Okay, this is a Solving Percent Problems video. This is my first attempt at a video with a lot of writing in it, so we'll see how well this goes. Okay, so this is a percent type of problem. We're gonna use proportions to solve this. But before that, I'm gonna read through this to see what we have going on. Okay, so a poll taken the day before an election showed that 22.5% of voters planned to vote for a certain candidate. If 1800, 1800 voters participated, how many voted for that candidate? Okay, now when you have these type of percent problems, one thing that we need to do is we need to look through the problem and try to identify certain pieces of it, mainly just the numbers. Whenever you read a word problem, we wanna try to identify in the numbers. So the first two that jump out at me is 22.5% and 1800 voters. Okay, those two numbers I'm gonna use somehow some way to try to figure out this percent problem. Okay, now whenever you encounter a percent problem, there is one kind of formula, I can kinda call it a formula, that is really very useful for these type of problems. And that formula is the percent over 100 is equal to the part over the whole. Now, notice earlier I said that we talked about solving this using proportions. Remember that a proportion is just a fraction equal to a fraction. And so that's kinda what we have here. This formula, if you wanna call it that, is just a proportion, I guess, just something we commonly use for percent problems to make it a little bit simpler. Okay, so now the thing is, is we got three pieces of this formula. We got a percent that we gotta plug in, we got a part that we gotta plug in, and we have a whole that we gotta plug in. So there's only three things that we really need to figure out. One of those things, actually, we will not be able to figure out, that's kinda gonna be our variable when we get there in a minute. So as I read through this again, we're gonna try to figure out which numbers are the percent, which ones the parts, and which ones are the whole. Okay, a poll taken the day before an election showed that 22.5% of voters plan to vote for a certain candidate. If 1,800 voters participated, how many voted for that candidate? Okay, now, as I read through it again and again, whenever you work out these word problems, you might have to read through them again and again and again to figure out everything you need to know about them. The first number that comes out is 22.5%. Okay, that right there, that's kinda easy to figure out where that's gonna go here in our little formula. That's gonna go in the percent spot. So over here, I'm gonna do a little bit of work. 22.5 over 100 is equal to the part over the whole. Okay, now I gotta figure out out of this problem what the part is and what the whole is. Okay, if 1,800 voters participated, how many voted for that candidate? Okay, now as I read that, I gotta think, okay, that 1,800, is that gonna be part or is that gonna be the whole? Okay, now this is where the understanding of the problem comes in handy. I know that 1,800 is gonna be my largest number. That's the total number of voters that came in and filled out ballots on that certain day or maybe the certain couple of days. Okay, so that's gonna be, that's the large number. That's the big number. So that right there, this 1,800 is gonna be the whole. Okay, the part right here is gonna be how many voted for that candidate? So this empty spot right here, we'll call it the variable. So, well, we're talking about a candidate, so I'm gonna use C for a variable. That's the part. That C stands for how many people voted for that candidate. That's the empty spot. That's the part that I don't know. Okay, so out of 1,800 voters, how many of them voted for that certain candidate? Okay, so now I have a nice little equation to solve. This is just like the proportions video that we did just a couple of videos ago. Anyway, to solve this, we have to use a cross product, cross product, so I have to take 22.5 times 1,800, using parentheses to denote multiplication. Okay, equals C times 100. Well, I was gonna put 100 C, and there we are. Okay, now one thing I'm actually gonna show here, I'm not actually gonna multiply those numbers quite yet. What I'm gonna do is I look at the right side, I wanna get C by itself, and I wanna know how many votes that candidate got. So what I'm gonna do first is actually I'm gonna divide by 100. This is one technique to use when solving equations. You don't have to do all the mathematics all at once. Sometimes you can wait a little bit. So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna take this 100 and divide it over to the other side. So I'm going to divide by 100, divide by 100. I'm losing some space right here, so I'm gonna go that way. So what this ends up being is C is equal to 22.5 times 1,800, all of that divided by 100. And notice I kind of switched things around just a little bit. This C on this side is last, and I kind of flipped it so it's first, then this over here was first. I switched that so it's last. You can flip those around a little bit, just as long as everything stays equivalent. That's kind of a technique that I like to use. I like my variables to come first, so that's why I use that. But anyway, so what I have now is I have 22.5 times 1,800 and then divide by 100. If you're pretty good with the math, you realize that I can actually divide this first. So this is actually 22.5 times 18. These zeros are gonna cancel out. The 1,800 divided by 100 is just gonna leave me 18. You don't need to know that, but this right here, you can plug into your calculator. It's one nice easy step divided by 100. And so in this case, C is equal to 405. C is equal to 405, that's a little bit lower than I want to in my paper. But anyway, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna erase this just a little bit so I can actually write my answer. This right down here, C is equal to 405. C is equal to 405, that is not my answer. Okay, a lot of students will make this mistake once they get down to this point, they think, oh, okay, C is equal to 405, my teacher's gonna know what that is, boom, that's my answer. Well, in the real world, the thing is, when somebody tries to read this problem or tries to figure out what you did or you're trying to explain this to somebody, 405, C equals 405 means absolutely nothing to them. If you look back up into our problem up here, there's no C's, there's no variables, there's nothing to that effect. So C makes no sense whatsoever. So make sure when you have a problem like this, make sure you actually write what the answer is. C equals 405, I have no idea what that means. But this tells me, because I use C for a variable, C stands for the number of people who voted for that candidate. Now the only label I have for that candidate is just that, it's that candidate. I really actually, honestly, the problem doesn't really tell me much more than that. Anyway, this tells me, since C is equal to 405, that tells me that 405 people voted for that candidate. That right there is your answer, okay? You'll save a lot of people, a lot of heartache, you'll save your former, or excuse me, your future employers, a lot of heartache, and you'll save your teachers a lot of heartache if you actually write your answer. Just don't assume that everybody knows what this bottom part means. Not everybody's gonna know that. So you have to use plain English right at your answer. 405 people voted for that candidate. Okay, that is just one example of a percent problem. I will do more examples in later videos, but that just gives you a basic idea. Real quick, I want to rewrite this. Okay, so that was the answer to the problem. 405 people actually voted for that candidate, but we used this little formula. Percent over 100 is equal to part over whole. This is a very useful formula to memorize. It's not, I hate calling it a formula because it's not technically a formula, but it's a nice little tool for us to use to solve these type of percent problems. So that right there is probably the most important part of this problem.


