John says two weeks ago. I ran into a snafu working on a 115 page legal document which suddenly started to pause Each time I made a text entry or deleted text been there John During which time the blue circle the halo would swirl at the center of the screen for a minimum of five minutes During the swirling timeframe all actions in any office program would stop if I press the escape key or control break Key the screen would become transparent white once the pause ended as soon as I resumed word processing the same thing would occur Again and again again prior to this happening appeared that there was an update to office 365 What an update caused a problem in the user experience? Where for example the toolbar now dropped a window to let me know that I was editing the document or reviewing the document After all this word finally errors out telling me we're sorry But word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly word will need to be closed as a result Would you like us to repair now which doesn't seem to help? Well, I have three Things that could be happening here in this one to you know the fact that it's a long question First thing is you probably have auto save turned on and auto save it happens in the background That's where it stops and saves and the blue halo starts if you are synchronizing that to Microsoft 365 whether it's it it's on your in your documents library So that's automatically syncing or it's one that you're purposely syncing from one drive or SharePoint Now you've got auto save and then it's trying to save to the cloud at the same time So that the auto save is great, but if it's happening too frequently on these large documents Depending on what's in there. I'm assuming if it's 115 page legal document. There may be pictures If those pictures are huge, you know, they people get bloated with edits anyway So yeah, a lot of things that could change that and especially if you're swapping out or editing images and Taking them out putting the back in can blow it out the size of it Yeah, and you're tracking changes on top of that which which happens a lot You've got a lot of features happening all at once is trying to save it all into that XML layer that's be kind of inside the file now and It has to sink it back to wherever it's saving. So I think it's either auto save Too many features turned on and then the network connection could be causing that delay and why it's saving the other one that I was thinking about as you read more into that is that The if it there's been an update made sometimes it's better just to uninstall the desktop versions and reinstall them with a clean updated version because If you've had it there for a while and it's now got all these little incremental updates I think maybe all the pieces didn't fall into place Well during the updates so it might be better just to uninstall and reinstall and see if it so happens Well, can I add one other thing because this sounds very similar to one other potential? depends on the device, but I know with my Had my old Surface Pro and it would run into these issues or it just seemed to freeze and lock up It was because I had was hitting up against my upper storage limit for the device itself I was doing things locally and You know just the with the the old Surface Pro not a lot of space there in the first place With the apps that I had running and that the program's installed, but it this almost It mirrors this this Experience by not having space so even though it looks like you've got enough room and your SSD if You know it allocates a certain amount of space to be able to work and to do the backups and So that's something that you could look at as well is very quickly go into your file Explorer look at How much space there you could do a disk cleanup and free up some space? Delete out your temporary files and it should perform better after that So that's that's another thing that you can try while you're waiting for you know The network team to respond your IT team for other help, but you know it It sounds a lot like this issue as well Yeah, I've had the same Problem too many profiles on my computer loaded up my hard drive and if you're sinking a lot against that sink issue Don't forget. You've got a terabyte of space in your one drive And then however much you have in your SharePoint if you're sinking all that to your hard drive Guaranteed, I've I think Emily when I've asked this question had one person ever told me They had a terabyte of space on their hard drive The you know most it was a new device Yeah Well, and he was a cat he specialized in CAD drawings which are massive So he needed that for using engineer. He's it my my favorite engineers You know, they they need all that disk space, but yeah, if you're sinking if it's sinking It's gonna cause an issue for sure, but and I've had like I said same problem with you too much stuff clean it out ROT redundant outdated trash get rid of it. I Just think of a sound effect that I need to add to my soundboard is Bill Murray What about Bob? I need I need I Must have it all I was talking to another new engineer last week and we were looking at migrating his stuff And he's it cost them per For their size and he goes I need all of it and he's been an engineer for 30 years Really, what did you build 30 years ago? That's actually still in play. I want to know what that technology looks like It just made me think of we were talking earlier about the exchange hoarders. I need those emails from 1997 I need to have that accessible


How to make money directory the real deal? Hey guys, do you want to make money from home? Do you want to stay home and make money? This is the video for you now if you haven't subscribed yet Please hit that subscribe button down there turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell Turn all the notifications you notified each and every time I go live now making money online Let me think about this. I've done this now since 2009 This video is in 2021. So almost 12 years now If you want to make money online and you've tried and you've been frustrated and it didn't work out This is also the video for you because I'm gonna explain to you why it didn't work out and give you the solution So that it can work out. I mean, why is it so difficult, right? Why is it so different if so many people out there have made money online? Why is it so difficult for you and I'm gonna give you the answer to that? It's actually a two-parter. It's either one or the other of these problems or it's a combination of these problems And the first part is you've been given the wrong information You've just absolutely been given the wrong information Somebody told you stuff that's wrong and it doesn't work and you try it and didn't work And all you did is prove that they didn't know what they were talking about Okay, or the second part is you started the wrong kind of business online because there's all kinds of different businesses online And not all businesses are for everybody So I'm gonna go through a whole list of them and show you what you should do probably what you shouldn't do Now when you're searching how to make money online, you're gonna come across things like, you know watch videos or take Surveys or do mystery shopping or all these different things and even if some of these things are legitimate Let's say they are legitimate, which a lot of them are not legitimate You could work 80 hours a week and still not make a good income because it earns you so little money I'm so fortunate because we do five to six figures a day An income now, which is pretty darn nice now. That's not all profit, of course because we sell products I have informational products, which are all profit. I have physical products, which have a cost to them But bottom line is I'm very fortunate But I started out and I only made ten dollars on my first sale But that ten dollars that ten dollars motivated me because I knew if I could make ten dollars I could make a hundred I could make a thousand I can make ten thousand I knew I could parlay it if I could get somebody to give me money through the internet, which I did So I want to share with you some of the things you can do now one of the first things you can do is Blogging or vlogging vlogging or vlogging? This is a great way to start out if you have no business experience whatsoever because you're gonna learn from doing this And the whole thing with selling stuff online is you learn stuff every day If you're not learning something every day, then you're not doing well because you got to learn every day I learned stuff every day now. Here's the truth though Millions of blogs are started every year and Less than half of those are in existence after six months because they don't know what they're doing Okay, so just starting a blog does not mean you'll be successful. There's more to it than that now Let's take a look at some statistics here I'll put a chart up on the screen But it says how many people are reading blogs over four hundred nine people view more than 21.2 billion pages each month. That's pretty amazing now How many posts are being published users produce about 54 point two million new posts and 52.3 million new comments each month So the question is how hard is it to make money blogging the hurdle for most people is that few understand How much goes into running a successful blog besides just creating the blog post you'll need to do social media marketing Blogger outreach business accounting strategic development and constantly be learning how to make more money from your blog Now here's the good news if you start a blog and you work hard and you put in all the effort You can make money. I know people that make tens of thousands of dollars a month with blogs I know people who make millions of dollars, so It can be done and it is doable if they can do it you could do the next thing I'll tell you is self-publishing books I don't think if a publisher came to me today and so I'll give you a million dollar advance I would do a book with a publisher because they keep the majority of the profits. You get very little money Most books that are published to publishers the the author never makes hardly any money whatsoever If you self-publish if you do like Kindle publishing or if you do an e-book something like that On a subject that people are interested in you get all the profits yourself You can market it yourself especially if you already have a list or a following And then you come out with a book or an e-book or a guide or something like that people will just automatically buy it But if you go to a publisher and they publish it, you know They're going to stick it on some store shelf and you've got to hope somebody comes in there and finds it It probably won't happen. The next thing you can do is freelancing. I love freelancing I think it's a great way to make some money I personally don't do it because I make enough to where I don't need to do that anymore But at one point I did some consulting now in freelancing all you do is you go to a site like Fiverr You go to a site like Upwork you go to a site like Freelancer.com and you put your skills up there and you bid on jobs now The thing I will tell everybody is in the beginning you're not going to have any reviews You're not going to have any clients So go bid on jobs and bid way lower than what they want to pay if you see a job for $500 Tell them you'll do it for $200. You just want to get some good reviews. You don't have to do that for long Okay, you are going to have to work for cheap for long But once you do that and build up reviews then people are going to start contacting you So, you know freelancing is a great way to make money online Start an e-commerce site. It's a great thing to do. You can use something like Shopify I actually have a course below that you can find on Shopify on how to build your Shopify store called Ecom Roads to check out that course. It's in the description below But so many people have made money on e-commerce because if you have a Shopify store and my course teaches you this You could just do drop shipping of the products. You don't have to buy inventory You can list the products on your site. Next thing I'll tell you is print on demand I love print on demand.  