Everyone, welcome to SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE, CUBE Conversations here in our studios in Palo Alto. I'm John Furrier, our next guest is Siddhartha Agarwal, CUBE alumni, we first met at Oracle OpenWorld, really focused on the developer open Oracle model of bringing developers together with the Oracle and Oracle Cloud, Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle. Siddhartha, well, good to see you again. Welcome to theCUBE Conversation. Thanks, John. Thanks for having me here. So one of the things I like about Oracle in covering you guys for now on our eighth year, we've been at eight Oracle OpenWorlds, is we get to see the transformation. And one of the things, and we also cover Amazon web services like a blanket as well, Microsoft is sure not so much because they're just now new to the scene, but you start to see the big players really flex their muscles in the cloud, Oracle's one of them, is that Oracle on Oracle is a superior product because it's Oracle, Oracle Cloud is a superior product because it's Oracle in the cloud for Oracle customers. But you guys get a lot of criticism in the market from competitors around Oracle, not on Oracle. So people that are new to Oracle, Cloud Native, for instance, is a market. And I just think that you guys, that's not a fair, it's always people always attacking each other, but more importantly is that you guys are doing the work with developers. And so I want to talk about that with you because you have a developer focus that's about being open. Share this, this is important. I want to take a minute to explain the Oracle Open. Yeah, no, I mean, absolutely for us, it's very important for developers to understand the Oracle Cloud Platform is open, modern and easy. What do we mean by open? It means you can bring your programming language of choice. So you don't have to use Java EE. You could use Node, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, whichever language you want. We're giving you a choice of databases. Obviously Oracle databases, you could leverage those and get great value out of them with high availability, redundancy, reliability, et cetera in the cloud, delivered as a service. But at the same time, if you want to use open source, for example, MySQL, we deliver that as a service, we give you the choice of using Cassandra or MongoDB on our IaaS platform or on our PaaS platform. So lots of choice for the programming language for the database and choice of the shape that you want to use on IaaS. So for example, you could use VMs, you could use containers, you could use just bare metal. So giving you screaming performance on bare metal as a developer, you might want that. And then running any of the open source workloads. So if you want bitnami images with one click, you can run that on Oracle. So our focus is not just for Oracle content, but to be an amazing cloud for Oracle and non-Oracle content. This changes the ecosystem dynamic certainly for Oracle as you guys expand, but you guys have open source, you have Java, you have all this stuff. It's not like it's new to you guys, right? So a lot of people, you know, kind of it's important for them to know that. So I got to ask you a specific question. As you guys have a more of a focus on open, which is just classic ecosystem development. The world's changing, right? So right now, the hottest topic in the world is really two things, IoT, Internet of Things and AI. And AI has now surpassed artificial intelligence. AI is not surpassing IoT because most people don't even know what IoT is. So they just, but AI sounds sexy and glamorous.  There's a lot of stuff going on that's real engineering work and R&D and practical applications that point to that AI and data is certainly a hot market and certainly relevant. Your thoughts on how this developer focus connects with that world? Actually, I think that developers are gonna become even more powerful than they already are because artificial intelligence requires two things. You need to be able to have these smart algorithms that are able to do analysis, but those smart algorithms cannot do anything unless there's really valuable data behind it and lots of data, right? So I think there'll be this next generation of data providers for AI. For example, with Oracle, we're providing the data cloud. 1.2 billion consumer profiles, 400 million business profiles. So now when you want to do segmentation of a particular customer, a developer can call APIs and without having to go get all of that data, we're actually aggregating that data off of all the websites visits and all the on-premise transactions that are happening at various departments, stores, retail channels, et cetera. We're aggregating all of that into the profile of who a consumer is and now these developers can access the data through their framework, libraries, et cetera. So they can actually write really intelligent applications because they've been able to leverage this data to train them. I speak into the choir here. I love this so much because I wrote a blog post of 2008 data is the new development kit and it was kind of riffing on this notion of development kits when the old Microsoft days, MSDN and people have development frameworks were there for their stacks, but the premise was data is going to be a development ingredient, a critical one. So the question for you on this AI thing is, does dated Trump algorithms or algorithms trump data? Or some are saying dated Trump algorithms, some people saying algorithms trumps data. Which comes first? Is it the chicken and the egg, the cart before the horse? What is your thoughts? I mean algorithms have always been there, right? What's been missing? The parts that have been missing is one, being able to accumulate this much data and two, to be able to process the data and three, to have the compute power to do predictive analytics at scale, right? So algorithms have always been there. There have been smart people that have written these algorithms, but those three things are the ones that have prevented artificial intelligence from becoming real. And now the data being aggregated, the speed of compute and the amount of compute that is available to you, those are things that are going to drive artificial intelligence to become real.  And that's where machine learning seems to be the real transformative ingredient in that. Awesome, next topic is my favorite one, which is I've been talking about on my show on Silicon Valley Friday Show, which we do every Friday morning here in the studio, is the whole chatbot craze. And you and I were talking before we came on this interview about how that really is evolving, this deeper meaning behind what chatbots actually are. I've been calling them kind of like glam and sizzle to AI to give people a mental model, but most chatbots are kind of gimmicky. Customer support here and there, some applications, but there's deeper meaning behind a chatbot application. What's your thoughts? And you had mentioned to me that you think by 2018 you're gonna see chatbots. Some are saying it's already here. Why aren't chatbots ready for prior time? No, look, we as consumers are getting tired of using mobile apps. So for example, I fly a lot and I download a Lufthansa app, a United app, a Delta app, et cetera. I'm downloading all of these apps to check in, do the same kind of stuff. But I have one messaging platform that is really popular, which is for me, Facebook Messenger, for example. So I wanna be able to go and engage with Delta by friending the Delta bot and be able to say, hey, give me my boarding pass or do something, right? So I'm tired and fatigued with all the apps that I have. And so the next generation of engagement is going to be around, how do I engage using my messaging platform of choice? And you asked a very, very good question, which is why haven't these bots been more successful? It's because it's not easy to build a bot. What are the things that you have to think about? You have to think about a platform that scales across Facebook Messenger, WeChat, WhatsApp, et cetera, right? So you have to write that for various different platforms. You have to have natural language processing built in. You have to have an intent engine because people don't necessarily say the same thing every time when they want to get something done, right? Like I could say, tell me my balance, right? Now is it for checking or savings? Or I could say something different next time. And so you have to have... There's no reasoning, there's no linguistical kind of reasoning engine. Exactly, but you've got to have that, right? An intent engine. And then you have to learn as you engage with a particular user, you have to start learning how do they engage with you? Those are the kinds of things that we've built into our mobile chatbot platform. So developers can focus on writing very rich bots that engage the developers to cross the web cell. I mean, the customers into cross the web cell, but not have to necessarily worry about the underlying infrastructure that is required to make this happen. Yeah, the big theme with every interview I do in the cloud is around operating systems of the future, which is that global internet, basically. You tell them about basic