I know the set looks totally different. Thanks to all your guys incredible support I recently moved into my dream house, so I love you guys. Thank you for watching every video There'll be a house tour eventually, but that's not why you're here today today is episode 3 of season 2 of Wheel of 2k Currently we have a record of 3 and 1. I'd like to say I think we're getting better at 2k really really fast Which is awesome. I still struggle at shooting the three pointers, but I'm gonna get better And our squad has gotten really good really fast. We've got pink diamond Steph Curry We've got invincible T-Mac got dark matter playoffs LeBron James We got JJJ and Yao Ming now our depth is where my team kind of takes a hit I do have amethyst taco fall, which is a really cheesy amethyst card We've got galaxy opal carl anthony towns who's been all right Jimmy Butler We got McHale bridges galaxy opal and jaden hardy pink diamond jaden hardy But really solid as well off the bench, but honestly if I want to compete I definitely got to get some depth in there too. I can't just rely on the starters and with the cheat sheet right now Most things are still possible, but I've got some of the worst out of the way I think nine and three would be my best case scenario I would love to take some subscribers and a thousand dollar shopping speed. That would be so cool So that's my goal. So of course without further ado, let's take our first wheel spin to upgrade our wheel of 2k squad Let's see what we can get it's a ring past ten years jackpot So any single player who won a ring in the last ten years now that is Steph Curry technically, but there's no point in doing that because I can earn Steph Curry LeBron is another player Who won a ring in the last ten years, but obviously we already have LeBron I'm actually gonna take a player from one of the most slept on Championship teams ever probably the least talked about was the 2019 Toronto Raptors when they beat the Warriors I remember watching that finals and thinking wow, I really don't give a shit who wins this I don't know why I was so uninterested, but they had the claw Kawhi Leonard So my small forwards now are gonna be LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard I'll probably have Kawhi be my best bench scorer, but I'm gonna do Kawhi Leonard. I like this. Alright, so Jimmy Butler I'm sorry Jimmy. I know you're actually going to the finals Also as I'm recording this the heat are about to take out the Celtics and go to the finals So it's Denver Nuggets Miami Heat finals and NBA history will be made no matter what because the Nuggets have never won a ring ever And no eight seed has ever won a ring, which is the Miami Heat no matter what happens I think this is gonna be so sick. So I can't wait for this finals I want to know your guys predictions too. So let me know regardless Here is the brand-new starting lineup Curry team at LeBron, Jeremy Jackson, Yao Ming, Jaden Hardy, Mikhail Bridges, Kawhi Leonard, Carly Anthony Towns and Taco Fall for depth. Kawhi of course has amazing stats, but I think I'm most excited for his defense I think he'll be a really good off-ball and on-ball defenders And of course our challenge wheel dude 2k packs have been heating up like crazy I think the current packs in the store. Wait a minute. I gotta see my challenge first 10 oh cheese. Oh, this one is hard every single player on the squad needs a bucket Now the good news is I have depth at every position now So it shouldn't be too hard, but 10 different players need two points the moment of truth ladies and gentlemen You can usually tell by their starting lineup just how much trouble you're in Jimmy Paul George Kawhi, Yao Oh my god, our line-ups are so similar. All right boys. It's a little Yao on Yao Kawhi on Kawhi Jaren Jackson on Jaren Jackson Jaren Jackson drops the ball to start our possession. Well done Jaren. Oh It's a freebie out the break. I do not know how that happened, but Okay, I'll take a freebie myself Yeah, T-Mac has been struggling ever since I got him. So just start out with the first Five points in the game.  Let's go. Good miss Jaren Jackson Dude, this guy scores a lot more efficiently than I do though and a lot faster than I do Drills the next free throw. Let's get it back out to T-Mac back into JJ J Who's got Jimmy Butler on him?   So that's goodness I don't know why Jared Allen is in but Jared Allen is in all right How's this free throw Jared Allen free throw is a 30% when you're that close gotta hate this game All right, I'll take it. I just glitched. I just fully glitched, but all right. Oh, that's a bucket All right, it's very obvious my opponent does not go outside So we're gonna go for Steph Curry as well as the challenge. Oh into taco. He jumped early I'll do the call. Oh my god That's the exact shot that kawaii hit to send the Sixers home. Oh It's kawaii with the rip and kawaii all the way Yo, that was legit. He's gonna try and do the same thing Mike wise better I will tacos already got to so we really don't need him in anymore Be nice for some curry points. Although I literally hate his free throw. It is so fast Nope Hey, we do. All right two points for curry right?    