Hello, welcome everyone to the previous presentation of the AWS Startup Showcase. This is season two episode four of the ongoing series covering exciting startups from the AWS ecosystem. We're here to talk about cybersecurity. I'm your host, John Furrier, with joined by two great CUBE alumni, Liz Rice, who's the chief open source officer at ISO Valon and Mark Nunn and Coven, who's the distinguished cloud strategist at Laceworks. Folks, thanks for joining me today. Hi, Tasha. You're in the UK, Mark. Welcome back to the US. I know you were overseas as well. Thanks for joining in this panel to talk about, set the table for the cybersecurity showcase. You guys are experts out in the field. Liz, we've had many conversations with the rise of open source and all the innovations coming from out in the open source community. Mark, we've been going to the cover and the events, looking at all the announcements. We're kind of on this next generation security conversation. And it's kind of a do over in progress kind of happening every time we talk. Security in the cloud is what people are talking about. Amazon web services had reinforced, which was more of a positive vibe of, hey, we're all in it together. Let's participate, share information. And they talk about incidents, not breaches. And then you got black hat just happened and they're like, everyone's getting hacked. It's really interesting as we report that. So this is a new market that we're in. People are starting to think differently but still have to solve the same problems. How do you guys see the security in the cloud era unfolding? Well, I guess it's always going to be an arms race, isn't it? Everything that we do to defend cloud workloads becomes a new target for the bad guys. So this is never going to end. We're never going to reach a point where everything is completely safe. But I think there's been a lot of really interesting innovations in the last year or two. There's been a ton of work looking into the security and the supply chain. There's been a ton of new tooling that takes advantage of technology that I'm really involved with and very excited about called the EVPF. A continuation of this new generation of tooling that can help us observe when security issues are happening and also prevent malicious activities. And a ton of open source activity. Scale is a big factor now. It's becoming a competitive advantage on one hand. APIs have made the cloud great. Now you got APIs being hacked. So all the goodness of cloud has been great but now we've got next level scale. It's hard to keep up with everything. And so you start to see new ways of doing things. What's your take? Yeah, it is. And everything that's old is new again. And so as you start to see data and business workloads move into new areas, you're going to see a cyber crime and security activity move with them. And I love Liz calling out EVPF and open source efforts because what we've really seen to contrast that sort of positive and negative attitude is that as more people come to the security table, as more developers, as more executives are aware and the accessibility of these great open source tools, we're seeing that shift in approach of like, hey, we know we need to find a balance. So let's figure out where we can have a nice security outcome and still meet our business needs as opposed to the more, let's say, to be polite traditional security view that you see at some other events where it's like, it's this way or no way. And so I love to see that positivity and that collaboration happening. You know, Liz, this brings up a good point. We were talking at our super cloud event we had here when we were discussing the future of how clouds emerging. One of the conversations that Adrian Cockcroft brought up who's now retired from AWS from with Netflix, you know, Adrian big open source fan as well, he was pointing out that every CIO or CSO will buy an abstraction layer. You know, they love the dream and vendors sell the dream, so to speak. But the reality is not, it's not a lot of uptake because it's complex and there's a lot of non-standard things per vendor. Now we're in an era where people are looking for some standardization, some clean, safe ways to deploy. So what's the message to CSOs and CIOs and CXOs out there around EBPF, things like that that are emerging because it's almost top down was the old way. Now it's bottoms up with open source is seeing the shift. I mean, it's complete flipping the script of how companies are buying. Yeah, I mean, we've seen with the whole cloud native movement how people are, rather than, you know, having like IETF standards, we have more of a de facto collaborative kind of standardization process going on so that things like Kubernetes become the de facto standard that we're all using. And then that's helping enterprises be able to run their workloads in different clouds, potentially in their own data centers as well. You know, we see things like EKS anywhere, which is allowing people to run their workloads in their data center in exactly the same way as they're running it in AWS. And that kind of, that sort of leveling of the planning field, if you like, can help enterprises apply the same tooling and that's going to always help with security if you can have a consistent approach wherever you're running your workloads. Well, let's take a minute to explain EBPF, you know, the Berkeley packet filtering technology people know from trace dumps and whatnot. It's all kind of been around for a while, but what is it specifically? Can you take a minute to explain EBPF and what does it mean for the customer? Yeah, so you mentioned the packet filtering acronym and honestly these days I tell people to just forget that because it means so much more for what EBPF allows you to do now is to run custom programs inside the kernel. So we can use that to change the way that the kernel behaves and because the kernel has visibility over every process that's running across a machine, a virtual machine or a bare metal machine, having security tooling and observability tooling that's written using EBPF and sitting inside the kernel. It has this great perspective and ability to observe and secure what's happening across that entire machine. This is like a step change in the capabilities really of security tooling. And it means we don't have to rely on things like kernel modules which traditionally people have been quite worried about with good reason. EBPF is- From a vulnerability standpoint you mean, right? From a reliability standpoint. From a vulnerability standpoint, but even just from the point of view that kernel modules, if they have bugs in them, a bug in the kernel will bring the machine to a halt. And one of the things that's different with EBPF is EBPF programs go through a verification process that ensures that they're safe to run, that happens dynamically and ensures that the program cannot crash, will definitely run to completion, all the memory access is safe. It gives us this very reassuring platform to use for building these kernel-based tools. And what's the bottom line for the customer and the benefit to the organization? I think the bottom line is this new generation of really powerful tools that are very high performance that have this perspective across the whole set of workloads on a machine that don't need to rely on things like a side car model which can add to a lot of complexity that was perfectly rational choice for a lot of security tools and observability tools. But if you can use an abstraction that lives in the kernel, things are much more efficient and much easier to deploy. So I think that's really what the enterprises are gaining. Simpler to deploy, easier to manage, lower overhead set of tools. That's the dream they want, that's what they want. Mark, this is whether the trade-offs that comes up, we were talking about the SuperCloud and all kinds, even at AWS, you know, you can have SuperCloud but you got SuperHackers as well. As innovation happens on one side, the hackers are innovating on the other and you started to see a lot of advances in the lower level. AWS with their silicon and strategies are continuing to happen and be stronger, faster, cheaper, you know, better, better down the lower levels at the network layer. All these things are innovating, but this is where the hackers are going too, right? So it's like, you know, it's a double-edged sword. Yeah, and it always will be, you know, and that's the challenge of technology is sort of the advancement for one is an advancement for all. But I think, you know, while Liz hit the technical aspects of the EVPF spot on, what I'm seeing with enterprises and in general with the market movement is all of those technical advantages are increasing the confidence in some of the security tooling. So, you know, the long sort of anecdote or warning in security has always been things like intrusion prevention systems where, you know, they will look at network traffic and drop things they think bad. Well, for decades, people have always deployed them in detect-only mode and that's always a horrible conversation to have with the board saying, well, I had this tool in place that could have stopped the attack, but I wasn't really confident that it was stable enough to turn on. So it just warned me that it had happened after the fact and with the stability and the performance that we're seeing out of things based on technologies like EVPF, we're seeing that confidence increase. So people are not only deploying this new level of tooling, but they're confident that it's actually providing the security at almost and that's giving not necessarily a leg up, but at least that level of parity with that push forward that we're seeing, you know, similar on the attack side because attackers are always advancing as well. And I think that confidence and that in sort of, you know, reliability on the tooling can't be underestimated because that's really what's pushing things forward for security outcomes. Well, one of the things I want to get your both perspective on real quick and you kind of segue into this next set of conversations is with DevOps success, Dev and Ops, it's kind of done, right? We're all happy. We're seeing DevOps being so now DevSecOps. So CSOs were like kind of old school, buy a bunch of tools, we have a vendor and with cloud native, Liz, you mentioned this earlier, accelerating the developers are even driving the standards more and more. So shifting left is a security paradigm. So tooling, Mark, you're on top of this too. Tooling versus how do I organize my team? What are the processes? How do I keep the CICD pipeline going higher velocity? How can I keep