My name is Reino de Vinta. As I told you, I'm from the Netherlands and we're a French country in Europe. Self-proclaimed geek. I've been programming since I was five or six or something like that. And my main focus is on security and privacy. And what I do is I write, I train and I consult. And as of yesterday, I am allowed to do once in a while a report for a Dutch business news radio. So that's kind of cool, I think. And if you want to know more, buy me a beer. That always works and makes me talk. Torture doesn't work. Why are we here? The thing is that privacy and anonymity are really needed to safeguard free speech. I cannot do my job if I cannot count on those two. I've broken a lot of stories in the Netherlands. Many of them making it to questions in parliament, sparking of debate, and even one vote of confidence for the Secretary of Transportation. Those things are only possible if I have people that are able to tell me what is going down. I cannot make that work myself. I'll cut that, you know, that you would, you would be caught and that wouldn't work. So it's a whole thing about trust. And I know the most of you can't read Dutch. It has to do with blackhead and yesterday. But this is what went down yesterday in the press room. I was sitting the entire day with my three colleagues from France at this table. Hell, I even gave them coffee. And they turned out to be snooping on you in a room where you expect to be nonpart of the blackhead network. They didn't get anything from me, thank God. But still, you know, it didn't make me love the French more. So if there are any friends, I'm sorry if I offended you, but you can always make up that by me, B.O. But this is the whole thing what it's all about.  Why is this important for you? Well, give me a minute. The wake-up call is the thing that I want to tell you about when I arrived last year in the Netherlands. I was arrested for making a photograph. I'll tell you all about it in a second. But that was for me the real wake-up call. And that was for me the thing that I started to understand that we needed to do something about this thing. I think I have an open source project that can make a difference. And if you're not interested in the project, at the very end, I've got a couple of tips to help you out being a little bit more secure. Because for me privacy is part of a very important part of security. So the wake-up call. This guy is not the guy that I was taking. He was quite okay with me taking a picture. But when I returned from Descon, one day later, I was walking in Utrecht, that's somewhere in the center of the Netherlands, and there was this guy coming by on a sec way. Now you know I'm a friend of David. There was this friend coming by on a sec way. And sec ways were outlawed in the Netherlands. Why? We don't know, but it's kind of illegal.  This is something for the blog I'm writing for. So I took a picture. He took a fence, phoned the police. I was arrested. They took my camera and removed the picture. Sorry? No, he's taking the pictures right there. No, that's not the picture. This is a different guy after it all went down. Of course, what the police did was utterly illegal. But the fact is, the picture is gone. You don't have the evidence no more. This part was a big riot with a lot of blogs, with a lot of other journalists. And within two days, the police started to apologize and, you know, they removed my record and they did everything to apologize. But it was a wake-up call. And after that, we've seen a whole bunch of other incidents. And I want to walk through a couple of them. For instance, a cartoonist that was supposed to be a racist, his cartoons were taken offline without a court order. In a normal legal system, you would expect a judge to say, this is illegal, take it down. That's how our world should work. The same cartoonist was jailed for days so that they could verify his identity. The funny thing was, they had verified his identity. Well, I would call that bullying. In the public space, we have seen camera men in the Netherlands being hindered from doing their job. For instance, one of their instances, a journalist was filming an arrest and they basically threatened to take his camera away. Well, we have the laptop searches at the border. And we have in the Netherlands policemen working and government workers full-time on a whole bunch of websites looking for illegal remarks. I called them all support police. And then one of the coolest things is, we have got this website called NoStyle and they got a summation from the police, give me the IP address of this movie that was posted. Somebody posted a movie that they were driving over 200 kilometers an hour. It's something like 150 miles or so. And that's kind of too fast. So if you're speeding, they want to know your IP address. That's kind of interesting. And last but not least, we have the movie of the politician that was made and they tried to present that movie from being published. What else do we have? We've got massive monitoring using CCTV cameras. We've got public transportation cards that will store every move you'll make for at least seven years. And we are introducing a tech system over the road like Easy Pass or something like that. And that will photograph license plates. So if you come to the Netherlands and you go to the toilet, I will know about it.  Of course, this is very easy to circumvent and they get very upset if you write about that, how to circumvent that. But the thing, this thing is people think this is normal behavior. This is the scene I'm living in. And this is not the scene in the Netherlands alone. This is the scene in the UK, in Germany, in France. Well, let's not talk about that. And say in Italy, it's not all that different. The one difference is that in Germany, many of the things that they're trying to do are being stopped by a constitutional law, by a constitutional court. I wonder why. Probably the same reason why many of these things in Japan are stopped based on their constitution. So this is what I'm looking at. This is what I am up against. The thing that I want to do is get it right and let's get it right on privacy and anonymity. First, let's start off on a definition because privacy is something else. And I'm very much aware that for you Americans, privacy has a whole different meaning than for a European. But scientists believe, and this is not what I thought of, but I learned from the University of Amsterdam, that privacy basically is the level of control you have over your own information. So when I get on a bus and they are registering that I'm traveling, I have no control over what people do with my information. If I happen to take the same bus as a notorious terrorist, I cannot oversee the consequences of that monitoring. If my cell phone is in a room with somebody that is wanted, like for three days, let's say on that phone, I cannot oversee the consequences. And I'm not being afraid of being arrested. I'm far more afraid of the things that you cannot see. People that get checked from their jobs, people that try to get a job, all of a sudden can't get it no more, people that are denied entry into other countries. And they don't know why they're on the list. We've got a European member of parliament and she is being flagged every time she flies within the U.S. She doesn't know why and she cannot change it. And we have the same thing in Europe. I mean, I'm not saying that we are so far more sacred than you are. Sorry about it. The other thing is anonymity. It's a whole different ball game. I decided, and that's my level of control, to say that my name is Vrenno de Rinta. I could have stand up here and say, I'm Snoop Doggy Dogg. I don't know if you would have believed me. I could have been anonymous. I've chosen not to. That's a deliberate choice. People have a right in many cases to hide their identity. When I'm doing my job, I meet people all the time that do not want to tell me who they are, but they are giving me information that turns how to be true. That is why anonymity is important. People need to be able to go to a doctor and ask about a disease, you know, with our setting if that's for themselves or for somebody else. And to show you the level of fear that we've got in our country. A couple of months ago, I was working on this riot and they did do a public bid that was very much debated in parliament and somebody called me. I took a picture of my cell phone and I could see a 070 number. That means the hate. So he started telling his story and then I said, like, whoa, what's your name? And then he said, like, I prefer not to tell. So we're like, yeah, but I see a phone number, you know, I can look this up really easy. And then he went like, that's because I mean a bar because I'm afraid. This is the level of fear that he's already placed upon people. Somebody working for my government, leaving a cell phone at home, going to a bar to do this. And now we've got this new law called data retention. And I know somebody in this room is here and he's saying that data retention is a cool thing because you can't find out so incredibly much. But this is a whole different ballgame, I think. The director forces member nations of European Union to introduce a law that will store IP addresses, phone numbers, who they belong to, who is calling whom, when, who tries to call whom, when, how long the call lasts, who is emailing who and who, you know, who is in charge or who is behind a certain address. And this is being used to pretend crying. Let me give you one example. Last year. And she, a beautiful blonde lady was taken out of her bed by the police because she apparently threatened our prime minister.  After some time, the police find out they got the phone number wrong. She went public on television and that's very good for the anti data retention people because nice, hardworking lady with children and looking nice. But all it does is very, very well on television. But it shows the level of mistake. The second and last example on this one, a Dutch man doing business, all of a sudden was arrested and detained for months because he had to be extradited to freeze. Apparently, he threatened somebody in Greece. What turned out to be the case is that there was this website that was illegal and his phone number happened to be on that website. How it got there, he really doesn't know because it wasn't his website. Only before the phone number alone was reason to lock him up for months. That made me nervous. You know, a lot of people don't know my phone number.  No, let's not go there. The last thing and that was actively said in Dutch Parliament, what we can do with this information is predict who will commit a crime. Who did see minority reports? But it is not only an issue for journalists. It's also people who want to tip off the police anonymously. Lawyers that need to be contacted by the client. We had several incidents in the Netherlands where there's privilege with the private conversation between a lawyer and the defendant was actually violated.  The downside is, oh, I'm not having luck with this today. Yeah, let me explain what's happening here. I normally work on a Mac. But last week on Thursday, it surfaced that people in the US border can be seen my laptop for indeterminate time. And I've got a lot of sensitive information that I really needed. I need to speak to some people and needed to bring along. So I bought a Windows laptop. And I use true grip to have the hidden partitions and stuff. If people want to search it now, it's too late. It's gone already because I did talking about the documents already. You don't care about it until it hits you. And if you use tools to save part of privacy, they are generally user unfriendly. I expect everybody in this room to be able to install three net and tour. I have a heart and asking this to my sister, who's a physician. And let's not start with my mother. That's a 76 year old. It's way too complex. Many people are unaware when I write down that they will sort the data of way of traveling on this little card for seven years. I every time get new responses. And somebody wrote in a report that privacy wouldn't be an issue if the press wouldn't make it an issue. And then there's this other problem. I need to pick up a fresh letter and then they will tell me again that I'm not allowed to take pictures without people consent. Why? Because you can identify people on the picture. If I photograph three people on the picture, you still can identify them. But if I go into a stadium and stand on the central stage and then take a picture up, it's hard to identify anybody. The larger the group, the harder it is to identify who is doing what. The biggest help for privacy, without any doubt, is getting a large group of people using a tool. I don't really care if tour is perfect or not. The thing is that if you own one percent of the network, apparently it's no longer secure. So this six billion people are running around. Owning one percent is a lot harder than 130,000 users. That is the whole thing on the privacy part. So we need to get more people in. And then we have the whole thing that I told you about at that border by what is different levels used for this conference to obfuscate data because you don't want people at the border finding it. Of course, you can place a lot online and that's what I would have done if that were possible. But in my case, it wasn't. This is where I hope that my open source project can make a difference. First of all, I don't want to reinvent the wheel.  