Live from New York, it's theCUBE covering big data NYC 2015. Brought to you by Hortonworks, IBM, EMC, and Pivotal. Now your host, John Furrier at George Gilbert. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in New York City with SiliconANGLES theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out for the events and extract the signal and noise. I'm John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGEL, my co-host, George Gilbert, Wikibon's big data analyst. Our next guest is CUBE alumni, Lawrence Schwartz, Chief Marketing Officer, Attunity. Welcome back, it's like our sixth year you've been on theCUBE, congratulations.  We got to keep you into theCUBE. Always great perspective, good to see you. Always a pleasure to be on here and hear what's going on. And we have a little surprise, a little virtual reality at the end. So stay, keep watching. You'll see what we're going to show at the end. Great, great Attunity traction over the years. You guys have been successful. And you've been swimming in the sea of noise out there. Obviously the Hadoob ecosystem has been very noisy. Certainly the growth is there. A lot of new announcements, a lot of new innovations. But now the theme here this week is the rubber hitting the road, put some meat on the bone, Michael Olson's up on stage, the keynote saying, it's about the outcomes and solutions, which is like code word for, you better start booking revenue guys, or you do not have value in your products. Sure, absolutely. So that's what we're hearing from across the board, unanimous that it's time to make some money. That's a proxy for your value. You guys have been doing some successful work with customers. So everyone wants to know, not on the geek side, but on the practitioner, I am going to deploy Hadoop in conjunction with other ecosystem stuff. Exactly, yeah. What is the story? What's going on? What is on the top conversations for the enterprise customers? Sure, so what we focus on at Attunity is helping customers in a number of areas that really help folks in the Hadoob realm. One is you got to think about your legacy systems, your systems of record, all these existing Oracle databases and data warehouses, all the existing stuff you might have on Teradata, all these other systems that are not going anywhere anytime soon. They're going to be a part of the new ecosystem. So you have to think about how you combine that, how do you get, I think as George has written, the systems of intelligence, and get more value out of it. So customers are thinking about that as they think about how to deploy Hadoop. So we have solutions that help you kind of mix the two, kind of come up with the optimal solutions, both for balancing where you put the workloads, figuring out what makes sense to go where. In the process that enables customers, we know we have lots of data, migrate over to parts of Hadoop where they want to and where they need to, and so we give them solutions for that. And it's not just small test cases. We've seen that over the past years and as you were mentioning, we've really seen kind of the need for the enterprise solutions. And when I talk about the enterprise solutions, just to give you some examples, we have customers who, large bank where they've got a large existing data warehouse. And they know that they want to kind of cap the growth of that. They don't want that to grow anymore, but they still have more information coming into it. So they're trying to figure out, how can I keep that at a certain level and then what do I start building out on Hadoop to take advantage of some of the cost points. So for that, we can help customers go in there, look inside their actual data warehouse and figure out what's really being used, how often and when, kind of look for the hot and cold date, if you will. And we give really good visibility with our so-called visibility product on what's happening to the different business lines as well. So you can see a finance is claiming they're going in there and using it. Are they really fully using it? Marketing, other departments, production. So you have that really good insight into what's happening in your current environment and then you can make really intelligent decisions about what do I want to offload and whatnot. So that's one area. And then we've continued to expand that solution set. Now we've gotten to the point, we have some customers who have put so much on Hadoop. We have a customer now who has six petabytes on Hadoop, major online travel company. At that point, you start looking at this and this can't just be a single data lake for a customer. You have to start thinking about this like you would with any type of data warehouse or enterprise environment. How do I start cheering that? How do I put the more valuable workloads on some processors that have more compute power, some nodes that have more compute power, some faster storage, and set up several tiers, maybe archival tiers. So we've expanded our solutions and that's one of the things we're talking about at the show is we've taken that visibility product which gave people great insight into their existing data warehouses and add that capability to large Hadoop data lakes and going in there and figuring out what's going on. Okay, so this is kind of interesting in the sense that we know running costs, we know capital costs for the Hadoop platform per terabyte and for the data warehouses per terabyte, roughly on the order of maybe 2,000 a terabyte on the Hadoop side up to 25, 35,000 a terabyte on the data warehouse. Have you been able to guess or estimate the running costs of the two platforms with all the admin mixed in? Yeah, we certainly see those 10 to one disparities that you've mentioned. I think from what we hear from customers, oftentimes it could be smaller than that. When you add in all the training, all the operational support, it might be a couple of X or four or five X or something like that. So in practice it might not be so dramatic but once they have the skill set and once they've kind of gotten over the Hadoop pump if you will, then that becomes easier to deal with. Okay, so talk about the buyer side of it. I want to get back into the consumption. We always talk about this in the cloud business. Pretty easy now to kind of get a handle on the directional path for cloud. Public cloud, Amazon, Azure's trying to put some stuff up there, that kind of has a hybrid cloud. Private cloud and on premise, and then hybrid is the engineering solution of both. Is there some clarity around big data consumption that you're seeing with customers? And can you be specific on how they're buying? Sure, sure. Well we see, when you look at the cloud and we have a lot of customers who do that as well, we have strong partnerships with AWS and Azure and whatnot. So we see that the buying behavior and what they're using with the cloud for is along the lines of they want to kind of spin up some easy to run analytics, right? So like on AWS it might be Redshift and it might start at the department level, right? So there's a much lower barrier to entry from some smaller department that just wants to start and get going and that's where they'll kind of start looking at using that. Oftentimes that's good enough, they'll stay there but then they look at the economics of scaling that out and the hourly cost and if it gets really big then it's a decision of hey, I might want to bring this on-prem. But we see that need for a self-serve, right? Kind of starting up in different departments and then getting going. We saw that first with our cloud customers and that's the other thing that we're now enabling too with our replicate solution which lets people move over data and keep it in sync. The other thing we're announcing at the show is we have an express version of it so that lets customers in a department start easily, download it, get going and then have alternatives particularly in the Hadoop world to scoop, to get going and so we're trying to enable those types of uses. So what's your take on the overall ecosystem? What's your personal, it's an industry participant put your analyst hat on, not your attunity hat. What is your reaction to what's happening in this year's show? Sure, well I see the show is just starting up. We see a lot of noise, kind of some of the announcements that are coming out now. So Hadoop, I think you were talking about it earlier, you see the enterprise, how do you make that an enterprise version? I think people are also starting to talk more about how to stream in different sources. The internet things people have been talking about for a while but I think you're seeing more and more solutions on that and people are going beyond the typical ways they pull in data into a data warehouse. They're trying to figure out how to make things more real-time in Hadoop or leveraging Spark so we kind of see that happening so I think there's going to be some excitement there over the years but at the end of the day these systems of record, if you will, are not going anywhere so people always have to figure out how to coexist with them and that's where I think some of the opportunities, at least opportunities for companies like us is you've really got to figure out how to merge what you have with what's going forward. The way you position systems of record is not really going anywhere is interesting because we see that as the plumbing for the systems of intelligence. Absolutely. The question I have is do you have to do a different performance profiling for the systems of record to understand or at least the data warehouse or the analytic part of it to see that they perform to the level that's required for the systems of intelligence? Yeah, no, you absolutely. The first part of any of this when you migrate over turn into a modern data architect and you're having kind of a mixed system like this is you've really got to assess what's going on and what's working. So we work with some of the big system integrators and that's the first part of their services is an assessment that they do of their existing environments to kind of see what's going on, where the opportunities are, what's working, what's not. So that's absolutely kind of a precursor to it. And we do that, we do that some interesting ways in the technology. You're looking at all the queries, all the asks that go into a data warehouse and you're doing a parsing of