I'll tell you what websites to go to But you can actually sell t-shirts and blankets and rugs and shower curtains and coffee mugs and whatever you want and You don't have to pay for the inventory up front.  You don't touch anything. That's a great way to make money The next thing I'll tell you is consulting. I did consulting a few years back I don't do it now because it just takes up too much time for me and I started charging ridiculous rates No, they weren't ridiculous. I mean, I'm worth it. Yes. I'm worth it I started off and I was charging people four hundred ninety five dollars a month and for that four hundred ninety five dollars a month They got two phone calls and instruction and they could send me some emails So I got too busy and then I up that rate to fourteen hundred and ninety five dollars a month And then I think it was twenty five hundred a month and then I went by hourly and one of the last jobs I had was hourly consulting and it was $2,000 an hour for 90 days and I worked thirty three hours which earned me sixty six thousand dollars now That was craziness that was a lot of money But that's what you can work up to if you want to do consulting consulting's not for me And I don't like consulting because the people I teach don't always do everything I tell them to do And when they don't do everything I tell them to do then they aren't going to get as good a result as they could Even though they all get great results, they're not going to get as good a result. So that drives me batting So I don't do consulting for that reason anymore However, if you like consulting and you like working one-on-one with people I've already proven that you can make money on it. Okay, that's not an issue It's just a matter of what you want to do So look through all these things that I've shown you in this video. There's there's plenty more things you could make money on Online, however, these things will get you started These are the ones I would recommend for somebody beginner out there who wants to make some money online Legitimately. Okay, don't go with some company That's going you're going to sell their products and you're going to be Marketing their stuff or their videos or whatever start your own deal start your own brand start your own company You can sell other people's products But I mean like these multi-level things where you have to sell just their products Don't do any of that stuff stick with doing what you want stick with building your own brand and I'm here to tell you You can do it. I've done it. It's doable. I taught people how to do it. They've done it Quit thinking you can't do it and don't quit. Don't quit. Don't quit That's the biggest thing I could tell people because so many people quit Or they never get started. That's the other problem. They never get started. So how long have you been researching this? How long have you been saying? Well, I'm going to go ahead and make money online now How long have you been telling yourself that this is going to work out?  Don't be afraid of failure. 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Hello, welcome to my talk today, the importance of non-code contributions to code-centric open source projects. So my name is Masse Kossmann. I'm employed at Bosch IO. So Bosch IO, this is the spare hat of the internet of things, Bosch. So we try to connect everything, primarily the things that we produce at Bosch. Within Bosch IO, I'm working in the open source services section, and there especially I care about the open source office. And also in this case, I came to this topic, I will talk today. Apparently I'm also part of the open chain. I'm representing Bosch as a governing in the governing board. And so I also have part of my heart in the open chain, and you will see later also some advertisement for this community. So from my company, we have an open source strategy based on our IoT platform that we're heavily promoting in the Eclipse IoT. And with this, you potentially know these presentations with the maturities of open source involvement. So you start with usage going via contribution and then final champion. And once you did this, then you can really drive your business with it. And that's what we try. And therefore from an open source office perspective, we had the pleasure to accompany this over the last years within Bosch IO. And so what we thought then a few years ago, if our developers, if our business is doing it, so we should also eat our own dog food. So you can see my talk two years ago in the open source summit, when I talked about leveraging open source projects for open source management. And today I want to present you now that we are some steps further away now. And also with the open source management. So there had happened some now in the last years. And also from the processes that we use, here we have a specific, we developed a specific perspective. So this is the highest level of our process landscape that we use for open source management. So we see there typically those four process areas that are in there. And the talk today is primarily about open source usage and handling. So I talk about non-code contributions and we in code-centric projects, open source projects. And here this is kind of obvious if we use them and we miss some parts in it that is primarily affected in the usage and handling. But there are also some implications in the contribution and also in the community management that we see in here. And to start with here, I have some personal experience I had when I went to my workshop and because I had inherited some tools in the family and they are made this picture here. And I want to point out some of those aspects in here that I would transfer later. So I saw this really beautiful tool that I have now and it's very sophisticated. And yeah, but the problem I see here for me at least I have no clue how to use it. So I inherited the tool but there was no manual or something or and also couldn't ask them on how to use it. But well, it's looking nice and well, I tried my best. But potentially I've crashed it, I don't know. But at least I had to pass some time with this tool. And then I also asked myself as the second aspect, so well, the craftsman who did this was obviously very gifted. It has nice smooth surfaces and it's very well done. But if I would get the manual from this craftsman, I don't know if he would have written it while in the same quality then he did this brilliant woodwork. And if you transfer this now to the software here that we talk about today and open source software projects, I see some parallels in this and also for transferring this here. So typically we observe software developers that really have fun to code and also in the open source, they have their heart in the open source in the community and they're, yeah, they concentrate on the code. So therefore I also call this talk, yeah, importance of non-code contributions to code-centric open source projects. On the other hand, I observe also that while they have a lot of also the features, new features adding new features, so they potentially primarily implement functional requirements. On the other hand, if you look at non-code contents, what could that be? So for example, tests, documentation, installation guides for users, and most important from our point of view, it's SD open source office, also the licensing stuff and also the third party dependencies and their licenses. And if you step back and look at it, so you would say, okay, yeah, this is the upper part is the fun for the developer, but this part is potentially not so funny. It's rather boring. And yeah, on the other hand, these represent typically the non-functional requirements. So if you have good documentation, you have a nice user convenience. If you have all the installation guides and that's what I meant earlier, then you have a community attractiveness so you can really build your community around it and they will welcome your tool and your software. And last but not least, also the transparency about what's in there and also the licensing for compliance reasons. And so now there's where this transfer doesn't really work is with the tool that you saw earlier, this is a one by one.  So we will not have the situation, the context like we have here with software that's spread all over the world by open source. So in this case, if you have a really cool application or tool, it might be heavily reused. And then if there are missing things in there, missing non-code contents, missing non-functional requirements, then that could have a much higher impact. So now also going through this only code side, what we observe is how do you handle if you have a defect, if you detect a defect. So the typical thing that we observe is, okay, there's a defect, let's fix it. And there are two ways. On the one side you have, if you are in an organization and I am in a business organization who provides also contribution possibilities, but sometimes you don't have that. And what would happen, you want to use open source component and you potentially find a bug or a missing feature. So what would you do? You would modify it to fix the bug or add this new feature. If you have a very vital community, so they are producing next versions of the tool and every time they produce a new version with new features and potentially also secured, purchased and so on, and you might be interested also to participate in these new improvements, then you would have the need to merge your modifications with the bug or the missing feature every time they do it. So you always have a lot of effort in maintaining this internal approach branch. As an alternative, if you are able to contribute, if your organization has that open source fitness that you can do this, so that's much easier because then you have your modification and you contribute it back. And if the pullover grass is accepted, then you're fine. Then because the upstream project will care about your modification and you can just use it right away with your bug fix or potentially even the missing feature that you had. That's what I call now fixing it at the root. And I guess most of you will also agree that it's also good citizenship if you find a bug that you fix it at the root end. Even if you don't, you are not able to contribute it directly as a code, at least one would expect that you will give a hint in the issue tracker, things like that, so that the community may improve. Then the other question is, as one point I already talked about years ago is about, yeah, when would I be rather reluctant in sharing something? So this is typically then when you have a high level of differentiation because if you're an organization with some business needs, then you would say, okay, we do not want to harm our business. But here we talk about, well, rather the raw material that we use, like here in this case where you have those refined goods there at the right side, on the left side, you rather have the raw material. And this is what we transferred two years ago already on the open source management. And this is where we currently already have an active community here in Open Chain and the Tooling Group. So that's in the To Do Group. And this is really nice, also nice to work together where we said, okay, yeah, we all can only win if we share here because first, this is no big differentiation that we have here, everyone profits. But now with these non-code contributions, this is the question and you have to judge by yourself, well, if I use this tooling for clearing the material and fixing those non-functional bugs, is this then also already so much differentiating so that you won't share it or not? So this is what you have to share that you have to judge by yourself. And now to summarize those observations from what we do in the daily scans, here we still observe a non-functional requirements not covered, namely the IP issues like unclear license situation, et cetera, et cetera. The difference now between now and then was that now with the Open Change Reference Tooling that we currently developing together and collaboration, it's the detection gets much