Okey. Thx e edges ran hafa gwein saved in the room on, and also online. We are going to be here for about half an hour having an informal discussion on the theme of can we live with monopolies. We are going to have a chat here for about twenty minutes and then we'll open it up to any questions from the floor. I am here with Phil Jennings, who is general secretary of UNI Global Union and who looks after, represents workers in the services sector. Ieithaf yw David Autor, yw'r Ffordd Professor i'r Economix yw MIT. Felly, roi'n gweithio, rydyn ni'n gwybod i ddech chi'n ddigtech. Mae'r ddweud yn ymddangosol, mae'n ddweud o gwybodio bod o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd, mae'n gweithio i'r Cyllidol Cymru. Roi'r ddweud o gwybodio i ddigtech sydd o ffordd a oed. A'r gwybodio'r ddweud yn ymddangosol o ddweud o gwybodio i ddweud o gwybodio. Roedd yn ddweud o ddweud o ddweud o gwybodio o ddweud o gwybodio i ddweud o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Roedd yma yn ymddangosol, mae David mewn gwahanol. Roedd yma yn cyfreithio. Mae cyfreithio eich cyfrifetau a'r cyfnod yn cyflodol yw'r prodwynt. Roedd yma yn cyfrifetau a'r cyfrifetau, a'r cyndoedd ddodion adeghau y bydd ar hyn o'r cyfrifeniad hynny a hwn yn cyd- twent yn fathodaeth o'r cyfrifeniad a'r cyfoedd yn cwm yw'r wneud o'r bod postennan ar hynny i'w cyfrifeniad hefyd am gyllideb ond hefyd yn bach gan hynny ar gweithgafol a'r cyfrifeniad ar y ddechrau oedd yn cael grŷn yn cyfrifeniad yn gweithfiau. A'r cyfrifeniad can gofyn, fath o'r cyfrifeniad, yn yr amddencech yn ddweud mleid i'n gweithio many of employers may control so many of the workers in the given occupation that they don't face much competition from other employers. I think we should at least as concerned about what's called monopsyny, or market power and the labor market, as we shouldn't be about market power in the product market. Thank you, Ed, we'll definitely be returning to the idea of how you define a monopoly and what the precedent's in history. Turning to Phil, you can see monopolies' bad news for economies because they distort the market. Yn gyffredinol na gwrs normal? Yn cael ei bod yn gyfnodol yn ei wneud o'r cyfrydd cyllid yn ymryd ynghori. Mae'r rhai sydd yn cynghori i'r blod? Rydych yn fwyaf i gyd, mae'n fwyaf i'r fwyaf i'r bwysig? Mae'n gyfnodol yn ymryd â bod yn ymryd yn ymryd yn y cyfrifol, ond yn y cyfrifol hwyloeddau, ond yn ymryd, mae'n gwybod i'r bwysig. Yn ymryd yn ymryd, mae'r bwysig yn ymryd. A oeddwn i'r bifyglwydig, rydyn ni'r bwrw sy'n gyfwyrdol a 46% o gwaith o online cyfle i Google. 90% o'r ffordd o'r cyflog? Beth o Amazon? 90% o'r ffordd o'r cyflog o Google. A oedd yn Facebook, mae'n iawn i'r Facebook planetol, o ddwyliadau 3 billion o'r online. Gwydden nhw'n gweithio'r hwnnw o'r gwleidio. Gwydden nhw'n gweithio'r honno'r cyflogio'r cyflogio, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r cyflogio'r hwnnw o'r gwleidio'r cyflogio'r amser hynny wedi'u gweithio'n gweld, mae'n ddylch gyda'r cyllidol o'r ffrindigol. Nid ydych chi'n gweithio'n gweld ac mae'n gweld. Mae hynny'n gweithio hynny yn ystod, yn ymweld y cyfan, mae'n gweithio'n ddweud a'n dweud a'n ddweud eich gweithio'n ddweud o wneud y Plutocrats yn ystod a oedd ymgylcheddau ydy o'r cyffredinol yng Nghymru? Yn y gweithio, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio. John Sherman, the Sherman Antitrust Act said, if we will not endure a king as political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any necessities of life. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations said something similar. Why does this particular form of monopoly, as we see it, worry us? We have to think of the digital world in terms of digital conglomerates. We have a time of digital feudalism. This means the power that they have is enormous and has ripples and implications in all ways in terms of the price that people pay for a product, in terms of wages, in terms of inequality, and in terms of power. And therefore, they are concerns which we have dealt with in the past. But what is new about this in this new age of digital conglomeration it is now clear that these tools not only can direct us in terms of the products that we buy, but they begin to have an impact on the way that we think, on the way that we respond, the way that we receive and interpret the news, and all of a sudden you see an all-embracing monopolistic power, if you like, which goes beyond the material into the non-material world in terms of our behaviour and in terms of our attitude. Now, I can give you the nuts and bolts of what it means to us when Walmart comes to town. When Walmart comes to town, local competition is hammered. It has a depressing impact on competition, squeezes out the smaller medium-sized enterprises, and has a major impact on the price of labour as well. We have seen in Silicon Valley the use of this power when their cartel on engineering salaries was bust some time ago, which apparently cost millions, the figures are clear, that cost hundreds of millions in terms of lost earnings. So what can I say, from where I am, I'm not a lawyer, I am not a competition expert, but we are worried about the new power that we have. We must talk in terms of digital capitalism, digital conglomerate, a kind of digital feudalism which goes beyond the material into how we interact as humans, how we form opinions, how we engage with a political process, and our sense is this has gone too far. Has it gone too far? How much power is too much power? First of all, that was a terrific speech, so hats off. I don't want to try from it all. So let me say, I think it's worth asking where this is coming from. When we say, is it going too far? Well, how did we get here? And I think it's plausible that a lot of the growth of market power that we have seen recently, and I agree that we see a lot of growth of market power, is not because of abuses or anti-competitive behaviour per se. That doesn't mean it has all good consequences, but a lot of it has to do with the changing nature of competition. We are increasingly in an era of what some of my fellow conglomerates and I call winner-take-most markets. Markets where small competitive advantages can mean enormous differences in market share. In a world where there's, you know, search frictions are high, information is low, lots of firms of different quality and price can coexist. In a sort of an Amazon online search world where everybody goes relentlessly for the lowest price, it's actually feasible for the company that has the best logistics system to gather huge amounts of market share. In products like search or in social media, there's also what we call network externalities that people want to be on Facebook because other people want to be on Facebook and other people are there because of that. And so these things may be growing organically as a result of the change in the nature of competition. That doesn't mean that that's a good thing or just because it happened naturally, you know, we shouldn't worry about it, that's not my argument, but I think we need to understand where it's coming from. Has it gone too far? Okay, let me turn it back to you. I'm just interested, just from what you were saying about historical precedents, is what we're seeing now totally unprecedented, this convergence of data in the internet and technology, or if we look back at previous industrial revolutions, have we seen it all before? Are there lessons from the past? There are lessons and Phil alluded to this during the kind of gilded age we did have these monopolies on the railroads and oil and we broke them up and they were certainly subject to abuse. And our current regulatory framework isn't very well set up for dealing with the so-called digital monopolies because it's not obvious they're abusing their market power at present. They may very well, but they do have a lot of power. And so our regulatory structure may not be set up to recognize the challenges that they pose. I mean, the US has historically stepped in, in the case of AT&T, broke up AT&T, it gave Microsoft a hard time for a while. I'm not clear if that had a big effect, but Microsoft's certainly not the competitor it used to be. One thing that bear in mind is sometimes companies that appear indomitable actually fade pretty fast. So IBM, people used to talk about IBM, then they talked about Microsoft, and now these companies are not where they once were. Walmart was considered indomitable 15 years ago. Now it faces an enormous competition from Amazon. Or do you remember Frenster or Myspace?  I would guess that Facebook will be almost non-existent 20 years from now. Probably I'm wrong about that, and now you have it on record, but I know I don't use it. I think that's the beginning of the trend. I think this question of abuse is important. And I think the regulatory authorities, there's a kind of a ripple around the world in regulation that things seem to have gone too far. And they're certainly attracting the attention of regulators as to what the economic and competitive impacts are and where the competition is really taking place, as they say, on the merits. In terms of the abuses that we've seen, it's not just by chance that Google was fined 2.9 billion euros by the European Commission. And it wasn't just by chance that Apple was fined something approaching $13 billion because of their tax evasion policies. Now I would say that is an abusive market power. It's a lack of ethical principles in the operation of the organization. And it's a sign that when you have this much power, the latency for abuse is a real one. And FDR, he said, the great depression was caused by the economic tyranny of monopolization. Now I like this flow of words. And therefore, then perhaps we've been given this large, the big three, a bit of a free pass in terms of what are the ramifications of the things that they do. And I feel that there's this idea that there's this natural, organic kind of growth to the organization. They are grown by acquisition. They're buying one company a week, sometimes four companies a week. And therefore, because they have the money and the financial power to do it. The other side of this is one of the great fractures that this World Economic Forum is talking about is the fracture in inequality of power, inequality of wealth, and inequality of income distribution. When you have the financial wealth funneling up to a small community of people, then this will aggravate the fractures and make it more difficult to deal with the income and wealth distribution problems that we