that and semantic parsing to really understand how's it being used, under what circumstances and even before you change it you might go in there and see that boy, some of these queries aren't optimized, they're taking up a lot of resources. Even before you add anything, there's a whole lot of homework you might do just to kind of optimize your existing performance. And then you can at that point figure out do I need to optimize it further? Do I need to move it somewhere else? Some people might move it from an existing data warehouse to another tier data warehouse or they might then move it to Hadoop. And then as I mentioned now, we're getting to that extreme case of petabytes on Hadoop and you got to figure out how to manage that as well. So what's the real reason why customers are buying from you guys? Why are you guys winning? Can you narrow it down to some specifics, simple example or in common? Absolutely, yeah. So it's a few things that really kind of help us help our customers. One is if you look at what people do today like in the Hadoop world to kind of get started going you've got to get the data in from somewhere, right? So they might use a tool like Scoop, right? To get started and move it in. And that's a very developer driven, set up for a sandbox environment, difficult to use, doesn't keep things in sync well, right? So there's kind of some initial tools that people can use to kind of get started, but they're not really enough to be, you know the enterprise level that we're talking about, right? For an enterprise wide deployment. So they're looking, they crave these solutions that are much easier to use to really handle their data for batch loading, for change data capture. And that's where Replicate comes in and really differentiates and sets itself apart. Very easy use, very good to get going. And that's been the case when we do it for databases, data warehouses on the cloud and you know, in the last few years with Hadoop as well. So that's one area is making that real pull of fruit. And we see customers who otherwise, without a tuning they would take, you know, DBA's worth of time for a couple of weeks or months. They come in, they can use Replicate and do this all within a few hours. So that's one area. And then the other is, as we were talking about earlier just really getting that visibility and what's going on to environments. A lot of the tools that give you visibility into a data warehouse or Hadoop environment they're really geared towards the DBA, right? They're kind of technical tools. They don't, you know, and they're really for debugging kind of performance. We really give you a business wide view across the entire data warehouse. So business user can come in and see what's happening, you know, for their environment, where the issues are, where the growth is, where the opportunities to move are. And we make it very easy to kind of dive in and out graphically and see what's happening. You know, we just completed a very comprehensive survey of 300 practitioners. Just got the results back last week. We're still sort of, we've tabulated them but we've still got to organize all the answers. One of the things we found out was that for a majority of the respondents, the data warehouse certainly wasn't going away. It was sort of being maintained roughly at its current size. And Hadoop was, you know, capturing some but not all the growth. Is that what you're seeing? We're seeing some customers who definitely want to do that, right? They have a large instance of a data warehouse and they want to kind of cap, you know, the growth of that and look for alternatives. And we see that, you know, across our environments. We see that, you know, for a couple of different data warehouses. We even see people talking about that we have solutions for even SAP and people think of that in the same way about how do I cap my SAP growth? So yeah, that's absolutely, people are looking for ways to cap what they have and then how do they build out what the new solutions that give them different points. And when they're capping their SAP growth, are you talking about the, because in their case, Hanna started out as underneath their data warehouse, but now they're trying to essentially combine the operational system and the analytics in one database. Are you monitoring performance on that? Because that's an interesting use case where the world is moving towards integration of the operational app and the analytics. And I'm curious if that's sort of a canary in the coal mine, what does that look like and are you seeing it elsewhere? So what we've seen on the SAP side, we have a different set of solutions, one called Go Client, and what helps you manage the SAP landscape. And what we started doing there was we have a relationship with HP to help people archive off of that. So that becomes an absolute use case and that's where you talk about large systems that they realize take a bank that has to do a seven year plus archive of all their data, they don't necessarily need to keep that all on SAP, they might need to keep the archive there, they might need to access it at some point, but if we can help pull that information off, in their case, put it to an HP archive, that works, that meets the regulatory requirements, it kind of sets up a different environment. So conceptually, it's similar to what we see on some of the data warehouse in Hadoop sides. Okay, got to ask you, we are in our virtual reality space here. What are these things you're giving away? I want to show the folks out there. This is an Intunity branded Oculus Rift cardboard version, iPhone in the inside, which is really cool. So I'm looking at this, and I'm pulling around, there's a little thing in the middle there, and it says I can pull the trigger on the start button. They just stare at the start button and you're on your journey. So what is this? Are you guys giving these away to booth? What's going on with these guys? Yeah, yeah, come by the booth that we've got these great little Google cardboard apps here. You can use your own phone and Android, there we go, Android. And you've got iPhone as well, either one, just download the app from the store. And it's a lot of fun, you can go in there. What we're trying to show is here, look, people have large data lakes are often becoming a data swamp, right? So how do you get visibility into that? How do you get clarity out of it? So this takes you on the viewpoint of the data, going through a journey, migrating over to where it needs to go, all the issues you have come across. And it's kind of fun and entertaining. So come by, we've got these to give out. We have it online as well, you can download the app and have some fun with the community. It's all about having fun with data. And just so give the plug forward, what's going on with the booth down at the show? Absolutely, yeah, yeah. So we've got a booth over at the show, we'll be there for the whole experience. Later today, we have one of my colleagues, Rodan, giving a talk as well, talking about the different things you need to think about when managing and moving data. So he'll be giving a talk. But yeah, we'd love to hear you come by and tell us what's going on. Actunity inside theCUBE and remember tonight at seven o'clock Eastern, you're going to see, I mean, five o'clock Eastern from five to seven, live presentation, George, we give you his research and party after. More than welcome to come by, I appreciate it. We are live here in New York City for Strata plus a dupe and our event, Big Data NYC here, one block, 100 yards from the Javits Center. We're on the ground, getting all the data and sharing with you as real time in the moment live. We'll be right back after this short break.


I'm going to talk about the management of renal cell cancer with venous thrombus. So we know up to 10% of patients with renal cell cancer may have an invasion of the venous system. It definitely makes surgery more complex and increases the risk for morbidity and for perioperative mortality. The thrombus may be confined to the renal vein or it may extend into the IVC and up into the patient's right heart. Sometimes the thrombus is mobile which makes surgery a lot easier and sometimes it invades into the actual wall of the IVC and patients may require resection and grafting in this case. So when patients present, they usually come in with some constellation of lower extremity edema, right-sided varicoseal, pulmonary embolus, capid medusa, sometimes protein in the urine, cardiac or lung systems if the thrombus is higher level or non-functioning renal units. A lot of patients surprisingly have a few symptoms. This is a patient we saw just a little while ago and he had a higher level IVC thrombus and his only symptom was some dilated superficial scrotal veins. So when we look at surgery for patients with venous thrombus, the first surgery was reported in the early 20th century and the rationale at that time was if you could do surgery in these patients who didn't have metastasis, it could be curative and this rationale remains today. We see 45 to 70 percent of patients without metastatic disease can be cured with surgery alone and the second half is that in patients who have an IVC thrombus that extends into the hepatic or cardiac circulation, patients may have hepatic or cardiac failure down the line and surgery may prevent this. Imaging is very important in patients that you suspect a thrombus. The MRI or a high quality CT scan is essential. We also use transesophageal echocardiography at the time of surgery to monitor the thrombus height. There's several different systems which have been devised to classify tumor thrombus. Probably the most widely used is the Mayo system with zero being in the renal vein and level four being above the diaphragm. So the principles for surgery for level or one for the low level thrombus include early control of the renal artery, ligation of the lumbar veins, placing clamps on the large veins draining into the IVC, and sizing the IVC and removing the kidney and the thrombus on block. Patients with a thrombus above the hepatic veins may require a pringle maneuver including the hepatic blood supply. We know when this is prolonged patients may have hepatic failure and poor outcomes and the highest level IVC thrombus these are the thrombi that invade into the right heart circulation may require in sizing the