So it's been interesting to kind of see the automotive industry embrace open source over the last few years. So I'm excited to see what Daimler has to say today. But I'd like to introduce you to Vlado and Ronald from Daimler to talk about it's ready for the future mobility. That's the name of your talk. So go ahead. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you also for ready now for your listening. Just ready for future mobility. What you would like to share is to give us some insights on what we're currently working and what our vision for future mobility is. And of course, then to dig a little bit deeper to what challenges we also see. Maybe also see potential needs for more free open source software to solve that issue for the world in that case. So before we start and dig a little bit deeper, just brief introduction of myself. That's already said. My name is Vlado. I'm heading the so-called case IT department. Case is an acronym. Roland will express a little bit more in detail later on. What we're trying to do there in that division is try to cover the future mobility of the company. And to start also heading and leading the transformation from a classical car manufacturer, so making out of steel a great product, trying to become a more mobility solution provider in the future. And this is of course a huge transformation, and we are trying to carry that out. Yeah, my name is Ron Grasman. I work for the Mercedes-Benz Vans division. We're building the transporters that you might know from the roads, the Sprinter, the Vito, and other product. And we are actively embracing electrification. We're in the process of electrifying our fleet. My task is not to build the electric transporter, but to develop an ecosystem of services around these transporters. So digital solutions, solutions for charging, for energy management, and things that we will talk about later. And yeah, so we're in the middle of this development process. So I will later give you a little insight, but now let's kick off with Lado. Thanks, Ron. And now, starting in what we prepared for you, yes, just looking from a customer point of view. And it's, of course, for a car manufacturer and very important point, maybe the most important thing you should have in mind, coming from customer points of view. Yeah, it's not such a huge secret yet, but this unending struggle to keep the car and the usage and the user experience of a car as easy as you are known by your smartphone is, of course, a challenge for us. And what we created out of that is two major brand values that we are constantly working on. And the first thing I would like to give you some insight is our approach in ease. So if you have to tackle and to make the car as easy as your phone, then ease should be, of course, a guiding principle in that game. And what you can see here are two versions of the next user experience we are trying to provide into the car. Here on the left-hand side, you see the A-Class. It will be released soon. And there's incorporated and built in the new infotainment system called MBUX. And there's a lot of GPU power in that case. And Jonas showed in the kickoff already a video where people already start to talk to that. So the voice recognition massively improved. And based on the already available GPU power, and somebody make a nice fun joke yesterday at Worm2k, he said already, hey, there's so much GPU power, and it's more or less a mining machine on wheels. What's maybe pretty true in that case. What you see on the left-hand side, so on that picture. So there's a passenger car. Here on the right-hand side, you see a commercial vehicle. So it's a van. But we, of course, what our customers use also for commercial purposes in that case, like partial shipping and stuff like that. So it's not, of course, the same user experience you have there. But it's more oriented also to make the work life easier for guys who are utilizing that cars. And the major goal there is always to reduce the complexity to the most simple and most easiest usage in that case. And it should, of course, be an effortless and pleasant experience in that case also. So the next thing, and that's for me also a first connection I see also with FOS in that case, is trust. So you have to be, for your customer, of course, a trustful partner. And trust is, from my point of view, also a very, very basic thing. You have to take care also in collaborations. So if you have no trust in each other, then things like free open source software would also not work out in that case. And coming from a customer point of view and our commercial view on that, we have, of course, to take care for the trust in our products and our brand. And for that reason, these two things, ease and trust, are very important in that case for us. So we have to bring that much more and much better together and to give you a view now for the future things we have on our roadmap and what we would like to deploy within the next years is, I would like to show you. So what did you try to show there was you saw an autonomous car, of course. We call it a robot taxi. It's a service that will be deployed by the beginning of the 2020s, so around 2021. And now coming back to that brand failure, so we said, OK, ease is important. Of course, you need to utilize that kind of service in a very easy way. And of course, you have to keep still track on the trust point of view because these autonomous cars are not allowed to make any big trouble or any big issues because you have to keep very, very clear on that and to keep it safe and to rely on the trust part of that service. And I think I also maybe would also like to mention that autonomous driving is, of course, a huge topic for all automotive car manufacturers outside there. And this is, of course, also a very, very talent-attracting job that you can solve there because it's a hot topic. Everybody would like to dig deeper there, would like to get it done somehow. And it's also, of course, an absolutely high tech approach to get autonomous driving solved. OK, so thanks, Vlado. So what you can see is that we are moving ahead in this direction, electrified, shared, autonomous, and also connected. And this vehicle that you see here is the F-015, a vehicle that we showed a little while ago in Las Vegas. And it's basically giving that outlook into the robot taxi world, basically a hub of connectivity and safety on the road where you can relax and launch and go ahead in autonomous vehicle. But the passenger car side is, of course, not the only division where we do that. That's the only wrong direction. I'm sorry. OK, so here you can see our Mercedes-Benz vision vents are also on the commercial vehicle side. We're moving in that direction. You can see the vehicle that we showed at the last commercial vehicle show in Frankfurt. And it's a vehicle that is also fully connected. It has an electric drivetrain. It has those drones that you see on the roof. So this is, of course, a future outlook on how vehicles in the commercial vehicle domain can look like. But the thought really is here that we know that the markets are changing very fast. The business models are changing. So we have to prepare also for the future in commercial transport. And this is also true, of course, for passenger transport. And this is one of the reasons why we formed this entity, a case. Case is standing for connected, autonomous, shared, and services and electrified. And the Lado is heading the IT part of case. This division is actually preparing our future. So with connected, we enable a whole new world of digital services around our vehicles. Autonomous, that's obvious. We want to bring autonomous vehicles on the road because we see it as an additional layer of comfort and also safety. And we believe that the technology must be right before bringing fully autonomous vehicles on the road. So it's very important that right now we are able to assist the driver. But fully autonomous vehicles from our point of view would hit the road when they are really ready for it. This is going very fast, but we're not quite there yet. Shared and services, we are on the world market, of course, very active here. We have a car to go. And with Movil, we have very interesting offers there. But we're also moving forward into the sharing domain with, for example, our cooperation with VR, where we do ride sharing and ride pooling services. And last but not least, electrification is, of course, a mega trend. And we are fully embracing that. And I think this picture will show you that we're really serious about this. From our smallest vehicle to our largest vehicle, we are electrifying our fleet. You can see the smart. You can see the EQC, which is bound for the markets in 2019. And we have the vision vendor that just showed you the new electric sprinter is coming out next year. We have electric buses. And we have even the electric heavy duty trucks, the Actros. So far so good. So we have ease and trust, obviously, on the vehicle side. But let's have a look at the charging side. So this is, of course, one of the key features for our electric vehicles is how do you actually charge those vehicles? We want to come to the same user experience. We want our customers to be happy about it. When we're talking with customers about electrified vehicles, the first question after what's the price and the range is, how do I actually charge those vehicles? And especially if I'm talking about a large fleet of vehicles. But right now, we're not there. We have managed to standardize the plug, the physical layer. We have also managed to come up with communication protocols. Where we really, at the moment, are struggling. And that's why we're here also, is that the software that we need actually to make this really a good customer experience is not really there yet. So we have a communication channel. What we need now is the right software stack, so to speak, modules that we can use. And this is where we think open source comes into play. So we really hope that the community finds this topic interesting. Because we're really working towards bringing that into the Daimler world. And we hope that you can also help us here. And if I may go a little bit deeper into that topic, with my team, I'm right now working on that topic of charging fleets. So we have, with our electrification strategy, we have the product coming. And when we talked to customers, we saw, OK, the customer, we are facing, they want to operate a large number of vehicles from a depot. And in this depot, they need to build their own charging infrastructure. You cannot put out 100 delivery events around such a depot and let them charge in the public. If there is a city that's building up public charging infrastructure with taxpayers' money, they don't want these charging positions then taken by delivery events. So we're trying to build this. But what we're seeing is that there is a real big challenge in managing the net load. So if you see the vehicles, if they would come in and simply the moment they get plugged in, starting to charge, you can very fast, get very undesired loads on the grid. So the topic here is, how do you intelligently manage this electrical load on the grid? And you can see that by managing here, and excuse me, that it's in German, by looking at the time the vehicles are standing in the depot, you can split those charging windows among the individual vehicles and make sure that you never exceed a certain load point, which is costly, but also potentially not in a safe condition. And the second picture to the right here that is also a new topic for us, managing infrastructure. So far, a fleet manager, one of our customers, he's looking very closely at his vehicles. So how do you control the delivery tasks? How do you make certain that your vehicles run the right times and do all the tasks that they have been given? But now there comes a new asset into the play. There's one is the vehicle, and the second is the individual infrastructure that we build there. So my task is to deliver packages with my 20 or 30 vehicles. I need to make certain that the vehicles are ready to run every morning and fully charged. So we're looking at intelligent ways also how to manage this infrastructure. And that goes even further with the electric vehicle. We have one big advantage that we can bring it to the right operating temperature, the cabin, but also the drivetrain, while it's connected to the electric plug. So especially in summer when it's very hot, we can use the AC. Or in winter when it's really cold, we can heat up the vehicle while it's connected to the grid. So we can do what we call preconditioning. And that's something that we can control via software that the fleet manager has. And I think here that that's one use case where we hope that together with this community, we can maybe develop tools that can serve the whole automotive industry. Because every manufacturer faces the same challenges. All right, so I gave you a little insight now in our fleet charging operations. And I think with that, I will hand back to Vlado who will go a bit deeper into a domain of billing and so on. Yeah, so I think it was quite obvious that the charging is an issue in that story of making electric cars or electric mobility available there. So this is just now a picture where we also see potentials and issues that maybe could become also a part of free open source solutions. Why? What we observe today is that customers, and as already mentioned by Roland, are searching, of course, for end-to-end solutions. So they're buying an electric car and they're expecting also that charging is not becoming an issue. But if you're now looking at maybe your personal situation there, would you be really ready to charge your car in your specific driving behaviors? Have you the