from Anaheim, California. It's theCUBE, covering Nutanix.next 2019. Brought to you by Nutanix. Camera. Welcome back, everyone, to theCUBE's live coverage of Nutanix.next here in Anaheim. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, John Furrier. We are joined by Chris Cadaris. He is the Senior Vice President of Americas at Nutanix. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Well, thanks for having me. Returning to theCUBE, I should say. It did be back. So you are relatively new to the Americas business. I want to hear how you're adjusting and sort of observations that you've made about the enterprise customer and what's on their mind. Yeah, so it's an interesting journey because I did spend the early part of my career in the Americas business with different companies, right? So I started here in the Americas, you can tell by my accent. And I spent the last nine years in the AMIA business. And getting reintroduced is really an interesting thing. Our customers have a much higher adoption rate of technology in the Americas than they do in some other parts of the world, right? So they're willing to take on new transformational technologies much earlier and deal with that risk seeing that they're going to get those benefits. So it's been a really exciting journey in the last month, month and a half to talk to customers who really embrace our technology because it's so transformational to what they've done in the past. And they're really seeing a lot of the benefits of that. So it's been fun. What accounts for this difference in mindset, would you say? You know, I think it has to do first off with, you know, in the Americas business, there's a lot of competition in the marketplace. And when you get competition, you get pressures that come with that competition, you have to evolve. You have to evolve how you deliver IT, how you deliver applications and the business needs to evolve that supports that. So that pressure in the business environment creates a lot of new things and a lot of, you know, a lot of risk-taking, a lot of transformation, a lot of things that have to happen for customers to deliver services to their end user business unit. That was a theme we were just talking about before you came on about your culture, what's inside Nutanix and also your customer culture. They're risk-takers, they're rebels. Like the Jedi Knight we saw on stage, Mark Hamill, the Star Wars theme, which by the way was perfect. Great demographic target there, everyone loves Star Wars and tech. But I got to ask you, this show here is very intimate, not massive numbers, not like the other big shows. Your customers like coming here from what we've been hearing. Can you have a chance to sit down with them while they're here? What's the conversations that you're having with them? What's some of the new things that's emerging from their needs that you're hearing? Yeah, that's evolving, it's an interesting thing. You know, I kind of compare our customers to almost like a religious following. I know it's sometimes difficult to use religion in these conversations, but it's really like that. These customers are bought in, they're insurgents in what they're doing, they're really trying to evolve their organization because it's transformational. Now, what we're seeing at this show, because the numbers have gotten a lot bigger. You know, last year we were like 5,000 the year before that, we were another 2,000 less than that, so it's gotten a lot bigger. And our customers are coming back to us and saying, we want you to be a bit more intimate. Okay, so we've had that in the past. We've had smaller teams, we've been really close to your engineering, we've been really close to your development roadmap. As you start to evolve into multiple products, as you start to get bigger, you need to keep that intimacy with us, the customer, because that's going to give you the true north as to where you need to go. So we're getting that feedback. Some of it's hard, right? Some of it's you're getting too big, you're getting too dispersed, right? You need to make sure you take care of us and what we need to do in our journey, but that's part of growing up as a company. And you know, that's the reason why we're here, to hear customer feedback. And you guys have that true north. Essentials is the enterprise opportunity, multi-cloud right around the corner, on top of your core business, which is doing great by the way, got great customer base. Getting beyond that core is critical, by building on that core. And this product risk, potentially, we talked to Sunil too, is the next waves are coming. So customers kind of want that assurance. So I got to ask you, when you go out there and you sell on the customers, and you tell them that, the Nutanix is the bridge to the future. What's the value proposition? I mean, obviously we touch on the enablement side. Obviously, consolidation is a side effect of the benefits of the technology you have. People love that. But what's the value proposition as the customers want the bridge to the future? Not just today's speeds and feeds and the greatness of today, what's the pitch with the enterprise and the multi-cloud?  