Hey guys, John wise here with comic in and I'm here to give a review of the new Ghostbusters 101 comic book that's out right now. I've just read the first three issues So let's go ahead and get right into it Okay, so I was what the state first Ghostbusters has always been a big part of my childhood Anytime Ghostbusters come something Ghostbusters comes out Whether it's a new movie or a comic book or action figures. I'm always interested in Just play out interested which when I found out that there was a comic book series I was going to mash the two new Ghostbusters franchise the original of the new movie definitely piqued my interest because If you're I'm not sure if you remember but she and I did a review of the new Ghostbusters movie that came out I liked it, and I think he didn't That's where you're wrong John. I did like the new Ghostbusters movie, but there's 101 definitely intrigued me brief little synopsis here So IDW has been doing Ghostbuster comics for a while now and they're the Ghostbusters based on the movie franchise Ghostbusters And they pretty much nailed the personalities of these guys. They really the personal the personalities Really they kind of meshed the real Ghostbusters and the movie Ghostbusters, and I kind of like it The personalities of the new Ghostbusters Pretty dead-on. So here's what we got the first three issues. It's called Ghostbusters 101 and apparently there was a Ghostbusters Ninja Turtles crossover and during that particular time the Turtles and Egon worked on a interdimensional portal which Appeared in the 1980s cartoon series. So that's a nice little that's kind of cool Well, the Ghostbusters have some interns or trainees and these trainees kind of messed with the interdimensional portal a bit Tell not to and of course they're going to and this This interferes of course in The two different Ghostbuster universes and how we bring both teams of Ghostbusters together I'm having fun reading this They of course one of my favorite characters of the original Ghostbusters was Kevin And of course he's portrayed in the new comic book and really well Let's see we have He's one of the first ones to notice that things are starting to merge so that that's you know, of course, they think it's a little nuts we get a little history of The Ghostbusters battle with Gozer This storyline kind of serves as a sequel to the new Ghostbusters film as well We get a lot of hints that Patty had heard the name Zool before which was a post-creditor after credit scene and then the go the newer Ghostbusters movie We even get a nod we even get a cameo by the real Ghostbusters Thanks in parts the Holtzman and I run it It's a funny moment between where she sees the real Ghostbuster version of Egon and talks about his hair Which is quite similar to her hair. So there's there's an in-joke there that's made the storyline has a real Ghostbusters feel to it the personalities of the current Original Ghostbusters are very much like the movie counterparts and of course we got the newer Ghostbusters Which are very much like they're their counterparts. So I mean the way that the writers and the artists Are the way they're doing this storyline the way they're doing the book is amazing. I'm loving it. It's fun read I mean, this is something definitely to check out I believe the first three a issues are out With the fourth. I'm not sure how many issues it doesn't say how many issues it's going to be like one of so Definitely definitely huge fan of the storyline so far Big thumbs up highly recommended if you can't get any of the newer issues you could always try going on Try getting them online, of course. I always prefer physical copies if I can But I'm not opposed to reading them and then getting the physical copies later They read them online and then getting the physical copies later As long as you're supporting The comic book industry, you know So there you go. I mean Really good storyline really good art I loved the I love the way they're meshing everything together I'd be doing a wonderful job with their Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtles franchises and Yeah, it's fantastic. I can't I can't wait to


This is stock number 20T42. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used. Heavy-duty truck and RAM headquarters. Today we are checking out this brand new 2020 RAM 2500 Crew Cab Short Box. This is a Laramie Level 2 with the night edition on it and it's got some pretty nice features such as the power boards which are a $995 option, the spray and bed liner, the off-road package, snow plow prep, some auxiliary switches, anti-spin differential, and the clearance lamps just to name a few. So we're gonna do a walk around here and just show you the different angles of light reflecting off the vehicle so you can get a really good idea of the overall looks of this particular truck and then we'll get up close and check out the exact features on this truck. If you want to check out more pictures of this truck in the upper right-hand part your screen is a link right to our website. It comes with the Firestone Transforce LT28560R20 tires and these 20-inch painted alloy rims are part of the night edition. You can see that those are all terrain tread patterns on there. You get the fender flares, the LED headlamps, the LED running lights, the LED fog lamps. This one has the front bumper parking sensors. The night edition also gives you the painted bumpers, the black grille, and color matched surrounding of the grille. The clearance lamps are an option on this truck. This one has a 6.4 liter V8 heavy motor with MDS. It does have the power boards which are a $995 option and actually we're going to take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this at any second and if you want to check out this window sticker on our website in the upper right hand part your screen is a link right to our website where you can check out the window sticker there but you can see it is a Laramie level 2. It does have the night edition right there and you can see everything that comes with that night edition. The Laramie level 2 package, what that gives you, and anti-spin differential, the power sunroof, instrument power, or instrument panel mounted auxiliary switches, clearance lamps, LED bed lighting, deployable running boards, and the spring bedliner for an MSRP of 65 to 25. They don't do a fuel rating economy on heavy-duty trucks so that's why it says NA. We're just going to go down the side here. The 4x4 off-road package gives you the Bilstein shocks as well as the 4x4 off-road sticker, that painted rear bumper, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring, the backup parking sensors. This one has the power drop down tailgate so you just got to press this button twice and it's a little cold right now so let's try that again. It has the power drop down tailgate so all you got to do is press this button twice and it'll come on down. It has the spray and bedliner with the LED bed lighting. You also get some side box tie-downs. That tailgate shuts nice and solidly. Get the blacked out RAM logo 4x4 and Laramie logo on the back. These back tail lamps are LEDs as well. Six and a half foot box. It does have the fold-out tow mirrors. They fold out like so and I'm not sure if they power fold in and they do power fold in so you just press this button right here and they'll power fold in like so. What's cool for these mirrors in 2020 which is new is you can adjust the blind spot mirror so you got to press that button and then you have to press which one you want to adjust and then you'll see that those mirrors actually do power adjust on the the little mirror there which is pretty neat. Anyways we'll get to the inside here the Laramie level 2 package gives you the black leather and suede inserts on the seats. The gray piping Laramie stitched into the backrest both of these seats are power lumbar power driver seat factory floor mats throughout auto head lamps power pedals power windows power locks power mirrors you get the memory driver seat get like the carbon fiber door trim there and as we hop inside the truck here you can see it comes with these 7 inch LCD display you get the digital speedometer outside temp and compass display as well this one has the heated leather app steering wheel cruise controls on the right gear selector on the right as well and Bluetooth and information center controls on the left you get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel this one does have the 8.4 4C radio with the factory navigation system AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities you can also do your heated and cooled seat buttons on here as well as your heated steering wheel you can turn those power steps off if you want if you don't like them and you can also check out your backup camera they upgraded these backup cameras so they're more of an HD backup camera so everything's very nice and clear the grid lines