Super excited to do this info session with all of you. This is a program that was started in 2017. It's a fully funded position as a doctoral student in preservation at G sub. It's a five year program. And during those five years, the candidate will have tuition paid for plus a stipend that will help with living expenses. This is the school. Many of you may be familiar with it, but this is Columbia University's campus. The little blue arrow is where Avery Hall is and I am this window over here. This window over here is that window right there. So now you can you can place me the PhD program is housed in the preservation technology lab at G sub. The preparation technology lab is both a research facility. It's a teaching facility and it's a resource for the PhD students. And as well as for the school in general, but it speaks to the nature of the PhD program. The PhD program really is focused on experimentation is focused on the intersection between preservation, art, architecture, technology, the fields of the built environment, but really bringing together art and technology and preservation and its ramifications and implications in the world which might involve historical questions, policy questions, environmental questions, etc. So it is a future looking PhD program so you're really to imagine, you know, we are looking for research projects student research projects that are going to be really looking to the future future leaning but of course they're going to be informed, you know, by historical research and an engagement in the material world. The lab is has the incredible collection of materials. It also is involved in the kind of long wedge of the future of digital literacy and digital technology so bringing together this material in digital world in a series of experiments that can be grounded in our discipline of preservation and grounded in the problems and the issues that that articulate our current reality so as you think about your application. This is really something to keep in mind and something to keep in mind and relationship to the fact that this is also self guided. It's independent work so in other words, the PhD program is not it's not structured like in some of the sciences where you're coming in and doing work that that is a larger project that you are, let's say doing just a little sliver of like you know the faculty research brand in the sciences that's not how we work. We're really looking to hear from you what is your research project. And, and how does being in Columbia. Make it possible for you to carry out that research project so big part of this of course is also every library. That's the other research base and allow students are going to be involved. It is one of the premier preservation architecture art libraries in the world. It has a tremendous archive, it has obviously a collection, but a lot of the original drawings original manuscripts materials of the disciplines of the built environment are stored here in the archive so archival work is also. of the program itself. Now the school is spread across a number of different buildings and so just this is this is a very hall over here. We have spaces here in this building this building in this building and where you see the sx that's where the preservation technology lab is. And that's where the PhD program is housed. So, as I mentioned, the PhD in historic preservation is housed in the preservation technology lab. It's a five year program fully funded position for one student we admit admit one student per year. That conducts research that is proposed by the student research that has to do with experimental preservation advancing. Experimental preservation, thinking about experimentation as a grounded practice that involves bringing together preservation, art architecture and the fields of the built environment and relationship to issues that are critical to our time. And so those might be questions of environment climate change and might be questions of equity. They might be other questions that you bring to the four, as you put together your application, which is, you know, the topic that is pressing on all of your minds. Think about what that project is in relationship of course to your background what you bring to the to that research but also what Columbia's preservation program and Graduate School of architecture preservation planning and preservation can offer to you. So think about our resources, think about how our resources are helpful to you. Think about what the preservation technology lab can bring to your research practice on the next. Think about also what every library can bring to your research. Think about the archives, the, the, the collections that are in every library, and how they might be relevant to your research project and think about and I'll have the next most importantly, who do you want to work with the faculty that are here. Next slide please. So, the faculty there's a number of full time faculty here that I encourage you to familiarize yourself with, obviously myself, I'm the director of the program. And I practice at the intersection of preservation art and architecture, thinking about the ways in which art and technology can be ways of advancing preservation but also of questioning the very practice of preservation questioning the very assumptions of preservation and beginning to move the forward through that critical engagement. And so there are a number of books here on the screen that you might be interested in becoming familiar with as you're putting together your application experimental preservation is one of them, but also the more recent historic preservation theory anthology, which really puts an emphasis on the on the intellectual dimensions of the field so every act of preservation preservation is a practice of course but that practice is an intellectual practice it's informed by ideas. It's a practice in that sense and not necessarily only a practice that is repetitive and about acquiring specific skills, but a practice that is informed by theoretical premises and pushing through praxis those theoretical premises forward so you'll find some of that in that book let's have the next please. And so the different kinds of projects that you might find in among the faculty and here some of mine here has to do with preserving and thinking about materiality the materiality of the environment materiality of dust, dust as an architectural material as a fragment. One of the pollution that that that kind of dust is something that comes first and then comes architecture before you put a brick on a job site, you have to manufacture that brick and you have to make pollution. It's part of it's not really just the supply chain, it is part of architecture, because actually when the brick goes on to the building, you then have to heat or cool that building and make more pollution in the process so you can't really make pollution before architecture but is also in in in meshed in the very process of sustaining the built environment. And so, how do we account for that pollution as a significant aspect of our built environment and begin to think about it through some of these projects that have to do with collecting the dust on buildings beginning to both think of them aesthetically so encountering their materiality as an aesthetic composition, but then also beginning to understand them technologically as a cleaning technique through through that latex that is applied as a poultice to remove the dust and also begin to analyze this as a record as an environmental record. So, this is a project that through preservation begins to raise questions about what do we assign value to what are the materials that are considered character defining materials in historic preservation this is a way to begin to think about pollution as a big part of our environment because pollution doesn't just sit on the lot line but it kind of moves around in the air. So it forces us to start thinking about what is the object of preservation itself. And so to move beyond buildings to the whole of the built environment and to move also from the land as a way to establish what is, you know, what do we preserve and not in terms of, you know, lot lines and maps that look down, but also to look up at the sky and to think about how the whole of the sky might be something that we need to begin to engage as a material reality as a constructed reality and one worth preserving and of course there's a long history of this and preservation we talk about view sheds and we talk about swaths of air you know when we talk about a historic view shed. So all of these are ways to begin to think about the object of preservation in a way that that is not necessarily bound to a particular monument or building but certainly encompassing of that and beginning to push that forward. Let's have the next please. And then of course, you know there are other kinds of projects that that have to do with entering into a dialogue with this so many of us on the faculty have professional practices on the side so in my studio you know we've been collaborating on the preservation of buildings. And nationally this is the US Embassy in Oslo, where I actually engaged in a dialogue with a Norwegian national authorities about the preservation of a fence which you cannot see in this photograph, which was put up right after the building was constructed, and was not deemed important to the preservation of the fend of the of the Embassy and so through art, we were able to preserve the fence and integrated as part of what is a relevant piece of this architecture. And what is the kind of ideas that are made possible to transmit over time because certainly that is something that we had preservation are concerned with through the very materialities of our built environment and of course, the idea of thinking through art as a method and design as a method of preservation is one of also pushing the practices of preservation the assumptions about what has value or not so we're definitely looking for projects that are along those lines thinking about those assumptions being critical of those assumptions and thinking about how art design technology can begin to push those that discipline our discipline forward let's have the next other full time faculty include Erica Avrami, and Erica is focused on community engaged research and thinking about policy questions. And how when we as preservationists work at the systemic level of writing policy, we actually sometimes set goals for ourselves and don't go back and check on those goals. And so her work deals with really thinking about what goals are set in the field and then trying to assess whether we've accomplished them and reorganizing rethinking how do we rethink policy in order to achieve those goals more intentionally and working with communities, working from the from the ground up to build those those policies so this means that her work enters into critical assessments of contemporary practices and preservation contemporary policies contemporary institutions to to really move them forward and through through a critical engagement and so she works very internationally through bodies like UNESCO and World Monuments and also more locally at at municipal and state levels or national levels through that process it is it is a process that then leads to the different kinds of research outputs that that are you know books or in different reports, but that Erica is intentionally focused along a series of questions such as equity, the narratives the social narratives that have been left out by by a kind of top down preservation institutions, and also climate change so she works through technologies such as GIS visualization mapping and other kinds of data gathering she's really thinking about how data is part of the part of the way that we inform policy but data itself is problematic and comes with a lot of bias and we need to engage with it so there's a lot of the