IO. Think of it like a PC. You plug a keyboard in or Bluetooth. You got input, output coming in. This is kind of the interesting thing about chatbots. You want to unify your mobile experience, but in a way that unification isn't just mobile. That's other platforms too. Isn't the unification the core theme driving some of these challenges? No, it's about which messaging platform is important to you and how do you bring in all this data and the analytics capability that we were talking about before around the monocomput that is available to apply that intelligence to the bot so that when someone is engaging with you, they're not feeling like, oh, it's a machine or it's someone that has a script that they're reading. It's actually someone that can understand your intent. That's what the unification is. And also reduce the steps it takes to do things to your example. I mean, I was saying early on with mobile. I mean, why download an app when you only need it once or twice or it's seasonal. The NFL is those seasons over. The sport season's over. Now I got an app on my phone and got to wait another year. Right. So if I type in boarding pass, it should automatically figure out, okay, which is the next flight I'm going on. Am I within the 24 hour window? And oh, that's the boarding pass he probably wants. Well, Google's doing that right now. Actually, the boarding pass right there. Google's doing that right now. My email's synced up. Okay, the next one, let's go down deeper in the stack. Let's kind of drill down. Cause now you go to the next question. What is the key driver behind that? Is it the microservices? Is it the containers? Is it the DevOps? So assuming that that chatbot stuff needs to be coordinated and unified, what's under the hood that makes this all happen? Well, I think, you know, developers want to be able to build that applications quickly and test them. Right. And the key trend that we've seen is many more containers being used compared to VMs. So for example, if you think about the size and scale of development environments, they're three to 10 X that of production environments. So containers are going to become much more popular than VMs, but those create challenges for developers because now they have to think about how do I orchestrate the container? For example, Kubernetes is an orchestration engine that requires HCD as a mechanism to manage what's the primary versus the secondary, et cetera. All of that developers shouldn't have to worry about. Or whether Kubernetes is going to be around or not. And there's a new version of this and a new version of that. There's a land grab in the entrepreneurial world around who's going to own the management. It's a nightmare. That's a wonderful point. Absolutely. The technology is immature. So if you bet on a technology, is that technology still going to be around? That's the other thing. And the last thing is, for example, I have my container spread out on a few nodes. The load balance on the front end is saying, hey, I'm getting workload and the servers are utilizing this way and I'm going to send this request here. But that server that it sent the request to didn't have a container on it. And a lot of people are building an orchestration mechanism that is moving the request to some other server, but that's going against the load balances requirements. So scalability becomes an issue. And developers don't want to think about all of this. They just want to be able to use containers and benefit from it. And that's why the next trend is to be able to have containers as a service where developers can just bring the container, not have to worry about orchestration, not have to worry about scheduling, not have to worry about scalability, and it's all taken care of. And that's what we're delivering with our application container cloud capabilities at both the PAS level and the IaaS level. So the developers are becoming more relevant. You guys are obviously investing in that area and amplifying it up, which is really positive. Mark heard, again, chat with me about the use cases. And obviously the applications are coming. You're downloading a ton of apps and everyone's getting overloaded with apps and more apps are coming. So it's not like they're going away anytime soon. It's kind of like the mail. It keeps coming and coming, but more apps are coming. So, but the use cases are shifting from dev test. This is what Mark heard, told me. It's all dev test. Certainly that's the low hanging fruit. But now as workloads are moving to the cloud, there are mission critical applications that are moving to the cloud. And then some workloads have better cloud and on-prem kind of characteristics. By 2020, how does that shifting your thoughts on this and then the role of the developer in all of this? Now, I think there are a few things that are going to happen. One is that line of businesses want to fail. What I mean by that is they want to try 15 different things and they know that only two or three of those will succeed. In the past, they would think and they would think and they would think and they would think before they made a move into a particular area. Now they're saying, I just want to try and I'm perfectly fine with failing. Or what does that require? It requires one, being able to test your things really quickly and making your customers part of your development team. By putting out an application that they're comfortable with not being complete, not being completely feature rich, et cetera, but getting the feedback on what works, what doesn't work. So the number of releases that are going to happen are going to go up significantly and they won't follow the regular release paradigm because these line of business folks are themselves going to become developers. So one is the number of developers is going to increase significantly with the citizen developers. They'll be able to release the products very easily, meaning the minute they're done with making changes on a browser, it's live for customers to use. And then the other thing is developers have to get very comfortable with working in this constraint where they're not building everything perfectly and making sure that they can support the business. So there are other agarwal here inside the CUBE conversation. Final point I'd like you to make is share with the folks what's some of the action and where can they get resources around this developer? For developers watching saying, hey, you know what, I'm really not familiar with Oracle or I'm familiar with Oracle. Obviously Oracle has a lot of influence in the marketplace, huge install base, customer base. So developers want relevance but they also want to have a partner to monetize their work. And this is important. You guys have an opportunity here in my opinion. So what would entice a developer? Where can they go? Where should they go to play around and learn more about some of the things you're doing about being open? Sure. So first of all, developer.oracle.com. Easy to remember. It is going to be a one source for all the information and it's not just going to have Oracle content on it. It's going to have content on DevOps, microservices, containers, API, chatbots, machine learning, AI. And the content might come from Oracle, it might not come from Oracle. So that's one resource. Second is we've created a series of 20 city events called Oracle Code. These are free developer events. So free for developers, focused on those six or seven areas that I just listed like microservices, chatbots, machine learning, et cetera. Coming to 20 different cities, we put out a call for papers in December. We've gotten 1200 submissions for people who want to present at these events. So it's not going to be just Oracle people talking about Oracle content, but it's about what is important to developers. You're not jamming Oracle down their throat. You're embracing a conversation. Yes, and we're helping their education. The other thing that we're doing is we're sponsoring a lot of non-Oracle events. We know we have to go where developers are. So for example, we just completed a developer week up in San Francisco, and they had a ton of developers, and we showed them how they can have API-first development, how they can build microservices behind those APIs, and then how they could leverage chatbots to deliver a rich experience. Tremendous reception, they loved it. The other thing is we've created a advocacy program called Oracle Champions or Oracle Gurus where non-Oracle folks can be talking about Oracle content or topics, and we'll promote them in the environment. And last is the Oracle Code Startup Accelerator. So we want to support startups. We want to give them environments, and we want to give them mentoring and give them a stage to talk about. So the Oracle Startup Accelerator is enabling that. So if the developers want to try this, go to cloud.oracle.com-try it, and you'll get a free account with a certain amount of resources for you to try. So Arthur, thanks so much. Congratulations, and great to see you guys out there pounding the pavement, really engaging the developers where they are and being open. That's awesome. Excellent, glad to be here. Cube Conversation, I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching.