my app developers programming faster? And as Adrian Cockruff said, they don't really care about locking. They want to go faster. It's the Ops teams that have to deal with everything. So, and now security teams have to deal with the speed and velocity. So you're seeing a new kind of step function ratchet game where Ops and security teams who are living DevOps are still having to serve the Devs and the Devs need more help here. So how do you guys see that dynamic in security? Because this is clearly the shift left cloud native trend impacting the companies. Cause now it's not just shifting left for developers. It's how does that ripple effect into the organization? And the security posture. We see a lot of organizations who now have what they would call a platform team, which is something similar to maybe what would have been an Ops team and a security team, where really their role is to provide that platform that developers can use so that they can concentrate on the business function that they don't have to really think about the underlying infrastructure. Ideally, they're using whatever common definition for their applications. And then they just roll it out to a cloud somewhere and they don't have to think about where that's operating. And then that platform team may have remit that covers, not just the compute, but also the networking, the common set of tooling that allows people to debug their applications as well as securing them. Mark, this is a big discussion because one, I love the team process collaboration, but where's the team? We've got a skills gap going on too, right? So in all of this is a lot of action happening. What's your take on this dynamic of tooling versus process collaboration for security success? Yeah, it's tough. And I think what we're starting to see is, and you called it out, a spot on is that, the developers are all about dynamic change and rapid change and operations and security tend to like stability and considered change in advance. And the business needs that needle to be threaded. And what we're seeing is sort of with these new technologies and with the ideas of finally moving past multi-cloud into as you guys call super cloud, which I absolutely love as a term of, let's get the advantage of all these things. What we're seeing is people have a higher demand for the outputs from their tooling and to find that balance of the process. I think it's acknowledged now that you're not gonna have complete security. We've gotten past that. It's not a yes or no binary thing. It's let's find that balance and risk. So if we are deploying tooling, whether that's open source or commercial or something we built ourselves, what is the output and who is best to take action on that output? And sometimes that's gonna be the developers because maybe they can just fix their architecture so that it doesn't have a particular issue. Sometimes that's gonna be those platform teams saying like, hey, this is what we're gonna apply for everybody so it's a baseline standard. But the good news is that those discussions are happening and I think people are realizing that it's not a one size fits all. 10 years ago it was sort of like, hey, we've got a blueprint and everyone does this. That doesn't work. And I think that being out in the open really helps deliver these better outcomes because it isn't simple. It's always gonna be an ongoing discussion because what we decide today isn't gonna be the same thing in a week from now when we're a sprint ahead and we've made a whole bunch of changes on the platform and in our code. I think the cultural change is real and I think this is hard for security because you got so much current action happening that's really important to the business that it's hard to just kind of do a reset without having any collateral damage. So you kind of got to mitigate and manage all the current situation and then try to build a blueprint for the future and transform into the next level. And it kind of reminds me of, I'm dating myself, but back in the days you had open source was new and the common enemy was proprietary, non-innovative old guard kind of mainframe, mini computer, kind of proprietary noses, proprietary everything. Here, there is no enemy. The clouds are doing great, right? They're leaning in, open source is at all time high and not stopping, it's now standard. So open is not a rebel. It's not the rebel anymore, it's the standard. So you have the innovation happening in open source Liz and now you have large scale cloud and this kind of is a cultural shift, right? How people are buying, evaluating product and implementing solutions. And when I say new, I mean like new within the decades or a couple decades and it's not like open source has not been around, but like we're seeing new things emerge that are pretty super cool in the sense that you have projects defining standards, new things are emerging. So the CIO decision-making process on how to structure teams and how to tackle security is changing. And I think that the fact that we're using why have IT department?  I think the fact that we're using so much more open source software is a big part of this cultural shift where, there are still a huge ecosystem of vendors involved in security tools and observability tools and Mark and I both represent vendors in those spaces. But the rise of open source tools means that you can start with something pretty powerful that you can grow with as you're experimenting with the security tooling that works for you.  You can actually understand the open source elements of the tooling that you're going to use and then build on that and get the enterprise features when you need those. And I think that cultural change makes it much easier for people to work security in from the get go and really do that shift left that we've been talking about for the last few years. And I think one of the things to your point not only can you figure out what's in the open source code and then build on top of it, you can also leave it too. You can go to something better, faster. So the switching costs are a lot lower than a lock-in from a vendor where you do all the big POCs and the pilots and Mark, this is changing the game. I mean, I would just be bold enough to say, IT is going to be irrelevant in the sense of if you got DevOps and it works and you got security teams, do you really need IT? Cause the DevOps is the IT. So if everyone goes to the cloud operations, what does IT even mean? Yeah, and it's a very valid point. And I think what we're seeing is where IT is still being successful, especially in large companies is sort of the economy of scale. If you have enough of the small teams doing the same thing, it makes sense to maybe take one tool and scale it up because you've got 20 teams that are using it. So instead of having 20 teams running, you get one team to run it. On the economic side, you can negotiate one contract if it's a purchase tool. So there is still a place for it, but I think what we're seeing and in a very positive way is that smaller works better when it comes to this because really what the cloud has done and what open source continues to do is reduce the barrier to entry. So a team of 10 people can build something that it took a hundred people a decade ago. And that's wonderful. And that opens up all these new possibilities. We can work faster, but we do need to rethink it. And at Reinforce from AWS, they had a great track about how they're approaching it from people side of things with their security champions idea. And it's exactly about this, is embedding high end security talent in the teams who are building it. So that changes the central role and the central people get called in for big things like an incident response, right? Or a massive audit or reviews, but the day-to-day work is being done in context. And I think that's the real key is they've got the context to make smarter security decisions, just like the developers and the operational work is better done by the people who are actually working on the thing as opposed to somebody else because of that centralized thing, it's just communication overhead most of the time. I love chatting with you guys because there's so much experts on the field to put my positive hat on around IT. And remember the old argument of, oh, automation technology is going to kill the bank teller. There's actually more tellers now than ever before. So the ATM machine didn't kill that. So I think IT will probably reform from a human resource perspective. And I think this is kind of where the CISO conversation kind of comes full circle, Liz and Mark, because, okay, let's assume that this continues to trajectory. Open source, DevOps, cloud scale, hybrid. It's a refactoring of personnel. So you're going to have DevOps driving everything. So now the IT team becomes a team. So most CISOs we talked to, or CXOs, is how do I deploy my teams? How do I structure things, my investment in people and machines and software in a way that I get my return? At the end of the day, that's what they live for and do it securely. So this is the CISOs kind of thought process. How do you guys react to that? What's the message to CISOs? Because they have a lot of companies to look at here and in the marketplace, they got to spend some money. They got to get a return. They got to reconfigure. What's your advice, Liz, what's your take on then? Mark, go to Mark. It's a really great question. I mean, I think cloud skills, cloud engineering skills, cloud security skills have never been more highly valued and I think investing in training people to understand cloud that there are tons of really great resources out there to help ramp people up on these skills. And the CNTF, AWS, there's tons of organizations who have really great courses and exams and things that people can do to really level up their skills, which is fantastic right from a grassroots level, through to the sort of most widely deployed global enterprise. I think we're seeing a lot of people very excited to develop these skills. Mark, what's your take for the CISO, the CXO out there? They're scratching their head. They're going, okay, I need to invest. DevOps is happening. I see the open source. I'm now got to change over. Yeah, I lift and shift some stuff. Now I got to refactor my business or I'm dead. What's your advice? I think the key is longer term thinking. So I think where people fell down previously was, okay, I've got money, I can buy tools, roll them out. Every tool you roll out has not just an economic cost but a people cost. As Liz said, those people with those skills are in high demand. And so you want to make sure that you're getting the most value