Hi everyone, general safety for the Library Innovation Studios project covers a very wide array of subjects. First we want to talk about attire and coming prepared. So if you have any long hair, necklaces, jewelry, want to make sure that those are tied up, tucked away, otherwise not able to be pulled into equipment and machines. Want to make sure there's no food or drink near the equipments. Want to make sure that on the machine stay as clean as long as possible. So some of this equipment is kind of sensitive. For the most part it was all picked because it is very robust and not able to be broken. But want to keep that in mind when people are using the equipment. Likewise, if children are going to be running around in the area, keep an eye on them. Make sure that they're not banging into things with hammers and mallets. Next, want to make sure that the first aid kits that are provided with this are regularly checked for stock levels. Want to make sure that if anyone needs something, it's there and available. Also tornado and storm policies are going to be dictated by the building that you're in and not by this grant. Small fires can occur as a result of some of this equipment. If a small fire does occur, we have a very specific process we want to take. Number one, we want to stop the machine. This will generally remove the source of ignition and stop the fire from occurring. Next if that doesn't stop it, go ahead and smother the flame with a smaller piece of wood, removing the oxygen from the flame. If that doesn't work, we have a spray bottle of water that you can use to spray and cool off the fire, hopefully stopping it. And our very final step that we want to take is a fire extinguisher.  It's not the easiest process. It won't damage the equipment, but we want to make sure that we're using that as the last resort. Also, sharps. We want to make sure that if you are disposing of any sharp equipment that you do so properly. That means a sharp container or the proper bin. We want to make sure we don't just toss that into the trash bin. A clean shop is a safe shop. Thank you in advance for cleaning up for someone before you if they did not clean up after themselves. You can always help people out by making trash bins available where people are working at all times so that they have a place to put their trash when they're done. Electronic files. The desktops of these computers are not safe places to store files that you're working on. We want to make sure that you save it onto a flash drive, a hard drive, somewhere external, or feel free to use a cloud service. I'm a really big fan of Google Drive, but if you don't like Google, Box and Dropbox are both really good alternatives. Also, flash drives are available for purchase through this grant, so if you need to buy one, go ahead. Trainings occur at the discretion of the library. They should occur about once every three or so weeks, more often if more people need them. Each training is going to consist of walking through how to use the equipment safely so you don't hurt yourself and you don't hurt the machine. You're going to walk through the SOP booklet and learn everything you need to do in order to safely use that machine. Want to point out here the start menu. We have all of these softwares and all of these programs that are easily and quickly accessible via the start button. So if you ever aren't sure what to use, go ahead and start there and see what's available. At these trainings, you will learn, again, how to safely use the equipment. I do want to point out that you're not going to be an ultimate expert master at all of these machines. That's something that you have to learn through trial and error and figure and stuff out. Personally, whenever I laser something, I always plan to have at least one practice piece and go from there. So again, you're not going to be an expert from it, but that's what we do. That's the fun part of it. Reserving machines, a lot of the equipment does take a good deal of time in order to work with. So want to make sure that we are reserving them well in advance. If there's an open spot in the next hour and someone walks up and wants to use it, by all means go for it. But we also want to make sure that we're being fair and letting everyone have a chance to use it. I want to make sure that no one's hogging all of the equipment. Makerspace policies were provided with all of the studios and all of the grants here. In general, they break down into three policies. We have general safety and project. Make sure to review your makerspace policies and see how they work. One specific policy we want to touch on here is the age policy. We have three categories. We have unsupervised use, supervised use, and young use. Unsupervised use, we're comfortable with those people using the equipment 100% by themselves, not being watched. Supervised, we want to make sure that there's an adult present in the room that can spot potential hazards and problems as they occur. And then finally, young use. These are for people that may be a little bit younger than were comfortable using the equipment by themselves. They do need to have a trained adult with them on the equipment. The child is the one that is dictating what to do, what they want the design to look like. But ultimately, the adult is the one pressing go on the machine. Also, we want to talk about our weapon policy. No weapons can be made, modified, or customized using any of the library equipment. And that means anything that could be used for a weapon, a sheath, a holster, anything of that nature. After today, you're probably going to have some problems, things that you run into from time to time. We've got a four-step process for how you get help. Number one, I'm going to ask you to read through the SOP booklet. That has a ton of good information, and we update it from time to time, so take a look at that. The second one, I'll have you look through the Slack history. Someone else may have had that problem, and they may have solutions for you. Number three, I'll ask you to post to Slack and ask for some help there. And then finally, number four, during my office hours, I can remote into these computers and give you kind of a one-on-one help, and we can help you out right there. Speaking of, my office hours are Monday to Friday, 2 to 3 PM, central time. The best way to get a hold of me during that time is via Slack. So when you do run into those issues, feel free to hit me up on there, and we'll get in touch. And that's everything we've got. Thank you much.


Hey, everybody forced here up in 2023 Bowman sterling baseball 12 box full case number one. This is random teams style here You're gonna find the results anytime late sports cards calm results quickly bottom of the page. Let's get started here 60 autos coming up 60 autos Plus numbered cards. Hopefully we had dual triple. Hopefully we hit Super I just want a super just want to hit a super is make sure you like to stream hit subscribe If you have not follow on twitch Appreciate that Maddox live Almanac start to 10 a.m. Eastern with Kyle and Jake I'll be in chat, too. I'll be there. I will be there. Oh No, Sean started singing work. Where are you again? This sold out divisions break. She what are you talking about? You're not gonna go.  I'm gonna. I think we're gonna hit a cubs or an aster a super fractor actually Dude, what am I doing here? Good Lord base auto coal young for the Mariners to start us off That's almost 20 years old now came out oh three Holy crack Actually really weird They put out albums for like 30 plus years now. That's crazy. I was looking they're like, oh, dude I forgot I think was it Cheshire cat came out like 94 or something. I'm like, oh my god Like they didn't hit their like Mainstream success until like the 2000s. Yeah, it's 199 refractor Lazaro Montez Mariners in an auto Joshua Baez Cardinals Dude, they're crazy They actually are they're crazy. That's what got them like on the map. It's like some pop stuff But they were like they're nuts like yeah, they're like pop-punks, but I Feel like those those are like the mosh pits that go the craziest on us because people are just actually insane gold the 50 Matt Walner rookie for the twins and An auto Jason shoryo guardians No guardians Those are Denver City can act unis They have the 52 80 on the front for like being a mile high Pretty terrible All right, Magenta no red to five any Pasquantino rookie for Kansas City There we go. I thought for sure that was fuchsia Pasquantino Pasquantino there you go Kansas City auto Gabriel Martinez for the Blue Jays Waller and Tamar Johnson sterling silver to 100 is Josh young rookie for the Rangers and an auto Dionne Jorge for the Rockies I don't like hate it. It's just it's so much Okay, the semifinals You guys watching this nugs and and Mavericks. Yeah, I can't stop looking at the court I can't stop looking at it. Mini diamond to 150 rookie Riley green for the Tigers Nice card Tigers sterling silver auto to 100 Brady house Nationals good hit Nats Romero and drew Jones I realized Alice was undefeated It's been going crazy though. He's been killing it Speckle to 99 rookie is Matthew Libertor for the Cardinals and Then an auto a sucker tommy for the Blue Jays Yeah, it was number to 100. That's an actual magenta coming up Corbin Carroll and it is to 75 Rangers Kumar rocker Orange auto to 75 Gavin Cross for the Royals gold here is the 50 auto Simon Juan for the Mets Simon Juan Jackson holiday Base auto for the Rangers Anthony Gutierrez She I don't think they made it to the parade. No, I would assume he did it It was today Where they even do it like is there like a downtown area they do it at I'm sure box three here I got Libertor base Henderson rookie Speckle to 99 rookie Riley green for the Tigers to number Riley green so far And an auto Jackson Meryl for the Padres Meryl for the Padres Josh Young Langleers Senga, there's a wave autograph rookie Gabriel Moreno diamond backs the 125. That's a solid hit It's really good man. You know common arrow Crawford so 150 mini diamond Brady house for the Nationals Quaggy And Speckle auto to 99 Jason Jorio Guardians Great hit for the Guardians. We go there. We go Gunner Henderson rookie followed by Henry bolt auto the A's base auto Henry bolts Michael Harris base rookie Pasquantino. That is a base auto of Lazaro Montez for the Mariners I don't like it so far. It's just they're basically just regular season games. I mean a little more What the one the magic court is gonna look like Can't be it can't be any more blue than the Nuggets court The bluest court ever it's one 99 rookie Miguel Vargas for the Dodgers And an auto here it's gonna be Reggie Crawford for the Giants You go Giants Colossum nailer Well, hope y'all are having a good night. We got more breaks all day tomorrow fanatics live starting at 10 a.m. Eastern And then right here starting at 4 p.m. Eastern Blue refractor Mets rookie Kodai Senga to 25 great card for the Mets Low number and a color match for a stud pitcher And an auto for the Brewer's Eric Brown jr. Elijah green Herrera Cabrera base auto for the Astros Drew Gilbert Astros auto Drew Gilbert Raza Gorman Gonzalez Bragoya to 150 rookie Adley Ruchman Baltimore Hey, I am Steve. I am beep boop Nice Ruchman and then an auto you new coming arrow for the raise Very good pack there coming narrow auto Ruchman to 150 Steve. You're actually gonna play for tomorrow He could be online as soon as we get on he's Base auto Nelson Rada going to the Angels Angels Nelson Rada too much salad mix in a burger Did they get Yamamoto? It's probably watching Yankees Mets Red Sox. There's probably a lot of teams on Yamamoto There's probably like a good almost half the league. I would think by the new cod. Oh, yeah, that came out didn't it? I guess I'll have to get that kind of soon Gunner base a sterling silver rookie number to 100 is bow nailer guardians Autograph to 150 Yankees Spencer Jones Spencer Jones Yankees auto there base auto Padres Samuel Zavala. I think so Mike. I think it's Dodgers maybe Mets for Othony Trying to think who's gonna give up that much for a time like who's gonna pay that much for base auto Simon Munoz Dodgers Cairo Yes, it depends on how much ownership we'll spend there He wants to win Theoretically he would go to the Dodgers or something like that for like less money Theoretically and a base auto Kevin Perotta Mets, but you can't play If he takes the absolute bag, you can't blame it. That's insane money.  