mystery Monday series we have been looking into missing people from national parks here in the United States. Of course we started off looking at the Bennington Triangle over in Vermont. We then talked about a case that happened in the Colorado River many many years ago. We also spoke about a person who went missing near Yosemite and now we are on the west coast at the Olympic National Park. A lot like the Bennington Triangle the Olympic National Park also has legends of groups of people going missing in a certain time frame. But today we're going to talk about some of the information released about the park that I personally find very interesting and someone who did go missing but was eventually rescued. Olympic National Park is located in Washington state on the Olympic Peninsula. It became a protected land on the 29th of June 1938. However in 1976 the United Nations designated the land as a biosphere reserve and then in 1981 it was designated as a World Heritage Site. The park itself brings in about three and a half million people a year.  And so knowing that the UN was involved or has been involved in the Olympic National Park opened up Pandora's box for me so to speak and brought me to another interesting discovery about Olympic National Park. Now when I research certain topics especially certain areas of the world I will often go and listen to locals talk about their experiences being in the area. Because I am from the total opposite end of the continent of North America from Washington state obviously I don't know a lot of the legends that encompass this surrounding. I already knew that they suspected Bigfoot lived up in Washington state but honestly we have legends of Bigfoot here in Georgia too on the Appalachian Trail. Now if you're like me and you probably are since you're on this channel you probably suspect that a lot of these national parks have been given the protection of being a national park because of we'll just say cult rituals. I also do believe that this land holds portals in other slightly psychedelic things that the average person is not privy to. But what I found interesting when I was listening to people from the area speak about Washington National Park is that just a few months ago in September of 2021 rumors started to go around about happening at the park again. Yes you heard that right again. Now in fairness anybody who has ever read Old Man in the Sea knows that nature versus man nature always wins. And I do believe that some of the missing people cases that we have in national parks are simply that. Like the case we're going to talk about a little bit later today I think some people just happen to fall into a ravine or get lost in the terrain and then sadly their life is taken from them from the elements of nature and because the terrain is so hard for the rescuers to navigate sometimes those bodies are just not found. Meaning that I do believe some of these missing people cases are literally just accidents. Nothing sinister just an accident. And so when I talk about the rumors surrounding Washington National Park I'm not talking about conspiracy theorists who think that every single person that goes missing has to be the victim of something nefarious. What I'm talking about is the suspected amount of bodies both human and animal that allegedly are buried in the park. Human beings and living animals that were used for particular rituals. Now if you have common sense I guess you would know that even for your run of the mill serial killer a national park would probably be a great place for a body dump. Again a lot of these national parks have terrain that most people cannot navigate. So if you're able and if you know the park and you're able to utilize that terrain it's highly likely that sometimes these bodies again will never be discovered. But it does seem that residents in the area are aware of something very very sinister utilizing this park. Ted Gunderson was born on the 7th of November 1928 and passed away on the 31st of July 2011. Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1951. Some of his most famous cases include the passing of Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of JFK. Two people who we know didn't leave the earth plane like they say they left the earth plane. It just so happens that Ted Gunderson was one of us. Because he worked for the FBI he was privy to a lot of information that the rest of us just have to dig and look for. Many people might recognize Ted Gunderson because he was heavily involved in the satanic panic of the 1980s which most of us know was not the conspiracy theory that they wanted us to believe it was. Ted Gunderson was of the opinion was using Washington National Park as a dumping ground specifically in Mason County. He believed that this would account for the countless bodies buried all over the park. And for me this is probably one of the biggest reasons why so many people go missing in these parks. Not just the Olympic National Park but a lot of the parks. And as we come to this great awakening I think that this is something really important for us to look at and to understand. Now unfortunately due to YouTube and its platform there's not a whole lot I can go into when it comes to the actual rituals but hopefully by giving you some of these leads this will help you in your own research. Now again as I said I do believe that this is one of the main reasons why so many people go missing in the park but like I said at the beginning of the video there is the element of the danger of nature. Some people just go missing because again it's an accident. And today I'm going to talk about a person, a young person who went missing at Olympic National Park but not for nefarious reasons. And in fact he was eventually rescued. And so I think it's kind of important to also talk about these cases as well even though this is a mystery series. I do want to talk about the people that have been found and the heroic rescue that the rescue workers went on, the missions they went on to save this one human life. Because for however many bad people there are in the world honestly there are a lot more good. Jared Fisher was reported missing by his family on September 16th of this last year 2021. Now again as I said earlier this was around the time that the rumors started again in the area that Olympic National Park was being used for cult rituals. Jared was supposed to go on a solo hiking trip that started on the 8th of September. He started at Graves Creek tail head and his wilderness permit was set for September 8th through the 12th meaning he was supposed to leave the park on the 12th. But four days later when Jared had not shown back up home his family did report him missing. Jared's car was still parked at the trailhead where his journey was due to begin. This was evidence that Jared probably had not left the park and was somewhere out there in the wilderness. Because Jared had given over his itinerary to the park rangers the rescuers knew where to go and search. Now I personally have mixed feelings about this. I understand that this again gave the rescuers an area to concentrate on to try to find Jared especially since Jared was alone at least somebody knew where he was supposed to be. However because these parks are sometimes super nefarious I don't know if I would want to be handing over my itinerary to just anyone. But luckily for Jared his rescue researchers were good people and we're genuinely trying to find him. Now as I said in our last episode when I think of a September day I think of a very hot hot humid day. However September up in Washington state is cold and rainy. Just like our last case the rescue workers were working heavily against the elements of nature not just the park itself but the weather. But luckily for Jared who himself was a very experienced hiker 11 days after he was reported missing he was found. It appears that Jared had fallen into a ravine where he was stuck. He was found by the rescue workers yelling his name when he heard his name he called back for help. Because the ravine was so steep the US Coast Guard had to be called in to help rescue Jared. It took the air crew about 30 minutes to locate the search team. The helicopter dropped in a rescue swimmer who was able to get to Jared and pull him out of the ravine by the helicopter. Jared then was taken to the local hospital where he was treated for minor minor injuries. Now again with this episode some people might be disappointed because I didn't actually talk about someone who did go missing but again I think it is important to also talk about the people who are found and I also wanted to take a moment to talk about Ted Gunnerson's work to give us another idea of what we're dealing with when it comes to future cases that we are going to be covering on this channel regarding Olympic National Park as well as other national parks. I am so happy for Jared and his family that he was located. I know that must have been very very scary for both him and his loved ones and so the fact that he was rescued is incredible and I'm so so so happy again for him and his family. All right you guys I hope that you're having a wonderful wonderful wonderful week. I have a really busy week ahead if you're watching this at its normal time at 10 o'clock on Monday you will know that I've already been on Aquarius Rising Africa where we were talking about Catherine de Medici. I'm going to be doing some more shows with Catherine this week just so much so much fun stuff and I look forward to hearing how your week is going. I know everybody is super stressed out I know we're so low energy and we just want everything to be done but my friends I do think that things are almost done and the best is truly yet to come. All right I hope you're having a wonderful Monday and I will talk to you soon. Bye


