CHAPTER 37 The Morning came, breakfast, next Harold's departure. I took my head and slipped the note into his hand as we parted. He rode slowly down the road. I sat on the step of the garden gate, buried my face in my hands, and reviewed the situation. I could see my life stretching out ahead of me, barren and monotonous as the thirsty track along which Harold was disappearing. Today it was washing, ironing tomorrow, next day baking, after that scrubbing, thus on and on. We would occasionally see a neighbour or a tea agent, a tramp or an Assyrian hawker. By hard slogging against flood, fire, drought, pest, stock diseases, and the sweating occasion by importation, we could manage to keep bread in our mouths. By training and education I was fitted for naught but what I was, or a general slaving, which was many degrees worse. I could take my choice. Life was too much for me. What was the end of it? What's its meaning? Same. Hope. Or use. In comparison to millions, I knew that I had received more than a fair share of the goods of life. But knowing another has leprosy makes our cancer none the easier to bear.   You sit idling there, and then by and by you'll be groaning about this terrible life in which there's time for nothing but work. Now she fussed and bothered over the clothes was the marvel to me. My frame of mind was such that it seemed it would not signify if all our clothes went to the dogs, and the clothes of our neighbours, and the clothes of the whole world. And the world itself were the matter of that.  You've put Stanley's trousers in the boil and the colour is coming out of them. And your father's best white handkerchief should have been with the first lot, and here it is now. One mother got crosser as she grew weary with a fierce heat and arges toil. And as I am in my abstraction continued to make mistakes. But the last straw was the breaking of an old cup which I accidentally pushed off the table. I got it hot. Had I committed an act of premeditated villainy, I could not have received more lecturing. I deserved it. I was careless. Cups were scarce with us, and we could not afford more. But what I rail against is the grindingly uneventful narrowness of the life in which the unintentional breaking of a common cup is good for a long scolding. Ah, my mother, in my life of nineteen years I can look back and see a time when she was all gentleness and refinement. But the polish has been worn off by the years and years of scrubbing and scratching, and washing and patching, and poverty and husbandly neglect, and the bearing of burdens too heavy for delicate shoulders. But that we were more companionable, it would make many an oasis in the desert of our lives. Ah, that I could take an all-absorbing interest in patterns and recipes, bargains and orthodoxy. Oh, that you could understand my desire to feel the rolling billows of the ocean beneath. To hear the peeling of a great organ through dimly lit arches, or the sob and wail of a violin in a brilliant crowded hall, to be swept on by the human stream. Ah, though cruel fiend, ambition, desire. Soul of the leaping flame, heart of the scarlet fire, spirit that hath a name, only the name, desire. Two hot young hearts beating passionately in strong breast, the sweetest thing is motion. No, that part of me went beyond my mother's understanding. On the other hand there was a part of my mother, her brave cheerfulness, her trusting God, heroic struggle to keep the home together, which went soaring on beyond my understanding, leaving me a coward weakling groveling in the dust. With that hot dreary day never close, what advantage when it did? The next and the next and many weeks of others just the same were following hard after. The souls of lives were voiced in music. There are some that none but a great organ could express. There's the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling in outer tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusted impot. Why do I write? For what does any one write? Shall I get a hearing? If so, what then? I have voiced the things around me, the small-minded thoughts, the sodden round of grinding tasks, a monotonous, purposeless, needless existence. But patience, O heart, surely I can make a purpose. For the present of my family I am the most suitable to wait about common public houses to look after my father when he is inebriated. It breaks my mother's heart to do it. It is dangerous for my brothers. Gertie is in such a position. But me it does not injure. I have the faculty for doing that sort of thing without coming to harm. And if it makes me more bitter and godless, well, what matter? Part 2 The next letter I received from Gertie contained, Suppose you were glad to see Harry. He did not tell me he was going, or I would have sent some things by him. I thought he would be able to tell me lots about you that I was dying to hear, but he never said a word, only that you were all well. He went travelling some weeks ago. I missed him at first because he used to be so kind to me, but now I don't. Because Mr. Creighton, whom Harry left to manage Five Bob, comes just as often as Harry used to, and it's lots funnier. He brings me something nice every time. Uncle J.J. teases me about him. Happy butterfly-natured Gertie. I envied her. Mr. Gertie's letter came also one from Granny, with further mention of Harold Beecham. We don't know what to make of Harold Beecham. He was always such a steady fellow, and hated to go away from home even for a short time. But now he has taken an idea to rush away to America, and is not coming home till he has gone over the world. He is not going to see anything. Because by cablegrams his aunt's got, he's in one place today, and hundreds of miles away tomorrow. It is some crazy as suddenly taken. I was asking Augusta if there was ever any lunacy in the family, and she says not that she knows of. It was a very unwise act to leave full management to Creighton and Benson in the face of such a drought. One warning in marvellous escape such as he has had, ought to be enough for a man with any sense. I told him he'd be poor again if he didn't take care. But he said he didn't mind if all his property was blown into atoms, as that it had done him more harm than good—whatever he means by talking that way. Insanity is the only reason I can see for his conduct. I thought he had an eye on Gertie, but I questioned her, and it appears he has never said anything to her. I wonder what was his motive for going to Possum Gully that time. Travel was indeed an unexpected development on the part of Harold Beecham. He had such a marked aversion to anything of that sort, and never went even to Sydney or Melbourne for more than a few days at a stretch—and that on business or at a time of stock shows. There were many conjectures read the motive of his visit to Possum Gully, but I held my peace. CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF MY BRILLIANT CAREER. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. CHAPTER XXXVIII. A Tale That Is Told and A Day That Is Done. There are others toiling and straining, neath burdens graver than mine. They are weary, yet uncomplaining. I know it, yet I repine. I know it, how time will ravage, how time will level, and yet, along with a longing savage, I regret with a fierce regret. AL Gordon, Possum Gully, 25th March, 1899. Christmas. Only distinguished from the 52 slow Sundays of the year by plum pudding, roast turkey, and a few bottles of homemade beer has been once more. New year ushered in with sweet-centred midsummer wattle and bloom of gum and box-tree has gone. February has followed, March is doing likewise, and my life is still the same. What the future holds, I know not. I am to-night so weary that I do not care. Time rules us all, and life indeed is not the thing we planned it out, if hope was dead, and then we women cannot choose our lot. Time is thorough in his work, and as that arch-cheat hope gradually becomes a phantom of the past, the neck will grow in nude to its yoke. Tonight is one of the times when the littleness, the abject littleness, of all things in life comes home to me. After all, what is there in vain ambition? King or slave, we all must die, and when death knocks at our door, will it matter whether our life has been great or small, fast or slow, so long as it has been true, true with the truth that will bring rest to the soul. But the toughest lives are brittle, and the bravest and the best, lightly fall, it matters little, now I only long for rest. To weary heart-srobbing, slowly and hopeless breast, the sweetest thing is rest. And my heart is weary—oh, how it aches tonight!