out of your people but your tooling. So as you're investing in your people, you will need to roll out tools but they're not the answer. The answer is the people to get the value out of the tools. So hold your tools to a higher standard, whether that's commercial open source or something from the CSP to make sure that you're getting actionable insights and value out of them that your people can actually use to move forward. And it's that balance between the two. But I love the fact that we're finally rotating back to focus more on the people because really at the end of the day that's what's going to make it all work. Yeah, the hybrid work, people process is the key. The super cloud brings up the conversation of where we're starting to see maturation into OpEx models where CapEx is a gift from the clouds but it's not the end all be all. Companies are still responsible for their own security. At the end of the day, you can't lean on AWS or Azure. They have infrastructure and software but at the end of the day, every company has to maintain their own. Certainly with hybrid and edge coming, it's here. So this whole concept of IT, CXO, CIO, CISO, CSO, I mean, this is hotter than ever in terms of like real change. What's your reaction to that? You know, I was just reading this morning that the cost of ensuring against data breaches is getting dramatically more expensive. So organizations are going to have to take steps to implement security. You can't just sort of throw money at the problem. You're going to actually have to throw people and technology at the problem and take security really seriously. There is this whole ecosystem of companies and folks who are really excited about security and here to help. So there's a lot of people interested in having that conversation to help those CSOs secure their deployments. Mark, your reaction. Yeah, I think anything that causes us to question what we're doing is always a positive thing. And I think everything you brought up really comes down to remembering that no matter what and no matter where your data is always your data. And so you have some level of responsibility that just changes depending on what system you're using. And I think that's really shifting, especially in the CSO or the CISO mindset to go back to the basics where it used to be information security and not just cybersecurity. So whether that information and that data is sitting on my desk physically in a system in our data center or in the cloud somewhere, it's looking holistically and that's why we can keep coming back to people. That's what it's all about. And when you step back there, you start to realize there's a lot more trade-offs. There's a lot more levers that you can work on to deliver the outcome you want to find that balance that works for you. Cause at the end of the day, security is just all about making sure that whatever you built in the systems you're working with do what you want them to do and only what you want them to do. Well, Liz and Mark, thank you so much for your expert perspective. You're in the trenches and we appreciate your time and contributing with theCUBE and being part of our showcase. For the last couple of minutes, let's dig into some of the things you're working on. I know network policies around Kubernetes, Liz, you know, EKS anywhere has been fabulous with Lambda and serverless just seeing some cool things go on there. Mark, you're at Lacework, a very successful company and looking at a large scale, observability, signaling and management, all kinds of cool things around, you know, native cloud services and microservices. Liz, give us an update. What's going on over there at Isovalent? Yeah. So Isovalent is the company behind the Cilium networking project. It's best known as a Kubernetes networking plugin. But we've seen huge amount of adoption of Cilium. It's really kind of skyrocketed since we became an incubating project in the CNCF. And now we're extending to using EBPF to not just do networking, but incredibly in-depth observability and security observability. We have a new sub project called Tetragon that gives you this amazing ability to see out of policy behavior. And again, because it's using EBPF, we've got the perspective of everything that's happening across the whole machine. So I'm really excited about the innovations that are happening here. Well, they're lucky to have you. You've been a great contributor to the community. We've been following your career for very, very long time. And thanks for everything that you do. Really appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you. Mark, LaceWorks, we've been following you guys. What are you up to these days? You know, see you're on Twitter, you're very prolific. You're also live tweeting all the events with us as well. What's going on over there at LaceWorks and what's going on in your world? Yeah, LaceWorks, we're still, you know, focusing on the customer, helping deliver good outcomes across a cloud when it comes to security.  And that pairs directly to the work that I'm doing, the community looking at, you know, just security as a practice. So a lot of that pulling people out of the technology, looking at the process and saying, hey, we have this tech for a reason. So that people understand what they need in place from a skill set to take advantage of the great work that folks like Liz and the community are doing because we've got these great tools. They're outputting all this great insights. You need to be able to take actions on top of that. So it's always exciting, you know, more people coming into security with a security mindset. Love it. Well, thanks so much for this great conversation. Every board should watch this video. Every CISO, CIO, CSO, great conversation. Thanks for unpacking and making something very difficult, clear to understand. Thanks for your time. Pleasure. Thank you. The AWS startup showcase season two, episode four of the ongoing series, covering the exciting startups from the AWS ecosystem. We're talking about cybersecurity, this segment, every quarter episode we do a segment around a category and we go deep, we feature some companies and talk to the best people in the industry to help you understand that. I'm John Furrier, your host. Thanks for watching.


Hey there, and welcome to JSATV. I'm Dean Perine, and we're about to have some fun. Way back in the time of dinosaurs, Fred Flintstone had a foot-powered car. Back to the future promised us a future with flying cars. And today, while we don't have flying cars just yet, we do have autonomous vehicles. And it seems we're finally creating some of the truly innovative technology that was once only dreamed about. Today, I welcome back my friend, Mr. Matthias Friedstrom. Matthias is Telia Carrier's chief evangelist. And while he didn't create or invent autonomous vehicles, Matthias has a unique perspective and insight on how important backbone networks are to the application of new technologies across multiple industries, like finance, manufacturing, gaming, cloud, among many, many others. So let's go ahead and get started. Matthias, welcome back to JSATV. It's good to see you this morning. Yeah, thank you very much, Dean. You bet. So Matthias, I'm going to jump right in with the questions. Let's help our viewers connect some dots first. Migration to the cloud, content delivery, cloud gaming, enterprise collaboration, all of those kinds of applications. What's really behind those applications and how those technologies ultimately operate? Yeah, no, I think that's a good question. And absolutely, a couple of years ago, like five more years ago, a lot of companies had their servers in their own basement and half of their companies with IT engineers running those servers. And I think a lot of those companies felt, that's not the core business of what they do. And cloud is not a new thing really, but cloud then really came and replaced this. And companies can now put more or less all their applications and their content in the cloud and therefore focus on their core business. And I think the way that the public internet now connects all these clouds makes almost everything going towards the cloud. I think the gamers and everything should be in the cloud because it's a much better way of running your operations. You don't need to think about that. Someone else will do that for you. Very good. So let's talk about how efficiency and the true kind of robustness of the network, especially when we're talking about optimizing networks for things like zero downtime and ultra low latency, things like that, it can be a real headache for IT teams, as you know. But regardless of the industry they're in, why don't you talk a little bit about how Telya's backbone network can be leveraged to solve for these extreme network demands? Yeah, no, I think that's a good question. And I think what these enterprise companies needs to start to think about is really, what type of criticality do they have to the traffic they have? Because not everything can be super critical. There are for sure some traffic that absolutely cannot go down. And for that service providers like us can provide three or four different routes into the cloud. But there are other parts of your network where you don't need this super low latency or criticality. And for that type of, there are many better solutions and cheaper solutions like the public internet to connect these ones. So I think what's important for data centers these days to think about the criticality of the traffic. Gamers, for instance, if you have low latency and bad latency in gaming, you might die. So for them, latency is very important. But for other type of traffic, it's not important. So I think everyone needs to go back. In the past, everyone bought the same for everything regardless of criticality or traffic. That needs to change. People need to think about what do I need to protect and what can work as best effort. Very good. So in some cases, I guess it truly is life and death, at least in the virtual world. So much of what we do today, depend, excuse me, depends on the cloud, IIS, I-A-A-S, easy for me to say, right? SAS applications, virtualization, deep learning, things like that. But what do cloud providers need to pay attention to when looking for network solutions that will ultimately help them meet end user demand? I think they should look at, how are they connected to the public internet and where are they connected and located? I think many of the cloud providers are building more and more data centers. And they should because there is an appetite for cloud that's never ending right now. But they all really need to start to think about their