It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Larry Lusser and Don Hollenbeck, both of the CBS television news staff. Our distinguished guest Of course, best known as an American industrialist. Can you tell us now how it feels to be a diplomat? Well, Mr. Lusser, I really don't feel that I'm a diplomat. I've been asked by the Secretary of State to come down here as an alternate delegate to the United Nations and I've been assigned to the second committee, which is the Economic and Financial Committee, which actually has nothing to do with the diplomatic relations of the United States with any other country. We are principally concerned with economic and financial matters and as you know, more particularly concerned with technical assistance up to this point. As a matter of fact, at this time I am not representing our country. Mr. J.D. Zellerback with the Crown Zellerback Paper Corporation from San Francisco is representing us in the second committee on something called SunFed, which probably doesn't mean much to most of this country, but which is now being discussed in the second committee. Would you spell that SunFed out? I think we all ought to know a little bit more about it. SunFed is S-U-N-F-E-D, which is a special United Nations fund for economic development. What about the difference in procedure though from being a business administrator and from working around a table with a lot of people from different countries, Mr. Ford? Well, as a matter of fact, I think that this is something that I have not had much experience with, but one which I have learned a great deal from and I hope that I can contribute a little a bit too. In our business, of course, which is the only thing that I've had any experience with and that is that we are used to dealing with problems, which all of us have had sort of similar backgrounds in dealing with. When we come here to the United Nations, or at least from my point of view, we are dealing with peoples from 60 different countries. People that have had different economic backgrounds, different cultural backgrounds, different language backgrounds, and for me, it's been a great education and a great experience to become associated with those people and to face the problems which are facing the world. It's a very thrilling experience and one which I think is very beneficial to the United States and I think the United Nations can mean great things for our country. What's the biggest problem in adjusting to that change? Well, experience, I think. Experience means a lot. Mr. Ford, you've been concerned so far at the United Nations with this expanded UN program for technical assistance to underdeveloped countries. Do you think this program is in our American self-interest? I think it definitely is. I think it is new. It is spread thin. It only has 25 million dollars, as you know, to be spread over 70 different countries and it involves several different agencies and the method in which it's administered is very important. But I think to many countries of the world, to many of the underdeveloped countries of the world, the United Nations is technical assistance. It's that thing which is brought to them, which is their life and death, the difference between life and death to them, health and food. And I think from that standpoint, it's very important. It's just as important as the bilateral, which is a technical expression, which we use in this country for the aid which the United States is giving in and of itself to the underdeveloped countries. But I think the United Nations also plays a very important part in that type of program. When the long one, do you think it will help the United States, though? I definitely do. Well, I've heard you quoted recently and seen you quoted as having some ideas and other lines of help around the world, which don't have to do with the United Nations. In other words, I'm going to get right down to business on tariffs. You've been having some publicity on some views of yours on that matter. Could you tell us a little bit about that? Well, I've felt for quite a period of time that is better for us to trade and not aid. I think that in this country, as a matter of personal opinion and speaking for myself, that our people would rather pay less taxes and trade more than they have. And I think that if we can get reciprocal trade agreements, I think we must have an understanding with our foreign friends that they will help us if we will help them. And I think if we can have a better trade picture, a lowering of our tariffs, and I think that if they will help us, we can have more trade, which will expand our economy. I think it's in our best self interest. I think that if we can sell our excess production, not only in farm goods, but in our hard goods industries, that we can do an awful lot for our country. And I think that it's in our best self interest to do so. Well, Mr. Ford, certain parts of the business world we must acknowledge didn't like some of your remarks about their desire for a closed market. How do you answer them? Well, I thoroughly agree. I think there are lots of people who don't agree with me at all that I don't blame them. There are lots of people that I don't agree with. And I think we we all have our certain interests in which we know better than other people. But I'm thinking, as a matter of fact, in my estimation, at least for the benefit of the country as a whole, I think that it's far better for us to find some way to expand our trade so that we will not have to pay out our tax dollars and aid. Well, wouldn't this matter of lower tariffs work a hardship on some people in this country? Very well, work hardships on certain segments of our economy. And I think that those segments should be definitely protected. I think they should maybe have direct subsidy, a subsidy that we can measure, a subsidy that can be seen as it is. We have a high protective tariff in many cases, which is unknown to the people of this country. There's no way to measure it. And I think if we reduce our tariffs and then can protect certain industries by direct subsidy, we'd be better off than having this umbrella. What would the lower tariffs actually do for our economy, Mr. Ford? On my estimation, and I'm speaking for myself alone, lower tariffs would mean that it would enable us to sell more of our goods overseas and return would allow other people who could earn American dollars to buy more from us, which would give them an opportunity to trade with us, which they are not now able to do because they don't have dollars. I mean, if we talk free enterprise and competition here at home, we ought to talk the same sort of language abroad, too. I think so. I'm for the freedom of the individual and for freedom of trade. Could you be specific, perhaps, about any industry that might need this protection or subsidy that you've introduced? I don't believe I'm in a position at this moment to talk about any particular industry. I'm not sure that I'm well enough informed to speak about any particular industry. Well, Mr. Ford, I know one industry that you're very well informed about. That's the automotive industry. You tell me, do you really think that we reached the saturation point of automobiles on the roads? I don't actually think we have. I think we need more and better roads and having driven around the eastern part of the United States, I can see why many motorists would be exasperated with automobile production. Have you tried to depart lately? The parkways on Sunday night in this area are really crowded. But I honestly think that with an expanded sales organization and with the products which our industry has to sell, that there's a great opportunity for us to do an even greater job than we've been able to do up to this point. I think we haven't really gotten into the really possibilities that are available for our industry. There are many families which don't own cars that can afford to own cars and there are many families that can afford to have two cars that only have one car. Well, Mr. Ford, what about the, if I may say so, the automobile dealers, aren't they screaming now about having too many cars in their hands? Many dealers, many dealers are. I think many dealers are really worried that the manufacturers are turning out too many cars. I think that since the war, the dealers really haven't had a competitive situation to face. And I know that they all want to face that situation and now we're in it. And so they've got to go out and sell and I'm sure that the manufacturers as such want to treat them in the best way they possibly can because no manufacturer is any better than his dealer organization. Mr. Ford, the cost of living is going on now. The index has reached its highest point since the Korean War. Do you think that if labor demands higher wages now that we can still maintain a decent cost of living in this country? Well, I'm not sure that I can answer that question, Mr. Lesser. And in the most economic sense, we in our business have a cost of living index which is measured on the cost of living. And as such, we pay wages in accordance with the rise or the lowering of the cost of living. And we will do that until our contract runs out in 1955. And that's our contracts that we're forced into it and we're very willing and happy to live by it. A lot of people say that we're in danger of overproduction in America and a recession is due. What do you think about it? I'm not worried about overproduction in this country and I'm not worried about a recession. I think we have the greatest country in the world. We have freedom of the individual, we have a love for peace and we have the ability, I think, to expand our economy to unlimited scope. And I think that if we all work together and we all try together, we have a great job to do for our country. We certainly want to win the peace. That's our primary objective. But I think that our economy can expand even farther than it has expanded up to date. Thank you very much, Mr. Henry Ford. It's been a great pleasure to have you here tonight. Thank you. The opinions you've heard our speakers express tonight have been entirely their own. The editorial board for this edition of the Laun Jean Chronoscope was Larry Lesser and Don Hollenbeck, both of the CBS television news staff. Our distinguished guest was Henry Ford II, alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. Jewelers know that a fine watch such as Laun Jean actually improves with use. Yes, long years after an inferior watch has virtually worn out and has been discarded, a Laun Jean watch will continue to be an accurate and a dependable timepiece. 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from SixSisterStuff.com and we are self-writing Halloween for the entire month of October. So we are going to be making Jell-O pudding dirt cups. So your kids will love these. They're super easy to make just a couple ingredients and your kids can even decorate them themselves. So you start with an instant pudding. I just use chocolate, Jell-O brand, and you add two cups of milk and you'll whisk it for about two minutes until it thickens up. So after that's thickened, I add an 8-ounce container of cool whip in with my pudding and you'll just mix this together. You can have your kids do this. It'll use some of their pent-up energy. But so after this is all mixed together, you're ready to build them. That's how easy it is. So you'll just use, it's cute with clear cups like this because then you can see them on the inside. So you'll just fill this about two-thirds of the way full. We'll do a little more. And then sprinkle on crushed Oreos. This is the dirt that's going to make this look spooky for Halloween. Next I have mint Milano cookies and you can just get these on the cookie aisle. And I've used pre-made icing and I've written RIP on them and you just shove them in there like it's a headstone. Put a pumpkin by it and you are good to go and your kids will love them. So it's pretty easy.  I had a little helper. So just goes to show the kids really do like them. Hi! Hi Bailey! So you can find this and other Halloween recipes and other family-friendly recipes on our website SixSistersStuff.com and thanks for tuning in!