Cue the cheesy 80s rock music and nostalgia train because today we're taking a look at the never-endingly requested never-ending story. First off, a huge thank you to the Spirit Mysteries community for all of their thoughts and insight that helped make this video. It's their first script of many and if you'd like to help and participate in writing the scripts for upcoming hidden spirituality episodes, come and join Movie Knot, our weekly Spirit Mysteries gathering to discuss movies that become these episodes. Now, if you were a 90s kid, you probably grew up watching all of the classic fantasy movies like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and of course the never-ending story. With its super meta narrative, cheesy yet fabulous for its time, special effects, and amazing character design. While the movie is a classic, they did change the plot quite a bit from the books, especially stretching it out over three movies, but nevertheless at its heart it portrays the essence of life, the power of imagination, and the strength of owning your true self and inner worth through all adversity. In many ways too, it mirrors the journey of the child or the fool through the major arcana, going on a journey of self-discovery only to return back to the start once again, but this time with a new evolved knowledge and consciousness. It's a tale that was made even more powerful by the fact that the original author of the book, Michael Enday, was a student of Anthroposophy, a school of philosophy that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience through sensory and internal gnosis. Further, the core part of this belief is to present ideas in a manner verifiable by rational discourse, with it here it's specifically seeking precision and clarity in studying the spiritual world, mirroring that obtained by scientists investigating the physical world. So in other words, the never-ending story was literally written by someone who seemingly shares the same values as us here at Spirit Science. Granted, Michael Enday actually hated the movie version because he felt it didn't convey the true message of the pages properly, but you know, at least the movie is great on its own. I mean, let's face it, we could have had another Aragon on our hands, and oh God, don't even get me started with the Aragon movie. Sorry. So anyways, when it comes down to it, it's your classic hero's journey, except so much more meta. When a young boy named Bastion happens upon an old book while running away from bullies and then steals it, he takes it into an attic of his school because all school attics totally look like a mad scientist's slab or a witch's lair, and discovers the tale of a young warrior named Treyu, who is given the task of stopping the Nothing, a dark, consuming force from engulfing the mythical world of Fantasia. Except this ancient book is magic. And ends up making him, and us, a part of the narrative. Just as Bastion follows the story of a Treyu, we follow the story of Bastion in a seemingly never-ending story, which begs the question, who's watching our story? Are we all inside of a holographic simulation, watching ourselves on a VR screen, wondering if we can all wake up to the truth of our nature? Anyways, when we first meet Bastion, we actually start off in the clouds. While on the surface, this seems like just imagery, I think there's a sense here that we're seeing Bastion in his natural state of dreaming or daydreaming, a state of pure creativity and inspiration. His head is in the clouds, as his father mentions later. In fact, this creative essence is even mirrored in his name. The word Bastion actually comes from the 16th century French or Italian word Bastiere, which meant to build or create. Echoed in the other modern meaning of being used to describe a place that embodies certain principles or attributes. There is a pretty clear disconnection between him and his dad, though. His father seems to embody a very materialistic paradigm of thinking, telling his son to stop daydreaming and focus on the material life in a way that is reminiscent of the process that we often go through as kids, where our intuition and psychic abilities are shunned down and filtered by disbelief from the adults in our lives. It's no accident then that Bastion skips a math class to enter into Fantasia. He skips the most logical subject in the world to express his truest creative essence instead. Yep, I don't blame him there. If anything, this entire movie is a call to our inner child and the importance of innocence, dreams and childlike adventure. All things that are seemingly lacking in our world today. And straight up, this story is going to get so much more meta, just you wait. When Bastion meets the book sage, initially the old man warns him not to take the book. Forget about it. This book is not for you. But also kind of secretly wants him to experience it for himself. The sage is reminiscent of the esoteric knowledge keeper. He doesn't release his knowledge unto the world, only to those who actively search for it. Those who are pure of heart and ready to receive it. Ultimately, the sage gives Bastion a warning. While dreaming is good, the gifts of dreams will not remain with you if your dreams are too safe. Unless you are willing to face dangerous dreams and take that leap into the unknown, you aren't worthy of the teachings.  But he leaves a note though, so good on him. And so when we finally reach Fantasia, we get our first glimpse of the nothing. Especially considering the author's original intent, it's not too much of a stretch to think of Fantasia as a kind of spirit world. The immaterial world of imagination and form, to which we are always linked. Interestingly, there's this idea that it's only when we stop daydreaming, when we stop fantasizing and letting our minds be open and creative that the land of imagination becomes empty. And what happens when we stop being creative? The nothing starts to engulf us. Maybe the nothing is actually us, a symbol of our diminishing connection with the spiritual or imaginative worlds.  See what I did there? No, really, though. She actually embodies the Christ Sophia, the pure-hearted divine feminine who, like Atreyu, is represented as a child to show that sense of innocence and purity. In highly symbolic fashion, the nothing makes the Empress ill. Arguably because it is by a lack of awareness that we lose our will and creative power. When we go through life in an autonomous manner without being present or mindful, just going through the motions, we're not connecting to our hearts, becoming just a side character, a pawn in someone else's story. When the Empress's aide calls Atreyu, he is given a sacred amulet known as the Oran, which is also the symbol on the front of the book itself, kind of resembling a double Auroboros. While the single snake represents the cycle of infinity, the double snake is often said to represent the infinite and perfect balance of the higher and lower natures of being. Further, as the amulet lies over Atreyu's chest, it guides and protects him from the symbolic heart center. While he uses a stone knife in the movie, in the original book, Atreyu has to go on the ultimate journey with no weapons other than his consciousness and heart to guide him. Now, of all the creatures that he meets, Gamork is one of the most interesting. He's kind of like a dark reflection of Atreyu, who begins his quest at the same time and goes through his own journey trying to hunt him down. The lesson here is evidently that there's always a balance in reality. For every great light force, one in equal magnitude is created as its opposite as well. Even the creatures at the beginning have a sense of elemental symbolism coming from each of the cardinal directions associated with the classical elements. Further, they all claim to be traveling east to the Empress's Tower. This journey to the east in search of an answer or enlightenment is also entrenched in many occult philosophies that form to the basis of many modern esoteric orders. Now, even the discount lion turtle, sorry, the ancient one, Morla, has a bit of symbolism to her. Lying deep within the swamps of sadness to find the wisdom one has to be willing to dive deep into the waters of Mem. For those who are familiar with the Tree of Life pathways, or perhaps we can think of it as passing through the Seven of Cups in the Tarot.  Atreyu's horse succumbs to the swamps like this because he doesn't care enough to see it through in a scene that always gave me nightmares as a kid. It's interesting, though, that as wise as the turtle is supposed to be, she's dwelt in the swamp so long that even she doesn't care anymore. The only moment she shows interest is when death is mentioned. Die? Hmm, now that at least would be something. Perhaps we can even see Morla as symbolic of the old system or paradigm of being. Not really okay with everything going into nothing, but also not caring enough to do something about it. It's a nice little work in that the luck dragon eventually saves Atreyu when he's about to be consumed. Sometimes we really do just need a little good fortune on our journey, and there's nothing wrong with that, too, right? Good ol' Lucky gives Atreyu hope, perhaps in a parallel to the way that the book sage gave Bastion hope earlier. To quote Avatar Aang, When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change. So when Falcor takes Atreyu to the Southern Oracle, he doesn't go the whole way. In fact, he brings him a very specific number of miles. Nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. That leaves nine miles to go, considering he probably already traveled the extra hundred on our tags. Nine is an incredibly significant number in numerology. It represents completion and corresponds to the Saphira Yesode on the Tree of Life. The reason Falcor doesn't bring him the whole way is that Atreyu has to complete the journey himself, going through the Sphinx's gate to embody his true self. When we eventually meet the scientist and the witch gnomes, not only are some of their machines powered by crystals, but they both embody the divine genders in a similar manner to the Empress. It's here that we see another callback to the real world. Remember Bastion is reading the adventures in the attic that bears a striking resemblance to an alchemist's slab or a witch's lair? Nevertheless, it's an awesome point that magic and science both wish to help here, but they have a contentious relationship and struggle to work together, despite having the same goals. Hmm, where have we heard that before?  There's a huge wealth of symbolism here that's rooted in Egyptian, Hermetic, and Western esotericism, but the bottom line is that they see straight into one's heart, only letting who feel their own worth pass by. In order to pass the gate and acquire knowledge, you need confidence and self-worth.  Classic. The Sphinx's see into your heart, and even a strong knight in the best armor ever is blown to bits. In a way, a Treyu only passes the first gate because he doesn't wear armor. He isn't burdened by the external manifestations or notions of his self-worth. The Sphinxes always seem to shoot, perhaps just because humans are fickle and our self-worth falters naturally day by day. But a Treyu was unencumbered by the attachment of the world, and so he managed to dodge the judgment. There seems to be a clear lesson here that we need to be ready to go through the path within. It can only be done with a true heart. It's fairly reminiscent of the weighing of the heart in Egyptian mythology, however, where at the end of your life, your heart would be weighed against the feather of truth. And if your soul was heavier or more burdened than truth, you couldn't make it into the spirit world. Maybe there's even a part of this that relates to the moon card in Pachtero, especially in the second gate. For the next task, you have to face your own true self, where you discover you are the opposite of what you think you are.  Ultimately, the Oracle gives the answer to the cure. The solution of the name cannot come from the world of dreams, but must come from the true self, Bastion. Like the principles of the Caballion, action must be taken on all planes to truly come into form. It's at this point that Gamork really serves his role, as he explains that Fantasia has no boundaries. It is the world of human fantasy.  Certainly sounds like Bastion's dad needs to read this book, Disney. So in the end, the Empress knew that the only way to bring an earthling child was to go through all that process. That way, the human child could connect and go through all the troubles of a Treyu. This is very powerful wisdom. The journey of the hero itself in storytelling is super important to drive the cycle of evolution forward. It's the journey that matters just as much as the destination, but even then, Bastion still doesn't realize his importance as a creator, just like we don't see how we can be protagonists in our own story. But as the story comes to the end, as Bastion gives the name Moon Child, the world is saved, even if it does end as a simple grain of sand. The central premise here then is that Fantasia can arise within you. In other words, we give meaning to what we focus on. We hold the powers to manifest what we desire, as long as it comes from a pure heart. And so the movie ends with Bastion manifesting Falkor into the real world to chase down his bullies, which is super awesome. The whole story then really seems to be a lesson in reconnecting with our feminine creative force, embodying the truest self and staying true to our own quest, no matter what happens. So until next time, though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees. Toodles!


