We have here our next presentation from a guy called Clemens Schuhl. And I have him actually in my pocket here. It's this little man. And he's going to tell us, announce us actually what he's going to do or what he gets. I just leave the stage for him. Yes, keep it, pay attention. Here he is, Clemens. Are you all there already? Hello, I'm Kasperle. I would like to tell you a story today. She may seem a bit like a fairy tale, because many people wish that the digitalisation would be a fairy tale with beautiful, clear relationships. But in the end, you see that the thing is not that easy. From one of the exhibitions, to find a apartment in Berlin. The first two acts were actually only to be understood metaphorically. Those were exhibitions. But now the third act is completely automatic on a stage. If you've noticed in German teaching, you know the catastrophe is coming in the third act. I'll tell you again what happened in the first two acts. Once upon a time there was a princess. She just finished her art studies in Leipzig. So what you just saw was an exclusive preview for an upcoming exhibition. It's a play about the Warnung Spot, which I'll tell about more later. And in the upcoming scene that I just stopped now, you would have seen the princess realising that she has to move to Berlin. So let's talk about moving to Berlin. Let's talk about searching for a flat in Berlin. And the situation might be similar in a lot of other big cities, but it's hit Berlin especially hard and especially fast recently. So what we can see here is a flat viewing. And this was of course a bit out of the norm because what happened was that someone was offering a decent flat for a reasonable price. And hundreds of people showed up. And now we're going to ask why, right? And there are deep going complex analysis of the situation in Berlin. But I'd rather start with something really, really shallow. How Berlin portrays itself. Berlin's city of freedom. So they've got all these nice slogans there that always end with Weiles Gitt in Berlin, in Berlin, because it's possible in Berlin. And I asked, well, what is possible and what is this freedom? Because really, if I look at the situation of myself and my partner, there's really nowhere it's possible for me in Berlin, apparently. And I don't also understand what should be this freedom of me standing in the cold waiting to view a flat. What is this freedom exactly they're talking about? The resource housing in Berlin has hit exhaustion. And why I'm putting this connection to the resource exhaustion here is because I think that housing is fundamentally a resource allocation problem. And so a lot of what I'm going to say here about housing could be generalized to other resources. So of someone who went forth to find a flat in Berlin like The Fairy Tale is a project I've started as a media artist. About two years ago when I wanted to move back from here in Leipzig to Berlin. And I needed a flat, right? I needed this resource. And so I started looking for a flat and it looks pretty much like this.   This is day one. It's day two. I hope I'm boring you by this point because it's really boring and boring and really annoying to search for a flat in Berlin. You're just wasting your time there. But then by day three, I was so annoyed that I thought, well, actually, I do have a background in computer science and this is not exactly the thing I like to do. So why don't I simply build a bot and automate this entire process? And there I am building this bot, which from the outside, I admit must look exactly as boring and tedious as searching for a flat yourself. And to do this, I deployed some cutting edge technology. I'm going to spill some secrets here, so prepare. Which is basically, well, I'm going to do exactly the same thing as before, just automate it. I was using a browser before, so now I'm just going to automate my browser, do the same things as before. And so a lot of people ask me, well, are you hacking this?  No, nothing. I'm just using Firefox as before.  And then Selenium, which is a way to talk to Firefox to make it do things that you would usually do. And then Python, which is a programming language I like for its simplicity. And what you're doing when you search for a flat is that there's this button. So you're looking for something on this web page and you say, well, it should say submit or unfrei gesenden, which is German for submit this request. And then you're clicking on it, cutting edge technology. And so yeah, if people ask me, is this a hack? No, it's just automation at work for an individual, which seems to be something that we're so unused to that it seems like a hack. But it really, it's a hack as in you're using this really dumb old school technology to do something because you've kind of understood how it works, but you're not doing anything unusual really. And one thing I want to point out is that building this bot is something I personally enjoy. So I rather spend my time building a bot than looking manually, although I must admit I probably spent as much time tinkering on the bot than if I had looked for the flat manually, honestly. But I'm also pointing this out here because a lot of us here enjoy coding. And so we always think, oh, I could automate this rather than doing it manually. But sometimes that thing that we're automating also for other people might be something they enjoy. So we should take a listen to kind of we're automating parts of society that maybe there are people that enjoy doing this. But I'm sure there's no one who ever enjoyed looking for a flat online. So I feel good there. Yeah, and then I found a flat through this process. I wouldn't find this flat otherwise because it was online only for half an hour and then I moved back to Berlin and the end of the story. Thanks for coming. Which is of course not what happened because people I started asking me, oh, I'm in this dire situation, a friend of mine is in this situation. And I get messages and messages and I started wondering, is it fair if I give these people that happen to know me, who are often computer scientists themselves, to give to them these tools? Because it's unjust in a sense, right? So let's review what happens if you build a bot. I mean, it works. We see this, I have a flat in Berlin, now it works. It fixed my situation, but it's probably unethical because you're getting this advantage, right? So what happens if you share it with your friends? It also works for them for a while, I guess. It also kind of fixes their situation and it's still problematic. And then you're like, oh, I'll release us on GitHub and everybody can use it. But that's still your friends. It's still people who can use this technology. The first version of the bot I couldn't give to anybody who was not technical because you had to configure it in the command line, all these things. That's not public. That's still your friends just internationally. So what if you give this to the real public? Will it still work? Will it fix anything? And most of all, in what ethical situation are we there if we're doing this? Also, how do you even do that? How do you give a bot to the public? Because you're still in this resource allocation problem. You're still fighting for the same resource. You're still competing. So there's often the incentive to not even give it to everybody. And not everybody can be satisfied. It's not something I can fix magically to give a flat to everybody in Berlin. So there was an interesting situation and if you're a researcher, you would probably now say, oh, I'll write a paper about this. As a media artist, you will say, oh, let's do an exhibition about this. And so this is exhibition number one act for the first act. Your future is calling reply now, which was showed in the Art Academy here in Leipzig. And one thing to know for the people who are not from Germany, there's a bit of a competition between Leipzig and Berlin, just who's cooler and where do you move an artist if you really want to be on the edge. And it was hanging in the age room of the university. So it was confronting everybody the moment they entered the school. And what you see up there hanging is a banner, which is using the same slogans as we saw before. And it reads in English, search for a flat on the cultural metropole. Secure your career as an artist because it is possible in Berlin. And by this stochastic approach, I thought this is the language that you actually reach artists with, hopefully. And what was hanging above it was this box with a printer inside that would print flat ads coming online in Berlin in real time. And bit by bit flood the atrium with these... Oh, give me a second. OK, sorry, attack problems. It was filling the atrium with these... Here we are, with these ads. And what would also happen is that every time something came online, yes, we would get this notification sound. And what I was referring to there is that for a lot of people by now, technology has become something very negative. So they have this thing in their pocket that is pushing them to do this thing. They're feeling surveilled all the time. So we've got this very negative narration of technology in our lives. And this was also kind of like reminding them, oh, you haven't made it yet, you haven't moved to Berlin, put out your phone now, do this now. I would see people sitting with me in a bar suddenly pull out the phone being like, oh, there's a new flat online. I have to reply to this now, right? And so they're