I didn't speak until I was about five and that's probably why I sound very slow talking because I just, I was very delayed but I read a lot and I didn't want to stop myself from learning and my mom didn't want to stop me either. I still remember as a three-year-old she was in the principal's office she was like, I'll be damned if she doesn't go to college or make any friends or anything because there were doctors everywhere and they seriously they told her I was never going to go to college or be much of anything. That's really hard. I couldn't believe that but I didn't want to give up and I'm so thankful to my parents for believing in me when times were very hard.


Welcome to Using Moodle Moodle for our future builders. My name's Brett McCrory. I am a full-time teacher at Tateville-A-Wire in the trades and technology faculty. Our section is based in Woonagong on the south coast of New South Wales. But our institute covers from Woonagong all the way down to Beaga on the far south coast. There are 15 local government institutes. And yes we love the gong. I'm originally a builder carpenter within Woonagong but have now dedicated my life to teaching builders and carpenters. Technology has played a big part in the way our section teaches and the skills you need now are a lot different from days before. Now you may ask yourself, what does a 21st century building carpentry teacher look like? Does anyone know? Very good. Well, you might think chalk and nail bag, not the odd days. No, no, this is what I think they look like. So we need pop goggles for learning videos, wireless headset for distance learning, a laptop and tablet to refer to our Moodle site, wireless clicker for normal presentations and a selfie stick because we all are a bit narcissistic. Oh yeah, I forgot. A nail bag, hammer and tape measure because we are built. I have a YouTube channel and the sole purpose of this channel is for our learning material to be embedded within Moodle. It's an inventive name, the Chippy. We've got 21,400 views and 106 subscribers. So it's going alright, I suppose. The channel includes our learning material for our carpentry and building courses. So if you're jumping on YouTube now, please subscribe. This is our Moodle site. Our students are studying certificate 4 in building studies and pretty much the course assists with them obtaining a builder's licence. We deliver through Brentland Learning, utilising Moodle and Adobe Connect over one year. Students attend classes three nights per week for 40 weeks. They can choose to come to the campus or attend the classes by Adobe Connect. The course is delivered one subject at a time with a clear structure and deadlines for assessment task submissions. So we have Monday nights of face-to-face or online, so that's optional, okay? And then Tuesday is always online and Thursdays is optional again. And I'll talk about that a bit more. What's the type of students? Okay, typically, the 90% carpenters either recently completed their trade or just about two. We also have a wide range of other students such as bricklayers, plumbers, structural engineers. We have a civil engineer and she's from Iran and the biggest issue for her is not actually learning about the building content, it's actually English, so we have a broad range. The computer literacy levels range from high tech, like a lot better than myself, and very, very poor where they think login means somewhere where you're put in a fire. We have two teachers to 50 students currently completing this course and you will notice this is the typical Monday night class with 30 students present, okay? Now I said 50, didn't I? Well, we have the other classroom, which are 20 students online. You may not notice, but the class that are present still access everything through the noodle. So that's the face-to-face group are accessing everything through Adobe Connect, okay? So we, I save every presentation and put it at the bottom of the topic. So this, everything is in the noodle, quizzes, assessments, forums, books, activities, and feedback. And I actually love it because I walk to classroom and I don't have to even take a whiteboard marker. I don't take a roll, I just do everything online, everything through Adobe Connect. So I just walk in prepared, hopefully. All right, as discussed, we have two teachers to 50 students so our time management is very valuable and we really try to help the students. But some try to pull the wool over our eyes and thanks to activity reports. For example, one student complained he wasn't getting enough support. We thought that was unusual because we never really came across this guy since enrollment and you can see why. The evidence is clear. He wasn't doing anything. So, you know, doing it hard, copy it and you're not sure but with the noodle we just go in their activity reports and we just check this guy hasn't done anything. Now most of our students are great but all have different needs and we try and accommodate that. So if you look at the screen I want you to tell me which group, this is actually my class, which group prefers online and which prefers face-to-face? Does anyone know or have a guess? Top on what? Online. No. My guys are builders and carpenters. They prefer face-to-face. Those guys prefer online. Now keep in mind, what do we got at the top? 25. Prefer face-to-face. 5. Prefer online. How many students did I say I had before? 50. There you go. So keep in mind, although the numbers look greater to face-to-face, you can notice that we have actually included the 20 students who are online. Does anyone know that little picture? The little Adobe Connect hands up? Yeah. Yeah, there you go. There's 20 students who prefer it online. Okay? So really, it works out. It's actually half and half of our group. Yeah. So we try and accommodate that for both groups. So which group prefers noodle activities rather than hard copy notes? Anyone know? 50. 50, you reckon? It's actually 49 students. Every one of them prefer it on the noodle. Just because it's all central forum, they can go there, they can check all their resources, they can check all their work, and then I give them feedback, and even the automated quizzes can give them feedback as well. So it's 49. Who's the one that doesn't like it? Have a guess. You remember that student? Remember him? He's the same. He's the same. He's the one that doesn't like it, does he? Alright. Okay. I've been hustling with students for the last couple of months to get as much, I've done about four or five videos. So I've got Andre. He's going to tell you, he's going to give his feedback on what he thinks. We've got Andre Vega, one of our students for the CERT4. How are you, Andre? Good, thanks. Alright. Mate, you've got the noodle up on the screen, haven't you? Yeah. Right, my question for you is, what do you like most about Moodle and online learning? Well, everything in Moodle is easy to find. It's all central. Are you defined central? Yeah. Central location, yep. Yep, it's all easy to access. Yep. Yep. What else? The feedback's really good. The feedback? You like the feedback?  You are looking at the feedback on what we have to say. Yeah, it's really helpful if I've done something wrong. I don't know where to go back and fix it. Yep. And what if you're not in class? You miss a night? Oh, I've just found it easy to go on Moodle and then go on our pre-recorded sessions and everything's easy to find. Brilliant. How's it going? It was. Thanks, bud. I promise, I promise I didn't make him say that. He said that on his own back. All right, so that's the student feedback. I've got my off-sider, Glenn, and this is a Tuesday night. Okay? It's a typical Tuesday night online. And he's going to tell you why he prefers it actually online. Ask A. Glenn, my off-sider, quickly what's the best thing about teaching these guys online and through the Moodle, rather than the class? Look, in the class, I think there's a lot of distractions, conversation, et cetera, et cetera. I think on line, on Moodle, they're actually totally focused or as close to totally focused as they could possibly be. And I think the questions that they ask show that.  Thanks, buddy. All right, we've had a good talk about this and we really feel that teaching with a Dabby Connect on a Tuesday night is a lot easier because, you know, we're in that computer room and there's all different spots with the computers and the guys sit there and they start talking and mucking up and just having a chat. You don't have that at all on a Dabby Connect. So they might make a little comment in the chat box, but that's about it. And actually, it's easier for us to teach, although the students prefer face-to-face, some of them. It's easier for us to teach. All right. Our student assessments have slightly changed as well, but we're going to talk about that in another video. Here's an example of a student doing a WHS workplace inspection and apologies for VVS. Does anyone know VVS? Do you know Vertical Video Syndrome? Does anyone know Gloven Boots? Gloven Boots on YouTube. Okay, when I first started my YouTube channel, Shane Jeffries from Swizi, my first video was Vertical Video Syndrome.  So when you're free, check out Gloven Boots on Vertical Video Syndrome. All right? And you'll understand why. Hi, my name is Jeremy Quinn and I'm a carpenter. Today, I would like to address hazard, risk identification, and controlling the construction industry. It is important to sustain safe practices to assure the safety of staff and whenever they are safe, deep breaches, they need to be fixed. I witnessed an unsafe work practice as I entered my workshop one afternoon. Once I identified the hazard, I have to fulfil my duty of care and because of this, stop the work being conducted. Then revise what was done wrong and establish how to implement control measures to make this job safe. At first sight, I acknowledge the hazard is the use of machinery. The risk is increased because the dust extraction system is not used. This can lead to respiratory problems. The operator is also not wearing anything in protection, and that can lead to hearing loss. As the job continues, I notice that the operator is not using a push stick and this can lead to cuts. The operator is not wearing eye protection either, which could lead to blindness. Implementing some safety control measures can significantly lower the risk level of this job. This includes the use of the dust extractor, a push stick, and the appropriate PPE, safety glasses, and earmuffs. By implementing these control measures, the risk of injury is much lower and the job can be completed in a safe manner. Actually, I really enjoyed doing these type of assignments because the students get really engaged within the workplace and they really do start, you know, pushing harder with the safety aspect for that instance. So, like, two years ago, I never did those type of assignments, but now they're pretty much in every topic, every cluster that we do. Even if they do do VVS. Okay. So what does the future hold for us using Moodle and online delivery? Well, we're looking at doing more lecture-based. So, you know, as I said before, in Wollongong, we've just got that area itself, but we're going to try and do the whole institute. So, you know, it'll include recording the sessions we save in 100 students, but then having teachers at Nara, Gulburn, Kuma, and they could help with the tutorials. Okay. And then possibly, you know, I've spoken to a colleague at Rain Week to myself and to our headteachers about actually buying our Moodle that we've designed. And, you know, I don't know, maybe I'm reaching for the stars, but I wouldn't mind trying to get students, because I've got like students, I'm at Wollongong, I've got students at Cranulla, so I'm even thinking, well, why can't we have students in Melbourne or, you know, South Australia or wherever. So, you know, some of the students got like face to face. I still have one student that came and saw me 12 weeks into the course, and I said, who are you? He said, oh, my name, I forget his name, it was Simon. He said, I've been doing the course from the start. I said, oh, yeah, okay. So I went back and I checked on it and he was actually just done every activity and he didn't really need much support. He was quite a good student, you know. So my aim is, you know, to go bigger. So anyone in Melbourne, I've got some brochures, if you want. And I'll go and try and sell the product. All right, thank you.


