Live from Las Vegas, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering IBM Insight 2015, brought to you by IBM. Now your host, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin. So it happens when we do the switch. Thank you, Sam. Okay, hey, here we are, we're back. We're live from Las Vegas, everybody. This is theCUBE. theCUBE goes out, we extract the events. We extract the signal from the noise, we go out to the events. We're here at IBM Insight 2015 at the Mandalay Bay. Jonathan Eppers is here. He's the CEO and founder, co-founder of RADPAD. Really interesting story there. And Phil Buckaloo is the vice president of Enterprise Mobile at IBM. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Phil, good to see you again. Jonathan, talking a little bit about your startup offline, really exciting times. Let's start there, RADPAD. What's so rad about RADPAD? Well, the name first. No, we started RADPAD because actually I was kind of trying to solve my own personal issue. I was looking for an apartment about three years ago. I live in Los Angeles. And LA's second biggest rental market in the country. And there's a lot of people looking for apartments. It's very competitive. And finding a great place is actually really difficult. And so, two guys, Tim Tyler and I started RADPAD to help people sort of find apartments easier. Really around their phone. Most people in LA drive around neighborhoods looking for apartments. And so, what do you have when you're driving around? You have your phone. And being able to pull up your phone on a street and see what's for rent around you and have all the information at your fingertips was key to our early success. So, this is like mobile first. Yeah, it's a mobile first company. We didn't have a website for the first six months. It was just an app. It was an iPhone app. That's what we started with. That's awesome. So, where are you at with RADPAD? You started in 2013. You funded the company, raised $14 million, I think you told me. Yeah, two and a half years old. Just moved into a new office in Culver City. We started in Los Angeles in terms of the product, but we've morphed out in the last year and a half. We're strong in LA, Chicago, DC. We're getting bigger in Boston. It's one of the guys on the show. Our boy, can use that. He's heard RADPAD in Boston, which is awesome. We're getting bigger in Texas. So, we're sort of taking a market-by-market approach. We rent things local, right? And when we go into a new city, we really want to know the city. And we want RADPAD to feel like it's a local part of the city. Hi, Phil, what's going on here?  Absolutely. Multi-billion dollar firms. We absolutely do. But we also sell to guys like Jonathan that are looking to leverage mobile and try to get data and get it in the right way and use those insights to help him reach his customers in really new and cool ways. And I think the fact that IBM is able to go high and low and be able to deliver solutions that really all enterprises of all sides need to mobilize their business and get the most out of the data that exists in the world today. So, how did you guys find each other? Did you guys do a sales call?  I mean, you're afraid of the big blue, but how did that all happen? Give us your perspective, Jonathan.  And we started, we were on sort of a smaller architecture. That's what you need when you're small. But as we grew, we grew really quickly. That architecture no longer sort of scaled well with the company. And we started running into issues where the site would run slower. And so we went out and we were looking for a solution. Our backend team was comprised of just one guy at the time, I was looking for a sort of a service that we could use that scale, you know, millions of listings and still deliver the kind of performance that we needed to give our customers. And we found Cloudant. This is back in 2013 before IBM acquired Cloudant. And it was very easy to install and integrate on our product.  At first, we were a little nervous because, you know, it's like, we didn't know what to expect. But honestly, it's been an awesome relationship. And what's great about Cloudant is it just works. And last year, we haven't had to call Cloudant one time for a support or service call. It just works and enables our team to sort of build great products and innovate on top of that without having to be experts sort of on the architecture. So why were you nervous when IBM bought Cloudant? Just to find a big company coming in. I mean, you don't think of IBM as sort of a fast moving company, right? And when you're a startup, like the key to sort of being successful early on is you got to move fast. And so, you know, I wasn't familiar. I obviously knew IBM, but sort of wasn't familiar with other products. And so the first thing we got was a letter from IBM, saying, hey, we just acquired Cloudant and you're going to start sending your invoices to us.  And it's been not the case at all. The pricing structure has been great. We're a startup. We can't afford to spend a lot of money on this. And the support has been great when we need it. And like I said, before we came here, I asked sort of our engineering team, when was the last time you contacted IBM or Cloudant? And they said, we haven't had it to you because it just works. And that's something I like to hear. So you've got a self-service sort of environment and it's up for the cloud, obviously, right? That's right. You're not hosting your own. That's right. So whether our customers are using RADPAD, is they're out driving around in their cars or they're like, guess what, when I like got here to Las Vegas, I opened the app to see what sort of runs around here or you got work on your computer. The service just works and it works fast across different platforms. So tell me more about RADPAD and how it differentiates from the real estate sites like Julio or Zillow. The first thing is, we sort of see ourselves as like renter focus. What I mean by that is, I'm a renter and my team is renters. So we're really solving a lot of our own challenges. And one of the key differences when we first started RADPAD is we required all of the listings to have at least three photos. And I know it doesn't sound groundbreaking, but in our industry, when you're looking for places, like we kind of first look with our eyes. And so we required three photos, but what that caused was this immense amount of data that we were collecting on the back end.  Yeah, it's like, I'm not renting that. It's like, why did the person put up one photo? You know, they want me to drive across town and rush our traffic to see this place. And so we thought by putting up more, you know, better data, more photos, people could make better decisions and they could make better decisions. When they get there, they would convert higher. And that's actually what we're finding is that our customers are converting higher because they have better information to make better decisions. So Phil, what's, do you add your perspective to this conversation? I think some of the things that Jonathan mentioned are really key, and they really point to really some of the changes that are fundamentally reshaping, you know, a lot of the business we're in. The fact that Jonathan's team is able to go get infrastructure with a database as a service, he mentioned briefly that it's a NoSQL database. Well, that's very different than a lot of the work that we've done with traditional backends, and it's a lot faster. And for mobile devices, mobile apps, that's absolutely critical, to be able to make those changes very quickly and having a company like IBM do a lot of the plumbing. And I'll say that since we acquired Cloudin, you know, we knew that those guys were a leader in the space for NoSQL databases and databases as a service. The way more and more companies want to consume through that digital OPEX, pay a little only when you use it kind of a mode. And we've actually had the leadership teams from Cloudin has actually pervaded a good chunk of the IBM teams. We of course, from the traditional IBM businesses, have been adding in a lot of other capabilities, like we added a lot more encryption to the devices and the ability to be able to do additional scaling and add more of your use cases so that you can start as a small company like Jonathan has, but then scale and grow from there to be able to support lots of other industries, banking, insurance companies, telcos, all around the world where we've got a great presence.  Maybe talk about your business a little bit and maybe sort of break it down.  