opportunity to have a charging station at your home place, at your garage? Question is, have you a garage where to put it in? Have you public charging infrastructure available closely into your area or your location? Or have you the possibility to charge your car at your workplace? All open questions, and maybe some of you would say, it's not really fitting to my personal situation. And if that not fits to your personal situation, the danger is quite there that you would not decide to take an electric vehicle. So how to solve that and how to deal with that stuff is so customers and infrastructure providers have to become much closer together in that case. And we have also, of course, to collaborate with charging infrastructure providers in a much smarter way than they usually do so. So there are guys building up charging infrastructure and there's our customers who are going to use it. And why is that a free open source software issue? Because we pretty still believe that this is not just a problem and issue for Daimler. We are pretty sure there's a problem for all car manufacturers and for all infrastructure providers at the same time. Because what we're recognizing by implementing that kind of solutions now is we're just decoupling our internal Daimler complexity to make the entrance for the charging infrastructure providers much easier to our solutions and to the services we would like to offer to the customers. And the same happens with all other car manufacturers at the same time. So from my point of view, we are producing a lot of waste there because we are developing commodities in that case, whereas standard would be much more helpful and further developing also that market. And so we strongly believe, or our thoughts running much more into that direction, how to going to define such kind of a standard by not doing the same thing that we did maybe with the last 130 years as car manufacturers. Because what we're usually doing, if you're going to define a standard, we're just starting to call our colleagues BMW, Toyota, whatever, putting them in a huge room and then starting to develop that thing. Due to the development cycles we see here that would maybe be far too slow to find the right set of solutions and of digital products who should cover that. So basic ideas, again, searching for some alternative, for some other different approaches and still having a free open source in our mind there. Because it's not just in car manufacturer issue, it's also an issue for entire states, for specific cities, for the infrastructure providers who are going to provide that capabilities, energy providing to mobility services. And the basic questions, of course, we have in mind are the following and that's more or less a question and maybe we can also use a little bit of time for a short dialogue in that case. So the question we have in mind is how can we become now a fruitful part of the force community in that case to at least solve or to master the challenge of today's electric vehicle charging. And if you remember back the Robotaxi video we showed you, I mean the bigger vision is how to enable that autonomous driving car to get their energy by itself. Because if you have the capability of autonomous driving in that case, car would decide by its own to approach and charging station to take the right energy and then drive to your back. But in that use case you need even much more automatization, much more standards and that should also fit perfectly in that case. So that would be our input and now happy to maybe get some questions from your side or to start at least for a couple of minutes some short dialogue in that case. Thank you. Any questions, Duke? Oh yeah, you have to run through. So I'm curious to know like you're using, you're planning on using FOS or software development. Do you anticipate like open source principles extending over to the hardware side as far as like standardization of charging stations across the different manufacturers and the infrastructure because right now we seem to have a little bit of a silo effect between manufacturers as far as things like just regular charging. So I'm wondering if you have any notion of whether or not this principle will extend to the hardware side. I think pretty good question in that case. So just my personal opinion on that. So free open source software to start a little bit early and the process is used at OEMs worldwide. So everybody is reutilizing that for its own processes and services but it's quite uncommon to contribute and to contribute back for OEMs. So my first challenge is enable our company and enable the other OEMs to start doing proactively development in that area. To start for in that specific approach building up in standard, software based. No hardware so far in my mind. Down the road you are absolutely right I think. So if you're getting also this mindset into the companies and that they also start to understand how powerful that can be then of course you can extend it also on the hardware side and I think if you would try now to build up community you would anyhow also to have a reference hardware kit because testing charging solution at your home would maybe not be the easiest thing. So you need at least some small Raspberry Pi and some plug that you can somehow cover and check maybe on your smartphone if it's really working or not in that case. But that would not be the first intention. But if I understood right the question was also is there a hardware standard already now? The charging there is, there are several standards worldwide and it took us many years to standardize these interfaces and honestly it's not a global standard which sort of sucks sorry for saying that. But nevertheless at least throughout Europe throughout the United States and at least throughout China we have standards. So there is a physical layer that's standardized and also there's a communication channel that's standardized. What is missing is the layers on top of that actually. So there is already now an environment in charging where a force could be used there and the standards are open there or they are open visible there and so we really think there's a great opportunity to use that even now. You don't need to wait for a couple of years. Awesome, I think we have a question here. Hi, thanks for the chat. In your previous slides you were talking about how you guys want to electrify all your vehicles. The question is what are you guys doing on the production side to not be in the same state as Tesla which is having massive production issues. Especially with your taxi vision. Yeah, so no doubts about Tesla. So I would not answer on that of course. I mean there's so when I started I said okay we are somehow struggling to have the same experience in the car what Tesla is doing excellent. So they are quite close to that. They have different design principles. What we are good in is producing that stuff. So we are enabled by today and that's what we're preparing to produce on the same production line different products. And this products and electrified products will come out of the same factory and they will came out of the same production lines. And so to be honest we are not facing or I don't believe that we will face the same issues that these guys have out of their point of view. Because we are pretty good usually in that. So I think you're absolutely right that you guys have expertise in production which I think obviously has been proven by the years of existence. One of the biggest problems that I have as a car consumer is that car manufacturers and sort of citizens are just really bad when it comes to UI and UX. You see navigation systems that are produced by car manufacturers. I'd rather just crash my car and walk because they're terrible. But then the likes of Tesla, which are like software companies are very good at that. How are you guys bridging that gap? Because it's a pretty big one, right? To go from being a very hardware manufacturer company to now going to the software side. What are you guys doing to bridge that? Yeah, that's what we also initially tried to say. So recognize ourselves also of course in that case. And what we're now doing is producing a new generation of user experience into the cars. So deploying also much more flat screens, much more digitized elements. So we are going also to lose physical buttons in the car. So it will be much more digitized in that way. And we're also increasing heavily the GPU power in the cars. It's of course also prerequisite for autonomous driving. So we're preparing already for that. But that new GPU or CPU power in the car and what we're building in is of course enabling also in different user experience in that case. What we do in the second hand is also, I mean I'm part of the Automotive Great Linux advisory board in that case. And we're also now trying there to bring core components into the car and to decouple hardware from software. Because this is the biggest challenge on the OEM side. They're building blocks always are and to end stacks hardware and software and they're not decoupled. So if you have to do an update, you can't do it really because it's too complicated in that case. So we're starting also to decouple that and to become much more in that direction, to be much more reactive and to fulfill that user experiences that you have of course in mind. Yeah, one final question. Yeah, please. Sorry. Maybe I might agree. I have two questions actually. We all know that some cities have power grid problems. So then your penetration rate will not be very high. So how do you position yourself? That's the first question. Very quickly, second question. We know Amazon started out doing what they did and now they started doing more things. Would Mercedes be doing something like that or Daimler would move from being a car manufacturer to a lifestyle provider perhaps? Yeah. If I can say that. So I think I will answer for the first question on the energy management and also a part of the second question for Mercedes-Benz Vans and maybe Lado can add for the passenger car division. So regarding energy management, you're totally right. It's really an issue, especially if you want to deploy large fleets. So we noticed now we're cooperating with a company who has ordered 1,500 electric Vans from us and they want to electrify these depots that I just showed. So sometimes there's 30, 50 or even 100 vehicles in one of those depots. So you have suddenly, if you redeploy these vehicles, a large electric load. So in Germany, there's nobody around it. You need to go in the infight with the network operator. We're building up actively now, people who are like energy architects. I have a team of solution architects. We can become energy architects in order to understand how is the grid ready for it? What needs to be done on the net side to improve the grid? I see software as a big enabler to limit the investment or to lower the investment that you need to do in the grid because sometimes customers come to us and say, okay, we want 20 electric vehicles. So each of these electric vehicles charges with AC seven kilowatts. So I need 70 kilowatts of grid power, but that's not correct. We know that the vehicles are standing maybe 12 hours, but they can be charged in five hours. So by intelligently splitting the loading, the charging windows, time windows, you can actively maybe totally avoid a network improvement. And now if you do get at a macroscopic scale, I think we need to come to energy grids that really take into account the demands and the supply side a lot better. So we need those intelligent grids that can even predict what load will be in the network at a certain time. Cities are not there yet, but I think at least from the talks I'm having to network operators or grid operators, they all understand the problem and are open for collaboration, but you need to go to every city, to every country and have the same discussions again and again. Regarding the second part of the questions, so a commercial being is not so much a lifestyle product, but nevertheless the question is excellent. So our strategy at Mercedes-Benz Vans is to become a solution provider. We don't want to sell vans any longer, simply the van. We want to provide holistic transport solutions. And one example is that this vision van that I showed, in the back it has automated shelving systems. Now loading these shelves means that you have to go into the value chain of your customer and make certain that the goods that you load into the van come in the right sequence. So this is one example how we want to basically provide those solutions. And actually the customers are demanding it. They're saying, so, okay, I have the car, but what's more? You know, how can you improve my efficiency? So that's maybe the van's part. Just to add two sentences and then we are done. Oh, sorry, I took a bit longer. And just to add two sentences, so yes, what the Vans colleagues are doing and this is fitting into not a lifestyle provider as you said, but in a mobility solution provider at all. Because out of our product range, we are quite good in fulfilling personal mobility needs and also to fulfill the needs on commercial sites and to combine it, of course, in a sophisticated picture that would, for example, and foreign state like Singapore be from great help because you have one partner that would be able to fulfill all mobility demands that you have on the ground space anyhow. Yeah, and that's a picture we have somehow in mind and that's what we are heading for step by step. All right, thank you. We'll wrap it up now because we have a panel. Thank you, Flado and Ronald. So it's going to be interesting to see the automotive companies become software companies and bring something to it. So look forward to it. Thank you.


