All right golly You guys are keeners nine o'clock in the morning And you got to understand who I am you know, so this has been a great conference lots of incredibly smart people explaining Incredibly useful things to you guys. I qualify as the light entertainment interlude So you can all go back to sleep now Because I don't have anything of value to say but I do have a few stories But before I tell my stories because you guys actually are smart and it's you know I'm talking to students all the time and the nice thing about talking to students is I can channel my mother so at the So I had obviously two parents my father was a Harvard business school Educated guy who studied economics at Cambridge University My mother never graduated high school her claim academic claim to fame was she got in her German language classes She got zero in German composition and she got one in German literature and when With the teacher asked her why she thought she got one in German literature it turns out because she spelled her name correctly Okay, so of my two parents I took after my mother So that's why I literally have nothing useful to tell you guys what did But my mother did have one astounding skill and I give her complete credit for all of my success and it is that she could tell a story as Well as anyone you have ever heard she could captivate a room Just because her stories were fascinating and they were fun and She was completely Unconstrained by the truth Okay, so when we were kids this is my two brothers and I would interrupt mom all the time saying mom That's not true.  You can't do that. We go but dad. She's not telling true so We find that we negotiated with my Harvard Business School educated father and We agreed that we could not interrupt my mother as long as her story was within Was within what does it work 10 times of whatever the truth was So if she said we had a hundred people over for dinner and we had 11 people for dinner We were not allowed to interrupt We only had nine people for dinner we could interrupt. Okay so I tell that story just to give you guys a sense of when you hear me say something and and Linus and Dirk and you know They hear me tell my stories and they'd start rolling their eyes because they know they're not true Well, there's there's a nugget of truth in there somewhere, so I'll let you guys figure out what's true and what isn't okay But the other thing get a member is everything I say is seen through the same prism So where you guys actually like to get things right and to a certain extent and this is what I loved about Linux and the early days of Red Hat is Is no one was really very nice to each other? But everyone was very respectful of the Intel microprocessor Because the Intel microprocessor was the objective referee and When you would contribute code if the Intel processor liked your code Linus would use it And if it didn't like your code Linus wouldn't use it and Linus didn't care Who you were he cared whether the Intel microprocessor liked your code or not? And that's what you liked about it It allowed this meritocracy to work in the very early days of Red Hat when I had no idea if this was going to make any money at all I Always had backup plans and my backup plan was I would go into technical recruiting Because I knew how smart all of you guys were and I knew where to find you and Better yet most of you wouldn't recognize a clean t-shirt if you saw one So you were all completely Unemployable in terms of going through job interviews But I'm a sales guy. I could have got you a job Okay, so What I'm doing these days is is Red Hat went extremely well So we hired a team of guys who were much much smarter than I was at building large companies So I was the CEO of Red Hat 93 through 2000 But in 2000 we had just partnered with Cygnus solutions We were suddenly a four hundred person operation doing I can't remember 60 million bucks worth of business and I had never worked for a company that big much less managed one But we were fortunate to have Matthew Zulek and a bunch of other really smart guys So I got out of their way and and the rest is history I keep running into Red Hat guys like like Steven here who who keep coming up to me I'm going Bob, you know, thank you for for setting up this great company And they've got it so backwards. I Just started a little business you guys at Red Hat have turned it into truly a great company and I'm just so Honored to be associated with you guys and proud of what the Red Hat team has accomplished And I'm not going to speak about the future of Red Hat the next fellow I met at Bank of New Zealand I made the mistake of what does he want to hear and he said what comes next? I Go whoa, that's way above my pay grade But what I do is I'm an entrepreneur what gets me out of bed in the morning is looking for new business Opportunities and I thought I'd tell a couple of the early Red Hat stories to give you guys a sense of Of just why what you guys are doing is important and why it's scalable and why you don't have to worry that it's going away anytime But equally why you need to find business guys to partner with if your particular innovation is Going to scale if you're going to do well with it So Yeah, I'll tell a couple of stories the first one Relates to 91 through 93. I was still in the computer leasing business I had sold my business to a big a bigger Canadian financial services company very sadly over those two years the parent company the company I sold to went backwards and Went out of business and I found myself. I thought I was a wealthy guy in 91 by 93 I had taken my net worth back to something below what it was when I graduated University 15 years earlier Only now I had three kids in a big mortgage But in 91 through 93 I was working in the computer leasing business I was doing a newsletter to try and and Make friends with you guys or your equivalent in New York and Boston and Washington And I would ask the the guys at the user groups What did they want to hear about my newsletter and they would say well tell us about open source? Well not back then they said tell us about free software You know the Kermit dial-up modem the X window system, you know this the Cygnus Tools and I was so that's what I would write about and I would find people to write about my little newsletter But yet when I would think about this space about where Linux was going I was a bigger skeptic in 91 through 93 Then Bill Gates has ever been a boat open source and links Because I'm a business guy. I'm an evil cold-hearted capitalist And I just don't I did not believe that altruism was going to keep a Sophisticated software engineering product going into the future. I didn't care How much the guys I ran into in this space in the Unix world loved free software and really believed in this collaborative of development But instead of it going away from 91 to 93 and in 93 I was now unemployed working out of my way sewing closet selling some slack wear in O'Reilly books on a thing called ACC bookstore We were in fact Amazon before Emma before the World Wide Web We sold books you you send an email to ACC dash corp.com sales at and you got an ASCII catalog sent back to you and Then you printed off the last page of the catalog and you faxed in your order and we were selling a drizzle and slack wear and What others those were the two big ones actually at the time But by 93 instead of this stuff going backwards It kept getting better as you guys know Linus actually came out with a 1.0 version of This thing and I'm going this doesn't make any sense. So I did a tour of Of the smart guy, so I went up and visited Richard Stallman in in Boston and I'll tell the story about the GPL in one second that Karen thinks is is a is an interesting one So I went up to Boston and Richard gave me the same story I was getting from most of these guys which was You know open source or free software is from engineers according to their skill to engineers according to their need I don't know how much Karl Marx you guys have written, but the Berlin Wall had just fallen and Just go there's no future to this. I'm at the end of this little tour. I'm down in Washington talking to Don Becker Who was doing ethernet drivers for Linux at the time? He takes me out to Goddard space flight laboratory shows me this really cool Supercomputer 16 Intel processors in mini towers stacked four across four up and literally wrapped together with duct tape All connected at the back of this thing with ethernet Cables one to the next and he would had just unplugged a five million dollar cray with this thing and You know, I was asking him whereas, you know, why was he giving away his software? You know the ethernet drivers that he was writing because it's clearly sophisticated stuff and he says Because it's the right thing to do Bob, you know, it's you know, this is this is good This is how engineers think this is just altruism I go no Don who pays your salary and And why did they pay your salary and buy you a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of Intel boxes and Let you give away your software for free when they could have if they put a proprietary license around recouped at least some of that investment Don't stop and goes that's a really good question So he says you'll have to talk to my boss I go okay next time I'm down, you know I'd love an introduction.  He might still be here. There's now 10 30 at night at Goddard So we meet dr. Thomas sterling in the empty cafeteria at Goddard 10 30 at night and I ask him this question So sterling says okay Bob, let me get this right Yeah, Don and his team are writing very sophisticated ethernet software And they're giving it away for free so pick a number 10,000 lines a very sophisticated code that these telling guys are writing and Yeah, it was a under a proprietary license. We might recoup some of it But when when we give it away all I get You know all I get is as a reward for giving it away Is a gigabyte worth of multi-user multi-tasking operating system with complete source code and a license to do whatever I want with it and you're taking advantage of me and What he had just articulated was a barter system Or someone it might have been Chris was arguing what's actually a gift economy system? I don't care But it was an economic model that actually works That by giving away something of value you get something of greater value and I go I bet I was willing to bet my kids college Education once I understood there was an economic model to this So I'm now committed to it and I'm now looking for a product that would scale that that when Linux got into comp USA That's right.  