Hey, welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of WIDS 2023, the eighth annual Women in Data Science Conference. I'm your host, Lisa Martin. We are at Stanford University, as you know we are every year. Having some wonderful conversations with some very inspiring women and men in data science and in technical roles. I'm very pleased to introduce Tracy Jung, my co-host, who is in the data journalism program at Stanford. And Tracy and I are pleased to welcome our next guest, Rhonda Krait, principal data scientist at Boeing. Great to have you on the program, Rhonda. Welcome. Thanks for having me. Were you always interested in data science or STEM from the time you were young? No, actually. I was always interested in archeology and anthropology. That's why you have an interesting, we were talking about that, anthropology, interesting. We saw the anthropology background, not even a bachelor's degree, but also a master's degree in anthropology. So you were committed for a while. I was, I was. I actually, I started college as a fine arts major, but I'd always wanted to be an archeologist with the last minute leaven credits in the left. And to switch to anthropology, and then when I did my master's, I focused a little bit more on quantitative research methods and then I got my stat degree. Interesting. Talk about some of the data science projects that you're working on. When I think of Boeing, I always think of aircraft. But you are doing a lot of really cool things in IT, data analytics. Talk about some of those intriguing data science projects that you're working on. Yeah, so when I first started Boeing, I worked in information technology and data analytics and Boeing at the time had cored up data science in there. And so we worked as a function across the enterprise, working on anything from shared services to user experience in IT products to airplane programs. So it has a wide range. I worked on environment health and safety projects for a long time as well. So looking at ergonomics and how people actually put parts onto airplanes along with things like scheduling and production line, part failures, software testing. Yeah, it's a wide spectrum of things. But I think that's so fantastic. We've been talking Tracy today about just what we often see it with, which is this breadth of diversity and people's background. You talked about anthropology, archeology, you're doing data science, and also all of the different opportunities that you've had at Boeing to see so many facets of that organization. I always think that that breadth of thought diversity is, can be hugely impactful. Yeah, so I will say like my anthropology degree has actually worked to my benefit. I'm a huge proponent of integrating liberal arts and sciences together. And it actually, it helps me, I'm in the technical fellowship program at Boeing, so we have different career paths. So you can go into management, you can be a regular employee, or you can go into the fellowship program. So right now I'm an associate technical fellow, and part of how I got into the fellowship program was that diversity in my background, what made me different, what made me stand out on projects, even applying a human aspect to things like ergonomics. It's silly as that sounds, but how does a person actually interact in the space along with, here are the actual measurements coming off of whatever system it is that you're working on. So I think there's a lot of opportunities, especially in safety as well, which is a big initiative for Boeing right now, as you can imagine. I can't go into two specifics. No, because we were like, I think a theme for today that kind of like we brought up in all of our talks is like how data is about people, how people understand the world, and how these data can make impact on people's lives. So yeah, I think it's great that you brought this up, and I'm very happy that your anthropology background can tap into that and help in your day to day like data work too. Yeah, and currently right now I actually, I switched over to strategic workforce planning. So it's more how we understand our workforce, how we work towards retaining that talent, how do we get the right talent in our space, and making sure like overall that we offer a culture and work environment that is great for our employees to come to. That culture is so important. I was looking at some AnitaB.org stats from 2022 and talking about, we always talk about the number of women in technical roles. For a long time it's been hovering around that 25% range. The data from AnitaB.org showed from 22, it's now 27.6%. Little increase, but one of the biggest challenges still and Tracy and I and our other co-hosts, Hannah have been talking about this, is attrition, attrition more than doubled last year. What are some of the things that Boeing is doing on the retention side because that is so important, especially as there's this pipeline leakage of women leaving technical roles. Tell us about what Boeing's, how they're invested. Yeah, sure. We actually have a publicly available global diversity report that anybody can go and look at and see our statistics for our organization. Right now, off the top of my head, I think we're hovering at about 24% in the US for women in our company. It has been a male majority company for many years. We've invested heavily in increasing the number of women in roles. One interesting thing about this year that came out is that even though with the great resignation and those types of things, the attrition level between men and women were actually pretty close to being equal, which is like the first time in our history, usually it tends on more women leaving right. Yes, that's a good sign. And we've actually focused on hiring and bringing in more women in diversity in our company. Yeah, some of the stats too from anitabee.org talked about the increase that I have to scroll back and find my notes. The increase in 51% more women being hired in 2022 than 2021 for technical roles. So the data, pun intended, is showing us, I mean the data is there to show the impact that having females in executive leadership positions make from a revenue perspective. Companies are more profitable when there's women at the head or at least in senior leadership roles. But we're seeing some positive trends that especially in terms of representation of women technologists. One of the things that I found interesting and I'm curious to get your thoughts on this Rhonda is that the representation of women technologists is growing in all areas except interns. So I think we've got to go downstream. You teach, if I go back to my notes on you, did my due diligence, our programming classes through Boeing's Ed Wells program, this is for WSU College of Arts and Sciences. Talk about what you teach and how do you think that intern kind of glut could be solved? Yeah, so they're actually two separate programs. So I teach a data analytics course at Washington State University as an adjunct professor and then the Ed Wells program is a SPIA which is an aerospace union focused on bringing up more technology and skills to the actual workforce itself. So it's kind of a couple of different audiences. One is more seasoned employees, right? The other one is our undergraduates. I teach a capstone class so it's a great way to introduce students to what it's actually like to work on an industry project. We partner with Google, Microsoft and Boeing on those. The idea is also that maybe those companies have openings for the students when they're done. Since the senior capstone, there's not a lot of opportunities for internships, but the opportunities to actually get hired increase a little bit. In regards to Boeing, we've actually invested a lot in hiring more women interns. I think the number was 40% That's great. That's fantastic. That's a good point. Yeah, it is about average. That's from my memory. Is this your first WIDDs or have you been before? I did virtually last year. Okay, one of the things that I love, I love covering this event every year. The CUBE's been covering it since its inception in 2015, but it's just the inspiration, the vibe here at Stanford is so positive. WIDDs is a movement. It's not an initiative and an organization. There are going to be, I think annually this year, there will be 200 different events. Obviously today we're live on International Women's Day. 60 plus countries, 100,000 plus people involved. So this is such a positive environment for women and men because we need everybody underrepresented minorities to be able to understand the implication that data has across our lives. If we think about stripping away titles and industries, everybody is a consumer, not everybody, most of mobile devices. And we have this expectation. I was in Barcelona last week at Mobile World Congress. We have this expectation that we're going to be connected. 24 seven, I can get whatever I want, wherever I am in the world, and that's all data driven. And the average person that isn't involved in data science wouldn't understand that. At the same time, they have expectations that depend on organizations like a Boeing being data driven so that they can get that experience that they expect in their consumer lives in any aspect of their lives. And that's one of the things I find so interesting and inspiring about data science. What are some of the things that keep you motivated to continue pursuing this? Yeah, I will say, along those lines, I think it's great to invest in K through 12 programs for data literacy. I know one of my mentors and directors of the data analytics program, Naranjana Descupta, Dr. Naranjana Descupta, really familiar with each other. So she runs a WSU program for K through 12 data literacy. It's also something that we strive for at Boeing and we have an internal data literacy program because believe it or not, most people are in business, right? And there's a lot of disconnect between interpreting and understanding data. For me, what kind of drives me to continue data science is that connection between people and data and how we use it to improve our world, which is partly why I work at Boeing too, because I feel that they produce products that people need, like satellites and airplanes and everything. Well, it's tangible, it's relatable, we can understand it. Can you do me a quick favor and define data literacy for anyone that might not understand what that means? Yeah, so it's just being able to understand elements of data, whether that's a bar chart or even in a sentence, how to read a statistic and interpret a statistic in a sentence, for example. Very cool. Yeah, sounds like Boeing's doing a great job in these programs and also trying to hire more women. So yeah, I wanted to ask, do you think there's something that Boeing needs to work on or where do you see yourself working on, like say, the next five