I am James Milan, welcome to this episode of Talk of the Town, a special one I have to say because like we're doing a lot these days, unfortunately we've got to say farewell to somebody who has been a regular kind of visitor to Talk of the Town and to ACMI in general and with whom we've collaborated a ton. I am here in the community room at our beloved Robbins Library with our beloved Library Director, Andrea Nicolai. As I said at the outset, unfortunately for the last time that we get to talk to Andrea in this capacity. She is after a good long stretch at the helm here, going to be moving on and we'll talk about that a little bit later in our conversation but basically I wanted to take this opportunity to look back over the years with Andrea that she's been here and lots and lots of changes, new programs, innovative kind of responses to things that have happened. One or two things you all may be familiar with but anyway, let me first thank you as always for being here and we really do appreciate it. It's a pleasure to be here, thanks James. So tell us about you know, as you first came in to Arlington, it was as an assistant library director, I remember that well, what did you know of Arlington at that point? Yeah, so in the summer of 2012 I knew that I wanted to leave New York City for a new opportunity and I actually knew Arlington already because I have friends who grew up here. So friends from my college era who grew up here and had fond memories of Arlington from growing up. Oh yeah, so actually one of my dearest friends grew up right here in Arlington and was a big baseball star during his day. Anyway, I heard a lot of stories about Arlington before I actually ever considered moving here and working for the town. So had a very favorable impression and then when the assistant director job opportunity became available, just looking at the website at the community, talking to some folks who live in the area, I was really enticed and it was an easy decision to apply. With connections in the area, very easy decision to accept the position when it was offered and Ryan Livergood was the director at the time and he was just terrific. Such a positive force and a great mentor to me. So I was really lucky to have that experience as assistant director. So you had friends who had grown up in Arlington and of course then you did disinvestigating that you're talking about. What specifically stood out for you about Arlington compared to, I don't know, just a number of other places that had you excited about coming in? Well I think it felt familiar in a way, a much bigger town than the town where I grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey, which is a town of 12,000. Arlington is obviously a much bigger town but similar characteristics, I mean a lot of Victorian homes, colonial homes, it really seemed familiar and comfortable to me and Arlington has such rich history and that all kind of appealed to me. In addition, I think the disposition of the region, I mean there's so many schools here, Boston is such an exciting city. So it seemed like a combination of wonderful worlds to me and when I started meeting the people who live here and who work for the library and who support the library, I mean it was just, it really all came together for a fantastic experience. I know I'm getting a little bit beyond your question now. No, no, that's fine. And you know Ryan, I also remember Ryan well as just a very, he was very kind of embracing and expansive person. He really just did a good job of continuing to make this place, Robbins and of course the Fox Library as well. The community centers, really the beating hearts in some ways of this community that they continue to be and that you expanded upon I have to say. Thank you. Well yeah, Ryan was a great mentor, really fun loving guy. I will never forget in this very community room during the first Arlington Book Festival I ran as assistant director, Steve Allman had just written a book about football and Ryan dressed up in an old timey football costume for that program. And Ryan did have a lion, like he does probably still, I haven't seen him in a while, but he had a football kind of, you know, linemen's just, you know, he was much, he was very affable, he is very affable and friendly and all that stuff, he was, you know, he could wear a uniform like that. I'm sure he'd appreciate that impression, absolutely. Yeah, he was a great guy, continues to be a great guy, we're still in touch. And he's executive director of the Gurney Illinois Public Library system. So anyway, I still stay in touch with Ryan, but I had such a great time working with him and for him and in support of all kinds of exciting initiatives for the library. He was the one who, for example, started the idea of having something to support the maker community in town. At first that was conceived as a maker space which so many libraries were doing at the time, but then it morphed into our current, our library of things. And he was also the one who recognized the potential in the Beehive, the non-profit that ran the Beehives for the region, and helped get that underway and we now, we still have Beehives on the third floor balcony because of Ryan Livergood starting that program. And the popular addition they had been right from the beginning, that's for sure. Absolutely. So what, I mean, obviously when Ryan left, you assumed the directorship. So briefly, like what are, how much do the duties change? What, in what way is the, you know, moving from assistant to directing? You know, what are the things that you're taking on there that are new? Yeah, well what I had to learn as a new library director was how important it was and is to maintain and nurture relationships with people who support the library, whether they be residents in town, or support groups. At the time that I became director in 2015, the Arlington Libraries Foundation was still getting off the ground as an organization. And part of my job, an important part of my job as a young director became supporting the foundation in its growth. And that meant, you know, contributing toward, contributing written materials for the annual appeal and all kinds of support for the board itself, communication and, you know, collecting the mail, et cetera. And just making sure that I was being a good steward of the funds that were donated to the foundation for the library. So that was, and that's been one of the greatest pleasures of my role as director, seeing that group grow and change and develop into the foundation that it is today. And now it's raising well over $100,000 a year and that's tremendous. I've also seen the Friends Group, I mean the Friends Group is another group that I have close relationship with as a director and the assistant director also helps in liaising with the Friends Group and helping them with their initiatives and making sure that they have the space they need and that the book sales go off without a hitch. And they've also been just such a pleasurable group to work with and so motivated and so positive. So, yeah. I want to jump in on the, you know, you might think I would want to jump in on the Friends side because, you know, I was lucky enough to be a board member on the Friends for a little while as well. But actually I wanted to talk about just kind of highlight or acknowledge that the work that you just described that you did in helping the foundation to get off the ground and reach the point that it is now, that's such important seed work for that your successor is going to be able to enjoy the fruits of because, like you said, you need to provide a lot of stuff just for them to do their thing in terms of, again, getting things rolling to the point where they are now. Very established, as you said, pulling in good amount of money each year. Very nice. That was starting from zero, really, right? And Arlington, I will say, has a long tradition of philanthropy towards the library.  The Robbins Library was established with funds given by Maria Robbins in memory of her husband, Eli, and there is this strong tradition of not only philanthropy toward the library, but also municipal support of our hours, our materials, and all of the things that we need to help us run smoothly. I really have to acknowledge the town manager, Adam Chapter Lane, for all of his support over the years. He's helped me and the trustees add positions to the library that have greatly enhanced our services. We have also been able to add hours to the library, so through the town's support, we shifted funding for Sundays from private fund sources to the municipal budget, and that's very appropriate, wonderful for the community, an important service, and I'm really pleased to say, you know, this is getting into a little bit of the future, but I'm so happy to be able to announce that the library will be open for the first time in its history from 9 to 5 on Saturdays in July and August. So, yeah, we will be... Yeah, that's been a kind of a dead time for weekends. Well, in the past, it perhaps was, and there was this sense, I think, for a long, long time that Arlington emptied out in the summertime and that people went to the Cape or what have you, and that is, you know, our world has changed dramatically since those times, and we have a lot of, you know, we have tons of people who take advantage of our summer, Saturday hours, which had been 9 to noon on Saturdays