In this video, we'll go through top five penny stocks with up to a $20 price target. These are what some of the analysts are saying. They're saying that some of these penny stocks could be worth up to $20. Okay, and we'll go through the research. We'll go through the information. I'm gonna get right into the video and right into the information. If you appreciate the direct approach, then please leave a like on the video. It really helps out the channel. Let's get right into the information. I've got to say I'm not a financial advisor. I am a business teacher in my daily life, but I'm by no means an expert on the stock market. So let's go through these top five ones that I've got for you today. So first of all, we've got nine meters biopharma. Now, who are they? So nine meters biopharma is a rare and unmet need focused GI company. The company is advancing drug candidates for short bowel syndrome and celiac disease. Okay, so it's a biopharmaceutical company. It's involved in this area. Now, what do the analysts say? So the analysts actually have this particular stock at, well, it's trading at $1.60 at the moment, $1.60. It's run up a little bit. And the analysts have, this is a price target of a low of $3, a medium of $5, okay, and a high of $5. So that means that this analysts, the collection of analysts feel that this stock is undervalued, fairly undervalued at the minute. So this could be a potential investment opportunity. Obviously, I'm not gonna go through the full depth of each company. Otherwise, it would be a 50 minute video. I just want to put some stocks onto your radar to possibly consider and looking into. So that is the first one that we've got for you today. Before we move on to the others, I've got to say thank you everybody for all the support on the channel. The channel's been growing massively, okay? And it would be amazing if we could get to 4,000 subscribers as fast as possible. That'd be fantastic. Honestly, everybody's been supporting the channel. Everybody's been liking the videos and making sure that they're reaching to the YouTube algorithm. And it really helps the channel out a lot. So thank you for everybody who's doing that. The next one we've got for you is called Mustang Bayer, ticker symbol M-B-I-R. Now, who are they? So Mustang Bayer, our recent medical breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy and have signaled a coming revolution in the patient care for previously untreatable disease. We at Mustang Bayer are translating through breakthroughs into next generation therapies. And then you can see the different ones there. So again, another Bayer soup, Bayer company here. And let's see what the analysts are saying for this one, right? So we've got $4.22. And the analysts actually have, on the low end, they have this at $7. On the medium, they have it at $11.50 and on the high in $13. Okay, this is in the next 12 months. It's currently trading at $4.22. Okay, so this stock has got a lot of potential to run up from its current level. It may be one worth getting into. Again, if it's the high of $13, that's almost a 300% increase. Okay, which is a massive amount here. So I just want to put this again onto your radar. The next one I've got for you, I've talked about this one before in depth in terms of what the company does. So I'm just going to put this into some information for you. And I'm not going to go right into the company. So what we got here, so it's at $1.99. Okay, and the five analysts, what do they say? They've got it on the low at $3, a medium of $5.50 and a high of $10. Five analysts. So again, this is another company that according to the analysts is underpriced and there's got a lot of potential. That is CLRB, ticker symbol CLRB. I personally got a position in this stock. I think that it's got a lot of potential. I've looked at the website, looked at the research that they're doing. And I think that it's got a lot of potential. Do look into it yourself, see what you think. Okay, I'm just putting some on your radar. Some you might have already heard of, some you might not. The next one we've got for you is Polattery TE, which ticker symbol is PTE, okay? What are they? So who are this company? So they are, they construct intended to being used by fans, by physicians or other appropriate healthcare providers for the repair, replacement, reconstruction or supplement of skin tissue and into gumatory systems, okay? So this particular stock is very interesting. I think that this has got a lot of demand for this particular type of product, right? I'm looking into this one and I'm really considering this one personally. I'm just looking for the best price on this. So what are we at? It's at 0.81, okay? 0.81 and there's three analysts that have it a low of $3, a medium of $3 and a high of $3. So that's almost, that's over triple what its current price point is. So this is considered grossly undervalued by the analysts. The company itself seems quite good in terms of the demand for the sort of products that they're producing there. And what I would say is, if you can get this at a lower level, get it at a dip at 0.60, 0.65, that might be a potential buying opportunity, okay? The next one we've got here is Orchard Therapeutics, okay? So who are they? So Orchard was founded in 2015, but our roots run deeper going back to some of the first research and clinical development involving ex vivo autologous gene therapy. We're proud of our scientists have played a central role in the evolution of technology from a bold vision to a potentially life-transforming reality. Today we carry forward the history and rigor of science, curiosity, discovery and commitment to families affected by rare diseases. So this one is another company in this particular sector, right? And what is it sat at? So it's sat at $6.47. The analysts on this one are just like, wow, you know, they're saying that this stock is incredibly undervalued. So the eight analysts have a price target here of a low of $9, a medium of $14.50 and a high of $20. It's currently sat at $6.47. Again, grossly underpriced according to the analysts. Again, this is in the next 12 months. This is where they see this stock going. This is not next week, okay? This is in the next 12 months. But, you know, maybe if it could reach, say for example, if it's on its way to its high of $20 in 12 months, if it can reach up to $9, right? At this lower level within the next sort of three to six months, that's still a really, really good increase on this stock. But again, if it's this high of $20, that is an immense increase, okay? That is incredible profit gains on that one. So that's what that's one we've got for you there. And I've got a bonus here. Everybody knows about Galaxy Next Generation by now. If you've been following my channel, Gaxi, ticker symbol, G-A-X-Y. I've got to say I've recently watched an interview from the owner of this company. I'm going to make another dedicated video on this because I've got some more interesting news and interesting thoughts for this company. What I would suggest people to do is to start a small, you can do what you want. I'm not a financial advisor, business teacher, but I'm not a financial advisor. I would build out your position on this stock, okay? This stock is going to go very well, in my opinion. I could be wrong, but I think that this has got a lot of potential to go up a lot of very fast, very quickly, and it's going to go up quite a lot, in my opinion, okay? So look into Galaxy Next Generation. What do they do? They produce educational solutions in schools, and also they're involved in corporate events, and when you talk about ed tech, they talk about there in the education technology sector, right? What people tend to think about is just schools, right? But actually, they're trying to get into other industries as well. So Gaxi is an interesting one because it's not just schools. It's like corporate events and training in corporate events because you've got to think you've got training programs, haven't you, in organizations where people are being educated, right? There's a lot of education tools that can be used in these training development ones, but I'm going to go into this in a more in-depth video on Galaxy, but build out your position on this stock. There's a lot of potential. Or at least do some research, or put it on your watch list, on this particular one, because I think this has got a lot of potential, as in micro-penis, right? Okay, so I'll end the video with my stock thought of the day, which is strategy, okay? You've got to think about what your strategic decisions are going to be. So what does that mean? So you've got to think about when you're going to be buying in, and you can set your own buying prices, right? And you've got to think about when you're looking to take profits on stocks. You've also got to determine whether your stocks are long-term or short-term. Are you holding some of these stocks for the long-term? Are you holding them for the short-term for a quick swing trade? You've got to be really clear on your strategy. Why? Because you need to be adaptable. Sometimes the market froze you a curve ball, right? And you've got to adapt to that situation. And a good kind of example is a game of chess, right? You've got to always be adaptable. You've got to make the moves that you need to make, right? So consider that. Thanks for watching the video. Don't forget to leave the video a like to get it right up into those YouTube algorithms. It's much appreciated. If you're new to the channel, then please subscribe. We cover many stocks and many penny stocks. So I'd appreciate if you could subscribe. And I'll see everybody in the next video.