students that are, you know, interested in these questions of data will find, you know, she really look at the, you know, Erica's work and let's have the next some of the other faculty in the in the program oh here we go there looks like there is a delay in this so I don't know how we we move that forward but some of the other faculty which are affiliated part of the PhD in preservation are low love and alone who is an engineer and an artist and directs natural materials lab within the within the school very connected to the preservation technology lab she's interested in sustainable materials and the way that those sustainable materials affect social formations and institutional relationships so she is very much within this experimental preservation fold Mabel Wilson who is both professor at GSAP and professor of African American and African diasporic studies and director of the Institute of Research and African American studies and co director of the global Africa lab. Mabel's work really looks at the way in which racialization is part of the modernization project of the enlightenment, and how we begin to engage with it in critical ways so as to think about how we as a discipline begin to move beyond the, the through and beyond the, the, the problematic relationships that are set up when racialization becomes a means of structuring knowledge. So theoretical but at the same time very engaged in practical questions maybe also led a whole research project on on who builds your architecture so the question of labor and who does the labor and, and, and certainly that touches upon who does labor in preservation. Lucia, a lay who is architectural historian and has been doing a number of different projects on various materials that are more historically oriented so using historical research as a way to up and or critique or rethink how we consider materials in historic materials and the, the flows of materials through our built environment. As institutional flows as social flows as political flows as environmental flows. So she's been working on concrete for a number of years you also published a book called designs of destruction, which looks at the way in which the ways in which the United Nations and UNESCO really set up a whole infrastructure coming out of World War two to to protect the to protect World Heritage as a geopolitical move so she's very interested in these intersections between materiality preservation and the political economies. She's really running a major conference set of conferences on the question of land as a material so land differently conceived as soil as property, etc. So these are, these are some of the figures we can talk more about them if you ask in the Q&A. I want to think about how these, this faculty will be able to move your project along. Obviously, there are intersections here among all the faculties that that we're interested in the question of materiality, the question of materials, the question of the digital, the question of how art intersects with that the aesthetic dimension and the experimental dimension that art and technology bringing forth different experimental projects that begin to test and contest preservation praxis and also preservation ideas preservation theory so let's go to the next. We have a broader PhD faculty in the school, which you should be aware of and of course you're going to, you don't have to identify an advisor when you apply, you will figure out when you, you know, when you're here who will actually you will want to, you know, work with them closely, but here's some of the people that are affiliated with with the program they're both at GSAP, they're at Barnard and they're at the Department of Art and Archaeology there are others that we could direct you to but these are people that are teaching PhD level courses that intersect with preservation in one way or another there's Kenneth Frampton is no longer on the faculty he retired recently. So this this list is just bear that in mind next go to the next. Next slide please. Yes, and then there's of course the master of science and historic preservation faculty as well. Who you should be familiar with they're all on the website, and also research centers so very strong applications to the program will also begin to imagine how by being cited in the preservation technology lab and focused on experimental preservation research projects. These, your research project will connect to different research centers and institutes at Columbia University. And that will make it very of a strong application why because it will show to us that this can only happen at Columbia because of the various research infrastructures that are here the different people that are here that this is the place where you really research so this gives you a sense of the different research centers and again each student will have a different way of framing their research project and we will help you once you get here. Connect to some of those people at those other research centers and institutes and bring him into your research project so let's go to the next. You can also familiarize yourself with these research centers and Institute so just an outline of the program real quick here we go could we have the next slide please you're probably all familiar with this already. You take classes for the first two years. During your third year, you are taking exams your so called qualifying exams, which enable you then to move to your dissertation phase what's called ABD all but dissertation, and then you have two years to write that dissertation for a total of five years. During the first two years when you're taking classes are some required classes that you must take their PhD colloquium which is a methods class in preservation, and then some other doctoral colloquia in GSAP, and some electives in and outside of the Graduate School of Architecture, planning and preservation, and within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, you can also take classes. Now, during your first year you don't teach during the second and third year you will be teaching so this is also part of the PhD program is to train the next generation of scholars. We are interested in people who want to pursue an academic career, an academic career that has many many ramifications of course because you can go that you know that is more research oriented. But certainly the we're looking for the people who are going to shape the preservation discipline in the future. So here you have some of the other requirements I mentioned the duration and the MPhil exams. There's also a language requirement so you need to speak a foreign language and pass that it said you have to have it at the reading level. So you have to understand texts, you don't necessarily have to speak it. And then, you know, the PhD requirement there is a there is a time limit. So we want to make sure that you're finished in five years. Sometimes things happen, we just had a pandemic some people had to have extensions we definitely want to make sure you finish before seven years so this is think of it as a is this is a long term commitment you are not your it's it's it's work you're your but it's also a great deal of fun you're going to be learning. It's exciting you get to devote all of your time to your research with a great faculty that is really committed to helping you advance your research project. And in the company of a great group of a cohort of other PhD students so we currently have three PhD students in the program. And they are listed on our website let's go to the next. And so I invite you to please familiarize yourselves with them and their, their projects. And this is just to signal to you that you want to just think about the mix of classes that you might be taking so what are the kinds of classes that are being offered here that might be and informing your research project what are the, what is the knowledge that you need to be able to move your research project forward. So look at the classes that are being offered in GSAP to imagine who you might want to take classes with really plan this out I think we can skip through these GSAP elective classes because they're really meant for people to have a moment to just make sure you look at those. Now, you will all be putting together an admissions dossier and so we're very interested in learning about you. But more importantly, what you bring to this research project so this is really about the, you know, how you're going to your interest and desire to put together a experimental preservation research project. How do you define that how do you define experimental preservation what are the disciplines that you are connecting what is your background how are you putting together these different, you know strands and threads to advance this this research project. We will want transcripts, but the key here is be is your statement of academic purpose this is something that I really want to draw your attention to. This is where you describe your research project and and that description should really show that you know what the discipline is about that you are familiar with some key texts in the discipline some key projects, and that you've identified a missing component within this experimental preservation research area that you want to advance. And so you want to state that in that's what your statement of academic purpose should really lay out this is think of it as a dissertation proposal. I say that and I put it in brackets because we all know that this might change. When you get here, this might be something completely different you'll take classes that will rearrange and you'll end up doing something, maybe slightly different. That's totally okay, but we definitely want you to have a clear and intentional purpose coming in five years sounds like a long time it goes by in a blink of an eye. So we really want you to be intentional and directed coming in and to know what you what you want to do. How you see the field. Tell us who you see are, you know the major players in this in this field of experimental preservation research praxis action, and what is missing what what do you want to bring in in terms of methodology and bringing together art and technology and materials and, and perhaps design policy history. How do you envision that. And who do you want to work with and what are the institutes and centers that you want to bring together in to advance your project, and what are what are the kinds of archives, probably how do you want to structure this so the more you tell us the better. So curriculum vitae is important. Three letters of recommendation from academic sources please ask people who who've conducted a PhD that can speak to your ability to conduct doctoral level work. I suggest that you call these people and you ask them point blank. Do they feel comfortable writing a strong letter of recommendation for you. What you don't want is somebody writing a letter of recommendation for you that's luke warm, and you don't want people that don't know you writing letters of recommendation so these are people who are your champions that that you want to really reach out to. If you're an international student you have to show proof that you can speak English grs you don't have to take it if you haven't if you have we're very happy to to see it. But that's not a major. That's not for us something we're really looking at it's the statement of academic purpose your CV those letters that are really the focus of our attention and the writing sample. These can be writing sample these can be projects this can be designs they can be things that you've done. But you if it's the project just don't just send a few pictures of a project you know send a project narrative that's really articulating how this relates to your statement of academic purpose to your research project. Okay. So that's a bit of the schedule, you know you'll apply. And you'll hear back by by March.