Okay comp USA was a retailer In the early 90s in the States computer retail one Anyways, the worry was once Linux got into comp USA. I didn't want comp USA to be my competitor so I needed to brand a Some sort of product that I could sell to comp USA instead of competing with them And that led directly to Mark and I getting together as a complete side note by the way Mark Ewing and I refer to each other as co-founders of red hat But the reality is and we both admit this the reality is we are in violent disagreement as to who actually founded red hat Because I founded the company that became red hat the legal entity if you trace it back was founded in my wife's sewing closet but mark started the project that was red hat Linux and So because we could never figure out who the founder was we refer to each other as co-founders all very much good nature But I'm interesting sort of historic element Okay, so the reason I was so excited or so interested and willing to bet my kids college Education on red hat Linux the thing that I was picking up from all of you guys or again your equivalents in North America wasn't the That free software was better than proprietary software when I would talk to the guys at Southwest Bell who came to our little Linux Expo in 1994 I think it was in Raleigh, North Carolina and I Would ask them why you're using Linux You know is it better is it faster is it cheaper and they would say no we don't actually like Linux It is neither better nor faster nor is it more secure You know, we really should be using Solaris or we should be using AI X But what it does do for us is when we build systems because we have complete source code and the license to modify it It gives us control over the systems We're building and no one else will do that for us and that's why we have to use Linux and as a typewriter sales guy You learn as a sales guy But one of the first lessons you learn is you don't sell features of your product You sell the benefits of your product to your customer And so I wasn't selling free software or source code work or price I was selling control over the technology and it was recognizing that the open source gave us a Feature that we can sell to customers that build all of our billion dollar competitors and the interesting thing for for red hat in the early days Is our competitors were not Suzer or caldera? They were our friends We were trying to create users of this Our competitors were all multi-billion dollar proprietary software companies. It was IBM. It was Sun. It was Apple it was Microsoft and All of them were multi-billion dollar players and and we're thinking we can make a living competing with those guys and The reason we believed we could was because we could do something for you guys and your equivalents around the world That no one else could do or was willing to do or their Economic model was aligned to be able to allow them to do which was to give our customers control over the technology and And yep, that's if I made a contribution to To the success of red hat. It was simply recognizing that and the single most rewarding thing I've done in the last month is before I came down here to talk to you guys I went into red hat for the first time in a long time Just to find out what their messaging was what it was they did not want me to say publicly Because I didn't want to come and talk to you guys have you guys record the damn thing and have the red hat stock price crash because The founder said something stupid along the lines of Lulu lemons CEO chairman and founder who who accused Their their customers of being the wrong size to where Lulu lemon yoga pants or something if you followed that story Okay, so so we're not going near yoga pants Okay, the single most rewarding thing about visiting red hat and asking them what I shouldn't say is They're saying exactly the same stuff that we were saying in 1994 The value proposition that red hat sells today is identical to that value proposition It is that they are treating their customers like partners in the use of the technology they're using I go, whoa, this is this just really Personally at the both in a business sense, but personally it just really it makes you happy To realize that business actually can work really well. I mean I've always known it could work well I've been a businessman Since well, I come from a long line of business guys And so we know that business can be a very beneficial in fact primarily is free markets And the capitalist system really does work well to make our society richer and wealthier But every now and again you see a project like the red hat project and you just go wow You know and we fixed a problem that the US Justice Department was struggling with Again in the early 90s when they were watching the big monopolies that that Microsoft were accumulating and This open-source community solved that problem for the Justice Department Such that all of the predictions in the early 90s about how the US Justice Department was going to break up Microsoft into its component parts went away and it went away because of what this community on a global basis did from 91 through 96 or 7 when the Justice Department just completely dropped to the investigation against Microsoft it just hugely What Satisfying in a personal sense Okay Here's the interesting story that Karen was talking about and then I'm going to go to questions because I'm more interested in what you guys want to know than expounding but Karen was at a Sandler of the Software freedom Conservancy if you haven't bookmarked the software freedom conservancy now is your chance. Okay She was at a little talk I was giving in Raleigh and someone asked the question of What do you think about the different free software licenses and? I came out with this rent in favor of the GPL over everything else and Karen goes hold on. I love the GPL. But why does this evil capitalist love the GPL? And here's the story is when we were In the early days of red hat and we were looking at all the different licenses and there was a lot of debate Okay, we're we're the BSD licenses out in California more intelligent because they allowed you to use the the software without The author of the software surrendering as much control as says he might with the GPL or Or the NPL the Netscape public license that the you know tried to fix what the Netscape lawyers considered some of the flaws in the GPL or And you guys can Google Free software licenses and you'll see just how fast the debate was in the range was Well, I'm a I'm not a lawyer I'm a business guy and Business guy the biggest single challenge you have as a business guy is to get the world to pay attention to you That's your biggest single challenge. So you've got to simplify your pitch and you've got to find things that resonate and Talking licenses, they're they talking about licenses in front of customers was the quickest way to get someone to go running back to Microsoft Because they didn't want to have to think About clause 13 in the NPL license They didn't want to have to understand why the net why the BSD license was better or worse than the GPL and The beauty of the GPL license and and the guys at the free software foundation deserve a lot of credit for the first 10 or 12 years of this is they had to find the term free software around the GPL So you didn't even have to read the GPL the moment you said your software was Under the GPL everyone knew precisely what that meant or at least they believe they did doesn't matter. It's the same thing for practical purposes. I Told you I'm not a lawyer. Okay I'm a sales guy and sales guys. Don't worry about the details This is where my mother's training about as long as what I tell you is within Has a 10% of it of a nugget of truth in it Gives me complete permission to con you in to using red hat rather than Susan But quite seriously I do to this very day. I do not care whether you use red hat or Susan or or Call me I've been out of the Linux world so long I can't even Come up with the names that it's really not slack.  Thank you So the value of the GPL coming back to this is that it communicated what we were about And and we are under pressure our lawyers never understood where our commitment was the industry even the open-source industry Never understood our commitment and certainly Richard never understood my commitment to the GPL Richard Stolman when I would meet him at conferences He understood we were doing the right things, but he was convinced we had an agenda You know once our market share was big enough We were gonna slap a proprietary Microsoft's license on something And what he didn't understand was I'm a typewriter sales guy and The value that open-source gives my customers was control over the technology. They're using and That was the only benefit that I could offer that IBM and Apple and Microsoft were not prepared to do for my customers and that's where our commitment to the GPL comes from and If you're thinking about doing open-source projects Just don't waste your time trying to Micromanage your license and build a better one Because in the effort to build a better one you lose the primary value your customers now have to read your license to understand How your license works vis-a-vis their project and the very act of having to read your license will stop them from doing business with you The moment you just can use an existing license and and our preferences the GPL everyone knows Precisely what they can do with it. They relax then they keep moving forward and they're happy to do business with you because you Simplify their lives and that's a key element to all customer Relationships if you can make that customers life simpler, he likes you a lot better than if you would make his life more complicated Okay, so what do you guys want to know? Instead of what I want to know sure go ahead Or just speak up and I'll repeat your question Right, so you mentioned being an evil capitalist and I just wanted to know when you sort of Wait when you were managing red hat when you sort of took a step back and go wow we really are changing the world okay, so as a You know how families go in in Trent So, you know doctors tend to come from families who have had other doctors and lawyers tend to You know in a much higher percentage than the general population come from families that have other lawyers You know my father and my grandfather were Entrepreneurial businessmen, so I think in terms of making the world a better place through building companies Because in our free market democracies the consumer and the citizen are the same person And you can frequently solve social problems In the marketplace allowing the our society to vote with their pocketbook on The product or the service that they consider Most aligned with what they need to make their world a better place Okay, having said that Particularly businesses once they earn a monopoly position can abuse their market power and that's and so as a result I'm a big fan of government regulation Done properly Which is a big issue, but I think of regulation is simply being like the referee on a football field Without a referee you literally can't play football And I don't care what kind of football you're talking about without a referee You can't play because the guy who cheats the most will win and Then the whole thing collapses because everyone cheats and there are no rules So you have to have referees in the space because the capitalist guys like me We we are innovators We're looking for ways to change the market to the benefit of our shareholders at the expense of someone else's shareholders Not the Suza guys because I love their shareholders So so it's sort of a joke I make but it's a joke that it's acknowledging a reality That there are businesses that do really well making the world a worse place You know pick your favorite to You know the naked people Businesses alcohol or tobacco businesses as a good example They are serving a desire of our society, but they're not serving a need and they're definitely not making the world a better place But they are making a lot of money doing it Sorry next question It seems to me that it's certainly something that we or in this room agree that