My name is Cheryl Matsuoka, the Executive Director of the Hawaii Restaurant Association and the Hawaii Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. Mahalo for joining me here on the Restaurants of Hawaii on the ThinkTech platform. Today we'll be discussing how American Savings Banks by Local Program is a unique marketing opportunity to help your business grow. Okay, perfect. Hi everyone. Again, this is Cheryl Matsuoka, the Executive Director of the Hawaii Restaurant Association and I'd like to have my guests introduce themselves. Can I first start off with Katrina? Hi Katrina. Hi, Cheryl. Yes, my name is Katrina Sabito and I'm the Director for Consumer and Business Products at American Savings Bank. Welcome Katrina. Thank you for joining me and Clint. Hello. My name is Clint. I'm the owner of Aloha Donut Co. Welcome Clint and Noah. How are you, my dear? Nice to see you again. Hi, my name is Noah and I'm the Marketing Director at Aoki Group Restaurants, which includes Dorako Sushi, 1938, Aoki Tepanyaki, Herringbone and Blue Tree. Very nice, Noah. Thank you so much for joining us. So today we're going to be talking all about the American Savings by Local Program. So my first question is to Katrina. Katrina, how did the by Local Program, how did it start? Well, it actually started back in 2021. So really how this all came about was during the pandemic. We really saw a lot of restaurants closed and a lot of businesses struggling and coming out of the pandemic to a lot of consumers were also being hit with inflation and increased cost. So we tried to figure out how do we bring our resources together to help all of our community members, our consumers, businesses alike. So that's kind of how by Local started and where the idea really generated from. Thank you, Katrina. And everyone remembers how ASB was all behind the Hawaii Restaurant Card. So we will always, the food service industry will always be grateful to ASB for all that she's done. So Katrina, what exactly is the by Local Program? By Local is we are really doing what we can to help support businesses. So what we do is we thought, how do we bring our resources together and really help our businesses? And where one of the places our businesses struggle with is really marketing, right? They don't have the time to market their own business because they're really in the day to day and, you know, making their businesses run. So what we do is we use and we tap our resources to promote the businesses to all of our debit card holders and we have different marketing channels that really helps to promote each of the businesses that are participating in our program. Great, great idea. So Clint, so what is Aloha Donuts by Local Program? And before I say that, I have been driving by your location over on King Street for a while now. And every time I drive by Clint, I feel so guilty. I'm like, I need to stop in. You know, Clint is located right there on King Street, right Clint, right across the street from Washington, intermediate. Right across from Zippy's, right, actually right at the crosswalk. So right at the light. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. And because there's so many Zippy's, that's why I said Washington and Tunisia, but it's right there next door. So Clint, what is your Aloha Donuts by Local Program? We have the spend $15 or more and then you get $5 off your purchase. Nice. Nice. Nice. So has my local program helped Aloha Donuts? Yes, absolutely. A lot of local people, you know, they bank at American Savings Bank and they have that card. So that's one of the first things we ask whenever we have new customers come in, we ask them if they have an ASD card.  And, you know, every time whenever they find out, oh, there's, there's an offer on there. They're super excited and happy. They got that discount. Absolutely. Everybody's looking right for a way that they can save a little bit of money. So hi, Nova. How are you, dear? So what is, hi, what is our Oki Groups by Local Program, Noah? So we partnered with American Savings Bank to offer exclusive discounts at five of our businesses at Durakusushi, 1938 Indochine, Aoki Tepanyaki and Herringbone. You receive $20 off when you spend $100 or more. And at Blue Tree, you receive $10 off when you spend $40 or more. We also do have another local promotion where we have our own loyalty program called Aoki Group Awards, which is also known as AGR and it's free for anyone to join. It's very simple. And we just download the app through your smartphone and we have many benefits and discounts for our local guests out there as well. Nice. I was just over at your Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center location with the Educational Foundation. So we were just down there. Very nice. It's always, always great food. And so I'm going to ask Katrina then. Katrina, can you go a little bit more detail of how the Bi Local Program has benefited some of the, is not only restaurants, right? There are other types of businesses I see on the Bi Local website. Correct. So we actually started with a lot of restaurants and we have been moving more to like retail stores. So we do have a good number of retail stores. We even have like Flora & Company, so Abby Carpet is part of this. We also have furniture stores like Baleaga. So we are spreading and really growing this platform in the portfolio as much as we can. Very nice. So, so Clint, has it driven more business to your Aloha Donuts? Yeah. Again, especially with the locals and just the neighborhood in general.  It spreads. So people come out and they, that's one of the first things they come. Hey, I got an ASD card right off the bat. So yeah, absolutely. It's been great. That's awesome. And Noah, do you hear the same thing when people come in to your, all your different concepts? You know, they're like, I also have an ASD card just to, you know, let the server know. Yeah. So ASD actually does a lot of amazing co-promotions like creating flyers for us and sending out newsletters, email blasts. They have so many ways of promoting us as well. So it's been really helpful. I feel like the highlight for us was being able to be a part of the High Now Weekend Takeover series. We had our executive Chef Gary Tomashiro from Herringbone showcases new dishes on that show as well. Oh, that's so cool. Okay. I've got to go look that up. So Katrina, how do businesses become a by-local partner? It's actually really easy, right? As long as you have an ASD checking account with us, we are really trying to grow it. We have over 35 different businesses that are currently participating in this program, and we are looking at expanding this as much as we can, right? We want to do everything we can to really help local businesses and give our debit card customers a reason to use the product and really just continue to help support local. So all you have to do is really go to ASBHawaii.com slash join by local. And there's just a few different information about your business, and then it gets sent to us, and then we'll start engaging with the business. And I think you said it's so true. Many of the restaurant tours that I know, they're so busy working in their restaurant, right? I mean, everything from in the kitchen to the front desk everywhere. I see the owners of restaurants busing tables, right? So they don't have time to work on the marketing part of their business. So ASB helps them with that. And that's such a huge, huge help.  All it is, is a debit card? Correct. All you have to do is have our ASB debit card. And if you go to any of the participating businesses and tell them that you're using the card, they will apply the discount, right then and there. That is awesome. And I really feel that everybody, right? I mean, is looking for a way that they can just save a few dollars here and there. And it would make a decision for me, Clint, like if I was looking to go to a donut shop, right?  So that's a great idea. Clint, do you want to share more of how the buy local program has helped a lot of donuts?  So people say, yeah, we saw you online. I was in my banking and it popped up, you know, we saw the special or we saw that that offer with the card itself to five dollars. So, it's been great. You know, we got, we had a chance to do events with the ASB sponsored events. We do come in Sundays over at Eleni Palace. That's been really great. That's really been getting us out there, getting our product out there. So that's actually a really huge thing for us. There's a lot of people that show up to that. So it's been really, really great with ASB. Yes, Katrina, I sent that out also to our listserv also, letting everyone know about your come in Sundays. And I think it's a great thing in ASB again, that so much to support our local community, we're just so grateful for everything that ASB does. So Noah, would you, would you recommend other businesses to jump on the buy local campaign also? Yes, I definitely would. It's a great opportunity to be involved in the community a little bit more. And they also make it really easy to collaborate. And it helps our businesses a lot by putting us on the map, on their websites. It also helped our newest restaurant, 1938 Indochine. We just opened that place up. It really brought people in. And we just changed our menu. Our chef Kelly Digala is amazing, but ASB really helped kind of bring people in there and try it out for their first time. That's awesome. So Katrina, is there anything else that I missed that you want to share about the buy local campaign? As I mentioned, it's been going on for a while and right now you're getting a lot more traction on it. Is there something else you'd like to say to businesses who are interested in boosting their revenue? Definitely. So buy local is really, we tailor fit each of the offers to the business. So we really look at what the business is doing and the average brand and what a good offer would be. And then we work closely with the businesses to come up with what they think, what we think is the best offer for their customers and what would be the most appealing. So we really do try to tailor fit it. And aside from that, it's just a marketing opportunity that we're really trying to expose their business, get their name out there, get people to support them and really just create a community where we're all just helping all local residents and businesses alike. And I love the your come on a Sunday's idea. So share with us a little bit about that event. It sounds like Clint, you've been there. So Katrina, can you tell us a little bit about that event? We do come on a Sunday's with Ilani Palace once a month and we tap our business customers to help. We want to be one of the food vendors and Alokha Donut is one of the food vendors that we are on food with us almost every Sunday. And it's just a really good way to be out there, be with the community and like to help support tours that we're giving away and having free choice to the palace. So it really is a really nice event. That's so awesome. Now, especially because that gives everyone, like Clint said, more exposure, right?  