connectivity. I know some clouds are put in some locations where there is really no connectivity and a cloud without connectivity is pretty useless. So talk to their service providers. Look for where the networks are and that's where they should build their clouds. And then obviously, sustainability is becoming an issue in this world and these data centers are actually consuming enormous amounts of power. So that's something they should start to think about as well. Where to locate my cloud and make sure. I know there are tons of locations in the United States where it's ideal to have a cloud because power is green and cheap. But those places are not perfect for a connectivity. So think about both, where should it be located and how is the connectivity built to that place? Excellent, I love that answer. So I'm not a gamer myself but I do have some friends and we even have some JSAers who are big gamers. And I was told that Battlefield 2042 and other revolutionary games are coming out this fall and in the near future. Additionally, demand for high definition streaming across all kinds of devices, especially mobile devices continue to skyrocket as we all know. But how do you see the content delivery sectors, networks, their needs evolving to meet future bandwidth and latency demands? Yeah, no, that's a very interesting question. So these networks are extremely important. We've decided on our side not to build one because we wanna support the ones out there. And we felt, you know, let's make sure they're super well connected and so on. But I think the most key thing for these CDNs around the world is to figure out, you know, how do they get closer to the end users? There's something called the edge. The edge is where every network is ending. And that one is creeping out closer and closer to end users.  In the past, you could have one big data center in Europe and one in US and that could support the entire continent. Today you need to store content very, very local. And I think that's the most important thing for these guys to think about, you know, do they need to be in 15 places in every state in US instead of one place? That type of stuff, you know, the edge is gonna be very, very important and where they locate their data is gonna be critical to their success. Excellent, thank you, Matias. Final question, on your website, these words stand out. The model only works when the network is so seamless, it's invisible. So why don't you tell us a little bit about what this phrase means to you and how it informs the wide portfolio of internet, cloud networking and voice and mobile data services that you all offer? Yeah, no, you're right. In some way, we don't wanna be seen really, you know, because the network should be seamless. It should just be there, you know, people shouldn't think about who they connect and where they connect and where they are. They should just connect and it should work. And that's the way we wanna operate. We wanna be in the background. We want our customers to be able to upgrade or downgrade or change whatever they need. But we don't want them really to think about the quality and everything. In some way, we don't even wanna talk to them, you know, our dream is that it's just working.  The less discussed it is about the network performance, the better it is for us because then it's obviously works. So in some way, you know, we don't want people to say hooray when it works, but at the same time, you know, that's a good sign because then it typically works when no one talks about it. So that's kind of what we talk about not being seen. I love it. Mattias, thank you very much for being with us today. It's always a pleasure talking with you. So again, thank you for your time this morning. Yeah, thank you very much.  And by the way, if you missed my first chat with Mattias about internet connectivity, I encourage you to grab the link in this video description and tune into that one.


Legendary musician Billy Joel has had a career full of awards, hit songs and some multi-million dollar homes to retreat to on his off days. Not only has he owned a handful of homes in the Hamptons, he even sold one for nearly 20 million dollars a few years back. Currently he owns a couple of properties, his main one being a 15 acre mansion located in Oyster Bay. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Singer and songwriter Billy Joel might just be one of the most famed American artists of all time and a pop music icon who's managed to sell over 150 million records worldwide. On the way, he's earned a net worth estimated to be in the range of 225 million dollars. Enter Billy Joel. Billy's story began with his birth in the Bronx. His father was a German businessman who fled from the Nazis only to meet Billy's English mother in the late 1930s at City College. As a kid, Billy had a love for all things music and formed his first band while still only in high school. By 1972, he had become a solo artist and attracted the attention of Columbia Records. He would go on to release a number of albums over the next five years including his breakout project The Stranger in 1977 which would sell 10 million copies. After earning 23 Grammy nominations including six wins, Joel would retire from actively recording new music in 1993. Ever since then, he's enjoyed his glory days while maintaining a monthly residency at Madison Square Garden and living in a series of homes strewn throughout the great state of New York. For instance, he owned a series of different homes in the Hamptons, the most recent of which he sold for nearly 20 million dollars. These days, whenever the piano man is looking for a little R&R, he retires to something of a fixer upper that he's owned for a number of years in the Long Island town of Sag Harbor. And finally, his primary residence is a 14,000 square foot home located on prime waterfront real estate. Hey guys, it's Kara back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment and today, we're checking out where the most famous piano man, Billy Joel, called home. Don't forget to like, subscribe and hit me up on Instagram to chat. Let's get into this video. After having been raised in the Bronx, Billy Joel just couldn't shake his love for New York. Rather than move away from the hustle and bustle of the heavily populated state, Billy found himself a secluded beach house to enjoy whenever he felt the need to get away from the big city. Purchased in 2007 for just under $17 million, this stylish residence offers all the peace and quiet you'd expect from a lavish beach house, including that gentle ocean breeze and gorgeous views of the waves. The home was first built in 1994 by the late actor Roy Schneider, and I can only assume that Roy fell in love with this style of home after spending all that time shooting the Jaws franchise. He commissioned a 5,500 square foot two-story home with an exterior clad in classic Hampton shingles and an interior that includes four ensuite bedrooms, seven baths, two kitchens, four fireplaces, a separate music studio and a garage large enough to fit two cars quite comfortably. Before we move to the inside, let's check out the surrounding area, including that lush green space out back that gives way to over 145 feet of sandy beach. And don't worry, if you'd prefer to stay in the shade, there's also a gigantic upper terrace that offers the perfect spot to enjoy a drink or two while the ocean breeze blows gently through your hair. Moving on to the interior, you'll probably notice something a little odd. Unlike most other residences, the bedrooms in Billy's place are all located on the bottom floor while the other rooms are located on the second floor. Why this weird design choice? Well, it's most likely because that way the best views of the house are available through the floor-to-ceiling windows located in the main living spaces. Now let's check out a few of those rooms upstairs and start with the sprawling living room. You've not only got the beautiful views of the ocean through a series of open doors, but there's also the cathedral-style ceiling with exposed beams that's almost nearly as stunning. Plus, there's that gorgeous brick fireplace flanked by a series of built-in bookcases. Next, let's move on to those kitchens. Yes, as in plural, because this home also contains a butler's pantry, which basically operates as a second kitchen. It's probably important to note at this point when Billy first bought the place, he was married to TV chef Katie Lee, so it kind of makes sense that this home would have two rooms dedicated to cooking, kind of. Much like in the living room, the primary kitchen has cathedral ceilings and some gorgeous hardwood flooring. As for those top-of-the-line appliances, Katie no doubt took advantage of that huge wolf range, as well as the handy warming drawer and those butcher block counters for prep. When all the cooking was finished, Billy and his wife could enjoy their curated dishes in a dining room featuring an egg-shaped crystal-and-gold chandelier that hangs over the top of a kind of small table surrounded by some interesting dining room chairs. Moving downstairs, the master bedroom includes the 100% mandatory views of the ocean, not to mention its own fireplace, an eye-catching ceiling design, and a color scheme that consists of shades of sand, cream and green, accompanied by pops of orange accents. Most importantly of all, however, might be the piano room. I mean, Billy Joel is known as the piano man after all. Positioned next to yet another dramatic fireplace, Billy's grand piano makes a huge impression as soon as you step foot in the room. And of course, it offers ample seating around the instrument to allow for some impromptu concerts for whenever Billy was in the mood or entertaining guests. Simply put, Billy's Hampton's home was nothing short of spectacular. He spent almost seven years living on and off in the home before deciding to list the property in late 2013 for $22.5 million. At that price point, though, no one was biting, so he dropped the total down to $19.95 million and finally sold the home in 2014. Next, let's check out Billy's present-day vacation home. Billy first bought this property in 2002 for a reported price of $1.85 million. Now, there are actually two houses located on the same property that for a long time have been somewhat awkwardly connected by a breezeway. To be honest, details on the interior of this estate are pretty scanned, but over the past few years, Billy had applied for a number of permits to improve the overall layouts of the property. It's through these permits that we learn the home contains four bedrooms, a four baths, a piano room, and its very own