years? Yeah, I think as a company, we always think that there's always room for improvement. Right. It never stops. I know workforce strategy is an area that they're currently really heavily investing in along with safety. How do we build safer products for people? How do we help inform the public about things like COVID transmission in airports? For example, we had the Confident Traveler Initiative, which was a big push that we had and we had to be able to inform people about data models around COVID, right? So yeah, I would say our future is more about an investment in our people and our culture from my perspective. That's so important. I always think that culture, one of the hardest things to change, especially for a legacy organization like Boeing is culture. You know, when we talk about, when I talk with CEOs or CIOs or COOs about what's your company's vision? What's your strategy? Especially those companies that are on that digital journey that have no choice these days. Everybody expects to have a digital experience, whether you're transacting an Uber ride, you're buying groceries or you're traveling by air. That culture sounds like Boeing is really focused on that. And that's impressive because that's one of the hardest things to morph and mold, but it's so essential. You know, as we look around the room here at WIDDS, it's obviously mostly females, but we're talking about women underrepresented minorities. We're talking about men as well, who are mentors and sponsors to us. I'd love to get your advice to your younger self. What would you tell yourself in terms of where you are now to become a leader in the technology field? Yeah, I mean, it's kind of an interesting question because I always try to think, like live with no regrets to an extent. I like that. But there's lots of failures along the way. I don't know if I would tell myself anything different because honestly, if I did, I wouldn't be where I am. Good for you. Start it out and find out. I always say- It didn't end up there. That's good. We've been talking about that and I find that a lot at events like WIDDS is women have these zig-zaggy patterns. I studied biology. I have a master's in molecular biology. I'm in media and marketing. But there's transport, we talked about transportable skills. There are things, there's a case I made many years ago when I got into tech about, well, in science, you learn how the art of interpreting esoteric data and creating a story from it. And it's not, that's a transportable skill, but I always say, you mentioned failure. I always say failure is not a bad F word. It allows us to kind of zig and zag and learn along the way. And I think that really fosters thought diversity. And in data science, that is one of the things we absolutely need to have is that diversity and thought. We talk about AI, AI models being biased. We need the data and we need the diverse brains to help ensure that the biases are identified, extracted and removed. Speaking of AI. I've been geeking out with chat GPT. So I'm on it yesterday and I ask it, what's hot in data science? And I was like, is it going to get that, what's hot? And it did, it came back with trends. I think if I ask anything what's hot, I should be to Paris Hilton, but I didn't. And so I was geeking out. One of the things I learned recently that I thought was so super cool is the CTO of open AI is a woman, Mira Morati, which I didn't know until over the weekend. Because I always think, if I had to name top females in Tuck, who would they be? And I always defaulted at Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina, Susan Wojcicki running YouTube. Who are some of the people in your history and your current that are really inspiring to you? Men, women, indifferent? Sure, I think Boeing is one of the companies where you actually do see a lot of women in leadership roles. I think we're one of the top companies with a number of women executives actually. Susan Doniz, who's our chief information officer, I believe she's actually slotted to speak at a Woods event come fall. So that will be exciting. Susan's actually relatively newer to Boeing in some ways. Boeing timescale is like three years is still kind of new. Okay, so, but she's been around for a while and she's done a lot of inspiring things, I think, for women in the organization. She does a lot with Latino communities and things like that as well. For me personally, you know, when I started Boeing, Amadeya Gubi was one of my mentors in my technical lead. He came from Iran during a lot of hard times in the 1980s. His brother actually wrote a memoir. Just a fun, interesting fact. Wow! You know, and so I kind of gravitate to people that I can learn from that's not in my sphere that might make me uncomfortable. Yeah.  It's one of the things, we just keep going and learning from our mentors and probably lose sight of, I wonder how many people actually admire me? And I'm sure there are many that admire you, Ronda, for what you've done, going from anthropology to archeology, you mentioned before we went live, you were really interested in photography and keep going and really gathering all that bread because it's only making you more inspiring to people like us. We thank you so much for joining us on the program and sharing a little bit about you and what brought you to WIDS. Thank you so much, Ronda. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here. Yeah. For our guests and for Tracy Zhang, this is Lisa Martin live at Stanford University covering the eighth annual Women in Data Science Conference. Stick around, next guest be here in just a second.


What's up guys? Michael with jaspies doing a quick recap for our three box high-end mixer It was a box of pristine a box of cosmic and a box of 2021 tops museum collection It was a random team done auction style on fanatics live. This is number one. I only did one so here's the list and Here's the recap So I'm gonna get a cold of 99 and it's got Roland dual relic autograph Paul Goldschmidt launched into orbit autograph Juan Soto launched into orbit Black one of ten Very nice. Mookie bet swings of summer That was just a Recap card there Jay Cronworth rookie order to 199 KC mice triple relic to 25 pool holes relic to 25.  So thank you to everyone who got into the break Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys


Hi guys, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. Welcome to another lesson of ours in this lesson Well, what you heard in the introduction performance, which I did is yeah I mean a section of a song was done and dusted if you think about it and What you need to know my right hand was just playing one chord C major if you will right and that's what I'm going to try and work on in this lesson to take two chords which you use very often in songs, especially Dearing pop songs rock songs and traditional song writing which involves around just two chords major and minor chords Isn't it so we take those chords and place them in the right hand and then see how The magic can happen with actually the left hand right is usually we focus on the shapes of the right hand We get into the voicing we get into lots of stuff just for the right hand and we assume that the chord is sort of complete But actually it's not just a few small alterations in the left hand will just enable the Existing chord to not even sound like itself to not even sound like a major chord anymore or a minor chord anymore Right so in this lesson We are just going to take two cards one major and one minor and just try and look at some ways of building music And if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe to our channel turn on that bell icon for notifications Like the video and leave us a comment. Let's get cracking So we start with just C major in the right hand and actually we end with C major in the right hand That's pretty much it. So the right hand well for variety. So this is C major by the way C E G now the nice thing about this chord is you can voice it in three piano friendly ways These are what we call is inversion. So you go C E G You can also take the C from the bottom and push it to the top E G C That's the C on top you can also do G C E Okay, G C E So these are the three ways of playing C major Beautiful sounds right so you go what I'm doing in this lesson since I like the sound that way is to go G C E Sort of comes to the middle of the keyboard and it reminds me of my favorite songs like imagine by John Lennon Let it be by the Beatles So you have their voicing generally around is around here is around middle C because it makes your voice really shine through Right, especially for a male singer because male singers have lesser range Right in general, I think playing chords in and around the middle of your piano or middle of your keyboard This is what they call Popularly as middle C. It's not really in the middle of the piano geometrically, but yet they just call it middle C but anyway So this is what I'm gonna do. I hold down a simple C major chord G C E Okay, and in the left hand Normally the base note of C major is going to be C. Isn't it so it has a very Resolved and stable kind of sound isn't it right now the same chord has two more notes There's E so I could do C major slash E or C major with E in the base So this sounds like it's yearning to resolve somewhere. This sounds like it wants to go somewhere It is actually sounds like it's not at home. It's not the tonic chord as it's called So it's just the fact that you've altered the root of the chord. So the intervals start changing So C with E in the base. Okay, you could also do C with G in the base, which is the other note of the C major chord See that wants to resolve somewhere else, right? So C with E base wants to go to F major Right or C with G base seems to want to go to G But C with C base seems to just be happy where it is, right? so that's the effect of a Chord a standard triad with a altered or a different base, which we also call as a slash chord Okay, now this entire thing which we'll work on in this lesson. Let's just keep it in the C major scale, which is CBAGFEDC That's your C major scale So you do not have to really alter your right hand You just have to touch and move around and actually your creative power is going to be in the left hand It's not at all going to be in the right hand and if you're new to chords I think this lesson will really help because you can just enjoy the sound of harmony Without the complexity of you know shifting here and there or reading sheet music and chord charts and whatnot And if you're an intermediate or an advanced player Who's learned chords by the book if you've learned chords as oh major let's find a shape of that Okay, minor blah blah blah this video may help you because it'll help you re-voice the chord and probably Create some extended chords or some a very good chord embellishments