are dynamic meaning that they turn as you turn the steering wheel and you got that center line which matches right up with your receiver hitch if you're hooking up to a boat or a trailer down here you can also do your heated and cooled seat buttons also your climate control if you don't like doing them on the screen down here you have your factory brake controller you have your six auxiliary upfitter switches your eight speed automatic transmission your push button four-wheel drive downhill assist control push button start stop you have remote start on the key fob and also has the enter-and-go system on here part of that key fob system you get two USBs two USB C's and an aux jack the RAM charger and then a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in you get the dual glove boxes over there the nicely appointed interior you get the power sunroof which is an option you get assist and SOS buttons in the mirror that comes when you get the navigation from the factory in the radio you got your powered you can put your tailgate down you get your power sunroof and power sliding rear window controls there as well you'll get the home link button standard with the Laramie level 2 it's for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and this one also has the Harman carton sound system and it does come with the subwoofer which I'll show you in a little bit the other thing with the night package you'll notice you got the gloss black around the radio and climate controls that's part of the night edition as well we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll do one more final walk around they got the heavy-duty metal kick plate there just a nice little added touch so I got these seats up so I can show you that it does have the Harman carton subwoofer back here you do get two USBs two USB C's another 115 volt 400 watt plug-in and then you have heated seat buttons 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Along the busy runway aboard Naval Air Station North Island is the home of the conquistadors of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 57. This jet logistic squadron hosts a cadre of C-48 flippers. These C-40s have a cargo capacity of 40,000 pounds and are entirely operated and maintained by sailors from the reserve community. Sailors like Chief Petty Officer David Kahn. Kahn is a selected reservist, or CELRES, who would commute here from his home in Olathe, Kansas, strictly to serve with VR-57. Squadrons like these that fly C-40s or whatnot, they're located in the fleet-concentrated area, so Fort Worth or San Diego, Norfolk. So obviously since I live in the heartland, I have to commute. That's a choice I make. When he's not working in maintenance control, Kahn is in the cockpit as a crew chief helping pilots complete the conquistadors mission. The rapid, safe and responsive deployment of the C-40 flipper. What we do is definitely important to the active duty fleet because there's no airlift capability for the active duty side. It's all done by reservists, full-time support and CELRES. The country's national security strategy relies heavily on the C-40 and selected reserve personnel by proxy. Our selected reservists here of VR-57 are absolutely essential to our mission. Every fast of what we do, we have CELRES involved, we have counterparts, so we simply couldn't do it without our CELRES. CELRES sailors like Kahn are the human element fueling military logistics, an element of growing importance. For the U.S. Navy, I'm Petty Officer Christopher Okula.


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Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. Today we will talk about Laurence's transformation. This lecture is part of the course called Relativity for All presented on Unisor.com. I suggest you to watch this lecture from the website from the Unisor.com. You just have to go to Relativity for All course and then it will be part of the Einstein's view. Primarily because every lecture has textual part which is basically like a piece of a textbook exactly related to the lecture. So you always have some kind of a presentation as a video and the textbook where everything is more accurately than what I'm doing on the board written. Secondly, the website has certain functionality like exams for instance. You can take any number of times you want. There are some other aspects of functionality like supervised studying etc. on the website. And the site is completely free. No advertisement, no strings attached. And one more thing the same site contains two prerequisite courses. Maths for teens and physics for teens. Now you cannot really do any kind of a relativity related things without mathematics or knowledge about classic classical physics. Okay, back to business. Now before as part of this course we were talking about Galilean transformation. And we were talking about certain inadequacy related to usage of Galilean transformation everywhere. And in particular, Maxwell equations which describes the electromagnetic field are not really dealing well with Galilean transformation. They're not invariant so to speak. So we were talking about this before. Then another thing, the constant of the speed of light. In every inertial system the speed of light is the same. It's a constant and it cannot be explained within the Galilean transformation framework. So we need something else. Now there were attempts related to ether as the media where light actually is going through. Didn't really agree with experiments. So we need some new approach. And this approach was actually quite well was explained by Einstein in his work in 1905. So the most important thing is that if you have two inertial systems, let's say you have inertial system alpha with coordinates x, y, z and the time t and system beta which I will use lower case as coordinates. And again the Galilean transformation when this system is moving relative to this did not adequately explain whatever was going on, especially with electromagnetic fields. So we need some new way to transform coordinates from one system into another. So we assume that beta system is moving relative to alpha with some kind of a speed v. And for simplicity we think that let's consider only the movement along the x-axis. So this is x, y and z for alpha system. It will be the same. This will be lower case x, lower case y and lower case z. It's moving along the x-system. And at moment t equals to t equals to zero. So whenever we start counting, whenever we start the clocks in both systems, everything basically coincides. So origin of beta is coinciding with origin of alpha. Axes are overlapping each other. So this is one of our beginning point. And then this vector v, if you will explain, if you will put this vector in the vector notation in the alpha system, it will have speed v along the x-axis and zero and zero along the y and z. So vector v which explains basically the movement of the beta system relative to alpha is just directed along the x-axis. So this is what we are having in the very beginning as two systems, two reference frames, and we would like to convert coordinates from one into another. Now, what kind of rules we have, which we have to basically preserve. There are two main postulates, if you wish. One is the principle of relativity, which means all the laws of physics have to be expressed in a quantitative way in a way of equations, exactly the same in all inertial systems. Which means if we have some kind of an equation which is true in alpha system, it should be exactly the same equation in the beta system, but instead of capital X, Y and Z and T we will use lower case. So the movement should obey in exactly the same way. The laws are supposed to be the same way. Another postulate is constancy of the speed of light. So the speed of light is the same in these two systems. These are two axioms, postulates, if you wish, which we have to preserve when we are describing how these coordinates are transformed into these coordinates if beta is moving along the x-axis of alpha. So these are the rules. Now let's try to find some kind of transformation of coordinates from one system into another, which basically obey these rules. And this is, by the way, a purely mathematical task as far as I am explaining. Einstein explained it differently with clocks and some people might not actually find it relatively well understood or something like this. If we follow purely mathematical rule, which I am suggesting right now, I think it would be just, you know, mass is mass, nothing you can do about it. As long as you preserve these two principles, principle of relativity and constancy of the speed of light, well, whatever comes up comes up. You can't really argue with mass, right? Okay, so let's try to do this. Now I did not mention it, but it's kind of silently assumed that empty space, I mean really empty, like no forces, no fields, no gravitation, no air, nothing, is