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We're going to be talking about the depositions of the heads of four tech companies That's Amazon Facebook Google and Apple in front of the US House of Representatives committee on antitrust Now these four tech heads were called to answer questions by legislators both Democratic and Republican The law main focus there was a variety of questions actually But the main focus were whether these companies were too big whether these companies were not Allowing competitors to grow and suppressing competition whether they were having a larger dangerous effect on democracy itself So to talk more about this we have with us probably Prakash sir probably thank you for joining us So to begin with Could you talk about maybe what was the larger sense that came out of these hearings because we do know that each of these companies has been Questioned and especially in recent years for many practices which can be called harmful Which can be called unethical and these people are of these men are also the richest in the world So where do we see these hearings going? Well, it's interesting. These are called the gaffa the google apple Facebook amazon These as you said are the four biggest tech companies in the world along with microsoft Which incidentally wasn't here which is as big a monopolist as the other four But microsoft has come under the scanner earlier It had criticisms of different kinds. So this time I guess the other four were the doc the It's an interesting issue because we are again hearing about monopolies in the united states After quite some time, you know the Earlier bunch of anti monopoly issues that had come up came up really at the end of the 19th century And that continued for quite some 30 40 years Breaking up the oil companies Last big anti monopoly action was really breaking up the bell monopoly And after that we haven't heard any talk about monopolies in the united states The sudden rise of the tech monopolies over the last 10 12 years has really flagged this particular Act set of actions actions at the moment in terms of congressional congressional hearings The interesting part is the the reference Repeatedly made to justice brandis who did talk about the incompatibility of monopolies and democracy And said you can either have monopoly monopoly power or you can have democracy you can't have both Now the united states has believed that the good of as it was to be called general mortars in those days Who which was the leading monopoly general mortars was good of good for united states Now we can say good. What is good for garfa is good for united states Was possibly the philosophy for some time and interestingly enough it has rubbed the political established establishment differently And this monopoly hearings is part of it monopoly Which i think a number of people are worried about which has been a consistent criticism A part of it is also political posturing coming from russia hacked our elections to Trump basically Hacking the elections with different support of the of the of putin as well as the fact that a lot of conservative opinion Including even trumps and trumps sons the sub twitter Actually exercising what would be called censorship on them now? This is also the obverse of the other part of it Which is monopoly and they are saying that you're exercising monopoly power to curb our speech Or you're not giving us a free hearing So that brings up the issue of hate speech versus what is fair speech and that's a different ball game altogether And i would say that if monopolies emerge Then of course you have an issue Who does the censorship because you cannot accept that There is no bar on quote unquote free speech to the extent of all kinds of things being said incendiary violence being Roused and so on so particularly with lynchings we have seen in the country I think this is a completely untenable position anywhere in the world But there is a strong opinion that the u.s. That we should be allowed to do anything on As far as speech is concerned and all of this is free speech So it really had two very different elements coming together And that's why the four were on the dock and if it was monopoly power Then five should have been on the dock and therefore the fact that microsoft wasn't also meant that it was Conflated with other issues coming to the key issue that you're raising the issue of monopoly And the exercise of monopoly power I think is also Clear from what the documents that were apparently presented to the congressional hearing members As well as what's come in the public domain from in other context research not necessarily in this that This monopoly power extracts at least a 30% rent on their platforms This 30% rent is what amazon extracts from the people who Supply products through amazon it has led to bankruptcies down the line, but amazon has a infinite supply of new players who come Hoping that they will not face the same consequence And therefore they are not really too bothered about the fact that the bankruptcies of amazon partners are taking place Continuously so the 30% seems to be the figure that is emerged and as somebody has said I pay 20% Tax to uncle sam 30% tax to amazon Now interestingly 30% is also the figure that came out from the hearings, which some people said the apple apps those who Use the or give their apps to apple and earned earnings from that. They also play pay a fat Flat 30% rate to apple So the tax is for both are 30% on whoever supplies through their platform So this is the monopoly power the assert now there are other ways There are certain powers which i'm not getting into But it's a classic issue of you're a monopolist to those whom you from whom you buy You're a monopolist to those whom you supply So this is the double-sided monopoly which in amazon or apple in the case of the app stores that it has Obviously uses but let's come to the bigger issue for me that these companies are not just local monopolies They're not us monopolies the really global monopolies and rest of the globe doesn't seem to have any power to control them There are also companies which are not officially headquartered headquartered for tax reasons in the us They are in caiman islands or some such tax havens So they pay very little income tax to the us government So they are us companies for all you know, whatever the fiction They might maintain the really us companies and they have all attended the us congressional hearings So they haven't said hey, we're not us companies. Why should we come before you? So the issue is that any country which has summoned them and india has in fact, if you remember india had Someone zuckaburk who refused to come and though Our telecom minister issued some threats at that time. He seems to also have forgotten about it Ravishankar Prasad said india government of india is calling you but I don't think he later on remembered what he had himself said So it's the fact that they did appear before the us congressional hearings. These are us companies. That's an admission So rest of the globe doesn't seem to have any role in this now. There are committee hearings or there are various antitrust hearings, which I've been using the us word But basically various regulatory agencies have taken up the issue starting from australia to europe about the monopoly power They exercise so this is a very real issue How do you prevent this monopoly power in different parts of the world from being exercised? And how do you protect your local market from what essentially are american companies? This I think is a second issue that we have to really think about The third is how is this monopoly power being exercised and it's very interesting because when the internet started It was people were connecting directly to each other and we thought that the main monopoly power of media Which meant that you had to go for news or for television or for even cinema You went to a few established players. They had the monopoly that this monopoly therefore allowed them to extract monopoly rent from others and if we are directly able to talk to each other And we are able to directly convey news to each other in groups in the smaller More shall disparate markets so to say not controlled by centralized conglomerates Then we would get a much more democratization of the media news What instead happened is this entire set of companies that sprung up and google of course was the first big one They centralized this entire internet. So we don't connect to each other directly.  We are not connecting to each other as we did originally but we are connecting to google So what has happened is a whole infrastructure of facebook google has been built up by which they control from both sides They control what you do what you see or how you write to whom you write All that information of course is as we know data is also money But more than that what has happened is they are In the middle and what we think is the internet is really google and facebook increasingly In fact 70 percent of the internet traffic today is google and facebook So this is the centralization of the net and this is the centralization which is not a single country Earlier media telecommunications were monopolies, but monopolies in their countries Now we have got an entirely a global monopoly in which four five six companies completely ruin the roost So we have really got Centralization and creation of monopolies on a scale that we have never faced before and it's really last 15 20 years that we have seen this develop. I think this is the much bigger threat These are international monopolies Control at one side by the united states back by the united states if anything happens In fact even in india is the us embassy takes an interest and also intervenes in these issues And therefore these are not companies which are without the blessings and the protection of the united states Even if the united states congressional hearings are all these companies as well So this is the centralization of monopoly power. These companies are really Asserting and you can see that the rate of profit, which is really the monopoly rent They're extracting by building these technology Logical, you know methods of monopolization today means that they have a profit margin far beyond what any other company has And they are able to leverage this into newer and newer fields Which is the google example and which promula jai pal one