You got to give me that. Oh I got him jumping, but I didn't take a very good shot there I'm just trying to load curry up, but My only concern with curry is it's kind of hard to finish at the paint with curry So I feel kind of obligated to shoot threes It's going with that taco fall screen. Of course. He's got the big-timey taco fall. I'd expect nothing else from you.   That's diabolical.   That was dumb. Oh Give me the foul. Oh Jared Jackson He's got six seconds. He misses with the white time out 2.7. We could pull this game to five This is a really high-scoring game. That was not my best shot, but not much to take 2.7 We don't get anything there. Okay, so we got two points with one two three four five six seven eight nine Oh and Jared Allen has won. Okay, so I just need one more player to get two points.    Oh, it's Jane Hardy It's Jane Hardy my bad my bad my bad.    Oh my god I'm standing on the other side with Jared Allen right now The bronze on the floor hurry and no now we can get curry back in and Put in Kawhi. All right. That is two points with ten different players, so we've secured a pack I already gave up on winning this game. That's fine. Let's get Steph Curry ten points. I don't know Does he know this is wheel of 2k? I hope he I hope this isn't a subscriber because free points is not fun You gotta earn it Get out there. Yo, that could have been a foul Curry's got six the best case scenario is I actually could drop 14 with Them here in this fourth quarter and then I'd have two upgrades that would max out Curry So that's the best case scenario Oh good three That's so fucked up that bar will be like fully full my bar look the same as his just did I Must you go with assists cuz he knows I'm going to curry every time my god Just ran an inbounds play go outside. Just ran an inbounds play Team act three. I'm really bad with that one five points for assists Curry is not in a good spot here Just let him score. I don't care how he scores. Just let him have it. Okay, it's for curry. There's 40 seconds We need two more. Oh, this is big. We need this bad How the how did you get the ball? That's fine. Shoot it good defense. Give it to curry That's fine. Shoot it. All right, whatever. Where's curry pulling up mid-range to we need this so bad Go curry challenge wheel. That's good, but no curry upgrade is kind of sad All right, so sadly with the loss Kawai is off the team and we fall to three and two We completed our challenge, which was super super good. No upgrade for curry We can get one pack from the store and obviously I'm gonna take a promo super pack Which has an 11% chance at a dark matter. So wish me luck Come on, baby. Our promo super pack. I see a shake. It's too fast to be dark matter So it's galaxy opal we get Chris Mullin. So two galaxy opals in this Donovan Mitchell playoffs Okay, so Chris Mullin and Donovan Mitchell. That's actually fire. All right Well now my backup small forward is Chris Mullin and my backup point guard is gonna be Donovan Mitchell And we can move Jaden Hardy to like our technical 11th man here. So Chris Mullin six seven small forward I know he can shoot yeah, he could definitely shoot ninety nine three pointer and Donovan Mitchell everything all around is pretty good 98 driving dunk. I'll take that. All right boys. Let's move into the second game We'll see we can get to add to the squad on our first wheel spin I couldn't even tell you but I really want right now, but actually store packs makes that easy So we get to store packs. We can keep everything from them once again It's perfect because of these promo super packs and how good they are so let's open one more right here This one's got no shake and that's unfortunate. It's just gonna be a pink diamond one that we Christian would Christian wood is a 610 center power forward. Okay. He's all right. All right Christian wood on our first pack So probably not something we're gonna use but our second pack. Oh my god. Is that dark matter? Wait, that's shaking. I think that's our matter My god wait a minute the 11% dude. Yes, the game was a dub Western conference point guard Number two Just Alexander. I don't know if I pronounce that right. I honestly don't care Let's get it. Dude now. We're at a weird spot though. We're out of spot We're almost we shouldn't even start curry. It should probably be Shay six foot six point guard Then we bring Steph off the bench. I'm gonna do it though I'm gonna bring stuff off the bench and Steph can just be my big-time scorer off the bench Of course before we start we do need our challenge wheel, which was so clutch in this last game This one is gonna be to complete an and one It's honestly harder than you think because it doesn't happen every game like you don't get an and one opportunity every game He's got Joe Johnson Jamal Murray bellowed a month is subbonus and Kevin Durant interesting lineup This court is fire. Actually, this is might be my favorite court And he is going to slam the Jamal Murray Start out with a shade three. Oh No bucket. All right, let's go. Let's go score in the paint. I'm not built for all this three-point shooting nonsense I'm just not He kind of wow he fully telegraphed that I just got lurked That's the equivalent of getting and he's gonna complete man one.   