control over the software and being able to use it and learn from it and verify it and continue it is And I'll a great benefit not only to us, but to the people that we You know that we deploy this software for and so forth, but it sometimes seems to me the customers of large Linux companies and You know even people using Android phones say Aren't interested in the control that that might give them they're interested in the fact that someone else has looked at it Or that it's free or that sort of thing. Do you how do you think we can communicate better? And what do you think what do you see this sort of the features of control that are actually going to mean something to those people in the future? It's golly. No, it's a great topic And I would encourage each and every one of you to reach out to each and every Open source aficionado, you know around the planet to make sure that you guys understand You have a role to play in the healthy functioning of our society Because our politicians Who aren't necessarily bad guys I've met many of them They're they're trying to do the right thing the problem is very very few of them if any No, that's not true very few of them I've met a whole bunch of politicians who actually have technical backgrounds But we're still talking 5% of the political class on around the world And so most politicians just don't understand the difference between software and source code and binaries So when they buy voting machines in the United States and they buy voting machines that are closed You know, it's binary only software and you don't get a license to look at the software And now you're trusting the health of your democracy to a machine That is close or software. You don't actually know what that machine does It's just bad for our democracy to not have transparency in the technology We are using and our politicians don't yet understand this I'm optimistic that our politicians will understand it the kind of work that Larry Lessing did both at the creative commons And now he's doing on the I kept painting to try and get money out of our political system What Larry really cares about is transparency and that's what Larry does and articulates as well as anyone The guys that another non-profit in the US that that we helped get started public knowledge Are very much on the same theme the EFF does has Does and has done brilliant work in this space and You guys each and every one of you as citizens of wherever you are citizens But particularly as citizens of the world you have a voice and I know it feels like you're a lone voice in the wilderness But seriously collectively you are incredibly powerful And I need you guys all to step up and make sure that whenever you happen to bump into a politician in In the street you make sure that he's aware of what you care about because Because you can be as cynical as you like about our political systems, you know, and then you reassure yourselves with Winston Churchill's great line about democracy is a really terrible way to govern ourselves until we you consider all the others Okay It may be a messy system, but having talked to a lot of politicians The one thing that does reassure you is they're all motivated more by votes than by money So Larry has a valid point money does corrupt our political system But these guys actually care about votes even more than money because they know That the money flows from the votes not the other way around Anyway, so for what it's worth keep keep Doing your bit and collectively we will make a difference. Sorry. There was a question. Thanks. Thanks, Bob I my name is Donna. I helped publish a book called free software for schools using Lulu I'd love to hear a bit a store a Lulu story. Oh Donna, thank you so much Because I am a tech writer salesman and I need an opportunity to make a The real story I'm going to tell you though here is is you know, Chris is worried about me running over my time But you guys are actually stuck here for the next two days Because on the compensation method that we use here Chris doesn't pay me a nickel to fly all the way to New Zealand to Talk to you guys. So the only way I get to recover the cost of my time is through impressions So so the longer I stand here the more impressions per person I achieve Okay, I'm not going to give you much of a pitch on Lulu other than saying It's a fun project We have built this publishing platform that allows you when you send your book into a publisher and you get a rejection slip Which the publishing industry will tell you they reject 19 out of 20 books that come their way And they'll tell you that they're doing the world a favor when they do that because they're getting rid of the 19 bad Books in favor of the one good book, but the publishing industry's flaw is that They actually get rid of books for three reasons one is because the book isn't any good And I'm sympathetic to their point because a lot of those people then come to Lulu And I read a lot of Lulu books and some of them are really bad Okay, but the other two reasons the publishing industry rejects a book are economic reasons They don't believe the market for the book is big enough So it doesn't matter how valuable the book is that you've written or the content is that you want to publish To some small marketplace if that marketplace is not big enough the publishing industry will not return your phone call And the other one is if they already have one of those books so in the United States There are six economics one-on-one textbooks and the reason for that is There are six textbook publishers in the United States They have zero incentive to publish a seventh economics one-on-one textbook no matter how much better That textbook might be than one of the existing six and So by building a publishing platform Lulu has enabled that big huge number Millions of people around the world to publish their content to their audience without having to go through the publishing industry I won't get into the longest story as a business and it's an interesting business one but I you know you can corner me afterwards about how Red Hat competing with Microsoft could do something that Microsoft simply wasn't able to do because of their business model That delivered a benefit to our customers that made those customers sufficiently loyal to Red Hat that Red Hat is now What is it seven thousand people on their way to two billion dollars worth of revenue? And meanwhile Lulu Amazon decided that they really liked what we were doing So now Amazon are doing very similar things. Of course, they don't do it nearly as well as we do it So you think I was picking on the guys at Sousa you should get me alone and have me talk about Bezos and Amazon But So they don't do it nearly as well as we do but being the world's biggest bookstore The typical author says well, I can use Amazon I end up being published on Amazon and that's all I care of it And so Amazon is a serious competitor of ours in a way that Microsoft was never Serious competitor of the open-source movement because they couldn't offer our customers the benefit that we could offer But follow-up after Well, you said you're our business man and don't care too much about details You praised the GPL, but there is a little deep detail like GPL version 3 Which I understand the business world doesn't really adopt and you tell us something about that So I've had a lot of these debates with really smart people in this space and And your point that thank you for acknowledging the problem, which is that I'm a tech writer salesman and I channel my mother And so when it comes to the details, I sort of you're gonna have to corner ebb in it or Karen for that matter either of them could argue it could explain The specifics of how things fit into the various categories better than I can do it But I think if I understand correctly that there's a story that that would be helpful And it's why I am so lost in admiration of what Richard Stolman The genius of his idea that goes back to 1984 Where he tried to do a free free software that he wrote software and he tried to give it away And he wanted to work collaboratively with other engineers on this this project. He tried to give away and the problem is that The and you'll have to ask Richard the specifics of the story But what he recognizes anyone could take his software Make modest changes to it and copyright the whole thing such that he would have to pay them Royalties to use his own software because legally there was no such thing as the public domain No judge would have ever punished anyone for doing precisely that because there was no legal structure the judge could not find someone guilty of Taking software that Richard was trying to give away for free and doing something with it, okay? And what Richard's great innovation was was to say look We don't have to go to Washington and get them to come up with laws around the public domain We'll use precisely the same laws Only we'll use them in the reverse fashion and we will copyright Our code in such a way that it has to stay in the public domain And that's what the genius of the GPL was and you can like or not like various terms and and Considerations of the GPL and I'm not suggesting The GPL is the only appropriate license I'm just a big fan of it because it's the single most effective license, but there are other licenses that are conceivably more useful in other spaces than than for redhead And our commitment to the GPL, but that's really Richard's genius and that's that 1984 insight into copy left using the existing copyright Legislation to create a public domain is what allows all of us to do what we are doing without stoneman in that insight We'd all still be writing proprietary software licenses on all of our code Sorry, there was a question over here how does the philosophy or your admiration for GPL and Free software translate to Lulu where you are actually publishing a use Do you encourage your authors to publish things on the GPL? Do you use free software within Lulu to in part as part of your business? Okay, so Yeah, as I say, I'm not an ideologue It's one of the areas that that Linus and I haven't spent a huge amount of time together but yeah, you know, we've trade enough debates and I followed his his arguments on the internet and We share this one philosophy Which is that we really believe in free markets and we we believe in the free exchange of ideas and we don't like imposing a Set of rules on people just because they're the correct rules We should have the debate we should try it we should you know Experiment and figure out what the correct rules by what works. Okay? So my interest in the GPL what I loved about the red hat thing and what we're trying to do with Lulu isn't About source code or about given licenses. It is about empowering customers empowering users to do things they could not otherwise do That that's as a businessman That's always what you're trying to do if you're a successful business It's because you do something for your customers that no one else does as well as you do it If you're a modestly successful businessmen it's because you're doing things for your customers as well as other people do it and now Customers have an even choice. They can have coffee at Starbucks or they can have coffee at caribou coffee and There's yeah other than marketing. There is no real magic to what the guys at Starbucks are doing So, you know, that's how I