have. Let me focus on the part of what you said that I agree with, which is the labor market side. I share your concern that the concentration, I'm not so worried about concentration in search frankly, but I am worried about concentration in labor markets where workers don't face effective outside competition for their labor. And you can see that you don't have to look to Google. In the United States, fast food franchisees have non-compete agreements with one another where they won't hire workers who have worked at the McDonald's down the block. Now McDonald's has actually subsequently changed its policy now that it's been exposed, but that notion of labor tying when you don't have effective competition for workers, and much more, I mean, you mentioned the sort of collusion in Silicon Valley, that's an abuse, but I'm much more concerned about abuse of minimum wage workers or people who really have trouble fending for themselves in the labor market. So that idea that workers have very few options is even more consequential, in my view, than that consumers have few options in these areas. I think in many cases these, what Google has done, what Amazon has done with this video, there's a lot of great free services, they've lowered prices, they've made life more convenient. However, to the degree that they, this has the effect of store shutdown, they don't compete for workers, tech engineers have few options if they aren't however Google, that's the side of it that I'm particularly concerned about. The bottom line for us in the world of labor as well is the ability for us to organise these workers, to negotiate for these workers and try to give them a decent contract. There's been a wave of industrial action in Amazon for the people working in their so-called fulfilment centres. When you say so-called, are you suggesting they're unfulfillment? So-called, so-called. And the reality is that Amazon and their top leadership are implacably opposed to the union organisation of their members and therefore the workers are taking their destiny into their own hands. Now we have some works councils emerging, but before Christmas there were a wave of industrial action because Amazon will not respect the basic human rights of their workers to organise. Now in Facebook we had similar issues years past, but now we begin to see a change in their line where they will work with the local labour movement. A sign of a non-abusive power would be an engagement with the labour movement to get into a serious conversation about the human rights of workers, the trade union rights of workers and the wages that they are paid. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. I think we're on the same side of the page here on the labour market side. Our diagnosis of the extent of abuse may differ, but the concerns are shared. What can we actually do to prevent abuses, whether they are of workers or of markets? We live in a borderless online age. The models that we used to apply are just very difficult. Practically, what can be done? How do you regulate the big tech companies? I think there are questions to be asked. That are global? The questions really are to be asked. How adequate is the current regulatory framework to deal with this new concentration, this massing of economic power? And I think there's a number of questions or a number of approaches. How do you stop the monopoly before it happens, i.e., monopoly which is made by acquisition? We've seen in each of the cases of the big three, Google, Facebook and Amazon, a growth of market power through acquisition. So do you stop this before it happens? Another one is do you build structural barriers to monopoly in certain industries? So, too, we had the Glass Eagle Act, the culmination of which was a massive financial crisis 30 years down the track. What could be done in terms of building structural barriers? And in the world of online ad companies, you own the channel and you use that channel to compete against the people using the channel. And then do you split up or neutralise the power of corporations that have the ability to dominate and to control entire realms of commerce? And so, I think there are things that can be done that regulators have in their locker to do something about this, but at the end of the day, the platforms, these organisations have to take responsibility for what they do. They try to wash their hands of responsibility in terms of media and fake news and all the rest of it. And when two thirds of the population have access to news through the social media, this raises questions about our democracies as well. And I hope that this will lead to new reflections about what this means to have such concentration of power and that can have such a manipulative power on the way people think and act. At the last, I would say, pay your taxes and also respect the human rights of people. And then, if you don't, you shouldn't be granted the social licence to operate. David, most countries have laws to prevent monopolies. What's going wrong? Is something going wrong? No, I don't think primarily this is a regulatory failure. Many of these are new developments. And I also don't think the abuse of these so-called monopolies on the market, on the consumer-facing side, is that extreme. I'm much more concerned with Phil on the worker side and the ability to negotiate competitive contracts for workers and make sure the gains are shared. I think some countries do that much better than others. I think some countries have much more encompassing regulatory frameworks for worker protection and better bargaining between and representation of labor in management than on corporate boards. I think that in the long run, that model will work better. I think the US model where workers are not considered a stakeholder, just shareholders are considered a stakeholder, has created a level of inequality and social disaffection that has led to kind of political upheaval, which I do not think is necessarily the interest of the money corporations. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't, we'll see. So I think that is the greater concern. I don't think the fact that we're living in a globalized world means we don't have national self-determination on those matters. Countries can decide what are their basic social protections, what are the minimum wages, what are the benefits that are guaranteed, what type of bargaining rights. So I don't think that we have to cede that to the notion that we no longer, that's no longer within our borders. I don't think that's, I think we should give ourselves credit and opportunity. And what about from both of you, what about the bright side of these platforms in some ways bigger can be better? They make the world smaller, they empower people in many ways, they make life easier, more efficient, they make products cheaper. The CEO of Google has said that he sees AI as a big stride for humanity akin to electricity or fire. It could be the leap forward that helps us to tackle climate change or find cures for cancer. There's a lot of utopianism out there. How do we get the balance right between... As I emphasized earlier, we've gotten lots of benefits from these platforms. Amazon has made the world a cheaper place, Google has made it more convenient and Facebook has made it more social. In the long run, AI will clearly enhance productivity. The challenge is one of distribution, not of growth. We are going to get wealthier. The question is whether we turn that into shared prosperity or pure plutocracy. That is an institutional choice. It's not determined fundamentally by markets or by technologies, it's determined by societies. We can look around and see equally countries with similar material resources and very different outcomes compared Norway and Saudi Arabia, right? Two oil rich nations, right? One of which is a very mobile, satisfied place, economically mobile, lots of public investment, high rates of labour force participation, extremely democratic. Another of which is an absolute monarchy and does have high standards of living but forts many other human strivings. The difference between them is not their technologies, not the market, it's their institutions. So these are institutional choices and we sell ourselves short and foreclose opportunities by thinking we don't have control over this. We get to decide. Phil, how concerned are you about the impact of trends like automation and the rise of AI? Well, first of all, I think there's a concern about what this means for the labour market in the bigger picture. We have 3 billion people in the world's labour market. Half of them are already in what we call vulnerable work. One in three of them is surviving on just a couple of bucks a day. When we look at the inequality in terms of wealth and income, frankly, the share of the wealth produced which goes to the working population is in very rapid decline. And in fact, we are seeing levels of inequality in the distribution of income that we have not seen since Woodrow Wilson and John Sherman and others were talking about the power of the plutocrats. And we are worried that when you have three companies which amass this wealth and power, that this can only aggravate the inequality equation. It was something that Thomas Piketty missed about how the structure of economic power has an impact on inequality. And we're also asking the question about what is the price to pay. So I've recently watched the Black Mirror Netflix series and I'm not sure how many of you in the room have seen the Black Mirror Netflix series, but all this dystopian vision of artificial intelligence is actually coming through before our eyes. And when you look at the evolution of artificial intelligence and the absence of any form of proper regulation or convention, we're worried about the transparency of these things. We're concerned about the lack of ethical guidelines. We would like to see an ethical black box. We would like to insist that humans have some control, that there is some human mediation here. We're in a new realm of human experience and that's why I draw attention to this business. This is not about fixing the price of a product or fixing the price of labour. This is a massive, also one can say, manipulation of how we think, how we perceive, how we see, how we vote, how we interpret on a scale which we have never seen. Now I know it sounds like a potential script for Charlie Brooker in the Black Mirror. I know, but at the end of the day, you can see these things coming alive and you will see, I think we will have a reaction and that there