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They got, my dad said he got, he had dinner and talked to Warren Spahn for like hours. Really? He was a really good dude, yeah.  And he gave me, one of my favorites is Warren Spahn and John Sane, dual signed 8x10. Oh yeah. Yeah, that's so cool. That's awesome. That's Ricardo Perez to 499. Sky blue paper. Cam Collier. And Spencer Jones. Rodani De Los Santos. JDL Sanchez. AL West to 499. Shay Langlears. Lunar glow. Lazaro Montez. Oh yeah, definitely. You still see people do it every now and then, especially some of the more like really recent, some of the more recent like super important sets like 2011 tops update, 2017 prism football, Lazaro Montez, Edward Julian. You'll see a lot of people do full sets of that. It's just tougher to do it now because a lot, like there's so many sets. Braylon Bishop. Bass Auto for the NL Central. Nice one there. Cause like there's not just, it's not just tops like baseball tops update and top series too.  Nice. Drew Jones to 499. Refractor. Congrats on that. There you go. NL West. So then recap. Yeah, due to Interth and stuff, there's a lot of people that'll do like the full set of like top series one and tops update top series two. But I mean, it's a lot tougher too cause there's a million inserts and there's short prints of like every single guy now too. All right. Two boxes to go everybody. Good luck. So we got her we go. Right over some moments. How do I change that screen saver? What? Change the screen. Go to the search bar. Type in steamer. So go to like where it says type here to search down in the left and type in background or background settings and it'll come up and you can click on it and it'll be like the second one or just be the blue one. That's the normal one to change it. I don't know about that. It's going to stay like that forever now. I'm nervous. Type in steamer. We're going for a lot. Nice. That's always fun finding stuff that's older that goes for a lot. Oh, Braylon Bishop again. Oh yeah. Base auto for the NL Central. Classic Billy Ripken. One of those my uncle gave me. Stainless steamer. Oh yeah. Yeah. Go with that. Yeah. The FF error. Yeah. What's they call it? Yeah, it's Donny's phone number 1-800-Steamer. That's why he always comes in complaining about getting calls from carpet. People need carpet. Call me for carpet cleaning. Stainless steamer. Christian Hernandez blue paper to 150. C. Hearn. There's a Blake. Justin Crawford first. Jorge Ruiz. Josh Hood. Let's go into the ALS to 499. Fracturator. Oh God. What do you do? Herb is pinky. Yeah. Cam Collier. Purple. Spencer Jones to 250. Nice. On the Purple Chrome. Put that in the recap too. Very nice. Go baby. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Probably got flagged by Twitch. Yeah, the FF error as we call it. I'll see the Drew Jones super in this last box. Marcelo Meyer. Lunar glow. I've seen a red, old lava tear. Really? I know he's fold. Fold 3 now. Three red autos. Two base red autos and then one red lava. Andres Mesa. Base auto for the AL West. Nice one there. AL West. Yeah, no. Oh my God. Dude, I don't know what I'd do with myself. If we pull the Drew Jones super, I don't know how I'm going to react. Dude, I'm like a little scared to see how I'm going to react. Yeah. Because you can't really a card like that with that kind of hype. Yeah. And that kind of attention that it's going to bring. I don't know. You can't prepare for that. Like you cannot prepare for reaction on that one. That is like you are instantly like the face of cards for about three days. Yeah. If you pull that card, you are going to be everywhere. The Drew Jones Super Fractor. Super Fractor one of one auto. Right now there is a $250,000 bounty on it. It's like the most. Yeah, it's like the most sought after card in all of, I mean in Bowman by a mile. And right now probably in the hobby, it's probably the most sought after. Yeah. Matt Mervis first. Mar Johnson. Invicta Xavier Isaac. AL East. That's White Speckled 299 for the AL East. He's got two first names. That means you really can't trust them. So do you. Great. Yeah. So do you. I can't trust you. Oh, you can trust me. No. No. My shirt. Absolutely not. Yosue DePaola. Jella. Cerda. Aguero. Adley. There's a green, Max Muncie. Two 399. Juan Alonso. White Speckled Martin Gonzalez. Two 299. Nick Boat. Base auto for the NLS. Nice one there. Nick Boat. Three packs left on the break guys. That is it. That is all. So I believe looking for one more auto. We're looking for that Druze Hun Super Fractor. Jayce Young. Lunar Glow, Xavier Isaac. Jordan Lawler. One of 399 on the lava. There's Jackson Farris. Blue Lunar Crater, two 150. The Cubs in the NL Central. Very nice. Colton Couser. Cam Collier. And Base. Do a quick recap here everybody. Thanks again for getting this filled on up. Do appreciate it very much. It's gonna be Nick Boat. Andres Mesa. Braylon Bishop. Braylon Bishop. Caught ya. Matthew Wood. Ryan Clifford. Shay Whitcomb. Ryan Clifford. Shay Whitcomb. J.L. Sanchez. Josh Hope. These are refractors to 499. Kyle Harrison. Twice. White Speckled. Two 299. Adam Crampton. Adam Crampton. Myrochendric Martinez. Two 250. Purple's. Diego Hernandez. Juan Brito. William Lugo. Blues to 150. Jackson Farris. George Valera. Teal Shimmer Blake. Nice one there to 125. Drew Jones to 499. Spencer Jones to 250. And Jackson Holliday. True Blue to 150. Auto for the AL East. We'll do it for the break. Thanks again for the fill guys. Do appreciate it. Up next is Eminem.


Hey everybody, Dr. O here. Let's talk about skin color here. So skin color primarily depends on the pigments in your skin and then circulation. So we'll cover circulation later. Let's start with pigments. We'll start with the least important one first though and that would be keratin. So keratin is going to be an orange yellow pigment that actually can accumulate in epidermal cells and in fatty tissues in the underlying dermis. This is generally not a big issue unless you consume a whole lot of beta keratin. I've seen people that eat lots of kerats that have developed a keratin, a dermia or you get an orange tint to your skin from this accumulation of beta keratin, but it's pretty minor. So when we talk about the pigments associated with skin color, the big one is melanin. So melanin is usually going to be a yellow, brown or black pigment that actually comes from the melanocytes. You see here, so melanocytes are in the stratum basal or stratum germinitibum. Very important location because if a melanocytes becomes cancerous, it can easily get into the dermis where there's blood supply. So it's the most likely type of skin cancer to mastastasize. We'll come back to that in a moment. So melanocytes actually produce the melanin and you can see here that melanin is carried in these little packets called melanosomes and that's how the melanin gets to those keratinocytes in your skin and changes their color. So your skin color, one of the first things I want to note here is skin color is determined by the rate of melanin production, not the number of melanocytes. Someone that is an albino or someone that is dark, dark black are going to have the same number of melanocytes. It is the amount of melanin being produced that determines the skin color. So a lot of that is genetic, but then also you think about tanning, your skin can respond to UV exposure by increasing the amount of melanin that's being produced. There are two primary types of melanin, so I want you to know these terms. We have umelanin and then pheomelanin. So umelanin is going to be more of the black or brown, pheomelanin is going to be more of a reddish color. So this determines your hair color as well. So I notice most of my hair is gray now, but my hair was mostly brown, but my facial hair has a much more red issue to it, which means there's more pheomelanin in my whiskers here than there are on the hair on the top of my head. So umelanin, brown, black, pheomelanin is going to be more red. All right. So what do we need it for? What is skin color? Skin color has led to just some of the most terrible things, you know, I'm clearly there's only one race and it's the human race, but skin color is nothing but an evolutionary adaptation to where you live on the globe.  