Right? Is that what they say to you? Exactly. And we just don't hate to write down the street. It's great. Exactly. Exactly. So, Clint, what are your hours there over at Aloha Donut? We're open seven days a week from 7am to 2pm. Nice. Nice. Nice. I want to talk a little bit about some of your menu that you offer to get everybody. We specialize in Mochi Donuts. I don't know if you ever had those before. There's a lot of people that haven't had Mochi Donuts before. I think some people are more familiar with other places that serve one type of Mochi Donut. We serve five different flavors daily and we rotate three flavors every week. We have our two normal flavors, our most popular flavors, which is Strawberry and Tarot, and then we rotate with three flavors every week. We also offer cake donuts, yeast donuts. We have soft serve. We have Andagi hot dogs. We're going to start rolling out some new exciting things also. Check out our Instagram for that, Aloha Donut Co. H&L. So, yeah, we're just really focused on the Mochi Donuts. We do coffees also and matcha lattes. So, yeah, just a little place to stop over, get some treats. Nice. Nice. And Noah, of course, I've been to your Indochine and all of your other restaurants and the Rocco Blue Tree. So, do you want to share a little bit about some of the new type of menu items that you have over there, especially at Indochine? Oh, yeah. So, we actually, we recently just got a new chef. His name is Chef Kelly de Gala and he actually recreated the whole menu and made everything, just the flavors. Everything is improved. So, it's definitely something that we should come down to try out. Your food is always awesome, always. So, Katrina, is there anything else that I have not asked you that you want to bring up about the buy local campaign? Maybe the only other thing is because we are trying to expand, like, it's great if, you know, different businesses, we have different participating business who have referred other businesses because they do think the program's great and they want them to join. So, we do love and appreciate that and it really just helps us get the word out there and really help each other. So, I think that's one of the great things that comes out of this. Well, I'm going to say something really bold, Katrina, because as a bank, ASB is really trying to help their clients and help them grow by providing this great marketing and resources that many times the restaurants, they don't have the bandwidth, especially when I'm thinking about the smaller mom and pops and you see them working in the restaurant and they're basically doing everything from, you know, prepping in the morning to cleaning up at night, right? This is a great, great, great opportunity for businesses who want to boost their revenue to consider jumping on the ASB buy local campaign. As Hawaii Restaurant Association, Katrina knows we send out all of the information about the buy local campaign and the come out on a Sunday. So, if you're not receiving our emails, it's free to sign up. You just go to our website, HawaiiRestaurant.org and just sign up for a free industry update. It comes directly to your in-bin. All right, everyone, now I'm just going to kind of go around the circle. Katrina, is there anything else that we have missed that we want to mention before we end the show? The only other thing maybe is really that the program is free for businesses to participate and join. We do everything we can to really support the business, so there is no cost for the business to be part of it. It's just right. We're doing what we can and working together to get what we can out there. That's a great point that there is no expense to this business. And it's just like I mentioned earlier, you know, the Hawaii Restaurant Card was such an amazing program that ASB did and all of that they did for the community during the pandemic. So, yes, that's a great point and all they have to do is, as you mentioned, you know, go to the website and sign up or they can just reach out to me. Most times, people reach out to me after the show and say, hey, remember what you talked about? How do I get in touch with them? And then I'll definitely do a link so that they can link up with you, Katrina. So, Clint, what did I miss about Aloha Donuts? Now that you've given us your menu, you've given us your hours, people know exactly where you are across the street from the Zippies over next to Washington Intermediate. What else about you? How long have you been in business? You've been in business for about a year and a half, actually. So, fairly new. You know, we're still learning. We're still, you know, trying to do different things. So, yeah, it's exciting. It's fun. So, you know, we're trying to bring out a new product that I think is going to probably be pretty popular. We're going to try and roll out our mochi sodas. So, it's our take on mala sodas, but mochi. So, beyond the look out for that, that's coming out real soon. So, but yeah, it's this whole experience has been great, you know, being able to do all these events. I think with Oy Business Magazine also, we did an event for them too. So, that was a real fun one. So, you know, just really getting out there, giving us the opportunity to get ourselves out there and be seen, you know, and people to taste our products and stuff. So, it's been really wonderful for us. I love that. And really and truly, the King Street location is your only location right now? Yes, it is. The only location. Yes, that's it. And then you can find him over at Tom Ina Sundays over at the Ilani Palace, right? Absolutely. Nice, nice. And, you know, that's a great gift to take, you know, when people have to go to like the neighbor islands and things like that. I can see that being taken, you know, as a gift from Hawaii. That's nice. Yes, absolutely. Nice. I do it all the time. I know. That's what I'm thinking about, right? So, free on the plane, I give it to the crew. They love it, you know, so bring it to the other islands and spread the love. Yeah. And who doesn't love donuts? Oh my gosh, that's right there. All right. So, Noah, what did I miss before we end the show? I just want to be sure you had an opportunity to share everything. Your group, Aoki Group, has just grown, right? And I haven't made it out. Is your your Kapolei location? I'm sure it's really busy. Yeah, it's doing well. We actually just came up with some summertime cocktails over there. We're also launching our first DJ night this Saturday. Every first Saturday, we're going to be having a EDM and hip-hop night. So, that should be fine. But yeah, at all the locations, we have some summer specials going on. At Doraku Waikiki, we have our Sunday special, Sushi Beets and Bloody Marys, but yeah. I love it. I love it. You've just expanded and you're right. Kapolei is a very, very big growing community out there. And so that's great that you folks are out there. I'm glad to hear that it's doing well, girl. And it's good to see you again. So, before I wrap up the show, is anybody have anything else before I do the final close? Did I miss anything? All right, so we're actually going to do something different also with a little doughnuts. We're currently working on a trailer. So, we want to bring a food trailer. Yeah, so we want to bring our doughnuts away from Makali and kind of get it to other parts of the island and let people experience our treats. So, that's coming soon. Probably roll that out in August or by the beginning of August and you'll be seeing a big red trailer with Aloha doughnuts on it. I love it. Thank you for letting us know now. I'll be on the watch for that, right? Everybody looks out for the other trucks, right? The food trucks. And as you know, everybody's just growing. I've been out to write the food trucks at Waikiki at Pearl Ridge. Everybody's got food trucks out there. So, that's brilliant, Clint, to be able to take your doughnuts anywhere around the island. Brilliant. So, what made you think about that? When we've done events on the parts of the island on the west side or up in Mililani, and it's always the first question they ask is, where are you located? And we say Makali and they're all, well, that's far, right? So, they say, oh, are you going to open something down on this side? And I'm like, oh, not nothing right now, but so, that's always been a question for us. We have people that come up from Nanakuli and Waianite to get our doughnuts. And they always let us know, hey, we're coming out from Nanakuli to get this. So, when are you going to bring some down on that side? So, there's been some demand, and we're way out on that side in town. We really want to have people experience our offerings. So, that's pretty much what the drive was, is to get something to transport and sell our products and mobile. So, yeah, you just want to spread the awareness of aloha doughnut dough. I love it. I love it. Great idea. So, everyone, again, thank you so much for joining us here in Restaurants of Hawaii and the Think Tech platform. And I just want to mention to our viewers and supporters, we all want to support BiLocal. And everybody supports that whole idea. So, this, again, American Savings Bank provides us with a great opportunity to support all of our local businesses while saving money on special offers and discounts. And if you are responsible in growing your business's revenue, reach out to American Savings Bank to find out more about this unique marketing opportunity so that they can help you grow your business. Again, my name is Cheryl Matsuoka, the Executive Director of the Hawaii Restaurant Association and the Hawaii Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. The Hawaii Restaurant Association is the organization unifying, representing and supporting the Hawaii Restaurant and food service industry. Thank you so much for joining us. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Check out our website, thinktecawaii.com. Mahalo.