think about this and this Lulu idea of What we're really building is is a democratic platform so anyone can publish their books is In the same theme as what we did at Red Hat. It's a very different Market it's it's so you know proof will be in the pudding if if If Lulu goes public and is worth How much is Red Hat worth these days anyways? Several billion dollars then we will have done a good job for our customers with Lulu if Lulu Remains a mid-sized company will have done an okay job for Lulu and if Lulu goes away Clearly someone else did a better job than we did Other questions. Yes. Hello. I hope and how much time do we have Chris? Steven how much time? But five minutes, okay you mentioned Thomas Sterling and He these days he leads the something called the center of research from extreme-scale technologies towards Excess-scale computing Which leads me to certain analogies that I want to ask the entrepreneur the business person if we are in Situation as we were in the 90s. Is there this new architecture this new hardware? with all Requires a new Software paradigm that we can take advantage. Is this a business opportunity out there or is just for? Department of Defense taking advantage or major approaches government funded taking advantage of the excess scale computing which is coming Okay, and sorry say that one more time for me Where are you from by the way? From different places. I'm from one room in the South Island of New Zealand, but your accent is from where? It's a mix of Uruguay, Hungary, and New Zealand. There's no wonder I'm surprised that you don't recognize it So I was by the way, I was at a wedding a cousin's son got married and Adelaide on the weekend You know very nice in fact a wonderful wedding and great speakers and I went up to the speakers afterwards to congratulate them on Giving lovely talks at the wedding and the only my only complaint was they spoke in Australian. I Didn't get a single one of the jokes I Anyway, sorry, so it's Exascale computing a lot of Floating points or whatever. Okay, what I heard in your story and feel free to answer following your mother's inspiration Yeah, I just want to say I have a Tom Sterling speaking the conference in one month really about When you see him you have to go up and thank him for I will do that for you I have not seen Dr. Sterling and well you come back to Wellington in one month And where is the conference? It's in Wellington. Sorry for that. Oh, okay. Well into 17 18 February. Okay, so the point is He's working on the extreme scale research center or something like that University of Indiana. Yeah towards extra scale computing Which is an area that I am exposed due to a big project called the square kilometer array What I'm asking to the entrepreneur who every morning wakes up looking for a new business opportunity is that is this just in the realm of government-funded projects or esoteric thinking or actually we have Business paradigm yesterday even Mowgli say that the new hardware architectures are opening a new world that we don't know yet Okay, so I'm not going to answer the specific question because I just don't know enough about it But talking about this wedding as in Adelaide my aunt Joan, so my cousin His mother is is at Joan net Joan is 93 and in very good health But her memory is suffering so she's in a home in in Adelaide And so I went to visit her and she was she has been a watercolor artist all her life And she was she had a stack of watercolor the paintings that she had done and I mentioned to Janie my other cousin You know say hey Janie so does it Joan selves? Janie bursts out laughing saying Bob you are so damn consistent So here I'm visiting my my aunt Joan and who's I shut in in Adelaide and my thought goes to helping it Joan build a business Rounder hobby Okay, so the answer is here's how to tell Is if there's enough people like you going to this conference because you need The tools that Sterling and others are working on building Then yes, there's a real business opportunity But then you have to investigate Is that a business opportunity that is better served to buy IBM or or He'll it Packard or red hat then served by some entrepreneur and the typical difference there is Is it aligned with what one of those big companies already do simply an extension of what they're doing? Or does it somehow run counter to what they do and is in other words, they would have difficulty doing it and if if the second Then it's an entrepreneurial business opportunity if the first then you call up your buddies at red hat and say Hey, you should come and do this because I as a customer need this service I can't trust some government agency to support my use of this technology I want you guys to support the use But if you say if these guys all say oh no that runs counter or to our business model Not a chance or we ever going to do that for you Then you get to either start the business yourself or or go and find someone who is willing to at least attempt to build a business to support your use of that technology or of that solution It's for what it's worth. Are we done? I think we're all done. Thank you all for joining us. I want you to thank Bob


If this Rayquaza is Binded there's not much chance of it being able to, well there's no chance of it being able to protect, and I would say from that damage it probably isn't. Ah what have we done? Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is Leigh Olson known as Osiris and today we're going to be continuing on again with this Ho'O and Kyogre build that we started with. The beginning of the week we made some adjustments on Tuesday and we've kind of continued them on from there. We've been a bit up and down with the team, we faced some mad things especially yesterday and iron ball Kyogre of all things which totally threw us off. Hopefully we can get back on the train and get things moving in today's episode. So without further ado we'll just jump straight on to the light. I hope you're all doing well, having a great day, whatever you're up to. And as always if you do enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video. Do subscribe to the channel and leave your comments down below especially about the team. But what course you would like to see played next week because we're going to end up with this team this week. We're just going to play it for this week and then we'll move on to a new team for next week. So if you've got any ideas, any burning desire to play any sort of course archetypes or Pokemon in general do let me know down below and I will make sure to try and play as many of them as possible. We've got our first opponent of the episode so we'll hop straight into team preview. Okay so our first opponent today playing a team of Drifblim, Tapulele, Groudon, Cure and White, Togacus and Azapdos. So it's screaming, gravity, hypnosis stuff all day long. We've got the supporting cast, we've got Tailwind support from Togacus and the Zapdos and the Drifblim. So predominantly that's the route that my opponents are going to go down I think here. This is going to be tough because I don't feel like we've got... I think stack attack is going to be important for us with its wide guard support. It deals with the Tapulele quite nicely as well and pretty much the majority of the team. So I think we will go down that route with stack attacker. Right I think we'll go stacks as lead with Incineroar. We definitely need Kyogre in this match and probably Hoho you know. Hoho you know. Yeah I think as long as we're not against Zapdos as our last Pokemon then we should be alright. So let's click in with that and let's get into this first one today. Let's see. I always hate playing these sort of teams. I think they're so difficult to kind of play against because you give them a tiny bit of room and they'll just run through you. So hopefully it's not going to be as clean cut today. And I think like turn one we just have to allow my opponent to go for the hypnosis onto something and try and get through the sleep turns as best we can. I am going to snarl. The one thing I would worry about a little bit would be maybe the Phytonium on the Tapulele could really deal with stack attacker and put the stoppers on us being able to do very much straight away. I think we'll try and get a trick room up because I feel like majority of my opponent's team is pretty fast, pretty speedy so a trick room will help us out a bunch. I'm going to see an icy wind come out. I wonder if it is the Phytonium then. Potentially trying to break his sash on a stack attacker. And then go for it now with Lele. Oh it's taunt. Okay well I mean that's fine, I don't mind that either. We're going to snarl off which is always going to be useful against both of these sorts of Pokemon. I think we're going to have to switch stacks out though. All we could do is potentially U-turn with Incineroar onto the Tapulele or the Drifblim. Bringing Kyogre. Oh that's tricky though, maybe bring in. Yeah I don't want to bring in Kyogre just yet. I'm going to bring in Horde there and I'm going to go for U-turn into the Lele. And hopefully we don't see, I don't think we're going to see the gravity shenanigans just yet. We might see gravity from Lele but the fact is that it's slower than the Drifblim. That doesn't kind of marry up as well that blind hypnotist works though doesn't it? Oh and there's the gravity. Everything going to go to sleep. Yeah so there we go. We'll just have to try and get around it. That's like the best, all we can do is try and play around it with these teams. I think that's the best way to approach it as well, not try and make any fancy plays. You've just got to kind of take it and hopefully get through it the best you can. So we'll bring in stacks. I think I'm going to have to switch out Horde straight away. I want Incineroar on. Do I want it? I think I might just take a turn to stall out. We'll try and trick room. We'll try and trick room. We're not going to get it. I just worry about the Groudon coming in now. And we need to try and get, yeah we're going to see it. We need to try and get an Intimidate onto the Groudon rather than bring it in. Incineroar right now. And then we do burn through Turner's sleep at least with Hortle. I'm going to say gravity. I'm not so sorry, definitely. If we only had a Lumberry. If we only had a Lumberry. Right, well, I mean one option we've potentially got. Now I think we need to switch in to Incineroar here. The one option we've got is hoping that, no we need the Intimidate. 