Yeah, absolutely. You know, we've got over 5,000 customers that have interacted with IBM and our mobile first solutions. Those of you listening to our CFO, we talked about our businesses quadrupled in the mobile space, lot of growth, lot of momentum here. And one of the reasons that, you know, we're trying to make a push out here today is because of the importance of pulling that analytics in and that insight so that you can get the most of your mobile apps. Jonathan mentioned the importance of photos. Having those unstructured data and being able to use that and deliver a compelling experience for your users, that's fundamental and that's really what's driving a lot of the improvement in business productivity that we're seeing from a lot of our clients and we are seeing a lot of business benefits as well. So Jonathan, where do you want to take the company and what do you want from IBM in terms of helping you get there? Well, certainly we want to be international. We want to make it so that people can move around from country to country and that process of moving is as seamless as we're trying to make it here in the States if you want to go from here to London or China. And certainly as we grow that and we add, you know, there's more data and more people using RADPAD, it's going to be important we have a back end that supports that growth. And I think that's the thing that I love most about IBM and with Cloud and is that it's just been easy and we have a small team and so when we have to dedicate resources to sort of fixing things, analyzing things, they can't spend a time on working on the innovative things that we're trying to do that is going to move for RADPAD forward. And I think for us, that's what we look for and people that we partner up with. Let me just add a little bit because I think of what Jonathan's looking at in his future for his company is consistent with what a lot of our enterprises and small companies are facing. They need to be able to expand to a global footprint but they need that performance that you get from a company like Cloud. Cloud rests on a lot of our data centers based on the software technology and that allows you to put the data in the geographies where you need to. That helps a lot of our big companies with data residency requirements can also help with performance because you get that data in the right format for mobile developers, JSON, NoSQL data but you can have it close to where it's being consumed by the end user. And that's really a key part of our strategy to be able to scale with our clients, benefit from things like having the data where they need it, other data residency requirements and that's really something that we think is really important to all of our clients. So you guys are moving fast. You see, you raise 14 million, you do another raise, right? So a little growth injection to help you take this thing globally which is great, it's ambitious. And competitively, there's guys like we mentioned a couple before and I've talked about VRBO but that's sort of rental for vacation rentals. They short-term me, I feel like I want to travel somewhere, right? Right, so do you have a lot of competition or are they starting to see what you do? Yeah, I know it's a very competitive marketplace and I think one of the ways we've been successful is A, focus on mobile. My background was designed, my other co-founder Tyler, his background was designed. So between the two of us, RAP has a user experience that's really made for consumers where traditionally in this marketplace it's been built for sort of the landlords. And there's this digital divide between renters and landlords. For example, 90% of renters in the country still write a check to pay their rent. Why do they write a check? Because that's the only thing that the landlord will accept. So we built Pay With Rad Pad and actually bridges that gap by allowing renters to use a credit card, debit card, or Apple Pay to pay their rent. And what we do is we cut the landlord a check for the renter. So the renter can still use a credit debit card which is what we want to use but my landlord will still get the check. And I don't have to bother my landlord and say, hey, we'll sign up on Rad Pad so I can pay you through Rad Pad. So how do you get paid?  We take a small percent of the payment transaction but really the bigger idea is to help people sort of streamline that process of getting an apartment. So one of the biggest frustrations for a lot of people is, hey, I found a place, now I got to go through the process of getting it which is filling out a rental application, doing a credit report, waiting for the landlord to kind of approve you. I can take a couple days, there's anxiety there. So by March, April will be at a point where you can actually do the entire transaction on our platform. So as a renter, you can tell us what you want, you can tell us who you are, which includes your credit score and your income and in real time, landlords can qualify you so Rad Pad can say, hey, look John, you qualify for this apartment today, hypothetically I can click a button, sign a lease and through Rad Pad pay the landlord in a matter of seconds. And so the landlord would pay for that service, is that right? Landlords will pay to be able to instantly qualify renters in real time. Right, I mean, think of the value of that. I mean, they should be doing that anyway. They should be paying somebody to qualify or they should be doing it themselves. I can imagine if you list an apartment and you get 20 people to reach out to you, but who are these people? I've got to call them, I've got to meet with them, that's a lot of time. What if we could tell you immediately who these people are? They smoke, they have a pet, how big is the pet? What's our credit score? It's pretty exciting. So where do you get in those analytics? Is IBM supplying those? Is it sort of third party data that you're... Yeah, a lot of these users are generated so people give us this information or we've gone out and partnered up with like, for example, we just did a partnership with TransUnion which we're very excited about to populate the credit piece of our data. IBM has done, and with Cloud, it really just kept the service up. And... That's what you want. That's what we want. Give me infrastructure and make it invisible. Exactly. Invisible. If Radpads down, people go use another, one of our competitors, not using our product, but slow, they go use another one of our competitors. So, you know, Cloud sort of allows us to build these great new things much more quickly than if we had to spend time doing this ourselves. So talk about the data sources that you're ingesting.  Yeah, we're sucking a lot of data. A lot of it comes from listings. Every day we process more than 100,000 listings. It's about 15 million photos a month in terms of the amount of photos that come through Radpads. We get data from renters that are coming on Radpads and actually filling out these like, questionnaires we're asking them, where they live, where they work. We get location data that we're using to help us sort of understand where our customers are at. I mean, if we go to a market like Chicago, it's really helpful to know that 60, 70% of our customers want to live in these neighborhoods. And we can focus in on those neighborhoods versus trying to spend a lot of money all around Chicago. So there's a lot of data that comes in Radpads and we sort of use it differently to kind of make decisions. And how do you handle all that data? In terms of like, how do we like understand it? Yeah, are you building a data pipeline?  So we use like off the shelf products like Google Analytics and mobile analytics tools like Flurry to kind of help us look at sort of that data in real time. We actually also build our own data tools, which is kind of unique, I think. But our engineering team loves to be able to analyze data on their own. Sometimes we can't find a service that works for us. So we'll build it ourselves. So is it fair to say your IP is sort of the integration of all this stuff and your business model? Is that right? I think it's yeah, it's the product. It's the sort of the data. I mean, the data is really what's made Radpads very valuable. I think one of the things like, unlike our competitors like Trillian Zillow, who have no idea who renters are, we can actually tell you who our customers are. We know their ages, we know where they live, we know where they work, what their incomes are. We know if they have a pet, we know what the pet's name is. That's not something our competitors can tell sort of the landlords who these people are.  I mean, they're pretty weak for the purpose, the use case that you're talking about. You guys are very specific. Yeah, we built Radpads and we focus on demand, and that sort of demand is bringing in the supply side. Cool. All right, we got to leave it there. Phil and Jonathan, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE and sharing your story. It was great. Great, thanks. All right, keep it right there. We'll be back after a short break. This is theCUBE, we're live from IBM Insight 2015. Right back.