Oh India out bucket. Hey all the way brought get it in one. Oh somebody follow that man Okay, he's trying to cook up here with Jalen Bronson going in the paint and slams it on you Oh nice move and a nice. Oh Team act in one bucket darn it. All right, man. I'll break a free throw I'm always due to brick one free throw man. I will take that one though ten to ten almost the end of the first. Oh Ball just glitched through y'all. That's uncool. That should not be a bucket dude. My foul was legit I went in on three dudes. He just took a contested layup.    Literally 12 to 13 not a high scoring first quarter But that's okay. I'm starting to catch a rhythm here. I think we're gonna start to really pull away.  What are these NBA players?  Oh my god. Nobody can dribble Okay, he is jumping jumping.  You're kidding. Oh my god. What I just gotta switch up my attitude.   Oh Did somebody put me out of my misery.   Let's do that. Let's do the yamming thing. Oh T-Mac go up He was hanging on his shoulder. Give him the phone. All right.  I think he's trying to ice. So curry I'm floating in. Yep. Yeah, I was down there to stop it exactly what we need Jaren Jackson running it.  Try to get it in the T-Mac and Whiffs protection great work y'all. All right curry. I'm going in all the way I don't know what that was but somehow it landed in y'all's hands and we don't ask questions after that We just take our buck and we just hide the game up. Oh my god.   Oh Shay all the way get the end one We did get the foul but no end one Shay to the free throw line. That's a nice looking free throw two. Okay, and one more will go two for two That's a rare one. We take the lead Oh go for the double.   I need to get a new four man.  Oh Deep three from Shay Shoots of he just greened a midi. Oh JJJ. Oh This is such a good shot JJJ does score on Jamal Murray. I'm proud of you, buddy 27 to 31 He's got a wide open three. Oh, he's a two. Okay. It's good news JJJ under rant.  He's got a 99 three pointer But I have to perfectly know his jumper.  Curry just sent a ball to I don't know where oh Oh, what if I did the end one with taco? Oh, it'd be so funny. I can't imagine.  I'm gonna let him do his thing Suit it ends up looking like Shoot some mini with MPJ and drills it. Okay. Nice week Come to get the taco screen Taco gets bodied unlucky taco on shack Get an easy three with curry. We'll put that one down. Let's go cutting it back to single digits eight point game Chris Mullin get the end one Come on somebody follow him Falling they were both jumping Chris Mullin a nice bucket. I guess six-point game He likes the the mini with MPJ. It's working for him Ten seconds he follows that'll send curry to the line. I love that. I'll take the free I'll take the free curry point that puts curry at five and now six. Yes, sorry get some both great defense 35 to 41 we need a monster fourth quarter But if we get it we'll win the ball game my starters are very well rested right now, too, which is huge That's what we need. We're gonna have to play through y'all. All right best possible lineup is in good defense Time out. No, what are you doing?  Yep, got him jumping. Why didn't you put it back?   What am I fucking? Oh my god Indy out it's a bucket. Let's go 39 to 43. Let's go. Come on boys. We have to we got to pull this together Great defense. He turns it over again. Oh to brawn Great defense. He's got to settle down, but he's just gonna lose this game back running it. Come on Bonus. Oh good play Jamal Murray comes over and gets the rip, but we still he's a liability out. I gotta be ready for the good shots That's a horrible shot. Yes He comes up empty again Don't think I really need to because I've got this good of a hop Shit, I almost ripped it with y'all. Oh my god 45 to 43 goes for it doesn't get it. That's great defense Just settle down settle in. Oh, I smell a mismatch Yow Another turnover he's crumbling. He's crumbling.  All right, I cannot be mad about that as one hell of a shot I can't I can't let me steal this ball from me Go into y'all 51 to 45 Six points for assists, I hope curry doesn't end with the same stat line as last game though Which is just barely short of what we need Going to y'all if you out puts it up got it again. Oh my god 53 to 47 Curry's got like five straight unbelievable assists great defense again Unable to get that one get over there gold tending from y'all mean I don't think he was gonna make that the nurses. He might have to foul and if he does I'll just make sure it's curry JJJ JJJ Come on. Where was this all game? We're scoring lights out Great defense a better move though. Dude.   There's a non-contested layup Need a y'all screen 38 seconds need our best shot Y'all with nobody on him. Let's go 57 to 53. Oh, he missed. He missed for the follow Follow me if I hit two I'll have a got it. Yes. No 7.7 assists. Damn it.  