because of the bass Okay, and before I get cracking with what I want you to play in the left hand It's important to know that the base note of any chord or of any musical sound or any harmonic analysis Really defines the emotion really depends the tonality and the vibe of what you're playing at that current moment So C major with a C bass as I mentioned just feels very stable and at home C major within e bass Feels like it's wanting to go somewhere else right maybe to a new home that okay So that's exactly what the bass will do it just Completely changes the vibe even though the right hand or what we could call as the upper voicings or the upper notes Right the higher notes are pretty much the same So if you just take the C major scale You know and just roll with the base notes of the C major scale and keep the same triad in the right hand That's C with C then That's C major within with a D base That's C major within e base C major within F base C major with a G base C major within a base C major with a B base See back to normal root C. It's really weird what just happened Isn't it because everything just sounded awesome? I just played the same old major chord with everything in the left hand every possible note of C major scale Just sounded quite nice. It sounded usable right except maybe that B It's a little weird. So let's ignore that for now. Okay, so well So that's the whole point, you know, you should experiment and explore your base Not really caring too much about the right hand. Let the right hand just do its thing And why don't you try playing it in this simple ballad style? Just four times in the right hand the chord one two three four Remember, I'm playing C major in the inversion. I don't like playing it like this for some reason Feels a bit better on my fingers. So you can try whichever inversion suits you. So Three four one. So this is the rhythm pattern Play four hits in the right hand and one hit in the left hand as Octaves would be nice that really brings out the base One right Now let's make a few alterations maybe Change that base to F Change that base to a Change that base to D Change the base to E Back to F and so on you see it's very it's like a chord progression if you ask me Very similar to a guitar player Probably a lot of guitar players will will hold chords like E minor or G major, you know and then Voice there other chords around that using the lower strings the lower E and the lower a to change the base And when you change the base the chords change the root changes as I said earlier, right? Another really nice flavor to add for your ballad performance would be to add An off eighth note with your left hand thumb. So what was once? to Without that eighth note one and two and the and adds the movement, right? It's like you're telling a story It's a very simple thing. You just have to work on this thumb to be very soft Right and I've done a detailed video on how to play ballads on the piano for all styles of accompaniment Do check that out in the description, right? So in this lesson, I have basically done an arrangement already I've put together some base notes for you, which I think will sound quite nice We'll use that and I would highly encourage you to improvise with your voice You'll hear me mumbling some random stuff. That's because I don't write lyrics very bad at it So I just try whatever I can but as long as you can build a melody and then close it out as a song Which could then be either played by an instrument like a Flute or a violin or you could then pen down some lyrics and sing it, right? So this is how I have arranged it in line number one every bar will change as C Actually, I'm changing it every half bar as a minimum if you will so two counts per base note will sound really nice so C a Stay on F C a That's line one. Okay line two C a Line two again Line three is a carbon copy of the first line C Stay on F and then we climb Climb that again Yeah Okay, and here and there you can also enjoy Certain voicings instead of just playing C major like this you can add like a D This will work really well for the last chord G Right, you can even remove the E. That'll become like a G suspended for Right, which kind of wants to go to G major but then in this lesson We are not allowed to play more than one chord, but you can okay, so you go Okay, so you can even change your G in the right hand to an a That sounds really nice over an F over a D over a G also So you get what I'm saying, right? It's just one chord in the right hand and the Exploration or the diatonic movement diatonic means from the scale the diatonic Exploration of the left hand to create that base movement or that story Just using the base. So now we've done the major chord a static major chord in the right hand We are now going to do a static minor chord in the right hand Why should we leave out minor and these are the two basic chord qualities, which we have in music The stable ones at least the major and the minor So now let's move forward with the minor static chords and create some awesome music around that Right so continuing on our study of static chords Earlier we just looked at the major chord now We're just looking looked what you just heard in this demonstration was a minor chord and I took nothing but C minor So how do you get C minor now? C E flat G its inversions E flat G C or G C E flat I kind of like either actually so I wouldn't mind doing C E flat G or G C E flat I'd leave that to you. Maybe you like playing E flat G C So figure out which inversion the inversion needs to be explored by your right hand That's pretty much all you're doing in the right hand picking a major or a minor chord Inverting it choosing one of those inversions and just banking on that for the whole journey Okay, so the left hand now can be moving of course It moves around but then you can't do a movement on the C major scale, right? Because the C minor chord is derived from well mostly the C minor scale So what I'd like to share when I'm composing on minor is first of all you build the natural minor which is That's C natural minor. What did I do there always for minor we consider we definitely should flat in the third So E becomes E flat Then you have your A becoming A flat That's six flat B becomes B flat, which is seven flat So that's your natural minor But what I like to do when I'm composing or just improvising in general on the minor Tonality is to try and look at it like a hybrid minor scale. So what I mean by that is you just make sure your three is flat Make sure the three is not normal three. It's always Three flat while your six and your seven can be played around with all its permutations So in other words, you could do six flat or six natural Six flat Six natural Very Dorian That's very natural minor or minor, right It's Dorian or even melodic minor And then you take the seven flat That's seven flat That's your seven natural that's B That would be harmonic That would be the jazz melodic minor And you have Dorian and of course the natural So in other words what I'm trying to say is you play around with the six and the seven Don't mess around with the three the three has to be flat three and Maybe don't use what I call as the exotic notes. Okay, the exotic notes will be the flat two It just gives you a very obvious statement It's like it has to be used in that context, right? It's a very powerful sound And we also call it a tension in music. You also have the flat five or the sharp four Some people call it the tritone so this is another note you can avoid for the minor tonality Maybe we should use that in an in a later video for different tonalities Which are more, you know, unique and exotic if you will so These are the scales we can build we have the natural minor than the harmonic minor the Dorian And the melodic So you don't have to really bother about that in the right hand But you can keep that aware in your left hand So what I've done in this exercise is I've just tried to Use some of those notes and I've used in a very popular what we call as a bass line cliche Which is used by so many artists you've heard that popular Led Zeppelin song that popular Beatles song and So many other songs around along the line which go That way right that's all I've done just ripped it off Right so let's get cracking with that C in the bass B flat A flat stay on a flat. It's a nice sound, right? C B flat If that is also a Pink Floyd song like this if I'm not mistaken C B flat then a borrowing from the Dorian Natural sixth a flat then let's climb G A flat B flat and loop that Again the same ballad technique is earlier play every chord with that eighth note ghost as we call it and The right hand is just holding the same old thing and like I told you for the major chord segment You can kind of alter this chord by adding or subtracting. Maybe you could do You could add that D, which is the nine or the two basically or Can add a B flat if you want you can just leave it like this Sounds quite nice on its own Right so if not anything this is at least one section of your song right it could be like an ambient verse It could be a bridge who knows it could even be a chorus and also depends on how you use it You can use it in a rhythmic sense. For example There we go You know this Rachel song. I'm sure hit the road jack So depends on how you use it really you if you groove it it's gonna sound You know bluesy or like a rock song you can even do Very green day guitar rhythm I guess Remember I said I'm also very influenced by what the guitar players do in a lot of these folk songs rock songs Even if you look at the way the banjo is played, you know banjo is another nice instrument to get inspired by this constant lingering note technique because some of these instruments like the banjo are actually tuned that way like the Banjo if you were to just play it without Fretting anything. It's the G major chord generally. That's the tuning they have for it, right? So the piano we have to search for things a bit But the piano is nice in the sense. It's a what you see is what you get kind of instrument There are no there's no shape. There's nothing there's nothing to really rely on visually It's just what you're supposed to play what you want to play and what is your goal at the current moment in this instance? I want to play a static chord there shouldn't change at all and I want to float my left hand So the main intention behind this lesson is to hopefully give you some kind of Movement in the left hand usually I found a lot of students of mine We we take a lot of time with the right hand, but we don't talk about the left hand much So I've just sort of developed this exercise for even an intermediate learner or any learner I think anyone at any level could do something with this style of playing I've composed a lot of songs believe it or not with just one chord, but it doesn't feel like one chord That's because of the left. That's exactly because of what the bass is doing, right guys again This is Jason here from Nathaniel. 