So there are plenty of bosses you will come across during the main story, but this one for me has had the best loot so far. So whatever you do when you get to this stage, please loot the body of this bus people. As it gone guys, my name is DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, leave a like, really helps out and if you like what you're seeing and want to see more Cyberpunk, be sure to subscribe. Okay, so during the main quest after the prologue 14 missions in, you will come to a mission called Platesafe. This mission consists of you working with Takamara. The mission will consist of you having to take out snipers and then going on to find a Netrunner. Upon finding the Netrunner, you will be confronted by a bus called Sandeyu Order.  So take him down. Now he is a little bit awkward to fight as he is so quick, but thanks to Cyberpunk and its bugs, I'm going in the game. Well for me, he just stood there and allowed me to lay down that damage on him.  Doing so or not doesn't change the outcome of the loot you can grab from him. So do what you have to do and take him down. Upon him lying there or floating there as in my case, loot that body. You should get at least two legendos and an epic. The epic is an iconic sword and it's called the Jinchumaru. And this thing is just utterly brutal. They are 249.7 damage per second and a 99 damage stat with a 2.5 attack speed so quick for a melee weapon which is great. With a plus 63 to 77 physical damage minus 8.20 or stamina cost while attacking which is amazing. A plus 32.8 crit damage bonus and a plus 15% bleeding chance. Also guys this sword gains 100% crit chance while Kerenzikov is active. Last striking a combo deals double damage and double damage against enemies twice your current health. So it's quite the sword it really is. You also get this Arazaka Engineer hard hat with headset. This headwear has a 21 armor stat too. It also has 3 mud sluts which is great. And you also get the Arazaka Polycarbonate Laced Bulletproof Aramid Rest. This has a 72.5 armor stat with a plus 15% crit damage bonus. Increases Keren capacity by 5 also and it also has a mud slut so that's pretty amazing. So yeah guys just a quick video under loot you can get from older items I feel you must get so when you do come across this dude and you do kill him or take him down don't forget to loot his buddy. And yeah guys the end of the video is near just a short but sweet one reminding all you amazing people of the loot you will sometime or another come across so grab it while you can because you can't go back to this dude. And on that note the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more Cyberpunk be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video a upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


A Burkina Faso court has charged former president Blaise Campari in absentia in connection with the 1987 murder of the then-president Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa's post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic massist revolutionary often called Africa's Che Guevara, was assassinated during a coup led by his former friend Campari. Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Campari has been charged in absentia in relation to the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara. It's one of the most infamous killings in Africa's post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic, massist revolutionary often known as Africa's Che Guevara, was assassinated during a coup led by his former friend Campari. Campari then went on to rule Burkina Faso for 27 years. He was ousted in a 2014 uprising and fled to Ivory Coast where he is believed to still live. He's previously denied involvement in Sankara's death. Sankara remains a hero for many in West Africa. He ruled Burkina Faso for four years, having seized power in a 1983 coup. In that time he became the first leader to denounce the menace of AIDS, took a stand against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and promoted women's rights. On Tuesday a military tribunal charged Campari with complicity in Sankara's assassination, undermining state security and receiving cadavers. That's according to a court document seen by Reuters. Campari's former right-hand man Gen. Gilbert Diandere was also charged with several crimes including complicity in the assassination. Diandere, who has been in prison since a failed coup in 2015, was in court to hear the charges and will enter a plea later. Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant for Campari in 2015 but Ivory Coast has declined to hand him over.


Welcome to the show it's me John Park and we are here for another episode of JP's product pick of the week. Thank you everyone for stopping by. If you're in one of our streaming platforms and wondering where's all the chat going on you might want to check out right over here on Discord. If you go to adafru.it slash discord and then hop on over into the live broadcast chat channel that's where everyone is. Also some people over on the YouTube chat I don't want to forget them. Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by. So let's see before I go any further I want to let you know where to go to find this week's product pick. If you head to that QR code or this URL right down here it's product ID 3417 head on over there and you will find our product pick. Now not only do you see it there you can throw it in your cart at a huge discount and there's no need for a coupon code just put it in the cart and buy it during the show. You'll get it for half price after the show goes back to regular price so don't dally don't daily dally if you are thinking of getting it and like I said there's no coupon code it's just priced to sell. So let's see before I tell you about this week's product pick I'm going to jump back in time a little bit and have Lady Aida tell us all about it so please take it away Lady Aida. This feather wing tripler. It's a tripler. Wow. Okay it's not the most exciting thing but it's pretty handy. Are we going to have a quadrupler?   I know. Well you know complacency. So this is a tripler so you've already had a doubler and a proto wing so this is you know you have we have enough feathers and feather wings now it makes sense to have a tripler. You can now connect a feather and two feather wings and what's nice is you know maybe they both have displays on them or you know you want to have both of them available. You don't need stacking for some reason this is just a very easy way to plug in all your feathers. Again you can always stack them but maybe you already soldered headers on this tripler will make it so you don't need to. So you plug it into this breakout board and you're good to go. So I have like a little mini sort of example over here. Give me a phone. Yeah so you could you know use the phone and the phone of feather and you know feather calling OLED for display and then maybe make a little button grid. So this has a haza and I haven't but powered off of the lipo battery I have an OLED and I have you know a Laura feather wing now this is a fake demo I'll admit like it wouldn't work if I sat down and wrote code for it but just a demonstration of like okay maybe you'd want to have you know packet data going from the radio here and then you know to Wi-Fi and then you would have information on the OLED telling you you know what the latest packet you've received is and the signal strength maybe the battery level. So I think like definitely having you know your feather and then maybe the OLED for information like debug display and then sensing or radio or as someone said in the chat this is a breakout bird oh and that fan was a breeze.  