Autolight and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense tonight Autolight brings you a ring for maria a suspense play starring mr. Cornell while John it's a beautiful ring. So you like it a nice diamond, huh John I can't tell you how much Maria I would have done more for you and long ago, but for my business trouble like like a stone around my neck I know John the store. Yes the store That's why it's necessary to do this thing tonight for both of six Oh John it was crazy of me. I know but I was worried the way things were between us that Perhaps you didn't love me anymore, but no after tonight Mario There will be other moments like this many of them when we get our money from the fire insurance company We needn't rush back into business again after all we have been working hard for nearly ten years We'll go someplace enjoy ourselves first together. I can hardly believe it Only only I wish that tonight was over with When I think of what we must do. No, there's nothing to worry about maria in the morning You will be at your aunt's home in Minneapolis, and I I will be here to handle everything myself Don't you see you'll be safe And if I wasn't sure of everything would I be willing to stay alone and face all the questioning? Oh John You're willing to do this for both of us Maria for our future Now I can tell you how much this ring means to me As long as I live, I will never take it off now.  I thought she was so weak older than I was Now she had never appealed to me as the kind of woman I should have If I hadn't been so frightened by America when I first arrived I would never have married her at all Maria and the marriage settlement her father offered He wanted her to have a nice boy from the old country said Yes, Maria and the money seem to go with this great new land No more slaving for a living. I could start a business and this big blonde would work But now our business at the store had gone to pieces. So burn the store With the fire insurance money, I I would have a chance for the kind of life.  She'd do whatever I wanted her to do And afterwards there'd be no trouble divorcing her. I had tested her in quarrels She was the kind that takes your beatings silently In just a moment mr. Cornel Wilde in the first act of a ring for Maria ringing in the new year early I know have those are only the three chimes What three times the three chimes a year an auto light stay full battery needs water in normal car use Harlow you deserve life for that And I'll take it if it's the longer life of an auto light stay full because the stay full gives 70% longer life has proven by tests conducted according to SAE minimum life cycle standard your positive Harlow Positive is the word hap every positive plate in the auto light stay full battery is Protected with fiberglass retaining mass to reduce flaking and shedding and keep the power producing material in place You sure got your battery problem solved for 1951 Harlow, right hap and friends for the new year See your neighborhood auto light battery dealer and have him install an auto light stay full Battery the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use and remember You're always right with auto light And now with a ring for maria and the performance of mr. Cornel Wilde auto light hopes once again to keep you in Suspend Before I left the house. I told maria to be sure and telephone her auntie Minneapolis that she was coming Then I stopped unit of bar and ordered a whiskey and the bartender wasn't looking I spilled this whiskey all over my shirt front Next I telephoned my friend Frank Laszlo told him to stop in at my house at 1115 on his way home from his restaurant He would be my alibi. I was getting ready for the part of the plan. I hadn't told maria about yet And I wasn't going to tell her that part That part she was supposed to guess I'm so glad you're back. I tried not to think of it, but John You look what's the matter? I can't do it What I I can't go I can't trust myself.  I can smell it You never told you I had to do something I tried to pretend that I was brave that this thing tonight because it meant so much to us I would go through with it, but I Can't I can't it takes a stronger person than I am but John if you mean the fire burning the store I'm glad we're not going to the terrible thing. Anyway, I'm glad what are you glad about? Insurances are only hope. You know what it means without it We have nothing it's the end of things of you and me of everything. I Will have to go away alone. I couldn't go on with you knowing that I'm a failure as a man It is not the end. I Can take the store We'll begin fresh again It was the only thing now we shall fail. I shall just go somewhere and disappear and you Yes, what about me that's what I hate to think about Then I that I must leave you if only this thing tonight could be done. It's so simple It's all arranged. We would have had happiness John John let me do it. You were willing to stay behind and face everyone while I was face at my aunt I Shouldn't I be willing to do as much now that this strain has proven too much for you? You stay here John. I will go to the store I will do it myself and then get on the train. It will be as we planned only Talk like that anymore I was just talking I was just It was 1115 Maria had been gone 20 minutes when I heard Frank's ring at the door Good. I would keep him a half hour and by then the fire should have been discovered and someone would call me Hello Frank come in coming a good evening John. It's so nice of you to let me come so late Does the letter mention my mother? How is she getting along?  I have quarter glass of wine for each of us. Thank you. Thank you Where is Maria sleep? No, she went out to visit friends. At least that's what she said you think I should suspect her perhaps Oh, no, no John Everyone knows how Maria feels about you. Yes, of course now about her a good girl, Maria But here you want the letter here. Here is this prime boy. Head read it. I'll pour some wine John a whole bottle of wine we put away. I'll never be able to sleep and it's nearly midnight Don't refoolish its wine not that ink you sell for coffee. You'll sleep. Well, I'm off Thanks for calling me about the letter don't go Frank. I don't get to see you often Your phone John answer it. I will find my way out. Well, all right Frank. It is nearly midnight Good night. Good night. Hello. Hello. Hello. Is there someone on the line? What is that? Who who is it? What did you call for? What happened? I don't understand if you were burned number to lock the door if you're in a bar the people that can't I see Maria do you hear me? I'm coming. I'm coming with the car. Where is the place? Yes, I know leave the place and wait for me behind the freight loading platform where it is dark I'll be there in 20 minutes. Don't talk to anyone. Don't let anyone see you too closely. You understand. Yes John Markoff. Yes, are you John Markoff? Yes, you operate a stationary store at 410 Wells Street Yes, that's my place. Why what happened? This is the police department. There's a fire there You better get right down fire in my place. How how bad is it? How did it start? What's burning? I don't know any answers like that yet, Mr. Markoff. I understand it's just striking out now And they haven't been in the place yet to look around you better get down there and help check Shall I get word to them that you're coming? Yes, of course right away. Mr. Markoff. Yes You've been home all night, Mr. Markoff Yes, why? Yes, yes, I will But which would I go to first? To Maria who sounded in such pain She might tell everything to the first person who found her or to this store where the fire people and perhaps the police Were waiting to talk to me. I wanted to go to the store, but I didn't dare. I didn't dare to leave Maria alone There's nearly a half hour after midnight when I drove up to the alley when I told it to wait Maria, Maria, yes, hurry Get in come on Right away, right away. Maria. How badly are you burned? Are you sure it's done? And Maria listen to me the police have called me about the store and they are waiting for me there. Do you understand the police? The police are waiting But you will take me to a doctor first. You will how can I Maria? I told them I would be right down I've lost time driving to pick you up first. It will look suspicious very suspicious if I'm delayed, but I must What do I do Maria? I must leave you someplace in the car and go the rest of way in a car I will get through with them as quickly as possible, and then I will be back for you To Maria don't you understand what it means you must promise that you will that you will stay in the car quietly until I call All right, all about how the fire got started a no, I would not sir and You were home with this friend from 1120 until nearly midnight. Yes, that's right I I was home with my friend Frank Laszlo. He owns that restaurant right on the corner there He always closes up by 11 and tonight he stopped in to read a letter I received them friends of ours in the old country. All right We will talk to mr. Laszlo In the meantime, mr. Markov, you better drop in at the fire marshal's office in the morning at 10 o'clock You mean that I know I don't mean anything Certainly anything I can do to help. I'll be there of course of course taken a half hour of it talking I Knew from their manner that they had found the kerosene or smelled it Then I was back at the car looking at Mario. She appeared unconscious, but when I started to drive away You were gone so long. I couldn't help it Maria. It wasn't pleasant. I you know now No, dr. John so he can do something for me.  He'll want to know everything and he will have to report Where name the place we're taking you won't be the same as going straight to the police Anybody No No, couldn't answer her. I was trapped now. I thought All I have to do is bring her in for help anywhere No doctor no hospital would treat her without reporting the case to police to take her home If the police caught me bringing Maria there if they found that she was burned and I was helping her For hours it seemed I drove that night wandering thinking trying frantically to find some solution While Maria stared straight ahead not speaking Sometimes she would cry Then it was quiet again slept I Wanted to get away from other cars from people I turned on to an old dirt road that laid along the river when I got to a dark spot I stopped Yes, I'm here Maria No There is no doctor. No, there is no doctor There's no hospital and there is not going to be any you got yourself into this You got me into it when you are found burned is prison for both of us John John, I said prison separate prisons on goodness anything to get away from you now Do you understand now? Let me hear you say John again once more before I go Once more, but let me touch you Let me just touch you. What are you doing? Get back take your hands away from my face I Got out of the car and away from her it must have been with her last string that she attacked me because she she fell back But then when I stopped to look back she was out of the car and standing on steadily on the ground I called but she didn't hear She turned and I saw that she was trying to reach the river edge She was weak Sucking under her weight But she kept on and made it almost At the very edge of the river she slumped to the ground in a kneeling position. I Started for her in sight of me. I felt only jelly Then as I stood there I saw she was doing something with her hands as if ringing them Then I realized she was taking off the ring the diamond ring She had said she would