All right. So kicking things off today, we are going to be working on the bodice and then I'm going to skip around a little bit and take you through how to assemble the straps that way. When we get to that section and get ready to attach the lining to the bodice, our straps are ready to go. So for today's sewing, you are going to need your sew along workbook. Hopefully you are following along with that. There's a link in the description box where you can download that for free, help you stay organized and stay on track as we get through the week. You're going to need a marking tool of some kind and a ruler, marking tool, ruler. You're going to need pins.  Hopefully your machine is threaded. We're not going to need a serger today, but not a good idea to go ahead and thread it if you want to, just to be prepared for the next video. So first step in this pattern is to sew the darts. So these are the darts on your bodice here. There's four of them. So you need to transfer the marking lines for your side to your pattern pieces. The way that I do this is I line everything up here. I put notches in the bottom corner of the, or the bottom section of the legs, and then I'll put a pin through the point. Then do that on all four of these, and then I'll slowly lift the pin up, mark where the pin is, and then connect the legs to that dot that I've just made. If you need, like if this is your very first time sewing darts, I do have a e-horse that takes you through all of the basics of sewing garments. So you'll learn things up. You'll learn about darts, but you'll also learn about pleats, straps, hems. You'll learn like all everything. So if you ever need to make a garment, you will have a separate video for that, taking you through step by step in super, super, super close detail. So if you need more instruction than what I just provided, check that out. It is also linked in the description box. All right. So next steps here at the table are going to be to pin up our darts. And again, I come in here, I put a pin through the bottom of the leg, and then bring it up to the other leg here, like so, making sure that the notches that I cut in match up like so. And also the pin is going through the line on one side and also on the other side. Then I will come up to the point of the dart. I did lower my darts. I made them not as tall. So if mine look a little more squatty than yours, that is why. Because I had to shorten my bodice so much, I needed to shorten the darts too. Okay. And since these are so short, I'll probably just do three pins. So now that one's at the point and I'm going to put another one in through one leg here, confirm that it's going through the other leg on the back, and then that's it. So I'm going to pin up one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight darts. Okay. We're going to go to our sewing machines and we are going to sew up all eight of those darts. Okay. So to sew up our darts, we are going to put our garment into the sewing machine. Raw edge first. Okay. So this is the raw edge, the bottom edge of my bodice, and this is the point of the dart up here. We're going to drop our needle, backstitch, and then we are going to sew coming up the leg, following along that marking line the whole way. And right now I'm at a regular stitch length, but as I get closer to the point, I'm going to drop my stitch length by about one millimeter and sew off the edge like so.  All right. So this is what we have at this point. We've got these long tails and I'm just going to tie these into a little knot and then trim them down. And then that's really it for darts, guys. You're just going to repeat that, like I said, seven more times. Okay. And then when you're done with all eight of your darts, we are pressing the darts to the center. But you should have two of these and then you should have your back pieces. So we've got the back here, the front here, and you should have four backs, two fronts.  That's where the zipper is going to go. This angled section, that's your side seam. So side seam of the back goes with the side seam of the bodice. Make sure that the darts are on the lower edge of your bodice at this point and they just go on like so. Right sides together. And this is going to be fully lined. So you don't have to worry about finishing any of our broad edges here. We're just going to sew this at our seam allowance. For most of you, the seam allowance is a five eighths of an inch. But if you watch my episode zero, you know that I am doing half inch seam allowances in some places. So I've got my back bodice and my front bodice lined up at the side seam. And one of the things that I absolutely love that Seamwork does is they have everything all chewed up.     And then the bottom of the back bodice has this little triangle thing, which you'll see as we turn this and press the seam open. That'll ensure that that lays really flat as well. But the bottom of your the underside of it should look like this where at the seam allowance, both of those pieces come together. So everything is really thoughtful and really chewed up, which just helps confirm as you're sewing that you are doing everything like you're supposed to. All right. So now this has a beautiful top edge finish. And then on the bottom, you can see that there aren't any like weird angles where anything hanging off that bottom. Okay, we can set the bodice and the lining aside. And we'll start working on our straps. So we've got three different strap pieces here. These two end up coming together, something like this. And then this is your back strap. You'll need two of each of these. And for the back strap, the instructions are really easy. You're just folding it in half, sewing it out of three eighths inch seam allowance and turning it right side out. So you can go ahead and do that. And also go ahead and grab your D ring or your O rings as well. We're going to go ahead and get those situated too. So yeah, backstage at both ends. And using some sort of tool like an all or something is really going to help since this is such a small little seam allowance here, and I'll just help you get to the end. All right, clip your threads. We're now going to trim this back to an eighth of an inch. And then using your favorite turner tool, you're going to turn this right side out. Okay, so this is my favorite turning tool. I think, yeah, it's by Dritz. I will link it in the description box for you guys, but especially for these little itty bitty things like the, the blue ones that, you know, you stick the little wedge in or the little metal one where you like hook it on the end, they just never seem to work well for me. So this one is my favorite. You put the tube in the strap. Then at the end, you take a wooden dowel that is provided with the tube. Of course, I lost mine. So I'm using a toothpick, but it all works the same. And you shove this in the top, getting it started is always the hardest part. And then use the dowel to keep everything inside the tube. And then this gets pulled off the edge like so. So go ahead and scooch this up until the bottom is exposed. And then the other end comes off. It just makes such quick work of these like little itty bitty straps. And then the bottom comes out like that. You remove your dowel slash toothpick, and you've got your little itty bitty strap. Okay, so now you're going to grab your O-ring. We're going to slip this strap into the O-ring and then match up the raw edges like that.  So you're going to do that twice, one for each side. And whenever I'm sewing something that's like really small, I always start with my needle in the middle of whatever that is so that I can go ahead and just get it started on the feed dogs. I'll come forward and then back. Like so. And that way you have it. You don't have to worry about pushing it through or missing any of it. Okay, now to the long straps. Back to the teeth. All right, for these longer straps, I'm going to show you on the shorter one just so you can see the whole thing. Instead of doing the tube and then turning it right side out, we're going to essentially make a bunch of folds that's going to cause this to make a strap. I don't know how to explain it. So we're going to first press in a little itty bitty press with the long side raw edges matching. So you're going to have a little crease in the middle of your strap. Then you take the raw edge and bring it up to that crease. Yep. Okay, press that. Do the same thing on the other side. So now these two things come in like so. And then you're going to turn both of these together. So you have the folds on the end and the raw edges are encased inside. So I'm going to go ahead and edge stitch this all along the folded edge. All right, similar to the back strap, I'm going to start this a lot further away from the, this back raw edge than you would think. And I've got to edge stitch it. That way it's going to catch my feed dogs just a little bit better and it'll feed it through for me like that. Okay, the most important thing is that all your raw edges are caught on the inside. Okay, so do that again for the other strap H. Okay, so now with our strap H, we're going to move on to the long strap G. You should have two Gs. We're going to do the exact same thing that we did with all the folding and pressing, except before we topstitch it, we are going to grab that little weird looking template piece. We're going to take this, okay, and we're going to use this to determine where inside G does H go. Okay, so let me fold this up and then I'll show you how to use the template. So take your H and I think it's probably best for the folded edges. This goes like that. Can you guys see where the notches are too right here and here? And then it's going to follow the angle of this. So then you tuck this all back in and we're going to sew all along this long edge here, encasing this as we get to this part. All right, you guys, she's finicky, but she's going to be worth it. So this goes in our machine. Again, I'm going to start this a little bit further back than you would normally. Now backstitch and as I get to the little strap things, make sure it's laying flat, stitch over it, and that should encase it inside this other spaghetti strap. Coolly. All right, there we go. Like I said, she's a little bit finicky, but I think it's going to be totally worth it. Look how cute that turned out. And that's it for today. We are going to meet back at the next video to talk about our skirt and the pockets.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including John and Bicky Johnston, Chris Benito, and Steve Aya Darola. Coming up on DTNS, Framework promises modular graphics, chat GPT can go online, and is YouTube a new cloud storage provider? This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, March 24, 2023. From Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Lovely Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Rich Travoleno. From Los Angeles, I'm Lamar Wilson. Also from that area, I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Yeah, we got a couple LA folks. We got Rich in Lovely Cleveland, and me being in an atmospheric river for the foreseeable future. But that is neither here nor there. Let's get into the quick hits. Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed two bills into law regulating how miners in the state can use social media, and also regulating how companies can design their apps. The first SB 152 requires that as of March 1, 2024, social media companies verified ages of all users, set up systems to get parental permission for miners to open an account, restrict miners from using social media from 10.30 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. without parental consent, and also gives parents the ability to access a miner's account. The second bill, HB 311, blocks these companies from implementing a design or feature that causes miners to become addicted to their platforms. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority, you might know it as the CMA, announced its narrowed the scope of its investigation into Microsoft's proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition. The CMA no longer believes the acquisition would diminish competition in console gaming. It is still investigating how the deal would impact potentially the cloud gaming market. Twitter announced it will start removing legacy verification checkmarks that haven't subscribed to Twitter Blue on April 1. We're going to assume this is not an April Fool's joke, and actually a thing that will happen on April 1. The company also announced that Twitter Blue subscriptions are now available globally. App researcher Alessandra Paluzzi found evidence that Twitter is working on the ability to hide the Blue verification checkmark for Blue subscribers if they so desire. Why not? United Airlines announced a partnership with Archer Aviation to launch a commercial electric air taxi route in Chicago, going from downtown to O'Hare International Airport. No word of this will include a Stroopwafel. It's set to open in 2025. Archer estimates the flight will take about 10 minutes and will be cost competitive, although no idea what that actually means. They didn't provide any specifics. YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips and other Linus Media Group YouTube channels were hacked earlier this week with the attacker able to live stream crypto scam videos, change channel names, and also delete videos. We talked about this on the show yesterday.  That PDF included malware that accessed all user data from both their installed browsers, including session tokens, which then gave the attacker an exact copy of the browsers that the attacker then could export without needing security credentials. Sebastian says YouTube needs better security options to change key channel attributes like reauthenticating credentials to change a channel name. All right, well, back in 2021, the laptop maker framework made some waves by introducing a modular laptop. We definitely talked about it on this show. That was designed to let users easily replace parts including things like the display and keyboard and even supporting customizable ports.  You can put these little nodules, get all the ports you wanted. But its original 13-inch laptop notably didn't let users swap one thing. Graphics, just use the integrated Intel GPUs. It's surprising. It's pretty industry standard, but definitely on a wish list for a lot of people. Well, framework is bringing the so-called holy grail to its new laptop 16 platform. The GPU doesn't exactly live within the standard chassis. Instead, the laptop features a removable rear cover. So, this can slide out and be replaced by a larger module, basically expanding the flat part of the laptop behind the hinge for the display. Framework designed a high-power bi-directional PCI Express interface for the module with enough throughput to support a GPU or a pair of solid-state drives. The laptop also features six swappable IO card slots and an input module system that lets you hotswap the keyboard and mouse with framework publishing specifications for keyboard modules on GitHub. No word on pricing or other specs, so that's sort of up in the air. But the company expects to ship it in late 2023, which is we're going into April, not that far away. Not at all. Now, framework also announces 13-inch laptop will soon have options for both the 13th generation Intel chips and the AMD Ryzen 7000 series GPUs. The laptop also received a larger 61 watt battery. It's not just you, Lamar, it's me too. Okay, that's good to know. Which promises up to 30% more runtime and louder speakers. That's good. And all these can be bought as upgrades to the original framework laptop. So, yeah, framework expanding on this vision. I know when that 13-inch laptop came out, everyone was like, okay, they can do this for kind of this ultrabook, whatever kind of model that they can have. But, you know, the 16-inch laptop now kind of going into, I mean, seems like they're targeting that gaming laptop space, which is already pretty niche, but banking on modularity, you know, right, to kind of stand out. I mean, Lamar, are you like, are you interested in this idea at all? No. But I know there has to be people who are, so I want to be considerate to those people. But I'm struggling, as I've read this a couple of times, trying to find out who this is for, who's willing to go through all this for a laptop. I mean, I've built computers in the past, many of you all have, and some people still do. And some people just like the idea of putting their own things together, I completely get that. But when it comes to a laptop, I don't know what's special about there, and I looked at their website, I'm not sure what makes their stuff so special that I can't just get a customized laptop from any other company that has what I need. So I'm struggling to see the benefit of who this is for. Well, I think the idea is kind of in the same way that, you know, PC building has, like PCs are an open ecosystem, right?  And that's never been like that. That line of thinking has never been possible on a laptop. Other than like, if you bought like a weird MMX card from channel partners, but like realistically, there was no consumer friendly way and kind of standardized way to do that. What framework is proposing is basically like that same kind of model where for the longest time you bought that $3,000 gaming laptop, knowing that in two years that GPU is going to be fairly outdated for the games you're going to be wanting to be playing. So you're either going to have to upgrade it and take a big loss as the value of that laptop goes down or stick with the suboptimal system. If you need that kind of portability. I think it's interesting that idea to do that, to bring that model of saying like, okay, yes, these may be at a price premium, maybe at a price premium to buy the 16 inch laptop versus your XPS laptop or your Alienware laptop. But it's going to be cheaper to upgrade this down the line because not only can you do that with the GPU, this still supports, you can replace the system mainboard to upgrade the CPU. You can like any laptop, you can upgrade the RAM, you can even upgrade the networking card, the keyboard itself. So if you want to like say, hey, I want a mechanical keyboard, we can do that if that specifications there. I want one of these weird keyboard in the front trackpad in the back setups. That's all kind of on the table with the super modular setup. There's a lot of questions about, they didn't say if either Nvidia or AMD is on board to supply these GPUs. And that to me is the biggest question of how is that situation going to work? Yeah, I mean, knowing so many people that you among them Lamar from your days of building computers, this is attractive.  There are people who say I want to tinker, but I almost feel like the people who want to tinker are already tinkering.  I was just about to say Lego. You know, where I'm like, I don't know how much I really want to tinker. I like the swappableness of all of this. But again, like the price really matters. And, you know, at that point, you know, how much, how much am I going to save rather than just buying another laptop? Exactly. Yeah, Roger had a really good point about like, even if they got this out, like there's there's a certain amount of units they'll have to sell to make this profitable. Otherwise, they will really have to put a higher markup on this. So you end up being more expensive, which again, some tickers won't mind the extra cost. They may just like they may want to pay a premium just so they can make their own laptop laptop. But for a lot of people costs, especially now costs would be a factor. But something to keep in mind with any other gaming laptop, you're going to have to buy a whole new screen, a whole new keyboard, a whole new set of RAM, a whole new set of hard disk, a whole new CPU. And in this, yes, even if it is on a price payment, which I'm sure it will, like the economics are not going to work out for them to get economies of scale, at least right away. But I still feel like even if it's at a hefty premium, it's still going to be cheaper.  I mean, if the driver situation has sorted out and the idea that still going to have an integrated GPU that you can then leave that at home and then you don't have a power sucking giant GPU, kind of that eGPU setup that we've seen a lot of companies try over the years with varying levels of success, all kind of integrated. It is ambitious, I will say, not guaranteed to succeed. We'll wait to see what they announce any partnerships with NVIDIA or AMD to supply these actually before we can really, you know, start, start looking at the real economics of it though. Was that a slap at e-machines? If so, tell me. Not e-machines, please. I have nothing fond, but fond us in my heart for e-machines. Okay, good. Well, I don't know how fond y'all are about chat GPT, but it can't stay out of the news. Chat GPT gets a lot of credit for being capable, except when it comes to particularly timely sources. For example, chat GPT's knowledge base only goes through September of 2021. So if something crazy happened in September of 2022, it's not necessarily going to be included in something that you're looking for. But organizations will soon be able to change that because open AI launched an alpha for plugins for chat GPT. This will let developers extend the chat bot functionality by allowing it to access third party sources, including the web. Yeah, the web browser plugin won't unleash chat GPT online indiscriminately, but it will open a door for the chat bot poll data from the web to answer questions using the Bing Search API. So when going to the web, chat GPT will cite sources in its responses. Now, open AI said it implemented several safeguards based on red team testing, but acknowledged that the chat bot plugin could lead to some undesirable behaviors. And of course, there are all sorts of other plugins possible outside of the web connection. But early testers that are building plugins include companies like Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, and Zap, you know, kind of a broad range of companies there. Open AI also released support for adding a sandbox Python code interpreter to chat GPT as well. I guess, you know, my question here is, is this kind of like an app store moment for chat GPT, kind of taking it from a certainly interesting and very powerful generalized solution and kind of, hey, we can get some more specific use cases out of this.  This makes a lot of sense.  You do kind of, well, okay, you don't.  