So instead of actually doing all the plumbing, getting together and building these three tier architectures and figuring out how to build sands and compute farms and how they're going to deal with multiple hypervisors, it's let's get them out of that business, let's make it really simple, develop a platform that they can launch off of. Now, that platform needs to think about new applications on those platforms. So let's take it up a notch in regards to what we're looking at. Let's forget about infrastructure. Let's make it invisible as we've talked about in this conference. Let's look at how do we actually start to add services onto that platform that gives the customer choice, not locks the customer in. Which is the key thing that we have to do for our customers. Most of our competition today, it's a lock-in strategy. You pick the platform, you're locked into the entire application set, locked into the compute set, you're locked into the storage set, you have no decision around hypervisor and you don't have a lot of options around platforms and applications. So the good thing about Nutanix is we don't have the innovators dilemma problem. We're not trying to protect a base. We're trying to help our customers and come from that optic of how do we allow our customers to have the most choice possible in building that platform for their new application. So that's the discussion with our customers. It's invigorating for our customers. It's actually freeing for them to understand how we can do this versus what their options are in the marketplace today. So when they're at this conference and they're getting all this news about new products, lots of new announcements, how do you recommend that they wrap their brains around this and digest it and then execute on it? Yeah, it's hard. We're not doing a good job there today. Just we're not. Now, this is a journey of all of these companies like us. How do you go through that eye of the needle and going from a single product company to a multi-product platform company? Not many companies can do this. It's very difficult. So I understand what we're doing. What you do is you come up with a lot of different products, a lot of different solutions for our customers and then you rationalize. We're right in the middle of that rationalization period where some products are features. We have to fold them together, right? Some products need to stand on their own. Some products need to be integrated to the core. All those things are happening. The nice thing is you have to start with, let's just roll everything out. Let's get customers to tell us what we need to do. Let's get our partners to inform us a little bit more and then they'll educate us on the direction. It's not always our answer, right? When you're inside a company, if you think you have all the answers for the way the products need to be delivered, the way they need to be marketed to our customers, you know, you're fooling yourself, right? So that's our direction today. Well, Chris, you guys have a good business to build on that's still relevant and cool for your customers in the enterprise, which is great. I mean, you don't have to worry about product leadership, you got it there. As you guys, for you in particular and your customers, you're also transitioning to software. You get the full stack. That's an advantage. You don't have to rely on other hypervisors. You mentioned that. You know who that is, Microsoft and VMware. Now you have a software business. So now the sales shifts to software, which by the way is great for economics. The economics and valuations on software business are super high. So on the consumption side for customers, this is going to be something that you're going to be involved in. You got to bring Nutanix out to the field. You got to roll it out to the customers. They're going to consume Nutanix with software. How's that going? Can you share some insight into the customer's orientation to the software model? What are some of the things that you're doing around kind of balancing that greatness of the leadership to the transition to software? Yeah, that's a transition that we started about a year ago. And some of the things that you may be bored with but we need to talk about is there's some really plumbing and structural work that we need to do internally. So the first thing we did is we decided to make it pretty much open to our sales teams to be only compensated on software. And they really don't have any discussion or care of what the underlying compute infrastructure needs to be. So they need to be open to that. And that's one thing that's a little bit boring but once we actually did that, then the whole optics changed to how we actually go to market. So when we go to customers, we have discussions that are very open. And when we're partnering in the marketplace with all of our OEM partners and all of our resell partners and all of our GSI partners, it's a discussion around what's right for the customer here. What platform do you want to consume? So that's the first move. The second thing is changing our licensing model to make it more inclusive for customers and what they want to achieve. So moving our customers to a term-based licensing model was really important and we've done that in the last year. And then allowing our customers to then consume very easily when you move to those terms. So how do I consume a node of software? How does that work? How do I consume multiple products on top of that node? Let's make it simple. You know, our previous go-to-market was relatively simple. It was just you buy X amount of Nutanix nodes, it came with hardware