pericardium from below or sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass taking things out from above and below. We know this increased the patient's risk for bleeding, stroke, and cardiac dysfunction. So in the remaining time this morning I'm going to talk really just about newer articles and newer themes in patients with venous thrombus. We know that some patients who have a venous thrombus present with pulmonary embolism this is maybe five percent of patients. It's very difficult to tell whether or not this is tumor embolized from the thrombus or whether or not this is a more global hyperquaggable state that we see in other types of cancer. The thought is that maybe some of these patients have worse outcomes the patients with pulmonary emboli and so surgery may have less benefit in these patients and certainly this belief some patients with renal cell cancer and pulmonary emboli are not offered surgery up front and I know our anesthesia team always reminds us that the 90-day mortality rates for patients again non kidney cancer patients who have acute pulmonary embolism is about 15 percent. So to answer these questions we used a collaborative effort between Wisconsin UT Southwestern and MD Anderson. We looked at 782 patients who had venous thrombus who underwent surgery from 2000 to 2011 and we identified 35 patients who had a pulmonary embolism diagnosed prior to surgery. What we found is there was no difference in perioperative mortality this is mortality out to 90 days it was actually lower than the patients who had PE even though they were more likely to have a higher level thrombus and after we did multi variable analysis there was no difference in cancer specific survival for the patients and there was no difference in recurrence free survival for the patients who did not have metastasis. This was very interesting even in the patients who had PE preoperatively they were no more likely to develop pulmonary metastasis so just if the tumor is embolizing just because it ends up in the pulmonary circulation does not mean it can grow in the circulation and produce metastasis. Again you can see here the there's no difference in cancer specific survival or recurrence free survival on about 63 percent of the patients who did not have metastasis did not have disease recurrence after surgery. So neo neoazurine targeted therapy to shrink the thrombus prior to surgery is certainly a hot topic in literature. There's a theoretical advantage as you can do less invasive surgery in these patients and there's certainly some dramatic responses reported in the tumor thrombus. However when considering neoazurine therapy for these patients we need to know several things how often does the thrombus respond and when it does respond how often does that change the surgical approach. Our patients able to tolerate systemic therapy we've seen this in adjuvant trials where patients without metastasis tolerate this systemic therapy worse than patients with metastasis. And really the ultimate question is is the risk of surgery outweighed by the risk of thrombus extension causing hepatic or cardiac failure. Among the the case reports there's us two studies which are larger of 25 and 14 patients and they found only the minority of patients did the thrombus actually shrink while in targeted therapy. Few patients less than 10 percent changed the surgical approach and some patients actually did have an increase in the height of thrombus while on targeted therapy. So for purposes of shrinking the thrombus the majority of patients with IBC thrombus should not receive neoazurine therapy. However there may be some patients who would benefit from neoazurine therapy and to identify these really the theoretical benefit is best in patients with the highest level thrombus because we can avoid cardio pulmonary bypass in these patients. When we look at patients with upper level IBC thrombus we know this is rare less than one percent of patients. It's the most technically complex surgery with renal cell cancer with an increased risk for morbidity and early mortality. But what we really don't know is what are the risks. There's really a lack of high quality contemporary data in patients with upper level thrombus. If we look at just the series of morbidity and early death with patients with upper level thrombus you can see that many of these studies span decades. They have low patient numbers overall. The way that complications or morbidity or mortality was defined is very variable and just the rate of periodic mortality is anywhere between 2 and 22 percent. So it's hard to know what to tell patients. So again going back to collaborative data with this. This time we have a collaborative study between the Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, UT Southwestern and University of Wisconsin. We had 162 patients consecutive using only contemporary patients from 2000 and 2012. We defined complications using the clavian scale and death was recorded within 90 days. What we found is one in three patients had a major complication after surgery. Independent preoperative predictors of this were a level fourth thrombus or the presence of systemic symptoms being fatigue or weight loss. Ten percent of patients had mortality in 90 days. It was about five percent in 30 days and about 10 percent in 90 days. The preoperative predictors of this were ECOG performance status greater than one and albumin less than the lower limits of normal. Both of these increased the patient's risk about four fold and so these may be the patients that will be most suited for neo-adjuvant clinical trials. So in conclusion patients with venous extension increases the complexity of surgery. There's certainly a risk for morbidity or mortality. However it may provide a durable cure in the majority of non-menostatic patients. Upfront surgery is certainly the standard of care for most patients with venous thrombus. Many patients who present with PE have similar outcomes to patients with without PE and neo-adjuvant clinical trials in renal cell cancer with thrombus should really consider patients individually for the theoretical benefit which does not appear to be high versus the risk individually for that patient and focus on the patient with high risk features including thrombus above the diaphragm, systemic symptoms, poor performance status, or low serum albumin. Thank you.


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Obviously the systems that drive everything have storage, they have compute, they have IO network transport, and now applications on the iPhone or mobile devices or the web need to leverage that environment. And we're seeing that in two massive surges around cloud computing and the rise of the computer at the edge, the mobile device, the web app. So what's your take around Node.js, this Node Summit event and IO in particular? Oh, that's a great question. And it's great to be here at the summit. There's a buzz, there's a huge number of young, extremely talented programmers here. And they're tackling the problems of this mobile computing. They're tackling the problems of vast amounts of messages going between people from machine to machine, their mobile messages. And what they're doing is providing a framework where very high-speed transport of these messages, analysis of these messages, usage of these messages is going on. And the speed is more important than absolute certainty of delivery of the message. So it's a new paradigm. And obviously that's going to be a culture shock as it goes into the enterprise, which it will. It'll be a culture shock against people who are used to guarantee deliveries, absolute certainty, acid properties of database to be dealing with environments where guarantee is not absolute, acidity is not absolute. And they will have to find new ways of solving these problems. So it's a very exciting time. So let's just talk about the applications on the web. So the web we're all used to Facebook and chat and instant messaging, but we now have moved from this PC era to an era of mobility where you can have a cell phone, be logged on at home. So all these things are going on and massive amounts of people can connect to any different application at any different time. It puts a new kind of, new constraints on subsystems or these computing systems. So describe that a little bit and what that means. And the challenges of a developer who's just writing code, JavaScript or building a game, all this stuff has to take into account all this complexity. You have to abstract it out as much as possible and rely on great standards like HTML5. You can extract as much as possible out into platforms like Node.js and make it quick and easy and simple to develop these applications with less skilled people. And that's what the joy of Node.js is, is that it's so simple, so quick and easy to develop. It's a set of nodes being spun up all over the place and interfacing with each other and relying on services from other parts of the infrastructure to do the delivery to the Android or the Apple or do the delivery across on a global scale or planetary scale across the whole net.


Yutaka, what is your tip for people that want to become a better service designer? Yeah, my tip would be to pay attention to the culture of service. So the cultural aspects are very interesting and important. And also it's very difficult to nail down. So service design is not just about meeting requirements or fixing problems. It's about creating culture. So to create culture and then you have to understand social change that's going on in this world. We are experiencing a lot of change in our society. Then we have to worry about so now existing cultural orthodoxy is kind of a slate. We have to create a new culture. So that way people can express themselves, people can prove themselves. That's the goal for me. So make sure your service contributes and maybe creates a shapes culture. Right. Awesome, thank you. Was this a helpful tip? What do you think? Was this a helpful tip? Let me know by clicking that thumbs up button down below or leave a comment. And if this is your first time here and you'd like to get more videos that help to level up your service design skills. Don't forget to subscribe and click that bell icon so you'll be notified when new videos are out. Thanks so much for watching and I look forward to see you in the next video.