elevator as well. First built in the 18th century, this home is located close to the sea, and over the years, it's been placed in an odd position, with the possibility of water levels rising by as much as 20 feet over the next three decades, thanks to global warming. Because of this, Billy has intended to raise and rotate one of the homes at considerable expense. After applying and being rejected a number of times with different ideas as to how to get this done, Billy's plan was finally approved in 2018 and construction began in 2020 to update his property accordingly. Whole sections of one of the two homes has now been pulled down to make way for renovations that will include the creation of a new two-story addition that will combine the two residences into one in a more permanent fashion. Billy also plans on raising the property by 30 feet to avoid any water damage in the future. And while it most definitely might not look like much right now, once all this hard work is through with, I have no doubt that Billy Joel's SAG Harbor getaway will be glorious. But in terms of where he's living full time, well, don't worry because he's doing all right for himself. In fact, he's living in a mega mansion located on Center Island in Oyster Bay, New York. Perhaps the most surprising thing to find out about Billy Joel's main house, a 14,000 square foot castle located on 15 acres of waterfront, which he bought in 2002 for twenty two point five million dollars is the fact that for as almost as long as he's lived here, he's been trying to sell it. But before we get into the reasons why, first, let's take a look at the home because simply put, it's stunning. Featuring 180 degrees of waterfront views, this gigantic estate boasts multiple residences, including a guest cottage with three bedrooms and two and a half baths, as well as a three bedroom, three bathroom, beach house. Now, in terms of the primary property, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was built in the golden age with how dramatic it looks. But in actual fact, the home was built in 1994. The main house features five large bedrooms, three staff rooms and the bonus homes are all meant to be used for any visiting guests. Since purchasing the property, the turn of the millennium, Billy has made a number of alterations to the home, including filling in an indoor pool and turning the space into a music room. Now this place has some killer acoustics perfect for his favorite past time. And yet, even with that ridiculously high price tag, not to mention all that extra work, Billy still decided to try and awful this place as early as 2007. At the time, he claimed their reason was because he was unhappy that natural wildlife restrictions were in place that would prevent him from building a dock big enough to hold his three boats. So Billy placed his giant estate in the market and was asking thirty seven point five million dollars, roughly fifteen million more than what he originally spent on it only five years earlier. When no one bid, he dropped that number to thirty two million and still no one wanted it. Eventually, Billy came to the realization that he simply wasn't going to be able to move off of this white whale. It was too big and too personalized to sell. And while reports suggest that he still kept his home in the market, should anyone become interested, he's also continued to make it his primary residence for the last two decades. However, only a couple of years ago, Billy's home was broken into and vandalized while he was in the Big Apple performing at Madison Square Garden. Police say that this suspects damaged Billy's garage door, home office and a dozen of his expensive motorcycles. And considering how much Billy loves his motorbikes, that last one probably stung a lot. After all, he once told Playboy, if the money disappeared as long as they didn't take my motorcycles away, I think I'd be able to cope very well. Well, thank goodness he even owns his own repair shop in Oyster Bay as well, because I'm sure fixing those bikes wasn't cheap. All right, guys, that's going to bring this Billy Joel house tour to a close. After all of those properties, did you guys find favorites? I think mine was his main residence. I mean, it's hard to compete with that one. But how do you choose? Well, be sure to let me know your thoughts on his homes in the comments down below. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll catch you all in the next video. Bye.


Russia reacts to U.S. supporting strikes on Crimea. The U.S. has again confirmed its direct involvement in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. The Russian embassy in Washington has claimed. The statement came after U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said Russian military sites in Crimea were legitimate targets for Ukraine and that her country was supporting strikes on them. Nuland has admitted that the Biden administration is fueling the ambitions of the Kiev regime to attack our country. The Russian embassy argued in a statement. The words of the high-ranking American official were clear confirmation of Russia's position that the U.S. is directly involved in the conflict. Between Moscow and Kiev it said. The statement added that Washington is not just using rhetoric but is also taking concrete actions by supplying modern weapons and advising Ukrainian military leaders and that de facto they plan operations together. Citing American and Ukrainian officials, the Washington Post reported last week that Kiev's forces would not fire a single shot from artillery systems provided by the U.S. without first confirming the coordinates of the target with the Americans. In citing Kiev criminals to attack Crimea is the same as pushing them to attack Moscow or Vladivostok. The embassy insisted adding that Russia would defend its territory in any case. Crimea voted to reunite with Russia in 2014 after a violent coup in Kiev. Ukraine still views the peninsula as part of its territory with the U.S. sharing that stance. In her interview with American think tank at the Carnegie Endowment for Industrial Peace Nuland said the U.S. believes that Kiev is owed and due all their territory within their international borders, including Crimea. Ukraine is not going to be safe unless Crimea is, at a minimum, at a minimum demilitarized. She asserted adding that the Biden administration backed Kiev's attempts to target the peninsula. Washington's support for attacks on Crimea is an undisguised manifestation of the bellicose attitude of the U.S. towards our country. The Russian embassy insisted.


4. Essential Tools for Teaching ESL Online. Do you dream of using your TEFL certification to teach online? Online teaching is booming, and it's an amazing opportunity, but working for an online teaching company also has its pitfalls, it's hard to tell which companies are legit, wage information can be scarce, and you can be treated like a number rather than a person. The internet is unfortunately full of online teachers who are stories of being treated like replaceable commodities. To make matters even more confusing, social media is crawling with recruiters and teachers posting referral links to work at their companies. It's hard to know who to trust. It's easy to say, work for yourself, but it can be daunting if you don't know where to start. This post will show you the four essential tools you'll need to get started teaching for yourself. It doesn't matter if your goal is to simply have a part-time schedule, or if you want to eventually become a full-fledged online school, these tools will get you started. 1. Lesson content and student management, off-to-class.  The lesson library contains over 800 ready-to-teach lessons so you always have something to teach. Each lesson includes teacher notes, homework, and an interactive whiteboard so everything is all in one place. When it's time to teach, both you and your students log into the synced classroom where you'll both see the slides change, and your student can complete gap fills and other interactive exercises. In addition to the classroom, you can also give students a comprehensive placement test that will match each of their grammar errors up with the lesson in the library that will correct it. You can customize your students' learning plan to teach them exactly what they want, without having to go through the work of planning each lesson yourself. 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Zoom also has built-in recording if you want to allow your students to re-watch your lessons later, and it's also easier to do group calls. Finally, one of the great benefits of Zoom is that meetings open with links. Rather than have to find someone in the app and then call them, you can simply have one classroom that you open each time with the click of a single link. It also integrates seamlessly with off-to- class, described above. 3. Scheduling, Calendly. If you want to teach for yourself, you need a way for students to book lessons with you. There are many options, but Calendly is great when you're just starting out because their free plan is very good. All you have to do is send students your booking link, and they can schedule their lessons in their own time zone according to your availability. Best of all, it integrates with your Google Calendar, so that students will never be able to book you at times you're already busy. 4. Payments, PayPal. If you want to teach online, you need a way to get paid, and in most instances, you don't need to look any further than PayPal. Although there are some countries where it doesn't work yet, it's the most universally known and trusted payment processor out there. The great thing about PayPal is its versatility. You can invoice students for any amount, or they can just send you money. My favorite feature is PayPal.Me which allows me to use a single link to request money anytime, from anyone. Conclusion, get started. I see a lot of teachers who want to get started teaching online but get stuck in the planning phase. They don't know what to do, or what they need, or they want everything to be perfect. Unfortunately, most never escape this planning phase, and eventually, give up. If you want to succeed as an online teacher, the best thing you can do is jump in with both feet. Don't worry if you don't have it all figured out just yet. Get started with the bare minimum of what you need, like the tools in this article, and see if you can get your first paying student. The first one is often the most difficult. You can always modify things as you grow, but this article will help you get the momentum you need to get started. Are you ready to teach English online?


