We're here at the BenQ office here in Taipei, and who are you? Hi, my name is Will. I'm the power manager of BenQ projector business unit. And you have a beautiful 4K projector right here. Yeah, this is our first 4K projector ever first. And its name is WM1000. It has 2000 ANC lumens and high contrast, and also with a THS certification. And right now it's projecting a huge 4K display. How big is this display? It's 200 inch or something? This screen is about 160 inch. 160 inch right now? Yes. And I filmed this video before with the inventor of the plasma display, and you can see all the details. This is like a cinema. Yes, it's designed for the professional cinema use at home. So we provide a 4.3 megapixel in this machine so we can display every detail of a 4K image or 4K video. 8 megapixels using the DLP 4K, the new 4K technology that's in the DLP. Yes. So how bright is this one? This is about 2000 ANC lumens and about 2200 ANC lumens. And how's the quality of the colors? Colors matches the Rec.709 color space. So Rec.709, that's industry standard for all? Yeah, it's an industry level for the Full HD. And we plan to upgrade it in the next generation to be have a larger color space. And we also have another X12000, which features a DCI P3 color space. So we have two kind of different projectors that is 4K and provide to our target users. That's really cool. So this was one of the first new 4K protectors on the DLP system, right? Yes. It's the first consumer level 4K DLP projector. Can you tell us how much it costs? What's the price? It looks pretty big. It's about $5,000 US dollars in the US. And in Europe, it costs more like 5,500 euros. 5,500 euros. And here we have a lamp cover, which you can replace the lamp just by placing here. You can see. Is this a special lamp? It's a universal lamp. Universal lamp. So it will last for how many hours? It lasts for 3,000 hours, yes, in smartphone mode. Let's go close to the screen. I want to try to see how it feels to watch this, because I think this is the best way to have 4K. You want to have it on a big, big, big screen. Otherwise, there's no point in having 4K, right? The 4K TV is OK, but it's too small, maybe. Yes.  For TV size, the mainstream TV size right now is about 50 to 60 inches. But at that size, it's hard to tell the difference from a 4HD one. So using a larger 4K display, you can fully enjoy the 4K advantages. I've been posting 4K for more than a year on my YouTube. And this is the first time I can see the quality of my video, I think. Because even if I'm checking on a 4K TV, you have to go up close and look very close. Here, you can just like, even though I just have a Sony AX53, which is not the biggest sensor, it is pretty awesome to see all this detail. This has nothing to do with 1080p. I have a BenQ W1070 in my home. What's the difference between this and 1080p? 10 to be, the 4K image is as much as four times of pixel counts and details than a 4HD. And we made it for the professional home cinema use. So even the contrast, or even the color, even any other parameters regarding image quality, it's much better than our W1070s, because W1070s, we think, is for the home entertainment. And it's good for the ordinary use. But if you want to have a high quality 4K blur, movies watching at home, you should buy this one. So how popular is this? Because you already have it for a few months on the market. And so is this the most popular 4K projector ever? Yeah, I think. It is? Yes. It is popular. Yeah, and it features the higher qualities in our 4K consumer level projectors. We have better features, better image qualities, than any other technologies of 4K. So what is Epson doing with 4K? It's not the same. What they're doing is that they use more resolution of panels. They use a 1920 multiple by 1080p resolution of panels to have 4K images. But what they produce is about 4.1 megapieces, and it's far less than the 4K UHD display should have. A 4K UHD display should have more than 8 megapieces. And ours, our DOP technology can produce more than that. We can produce 8.3 megapieces, than the 3LCD. That is two times more than the 3LCD cam. And there's all these other logos here. What do the logos mean? This is? Yeah, first one. It features DOP technology, and second one. It features this W11000, it got a THS certification. And it's a professional certification in the audio-visual industry. And third one is that it features our own cinema telemetry color technology, which can produce accurate and high quality colors in the videos. And we have a cinema master. This is our advanced image processing technologies. It features some functions like a pixel enhancer that is making the image sharper. And also the color enhancer that makes your color more saturated and vivid. Yeah. So you have all kinds of image processing, which is a big part of your product. Yes. You cannot just have 4K and not do image processing. Then there's no point, right? Yeah. So besides the 4K, we have so much functions that for professional use. Users can adjust their images as much as they want. They can adjust it according to their home environment and make it better as your home. 4K 60. 4K 60, yes. Yeah. So it's HDMI 2.0a or 2.0b. 2.0. 2.0? You can see that we have two HDMI ports here. We are connecting HDMI 1, which is HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. And the second port is HDMI 1.4. OK. Yeah. So both ports can output 4K images. So it's 4K 2.0, both of them. And then there's audio out, also USB, mini, B, all kinds of other stuff. What do you do with the other thing? The other stuff is, this port is for the control. And another port, like this, is a firmware upgrade. We do a service upgrade, firmware upgrade from USB port. And so the main video output is the HDMI and PC. So did you have already some other firmware updates? You do already some updates since launch? Yeah. We may have some firmware updates or software updates at the nest, or maybe at the nest quota. We'll have better quality, maybe. Yeah. All right. If we found anything, we can improve. We will release our software. Is it gigabit LAN? Yes. So people can do stuff over the network, also? Yeah. People can remote control the projector from a crash drone or the MMS. So who's the customer who buys this product? So far, is home also a small cinema? We think people use it at home as a private home cinema. But we have tried. We have tried to get it into a 300-inch image. And it still produces a vivid and sharp images, yes. We met some media launch at India, at Japan. And we project a 300-inch image. Yes, it's still good. This is a $5,000 around or a little bit more investment, but then you can open a cinema. Yes. So in India, you can start a new cinema in a small village. Yes, it's capable. How do people get 4K content? 4K content. There's more and more? There's many of 4K content you can buy, maybe some movies from Amazon. Or you may contact your local, maybe like AB dealers, if they have some important 4K through A-discs. You can enjoy the 4K movies with your player and with the W11000. HDR? Yes, HDR. So it has all the HDR support also? Right now, we don't have HDR now, but we are considering to improve it. Yeah, because HDR. In fact, HDR, they don't have a real specification for the projectors. This is a really different HDR, right? Right now, HDR only applies to the TVs, but not exactly for the projectors. So you can see some projectors that feature in the 4K HDR, but while the effect, there are output, it's not totally correct. So in all point of view, we will emphasize that we have a good quality in standard dynamic range, HDR, about HDR, we will keep improving it into our next generation of products. All right, so there it is. This is the W11000. People can order it on all kinds of distributors. They already have it everywhere, like in Europe, USA, Asia, everywhere. Yes, everywhere. In India, is it available? India? Yes. So in India, they can buy. And anybody can start a new cinema. Yes. And just get the 4K movies. Every movie should be in 4K now, because the 35 millimeters, they can digitize in 4K. And people can just go on my YouTube channel and they can get 4K content if they need. All right, thanks a lot. Thanks for sharing this. So. Kind of.