So, we've just defined this void ratio parameter. We can relate it to the parameters that we've previously defined, saturation ratio, water content and specific gravity. Remember that the water content and saturation ratio describe something to do with the water in the soil. So, we can connect these things together through a single equation, and I'm just going to go through the proof of that now. So, the first thing we do is we can take the specific gravity and write it in terms of the three phase model values. So, take the specific gravity and write these densities as masses and volumes. So, specific gravity equals the mass, so the density of the solid, which is the mass of the solid over the volume of the solid, divided by the density of water, which is, well, if you multiply, if you flip it around and multiply it, so it will be the volume of the water over the mass of the water. Okay. Okay, so if you take the specific gravity and we multiply it by the water content, we have the water content, which is the mass of the water over the mass of the solid, multiplied by the mass of the solid, and multiplied by this, so the mass of the solid over the volume of the solid, multiplied by the volume of the water over the mass of the water. You see that we've got, in this part of the equation, we have a mass of water on the top and on the bottom, and a mass of the solid on the top and on the bottom. So, the mass of the water is cancelled out, and the mass of the solid is cancelled out. What we're left with is the volume of the water over the volume of the solid. So you can see we're approaching terms on this equation that might be able to be substituted in terms of hydration. We've certainly got the volume of the solid on this side. But what we need to do is get, essentially, the volume of the water over the volume of the solid on this side. So to do that, we just divide by the saturation ratio. So if we divide this by the saturation ratio, we can multiply this side by, flipped over side of this, so the volume of the void over the volume of the water. And what we have here is the volume of the water and the volume of the water on the top and bottom. What we're left with is the volume of the void over the volume of the solid, which is, in fact, the void ratio. So we can get rid of that and write it as the void ratio. So we can also relate the parameters that describe the voids within the soil to the bulk density. This is really important when we're trying to work out what these parameters are in soils because they're particularly hard to measure. So it's really hard to measure porosity, void ratio, and specific volume in the lab. It's a lot easier to measure bulk density, water content, and specific gravity. And the equation I'm about to derive now relates these things to this specific volume. So when we're working in the lab to find out specific volume, we calculate it through this equation. OK, so the first step in relating these four parameters together is to take the inverse of the bulk density. So if we take one over bulk density, we essentially just flip this side of the equation. So we have total volume over the mass solid plus the mass of the water. And then if we multiply it by specific gravity, so we have specific gravity over bulk density, we have the total volume of the mass of the solid plus the mass of the water times by this up here, which is the mass of the solid times the volume of the water all over the volume of the solid times the mass of the water. Now what we can do in this case is collect the total volume and the volume of the solid together and then put everything else together. So what we can rewrite this in terms of the total volume over the volume of the solids multiplied by the volume of the water times the mass of the solid all over the mass of the water and the mass of the solid plus the mass of the water. So it's just rewriting that equation in terms of total volume over the volume of the solids and we can see that that is the same as specific volume. The other thing to notice is that over here we have the mass of the solid over the mass of the water, which is the same as the inverse of the mass of the water content. So that's just saying that the water content is on the lower half of this equation. So it's one over water content, so we can just pop the water content down here. And that's actually, instead of leaving it down here, we'll move it up here. So we'll just multiply both sides of this equation by the water content. So sort of putting it there, we can put it up here. OK, so we can get rid of those brackets as well. So we have four of those terms together. We just need to do something about this over here. OK, so the next step is to inverse everything again. So if we flip everything around, so we have the density now on the top, divided by the water content and the specific gravity equals one over the specific volume multiplied by the mass of the solid plus the mass of the water all over the volume of the water. We can now separate this out into two terms so we can rewrite this. OK, so we've inverse that and separated out the volume of water into two fractions. So you can see here that we've got the mass of the water over the volume of the water. So that's just the density of water. So we can rewrite this in terms of density, density of water. OK, so we're getting there, but we still have the mass of the solid over the volume of water to deal with. Now if you take the density of water and you divide it by the water content, try and work that out from using these three phase parameters. But essentially what you're left with is the mass of the solid over the volume of water. And you can work that out for yourself if you like. So we can see that we can slot this into here. So instead of mass of solid over volume of water, we can write the density of water over the water content. Actually I should put brackets around those just to make it clear. OK, so we've now got an equation that relates the bulk density, the water content, and the specific gravity to the void ratio. And there's no, none of these three phase parameters within that. So all we really need to do now is tidy up this equation. It's a little bit messy. Now the way you can do this is if you take the, if you bring the water content over to the other side of the equation now. So we've got bulk density over specific gravity equals water content over specific volume, or the density of water over the water content plus the density of water. And if we multiply this bracket by the water content, what we're left with is, well, the water content up here which cancels with this and then the water content over here. So multiplying the final density of water by the water content. So if we take, now take the density of water outside of the brackets. We now multiply this through so we can get rid of that. OK, one over V. So we take the density of water outside of the brackets. Take it here, density of water. It's now being multiplied. We can have one plus just the water content. Really, we want to write this equation in terms of just a specific volume on one side. So what we can do is multiply both sides by specific volume. So we have specific volume on one side. Divide both sides by density. So we have, sorry, multiply both sides by specific gravity first. So you have specific gravity, one plus. And then divide both sides by the bulk density. So we have density of water over the bulk density. And this is the equation that's really quite useful. It's in a form that relates bulk density, water content, and specific gravity to specific volume. So this is easy to measure in the lab. This is easy to measure in the lab, and this is easy to measure in the lab. So we can work out from parameters that are easy to measure, the parameter to do with the voids within the soil. And if we know one of those, we can work out void ratio and porosity.


What is a conflict of interest? We can define a conflict of interest as a situation in which one's professional judgment in relation to a primary interest might be influenced or compromised by a secondary interest. So, what exactly does that mean? Well, let's take a look at Dr. Sally Smith. Sally studies green energy, solar panel production to be specific. Because Sally is so committed to green energy, she decided to purchase stock in one of the solar panel producers she has been researching for her university. Sunny Day solar panels is the third largest solar panel producer in the country and an important part of Sally's research. Now Sally has a financial interest in a company that she studies at the university. A conflict of interest is the situation that Sally has encountered. Having a conflict of interest does not mean that Sally cannot continue her research. Only that a plan must be in place to ensure the integrity of Sally's work. Sally, what are you going to do? Luckily for Sally, her university has a policy in place for conflicts of interest. This policy was created to comply with the myriad regulations aimed at ensuring research integrity. Sally talked to the conflict of interest coordinator in the research compliance services department to explain to her how the process of disclosing her financial interests will work. First, Sally disclosed all of her financial interests that were related to her institutional responsibilities. Next, the disclosure was reviewed by her department chair, her dean, and research compliance. If none of these people identifies a conflict, Sally's disclosure is approved and valid for one year. When a conflict of interest is identified, however, Sally must make a plan with research compliance services. This plan is designed to mitigate Sally's conflict. The plan may include additional disclosures or safety measures for staff and students who may be influenced by Sally's CLI. Now that Sally has a plan, it must be approved by the conflict of interest in the research committee. Comprised of faculty members from across campus, the CERC determines if the plan is sufficient to manage Sally's conflict. Once everyone has agreed on the plan, Sally can continue the research. In the course of her research on solar solutions, the main competitor of sunny day solar panels, Sally discovered harmful flaws in their production methods. Publishing her findings will undoubtedly have a negative effect on solar solutions stock and a relatively positive effect on sunny day solar stock. It could be perceived that Sally's findings may have been biased by her financial relationship with sunny day solar panels. However, if anyone should ever question the integrity of Sally's research in the future because of the situation of the conflict of interest, she can demonstrate that she dealt with the situation through the proper channels and addressed COI issues up front.