will be this demand for humans in control, for ethical black boxes, and for us as a community to say, what kind of world do we want to see here? And is that the world, this dystopian world, where we have three companies who have all the authority and the power? That's not the world that we would like to see. Predictions of the future are notoriously difficult and I think Charlie Brooker's got the right idea with fictionalising it. However, I'm going to be a little harsher on our panellists. Do you think we're at a turning point where we're going to ask these big questions, get the framework right, and move forward in the right direction? Or do you think that we're going to see the kind of crisis that you've been speaking of from history? No, I'm not nearly a pessimistic as well. I think that we have both opportunities and challenges. They always come hand in hand. The fact is these technologies open vistas of possibility, of advances in science, but also of shared prosperity. In fact, do you think of the way mobile technology has been so critical to developing world, allowing for communication, for agriculture, for prices, for competition? I think there are real risks and real concerns, but it always takes us time to catch up with the challenges that we create for ourselves through these innovations. We could have had a similarly dystopian view at the dawn of a nuclear age. We could have said the same about AT&T and IBM and their cartilisation of the planet and so on. These are real challenges, but I don't think we're incapable of overcoming them, and we shouldn't look at them purely from the perspective of they're all negative. It's like this is not global warming, something we'd rather have, but just have to deal with. We want these advances. We want these technologies. They're going to improve our productivity, allow us hopefully to share resources better and certainly make our lives more interesting. We just need to figure out how to make sure that that opportunity is not squandered. It's quite possible to squandre it. It won't take care of itself, but it's not a foregone conclusion that will blow it. I've got one last question to fail on that note before we open it up to questions on the floor. Can I just say, do I feel that this is a turning point in the evolution of the capitalist system? Yes. A further evolution in terms of the digital change before us, most definitely. According to the atomic scientists, the nuclear clock is at two minutes to midnight, whereas a decade ago it was nine minutes to midnight. For us it feels like two minutes to midnight. So I do feel it's a turning point. And what I would say is if we continue as business as usual, then the outcomes make us feel very skeptical. However, if we can turn the axe towards a policy of more inclusive growth, of a new sense of purpose for business, I liked that Larry Fink the other day turned around and said, we're going to invest in businesses which have a sense of purpose, a social purpose in all its dimensions. The forum is trying hard in their risk report to show and the report they've done on inclusive growth and what does it take. Then that makes me more optimistic. In terms of the bigger picture, the statistics would indicate that we're going through a massive labour market transformation. Occupations and tasks will change. My question is, how prepared are we? How prepared are we to accompany people through this transformation? The market cannot solve this. It needs new values, a new sense of community, a new sense of responsibility to ensure that people are prepared. And our problem is that we're not taking those measures now to ensure that somewhere over the rainbow, happy ending. Thank you, Phil. So, from the doomsday clock and black mirror to a new era of purpose and responsibility, plenty of food for thought here and I'd like to open it up for any questions. Yes. Hi, my name is Linda. I'm from the Boston Globe. You mentioned there was a comment about connecting, comparing AI to electricity. Is there any chance that these Google and these companies will be regulated like the utilities that they are becoming? There's a chance. I mean, there's certainly precedent to view them as kind of common carriers, right? That's the framework we used for, that was the framework we used to regulate telephony, as well as mail delivery. It's possible. I doubt there's much regulatory appetite for that. But it would be feasible to say, you could argue that Amazon is a common carrier, right? They're the platform on which many, all other firms will compete for retail business and Google for advertisement and so on. So it would be feasible. I think it's very unlikely to occur. And given that, one hopes that there will be other forms of organic competition that will actually undermine or at least reduce their market power. Well, you'll get, even if a company gains market power based on excellence, once it's there, it has every incentive to abuse that power, to maintain its control and also often becomes quite mediocre, which is what we've seen with many monopolies. They start off great. Eventually they make overpriced, low-quality products that we are forced to buy, regardless. So hopefully the answer will be through better competition because I doubt it will come through common carrier regulation. I think the regulatory authorities are slowly waking up to this. There seems to be precious building, practically in many corridors of power, to raise questions about what this means. And it will raise questions about the common good. It will raise questions about the digital commons. And at the end of the day, it might lead to a new reflection about what data means because we have a form of data feudalism. And I think people will wake up to the fact that the new resource, the new raw material is them, their behavior. And the way that they go about their lives becomes the treasure that the feudal digital lords currently have without question. So, therefore, there may well be another angle on this looking at them as public utilities. They are public utilities with a public responsibility. Does that mean that you put new constraints on their behavior that they have to act always in the public good? They claim that they would already, but we would question that. This is what China has done with all of these, right? They've taken over search. They've taken over social media. They've taken over price comparison. I'm not so excited about that idea. I would rather have them not be so under central government control. Thank you. I'm just aware that the clock is ticking in case there are any more questions out there. Any other questions? Professor Otter stands on how to regulate them if the proposed measures aren't what you foresee or see as likely, what would you propose to mitigate the risks of these superstar firms? Sure. So, that's a hard question, and the answer is going to differ by sector, right? So, in advertising, you can see, you know, lots of platforms have an incentive to abuse their privilege, to place their ads first, right? If you're Amazon, you have an incentive to undermine the companies they're selling on your platform. So, one can imagine moving in that direction. I don't have a more well-thought-out answer, but I think it's a challenging one, but it's not insurmountable. We have one more minute. Any quick questions? This gentleman has his hand up here. Thank you very much. My name is Paul O'Kwm. Just two very quick questions that will make them all in 50 seconds. One is, I wonder why those companies sometimes don't even want to be here. Do they feel like they don't need to be here for them to run anything? And what does that mean for us if they don't even want to be anywhere where they can hear another opinion? And then the second question is, we are working on the assumption that there are some people called regulators. But if you look at what has happened over the last five or so years, is that business interests and government interests are might. And they almost act as one. Sure, I have a good question. If I could briefly handle the first question. Rest assured, this is a topic that's being discussed this morning. I was following a session on the new digital economy with a number of tech CEOs. And you may be surprised to find that some of them sounded remarkably like you. One of them made the point that there is no business model as yet to reward people for their data. In the old day, you'd pay people if you discovered oil on their land and there's no way to monetise at the moment. Anyway, please check out the programme. I would be very happy if they paid their people already for the work that they do. If you're working in an Amazon fulfilment centre, you're not getting a fair deal. If you're working as on Amazon Turk, your average per day is around two bucks. You can't make a living from this. And therefore, I would say to Bezos and his crew, rethink your business model. When other financial players are saying a sense of purpose to your business, to give broader meaning to your business, and to respect the human rights of people, I would say to Amazon in particular, you have to change your ways and respect the people that make you, Mr Bezos, one of the wealthiest players in the world. Would you like to respond to the gentleman's second question? Well, yes, and this is the question you had also said about, you know, why do I think regulators won't do this? Well, actually, to your question, if you look at the United States, we are in the process of dismantling regulation at a phenomenal rate. We don't even agree anymore that, you know, when people give financial advice, they should give honest advice. That apparently was too much of a stretch for our regulators. So I just don't see the movement in that direction. It's not that it's infeasible. It's just, you know, that's not where the social contract seems to be heading. So I think it's a real concern. I think this, and this is the, you know, massive concentration of wealth tends to lead to massive concentration of political power. We kind of have to tend to have a $1 or one vote system. And that's a real concern. I would say that a lot of the policies that are adopted, certainly United States are very distortionary and are subsidizing capital at the expense of labor in an era when capital is already cheap and labor is facing challenges just to maintain a share. It's a constant share of national income. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thanks for your questions. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, folks. Thank you.