No way Steve. What do you think Mike? I still think Dodgers probably like a little bit, but there's definitely a lot a lot of teams that have a say and we're Red Sox, baby You're gonna spend no money on them Speckle rookie to 99 rookie Brett Beatty for the Mets. I guarantee though. They get a ton of by Jersey in me like immediately Base auto Edgar Carroll for the Angels. I'll book tickets Like an entire series I can see him play especially when he gets back to throwing off the mound and like 2025 I feel like so to get traded to the Yankees, which sucks. I like so though It's gonna be an understanding some of that. I liked and then yeah into the Yankees Wade Boggs Damon's the Red Sox fault they just didn't give him a fair offer Kershaw burnt out. He's still really good I mean, hey, if he wants to play someone's gonna give him a good a good one-year deal I know he'll do so on the playoffs, but he's gonna he's gonna deliver for you in the regular season for sure That under Soto judge Interesting bull pay you've got a rookie sterling tech number to 10 Corbin Carroll Go to Arizona Big Carol for the Diamondbacks What a Brian F congrats Brian wave auto for the Angels Nelson Arata number to 125 That's oh to 199 is Jordan Beck for the Rockies Next is speckle auto Mikey Romero Red Sox to 99 Sir Martin steer Jason Shorio Gavin Cross a Refractor here rookie von Grissom braves to 199 auto twins Yasser Mercedes 24-hour champagne Oh Steve also we can tell We can tell Steve is drinking nothing but wine Why no I is there auto Mikey Romero Red Sox Diaz Montgomery or hey Spencer Jones John and media Silver Sirling silver rookie to 100 for the Stroze is Hunter Brown And then a base auto for the Mets Willie Fannas. Oh, I got no idea Steve. I have no idea you expect me to know It's probably like a Sam reference. Yeah, he's still really good though. Like her shot still I don't think I'm gonna slow down at the end But if you could like limit his innings, I feel like he can still give you a good amount I think you might be done in a sense, but Everybody just thinks about the postseason against afraid of her shop, but he was killing it last season. I think you just have to like hey, we need you to like Be better skip a start here and there and like yeah, I don't know He's still a baller You got to find a way to keep him fresh long enough auto Gabriel Gonzalez for the Mariners Elliot Lerker who's Who's Birdman? Chris Anderson Birdman Miami Heat legend never Nuggets legends Larry Raleigh Green Beatty base auto Daniel Montesino Padres Kodai Senga South Stewart. That is a mini diamond rookie to 150 Matthew Libertura for the Cardinals And an auto for the Guardian stays the louder Comanero Muncie mark the bird Anthony Volpe that is to 150 autographs that netto for the Angels That is rookie Oscar Colas to 100 sterling silver for the White Sox and Speckle rookie auto Alec Brailsen to 99 Cardinals. Oh Mike oh Mike you joined them This freaking guy dude always bringing stuff back up Garden hose water and peanut butter talking about getting chat juicy Yeah, I'll scare everybody away. Wait. All right. Okay Everybody take it easy Everybody's show the water. Yeah find a gallon of water And as fast as you can Yeah, Steve's out of here dude, he's done Steve's done after that he's out We'll see you in like 20 minutes, I bet Dropping all these emojis and chat later on to 199 Gutierrez for the Rangers Chats full of trash listers right now Wave out of the 125 Tucker Toman for the Blue Jays Yeah, oh man, I waited to flex blame it on me, man We're here working on you know, what's off from sundown to sun up. I see we'll see a little bit Volpe next up is Brailsen and an auto of young kill Fernandez for the Rockies please Alvarez Dude, I want to pull a super factor ready for a super factor What are the pack gods? What are the pack odds on a super in this? Let's see So base super oh, there's no pack odds ready at the ready at Yeah, I was I think Yeah, you're probably hearing stuff. That's the that's the crown Royale Yeah, that's that crown Royal. Yeah, it's got you right now. Be sure to like the stream everybody Subscribe on YouTube follow on switch Hmm 2199 Justin Crawford Phillies It's my feelings 2199 Justin Crawford Phillies start hitting the leg button base auto rain done cone Dodgers takes two seconds Sean says that where he's had 24 tequila's I couldn't come in here based on a rangers Glader figure rail if I did kick me you would even be speak English. Yeah. Oh, yeah Like I think he's trying to say something obnoxious You've seen what for Wall Street, you know, yeah where he takes the He's like starts losing Yeah, dude so funny Oh Sterling silver to 100 coal young mariners Just who deliver what is this guy talking about base auto on the horse the virus for the Braves Cards get delivered from us. We don't deliver them though All right, four boxes left here 20 autos to go Geez This is this exactly we need a shot right here. He comes Wow champagne diets here we go Denver starting to really amp it up here. Hey, the champs though. They're the champs You know who sings tequila the champs that is a Magenta rookie for the Cubs Nelson of Alaska is to 75 and a base auto Michael Arroyo for the Mariners That actually makes sense Mike I understand now he called like Taco Bell About Adley Ruchman rally green Brett Beatty base auto Reds Ricardo Cabrera Mark you got to get a water dude Luka bucket Cabrera there followed by base auto Jet Williams Mets Honestly, it's been a pretty standard night. I'd say we're not like cold or hot to be honest Yeah, I don't want to sway you away from guests on them, but it's 199 refractor Jackson holiday for the Orioles and And auto Simon Juan for the Mets, although we have been ripping like high-end products all night, so Sten bowman sterling. It's been some hockey some Leaf yeah, so it's tough to say we haven't opened anything More than like even like a four-figure box yet. So you shita We'll see though. Well, we got we got time here. We got time. We got another case after this What's the rest here? Did I need those Santos pirates auto? Hey, it could it could we got to talk about it to have It happen sometimes Gotta materialize this Visualize visualize visualize visualize I want to pull a super pretty bad. I keep thinking about that Hopefully another multi-auto. Oh geez. Oh boy, here we go He's going to salad Mark Be safe mark we're happy here be safe Nice rookie gunner Henderson to 150 for the Orioles Happy it's 11 o'clock And then a blue auto Spencer Jones at 25 Yankees there we go good mini box The gunner to 150 and a Spencer Jones auto. That's what I'm talking about. There you go Yanks. All right. Good. Good marks home. That's good You got Yoshida here Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going. I was a good mini box there We got an orange here auto Manuel Belcher to 75 Jays We go Jays Jackson choreo young kill Fernandez Trying to cook up something here. I know that Now the rushman base Riley green a Gold no strolling tech and then a gold strolling tech is Vladdy to 99 Jays nice card Jays Gold auto Kevin Perotta one of 50 for the Mets. Good stuff Good stuff Yankees in this random teams was you Greg There you go Mark. There you go. Corbin Carol rookie glad to hear glad to hear Hell yeah, Jose the Paula auto for the Dodgers That's all I do tomorrow have a Party just party of 1v Beers some tequilas Definitely a big burrito of some sort base auto obel bastidas for the Tigers Jackson holiday Have you seen sterling before this year preacher because it's very it's very along the lines of other sterlings This is a good one though the Prospects into their pretty solid and the rookies are very good. So Design is solid It's good product Feels like there's a lot of good names in it. Yes sterling as far as their product itself does not change a whole lot year to year to be honest We're just totally fine. Like it is very much like a Middle-of-the-road chrome products that has prospects and rookies makes it unique like that Five autos a box it's it's tough to go wrong ripping it, right? Exactly mark exactly That was good though. The what you what this thing looks for the parallels though. So it's really what you to think preacher I mean, it's not hiding anything. It's pretty straightforward, which is good, too It's you know, you're looking for numbered cards looking for autos. That's that's it really all of their sterling silver auto Nice hit pirates to mark Johnson 82 of 100. That's a good hit, too. It's a good value for five autos But it also matches like resale as well Like you have to hit some of the lower numbers up to get really high-end Bowman sterling. I think Ruchman Matt Waller to 75 twins rookie And the redemption here Prospect auto refractor parallel drew Jones diamond bags. I think that's gonna be the 150 I said refractor to 199 earlier. I think it's the 150 congrats diamond backs There we go drew Jones That's pretty good troubled a bit when he first got to the miners, but he was 18 19 or something so Carol base Bay refractor auto JC young tigers the 150 Definitely eight Wendy's or something Taco Bell That is a speckle rookie to 99 Adley Ruchman Orioles or always having a good break and base auto Eddinson Paulino Red Sox Neto Munoz So 199 to refractor rookie Tyler Freeman guardians and wave auto to 125 Dodgers reigned on cone All right, let's see a big card here. Come on got the visions case up next Then we got personals after still some space for personals Last I checked anyway. I'm gonna check again here in a minute Orioles in this one. It's you Greg. I keep asking Greg you have the Reds the Yankees and Orioles I don't know if you could have gotten a better three teams in a random than that Honestly for this product. Let's go more. Oh boy. Here we go. Mark's going back at it. Let's go He's getting back in the ring base auto your Don Adela Santos pirates. I know gee that's crazy. I didn't realize that when I read it off Yeah, it's easy three of the top five teams. I would say in Terms of like hit quality and total hits and everything Many diamonds 150 rookie Brett Beatty for the Mets here and an Ellie Dela Cruz Opulence auto to 99 Greg and with the Reds and that is sick on card Ellie this Clean auto take it easy mix in the water. Oh Jane Jane got back-to-back dubs, you know, it's almost as good as me now Keep practicing yeah, I base auto for the Phillies William Bergoglia Cassis Rada It's one ninety-nine Jayce young for the Tigers. Oh my god. Oh my god Ellie Dela Cruz Gunner Henderson Jackson Shorio triple auto to 10 Reds Orioles Brewers Greg has the Orioles and the Reds Holy schnikeys It's got the Brewers swaggy.  