hardware failures in any individual node. And you can get started with DynamoDB for free. So when you're ready to take your database to cloud scale, visit our website and sign up for the free tier of service today. Hey, Volante of wikibon.org. And this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's flagship product. We go out to the shows. We extract the signal from the noise. We bring you the best guests that we can find. We like to call them tech athletes. We love sports and allergies here at Wikibon and SiliconANGLE. I'm here with my co-host, Jeff Frick. Jeff, we're here all day, breaking down the analysis. Ryan Tudhope is in the house, co-founder of Atomic Fiction. Ryan, welcome. Thank you so much. It's so really impressive what you guys have set up here. It's incredible. We were talking about it right before the show and I'm stoked. Bob Humboldt, especially given your business. So you were at the keynote this morning. I think I told you we had a split because we were going live. But tell us about your company. Tell us about what you talked about in the keynote and we'll get into the cloud and how it's transforming your business. Absolutely. Well, huge opportunity, obviously, to be a part of Amazon's keynote today. Incredible conference and really appreciate the opportunity to be here. My company, Atomic Fiction, was founded about two years ago with my business partner, Kevin Bailey and I. And it's scary to say how old we are now, but we, I guess, are considered VFX veterans by the time we started our company. So we had a great opportunity to get a lot of work under our belt and really kind of understand the industry pretty well. But one of the things that we really realized was that talent is the most important thing when it comes to doing visual effects and animation, which is what our business is. And so we were able to form the company around some really great people and get some really great clients and kick the company off in a big way, about two years ago. Yeah, so some of the recent noteworthy accomplishments. I mean, flight, you'd want a big award for flight. Absolutely. If you haven't seen the movie I'd like to fly, I don't see it. I'm gonna put it that way, because it's so realistic. I mean, just amazing. Oh, thank you. I actually read a lot of scripts on airplanes because I'm traveling back and forth to LA a lot. And so I'll read a lot of scripts on airplanes just to kind of get in. And I sat there with the script for flight and I said, okay, I'm gonna actually do this. I'm gonna get through this script while I'm flying. It was tough, but I did. So you did flight visual effects for Transformers 3 and a number of other hit films. Last year, we also did Looper with Ryan Johnson, which was an incredible opportunity. He's an amazing filmmaker. So yeah, we've had a good time. Outstanding. So talk about how you're using AWS, the cloud, what it means for your business, and we'll get into a little bit more detail. Yeah, absolutely, sure. Well, so like I was saying, Kevin and I had worked on a lot of films and worked with a lot of great filmmakers and a lot of great films. And we also worked at a lot of big companies and small companies throughout the last 10 or 15 years. And we kind of spotted the trends of what was really working in large shops and what was working in small shops. In a big company, you have a lot of resources and a big pipeline and you're able to do a lot of work over the course of a period of time, but there's a lot of barriers and departments and things that are a little slower as a result. At a small shop, you might just have a few guys in a room where a dozen guys and gals in a room doing the work and you can't get as much done necessarily because you don't have a lot of that big pipeline and infrastructure, but things are more nimble and there's a little more of a rebellious attitude and it's a little more fun. You just get a lot done. And so two years ago when we founded Atomic Fiction, what we really wanted to do was combine the best of the big shop with the best of the small shop. We wanted that big facility infrastructure but that vibe and energy of a small company. And so that's how Atomic Fiction was born. And around that time, Amazon was obviously upping their offerings with AWS. And that really represents to a large degree a big component of that big shop pipeline that we're talking about. It allows us to do, which we can get into, have the computer resources that we need in order to get through a lot of work really quickly and still be a relatively small company and play with the big boys. So when you got started, you basically said, okay, we can't do this anywhere else. We got to have something like Amazon's cloud. So what happened? You funded the company or talk about the early days and how you started out. Well, I'm curious, when you kind of mapped it out with your partner, what kind of capital expense line item were you looking at to try to fund the type of company that you wanted to create and support the creativity levels? Right. Well, so looking at the cloud as a way to render, rendering, I should also back up real quick. I mentioned, is just absolutely critical to our industry and what we do because it's basically like, I like to, the analogy I like to use is it's like paint drawing for the artist. We need to render in order to see the work that we've been doing all day. And then we need to look at that together and we need to comment on it and iterate and refine. And so we're constantly rendering all day long and we need a lot of horsepower to be able to do that. So as a visual effects company starting up from scratch, if you know that you have the potential for a lot of customers right off the bat, you essentially have two choices. You can build your own local infrastructure, which in the case of us would have cost millions of millions of dollars in order to support the types of films that we knew we'd be working on. Or what is now kind of a new revelation in the world is being able to treat computing power more like a utility where you only pay for what you use. And so it was kind of a no brainer for us because we unfortunately didn't have millions of millions of dollars to pour into a render farm. So it came out a little bit of a need, a necessity, but also just trying to figure out how to be more nimble and lower our costs and make sure that our customers' dollars were making it up on the screen for everyone to see rather than in our server rooms, air conditioning unit, trying to keep everything cool if that makes sense. Okay, so what did you need to enable that business? So if you had to do it yourself, you'd get some guys to an IT infrastructure, you'd obviously have some application development guys and the like, what did you need to get started? Yeah, well we got very lucky. We started talking about this cloud stuff to some of our contacts in the industry really early on. And we met a group that was very early in very early stages of developing a platform that sat between the AWS cloud and was really focused at specifically what we wanted to do which was render in the cloud. And the company is called Zinc, Z-Y-N-C. And we had been partners with them basically for about a year and a half or two years throughout this whole process. They had made great traction developing this tool that would allow artists to render in the cloud. And we approached them and they approached us and we kind of realized this is a perfect marriage because we have some big projects coming through, we can really put it through its paces and test it out. They had a need for some partners to kind of do exactly that. And so for all the projects that we worked on but most notably flight, we entirely rendered that entire project in the cloud using Zinc. It was beta all the way through and then now it's actually released and I think they're slowly bringing on customers. So all of your viewers and anyone who's interested in computer graphics can actually access this. So they're a tool set in between you and the Amazon cloud? That's right. Kind of like a heat shield? Exactly, a heat shield, yeah, absolutely. And we worked with them and we created a lot of the custom glue between the apps that we use, Autodesk products such as Maya, 3D Studio Max, the Foundry has products like Nuke which we use for compositing.  But basically just to make it really efficient for a visual effects company and then we were able to in our agreement with them give them that stuff so that everyone can use it. And so it's really a product that's ready to go. And we'll give you time to geek out a few more. No, no, no, no. I'm not qualified to be an official there. I do want to go a little geek though and just, you know, flight is, it's obviously it's not an animated movie, right? So you're doing visual effects that need to look real. Absolutely. We hope so, yeah. So I would imagine the computational requirements go up by another huge amount. I mean, just to give people some type of feel for scale. Yeah. You know, can you throw out some numbers in terms of, I don't even know how you measure it.  