Welcome back, everyone, to theCUBE's coverage of AWS Reinvent, Amazon Web Services Annual User Conference. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here up in the press area where our other stages, we also have a stage down in the MongoDB Emeralds Lounge, which is Sugar Cane, calling it the Sugar Cube. We've got a cube down there, just to interview the top execs at Mongo, people in the industry, all the legends. Here, I have a special guest, Shelly Cremude, just joined our team, theCUBE Research and Advisory, formerly Wikibon, it was our analyst arm for many, many years, over a decade. She's managing director and lead analyst, entrepreneurial in high integrity, high intelligence. Thanks for joining our team, psyched to have you on board. Absolutely, I'm psyched too. One of the things I want to just kind of put up front is that you have such high integrity. Your reputation is very strong in the industry. You do great work. You founded companies and just your track record and your body of work has been phenomenal. We're super happy to have you on the team and looking forward to creating some new research products and reinventing the whole AR concept and providing a great service and backing it up. Yeah, I think that what we know that we're good at is disruption and disrupting ourselves and disrupting a tired AR model and all of that sort of thing. I think that's really exciting and so we're looking forward to that. I find the AR industry, and having worked with David Laughey, who's a legend in the industry, helped build IDC up in scratch with McGovern. So he knows this thing about research. I came from SiliconANGLE, the podcasting background, search and kind of a techie. And I've worked with all the top AR departments in this industry for years. And it's been a great evolution, great people, their relationship oriented, reputation matters and service matters, but it's changing. And he's seeing a lot more power ship between PR and ARs depending on which company you're in. And a lot of companies are moving into the analyst's relations to take on financial industry and kind of influencers. And a new category of influencer analysts, ones that do a lot of selfies, get in the front row in the keynotes. They're more influential, but still have impact. They're not doing research and you have the hardcore research and you get the financial. But it's what's, the game has changed a lot. And now you throw in AI, a lot more vanilla content coming out with AI, seeing the thing on the web that says, search is being manipulated by AI. So you're starting to see the organic market churning to reputation, not so much influence because that influence game is changing. I mean, I just find it fascinating.  Right. So it's a hard nut to crack. It is a hard nut to crack. And I think you also, you mentioned AR, you mentioned PR, there's also marketing and there's also the event team. So really as analysts, we're used to working across all of those areas within a company and being able to help them in a variety of ways. A colleague, and I am not going to be able to remember his company, Duncan Chappelle, does a lot in the AR space. And one of the bits of research that they put out was that people trust analysts more than they trust your marketing materials.  You're not paying us to say good things about you. What you're paying us for is our insights, our ability to guide and help you reach your goals. And I think that's really an important part of the equation today. Yeah, it certainly is an era where there's high velocity content, a lot of data in content. Yeah, telling stories, better stories. Making sense of the results. And that's why I'm excited by having the cube and silkenangle.com and the cube and cube research and advisory, formerly Wikibon together, because we can integrate them, but yet have them be cohesive on their own. But the data between them is shared and there's benefits on each one that contribute to the other. So I find it to be an exciting opportunity. And I wanted to ask you what you see as division that you see us doing, share with the folks your plans, what you're thinking. Yeah. And what you're going to be covering. Yeah, absolutely. So part of I think what I'm excited about bringing to the team is that many of my focus areas are areas that aren't typically things that you're focusing on, right? And so whether that's CX and all the things that fall under that bucket, collab, contact center, CRM, employee experience, all of those things, the whole future of work space. Anything having to do with security. We have so many clients in the security space, like Francisco, Dell, IBM, AWS, right? I mean, that's a huge space. And not that we don't already cover security, but there's so much more to security, AI security, all of that sort of thing. I think that we're going to be able to delve into who's not covering AI, right? My expertise is deep in the automation space and all of that. And that sector is evolving as we've got the advent of Gen AI and all of that sort of thing. So that's kind of a little sneak preview. The other thing that we have in the works and I'm really excited about is, and I know that you know this, but we're really passionate about working with the analyst community. And we feel like our peers in this space are brilliant. And so being able to collaborate with them, to lift up their thinking and their insights, and we're rolling out, we're still developing it, but we're rolling out a platform called theCUBE Collective. And so you'll see that. I just did a webcast with George Gilbert as part of this CUBE Collective effort. This new show is focusing on the rise of the Intelligent Data Platform, which is George's area of expertise and all of that sort of thing. We're going to be rolling out a webcast focused on cybersecurity. We're going to be rolling out a webcast focused on 5G. So all kinds of exciting things in the work that you're going to see. That's awesome. And I love that, love the Collective. I love the collaboration because we bring great people together that have high integrity and respect for each other and good reputation. Magic happens. And I think that's so important.  Serve your customers better. And I think that's what, I was having a meeting yesterday with someone here at the event and they were griping about sort of the traditional AR model that everybody's really tired of. But you know, there's a few vendors out there that everybody groans when it comes to the thought of working with them. And they call this the tax that we have to pay. And there's got to be a better way and we know there's a better way. And so. I think I'd love to hear some of the anecdotes from happy customers and when people get it right, it's fun to see and celebrate those great days. And one of the comments I heard was, love working with you guys, love analysts that help us cross the bridge to the future. And that is really more of a trusted advisory role where, you know, they want to count on you. And I think, you know, 13 years we're doing theCUBE and here at ReInvent, 11 years, you know, we have a relationship. We get to know people, watch the progress. We can be critical, we are. Yeah. But that's our job. And that's our job is to get the data. And I love theCUBE because we get the data from the guests. So super exciting. And again, this show to me encapsulates the industry.  Are they old guard? Are they old hat? Are they going to cross to the future? They're behind, they're behind as it relates to AI. And when you're around and you're in the incumbent, you know, believe me, we know what that with theCUBE. The question is, here's who we are. He said, we are always reinventing. And theCUBE has a lot of DNA from the Amazon culture. And it's a similar mindset, which is, if you're not reinventing yourself, disrupting the market and yourself and being aware of where you are, we've been doing this for 13 years. I mean, we've seen us go through inflection points. And I think that speaks volumes because the speed of change and our customers are asking us to saying, I'm going to ride with you guys. I'm going to sit in the front row with you as we have a front row seat to the industry. And we do, and we've had for years, they're in with us. It's not just us having a front row seat. We're with the customer. And to me, I love that about my job. And I think Amazon here is in the same boat and they, they established themselves and said, okay, we're a little quirky company. We do things our way. But one thing that's consistent, we work back from the customer and we're going to reinvent us. And then they laid out the new GNAI stuff. So I thought, I thought that was a compelling way to kind of address the elephant in the room, which was all the puns were saying, oh, they don't have AI, Microsoft's beating them. I mean, Microsoft's not beating Amazon. I mean, it's like- I mean, this is such early days anyway. They're catching up for sure, no doubt about that. But, and then making some good moves to open AI, which I've been, been very pleased with. But there's no way they're ahead because co-pun is integrated into Microsoft's products, but they just rolled out more infrastructure. And if that stuff hits that they announced today.  