There's no random there I'm gonna give you some bad beat credit swaggy baby Dude, Greg. Greg is on a one of the biggest heaters I've ever seen any breaking here And he's doing in group breaks.  I'm gonna get you some bad beat credit since there's no random on this how do that is actually insane One of the biggest hits you can get in the product right there. I guess it only gets bigger with lower numbers really Like the Orioles triple maybe I Don't know that one Alan's pretty nutty Got what Ellie Dela Cruz is a prospect anymore, but the top two prospects plus Ellie Dela Cruz on there Gold the 50 Reggie Crawford Giants and an auto Jonathan Mejia for the Cardinals Swaggy one of your gunners here. We'll go through the recap and we'll see what's up, Greg Like a numbered gunner Greg is a good guy Dude he hit an Ellie and then the triple and he hit the Spencer Jones blue. Okay, Greg Drink strong Greg when we go see him Drinks are on Greg when we go see Greg Good Lord, dude Alright I'll set aside the Orioles ones. He just let me know Greg JC young the 199 Tigers Freeman the 199 guardians Crawford the 199 Phillies I wish to the names now Gutierrez Grissom Jordan Beck Vargas Montez Riley Greene Brett Beatty Ruchman to 150 Libertor House Gunner to 150 Cole Young Oscar Coloss Josh Young Hunter Brown Vladdie Tecta 99 Libertor Ruchman the 99 Riley Greene Beatty Nelson Velazquez Matt Walner Kumar rocker Gold Walner gold Crawford and blue Kodai Senga six Senga Base autos here got numbered card in the auto say I know it's not the best but but it's it's it's not hit list All right, autos of Mejia Vergoia de los Santos Paulino Bastiras the Paula de los Santos Simon Juan jet Williams Ricardo Cabrera Michael Arroyo Ambiors Tavares Glada Figueroa Brandon Cohn young kill Fernandez chased a lotter Daniel Montecino Gabel Gonzalez Willy Fannas Mikey Romero Yasa Mercedes Edgar Caro Kevin Parada Samuel Munoz Samuel Zavala Nelson Arata junior coming arrow Drew Gilbert Eric Brown jr. Reggie Crawford Lazarus Montes Henry Bolts Jackson Merrill Anthony Gutierrez Tucker tomen Deanna Jorge Gabriel Martinez Jason choreo Joshua Bayez and Cole young Numbered autos now to 150 JC young Zack Neto Spencer Jones to 125 Arata tomen Don cone Moreno to 100 to Mar Johnson and Brady house to 99 out person Mikey Romero Jason choreo to 75 Manuel Veltray Gavin Cross to 50 Simon Juan Kevin Parada to Mets gold and a Drew Jones redemption prospect auto refractor parallel that'll be number to 150 Brats diamond backs. We had a red to five Vinnie Pasquantino for the Royals Sterling tech to 10 Corbin Carroll for the diamond backs Blue refractor auto to 25 Spencer Jones Yankees Ellie De La Cruz opulence autograph to 99 reds and Then I mean I mean hit of the day brought for I would assume probably by a good bit Ellie De La Cruz Gunner Henderson and Jackson choreo three of ten the black lava auto here Again Greg had the reds and the Orioles. There is no random swaggy has the Brewers You want to Greg you want to give swaggy these two correct Give him both to 150 That would be that would be these because then you also had a rushman to 99 All right Screenshot that so we got it. Thank you Greg also swaggy Greg is gonna send you those for the the bad beat Are the kindness of his heart because he ate there. He ate there Do you go? Do you go swag you getting those two right there my friend? We'll give you some bad be great credit as well Thank you Greg. We appreciate you a lot man. Good. That does it case two coming up in a bit


The results are in. As the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats with 46 breeds recognized, the Cat Fanciers Association, CFA, is the paw authority on our pedigreed pals and every year tallies the most popular cat breeds based on worldwide breeder registration. Here are the other breeds that are part of the most popular cat breeds this year. Persian Cat. Persian is another breed that is known for being loyal to their owners, though they're often standoffish to newcomers. This adorable breed has stocky bodies and scrunched up faces, which makes them downright adorable. Many people love Persians because of their mellow and laid-back personalities. Even though Persians certainly do love their owners, they aren't as demanding for pets and food. This makes them a great breed if you want a cuddly yet laid-back cat that can do its own thing. Interestingly, the Persian Cat is actually one of the oldest breeds in recorded history. The breed's first spotting was in Iran, which was called Persia at the time. It wasn't until 1871 that the breed was introduced to a wider audience. In that year, the cats were featured inside the Crystal Palace. Siamese Cats. To this day, Siamese cats are one of the most noticeable and distinctive breeds. This cat often has a cream body with blue eyes that are icy and piercing. More so, the breed has a pointier body than other cats, including triangular ears and slim paws. Siamese cats are perfect for active households. Unlike certain cat breeds, Siamese cats need a lot of attention and stimulation. For this reason, they are perfect for households with children and other animals. Something else that's unique about Siamese cats is that they are very vocal. They do not like being left alone for long periods of time. They will easily communicate their grievances with you and demand attention when they want it. Russian Blue Cats. Even though Russian blues are not the most people friendly of cats, their breed is highly popular for its quiet and calm demeanor. They love to hide in cozy places and sleep all day. Though they likely hide from newcomers, Russian blues are known to be loyal to their family. As the name suggests, Russian blues are believed to have descended from cats that were raised and kept by the Russian czars. In the early 1900s, the cats were imported to North America, where they were bred into what we know them as today. Now, Russian blues have short and soft coats. Their color ranges from silver to dark gray. Individual cats may have a few faint stripes, but almost all are patternless. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out, BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. Bengal Cats. For people who want a domesticated cat that looks like it belongs in the wild, the Bengal is for you. This cat is incredibly playful and active. Even into older age, Bengals are known to act like kittens. These cats need a whole lot of stimulation, or else they could cause a lot of mischief in your home. Bengals are different from other cats on this list in that they are a hybrid species. They were bred with both domesticated and non-domesticated animals, resulting in a unique appearance, wild personality, and gentle demeanor. The breed came about whenever a domestic cat was bred with an Asian leopard cat. Today, Bengals have the body of a domesticated cat, but the coat of a wild cat. The body is muscular and agile, whereas the coat is striped, looking much like the coat of a wild leopard. Abyssinians. Finally, the last cat on our list is the Abyssinian. This cat originally comes from Ethiopia, which was previously known as Abyssinia. This cat has a unique coat that has a red-orange color. The cat also has longer ears and a striking face. In addition to having a unique appearance, Abyssinians are considered a really friendly breed. They aren't particularly known to hop in your lap and cuddle, but they love their owners and follow them around pretty loyally. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is branching today. We're in my life wizard Doing some updates for November which is soon So as you're seeing this it is like the last kind of couple days of November I'm kind of doing it on like the last I think Saturday or something of like November just posting a random video talking about Next month So yeah, I just thought I'd do that just to keep you guys up to date of what is happening I don't actually know where we're going. We're just jumping around So basically Next month is gonna be kind of just the same we're gonna Have kind of the same schedule. There'll be Yeah, there'll be no more musketeer walkthrough obviously as we finish that This week So if there's anything else you want to see my musketeer doing Let me know and I will hopefully get some of that done You know what let's go somewhere What is my life house which house am I on my life house? I think yeah Yeah, there will be the privateer walkthrough continuing and that will be kind of every second dish video I think I think Yeah, I don't like it here. Let's go somewhere else. I really need music in my house Maybe I should do that. I have so many music scrolls. I just need to um, where do I want to go? Where's cool? Let's go to dragons fire sure why not Yeah, so the privateer Skip through will be continuing it will be every second kind of Day ish or second video because We'll be continuing the two videos on a Monday and Friday I don't know if you like that or not, but there will be two videos on Monday and Friday all the others will have one And yeah, there will also be the death walkthrough. Hopefully we'll be finishing if not one episode Until we finish as teka, which will be really cool. So we can start into chrysalis in December Yes, there will be videos every day in December. Hopefully I'm actually on exam leave because in New Zealand there's Exam leave for November because obviously in the Southern Hemisphere our year goes from January to December not the middle of the year to the middle of the year Yeah, so I'm on exam leave and doing exams for most of November. I think we finish Yeah, I'm like the finished school itself. I'm like the First of November, I think when they're not the first the third of November and then I'm gonna study leave until Basically the end of year which is on the first or first of December. I think so, yeah, I've got I'll have a lot of times left time time to record video so yeah, they'll be cool and There should hopefully be a video every day in November Like there has been So far in October. Hopefully I don't break that Next week for the last couple days. That would be bad. Imagine that imagine if I break Imagine if I break it in the last like three days. That would be bad. Oh But um, yeah, I'm about to record those videos So I should have plenty of plenty of stuff to do plenty of videos to post so be whether I edit it or not I don't actually know where I'm going. I'm kind of just randomly going places. So don't ask. But yeah, basically that's about it They'll also be Zafariah crafting coming sometime next month probably as ticker crafting will probably get the new We'll probably unlock the star school obelisk and the Sun school obelisk Basically just do all of the as ticker stuff Wrap that up before we head into chrysalis and that will take a while. I'm guessing Probably into like January halfway through January, maybe if we're lucky it depends also how How far I get through in the privateer walk through because as it is a smaller game part on a one I could finish it earlier Then I will finish it earlier, then I will finish was a one-on-one But yeah, hopefully I can kind of just do it Clicker and then we have more time to post more videos if there's any other videos you want to see on The channel sometime soon. Let me know down in the comments below because um, I don't know. I kind of feel like it's just Same odd same old sort of stuff but Yeah, if you if you're new here subscribe Press the little like button press the little bell to know exactly when I post another video and Remember craft outside the box