actually homogeneous, which means one piece of this space, if you wish, empty space is exactly the same as another one. Now the same thing I should say with the time. It's kind of an assumption that both time and space are, empty space are homogeneous. They are completely the same in all different directions. So it's isotropy and whatever. There are some terminology about this, I forgot. But in any case, they are the same in all directions and at all places in the universe. As long as it's completely empty, there are no fields around it, no matter, nothing. Now why I am mentioning this? Because I would like actually to concentrate on linear transformation of these coordinates into these. Because if it's not linear, if it's something like quadratic, if x supposed to be squared to get a regular x, it disturbs the uniformity of the space. So linear transformation always preserves this uniformity, homogeneousness. So let's just assume that we are looking for linear equations which transform these coordinates into these. And from the very beginning, as I said, we are moving only along the x-axis. So we can disregard y and z. These y and z is exactly the same as those y and z. And let's just not talk about this. So we will talk only about x and time. Okay? All right. So we have two coordinates which we have to somehow transform from one into another. Well, let's just write down the most general linear transformation, x plus q times t. And t is equal to pq r times x plus s times t. These are the most general, general linear transformations where p, q, r and s are completely unknown coefficients. We are looking for these coefficients and we will try to find them based on whatever the postulates we have, whatever the rules of engagement we have. Now, in theory, there might be constant c and d or something like this. Now, I did not put them y because in the very beginning I said that when time is equal to zero in both systems, the coordinates are equal to zero. So if t equal to zero, x is equal to zero and this x is supposed to be equal to zero. And this t and this x and this t, which means if we will put any constant, non-equal to zero, it will disturb our initial condition. So the initial condition is that alpha and beta reference frames are coinciding in the beginning of time and the beginning of time is the same in both cases. Okay, so this is the most general kind of thing. So let's just think about how to find these pq, r and s coefficients and we will find them eventually. Okay, first of all, let's talk about our x. And this is lowercase x. It's moving with speed v, which means this point, which is origin of beta system. So v is beta and this is alpha. So the origin of the beta system is moving with a speed v along the x axis of alpha system. So what does it mean? Well, it means that if x is equal to v times t, then lowercase x is equal to zero. Lowercase x is equal to zero, that's the origin. So if I will move with a speed v during some time t, I should really find the origin of the beta system. So this is one of the rules, right? How can we satisfy it? Well, let's substitute t in the first equation and we will have p times v times t is equal to q times t. And we know that x in this particular case should be equal to zero. Right? So obviously it's for every kind of time. t doesn't really matter what t is. So we have the first equation. Sorry, it's plus here. Plus. So we have from here q is equal to minus p times v. Okay? We got the first equation. We need four. Right? Okay, next. Next we will do something related to light. So let's just think again. You have this system and this system. And let's say at the very beginning at t equals t equals to zero, we will send a ray of light along the x-axis.  Now it will move with the same speed in both systems. Right? So what is basically the equation which describes position of this photon? In one system it would be this equation where c is the speed of light. In another system it will be the same c, but different time, different space coordinate and different time. So one system is moving relative to another, but equation should be the same. That's the principle of relativity. And the constant c of the speed of light is the same in both reference frames. Alright, fine. So let's try to again substitute it into these equations and see what happens. x is equal to p times c times t plus q t. Okay? So what we are going to do is c is equal to r times c times t plus s times t. Okay? We got that. Now since this, so I will multiply this by c and equate these two. So I will p c t plus q t is equal to r c square t plus s c t. Now t we can cancel because that's for every t. And what we have is the equation p c plus q equals r c square plus s c. Okay? We've got the second equation. We are looking for, basically for four different equations for four different variables which we will be able to solve eventually to get the coefficients, to get the real transformation from one coordinate system into another. Okay? Now, let's send the same photon or the same ray of light into this direction. So the speed will be minus c. Okay? What is the equation in this particular case? Well in one system it's minus c t and in another system it's minus c lowercase t. Exactly the same as before. And we will do exactly the same as before. We will substitute this into this. We will have x is equal to p, x is minus c t plus q t. T is equal to minus r c t plus s t. Then we multiply this by c square c and equate and we will have and we will cancel the t in the same way. Minus p c plus q is equal to minus r c square plus s c. Okay? Am I right? Zero equals to minus r c minus p c plus q. Why do I have it reverse? Oh, I know why. Because I should put minus c t. So I should multiply it by minus. That's my mistake. Now I can equate them and I will have plus here and minus here. Okay? Now that's better. Okay? So we have three equations with three unknown. Okay? I'm not going to solve them now because I have only three but what I can do I can express everything at least three q, r and s in terms of p. That would be better. Okay? Now v is already established. I mean q is already established as a function of p. Okay. Now then what? What if I will do with these two? I will add them together and I will have two q equals to r c square which means q is equal to r c square and since q is already expressed in terms of p I will have minus p v equals r c square. Right? Now if I will subtract them I will have q will cancel, r c square will cancel and I will have that two p c equals two s c from which I have obviously s and p are the same. So I have this one. I have q is equal to minus p v. I have this one which is s is equal to p. What else remains? r. r means minus p v divided by c square. r is minus p v divided by c square. So everything is expressed in terms of p. Now this particular system of two equations is kind of natural for mathematician to express it in the vector and matrix form because if this is vector x t, sorry, oh, lower case, x t out is round. It's equal to matrix p q r s multiplied by vector x capital and t capital. Right? This is how it's written in form. p times x plus q times t is x. r times x plus s times t is t. That's how matrix is multiplied by vector. Now instead of q r and s I can really substitute these guys. Right? So let me just substitute it. So that would be p s would be also p and q would be minus p v and r would be minus p v divided by c square. That's my matrix. Okay, great. So this is the matrix of transformation of this vector into this vector. Now let's just think about it. If beta is moving relative to alpha according to these transformations, if it moves towards the increasing of capital X coordinates, at the same time principle of relativity again alpha is moving relative to beta with a speed minus v. Right? Relative to beta. So just from general consideration I can say that if these are, if this is transformation of one into another, then from purely physical considerations and principle of relativity I can say that x t is equal to inverse transformation, which is transformation with a speed minus v relatively to lowercase x and t. And what is how this matrix looks like? If it's minus v instead of v it would be p, p v, p v divided by c square and p. So from purely physical consideration and principle of relativity, if beta is moving relative to alpha with a speed v, then alpha is moving relative to beta with a speed minus v in beta coordinates. Right? So the same type of equation but instead of v we put minus v, which means we change these two signs, we get an inverse transformation. Now what follows from here, what follows is that these two matrices are inverse to each other. So their product p minus p v divided by c square p times this matrix which is p, p v, p v divided by c square and p equals to unit matrix 1, 0, 0, 1. This is my unit matrix from which I can derive the equation from which I can get the p. That's my last equation. Okay? So what is this equation? Alright, we have four different equations, right?  