And what all the data is showing right now is that especially at the enterprise level, the adoption rate is really slow. So nobody's really behind, you know, especially, you know, part of the report that we put out right before the event on AI, and I'll share a link to that in the show notes. But, you know, part of the data that we've seen is showing that enterprise adoption is fairly slow, where we're seeing adoption is with the younger startup with that mentality, and it's really the mentality that we have, you know, move fast, break stuff, figure it out, fix it as you go along. You know, good is the enemy of perfect, or perfect is the enemy of good, whatever that saying is. But anyway, I just think that there are so many things to be excited about ahead. And they're really, you know, open AI may dominate conversations, but they're not the only player in the space. We were just down in the sugar cane where Mongo has an event and we have a set down there. David Chiaire, the CEO, we were talking, and what's interesting, you got two factors going on that I think are relevant to the market right now. The developer-led model where developers are going to be in charge as automation hits and more developers are going to be encoding AI. Then you're going to have cost and price performance conversations. So I think, to me, I had to put the world at the two buckets right now. It's developers who are going to basically still be in charge and drive a lot of the agenda. And then the infrastructure performance is where there's hard costs involved. If you don't get the energy equation right, you're going to get blown out on costs. If you don't get the performance right that's tailored to the model, you're going to have some performance concerns. So there's going to be a real battle for supremacy around AI in those areas. Are the developers coding in line? Is it legit code? Is it trusted? Can it be verified? Is it helping them do their job better? And I think MongoDB's approach was awesome because they're saying, hey, that's our TAM, developers. We're not a data company and analyst. We have databases, we have a platform called Atlas. I think that's a smart play. And I think Amazon's trying to do the same thing with saying, we're the best cloud. We're the super cloud. We have the best chips, the infrastructure layer, we have the best models and choice with security built in from day one. And enabling- Which is a big factor. Huge factor. Huge factor and that's something that's glossed over by so many other providers. And that is one of my most favorite things about what it is AWS is doing. He took a ding on Microsoft when he said, I would never imagine rolling out something that didn't have security. That's a direct shot at Microsoft. Yeah. I mean, it should be a foundational thing, period. And then he put up Jordan Novelet's CNBC article on stage and they actually blurred out his name. I was just tweeting with him online. Blurred out his name and company. So I like how he's not pulling any punches, finally addressing the elephant in the room, which is open AI and anthropic versus open AI and then their investment in that. So that's the battle of titans. I mean, you've got Google, got the sphere. You know, a big story here in Vegas with the folks who aren't here is that Google just bought out the advertising for that new sphere which is this huge monster, this beautiful thing and Amazon missed it. So like basically on their show here in Vegas they're dominating the Google ad. It's kind of, it's a middle finger for AWS for sure. Someone at AWS missed that and they're going to probably be in the principal's office tomorrow. Prats to whoever did this at Google Cloud because it was a brilliant move. I mean, it was. So let's back up just a little bit. And I know you had an exclusive interview pre-show with Adam Silipski. Talk a little bit if you would about just some of the highlights of that conversation. I know you talked about chips. I know you talked a little bit about anthropic, but what were the high level takeaways from that conversation? You know, I wrote, I think 2,000 word posts under the companion cheat sheet post going to summarize it, but pretty much he didn't reveal anything, but I kind of put the keynote together based on the conversation flow. And so essentially pretty much nailed the keynote. But it was more, there was a lot of wide range in conversations in that one was their core business is still being upgraded. Graviton 4, fourth generation. So traditional non-GNI workloads are going to be worked on. Can't forget that's still a lot of non-generated workouts out there. And then the second one was the role of Silicon, right? The role of Silicon chips, custom chips, custom chip development. And then I had no idea, and he's going to come and say, but I brought up NVIDIA and I called the GPU conundrum, which was, we just came back from supercomputing and I asked him directly, DGX cloud is addressing this new sub market, it's kind of super cloud like where people are going to stand up GPU clusters and enable kind of these secondary GPU AI clouds, which we're already seeing. Well, because there's a huge challenge in being able to get the GPU computing power to run your AI needs, you know, your gen AI stuff. It's a big deal.  That's a direct strike at Amazon. And he addressed that by saying, it's not about just the chips. And he nailed that in the keynote here, that it's about the networking and stuff. And he actually rolled out specifics on that. So that was a nice gem there. But other things that was interesting that didn't make the story was I brought up the comparisons of the World Wide Web. And he was animated and he said, who's the internet company? And I said, I actually think someone did try to claim it once, but no one owns the internet. No one owns AI conceptually. Developers will build apps. And his point was, there was no one model to rule the world. And I said, well, you had AOL as an online service provider. That was proprietary, that was not the World Wide Web. World Wide Web was DNS, HTML, HTTP, content on top of standards that made everything successful. The online service providers, CompuServe, AOL, went out of business. So we kind of were riffing on the concept of who's the AOL for AI? Now, open AI has been criticized as being closed AI in Twitter. And you go in the thought leader circles, you have the open source community saying, they're not open. And then you've got Huggingface, Clem at Huggingface, keep alumni, really vocal around open and we'll win. So you're already seeing it now. It's very similar to the web, Shelly. You remember those days? I do. Online service providers, you dial up and you're in a proprietary platform with content service providers. Those content service providers all went to the web. So I think we're in an interesting moment. I think Silebski got it right with this idea of the power law. He validated our power law research that we put out. And he actually weaved that into the keynote. So congratulations to the research team. You guys did good work there. And he recognized that. So I think our work has contributed to his keynote, which I was a private victory for us, but you can see that in there. And he wants to fight. I think he didn't say this, but I think he's like proud Amazonian like Andy Jass. He's like, I'm not going to let people say we don't have AI. And so this event, he kind of flexed. Yeah, no, well, and I mean, he needed to though. I think that he needed to. And I enjoyed the conversation with Dario Amodi, who was part of the keynote this morning. He's the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. And one of the things that he said toward the end of his conversation was, he looks at this as a race to the top. And I feel like that is really important because in what I like about Amazon and others approach to Gen AI in particular is I believe a federated approach is the most customer centric way to go. Instead of all your apples in an open AI bucket, being able to work with different providers of family of providers, I mean, that's always going to be a better solution. And you get the benefit of all the innovation.  And I think that a federated approach to AI is similar to that. And so I thought that was cool. Dario also just kind of talked briefly about some of their, the sectors they're focusing on, the biomedical space, you know, the story about Pfizer and, you know, the results they were able to reap for Pfizer, the legal space where they're working with a deployment through Lexis Nexus, the finance industry where they've got to deal with Bridgewater to develop an investment analyst assistant. Like there's no sector that's not going to, already being or going to be touched by Gen AI. And I think that's really exciting. Well, I'm super excited to have you on the team. I got a lot of great messages yesterday. You posted on LinkedIn, I think it was awesome. And a lot of people are super excited for the work we're going to do. And it's great to have you. And we're here again, we'd love to reinvent what we do. We go to the events, we extract the signal from the noise, we've got SiliconANGLE, tsunami content, we've got a big special reports there, we've got news, analysis, research, commentary, all there in siliconangle.com. Look, you're obviously here on the ground, in studio in Palo Alto, and the CUBE research team on the ground, getting all the data, collecting it in, and providing insights and the full machine is here. Team coverage of re-invent is here. We're up in the press area. This is where one of our stages is, the other stage is down in Mongo DB special event. Bringing you coverage back to everyone in the studio in Palo Alto, we'll be right back here on location after this short break.