Well, it's absolutely right. So there's two things to answer to your question. One is just when it comes to doing something that is a live action movie, visual effects that need to look photoreal. Really, really, yeah, really what that means is that you just need to iterate on it more and more and more. And I always talk about this last 10%, which is that it's pretty easy to get something looking pretty good, you know, in about 90% of the way there. But that last 10% is in order of magnitude harder than everything before it. And in other words, we really critique each other and sit in a room and look at something and talk about the way the light glints off of a wing or how foggy the window is or how much dirt is around the edges of the frame. And as a result of all those notes and that noodling, as we call it, we end up rendering and over and over and over again. So you see this huge spike in our render needs toward the end of a project when we're kind of getting to that kiss of love, that last 10% that we try to put into all of our shots. On flight, the visual effects production schedule was about six months long. And over the course of that six months, we calculated that we rendered about 1.15 million core hours in the Amazon Cloud to finish that project. What's really interesting is that we used almost half of all of those core hours in the last 30 days of production. So here's the important piece of information for everyone that's listening. So if you need to build a local render farm to handle that huge spike that happens at the end of the project, you basically are going to not be using all those machines for most of the time, basically five months out of the six, in the case of flight. But because Amazon is seemingly endless, I don't know how many machines they have, but I couldn't use them all, right? We were able to basically rent what we need, when we need it, and then at the end of the project we drop it right back off to zero and we literally close the door and get out in our car and go have a glass of wine. It's that mirror at S-curve that Andy shows, Andy Johnson shows. Absolutely, so for a visual effects company like us that's trying to be nimble and use our customer's money for images rather than our overhead, it's a game changer, and it's one of the things that we've been doing to try to change our industry. And so you're competing with the big shops. Talk about competition in your business a little bit. How is it structured? Well, it's interesting, it's one of the few industries that is very friendly. In other words, because it's very project-based, we share a lot of the same talent between companies. People will jump around a lot, people will work at different companies, and it is really a very friendly industry, and it's a very challenging industry, so we all band together in a way. So it's not so much that we're competing with the big boys and it's more that we're working alongside them, and AWS has allowed us to be able to work on projects that are really big, such as the Star Trek to the World and Flight, and these big projects that ordinarily we wouldn't be able to do as a small company. So you're able to add value in that chain as a small company, which you're saying normally they would have to go to a larger company with greater installed physical resources to be able to do that. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, the big visual effects companies in the world are 800 to 1,000 employees, and we're 30. So we're an order of magnitude smaller, and yet because of the things that we're doing, the efficiency that we have in our pipeline, we're able to still get that work done very cost effectively and it still looks amazing. Yeah, I was going to say they probably have to map their human capital to their technology capital to make it all balanced, so they've got enough stuff to try to use those assets as much as they can, where you can flex human capital just as much as you can flex technology capital based on your workload or the requirements. Well, that's exactly right, and actually that's a really good point is that this is actually really more kind of like a story and the reason we went to the cloud is more of a people thing than a technology thing because we realized over the course of supervising in our careers that if I'm the visual effects supervisor on a movie, for example, Looper, and there's a shot of a spaceship that's flying over the camera and it does whatever, I know that I have to really cast that well. I have to find the right people to do that work, and if I don't find the right people to do that work, it doesn't matter how good I am. It's really all about casting when you're in a management position. And so realizing that we wanted to build the company with just rock star awesome people and which we've been fortunate enough to be able to do, but obviously we didn't want to cut costs on our talent, but we still needed to remain competitive and that's why looking at the technology differently was what enabled that. I wonder, Ryan, if you could help us squint through some of the discussions that are going on in the industry and certainly within the Wikibon community, some people have said, for example, sometimes I have a tough time predicting what my monthly bill is going to be. How do you deal with that uncertainty or that variability or is it just not exist? Are you able to forecast that very accurately? I'm specifically talking about the AWS bill at the end of every month. Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's funny, I was actually just talking to one of the founders of Mailbox about this right before the keynote. It's, we're in a little bit of a different industry. There's kind of the traditional tech startup that's using AWS that will suddenly blow up and they have no idea how much it's going to cost and it becomes a big issue. Because we're, our business model is a little bit more project based and we're, we kind of know what we're getting into prior to getting into the work. We know that there's going to be 150 shots. We know that the shots are, you know, five big shots of an airplane crashing and 30 shots from inside the cockpit and we just have it all laid out and we're, because that's our business, we're very good at estimating the amount of time it's going to take on the artist's side and also on the technology front to get that work done. And so we basically calculate how many iterations on average it takes to render a certain type of shot. We know kind of how long it takes per frame to render on a certain type of instance in the cloud and we're able to calculate essentially what our render budget needs to be for a given project and that's what we... So that's, okay, and you've got a lot of data now that you can probably get very accurate on that. Absolutely. What's on Amazon's to-do list from your standpoint? Well, you know, it's amazing. Every time they come out with a new press release they've lowered the cost of their instances. If they keep doing that, we're going to be happy. I mean, it's incredible what their commitment to their customers and how they are really transparent about that stuff. You know, one of the big trends and I don't... I guess one of the big things, kind of the holy grail of computing in general and especially for visual effects is to actually move not just the rendering into cloud but move the applications themselves and to really just have a monitor and interface that you're using so that your day-to-day workflow is powered by all of those machines rather than the computer under your desk. I think that's the next big revolution in the cloud. That deeper integration into your workflow. Absolutely. Literally, you don't have a processor anywhere near your company. It's all about...   Awesome. All right, Ryan, well listen, thanks very much. We really appreciate you stopping by and telling the story about atomic fiction. Congratulations and best of luck. Thank you. A real honor to be here. Thank you guys so much. I really appreciate it. You're welcome. Take care, Ryan. Keep watching everybody. We'll be right back with our next guest. This is theCUBE from AWS Summit Live at Moscone in San Francisco. 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The House of Representatives has touched the newly appointed service chiefs to intensify the fight against the persistent security threat in the country and across the globe. Those screened included the Chief of Defence Staff, the Nigerian Army Air Force, and also the Navy, plus TV Immanuel A. Jenner, filed in the report as presented from our studios. Chairman, House Addict Committee on the Screening, Honourable Baba Jimmy Benson, in his opening remarks, said wars are not only fought on the land, sea, and air alone, but also in the cyberspace. He urged members of the armed forces to adhere strictly to the provisions of the Appropriation Act and work in synergy by sharing intelligence for effective operations. You are performing your constitutional duties of ensuring a peaceful, secure and prosperous country for all Nigerians. In the course of this screening, we shall be asking independent questions that concerns our constituents and Nigerians in general. In their separate remarks, the service chiefs pled to transform the nation's armed forces and lead it into a world-class professional body. The broad outline of my leadership concept shall be to nurture a professional armed forces of Nigeria that is peaceful, centric, capable of meeting its constitutional resources in a joint and collaborative environment. We are aware that the challenges we are facing cannot be handled by one person or one service. It's a joint effort. Accordingly, my leadership concept will be hinged on three pillars which include people centric, the people must believe that we're there for them, but can't be true to what we are, which is critical because a happy soldier, a happy airman, or a happy seaman will give you the best. We are deepening joint nails and interagency cooperation. It is an open secret that our country has faced the challenging security environment in the past two decades, which has impacted adversely all our socio-economic and political lives. The episodic crisis of the past have now begun enduring thereby making governance and the rule of law more challenging for successive administrations. Today's painful reality is that insecurity has distorted our developmental plans and aspirations of strong, prosperous, globally competitive, and influential nations. The service chiefs and the lawmakers then went into executive session to continue the screening process. This final screening process by the House of Representatives finalizes the process before the service chiefs are finally confirmed to serve.