Hello everybody, I'm Lance Goyke. This is a handstand push-up. So if you need a way to start loading your shoulders a little bit more, and maybe you've overdone the push-up, maybe you feel like you've mastered the push-up, maybe you just need a different upper body variation to throw in on your other workout days. The handstand push-up is really good for it, just totally kind of flipping the script. You're, I guess, flipping the body. And changing the leverage on the muscles. So I use the front of my shoulders when I do push-ups, but I'm gonna use the top of my shoulders more when I invert my body. So let me show you kind of what this looks like. Hopefully I can do it relatively gracefully. You want your hands about foot from the wall, roughly. And then from there, you're just gonna kind of kick up and it's okay to come into the wall. This kind of teaches you how to practice balancing on your hands, which is a good just modification if you're trying to learn the handstand too. Feel free to watch all the other videos that I filmed about that. So I'm just gonna kick up and I'm here. And then I'm just gonna try to keep that position. Look in between my hands. Come on down. Come on up! Duh! Now, I don't know how many I'm gonna be able to do. Because we're near the end of my filming day.  So this is a challenging variation. If you wanna make it a lot more challenging, put your hands in or on dumbbells. If you have power blocks, they're a nice elevation.  It's way freaking harder. Ways to make it easier. If I'm doing that at the end of my workout because I wanna train some shoulders, but I can't quite get enough to really burn my muscles out. I can only do a couple. Then I can make it easier by putting some shoes on and actually using my feet to claw myself up there. I can just kinda bend my ankle. I guess I should show you, huh? Crap. Okay, let's try one more time. Right into that wall.  Now that I've relaxed, let's see if I can still get up. Just like that. It's kind of a skill you gotta learn. So practice with it a little bit. You'll get better at it. It's easier if you don't have a bare foot. It's easier if you got sticky shoes on. I could reduce the incline. I could use a person to help lift me up and help me get some extra reps. It's another great way to unload yourself. But basically the handstand variation is really good for trying to get some shoulder variation or just trying to do something a little bit cooler, a little bit harder.


Hi, this is Jack Lifton and today I'm speaking with Jeff Atkins, the CEO of Australia's Vital Metals. How are you, Jeff? Not too bad. Thanks, Jack. How about yourself? I'm fine. I'm not locked down. I'll bet you are. Yes, yes. We're locked down and the joys of homeschooling. But that really at this point doesn't matter from the point of view of your production since you're now producing in Canada. Is that correct? That's correct. So our mining operations have commenced up in Canada and we have started producing our rare earth concentrate up on the site. Well, I've seen the news today that you've now bought into and bought, I believe, entirely two Canadian well-known Canadian juniors. And can you tell us about that? Yes, so we've agreed to purchase the Kapoa project up in Quebec. So for us, that's quite an important acquisition as what that will do is that provides a source of then heavy rare earths. And as you're well aware for magnets, you need to have both lights and heavies. So that acquisition will allow us to be a single stock shop for rare earth makers in terms of their rare earth needs. Well, I think that's a very good move. And actually, the fact that you're already Canada's first producer of rare earth concentrate carbonates, I can't remember anybody else in Canada ever doing that. That may not be true, but if it's true, it's 50 years ago or more. And so again, I congratulate you on bringing this project forward. What I'd like to ask you is what is your, these are tactics, you know, buying deposits, etc. What is your long-term strategy? What do you expect to actually be in target production and revenue producing profit-making production? Okay, so from our perspective, the whole purpose of the North Tea project up at Nechelacho is to give, is really to build the foundations of the business. So that's about confirming to the market that we are able to produce rare earths at specification and to get that project into production. And as you say, not many rare earth projects have actually got into production. So there is a credibility issue there, which we have to build. So that's what North Tea is about. Once we get North Tea into production, we then move down to the Tartuff zone, which is really all about scale. And you can't get the scale until you actually have those foundations there. So Tartuff is all about scale and to really build up the volume of what we're producing. And then after that, we have the likes of Kipawa, which will then be able to come in and provide the full suite of products. So that's our strategy in terms of, I guess it's a three-stage approach there in terms of how we're looking at bringing product into the market. When do you think this might occur? When do you plan? Yeah. So our extraction plant down in Saskatoon construction there has started. So we then expect first feed into that plant by the end of this year. And that means we'll then start our commissioning process and first product coming out first half of next year. Have you, I think I've asked you this before and I don't know if you'll answer or not, and I wouldn't blame you if you don't. Have you been contacted by any European car makers? Look, or any conversations that we've had there, I'd have to keep confidential. Okay. So what I want to tell our viewers is that, for example, the Daimler Corporation has basically said they want 50% of their rare earth magnets supplied to be non-Chinese by 2025 and 100% by 2030. And they are planning to be by 2030 at 50% BEVs, which would be 1 million high-end cars a year with a lot of magnets on them. So that's just one company.  In fact, compared to Volkswagen, it's tiny. And there is much more aggressive movement towards supply chain diversion back to the continent in Europe than there is at the moment in North America. So I know you have a research or development deal with RETEC to do separation. I assume that along with the Saskatchewan Research Council. So at this stage, we don't have an agreement with the Saskatchewan Research Council for separation. Our plan is next door to theirs. So we'll let them develop their plant first and their plans first before we do anything there. But yes, we have an agreement with RETEC who will, as our first customer, who will separate our product and then sell that in. Would you be selling to RETEC or would they be tolling for you? No, we're selling to RETEC. Okay, fine. That's fine. So that enables RETEC, however, to approach European metal, alloy, and magnet makers. Exactly. So what we will do is we will guarantee the supply of the rare earths that they require. Have you raised enough capital to do these things? Yes. So we are fully funded. So the first question for any rare earth project, have you got the money? Yes, we are fully funded. And Kippewa is not yet developed. So what is your plan there? So obviously, Kippewa has had a full feasibility study completed on it. We will undertake a process now of reviewing that. And one of the things is that when Kippewa did their feasibility study, that was back in 2013 that they completed that. So there have been a lot of developments over the last eight years in processing. So we will go through now and review that feasibility study and we will update that. And we think that there are a lot of opportunities there for cost improvements in terms of capital and also operating costs. So that'll be our first stage. And then when we define that project, we will then go through the mining license approvals and things like that to bring that into development. Let's advance in your mind to 2025. What tonnage of magnetic wearers, NDPR and Turbium Disprosium would you hope to be producing in that year? In terms of 2025, by that stage, I would hope that we have both Tartuff and also Kippewa into production. So that would be a minimum of 5,000 tonnes at this stage, TREO. So from a NDPR perspective, that brings you down with the ratios we've got. That's about 1,250 tonnes. However, that's based on current projections. If the demand was there, then we would obviously look at how we would be able to increase that. So 1,250 tonnes would be enough to manufacture about 4,000 tonnes of rare permanent magnets. The demand in the United States and the EU for those magnets is between 25 and 30,000 tonnes a year. So I think you'll be very well positioned to be a very popular guy. And the reason I talk about the automotive industry, it is the world's largest user of rare permanent magnets by a long shot. So again, you couldn't possibly produce enough for them. In fact, the sort of, I don't want to say joke, but the fact is that Ford makes 2 million cars a year, GM makes 2 million cars in North America. Diver makes 2 million, Volkswagen makes 10 million in Europe. So that my opinion is that you could supply all of GM, all of Ford, and then Diver might be out of luck. So what's going to happen is you're going to be a very popular girl at the dance because you'll be one of the only ones. There'll be a lot of guys and two or three girls, I don't know if that's politically correct anymore. So you're going to have a very bright future because you've got the right idea. And the fact is anybody who thinks mining on its own is going to make them a living, it needs to go back to 2011 and 12 and see what happened to those guys. That's right. So I'd like to keep in touch and know what you're doing, Jeff. And I appreciate your time and hope you're out of lockdown soon. Yes, likewise. Likewise. Yes, thanks very much, Jack. And we're really excited about the future. We think we are positioning ourselves to really be in prime position for when that growth in the rarest demand really does kick in. And for us, it's all about being in position then to react quickly. And for that, you have to be in operation. You can't be sitting there waiting to start. This is an interesting horse race because I only see win, win, and win. I don't see win place and show. And there just aren't enough horses to fill all the docks. So I'm pretty sure you're going to be successful. Yeah. Thanks very much, Jack. We certainly plan to be. Thank you.