100% we need the Intimidate because Hortle is not really going to be able to take these Presbytes blades otherwise. We could, we could wide guard here. Hope Stack Attacker wakes up. Come on stacks! Wake up, wake up Stacker. Please wake up. That will make things all right in the world if we can just wake up this turn. I see wind again, okay. I'm hoping Incineroar takes the Presbytes it should do from this range. Procoberry and then Stack Attacker will go down. But we can get Kyogre onto the field. Man, that's too much damage doesn't it? Just too much damage. Okay, we'll bring in Kyogre. I'm going to switch Incin out for Hortle. And just to try and hope that we can get like some Intimidate back onto the field for this Groudon. Because we can't fake out with the psychic terrain up. And I think it really hurts when you haven't got your own terrain to overwrite this psychic terrain. These teams, these teams! Get the Hortle onto the field. We're going to take another Presbytes. It'll be interesting to see how much Hortle takes from this. Okay, well we'll get the Berry with the Hortle. Potentially we could try and get a Tailwind up and switch into Incineroar. Or we could Weatherball. And hope that Hortle wakes up. But I don't think we take... I think we've got to try and Tailwind. And get Incineroar onto the field. And hope we can just take this next Presbytes Blades. See a Hypnosis coming to the Kyogre for sure from the Drift Blim. So it's all about Hortle waking up, getting the Tailwind up and then we might be in a good place. Because the Presbytes should take down Incineroar now. There's a Hypnosis here. But the problem is the Groudon just switches out and switches back in and then we've lost our range so things get very difficult very quickly. Because I doubt my opponent will leave the Groudon in. If the Hortle stays asleep here, we're knackered. Yeah, we are. And gravity does turn back to normal. But the Groudon just switches out here. But we can water-spout. I think we'll Tailwind and water-spout. And we'll try. We've got to try Groudon switching out. Yeah, we're going to see it. Kyogreon coming in. As long as a blind Hypnosis doesn't hit. Or we should be able to do something. I see Wind coming out. That's still not the worst. As long as Hortle wakes up and gets his Tailwind up now. Come on. Hit you, Hortle. Hortle, you are the worst. Okay, well, we're not going to get either. I think our last district attempt is to try and Tailwind and protect Kyogreon. Hope that my opponent goes for the Kyogre with the Curum rather than the Hortle. Because we should take a nice win. Although this isn't really helping us out too much because now Hortle's speed is just neutralised. If we do get a nice tailwind up. Now you're going for the Hortle. That's it.  And it's never a team that I really... Especially for the channel when I'm putting these teams together. It's never a team that I really consider building against. But you should always have countermeasures for it. Well, we'll Ice Beam the Drift Blim. But I don't think... Yeah, we're not even going to see the ground on coming. I'm just going to forfeit this next turn. Yeah. And it's always these teams that's weird. If I'm ever practising, I'll never ever bump into them. And you know what? I always make sure. With any tournament team, I've got weirds and answers around this sort of stuff. Because I think you come up against it in a tournament if you just don't have ways to stop the hypnosis gravity. And you have to rely on the sleep turns being really quick for you to get around this sort of team. Then you're never going to beat it. It's always going to be one of those teams that you need answers for. So I'll go back to when I say I'm practising. I never really have issues with these teams because I always have...  And I make sure that I've got answers for them. So not the greatest of starts for us today. Good game to my opponent. Nice team as always. But a little bit... Needs a sour taste in the mouth. But it's just because we haven't got the right tools to set up against it, to be honest. The psychic train hurts us because we rely so heavily on our fake out support. And we've got nothing to stop or help us around the sleep spam either. So yeah, there's not really too much we can do about that. Right. So let's continue on. And hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent. Ah, those teams. It's probably not a bad idea to play a team like that for a tournament. We've got our next opponent anyway. So we'll get straight into it. And they are playing a team of Requires Amitsu, Incinero, Amungus, Tapa Lele, and Crobat. So going along the theme of these episodes this week, we've got another psychic pairing here, Tapa Lele and the Mewtwo. So potentially double Megas here, but I'd imagine it'd be Mega Ray and then just regular old Mewtwo. Can I speak control from the Crobat? But that's about it. The Amungus is going to be there to be a little bit of a trick room deterrent. Houtou here does such a good job. I think I feel Houtou is really strong in this matchup. So Houtou, Incinero, definitely want the Intimidate support. Gives us an option against the Amungus as well, along with the Houtou. And that psychic pairing as well. I'll bring Kyogre because that's generally going to be quite good. And do we want Raichu in this match? Or Sceptile. I mean, if we can remove the Lele, pending that it's Skaft, I think Sceptile is quite good. If the Lele is not Skaft, then it's a bit easier. And then Sceptile does give us that kind of switch into Amungus spores. If that is a bit of a threat at any point. Yeah, we'll go with Sceptile. We'll bring the Sceptile and we'll see. See how we're doing this one. Just not happy about that last match. Just not happy about it, but there's nothing you can do. There's no point in dwelling on it. When you dwell on matches, you tilt and you get things wrong. So we've just got to just forget about it, move on. This is what we're playing now. We can't do anything about what's happened. We'll reflect on it at a later date, but right now, it's not the time, so we need to concentrate. Good and hard on what my opponent's going to try to do. Are they going to taunt or to prevent our tailwind? Because it's something that I would like to get up, but if they taunt us, they can go for their tailwind the next turn. Whereas we could just attack, I think the fake out onto the raise is pretty obvious. I could just double into the crowbat with a U-turn and a brave bird, and I think I'd probably prefer to do that. It just mitigates the issue if they do taunt us and we waste a turn, and I don't really like doing that at all if we can avoid it. Now they may tailwind and then we may fall behind, but then again, if they want to taunt us, they've got to spend another turn doing that, and that's another turn where they're not damaging us. The rare going to switch out, suspecting probably fake out into that slot. The crowbat actually going for that taunt into the hole there, so we make the right call, but once we get the brave bird into the crowbat, so we'll get some good damage onto it here. I wouldn't think we're going to pick up a knockout or anything like that, but some nice damage there and a U-turn onto the crowbat, and we can potentially bring in Sceptile here, but it's just whether or not the Mewtwo... No, we'll bring in Kyogre. We'll bring in Olga, because then we can switch out to Incineroar. We could scald. I mean, we might see it double up. I think my opponent probably... Do they want to get the tailwind up? I don't know if they do, really. Because potentially we could just brave bird the crowbat and just protect Kyogre this turn. I need my charger, because hopefully my battery lasts. Hopefully it does. Mewtwo is just going to protect this turn. We'll protect with Kyogre as well. I don't want to take super fine damage. That's one thing, but we are going to see the tailwind. And I think by doing this and keeping these Pokemon out on the field right now, it means that Incineroar is sticking around in the back, because Incineroar would be the natural switch in here if we were to bring anything in for these two this turn. It means that when the Rayquaza comes back onto the field, at least we've got that Intimidate to kind of spam again if we would like to. Tapulele are going to come back onto the field, which is... I don't mind this too much. Yeah, so I think we'll switch out with Ho-Oh into Incineroar right now. And I think I'm going to go for Skulled. Do you attack the Kyogre though or the Ho-Oh? I'd say you probably go after the Ho-Oh. That's why I'm kind of switching out into Incineroar. We'll keep it in though, we'll go the other way. I'm going to get some damage onto the Tapulele. I have the Brave Bird and switch in Incineroar for Kyogre. I want to try and keep Kyogre as healthy as possible. The other argument would be trying to preserve Ho-Oh at this point so we can Tailwind later in the game when that taunt isn't an issue. But Ho-Oh should take at least an attack from either one of these. SciShock into the Ho-Oh. Hopefully this just procs our berry. Yeah, okay. And then I'm hoping the Mewtwo goes after the Kyogre now. Yeah, okay, that's good. Then we'll get the Brave Bird into the Lele and just get some damage onto it because that's the main thing here. Oh, that is good damage. Okay, Ho-Oh doing nice work for us here. We could switch Ho-Oh out, but it might be worth just sacking it and going for a U-turn into the Lele, which we now know is scarfed. We could try and Tailwind as well because if we can get the Tailwind up now, it's going to make things so much easier for us. I'll go for a U-turn into the Lele just to get rid of it. If the Rae comes in on that slot and my opponent wants to save the Lele for later, at least we break a potential sash. So we've got that in the back of our mind as well. And if we can somehow get a Tailwind up, I don't think we're going to be able to because the SciShock will take down Ho-Oh. It's just I don't want to switch anything into the SciShock either. That's the thing. The Mewtwo actually going to protect here. So Ho-Oh will go down to SciShock, unfortunately, but it's better than having anything being switched in for it. And then we are able to at least get rid of the Scarf Pokemon, which does threaten our Sceptile. So we'll get, I think we'll get Sceptile onto the field now because it does threaten that Rayquaza pretty heavily. Even though the Mewtwo is a bit of a threat for us as well, especially if it's carrying something like Ice Beam, which you'd imagine it probably is. Depending on where the Mega is as well. I didn't imagine the Mega is going to be Rayquaza though. The logically thinking out of the two. But you're really looking now at the Ray probably protecting because of the threat of the fake out. Because obviously the Psychic Trin doesn't protect it. So I'm going to Snarl. I'm going to Mega Evolve and I'm going to just protect Sceptile. Because Ray is minus one. If we can get this Mewtwo chipped down to minus one and it's special attack, it makes things a bit easier for us. And potentially the Rayquaza doesn't protect. We can break that sash if it is sashed. Always talking about. I'm obsessed with the Sash Rayquaza. It's like one of the, it's not really a commonly used item anymore. Okay, so there's the Delta Stream. We will Mega Evolve as well. And we'll just scout out what they're going to do. So there's a protect on our Sceptile. Mewtwo's thigh strike. Yeah. Dragon Ascent. That's into the Incineroar. Alright. Well, that means that the Dragon Pulse will definitely take it down the next turn after the drop. Okay, doing some nice damage. Maybe indicating that it is behind it. That's a lot of damage on minus one. A lot of damage. Snarl coming out. Okay, that's perfect. Dragon Pulse will be able to get the Ray. Now, and we should be, we'll just U-turn into the Mewtwo, and then we can cycle. Intimidate once again, and set ourselves up nicely for this psychic terrain, ending if Sceptile goes down to a sigh strike here, which it may do under the psychic terrain. If this Rayquaza is behind it, there's not much chance of it being able to, well, there's no chance of it being able to protect, and I would say from that damage it probably is. Oh, what have we done? What have we done? What have we done? What have we done? What have we done? Literally, what have we done? We could... Oh my God. I can't believe this. I've got to hope now that the Dragon Pulse is still going to be enough to take down the Ray. Leafstorm! What are we doing? What are we doing? We've got no right to be playing this game. Right. Okay, let's pay attention to what we're clicking into. We'll go for a tasty old Skald into the Mewtwo, and we'll click Dragon Pulse. Dragon Pulse, we've clicked it in. It's done now. We could have got self-punished for that. Self-punished. Fools. Fools. That's not coming in clutch for us. I mean, we don't make things easy for ourselves, do we? But an exciting end to the match. Inseptile, I'm hoping now. It's minus two, but it requires us minus two as well with its special defense. We should be able to close this one up. It's like we're self-destructing. We don't want ourselves to win, almost. It's like we're doing our purpose. We don't really want to win with this team. Okay, so we're locked in. We'll see what my opponent goes for. The Dragon Pulse, I can see it coming out now. Thank goodness. It's enough to take down the rain. This gold will be enough to get the Mewtwo. How long is this psychic terrain lasting for as well? It feels like it's lasted way longer than it should have done. But it's done. Mewtwo down. Bye-bye. We actually pick up a win.   