So folic acid is a very, very critically important B vitamin. We need it for DNA synthesis, et cetera. So folic acid is very important. So darker skin protects some of that folic acid from being destroyed. But on the flip side, if your skin is dark, it's also going to diminish the amount of vitamin D you can produce. So skin color based on where someone lives on the globe has always been this balancing act. How dark do we need to be to protect folic acid? But how light do we need to be to make sure we're getting enough vitamin D? Now if you're constantly, if you live at the equator and you're constantly being exposed to UV rays, then you can be very dark and still get plenty of vitamin D. But then as humans left the equator and traveled to the other parts of the globe, skin color would have changed. If you were, if you live in Scandinavia and you're dark black, your folic acid is very well protected, but you're going to have a harder time getting vitamin D. But this is so, but nowadays people live all over the globe and that's great. It's something to take into consideration. If you, if you have darker skin color and you're not constantly being exposed to the sun, you may want to get your vitamin D levels checked. You may want to supplement with vitamin D. What else about that? So if someone, if someone has very pale skin and lives near the equator, they can now protect themselves with sunscreen. But traditionally having pale skin being exposed to that much sun would lead to, lead the DNA damage on the flip side of something like I've already mentioned, if someone's really dark black and they live far away from the equator, then getting enough vitamin D could be, could be a problem. But anybody can live anywhere now because we have sunscreen, we can supplement with vitamin D and all these types of things. This hasn't always been the case. Look at like the Inuit, the Inuit are a long way from the equator, but their skin stayed darker. That's because they, they would have consumed vitamin D. They were eating vitamin D from all the whale blubber and seafood and those types of things. So you can, you can get vitamin D from other ways than the sun. So like it's very, very important to understand that like skin color has been a huge part of, of our, of our species history. And, and that really is too bad. It is an evolutionary adaptation to where your genes came from. How far away from the equator you lived this balancing act between, between minimizing DNA damage, protecting folic acid, but then making sure you could get enough vitamin D. That's, that's what it is. All right, I've said, I've said a lot about that. I think that's, that's plenty. As far as like skin color changing. So like if I were to go out in the summer, it takes about 10 days to really ramp up the production of melanin. So I would tan, but in those first few days, I'd be vulnerable to burning.  But those first few days is why it's usually why people burn more frequently early on in the summer or the first couple of times they're exposed to the sun. So it takes about 10 days to really, really ramp up the production of melanin. And then these melanocytes, the melanosomes are going to be destroyed. So skin color like that is not going to be permanent. If I tan, my tan will go away as you can probably see in some of my videos. I shoot, I shot some videos last July after vacation and I look a lot different than I do now. I've been, especially now with the quarantine, I've been inside for weeks on end. But so the, so skin color changes from the result from tanning are going to be temporary because those melanocytes, melanosomes are destroyed. They're actually swallowed up by lysosomes and degraded. So we mentioned pigments, but then your blood supply circulation will also play a role.  If you go outside and it's cold and your blood rushes away from your skin, you're going to look more pale. If you have a severe reduction in blood flow, your blood, your skin can actually look bluish. That's going to be cyanosis, like look for blood loss, these types of things. Lastly, what can go wrong? I'm not going to cover all the types of like basal cell carcinoma in them, but I like to talk about melanoma. Melanoma would be uncontrolled growth or cancer from a melanocyte. These, they usually start from a mole, something like this. By far most fatal of the skin cancers, for reasons I mentioned before, they can metastasize so much easier because of where those cells are sitting. They can get into the blood supply, lymphatic supply and spread. So, and I'm not an oncologist, but I just want to talk about just a general recommendations. If you have moles or you're looking at your skin, what are the things they recommend to try to detect early stage melanoma? So you have A, B, C, D, E. So A is for asymmetry. So if you have an asymmetrical looking mole, borders, if the borders are irregular, something to take in consideration, color, if you have different shades of color in a mole, something to look at diameter, if they keep getting larger and they're larger than six millimeters, you know, you should have it checked out and then evolving if they're changing. If something's changing your body, that's something to take note of. So A, B, C, D, and E. And if you want to go a little further, if you're looking for nodular melanomas elevated, so if it's raised off the skin surface, firm, if it's firm to the touch, or if it's growing, any of those things, A, B, C, D, E, E, F, G, then get to the doctor and have them take a look for you, okay? All right, so that is skin color, why skin color evolved and why it's different in different parts of the planet, the production of melanin, the melanocytes and then what to look for if potentially you're developing melanoma, which I hope never happens. Okay, I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day, be blessed.


Does this kill? From that range? I don't know, level 3? Nah. You gotta block that back! How's it going everybody? Dottodoy here, back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters Rank Matches. This time playing a team of Android 17, Krillin and Yamcha. I got a lot of requests to play some Android 17 and it has been a little while so I kind of wanted to run them on point just for old time's sake. And this guy's rocking out with the Tournament of Power team. Jiren Frieza. Actually, wow, wait, the entire Tournament of Power cast is here. Or at least all the ones that mattered. In the big finale. Alright, let's see if we can't land this beam. We did. Alright, well, I'm just gonna keep it real basic then. Don't counter. Okay, well, you know what? I would much rather get reflected than run into an EX Jiren counter. Maybe that's just me, but that EX Jiren counter does a lot of damage. It is just not worth getting hit by that thing. Okay, one bar killed. Okay, I definitely threw another one. I didn't want to admit it. I thought one bar wouldn't be enough, but also I hoped I timed it well enough that it wouldn't really matter. Like, if it killed, it wouldn't have come out. And if it didn't, then it would have come out. It's kind of what I was aiming for, but that didn't really work out too too well. Get back in that corner of reflect. No, oh my goodness. No reflect. In fact, it was the opposite intense offense. Alright, time for the true point character to come back out. 17. The MVP. What's the mix? Oh, no. I'm switching. I am not standing there and taking a full auto combo. You know what? Maybe I finally land the new Krillin stuff. Hey, I dropped a while ago. I don't know. Like I said, a lot of people have been like, ah, Datta's not ever landing that new Krillin stuff. But I have, honestly, the new Krillin stuff is just the EX afterimage into waiting. I don't know how to end the combo. I've never known the ending. I think you just, I think you have to have like an assist to dragon rush into or something like that, an assist to fall into. But yeah, other than that, the new Krillin stuff is just that afterimage. Can I do an assist after this? Yes. Alright. So that should be a knockout then. Spirit ball. Take him out. Dude, I've been having so much fun with Dragon Ball fighters recently, especially I've been running like the main team a lot. I don't know what I should do here. I think I'm going to back dash. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. I think a golden freezer with dragon rush. I was like, nah, he's in golden with spark. He definitely wants to do more offense. And it looks like he is going to do more offense just to get out of here. Okay. Dragon rush is a very viable tool. I just have not expected it. Can we drop? Oh, no. Alright. Overall, though, that's not actually too, too bad because he's in spark and he's in golden. So once spark runs out, we can actually expect golden to get out of here. Ooh, do we level three? Why not, right? Why not kill a bit of that time and get them on the ground so we can mix? It wasn't even a mix. I just whipped an attack. Let's go. T blast. Let's go. I love whipping a meaty and then seeing them reflect. That's the best feeling in the world. It's like, oh, he's going to think I did that on purpose. All right. Game one in the bag. We are getting very close to God of destruction. We have, after, if we win one more rank, we are 40,000 away. We are very close. It's like maybe a 30 minute session of fighters if I win most of the matches.  But either way, I mean, we got to start winning now. Do I try anything? Oh, way, really bad use of the beam assist there. How much damage? Jiren don't, Jiren don't, Jiren don't. All right, not bad. Not bad. I thought, I really thought I went too slow on that one. I'll take it though. Take the Yamcha. Do I go into a level? Yeah, why not? Why not go for early level three mix? I'm trying to see either a spark or a raw level three. At least that'll give me some information. Ah, he likes to block. He respects defense. But that's what I was also looking for that information. I was scouting. All right. How can I get my point character back in naturally? Just rushing it. Tech it. Nice. No, Android 17 dive. Yo, I am, the Keyblast game is just my oyster right now. I am, I am loving the Keyblast. Whoops, that was a mistake. Whoa, dragon rush after, I did not. Okay. I thought he'd throw some attacks out. That was pretty smart though. I could have gone at the barrier. I wasn't going to. But if I did, I think that would have worked. So pretty big brain decision actually. Level one is, oh, he's spending all the bar.  