Friday afternoon folks almost it's 12.01 so therefore it is Friday afternoon actually Thursday afternoon and I'm a little sorry for the confusion we just changed the time on this show from four o'clock on Friday to 12 o'clock on Thursday versus the standard time so those who are are trusted and faithful viewers please adjust your calendars your watches your clocks and everything else and your financial statements so that you can attend to us at 12 o'clock on Thursday anyway Ted Ralston here again I think that Kauai where the drone leads joining me in the studio here is Josh Levy Josh thanks for coming on again except Josh is the coordinator of UAS programs at University of Hawaii Applied Research Lab right and from far across the sea we have with us Hank Lawson from a lot of things Marine Corps, TICS, Texas A&M and whatever else Hank might have in his background Hank thanks for joining us the first time we're here on the show. Bye Skye. Good to be here. Good we see you all dressed up in your appropriate I mean we can't miss the fact that you're from Texas A&M it's right there it's just screaming out at us so hey thanks for coming on you were here last week in person at the Primo conference and it was really great to have folks from not just the Pacific but also that part of the Pacific called Texas here at Primo and the discussions we had and the field exercise out on Mokalea and such all great discussions and opportunities for discussions and developing ideas so thanks so much for coming on the show because what we really like about what you've done in Texas you guys have really put together a well-structured UAS FAA test range program which is well ahead of us here in Hawaii that's where we're starting on that path and we can learn a lot from you and we certainly thank you and welcome Frigga learning from you and I want to thank you for also helping us the legislature last week talking about some issues associated with getting common understanding and common appreciation of what the rules are and how legislation needs to move forward to enable and authorize unmanned assistant operation so that's a whole long introduction but Hank tell us a little bit about the whole laid out lay down there between Texas A&M and Lone Star state test range and how is that all hanging together? Oh pretty good Ted I talked to you a little bit about last week but generally speaking we're all part of the Texas A&M University system and my center the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center alone with the Lone Star unmanned aircraft systems center of innovation and excellence we are all a part of the engineering department under the deputy chancellor for engineering the Lone Star site came into existence about three or four years ago as a test range and since then we basically partnered they do the all of the unmanned aircraft system stuff everything from research to testing to working with state agencies and if I fail to mention it we're part of the Texas A&M system which is a state the university system and my agency Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service is a state agency the Lone Star Center is a part of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi which is one of the 11 universities within our system so our our partnership from my standpoint was sort of a very good partnership because my center caters to first responders in the 50 states US territories we essentially train them under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Homeland Security and we roughly trained about 60 to 61,000 folks a year in the 50 states DC and the US territories 61,000 people a year goes through your training operation that's absolutely correct we do in most of its mobile training we have one resident course which we run approximately once a month we bring 55 people in there each month the others the other 57 courses we have we actually go to the location so our folks spend a lot of time traveling from state to state doing deliveries of the 58 courses that we have 58 courses 61,000 people and hitting most of the states including Hawaii you guys are out here in Hawaii training from time to time oh yeah we come to Hawaii and we go to territories go on that's a really interesting business model I think is Josh we got a Josh is responsible for making that happen here okay that's why he's on the show that's why we now have it on TV Josh that's what your job looks like now it's official and now yeah I have to you have to pick your brain but this this structure you've got through the the broad ranging university through the engineering department and then through the state agencies and such with multiple streams of business if you will not just uas but all these things are kind of tied together and they somehow reflect on each other and somehow cooperate and support each other so of those 61,000 Hank what what proportion or percentage is uas the uas training itself turning into where do you think that's going to go well the uas training we really just started that is a the training we do we're part of a national domestic preparedness consortium that was set up by Congress back in 1998 after Oklahoma City bombing there are seven members in the consortium to include the University of Hawaii which does natural disaster training some of the other members do radiological and nuclear explosives as well as a live agents chemical and biological agents so we try to cover all of them I guess what we call the C burning chemical biological radiological and nuclear threats that are potentially out there the unmanned aircraft systems we really just started getting into the game in terms of that training and as a right now we have one certified course out of about 173 courses that we have among the seven members and they they do the courses themselves you probably know more about this than I do Ted but at the moment the training that's done through the consortium is is done by the University of Hawaii our training we're incorporating modules on uas into the training that we do and some of the ones that we're putting it in we do sports and special events training so we're looking at incorporating uas is in that app and that training is potentially basically focused on division one universities as well as all the major sports venues pro football pro basketball all of the the venues throughout the country and the the sports themselves NASCAR those those folks have a big concern about uas's I think they saw a couple of videos where I'm out on YouTube where somebody hooked weapons machine guns on to a uas and did a couple demonstrations and then the ideal of explosives or other dangerous chemicals being dropped from uas is there is another concern so we're looking at that additionally we do a couple of courses that involve the incident response bombing related courses and threaten risk assessments and we're building the uas piece in the does as far as numbers go typically I'm making an oz arena we're probably the first year or so I'm thinking we're probably going to touch somewhere in the range of two to three thousand folks and as we spread it across the classes we're essentially hoping to grow those numbers that's a really good indication because that's a proof of the reality of the emerging aspects of uas in all these public safety domains first year in training in 2000 students pushing through it Josh yeah it's pretty impressive the expectations are increasing every every statement Hank makes to us I know I almost wanted to get off in case they can dig my hole too deep here so we've got to we got to sort of learn from you Hank and and there's enough business for all of us I think there's all there's seven of these state test ranges and they're all gonna do something a little bit different it would be really interesting wouldn't it if they could get together and develop these ideas in common and have you seen that occur where the seven states get together other than that then when the FAA calls the standard coordination meeting one of the things we've been trying to do Ted is we started this national unmanned aircraft system credentialing program that began with actually one of the oil and gas a lot of oil and gas in Texas and one of the oil and gas companies came to us and said hey you know we're looking for people to do stuff for us inspect pipelines inspect different structures that are on their property and they're thinking that UAS is there a good way to do that and they put out these proposals looking for folks to do to work and they get all kinds of people coming in saying hey we can do this work for you and they've hired a few of them and once they've gotten them on they've determined that they couldn't really do what they're looking for them to do so they they're in Texas they know us as a training institution and they came to us and said hey could you guys put together some credentialing kind of stuff for small UAS companies and says in particular we'd like to give you a set of criteria and have you certified people that were looking to hire in basically certifying their ability to do to work at we're looking for them to do so we put together a program that involves going through testing their their protocols companies that are going to do business with this outfit we look at their protocols we look at their safety we look at their paperwork and then we bring their pilots in and do basically flight testing and we've got some structures that involve towers and a couple other things and we have them fly a couple maneuvers that might replicate flying a pipeline or inspecting a structure and once we've taken them through all of this if they get through it all successfully we sort of check it off put them on a list of certified vendors and the company that asked us to do this looks at that list and their plan is to hire people from that list to do the various work that they're looking for and to get back to your original questions collaborating with some of the other sites what we've done with this program is we're looking at other industries and to date I think we've certified somewhere in the race we're dealing with better on 50 or 52 companies that we've either certified or we're talking to about going through the process and we've talked to some of the other sites about doing the same sort of thing we have this process that we we refer to as cooperative learning centers where we provide our curriculum that and we provide materials and go out certified their instructors to do the training certified their facilities to do it and once we've got them certified they can go out and actually do the credentialing of companies either in their regions in their areas or otherwise that's a really great summary of things you've done to drive forward and again Josh show we got to think about this real hard but this whole notion of credentialing as the starting point as a center point and as a easily recognizable value we got to think about that Josh I think on our end here we do have George Purdy on the island of Linai I don't think you had a chance to meet George yet he's in our public safety department here and is in the educational systems as well and has a similar concept in terms of using the hunter training card that you have to get when you want to go hunting and use some kind of a credentialing system that has a identifiable mark on you that could be used for drone people because what goes through my mind is our local power company here and other industries are attempting to move forward and using UAVs and infrastructure management but we don't have a supply of readily trained people who are airmen and also UAS people and and as a result we're having to