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What if I told you you can catch Pokémon in your sleep? Seriously, I'm catching Pokémon right now in this footage. This is done by playing a game called Pokémon Sleep, which is coming out this summer of 2023. To test this out, the Pokémon Company invited me out to New York City and provided a one night stay, meals, and gave me early access to play Pokémon Sleep. But before I went to the event, Pokémon released a quiz that would determine my sleeping type. The quiz asks questions about my sleeping habits, such as how often you wake up in the night, how long it takes you to fall asleep, how rested you feel in the morning, and based on all the answers that you give the quiz, it'll assign you a specific sleeping type. By the way, if you want to travel the quiz for yourself, it's going to be in the pinned comment down below. Now that I knew what my sleeping type was, it was now time to head to the event to see where I would be staying. As I got to the hotel, I made my way up to the room where my wife and I walked in and I was shocked. Okay, so let's see what's in the Pokémon Sleep Basket that the Pokémon Company gave us. The first thing I'm going to pull out is a nice blanket from the Pokémon Company. And there, oh, there's the Pikachu symbol. Next up, we got a fanny pack and it feels like the symbol over here. It's a lot more adventurous. It's pretty cool. Inside of this, check out the pattern here.  So that's pretty cool. You have a pouch there. You have another pouch over here. So look at that, another storage at the bottom. So it's very convenient. We actually bought our own, but we'll be switching out to this one for the rest of this trip. This is kind of funny because we just bought this backpack. So this is a very good choice, Pokémon. You knew exactly our tastes. But look, ours didn't come with this.   Look how cute this thing is. This is a really awesome gift basket. Thank you, Pokémon, for this. By the way, when we come back to the hotel room later, it's going to look completely different at night. However, it was now time for the Pokémon sleep event. Floor had a private event sign, so I felt really cool to be part of it. And they handed us a top secret phone with Pokémon sleep already installed. They had tons of Pokémon sleeping signs on the way to the main room. And right before we walked into the main room, there was an entire tent filled with sleeping Pokémon, just like a camping trip. So I had to get my whole entire photo shoot in. Also, did you notice my little Snorlax with me? You'll see him everywhere we go in this video. Even the official Pokémon sleep Twitter account acknowledged him. His name is Bob, Bob the Snorlax. After taking even more pictures in the main room with all the sleeping Pokémon with the New York Skyline in the background, we had a presentation with a question and answer session with the developer of Pokémon Sleep. And before that, Yuri from the Pokémon Company gave us an amazing presentation on the basics of Pokémon sleep. And believe it or not, the game is really simple. Let me break it down for you. The adventure takes place on small islands in the Pokémon world, and Professor Noroli is studying Pokémon sleeping habits. By the way, different Pokémon show up on different islands. You get a new Snorlax every single week, and it has a power called Drowsy Power. This power is able to draw other Pokémon nearby. Think of it like this. Your sleep is basically in sync with that Snorlax asleep. The game is broken up into three parts. At night, you just sleep. In the morning, you research Pokémon sleep styles, and I'll be showing you the Pokémon I get later in this video, when I wake up. And in the afternoon, you raise Snorlax by feeding it berries and meals that your Pokémon find. The overall goal is to complete the sleep style decks by repeating this daily. Now at night to play the game, all you simply have to do is place the phone face down on your pillow. Or you can place the Pokémon Go++ down by your pillow as well and sleep. I'll be going over everything about the Pokémon Go++. When you wake up, you just check the results of your sleep. See all the stats about it, your sleep score, and see how much Drowsy Power you get, which will determine how many Pokémon gather around you each time. The more you sleep, the more Pokémon show up. The math formula for this is very simple. Snorlax strength times sleep equals Drowsy Power. The higher, the better it is for your sleep style decks because more Pokémon show up. Your sleep type will determine which Pokémon will gather around Snorlax, so you'll be getting one of these starters. Hopefully I'll be getting Charmander later. You give the Pokémon Poké Biscuits so that they can be more friendly towards you and join your team. By the way, you have a max team of 5 Helper Pokémon that can be on your adventure with you. These Helper Pokémon will gather specific berries and will give them to Snorlax to raise its strength. The Pokémon will passively collect these berries when you're not playing Pokémon sleep, so when you're AFK from the game and putting it in your pocket or just not touching it, that's when that happens. Each Snorlax has its own preference of berries, so you want to select a Pokémon team that collects those specific berries to get Snorlax the maximum amount of strength that it can get. Like the video games, you can also cook dishes from the ingredients Pokémon gathered to make Snorlax's favorite meals. Meals, by the way, give you more power than berries. There are a bunch of rare Pokémon, so the higher power on your Snorlax, you'll have higher chances of encountering rare Pokémon and their rare sleep styles, and you'll have a higher chance of finding rare Pokémon during the weekend, so that's something to look forward to on the weekends. Now how do you play this game with a friend? Well, all you have to do is simply just register your friend, and you can choose exactly what you want to share with them, like the number of sleep styles you studied, or what is exactly on your health or teeth. You also get rewards for reviewing all their sleep stuff, so make sure to always check out your friend's sleeping research. The game also records the sounds you make in your sleep, but this concerns a lot of people, but don't worry, this data is completely deleted after 24 hours, so it's just for you to really review the weird noises you make in your sleep, or if you're coughing, things like that. Now let's quickly go over the Pokémon GO Plus Plus. It links with both Pokémon GO and Pokémon Sleep. You'll also get a special Nightcap Pikachu by syncing this with Pokémon Sleep. Now this is really beneficial because this will give you a sixth member on your team, as opposed to just having them base five, so that specific Pikachu does not take up a slot on your team, and is a bonus team member. The Nightcap Pikachu also makes noises when it's time to wake up, and when it's time to go to sleep. It also sings a lullaby that can be horrifying or cute, depending on what you think it is. Here, have a listen. I don't know if Yuri looks terrified or thinks it's cute. In Pokémon GO, it throws Pokeballs for you, and you can even catch Pokémon when the device is just in your bag. It also autospins on Pokestops and throws Pokeballs, Grapeballs, and Ultra Balls. By syncing it to Pokémon GO, you also get a special research to find Snorlax with the Nighttime Cap. That's cool, I guess. And when you synch it to your Pokémon GO data, it also gives you rewards for proper really sleeping, and it also gives you hearts for your buddy Pokémon and Stardust in Pokémon GO. So if you play both of these games, it is going to be a win, and you definitely should get this. The developer now joined us to answer a bunch of questions and answers. And it was really early in the morning in Japan when he did this. Now before I went to the event, I asked Twitter to send me as many questions as they could. By the way, this is a really good reason why you should follow me on there. So let me answer some of these tweet questions. Average Siege asked, I'm assuming it would detect the movement of you and your significant other if you share a bed. How will that skew the results? Is there a way to work around it? So we had a few questions about this. Sleeping devices, having someone in bed with you, or your dog just jumping up on the bed, will skew the data when it picks up on sounds and movements? Here's proof I even asked the question at the event.  Great question.   Yeah, a smartphone can detects the movement of your dog. They also suggested that if there are two people sharing the bed and playing the game, that you keep both devices as far away as you could. That way nothing skews up the data. Otter Rocket asked, is it possible to get Shiny Pokemon? It is possible to get Shiny Pokemon as many users reported it during the beta test on Android. But the developers themselves didn't confirm it there, and they said that's something that you should probably discover for yourself. The answer is yes. SenpaiRecho asked, does Pokemon Sleep synchronize with the Apple Watch or track sleeping patterns for more accurate readings? Pokemon Sleep doesn't have any compatibility with the Apple Watch, so they can't confirm any information beyond that. But it's most likely being looked at. MakroE asked, how many Pokemon can be discovered? Will they continue to update the app with more Pokemon in the future? Can this Pokemon be transferred to any other game? From the calculations, by looking through the sleeping decks, there should be about 107 unique Pokemon. And the developers said during the presentation that they planned to add more Pokemon as the game continues on in the future. Also, there is no information or plans yet to connect this game with Pokemon Home or anything else like that. The Bald Gamer asked, think this game is structured in a way where sleep streams are doable or manageable? Like maybe things for Shiny hunting? I'm going to be honest with you, this might be the most boring stream ever because the gameplay is literally huge as sleeping. But if a streamer or content creator wants to record awesome footage about Pokemon Sleep, I suggest having a bunch of different phones and when you wake up in the morning to collect the Pokemon that show up. So you could probably do that if you're content creating or streaming. Before we headed back to our room to actually play the game, I met up with the Snorlax and took some pictures with him. I made sure to even include Bob in the photos because I was told there are only two Snorlax costumes that exist in the entire world. So I also had to bust out the Snorlax dance move when I met him. When we got back to our room, it was a complete different vibe. This is how it looked like during the day and this is how it looked like at night. We even had a cool Pokemon sleep screen on the TV. The lighting in the room was just perfect to relax. We even wore pajamas that were Pokemon themed. Here's what my wife Hannah looks like and here's what I look like in our pajamas. Pretty cool. Before I went to sleep, I went through a tutorial and when I laid down in bed and hit the sleep button, there was actually an option to play some Pokemon music. This is what it sounds like and I didn't want to keep it on because I like to sleep a little bit more in silence. Okay, so let me turn off the lights and now it's just me in bed. I got the TV on and power that off because, you know, we've got to have everything off for the night. Power this off just like this and start tracking my sleep just like this and I'm going to keep this close by on the bed. But the most important thing is to make sure you don't have it underneath anything or covering. So make sure it's available and breathing. So just like that, have it plugged in so I can track your sleep in case it does go out during the night and good night. You can pace it face down. While this guy is sleeping, let me go over the paid stuff in the game. Sleep points are a common resource in the game. You earn one sleep point for every one point in the sleep score. As you can see, there are many items that you can purchase in the shop with these points. There are even evolution items in the game, so that gives you a good idea about what Pokemon you may encounter as you're playing. The general store contains items that are typically found in most mobile games, such as limited time bundles that use the premium diamond currency, bargain bundles, and items that you can just simply buy. There are also interesting incense items such as the luck incense, the growth incense, and the friend incense that can be consumed overnight. There are also upgrade items to increase pokemon amounts, the amount of ingredients you can store, and the amounts of items you have, as well as the typical mobile money exchange for money for diamonds. I believe the biggest paid feature in the game is the premium pass, which offers the following benefits that you can pause anytime on the screen to see. The one month plan is $9.99 US dollars, the six month plan is $49.99 USD, and there is also a 14 day free trial that you must take advantage of if you want to see if their premium pass is worth it for the cost for you. By the way, my thoughts on this, this is all just typical mobile game stuff, and this shouldn't be too surprising if you've played mobile games before. This is not really a paid-to-win game, it's more of a sleep-to-win, I'm going to show off what I get when I wake up in the morning kind of game. Just like you're about to find out what happens when I wake up right now to see what pokemon I got. I opened up my phone and was immediately greeted by the sleep research tutorial. I was way too tired for the tutorial, but it's only going to happen during the first morning when you start playing the game. I ended up just sleeping for five hours and nine minutes and got a sleep score of 61, which sucks. I ended up getting a dozing type sleep. I mentioned before that jousy power is calculated by multiplying your snorlax strength by your sleep score, so my jousy power ended up being $2,440,000. I ended up attracting a Bulbasaur, two Caterpie, a Bell Sprout, and a Houndaur. I wanted the Houndaur, but the game forces you to give pokemon biscuits to the first starter pokemon that you encounter, so I was forced to get Bulbasaur. I'm not a fan of that pokemon.  Yeah, there's going to be a lot of shiny pokemon missed. Unfortunately, I didn't get the slumbering sleep type like my quiz mentioned, but on game launch, I'll make sure to get it.