of the congressional Members of the committee said that you know, why is it when you do a google search? You go to google sites rather than to other sites. So this is an obvious issue How do you misuse your position on the on search engine to directing people to sign? Sites and so on So whatever it says that this is the reality that technology has built New monopolies on the scale we haven't seen before and this is not the oil monopoly Not the telecom monopoly. This is far more pervasive Than what we have seen so far and the solution does not lie in hearings and talks and you know Stacks increases and so on but being able to break up the monopolies. There is no other answer Either nationalize or break them. These are the only two ways to go and if countries like india have to face it It has to see how to protect this internal market. This is what china has done people think china The great firewall of china is about censorship. No, it is not it is about building an internet Which is free from these companies and that's why the fifth largest sixth largest company in the world today is Chinese one it's alibaba So in fact, that's how they have become strong because they have a home market in which they could play And then you have 10 cents. You have a couple of others So you see that apart from china There's nobody else who's protected the internal market may be partially russia And we have decided as of now to ban all chinese companies virtually for playing an indian market But we have opened ourselves completely to the american countries and they believe that that's the alliance we need But that's as the amazon and others now balance sheets clearly show that this is a completely one sided alliance We don't really get benefits from it. And what you do is really surrendering your internal market to this company And praveen has a follow-up question just to sort of elaborate on the idea of breaking it up itself So there's been a lot of talk about it, especially over the past decade or so Once the snowden revelations came out about the kind of backdoors the u.s. Government had on this Once the cambridge analytica issue came out again. There was a huge furor In fact, even in these hearings Congress persons did ask about how what happens when google becomes your gateway to the internet but How does actually breaking these companies up look like both in terms of the legal frameworks that are required and the final Technological framework that may emerge because often the argument posed is that These companies are so big so they're able to you know, provide this bouquet of services Which would not be available to people otherwise You know monopolies have always given these kind of arguments. We have economies of Scale we can do a we can do b Not completely untrue. That's why they are monopolies But the point is that they also Stifle a whole bunch of other technological revolutions Improvement that can take place and also crush all Descent they can crush all other companies with the serious competition, but more importantly Politically they in fact work to see that the american viewpoint globally is the viewpoint that is presented So as if you go and search, you know, mandela was Arrested because by the south african police because The upper side south african police will remember Because the american embassy informed on him that they had wanted to meet with him to talk to him And they also then informed south african police. Hey, he's in town, you know, so you can arrest him He's probably here. So these are the things that you won't find if you do google search You will find a lot. I mean, it's not that it is completely erased out of memory But you will find it's hidden away under so many Other queries that you get mandela is this Nonviolent apostle of peace mandela did Going for arm revolution. So that he supported arm revolution. He was very much a part of it So all those things are then airbrushed out of history If you do google search, you have to go to 10th 11th 12th page of google to see this Now this is political power which is being asserted and of course it is with With partnership with and in collaboration with the united states Agency it's not happening innocently though, you know, people would like to believe that it is so So this is political power. So I think there are two sets of issues here One is how do other countries protect their home market against predatory players like google Now that's one set of issues that we have to take up. Do you promote our own search engine? Do we also see that google search engine does is not allowed to be used in india for instance, should you be so harsh Do we then if we are reacting as a country, what do we then do? These are questions we have to really look at and at the same time If it is the us which has to look at all this us has to basically look at the fact how to break up google That's the key issue in front of these companies. How to break up their different businesses For instance bell when it was the Telecom company it wasn't allowed to enter the whole range of business in in fact It had 32 bit chips before anybody else. They had 32 bit technology at the time really path breaking But they couldn't enter the computer market for instance. That's why you see a whole range of Bell products From software to other things were available free because they had to give that away if they had a telecom monopoly In fact, one of the reasons they were willing to give up the telecom monopoly They thought that they could enter other areas and make money out of it So you those are the kind of things that you have to say if you want to be search engine You just do this and nothing else all other activities have to be hyped up. You can't enter So all those kind of things have to be done But it's not an easy one because between media search engine media social networks The connection has become so intimate that that's not going to be so easy either The other alternative is to break them up as independent companies like it was done with bell labs And you've got different companies doing different business different areas in this case different businesses Will that succeed? I don't know But these are some of the issues that that will have to be looked at But the most important one in terms of an approach would be to declare these are public Utilities and if they're public utilities, there are certain rules They have to follow including a fixed rate of profit not more than that 2% profit 3% profit. That's it So there are various ways of regulating But all of it needs a political will and at the moment the political will is to bend facebook and google To trumps viewpoints. So to say don't censor us Don't do this. Don't do that. But not raising the key issue How are you a monopoly does monopoly itself affect what you do to others? And how do we break monopoly power though? It has come up in the congressional hearing justice brandis who talked about democracy and monopoly being incompatible Has been quoted enough number of times by the congressional committee. So, you know, there is hope yet But looking at the larger american politics, this doesn't seem to be immediately in the offering and it's also interesting that COVID-19 has really increased the monopoly power Of this digital monopoly The digital monopolies have never had it so good as they have had during the COVID-19 epidemic Because you can see their stock rates which have gone up. You can see the stock market They have done exceedingly well and it's not surprising because online deliveries have increased people have gone much more on the net So, you know amazon prime to others are all making money out of it So you have a whole range of things which have because of the kind of physical lockdown issues that have come which have helped them But at the same time the political centralization As well as the economic centralization of power of these companies and I would think that, you know, microsoft is A very important player in this has to be looked at and you know, finally prashant Key issue is really technology That you know, these monopolies have been come by clever, uh, you know, uh, entrepreneurship They have come because technology new technological frontiers have opened up the internet And somebody had to emerge and these companies then got a global stage to emerge And therefore they have become really global players because the internet is a global space And I think that is the key issue that technologies will always create the opportunities for new monopolies And unless you are able to break up monopoly power politically to political action You cannot break break it up by just talking about it And I think that is the crux of the issue we are facing today And the fact that different regulators are talking about it I think there's a worldwide acceptance now that this is not simply an american issue European issue australian and indian issue is a global issue And we need at the end of it Something which will allow us to tackle it globally as well as locally. Thank you very much for talking to us That's all we have time for today. Keep watching music