I'd like to welcome all the senior leaders from the UDF who are sitting on the stage, the senior leaders who are sitting here in front of us, UDF workers, brothers and sisters, friends from the media. You have walked with us today, supported us and given all your energy to the yathri. All of you have been working with us on this yathri, supporting us and giving all your energy to the yathri. Walking across Kerala, walking across India is not a small task. It is more than 3500, 600 kilometers. But it becomes much easier when we have the support of the people. We get up in the morning at 6 o'clock all day, arrive here today now at 7.30 and we are less tired now than when we were in the morning. It is like swimming inside a river, where the river is pulling you along. That is how I have been feeling since the beginning of this yathri. There is a river that is flowing and we are flowing inside that river. And I have been noticing the characteristics of this river that we are swimming inside. First thing, there is no hatred, there is no anger, there is no violence in this river. Second thing I have noticed is that as we are flowing in this river, there are many currents in the river. Sometimes the water flows slightly strongly in one direction. And maybe some people fall down. Sometimes some people also get hurt. I have seen, for example, one police woman she fell inside a drain. Sometimes I have experienced the pain of her. Sometimes I have experienced the pain of her. Sometimes the water flows slightly in one direction, but sometimes the water flows slightly in one direction. The entire river picks that person up again. And if the person needs help, the river provides that. The river does not ask when a person falls. Which religion are you from? Which community are you from? Which language do you speak? Are you a woman or a man? The river does not ask these questions. The river helps immediately. So in the sense, this river represents our country India. It represents this state Kerala. It is part of your culture. Your great leaders, through the ages, they have promoted these ideas. They did not seek to divide Kerala. They did not seek to set fire to Kerala. They seek to unite Kerala to make Kerala harmonious and to make Kerala as powerful as it possibly can be. And wherever I have gone in this beautiful state, I have seen symbols of this unity of this harmony. For example, a symbol of this harmony is the moment come, trade festival that you have over here. So this is part of your DNA. And wherever you look, this is visible in Kerala. And this is in a sense, your strength. This is why Kerala has so much success across the world. The people of Kerala are humble and compassionate. They have the ability to see another person suffering. They have the ability to see another person's pain. Regardless of who he is, whether he is male or female, what language he speaks, you have the ability to see people's pain. And this is why, for example, you have one of the best education systems in the country. This is why you can build cities like Dubai.   Imagine what would happen. The beauty of Kerala's nurses is that they do not ask these questions. They understand the suffering of a human being and this is the power of Kerala and the power of India. There are some people in this country who are confused. They are under the impression that the answer to India's problems is to spread hatred, violence and anger in this country. They believe in dividing this country and weakening this country. I want to ask you, let us look at this crowd over here. Look at all the talent in this crowd, the intelligence in this crowd, the wisdom in this crowd. You can make this crowd do anything that it does. If we unite the energy of this crowd, we can do anything we want. You can build great cities, you can build education system, you can build healthcare system, you can do anything you want with the talent in this crowd. Imagine if we divided this crowd, imagine if everybody in this crowd was trying to beat each other and kill each other. Imagine if everybody in this crowd was only interested in insulting each other. Could we ever use the talent of this crowd? Could we ever make this crowd do something successfully? Could we build great cities? Could we build great hospitals? Could we build great universities? Because the moment you brought two or three people together, they would fight. Hatred is very easy to spread, it is very easy to insult someone. But hatred and insult will never allow you to build a nation. But that is what we have seen. Narendra Modiji is spreading hatred everywhere and look at the state of the economy. Highest unemployment India has ever faced. Look at the situation with regards to the prices. 400 rupees cylinder has become 1000 rupees cylinder.   You cannot have violence and progress. You cannot have this harmony and progress. And that is the message of this Yatra. I want to say one more thing. And this is to me the single most important thing for this nation and for this state. The most important thing for this nation and for this state. A country that does not know how to respect its women can never ever achieve anything. And a country that views its women as its own property. A country that does not know how to empower its women can never ever achieve anything. And a country that views its women as its own property. And a country that views its women as second class citizens is doomed to failure. And the ideology of the BJP and the RSS views women as objects and as second class citizens. Many times you have heard when a woman gets molested their leader is saying she got molested because it was their fault. And we have possibly the best example of how the BJP, RSS treats women in this country. The most disgusting, the most shameful example. And I am talking about what has happened in Uttarakhand. Brothers and sisters I don't know if you are aware of this. But a BJP leader who ran a hotel was forcing a young girl who was a receptionist in that hotel to become a prostitute. Imagine this, a leader of the BJP owns a hotel.  There are messages on whatsapp where she is saying I refuse to become a prostitute.  And brothers and sisters when this sister of ours refused to become a prostitute she was fine found dead in a lake. That is the way the BJP treats the women of India. And who took action on the people who did this? The people themselves was forced to take action. And what did the chief minister of the state do? He destroyed the evidence in the case. He destroyed the hotel so that nobody could ever find out what happened. This brothers and sisters is the ideology of the BJP. Women are second class citizens for them. And India can never succeed with this ideology. Because India's strength, because strength are our women. How can you talk about the future of a country if you cannot respect its women? Brothers and sisters this is the truth of the BJP ideology. They respect nothing except power. They will do anything to get to power. And then once they have power they will do anything to stay in power. The result is that a young girl is dead in Uttarakhand.  And I feel that we need to send a message to the BJP. So at the end of the speech I would like the crowd to stand in silence for one minute in memory of that girl and what she suffered. My brothers and sisters, my brother and my sister-in-law, I would like to send a message to them that we are not going to allow you to treat the women of India in this manner. I would like to thank all of you for walking with us today. It does not matter how powerful you are, how much money you have, we are not going to allow you to treat the women of India in this way. I would like to thank all of you for walking with us today. Thank you for giving all your support and your energy. In helping us push the idea of a united India. In helping us fight so that youngsters in this country and in this state can get a job and are not going to be unemployed. In helping us fight the immense inequality that this country is facing. We will not accept a country where four or five people have everything and millions and millions and millions of people have nothing. We will not accept a country where the only qualification of the richest people has to be that they are close to the Prime Minister. We will not accept a country where the second richest man in the world is Indian and the whole country is facing unemployment. I would like to conclude by thanking Thangalji and giving us refuge this afternoon. I would like to thank the great leader Thangalji who exemplified the idea of Bharachodam and bringing people together. I would like to thank the great leader Thangalji who exemplified the idea of Bharachodam and bringing people together. I would like to thank the great leader Thangalji who exemplified the idea of Bharachodam and bringing people together.


Under the Framework of Interpol's Integrated Border Management Task Force, Operation Lionfish was carried out across 34 countries in Central America and the Caribbean, as part of an international effort to combat organized criminal networks behind maritime trafficking of drugs and illicit firearms. The operation brought together police, customs, immigration, coastguards and naval forces to focus regional and international efforts on identifying and investigating modus operandi trafficking routes and key suspects. Multi-agency Command and Coordination Centers were established in each participating country to function in close cooperation with Interpol's Regional Bureau in San Salvador, cross-checking information against Interpol databases. Daily patrols were conducted by land and sea to identify and investigate various small maritime vessels known to be used by the criminal networks to transport their illicit merchandise. Cargo containers were also checked. With support from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Operation Lionfish has again demonstrated Interpol's ability to deploy multidisciplinary teams across an entire region working in synchronization with key partners and stakeholders to combat transnational organized criminal networks.


somebody brought up like have you ever looked at the SBIR and one of the things that kind of hold people back when it comes to the SBIR is it looks like a daunting process if you're not used to it. So when you first originally look at it the only thing you look at is the dollar sign. So the dollar sign amount overall is normally in the one million uprange but what they don't explain to you is it's done in phases. So there's your initial phase which is your phase one and your phase one is basically your proof of concept. You basically go back, you validate your idea and you create a white paper and you would actually turn that in but that's not the one million dollar deal but that's what most people think they're like hey all right I'm gonna get started it's gonna be one million it's gonna be these when I ever made. It's really not that simple of a process. You would actually complete your phase one, apply and completing the phase one if they look at it and they accept it they say okay you know all right here's your phase two and then they give you the money to actually go out and build your prototype. Once the prototype is built and they always have qualification that you have to meet no matter what SBIR it is they'll have those qualifications upon meeting those qualifications then they'll come back and say hey you know what you've met all our qualifications now let's start building you up to the commercialize whatever product that you've brought to the DOD or whatever federal agency that you're doing this SBIR with. What ends up happening is most of the people who come forward and they pursue these SBIR opportunities they are not by nature business people they're normally very smart very smart scientists very smart engineers very smart doctors so they're subject matter experts in their field but when it comes to taking that technology and turning into a business they run into a lot of speed bumps or they just get still mated or stone wall