Covering, DataWorks Summit Europe 2017. Brought to you by Hortonworks. Welcome back to Munich, everybody. This is theCUBE. We're here live at DataWorks Summit, and we are the live leader on tech coverage. Steve Roberts is here as the offering manager for big data on power systems for IBM. Steve, good to see you again. Yeah, good to see you, Dave. So, you know, we're here in Munchen, a lot of action, good European flavor. Is my second European formerly a Duke Summit, now DataWorks? What's your take on the show? I like it. I like the size of the venue. It's a lot of ability to interact and talk to a lot of the different sponsors and clients and partners. So, the ability to network a lot of people from a lot of different parts of the world in a short period of time. So, it's been great so far in looking forward to building upon this and towards the next DataWorks Summit in San Jose. Terry Vernig, VP in your organization was up this morning, had a keynote presentation. So, IBM got a lot of love in front of a fairly decent sized audience. Talking a lot about the sort of ecosystem and how that's evolving, the openness. Talk a little bit about Open generally at IBM, but specifically what it means to your organization in the context of big data. Well, I'm from the power systems team. So, we have an initiative that we have launched a couple years ago called OpenPower. And OpenPower is a foundation of participants innovating from the power processor through all aspects, through accelerators, IO, GPUs, advanced analytics packages, system integration, but all to the point of being able to drive OpenPower capability into the market and have power servers delivered, not just through IBM, but through a whole ecosystem of partners. This complements quite well with the Apache Hadoop and Spark philosophy of openness as it relates to the software stack. So, our story is really about being able to marry the benefits of OpenEcosystem for OpenPower as it relates to the system infrastructure technology which drives the same time to innovation, community value and choice for customers as it relates to a multi-vendor ecosystem and coupled with the same premise as it relates to Hadoop and Spark. And of course, IBM is making significant contributions to Spark as part of the Apache Spark community. And we're a key active member as is Hortonworks with the ODP organization forwarding the standards around Hadoop. So, this is a one-two combo of open Hadoop, open Spark either from Hortonworks or from IBM sitting on the OpenPower platform built for big data. No other story really exists like that in the market today, open on open. So, Terry mentioned cognitive systems. Bob Pitchiano has recently taken over and obviously has some cognitive chops.  Is this a rebranding of Power? Is it a sort of a layer on top? What is, how should we interpret this? It'll take a bit more as a layer on top. So, Power will now be one of the assets, one of the sort of member families of the cognitive systems portion of IBM. System Z can also be used as another great engine for cognitive in certain clients, certain use cases where they want to run cognitive close to the data and they have a lot of data sitting on System Z. So Power Systems as a server really built for big data and machine learning, in particular our SA22LC for high performance computing. This is a server which is landing very well into deep learning machine learning space. It offers the Tesla P100 GPU and with the NVIDIA NVLink technology can offer up to 2.8X bandwidth benefits, CPU to GPU over what would be available through a PCIe Intel combination today. So this drives immediate value when you need to ensure that not just you're exploiting GPUs, but you of course need to move your data quickly from the processor to the GPU. So I was going to ask you actually sort of what makes Power so well suited for big data and cognitive applications, particularly relative to Intel alternatives. You touched on that. IBM talks a lot about Moore's law starting to hit its peak that innovation is going to come from other places. I love that narrative because it's really combinatorial innovation that's going to lead us in the next 50 years. But can we stay on that thread for a bit? What makes Power so substantially unique, uniquely suited and qualified to run cognitive systems in big data? Yeah, it actually starts with even more the fundamentals of the power processors. The power processor has eight threads per core in contrast to Intel's two threads per core. So this just means for being able to parallelize your workloads and workloads that come up in the cognitive space, whether you're running complex queries and need to drive SQL over a lot of parallel pipes or you're running iterative computation in the same data set as when you're doing model training. These can all benefit from highly parallelized workloads which can benefit from this 4x thread advantage. But of course to do this you also need large fast memory. And we have six times more cash per core versus Broadwell. So this just means you have a lot of memory close to the processor driving that throughput that you require. And then on top of that now we get to the ability to add accelerators and unique accelerators such as I mentioned the NVIDIA and the link scenario for GPUs or using the open CAPI as an approach to attach FPGA or flash to get access speeds of processor memory access speeds but with an attached acceleration device. And so this is economies of scale in terms of the government offload specialized compute processing to the right accelerator at the right time so you can drive way more throughput. The upper bounds of driving workloads through individual nodes and being able to balance your I own compute on individual node is far superior with the power system service. Okay so multi-threaded giant memories and this open CAPI gives you primitive level access I get to I guess to a memory extension. Yeah, like the whole accelerators through this high speed memory extension. Instead of going through the what I often call the horrible storage stack AKA SCSI. And so that's cool. Some good technology discussion there. What's the business impact of all that? What are you seeing with clients? Well the business impact is not everyone is going to start with souped up accelerated workloads but they're going to get there. So part of the vision that clients need to understand as they begin to get more insights from their data is it's hard to predict where your workloads are going to go. So you want to start with a server that provides you some of that upper room for growth. You don't want to keep scaling out horizontally by requiring to add nodes every time you need to add storage or add more compute capacity. So firstly it's the flexibility to be able to bring versatile workloads onto a node or a small number of nodes and be able to exploit some of these memory advantages, acceleration advantages without necessarily having to build large scale out clusters. Ultimately it's about improving time to insights. So with accelerators and with large memory running workloads on a similar configured clusters you're simply going to get your results faster. For example, recent benchmark we did with a representative set of TPCADS queries on Hortonworks running on Linux and Power servers were able to drive 70% more queries per hour over a comparable Intel configuration. So this is just getting more work done on what is now similarly priced infrastructure. Because Power family is a broad family that now includes one U2U scale out servers along with our 192 core horsepower for enterprise grade. So we can directly price compete on the scale out box that we offer a lot more flexible choice as clients want to move up in the workload stack or to bring accelerators to the table as they start to experiment with machine learning. So if I understand that right, I can turn two knobs. I can do the same amount of work for less money, TCO play, or for the same amount of money I can do more work. Is that fair? Absolutely, absolutely. Now in some cases, especially in the Hadoop space the size of your cluster is somewhat gated by how much storage you require. And if you're using the classic scale out storage model you're going to have so many nodes no matter what because you only put so much storage on the node. So in that case, your cluster can look the same but you can put a lot more workload on that cluster. Or you can bring in IBM solution like IBM Spectrum Scale or Elastic Storage Server which allows you to essentially pull that storage off the nodes, put it in a storage appliance. And at that point, you now have high speed access to storage because of course the network bandwidth has increased to the point that the performance benefit of local storage is no longer really a driving factor to the classic Hadoop deployment. You can get that high speed access in a storage appliance mode with resiliency at far less cost because you don't need three X replication you just have about a 30% overhead for the software erasure coding. And now with your compute nodes you can really choose and scale those nodes just for your workload purposes. So you're not bound by the number of nodes equal total storage required by storage per node which is a classic how big is my cluster calculation. That just doesn't work if you get over 10 nodes because now you're starting to get to the point where you're wasting something, right? You're either wasting storage capacity or typically wasting compute capacity because you're over provisioned on one side or the other. So you're able to scale compute and storage independent and tune that for the workload and grow that resource efficiently. More efficiently. You can write size to compute and storage for your cluster but also importantly is you gain the flexibility with that storage tier that data plan can be used for other non-HDFS workloads. You could still have classic POSIX applications or you may have new object-based applications and you can with a single copy of the data one virtual file system which could also be geographically distributed serving both Hadoop and non-Hadoop workloads. So you're saving then additional replicas of the data from being required by being able to onboard that onto a common data layer. So that's a return on asset play. You've got an asset, it's more fungible across the application portfolio. You can get more value out of it. You don't have to dedicate it to this one workload and then over provision for another one when you've got extra capacity sitting here. It's a TCO play but it's also a time saver. It's going to get you time to insight faster because you don't have to keep moving that data around. The time you spend copying data is time you should be spending getting insights from the data. So having a common data layer removes that delay. Okay, because it's HDFS ready. I don't have to essentially move data from my existing systems into this new stealth pipe. Yeah, we just present it through the HDFS API as it lands in the file system from the original application. So now all this talk about is rings of flexibility, agility, et cetera. What about cloud? How does cloud fit into the strategy? What are you guys doing with your colleagues and cohorts at Bluemix, aka SoftLayer? You don't use that term anymore but we do. When we get our bill it says SoftLayer still. But anyway, you know what I'm talking about. The cloud with IBM, how does it relate to what you guys are doing in power systems? Well, the cloud is still really the born on the cloud philosophy of IBM software analytics team is still very much the model. So as you've seen the data science experience which was launched last year, born in the cloud. All our analytics packages will be our big insights software or our business intelligence software like Cognos for future generations are landing first in the cloud. And of course, we have our whole arsenal of Watson based analytics and APIs available through the cloud. And so what we're now seeing as well that we're taking those born in the cloud but now also offering a lot of those in the on-premise model so they can also participate in a hybrid model. So data science experience now coming on-premise we're showing you at the booth here today. Bluemix has a on-premise version as well and the same software library, big insights Cognos, SPSS are all available for on-prem deployment. So power is still ideal place for hosting your on-prem data and to run your analytics close to the data. And now we can federate that through hybrid access to these elements running in the