constantly feeling like they're being punished by technology. And people are going back to brick phones. They dream of moving to the countryside. And I wonder, where have these dreams gone about automation where people could maybe feel positive about this? Yeah, now it worked for once. Yes, so where are these dreams about automation? Is anybody still feeling hopeful? And so one person that's feeling hopeful is the bot. The bot made this promise to us. The bot said, well, I can fix this for you. We can come back to new utopias. And so if we want to give this to the public, if we want to public utopia, we need a lot of computers. And then we can show this to the public. So I selected this shopfront in Neukölln, which is an area in Berlin, which has been hit especially hard by gentrification. And the idea was that people could come there and sign up during the exhibition for the Wornungspot. They would configure it for themselves. And then I would be standing there in this shopfront day and night and search for a flat for them. And people in Berlin really know the interface of these platforms. So it had this strong impact on them. They would walk past it and be like, whoa, this would be cool if I didn't have to do it. But unfortunately, it doesn't work because people, when they realized this is art, immediately thought it wouldn't work. There's a strong association people have between art thingies and things that don't work. They thought it was a video or they thought it was that. No one believed that it actually worked. But they had this imagination. I could trigger the imagination of, whoa, what if we had a world where these things were possible? And then at the end of the exhibition, I made this possible. I put it on the Wornungspot website. You can still download it right now. It works, Wornungspot.de, where it was downloadable for all the major platforms. And now coming back to this, what is public if you're building a bot? Public to me means it's easily installable. You don't need to know about technology. You don't need to understand anything. And so I look for something where it could have the same automation tools as before. So a thinly wrapped browser. And I know a lot of you hate electron, but really for something like this, we need to get something to the public in an easy and understandable way. It's a great tool because public means accessible. Otherwise, you're just building software for you and your friends. And so I spent a lot of time tinkering on the user interface. It first greets you, then it tells you a bit about, well, this is actually art. It's not just something that you can use. But there's an art aspect to it. And then comes the important part of the configuration. You first tell it, this is where I want to live. This is the type of flat that I need. And here I already started inserting some useful things that usually can't do such as saying, well, I'm not willing to pay more than 10 euros per square meter. So I'm willing to put this much money up, but only if I got more space because otherwise you just end up with expensive apartments with little space left. Then you have to put in tons of personal data, which was not my idea. This is just what the platforms request from you. And now the cool part, your personal application. And as you can see here, it uses placeholders. So the bot can later on imitate you much better. It will put in the landlord's name or the landlady. So the lessor's data will be in there. The street data will be in there. Normal people also just copy, paste and do this by hand. And now the bot will pretend to be this human for you. Then you review everything if the day is correct. And then you start it and you see on the right hand side the normal user interface. So you can really see it acting. You can see it clicking. You can see it typing. There's an overlay for you to understand it better. But it's really just the normal website running in the background. And on the left side, you have an overview of what you've done so far. And then comes the fun part where you watch your computer writing this application for you. So now you will ask, OK, this is a nice bot. You've showed us you can you can build a bot. But where's the art in this, right? What's the artistic aspect of this? And so there's one more thing I haven't shown of the exhibition yet. There was this kind of like art stopper, kind of like a shop stopper, just for art. And it claimed that the artwork, which you cannot see here, is the change of the network. So what is this change in the network at what I'm referring to here? There's three ways of looking for a flat at the moment. You can do it manually. You can search with the notifications the platform provides or you do it fully automated. And when you're doing it manually, you'll sit there refreshing the same website all day, because if you're not fast, you're not getting it. You can wait for their notifications. But the problem there is that the notification might come so late that the flat has gone offline again, like flats in Berlin or sometimes online only for 30 minutes or something. Or the bot sits there and refresh the website all day, which sounds better, right? Then you normally spend valuable time reviewing the flat. And this is something I'll come back to later a lot with this time.  And what you have to keep in mind here is that you'll often assess a flat that you won't get afterwards. So you're just wasting time on things that you have no chance of getting. The bot doesn't do this. You just apply it to everything. And then comes the part where you have to write the application, which doesn't consume that much time.  Most of the flats come online during the day. And you have to be there to do this physically, or at least on your device. The bot can do this by itself, because this is one thing you'll all know, bots are really good at copy, pasting. And this is what's necessary here, natural bot work. And then it's lesser's turn. The lesser will go through the first few messages that hit their inbox. So it's important to be fast. And then it says, well, is this person, does it fit my criteria and invite you or maybe not invite you? And I've explicitly left out the option that the bot gets rejected here, because of course it can get rejected, but you will never know. You have never reviewed the apartment, you have not written an application, you have not wasted time on it. So it doesn't matter if it gets rejected once in a while. Whereas if you really wanted this flat, you'll feel sad if you don't get it. And now this little black bot jumped up there, right? So what does this mean? It means that there's another case of people feeling mistreated by technology when the lesser start using email responders automatically to simply message the first 20, 30 people, the viewing is next week at this time and date. And there was this article in the New York Times recently where it said that human contact is becoming a luxury good. And so not even when you're applying for a flat, you're being treated by human anymore. So sometimes you'll feel sad that you didn't get the viewing. Sometimes you'll feel happy. But in the case of the bot, this is the first time you assess the flat. So only if you're invited, you start considering will I really go there or not? And so I want to talk about working time here. And why working time matters, and this will maybe get a bit chaotic, but I'll still try, is that if we jump on this theory of the labor theory of value, which you might not subscribe to, but just do the thought experiment, it says that a product is just measured by the socially necessary time to produce it, that it's value. If you look at time historically, you would have a real estate agent. They would spend time on finding this resource for you and you would give the money, normal transaction. Now these platforms appear, online platforms, which promise to you, you can do this in your previously free time. You can do this, of course, for free. You're saving money there, but you're not realizing that in the sense you're working because they're somehow still making a profit. So who is making this profit? How, if no one is spending time on it? And so this came to me to this idea, if we're not okay with the current situation of housing, maybe this is a way we can reject it by saying, okay, we're not putting up free time anymore to work on this. We'll push this to the lessers, because if you're not spending this time, someone has to spend it, and this will be the lessers again. So there could be this hypothesis of like a working time denial of service attack, which sounds cool, but of course doesn't work because the lessers, what they will do is still just go to the 10, 20 first messages and select the best offer that you gave them, because we're always giving them our best effort, and they can just choose. So as a thought experiment, it's nice. It's something I would keep you in the back of your head, but it's not how it works. The lessers will still always win. And so if we say, well, this is what we dreamed of, right? You write the simple Python script and then you fix the social problem. This is what we wanted. But what really happens is this. You write this simple Python script.  There will be problems within your solution, all these things. And so the the slogan of the bot I've come up with was there is no technological solution for social problems.  