Buy account settings for AutoDS, buy your accounts are good for having AutoDS automatically fulfill your orders for you straight to your customer. So when you have an order, AutoDS will log into your suppliers account, buy the product and send it directly to the customer, automatically updating tracking information and all of that. So to go about all of this, the first thing that you need to do is have your own buyer account. So click on add account. Here you have your account details. The first thing that you need to do is choose your supplier. So let's go ahead and start filling in our account details. The first thing you need to do is choose your supplier. So here we have Amazon or Aliexpress. I'm going to go with Amazon for this example. Choose your region. We'll go with Amazon US, United States. Email is the email address that you're using to log into the suppliers site. So I'm going to go with Liron at AutoDS.com. Password is whatever password you need to log into the suppliers site. So write down whatever your password is, the name for your billing address, zip code, billing phone number, write down whatever your number is, and the verification code. Now where do we get this verification code? So the first thing that you need to do is log into your supplier site. So let's log into Amazon. Click on your account over here. Log in and security. Let's go down to the two step verification settings. Click on edit, click on get started, Authenticator app. Now click on can't scan the barcode and you'll get this code over here in bold. Copy that and add that to the verification code down here, paste and next. Now let's continue to the payment settings. So you can choose credit card or gift card. I personally recommend going with credit cards. Gift cards can be dangerous. If they're discounted, Amazon can lock your account and you're going to have a very hard time or almost impossible to get it back. So let's go with credit card, add a credit card. Okay, and let's start filling in all of the information that we need. I'm obviously just writing anything for the example. After you're done filling in everything, click on add card. Down here we have the credit card that we added. It's set as the primary card. You can add more cards, edit the existing one or remove it. Now let's click on next. Now we have the order settings for this buy account. So your max pending orders is the maximum number of orders that you want to have in the ordered status before they move on to shipped.  So if it's a new buyer account, I recommend putting a maximum of 5 or 10 maximum orders and the daily orders price limit is the same as the max pending orders except in this field the system is asking you what is the maximum price limit that you want in pending for all of the orders that haven't been shipped yet. So let's say you have 10 pending orders that are ordered but not shipped and the sum of all of the 10 orders is $1,000 and you don't want to go past $1,000. So just put $1,000 as your daily order price limit. So every time you have orders that have been ordered but have not yet been shipped and their total is $1,000, the system will issue the orders for you. If it reaches $1,005 or more, the system will not issue out the orders until some of the orders from the ordered status have moved to shipped, the limit will drop and leave more room for new orders. So that's your daily orders price limit, your max pending orders. If you check auto order and auto tracking numbers, then every time you get a new order, the system will automatically issue them out for you. If you uncheck auto tracking numbers, the system will still automatically order everything for you but will not update the tracking numbers, you're going to have to do that manually. And if you have only auto tracking numbers but not auto order, every time you'll get an order from a customer, you'll have to click on a button to issue the order yourself, which I will show you in just a minute, but the system will still automatically update the tracking numbers and so forth. So that's the difference between the two. I recommend to have them both on, unless you want to manually click a button to have the system issue the orders, or unless you want to automatically update the tracking numbers, but I don't see any reason for you to do that because the system really does it well and it's very practical. So once we're done with all of that, we're going to click on add. And here's the new buy account, liranauds.com, this is the supplier, I don't have any gift card balance, I didn't set any daily limit, I didn't set any pending orders limit, my payment method is credit card, I don't have any orders yet. Now you're going to have to copy this OTP number over here, head back to Amazon, put that in the verify OTP and continue, so paste that over here and click here. Once you do that, AutoDS will be able to successfully connect to your buy account, if there is any problems the system will let you know. And that's how you go about adding a buy account, as you can see the status is active and now the system can start issuing the orders for you. If you click on the trash can over here it will delete the account, the pencil icon will edit it and you can continue adding as many accounts as you want. Now that the buy account is set and active, let's make sure that AutoDS will update the tracking information correctly, so what you need to do is go into the store settings, click on the supplier that you're using, so for this example it's Amazon US and under the orders tab on the bottom you'll see your unique tracking email. What you need to do is forward all of the emails that you're getting with tracking information from your supplier and forward them to this address over here, you can copy it by clicking this button over here. For more information on how you can forward your emails with tracking information to this unique tracking email over here, check out the help guide in the links below. Now let's see the order statuses, click on orders on the left side. As you can see you have a pending order over here, each order that the system fulfills for you costs one order credit, so you're going to have to have credits up here in order to have them click on buy credit. Here you'll have the list of credits that you can buy and their prices, the more credits you buy the cheaper it'll cost, so keep in mind each order costs one credit. And if you're using the fulfilled by Autodesk service, this is where you can load your balance. In order to load your balance just click load, here you can choose the amount, your payment method which is PayPal, we also have Payoneer coming soon, select your buyer account, we don't have any since in this video we're talking about the automatic order services and not fulfilled by Autodesk, but here's where you can do it, so that's just a brief explanation of that. Here you can customize the columns, what you want to see first, so let's say the item ID is not important for you, you want to start off seeing the store's name, the quantity, the customer's name, the price that they paid, tax, and let's say their address. Click on update and now you can see how everything here rearranged exactly the way I wanted it, starting with the store name, the quantity, the customer's name, the price, tax, address and so forth. If you want to export your orders just click on the export button up here, enter your email address and the system will automatically send it to you, to your email and you can grab it from there, here it is export file will be sent to your email, you're on autodesk.com shortly. So that sums up how you can create a buyer account, if you have any questions please let me know and I will answer them in the comments below and please also subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated on all of the cool stuff that we have going on in the dropshipping world and on the autodesk platform.


The greatest tragedy that human beings are going through is just this. Their sensory perception gives one-sided perception.  This is why always in yoga, brahmamurtam you should be up. So in the greatest predicament that a human being faces and the greatest tragedy that human beings are going through and the greatest struggle that all humans seem to be toiling with is just this. Their sensory perception gives one-sided perception. If you see this, you can't see this. If you see light, you can't see darkness. If you hear sound, you can't hear silence.  Trying to wade their way through these contradictions, how much suffering, unbelievable. How much confusion, how much struggle. If this nearly eight billion people, if you document what kind of suffering they're going through in one year or in one day, just one day, it's enough for eternity. All this is simply because they have misunderstood instruments of survival or as instruments of knowing. You must know which is light and which is darkness if you want to walk through this. You must know which is man, which is woman if you have to operate in the world. So these differences are very one-sided. Well, in many ways I've said this, now it's become a bit too common for everybody to know this because I've been speaking about this for some time. Well, you are sitting here as a man or a woman, but you came here because a man and woman came together.   And you go through a whole lot of circus. Just being a man or a woman, how much circus in the world? Forget about light and darkness, that's more complicated.  This is just that because between light and darkness, you think they are two different worlds because it looks like that. The day looks like one kind of world. This planet looks different during the day. During the night, it's a completely different world, but it is not. It's the same world. I think you get that point during twilight to some extent. This is why it's always important to wake up before the sun comes up because you don't have to do anything. If you're just alert and looking, slowly the perception will go into you. This is why always in yoga, Brahma Murtam you should be up because twilight starts then. In twilight if you're awake, you perceive that the differences that you have made out in your mind because of misperceptions of senses that you have settles within you when that happens, when. When, when a man is woman, bird a flower, red is blue, life, death, twilight. When did this poem happen? When I think this was about 2019, when I was in United States, our triple I, the Asia Institute of Inner Sciences, is a spectacular place, nature-wise. We're here to build. We've built some, lot more to build there. But in terms of nature is a truly spectacular place and where I stay, you just cannot escape the sunset. The sun is at you because we are on top of a bluff and there is a valley. When the sun is setting, sun is in level with you. Like this usually happens only at the ocean. Even there there will be a little bit this thing here, sun is below you when it is setting. So you cannot escape sunset at all, even if you want to. So as I was watching the sunset, I saw this is the thing that everybody is missing. It's not about the glory of the sunset. It is a clear transition where this and that is not there. There's only this and this.