import from California and we need to grow our own here I think and the kind of things you're doing the credentialing program the training program that leads up to credentialing those would be really important things for us to take on here that would be a tremendous value to the state of Hawaii to have that capability and the important thing also is to have to make sure that the there are people that understand that there is that training certification out here so they should be even looking for people which is a whole educational concept which goes back to the website and Josh you that's another thing you do it isn't it your expectations just keep getting out of sight here building and what you got to do getting stressed no you know that's another interesting issue we've got to take our first break here this thing goes by real fast-tank as you can see but let's talk about the whole educational flow or the way you out post information the way you get people to call you and and don't call the wrong person how we all how that works in your area so we can think about that after our first break here hi I'm Tim Appichella I'm the host of moving Hawaii forward a show dedicated to transportation issues and traffic issues here on Oahu join us every other Tuesday at 12 noon and as we discuss how we try to solve our traffic headaches not to not to include just the rail but transit and carpooling and everything in between so join us every other Tuesday moving Hawaii forward thank you you want to talk about some socially sensitive issues relevant to women listen to 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thanks for taking your late afternoon and coming on with us but we were talking just before the break about these wonderful ideas and things you've you've created and the things we have to create that follow along in those footsteps how in Texas does some ambient company out in Austin will say or someplace who has an idea about getting into UAVs how do they know to get a hold of you and get taken in the right direction I mean there's plenty of guys out there who sell them a training class and plenty of guys out there who sell them a drone how do you control that or or manage that in a positive way so that everybody wins and one of the things that we have sort of an advantage that we have for us is our organization Texas A&M engineering extension service we've sort of been doing this for a long time we have a fire field disaster city a simulation center we also have four divisions one that does law enforcement and security training another one that does knowledge engineering economic development community support we have the Texas A&M fire field which has been around over 80 years now and we also have infrastructure training and in safety which does OSHA training and we touch 173,000 folks a year throughout the country so we have instructors that are always out there so I mean in terms of reaching people we have fliers when the instructors are out in the communities they take information out on our courses we post things on our website and on the Lone Star website you know under unmanned aircraft systems we also do a UAS summit that doesn't matter if you attended last year Ted but we get the word out that way and in conjunction with that we put together a an introductory course on unmanned aircraft systems at the prompting of some of our law enforcement and fire customers actually some of the some of the cities within the state of Texas San Antonio Austin and Dallas and basically our general outreach we are we have Twitter feeds we have Facebook and Snapchat and a whole host of other things and number of these communities basically we're out there we've been out there for a while we talked to the responder community and a lot of our word of mouth as well as these tools help us get the word out that's great and I think that I learned certainly from you last week that you're kind of a techno geek yourself and up and you're kind of in the social media thing with the cameras that take pictures automatically when it's time to update the scene of the state Capitol for example and so you are very well-tuned Hank is a good example of a person who's well-tuned to using those social media those means of communication we got to think about that as well but you know the concept of public safety and law enforcement and such one of the discussions that came up at Primo last week was with our own State University of Hawaii policing organization and the observation was that the University campus is somewhat a microcosm of the island of Oahu or any island here all the things that you have to think about from public safety are present they're just concentrated in the campus and there's boundaries and so why not think of the the University public safety organization as a beta test area where ideas and development and concepts can come together and and also in full transparency with all the issues of expectation of privacy and protection of civil rights and retaining information for custody reasons and all that sort of thing all the things that are required in the big world can be looked at in the small world and they're the same problem we can solve them there quickly and not have necessarily all the protocols and such necessary external so we're thinking about that Hank and we welcome your thoughts on that on that subject in terms of again using a campus structure as the framework for evolving some of these protocols and concepts in fact I mean it's take to our own advertisement here a little bit just I think if Zurich and flip through these just to show you where we are Hank we're way down up the learning curve from where you are this is the beginning of our our segment of unmanned air systems testing we had get some funding from legislature got the people together we are collecting the capabilities that exist in lava threat reef health management maritime awareness marine sciences and power grid inspection where we have capability today and we think that's like the center point of our of our technical capability we have to align that with the available ideally private lands are much more useful than public lands in terms of getting space for testing and training as such which we started we actually have the university itself as well as some farms and we have the entire island level and I available to us so this is kind of where we're going down that path if we could take that frame and think of how the campus of public safety situation needs to be needs to be developed and demonstrated in terms of UAS participation in it in that physical context that's what we one of things we'll be thinking about here but your thoughts are on on a campus as a place to develop these concepts for for us again Ted we we're with the engineering department at A&M are in you at the Texas A&M University system we have lots of folks in there the engineering experimental station engineering extension service as well as the transportation institute our veterinary organization and one or two others and pretty much everyone in the system when we started looking around us at who was doing what with drones and unmanned aircraft systems we sort of put a call out it turns out that there's all kinds of people within our organization who are doing it so as a result of that our risk management folks put together a protocol for the for the system on how are you going to handle that and how we get a handle on who was flying what win and where and one of the things we've done is set up a policy that requires registration for anybody who's going to use unmanned aircraft systems whether it's for business purposes for research purposes or even if they're doing it for recreational purposes they have to be registered on campus or off campus so if they own them and they're planning on using them we're asking them to register them and tell us there's a checklist of things that we ask for but by doing this we found that we get them to come to us and then we can tell them things that they may not know like what the rules are the campus is within five miles most of the campuses within five miles of our local airport which you know basically is restricted area a lot of people don't know that the other side of it is we get a lot of students we've got roughly 60,000 plus students on campus and they're easy to these the drones are easy to find easy to buy students are buying them and they're putting them up we had one student that actually did a nice video overhead video of the campus great footage and he put it out on YouTube to you know turn around and have the system administration come to them and say hey you know it's illegal you're not allowed to do that but but but where I was headed with all of this is we put that in place and we're trying to get a hold on who's doing what but we've got folks doing research our transportation guys are using them for for all kinds of things related to road networks and accident forensics inspections we have our agricultural guys are using them for precision ag we the railroads using them powerline inspections we basically we got people doing using them for all sorts of things so your idea of using a campus as a place where you can explore where it can go and what kind of rules you need the corral I think this is probably a pretty good one we'll give that a try and in fact you're bringing some ideas up Josh we got to think about May we have our annual UAS conference in May at UH and it's a month away from next month so where it's like six weeks away seven weeks away we got AUDSI in the middle of that so there's not much time and I think we could take a lot of what Hank's done as the structural of how how this works within the UA system we're similar we have the the main campuses on the islands we have the community colleges we have a similar political lay down in that regard we don't I don't think have the maturity of connectivity that Hank's talking about but we could certainly think of that as a model and and certainly we can hang invite Hank to come on to our conference by Skype if not by real and that'll be sometime in May Hank out here but I like the idea that you're using the extension service using you're using the extension services and the connections that already exist you're not making new connections you're using the framework that exists in the university and just adding some discipline to it and some responsibility and some reporting just because UAVs are a more complicated system than other technical systems might be they're not the same thing as 3d printers for example where it's a different level of of care is required and this takes me back to just last week we were out there you know where we were we were right adjacent to the departure end of 08 at Dillingham airfield we were legally 10 in 10 feet away whatever the road width is because the field boundary is at the road we were on the ocean side of the road so we're talking about some work out there and you know we could we could play the game of it's just plain old class G airspace and we'll do what we have to do but we really should probably take a higher level of care just because we are it's class G but only class G by 10 feet for example so this the concept of that you're bringing up of thinking the thing through and having protocols and procedures that make and ensure a safe operation is our first experiment will be right there a locally yeah and in fact we should I would like to reflect back what we're doing at locally to you Hank and get you to see what you was thinking about it and let me give you one other thing that I didn't mention another thing that we're doing we we set up a working within the system