Fy nid i'i gael eich lleoddau ffergus Ewing i gael 100 per cent y trofodaf yn S Cyberfast Broadband yn Scotland.  Rwyf i'n gweithio'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r parlymyn i'n gweithio'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Over the past few weeks, there has been a great deal of conjecture and, quite frankly, disinformation about how Scotland is performing in terms of broadband delivery. This statement is an opportunity therefore to set out the facts and here is the key one, Presiding Officer. By the end of 2021, Scotland will be the only part of the UK where every single home and business can access superfast broadband. The £600 million that was announced last week is the biggest public investment ever made in a UK broadband project and launches the first universal superfast programme in the UK. To put that fully into context, it is over double the amount of public funding committed to our current digital, Scotland's superfast broadband project—that is £280 million—and more than three times bigger than the £190 million fibre fund that the chancellor announced for the whole of the UK in his recent budget. It is a programme entirely unique to Scotland. That is a choice that the Scottish Government has made, superfast broadband for all. Why is this so crucial to Scotland and why do we need it now? Will it be simple? If we want a Scotland that delivers inclusive economic growth, helps businesses in our rural and urban communities to innovate and grow, prepares our children for the workplaces of the future, creates a digitally-skilled workforce fit for the digital century and reforms our public services through digital innovation, then we need a future-proofed digital infrastructure. This new procurement will help to deliver that, and I will talk more about it in a moment. First, it is worth reflecting on the truly spectacular progress that has been made in recent years. Our investment, along with that of our partners in the digital Scotland's superfast broadband programme, has genuinely transformed the availability of broadband across the country. Commercial investment alone would have delivered coverage to just 66 per cent of premises, largely in urban Scotland. Coverage in the Highlands and Islands would have been just 21 per cent, and there was no planned coverage at all in Orkney, Shetland or the Western Isles. Recognising the unique challenges that were posed by Scotland's geography, we concluded that a distinct approach was required. Rather than taking forward 32 small-scale procurements at local authority level, we took the joint decision with our local government partners to aggregate planned public investment into two larger regional projects in Scotland. That created a scale that has dwarfed any other project in the UK, extending broadband access to over 800,000 premises across Scotland so far, with further deployment to follow throughout next year. The success of that approach is demonstrated by the coverage figures. Ofcom figures continue to show that Scotland has made the fastest progress of any of the UK nations in extending superfast access, and we are well on track to meeting our 95 per cent coverage target by the end of this year. The programme has had a massive impact, but it has not reached everyone. We could have chosen to stop there, as the UK Government has done. We could have taken the decision that their USO, set at just 10 megabits per second, was sufficient for our rural communities, but we did not. We chose a different path. We concluded that the economic damage would be caused by consigning large parts of rural and island Scotland to the broadband slow lane, and by extension the economic slow lane was simply unacceptable. That is why, even with broadband reserved, as it is to Westminster, we have launched the reaching 100 per cent programme. It is why, even though the Government was only willing to commit £21 million to our 100, the Scottish Government has stepped up to ensure a £600 million investment in a vital piece of Scotland's national infrastructure. The procurement that was launched last week will build on the success of the DSSB programme, but it will be different in some key respects. Unlike the DSSB programme, we plan to make the delivery of new backhaul in particular rural locations a requirement. That will help to create a truly national fibre network, ensuring that all parts of Scotland are within reach of accessible fibre. Allowing for currently planned commercial coverage, there are around 245,000 homes and businesses in Scotland that cannot access superfast broadband. This initial investment will deliver superfast access to a significant proportion of those, but we do not expect it to deliver 100 per cent coverage on its own. There will be further phases through which we will ensure that superfast broadband reaches each and every premise. We expect that to involve a wide range of superfast technologies, supported by a national voucher scheme, available to individuals and communities. However, the initial phase is the key one. Extending a future-proofed accessible fibre network into remote rural areas will provide the essential platform for delivering superfast broadband for all. We are purposely targeting the funds where they are needed most in rural Scotland, so that first phase will not focus on cities. My firm belief is that coverage gaps in urban areas should be filled by commercial suppliers. I am greatly encouraged by emerging plans from the likes of BT, Virgin Media, City Fibre and Vodafone, among others, which suggest that that is beginning to happen. The procurement will be split across three regional lots. That is designed to maximise competition, and that is vital to drive both value and innovation. I am confident that the scale of our investment and our ambition will attract interest from a wide range of telecoms suppliers across the UK and, indeed, Europe. That is a huge public investment. It is vital that we get the right deal for Scotland, so the procurement will take some time, approximately one year. It is being run as a competitive dialogue, and those generally take between 12 to 18 months to complete. We are confident that we will have suppliers in place and ready to start building by early 2019. Currently, broadband activity will continue on the ground between now and then. Alongside extensive commercial activity, the DSSB programme will continue to deliver throughout the coming year with new investment that has been generated by early take-up on the new fibre network. The so-called game share funding plans for new deployment in every local authority area across Scotland during next year, avoiding any significant gap between DSSB ending and R100 starting. Much has been achieved over the past three years. The latest off-com figures show that superfast coverage in Scotland has increased by 26 per cent since 2014, compared with just 16 per cent for the UK as a whole. However, we now want to finish the job. The £600 million investment that we will make is fantastic news for Scotland's rural and island economy and the real statement of the Scottish Government's intent to make Scotland a truly world-class digital nation. The investment will transform the economic prospects of rural Scotland, the fibre network that we help to build shall be the backbone for delivery of our 100 per cent commitment and beyond that for the future development of Scotland's digital economy. It will underpin a wide range of connectivity services long into the future, 4G and superfast broadband today, 5G and ultrafast broadband tomorrow, and it will help to drive innovation and growth right across the economy, supporting new business models and industries whilst ensuring that Scotland is competitive in the next digital age. We can be in Scotland a world leader in this digital century, one that is inclusive, innovative, outward looking, driving technological and digital innovation and making Scotland the most attractive place in the UK to invest. Working alongside Highlands and Islands Enterprise and our local government partners, we have already developed an enviable delivery track record through the DSSB programme, one that has largely bridged the coverage gap between Scotland and the rest of the UK over the past three years. We will now build on that success and through the R100 programme help to deliver a future-proofed national fibre network that will place rural Scotland among the best-connected places anywhere in Europe and underpin future economic growth. I am happy to take questions. I urge members who wish to ask a question to press their request-to-sweet button now. We have only got until 2.52 am, so I am conscious that not everybody might get in. I thank the cabinet secretary for prior sight of his statement. The cabinet secretary is big on high power today, but the fact is that Scotland is behind England in terms of roll-out of superfast broadband. Superfast broadband of more than 30 megabits per second has reached 92 per cent of households in England, but only 87 per cent in Scotland. Also, 6 per cent of premises in Scotland have less than 10 megabits compared to only 3 per cent in the rest of the UK. Another huge concern is the budget data showing that the spend on digital connectivity for next year is being slashed from £136 million in 2017-18 to only £58.5 million in 2018-19, of which only £34 million is capital. That is certainly not helping to accelerate the roll-out. The cabinet secretary has stated that suppliers through procurement for R100 will only be in place by early 2019. My first question is, will next year be a wasted year? Finally, there is great confusion about reaching the 95 per cent target. In page 15 of the draft budget 2018-19, it states that, by the end of 2017, we will have achieved our existing commitment to deliver fibre access to at least 95 per cent of premises in Scotland. However, on page 147 it states, in 2018-19, we will deliver the final phase of the DSSB programme, which will extend fibre broadband access to at least 95 per cent of premises across Scotland. Can the cabinet secretary confirm which is the true statement? I thought that all Scottish MSPs would welcome the fact that, today, I have announced the biggest ever investment in enabling people in rural Scotland and our islands to have superfast broadband. The difference between what we are doing and what Mr Hancock is not doing is that we have a plan. We are investing £600 million to deliver that plan, as we stated, by the end of 2021, so that everybody can have access to superfast broadband. The difference is that our definition of superfast broadband is the conventionally accepted one of 30 megabits per second, but the UK has no such ambition. It does not plan to reach everyone and it believes that the correct speed is 10 megabits per second, not 30 megabits per