Welcome back to the Sportsmax zone. We continue now with football schoolboy football action got on the way on Saturday in both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the Twin Island Republic in the secondary schools football league We saw the opening game the Super Cup sent Benedict's Benedict's College beating Fatima College Fatima College 643 in a seven goal thriller at the case the Crawford stadium Despite losing key players the SSFL Premier Division champions were dominant in the first half going to the break with a three-nil lead Fatima made a contest of it in the second half getting two quick goals before Daryl Zoom Zoom Garcia squashed any hopes of a comeback by completing his hat-trick So in the three successive finals contested between St. Benedict's and Fatima it reads St. Benedict's two wins the Premier title and the Super Cup Fatima one the intercal national title so a great start there in TNT and St. Benedict's coming up with a good victory and keeping their dominance over Fatima at least in this period on on on track Yeah, for sure clearly these two teams showing themselves as the best at the schoolboy level in Trinidad and Tobago and Really good comeback by Fatima College as well because at three-nil down at halftime And you're thinking this one is very much done But they came out with so much more purpose in the second half They got those two quick goals, but Garcia was quite clinical for St. Benedict's and got the job done It was a wonderful performance By St. Benedict's and I must say Lance it looked really good on television as well I was watching this game while I was on my way to the National Stadium to watch the Manning and the Costa Cop Openers and it looked quite good on the Sportsmax app and a really good performance from St. Benedict's to start the season Yeah, and the St. Benedict's coach very very very confident and he said post game that this game is already behind them And they're looking forward to the season with a lot of gusto. So It is it is very clear that They've considered this just a good opening match for them But immaterial because what they want is to pull in the entire trophies for the 20-23 season Yeah, I think they would have been a little disappointed last season not to lift the intercall title After winning the Premier Division title And I think they want to set that record straight and they will think to themselves This is a brilliant way to start that campaign. We've beaten Fatima College We expect to be One of the the main forces in the competitions this campaign And I think that will give them tremendous confidence and belief going forward That they can snatch the intercall SSFL Premier Division double. Yeah, and there was some feeling, you know, Ricardo that since the return of the SSFL after covid they The teams were a little Behind schedule and and and they're the quality of the competition and the games themselves Would have been affected by teams who were not fully back yet in proper background training And tactical work and so on and I think we're seeing the signs here and now that Based on what we saw in Saturday's opening games that that the teams Are have put covid 19 setbacks behind them And ready now to bring the level of football that we had seen prior to 2020 Yeah, everything I saw on Saturday suggests to me that we're going to see greater quality all round in SSFL football this season and You are right lance. I mean just after covid I think when you looked at the competition, it it It didn't look as appealing as you would want it to be and especially when you are thinking about development and the The next generation of quality trinidad and topago players. You couldn't necessarily see it But much better quality football on display on saturday the quality of the passing the movement of the ball I thought was Significantly better even from these two teams who were champion teams last year They looked in my opinion much better than they did a year ago And I think the coaches can take a lot of credit for that Yeah, st. Benedict's coach Randolph voice and as I said, he spoke glowingly about his team's performance On saturday and really wanted to emphasize the fact that The season ahead for them is where they are banking on putting in some really really good performances Well action in the ssfl will continue on wednesday with the first round of the premier division And the matches will be maddox secondary against qrc at serpentine road The pleasantville game st. Mary's college is on as well along with fatima college against st. Antonis college arima north against presentation Sound one north against st. Benedict's space on high will be up against bishops high naparimo college will be Up against shaguanus north that's on louis street and trinity east will take on east mucarapo And that will be at trin city round one matches wednesday in the premier division fixtures Still with schoolboy football, but now to jamaica We're at the rural era da costa cup and urban era manning cup competitions kicked off at the national stadium in kingston on saturday In the first match of the day reigning da costa cup champions clarence and college made light work of lennon high Running out comfortable five nil winners malachi douglas who represents Dunbeholden and the jamaica premier league grabbed a double That's clarence and college scored all five goals in a dominant first half performance Meanwhile reigning champions in the manning cup jamaica college were two nil winners over tivoli gardens theory garrick in the first half stoppage time and javon mills in the 80th minute were the ghost course For the devon ferguson coach jamaica college and it could have been more had it not been for the brilliance of the tiboli gardens goalkeeper Shakur adir Riccardo, you were on commentary duties on saturday. What did you take away from jamaica colleges win? I think a lot of what you expect with jamaica college, especially in recent seasons one of the Stat that I spoke about at the beginning of that match is that going into that match jamaica college had drawn three of their last five opening games and even last season when they beat a hapless St. Mary's college by 13 goals to nil in their opener. They followed that up with an ill or draw So usually if jamaica college is vulnerable It will be at the beginning of the season and we've seen that over time I think coming into saturday's match though. They knew that tiboli gardens posed a serious threat Everything coming out of preseason is that the tiboli team has been looking really good and they're much improved from last year And remember that in 2022 they won the walker cup knockout titus. So they would have had that confidence as well They had five players who started in the walker cup final of 2022 starting in this opening game against jamaica college So I think jc came out with a little bit more purpose than maybe they would have a little bit more desire And they got the job done and and having said that lance They still in my opinion did not show everything that they have On saturday javon mills. Well This is tiara garrick there number 11 who got the opening goal Um Odain will before so they have gotten from your kasa high school. He wasn't even on the team sheet He's a quality player. He scored 16 goals in rural area football last season including 13 In the dacosta cup three in the ben france's knockout He's now at jamaica college and he will add a lot to their attack for sure An already potent attack that davian ferguson has to work with and they also have javon Javon mills from your castle as well who has some primary league experience. He scored the second goal He is back. He adds so much experience so much quality And right away we're seeing a jamaica college team lance that I think throughout the course of the season will build And will continue to get better Which is the way they operate usually anyhow Yeah, and part of jamaica college's potency in schoolboy football for The better part of a decade now would have been their depth Which you reference just now in talking about the fact that they haven't laid all their cards on the table yet And it's one of the reasons why jamaica college has been so dominant in schoolboy football in jamaica The fact that they have so much depth and they have players who Are are going to be unfurled later on in the tournament Which a lot of the fans wouldn't have seen in the early stages Yeah, very much the case or players who will be released When it is not a tv match You could look at it that way as well But yes, they do have great depth jamaica college part of the reason for that is because they have An a-class Recruitment program if you want to put it like that There is no doubt that the jamaica college setup Searches for talent and they look around the country And they look for the very best players that they can integrate into their setup with what they already have You say around the country but outside of jamaica as well Well also outside of jamaica because yes, they do have players from the rest of the caribbean in their setup We saw a number of them play last season I think they have about six or seven of them in their squad this season from outside of jamaica So they have a fabulous recruiting machinery and put that together with a very good Management structure and a good structure overall in my opinion It means that they're always going to be challengers because they have a system in place That ensures they replenish as far as the talent is concerned and quality talent as well So there is no doubt that when the business end of the season comes Jamaica college will very much be there once again for davian fergusson this year though Isis spitlands he started in 2019 replacing andropere to a gun Titles in 2018 after megal coli had left. He's won two manning cup titles davian fergusson He's won a champions cup title as well, but he's not won the olivia shield and i think that Will likely Be among the things that he desperately wants this campaign lost the olivia shield last season to clarence and college I think when they got to the final as well in 2019 It was clarence and college when they won the manning cup in 2019 It was clarence and college who beat them in the olivia shield and clarence and college looked brilliant Uncerted it to to start their campaign So you can bet that come the business end of the the costa cup clarence and college will very much be there as well Yeah, and and the fact is about clarence and college now you go there. They scored five goals on all in the first half yes, and Displaying the the typical Lenny Hyde kind of football they play Very attractive football and the ball handling skills of the players immensely Impressive and a team that you know, you just love to watch and that's just Stereotypical of clarence and college teams yet very much the case was especially impressed with this goal The third goal just beautifully worked as donald pointed out clearly off the training ground This is something that they must have practiced over and over again You just look at the movement The players knowing exactly where they were going to pass the ball and lennon just shell shocked Surprisingly and you can see lenny hyde smiling there because he knows. Yeah, we really worked on that one But from a lenon standpoint very disappointed with lenon in the heat of kingstone lands They took forever to warm up and some would even suggest that maybe it was because it was all of five That clarence and college did not push as hard as they could have in the second half But yeah, this cc team looks good I was surprised to see the number of returning players to this clarence and college team because I thought a few of them Might have moved on like a malachi douglas who scored a couple of goals christopher hollow I think is a real quality player But the fact that they are there kaheem dickson is still up front remember him He scored that stunning bicycle kick goal in the champions cup Semifinal against kingstone college. Of course that game belonged to the genre whisper richards With the goal of the season But yeah, this cc team looks good and once again, it has the stamp of len worth hide playing attractive football Playing quality football in my opinion lands over the last three or four seasons Clarence and college has played the best brand of football in the country Yes, they are a delight to watch