—not with the ache of a young heart passionately crying out for battle, but with the slow dead ache of an old heart returning vanquished and defeated. Enough of pessimistic snarling and grumbling—enough, enough, now for a lilt of another theme. I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the bloodsuckers who lower on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls. Ah, my son-burnt brothers, sons of toil and of Australia, I love and respect you well, for you are brave and good and true.  I have seen you struggle, uncomplainingly, against flood, fire, disease in stock, pests, drought, trade depression and sickness, and yet have time to extend your hands and hearts in true sympathy to a brother in misfortune, and spirits to laugh and joke and be cheerful. And for my sisters a great love and pity fills my heart, daughters of toil who scrub and wash and mend and cook, who address makers, paper hangers, milkmaids, gardeners and candle-makers all in one, and yet have time to be cheerful and tasty in your homes, and make the best of the few oasis to be found along the narrow, dusty track of your existence.   A few more generations and you will be enslaved as were the mojigs of Russia. I see it and know it, but I cannot help you. My ineffective life will be trod out in the same round of toil. I am only one of yourselves. I am only an unnecessary little bush-commoner. I am only a woman. The great sun is sinking in the west, grinning and winking knowingly as he goes, upon the starving stock and drought's mitten waste of land. Nearer he draws to the gum-tree-scrubby horizon, turns the clouds to orange, scarlet, silver flame, gold. Down, down he goes. The gorgeous garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out, the long shadows eagerly cover all. The cookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night, the clouds fade to turquoise green and grey, the stars peep shyly out, the soft call of the Mopokia rices in the gullies. With much love and good wishes to all. Good-night. Good-bye. Amen. End of Chapter 38 End of My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin


What's up, you guys? It's Zadana. Welcome back to my channel. So I wanted to talk to you guys about being new, specifically being a new grad and how it can suck, and then also just being new on a job and how that can suck and some things that you can do to avoid the suckiness of it all, okay? So if you're interested in that, let's get into the video right now. What's up, you guys? It's Zadana. Welcome back to my channel. So I first wanted to say I'm going to be putting a video out tomorrow. It's going to be beneficial to all my almost new grads and anybody interested in test taking and things like that in PA school, okay? So be sure to check out that. But I wanted to talk about being a new grad. I said a lot of sucks in the intro and, you know, this is simply because it can suck, but there are some things that you can do to help avoid the suckiness. So I'm no longer a new grad. I still consider myself a baby PA, but I think for all intents and purposes, I've moved into toddler stage. You know, I've been a PA for about four years now, and it's been great, you know, ultimately. Like for the most part, it's been great. I've gotten into the area that I wanted to get into, which is OBGYN. I had a lot of experience in trauma. It was actually pretty, a pretty nice path that I had. However, I've been talking to some of my friends and colleagues and, you know, we just kind of came up with this assessment that honestly, like when it comes to graduating right out of PA school and being a new grad and you're looking for a job, it sucks.  Some people who are trying to like low ball you, you don't really know like what's like the best thing to do for yourself in terms of like money and schedule and all of that stuff and even like patient load, you know, like maybe he might be told like, oh, we only see like 16 patients a day, but maybe those 16 patients are extremely involved and, you know, there is like a lot to do for them and your day is going to be not only swamped with patients, but when you leave the office, your day is going to be kind of encompassed with your patients as well. So I wanted to talk about like just the environment. So like I said, I've been talking to some of my colleagues and friends and, you know, some of my experiences as well. And if you're not in the right environment, it just makes all of this new grad stuff even worse. And you can have people who are not willing to help you, who are not willing to see you succeed or thrive for whatever reason that may be. Because I feel like if you succeed and thrive the team does as well. However, there are people who are just not team players, right? And so you're going to see that in certain jobs, certain areas, and that's going to make your life even more difficult. You're going to have people who just don't know how to speak to you, who talk down to you, who, you know, just really aren't for helping you learn and get better. And I think that they realize that you're a new grad, but expect you to be further along than where you are. I don't, I don't really know what it is, but there are people and jobs and environments that just aren't conducive to new grads. And so first and foremost, PSA, if you're in office like that, like don't hire any new grads, okay, because you're just going to crush their spirits. So stop doing that. But secondly, if you're a new grad, like there are some things that you should look at and try to like kind of pinpoint and figure out beforehand, before taking that job. So I definitely suggest doing your shadow days. I think it's really important to ask like, Hey, is there a day that I can shadow? I think I've talked about this before because, you know, people cannot like hold their frustration or irritation and things like that in. And so if they are like freely talking about all the problems that they have on the job or things that they hate about the job, and then, you know, and you're there shadowing, like maybe that job ain't for you, because honestly, that's exactly how it's going to be when you get on the job, maybe even worse. And if they're so consumed in themselves, like, what makes you think that they're going to be there to help you like, understand like what this lab value that you're looking at means. So definitely take a look at that. When you are looking at the job description, if there is any question that you may have whatsoever, go ahead and like ask questions about like, Well, what does this mean?  Like how many vacation days do we have?  How many providers are in the office or in the team? How do we like rotate time? Like those kinds of things. And ultimately, I wanted to say this, right? I was at church a couple of weeks ago and my pastor had like a really, really good statement that he said, and it was all talking about fear and change, like the fear of change, essentially. And as a new grad, like, you're so afraid, right? You're like, man, you're afraid to not do something, you're afraid to do something, you're afraid of change in general, because you're like, man, like I have all these bills, I just got this job, you know, ultimately, it's paying really well. And like, I don't want to have to go through this whole process of searching again for another job, like what if it's worse than the job that I have, like all these thoughts and negativities go through your head. Just because simply you are afraid of change. And it was, and it was sad, like in the message, you know, we as people don't change until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than that fear of change. And so ultimately, I think that we need to overcome that we have to allow our pain of staying the same, not to be like the driving force, like don't allow this whole like, okay, like I'm gonna just wait it out, wait it out, wait it out, and it's just continuing to get worse, because really and truly do you want it to get that bad. So you want it to get bad where the pain of staying the same is the thing that is actually driving you.  This is not right for me and my mental health, my physical health, and my growth as a provider. So ultimately, don't allow your fear to be greater than your ability to change. Okay, so that is like my message for today on with all the things to look for these little red flags when you're trying to get a job and you're a new grad and, you know, or you're just new on the job. Okay. Alright, hopefully this was helpful to you. If you have any other questions for me, leave them in the comment section below. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Follow me on Instagram at AdanaPA and on Instagram at Get That See University. And don't forget to check out my video that I'm posting tomorrow about some things that you should really be paying attention to while you're in PA school, because it's very helpful and very beneficial. Alright, thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.


