond memory in regards to this opening, but it also went on to cover most of Impel Down and even the very beginnings of Marineford and therein lies my main problem. In terms of the song itself, it's just not for me. It's far too light and peppy and all sorts of oooh yay!  But with that said, it's not a bad song. I can see why people like it and that's cool. But my issue is that it was absolutely the worst possible choice of music to be paired with Impel Down and Marineford which are two of the most serious arcs ever featured in the series.   I mean in my mind an opening is supposed to warm you up for the episode you're about to watch. It's meant to set the tone and hype you up for the show. This opening makes me feel like I'm about to watch a slice of life anime designed for preteens not plunge into the depths of one piece hell and commence some of the most brutal events we've ever seen in the series and I guess if I wanted to be an artsy wanker I could make the argument that the opening was chose to purposely contrast the dark events and provide a bit of levity at this point in the series but even if that was the case I think it fails astoundingly and it really should not be associated with one piece let alone impel down and marine food so shame on you kaze osugashite shame on you. Number 19. Jungle pee so immediately let me just say that jungle pee suits my musical taste a whole world more than kaze osugashite and absolutely everything on this list from here on out will but it's still not quite my cup of tea specifically in regards to the male vocals something about them just sounds odd enough to my ears but the musical substance is actually quite enjoyable it's nice and energetic but not overly super kawaii crazy cake I have to say that one reason why I probably don't enjoy this opening as much as every other is because of its association with the thriller parka which was when I stopped watching the one piece anime regularly and made the switch to pure manga so I think that my general dissatisfaction of the time comes into this somewhat probably my favorite part of the opening though is the slower portion near the end where the thousand sunny is flying through the air right before leaping into that final chorus that is a pretty damn beautiful moment but for the rest of the opening I could give or take it quite easily there's nothing hugely special about it to me but there's also nothing majorly detrimental either so I guess jungle pee just sits very firmly in the meh camp for me number 18 we can so here we will have the first mention of Hiroshi Kitotani and we will see his music a couple more times as this goes on but I think that this is not only the worst song of his featured in the series but also the poorest animation to couple it with in regards to the song it lands in a very frustrating area that Asia loves to pursue which is what I refer to as soft rock which if I was to describe it as a feeling then I would say it's a lot like when a musician wants to inject a ton of energy into a song but at the same time it's 11 p.m and their neighbors will complain so they tone it down and then we get stuff like we can coming out of that and it's really frustrating because we can has a lot of potential as a song it's catchy as hell but it never really escalates into any real substance it very much stays at the same level for me and so I don't really think it has any musical depth and in terms of animation look this one's a bit deceptive at first glance it can look pretty schmick but if you take even a slightly more lingering look we can falls apart pretty quickly and Toei's trademark let's call it quality comes through so for example one of my favorite parts of said quality is when we have this like four second panning shot of the ship and Nami is just standing there the entire time gaping open mouth and just steering the ship slightly right and then immediately slightly left to where it began the rest of her body is entirely static that is the animation at play and people are going to call this nitpicky but this is just one example the opening is full of crap like that and it's a death by a thousand cut scenario with that said there is some decent animation around the end where the monster trio were taking on Jack and Kaido so it's definitely not all bad and I do really want to like it it just doesn't give me enough to invest into to me it's a shallow experience both musically and visually but to its credit it is at least still a catchy one number 17 bon voyage now to be completely honest with you I am shocked that bon voyage is this far down the list I quite like this song especially the super chilled opening with the glimpse of the straw hats and their various items in that holiday setting I think it was able to do the exact opposite of Kazuyo Sagashite and properly amp you up for the events of skypeer it retains a nice spirit of classic one-piece adventure as well but I guess where it does falter for me is that the song doesn't ever completely hook me like I enjoy it especially the beginning as I mentioned but it always ends up losing me at some stage and I can't ever remember where that stage is I guess it just doesn't have the added oomph that I'm looking for musically which is a shame because the visuals for the most part are quite wonderfully presented and there are lots of cute little stylistic choices that are made so it's really weird because while I remember bon voyage quite fondly I think it just gets lost in the sea of one-piece openings that I flat out prefer more for musical aesthetic or whatever reason it may be it is a solid opening though and I think its placement this far down the list is a compliment for everything to come number 16 crazy rainbow next up we have the opening that covered most of any slobby and returned four to seven now at the time I had a huge gripe with this opening because it replaced one that I really really enjoyed and that one didn't even get to run for half of the episodes that crazy rainbow went on to represent so this one it was a very hard sell for me but I did eventually come around to it in reality this opening is a lot of fun musically it's very adventurous and I think appropriately reflects the spirit of one-piece but I do have a similar issue as I did with we can which is that crazy rainbow is a bit soft for my liking given that it does use some pretty rocking guitar and drum attempts but at the same time crazy rainbow is not pretending to be a rock hit it focuses a lot more on horns and percussion which gives it a nice unique identity of its own and a sound that I have rather shockingly begun to appreciate quite a bit I mean it's not something that I would go out of my way to listen to but I am more than happy to have it playing as part of a giant one-piece playlist and the only other thing I'll mention is that crazy rainbow was the first of the long two minute and 30 second openings which were now very used to in the series but that was very jarring at the time because everything before it was sitting around the minute 30 mark as a result I think that