cloud. So the focus is really being able to, the cloud applications being able to leverage the power and systems these based data through high speed connectors and being able to build hybrid configurations where you're running your analytics where they most make sense based upon your performance requirements, data security and compliance requirements. And a lot of companies of course are still not comfortable putting all their jewels in the cloud. So tip of that is going to be a mixing match. We are expanding the footprint for cloud-based offerings both in terms of power servers offered through software but also through other cloud providers. Bluemix is a partner we're working with right now who actually is offering our Power AI package. Power AI is a package of open source deep learning frameworks. Package by IBM optimized for power and an easily deployed package with IBM support available. And that's could be deployed on-premise in a power server but also available on a paper drink purpose through the Nimix cloud. All right, we're covering a lot of ground here. We talk strategy, we talk strategic fit which I guess is sort of an adjunct strategy. We talk a little bit about the competition where you differentiate some of the deployment models like cloud, other bits and pieces of your portfolio. Can we talk specifically about the announcements that you have here at this event? Just maybe summarize for us. Yeah, no, absolutely. So as a race to IBM and Hadoop and Spark we really have the full stack support. The rich analytics capabilities that I was mentioning has deep insight, prescriptive insight, streaming analytics with IBM streams, Cognos business intelligence. So this set of technologies is available for both IBM's Hadoop stack and Portnwork's Hadoop stack today. Our big insights and IOP offering is now out for tech preview of their next release. The 4.3 release is available for technical preview. Will be available for Linux on Intel, link some power towards the end of this month. So that's kind of one piece of new Hadoop news at the analytics layer as it relates to power systems. As Hortonworks announced this morning, HDB 2.6 is now available for Linux on power. So we've been partnering closely with Hortonworks to ensure that we have an optimized story for HTTP running on power system servers. As the data point I shared earlier with the 70% improved queries per hour. And at the storage layer, we have work in progress to certify Hortonworks to certify spectrum scale file system. Which really now unlocks the ability to offer this converged storage alternative to the classic Hadoop model. Spectrum scale actually supports and provides advantages in both a classic Hadoop model with local storage where it can provide the flexibility of offering the same sort of multi application support but in a scale out model for storage. But it also has the ability to form a part of a storage appliance that we call elastic storage server. Which is a combination of power servers and high density storage enclosures. SSD or spinning disk depending upon the, or flash depending on the configuration. And that certification will now have that as a available storage appliance which could underpin either IBM open platform or HTTP as a Hadoop data lake. But as I mentioned, not just for Hadoop, really for building a common data plane behind mixed analytics workloads that reduces your TCO through a converged storage footprint. But more importantly provides you that flexibility of not having to create data copies to support multiple applications. Excellent, IBM opening up its portfolio to the open source ecosystem. You guys have always had, well not always but in the last 20 years, major, major investments in open source they continue on. We're seeing it here, Steve. People are filing in, the evening festivities are about to begin. Really appreciate you coming on theCUBE. Thanks very much. Thanks a lot Dave. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there everybody. John and I will be back with a wrap up right after this short break. Right back.


Hello everyone, welcome back to another After Effects Tutorial. This one going to show you how to create vertical, square, and wide different composition settings based on the social media platform that you're creating content for. So you'll see here I've got a vertical option. This is great for TikTok and like Instagram Reels or something like that. Square also very, very good for Instagram. And then for example, the standard widescreen style, which is more Facebook, YouTube. How did I do it? Very simple.  We're going to go to actually composition, new composition. Let me show you from scratch. And then here it is right here. So instead of going in the past, you'd have to click on custom and input the numbers yourselves. Now you can just drop down in the third little category down. You'll see social media, portrait, landscape, HD. And if you look closely, there's also a square one.  That is all there is to it. Thanks for watching.


You two team keep it clean. What's up? This ain't the regular stream man. This is a Just kind of a little shook up right now. Just seeing everything Text like man, this is crazy man Look at this traffic. Well, y'all can't even really tell like really how bad the trick is but um That the school shooting today No, life. I literally like live Five minutes Fight with we live five minutes from the shooting my job is literally Six or seven minutes from where that happened that and it's like It's just sad man It's crazy. This is all the traffic right now I Got to take a different way home, but this is just wow Man This is just why I'm not going that way home. I got to take an extra long way home, but that's fine man, but um This this is crazy.  It's super sad Super sad Well, and if anybody hadn't hasn't heard cuz he some people saying what happened there was a school shooting Like literally from where I met literally like six About yeah about six minutes from here six minutes from where I met right now. It was a school shooting. I Felt really bad for people who they got people at my job. They got kids that go to that school Like one lady that I know sooner. She found out about it. She just ran she just ran she got on the phone She just ran so we did find out that her daughter is okay, but not everybody Not everybody is getting that same phone call not everybody is getting that same The same text back from their kids not everybody's getting the same not everybody's getting a reply from their kids Not everybody's getting a reply from their family But it's super sad that uh Sucks man. He's stuff like this with a passion man. I can't imagine what some of them parents must be going through man Especially with me being a parent too Super sad Hate it And it's like I was saying before it's sad that this is this is the norm right now and This is sad that this is the norm right now we hear so much about this stuff But it like for me especially like right now it Is it hits it hits deeper cuz this is it's so close to home It's so close to home. We like I said, we literally live Five minutes away from the school man. So this is literally right down the street from my house, man right down the street from our house And I feel for them kids. I feel for the kids for the parents Like I said me especially being a parent. I can't imagine man. I can't imagine Sending caught off to school sending them to school of all places and then He can't come home and he's never gonna come home again So some people got to deal with that I heard it was a teacher that that got killed. I don't know exactly how many people Got killed or got injured or whatever, but Even for the people that didn't get into the people that had to see that stuff the people that had to Uh Sucks man.  I just I feel for them, man I feel for them.   What what cop you talking about? Oh, your little brother in high school. I wonder what your parents are gonna do. Yeah, this stuff is it's like a Wake-up call, even though. I mean a lot of people already been woke up walking up already man. It's crazy, man It's crazy It is sad man um Because you just it's like you hear about some of the stuff on the news and there's been some stuff On the news that I feel like enough times Some of the stuff is like set up Some of it might be a little stage for so they can try to push certain uh Push certain whether it be laws or just push certain agendas or whatever but Something like this happens at home Like literally in your backyard It happens like like literally in your backyard five minutes from your house Literally five minutes from where you live at you and your family and Literally like six seven minutes from where you work at And then you got somebody that goes to the school telling you what they saw That's it it hit it hit so much differently, man It's just it's different because it's like like I said you we hear about this stuff And as much stuff as we hear about in the news and all that I haven't grown numb to it But it hasn't had that same effect on me like it used to when stuff like this was less Less frequent stuff like this happened less frequently but With it hitting home like man anywhere But sometimes you just you sometimes you never think that it could happen either to you Or in your area or whatever Sometimes you think oh, yeah that that won't that won't happen. Oh, no Yeah, it ain't gonna happen here. We live in the same place. Whatever anywhere Could happen literally anywhere, man anywhere anywhere That's true any soccer. He said, uh, and it's it's sad that we would even have to have this conversation They even be mentioning ideas like that But that's the world we live in he said every school should have tons of police officers outside They usually only have one. Yeah, they usually don't Say anyone the cop that everybody at the school knows but Nowadays the head that we even got to think like uh, like man schools should have more police officers That's sad, man Crazy, it is super sad, man. Oh, yeah, Virginia Tech had that thing. It's it's crazy, man And why I wouldn't even be surprised if later on this week somebody tries to one up this whole thing, man Oh For no body more, um There was a school shooting Uh, and the school shooting It happened Five minutes from where I live at from where we live at In six or seven minutes from where I work it And I when I say that I'm not trying to make I'm not trying to have a pity pity party anything like that, but This this just it hits home It hits home with me because it happened In my home it happened Right by my house in my job So like I said literally five minutes away literally If even that that long Five minutes away Five minutes away Right there Five minutes away. You can't really or you can see the traffic but traffic ain't usually like this It ain't usually like this but obviously A catastrophe like this creates Just a lot of craziness man Super super say it Super super say it These are our future doctors teachers etc.  Um, I don't know what the situation is um With the person who did all of this I don't know who they are what they had going on whatever, but I I just hate people sometimes man with some some people man, and it's like if you If you uh, if you that angry at the world don't take it out on anybody else, man I won't take it out on anybody else You shouldn't do that I won't take it out on anybody else because it ain't got nothing to do with them It ain't got nothing to do with them people who had nothing to do with Might not have had anything to do with who whatever the person's problems were Now they don't get to go home or now somebody Yeah, somebody will never go home again because it did or somebody may Never did a lot of these people won't see life the same a lot of people might actually be traumatized Because they just witness to a mass shooting in person And even for anybody who didn't even see the actual shooting itself to have gone through that at your school Like what do you do tomorrow? I think they should close the school for at least the rest of the week at least they have to they have to There's no way they should resume school activities uh For at least the rest of the week And if it was up to me if I was the principal or whatever the uh Whatever it was of the school I will close it for the rest of the week I mean not the rest of our clothes this week and next week too I will close it I said go I would say go be with your family Stay home Be with your families I will close it the rest of this week And next week too Just even though that's not even necessarily enough time for a lot of these people a lot of these kids to heal Because somebody never healed from this at all This this could be something that could traumatize them for the rest of their lives But if it was up to me there there wouldn't be any school for the rest of this week and next week But people suck man really do suck innocent lives, man.  Anyway appreciate all man Just uh Just be sick man. I'll catch y'all in a while