You see this million dollar suit? I'm going to remake it myself. Forget all of this expensive spandex printing, rubber web casting, million dollar bulls***. I'm going to make my own version of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man suit with my own signature homemade suit style. Basically a version of the Raimi suit that Toby McGuire could have actually made. Alright so first off we got to talk materials. I'm going to be using red Liverpool fabric for this suit. It ran me about 30 bucks for two yards. Boom put that on the counter. For the blue fabric I plan to use navy blue velvet spandex. I do not have that spandex on hand right now. So we're going to Joanne's. They don't know me son. Alright I don't know how much this fabric is going to run me but I'm thinking it'll probably be like maybe about 20, 25 bucks maybe. That's like that's like a high number so it'll probably be lower than I thought they didn't have it. Got some mats to open today boy. Got some mats to open today boy. I got my fabrics here but I know what's probably caught your eye.  I've got the Spider-Man one face shell, the Spider-Man two face shell and the Spider-Man three face shell. I'm very happy about this. I actually won these shells in a giveaway from Jay's Corruption. His ad is on screen. I was very very lucky to have won his giveaway because I would have been making these lenses myself otherwise and if I continue the series I'm going to be making the lenses myself from now on unless something like this happens again. But just for this one time because it looks like it's going to be possible I will be using a face shell with the perfect replica lenses. So I've already shown you guys how to make lenses before. I have countless videos where I show you guys how to make lenses. I know damn well you could put together a set of Sam Raimi Spider-Man lenses if you just follow the tutorial and draw out that Raimi shape when you have your lens formatting part upon you. So just do that. I'm cheating. I gotta open that. I'mma get in there.  God look at that.  Look at that red. Look at that blue. I know it looks a little too blue on camera but that's just the way the lights are hitting it. It looks a little bit duller in person which actually kind of matches the the the Raimi blue here. All right well um there's only one more material to go over. My back logo material of choice nowadays. The nice faux leather. This stuff is literally so perfect for Spider-Man back logos. Literally all you have to do is draw out your spider logo on it and then glue it or sew it onto the back or front of your Spider-Man suit whatever and it's got this nice leathery texture which makes the costume feel so much more authentic. It's it's a beautiful material and look at that. It blends in just nicely. So that's all the materials. That's the faux leather. I understand the material list is getting quite expensive at this point but this is just what I'm doing to make this replica but you can just reuse this red fabric.   Okay I am in the face shell. As you can tell this thing is horribly uncomfortable. No disrespect to the face shell maker right? It's really tight on my face. Like I don't even know.     Yeah we're making the back logo. I've cut out a nice sheet of faux leather here and I've also tried to make sure I've got the right size for the back logo because I want it to be just as big as the real thing and I want it to take up just as much space on the back as the real thing. All right so I've got it all measured out. It's time to draw on it.  Let's draw the webs on. Anyway now that my birthday is over and I'm done drinking to my heart's content like a real adult uh I'm gonna start working on this suit again. So I finished the pants off camera and I'm gonna do the classic velcro belt method that I used on this suit. I also managed to finish webbing the boots together. This was a fairly simple process.  I also have to finish painting the gloves because the gloves are still not painted. There's no webs on these so uh I have a little bit more to do before this suit is done so let's do it.  It's looking real nice in the closet already. It's real sick now that it's all attached together. I still need to glue the soles on as you can see they're clearly not shoot up right now. If I took those outside they'd get absolutely destroyed. That's okay these will be right on soon and with that my ramy suit is complete. I'm actually pretty happy with it. I think I look so much like the real thing that it's almost kind of freaky. Uh I look like my childhood hero right now. This is the Spider-Man to me. This was the Spider-Man when I was a kid.  The face shell is really tight. I'm still getting used to it but I think as as I start to wear it more and more it'll feel like nothing. I'll probably just have to put more padding into it. Again I'm very grateful that I got this face shell in the giveaway because it makes the costume look so much more authentic and it's really it's really pushing me to make sure that the suit I make after this one is just as realistic or at least like authentic to the movie suit it's supposed to be. Man it's hard to talk in this thing. That being said if this video does really well I will make this a series. I will make the Spider-Man 3 black suit and then after that I will make the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man suits and then if it keeps going after that I will make the MCU Spider-Man suits but you guys if this video gets how many likes how many likes if this video gets 10,000 likes that's right 10,000 likes I will do the next part I will do the next part which is making the rainy black suit and then after that I might make the Andrew Garfield suits just make it worth it okay make make mine marvel make it worth it you motherfucker I'm taking it off I'm taking it off man this thing this thing is tough to wear I can't I'm taking it off the video's done that is tough man I can't do it I can't wear this thing anymore I'm taking it off I'm done I'm turning the camera off


Welcome back to VMworld 2013. This is our live coverage, SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program, where we go out to the advanced extract to signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm with my co-host, Dave Vellante. Hi, buddy, Doran Kempel is here. He's the founder and CEO of SimpliVity, an infrastructure specialist. Doran, I don't want to say converged infrastructure, because you guys do more than just converged infrastructures becoming sort of, you know, rote. But so we'll talk about that a little bit, but welcome back to theCUBE. We had you at the Wikibon offices a couple weeks ago, so it's good to see you again. Thank you, Dave. Thank you, John. So you guys have the, I think, the best booth out there because you have an Audi that you're giving away. Give the folks a taste of what the vibe is in your booth down there. Well, great excitement. We are raffling an Audi R8. It's a beautiful car. It's important that it's an R8. And basically the scheme is the more you learn about SimpliVity, the more you earn, which means that your chances of winning the R8 increase as you participate in more of our events. If you participate in the presentation, you basically get one chance to win. If you see a demo, another 10 or 15 options, and so forth. So it's a nice car, and we think that it's symbolically high performance, very elegant design. We'd like to think that SimpliVity's OmniCube has similar features. And we- Probabilities are pretty good though, right? I mean, it's taking 20,000 people in. Very good. I think that if you participate in all the events of SimpliVity, you have about 50 chances to win. 50 out of probably 2,000, 5,000. So we love your company because the OmniCube, not to be confused with theCube, Silicon Angles, the Cube is a great name. So, good sponsorship opportunities for us to work together.  What's your core message at the show here? And how are you reacting to all the conversations around agility, everyone's talking about hybrid cloud. It's going to take some technology to do that and performances. Talk about what you guys are doing here and how you guys tie into that key message of VMware. Sure. So SimpliVity's humble mission is to simplify IET. So the question is, what's to simplify? Well, if you step into a data center today, what you'll see is that the infrastructure stack is comprised of about eight or 12 different products, starting with servers, running virtualization, then a storage switch, then highly available storage, then potentially a dedupe to backup appliance, then probably a WAN optimization device, then potentially a cloud gateway, maybe SSD arrays, maybe SSD caching, a few software applications. Basically, Dave and John, you end up buying anywhere from eight to 12 different products from as many vendors. You train as many people to manage these products and this creates clutter. So basically, IT is very complicated and expensive to manage. This is challenge number one. Challenge number two is that the data that we use today is a relic of the 20th century. Basically, it's bloated and is not meant for a virtualized, cloud-enabled world. The third problem is that people cannot manage their remote offices and data centers. We've addressed all of that as hard to believe as it is. What we do is we take all these 12 products and we assimilate them into a single product that we call the OmniCube. Secondly, with our unique data architecture, we deduplicate, compress and optimize all the data at fine grain, four or eight K, once and forever, and we do that using the OmniCube accelerator, which means that you actually enhance the performance of the system. How would you do that? First of all, we reduce the amount of IOPS to SSD and HDD because we eliminate all the IOPS that are redundant. Secondarily, we sequentialize all the rights. So basically, you get a system that is high performance and all the data is dedu-compressed and optimized across all the tiers within an OmniCube, DRAM, SSD, HDD, and across all the phases of the lifecycle of data, primary, backup, when, archive, and the cloud. Lastly, all of the OmniCubes anywhere in the world are managed by a single person, a VM admin from vCenter. So if you put all of that in scope, yes, it's hyper-converged, but there's also a new data architecture, and we offer this global federated architecture that allows one person to manage as many OmniCubes anywhere in the world.  