and we required that each department identified individual who's going to be their UAS coordinator or point of contact and once they identified these people we actually sent them there there this week they're going through a a four-day course that we put together that provided them an overview on unmanned aircraft systems what the rules are what the regulations are we sort of train them up in some of the protocols and then they're going back to their organization so anything and anybody in the organizations that's using drones for any purposes if they have questions they need to know where we are on anything all of that they go to their coordinator and the coordinator can bring issues to the larger working group hopefully they're all going to be familiar with basic rules and they can talk to their people about what the rules are if you're doing them recreationally how high they can fly if you're using them for research you know what kind of things you need to do so that's that's another tool that we're using to to corral this whole process that's really great in fact if we had that in place ourselves we can take our our locally in Dillingham operation and turn to chapter 7 and there would be all laid out so we'll keep back and forth on this Hank we we managed to run our time right into the ground here and want to thank you very much for coming on there's so much you've provided to us and so much guidance and structure that I really want to think more about and we'll go work with you on so Hank thanks a lot again and well we'll get Jerry on from Lone Star at a future time here and get the specifics on the actual operations but we got together a long way to go thank you very much and we'll find some way to get you involved in our conference out here in May all right thank you Ted appreciate okay and Josh thanks for coming on and folks we'll see you next Thursday at noon


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What's up guys my name is Michael and welcome to my YouTube channel today. We are going to basically Do this problem where you try to detect if two numbers have the opposite sign or not Okay, using bit masks. So if I given you a number like Three and negative three Tell me if they have opposite signs or not and we have to use it only with bit masks So that's basically the problem Okay, so the thing is is that um, this is actually pretty easy If you think about it. So first of all, um How What is a Sign or an opposite sign even mean, right? What does a negative sign mean in bit masks? Okay, so let's say you have three A negative three so let's say we have three and negative three. So if you were to basically, um Convert three into bit masks. You have zero one one zero zero one one right because you have zero which is one Two to the zero power is one plus two to the first power is two, right? So this gets you This gets you to zero zero one one. Okay, so that's three. Okay. Okay. All right. Um Basically in computers if if a sign is negative What they normally do is they would um They would flip the bits right and um Add one Right, so they would have a do two's complements, which is zero zero Uh, so this is going to get you one one zero zero you add one. So then you have one one zero one As you can see when you flip all the bits and then you add one So this is the two's complement of three, right? So this is the This is the values Of the inverse, right? So if you were to add three and negative three you get zero, right? Because all these bits would end up becoming um zero, right? If you add this bit These bits and this bit these bits, right? If you add them up together Add them up. You're all you're going to get zero, right? So this is two's complement. All right So as you can see from here using, um The bits the computer represents the first bit for For negative numbers. It's always a one, right? Because this um this would represent a negative number for that and for positive numbers. It's normally like zero or Actually, it's not normally zero actually, but uh for negative numbers. There's normally a one that represents positive or negative Inside the whole number system So if you were to XOR both of these like so if you were at XOR both of these values, um All of the values are end up going to become Um ones Right, all these values are going to become one. So all the all the positives Yeah, all these values are going to end up becoming ones, right? So all the zeros and zero so if it's different signs all them the first values would become ones So then you're going to if you XOR both of these, right? You would get um zero and one would become one zero and one one become one One zero becomes one and then uh except for the this this value one one would become zero, okay? So you would get this number uh one one one zero, okay So now all you have to do is just check Does this Is this value, right? Is this um does it have a one in the first place, right in the first place? Is this value negative, right? So normally if if a value is negative it would have a one on the far left's corner and values in um, binary Right in representation from two's complement, right? So, um, if there is one if this Binary representation is negative. So it's less than zero then pretty much, you know, you have opposite signs So all you have to do basically is basically Take both of these numbers and XOR them and then you check if this your end result is less than zero because then it would have a Number here at the front. All right, so if they were They've had opposite signs Then there is there's going to be a one in the front. So you just check if it's negative So if it's less than zero then that's the case, okay? Um, if they don't have opposite signs, you know, it's not the scenario So basically to detect if they're both If they both have opposite signs or not, you have to just um You XOR both of them and then you check if the first leading value here is a one or not. Okay All right. Uh, another way to do it is the same thing as checking XORing them both but it's to check if this value has a one or not another way you could do is you actually could shift it right by 32, uh, 31 bits to the right Because we know an integer has they at most 32 bits, right? So an integer has at most 32 bits So if you were to shift all the 31 bits to the right, so you have this number 31 bits, right? So that's going to get rid of all these values Right besides the last value in the first place this one here So then we don't actually have to compare and check if it's less than zero We just have to check if after shifting it right down by 31 bits Is our last bit set and if it is set then that means they have opposite signs if it's not then it doesn't Okay, so I'm going to actually show you the code now for both of the our guys. So here's the code For it. Um, so the first way to do it is just to XOR them both external X or Y and then um, basically if the leading value is a one and to check that All you have to do is check if it's negative or not Because if it's negative that means the leading value of the first bit is one So you just check if it's negative. So to do that, you just check if it's less than zero If it's less than zero, then that means that it's negative. So that means that they do have opposite signs Right, because we have a leading bit of one. Okay All right. So the other way to do it is just to X or X X or Y and then you shift it right by 31 bits If you shift it right by 31 bits to the right in the end, um, that's going to get you the last bit the first First most bit the first most bit on the first value Of your result, right the first most bit of one And uh, if that is the case if it equals to one, then that means they have opposite signs Otherwise they don't right because basically both of both of these are just checking if the first bit value that was set is actually equal to one Uh, and then that means they have opposite signs because when you XOR them, right? If they do have opposite signs, that means there's there's like when you XOR them the end result is a negative value So there has a first bit that is set that is one So yeah, um Here I just test it in the main method I just created a variable of X equal three and Y equal negative three And I just print if it has opposite signs or not. So in this case if you run it It's going to say opposite signs. Yeah, because three and negative three have opposite signs And running it the X or value does work So that's basically how you do this problem rate com subscribe. I'll check you guys later. Peace


The speed of how fast things are changing and how vendors are delivering solutions. And what's the dynamic there? Well, I'll give you an example. We took a customer from a JD Edwards AS400 environment to a Linux cloud environment in less than four weeks. And I abandoned a huge, you know, cop-hacks environment and went to a very on-demand environment. They didn't believe it. They didn't have the credibility it's going to happen. And we said, just go with it because it is going to happen. Yeah. My microphone. A little adjustment here in the microphones because we've got over sound. The big screen here, the jubbo tron. We have an advantage that we have done delivery and we have this kind of methodical, you talked about, you see, not very, you know, dynamic, but actually when you execute, you have to do it with a method and bring this reassurance that we know how to do it. And we have done a lot of clouds ourselves to deliver. We have delivered nine clouds data centers, so we kind of have the cookbook of how to do it. So, hold on, Dave, one more question if I can get in there. The founder of Puppet Labs, who was one of the guys who built Puppet, you know, famous open-source framework around configuration, et cetera, said about the question, same question. He's like, people are talking about the future and they're not paying attention to the present. And the present's really dynamic, you know, I mean, you're joking about Hurricane Irene, but right now what are the core things right now that need to be solved to make cloud truly industrial strength? I think that there are two types of problems. One is really the entire licensing issue, and that's why people want to go open-stack, because not every software vendor has their act together. So when one piece of your stack costs as much as your entire cloud for three years, people tend to, you know, not wanting to go there. They tend to go, oh my God. And they're going, oh, so what can I do? An open-source create a really good environment for them to go. So there is a little bit of a challenge there, and that's why we as a service provider try to talk to the software provider and say, give us a service provider license so that we can mitigate that. Do they listen? I would say some, not everybody. I think that's one of them, and I think it's probably the most obvious one, and the moment that we get everybody aligned, we had a very big breakthrough at SAP and SAP understood, and that's a big issue of customers. That's why a lot of people does DavenTest, because it's a brand new workload, and they can pick their licensing mechanisms. And the other thing is an execution. Everybody wants to talk about the next great thing of cloud, and I think we have to talk about the things we can do today in the short term so that we can bring value out and agility to the business. So that brings me to Dave. I got a question for you. Where is the action right now? We were talking a little bit about, as Sicki was just saying, a lot of talk about the future of cloud and the direction that cloud is going, and you had indicated to me that private cloud is where you guys are doing a lot of your business