second. What is it contributing to the Scottish Government in terms of R100? It is contributing £21 million—3.5 per cent—of the total of £600 million. No, next year will not be a wasted year. As I said in my statement, if you have been listening to it, next year DSSB will continue to deliver to a great many homes on top of commercial delivery. Secondly, the two statistics that you quoted are entirely different. One is in respect of delivery of fibre and one is in respect of delivery of access to superfast broadband. There is a technical distinction and I suggest that you read the Offcom Connected Nations report. Finally, the claim that I repeated by today that Scotland is three years behind the rest of the UK is simply laughable. The latest Offcom figures show that the opposite is the truth. Superfast coverage in Scotland over the past three years has increased by 26 per cent compared to 16 per cent for the whole of the UK, and those are not the Scottish Government figures, but the figures of the independent regulator, Offcom. Rhoda Grant Thank you, Presiding Officer. We share the Cabinet Secretary's ambition to reach 100 per cent by 2021. However, we are concerned that the Scottish Government will not achieve this, and people will be let down. It will take the Government at least a year to procure the next phase, so it will be some way into 2019, before a shovel goes in the ground, leaving only 18 months or two years for the most technically difficult areas of Scotland to be reached. Estimates suggest that, for the Highlands and Islands alone, it could cost up to £300 million, half the budget allocated. Can I ask if he realistically believes he will achieve his goal? Given that he has more than half the budget next year, how much will be invested from Gainshare and added to the budget next year? Will he also give the assurance that the availability of a voucher scheme will not be seen as discharging the obligation to the hard-to-reach areas for 2021? We delivered on the digital Scotland's superfast broadband projects. Three years ago, I am quite sure that, if we look back through the official report, we could have seen MSPs' opposition MSPs' challenges then. Will you deliver the ambitious project? Will you enable access to more than 800,000 homes and businesses in a matter of simply three years? We have done that. I am optimistic. Of course, there is lots of hard work to be done. The tender process involves competitive dialogue, and that is to ensure the maximum likelihood of competitive bids. I take heart from the encouraging reports from Offcom, which says that, at PARA 1.7—this is the most recent report that was published last week—we recognised that there have been significant improvements in mobile and broadband connectivity in recent years. Local authorities in the Highlands and Islands have seen some of the largest increases in superfast broadband availability in the UK. I could read much more, but the independent regulator recognises that we have done a good job. There is no reason to question at this early stage why we could not be able to achieve what we have achieved already with the SSB. I am acutely conscious that people who do not have such access at the moment will feel bitterly disappointed. In many cases, they are angry. I understand that. That is precisely why it is so important that we have a credible plan, a plan that will devote substantial resources, the line share of which will be devoted to the northern regional bloc, including the Highlands and Islands. I am determined that we shall deliver, working with our local authority colleagues, whom I have invited to meet fairly early next year to discuss how we go forward, and I do not share the member's pessimism. I recognise the push for cover in rural areas and the difficulties that that brings. However, there are still gaps in urban areas, for example in East Kilbride, where it would seem to be due to exchange on the lines or tepon technology. That affects domestic and industrial estates, which is worrying in an industrial town at East Kilbride. The commercial providers do not seem to be covering those gaps because it would seem not to be commercially viable. Will the cabinet secretary please take that on board and have a word with the commercial suppliers to meet their obligation in urban areas? I regularly meet the commercial operators. It is primarily the obligation of the commercial operators to meet the needs of the commercial market, not of the taxpayer, to displace that investment, but for that to be made by commercial operators, with whom we have excellent relations. I would say to Linda Fabiani that the Scottish Government has already passed regulations and respective building regulations, for example, which require in respect of new housing developments over, I think, 30 units, to be provided conduits and ducts, providing access for superfast broadband for all new houses to be built. Of course, that is an area that I have discussed with the commercial operators and on which further work is done. I am happy to speak to her and meet her with regard to the particular challenges that exist to some of her constituency in East Kilbride. 2018-2019 will be a wastage year. Some households and businesses will have to wait until 2022 to get broadband. That is simply not good enough. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that the budget for the 2018-2019 has been slashed, and only existing money and contractual mechanisms will provide funding? Where is the £600 million in the budget? That will equate to £200 million a year for three years. How is that £600 million made up? Is it all Scottish Government money? Is it UK Government money? Is it private Government money? Can the cabinet secretary clarify, please? The £600 million is, apart from the pittons provided by Mr Hancock's UK Government of £21 million, the rest of nearly £580 million is provided by the Scottish Government. The UK has provided just 3 per cent, and yet broadband is a reserved area. We waited for a while until 2014, in fact, for the UK to fulfil its obligations on a reserved area, but we waited in vain, and that is why we acted in the digital Scotland superfast programme. The member may be interested to know in relation to the matters that he has raised that, were it not for that contract, delivered by the Scottish Government and the HIE—in this case, the Scottish Government—then the deployment in Dumfries and Galloway of access to superfast broadband as at 212 would be 26 per cent. Thanks to the DSSB, it is now at 82.5 per cent—26 per cent—then, after the Scottish Government investment, it is at 82.5 per cent. I would have thought that a thank you would be an order from the Tories. Willie Coffey to be followed by David Stewart. Thank you. The investment that is already made by the Scottish Government is certainly appreciated by the 94 per cent of people in East Ayrshire who already have superfast broadband. Can the cabinet secretary clarify for us whether the roll-out schedule for the R100 programme will be made available to members and the public so that people can have an idea when the service will come their way? A very sensible question from Mr Coffey. We have learned from the DSSB programme that one of the things that people and communities wished was to know if you like, when the access work was to be scheduled for their communities. Therefore, as early as possible once the procurement process is completed in 2019, we plan to share the information with the people and communities as quickly as we possibly can because there is, of course, a desire to know. Next year will not be a year of inactivity, there will be a substantial work carried out by commercial operators and also using the funds provided by the Scottish Government and other public sector providers, and that game share work will carry on. Also, it would not have been possible to proceed earlier with this procurement because had we done so, the only possible bidder would have been BT and it was only possible to determine and describe and define the coverage area, the intervention area, after the DSSB contracts were substantially completed. We are proceeding in accordance with a plan to invest £600 million in Scotland and I commend that plan to the member and to his colleagues in London. What role does the cabinet secretary envisage for Highlands and Islands Enterprise and is there a need for novel technological solutions for the difficult to reach last 5 per cent? Yes, HIE will be playing a role in respect of continued delivery of those communities that wish to proceed under the CBS scheme with their own projects and their communities and HIE will be working to deliver that, although I should say that many of the communities who had been minded to proceed with their own schemes have recently determined that it would be better to wait, better rather to participate in the R100 programme. In regards to the second question, I can confirm that a variety of technologies will be available, not only a satellite but technologies involving wireless and even TV white space and using mobile technology in order to provide a signal. Therefore, a variety of technologies will be available in order to reach those that we cannot reach through fibre and details of that will be announced in due course. Mike Rumbles will be followed by Emma Harper. Is not the whole point of the cabinet secretary's commitment to ensure that every household receives at least 30 megabytes per second? Is the minister not aware that in this week's off-comes report only 87 per cent, not 95 per cent of premises have the speed and by the end of the year, in just 12 days' time, his own target will be missed? No, that is not the case. The case was to reach 95 per cent in respect of fibre and provide access to superfast broadband and the speed at which the broadband services are available depend, of course, as the member I am sure will know, on a number of other factors, including what package they get and how the system is rooted in their own particular householder premises. That is simply not the case. I am very heartened by the positive verdict of off-com. I notice that the Opposition members do not mention it, so here it is, if they want to look at it. Off-com confirms that Scotland has made more rapid progress in these matters than anywhere else in the UK. I need to remind members that I am the PLO to the cabinet secretary. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that one of the three region lots included in his statement is South of Scotland and how many homes and businesses in the south of Scotland will be connected through R100 and how will this approach ensure that areas currently with or without, or far from, fibre cabinets such as near Borg or Kirkcwbry will benefit? As I mentioned earlier to Mr Carson in Dumfries and Galloway, we have moved from 26 to 82.5 per cent, so there has been a lot of progress, but there remain around 26,000 homes and businesses that will be given access under the R100 programme. We expect that fibre will be central to many of their plans, but, as I said, new and emerging technologies could play a role. My apologies to Stuart Stevenson, Kate Forbes and Rachel Hamilton, but we have to move on to the next item of business, which is a debate on social security. We'll just take a few moments for the members and the ministers to change seats.