So is that what you're referring to in terms of all these different vendors? So is a multi-vendor problem and a multi-technology problem kind of combined, is that what you're solving? Basically, so the answer is yes. So if we think of the last 30 years in computing, basically we went from a world that is mainframe, fully integrated, which we like, but centralized and closed. And over the course of the last 30 years, the pendulum has swung all the way to the left, and what we have now is clutter. If you want to establish your data infrastructure or your IT infrastructure, you need to buy all these products with all those management pains, and if you look at each one of those products, basically they have a lot of built-in resources that are islands. So basically, when your DDoop backup appliance is not doing DDoop, all those resources are not available to the rest of your applications. So we've changed all of that. All the capabilities running on x86 resources globally. So we believe that this is new IT infrastructure. So good leverage, great leverage, great leverage. And if you think about it, when we think about what Google and Amazon are doing, our assumption is, us being the people in the market, is that they're running on commodity x86 resources, so do we, that they've developed a very rich functionality stack that runs underneath virtualization, so do we. But above and beyond what they have done, the unique aspect of SimpliVity is our novel data architecture. All the data in real time on very fine-grained basis is DDoop compressed and optimized once and forever. Nobody does that. And let me just point out something very important. So DDoop is part of our data efficiency play. When we think about companies that have been very efficient and successful, with just DDoop, names that come to mind are? Data domain, obviously. Data domain and riverbed. And how do they go about that? Two very important characteristics. One, it was part of their original design, it's not an add-on. Secondly, they do it in line real time. It's not a post process. Now we do much more than DDoop, and we don't just address the when or the backup. We address all the data, primary, backup, when, archive, cloud. But very importantly, we do everything as part of the original design. The OmniCube is built around this novel data architecture. Everything is in real time, but very importantly, it's accelerated. We use the OmniCube accelerator in order to increase your performance. And this is very unique. So as the OmniCubes are out there, one single plane of get-at-last from a management standpoint, so the manageability becomes kind of a differentiator as well. So that's awesome. So talk about some of the customers. Because, you know, and what's your experience with your customer base? Because you kind of got to go in there and you're like, hey, I got the modern technology here.  And then are they happy? Take us through the day and a life of that process. Great, so this is an excellent question. We're very excited. We're very excited because on average, what we see in our deployments is a three X TCO reduction. Let me say that again, because it sounds a little unbelievable. Three X TCO reduction. Of course, it could be higher than that. We see that across a gamut of customers, starting with very small dentist offices, law firms, companies that basically use one or two OmniCubes in order to put all of their IT on these OmniCubes. Think about it as data center in the box. Go slightly larger than that. We have manufacturing customers, a city, a credit union bank. And what these companies do is they run on two OmniCubes in the central side and two additional OmniCubes and a remote side. So now they have disaster recovery across those sites. And again, this is a concept whereby all of IT, all the application are running on the OmniCube infrastructure. Move up a notch. Very large companies that have 10, 20, 30, we're even in dialogue with a company that has a hundred remote offices in the US. And the value proposition here is again, significant reduction in complexity. This is very simple, but very importantly, a single person manages all those branch offices from vCenter. So this is scale out and branch office, remote data center management. The largest, now I'm taking it one more step, are global cloud providers. So we've deployed in a company that you probably all know, T-Systems. T-Systems is part of Deutsche Telekom and they're in the process of building a very large public cloud and they're going to be building it on OmniCube building blocks. And we're in dialogue with some other very promising telcos. So if you think about the deployment, all of them are very interested in this architecture whereby basically we run on x86 resources. We simplify the management. We offer all the functionality within these atomic IT building blocks instead of buying many different products. So very exciting. And you asked me about the dialogue that we have with customers. So in the first 30 seconds, people say, oh, you're like this or like that. And 30 seconds after they understand that there's this novel data architecture, globally federated architecture, and in addition, we've converged the whole stack. Very exciting.  I mean, people want to put you in a box. Well, you're like a cat or a dog. Right now, we're like a racehorse. So you have to get over that. How long does that take? So I think that into the fifth minute of a conversation, people understand what are the underlying technologies. There's still the aspect of disbelief. So people's first reaction is, okay, now understand this is a completely different story, but it's impossible. How could one company, how could a startup grant its impivity, worked on it for three and a half years until you went GA? But how can one company offer all of that? And the good news is that we have reference customers and the good news is we're happy to offer a POC. And it works. And it works. That's a great point. I mean, that's what we job one. Yeah, that's always the key right now. Everyone, people think you're trying to sell way too much features that you did for three years. What's your take on the commoditization of the hypervisor, that conversation with apps and management moving up the stack? Is that a battleground? Is that a co-opetition? How do you see that management layer moving up? Obviously, everyone's trying to move the stack. Obviously, with Amazon and Cloud, commoditization happens. A lot of hardened layers now. So people have to move up the stack. That's kind of the trend that we're seeing. What's your take on that? So our technology is hypervisor agnostic. However, we recognize the fact and we've made a choice to be part of the VMware infrastructure. And clearly, as Isaac Newton said, we stand on the shoulders of giants. And one of those giants is of course VMware. But we're a virtualization agnostic and if customers want us to deploy under other virtualization options, that's possible. So, Doran, last year you guys had, you know, introduced SimpliVity to the world at this event. Now you've given away the best swag at the show. What should we look for next year? 12 months now. What should observers look for in terms of progress in this, not only this business, but specifically SimpliVity? So a lot of the customers are asking us for additional features, new form factors. We just released two more form factors. We used to sell just the CN3000, which offers 12 cores, 20 to 40 terabytes. Now there's a CN3000 with 24 cores, same amount of storage. There's a CN2000, which is smaller, half the cores, half the storage. And there's a CN5000, which is a juiced up version with twice as many drives and more SSD. So as we speak with very large customers, they say to us, what about giving me an OmniCube that I can run my SAP environment on? What about an OmniCube or a few OmniCubes for my Adupe environment? What about an OmniCube, especially for VDI? So what we're doing is we're starting to focus on some of those vertical environments that customers want, but note that today we offer OmniCubes for all of the applications that run on a data center. So that's one thing that people should look for. Secondly is the massive scalability that is inherent to our architecture still needs to be qualified in the lab. So today if we promise a customer 20, 30, 40 nodes, we need to qualify in the lab. And by the way, just last week, we had a third party test 40 nodes, 40 CN3000 nodes delivering 1.2 million IOPS. So the fact that the underlying technology is there doesn't mean that we can just ship it, we need to qualify. And last time that you and I spoke, I referenced a project that we call 512 by 64. 512 nodes across 64 sites that we're in the process of qualifying. And what I shared with you is that the reason we're going up to those numbers is that we have a customer that needs that much at that point in time. Well, there's now another customer that has ex-leapsed that amount. So we now need to qualify more. It's a massive spectrum from dead to soft. It is a massive and it's a significant execution challenge for us just to get all these systems in the lab and testing them. So back to your question, there are going to be more features, more form factors, and we're going to be qualifying larger and larger federations. Well thanks for coming by theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Great to hear from you. Congratulations on your success. And we're hopeful the raffle will kind of come our way. I'm sure we're going to have to step out of the recruitment ourselves from being getting the, now if we win we can't accept the car day because now I think that we're going to... You can accept it. We'll make it work for you. Great booth. Congratulations. Great to meet you. Thank you very much. Hot start up. It's great to see you again. This is the future. This is about the modern infrastructure. These guys have it. This is theCUBE. We're getting all the signal from the noise here at VMworld 2013. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Stay with us. We'll be right back with our next guest in this short break.