And there is less friction between humans about the information that I get from that. And this is, this is, this is current day, right, September 2021. All good. You have a good knowledge base, but that's not really what's happening in a day to day basis with a lot of these apps that we're dealing with. I think probably in six months from now, we're all going to say, remember when we didn't know what JetGPT could do for us. Yeah. And you know, and it's, and it's part of common day life. Yeah, I think that's such a good point. I think JetGPT as it stands now, it's very intimidating to a lot of people. Just the name itself sounds scary. Like, you know, what do I do with this? But making everyday users have plugins that work for everyday things. Instacart is such a good example. Because, you know, if I'm sitting there and saying, and just talking to it, or maybe they'll have verbal one day, but I type in, I don't know what to eat. I like these items. I haven't had pizza this week. That's a possibility. And I just, I'm talking to the thing and it's like, Hey, you might like a rice bowl this week. You can get some ingredients you can get at your local Kroger store. And it compiles the list for me. And one click, I can, I can get the groceries. Does that sound lazy? Maybe. But it sounds awesome. You're leveraging stuff that didn't exist before. I don't think that's lazy at all. I call this the boringification of generative AI where it's like, okay, we were amazed by it because it could write fiction or it could, you know, oh, no, it's going to write our term papers for us and stuff like that. But like, this is like integrating it into Slack and going, you know, and I know there's already a chat you PT kind of extension for Slack, but like, when it's integrated in on the base level and I can draw upon the entire knowledge base of Slack and be like, When was like the last, you know, like Lamar, like, when did me and Lamar agree to meet on this and this we didn't enter it into our calendar and it's able to just go through all of the conversation backlogs or, you know, show me the documents that we shared on this such and such event like Yeah, this is such an interesting kind of integration and I do say I do agree like this gives developers tools to play with right previously up until this we've only seen really how Microsoft wants to play with integrating something like chat GPT or GPT for into their products is basically what they did with Edge and what they did with with search like that's that's the plug in for Bing, right. And this is now giving developers kind of a open ground to play with this. Yeah, the web stuff gets all the headlines. And that's super interesting because that might actually make it a very useful research tool if it's not wildly hallucinating. But like giving developers this tool to play with not just Microsoft kind of putting it out there. I'm interested to see what the what, you know, what how people get creative with this. Well, and I think this is a really good, it's good timing and also probably why we've seen a lot of headlines lately of like, Google Assistant, Amazon's Assistant, Apple's Assistant, I'm not naming them because they're going to blow up my studio here. But, you know, they're not good enough. You know, we, we, we've been limping along with these assistants. But now here's where, you know, it's really going to get interesting.  Well, speaking of apropos, you should watch Tom Merritt's new show called Tom's Top Five where Tom will break down the top five things that you need to know about technology. He's very good at this, you guys. Everything from online services and AI to security and even tech legislation. You can catch it at youtube.com slash daily tech news show. Have you ever wished that the annual pain of filing your income tax could somehow be blissfully married to the potential awkwardness of dating? Yes. You answered.  This is an anime dating simulator that will help you prepare your 1040 US individual income tax return, including tax credits. Now, this simulator was developed by mischief, a company that likes to get attention through performance art ask stunts. They did a little Nas X's Satan shoes, and they did an art installation where they had people rank their ATM balances and stuff like that. So this feels like very part for the course of look at me, look at me. Yeah, so the game does ask you to input your social security number. That's nice. But mischief says that it doesn't connect to the internet. So you're safe. If you're wondering if the app is at all subtle. Don't worry, your simulated date helping you with your return is iris aka IRS. Okay. And another character is turbo and unsavory sash bro. I don't know if you get that. But okay, who's who likes to include corporate lobbying, confusing forms, dark UX and fleece vests. Wow. Yeah, so the game was set to launch on steam on April 4, but subsequently de listed. It's still listed as coming soon on itch.io itch.io. Now, okay, so, okay, putting that aside, we've seen gamification help people do a lot of mundane tasks for a while. In fact, chat GPT would be part of that. But what do we think about actually making some of the stuff games? I'll start. Okay, so let me just say for mischief, I don't like, they've tried to work with me for I don't care for how they do things, you know, they they've sent packs of people, people's old ID cards. State IDs and stuff. So they do some weird shock value. Yeah, I'm not sure I care about them. But I will say that if you can make taxes fun somehow, which you would win the world if you did that you can win everything. You can make taxes fun in a game form, but still got it done. I'm not sure I'm completely opposed to that idea. I mean, I love games and and obviously we as humans that that's what I mean our primary we love games or anything that we do we wanted to be gamified somehow. So I'm not against it, but just not them. I don't want to use them and I don't want to give them my social security number at all. Well, but like, it's not just mischief, which is the company in question, right? It's, you know, they're gaining attention. They're saying this is kind of fun. Wouldn't it be nice if the, you know, the, I don't know, filing your taxes, which I haven't done this year yet, could be like a cool game, you know, where you learn things and you do what you need to do and it's not as just sort of like soul sucking as it has been for many years prior. I'm like, I'm into that. An independent company who's also sort of known for doing artsy things that gain attention, probably not the place that I want this to play out.  It means sometimes people can be walked through things that they otherwise either didn't understand or didn't feel like was worth their time that can make you be more productive. Well, and our producer Amos pointed out during our kind of our prep for the show today that like chorecore as a game genre is already huge. Right. There are all sorts of simulator games for like extremely mundane things that people get super into. And people in games are already kind of into this idea of like, like min maxing, you know, your, your effort versus reward and stuff like like diving into the mechanics of like how can I get the most out of this. Like that's like part of playing a game. Right. And I feel like that mechanic can make a lot of things that otherwise you're just like, I just want to get this out of here. It's incomprehensible. Like, it turns into, yeah, like a fun thing where maybe you get a reward at the end or, or at least enjoy the process. Yeah, like, like outside of paying taxes, like I'm thinking like you put together like a phoenix right kind of simulator for like if you want to fight a parking ticket or something like that like where it's like, okay, the minutiae of law and stuff like that might be super intimidating to you if you're just like reading legal codes or something like that. Not saying anyone should necessarily practice law in themselves if they're not comfortable. But like that that idea of making something that seems extremely opaque extremes extremely technical and putting it into this this game form out not just gamification where it's like you get a badge, because you read a bunch of boring stuff, but like literally putting the whole trappings of a game on it, I think is, you know, super just like there, I can think of things in my own life, like when I'm thinking about like, like how I've like chosen like done like homeowners insurance or something like that where it's like, okay, I'm pretty sure I did my research but like, I don't know if you if you if you had a simulator game like this. And I feel like I would be kind of a little bit more into it it would just be a little bit more fun. Maybe that gets numb after a while, but it seems like it has to be better than just endless forms and like little question mark circles that you click on to find out what the comprehensive coverages or something like that. Yeah, I think I think the only my last problem with this particular one but the dating one is that at the end much like my real life, I won't get a second date. Don't worry about our tax season comes around every year. And every year the same thing happens. Every year I'm like, Oh, I didn't get a return. Crap. Maybe next year. Independent contractors. Well, unlike many other cloud storage services, YouTube will let you upload and download a pretty big amount of data tremendous in fact only capped by the individual file size. Now, of course this has to be video because it's YouTube, but that did not stop YouTuber histidine dwarf from using it for other file types because people like to tinker. He created a tool called infinite storage glitch that converts a zip file into a visualized data stream to a regular viewer. Looks like static low res, but it's the most efficient and it's not the most efficient rather turning a one gigabyte zip file into a four gigabyte video. And it also may violate YouTube's terms of service and it gets taken down. But again, in the celebration of tinkers, not great at archiving, but available on GitHub. If you want to check it out. I have no word. I don't know. Okay. It's cool. Hey, it's cloud storage that YouTube said you. I mean, they're not touting this, but it's a possible ability. The only thing I want to tell this, this person is like, don't tell YouTube. They're giving away tons of cloud storage. I mean, it's not free because they're monetizing it with ads, but like, I'm like, don't blow this deal for everybody. We're enjoying all of our uploads. Well, too late now, Rich. Yeah. But what's interesting about this is we've seen like kind of embedding data into images and video for like malware for a long time. Like usually there's like proof of concept kind of things, but it's, it's kind of cool to see this as being like, oh no, there's like an actual. I don't know how useful it is, but an actual like legit utility to this that you can have. Or if you just like watching videos of semi random looking static, there's some quality content for you as well. Listen, I like white noise. So, you know, maybe there's a win-win situation here. Yeah. Cloud storage and a nap. Ooh, now that now that's a service I would pay for. All right. In our mail bag, Nick in Australia wanted to weigh in on Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel getting compromised. We talked about on the show yesterday, we had an update today. Nick says, in addition to all the normal content, I watched all the behind the scenes content and their weekly podcast, the WN show or WAN show on a relatively recent show when discussing data deletion and Google in what now seems highly prophetic. Linus talked about the last time that the channel was hacked because it's been more than once. Those private videos, the recent