If I'm reinventing the wheel, I will fill in two ways. One is that the tool basically won't be as good as the other tools that are already out there. It will take longer. And second, I drive to part of the community. And I just told you that you have to set the center stage of a big stadium and then make a picture. If you change, of course, you want to contribute back to all the projects that pose the same. But we aim at a larger user base. And what I want to do is deliver tools that are easy to install, easy to work with. And most of all, work. And besides having the tool, you need to do a lot of marketing together. That's why I'm out here as well. And I hope to meet people after this talk that are willing to do a little bit. At this point, I've got over 100 people on my mailing list. And I can say that I've approximately 10 active contributors. What will the tool do? Well, in the beginning, two things. Enable email and chat by making that for the outside world anonymous and for the inside world you can choose. So when a message pops up in my email box, I either know who's from or it will be anonymous. And if it's totally anonymous, then, of course, you can select if you want to receive anonymous email or not. No, I generally don't care about the standards just too much. If you want to, if you not want to chase people away, you need to integrate with what you currently already have. Most people, whether you like it or not, are using your outlook. After nearly a week with this new computer, I wonder why, because I've got such a hard time working with it, but that's a whole different subject. But the reality is they are using it. I'm used to Thunderbird, and you can say from cutie sense that's not perfect, but at least work for me. Many people are using messenger type of software. We need to perfectly integrate with that type of software in order to ensure that they can use the tools and they don't have to think about security. And the last but not least, if you have an app hole and you see the contact list application, you know it's a pretty good application. Maybe the interface could be a little bit better, but the good part of this is when you install Skype, all the addresses are integrated. When you install all the tools, it totally integrates. It blurs into the environment. Wouldn't it be nice to offer such a tool platform independent, for instance, by using Python? What I want to do is encrypt messages, and maybe I should take a small step back. What is a message? A message is any type of communication, being a chat, being an email, but also being status information on what your, for instance, what your system is doing or storing data in the cloud. If I can store a large chunk of data in the cloud, then I didn't have to buy a new laptop. I think OpenPGP or more specifically, NoopyG, is very good in making such message well protected. Second thing you want to do is use other hosts. If the gentleman with the red shirt over there would be surprised to put this data in the cloud, then it's pretty hard to know that I send the data off. Unless, of course, I send it directly, but that's why it's called Tor in this world. The next question is, how do you do that? And what's the cloud? My cloud would typically be FreeNet, because that's the infrastructure that's already there to store data in the cloud, and it makes it very hard to take down. And after you're not using the data, it alternately falls off the cloud. Sounds funny when you say that. So you take FreeNet to put data into the cloud. Using IDs and hashes, you can search the data so you can see what files are there for me that are new. Using some type of anonymity as well, of course, like Tor or anything else. But that basically means that to create a route to put data in the cloud, somebody else, whenever they are online, can take it out. They can take off a list. Like, OK, I've got this message now. Decrypt it and use it. I've been working on this very long. I have a whole different complex mechanism, and then I needed to know everybody that was around. And it had a chat channel in it. And then a cryptographer said, why go so complex? And that's why I don't have a tool yet. And he pointed out that the complexity actually would make the project feel in the end. This is kind of simple. If I can read somebody anonymous, if that person would be kind enough to put it online, if I can verify it anonymous, that it is online after a certain time, the other person can pick it up as Elijah. Leisure. Leisure, yeah. And you don't need local storage or anything yourself. So when they take your laptop away, there is no evidence besides part of a encrypted, free-net thing on your hard drive. Life sometimes can be so simple. Only creating the tools, that is, of course, not so simple. And what I thought of was what this, of what this. You've got the cloud. You've got a small sister search engine. Well, I don't need to explain the name, small sister, I guess. And the communication engine will do all types of communication. It will retrieve the message from the email or the instant messenger, encrypt it, process it, place it on the network. The other one is the communicator itself, the program that you offer to people to maintain a contact list. The program that you offer to say, OK, we've got an alternative email solution if you want to, so that you 100% sure that 100% of the messages are encrypted. And that basically should do the trick. Now the communicator will be the hard part of the project. Because it needs, I don't know, a billion plug-ins. It's a lot of work to get at least going and blurring into an environment. And people are lazy, so you do want to make this as user-friendly as possible. So I would like to ask anybody who cares about it to at least join my mailing list. Because we need a lot of people to code, to do something about it, or to criticize me or other people in order to make sure that the technology works. And I feel one criticism coming up already that you can predict, one of the criticisms is, of course, you know this technology is not 100% perfect. And this is where you have to make a security trade-off. Do I go for perfect technology that makes 100% sure that nobody can find out? Or am I going for the big crowd and does ensure in the privacy? It may be very clear what choice I made. So we need users, we need doers. So if you feel like it, go to www.smallsister.org, subscribe to the mailing list. Now if you want to protect yourself, you think, OK, guy, you're bullshitting, you're from the Netherlands, you can't help us, that's it. Don't worry about it. Do something yourself that makes little sense. One of the things I did is, like four years ago, write an article 10 ways to circumvent data retention. That took the minister of justice to an emergency debate in parliament, because all of a sudden, politicians started realizing that probably this is not the best way to secure ourselves. And probably it's easy to circumvent. You know what happened in that debate?   That's kind of interesting. And that made me realize when I was preparing this talk, that made me realize that we've got a fair chance of undoing the harm for a part. Not only by using the tool, but showing the tool and saying, like, well, what are we doing? This is so simple to circumvent. This is so simple to overcome. Why are we spending precious legal resources on this? We've got a shortage of policing. Last year in the Netherlands alone, and we are a nation of 16 million people, 423 cases of child pornography did not make it because police were lacking people. We cannot throw scarce resources away. So we might overcome this, actually. One of the funny things is, if you want to be anonymous and you want to do something that might trigger attention, is go to your neighbor. And in my case, I need to go five houses down the road, but then I can serve a fee. Yeah, but that's illegal, I know. But if I'm using my cell phone, my iPhone, would police really know if I'm serving the T-Mobile network in the Netherlands? Or would they really think, oh, he's surfing in London asleep? And of course, it's smarter to go to a different city, et cetera. But that's one of the things that might obfuscate it. And that's also one of the dangers. Because if you're searching for, for instance, SEMTACs, Bomb, and Airplane using Google, and if they can see that search, that would raise attention. Only it would draw their attention to the one person. Second one is use a pre-paid GSM in the Netherlands. Or you use it, you call it play as you go, right? In the Netherlands, you can still buy it anonymously. And I tried it. And at this store, they said, you have our discount card. So I went, oh, I would like to have an anonymous discount card, please. I've got an anonymous discount card. Bought a phone. It worked great. The only thing was when the lady was packing up the bag and giving me the phone, she said, like, there you go, Mr. de Winter. She turned out to be somebody I was in school with. And anonymity doesn't always work.  And then you have a fair chance of communicating anonymously. Be aware if you do that. Be aware that you can trade devices very well. So if you have your regular cell phone on and your pre-paid GSM, and you do that for three days, it's kind of easy to find out that that's you. Especially if you call all the same numbers over and over again. One of the things, and I've been doing that and testing that a lot, is using SSH or Clip of Tunnels to work non-European service. And the funny thing is then you're outside of the legal jurisdiction and you're gone. If you have a closed service, and this is really funny, if you're in the Netherlands, if you have a closed service, like my small sister project is not for everybody, but everybody minus one. Then it's closed service. And then you can say, like, oh, we don't maintain logs. We don't do that. So that undermines the effectiveness of law, but it also helps. And of course, if you don't want to use small tests, then you score, use off, or you screen it. Use tools that are available. Yeah, but you know, I don't really need to do that. Do it for the other people. Make the crowd bigger. Then a couple of things of the obvious. I've got nothing to hide. I don't know if you'll read Bruce Rice's blog, but last week he had this link up to a professor that was telling why you shouldn't talk to the police. And my good friend, Don Blumenthal, in the audience he'll tell later today or tomorrow why you should talk to the police. But he mentioned at a certain point there's over 10,000 laws of federal level in the US alone. So if you don't do anything illegal, you know a lot about law. That would make you a very, very, very intelligent person, which of course we all are. I always wonder if people have nothing to hide. A couple of month ago I was giving a lecture and then somebody said like, I've got nothing to hide. So I asked him what his name was and I started googling him and showing a couple of his child pictures and then he got very upset with me. So apparently he did want to hide his childhood. I've met this guy, he's a lawyer, and he was in a radio show in the Netherlands. And at a certain point he was talking about anonymous blogging.   