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says, find the local maxima and local minima if any of the following functions. Find also the local maximum and local minimum values as the case may be. Second part is, function g is given by gx equal to x cube minus 3x. First of all let us understand that if we are given a function f defined on local interval i then let function f be continuous at critical point c in interval i. Then if f dash x is greater than 0 for x less than c and f dash x is less than 0 for x greater than c then c is the point of local maxima and if f dash x is less than 0 for x less than c and f dash x is greater than 0 for x greater than c then c is the point of local minima. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Now let us start with the solution. We are given gx equal to x cube minus 3x. Now differentiating both sides with respect to x again g dash x equal to 3x square minus 3. Now to find maxima and minima points we put g dash x equal to 0. Now this implies 3x square minus 3 is equal to 0. We can say 3 multiplied by x square minus 1 is equal to 0. This implies 3 multiplied by x minus 1 x plus 1 is equal to 0. So we get x is equal to 1 of minus 1. First of all let us discuss for x equal to minus 1. So we can write for x less than minus 1 g dash x is greater than 0 and for x greater than minus 1 g dash x is less than 0. Now g dash x changes its sign from positive to negative as x increases through minus 1. So we get x equal to minus 1 is the point of local maxima. Now we know local maxima value is given by g minus 1 which is equal to minus 1 cube minus 3 multiplied by minus 1 which is further equal to minus 1 plus 3. Now we can say g minus 1 is equal to 2. Now let us discuss for x equal to 1 for x less than 1 g dash x is less than 0 for x greater than 1 g dash x is greater than 0. So g dash x changes its sign from negative to positive as x increases through 1. So therefore we get x is equal to 1 is the point of local minima. Now let us find out local minima value. Local minima value is given by g1. g1 is equal to 1 cube minus 3 multiplied by 1. This is equal to minus 2. We get g1 equal to minus 2. So we can write local minima value is equal to minus 2. Now this is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you enjoyed the session. Have a nice day.


It's DDK and I'm back today with another spark video. Huge thanks to everybody too. And if you want to subscribe, smash that subscribe button, give it a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. It is June 25th. It's time for us to get to this bag. In this video, today, all the white spark stuffs sent us to three separate Walmart's in three different cities. It helped me come up with an idea. The idea is to get one order from each Walmart. And when we get to the Walmart, we're gonna time how long it takes to bring out the order to get an order. So, comment below and let me know what you guys think about that so we can keep on getting busy. I hope you guys are with me. I hope you enjoyed this video. Make sure you smash that subscribe button, make sure you give me a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. We don't have ways to get to this bag. Let's go! For $27.78, we're about to get this cake. Order number two is all... Walmart two orders nine miles for $24.30. We're gonna show you we worthy. Let's go! It's like that when we are here, baby. Jump up, or when I move, you move. Just like that. We're here jumping up, we're about to get it done, baby. I'm trying to move fast so we can get this cash and have a blast because we have to go to another Walmart. It's all the way out. So, you can see that jump order number two. Don't like that. I'm all about. Hey, doggy, doggy. Look, I don't have no problem with doggy, doggy. Step back. You know what's the photo? Y'all know what else? Man, let's go. It's time to drop off order number two.  They put the milks in this drink. Hold on.  Do the muscle. Do the muscle. Do the muscle. Do the muscle. Then they clap. Then they clap. What y'all know about that? Come along and let me know about that. Y'all remember that. Let me know if you remember that. You know about that. I'm trying to get these eggs with that one hand. We're about to get these bends.  I'm a cold, like a thrill of my little. The kids was already getting busy yesterday. They had the bikes, skateboards, everything. Luckily, they had this open for me. I was pretty smart. And it's for all y'all, you know what else? Let's go. Order number one, we gotta get it done. Baby, we gotta get it done fast so we can have a blast. We gonna span. Look at this.  Jeez, I gotta walk with a limb. I walk with a limb because my, come below and let me know what the rest say. I ain't even gonna tell y'all. Got it? You know what I'm talking about? Don't worry about that. I'm walking with a limb. Walk with a limb so we can get this green. You know what I'm talking about? Get busy. Girl, girl, kids are gonna come out here and get busy with me. I'm trying to hear if we have to do this order because we have another order and we have to go to another Walmart. You know what I'm talking about? Bop, bop, bop. They got big stuff, baby. It's really them pink double sole heads. Oh, that's what I'm ripped to. Bop, bop. Last things, let's get this one. Bop, bop, bop. Y'all already know what time it is. Step back to them to follow y'all, y'all. Let's go. We are here to drop off this order number two. Y'all already know what we about to do. We about to get busy. I hope you guys are with me. Oh, I came to this house before. This is the one that had the liquor that time. I remember that somebody got the dog across the street. They ain't got no lease on it or nothing. I hope they don't run over here and try to get busy because guess what?  Why be out here trying to get to these rooms? Hey, doggy, doggy. I need to ring the doorbell. I need to ring the doorbell so I'm not gonna go. Step back in with the phone. You already know, smack, smack, smack. Let's go. Order number three is time to get busy. Walk my tour at 7.8 miles for 28.33. We came to get that cheese. We're here to drop off order number one. It's time to get it done, man. And it is raining outside. Dang. The rain's like two or three o'clock. I don't know what's going on. Either way, go. I might have to put on that rain jacket and get busy. I don't think that the doorbell went on, baby. Stop like that. The order number two is, we got a lot of stuff, a lot of boxes, so I had to use both of the big bags and the steel stuff on the side, so it's gonna slide either way. Either way, we gonna slide. This is a real party. You cannot get in. Which I know about, baby. Tell him a little and let me know what I know. Hello, how you doing, sir? You doing all right in here? I'm doing great. You have a great day, sir. You too. Order number two, guys. You guys would not believe what happened last order, right? So while I'm saying that this is a real party, you can guess what? The whole time I was talking to you guys at the owner of the house, he was standing right there, right there. I didn't even hear him. He was standing right there, listening to me. And then when I said, how you doing, sir? He looked, he was looking crazy. Like, I was so crazy. Dang. You gotta take all this stuff, baby. Let's get busy. We got to like two or three chips, maybe. Let's go. He was looking at me crazy, but I don't care. Look, we trying to get this money.  Trying to do our thing. If everybody just cared about them, then, hey, they trying to get me. They trying to get me.  Slow it down. Slow it down.  Slow it down. So yeah, this is what it is, baby. The less you care about what people think, the better our food be in life. I promise you. Think about it. You know what I'm talking about? Everybody just be in their own world in their own thing. Get in their own money. Get in their own town. Oh, I can put some over here, too. Another thing, I know Scream. This is all right. I realize that. They got so much stuff, guys. But hey, they got to eat, don't they? This order is all right. I don't know if it was the greatest. I can't remember the payout for it, but let's go. I love these two a lot. I'm going to go back to the car so we can go far. I still got the other four bags that I got to bring. And I'm going to put this stuff in here right quick. Hopefully it's right quick. So we get to take the two bags so we can be done and we can get on the run. And we can get these funds.  Am I cold like that? Drill them in?  Can't you see? My mom got in there. I'm going to put those eggs on top to make sure we don't get any smushed by anything so we can get this green. Dang, that bag went up too. So we're going to put this. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, guys. Bear with me, bear with me. We're moving kind of swift. Why ain't moving kind of swift right now? We got that bag. Now we got to bring this bag too. These are the last two bags to get this bag.  Let's go. That rain coming down. I do have my raincoat but I ain't got time to put it on right now. I'm trying to get busy. Once I'm off.  