Hey everyone and welcome to the first ever episode of Zi Update or Zelda Informer Update. This is a brand new bi-weekly show that is all about informing you guys, our fans, about future ongoings at the site, current projects going on, as well as answering any questions or concerns you have in regards to anything we are doing at our site on our social media channels or really just in general, anything that has to do with us. And for this first episode I already have one question or concern to address, but I also want to give you guys some teases about some upcoming things, maybe let you know a little bit about our E3 plans and what you can look forward to from Zelda Informer over the coming weeks. So for starters I want to address the big cat in the bag, the big concern that some of our fans have had and that is the comment system and just really the comment system in general. So about a month or maybe it's almost two months ago now, we experimented with a program called Spot.i.m. to be our new commenting system at the site and the reason we were moving off a discus is a long-winded and I'm not going to get into it now but needless to say the Spot.i.m. went a lot better in testing than it did in final implementation. So in other words, it worked really well when we were just running the test run of it and then when we fully implemented a whole bunch of issues cropped up that did not exist before. Basically I do not think that Spot.i.m. can handle the load that we give them from our user base, which is good you guys are really active. It also showed that discus itself is actually holding back our activity a little bit and that's a little sad but because of a lot of the various issues including a massive security bug, we switched back to using discus and we switched back without making an announcement. We did announce Spot.i.m. we did not announce the return to discus. This is kind of our uber late announcement that yes we are back using discus again and that's just because it works. It doesn't have the issues. We don't have to worry about security right now. Maybe someday we'll go back to Spot.i.m. but they really need to clean up their platform. They have a huge list of bugs for me to sort out and they have not sorted them all out yet. Kudos to them for listening and working on it but they have not finished sorting that whole mess out. We use discus again and when we return to discus I turned on discus's default filters, word filters that is and I know that upsets a lot of people. Why are you censoring us? We used to always be able to swear.  I hear you. So first let me explain why the filters are in place. One big rule we have at Zelda Informer for our discussion is to not attack people and I know that seems extremely PC and I'm not really trying to be PC. I'm trying to create a friendlier place for people to converse but fans don't need to be afraid to come and talk about things and have opinions that others will not agree with whether it would be about you know the controversial topic of gender in Zelda games or whether it is just about why Zelda game is the best game out there or whether Nintendo is making a mistake with their E3 stuff. It shouldn't matter which side of the fence you're on. Everyone should be able to have a respectable conversation about that. It doesn't mean they need to respect everyone's opinions. Respect has to be earned as they say but we don't need to be attacking people just because they disagree with us and there's a lot of forms of attacking and you could still end up attacking people without using foul language. However, foul language was often found to be commonly associated with people that were not being so nice to others. So, the filters allow us to not have to worry about moderating our community as much as we used to have to and it gets really tricky when we're deleting and we're trying to contact users and it's a big mess. So, this just made it a lot easier just to censor that stuff out. Now keep in mind we're not censoring your ideas, your thought process. Just censoring maybe the approach to how you present that thought process. Like if really you just want to be like F off Nintendo, instead you can be like I'm done with Nintendo or whatever. Some other phrasing that means what you're trying to say without having to use a foul word. Now, I have heard your complaints that it's a little too strict. So, before this episode goes live, in fact, right as you're watching this, I will be making changes to the filtering system to allow a bit. Some of the words that I feel might be a little bit extreme. Discus is default list, which I have not gone through entirely. I did notice when I first put it up that there was, it was a little bit more limiting than I wanted. I can't tell you exactly what words have been lifted yet, because at the time of this recording, I have not actually lifted the words. But I can tell you that I am listening and we're going to keep the filters in place, but I will pull back some of the restrictions and allow some words that I would say I would allow our authors to use, or the kind of words that I would say I'd allow our commenters to use. I think it's only fair that if we could say it, you should be able to say it too. There might always be special cases where it doesn't happen. Say the F word slips in somewhere. That's not something we really want to use ourselves, let alone let our community use. But we're not necessarily going to censor, say a guest. If we have a guest on our podcast and they say something that has the F word in it, I don't want to be rude to them as they are a guest taking time out of their day to help us do something for the site, for you guys. So that's what's going on with the comment system. Thank you for all your feedback on that. If you have more feedback on it, let us know. Again, if you have any questions at all about anything we're doing at the site, anything we've done in the past, anything we're doing in the future, any features you'd like to see return, features you'd like to see next, let us know in the comments below.  So what else is going on at our site today? Well, we brought back daily debates. We did this yesterday. We're going to keep doing it every day, moving forward for as long as we can realistically keep it going. We will be taking most of the week of E3 off from daily debates. So I'm letting you know ahead of time that while they are back now, that week for E3 from the Monday through at least the Friday, we probably will not have any daily debates because we'll be focused squarely on coverage. There's a lot of stuff going on for us at E3. So we really want to make sure we nail our coverage and then we'll come back to the daily debates once things calm down a little bit. We feel that daily debates are something our fans really enjoy because they get you interactive. There are always some of our most commented on pieces that we post at the site every day. So we hope that you look forward to seeing them return. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's Daily Debate and the whichever one we posted today will try to keep this train going. So what happened with daily debates before? If you remember, I did a site update around the time that ownership switched over to Massies from Zelda Dungeon owning Zelda Informer. And I said we'd be doing daily debates and it didn't. Life happened as you might not be aware, we have two paid staff in Zelda Informer that actually do things. There's, well, there's three all the others. Massies the owner and then there's me. I'm the editor-in-chief. Darren is our managing editor, which primarily means he manages the news team. And yeah, that's it. So if Darren and I don't necessarily have time, chances are that features end up getting cut from the site. And I hate saying that features. We don't want to cut features. But daily debates were kind of the first thing to get nixed for a little while because we were really short on newswriters. We are extremely short on copy editors right now. And it's put so much on our plate that we haven't been able to keep it in going consistently. If you notice our podcast has even been coming later and that's not even rammed by me or Darren right now. And then there is our The Boss Man series and Zelda Increase. It's all been kind of inconsistent. I don't like that inconsistency. We want to be consistent for you. So yeah, that's the plan moving forward. Speaking of plans, because this is a bi-weekly show and it's happening on Wednesdays, if you recall, the Boss Man series also happened on Wednesdays. To make things a little easier for me, the Boss Man series is going to be bi-weekly as well on this same day. So this week you have gotten a ZI update and next week you're going to get a Boss Man opinion piece. And then the following week another ZI update, then a Boss Man opinion piece the week after that. That way it gives me more time to spend on editing the Boss Man pieces, which are a lot more editing intensive than say this, which is just me in my office. But yeah, so yeah, that's kind of my goal with that and make sure we produce good episodes of our shows moving forward. Now I did mention briefly the podcast. I am sad to say that our current