So, ma'am, thanks for joining us today on Leadership Log, which is a podcast for the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center community on topics of interest. And the topic of interest today is learning about an organization within our organization, the Acquisition Center of Excellence. So, ma'am, if you could introduce yourself and give us a little bit of your career background. Sure, my name is Melanie Marshall and I am the division chief director of the Acquisition Center of Excellence. I'm here at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, which is kind of the home base for the Acquisition Center of Excellence. So, I have been in the Air Force as a civil servant for now 34 years, which I'm very, very proud of. December 18th is my anniversary date. I'll have 34 years. And I've always been here at Wright Patterson. I started as a Schedule B logistics trainee back in 1988 and worked many programs. And then after doing a stint in logistics and actually grading out on logistics, I actually went through one of the first reduction in forces that I can remember. And so, I was then moved over out of acquisition into protocol and did a stint in protocol at AFRL and then moved to what was then ASC protocol and was the deputy and then the chief of protocol. So, did that until 2001. And General Rajio had retired and General Rhodes came in and said, hey, I think it's time for you to go back into acquisition. So, moved back into acquisition as a program manager where I've been working ever since. So, I've had a great career here, lots of wonderful experiences and really, really awesome opportunity to be at the Acquisition Center of Excellence or the ACE today. Okay. So, now tell us what is the Acquisition Center of Excellence? What is it? Sure. The Acquisition Center of Excellence or the ACE or we call ourselves the ONE ACE is a group of multifunctional members who really are here to support on demand, give independent assessment and advisement to teams. We're force multipliers. And so, we are here to help teams think through their strategies, maybe challenges that they're having in execution, going into a milestone review. We focus mostly, and in the past, we were pretty much 99% all pre-award support. So, that means, you know, a new requirement going through the acquisition strategy and into a lot of the source selection as well as sole source acquisition. We do focus on a lot of support on source elections, but of course, we do support across even sole source. We've seen an actual increase in foreign military sales. So, which is that really is a great thing to partner with. And so, we're just here to really help teams think through these complex strategies and complex acquisition challenges that they're facing today. We're in five different operating locations. We did have six. Our Eglin team has been kind of combined with us here at Wright-Patterson because we've stood down that location, but we're still supporting our EB. We support across all of our AFLC MC directorates and organizations as well as at the AFMC level. So, we are really just here to be a force multiplier to help teams think through that critical thinking and to make good decisions to innovate execution. So, we had an episode earlier this year with the gentleman who was an acquisition officer early in the beginning of ASD, what it was called ASD at that time. And he was talking about how one of the problems they had was organizations kind of poaching experts from one organization to the other, all right? And they were constantly trying to just take the best people and pull them. So, it sounds like your organization is kind of that reach back capability to provide that level of expertise. Is that correct or? That is absolutely correct. We have, you know, we used to be mostly people that were very mature, you know, 20 to 25 years of acquisition experience. And now what I'm really excited to see is we have a great mix. And I think that we are representative of our organizations, right? We have some that are steeped in acquisition and we have some amazing junior force people in these organizations that are willing to just jump in and learn. Acquisition has really changed over the years. And so what we are trying to do is make sure that we can help people and we ourselves are embracing that change. We use, you know, years ago, we had 5,100. Everybody was a long-term, you know, EMD program. Right now, it is such an amazing time and acquisition with all the different authorities that we have through 5,002 that gives us all of the adaptive acquisition authorities and all different types of acquisition challenges and opportunities to go fast. And that's what we're really about across the Air Force is going fast. You can see it in, you know, all of the chief of staff's imperatives. You can see it in the operational imperatives. You can see it from AFMC to AFLMC. We're all trying to figure out what do we need to do to go fast, share information better and make better decisions earlier. And so what we are doing, what we're seeing is that even in our teams that we're working with, there are a lot of junior force that are being promoted quicker. And so they are sometimes looking for a one-on-one trusted agent to help them think through challenges and make decisions. We're also seeing teams that are challenged with very complex issues as they're dealing with their contractor or trying to figure out the best strategy for their program. And so there's so much information out there. It's too much for one person or one team, even us, to understand everything. So we have a lot of reach back with SAP AQX, our policy team, SAP AQC, SAP AQR, wherever we need to go, that's what we're doing now. And so we tried to, our mantra right now is leading while we learn. Acquisition keeps changing. And so while we're leading, we have to continuously continue to learn as our programs do. And so that's where we come together. And I think it's a beautiful blend when our program teams and our ACE and our external and internal kind of trusted agents in specialized areas can help make decisions.  And you mentioned it, right, Pat, but do you have other locations and are operating bases? Yes, so we call our stuff the one ACE because we like to think as one and we like to learn as one and share as one. So we have Wright Patterson, which is the home base station. We have Hill, Hanscom, Robbins and Tinker. So there used to be about 69 of us and right now we're at about 60 with the Eglin being dissolved and that mission area moving to Wright Pat. So we're about 60 strong across the AFL CMC. And how do you keep in touch with the other elements at your remote locations? Do you guys travel or do you use a lot of remote connections? Yeah, so we have been totally remote. I've been in this job since August of 2020 and I've met all of my operating location chiefs and members through teams like many others. We're hoping to get together early in 22. But the great thing is, is that we've all become very proficient in using these technicals technologies. And so it allows us to collaborate very well. Every other week, myself and my other operating location chiefs meet and make sure that we're all aligned in our mission, sharing information. The great thing is that we have people from each one of the organizations that are pairing together now to help teams at different locations through workshops, through critical thinking. And then we have one of our greatest accomplishments lately is the standup of the digital enterprise launch team for acquisition or Delta. And so that is the team that is focused on the mission of helping organizations implement digital and helping digital transformation across the center. And so we're partnered with other organizations like the digital transformation office and the digital campaign and the other SMEs across the center and the command to help implement digital strategies. Okay, so you mentioned earlier that you used to be primarily pre award as far as your involvement in the process. So are there common situations that you typically do get involved in the, or are there particular places in the process that your team generally gets involved? Well, today I like to say there is no typical, right? We jump in wherever we're needed. Many programs do focus on support with us in the pre award. So acquisition strategy through contract award. We also are seeing an increase of programs that are coming to us for milestone decision support. What are the right documents? What's the timing? How, you know, how does it work when we go into the building and we're going through milestones? What are the must have, the statutory versus regulatory because that changes, you know, throughout time. And then as I said, there's so many programs that are coming to us because they're being modernized or their legacy in sustainment, but they're also interested in implementing digital thinking. So what can I do differently now that I'm already on contract? What should I be talking to my contractor about? How can you help me with a schedule analysis? I think something is going awry here. Can you help me with schedule health analysis? It's time for a milestone. So can we go through another risk workshop? So those type of things are where we're really seeing the stability, but we're also seeing an increase in new areas that normally weren't ours. Like, you know, we've had a PPBE for program managers. How to put together an RFP, you know, how does an IP, how should an IPT work? You know, what does airworthiness look sound like and feel like if I'm a program manager? How do I think about my stakeholders and how do I understand how to manage them and who should I put priority on? These are areas that are normally in our products and services normal catalog, but we're seeing a demand for them. And so what we're trying to do is meet that demand. So you mentioned digital earlier and I think some people think that if you don't start off on the digital path from the very beginning, then you really can't implement it. But there are digital tools that you can insert into the middle of the process or into a legacy program. So is that something that your group can help with? Yes, so our Delta team also is working. We have partners from the PLM environment. We have partners with, that are working on the acquisition and sustainment data product from the EZS. And so there are lots of ways that we have helped and we have worked with. For instance, if you look at some of our digital platforms, such as A10, you know, C130J, B1, who's making a digital twin, you know, B52, who was a legacy program and decided to go digital as they increased or updated their engine. There are lots of different programs that are in sustainment or they're modernizing. And they're like, okay, our baseline is legacy. We have nothing digital, but we're interested in going digital. And so in our Delta team, we have developed a digital implementation assistance, kind of a format to help really thinking, teams think through critical thinking. And so it's all about if you are interested in that, asking the right questions to help determine what may be the best model for you. Digital can apply in many different areas and in many different ways. In some instances, for instance, for PLM, it may be the first piece is making sure we have all the data and the correct data rights and intellectual property that we can do what we want to do in this, in sustainment. It could be, you know, what has, what is driving the worst, you know, readiness issue or reliability issue? Maybe that's an area that we wanna focus in on. So there are many different opportunities to look for a program to look at, does digital make sense for us? And so we are really working and partnering with other SMEs to help make those critical decisions and make more importantly, help that critical thinking. So your team is really kind of broad, broad based. What, when you're selecting new members, what are some of the characteristics that you look for? So obviously you're not just hiring on seasoned professionals, but you're also taking on junior force as well. Is there any common characteristics that you look for? So, you know, mostly we're looking for people who have, if possible, have had a range of experience from ACAT-1s to really, you know, ACAT-2s and 3s. We have people that focus on FMS because we're seeing a huge population of FMS programs that are coming to us for support and they're doing really innovative things in their contracts. And so that's driving, you know, a need to understand the FMS policies and the way of doing business there. But really most importantly, we are looking for people who not only embrace the acquisition of old, but embrace what's happening in acquisition now and what's to come. There's still a lot of learning when digital came around. We kind of put together a book club within the ACE family and said, okay, if we're going to help, we've got to learn, but we're not embedded in any program. So how do we learn? So it involves a lot of partnership, critical thinking, researching, working together, developing workshops, being able to take, you know, constructive criticism and just kind of change things around. And more importantly, listening to the demand signals of our customer base and then going after that knowledge and then creating the workshop or the tool to help through that support. So yes, you're right. The last three people that have joined our team have not been 20 plus years. They're more like six to eight years, but they've had a great experience through training programs. And so they're eager to learn. And the most important thing is that they're going to take this experience as they go back into the workforce. After they leave the ACE, they will have seen a lot of different expertise, a lot of different experience, and they'll have that tool set in their tool belt. You know, it's interesting that you mentioned continuous learning because we all know the acquisition process is constantly being refined. It's always changing, it's evolving all the time. What are some of the key modifications that you've seen in recent years in the acquisition process? So, you know, I think when Dr. Roper, when he established, you know, kind of the adaptive acquisition framework and helping teams really pushing go fast, speed with disciplines, innovative acquisition and execution. 