attacker made public were actually deleted years before the first hack, either before, either because they were never meant to see the light of day or they were published, you know, in a time didn't fit the direction of the channel going forward. But when YouTube restored the channel after the first hack, those videos that were deleted years prior were restored. So this time around Linus' team at LMG just privated them because they knew that even if they delete a video, YouTube doesn't actually delete it. Insert joke about the internet never forgets here. I've been trying to get 13 videos from YouTube from 2009 and they swear they are gone permanently. Like I asked back then. So now that I know about this, I'm going to, I'm going to try, I don't know, try to get hacked. Yeah, Lamar, I'll take over your account so you can have it restored. I mean, Lamar, I can't imagine that YouTube would be like, oh, he doesn't deserve it. But one wonders. Yes. If someone like me who doesn't really use YouTube at all, I mean, besides, you know, I watch YouTube videos, but I don't have a channel. You know, if I were like, hey, what about that private video that went away? I'd love to have it restored and the company's like, well, you deleted it. So sorry, I'd say, okay. But if somebody who has enough influence says, well, what about those private videos? And they're like, still have them on that deleted video server. You know, that that it's going to make other people take pause. You know, if they don't have the same, I don't know, share. Agreed. Well, Lamar, we'd love to share this show with you. Thank you for being on the show with us today. Let folks know where they can keep up with your work. You may find me. The easiest way is Lamar.TV. That's Lamar with two hours at TV. It's my landing page for all of my articles and things that I've done. I'm on kind of a hiatus right now, but I'll be back full pretty full strength next week. 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from Anaheim, California. It's theCUBE, covering Nutanix.next 2019. Brought to you by Nutanix. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of Nutanix.next here in Anaheim. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, John Furrier. We are joined by Victoria Hurtado. She is the director IT operations at Kern Healthcare Systems. Welcome, Victoria. Hi, thank you for having me. So for our viewers that are not familiar with Kern, tell us a little bit about what you do and what you're all about. Sure, so we are a health payer provider.  We have a contract with the state of California to provide medical services to about 255,000 members in Kern County, located in Bakersfield, California. So if you really want to know more about this, like a Kaiser without the provider network. And so we pay the services, the bills that come in, as well as authorize the services that need to be rendered for members, yep. So talk about your decision to move from traditional storage to HCI. So really where our decision stemmed from was our roadmap. And over the last several years, we have had a three tier traditional storage. And the daily tasks of our system administrators have increased over time with integration. And as technology increases, there's more integration. And so we really wanted to focus on how do we decrease that as well as increase efficiencies so that we can provide the services that we need to for our internal customers, as well as our external customers, our members and providers. And the efficiencies, what was the project plan? How did you approach it? Sure, so our strategy was really a three phase approach. So we wanted to implement VDI for our internal employees. So we started off with VDI. Once we have transitioned to that, we will be migrating or in the process of right now, our core claims system, which is our bread and butter really. And so we'll do a month plan on that, see how that goes. And then once that is successful, which I feel will be successful, we will migrate our entire infrastructure over. Are you happy with the Nutanix so far? Yes, so the first deployment was Nutanix with Citrix and VMware, that entire combination. I've had a few consultants come in and they're like, oh, you've got the Ferrari of VDI. And I'm like, yes, we absolutely do. So, yes. When you're thinking about efficiencies, I mean, one of the things before the cameras were rolling, you were talking a little bit about what it means for employees. Can you talk a little bit about how they then structure their day, they structure which projects they work on and how they are more productive given these different changes? Sure, so an organization like us, we are always challenged with guidelines changing from the state. They have a tendency to want to change things very frequently. So we often have a lot of critical projects that we're doing on an everyday basis and that work really gets them consumed. And so what we're able to do with Nutanix is alleviate those responsibilities so that we can focus on the more critical, impacting scenarios versus managing a lawn and moving a volume and making sure the system is up and running. We're really focused on providing care to our members because our members are what count. And it also allows for a member to get the services that they need while they're sitting in the doctor's office waiting for a response from our organization. How's the IT ops world these days? Because there's so much tech out there. When you look at the landscape and you've got a unique situation, you've got care and you've got payments. People are relying on this. So you don't have a lot of room for mistakes. Correct. What do you guys see in that operations? Suppliers out there, other people you looked at? What were some of the solutions and why Nutanix? So it actually took us a while to make that decision. We made a collaborative decision with our engineers, my CIO and some of our business units. We compared different technologies that were out in the landscape of both storage and hyperconverged. What was the right path for us? We did a very thorough cost analysis of five year tenure, what that roadmap looks like for us. And like you said, mistakes, we can't make mistakes. And with growing security risk and healthcare industry and more people wanting that data, it's really important for us to protect it and have it secure. So Nutanix really offered us a lot of the key components that we were looking for in our grading system when we were looking for a storage solution. How's the event here? What have you learned? Tell us your experience to Nutanix next. Sure, so coming to this event, I really thought that we would be looking into new technologies, what other integration, like typical IT conferences, right? I think sitting in the initial keynote, I heard a lot of great positive things that are aligned with the industry, the buzzwords right now in technology, as well as our own roadmap for technology, going to the cloud, convergence, using multiple technologies for integration. So it really kind of paved what this conference was going to be. In addition, I think the sessions, having the tiered approach of you can follow a pathway throughout the conference was a brilliant idea in planning. So I think there's much to learn about how this conference was put on, so. I want to ask you about your role as the director of IT operations. I mean, you're hearing so much that these roles are really being dramatically transformed, that it's not just about keeping the lights on, it really is you're taking a much more strategic role in the business. How would you say you approach your job differently? How would you say it has changed your leadership style? And how much time do you spend thinking about being more visionary, more forward-thinking, versus this is what we're doing each day? Yeah, so I think historically, traditional technology departments and management within technology have really focused on technology only. Over the last several years, I've made it a point to learn our business units, so that we can apply good technology to a good process. I'm a true believer and an advocate for our technology department and our staff to really know the business, so that we're not putting technology on a bad process because that doesn't really help anyone to be successful. So I would say the shift in transition is being merged and converged as an IT and business entity. As far as approach, getting the business to come up hill with us has been really important, not only for technology for the underlying infrastructure, but systems today. Systems are so much ability to customize it to your heart's content, which also leads to different issues. So using technology with business process to gain efficiencies is really the road that is ahead of us. One of the things that the senior execs at Nutanix talk about is their value proposition is about helping consolidate a little bit here as one of the side benefits, but there's a new role in kind of looking for the new kind of persona, the person with Nutanix solution is a new kind of operator. Yes. What do you think he means by that? So I really think it means, and I had this challenge internally actually, is we have a lot of technical engineers that have grown up with the mentality that I have to know everything about this one siloed topic, right? I need to be the expert in this. And really where we're going is you don't have to worry about that. I need you to know about the business. I need you to know about how you can make change and efficiencies to help us be successful. And that is a transition for a lot of technologists. And we will get there. I truly believe that because we have to. It's a cultural thing. It is definitely a cultural thing. It's an old dog, new tricks kind of thing. Yes, absolutely. So how do you hire?  What do you want to see? So technology has historically been the focus of what do you know? How well can you do it? To what experience do you have enterprise grade level experience? And now that's really shifting to, are you able to participate on a project? Can you build requirements? Do you understand what your customer is asking for? As well as asking the questions of, is this the right thing to do? Not just doing what our customer asks us to do. Does it make sense? If we're going to archive data, do we need to secure it? When we're transferring that in and out of the organization, does that make sense? And so they, we're looking for people that are going to be outspoken a little bit and ask those hard questions. You know, we have always talked about ransomware because healthcare's been targeted. You mentioned security earlier, thinking broadly, you got data. You got the crown jewels, bread and butter, as you said, is the data. Are you, have you experienced ransomware? Are you guys ready for it? What's the strategy? So we've actually take a layered approach to security. Obviously in healthcare, there is no single pane of glass for security. We've really stepped into the world of having our data encrypted at rest in transit, multi-layers. We do audits every year to make sure that we're compliant.  So we do that purposefully with intent to make sure that we have the technologies in place that are going to provide us what we need for our data. Fascinating. Victoria, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. It was a pleasure having you. Thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight for John Furrier. You are watching theCUBE.