in July and August. They were among our most popular hours of the whole year, so we knew that once we expanded those hours, they would be a hit, and I have absolutely no doubt that they're going to be really popular. We're an important place to cool off as well as there are climate changes, and the library is taking on all sorts of interesting new roles in the face of climate change. I think the cooling center is one example of that. Right. So, let's just say the library has taken on all kinds of new roles under, again, your stewardship here, because, you know, the pandemic is the big thing, of course, and we will talk about that. But in general, there has been a kind of constant and organic growth in the services that you provide, and that in response to what you can tell the community is looking for. As you just said, expanded hours on Saturday is something that if you open it, they will come, right? And you can be pretty sure about that, but that means that you're paying attention to what seems important or what are priorities for the community in terms of what the library can provide. I think you've done that in other ways. Tell us about some of the things that have, you know, that have basically come to life, you know, during your years here. Yeah, sure. So, one thing I'm really proud of that started actually is an outcome of that Arlington Book Festival I mentioned earlier. We realized that there were so many authors in town and so many authors in this region who were interested in a platform, you know, to share their creativity and meet each other. And so, the Arlington Author's Salon was a program series that developed out of the Book Festival. I was lucky enough to meet Anjali Mitarduva and Whitney Sher who are two local authors who then became primary organizers and volunteer organizers of this salon that we've been so happy to support over the years. We've received grants from the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture, another organization that deserves a major shout-out for the development and growth that they've seen and that they've made happen over the last five years and more. But, yeah, the Arlington Author's Salon was a grant-funded program through the ACAC and we've hosted over 80 authors as a result of this series. That's fantastic. And we get great turnouts. People love that series. We have a loyal following. And during COVID, of course, we had to go virtual with that series but now we're returning to the Kickstand Cafe. Sadly, I will be leaving before the July 14th Author's Salon but it's returning to Kickstand and we're so happy about that. We also have a succession plan in place for the Author's Salon so that will continue. Another initiative that I'm particularly proud of is, let's see, the historical Arlington newspapers. That name right every time because we went back and forth. Historic, historical. We landed on historical. So the historical Arlington newspapers, of course, is the digitized advocate and the other local papers that existed even before the advocate. And we did spend some time, I know you and I and Richard Duffy talking about that initiative on a previous occasion but it's one of those projects that's going to have such a long and fruitful life for the town. Just opening up the annals of history, as they say, to help connect people with this important resource of town history. So seeing that... Yeah, it's never going to not be relevant. It's never exactly. Well, exactly. Yeah, there will always be a reason for people to turn to it. And it was very palpable in talking to you and Richard on that occasion which was the first episode of Check It Out, the series that we hope to continue as well, of course, with the library. But it was very palpable, your excitement as well as his about being able to offer this to the community. You realize just what kind of a resource that is. Oh, yeah. And we have... Well, he's not so new anymore. We have a local history librarian who's really taking that on and invested in promoting it. His name's Stephen Prashay and he's been great about, you know, supporting genealogical research and local history research for anybody who's interested in Arlington and we're so happy to have him on board. The other project that I wanted to call out that happened during my tenure is the Reimagining Our Libraries project. So back in 2017, the trustees funded a building study for Robins and Fox to look at the physical spaces, what the community would like to see in the future of the physical spaces. And at that time, we developed two building plans for Robins and for Fox. Very ambitious building plans that we have since had to re-examine as a result of some seriously changed finances for the town, as you're well aware. But we're still keeping our eyes on the prize of changes to our physical spaces that make sense for the community, that help the library serve better. Among those changes is a shift and an increased amount of space for teens in the library. We've seen with the population growth, the enrollment growth in town, our teen space is just not big enough for all the teens who want to be there. So the idea is to shift that teen space from where it is now on the mass outside of the building on the first floor into the fiction room and shift the fiction collection over to where the teen space is. So we're going to swap, but we're also hoping to unite the hardcover and paperback collections of fiction, which have always been separate. Yeah, that's one of the few things I have to say that just have never made sense to me about this place. Maybe the only thing, I'm not sure. So yeah, increasing the teen space would be wonderful, and that's something that I hope that the residents of the town will support in future years with the value of it. And in addition to that, increasing our meeting room spaces, so we want to add a couple of smaller meeting rooms on the third floor. We want to renovate the bathrooms on the first floor, which are not in great shape as anyone who has used them knows. They are very well used and not in very good shape, right? Yes, both of those things are true. In order to really be up to code, I mean, right now, we don't have grandfathered in, but in order to really serve people who traffic this building, we need bathrooms on the upper floors. So I know it's not a super sensational, you know... It's not sexy. It's not too sexy, but it's very important to have, to provide convenience to people who want to use the library and having those facilities on upper floors makes a lot of sense. And lastly, I would just mention that one of the other dreams of the Robbins Library renovations was actually connecting this very community room to the exterior with an ADA ramp, connecting it with the garden by extending the children's patio all the way to the end of the building. So these are all dreams with a price tag, but I think that those improvements would really be a game changer for the community and the library space in all kinds of creative and exciting ways, and improving accessibility, which is always going to be a priority for us.  We always talk about that kind of thing or think about that kind of thing as you move as you transition from one thing to another. And clearly, you've just outlined several areas in which the laborers continue to just kind of bear, you know, come to fruition in a lot of ways, which I hope you will, you know, be looking at from Albany and going, yeah, cool. No question. I mean, the next director is going to have their own vision and their own ideas and their own way of tapping into community feelings about the library, tapping into the community sense of what the library should be and could be for the town. So we have to allow for that. At the same time, I think, you know, it's going to be very exciting to keep tracking the Robin's Library. I mean, I'm going to keep my e-newsletter subscription. And I will also continue to keep in touch with so many people who work here and who also just are in town. So, you know, I'll have all kinds of ways of tracking that's great because I think you're invested in it clearly, obviously, but also I think you want to see, you know, what happens from the seeds that you've sown. So I think that you should and I hope you'll feel really, really good about it. Oh, absolutely. Library is a special place. There is no secret that time is flying here as we talk. But let me ask you just to briefly talk about, like, the pandemic and how the library pivoted in so many ways to continue to provide the best kind of service to a community that absolutely has the library at its center. Yeah, so one of the toughest things about shutting down the library at the beginning of the pandemic was cutting off access to all of our physical collections. So, you know, while we immediately invested and promoted our digital resources, our prodigious and people took advantage of those digital resources and we were able to offer sing-alongs and story times online through various platforms and that was all well received but there came a time when, you know, it became clear we needed to find a way to get materials back into the hands of patrons. They are asking for it. We want to do it. We have to find a way. And so through the support of the Minuteman Library network, which I can't overstate the value of their support to all of their member libraries during COVID. But we developed