That's not good That's more than not good that's super bad super deep three bricks it into curry Drill the first one. I gotta let him make a three I'm gonna let him make a three let him drill a three keep it wide open. It'll be 56 to 60 He'll be incentivized to follow again, and we let it go to curry and we get the upgrade That's a hundred percent what we have to do Dude, he started to just crumble bad. All right. Well, he quit which I'm not gonna count it as a rage quit Because it was just right at the end of the game, but I will count it for a Steph Curry upgrade I think that's deserving of a Steph Curry upgrade So we're gonna upgrade curry now to his galaxy opal the fireworks Steph Curry right here And I'm gonna put him back at starter and shea can just be a super good score off the bench But that is a W right there and we did not sadly complete an and one But we do get a win which pushes us now to four and two. All right boys I hope you guys enjoyed that was a blast and with that upgrade on curry There's only one curry left that we can get which is this all-star curry right here Which apparently can evolve into a dark matter So potentially we can get a dark matter after we get the galaxy opal either way. I appreciate you guys Thanks for watching as always and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace


More now from Fran Boyd, the Director of Positive Money. Many of us are joining me here on the programme. Fran, so the stepping down of Vernon Hill two months early, do you think, reputationally speaking, is this a good or a bad thing for Metro Bank? Well, they haven't had a good year, have they? I mean, their shares have fallen by 90%. And as you said, there were high hopes for Metro Bank coming on the scene in 2010 after the crash. It was seen as a challenger bank into a kind of monopoly of too big to fail banks. But it was trying to basically copy a system which we know doesn't work anymore. It was trying to do both kind of maximise short-term profit for shareholders as well as giving out quite big salaries and payouts to the top. But also it was kind of saying, we're going to do things differently. We're going to have a big branch network. We're going to do SME lending. And we're going to try and do things differently. But unfortunately, with that shareholder model, it's just shown this year that actually it hasn't worked out for Metro Bank and it was still, you know, trying to make those big profits by funneling a lot of bank debt lending into property, into financial markets. And obviously it misclassified almost a billion, sorry, almost a billion, no, almost a billion loans. And that was the kind of start of a bad year and kind of showing the flaws in this model of banking. Yeah, absolutely right, almost a billion pounds. As we say, it's been a dreadful year for the bank. Vernon Hill used to regularly refer to customers as fans. It does still have great plans. It wants to expand its presence in the north of England. It wants to move into cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. Where does the bank sit now currently? Is it still delivering for its customers? Well, we saw earlier, I think, customers withdrew around two billion deposits. So clearly, reputation has been damaged.  What does it want to do? Does it want to kind of double down on this kind of broken model of banking, you know, where you see kind of risky loans going out to property financial markets? Or does it want to actually think we need a different kind of model, one that doesn't just withdraw bank branches from communities and one that does put its kind of customers financial services and the fact that they want safe and secure deposits? You know, we saw from other big banks, big, too big to fail banks like RBS, once they kind of exposed that they have a broken model of banking, trust goes, there's clearly a toxic environment and we hear these big figures. I think the CEO, Craig Donaldson, was given a 2.5 million bonus a couple of years ago. The chairman's stepping down. There's speculation that he might keep his £10,000 monthly expenses allowance. And you know, actually, banking is meant to be a utility. If it's actually going to serve customers, keep their money safe, lend to SMEs, have branches in the community, it can't have both these, you know, oversized payouts to the top, a kind of cronyism and a toxic environment that we've seen creep into Metro Bank as well as delivering. And so, you know, I think obviously we'll see who comes in next, we'll see some of the announcements they make, but positive money, very skeptical, because we see a banking system that's inherently broken and we see that we need to bring in very different types of banking. And unfortunately, Metro Bank was basically seeking to replicate to quite a large extent how Barclays, HSBC, et cetera, do banking. OK, Fran, we're going to have to leave it there, but good to hear your thoughts. Fran brought their executive director at Positive Money.