Okay, thank you for inviting me. I'm very interesting for me to be here. I'm a faculty in the biology department, so I'm gonna talk and touch on some of the same things. There's sort of pros and cons of open access publication. I have some of my own opinions, some of my own anecdotes about this. So I think that everyone would agree that, and so my biases will be from biology and science and how I'm not sure how broadly that applies to other disciplines and how I think about open access publishing. I think everyone would agree that open access, quick dissemination of information is very important to scientific progress and it's ideally what we want. And for many years, people have been frustrated with peer review and the publishing process. To highlight how it works is that people take federally funded or various, mostly federally funded taxpayers' dollars to do their research. They submit it to journals. Journals, they're reviewed by other people working in the field for free. The editors usually work and do this for free, not paid by the journals. And then upon publication, the author signs over their copyright to the journal. And then university libraries and government libraries pay billions of dollars to buy access to that scholarly research back into their institutions. And so I have some numbers here. So for instance, Elsevier, which is a very big publishing house for life sciences. I think in 2010 posted a billion dollars profit. You know, a billion dollars that really have come out of taxpayer-funded science research. There's been some big arguments. Some journals like Nature, Nature Publishing has a large number of journals. You know, no library can not access nature. They're very important journals. They charge a fortune. There's sort of sort of a debate where the University of California system at some point has said that they're just not going to renew the subscription to them because they're outrageously expensive. So they sort of get a buyer's market where libraries and institutions have no alternative unless you're as big as a UC system to refuse to pay whatever price they're asking. And then of course access is restricted only to those people who are already going to be in those universities of government systems that have had that access paid for them. I think this was really highlighted recently and there was a lot of flak for this with the Mars rover, the Mars Curiosity rover. People were really interested in the findings of this. People very broadly, something like two and a half billion dollars of taxpayers' money to put the Mars rover up there and have a look. And those papers are published in science. There was no open access to them. You couldn't go in and see what the Mars rover had found. And I think this is a really important highlight of the type of research people want to see. You know, and so also these journals, so there's a talk of the sort of the sting on the open access, you know, that they're paid for publication so they're going to take everything. I thought I'd highlight one really, really interesting exception to this was published in science. Science, you know, these sort of very high impact journals were frequently published at a very dicey data. And so one example of this was an extraordinary finding published a few years ago that bacteria could use arsenic and said a phosphorus in their DNA, like absolutely extraordinary finding published with high profile in science, lots of new splash. You know, it was fundamentally flawed. There were very obvious controls that were missing from experiments, wasn't picked up by reviewers, wasn't picked up by editors. Sort of as immediately as it hit the stands there was obvious criticism and it was sort of later retracted and withdrawn but you know, it didn't matter because the publicity was already out there for science. So the sort of question comes, you know, is there a way to do this better? Is there a way to do science publishing, science peer reviewers sort of by scientists for scientists and without this sort of for profit angle that, well, Elsevier obviously makes a lot of money. And so the internet really does, I mean, ideally you could find your work, publish your work, put it up on the internet, same day, people could all come along and have a look at what you found. So I think these online journals are trying to, open access online journals are trying to bridge this gap. And like people have said, they've have been extraordinarily successful. So some of the journals like PLOS, BioMed Central Journals, have got very high impact, very highly regarded open access journals. And there's a new journal there, E-Life. E-Life is trying to stand sort of up against nature and science has been extremely high profile. They're currently funded by Wellcome Trust and HHMI so that they're actually free to publish in. So although these journals are not for profit, it's still obviously surprising to me extremely expensive. And so the model now is rather than them selling access to the library system to buy, that the author upon having their journal, their article accepted will pay the fee for publication costs. And so for PLOS Biology, that fee is $3,000. You know, it's not an insignificant cost that now the PI on a grant is now taking this cost rather than the university taking this cost. And I think if we move to open access, there will have to be some understanding of how this cost is now distributed. For me as a PI, now I'm sort of shelving the cost directly out of my grants for access rather than the university buying access for me. So it's not cheap to publish here. And like I said, a lot of the traditional publishers are offering this option, open access options on papers or open access journals where you pay some sort of cost and then you can have your article be open access. One thing that I like that a lot of these open access journals are doing are sort of having a post peer review option. So they sort of sort of like basically comments that people can read the paper and put their comments and perhaps have some sort of discussion online. To me, that tends to, it seems like a great idea. It seems to be very poorly used if you go and look. There seems to be very few comments about these. And clearly when these journals are only making money when the paper is accepted, it seems that this has to create some kind of conflict. If I'm not making enough money to cover the costs of my journals, the solution to that is to start accepting more papers so that I'm bringing in more revenue. So it does seem to me that this is going to be an ongoing problem that just simply the cost of running even these online journals. And then I will touch on one, and Michael talked about that. When I've talked to the societies and the societies that run the journals, they actually, I mean they do seem to be very concerned about the fact that they currently will have journals run by their society that do make a profit for them and is their viewpoint, they're turning this profit into running meetings, running organizations, providing fellowships for students, travel, travel awards for students. I think I'm concerned about losing this kind of money as everything's moved to open access publishing. But having said all that, I think from my own perspective, being able to click on a paper and immediately have access to that, to be able to see that, not get that really annoying screen that pops up when I click on something that tells me I don't have access, but perhaps if I click, clicking on things for five minutes I might find somewhere we do have access. Seeing you has extraordinarily poor access, it seems, to a lot of journals that I want to go and have a look at presumably because the cost is high of that particular publisher. So open access is a benefit to me, and I think it's absolutely that knocks on to your paper if it is open access is going to be more likely to be cited, I think.


Hi and welcome to the session. I'm Shashi. Let us do one question. Question is if A, B are symmetric matrices of same order then A, B minus B, A is our A skew symmetric matrix, B symmetric matrix, C zero matrix, D identity matrix. First of all, let us understand the key idea to solve the given question. Any square matrix A is said to be skew symmetric if A transpose is equal to minus A. Any square matrix A is said to be symmetric if A transpose is equal to A. For any matrices of suitable orders, we have A plus B whole transpose is equal to A transpose plus B transpose and transpose of A, B is equal to B transpose A transpose. Let us now start with the solution. We know A, B are symmetric matrices. Therefore, we get A is equal to A transpose and B is equal to B transpose. That is the transpose of A is equal to itself and the transpose of B is equal to itself. We know symmetric matrices are square matrix, so A and B are square matrix of same order. This implies A, B and B are defined. Hence A, B minus B, A whole transpose is equal to A, B plus minus B, A whole transpose. This is because A minus B is equal to A plus minus B, right? Now it is equal to transpose of A, B plus transpose of minus B. This is because A plus B whole transpose is equal to A transpose plus B transpose. This we had already read in key idea. Now this is further equal to A, B whole transpose minus B, A whole transpose. Now we know transpose of A, B is equal to B transpose A transpose. So we can write it equal to B transpose A transpose minus this can be written as A transpose B transpose. This is because we had already read in key idea transpose of A, B is equal to B transpose A transpose. Now we know B and A are symmetric matrices. So B transpose is equal to B and A transpose is equal to A. Similarly, it can be written as A, B as A transpose is equal to A and B transpose is equal to B. Now if we take minus one as common factor, then we get minus one multiplied by A, B minus B, A. So we get transpose of A, B minus B, A is equal to minus A, B minus B, A. Now since transpose of A, B minus B, A is equal to negative of itself. This implies A, B minus B, A is our skew symmetric matrix. So our correct answer is A, skew symmetric matrix. We know if the transpose of a matrix is equal to negative of itself, then it is our skew symmetric matrix. So we can see here transpose of A, B minus B, A is equal to minus of A, B minus B, A. So it is our skew symmetric matrix. So our correct answer is A. This is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Take care and goodbye.