Hey everybody, this is Leeran from Artlist and welcome back to our channel. If you haven't heard or noticed, we just launched our new sound effects feature on Artlist. You can check it out, link is in the description below. And for that special occasion we thought, why not talk about sound design and teach you guys how to take your videos with it to the next level. But before we start, hit that like button and subscribe to our YouTube channel using that notification bell on to never miss another video with us. We also have an amazing giveaway waiting for you at the end of the video and we're going to announce our four lucky winners from the last video's giveaway. So make sure you stick around. Let's jump in. So this is a project we did for the sound effect bundle we gave away for Black Friday. As you can see, there is a ton of sound design we did here. This is the video without sound design, just with the music. Pretty cool, but it can get a lot better than that. All you need to do is add some sound design. Now I want to show you how it looks and how it sounds with only sound design. The video works both ways, either only with sound effects or only with music. Combine these two together and you get a really, really cool video. So let's go a little bit into depth on what we did here. Don't use one sound effect. Always try to stack the layers on top of each other with different sounds. They could be similar, but they don't have to be the same sound. So I'll give you an example. Let's put these layers on solo. These layers are actually for the first scene you saw of the astronaut. So check this out. So you can see we have four different layers. Each layer gives it more depth. So let's separate those four layers. So you can hear people talking on radio communication. This is another sound. Now this is an intro impact. Starts the whole film. It's very big. It's very long. This is another layer of atmosphere where you hear the astronaut breathing. Now at space from this distance you probably won't hear the astronaut breathing. You need to be in his helmet, but this is the beauty of sound design. This gives you the depth of the scene. It puts the audience invested into that scene. And the fifth and final sound for this specific shot. This little shot, five layers of sound. Another impact. So here's that sound. These two impacts together. And together with the breathing and the radio communication. And you've got yourself a great sound design for a small shot. I want you to notice for this little transition we did with the girl. You don't see the punch, but you hear it to emphasize this cut. You have three different sounds to give you the impact. And with the car you're starting to hear it before it comes in. So this is how it looks and this is how it sounds. So we have three different sounds for the car. And this main sound is the one that will help the transition. You can see it starting to go in with the hit that we don't see. Okay, so this gives the impact of the transition. And when you add the rest of the sounds for the car, you get a really great transition using only sound design. In this case where you see the pool ball getting hit and we transition into the police scene. So we wanted to create something a lot more powerful when seeing this specific shot. It's a close-up and we wanted to give that a lot of power. So obviously that's not the sound that you hear when you're hitting a pool ball. You have three different impacts. You can hear this one with a riser which gives you more tension and more power to the scene. And it actually gives you a nice transition to that specific shot. So this is the riser with the impact. You have the impact itself. So you have a riser with an impact. You have another impact. Okay, you can hear it without the first one. Let's solo that. Okay, so you have a really low pass, really heavy based impact. And you have another impact. So these are three different impacts. Like we've said, this one is with the riser as well. Okay, it even sounds a bit metal sounding. So you have three different impacts with risers for just one short hit with a billiard stick on a billiard ball. So to transition those two shots, you also have the gun loading, which obviously the dude in the specific visual didn't do, but it makes sense when you see them coming into the room. So this is how it sounds. And of course you have these two sounds for the police coming in. One is the police sirens and the radio communication. So you don't actually see the sirens. You don't see any radio communication, but it's there to tell a better story, a more convincing story. Exploding strawberries.  Nobody knows except the sound designer. This is a job to figure out how to bring to life this visual. When we approached this specific shot, we knew we wanted something that would give texture, because you see a lot of texture in the visuals, and maybe like something wet or mushy alongside that. So what we did was taking, we took two sounds. One is a man chewing, and the other is bones breaking. So for the man's chewing, we took that and put low pass filters on it that gave us that mushy sound. And for the texture, we used the bones breaking. Again, used a low pass filter on it, and that gave us some more texture. So if I'll put those two together, we'll get a great sound for exploding strawberries. Now this is how it sounds with the low pass, everything on it. Now you've got to hear this solo. This is the man chewing. Amazing. This is with the low pass.  Sounds like this. Definitely worse than what we wanted. So the low pass here helped us achieve that mushy wetness sound. You can always play with the low pass or the high pass or the EQ to get different sounds from your already existing sound effects. You can get really creative with it. Now for the texture, we did the bones breaking. I want to show you how it sounds without the low pass first. Terrible. Definitely wouldn't fit this specific and this beautiful visual. So again, all you need to do is take that low pass filter. And now you can check it out. So put these two together, the man chewing and the bones breaking with the low pass. You'll get great texture and great wetness and mushy sounds. Add your impacts and your wishes. Sounds like sweet strawberries falling apart in slow motion. Another quick example for a great use of low pass. We had this great shot of a manta ray doing a 360 flip underwater. What we did here, we took some existing water sounds and we put the low pass filter on it to make those water sounds feel underwater. What basically the low pass does is it cuts all the high frequencies in the sound. So this is without the low pass and this is with the low pass. So you can take any sound, again, put a low pass filter on it, play with it, get creative with it. You can get really great results when you cut out all the high frequencies. Same by the way with high pass, you can achieve that effect pretty easily with the EQ or just type in right here, low pass and you have it right there. Pretty simple. And here's some few extra tips for you guys. So let's say I need a riser but I don't have one. I only have impacts. Well, there's a very, very simple solution for that. You can reverse the impact and it will turn into a riser. So let's take this for example. So I had an impact here and all I wanted is maybe a transition to this beautiful manta ray doing a 360. So all I need to do is right click on the sound, go to speed and duration, reverse speed and I've got myself a riser. Now you can get even more creative with that. Just take any sound, put some reverse on it, see how it sounds. Maybe it sounds cool and can fit something else and maybe it can give you some more creative ideas on your specific sound design. And my two last tips can differentiate you from the pro sound designers to the amateur sound designers. And these are the panning, the left and right panning and the equalizer. So let's talk a little bit about the panning. So I have this bird sounds. Okay, great. Now the birds are crossing the frame from left to right. Now to give this scene even more power, you can create panning that comes from the left and goes to the right. Now all the big sound designs on movies use that all the time. You see somebody on the right side of the screen talking, you're probably going to hear him more on the right side of the speakers. Now obviously if you hear this on a mobile phone without earphones, you'll have trouble hearing the power of the panning. So put on your headphones. Let's give that small example with the birds. Okay, all you need to do to enter the panning is right click on the small FX box. You have the panner, you click on pan and you get the panning. Now the panning works when you go upwards, it's the left side. And when you go downwards, it's the right side. So if our birds are moving from left to right, we want our sound to move from left to right. So all you need to do is create keyframes, give our sound, take our sound to the left side and move it while the birds are crossing to the right. And this is how it sounds. Okay, now let's take another example with the panner. So we have our car scene, right? And our car is on the right. So we can take that specific sound in our car. We have three different sounds, remember? One, two, three, let's check it. Great, now they're all in the middle centered. If we'll take the panner and we'll take this. Let's open that and we want the car sound to be a bit on the right. We'll take this downwards. Let's hear that. Okay, now you can hear it harder on the right. We can take it even more to the extreme like this. And when you add another sound from the different layers that we have, let's take this one. Now you get more depth because this sound is in the middle. Give it a nice panning right like that. So we'll have it starting in the middle and go and switch into the right. And maybe the third layer we're just going to keep it as it is centered. And this is how it sounds. It gives it even more depth. Okay, so you hear the car entering on the right and then you hear the sound balancing in to the center. Now you can probably imagine when you have different things crossing your frame from left to right, playing with the panning can be super, super powerful. It always take your sound design to the next level. And our last tip, as I said, is using the equalizer. We've touched a little bit when we've talked about low pass and high pass, but with the equalizer, you get all the range of frequencies in the sound. So let's take this shot of the whiskey pouring into the glass. This is how it sounds without any equalizer on it. Pretty regular. Now all you need to do is write in the effects panel EQ and parametric equalizer. You drop it on here. You have on the effects control panel, a small edit button. And now you can see the waveforms on the equalizer. Now the middle ones are the mids. The left are the lows. And the rights are the highs when we're talking about frequencies. And you can play with those different frequencies. So this specific shot, you have mostly the mids. And we can just take it down if we want. It will sound a lot more hollow because we took all the mid frequencies and we took them down. We lowered them. Okay, so this is with the equalizer. And this is without the equalizer. So these are my two tips for you guys that can take your sound design to the next level and differentiate you from the amateur sound designers to the pro ones. And that's how you can use sound design to elevate your videos. So I hope that video helped you out. If it did, slapity slap that like button using those sound effects. Also subscribe to our YouTube channel with the notification bell on. And now for that amazing giveaway we promised you guys. One lucky winner will win a one-year free subscription to our new sound effects feature on our list. All you need to do is like, subscribe, and comment down below what's the best sound design you've seen on a video, commercial, or movie. Let us know in the comments below. We'll pick one lucky winner. Here are our four lucky winners from our last video's giveaway. Give them a round of applause. And I'll see you at the next video. Till then, stay creative.