contactless pickup. There was an app that people could use to arrange a time to pick up reserve materials. That was kind of the first baby step toward getting physical materials back into the hands of patrons. Then we were able to open up our lobby a little bit for drop-in pickup which was also the way that we started bringing grab bags to the community and grab bags were these custom collections of materials that we would check out to patrons who wanted, you know, books for their toddler on trains or what have you. There was an online forum where people could easily request that material. Those were incredibly popular so drop-in pickup became a really important service for that delivery and for just regular hold materials. And then eventually as public health conditions improved, we were able to open up appointment browsing which were, you know, 15-minute increments that you could book. And I did. And I did. Oh my gosh. And I mean there were all kinds of suggestions that came from the community about ways that we could, you know, improve upon these practices and it was so wonderful to hear from people. At the same time, so many libraries ourselves included were limited by the physical structure of the building. And there were libraries, for example, that had a door that you could enter through and a door you could easily exit through. With this building configuration we didn't have the setup that would really easily permit that. And so a lot of our systems were developed within the confines of this building. But the greeter, I mean the drop-in, the appointment browsing the drop-in pickup, all of that went really well as well as it could possibly have gone. And we were just so happy on the day when we could do away with appointment browsing and open up the floors again. In fact, there's a great picture, a jump shot that I did in front of the library steps that the assistant director captured that celebrated that moment. I think it was like June 21st of 2021 or something. Anyway it was such a joy to like reopen the libraries for people when we were able to. And I'm happy to say that in our what we're calling our rebound year of this fiscal year we're seeing record circulation like of all time. And it's so exciting.  Yeah, we've continued that service. So people are still requesting grab bags, we're still providing them. But yeah, our circulation definitely took a hit in 2020-2021 but I think with the rediscovery a lot of people rediscovered library services or discovered different library services that they didn't know about. One of the most popular digital resources that we offer is the magazines available through Overdrive and a lot of people don't know that you can get full access, total like complete content including all the ads and all of the articles and pictures for all of these magazines that carry very pricey subscriptions outside of, you know, the library. So it's really exciting to see that kind of discovery going on and to be able to, you know, enhance it.  But so, you know, that being said the way in which you continue to just listen to the community, respond and then provide the opportunity for people to make the very most of their local library here. It's been impressive. And boy are we grateful. So I really, really appreciate it. We have seconds left but let me ask you you're leaving, obviously. I'm sure you loved your job here. I'm sure it was fulfilling in any number of ways as you've already described. So what's drawing you away? Well, in short, my family. My sister, her family, my parents, they all relocated to Albany, New York within the last five years which no one expected necessarily but that is the situation and I have an adorable three year old nephew I have another nephew on the way and I really look forward to being part of their lives and so when I learned of the executive director position at Albany Public Library back in the spring and it seemed like pretty much a no-brainer that I should throw my hat in. I had no idea what my prospects would be like but I liked the look of the library. I liked what I was seeing online started following them on social media. I had been receiving their newsletter ever since I was just removed there in 2017 so I was an admirer of the Albany Public Library and when the position came available I was just like, okay I've got to see about this and pleasantly surprised when I got that offer and I I'm looking forward to the new challenge but I am really going to Miss Arlington it has been a wonderful place to work if not for this opportunity and my family situation I would not be going anywhere 20 years I don't know who knows but I'm really going to Miss Arlington I got to say you're no politician because I believe you when you say that it's all about spending more time with your family and I sure as hell wouldn't if it was somebody who I was skeptical about but that's a super compelling reason and I'm glad there is one for taking you away from us because it has been as I said a really successful you know 8 to 10 years of your tenure here 7 to 10 years depending on whether you're talking about assistant or director but it's been really good for us well thank you for saying that I also need to say that it was great when I arrived here a lot of the job of a good library director is keeping the good things going and developing new things well the next library director go ahead and follow and subscribe to that save idea and I imagine they will anyway Andrea thank you I get the privilege of being a voice in the community that represents some other people as well I hope in saying really great work good luck we'll miss you for sure but we obviously wish you the best thank you James it's been a pleasure and with that we will wrap up this episode of talk of the town I have been speaking to Andrea Nicolai the director of our libraries for a short while more and we're going to savor it with our appreciation for Andrea and for to you as well for being here I'm James Milan this is talk of the town and we will see you next time


Hello and welcome to another video, this is part 2 of the van build and today we are fitting the furniture, hopefully we're going to get the storage in and some drawers today. I'm just cutting in behind this plastic bit to fill the door full of insulation. We're going to build a frame, put in the furniture, it's all custom built, put in the furniture, hopefully get some sliding drawers, I've just got some 550mm drawer runners so that the drawers can pull out that way but I'll show you that as we get to it. Stay tuned. Use talk us through what we're doing with this. We've got 12 mill plyers which we're making the drawers out of, 270mm deep so plenty of storage, 600 by 650mm. These are for the back of the van? These are for the back of the van, two good big drawers that you can use to cook on as well. So the extra strength is just to put a rivet joint into each side, don't need anything plastic for this. Then you can glue and nail it and it will be as strong as you'll ever need it. And have you got one that you made earlier, Blue Peter? So there's one already riveted out. So you can see there, he's just taking that off with the saw. And put them together to get a good strong joint. And we love a good strong joint. 12mm plyer we're using for the furniture. Still to be glues and pinned but that is a good job that mate. Right this bulkhead has got a chamfered edge on it that goes all the way along and the bolts are located along the curve so it's really difficult to find where they are. So we've knocked up this little template that when you put in is flush and we know now that all our timber batten has to be at that angle. It's a chew, said timber batten. We've got to get that to that angle sir. What a work to do just for one bit. It's a Bill's wonderful machines. Got a lovely chamfer on that and that should. The moment of truth. Like a glove. Now the next noodle scratcher is getting it attached to it and finding out the existing bolt holes. We're in. The side is wrong. I can't be on the wrong side. The side is on the wrong side. I like that. Smooth criminal. So these will come out. Maybe go up at the top of there so you can work on it. We've just seen maybe like a lid on this bit here and then two finger holes. That comes off and goes across there. Put some light beading on there. Yeah that's doable. We're going to get that fixed down and that's today's work. Sorted. I think that's it for today then. So yeah well imagine this is screwed down and that's it for today. We've almost lost another role of insulation in here because once you start jamming it up with digits you can lose a lot. We've created a vapor barrier. We've been working on the timber for the bulkhead there which is at Nick's foot. That's taken a lot longer than we thought and Bill's knocked this up. So it's time and work. It's time and work. Right we're back. Today we're going to try and get the rest of the timber work done. It's a big ask but with Bill on board there's a good chance we'll do it. These are the drawers that have already gone in and we're going to start coming down here. There's going to be storage in there so access here and at the top. There's going to be a drawer here that will pull out this way. This is where I'm going to put my fridge. We're going to make something that comes just below this window. The fridge here, a drawer on top of the fridge and then I want