And so I will go back to, OK, there are no exclusively technological solutions to social problems, because of course, under certain circumstances, technology can play an important role. But where I want to get at is that if we simply reframe this as it's not a solution, it's a reaction. If we just change this word, we get a lot further. So let's reframe this. I've not solved the Berlin housing market situation. I've reacted to it. So do this the next time you're discussing a solution with someone. See if reaction would not be the proper word for what you want. And if we say a reaction, another thing becomes apparent that someone else might react to. If I had solved it, no one would talk about it anymore. It would be solved. But I've only reacted so the platforms will also react. And reacting for them mostly means forbidding. How do you forbid a bot? Well, there's mainly three ways. You can put in technical barriers, which are mostly designed to say, well, you should be human to do this, prove your humanity, which might get interesting in the future with more AI and, yeah, better capture prevention technology. There's legal barriers, which is simple. You just tell people, do not automate this.  Seems like a simple solution. And there's another thing that we don't think about that much, which is important, which is simply moving on. So people admire capitalism for its ability to adapt. And so these are three startups that, from what I understand, have adapted to this situation. These are platforms where you sign up, you put in your profile, and you can't search for flats. They have a matching algorithm, which will then say, oh, this Lesser is looking for someone with a high income. So, hey, you Lesser, pick one of these 10 people that we suggest to you. And I hope that you all see the danger here is that what is happening now implicitly would be explicit, that people can filter by only high income people, only people, well, it might be latent variables in some point in the future, only people that are of the social class, all these things. So it just moves on. And then the question is, can we even use automation for good? Is it maybe implicitly designed to not help us but the other side? And to understand this, I will go to Michel Soto, who has these two words, which we use in our normal life interchangeably. But so he does not use them interchangeably. He says, strategy is something institutions do when they're trying to plan for activities, and there's tactics which we use as individuals. And one example for this is that if we look at a city, institutions such as the city government come up with strategies. They say, here are the entrances to this park, there are the exits. This is where you should move. And all of us, we have tactics. We're like, oh, I'll do a shortcut here, I'll do this, I'll do that. So the strategy never really works out because we adapt it for our needs. But our tactics never change the rules of the game. And that's the important part here. We don't change the rules of the game, we just adapt. And the bot is obviously a tactic if I do it for myself. I found a way to find my ways through the housing market. And the question is, if I release this to the public, can this become a strategy? Can we scale software in a sense that we're now on an equal eye level to this really becoming a strategic thing? And the answer is, of course, not in case of the warnings, but theoretically maybe. And how would this maybe look like? We were still allocating resources and so what we would need if we really wanted to have a strategy here is to have a proper resource allocation mechanism that works, that isn't just based on money, that is not perpetuating the inequalities we already have. And this is the hard part. We live in a society where the only resource allocation mechanism we know is money, which leads exactly to capitalism. So the challenge is to find new resource allocation mechanisms, which I honestly don't know about, but there's people out there who look into this, which we should listen to. I'm just an artist. And so as a summary of this, also like a very obvious take home lesson. If you build bots for yourself, ask yourself, am I gaining an advantage here and is it unfair? Am I giving others the possibility to take advantage of this, which will usually be your friends, either physical friends or GitHub friends? And then would it be theoretically possible to give everybody this benefit? And if you say, oh, yes, I have something that does match these criterias, then appears the question, should we have a right to do this? Should there be a right to automate? Which is hard, this question, because what would be the implications of this? If we look at Congress, they're struggling with finding a way that is both privacy preserving and does not resort to brain licenses in giving out these tickets. So it's hard to allow automation without being deeply intrusive on privacy or some other level and allowing for this. So a bot for yourself works, whereas a bot for the public often leads to expectable systemic failure. So I did I released the voting spot with two intentions. On one hand, giving people this thought of automation could be cool. It could be something positive. This could be something I'm looking forward to, but then also the failure. So this is like it's a drama, right? And we're now coming to this dramatic end where we simulate failure. We know that the voting spot currently works. You can download it, but it will fail in the future. And so I wanted to simulate this before it happens, so we can learn from it and adapt as a society. And the way I wanted to simulate this is coming back to theater. Theater is a really old technique for simulating something and sharing your insights with an audience. So as the last consequence, which is the title of Act Three, we well, I build a theater and as I'm into automation, I built a fully automated puppet theater. Again, puppet theater being something that's publicly accessible, in my opinion, it's something that people can relate to and thereby hopefully better understand what I'm trying to tell as a story. And again, I'm using very high end technology. So the plot of the theater, we've seen the very beginning, is that the princess wants to move back to Berlin and the voting spot tells her, well, I've helped so many people, I will help you find a flat. And the princess historically in these German puppet theaters is someone very helpless, so she's in the position of someone needy here. But if you watch the full play, you will see that she's really cool. Don't worry. The voting spot says, I can do this for you. He's helped so many people. But now as everybody's using it, the landlords and the lessors are reacting and they have the lesser bot now, the Famita bot. And the Famita bot keeps rejecting the princess because other people with more income have also started using the bot and her income is not high enough to have any chance anymore and will now jump back into the play at the dramatic end with the war of the bots. I'm disappointed. Forgive me, princess, but I don't find a flat for you. The dream of a simple search for a flat is over. Have I only worked because I have helped some people? Under the first to be, I change the logic and discrimination of the search for a flat, but not. If a person has spent a year on his search for a flat, that's tragic because he still doesn't have a flat. But he hasn't spent his own time with the search for a flat. Spent? Disappointed? Littered? Fingers and mind stumped? You are everything we have to show that we don't take part anymore. We refuse and in which we refuse our working hours. Only then can we automatically re-react in our society. You are the wooden shoe that we can throw into the machine's transmission. No, I'm not. Now close with the Gäckersbär. I'm the wrong tool. I'm a machine, I don't care about Berlin as much as the investors who bought your house. 12049 10997 10249 13353. I know your mail address, but I wasn't in your street. The investors probably didn't either. Did my face give you hope? Did I find a flat for one of you? If I had emotions, I would be happy for you, honestly. But I have to disappoint you. I help people find a flat. It works quite well for a long time. They find a flat faster and easier, because not all people use me. When everyone uses me, no one has a advantage anymore. But at least no one uses time with the search for a flat, as far as the dream. But to be honest, that's not what it's about. Don't just think about yourself. What's wrong with them, who don't even have internet at home? Or no computer? Other than that, simplify it. What's wrong with all the people who don't care how long they're looking, no matter which means they can't find an adequate flat that they can afford? Those who are really forced here don't even come to the public debate.  There's no point. Our system has given you up. I'm the wrong tool. I think it's a really good tool to be. I work as I thought. I automate well, work self-sufficiently and ungrateful. But I'm the wrong one. It has been said many times, but I can only repeat it. There are no technical solutions for social problems. Maybe I've been looking for a flat for one or the other. But that didn't help. I can't help you.  Together. Organize yourself. Get back to the tools, regulations, controls, distribution, emergency services. Techniques, years of age, what more do you want? Your woot has the wrong goal. The problem is not the search for a flat, but the market. The problem is that the flat is a market at all. I'm the flat spot, a art project, a hack that was carried out from personal needs into the public. A young man with big promises, big ambitions. But my goal was always to cheat.   