keep on as long as you live It must have slipped from her hand because she started pouring around in the dirt Then she got it turned and threw it at the car with all her strength But the effort to her own balance and she slowly fell backward Like an old doll into the water. He was gone Now I was out of it They wouldn't be able to touch me Auto light is bringing you mr. Cornell wild with Irene Teddrow in a ring for maria tonight's production and radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspends Say Harlow, what are your plans for this start of a new year same as usual hap I always get the start of the year with an auto light stay full battery the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car Use but aren't you gonna welcome the year in why sure hap year in and year out There's nothing more welcome than the dependable starting power and extra convenience of the auto light stay full battery You'll be the life of the party Harlow hap my good man You can't beat the auto light stay full for longer life 70% longer life in fact has proven by tests conducted according to SAE minimum life cycle standard Aren't you gonna raise your champagne glass Harlow you mean fiber glass hap because every positive plate of an auto light Stay full battery is protected with a fiber glass retaining mat to reduce flaking and shedding and keep the power producing materials in place But Harlow everybody's going to to start the new year by having their neighborhood auto light battery dealer Install an auto light stay full the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use and remember You're always right with auto light and now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Cornell while in Elliott Lewis's production of a ring for Maria a Tale well calculated to keep you in Early in the morning I went to a police station I had decided it would look odd when Maria's body was found if I had not reported her absence They took her description and then how about jewelry. Did she have any she might be wearing only her wedding ring and earrings Gold earrings shipped like a hoop nothing else Nothing. All right, mr. Marker. We'll call you the moment we hear anything But I think she'll be walking in on you soon. That's our experience in these cases I breathed easier when I left the station I had almost told him of the diamond ring I didn't want to because I had failed to find it when I made a hurried search before leaving the river's edge But I knew the spot and when things quieted down I plan to go there in daylight and search again It was worth too much to let go Just now the only thing ahead of me was the visit to the fire marshals office at 10 o'clock But I wasn't worried about that let them ask their questions. I had an alibi. I was home when the fire started The only person who would implicate me in any way was there Yes, I had to admit things had turned out not bad not bad Yes, sir My name is John Markov. I'm to see the fire marshal this morning. Oh, yes, mr. Markov. Just a moment Mr. Markov is here Marshall Very well The marshal is coming out mr. Markov. Morning mr. Markov Had a lot to think about yes I've heard the fire and then this morning early you reported your wife missing didn't you? Yes, I was going to tell you about it, too I was already informed and I'm afraid I have what may be bad news for you mr. Markov The police think they found her Found her? How where very unusual? You reported hers alive only last night yet this morning a half hour ago Her body was found floating in the river the description tell us exactly Floating you mean you mean she was drowned maria. I don't mean anything of the kind Come along mr. Markov police are waiting for you to make positive identification at the morgue I didn't like the way the marshal talked or acted with me made me feel as if something had gone wrong But I told myself to stop worrying. They could know not especially if Mario was dead But what did he mean talking as if she wasn't drowned? I Was still thinking about this when we got to the undertakers two men were standing outside In order that the marshal and something told me they must be detectives Then one of them spoke to me you're mr. Markov. Yes I'm sergeant Holbrook with a homicide bureau of the police department mr. Markov We'd like to take a look through your car. Is it here? Why sure go ahead and let me have your keys You mind we might have to move the car one reason or another Yes, all right. Yes way mr. Markov for the identification Well, mr. Markov It's it's hair. It's maria But how what happened what happened was a tragedy mr. Markov But you see those marks on her body. Yes. Yes those marks are burns And there was a fire in your store last night, but I don't understand you you think Mario So can I talk to you for a moment? Oh, yes, I The mark of did you know your wife telephoned her aunt in Minneapolis last night and told her she was arriving for a visit? There this morning Did you or didn't you know that mr. Markov you're awfully slow answering very simple questions. No, no, no I did not know I see well anyway. She did mr. Markov You might like to know how we found out would you I yes You see when your wife wasn't on the morning train at 7 o'clock her aunt got worried and telephoned your house But got no answer. I was at the police station reporting Mario's absence, right at 9 30 your wife's aunt telephoned again But this time to your place of business Naturally, she was told the line was out of order Now she really was worried and that's how we found out about it. She telephoned the police. I talked to her Did you tell her about Mario? No, mr. Markov I knew her body had been found that answered the description of Mrs. Markov, but I wasn't sure yet I'm only sure now, but Mrs. Markov's aunt told me something else It seemed that your wife was very happy about a gift you gave her last night and naturally as women will She had to talk about it. She told her aunt You remember the gift. Oh Yes, yes, of course it slipped my mind in all this that has happened the ring you mean the diamond ring You mean that's right, mr. Markov. She was wearing that ring wasn't she when you last saw her. Yes Yes, I forgot she must have been wearing that right and she left the house before the fire naturally about 11 You're important and you never saw her after that until this morning here. No, I did not you're sure You're very sure of that. Yes. Yes, I'm sure then how is it mr. Markov that when we looked at your car just now We saw something that had been caught in the rainscarper that runs along the side of the body over the windows And this mr. Markov is what we found stuck in there along with some loose fine gravel this diamond ring What's all this the coroner's physician found no water in your wife's lungs She didn't drown in his opinion. She died from heart failure directly super induced by her pain and burns How did this terribly injured woman get to the river miles from the scene of the fire? The diamond ring tells us the answer She was taken there and thrown in thrown in by you who watched her die Even though you might have perhaps saved her life by getting medical aid for her I didn't throw her in she fell in I tell you she fell in it was an accident. Oh, mr. Markov We don't talk the same language in mine the death of your wife was murder Suspense presented by auto light tonight star mr. Cornell while Well, see you next year. Hello, okay happen in the meantime. 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Mickey Rooney a star of alibi me and in weeks to come you will hear such famous stars as ginger Rodgers Eve Arden and etiopinza all appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in suspense Suspense is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowake and conducted by Ludblust kid a Ring for Maria was written for suspense by Lewis Pollock Cornel Wild is next to be seen in the new RKO Technicolor production sons of the musketeers and Remember next week on suspense mr. Mickey Rooney in alibi me This is Harlow Wilcox again to wish each and every one of you on behalf of suspense and 96,000 auto light dealers from coast to coast a happy and prosperous new year. This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system


The latest weapons, coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier, stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country. View the American people against aggression. This is the Big Picture, an official television report to the nation from the United States Army. Now to show you part of the Big Picture, here is Sergeant Stuart Queen. 100 miles deep in the Soviet zone of Germany lies West Berlin. Here every day goes on a silent but ceaseless struggle for supremacy between our way of life and the slave state way. Every day spies and agents are sent in across the border from Soviet-controlled territory. That's why checks have to be made on people going in, people going out. Moving the borders is one of the many jobs of the MPs. And in our first pictorial report, we will see the Berlin military patrols in action. The scars of World War II are still everywhere in West Berlin, especially in the rubble and bombed-out buildings that line so many streets, today and every day, through these same streets move the American military police patrols. In land and on water too, the MP patrols cover every part of free Berlin. At company headquarters, their daily tour of duty starts early in the morning, rain or shine with a rigid inspection. Officers and men are both aware that they are in the limelight in West Berlin, so special efforts are made to see they look like good soldiers and are good soldiers. One military policeman and one West German policeman will form a vehicle patrol. The German will ride along in the event there are cases involving American soldiers and German nationals. Nothing is neglected. Pistols, haircuts, belt buckles, the press in the pants, the shoe shines. From top to bottom, this must be a spit and polish outfit. For once they leave the company compound and go out into the city, the eyes of free Berlin will be upon them. As the final stage of the inspection, the jeeps are examined carefully. Before the day is over, the vehicles will have traveled many miles. Breakdowns are averted by preventive maintenance. The inspection over, the MPs move out of the company area. Out into West Berlin, past the airlift memorial which honors the Americans who died in the airlift that kept West Berlin free. Like the policeman in his hometown, an MP's job is to be on the lookout for trouble and to snuff it out before it gets serious. The MPs range all over West Berlin from dependent housing areas to the Allied Control Headquarters where they have the job of guarding an important building with a lot of important people. Just as important from the standpoint of the MPs are the children of American Army personnel. They get the same VIP type protection. To work closely with the West German police is a basic policy of the MPs. The two organizations cooperate to the fullest extent, particularly on border checking patrols. Nobody knows a city better than a native and the MPs do not hesitate to call on assistance when the need arises. Sometimes at the request of the MPs, West German police will stop all cars going along a designated street and examine the driver's papers. Generally, MPs will not deal directly with civilians but will contact the Berlin police. In similar fashion, the British MPs will call in the American patrols whenever an American is involved in a case in the British sector. In such a case, the British