So I built a 34-day fitness plan, which I have actually on my website, right, at pinoff.com, and you can download it there. But my idea was like, all right, I've been doing these bodybuilding shows forever, right? And I know how to get rep. You can see it on on Shark Tank, right? I used the same program. I was like, I'm going to basically incorporate pinoff into the program. So the way I have it right now, the more you eat, the better it is, believe it or not. But you're controlling portions. Like you're actually having smaller meals over the day rather than two big meals.


In just a moment, Suspense with Ray Milan. Say, Harlow Wilcox, do you know what day this is? Do I know what day this is? Does a dame know what a date is? Does a truck driver know what a spark plug is? Well, I... Why, listen, my auto-light friend, this is the day you plagued me with silly questions. When I tell you about auto-light resistor spark plugs, auto-light staple batteries, auto-light ignition systems and 400 other auto-light... I guess I got you, Harlow. That's not the answer. Why, Hades? Ladies, of course that's not the answer. Here's the answer. This is SP Day. Auto-light resistor spark plug day. And, furthermore, it's the day before T-Day. T-Day? Sure, that's tomorrow. Truckers' Day. The day all the American Trucking Association fellows get together in Washington to chin, chuckle, and chortle over their carefree careers as their trucks cross the continent with no thought of trouble or terrain. Well, how come? Well, my friend, I wouldn't say that auto-light spark plugs and stay-full batteries are wholly responsible, but, uh, well, use your own judgment. I'll take your word for it, Harlow. Now, let's switch to suspense. Suspense. Auto-light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you radio's outstanding theater of thrills. Starring tonight, Mr. Ray Milland in Anton Leader's production of Night Cry by William L. Stewart. A tale well-calculated to keep you in. Suspense. Report to the captain of the homicide bureau, Manhattan from Detective Lieutenant Mark Douglas. You know, we always say that the cat waits for the mouse to run, the dog waits for the cat to run, and the police wait for the killer to run. But if he's a smart killer, a real smart guy, he doesn't run at all but just stands and laughs or even walks quietly and easily away. He can really get away with murder. There's a lot of murder around homicide squad beside the stiffs we work on, like the knifing I got when they passed me up and made you, Lieutenant Knight, an acting captain and head of the squad.  It was Friday that you got your promotion and that evening, after you'd sent for me, I had to warm a chair outside until you were ready to see me. Remember? Captain Knight will see you now, Lieutenant. Well, that's sweet of him. Sure. Why not? Congratulations, Captain Knight. That's one of the things I wanted to talk to you about, Mark. You know, I didn't want this. I didn't do anything to get it. Sure. Of course, playing golf with a commissioner's brother-in-law had nothing to do with it. No, it didn't, Mark. The force isn't run that way. Now, look, I've worked with you for a long time and there's no reason why we can't get along fine. Sure, no reason? I'm the first to say that you're the best man on homicide, Mark. And, well, it's not my place to tell you, but I think you ought to know the reason why you didn't get the promotion instead of me. I'm listening. You know, Mark, the police department has come a long way from what it used to be. Now, take homicide. It's no longer a question of one man going out and sapping some poor devil until he gets a confession. All of us, detectives, identification, lab men, telegraph, the medical examiner's office, we're all one big team. You know, that sounds like the commissioner's number two speech for the Rotarians. But it's true, Mark, and that's why the police board didn't give you this job. In an age of cooperation, you're still a one-man force. How many killers did I bring in during the last five years? Every one you went after. I know that, and so does the police board. But a lot of them had marks on them that they didn't have before you went after them. And some of them had to be carried in. Sure, but I got them, and quick. Some of them I even had booked before that team you mentioned got around to deciding what killed the victim. I know that, but there's always a chance that the next time you'll bring in some guy who had nothing to do with it. Yes? He's on his way. It's a call. Now, you and Riley will take it. Now, look, Mark. Yeah? Riley's a good teammate for you.  And we'll talk about this later. After I bring in another killer. Where's the killer, Riley? In the 70s, near Riverside Gambling Joint. Some guy rolled a seven the wrong way? Could be. Say, Mark, I was sorry to hear about the... I forget about it, Dan. If I'd wanted a desk job, I wouldn't be a cop. I'd rather bring them in than look at them after they brought in. Come on, let's go. And for a minute, I didn't mind not getting the captaincy. There was something about being on a job, about starting out to look for a killer that beat anything in the world. The gut of the big brownstone that was the gambling joint. Riley and I walked up the front stairs through the rain. The patrolman on the door let us in. There were three guys in the foyer. One of them was a good-looking guy in a dinner jacket. With a look in his eye, that probably came from watching a lot of guys try to make a four the hard way. The second was a patrolman, still writing in his notebook. And the third was a guy on the floor, dead. He was partly on his side and there was a knife in his back. He was wearing a suit that had cost plenty before he spoiled it by bleeding all over it. The patrolman saluted as we came up. Corporal, sir, the doorman called me off the beat. The dead man's name is L. O. Morrison. Mr. Carlstrom here is the owner of the club and he says... Save it, Cork, until we ask for it. Yes, sir. What do you think, Riley? He's dead all right. Take another look at that stiff. He's got a fresh cut over one eye, which he must have gotten before he was killed. Yeah, you're right. It wouldn't be that bruised if he got it when he was killed. Well, let's find out how he got it. All right, you. Yes, Inspector? Not Inspector Lieutenant. Lieutenant Deglin. Oh, yes, I've heard of you, Lieutenant Deglin. Well, stick around and you'll get some firsthand knowledge. What kind of a joint is this? This is a private club. The members have their own keys and let themselves. Oh, a key club, huh? Is that right? Who's the dead man have a fight with? I don't like to say this, but I have a fight with Kendall Payne. I asked Mr. Payne to leave. Kendall Payne, isn't that the guy who was a war hero? Yes, that's right. War hero, huh? And he's still fighting the war. Well, having a key could come back after you throw him out. Yes, he could have come back. Was he alone? No, Miss Morgan Taylor was with him. Where's Payne Lev? Well, here's his address book, Lieutenant. Payne is in here. Thanks. Okay, Dan, you can finish up here. I think I'll look up this war hero. Mark, don't you think you ought to wait for the medical examiner and the ID boys to arrive? Why?  This murder is tailor-made, and I'm going down and try Payne on for size. There was a short street just off the Hudson River with a lot of artists and duck walloppers live. There was a dim light in the hall, and I went up the stairs. Lights spilled out from under the door that had Payne's name on it, and I knocked. All right, it's open. He was sitting on the bed. He had an army kit bag open and partly packed. There was a white bandage over his right eye, and the drawers of the bureau were open. Now, what do you want? Little talk. Your name, Payne? Yeah, but you're not anyone I know. Beat it. We'll get acquainted. This badge will introduce us. You know what you can do with that badge?  How long have you been here, hero? Maybe an hour. Now go on, get out. How'd you get to be a hero, Payne, with a knife? Look, I don't know you or your badge. Now go on, get out.  Especially tough for a boy who's just killed a man. What are you talking about? Where's the game you were with? Maybe she can tell you about the guy you had a fight with, then went back and killed. Look, you keep her out of it. Look, sonny, you were maybe tough overseas, but back here you're just another meatball. Now talk. What are you, a tough cop? Well, let's see how tough... Sure, I'm a tough cop. Three times. No more than that. He fell. His head hit the edge of the bed, then he slumped to the floor. His breathing was heavy for a minute, and then it... And it stopped. I stood looking at him, rubbing my knuckles. Then I reached down and felt his wrist. There was another trial that taxpayers wouldn't have to pay for. I got up, went to the phone, I'd seen it in the hall. Daglin here, look, I just... Oh, wait a minute, Mark. Hey, close that door, will you? Now that the case is broken, Mark, they're talking their heads off. Case is broken? Yeah, it was Carlstrom. He got panicky and started to run.  He nailed him in the shoulder and Carlstrom thought he was going to die and confess. The dead man was into the gambling house for 50 grand and wouldn't pay, so Carlstrom stuck the knife into him. Hello? You still on? Yeah, I just dropped some change. Did you find pain? I think he's cleared out. Closing the bathroom stuff's all gone. He has? I probably saw something, he didn't want to get mixed up in it. Well, we can always put out an alarm on him.  