and software and customers really loved it. But as we transition to a software model, it comes a little bit more complex because you have multiple titles. Also, how do we allow our customers to do things like ELA's, right? Where they may want to consume, have more agility around their software licensing mechanism, get a lot more licenses up front. They don't have to buy every time. They can project what they're looking to do from a budget spend perspective and consume in a very frictionless way. So we're in the middle of really evolving our kind of enterprise-priced purchase agreement strategy. I wouldn't call it ELA's because ELA's in the marketplace have kind of got a bad name, right? There's a lot of things that other competitors do around true ups that we don't plan on doing and we don't want to. So we want to work with our customers and partners as to how do you want to buy those and new enterprise purchase agreements moving forward? I want to ask you about Nutanix's brand awareness and brand identity because as you said earlier in this conversation, you're hearing feedback from customers, you're getting too big. And I think that so much of the beauty of the brand of Nutanix is this sort of renegade, rebel kind of idea that this is who we are as a company. So when you hear that feedback, you're getting too big guys, you're becoming the man. How do you respond and what's sort of the internal strategy there? Yeah, so the first response is I agree with them, right? Because I see it as well, right? I've only been in for two and a half years and we're losing a little bit of connection. Now it's, you know, I'm really comfortable to admit that. It's important that you actually admit that so that you can change, right? So the things that we're going to do are a few things. So we do have a customer advisory board that meets, you know, right now it only meets once a year, right? In certain markets. We need to actually increase the frequency of that, get more customer voice back into what we're doing. We got some really great feedback, constructive criticism from our customers this week. Big customers that said, you need to think about this, right? And it was really refreshing to hear that. Sometimes difficult, right? We also have the voice of our customers which is our field organization, right? So our sales reps, our SEs, our services people, our customer success people, they're in front of customers every day, our support people. Providing that vehicle feedback back through our executive teams, our engineering teams is really important. So we're formalizing that internally. We have some informal teams today, but it's just not, we're not getting the message through, right? They're not being heard well enough. Their voice isn't resounding as much as it should be. So we're going to start to create and develop that within the company. So growing pains, you got to fix those things, the software model looking good. So things are clicking right now. Net promoter score in the 90s, which is pretty much unheard of. You guys, great loyal customer base. Good news there? Yeah, I mean, great news. I mean, we're probably, we're talking about, you know, first world problems here, right? It's about, you know, we have a huge market. The market's growing at an incredible rate. It's all about how do we take our fair share and more of that marketplace? So these are the, you know, discussions that we're having. I'd rather be here than anywhere else in the world, right, in any other company. You're Chris, you're in sales, you're running on the field.  Got to win those competitive deals. This is a big opportunity for you guys. Yeah, and it's really, you know, from our perspective, it's turned into a bit of a two horse race at this point in time, right? We think we have the best choice solution for the marketplace, right? For customers who want flexibility and choice, I can't imagine why you wouldn't at this point in time, right? Our competitors are strong, right? And they're good, they're good people, they work hard, they do, you know, have great people and great technologies. You know, our entire value proposition around how to provide customer flexibility on what they're trying to achieve in the future. And I think if we do that, then we'll be in a good place. Well, my analysis on the opening yesterday was knowing, following you guys for 10 years is knowing the competition, who could outmuscle you if you were, if you were head to head. You guys are faster and nimbler. You guys can be moving quicker, just to be faster and innovate. Yeah, I mean, I think we're doing that on technology, we're doing that on our support structure with our NPS scores, we're clearly doing that on engineering new product. I mean, coming out with amazing products, right? Moving forward, I think we need to do a better job of how we align to our customers. As we've grown from a mid-market company to an enterprise company to a global account company, these things come with complexities, right? You have to hire different people that have different skills, right? It's a scaling problem, right? And, you know, those are things that we can easily do, right? I'm happy to do those. And those are things that we, you know, are hiring new people that help us through that journey. And it's really a fun thing to do and we're seeing a lot of results, positive results for our customers. Exciting times. Well, Chris Kaderis, thank you so much for coming back on theCUBE. Thanks for having me. I'm Rebecca Knight for John Furrier. You are watching theCUBE.