turn over all information as well as the man involved to the American MPs. As the many signs placed on the boundary make abundantly clear for all the police, American and British and West German, border control is the heart of the job. Most of the signs around West Berlin have been erected by the military police to prevent anybody from going into Soviet-controlled Germany by mistake. One team of MPs has the responsibility of inspecting the signs regularly, replacing them if necessary. Signs, of course, are only the props for the job. MPs maintain a tight control of all Americans entering and leaving West Berlin at checkpoint Baker. Since free Berlin is separated from West Germany, an American who leaves the city by automobile must drive through 110 miles of Soviet-controlled territory. After examining the driver's travel orders, the MP checks the tires as well as the condition of the spare to lessen the possibility of a breakdown en route. A full tank of gas is a must. The exact mileage of the automobile is recorded. In the event of a breakdown, the driver will halt the first American vehicle passing on the Autobahn and give the current speedometer reading. This tells the MPs exactly where the car has broken down. Help can then be dispatched to the precise location. The exact time of departure is logged by the MPs. Any unexplained delays in arriving at his destination bring on an immediate search for the whereabouts of the driver. This same procedure is followed by drivers of all vehicles moving out on the Autobahn through Soviet-controlled Germany. Most people think of the army solely in terms of land operations. But one job in the army has a slight nautical tank, such as the MP boat patrols that putt-putt up and down the One Sea Lake. The lake sprawls across one stretch of the West Berlin border. It is a popular lake for boating. Small watercraft are made available by special services to American soldiers for recreational purposes here. The lake is divided across the center by floating buoys. And the MP patrols prevent the boats from straying over the line out of the American sector. The days of the horse cavalry are supposedly gone. But don't tell that to the Berlin MPs. The MP horse platoon was organized in September 1945. It is especially trained for riot control work in the event of an outbreak in West Berlin. Though very proficient in riot control tactics, happily, there has never been occasion to demonstrate them. Not so, however, in Soviet-controlled East Berlin, where riot control tactics have been displayed on more than one occasion, only there they didn't use horses. They used Russian tanks. The horse platoon also serves as an honor guard. The men in the platoon are all volunteers out of the MP battalions. They are experienced riders who will often participate in allied military horse shows. Meanwhile, on the streets of the city, the MP jeep is a familiar sight. And on the One Sea Lake, West Berliners are accustomed to the chugging of the patrol boat as it carefully moves along the boundary line. Yes, West Berliners are accustomed to and comforted by the MP patrols. Well, Free Berlin is hemmed in on all sides by a hostile force that would like nothing better than to take it over. Our MPs represent our going-on record that nobody will take over Free Berlin. That is why every day, day after day, on land and on water, the MP patrols continue on their watchful, wary way. Free Berlin, free because Germans and British and French and Americans aim to keep it that way. We move a bit westward for our next picture story. Our locale is the Rhine Engineer Depot, most modern of its kind in Europe, located on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern, Germany. The first thing that strikes you about the Rhine Engineer Depot is its size. Ride slowly down the center lane of the maintenance shop or follow a truck into the 821 acre area and you get a sense of the hugeness of the many operations summed up in the title Rhine Engineer Depot. The depot was designed from the planning stage specifically for its mission to receive, store, maintain and ship engineer supplies and equipment for the United States Army in Europe. Every day at the railroad siding north of the installation, you can see the crates coming in, one after another. The depot receives not only supplies from the United States, but it also serves as a collection point for excess engineer material held by Army units in Europe. From all directions, the supplies are received here. Receiving all this material is one thing. Storing it properly is another story. The spare parts division alone holds 93,000 different types of items. A large special purpose truck may seem difficult in this place, but when there is a field full of them, the necessity for a careful check and double check system of control is evident. Receiving, storing and now maintaining another important mission of the Rhine Engineer Depot. Most of the work is done in the vast maintenance shop and it consists of jobs like repairing tractors which have seen their best days. No easy trade-ins for new models here. The idea is to take the tractors and generators, the air compressors and graders and extend their usability so the Army can realize maximum returns on its investment. Sometimes the work is in the nature of minor repairs, but with such bulky equipment, it takes experienced men who know what they're doing. Sometimes a complete rebuilding job is necessary and the shop resounds with the noise of the many leads. The men are soon busy at the drill presses. The milling machines operate at full speed. A job you often see performed in the maintenance shop is testing of an engine for horsepower. If it doesn't meet the depot specifications, the engine will be rebuilt. Not all the jobs at the Rhine Engineer Depot involve ponderous heavy equipment. For precision work too of the most delicate type is done when repairing damaged technical instruments needed by the Army. The operating staff of the depot is composed of soldiers working along with German and American civilian personnel in an integrated closely knit group. The employees are constantly indoctrinated in safety measures through on-the-job training and classroom lectures. As a result, there is an extremely low accident rate despite the hazardous nature of some of the work. Once the material stored at the depot is made acceptable by Army standards, it is ready for shipment. The depot in effect may be considered as a wholesaler shipping needed supplies in large quantities to retail outlets. The 7th Army supply bases in Europe. These supply bases in turn ship to the small units which are the ultimate consumers. In so vast an undertaking, it is important that you know where everything is at every stage of the game. The removal of a carburetor, say from a shelf, sets off a sequence of activity designed to maintain inventory control on the object until it leaves the depot. The carburetor is securely tagged with all necessary details before it is started on its way. The bookkeeping for the transaction is done by the machine records office. The entire procedure is carried through by machine with no delays. The result is a perpetual inventory with only relatively few items closed off from shipment at any one time. It is a system that allows a close watch on what goes in, what goes out of the Ryan Engineer depot. But the real story of the Ryan Engineer depot cannot be told in terms of punched cards. It must be seen in terms of men and work and results. The men of the Ryan Engineer depot are doing their job so that American soldiers will have the most rugged, most efficient tools to accomplish the important tasks that lie ahead. Just as in the Korean War when it performed many key jobs, the light plane still plays an important role today. For our last story, we take you to an 8th Army airstrip in Korea where we will see the light plane in operation. There's our pride and joy, being polished nice and shiny. She's an L-20, one of the Army fixed wing planes we pilot for the 8th Army. Yes, we're the fellows who take those fragile looking things up into the air over Korea. We have a lot of different jobs to do and will all do modesty. We think the Army plane does them about as well as they can be done. If you gather from this that we are proud of these little jack rabbits, well, you're not far wrong. We think they're mighty fine. And come to think of it, that may be the understatement of the year. Why do we like the fixed wing plane? First of all, there's no fuss, no bother about getting her into the air. It's no big deal to climb into the plane and strap on gear. Then call the tower for an OK. A raja here, and a raja there, and away we go. You hear a lot these days about super planes that whizz through the air faster than sound. You can be sure nobody's referring to the Army plane in that connection. We poke along at an average speed of 95 miles an hour. Sound is way ahead of us. We don't mind a bit. Speed isn't everything, after all. These planes are maneuverable. They can move up or down, right or left, in a hurry. They can descend to a few hundred feet and follow the rise and fall of terrain at treetop level. That's what makes them so valuable for observation purposes. Despite its frail appearance, the Army plane is relatively rugged, too, and it has another plus. It can land on a short airstrip, or, when necessary, a road. Another advantage of the Army plane is the relatively low cost of maintenance. We have a highly trained group of soldier technicians. Assisted by Korean mechanics, they maintain the planes in A-1 condition, ready to go into the air at any notice. At 8th Army headquarters in Korea, the fixed wing planes are counted on for various missions. To accomplish these missions, Army planes are made available at airstrips throughout South Korea. One of the jobs for 8th Army aviation pilots is to transport ground force commanders and other personnel who must travel between units located in different sectors. Another basic use of the fixed wing plane in Korea is to serve as a rapid delivery service for important messages, documents, and records. Subject only to the limitations of weight and space, high priority official mail is allocated for transportation by plane. Loaded into sacks, the mail is carried by Jeep Korea to the operations office at the airstrip. At the operations office, the Korea mail is logged into a flight. Then it is hurried out to the strip where we have a plane waiting for it. When we're loaded up, we contact the tower. Once flight clearance is secured, we're on our way. In a matter of hours and sometimes less, the mail will be at its destination. If surface transportation were relied on, considering the bad roads and rugged terrain of Korea, days might pass before mail could be delivered. We've even worked out systems where, in an emergency, we can pick up important documents without coming into land. It all adds up to high-speed Korea mail service in Korea. Observation is another type of mission we fly in Korea. This is done either by trained observers or by means of aerial photography. In wartime, the Army fixed wing plane did an important job in this work. Nowadays, aerial photographs are still very useful. Take the case of some officers who want to check on the camouflage of their defensive position. A low-level aerial photograph of their position would be valuable. Through channels, a request is made of higher headquarters for a photographic mission. A photographer is assigned, and after a briefing, works out the calculations for the assignment. It is no simple task to figure