today. So what do you mean by private cloud? What are you guys doing in that environment? Where is all the action there? Well, it all starts with the client need to be risk-averse. And so everyone's buying into the vision of cloud. You mentioned it earlier. It's about the future. It's exciting. It's sexy. But how do you get there? And it's a crawl-walk-run process. So private cloud is for us. It's very simply put. It's the ability to take the benefit of a public cloud built as a service into an on-prem environment, rate card-based, and to do it either in our data center or the client's data center behind their firewall. And so at the end of the day, a lot of these workloads that clients want to move into a cloud service delivery model are well-suited to a private environment. Siki talked about test and dev, cloud and mail. We're now starting to see a lot of client interest in taking some of the other tier two and three workloads that support a business process and move those in. And we're spending a lot of time and money on the application services side, really industrializing services that will move onto this private cloud environment and allow a company to kind of test drive it and realize the benefit of it. So what makes that private cloud cloud? Is it doing charge backs? Is it just really putting in virtualization? Can you talk a little bit about that? It is the ability to flex up and flex down. So today, a project, if it needs a virtualized environment, they get it at their maximum peak, and they only use it some time. And it's very, very expensive, even if it's virtualized. But bringing the same cloud fabric and cloud methodology and economics to the private cloud makes the customer very efficient. Because the cost effectiveness is the ability to be able to maximize their resources for the need of the business at that time. So if a workload runs for eight hours, why should they have infrastructure 24 hours? In the other eight hours, another business can run their business and then maximize the cost and the agility of the business. Going back to the private cloud, I'll give you an example. We have a large customer, a chemical company. They went all the way 365 Microsoft. And then they went, oops, we have probably a couple of thousand users that do research and development and the CIO office, where we really can't have them on the public cloud. We can't. We cannot really have them outside the firewall. And they come back to us and say, you create a red zone of another email environment, still Microsoft, for all the things that cannot go outside that we need to protect. And that's when you get with an hybrid environment. But that's really the need of private clouds. So you've been an entrepreneur in our last interview. You shared your story about how you started a company and sold it cloud. So we know you're a domain expert and sharing great knowledge. You've been successful at CSC. CSC has a reputation of servicing at a high level of excellence. And some people right now are struggling right now to figure out what to do in competitors and even the big companies we see in the news every day in this transformation. What was your secret of success?  But what particular, can you share your secrets of success, why you guys have been so successful and what's the seed that you have been? I think that CSC really accepted the fact that we needed to transition our culture and our offering to as a service economy. And they saw the cloud as a good growth path for our outsourcing. But the things that really work very well is very rapidly we made a plan and executed on the plan and a strategy and we selected partners and we delivered solutions. In a kind of way, we are all about getting references and referenceability because in the world of cloud, the case study and who does it have the story to tell to the customer. If you talk a lot about it, but you don't have the story to tell, oh, don't do that, do that, that work that didn't work, you never get the credibility. So our goal was always to have a very fast path for our clouds and to execute and execute and to get the right partner that they can work with us. And David, it's been instrumental to create our partnership and alliance program. Yeah, why would you just build on Siki's point? When you see a CSC's 52 year old company, a lot of government focus, really it helped invent the outsourcing industry. So I think a lot of folks are surprised that we would want to take a leadership role in really these emerging service areas which are highly disruptive to the core business. So our focus strictly, and that when you look at the business strategy the company is sustaining the growth of the traditional services and then investing in the resources to go be a first mover, early mover and capture a leadership position on the emerging side. And cloud is the future. So David, you've dealt with, you managed the alliances, I noticed, that was on your title and obviously we're at VMworld and VMware. They have an ecosystem, but you guys have seen the ecosystem play before. I mean, we can go back to client server. We all know the days and how that was. And Siki, you made a comment at Sapphire that we loved which was the suits and the million dollar deals and the 18 to 36 month rollouts. Obviously you made a comment that that's changed now but how drastic has it really changed and how has that changed the partnerships and the kinds of partnerships that you do? Well for us it's all principle based. The partnerships regardless of the industry technology disruptions are built on principles. And for us, common vision, common enemy is job one. Next thing is the whole notion around the shared vision, right? As far as strategy. And just as importantly to Siki's earlier point is when companies are threatened by a common enemy, it causes you to get out of the box and think differently about the client. And it really starts with the client and working back in. Those principles are still front and center. Just a lot of the players are new. And certainly our position in this ecosystem is very new because of the opportunity we see with folks like VMware, EMC, Cisco. And so to run your business I can imagine, I mean I don't ever work there but I can imagine you get a toolbox. You go to the toolbox and you use all the tools you can to help solve customers problems. What technologies right now do you see that are what I would call locked in? They're rock and they can still iterate and expand. And then what are the emerging technologies on your radar that you're seeing that are going to be instrumental, that are vectoring into that kind of growth path and success that you have? So I think everything related to infrastructure as a service is kind of locked in. I mean we run a vCloud director cloud and we have multi clusters around the globe. This moving workloads that fly around that doesn't really exist and customers really don't want it. They actually want to know where it is and where is the DR and what's the backup and everything. So we have these incredible images that things go in a cloud and then fly around. I mean data privacy and things like legislation won't allow us to do that. But in the infrastructure space you very fast, 15 minutes you can load a workload and you can run it and you can burst a maximum power or capacity. So that's pretty much done. I think that the evolutions that we have are very exciting on the path layer. The applications that we bring to the brand new applications that we can bring to the clouds that we can build. And I am really excited about the future of how you connect the end user to the cloud and the tablets and what we call the window into the cloud. The ability of an end user to use every type of devices to interact with applications and workload that are in the cloud. I'm excited about that too because I don't have to install DLLs anymore in my GC. The point you're making about data flying around the cloud is very interesting. I mean I got a new laptop several months ago I had to back it up to the cloud and it took a long time. I can't imagine corporations with a lot of data moving stuff around. So you're talking about a very pragmatic vision here that that's what your customers are driving toward. I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about the services business. John touched on this. SiliconANGLE actually recently launched a new publication called Services Angle. I don't know if you knew that but Alex Williams is out there. He's the editor. And the whole idea was that the cloud collision that's occurring between the traditional services business, guys like CSC and IBM and Accenture and HP is colliding with this new breed of clouds. Who's your competitor in your cloud business? Is it Amazon? I mean does everybody talk a little bit about that landscape and how it's changing? We compete with Amazon and Rockspace and Service when it is related to data center, in data center business. So private cloud and public cloud in CSC data center. This is really the big dynamics. When we have a private cloud in the customer data center, then you have HP trying to give it a go. IBM is actually very tentative. I think that one thing that we were able to do with David and our management overcome this fear of our cannibalization. And really when you look at it, 12 months into it, is actually everything is growth. This brand new opportunity is bringing innovation to our customer. I think IBM is still there. And then there is a lot about people wanting to say, I am going to build your roadmap on what you can do. And customers are kind of a little bit tired of roadmap. They just want to know, I need to save 30%. Get me there. How fast do you, you can get me there. David? No, I think you nailed it. Okay. Well, coming up next, we're going to have EMC, VMware. But I have one final question for you. These emerging conversations, we had Amar Awadala on, who is the co-founder of Cloudera. And Cloudera is, obviously, pioneering Hadoop and Big Data. Things like Big Data are changing the role of assist admin in a way how the DBA and the database side. So comment about the emerging tech in databases, NoSQL in particular, and Big Data, and how that's intersecting with you guys. Are you seeing that as kind of like a real provocative conversation, or are they real conversations? Well, they are real conversations. I mean, Hadoop as a service is one of the most requested workload, especially in a product cloud. For big company like financial institution, that I need to crunch data on their market data and maintain that type of visibility all the time. Solutions like that are very important and they are very low barrier to entry of cost.  You know, that's why people want to go to Cassandra. Cassandra is a great database, different.  Not everybody is that comfortable, but data is one of the biggest workload that we see for the cloud. Together with high performance computing and the ability to combine them together to give analytics for large corporations. And the problem is that they do it today, but it's very inefficient.  I was in Australia for two weeks and I spent a lot of time with mining company that do geological analysis. That's a lot of data, but they just have mountains of server to just crunch the data. You know, at Strata this year in February we coined a phrase on theCUBE which is big data gives the cloud something to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. Okay, Sicki, always a pleasure. You're great knowledge. You're dynamic. You've got an opinion. You're not afraid to share it. Right in the money we love to have you in the cube. David, thanks for coming on as well. Appreciate the conversation.