Hi everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante, and this is SiliconANGLE's continuous coverage of EMC World 2012. We are theCUBE, where we bring you the brightest minds in the industry, we extract their knowledge, we share it with you, our community.  You got questions, let us know. You can tweet us, I'm at Dave Vellante, my co-host John Furrier, at Furrier. Let us know if you have any questions. But we are here with Jason Buffington. Jason is a senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Enterprise ESG is a consultancy, a research firm out of Milford, Mass. They've grown very rapidly over the past 10 or 12 years under the direction of Steve Duplecy, real innovative entrepreneur, and they do a great job. Jason, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thanks for having me. And we're also joined by David Floyer, who is my colleague from Wikibon, Wikibon CTO. And we're talking about DataBridge. We just had Rick Wallsworth on. DataBridge is this enterprise mashup. Customers are frustrated. They have all these tools, it's managers of managers, and you always hear, why doesn't some big company step up and allow me to manage my infrastructure with a heterogeneous platform? It sounds like that's what DataBridge is designed to do. Now you just wrote a piece on this, Jason. Take us through, is that the right premise and what's your take on all this? It is the right premise. We just got out of the keynote a few minutes ago. And one of the things we talked about in the keynote was EMC heard the feedback from not that many years ago on how the management tools really needed to kind of grow up. And they did. Prosphere is better than it's ever been before. DPA has gone through some revisions. There's a lot of technologies where if you had one job and the only thing you had to do was back up, you could live in DPA and you'd be fine. Or if you were just a storage guy, you could live in Prosphere and be fine. The challenge is that most of us don't live in one piece of the IT world anymore. Customers are demanding a broader scope visibility. We're seeing folks that want to have control, that they want to have a high level view of what's going on across the board. And when you put that all together, that pane of glass doesn't exist. You could spend all day bouncing through panes of glass. And that's really where EMC stepped up. And that's what DataBridge is about. It's about knitting together all those panes of glass into something which not only pulls it all together, but actually makes it actionable.  So it seems to me, and I'm no expert in this field. So help me understand the sort of layers of capability. So at the device level, if you will, the array level, you're going to get some really detailed metrics on the devices and maybe hotspots and things like that.  And then at other levels, you might be, you know, the 50,000 foot view. And one's too close, one's too far away. Are you saying that products like DataBridge can actually solve that problem and bridge that? Absolutely, because what it does, it knits it together. It lets you create relationships between them. And then most importantly, it lets you customize the view to the level that you need. If you're a 30,000 foot view guy, then it's going to give you just 30,000 foot view information. You're not going to be lost in the weeks. And now you're a deep devil guy. At some point, you've got to get in there. And it's going to knit those pieces together too. You know, there are other companies have tried to do this. And a lot of them, especially when you talk about private cloud architectures, they want to go from the top down. They want to talk about the app and then how the app relates to a service. And maybe it gets down to the hypervisor. But they take for granted all of the stuff that's in the fabric. They take for granted that storage is going to be there. And they take for granted that backup policies are going to work. Databricks works from the other side up.  And boils it up into something that says, what is your house built on? So David, you were talking in the previous segment about the challenges of mashups. I wonder if you could restate that premise. And let's talk about, you just mentioned that some of the companies haven't succeeded. I want to explore why and why this will succeed. But go ahead, David. So yeah, what we were talking about before was the fact that mashups don't have the best history because of the lack of definition of the sources of those data. What is a outage? What is a drive? All of those things have different definitions from different vendors, from different tools, from different everything else. And so how do you take those disparate things? There seems to be the two ways you can do that. One of which is you can impose an API, a RESTful API or something coming down onto it. Or the second is that you try things out and on an ad hoc basis you learn that A correlates with B. Now, both of those have their disadvantages and both of those, the end of which, you're not certain about the data. There's a high degree of certainty. So talk to me, how do you think that an organization, what should they expect from this? Because I have the feeling that they shouldn't expect that they're going to get perfect data out of this sort of system. They will learn how to shape it into roughly what they need. Is that how you see it? Or do you think you can impose more rigor on it? I do think that they should not expect to see perfect data on day one. Candidly, I'm not sure that all the pieces are entirely there. EMC is still, they're bringing us to one. There's still a lot of people bits and pieces out there. I mean, AppSync isn't sort of tagged on the side. And AppSync is there as one piece of the puzzle. You know, each of these, what they're trying to do is really very aspiration. You're sure? Right, so it's not like they've got this blueprint that says, if they do all these steps, it's guaranteed to provide a perfect set of data on the beginning. I think the other thing which is really important about what's going to help Databrits succeed or not will be the fact of what their investment is in the partner community. What their, EMC is not really looking to knit together a set of data sources where they know all from the very beginning to the end. They're planning on investing in a community where folks that have been looking for instrumentation and folks that have been asking for a piece of information they couldn't get before. You know, now we've given them a set of tools or they've given them a set of tools to say, okay, now you can build these tools. We're going to give you the APIs. We're going to give you a framework of what instrumentation looks like. And then we're going to invest in you, right? In manpower and effort. And then when that nits together, I think that's what's actually going to perfect how the stuff lines up, and it doesn't. I think that's a great answer, but can you talk a little bit more about how they're going to do this? How they think they can achieve this? I mean, people need to be very certain that things are not going to change or have a very clear vision of the future if they're going to invest in products which really go down deep and pull all these stuff together. So can you talk about a couple of things? If I may, it starts with the motivation. So I've always got the sense, and I wonder when you guys think about this, that a big reason why large suppliers never attacked this problem is because they didn't want to. They actually liked the fact that they had these stovepipes because they could make a lot of money out of it. I think times have changed and customers have just said enough, we can't build a cloud infrastructure with all these stovepipes. You have to solve that problem. No third-party software vendor was able to come through and solve that problem. So you've got this sort of perpetuating. They weren't allowed to because they weren't allowed to be given. Right, they were shut out. They were shut out of the information. Whether it was EMC or IBM or HPE or Oracle or whatever, they had a vested interest in keeping the third parties out and sort of controlling the stovepipes. What's your take on that? Yeah, but remember that EMC is in a relatively unique position as far as how broad their vested interest is. It's not like they're just a one-trick pony and the storage was the only thing they're focused on. If it was, then they'd just make pro screw the best of pro screw. And virtualization changes. Absolutely, absolutely. As you get so much broader, their vested interest across the entire ecosystem of all the various things they touch, they're in a unique position to actually drive leadership in this area that most companies don't have the wherewithal or the exposure to do. And who is the competition? The IBMs, the HPEs, the Oracles, CAs, CAs, right? Microsoft. Microsoft, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and is EMC's advantage that they're going to go deeper into solving the customer problems that are stored specific? I think EMC's advantage is that they understand the fabric. And when I say fabric, I mean the blinking lights, they're actually on raised floor. They understand more of them in enterprise environments than just about anybody else. I used the example earlier, say, in the Microsoft model. Microsoft's perspective is the operating system and the applications. They want to look down. They want to launch an application in a service. They have a high price underneath it, but they assume that everything that has blinking lights on it is just going to work, right? I think EMC's perspective coming up from the bottom is they understand what this has to be in compute capacity. They understand the bottom, the underpinnings. And that gives them a different kind of view that I think is going to enable in users, administrators in a way they've never had before. And what's the flip side of that? So that's their advantage. What's the disadvantage? I mean, people don't necessarily look at EMC as the company who's going to bring together all my heterogeneous assets. Is that the flip side of it? Or is that changing? What's the motivation of the people to invest in this? What's the motivation of the players to invest and believe the others will invest as well? Well, so I think it's twofold. One, I do think that virtualization abstracts quite a bit of the heterogeneity of the equation. I also know that when you think about things like the Microsoft and EMC relationship where they're looking top down and that's up, maybe that's a complete story. So it's a partner ecosystem play. And if you'd asked me six months ago, where did I think the hole was going to be? I would say the hole is probably around the awareness of applications and the resilience of the apps. But we just got done talking about apps, right? So. All right, good. All right, Jason, well, listen, thanks for letting us put you on the spot here. A great paper. A great paper. Very good. So check it out. How can people get a hold of that? Is that available on the ESG website? It is on the ESG website. If you follow my blog, I am technicaloptimist.com. We'll follow my tweets, Jbuff, J-B-U-F-F. You'll hear about it later today. Excellent. So check those out at Jbuff. Go to esg.com, download the white paper on DataBridge. It's a great description about 10, 12 pages, a lot of detail. And Jason, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It was a pleasure meeting you. Have a good day. And David, thank you. Thank you. All right, everybody, keep it right there. We have a lot of great guests this afternoon. Mike Clayko is coming up shortly. He's the CEO of Brocade. And keep it right there. We'll be right back.