Oh, no. Okay. Well, at least I, you know what? It was just a really quick exit. That's what my, that's what my raw level three was supposed to look like, by the way. It's just in case you were wondering. I was hoping it would connect like this. But we might, we were probably going to spark this. I didn't block. I don't know what I was thinking in my head. I was like, oh, I better switch sides. Yo, there's a little too much damage though. Wait, hold on. Instead of sparking, I have a different idea. Uh, dying. No, I was trying to switch out the Krilla to give him a bean, but yeah, he just got dragorushed. Man, if I could imagine being able to take every dragorush, the defense you could play. Didn't trust his down heavy. He didn't trust it, but he should have. At level three, this I'm not going to play around. Get that extra time in. Now what's the mix? Okay, I'm sparking. Forget that dude. Oh, tried to make a big read. Just ended up blowing up in my own face. The dragon rush. If that would have landed, I would have been so happy. Side switch. I agree. I would even go. I might even do a level three here with freezer or somebody. Or you know what? This is pretty long too. This is pretty, pretty long. Pretty long. I just, I just want to play. Just want to, no. Yo, he kind of swing it. All right.  I don't know. Level three. Nah. You got to block that back. Dude, I love the ex. You know what? Let's do the dive again. Oh no. Dude, I'm trying to do like the wall dive tech. That's what I'm really aiming for is that sick wall dive. I want to wall dive in and then quickly wall dive back out and see if I can't punish anything. But after Android 17's fall, there's a, it's a 1v1 now. It's a what? Okay. Nevermind. It's over. No drop. Oh my goodness. Okay. I don't know what he was doing swinging that ex dash like that, but it scared me. I definitely did not want to be on the ground anymore. Game. Was it? Was that two games already? Game two. All right. Let's see if we can't. I'm trying to go all out this last game. 40,000 away. Okay. 40,000 away. I'm putting it all on Android 17.  Oh, have I been getting played? Is he going to snap this round? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Um, he's snapping. He's snapping. I didn't want to block that. I'm not going to stand around here and block. What do I look like? That ain't me. Love that. Get the full Android 17 stuff. No wrong move. No, and we let him escape. Oh, and I thought I was plus. A lot of mistakes. Wrong move. I got, I got overzealous. I should have just gotten into the supers. There was no real reason to hold it for that long. Okay. I'm going to make up for it. I'm going to make up for it. Go 17. Let's go. I'm going to, I'm going to go with a level one just to. Oh my God. We missed. Thank you. He did not punish that drag rush. I can't believe it. That's a two bar kill, which means 17 is on his way back out. Get him 17 barrier. Get him out of here. Let's go. All right. I'm, I know we don't have a lot of help, but for some reason I'm very confident. Andrew at 17 is going to be able to pull this off. I think I'm going to risk it too. I've had a drop off the yamcha real quick pit stop. Oh, the doubt out. I mean the two L what really combining terms here. Ground groundbreaking tech. I don't know if this is going to kill. Oh, especially when I miss. What the? Oh, do we roll level three? I mean, what, what's he going to do? Right. Oh, man. I really thought he'd swing. Oh, nice trip to him gets us from a decent range. He's got loops. Actually, he didn't touch the ground on that one. So I don't think that was really a loop. Still a decent bit of damage nonetheless. Oh, so much damage. Even Krillin got messed up. All right. Here's what we're going to roll back barrier, roll back barrier. Oh no. I shouldn't have done it. What? Oh, you wanted the blue health? I don't know if I agree. Obviously. Android 17 was too low to make that decision. I don't know if I agree. Oh, no.  So what does that matter? I thought I'd be able to go out at 17 again. Okay. Okay. I'm not panicking. I'm not panicking. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. Go. Okay. I'll take it. I'll take it. What are we going to do on the ground though? What are we going to do on the ground? We can't really fall into. Yeah. Oh, all the movement in the world could have saved me. No. I tried to jump back again. All right. All right.  The game's over. Solar flare. All right. I'm definitely doing one more. I got to do one more. Dude, we're so close to got a destruction. I really... Dude, once we hit that, I think that's it, dude. I mean, I know the new patch makes it way easier to rank up. So really, it's really... You can definitely rank up as much as you want, as long as you play a lot of fighters. You can definitely rank up. Of course, you do have to be good to face the better players at the top, but... Can I stop blocking? I don't want to block anymore. That was not what I wanted. I thought I wanted to stop blocking, but it was a lot better than this. Level one? No knockdown? I'll take it. Counter? Yup. Yup. I can practically... You know he was feeling himself. He was going all in on the block string. He thought he was going to... The counter would have like sealed the deal. But now we're just doing Android 17 things again. Roll back. Yup. Yup. Standard stuff. I can't believe I messed that up. 2H. Even the 2H whiffed. Oh, big lag. I'm trying to wait for a key blast. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this. What did you do? What did you do? Let's go. I was asking what he did because I really couldn't see behind the assist, but Super Dash, it was Android 17, catching him with the barrier. I'm just going to eat his Wolfing fist. Feeling it. Super Dash. Oh, I whiffed too. Aw, man. That was just so bad. Oh, wow. Through the Wolfing fist. Yeah. That was a period of really bad maneuvers. Probably not my best moves. Yo, this guy's kind of... He's kind of hitting me this match. I don't even think 2H was a safe option there. I think he could have jabbed me out of that. But he was... I think he was in a very scary position. So I can understand him not going for that. Bar, are we going to see a Frieza level 3? Or just... Are we just keeping it business casual? No. It's not business casual. He went full all out. Here. I wasn't there to pick up on that. Yo, 17. Thank you. Oh, we didn't even get caught by the DP assist. That's good. We got to switch. Save the blue life. Save the blue life at that point. Okay. Oh, yo, the 17 assist still saved us. I didn't use it for anything, but I could have. That was cool.  That alone... I really do think A assist for 17 is really good. It is a really hard assist to use, though. When you go up against a real 17 player, like guys at main 17, that assist makes the game look impossible. It looks way too hard to hit anybody. Just pop that assist. You get struck back. You get comboed. It's over. 17. 17. Oh. Oh, they have voice lines. I guess that makes sense. I never thought they would, though. Goodness. Yo. The slightest... That saved me. That slight rollback saved me. Auto combo to get that connection. EX dive. Doesn't that give me corner? Oh, I guess that makes sense. Level one.  I don't really agree. Lockdown. Okay. My characters are kind of low. I wish I used sparking a little earlier. It's my turn. Don't EX that. Don't EX that. Oh. I'm coming from bottom. No. Okay. It looks like we'll also be using level three spark. Unless Yamcha survives. I might spark if Yamcha lives. Then again, I really don't want to get read. All right. Doesn't matter anyway. He's dead. Okay. We got to spark early. One UI Goku combo kills us here. It doesn't even... It doesn't even have to be that good of a combo. That's it. That's not it. That's not it. I definitely got overhyped. Oh, no. All right. That's it. That is it. That is it. We pick it up with a super dash. You got to be incredibly careful at the end of games like that. Sparking available. Not any touch does it. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. I believe in some team suggestions down below. I've definitely been playing just my main team a lot these past couple of days, but I would like to get back into doing some more team suggestions. So, leave those down below. And of course, thank you for watching. While you're down there, hit the like button and subscribe to the channel if you enjoy everything Dragon Ball FighterZ and fighting games and want to stay up to date on stuff like that. Other than that, there's some videos on your screen. Give those a watch. I have been Dr. Joy and I will see you in the next one.


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Live from Nice, France, it's theCUBE. Covering .next conference 2017 Europe. Brought to you by Nutanix. Welcome back to theCUBE. I'm Stu Miniman, happy to be joined on the program. Hi, two gentlemen from Intel. We have Michael Koalek, Mikhail Koalek, sorry. And Justin Wheeler, thank you both for joining us today. Mikhail, let's start with you. Tell us a little bit about your role, how long you've been at Intel, a little bit about your background. How I might skip how long I've been at Intel, because I reveal how all I am. Well, I run sales with ISVs. So, as you can imagine, Nutanix is one of our top partners in Hyperconverged, and it's a pleasure to be here in Nice, and see all those crowds interested in software defined. So, happy to be here. All right, so you've been through a couple of cranks of more cycle, more and more loss. It's been a long 17 years now. Yeah, we say bring the Intel to Tiktok. We keep it moving. Yes, okay. Justin, same question for you. Tell us a little bit about your background and how long you've been at Intel. Yeah, I'm a storage solutions architect with the non-volatile memory solutions group, thankfully called NSG for short, one of the good uses for acronyms. So basically, I talk about anything flash, anything solutions orientated around storage. It's quite a broad range in subject, but very entertaining one, and one that I enjoy immensely as well. All right, so Mikhail, what brings Intel to the event? Of course, most of the Nutanix deployments run on some flavor of your processors, but maybe take us a little bit beyond that as to what the partnership looks like. Sure, I understand. So the reason we're working with Nutanix is because we believe that they're key partners to change the market of the software defined and the general data center into the hyper-converged. So we're working with the key partners and the fastest running rabbits like Nutanix to talk to our end customers for them to see the benefit of what is a hyper-converged, what is software defined at the center. And with Nutanix, we're able to turn those customers into the newest technologies the fastest. So it's more about the new technologies, it's more about the new workloads, new use cases. That's why we're here. We re-appreciate the business of Nutanix, but we're here to make it faster, better, bigger.  