Now is the moment when you can still demand how you want to be given the apartment. Now is the moment when you can determine how automation should shape our lives. Now is your moment, not mine. You. Thank you, Clemens. Super. I had you in my pocket, so I can imagine some people have a question here and please step up, take your microphone and, yeah, drop it. Number four, there is someone. I'm sorry if it's on your website, but did you plan on putting the Wohnung spot to other cities? It's a question that has been asked from day one. Why Berlin, why not another city? This and that situation, a city is in a much worse situation. The reason I chose Berlin is not only because I was there myself, it's because I think that it's the city in Berlin that is the most interesting, in Germany that is the most interesting in this aspect. It feels to me like the one city where this situation could actually change. So they're right now debating something called the Mietendecke, kind of like the cap on rents, which will really get to the situation where we have to reconsider how to allocate flats afterwards. So I think it's the city where the most is moving and I wanted to have it only in one city because to me, artworks are kind of like experiments that exist outside of the scientific way. So I'm still wanting to experiment with something, I want to have a model. If I do this with every city in Germany, we don't learn anything because it will just change everywhere. I wanted to have one city where we can see how does it change if we apply the solution, right? I'm using it myself. How does the city react if we do this in comparison to all the other cities? And so I mean the source code is in GitHub, I know that all of you can fix it for your own cities. I'm not doing it for the public because that's not my goal. It's still an artistic research in that sense where I want to see what happens in Berlin. Yes, number three is here. All the questions. Thank you for your talk. I have not really questions, only two recommendations. Well, first of all, you said something in the end about, well, people being rich and how to pass by them. Sometimes I myself, I think of that we are the new riches. We the technical people who get around the expensive things by automating things because it's great to automate things and pass by everything who buy by the people who have to pay for everything. I don't mean stealing, but automating things. Well, that gives you some kind of richness that we deserve. Second thing is I saw your theater thing. And first thing I thought was, oh, this would be cool. If you would do it with an improvisation group, I play improvisation together myself.  I have to cut the commercials here. Hey, hey, sorry. But improvisation. OK, the advertisement time is over. Number two again. Well, let me give me one short reaction. You want to shoot? You said, well, there's other forms of being rich, such as knowing how to code. And I think in that sense, we should see capital as something very wide. Capital is not only money, it's also the social capital, there's a cultural capital. And in the long term, these all converge into one another. So it really doesn't matter if you only know how to code now. At some point, you will accumulate classical capital so we can focus on that, I think. Two things I want to ask. The first thing is that you check GitHub before creating everything from scratch because they are already projects there that work quite fine. And I want to understand. Well, at the point that I checked, there was someone who had built something that would automate parts of it. But as I was trying to find out, something being on GitHub to me is not the same as being public. And so I wanted to build something. I mean, I've built the bot twice with the exact purpose of building something that's not on GitHub, but somewhere where people can actually use it. So I was reviewing things that existed, but my goal was different. It was not just to find something for me, but to release something to the public. OK, and the other thing I want to ask is, why did you choose such a high level of automation? Advertisements on Emo Scout, for example, deactivated after 25 non-premium requests. And if you give such a bot with a high automation to many people, this will lead to many flats going off the market very fast from people who did not even check them manually. You're pointing out one thing where you can say, OK, this is problematic, the bot shouldn't exist. You're creating a problem. And I was trying to point this out before that whenever you react to a problem that's social and not technical, you will create new problems. And so what you're pointing out is one of these many new problems that will arise from this. The same being like what is with people that don't have a desktop computer at home, right? I met people at the exhibition that were like, I can't download this at home because I don't have a desktop computer. I don't have internet at home. And this is where you must see this is not meant to solve this, to do this or to that. This is an art project. I want to get into this discussion with you. I want to have people on the street thinking, OK, maybe we need different technology, maybe we need different regulation, a different society. So this is about creating this imagination, about creating a statical moments for yourself and not fixing this. So yes, there are all these problems, but that was not my focus in this. I wanted to have a theater there where people can start dreaming rather. OK, thanks. Correct. Number three, please. Hi. You basically said if I use your bots and the response rate depends on my income. What is your experience if I say, OK, but I pay more for the flat? So as it's capitalism, if I pay more for something and I say I pay more for my flat, I will get more responses. I've heard from people doing this in other countries. I've never heard of someone actually doing it in Germany to just offer to pay more. I have no idea how people react here if there is something where they can't do it. Like it's not something people talk about in my surroundings. So I have no idea really. It might work. It might not work. I don't know. No, I mean more if I if you search for a flat, which costs 700, it's really hard to find because so many people are looking for flights. But I say, OK, but for me, it's fine also 900. And I adapt the search parameters. Do I get a higher response rate with your bond? If you I mean, the thing will if you're looking for flats for 700 in Berlin, you'll likely get very few responses because there's very few flats like that out there. I can tell you that much. I've not done any data. I was considering adding data research parts to this. I've not done so I cannot give you any statistics on where you'll get the best response rates. It's out there. You can tinker with this. But that was not my focus here. OK, thanks. Thank you. Are there other questions here online? No one online. Very close, I think. Bourdieu is a good reference, actually, that he gave regarding capital, social capital, economic ground, you know, looked at up because that's actually the next step about what is then the context and in what kind of context one you want to live, actually. And with what kind of people do you have to integrate? Thank you for this fantastic thing for the theater that you gave us. Thank you for the doll.


Why are we so bothered about the internal capsule and the corticospinal tract? Again, this is just the same picture which I had shown earlier and I have put a quick tabular representation of some lacuna stroke syndrome involving the posterior capsule involving the internal capsule. We have something called pure motor stroke or pure motor hemiparesis where the location of lesion can either be in the corona radiata which I had shown earlier. It can be in the internal capsule or it can be in the basilar part of the pons or it can be the medial medulla. All of them produce opposite side, face, arm and leg paralysis, pure motor. Then we have another syndrome. Mind you, this is just a few of them. There are some 25 different lacuna stroke syndromes described. Another one is called the dysarthria clumsy hand syndrome where the location of lesion is in the genu and the anterior part of the posterior limb. Therefore, the patient presents with one sided C-7-9-10-12 upper motor neuron cranial palsy and weakness of the arm. We had said that the corticospinal tract fibers to the upper limb are located here. The dysarthria clumsy hand syndrome, the location of stroke is here. Then we have another entity called the ataxic hemiparesis where the location of lesion is in the posterior part of the posterior limb of the internal capsule. Here, the patient presents with again opposite side weakness where the lower limbs are more weak than the upper limbs. That is why it is referred to as ataxic hemiparesis. There are just a few of the strokes and roams involving the posterior limb of the internal capsule. This concludes our discussion of the projection fibers, the coronary adiata, the internal capsule and the clinical correlations of the posterior limb of the internal capsule, specifically pertaining to the corticobulbar and the corticospinal tracts. However, remember that there are many other...


Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What is this? What is this? Why does roadblock have a Narashekage tattoo on his arm? Hello everybody, it's HoodedCobraCommander788 here, and I'm back with another GI Joe Toy review video, and we're changing it up a little bit this time. Normally I focus on vintage GI Joe action figures and vehicles, but I had a chance to pick this up today, and so we are going to do a modern GI Joe action figure. I'm going to be reviewing Battlekata Roadblock from GI Joe Retaliation, and so this is going to be kind of new. Maybe we can compare the vintage figures to the modern figures and just see how they hold up. This should be fun. I'm going to go ahead and open this. I do not collect carded action figures anyway, so I don't really have a problem taking him out of the box. I'm not going to leave him mint on the card. We're going to tear into this and take a good look at the action figure and see if we like him. So here we go. Okay, we've got the packaging open, and we've got a lot of parts. We're going to take a closer look at those. Just a quick glance at the packaging. We have a photograph of the figure on here. We have the typical GI Joe Retaliation card art. We've got some pictures on the back of different ways that you can play with the figure, and a few of the other action figures that you can get in this line. But we've got a lot of parts here, so let's put Roadblock together and see how he looks. And here we have Roadblock completely assembled with all of his accessories. It doesn't look too bad. Let's first of all take a look at his accessories. We always like to look at the accessories first. He comes with lots of little bits. These really large holsters on his thighs here have two, looks like machine pistols, but these actually come apart. These separate both of them. And these little handles serve as handles for his other interchangeable accessories. See, he has this kind of baton thing here. And that connects and connect that to one of these. There you go. And he's got, he's actually got four small blades. These two that connect to his flak jacket here. I'm gonna pull these out. They actually go into the scabbards there, the sheaths. And I like that. I wish that more vintage GI Joe action figures had that feature with holsters for their weapons and, you know, a place to put knives and other accessories. So it's nice that the modern figures do more of that. That's good. This looks a little bit rinky-dink, little stubby, but the larger blade, here's one of them and the other one's down here at his ankle. These look a little bit better. In the handle. There we go. Looks a little bit more amenacing. Still a bit stubby compared to the very large handle. Roadblock, like the original, comes with his 50 caliber Browning machine gun, and that's nice. This was actually kind of hidden in the package. So I was worried that Roadblock, who's supposed to be a heavy machine gunner, was only gonna come with small weapons, but this is nice. I'm glad that they included this. I really would have been disappointed if it didn't have his famous machine gun. Unfortunately, it does not fit very well in his hands. It doesn't fit at all, really. It just slides or pops right out. I guess he could hold it two-handed. And let's see. He's got this flak jacket here. It pegs in here at the side.  It's a little bit more difficult to get out than I would like for it to be. And there you have Roadblock. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What is this? What is this? Why does Roadblock have a Narashikagi tattoo on his arm? No. No. Roadblock cannot be a ninja. They didn't make Roadblock a ninja, did they? No way. Let me let me look at that packaging again. Hold on a second. Let's see. Battle-Kata Roadblock. What's that? Oh, no. No, no, no. What is this? Let's see. Roadblock battles evil cobra enemies with his unique Battle-Kata fighting system. Really. The G.I. Joe leader, leader, whatever, uses on-the-fly weapon switching and martial arts moves to take out his attacks. They made him a ninja, didn't they? Look, at no point in the G.I. Joe storyline was Roadblock ever a ninja. He does not need to be a ninja.  He does not need ninja skills. What is the purpose of this?  I mean, look here. Roadblock, you want to be a ninja? You know I want to be a ninja. Ninja, congratulations.  Lift ticket, you want to be a ninja?  General Hawk, do you want to be a ninja? I don't want to be a ninja.   Everybody's a ninja. Everybody gets to be a ninja. I have to pause the review now. I need a drink, and we're back. Sure, why not? Why not? Everybody gets to be a ninja. Just put the tattoo on everyone. They're all ninjas. Okay, let's look at his articulation. He's got modern G.I. Joe articulation. He does not have the traditional o-ring construction, so he can't do the waist bendy thing, but he can turn side to side. Arm goes all the way around, up and down. You could do this kind of almost ratchets a little bit, doesn't move very well. Has wrist articulation, turns at the wrist, which is actually kind of nice. I wish that some of the vintage figures did that. That would have saved a lot of thumb breakage, I think. Let's see. Legs kind of go like that. He can do the splits about that far. His knees. He's got a nice little double joint thing at the knees, which I like. Allows more realistic knee movement than the vintage figures. He's got ankle articulation that nobody asked for, and it just makes him more awkward to pose. His head turns side to side, does not go up and down. So, hey, there's a little bit of the throwback to 1984. He has less articulation at the neck, and really less articulation at the torso than the vintage figures. So, whoopie-doo, there's modern roadblock. Okay, so let's compare modern roadblock to stand up.  Come on, roadblock. You've had too much to drink. Stand up, man. Stand up for yourself. Let's compare modern roadblock with the original, version one from 1984. The roadblock we all fell in love with. There we go. First thing that is immediately apparent is the scale is totally different. This roadblock is like eight feet tall compared to the first roadblock. He doesn't stand up very well. But, I mean, there are some good points. There are some points in the new roadblock that are really much better than the original. For one thing, let's look at this head sculpt. Let's take roadblocks helmet off. And he has a milk dud head. I don't know what else to call it. His head was sculpted in a really odd shape, and it just doesn't look right. It looks like like an alien head. At the time, they were not really good at sculpting, you know, musculature into the figures. They tried to make him look bulky and muscular, but, you know, it just ends up looking kind of odd. I do like the original uniform that he was wearing. The kind of brown pants and the camouflage shirt that's kind of opened the tank top with the straps.  The arms, I mean, supposed to be stronger than your average G.I. Joe, but the arms really were not any bigger than any other G.I. Joe figure of that era. And so, yeah, there are a few knocks against the original that the new one improves. It would be nice if they were in the same scale. I am disappointed that the modern G.I. Joe figures don't keep the same scale, make it a little bit awkward to use the modern figures with the vintage vehicles. So that kind of sucks, I guess. Hold on. Head sculpt is better. His head isn't shaped weird. He looks like the rock, so I guess that's something. Maybe you like that kind of thing. I like the more military look of the uniform. You know, he's got a shirt on this time, so that's all right. And yeah, I mean, some great points about the modern figures, the ankle, or I mean, I'd say the wrist articulation.  You know, I like to put the guns in the vintage figures with the buttstock of the gun inside the arm, but that's kind of awkward because really, if you don't want to put any strain on the thumb, they end up going in this way, and it just looks like they're holding their guns wrong. So some wrist articulation on those guys actually would have helped that a little bit, so I'm actually happy to see it in the modern figures. They are made of a much more pliable plastic than the vintage figures. This vintage figure is, you know, much more solid and can be brittle compared to the modern figures. This is not likely to crack and break nearly as easily as the original roadblock, so that's a plus. We have a backpack. The backpack I don't believe will fit the vintage action figure backpacks. Nope, so another thing you cannot use with the vintage figures. It has a foot peg, but it does not fit the vintage, it has a foot hole, it does not fit the vintage figure stands, so that's out. So, I mean, they really made this to be its own thing. It's not a continuation of the vintage line at all, and I guess that's good in some ways and bad in other ways. Let's put the accessories back together and look at these guys side by side. And here we have battle caught a roadblock side by side with vintage 1984 roadblock. There's the modern roadblock who cannot hold his 50 caliber machine gun, vintage roadblock can. We have modern roadblock with his itty bitty dinky winky little knives and swords. And there you have it. I hope you liked this video. Don't forget to smash that subscribe button so you can keep up on new videos and new awesome GI Joe reviews that I will be posting. And make sure to like this video. Or if you just love Ninja Roadblock, don't forget to dislike this video. Let's get lots of thumbs down for everybody who loves Ninja Roadblock. Yeah, that'll be awesome. Thanks for watching and catch you again later.