The following program contains swearing, adult themes, moderate violence, pain, distress and outrageous tattoos. Jack and Andrew have just been caught cheating. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. I don't know, I ain't got a clue what it is. I don't know what it is. He just said... What the hell's going on here?  No, I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't know what he's saying. You've just said it! You've just said it! No, I said smiley faces. He's been talking about smiley faces all week, so I just put it in my head. That's it! I've had enough of this.  Close the door on the way out, boys! That actually happened. That never happened? It's never happened. Ever? And just in case you wanted to know what that Andrew was getting, there you go. Remember, everyone, cheaters never win. Becky, I cried, literally. We've seen the size of mine. Have you seen what you've done? I've cried all the way through it, mate. You've not even seen your tattoo yet? Exactly. Becky, do you feel bad now that you've seen Cordy this upset? Seeing her like this, yeah, because that breaks my heart. I'm sorry for yours. It's better. Sorry for yours. Right, Cordy, I'm going to take you up to the mirror. You may now remove your fear goggles, Cordy.  Two stars off like stabbing the back. Lili, Becky, isn't over Cordy sleeping with her ex?  No, don't start shouting. That's the one thing that hurt me the most. Stabbing the fuck! All kicking off on my first show, presenting. Can you tell us the story behind the tattoo, Becky? Basically, I was off and on seeing this guy for two years. I thought I was in love with him. So one night, we went to his house, and I could see through the window him on top of her. I understand that she might be angry, but she needs to understand that it hurt me in ways I can't even describe.  Sit down, my relationship is gone. Becky, you're not wrong. If I was your boyfriend, I wouldn't want to see that. Cordy, can you tell us the story behind this tattoo? She just goes for the wrong guy, so I'm just going to put on her back to teach her lesson. Maybe we should check about the personality of why she won't get ghosted like she did.  I think you both had, like, good intentions of your tattoos. It's like you've came on this show to literally just ruin my life. You're begging to come on this show to get it done. Sympathy tears, sympathy tears.   Why would you do that to me?  Things have got way too out of hand. These girls need reminding that family and friendship mean more than this.   I got out there as a cheater on national TV. I really want these girls to leave together as friends. I'm going to have to pull out my best lines here.  Weed myself, pooed myself. It's not so bad when you think about it like that, really, is it? Hi, girls. Hi, Nathan. I don't want these to leave on the bad things. Come on.  I agree with Nathan. I think of all the times you've been there for each other, right? This can't break our friendship. I'm so proud of Becky. Come on, can we all have a hug? Come on, let's have a group hug. We will be best friends tomorrow because that is how strong our friendship is. I might be sad to have been laughing about it anyway.


Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. I know it's been a little bit since I've done a pattern review but I've got a whole bunch of them that I filmed and will be releasing them all over the next few weeks. This one might look familiar to you already though because it was one of the works in progress that I finished during Me Made May. The pattern is Simplicity 2250. It's a Cynthia Rowley design from the 2011 early spring collection so it's now out of print but you can still find it on Amazon, eBay, and Etsy. The pattern comes with this dress pattern, a jacket, and a tie belt so it's a lot of bang for your buck. The dress is a little unassuming but there is a lot of technique packed into this one little design. First of all there are like eight darts and maybe four pleats in the front bodice alone plus boning. I'm not even a thousand percent sure the purpose of the boning since there are straps but I went for it because I like to follow the instructions when I'm making a new pattern. It might have something to do with all the bias in the bodice. Do you guys know? The back bodice has an elastic casing and super cute ties. Now if I'm going to be totally honest the ties are pretty much impossible for you to tie on your own. To wear this dress I have to pull on the dress, zip it halfway, turn the back to my front, tie the ties, twist it back, slip my arms through the straps, and then finish zipping. It's a process to say the least but once it's on it's super comfortable. The skirt is gathered and pleated in places all over as well. I told you this pattern was a powerhouse. I have no idea where I got this fabric or what it is made of but I can tell you that it is a woven with a slightly silky hand. The stripes create a sort of texture and give it some body. It really holds the shape of the bodice as well as the skirt which is quite a combination. All in all I really do love this pattern. It was so much fun to make with all those details I mentioned earlier. It definitely feels fancy even though it's more of a casual dress. I would encourage you to give it a go if you want to slow down and make something that takes time and a lot of attention to detail. I'd also like to mention that in vast contrast to the dress the little jacket that comes with this pattern is very simple. The more I look at it the more I think it might be a contender for my gauze shirt coat I mentioned in my plans video. So you might be seeing it made up sooner rather than later. Have you made this dress or jacket out of this pattern? If so let me and everyone else know if you share the same sentiments as I do about these designs. That's going to do it for me today. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you all very soon. Bye!