Sounds like it ties in a lot of those themes. Why don't you give us a little bit of thumbnail of what you were talking about? I mean, so basically, building what Mickey was saying, technologies evolve massively. The way that people are thinking about infrastructures, especially from a storage perspective, the agility that the new solutions provide around hyper-convergence, really the technology that enables that is the main part of what the talk was this morning. So NVMe becoming more mainstream as devices with the prevalence of U.2 and connectivity of choice in most servers nowadays. So really kind of like dropping the shackles of the old ways of doing things and how we fit in with that from CPU, storage and networking perspective. Yeah, if I heard in the keynote this morning, Skylake and NVMe were the two things that made me think of what your organization's doing, yes? Very much so. And I think we're still, we're actually at the bottom of the rung, as I mentioned in the conversation this morning. There's so much more development that can be done. It's an exciting time to be involved. And being in point with these guys, the Nutanix is one of the key things. This is storage central for us. The story that we have is very much hand in glove with what these guys want to achieve as well. Yeah, I'm curious. When we think about customers, one of the challenges they always have is upgrade cycles. And upgrade cycles have actually been useful for Intel, but when we go to hyper-converge, in some ways I think it would make it easier for how we manage those upgrades is there. Any commentary on that? Yeah, sure. And so we're working with Nutanix on an ongoing basis. And we had a very interesting meetings in Dubai two weeks ago when we sat with Nutanix, okay, how can we turn the customers using current infrastructure, which very often is already so for defined, but this is like a few years ago. And they just said, we need to go there with the demo kits. You know, you're talking about the small computers, three tiers, and we're just showing them, look, you just plug it in, you put a few workloads, Bob is your uncle. So that's how we can accelerate together the refresh, the replacements, and basically make their lives better and easier. I mean, the more of less story is something that most people's blood would run cold in, especially if you're on the sales side of things. But given, like I said, what Riko was saying there, you know, we've got munition nuts that we can actually go out and we can run what was previously considered an enterprise class storage solution on a couple of desktop PCs in effect now. You know, the agility is really the key thing here. You know, when you're talking about hyper-converged software defined, or converged solutions, whatever iteration you're looking at there, the agility this brings to you modern day nowadays is just fantastic. And it's a compelling story. And it's getting out there and telling the people about it. You know, shout it from the rooftops, but it's not just the technical, it's also the business case around it. It's handing glove again. Just, how does HV fit into that, Trevor? Is Intel pretty much agnostic on that or is there anything special from the hypervisor standpoint? No, I mean, that's one of the best things about Intel. I mean, previous jobs I've had, I've been one-trick pony or been only to talk about storage. I mean, as I said early on, we've got all three major components of any solution nowadays. So that's a network in computing storage. We work across them, same with the application perspective. Workloads for us, we don't have to be specific about it. We talk about what's good for the customer, what they want from their storage infrastructure. And it's not just from a technical perspective, it's how they view their business evolving. Again, we'd come back to the agility word. And it's very much what we're about. And it's exactly how we do it. So Intel is well-known and sometimes a little bit too well-known of putting a lot of benchmarks, also features. So what we're doing right now with all the hypervisors and basically the social-defined data centers is we're showing the use case benchmarks. So, dear customer, you have an SQL on your bare metal. Here's the benchmark. Here's how fast it's going. Here's more reliable than this. Or here's the disaster recovery stuff we have together. So we're no longer talking about the pure performance. We're talking about what is the value for end customer for implementing opt-ins, implementing Skylakes or any other technology. You've got commonality that needs to be maintained.  You've got to take into consideration also their cloud strategy, whatever that may be, whether it be hybrid, whether that be full cloud, moving, migrating workloads and data in and out. It's a big part of it. So it's not a one solution fits all. Everyone's built differently. People will look at ESXi, they'll want Acropolis, they'll want KVM, they'll want Hyper-V. We play across all those. That's the fun part of the job. What feedback are you getting from customers at the event or just in general around Nutanix-based? What do we get? It's easy to deploy for starters. It's a highly skilled sales force, very good technical support. And we're trying to follow Nutanix. We have an engineering support on our side as well. So whatever, where we can help, whatever we can improve or increase velocity of those replacements, we're going together. But customers are generally happy with Nutanix, which we're very happy with because for us, again, one of the key partners to drive the hyper-convert infrastructure. I mean, as we mentioned earlier, on the story resounds, it's a good story to tell. You just got to look at the attendance here today to see how well-thought of Nutanix hours of company. And as I mentioned earlier, we're just at the bottom of the rung here. When you're actually talking about replacement of traditional tier one storage systems, to always a hyper-convergence, you want to make sure that that is something that's easy to deploy, easy to manage, cost-effective. There's not a lot not to like about Nutanix solution. So you can see that body attendance here. Everyone speaks very highly of it. And I think it's just a snapshot of the people that's here. Technically it makes sense, commercially it makes sense. Justin, any tips from your presentation, for customers is to help them just get things done even simpler than what they've been doing before? Well, I thought when you were talking about tips about the thing I was going to say, don't drink Red Bull before we give a good presentation. But no, consultative approach is really the way to go about it. Don't believe everything that you hear. I'm self-confessed, not a great fan of benchmark figures because they're unrealistic in many workloads that's out there nowadays. The key thing for us is come and talk to us, let us consult with you with our partners, understand your business, your workload. The deployment side of things comes very easy after that. You've got to do the groundwork, though. You can't just dismiss good design practice or good best practice. Yeah, I mean, for the entry point to start playing and doing things with Nutanix is pretty low. They make it easy to test things out. And almost every customer I talked to was like they had to prove themselves and it's a testament to Nutanix that they've got so many customers and they keep growing because if they couldn't deliver on what they said, they wouldn't be where they are. That is correct. The only thing is in a conversation with Nutanix, how can we help them to accelerate the deployments or accelerate the demo? So this is very beginning. They said that we actually don't want to use the full-fledged boxes because the customers don't want to give them back. So we have to have something smaller because they need to buy it some stage. So it was a very good comment that it means it works and Nutanix knows how to do it. Yeah, I think if I read, D'Rodge was like, he loves to say in that they can fit in a processor in the palm of his hand and we stick it in a drone. I think he wants to be able to deliver to the customer, have them demo it and then hold remote control, fly it back after a certain period of time. That's already possible for Intel Technology. It would be a pleasure to deploy it. I mean, as with everything, use the architectural sense. Everything that's sturdy in its last eight years has been built on solid foundations. You get the foundations right on any infrastructure and it's the same with that. It'll be there, you can build on it. You can continue on and then involve as business grows. So you've got to be able to build something that you can roll with. Yeah. Well, Justin, Mikhail, really appreciate you sharing with us the update on Intel's partnership with Nutanix. We'll be back here with lots more coverage from Nutanix.next in Nice, France. I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching theCUBE. Thank you.