Prif Weinidog, wrth gwrs. Yn y gweithio, y Prif Weinidog yn cyngor i'r Cyflawn Gweithio Ffairbryg yn yw'r Gweithio, ac yn ymlaen i'r gweithio ar y dyfodol, ac yn ymlaen i'r 9 November. Yn y cyflawn Gweithio'r Cyflawn Gweithio, yn hynny'n gweithio'r cyflawn Gweithio, ac mae'r bêl ychydig o'r cyflawn gwirio'r cyflawn gwyrdd yma, ac yn ymlaen i'r cyflawn gwyrdd yma'r cyflawn gwyrdd yma. Rwy'n credu bod y gwirio'r cyflawn gwyrdd yn cyflawn gwyrdd ymaau mural a rhwng gwaith arall. Rwy'n cael��rwy'n cyflawn gwirio ar y llys yn casgliad sy'n fen hoped a'i gymrydddsodog ar â firesidiaethau. Fyd Scotland Hymwrng Liberalemol cyrflawn, a'i continuedäch gyda'm gwirio yn gynghygoedd an daarbyg. Yn y sc Produkt, y Wahy Nugongen dynamics, Byste capitalism yn genant ein hyn yn yrwy Bu Гleid. Those sitting examinations that week will also be able to do so at their school or college. Pupils in other year groups and college students will continue their learning from home during the second week supported by their teachers and lecturers. So the fire break is being implemented in a way which minimizes the disruption to learners education. Scientific evidence suggests that though limiting attendance at school is likely to have a moderate impact on slowing community transmission, when combined with other restrictions this will make a significant contribution to reducing the rate of transmission. For learners in years 9 to 13 I appreciate that these are difficult times. However older children in secondary schools and colleges are more able to plan and engage in their own learning and it will be five days of learning from home. Those learners will continue to receive their education through remote learning supported in that second week by their teachers who will be in the classroom. Yesterday we published new learning guidance to help schools plan and manage for this short period. I would now like to share a couple of slides to illustrate the latest data we have around education. School attendance this term and to update on the number of cases that we have seen in education settings. As you can see from this slide which shows school attendance it is really pleasing to see that the levels of attendance have remained constant and stands at around 87% at present. We know that some pupils and staff will and have had to self-isolate but this daily tracker shows that attendance has consistently been at a relatively high level. This slide shows the up-to-date position over the last 21 days regarding confirmed COVID-19 cases in our schools. Over the last three weeks 1,152 of our schools have had no cases. That's 74% of our schools with no cases at all during October. Where there have been cases the vast majority of those have been a single case. We have around 10% of settings where there have been two or more cases. I would like to take a moment to thank the staff and pupils who have had to self-isolate. This must have been a very difficult time for you unable to go to school or college but you have unselfishly stayed at home to help stop the spread of the virus and help to protect others. I also wanted to talk about next year's exams as I know how important an issue this is for many learners and their families. I am currently waiting for important information and advice relating to qualifications including the recommendations of an independent review and advice from Qualifications Wales. It was vital that we heard from learners who sat exams due to sit exams this year and those due to sit exams next year to learn from their experiences before we reach a final decision. So the review's recent consultation which was open to learners themselves will be crucial and help inform the final decision on next year's exams. The two sets of recommendations are due to be published next week. Because of the fire break the return to school and college for those exam aged learners will be a week later than normal and therefore I will provide an update on next year's exams on Tuesday the 10th of November. Having received representations from school leaders I want to make this announcement when young people are in contact with and have support from their teachers. Once again I want to thank everybody in the education family and our nurseries, our schools, colleges and universities for their continuing efforts to keep Wales learning and to keep our community safe. Now we'll turn to questions from colleagues in the media. We begin this afternoon with Bethan Lewis at BBC Wales. Good afternoon Bethan. You've said that making sure that students can go home for Christmas is a priority and asking them possibly to self-isolate is part of the discussions being discussed at the moment. Can you explain how that might work and how likely is it that you will be asking students to isolate for 10 days or a fortnight before Christmas if they want to return home? Thank you Bethan. Arrangements for Christmas are a priority for us indeed. I have just within the last half an hour finished a meeting with colleagues across the United Kingdom discussing how we can ensure that students wherever they are studying in the UK will be able to return safely home for Christmas. Mindful of individual students health, mindful of the health of their parents and carers who they're going home to and of course the wider community. We are looking at a range of options to allow that to happen. Self-isolation is an active consideration. How we can limit the amount of time people will self-isolate and other approaches are being actively considered. And as I said we will meet again as for UK nations next week to discuss progress and how we can operationalise that safe return. Thank you. Often rates in some students areas and with hindsight. Was it the right decision to allow students to return to campus at the start of term. Not only in terms of the impact on the virus but also in terms of their experience and the potential impact on their mental health. Bethan. There are no easy decisions to be made and I'm always, always very mindful of students mental health. I think stopping universities from operating this year would have too had a significant impact on the life chances, the aspirations and indeed the mental health and well-being of those students that would be potentially prevented from carrying on with their education. It is right that students have been allowed to return to university for a mixture of blended learning, face-to-face contact, and I'm very grateful of the efforts that Welsh universities are taking to maintain outbreaks within university settings and support students if there has been an outbreak. But we want to help universities do that job and that's why today we're announcing an additional 10 million pounds to support universities with mental health support for students that are on campus, additional resources for student hardship and working with the NUS Wales to be able to support student-led projects in universities to address the welfare of students who are at university at this moment. We're allowed to enter Nick Powell at ITV. Thank you Minister. How big a part did the wish to include the schools half-term in the lockdown period play in its timing? We now know to use a UK Government Minister's phrase that the Chancellor implored the First Minister to wait another week. Well, clearly a half-term break was an opportune time to institute a fire break here, thus limiting the impact on children's education. So clearly a half-term was a logical and important factor in making these decisions. Did you consider postponing a half-term by a weekend or that would have caused some problems, but perhaps not as many as it's causing businesses were complaining that even now they haven't had a Welsh Government guidance on which shops can remain open? Well Nick, timings around the academic year were well rehearsed prior to the summer recess and we had given clarity to schools and families that wanted to know when the half-term break would be. With regard to support for businesses doing the fire break, you will be aware that my colleague Ken Skates has announced a package of £300 million to support businesses through what undoubtedly will be a really difficult and challenging time. But we have to remember why this action has been taken. It has been taken to get control of the virus and to avoid a further longer period of national lockdown which would be even more damaging to those businesses that you're referring to. We'll now go to Dan Bevan at LBC. Good afternoon, Dan. Thank you, Minister. Good afternoon. I want to ask about this £10 million that you've announced for students for their mental health and wellbeing services as well as the ones who find themselves in difficult financial trouble. Of course one of the biggest stresses at the moment for students who live outside of Wales, especially in hotspot areas, is the potential that they won't be able to come home for some time. So what support is being made available for those students? Well, you're quite right, Dan. We have a responsibility to address the needs of students wherever they come from who are studying in Wales at the moment. But we are not oblivious to the needs of Welsh domicile students who will be studying in other parts of the United Kingdom. And that's why, as I said and answered to Bethan earlier, we're working on a UK-wide basis to ensure that students wherever they're studying get appropriate levels of support and appropriate planning is put in place to ensure their wellbeing at this time. That's why I keep in regular touch with my colleague Michelle Donnellan in the Westminster Government on these issues as well as John Swinney up in Scotland. From a Welsh perspective, I have weekly meetings with NUS Wales representatives to ensure that I am hearing directly from them about student experience here in Wales. And I'm very glad that they have welcomed the additional £10 million of resources that we have made available and announced today. But just to clarify, you won't be providing any direct support to students who are living outside of Wales potentially in COVID-19 hotspots. And going back to something I referenced in my first question, of course we know that students won't be able to come back because of the travel ban. I wondered if you could shed some light on when or if that travel ban will still be in place at the other end of this firebreaker. Well, Dan, as I said, I've just come from a very constructive meeting that included Michelle Donnellan, Gavin Williamson and Michael Goh who are very well aware of my concern over the welfare of Welsh students studying at English universities at the moment and my desire to work together with them to ensure that those students can come home for Christmas. If we are aware that if there are any problems that Welsh students are experiencing in English universities and we are aware of those, we relay those directly to the English University Minister for her to take up with those institutions that she has responsibility for. And sorry, on the travel ban as well. Well, as I said, as we go into the firebreaker, our expectations of students are exactly the same as expectations for the entirety of the population in Wales. We're asking students to stay at home during this period. They of course are allowed to travel for educational purposes but they should do what the rest of us are being asked to do and is to limit out as much as possible our contacts and to stay at home to help make this firebreaker the success we all needed