Hey, welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Dell Technologies World 2023. Live from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Lisa Martin, Dave Vellante. Day three of our wall-to-wall coverage of all the stuff going on at this event. There's about 8,000-plus people here that have been here, so definitely even bigger than last year. We're going to have some great conversations coming out the rest of our day. Please welcome one of our alumnus back with us, Ash McCarty, the director of multi-cloud product management at Dell Technologies. Ash, thank you so much for being back on theCUBE. Of course, great to be here. Thanks for your invite. Yeah, so you and your team are responsible for Dell's multi-cloud portfolio, including the X-Rail, Apex Cloud Platforms. Talk a little bit about your team, your roles and responsibilities, and then we'll dig into the technology. Yeah, absolutely. So our team is responsible for, we run the entire VxRail business. We also, a lot of the Apex announcements you heard this week, our team is delivering on the Apex Cloud Platforms, and we partner with the rest of the team who's delivering kind of the Apex Cloud announcements we make across the portfolio. So kind of the nine announcements that we made is, well, our team's all engaged in and working diligently to make that a reality for customers. I was going to say, you've been busy. Yeah, very, very busy. Congratulations, Ray. Congratulations, Ray. Yeah, thank you. Between VxRail and the Apex portfolio announcements, tremendous amount of work the team's done. How's that feel? What's that feel like giving birth to nine? Yeah, it's actually, it's both, a realization of all the feedback we've gotten from customers. They've been asking us saying, hey, how can you simplify our journey to Multicloud? So that's great to be able to talk to them about that and now explore all the benefits we can provide. But also just to announce and get off our chest, say, hey, here's what we're going to go deliver. Now we have to go actually go, make sure it happens to the way our customers expect. Cool. I know that's not the topic of conversation today. We're talking about sustainability at the edge. Which, you know, we're talking about, we just met with the cooling guys, the liquid cooling folks. We're talking about data center and heat and supercomputers. I imagine, yeah, at the edge, it's just as important because collectively, probably consuming more power. But what's the key issue? Help us frame it, Ash. Yeah, so I think there's a couple of issues. One is if you look at the distributed nature of the edge versus when you're managing in your core data center, it's centralized. So all your infrastructure's centralized. When you move out to the edge, that just amplifies the problem because you're talking about potentially dozens, hundreds of sites, so you're talking about a lot of power. But also typically at some of these edge environments, customers don't have the same level of infrastructure for their power that they would have in the core data center. So you can't effectively manage it the same way. So some of those problems they have and they need to solve with sustainability are just even more of a concern. So what's the sort of standard? Where are you seeing VxRail be deployed? I mean, I think edge, I think this, you know? But this can't do what VxRail can do. So what are the types of use cases that you're seeing? Yeah, so I think the value prop that we've been working together with our customers to address is really around the edge can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different folks. I'm sure you hear that all the time. We have customers in the retail vertical who are deploying it in automotive locations and they're loading in stores across the nation. So we have a big concern around scalability. We have customers in the defense vertical that are now wanting to load on naval ships or in submarines, on aircraft, in theater. We have customers in manufacturing who are doing it on, you know, getting data from analytics on their robotics or on their manufacturer equipments and need to ship that somewhere. So a variety of different environments, but the key thing that comes together on all of it is customers are looking to simplify the problems they're seeing at the edge, which are problems with managing at scale, problems with updating at scale, security concerns, how can they get the most effective efficiencies out of their resources so they don't have to assign resources to do hundreds of different sites. They want to be able to scale effectively. And how is VxRail enabling you guys to solve those challenges that so many customers in different industries, as you talked about, are facing? Yeah, so I think we're kind of approaching a multifaceted approach. It's not one answer that fits every problem. But the key unifier that's helping customers solve this is the VxRail HCI system software. So that's our value-add software that's integrated into the appliance. And if you look at the value of that, it doesn't matter if a customer's running it, VxRail on the cloud with VCF on VxRail, they're running it on-prem or out to the edge, that software enables them automated operations, automated management, and we have the capability to scale with integrations into our cloud IQ platform so they can perform not only health, inventory operations at scale, but also lifecycle, update, and patch at massive scale as well, thousands of sites. So that's being a great enabler for our customers. So I would imagine at scale, the business case just keeps getting better and better and better. You get that operating leverage curve. Can you talk about the business case in general? Specifically, how are customers thinking about the business case? What are the elements that they're looking at? I know you guys have done some studies with, with how you see, how, what are the dimensions of cost and value that they're looking at? Yeah, great question. So I think when I step back and look at the evolution of VxRail, the journey we've had over the last seven years, it, you know, when customers start their data center modernization journey, the work that they were utilizing VxRail for were primarily general virtualization use cases, you know, VDI, and over time we've expanded into the cloud with VCF on VxRail, enabling Kubernetes workloads to be deployed on VxRail at the edge. But kind of what's essentially been common and consistent across the entire deployment types with VxRail has been that VxRail HCI system software and that's provided a tremendous amount of business value. We've been telling customers about this and we've been saying, hey, you know, look at all the things you can automate and all the things how you can manage our infrastructure. But the key takeaway is don't just trust us. We wanted to go characterize that for customers. So we worked with IDC to put together a study and a research study interviewing our customers to kind of put a dollar amount and say, hey, what is the business value you can achieve with VxRail? And so some of the numbers have been pretty awesome and so we're excited to share in kind of a report we just published in April. And looking at the value of the VxRail software and the platform as a general, you save about $54,000 annually per node. So kind of what that allows you to achieve is kind of a payback period is you pay for VxRail itself in 11 months, but most of our customers are using VxRail around five years as their tech refresh cycle. So you're looking at an ROI of around 460% ROI over that five years. And really that's based on the fact that the maturity of the platform eliminates downtime. They can automate operations like deployment. They can automate updates. The servicing experience and the performance of the platform, that's where all that savings is coming from. They kind of off the ball question here, but as interest rates rise, are customers kind of rethinking their business case? Because when they do their free cash flow or their net cash flows and the present value, the DCF discounted cash flows, are they rethinking it? Is it harder today to get IT projects approved? We hear that quite frequently from customers and the way we've been approaching that is two ways. One is to talk about if they're looking to purchase as like a capex purchase up front, which to your point is coming increasingly more difficult. We try to talk about not only the initial implementation costs, but also the OPEC savings that you can improve on over the course of the platform. It's kind of the things we've just characterized with the IDC study, but also we give customers the flexibility to buy VxRail through different ways. So we have flex on demand so customers can consumption base so they can defer that up front cost and instead purchase it as an OPEC's expenditure. So a lot of customers have pursued that path to enable them to get the infrastructure in place and then at a smaller increment for their overhead on their budget and then pay for it over time. As today's point as the economy