better. So we see more and more. The other observation I see at the moment is that, yeah, we detect those now with the tooling but potentially also fix it several times, multiple times in our internal patch branches, even company internally, if you don't know of each other but also company or organization-wide and between different organization might be that there are different patch branches in every organization. So instead of just fixing it only once at the root. So this is the one observation, something is missing potentially. The other observation also about what is this? So care about licensing, care about this third party dependency, so this is potentially boring for the software developer and there might be other professional groups in the software area that, yeah, for them it's potentially also easier to cover those tasks. I know this from a former colleague who was tested and we said, yeah, I just have a different way to approach things because I want to test it until it smokes, kind of, whereas the developer is a creator, he wants to create new features. And so there's the question of, is it fun? And then the other thing also, do you need special skills? So if you look at this, so who shall do it then if not the developer? So there we have two options. The one option is, well, it's still the developer but we have to make it fun for the developer so that, or at least that's easier to perform tasks where we currently see gaps or miss non-code contributions. On the other hand, we can also raise the awareness among us, for example, the open source offices or other people in the company or in the organizations that are not the developers or coders, but have other functionalities and also make them aware, yay, you can also contribute. There we value your non-code contributions and you're welcome as a non-code contributor. So if we wrap that up, so this is the one thing, so who should do it? But the other thing is we have those main trails. So you have material from the past so we can't change that anymore. How should we do it? So here we see, okay, we have to overlay the metadata if there's missing something. Here for example, we have the clearly defined project. Then for the present, that's what we try with the open source tooling, reference tooling to automate as much as possible and also provide the tooling so that it's easy to detect it and handy. And so for the present project but also if you use dependencies in your projects that direct or transitive dependencies that you also detect in those past projects, if you want to say. And for the future, that's also what some of the communities are targeting to is that also raising awareness by training and also provide much more tools and checklists to automate it as much as possible. And there as the overview, so how to fix it and here as you can see, I'm focusing on open source management because you could talk about non-contributions and non-code contributions and testing or documentation whatever but let's say when you open source management. So if you see those three main trails past, present, future and then you have the developer and then you have all the non-developers. So for the developers, as I said, for the past they would be clearly defined. So with data that would overlay and they can also contribute. Developers are, well, they know how to do this. Then for the present, if you have a present project there they could leverage our open source reference tooling. For example, the reporter or false compliance bundle is automatically generated so that would already improve the results of the present project and avoid that new gaps come up. And for the future part, they can check and avoid also that they have gaps at least from the IP side and also licensing issues. So you have the reuse software community that provides help to reuse API that they can use to check their project. So this would be the developer part also potentially non-coding stuff but also non-developers could contribute here. So first of all, let's start here with this reference tooling. Now we have analyzers and scanners that we can use even if we are not developers. This is what we're doing in our office. So we have a lot of colleagues that support the projects with scanning and then also curating the missing data. So they use this tooling and everyone can use it. That's also what we try to make it really easy to use for everyone and automate it. And once they find those gaps, they can also contribute them to clearly find help to grow this community and the set of data. And last but not least, also open chain in the curriculum working group here. So also contributions are welcome to raise awareness and also to make the whole level much better for everyone. So that is also fun and to everyone to do this. And last but not least, then also for the past, we have this software heritage. So here you can at least donate that you can do in all those open source projects. But here, I think depending on your skills, then you also have the possibility to make that yeah, persisting over the next years as a software heritage. Okay, so here, this is what I want to give you as a message. So we do not need to wait for developers to fix this. So we miss non-code content in so or potentially there. Yeah, the license is not at the right place or it's hard to find things like that. So here as a quote and talk is cheap, show me the code. I would extend this and please show me all the rest as well. Yeah, so don't talk only, but yeah, you're welcome. So everyone is invited to join the communities and collaborate on the non-code pushers. And you can tell it to everyone, to your tasks, to technical writers, technical editors and also to your IP staff. So you're welcome, we welcome your pull requests here. And for my talk that will be later, just I added here for the handout later, you don't have to read it here, but also some details about the projects I talked about. So the one was clearly defined where you can find all the details about where can reach it and how can you contribute if there's CLA, how's the contribution process, everything. But about format, I talk in my second talk and here later, once the documents are spread, then you're welcome to check this. Also the reference tooling, the open chain and the review software. Okay, so thank you very much for listening and yeah, you're welcome, your pull requests.


All right, everybody, so welcome back to the office.  I'm going to try to get into a little bit of trading, but the thing is I'm not a great trader. I'm not even a good trader. I'm actually pretty awful. So I invited two of my friends to come over and what we're gonna do is I call this the trinity of trading. We all know about technical analysis. We know about fundamental analysis and some of us know about sentiment analysis. But why don't we bring all three together to give ourselves an unbeatable opportunity? So I've invited Weston Nelson. He is the head of business development at Trade the Train which does everything with sentiment analysis. We'll talk about that in a bit. And also from CJ, from Market Rebellion, he is our TA guy and I will be the fundamental analysis to take a look at the news and kind of bring everything together. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna start with sentiment analysis to see what coins right there are hot. Nothing to do with fundamentals. Let's see what's great. Then we're gonna make sure we're gonna double check with CJ there for the technicals and then finally we'll go with me. If we find a winner today, which we should, we will invest into that opportunity and then we will put it on our spreadsheet so you can track to see what happens. So I'm gonna start with Weston. I want you to share your screen, pull up Trade the Train and tell us what looks good to you and then we'll top it off with CJ and then finally me. All right, perfect. Can you guys see everything clearly here? Yes. Okay, so this is the coins page. You know, if you're logged in to Trade the Train dashboard, this is just the spotlight kind of overview the market of the coins. If I'm looking for something regarding sentiment right off the bat, first thing I would go to is the one hour projected range. And again, sentiment is kind of a new way to quantify investing using social signals like from Twitter, for instance. Okay. This one hour projected range right here, this looks, you know, it's always the first thing you wanna go for but then in addition to that, so like for instance, we got Origin Trail, I know that said tracking reserve rights, okay, right off the bat, reserve rights catches my eye. I see high relative Tweet, high relative trading, a good mean and it's down in the last hour. So I would immediately pick that for a short term, maybe a couple hours trade. Great. So let's start, let's stop right there. CJ, take a look at the technicals real quick. Tell us about reserve rights. I think this one is the one that is invested by Peter Thiel, the billionaire. And what this is is a stable coin with a basket of different cryptocurrencies they put together, I think it's three of them. And right now it's kind of a strange thing because I think it's like three cents, four cents somewhere around there. So tell us the technicals. Oh, so I've quite a bit here in our last day or two, or last week or two, excuse me. You know, personally, I never enter a trades specifically on technicals alone. I look for fundamentals, that's very important. You know, you had some great fundamental analysis calls, Robin, your day, but I always pair fundamentals with technicals and I'll use technicals to try to find the optimal entry points based on what we're seeing in the market. So up here we can see that we're a little bit overextended based on the daily chart, but a lot of what this stuff is playing off on is the overall momentum of Bitcoin. And so typically we will retrace and hit these bottom Bollinger Bands when price becomes a little overextended. We're still bullish. If I was holding this, I would have no reason to sell and I might even consider a long considering bullish momentum has just been so overwhelming in the market. But I just wanna emphasize again how important Bitcoin's overall influence is. You know, if we get a correction where Bitcoin goes up to 45K, it's very difficult for some of these smaller altcoins to perform well. But considering that this is, we're in kind of a neutral market territory with Bitcoin hovering around 40K, I'm pretty bullish neutral on this one. Do you think like this? So here's a big question then. So we're looking at a pretty good sentiment and looks like decent fundamental, or decent TA. Would you get in right here to put any amount of money in or would you say, you know what, I'm gonna write it out if I already had some in? Meaning people who are watching this right now, would you be like, I would get in that? Yeah, I'm interested in your opinion first question because I do have something I'll follow up with. Yeah, I would say if, let's see, if I was holding it already, I would continue to hold and I would also say yes to a short term, several hour trade based on the sentiment as well as the technicals. And I do know about the project as well. Yeah, perfect. Short term, you're talking like one to three hours, that's it, one to five, one to six. Yeah, give or take, maybe one to six hours of good range and keep an eye on it. How would you set your profits? Would you say, okay, I'm gonna go for 10%, 20% or just see where it goes and then maybe fall a downward ticker? Yeah, keep an eye, well, I mean, of course you want as much profit as it possible, but on the sentiment right now, we're looking at upward range of about 8.86% of our range calculation over the next hour. So that would obviously be a pretty successful trade in an hour, so keep an eye on that. CJ, what do you think? Yeah, if we're talking about a shorter term timeframe, I'll break down the hourly chart here. And typically what we see when it comes to TA on the hourly chart and with the sequential indicator I have here highlighted, when we reach these nines on sequential, we typically get a one to four candle correction followed by further bullish price acumen if the asset is already in the midst of an uptrend. So judging by that shorter term timeframe that Westin's discussing, these technicals are much more aligned with that shorter term timeframe and are looking pretty bullish. Personally, I would wait for a green two in another hour to get in, but based on Westin's fundamental approach, that may be too long and the move might already occur for them, so we'll have to see. But, so my thoughts. Perfect, so let's mark it. So real quick, people who are watching this right now, it is 12.30 p.m. That is mountain time. So you're looking at 11.30 Pacific, 1.30 Central and 2.30 Eastern and this is on January, what are you looking at? January 8th. So if you're gonna track this, which we'll put into the spreadsheet, that's one thing to track.  