You probably remember this woman. After posing for a despicable photo at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Lindsay Stone quickly became one of the most hated people in America. Her revolting picture quickly went viral over social media and ignited a firestorm, but Karma eventually paid her a visit when she least expected it. Lindsay Stone was placed on leave at life, a community for disabled adults in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, before being fired. Soon after Lindsay Stone's co-workers snapped the picture during their trip to Washington, D.C., both women were terminated from their jobs. The non-profit organization where they worked was flooded with angry emails. In addition to losing her job, Stone was unable to leave her house for a year, living in continual fear after receiving death and rape threats, while others demanded that she be sent to prison. The photo was taken next to a sign at the military cemetery that asked for silence and respect. It became a lightning rod for angry comments over the disrespect to fallen service members. An Iraq war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder created a Facebook page calling for Stone's termination, titled Fire Lindsay Stone. It has since been taken down after serving its purpose. Lindsay Stone pictured at an unknown location. Lindsay Stone says she now realizes the photo was an incredibly poor taste, according to Inside Edition. She said in a statement, We sincerely apologize for all the pain we have caused by posting the picture. We never meant any disrespect to any of the people nationwide who have served this country and defended our freedom so valiantly. However, the apology may be too little, too late. After the incident, Stone's father called his daughter's behavior disgraceful, said that taking the picture was a total lapse of judgment and demanded that his daughter apologize. It was just a spur of the moment, total lapse of judgment, Peter Stone, a 61-year-old retired ironworker, said. She wasn't reacting to the place, she was reacting to the sign, and she apologizes to everybody. Lindsay Stone at times square. After being continually turned down for almost a year by potential employers, Lindsay Stone was finally able to land a job working with autistic children. But, even now, she lives in continual fear that her new employers will terminate her over her past transgression. I love this job so much. I love these kids, she told The Guardian. One of the parents paid me a really high compliment the other day.  But what has she found out? Would she feel the same way? After flipping off dead soldiers, Karma smacked Lindsay Stone hard. Lindsay Stone flashed the obscene gesture at Arlington National Cemetery, next to a sign that asked for respect. It has also affected her love life, since Lindsay Stone refuses to date, fearing what people might think of her. Since it happened, I haven't tried to date anybody. How much do you let a new person into your life? Do they already know? Stone said. Well, I guess the next time that she decides to flip off a tomb representing all the unidentified soldiers who have died to protect her sorry, but perhaps she'll think twice. Even though we all make mistakes at some point, what world does she live in where it's okay to act like such a hooligan on the sacred grounds revered by so many?


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It's about the the confidence the personality and you have it skills You have it, but I will say hair will add to that.  I mean it's pretty good Right because straight men cannot handle being Emasculated at all in any way straight perform. We have to call a man weave We can't just call a weave.  Okay, it's gonna be okay for your weave. All right I love skills. Can we be friend skills? Can we be friends? Literally me what kind of hair is this is this Egyptian Brazilian Guatemalan Chinese a meberkin. Who we doing? What are we doing? What country? He's like, no, no, man. It's just She's just afro hair. Hey, that's a type of hair.  He's he's shaving Um, a horseshoe shape at the top of his head in order to place the unit on his His scalp so he has to clean all that area up shave it get it prepped and ready And then he can glue on the unit that you will see probably in a second. I'm so distracted by uh skills here I don't even know what's going on with the hair at this point. Okay, let's keep watching Not really, but I mean man weaves and I can't much said man weaves men getting weaves and women getting Weaves is actually two completely different things the only similarities that you're adding hair to the head But this one you're gluing a toupee onto their head heads head and then the other one You're adding tracks to existing hair. So completely different things, but um, oh also by the way We're gonna go through a lot of different videos of different kinds of man weaves.  He actually looks so much younger Oh These clients are just crazy. I I can't I'm gonna go crazy. This is this is that's it Listen, he looks good. I'm gonna say the hair looks a little too thick. Maybe like it looks a little too much But maybe that's cuz I just saw him without hair and now it's like so much hair I want his personality Okay, that ended up more being about skills rather than uh, we moving on to more educational videos Okay, so this one is by hair for all and it's how to apply attach a non-surgical replacement system for men Okay, so we're starting off with a very bald spot a cute guy I want to know how much cuter this is really gonna make him. I can't wait. Wow. That's a lot of hair, honey Wait, wait if I go bald, that means I can change my hair color like every day Like I already do but like without damage Wait, what if I just shaved like this part of my head and just wore weaves? Would that be crazy? Is that weird? I could have long hair one day short hair another blue hair pink hair green hair Any hair I want and I could just take it off and replace it with another one the next day What have I been? What have I been doing all this time? Oh my god, I'm having a total moment right now. Okay Let's look at it looks on him and then I'll make my decision. Okay, so they're adding a lot of hair to his head And I'm excited for it. Oh, wow.  What the fridge? Oh my god, he already looks so much better Yes, and it is it is looking so fresh and oh my god, that looks like his actual hair This is so crazy. What? Oh my god. I want to get into this line of work. I really genuinely do I would love this. Oh my god. That is so crazy It looks like it's actually coming out of the scalp and they didn't put it too far forward So it looks like too like heavy like she did a really nice job to make it look natural Still like he's losing a little bit of hair like not a lot Kind of moment. Look at that hairline, bro Anybody out there who wears wigs can appreciate this lace front.  Thank you. Listen. It's kind of nice. It looks kind of nice. Thank you so much for that That was great. Um, okay. Our next video is a little bit different It's by adren the barber and his man weave dreadlocks tutorial I saw the thumbnail and I think this gets very wild and I'm excited for it If you can already notice Oh, this is gonna be so fun. He's literally adding dreadlocks his guys had I mean clearly, but never know. Okay. I don't know Is it clickbait? I don't know. Okay. He has hair. I thought he was me completely bald. So again We're shaving that horse shoe section out on the top of his head. They're gonna get rid of that. They're gonna shave it down This is gonna be juicy. I can I can feel it in my veins. So we're adding the glue This part's so satisfying to watch.  What's this? What is this? Whoa, this is so weird. So he's like making a Bald cap kind of situation I'm guessing to protect his scalp Okay, so apparently they weren't staying as well before without having underlying paper Moment underneath and so now he's adding this because it stays better when they sweat. Wow, that looks beautiful He's so talented absorbs the sweat so the glue doesn't move Wow, this is so creative These barbers are so Talented like when you're a good barber, you're a good barber like really good like they really care Yeah, why I just feel like he he should be careful because seems like this is A lot of time and I charge clients based on time typically and this seems like it's gonna take a lot of time So I would I mean charge more than just putting a little too to pay on but that's just me Now he's adding the hair to this hairline and it is looking hectic This is so cool.  Wow Looks like it'd be extremely uncomfortable But worth it. I mean if you want to look a hot beauty's payment, it's really it's true All I can think about is this guy's if this guy's had sweating at all It is just gonna be like not be able to go anywhere and it's gonna be very uncomfortable But I don't know I it looks like that's plastic that like non breathable plastic. So Seems like it'd be very uncomfortable But who cares like two pays though are amazed that they're breathable And you can wear them for a long period of time without getting uncomfortable And this that is why people pay more for the to pay But if you can put up with this helmet on your head, then that's awesome Wow, that is so cool. It looks so legit. Oh my god Dude, what y'all I'm tripping. He has a full on weave on that head and it looks so good Oh my god. And now he goes in and details it I mean, it would never look this real on me. But like that is so cool You can literally go in there and and trim it like a blush. Wow That is nuts. Do you see what he's doing here? This is artistry.  