out how best to shoot a target with a camera from a moving plane. But that's part of the job a photographer is trained to do. By the time the photographer finishes his preparation and leaves for the airstrip, the photo mission has been set up at 8th Army headquarters. The flight request is relayed to the duty officer who records all the necessary details and sees that the flight is scheduled as promptly as possible. Things are moving quickly now. As the flight manifest sheet is made out, the plane is made ready on the adjacent airstrip. The flight is logged in on the acetate record board while the pilot and photographer board the plane. The tower gives him clearance and the plane starts moving across the airstrip. A few minutes later, it makes the photographic run. The plane moves straight over the target, taking a series of pictures at short intervals. Pictures taken, the plane heads for the developing station. Where, to save time, the packet of exposed negatives is airdropped. The negatives are developed as quickly as possible, at the same time doing a careful job, because details in the finished photograph are what will be looked for. When the prints are ready, aerial photo experts go to work on them. The low-level photograph reveals far more than the eye can see from a moving airplane and far more accurately. The photographs can be used individually, in strips, or as stereo pairs with the added third dimension to give greater detail. The photo specialists mark the prints and a set is quickly dispatched to the requesting unit. In a matter of a few hours after the request has been put in, the photographs are received. The officers now have a clear sense of the actual terrain they are interested in and can do a better job planning for its defense. Flying of key personnel from place to place, running the courier mail, observation and aerial photography, those are some of our main jobs in present-day Korea. So you can see why we're busy, one flight after another. It seems every moment the tower is giving us the word and we're heading off on a job again. Sure, we may not travel at the speed of sound, but we do the job whatever it is. We like to think that those rugged Korean mountains down below don't bother the army as much as they used to. Thanks to the army planes and the men who fly them. Yes, the light plane is doing heavy duty for the 8th Army in Korea. Now this is Sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to be with us again next week when we will present another look at the big picture. The big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the army at home and overseas, produced by the Signal Corps Pictorial Center, presented by the U.S. Army in cooperation with this station. You can be an important part of the big picture. You can proudly serve with the best equipped, the best trained, the best fighting team in the world today, the United States Army.


from the Galvanized Campus in San Francisco. It's theCUBE, covering Apache SparkMaker Community Event brought to you by IBM. Now, here are your hosts, John Walls and George Gilbert. And good afternoon, everyone. I'm John Walls here on theCUBE. Thanks for joining us for Spark Week here in San Francisco. We're at the Galvanized Campus here in San Francisco. Our hosts for the days events here for the IBM sponsored event, the Apache SparkMaker Community Event going on all day and into tonight. And with me is my partner in crime for the day and actually for the week, George. George Gilbert with Wikibon and George, good to see you. Good to be with you, John. Good to be together. Well, tell me, I mean, you've been a part of this, at least observing the Spark community now for the better part of a couple of years and you've seen this maturation process go on. What are you looking forward to delving into this week? Well, it's funny when you call it a maturation process, I'm almost tempted to think of one of those cartoons when like a little snowball starts heading downhill and it turns into this mass that's kind of creating destruction and everything in its path. Spark is maybe the wrong word, metastasized rather quickly into a force that's reshaping data management or analytics much faster even than the folks behind it have thought. And I think this year and some of the announcements we're gonna see this week is a continuation of that. There's other things down the road that need to be fixed but there's a lot that's going right now. It may be expanded. How about that? All right. Instead of metastasized. Yeah, with us to talk about what's going on here today at Galvanized is Jim Kobielus who is the, I love your title by the way, that data science evangelism. I got a long, real title but that's what I was gonna name you. I like that, Jim. So he is the data science evangelist at IBM and Jim of thank you for being with us here. Tell us about, I know we have a great lineup that you put together of some IBM folks and also some partners with whom you do a lot of business interactions but who do we have coming on this week and today and what are you looking forward to the most about this day as far as the IBM perspective is concerned? Right, today what we're at here at Galvanized is the Apache Spark Maker Community Event and hosted by IBM and our partners. What we're doing is we're bringing together the open analytics community around the evolving open source stack as it were to enable data scientists to be more productive. The evolving stack includes Spark but also our language is so important in terms of programming data science applications. So we at this event, we have some announcements. We have partners such as H2O and LifeBand as well as RStudio here and in fact several representatives from those companies will be on the cube following me. Right after me, right after I'm off, Derek Shuddle, our general manager in IBM Analytics for Cloud Data Services will talk about IBM's deep and ongoing investment in all things Spark as well as R and the broader open source stack including Hadoop for data science and really to enable teams of data scientists, data engineers and analysts and others to build data applications better and faster. So that the Apache Spark Maker Community Event is all day today and into the night. We're gonna have the main stage sessions tonight starting at 6.30 Pacific time and we invite everybody to tune into the live stream ongoing throughout the day because we'll have important announcements, we'll have a panel discussion tonight. We have invited customers and partners to talk about the trends and what they're seeing and we have going on into the evening, we'll have a hall of innovation, demonstrations of the power of Spark and R in terms of addressing business problems and enabling new kinds of disruptive solutions. So following me, like I said, let me Derek Shuddle following him will be Ritika Gunnar who is our vice president at IBM for offering management. She'll be discussing some of the announcements we're making this week, not only here at this event but also what we'll be doing at the Spark Summit which is going on right here in San Francisco several blocks away. And then we'll have Joel Horowitz and Rob Thomas our vice president for product development to discuss various aspects of our strategy and the degree of adoption that we're seeing for Spark with our customers. So we've got a full slate of activities and experts and specialists to talk about the power of open data science. Yeah, you were talking about and I want you to give away the store by any means but about announcements. And I think just the very presence of IBM with this event and then with the announcements that I know are coming down the pipeline and with the series investment that the company has put into developing the Spark community. It says a lot does not about your confidence going forward with what you think is you think of a very strategic position for you to be in. Yeah, adoption of Spark is going through the roof. We're fighting with our customers all over the world and all industries. And we've invested deeply in R&D on all things Spark. The Spark Technology Center is based here in San Francisco. We've got hundreds of developers, data scientists, building disruptive applications. Our customers we're doing, we've been investing heavily in training through partnerships like Galvanize to train the next generation of application developers who at their very heart need to master the techniques and the tools for data science, building and tuning machine learning models and deploying them deep learning into applications of all sorts. So we're making heavy investments in all things training because we see the future is all focused on statistical analysis, machine learning and so forth. So with that said, I'd like to give it over to Derek Shuddle to discuss our overall strategy and what we're seeing. Just to give you a quick question. Sure, I'll take one question. One question. When you talk about data scientists and enabling the next gen, you know, of those on open source tools and platforms, how would you distinguish between developers of data science applications today and developers of traditional enterprise applications 10, 15, 20 years ago? Well, yeah, we are now in the cognitive era and what that refers to is the fact that more and more of the execution logic for your business applications doesn't need to be hard programmed, hard wired into the code, but rather it can be extracted from the data through the power of machine learning. So more of the execution logic is statistical and probabilistic. It's in your program through R and other languages, Python and so forth. So, you know, coding in Java and C++ and COBOL hasn't gone away, but it's been extended greatly in terms of the flexibility of what you can enable now in terms of application development through statistical analysis, machine learning, predictive modeling, stream computing and so forth. It can be made more dynamic and adaptive and ever before learn from the data from fresh feeds of all types of data, geospatial, social, environmental. We invested, of course. We acquired the digital assets of the weather company because environmental data is critically important for driving contextualized guidance to all manner of applications, including the next generation of vehicular devices, self-driving cars and whatnot, because we see deep learning, machine learning and all that as the heart and soul in terms of the intelligence of this new generation. The stage, I think, for the rest of the week actually, which is how to distinguish between why are we entering this new era, how it's different, you know, and what came before for decades. So, this was a good one. A hundred years ago when IBM started, it was all hardwired literally into the hardware and then the development became more focused on software programming. And now development is really all of that, but really it's all machine learning, statistical modeling, data science and all of its manifold glory and sophistication. And that's really it. We are excited to be here because it is a brave new world and the steps that this community has already taken are impressive, but when you look at what's coming down the pipeline, you realize that the possibilities are endless and so, Jim, thanks for the time. Glad to be here. Look forward to talking to the rest of the IBM folks as well and to the general session tonight. And I'll be tuning into your stream as well. I'm enjoying having you guys out here like always. Outstanding, great. A lot more coming up here from San Francisco on theCUBE right after this.