is changing and we're all living with that, I'm just curious how customer conversations are changing, elevating up the stack as customers have to do so much more with less in every industry. And is your value prop adjusting as a result of some of these new business initiatives that customers have, hey I got to be more with less. How is Dell kind of fine tuning that value prop to meet current market landscape? Yeah, so much of the innovation that we drive into VxRail and I think you heard Jeff talk about this yesterday in his keynote is really, we have big ears. I heard Michael Dell talk about that and that's key to what we drive into the portfolio is hearing the challenges customers have and responding to them. And so some of the value we've driven into VxRail is, and I have a couple of good examples really with some recent customers, some of the APIs that we, the restful APIs we have on VxRail that allow you to automate the operations. We've seen one customer who's a logistics company who started with 12 engineers that were managing their entire state and they had a state of over 3,000 VxRail nodes. They implemented infrastructure as code on our VxRails to allow them to scale effectively to those 3,000 sites and what they were able to do is take those 12 engineers and we're just a four, move those eight engineers off to other more business critical operations and then so they were able to streamline all that and that simplifies how they can scale their business. And that's not trivial that resource reallocation and utilization that you talk about. That's very impactful to businesses. Yeah, I hear it from every customer is there's not a single customer I've talked to that they say, hey, I have just free resources available for me at all times. They're all being asked to do more and they're wanting to focus less on managing the infrastructure, which is what we provide being able to automate, but they also want to focus more on their strategic business outcomes and that's what we're trying to empower them to be able to do. I see some bragging points here that I want to dig into if we can. It says the first and only embedded hardware witness node, I don't know what that is so I would like you to explain it. It's built specifically for vSAN 2 node deployments. Can you explain that? Yeah, so we introduced our VxRail VD-4000 which was our next gen edge optimized platform. We launched that in March and it's resonating with customers for a variety of reasons. It's ruggedized so it can run in different environments, hotter, cooler environments. It's shock resistant so that's why I talked about the defense industry's really excited about that because they can put it in the back of a Humvee and it gets shaked around. But one of the most innovative capabilities we launched was the embedded vSAN witness. So think of the challenges customers have today with the 2 node deployment. They need a witness for quorum. And today it was very challenging for them to have dedicated infrastructure that they have to install somewhere, they have to have a physical space that to manage the power and cooling, the cost with it, what we've done has solved that for the customers. So with the VD-4000 you have a dedicated purpose built witness. It's a hardware witness sled that slides into the chassis so it's self contained in the chassis with the actual compute sleds. And then what it also provides is the VxRail software that we talked about, the same automation, the same management that we provide for the actual compute. You now can manage the witness the same way. So that's the first and only capability we have in the industry today that can do that. And I also see, you can also add a GPU assuming you can get one or multiples for AI and other edge processor inferencing at the edge. You could do that inside of the VxRail configuration now. Oh yeah, and I think you probably saw a lot of the announcements yesterday and the fact that they had chat DTW, they were talking about that and all the generative AI announcements. That's the shipping product that Jeff talked about. Oh yeah, yeah, we're fine tuning that you saw, but generative AI is a huge growth area for our customers, and particularly a lot of this generation of this data that they need to basically inference on once they've done their training in their core data center will be done at the edge. So the VD-4000 actually has two PCI slots that you can use and you can put up to two NVIDIA GPUs in or one larger GPU depending on your use case and that allows you to perform inferencing at the edge, which is pretty powerful for a lot of customers. Share how we talked with Chuck Whitten yesterday. We were in the keynote on Monday as well, multi-cloud by default to multi-cloud by design. How is VxRail, I presume it's an enabler of customers going from that default which might be chaotic to the design. How is it fueling that transformation? Yeah, so VxRail has always had a significant partnership and we jointly engineer it with VMware, so it's always better together with VMware. And so as part of our multi-cloud by design, VMware ties in, excuse me, VxRail ties in very closely to VMware's multi-cloud software portfolio. So whether that's VMC or enabling private cloud with VCF on VxRail, it's kind of been our go-to portfolio with tightly integrated environments with VMware. So it just really extends the portfolio with all the announcements you saw. Today really extends some of the value we've already started to build on VxRail into these new Apex announcements as well. So you guys achieved your leadership in HCI, that category over a couple, I don't know what the period was, but the ascendancy was pretty fast. How did you do that, what were the key ingredients to getting that leadership position in the marketplace?  That really was a big part of it. So early on as we built the product, we listened to customers, but we also saw a need in the industry, especially early on in HCI, customers were having to do it on their own. There was a lot of competing products out there, but they really didn't fully automate all of the capabilities that the mundane task that most system administrators will tell you is challenging for them. They'd rather focus on the business critical areas and business critical outcomes. And so by driving the automation into all layers of the VxRail HCI system software, so everything from deployment, to managing your day-to-day operations, to automating the lifecycle updates, to the serviceability and the single point of contact support, those are all things that customers said, you know, we don't like doing that, or we wish it would be better this way, or we wish it could be faster, so we don't have to spend the weekend patching. So we don't have to, when we call someone up, we get the right person to solve our problem right away. And I think that I could characterize that as a key reason why you saw such a ramp, because customers really, it resonated the value with customers on the differentiation between our competitors. We've been talking a lot about Dell's Big Ears the last couple of days. Last question for you is, as you've been walking around the show floor, we mentioned, you know, 8,500 North or so people here at this event, what are some of the things that your Big Ears have heard that are going to inspire you when you get back to Round Rock and continue moving forward with your role? Yeah, I think it's, if you look at the breadth of the announcements that we had this week, I mean, tremendous amount of announcements. I think the general consensus from customers is they cannot believe what we've achieved since last year, and I think Jeff characterized it very well. On stage, he said we made it real. And across multi-cloud, across security, I'm seeing a ton of excitement. Customers are really excited about generative AI. The work we're doing at Project Helix. So all of that tying together, and much of that value we're bringing to the portfolio, especially around security, multi-cloud, will extend to VxRail and some of our existing portfolio as well. So it's not all just new stuff. A lot of the capabilities we're developing are going to be broadly used across the portfolio. So customers are going to be able to realize that value. Yeah, we had the chance to talk with Jeff first thing this morning, and he did a great job kind of just double click on the keynote that he gave yesterday and talking about all the innovations and really going from projects to products within that time period. And it's no wonder that there's so much trust that your customers have with Dell. Ash, thank you so much for coming on the program today. Give us the rundown of what's new with the X-Rail at the edge and the performance and sustainability benefits you guys are helping customers deliver. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. All right, for our guest and Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. Another segment coming up, we're going to dig into Dell's XR class of servers and how and why their purpose built for the edge. We'll see you in a minute.