He's spray painting the thing.  He looks hot.  What an amazing amazing artist I am so Impressed this is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen doing hair just reacts Even like the the way he pulled it up in a bun or like in the ponytail it looks just so beautiful Okay, not so much doubt. Let's leave it up. But um Wow, I want to see the guy's reaction to it. He looks pissed Okay, so I don't think we'll ever be able to top that video, but um Um Let's move on to the next one the next and final Video, which is another different kind of weave and this one. I looks like it's gonna be really interesting too So let's watch it. This is so exciting. Okay, let's do it This video is by adrian the barber and it's called main weave brush wave unit tutorial And this is actually the same the same barber as last time. So I am ready to be shook again Oh, I love adrian the barber. He is very cool adrian. If you see this, let's Do a video together. I want to learn your skills I can definitely cut with clippers, but I never did a barbering class. So I would love to learn It's all about learning baby. It's all about learning So we're drawing out the line of where the unit is gonna go peruse. We're laying that glue He's laying it attention to detail is beautiful. Obviously. It's adrian the barber. Oh, okay So now that here's the cool stuff So he is legit laying down wavy locks On his scalp so interesting. I would have never been like, let's do this. I don't even know how you get that off Actually, yeah, how do you get that off? You like scrape their head with and I don't know who cares He is making sure every pair is laid down perfectly the squiggles match What?   Whoa Looking a little weird, but I'm sure adrian is gonna pull through I trust him at this point. He he's going to pull through something cool is gonna happen I can feel it coming. Does he shave the top. Oh my god. Oh, I'm not ready for this. Yes He's cutting it now. Oh, this is so cool I want to do it Do you guys know how much of a steady hand you need to have to do this and not make any divots in the hair? Oh, he really trusts himself I would not Trust me to do that like have the most steady hand To make those perfect lines and make that top of the hair level. Oh, that is so hard Those clippers look really nice. I want them. How do you know how far to go down? Like when do you know to stop? I would just keep going and I'd like hit their scalp Wow So he brings it all the way down to like there's a centimeter of hair left And this guy has these beautiful waves Wild wild wild what you can do with hair hair is one of the most beautiful art forms there is I mean you can really do so many things if you are creative and you have the tools to do it I mean, look at that. Look at that. I don't think he even needed some spray painting adrian It looks good. Don't make it too perfect. Then it looks fake. No, don't spray paint it. It looks good My brother Eric always says Typical hairdresser always overdoing it. Actually, my dad started that but listen, it looks good. It looks good.  Wow, he looks so much younger and healthier. Oh Oh the talent I just saw in all of those videos was incredible. I'm so inspired to go and do man-weath Anybody with a bald head around here?  I want to give you a weave. I want to do it now also I really want a man-weave now So if you see me next time with a weave, um, this is why and lastly make sure you give this video a like if you Enjoyed it and follow me on instagram and twitter at bramundo.myc and xmodo hair if you want hair content And that is freaking all man. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life I will see you all next time. Peace


imagine that fear is actually an emotional electromagnetic wave that is around in the atmosphere and that only takes over your system because you're not in surrender and not surrender in the sense of laying down your arms but surrender in the sense of fighting through bending down. The ego is the thing to be afraid of if at all you want fear. That's what you have to be afraid of and the fear in and of itself is not something that you were born with or that you're umbilically attached to.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another vlog. My name is Claire Carmichael and I'm a newly qualified general practice nurse. And today's vlog, I'm actually really, really excited about because this is talking about things that I learned as a healthcare assistant or a care assistant working in a care home that I've brought into my nursing life, things that I've learned that's made me grow as a nurse if that makes sense, like those skills, those initial skills. And I'm really, really excited because I always rave about this because a care home is where I started my nursing journey back in 2005, so yeah, I'm excited. So just a very brief, quick overview. So I didn't know what I wanted to get into nursing. I left school, I didn't know what I wanted to do with life. I got rubbish GCSEs and just, yeah, I went into hospitality and that was that. I just followed my mum's footsteps and that's it. And then I had a bit of a dilemma one day and I felt like I was at a crossroads and I didn't know where I wanted to turn in life, what I wanted to do with my career, but I wasn't satisfied in what I was doing.  And I was like, what? Yeah, I never thought of myself as a nurse. I never thought of myself even as a care assistant because I always regarded those people as amazing, wonderful people and this high profession and I just wasn't that person. Like I leveled myself down here and they were up here. So yeah, I never thought of that as a career but when he said it, I thought, actually maybe there's something in this because I'm quite a caring person. I always looked after animals and stuff, birds, pigeons with broken wings and things when I was younger. I have got that really deep care inside. And I thought, you know what, let me just look into this. So I had a little look around about how to get into nursing, how to become a nurse and all of this. And something that came up was to start off as a care assistant. I mean, this was back in 2005. Now you can just jump straight into nursing pretty much. But yes, so I looked around and I found an amazing role as a care assistant in my very first care homes, completely left hospitality and I loved it. Like, I'm not gonna lie, I cannot for the life of me remember my very first day as a care assistant, but I never remember regretting it. I just remember just falling in love with it and every day I really enjoyed getting up and going to work. But yeah, it was just amazing and it was where I built all of the foundations of my career. So the first thing I want to talk about is the six C's of nursing. This is where I built and started that foundation. As a care assistant, you will do all of these and more. And these are absolutely 100% necessary to be a nurse, I think, and that's why they're there. That's why it's promoted and that's why the six C's came about because it's something they knew that nursing needed. If that makes sense. So let's go through the six C's and how I learned these as a care assistant. So the first one is care. How can you not have the six C's nursing and care assistant without the word care in it? This comes in two parts, I think. So for me personally, the care that I learned or not learned but built upon because I was already a caring person anyway. And there is two parts. So that first part is being caring. So it's about your emotions and your empathy and respecting other people's dignity and wishes and just being that care in person, that caring for someone else's emotional and physical wellbeing, not just your own. So it's having that ability to want to help other people. That to me was the first thing that I discovered. I really, really wanted to help others and I wanted to be that point of call for their care. And the second side to this is care as in those care skills in a way. So things like personal care. So helping with washing and dressing. If someone can't eat on their own, so helping them with that. Finding ways to adjust things to help them live this amazing quality of life because we want people, especially in care homes, they are very elderly, they're very frail, they come into the later stages of life. So you want to make the quality of that life as amazing experience as possible because those are there possibly sometimes the last moments on this earth. So the care that you give and the care that they receive and those care type of skills are really, really important, I think, especially in care homes. So other things like a system of toileting needs. So some people might need help on the toilet when they're on the toilet. Maybe they physically are completely bed bound. I hate this word, but I can't think of another word to describe it, but they are completely bed bound and they use maybe a commode or sometimes they use a bed pan. Sometimes they might have these and continents pads as well. So it's that type of care that you're given to your patients as well. Cafeter care as well. So if they've got catheters, making sure you're recording the fluid balance and emptying and changing catheters, that's a skill that I learned very early on as a care assistant as well. That's not just for a nurse to do, care assistants do that as well. So that was a really, really important one that I took away with me as well because I could take that onto the wards because I'd already done it as a care assistant. So that was quite good that I could actually do those things. So like I said, care is a really, really important one. To me, it's one of the most important, that's why I've put it one at the top. But this is no particular order. Next up is communication. This one is equally as important as care because I find communication is one of those things that if it fails, doesn't matter where you're working, who you are, what you're doing, if that little piece of communication fails, it all crumbles. It can really, really make or break some people. It can make or break a shift. It can just, yeah, and the wrong type of communication could lead to the wrong person getting the wrong type of care as well. So they go hand in hand care and communication because communication is important and it's not just thinking about, oh, speaking, listening. You have to think about the whole system.  