Minus p v and p v divided by c square. Okay? So first by first.  Okay? Now the second row by first column, minus p square minus p square v divided by c minus p square v divided by c square. Alright?  And plus here. p times p p square v divided by c square. That's how it is. And now this times this, second row by second column would be, okay, minus p square v square p square v square divided by c square plus p square. Am I right or am I right?  So that's minus. Okay? Now this is zero and this is the same and it's supposed to be equal to one and one. So what do I have as a result? I have p square minus p square v square divided by c square is equal to one. From which p square is equal to one divided by one minus v square divided by c square and p is equal to square root of this. And that's what I wanted to get. This is my last variable which I basically expressed everything through this. Now usually physicists use the symbol gamma for this particular coefficient and as a result we get q which is equal to minus p v which is equal to minus gamma v. Okay? r is equal to minus p v divided by c square which is minus gamma v divided by c square and s is equal to p which is equal to gamma and p is equal to gamma. So we have all my p is equal to gamma. Okay? So gamma is one over square root of one minus v square divided by c square. d is the speed of beta relative to alpha c is the speed of light. All these coefficients are like this. So we can have now the x is equal to minus gamma x q minus gamma v t and t is equal to r which is gamma v divided by c square x plus s t plus gamma t. Why do I put minus here? This is plus p. p is gamma. All right? x is equal to gamma x minus v t and t is equal to t. Oh, this is minus. r is minus. I'm sorry. r is minus here. So just a little bit differently x is equal to x minus v t divided by square root of one minus v square divided by c square. That's gamma. And t is equal to, again, gamma would be, it would be t minus v square c, not plain v, not v square plain v divided by c square x divided by square root of one minus v square c square. So these are transformations of alpha coordinates, capital X and capital T, into beta coordinates, lowercase x and lowercase t. And again, y and z coordinates are exactly the same. Lowercase y is equal to capital case y and lowercase z is equal to capital z. So this is so-called Lorentz transformation. And that's what I wanted to talk about. As you see, it's not exactly such a simple thing. If c is speed of light, and it's very large number, v, if it's not really very large, what if v is just the speed which we are used to move around, then we can say that the ratio v over c is basically almost zero. Now, if it's zero, then you will have x is equal to x minus vt, and t is equal to, if this is zero, just t lowercase. These are Galilean transformation, if you remember. When beta is moving with speed v relative to alpha, the new coordinate x would be just, you subtract this, and the time would be the same. So Lorentz transformation is basically, is changed to Galilean transformation, if the speed v is very, very small. So that's why we didn't really have any doubts when in, let's say, up to 19th century, we used these Galilean transformation because our speeds, our experiments were with a very low speed v and relatively too very high c, especially c square. Obviously, these are negligible factors. Well, that's it. Our purpose was basically to derive these Lorentz transformation. And as I said, if our speeds are not very high, the Lorentz transformation are approximated by Galilean quite well. That's it for today. I suggest you to read the notes for this lecture. Again, it's in unison.com. You choose the relativity for all course, and Einstein's view, the menu, and among them you will find Lorentz transformation. That's it. Thank you very much and good luck.


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TheCube presents HPE Discover 2022 brought to you by HPE. Welcome back to theCUBE's day one coverage of HPE Discover 2022 live from Las Vegas. Lisa Martin here with Dave Vellante. We've got a couple of guests here with us next. Going to be talking about industry transformation. Please welcome Brad Schleggenhoff, Director of Global Industry and Sustainability Marketing and Andy Hulkhalter, Senior Director of Worldwide Industry Sales Programs, guys from HPE. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me here. Industry transformation, that's a big term. It's not a new concept, but we see so much going on. Andy, talk to you about industry transformation from your perspective. Where are customers? How are they capitalizing to really make data a true currency? Right. Well, underlying all this is the data that is becoming so complex. But at the same time, there's specialization required in each industry with the different applications that the industries are running and our ability to bring that forward and connect all those things is a big trend going on. And as we see that developing over time, we're getting more, connecting those different applications that are running is becoming more every day. We're doing more of that. One more. So where do you want to start? What's your favorite industry to transform? I mean, financial services has got the whole blockchain thing going on. Industry 4.0 and manufacturing, retail, everybody has an Amazon war room, energy now with EVs and solar and everything else and the price of oil. And now you throw in inflation and supply chain. I mean, it's just every industry is getting disrupted. I want to make an observation. You guys tell me what you think. Think about the incumbent industries. They generally have data at the outskirts. It's all siloed. And they're trying to put it at the core and that's a big challenge for them. What are you guys seeing in terms of who's having success with that? Do you have examples? What role do you play? We have so much to talk about. Yeah, yeah, I'll jump in here. I mean, I think one of the unique ideas is all those industries you mentioned there are all trying to learn from each other, right?  You want to look at some of these technologies, how they're being applied. You look about like sustainability. The industries are trying to learn how to do that better from each other. So this notion of industry transformation is kind of twofold. It's one, how are these industries almost like entering new markets? I mean, you look at all the tech companies out there, they're all getting into payments, for example, right? You know, Google Pay, Apple Pay, yeah. So that's just like one example of where you're seeing that blurring of lines between industries happening. Content, Amazon getting into grocery. And so in the premises, the data is the enabler. I mean, right for decades, we've seen a stack, a vertical stack within an industry where whether it's research and development, manufacturing, sales, and distribution, marketing, you were in that industry stuck for life and now all of a sudden, data allows you to traverse industries. This dual disruption agenda that you mentioned. Yeah, it's really, at its core is because these companies have the ability to take advantage of that data even more and they're trying to serve their customers even better that that's kind of opening up these new doors for them to do that because that's, you know, and again, there's so many good examples out there. Automobile manufacturers are looking towards the gaming industry, how do they design controls? That kind of stuff is an example. So you see all kinds of that. You mentioned also that everybody's trying to bring the data to the core. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think you heard earlier today in the keynote that companies want to be able to take advantage of the data wherever it is. It's the edge and a factory floor. It's patient data sitting somewhere. You want to handle it where it is and there's a cost to doing that to bring it all together. Yeah, so by the way, I want to clarify because you're absolutely right. The data by its very nature is distributed. Sure. When I say core, I mean, put it at the core of their business. Sure. That's what I mean by data first, but your point is really, we're going to talk about that because it brings so many other challenges with how you deal with that, but please jump in Lisa. I was going to ask you, Brad, talk about the blurred lines between industries and talk to us about how is HPE, a facilitator of those industries learning from each other? You have such breadth in so many different industries, as Dave mentioned, but how are you that enabler, if you will, of allowing them to be able to have data be that key? Yeah. I think it just comes through the experience of working with these customers in these various industries, and then there's so many times where customers come to us, they want us brief, and again, they want to learn for these other industries. We're an aggregator of that technology. We obviously understand the technology with cloud or Edge or anything we're doing with data, so we're using those lessons and just applying those out there to those industries. I think it's just us as an aggregator. How's the customer experience changing? We heard from Home Depot this morning, they were focused on the customer experience and their associate experience bringing those together. Well, what we also heard this morning is the different personas that are out there and that are looking to transform their business, and each of those personas is still linked together by the data, but they want to use it in different ways with different applications, and the ability to connect all those things, again, they're learning from each industry, so what Home Depot learns about their mobile apps may be something that we can deploy in manufacturing as far as locating things on the floor and connecting the Edge data in, and then use that to analyze, use AI models to do predictive behavior, preventative maintenance. All these things are similar uses of connecting the data but then applying to the specific industry use case, and that pivot of that horizontal use of the data into those specific demands by the personas within the different industries is what we're focused on. And the technology is like an accelerant here, so you're thinking about something like 5G, right? 5G is going to accelerate a lot of transformation in various industries throughout that. I mean, the technology alone is not really what the customer cares about, they care about what do I do with that, what kind of outcome can I get? I want to ask you, Andy, about the customer conversations. You talked about the personas, we've been talking about data democratization for a very long time, obviously it's a challenging thing to do, but how are you seeing customer conversations change and evolve, especially over the last couple of years where every LOB has to have access to data and be a driver of its value? Well, the customer, you know, historically HPE's background is in infrastructure and we've served industries in the data center for a legacy, right? But now they're saying it's more, I've got to talk to more people in my business as a data center owner, I've got to serve these folks, understand their business, and as a supplier to me, you need to understand them as well and sometimes help me with that conversation and help me see the things to make those connections that I may not know as a data, as an IT professional. And how do we challenge the business to think about different ways of doing things in the industry? So how do we think about, bringing those connections from other industries in and uncovering opportunities or problems, anticipating problems in those deployments that they may not have seen by their staying in their swim lane? You know, I'm torn on this topic because on the one hand, I think about the big data era and I know a lot of failures to return the expectations and it wasn't a fail fast, took a decade to get there and part of the failure domain was, to your earlier point Brad, everything was sort of shoved into this centralized location, you have this hyper-specialized data team and everybody has to go through them but organizations I think are now realizing like your thoughts on this, that data has to go out to the lines of business, it has to be contextualized, people are now talking about building data products and monetizing data and that's really to me what digital transformation is about. So, but generally speaking, most companies are not great at data, they have a lot of data, a lot of data line around insights, I think we heard in the morning keynote are scarce, so what's your vision for how this evolves? Yeah, I think from the data perspective, again, at the core is how do I serve my customer better, right? So, whether that is actual customer data that you want to sort of personalize offers for or make decisions of medical decisions for their better patient outcomes, so if they keep that in mind, then as far as how it's used by the different lines of business there, that's where we can help facilitate in many ways and that's where cloud becomes a really key technology, having that flexibility to move it around as needed, create, deliver the workload where the customer needs it, that sort of idea is where we're going with this, I think. I'd like to give you an example. Please. In the FSI industry, out here on the floor, we've got a demo on payment systems, right? And we've been doing that with our nonstop product and supporting that in the banking industry for 10 years or more and it's evolved over time to be one of the, it's a ubiquitous across the, in the support. But now we're talking about new regulations with all the global events that are going on, crazy stuff that had more pressure on the banks to comply with that, worries about money laundering and fraud prevention. Well, connecting the data from those payment systems into the AI modeling that is now being deployed to do more sophisticated fraud detection and money laundering detection and all of those kinds of things, how you connect those together as an example of what we're seeing, how we get more insights by the combination that we can bring together. And the insights is critical, right? I mean, without it, the data isn't very useful. Right, right. And I think even these concepts like swarm learning, right? Where you're actually trying to aggregate a lot of those, a lot of that data and provide even a broader data set to learn from is even more beneficial. I think that when you think about the principles of this decentralized world, that it starts with an organization saying, look, we recognize that we can't shove it all into a data warehouse or a data hub or a single data lake. We're going to have all of those. And those are just kind of nodes in the mesh, if I could steal a Jamak, the Ghani term. And increasingly, data as product that can be monetized, we're hearing a lot more about this. And those are organizational considerations. I mean, HPE can maybe facilitate that through whiteboard sessions, but that leads to, in order to democratize data, I need self-service infrastructure and I need data that can be shared and governed. I don't know about the last one, but you definitely are number three. Self-service infrastructure, simplification, your version of cloud. How do you see that, your role in that little vision that I just laid out, do you buy that? You want to take that or? Well, I think that we have, we definitely, because we see the data in all these different places, and we're trying to be agnostic to where it comes from, who owns it, how do you get it together and make it useful? And you don't have to capture it, you don't have to own it, but you may own some of it, you may borrow some of it, you may rent some of it, you may buy it, and you may bring it together and they'll use it for the purpose and then move on to expand into new things that you learn from, that you may then monetize in all those different ways. So we have a role of making that platform in a way that you can see it in different ways and use it consistently and repetitively and gain more value of it and then apply your applications and all those other things that you do, but that bringing it together agnostically is a big part of our offering. And am I not correct? I mean, my thinking on HPE's value is providing that infrastructure to be able to do just that. That's your swim lane, if you will. It is, but we're being asked to move up the stack and provide not only the infrastructure, now the platform, the ability to offer that platform in our HPE GreenLake offering where we now can have cloud-like services on-prem, it doesn't really matter where the data sits, and then plug in the applications and even manage those applications for the customers. Okay, so I mean, I see you as IaaS and PaaS, which is that up the stack, the ability to, okay, I want whatever, Python or OpenShift, and I want to build applications now on that. Interesting, the management piece is something that I excluded because an organization may say, hey, we need help managing this stuff, but I see that IaaS and PaaS as infrastructure, you're not getting into applications where you're getting, you're not. Other than letting customers actually build on top of that, right? There's a lot of customers.  Absolutely, yeah. You look at some of the things we're doing with our Esmeralda platform and things like that, we're providing that development platform in a really streamlined way of pushing applications out. I mean, little known fact, right, is that most banks right now are hiring more developers right now than finance people. So all these industries are becoming tech companies, and that's the whole launch of the FinTech industry many years ago, and it's continued to evolve. And they want to bring AI, they want to bring data into their applications, and you, HPE, I see as an enabler of that. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. Give us last question as we wrap up here. Give us the vision, like the next five years, what are some of the industry transformation elements you're forecasting if you have a crystal ball? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think number one, just an increased focus on personalization and customization, you look at personalized offers, when you add location-based services, things like that, combined 5G, all these technologies, you're seeing a lot of that custom manufacturing. So those kinds of trends are going to continue, and we know those are the workloads that we've got to know is coming down the pike and address those. Secondly, I think AI, right? AI is going to be, it's going to impact every industry in a big, big way, like Andy talked about fraud detection, manufacturing robotics, those kind of things. And then I think, lastly, just this more convergence of these industries, right? Tech is just impacting everything in such a big way, and so you're going to see more of that blurring of lines between industries as they jump into, jump out of their normal swim lanes, right? Right, between machine learning and AI, we're going to see efficiencies by doing things better with less deviations and driving lower cost, and we're going to see new capabilities come to the forefront. And that's going to be consistent across all industries, and it's going to be based on the data. Both of those require the data to go in and drive their models. Do you think any industry is more ripe for disruption? I mean, timeframe-wise, you've got healthcare, like I was wondering how is AI going to help doctors make better diagnoses? Already is, will AI make the diagnoses? Retail, I mentioned before, energy, government is changing, entertainment, media and entertainment is, do you see any industry patterns where one is being disrupted more than the other? When we talk to customers, every industry thinks their industry is not going fast enough. It's like, I think everybody is just so hyper-focused on what they are involved in and their domain that depending on who you talk to, you don't, everybody needs to do it faster, more economically and more efficiently. And so I think- And they're all being disrupted now too. It's not only have to do faster, but they've got to transform to keep up with the demands of their customers. Nobody's safe. Yeah, and the technology's just going to continue to accelerate that. And that's the thing. And the market's becoming less forgiving as we go. So people have to react really, really fast in these markets, especially with all the other changes going on around us to actually make that impact. I'm liking what's in this crystal ball. I'm going to have to ask you guys for some consult after we wrap here. Thank you so much for joining Dave and me talking about industry transformation, tremendous amount of transformation so far and so much to go. It's exciting to watch. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you for having us today. Appreciate it. For our guests and Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We'll be back after a short break.


It was important for me, and it's timely, particularly seeing some of the reports that came out from sled this week to talk about crime across our great state, to use this as an opportunity to really introduce some of you to the amazing work and leadership that's been happening here in the City of Columbia on the leadership of Chief Holbrook, Deputy Chief Kelly and this amazing command staff that we have behind us. The City Manager Wilson recently, I was invited, many of you may remember I did an interview host of the forum with the Washington Post earlier this year with another mayor who also had a long force of background talking about the incredible rise in violent crime we saw in policy America during the course of the pandemic. As we walked our way through the panel, someone came up, why exactly are we here? Why was Columbia invited? The quick response was that the host had engaged and the Washington Post had engaged with the police executive research forum on the leadership of Chuck Wexler and asked which cities in the country saw an actual decrease in murders and violent crime over the course of 1920 and Columbia was at the top of the list. It's so important to take opportunities to push back against a narrative. We saw violent crime and murders go down over the course of the pandemic in our city. And I will tell you it's because of the men and women behind me, the leadership, good old fashioned police and combined with using technology as a force multiplier to try and dial in on the most challenging aspects of our community. This year gun murders are down in Columbia 31 percent, 31 percent. Again, pushing back against the odds, this wonderful police department continues to leverage modern day technology combined with data driven intelligence to reduce and prevent crime and particularly our focus is on violent crime in Columbia. So the day we wanted to spend some time opening up the doors, getting behind the curtains for the people, the reality is that this place, this building, this technology and all that we do here, this is the people's business. It's important that we open up to each and every one of you the Cities Emergency Operations Center, which also hosts our real time crime center. The we moved in here in October of 2020. And again, traditionally the EOC has been utilized as an all hands on deck approach for full scale emergency operations in the city. I'm sure I know Chief Director Tinsley gets his fill of us when we have floods and natural disasters and even sometimes protests. The goal next goes to transform EOC into a full time 24 hour real time crime center. Chief will talk a lot about camera upgrades and how we continue to consolidate resources into one prime location. Many of you know that the Metro Region's headquarters is upstairs here as well. Lots of amazing things happening in this space. I'm going to leave it to the professionals to walk us through some of the details and then we're going to be able to take some of your questions. Our goal is, and I will say it's tough sometimes to push back against the narrative. All you can do is present with facts. The reality is that the facts show that not only are violent crimes down, but obviously gun homicides are down in this city and it's not by accident. It's because of leadership. It's because of the fact that over the last several years we've increased the police department's budget by 80 percent. We continue to invest in 21st century policing here in this city. In addition to the cross and tease and dog devise and the hard work that these men and women do, they have committed themselves to a true commitment of inclusion and building the strong ties that bind with neighborhoods and communities, particularly those in which trust has not existed over the years. And I'm proud of these men and women. We get so busy sometimes it was important to me to come here and let them know how proud of the work that they do on behalf of each and every one of the people who live here in our great city. I'm going to yield a microphone to our chief, Skip Holbrook. Say some words and then we'll come back and we'll fill some questions together. We really want to thank, of course, Ms. Wilson's here with her amazing team that helps us do the great work we do on behalf of the people of Columbia every single day. Chief. Thank you, Mayor. So we're very excited about this technology that Ms. Wilson and our council have invested in. Before I began, I really have to acknowledge kind of how we got to where we are and really started back in 2015 after the flood. Ms. Wilson realized a need for an expanded role of emergency management. She selected Harry Tinsley from the fire department to lead that endeavor. And really, this is his vision and where we stand today is at his hands. And I think it's been instrumental as we've moved through very critical events post 2015. It has, you know, we've seen its weight in gold. So a few years ago, we also recognized a need within the police department to invest and concentrate more on emergency management and preparation for critical incidents. We hire Johnny Sellers. He's an inspector. He's a previous life use provost, Marshall at before Jackson. And he and Captain Earl Marsh were just hand and glove, really, to raise a bar on our emergency preparedness. And then as we arrive today, Inspector Sellers is going to lead our efforts with our real time crime center, which again is really us being an extension of our frontline officers, having our finger on the pulse of our technology and how that impacts day to day operations. Of course, this emergency operations center is for crisis, natural disaster, serious incidents, and it's ready to spin up at any moment.  