This is what the funk, that's my joke. I'm Tim Hess, I've been solving technology problems for about 13 years, primarily using Microsoft Tech. I've been doing a lot of C-Sharp and Visual Basic development, primarily web development. I'm absolutely not an F-Sharp expert, so I apologize for that. But I guess an upside to that is I've only put a few weeks into it and I can see the value in it. So hopefully as a result of this, if nothing else, the rest of you will go out and try it as well. So F-Sharp has kind of a strange reputation. You either are afraid of it or have no idea what it is in general. So I want to spend a minute and talk about what this talk isn't. We're not going to get into the depths of the language. We've got a half an hour. It'd be completely unrealistic to get into that. It's not a new variation of features. Same concept, not a lot of time. And the scary part of most functional programming is advanced math. A lot of functional programming tutorials involve complicated theory and we're not getting into that. This is just going to be some practical application for F-Sharp and we'll show some real code of it in action. And we're not touching monads. If you're familiar with that term, good for you. If you're afraid of that term, I don't blame you. We're not going to talk about it because we don't need to. So before we dig into it, why bother? Well, in the case of F-Sharp, you're probably not going to use it in the real world, which is unfortunate because it's really cool. It's more about just learning a different way to do things. And this guy has a good quote on that. F-Sharp and learning it will provide you a different way of thinking about how to solve a problem. So the more tools in your tool belt, the easier it is to solve problems. F-Sharp is another good tool to have in your tool belt. A quick note about links. The slides are available online, so feel free to download them. Don't worry about trying to record them at this point. F-Sharp specifically has some cool things that C-Sharp doesn't have as .NET languages go. There is some stuff that has crossover from F-Sharp to C-Sharp, like generics and async programming in general. This guy has a really nice post about some features that are still in F-Sharp that don't exist in C-Sharp today. The short version is there are some things that will jump over. There are other things that probably never will just because of the way that F-Sharp is built. And apparently this guy is one of the community members for F-Sharp, and he's a really smart guy who knows a lot about it, but he goes into his post and he says, you know, the explanation for one of these is too deep for me to even understand. So some really advanced stuff that was baked into F-Sharp since the beginning. So what is it? It's part of the .NET family. It's been around since 2005, so it's definitely gotten a lot of attention from a small group of people, and the people that use it really love it. It's been cross-platform since 2010, so they have some opinions on how to do cross-platform, and you can basically run it anywhere at this point in time, whether it's .NET Core, .NET Framework, or if you are really in love with it, you can use WebSharper and Fable to get JavaScript code and do some really crazy things. It is open source. It has been open source since the beginning, so if there's anything you don't like about it, you can feel free to talk to them about it, and they might shoot you down, or they might love whatever you have to say. It works in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code. Specifically, there's a plugin called Ionite for Visual Studio. Visual Studio Code, that makes it a lot easier to work with. I won't pretend that it is as easy to work with in Visual Studio as C-Sharp. It's been somewhat of a second-class citizen for a long time, and historically it's been more of a work with your text editor to deal with it, but they have been making huge strides towards bringing F-Sharp into a first-class citizen status, and the examples later actually use ASP.NET Core MVC, which previously took a lot of extra work to make happen, and now it's in the templates, so it's gotten a lot easier. And of course, the F-Sharp community is active, and they love F-Sharp, so you can find them online and talk to them quite easily. They are extremely happy to answer questions, which is always a good thing when you're dealing with fringe technologies. So how does it compare to C-Sharp? I'm not going to go extensively into this list right now, but they're both .NET languages, so they work with each other, but the syntax is obviously different. They have different defaults, which we'll get into more, but functional versus object-oriented, they have different history. The philosophy behind them, they exist for different reasons. They solve different problems. And F-Sharp is functional first, which means that it's not purely functional. You can still do just about everything you can do in C-Sharp, even though you might not want to. And there are some ways that F-Sharp makes some things that C-Sharp does naturally more difficult than that, because in F-Sharp there's a different way, which F-Sharp of course thinks is better. There's a system of type inference. A lot of people love the var keyword in C-Sharp. Some people hate it. F-Sharp takes it 11 steps further and implies types for you all over the place, which saves a ton of typing. There's a lot of other features today. I'm not going to get into them. If you want just one really cool reason why you should look at F-Sharp that was too advanced to fit into this half-hour topic, type providers are an amazing topic. All right. This is a basic shopping cart class in C-Sharp. It all fits on the screen. It doesn't do anything fancy, but it looks pretty typical of a small class in C-Sharp. You can see it's got 42 lines, 900 characters. There's nothing real exciting here. It's just basic C-Sharp. Next up is this code in F-Sharp, which we can walk through together in a moment. You can see immediately that it's a lot more compact. We can trim a lot of white space, which doesn't serve any real purpose for most things. If you're familiar with Python, it's similar. The white space is important, and that's how we get in and out of functions. It doesn't seem like a whole lot, but you think about how much more code you can fit on the screen, and that just kind of becomes an immediate benefit of using language like F-Sharp. The character count difference is largely due to type inference, and I should be clicking through these. No semicolons. You can use them in some places. They have a purpose, so if you love your semicolons, they aren't gone completely. Same with the curly braces. Type decorate declarations, which is extremely convenient. Now, access modifiers. One of the different defaults that we'll get into is immutability by default, so as a side effect of that, we don't typically declare access modifiers in F-Sharp nearly as often because it's generally immutable, so you don't have to worry about somebody trying to modify a class or a property they're not supposed to because they can't. And just a simple syntax difference, you'll notice type and let all over the place. Those are the equivalents of class and bar. You also do not need return statements. These true statements are the implicit returns just to match it up with the C-Sharp class library, a class that I had on the screen previously. And just for a nice little side-by-side, the F-Sharp class and the C-Sharp class. They do exactly the same thing. And like with most C-Sharp to F-Sharp conversions, there is a significant reduction in size, which I don't think hurts readability, particularly in this case. There's a lot of tricks you can do with C-Sharp. You can put things on one line that maybe you shouldn't. In F-Sharp, you get the same kind of benefits that you would have to do some crazy things in C-Sharp that may not be best practices, but it just kind of works in F-Sharp. So the defaults. What do I mean by default? Well, in C-Sharp, everything can be null. You have null references and exceptions all over the place. In F-Sharp, you have to do a little extra work for things to be null, and it's generally a code smell. If you have things that are being declared as null in F-Sharp, so they prefer that you don't do that. And that's what that attribute looks like. Another default option that's different is immutability. I already touched on that. In order to create something as mutable, you have to use the mutable keyword in F-Sharp. And not only that, the operator to assign a new value is different. I'm sure that has a name, but I don't know what it is. The little less than dash sign is how you assign a new value to a mutable thing. Mutability. Things don't change when you don't expect them to. Okay, so structural equality is... It's extremely common in C-Sharp to want to compare the value of the properties of an object. By default, you get that with F-Sharp out of the box, whereas in C-Sharp, you're having to override the equals operator, get hash code. There's extra work to do, and F-Sharp just gives you that for free. And it looks like that. This is a record type, which I linked on the other slide. It's just basically an anonymous inline type you can do interfaces inline. Again, additional, really cool functionality that you get to if you play around with it more. So, C-Sharp and F-Sharp exist for different reasons. What does that mean? C-Sharp comes from C, no surprise there. F-Sharp comes from ML. It is effectively the .NET version of OCaml. And one of the main goals of F-Sharp is to help you write predictable code, and you get that by the compiler doing more for you. So, you get that inline functionality, and all ability, so on and so forth. I'm going to talk next real quickly about a couple of really neat features. Pipelining. If you've used bash or PowerShell, you just pass the output of one function to another. It is extremely easy in F-Sharp. You can pass forward, you can pass backwards. It's really common, and it's one of the most popular operators for good reason. And the implicit returns that was mentioned on the previous slide is part of what enables this to be extremely easy. So, an example. We've got a case where we were asked to output the value of all even numbers in a list. So, we've got some basic functions that we've got to find to get us started here. So, the one way of doing that looks about like this. It's fairly simple to just say, here's a line to get the even numbers out of that list and then another line to square them. It's not the worst thing in the world, but we can do better. Next version. We write it all in line. The parentheses here used to guide the compiler for the right order of operations. In F-Sharp, you use a space between parameters, and that's how you typically do it. So, we group the interfunction call with parameters so that the compiler knows what to do with it and so that the type inference works all the way back out. It's still pretty easy to read, and it works. But if we throw in the pipe operator, it gets a little nicer. You can have different formatting options for it. This is the multi-line variance of the pipe operator, which helps if you've got more complex examples or you're doing a whole bunch of things with it. You can throw it all in one line if you want it to get nice and small. All right, so type inference, another cool feature. I'm not going to read that. So what is it? Types are inferred. It kind of speaks for itself with the name of it. I love Microsoft and their obvious naming conventions. So, why less typing? Why retype the type when the compiler can do it for you? We're programmers. We're lazy. Let's let the tooling do the work for us. Another reason it's important is that we can focus more on what matters. There's a better signal-to-noise ratio when we reduce the amount of characters and code that we just plain don't care about. So what does this look like in action? Well, this is the distinct operator from the link source code. This is how C-sharp has this method signature defined. You can figure it out if you work your way through it, but it's a little bit less than ideal. If we were to take this exact same function and write in an F-sharp, it looks like that. So you can kind of see how much that