Sure, I'll get some sleep. Well, I hung on, hung up, walked back into Payne's room. I looked down at him, thought it was a lousy time to make a mistake. Well, there was only one smart way out. I had to bring candle pain back to life long enough to be seen taking a run-out powder. I needed some good, reliable witnesses. That way, I could get away with murder. For Suspense, Auto-Light is bringing you Mr. Ray Milland in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills, Suspense. 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With Auto-Light resistor spark plugs, you cut interference with radio and television reception. That's important, mighty important. And what's more important, you ought to get all your neighbors to march right down with you to buy a set of Auto-Light resistor spark plugs tomorrow morning. Do it right away, Hap, don't keep me in suspense. OK, Harlow, here is suspense. And now Auto-Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Ray Milland as Detective Lieutenant Mark Daglin in Night Cry, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. As I said before, Captain Knight, the cat waits for the mouse to run, the dog waits for the cat to run and the police wait for the killer to run. Only I wasn't gonna run. I stood there and tried to figure how to have candle pain seen running away. After that, pain would be just another guy who got scared and beat it. I'd still be Lieutenant Mark Daglin, the guy who didn't make mistakes. It took me a while in the night in the rain to do what I had to do. Quite a while. But I finally got to my own apartment. I still had pain's kit bag with his name stenciled on the side, but I could get rid of that later. I tossed it on the floor behind my desk and went to sleep. When I got the headquarters the next morning, it was late. Pain's disappearance had the DA demanding we find him. Dan Riley was already out trying to trace Pain and I could just imagine him bulldogging along from one witness to one other. And then you said... Suppose you go up to Connecticut, Mark, and talk to Pain's girl, Morgan Taylor. Just routine. Just routine? Okay, I'll take care of it. I found where Morgan Taylor lived from the Greenwich Post Office. A low, rambling white house set back from a treeline road. The girl who answered my ring had dark hair that came down around her shoulders and wide gray eyes that were sure and young and lovely. Yes? You miss Morgan Taylor? Yes, I am. I'm Lieutenant Mark Daglin of the New York Police. Oh? You know where I can find Kendall Pain?  He said something about leaving last night, but I thought he was just being dramatic. When was this? Well, I... I went down to his place with him last night after we left the gambling club. I've been seeing a lot of Ken, but I just couldn't keep on. He was always getting into fights and picking arguments, so I told him I wouldn't see him anymore. That's when he said he'd leave. And that's the last time you saw him? Yes. But there's something else. Well, yes. There wasn't time for my train yet, so I walked around in the rain. Then I remembered that I had a date to meet Ken in town tonight, and I went back to tell him I wouldn't be there. But he wasn't in his room. I had no idea he'd really left. You think you might have gone back to the gambling club? Why do you ask that? Well, after you left the club last night, a man was killed. The man, Pain, had a fight with. And you think he ran away because of that? Well, he might have. Ken was, well, pretty neurotic. You in love with him? Oh, I'm very fond of Ken. But that's all, Lieutenant. But I'd hate to think that anything happened to him. You've no idea where he is now. If you'll wait a minute, I'll go with you. I was just getting ready to leave myself. He might show up to keep that date with me tonight at Mourney's on Bleaker Street. We can wait for him there. She rode back to New York with me. And after the first few miles, we stopped talking about Kendall Pain and talked about ourselves. She was really a beautiful girl. And I kept glancing sideways at her profile. Maybe this case was going to turn out better than I thought. When we hit town, I called you Captain Knight. Remember? I was doing, not mentioning what nice work it was turning into. Then Morgan and I went on to the restaurant. Just played around, I guess. I know what you mean. Look, it's past eight, Morgan. What time was Pain supposed to meet you? Seven? It looks as though I've been stood up. He must be pretty scared to stand you up. If it were me, I'd risk even a murder after keeping the date. Thank you, Mark. Wanna take me to dinner? That's a good thing you asked me. I was just about to put my handcuffs on you so you couldn't get away. I got into headquarters early next day. I just finished calling Morgan to say good morning. I'll make a date for that night. And the desk sergeant said that you wanted to see me. I went in and Raleigh was with you. Well, we got a couple of things on pain, Mark. We wanted you in on them. Sure. Dan, I was a nice job on Karlstrom. He was certainly a scared guy. You know, one thing about killers, they always make a break for it sooner or later. Yeah, most of them do. What's doing on pain, Knight? Let Raleigh tell it. It's his story. There's nothing much except I talked to a number of people who think they saw him. I got a couple of them outside. Might as well bring them in, Raleigh. Yeah, okay. Morning, Gold. Sure. This is Captain Knight. Mr. Gold? Lieutenant Tecklin, Gold. Mr. Gold is a cab driver. He got out of bed to come down and help us. Sure, Chief. Anything to help you guys out? Okay, Gold, tell him the story you told me. Sure.  Big guy with a bandage over one eye is carrying one of those soldier kit bags, you know? Wanted to go to the station, Grand Central. Was in a bag tamper. Now, take a look at these pictures. Where did I put that other? Oh, here it is. Well, it might have been either one of these two. They look a little alike. Without the bandage, I couldn't swear which one. Okay, thanks, Gold. If we need you later, we'll call on you. Sure, sure. Anytime, Chief. Anytime at all. Pretty close. One of the two was a picture of pain. Who was the other one he thought looked like pain? An old newspaper picture of you, Mark. Me? Yeah, you didn't know I collected all your publicity, did you? It'd been funny if he just identified you. Yeah, yeah, very funny. Who was your other witness, Riley? An old lady who lives in the house across the street from Payne's place.  Miss Meacham, this is Captain Knight. How do you do, Miss Meacham? How do you do? This is Lieutenant Teglund. Mrs. Meacham, Mark. I've seen you, Lieutenant. You have? Oh, yes. Oh, well, maybe it was when I was over to Payne's the other night, huh? Oh, no, I didn't mean there. In the papers. Oh. Your picture's been in the papers a lot. Yeah, I guess it has. Mrs. Meacham, Detective Riley tells me that you saw several things the other night. Things that puzzled you. They certainly did puzzle me, Captain. You see quite a few things in the neighborhood, Mrs. Meacham? Well, some say that's all I do. Well, I say when a body gets old like me, there ain't much left but looking. Of course. Now, what did you see the other night, Mrs. Meacham? Let's see. Oh, that was night before last. Well, like I told Mr. Riley, I couldn't sleep. So I was up late and I saw Mr. Payne and his girl go in, but I didn't see her come out. You didn't see her come out? I made tea. Might have missed her. I have to have my tea, you know. But I did see her go back in later. How much later? Maybe half an hour or maybe more. But before she came back, somebody else left. Well, that must have been Payne. Well, I don't rightly know. He was wearing a bandage and was carrying his kit bag, but he didn't wave to me. Didn't wave to you? Oh, Mr. Payne always waved to me when he went out. So it was mighty funny he didn't that time. Well, maybe he just forgot. What happened after that? No, sir, he never forgot to wave. Oh, well anyway, about 20 minutes later, Mr. Payne's girl came back. She stayed just a little while and then went away. That's very interesting, Mrs. Meacham. Is that all? Of course it is. And that was a lot for a neighborhood where nothing ever happens. Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Meacham. We'll call you if we need to talk to you again. Well, I won't remember any more than I have. Well, let's go, boys. How are we going? I've been behind this desk so long, Mark. I'm getting calluses. I'm going over to Payne's room with you and Riley. The room was as I remembered it, except there wasn't anybody on the floor and the police technicians were there. Now, let's see now. The old lady says she saw the girl come in twice, but never saw her go out. Any other way out of here, Riley? Through the window. Let's take a look. You man through with this window? Yeah, all through, Captain. On plenty of prints of some guy, probably this Payne. A few prints of a small man or a woman. Let's look at this window. I stood watching. They weren't going to find anything looking out of the window. Maybe they'd see the pry marks in the wood and find the sash weights were missing. But that wouldn't mean a thing. Suddenly, Riley let go of the window and... Watch it! It almost took my fingers off. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Hey, Al, the sash cords have been cut and the sash weights are missing. So what? I see what you mean, Dan. The river's near here, isn't it? That's what I was thinking. Okay. We'll call the Harbor Patrol and see what we get. So Riley had finally bulldogged into something. The walk down to the river was short. Shorter than the last time, it seemed. The police tugged with stirring the mud of the river bottom with its grappling hook. When Payne's body finally came up, the dirty water cascaded from the blanket shroud and the sash weights dripped in mud. Well, that's that, boys. Payne didn't run away at all. Somebody killed him. I think we can wrap this one up fast. How'd you figure that, Knight? Well, it's easy, Mark. The girl had a fight with him. She's the only one seen going in the other night. Her prints are on the window. She probably killed him, dressed up in his clothes, made it look like he was leaving, then came back and dumped the body. It's the girl all right. But listen, this Taylor girl couldn't carry a big guy like that. Couldn't she? She was in the ambulance service overseas, Mark, and carried soldiers around. Civilians aren't any heavier. I'm putting out a pickup on the girl. That's the way it was. I had an out, but it was the one out I didn't want. I didn't want the chair getting Morgan Taylor, not when I wanted her. I'd have to fix it some way. I had to go home and think. Well, I hadn't been there long when Morgan stood in the doorway.  She went past me without speaking and over to a chair. When she looked at me, I knew I was right. I had to find some way to save her. I'd just heard. They want me for the murder of Kin. I know, honey. Why did you come here? Why? Why? Because where else would I go, Mark? But you're not forgetting that I am a cop too. If you want to take me in, Mark, I'll understand. I only want to take you one place, Morgan, and that's not headquarters. But I've got to take you in. Whatever you say, Mark. But I'll get you out, honey. You won't be in there long enough to remember even what it looks like. After they booked red headquarters, I went back to the apartment. I had to figure out some way to save her and myself. But first I had to get rid of that kit bag. If she'd seen it, everything would have been ruined.  Then I had an idea. There was one way out.  Then when she was freed, she could join me. She was worth running for. Only wouldn't really be running. I was walking away. Well, that's that. So long, Captain Knight. I won't be seeing you. I picked up the kit bag with Payne's name on the side, went down the steps. Hello, Mark. Riley, what? I think I got a lead on the girl, and I thought you'd want to be in on the kill. But I got her, Dan. I just turned her in. What? Where'd you find it? What's the bag? Oh, nothing, Dan. Nothing. Payne. Mark. Look, I found it. Where? In his apartment. I was there yesterday, and we were all there today. Look, what's the matter? Do you think I'm lying? I don't know, Mark. Say, what time were you at Payne's the other night? Look, Dan, I got something to do. We'll talk about this case later, huh? Wait a minute, Mark. That cab driver picked out your picture, as well as Payne's. The old lady said she'd seen you. Maybe they knew what they were talking about. Listen. You weren't surprised when we found those sash weights going, or even when you saw Payne's body dragged out of the river.  Hey, Mark. I had to run. Everything had been crowding in all day. That cab driver, the old lady, the kit bag, and now Riley. Pushing in like a bulldog with his questions. I had to run and keep running. I had to get away before he could ask another question. Mark, don't run, Mark. Don't. You shouldn't have run, Mark. You know what happens when a guy runs. 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About 9 years ago I came across The Prince, the most famous book by Nicola Machiavelli. Since I didn't know as much about the world as I do now, the book made no sense to me. One week ago, however, I decided to pick up the book again and see what I could get from it and suddenly I realized that The Prince isn't a book written for the devils. As much as it is, a book every saint must read. Think about this, everyone in the world needs a weapon because if you don't have one to protect yourself then someone will bring his own to hurt you. To protect yourself from the evil ones, you need to understand how the evil one thinks or else you'll be helpless when they attack you and that's why I love to read books like The Prince. Moreover, more than political or corporate tactics, The Prince contains so many life change and wisdom which every young person must understand and in this video I'll be sharing one of those with you. Open to page 22 of The Prince, then you'll read what Nicola Machiavelli wrote. Everything in nature whose growth is forced lacks strong roots. What does this mean? Well, every true growth, success or achievement in life takes time and whenever anyone tries to ignore that reality they either find themselves with failure or success that doesn't last. Listen to this, growth always comes slowly and most young people don't like that. True growth or success always takes time, a lot of time but most people don't want that because we don't like the idea that it might take a few years before we could become rich. For example, we are busy looking for a shortcut. Because of this, many people fall for punzy schemes, many rush to whatever someone calls gold, many fall victims to internet scammers who want you to believe that if you can give them your $29 you can drive a Ferrari next month. Everything in nature whose growth is forced lacks strong roots. What exactly is your dream? What do you want to achieve with your life? It doesn't matter what that is, if you're looking for a quick road to your destination you'll never get there or if by luck you get there your fortune wouldn't last. According to the National Endowment of Financial Education, about 70% of people who win a large tree or receive a large wing fall go bankrupt within a few years. True growth is usually slow but if you can pay the price and make the sacrifice then you can have sustainable growth. Getting rich for example takes a lot of time, sacrifices and commitment but if you can pay those prices and make those sacrifices you'll not only have financial freedom you'll have financial confidence, confidence that comes from knowing that you built your wealth and you can do it again even if something unexpected happens. Everything in nature whose growth is forced lacks strong roots. About 11 years ago someone became the president of my country. Everyone knew that he didn't become the president because he had political prowess and even his competence could be doubted by many.  So his godfather influenced everyone to make this guy a president. Unfortunately for him there was a fallout between him and his godfather and when he tried to have the second term he was voted out. If this guy had been strong enough to win an election by himself he would have probably known how to win again but because he was helped to get power his fortune got lost when he fell out of the relationship with his godfather. The lesson here is simple. Everything that would last must be built not with luck but with diligence. Stop waiting for luck. Stop looking for a shortcut. Start building a solid foundation that will make your success last. Everything in nature whose growth is forced lacks strong roots. The price and the prize. When I was around age 17 I read something in Brian Trace's book which changed my life forever. The statement goes something like if you want to achieve what you've never achieved before you have to make the sacrifice you've never made before. From that point on in my life I started seeing life as a place where I have to give before I get. I started seeing success as what I would have to wait patiently for while I do my best every day to move closer to it. Every prize has a price. As a young person you have to understand this. You must be willing to pay the price for whatever you want out of life. You must be willing to study and search for knowledge. You must be willing to say no to excessive entertainment so you can have time to pursue your goal. You must be willing to practice and make attempts. You must be willing to endure pains and failures while you focus and wait patiently for what you want to achieve. Everything in nature whose growth is forced lacks strong roots. Some years ago researchers in Illinois allegedly placed a number of young trees in a greenhouse. One group was tied to a stake. A second group was left to grow unstaked. A third group was left unstaked but manually weaved back and forth for several minutes every day. At the end of several months the three groups of trees were measured for growth in height and trunk diameter. The stake trees were the tallest and weakest. Small trunk diameter. The unstaked trees were intermediate in height and trunk diameter and many were not growing straight. The unstaked trees that were waived back and forth each day for the shortest but had the greatest trunk diameter. Thus they were the strongest. The lesson from this experiment is simple. Pains and discomfort do make your life difficult but they also make you stronger and prepare you for the future. While nobody loves pains you'll do well with your life if you accept the reality of life which is there's no gain without pain. There's no crown without a cross. There's no true success without sacrifices.  Jim Ron said don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems. Wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges. Wish for more wisdom. If you're looking for easy success you'll fail in life. Stop looking for easy or quick success. Stop preparing yourself for the rough road that leads to lasting success. Everything in nature whose growth is forced lacks strong roots.