So I love X-Men back in the 90s watching that cartoon. That's how I fell in love with the X-Men So let's see how 20th century Fox turned out with their third film in this new Rebooted film series. I'm Brandon Keith Avery and this is just my opinion So I remember back in 2011 when the trailers first started coming out for X-Men first class at that time I could care less about this franchise. I mean it was horrible I wanted all the rights to go back from Marvel But they were starting over with the origin of Magneto in the origin of professor Xavier and I gave it a try I went in with open arms with an open mind and my goodness gracious. It blew me away I thought that movie was a perfect 10 out of a 10 and that was back in 2011 And still five years later that movie is still just on up on a high level for me as just Quality entertainment and just a great fantastic X-Men film And then days of Future Pass came out and I thought it was a great film I thought it was a good film great had a lot of awesome things in it But it just wasn't as good as X-Men first class for me So going into X-Men apocalypse I saw the first trailer the second trailer the third and the fourth because they did release a lot and my Excitement level for this movie was just like okay like a week or two before the film came out if they were just to say Hey, we having some type of difficulties. We're gonna postpone the film for a whole nother year I wouldn't gripe a complaint. I really wouldn't care. So that's just how I felt about X-Men apocalypse going into it And now that I've seen the film. I have to be honest. It's not that bad. It was actually good I don't want to say that it was amazing or great It is a lot better than Batman v Superman, but it's still nowhere remotely close to as good as Captain America Civil War it's just right here in the middle, but I did enjoy the film overall with the story I understood everything. I was able to follow all the characters. I was able to follow the plot But there was just nothing amazing that jumped out at the screen for me At least until the very end and I want to touch on that one of the major problems I think this film has is it was trying to tell two stories at one time and it just didn't do that seamlessly It was just kind of bouncing back and forth and those two stories are Apocalypse and his origin and being walking up in the modern day And then also the X-Men over here on another side with them lost trying to come together and While I did like majority of the things that apocalypse had to offer Initially, I did not like what they were doing with the actual X-Men and the reason why is this is the third film in this Rebooted franchise first. We had X-Men first class directed by Matthew Vaughan and in my opinion He's pretty much the best comic book Director out there and then Brian Singer came back for days of future past But between those films there was a jump of 10 11 or 12 years And while I thought X-Men first class was perfect and the ult one of the ultimate team movies It kind of feel like all that was deluded and erased when it came to first class It's just kind of like everything that they built up that I love them first class was completely depleted and days of future past and then again It feels like the exact same way with X-Men apocalypse Yes, some of the characters come back from the previous films But I feel that the unity that was brought Together from the characters in those past films is just non-existent anymore And we're having to tell an origin story over and over and over again after the third film And I just didn't like that. I mean with the third film I should feel that they all have a core team But no the with the X-Men plot within apocalypse the X-Men again are scattered about and they have to come together Again to save the day and I'd rather not have seen that I'd rather just see them You know kind of teamed up at the beginning and then have to tackle the bad guy But it just didn't play out for me that way now I'm going back to apocalypse. I liked him, but I didn't like him His voice would change back and forth to a number of different tones Throughout the movie and I did like that But what I did not like is every time they showed him close up You know, I just really wasn't getting any feeling of a threatening mutant that could you know destroy the whole world But when they were zoomed out on his face I mean that was a lot better effects or makeup or whatever you want to call it But when they were zoomed in it just felt like a guy with blue makeup on now I've never really made a video about all the previous X-Men films before with Holly Berry being stormed But I think that role was completely miscast. I mean, I love Holly Berry. She's a beautiful woman very talented actress But she just was not cast right as storm But now we have a new storm and I forgot her name, but I liked her I liked the introduction that we had with her character I mean, I liked the introduction that we had with most of the characters which while we had an introduction with Jean Grey and Cyclops And as if you know the story, you know that there is a romantic Relationship but blooming between those two that will come to fruition later on in the years And I love seeing these two get along in his infancy and it showed promise for a lot to come in the future Something that I did not like about Jean Grey is I think they kind of power her up too much in this movie If you know you the story of Jean Grey, you know that she becomes the Phoenix later on and then dark Phoenix I'm not saying that they put all of that in this movie. I'm this is a non spoiler review I'm not gonna spoil anything for you But if you've seen the film already you kind of know what I'm talking about at the end I just kind of think that they should have died her power down just a little bit But as far as Cyclops is concerned, he was probably one of my favorite characters in the whole movie I mean he's young he's innocent looking and he just wants to do the right thing And that's just kind of the Cyclops that I knew back from the 90s cartoon was you know He was kind of the leader in a way And no he was not the leader in this because I mean these guys are like 11 12 13 Maybe you know young teenagers old so he hasn't come into their role yet as a young man But I could definitely see this Cyclops developing in the future for more X-Men films to come Now Magneto on the other hand you know I Have two characters that I didn't like and I will mention the other one later, but Magneto He was very disappointing to me I mean such a badass amazing character someone that I just absolutely loved in first class Thought it was okay in days of future past But what they did with his character in Apocalypse was just a complete abomination to what I loved before I mean he's already been through hell and back in hell again and I Mean I understand like let me just say this going into this mode Okay, if you know Apocalypse and his story he comes back all the time He's nearly immortal and he's always recruiting these four horsemen to do his deeds his dirty work to help him out rule the world whatever and Going into this thing and I don't know much about Apocalypse. I'll be honest I mean, I know just a little bit, but his powers to me or off and on is this Inconsistent to me. I just don't know in this movie or in in the comics or in the 90s cartoon but me not knowing Apocalypse and you know what he's trying to do when when I was seeing the trailers for this movie I was gonna I was really disappointed if Apocalypse was mind-controlling all the X-Men I wanted them to have a good reason as to why they Chose to be on his side and this may be considered a little spoiler brief I don't think so. There was no mind control Oh, the the characters had a conscious mind and decided to follow Apocalypse and they did give Magneto a valid reason for Wanting to do that because he just fed up with humanity in the world But it's just the way that they did it. I just thought it was just too much and completely Unnecessary and I'm just sitting there watching just like oh my gosh. I can't believe you I did that I mean this character has just been through too much And I just did not want to see that because there was some innocent characters That reached our demise that has to do with Magneto and I just I didn't like it I mean and as far as Magneto is concerned They just turned him into a whining sobbing character that doesn't care about anything in the world He just threw out all of his plans and motivations and And and strongcomings that he had in the previous films out the window and just somebody I just don't give a damn about frankly I don't know why they did this to one of the best fictional characters in anything But they just did not do Magneto any justice for me and it put a bad taste in my mouth. Now as far as Angel He was cool. I'm not really a fan of his character Havoc was cool. He's the older brother of Cyclops now sidewalk. I don't know much about her character She was cool. I like to present. She didn't really have that many lines But she did look like somebody that you want didn't want to cross the one way and then she would chop off your head with that samurai So or sonic blade and her powers, which I just said a Sionic energy. I really don't know much about it because I just don't know much about her character I really don't know. I don't remember sidewalk being in the 90s cartoons that much way back in the day Because that's where I got most of my X-Men knowledge from but I will say this about her costume It is just quite stupid to see her in her comic book costume I mean, there is no reason for her to be dressed like that Yes, she looked hella sexy and fine and all that good stuff And if that's what the studio was going for the sale tickets or whatever They did a great job there But her costume serve no function at all is serve no purpose bringing in another comic book movie That came out a few weeks ago captain America in his uniform He was enlisted in the world war two and went through a super soldier serum It had to go around the country to let the people know that captain America is here You know the spray of the good word and word of mouth and all that so he wore a flag to as a symbol of hope Black Panther has his costume because it's literally armor Ironman and war machine what they're wearing is literally armor. The same thing with Ant-Man his costume makes them shrink and grow There's a function to these characters costume Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye those are just clothes I mean have you seen Scarlet Witch's comic book costume? It would look ridiculous if she would have put that on on the big screen