can really affect your day-to-day life when you start thinking about advanced enterprise programming with C-sharp and whatnot. Let's look at some real code. I have a fun store application that... We'll have the source for this at the end on the slides. This is a fairly standard style of .NET application. There are four microservices. That didn't work. That's a little better. Can you read that? Kind of. All right, we'll make it bigger. I'll just talk you through it. We've got four applications. There's a cart service, an order service, a front-end store, and an admin application for managing inventory processing orders. And we've also got two-shared libraries, one that's written in C-sharp, where the intent was to put models just to kind of show how you can interop with your legacy C-sharp code or new C-sharp code if you've got maybe multiple teams where one team likes C-sharp and one team likes F-sharp, or you've got some cases where C-sharp is the right tool for the job, F-sharp is the right tool for the job. The point of putting all of this together was just that it all works. So how do we set up SteelTow? That's an important thing to do in Cloud Foundry. The program main in F-sharp looks like this, whereas in C-sharp it looks like this. It's not too exciting for me because I work with this all the time, but it's important to see how it works. If you don't work with it all the time, it's one of the first questions. It's like, how do I really apply this? And you can see that we don't specify types in as many places. It looks really similar because it's all .NET. So I have this running in Cloud Foundry. Of course. It's a fun store. I made inventory based on font awesome icons. I thought it was fun. It was easy. I didn't want to have just plain text. I live in Wisconsin. We just had a snowstorm in April. It was a pretty big deal. If we add that to the cart, we break it because my session expired or something along those lines. I'll try it again. Okay. This demo app is just a basically really simple e-commerce type scenario. But the F-sharp MVC web application just works. It's got F-sharp on the MVC side. It's still using razor-style C-sharp syntax for the views. So if you're familiar with C-sharp, it works the same in F-sharp. I did find that it got unhappy with me a lot. The C-sharp razor stuff doesn't work as well in an F-sharp project. Largely because it uses a different compiler. So your C-sharp stuff will have the Roslin compiler running in the background. And your F-sharp stuff depends on the F-sharp compiler. They don't always work the best together. And I'm assuming that's going to get better. I worked with F-sharp a little bit in the past to try it out. A royal pane is set up. And now you get templates out of the box. But the tooling is still a work in progress. Cart contents, place and order. Like I said, it's a really basic app. So the admin side of it just has a mechanism for viewing orders, processing the orders, standard e-commerce type stuff, sting inventory. Someday it will have managing inventory and security and all the standard interesting things about that. Back to the code. Wearing it up is really exciting. Okay, more comparisons here. Again, basic.net. In F-sharp, everything has a return. So if you don't want to do something with that return, you will get compiler warnings if you don't tell it to ignore the return. It's kind of annoying that you have to type more, but it's important because the compiler tells you, hey, there's a thing here that's coming back. Are you sure you don't want to do something with it? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. Obviously, in this case, we don't want to do anything with anything that comes back here. But it's just another case where F-sharp really helps you to do things right. Another nice little comparison here with the values controller. This is the standard default out of the box values controller from F-sharp versus with C-sharp. And again, the main difference is the curly braces, but the implicit returns, you know, you have to, say, return new string array here, whereas it's just all in line. Here's a string array. Figure out the type for me compiler and you're done. Another one of the ways that I got a lot more familiar with F-sharp was something called F-sharp Cohen's, which is a really great place to start. Again, this is a GitHub repository. The link is in the slides. And the way that it works is a bunch of F-sharp code is out here. It's all structured for you. Most of it is written. All you have to do is fill in the blank. So in this particular case, it's explaining how let works. And, you know, we just declare a mutable value of X. It's at 100. We assign 200. And then you just ask you to fill in the blank and say, well, what is this thing worth? And if you just run it, it blows up because I'm in the wrong folder. So it's a really straightforward example of how to learn the language and I highly recommend it. On your journey to become an F-sharp guru, what's left? Scott Willaschen is much better at talking about F-sharp than I am. He also has a fantastic blog, which has every sped is not right. Powerpoint does not like it when you do that. Sorry about that. So Scott Willaschen has F-sharp for funandprofit.com. That blog is an excellent place to go and read all of the things about F-sharp and why it is a great thing. It is extremely easy to follow. He has a great job of explaining it for C-sharp developers. The F-sharp cones that I mentioned, lots more examples of how to get started with F-sharp. If you want to try and run F-sharp in your browser and you don't mind running Silverlight, try F-sharp.org is for you. If you think that Silverlight is a silly thing to use, maybe try .NET Fiddle. I have no idea why try F-sharp.org is still using Silverlight. It's a little disappointing. F-sharp.org, again, that's the primary source for their community. These resources are many more available for you. The source code, you can walk through it yourself, which will probably take you in directions that are more interesting to you as an individual developer rather than this general overview. If you want to get a hold of me and tell me that this was awful or great, whatever you want to do, Twitter, GitHub, and we're on Steel Toe Slack. That's where you can find me. I want to encourage you all to go to the Spring One platform in September. September. Any questions? Yeah. Start up? Sure. It's in the templates. I didn't dig into it a whole lot. Yeah, you can do that. Yeah, so that's effectively this right here. So you can. But not all of it returns exactly the same thing. So it's one of those cases where the compiler will really help you out. In some cases, in this case, a lot of it was copy, paste, and then modify. So it wasn't build it all in one line. Sometimes it works great to chain it. And sometimes you do want it broken out like this, especially when you're passing in the configuration to different methods, things like that. You may not want to necessarily repeat it all in line. Yeah. Well, like I said, Fsharp's been a curiosity of mine. So this was kind of my excuse to try and run it. And it works in Cloud Foundry. It's a .NET language. So you can do it, absolutely. And some of the hardest things were just learning the syntax difference and just plugging it all together. And if nothing else, here's one that you can just CF deploy or CF push. And it should just work. There's a lot of features that I didn't get into, which I apologize, again, I'm not an expert. But the point of it was that it's easy to start, right? So the places that it's most commonly used are probably in finance and advanced mathematics, largely because that's been the history of it. But it does work for anything. You can write a lot less code and do more. And the more advanced features are where it really starts to shine. The type providers that I mentioned are effectively ways to interact with data stores or whatever external data sources without using an ORM. So for example, there was a demo that I saw not long ago that involved using a Star Wars API. And they just reached out and queried it using type providers. But it's kind of, it's difficult to do this talk. It's starting from scratch because the type providers kind of build on a lot of other things. So a lot of these concepts are extremely cool and you can only get a taste of them once you kind of understand the basics. Yeah, well, the math is going to be the primary one. Jet.com is using it, as I understand for all of their stuff. They used to be a lot more vocal about what they were doing. Once they were acquired, I think they stopped talking about it. They shut down their tech blog. I'm hoping to use them for some source material and some inspiration for what to talk about and how to focus on it. But they took all that content away. So anything else? Yeah, I published locally before pushing it. So that's been a lot more successful. This was all actually using .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. So we got two minutes if anybody has anything else. Otherwise, we can call it good. Thanks for sticking around.


of being the Yankee manager. I remember going back to last spring training, you talked about never done this before. There are going to be things that I have to learn now with a year in the books. Have you allowed yourself, though, to think about the fact that winning 100 games in your first year as manager is a pretty rare accomplishment? On balance, I love what we got to just go through and, you know, know that we're one of those teams that has a real opportunity. So as you peek ahead to spring training in 2019, how eager are you to get started and to chase down that goal that the Yankee spell showed him last year? It's already started, you know. And in a lot of ways, it's a continuation from the season. You know, you're kind of in there and at it almost the next day, you know.  But like I said, I'm always going in and it's the ball's rolling, it's moving. It's, you know, how can we get better? Where can we make improvements? You know, that excitement is upon us. You know, especially as you communicate and talk to players and coaches. And it's once you get past that new year, it's much more real and on the horizon. And, man, I can't wait. Those moments where you can talk to your coaches, talk to Brian Cashman and people in the front office. How much do you cherish those moments? Because as you said earlier, this is kind of building towards what your goal is in 2019. You might be making some decisions or having some discussions now that help you down the line. No question. And that's why I just, even on a day when not a lot's going on or I just love being there because of the potential of something sparking an idea or a conversation that may happen. So I love it. Wanna quiz you or test you? Maybe that's not the right phrase. I wanna ask you about New York City in a sense. So we're in Brooklyn right now. Your working address is in the Bronx. You've mentioned your family's affinity for Manhattan. There's another baseball team that plays in Queens. And then the Yankees have a minor league team in Staten Island. Of those five boroughs, do you have a favorite? The Bronx, baby. I figured you would say that. That would probably be the right thing to say for the manager of the New York Yankees. And I think it is right. The Bronx is where it's at, man. I love it.