And that's what this center represents. Um, I really like to just direct your attention to the to the board behind us. So what this represents is, you know, we currently have 600 plus cameras in the city. We invested about $8 million over the next five years. We're looking at about two over $2 million this this upcoming year as we take our camera capabilities really to the next level. We're adding 200 cameras. We're going to be transitioning away from some of the older technology. These 200 cameras will provide us greater real time connectivity. So what you're seeing here is some examples of of our cameras. We have facilities covered. We have key areas in the city. We're putting in layers of license plate readers and some of our choke points within the city where she have shot spotter technology. Um, our Alistar situational awareness platform that map of the city that you see right there. Right now you're looking at several layers. You're looking at police, fire, some cameras and sheriff's department. And this is our leadership and operational picture of what's going on fit by minute. You know, the mayor mentioned um, some of the crime statistics and we um, we know we've got a violent crime problem and we've we've had a violent crime problem for over a decade. Um, you know, we um, we are making progress. I think how we're leveraging technology is um, is what's allowing us to see some gains that really holding holding the line in a time where we're seeing unprecedented violence throughout the state and nationally. We're seeing, you know, 50% increase in the last five years statewide. Um, you know, we see articles after articles of cities large and small throughout the country that are experiencing unprecedented violent crime. So um, we do have a gun problem. We've never, um, you know, tiptoed around that subject. I'm encouraged by our gun murders being down, but I'm not encouraged by our non fatal hits. They're up and I want to show you a quick example of what our technology brings us in terms of evidence recovery and um, and review of an incident. Pull up on this, uh, about a 30 second video. It's a good example of some of the violence that we're dealing with on an everyday basis. As you can see, that's that's like something you see in a movie. Um, it's concerning this for for a variety of reasons, but, um, you know, you saw innocent people standing by, you saw just complete disregard for, um, the sanctity of life. You know, those rounds that didn't impact a person, um, they they landed somewhere property. Um, we have a lot of property damage. So we've got to keep our foot on the gas pedal when it comes to about prime reduction. Um, our prime, um, our shot spotter technology is, is at the forefront of that. We increased, um, at an additional square mile last year. Um, this represents the last seven days.  They get it within 45 seconds of the gunfire and they respond immediately to it. Um, so give an example of what it looks like when they get it, it pulls up and gives them a picture of where it occurred. It gives them a radius that they can strategize on what their approach to maybe intercept. Um, somebody that's responsible for the shooting and then they can review the audio if they choose to see it shows the movement around. We can we can distinguish between one or multiple shooters. Again, it gives them situational awareness as a response, but, um, I would also contend that it makes them much safer. They have a greater awareness when they arrive on the scenes. Again, that's that's seven square miles. We also are, um, participated in a project with shot spotter. Um, it's a predictive policing project and we identify our hotspots and creative box, essentially, and, uh, and we put officers in those boxes for particular times and we're, you know, we're in the process of monitoring the impact of that presence in that box where we know statistically it's very likely that a prime prime will occur. As I mentioned, the LPR is a licensed plate readers that again that'll be a force multiplier and it has a wide range of search capability and we'll be able to not only be able to see what vehicles maybe wanted in other jurisdictions, but we'll also be able to put vehicles of interest that we lean from our camera systems and for instance like this into the system. And again, it ups the likelihood of us being able to intercept the perpetrator and it also keeps our officers safer. We've seized, as a result of this technology and the work of our officers, we've seized over 700 guns so far this year and again we've got a few more months to go. So with all that said, we are extremely excited about this real-time crime center. We think it's gonna be very impactful on our efforts to reduce violent crime. I cannot say enough about the investment that Ms. Wilson has put into the police department and these efforts and the support of the mayor leading in charge with counsel to make sure we have the best tools and the best technology that's available to help us do our job.


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Wakwa and my beautiful people This is Mandy aka Kabaya aka Manzi wa Nairobi and my new album Flavor is out on all streaming platforms. Make sure you run it up, tell a friend, tell a friend. Don't miss out. Love you. What's up everybody? Welcome to SPM Buzz. This is Buzz It's Taz and my good name is Miskitinji. Guys today I'm hanging out with a star but before I introduce her please make sure you subscribe to SPM Buzz because I mean why not guys? Why not? Subscribe? Alright. Now today I am hanging out with a star you love her music you have seen her online she's not only just a writer a songwriter but a performer as well. Hi Mandy. Hello, how you doing? Good thank you. Lakin yukwa social media you're so loud. Oh my God, am I? Your words or your songs are kind of you know very famine and you know just picking. Is it like the same way you are in just in real life like Amanda? Is that Amanda same as Mandy? 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I just took it as an ironic title because sometimes I do things and I see men in the comments we are going to marry these are the women you are going to marry so it's kind of ironic but it's also truthful. What makes it truthful? It's true What does it take to be? I mean I can cook I can't clean you'll have to hire a maid or two or three I'm nice I'm fun I'm loving Wife material The men on the comments section do you agree what Mandy is saying? I mean she doesn't like washing it's not like she can't wash but she does not like do you guys agree with her? Let us know on the comments section. Now let's also talk about why we're here today Hassel Sasai in this initiative we're part of it but you've been part of the one that Mutoni drama queen how was the experience there and what are your expectations with now the Hassel Sasai initiative as well and also what is going to be your contribution? For me what I can say is I think this is a very great initiative I think Kenya needs a lot more spaces where we facilitate the growth of creatives I feel like my experience during perform was amazing I learnt a lot of things the business aspect the legal so many things you need to learn as a creative so I would encourage everyone who's seeing this who's in music who feels like they don't have a sense of direction I'd advise you to apply to this in kubeta there's a lot of things you're going to learn a lot of things that are going to shape who you are as a creative what my contribution is going to be I'm just here to support anything that facilitates growth I am there because I understand how hard it is to be a creative on your own navigating a very tough industry so anything that is for the creatives mi am there cheering on That's the way to go now talking about the same aspect of now growth I think you came into the limelight in 2016 around there and I know it was your experience back then and right now especially having gone through this master classes is not the same what are those challenges that you experienced starting off and right now you can feel like this is just a walk over right now I think the biggest challenge I had was releases from recording a song to doing a video to doing marketing it was very hectic for me but being in spaces like these have helped me grow, learn and understand what I can do and just creating a system for myself kifika michawamwezi na fakuani me patawimbo na fakuani onsets na fakuani shapanga release so there's things like that that used to bug me before but now it's tunam kasubu na tunafanya too what song do you consider your breakout song for most people it's sirudihom the remix the remix is what now drove people's attention towards me okay now let's go back to the wife material because you know sirudihom it feels like this a