But we do pick up a win at least. We're kind of staying level each day as we're going with this team. Tomorrow is going to be the day. We're going to give the team a send-off. Hopefully it will be a good send-off with two victories. I'm going to say thank you so much for tuning in, my friends. Have a great day and I will see you all for the next one. Until then, take care and bye-bye.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here I want to do another really really practical video for people living in Israel or those new to Israel as I said I like to share the basic essential how-to info and what information could be more Basic and essential than knowing how to order junk food from the internet. So that's what I'm going to show today It's a website called 10 Beasts now There's two online delivery ordering platforms in Israel one is 10 Beasts and the other one is called Wolt If you're not such an Oleh Khedash, you've been in Israel for a while You probably know about both 10 Beasts and Wolt you've probably ordered from both many times But if you're fresh off the boat, then I hope this video will just show you guys what these platforms are or Provide you with the reassurance you need that you can order junk food in Israel on the internet because that would be terrible If you couldn't I just actually ordered my first online salad which is a phrase I never thought I would say that I've ordered a salad online. I'm currently waiting for it to be delivered So let me just show you guys what 10 Beasts is what it looks like, etc. So This is the website. This is what it looks like on the inside after you register for an account It's the I'm going to just put this video up on YouTube pretty much in its raw Almost unedited format. Therefore, I'm going to just type the URL here. It's 10beasts.co.il At the time I'm recording this if they change their web address then clearly that will be different But this is what it is now you can enter your address. So I've just thrown in a dummy address here Which is actually the post office in Jerusalem. One thing I do want to show you is you can choose between English and Hebrew. So by default it's going to go into Ibrit into Hebrew But you can just flip it into English by clicking on this kind of slightly gaudy American flag Emoji, so that's how you get into the English one if you need to use this Service through English and they have a whole, you know menu here if you click under your name You can update your credit card details. You can add your Delivery address and then you can have those things saved in the system also would say that 10beasts is actually like a really really Pleasant company in my experience to deal with As anyone who I've written about this on the internet I'm kind of critical of customer service in Israel. It's often a little bit sucky sometimes But 10beasts actually do a really really good job and it's kind of Places like this that give me a lot of hope that stuff is changing here When you see a young company doing customer service legitimately well, you know, what's possible. So Yeah, I've had good experiences with 10beasts. So What can I show you guys about this?  So it will show you what's open in your area I'm just gonna get myself out of the way for a second It'll show you what's available in your area. So you can see there's 149 restaurants available I think my I think my salad is just arrived And you can scroll through it. So depending on the time of date is going to be more or less Availability naturally and you can you can also filter by the type of food So if I was after my my salads if I click on the salads icon, I'm just showing my salads Salad auctions. So this this is where actually just ordered from vegetarian Shawarma, but let's say wanted to go for a cafe Greg So you can click into cafe Greg and then you've got their menu now because this is Israel and Hebrew is the national language the translations are going to sometimes be a little bit iffy So you might see some kind of ridiculous translations here But hopefully there'll be enough to get the gist. So if I go for my mozzarella Fingers, I can click on add this to the menu. I can leave instructions and then I can pay for it So once that happens you get a confirmation email from ten beasts to say that your food is on the way if it happens that the Restaurant cancels which does happen sometimes. They will also send you an email and credit your account They call you and this is it world which is waltz.com kind of works in a similar way And as I said, these are kind of the two big platforms here for ordering food of all varieties from the internet You can add a tip There they do there is a delivery charge or you can just leave them a tip and ten beasts now integrates with PayPal as well So you can actually pay through PayPal and you can add a company Company credit cards so lots of options for getting food from the internet ten beasts dot co.al Needless to say this video was not produced by ten beasts I have no affiliation with ten beasts. I'm just somebody who orders salads online. I guess now Thanks. Thanks for watching guys more videos coming soon


Alright, what's up guys, in this video I'm going to explain how you can use music to lucid dream. Now, when I say music, I mean like a personal soundtrack, I guess. And there's a number of ways you can do this. Number one. Pick a soundtrack that sounds to you, in your opinion, kind of dreamlike and surreal. It needs to feel like it's a dream and it needs to feel like... It needs to feel like the music could show up in your dreams and actually feel like a lucid dream. This will mean different things for different people. For me, it means something that's like a calming soothing type of soundtrack. Yeah, I mean it could be like piano music, it could be violin music. It really depends on what you consider to be dreamlike or surreal. So what you need to do is, like I've said, you need to pick one soundtrack. Listen to it every single morning as your alarm tone. You can put it as your alarm tone on your phone if your phone allows you to do that. Or you could find some workaround or some way of doing that. But you need to find a way of making that sound or that track wake you up in the morning. And so then what you do is you make sure that every time you wake up to that track, you imagine yourself lucid dreaming. You imagine that when you hear that track it will help you lucid dream, almost like a reality check. And then over time that becomes very easy to lucid dream in that way. Now there's a few things I want to mention here before we get on to step three and four, or like the other steps of this process. And that is that the track needs to sound surreal. It needs to sound, you know, abstract, dreamlike. And it also needs to be something that you enjoy listening to and that's not going to cause any nightmares. And it's not going to be, you can't do this when listening, for example, to a rap track. It's going to be very hard. You might listen to violin music. You might listen to piano music, maybe even just rain noises. But you need to have something that sounds like a dream. That's the whole point here. It needs to really sound like it's, you know, like a dream scenario. And there are various different ways you can find that. What I would recommend is to install Adblock on your phone or on your laptop and then find a YouTube track that has the song that you want to listen to and just use that. Now YouTube makes it very hard for you to actually listen to music without having ads playing or at least having that annoying message come up saying are you still watching? So there's a few ways you can work around that. You can download the track yourself or you can just put it on your iPod or something like that. Now the next step, once you've been waking up for one to two weeks listening to that particular music track is you want to actually listen to the track while you're still sleeping. What that's going to do is it's going to make it much more likely that you'll lose a dream. Your mind has already associated dreaming or, you know, being awake and being conscious, being lucid with that particular music track. So when you then hear it in the middle of the night and, you know, you should do this on a loop for the whole night. When you hear it for the middle of the night you're pretty likely to lose a dream. There are many different ways you can do that. One of the best ways I like to listen to music is not to actually play it on my phone but to actually have it playing all night long on repeat using what are known as sleep headphones. Now sleep headphones are basically like headphones that you can wear while you're sleeping. The name sort of gives it away and the ones I use are these ones which are sleep phones. The reason I like these is because they're particularly comfortable, you know, compared to other ones, they're very flat. The speakers are actually soft so they don't hurt your ears. You can find links in the description to these or you can just, you know, go on my website, go on their website, whatever. But yeah, find a pair of headphones that you feel comfortable wearing and then you can more easily listen to the music as you're lucid dreaming. Now a word on bineural beats and by the way those sleep headphones are really good for listening to bineural beats and if you have tried bineural beats before you'll know how easily they can help you lucid dream. But they need to be something comfortable and that's why I really like sleep headphones. They're actually comfortable to wear and you know, I've tried other options. These are the best ones. What you'll notice after about I would say three weeks is that you will be having dreams where the music is influencing the dream. You can clearly see the correlation between the music and the dream. You can see that if you listen to certain tracks they will show up in your dreams and you're more likely to become lucid. So try it out, give it a go, see how you find it, see if it works for you and leave a comment letting me know what you think.