Okay. Boards of a feather flock together. Yeah. So it's a tripler it's simple it comes a little mini kit you get a big prototyping area as well if you want to stick some other stuff in there but all the pins are connected through so you know whatever this pin up here is connected through to these two so just plug and play. That's right it is just plug and play. Also my broadcast software disappeared as I was trying to switch over there. So thanks lady Aida for telling us about this. I am really excited about this one. So let me jump down here to my down shooter. You can see it right there in all of its shiny glory as well as all of the accessory headers you get with it. So this is my product pick of the week this week it is the feather wing tripler. Now this is great for tacking together a few different feathers and feather or rather a feather and a few different feather wings. It's also great for adding a little bit of an extra circuit some input and things like that and having a really convenient place to solder it because one of the things you'll find as you're putting together displays with inputs with your microcontroller is that that's a lot of wiring to contend with or a lot of interconnects. So as you can see actually let me let me jump over to this learn guide here. So this is actually a learn guide that we have for the proto feather wing as well as the doubler and the tripler and actually the diagram for the doubler is really nice here. If we jump over to the doubler pin out you'll see this is a nice clear indication of how things are wired. So all of the feather pins are not only doubled so you can put a header and stick your feather your feather wing into one side but you also get an inner row that you can solder to so that means that if you have a little circuit in the center in the proto area just reach out to any of the pins that are available there as well as all of these power rails. So there's a three volt line that runs all the way through and there's a ground line that runs all the way through and this is true of the tripler as well it's just well one more bigger. So if you take a look here in my down shooter view let me clear that stuff out of the way and I'll show you how we can put one together so here I've got feather tripler I've soldered in all of these socket headers and then what I'll do is I'm going to take a feather and place that right in the middle there and then I'm going to put a display on the top here and then finally I'm going to use this joy feather wing on the bottom so I've got these two feather wings OLED feather wing joy feather wing get a bunch of extra buttons here and the joystick and I have the feather in the middle so if I go ahead and power this up you can see it's as if we stacked those things except you wouldn't really want to stack the joystick on top of the display or the display on top of the joystick you can see here no fake demo actual demo I'm just printing out some of my info from the feather wing so I've got the joystick coordinates there or if I'm pressing buttons I can see those light up there so you also could add some prototype circuits in here maybe add a little I squared C header for some Stem aqt stuff and and other sensors so it's a really great way to go and add things to your project without needing much extra wiring one thing this also does is it means that you can pretty much keep all of your header pins consistent so most of the time when I get a new feather I solder on feather header pins pointing down that means even if I want to add something like let's say this joy feather wing to it I don't have to worry about oh no I wish I had soldered sockets on the top instead I can just head on over to a feather wing and put those together the tripler in this case let's see if you jump back over to product page there and I'm gonna go ahead and refresh that you should see we're getting this now for half price four dollars twenty five cents will buy one for you it comes with the PCB as well as all six of those individual socket headers that you need right there what else the other demo that I wanted to show you so this is I think that that demo shows you kind of a nice simple prototyping sort of setup but you can actually use this in your finished projects as well if you'll remember this guy this is my pip boy 2040 so that's a feather and I'm actually putting a feather m4 a joy feather wing and then I have a large display which is kind of offset but again I'm using the capabilities of the prototyping area to connect things up and so you can see there this will strap nicely to your wrist if I put this into our down shooter here and take a look see it's booting up there if I go ahead and let's pull this apart a bit might take me a second because I've got threaded inserts there so I'll need to oh you know what actually I've got this all yeah you know what forget me taking that all apart there but I think you can see it in there left a little space for you to see there you can see there there's the tripler and I'm using some of that little proto area at the bottom there to add this little on off switch that I have there's some space in this case for a battery to set there the feather is under there so here's a case where I'm actually stacking a feather wing on top of Heather and using the tripler so I get a lot of really nice neat prototyping area to put together a more finished project so let's see let me see if there's any questions over in the chats jump over to our discord where'd you go discord let's see it is like a flock of feathers you're right Scottie beam me up says rich sad says they've got roughly 32 feathers and wings all right a lot of permutations possible there yeah the tfts fit really nicely on there as well the sky's the limit you know our feather ecosystem is huge there are just tons and tons of possible add-ons that you can put and after a while stacking them becomes a little bit unwieldy so I actually really like this form factor in fact if you take a look at it it gives you a footprint that is still smaller than something like a raspberry pie it's probably roughly Arduino sized in fact grab a metro here so this is your typical Arduino Uno sized board here's your feather wing tripler it's about the same size they're not compatible in any particular way but that gives you an idea of all the extra horsepower you can pack in using feathers and the tripler into pretty much the same form factor without getting any taller without growing the thing too big so let's see have I missed anything let me know if you've got any questions in the chat otherwise I'll remind you head on over to that URL right there that's PID 3417 you go to adafru.it slash 3417 that'll take you right there and you're going to get this for half off today I don't have any code examples or anything to show with this one because it's just really a physical pairing together of things but that is going to do it for today let me hook a little cable on to here for hanging and let's see Rich said so they have a RP2040 airlift feathering and one of the music makers on one of these that's kind of a cool cool one there here's also a nice let me show this from the discord here's a nice image from C Grover on doing a little tripler at the base of this project here yeah so so you guys get it you people get it I should say really helpful for putting together your projects and prototypes so that's going to do it for today that is my product pick of the week it is the featherwing tripler hang that over here on the board and I'll encourage you I know there's a bit of a short one so you'll want to hop on this quick because you've got to purchase this during the show otherwise the discount disappears head back on over to the site and pick one or up to 10 of them up no resellers please and get your feather wings going all right thanks everyone for stopping by for 80 fruit industries I'm john park and this has been JP's product pick of the week bye


Hi, my name is Alberto Fernandes and I'm the head of the Digitalization and Democracy Program at International idea We together with the forum on information on democracy and democracy reporting international have recently published a policy brief That aims at providing a number of recommendations to private companies and to states How to protect the information environment during elections with three billion people Testing votes in 2024 It becomes fundamental to have an inter to protect the integrity of elections through safeguarding information environment we recommend doing this through for instance increasing the financial controls to political advertisement and that type of activities online to increase the collaboration of private companies with electoral management bodies to amplify correct electoral information online and to protect marginalized traditional marginalized communities online especially Woman and the LGTB community we believe these plus the older recommendations in the policy brief will help Increasing the resilience of our democracies against this information. Thank you


Activity for teaching passive voice, change the room. This is a tried and tested game that's been used with the passive voice for a long time. It's a lot of fun and easily adaptable to past and present tenses, although you may need to be creative if you want to use any future forms. Divide your class up into teams, and send one member from each team out of the room for 1-2 minutes. Have other students move things in the room, and then call the students back in. The idea is for them to say as many things as possible, that have been changed within a time limit, awarding a point for each correct sentence. It's important to set a time limit so that as many students as possible get a go. The sort of language you should expect is... The table has been moved. Have students enter the room without notice, the chair is being moved. The curtains were being closed when I walked in. To maximize student talk time, you can then have each student say something that wasn't spotted at the end of each round. The board markers were put on a chair.