I was just gonna say exactly what you said. Yeah, what is the current price? So we can, it looks like about four cents. Is that what you're trying to do? Four cents. Yeah, yeah. Four cents, perfect. So I will just say this, looking at fundamental, I mean just beside what we just said, there was an article just came out and I'm looking at coin metrics. It's an app that I have on my phone. I can pull up the actual token and then just search by news. Bitcoin.com exchange now supports RSR and the utility token. So they just got listed eight minutes. Well, this is the story from eight minutes ago. Now let's take a look. Let's share the screen and let's take a look at, is there anything in Twitter? I don't know, I'm going for the right one. Wait, did you, it just got listed on Coinbase? No, that'll be like the slam dunk of all slam dunks. It's a Bitcoin.com exchange now. Now supports reserve token. Like, wow, we just, we, that's the. Yeah. We just crushed that one, okay. Reserve token, writes. Let's see if there's anything in the news. Couple of visualizations, tracker, 53%. This is the same type of thing that we've seen. I will just say this, the only reason I knew so much about it is because I was actually looking, it just, it just by happenstance that this actually happened. So I was looking to actually get into this token because of the people that were already there. I will show you real quick. Let's look at CoinGecko. This is easier just to find things this way. Well, I think there's a connection to PayPal. Well, you got Peter Teal, who was part of the PayPal mafia and he's investing in this project. So it looks pretty good. And website, reserve.org, that's a pretty good one. So here's the thing. It's supposed to be a stable type of, it's supposed to be a stablecoin. It's a flexible pool and you have different ones that they go. So if you're looking for a stablecoin, you expect to hear a dollar, 99 cents, dollar one. However, right now it's at four cents looking to make some moves. And then when you come down here, here are the co-founders. Here's the Peter Teal CoinBase Ventures, which has gotten into this. So this could be a big play happening right now. So you have right there. So every Washington home, this is why we talk about the three things to really look for. I don't think anybody really does this too much, if at all. So you'll have your sentiment analysis, trade the chain. You'll have your technical analysis, market rebellion and you'll take your fundamentals and just take a look at what's going on right now and make the best decision you possibly can. If you're looking to get into a trade the chain, also from a record of going, there'll be a link in the description below this video. We will be tracking everything and we'll let you know how it all comes out. And we'll try to make this either a bi-weekly or even more so a series to help investors out. So before we take off, anything else you guys wanna add? I think you made a good point in your price prediction video and your portfolio video yesterday, talking about why you bet on people. And Peter Thiel, you know, there's not too many billionaires in the crypto space. And so, you know. It's a pretty interesting point. Yeah, bet on people all day long because a company can only get you so far. It is the person and you'll hear about people who the CEO steps down to go someplace else and people follow that CEO. Almost like sports stars, you know? Like you take a LeBron James from Miami Heats and he goes to the LA Laker, then look what happens. So I will bet on people all day long. And I'd add too, the macro environment, you know, that we're in and where reserve rights is actually focused right now in South America. You know, we're having lots of inflationary issues. It's very important to keep in mind. So that's why being an amalgam of all three of these methods is what I think is gonna produce the best results for anybody at the end of the day. Yeah, who else does this? Just us. All right. Yeah. All right, everybody. So thanks for watching. I appreciate you guys sticking with me at the end. Again, the descriptions are below or the links are in the description below and we'll see you on the next one. Thank you.


Live from New York, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering RapidMiner Wisdom 2016, brought to you by RapidMiner. Now, your hosts, Dave Vellante and Jeff Brick. Welcome back to the Big Apple, everybody. This is theCUBE. We're here at RapidMiner Wisdom 2016. Bob Lytle is here. He's the CEO of Related 2, new startup that really just announcing. Great to see you. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for having me here, Dave. You've got an amazing background. We were talking off camera. You've been a CIO, a CTO, a sports statistician. You've got a military background. Now you're an entrepreneur and startup. Wow. How did you come to this place and what's Related 2 all about? Well, you know, how I came to this place in a long and winding story, you probably don't have time for it. Simply say that. I would call myself a citizen data scientist, very similar to what RapidMiner is going at and that's really why we use their products. So, in terms of what we do at Related 2, we're looking for enhanced data about corporates, about companies that financial services and investment companies and insurance companies can use to paint a better picture of what's going on in the market.  It's very good. If you have the information, what we've found in the open data space and the public data space is that there's a significant amount of different information that's not traditionally available to those FIs. So, what we do with a series of technologies, we bring it all together, create a cluster of corporate information and then we help banks use that to leverage and make better predictions on the success of new businesses, startups like mine, all the way through the mid-tier business. So, talk about the evolution of open data sources, the publicly available data that you're now accessing versus it used to be the credit unions had their own proprietary stuff coming directly from the banks and different institutions and how that's really changing the game. Sure. Well, open data has become huge probably over the last five years, right? And you've got a series of initiatives all the way from the World Bank, US government's big into it. Canada, we've got a great new PM. What he said is I'm going to make every single part of our government open to everybody, right? And folks want to know this information. And so, you've got everything from emails and that's interesting but public registry data is getting stronger and stronger throughout the provinces in Canada. It's fairly strong in the states. Not as strong as we would like it to be. You've got some states that are great and some states that are not. The difficulty with open data has not been its availability. It's been that it's too dirty. It's too difficult to understand what this data is. And I'll tell you, I'm from Chicago originally, right? Illinois data cannot be linked with Iowa data. And because you can't link it, you can't paint a picture of a company that maybe has feed on both sides of the border, right? So, open data for company information is ripe for FIs and insurance companies to really use and leverage in a way they just haven't used. And so related to helps solve that problem? Absolutely. Through data science and other data analytics. So, I don't feel you're familiar with graph databases. Sure. Graph database, right, is all about the relationships between data. So, every piece of information, let's call it a fact, right? Think of Facebook. I'm a friend of a friend. LinkedIn, I've got connections six levels deep or whatever the case is. They all use the graph. So, graph is a new way to very quickly relate and link together with high probability companies that are suppliers, competitors. Data, you know, this person owns this company and also goes down here and also goes down here. So, when we put that data into the graph, we paint a very interesting cluster picture of a corporation that's just not available. So, great. But what you need is actionable agile analytics. So, RapidMiner, and the reason we chose this as our platform, there's lots of great tools out there, I can do in a RapidMiner in a day or two what it would take me weeks and sometimes months to do in other technologies. It's just that quick. It's a new paradigm for analytics. So, I want to come back to that, but before we do, so you're essentially expanding the market for the financial institution by identifying lower risk opportunities that they would normally run away from because they don't have enough data on them. Is that correct? Either run away from it or they take an unreasonable gamble.  Maybe you'll look at my credit score, right? Maybe you'll look at this. Maybe you'll take a gamble, right? What we're finding is the profitability edge in FIs is all about making that gamble a little bit smarter, right? And so, it goes down to initial loan origination. It goes down to marketing and upsell. Which winners are coming and how do I raise those? And frankly, it goes down to tuning things, right?  This is the whole power of predictive analytics is it's given me my reasonably accurate best guess of what's happening. You put it in hands of the risk managers and that's where they're able to make their level. And do they want fewer false positives or fewer false negatives? You know, depends on who you're talking to. So, the financial industry is huge, right? I think what most FIs are looking for is a reasonable risk-based solution that allows them to make their best guess using their own models, right? So, what they're looking for is maybe, you know, a little bit broadly, how can I leverage what I've got to cross-sell into this environment, right?  And a collection agency is going to take false positives all day long in a different mode because that's the business they're in in receivables, right? The customer's going to have a unique story, right? The data starts, you've got to have the clean data, then you've got to be able to analyze that and put it in the hands of the decision makers. And so, a way that a bank might mitigate a risk is say, okay, small business owner, you've got to sign a personal guarantee and go through a rectal exam. Does that change? Or, they still do that and they have higher confidence. You know, I think that needs to change and here's why.  