Babe, you already have. Why? Joe, babe. Why? Okay, babe. Stop. What are you doing? Has been making out. If you guys have ever heard from Starbucks, Spinach, FedRap. We're scamming Starbucks today. Today I'm going to teach you guys how to scam Starbucks, scam the system, and not pay the ridiculous amount of money it costs to make a wrap there. Bill found a Spinach FedRap where he's always obsessed with his wrap from Starbucks, but they never have it in stock whenever we go. We get so upset, so Bill looked up the recipe and we figured out. I found a recipe that's close to it and it tastes exactly, it tastes better than Starbucks. It tastes better than Starbucks. 100%. But guys, it is so yummy, like, oh, I love it. And then here I am, you know. In my towel. Babe, what are you doing? Why are you making a kiss? I didn't even notice you were making a kiss. I didn't even notice she was in her towel. Yeah, I did my towel in my hair. This is, like, a really rare occasion. Do not screenshot. Babe, are you actually going to wear that? Do you actually want to wear this in an intro? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, don't screenshot this. This is my girl and my girl only, my baby, and no one's taking my baby away from me. But guys, what is your most welcome back to our channel? Literally, we have been moving into our house all week and I feel like we have not had a break to do anything. No, our house, like, if you guys still see boxes around the house, that is why we're still unpacking. Yeah. I mean, hey, we've only been in here for a solid week, which is crazy. I thought that we got as much done as we have gotten done. It's not like we just moved in a week ago, guys. Yeah, no. I'm not surprised we actually got done as much as we have gotten done in that week. You would think that we'd be, like, just chilling. No. No. No. We went zero to 100. We've been busting down Tatiana. Yeah.  Tatiana! Look, guys.  Let me see. Give me a kissy. Huh? Give me a kissy. What?  Because you're so cute. Look at that.  And then you cook it, right? And then you grill it really quick on top of the, like, stove top. We'll show you guys when it's officially done. We'll show you when it's done. Let's go. All right. Sorry if we were to ratchet because we just came from the gym. I didn't shower yet, but this is the finished product, everyone. I made my baby one. Look at hers. Give me a kiss. Give me a kiss. Give me a kiss. Huh? Kiss. Why? Thank you. Well, I can't kiss my boyfriend. No, you can't. Babe, I literally... What? You are... Give me a kiss.  Okay, okay, okay. I understand. Why are you complaining? Okay, you look beautiful right now, by the way. I know you think you look ratchet, but you look really good. But look at how good these are, guys. They look amazing, and they also taste... This looks like something that you buy from the store. I just wanted to show you really quick our wraps. You got to rub a dub dub. Oh, my gosh. They're about to be gone. Two seconds. What is up, guys? So, obviously, as you guys can see, I'm in my vanity room. I'm all the way across the house from bill right now. I've basically been getting ready.  And you guys can already tell that it is a word that we use every single day. That's all we call it till I was, babe, babe, babe.  But this boy right here always wants me to be clingy. So, babe, I'm being clingy for you. Why are you questioning me? You know? Like, why are you going to question me? You want me to be clingy? Here you go.   It's going to be perfect.  This isn't really a prank. This is more of a challenge to see how many times he says, babe. So, I'm going to actually have a count bar. Like, it is in the beginning, and it's going to count how many times he's going to kiss me. So, I want you guys to comment. Oh, he just said, babe.  What are you doing? Nothing. Give me a kiss. Why are you talking to the camera? I was showing them my vanity. No, not really. Well, I was just showing them, you know, my vanity. So, guys, this is my awesome vanity. Oh, did you tell them when she was setting it up? She broke a light bulb. I did break a light bulb.  Like, it was like this, and it just shatters everywhere. And I'm like, oh, my God. And luckily, they had an extra one. Luckily, they had me cleaning it up. Did you clean it up? Excuse me. I literally, the glass was all over the floor. What? What? Okay. We're going to talk about that. Anyways, more of the story. Mariah broke a light bulb. I cleaned it up once again. And we need a pink drink. And we need a pink drink. So, let's go. All right, guys. So, we got our pink drinks. We're back. Finally, we're back again. Have we missed a day this week without getting them? No, but Julia did inform me that they're changing the way that the pink drinks are made. I thought they already changed them. I can't taste the difference if they did, though. This is no. It definitely hasn't here yet, because this is still the same. Apparently, they're taking the sugar out of them. So, we will give you an update if they taste as good as they used to. Yes. I don't know. I don't know. Julia said they're more watered down. But to me, this is perfectly fine, which I really don't think it's updated yet. These are amazing. I don't think they updated it here yet. Maybe it's only a Cali thing. Yeah, I know. But I don't know. I don't know. How's the goodies? See what there is there. That is always trying to find another way to spend money. No, I just want to get some cute wall murals and cute stuff. See what's there. Babe, you already have stuff on the walls.  What? I'm driving. Okay, why are you saying why when you are always begging me to kiss you and love you? Why are you even questioning me loving you? Okay, I kiss Mariah way more than she kisses me anyway.  Babe, why? Come here. I love you. I love you. Alright, let's go to home goods and spend some money and pick out some cute things for our new house. And we're going to show you guys. Alright guys, so we just had the home goods and we already bought our first thing. We only went in our first aisle. I was telling Bill, when he was in Florida, when I wasn't here, I was playing his big Jenga game. And look at this. We found Giant Jenga. And me and Mariah looked at it right away and were like, we got to get it. Oh, we had you. That's like, we're getting that, right? I'm excited to play. I'm excited to play too. Oh my God.  I love you today. Keep doing it though. I like it. You like it? Yes. Okay, PDA guys, we're in the store. I came to home goods thinking that Mariah was going to spend all the money. But I'm the one that was like, oh, we have to get it. And we're getting it. So, baby, tell everyone what you did to me. No, you don't even get a kiss. Tell everyone what you did. Mariah. What? Is that a video? What? You sing babe. Okay. Tell everyone what you did. What? What did you just do? Oh, so for some reason, I didn't know you were not done drinking again. I threw a pink drink away. Was it more than halfway full? It's like that much. I didn't know because I thought he was done. It was like watered down now. Babe, I always finish. Literally have never. Why are you trying to kiss me? That's not going to fix. I feel bad. That's not going to bring my pink drink back. I can't kiss. Do you guys know how expensive drinks are from Starbucks? I know. It's alright. It's alright. I'm not salty about it. Whatever. Love you. Here we are. No, I'm not mad. Sorry. Don't be ill. Anyways guys, we bought the Big Jenga and then we bought one thing for Mariah's baby. We should play it. We should play it once for you guys. We should. Oh, we should. Let's do it. Let's do it, yes. Before we end this video, we're going to play the Big Jenga. Comment down below who you think is going to win right now. Me. You think you're going to win? I'm going to win. Alright, we'll see. Mariah, just to show them how heavy this box is, I want you to try to pick it up right now. Actually try. It's real wood, guys. These blocks are not light and setting this up is not going to be easy. What? What? Like a fresh new built house. Smell it. Babe, why are you smelling it? Ew. Let me smell it. Hold on. Let me smell it. Okay. Okay. You taste that? Cheez-its? Let me smell it. Smells like what? Like, smell here. I think Mariah is going crazy. It smells like a cardboard box. I don't know what you're talking about, but we're wasting time. Let's play the game. Oh my God. Snap. Your mom's going crazy. She's not going crazy. I don't know why. No crazy. You are. High five. Everyone high five. Snap. Ready? Boom. Nox.  It's like the wood because it's brand new wood. Alright. I love Snap more than you. He's my baby. Snap does not look like he's liking that right now. Hold on. We got to set this up because I'm sure everyone is wondering what large Jenga looks like.  That's what I'm going to call it. I play this once and it's so much more. Yeah, do it like that so I can already stack up. Fun fact, while we were in Miami at the Hard Rock Casino and Hotel, they had one of these in the club. They did? Because I turned 21 and we went to a club. Yeah, they had one in the club. I didn't even see it. I was playing. People were playing with it the whole time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they did. Alright, so I don't know how this is going to work because... Oh, Snap. Oh, Snap. It almost took out Snap. That was going to be bigger. What? This thing is huge. No, it is big. What do you mean? Thought it was going to be bigger. No, this is the right size, yeah. Are we missing them? Oh, you got it? Alright, let's evenly adjust this here. Well, it looks like they put this in weird. So apparently they packaged this weird when they put this together. So here's a quick time lapse of us fixing it now. Yes. If you only try to step... I love you. Just finished stacking it up. Now we're going to see who is going to be the winner. I'm going to win. Babe, you can go first. You can... Kiss for good luck. You can pull the first block. Kiss for good luck. You're not going to... Yeah, you're going to need all the luck you can't have. Because I'm competitive when it comes to games. Oh, first piece is coming out. Bam. Oh. He's not even like... Oh, we have to stack them on top. Oh, yeah, what? We are doing this so wrong. I know.  I don't know. I'm sure everyone was like... It's like the first block. That's like the first block. Because I'm going to have to stack it up really high. That's... That needs to go. I'm going to hurt myself. Uh-oh. Don't uh-oh me. You got to... You got to wait a minute. Oh, this is actually... Oh, it's getting... Getting intense. Can't you only do it like four down? Like below four then? Oh, I don't even care.  You're going to lose. Okay. Play the game. Why are you kissing me? Chill, babe. Why? Yeah. Did I get all out of your system? No. Keep playing. Everyone's going to be like cringing if you're kissing me all day. Oh. There we go. I flung that out. Dude, this is getting intense. Oh, God, babe. Money. This is going to be it. Babe. That was so close. Okay, babe. Okay. It's her turn. Here we go. Go. Okay. Baby. Okay. God damn. Oh, my God. It just keeps getting tall. There we go. All right. I'm doing the bottom one. That took some pressure to take out, actually. Oh, my God. Babe, you can't push this in. Are you done? Huh? Are you done? Yes. With boys. How many times do you think you said baby? Like just... Baby? Like out of curiosity, he's saying enough video. What do you mean? That's it. Hold on. It's her turn. I know. I see. What are you doing?  Yes. You're up to something. You're never this affectionate towards me. Yes, I am. No, you're not. Don't lie to the Bible squad. I'm not lying to you guys. Mariah is... She goes through affectionate ways, but most of the time, she is to herself. No. Yeah, babe? No. Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe. Is that going to be the code word for now on? I hope it doesn't end up in this video. Babe. Babe. No, come on. No, babe, babe, babe. No, I like this. I should have never even... Come on, babe. Babe. The video is over. You had a chance to maybe all of you and you can...  Why? Why do you think I'm driving? Okay. I understand that. I'm driving. Uh-huh. Yeah. He did it again. You always do that in every single video. I don't know why. Ready? I get so excited. She just goes like... She just makes weird freaking noises that I cannot even explain. I don't even know an animal that makes that sound. Don't mess with me. Oh. I would knock her out. Yeah. I'd pull a Mayweather on you. Can you win some kisses? I enjoyed it, actually. I enjoyed it, actually. I really did. I did not know what you were doing, but next time you do something to me, I am going to think that it's a prank right away. Whatever. No, I'm going to. Mark my words. Get ready. This isn't a prank, though. It's just how we sing, how many times we... Bless you.  Whatever. It's okay. Comment down below letter by letter, babe. Babe? Okay. So, B-A-B-E in the comments. Comment down below, babe, to get a post notification shout out in our next video. Also, make sure to be subscribed to our channel and like this video up, guys. Like this video for as many blocks as you see here. Let's just say there's 10, you know, 20,000 blocks. Like it 20,000 times. Guys, thank you so much for watching this video. I will get Mariah back. Don't worry. I will get redemption, okay? I'm not doing... Nope. I'm not taking no for an answer. But this isn't a prank. Okay. I'll do a challenge. I'll do a challenge with myself. This is like a challenge. Okay. I'll do it to myself then. Oh my God. So, today's post notification shout out goes to Holly Wright. So, shout out to you. Holly. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. She commented down ice bath from our recent video. Oh, and actually if you didn't watch that video, make sure to watch it after we end this video right now because that was a crazy challenge. I don't want to say who won, but you're going to love it if you didn't watch. But thank you guys so much for watching again in the next video. But until then, peace, love you guys.