That in itself would be very illegal in the Netherlands. The fact, however, is that he was just 16 and that changes the dynamic and the context a lot. It's not right, but it's a whole different context all of a sudden. However, 70 years later, he looked like a pedophile. So that simple remark that was still available through Google turned out something you really had to hide. At that point it looked very innocent. I'm not sure that what I'm saying today and what I'm telling and talking to people and the things that I do today are still legal tomorrow. And I always wondered like, okay, from whom have you got something to hide? I've got a lot to hide from you. For instance, the names of my sources. I get a lot of questions, especially from Dutch government workers. Don't you trust your government? Don't you trust your prime minister? Don't you trust your minister of the interior? And I always say I trust them fully. Like my family trusted their government in 1939. I don't trust my government in 2013 because I don't know it. My family never got to see the government that was there after 1945. That is the issue.  Having said that, that is basically the thing that I wanted to share with you. I'm kind of early. I'm a quick poker, I guess. So if there are any questions, I would be happy to take them. And I believe that afterwards is also room in a Q&A room. And if you want to debate it more, I would really, really love to do so. So I don't know if there are any questions. Yeah. Okay, I get the question, like we have conservators in Canada and things in America. And now you have this whole story about police watching websites and what happened. I think what happened, and this is pure speculation, but I think what happened is that the Dutch government and other governments were very much behind on technology. And we've got a, when I sometimes write an article and you know you've got a politician inside, like, hey, what do you think of it? Oh, that's outrageous. I need to ask questions in parliament. And then the politicians go, like, yes, something needs to be done about it right now. And then something happens. I guess that's part of it, like, oh, it's only websites, it's not language you should take it down. And we're trying to find a way how to deal with that. I think we're going through a very important place at this moment, so that's one. And the other thing what happened is I think there's a hunger for control. Controlling what you cannot control. You had a question? Yes. There's a big difference between America and Europe. Absolutely true. The thing is in Europe, the data that you store, and it's like my name and my date of birth, is my data. If I go into a store and there hangs a camera by legal right, I can ask them, send me the images of me. Nobody does it, but you can. In the US, it's like, if you store a database with my data, it's your database. Thank God you've got an agency like the FTC that cracks down on it when something goes really wrong. But you know, if it goes wrong like in the smaller, like only a couple of hundred people, you're screwed. You know, your fingerprint is not being regarded as privacy sensitive information. With your fingerprint and a registration in the Netherlands, I can spend your money because they only verify it on the fingerprint. So I don't know if you like what you eat, if you eat kosher or halal, if that is something that would be privacy sensitive. But by nature, it is because it says a lot about your religion. Potentially says a lot about your religion, of course. Yes, yes.  He's pointing out the structural issue that is there that I said like Germany and Japan, stopping a lot of the privacy erosion going on. And he's pointing out that they are mainly based on the US Bill of Rights, which is absolutely true. I've seen people here that say that there has been an erosion in the US as well. Actually, I had a friend who put the Constitution on eBay, apparently, because the Americans are not needing it anymore. So, yeah. Yeah, well, he's a great guy, by the way, but the whole of him. Any other questions? I'm done early. Normally, they have to drag me down. Okay. Well, thank you very much for your attention. I really, really hope that you at least consider visiting the website, lurk on the mailing list at least, or maybe do a contribution. And not just for me, but I think for a lot of people that are unaware of the issue right now. Thank you.


Zenitsu, get him, yes! Zenitsu actually got him with the assist! It might not be much, but it's fast, oh my god! How's it going everybody? Dr. Roy here, and we are back with some more online ranked matches for the brand new Demon Slayer game. And this time around, we're going to be playing what I hope will be my main team, which is a combination of Zenitsu and Giyu, two of my favorite characters from the series. So hopefully we'll figure out if this is a combination that will work, because it's actually going to be my first time trying them out together. Oh my god, we're going up against a guy with 39 wins. I'm still used to playing on day one where 30 wins was crazy, so 39 to me is absolutely... Wow, look at Edo's skate, bro! The no mask Edo's skate costume is just actually kind of sick. Alright, here we go. The good part about having Giyu in the back, I just repeated myself, the good part about having Giyu in the back is that we don't have to worry too much about... Oh god, he did it again. He's not going to get much off that, we can just mash. Alright, we're just right on him. We don't have to worry too much about not knowing how to play. I played more than enough Zenitsu, dude. I like to just end it with a nice and simple thunderclap and flash. Of course, everything with this character is thunderclap and flash. Oh, we're behind him. Oh, dash in the air. Knock him down. Continue the combo. Back in the air again. Yay! Finishing below. That was sick. Grab this man. Don't let him do a heavy attack. Alright, I don't want to use my Giyu assist because I'd rather just be able to get out in a pinch like he did just there. But like right here, we should be able to get out. He'll charge at us. He didn't charge at us. That's a game loss. You got to charge at us after that. If I catch you doing an animation, Zenitsu is too fast to block. Let's get some distance. Do I just go for the multi-thunderclap? I'm going to try it. Watch this. I tried it. I tried it. Didn't work. Get off me. Run at him. Just dash back and run at him. Don't let him get away though. Don't let him get away. I'm going to let this guy do some work in the air and that's going to be enough. Alright, we're just going to go for a reset here. Yeah, it's hard to press. It's hard to actually push them on wake up unless you block. That's a mistake I often dash back into it. That could have been a reset. You know, it's getting out of the way. Good thing about this guy. Look at the pressure on block. He just has to hold that and I can just grab after that. Okay, I think this combo might be a winning one. Giyu and Zenitsu. Oh, I thought for sure he was going to try something there. Nice. We got him again. Alright, I hope he dashed at us. Oh, just miss space then Zenitsu. That's going to be more than enough. We might be adding another win. We're up two rounds. We've got a ton of time. We're also at almost at level three. Alright, again, we're just going to try to push him with Giyu here. Oh, he did a heavy attack. That would have worked against us. Wait for him to get on the ground. Push, block, push, block and punish. Just push, block and punish. That's all you got to do. Nothing fancy here. Again, nothing fancy. We have three bars. We could either kill him with a raw level three if we have to. Oh, no, we might miss. Oh, he blocked it.  Hold on. Let me try it real quick. He blocked it again.  We wasted two bars.  But what if it would have worked though? Maybe for the finisher we should actually switch to Giyu. It would cost us a bar though. I'm not sure how comfortable I feel with that. Yeah, I'm glad we saved it now for sure. Let's see if he uses an ultimate. He did not. He did not use an ultimate. He didn't block again. Is that game? That might be game. Level two. That is game. Let's go. Just ended Zenitsu. Oh, that should be it. I'm going to send this guy to my grandfather. Let's see if my grandfather shows up. Step, step, step, step, step, step. Here comes the final cut. That's going to seal the deal on game one. And I couldn't have asked for a better way to do it. We didn't play much of Giyu, but his assist is just deadly. And again, the reason I like having Giyu in the back instead of Zenitsu is really just the assist difference. Zenitsu's assist is just thunderclap and flash, which might be good and neutral, but again, it's kind of crazy to use. Oh, points are adding up. We're getting up there. Do we get a rematch? We do. All right. We're going to continue the set. I expect we'll see some adjustments though, so it's not going to be the same game. Grab. Oh, no. He went immediately for the uppercut. Oh, yeah. And he's backstepping. And he went for the uppercut again. It's good damage. Oh, but we got him eventually. We got him eventually. We're just going to do this nice and normal. This might even even out the score. We'll see. Kind of. Not really. I want him to dash at us. Dash at me so I can perfect pair you that is. That was sick. That was even used to save. Perfect pair. Oh, no, it wasn't a perfect pair. All right. Dash back. Oh, no. He just got shielded. Oh, he grabbed me. Okay. I was confused at what happened. I don't want to be close to him now because we don't have Giyu. Man, I really got to cancel out of that faster. I'm getting destroyed by that. Giyu saved me. Oh, block. Punish. Is that going to be enough? I think he might have just killed them some with that. All right. Just end the round. We'll take the round. I saw Zino skate bar getting pretty full there. So that's why we went into the super. Probably could have done just a normal level one. And it would have been cheaper, but I panicked. I'll admit it, dude. When I see a chance to end the round, oftentimes I'm going to get scared and just end the round. All right. Let's get back. I kind of feel like we should switch up our play style a bit. I'm going to do it right here. Okay. It's fine. We're switching it up. Might choose to go for the damage here. The counter is so good. That's huge damage. All right. He did the reflect and wake up again. Oh, dead calm didn't work against that. It's fine. We have more than enough time. I'm going to save my thing because he would be able to kill us at this point. I just jump out. Oh, bad grab, man. Huge mistake. Does he want to commit resources though? He doesn't have to, but yeah, he didn't have to and he did not want to. Now he has a stocked up level two. Should we tag out or just keep the counter? Oh my God. Rengoku just dashes in. All right. Save me. Oh, he missed. Just buy a little though. Just buy a little. We still got that. We still got the very lucky miss by him. Constant flux. Bring down the water. Oh, he tried it. He tried to reflect. He just didn't know. That should be it. That should be it. He's going to have to do that. Oh, no. I can't believe it. That's a level three. We might be dead. We're probably dead. Oh, God. Oh, God. We're not going to know until the very end though. We're probably dead. Oh, God. All right. Just burst. No. That was real. That was such a smart grab. That was such a smart grab. The GU switch has not worked out so far, but it's more just me doing it than you. All right. We got to switch out again. All right. More damage. This will give us a bit of a lead. Constant flux. Keep on his back foot. Keep on his back foot. I tried to run away again.  What could I say? All right. We have three bars again. We might just use it to boost and try to get the round. All right. I'm going to do it now. Let's get calm. Time to get calm. That should be it. That should be it, right? I mean, there's just no more two. We spent two bars for that. That's going to even us out one to one and a half bars. He's got the lead on that front though. He did the upper one anyway. Didn't do as much damage.   Don't let him talk to us like that. Bring him down. Nice. He could save himself there. Punish that. He's doing that. He's doing that one too many times now. I got back up. He's going to do the wheel. Yup. He did it again. Wait. Why did I? Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. It's only level two.   Please don't die. I would be shocked if we died. It's going to be close now though. Don't show me the cutscene. Please don't show me the cutscene, man. Okay. Okay. Dude, what can I say? I was genuinely scared. Okay. No. Where's the counter? Wait, what? No, that's not going to work.  I'm upset. I'm upset. It's not over yet. You actually got it with the assist. It might not be much, but it's fast. Oh, my God. Oh, that got intent at the end. Oh, my God. Saw that one coming. No, I did not.   You earned it. Oh, my God. That got stressful. We switched and get you. I was just, I was panicking. I'm not going to lie. We had another rematch. We do. All right. It's going to be the full set. It's going to be the full set. And the thing is, he did make those adjustments. We were talking about the block into the, that's a heavy, right? The block into the upper breathing technique was cooking me that entire set. I don't know how we got behind him, but he just got mixed. All right. I'm going to stick with Zenitsu for a little while. Just somebody I'm a little more comfortable with, you know? Oh, he's, okay. He is trying to make some sort of move here.  And now we're just going to stall for time a little bit, see if we can't get Giyu back up. I tried to, I thought I got the perfect parry.  That's fine. Oh, just get behind him. Just get behind him and the first round real quick. That's Zenitsu for you though. He will catch people asleep at the wheel. Oh my God. He tried to grab. Don't mash, don't mash. Okay, good. He went for a grab. I don't know why, but he did it. All right. He's still, he's still down in the cyst. I tried to grab before Giyu was even out. That was my bad. He lost our defensive assist for that. Took a bit of damage. All right. He's good. I tried to, I'm so bad. Okay. Just run. Just run. There was nowhere left to run. There was no left. Let's drop it and drop your combo. Drop your combo. That's all we could hope for. He did drop his combo. Go. I'm bad at the game. I thought after the drop I'd have enough time to punish. Man, okay. Huge mistakes there on my end. Huge mistakes. Oh my God. All right. He's going to go for a here. Yep. He went for it. He went for something. It wasn't the skill.  All right. He's going to let me take that damage. He doesn't want to lose again. Oh, we're back in. We're back in already. I imagine, yeah, you know, see he's going to come out there. We just block those. We just block and punish those. Block and punish. All right. We're at two bars, but I think we can finish this without using any. Yep. So we're not going to waste any. We're at three now. This makes us so dangerous. And again, now that we're at three, I kind of want to switch out. Oh no. I should have done the blocking one. That was pretty big. That was pretty bad. Get back on. That's why we switched out, baby, for the 11th form. Hit calm. I don't know how much damage this does. This does count as raw. This counts as raw because he tried to hit him. He tried to hit me with his, but then I had to go ahead and counter on him. Now we're going to finish him with a counter two. Come here. Come here. Constant flux. Can you tell I didn't mean to do that one? It still worked out though. Giyu and Zenitsu. This is why they're the mains, dude. This is why they're the mains. Perfect. I think it was far from perfect. In fact, we didn't even get an S, but still such a great one. Bonus breakdown. Let me see why I got this A. I don't even know math, so I'll just take it there. But hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you did, definitely let me know down below in the comments and while you're down there, let me know what your favorite character is to play in the Demon Slayer game. Hopefully you guys have gotten to try it out by now. I think it's a lot of fun. But actually, hold on. Before we ended completely, let me go check what rank I'm at right now. I think last time we were somewhere in the 300s. Let's go ahead and check where I'm at now. Obviously we're not going to be anywhere close to number one. 167. We're on our way slowly, but surely back up the ladder. It's just going to take some more time and some more wins. Again, if you liked the video, let me know in the comments and hit the like button. Don't forget to subscribe for all sorts of content as well as a ton of Demon Slayer stuff. Other than that, I've been Datsudoya and I will see you in the next one.


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Hi, I'm Peter Burris and this is Wikibon's Action Item. We're joined here in the studio by David Floyer. Hi, David. Hi there. And remote, we've got Jim Kabilis. Hi, Jim. Hi, everybody. Now, Jim, you probably can't see this, but for those of you who are watching when we do see the broad set, notice that David Floyer's got his Game of Thrones coffee cup with us. Now, that has nothing to do with the topic. David and Jim, we're going to be talking about this challenge that businesses have, that enterprises have, as they think about making practical use of AI. The presumption for many years was that we were going to move all the data up into the cloud in a central location, and all workloads were going to be run there. As we've gained experience, it's very clear that we're actually going to see a greater distribution of function, partly in response to a greater distribution of data. But what does that tell about the relationship between AI workloads, storage, and hybrid cloud? David, why don't you give us a little clue as to where we're going to go from here? Well, I think the first thing we have to do is separate out the two types of workload. There's the development of the AI solution, the inference code, et cetera, the dealing with all of the data required for that. And then there is the execution of that code, which is the inference code itself. And the two are very different in characteristics. For the development, you've got a lot of data. There is very likely to be data bound, and storage is a very important component of that, as well as compute and GPUs. For the inference, that's much more compute bound. Again, compute neural networks, GPUs are very, very relevant to that portion. Storage is much more ephemeral in the sense that the data will come in and you will need to execute on it. But that data will be part of the set, the compute will be part of that sensor. And you will want the storage to be actually in the DIM itself, or non-volatile DIM, right up as part of the processing. And you'll want to share that data only locally in real time through some sort of mesh computing. So very different compute requirements, storage requirements, and architectural requirements. Yeah, let's come back to that notion of the different storage types in a second. But Jim, David described how the workloads are going to play out. Give us a sense of what the pipelines are going to look like, because that's what people are building right now is the pipelines for actually executing these workloads. How are they different? How do they differ in the different locations? Yeah, so it's the entire DevOps pipeline for data science, data analytics, AI in other words. And so what you're looking at here is all the processes from discovering and ingesting the data to transforming and preparing and correcting it, cleansing it, to modeling and training the AI models, to serving them up for inferencing along the lines of what David's describing. So there's different types of AI models that one builds from different data to do different types of inferencing. And each of these different pipelines might be highly, all it is, highly specific to a particular use case. You know, AI for robotics, that's a very different use case from AI for natural language processing, embedded, for example, in an e-commerce portal environment. So what you're looking at here is different pipelines, but all have, all share a common sort of flow of activities and phases. And you need data scientists to build and test, train and evaluate and then serve out the various models to the consuming and devices or applications. So David, we've got 50 or so years of computing where the primary role of storage was to persist a transaction and the data associated with that transaction, that has occurred. And that's, you know, disk and then even all the way out to tape if we're talking about archive. Flash changes that equation. AI actually demands a different way of thinking. Here we're not talking about persisting the data, we're talking about delivering the data really fast. As you said, sometimes in very ephemeral. And so it requires a different set of technologies. What are some of the limitations that historically or that storage has been putting on some of these workloads and how are we breaching those limitations to make them possible? Well, if we take only 10 years ago, the start of the big data was Hadoop and that was spreading the data over very cheap disks, hard disks with the compute there and you spread that data and you did it all in parallel on very cheap nodes. So that was the initial but that is a very expensive way of doing it now because you're tying the data to that set of nodes. They're all connected together. So a more modern way of doing it is to use flash, to use multiple copies of that data but logical copies or snapshots of that flash and to be able to apply as many processes, nodes as is appropriate for that particular workload. And that is a far more efficient and faster way of processing that are getting throughput through that sort of workload. And it really does make a difference of 10 fold in terms of elapsed time and ability to get through that. And the overall cost is very similar. So that's true in the inferencing or I'm sorry, in the modeling, what about in the inferencing side of things? Well, the inferencing side is again, very different because you are dealing with the data coming in from the sensors or coming in from other sensors and smart sensors. So what you want to do there is process that data with the inference code as quickly as you can in real time, most of the time in real time. So when you're doing that, you're holding the current data actually in memory or maybe in what's called a non-volatile dim, NV-dims which gives you a larger amount but you almost certainly don't have the time to go and store that data and you certainly don't want to store it if you can avoid it because it is a large amount of data and if I open my... It's limited derivative use. Exactly. So you want to get all the, or quickly get all the value out of that data, compact it right down using whatever techniques you can and then take just the results of that inference up to other ones. Now, at the beginning of the cycle, you may need more but at the end of the cycle, you'll need very little. So, Jim, the AI world has built algorithms over many, many, many years, many of which still persist today but they were building these algorithms with the idea that they were going to use kind of slower technologies. How is the AI world rethinking algorithms, architectures, pipelines, use cases as a consequence of these new storage capabilities that David's describing? Yeah, well, AI has become widely distributed in terms of its architecture increasingly and often increasingly it's running over containerized Kubernetes orchestrated fabrics. And a lot of this is going on in the area of training of models and distributing pieces of those models up to various nodes within an edge architecture may not be edge in the internet of things a sense but widely distributed, highly parallel environments as a way of speeding up the training and speeding up the modeling and really speeding up the evaluation of many models running in parallel in an approach called ensemble modeling to be able to converge on a predictive solution more rapidly. And so that's very much what David's describing is that that's leveraging the fact that memory is far faster than any storage technology we have out there. And so being able to distribute pieces of the overall modeling and training and even data prep workloads is able to speed up the deployment of highly optimized, highly sophisticated AI models for the cutting edge challenges that we face like the Event Horizon Telescope, for example, that we're all aware of, when they were able to essentially make a