First of all, let's review the numbers. Today we had 5,361 positive tests for COVID. That's up 771 from last week. That's up 17%. We had 1,857 active cases. That's up 393 from last week. We have 2,617 individuals. Overall that have recovered. And we currently have 37 individuals in hospital as patients. That's up 14 from last week. And then unfortunately we saw more deaths this week. We had 31 total deaths. That's up from 24. That's up rather 30% just in one week. The negative test total is 3,715. And that's up from 1,099 from last week. Wisconsin National Guard testing site last week completed 279 tests on Wednesday and 223 tests on Friday. Sheboygan County will continue to have community testing through the Wisconsin National Guard on Wednesdays and Fridays at the Sheboygan County Aging and Disability Resource Center in Sheboygan Falls through December 9th. There will be no testing, however, on Wednesday, November 11th for Veterans Day and Friday, November 27th for Thanksgiving holiday. If you are referring someone to this site, please ask them to pre-register at a website called register.covidconnect.wi.gov. The traffic at that site usually slows down substantially beginning at noon. And the wing comes prepared with 450 tests each time. Healthcare systems update. Aurora has the highest census since March 16th. Their bed unit is filled and a secondary unit has a handful of patients.  Visitor restrictions still are in place and they continue to pre-test elective procedures. It's a Nicholas hospital. They've seen the highest number of cases as well. It's putting stress on their ICU. They're managing, but it's definitely hour by hour. And they again are also doing elective cases with pre-screening. Sheboygan activity level is very high. It's strongly recommended. Community actions are to avoid going places with safety measures are not in place. To wash your hands and use hand sanitizer, to always wear a mask in public, to disinfect frequently and use items and surfaces as much as possible. And if you're sick, stay home, do not go to work, school or any other public place and follow the advice of your medical provider.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. It is data privacy day, which I just found out has been going on for like 20 years, or 30 years. So we're happy to be at our very first one. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Twitter headquarters. It's a full day event and it's actually happening around the world. But we're here in San Francisco and excited to have some of the guests come down that are doing the panels and the discussions and the breakout sessions. And we're excited for our next guest, Danielle Dixon, Chief Legal and Business Officer from Mozilla. Welcome. Happy to be here. So there was a spirited panel to kick off the day. I wonder if you can share some of your thoughts as some surprises that came out of that conversation. So not so many surprises, but we talked a lot about IoT and just the internet of things, the web of things, whatever we want to call it, and the data that's available as a result of that to companies, to governments, to lots of different entities and whether consumers understand that and the responsibilities that both the consumers and the technology companies have with respect to that data. Right.  IoT represents that same kind of thing. And by the way, people are things too, as we like to say, on theCUBE. So as you kind of look at the new challenges faced by IoT, what are some of the things that bubble to your priority list in terms of things that need to really be thought of that maybe people aren't thinking enough of now? Yeah, I think that one of the most important things about IoT and the idea that this is information that's collected and used by devices and technology companies because of the fact that it can be wearable. It can be things that you have in your house that collect data as you're talking to it. One of the most important things and just keeping data privacy day in mind is that we make sure that consumers are aware that this is actually happening, that data is being collected and sent and how that data is being used. It used to be back in the day. We could have privacy policies. So we put them up 15 pages long and assume that users understood that. Well, that can't be used with respect to these kinds of devices. So we need to be innovative. We need to be creative. We need to be able to ask questions of these devices and have them tell us what's going on with the data that they collect and how they're doing that. So it's just as incumbent upon the technology companies that create these devices to ensure that users understand that as it is upon the users to understand that these kinds of transactions are happening and these trade-offs with respect to it. Really interesting, crazy, exciting in terms of the different technologies that we can use but really important that we get this right. But it just strikes me that I think, so many people just click yes, I accept. Are people really, I'm sure some people are that are paying attention but it just seems that most people just click and accept, click and accept, click and accept, especially if you've kind of got into that behavior pattern and haven't really thought about the way these applications are evolving. Haven't really thought about Facebook on your laptop or on your PC at home is different than Facebook on your mobile and haven't really thought about, wow, what are these connected devices now collecting data that as you said, I don't even get the chance to opt in. So how do you educate people to make intelligent choices and how do we like break the eula up maybe so that I can opt in for, I want to share A, B and C but not D, E and F and oh, I forgot, I really need F to make this thing function. It seems like a really complicated kind of disclosure problem. It is complicated and that doesn't mean that we don't have to crack it. So you said the word eula, that's the end user legal agreement and I don't think we can live in a world of eulas. I think we live in a world where we need to put in context notices. We need