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Until we move to the next item, members will be aware that the Government has answered a Government-inspired question this morning in regard to the judgment of the Supreme Court on the reference made by the Lord Advocate. The long-established good practice guidance on announcements to the Parliament states that ministerial statements are appropriate in matters of significant and either immediate or on-going public and parliamentary importance. I have asked the Government to reflect on the appropriateness of using a GIQ on this occasion. The first item of business is an urgent question, and I call Douglas Ross. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I had hope that this question might be answered by the First Minister, but I know that she is absent from the chamber. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of an independent referendum bill. Thank you, Presiding Officer. As constitution secretary, it is entirely appropriate for me to be answering questions about the constitution today. First Minister's questions are tomorrow, and I'll wait to see if Douglas Ross has any better questions then. In answer to the substantive question before us this afternoon, the Supreme Court has decided that under the devolution settlement a referendum on the question should Scotland be an independent country is a matter reserved to the Westminster Parliament. That means that without an agreement between the Scottish and UK Governments and the Scottish and UK Parliaments, without a section 30 order or a UK act to change the Scottish Parliament's powers, the Scottish Parliament cannot pass the laws required to hold a referendum to give effect to the mandate that people in Scotland gave it and to give us a choice about our future. The first thing that I want to say is this. The Scottish Government accepts and respects this judgment. The Supreme Court was not asked to decide and cannot to decide whether the Scottish Parliament should have the power to hold an independence referendum. Its job is to set out what the law is, in this case the devolution settlement in the Scotland Act 1998, and that is what it has done. The judgment makes clear how the UK constitution gives the UK Government a veto over people in Scotland's right to choose. The Supreme Court said in paragraph 81, that a clear outcome, whichever way the question was answered, would possess the authority in a constitution and political culture founded upon democracy of a democratic expression of the view of the Scottish electorate. That is what those constitutional arrangements deny us, a democratic expression of the view of the Scottish electorate. Why does this matter, Presiding Officer? The Supreme Court tells us that the question is whether Scotland should cease to be subject to the sovereignty of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The reason that the Scottish electorate does not get its chance to offer a democratic expression is because it would impinge on Westminster sovereignty if its views were known. That tells us what is truly left of promises made that the UK would operate as a partnership of equals or that we lived in a voluntary union of nations. No matter how the people of Scotland vote or how often they elect parliaments that support a referendum or support independence, they cannot be told no by the UK Prime Minister. These cannot be right, and there are fewer stronger or more powerful arguments for independence than that. In a voluntary union, one part does not have to rely on the agreement of another before it is allowed to even think about leaving. Cabinet Secretary, I would be grateful if you could draw that particular response to a conclusion as there is a great deal of interest in this item. Douglas Ross I noted that the Cabinet Secretary quoted paragraph 81 of the ruling, not paragraph 82, where the judges said that they were in absolutely no doubt as to the answer to the question that they were looking at. Given the cost of this case in taxpayers' money and time, I think that it is regrettable that the First Minister herself was unable to come to this chamber to answer. She was more than happy this morning to comment from behind an SNP podium as SNP leader, but she is now unwilling to answer questions today in this chamber from elected Scottish parliamentarians as First Minister. The Scottish people have made it clear in pole after pole that they do not want another referendum next year, so I welcome the Supreme Court's clear. I hope that the SNP backbenchers here do as well. We now have an opportunity to focus on the big challenges that Scotland faces right now. Strikes, the global cost of living crisis and a winter storm in our NHS. Will the SNP Government ditch its referendum obsession and get back to tackling these crucial issues for individuals, families and communities right across Scotland? The inconvenient truth for Douglas Ross is that last year's Scottish Parliament election decided the principle and the electorate decided the mandate. It was for parties in favour of an independence referendum. It was the SNP in the Greens that won the election. It was the Scottish Conservatives that lost the election. I think that this session will be a lot more productive if we can hear whoever is on their feet speaking. I would be grateful if members could please resist any temptation to contribute while members are on their feet. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The position of the Scottish Government remains the same as the First Minister announced to this Parliament on 28 June. Nothing in this respect has changed. We would prefer the UK and the Scottish Governments to agree a section 30 order under the Scotland Act to allow a legal and constitutional referendum to go ahead. That is what the people have voted for. It is for the Scottish Conservatives to explain why they are blocking and why they are denying democracy. Douglas Ross is for the cabinet secretary to explain his misleading claim there, because a majority of votes in the Scottish Parliament election were for parties that support the remaining party of the United Kingdom more than parties who support separation. However, let us be very clear that the SNP's political obsession with separation dragged both of Scotland's Governments into court. However, there is now a chance for Scotland and our two Governments to come together and move on, so there is a clear choice for this SNP Government. Either they continue to divide our country and focus on their political priorities or they can get on with the job of dealing with the real priorities for Scottish people. So, cabinet secretary, what choice will this Government make? Will it keep pushing for another referendum or will it focus on getting back to work to deliver for the people of Scotland? Which will it be? What I can say with absolute certainty is that my memory is long enough to realise that it was the Conservative party that blocked Scottish democracy and devolution after the yes vote of 1979. I am long enough to remember that it was the Conservative party that opposed devolution in the 1997 referendum, so perhaps it is unsurprising that they are not keen on Scottish democracy now. Blocking and denying democracy is a serious charge, and Douglas Ross and the Tories are, unfortunately, leading the charge. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Douglas Ross just spoke about opinion polls. Although they are interesting, election results themselves are actually definite and this chamber proves that. This Parliament has the biggest majority for an independence revolution, and that has never had in the history of devolution. What does the UK Government's refusal to respect the mandate say about their view of this Parliament and the decisions made by the people of Scotland? Cabinet secretary? Well, it is difficult to understand, to be honest, because it is difficult to understand why a UK Government having established a principle of respecting when a majority is elected to this Parliament that a referendum should take place, which is exactly what happened after the 2011 Scottish Parliament election should now depart from that precedent. Presiding Officer, I can only come to one conclusion, which is that they are scared. They are scared of losing the referendum.  They are democracy denial. It is not a good look in a democracy when political parties block democracy, but then the Tories have formed over this for decades. I call Sarah Boyack. Thank you, Presiding Officer. It was right for the Lord Advocate to refer this question to the Supreme Court, and it is welcome that we now have the legal clarity on the matter that they sought. I also wish to put on record my thanks to the court for their speedy work in considering this case. It is crucial that we now focus on the problems facing our country, from soaring bills to the crisis in our NHS. Indeed, Scottish Labour will be debating those issues in the chamber this afternoon. There is not a majority cabinet secretary in Scotland for a referendum or for independence, but neither is there a majority for the status quo, people across Scotland and, indeed, the UK want change. Will the cabinet secretary agree with me that we need to get rid of this economically incompetent and morally bankrupt Tory Government? Will he agree with me that the best way to do that would be to help elect a Labour Government across the UK to bring economic growth and store-living standards, prioritise our public services and deliver a green new deal? What I would prefer is getting rid of unelected Tory Governments in Scotland forever, forever, forever, and what Sarah Boyack suggests wouldn't deliver that. I'm quite taken by a quote that I've got here from a colleague of Sarah Boyack's—I think that she knows him—Anna Sarwar, who said, "'It should be the people of Scotland who decide when the next referendum is.'" And that issue was debated last year in the Scottish Parliament election. It was the defining issue of the Scottish Parliament election. And look around the chamber, see who is here. The parties that stood on a manifesto commitment to hold a referendum won the election. The party that opposed referendums, they lost the election. What a bizarre situation for opposition parties to tell the governing parties that they shouldn't do what they were elected to do. That is not a normal functioning democracy. And it's very sad day to see the Labour Party, a party that was in its day a strong supporter of home rule joining the Tories in blocking Scottish democracy. I have lost count of how many times the First Minister has launched a new independence campaign, each with less energy and momentum than the last. While Nicola Sturgeon goes through the motions, people wait days for an ambulance, months for NHS treatment and years for lifeline ferries, breaking up the United Kingdom simply isn't a priority for those people who are opening their bills with dread