Mark asks, hey address, it's official Facebook is giving us global coin early next year Please put all our concerns to rest and remind us why this will only compete against central banks and fiat currency And not be a threat to Bitcoin. Thanks. Unfortunately. I can't put your concerns to rest In fact, I've sold all my Bitcoin in order to buy global coin. No, I'm just kidding Fundamentally the the thing to understand here is that what Facebook or any company like Facebook is proposing is not a cryptocurrency It doesn't have any of the fundamental characteristics of cryptocurrency It doesn't stand on the five pillars of an open blockchain. In fact, it has none of those So what are the five pillars that we talked about before you've probably heard this a few times an Open public cryptocurrency is open It's public. It's neutral It's borderless and it's censorship resistant and all of these things are characteristics that stem from decentralization of control Anything that's created by a centralized organization any centralized organization that can be identified that exists in a specific Jurisdiction that is subject to specific laws Cannot achieve any of these five pillars and the reason they cannot achieve is because the law prevents them from doing so so first of all They can't be censorship resistant. Let's start from the end They can't be censorship resistant because they are legally required to prevent the transmission of funds to certain entities These entities include sanctioned countries like Iran North Korea Venezuela, etc These include sanctioned entities that are people Companies and people those listed for example on the OFAC list that's run by the US Department of Treasury You can't send money If you you can actually go find the OFAC list Google search it. It's a search engine You can type in a name and they can tell you if that name is on the OFAC list Just for fun type Pablo number one name that's gonna come up is Pablo Escobar And you are not allowed. In fact, it is a felony to send money to Pablo Escobar and that list is long how long nobody knows because it's a secret list and That list is something you are required if you're a regulated entity to check against before transmitting payments So it can't be censorship resistant In fact, you're required by law to censor certain transactions and and these transactions You know that list is getting longer and longer and longer. So if it can't be censorship resistant It also can't be borderless because you're prohibited from sending money to certain countries Which means that you have to be able to identify both who is receiving this money and where they are In order to identify who and where they are You have to do know your customer Anti-money laundering counter-terrorist financing regulations essentially you start behaving like a bank Anybody who implements a payment system that centralized has to follow all of the rules of a money transmitter or bank at that point You're no longer neutral the protocol itself cannot be neutral because neutrality means any Sender any recipients any value regardless and the protocol does not care Where you are who you are what you're doing with that money and why and a regulated entry entity cannot Not care about all of those questions. They have to Check all of those things. Who are you? Where are you? What are you doing with that money and where did it come from? You may notice those are very specific questions You've probably recognized your bank has probably asked you some of these questions One of the exchanges you're dealing with has probably asked you some of these questions What is your income show us your ID? Which country are you in? Are you an American? Etc. Etc. So and this applies across the world and every jurisdiction has different rules, which means that You can't be borderless in another way, you know Facebook operates as a borderless company in Many aspects of its operation money is not one in which it can do that it can do that with content through various protections of the law and Even that results in Facebook being blocked and banned in a number of authoritarian countries But to try and follow the payment regulations for two billion customers with splits in a hundred and ninety four countries is a Morass and it would result in the same kind of problems that PayPal has You know, why is PayPal not a global company that serves a hundred and ninety four countries equally? Because they can only serve 20 or 30 countries equally and even there they have to do all of these things because they became a bank They're not censorship resistant. They're not borderless. They're not neutral and They can't be public either Because they can't make all of this information publicly available because that would violate various laws now They've got a lot of privately identifiable information about owners of money. They can't make any of that Available publicly. They can't create public APIs. They can't create public transparency reports. They can't do any of that because of all of the laws that apply to the secrecy of financial information and as a result most importantly, they cannot be Open they cannot give you access to this to send it or receive it outside of their platform They cannot allow you to extract it from their platform They cannot allow you to sell it to someone else without them being an intermediary They will have to sit in the middle and control every transaction They're not open. They're not public. They're not neutral. They're not borderless. They're not censorship resistant They're not a cryptocurrency They're a bank They're a bank just like PayPal and JP Morgan Chase now. They're going to be a very large multinational Very powerful bank with a lot of users So banks should be really scared because when technology companies start playing in banking and they have all of these users and all of this experience in technology That creates a real challenges for banks because Even though Facebook cannot be as open as borderless as neutral censorship resistance of cryptocurrency. They can certainly be more open More borderless and reach more countries than JP Morgan Chase and they start off with more users So that should be scary for all of the existing financial services Companies it should also be scary for some authoritarian regimes that will try and fail to block Facebook And then try legal shenanigans and again probably fail or face an army of lawyers So this does affect central banks as well, especially central banks in countries that have Problems it does affect fiat currencies because it's going to force banks to to basically modernize and So again all of these legal restrictions are gonna get challenged of course Which is going to probably make the banking system more open and that's a good thing but it can never be a Cryptocurrency and it can never be as open as Bitcoin or any of the other open borderless public neutral censorship resistant crypto currencies So I'll hold what I have Because to me this is not about convenience of payment This is not about access to a two billion user base This is about being able to be free to hold my own money to Not have anyone be able to freeze it Sensor it tell me who I can transact with or when I can transact or how I can transact or what I can transact for That freedom is at the core of cryptocurrency And that freedom is the one thing that you can't do with this global coin


In this video, we're going to explain the concept of the stack in a microprocessor or a microcontroller. The stack is basically the combination of two things. First, an area in memory. We're going to assume for the sake of this example that this memory addresses cells of one byte. So we have certain space in memory. These are the cells where we store the data. The combination of this space in memory with a register that we are going to call the stack pointer. Now this register, obviously, it's going to contain an address that points to a cell in memory, which we call the top of the stack. And typically we abbreviate this register and we call it SP. Now the mechanism here is very simple and it works as a regular stack. I have memory in which I can store data and I have a register with an address that points to the top of the stack. The two operations that are allowing this construction are putting things on top of the stack or removing things, in this case data, from the top of the stack. So the two instructions are push some data and pushing some data in terms of the elements of this construction. What it requires is first we have to write data above the top and then what we have to do is step number two is update the top. So another way of looking at it, this operation, basically what it means is that if we have the memory here and if this is the stack and we assume that we have the top here and therefore a register stack pointer is pointing here, after we execute the push data operation what happens is the data gets stored in the position above the top and then this register is modified and points to the previous position in memory. So this is the result of the push data operation. Analogously, the other operation that is allowed is pop data. As you can imagine, the two steps similar to what happens here that occur when we perform the operation is first we read the data on top of the stack and then we update, in other words again, this is our memory, this is the status of the stack, this is the top and this is our register stack pointer. After performing the pop data, what we do is we read this data, put it somewhere else and then we correct this register now to point to the position right below. So this is no longer the top, this is the new top. So as you can see in this operation what is actually happening is a memory write, let's call it mem write, and register update, whereas in the pop what we have is occurring a mem read operation and of course the register. Now what is this used for? The main purpose of the data is, let's just write it up here, to store temporary results. Now let's get two examples. We're going to assume, example number one, that we want to save temporarily some values and we're going to assume that these values are in the registers of the microcontroller. So let's imagine this scenario, I have this program here, this is my program, these are my instructions and what I would like to do is save some values before the microprocessor executes this program and restore them at the end. Let's assume that the values that I want to save are in registers R1 and R2. So the way to do that with the stack would be to push both registers R1 and R2 onto the stack, then go ahead and execute this program. We need to assume that this program is going to leave the stack at exactly the same state as it is found here and then at the end we simply restore and we say pop R2, pop R1 and with these four operations what we achieve is after executing this code block both values in R1 and R2 are preserved because I annotate them temporarily on the stack. Then this program may freely manipulate whatever values are in R1 and R2 because I had a copy on the stack and then I restore this copy to the original values. So I basically preserve the values that were there before. Another a bit more sophisticated use of the stack is when calling or invoking functions or sub-routines. This is typically what happens in a program. I have a few instructions executing and then I typically call another function, let's just say F1 which is somewhere else, suppose this is F1 which starts executing and at some point I end up calling another function which is called F2, suppose it's here, F2 executes a few instructions, I could have different calls nested one inside of the other which is typically what occurs in programs but then at the end I return from this function and we all know that what happens is that we need to return to this position here which is the instruction immediately following the call. We finish then the execution of this function and when we return, same thing happens, we return to exactly this position over here and this program continues executing. So this is one of the most powerful uses of the stack which is the following. When this first program calls function one, it has to remember the address to return from F1, let's just call it address return one which would be this position over here. How do I remember this address to return because I might have more than one as a matter of fact while I'm executing F1 and I call F2, I need to remember the address to return two because then when I execute the return instruction what happens is I go back exactly to the address indicated by this value and when I finish and execute this return instruction I need to return back to this position. So this can be very easily implemented with the stack. So what happens when I do this first call is we push in the stack, suppose this is the stack and I have initially the top pointing here with my stack pointer so whenever I make a function call since I need to go and now execute F1 but I need to remember this value temporarily, what I do is I write it on top of the stack address return one and I proceed freely to execute this function. Now this function itself calls F2 and it needs to write down somewhere that it has to return to this instruction. So I use the same trick and I put it on the stack address return two. So this value of the stack pointer is evolving until it gets all the way here and then what happens is as you can imagine you execute F2 and when you finish you return back by popping the top of the stack the address to return to and keep executing at the address pointed by this value and the same thing happens here when we return we pop now this value from the stack and we end up returning to the original position here. So basically what happens is that when I have an instruction which is a call in fact inside that instruction there is a push of the address to return. And when I have an instruction which is return I use the stack again and inside this instruction what it occurs is there is a pop of the address that we return and this value needs to be stored in one of the most important registers which is the program count. So this is what the stack is typically used for these two scenarios and it's mostly to annotate or to remember temporary results.