Okay, we're back here, wrapping up the Stratoconference. We're winding down day three. I'm John Furrier, the founder, so thank you for my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of wikibon.org, and we're here with Ron Botkin, who's the CEO and founder of Think Big Analytics, very interesting company, doing a lot in the area of helping customers realize value out of big data. Ron, welcome back to theCUBE, good to see you again. Thanks Dave, nice to be here. John, nice to see you again. We love talking tech with folks who are one, building companies, building value.   Intel, EMC, the big money players are making big commercial moves in this business. Top-down's kind of coming together at the bottom up. That means there's acceptance, there's acceleration, and ultimately, there's demand. So you guys are doing very, very well on that demand, so give us an update on what's going on with Think Big Analyst because they're across the chasm, some have crossed the chasm and more are crossing, and you guys are helping people on the way. So tell us about what's up with you guys at Think Big. Sure, John, I'd love to. So we recently announced raising a seed round, $3 million to accelerate our growth. It's absolutely a year we're seeing big data moving quickly in the enterprise that organizations are realizing how much value can be created, and our strategy at Think Big is we consult with customers providing data science and engineering services to assemble analytic applications. So, you know, the conversation around security and around, you know, the increased interest in investment by not only startups, but the largest players in Hadoop and big data technology is because there's so much value that can be created as companies go, we kind of look at it as three stages of investment. You know, a lot of people started with big data in terms of having a business case for scalability and cost containment, then moving on into agile analytics and finally business optimization. And we think a lot of organizations are really moving into phase two where they're putting together business cases around creating new value, competitive advantage, and driving the business to create value faster. Do customers come to you with a notion of what they want to do, or do they come to you with the question of how do I get value out of this? Or is it both? You know, it's some of both. We have our Imagine services where we work with customers to co-create the ideas, put together what are the real valuable ways that you can get started, that you can build on where you're at, both from a standpoint of what are the business cases, what are the different use cases you can go after and create value, as well as understanding the technical roadmap, how you can sequence a rollout of technology and organizational development in order to achieve it. So those Imagine offerings often lead right into an organization then saying, well, let's start with our first pilot and build something that we can roll out. And the latter, the technical services are like, I'm presuming you've got a classic plan design, implement, you know, manage type of approach applied to big data Hadoop. Is that, first of all, is that correct? Or is it different than the sort of PDIM? Well, you know, we definitely have a very agile focus, right? So we believe that big data is very much around test and learn. So create something, get some feedback, adjust it, make it work better. So we believe in quick cycles of rollout. We have an onshore team that's our exclusive focus, working with our customers to align with the business. So we're agile, we're test and learn. We work with the business and the technology teams to go quickly. So within those cycles, there's definitely an element of, of course, you want to understand requirements in design, but you want to move in short cycles, not big waterfalls. Yeah, so you started there. That's, I mean, a lot of companies in, a lot of services companies are getting there. You've always been there. Okay, so that's different. Yeah, and we built the methodology for big data because that's all we do, it's all we've ever done. Now, for the Imagine services, talk about, because that requires a completely different methodology, right? You're bringing in different parts of the organization. You've got different types of, it's a bit more of a creative cycle going on. Do you describe the methodology around Imagine? Sure, so the Imagine sessions really pull together cross-functional teams. You have business executives, functional participants, technical leaders, our experts from our team coming together to talk through the business opportunities, do a brainstorm session where we identify them, talk through what the impact is, look at best practices, ideas from other industries, other companies, and how they might be realized in order to come up with functional priorities, as well as a deep dive into the infrastructure, reports and analytics, data applications, and organizational structure so that we can not only take a snapshot of current state and make recommendations, but guide a sequencing of build out of capacity in these applications to support the business objectives. What does the customer have to bring to the table, to those sessions, meetings, interactions? Is there brains or? Well, the customer has to bring kind of participation from the right members of the team, right? It's really important to have both the business side and the technology side engaged, right? To speak to the priorities, to speak to what's really going to resonate, what's going to drive value in the organization, what's feasible and what can be achieved, as well as on the technical side understanding, big data, Kadoop, NoSQL streaming real time, distributed data science, these are really valuable, but they don't stand in a vacuum. Companies are complimenting, extending their current capabilities with these exciting new things. So understanding what they are, understanding the data sets, understanding the trajectory of the business as it stands, so that you can lay in big data technologies and create new value is critical. And talk about being metrics driven. I would imagine your clients are saying, okay, well, this sounds good, but I need metrics, I need to understand the business case, I need to understand how we're going to measure success. I mean, they must really put that pressure on you, obviously, because they want to get an ROI on the investment. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, absolutely. That's why we say we are interested in creating measurable value for big data. As people launch into these applications, they'll look at metrics. It could be different metrics for different applications. Device data, gathering support data from devices that are deployed out in the field. You might be looking at reducing the time to resolve problems. You might be looking at proactive service to fix broken, distrized before they fail. If you look into customer engagement scenarios to talk about lift in terms of higher response rate from a consumer or price optimization or reduced fraud or waste, right? So the metrics can vary depending on the application, but you're absolutely right that you have an objective in terms of creating measurable value, and it's certainly true that some of the metrics are around cost cutting, cost containment, scalability, but the more innovative applications are really driving top-line growth and new opportunities in the business and optimization of how the business operates. Telephone numbers compared to cutting cost. Go ahead, Jim. Talk about how many people you have in the company real quick and how long it has been around for. So we're just about 50 people now. We started the company back in 2010, so almost three years ago, have been growing quickly. You guys have a nice partnership list here. I mean, you have a lot of big players. How do you keep up with all this? Because in the growing market, it's like holding onto the rocket ship. You have things going crazy. You have all the different vendors, Amazon, Datameer, Talon, CloudEra, Hortonwork, Green Plum, AppBar, Revolution, DataStacks, Arrow Spikes on the list, all companies that we know. I think there's a lot of effort to kind of stay up to speed on this stuff, so how do you guys do that? I mean, besides working a zillion hours? Well, it's a great question. You know what I mean? I'd say that there's a couple of things that play in our favor. One is because we're totally focused on big data. It's all we do. It's not a side hobby. It's not a little practice we're adding on. It's all we do. We live and breathe this stuff. We're here, I'm here til midnight, meeting with people, catching up, talking about what's going on at Straton conferences like this. Our architects are networked. We're in the community. We have folks like Mike Siegel, who leads the Chicago Hadoop user group, who's out speaking and engaged. So we're really engaged in the community and working closely with our partners to achieve success with customers and always really open. We like you get overwhelmed by smart people that are starting companies with great ideas in the big data space. But we focus on those partners where there's measurable value, where there's traction, where we've really had great success using the technology. Where is some of the, I'm asking it's an educational market, training and skills that are needed and then implementations are always the key to these open source and all these new frameworks and partnerships. And the clients are crossing that bridge. So you do a lot of that work and is it more that the clients aren't as sophisticated in terms of churn and burn deployments? So you have that insight and you're kind of doing those kinds of things. Is that, do you see more educational in the front end or implementations? Well, you know, I'd say that a lot of the value proposition is we've had the experience of working across multiple use cases, multiple industries, multiple customers. We've worked with a lot of the technology and we understand how the pieces fit together, right? That big data isn't just about Hadoop and it's not just about NoSQL or just about streaming data but it's elegantly orchestrating these pieces together to create value, right? So, we're getting the hook here so we have to let you go but I want to give you a final word for the folks out there watching here at Stratoconference, obviously energizing intoxicating on one end but also very motivating and energizing on the other on the tactical side. Could you share with folks out there your impression of Stratoconference and then the market in general over the next 12 months of your vision? Absolutely, you know, it's very exciting being at Stratoconference. I'd say each year, Strata takes a big step forward in terms of the level of conversation, the sophistication of the offerings, the amount of commitment and the kind of results that can be shared. So, we're pretty excited about that. You know, we see increasing emphasis on big data from all the different players and increasing realization that it takes an integrated approach to create value. So, we're really bullish about how this year is going to shape up in the years beyond where value will be created by leveraging data to create measurable solutions. Think big analytics. Thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. We'll be right back with our next guest as we wind down day three of blanket coverage of Strata here in Silicon Valley. Right back.