Stevenson with a big win the night over number 24 Albright to my left Brandy Hall 16 points in the game winner to my right Olivia Coleman double double tonight I'm gonna start with Brandy because she hit the game winner that's the way it goes Brandy when you were growing up and imagining those moments in your driveway tell me about like who did you think you were in those moments whose name were you calling out when you're shooting a shot like that and what's it like to hit a winner like that in a real game um I mean the closest person I could think like Coby love Coby most favorite player I've ever you know seen play before I mean I don't really like growing up I never really was one of those people that was like we're gonna hit the game winner so I mean I just go with the flow yeah I'd never really I mean other than Coby that was only well tell me about the scramble situation then because the ball comes loose you go to the corner coach admitted she thought about taking the time out but she saw you get free what's going through your mind um so at first I was just like let's get this rebound and then when I turned around and saw that like the baseline was wide open I just know I know I'm like I'm confident in my pull-up jump shot so I was like we're gonna get this off see what happens worked out all right worked out okay Olivia you had to go up against one of the best players you can go up against in Deja Tyrell and when you were on the floor it seemed like you had a determination that you were gonna make an impact tonight can you take me through that matchup and how you were able to get the better of it in some moments I was just trying to get in her head early to shut her down and just see what I can do against her just keep her to a minimum because I knew she was gonna score but just to keep it down to make other players beat us you guys went through a tough week going into this game lost a couple of games things were trending the wrong way and you were facing one of the best teams in the country what happened what click that you guys were able to get the job done tonight we just kept working out what we needed to do and just kept going forward it worked it worked and Brandi now where do you go from here how do you build off a big win as you go into the most critical part of the season I think just continue to have this confidence that we've always had and knowing that especially when it comes like my side we've been in these close matches with them we know what we're capable of doing and just sticking to our own game plan and not worrying about what they're doing but what we can control Olivia did you know as soon as she took it the shit the shot did you know did you know for sure it was going a little bit of a feeling yeah well an awesome win congratulations to both of you on an incredible victory tonight and best of luck moving forward enjoy the weekend off alright it's Olivia Coleman and Brandi Hall after the game winner I'm Glenn Clark this is Go Mustang Sports.com


That was a lot of structures today. This roughly covers chapters 11 and 13 and a bit of chapter 14 in Finkelstein. He goes into a lot of detail about tetraedra and helical stability, which is interesting if you're into the physics, but perhaps less important for the protein applications. Read it if you want to. As always, we've created a number of study questions for you that I look forward to discuss with those of you in Stockholm at least, and hopefully it will teach you both a little bit about peculiarities of protein structures, and in particular the super-secundary structure elements. One important thing when it comes to learning here, I don't expect you to know the exact details of, say, what the enzyme in the Tim barrel is doing or something. These names you can always look up, but what you should know by heart is things like the secondary structure elements. What is the Greek key? What is the Rosman fold?  And in particular, if you don't recognize that, oh, that motif is a Rosman fold, you've seen that before. So make sure that you know the concepts by heart, but the specific applications for those, the name, is less important. Next lecture, we're going to head on to membrane proteins. That's going to be even more fun.


This is The Big Picture, an official report of the United States Army produced for the armed forces and the American people. That was a battle of the Argonne Forest, and only just beginning. It's been that way for three whole days, three nights.  Then that last barrage lifted, and I started crawling around, looking for the rest of the patrol. You know what? There wasn't any. What was left of them, if there had been any, had all been pulled back. I was all alone. I look around, and that place was just a poppin' with Germans. All of a sudden, it seemed like the whole of the Kaiser's army was out, just to get me, and all of them yelling for me to surrender. Well, I started looking for a clip. Oh gee, Rushi, there wasn't any. I got so sore, I forgot to be scared, and I grabbed for a hand grenade. I pulled a clip, all back, and let her go. You know what?  Yellen, comrade, comrade, must have been a whole regiment. Well, battalion, a couple of hundred anyway. Well, that was World War I, the Battle of the Argonne. At least that's the way grandpa recalls it. Perhaps he has stretched the truth a little bit. After all, refighting the old battles has been one of man's favorite conversational topics since the Stone Age. We must remember that it is a highly competitive pastime, and now let me interrupt just long enough to introduce myself. I'm Sergeant Stuart Queen, bringing you another in our series, The Big Picture. Today you will see the Battle of Solano, a glowing chapter from our military history. Another reason too for that pride which makes the old battles a treasured source of memories among all men who have served the nation. But now, let's return to grandpa and his captive audience. A tight corner, eh? I see. What did it do? I'll tell you what I did. I picked up that empty rifle of mine just as if she was loaded, and I started herding them prisoners into a single fire. Maybe you think I wasn't scared?    Oh, no. Oh, no, Pop. You're not at it again. Hi, Tommy. On the level now, how many Germans was it this time?  All the same, that was a man's war. Under your cream puff fighting with fancy machines to do the job. Cold steel and bullets, that's what we used. I was in a war. You were in a war. Well, now, isn't that something? Where do you suppose I was at a taffy pole? Have you ever heard of Solerno? Solerno. And we had to clean up North Africa before we ever got to Solerno. Solerno. Well, go ahead and laugh. Maybe I'd be laughing too if I hadn't been there. Solerno. I bet most of us have never even heard the name. We would, brother, we would. We know all about Solerno just as soon as the Navy got us there. We sailed from Bizarrety and Tripoli, Sicily and Iran. Big family party, General Clark's Fifth Army and General Montgomery's British Eighth Army. Part of the Eighth had already crossed from Sicily to the toe of the Italian boot. We figured to lop off the foot. A lot of us did that figure in too easy. Scuttlebutt had Hitler tied down in the east and Italy written off. Intelligence officers' briefings didn't. And all of a sudden, there was no more Scuttlebutt. We were back in a war. Now it was going to be our show. Some facts and figures, you don't forget. Never. This was September 9th, 1943. The hour? Call of H hour. Here was Solerno. And what a no-welcome committee. The worst core down from those mountains beyond the beaches. We held on to the beaches and punched on into the narrow Solerno plain behind them. That was D-Day and the night that followed. Our goal was Naples, but those mountains stood between. From them, enemy observation could spot every try we made for the foothills. An armor tearing down. We were doing some tearing too, and units were breaking through. Remember the kid's game, King of the Mountain? Well, that's what this was, but for keeps. Oh, we had a pal. A navy was landing haymakers up into those hills. The enemy began to move in the troops that Montes ate that chased out of Sicily. But we were doing a little moving in ourselves. And every hour we were getting more of the things we needed to keep the show on the road. Seniors of war, that's what speech-makers call it. The same as muscle. And in our slugging match, we sure could use plenty of it. We were a going business, but setting up shop calls for real precautions. Maybe the tenants who moved out don't like it. These didn't. So we were mighty careful when we tidied up. Anyone who wasn't careful was likely to be sorry for it. If he was lucky enough to be able to do that, he'd be sorry for it if he was lucky. Just to keep from going soft, the engineers were taking time out from work to fight and from fighting to work. The stuff that began to move over their roads made them the prettiest site this side of US-1. Back of the beaches, a lot of equipment had to be written off. The Germans weren't letting anybody forget that they had firepower up in their hilltops. Same gunners were having themselves a high old time holding down our use of the airstrips. We had two of them. One in a town called Monacovino had been captured by the British. Our engineers built the other. Until we knocked off those guns, real air support had to come from Sicily or Navy carriers. But worse, those guns were costing us men.  And those nurses, some of them on the beaches before the end of D-day, worked round the clock, treating and helping to evacuate the wounded. We stopped thinking about Naples, only roads and hills with numbers and towns that had names hard to pronounce. Batapalia was one of the toughest, toughest to take to. But we had to because it was a railroad junction and straddled the two best highways in the area. No matter what the reasons were that made a town important to us, the same reasons made it important to the enemy. And so those towns kept changing management. We'd go in, get pushed out, and then have to go in all over again. And of course, worst were the ones up in the foothills. Up in the mountains with units circling backward and forward, you never knew who you'd meet up with. Sometimes it might be friends. Now the crow could be a few yards away from an enemy hilltop, as the crow flies, and not being a crow, still be miles away. Those were the miles that had to be bought, and the price was high. It was going to go higher. For now the Nazis were readying an all-out counterattack. From the north he rushed his best divisions, seasoned Grenadier panzers, a veteran Hermann Gehring division. He'd smash us, hurl us back into the sea. We had eyes that could look down and see him building that powerhouse drive, and we kept him off balance wherever we could. The Nazis kept on plowing up our two airstrips, tried to pull down our carrier-based air power wherever it was flown in. Then he uncorked that Sunday punch. He threw in everything, and everything still included guns hammering down on us from above. But we had hardware of our own. We blocked that Sunday punch, and let go a few of our own. We'd blast away at those mountains, then go in and take over, but it never got monotonous. The enemy's punch began losing its steam, but he was in there slugging, and every foot of ground was costing us manpower. The towns on the Salerno Plain and in the foothills were still being taken and retaken. By now some of them didn't even look like towns anymore. We were learning a lot about the enemy. We'd move into a town to find he'd left units behind to whittle us down and pave the way for his next try to take it back again. Any shelled-out ruin might conceal a machine gunner or a sniper.  