Dear students, we are going to discuss the topic of organizational context in the course of International Human Resource Management. You know that when an organization goes into internationalization, the organizational context changes from the domestic context. The organizational context is very much important to understand how an organization should operate in an international scenario. According to the environmental contingency theory, you must have discussed this theory in organizational theory courses. According to this theory, in order to survive in a given environment, an organization has to match its internal structure with the external environment. So if the external environment is complex, the internal structure of the organization also has to be a complex structure. You cannot have a simple structure in an environment which is very much complex. And therefore, the organizational context of an international organization is very much complex and according to that, you need to arrange your internal structure according to the environment. This concept is called isomorphism in sociology. Isomorphism is that an organization matches its formation the way it looks like according to the environment in which it exists. And therefore, in an international environment, an organization has to match itself with the environment in which it is existing and the organizational structure has to match with that environment. This model shows the elements of the organizational structure which are important to define the internal structure of an organization. You can see in this diagram that the demands of internationalization have various different elements. These elements are number one, size of the organization. If the size of the organization is large, then the demands of internationalization would be greater. Then structure of the organization is also important. If you have a mechanistic structure, your organization will operate differently. If you have an organic structure, your organization will respond differently to the international context. Number three is geographical dispersion. If your organization is spread in more countries, you will have to devise a structure in which you will have to control the coordination and control issues. If your organization is not geographically dispersed, say for example, it is operating in one or two countries, then you will have a different type of structure. Then you need to see the control mechanisms, what type of controls are applied from the international context as well as the host country. Then national culture and languages are also important to define your internal structure. If the language is the same, if the culture is the same, then your internal structure can match with the headquarters. But if it is a completely different structure, you cannot go for a structure which is very much similar to your headquarters. Then you also have to make changes according to the host country demands. The country in which that organization is existing, it is possible that they put some demands on what type of structure of an organization you can have. Then another aspect is the operation modes. Now operation modes are whether you are going for a sales subsidiary or you are going for a joint venture or you are going for merger or accusation. So according to that operation mode, your organizational structure will vary. Then another important aspect of your organizational side is flow and volume of information. If you have information and its volume and its flow, then you will have different type of structure. If your information channels are formal, then you will have a different type of structure in your organization. So therefore, there are different elements of organizational structure, which you have to take care of, which you have to devise on the basis of your organizational structure, and that has to match with the environment in which you are operating in the international context.


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Today we embarked on to the Herschel Woody Williams to see one of the capabilities that AFRICOM has as part of the combatant commander's myriad of resources given to him and also as part of African Lion 21 as we do the joint exercise here in Morocco that spans from Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. It showcases our interoperability, it showcases our jointness, it showcases how we operate closely with our partners. Herschel Woody Williams is the first ship that was assigned to the AFRICOM AOR. So our target is persistent presence. With a partner that is as strong as Morocco, it's great to have the opportunity to sit down and talk about similar concerns, issues that we both share and how we think we're going to get after these problems as partners.


This article investigates object-based wetland classification using multi-feature combination of ultra-high spatial resolution multi-spectral images, MSI, from Sentinel to a data, UAV RGB images, and Google Earth RGB images. The Gram-Schmidt, GS, transformation is used to fuse the data sources, and three different feature combination classification scenarios are constructed for Fusion GE and UAV MSI, respectively, based on selected features. The object-based random forest, RF, algorithms with parameters optimization are used to carry out finer wetland classification. Results show that the Fusion of UAV images has the highest accuracy in Scenario 3, while the Fusion of GE images has the highest accuracy in Scenario 2. Both data sources reach the highest accuracy in Scenario 3. The contribution of different features to wetland classification is obtained with spectral and vegetation indexes, texture, geometric and contextual features. This article was authored by Ren Fangeng, Chuangun Jin, Bolin Fu, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


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This one is purple ice, Kate Purple ice to 149 pistons Tatum widescreen we got Brooke Lopez hyper Robinson there's a Jabari rookie again and will Garrett grab and some almanac spots. Let me tweet this one recently One moment here guys, I have no idea what that squirrel tweet was A Squirtle it was like it was like moving though, and it was strange There's a purple Jalen Suggs for the magic number to 99 go magic Chrismatic Cade we got a silver Chris stops the unicorn Dirk Jayden Ivy another rookie Jayden Ivy Zion So we're gonna split into two careers ten seasons apiece who would rank first and second in franchise history run to its total bases and doubles Oh my lord, that is crazy Kevin. That is crazy. Nobody's catching that in the Padres, dude There's a red wave not numbered Horford fearless LeBron This one is the Andre Aten hyper Kindle Brown And Jalen Durant rookie. It's a blue ice Carmelo to 125 fireworks Kate Cunningham got a silver Jimmy EJ Liddell Trey Jones and O'Shea Bajie rookie. What year did Tony Gwynne finally retire? He was in the league a long time like you said 20 year career. I don't remember if I even remember seeing Tony Gwynne as a Player there's a red wave there rookie Walker Kessler. Nice one Jass Keegan Murray like the lottery got a prison Beal Kiehl's and Martin silver of RJ Barrett Pistol Pete LaRavia McCullum another mojo. Come on Another mojo This one is Shea Gill just the 299 thunder and mojo is Otto Antoine Jameson for the Warriors Throwback Otto there warriors Antoine Jameson Nice one there mojo to 25 on the auto got a pulsar Tatum Christie and Nimhart to mojo's already. Let's see a gold now Let's see a gold now. There's blue Rodman to 199 And Otto Jabari Smith Jr. Nice one there Rockets on the rookie Otto Jabari nice one there the third pick in the draft got a tail and horn Tucker Very nice one there Rockets Caleb Houston And Shaden Sharp rookie base that's crazy 82 to 2001 That is quite a career man Red wave not numbered Bertons Luck of the lottery so Han refractor Kobe white Dale and Terry and Vince Williams There's a luck of the lottery chat on the silver nice one there thunder Prismatic Lamello silver rookie of Jalen Durant pistons Manu there's a Ben Matherin rookie and Tyce Jones Prismatic Don Mitchell. This one is Wendell Carter on the hyper hyper rookie Marjan there's Jalen Jaden Hardy and Gary Payton Big love Righty guys box three. Good luck. Good luck Purple Ice Coloco rookie Raptors that one is 2149 and this one is gold on the rookie Otto Wendell Moore Jr Nice one there T Wolves On the PYT spot very nice eight out of ten or nine out of ten Nice one there Wendell Moore on the gold rookie Otto We'll mag that for you T Wolves Patty Mills. Hey, what's up Jonathan? Yeah, we're doing good sir doing good. How you doing? Can't complain over here man Silver fearless LeBron fireworks got a silver Malik muck Johnny Davis Weber and J. Dub most games without an error. Um, I'm gonna go Cow Ripken Jr. Oh my guess there Chris There's a blue ice obi-topping number two 125 Prismatic of Jokic on there's a silver Corey Kispert Mowgli rookie There's magic and Dyson Daniels rookie red wave Matty Morris. No But I might have had that one silver Tyrese Scotty Pippin Jr. And Steve Nash most games without an error I think he plays the field at all James Weissman red wave. What up Vaughn? What up Vaughn? Prismatic of D. Lillard. There's a Deandre Aitin prism Vaughn. We got a trivia question You might know the answer to Vince Carter Golds the record for most games without an error. Come on now Vaughn. I know you got this one. I Know you got this one prismatic KD. There's Malachi Brana. I'm pulsar rookie Jovich Tim Duncan Devonte Graham the Noid No, it was interesting got orange come on It is orange TJ Warren number to 49 there for the Nets Luck of the lottery Chet Willie Mays. That's pretty good guess Marcus Morris silver Play for the Tigers. Oh window more Kenny Chandler A blank on the