U.S. Representative Chip Roy, who chairs the subcommittee that was talking to Ms. Clark, said that he was aware of 130 such cases since 1994, 126 of which were prosecuting pro-life folks. Only four were essentially prosecuting pro-abortion folks under this. And he said, it's far from even handing. That's 97% of the time. The DOJ has gone after pro-lifers.


Apparently, I have been exposed? So actually, this really cool thing happened. I have a quick story to start this video. This cool thing happened. This guy at the Lansing State Journal, which is like the kind of the local news in Michigan, reached out to me to do a story about like MMG and YouTube and all that stuff. Awesome, right? Well, the article was awesome. I love going through it. But right in there, right in there in the article, he just shoots out this little... He's like describing me, and he goes, A slender 5'10". I'm clearly 6'5', 245', so I have no idea how he made this mistake. Today, we are doing the shortest draft in honor of me getting top-flamed in a public article. Andy Reed's gotta be the shortest. Actually, probably not. I don't know. But okay, I think they have the heights of the players on... Yes, they do. Oh, beautiful. This'll make it easy. So, 6'2', you're on pain. It's gonna be you're on pain, I think. Yup, 6'2'. Okay. It's gotta be Antonio Brown. I'm... I don't know how tall Adam Thielen is, but I'm gonna say 6'2'. 6'2'.  It's Antonio Brown coming in at a slender 5'10'. Yo, Kenny Moore is 5'9'. Oh my God. All right. Not the cornerback. I want it. Okay, half-backs. This is big. 5'8', Phillip Lindsay. He's gotta be the shortest. Yeah. Phillip Lindsay is 5'. Yo, it's kind of weird actually seeing their heights. These guys are actually, like, kind of short. I'm kind of surprised right now. Huge round. 5'10', Desmond King. 5'10', Desmond King. All right. Looks like we're getting... Dude, everyone's 5'10' now. I make the 5'10' joke and start the video, and literally everybody is 5'10'. Our whole team's just top of me. Dude, everyone's 5'10'. All right, we got a 5'9' DJ Reed. Oh, okay. This is important. I want Sam Darnold. Actually, Josh Allen would be kind of 6'2'. 6'5' Josh Allen. 6'4' Sam Darnold. I love it. I'll gladly take Sam Darnold. All right, it's gonna be John Simon. It's gotta be. Yeah, John Simon. I'll have Alexa pick. We'll make Joe Hayden 1 and Demaris Randall 2. Alexa, pick a number 1 or 2. Here's a number between 1 and 2. It's 2. All right, Demaris Randall. Do you want me to take your question? Yes, it did. Thank you. I'm only about that Willie Anderson is 6'6' or taller. Ready? Boom. Ha!  Correct! I think this one's gonna be Cameron Jordan though. Ah, it's just all my guesses were off there. I'm taking it out. Okay, we got a big round right here. Please don't be Cameron. It's gonna be Cameron Hayward. It's gonna be Cameron Hayward.  It's not. Let's go. Steve McClendon.  So that's gonna be dope. Kwan? I think Jaylen Smith's kind of short too, maybe. Or he's 6'2'. He is 6'2'. Okay. So I think it's gonna be Kwan. Yes! I got a middle linebacker.  It's gonna be showbird, isn't it? Ugh. He's just the worst, but you know what? I need another middle linebacker. So I'm so okay with that. And the legend round is Paul Cross. Oh, Paul Cross is like one of my favorite players. Oh my God. Let's go. The shortest team. So I don't know if this is a testament to something, but the shortest team has an 81 offense, but an 88 overall defense. Defense is nuts. Kwan, Joe Schober, Jordan Hicks, Paul Cross, Damaris Randall, Kenny Moore, DJ Reed, Desmond King. To represent short people like myself, we have to go get a win. So let's hop into this game. I hope you guys are ready for this. All right, boys. Psych! Also, guys, as you know, I am sponsored by SeatGeek, so I want to give a huge shout to them. The app shows you if you're getting a good price or not, which is amazing. SeatGeek is hands down the best way to get tickets for anything. NFL, MLB, concert tickets, NBA, you name it. They've got the tickets and they've got them at awesome prices. You got to check it out. And if you're getting tickets, you can get $20 off with my code MMG. So check out the link in the description and grab SeatGeek. All right, boys. I want to have a good game. All right, Damaris Randall and Joe Schobert on the blitz. And I'll send Kwan myself, because I'm a maniac. Oh, okay. Wait. No, darn it. His first pass of the day. Oh, do it. Oh, I thought he was going to throw that slant.   Oh, no. Come on. Throw it. Come on. I know you want to throw one of these. Oh, he makes the good decision. Darn it. Let's see what he's got here. Going for the bench route. Yo, he's dotting me up.  I can't argue with it. This will be the run. Yes. Go, Schobert. Oh, good spin. Oh, we got a little pitch action. Oh, you're done for. Joe Schobert with the tackle. All right, Kwan. Let's get a red zone pick. Go get him. Go get him. Go get him.  You know you want to. No, this is an actual pass, play. Go get him. Go get him.  Let's get a block. Feel good. Dude, have I ever this whole year gotten a block Google? I genuinely don't think I have. That's so sad. All right. At the moment, we're kind of struggling. I'm not going to lie. So we got to find something here. Oh, RB maybe. Oh, that's so dangerous. Hot, hot. Whew. I don't know why that one. No, no. Please don't take this back. No run, play. Oh, we get a sack. Okay. Second and 15. He's going to throw short underneath. Get taken down for a third and 12. All right. Everyone is back in the past throw. Throws a slip screen for more yards than he should have gotten. But okay. Can he kick another field goal from this distance? What a pansy. Now we got to go down and score for sure. Make this seven to six. Oh, he shaked it. We're just going to take the underneath to Antonio Brown. I'll take, I'll take eight yards. All right. Sterling, give me a block. We need three yards on this. Yes. Great blocks. Wait, another great block. Austin Eckler with a spin. Guys, come on. Let's go. I just throw, I just might just rifle a slant in there. Yelp right there. Antonio Brown. All right, little play action. That's a sack. Oh, I didn't get that sack. Boy. All right. Second and seven. He's got a pass. Yeah. He doesn't have enough clock to mess around. Uh-oh. That's open. He's open up there. And we took the sack though. Play action crossers. Yeah. We know this. We're quite familiar. Oh, no, no, no. This might be a right side run. It's not. It's a slip screen again. But I think I got this one. This is inside zone. I think yelp. Oh, I'm so good at calling it up. I'm so good at calling it up. Doesn't stop him from getting an easy edge touch down on me. Wow, that's rough. All right, we're going to go five wide because we got to move this ball. And we're just going to have to see who gets open on these. Ooh, Deshaun Jackson was so open, but I actually made the right read and went to Austin Eckler here.  And I'll be so sad here. Let's just throw it underneath to Deshaun Jackson for like two yards, right? Oh, Sterling? Okay. How long Sterling is? Well, who's Sterling? I don't have another time out. So I got to take the field goal right now. Oh, please tell me that's enough. Come on. Come on. Oh, he had that easily. All right. I'll try a weak side zone run. Okay. We're going to cut it back. That was sick. Oh, wait. RV touchdown. Oh, please. Please have the speed. I should have thrown that so much earlier. It baited me because it looked so good, but that was a touchdown if I threw that earlier. This could be inside zone. Yeah, it is inside zone. And dude, he's getting it. E-A sports to E-A sports. E-A sports to the game. He's going to say he's been getting very lucky with that. And what do you know? All right. Second and sixth. There's another run play. We are all over that one. All right. Third and seventh. He's going to throw underneath to his half back. I knew it. Stop. Spin coming, spin coming.  