And it's the alternative lenders. And they're coming out now and in 24 hours, I'm going to be able to give you this and I'm going to be able to give you a line of credit in this way and so on. So, the competitive nature of the market is going to value companies who can make that easiest for a business owner decision without some of the things that you talked about, exams or otherwise, right? So, the quicker you can originate a loan or extend a line based on actionable information, you're going to win that market. And that's what this new kind of data gives you that you just don't get from a traditional bureau model. Bureau model is great and don't get me wrong here. You need both. Right now, the banks are only dealing with one and maybe they're not even dealing with that. But your strategy is to identify the limits of that bureau model and then expand into the territory. So, you know, our partnerships, right, are all about enhancing what you have, not replacing that. So what we want to do is help folks take a good risk model and make it a better risk model. Or on a marketing side, take a good strategy and then say, hey, listen, I like this company. Tell me about the profile of that company and find me another 50, just like these guys, because that's where I want to make my next investment. So this idea of citizen data scientist, so it's a good one because normally it's been insights for a few that take forever to get into the hands of the business people. So the concept of citizen data scientist is operationalizing analytics, so the end user who's closer to the customer can use it and leverage it. Great, how does that apply specifically to your business? Right, so from our business, right, I'll just say it applies to me personally, right? I'm not a trained statistician. I hire people who do this officially, right? But I love to dabble with the data, right? So here's what happens. There's a series of folks who call them CTOs, call them MBAs, call them data-driven leaders and executives and they are not coming from a traditional statistician background and they're dying for actionable information. So when you think about where RapidMiner plays in that market, is they could very easily take a guy like me, a CTO, and say, let me give you a tool that gets you very, very close to the exact prediction that you would get if you were going back to your analytics shop, right? So it's part of a whole continuum of what do we do and what do we know with big data that's out there? It shouldn't be in the hands of the few and I think tools like RapidMiner, again this is why we picked it, makes it so powerful that even a guy like me can go out there and find those assessments and then we go into the back office and we say, you prove it, you validate it and then we bring it out. And you sell an app, you sell a service or both? Right, so our stock and trade is the data itself and clean, curated, open data, very, very important because it's very difficult to take action on something that doesn't match and doesn't link. We have analytics services, right? Some of the products that we'll be rolling out later in the year are related to things like algorithms and some of those predictive scores. You know, what I'm very excited about is the research angle of our data. So we just spent all our time talking about FIs. If you're an investigative journalist, an academic researcher, a strategic planner and a market, you may need a very deep and complete profile of either an individual company or a series of companies and so one of the things we have on our roadmap is to launch an immersive online capability for individuals to go and subscribe and research all of the same data that the banks are using in some different modes. Graph database technology is fundamentally visual, right? You're talking about things, link to things, link to things and the ability to use that as an individual going to try to investigate something, look at a supplier network, look at the competitive landscape. Frankly, it's not out there today, it's incredibly powerful. So one of the problems with predictive analytic solutions in companies and applying machine learning is people spend all their time cleaning the data to fit the algorithm and they don't have time to shape the algorithm to fit the data. If I understand it correctly, you're giving them clean data so they can spend more time on improving the algorithm and aligning with their business goals. Absolutely, so and it's, I mean, frankly this is something that, you know, I wish that the open data community and the governments were already giving out but the fact is I can show you, you know, 20 different ways to spell Edmonton and all of those came from the Canadian government. You say, we're getting this, right? Well, that's fine, so what's the right one? What I want to do is make it simple and easy for folks to be able to use the raw data if that's what you do, right? And a lot of banks and a lot of analytic shops, they've got the things that they need but they're dying for that data, so that's one model. Interesting to me, again, on top of that is then to conduct that analysis alongside them and provide that service. So how does it work? I'm a customer with a problem, I have a corpus of data, maybe centralized, may not be centralized, how do you engage? Right, so, you know, in the engagement model we're first going to figure out exactly what they're trying to accomplish, right? Are they looking for predictions? Are they looking for cleansing? Maybe a little bit more boring but very powerful. Are they looking for a pens? I can show you the places that know the names of the company but don't know the owners of the company. You would think, how could they not know it? They don't. Ship the file, let's append it, let's analyze it and let's send it back, then you take it. That's kind of a simple business model but it's actually very needed and very powerful. The same thing applies for multiple locations, same thing applies for business licenses. It's a key thing and so I was asked last week to take a look at how good is Google at finding licensed tow truck drivers in Toronto? Google's gonna find lots of tow trucks so they asked us, hey, let's do this analysis and go look at the top five search engines and let's go find licensed tow truck drivers. I found a lot of tow truck drivers, most of them were unlicensed. They go, what, you know, how could you not have this? Why doesn't Google know that it's licensed and put that up in the thing? I'm not trying to get into their business but the concept is that extra piece of data is the edge that helps you get, in this case, the right location-based service, right? Now, that analysis took me a day and a half using the tool set, right? And that's, again, the reason why we look at RapidMiner for this is the speed of getting the data, tweaking it, turning it, cleansing it, come up with the assessment and then punch that back out. I was able to get it Monday morning and the research is out the door to see that. So on that example, on that open data set that you used to find out who is licensed and not licensed, does Google crawl that? You know, apparently not in the way that they need to, right, and frankly, that may or may not be the right business model. You think you Google's model? You know, they want good data and they want to sell the advertising. They want to get the eyeballs, they want to sell ancillary services, right? Now, me as a consumer, right? Toronto's not a warm place, right? It's winter, it's late at night, I'm pulling up my phone and I'm gonna go to the maps for this and I want to find a tow truck driver. I think I'm gonna better find somebody who's allowed to do it and who's gonna provide the right kind of service. And so those are other adjacencies and angles that we would want over there. And you use RapidMiner as part of your cleansing process. Can you describe that a little bit? What makes RapidMiner so awesome? So, you know, number one, it's visual. Back to the digital, the citizen data scientist, it's a visual tool that makes it easy for me to understand. Right, I could be a brainiac, I could be a person who's exploring and I can still see the whole thing in my cockpit. Grab my data in, I can twist it and tweak it very quickly to come up with an analyzable data set, right? So, you know, since I'm a visual guy, the ability to grab in and bring in a new operator or run a linear regression or go and do a K score, those are things that I can do in any language. And I happen to be a programmer at heart, I don't know if you could tell us, so I'd love to jump down there and do some art programming or run some Python scripts. As a business that's in the business of analyzing things, I value speed more than the excitement of writing a beautiful piece of code. So it's code optional, right? Is it what they call it? A code or no code or a lot of code. If I want to jump into the code, I can, but what I find more and more is that folks, they don't want to know what's behind the curtain, they want the actionable agile results. So, you know, that's the reason that we went with this platform and I'm delighted to do it. All right, a lot of time, but last word on the company's funding, self-funding. Right now we're a bootstrap company, you know, we value heavily partnerships so I named some of the folks that we'll probably be connecting with, you know, as a small business. What's more important to me is can we provide the right kind of service to those banks, right? And to those data providers. So it's clean data, actionable analytics, analyze, in a graph, right? Which is finding the data that you didn't know was there in being able to take action on that whole cluster. That's really the power of what we do. All right, Bob Lytle, related to, good luck with the startup and thanks for coming to theCUBE. Thanks guys, we appreciate it. All right, keep right there, everybody. We'll be back at RapidMiner Wisdom 2016. This is theCUBE, we're in New York City, right back.


in the studio how people are much my energy and you know other men's brah like I'm super excited now we're gonna be talking to them in a minute but first things first let me just shout out to people all right just two two two two two people all right just um okay I think we're gonna do that in a few we're gonna do that in a few all right we'll do that in a few so I'll just go right ahead talk to them and then check out the comments in a few but for those at home I have guests in the studio and I told you they are gonna be here they are not only the coolest most amazing Nairobi's anti-colonial punk bank they go by the name Crystal Axel very good very good I know I don't know who I was like feeling why are you always loud you think I'm loud how about that super awesome all right crystal axis man this is the first I can't believe this is the first time you guys have come into like you know exactly yeah this is awesome we've waited too long well here we are but we're here we are finally you made it all right so we're just gonna go ahead and um introduce you uh Ahmed I think you are who is it Ahmed or Jaya who's gonna speak for the band because you want to know about the name one for uh uh or for one one for all that one that's one that's one that's one that's one that's one that's one that's one you know I let's touch here to Kian Daivo so I'm gonna start with you introduce yourself and we're a big fan of you oh and now we're in your house it's beautiful you know thank you all right my name is this amazing band right here crystal axis take it ahead boys my name is Jai play guitars for crystal axis uh my name is Doug clay base for crystal axis I am done man that is really cool uh so I'm just gonna go ahead and ask for the guys who've never seen done before he's new to the band so he's he came in after Ron J right yes all right welcome to the band welcome to crystal let me just welcome you officially I mean we already welcomed him Billy G welcome you that that's a stamp right there since it's the first time having you we're gonna start from where it all started like how did you guys meet how did you come up with the name crystal axis obviously we have to know that I think the band started way back in 2009 literally so unfortunately our guitarist Fox is not here because he's unknown so I basically went to a battle of the bands in Razora's with my older sister as soon as I walk in she's like so these guys are the best band in Kenya but they were made of high school kids so I was like wait I'm in high school I can play guitar maybe even me I can perhaps you know so literally the next day I went got my younger brother and a friend to be like listen man we're starting a band so that's how it happened like all the way you went to the battle of the bands got inspired started a band the very next day the very next day and then like 10 years later the guy who inspired yeah anything is possible then literally 10 years later the guy who inspired me to start the band ended up joining our band which was like full circle yeah it was awesome yeah I can't even imagine that