G-ma, I love you. I hope you can hear me. I was at that joint. I think that it seemed like it's so much stuff because it's a lot of boxes, like pieces and stuff like that. So this seems like it's way more than it really is. We got that big fish. What's that right there? They got big biscuits. Big beans, big biscuits. They got chicken and bonfire chicken, chicken. That right there. They put that in the bag, they got a pocket. I'm putting it here with the noodle. With the noodle. Chicken, of course. Hit it with the bottles. Let's go. Order four and five is a great time to be alive. For $14.92. Now I know what we pull out to do, baby. Order number five. One more to order. It's 9.1 miles for $30.09. We ain't stopping until we shy. Let's go. My heart was right in the wood then I blew my fillers in the air. I ain't lower but you know that lower T is rough. Order to get in order. Look at that. That's all they got, baby. This rain needs to go away, man. I can't stand delivering in the rain. Comment below and let me know if you can't stand it either. It's terrible. It's the worst. Honestly, to be honest with you guys, I would rather deliver in snow than rain because rain is just, especially at night. At night it gets real, real in the field. Stuff like it's hot. Bring that door down. And then with that photo. Let's go. Trust in this door, never trust in no hoe. I'd never give Mary.  G-ma, I love you. I hope you can hear me.   I'm trying to score.  They was calling me Barry. Pretty good. These are the only two, right? Oh, yeah. All right. Why you ain't got no raincoat? That's too nice, I was sorry. Oh, okay. Thank you guys very much. I appreciate it. Order number one. Now, guys, we have, this was going on, right? It says beware of dog. But we called the customer, they didn't answer. And I have to go inside their gate. I don't know. Y'all might see me get busy. I don't know what's going to happen, maybe. And their yard is huge. So I don't know if, let me, I'm gonna leave the gate open just in case. I'm gonna run out, close the gate on the door and get busy. Oh, here it is. Hey, little dog. I got the treat for you. What's the big one, too? It's a big one and a small one.  Let me get out of here.  I'm gonna drop this guy from the door, I think.  Let me put that back in there. That's that vanilla, vanilla, vanilla. Go for it, it's really, really crazy. I got this right here. Hey, doggy dog. Don't get me done.  He's the biggest ever. I'm like, hop, bop, bop. Step back. I don't have to be a fool, baby. Step back, I don't have to follow, smash, let's go. We hear, baby, this rain is getting on my nerves.  Either way, go, we about to scow. You already know it's time to go, let's go. That door better work good, don't give me doggy doggy's. They got big cereals, some bread to get a hint, ice cream, lemon, they got the takis too. Come blow it, let me know if you like the takis, drop like that, how about, there's the flower. Hello. If you want me to, I could put it in the door for you if it makes it easier for you. That's okay, I can't get it. All right, thank you, you have a great one. Order six and seven, please don't try me. You know I keep a weapon. One more, one more, two hundred six miles for 30, 29. Wait, stop until we shine. Order seven, it's all the way sparked up. One more, two hundred four, nine miles for 20, 66. We back at Walmart's getting the mix, let's go. Just like that, we are here to jump up. Order number one, it's time to get it done, baby. Oh snap, this thing goes to the basement apartment, which I don't know. I guess it's like a three or four thing or something. So it's an apartment right here. I'm guessing it's just the door right here. That's how I'm gonna go with it. Off of that door, the door is open, but. How you doing? I happen to live for William. I can't hear you. He said something up in here for the cars, all the cars are driving past, so I couldn't hear him. Oh, okay, I couldn't hear you because all the cars are driving past. There you go. You want me to just sit it all here? Yeah, just sit it all here. All righty. Are you kind of a regular guy that delivers all here? No, I mean, it just depends on what driver picks the order. So it's just random. Why do you ask that, sir? Well, because next time, it makes it easier. Yeah, so just come to this door? Yeah. Okay, and this is everything. You have a great day, sir. Step back. You don't want that photo? Smack that stuff. I just want to let you guys know right now I'm highly upset about this. Look, so this is the reason why I usually watch the Walmart workers. So I put everything in the car and I let them do this because they was doing what I was doing. Look what they did. They didn't put nothing in one bag. They just put everything right here. Why would you do that?  I don't, I ain't gonna lie, guys. I'm kind of upset about this. I ain't kind of upset. I'm highly upset. Like, why would you do this? It doesn't even make sense. You saw the bags. Why would you put the stuff on top of the bags? Use your head, man. I'm gonna be standing sometimes. People be upset at me sometimes.  They out of pocket. Comment below and let me know if they out of pocket. I mean, if you see the bags right there, I don't know why you just wouldn't put the stuff in the bags. I just, I just think that's common sense. How you doing, sir? Hey, doggy. Here you go. And I'll be right back for the rest. I'm about to take a lot of trips. Okay, now, we'll put this here. Put that right there. This here. I'm gonna get the tissue. I'm gonna get the tissue. The reason why I'm doing the tissue is because I want to be able to get the gallons at the same dang time. At the same time. So I'm gonna take these two right here. And we're gonna come back and get them gallons. And we're gonna keep on moving. We're gonna keep on moving. You want me to come out? Let's go. That right there, right here. There you go, sir. That's it, these two here. I'm gonna grab the waters and everything now. Trying to keep on moving. Keep on grooving, baby, because we do have to another order. Hey, we up and pick up. And we are already running behind. Cause mine was kind of far out. So we're for sure probably gonna be late to the other one. But we don't know yet. We're gonna see what happened. I'll let you guys know what happened, when it happened, how it happened, and why it happened. You know what I'm talking about? It's probably gonna be hard to do it. Yes, sir. Now, maybe I'll overreact it. I got it. I did, they should have put some of the stuff in the bags. I just, it's not the gallon, but some of the stuff. Come on, man. I just came from here. You know what I'm saying? This is the last thing. There you go. Two, three, two, three. You guys have a great day, sir. Make sure y'all put it in these bags. Yeah. And it's not the water or the heavy stuff, but like the bags. I'm gonna put this in here. Need a sticker? Yeah. Oh, I'll be there. I got you. Maybe guess what? We late. Don't tell nobody. We're definitely gonna get a late one. And we may not because Walmart took a while for them to bring this stuff out. And I had to tell them to make sure they put the stuff in the bag this time. And you know, it just comes. It's a mean, but hey. Tease their own, baby. I just want to make, I want to make it easy possible for me. I could be able to do it, though, so I'm doing this cute thing. But I ain't never seen it before, but I could just not see it all about it. Because they be switching people around sometimes in the most part. Step back. Get in with the photos. We are here. And look, they all the way popped. And they got one, two, three, four, five cases of pop. There we go, baby. Either way, go. It's time for us to go. Let's go. They got the, the okay, go for popcorns. I'm going to be banging back out there. I ain't even seen those in a long time. They shoot my hop.  They're gonna be gonna keep on dropping and keep on flopping. And we ain't stopping. We going to the top it, you know what I'm talking about? Time for us to get busy. Couple like this, huh? Girl, you all, knock on that door. Knock on that door. Hold it. Just fold, fold, got my hat back. It's my season load. And we have the last order to get in order, but it's all of a spark to begin. I'll tell you guys about that. When we get back to the car, we'll be about to go far. We might go tomorrow. I'm gonna eat a lot of mussels, you know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm talking about? Oh, snap, I'm dropping these stuff. Come on, we're dropping something in there. Come on, let's see. So I'm trying to move too fast to get this cash. That's why I'm crying. Now, we're gonna get that soda with the Yola and we're riding around on the Corolla. Ha, ha, ha. That boy would be here with the bars, don't he? The bars from Marley Bruno. You're already new, you know. Okay, we're gonna get, I'm gonna try something. I don't know if it's a great idea. Might as well have ideas, but I'm gonna see if I can carry this with one finger. Okay, we got three. Then we like to get one more trip off the rip. And then what we gonna do? Boom, blip, blip, blip. Game over. Comment below and let me know if you know about that. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Got these two, pop, pop. In our last order, the good thing about it is only one order, not a batch order. So it's gonna be nice and smooth. We're gonna be on the road. Pop, blip, pop, pop. Step back. The thing, step back, and with the falls. Let's go dawg. Let's! One more order, 4.4 miles for 27.34. Now I know we about to go, let's go! What if you usually have your inside now? I ain't sitting back here in a minute. Inside, I'll be out. You said staging.  All right, you gotta put them in order. Yeah, just put them on each end of the business. So what is it called? So the other thing is called picking where you guys have to go pick up the items. Yeah, what's going on? Yes sir, y'all be smooth. Just order to get an order. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna reverse. I'm gonna reverse everything. I'm actually gonna ring the doorbell first. This one says put it in front of the garage door. So I'm gonna ring the doorbell just in case they wanna open the garage now so they can get busy. Let's go.   I said it back then, but I tweaked. This all goes up, baby. We ain't complaining, we maintaining. We just do our thing. We change in landing. It's our last order to get in order. Let's go. On an arm ski. It's in the hand ski. And right here, where are these juices right here? On that hand, bam. I'm trying to be one trip wrong. Y'all come on, come on, come on. Hit it on, let's see. Let's see if I can make it happen, captain. Then we got the juices, then we got the milk. Put all that in one hand. Ooh, that boy cold. Cold like a winter breeze. Sick like a sneeze. That boy cold. He borrowed anything up there right there, pop. I gotta set this up, bam. Juices up, pop. Let's go. I really don't like putting this out here like this, but it is what it is, baby. That's what they told us to do.  Hello. Come on. Move right there, bam, bam. Got everything down. We ain't no clowns. Hit it with a photo, y'all. No, no, smack. Let's go, though. It's just like that. It is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Today we made 20871. We came and got it done. And we got done at 12, 217, baby. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Also, if you want to buy some of the merch, or you got to do us an email me at wrongtimesofvjgman.com and let me know what you're trying to do by flows sick like the flu. Make sure you ain't, man. Make sure you lock in tomorrow. I'm just going back down.  We gonna keep on giving them a reason because it's our season, baby. I'll see you guys on the next one. We going, we going, we going. We following you already. Know what it is, DDK? And I'm on my way.


Brought to you by DIS, keeping companies connected with cloud-based solutions. Come on, City! We're, what now, two days away from the new league campaign. How ready are you as a side going into that game against Colchester? Yeah, we think we had a meeting this morning. We've had a real positive pre-season, both on the training ground and the games we've played, got a lot out of it. Again, we're fortunate tomorrow, as we were last Saturday, to go into the game with almost a fully-fixed squad. Young Connor, Chance, got a knock through the night, but so easy unavailable. But other than that, we're fully-fixed squad ready to go. Naturally, Levi misses out again with his suspension, which carries on. But no, we, listen, you always feel prepared. Obviously, we'll see what happens when the game kicks off. No, we've had a really good positive week since last Saturday's victory at Bolton, carried on with the good performance at Doncaster. Another good training session today, and really looking forward to the game, naturally. How bad, firstly, is the knock on Connor Shanks? Well, he got a knock. Obviously, you saw the game the other night, and then he carried on. It was a little bit so, sent for an extra yesterday, and everything's all clear. So, just a few days for him, a little bit of so on us. As a kid making his debut, he just wanted to stay on as long as he could. So, yeah, nothing too serious, which is good. In terms of team selection, how close and how similar will it be in terms of players and shape to the win at Bolton? Well, if you think I'm just going to tell you, and you can send it to Colchester United Manager, that my team is going to be, and my shape is going to be, you are severely wrong. Obviously, we played a different shape last Saturday at Bolton. We had a different shape. We were going to play on Tuesday night against Doncaster, but it changed it at the last minute to another one. So, the lads will have no doubts how we want to go once we go through the team and the formation tomorrow. But as we've mentioned them today, even in the same formation, it can be a different person now. We can maybe play it a different way, or likewise we can play a different formation. So, we'll always have a little look at the opposition and where we think where we can hurt them the most and where we can get the better out of the game. We knew last week it would almost a match-up with Bolton, like for like, as was almost the other night against Doncaster. So, yeah, with horses for courses always has been with us, but, you know, we've worked on a couple of formations throughout pre-season and we're ready to go in whatever way we may shape up. I suppose the follow-up to that is with the younger players being used on Tuesday, whether or not any of those have staked the claim and pushed themselves into your thinking for the squad on Saturday. Yeah, good question. They're always in the thoughts, but as I would say, not only the young players of the night or since we came back, all the other lads have stepped up. The ones that we've not seen a lot of prior, as I said before, the lads that were on loan last season, Jackson Longridge, Tyler French, Sam Hormby, have come in and all worked well in training. And the other lads that missed out the other night didn't start in the game on Bolton came in and did a good job as well. So, we've got a healthy competition at this moment and the young lads are pushing everyone for a stake to be in the squad. Just in terms of that game more generally on Saturday, I realise it's going to be a game without fans at Valley Parade, but how nice is it in, I suppose, gradual steps to have professional football back out at the ground? Yeah, brilliant. Yeah, obviously we've had two trials there with the friendlies that we've had against Wigan and Doncaster, and both from a non-perspective football perspective went well.  We can only get 12 or 14 in the home dressing room, so the other subs have got to change where the staff used to get changed. I think we are in the laundry room now. But yeah, there's little differences naturally, but the fact that we're having to be able to go out and play is great. Obviously the next step is to get limited crowds in and then the dream, hopefully that won't be too far down the road, would be to get Valley Parade rocking again with over 10, 15,000. But at the moment, it is what it is, and I think every one of us is just looking forward to getting out there at Valley Parade and putting in a strong performance. I suppose, this might not be a question for yourself, Stuart, but with everything that's happened in the last 24, 48 hours that we've seen from the government and DCMS and the like, and there's concerns now that that early to mid-October date that they've set out of fans being welcomed back into grounds could be pushed back.  Yeah, we had a word with our lads again this morning. I went in the meeting room, which is a canteen, but meeting room and it's still socially distanced. We've got to be mindful of that even though we're back playing now. So we've got a responsibility to ourselves in our bubble, if you like, and then when they go away from the football club to a date of the rules. I think it's pretty simple, but what the government is now asking, I know there's complexities about how many people can go in each of these houses, et cetera, et cetera, but just follow the rules. Follow the rules if you're in a wear a mask, keep your social distances, wash your hands. I think we all should be regulars in that now. I'm not one for raves, so I won't get caught up with mixing in more than six people, right, and I've probably got that many friends that I may need to be in a company of more than six, but I think if you just stick to the rules, stick to the guidelines, but I know obviously the racing from Doncaster got curtailed after just one day, and rightly so, I think, if indications are there that things are spiking, then we've got to stay on top of things. Slightly disappointing, but if things are done right, I think we'll still have, hopefully, we'll have fans back in the stadium soon. Yes, certainly, fingers crossed on that. Just on the league campaign itself, you said that you've met ahead of the game at Colchester, no doubt you've spoken about the league more generally, and the ambitions and targets that you have this season, is the play-off a must for you? No, not at all. Our ambition is to be competitive in every game. It's a short-term ambition at this moment in time. Our ambition is inside the dressing room, inside the football club will stay there, but we just want to be as successful as we can. Be the best we can every day today in training, in games, give your maximum, be the absolute best we can be, not set any long-term targets and