podcast host and editor, Adam Cohen, will be stepping down by the end of this month. He's been running the podcast. I don't want to get it wrong. I think he'll be at 87 or 88 episodes when he's done. And that means for 87 to 88 straight weeks, he's been releasing a podcast every single week. I think he's missed one week I can even think of in that span. And if you think about that, that's a year and a half, a year and three quarters, that he has consistently ran our podcast. And it's reached over 600,000 views and tons of people. It's been wonderful. It has lost a little bit of momentum lately, but that's okay. Adam expressed to me that he is ready to move on in life and do some other endeavors. And the podcast is an extremely time-consuming event. So I want to thank Adam, Colin, Chris, and everyone else that he's had on as a guest, even some of the regulars, like our former staff member, former copy editor, Jeff Edelstein, who no longer works as a former as well, who's a friend of Adam's. I want to thank all of them for the hard work they have put into the podcast, but especially Adam, because without Adam, we would not have a podcast today. Now, that being said, the podcast is going to continue. We're still going to have a podcast. The day of the podcast is going to change. Instead of it releasing on Saturdays, we're going to release it on Wednesdays. And I'm going to release more information on this in the future, but here's what I can tell you. It will be hosted by me. I will have a co-host. We will have at least three people on every single episode, hopefully three people from Zelda Informer, so we keep it really inclusive. And then if we have a fourth person, that'll be a guest. Someone else we bring on as a special guest. And it will be different than what you've gotten with the Zelda Informer podcast in the past. I know that a lot of you really love what the Zelda Informer podcast has been and has become, but I don't feel I can do as good a job at that format as Adam did. Essentially, I don't want to try to beat Adam because Adam is amazing and I don't think anybody can beat Adam. The kind of show he ran is a very unique style that I can't do, or can't do well enough. So it's going to be a different sort of podcast. It's going to be an hour long period. And we're still working on some finer details on maybe sectioning some stuff and keeping things really condensed. We will see. I can tell you we won't be talking about news. We will be talking about a lot of things, really, some fan topics, some zany stuff. There might be a theme to each episode every week. I'm not exactly sure. We're still working out the fine-tuning details that I just found out recently that Adam is stepping down. So that's what's happening with the podcast in the future. Now, obviously, we have a big event coming up with E3 and we know that no matter what you think about Nintendo and how they're handling E3, we're going to get a ton of Zelda at E3. So here's kind of the gist of what's happening there. Myself, my best friend, who's going to be doing some camera work, Zion Grasso, a former Zelda and former staff member, and right now Rod, one of our writers, news writer at the site, I believe he's still planning to. We are all going to be attending E3 as a team. Our goal in attending E3 is obviously to play as much of that Zelda demo as we can, as many times as we can, to get all the fine details we can, all the best footage we can, et cetera. I have requested of Nintendo an interview with A.J. Anumu. I didn't know if we're going to get it. I also said, you know, I'd be willing to take interview with Shigeru Miyamoto if he's available, or Reggie Fizeme. Really, anyone that we can get an interview with about that game, we really want to interview. And then, you know, to get a private show floor showing so we can get some good footage, trying to bring you guys inside the experience of what their booth is going to be like on the show floor. Unfortunately, we're not doing a 360 camera thing, like some other places might, but we're going to try to give you the best experience we can. And then, we're kind of thinking of a bunch of different compilations and working with various YouTubers, and other people we might meet at the floor to come up with even more show ideas and even more opinions and reactions and all that great stuff. We will have a preview of the demo, we will release that to let you know what we thought. So yeah, we have a lot of stuff planned for our on-show coverage. Meanwhile, at the home base, Darren's going to be running the entire news team on his own, making sure that you guys get all the latest news out to your feeds, out to your Facebook, out to your RSS feeds, your Twitters, your Google Plus, your Tumblers, et cetera. We're going to be trying to get all the news out to you as fast as we can, as fast as humanly possible. And that's what you can expect from our side of things for E3, to do what we've always done and provide better coverage. And I just totally shook that camera side. I'm sorry about that. Again, first episode, there's going to be some issues. All right. And beyond that, our comic series is coming back to me in a weekly. I know some people have had some criticism of our comic series in the past. And while we do have some comics banked up that we're going to get through, there's about five to eight comics that are banked up. Once we get past our banked up comics, I can tell you that myself and Darren have been taking a more hands-on approach with our comic artist and trying to make sure that the jokes land a bit better than they have in the past if there is a joke at all. Some of you might have even noticed our last comic that we released before this episode was Captain America one with Link and Samus or whatever. Anyways, it was really clever and simple. And that's what we liked about it. It made sense. There wasn't a lot of thinking that had to go into the user or the reader experiencing it. And people seem to enjoy it. It is our most liked comic to date. So just so you know, we're going to keep on our artist and we believe in Trey. He's an amazing guy. He is the person who does our comics. We're going to keep pushing all those comics because we believe we can do better and create something that you guys really want to look forward to every single week. We've also been producing some more editorial content. I'm not going to leak anything that's going on right now, but yeah, that's coming. And we have the big Zelda dungeon informer or the ZDI marathon coming up this summer. I don't know the details on the top of my head because I won't be going to the marathon, but it is this summer. I'll put some details in the description or down in the post on the site. One of our very own is going to be in it. That's why it is the Zelda dungeon informer stream because we're going to have one of our staff members, Kristen. He's going to be there and playing at least four Zelda games. I believe it was Ocarina of Time 3D, which he's going to be doing a group speed run. You know, who can get through the game the fastest all at the same time. And then there will be, I believe it was the Minish Cap, Juan of Gamalani's playing. And I forget what the fourth game was, but yeah, he'll be playing at least four games at the event, which was pretty exciting.  So it should be fun. We'll let you know more details on that stream as it gets closer and closer and closer and if there's going to be a charity fundraising for it, et cetera. So look forward to that. That's the first of ever marathon that Zelda informers ever really participated in. So that's exciting. That's really all I have for you this week. You can follow us on Twitter at Zelda Informer. You can follow us on Facebook, Zelda Informer on Facebook. I can't tell it's a theme. The only place where it's different is on Tumblr. Believe it, Zelda Dash Informer or Zelda Underscore Informer. I don't remember off the top of my head. Shows how much I know as the editor-in-chief at Zelda Informer. All right, so if you have any questions and any concerns, anything you want to know about our sightable things we do at the site, let us know down in the comments below. And before I forget, because I do not want to forget about this, our Zelda Versus Dungeon Tournament Best Dungeon, Best Zelda Dungeon Zelda Versus Tournament has been ongoing now for the last week or so. And I really want to put a shout out to a lovely person who prefers to remain anonymous, who emailed us, who did all the image work for it. And I really want to thank all of you guys for your patience. I know we were supposed to be done with Zelda Versus by the end of February or the end of April. I'm sorry, the end of February and or the end of March at the earliest or latest. And unfortunately, things got delayed because of communication errors. But it is moving forward now and we are ready for I think our fourth matchup today of all days in round one. So I'm really excited about that. It's the largest Zelda Versus tournament we've ever conducted. So yeah, I'm excited. I hope you're excited. Let us know if you have any other Zelda Versus ideas you'd like to see. Yeah, thanks for watching. This is episode one of ZI Update.