So we saw like with these skin tight purple spandex with all these slits and stuff Yeah, it looks sexy, but it also looks stupid Her character did do much but the little bit that she was on screen at a light other than her costume night crawler He just didn't do it for me. I just didn't really care for the guy I wish they had the same look of night crawler that they have from x2 extra night it It came out was that 2003 2004. I mean this night crawler wasn't bad It just didn't do anything for me and honestly if they were to say hey night crawler is not coming back to next I would not care some other characters that I not like the decisions that they made was beast and Mystique starting out with beasts a lot of people were complaining when the Charters first came out for X-Man days of future Past is like wait a minute wait a minute now I saw X-Man first class and bees shot himself in the foot with that special mutant needle crap And it made him transform into the blue mutant So why is he back in his human form in this and then we saw days of future past You found that why but they still try to give you the same lame reason as to why he's in his human His human form his non blue form, and I don't like that beast is a badass. I want to see him beast I don't want to see the the the actor I want to see the blue fairy fellow jumping and swinging around and I mean I don't want to spoil anything because you may consider that I spoiled you earlier But I just don't like that they did that keep beasts blue another the exact same thing with mystique Keep her blue and with Jennifer Lawrence. I mean she's a great actress and a lot of people don't like how Mystique is serving the forefront and all the X-Man movies because in the X-Man that most people know She's not a main character.  No, it was horrible. I mean it was great Oh my goodness, it was great and all the previous other Mess this thing up. Hold on and I'm gonna keep the video going But anyway, it was great and it was great and all these other Previous films, but the makeup that she had in this film here It was just like okay You can tell that they were just trying to rush and you know Hurry up and get the scene and get her, you know dressed up It just did not look the same it does not look right when they had when they were showing me stick zoomed in What are her blue makeup? It just did not look good. It looked bad and they clogged me completely out of the film I mean, I didn't care to be there. She you could tell that she didn't care to be there I mean, it just wasn't you know, what that was and my opinion now as far as Quicksilver is concerned and actually before I talk about Quicksilver I want to say something about mystique and nightcrawler and this was a complaint of mine that I had Well, I'll tell you about the complaint I had going into days of each past I wanted them to acknowledge that Quicksilver was a son of magneto and they did that in a nice little night And I'll give them that but also if one thing that really pissed me off With how they followed up with first class is now Lauren shuler donner Is one of the producers for 20th century fox that produces these films And I don't know the lady never met her never talked to her before I'm pretty sure she's really nice, but in my opinion She does not know what the hell she's doing with these x-man films because as far as Characters are concerned and storytelling and the reason why I say storytelling is building on Continuing on the strong foundation that you built on from the past what I mean is X-man first class that's probably one of the best endings that I've ever seen in my entire life in cinematic history Not the best but one of the best Because it showed the two factions splitting apart with people going on with charles isaver and people going with magneto and then they they Rescue the diamond girl. I forgot her name at the end and you saw that mystique and azazel Were on the same team azazel was the red demon figure from first class that could teleport Mystique is blue when as soon as I start off like hell.  You know that especially off-screen that the audience has come to know and love There's something that we didn't see before in the the earlier x-man films of brown singer But so going I was at the end of uh first days of future past I'm just sending myself up. I guess we'll never get a night crawler because uh azazel's dead But no, we got a night crawler and I was like, okay, maybe they're gonna create some something Make some creative way to where night crawler is the son of mystique But did they do that? No, they didn't do that at all I don't know why that would have just you know brought more character development Between both characters knocking two birds out with one stone, but no She does not know what she's doing and the reason why I know that it was her that made the decision of first classes If you watched the specialist features, she was talking about her having a mandate of how she wanted, you know new characters and You have to watch it.  Well, it's not I mean, it's not showing blood anything.  What is this? No, this is wack Y'all got these people over here ruling these people these people over here You know, y'all are following blind leaders. What's going on? No, I need to put a stop to this so I like that And I like when their character has a certain plan But there's a rhinestone into his plans where either slows him down or him going with his plot within the story He learns something and tries to adapt his plan to make it more efficient And they did that with his character with him trying to link up with all the other mutants Which I thought was actually pretty creative And was getting me on board with the film at that point that I already was before and I do also want to mention quick silver He did have a a great scene in this movie But I did not enjoy as much as days of future past and the reason why is They they're just making him too fast like too too fast He's just he's quick service fast, but he's not that fast and also in his scene where he had a moment to shine It was just too comical. I mean it's like this guy has a billion lives and he knows that he can never die So whether it's the end of the block or the end of the the world He just has an attitude or persona that he knows he's not gonna die and he's gonna be okay And that just kind of takes the stake out of the film for me You know and it just doesn't do anything for me So it kind of just sounds like I have mixed feelings about all the characters and I do There's more good than bad But in the story, you know, it flows all the way through Things do get a little sloppy at the end with the battle They're at the very beginning. It is kind of boring. I'm wondering how you know, what are y'all going? What are y'all doing? What's going on? You can tell that all the destruction that they tried to create is a giant set With blue and green screen in the back. It just didn't look real and authentic to me But at the very end of the battle, there is an epic comic book Marvel moment that will have fans like myself kind of just screaming like You know where people are blasting all the power and stuff that was cool. That was fun And I really did enjoy that but when everyone is using their powers, especially apocalypse There is some inconsistency with his powers to where I was saying, okay If you could do this now, why don't you do this before? Why do you even really need the horsemen if you can do this? I really just don't understand I mean, it was it's a fun film That I went in with mediocre to low expectations And if you go in like that and not expecting the world, I think you will have a good time And I will say the last 10 minutes of the movie is the best for me Also the way the the film closed out right before it cut the black and showed the credits That is exactly what I want to see and it gives me hope for the future So it's time to rate this thing. I did enjoy the film overall. It did have some problems There was no no pacing or editing issues At times it did kind of get a little boring But it was still flowing through because there was just not that much action at all It really wasn't in the action until the end And then that nice comic book moment that'll get you screaming like a crazy comic book fan that I know you are So if I had to rate X-man apocalypse out of a 1 out of a 10 I would give it a 7.5 out of 10 I gave X-man first class a 10 out of a 10. I love that I give X-man days a future pass at 9 out of 10 And I give X-man apocalypse a 7.5 out of 10 So guys, have you seen X-man apocalypse yet? Do you want to see it? How about turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing.  And if you didn't like the video, that's fine Just leave me a comment below why and still give me the thumbs up since you watch this on youtube Go ahead and subscribe to the youtube channel So become one of my subscribers to get all the content that I have to provide in the past and in the future And if you are like a written review for this movie or any other films that I've written in the past Head over to the site. 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Good morning, everyone. It's a real pleasure to be here for this important side event and discussion. And thanks to the co-organizers and sponsors for pulling together this really important dialogue around how we can collaborate better and work differently across the space to address both protection risks and food insecurity. As the emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths has commented and stressed hunger and food insecurity have continued to rise over the past year. While we also know that protection risks and displacement have been key drivers of humanitarian need over the past decade. And I think the theme for our discussion today is so important precisely because we know that there is such a strong correlation between these record levels of acute food insecurity that we're seeing globally. And the unprecedented levels of people affected by conflict, disaster, and displacement. Conflict and insecurity, according to the most recent global report on food crisis, remained the biggest driver of food insecurity in 19 countries or territories where more than 117 million people were living in what we call IPC3 plus, so crisis levels or above. We're now, I should say, also seeing economic shocks linked to conflict and global food system shocks becoming a significant driver of food insecurity. Indeed, in some countries, even the main driver of food insecurity now in places like South Sudan and Syria, adding an additional layer of complexity to contexts that are already complex. Colleagues, we all know from our experience that food