to make three drawers where I am here. Just for extra storage. Storage is key in this. I just basically want somewhere where I can store stuff and sleep. I'm not too fussed about having a cooker in here because it's such a small van. I don't really want to be doing much cooking. And I've got all my camping stoves and stuff that I can pull out the drawers at the back. We'll put a table over that and I can do my cooking out there if needs be. And then there'll be cushions that go across here and down both sides. And the backrests will then go into the middle here to create the bed. So we need to come up with a thing that comes out here maybe like on a hinge. And that'll support the bed. We're going to have a table in the middle. The top of the table will come off and we can put that down here to fill this space. And then we can put the cushions over that. As you can see it comes out a little bit. Which still gives ample room to get in and out with all my clobber. So this is the first bit of the finish that we're putting in. It's like a walnut MGF composite. So it's just the job matches in with the floor. So it's very look. First bit. Look at that. Coming out now. That looks well, doesn't it? It's going to look smart. Job is a good one. Job is a good one. Nice. And it's going to have the same on the sides here. Come all the way around. Around the front on here. Obviously there's a drawing here. So that's all going to match. It's all going to be the same finish. So you can put what angles on there you want. I'm going to trim this off on the bottom here. So you're not going to lift the liner every time you're running it out. Bit of an oak trim on there. And then some to come out here to put the bed on. That's right. We're going to have some contraption.  We'll make that up as we go. We're back. It's freezing cold. Let me show you where we're at so far. We've got this here which looks like it's not straight but it's because the window tapers off this way. Everything is straight. We've got a space under here. That's where the fridge is going to go. And on top we have the drawers. And then this is all just storage on this side. And drawers are varying sizes. So plenty of space in there. And that's all attached to this frame which is then attached to the floor. But that's that so far. Today we're going to start making a top for this. We're going to... Well Bill's going to play down some oak. And then we're going to clad everything else in the same as this dark wood here. Right, the plan is now to put some 12mm ply over this. There's a lot of space down here so I want access to that because I can fit my winter sleeping bag in there so I can get one, two winter sleeping bags. So there'll have to be a hinge on here so we can access that. And then I had the idea of cladding this and then having one door opens this way and then this will open and that'll open but all the way and we'll have some on here so that it rests so I can use that as a work surface, a cooking surface and then marry it up on here as well so you've got two. And that'll open as well. And so one, two bits will open out this way and create a little cooking area outside. That's the plan. Just a bit of Adam Sandler in. Just barely taking all these little wooden burrs off here so that it's not all shabby when it's used as a lid. We've got all this in which looks a bit higgledy-piggledy. Needs a bit of jigging around but the idea is that now these will lift out this way and give access to these side bits and then these will lift up on hinges all the way over and be supported by the drawer and that'll sit like that so you've got a work surface there. You've got one there as well. You can have them both out at once. See, have your T-place grabble do what you want. And now we've just got to figure out getting it all screwed in. So this project you will need back to sticky tape. Don't forget to get permission from an adult before you use knives and don't run with scissors. Right, we've got a piano hinge which we're going to put on the cupboard slash seat, slash bed at the back so that we can have the drawer coming all the way back and so we're going to cut that down file it off so it's not annihilating the fingers and then we're going to offer it in and just see if it works. Right, so we've put these hinges piano hinges on outside but we're maybe going to struggle to get the face on so we're going to put them on the inside rebate them and see how that looks a bit more work but got to do it job proper. I'm just going to chisel this out, rebate it so it sits flush. I only want to rebate it by there so that's like about two mil. Not just a pretty first. So this is two ways to do it. The way I was doing it, which is taking a long time just with chisels and then Bill's just come over and says this is the way you want to do it. This is how you should do it, router set up. Right, so you set your blade to the top of the surface you want to trim out so that's set zero to that plate and you can set the thickness of what you want to take out there. That's it, set. Just ready for doing. There's me gnawing at this like Woody Woodpecker trying to get through all these knots and that set up ready to go in no time. That should go if you've got all tools you can make this job a lot easier for yourself. Without having the right tool. Exactly, exactly. After a lot of mucking about we found that this is the best way to do it so we've put some adhesive behind this and screwed it down as well The only screws we had come all the way through so I'm going to file these off and then that should be done. The idea is get your hiking pole it's a bit cut out there the hiking pole just fits in there's your table. Bill has knocked this up out of three bits of oak that he's planed. I'll interject this with footage of him doing that.  Regarde with firing background Look at the grain on it Will you just talk us through what you've done to end here? What we've done is we've put a miter on and we've put a return on the edge to make it look as though it's twice as deep as what it is and it gives it a real meaty feel. Yeah, like when I'm old kitchen butchers block sort of things but if it was that thick it would be too heavy, wouldn't it? Yeah. But it's only that thick. We have a little bit of a problem not a problem but we're going to have to re-jig a few things because I don't know if I have mentioned but none of us have ever built a van before this is my first time ever doing it and so a lot of it we're just making up on as we go and sometimes you trippy sell up or you know, hindsight is a wonderful thing so let me show you so this comes out here and this was going to be part of the bed and originally we said we were going to have some sort of flip-up thing here to help support the bed but the drawer comes out here and it's going to be a bit of a chew so to save on that we're going to extend this which will mean then the bed can just be there and we can work out this bit as we go but right now we're just going to take this apart and extend this it'll mean a little walkway to get in but that's fine because once that's extended we can create something that pulls out here and has two legs on it and then the table that we're going to build will double up as part of the bed support as well and that will cover all this middle bit in it's important to get this right so then I can think about the cushions and what size they're going to be so let's crack on and extend this right, so this is our extension it was up to here and we've built this it's not all all together yet it's just like a jenga but we're going to glue it and get it all solid there we go so that's extended it by this much gives more room for bed and then we're going to figure out the drawers inside here maybe coming out this way or coming out outside like that right, I'm going to start attaching these which will be permanent these don't lift up so I'm going to attach these now just countersink and then bang some screws in it I've done a hole on this side this is my hiking pole table leg where's my... I'm just going to do one in exactly the same place just using big rig to create like a hole which guides the hiking pole into it and can also take a bit of wood if I leave a bit in here when I don't have my hiking poles but I'll always have my hiking poles in here so that should be alright let's see if it takes it in find your level I get it, not everyone's going to have hiking poles so if people are sort of copying or looking for inspiration not everyone will have hiking poles but this fan is tailored for me and I always have hiking poles in my truck so they're always going to be there and that gives a proper sturdy table cast iron waffle maker can hold that can hold anything if you can hold that it's a good table out and then you can still access everything in your drawer from up here you can pull it out still access it there's different variations you can use it's just a good use of this it would have just been a part of the bed and not being used so quite pleased with this little setup because look I can sit up back over here with my bro views with haze outdoors truck technique glow torch 101 you can stick your flint and steel yeah another piano hinge for another door top so that's all I've been doing really is cutting out the tops the 12mm ply and attaching these so I've got access from the top there's an open bit where my jackery is going