Okay, welcome back everyone to SuperCloud 22. This is theCUBE Studio's live performance we're streaming virtually at siliconangle.com and theCUBE.net. I'm John Furrier, host theCUBE with Dave Vellante with a distinguished panel talking about securing the SuperCloud. All CUBE alumni, G Rittenhouse, who's the CEO of Sky High Security, Piyush Sharma, founder of Curix, sold to Tenable, and Tony Quay, who's an investor, co-founder, former head of product at VMware. Gents, thanks for coming on to our inaugural SuperCloud pilot event. Good to see you guys, a big topic. Okay, so before we get into securing the cloud, one of the things that we've discussed before we came on camera was how cloud, the relationship between cloud and on-premise and multi-cloud and how SuperCloud fits into that. At the end of the day, security is driving a lot of the conversations at the Ops side, and Dev's shift left is happening. We see that out there. So before we get into it, how do you guys see SuperCloud? Tony, we'll start with you. Google, go down the line. What is SuperCloud to you? Well, to me, SuperCloud is really the next evolution, the culmination of the services coming all together, right? As an application developer today, you really don't need to worry about where this thing is sitting, or what's the latency, because the internet is fast enough now. I really want to know what services something provides, how do I get access to it? Now, security, we'll talk about that later, that becomes a big issue because of the fragmentation of how security is implemented across all the different vendors. So, to me, it's an IP address. I program to it, and off we go. But there's a lot of, like that Iceberg chart, right? Like I'm the developer touching the APIs up there. There's a bunch of other things below service. Okay, looking forward to getting that. Gee, what's your take? We've had many conversations on theCUBE. What's your SuperCloud update? Yeah, so I view it as just an extension of what we see today. Before, like maybe 10 years ago, we were mashing up applications, built on other SaaS applications and whatnot. Now, we're just extending that down to further primitives. We don't really care where our mashup resides, what cloud platform, where it sits, to Tony's point, as long as you have an IP address. But beyond that, we're just going to start to get little micro services and deeper into the applications. VP, what's your take? Yeah, I think SuperCloud to me is something that don't exist, it exists only on my laptop. That's the SuperCloud means to me. I know it takes a lot behind the scene to get that working of and running, but essentially that everything having to be able to touch physically versus not being able to touch anything is SuperCloud to me. That's what Victoria was saying. Yeah, we see serverless out there, all these cool things happening. Exactly. And you look at some of the successful companies that have come in, I call the V2 Cloud, some are saying the next gen. They're all building on top of the CapEx. I mean, why would you not want to leverage all that work AWS is doing in now Azure?  But in terms of AWS as a hyperscaler, they're spending all the money and they're getting better. They're getting lower level. We're talking about some of that yesterday. Databricks, Snowflake, Goldman Sachs. There's industry clouds that could be powerhouse service providers to themselves in their vertical. Then you got specialty clouds, like there could be a data cloud. There could be an identity cloud. So how does this sort itself out? How do you guys see that? Because can they co-exist? But I think they have to, right? Because I think, you know, eventually organizations will get big enough where they can be strong and really market leading in multiple segments. But if you think about what it takes to really build a massive scaled out database company, that DNA doesn't just overnight translate to identity or translate to video. It takes years to build that up. So in the meantime, all these guys have to understand that they are one part of the service stack to power the next gen solutions. And if they don't play well with each other, then you're going to have a problem. So security I think is one of the hardest problems of super cloud. And not only do you have too many tools and a lack of talent, but you've now got this new first line of defense, which is the cloud. And the problem is you've got multiple clouds. So you've got multiple first lines of defense with multiple cloud provider tools. And then the CISO I guess is the next line of defense with the application development team, you know, there to be the pivot point between strategy and execution. And I guess audit is the third line of the defense. It's an even more complicated environment. So gee, how do you see that CISO role changing? And can there actually be a unified security layer in super cloud? Yeah, so I believe that they can be. The role is definitely changing because now a CISO actually has to have a basic understanding of how clouds work, the dependency of clouds on the business that they serve. And to your point, not only do we have these new lines and opening up an attack service, but they're coupled together. So we have supply chain type connections between this. So there's a coherence across these systems that a CISO has to kind of think about not only these cloud boundaries, but the trust boundaries between them. So classic example, visibility, where are these things and what are the dependencies in my business? Then of course you mentioned compliance, am I regulatory? And then of course protecting and responding to this. The supply chain piece that you just mentioned, I mean, I feel like there's like these milestones. Stuxnet was a milestone. Obviously log4j was another one, the supply chain hack with solar winds. Just the adversary just keeps getting stronger and stronger and more agile. So is this a data, do we solve this as a data problem? Is it, you can't just throw more infrastructure at it? What are your thoughts? I think, great point that you brought up. We need to look at things very fundamentally. What is happening is security has the most difficult job in the cloud, especially super cloud. The poor guys are managing something or securing something that they can't govern, right? Your custodian of the cloud is your developers and DevOps. They are the ones who are defining, creating, destroying things in the cloud. And that guy sitting at the end of the tunnel looking at things that what he gets and he has to immediately respond. That's why it has to be fundamentally solved. Number one, we talked about supply chain. We talked about the Stuxnet to wanna cry, to solar winds to get in the most recent one on the pipeline once. The interesting phenomena is that the way industry has moved super cloud, the attackers are also becoming super attackers, right? They have stopped, they have not stopped, but they have started slowly moving to the left, which is the governance part. So they have started attacking your source code, impersonating the codes, replacing the binaries, finding vulnerabilities there. So they can, if the cloud is built so early, why can't I go early and inject myself in? So super hackers is coming to super clouds. Super hackers. We're like in Hollywood right now. I mean, this brings up a good point. I mean, this whole trust thing is huge. I mean, I hear zero trust. I think, wait a minute, that's not the conference I was just at. We managed, we work with DockerCon and they were talking about trust services. So supply chain source code has trust and there's no brokerage going on. And yet you got zero trust. Which is which? Are they contextually different? I mean, what? From my perspective, they're the same. In that zero trust is a framework that starts with minimum privileges and then build up those privileges over time. Normally in today's dialogue, zero trust is around access. I'm not having a broad access. I'm having a narrow access around an application. But you can also extend those principles to usage. How much privilege do I have within an application? I have to build up my trust to enhance and get extended privileges within an application. Of course, you can then extend this naturally to applications, APIs, applications, talking with each other. And so by, you have to restrict the attack surface. That is based on a trust model, fundamentally. And then to your point, I mean, there's always this residual that you have to deal with afterwards. So SuperCloud implies more surface area. They're talking about private cloud. So here we go. So, and by the way, the AWS was supposed to be at this conference. They said they couldn't make it. They had a schedule issue, but they wanted to be here. But I would ask them, how do you differentiate AWS going forward? Do you go IaaS all the way? Do you release the past layer up? How does this solve? Because you have native clouds that are doing great. The complexity on SuperCloud and multi-cloud has to be solved. Let me offer maybe a different argument. So if you think about, we're all old enough to see the history sort of pendulum shift and it's shifting back. In a way, if you're arguing that this combination of all these services in the form of cloud today, essentially moving up stack, then really this is a architectural pattern that's emerging, right? And therefore there needs to be a SuperCloud almost operating system. So operating systems, if you build one before, you need a scheduler, you need process handler, you need process isolation, you need memory, storage, compute, all that together. Now that is all sitting in different parts of the internet. And there is no operating system. And that's the gap, right? And so if you don't even have an operating system, how do you implement security? And that's the pain. Because today it's one-off directly from service to service. Like how many times can you set up SAML orchestration? You can have the entire team doing that, right? If that's what you have to do. So I think that's ultimately the gap. And we're sort of just revolving around this concept that there's missing an operating system for SuperCloud. It's like Meribol Lopez said on the previous panel, that Lord of the Rings, there will be no one ring. I'm doing them all. Or maybe there is a neat one. Yeah, but so what happened? So again, security is the hardest problem. So Snowflake's got to implement its security. Databricks with an open source model has to implement its security. So there's these multiple security models. You can talk about zero trust, which if I infer what you said, G, it's essentially if you don't have a privilege access, you don't get access. Yeah, right. Okay, so that's the framework. Fine, and then you got to earn it over time. Now companies like Amazon, they have the talent and the skills to implement that zero trust framework. Sure, exactly. So the industry, you guys with R&D have to actually ultimately build that SuperCloud framework, don't you? Yeah, but I would just look all of the major Cloud providers, the ones you mentioned and more, will have their own framework within their own environment. The problem is with SuperCloud, you're extending it across multiple ones. There's no standards, there's no easy way to integrate that. So now all of that is left to the developer who is throwing out code as fast as they can. Is their job is to abstract that? I mean, they've got to secure the runtime, they got to secure the container. You have to abstract it. Right, okay, but they're not security pros. Or ops. Exactly. They're kebops. But to G's point, right, if everyone's implementing their own little ZTNA, then inherently there's a blind trust between two vendors. Right, that has to be established. That's implicit, you're saying? Yeah, but it's contractual, it's not technology, right? Because I'm turning something out in my cloud, you're turning out something in your cloud that says we've got something, some token exchange, which gives us trust. But what happens if that breaks down? And whatever happens to the third party comes in? I think that's the problem. Yeah, in fact, if I put the combine one of those comments, the zero trust was built keeping identity, authentication, and authorization in mind, right? This needs to be extended because the zero trust definition now probably go into integrity. Yeah, exactly. I authenticated, I worked well with Tony in the past, but how do I know that something has changed on the Tony side? Yeah, exactly. Right? That integrity is going to be very, very foundational. Given developers are building those third party libraries, the source code, pumping stuff, the