Kern estimated 6,000 people have taken refuge in Gambia after fleeing the violence in the past week between the army and rebels in Kassamans in the south of Neverland, Senegal. The Gambian authorities announced on Saturday that the Senegalese army announced that it had launched an operation on 13 March against rebels in Kassamans, a region separated from north Senegal by Gambia. The army had indicated that their main objective is to dismantle the base of rebel military leader Salif Sadio, located along the northern border with the Gambia. The number of people fleeing the violence since March 13 now stands at 6,335, including 4,508. Displaced people said the Gambian National Crisis Management Agency in an official document transmitted Saturday to the AFP. Senegalese President Makisali has made definitive peace in Kassamans the priority of his second term.


What's up everybody Jason here from Jasper's case breaks calm We just sold out 1920 panini mosaic cello two box break pickings number three where we're randomizing the pelicans to one customer That buys two or more teams so how to get entered into that giveaway guys just straight up by two or more teams You buy two teams you get one enter into the giveaway you buy four teams to get two entries by six teams You get three entries Again all cars will ship on this as well guys, so let's go here to the list. Yeah, you got the last one The under last Bob Mojo So let's alphabetize it and let's see how many customers will get spots in the mixer or get spots Not in the mixer get spots to win the pelicans So Anthony got to that's one entry there Brenton you have to that's one entry Brian Crouch. I want to three four So that's two entries for you and one for Brenton Chris with two Dan with two each of you guys get an entry EA with one two three four five So you can only get two entries EA, but we'll give you that last Bob Mojo spot there Jesse with one two three four, so that's two spots Nick Stover with two and Oliver with two. Yeah, man. I've been pretty busy Had to squeeze in a little dinner break earlier Roger with two so men with two and they go 14 customer names out of the possible right there Not good for me I'm losing weight. I don't want to gain it All right Let's roll it and it's naked. It's just two times. Number one gets the pelicans one Two and we got two times Jesse at the top Congratulations, man. Oh You just won the pelicans There you go, guys. Oh The sharp blade so sharp to cut the top of the box off Not on T-Mobile mama very arsenal, but good thing it didn't Good thing you did it could have just cut up a Zion Williamson Genesis or something right now. 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So maybe If it gets here like at 11 or 12 then the time I would have started anyways I'm not super early. I don't know actually don't know how much we have this year and Like I said just depends on Depends on if we get the product on time What's laughable I'm a laugh about you're gonna get on Wednesday Some Travis Fulgum No Patrick, I'm trying to break it today man. You gotta do that filler Patrick So you can win a spot. I know you bought a couple spots, but you can win a spot for as low as 36 bucks Nice Aaron you going for Haley? Probably are huh 24 left I can't blame me. I guess all the guys. That's what they're going for, right? I'm actually more excited for Prism women's MBA. I'd love to get like a nice silver of Sabrina Inescu to the baller Yeah, guys, you know what I'll do so we can break that tonight if If we sell out that filler tonight I'll give away a hundred bucks and break credit the first two or the first two that are The first two that don't make it into the mixer. So basically number 10 and 11 Um, we'll give you 50 bucks each so Place in the top 11 out of the 32 and you get something back whether it's a spot in the mixer or 50 bucks each How about that guys? If you float that filler today, I'll give away 50 bucks and break credit or $100 in break credit given away The first two out numbers 10 and 11 get 50 bucks. Oh It should be soon. I believe it's supposed to be sometime in October I got to look at the blowout calendars. There's it's always rotating and moving, you know But it should be coming out within the next month or so Cam Reddish Prism Silver Cameron Johnson Auto Porter, Jr. Cam Reddish Deaudre Hunter Green Jonathan VPs Larry Bird Calari Troy Brown, Jr. RJ Barrett Donovan Mitchell Cam Reddish Julius Irving Tyce Jones Kendrick Nunn Zach Levine auto Porter, Jr. Mike Conley, Matisse Dival. Deaudre Hunter Green Derrick Favre is the Bronjays Will to win Oh Steve Nass Kendrick Nunn Seth Curry Silver containers follow a pope. 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My one thing is making chips out of chicken skin. What I like to do instead of braising chicken skin, which results in like this sort of rubbery, gross, inedible sheet of nothingness, is to pull the skins off first and then sandwich them between two cookie sheets to flatten them to make perfectly flat, thin, awesome chicken skin chips.  It should come off fairly easily. Find a natural seam and just kind of yank. Don't worry about breaking them. Chicken skin is really, really tough. It won't break. And what you want to do here is spread them out using your fingers as wide as possible. The more surface area they take up, the crispier and flatter they'll be. This is actually quite a lot of skin if you look at it, but it will shrink down to something much, much smaller. Spread them out. Spread them out. No overlap. And then we'll just put the second sheet over like you're tucking them in. So now that we've tucked in our chicken skins, it's time to bake them in the oven. I've preset our oven to 375 degrees, and we are going to bake these for precisely 20 minutes. This is about to be beautiful. Can't even tell they're the same thing. So you may be thinking to yourself, that's a lot of fat. Well, let me show you something.  Now that's fat that is no longer in on or even really around your chip because these are also going to drain on paper towels. I'm going to let these sit for 10 minutes because then they're easier to remove. All right. It's time to get these chicken skins off the sheet and onto a layer of paper towels to drain. So very gently, come off a nice one piece right on there to keep draining. Come on over here. While these are still a little bit oily, we're going to season them with a little bit of salt and pepper because that will help it stick. So your chicken skin chips are done. They're nice and crispy. What I did here was I actually baked herbs into them. So we're going to take one of these little crisps. We're going to gather up some pimento cheese, kosher dill pickle chips, put that right on there, put a little slice of red onion on, a little bit of chopped chives. Eat? Yeah. Yes? Okay, great. Mmm. And that's it. They're keto, easy to make. Everybody will be interested in these, I promise you.  It's all rubbery. It's gross. Now, we have breathed new life into chicken skin. Like, who would have thought that was even possible?