sati woman who is saying you know sirudihom leo you know and this is what I'm doing today you know how do you think men perceive the way you talk about sex openly and intimacy not even just men you know the society how do you feel it reacts to your messages to be quite honest I don't care because I feel like as a country we are very hypocritical like if we decide to look at the stats of the kind of content people consume very sexual content you'll find Kenya top 3 so how does my music and how I dress and how I move and how I talk it shouldn't bother anyone because we want to hide behind closed doors in the dark doing bad things and doing ill mannered things to each other but then when I come out and I say something like I like this guy I want you to take me home I think it's a bit hypocritical but also I don't care I'll just say what I want to say do you feel like this is what I'm doing and let's not be hypocritical do you feel like it could affect your brand in any way in terms of endorsements I used to think that but I work with a lot of corporates both in public so it's never really affected me I think at the end of the day what matters is how I package myself how I carry myself so imagining yakuza event kahi niko skimpi nina shout I think people like me for how I carry myself outside the music and how I also brand myself yes it's a bit riske but it's not all out ok now you have confirmed over a time that you are not dating but what's your relationship like with him I feel like I should just date him I feel like I should just date him I feel like I should just date him but he's my good friend we've known each other for almost 10 years now even before the music so it's more of a working relationship we work on a lot of things music based we're about also venturing into events together so I think it's a working relationship but maybe people look at us and they're like oh they go so good together but I don't know I'm still young, I'm still having my fun I'll hang out with him a lot so if you see me out there with him see piggy pictures chikwa bushes oneeza pigatufu really because there's really nothing going on alright now of course because you're here we have to talk about because she said that she's the best and she has been giving you time to do your thing and now that she is back in music she's the best but you responded what do you have to say about just her comparing herself to you I think it's a bit absurd but I also admire her efforts if I was in her position and I looked at someone like me who's so successful in what they're doing pya meaning get jam I'd be so mad at myself at her, at everyone you get so I think it's cute that she admires me and she admires my work and everything I've been able to do on my own and I don't jump from one thing to another and cloud chasing like I just let my work speak for itself so if she feels like it's a great stress relief for her I recommend mental health is very important so if you need to diss me for your mental health just go ahead what artist rather female artist that you feel is in the same category as your genre that you consider someone you could look up to I wouldn't say look up to at this point as a female but I feel like I may pick up place I don't need to be looking up to anyone I am enough so maybe I can look up to myself but what I can say is I admire all the other female rappers who are doing an amazing job right now but for me I just look up to myself that's enough Is there anyone you can probably just comment their job? I love Femiwan's project the Tokamuiki I think I love her project from the first track to the last one it's absolutely amazing it's vibes, I'm a rap na yoni kazi norma yosuki to raisi ya kufana back to your album what else are we expecting now in terms of how you're pushing me to know you want us to consume your music what are your plans? my plan is to basically understand what mind frame people are in in terms of my creativity and my music I want to understand what sounds they like hearing me because there's a lot of sounds in there but also in terms of marketing me and my team are going to do what we need to do to make sure they hear me more I've seen on the internet or even just forums whereby we've had people say that female artists are not being seen especially in Kenya do you have the same sentiments and do you feel like maybe there's something others are not doing or you also not doing what are your thoughts about that? I think we're being seen I feel like that's just something people have tried to say so many times to overlook our efforts now more than ever there are so many female artists who are thriving so many female rappers singers most successful dancers are even women because they are creatives at the end of the day I feel like it's a narrative that needs to stop because once we keep on telling ourselves the same thing it becomes reality and that's not our reality I feel like it's just a lie and women are doing amazing things right now doing wonderful things making amazing music and that's what we need to be focusing on right now How do you feel when you actually see that Kenyans consume more Tanzanian music than they do to our very own type of music? Funny enough I also get a lot of Tanzanian listeners on some songs like a majority of it is Tanzanian Tanzanians who are listening I'm sure I'm not the only artist who gets that so right now maybe back then it was also a problem but we're in a digital era there's a lot of Kenyan youth who love artists so many young artists just blow up in the morning by Jionni they're very big stars so that's again another narrative that I feel we've reined with because Kenyans right now more than ever are supporting Kenyan music Looking at the Nigerian industry most of them of the legends support the upcoming artists they make sure their music distribution is good and we actually get to know them Do you feel the legends in our country have been in a position to do the same and can you actually single out one of them? What I can say is I don't know what a legend is but what I can say is I think music we go in generations so the generation before us we're still fighting for opportunities to me I feel like that's so absurd I feel like there's a certain maybe comforts not even as Kenyan artists maybe as Kenyans in my zone this is just where I'll be operating from so when other people come in there's no space because me have had so many opportunities taken away from me because someone of a different generation knew someone and they booted me out and they said okay now this is what we're doing but I can say for a fact I've had many supportive artists who are much older than me I've had major major is a brother to me Kolo is very supportive calligraph has also guided so many young artists so there's people like that who don't look at or where many competition they're just happy that you exist and you're there and they want to nurture your talent but there's Sam How Sam muneza takakuambia ni ni? How Sam neza takakuambia Sayi pesa ni mingi opportunities ni mingi platforms ni mingi hatu ko eralazma tupe gani e present and you acheze wimbue tu kona streaming platforms I'll just tell them relax you had your chance I'm not saying go forever and ever you can even start a project and push 2-3 artists with your connections at the end of the day you also have to give back that's how you become memorable mitu kama mimi ni taliwone legacya konta semanga so and so did this for me so we don't need to be fighting and tug of wars over opportunities it's not right what's the biggest stage have you been so far? biggest I'd say tasker I've done most if not all tasker gigs I've done man of gigs I've done the knife most of them are just it's all first most of them are just in Kenya so I'm hoping next year or this year I can now spread my wings internationally I feel like it's possible because Spotify is doing their thing so it's international now actually I'm an international artist at this point so why not please tell your fans why they should find your new album and what should they do what should they expect from you as well you can stream my album on all platforms but there's a link on my bio that will just direct you I'm on Spotify, iTunes, Boomplay, AudioMac follow me on Instagram also Mandy that's M-A-A-N-D-Y Gram and on Twitter, Facebook I'm everywhere, TikTok, Mandy so just follow me stream the album tell me which songs you like tell a friend, tell a friend alright Mandy thank you so much for talking to us we appreciate thank you so much for having me alright guys that was Superstar Mandy talking about her new album and of course her being named the Equal Africa Ambassador by Spotify on this month of May make sure to catch her new music make sure to stream that music and make sure to leave a comment on how you find it as well thank you so much for watching Bars with Stars my good name is Miskitinji until next time keep it SPM Bars