visualization of a black hole, that relied on a form of highly distributed AI called grid computing, for example. I mean, challenges like that demand a highly distributed memory-centric orchestrated approach to tackling. So you're essentially moving the code to the data as opposed to moving all of the data all the way out to the one central point. Well, so if we think about that notion of moving code of the data, and I started off by suggesting that in many respects, the cloud is an architecture approach to how you distribute your workloads as opposed to an approach to centralizing everything in some public cloud. I think increasingly application architects and IT organizations and service providers are all seeing things in that way. This is a way of more broadly distributing workloads. Now, as we talk a little bit about the relationship between storage and AI workloads, but we don't want to leave anyone with the impression that we're at a device level. We're really talking about a network of data that has to be associated with a network of storage. Now, that suggests a different way of thinking about data and data administration and storage. We're not thinking about devices. We're really trying to move that conversation up into data services. What kind of data services are especially crucial to supporting some of these distributed AI workloads? So there is the standard ones that you need for all data, which is the backup and safety and encryption, security, control. Primary storage allocation. All of that, you need that in place. But on top of that, you need other things as well because you need to understand the mesh, the distributed hybrid cloud that you have and you need to know what the capabilities are of each of those nodes. You need to know the latencies between each of those nodes. Let's not be here for a second. When you say you need to know, do you mean I as an individual need to know or the system needs to know? It needs to be known and it's too complex, far too complex for an individual ever to solve problems like this. So it needs, in fact, its own little AI environment to be able to optimize and check that the SLAs for that particular inference coding can be achieved in the way that it's set up. So it sounds like- It's a mesh type of computing. Yeah, so it sounds like one of the first use cases for AI, practical commercial use cases, will be AI within the data plane itself because the AI workloads are going to drive such a complex model and utilization of data that if you don't have that, the whole thing will probably just fold in on itself. Jim, how would you characterize this relationship between AI inside the system and how should people think about that and is that really going to be a practical, near-term commercial application that folks should be paying attention to? Well, yeah, well, looking in the cloud native world, what we need and what we're increasingly seeing out there are solutions, tools, really data planes that are able to associate a distributed storage infrastructure of a very hybridized nature in terms of disk and flash and so forth with a highly distributed containerized application environment, so for example, just last week at Red Hat, I met with the folks from Robin Systems and they're one of the solution providers providing those capabilities to associate, like I said, the storage cloud with the containerized, essentially application clouds or cloud applications that are out there. You know, what we need, like you've indicated, are the ability to use AI to continue to look for patterns of, look for performance issues and bottlenecks and so forth and to drive the ongoing placement of data on storage nodes and servers within clusters and so forth as a way of making sure that storage resources are always used efficiently in that. SLA's, as David indicated, are always observed in an automated fashion as the data placement and workload placement decisions that are being made, so ultimately that the AI itself, whatever it's doing, like recognizing faces or recognizing human language, is able to do it as efficiently and really as cheaply as possible. All right, so let me summarize what we got this far. We've got that there is a relationship between storage and AI, that the workloads suggest that we're going to have centralized modeling, large volumes of data, we're going to have distributed inferencing, smaller volumes of data, more complex compute. Flash is crucial, the mesh is crucial, and increasingly because of the distributed nature of these applications, there's going to have to be very specific and specialized AI in the infrastructure, in that mesh itself, to administer a lot of these data resources. So, but we want to be careful here, right David? We don't want to suggest that we have, just as the notion of everything goes into a centralized cloud under a central administrative effort, we also don't want to suggest this notion that there's this broad heterogeneous, common democratized, every service available everywhere. Let's bring hybrid cloud into this. How will hybrid cloud ultimately evolve to ensure that we get common services where we need them and know where we don't have common services so that we can factor those constraints? So it's useful to think about the hybrid cloud from the point of view of the development, which will be fairly normal type of computing and be in really large centers and the edges themselves, which will be what we call autonomous clouds. Those are the ones at the edge which need to be self-sufficient. So if you have an autonomous car, you can't guarantee that you will have communication to it. And most, a lot of IOT is in distant places which are gained on ships or distant places where you can't guarantee. So they have to be able to run much more by themselves. So that's one important characteristic. So that autonomous one needs to be self-sufficient itself and have within it all the capabilities of running that particular code and then passing up data when it's... Now you gave examples where it's physically required to do that, but there's also OT examples, operational technology where you need to have that air gap to ensure that bad guys can't get to your data. Yes, absolutely. I mean, if you think about a ship, it has multiple very clear air gaps and a nuclear power station has a total air gap around it. You must have those sort of air gaps. So it's a different architecture for different uses, for different areas. But of course, data is gonna come up from those autonomous upwards, but it will be a very small amount of the data that's actually been processed, the data. And there'll be requests down to those autonomous clouds for additional processing of one sort or another. So they still will be a discussion, a communication between them to ensure that the final outcome, the business outcome is met. All right, so I'm gonna ask each of you guys to give me a quick prediction. David, I'm gonna ask you about storage and then Jim, I'm gonna ask you about AI in light of David's prediction about storage. So David, as we think about where these AI workloads seem to be going, how is storage technology going to evolve to make AI applications easier to deal with, easier to run, cheaper to run, more secure? Well, the fundamental move is towards a larger amounts of flash. And then the new thing is that larger amounts of non-volatile dim, the memory in the computer itself, those are gonna get much, much bigger, those are gonna help with the execution of these real-time applications. And there's gonna be high-speed communication between short distances, between the different nodes in this mesh architecture. So that's on the inference side, there's a big change happening in that space. On the development side, the storage will move towards sharing data. So having a copy of the data, which is available to everybody, and that data will be distributed. So sharing that data, having that data distributed, will then enable the sorts of ways of using that data, which will retain context, which is incredibly important, and avoid the cost and the loss of value because of the time taken of moving that data from A to B. All right, so to summarize, we've got a new level in storage hierarchy that puts between flash and memory to really accelerate things. And then secondly, we've got this notion that increasingly we have to provide a way of handling time and context so that we sustain fidelity, especially in more real-time applications. Jim, given that this is where storage is gonna go, what does it say about AI? What it says about AI is that first of all, we're talking about, like David said, meshes of meshes. Every edge node is increasingly becoming a mesh in its own right with disparate CPUs or GPUs and whatnot, doing different inferencing on each device. But every one of these, like a smart car, will have plenty of embedded storage to persist a lot of data locally that may need to be kept locally for lots of very good reasons, like a black box in case of an accident, but also in terms of e-discovery of the data and the models that might have led up to an accident that might have caused fatalities and whatnot. So when we look at what AI is going, and AI is going into the mesh of meshes, where there's AI running in each of the nodes within the meshes, and the meshes themselves will operate as autonomous decisioning nodes within a broader environment. Now, in terms of the context, the context increasingly that surrounds all of the AI within these distributed architectures will be in the form of graphs, and graphs are something that distinct from the statistical algorithms that we've built AI on. We're talking about knowledge graphs, we're talking about social graphs, talking about behavioral graphs, so forth. So graph technology is just getting going and for example, Microsoft recently had built, they made a big continued push into threading graphics, contextual graph technology into everything they do. So that's where I see AI going. It's up from statistical models to graph models as the broader metadata framework for binding everything together. Excellent, all right guys. So I'm gonna, Jim, I think another topic, another time might be the mesh mess, but we won't do that now. All right, let's summarize very quickly. We've talked about how the relationship between AI, storage and hybrid cloud is going to evolve. Number one, AI workloads are at least differentiated by where we handle modeling, large amounts of data, still need a lot of compute, but we're really focused on large amounts of data and moving that data around very, very quickly, but therefore proximate to where the workload resides. Great, great application for clouds, large, public, as well as private. On the other side, where the inferencing work is done, that's going to be very compute-bound, smaller data volumes, but very, very fast data, lot of flash everywhere. The second thing we observed is that these new AI applications are going to be used and applied in a lot of different domains, both within human interaction, as well as real-time domains within IoT, et cetera, but that as we evolve, we're going to see a greater relationship between the nature of the workload and the class of the storage, and that is going to be a crucial feature for storage administrators and storage vendors over the next few years, as to ensure that that specialization is reflected in what's needed. Now, the last point that we'll make very quickly is that as we look forward, the whole concept of hybrid cloud where we can have greater predictability into the nature of the data-oriented services that are available for different workloads is going to be really, really important. We're not going to have all data services common in all places, but we do want to make sure that we can assure, whether it's a container-based application or some other structure, that we can assure that the data that is required will be there in the context form and metadata structures that are required. Ultimately, as we look forward, we see new classes of storage evolving that bring data even closer to the compute side, and we see new data models emerging such as graph models that are a better overall reflection of how this distributed data is going to evolve within hybrid cloud environments. David Floyer, Jim Kobielus, Wikibon Alice. I'm Peter Burris. Once again, this has been Action Item.