Do you cross a bridge in your daily travels? If so, you should know you've got a 40% chance to be on a bridge, rated deficient. Now that doesn't mean it's about to fall down, but that it cannot handle current traffic because of width, height, or lane restrictions, or is restricted to reduced vehicle weights, or is simply closed. Even with massive efforts by federal, state, and local agencies, the number of bridges identified as deficient continues to grow, as they continue to age and wear, subject to traffic volume and vehicle weight never anticipated when they were designed. In other words, they're being identified faster than they can be fixed. And even when they are fixed, it's not the most popular activity with the motoring public. What can be done? How can available money, personnel, and time be stretched to meet the problem? This program is about something that's being done. By taking the steps from theory to traffic, by stepping back to go forward, by researching, designing, fabricating, and erecting modern timber bridges. That's right, wooden bridges. Not the terrorist idea of a wooden bridge, but a modern, unrestricted structure like this, or this. Did you know there are over 70,000 timber bridges nationwide that the U.S. Forest Service alone maintains about 12,000 of these bridges, adding 100 to 250 bridges annually. That modern timber bridges can have lower costs than conventional bridges. Or that they can be installed by small local construction firms or the municipal employees themselves. Or they can be erected in less time, reducing public inconvenience. To prove the feasibility of modern timber bridges, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation embarked on a demonstration timber bridge program. Construction began with a 48-foot two-lane bridge in College Township, Pennsylvania. This stressed timber bridge was built of western Douglas fir. And while satisfactory, it did not address one of the top priorities of Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey. Better utilization of the hardwood resources in the Commonwealth. Hardwood, traditionally used as furniture veneer, is an abundant, renewable resource. In fact, the states in the northeast, to produce most of the nation's oak, maple, and poplar, are growing twice as much timber as is being harvested. This is a raw material in abundant supply. Pendot was instrumental in the design and construction of a timber bridge with a hardwood steel composite deck. And then, went to what many feel could be the design for modern timber bridges. Glue laminated hardwoods. Glue laminated, usually referred to as glue lamp. A familiar example is the kitchen butcher block, constructed of thin strips of wood, sometimes of varying shades, and glued together. This glue lamp design seemed to answer the needs for producing a bridge from a renewable resource, hardwoods, and making it of such a design that it could be constructed by local forces. The entire project went through many stages. Many of these activities occurred simultaneously, so it will be easier to look at each part of the project as a single piece and then to bring them together when we build our bridge, when we have actually progressed from theory to tracking. View the program as if you were considering the installation of a modern timber bridge, asking, what do I get? Let's begin with design. Bridge design was the task of Gwen Dobson and Forman Incorporated. This was to be the first red oak glue lamp bridge designed for highway use. And it was to be a demonstration bridge, not an experimental bridge. As such, it had to have capacity. The final product was to have no weight restriction, competitive cost, an overall dollar value that helped to stretch local budgets, and construction methods that promoted the use of small construction firms or municipal employees. Listen to Richard Hughes, the design engineer, as he describes the process. The Department of Transportation along with Penn State University and Gwen Dobson and Forman searched Central Pennsylvania to find an ideal site for the implementation of a glue laminated hardwood bridge. After looking at several sites, we settled on one that was very close and proximity to the university and to Gwen Dobson and Forman's office so that monitoring could occur with ease. The location that we picked was in Ferguson Township in Center County. The bridge is located in the community of Baileyville, just off of Route 45 in Center County. The structure was a existing bridge of 40-foot span, two-lane structure, had a low volume of traffic across it. It was a township road. It was ideal bridge for what we were trying to achieve. The existing bridge was a reinforced concrete single span bridge that had deteriorated due to attack from salts. The bridge was approximately 50 years old with stone abutments. We recommended coming into that site with a single span, red oak, glue laminated hardwood bridge, two-lane structure. We approved the alignment a little bit. We maintained the same hydraulic opening, and at the same time we economically came back with a structure that was very competitive to the only other alternative they would have, which would be a steel or concrete superstructure. We took our standards that we were developing for PennDOT and put it into a package that consists of 15 sheets. And the 15 sheets basically gives any engineering firm a standard to follow. Now, we have designed these bridges up to 90-foot spans. So we know that this type of bridge concept will work up to 90-foot spans. We also know that it's competitive versus steel and concrete structures of similar spans and sizes. And that's the intent. We want to make these structures competitive price-wise. We want to ensure our clients that the bridges will last approximately 40 years, like any other structure that might be on the market. And at the same time, it's durable. The agricultural engineers and wood scientists at Penn State University focused their research efforts on assuring the quality of the glue-laminated hardwood components. The industrial adhesive, the glue, was selected by the Penn State research team and InSpec Incorporated at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a national leader in industrial adhesive production. Since the fabricated bridge parts were made of individual laminates, which had been made by joining random-length boards together, the adhesive had to be at least as strong as the wood itself. Shear block tests were conducted to measure the efficiency of the adhesive, as well as the efficiency of the finger joints. Actual test readings were well over the required strengths. The usual quality assurance process for wood relies on what is termed VSR, Visual Stress Rated. An experienced lumber grater can sort wood by visual characteristics known to influence its behavior. Knots, decay, slope of grain, density are just some of the items rapidly and efficiently evaluated. So efficient that a professional grater will have less than one out of 800 pieces misidentified. The red oak lumber was visually graded using this VSR method by the Penn State research team. But with the bridge design calling for bridge beams 35 feet in length and deck panels 28 feet long, a more scientific testing method had to be used. The overall objectives of that project include development of methods for gluing, structurally gluing Pennsylvania hardwoods, methods for preservative treating those hardwoods so that they don't rot when they're exposed to the elements in bridge applications and also for developing the allowable stresses that designers can use when they're designing hardwood glue laminated bridges in the field. The Penn State research team conducted the testing in accordance with the American Society of Testing Materials. The goal was to determine the strength of the red oak glue lam beam and to compare results for the untreated beam as well as the preservative treated beam. The load, the failure did occur in the vicinity or right at the location of the load point and it appears it was a tensile failure that initiated in this region and then traveled once it started to fail there it traveled back through that lamination. The failure occurred in the wood rather than in the glue line and that is important and that is critical. Over 100 beams were successfully broken by the Penn State research team. Their data confirmed that treated and untreated glue laminated northern red oak is a viable construction material. Unlike softwoods, most hardwood lumber is not generally available in standard dimension sizes. You've got to go to the source. And the members of the Penn State research team were able to procure the needed red oak from the nearby state correctional institution at Rockview, Pennsylvania. The research team supervised the selection of approximately 26,000 board feet. The trees were felled, trimmed, and taken from the forested area of the institution to an on-site sawmill. Here the red oak was rough cut, trimmed into board lengths, and once the rough cutting was finished the red oak was moved to a pre-drying facility in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Before the bridge components could be fabricated the moisture content of the wood had to be reduced. The wood had to be dried. This was done by allowing the cut boards to dry to a predetermined moisture content of 12% plus or minus 2%. This design value took into consideration the timber. Once assembled in place over the stream would ultimately reach a moisture content of approximately 19%. Once the wood reaches the initial dry level the boards were ready for shipment to the fabricator. UNIDILA laminated