to go until I get a leisure battery and it didn't fit in there so I'm going to have to put another hinge on that so that's what I'm doing now hang on hide back for I'm going to be able to get it I'm going to be able to get it straight straight down so here we are this is where we're at some oak on here to stop this catching the drawers with the antlers they're all in the oak work top that Bill's done is in my jackery battery is going to go in there but it doesn't fit so I've had to put a hinge on there so we can get into that bit to drop it in from the top and I'll have access to my plugs and stuff through there still to clad this bit and figure out how we're going to extend this and turn it into a bed and maybe utilise the tables part of the bed as well at the back we've got the tables with the hiking poles and these open up both of them one on each side the drawers that come out as well hinge these either side and that's where we're at yeah and that's not going to fall in it's only like 5 inches right so that's it for part 2 of the adventure the budget adventure van build stay tuned for part 3 if you're not subscribed already consider subscribing you just need to hit that little button down there if you click the bell you'll be notified when part 3 is out because I'm trying to hit a million subscribers by tomorrow so if you could all if you just do me the honour of like subscribing if you're new here or if you're a regular watcher and you haven't subscribed just consider clicking that subscribe button and we'll see if we can get that big milli for tomorrow thanks for watching take care of yourselves I'll see you soon bye for now


During the early dynastic Egyptian uprising of civilization, the life of the people in that area centered on the Nile River. Early archaeological discoveries shows that there were in existence a great knowledge of working and cultivating a broad range of crops around 4000 BC. The knowledge that once was the foundation of a great civilization it seemed, tripped through to the survivors, their stories, their beliefs. These were the foundations for early life in the reemergence of civilization and what we now refer to as ancient history. Plentiful resources were available for the development of the early urban societies in the Nile River Valley. Mineral Rich Clay offered excellent development processes of the soil with less fertilization required and irrigation. Also in the surrounding desert regions there are caches of limestone, granite, and precious metals. At this time there had been tensions in the society with closely encroaching urban groups, yet in spite of the power vacuum in Egypt there was a slow move towards unification under the king Narmur. This unification was important as it set the stage for the monarchal dynastic system of governance that Egyptian dynastic pharaohs would use. Egypt's early dynasties are widely considered to be one of the world's first stable monarchy empires, in contrast to the battling city-states of Mesopotamia for this same period of civilized reemergence after cataclysmic events besieged humankind to the brink. Yet we survived and the survivors must have remembered certain aspects of a before time in history when these biblical events unfolded, therefore the movement of a people as a whole is the incorporation of a need and want for stability in the masses. Stability in the lineage of the dynasties was achieved through the means of leveraging the religious cults of Egypt. The kings of Egypt were claimed to have been the descendants of Ra, the sun god. As the queens would be impregnated by Ra during the pregnancy of the first male heir, the divinity ascribed to the succeeded heirs helped to impress considerable control over the people. Along with Ra being considered an important deity to the ruling class, a tradition of revering Horos was also passed on. At first he was merely a protector of the royals, but with the arrival of the dynasties in the 3rd century BC he was integrated as a family member of Ra who was especially meant to protect the kings against the god Seth. Though there was a great amount of stability in the early dynasties, butchrist by divine claims, more pragmatic reasons brought down the old kingdom. The effective leadership, which could not be improved no matter how many claims of divinity are made, were to blame for the fragmentation of Egypt's kingdom after the death of Pharaoh in 2175 BC. With the breakdown of central authority, smaller states governed Egypt for a period before another powerful group took over, the middle kingdom. The emergence of the middle kingdom under the leadership of Mentenhotep, the second of the 11th dynasty, led to a time that is considered one of the most prosperous in Egyptian history with advances in administration and fine art crafts like jewelry were some of the notable achievements of this new dynastic age. During the second intermediate period outside rulers, the Hixos reigned over a number of principalities. This was different than the early intermediate periods when internal splinter groups ruled Egypt. Some of the most notable leaders in ancient Egypt history emerged out of the new kingdom, which arrived in 1550 after reign of the Hixos. Hachepsu was a greatly influential leader and unique in that she was one of the few female leaders in Egypt during her reign as code regent in the event of her husband's death in 1479 BC to rule alongside her stepson, Thotmos III. She had styled herself with a king-like title of the She-Horos of Fine Gold and had many temple reliefs made of herself. One of her notable achievements that was afforded by the prosperity brought about during her reign allowed her to begin the building of the temples in the valley of the kings where many later kings would be buried. These are the tombs of the pharaohs, not the pyramids of Giza. The size of these galleries and these tunnels and passageways in the limestone bedrock and you can see the surfaces are covered with hieroglyphs and the surfaces are incredibly flat. Another thing is there are depressions in the walls and rooms off to the sides and they're almost always, if not always bilaterally symmetrical. So here you see a niche on one side and a niche on the other side in exactly the same position. Unfortunately I know nothing about hieroglyphs themselves and my fascination is not so much with the dynastic people, though I very much respect their brilliant history. It's these strange out-of-place objects and just the galleries themselves. Now here is a massive granite box with crude hieroglyphics carved on the surfaces in comparison to the box itself and how was that box created? The granite for the box almost undoubtedly came from Aswan which is to the south and I would estimate that that box by itself weighs approximately 60 tons. Also there is catastrophic damage to each of the boxes that we looked at. Is this the result simply of tomb robbers or something more catastrophic that happened in pre-dynastic times? The evidence of which we see in places like Karnak and Tannis and the Ramaceum and other locations. So once again it's the sheer sense of scale of these massive tunnel systems that go into the bedrock in the Valley of the Kings and of course all of the Valley of the Queens as well. And we've recently learned that the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens are connected by a series of tunnels. Another impressive leader in the New Kingdom was Amenhotep III who introduced many religious innovations into the New Kingdom with the implementation of a radical variant of the new solar theology in which a focus on worship of the sun and a rejection of previous religious ideas and beliefs which were previously practiced in Egypt and this led to one of the greatest achievements of Amenhotep's reign. The worship of the sun was already being practiced in Egyptian culture but this adjustment then moved to the god which infused all belief, Amun Ra, a combination of the traditional sun god Ra with the god Amun and at this point the belief in the one almighty god had taken root. The son of Amenhotep III, Amenhotep IV or better known as Akhenaten, one of the most controversial kings of all time and he continued these religious reforms and centered the sun worship now on the physical sun Aten. Akhenaten installed himself as the primary intermediary with Aten and sought to attack all other deities which led to the closing of many temples throughout all of Egypt but this backfired because with these temple closures faith dwindled and much land flowed from the king and cultural landmarks like feast days were lost. The slow degeneration of the new kingdom came during the 11th century BC making a decline that Egypt would not fully recover from. Well you know it is a long story to condense but it has been the subject of my life. I had an interest in Egypt when I was eight years old having a connection to the Sphinx and Great Pyramid but it wasn't then that I decided that the study of Egypt or Egyptology would be my life but the real turning point for me was in 1968. I had gone into the US Air Force for four years during the Vietnam conflict and decided I wanted to read things that I did not have time for in college and I'd always been a fan of Sigmund Freud. The last thing Sigmund Freud wrote was a series of articles for the psychoanalytic journal Imago in Vienna Austria. 