Hi, guys. This is Matt Posaka, personal training director at Meridian Fitness and Wellness in Brick. Wanted to talk today about some heart health, some different cardiovascular activities you can do to strengthen your heart, improve your cardiovascular endurance, and improve your overall fitness level to be a healthier person. The most popular machine for cardiovascular training at any gym is going to be the treadmill. All right. As you get started on the treadmill, assess your pace, your fitness level. This is really a great place for any ability. So right now, we can see Alicia's got a nice jog pace going here. Her heart rate is going to be elevated. This is a pace for her that she'll be able to maintain, burn a lot of calories on this machine while you're jogging, and maybe even track her mileage while she's going as well. That could be a more advanced option for you. The far majority of treadmills are going to have heart rate monitors for you. On this particular piece, it's right in front, the silver pads that Alicia's putting her hands on right now. The treadmill is going to actually monitor your heart rate for you throughout your workout. Before you start an exercise program, make sure you consult your physician to see if there's any contraindications that you should be aware of.


my channel. As you can see I just basically ripped up almost my entire spread. Today we are going to be doing, I actually screenshotted it, hold on, a challenge that was set out from Aaron Condren all about Black Lives Matter. So it says we are encouraging you to join the hashtag BLM planner challenge starting June 8th. Details and stories. I'm just paraphrasing the stories that basically my planner spread is going to be mostly black. It was green as you could have seen previously but you know to honor the Black Lives Matter movement I am supporting that 100% fully and if this is one small way to share my message I am going to do that. I know that I am not someone that normally does plan with me's before the week starts but I feel like for me personally this is too important for me not to address in a plan with me because I know a lot of you love plan with me's. Let's get to planning and then we'll talk about my week as well. So I'm not prepared at all just FYI I've never really am.  Alright so getting started what I'm going to do is use some washi tape from Simply Gilded. I do apologize for the shadowing. It is pretty late at night it's like 8 30 right now on Saturday but you know this is the time that I'm feeling motivated and able to you know carve out some time in my day to get this filmed for you guys. So yeah we're gonna do that. I'm gonna try to reuse these little stickers that's that's the plan at least but we will see. I'm using an erin kondren binder in the colorful version if y'all are interested. I know I get a lot of questions on that because I never say what I'm using. It's like always down in the description box but again you know not everybody looks at the description box and I totally totally understand. It's like oh there we go okay. Okay this and I've actually got a lot of stuff going on this week. Quite a few different things that some of you know about and not all of you I don't know. If you guys follow me on Instagram that's kind of the place to find all the all the weird stuff I do all the time so that's a good place to find me there. I think I'm going to probably work a little later on Wednesday. Normally I go down to like you know six or seven p.m. anyways but that Wednesday is going to be a very weird day for me. On Thursday though I'm only working until four. I know that for a fact because I've got something going on that night and I want to make sure that I am ready. Friday my brother is supposed to be in town. It's still a little up in the air. All right so now that I have most of my washi laid. Whoops I gotta you know what see I have not done a plan with me in so long. This video is going to be really long by the way too so like if I haven't said it yet which I don't think I have but like you should go grab a snack because Emily likes to be chatty sometimes okay okay. So I am going to put in my little laundry situation which is right over here. Hold on hold on hold on. I wish I would have seen this post earlier to be honest like the the Aaron Condon challenge um or the the challenge to do this because I would have possibly ordered some Black Lives Matter stickers. I might still do that I'm not really sure but we will see. I actually got these just recently from Libby and Lou Sticker Co. All the shops that I know of that I am talking about today will be linked down below if y'all are interested. Since I can't really do anything about the green there is a little bit of green in here and it just says work so I'm going to use these which I think are bootiful. So I'm going to figure out how this is going to lay down with this. Try to see where should I just take these off totally which that might be the best that might be the best situation at this point. I don't know let me pull one off and see what I want to do. Yeah yeah we're not gonna we're not gonna keep these on okay you know what I tried I tried to hold on but it was not happening okay yeah that's fine let's do that. I tried to look for like the work stickers I had I only have them in colorful versions I don't have them in a black and white scale so yeah but I just thought these would look really nice there give a little pop of something plus I haven't used these ones yet so yeah and they're mostly kind of black and black and gray here we go and don't don't worry about the birthdays just yet because I'm going to change those as well but those ones are like super sticky like even with my undo which I get on the internet it just leaves such a residue that I am going to just put a sticker over it because it's just going to be the easiest thing for me to do all right so there's this and then there's this okay cool so that's that put that off to the side another thing I can put in already because I had a great sticker is balloon so let me put this in but I am going to change it just slightly I used a blue marker so I am going to change that because I want to use all of the black you know the black stuff today here we go so let me get that changed up I'm just going to write right over it yay I got to save a sticker it's exciting I have my little sticker graveyard over here and then I also have these little black cameras from Adriana Piper which I absolutely love so we're going to put that right there and put that off to the side okay so now I just got to put in everything else I have a lot going on this weekend okay pull out some of these things from coffee break planner I'm going to pull out the gray and also the black um I want to use mostly black but I might use some gray if not really sure let's see okay so here's the black so these are the half boxes in the scallops and then she also has event boxes in the scallops and you can tell these are like my favorite thing ever because I have so darn many of them I recently just did a haul on you know getting more of these because I do like two usually it's like two big orders a year like I just want to be like stocked up and I want to be able to you know once I create a spread I want to be able to like you know do it all so anyways but yeah okay so I pulled out the black and the gray so that is pulled out if I need to use them which for sure I will and as for the birthday things I have these like sticker books if I remember I'll leave the link down below to these I got them on amazon and I really like them I will tell you they're kind of spendy for what they are but all these like extra stickers that you get on samplers and like little half sheets and things like that I use I pull them out of here and then I also put on most of my erin chondron things in here too and it just helps me well it makes it makes me use them that's what I should say it makes me use them so I really enjoy that okay there's one black one right there for the birthday and I think that's it for the birthdays but I think I have more so let's just do one of them and then we'll move on to the next one so I need three we'll do oops we'll do my dad first and my dad is gonna be 73 y'all like it's a big number so we're just gonna go right over what I had on there so it's gonna be just fan all right my camera stopped I know it would because this is like I said before gonna be a long ass video doing planning things so there are no other ones that I can use for this particular spread which is just fine so do something else all right found some things that I want to use so we're just gonna cover those guys up and right in Sarah and Blake and these are both co-workers of mine so it just reminds me to either send them a text or send them an email or something that day you know just make it a little bit more special for them and since we're all working from home right now it's basically impossible to you know do something physically for them so yeah so I have these little icon stickers I know this one's from christian designs this little tie and then these I don't remember where they're from but they're just like a little bunch of black balloons which I think are really pretty which is why I kept them so Monday as some of you guys know that have been watching my balloon series I have to drop off my car I had an issue some of my lights are on like my check engine light is on for really I mean I know there's a reason but which is very strange so I have to get that checked out so I have to drop off my vehicle at eight o'clock in Maplewood Toyota but the thing is I it's like a drop-off appointment so I I mean I guess I could wait but I might be waiting all day so I don't know I talked to my mom she is available so we're just going to drive down there she's just going to follow me down there and then bring me back home and then hopefully they'll just give me a call when everything's done or if they have any questions if they can move forward and all that so my check engine light is on also like the image of the car with like the little um slippy things underneath the tires that light is on and there's also another light that's like I can't remember what it is but it's like something off and it's flashing so when I looked inside of my owner's manual it said specifically if that light is flashing that you need it to bring it you need to bring it to your nearest Toyota dealership because there's a malfunction so it sounds like that might be just like a computer issue I don't really know for sure until they get into it but again that's what's happening in the morning so um we need to leave here about seven because Maplewood Toyota which is where I purchased my vehicle from is about an hour away and um we'll just get it done and I'll drop it off so I'll work for probably maybe an hour or so in the morning um I'll probably start a little early clock out bring the car there come on back so it's going to take about two hours to do you know the back and forth and then I'll come back and then I'll work for the rest of the day so we will get that done it's just you know no no fun sometimes but oh well what do you do all right so we'll do that I actually already emailed my work peeps and told them that was my plan for Monday just like hey FYI like I'll be online but I'll be I'll be back it's just gonna be a little a little later so whatever doesn't really matter I can just I can just get her done um also exciting news I kind of wasn't planning on sharing but since I'm doing this video I'm gonna share it at 11 30 I hope you get please fingers crossed for me if you've made it this far in the video um on the 9th my insurance company and my surgeon's office are finally