security is closely tied to a person and a household's ability to generate income. In many cases, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, this income often comes from agricultural livelihoods. And when these agricultural livelihoods are compromised, are damaged, are disrupted by conflict or disaster or displacement, the impact on household food security can be immense. With then a serious flow-on knock-on effect in terms of increased protection risks, so this relationship between these two issues, I think, is fundamental for our shared understanding. What does it mean then for individuals and communities who find themselves in this situation? When people lose their livelihoods and are not able to access sufficient and nutritious food, they are often tragically forced to resort to negative coping strategies. And we have this, it's a very sort of, it sounds like a very cold phrase, right, a rather scientific phrase, but I think we all understand what's behind that in terms of the realities that families are faced with and the choices that they need to make to feed their families. These choices can often then increase risks to safety and dignity. We see evidence, but here again, I would say we have a collective responsibility to further deepen that evidence base that when household food security is compromised, protection risks increase significantly. And, as we well know, women and girls suffering the most. This can mean that girls are no longer able to attend school or must help a family cope with climate change-induced shocks such as drought. It can mean that women are more likely to resort to activities to meet the basic needs of households under stress, such as making dangerous journeys, whether to collect firewood or to access water, because they cannot afford to buy fuel or indeed resorting to dangerous income-generating activities exposing them to the risk of gender-based violence and other forms of harm. These are realities I think we're familiar with, but we need to be driven forward by this shared understanding. All of us, including FAO, that work in complex crisis contexts is, of course, indispensable, that the protection, therefore, is central to our collective response activities. And that we as food security actors understand and address the protection risks that specifically flow from acute food insecurity and can compromise the safety and dignity of affected populations. There are two key areas which FAO sees as critical to embedding centrality of protection in our responses in these complex food crisis contexts. The first relates specifically to how, as food security actors, we work in these settings. When working with highly vulnerable populations who are suffering acute food insecurity, we must, as a starting point, fully understand vulnerabilities to protection risks and to ensure that we are working with these populations, that as we're working with these populations, we're adopting an approach which, at a minimum, does no harm, but which protects and respects safety and dignity. This is incumbent on all actors, not just specialized protection agencies, not just FAO, although we indeed do take this responsibility seriously indeed. It means in practical terms that as food security actors, we need to coordinate and work even more closely with traditional protection actors, leveraging their expertise and analysis and understanding to deepen our shared understanding of protection risks. This can be through improved coordination between cluster mechanisms. Great to see colleagues from also the Global Food Security Cluster here in this important discussion today, which is being shared, obviously, by the Global Protection Cluster. I think these types of stronger partnerships between UN entities and, obviously, between NGO protection actors as well to improve protection outcomes and interventions is key. The second area, just to flag quickly, relates to how FAO specifically works to address increased protection risks that occur as a result of food insecurity. In so many of the contexts we're facing, where populations traditionally rely on agriculture, there are huge opportunities for us in a positive sense to reduce protection risks through comprehensive agricultural livelihood assistance, both early on in a crisis and in a protracted food crisis context. I would say I'm probably already taking more time than Sam wants me, but just parenthetically here, I see this country by country in terms of missions that we go on and crises that we visit. Recently in Somalia, meeting with a number of displaced families located outside of or around Baidoa, all of these families relied on agriculture for their livelihoods before. All of them told the same story about being forced to move because their crops had died in the fields and because their livestock were died. And all of them talked about the experience of these 100, 120, 200 kilometer journeys and what that meant in very visceral terms for their families and themselves. So this connection between meaningful support to agricultural interventions as a preventative protection strategy, I think is really, really important. We can, using these tools and others, significantly reduce the protection risks that households are facing. I could talk about all of this for a long time, but let me stop here because I'm very, very keen to hear as I know the panelists are on the experience that will be shared by you in the room and by colleagues online. So thank you again for this opportunity. Thank you for hosting the event.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell Technologies World 2018. Brought to you by Dell EMC and its ecosystem partners. Oh, welcome back here on theCUBE. We continue our live coverage here from Dell Technologies World 2018. We are live, we are in Las Vegas. I'd say it was kind of warm when we first got here, but it's chilled off a little bit. So I hope the weather's a little bit better wherever you are, but it's red hot inside here as far as what's happening on the show floor. Well, I'm with Stu Miniman. I'm John Walls. It is now our pleasure. Welcome to our set, Susan Sharp, who's a Senior Consultant Product Manager at Dell. Susan, good to see you. Thank you very much. And Brian Henderson, Director of Storage Portfolio Product Marketing at Dell EMC. And Brian, good to have you back. Cube, this is, this is Rookie's, right? This is your- I'm a Rookie. First-timer. Making your debut. First-timer. Glad to break in that way. It is good to have you here. Let's talk about the show. Just first off, we're starting to wind down just a little bit. But, you know, strong attendance. I've been out on the Solutions Expo floor. That's really cool. A lot of great stuff going out there. So the two of you, what's your take on what you've seen here over the last three days? Yeah, I think there's a lot of transformation, right? It's all about transformation. I think we're seeing that across the industry overall. Everything is changing. Everything is connected. It's all about apps these days. It's all about digitizing your business. Anywhere you can add technology to really add that element of your technology and digital modernization to your business. It's really starting to take shape, I think, a couple of years back. We were talking it, but it wasn't really happening. And now we're seeing this huge trend towards everybody's actually starting to do it. Making it real. Right? Making it real. Exactly. All right, Susan, what do you think? So I think you summarized it really well. I would just add to that automation and intelligence, looking for systems to provide the insights and intelligence about the environment and simplify people's work. Right, absolutely. Brian and Susan, since you did your first time on the program, tell us a little bit about what you work on. I've got some history to you. You're both what we call legacy EMC now, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Myself, I never worked for Dell EMC, but I did work for a company that used to be called EMC. Absolutely. Yeah, we go way back, Stu and I, but right now we're seeing a lot of sensible decisions being made. I'd say if you go way back, there was just a lot of things happening. There's a lot of smart moves being made these days. Michael Dell obviously made a huge investment in picking up EMC. And for a lot of us, it's super exciting to see kind of it come together. And there's been a lot of changes, a lot of investments in the technologies of the future. Things like CloudIQ, which we're going to talk about, but it's been really fun. Great. And Susan, what projects are you working on these days? So CloudIQ is my primary focus. And as we talk more about the product, I'll give some examples, but we started with CloudIQ very focused on one particular storage platform. And now what we're looking at doing is expanding that across multiple platforms. So I get to be singularly focused on the CloudIQ, but looking at it spanning across multiple platforms. Yeah, I attended an event that Dell held towards the end of last year. They called it IQT and it was IoT with intelligence put together. And some of us, the analysts, it was like, okay, I see what you're doing, but IoT everybody knows, but CloudIQ, I think there's intelligence built into it. One of the themes I've actually been looking at this week, we've talked about intelligent storage and intelligent management for like a couple of decades in our industry, but maybe explain a little bit more about the product and why is this actually intelligent now? No offense to the things we've tried in the past, but it definitely, to your point, Brian, it feels a little more real some of these things we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So if you see what's going on with the industry today, everybody's connecting things. And you know, we've been collecting a lot of data in a very secure way from our customers for years. Just until recently, we started to kind of talk about that and market that capability. It's really exciting what we can do with it. We make sure and we honor each customer like their privacy rights, of course, but you're able to do a lot of in-depth analysis, collection, we're able to look for anomalies in a system. So the analogy I like to use is like a Fitbit for storage. And it's not just storage. So we're kind of starting at storage, which is the exciting part. We're starting with Unity. We're now directed availability on the SC series, which was formerly compelling. And then we're going to expand that to VMAX. We're going to expand that to ExtremeIO. So we're going to go cross portfolio with that. And can we talk about virtualization? I mean, yeah, I mean, so we're going to expand into the VMware layer as well. So we're going to really start with a discrete use case. We've got what, over 3,500 arrays already connected today. We're adding about 100 per week. So it's really exciting to see the data that we're able to get. We give it back to our customers and partners, actually. So a lot of our key partners, they want to be able to act as that intermediary for their customer and give them guidance on what to do. So we've opened that up. I mean, get into the Fitbit analogy. So what is the health that we're looking at there? I mean, because we can all relate to that, right? We're looking at my pulse and blood pressure and all those things. So what's the pulse of the blood pressure inside storage that you're looking at? A perfect lead-in. So you talk about the typical metrics from a Fitbit in terms of the human body. The metrics that we're looking at in terms of the health and the categories that we're looking at are the typical things that you would care about in terms of your storage environment.  