BPM right now is 1,300. 1,300 bars per minute being printed. This is earnings after hours, over 400, almost 500 companies reporting today. There will be big numbers tomorrow and even bigger on Thursday. If you want to know the numbers each day, go into our room, type Exclamation Mark Earnings. You can also type in Exclamation Mark E report if you want more details, two commands to become familiar with. The main thing that we care about the way that I teach you is you just need to know are companies reporting or are they not? All that tells you is are you going to have more volatility or less? Are you going to be able to take bigger plays or smaller plays during that day prior to earnings? We've got quite a few companies reporting after hours. It's Thursday. Earning season is upon us. Amazon, one of the big names, is going to be reporting after hours and we'll see. Final half hour, oftentimes on a day like today, will bring in some heat. As of right now, high time frames, we are likely sitting inside of some golden ropes. Ticks up, ticks up. Who can give me a read on how many companies are reporting after hours? I forgot to check that before I came into the afternoon. Do we have a bunch reporting? It's a Monday, so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't that many. But to get that, we simply go in our room and type Exclamation Mark Earnings. Wow, no, there is a lot. 373 companies reporting later today, which means good things for us in the afternoon. Final half hour should be some good fireworks for us. 373 companies. Simple as typing Exclamation Mark Earnings. There's the command right there. Make sure if you are with us, you want to learn that command right there. If you want to see who's reporting after hours. It doesn't matter who's reporting. What matters is the number count. Sometimes it matters who. So if you want to type the e-report and get the individual names like the other day, Amazon was reporting after hours. So you might take that into account. But we are in that little earning season there. Three weeks of high volatility. The more VIX, the more ticks for us in general. And later in the week, we've got a lot. Tuesday, tomorrow, even more. 520 companies reporting tomorrow. Wednesday, 772 earnings on Wednesday. And then Thursday, always the big one on Thursdays. Don't forget the majority of all companies, the numbers are always biggest on, I would say always. You know what I'm saying. Thursday, biggest day for earnings in general. Watch out for those Thursdays. I would say watch out. Get excited for Thursday trading when you have the elbow box that is. All right. That's it. We'll close it up here. Four o'clock. Lucky sevens. If you guys know what lucky sevens is, type lucky seven right there. If you guys understand what happened right here, we had our easy entry for it. We got the double enigma on it. Got the trap right here. And then trap. And then we run for seven minutes. All right. That's the lucky sevens.  But when it does bonus, bonus day. And this happens a lot around earning season. I believe we are type exclamation mark earnings in our room.  All right. 106 companies reporting after hours here today. And I think they stopped allowing us to screen scrape from earnings calendar. Our bot used to scrape this for us, but then they started blocking our bots from doing that. But yeah, we need to know the next few days, it is probably going to be Thursday is often the biggest day for those, but we're still today's semi significant 109 companies reporting after hours. Thursday will probably be around 300. I would like to get it shown to you maybe in the next one. Lucky sevens works a lot during these types of weeks. And again, we can make the absolute most during those earnings season three weeks here during Thursday earnings reports. We've got lots of volatility and volatility just means opportunity. Yeah, this one. Okay. Not a lot, not a lot Thursday, but I like to see this. So today was the heaviest day of earnings after hours, which makes sense why today was all coiled up on the ropes waiting for the after hours, the anticipation of the move came in. Okay. And then we moved looks like the rest of the week is kind of dead. There's a lot of earnings weeks that you really have the best is going to be when these start reaching over 200 to 300 to 300 companies reporting on this. Those are the days you're like, All right.  That's where you've got to be abnormal price action speed could be during earning season. We know that we can make the, you know, I've said that it's possible to make the most money ever in the three weeks during, during, during, wow, three weeks during earning season, three weeks times four times per year. Cause it happened every quarter. That's 12 weeks in a year. You can make the majority all right there. Also contract rollover for us in the E mini space when, or micros when you've got contract rollover, you, it's, you know, the volume must increase the speed must increase during those times and during those windows, you will catch those opportunities because the algorithmic activity has to kick in. That's what our system, that's our age, right?


Opening day is finally here baseball is back the reigning champs the Dodgers were in Colorado to play a game that matters I love it. It's brought to you by draft Kings go to draft Kings use promo code John boy when you do Dodger octopuses are back so his little belly shimmy in the box He steps into the plate and get ready to watch something weird unfold first Marquez wants that pitch blue. Come on That's right on the outside edge then Bellin Blue come on that pitch was outside So they like that outside corner then they go back outside and belly smacks that to left is it a routine? Pop out.  So why are you acting like you didn't get the ball? Be excited about getting the ball. You're weirding everyone out. Anyway, it was in his glove right there, right?  That was a home run Turner runs back crone the Rockies first baseman. He's telling the ump like hey He ran past him. That's out and Bellie's like wait. What are you guys saying Turner says, huh? Well, what are you guys saying? And we have Dave Roberts is no, it's a home run home wait What what are you guys saying and Bellie's confused? He's like what's going on here because the ball I would hit it over the fence It went over the fence after I hit it. It's a home run now this ump very adamant He's like yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.  You know like well, we're trying to tell the coaches right now So Bellinger's out and then you can see the ump say Turner gets to come all the way around and score Gross so it's actually a one run single Turner scores And I think he's laughing in the dugout because he took away a home run from Bellinger with his base running and Bellie's like I don't like that I don't think and Turner's like yeah Well, well, I thought he robbed it from you and that's as clear as this one is and it's brought to you by DraftKings only 12% of the people that bet on this game took the Rockies and the Rockies ended up winning So if you were one of those 12 people Congratulations, if you weren't and you needed to do over or you didn't place a bet at all You can go to DraftKings. You can use promo code Johnboy. You can make some bets. You can have some fun


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says the window of a house is h meters above the ground, the angles of elevation and the pressure of the top and the foot of another house from the window are alpha and beta respectively. Show that the height of the other houses h into 1 plus tan alpha into cot beta meters. Let's see how we do this. We have a house PQ with Q as its window. Now in the question we have that the window of this house is h meters above the ground. So PQ is equal to h meters. Now we have taken this RS as the other house. So first of all we will draw QT parallel to PR. So this QT is parallel to PR. In the question we have that the angle of elevation of the top of the other house from the window is alpha. So it means this angle is alpha as this is the top of the other house and this is the window of the house that we had taken. So this angle is alpha as we have angle SQT is equal to alpha and we are also given that the angle of depression of the foot of the other house from the window is beta. So it means this angle is beta that is angle TQR is equal to beta. Now as we have taken QP parallel to PR so this means angle TQR is equal to the angle QRP since they are the alternate interior angles and so this would be equal to beta that is angle QRP is also equal to beta. We take let RS be equal to h meters and here we have RT is also equal to this capital H and so TS would be equal to H minus capital H. Now we consider the right triangle QTS since this line is perpendicular to the house. So this is 90 degrees and this triangle QTS is right angle triangle. So in this right angle triangle we have cot alpha is equal to the base QT upon the perpendicular ST that is we have cot alpha is equal to QT upon ST which is OTS H minus H this gives us QT is equal to H minus H into cot alpha let this be equation 1. Now this triangle PQR is also right angle triangle which is right angle at P since this house would be perpendicular to the ground. So now we consider the right triangle QPR in this we take cot beta is equal to the base that is PR upon the perpendicular which is PQ this means we have cot beta is equal to PR upon PQ that is H or you can say that PR is equal to H into cot beta let this be equation 2 but we have that PR is equal to QT therefore from equations 1 and 2 we get H cot beta is equal to H minus H cot alpha that is we have H cot beta is equal to H cot alpha minus H cot alpha we get H cot alpha is equal to H into cot alpha plus cot beta this means we have H is equal to capital H into cot alpha plus cot beta this whole upon cot alpha which gives us H equal to capital H into 1 plus cot beta upon cot alpha or you can say we get H is equal to capital H into 1 plus tan alpha into cot beta since we know that tan theta is equal to 1 upon cot theta and we have taken the small H to be the height of the other house thus we say the height of the other house which is RS is equal to capital H into 1 plus tan alpha into cot beta meters this is what we were supposed to prove so hence proved so this completes the session hope you have understood the solution of this question