The dominant thing that I noticed was the kind of the sophistication that in terms of the digital marketing provides us. Whereas the purchase decision or in terms of making decision is very very impulsive. The learning is completely shifted to digital. While offline continues to play a key role when it comes to universities because there is still an offline element to it. Online is increasingly gathering momentum especially in the self-help or skilling domains or what we call up-skilling domains. We find that apps like Baidu's are gaining momentum in the school space and early learning, mid-learning, high school space and as well as most of the action for the skilling and the up-skilling programs that are available are also going digital. So I think it's going to be more and more important and critical as we go forward.


8 coin. Is it a scam? So if you don't know what 8 coin is, it's a coin that's been launched by the biggest NFT project going, the Board Ape Yacht Club. And I can guarantee you that you've seen at least some of these NFTs around if you've been in the crypto space or the NFT space. And they sell in multiple six figures and they're pretty much just a status symbol in the NFT community. So one of the interesting things that you can do with most cryptos, which includes 8 coin, is stake it. So if you don't know what stake in means, I'll have a separate video explaining that in the description. But the the short and simple answer is they take your crypto, in this case, it would be 8 coin, and they lock it away and you get paid interest, which is great, right? The reason that the whole 8 coin launch gives me bad vibes and makes me feel like it could be a bit of a cash grab is that they're misleadingly using the word staking. This is because staking is a technical term. So staking helps to make the blockchain function, which is why you're rewarded in interest in the first place. But 8 coin, using the term staking is wrong because there is no technical functionality. So what it roughly translates to and what the developers are telling you is I'll bribe you with some of the extra tokens. If you agree to just keep holding them, lock them up, don't sell them, don't dump them and don't cause the price to drop. So long story short, what they're doing is they're using the term staking to basically artificially lower the sale pressure on 8 coin, which keeps the price up and stops it from tanking, which is this is an important point, it stops it from tanking until the dev team and the board of advisors can get access to their tokens and have their tokens unlocked. So it just kind of delays it and stops that sale pressure. If they sell as soon as they have that access to it, then it would kind of justify this whole thing being a bit of a sketchy cash grab. I'll personally still be holding a small amount of 8 coin just because it's the strongest brand in NFTs. And if it manages to keep that image and stick around and 8 coin is exclusively used on the metaverse, which they'll be releasing or opening on the 30th of April. If it's any coin you can use and they've got a finite amount of coins, which they fixed at 1 billion, so no new coins can be minted or burned, then the and there's actual value in the metaverse of this kind of board 8 Biot Club, then the price is kind of inevitably going to go up. You'd like to think as long as they can, as I say, maintain that brand image. So a bit sketchy, a bit touching, just something to think about. None of this is kind of set in stone and it's more just opinion. It was initially highlighted by Kobe. So I'll link his post in the description and it goes into a bit more detail and you can read over it and check it all out. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more content like this, like the video, subscribe. And if you've come from Itoro, check out my profile and if you want to consider copying my trades so I can invest for you, then go ahead and do that. You can always reach me on Itoro, Instagram, YouTube. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you guys next time.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com, coming at you with 2021 Panini Absolute Baseball. Ten box, random team break number one. All card ship, everyone gets a random team in the MLB. Pretty nice stuff in here. Big thanks to everybody for getting it on the action. All the teams are in. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. One and a four, five times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and once more, yes, fifth and final time. So after five, we've got Harry down to Gale. One and a four, five times, one, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. After five, we've got the twins down to the Cardinals. All right, Harry with the twins and the angels. PJ with the Red Sox, Paul with the Rangers. Gale with the Royals, Brandon with the Reds, Bennett with the Astros, Chris with the White Sox. Gale with the Rockies, Keith with the Nats, PJ with the O's, TJ with the Giants. Peter with the Blue Jays, Paul with the Braves. PJ with the Marlins, Jeff with the Phillies, Bennett with the Diamondbacks, Tyler with the Tribe, Ryan with the Yankees, PJ with the Brew Crew and the Buccos. Matthew P with the Padres, Charles, you got the A's. PJ with the Mets, Matt with the Rays, Mark with the Mariners. Josh with the Cubbies, Brandon, you got my Dodgers. Rick with the Tigers and Gale with the St. Louis Cardinals. All right, let's alphabetize by team. And we're going to pause the video. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades and then the break, stick around. All right, welcome back, everybody. No deals were done. So let's get into this full case of 2021 Absolute Baseball. Again, thanks, everybody, for getting into it. Let's see what we can get out of here. All 10 boxes. So what do we got here? We're looking for two autographs, two memorabilia cards per master box on average. What are we looking for? We've got a bunch of parallels here that we're looking for. Kaboom cards. Downtowns, maybe? And a lot of fun stuff to chase here. See anything going on? Let's go MLB Network. This one, let's see what's good. Baseball sound in the background during this baseball break. All right, now there should be some base cards on the bottom. Slide those up top there. And I think I see a plate in there. There it is. There's the plate. It's a one of one Freddie Freeman. Cassani Kofax there, too. Nice. That is Paul and the Braves. Paul, all aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo. Behind Sam Hough is a Jason Hayward, Jay Hay. That'll be for Josh and the Cubs. Then we've got Dane Dunning, rookie autograph right on the sweet spot there. It's a pretty sweet looking card going to Texas. That'll be for Paul. All right, there's Justin Verlander, 149. Frank Chance. And a George Springer, 42 out of 49. And back here is Podge of Van Rodriguez, two-color dual relic for the Tigers. Rick for the Tigers. And Paven Smith, rookie auto. I like the blue stitching right there. Looks pretty cool, too. Bennett and the Diamondbacks, 44 out of 50. All right, nice start. Second box of 10. All right, no worries, Rick. First of many, I hope. All right, there's Mack Scherzer, great start. Great debut. There he is again for the Dodgers. Kaboom! Wow, Babe Ruth Kaboom? That's pretty cool. Ryan Cardone with the Bronx Bombers. What does that go for? There can't be too many of these. That's pretty awesome. It's Colin Moran to 199. We've got Yoshi Tsutsugo for the Rays, three-color triple relic