Things like capacity and ensuring that you are not at an imminent risk of running out of capacity. Nobody likes that phone call at 2 in the morning. So being able to be proactive about indicating when storage administrators need to start taking action to be able to prevent that call at 2 in the morning. So some of those key areas are where we're looking at our health score. Susan, I think back years ago, EMC was one of the leaders in doing some of this. It was the phone home capability and we understood what was there. My customers always say, oh, the tech showed up with some part that was ready to fail. Before we even knew, how's this different? What's this update? How does this change really how businesses are working when it comes to everything? I'm glad you led with that because I think it's really important as a side note to emphasize that that is the foundation and has been the foundation for proactive health for many years. Now what we're doing is we're adding on additional areas of focus like the example that I gave for the data protection. That wouldn't result in the phone home necessarily but and it doesn't need to result in the storage engineer showing up or the drive showing up at the door. Instead, we can proactively alert our storage administrators to the fact that again, that their data is not being protected with the service level that they expect and then provide that clear remediation about what they need to do to bring those into that compliance. So instead of break fix type things, it's more about how they can better optimize their environment to be able to meet the goals that they have. You know, when you're talking about support these days, I mean, that game's changing, right? Absolutely. And so as you've developed new capabilities and new evaluation tools, I mean, your service in general, the support you're giving, you know, you've got to come out of almost like a new paradigm, is it not? I mean, so how's that changing in your world now? So we see that. I mean, Susan talked about what we've done in the past, how we're changing it. And now it's, I go back to analogies, right? So you used to go to the doctor when you got sick. Now it's all about wellness, right?  So we're doing the same types of things. We give health scores on a range of zero to 100. And we're able to drill into those specific parameters that Susan talked about, to be able to show people how to kind of set up a best practices environment. So we're really starting to get a lot more proactive about how people can understand the health of their system. And we now have an app, so people can actually check it out remotely. You could be on a beach somewhere on your vacation and you don't have to worry about your system because you can quickly scan it and check in on the status of your system. So that's what I think people want. They want more access to things, so they're able to proactively understand it instead of react and it's all crazy. Let me ask you about the number. Let's just pretend 85, I got 85, whatever. Is that telling me that I'm doing something wrong? Or that something has gone wrong within the system? Or, I mean, what is that telling me exactly about what irregularity has occurred? Is it because of something by commission or is it by omission and I've got a systemic problem? Well, that's a great question. It could be any of those things, right? So one of the main things that we're looking at is I gave the example, for instance, of a storage pool that is already oversubscribed because we have great efficiencies on our storage systems, but if that pool is oversubscribed and is starting to reach using our predictive analytics, we can identify when that pool is starting to reach full capacity starting within a quarter. And so by being able to look at that, it may be that a storage administrator provisioned more storage in a given pool than was intended, but it may just be that the storage ended up being consumed faster than was expected by everyone involved. So it's not necessarily that someone did something wrong per se, but it's that it's now time to pay attention, take action, be proactive and alleviate the risk. All right, gotcha. Brian, walk us through just some of the basics of this product itself. Is it something standalone? Is it part of a maintenance package? Availability Day, how many customers are using this? Sure, sure, so the product became available in kind of an early release capacity when we announced Unity two years back. So since then, it's grown what, over 3,500 arrays. We're probably up around 4,000 arrays now, and we keep adding about 100 per week. The product is built with our own pivotal cloud foundry, so it can be kind of ported across multiple different clouds. It lives in the cloud, so you can access it anywhere, and what you're able to do is quickly get the health score. So it's plugged into your system. The back end is also plugged into our big data lake, so we're understanding what's happening across multiple systems, but we give specific guidance to each system. It's going to be really, really valuable when we span it across the entire portfolio, because then you'll get this dashboard kind of health score across the entire environment, and you're basically looking at the dashboard of systems, and you'll see kind of the red, yellow, green type markings and what to do next. And so like Susan said, you're not going to find out everything just from that number. You'll drill in, and what they've done is they programmed in remediation tips for each one. So you're able to kind of start really high level and then drill into each component after that. So, sorry, does that come with Unity's SaaS offering? It comes free with that. It's SaaS offering that comes with that. Great, so maybe Susan, walk us through this expansion that we've talked a little bit about that. Once it's on the next platform, everybody that has the platform gets it or? Everybody has access to that. So Cloud IQ, one thing that I want to add, and I will get to that in just a moment, is the benefit, this is probably obvious already, but the benefit of the fact that it is hosted in the cloud means that customers don't have anything to deploy. And just like your smartphone, you get all of the latest upgrades with no effort at all. And we have a little what's new in Cloud IQ feature that you can always be up to date. So the process is this, it's very simple. Once the customer sets up the storage system, and then the secure pipe, so secure remote services for heritage EMC products, and support assist for the SC series, bringing that data into the data lake, then at that point, the customer simply logs on to cloudicue.delemc.com, supplies their support credentials, and they will see the systems that are being managed by Cloud IQ. And if I may just add another thing, we were talking about the proactive health score. That is based on rules and best practices from the subject matter experts for each platform, and those scans, those health checks start running within the first hour of the systems being in Cloud IQ. So you're automatically, customers are automatically getting the benefit of Cloud IQ. Excuse me. Is it self-fixed then? I mean, if I see red, do I have the tools to get the yellow, get the green, or do I, you know, I mean, how do, what do I do?  Am I equipped enough that I can plug the leak myself? Absolutely. I'd say most of the issues are best practices recommendations. So you'll be able to go in there and see, all right, something happened, like let's go back to the health analogy. If your resting heart rate is 75, and then one day it's all of a sudden 125, there's probably an issue, right? So that's a bad health score. That's a red. That's a red flag. What you need to do is probably get a little more exercise, or maybe there's something stressing you out. That's kind of a similar analogy to what's happening. So there's something in the system, we have an anomaly prediction system as part of this. And so if your normal IOPS pattern is a certain thing, and then one day it's really, really low, or really high compared to the average, we're also going to red flag that.  Most of the issues, we're going to say, okay, you're running out of space. There's a configuration issue. Your network may not be hooked up just right. Go check it out. And by the way, based on your signature pattern, we're going to actually recommend what to do next. So we're collecting all these problem signatures, and that's able to kind of get to a resolution very quickly. Yeah, Susan, I know one of the things that people attending this show, from the Dell EMC side, love the most, get to talk to a lot of customers.  What kind of feedback they're giving you? What's on their wish list? And, you know, general feedback on Cloud IQ, too. The general feedback is more faster. The general feedback, we talked about the platforms that we're going to be adding in, and there's a lot of enthusiasm about that. Those are based on asks from last year. So we are addressing those asks, and now that they see the momentum, they're wanting us to continue that momentum and continue to expand where Cloud IQ will be applied. That would say, hands down, that's the biggest request. And I love that request. I would like to see Cloud IQ expand as much as possible. Well, here's the wishing of hundreds across the board for everybody's scorecard. Nothing but green, right? That's all we want. Absolutely. All right, good. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. Fitbit for your IT operations. All right, back with more. You're watching theCUBE here. We are live at Dell Technologies World 2018 and we're in Las Vegas.