products, Sydney, New York, was the nearest plant certified by the American Institute of Timber Construction. UNIDILA was experienced in softwood timber bridge construction and willing and able to use their expertise in fabricating the first Lulam hardwood bridge designed for highway use. UNIDILA's fabricated products go beyond bridges. They are a major manufacturer of structural support beams. These arch beams are used extensively in the construction of churches, youth clubs, anywhere the architect wants an open, uncluttered interior design. To underscore UNIDILA's faith in their product the main support beam in the plant is a Lulam softwood construction. Normally lumber received at the plant is graded. Marked for trimming with a graphite marker the trimming machine will sense and separated by grade, banded and moved to a storage area. But the red oak for the Ferguson bridge had already been graded, trimmed, separated and stored. As part of the research project each board that had been selected as part of a bridge beam was tested for stiffness what the researchers term MOE Modulus of Elasticity. These values were used to determine in theory how much each beam would bend that is deflect under a live traffic load. These values were to be used as comparison against the actual values to be obtained when the finished bridge was tested. There were a lot of volts. The actual fabrication of the individual laminates into beams or deck pieces begins here. The boards are loaded into this turntable conveyor. The turntable positions the board against a locking plate and is finger jointed and encoded with the industrial adhesive, the glue, at both ends. Move to a conveyor belt where the individual pieces are joined. Note how easily. Then to cure the end joints, moved again along the conveyor under a radio frequency dryer, what the plant personnel called a microwave for wood. And then the boards are cut into the ordered lengths. The boards are then fed into a planer. The planer has three sixteenth inch exposed cutting edges and is programmed to reduce the eight and one half inch to nine inch entry width to an eight inch width at exit. With the surface spoil and dirt removed and the board clean, the chance for successful adhesion is increased immeasurably. The board then moves into the gluer. The glue is an especially formulated alcohol based product. Then to the assembly area where the individual pieces are formed into a unit. The individual laminates are stacked against a form wall. There is a window of time of up to 40 minutes where the adhesive works best. So there is a concertive effort to move this process along. Tension bars are attached, tightened, and retained in that position until the form pieces are ready to have the tension bars removed and moved to the finishing area. Where it emerges is a smooth finished piece. All required drilling was done, the product was checked again and then ready for shipment. While the bridge being constructed is a modern timber bridge, the construction process is very similar to that of a conventional steel or concrete bridge, especially in the early stages. The bridge site is on a local collector road with a posted 40 mile per hour speed limit and an average daily traffic of 200. The old bridge was a 44 year old reinforced concrete T-beam with a 12 ton rating. The required traffic control was established and the old bridge was removed. The existing stone abutments were kept. This has been a common approach for the demonstration bridge project. While the old bridges themselves are in need of replacement, the abutments have usually proved to be usable with only minor repairs. This is a significant cost savings. A front end loader was placed in the stream within a copper dam made of a line of sandbags to contain any disturbed sediment. The loaders smooth the area in preparation for the placement of the riprap. The loader got into and out of the stream with the aid of this small crane. Rural bridge construction means small work areas. You'll find you cannot get along without the crane. The loader was removed. The sediment disturbed by the loader was pumped into a holding basin. The riprap was started and placed stone by stone. Repairs on the old abutments consisted of burring off the ends of the embedded pins using mortar to bring the abutment level and checking that it was. Next the construction of the gabion baskets opened mesh wire baskets filled with aggregate. While gabions have been around a long time this is fairly new. Geotextile fabrics have long been used on larger construction projects but now they are becoming quite common on smaller ones. The baskets were placed and joined together and filled. The bridge beams arrived. After their departure from the fabricating plant at Unadilla the bridge components had been shipped to Coppers Incorporated of Muncie, Pennsylvania for treatment with the commercial preservative. All of the wood was treated to a minimum penetration depth of 0.25 inches. The beams were removed from the truck and set to the side. The bridge design called for the beams to be anchored to the abutments with a galvanized steel plate. Construction plans had the plate first secured to the abutment then the beams seated. But it was found to be easier to first attach the plate to the beam and then attach the beam and plate to the abutment. Once all the beams were seated they were checked for elevation and some minor adjustments were made. Next the plans called for the installation of mid span diaphragms designed to provide lateral stability to the beams. Diaphragm installation required some field drilling. Here and wherever field drilling was done every field drill hole was coated with preservative as were the bolts themselves. Once the mid span diaphragms were installed the end wall diaphragms were next. The end wall diaphragms were critical as the bridge skew was severe a full 45 degrees. The end wall diaphragms were 39.5 feet long and extended the full skew length. Again each piece of galvanized hardware was coated prior to installation. Now the deck. The deck pieces were 6 inches thick in lengths of the 28 feet long. The deck was designed as a non-interconnected deck. However one half of the deck was constructed with one and one quarter inch diameter dowels. This was done so that PENDOT could observe the performance differences if any between the interconnected panels and the non-interconnected panels. Heavy duty felt was placed on the end wall diaphragms and on the beams. Again the crane proved its worth as the deck panels were swung out and placed into position. All pre-drilled and field-drilled holes were filled with preservative. The bolts were coated and tightened. This continued until the deck was in place. Spacing of one half inch between the deck panels was left to allow for the anticipated expansion due to moisture absorption. These one half inch openings were filled with oakum to prevent the asphalt paving material filling the space. Once the deck panels were placed the only remaining timber work was the guide rails. The design called for ten inch by twelve inch glue laminated posts spaced six feet on center. Six inch by eight inch glue laminated rails and a ten inch by twelve inch glue laminated curb. With full length the geotextile membrane between the guide rail system and the deck. As with the deck the holes and the bolts were coated prior to insertion. As the guide rail work was being completed material was being placed for final grading. Conventional concrete wing walls were installed in the area prepared for the asphalt paving. The bridge project had a couple of interested bystanders and as it turned out they had influence. The grass seed used had to be of a type that would not adversely affect them. While construction methods differed common to all of PennDOT's demonstration bridge projects is the live load test. Research at Penn State predicted the live load deflection values. Those figures were further checked by the testing of the individual boards prior to fabrication. Now the research team had to find out how the bridge would actually perform. Previously identified measuring points were selected and marked. The test used two tri-axle trucks loaded at over 70,000 pounds each. Each truck was weighed and scale readings were taken and recorded for each bearing axle. Measurements were taken with the bridge unloaded with one truck in position A, position B, and with both trucks on the bridge and again with the bridge unloaded. Predicted live load deflection was 0.85 inches. Actual live load deflection was 0.55 inches. The total cost of the bridge including design and construction was $250,000 and that will decrease significantly when standard designs and specifications are available in 1993. The bridge was built successfully by a small local construction firm using a minimum of specialized equipment. The notice to proceed was given on September 6, 1991. The bridge was opened to traffic November 1, 1991, just eight weeks later. So what do you get with a modern timber bridge? From the guy who built one and working with small contractors and doing municipality work which would be very important to the economy because we can do small bridges like this at low cost. And the man who bought one? We believe that this timber bridge will provide an alternative to traditional concrete bridge construction and should be more economical than the traditional concrete bridge construction. Maybe it is time for the construction business to stop talking about the thousands of yards of concrete and the miles of steel and look at a neglected renewable resource. Trees make timber. Timber can make bridges.