5002 to me changed a lot of the game because out of that, we had specific policies that really, to me said, I'm giving you the authority to do things differently. If I'm doing a software program, don't think of it in all the milestones as you would in a major capability program. Think of it differently. How can we go fast? How can we get, and really it's all about continuous insight, continuous development, continuous building in many of these new authorities. So, you know, software pathways, defense business systems, that is a huge area for acquisition and we just can't think of it the same way, right? And so when, I think when 5002 actually became available, it forced a lot of teams to say, okay, maybe there is a better way to do this, you know, middle tier capabilities when we were doing rapid fielding and rapid development and rapid prototyping, you can't do things the same way as you did in a five year, you know, or four year development program. And so it forces you to dig a little deeper and think about things. And then, you know, this whole tailor in versus tailor out, which means streamlined to begin with and then figure out what makes sense. And so I think that that really has allowed acquisition to really try things differently. And really it's about that community, you know, those people at higher levels, making sure that you get that buy-in early of your strategy and what you are planning to do and what you're not planning to do. So I think that that's really what I've seen more in acquisition. It's no more of just take the last program's template. It really is thinking through earlier and making good decisions based upon what you know, what you think is gonna happen, the money that you have, you know, the risk that you see, what risk you're willing to take. You know, we're seeing a lot of that as far as kind of our, what is our strategy for building? And so those kind of things I think are really helping. This continuous ATO is another, you know, big help for programs such as that are heavy in software and defense business systems.  And so I think those kind of things have been amazing for me in the 34 years of my experience to see that progression. I grew up in an area where all programs were soul sourced, you know, CLS to the contractor for life. It is no longer that game. And so that drives a willingness to learn and it drives, you know, willingness to change, to try different strategies to go fast. So does your organization work specifically with AFL-CMC organizations or do you reach out to other organizations outside of the center? Sure, so our primary responsibility is to supporting the AFL-CMC mission, but we do support AFMC. We've worked with, you know, AFSAC, NACIC, we've worked with Nuke Weapons. And through the center level agreements, there are some center level agreements that specifically call out acquisition support to some of these organizations. We do support, you know, as resources are available and as on the demand, but more importantly, you know, now is a time that we have to work with other organizations for insight and knowledge and learning. And so, you know, in an area of some of these areas, you know, we're reaching out to the Navy and we're reaching out to the Army and we're learning from them, you know, space. We have a team that has been working with them trying to figure out what they're doing in the area of digital for program management. And so it causes us to kind of go past the normal AFL-CMC center to learn from. SAF-AQXE actually has a team that's called Acquisition Center of Excellence. And so every other week, we have a tag up that SAF-AQXE supports with all of their, our ACE across the center as well as our program element groups that really help us make sure that we stay aligned with what's going on in the building at the SAF-AQX, helping us with new policy insight, helping us, you know, sometimes we go to them and say, hey, I think this is what this policy is saying, help me, you know, am I interpreting correct? Who can we talk to to talk through this? So, you know, it really is a good way to really meet people outside. We've done a lot of work with AFPID and DAU, you know, trying to learn from them, bringing them into organizations where we don't have that level, that depth of expertise. And so we're reaching out to them to partner with us in different things. So, yeah, so it's not just us teaching ourselves, we have to be able to learn and share across the lines. So what do you see coming into the future? Well, you know what, I see more challenges. I see a continued call to go fast. I see a continued need to keep learning. I see a continued need to keep collaborating. I think that with the operational imperatives and a lot of the AFMC and center goals and the center goal of, you know, how are we gonna go fast through digital without really any enterprise funding? There's always a need to learn from others and to, if you think you have a good idea to share it. And I think that what we're gonna see is a continued need to bring people to organizations like the ACE that are willing to learn that will leverage what they know and kind of partner with what they're learning from, even our customers, we're learning from them every day because they're embedded into those execution organizations. So we know what they're doing, but it's even as important to understand what worked and what didn't and why. Because we like to handle our best practices and lessons learned from that execution standpoint. It's okay to advise, but it's really important to understand what was the side effect of that, what was the second, third and fourth order effect of that. How did it work? And so I think what I see in the future is more of that sharing. I see more complex acquisition I see that we're just getting started in digital. I don't know where that's going with really a lack of enterprise funding, but I've seen some amazing work at the division and portfolio level where they said, hey, we're taking a stand, we're gonna use some of our portfolio money and we're just jumping in and we're gonna figure it out as we go. And so that is really exciting and amazing to see. So I think that in closing, I think that the ACE is, we're gonna continue to learn while we lead as teams are. I see some teams doing amazing work and I'm learning and from them and I'm really excited to say that we're partnered with them. And I think that the center will keep meeting the mission which is building that capability faster through innovative acquisition and execution. So, man, that pretty much brings us to the end of our time. Is there anything that I forgot to ask you about or anything that you'd like to reiterate? No, I think we've hit all the salient points. It's been a pleasure to do this podcast with you. It's an honor that the Acquisition Center of Excellence or the ACE was chosen and seen as a needed and a force multiplying organization. If you need us, please call us. You can find us on the Air Force portal or on the SharePoint. If you need to reach out to us, just give us a call and we'll be happy to help. All right, ma'am, thanks very much for joining us on the Leadership Blog. We appreciate your time. Thanks for being here. Have a great day.


Random House Audio presents Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. Red for you by Becca Bouteau. CHAPTER I Scowl with Frustration at Myself in the Mirror. Damn my hair! It just won't behave.  I should be studying for my final exams, which are next week. But here I am, trying to brush my hair into submission. I must not sleep with it wet. I must not sleep with it wet. Reciting this mantra several times, I attempt, once more, to bring it under control with the brush.  My only option is to restrain my wayward hair in a ponytail and hope that I look semi-presentable. Kate is my roommate, and she has chosen today, of all days, to succumb to the flu. Therefore, she cannot attend the interview she'd arranged to do with some mega-industrialist tycoon I've never heard of for the student newspaper. So I have been volunteered. I have final exams to cran for and one essay to finish. And I'm supposed to be working this afternoon. But no. Today, I have to drive 165 miles to downtown Seattle in order to meet the enigmatic CEO of Gray Enterprises Holdings, Inc. As an exceptional entrepreneur and major benefactor of our university, his time is extraordinarily precious, much more precious than mine, but he has granted Kate an interview, a real coup, she tells me, damn her extracurricular activities. Kate is huddled on the couch in the living room, Anna, I'm sorry, it took me nine months to get this interview, it will take another six to reschedule and will both have graduated by then. As the editor, I can't blow this off, please.  How does she do it? Even ill she looks gamine and gorgeous, strawberry-blonde hair in place and green eyes bright, although now red-rimmed and runny. I ignore my pang of unwelcome sympathy. Of course I'll go, Kate. You should get back to bed. Would you like some nyquil or Tylenol? Nyquil, please? Here are the questions in my digital recorder. Just press record here. Make notes. I'll transcribe it all. I know nothing about him. I murmur, trying and f***ing. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Alright everybody before the plates and patches break we have a little filler to do a number block for 14 of these teams. Good luck. Here's the full list. Cardinals, bills, Panthers, Bears, Bengals, Cowboys, Packers, Patriots, Saints, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Titans, Redskins. Here are the people who bought in and here are the numbers. We're gonna roll the dice and we're gonna go 11 times Lengthy randomizer. One, two, three, four, a lot of randomizing. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven. Thomas down to Richard. Should we invest in a new mouse? Something more ergonomic? And 11 times on the numbers. This one is kind of small. At least in my opinion. Just Cramp, like a like a pitcher. Got a little hand cramp. Nine, ten, and eleven. We're gonna battle through it though. You won't hear it again from me until tomorrow. Thomas one and three, Karen seven, Kelly four, Thomas five, Justin six, JC zero, plus any redemptions. Thomas nine, Mike eight, Richard two. So there you go. Thanks everybody. Coming up next, the break.


Beacons or Torrens. Beacons or Torrens. Believe it or not, I'm going to go with the Torrens today. You know, I've had two big days back to back and yeah, my legs are feeling it today, so I want to test out. In fact, my left calf is just like a little sore, a little tight, so I need to work on that today. And so I'm fascinated to see, as usual, will the zero drop help stretch out everything in my left calf specifically today. And I love them both. You know I love them both, but we're going to go with the Torrens on this first run. All right, legs are feeling pretty good. Took about three miles to warm up and then my left calf is feeling great. It's just nice and, I don't know, like the pain, the soreness, it's totally gone. I can't feel it at all. So that, that was the goal of this run about eight minute pace. You know, nice and easy. In fact, I probably should have gone a little slower, but I actually got, I got places to be, things to do. All right, and got to get ready for the live stream tonight. Oh baby. And I believe we're going to be opening up a new pair of shoes today, which I hope to put into another, another video later today. So it's a, another marathon shoe option. Oh, it's cold again. I almost didn't check the PO box today. I'm glad I did. It's time. It's time to talk about plyometrics. Oh my goodness. Thank you for your patience. If you've been waiting for this blog for a long time. And the reason you've been waiting is because I do not believe in jumping right into plyometrics at the beginning of a training block, which my training block started in January.  And they're just, they're, they're intense. They make you hurt. They should make you soar, especially when you're just getting into them. And if you're, if you're getting ready for a race, don't add plyometrics like too close to a race.  So anyway, that's my approach. That's how I do plyometrics. And again, we're going to do, so we're going to do four exercises out here in the field. And then we'll add more as the weeks go along, getting closer to the marathon.  