Tigers, I don't know silver fireworks Kate fireworks death Silver Jason Preston clippers Blake Wesley McGowan's rookie and Dominique. There's blue at 299 Josh Richardson This one is Jason Richardson on the auto there Jay rich for the Warriors as well and Desmond Bain hyper Jalen Williams rookie Dylan Brooks and so on has been math or a nice one there to 99 rookie for the Pacers in the bucket Trey young fearless Lori marketing It's not hobby by his is it? No, he was he wasn't on them for five years About say hobby by his Red Wave Davis rookie and having some errors recently. So probably not him the Andre Aten on the hyper Trace McGrady. There's Jabari Walker and D. Wade That was my original thought with the Tigers Savitoer. That was my original thought with the Tigers Just go all the way back fireworks Luca got silver D. Anthony Melton rookie Coloco and Christian Brown all righty guys one more box Prism hobby this is a four box number 95 pick your team style Played outfield Okay, played outfield for the Tigers ended five years ago fireworks. Mel. I wish that helped me more James Harden on the pulsar Amari Stottemire, there's a Keegan Murray rookie base and Danny Green red to 299 Diallo And this one is throwback auto Sean Kent for the Sonics there going to the Thunder What is David Acre's longest field goal? There you go, Donnie? Kelvin Kelton Johnson Steve's got John's Amigos trivia J. Nivey rookie. I don't know if he ever cracked a six I will I want to say 58 58 We close Steve. That's probably not wrong. That's right. Not right, but I think it's probably 58 or 59 silver shack I don't think you ever made a 60 yard. That could be way wrong silver Ingram Malachi Brandon rookie kid. I feel like back then like 60 yards where it was like unheard of. Yeah Acres is playing Hey Steve trust me. I love David Acre. He's off 299 Doma. It was 63 Okay, really didn't know he got up there and Dyson Daniels hyper rookie. That's kind of crazy That's pretty close to the to the record. You know, it's only a three-hour thought Tari eason. Did he have the record before? I was gonna say do you ever hold it? Yeah, do you have the record before a old swag tuck? Silver Kawai fireworks the claw Fearless Dame. There's a silver nice one there chat Chat for the Thunder silver rookie Malone Dirk Robbie Grossman, I would have never got that Chris Robbie Grossman good for Robbie man to 60 orange wave is Isaiah Roby spurs a Bodgy luck of the lottery silver Dreymon Paul Pierce Ryan Rollins and pistol Pete red wave not numbered siacum Raptors This one is Isaac O'Coro hyper LaRavia rookie McCollum and Kiehl's to 49 got Trey Murphy on the orange Ben Matherin luck of the lottery Silver Steph Clark Diabata and TJ Warren. It's pretty simple ever and you just have to be there If you're gonna make a pick you just have to be there during your break We'll do a randomizer You'll get a spot one through ten and that's the order you'll pick in so you'll pick one through ten We'll pull all the cards out and then we'll go one through one one by one So first person will pick a card second person will be up next They'll pick a card then third person will pick and so on and so forth till we get to ten So it's pretty simple. You just got to be there when the break is actually going on There's a purple ice that one's obi toppen to 149 and Otto is for the Clippers Reggie Jackson sensational signatures But yeah Hyper shingoon. So if you aren't able to make it for your exact time, we will make a pick for you Mark Williams, but otherwise like I said, it'll just get randomized number one through ten and then we'll go through Get all the cards out and then start picking one through ten So first person will get the first pick second person will get the second pick So on to be specific the card we pick for you if you can't make it will be the highest Yeah, yeah, we will yeah Yeah, David Roddy and Pat Baldwin Too let Yeah, exactly exactly the the higher picks are definitely the better options in that one. Yeah, you have more more choice There's Coloco red wave number two or not numbered red waves are fireworks book got Chuck Barkley on the prism Johnny Davis Chris Weber and J. Dubb. Hey, no problem Edward No problem, sir Yeah, it's pretty simple once they start going to kind of see how it works. There's a silver of Simmons rookie Peyton Watson Desmond Bain and VC on the back. Alrighty guys do a quick auto recap here We'll get moving on to the next one. We had sensational signatures Otto Reggie Jackson Shawn Kemp Jay rich Jabari Smith on the rookie sensational six nice one Rockets the 25 Antoine Jameson We had Trevor Keele's rookie Shingoon and gold one Delmore on the rookie Otto to 10 nice one there Alrighty guys, we'll get some prism fast break going next. Give me just a moment. Thank you. Thank you


We started small three years ago and the idea was to have a regional meeting and Put the wordness about injury prevention in athletes the last year grew and then this year We have an intentional flavor with the turning person came in as a keynote speaker We have a scientist from Europe from Australia from Canada from America. So it's really growing A few years ago where some of this some of the really really high level athletes came up and told us that you know They had suffered from depression and now the IOC we have worked two years now with experts from around the world and we met a year ago in Lausanne and we've written up Consensus statement that is the view of the IOC And it will be published now, and I think we really put a lot of emphasis on this mental health issue But now I think that this is going to open up a whole new area that we will as sports doctors will have to think about and relate to and Take very much better care of the athletes than we have done before and we're a clinic where we perform a lot of surgeries But the reality we feel that preventing the injuries will never be able to prevent all the injuries But at least have a better understanding how they happen and have Procedure in place to minimize them. So for us the focus will be on that for the next few years and really hopefully have an impact


Congratulations, you played yourself. That's exactly what every artist who doesn't learn this skill will be saying to themselves when they look in the mirror.  Taking off millions, tens of millions of streams, but one thing was wrong. He had a label deal and the label wasn't really doing their job. The label, they sucked, right? I'm not gonna go in on the label, but just imagine the label's not great. The label doesn't quite understand that they're not doing their job, but they still want their cut cause they got you under this contract, right? That's what's happening. This artist having the biggest moments of their career. Like truly indie, he doesn't have money like that, right? And he has a decision to make because this is literally the last song that he has under contract with this label. Literally the last song, the biggest song of his career. By far, I'm talking about 10 to 20 times bigger than anything he's ever done before. And I can confirm that the label wasn't really doing anything. They were just sitting back collecting that money because a lot of the bigger looks that this artist got, me and my partner Jacory were getting him those looks and not for a cost or anything. We just mess with him. We had rocked with him for a while. So we were getting him big looks on platforms and helping him leverage the moment becoming bigger and bigger, right? But to be fair, in some ways, I honestly don't think the label even knew what to do. They didn't know how to create the moment and they didn't know how to capitalize on them a moment. They just happened to get the artist there. However, this created a really, really uneasy feeling in the artist, right? You kind of hate this. It's like, yo, y'all want all of this. Y'all aren't really doing anything. Y'all aren't responsible for this. And this is my last song. I wish I dropped this song after that other song so it wouldn't be under y'all. But now you have a decision to make. This is the big moment in time where you have the skill or you don't and you need to get the skill. That skill is emotional intelligence. In this moment, this artist made one of the biggest decisions of his career. It seemed small, but he could have just kept moving, dropped some more music and said, I'm not about to put any more fuel behind this thing because these people own it. I don't rock with these people and they don't deserve anything. But he was able to see the bigger picture. This is my career. This is my big moment. And momentum like this, not only is it expensive, it actually can't be bought. You can try to create it, but the organic nature really taking off, taking off for real, you can't buy that. So what do you have to do?  In that period of time, knowing that he was gonna split with the label, stuff that he doesn't necessarily think that they deserve. However, what did he get out of that? A huge moment that was a stepping stone for him to continue to create more moments and expose himself to fans that never would have experienced him if he decided to just suppress that moment and act like it never happened because he was so petty or so hurt by the label.  