But it's not just about the way that you talk to your patient. Communication is a whole massive thing. It's how you're documenting. It's those nonverbal communication. They say, I think it's 70% of our communication is body language. So it's thinking about your body language as well. And maybe for those that have, especially elderly people, a lot of people have hearing aids. They might have dentures. They might have had a stroke. So the speech is impaired and they can't communicate as well. They might have dementia. So it's thinking about how to communicate with those sorts of people, especially in the later stages of dementia, where the understanding isn't quite as it used to be. Making sure everything's documented, clearly, concisely, legible, so other people can read it, other people can understand the care that you're giving and just putting that out there so that no mistakes are made. Compassion. So you have to have compassion if you're working as a care assistant because you have to have that level of empathy. You have to sort of put yourself in their shoes. And this is what I did a lot actually as a care assistant. I found myself having a lot of compassion actually. So I find myself going above and beyond for my patients because I think, do you know what? This can't be nice for them to be in this nursing home. The friends and family aren't here. It must be quite a scary, horrible time. So I would always think, oh, I need to do this. I need to do this. I need to do that. I need to do this. And I would just put myself out there for the person. It is about showing that compassion, your level of understanding of their needs, of that patient as well. This role isn't about you and your feelings. It is very much about the other person and you have to understand that and take the time to understand each patient as well.  And just, yeah, just have that level of compassion for your patients and respect them in a way. And just again, it's talking about that quality of life as well. So it's making sure you give them that good quality of life in potentially their last moments as well. Commitment. So this is an interesting one because you do have to be a very committed, dedicated person to do this role.  So you have to really love the job. You have to really be committed to the job. And for me, this isn't a job.  It is my career. The people you work with become your family. You spend most of your time at work all day, every day. Five days a week, three days a week. However many days a week. So you have to be committed to that role and you have to be happy in it as well. It's not just about commitment. It's about being happy in what you're doing and finding that contentment as well in a way. So yeah, you have to be committed. You have to be committed to yourself, to your job, to your colleagues, to your patients, to your management. And just show that this is the job for you and show that you're actually a dedicated team member. And just being that person or just make it run so much smoother and that the patients will not suffer as a result for it. Because that's what it's all about at the end of the day. It's about the residents that live there and being committed to them and making sure that they have everything they need. And you have to be that person for them. And working in a care home will absolutely give you that because the more you do the role, the more you'll feel confident in things and the more you will think, do you know what, I love this job. I love it. I'm gonna get up earlier. I'm gonna arrive earlier. I'm gonna see my patients. And you will fall into that commitment routine as you go along because it is an amazing career and it's really hard not to be committed to that sort of role. And then we have competence. So this is quite a good one actually because a lot of mistakes are made when we aren't comfortable, we aren't confident to do something or we're not trained properly to do something and we do it anyway because we think, oh, it'll be okay. What's the worst that can happen? This is an adopt a pepper commercial. Other brands are available but it's the most relevant with that one. Anyway, you have to be competent at what you do. And I learned that skill very, very quickly as a care assistant. And you will be put through amazing training packages to teach you all of the skills you need. So things like the catheter care, you'll have manual handling, you'll have personal care and hygiene training. You'll have different communication, some care assistants as well will give medication. So you'll have training to do that and make sure you're competent to do that. And it's something, again, it's something I built on and learned as a care assistant. I was a care assistant for almost six years. So I really did build the competencies to do things. And if you're in doubt, you should always ask anyway and you should always get help and seek further training as well, which they are more than happy to do because they would rather you be safe than sorry. But yes, as a care assistant, I built up those skills and I became a competent individual so that when I started my nursing, I was really, really confident and competent in doing things. Actually so much so that in my first year, people often thought I was a third year student because I could do things autonomously because I knew because I'd done it previously in previous jobs. I did all the personal hygiene, I did medications on the medication rounds. So these little things, I already had those skills as a built as a care assistant to take into my nursing. And it just made me shine more, I think in a way. But this isn't to make you panic if you're going into nursing and you haven't had that experience, it's okay because you do learn that as a nurse as well. But I'm just going through the things that I learned that really did help me as a nurse. And then we have courage. So courage is an interesting one to throw in there because you do need courage for this job. Some of you may have seen some awful news stories, panorama documentaries on television about the abuse that can happen out there. So this is really important with the courage because you need to speak up, if you see anything like that, or if you see a safeguarding concern, for example, you need to be able to recognise that. So having the competence, taking the competence and putting it into courage, so being competent to see and recognise safeguarding, you'll get the training for that and then raising your voice and raising the concerns to your management teams and safeguarding leads as well to protect your patients. So you really do have to have courage and that is something I learned 100% as a care assistant as well. So for me, this was a no-brainer. It was easy for me to have courage because at the back of my mind, I had the compassion, I had the care. I wanted to protect my patients. I also had the competence because I could recognise signs of abuse and neglect and safeguarding. So I built on that. So it was a no-brainer for me. When I saw my patients suffering, I spoke up because that's my job at the end of the day. I'm not there to make friends with carers, although that's nice. I mean, we are all friends and we get along and there's teamwork and everything. However, if someone, even if it was a friend of mine or a family member of mine, if they were neglecting a patient or abusing a patient, I would absolutely speak up and I have spoke up before. I spoke up a number of times actually where I've seen a care assistant be not so nice to a patient and I've had to speak up and report that abuse. Also safeguarding as well. So a patient's family member, for example, was financially abusing her and I need to speak up and report my concerns on that. And luckily other people had noticed that as well. So we had this little case study going. But not only that, you have to have the courage inside yourself that if you're worried or you're scared about doing something to face those fears and just go for it. If you've had the training and if you know what you're doing basically, so if you've got the again, bringing that competency in, if you're competent to do something but you're, you fear