But by now, we knew the counter-attack had failed. Hitler had lost his chance to sweep us out of Italy. There was a message saying just that to every officer and enlisted man in our fifth army. One little phrase hit it right on the head. We are here to stay, said Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark. Cream puff war, huh? Oh, don't get me wrong. Of course it was rough. All wars are. But shucks, he was talking about one measly little week. Now you take the argon. One week, he calls it. One measly little week. My man, this fight was only just beginning.  Not yet they weren't. This was still Hitler's fortless hero. The enemy could still hit hard, call them delaying tactics. They still spell out fight. We began to see the last of the mountains and started thinking again about Naples. There was relief now for men in forward areas as reserves became available. Relief wouldn't be enough if you'd been stopped by those delaying tactics. Out of those tactics, we were getting us bigger batches of guests, most up real polite by now. But it was still war. One town, Hakerno, took 100 rounds from our navy guns before we could move in. Other towns out of big gun range had to be pried open like oysters. One town, then on to the next. Where the fighting had moved on, civilians would reappear. They'd even welcome us. It meant they understood that this was the price they had to pay if their towns had any value to the enemy. They had tossed old Benito out of his job and were ready to take punishment. That was the only way to get rid of his buddies. Mussolini's buddies were now returning that feeling. Demolitions, mines, time bombs could only delay us. But they could create horror and hardship for the civilian population. The Nazi had turned vengeful. Civilian made his fairer target as soldier. Here again was Abilay and other towns we'd fought for. Now they were ours for good. We pushed on toward Naples. More and more people were welcoming us along the way. No longer afraid of the Nazi's return. A pretty good sign. There were other signs too. The enemy was destroying his equipment.  Come to think about it, we were pretty beat up too by now. Relief units became all welcome sighted. Reg towns no longer meant warfare. It had become enemy spite as he fled north. We'd have to move fast if anything was to be saved in Naples. Rebuilding roads became routine and we pushed on toward that port and those airfields we wanted. Outfits that could stop along the way found they'd been winning a popularity contest along with a battle. It's a funny thing about soldiers, anyway our soldiers. Kids always go for them in a big way and we do a bit of melding down ourselves. You got to wondering what it was like to be a youngster in the middle of a war. Wonder to what kind of miracle it would take to make some of them laugh, be kids again. You know, Pop, sometimes when I look at Tommy I think back on those towns we fought through and all those poor kids. Wrap on kids, women folks too. War always is. Times two when I get to thinking that if we hadn't fought through scraps like that, maybe one day he'd know the same kind of life those kids knew. Well now you got a point. I used to get the same notion watching you when you was growing up. Well we did our best to bring those kids their miracle. Then our military government people came in to distribute needed relief and reorganize paralyzed communities. There was nothing left for our armies now but to move into Naples. And maybe Naples wasn't waiting. Here again it was the old story, only worse. The time bomb and the mine. Here too methodical destruction. And we expected that and had a few ready made tricks to counter it. Our great prize, the port of Naples had been wrecked. But this too we had expected. Within weeks some installations would be back in use. The retreating enemy had missed no bets. The main aqueduct had been cut and emergency water supply had to be improvised. Not a single utility had been left functioning. But they would be restored. We took care of that. Gained our victory and all Italy south of the Volterno was ours. Neither our leaders nor any of us would forget those others. The ones who had helped us crash the European continent. American fighting men brought honor to themselves, the armed forces, and our country. All soldiers of all ages will continue to refight the old battles. Call it pride in self, in the outfit, in our military traditions. No matter which it serves us all. In those all repeated stories there is inspiration to acts of courage and sacrifice. When newer challenges to our American heritage must be met. Now there's a sergeant Stuart Queen, your host for the Big Picture. The Big Picture is an official report for the armed forces and the American people. Produced by the Army Victoria Center. Presented by the Department of Army in cooperation with this station.


Live from San Francisco, it's the Cube. Covering Google Cloud Next 2018. Brought to you by Google Cloud and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back to our day two of live coverage here in San Francisco, California for Google Next, this conference called Next 2018. Google Next 2018 is the hashtag. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. We're kicking off day two. We just heard the keynotes are finishing up. Most of the meat of the keynote is out there, so we're going to just dive in and start the analysis. Got a tight schedule again, great guests. We've got all the cloud native folks to mount from Google. We've got to hear from customers and from partners. We're going to hear all the action. I'm going to break it down for you. But first we want to do kind of a breakdown on the keynote. Do analyze it and give some critical analysis and also things we think Google's doing great. Dave, day two, got three days of wall-to-wall coverage. Go to silkenangle.com for special journalism, cloud series, a lot of articles hitting, a lot of cube videos, go to cube.net. Check out those videos. That's our site, where all the videos are. Dave, day one, we had a great close yesterday. I thought it was phenomenal. I thought we nailed it at day two. And one of the things we were talking about in the first day close editorially was saying, hey, you know, this AI is super important today in the keynote, more AI, more under the covers, more speed of announcements. Google kind of taking a playbook out of Amazon. You know, let's get some announcements out there. I wouldn't say that the pace of announcements meets AWS in terms of the announcements, but the focus is on a very few core things. AI, roll of data, cloud-native, cloud functions, cloud service platform. This is the Google. If they're lifting the curtain, we're starting to see some action. Your thoughts on the keynote. Well, I think you're absolutely right. I mean, I think Google realizes that it's got to compete with Amazon from the keynote standpoint, demonstrating innovations, putting out a lot of function. I have to say this, maybe it doesn't match Amazon's pace of innovation and announcements, but when you compare what these cloud guys do with the traditional enterprise shows that we go to, I mean, there's no comparison.  I mean, there are dozens of announcements that Google made today. I would say just a couple of things, you know, critical analysis. Google, I mean, everything is very scripted, as is all these shows, Amazon's very scripted as well, but they're reading everything, which I don't like. I would rather see them have a little bit more teleprompter friendly sort of presentation. So that's just sort of a little side comment, but the content is very good. The big themes I took away today, even though they didn't use this term, is really they're treating infrastructure as code. You know, they're deploying infrastructure and microservices from, you know, code as developers. So that was a theme that cut through the entire morning. Big announcement was the GA of cloud functions. It's been in beta. Now it's serverless. It's been in beta for a long time. And then a number of other announcements that we're going to go through and talk about, but those were some of the big highlights, but auto ML, I want to talk about that a little bit. Talk a lot about developer agility throughout a couple of examples of customers. We heard from Chevron. We heard from Twitter. So they're starting to give examples. Again, not as many as Amazon, but starting real customers in the enterprise. Customers like MasterCard. So they're dropping some names. And so you're starting to see their belief manifest into actual adoption. But I'd like to ask you, John, what's your sense of the adoption bell curve and the maturity curve of the Google customer? Great question. I mean, I think for me, just kind of squinting through all the noise and looking at the announcement specifically and how they're lading them and how the portfolio of the show's going, it's very clear that Google is saying, we are here to play. We're here to win. We're going to take the long game on this cloud business. We have a ton to bring to the table.  