to be. We'll now go to Abbey Whittock at Wales Online. Good afternoon, Abbey. Hello, Abbey. Hello, I have a problem with my sound bear. As you know, thousands of children have now missed school and some of those are in key exam years. Do we actually need better long term planning now rather than this sort of firefighting? Obviously we need to keep people safe. But obviously some children are being asked to self-isolate just because there is a case in their year. They might not have been in close contact with them. What reassurance is can you give parents that you're actually longer term planning as well and that schools won't shut again for extra periods at Christmas and next half term and so on throughout the rest of the academic year. Is there any long term planning to keep children in school more? Thank you, Abbey. You'll be aware that we published additional organisational guidance just last week learning on the experiences that we've had in the first half of this new academic year to limit the number of students that are being asked to self-isolate if there is a case of COVID in their class so that I share your concerns that sometimes we've seen significant numbers of children being asked to stay at home and we want to minimise disruption to education and therefore that guidance was published last week with a view to supporting head teachers alongside our TTP teams to be very clear in only sending those pupils home that have been close contacts. We continue to look at other ways in which we can minimise disruption to education looking at the latest scientific advice and also other methods that we can use and incorporate into our school regime to limit that disruption so that the number of students that are asked to stay at home from school is kept as low as possible. Thank you. The graph that you just showed us showed that 74% of schools haven't had a case in the last three weeks. Is that right? I think there are now fears that the younger generation is suffering quite a lot and some people have used the word collateral damage in the fight against the virus. It's not going away and we've shielded the old. We have protected the NHS. Is it time now perhaps to focus more on the young people and what representations and what action are you taking as education minister to get that moving? Well, Abbey, we have to balance the needs across the different pressures that the government is under. We have taken steps during this firebreak to minimise disruption to education. So if we look at the situation that we had when we were operating under the highest levels of restrictions earlier, schools closed in their entirety. Every single primary school will open up as normal after the half-term holiday. All of our special schools will open up after the half-term holiday. Specialist units will be open. Our pupil referral units will be open. Our EOTUS provision will be made available. I recognise that for those in years nine to 13, there will be a period of disruption. But as I said in my opening statements, we have worked with schools to issue guidance last night around our expectations of how those learners will be supported. We've been in close touch with the sector to ensure that they have plans in place for that week. In the wider children's agenda, we are taking steps all the time to ensure that their needs are very much at the forefront of our decision-making processes, and we will continue to prioritise education on children as much as we possibly can, whilst recognising, and I've always been very honest about this, Abby, the best way to minimise disruption to children's education is to have low levels of community transition and low levels of R. Where we have seen disruption in our schools in your paper, reports on a regular basis, that's because community transition levels have risen, and we've seen the biggest disruption to education where we've seen the highest levels of community transmission. This firebreak is designed to bring that community transmission level down, which will mean that there will be less teachers and less students that are in danger of contracting the virus and then having that impact on schools and colleges as we go forward. Low community transmission is the best defence against future disruption to education. That's why we have to do this firebreak. We're now moving on to Steve Bagnell at the Daily Post. Good afternoon, Steve. Good afternoon, thank you Minister. What has the data told the Welsh Government about the effect of schools, colleges and universities returning and what sort of factor has it been in the recent rise of coronavirus cases? Well, Steve, we have to be absolutely clear and we always have been as a Government every time we allow interaction of any kind in our community. That has an impact on our and the possibility of transmission. This virus loves people being together and therefore when we open up whether that's schools, colleges, universities, whether it's the retail sector, whether it's the hospitality sector, inevitably that has an impact on community transmission rates. That's why in previous decisions we've always had to create that headroom to allow for education to operate. So it's been a factor. I think it's really important to stress though that our environments are as COVID secure as they possibly can be. The advice that we're having is that transmission of the virus within educational settings itself, i.e. tutorials and lessons is very limited, but pupils and teachers and lecturers live in a wider community and they live their lives in a wider community and that has had an impact. So that's why, as I said in answer to Abbey, the best way which we can protect education is keeping community levels low so that when people are living their lives they're not in danger of contracting the virus and then that have a disruption on education going forward. Thank you Minister. Can you give any more details today about what the new national rules could be after the firebreak lockdown? How similar they could be to the two-week firebreak rules? Are they going to be detailed tomorrow? Cabinet Collies will continue to discuss what happens after the firebreak. What's really important is that we all play our part in making the firebreak successful and driving down community transmission, but the First Minister will make an announcement at the appropriate time. Andrew Nettol, now please at the leader. Thank you Minister. You've identified that high areas of community transmission are going to be sort of where you want to target combating the virus. But what support can be available for local authorities in that area where you've identified these high levels of transmission in terms of education? Well I meet on a regular basis with representatives of the WLGA who have particular responsibility for education and recently met with all the portfolios for education to understand what more we can do as a Welsh Government to support them. We have some feedback around making sure that for instance we had consistent levels of advice for TTP teams and how they were interacting with schools and that's why we've updated our guidance last week to schools and local education authorities for the safe operation of schools. We're constantly in touch reflecting on their experiences and taking action where we need to do so. Thank you and ahead of the half term break I know you've said in the past there's no crystal ball, you can't predict what's going to happen now at Christmas time but what about the upcoming half term and autumn breaks for students? Are they like you said they're staying in these campus areas and if they do go home what sort of capacity is available for testing? Will students need to be tested before and after they arrive from these other locations?  Andrew, if you're talking about the fire break our advice to university students is very clear please stay in your university accommodation whether that's accommodation that is on a campus or whether you are living in a community. The best way you can help Wales, protect yourself your friends, your family and your community is to stay put and to follow the rules. With regards to Christmas you'll be aware that I am very anxious that we create the scenario that allows students to go home for the longer Christmas break so that they can spend Christmas with their family if that is what they want to do but clearly given the fact that that involves a mass migration of people across the United Kingdom we need to do that on a four nations basis and as I said that's why I've just come from a meeting where we are planning to enable that to happen. Wales needs to make its own plans but we need to do that in conjunction with other parts of the United Kingdom recognising that we have Northern Irish, Scottish and English students studying in Wales and we have lots of Welsh students who are studying in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland we all want to achieve the same thing which is getting our young people home for Christmas if that is where they want to be and last but not least we will go to Nathan Shusmith to speak Hello Nathan Thank you minister Now it's £27 million to support mental health services student hardship funds and students self-isolating thousands of students are still self-isolating due to outbreaks on the university campuses How long do you expect there to be before students can sort of see the benefit of this new funding and the funding that's already been announced? Yes well Nathan there's two we've made additional allocations to universities in two ways first of all £27 million which was announced earlier in the summer to support the university sector through this time and we are announcing an additional £10 million today so that's an investment of £37 million in our universities to help them cope with Covid with regards to the £10 million we're announcing today that will be distributed to our universities by our Higher Education Funding Council The priority for those resources are firstly to support university to deliver mental health support to students at this time to ensure that students were enduring financial hardship we know that for many students many students would usually look to supplement their income by working and we know that can be really really challenging at the moment we also want to support student led activities led by unions that have been working hard on our university campuses to ensure that the needs of their fellow students are met with practical things around the cost of food and all those impacts that a student could feel if they are either of Covid positive themselves or they are identified as a close contact we need to get that money out to those universities as quickly as possible and I know that the funding council is committed to doing just that Thank you You discussed that you have been in a meeting looking at how students can return to their homes at Christmas if they'd like to Can you confirm if any discussions are taking place regarding their return to campuses after Christmas or is it likely that students will be learning online from home next turn given the significant outbreaks in the university this term? Well no in fact the circumstances that will allow us to get students home for Christmas are exactly the kind of interventions that we will probably need to ensure that they can return safely in January so I can assure you that while the focus is obviously on Christmas in the first instance then we're also discussing those plans for January also in the meetings that we've had today You're very welcome Well ladies and gentlemen that brings us to the end of this afternoon's press conference can I thank you once again the Welsh Government appreciates that these are really challenging and uncertain times but the fire breaker I would stress is the best chance that we have once again to get a better control of this virus and to avoid a long term damaging lockdown but we really in advance of the fire break tomorrow we want to thank you for your efforts Diolch yn fawr