it in a way. So I know some people that are nurses that are scared of blood, but they've pushed themselves through it. They've got the venopuncture training and now they take bloods and they're okay with it. So it's about being safe. So making sure you are confident, comfortable first things first, but having that courage to push through your fears. So if you are scared of death, for example, and you're really worried about doing the last offices of the patient after they've passed away, push through it and give it a go because I know it's not nice and it's a really tough thing to do and it really does affect you emotionally sometimes, but try and look at it at different angles. Don't just think, oh my God, this is scary. This is a dead body. Think about, do you know what? This is the last piece of care. I'm gonna ever give this patient, this patient is gonna receive the last piece of care and love and from me. And what an honor that is. What an honor to do that for somebody as the last thing that you can do when they're on this earth. I think it's just a really powerful actually and really privileged to do that for someone. So if you are scared of doing that, please just think a little bit differently about it and do it and then, but make sure you have a debrief afterwards. So speak to your colleagues about it, speak to your family or friends about it and how you're feeling about the situation and reflect on it because it can be quite emotional and it can be a little bit, oh, especially your first one. So yes, just take your time, it's okay. And I am that person. I do fear some things and I think deaf was one of the things that I feared and I will never forget the first time I had to do that to a patient, but I am that person that will push myself as well. So all these courage things I learned as a care assistant. So facing deaf, for example, I'm terrified of death but I faced it and I grew and I built and I gained more confidence. So I wasn't so scared about it anymore. And when the time came where our resident had died and someone said, have you ever done last offices? I was like, I've got no idea what you're on about. What is last offices? And they said, come on, we'll show you and talk you through it. And actually I'm so glad that I did that because it was just nice. It was a nice experience as much as it's horrible. It was just nice that I pushed myself and did that because then again, when I went into nursing and I had to do it in my nursing career, it really, really helped for when I was at that moment. So if you can do it, do it, but also just take your time and go at your own pace. So not only the six C's did I grow as a care assistant onto my nursing, but actually a lot of resilience as well.  And I think my resilience levels are like up here somewhere now, just about. But yeah, you will definitely, especially reflections, you need as a nurse as well. So you will always reflect sort of unconsciously. So you'll think about the previous day, what went right, what went wrong, how could I've done that better? And you naturally do that and this is what is needed as a nurse. So as part of nursing, you have to write reflections. So you write a list of maybe a situation where it's positive, whether it's bad, it's up to you. But what went well? What can you do better next time? How can you keep this going if it was a good thing that happened? If it was a negative thing that happened, then how are you gonna process that? How you can change that for the next time so that it doesn't happen again, if that makes sense? So definitely reflection is something I've done ever since my first day as a care assistant and built that resilience. Those two things just, yeah, hand in hand. So other things that I learned as a care assistant that I've took into my nursing today is definitely how to speak to people. And I know that sounds weird, but I am that awkward person in social situations. I wasn't very confident and I learned how to fill the time. I could do on my vlogs every day. But yes, I learned how to make that small talk, make those conversations, how to sit down and speak to someone and it not being weird or anything. And also recognizing cues. So you will get confident in knowing what you can and can't say to patients. So some patients you can have a laugh with and you can say all sorts and they'll be happy with that. And other patients or residents, you can't and you have to be really like straightforward, professional. They want someone that's assertive, knows what they're doing and that's a skill in itself. So that is something that I've definitely picked up as a care assistant and that those years of experience that I took into my nursing with me. Something else that I learned is patience. I know, like patience is in, I'm a very patient person rather than your patients. It's so weird because as a person in my own home, I'm very impatient. If I'm waiting for a parcel or a delivery, oh my God. I'm so impatient. I just want to get it now. But it's amazing how different I am in that environment. I am so patient and you will learn this as a care assistant. You will learn that everything takes time. It's not a rush. And even when you're having a busy day and you need to rush a little bit, you will learn patience and you will learn that the people that you're caring for have to take it slow and have to take it step by step and they need to really good explanations and things like that.  So yes, patience is definitely something that I've built and grown upon and it actually shocked me. So all in all, literally as a care assistant, it was my love. My first love is where I fell in love with nursing. It's where I built all of my foundations of being a nurse. It's where I grew. It's where I developed. It's where I gained resilience. It's just everything. It really, really, and I say this from my whole heart and soul. It really did give me just everything that I am today and I'm so grateful for that and I just love it. So if you are thinking about going into care work, you're not nursing yet, but you're thinking about going into care work first, absolutely 100% do it because it's the most rewarding, amazing experience and you will love every single minute of it. And if you do go into care work, you just might find out a few things about yourself that you did not realize, just like I did. Good luck.


The second round of balance changes to Elite Dangerous that Frontier began last week with adjustments to market prices for mined commodities has just been announced. As expected combat payouts are getting some attention and we're going to break down what we know right now. If you enjoyed this video remember to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and if you'd like to support our work you'll also find us on Patreon. Links to everything you need are in the description below. Here's how the changes will pan out then. Right now bounties from NPCs are being increased from anywhere between 4 and 10 times what they were previously depending on the amount of the bounty. Until the changes are made permanent the old lower bounty amount will still be shown in your HUD when you make the kill but the newer amount will be shown in your left hand transactions tab. The payouts for solo massacre and assassination missions are also being increased by roughly twice what they are now. At the moment Frontier have decided not to change the payouts for wing massacre missions as FDF believe these payouts are consistently high at the moment but they remain open to your feedback. These plans will take effect at some point today and the plan is to monitor the changes going forward and review their effects to see if it's all working as desired. The next steps after this round of balance fixes will take a look at combat bonds and perhaps the highest risk combat activity of all, Anti-Zeno. Further down the line Frontier have also confirmed in today's post that they will be looking at aspects of power play as well along with anti-zeno issues as these are frequently the subject of player feedback. So true to their word combat is next for a revamp. How will these changes affect you do you think the increase is high enough and have the mining changes from last week had a significant effect on you? That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, we'll be back later this week with more videos until then, O7 CMDRs follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.


You can go straight to the heart of the Muslim world and have all kinds of blasphemous satanic thoughts. No one can do anything about it, because it's in your head. But you, okay, so if you're saying- There's no distinction between free thought and free speech. But you're not- So again, this issue of racism- So what you're saying is you're not allowed to express this at all? That's free speech, yes. At all. Every society restricts free speech. Okay. In some form or fashion. So you restrict free speech, so you can't give your opinion on anything. You can't say- But you can give your opinion on plenty of things in the Muslim world. So you're saying the end of Indubai, that I can legally say here's the reasons why Quran is wrong? No, you can't. The speech- I can? No, you cannot. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, I acknowledge that. So my host was lying to me, had to rush me out of a restaurant for saying that very sentence.