like you are like the prodigy exactly yeah you know I see watch me okay I see you I see you that's why you're singing right after that you guys went on a long hiatus what was happening during that time before you came back and like oh yeah those papers important when you go and tell your parents so you know yeah we just had to take a bit of time off you know everybody went and did their studies and everything um and I remember Jay just hitting me up I think it was around 2017 and telling me like hey uh we've been booked for this gig and I'm like I'm like who's we are you speaking French did you go study in France you know I'm like who's we I'm like who's we you know but yeah so you know we just got the band together uh we got Doug uh Fox joined in and from then on it's uh we've just been rollercoastering upwards let me get this straight you got booked for a band but yeah for a gig but you had not been practicing we haven't even had a gig in five years yeah basically yeah thank you I work great on the pressure until that day comes to be fair we do work well on the pressure I would like we actually do yeah we should be diamond axis you know what I'm saying I'm just one of the guys that inspired your your style of music that's punk we don't have a lot of diet in Africa not Africa Kenya especially most bands are like metal uh metal like really soft not many are punk so what's some of the influence that got you doing that I think aside from music for us punk is more of like an attitude and a mindset yeah like a way like an outlook and how you look at things so the music itself aside we're inspired by a lot of African musicians whether it's exactly uh Bobby Wine so all these guys so everything we've picked up from their music we incorporate into like what we do and like with the message we put out as far as punk goes itself as a genre I mean growing up the bands like they're awakening there was impish a few like they were literally like a handful of like punk bands in Kenya but I think for us mainly it was the the message and the ethos and like behind the punk and what it stands for and what it means I think yeah it's genuinely uh the energy because all of us listen to very different things to be honest like personally on our ones we listen to very different things the one thing that connects us is yeah we all love listening to punk rock music and everything but when we meet up it's the energy you know what I mean and we're in this new age of punk and afro punk and what we like to describe ourselves which is not like you know there's this traditional like oh but you know punk people should look like this and do like that yeah but we just do whatever we want but we still bring that same energy. You also have tats everywhere. Exactly yeah yeah. I have no tattoos. Do you skate? I used to do it. I used to do it. I used to do it. I used to do it. My knees, my knees were kneeing. The knees were not kneeing you know. So you call it a day. Very amazing. But then also Chris, what you guys are known for is speaking up especially um against the social injustices and uh you know like especially our political setting the way it is you speak against like corruption and stuff like that so what do you think as a nation we stand right now how are you feeling now that you just voted you think like um the new government coming in are going to be better than the one the left are we where we are like I just want to get your views on that. Honestly as a punk band like politics was always the one thing because you know we're talking about the leaderships we're talking about uh what's on the ground what's happening how people being tutors yeah institutions so uh shout out to everyone who voted but we do feel like you know there's a lot of just dumb stuff going on but at the end of the day I guess uh for us it's more you know everyone everyone has the right to vote everyone has the right to pick their leader and uh we feel that you know at the end of the day that democratically elected leader needs to be in place uh so it's more about that but even more than that is what happens to the after things gonna get better we just voting for someone and then they're in there for five years and then they do nothing and yeah it comes to institutions you're talking about police judiciary exactly and you you speak a lot about police brutality and so you guys mentioned somewhere like police broke into your studio is that true like I want to know everything how do were they on patrol how do they go in the studio like you guys are rebels what are you what kind of music are you playing they were patrolling for money we'll tell you that's what it but like I mean to put it to put it bluntly what happened is that there was a young group of black men who were in a neighborhood where maybe we do not seem like we fitted in therefore the community within the neighborhood took it upon themselves to ensure that we exited the community and yeah there was a one hundred percent yeah this is an affluent neighborhood neighborhood you know there's a whatsapp group uh you know because affluent neighborhoods have whatsapp groups community watch community you know the place where we're staying of of strange men coming in at strange hours and playing loud music and we're like okay uh we're not disturbing anybody also there's a club and another house over there playing way louder music you know so yeah it's true I remember there's a there's a time um one of the biggest um biggest advocate to frock let me just say that in Kenya uh they got a venue that was in Karen and they had confirmed the gig is going to be there everything and then when the debt was almost like uh approaching and then they're like okay wait so who are the guys that are going to be playing then they're like oh so we have these people what do they play then they're like rocks and I know yeah we're all gonna be like you know like salty salt yeah yeah you said rock I'm so sorry we can't have it pretty much and you've already like the flyers are out but it's not like any other genre it's playing music like we are playing that's not everything loud everything loud salty or not it would still be as loud at a concert yeah it's just that the genre we're doing is looked into a particular stereotype something yeah it's really castigated it is evil I'm like a lot of people have stereotypes that are like the devil music exactly yeah yeah I did a lot even on the show like I have people who like DM me and they're like Jesus loves you I'm like who told you I don't believe like come on like stop like you know like just because people love the music it doesn't mean that I'll take Christ or something like you need to you know demystify that we do yeah but you guys you've been doing a lot you guys were featured in a movie yes you guys look so good though like the artwork like I saw the first it's just make-up it's hair and make-up how did you even learn that and how was the whole experience where did you film the movie so it was actually a tv show called the watch by the BBC so that was filmed in Cape Town in SA so it was like this punk rock thriller sci-fi kind of show that they were doing so they were looking for punk bands of color you know around the continent and around the world I mean obviously it's South Africa so there's a plethora of bands that fit that bill essentially but so they came across our content what we do what we're about we did like a little online edition they were like okay so this is the band these are the guys we want oh look at that yeah so it was amazing it was truly a sensational experience in terms of being on set being in the studio the people we got to work with experiences we had like an original song for the soundtrack of the series yeah which was we were in studio recording the song and then the next few days we were on set like in full makeup like playing the band in in a scene yeah I don't know that so it was a fantastic experience I people don't even know how much work goes into the making of that it is that's it yeah that's about three to four hours you know it's crazy like I remember that day dude okay cool so we're gonna pick you up like cool so 8 a.m as usual they're like no 4 a.m be ready pick us up at 4 a.m we go on set here and make up for like an hour or two hours we're just chilling and you have to wait with time in between and then it's your time for your scene you said 4 a.m I'm like hey that's not that time you know yeah all right this is what I usually say more than that's what we're going to spend like that's what I know man what are you saying ungodly it's a good experience all in all and of course you jammed in and say as well how can you even compare their scene and Kenya while you were playing there is there a way we relate to each other the fan base they are here I think a hundred percent like the thing about especially rock and metal is that the scenes are very tight next very close you know so performing at a show in SA the one thing we realize is the energy is still the same you know there are people who show up for every single gig it's the same here yeah I think that's common is it's you know everyone in the scene and not because uh not because it's a small scene but because everyone shows up everybody just shows up and everybody knows everyone that's what that's what you're saying you've never been to a gig please attend one because the energy is unreal it's nothing nothing much you've ever attended and people always assume because people are rock that they're like crazy and like uh the stealing things from other people they're not really as people like they are for the nicest people I'm not crazy yeah no like like 100 percent of my friend list is you know just dead people from the boxing yeah nicest people yeah I can tell you guys right here on tv now Bianca if you've never been to a rock gig you've never been to a gig at all you have never you need to pull up like seriously you need to pull up to one of their well and once you start going you'll never mean slime you never will miss it for real you're always going to try nothing else yeah and now you guys have a new song black um african black african that's the one exactly what I said yeah yeah well it's black af but we're just gonna say african you know because it's uh five p.m so black af man this song this song like we've waited for it for a long time now that it's here it's you know breaking boundaries first you got featured on metal how much hello to you show me the biggest magazine you know you're featured on top 10 uh metal songs of the week and that's the thing you're not in the metal band right how do you guys feel people are actually watching what you're doing I mean pretty excited I mean it's it's I think it's a testimony to like well the effort we've been putting in the groundwork we've been doing like over the last couple of years last couple of months as well I mean going in with this particular single we knew it was a bit different maybe contentious for some people in some audiences which is you know some of the feedback we get here now and then but it's we have to speak our truth say what we had to say and yeah that's it at the end of the day we will always speak our truth regardless of what comes in after that or what the consequences quote unquote our we will always just say what we stand for where we are at and we'll always bring that energy right and now that you've been featured as a metal band is that the direction you're looking into getting into maybe it's another single or something is like this yeah I mean I'm predictable I'd say the thing with us and for the reason we call our music afro punk is because I mean it's like creating a space for ourselves and what we do because I mean punk metal these are largely like white male dominated genres so if we are not going to be seen and recognized within these spaces the only thing that makes sense is to make a safe space for ourselves and other musicians who are like us who share the same values ethos kind of music and want to do the same thing we're doing so that's the direction we're going in and with our music it's always all these different influences and all these different games it's I