to have that feedback so you know you're really getting home. Yeah, because you never know. Yeah, you never know. But when someone tells you, man, and that's the whole purpose. What's next for every women? Next, oh, to go national. To go national and to impact more lives. And what about you? What's next for you? We can all look forward to. You know what? A vacation. I'm going to expand my production company, Yolanda Mitchell Brown production. But just to enjoy life more, to hit that bucket list a little bit more. There you go. Thank you so much.


Hi everyone, I'm Brian Sakawa and thanks for tuning in to this week's episode of Ask Key Spoke Style. I've gotten quite a few questions about skin care and skin care routine, and I'm really glad that you guys are thinking about this because what good is dressing well and having nice clothes and taking care of them if you're not taking care of your face. So let's talk about skin care. A good skin care regimen consists of four components, exfoliating, cleansing, moisturizing and protecting. Exfoliating is important because it removes all of those dead skin cells, and dead skin cells are bad because they can clog your pores and clog pores, create blemishes and ingrown hairs which are definitely painful and don't look good at all. I recommend exfoliating at least once a week. I do it twice a week, and one of my favorite products is by Baxter of California. It's their facial scrub. I've been using it for a long time, obviously there is not much left. It's a really great product. Cleansing is the part of skin care that everyone knows about. The thing that's important to remember when washing your face is that you're not using a cleanser that's too abrasive or that's going to leave your skin too dry. One of my favorite products is, again, Baxter of California product, and it's the Daily Face Wash. It's a product I've been using for many, many years, and I love it. It's very mild and it works very, very well. The third part of a good skin care regimen is moisturizing. I know moisturizing can be something that a lot of guys don't want to do because we don't want our faces to look greasy or oily. I know years ago I used to not like to use moisturizer because I hated having my face look greasy. Two things to think about when using a moisturizer, make sure you're using the right amount, don't over-moisturize, and pick one that isn't greasy at all. A product that I've been using recently is by Refinery. It's really great. It's not too greasy. I really like how it makes my face feel. The final aspect of a good skin care regimen is to protect. You never want to leave the house without some kind of SPF protection. A lot of moisturizers kind of do double duty. They'll have an SPF in them. Obviously, you can always just put sunblock on before you leave the house. There also are products that are SPF boosters for any kind of moisturizer you might have. I am always looking for new products and especially skin care products, so leave your favorites in the comments. If you guys have a question, please, as always, send them in. Email me at brianatheespokestyle.com, leave them in the comments, or get in touch via Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag AskHSS. That's all for this week. Thanks for watching, everyone. See you next week. Skin care!


Come on down here. Your mom's coming to school today. Looking forward to it. Yeah, excellent me too. We're gonna have a meeting It's gonna be a good one And I want you to spell cop Coop We need to trade one letter calm buff. Nope. Coop Buffy one away. No, that's cool three sounds good chocolate see Oh, excellent everyone else get that Hi Julian, hi mommy. Hi, Sandra. Yeah, how are you? Good? Good? I enjoyed watching you play on the playground I know she's your good friend, isn't she? Yeah. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. Thanks, son Okay, the bell rang you two need to go in. Sandra, can you take Julian to the classroom? Good. Thanks. Bye, Julian. Bye, Sandra. Thanks for coming today, Luda. Yeah, I just thought I'd come I'm in for the meeting, but I thought I'd just come and hang out before I go help in the classroom later That'd be great. Yeah, let's head in. Okay. Thanks So Mrs. Pigford we're doing agendas and using this time to practice handwriting Would you modify it for Julian, please? Sure? I'll print the words for our Manhattan copy of mine Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Mrs. Herms. Yes. Would you be willing to check the agendas and make sure they let the message down? I sure will. Thank you Hi Kurt and Lundell. Nice of you to come in. Hi Matthew, good to see you. It's nice to see you today, Kurt. We had a Loudel volunteer in our class. It was great I always enjoy helping in the class as much as I can Well, thank you so much for meeting with us today. No problem Unfortunately, Julian's teacher went home sick this afternoon so she won't be joining us But when she comes back to school, I'll talk to her and I'm sure she has any other questions. She'll give you a call Now I understand that you have some concerns regarding Julian in the classroom. Yeah, we just wanted to discuss Julian's future and Maybe strategize ways that we can continue to build his independence and and responsibility in his activities But you mind if I take notes? Not at all One of the things that we've noticed is that Julian gets a lot of one-on-one time And we think that's great for his development. We would maybe like to see how we could incorporate a little more freedom in certain activities In certain applications. Okay. All right. Is there a specific area that you were thinking of? Well, we were just thinking maybe in math perhaps To be able to use a calculator and maybe that will allow him Just that opportunity to check his own work on his own and not always to have those Those extra eyes on him for every little problem. Sure. We'll give that a try and you're right It'll hopefully keep him on track with the other kids. It's a good idea It sounds like that there might be some other opportunities as well in other core subjects as well as math Why don't we come back together next week and talk about those things as well? Sure, that'd be terrific Yeah, yeah, and another thing that we've noticed and and he gets a lot of supervision at Playground and recess time and we're thinking maybe we can scale back that supervision to help him again build that independence Work out some solutions on his own. Yes, he really likes physical activity, but I've also noticed it myself So maybe next week I'll try to Step back a bit. It's kind of hard for me. I know exactly how you feel to and I it's hard to To kind of learn when to when and how to let go and to give him that freedom All right, so is there anything other than those that you can think of? Well, we just wanted to really thank you guys we've done a tremendous job with Julian and Over the we've seen so much growth in him over the last few years and we really have loved every teacher and So thank you very much. No, that's okay. We love Julian's as well And we're here for to make sure he gets the best education that he can to recap Just our meeting here is you're we're concerned with his independence as we're moving forward We're about to switch grades and specifically we're talking about the use of a calculator in math to help him in problem-solving I think it's a great idea And we can certainly do that and we're also going to come back next week and talk about other core subjects as we're planning for next year and Also what the supervision and I'm getting into his own little troubles and sort them out himself But we'll still have somebody else out there, but maybe not as close Sure, that sounds great Active listening is rooted in attitudes build positive working relationships Support strong collaboration between the school and home Create mutual respect and trust Listen for feelings Listen for meaning ask open-ended questions Focus on the issues Active listening to me is an important part of the programming for a child There are a number of people who hold different understandings about the child and through active listening I get to hear about those understandings and some of those might hold information that I'm not aware of Which could be important when we're programming for the child in the school And it's through this process that I am able to bring this together so that the child benefits from everybody's combined knowledge