And they're doing that. They're bringing major technology, big query, big table spanner, and a variety of other things from the core Google business, bringing it out there and making it consumable. Said that yesterday. Today, if you look at what's going on, you're seeing AI within G Suite. Leading by example, by demonstrating, look, this is how we use AI. You could use it too, but not jamming AI and G Suite down the throats of the customer. AI and big table, I thought was pretty significant because you can now bring machine learning and artificial intelligence, so to speak, into a data warehouse-like environment where it's not a lot of data movement, data prep, it just happens. And then the cloud service provider platform, I mean, the cloud services platform, the CSP, that Al Menor, the vice president of engineering rolled out, I found interesting. And the key move there was cloud functions. They now need to have serverless up and running. Obviously, Lambda is AWS. The uptake on the enterprise with Lambda has been significant more than they thought. We heard that from Amazon. So I expect that cloud functions and having this foundational layer with Kubernetes doubling down. The Kubernetes, Istio and these cloud functions represent that foundation. The Knative open source project, again, another arrow in their quiver around their open source contribution. This is Google. They're bringing the goods to the party and the open source party. This is an underappreciated value proposition, in my opinion. I think a lot of people don't understand the implications of what's going to go on with this, but this upstream contribution and the downstream benefits that's going to come from their contrary open source is highly strategic. We used to call in the old days, Kool-Aid Injection. That's the way you ingratiate into the communities with your software. Ultimately, the best software should win. There's not a lot of politics in open source as it was once was. So I think that's fine. Now to the question of migration, Google Cloud is showing some customers up there, but I don't think they're going to, they're a long ways away from winning the enterprises. What you see Google winning now is the Alpha Tech East. The guys who are in gals who know tech, they know scale and they can come in and appreciate the goodness of Google. They can appreciate the 10X advantages we heard from Danielle with Spanner.  They understand the tech. They've had problems. They need an aspirin. They need a steroid and they need a growth hormone, right? So they don't just need a painkiller. They need solutions. These guys can make it happen. They jump in, take the machinery and make that scale. The second level in the trajectory of their growth and adoption curve is what I call smart SMB, smart enterprises. These are enterprises that have really strong technical people where the internal conversations is not if we should go to cloud, it's how should we go to cloud and the DNA of the makeup of the technical people will decide the cloud they go with. And if it's engineering led, meaning they have strong network operations, strong dev team, then they have people who know what they're doing, they gravitate to Google cloud. The third phase I think is not yet attainable, although aspirational for Google is the classic enterprise. Man, I've been buying IT for years. Oh my God. I'm like a straight jacket of innovation. Nothing's happening. And they're like, we got to go to the cloud. How do we do it? It's a groping for a strategy, right? So Amazon gets those guys because there's some things that shadow IT that Amazon can deliver in more options than what Google has. So I think, I don't see Google knocking that down in the short term anytime soon. They can do plenty of business. Again, this is a trajectory that has an economy of scale to it, there's an advantage, it's competitive advantage by doing that. If Google tries to beat, become Amazon and meet their trajectory, the diseconomies of scale plays against Google. This is critical. Google does not want to do that and they're not doing it. So I think the strategy of Google is right on the money, nail the early adopters, the alpha geeks, hit the engineering teams within the smartest companies or small businesses and then wait to hit that mainstream market two, three years from now. So I think there's a multi-year journey for Google. Again, diseconomies of scale is not what they want. They have tons of leverage in the tech and the data in the IA. So to me, they're right on track. They're now getting into the phase two. Smart. I give them credit for that. Let me pick up on a couple of things you said and tie it into the keynotes from this morning. But I want to start with some of the conversations that you and I had last night and around the show with some of the GCP users. So we've been asking them, okay, well, how do you like GCP? What do you like? What don't you like? How does it compare with Azure? How does it compare with Amazon? And the feedback has been consistent. Tech is great. A lot of confidence in the tech. Obviously what Google's doing is they're using the tech internally and then they're pointing it to the external world, comes out in beta and then they harden it like they did today with serverless and go GA. The tech's great. Documentation has a little bit to be desired. We heard that as a consistent theme. Functionality not as rich in the infrastructure side as AWS and not as enterprise app friendly as Azure but very, very solid capabilities. And this comes from people in financial services, people in healthcare, people from oil and gas. So it's been consistent feedback that we've heard across the user base. You mentioned Knative. Knative is a new open source project that brings serverless to Kubernetes and it was brought forth by Pivotal, IBM, Red Hat, SAP, obviously Google and others. Again, a big theme of the keynotes this morning was developer agility, bringing microservices and services and things like Kubernetes to the developer community. Now, I want to talk about another example of a customer Chevron. Is Google like crushing it in traditional enterprise IT in the cloud? Well, no, you're bringing up that point that they're not but what they are doing is doing well in places where people are solving big data oriented business problems with technology. Is that IT? It's not traditional IT, but it's technology. Let me give you an example. Chevron was up on stage today and they gave an example of they have thousands and thousands of docs of topographical data points and they use this thing called AutoML to ingest all the data into a model that they built and visualize that data to identify high probability drilling zones and sites in the Gulf of Mexico. Dramatically compress the time that it would have taken. In fact, they wouldn't have been able to do this. So they ingested the data, auto categorized all the data to simplify it, put it into buckets and then mapped it into their model which was tuned over time and identified the high probability of sites for drilling. That's using tech to solve a business problem, drive productivity. Google crushes it with those type of data applications. Really good example. And AutoML drives that and this is where again, machine learning, AutoML, AI operations, we mentioned that yesterday, the IT operations sector is going to be decimated but I think the big tell sign for me is when I look at the cloud shows, Amazon definitely has competition with Google. So if anyone who says Google's way far back in the market share, which you know I think is bastardized, I think those market share numbers don't mean anything because there's so much sandbagging going on.  I mean, Amazon not really, if Amazon could probably sandbag the numbers even more by putting revenue from their partner ecosystem. Google throws G Suite in there but they could throw AdWords in there and say technically that's running on their cloud and be the number one cloud. So what is a good cloud? When you have a cloud, if you can make a situation where you can take a customer and get them on the cloud easily, okay, in a simplified accelerated way, that is a success formula. And what you heard on stage, they was kind of not, I won't say underplay, they certainly played it up and got some applause is Velostrada and these services. They bought a company called Velostrada in May of this past year and what they do is essentially the migration. We had a guest on a user yesterday migrating from Oracle to Spanner, 10X value, a major reduction in price. They didn't say 10X but it was significant. We'll try to get those numbers. She wouldn't say but what Velostrada does is it allows you to migrate existing apps in a very easy non-disruptive way from on-prem to the cloud. This is the killer app for the leading clouds. They need tools to move workloads and databases to their cloud because as clients and enterprises start to do taste tests, kick the tires in cloud, they're going to want to know what's better cloud. So the sales model is simply go try it before you buy it. It's cloud, you can rent it. This is the value of the cloud. So Amazon's done an extremely awesome job at this. Google has to step up and I think Velostrada is one of many. I think the Kubernetes piece is critical around managing legacy workloads and adding new cloud native. So between Velostrada and the Knative and the cloud functions, I think Google's shoring up their offerings and it makes them a formidable competitor for certain workloads and those early adopters and that stage two small, medium, or smart enterprise as a foundational element. I think that is a tell sign and I got to give them props for that. And again, you can get an Oracle database into cloud. You're going to win a lot of business. You can get an app workload running on Google Cloud seamlessly in a very easy, meaningful way. Well, let's talk about that. It's just going to rain money. So let's talk about, we just talked about how Google's not, you know, crushing it in traditional enterprise apps, so let's talk about some of the things we heard today. Let's talk about some of the things we heard today where they're trying to get into that space. So they announced today support on GCP for Oracle Rack, real application clusters, and Exadata, and then SAP via a partnership with Accenture. Okay, so Accenture does crush it with Oracle and SAP. Now here's the problem. Oracle will play its licensing games. We've seen this with Amazon where essentially Oracle's license costs are double. In AWS, they'll do the same thing for Google to guarantee it than they are in Oracle's cloud. So 2x, and it's already incredibly expensive. So Oracle's going to use its pricing strategy to lock out competitors. So that's a big deal. But we also saw some stuff on security. Cloud Armor automatically defending against DDoS attacks. That's a big deal. We heard about shielded VMs, so secure VMs within GCP. These are things that traditional enterprises is going to resonate with traditional enterprises. Yeah, but here's the thing. With one final point, I know we're going to run over a little bit of time here, but I want to get it out there. You mentioned Oracle and the licenses. It's not just about Oracle and their costs and that disadvantage that could have for a lot of people. And what cloud clearly has some benefits on a lot of costs. Here's the problem. Like any mafia business day, we always talk about the cloud mafias and the on-premise mafias. Oracle has an ecosystem of people who make a boatload of money around these licenses. So you have a lot of perverse