the courage to go the extra step. Yeah. I often take, you know, the more darker areas we go to, the more disturbed clients, the more trauma that we have to visit can often take quite a lot of courage for the therapist. Yeah. But then the client feels really met. Yeah. I feel somebody's there. I feel somebody is providing protection. And it does take courage from the therapist because, you know, often over my career, I've said to myself, do I really want to go there? You know, do I need to go to these darker places or have our face in my head? And thank God, I used to say, yes, because they need to have a therapist, I believe, that we're accompanying them to the darkest places. That takes courage. We demystify what goes on behind the therapy room door. Join us on this voyage of discovery and co-creative conversations. This is The Therapy Show, behind closed doors podcast with Bob Cook and Jackie Jones. Welcome back to episode number 56 of The Therapy Show, behind closed doors with myself, Jackie Jones. And as always, I need to come up with a different word other than wonderful Bob. Say fabulous. The fabulous Bob Cook. I quite like that. So this episode, we're going to be looking at the five most important qualities a therapist needs to cultivate for effective therapy. That's a wonderful title. I think it's about 15 years ago when I was maybe even longer. I was sitting in the Institute, and I don't know what I was doing particularly. I think I was eating my lunch or something. And there was a doctor. It was before the buzzer system. So it must be 20 years ago. Anyway, there's a knock on the door and I answered it. So it must be a long time ago. Yeah, you don't answer the door anymore. No, no, that's true. And there was this, I don't know how old he was, 20th person. He said, he said, could it, could I have a word with you? I said, well, I said, I'm doing my PhD or something with that significance. He said, and I wanted to talk to the, I don't think he said great psychotherapist, but he said, well-known therapist about, you know, the qualities a psychotherapist needs to have to be an effective psychotherapist. And your name was passed on to me. Would you like that? So I thought about that. And I said, how long will it take to talk about the subject? He said about half an hour. So I said, fine, come in. I think I'm missing my lunch. So he came in. I think I was there the next two hours, by the way. But I remember talking about this. So I think there's a great podcast. And I'm not sure. I tell you what, I watch a lot of reality television programs. And they often say, not in any linear order. So even though I know what we're talking about, but it's not really a top order here, but I have got one we can start off with. Go on then. Curiosity. Yes. I think, I really think, and it's a bit up near number one, that the more curious, I mean, he might call this noisy, but I'm going to say curious. The more curious a therapist is, the better. What do you think? 100%. I love that. I'm always telling my clients to be curious. Yeah. I think it comes along with awareness and self-awareness. We need to be curious about our response and reactions to things, I think. Yeah. I think that most clients will come and they've had a history of people who haven't accounted for them, maybe not have been interested in them and have got what we call in CA world, don't be important injunctions. Yeah. And the more curious you are of how the past affects the present, the more you will meet your client and actually the more they will feel met. Yeah. I love curiosity. Curiosity. Whether it borders on nosiness or not, I think curiosity is brilliant. And we are established, we have to get to know how the past affects the present, their past affect the present and help them understand themselves. Now, we can't do that unless we're curious. So it's a possibility. Yeah. I don't mean interrogation, I mean curiosity. And what I mean by that is asking open questions to tell me a little bit more about that. Well, that's interesting. You know, those sorts of adjoining questions, not the closed questions just demand a yes and no answer. Yeah. Yeah. And we do that through inquiry.  In our world, phenomenology inquiry or inquiry, but you see inquiry, you know, in a certain way it hasn't got to be perceived as interrogation. It needs to be much more a series of open transactions. Yeah. Tell me more about that. Oh, wow, that sounds really difficult for you. Was it? Yeah. And it's done from the nurturing channel. And often you might lower your voice in the inquiry. But it's all in the service of the client. No, it helps that I'm a curious person anyway, by the way. Me too. I mean, before I came to the profession, you know, I'd be known as somebody who would actually just enjoy people watching. Yeah. And enjoy. I was known as somebody who was asked a lot of curiosity questions anyway. But certainly clinically, it's really important. Yeah. And not to give that up, even if you're with person seven or eight years. And think when you were saying that I was thinking about it. And when you go out to a party or you meet somebody or whatever it is, usually the other person is talking about the cells all the time and they don't ask us questions. Completely. So it's nice to be, you know, curious and inquire about the other person. I think I don't know his top on my list, but it's really high. And another one, which is very high as well is humor. Yeah. The quality for a therapist to have a high sense of humor. Now I mean humor with the client. I don't mean humor at the client. But humor as a way of not only meeting the client, but also of lightning the process. Because often a lot of therapy can be, you know, perceived as quite going to the dark places, which may well be. But also we need to visit the light places. So there's some, some, some sort of lightnesses in this process because it often can be very heavy. And so the humor has to be, how can I explain this? Has to be used clinically. But it is in a marvelous quality for a therapist to have. Yeah. Yeah. Some clients you would use humor much more than others, by the way. So people who often anti-social passive aggressive, you would actually use humor much more than you would perhaps would use hysteronic or other adaptations. But on a general level, you know, I think the quality of humor and how you use it in a service of the clinical world and the client is an important quality to have. Yeah. What do you think? Yeah. Do you agree with me on that? Yeah. I, yeah, I think you need to be very careful on how you use it in the therapy room. Yeah. But yeah, whether it's being liked hearted or, you know, I think part of my personality is I don't tend to take life too seriously. So it's just knowing that, like you said, there is an opposite to the dark side that we can use within the therapy. And I think that's overlooked sometimes. No, you're right. I completely agree with you about it can be, I'm talking about issues but perceived in a different way. But I'm talking about the opposite to the dark places. Yeah. Where we can sort of have a bit of lightness in the process. Yeah. And celebrate your wins in the therapy room. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes I say to clients, you can come here and talk about positive things as well as, you know, the not so positive things. It doesn't always need to be doom and gloom. You can let me know the good stuff that's going on. I think that's why I like a check-in at the beginning rather than going straight into the hard stuff. It's okay to let me know what's gone well this week. No, I couldn't agree with you more. So we've got, you know, humor, curiosity. How about you having a quality? Otherwise I'll just go through. I'm not, I don't know how you'll take this. For me, it's about taking risks in the therapy room as well. How about courage? Courage, yeah. Maybe taking risks isn't the right way of doing it, but yeah, courage. I think vitally, vitally important. You know, if the therapist needs to be courageous. Now, what I mean by that is courageous for the client as well in the service of the client. So, so the, I'll tell you a good example of this. I worked with somebody for about 11 or 12 years and she was working through quite, well, a lot of things. And we did a really good job and, you know, felt professional, satisfied. Well, anyway, about four years ago, she appeared on my doorstep again. And she said, besides other things, she wanted to thank me for going the extra mile. Yeah. So in the concept we're talking about, that's what I mean. The courage to go the extra step. Yeah. I mean, it takes, you know, the more darker areas we go to, the more disturbed clients, the more trauma that we have to visit can often take quite a lot of courage for the therapist. Yeah. But then the client feels really met. Yeah. I feel somebody's there. I feel somebody is providing protection. And it does take courage from the therapist because, you know, often over my career, I've said to myself, do I really want to go there? You know, do I need to go to these darker places or have I phased in my head? And thank God I used to say yes, because they need to have a therapist, I believe, that will accompany them to the darkest places. That takes courage. Yeah. It does. And I would imagine there's a lot of, you know, therapists out there that wouldn't be comfortable going to those dark places. Yeah. Yeah. So again, it's therapy. I know all that. Yeah. Because sometimes they come up in the most unlikely places. You know, it's kind of like, I'm really conscious of my, I don't want to say specialism, but if I'm not, I don't feel qualified in a particular area, whether that's, you know, anorexia or a particular type. But these things can come up during any session. And it's about how you, how you deal with that.  Yes. And, and they may not have had anyone. Yeah. Company them and feel protected by. To put themselves together again. Yeah. So courage is a very important quality. And the, yeah, well, let's just say that. In fact, for effective results, it's really important. Yeah. Listening skills, them are important. Yeah. The quality to account for the other, to really listen to the other person is very important. And listening, you know, really interesting quality because it isn't just listening to the verbal transaction. No. It's listening to the non-verbal transactions. Yeah. It isn't just listening to people, what people are doing. It's listening. Let's put it another phrase. It's listening therapeutically. Yes. And when we talk about listening therapeutically, we mean listening to the whole of them. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. The audience is at the same. What they're not saying the body language. Shifting in their seats. All sorts of things. Yeah. Whether you choose to sit in the room can say. Everything. How the feeling. Yeah. So listening is very important quality. I always think it's giving the client. The opportunity. To get to their own truth. Now. You have to really listen. And give. The space. For. That process to happen. But you saw your eyes listening all levels, spiritually, physically, emotionally, cognitively, non-verbally.  How's that for transaction? Yeah. In the world of listening. Yeah. Yeah. I think listening is really important. I've got a question. That's maybe the fourth, but let's I'll give you another one. I really like kindness. Yeah. I think the quality. Of an open heart. Of the therapist. And. Kindness is such a wonderful attribute to have. I know it comes a lot from being kind to yourself. So if you're not kind to yourself, it's much harder to model. I mean, another podcast we've talked about. Compassion and love. So it's in the same ballpark. Yes. Yeah. It's in the same ballpark kindness. But. Most. Of the clients. Oh, I don't know if this is a fair summary. I'm about how I'm going to say it. Most of the clients I've seen over my clinical world of 38 years. Kindness has been so important to them because they've had a world of unkindness. Yeah. And sometimes to overwhelm them, like I said in another podcast, but, you know, I think that. Oh, next quality. I'm going to the timing. Of how you. Perhaps. If the kindness transaction, if you want to put it that way. It is important, but kindness is a quality. You know, if you said to me, I think the top thing I would want for any therapist at all. For me. If I, if I was to do therapy, it would be that they. Have a high quality of kindness. And an open heart. Yeah. I don't want an unkind therapist. No, definitely not. That's the last thing I know about history of that. Yeah. Trauma is built and trauma is built on unkindness. And we need an antidote to trauma. Yeah. So I want to therapist this has the high quality of kindness. But it's not. No, it doesn't have to be necessarily through verbal transactions, but in fact, a lot of kind actions are non-verbal. Yeah. Again, it's the intent into it behind. The questioning or whatever it is that's going on. It's the intent behind it. And that's. You can't even describe that, but you know when it's there. You know, when there's a good face, you know, you can't feel what action. Yeah.  