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During the early dynastic Egyptian uprising of civilization, the life of the people in that area centered on the Nile River. Early archaeological discoveries show that there were in existence a great knowledge of working and cultivating a broad range of crops around 4000 BC. The knowledge that once was the foundation of a great civilization it seemed, tripped through to the survivors, their stories, their beliefs. These were the foundations for early life in the reemergence of civilization and what we now refer to as ancient history. Plentiful resources were available for the development of the early urban societies in the Nile River Valley. Mineral Rich Clay offered excellent development processes of the soil with less fertilization required and irrigation. Also in the surrounding desert regions, there are caches of limestone, granite and precious metals. At this time there had been tensions in the society with closely encroaching urban groups. Yet in spite of the power vacuum in Egypt, there was a slow move towards unification under the king Narmur. This unification was important as it set the stage for the monarchal dynastic system of governance that Egyptian dynastic pharaohs would use. Egypt's early dynasties are widely considered to be one of the world's first stable monarchy empires, in contrast to the battling city-states of Mesopotamia for this same period of civilized reemergence after cataclysmic events besieged humankind to the brink. Yet we survived and the survivors must have remembered certain aspects of a before time in history when these biblical events unfolded, therefore the movement of a people as a whole is the incorporation of a need and want for stability in the masses. Stability in the lineage of the dynasties was achieved through the means of leveraging the religious cults of Egypt. The kings of Egypt were acclaimed to have been the descendants of Ra, the sun god. As the queens would be impregnated by Ra during the pregnancy of the first male heir, the divinity ascribed to the succeeded heirs helped to impress considerable control over the people. Along with Ra being considered an important deity to the ruling class, a tradition of revering Horos was also passed on. At first he was merely a protector of the royals, but with the arrival of the dynasties in the 3rd century BC he was integrated as a family member of Ra who was especially meant to protect the kings against the god Seth. Though there was a great amount of stability in the early dynasties, buttressed by divine claims, more pragmatic reasons brought down the old kingdom. Five leadership which could not be improved no matter how many claims of divinity are made were to blame for the fragmentation of Egypt's kingdom after the death of Pharaoh in 2175 BC. With the breakdown of central authority, smaller states governed Egypt for a period before another powerful group took over, the middle kingdom. The emergence of the middle kingdom under the leadership of Mentenhotep, the second of the 11th dynasty, led to a time that is considered one of the most prosperous in Egyptian history with advances in administration and fine art crafts like jewelry were some of the notable achievements of this new dynastic age. During the second intermediate period outside rulers, the Hixos reigned over a number of principalities. This was different than the early intermediate periods when internal splinter groups ruled Egypt. Some of the most notable leaders in ancient Egypt history emerged out of the new kingdom which arrived in 1550 after reign of the Hixos. Hachepsut was a greatly influential leader and unique in that she was one of the few female leaders in Egypt during her reign as co-regent in the event of her husband's death in 1479 BC to rule alongside her stepson Thotmos III. She had styled herself with a king-like title of the She Horus of Fine Gold and had many temple reliefs made of herself. One of her notable achievements that was afforded by the prosperity brought about during her reign allowed her to begin the building of the temples in the valley of the kings where many later kings would be buried. These are the tombs of the pharaohs, not the pyramids of Giza. The size of these galleries and these tunnels and passageways in the limestone bedrock and you can see the surfaces are covered with hieroglyphs and the surfaces are incredibly flat. Another thing is there are depressions in the walls and rooms off to the sides and they're almost always if not always bilaterally symmetrical. So here you see a niche on one side and a niche on the other side in exactly the same position. Unfortunately I know nothing about hieroglyphs themselves and my fascination is not so much with the dynastic people though I very much respect their brilliant history. It's these strange out of place objects and just the galleries themselves. Now here is a massive granite box with crude hieroglyphics carved on the surfaces in comparison to the box itself and how was that box created? The granite for the box almost undoubtedly came from Aswan which is to the south and I would estimate that that box by itself weighs approximately 60 tons. Also there is catastrophic damage to each of the boxes that we looked at. Is this the result simply of tomb robbers or something more catastrophic that happened in pre-dynastic times? The evidence of which we see in places like Karnak and Tannis and the Ramaceum and other locations. So once again it's the sheer sense of scale of these massive tunnel systems that go into the bedrock in the Valley of the Kings and of course all of the Valley of the Queens as well. And we've recently learned that the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens are connected by a series of tunnels. Another impressive leader in the new kingdom was Amon Hotep III who introduced many religious innovations into the new kingdom with the implementation of a radical variant of the new solar theology in which a focus on worship of the sun and a rejection of previous religious ideas and beliefs which were previously practiced in Egypt and this led to one of the greatest achievements of Amon Hotep's reign. The worship of the sun was already being practiced in Egyptian culture but this adjustment then moved to the god which infused all belief, Amun Ra, a combination of the traditional sun god Ra with the god Amun and at this point the belief in the one almighty god had taken root. The son of Amon Hotep III, Amon Hotep IV or better known as Akhenaten, one of the most controversial kings of all time and he continued these religious reforms and centered the sun worship now on the physical sun Aten. Akhenaten installed himself as the primary intermediary with Aten and sought to attack all other deities which led to the closing of many temples throughout all of Egypt but this backfired because with these temple closures faith dwindled and much land flowed from the king and cultural landmarks like feast days were lost. The slow degeneration of the new kingdom came during the 11th century BC making a decline that Egypt would not fully recover from. Well you know it is a long story to condense but it has been the subject of my life. I had an interest in Egypt when I was eight years old having a connection to the Sphinx and Great Pyramid but it wasn't then that I decided that the study of Egypt or Egyptology would be my life but the real turning point for me was in 1968. I had gone into the US Air Force for four years during the Vietnam conflict and decided I wanted to read things that I did not have time for in college and I'd always been a fan of Sigmund Freud. The last thing Sigmund Freud wrote was a series of articles for the psychoanalytic journal Imago in Vienna Austria. 