Whether it's a manager situation, I know many artists that are dealing with some manager situations, right? A label situation, a distributor situation, a partner, whatever you have going on, it happens again and again and you have to be able to make that move for the bigger picture. Future is actually a perfect example of this. Surprisingly enough, y'all might say, why is he bringing up future? I got three examples where I've seen this with future being extremely emotionally intelligent when it comes to his career. And you're gonna wanna hear these examples because it will give you a perfect idea of how you should move and how you should see this entire game, this entire industry. But before I get into that, I just wanna remind you, these are my Saturdays with Sean video series where I'm dropping videos every Saturdays. I mean, if you could just subscribe to the vibe and you aren't subscribed to the channel already, I appreciate it. It lets me know that this series is worth continuing to do. I can see the amount of people that were subscribed to this video in every other Saturday video. So if you love when I do this style of video, these types of topics, which my whole intention is to give deep insights from behind the scenes, behind the curtains in the industry for this particular series, just subscribe to the vibe, that's all I ask. But back to future. Future example number one was when Future had a beef with Drake. Not a real legitimate beef because he didn't even let it get there. But I remember in this particular case, people basically said that Drake stole something from Future. Maybe a flow or a song, something was similar. And that was the first time. There's been a couple of things that the public has brought up between Future and Drake where they felt like Drake was kind of being a little slick on Future and Future felt kind of away, right? But the point is in this case, Future didn't really do much about it. Like publicly, he didn't come out, he could have lashed out of Drake, called him fake, called him whatever, whatever, whatever. But instead, he saw the long game. And I think I even saw a picture of him. I mean, a clip of him mentioning something like this where you know what happened a few years later? Him and Drake did a project together and they went on tour together. And the positioning of Future as an artist to be able to do something like that with Drake was massive for him, massive. So he basically said, yo, yeah, we're gonna piece this up in a way that actually benefits me. I don't wanna like lash out, ruin my career and then come back and finally try to have some moment together when I just wasted a lot of momentum that I could have gained in that period of time, not that he wasn't confident and what he could do on his own without Drake in his career. But he just knows, hey, there's more money if I can figure this out. If I can't, I'm sure he probably would've got to the point where he would've been like, eh, whatever it is, what it is. Another situation with Future. Beyoncé is drunk in love. He didn't get credit for Beyoncé's Drake, Drunk in Love. And if you go find a video and look up Future, wrote Beyoncé, Drunk in Love, you will find a clip of somebody asking about it.  And Future's basically like, we'll figure it out or something like that. All right, he's just letting people know, yeah, there's an issue there, but I'm not about to come on his platform, go crazy on this person because I rather figure a way out of this situation that's better for me. He did the same in another situation with Jay-Z when Jay-Z basically put out a line in his song referencing when he got caught cheating and he thought he was about to break up his family and he was gonna end up like Future watching his son play catch with another man. Basically, that's what it comes down to. If you know the line, you know the line. Future came out a little bit, right? You gotta bark a little bit, especially when you talk about the kids and bring that into the fold. But even the situation where he handled that situation was still, all right, now how can we get to the bigger business and not ruin this entire career? Three situations of high emotional intelligence and how do you do that yourself? I can tell you, I've known artists who've had moments in their career that they've regretted not being emotionally intelligent, letting the emotions get the best out of them because that is what you do a lot of times as an artist. You might wear your emotions on your sleeve and I can guarantee you there's a lot of people who are doing that even on the executive side where they're mistakenly doing things like that and messing up moments or slowing down their own personal momentum. You have to ask yourself, is this person, this entity, whatever it is that you're beefing with or feel away about, worth more to you than your own personal goals, your own life to the extent that you allow yourself to be distracted from the ideal outcome that you have for your life, right? Buy some bull. Simple as that. If not, if the answer is no, then you have to step back and say, well, what do I want? What's best for me to get to where I want? Do I need to lash out? Could I lash out? Are they wrong? Maybe, but that doesn't mean that you have to knock down a house of cards just to get back at them. It's not gonna be worth it. There's another situation I can think of with an artist where there was just a lot of lack of trust with the label situation and in this particular situation, the artist didn't have a real reason to distrust the label. A lot of it came from lack of communication and some things like that. Just some misunderstandings, but knowing the entire situation, this label situation, those people were like the best that this artist could get the best situation. But rightfully so, you know, there's reasons that artists can be weary and afraid, right? But here's the thing. The lack of trust was there. It was there. And in this moment, the artist was having a moment and he had to be able to decide, am I going to maximize my moment? Like, is what the label saying right? Because I hear what they're saying and I don't trust their intentions. I don't know if they have my best intention in mind. I don't know if they care about my ultimate outcome and no one's gonna care about that as much as you regardless, by the way. But even with that said, independent of their intentions is what they're saying right or not. Because if it is right and it's going to help me get towards my specific goal, then I need to ignore my lack of trust for them in general and just focus on the moment right now. Is what they're saying right? Is it wrong? And is it going to help me get to where I need to go? And how can I get maybe independent advising and information to help me determine if that's the right move? Because sometimes good news comes from bad people. It just is what it is. So again, this situation though, it actually, and this is the worst situations that I see a lot of people mess things up in. I've seen a lot of people waste energy, ruin relationships, ruin their own outcome in their own career or at least slow and delay things all because they were feeling the type of way and felt done wrong in a situation where they weren't done wrong or they were thinking that somebody was trying to sun them or diss them or dismiss them when in reality they weren't. For example, anybody who's been in this industry long enough knows that you can meet a lot of people quickly, some dope people, but the way time is set up, you might not be able to spend as much time with everybody that you would like that seems cool.  An artist, a dope artist that I'm cool with hit me up six months after I hit him up about something and he was supposed to get back to me and he just hit me up like, yo bro my bad but I wasn't wasting any energy feeling the type of way because I've been there and I am doing that actively to some people by mistake as well but I know I might have to in a week realize oh snap there's somebody I'm supposed to hit back up. So in a weird way you have to be optimistic, you have to expect or believe in the best side of people but then be pragmatic in watching what they actually do because I'm not telling anybody to be like a blind follower or a blind believer in any individual character in the industry but I've seen too many situations where it'll be something like that and somebody will genuinely rock with you but they might not have gotten back to you but the miscommunication just messed things up and they really did mean one thing and it's where y'all texted and it just felt like one energy or you were having a bad day so you misread it and now you're going off on a rant, you're doing some BS you're messing up a relationship and didn't even realize that that person actually wasn't against you in the first place. But now because you did what you did, they have to be against you. You just went and created an enemy that you didn't even have but you thought you did and that comes from a lot of insecurity, a lot of fear, a lot of desperation, grinding and grinding and grinding and putting it in work and maybe having some legitimate situations where you did get done wrong but please, I implore you to take a step back, right? When you're going through these situations, analyze the field and determine is this best to get me where I wanna go before I hop off the roof, right? Do I need to figure out how to piece it up? Because if I can, that'll be beautiful or do I need to just remain quiet, get the maximum I can out of this situation and just take note, let that individual profit however they need to profit and then get whatever I need out of the situation as well. That's the reality of being emotional intelligent in this industry, it's so easy to let your emotions get the best of you but if you can discipline yourself in that way and I know it's hard because especially as an artist, you're wearing that on your sleeve, you get used to letting that out. It's benefiting you so much in this creative space but boy over here, who that thing can backfire so make sure you share this with any of your artist friends with your manager friends, your music professional friends all y'all need to see it all of us need to get the reminder I'm having this conversation cause I have to remind myself of the same thing sometimes it is what it is. 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