some of the animation of crazy rainbow does purposely drag out and even become quite static at several points which is not great but it is what it is I guess number 15 share the world here's another funky one a song that I really did not like at first because of its unique sound it was really jarring when I initially heard it but the chorus is really the saving grace here because it's such a beautiful sound that can somehow at once encompass the feeling of adventure but also reflect serious events which is shown as it gets used when Luffy is surfing and having fun as well as when Luffy is coming across Boa Hancock which is much more dramatic but works really well in my opinion my favorite part is probably the first verse though where the straw hats are all introduced one by one with the names coming up on screen with that like nice zoom in and contrast shift all in time with the music it's an incredibly simple but very effective device I really do wish that more one-piece openings specifically created and edited visuals to the beat of music because it is a much more powerful experience I mean so long as it's not this that is so I'm actually not sure what more to say about share the world I guess it's a solid opening not my favorite by any means but there is a lot like about both visually and musically so why not number 15 sounds pretty good to me number 14 wake up so here's a song that hits me very much more solidly you'll probably find a trend in that music I like tends to be very high energy but wake up is particularly fun to me because it has both male and female vocals and they accomplish very different goals within the music and then come together to form a mighty chorus honestly I really enjoy this song so much so that the opening in general could be ranked so much higher than it is except that I think the visuals chosen to accompany it are letting it down significantly so wake up is probably best remembered as the 15th anniversary song which meant that the Straw Huts were all given special nifty anniversary outfits all of whom I hate with the exception of Robin and probably Sanji's otherwise I think they're all an eyesore and do not belong in one piece and really ruins any kind of immersion in the world for me another thing I'm not a huge fan of is the break in the middle where Blackbeard gets to Zer-ha-ha and be anonymous and then Luffy talks as well it's just it's all a bit cringy for my tastes and it was also a questionable decision to animate the monster trio fighting Sakazuki, Fujitora, Anki-Zaru but that last part doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as the outfits in the talking if not for those two things I think that wake up would definitely be in my top 10 to be honest but we do have those two things so what can you do number 13 Ikariye going way back to the classic days now Ikariye was the opening that covered the tail end of the albaster saga as well as Jaya and a surprising amount of skype here it spanned an awfully long time and actually fun fact it spoiled Robin joining the crew for anime only fans who were eagerly watching the conclusion of the alabaster arc good times but that said this opening is pretty great and 53 episodes of it was a pleasure and I guess the main factor behind that is that he Ikariye knows exactly what it is it's a song about adventure and the visuals given match it perfectly it's not some weird scenario where the animators have tried to force in current events or greater figures of the world it focuses purely on the straw hat sailing encountering natural problems and just having fun on their adventure and I love that it basically shows you what one piece is between major arcs and ignites a desire for exploration which really gets you or at least it really gets me pretty pumped for an episode especially those that took place on skype here it was definitely less appropriate for alabaster though I will say that still this is a brilliant opening and my favorite part of it has to be the montage where the straw hats are all doing their thing in the beginning and leading to the next one in a great fluid manner and there's actual animation involved rather than predominantly static figures and it just gives this opening that wonderful zest of life number 12 we are all right I feel like I'm going to get crucified for this but yeah we are isn't even in my own personal top 10 one-piece openings that's just uh that's just something we're all going to have to come to terms with pretty quickly what I will say is that if I had to choose one opening to perfectly represent what one piece is in terms of feel of the story, the world and the characters we are would definitely be it it's undeniably brilliant even with the tacky sound effects involved and there's definitely no flaw that I can really point to within this song it's just that in this case I really think it's a simple situation where I personally like every other opening more for whatever individual reason that may be we are is a fantastic great singalong tune but there are other openings that have just hit me so much harder and one of those just so happens to be number 11 believe moving straight into the second opening and I was pretty in love with this from the first moment I saw and heard it the song is an unashamed product of its time I mean you would never hear anything like this in the modern day it has that leftover 90s dance beat going on which gives it both a sense of energy and nostalgia that I really appreciate I also think it starts out really strongly speeding across the ocean then giving us a quick recap of the world and its characters and then finally launching into a full on high energy quest that makes me immediately want to board a pirate ship and find the one piece and the crazy thing is that as much as I've complained about lazy animation and some of the past openings on this list believe is quite possibly one of the most guilty offenders in regards to that believe takes incredible advantage of still images as well as a lot of reused footage from the series itself but it makes it work with the still images it does so by absolutely bombarding you with characters in the opening and with the reused footage they've selected very musically appropriate snippets and given them a classic quad screen effect which just enhances the energy even more so I will say that yeah believe is certainly lazy but at least it has some great artistic direction behind it and that is really all it needs and what a lot of modern day openings are sorely missing and that is why believe sits very comfortably here in the number 11 spot but that pretty much does it for part one of the Grand Line review anime opening rankings we will be covering the top 10 very soon which I'm very excited for because each and every one of those songs are ones that I listen to regularly and feel very passionately about so look forward to that for now if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the Grand Line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this 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