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Welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco. The GE Mines and Machines Conference, about 3,000 people at Fear 48, talking heavy industry, really, where software is eating the world in the form of GE Industrial Internet. It's very exciting times, and excited to have our next guest, Colin Parris, the VP of GE Software Research. Welcome, Colin. – Delighted to be here. – Absolutely, so first off, just kind of what are your impressions of this thing? It's like 50% bigger than last year, it's a great buzz. – It's great, it's great. I've been here for the last two years, and I've seen a rapid rise. I think the big difference for me, before we were actually having a discussion about, is this a relevant topic? Now it's all about how do we take the partnerships we have, and take it to the next level. I think everyone's convinced that there is a digital industrial space. How do we get that as fast as possible, moving in the right direction? – Right, and Jeff clearly said this morning in the keynote, he's all in, in it to win it, I think. – Yes. – Using the great sports analogy. So your area of expertise, we talked a little bit before we got started, is the digital twin. – Yes it is. – And we've heard a lot about the digital twin, so for those that aren't familiar, just give them kind of a quick overview. – Okay, the digital twin is a digital representation of a physical asset, of a specific asset. So what you have is a combination of models, and because you have a continuous stream of data coming at those models, that model now adapts to the environment, and so you get a precise representation of a physical asset that exists. And because of that, you're able to do some interesting business things. Like you're able to predict warnings of problems, you can predict the damage or the opportunity, and you can then optimize to get the best possible results. – Right. – So that's what it is, a digital representation of a physical asset. – So it's interesting, we've been to G and talked about this before, so specifically for say like a jet engine. You know, if jet engine number 0001 serial number goes to an airline that operates out of North Africa, and jet engine 0002 goes to one that operates out of Antarctica, same engine, same airplane, very different lifetime characteristics, and this enables you guys now to, or the operator, to manage that engine within its own specific environment as opposed to just open it up the standard operating manual and change it in the oil every 5,000 miles. – Exactly, exactly, because what we're looking at here is we realize initially when you have a model, where you operate and how you operate changes the model. So we're taking data like the operating mode. How fast do you ramp up when you take off? You know, how fast do you get to a climb? How often do you climb? That's an operating parameter. Then the environmental parameters, what city pairs do you travel in between? What's the temperature, the pressure, what's the dust level? All of those shape the model. And so what we do then is we actually tune and change the model based upon those characteristics. The other thing we do is we learn. So we look at other planes in the fleet that have certain specifications like this one, and if you've discovered a failure in that, you send that technique across, it's called similarity techniques, and it allows you to incorporate that into the model. So before this actual entity, this actual asset has a problem, it can get that learning about the problem. So it's adapting based upon its knowledge and adapting based upon learning from the fleet. And that's the digital twin, that's what it does for you. And who's managing kind of the collection of the data to that twin and then the analysis of what I'm doing with that data in the twin. Is that the operator of the airline? Is that you? Oh, that's G.E. right now. As part of our services packages, that's what we do. We have 550,000 twins right now, and the twins we have are the people that have elected to have an actual service agreement with us. So in many cases, people after they've bought these engines, they decide to have a service agreement. In the service agreement, what we're doing is constantly monitoring the diagnostics from the engine. In fact, every time the plane takes off and lands, we get a snapshot. A snapshot is a piece of data that says, here's the right set of parameters for this situation. We can use those to tune the digital twin every time it takes off and lands. So then, so that's kind of looking backwards based on the climate, the way that's been worked. But you can do forward-looking things too, right? You can run scenario analysis, you can do all kinds of stuff, because it's digital, right? Exactly, so what we also do is, given the data that we have collected, historical data, we can run simulations. Now, the other value of having this digital twin capability is that normally simulations take many, many hours or days to run. We've had a technique called surrogate modeling in which we can extract, say I'm specifically looking at the damage on a blade, I can extract the right parameters and get a much smaller version of exactly the model focused on blades itself. And that smaller version we only run in a few minutes. Now I can go get on a supercomputer or a lot of cores and I can run 10,000 simulations and learn precisely in the future what the damage impact would be. So now we can actually take this and fast forward. And we can forward a few months or we can forward a few years. It helps you plan for a number of things that you have. Right, and then of course predictive maintenance, I'm sure that's a no brainer, right? But you could also plan for fuel changes. You could also plan if I change routes, what would the damage be if I'm flying through these atmospheres?  Very different approach. Yeah, because the other thing I find fascinating by this is again, if you use kind of your standard operating services manual, you optimize to whatever it was written for in the first place, whether it's longevity or meantime between failure or whatever it is that you chose to optimize for. But in the reality, in a dynamic situation, there's a whole bunch of things you might want to optimize for in a particular situation. Exactly. Low fuel, high fuel, expensive routes, all types of things that you can then plug into this model. But you had to initially, right? Because initially what happens, you didn't know. So you made assumptions. I made assumptions on the operating mode, assumptions on the environment. And I would say the assumption would mean the life of this spot is two years. But now that I know the exact operating mode, the exact operating environment, I can say the life of this particular engine is five years. Now I operate very differently. Once I know that, the economic changes. Right, right. And that's the key for us. Also the changes in weather patterns, right? There are things that happen that you don't know about. The jet stream suddenly shifts down. Well, they say there's no global warming, but for whatever reason, the jet stream is shifting. And now you're flying into a different jet stream. You could not have anticipated that. So there are new things that are happening, right? They're opening a bunch of new airports that are in parts of China that could be dusty. You couldn't have anticipated that. So how do you react to it? So you need a twin that changes and adapts to your environment. And then so aviation is an easy one. What are some of the other areas inside the GE ecosystem where you're seeing kind of this adoption of the digital twin and where is it really having the most, I want to say surprising impact. I'm sure the impact is huge all over, but things that you didn't necessarily anticipate or that the clients really had no visibility into. Well, part of what you see is also in combination. So for instance, you have a wind farm and you have a gas turbine. Right now that over the last few years, people are going to more wind power, we find that they're putting up more wind farms. So now you have a digital twin of the wind farm to estimate the damage. Since you're using a wind farm, you use your gas turbine a lot less. So normally you would have had it running at 60%. But because of the wind farm, now it's cycled. Sometimes it runs at 20% at night because sometimes it has less wind, you have it running higher. No one ever intended for these things to cycle as fast. So as they cycle as fast, more damage occurs on the parts. So now you've got to sort of look at a twin and say, can the twin begin to predict for me the life because I'm doing a lot more cycling. Can the twin predict the life of the rotating parts on the wind turbines because that's happening? So now the twin is a combination of uncertainties, right? And that becomes very interesting. So is it a system twin then? Do you create a system twin for the combination? Exactly, you have system twins that can do that quite easily for you. Yeah, it's interesting. You know, one of the concepts of the IT that we've seen from the hyperscale of people like Google and Amazon, right? Is you no longer treat, it's pets versus cows, right? You no longer treat the server as a server or the drive. You know, you move the whole rack in and out. And Jeff mentioned in his keynote, starting to think really more in terms of systems and aggregate as a combination of the whole. And that's really what you're talking about. These are systems that were never designed and specced to necessarily work in conjunction, but you need to analyze the function, the delivery, the optimization at a system level, not necessarily component level. Oh, definitely. I mean, we see that in spades. Now you could also extend the system to be something even larger. There's an ecosystem around that system. So for instance, what we find out is that in many cases in the oil and gas industry, they are groups that operate, that make changes to the actual machine because they have service contracts. Sometimes when they make those changes, they put in different parts. So they put in the wrong parts. Now that ecosystem is affecting you and you as the owner never knew it. Because what you did is you bid on the lowest possible contractor that you can get. Right? For that one particular- For that one particular part. Service part. So now it radiates outwards beyond just the system itself to the people interacting with your system and the suppliers you have. So this never ends. And as far out as you go, it's the more that you can actually get the right amount of utilization and extract as much cost as possible. Law of unintended consequence is one of my favorites. And the other is you said kind of what's the logical economic unit by which you want to manage the system?  