having a peer to peer what that means is I know you guys know that I've been going through some health issues and trying to get a surgery approved by my insurance that's not covered under my blanket insurance but it is specific to my case it's the only thing that will surgically fix this bad problem that I have so anyways my surgeon and their like the insurance company's doctor that denied my initial claim are finally gonna be having their meeting so fingers crossed send me all the good vibes that you possibly can that that gets approved I won't know anything for probably a couple of weeks I'm just letting you know but I just know that they're having it at 11 30 on Tuesday um you know I won't be able to even call the surgeon's office to like ask how it went because it really they won't know they won't know anything all they can do is just give the information explain my case and explain the idiosyncrasies of my case of why I need this surgery and why it's required and then the insurance company will make a decision so ugh I'm excited and I'm nervous and I'm just you know like all the things all the emotions I'm chomping at the bit about this a little bit all right since I don't have any um black stickers I'm gonna use some of these kind of gold stickers that go with the foil a little bit so I hope that this is okay um all right and then these are oh so these are from lulu daisies and co I haven't said that I'm sorry and then these are from plan and go um or goo I don't know how to say it and they had these cute little stomach stickers because it's stomach problems welcome to my stomach problems y'all so yeah for anyone that's new here that doesn't know um I have really horrible acid reflux I have a hiatal hernia and um that being said I was supposed to have surgery on my hiatal hernia however I am not a candidate for that surgery due to I probably have about six or seven different acid blockers and reducers that I'm currently taking and still taking and have been taking for now almost a year and I still have reflux I still feel like I'm gonna puke all the time and that is not good and they won't do the normal surgery on me that in my insurance would have covered to fix the problem uh the only thing I can do at this point it's called gastric bypass surgery which is a regular like a medical weight loss surgery which is something that is not normally something that's covered on most people's insurance because it is quite elective I don't qualify for it however um I already went through the entire program um like when I say I don't qualify for it I mean like my BMI and other health issues I don't have any other health issues besides this and that's very abnormal so um that's why the insurance company is like having a big conniption about it so yeah they're like wait you don't qualify for this because of this and this and this and this but they're not looking at the other things that are happening inside of my body so yeah but I'm very very excited that at least this is happening um this is my third time going at insurance for approval and unfortunately this is the last time going through insurance for approval for this year um unless I hire a private company to fight for me which it has not gotten to that yet but I and I hope it doesn't but we shall see after the new year I am able to reapply again for this to get approved so it's it's a whole long process um so yeah it's it's rough it's rough and I know a lot of you guys have gone through stuff like this too because you have messaged me and you have you know sent me well wishes and you know told me your experience and stuff too so I don't wish fighting with insurance companies for anybody it's just it's no bueno you guys that you know someone else is making health decisions for you and not your health care provider which is just no fun I mean every single doctor I've seen has said this is mandatory you need this to live a quality life and my insurance company just does not seem to care because it's you know about the almighty dollar for them sadly all right I'm gonna put in my little garbage can here and these are from coffee break planner that little guy right there I think I had a green one in there before but now we need a gray one all right I got a gray car on this one so I think I'll use that I am going back for a another countertop appointment at a different facility so I am excited about that on Wednesday all right as some of you know I am doing new tops in my kitchen so I am actually looking so this appointment here is for my half bath downstairs so I am possibly doing that I'm not totally sure yet we shall see so it just depends on like um looking for remnants that's really what I'm doing is looking for remnants pieces so I'm gonna try to find something that I like if I don't find something that I like that's okay I don't really need to do it but um we'll see I mean the guy the guy that uh is the owner there actually um I know him because I worked in countertopping for a very very long time I'm kind of able to like work out a little like wheel and deal with him a little bit so yeah oh by the way these are from my little chickety co put those off to the side and then I have a little blobby here from Kayla oh my gosh Kayla if you're watching this I'm sorry your company name is totally brain farting um what oh it's oh hello oh my gosh whoo all right so I'll put this in the description down below oh my gosh I'm losing it you guys whoo all right so um after my countertop appointment since it's all the way down in Bloomington and my office is on the way I need to go in the office and actually get like legit stacks of paper so I need to go and do that because I have a project that I need to work on me and my other teammate have basically done everything that we can from home and um my other teammate actually now lives in Wisconsin so she's you know remote all the time I'm temporarily remote because of everything that's going on with COVID anyway I was like well I'm gonna be in the area if you want to get like stuff together for me I can do these projects and he's like okay I'm gonna get a bunch of stuff ready for you and I'll put out your desk I'm like okay cool so anyway I have some things to do which is good um we're a little slow like my department's a little slow right now um don't worry my job is safe but my um department's a little slow right now just to do to oh my gosh I can't lift this up there we go um just due to the flow of our workloads so anyway um we're you know we're just looking for things to do at the moment so just just making sure that we can get stuff done and you know be efficient and use our time wisely so that's happening and then on Wednesday oh my gosh you guys I am so excited for Wednesday y'all um we are going when I say we I mean me and a couple of friends from work we are going to a place called Carol's which is so good if you guys live in Minnesota you need to go to Carol's in Blaine I'm telling you this place is amazing they their food is just like yummy in the tummy it's all like home cooking and they have just amazing desserts so my a couple girlfriends and and myself I can't talk today I'm so excited about it are gonna go there and we are going to have a little parking lot party um they are open for outdoor seating right now but we're just gonna grab our meals to go and then like legit just go sit in the parking lot and like bring our lawn chairs and just you know gab for an hour I mean that's that's all we need we just want to gab for an hour it's totally fine I mean we do talk on the phone and um I mean these are these are actually co-workers of mine you know we do talk on the phone and like through our like Microsoft teams and all of that stuff too but it's just so much nicer to see each other in person and just to like say hey and catch up and all that um one of the gals is actually pregnant they're the one that I did the um baby shower for just recently so it'll be so nice to physically see her in person too so I don't know it's just just one of those things so I'm gonna use one of these little coffee monsters co it's like a little baking sheet because I'm sure I'm positive that I will be getting something that is a baked good because oh my god and I'm normally like not a baked good kind of gal but for this I think I might be I think I might be also forgot I want to use one of these these are from planner Kate I know they're really hard to see but these kind of are like little cover-ups for um this little area I'm gonna use two I've got two and that's it for that sheet which is totally fine because um I'm moving into a new planner and like a couple weeks here so I really don't care to save them because I don't need them for the new planner so that's just fine by me okay what else do I need oh let's break out the let's bust out the cab binder y'all I need to see if I have like a little flag or something I just need like a little like like a like a reminder thing um I just need to remind myself to bring something to the carols situation but I don't need like a big sticker I need like a littler a littler sticker but I don't know if I have any black ones or gray ones I might have to use a yellow oh gosh I don't know let's see oh here's a little gray one ah perfect I think this will be fine unless hold on we're gonna check one more little section here check my little arrow section and see if there's any ooh I like this one better yep hold on we're gonna do this one whoop we're gonna do one of these just like a little little reminder so um when we had the baby shower for my friend Karen I did a little baby game and it was the prices right was like the theme of the baby game so we had a I went to Target purchased a bunch of baby items and then I was just gonna give her all of the baby items clearly because like I don't need diapers well maybe I do but not right now so I don't need any diapers so I was just gonna give her everything and then we're gonna meet up for dinner anyway so I'm like well let's just I'll just bring you all this stuff then so we'll just bring the baby gift then so Emily bring a baby gift and I'm gonna use these from plan to plan sticker co there's this really cute little black um gift even though she knows exactly what it is and I'm just gonna bring it just as it is I'm not gonna wrap it up but um super super freaking cute yay so it'll be that and then I'm like I said my brother is going to be in town um I think that's that's the plan at least he should be in town for Friday and we're gonna do a family dinner situation don't really know exactly what we're gonna do but we'll do something so this could be like a bigger sticker or a smaller sticker I'm not really sure what I want to do but let's see if anything speaks to me I swear when I'm planning now I just like thumb through these books to see if I can use anything first before I dip into other things it's just really helping me actually use up things that are um you know things I may have just like passed over you know sorry my thing stopped again because like I said it's gonna be a long video y'all okay so let me see if I've got here we go just like a little black utensil which we'll use this and then this as well okay so here we go family dinner I don't know if we're gonna go somewhere or if we're just gonna order something in we probably just order something in um or just make something which will be fine I don't know if we're gonna do at my house or my parents I'm not really sure about that yet so either way that's fine by me and since I already have these out I'm gonna use this hold on y'all here is I already had my little like laundry line from Christian designs in the black so I'm just gonna try to reuse this if it doesn't totally rip on me which it could totally could because I don't know I'm not not very I'm gentle with a lot of things but stickers are not one of those things let's see here whoa I'm almost there oh look I got it sometimes use this big sticker here let's try to center things Emily centering this laundry sticker is like one of the most challenging things I think oh goodness and then all these other stickers um that I'm trying to kind of peel up at the moment but they're gonna stay here are also from Chrissy and designs so yeah yeah okay look at that and here's my little graveyard of washi and stickers that will be going in my permanent file as I like to call it all right so this is it for my black lives matter spread for this week the week of the eighth through the 14th I encourage you all to do this as well in your planner or somehow commemorate black lives matter in your planner as well I will be trying to post on instagram and facebook and use the hashtag BLM planner challenge again I will leave the links down below to all the sticker shops and any other important information that I think is pertinent to this down below thank you guys so much for watching feel free to thumbs up subscribe do all those things those youtubers tell you to do and I will be back with another video very very soon for you guys bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school