And therefore you should be able to run faster when you are stronger in your lower limbs. But what I am frankly, almost even more interested in than power is cadence and turnover. And how quickly can you move your feet through the, through the foot strike on the ground, uh, with less ground contact and lighter ground contact. And you hear me talking about dancing on the trails up in the mountains. It's like that nimbleness, just that light on your feet feel that I think can really help with your speed as well. So plyometrics will help with that as well. All right, enough talking. Let's get to business. The first one we're going to do is hurdle jumps, all the hurdle jumps. All right, let's go. Gotta take sunglasses off. There's the hurdle jumps. It's pretty straightforward. You're just jumping in place. But in college and high school, we used to jump over hurdles. That's why I call them the hurdle jumps, but I don't have any hurdles out here. So, and again, I just did three sets of five. Eventually I will add, I will get up to three sets of 10, sometimes even three sets of 12, depending on the timing of the training block. And okay, next, one of my favorites actually, it might be my favorite, not quite, but quick feet. Just like it sounds, quick feet right on the ground, moving your feet as fast as possible. I'm going to start with three sets of 20 seconds and eventually again work up to three sets of 30 seconds. Eventually three sets of maybe 45 seconds. All right, let's go. Eyes up, eyes up when you're doing this one. You don't, it's really tempting to look down, okay?  See, I was looking down.  Oh, my poor baby blues are getting all muddy, but that's okay. That's what running shoes are made for. All right, it's got to keep those eyes up. It's really tempting to look down, but you want to keep your eyes up, looking at the competition ahead of you. And that, my friends, is talk about foot strike, light on your feet, quick off the ground, RPM, increasing that turnover, that RPM. Oh, baby. I love that one. And so anyway, I just did three sets of 20. And again, I'll increase the time the next time I do them, which will be next week. And now we're doing a non-traditional plyometrics exercise and get, in fact, you almost can't even put this in the plyometrics category, but I love it. I love it. It's called, I call it Mr. Roboto. Mr. Roboto. It's not explosive. It is not jumping oriented. It is not, it's very, I actually have never really seen any other runner on YouTube do this, okay? So it's called Mr. Roboto. It's a little difficult to explain, so I'm just going to do it first, and then I'll try and explain in words after I do it. All right. Nice and easy, not slower, the better. There you have it, Mr. Roboto. It might be the most, it's probably not the most difficult for me, but I'm telling you, the slower you go, the better.  So, and it just, it forces you to really, like for me, I tend to, I sometimes I slouch, and so it forces me to really focus on putting those shoulders back, and just making sure I'm just nice and taut. All right. I know that's a strange word, but like nice and kind of, there's a little bit of tension there, so I can use that tension as a kind of like a rubber band to help just push, push me down, push me down the track, push me down the road. All right. So, that's Mr. Roboto. I love it. I love it. Okay. One more for today. Just one more. Oh yeah. Bounding up. Oh yeah. I forgot to mention, Mr. Roboto, you do it three by, start with three by 10 meters. That's all. So, you'll go 10 meters down the, down the football field or 10 meters down the track, wherever you're at, and eventually again, I like to work up to 20 meters and even 25 meters. So, three by 25 meters sets, and by the end, you're like, you're burning.  All right. Bounding up the hill over here. Let's see. Yeah. I think there's enough cleared area. There's not too much snow. So, the next one is bounding, and just like it sounds, I'm sure you've seen it done before, but I like to do it on a hill for a little more resistance, and I prefer, this hill is not quite big enough, but it's okay. It'll do the trick. I prefer about a 50 meter hill. This is probably 30 meter hill. So, and again, I'll do three sets by 50 meters or four sets by 30 meters, and you're just bounding up the hill, and I'll show you here in a minute. And again, you're working on this one. You're really working on that explosion. And if you don't have a hill, that's okay. You can do these on flat as well, for sure. But I prefer to do them on a hill, because I like hills. All right. Let's go. Little mud on the camera lens. Hold on one second. All right. That's better. Okay. I can tell that I'm a little out of practice with the bounding. I felt like the power was okay. My legs are a little tired today, but it was more of the, like, the hand-eye coordination.  So you don't fall on your face. But I felt pretty good about that today. So that was the four exercises. We'll talk more about them back in the studio. We're gonna need a warehouse. We're gonna need a warehouse YouTube family. I'm calling it now. Thank you. Oh my goodness. Amazing. In case you missed the live stream, you can go watch it upper right hand corner. We usually go about an hour. Tonight we covered culture, running culture, a little bit of nutrition, keeping in mind I'm definitely not a trained dietician, and then open Q&A. I'm sure we're gonna dive into a lot of running shoe topics. So make sure you go check it out upper right hand corner. All right. See you in an hour. And there you have it. Livestream in the books. Oh, it was a good one. It's always a good one, right? But no technical difficulties. I think that might be the first time that's ever happened where the audio was perfect. No echo. My lips were synced up with the audio. It was amazing. Thank you for being there. If you made it live, lots of good chatter in the chat. We do it every Wednesday night every week on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. mountain time. All right. Okay. Two runs today. Whenever I get over 80 miles a week, I usually start introducing doubles. All right. So that is this week. Started in the Ultra Torrens. They just, they felt good. They felt by the, and listen, I don't, I took them six miles today. I don't know if I'd want to go much further. I'm just gonna put it out there. But they did feel good those first six miles. And then the second run of the day was in the beacons. And I completely destroyed the beacons out in the mud doing the plyometrics. But again, they felt great as well as usual. So no updates there. No major updates. Somebody did ask me though, and I'm just gonna adjust this light a little bit as we're talking. Somebody asked me in the live stream, when is the beacon two coming out? And I believe I've heard July first. So I'm hoping it's sooner, but we'll see. I heard July first. So stay tuned for that. Of course, I will be getting the beacon two. All right. Plyometrics. That was fun. That was hard. And I've reviewed some of the footage. And I'm realizing that, like for example, the first one, the hurdle jumps, I can tell I'm a little sore. I'm a little out of practice. They didn't look amazing, just so you know. And so the idea is you want to lift your knees higher, and you want to make sure you're, you want to make sure you're not crouching over. You want to make sure you're back and that you're really good in good elevation. And then eventually, I will do the the hurdle jumps, but I will be propelling forward. So that'll be kind of the next step. Once I get these baby Plyometrics under my belt, just to reintroduce them to the legs. What else? The quick feet. Amazing. I love them. I love them. And again, in the Skechers Razor Threes, two days ago for the 22 mile run, I hit 185 for the RPM for my cadence. That's what I'm talking about. I would love to bump that up even to like 188, 189 this year. So I don't know how high I can go, but that quick feet exercise, that is part of the game plan. And then what else was there? Oh yeah, Mr. Roboto. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. It's like, you just, it's one of the, it's, it's one of the hardest things you'll ever do.  It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Okay. And then lastly, bounding up the hill. Once that hill has a little less snow, it'll be, it'll be a little easier to negotiate and get a better, um, anyway, it was good. But again, I could just tell that I'm a little out of practice. Maybe my hand-eye coordination is not quite where I want it to be. Did I give you a keyword? It's been a long day. Was it power? Anyway, you probably already know. So I'm not going to say another one, but if not power, power. And the question of the day has to be this, what questions do you have for me about plyometrics? And I will dig into the, like just be patient with my answer. It might take me a day or two to get caught up on the comments, but really, really think about, like, is it, is it technique? Is it the science? Is it the, the, uh, the, uh, performance? Like, how does it help your performance? Anyway, anything like that. Or you could also comment on how could I, uh, basically better film? And I'm hoping to, uh, recruit the secret sauce. You know who you are. Uh, a gentleman out there in Denver who helps me film sometimes these daily vlogs. So I want to get him involved to help film these plyometric exercises better. So it's easier to see for you. So anyway, if you have any comments on how to make the videos better about plyometrics, I'm all ears. I'm all ears. This is the first video publishing today, publishing two. Yes. We opened up a brand new pair of shoes at the live stream. If you weren't there, you can either go dig through that video or you can wait for 3pm mountain time to watch the second video about that shoe. It's a, uh, it's an exciting one. It's an exciting one. See beauty. We're, uh, it'll publish at 3pm, 3pm. See beauty, the work card.


Hi, so it's a cloudy day in New York City, a little bit overcast, a little bit dingy. A little snowy. And a little snowy, yeah, but it's winter here. But inside, we're talking about cloud. It's a lot brighter in some of the record breakers. So, Bob Olwig, W-W-T. Yes. What's your first take on this EMC announcement? Well, first of all, I want to thank EMC for inviting me up here. Fantastic event, both from the dinner last night to the fun they had this morning during the venue. What got me here, what made me most excited about this particular event, is the breadth of products that were announced today, both from the refresh of every one of their product lines, basically. And then they went downstream in terms of the market applicability of their new VNXE product line. So it now hits the small to medium-sized market, which isn't really a place that we play, but I can see for a lot of other partners that makes a lot of sense. And then in terms of the cloud infrastructure announcements that were announced today, what's important for us, we're a VCE partner. We're one of Cisco's largest partners in the world. So it's very relevant for us, especially the speed and simplicity of the software that they've introduced in the systems today. Great. So, Bob, when we talk about the Converge network, I would think the new VNXE, the new VNXE message, really helps with the unification. Unisphere and UIM, if you're talking on the VBlock, have really helped a lot. Absolutely. How have you seen Convergence really changing some of the dynamics in the marketplace today? Well, being a systems integrator, we've been all about Convergence for many, many years. But anytime the manufacturers like a Cisco and an EMC and VMware can get together, create the reference architectures, start enhancing their products to make the products simpler to begin with, it makes our job easier. Great. Bob, thanks for joining us. We're here in New York City for EMC's record-braking mega-launch.


and the charge circuit came from the DVD player and we added a few extras here for the Halloween side. Show the people what we've got in there. Turn that one on and you can listen. Nice. He got the power connector first. Nice. Now to control the car is actually very simple. You get an app on your mobile phone. You want to show them how to drive the car? Which one are you connected to? Push the buttons and see which one works. Nope, it doesn't want to play ball. I'm trying to connect you again. Technology, don't you just love it. Always dies when you don't want it to. Try it again. The kit inside this side already bought because we were going to build another robot and didn't have a chassis for it. So downtown one day spotted this plastic bus, went home, got one of the wheels, went back into town, checked if it would fit, bought the bus. Then, oh yeah, we've got Hackware stickers on it. Hackerspace, yes. Yeah, Hackerspace. Add 12 geeks. So a little bit of work with the Swiss Army. Now if we made a few holes, got some glue, stuck everything in. Then let Rebecca wear it up. Still not working. Oh, it's decided not to work. Right, we'll try this one instead. This one. Let's see. No, this is not going well and it just doesn't want to play ball. How we tested these today, they worked. Nope. No, neither one is working now. Technology, can't I just shoot it? Try this one again. No, I can't. No? It seems the app has died. So which one is it supposed to connect to this one? I tried both of them, but it's not connecting to Ryder. So the app itself... Have you connected the Bluetooth? It's Wi-Fi. Oh, Wi-Fi. Yeah, dude, car is connected. I have no idea sweetheart. Now I think I'm going to have to give up on Dash. Alright, you can show it later. Try to debug it after the event. Yeah, okay. Build that from you.