This is something I developed in 2020. Yeah. During the pandemic, after I got sick, I was sick for a while. I had lots of time. I thought I'm going to think about the business statement. Why are we here? What are we doing to make sure that this, when I'm not here, maybe I retire one day or when I die, whatever, but when you guys have to continue these business, it should be super clear what Blender is. So the story of Blender is much bigger than the software. Of course the software is important, but the story of Blender is always what we do with it. What do you do with the software? That's interesting, not so much the software itself. I was at 2019 at the conference, and it was the first time when we had big corporations talking to us to support Blender, and for example Ubisoft. And when I asked them, hey, why are you the big corporation and you can talk to any software vendor and get whatever you want. So why are you working with Blender? What is the real thing that you like Blender? And they really said, because you guys care, you really care. And it's true, we really care. I care about this. I care about making great things. I care about making the software. I care about the community. I care about the people here in the business. This is very personal, and that attitude, you see it with everyone. You see it with the Blender community. Because we have our passion and we share that. That's the only main motivation that drives people. You can put your hands down like that, and then you have, like this other hand, you can pull on those straps to tighten it as much as you want, if you need to. Even like those just have a good point. I'm just supposed to watch you in half, so I will argue. Sometimes I just put random stuff on the walls just to stay inspired during the day. The rest of the stuff is just random. For example, I just connected the disco ball last week after having this disco ball for almost five years or so. At some point I found it in the cupboard in one of the apartments I was living in, and I put it at work, even in the old office. It was just always hanging there, and I always wanted to get a disco ball motor. No, I finally did it. Yay! We're spending so much time here that we just have to make it comfortable. Sometimes I do things like 3D printing. The octopus lamp and the dinosaur thing, they are 3D printed and then just painted. That's the cool thing. I'm working with Blender every day, and with 3D printing you can take everything that is virtual and make it something real, which is pretty cool. The conference is in two weeks. Well, three weeks. Today is the 10th. It's on the 26th. I should know the days. That is very soon. We have basically two full weeks. We have these weeks next week, and then the week after, basically we are fully preparing for it, and then the day before the event, we are there doing all the build-up, and then there is the event. It's two full weeks before the whole train starts. The week of the conference is pure chaos. It's an artwork. It's not a logo. I think that as something to put on a t-shirt, it works well. It's nice. But the question number one is, does that even work for you? Because if you don't like it, that's a second iteration with the second design. This shouldn't be something that you are accepting, and you're like, okay, I guess that's what we can do. That's the best we can do. You're not happy with this? Not super, no. To be honest, we also have to finish a version of Heist two weeks before the conference. Doing this on top of that gets a little bit too much. I would rather... I definitely feel confident. I could try out something. But... I mean, it's your guys' call. If you guys want this, then we make it. But I'd rather just spend time on the film also. So, yeah, Wednesday also. I think on Wednesday it was finished. And we have a bright version, dark version. All the colors for print, because this needs to go also to the person doing the schedule. So, they can use this kind of layout for that and these colors. I hope everyone's going to get one of them. And I hope they turn out nice. Please, make them turn out nice. Right now it's going pretty relaxed, other than, I would say, for Francesco and Ton, because they're... I think they're having a lot of stress right now. Organizing everything. And then, next week, it's going to be very, very busy. And with the... I can show you, do you need someone to help you? These two guys, they're like strong and powerful. And they can... Your nose first, and then into one of the network ports, please. Yes. We move by hearing aids, so you can fit it in. And we're going to do a walkthrough through the whole thing. Experience, learn touch, teach touch, that you have to do everything. Not like, ah, there's a word, there's a word. It's okay with that, but you have to do the everything. Like slides, sound, streams, the projections. You do something that is complete, including a recording and uploading the recording to the internet. The day before, you have the conference. But you always find out that one of those things suddenly breaks. And then you don't have to panic on the day of the event itself. Yes. Okay. And you, uh, at least turn on the slides. I can. I will. So you can talk to people upstairs. Okay, so I can be upstairs.  I will, uh... But this, this is all like this, right? It's a common mistake if you think it's all fine, but it's not. It's not. How's the problem? Well, we were missing this part. So now you have it. And I am getting those slides right, because I didn't have those yet. The blue, the green thing is... Do the whole thing. So I'm going to record it. And the recording will be checked and uploaded. That's what we are gonna try. He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he, Che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che-che. Sir, hey hey. Hey hey hey. Hey hey. Hey hey. Hey hey hey.  So, okay, the first speaker is Tom, so he's doing the keynote. So I think that that is, yeah, we... Starts at 11, right? Yeah, if we do quarter to 11, then he can get quarter to 11, it's gonna be too soon for him. Five to 10 minutes. Yeah, let's do five minutes to 11, that is super important, the other person is here. He's gonna do a 20-minute thing, and then, actually, after that, I go on stage with the handheld as well. It's part of the same presentation. I will tell the guys from Faber, I forgot to mention that. And that's it. And then you can already have the next speaker, Sarah. Great. Thank you. Welcome to the Blender conference 20-22. I want to start the presentation with good news, because I'm still there. Wait, wait, wait.  The same as you guys showed. Okay. It was the end. So when Tom says that's it, that's my cue to get in. Okay. And the slide before is an extension platform, so it should be basically now. I wish you guys a fantastic conference, and I will see you around, and I will see you probably tomorrow. Bye. Okay, now move in really really close to the camera. That's one. Okay. Like people do. Cheese. Bigger cheese. Cheese. Lots of cheese. Six weeks ago, at the Blender conference, I still feel like it's something that will stay with us for the whole year, I think.  Even though I have to go there working, and I'm working from capacity, so I had meetings I had to attend. I had a presentation I had to give with Jack and Hans. Super nice. But there was so much time in between with people that I wanted to catch up and wanted to make plans together that was just a blast throughout all the days. What was the best thing about the Blender conference? Everything? I don't know. Yeah, it's just, it's so quick. It happens over three or four days or so, and then everything is over. So everything is the best thing. You know, the highlight of getting to talk to people and seeing what they're up to, that's I think the best thing. And then of course for me personally, it was a lot of fun with Simon to play. To play the party set with music and Blender visuals. So that was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to next year. And Andy's office. The top. There's a big thing. Andy's office? Yeah. He has one. Yes. You go in. No, no. I go to bring some mail to Germany. And then I'll be right back so we can have our meeting. Look, there is three. We usually knock it over. Yeah. Like a cat. He experienced the three before. Yeah, yeah. He was born at October. Yeah, yeah. I got him last December. Yeah. This Sunday, one year. Huh?  Are you good, Bowie? So when he was in my place, I had a Christmas tree for him. Okay. Yeah. So you remember, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A colorful ball. Can you give me one? Can you give me one? Okay. Merry Christmas. Okay. How do I describe the year 2022? It was for me a little bit more return back to normal. Exciting. Because obviously getting out of the pandemic felt a little bit more real. We got the chance to go to a number of events that we did with the pandemic. We got the chance to go to a number of events that we didn't do the year before and we were working on productions. We started to be able to be together again in the office. So it was very exciting. Most of the things happened this year, but I always almost forgot when I'm looking at the future. I'm looking at what happens next year, not what happened this year. It's biased, right? If I also tell about the conference, yeah, the conference is special. First of all, if you also mention how it's Blender, it was special. But I think the year as a whole was a pretty good year. I think we had a pretty good run. And we also had a team of talents around us who are really good at what they do. And it's a joy every day to see how incredibly well they are doing it. I feel lucky every day to work with such a talented team. Artists that know most of the time what they are doing. We're a little bit like a family, yeah.  So, yeah. But unlike a family, we get along much better, I would say.