Yes. Let's go. Half back draw fakes it. Throws a screen and pull crown. I'm just going to guess this is a pass. Oh, wow. It isn't inside zone. We still get him on the two. Another goal line stand and another field goal for our opponent. I want to see if I can hit to Sean Jackson. Yeah, I can. That pocket's so open right there. All right. Good hit. I want to copy him a little bit, you know. Oh, good blocks, fellas. I'd say four. All right. I got to hit the Sean in this pocket again, but I don't think that'll be enough for it first. I'm a sketchy boy hit it. Sterling the guy. Who are you? Does anyone know who this guy is? X is open. Good. Get a spin. Get a juke. Oh, jeez. All right. Take the edge. Echler for three. All right. We're going to go with a wham one more. Oh, wait. That might be a touchdown. Oh, okay. I didn't I couldn't take that touch up pretty easily. I kind of hesitated because I can chew a lot more clock now that I didn't get that touchdown. And we're going to get the oh, I thought we're going to get the touchdown anyway. Takes his first time out here. I think I might be able to get this though. No, let's go. Oh, my God. It's so good. Or full bag dive. It's still like nuts. And we'll just make this a five point game real quick.  I was not ready. Oh, he's going right up Paul Crowley. Are you shitting me? Yeah, there's the pitch. All right. I got the whole squad over there. I can still win this game with people, but that's wack. I don't know. Oh, whatever. Just get a good kick return here. And I won't worry about it. Yo, that's that is so much karma. This is exactly how watch watch and learn fellas rifle. Let's go. All right. PA Crossers again. Yeah. Get out of my game. What a game. Kick return touchdown right there. That's beautiful. All right. Hey, boys, that's it for the shortest draft. I hope you enjoyed short people. You know, it's okay. There is hope. I'll see you guys in the next one. 100% doing the tallest draft next time. Maybe we'll flip now. So in this draft, I remember I had an 88 defense and 81 offense. Maybe I'll have like 88 offense and 81 defense. I don't know. We'll see. That's it for now though, boys. Thanks for watching us always. Peace.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industrial trading down 88, Nasdaq down 69, S&Ps off 30, gold, gold contract flat, $1633.30, Silver up 24 cents, $18.60 an ounce, LightSuite crude up 43 cents, $85.98 a barrel, notes and bonds, they just continue to go lower in price, higher in yield. 10-year, down 26, 109, 11, 30-year, up a point and a half at $1,2014 and the 10-year folks is at 4.224. And if you just want a little heads up, now watch this, this is pretty amazing. Six months ago, the low was 2.5. One year ago, 1.3. Wow. King dollar. King dollar right now down 126 that is at 128.67, the euro is at 97, the yen is out here at 150.16 and the British pound is at 112 to 1 US dollar. Market still wants higher price, that's the bottom line. You get volatility out here, but I can tell you, you know, this is the type of market that I was explaining kind of yesterday.   That being said, you're going into 147. That's in your spy. In the end of the X100, same type of setup, you're banging, couldn't hail a whole higher price today, but it did make it over the high, you know, of Tuesday, so the bottom line is that you're pushing lower. You're pushing into this 270.17, 112 million, now below that, below that by a dollar. We'll see whether they can make it back, you know, bottom line has been doing a round trip all day long. Gold, gold contract caught a bid, gave it up in spades as the dollar, you know, went from down 400 to down to 100, 176. So we're going to take a look at that gold market we have out here. You get 153,000 contracts and you come in into 280,000 and that's just going to look to good old King dollar. It is amazing, folks, that just 100 to 200 ticks in King dollar make the difference of being, you know, the dial up 300 or 400 points or being down 100 points. And you can see, you know, the bottom line, we get down to 112, 160 today. That low, that was established at 1050 this morning. You know, let's watch, just go, so 1050 this morning, that's the number, right? We take the spy, doesn't matter which one you do. Let's see what the high was, probably 1050, 1020. There you go, man. It's crazy, man. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.


Coming to you from our GIS Studios, I am Anithya Antwan and this is your Midday News Brief. The Sarshan Ceremony of the National Carnival Queen to Pageant Contestants evoked great expectations from the contestants as they left attendees impressed with their showcase. Its young ladies will write for the title of Carnival Queen 2019. Speaking at the ceremony, Ministering the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries with Responsibility for Culture and Creative Industries, Fortuna Bell Rose, called for the support of the young ladies adding that there needed to be more synergy between similar events. The ladies hailed from the island over representing districts like Souffre, Labry, Dennery, Castries and Grosjele. The Sarshan Ceremony was held on Saturday 18th May 2019. The pageant is scheduled for the 29th of June 2019. With the Caribbean being a primary source market, the Saint Lucia tourism authority has chosen to launch the Saint Lucia Summer Festival campaign in Trinidad and Tobago. The campaign will thereafter continue in other Caribbean islands with the aim of increasing the number of visitors who get the opportunity to experience Saint Lucia culture. Some of Saint Lucia's carnival bands and properties have seized the opportunity to showcase their offerings to the Trinidad and Tobago public. The official opening of Saint Lucia Carnival will take place on Saturday May 25th 2019 at the Stab in Vigie. Under the village tourism project, the villages of Grosjele, Anselare and Souffre will each have their own theme such as wellness, art and craft and local traditions. With the help of low-interest financing supported by the government, property owners in each village will be encouraged to upgrade their homes and properties to make them suitable as accommodations for visitors. All owners will be licensed and will undergo training to ensure that the accommodations and services are at the same level as they would be in a hotel or resort. Local owners will also be supported with branding, marketing, sales, customer service and accounting systems. Honourable Dominic Fede, Minister for Tourism and Parliamentary Representative for Anselare Canaries, informed that to commence village tourism in the community of Anselare, the following improvements will be made. The upgrading of the jetty, installation of moorings, upgrading of the fish fry vending stalls, conversion of the old police station to include government offices, the creation of waterfront local seafood restaurants, bars and cafes, upgrading of the village square and the development of a carnival tour. This has been your Mindy News Brief. Thank you for watching.


Greece's Defano Sissipas cruised into the last 16 in the Madrid Open clay court tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Francis Lucas Puir. The number four silver next phase gregored the metro after the Hungarian easily put away Argentina's Diego Schradzan 6-love 6-3. Now Italy's Janik Sine also advanced and earned himself his 100th tour level win when he sent Australia's Alex de Minua Parking with 6-4, 6-1.