between Ellison and Hasso Plotner. I mean, Ellison makes fun of his Einstein-like hair. He says, you'll never compete with us in database. He says, that's like me playing Kobe in basketball. I mean, it's great theater. It's great drama. We'll be covering it. I mean, the war between those two companies' data is fantastic. That's really great, isn't it? The thing that I'm excited about and covering SAP in this world that we're following closely is the fact that the world we're living in is changing and everyone's recognizing it and that now you're seeing the tech giants create an environment where your work and your play, what you do in your leisure time, is exactly the same. There's no boundaries between the two. People who are used to technology and the consumer side, all the great experiences of gaming, iPhone, Android, set-top boxes will all come into the enterprise. And I think it's just going to be a completely amazing opportunity for the future, future workforce, how people globally communicate. And I think that's going to be the disruption. Did you notice the Pinterest-looking field to the HCM technology today that they show when they're doing a few of the demos for success factors? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was definitely a Pinterest kind of perspective. So, Alex, I'm not sure if you recognize the fact that Reggie Lewis was on the Cube. Reggie Jackson. I mean, Reggie Reggie Lewis was on the Cube. Of course I recognize Reggie. Best of star, sorry, my northeastern days. Reggie Jackson, Yankees' leader. So we're going to show the clip. So I asked him a question about the hip move in Game 4, the World Series. And, Dave, here's the clip right now. Look at the screen. So Thurman Munson scores. Rest in peace, Thurman Munson. What a great scene. Lou Penilla hits the ground, line drives at the shortstop. He's about to catch it. Reggie has to freeze, watch, and then he throws his hip at it. He is in the base path. I cooperate with Reggie Jackson's story. I support it. Look at this. Look at it. He didn't move. He didn't move. He just let it hit him. He's like a Don Baylor. He just created a wall. Yeah, did he? And he was sort of looking away. He did not step towards it, but he kind of rolled his hip. Look at it. Hey, ball's coming. Which way do I go? But he was looking at the opposite. See, he was looking to the catcher. See, back to him. But he was in the base path. Back to him. He really is. He was in the back. Mark, can we run that back and see again? So watch this. Great stuff. Watch when the ball hits him from that view from second base. He said this is old school baseball. Look at this shoe. This is great. This is the old school. Look at how Amela's soaring out there. It's going crazy. Oh, it's great stuff. Ron's day. So watch this. Now watch this next angle, too. So OK, so he doesn't move. Now watch the next angle. Watch where his head goes when they show it from second base. He says he clearly threw his hip. Now watch. Now watch.  He's looking back.  It doesn't matter. He didn't look at the ball and lean into it. He's looked where his head is right now. So he's not even looking at the ball. But he's just been hit. I think Reggie's case. So Reggie was very passionate. Because that question came out from a tone. At the time, I didn't, because I was at the ball. Well, what did Reggie say? Passionate Yankee hater. Reggie was very animated. And he said, if that guy's thinking I'm lying, I'm not. And then he went on and explained that it was in the base path. And actually had another example of a use. And he said he's clearly in the base path. So we love baseball. Obviously, Dave brought up the money ball. Look at the lean. He leaned a little bit there, right there. Rewind that mark. OK, but he leans. But look, he's not looking at the ball. If you wanted to do it on purpose, you'd be looking at the ball. Yeah, no, but he leans right here. Look at his eye on the ball there. He kind of throws his hip out a little bit. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if he throws his hip out. It's totally legal what he did. It's totally legal what he did. They won it that year. Yeah, they won it. This was the bundle moment of game four. Yep. He throws his hip at it. So that's nothing like what Alex Rodriguez did. Alex Rodriguez purposely, you know. Went out of the base path all year long. Bronson Arroyo, he came again, slapped his hand. Reggie would never do that. That's not what. This was a smart play by Reggie. If in fact he did it on purpose, he claims he didn't. I think he just, he said, hey, I got the right away here. I'm going to take it. This is the 77 series that he hit three homers on three swings. That was 77. That was 77. This was 78. 78. Gosh, those are my teams. I tell you. Well, they weren't my teams. I'll tell you. They were mine. I'm not sure we can actually put picture-in-picture. Reggie's actual interview. That is the best Q thing I've seen ever. This is the Q. We're innovation. The innovation's coming. We're bringing on baseball. Dave Weed in the running ball comment. This is day two. We are excited to bring you all the action. This is SiliconANGLE.com with Alice Williams, Dave Vellante, myself, John Furrier of Silicon Angle Wikibon. We'll be right back after this guest. This is day two. Coming to a close, and thank you for watching.