The positive intent is there. Yeah. So that's quite another quality. I said, I want to not forget. It's a quality. I know you learn this in therapy, in the therapy training. So I'm not sure if it's quality, but it's a sense of timing. By the therapist. The therapy has, the therapist has a real. Qualitivity or qualitative process. And they think about when they're going to say things, when they're going to time each other's actions. I think it's a really important quality. Yeah. Because the therapist that rush in. Or the therapist that don't think about pacing timing. Attunement. When to actually deliver a transaction. It makes for a less effective psychotherapy. In my book. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. It's often a taught process or experience, but also I think. I think the client that has the quality of listening out to the therapist with Nick attunement between the two people. That was the client. It's a pretty special quality to have. I think I can distinctly remember the first time where I experienced. Pacing. And it wasn't probably the way it should be. But it was a really anxious client to. was rushing and I found myself feeling anxious and rushing along with them and it was a conscious effort for me to take a breath and just slow everything in the room down and I think it was the first time I'd actually been aware of that in the room. Yeah so it's a very important quality yeah have you got another one I know you have courage have you got I've seemed to have gone I like creativity yes in the therapy room yeah that's a wonderful quality isn't it instead of doing the same thing over and over and over oh think outside the box if it's not working be creative I think that is what a wonderful quality that is to I would always want one of my therapists to have a sense of creativity to be able to use different dimensions of their psyche to allow them I don't want a therapist in your language think outside the box that's a that's a marvelous quality to have for therapists and usually with it comes a very positive a very positive energy stream yeah so the the energies on a different dimension to the cognitive transactions yeah I very much like creativity sometimes you know even being creative in the way that we deliver therapy yeah you know you with some clients sitting on a chair just talking is quite difficult for them in some sessions you know to get open to move around or to I don't know before now I've opened my corridor and clients have lobbed cushions up the corridor and yeah check it or whatever it is it's just it moves away from cognitive exchange yeah and that models also permissions for the clients to go to different dimensions as well yeah so I couldn't agree with you I have one I really want to mention before the podcast ends and that's ethical that I want a therapist that is ethical and I'll tell you what I mean by that a quality of you know being ethical an ethical process because what I mean by that is a therapist that treats the client with respect yeah genuineness transparency and sensitivity yeah I would want a therapist like that I would feel safer my youngest self would feel safer my confidentiality would be respected my whole sense of being would be respected I'd feel the person was on my side so I would want an ethical practitioner yeah not somebody who perhaps would break ground boundaries or come from an unethical place or isn't transparent with me um I want to I want to client is ethical in the in the ways that I just talked about yeah ethicality yeah and again with most of these qualities I suppose we need to prove it we can't just say it we need to be doing it and we need to prove it it's not going to happen in the first session no that's a very that's a very good uh what you said and so I'm not really don't disagree especially about ethicality but and some of those qualities you talked about you know within 10 minutes yes kindness yes love compact kindness you know you just know that yeah if you really listen to your intuition but I agree with you in the terms of earning it yeah um I don't think we should expect our clients to trust us and believe us from the moment they're walking through the door it's like you say it's a process not an event and it's been consistent oh that's fine so I'm sure there's many many more whether I could go on but we're coming to the end but I wanted to sort of end on that one almost because yeah you know respect sincerity, genuineness, transparency being accounted for in a real genuine way is such important you know ethical processes yeah and unfortunately there are people out there that aren't ethical no that's why I wanted to absolutely right yeah and I would say to any of the listeners you know uh first of all being ethical means that you're going to be effective and for those people going to therapy themselves if you haven't got an ethical therapist but all the things I'm just talking about then leave but certainly for the therapist to be or a therapist listening to this um yeah by being sincere by being transparent by being genuine by having that sort of you know qualities therapy will be much much more effective because the client will feel safe contained and the younger part of the staff will be able to talk more easily and go to the places they need to go to with you yeah um so the qualities we talked about may not all be there in one person but I think I do think they are important qualities to to you know as a prerequisite for effective therapy effective therapy and I think it's important to talk about actually and more talking like we're talking now about this on the podcast I think it's really important to talk about and I tell you what I know this people have come in and said you know I've had the courage to come back to therapy when I've had a bad experience they know the difference yes a therapist who be not had those qualities we're talking about and that is the do yeah definitely yeah and it's one of those you know again we don't really hear from our clients you know that you've done a good job a lot of the time no you are right yeah you know so when they do come back and exactly the same but you know they've gone for two years sometimes three years and then suddenly they they come back again because a life event has happened and then that's when they'll usually say you helped me so much you know with what I was going through last time and that speaks volumes as well as word of mouth stuff we can't teach this can we Bob can we can't no no you're right you are right I think you can teach timing to a certain extent I think you teach ethicality to a certain stent but some of the things like kindness courage humour I think it's important to talk about them but for many therapists they either have that naturally or I think they can give oh yeah they can be given permissions by their own purpose to actually be that way yeah so so let me give example um you know I can't explain if you have a trauma-based history you will close your heart yeah understandably yeah yeah so as you work with the trauma and the toxic history you'll open your you'll open your heart yeah and an open heart is going to make for the most effective focus so it's it's often when you say that yes you've right at a level but you know the more trauma you've had the more closed up off you are the more disconnected you are from yourself you don't allow yourself to be humorous you don't allow yourself that lightness you don't allow yourself the open heart you don't allow yourself to be creative because you've closed all those things down yeah so really I'm going back to what I say on many podcasts the more therapy do you do yourself the more likely you are able to nurture these qualities we're talking about yeah yeah which again you know taking my cap off to you and the assessment process that you know I can remember going through before I signed up for the four years training at the Manchester Institute of Psychotherapy I suppose you've got to weed out certain people you know who can you see I mean I've been doing this training for a long time and if I go back before I don't know before we were training a credit organization the UK say UK CP or even before regulating bodies perhaps I would have allowed people into the training for for example the few equities because we're training a credit organization the UK CP people have to have had a have a degree for example they've had to have this this and the other yeah by definition the people haven't had a degree and certainly some degree in the caring professions or they are being in the book caring professions then you know we we ask them to go on casting courses or whatever it is to get some sort of sense of academic capacity because we have essays to write and these things and etc etc but I know that the most effective therapists aren't the therapists the particularly can write you know having a degree having academic capacity in my book doesn't always mean that they're going to be effective therapists but that's good because I didn't have any of them before we were part of the UK CP and those were few equities and demands they have in 2022 but if you go back to psychotherapists in the evolution and its genesis in the earlier days there wasn't that there weren't the demands there are now and some demands that come now by the way I don't I understand them because we are where we are and I know that you can you know a trainee therapist can know all the theories in the world but if they can't open their heart out and they can't do all the things we're talking about or there's difficult most challenges there then they are going to have a harder road to be an effective psychotherapist yeah I agree you can't think your way through therapy it doesn't it doesn't work yeah I don't think your way through that's a very good phrase so it's a different sort of training nowadays but what I will say anyway I really like that last phrase of yours because your own therapy is going to be the precursor to this yeah that if you do your own therapy you're far more likely to be able to open up and be the therapist with these qualities that we've talked about yeah what a wonderful place to finish Bob as always um I don't we haven't got a title for the next episode I don't know what we're doing so it'll be a huge list but you haven't got your huge list next to you I haven't no so I'll just it could be I know it won't be by the way it might be because I haven't put this list I haven't put this title on this list but one of them we I would like to have some time rather whenever this may be is how the therapist deals with the unexpected processes that occur in therapy um and uh that's another podcast so let's leave what's next in the world of uh unexpected or surprise if you like we will do but I've written that one down because I think that's a good title yeah because often the most unexpected things can occur I can guarantee in every session something unexpected happens whatever that is I was taught a long time ago but it takes a lot of experience to get to the position that everything actually that happens is all gross to the mill if the therapist can creatively use the unexpected occurrence in the you know in the service of the client yeah now that's that's the bit and maybe that's when you've got to think outside the box sometimes creativity you talked about that'd be a great podcast wouldn't it well I've written it down we'll do that one next time yeah and whatever's on this list so I look forward to that yes thank you so much Bob and I'll see you very soon lots of love to you thank you and you speak to you soon take care bye bye bye bye you've been listening to the therapy show behind closed doors podcast we hope you enjoyed the show don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review we'll be back next week with another episode