1934 he wrote an article postulating was Moses an Egyptian priest was Moses an Egyptian. The reason why the leaders in Egyptology in that time were the Germans. So in 1846 Richard Lipsy as German Egyptologist had discovered what we today call a Marna. A city that this particular king established away from other cities. It led to the discovery of this particular individual who had been lost to history up until that point even to Egyptology because his records had been erased. He took a title Achanaten. It's a long understanding to really develop what the title means. Aach means the shadow of the shade. Aachen is a phase the fourth phase of the stage of the sun. Aachen the wiser shade or shadow of the wiser.  We're talking about 1350 BCE. He decided to break with the established religion at that time which was called the religion of Amen which is the last phase of the sun. You know we could go to great detail about the phase of the sun perhaps another time. But he wanted to return to the previous cycle Aachen, it in the full flowering of consciousness where there were no priests, there were no religion, it was only pure spirituality. So he broke with that tradition and changed his title for Amenhotep which he was born with. Amen is pleased, Amen is completed. The fulfillment of Amen to Aachenaten. He left the city of Thebes which was now Luxor and built a whole city which is called Aachenaten. We call it today Amarna and lived there with several, you know, his followers. It's a long story. But then to the point where I broke the book from light into darkness. Freud had written other articles. If Moses was an Egyptian he was a priest of this particular king. Because it seemed like this particular king wore what we call in Judaism mosaic Judaism. The teachings that were given to Moses supposedly from Egypt. And Freud believed it came directly from this king. I believe Freud was right. This to my opinion is the greatest thing Freud gave to humanity. Not a theory of psychoanalysis, not a series of dreams. But of the story of this particular king. Militarization of the state led to loss of resources and loss of trade routes meant a blow to prosperity in Egypt. While many kings tried to channel the successes of the last successful king in the new kingdom, Ramses, none of them were able to meet his same level of his success. As the kings wanted to show their prominence, there was an emphasis on building increasingly impressive tombs to use during their time in the afterlife. King Tutankhamun's tomb, one of the few to be left fully intact upon discovery, was an example of the goods put aside for a Pharaoh in this afterlife journey. With his tomb having a storeroom for oils and foodstuffs. An inherited ideology from a cosmic journey that would have been undertaken by the gods and repeated by human beings like a capsule. A spacecraft some might say or better yet an escape pod. The need for physical possessions for such a journey would strike a chord with the thought on what the root of the idea may be. But anyway, these notable tombs, like the Valley of the Kings, continue as memorials to the culture around death in dynastic Egypt, regarding past events at this time. Along with the magnitude of the tombs themselves, the scale of mummified remains, the elaborate religious symbolism that was behind many of the items found in the tombs, and an example is multiple types of wine included in Tutankhamun's tomb, which according to the experts on the matter, represented both the life cycle of sunrise and sunset, which pointed towards both raw and Osiris. With this journey of the sun through the sky, it would symbolize in Egyptian history as the king's journey into the afterlife. As with every other tomb of a notable there were also provisions for the afterlife, and though not all individuals were able to prepare so lavishly for their burials, it did emphasize the importance of death rituals in dynastic Egypt. The preparation it seemed on earth for a greater journey to the stars, the survivors as we now are a population, still felt this abandonment, the preparation is what they remembered for the departure that never came, in the trauma of the mind of the cataclysmic soul of the human being. We tried to forget for the purposes of the future of our people, but we forgot more than we know and now we are straining to remember. The use of writing was also an important cultural development throughout much of Egypt at this time. Scribes especially in the Middle Kingdom held a high status above other trades and were utilized to help make administration of the kingdom more efficient. The use of both hieroglyphics and hierotech script, a simplified version of hieroglyphics, was common. Written texts were most commonly found to be day to day, while hieroglyphics normally showed more elaborate carvings. The frequency with which writing and literacy appeared in this age in Egypt allowed for a miniature classical age in which a love of learning for its own sake was available, with the growth in volumes of literary text. Eventually the pharaohs of particular periods would have their appearances carved onto temple walls, telling tales of the conquest or integrate stele like the dream stele where Thotmos's dreams of his encounter with the phinx who orders him to rebuild the great monument and he does so in the likeness of pharaoh, again providing an insight into the links and magnitude of the spread of a dominant culture and the understanding that the king is gods represented here on earth, something today's monarchs still hold in the highest regard imaginable. It is important to understand this culture and role in history that both they seem to have played and what we have been told they may have played. Sure the dynastic period of Egypt is an outstanding minefield of past events that we are only now really beginning to re-understand after centuries of volleyed efforts of explanation. These people of trust must have known of certain lies because the truth in many cases does not have any manifestation of the underlying lie that upon society it was foretold and upheld as a truth. And the fact that you could film and take photographs inside the Valley of the Kings in these massive chamber systems, which is excellent because what's the point in even visiting these if you're not allowed to take photos and video? And how far does this tunnel system go is my question. We weren't given access to the entire system but some of these are much more extensive than even what I have been able to film here is what you're looking at. There you see some soot on the ceiling probably from dynastic or later times from people living inside or maybe tomb robbers being in there. Beautiful bright colors these most of these colors are the original from dynastic times they haven't been retouched but they're still brilliant. And here we are slowly walking out of one of these massive tombs incredibly impressive. And this is quite possibly one of the most amazing of the ancient tomb systems which is accessible with the standard fee that you pay when you go into the Valley of the Kings. This is Marin Patas tomb and it is hundreds of feet long carved into the bedrock of limestone. And again look on the left and right side you see those depressions which are bilaterally symmetrical whether they were actually functional for what I don't know. But it's the sense of scale which completely blows me away about exploring we just keep descending and descending and descending into Marin Patas tomb and further down. And then we have rooms off to the left and right hand side it's a very complex tomb structure and down and down we go hundreds of feet. Again how these possibly could have been made by dynastic people with adzes and chisels and picks and shovels I just I don't believe it I think this is a much older inheritance. And there you see a massive branded box lid and going past there we go even further down to where there are the remains of a giant box again having catastrophic damage to it. Most people would think the damage was done by tomb robbers but we also see strange discoloration see the darker tones in on the surface of the stone there and this box is very strange so-called sarcophagus because as we go around to the side you can see that there's a doorway into it whether that was original or created later I don't know and on the interior surface again these strange burn like discolorations and then this magnificent sarcophagus made of granite it's slightly rough in terms of texture it could be that it was never completed but it doesn't have the high polish of many of the other giant granite statues which are located in Egypt it's a beautiful beautiful functional sculpture and once again the strange discoloration that you see it's much more extensive on some of the other boxes located in other tombs. The learning of this period has confused an even older civilization with this very dynastic civilization who fled to the Nile region during times of survival began to uncover the wealth of the past emerging to a state of dynasty through the recovery of past events which they tried to incorporate into this belief system that spread into every aspect of Egyptian life during the dynastic period and we thought this may interest the subscribers of the Lost History channel so we thought we would bring it to your attention but what do you guys think about this anyway? Comments below and as always thank you for watching.