only way I can validate is, hey, what has changed? And then throw Edge into the equation, John, and IoT and machine to machine. Exactly. And that's just, well, you know this. I think we have another example to build on Tony's operating system model. And that is the cloud access service broker model for SAS. So we have these services sitting out there. We've brokered them together. They're normally on user policies, what I can have access to, what I can do, what I can't do. But that can be extended down to services and have the same kind of broker arrangement all through APIs. You have to establish that trust and the policies there. And they can be dynamic and all of this stuff. But you can, from either an operating system or a SAS interaction and integration model, come to these same kind of points. So who builds the secure super cloud? Is it new guys like you? Is it your old company? Giants like Palo Alto? Who actually builds and secures the super cloud? It sounds like it's an ecosystem. Yeah, it is an ecosystem. Absolutely, it's an ecosystem. There's no one security super cloud as well. No, but I do think there's one difference in that historically security has always focused on that shiny object. A particular solution to a particular threat. When you're dealing with a cloud or a super cloud, like the number of that is incalculable. So you have to come into some sort of platform. And so you will see if it's not one, a finite number of platform type solutions that are trying to solve this on behalf of the customer. That to your point then get connected. I think it's gonna be like Unix, right? Like how many flavors of Unix were there out there? All of them had a scheduler, all of them had these processes, all of them had their little compilers. You can compile to that system, target to that system. And for a while it's gonna be very fragmented until multiple parties decide to converge. Right, well this is the final question. We have one minute left. I wish we had more time, this is a great panel. We'll bring you guys back for sure after the event. What one thing needs to happen to unify or get through the other side of this fragmentation and the challenges for super cloud? Because remember, the enterprise equation is solve complexity with more complexity. Well that's not what the market wants. They want simplicity, they want SaaS, they want ease of use, they want infrastructure as code. What has to happen? What do you guys think, each of you? So I can start and extending to the previous conversation. I think we need a consortium. We need a framework that defines that if you really want to operate in super cloud, these are the 10 things that you must follow. It doesn't matter whether you take AWS, Azure, TCP or you have all and you will have the on-prem also, which means that it has to follow a pattern and that pattern is what is required for super cloud, in my opinion. Otherwise security is going everywhere. They're like, they have to fix everything, find everything and so on and so forth. It's not gonna be possible. So they need a framework, they need a consortium and this consortium needs to be, I think needs to led by the cloud providers because they're the ones who have these foundational infrastructure elements and the security vendor should contribute on providing more severe detections or severe findings. So that's, in my opinion, should be the model. Well, thank you, G. Yeah, I would think it's more along the lines of a business model. We've seen in cloud that the scale matters and once you're big, you get bigger. We haven't seen that coalesce around either a vendor, a business model or whatnot to bring all of this and connect it all together yet. So that value proposition in the industry, I think is missing, but there's elements of it already available. I think there needs to be a mindset. If you look, again, history repeating itself, the internet sort of came together around a set of IETF RFC standards. Everybody embraced and extended it, right? But still, there was at least a baseline. And I think at that time, the largest and most innovative vendors understood that they couldn't do it by themselves, right? And so I think what we need is a mindset where these big guys, like Google, let's take an example, they're not gonna win at all, but they can have a substantial share. So how do they collaborate with the ecosystem around a set of standards so that they can bring their differentiation and then embrace everybody together? Guys, this has been fantastic.  You had kind of an enemy to rally around. I'm not sure I see an enemy out here right now. So the clouds are doing great, right? So it's a tough one, but I think super OS, super consortium, super business models are gonna emerge. Thanks so much for spending the time. Great conversation. Thank you for having us here. Thank you for having us here. We're gonna go an hour alone. Super clouds here in Palo Alto, live coverage stream. Virtually I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Thanks for watching. Stay with us for more coverage at this break.


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How's it, how's it, guys? Would you like to know the secret to creating amazing photographs without even trying? So many photographers struggle with this thing of trying to make great photographs all the time and falling short. Let's look at it in three steps. So without intent kind of means, you know, without any sort of real purpose. And a good example of this is when I went down to London a few years ago to photograph a friend of mine's launch in Soho. And I thought, well, I'll spend the day down in London and because I've never been to the Tate Museum, they'll take them on, right? And I thought, well, why not? So I got off the tube and I walked and just photographed whatever kind of struck my fancy. You know, without any sort of real purpose about creating street photography or urban stuff. And some of the photographs from that trip I feel are really good. Some of them are pretty pence, right? This picture of the pigeons. I don't know what that's all about, right? But the thing was that I wasn't really photographing with a specific intent. I was just wondering with my camera, just letting the city guide me and show me what it wanted to show me. Now you can do this wherever you are with any of your photographs, no matter what you want to photograph.  You need to have a little bit of a purpose with people. But everything else, take as much time as you need just to get into the flow and the mood of the place. To just photograph whatever tickles your fancy. And there's a reason why doing that is going to pay you dividends down the road.  Overthinking something can be a death knell to your photography. There was a guy called Jack Absalom in the 80s in Australia. He's a gov into the out and back and paint pictures and stuff like that. But he really enjoyed showing people how to survive in the out back because their car broke down. And often he would contrive the situations, you're getting stuck in a sandbank or what have you. And the first thing he would do is I'm gonna just go off, let me make myself a cup of tea. It's just, because I want to, there's my favorite photograph of all time of mine, right? Is this picture here of my feet, reflected in a glass side thing at the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. And if you haven't been to Edinburgh, you need to go because it's a great place to go and photograph. And all of these images were taken, just wondering around Edinburgh, again without any agenda. But this particular photograph of my feet was when I was in the Museum and I must have passed the stairwell a few times. And I kind of looked and go, well that's sort of interesting, but hadn't really thought about what could be there. And until the fourth or fifth time that I walked past, and then, oh, that's what I can do, right? Because my mind had had time to just think about it, rather than if I'd been sitting mulling over composition things and color balances, and depths and layering and communicating things. So I was just going back to basics, letting things just sit in my head. Now you can do this in your photography, by getting somewhere and just sitting. I've got the general scene or whatever, I've looked at it.  But what you could do is you set up a scene, you find something that's interesting, go off, have that cup of tea, have that cup of coffee, and then come back to the image, look at it, and go, okay, well that tree that I thought would be very handy for framing originally. Okay, it doesn't actually work, does it? Now that I'm looking at it, right? That's the problem that I was struggling with composition is now solved because I can see things with a fresh perspective. So take a break, photograph without intent, be prepared to step back from your photographs. Every now and again, just to let it just chill down. So again, you're letting it bubble up to the surface, all that creativity that is inside you. Then we start tapping in to the third part of creating these amazing pictures without too much effort. So I'm a big believer that there are two aspects to a photograph that make it successful and that is the ability for it to capture the viewer's attention and then also to hold it. Okay, now this is not an original concept but Roland Barthes has talked about this and I'm not gonna use the words because a lot of people haven't read Barthes and it just makes no sense, but the way that you capture somebody's attention is you know when you walk around a gallery and you see all these pictures and most of them just go, you know, you're not interested. But one or two, you're kind of like, ah, there's something about that, I like that. So you walk over to it and often you just kind of look at it and you go, mm, okay, and you move on. But every now and again, you also see something that then captures your attention but then holds it as well because you're seeing something more in the image. So relaxing, shooting without intent of, you know, not overthinking things taps into that first level because if you are photographing something that you have reacted to, that caught your attention and then the odds are that it's gonna catch somebody else's attention. So that's that benefit of being more lazy for want of a better word. With your photographs is that you're tapping into that magic that so many photographers miss because they're all about the second part. How many photographers have you met or listened to or heard who over-explained their photographs? They go, look, there's tiny little detail in the back. That's the kind of cool thing. That's what I was trying to showcase and stuff. It's like, well, if you need to give me a 10 page explanation about your photograph, I'm not gonna look at it. Sorry. It needs to reach out and say, look at me. See what I want to show you. So that's reacting to things. And then not overthinking means that you are starting to make an easier photograph because when you overthink things, as we were talking about earlier, it muddles the idea.  We're under so much pressure in so many facets in our world today, you know, that photography is an outlet. It should be mindful. I'm also, you know, mindfulness and photography. It's a perfect mix. There's a video that I'll put on later about mindfulness, but you know, just calm down. This is supposed to be fun for you. You know, taking photographs is an outlet for creativity. If it's not working, if it's not flowing, it's okay to put the camera down and say I'm gonna back off for a little bit, right? I took about six months where I didn't take any pictures whatsoever. And that's fine because I came back rejuvenated. I came back excited. I came back with a fresh perspective, with a fresh enthusiasm for it, right? This is a journey for photography. You can't win art. There is no finish line, right? You are going to be creating photographs for as long as you want to. And the more that you back off a little bit, the more that you relax and just let it flow, the greater the chance of you getting photographs that not only are you proud of, the other people would go, wow, I dig that. And they're gonna say, how did you do that? And you go, like all great artists have been just happened. Oh, just, you know, just, you know, that's what we're aiming for, is that easy nonchalance as you take great pictures and people are just like, wow. So I mentioned earlier, you know, about the mindfulness in photography. And you'd like to find out more how to be relaxed and zen in your images. Then check out this video here. Once again, thank you ever so much for watching and I'll see you again soon.