to actually create so that your interface or whatever small thing that you have is able to alert you that this data is actually transpiring. So it has to be in context, it has to be creative, it has to be part of product development. It can't be an afterthought. Before, it used to be that they would hand this over to the lawyers and say, hey, can you help us figure out how to notify our users? This has to be part of our innovative process today. We're seeing more and more of it. We're seeing technology companies take this seriously, include privacy by design in their product development, make these in context notices part of the way that they think about the product and not just about the afterthought. And so the more we do this, the better it's gonna be for all of us. But it's actually, just because it's hard, it means that it's a creative, thoughtful, amazing process that we all need to engage in. Right. So one of the hot topics that we cover a lot is diversity in tech and women in tech specifically. And not only is it the right thing to do, but there's very clearly defined positive business outcomes when you have diversity of opinions, when you're making decisions. Is there a corollary to what you're describing in terms of being more forthright in your privacy policy? That's really not a it's the right thing to do question, which is fine. But is there kind of real business benefit that you can see or you project that's gonna be even a better motivator for people to start changing the behavior in the way in which they disclose or interact with people on the privacy. Yeah, I just, I love the way you introduced that because from my standpoint, one of the things that we don't like to do, that we don't like to be in life is surprised. And so one of the most important things is if you think about everything as a no surprises rule. So if we start thinking about business and our engagement with our users as creating a no surprises opportunity, it actually creates trust. It fosters deeper engagement. It makes it so that we are all gonna be happier in terms of that relationship. Maybe the users actually give more to the product. Maybe the product can actually then give more to the user. So this no surprises role and the way that we can operate creates really nice business cycles and really nice interesting dynamics between consumers and the businesses that they use. Yeah, it's great the trust, the trustworthy and it also plays into kind of the services. You know, everything is a service because when everything is a service, you have to maintain a solid ongoing relationship. It's not a one-time purchase. Audio is never just gonna see you again. And so that really plays into this. If it's a trusted service provider that you feel good about, you know, you continue to pay that, you know, $9.95 to Spotify or whomever that service provider. So it's a really different way of looking at the world. It is and it's one of the things that we actually encourage from the very outset is this kind of creation of trust. Trust is really easy to lose with respect to your consumer base. And it's the most important thing as you're engaging. We created these initiatives called the Lean Data Practices and then we also have privacy initiatives that we put out there for startups and for other entities that they can utilize and hopefully create for their businesses. Part of it is the no surprises role but it's also think about what data you wanna collect so that you actually are collecting what you need, throw away what you don't and optimize it. Like really create that trusted relationship because you can always grow. Like if you think I actually need more data today than I did when I started a year ago, it's a great way to have that conversation with your consumer base. So it's one of the things trust starts it all. So from Mozilla standpoint, we operate that through our products because we definitely have that in our Firefox browser and the other products that we have on mobile. But one of the things is that we care about is creating this awesome opportunity for the web to continue to grow. And so we care about how other companies are approaching this too. Right, so you mentioned Firefox and you guys have a new product coming out today, Firefox Focus. So explain to folks, what is Firefox Focus? Why should they care? What's different than just kind of traditional Firefox? Right, so we've had focus in iOS before and today we actually launched it in 27 languages. So 27 different areas that you can get it. It's a privacy focused browser but it can also be performance focused so that you actually have content. You can, it excludes the collection. Some content doesn't get pushed through so that your performance is faster. And you can really focus on what kind of data that you want to share with companies. So try it out. I think it's an awesome experience certainly from the standpoint of privacy but also from performance. All right, so then now 2017, we just flipped the calendar a few weeks ago. As you look forward in the year, you probably went through your annual planning process. What are some of your priorities for 2017? What are you looking forward to that are top of your list for the next 12 months? So it's really the top of, I run the policy, business and legal teams at Mozilla from a policy standpoint, really focused on encryption, security, privacy, looking at the new administration here in the US as well as what's happening in Europe. I think it's a really important area for us to focus on from a business standpoint. I want to see us really dive into growth with respect to Firefox as our desktop browser. I want to see our mobile space grow and grow even outside the browser. So I'm really excited about how and what we can do there. And then from the legal side, I want to continue to push the envelope on this no surprises with respect to doing that in more areas that we can with respect to our products and pushing that idea outside too. I love that, no surprises. This looks like a bumper sticker. Yeah. All right, she's Danelle on Jeff, you're watching theCUBE, we'll see you next time.