thought of part four for this story time so I'm gonna go ahead and get up my chest before I forget and creativity juices are flowing so Kendra and Byron were in bed laying in bed Byron unfortunately well fortunately depending on how you want to look at he got aroused while laying next to Kendra which is for a young healthy man fine man it's perfectly normal and so he excused himself and went home he was embarrassed and so fast forward a couple of days later he comes over and he approaches Kendra in the kitchen she's in the kitchen cooking dinner and he said this is the next day I'm sorry he's as Kendra do you have a second and she turns around and she's like yeah you know what what is it he's like look I want to apologize again for what happened last night it was and that's when she stopped him she's a look Byron you don't have to apologize I'm the one that asked you to spend the night I didn't think you were trying to do anything I did see the pillow on the on the ground because he had told her y'all he text her he text her later on that night to say hey I wasn't trying to do anything I actually have put a pillow between us and I don't know what happened to it so after he had left sure enough she looked down on the floor and saw that there was an extra pillow that had leaned it on the floor more than likely when they were tossing and turning in bed yeah I told you we're gonna go there in the story time please be be mindful of that you don't have to explain anything I did find the pillow on the ground you know from now on I just think that we should just have some clear boundaries I do appreciate everything you've been doing around here but you know I don't expect for you to be spending spending the night or anything like that so you know let's just just you know forget that it even happened and so he's like cool cool okay I'm gonna go ahead and stride in the back and I'll let you know when I'm done she's like alright then so he leaves and she has not heard from Lamont and which is okay with her but she has an upcoming appointment that she wants to make sure that he's gonna be in time for and this is how far along is she is she y'all she's 18 weeks like let's put her at 20 weeks okay she's 20 weeks pregnant girl almost there halfway there mama so she has a appointment that she really wants you know Lamont to be around for she so she was hoping he would call and he doesn't so okay y'all fast forward now two or three days later Lamont has finally came back and she's you know they're having dinner and she's questioning him or they're just conversating about his latest business trip and she's like so how did everything go he's like it was really cool matter of fact they want me back out there next week and she's like what day he's a Tuesday morning you know I figure I could leave her a Monday be there to see money morning fresh and you know get ready to win them completely over and that's when Kendra looked at him she said Lamont but that's when my appointment you know I really wanted you to come with me and he's like he looked at her he's like is it been she's like yeah he said well look sweetheart if I can seal this deal I won't have to work that hard for another four or five months I mean we will have enough money to redo the backyard you know and and put in a pool even and so she just looks to him and he's like I'm so sorry you know if there is there any way you can reschedule and she's like no I can't you know these small towns they don't have a lot of options so I need to keep this appointment Lamont and she's like you know what it's okay I'll just go by myself so Kendra's a little heartbroken but she understand that Lamont needs to go on this business deal and if it's true if he's able to seal this deal and they don't need to work that means you know more money in their pockets you know so she sucks it up and was like okay all right y'all so this is like the morning of her appointment with the OBGYN and they're gonna be looking at the baby now she did let the tech know that she does not want another sex so they're gonna you know not reveal that to her so she's getting ready to go and she goes downstairs and she sees Byron comes in and she's like oh Byron I forgot to you know tell you that we know we don't meet you here today because I'm going into town I'm headed into town I have a doctor's appointment he's like oh is it Lamont she's a boy he went ahead and look he's like oh okay and so that's when Kendra's looking down and she all of a sudden start she all of a sudden starts crying girl just Kendra in her tears and Byron was like are you okay she's like I'm so sorry again you know I was really hoping he would be here and you know I let him know that he go he could go just being here in this small town and just be a new to everything and I just feel like I'm doing so much and it's everything's happening so fast and so he's like look if you don't mind I can I could go with you and she looks at him and she kind of looks at him and she's like are you sure he's like yeah I could go with you if you need some support just meet someone there now I don't have to go in all the way in but I could just be waiting you know stay in the waiting room if you want and she's like that would be nice so they take her car and head out to the doctor's appointment and so Kendra sits there in the waiting room and Lamont sitting there looking a little nervous Lamont has never been in an oh I'm sorry and Byron y'all they haven't been calling him Lamont I'm sorry so Byron goes with her and girl they're in the waiting room and Byron's a little nervous looking at all these women with their pregnant bellies he hopes no one sees him and assumes that he ain't got this woman pregnant you know and so finally Kendra's called and so the nurse assistant is like are you gonna come to at Byron before Byron can even answer Kendra's like well come on come on and so he has to go with her and they go into the waiting room and the tech pulls up puts a little gel on her belly and starts looking around and the tech confirms she's like everything looks good mom and dad and Byron's like oh I'm not the father and so the tech looks in them kind of suspicious like oh okay and so she confirms everything looks and looks good they can hear the heartbeat and Kendra is all smiles you know she's smiling oh head and leave the doctor's appointment and they're just chatting on the way home and they say you know or heading back home Kendra's like you know I really do appreciate you doing that you really didn't have to do that so I appreciate it's just nice to have a little extra support right now and Byron's like yeah no problem I guess this is part of the job description all of the duties so she starts laughing and so she's like hey I know we talked about boundaries but are you okay with having some standover for dinner he's like that's not a boundary for me again free food I'm down for it so they go ahead and have dinner and so you guys they do this almost every night for cuz again Lamont is out for another week they do this almost every night it almost becomes routine for them for Byron to come and working in after work he stays for dinner and most of the time Byron ends up cooking which Kendra is all for and Byron can throw down in the kitchen so anyway all right you guys so one night they're busy laughing and up kicking up and that's what all of a sudden Kendra hears the door open and it's Lamont and she turns around and he's like hello hello cuz he hears and Byron is over a little later than he should be and so Lamont come in he's like what's going on and so Kendra gets up kind of nervous like she said oh you he's like yeah I decided to come in a little bit early you know since I was in here for the doctor's appointment I wanted to surprise you and he had flowers with him and she's like oh thank you and so she goes and he goes ahead and gets to the flowers while he's hugging her Byron is in front of him and Lamont is looking at Byron kind of suspicious like man what are you doing here with my fine pregnant wife oh Byron takes it as a sign to get up so he gets up he's like you know what I'm gonna go ahead and head out he's a hey man nice to see you again and I'll see y'all in a couple more days so Lamont looks at her and he's like so how long it's even over here she's and she looks at him while she's clearing the table okay Kendra's clearing the table she turns around she's like only for a couple hours and so he's like so has been coming over like every night and she looks up she's a cool Lamont you're the one that told him to come over and check on me he's like yeah but checking on you is totally different from seeing for dinner and so she's trying to she's like are you getting jealous he's like no I just want to know like how long has he been over here that's all he's you know I'm gonna go ahead and put my things upstairs so Lamont decided upstairs he's tired his phone is ringing off the hook he looks at it and he presses it to go off literally like a few seconds later the person keeps calling calling calling he answers the phone phone he looks downstairs real quickly and he whispers I told you I'll call you in a minute okay I just made it home I just walk in the door I'll call you later so whispers hang up the phone that's when cut over to Byron he's laying in bed Byron decided you know what I can't really find any dirt on these people because it seems like they are okay you know y'all just let you know Byron was really just being nosy he has a couple of friends he hang out with one or two of them actually from the crawl watch and they're all hackers that's what they do and so a lot of the information he found up found about Lamont anybody could really find if they had some basic hacking skills nothing too juicy Lamont again makes it upstairs he turns the shower on so Kendra can't hear him down downstairs so he's like hey yeah I told you I'll call you he doesn't know by now that Kendra has made her way upstairs and she's like Lamont Lamont can't hear her because he's in the bathroom and so she's steadily going and she thought she could hear whispering that's when she leans her ear up to the door and then she quickly hears Lamont say hold on for a second he opens up the door real quick and she's like what are you doing he's actually came here real quick to take a shower what are you doing she's like I thought I heard you talking to someone were you on your phone he's like no baby I'm on my phone I'm just getting ready to take a shower he's like I'm right then well if you want some dinner if you're hungry there's some leftovers here that you can have he's like oh so y'all save me some she's like Lamont come on now you just came home I know you're tired but come downstairs with me when you when you get done and so he's like alright then she leaves he wasted here for her to leave and she goes downstairs and he picks up his phone and says hey I'm sorry she came in while I was talking to you Kendra's looking kind of nervous and she picks up her cell phone and texts Tiff and she's like hey can you give me a call when you when you have a chance to speak Tiff looks at her phone and she's like oh my gosh that's when Lamont gets a text message I know y'all this is paying attention Lamont gets a text message that says hey she just sent me a text message I don't know what you're doing but you need to be more careful y'all all right y'all that's part I don't already break this part for girl yeah part for


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