or living in pain. My goodness, teachers are on strike tomorrow. Scotland needs new hope, not old division. So why won't this SNP green government finally focus on what matters instead of this arrogant, tired and divisive charade? I say gently, Presiding Officer. It is neither liberal nor is it democratic to stand in the way of democracy and people being able to make a choice, yes or no. We will differ. We will differ, no doubt, on whether we support independence or not. I know you don't want to hear this. I know Alex Cole-Hamilton doesn't want to hear this, representing a party with only four members and the worst election result in its history. That secured that loss off the back of opposition to an independence referendum. Maybe he should listen to the electorate, because what the electorate did is indeed point at those benches. Those benches have the majority in this chamber. Benches elected with a manifesto commitment for liberal referendum. I am sorry that Scottish Liberal Democrats are being neither liberal nor democratic nor standing up for democracy in Scotland. I call Ross Greer. Thank you. Can I start off by correcting Douglas Ross? Not only did the SNP and the Greens win more seats than the opposition at last year's election, we won 16,057 more votes than the anti-independence parties combined. We did so on the basis of manifestos that committed to giving the people of Scotland a choice over their future. The onus is now on the UK government to explain how, if this is a voluntary union, a part of that union can decide whether or not to stay or to go. In the absence of any alternative being put forward by Westminster, though, does the cabinet secretary agree with me that every vote cast for pro-independence candidates at the 2024 general election will count towards that mandate for Scotland's independence? Indeed, it will. As Democrats, it behoves all of us to embrace every democratic opportunity to secure democratic change. In a democracy, however, it also behoves other political parties with different views to uphold the basic tenets of democracy. Overlooking and disregarding election results—where one can clearly see, because of the numbers on those benches and those benches being less than the majority of this Parliament—is those parties that are opposing the democratic mandate that sent us all here. It does not need to rest on the next UK general election, this question. The UK Government could meet with the Scottish Government and do what they did in the run-up to the 2014 referendum. They could say that we disagree on the principle issue of independence, yes or no. However, as Democrats, we agree that the people should have their say. It is time for the people of Scotland to have their say. They decided that they elected us to do this, and nobody should stand in the way of the Scottish Parliament and the views of the Scottish people. The ruling today from the Supreme Court confirms that this is not a voluntary union. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what does the fact that the Scotland Act prevents Scotland from having a referendum to escape Westminster control, say about the security of the devolution settlement and the state of democracy in the UK? I am going to quote Margaret Thatcher in answer to my colleague. As a nation, the Scots have an undoubted right to national self-determination. Should they determine on independence, no English party or politician should stand in their way? John Major, who said of Scotland that no nation could be held irrevocably in a union against its will. All political parties, as part of the cross-party Smith commission said after the 2014 independence referendum, nothing in this report that we all agreed on prevents Scotland from becoming an independent country in the future should the people of Scotland so choose. They have chosen to have a choice, but the Conservative party, the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats are working in hand and glove to deny the people their say. We need democracy in this country. Today, we have seen the end of the voluntary union as we know it. We will not give up on democracy and the people will have their say. Thank you. That concludes the urgent question. The next item of business is portfolio questions.


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Hello dear learners! I am Dr. Pallavi Gugoy of Krishna Kanta Handic State of Indian University. Welcome to today's program. Today, I shall take up Unit 7, which is the third video on Kekhi and Dharawalla and we shall discuss the major themes, style and language of the Puyum Wolf. The course is China English Semester 1 Block 1. So, let us quickly begin. First, I shall start with a table of contents where we shall discuss the learning objectives followed by major themes, style and language and then we shall sum up the entire unit and I shall leave you with a few questions to check your progress followed by the references. Coming to learning objectives, after going through this third and final video of Unit 7, the learner will be able to explore the relevant themes pertaining to the Puyum, cross the style and language employed in the Puyum and also appreciate the symbolism and significance of the Puyum. Coming to the major themes, the first theme that appears is fragmented memories. It is evident when we read the Puyum, we come across this particular theme. The narrating voice of the Puyum reverts back to a time when he knew of wolves that lived and prowled around their neighborhood. The Puyum reminisces how his mother would put him into bed at night when he would not want to sleep. She would simply make him believe that if he did not fall asleep, the wolves with their sharp sense of smell would find out and reach him easily.  The poet vividly recalls the memories of hearing wolves cry at night in the nearby forests that bordered their village home. Perhaps this is why the poet had always felt that the wolf or the pack of wolves were never far away from him as a child. In fact, through the wonderful description of the poet, anyone reading the poem would feel as though a curious wolf were hiding from the reader somewhere nearby. The haunting quality of memories that remain ever fresh in the mindscape even with the passing of time is beautifully captured in the words of the poem. Although the poem only represents the poet's imagination of the living wolf or wolves in the form of fragmented memories, we receive a complete picture of what it must have been like in the past when we put all of these images together. Memories have a surprising way of approaching our thoughts and leaving us emotionally charged. Sometimes memories come to us in a rush and appear unexpectedly and at other times they come in flashes and in fragmented forms. We may not always remember or recall certain memories but memories have a way of making themselves felt just as the memory of the wolf does in the mind of the poet. The next theme that is evident in the poem is animals in danger. The wolf in the poem occupies the mind of the poet long after its kind ceases to exist in their vicinity. The existence of the wolf or wolves in that area almost turns into a myth which saddens the poet. If the presence of wolves had haunted the mind of the poet as a child it is now their absence that disturbs his peace, his peace of mind that is. The poem thus expresses the alarming concerns of animal killing and the everyday threat to the existence. Further it points towards the dangers of the widespread man and animal conflict. For an instance closer home you may have heard or read news reports on the burning issues of rhino-poaching even within the protected area of Assam's national parks. If such inhuman and illegal practices go unnoticed then perhaps the day is not far when the future generations will find these vulnerable animals in the list of extinct species. The poet lives an impression of a similar concern while wondering how the wolves are now unheard of in the forests bordering his village. This is a special fragment of memory of feeling the poet's daughter shall never know of as he did in his childhood. Animals are often seen as in sentient beings but in truth they are more sensitive than most of their human counterparts who instead of living in harmony with the natural world turn into destructive forces. The poet contains a hidden message that if animals are wiped out so mercilessly their future generations will never know the value of animal life to mankind. It is necessary for us to respect the natural world first and to ensure that the children of the future learn to respect the invaluable gifts of nature in the form of animal life. Nothing can really justify the killing or slaughtering of animals in any way. Coming to a style in language, the poet of Darwala contains striking imagery that easily captures the imagination of the reader. In the poem Wolf the opening lines itself creates a hypnotic effect on the reader's mind with the revelation of the mysterious presence of a wolf in the poet's memory as expressed in the opening lines. Moreover, the poet recreates the haunted midnight memories of his village and of his village home at the end of the forest. Just as he remembers Wolf's prowling quote-unquote around his night a child's night of the bygone years. The learner will note that the poem has a dreamlike quality as the wolf literally exists in the realm of the poet's imagination. Their plea of memory, the to and fro into the then and now is skillfully presented in the poem. Also one can almost feel the silent and measured movements of the wolf in the dark forest followed by its piercing cry that ruptures the tranquil of those old nights. There is a silent restlessness in the recreation of the imaginary wolf outside the poet's child at home. The memory of his own restlessness as a child and the restlessness thinking about the slaughtered wolf. Also one finds that the image of the wolf is not only dreamlike but is also received in fragments where the reader is gradually introduced to the firelit presence of the wolf with its black snout, extended paws, sulphur body, standing ears, sharp sense of movement, quick nose and dark touch of his eyes. The poem is easy to comprehend as it is written in simple language. So it is suggested to a learner to go through a poem on his or her own. Finally I shall sum up the unit. After having gone through the unit you will be able to discuss the life and works of the poet K. K. Darwala. A thorough reading of the unit will enable you to further explain the content, context and the relevant themes pertaining to the text of the poem wolf. Also you will be able to grasp the poetic techniques employed in the prescribed poem. The study of the unit should enable you to explore and enrich your knowledge on the other interesting works by the poet. Here are the questions to check your progress. These are the possible questions. Here is the reference. All the best dear learner. Thank you.