incentives around keeping the old stuff around, okay? So as the global SIs, you mentioned Accenture, Deloitte and others, those guys may salute the Google Cloud flag and the ecosystem, but at the end of the day, it's going to come down to money for them. So if the perverse incentive is to stay in the old way, it's like, hey, okay, if you keep the license in there, I get more better billing hours and I can roll out more deployments. Because what Cloud's doing, what Google's actually enabling is enabling for the automation of those systems and those services. So you're going to see a future very quickly where half of the work that Accenture and Deloitte get paid on is going to be gone from weeks to minutes, months to weeks to minutes. This is not a good monetization playbook for Accenture and those guys. So Google has to shift a ecosystem strategy that's smart and makes people money. At the end of the day, that's going to be a healthy ecosystem. For every dollar of Google spend, it has to be at least five to 15x ecosystem dollars. I just don't see it right now. The big consultancies love to eat at the trough, as we like to say. But let's talk about the ecosystem because you and I, we've walked the floor a couple of times now. We mentioned Accenture, Cognizant is here, Red Hat is here, KPMG, Salesforce, Marketo, Tata. I mean, everybody's here. UiPath, a startup and RPA, Cohesities here, Rubrik's here, Intel's here. Everybody's here, I mean, except AWS is in here. And Microsoft's not here. The other point that I think it's worth mentioning is again, big theme here is internally tested then we pointed at the market. Chevron, Auto Trader, Mastercard, you're starting to see these names trickle out. Other traditional enterprise, they announced today a partnership with NetApp for file sharing, for NFS workloads. So you're seeing NetApp lean in to the cloud in a big way, NetApp's back. You were seeing that. You saw Twitter on the Google Cloud. So you're seeing more and more examples of real companies, real business. I'll just end the segment by saying one thing quickly. The high IQ people in the industry, whether it's customers, partners, or vendors, are going to have to increase their 3D chess game because as the money shifts around, it's a zero sum game in my mind. It's going to shift to the value. Things are going to get automated away and that could be core businesses. So the innovator dilemma is in play for many, many people. You've got to be smart and you've got to land in a position, you've got to know where the puck is going to be, you have to skate to where the puck is going to be. And it's going to require the highest IQ, tech IQ, and also business IQ to make sure that you are making money as the world turns because those dollars are up for grabs. The dollars are shifting as the new ecosystem rolls out.  So to me, that's the big story, I think in the cloud that Google's driving. Google's driving massive acceleration, massive value creation, massive ecosystem opportunities, but it's not your grandfather's ecosystem. It's different. So we're going to see, we're going to test people, we're going to challenge it, we're going to have conversations here in theCUBE. For day two of three days of live coverage, I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Stay with us as we kick off day two. We'll be right back.


Okay guys, so I was gifted this little tiny address book from my dear friend Cindy Utter and I actually, she gave me one that was even smaller too. I decided when I got both of them I was going to turn them into mini art journals. So we're here working on the bigger one and because of the kind of paper it's made out of the first thing I'm going to do is give it a coat of clear gesso. I'm not going to worry too much about covering up the lines and words that are already on the book and trying to disguise the fact that it is an address book. I'm going to use that to add interest to the background of all the pages and as you can see I'm not even waiting for the gesso to dry. I'm going in with some mustard seed distressing and adding some dots to the background and then I'm pulling out one of my new stencil designs that I cut on to a piece of clear plastic from a plastic index divider, binder index divider from the dollar store and I resized it to be really small to fit this address, this little address book and I'm getting out some of my distress paints in a few different colors, a pink, a green, I pull out a blue also and I'm going to stencil this, it's a flower on to the page. Now I'm going to tell you that I didn't do the best stenciling job on here, I ended up being okay with it but if you really want a crisp, clean, clear stencil you want to do more pouncing or stippling up and down with the brush and you really don't want so much paint on it. I actually had too much paint on my brush but that's okay, I'm going to make it work. You can see you'll be able to see when I lift up the stencil, it bled under because I had too much paint on the brush. You get a clearer image if you don't have so much paint on the brush or if you use ink on one of the little sponges like the distressing on one of the little distressing tools that would work. I really wanted to use acrylic paint and I added some, I did the pink first and then I added the blue and then I'm going back with the brown, my brown was getting kind of thick, it wasn't working super well but there you go, it turned out alright and I took the leftover paint and just put it on my canvas on my table, that's what I do. Alright then I decided some of the things on my desk were in my way hanging above my desk but I wanted to get a pen out, it was just too wet so I had to let it dry so I let it dry and then I went around and did some sketchy lines with a pen and a pencil. I ended up just using a plain ballpoint pen that ends up smearing later, you'll see right here I just did some quick scribbly journaling and I like the way it looked. I like the way the finished page looks but that particular pen I should have used a different pen because that pen does smear so you know it's all learning experience, right? So I'm taking some neon watercolor pencils, these are just Crayola, no special brand, not expensive. There are some of my favorites and going in with some yellow and orange to just brighten up the page a little bit and then I've got some Derwent pencils in a pink and I have a brown and a Prima pencil in green. I just grabbed pencils that were the colors I wanted to use to accent the stencil and add some sketchy lines and give some interest to the page and then I just really decide, first of all I need to bring some of the pink back to the flower. So I grab my brush, put the stencil back on, do some more stenciling, I like the way that looks, I ended up doing it a little more, really just kind of fussing with the flower and that I like the way that looks. And then I decide I really need more flowers on there so I'm going to put a couple more flowers on there kind of trailing off the page from the right down to the left so it's a very last minute thing so I grabbed some of the paint colors you don't need too much that one's barely on the page and then I'm going to go right in I'm not waiting for anything to dry I'm doing this very quick and I get a little bit better stenciled image this time because I'm really doing more pouncing I still have too much paint on my brush. I'm adding the blue, I'm using the same colors I used before the pink I think it's a band and coral and then I don't remember what color the blue and the brown were they're all distressed paint or Adirondack paints and now I'm remembering to recap my paints I did mess up my caps there for a second but that's okay now I'm not waiting for anything to dry I'm going right in with my Crayola pencils adding some sketchy lines with the neon ones and then the regular that's a drawing pencil and adding the same kind of lines to the new flowers that I did to the one that was already on there with the same pencils in the same colors and you'll notice that I just had the flowers just overlapping just a little bit and I really like the way that looks so I like the way that looks but it still needs something and so this is where I mess it up so I add some recollections crayon and then I get a baby wipe out to smear it around the edge I want to give it a border which is a good idea and I like the way that looks but then I get it near that black pen journaling and look what happens it smear like crap and then you try to fix it it makes it worse right so then I think about well what if I go in with some more distressing that doesn't really help doesn't really help crap okay so what can I do what can I do so then I get out another stencil after I try making marks it doesn't help either so I get out another stencil from Tim Holtz and it's a very small dot stencil I don't remember what the name of it is and I'm partially off screen so I apologize for that I did pull out this quote from my word box and I do want to use it and I cut it apart I trim it and cut it apart but I know as I'm doing that that that's not going to be enough for me to add to the page and or detract from the fact that I smeared that ink all over the place so here's that little small dot stencil and I'm going to get my blue paint and I am going to stencil some dots there you go right over it so now it looks like it's just part the smeared ink and the blue dots are just part of the background and it was intended that way I add some more just messy marks kind of go over what I was writing and just make it you know even more you know crazy if I'm going to go with it I might as well just go with it right so I add some more matte medium with my finger and put my magazine words on there and just try not to touch that pen too much anymore they're moving the camera around because I realize I'm out of frame so there you go I love the way it looks and I hope you do too and I hope you give this a try don't forget to go out and have a great day everybody and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and practice doing something small alright that's it for now talk to you soon oh I forgot I went in and added some white recollections crayon to the petals to just brighten it up a little bit I thought it was a little bit too dark and dreary it was a very last-minute thing I forgot about that and then I went in because those are water soluble I went in with a baby wipe and just blended them just a little bit and made them not so bright and shocking on the petals and it that's actually a pearl crayon so it has a you can't really tell on camera but it's got a little sheen to it it brightened it up a lot alright talk to you later guys later and don't forget to have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it bye