Yesterday, Rafael Devers called out his front office for an off-season that featured very little movement, to say the least. We showed you the quote last night, but let's hear it again straight from Devers and his translators' mouths. I'm not saying that the team is not okay right now, but they need to be conscious of what are the weaknesses and what we need right now. The author pays for that. Yeah, no.  It's just some things that I can't say, like, I allow, but everybody that knows the organization and knows the game know what we need. Alright, let's roll, presented by Tau Fair Tire. Jesus Kinyones is here from our sister's station right down the hall, Telemundo. And look, we were talking last night, and when I saw this translation, I always wonder about translators. I'm like, ah, come on. If he's saying it that strong through a translator, something is not being said. So you tell us, something was not being said there, right? Well, even the body language, right? It's hard to translate body language, but you can see it even in that clip where he kind of moves back, he's kind of uncomfortable. And in that specific sentence, he said, even you know what we need to the reporter.  Everybody knows, my little sister knows, everybody knows what we need, and I think that's the kind of thing that kind of gets lost in translation. Well, the tone and the anger, I mean, we had listeners who gave us more literal translations than the Red Sox, and that's that Red Sox team employee. Okay, that's important of Red Sox team employee.  This is what Debra said at one point. I don't remember the translator ever saying anything like this. He says, they have to make changes this year. It can't be like this every year. Otherwise, we will all be playing for nothing. That is a strong statement, Jesus, and nowhere did I hear the translator convey that. So you tell me, is that part of the translator's job, if you're working for the team, that you're supposed to sort of smooth that out? I think, definitely. I mean, I think you know who you're working for, especially when you have a camera pointer at you and you have a microphone on you, right? I think you're a little more careful with the words that you choose. However, I think it is a little bit difficult just to play the devil's advocate here to form the sentences to keep everything in context. Maybe it was in his fault entirely, but I did see Raphael Devers want to correct him himself, and you saw that two times where he interjected, and in one case, he interjected in English, right? He said, but in the middle of the translation. So Devers is going to understand a little bit and can speak a little bit. And so he wanted to make sure the message was clear. I thought that was very important. When he was listening to the translation and he almost added to that, I thought that was a key moment. Otherwise, we're playing for nothing. That's a big one that, I'm sorry, the translator's got to give you that one. No, he's not going to do it. He's not going to do it. I think most of those translators, you just got to know you're missing something, right? So you did the job and you said, you know who you're working for. What was your approach to it? Was your approach, hey, I got to be, I got to do this with integrity. I give it to the media exactly what they say, or did you say, I got to airbrush this thing? Well, one of my guys was Yaseel Puyg, and as much as we all know, I had to airbrush it a little bit. But I mean, you try to give as much as you can. Some of them are a lot easier, especially when they stick to baseball. In this context, I mean, there was no sticking to baseball, right? It was very clear that he was giving them a message and that was about getting you players.  This was a little bit out of character for him, right? Not as smiley as he usually is, right? Not as smiley. Light and happy. I think he's definitely wearing on him, right? To just see the projection of the season, to see where the team was. I thought one of the lines that was really important was everyone plays this game to win, and simply put, I mean, the Red Sox haven't won too much, right? They've lost more games than they won in the last two seasons, last place. I think that's the message that he was also trying to convey, and not this idea that everything's okay, that we think everything's okay. I think he was trying to really send a message. Do you think that Devers is happy with this translator? Yeah, you know, and if Devers really wants it out the way he wants it out, you know, he can't speak English, he understands it obviously, he doesn't need the questions translated, and the guys down there say that when the cameras are off, he talks to the reporters and he can converse with them, but when the cameras are on, he feels more comfortable going through the translator.  I think that's a fair point, and I think sometimes when players, or my experience, when players are talking about delicate subjects, that's when they kind of rely on a translator more, when they feel really comfortable speaking of baseball and speaking X's and O's, then they don't use a translator, or maybe it's easier to talk to a reporter in that sense. However, I mean, I would, I can see Devers not being entirely happy, mostly because of those moments that I mentioned where he interjected. It was almost as if he needed to make sure that they knew, and to make sure that that was cleared up, and to add, because I mean, just him using that word, right? But as he's using, as he's translating, I thought that was a very interesting moment, and just in the communication side of it. I'm glad he did it, because it just tells you everybody's frustrated. Everybody's frustrated with, with John Henry, and there's a, we gotta admit it, there's some helplessness involved here. If Devers is frustrated, if Alex Cora is frustrated, maybe Sam Kennedy and Craig Breslow are frustrated. All the way up, it doesn't matter because the guy who's got the ball, the guy who's got the hammer, John Henry, is not gonna do anything. And we know he's not gonna do anything because he may not love the Red Sox, but he loves the whole conglomeration. He's not gonna give it up. It's just a, it's a bomb for the team's best player on essentially the first day of spring training to say we have to change, we can't do this every year, otherwise we're playing for nothing. Like that is, that is a bomb. I'm sorry, it is. And Tomasi brought up a good point earlier saying that he didn't want to say what the needs were specifically pitching or starting pitching or whatnot to not kind of throw his players under the bus or his teammates under the bus. I'm curious if Devers was in a different situation of what he would say, right? Maybe he held back because of that.  See, you got an exclusive. An exclusive is coming to you, my friend.