With just hours remaining before it would have been in violation of the law, the Pike fiscal court approved its $36.8 million operating budget for next year. Tonight's meeting was held on the last day of the fiscal year, and clearly the pressure was on the court to approve the budget. Judge, that is an emergency basis. The first and second reading of the budget ordinance. I would ask, you need to get a motion and second majority vote. I need a motion. I'll make the motion. Need a second. Although the budget was before the court for consideration when the magistrates arrived at the meeting, several issues affecting the budget were discussed, including health insurance for county employees and the Elk Run golf course at Johns Creek. The court voted to approve entering into an agreement with a private entity to operate the golf course, much to the chagrin of magistrate Hillman Dotson. The agreement leaves the court with about a $75,000 commitment to maintain the course based upon previous discussions. Dotson voiced his displeasure with the measure. Dotson spoke out on a number of budgetary issues during the meeting. He was joined in being vocal by magistrate Bobby Varney, who suggested the magistrates should take a cut in pay down to a $35,000 per year annual salary. Varney received no support on the motion and was chastised by magistrate Vernon Chick Johnson for the suggestion. Varney also apologized for his role in the delay in voting on the budget. Johnson also blasted Varney for those comments. And I want to apologize to the people of Park County for me doing that. I'm much of the blame as anybody. You had a right. You've been sitting here all of it. You could have voted in. You could have voted up in. Okay, take care of yourself and bring your own rest. Again, I didn't mean to rip you to it. Well, you didn't rip me. We said that. Once the county's budget, which included nearly 20 layoffs and continuing the closure of the county's pools was approved, county treasurer John DeBilder sent the budget documents to Frankfurt, making the budget official, reporting in Pikeville for EKB News. I'm Chris Anderson.


Welcome back with us folks. I find it a lot easier to trade with a watch list on then trying to improvise when the market opens and in this video We will dissect this morning's wash list in order for you to understand What I was looking Before the market and how it performed during the market. So basically we will probably cover a bit later Not in this video in the following one How to start your own watch list? But maybe if we analyze what was in this morning's watch list, you'll be able to understand what I was looking for And uh, why I was looking at certain certain tickers So basically this is the lot watch list that was posted in the option watchlist section channel Basically see that I I'm just mentioning the fact that we still have google facebook and amazon that are reporting The actual weight of them in the current market is pretty high So obviously the market will probably react to the upside of the downside depending on how they do on earnings and then I'm talking about um A probable reversal on spy why because we are very close to the 200 e.m. A and 50 Uh, e.m. A is climbing up and when they start crossing on the one hour chart that I'll show you a little later while we are in the mid 442s And basically we are looking at some sort of a Bear a bullish reversal and a move back to the upside Then I talk about is rg. Why does is rg come up here? It was reported not long ago They had a gap down and it was recently while this morning was upgraded And if you look at top top morning Uh upgrades and downgrades and you'll see that Is rg was among that list. So I always look at the list of top um upgrades every day And this morning whatever what Whatever happens to to is i s rg. I'm not really concerned about the upgrade on it I what I do is I pull up the chart and I see what could be happening And I'll show you that in a second and then on that same list It was beyond me and beyond had a double upgrade from under perform to outperform Which is a double upgrade from a an analyst Um, the other one on the list was neo uh neo came came out with the Pretty sure it's called the et 5 the new prototype And it looks promising it was also um on the list because of a Pattern I was watching on the one hour chart Which was a inverted head and shoulder and it looked like we could go bullish now all this can is If we go up With the help of spy Breaking the line of for mid 442s like I just mentioned in the first place. So this makes makes it a um A nice morning for for the rest of our plays now. This is what I showed you uh in the In the option watch list This is spy looking at one hour chart and see how there is a defined line This is not this is pre-market this chart was taking pre-market So there's a defined line where we are sitting right there I show you the 200 dma and why we're looking at this pre-market Basically, we are on a line line where you see the yellow line Is an old resistance That was that used to be support and now it was act acting as resistance Once we break that we move Over back to the bias side thing basically what I think Like to think is All the sellers are gone and now it's back to the fires to be part of this game. Um I also told you about is rg is rg was moving Um look at the same thing yellow line old support It dropped after mark after um earnings. So basically on the daily chart You can't really see see it here. There's a gap on the way down to the uh 200 Sorry to the uh, 290 292 I believe to the upside. So basically there's a good upside potential on this. We took next week's expiration uh soon after the bell Waiting for confirmation of a break of 275 78 just shown here. Basically. It's the old support See that on the left There and it became resistance And once we cross that we moved to the upside the other one I was looking at is beyond meat beyond meat had a very nice start of the morning Um, you see that is it was up almost five percent before the bell but Look how this 59 or very close to 59 line used to be support So basically what I'm seeing is if we cross over this line Um, we will step on the buyer's side So looking at this if we cross 59 58 99 as we are already pre-market It looks very bullish. So put an alert on that line And if it does, you know, you're on the good side because On a Monday like it did today, uh, we can start moving quickly. Um And the other one was Neo I told you they had a new prototype coming out that looked promising That was well accepted. It was it had a recent bottom Uh, it looked like a inverted head and shoulders with resistance Right at 20 uh 21 62 which used to be old support Basically the same thing we're going to cross over that step on the buyer's side And it will look pretty So, um, this was pre-market pretty much looking at this pre-market You set your alerts at the levels that I'm showing and This this is how you start your day. So This is how the day went for neo It just broke out above the line that we should just showed you and it just took off See that inverted head and shoulders. It broke the line and it took off. This was a very Decent move, you know, it's up 17 percent from the close on On friday. This is an excellent move. It ended up being a a good Good one to have on the watch list This one is is rg This one we alerted for next week's expiration because sometimes it just doesn't move as much as we We would would like to so Give it time to move to across the The the gap that it has to fill to the upside but The 275 line just got broken. Obviously it went intraday to 285 ish So, you know $10 up is a very decent Uh amount of move for isrg and we were still in this one, which is very It was very nice to have in the watch list and beyond me We have we told you the 59 ish line to cross We crossed this one pretty much right at the gate. We alerted a minute after the the bell Why because we already know we are on the bull side of things on the bullish side um If you don't plan this ahead you're there's a lot of guesswork And when you know ahead of time, just like we prepped in the watch list Well, you know that this this used to be Resistance we are breaking above. We are expecting this whole line to To stick and to remain resistance. Sorry support. So basically if we break under, uh, this is the stop line However, we started moving quickly to the upside and if you see it took 15 intraday from the close But um, we took the 65 calls and we are well above 100 on this one intraday, um The this is just final result on spy. You see the 200 dma that I I mentioned Uh, this is the line that was pre market. It broke to the upside So basically breaking resistance was giving the chance for the market to move on the uh to to the uh on the bull side of things so basically knowing ahead on your watch list be prepared And this will eventually Um, be a lot easier than watching everything move to the upside because many tickers were climbing You talk about the nvidia. You talk about tesla. You talk about netflix All these guys started moving to the upside very quickly and without the plan. It's very hard to follow Yes, I was watching netflix. However Um, it it when I started to realize it It was a little too late. It could have been in my watch list as well I like to narrow it down to things that i'm well prepared ahead of time and Then it makes it a lot easier to execute the right thing at the right time so I hope you guys are learning something and We'll continue this one on how to start the watch list from scratch, but Make me. I hope this one Uh makes you understand a little more of how I got prepared on this day Stay tuned folks. Have a good one