Ukraine released video of its top commander, apparently to rebut Russian suggestions that he had been killed, injured or had fled, and his Star Wars badge stole the show. The video, released by the general staff late on June 19th, showed commander-in-chief Valerie's Illusniy pouring over maps with other generals. Russia has repeatedly suggested something may have happened to Illusniy, now leading Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russian forces. He has often gone long periods without appearing in public, which Kiev says is needed to maintain security. The video showed Illusniy in combat uniform sporting a badge of Grogu, the pale green, pointy-eared hero best known as Baby Yoda from the hit Disney Star Wars TV show The Mandalorian. Was it a playful touch from a gruff-faced commander known for his understated humor? Was Kiev trying to send a message? The Ukrainian military didn't say. A spokesperson for the general staff referred Reuters to an assistant for Illusniy, who did not reply to a request for comment.


Verses 101 through 120 of in-memoriam AHH This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Elizabeth Klett. In-memoriam AHH by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Verses 101 through 120. 101 Unwatched the garden bow shall sway, The tender blossom flutter down unloved, That beach will gather brown, This maple burn itself away. Unloved the sunflower shining fair, Ray round with flames her disc of seed, And many a rose-carnation feed With summer spice the humming-air. Unloved by many a sandy bar, The brook shall babble down the plain, At noon or when the lesser wane Is twisting round the polar star. Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon and creek and cove. Still from the garden and the wild, A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape Grow familiar to the stranger's child. As year by year the labourer Tills his won'ted gleeb, Or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills. 102 We leave the well-beloved place Where first we gazed upon the sky. The roofs that heard our earliest cry Will shelter one of stranger race. We go, but ere we go from home, As down the garden walks I move, Two spirits of a diverse love Contend for loving masterdom. One whispers, Hear thy boyhood sung long Since its matten song, And heard the low love-language Of the bird in native hazel's tassel-hung. The other answers, Yea, but here thy feet have strayed In after-hours with thy lost friend among the bowers, And this have made them trebly dear. These two have striven half the day, And each prefers his separate claim, Poor rivals in a losing game That will not yield each other way. I turn to go. My feet are set To leave the pleasant fields and farms. They mix in one another's arms To one pure image of regret. 103 On that last night Before we went from out the doors Where I was bred, I dreamed a vision of the dead Which left my after-mourn content. Me thought I dwelt within a hall, And maidens with me, Distant hills from hidden summits Fed with rills, a river sliding by the wall. The hall with harp and carol rang, They sang of what is wise and good and graceful, In the centre stood a statue veiled, To which they sang, And which, though veiled, was known to me, The shape of him I loved, and love for ever. Then flew in a dove, And brought a summons from the sea. And when they learnt that I must go, They wept and wailed, but led the way to where little shallow lay At anchor in the flood below. And on by many a level mead, And shadowing bluff that made the banks, We glided winding under ranks of iris And the golden reed. And still as Vaster grew the shore, And rolled the floods in grander space, The maidens gathered strength and grace and presence Lordlier than before. And I myself, who sat apart and watched them, Waxed in every limb, I felt the thues of Anakim, The pulses of a titan's heart. As one would sing the death of war, And one would chant the history of that great race which is to be, And won the shaping of a star, Until the forward creeping tides begin to foam, And we to draw from deep to deep to where we saw A great ship lift her shining sides. The man we loved was there on deck, But thrice as large as man he bent to greet us. Off the side I went, And fell in silence on his neck. Where at those maidens with one mind Bewailed their lot, I did them wrong. We served thee here, they said, So long, and wilt thou leave us now behind? So rapt I was, they could not win an answer from my lips. But he, replying, Enter likewise ye and go with us, they entered in. And while the wind began to sweep A music out of sheet and shroud, We steered her toward a crimson cloud That land-like slept along the deep. One of four. The time draws near the birth of Christ, The moon is hid, the night is still. A single church below the hill is peeling, Folded in the mist. A single peel of bells below, That wakens at this hour of rest, A single murmur in the breast, That these are not the bells I know. Like strangers' voices hear they sound In lands where not a memory strays, Nor landmark breathes of other days, But all is new, unhallowed ground. One of five.  We live within the stranger's land, And strangely falls our Christmas eve. Our father's dust is left alone And silent under other snows. There in due time the wood-bind blows, The violet comes, but we are gone. No more shall wayward grief abuse The genial hour with mask and mime, For change of place, like growth of time, Has broke the bond of dying use. Let cares that petty shadows cast, By which our lives are chiefly proved, A little spare the night I loved, And hold its solemn to the past. But let no footstep beat the floor, Nor bowl of wassal mantle warm, For who would keep an ancient form Through which the spirit breathes no more? Be neither song nor game nor feast, Nor harp be touched nor flute be blown, No dance, no motion save alone What lightens in the lucid east Of rising worlds by yonder wood. Long sleeps the summer in the seed, Run out your measured arcs, And lead the closing cycle rich in good. 106. Ring out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light, The year is dying in the night, Ring out wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells across the snow, The year is going, let him go, Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that hear we see no more, Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife, Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times, Ring out, ring out by mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite, Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold, Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand, Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. 107 It is the day when he was born, A bitter day that early sank behind a purple frosty bank of vapour, Leaving night forlorn. The time admits not flowers or leaves To deck the banquet. Fiercely flies the blast of north and east, And ice makes daggers at the sharpened eaves, And bristles all the breaks and thorns To yawn hard crescent, As she hangs above the wood Which grinds and clangs its leafless ribs And iron horns together In the drifts that pass to darken on the rolling brine That breaks the coast. But fetch the wine, Arrange the board and brim the glass, Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat, Be cheerful-minded, talk and treat Of all things even as he were by. We keep the day, With festal cheer, with books and music, Surely we will drink to him, what ere he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear. 108 I will not shut me from my kind, And lest I stiffen into stone, I will not eat my heart alone, Nor feed with sighs of passing wind. What prophet lies in barren faith And vacant yearning, So with might to scale the heavens' highest height, Or dive below the wells of death? What find I in the highest place, But mine own phantom chanting hymns? And on the depths of death There swims the reflex of a human face? I'll rather take what fruit May be of sorrow under human skies. Tis held sorrow makes us wise Whatever wisdom sleep with thee. 109 Art affluence in discursive talk From household fountains never dry. The critic clearness of an eye That saw through all the muses' walk. Seraphic intellect and force To seize and throw the doubts of man, Impassioned logic which outran The hear in its fiery course. High nature, amorous of the good, But touched with no ascetic gloom, And passion pure and snowy bloom Through all the years of April blood. A love of freedom rarely felt, Of freedom in herringo's seat of England, Not the school-boy heat, The blind hysterics of the kelt. And madhood fused with female grace In such a sort, The child would twine a trustful hand, Unasked in thine, And find his comfort in thy face. All these have been, And thee mine eyes have looked on. If they looked in vain, My shame is greater who remain, For let thy wisdom make me wise. 1010 Thy converse drew us with delight, The men of wrath and riper years, The feeble soul, a haunt of fears, Forgot his weakness in thy sight. On thee the loyal hearted hung, The proud was half disarmed of pride, Nor cared the serpent at thy side To flicker with his double tongue. The stern were mild when thou were't by, The flippant put himself to school, And heard thee, and the brazen fool Was softened, and he knew not why. While I, thy nearest, sat apart, And felt thy triumph was as mine, And loved them more, that they were thine, The graceful tact, the Christian art. Nor mine the sweetness or the skill, But mine the love that will not tire, And born of love, the vague desire That spurs an imitative will. 111 The churl in spirit, up or down, Along the scale of ranks, Through all to him who grasps a golden ball, By blood a king, at heart a clown. The churl in spirit, how ere he veil His wants and forms for fashion's sake, Will let his coltish nature break At seasons through the gilded pale, For who can always act? But he, to whom a thousand memories call, Not being less but more than all, The gentleness he seemed to be, Best seemed the thing he was, And joined each office of the social hour To noble manners, As the flower and native growth of noble mind. Nor ever narrowness, nor spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye Where God and nature met in light. And thus he bore without abuse, The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soiled with all ignoble use. 112 High wisdom holds my wisdom less, That I, who gaze with temperate eyes On glorious insufficiencies, Satellite by narrower perfectness. But thou, at fillest all the room Of all my love, What reason why I seem to cast A careless eye on souls, The lesser lords of doom? For what word, thou? Some novel power sprang up for ever at a touch, And hope could never hope too much In watching thee from hour to hour, Large elements in order brought, And tracks of calm from tempest-made, And world-wide fluctuations swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. 