goals, because then you build yourself up, but we know what our focus is and our positive vibe is going to be, and we're going to maintain that. If Colchester is opponents, do you view them as potential promotion-placed team given their exploits last season? Yes, I certainly think I've watched the game at Dredin last week, where they beat 3-1 in the cup, and they won 0-up right until half-time, a second before half-time, and performed really well, looked dangerous. Three fast attacking players at the top, and then I watched the game against Portswood through the night, where they were holding their own until they lost a bit of a soft goal, and got beat 2-0. So, I've seen enough of them to know what the threats are. Yes, obviously they got to play off last season, changed the manager, brought some new faces in, as most clubs have, but I think it'll be an exciting game, because I think they'll be coming with the firepower they've got to try to win the game. But it might be a different game, I would imagine, to what Bolton was and to what Doncaster was. We've just got to focus on yourselves how we want to play the game. We've run through it again today, and we'll obviously emphasise the points tomorrow. But I think it's going to be a game where it could be end-to-end, it could be an open game, because we know how we want to start. And as I said, I think Colchee has performed well, even though they've been knocked out with two defeats in the cup games. They'll be happy with the performance, I'm sure of that. Good luck for Saturday's day, Stuart, thanks for your time. Tia, thank you. When you talk about having seen Colchee's cup game last Saturday, presumably most of your scouting on opposition is now done by technology rather than actually at games. Yes, it has been. But we've now managed to get to some of the other part-time verses to go cover a game for us, and we've got one of our staff that will cover a game. So we got, for example, the other night, we got Lincoln watched. We didn't have anyone to go that far down to Portsmouth. We couldn't have been that unfair, sending somebody to Portsmouth. Sorry, Simon. So we never had any watching Colchee's game, but as you said, I've watched the game this morning on the iPad, and we know plenty about it, and that's for sure. And just going back to Covid restrictions and the like, has what's happened with England, has that been the sort of, not necessarily a wake-up call, but a reminder to young players that they do have to abide by the rules? Yeah, I think, listen, I think everybody filming outside football, inside football, were quite surprised, you know, disappointed really in what happened. I'm sure the boys are themselves, you know, it's something they'll be embarrassed about for a long, long time. But yeah, I mean, anything that flags up like that is a reminder and a wake-up call to everyone. You know, just, it's not a difficulty, you know, just to stick to what you're asked to do.   And staying with international football, have you been pleasantly surprised by how well Scotland have done over the last couple of games? Yeah, I think, well, they're on their hiding to nothing in the second game against the Czech Republic because obviously they had almost, I think, 12 or 13 debutants because they got caught up with the Covid themselves and they had to play an entirely new squad. So anything other than a Scotland victory would have been seen north of the board as a disaster really. So they managed, they got the job done, they're on their hiding to nothing, as I say, because they were expected to win. And even in the game previously against Israel, they did okay. So I think there's more to come from them. I think they're getting, they look to side, they've got better players now. There's a lot more players playing in the English Premier League and playing, you know, top-level football and with Torg as well for the future. We've got two or three really good players. I think it's a long, long time since Scotland have world-class players, but we've got competitive players and hopefully in the coming campaign, they can go on and do well. Thanks, and good luck for the rest of the season. Okay, thank you. Stuart, actually talking about the, you know, waiting to get fans back, I see the Cambridge Coal Games now being told it will be behind closed doors. They announced that about an hour ago. So it's, again, it's a setback in terms of hoping it, you know, by the beginning of October there might be some joy on that. And who says you don't have your finger on the pulse, Simon? There you go, you've just brought me the first bit of disappointing news today. That's a shame. Yeah, so that is a little setback of how things will look to be panning out for the future. You know, it's looking positive, but now. But it is what it is, unfortunately. I know, you know, every club I've sold season tickets, you know, and we'll have to have a look at how that goes about in the future, but I know a lot of people have been happy with it. Certainly the people I've known have been happy with the eye for low coverage. And that's been good. But yeah, hopefully it's only a little setback. And then the coming weeks, if we can get back on top of the, you know, the pandemic or the, you know, the rise in the COVID people that have got it, then, you know, we can start getting back people in. But yeah, that's a little bit disappointing that. And in terms of, obviously, we saw the other night about getting used to Valley Pride empty.  Yeah, I think, listen, I go back to my first time, first season here in my second spell when we were undefeated all season and, you know, the backing. It was, you know, 12-month. That's all well and good when things are going well, which is brilliant. You always want to play at home. But likewise, expectations, sometimes 14, 15,000. If things aren't going well, that's a test of your character sometimes.  I think it was hard for her speaking to people that were here at the time. It was difficult, you know, playing because they were disappointing the players, obviously weak and weak out with the performances. But so, again, it is what it is. Would we like, of course, would love 15, 16,000 people roaring a zombie because, you know, we've got a way that we want to play and I'm sure we support behind us. We've been really at it, which we are going to be anyway, but, yeah. We deal with it for now, but I think we're all in the same mindset that, you know, soon we can get fans back into the ground, especially at our place where they can make a massive difference and we'll look forward to that. And obviously, it seems to be a very different league this year. I mean, obviously, coaches sort of got Steve Bald, new manager. There's quite a few sort of newish managers in this league, aren't there? And there's quite a lot of teams that have had quite a big turnaround. So it's probably a difficult league to forecast, isn't it, because it looks very sort of, you know, always untested. Yeah, true. Yeah, young and up-and-coming managers, some teams have got anyway hungry and desperate to do well, naturally. That done me to say the old codges like myself are not hungry and desperate to do well. Can't be further from the truth on that one. But, yeah, and as you say, the squads were looking at the squads, you know, the changes to certain teams. But I think if you recently, you know, a couple of clubs have started bringing more plays, obviously Grimsby had to bring a lot in. They've done that a lot recently. There's a few of the clubs are bringing people in. And between now and the window closing, you know, there will be additions to squads. There's no doubt about that. And likewise with ours. But it's sometimes when you look at players, and I don't know certain people that have been brought in, then you can still go on your iPads and look at the previous clubs and how they're playing it, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, look at Bolton last week, you know, how many debutants, a full team of debutant, but obviously we know the people that played against us before, Ysasavitches and Yali Crawford, we know them. But as you say, it's hard to judge at the moment what sides are going to be up there. I mean, you know, I think for me, you like Ysolffords and certainly Bolton, them to come to mind as really strong, be strong favourites to be right up there with the recruitment they've done. But again, there's always surprises, but we'll just focus on ourselves. Happy way things are going at the moment. Lots of room for improvement, but you know, we're on the right lines. And in terms of going into the first game, I mean a natural excitement of it all started. Are you as sort of, you know, geed up for it as you would be if it was perhaps in, say, normal circumstances? Yeah, no, no, yeah, yes. I know it, I take your point, but we're all ready for it. We've been waiting, five, six months, whatever it is, and as I said to you, maybe six weeks ago, we were just desperate to get into pre-season, desperate to get on the training ground. Now we're desperate to get on the training ground. So now the excitement, the desire, the commitment from everyone at the club. 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