1934 he wrote an article postulating was Moses an Egyptian priest was Moses an Egyptian. The reason why the leaders in Egyptology in that time were the Germans. So in 1846 Richard Lipsy as German Egyptologist had discovered what we today call Amarna a city that this particular king established away from other cities. It led to the discovery of this particular individual who had been lost to history up until that point even to Egyptology because his records had been erased. He took a title Achanaten it's a long understanding to really develop what the title means Aach means the shadow of the shade Achanaten is a phase the fourth phase of the stage of the sun Achanaten the wiser shade or shadow of the wiser basically this particular king decided to be a revolutionary to change what was the pattern of what we call dynastic Egypt at the time. We're talking about 1350 BCE he decided to break with the established religion at that time which was called the religion of Amen which is the last phase of the sun you know we could go to a great deal about the face of the sun back some other time but he wanted to return to the previous cycle Achanaten the full flowering of consciousness where there were no priests there were no religion it was only pure spirituality so he broke with that tradition and changed his title for Amenhotep which he was born with. Amen is pleased, Amen is completed the fulfillment of Amen to Akherat. We left the city of Thebes which was down in Luxor and built a whole city which is called Akheraten we call it today Amarna and lived there with several you know his followers it's a long story but then to the point where I broke the book from light into darkness. Freud had written other articles if Moses was an Egyptian he was a priest of this particular king because it seemed like this particular king were what we call in Judaism mosaic Judaism the teachings that were given to Moses supposedly from Egypt and Freud believed he came directly from this king I believe Freud was right this to my opinion is the greatest thing Freud gave to humanity not a theory of psychoanalysis not a series of dreams but of the story of this particular king. Militarization of the state led to loss of resources and loss of trade routes meant a blow to prosperity in Egypt while many kings tried to channel the successes of the last successful king in the new kingdom Ramses none of them were able to meet his same level of his success as the kings wanted to show their prominence there was an emphasis on building increasingly impressive tombs to use during their time in the afterlife King Tutankhamun's tomb one of the few to be left fully intact upon discovery was an example of the goods put aside for a Pharaoh in this afterlife journey with his tomb having a storeroom for oils and foodstuffs and inherited ideology from a cosmic journey that would have been undertaken by the gods and repeated by human beings like a capsule a spacecraft some might say or better yet an escape pod the need for physical possessions for such a journey would strike a chord with the thought on what the root of the idea may be but anyway these notable tombs like the Valley of the Kings continue as memorials to the culture around death in dynastic Egypt regarding past events at this time along with the magnitude of the tombs themselves the scale of mummified remains the elaborate religious symbolism that was behind many of the items found in the tombs and an example is multiple types of wine included in Tutankhamun's tomb which according to the experts on the matter represented both the life cycle of sunrise and sunset which pointed towards both raw and Osiris with this journey of the sun through the sky it would symbolize in Egyptian history as the Kings journey into the afterlife as with every other tomb of a notable there were also provisions for the afterlife and though not all individuals were able to prepare so lavishly for their burials it did emphasize the importance of death rituals in dynastic Egypt the preparation it seemed on earth for a greater journey to the stars the survivors as we now are a population still felt this abandonment the preparation is what they remembered for the departure that never came in the trauma of the mind of the cataclysmic soul of the human being we tried to forget for the purposes of the future of our people but we forgot more than we know and now we are straining to remember the use of writing was also an important cultural development throughout much of Egypt at this time scribes especially in the middle kingdom held a high status above other trades and were utilized to help make administration of the kingdom more efficient the use of both hieroglyphics and hierotech script a simplified version of hieroglyphics was common written texts were most commonly found to be day to day while hieroglyphics normally showed more elaborate carvings the frequency with which writing and literacy appeared in this age in Egypt allowed for a miniature classical age in which a love of learning for its own sake was available with the growth in volumes of literary text eventually the pharaohs of particular periods would have their appearances carved onto temple walls telling tales of the conquest or integrate stela like the dream stealers were thought most's dreams of his encounter with this finks who orders him to rebuild the great monument and he does so in the likeness of pharaoh again providing an insight into the links and magnitude of the spread of a dominant culture and the understanding that the king is gods represented here on earth something today's monarchs still hold in the highest regard imaginable it is important to understand this culture and role in history that both they seem to have played and what we have been told they may have played sure the dynastic period of Egypt is an outstanding minefield of past events that we are only now really beginning to re-understand after centuries of volleyed efforts of explanation these people of trust must have known of certain lies because the truth in many cases does not have any manifestation of the underlying lie that upon society it was foretold and upheld as a truth the learning of this period has confused and even older civilization with this very dynastic civilization who fled to the Nile region during times of survival began to uncover the wealth of the past emergent to a state of dynasty through the recovery of past events which they tried to incorporate into this belief system that spread into every aspect of Egyptian life during the dynastic period and we thought this may interest the subscribers of the lost history channel so we thought we would bring it to your attention but what do you guys think about this anyway comments below and as always thank you for watching and the fact that you could film and take photographs inside the valley of the kings in these massive chamber systems which is excellent because what's the point in even visiting these if you're not allowed to take photos and video and how far does this tunnel system go is my question we weren't given access to the entire system but some of these are much more extensive than even what i have been able to film here this what you're looking at there you see some soot on the ceiling probably from dynastic or later times from people living inside or maybe tomb robbers being in there beautiful bright colors these most of these colors are the original from dynastic times they haven't been retouched but they're still brilliant and here we are slowly walking out of one of these massive tombs incredibly impressive and this is quite possibly one of the most amazing of the ancient tomb systems which is accessible with the standard fee that you pay when you go into the valley of the kings this is marin pataz tomb and it is hundreds of feet long carved into the bedrock of limestone and again look on the left and right side you see those depressions which are bilaterally symmetrical whether they were actually functional for what i don't know but it's the the sense of scale which completely blows me away about exploring we just keep descending and descending and descending into marin pataz tomb and further down and then we have rooms off to the left and right hand side it's a very complex tomb structure and down and down we go hundreds of feet again how these possibly could have been made by dynastic people with adzes and chisels and picks and shovels i just i don't believe it i think this is a much over inheritance there you see a massive branded box lid and going past there we go even further down to where there are the remains of a giant box again having catastrophic damage to it most people would think the damage was done by tomb robbers but we also see strange discoloration you see the darker tones um in on the surface of the stone there and this box is very strange so-called sarcophagus because as we go around to the side you can see that there's a doorway into it whether that was original or created later i don't know and on the interior surface again these strange burn like discolorations and then this magnificent sarcophagus made of granite it's slightly rough in terms of texture it could be that it was never completed but it doesn't have the high polish of many of the other giant granite statues which are located in Egypt just a beautiful beautiful functional sculpture and once again the strange discoloration that you see it's much more extensive on some of the other boxes located in other tombs


We moved to another state where the police command have paraded a 17-year-old boy, Chuki Bukamwada, who killed his boss. Those who were paraded included a three-man gang of kidnappers, as well as others who were brought in for various degrees of crimes. I want to be the client such that we know how to drive, and I miss these guys for the best matter for me, so it is one. I asked a new man to drive this thing, so I take up to the man who drive out, where he drive out, and he told me to see a second guy last. And the second guy that come in, I didn't know him, I left Jamal and left him in that place. So he go and call the guy last. So I take the guy last, I want to go and call the guy last. She take me to, take me to a window, and then I want to go outside the car, where he is dancing, I want to stab it in the face, so the hand of our cook. I want to see him come out from Ghana, I want to see him come out from Ghana. I don't want to see him go outside the car.