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Why did you ultimately stick with Boyd? Once Edwin was OK, we decided Edwin was good to go. And obviously, he was going to be in our lineup and look at him as our DH. Then you're talking about filling out more of a bench roll and just felt like the right-handed element with Luke probably made a little more realistic pinch hit option. Probably wouldn't hit for any of our right-handed hitters necessarily. And certainly Luke's body of work and what we believe he could still provide is certainly in there, but a tough decision. And that's credit to 40 for how well he's performed. Buster, towards the back. Aaron, one of the big questions coming into the month of September was, when Stanton came back, what would he look like? In your eyes, what does he look like as you get going here? Good, good. And frankly, even a little bit better than I thought, I feel like his ad-bats have been good. One thing he was able to do this past month, even leading up to getting back with us, was I think see a lot of live-at-bats off of pitchers when he was down in Tampa, even up here to a degree. So I feel like his work was really good.  So that's been a little better than I expected. And I feel like he comes into this series in a pretty good place and in a good frame of mind. And one round in front of Buster, Bryant. Eric Lerbert Torres is one of a number of guys in their early 20s in the league who could come up in big spots in October. Do you think that managers look at players that young with a little more trust in October now than they did when you played? Yeah, I think that's fair. I think in a lot of ways, these guys are probably a little more well-prepared early on. And I think that goes from a big league level. I think we've seen more and more the last several years guys come up from the minor leagues and instantly have impacts, probably more so. I don't know if that's actual reality, but it feels that way to me. And so my answer to your question from my perspective is, yes. And in the back, we have a question. Thank you so much, good evening. I just wanted you to talk about the lineup, how you came to the decision, how that decision plays into the fact that both you and the twins are hitting so many long balls. And how important it is that the bullpen has been rested for the last four days coming into tonight's game? I mean, we certainly like the rest as far as any time we get our pen guys that are obviously so important to what we do. So hopefully these four days is something that serves them well, moving forward not only tonight, but throughout the series and hopefully throughout the month of October. As far as the lineup, shook out pretty clear in my eyes. Obviously only having two lefties in there against Barrios, so just spacing them out and deciding how to line them up. But it wrote itself pretty well, to be honest. Joel, standing to your right. Erin, you've been asked a lot about the playoff history of these two teams. Do you think playoff history means anything, including potentially that it's a burden for the team that has the dominant position in that rivalry? Right. Well, I'm hoping it means something. But honestly, I don't. I don't think it factors much in here. We understand we're up against a great opponent. And I think a lot of people have talked about looking in the mirror a little bit, and I certainly think that's understandable with the quality of hitters we have and, frankly, the quality of pitchers. So I don't think history plays a huge role. One way or the other, I feel like the team that executes the best in this series with these two teams, obviously in the power that both teams display, who can limit the damage from a run prevention standpoint, I think, goes a long way in winning this series. We'll stay right there, Andy. When you're looking at one of the kind of roster bubble decisions, like with Lyons, are you weighing more how you think his stuff is going to play against a particular part of their lineup? Or is it just how what he's showing you lately? I think it's a combo. I think we've really tried to get Lyons into some situations this final month against some really good left-handed hitters and to see how it would play. And I feel like, by and large, he did really well. And we saw him have a lot of success. And left, he's not necessarily see the ball real well against him.  This is a guy that, even though he wasn't with us for a long time and spent a lot of time in the minor leagues this year, is a guy with a lot of major league experience and feel like he was the right guy, especially when we didn't have CC, he was the right guy to round out our rotation. The second row and you're right. Aaron, obviously the situation is a little bit different from last year to this year. You're kind of preparing for the wild card game last year, this year, when the vision. How has your preparation as manager changed from last year to this year? And what were some of your biggest takeaways from last year's postseason experience? Well, I mean, having the four days off, I mean, last year it was obviously right into the wild card game and then winning that and right onto Boston. So it was, we've had four days of knowing our opponent and kind of digesting it and being able to have our big advanced meeting with our organization a couple of days ago. All our coaches in their particular areas have been able to dive in to all the things that they prepare normally. So I think we've just had more time, obviously, getting some answers on some guys as far as health goes. This week was important for us. And hopefully it's something that served us well. As far as taken from last year, I take stuff from every day. And that hasn't stopped since I got the job. So whether that's spring training, regular season, postseason, hopefully I'm always growing as far as how I go about things. The same road, John. With the two best home run hitting teams in MLB history facing each other, does that have to change anything about the emotional reaction both to giving up and also hitting a home run on the bench?   And that's the regular season. And that's certainly the playoffs. You know, you've got to be able to take a punch, handle success, handle failure. You've got to be able to do that if you're going to succeed at the highest level. And I feel like our guys are excellent at that and certainly equipped to do that moving forward. Left center aisle, Dan. You said leading up to this that you thought Dede, this time of year, would be good for him in terms of turning his season around. What gives you that confidence that this is the time for him to finally get into a groove? First and foremost, he's a really good player. And I just feel like he's one of those guys that the bigger the stage, the brighter the lights, feel like he thrives in that. And I feel like he's been healthy now for a while. And I feel like he's a guy that has a good at bad or two here. I think that's something that could really propel him moving forward.  I think the biggest thing with Dede is obviously returning in a timely fashion like he was able to do from Tommy John, probably getting back a little earlier than some people expected. But I think then having a couple bumps along the way as far as things he had to play through with the finger and then the shoulder that kind of altered his season a little bit, things he was able to play through, but probably really kept him from getting on one of those hot streaks that he's kind of been known for. But I do feel like he's been healthy now for a while and still feel like his best baseball is ahead of him. Yeah, on the far left, Dave. Erin, is it kind of fitting for the season that you guys have had that I think this is the first time that these nine players have been in a lineup together and it happens to be in the first game of the playoffs? Yeah. Yeah, it's remarkable. I think we've had some good fortune here this last month. A couple exceptions, obviously, with CeCe and Dallin. But for the most part, I think John Carlo being able to get back in the way he has had has gone pretty well. Obviously, Sevvy coming back. Edwin having the questions going into this week, would he be able to get over that final hump and feel comfortable that he is? So it's definitely good to go in with pretty much a loaded barrel. Just with the kind of year that Brecht Gardner has, and he winds up being your number three hitter for tonight, just some of the thinking going into that with some of the other big sluggers to actually have on the team. Well, I mean, having two lefties. So just trying to, first and foremost, space those guys out. So our lefties have hidden some spots all year because we don't have a lot of them, and especially with Aaron Hickstown and stuff. You're just trying to space them out. And I feel like Guardi, the year he's had and the match up here makes sense to have him as clear in my mind to have him in that three hole. Two last ones with Meredith and Ron. Aaron, I know you touched a little bit on it yesterday, but the twins have played you tough this season. What do you look at as some of the challenges in facing this Minnesota team? Obviously, a lineup that does a lot of damage and can hurt you up and down, certainly with the long ball, but also a balanced attack. So good balance of right and left-handed hitters, switch hitter and Polanco up there towards the top, and I think a pitching staff that's probably a lot better than people know. And I think some bullpen arms that have emerged for them, especially in the second half of the season, that maybe a lot of people don't know about, but certainly have got our attention. I'll finish up with Ron. Is Hickstil in Tampa on the throwing, and what is the time frame for determining whether he'll have surgery or not? Yes, Aaron's in Tampa doing well. I would say probably looking more and more like he won't need it, but I don't think that final determination has been made.