Let me get everything set up. Oh, are you gonna read comments for me? Yes. No, maybe so So today we have special guests in the house Madame Sandy Sanders you all recognize her name from the Chat feed so Sandy knows how to paint oceans with resin But she hasn't tried Marcy's resin, which is what I usually use or I Usually use stone coat art coat, which is what she always uses but Except for with my oceans I use diamond coat or mixed media girl resin I am out of Ocean coat and Diamond coat so We're gonna be using mixed media girls resin. I have a couple of this size a half gallons and one Full gallon in my shop if you guys are interested. Hi Sweet pea April We're seeing with the cake 2d Are you coming in tutor or what's up? We're just seeing you tomorrow. Hi Julie Gale. What's up Sue? I've gone ahead and mixed the colors. I used aqua and Bondi for this color and just Bondi for our light ocean color and Titanium white which I have in stock right now. I have all these in stock right now actually for my Wade shade and the boards we're pouring on are The white Melamine boards, I think I also have those on our website So Sadie you're excited. I am very excited. We can tell I've not used this resin. So I like trying new resins new things Well, it's a good resin It is quite thick So if you measure like ounces per square foot like often I use Around four ounces per square foot, but with this stuff you have to use a little bit more because It's thinner and that's science so We're gonna do this at the same time ish ish Because this resin has a very short working time. Well, not very short. It's average It's 45 minutes to an hour working time so Yeah What's up everyone? Thank you guys so much for coming in you science at its best. What's up vamp? Thank you guys for being here everyone. If you haven't subscribed, please do so and if you Like the video, please leave me a thumbs up and share it if you are so inclined I'm gonna lift this up because we're gonna Super tilt it So initially I was like, I'm gonna teach Sandy how to do this on a live And then I realized Sandy's watched me do oceans like a hundred thousand times Roughly so but I'm still gonna talk my way through it because someone watching may not Know the things so I went ahead and mix the colors and I'm gonna take the clear that I have left and figure out my Shore line where my wave is gonna be And I do this with clear so that if you don't like it you can move it if you have a whole bunch of Colorant in your resin then it could stain your substrate. So just keep that in mind Also, this is going to separate my white From My blue so that when I manipulate the wave it will stay a white wave instead of like a pastel blue so Then next thing I'm going to do is take my lighter color, which is only Bondi And I'm going to put it close to my shoreline and just have a little bit out in the deep And then I'm going to take my deeper color, which is the aqua and Bondi mix and put it Where I'm going to have my deeper water Because if you look at an ocean The deeper water is darker because ocean science And then the next part super easy you just blend them together. Are you laughing at me? It is ocean science Oceanic e-science And the next part super easy. You just want to blend Not blend really you just want to make sure there's no dry parts In your ocean area people ask me all the time about the the sand area and I leave that without resin on it because I Like my sand to be matte and everything else to be glossy Because in my world as a mermaid sand isn't shiny it is a flatter and Water is shiny because what shiny is what? So I'm Mona from Vancouver. How are things in Vancouver? Hello. Hello. Um Midnight greetings from London. Jessica and we got people from around the whole wide world who are the stunt hands That's not Jeff. No, that is Sandy Sand is She is who hosts us when we visit Colorado or thinking about teaching another class in Colorado. You guys interested Let me know comment below Blur I already have a hair in my this Because the hair in my home is very talented and And it will go everywhere that I don't want it to be this is a little bit thicker than I used to yeah, it's a lot thicker When you said it kind of is the consistency of stone code I was like wait you put your hands in it Well, it's watching that little mixer mix it and I'm like, yeah, that seems like about the consistency Mm-hmm Thank you Tim for the reminder. Please hit the like all of y'all. I only see one thumbs up but it could be It could be delay. I'm gonna assume it's a delay because I know you guys wouldn't just Stiff me out of a thumbs up I'm assuming I don't know that but I'm assuming So sandy, how long have you been working with resin? about four and a half years Four and a half for for some reason. I thought it was longer than that Heidi says are you guys in colorado now? You know, I'm always down for a class We are not there right now. Heidi. We're thinking about well, we will be there in March For a snow venture. I don't Think we'll be teaching a class on that visit, but you never know The reason I am here is I got stuck And Erica was gracious enough to say come crash at my place Because of the freeze and the airline Oh, no Yeah Southwest Yeah It's not being sweet to their