Live here at .conf Splunk's user conference, we're at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. I'm here with my co-host, Jeff Frick, I'm Jeff Kelly from wikibon.org and we're really happy right now to welcome CEO of Splunk, CEO and Chairman, Godfrey Sullivan. Thank you, glad to be here. Well thanks for joining us, really appreciate it. So geez, what an event, 1,000 plus people, you guys are doing quite well, you had a great quarter just ended after a successful IPO in April.  Well the thing that always makes us the happiest is when we have a lot of customers around us. So having 1,000 customers here in Las Vegas has everybody in the Splunk world just thrilled. So we've added 400 new customers in our most recently completed quarter, so 4,500 customers is just, that makes us really happy. Yeah, that's great. And also the fact that you've got repeat customers, because as an old time salesman you know it's always easier to get the repeat order than the first order. So the fact that you're landing in at a low friction point or a relatively easy high value solution and then seeing your customers, I read in the analyst call, continue to expand the use of the platform. Because it's something they couldn't do before or they just see the bright light pops on that wow we can do this and we can do that, that's got to make you really happy. Well Splunk's a really unique product in my experience. Where else can you download something off the web, use it for a while, installation is a few minutes and going live in a small instance is maybe a day and then grow with that experience over time. And so a lot of our customers who convert from a free license to some sort of paid license typically only spend $10, $15,000 or something like that. But you heard in our quarterly earnings report that 70% of our revenues came from our existing customer base. So it's pretty amazing that a product can be that easy to download, that quick to install and get running and yet scale to the kind of volumes where our customers are learning from it and then expanding their use of it and of course they pay us a little bit when that happens but it's a mutual benefit relationship and so yeah we're very fortunate. So in your keynote this morning you said something which I found interesting that three years ago trying to explain to a CEO at a company what machine data is, why it's important, how you can leverage it for value. It was a very kind of a tough conversation to have and it's gotten a lot easier over the last three years. Can you talk a little bit about why that is and explain to our audience what really makes the machine data specifically such a valuable asset to exploit? Sure. It's been a challenge to say to someone you should look at your log files. Let's just take machine data down to its slogan or it's the slang terminology for a moment. If you said gee there's to a CIO there's a lot of data and value in your log files and they just say really? I mean I was back when I used to run Hyperion we were a software development company we just thought about log files as being those things that the developers spit out to try to find errors in their code or some sort of other and as long as they were happy we were happy but you never thought about that being a we were a BI company we never thought about getting intelligence out of logs thought never occurred to us. We looked at a lot of data and we delivered intelligence out of a lot of data all of it on the structured side you're looking at customer names and product ID codes and comparing revenues from one quarter to another you never think about looking into a log file to see if there was something of value in there. I think what Eric and Rob and the founding team really did that was so innovative was to say if a transaction went inside one side of the IT blender and never came out the other side why not and they started to use that as the foundation problem to go to go create the search engine and from that found that there was a lot of value in that data so it's a kind of a new concept and and as a result it's taken a while to educate the world on gee there's real value in your logs there's real value in your in your IT data or your machine data your device generated data and that's just exploded now with the internet coming of age internet transactions mobile devices that the amount of volume that has is now being created has just exploded but now execs even old software execs are beginning to understand there's a lot of value in that machine data if you just harvest it analyze it and and ask it a question right right so you're doing a great job in taking advantage of the data that you're before can cannot be used right what's the next big challenge so we're having got a great infrastructure people are buying the software they're using the software it's innovating like crazy so from your point of view from the CEO point of view what's the next hill kind of what's the next not necessarily over the over the horizon hill but the next kind of challenge that you and the team are trying to to take down sure well what's becoming mainstream is that the IT organizations around the world are starting to understand what's the plunk is you know the IPO is really helpful to us in terms of it's a branding event it raises your profile of the brand itself the name of the company so we've really seen an increased awareness an increased recognition factor folks are saying oh I heard about you I read about you that that's really one of the things that an IPO does for you besides give you a new set of investors is actually is an important branding event so that's really helped increase the velocity of our mainstream business think of it as the IT version of machine data right sort of over the next hill we talked about in the keynote this morning which is what about all those uses beyond IT where other types of machine generated data could provide real value like the heart the exhaust of a jet airplane engine or the information coming from your car's computer or the information coming from a medical device information coming from from other types of mobile devices that so our social media streams as we have customers who are actually presenting sessions here on things like building management you know what what's the operational intelligence that comes out of an elevator right so all the devices of the world the machines are starting to spit out digital data and that sort of the next thing is how do we both do a great job with MIT but expands plunks vision and reach beyond IT to enable all the rest of the machines of the world to be able to talk back to us and have us listen to them and understand where their value is and just thought we're all kind of virtual machines now because we're carrying around the mobile devices we're logged in we're interacting with applications and things all the time so then like I said the machine is no longer just a machine it's the connectivity to us that's generating so much and we can't live without it so I'm interested to talk a little bit about so where's some of the implications for the enterprise we're talking about all this different types of data in different use cases it can be a little overwhelming so what are some of the challenges in terms of for your customers in terms of maybe culturally or even organizationally putting themselves in position where they can really start taking advantage of this kind of new capabilities that Splunk provides right it's really a learning experience you know it's it's like when the one of our customers came in from from Japan and I saw her in the hallway and asked her what why are you here why are you in California and she said well we've Splunk has made us aware that we need to listen to our machine data and so we think we can take the elevator data that's kind of our elevator data and create intelligence out of it I said how in the world do you do that she said well you know everybody has a car a personal access card and the elevators all have computer controls in them now so all we have to do is Splunk all that data and we'd be able to see which buildings are in most danger which buildings have economic either energy coming their way or risk we can look at traffic going to floors or into specific suites gives us a better leading economic indicator of a building's health in fact she said the elevator is probably the best way to understand the future economic health of a building you think wow that's a pretty good concept I never thought about elevators that way so our customers continue to give us all these new exciting ideas about what where the devices of the world can help us so you know but the big challenge for customers is just thinking about it that way right how do you learn about this new type of data and how do you then think about how to get the intelligence out of it it seems very kind of chicken and egg and you know how did she think of that you know who was it some some guy that works at the at the at the lobby that noticed that suddenly no one's coming in and out anymore the building and sure enough the company defaults in the building comes available or is it is it now being able to play with the data if you will in ways that you couldn't before that then provides the insight to think of new ways to do it you have any idea and the elevator case kind of who came up with that idea and then actually was able to validate it with software well I don't know in that case but I'd say in most cases what our customers it's that we start an IT the IT guys get to know what it is and then the light bulb goes okay they go wow if we can do that with Splunk then we need to go talk to our colleagues and other departments right and so Splunk is a good example of a unique technology that kind of tears down the organizational boundaries so before Splunk the guys in security had software that was narrowly used for that purpose and they rarely had a reason to go down the hall and talk to one of their peers in another department about it except just to update a status or something Splunk is one of those rare technologies where the more data you put in the more value you get back so now the security guys have a reason to go down and talk to the people in applications development or in infrastructure or maybe even in this case over into operations and say hey if you guys thought about your data this way so I'd say in most of our customer cases it starts in IT the guys over there that light bulb goes on they get it and then they start reaching out to other departments to say hey have you guys thought about this so it's pretty cool so you know one of the things that we're seeing is definitely a lot more interest from the enterprise in terms of virtualization we were at VMware not too long ago I think actually Splunk was there give a presentation as well that's right but I'm interested you know so Splunk kind of got it start