Davis! He can't hear you up there! Come on, Davis! The people behind Davis! Come on! That's helicopter number three. This is helicopter number three, and here comes Marine One. We're going to let Davis join your high starter. Are you ready, Davis? Let's go! That's straight. Thank you very much. Before I begin my remarks today, I have a very pleasant announcement to make. This morning, the unemployment figures for September came out. And once again, unemployment is down to 5.3 percent. That is close to the lowest that it has been in nearly a decade and a half. And last month, America created 255,000 new jobs. America's economy is a grand pre-racer. And the way to keep it on track is to give George Bush and Dan Quayle the checkered flag in their race in November. Well, now, I want to thank you, Utica Community Schools and Stevenson High School. And a special greeting to Congressman Bill Broomfield, Carl Purcell, Bill Shutey, Fred Upton, and Guy Vanderjack, who are all standing right over there, your Congressman. And I'd also like to thank Brooks and Pete for their participation this morning. And thanks for that great music. Thanks to the Stevenson Marching Band, the Utica Marching Band, the Ford Marching Band, and the Eisenhower Marching Band. Now, in case you're wondering why I've dropped in, I like great teams and I've heard that for great teams you can't do better than the Titans or the Chieftains or the Falcons or the Eagles. Now, before I go any further, I have a request I brought with me from my roommate. She wants me to remind you that please, for your family, for your friends, for your country, but most of all for yourselves, just say no to drugs and alcohol. Okay, I'll tell her. Now, you may not know it, but I've heard a lot about the Utica Schools and I like what I've heard. For example, I've heard that schools here are a family affair, that 2,000 of your parents volunteer their time to help out in your schools. And you know, I can't help wondering, are any parents here? Raise your hands! Well, I'm sure I speak for your sons and daughters and for the nation, too, in saying that for all you're doing to make sure that America's next generation is ready to make the most of the magnificent opportunities America's future has to offer, we all say thank you. Now, I've also heard that you who are students here care about your community and that in one of your most popular clubs, you visit hospitals and help the sick and those with handicaps, as well as giving of yourselves and many other services to your community. Yes, I've heard that when we talk about that old tradition, old as our country, of Americans volunteering to help neighbors, when we talk about certain good friend of mine has called a thousand points of light that shine in America's sky, one of the brightest of those lights is the SOS Club of Stevenson High School. And I've heard something else about the future, about your future and about America's future and that you're preparing for it. I've heard, for example, that all four high schools have set student ambassadors to the Soviet Union, that your schools on all levels have outstanding records for academic achievement and that in the trade programs, you were world-class champions in the 1988 skills Olympics. Well, I'm here today because I believe you're right to care about the future. I believe America's future and your future hold promises bigger than the sky and more vast than the galaxies. If we have faith and if we're true to the values of family, work and community, that have always been America's guiding stars on the path of history. In the last eight years, we've set our sights once again on the enduring values and you know the results, more than 18 million new jobs since our expansion began, more new jobs than Europe and Japan combined, an unemployment rate the lowest it's been in 14 years, the greatest flowering of new businesses and new technologies in the history of the world, the longest peacetime economic expansion ever recorded and more people are at work today than ever before in the history of the United States and there's something else, something you don't often read in the papers. Today, the highest proportion of our labor force is employed than ever before in the history of our nation and job for job, the jobs we've created in our expansion pay better than the jobs that existed before our expansion began. How did we do it? By getting government out of the way and letting the American people do their thing. You know, in my job, I visit many schools and factories, farms and communities around our country and I get to see why our nation is so strong. Again and again, I find myself remembering what General George C. Marshall said when he was asked why he was so confident that we would win the Second World War. General Marshall said we have a secret weapon, the best blankety-blank kids in the whole world. Well, in our economy, we have to have a secret weapon, the best blankety-blank men and women in the whole world. The growth that our expansion has brought America can be just the beginning. America is entering a new age that will open opportunities for you, opportunities that we in the older generation could not even have dreamed of when we were your age. Here in Michigan, you can see that future in new industries like the robotics industry that is springing up and in old industries like automobiles that are coming back strong and getting stronger. That's the future. And you know something? You with the education in both academics and the trades that you're getting here will lead America and the world into this future. The only limits will be your imagination and your courage. And are there any limits to those? Well, yes, the last eight years have been great, but I've got a hunch that when you get in the saddle, as someone said in an old movie, well, we ain't seen nothing yet. But I hope as you study and work to build America's future in your own, you never forget that prosperity has a purpose. It gives you the opportunity to raise a healthy family in the right way, to reach out to those who need help in your community, to dream and to make your dreams come true. Now, I don't want to be too partisan here today. I know this is a bipartisan crowd. Some of you will root for Michigan this Saturday and others for Michigan State. But I am dedicating myself this year to making sure that this future of hope remains open to you. I believe that the decisions we Americans make at the polls this year will determine whether or not the future will be bright. And you may have heard that I kind of like what George Bush said about this election. When you have to change horses in midstream, doesn't it make good sense to switch to a horse that's going the same way you are? Michigan has voted twice for what we stand for in 1980 and 1984, an honor for which Nancy and I will be forever deeply grateful. But the liberals are now saying that come January, they will wipe away all that we have been working for. Well, from top to bottom the election this year is a referendum on liberalism. Will not only the White House, but the Congress and the state legislatures, be filled with people whose only pledge of allegiance is to more government spending and who have never let taxpayers' dollars out on furlough? Or will we continue on the rising road of peace, opportunity, community, faith, family, and freedom? Now, those of you who can vote and your parents and friends will decide that question. And think of what that means. You hold history in your hands if, as I say, you vote. Earlier this year I had the privilege of doing something that I'd never thought an American president would be able to do. I spoke to students in Moscow about the glories of freedom. Think of those students only if they're very lucky and rise high in the Communist Party. Will any one of them ever have the influence on the course of their country's history and world history that each of you can have just by going into the voting booth? It's very disturbing to me that America's young people who, with so many years ahead of them, have a bigger stake in the future than anyone else.  The comedian Will Rogers once said that the people who were elected are no better and no worse than the people who elected them. But they're all better than people who don't vote at all. Well, I know that you're better than that. And so I want to continue talking about that particular trouble if I can find my note here and get it uncovered. Let me, before I go, ask you something. Those of you who are eligible to vote this year, I'm asking for a commitment now. And if you say, yes, I'll take it as a promise, this November will you show up at the polls and vote. All right? Now, those of you who aren't old enough to vote, you can talk to family and friends you know and make sure that they cast their ballots. That can be your way of voting, by getting someone to vote who wasn't so sure that he or she would. So let me ask you something. And again, I'm asking for a promise. So if you say yes, mean it. Will you make sure that your parents and your friends who can vote will vote? One last thing. Next Tuesday. This coming Tuesday is the deadline for registering to vote. And I'll bet there are some here who are eligible to vote that haven't yet registered. And you know that if you aren't registered on election day, you can't vote. It's like making the team and then not showing up for the big game. So let me ask one last thing. Will all of you make sure that any friends who aren't registered get registered by Tuesday? Well, that's what I was hoping you'd say. Now, I'm supposed to join some folks in town for lunch. And I bet you're getting hungry too. So I'll have to just stop right here. But I just want to tell you, you've inspired me, and this is so wonderful to see all of you out here, but from the bottom of my heart, I thank you and God bless you all. Thank you. President of the Student Council, I am honored to thank you for coming to Stirling Heights today. And on behalf of the Stevenson student body, I'd like to present you with this token of our esteem. Hopefully you can remember this jersey as your trip to the Utica Community Schools. For those of you too far away, it says win one for the Gipper.