Everybody, this is Brian, and welcome to the 85th Qt tutorial with C++ and GUI programming. Today we're going to do something a little bit different. I've had a couple complaints that we're getting a little too advanced, and we need to step back and review a few things, so we're going to do that. I know some of you are growing up and want to see the advanced stuff. Well, it's coming, I promise. Actually, I kind of think some of the stuff we've done has been pretty advanced, but anyways, let's get going on this one. We're just going to call this Binary I.O. And put it in the usual location, wherever you've been putting these. Now, what is Binary I.O.? Well, back in the day, if you're kind of a grumpy old man like me, you remember when you had to upload and download things via FTP, you had to choose between Binary and Text Mode. Well, when you open Notepad, just type some gibberish in, that's Text Mode. Whereas like an application is Binary. So, what we're going to do is we're going to learn how to write some stuff out to a file. We've done this before, but we've done it in text. I've had a couple of people say, hey, can you show me how to save an object to a file and load it back up? That's actually called serialization. So, we're going to add a few things here. Include, and we want Q file. Include, and we want Q string. Include, and we want Q map. And last one, I promise, include, we want Q debug. Now that we've got all our includes, we can get cracking on the code. I have to apologize if you hear this dinging noise. My phone is like on its last leg. And it just goes in and out of service. And when it goes in service, it just, I mean, it gets tagged. I get like 100 emails in a shot, and it just drives me insane. So, what we're going to do here is we're going to save. So, we're going to say int myNum, and we're going to say 22. We're just, you know, picking a random number here. We're going to say Q map, and we want a Q int, and let's just say 64. Just for the sake of argument here. And a Q string, and you can hear my phone going crazy. I really need to buy a new phone. See, I bought my phone back when it was hip and cool, and now it's just old and pathetic. But darn it, I like my phone. I paid a lot of money for it, so, well, actually I'm lying.  I'm really, really looking forward to getting a new one, but don't tell anybody that. So, we're just going to add a few things to our map here. And if you have no idea what I'm doing, I bet you go out and watch the other tutorials. We've covered all of this stuff. But just for the sake of argument, in case you haven't seen this, a map is like a list where you can add keys to it. So, we're just adding a few things to our map here. And now we want to save it to disk. So, we're going to say Q file, and we'll call this file, and let's say eDrive. Put this pretty much wherever you want to put your files. eDrive test, and we'll say my file.txt. Don't get thrown by the .txt. We're actually going to write a binary file, but I'm going to open it up in Notepad and kind of show you the contents here. So, we're going to say if not file open. So, we want to do some basic error checking here. And we want QIO device. And we want write only, because we're only going to write to this. So, if we cannot open the file in write mode, we're just going to return. We should probably spit something out on the screen saying, hey, problem. Danger, Will Robinson. Alright. Could not open file. So, now that we've got the file open, the first thing you should always do is flush. Actually, if you're paying attention, that's the last thing you do. But I always add it first, that way I don't forget to do it. Be sure to flush the file and close it. What flush does? It's kind of like flushing a toilet. It makes sure that everything that's in the bowl goes down the pipe. I know kind of a disgusting example and I apologize, but that's the best one I had at the time. So, we want a Q data stream and we're just going to call it out. Give that a reference to file. Now that we've got a output stream, what we should do is set the version. And you do that simply by calling set version. And we want Q data stream. And we want to set this to, and notice how it's got all the previous versions. It's always a good idea to set it to the newest version. In this case, it's Q47. You do that because the streams are treated differently with each version. That's actually not true. But what I should say is that there's a very big possibility that streams are treated differently with each version. So you should make sure that the streams line up. Never cross your streams as they say in Ghostbusters. All right. Now that we've set the version, we can just simply say minum and map. So what we're doing is we're writing this out. We're actually writing two variables out to our file. We're writing minum, the number 22, and map, which is this object right here, along with its associated data. And we're going to write it in my case, eDriveTestMyFile.txt. So let's go ahead and save. Run this. And we didn't output anything, but I can guarantee you that it saved. And now if we go out to eDriveTest, you can see there's my file. You can see there's this bizarre, looks like a cryptic alien language going on here. Well, that's actually non-printable characters is what's going on here. And this is probably this first little character, which you can't see is the character 22 or the number 22. And then you've got all this stuff behind it. This is our map structure. And you notice how it's got 3, 2, 1. So just because you can see some printable characters in there, don't be fooled. This is not plain text. And we're going to prove that right now by, well, you guessed it.  So let's just take this and copy that. I'm a big fan of copy and paste. It saves a lot of time here. Say load, and we're going to get rid of that. And we're going to load it from disk. And instead of write, we want read only, because we only want to read the file. And then we're going to call this in. Remember to set the version that way the streams line up. We don't need to flush because we're not writing anything. But we do need to read this back in a specific order. So what we're going to do is say in, and we want minum, and then we want map. You always want to read it in in the same order you wrote it out. If you try to do map the minum, it's going to get all screwed up because it's going to try and read that first one, which is actually a int minum. So let's take this.  We're not doing the save at this point. Now what we want to do is we want to actually prove that we did in fact read this thing. So I say Q to bug. And we'll say minum equals and we want to know what minum is. And then let's say for each, it will say Q string. We'll just call this item and map values. And let's kind of scroll down here so you can see what's going on here. And we just want to do a Q to bug. We just want to print that item out here. So we're just going to print the item. So real quick, let's review. We've commented out save because we just, for whatever reason, we don't want to overwrite the file. We just want to prove that we're actually reading it. So we're going to run the load. So we've got our, actually let's get rid of that. We've got our uninitialized minum, our uninitialized map. We're reading it from the same file. We're doing a read only that we were not modifying the contents of the file. We're, oh, caught a bug. That would have been nasty. We're setting the version to make sure it matches up with the version that it was written in. And then we are reading in the same order that we wrote out. Closing the file and then we're just printing it out on the screen. Let's run this, see what happens. Sure enough, minum 22 and then one, two, three. So there you go. In all its glories, that's how you read and write binary. Well, this is Brian. Thanks for watching. I hope you found this educational entertaining. And once again, all the source code will be out on my website, voidrealms.com. Just go to tutorials and then cute and then whichever one you're looking for. So thanks for watching and shoot me some feedback. I like hearing from you guys.