think that's also what a lot black is black af is a lot about is that you know people of color are not just a monolith they're not just what in one box you know what I mean you can you can be a person of color and do whatever you want in life you know and express yourself in whatever way so we we uh put in so many elements of many different genres and everything and create whatever crystal axis is I think this is the first time like I mean we had shang in the song we had yeah we had and you are also featured in tunes of protest yeah so tunes of protest yeah so this is this is an amazing platform where they share like every month and every year like different songs talking about you know societal issues or issues affecting people in different countries so it was amazing to be featured on a publication like that especially once you like following that for years like oh you guys have been following that for years I didn't know that for years so that that like seeing them I have a black african on there amazing I like how he's running with it all right so um you spoke about the cocoa butter being black african and then you know five chicken of course there's watermelon but again what I love about that song is because yeah once you said we covered a lot of elements and there's a bit of comedy and there's a bit of really serious stuff because after we say cocoa butter and you know fried chicken we talk about police brutality and corrupt leaders black african black african yes yeah but there's something you mentioned like after cocoa butter watermelon and all that you're like washed history white african so it tells about that like maybe you can expound on that like for the people who didn't get it like uh you think some of our african history has been edited um I think um somebody personally like me who's a bit of a history buff you know what I mean um growing up a lot of the stories and a lot of the history you read um there's a very common saying history is written by the victors you know what I mean and there's a lot that growing up I used to be insecure about myself because I was like okay why do I feel the way that I feel but I look the way that I look you know but if you look back into your history there's a lot of things that are you know unfortunately people of color in history have been degraded a lot yeah you know they've never been seen as rulers as as as you know conquerors as conquest people you know but if you really read into other history you know not just what's in the textbooks you know because like okay we we're a very we're a british colonized nation so our history is very british-centric anglo-centric you know what I mean but if you read other sources you realize you can take so much pride in your own history because you were you did have amazing inventions you did have amazing clans and conquests and everything you know so that's when we said washed history it's it's it's white washed face exactly I mean all the all the contribution of people of color is taken up yeah you know and it's only the life that are the good stuff exactly I think yeah so with the song with the approach for us it was always been telling african stories from an african perspective because I mean growing up I mean you knew about Hitler Stalin all these guys but yeah I didn't know about what was going on in Congo you didn't know that the british ad concentration comes in yeah can you really not know that exactly now that you watch documentaries and stuff like that that's when you learn it comes out yeah absolutely yeah yeah all right so Dan you haven't spoken twice a lot so you in a song as we're waiting on because of time you speak about racism as well as a band is that something you have you have actually dealt with have you experienced it first hand or you just wrote it based on other people's experiences um personally I have experienced it being um as a gem I have traveled a lot in different countries I've played in different you know music scenes so moving from one city to another city from Kenya to another different country you kind of get a lot of that not when you get there not only when you get there but you're late there yeah you know so it's kind of it's it's it's a major thing yeah I mean which kind of ties into you know we were and it's so unfortunate like uh that happening and especially when you experience racism in your own country in your own country exactly it yeah yeah like uh like one of the clubs like you got there like you have to take your sorry to say but your white friend if you go your white friend yeah you get it yeah it's good that someone's actually talking about this thanks and you were jamming uh with pete he sent me a picture you guys were practicing is there something shallow to peach the legend the man the myth you know it's not a myth he's right there but there's stuff in the works we are we're going to come up with some stuff for sure for sure this is the beginning of something cook it up cook it up all right i'm excited about that but for now i think we play blog af black african as we have been calling it and then we are coming back with you drop 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Hello everybody hooded cobra commander 788 here, and it's time for another donation unboxing video I'm going to open all the stuff I received in the PO box for the month of July 2020 It's coming a little late this month because I've been very busy with cobra convergence But I'm excited to see what you guys sent me If you would like to donate something to the channel, I will put the PO box on the screen right now I want to remind everyone you should not send anything to me unless you really want to you should never feel obligated To donate anything to the show. I am happy just having you here and have you you watch the videos If you do choose to send something to me, I will open it in a video like this one If I get anything in the PO box in the month of August then next month We'll do another one of these videos, but if not then we won't do an unboxing video and that'll be just fine, too So I thank you to everyone who sent something that was received in July I think I've already got some stuff for August, but if I got it after you know July 31st, it'll go in the video for August. So thank you to everyone as you can see I have a really big box here. I'm gonna open this one last I'm gonna go through these first. We've got some letters here. We've got at least one thing I know what it is and I want to thank everyone for sending these so let's go ahead and And open these up. I've already cut everything open to make it easier to pull out But I've not looked in any of these to see what we got So I will be surprised and so will you let's get started. Alright, let's open this one first This is from Brandon Knight It looks like a card So let's slide that open And ah, it is a card. It's this is a very nice Mountain view. It says Dear ACC, five years of events that we love coming together for is Cobra Convergence 5. Yes We are right in the middle of it. Let's enjoy this time as we show our love for Cobra I can't wait to see all the fun stuff each creator will bring Thank you for doing this and bringing us along and together during these hard times I'm proud of you and I am proud of to be part of this great community. Well, thank you very much I'm proud to have you in this community Even if we live far away, I feel we have some great friends. I agree with that We have both been through many Many things some doors have closed many Doors are waiting to open let the adventures continue your pal Brandon Knight aka Knight Viper. Thank you very much, Brandon That was a really nice sentiment and Brandon just Summarizes what's really important about this project And I've enjoyed looking at toys and I've enjoyed exploring GI Joe again the thing that I had so much fun with as a kid but what has Really stuck with me and what will last is the friendships that we've made I've become some for some of you. I've been I've become close friends I've got to meet a lot of you in person and so thank you for that and Yeah, we will continue the adventure next one is now. This is from Northumberland And I think I know who this is because I think we've received some letters from this friend before Yes, I recognize the handwriting This is Yes, Gary Watson. Hello, Gary and thank you for writing again This one out of definitely need my glasses for I'll take a quick read through this just to make sure there's nothing too personal in it And then I will Let you know what Gary has written. Okay, Gary shares some thoughts and GI Joe slash action force Memories including a UK and Europe action force Pallet toy exclusive action pack That included a cobra claw a cobra trooper Ripcord and Duke version one that sounds like a pretty cool action pack Of course, we did not get that in the States But I would have been thrilled to get that in the States I would have loved to have all of those things in one package that would have been great But Yeah, and he get some amusement about my cobra ice snake review where I had the ice snake Knockover Spider-man that was that was fun. I I just have that spider-man figure handy and Occasionally, I'll just grab it and throw it into something But mainly he shares lots of memories. He's got some thoughts about about GI Joe extreme and he's got Oh and a list of GI Joe figures and vehicles he wished he had got and Yeah, you know as I got some of these that are on your list, but like I as a kid I did not have the I didn't have the conquest x-30, but a friend had it So I got to play with it a lot I Don't believe I had Pathfinder Um But I think I had most of these so it see if if we were friends as kids you could have played with mine That's that's how my friends always used to do it.  So I thank you for that Gary I am keeping all of this just as I will keep Brandon's Card every letter that's written to me. I keep every single one of them I have a special letter carrier for these. So if you write something to me, I'm not throwing these away These I hope to keep even after, you know, maybe my collection isn't with me anymore someday in the future When I'm an old man in a nursing home I still will have these and I'll still be able to look back on them and read them So thank you to everyone who writes me a letter. Okay. Next up is T Kyle Bennett For I don't usually say where people are from I won't give away your full address But it does say Fort Polk, Louisiana. My dad said he had Army basic training in Fort Polk So that's where I know Fort Polk, Louisiana from so T Kyle Bennett, let's see what we got in here. It looks like there is there is a letter and Something else. I don't know what it is yet, but let's see what we got It says I just wanted to send you something from me and my platoon. Oh cool Challenge Coin and sticker awesome second platoon dog troop first battalion five all ninth parachute infantry regiment My gift is not Joe related, but GI Joe has a huge influence on me Was a huge influence on me becoming an Army paratrooper Ripcourt and airborne with my favorites as a kid Well done sir well done I have to say just wanted to send you a big thank you from my son Vincent and I for helping me pass along our love for GI Joe to him Thanks again teeth Kyle Bennett PS. Yo Joe Geronimo all the way look up one 509th PIR in Wikipedia For unit history I will look that up sir. I will look that up. That is awesome. I'm really excited I want to see what this is.  