people and she has a couple day layover. So she's hanging out in my place Hello, miss cross from albert. Okay. We got people from all over all the oceans right now makes my heart happy um Now for better. It was a little roller coaster earlier. Well, I'm glad things are better Can you please please? Come close to new hampshire, please Rebecca we are not against Traveling to anywhere I just have to have a class of at least 10 people and a space to teach those 10 people The first step in me traveling somewhere to teach a class is that I need the space So if you can find a space for me to teach at least 10 people Then um shoot me an email and we can start Uh putting a class together in your area If you do find me a space and help me set up the class and do all that then you get a free seat in my class as a rule, okay Next I'm going to take my titanium and I'm going to pour it down to where the water and the sand Okay, I know it's resin and I know it's a board would just spray paint on it But it's water in its sand for the purposes of the demo I don't want to have too much white because then It's going to cover up all my pretty color And you want to make sure it touches both the sand and the not sand Stuck give up Because huh you want it to touch both the sand and the water because I want the Wave to keep hold and then stretch back so resin over resin will just kind of roll over itself and not really Let me manipulate it like I want it to but if it's touching the sand Then it will so that's what i'm doing and that's why i'm doing it British Columbia Canada we got a lot of canadiens in there. Love it Heidi says sandy dia is ms right now. Oh, I bet Thanks for this live. I started to have withdrawal. What's up satin skies. Thank you for being here. I'm so glad you're here I know so many canadiens Gail, thank you so much. Where's my Gail appreciate that so much every dollar that comes through the channel goes right back into it And resin's not cheap especially lately. So that's super helps and we love you so much Thank you for everyone being here because every like every view Every everything that you guys do that every every every ever ever All the things that you guys do to What's the word? No, it's not integrate interact everything you do that interacts with the channel Helps us in youtube's eyes to get our videos out there and really trying to get to 100,000 subbies because I want that plaque so hard What's up at mac? You're not that late to the party swamper. What's up? You rock gail. Thank you so much. You got your wave Are you doing more fiddle faddling? No, I just need to uh Connect the dots here. I'm good That is a good point. You don't want any breaks in your wave Because then it won't be a consistent Anything keep that in mind. So I'm going to take my heat gun This is an am take something something or other hg something That jeff has repainted because it looked really bad And I have my wedding cake attachment. You can find the attachment The concert trader nozzle On my website or to sell that comm you can see right here. It has the little split in it There's four so that you can make the attachment smaller or bigger So that it fits All heat guns. I'm assuming I didn't make it. I have no idea. So I'm going to turn my heat all the way up to all the way All the way high and my airflow is going to be all the way high as well I'm going to tilt my Substrates a little bit I'm going to push My waves backwards But first especially since this resin's so thick. I'm going to Pop some bubbles. I'm not worried about popping all the bubbles I'm mainly concerned about getting any fuzzies or hair or anything like that out of my surface because If you don't Then your wave will kind of split and go around it kind of like if there's A rock in a rolling river All that heat I put on it and there's still you can see the bubbles In it I guess I hope you can see the bubbles that are still in there like right here So And it's not that cold here today. It's like it's warm 70. Yeah So if it was cold outside that would be an even bigger issue. I would probably preheat a little bit so There's only one attempt that you can do before You're finished if you do You can't go back is what i'm trying to say you have to do it all in one go No stop and go No stop and go Because if I were to go back and try to do Something to it now um It would melt the other waves And I can tell right here that there's a something So i'm going to pull that out With a this it mess up my wave That's okay Do I have a torch? Small one I know I have a small one somewhere Small um thick No a small fire Oh But I went over here Next to my dust-free zone because you never know when you have to Pull a little dust bunny out and heat it back up That's where I saw one I can't tell um If you try this method at home kids be very careful with actual flame fire you can scorch your resin really easily I'm just kind of dotting around to cover up that error And I think i'm good I don't even have to edge up my wave and Put my white line back on there. I obey fingers crossed You got this sandy you put yours on high when you do all the way high. Yeah, I mean on the yeah Yeah, we're gonna say come back behind that white again a little bit. You got it It looks amazing You can tilt all the way back or not. It's totally your prerogative Let's put a couple like little white Whispies in here for my deep ocean Some waves Totally optional to do that bit that does act a lot different than totally different. Yeah, that's way different Can't go back and do another heat. It's not gonna Won't bode well So this break right here is because your white was behind behind it. Yeah, yeah I'm gonna bring you guys down closer so I can use this as a teachable moment So Here's what I didn't I didn't have any white on the Yeah, there must have been some clear Yeah, there was clear. Yeah under your white. So since the white didn't grab the sand in that spot It just rolled over.  