In this video, we discussed the solution to question number 4 for the practice exam number 2 for Math 1060, in which case we're asked to evaluate a sign of 15 degrees, and we have to do this without our calculator. We don't have a calculator, but we can evaluate special angles like 30 degrees, 45 degrees, 60 degrees. We also have a formula sheet of trigonometric identities, and that's what we want to use here. So one way we could do trigonometric identities here is to think of 15 degrees is the difference between 45 degrees and 30 degrees. So if we take that approach, we can use the angle difference identity for sign, which as a reminder, if you were to look on your formula sheet, you see that sign of theta minus phi is equal to sine of theta cosine of phi minus cosine of theta sine of phi like so. And so then we have to evaluate this at sine of 45 degrees, cosine of 30 degrees minus cosine of 45 degrees times sine of 30 degrees. Now sine and cosine at 45 degrees are both root 2 over 2. So we get that cosine at 30 degrees will be root 3 over 2. And then like I said, cosine of 45 degrees is root 2 over 2. And then sine at 30 degrees is one half. So we multiply this together, square root of 2 times square root of 3 is the square root of 6. This is over 2 times 2, which is 4. And then we're going to subtract from this, the square root of 2 times 1 is the square root of 2. This is over 4. There's a column down there of 4, so we might as well write it together and get the square root of 6 minus the square root of 2 over 4. So this would give us our value, which we then can see the correct answer would then be F in that situation. But I want to show you an alternative method you could use. You could also think of 15 degrees with respect to the half angle identity. That is to say, sine of 15 degrees is the same thing as sine of 30 degrees divided by 2. And so recall that the half angle identity for sine looks like sine of theta over 2 is equal to the square root of 1 minus cosine of theta all over 2, like so. And so we could just evaluate this at the square root of 1 minus cosine of 30 degrees all over 2, like so. For which cosine of 30 degrees, like we saw earlier, cosine of 30 is going to be root 3 over 2. This is all over 2 here. I don't really like the fractions side of fractions. So we're going to times the top and the bottom of the fractions by 2. That way we can distribute the two right here and we end up with the square root of 2 minus root 3 all over 4. The denominator is a perfect square itself. You can take the square root of 2 minus square root of 3 over the square root of 4. And so this simplifies just to become the square root of 2 minus square root of 3 all over 2. This is the correct answer, but this is admittedly a multiple choice question. So you might wonder how in the world do we get something like this going on here on choice F? So let me show you how you could see that these two expressions are actually equal to each other. Now I should put a disclaimer right here. The algebraic technique we're going to demonstrate right now is actually quite advanced. And it's not something I expect a typical student, particularly a typical trigonometry student to be able to do. The reason I'm showing this is mostly for the sake of curiosity so you can see that answers are equivalent to each other. But it's quite difficult and I wouldn't expect someone to have done this all by themselves on an exam. Really the moral of the story here is that if you have an option between the half angle identity and like the angle sum or angle difference identity, you should use that other identity. The half angle identity, although it is useful, it really should be the identity of last resort. It's the type of breaking case of emergency, break the glass in case of emergency type of identity. The angle sum and the angle difference identities are much more useful, much easier to use. And with that, let's see why the two answers are in fact the same. Starting with this number, the square root of 2 minus the square root of 3 over 2. We're going to utilize the factorization of a minus b squared, equaling a squared minus 2ab plus b squared. What we're going to do next is sort of like completing the square but not exactly. The idea is to compare this radicand 2 minus the square root of 3. And how can we compare it to this expression a squared minus 2ab plus b squared, particularly we're going to be looking for a square root inside of this. Now we don't have a coefficient of 2 in front of the square root, which we can do it with fractions, but that becomes a lot more difficult. So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to times the top and bottom by the number 2, so 2 over 2. But in the numerator, I'm actually going to treat it as a square root of 2 times the square root of 2 so that this square root can enter inside of the square root we already have. Thus giving us the square root of 2 times 2 minus the square root of 3 over 2. So we have the square root of 2 over 2 on the outside. You can distribute this 2 through and this gives us the square root of 4 minus 2 times the square root of 3. You have a square root of 2 left over, but in the denominator, we'll get 2 times 2, which is 4, which that starts to explain where the 4 in the denominator is coming from. And so now with this new radicand 4 minus 2 times the square root of 3, that's what we're going to play this game with right here. So basically we're going to compare this with this part right down here. That is to say we're going to have negative 2 times the square root of 3 right here, which when you look at the negative 2 we see, but what about A and B? Well, let's set A equal to the square root of 3 and let's set B equal to 1. Then that means we need to have a square root of 3 squared, which is a 3, and we need to have a 1 squared, which is going to be a 1. Oh, lookie there, we have 4, right? 4 breaks up as 3 and 1, giving us of course the square root of 3 minus 2 times the square root of 3 plus 1 times the square root of 2 all over 4. Like so, then when you look at 3 minus 2 times the square root of 3 plus 1, we can then utilize this factorization, that was the whole goal there. You're going to get the square root of, not A, we know what A is. You're going to get the square root of 3 minus 1 squared times the square root of 2 over 4. When you take the square root of the square, those inverse operations will cancel each other out. This then gives us the square root of 3 minus 1 times the square root of 2 over 4. If you distribute the square root of 2, you end up with the square root of 6 minus the square root of 2 over 4, which was the correct answer F to begin with. So the two are in fact equivalent to each other, but you can see that the process of showing these two answers as equivalent was very, very difficult. And this just kind of points to the usual issue that the half angle of identity, although it's a useful identity to use at times, it's probably the most complicated of all of the trigonometric identities we have learned. And therefore, if you can accomplish a task with a different identity by avoiding the half angle identity, you're probably better off. The half angle identity should really be like the identity you hold behind glass and you break only in case of emergency. With this type of exercise, the angle sum or the angle difference identities will be much more simple to use compared to the half angle identity.


Steve Nash right there visiting with the media.  Second unit did a really good job of matching the intensity of the hornets. But also they were missing so many guys. Doesn't it take a little bit of time to get a feel for what they're doing and getting used to some of the new bodies you're seeing out there on the floor? Yeah, I would imagine that. And I think credit, so much of what we would often say with the Brooklyn Nets when they had different players playing or some of these second unit, of how well they just understood roles to fit within the schemes that they were running on both ends of the floor. And I think we saw some of the same things with Charlotte so under man, but there was a level of confidence. They knew what they were doing. They knew what the game plan was. And, you know, it took a little bit of time there for the Nets to, I think, to figure out with so much of Charlotte showing some of that two, three zone, how they were going to attack it, the way they were still going to set screens, some of those openings. And I do think our friend, Christian Winfield, asking about, it looked like Kevin Durant could walk up the floor and take a shot at any time. Well, he can. Absolutely. But within the context of what they were doing, I think that is the impressive part that he can come away with 11 assists. He can facilitate for others, and then he could end up with 25 points on 12 shots. I mean, that is why this team is scary because you have a player like that that has the ability to operate along with other potent threats. And it just gives so many looks to how this Nets team can be dangerous on the offensive end. We'll talk about it later, but they got it. Another guy who's on the mend and James Harden could be back very soon. Imagine how hard it is to keep a straight face with Blake Griffin dropping jokes in the air. We're a post-game show coming up.


I am currently in the Houston airport leaving from the final four but it's never too early to look at who might win the national championship for next year. It's hard not to like Duke even only at 13-1 they're going to return a couple guys in their back court. They have 5-5 stars coming in. I love Creighton at 20-1. They might return their entire starting five. A couple of them might head to the draft but we'll kind of see how that goes but still I think they're going to be a top five team if they return four or five of their guys. And I love the value on Michigan State. I think that they could be a top five team in the country heading into next season. They're going to return a lot of experience. They have a great class coming in. And a flyer I like is Villanova. I think Kyle Neptune is going to be able to turn around next year. Justin Moore is playing again. Mark Armstrong is going to be the lead guard. In reality we're just trying to find value here because we have no idea what's going to happen in the transfer portal but I like a few of these teams.