Today I will talk about open innovation in telecom companies in the Middle East. What's innovation? Innovation is the implementation of a new or improved product, a process or business model, or even an organization. It becomes strategic when it is an intentional and repeatable process. Usually most of the innovation that occurs today is based on ad hoc and doesn't follow any strategic processes. And at the end it should bring value to our customers, to partners and to the organization itself. It becomes open when it adopts a more collaborative approach to developing ideas and bringing them to the market. It is open when it is bridging the internal and external resources to make innovation happen. Innovation has been found is a key for growth and a very high priority for executive worldwide. Most of the leading technology companies have arrived through innovation. In the Middle East, on the other hand, most of the companies have not yet developed a robust infrastructure for innovation. And still they haven't developed, I mean the culture and mindset to nurture and to make innovation as a growth tool. And therefore they are at risk of the race in the global world. Even during the financial crisis we haven't seen any innovation attempt or I mean and some organizations have started to embrace innovation. For instance, QTEL recently have created an innovation function in its growth level. And maybe this month they have announced about innovation department within QTEL domestic. So they have, I mean they realized the benefit of innovation and they are starting to do something in this regard. Why telecom need to innovate? Basic I mean reason for the best is that because telecom companies have started to see erosion of their revenues. And this is basically can be attributed to many I mean to three main reasons. There are other reasons that I didn't include in my presentation. The first of them is the slowness on growth. I mean now wireless market are approaching 100% penetration rate. There is increased competition and voice over IP is impacting telecom revenue. Later I'll present slides that show how revenues are impacted by three of these main factors. Therefore I mean telecom had found that innovation is a key to grow. And especially that there is a need to compete with the industries with companies coming from different industries. Now they need to compete with Skype, with Google and other technology companies. The purpose of innovation is to identify new revenue streams and to create breakthrough growth strategies. Indeed at some stage QTEL operators need to redefine their role along the value chain and to embrace new and different business models. And to do this they need to adopt open innovation. This slide shows how revenues are impacted by slowness of growth. We have seen I mean this shows that how growth is decreasing over I mean the past 10 years. And this one shows how the EBITTA margin had been reduced due to the reason of competition. You might find that whatever you have I mean more competitors. This means that operator revenues are impacted I mean more. And this one shows how voice over IP is growing and how this is impacting the switched voice business. In the Middle East there are some issues that are facing innovation. Because innovation is not an easy subject it is very complicated and it is one of the core functions that is managed with least consistency and discipline. Main challenge is actually stemming from organization perspectives like culture and mindset. I mean actually I mean people will use innovation like Abbas word. You will hear it in their meetings and their annual reports but they failed to transfer it into reality. So the main challenge is to transfer this into reality. Also we noticed that lack of sharing the information within the organization itself across I mean geographies or even across business and functions is a main challenge. Intranet hasn't been used as a tool for collaboration and bringing people together. It has been actually used for simplest purposes only to disseminate information. We also noticed that the vertical structure is dominant within the organization. So innovator usually don't I mean work I mean across with people in different department. They will I mean wait or look vertically to wait for the approvals from their supervisors. Also innovation hasn't been driven by customer needs. It's basically driven by technology or by following their competitors. In many organizations the intellectual property laws and the protection are not well defined. The degree to which I mean firms when they wanted to deal with patent and IP properties they need to define the wall I mean the extent or the level of the wall that will determine to what extent that they are going to share information with partners and competitors. Organizations need to build skills for managing these partnerships and also we need to look at our traditional education systems. They don't foster I mean research critical thinking or collaboration. They basically focus on absorbent content to know them for the exams. Two weeks ago I came across one of the standards that are used in one of the curriculums and I didn't see a word for research or collaborate. I mean what they use is no layer and memorize. It seems that open innovation is a major to trigger our growth in the Middle East. We should adopt innovation model that is based on internal resources collaboration with customers, businesses, academic institutes and industrial leaders. We need to establish presence in the technology clusters. I mean I think some people touched on this at the beginning that historically innovation in telecom was done in labs and it was in a very close environment and we need to adopt open innovation because it can provide faster development of products faster marketing and it can reduce direct spending and research and it increase revenue and provides growth. We have seen recently some initiatives that is emerging from collaboration between telecom operators, device manufacturers and online developers and this was I think announced last February in Barcelona it's the whole sale application community so that it is going to provide the platform for developers to develop application for mobile devices. So what do we need to adopt open innovation? We need first to create the basis for the culture change that support development of innovation as a corporate trade not as an ad hoc activity. We need to foster a cross functional teamwork and collaboration. It's really an accessory tool for strategic and open innovation. We need to build a local capacity and talents by tapping into education systems and keeping these talents in the region. Currently we have many of the universities in Qatar and in the region and we need to make sure that we will tap on these talents. We need to encourage the establishment of local venture capitalists and to create funding. We need to work with the educational system for public and private to cultivate the culture of innovation and collaboration. Open innovation is possible only when we have the right IP laws and IP protection in place like the creative comments. How we can achieve it? Innovation should start at the top with the leadership support and especially the CEOs because they can provide the strong direction. Innovation at the end needs a process. So there should be a well managed innovation process that coordinate the activities within the organization and make sure that it is collaborating with the external resources. We can use forum sphere workshops and this is a very good event for cultivating the mindset of open innovation. We need to understand our customers needs to derive the innovation and also we need to collaborate with industries and academia like Qatar University, education cities, QSTP and actually there had been a partnership between QTEL and QSTP and both organizations are moving in this direction. The result of innovation should be measured and quantified and at the end we have to identify the innovators so that we make sure that the innovation cycle is there and at the end we need to adapt the culture of accepting failure because I mean all innovations are subject to success and I think at QTEL we are moving in this direction in the direction of open and collaborative innovation.


So what if you're looking for a book and somebody already has it checked out or you're looking for a book and you see that UNM doesn't own it or have access to it? Fortunately, you can still request it. Let's look at an example. From the homepage at library.unm.edu, I'm going to go over to the books only search box and I'm going to click on the title button and in quotes I'll put my title. Alright and then just press the search button. I'm at the results page now and I can see my first result at the very bottom. It says that it is held by UNM but that it's checked out and it's not due back until December. You can also see that there are some other copies but notice that this one says that it's held by other libraries worldwide. So again we don't have access to it. I'm going to go ahead and click on the first title. Alright so this is the record and it's already opened the check availability bar. Again it's not available yet but I need it now. So underneath the libraries worldwide there's a small button requested. Click this to request the item. So now I've entered into my interlibrary loan account from clicking the request a button and notice it's already auto filled the book information so all I have to do is take a brief check of everything things like you know will I accept an alternate edition of this copy I could say no if I didn't want to or the format preference maybe I only want the print version you can make that choice. There's another feature that you'll have to click not wanted after a date this is useful if you have a paper coming up and it's going to be due in October you know that you don't want the book after the papers do so you can select a date just to let them know I don't want it after this point also you can let them know if you'll accept the book in another language other than English and it is default set to yes so if you need to change that you can. All right so at this point so you've submitted the form the book should arrive in one or two weeks and you'll get an email when it's available to be checked out at the Zimmerman Library Service Desk.