You can Yeah, may not even be necessary, but I think it looks great anyways And it could always be fixed on the next layer too if you put another layer on later. Sure Super pretty though That is way different the um the cells are a lot smaller And they actually stay in place. Mm-hmm very true so I'm going to take these to the dust free zone and we can use the rest of this resin on some coasters If you guys have any questions The mods are amazing, but if you have a question specifically Feel free to leave a comment and as soon as I get back from The dust I will Answer the best of my abilities The dust free zone's fighting me a little bit right behind you here. Whoop Hot behind Reminds me of my days working in a restaurant Which were good days I worked in this restaurant. Um that is uh Really into the color orange for a while so I took a glove off so I have to put Another one on so I went ahead and took some of our MDF coasters and Just dusted some Spray gesso because I was out of white spray paint Except for where the sand is and actually since this is raw MDF You can add like a wave shadow by By kind of sweeping on some clear In the shape of your wave Because it'll look wet I don't even know if that makes sense, but I'm going to show you I realized this on accident So actually I don't know if I can show it on this layer. It may be the next layer that I have to do it That it works While we're doing that I'm going to answer some questions Erica house claire at she I haven't heard from her today I I need to text her and find out if she's okay. I know she was really Under the weather She caught the vid on flight Back from my birthday. So the gold that I sprayed on there is montana black label Um and the gold is gold chrome Vlk 400 dash gold is the Something number color number. Thank you tutor for answering and sue Pineapple coffee cake uh a yell take that. Thank you ma'am Happy new year miss betty. How are you doing? Okay, so the function Function the application on these is just like on the big piece and even if you go bigger we've done countertop sized Oceans before It all is the same. Let me get a something So with oceans you can get like super creative. You can do blue oceans like regular color you can do Pink oceans. I do rainbow oceans often It's totally up to you. Whatever it is that you see in your artwork is What you can do that saying if you dream it you can make it That's not how the thing goes but that's um effectively What um What is the saying? Not if you build it, but if you dream it If you dream it you can be it or something. I don't know. Is that a Nike commercial sounds like it sounds like it It does So you just blend those up into each other just like on the last one And just because I do it this way doesn't mean there aren't other ways to ocean that there aren't um You know, there's a lot of people that do oceans. This is just how I ocean I haven't done a purple ocean in a while. I think I need to do one of those soon And you don't have to have gold or tan colored sand. I do black oceans a lot Always works out pretty well Is the resin ocean coat it is actually mix media girls uh art resin If you dream it you can build it. That's what I there you go. That's what it was So that kind of thing That sounds right to me. That sounds for some reason sounds accurate, but um This darker resin is so much thinner and it's because I had to put more Pigment in it to get the color darker. It's um Still awesome color. I would jar it myself if I could I don't know if you guys can hear but jeff's serenading everybody in the background while he's putting groceries away Yeah, uh-huh. I took my eyes away What did you do?  Oh, that's right. It's okay. Just put a little bit more clear up So I'm also going to show you guys how to do the ocean wave with a torch and that I'm going to call a little bit advanced because Of how easy it is to scorch your resin Thank jeff's juggling That white line that's going to just have to be a little thin Okay, so while sandi's setting up hers. I'm just going to show you guys how to do This dance with a torch Sorry about that My phone went to Sorry, sorry, sorry So while sandi's setting up, I'm going to show you guys how to do oceans with a torch.  