The black belt is perhaps the most coveted status symbol of the martial arts. Terms like black belt excellence and black belt attitude are common expressions. However, on average, 1 to 3% of people who begin to train in the martial arts never reach this goal. Why is that? In this video, we're going to talk about what I think is the hardest part of getting the black belt. So, why is getting the black belt so hard? Sure, there are programs out there that let you simply purchase your belt online along with a certificate, but we're not even going to dignify those programs here. I'm talking about putting in the work to achieve it. This topic is especially fascinating to me because of my own training and my observations. In my 25 years of training, I have hit several roadblocks and I've watched as many of my classmates met their own setbacks. So, I'm going to break this video down into two sections, internal challenges and external challenges. First, let's look at this practically. Approximately half the people who sign up for the martial arts are going to drop off within the first month or two. Why? Because maybe they sign up as a new hobby or they make friends, or perhaps it was a New Year's resolution and an novelty wore off. Perhaps their kid takes classes and they wanted to try it themselves and unfortunately a big reason is sometimes when things get hard, people just give up. So, 50% of the students will quit within the first month or two and another 50% drop off before six months. As time goes further, you see it slim down and if you're in an art that takes four years or more to achieve a black belt, you're going to see very few of your early classmates reach that milestone with you. So, if it's not just a novelty of it or a New Year's resolution and you're absolutely serious about training, then the number one challenge that's the hardest part about getting a black belt is what I call training fatigue. Becoming proficient in the martial arts involves a lot of repetition. Learning the technique and practicing it over and over and over. You'll see it two to three days a week or more for years. More repetitive techniques get added in that you see every day and the curriculum will be building on you for years before you even reach the black belt status. It is a lot of stuff. This can become overwhelming for a lot of people. In my experience, I have seen most people stalled out at about two to three thirds of their way through the training of the black belt, usually around the brown or equivalent rank. In many traditional karate, brown belt is the transition from intermediate level to advanced students. So, in American Kempo, the Arch of Thy Train, traditionally ranking the belts is white, yellow, orange, purple, blue, green, third-degree brown, second-degree brown, first-degree brown, then your first-degree black belt. White, yellow, orange are your beginner levels, purple, blue, and green are intermediate, and the three brown belts are your advanced levels. Now, this just means that you're going to see that brown belt for about a year and a half or even longer. Ideally, this shouldn't even affect you or your attitude towards your training because you should be disciplined and focused on your material. But to a lot of people, it's a psychological effect. You know, it kind of seems like they're not making progress. And to some people, that fatigue can start to set in at that point in time. So this is also why many Kempo schools will break up those three different brown belts into brown, red, and a red and black belt just to kind of break up them not even a little bit. Honestly, it doesn't really matter. The transition from intermediate to advanced level also signifies an increase in difficulty in the material, which can certainly wear thin on a lot of people. This was the rank that I saw most people drop out or take time off. Some of them came back later, but most of them didn't. Martial arts requires a lot of discipline and no one is going to keep you training but yourself. It's not always exciting. It can be tedious, but if you're serious, if you're really serious about reaching black belt, then you've just got to find a way to keep your own team moving because it's likely not the only challenge you're going to encounter while trying to reach that milestone. Sometimes obstacles that are completely out of your control will happen. They present themselves every day. Life happens. And in many cases, it can disrupt your training or force you to reorganize things. Maybe you're school close. Maybe you have to move. Maybe you experience an injury.  Many people choose to give up. I started training in 1993 at the age of 14. After two years, my instructor converted the school to a completely new curriculum, effectively freezing me at brown belt. This is very discouraging. I found this discourage at first because I'm like, I have to start all over, but I found the new material actually much more engaging and effective, so I decided to press forward. I was one of five original teams that were still there from when the school opened. So when my sensei decided to allow us to dual train, we were going to get to learn the new material while finishing up the old material. So that way I was excited that I could still go for black belt. Two hard working years later in 1997, four of us tested for our first degree black belt. The fifth student actually literally quit the day before the test because he got tired and gave up during the pre-test exercises. Can you imagine training for four years and quitting the day before your test just because you got tired? The fatigue got him. And unfortunately, he's not alone. It happens. So then I continued my training. I loved the new material, and I had my sights on completing the new curriculum so that when I went all the way through it, I could achieve my second degree black belt. So that's what I was working for for a while. And I just want to remind those who don't know that reaching your black belt does not mean you're actually done training. Black belt's just beginning. Achieving it means that you just have a solid understanding of the basics and you're proficient enough that you can apply a lot of the principles. Once you achieve black belt, you now begin to study the deeper threads of the art. Many levels, you start to learn the foundational core of it. So I just kept going. I continued training while going through college and working two jobs. I was hungry for my second degree. But in 2003, my school shut down due to personal conflicts with my instructor. I was crushed. I was heartbroken. I had been with the school for 10 years at this point. Fortunately, a former instructor who had worked with him came back. He helped out, transitioned to school over, and he bought it and opened it up. And he became my new sensei. However, with him came yet another version of the curriculum. And once again, I had to start over. Two years after this in 2005, my sensei joined the military and the school shut down again permanently. So I decided to spend a few years on my own personal journey. I sought out written journals, training videos. I consulted with other local martial artists. I studied on my own. I had worked my way back up to the black belt part of the curriculum. And I was looking for a sensei at another campus school who might be willing to test me to see if I could still achieve my second degree. But in 2007, my instructor came back from the military and he reopened a new school and he took me in again as a student. But just as before, there was a revamped, the more updated version of the curriculum again. It was a better curriculum, but we were essentially a whole new school again. So I doubled down, worked twice as hard, and I worked my way through that material all the way back up. In 2008, 11 years after achieving my first degree black belt, I finally tested and received my second degree. The school continued to go through multiple changes, even closed again a few years later, but reopened. But I always continued to work with my instructor to the rank that I am now. So that's what actually leads us to the Art of One YouTube channel. I am fascinated by understanding arts at a foundational and fundamental level. I learned that everybody taught Kempo completely differently and that there's such a rich community of martial arts and material out there and the people who teach it and that my training and area of study, honestly now, is for all of you. I want to learn more. I want to know your challenges and what drives you. Tell me about your art and what you love about it. What discouraged you? How have you pushed through it? So for those of you who have reached black belt, who have worked hard and bled for it, literally sometimes, you understand the responsibility and the fulfillment that comes with it. For those of you who have not yet begun to train or have not reached it yet, I promise you it's worth it and it's an achievement you were never going to forget. My favorite part of being an instructor is actually watching our young students test and achieve for their junior black belts. They work so hard and I am so proud of them each and every time I get to wrap that new belt around their waist for the first time. That smile is truly a privilege to experience. So what is the hardest part about getting the black belt? Letting the fatigue and letting life get the best of you. Is that what you want or do you want to be in that 1% that makes it? So thank you for enduring my life story and watching this video. I want to hear all about your experiences. Tell me about your black belt test or how you're working towards it. So please share and subscribe and keep up that black belt excellence.


Today, I announced my retirement from YouTube. This will be my last day as the founder of Freedom, making videos for you because I am 38 years old. And here in the Philippines, if you're 35 or older, you can apply for a special retirement visa, which I've done and I was accepted. So today, I am making my last video of The George Show. I hope you will not forget me. I founded some amazing brands on YouTube like TGN, NETV, and now Freedom. And I really want them to keep growing and be successful and help you grow. Guys, it's been an amazing few years, but I bid you farewell on this, my final episode of The George Show. Did I get ya? April Fools! Of course, I'm not retiring, of course. This is not the final episode of The George Show. And of course, we are going to keep growing together with Freedom. We have so much to build, so much to do. Music, more game licenses. We're going to announce Nether, a unique game for you this Friday and a lot more coming in the next few episodes of...


I chose the MLTA program at Pompeii Fabra because I wanted the opportunity to live in a linguistically rich environment while pursuing my master's in linguistics. The UPF Master's which is perfect for this purpose. It was what really came to my mind and the one that gave me the most options to get to know this field was this master. The teachers are very accessible. It is easy to contact them to discuss topics of linguistic interest, without losing professionalism that requires a master's degree like this. It has been a very international experience. For its purpose I would recommend the master's in the applied theoretical linguistics. I have learned a lot about how linguistics is seen worldwide thanks to the fact that the students and my classmates come from different parts of the world. It is a program to anyone who wants to grow as both a researcher and as a scholar of linguistics. This has especially helped me now since I am a PhD student back in the United States. I am currently working as a contractor for a company called The Deco. My current assignment is at Google and I work with text-to-speech for US English. The experience was very good and intense. This means that you have to work a lot. But at the same time it also gives you the opportunity to try out these specializations. I would recommend it in the first place because the academic level is very good, the training is very good, and for me this made it personally very enriching. Students together mean that you can completely personalize the program. It was useful to me to find out which areas are the ones that I wanted to dedicate more specifically, the ones that I wanted to deepen. It is effective. Professionality. Extraordinary. Intense. Motivative. Outstanding. Dynamic.