But today I have to speak my mind. I cannot believe it. No matter what I do, I cannot believe it. Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby.  Therefore, it's already very very late. It is 9 p.m. around here, so excuse the bad lighting. I put on a little lamp in the background. I hope this will help. That being said, the topic of the video is I am heretic. What do I mean by that? For that, we have to go way way back and explain my path to faith, if you will. Roughly three years ago, I quit veganism. Once I quit veganism, I saw that all that I believed was just that. A belief. A built belief system.  A conditioning that I put myself into. An operating mode, if you will. That belief was based on, quote unquote, science. Because the science, at least the science that I selectively read, pointed towards a plant-based diet, pointed towards veganism. Environmentally speaking as well, of course. Therefore, I based my belief on those studies. However, once my health failed and veganism crumbled with it, the belief in science, the scientism, crumbled as well. Out of the sudden, I had a completely brand new perspective on this world. More than that, I would say it was a coming back to senses, if you will. Therefore, you can't really say it was a brand new perspective. It was much more my normal state of being. This state of being that we are all born with. I'm a father now. My son is eight months old. When I see him, I know that he has no delusions. He simply is. He is in the present moment without any illusions. Without any delusions. He simply sees what is without interpretation. This is how I lived my life for the longest time until I became vegan. Once veganism crumbled, as I said, I reverted to that mindset and out of the sudden I was seeking God. Because when I was a child, I was always praying to God. My parents were Christian Orthodox and therefore I was baptized as a Christian Orthodox. However, they weren't really practicing Christians. Nobody knows about the Trinity, about Christology, about theoses or anything on those lines. They were simply Christians by default. That was the religion that was given to them. But even though they weren't very religious, they definitely believed in God. And so did I for the longest time. However, during veganism, during my excursion into the new age I let go of religious belief systems because I wanted to free myself from man-made structures. I wanted to free myself from external belief systems and free myself from religious dogma. I wanted to think for myself. And more than that, I wanted to experience for myself. I wanted to explore by myself. And this is how I got into mushrooms, ayahuasca, shamanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. I essentially lived by Bruce Lee's quote, keep what is useful, discard what is not, be water my friend. For a long time I felt good living that way. But as I said, after veganism, I had this yearning for God. I missed God. I wanted to reconnect God. I wanted to know what it means to be in communion with God. I want to understand what relationship we have with God. During that time, many of my subscribers reached out to me and they started telling me about Jesus, about Christianity. And it was exactly that time because of me quitting veganism that I connected with Tristan from Primal Edge Health. And Tristan, to my surprise, was an orthodox Christian. That was shocking to me. That was such a surprise. Why wouldn't American be an orthodox Christian? Why wouldn't American have my faith? Even though I wasn't practicing, culturally we are all very identified with our faiths on the Balkan. Let me give you a little side story here.  Yes, that is the mindset on the Balkan. It really isn't about true spiritual conviction but about cultural identification.  Really, those religions have been used and abused to fight each other similar to football clubs and what not. Nationality, etc, etc, you name it. Therefore I found it so strange that an American would take on the identification of Christian orthodoxy and that made me curious. I started researching, I started looking into it on the pursuit of God, on the pursuit of understanding God. I dived into the books of Father Seraphim Rose, into the books of Father Spyridon Bailey, I read Christ, The Eternal Tau, a very interesting book that combines Taoism and Christian orthodoxy and essentially declares that the Tau was, after all, the eternal Christ that has always existed. It was very interesting. I dived into the topic of theosis becoming God. It gave me an interesting alternative explanation to the experiences that I gathered in my mushroom trips or on my ayahuasca experiences, etc, etc. It was phenomenal but I have to stress that I was pursuing God. So I got into Christian orthodoxy loving it, loving the aesthetic of it, be it optically or be it the chance, absolutely beautiful interface, if you will, absolutely beautifully put together religions, so holy, so magnificent, so grandiose, absolutely mesmerizing. However, and now comes the turning point of the story, I hadn't heard about the Trinity. And I'm going to tell you again, out of my experience on the Balkan, 99.99999% of people won't know what the Trinity is, nor would they know that the Trinity supposedly is God.   This was a huge surprise to me. Honestly, I heard about the Trinity here and there, but I believed that this is some sort of Catholic conception. I couldn't believe that the Orthodox Church Fathers believed in the Trinity as well. Especially if you look into the Christian Orthodox mysticism, you find a lot of talk about the unity of God or unity of experience, essentially a non-dual perspective. And this is, of course, something that goes hand in hand with my own experiences and, of course, with so many experiences of others that dived into the mystical realm, that dived into the spiritual realm. So I was really surprised. And to be honest, I was a bit let down. Nevertheless, I told myself, man, I subscribed to Christian Orthodoxy, so I might be wrong. Of course, why not? People are wrong all the time. I had many wrong conceptions about reality. Hey, I went vegan after all. I went wrong there, so maybe I'm wrong about the reality of God. Maybe I'm wrong about the unity of God, and God in reality is a triune being. So I wrestled with my faith. I wrestled with that concept. I wrestled with that idea for essentially two years. And no matter from which perspective I looked at the subject, I couldn't find an explanation. I couldn't find an explanation by myself, and I couldn't find an explanation within the faith, because ultimately it was proposed to me as one of the greatest mysteries. But that wasn't, and that isn't enough for me. I am a truth seeker after all. I'm of the firm conviction that truth, the essence of truth, is always simple. It cannot be complicated, and it cannot be so complicated that the layman cannot understand it. For every human being I am convinced there is a path to God. It cannot be so mind-wrenching that a common man cannot understand his relationship towards God. It cannot be that complicated, and it cannot be irrational. Your Lord is not a Lord of confusion after all. Listen guys, I'm not making this video to convince anybody. I'm not here to tell you that I'm right now. There is no trinity. I'm not here to debunk anything either. I'm not here to debate. I'm not here to prove a point. I'm simply here to share my perspective as I've always done. For the past two years I've been wrestling with this subject, and I cannot believe it. That's it. That's the truth. I know that this will let down many of my viewers, but hey, this is nothing new for Bobby's perspective. I let down the vegans. I let down the Macedonians. That's the name of the game on this channel. I simply share my perspective, take it or leave it. You will have to make your own experience. And if the trinity truly is a satisfying concept of God for you, then more power to you and joy. I am happy for you. My God is not three. My God is one. No matter if you read it in the Bible, no matter if you pray in silence, there is only one address, the creator of all things, the ultimate reality, absolute union, absolute perfection, the absolute itself. There is no other in the supreme being. That is the supreme being. The supreme being cannot have any other persons. And again, if you want to believe that Jesus is God, that is fine. Jesus, for me, is a God sent. Jesus' message is what brings you to God. Jesus is by that definition a son of God. But in the way that it is described, I can find no truth within that statement. They say that God has begotten a son. But on the other hand, they say that Jesus is eternal. But was there not a begotting? So if there was a begotting, a birthing, if you will, that must have happened at some point. Even the relationship explanation, the archetype of father and son, already implies that the father was there before.  I don't understand what the reasoning behind it is. For two years straight, guys, believe me, I've been praying on it. I've been meditating on it. I've been trying so hard to believe it. In the end, I found myself trying to make myself believe that the Trinity is true. But today I have to speak my mind. I cannot believe it. No matter what I do, I cannot believe it. I had plenty of experiences, be it through psychedelics or be it through silent praying. Even if you look into Christian mystics such as Meister Eckhardt, you will see that in the end there is always a description about the total unity of God. Even though within the Christian context, they still rely on a Trinity that that original union then splits into almost like a tree that splits into three branches. And that is fine if that makes you happy yet again. However, it is nothing but a concept and God cannot be defined with such limited concept. I don't believe, I can't believe that you can define God as such. I can understand the idea behind it. God is the ultimate mystery. God the Creator can never be fully grasped and this is why humans need a human to guide them on their way. I get it and this is what the prophets have done even before Jesus, you had Moses or Abraham and those prophets guided the people of their time towards the truth of monotheism, the one God. And again, it even says in the Bible, here Israel, your God is one. It's very straightforward but because people are in such dire need of understanding God they attributed human attributes to God in order to quantify His majesty, His essence. But ultimately, are you not still left with the complete miracle of who the real Creator is? Even if you want to attribute Jesus as a part of the Holy Trinity you still don't understand what God truly is.  You don't. You simply have a story about Jesus Christ. You have the Gospels about Jesus Christ and then you have the interpretations of the Church Fathers. This is on what you base your belief. But the ultimate question is, do you know God? In the Bible it states, be still and know that I am God. Have you ever meditated on that? Have you ever reflected upon that? And again, even in orthodoxy, you have the so-called hesychast which is the silent prayer. Try it out. Try it out for yourself and then you will see what you will find. Seek and ye shall find. Again, you can find that in the Bible. Again, I'm not here to convince anybody. You can believe what you want. I don't want anybody to believe what I'm saying here. I'm not making this video to start a discussion, start a debate, debunk Christian orthodoxy. None of those things. I'm simply expressing myself as I've always done on this channel. This is why it's called Bobby's Perspective. And when I don't express myself freely on this channel, I'm not myself and I can't be happy. This really makes me happy. I know that many people treat YouTube as a job and they do certain things that will be successful commercially. I don't do it for that reason. I do it as an honest self-expression. And if I don't express myself honestly, I am not honest in front of God. I cannot live in delusions. Hence, I'm seeking truth. Hence, I'm expressing myself truthfully. Alright, guys. And this is it for today's video. Let me know in the comments what you think. Do you believe in the Trinity? Do you believe in the One God? Do you believe Jesus' God? Let us have a chat. Thank you so much for your participation. Thank you so much for your support, guys. If you liked the video, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And as always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.