Exactly, exactly. But we have twins that go from parts all the way through. From parts to components, groups of parts, to the actual machine, to systems, machines together, to ecosystems or processes. I can look at a twin of a process, a manufacturing process, and I can say the manufacturing process is supposed to be this way because I've done enough analysis of it. Now if that process changes, so for instance, you're missing a part or you didn't order enough parts, I can recognize that as a warning and say, oh, I have a warning because the twin of this system says that you don't have enough parts, then I can predict the failure that you're going to have in the system because your trooper drops, and I can optimize that. So that we've used the twin actually across processes. So the twin works, the concept works across all of the things. That's why with ServiceMax on new introduction, the twin works in ServiceMax as well. Not just assets, processes as well. So how small of a component can economically support a twin, whether that be by value, usage, how small can you create, economically create a digital twin? It's all based on value. The digital twin process is I look for where there's the biggest problem financially or problem from an operational level and then I go backwards. If the problem happens to be in a single part, for instance, the jet engines or in the steam turbines, what you have are the parts that sit in the hot gas bath, the parts that get the hottest, right? Some of these parts are fairly small in terms of what they do, right? They may be a couple inches wide, but they're vital to the process down there. In the jet engines, you get the bearings. The bearings in the jet engines, the number four bearing and the number three bearing have a significant impact. Oh, it's a significant impact. If the bearing liberates, the blade begins to shake. Tremendous problems with fuel economy as well as damage on the engine. So because the value is where we start from, the business value, and you go backwards, you end up in very different places and it could end up into a number four, a number three, a number one bearing. The other very interesting thing we were talking about briefly before is open. And again, Jeff and Beth will talk about open, open systems, open source software. The fact that you are willing to open up kind of the analytics capabilities, open up API so that it's a classic case. Not all the smartest people are in your four walls to let other people apply analytics to the digital twin. That's pretty interesting. I think it's also a pragmatic point of view, right? So I've had experiences in other industries, as you well know, for instance, in the banking industry. There was a time in which people hoarded data. They thought data was vital, let me keep all my data. But then the tier two banks realized that they put their data together, they could discover things no one else could, like they could discover people who were committing fraud against them. Because how fraud is committed at that level is that I commit fraud against one bank and I'm hoping that bank doesn't tell the others so I can try the same technique. So when you put all the data together, I could quickly discover what fraud was happening. In our world, we see the same thing with failures or things that affect safety. If we put our data together, all of a sudden I'll detect when a failure is happening and if I can tell you a failure before it occurs, I help you. So you're helping each other and especially with safety. You can't do enough to help safety. So there'll be times in which, as you bring that data together, you bring the analytics, we can discover ways in which we reduce failures as a group that helps everyone. We have much more safety with our employees that helps everyone. So coming together, it's not just an idealistic view, it's a pragmatic view that says, in these industries, lives are at stake. You have to think about this very differently. And if you've got a cloud, by rule, you have to be open to get people to participate in that cloud. It's the network effect that brings the value. So if you look at digital twins in terms of the value delivered as a percentage, how much of it's really kind of operationalizing and making sure I'm taking care of that particular engine and doing the right things versus really providing the data for the next generation engines that you guys are really proactively using really to build and design, look forward. 50-50, 20-80, what do you think?  That's to show you where I'm going, right? So for instance, as you think about digital twins, what's the next level for us with digital twins? Here's an interesting thing. We know that Google never writes white webpages, but their value is in putting them together. So the same thing for Amazon. They never produce products, but their value is in putting them together. So how do I get machines to contribute into a network that makes it attractive for other machines? For instance, you have a wind turbine operating on a wind farm, and a new turbine shows up. The new turbine says, what's the prevailing wind direction that I should tilt my blades at the right level to get the maximum power? Who does it ask? It asks the old wind turbines. If a new... That is vision of the old man on the mountain taking care of the little guy. If a new, you put in a new gas turbine, a new gas turbine says, I've got this digital signature. I'm not sure if it's a failure or somebody's hacking my security. Who would it ask? An older gas turbine. So now the turbines are talking together and sharing information in such a way that the entire system is raised. When I begin to do that, two things surface. The machines attract more machines. You have to join the network because that's what the knowledge is. The next thing that happens is that these machines get together and find the best practices. They didn't tell those best practices to designers. The designers can now build a next best machine. The machines are helping to design themselves. That's where you want to go with this. And how much of it's done with the machines in the field versus their digital twins back in the data centers? The digital twins are the ones that are talking because the minute you give me the data and you say this is the prevailing wind direction, my machine may be slightly different from yours. I may have a newer version of the blade. So that data goes to the twin and the twin says, ah, they said till 10 degrees but for you it's eight degrees. So the twins are the ones that are talking. The digital counterparts have the discussion. And they're the ones who feed the designers to build the new systems. So in the end it all comes back to these twins working together. And so you grab my next question. It's going to be, where is this going to go next? So we've already answered that. So before we wrap, you know, as you kind of look out into the future, what do you see as next? Is it just more penetration of digital twins further? Is it this integration of the communication? What are you excited about? I see the penetration of the twin and the integration. But I go back and I look at 10 years ago when three billion people on the planet got connected through the Facebooks and the Googles and I saw what occurred. We saw businesses being transformed. We saw elections being transformed. We saw education being transformed. Windows, now it's going to be about five billion people connect with 50 billion machines. What won't be transformed?  Now I know exactly how much electricity I need for this exact neighborhood. Now I understand how I deal with certain health problems and how they arise. Now the interconnection becomes something enormous. Now the planet changes. Sighting times, sighting future. Definitely. All right. We'll call them. Thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day. Really, the digital twin. Pay attention. That's where a lot of exciting things has happened. Come join us. Absolutely. All right. Call in Paris. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. We are live at the G-Minds of Machine 2016 Pure 48 San Francisco. Thanks for watching.


It's a very important game for both clubs. Personally, it's a very good game for me to come back to my old club, some old faces that I see. And also against what he asked his son, who was my captain when I first came here. So I'm very happy to see he's doing well and the club has done very well for the last two years. But we have to put our friendship aside tomorrow and we will do our best to get a result. It's a great feeling to be back. I have very good memories here. It was the first club that signed me as a professional player out of Australia. So that was always very special to me. It's a special club in my heart because I had a serious injury here and the club supported me by giving me another two-year contract to help me get over the injury. And this obviously helped me to get a chance in England. So I'm always grateful to the club for doing that. I still have many friends here and Portia is one that I'm also looking forward to seeing tomorrow night. I was here two years ago. I came for a visit two years ago and I came to watch them play and we had dinner together after. So it was nice to see him then and I look forward to seeing him tomorrow. Physically we are definitely ready. We had a very, you know, going back many months. Very tough pre-season has set us up for these important games now. And mentally as a whole the squad are very strong and you will see that tomorrow. Today is good. Today is much better. Of course it was difficult to lose in a fight, to lose in extra time. We played a very good match but unfortunately sometimes you don't get the result you deserve. But we're really looking forward to this. This is a great challenge for us physically and mentally. We only arrived today but you know we're not here to make any excuses. We're looking forward to the challenge. It's a two leg tie away at home. So we want to put on a good performance here to set us up with a good opportunity of going through. And then we can play in front of our home fans in a win style. From a player's perspective, looking forward to a very tough match tomorrow against St. Fritchett. And you know it's top C now so we understand it's going to be a very difficult match. But we're ready for the challenge and we're looking forward to playing against them on a very nice pitch and a big crowd. The great thing about this club is we played frontale and they had three, four fantastic foreign players. Here they have excellent local players, Japanese players. As a team it's not really singling out one player. I think as a team they play extremely well. And that's a credit to what the club is building here.