We're good Check it in the glare good All right, so I'm going to take my torch and do t tiny circles And keep this on a tilt You know see super So essentially once it starts to flow I'm pulling back I just used my face a little bit to Give it some ripples You can leave it like this or you can take your torch and Add a couple accents and make more cells so See Here you have that very obvious light blue right there and then there's A hazy blue after that. I don't know if you guys can even see like right in this area that hazy blue I'm putting This area like residual heat area That's what I'm using To kind of tap on to my wave to make Cells come up because what is happening is it's dissipating a little bit So this is what it looks like right now And I'm going to try to add a couple more cells in this area here You can see it start to split and add new cells That's how you can ocean with a torch See this shadow that's coming out That's from the resin touching this raw mdf and then us rolling The resin back so it's Some residual resin, but it will end up looking like a shadow under The wave Thank you, jerry So You can do another one like that. I'm so awful at white I'll get it Any more white? No, I'm good I just need to Get it where it's supposed to be Sure You need a hair tie all of your beautiful hairs, you know, I'm good. I'm not near it. Okay Check this again. I have when I start to manipulate it my fingers are Like this I'm as in the middle under this coaster as possible So that I don't accidentally hit myself with the flame because I've done that before and it's not fun times Nothing floating in it check it with a glare of a light Tilt it little circles I just get it to move a little bit And then I use my face So it has all those fun ripples Oh close that looked fun already But there's not really any cells right here. Whoop not really cells right here. So I'm going to Tap it With the residual heat from my flame and get it to disperse a bit Hold on be So this isn't really doing much because it's It's too thick of white. So I'm gonna Send it out by just wiping some of it off And then that will fill back in I'm gonna tap it with my heat With a flame like this, it's very easy to scorch your resin I don't like any of that part So I'm just doing more to it So I get it how I want it. All right, then we got to add more heat also It is really wise to let your resin cool down When you do so much manipulating There was something I was gonna say a second ago. I can't remember what it was Sure, it was important. Um, does anyone have any questions? About oceans or about resin or about anything So the dark blue color Julie is The bondi and the aqua Mixed together the color passion tents. I wonder what would happen. I'm gonna Uh experiment with a something a little coffee stirrer Just because I'm using the torch sanny you can absolutely proceed with the So I'm gonna just pre thin it out This stick just to see what it'll do Just stick swipe it stuff is so thick and gummy right now I don't know what this is gonna do. I'm just Doing the test so you don't have to right now. All right, so it looks like that I'm just gonna so You can see right here where it's thin white If I just tap it with the residual heat those cells will start to come up So I'm gonna just use my face again because I don't know if On its face. It's all right. It'll still work It's still work. It's broken, but it's so good. Uh, I put white down Because it's sand But my sand live That was a fun experiment, but I like it better when you use your face Instead of try to swipe it Maybe it's something I will investigate more At some point. I think I'm gonna end up using the heat gun On that one. I think you have to experiment where you just don't go anywhere. It's a stagnant, I think Especially on with resins that are this thick you really need to preheat it Like that soft wave I'm gonna fix my gross ocean.  Um, but it's it's not in it, but it's it's next to it It's in and around it. It's around it much better than how it did a second ago Nice noise All right, I'm gonna give you guys a close-up in a moment But first I'm gonna answer Any questions you guys have that the mods May not have gotten to what's the best white for sales my favorite my go-to is titanium from just resin I have them in stock. What's up, Evelyn? How are you doing? Thank you, Matt Jensen What did you use to protect the back of the coaster so you can put like cork On the back what's that qs creation you can put cork on the back, but I usually Just coat it in a polycrylic And then put the little bumpers that people get for behind their nope The bumpers that people get to keep their cabinet doors from slamming was a little felt Fingerprint size dots um That's what I use And that's how I protect the back of them Let's give you guys a close-up Can you hear the waves crashing? I think I feel like I can Makes me want to go to an ocean. That's an angry ocean Makes me want to go to the ocean Ew, I like that one I really like this one that you dropped.  Thank you banging job It's definitely a lot different resin Yeah, so that's the thing you have to have the right materials You have to have the right resin the right pigments and the right heat source to get an ocean It's a lot easier with this.  How are you doing miss you? I thought for some reason you would be at that, um Acrylic workshop That the masses did But yeah, I didn't see your face so sad, but I'm happy to see you here I hope you're doing well if you guys don't know Garrick is an amazing acrylic artist Make sure you check out his channel if you haven't already He does brilliant work I'm a fan So check him out and subscribe Um, also if you guys have a second How the piece from yesterday if you haven't checked out the shorts No, I'm not talking about the wardrobe. I'm talking about the Little youtube videos That youtube is doing so they can be like Tiktok And all the other things Um, don't worry about your sandy areas sandy.  