While we were looking at the northeastern flank of NATO, we were about three months out from the NATO summit in Warsaw. This was one of the most kind of current topics that our alumni would want to engage on and the discussion was absolutely first rate. We got a lot of back and forth throughout the course. The most important part is that we have an unusual audience. Our alumni are actually an incredible repository of expertise. So the give and take that takes place, we give very brief presentations, maybe in 15 minutes, the most important part of every panel is the give and take Q&A and they bring a wealth of experience, regional security optics, different perspectives and different operational experience. This is what really matters to us. We take it back with us to Newport.


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Good seeing you again, John. It's been a few months. I think you came and saw us halfway through development and when we was at crucial stages, so it was really quite useful. So you've kind of seen some development, literally development of the product as it's moved along. And, well, I suppose the reason why we wanted to do this was one really was to start with we didn't have an acoustic range before. These are our first products to go into that market. This is the first one and it was obviously crucial for Blackstar to get it right. Hence why it was very important to get the players like yourself involved, because as you can probably prove time and time again acoustic guitar playing isn't just strumming. Yeah, no, it really, really isn't. I mean, what I, you know, I was really keen to see happen is that you didn't start with like what acoustic amps already are and then just come up with your own version of that. It really started from scratch. And for me that was very promising and made me want to be involved in it because it meant that I could have some influence on it and also because all the existing amps that I've ever tried, which must be most of them or a lot of them, certainly, they don't really work very well, I guess, for my kind of playing. But in general, they really squash the sound down. They can't do the full frequency range of the instrument. That's right, yeah. So many, so many problems. So the fact that you started from scratch using completely, you know, fresh ideas and design meant not, you know, to create something that actually works. Yeah, so of course, your style incorporates an extremely wide range, especially down at the bottom end, because you are your own percussionist as well. And often, I mean, we noticed on some of the the competitive parts that, as you say, that anything below about 80 hertz is not really fun. And that's where all the good stuff is. I mean, people think 80 hertz is sort of the lowest note on the on the guitar. So we don't need we can get rid of all that. It is the lowest note, but even if you're not, even if you're just strumming and finger picking, there's still so much sound that's coming out of the guitar that's below that lowest note. That's right. And I'll say all the percussion as well, but the bass drum sound. So we were very keen to try to include all of that, like it'd be by playing for a studio monitor. But I must admit, there was a certain amount of months of tweaking and developing, but it was when you came in that we thought, ah, okay, now we are convinced we are going down the right road, because you can easily do things sort of in isolation, even within the team.  And we thought, right, okay. And I must admit, I was nervous that day, because it's like, oh, what is John going to think? But it was it was good, the feedback that he gave us. No, it was, you know, it was really, I couldn't believe it that day when I plugged it in. I couldn't believe that that sound was coming from one tiny little combo amp, you know, it's just like something I hadn't heard before. Yeah. Obviously, we've applied a bass reflex technology in speaker design, and the actual robustness of the cabinet as well to ensure that it can reproduce those kind of frequencies. And we had to go through many changes even since then to ensure that the quality was right throughout the production, because you know, you build one, you build it perfect. And then the other ones built and they're not so perfect. And it's not until you hear them and you realize, ah, these things are really important to get right. So we've had to be very, really careful on how things are sealed up in there. The porting we've moved to the side is something you noticed earlier. The actual tuning is partly done with test equipment, but then ultimately it's still always done with our ears. Right. Because I've always found no matter how much you try to predict what the porting is going to be like, you always end up having to refine it slightly and tune the actual port itself, which is obviously the bit in the side, the length of it or the diameter of it, you end up having to tune it to get it just right. And that did go through probably about a dozen permutations before we even decided on that. So it's been, it's been months and months really of of increment by increment, just trying to get it better and better. And not, you know, the thing