for Matt and Tampa Bay. And behind Randy Arzirania is Nick Senzel, Reds. We've got blue ink autograph, sky blue ink autograph with a nice little match on the stitching there, too. Brandon Hall with the Red Legs, four out of 10. Nice low number. It's Chris Bryant to 149. Mugi Betts looking healthy, and there's Rafael Devers to 149. He's been looking good for the Red Sox. More behind Arzirania. There's Julio Rodriguez. And your two hits. We've got Wander Franco, three-color triple relic for the Rays, Matt McLaughlin in Tampa Bay. The top youngsters in baseball. And we've got a Garrett Crochet for the Chicago White Sox, Chris Parent with the Shy Sox. Four out of 50. Next box. All right. Next one. All right. Jackson in the wind-up to 149. And there's a Mike Trout to 149. I think he's surprised they shot down Mike Trout for the remainder of the season. Joe Jackson with shoes, triple relic, pieces of his lumber, Chris Parent with the White Sox, being closed, barnstorming tour worn used material. That's pretty cool. And we've got William Contreras, Wilson's brother for the Braves, Paul. All right. Francisco Lendor, Peter Lanza to 149. And your hits behind Cal Ripken. We've got Eric Fed, 41 out of 99. Big three-color patch for Keith and the Nationals. We've got Dalton Jeffries, rookie autograph for the A's, Charles with Oakland, 20 out of 30. Our next box, there's Trout again. And there's J.D. Martinez to 149.  Our sorting team will take care of that. PJ with the Red Sox. And we have Garrett Hampson, tools of the trade, 86 out of 99, quad relic for Gail and the Rockies. And behind Dylan Carlson is Cabrion Hayes, nice. For the Buccos, PJ and the Pirates, 22 out of 35. We've got Fernando Tetease Jr. to 149. And Gil Hodges for the Dodgers to 149. There's Clayton Kershaw. And behind him is Phil Necro, tools of the trade. Dual relic for Paul Norden and the ATL. We're going to get the wrinkle out of that penny sleeve there. And then behind Kersh is Monty Harrison, rookie autograph for Miami. PJ with the fish. That's hilarious. All right, next box. Redemption on the bottom. Any guesses on the redemption for bragging rights? There's Jose Ramirez to 99. Willi Ademis to 149. We've got Tim Anderson, quad relic to 99. Shy Sox, Chris Parent. We've got White Sox highlights right now. I don't know. White Sox lost that one, lost today, but I feel like they're going to be a pretty scary team in the playoffs. Byron Buxton to 10 for the Twins and a Tyler Glass now to 199. Tommy John for him. Harry with Minnesota. Garrett Hampson. Wow. That's a four out of 10, got a new era tag in there. Some nice colors popping. That's really sharp. Rockies, Gale with the Purple Mountains Majesty, who's a slightly bigger top loader here, 180. Good looking card. Tony Lazari reveals Nestevan Floriel, triple relic and autograph, 39 out of 49. Ryan with the Yankees. All right, the redemption. There were no guesses. It is David Peterson, rookie baseball material signatures. Gold. David Peterson is a met. Yeah, picture for the New York Mets and that redemption will go to PJ and the Metropolitan. All right, halfway through this full case break. Our next five boxes. Good luck, everybody. All right, there's Rhino to 149. Check that to 99. Behind Nolan Aronato is Christian Yellich, tools of the trade, dual relic for the brew crew. That's going to be for PJ. Last spot, Mojo strikes again. Trout was number two. That was to 199 for the Halos. Behind Nolan Aronato is Anderson Tejada, Rangers. Paul with the Rangers, 13 out of 99. Brian Reynolds to 199. Behind Billy Martin is Jeff McNeil, two color, quad relic, Mets, PJ. Behind Billy Martin is Jesus Sanchez for the fish. That is also PJ, 31 out of 50. Next one. I think I saw a dual auto back there. Wait for it. You got Drew Waters to 149. Zach Gallin to 149. You got a Matt Olson, two color dual relic for Charles and the A's and a quad relic and autograph signature quads, Andy Young, 16 out of 50. Tools of the trade, quad relic, rookie auto for Bennett and the Diamondbacks. There's Luis Petino, 23 out of 25. Jeff McNeil to 199. You got Ricky Henderson revealing a nice patch. Brock Burke, 5 out of 10. And back here is, wow, iconic ink dual autograph, 23 out of 25 Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernandez. Both are New York Mets and both go to PJ. Nice one, PJ. Three bucks to go. Well, hopefully we'll find some hits for you in the last three here, Joanne. Good luck. See what we got. Still plenty of two autographs, two memorabilia cards per box. Diamondbacks, can't beat the Giants. Next group here, Tony Lazari to 25 for the Giants, or for the Giants for the Yankees. Alex Bregman to 149. And we got Robert Stevenson, two color patch for the Rockies, 33 out of 99. Gail with the Rockies, these pennies sleeves are kind of terrible. That's better. And behind Verlander is Nate Pearson, Toronto Blue Jays, Peter Ang with the Bluebirds, 26 out of 60. Sal Perez, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Corbin Burns to 99. We got Marcel Ozuna, two color dual relic, 12 out of 49. Big hit by Bo Bechet. Paul with the Braves, we've got Luis Gonzalez for the White Sox, Chris Parent, 16 out of 60. JD Martinez, Frank Chance, and Tony Gwynne to 99. All right, two boxes to go. TJ needs some hits from the Giants. Mark needs some hits from Seattle. Let's try to get some of the hit list teams on the board. All right, good luck. All right, we got a power insert. Jimmy Fox to 149. There's Tyler Glass now to 199 for the Rays. Got David Wright, Tools of the Trade, two color dual relic for the Mets. PJ. We got more White Sox. This time it's Jonathan Stiver. Chicago White Sox, Chris Parent, 22 out of 35. Luis Robert, 72 out of 99. We got the Kenta Maeda to 199. And behind Clayton Kershaw is Logan Webb, three color patch, 46 out of 99 for TJ and the Giants. And behind Kersh is Sixto Sanchez, nice autograph. I don't know about this autograph. He usually signs better than this. He's a nice player, though. That's for PJ and the Marlins. Looks like he was in the car when he was autographing these. 44 out of 50 from the wrinkles out of there. There we go. All right, in our final box, good luck. Final four hits, good luck. This is a 2021 Panini Absolute Baseball 10 box. Full case, random team break number one. 46 out of 99, Cal Ripken. Ken Boyer to 199. And behind Ian Anderson is a Rhymel Tapia, dual relic for the Rocks scale. And behind Ian Anderson is Alec Baum, Philly's auto for Jeff, 25 out of 50. And your last two hits, good luck, everybody. There's Hasan Kim to 149. There's JP Crawford to 149. There's Jake Kronoworth, who will reveal a Carlos Martinez two color patch to 19 for the Cardinals. That's Regale and the Redbirds. And last but not least, behind Jake Kronoworth is going to be a Sean Anderson, six out of 49 for the Twins. And that will be for Harry and the Twins. And there's Jake Kronoworth at the end. There you go, boys and girls. That was the break. Let's do a quick recap. Got a lot of hits here. Take a look at. A lot of good stuff. And dual auto was pretty nice. I got to take a snap, a picture of that. Got the David Peterson redemption, Estevan Floriel. That was out of 10. Byron Buxton, Tim Anderson. These baseball sweet spot autographs, like that Cabriona Hayes, really nice. Some old school relics in there. And, of course, the Babe Ruth Kaboom card. Real nice. Thanks, everybody. That was absolute baseball pick, a random team break, number one, full caser. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next baseball break. Bye-bye.