back in the mid-2000s but now you know virtualization has come on strong over the last couple of years so how does that impact your what you do in terms of evaluating an infrastructure IT infrastructure does that add complications and how does Splunk kind of adapts in this new kind of world of virtualization cloud computing well virtualization adds one more layer of complexity to the IT stack so while you're getting the economies of knowing that you can run multiple VMs inside of a physical device you've now abstracted away from the physical device some of that information so when something goes wrong and you're with your application or your security or your customer accounts or any other type of activity how do you how do you get at that data so we've worked closely with VMware and Citrix and other companies in the virtualization category to say help us get that data so that we can then ingest it analyze it correlate it with other other types of data so to us it's just another very important data source another one is of course big data kind of big data analyzing big data I know you've got a lot of partners here and other firms you work with Hortonworks among others are here at the Hadoop world how does a kind of Splunk kind of fit into that larger big data landscape and you know how what is your relationship with kind of the Hadoop side of the equation do you work with helping you know Hadoop administrators kind of understand the Hadoop environment which really is one of the big issues in that particular field in terms of adoption and spurring adoptions kind of the management tools and kind of understanding what's going on inside your cluster sure well I'm on the road all the time and talked to lots of IT execs and one of the most common things I hear is we have lots of data we don't know what to do with it so we're standing up a Hadoop stack our Hadoop cluster and we're going to put a lot of data in there and if we ever need it or if we have to go back and ask it a question at least we'll have it if you ask them well what was there a specific problem you were trying to solve often they haven't gotten that far yet they're just knowing they need to fire hose in lots and lots of data and so it so Hadoop is a beautiful cheap batch storage system it's a great file system for just putting all kinds of different data into it and it doesn't cost anything from a software standpoint to do it costs a lot from a hardware standpoint development and how to get it back out so we think this is a huge opportunity to provide value to those those big data sets which is to connect Splunk to it so that you can from a really easy user interface you don't have to hire lots of data scientists or do lots of programming work you hook Splunk to it you say go get that data let me analyze it the Splunk way or maybe I've indexed it through Splunk on the way in and then you go drop it into the Hadoop cluster for long-term cheap storage so we think there's a big opportunity to both add value to that universe by being able to analyze that make it easier to analyze that data and also be able to monitor those big stacks you get those big clusters in place and they and they break I mean things go wrong it's a complex application file environment right so we might as well apply Splunk to it that's what we do right so we look at it as a very interesting complementary opportunity good I want to shift gears a little bit you mentioned it a little bit in the keynote on Splunk for good and and obviously as a successful company with a few dollars in the bank and it sounds like a really great culture you have an opportunity that you can look outside of kind of your core customers and your core business activities and and and obviously somebody said global warming is a big data problem I heard that quote the other day so can you talk a little bit about Splunk for good and some of those efforts that you and the company are doing to take advantage of what you've created love to well Splunk for good simply put is our ability our our hope our aspiration to be an advocate for making data open as often as possible and being able to reach out to people like state governments local governments to be able to publish that information so that's accessible to the community at large the more data that's published the more knowledge and richness there is available for all of us as citizens and so for example we have a I had a customer a partner in from Rio just last week and they were working with the local government down there to understand road sensor data traffic signals and everything else it's it's all there it's all available if the if it will be published once it's published we can index it into Splunk and they are they are contemplating using Splunk so that they can better manage traffic so just think about how bad traffic is in Rio and and parts like that just any major metropolitan area if you're actually going to have an impact on global warming or just traffic density or people's ability to get to work you need to understand when a traffic signal fails or a road is blocked or some other thing how do you how do you get that information what you do with it how do you take an act proactive management action towards it so you can remedy that situation we can provide an enormous amount of value there and we have to make sure that especially governments are get you know start to be more and more open about publishing their data the other thing we're doing with Splunk for good is we're advocating it to nonprofits all over the world if you need Splunk here's what we can do for you come get free free software and we'll help you get it get it up and running and our customers are involved at the community level with nonprofits everywhere so for them to know that and know that they can do some outreach there would be really good so we're we're excited about it's great so you know in terms of looking forward obviously we're in kind of a tough economic situation here in the US and Europe's troubles are well known maybe worse yeah could be a little bit worse so but you know I mentioned in our intro earlier today I believe at 19 straight quarters of double-digit revenue growth and Splunk so that's pretty remarkable that goes right through the the recession and the downturn so what's your kind of outlook going forward in terms of you know business especially when we're seeing some of the larger kind of what you might call mega vendors IT mega vendors are seeing a pullback in some spend how does that impacting your business and big data in general I don't want to go too far and say big data is recession proof but is it big data isn't recession proof customers have to have a need for something specific or they won't spend money on it so I don't see I don't see big data projects per se being recession proof as we look out though we have a very ambitious product product agenda so we have teams building Splunk enterprise we announced Splunk storm a few weeks ago for general availability we're expanding that team that's your cloud based our cloud offering our SAS offering we're building apps and content and we have a new team that we're investing in up in Seattle to build the SDKs to help extend Splunk further and for developers so with we have a very ambitious product agenda and customers appreciate that and are asking us for more we can only do that by investing really heavily so part of what we've told our new investors from Wall Street is you'll have to bear with us because right now we're in a high growth phase and we don't expect to be profitable will be cash flow profitable but not gap or non-gap profitable we are investing every dollar we make into additional development resources field coverage professional services support so when you're when you're expanding your customer base as quickly as we are you have to stay in high investment mode so you know none of those businesses are not no businesses recession proof but we happen to be in a high growth mode and we need to continue to invest as heavily as we can to match the customer requirements so all right well thank you so much I think we're just about out of time thanks so much for joining us today really appreciate you know you're very busy here at squunk.com now here comes the fun part which is for the next three days we get to go attend those customer sessions and find out all the creative things our customers are doing with Splunk and that's the most fun part about it for those of us that work at Splunk we're going right to the customer sessions you know when they're done with their sessions then I'm right over the queue we'll blast it out to our community so thanks so much thanks really appreciate it and we'll be back after just a moment with our next guest


This is stock number 11434Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Dodge and Dodge Challenger headquarters, as well as your sports car center. Today, we are checking out this super clean 2016 Dodge Challenger RT Scat Pack. This vehicle has 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor, which pumps out 485 horsepower. This car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go. Tor Red is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. 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I didn't see any dents or dings on that front fender is in nice shape and The passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes on there As you go down this side of the car take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the car Hear the car and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here So that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises And that is why we offer the summit auto fast-pass option in the upper right hand part of your screen a link right to our website We can apply for financing get pre-approved see a payment quote even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home So when you do get here all you have to do is drive the car and love it You'll be all set to go back tires have just as much tread as the front tires Like I said very new tires on this car as we come around to the back rear bumper is in great shape No denser dings or scuffs on that does have the backup parking sensors LED tail lamps and you do get the decklid spoiler on there trunk area is very clean This one comes with a spare tire and the battery is back here as well and Just really nice clean condition as we come around to the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side No denser dings on that rear quarter Looks really good And for full disclosure this back room is in nice shape as well And driver's side door looks really good And insaney dents on there You do get the heated power mirrors with the built-in blind spot mirror Inside the scat pack package gives you the black leather and Swade like interior RT stitched into the backrest. 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