is a blast. We were never really satisfied with just putting something together. And that I do. That's it. It kind of plug it, it sounds like an acoustic, doesn't it? Yeah, sell it. We never, we'd never do that. So it feels that time zones were going round and round in circles. But at the end of a project, it's always more pleasing to think, I'm glad we put in that extra time, you know, so hopefully it shows. So there's one problem that I've always had with acoustic guitar amps that you've managed to avoid. So the problem is that when I would be playing a chord and letting that ring, for example, and then I would tap the guitar for like a percussion hit, or it could even not be a because of thing. I could be singing a note because, you know, I'll sing through these as well. Plug my mic into them. So I could be singing a note. And then I strum a loud chord and it all dips down because of the compression in the amps because it's obviously, you know, acoustic amps are fairly small compared to a PA system. I've always thought this is just a problem that can't be avoided with acoustic amps. So in order to protect the amp, they squash the sound down when you do anything loud. And it completely kind of kills the playing and you've managed to avoid that. Well, yeah, it's a combination of making sure there's enough headroom to start with so that there is enough clean linear part of the actual dynamic range. But then there is compression applied, but it's done in a very musical way. These actually use studio quality VCA compression, which is the kind of thing you'd find, you know, in studio racks. But then fine-tuned so the user doesn't have to worry about it. And it's also set so that the fresh hold is very high. So it allows through as much as your dynamic range as possible before, you know, grabbing hold of it and squashing it down, like you say. And also it's soft knee compression as well.  It is very gentle. It also means that you can basically plug anything in. You can set the AQ how you want, and it won't go into clip. So it's very well controlled. Again, which is particularly important for modern guitar styles, I should say. The frequency range is much wider than what people have been doing before. The transient is much more extreme. So it's important to better handle anything that could be put into it. Yeah. Well, it really does, you know. So it's great for me because it means I'm able to monitor my own sound without having to just use. Because I've always, up until now, when I'm playing live, I'll just use the stage monitors in the venue because I've never been able to find an amp that would work. But now I've got one, I can use that.  I want it. I can EQ them how I want them. Yeah. And then, of course, use the DI outputs to go into wherever you want.  And it can be adjusted to pretty much any angle you want as well. It's really easy. It's embarrassingly simple. But sometimes the best things are. Yeah. It's really, really handy that you don't lose any bass I've noticed when you use it. Because I thought maybe if the amp wasn't flushed to the floor, you might lose a bit of bass, but it doesn't make any difference. And, yeah, it means I can point it into my ears, which are what I use for hearing things. So, yeah. It's helpful. Yeah. And you said it had studio quality compressors in it. Yeah. Yeah. So, so wait a minute. So, because the amp, you know, it's quite reasonably priced and obviously the compressor is only a very small part of it. So when I pay three grand for a studio compressor, what am I paying for then, Paul? Can you tell me? What did I pay for? When I say that, what I mean is the technology of the VCA is the same kind of technology as what you'd find in a studio compressor. But obviously a studio compressor will have all the knobs on there, two channels usually, and a load of other bells and whistles and lights and, you know, needles and stuff. It's a diplomatic answer. So, yeah, you'll get all that. But this is all, this is all, it's got all that stuff. But it's all pre-set. So the user doesn't have to worry about it. It is, because I mean, I've always felt that a compressor is often the most misunderstood thing in a studio rack. You know, people can't, they don't realise how interactive all the controls can be and they find them hard to set up. Whereas, you know, if you turn on the chorus pedal, you hear it immediately. Compressor isn't like that. Yeah.  That's it. That's the point. I see it. It's only, it's meant to be just gently controlling things. So we've worked through these to adjust the ratios, the threshold, the attack and release, and all those features that people look at and go, oh, what does that do? They're all pre-set, so that all the user has to worry about is the gain control. And then how they set the EQ. Yeah. I think you nailed it. I'm really happy with them. And, yeah, I just, it's a revelation for me. I just had given up on acoustic guitar amps. I really, really had. So I'm very glad that somebody has given amp designers who do this, and this is what they do, the opportunity to really go back to the drawing board and create something. We did spend longer than we thought, but it's been, it's been worthwhile. No, it really is.