113 Tis held that sorrow makes us wise, Yet how much wisdom sleeps with thee Which not alone had guided me, But served the seasons that may rise? For can I doubt, Who knew thee keen in intellect, With force and skill to strive To fashion to fulfil? I doubt not what thou wouldst have been. A life in civic action warm, A soul on highest mission sent, A potent voice of parliament, A pillar steadfast in the storm. Should licensed boldness gather force, Becoming when the time has birth, A lever to uplift the earth, And roll it in another course, With thousand shocks that come and go, With agonies, with energies, With overthrowings, and with cries, And undulations to and fro. 114 Who loves not knowledge? Who shall rail against her beauty? May she mix with men and prosper? Who shall fix her pillars? Let her work prevail. But on her forehead sits a fire. She sets her forward countenance And leaps into the future chance, Submitting all things to desire. Half grown as yet, a child, and vain, She cannot fight the fear of death. What is she, cut from love and faith, But some wild palace from the brain of demons? Fiery heart to burst all barriers In her onward race for power. Let her know her place. She is the second, not the first. A higher hand must make her mild, If all be not in vain, And guide her footsteps, Moving side by side with wisdom like the younger child. For she is earthly of the mind, But wisdom heavenly of the soul. O friend, who cameest to thy goal So early leaving me behind, I would the great world grew like thee, Who grewest not alone in power and knowledge, But by year and hour, in reverence and in charity. 115 Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burjans every maze of quick about the flowering squares, And thick by ashen roots the violets blow. Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lee, The flocks are whiter down the veil, And milkier every milky sail On winding stream or distant sea. Where now the seamew pipes or dives In yonder greening gleam, And fly the happy birds That change their sky to build and brood That live their lives from land to land, And in my breast spring wakens too, And my regret becomes an April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. 116 Is it then regret for buried time That keenlier in sweet April wakes, And meets the year, And gives and takes the colours of the crescent prime? Not all. The songs, the stirring air, The life reorient out of dust, Cry through the sense to heart and trust In that which made the world so fair. Not all regret. The face will shine upon me While I muse alone, And that dear voice I once have known Still speak to me of me and mine. Yet less of sorrow lives in me For days of happy commune dead, Less yearning for the friendship fled Than some strong bond which is to be. 117 O days and hours, your work is this To hold me from my proper place, A little while from his embrace For fuller gain of after-bliss. That out of distance might ensue Desire of nearness doubly sweet, And unto meeting when we meet Delight a hundredfold a crew, For every grain of sand that runs And every span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels And all the courses of the suns. 118 Contemplate all this work of time The giant labouring in his youth, Nor dreams of human love and truth As dying nature's earth and lime, But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampleer day, For ever nobler ends. They say the solid earth Whereon we tread in tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man, Who throwed and branched from climb to climb The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher place, If so he type this work of time Within himself, from more to more. Or, crowned with attributes of woe-like glories, Move his course, and show that life is not as idle oar, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipped in baths of hissing tears, And battered with the shocks of doom To shape and use. Arise and fly the reeling fawn, The sensual feast, move upward, Working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. Doors, where my heart was used to beat so quickly, Not as one that weeps, I come once more. The city sleeps. I smell the meadow in the street, I hear a chirp of birds, I see betwixt the black fronts long withdrawn, A light blue lane of early dawn, And think of early days, and thee, And bless thee, for thy lips are bland, And bright the friendship of thine eye, And in my thoughts with scarce sigh I take the pressure of thine hand. One-twenty. I trust I have not wasted breath. I think we are not holy brain, Magnetic mockeries, Not in vain like Paul with beasts I fought with death. Not only cunning casts in clay, Let science prove we are, and then what matters Science unto men, at least to me. I would not stay. Let him, the wiser man, who springs hereafter, Up from childhood shape his action like the greater ape, But I was born to other things. End of verses 101 through 120. Verses 121 through 131 of In Memoriam A H H. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Elizabeth Clett. In Memoriam A H H. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Verses 121 through 131. 121.  The team is loosened from the wane, The boat is drawn upon the shore, Thou listnest to the closing door, And life is darkened in the brain. Bright Phosphor, fresher for the night, By thee the world's great work is heard beginning, And the wakeful bird, Behind thee comes the greater light. The market boat is on the stream, And voices hail it from the brink, Thou hearest the village hammer-clink, And seeest the moving of the team. Sweet Hesper Phosphor, double name for what is won, The first, the last, Thou, like my present and my past, Thy place is changed, Thou art the same. 22. O, wasst thou with me, dearest, then, While I rose up against my doom, And yearned to burst the folded gloom, To bear the eternal heavens again, To feel once more in placid awe, The strong imagination roll a sphere Of stars about my soul, In all her motion one with law. If thou wert with me, And the grave divide us not, Be with me now, and enter in at breast and brow Till all my blood a fuller wave Be quickened with a livelier breath, And like an inconsiderate boy, As in the former flash of joy, I slip the thoughts of life and death. And all the breeze of fancy blows, And every dew-drop paints a bow, The wizard lightnings deeply glow, And every thought breaks out a rose. 1. 23. There rolls the deep where grew the tree, O earth, what changes hast thou seen? There were the long street roars, Hath been the stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, And they flow from form to form, And nothing stands. They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true, For though my lips may breathe a dew, I cannot think the thing farewell. 1. 24. Which we dare invoke to bless, Our dearest faith, our ghastliest doubt. He, they, one, all, Within, without, the power in darkness whom we guess. I found him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing or insect's eye, Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. If air when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, believe no more, And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep. A warmth within the breast Would mount the freezing reasons colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart stood up and answered, I have felt.  And what I am beheld again, what is, And no man understands, And out of darkness came the hands That reach through nature, moulding man. 1. 25. Whatever I have said or sung, Some bitter notes my harp would give, Yea, though there often seemed to live a contradiction of the tongue, That hope had never lost her youth. She did but look through dimmer eyes, Or love but played with gracious lies, Because he felt so fixed in truth. And if the song were full of care, He breathed the spirit of the song, And if the words were sweet and strong, He set his royal signet there, Abiding with me till I sailed To seek the amomistic deeps, And this electric force that keeps a thousand pulses dancing, fail. 1. 26. Love is and was my lord and king, And in his presence I attend to hear the tidings Of my friend, which every hour his couriers bring. Love is and was my king and lord, And will be, though as yet I keep within his court on earth, And sleep encompassed by his faithful guard, And hear at times a sentinel, Who moves about from place to place, And whispers to the worlds of space In the deep night that all is well. 1. 27. And all is well, Though faith and form be sundered in the night of fear, Well roars the storm to those that hear a deeper voice across the storm, Gaming social truth shall spread, And justice, even though thrice again the red fool fury of the saint Should pile her barricades with dead. But ill for him that wears a crown, And him, the Lazar in his rags, They tremble, the sustaining crags, The spires of ice are toppled down, And molten up, and roar in flood, The fortress crashes from on high, The brute earth lightens to the sky, And the great aeon sinks in blood, And compassed by the fires of hell, While thou, dear spirit, happy star, Or looks to the tumult from afar, And smilest, knowing all is well. 1. 28. The love that rose on stronger wings, Unpulsed when he met with death, His comrade of the lesser faith That sees the course of human things. No doubt vast eddies in the flood Of onward time shall yet be made, And thrown at races may degrade. Yet oh ye mysteries of good, Wild hours that fly with hope and fear, If all your office had to do With old results that look like new. If this were all your mission here, To draw, to she the useless sword, To fool the crowd with glorious lies, To cleave a creed in sects and cries, To change the bearing of a word, To shift an arbitrary power, To cramp the student at his desk, To make old bairness picturesque, And tuft with grass a futile tower. Why then, my scorn might well descend on you and yours? I see in part, that all, as in some piece of art, Is toil co-operant to an end. 1. 29. Dear friend, far off, my lost desire, So far, so near in woe and wheel, Oh, loved the most, when most I feel There is a lower and a higher, Known and unknown, human, divine, Sweet human hand and lips and eye, Dear heavenly friend, that can't not die, Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine. Strange friend, past, present, and to be, Loved, deeplier, darklier understood. Behold, I dream a dream of good, And mingle all the world with thee. 1. 30. Thy voice is on the rolling air, I hear thee where the waters run, Thou standest in the rising sun, And in the setting thou art fair. What art thou, then? I cannot guess, But though I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less. My love involves the love before, My love is vaster passion now, Though mixed with God and nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more. Far off, thou art, but ever nigh, I have thee still, And I rejoice, I prosper, circled with thy voice, I shall not lose thee, though I die. 1. 