All right. Yeah, I don't have my handy remote to zoom But that is Amazing That is so cool This I have to put this someplace to display that is about the coolest thing ever and I'll look at this. Oh I got to see this. I didn't leave anything in there, right? I Got busted a couple of times for not checking the envelopes thoroughly enough and I left stuff in there that I didn't get on camera Sorry about that. I'm trying to be more careful about that But mr. T Kyle Bennett this is who it's like It's like heavy if that is That's so awesome Um Wolverines, you know When I was a kid and we you know weren't really Playing with GI Joe for GI Joe because it had kind of gotten in a I know weird direction We started customizing and we made our own team sort of like GI Joe and we called it the Wolverines And of course that our Wolverines were named after the Wolverines from the movie red dawn But this just reminds me it almost it takes me right back to That time when we we felt we were being very creative because we figured out that we could Take the screws out of the backs of the figures and swap the parts around and make our own guys So that's what makes this makes me think of Thank you, mr. Bennett. I can't thank you enough for that. That is awesome Thank you for your service and thank you for this. This is special to me I'm not only keeping the sticker and the challenge coin thing. I'm also keeping the letter with my others And that is something that I will look forward to rereading someday in the future to remember These amazing times that we had during this journey let's now turn to Christopher Hilt from Ogden, Utah Christopher this feels like a book So I'm going to open it and it says please read first. Okay. I will read first it says Dear HTC seven eight eight. That's me Greetings. I hope this letter finds you well. It does. Thank you I know life seems like it kicks you sometimes. So I thought I'd send you some cheer Enclosed is my first novel Gray fury Sunset blue you may show it in your videos if you wish to the book is my tribute to GI Joe I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoy it. Sincerely Christopher Hilt ps on YouTube Simbad 102. Okay, that is This is something you created. This is your first novel That is so cool you are you I have great respect for people who create for people who Make the effort to put something new into the world and here it is Intangible form your story and of course, I'm gonna read it Gray fury sunset blue Yeah, this is So cool Christopher you've given me more to read. I will save this letter with the others and When I have a moment to Sit down and read something for fun. I'm gonna give this a try. Thank you Christopher really awesome that you made this and Very awesome that you send it to me. This next one is from Brandon Payne and I know what it is I just hadn't had a chance to open it yet He because he told me what he was sending to me. This is a comic book Brandon Payne by the way Painted plastic on YouTube. He is in Cobra Convergence this year. So check his channel out and this is The IDW GI Joe A complete silence comic book and we open this up and set this aside Hama Leeloha Roussos and Dale and I believe it Jeremy Dale the artist that recently passed away quite suddenly and This is something that I've been urged to look at what I what I believe this is Is it has a reprint of the original GI Joe real American hero issue number 21 this famous silent issue But then it has Yeah, silence between borders Which is a story that essentially takes place sort of in between the panels of the silent issue and it is also It is also without dialogue and Yeah, I'm not gonna like It would be pointless for me to read it to you because it doesn't have dialogue, but I'm not going to Describe every page But this is something that I want to actually sit down and absorb and enjoy the the quality of it But yeah, this is these are nice thick pages and Yeah, Jeremy Dale artwork by Jeremy Dale on It's called issue 21 point five. It's sort of like in between the pages and panels of Issue 21 so a cool idea and I'm looking forward to checking this out. So thank you very much for this Brandon Next we have this from Matt Blacklage from From Canada From Canada So let's see what we got from the land up north We have a letter that written in large enough font that I can read it without my glasses Thanks for recognizing that I'm getting old. I appreciate that I don't always like the reminder that I'm getting old but sometimes Think you just can make some things a little easier And I well I'm seeing something in here that is cool right off the bat But I'm gonna read the letter first. I'm reading the letter first It says July 21st 2020 to hooded Cobra Commander 788. That's me Hi, I am Matt is Okay, to say my name big fan of the channel and say hi to other one you have oh, yes And included is Burger King black and red Cobra Commander from Valor versus Venom interesting I haven't gotten a lot of Valor versus Venom. So that is kind of a new area an unexplored area for me and before I Finish reading this before I read this out loud. I want to finish reading it really quick So it doesn't give away any of the surprise of what's in the box Let me read this really quick. Okay, I've read this letter from Matt And I won't read all of it out loud because he tells what's in the box And I want that to be a surprise for you but Matt I did read the letter It's really good to hear from you. Thank you very much. And now I'm excited to show everyone What you described in this letter. So thank you for sending this to me very very much First of all we have some cards And this is different. I now have a complete set of those The GI Joe cards that I had been you know getting packs of and opening but this is a different card set This is oh, this is like a game card or a card game set No, that's intriguing so like a you know a card game like Magic the Gathering or Cards against humanity well not a cards against humanity, but you know what I mean I'm not familiar with this. I need to learn more about this. This is so you've given me something to learn more about Thank you very much that I'm always happy to have things that give me an opportunity to learn now Check this stuff out. We've got we've got that is looks like a Cobra trooper and a Cobra commander and Another Cobra commander these some modern figures that are so Cool this now this I think if I understood you correctly. I think this one was a Burger King Exclusive If I got that wrong, I apologize, but I think that's what you wrote in here You've got look at all this stuff. Oh, look at these little guys.  I really wish I had the zoom on my camera Just look really close at your screen. Oh and a little Cobra commander, too. Oh, that's awesome Um No, I love these these little things. I will put at my desk At work or I have a desk here, too I might put them here as well and we've got one of these Battlefield robots. I don't know. You know what actually I haven't covered these at all on my channel yet These battlefield robots. We need to talk about those. I won't go too much into them right now because you know what? We need to talk about them in depth because these are a peculiar little thing about GI Joe that Deserves to be talked about and that we've got some missiles as well I Drop one And he's sent a Few I'll look at that. It's a It's a Cobra Law Royal Guard dig it These in shape to some good, you know, good tight joints good o-ring very nice And we've got like a figure stand his commander Got a couple other stands that would fit looks like modern figures We've got a gas can another missile and we've got an arsenal an arsenal of weapons, so That is great in case I ever get attacked by Cobra I will have weapons and I will be armed. Oh, and here's a little Yes, here's a little snake eyes. Oh, yeah, I'll go and these go with that. Okay. Cool. I figured it out Matt I figured it out and That sword looks like a shadow ninja's sword kind of I'm not sure if it is but it just kind of looks like one because It's translucent and then we have the battle files Weapons and tech from image comics And I haven't seen this before but this could be something useful to me There's the Havoc the whale the mobat The the modern Phantom X 19 Knight attack copter recon sled Yes, I'm gonna take a closer look at this because I'm always looking for new information and just new things to share About vehicles Sometimes it can even be harder to find information about vehicles than it is about figures so I'm going to Hey, and it has information about Yeah, about the individual characters weapons as well Including some actual real weapons Now we got the Cobra side. That's okay. That's really cool I'm gonna spend some time going through that and now if you're my age You know what this is, right? This is tails of G.I. Joe these were essentially reprints of the original Issues of the comic book and I think they did like the first 15 Issues of the G.I. Joe comic book series as tales of G.I. Joe And it was really great when you were younger because you could actually get them and read them Whereas the prices for the Original comic books, especially if they were first print they kind of kept going up And if you're nine or ten years old, you can't spend a fortune on comic books This gave you a chance for cover price two dollars 25 cents to actually read the first issue of Of the G.I. Joe comic book And this does include the second story hot potato Hot potato is in there. So That's awesome. I love this. This is of course the first issue first prince Is an important part of G.I. Joe history, but this is too Because a lot of us read that first issue for the first time like this So thank you match. Thank you for all of this. It's very much appreciated and thank you for watching the videos Okay, now I get to this great big box here. This is from Nicholas Gregory And I know it's some kind of custom. That's all I know about it So I'm just gonna open this guy up and see what it is And I'm gonna try to make room so I can take whatever is in here out and set it here So you can see it more easily Let's see what Nicholas sent and I didn't cut that all the way through. There we go Whatever it is. It's well packed Well packed zero chance of anything being damaged in here plenty of packing material Nicely done set that over here and then Yeah, okay. All right. I get it. I get it. So it's it's in here. Whatever it is is in here So this has a zipper You took you took a lot of care to package this so I'm trying to Open it with equal care so I'm gonna take this and Put it here. Make sure I haven't left anything in there. Yes, really well packed sir I I have to commend your packing job on this that Could probably be run over by a steamroller and it would still be fine. Well done. Okay, so Let's um, oh I see I see This makes sense now because he sent me a message on Patreon Okay sent me a message on patreon and And Let's see. What were we calling this we're calling it like the dog cat or something like that. No, that wasn't it. It was Let's see Let me yeah Yeah, I can see what it is and I want to get it out of here But I want to be very cautious with it because It's a break. Oh, I dropped I dropped them on it didn't go off. Don't worry All right, let's Okay, let's see. I can see partially what it is and it looks it looks incredible Okay, I think I've got it Think I've got it out safely except for the bomb that fell off my fault Look at this Look at this custom. It's this is like a Cobra rattler version of a World War two bomber that is Incredible look at all of this Look at all of that armaments and this bomb which goes somewhere. Where did I oh I found it? I found where it goes Yes This is amazing. This is a gorgeous custom This is incredible Look the wings still tilt up look that still functional that is incredible Yeah, that is I don't even know what to say that is Amazing custom work on a vehicle that is I Mean I I Can sort of see how you did it but even seeing how you did it. I don't know how you did it that is Extremely well done, and I think we had a you were talking about a name for it. It's a it's a double rattler is What it is. It's a double rattler and That is awesome Well done Nicholas and thank you Thank you for your effort and thank you for sending this that wraps it up for this month Thank you very much to everyone who sent something in and thank you to everyone who didn't send anything in If you're watching the videos and you're enjoying the videos, that's all I can ask I don't want anyone to feel obligated to send anything to me I don't ask people to send things to me But if you do want to send something and have it featured in a video like this the PO box will be on your screen right now I am hard at work making the next GI Joe toy review. I hope you enjoy it and That's all for now. Thanks again and remember It's cobra convergence. So remember only cobra is cobra