Hello friends and how are you all today? My name is Priyanka and let us discuss this question. It says a circus tent has cylindrical shape, surmounted by a conical roof. The radius of the cylindrical base is 20 meters. The heights of the cylindrical and conical portions are 4.2 meters and 2.1 meters respectively. Find the volume of the tent. So let us have a diagram to model this situation. Now here we have a tent having a cylindrical base and a conical roof. The radius of the base is given to us as 20 meters and the height of the cylinder is given to us as 4.2 meters whereas that of cone is given to us as 2.1 meters. We need to find out the volume of this tent. So volume of the tent is equal to volume of the cylinder, volume of the conical. So the volume of the cylinder plus volume of this conical roof that is the cone on adding these two volumes we will get the volume of the tent. Proceeding on further. Now we know that volume of cylinder is equal to pi r square h and volume of the cone is 1 by 3 pi r square. Let us say this is h2 and this is h1 as the heights of the cylinder and the cone are different from each other. So height of the cylinder be h1. So we have h1 is height of cylinder the conical roof and r is the common radius of cylinder as well as the cone. So we are given h1 as 4.2 meters, h2 as 2.1 meters and r as 20 meters. So let us substitute these three values. So we have volume of the tent, the tent is equal to. Now from here we can take pi r square common and we are left here with h1 plus 1 by 3 h2. On substituting these values we have pi as 22 by 7 r as 20 the whole square r square h1 is 4.2 plus 1 by 3 of h2 sorry that is 2.1. Further 22 by 7 into 20 the whole square let us solve this bracket first. We have 4.2 plus 2.1 divided by 3 which can be further written as 22 by 7 20 the whole square is 400, 4.2 plus this is 0.7 22 by 7 into 400 into 1 adding these two we have 4.9 that is 0.7 on getting divided by 7 we are left with 22 into 400 into 0.7 which gives us the answer as 6160 and since they all were in meter so the volume will be 6160 meter cube. So this is the required answer for the first question. So hope you understood the concept well here to find out the volume of the tent we found out the volume of the cylinder added the volume of the conical roof in that to get the required answer. So have a very nice day ahead and take care.


Mae cyfnodd wedi bod yn ystod o'r 11 o'r 12 oed yn ymgyrchol, ond nid yw'n mynd i'w dweud o'r ddweud o'r 10 oed yn ymgyrchol. Mae'n ddweud o'r pwyllfa ar gyfer yma, ac yn mynd i'r gennaeth o'r dweud, o'r dweud o'r dweud. Felly rydyn ni'n cael ei fod yn ei hwb i'n holl. Roedden ni'n cael'u marathyn, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r band hynny. Fent i'r wneud hynny yw'r ymddangos y cyntaf. Rydyn ni'n gwrs i'ch ddweud y band hynny'n hynny. Felly rydyn ni'n ceisio'r hynny i'r hynny'n holl. Rydyn ni'n ceisio'r hynny i'r hynny i'r hynny i'r hynny i'r hynny. Rydyn ni'n ceisio'r cyntaf yn ei ddwylliant. I've progressed from walking sticks to walking frame to my friend here, the mobility scooter. It became more and more difficult for me to get out of the house. I've always driven and the impact on it was I could no longer drive a manual car. I had to source an automatic vehicle and it almost became impossible for me to actually stop anywhere to go shopping and I was having to work on the good greases of relatives to actually assist me with getting the family shopping to the point where I just asked them to go for me because it's almost too embarrassing to go up myself. Obviously I was aware of the blue badges but I was unaware of how you went about it and I didn't know if I would qualify. But somebody suggested to me that I applied for the Disability Living Allowance and after some convincing I applied for it and it was eventually successful in getting it and as part of that of the documentation that came out with that being approved for the allowance one of the things you qualify for automatically is a blue badge and wow. The blue badge has been part of my life as long as I can remember. It's been a very integral part of my outdoor activity if you like because it's crucial and quite essential to have if you wish to travel, if you wish to park, if you wish to go shopping to the theatre or to the cinema. It's an essential part of my mobility if you like. I drive a high performance car and one of the issues that often come up is the double take and that's always quite amusing so I quite like that. It blows expectations and attacks stereotypes. The difference is amazing. I'm able to stop somewhere with the blue badge, plenty of room for me to get out of the vehicle to unload my baggy from the vehicle using the hoist. It's allowed me to actually meet friends in the coffee shop who I hadn't been able to see because accessing their own homes was difficult and the simpler things that people miss like taking the nieces and nephews to the cinema which I hadn't been able to do or needed assistance to do, I can now do by myself. Having the blue badge spaces and the scheme there, without it I would still be trapped in my house. My life would still be in the dark days of depression when it couldn't go anywhere. It has given me a life which I didn't have. It's something which I'd lost, mis-terribly and now I'm getting back thanks to the availability of parking through the blue badge scheme. Without the blue badge my lifestyle would be seriously curtailed. Even just going to Tesco's would be far more difficult because of course being a wheelchair user I need to have extra wide doors on my car so therefore most of the bays are very narrow and as narrow as they are means the door doesn't open sufficiently so I won't be able to get in out of the car. So I guess I'd have to use taxi so my lifestyle would be much poorer. The key issue for me is not so much the distance from the entrance of any facility or any service I want to use, it's the actual being able to get in and out of the car and that's really crucial. To people who do not have a badge and parking blue badge spaces and they think it's a bit of a luck or they think why shouldn't I? I'd ask them to think how inconsiderate they're actually being. I would even say that to family members who have blue badge holders in their families but they think, but they go out, they don't have them and they think why doesn't matter, I've got a badge. No, you can walk that extra 30 seconds, that extra minute. People who genuinely need the badge need it for a reason. It's not because it's a fad, it's a cultural thing, it's not the next iPhone or anything, it is something we actually need to live. Without it, you are robinous of something you take for granted.