31. O living will, that shalt endure, When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow through our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquered years To one that with us works and trusts, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved, Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from, soul in soul. 2. O tried and true, so well and long, Demand not thou a marriage lay, In that it is thy marriage-day Is music more than any song. Nor have I felt so much of bliss Since first he told me that he loved A daughter of our house, Nor proved since that dark day a day like this. Though I since then Have numbered o'er some thrice three years, They went and came, Remade the blood and changed the frame, And yet is love not less, but more, No longer caring to embalm in dying songs A dead regret, But like a statue solid set, And moulded in colossal calm, Regret is dead, But love is more than in the summers that are flown, For I myself with these Have grown to something greater than before, Which makes appear the songs I made As echoes out of weaker times, As half but idle brawling rhymes, The sport of random sun and shade. But where is she, the bridal flower, That must be made a wife ere noon? She enters, glowing like the moon Of Eden on its bridal bower.  O when her life was yet in bud, He too foretold the perfect rose, For thee she grew, for thee she grows for ever, And as fair as good. And thou art worthy, full of power, As gentle, liberal-minded, great, consistent, Wearing all that weight of learning Lightly like a flower. But now set out, the noon is near, And I must give away the bride. She fears not, or with thee beside And me behind her will not fear. For I that danced her on my knee, That watched her on her nurse's arm, That shielded all her life from harm, At last must part with her to thee. Now waiting to be made a wife, Her feet my darling on the dead, Their pensive tablets round her head, And the most living words of life And breathed in her ear, The ring is on, the wilts-thou answered, And again the wilts-thou asked, Till out of twain her sweet, I will, has made you one. Now sign your names which shall be read, Mute symbols of a joyful mourn, By village eyes as yet unborn, The names are signed, And overhead begins the clash and clang That tells the joy to every wandering breeze. The blind wall rocks, And on the trees the dead leaf trembles to the bells. Oh happy hour! And happier hours await them! Many a merry face salutes them, Maidens of the place, That pelt us in the porch with flowers. Oh happy hour! Behold the bride with him to whom her hand I gave. They leave the porch, They pass the grave that has to-day its sunny side. Today the grave is bright for me, For them the light of life increased, Who stay to share the morning feast, Who rest to-night beside the sea. Let all my genial spirits advance To meet and greet a whiter sun. My drooping memory will not shun The foaming grape of eastern France. It circles round, And fancy plays, And hearts are warmed and faces bloom, As drinking health to bride and groom When we wish them store of happy days, Nor count me all to blame if I conjecture Of a stiller guest, perchance, perchance among the rest, And though in silence wishing joy. But they must go, the time draws on, And those white-favoured horses wait, They rise but linger, it is late, Farewell, we kiss, and they are gone. A shade falls on us like the dark From little cloudlets on the grass, But sweeps away as out we pass To range the woods, to roam the park, Discussing how their courtship grew, And talk of others that are wed, And how she looked, and what he said, And back we come at fall of dew. Again the feast, the speech, the glee, The shade of passing thought, The wealth of words and wit, the double health, the crowning cup, The three times three, and last the dance, Till I retire. Dumb is that tower which spakes so loud, And high in heaven the streaming cloud, And on the downs a rising fire. And rise, O moon, from yonder down, Till over down and over dale all night The shining vapor sail, and past the silent lighted town. The white-faced halls, the glancing rills, And catch at every mountain-head, And o'er the friths that branch and spread Their sleeping silver through the hills. And touch with shade the bridal doors, With tender gloom the roof, the wall, And breaking let the splendour fall To spangle all the happy shores By which they rest, and ocean sounds, And star and system rolling past, A soul shall draw from out the vast, And strike his being into bounds, And moved through life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, Shall look on knowledge, Under whose command is earth and earth's, And in their hand is nature like an open book. No longer half akin to brute, For all we thought and loved and did, And hoped and suffered, Is but seed of what in them is flower and fruit, Whereof the man, that with me trod this planet, Was a noble type, appearing ere the times were ripe, That friend of mine who lives in God. That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. End of In Memoriam, A-H-H, by Alfred Lord Tennyson.


When first I came here, by Edward Thomas, read for LibriVox.org by Anna Roberts. When first I came here I had hope, hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the side of the tall slope, or grass in use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something that no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down at the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at sight of any hill, although as fair and loftier. Or infinite the change, late unperceived this year, the twelfth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this, the future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas, read for LibriVox.org by Diana Meilinger in July 2009. When first I came here, I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the side of the tall slope, or grass in use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down at the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at sight of any hill, although as fair and loftier. For infinite the change late unperceived, this year the twelfth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as often one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this, the future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas, read for LibriVox.org by David Lawrence. When first I came here I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope of grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down at the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at sight of any hill, although as fair and loftier. For infinite the change, late unperceived, this year, the twelfth, suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as often one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this, the future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas. Read for LibreVox.org by Ernst Batinama. Recorded on the 20th of July 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. When first I came here I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope of grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and loftier. For infinite the change, late unperceived, this year, the twelfth, suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as often one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills, yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas, read for LibreVox.org by Elvira Shar. When first I came here, I had hope, hope for I knew not what, fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope of grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fail and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as often one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here, by Edward Thomas, read for LibreVox.org by Harry Caulfield. When first I came here, I had hope, hope for I knew not what, fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope of grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as often one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here, by Edward Thomas, read for LibreVox.org by Ling Tina. When first I came here, I had hope, hope for I knew not what, fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope or grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down at the last time, never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again, as often one brief hour witnesses, just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow, and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas, read for LibreVox.org by Miriam Coleman-Hipkins www.thisvoiceforyou.com When first I came here I had hope, hope for I know not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope or grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again as often as one brief hour witnesses. Just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Hope for I know not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope or grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again as often one brief hour witnesses. Just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas. Read for LibriVox.org by Martin Giesen in Hazelmere Surrey. When first I came here I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope or grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again as often one brief hour witnesses. Just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas. Read for LibriVox.org by Ryan Duramos. When first I came here I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope or grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite, the change late unperceived this year, the truth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again as often one brief hour witnesses. Just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas. Read for LibriVox.org by Ruth Golding. When first I came here I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. First beat my heart at the site of the tall slope of grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. For infinite the change, late unperceived this year. The twelfth suddenly shows me plain. Hope now, not health nor cheerfulness, since they can come and go again as often one brief hour witnesses. Just hope has gone forever. Perhaps I may love other hills yet more than this. The future and the maps hide something I was waiting for. One thing I know, that love with chance and use and time and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When first I came here by Edward Thomas. Read for LibriVox.org by Raven Natation. When first I came here I had hope. Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat my heart at the site of the tall slope or grass and use, as if my feet only by scaling its steps of chalk would see something no other hill ever disclosed. And now I walk down it the last time. Never will my heart beat so again at site of any hill, although as fair and love tear. End of poem. Hope and necessity will grow and louder the hearts dance at parting than at meeting be. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.