Alright folks, got some weird and exciting and confusing news for you guys today. First off, I will address the fact there's no light over here. The light isn't working, the bulb's not burnt out, it's, I don't know, I have too many things plugged in and keep blowing a fuse every time I turn it on. So I gotta sort that out and reroute some wires and reconfigure which outlets are on which breaker. But whatever, that's not here nor there, let's get into the news here. Catherine Fullbody and XCOM 2 have been rated in Korea. This was discovered by Wario64, I put up the reset era thread on it, and basically this means that Catherine Fullbody and XCOM 2 are coming to Switch. These games aren't, to understand how ratings work, you don't get rated in a certain country without being submitted by the company because companies have to pay for these ratings to be made and games can't be sold in those countries until the ratings are made. So it's kind of this, yep, you gotta pay for it, just like Nintendo pays the ESRB to get their games rated for public release, any company needs to do the same thing in Korea. So it has been rated for Switch, meaning Catherine Fullbody and XCOM 2 collection are coming to Switch. Now XCOM 2 is by 2K, maybe a little less surprising that that's coming, 2K has shown support for Switch over the years, although obviously we're all still waiting for Grand Theft Auto 5. But 2K has been rather supportive of Switch and has had success with NBA 2K in particular, seems to be successful and we see it in we're getting it every single year. So Catherine, sorry XCOM 2 coming over isn't as surprising, Catherine Fullbody is actually a Vita game that was ported over to PlayStation 4 but never brought anywhere else. Now there are rumors that are unconfirmed that Atlas had an exclusivity deal in with PlayStation 4, Catherine Fullbody and Persona 3 through Persona 5. And I guess with Catherine Fullbody now coming to Switch, people are thinking maybe if that exclusivity deal did exist that maybe it's now lapsed and if it's lapsed what could be happening here. So Catherine Fullbody was a Vita game never released in the west, it was only in Japan. And it's basically an extension of the original Catherine game, I'm not gonna go into too many details on Catherine and Catherine Fullbody just because I don't have a lot of personal experience although I am aware of what the games are and they are considered to be really good games. Fullbody in particular is considered to be a vastly improved version of the original Catherine with a ton more content and well worth playing so it's really good to have that portable and available on Nintendo Switch in the west for the first time, not just a PlayStation 4 version. But some people are wondering now, what does this mean for Persona 5? And well, now as you see in this article on IGN it says keep fighting for Persona 5 on Switch, Atlas has now, for those who don't know, this light is now working. And what we're seeing here is that Atlas has put out a poll several times actually on Twitter and a few other social media places asking people what games they're interested in for Switch and all this and Persona 5 basically wins the poll every time. Persona 5 Royale wins the poll every single time by a landslide, but yet Atlas has not announced anything and it's really weird. But Atlas tells us Persona 5 on Switch won't happen unless fans keep asking for it. So let's go over this article on IGN because now that we're getting Catherine Fullbody, why not Persona 5? If there was this rumored exclusivity deal with PlayStation it's obviously lapsed so what's going on, obviously we have Joker and Smash, Persona 5 still hasn't announced for Nintendo Switch but publisher Atlas says it doesn't want fans to give up hope just yet. Rumors have swirled around a potential Persona 5 Switch port for a long time with a bogus best buy list and I remember that back in 2019, but that momentum slowed down considerably. So IGN asked Atlas communications manager Ari Advancula, this is from the U.S. branch, if it was finally time for fans to give up on hope for a potential port during a Persona 5 Royale preview event earlier this month to which she responded, I am a strong believer in never give up on hope. Now hope is nice and everything but it doesn't mean anything on the surface. But it says the further report was spurred by a protagonist Joker coming to Super Smash rules last year who ended up being squelched somewhat when a teased P5S turned out to be Persona 5 Scramble an entirely new game and essentially a full on sequel coming to Switch. But Advancula says fans making their voices heard is the only way it'll happen. You want what you want she explained. And if you don't let us know, we're never going to be able to make it. Advancula, keep in mind, it won the fan polling, so fans have already let Atlas know they want this. But Advancula said Atlas is listening and does see the desire for Persona 5 on Switch saying it's important to always voice your opinion. Advancula encouraged fans to keep telling us what you want she says, she's fighting for it internally as well. However, it's important to point out that she has also said she obviously is not the decision maker in a situation like this despite being an internal champion for it. So this person is really fighting to get it on Switch but doesn't get to make the choice. So this shouldn't be taken as an indication of what's happening or what could happen down the line. Still, Atlas has made it clear it is listening to the Persona community and taking feedback seriously notably also revealing that it will change a handful of scenes in Persona 5 Royal fans have previously condemned for being homophobic blah blah blah for Western release on March 31st. So yeah, fans are demanding that Atlas puts this game on there. And the thing is, Atlas has another game, you'll forget, you know, Scramble. Atlas has another game announced for Switch back in 2017. Hello, Shin Megami Tensei 5. Supposed to be Switch exclusive. I really don't care if it's Switch exclusive. They can bring it to all platforms. They are a multi-platform company. I believe great games should be played by as many fans as possible. I don't even care if Breath of the Wild leaves this platform and goes to the PlayStation. What I care is that as many people as possible get to enjoy amazing experiences. And here we have like Shin Megami Tensei 5, which was one of the first announced Atlas games. Haven't seen it since 2017. Forget it being announced by them. We haven't seen the game. So it doesn't even exist. Has it been canned? Is it on the shelf? Is it just in development hell? What's going on with that?  You know, Catherine Full Body is coming to Switch. Finally coming to Switch with the 2011 version, I believe it is. So it is, that version is coming to Switch specifically. If you're wondering, this guy, this is the guy that originally on Twitter pointed out to me, this IGN article. So yeah, like Persona 5. Jokers in Smash. We're getting scramble. Why not Persona 5? Royale. Why not Persona 5? Bring it over. I do not understand why we don't have Persona 5 right now. Assuming an exclusivity deal is no longer in place between Sony and Atlas for the game. It should come over. It's a popular game. It's a better name than Shimakami Tensei to be honest. That's why Persona kind of split off and now there's Persona, Shimakami Tensei and Persona. They're related, but they're not the same. It's really an interesting thing that happened with those IPs, but Persona 5 needs to come over. It needs to happen. There has been demand for it. Dating back to when Joker was revealed. Only before Joker was revealed. But since Joker was revealed for Super Smash Resultimate, I don't know how Atlas could not see the demand for Persona 5. It was massive back then. It wins in every fan poll they make. There is no legitimate excuse to not make it happen beyond an exclusivity deal or Atlas thinking it won't sell well enough to warrant a port. And even then, as we've seen with Platinum, they could just kickstarter a port and literally get money from fans early for it. But yeah, Persona 5 on Switch needs to happen. It would be a huge get for Nintendo to switch. Some people might think it might be a blow to Sony. I know there's this console war thing where they're like, oh, it's a PlayStation and Vita game. It can't come to Switch. It can. They're a third party company. They make games for Switch already. Why not? I honestly think that console wars need to go away. This shouldn't be a console war debate. If you love Persona 5 and you have played it on PlayStation 4, you should want it to go to other platforms. You should want Xbox and Switch to get it. Because why not? Why wouldn't you want more people to enjoy it? Because you want to force people to buy your preferred platform? Why do you care what other people buy? That's really the big question in console wars is why do you care what other people buy and enjoy? Who cares if they buy a game on Switch or on PC or PlayStation 4 or Xbox as long as they have fun with it? Witcher 3, the worst version of it, is on Switch.  Who cares? Everyone's allowed to enjoy games at different fidelities and different form factors and in different play settings.  Who cares? As long as they're having fun. What matters in the end is how much the gamer is getting enjoyment out of the game. And so we shouldn't be chastising when previously exclusive games are suddenly not exclusive anymore. Can you imagine if Switch fans got out their pitchforks and would not buy Octopath Traveler the sequel because Octopath Traveler is now on PC and going multi-platform? Are we supposed to be upset at Square that oh no, this previously exclusive Switch game now isn't exclusive anymore? Who cares? Like the wonderful one on one is going multi-platform.  Who cares? As long as more people get to play these amazing games, that's really what should matter. So honestly, if you're a fan of Persona, you should be excited to see Persona 5 go to Switch because that's going to create a bigger fan base for the Persona franchise and open up future sales not only on Switch, but in general for the next Persona game. You're just going to build more interest in the next Persona game. And I'm saying all this is someone who has never played a Persona game. Like if I got this, it would be my first ever experience with the Persona franchise. So I gotta just say that like this is great news and I've seen some console war debates over it again, which seems to always stem up when a previously exclusive game might go multi-platform. It's happening with Catherine Full Body and it's probably going to happen if Persona 5 ever comes over. Here you have Atlas, a person at Atlas in the United States saying, hey, look, we want this to happen. Fans are clearly making it known. Keep making it known.  Atlas would be leaving money at the table if they don't bring it over. So keep demanding it. Keep going to those fan polls. Keep tweeting at the official Atlas accounts. These don't go to individual developer accounts and stuff like that and pester people. I hate when people do that at the Sakurai. Let's not do that here because these people are people. They have lies. They have a job. They have a career to worry about. We don't need to pester them on an individual level. But if you want to go at the Atlas official pages, you want to go at the Persona Twitter accounts or whatever, that's fine. The official representative accounts for the game and for the company, those are an open game because those don't go to any person on an individual level that we're aware of. It goes to a company. But yeah, let's keep making them aware that we want it. Let's ask them in interviews when we get the opportunity to, hey, you know, fans really want this. Hey, we did a fan poll on our website, on our YouTube channel. You know, we have thousands and thousands of people saying they want this to happen. What are you going to do about it? Keep the pressure on. Honestly, I think we need to put more pressure on 2K as well. If we really want Grand Theft Auto 5 on Switch or Grand Theft Auto 6, which is clearly in development on Switch, we're going to have to keep putting the pressure on these companies to be like, hey, you know, why don't we have this stuff on Switch? Because Switch is over 50 million in unit sales. Why are we still fighting so hard to get these games? Because these companies don't have a history with these particular franchises. On Nintendo platforms are selling extremely well, so they need to be convinced. Unfortunately, that's the reality we live in. So if we want these games, we got to show up like people did for the wonderful one-on-one Kickstarter. We need to show support and we need to, you know, I hate port begging, but I mean, that's basically companies are asking us to do it. This is someone at Atlas asking fans to keep port begging. So here's the thing. I might not be a fan of port begging, but third-party companies are asking us to port beg. So you know what? We want these games, port beg away, it's not going to hurt yet to take two seconds to tweet something on Twitter or whatever. Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about this on the comments below. Are you excited for Catherine Full Body or XCOM 2 Collection coming over? Are you excited potentially about Persona 5 if we can convince Atlas to do it? Do you think we even should need to convince Atlas? I think after the excitement around Joker, it should have been pretty obvious that we want him or we want, you know, not just him, we want Persona 5 on Switch. So let me know down in the comments below what you think about all this. Obviously, if you enjoyed this video, drop a like, subscribe for more content, and hit that bell icon. I'll catch all of you in the next video.