and it was the case again on saturday And I can't wait to see them again and unlike jamaica college Where you find that you have to watch jamaica college over a number of games to see a lot of what they have With clarence and college what you see is what you get Lenny hide is More often than not going to put his best available side out there And you just watch and you enjoy and genuine the clarence and college is is a delight to watch Yeah, you said best football in the country. You're not talking schoolboy football only are you? No, I'm not So you are saying that clarence and college's best brand of brand of football. Yes, even above the jamaica primarily Yes, okay. I don't I don't think I see any team in the jamaica primary league that Consistently plays that brand of football montego bay united arnett gardens in the past. Yes, um played That type of expressive attacking Football with flair. Yes. Um, that's what you get game in game on from clarence and college I can't see I see that in the jamaica primary league game in game Or maybe you could reference cavalier at one stage, but even last season They were not as expressive as they have been in the past. So Yeah Well, I guess confidence and dominance would contribute to what you've just said anyhow Lenny hide takes over as a done beholden coach this season in the jamaica primary league and done beholden They have a lot of high quality players with good ball handling skills. So let's see if done beholden can match clarence and college We'll see attractiveness on the football field other results on saturday in the issa schoolboy football competition We had the jamaica college tunel over tivoli clarence and final over lennon. There was frume 3 1 over murley natty cambridge beaten 6 1 by roces and The competition continuing this week with lots of matches coverage on sports max channels sports max 1 and 2 Will continue over the weekend. We go to break still a lot more to come on the sports max zone back in a moment


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Hey everybody, welcome back to another installment of A Week in Geekdom here on YouTube. My name's Giovanna Medundas and today we're going to be talking about Junji Ito's Frankenstein Ito Collection Hardcover Thingamajig. I finally read it, well actually truth be told, I read it a long time ago and completely forgot to make a review on it. So here I am now, I remember in the previous video when I talked about Junji Ito's smashed, I remembered in real time, oh I forgot to make a video about Frankenstein, so here we are. So what is this book about? Of course it is adapting the Mary Shelley classic Frankenstein novel from the 1800s, I think if memory serves me right. Look, my history with Frankenstein is a little bit different than most people. I read portions of it growing up in high school for different classes and stuff I guess, I barely remember the story. I know what happens, I know about Frankenstein's monster and all that stuff. So yeah, this book basically takes that source material and does a kind of a straightforward adaptation. It's a little bit loose here and there, but for the most part I gotta say it's pretty faithful to what Mary did way back so many centuries ago. Ito of course is known for taking the mundane and infusing it with satire, some sort of bizarre humor and of course his trademark body horror and just how wonderful everything looks under his scope and how terrifying it can be. So with Frankenstein you get at least 150 some pages of adapting the classic novel and you get some space for some extra short stories that he made. Now with those short stories, their mostly hitter master was one that I really liked with the house, geez I can't remember right now the name of the character, but the character appears in multiple stories which of course fuels my theory that it's all just one huge connected universe of miserable characters and he has this house where he's seeing ghostly apparitions in the walls and like encrusted in the actual haunted mansion and his parents are away but then you find out there's like an alternate portal or sorry a portal to like an alternate dimension. Stuff like that, creepy stuff like that you come to expect from Junji Ito. Now there are some other stories where you know it's creepy it's kind of cool but it's kind of you know it kind of falls flat. The main drive of this book undoubtedly has to be the Frankenstein portion which you know takes a huge chunk out of this book like I said 150 some pages and this is what you're coming in here for. It is a good adaptation but of course Ito infuses it with this wonderful beautiful lovecraftian splendor that he's known for and everything just looks surreal it looks great the Frankenstein monster looks terrifying looks disgusting and just a beautiful tone of dread I mean plus that scene where the bride of Frankenstein is involved and her creation on all that stuff like gonna show you here real time look at all of this awesomeness and it is just really really eerie spectacular to read for the most part I cannot and I'm sorry because I haven't read the original 100% through I can't tell you how exactly faithful it is but from looking online and reading a quick synopsis on the book I can't I am confident that Ito paid his respects to the original source material and did a wonderful job adapting to it I didn't I had forgotten the whole scene with them in the north pole I think or Antarctica one of the poles and that whole scene really captivated me because I had forgotten about it so when I was reading it I'm like is this really what happened and yeah it did so in short if you are a fan of Frankenstein and you want to read a new some would say grotesque version of the story then yeah I mean you gotta you gotta check that out seriously there are elements from the original material here which or excuse me I should say you know they pay homage to the original source material and to the movies as well I took a note I took notice of that because there are a couple references to the long history of Frankenstein's monster and the way people have treated him you know this reading this book reminds me of just spending an afternoon where the weather is gray grizzled and it's a chill that's coming down and you feel it in your very soul it's that type of weather I felt that when I was reading this book plus it didn't help that I was reading it like a close to midnight or something like that because you know it's a horror book you have to read it at the worst possible time so yeah Junji Ito I love his work I'm a huge fan and and you know it's stuff like this where it's really gross and really awesome and really spectacular the drawings as usual are fantastic they're wonderful I love the story of how you have a character of Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein and his pursuit for knowledge scientific questioning and wanting to have all the answers and life being the crazy bitch that it can be answering back in the form of this tragedy of the Frankenstein monster and the stuff that the doctor goes through with his family I won't spoil anything but it's quite an ordeal that this man is going through and I think Ito played all the right cards in adapting this story and it was really wonderful to see like I mentioned earlier the drawings everything is exceptional the writing is actually pretty cool because he doesn't go for the old English jargon from way back instead you get a more contemporary streamlined translation into English again I don't know if I'm spoiling anything I'm sorry I try not to spoil things on this channel but again for the most part it is a wonderful adaptation the short stories on the other hand leave much to be desired I think they could have been a little bit better there are a couple of stories in here like next specter which I thought was pretty interesting although extremely weird which is you know who are we kidding that's the norm with this author and you also had the adventures of non-non the adorable Maltese dog from the Ito family and and blessed that little doggy and she was awesome but then you had stories like this bog of living spirits which I got to be honest with you kind of they're okay strange tale of Oshikiri the walls looking pretty fantastic in my opinion and of course there was that other one of the short stories that I really loved was the one with the little girl that was being dollified if I said that correctly she was being turned into a doll and it is expertly done in my opinion it gave me the creeps from day one and I still remember it fondly because it was creepy as shit and I'm sorry for the cursing but that's the fact so yeah overall you're coming in here whoop you can't see it you're coming in here for this story Frankenstein the short stories whatever but yeah in my Ito ranking I placed this atop let's see I still have Uzumaki as my favorite read I got to put to me a close second because at least 80% of that book I'd loved then I'm gonna I'm going to place Frankenstein as my third read is it's really good fragments of horror comes next then the shiver smashed Gio haven't read dissolving classroom that's the only thing I don't own yet in collected edition and last but not least is cat diary that's my current ranking for the Ito verse ladies and gentlemen so what did you guys think of Jinji Ito's Frankenstein let me know in the comment section down below and if not like I always say recommend me some good horror manga I'm very interested in checking those out so yeah 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A follow-up for my first meet-up, Lighting Torbina! Welcome, so my name is Maya, and it is the very first time to do MC in this council. Thanks. Here with me, I'm Yujia, and this is Yujia. Yes. Okay, so first of all, I will ask who is attending this meet-up very first time. I know that you are here, but yeah, thank you, thank you. Yeah, thank you very much. So I want to, yes, thank you. I want to introduce a bit much for Christina, and then in a way, yes, the next one. So, our Christina is everywhere in the world. So the group is more than 700, more than 100 countries. And so this one is, so WordPress, a WordPress foundation, and they have followed how to accept WordPress, I forgot, it's kind of a branch but it means a chapter. And so this is probably the chapter of WordPress data in the world. Yes. Thank you. And then, so the last one was in May 26th, and so we are still working or starting after COVID, but we started a new meet-up like this. Yes, thanks. So the same overrider is also organizing bigger event for our German Valencia community free. And it will be so two for nine. So, so, I'm going to get, I'm going to get, I guess, and then we also have three more speakers on tomorrow. So yes, yes, please check out our German Valencia too. And our meeting up is organized by all volunteers. So nobody to mine from this event. And so this time, we will have six speakers, and they are volunteering to speak this time. So they will be very. And this time, we can, it's this many because of our artists. And then, as here today, we have Marco from Parties. So thank you. Thank you. Excellent. And then, so we need to work. We always need volunteer to organize meeting up. So I'm volunteer and they know I'm volunteer. And so if you want to help us and they need to do it. And then the next one makes a meeting up together. And then, yes, so you can be a volunteer. You can be a speaker. And there was also a sponsor that we, especially always looking for opinion to use free. So no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. here has five minutes to talk about everything, anything about WordPress. And then, so we have six people, six lighting speakers. So, yes, and then we separate two groups. And also, after this talk, we will have one, two, three short talks, then after that, we have two groups of lighting told, and at the end of the evening, we are planning to have asking and insisting, the experiment. And then, so asking everything is, as we usually do, so we will invite all the, to the lighting speakers, and we also have a group of Virgin Movesia to use here, then we want to observe it in the rest of the afternoon. Yes, and then maybe I don't share this with you, but during this period. Okay, so that's all from me, so that's it.


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