Okay good morning and the first thing we need to clear up is I know you are thinking Andy is out there sunning it and the Costa del Sol again but no I'm in the UK I'm at Cardin Park I'm in the heart of Cheshire and yet the sun is still shining in the UK and I'm making the most of it I'm out on the course and I'm testing the new Ping Glyde forged wedge yes forged wedge that is the big deal about this wedge first wedge for a long time from Ping that is forged and it's quite a few things we need to discuss about this and we'll start off with how it looks so some images up on screen now first thing that strikes you is from the backside of the club which is this crisscross pattern that's been cut grooves nice piece of engineering it's purely for aesthetic purposes I don't see that as any impact on performance but it looks absolutely stunning minimalistic in its markings just a glide forged text across the back and the loft and bounce on the bottom of the club for me personally aesthetics is always very much a personal thing like I always say but I think this will have very much a general appeal in terms of on the shelf it looks pretty stunning it's got this chrome finish the one thing that has been very very popular is in recent years a lot of the clubs and Ping did it themselves is this sort of black stealth finish which was very very popular whether or not this club evolves into that finish as well I do not know but for the time being it is in this hydropole chrome finish now I said there's a few things we need to discuss because we've got to talk about the price of this thing and we've got to then work out why Ping are justifying such a high price tag so it's going to be 200 pound $200 that's high end that is top-end in terms of a mainstream market you may well say why we're discussing price on this one Andy when a few videos ago we were avoiding price well I'll tell you why it's because for me Ping is aimed at a mainstream audience a mainstream consumer and they've really stretched the barrier in terms of the pricing of wedges so they're going to have to come up with something special in this I think to sell some volume it's a tour inspired design I'm going to relay some information first of all some technical spec offers the Ping website as to what is packed into this club in terms of technology and then we'll start to hit some golf balls and see how it performs first image I'm going to throw up on screen is these these cut grooves painted precision milled wheel cut grooves sharper edge radius which increases interaction with ball and impact creating more friction and improve spin and trajectory control again something you'd expect from a wedge anyway but these grooves are supposed to be cutting such a way that like I said there's that greater interaction greater traction between golf ball and club therefore creating greater control we shall soon see it's a carbon 8620 carbon steel they're claiming to be incredibly soft it is a blade like style head it is very compact I said earlier about it being tour inspired in terms of the design it's very much a small club profile a very compact club profile thin top line it's classic in its looks is how I would describe it classic wedge looking and again once again with the sole and with the hosel there's been a lot of introduction of changes in camber and the weight that the hosel is shaped into the into the base of the club head just to allow you to hit those different shots open the club face up and also close that club face down just give you that versatility to which you're looking for from a wedge to hit a variety of shots and that's what we're going to do enough of the waffle in terms of technical spec the idea of this is I'm an average golfer can I understand when I hit this club why it's got the premium price tag can I see greater interaction with ball and club head which they're claiming can I hit the variety of shots with these changes to the canvas in the sole only one way to find out let's go in some golf balls right before we get out there in a course and I pitch shots and the test is completed as such but I started a week or so ago often for golf Chester I recorded some dry ball data and like I said I think more important is what happens out on the course but for the purposes of those people that like to see it here's what I hit out there on the on the dry ball data in the range as you can see great performance in this controlled environment 100-yard pitch shots are very much a full shot for me with this is a 50-60 degree wedged I'm hitting so this is a full shot in and around like I said 95 to 100 yards spin was incredible I'm going to discuss feel now rather than what I felt in the range but that's the dry ball data very very consistent performer and nothing we can really pick in there that tells a Taylor so it's out onto the course and the first thing I did was got in and around that 100 yard mark we were slightly short on that actually out there and of course bit of breeze up there and partly my performance wasn't great on these wedged shots but we got enough shots in there to have a look how the ball interacted on the into the greens greens are low very dry conditions over in the UK at the moment I've got to say that the greens were relatively softer would almost say there's been plenty of water thrown on these greens at Cardin Park so there's no excuses in terms of performance these weren't hard greens I was expecting to play this morning they were plenty soft enough plenty responsive enough I didn't have this stage notice any great feel differences if I'm honest with you yes good feel I wouldn't criticize there's no critical point here nothing really I'm not talking but three soft feel at this stage to be perfectly honest and then bearing in mind that I'm expecting massive things here in terms of this forward set and on the full shots I don't know yes it was good performer but nothing fantastic the way they moved into a shot maybe 20 yards short of the green 30 40 yards chip shot and this is where it got interesting for me the feel all of a sudden became very the club became very responsive and I really got a great feel out of the club head and I was able to hit a variety of shots I was able to change and open the club face which again the sort of camber in the soul and allowed me to do that quite comfortably there was nothing sitting awkward at a dress and I felt very very confident in being able to do that so we hit a variety of shots from there and then went into the bunker and again it performed really really well in the bunker I hit one with standard sort of add a dress with a 50 60 degree sort of loft on it then open the club face up a little bit and was able to just pop that ball up a little bit higher and I've got to say confidence in those situations was very very high gave great encouragement like I said very very good performance in those situations as well next shot to moved into was sort of a 50 60 yard pitch shot once again slightly this one slightly lower ball flight and again this is where I found the club to have fantastic feel and fantastic consistency and I gained great confidence in this in that sort of nice pure clean strike and you knew when the ball landed on the green it was going to react fairly well so you could really throw it towards the flag and know that that ball would stop in and around the position that it has landed so again and the feel at this point and like I said that sort of feedback from club head to hands was absolutely superb I can't argue with that you'll also see a couple of positions here where I dropped in the rough just off the green and again a little cheeky one to finish there which is where I managed to chip one in and if Rick Shields did it on his video then obviously I've got a chip in on mine so I enjoyed that one as well to finish but somebody is this anything but the full shots I thought the feeling the club was absolutely fantastic it was very very soft indeed but it's also very responsive I love the sound of it which we always talk about as being the feel right back into the hands and I was really confident in and around those positions I just on the full shots like I said didn't notice anything stand out that I would say that it was really really soft different from anything else and I think that's the big thing for me different from anything else the problem I have with it and I just wonder is why they've pitched it in at this 200 pound mark 200 dollar mark there are a lot of wedges high quality wedges out there that are priced considerably less than this this is this is pitched in really really high and like I said from a brand that is pitched into the mass consumer market it's an interesting one I'd love to know the sales figures on this they've got a quality product performed very very well indeed at a high price tag so how will it fare with the average golfers and will they be prepared to pay 200 pound to stick that in the bag time will tell I suppose anyway that's me done hope you enjoyed that one I'm going to play two or three holes to finish I think and enjoy a bit more of this UK sunshine comments down below thumbs up if you liked the video and as ever subscribe if you don't already and thank you for watching I'm out of here