Yeah, I did. I will um, I'll move those. Don't even worry about it. Okay So actually let me Bring this out This is the piece that we did yesterday. I think it turned out the ea utipally I did notice something interesting That Oh, there it is That gum arabic seems to sell When it's put on too thick ps These white dots are from the gum arabic Being just a puddle like just too much of it, but it does this cell thing The sandy and I are going to investigate that But I think it turned out pretty great. These are some of my favorite areas where the gold Kind of shines through and turns the brown a little bit warmer We do alcohol art a little bit We do alcohol ink art soon. Sure I will do an alcohol ink piece on Monday just for you garrick so if you're not here I'm gonna call you and I'm gonna tell you that you made me cry I also I've been experimenting a lot with this technique as you can see and yes, I did record it I'm gonna show you There about the movement This one is still wet Probably if you could just yeah Super pumped about how this one will be turning out because that gold is shining through here Kind of bummed that I added this blue. I don't think it fits really well, but really like This color and the gold together So, yeah It's a fun process I got to clean those up and I did a couple clock faces that I haven't taken the backing off of yet and I Yes, I did record all of those It is wetting colors also also for those that were wondering I Let me turn you around so I don't get in trouble for orientation um This finger is clear so Not nothing really comes off of it. I sprayed it a couple times with um Clear spray paint or an archival spray and then um I did put some gold spray paint on it as well just to Further make sure that I didn't have any areas where light would come through and it looked a little bit like weak in color so Yeah, this Works just great with a couple layers of clear spray paint. I think I am still going to do um A layer of Quilt coat on the back of it. Yes, I do a lot of This color palette and yes, it was my wedding colors because no shame so I um, I'm starving as usual and so I'm going to go Do the dinner things and I will see you guys Maybe this weekend. It would be a surprise But for sure, I'll see you guys in 2023 because that's coming up in like 20 minutes Anyway, you guys have an amazing evening. I love you guys so much Please subscribe if you haven't leave me your thumbs if you haven't haven't you ate a burrito Sandy ate a burrito and Yeah, be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through I always remember we do the test So you don't have to also. I gotta plug my phone in because it's about to die. So I kept freezing tonight. That's not normal and You guys are amazing. I love you guys. I wouldn't be where I am and we wouldn't be where we are without you So Y'all are amazing So, yeah I know I love this piece. It is available. Um, you guys have an awesome evening We'll see you guys this weekend or on monday in 2023 man 2022 went by super quick anyways, um Yeah, see you guys next time.


Celebrity Bacon oh, yeah, oh, yeah, even though it's Friday Hopefully Monday or Tuesday. I'll you know, I'll be in touch. Yeah, just whenever they're whenever they're done printing them Victory big got a number We've got another I just you you did it. You did it. You did the work back back in the day We did it. So okay, so we're watching hold on. We're watching you did it hold on. Oh stop. Oh Wait, we are watching Last year's vlog one year ago Where we reflected about our family finances and so we thought we'd give you guys an update because there's a I think we've Definitely doubled the subscribers since then so there's a lot of you that maybe don't know about our family finances So we're gonna watch it.  We are back from ice skating and so much fun so much fun I don't want to go back to watch that. Oh my god. Good boys are with Nana Which gives us an opportunity to have our monthly family finance meeting Yeah, if you guys out there have a monthly family finance meeting comment below if you feel comfortable doing that and Share your tips about what you do for budgeting So here's one of our tips for 2017 what are we gonna do at the end of December? We always sit down and have a big annual Think of all the cars that are outside of what you would normally think of so you normally think of your mortgage and Things like Great great tip. Yes. Yeah. All right, catch up with you in one hour All right, what we're doing now is going through the list um need need list right need list Highlighting the need list versus Okay, so everyone there you go that was like the two and a half minute clip of our family finance meeting in 2016 one year ago 2017 right preparing for 2017 budget, which is this year and You want to give them a brief little update on how the year has gone which we should show the envelope. Oh, yeah Okay, you want to go get them or you could do B-roll. Yeah, we'll go. We'll do I think it was a Fantastic year. This was the year we got out of debt pay off all of our debt besides our house and we actually not only did that we had a lot of Additional expenses, but of of pain my big sister had had her first house this summer and there was a lot of expenses with that for our family and then She had a home visit so she came here And we really wanted to treat her well and like take her to PF James and do all sorts of fun stuff Yeah, and we also had a lot of stuff We wanted to buy for the house like the patio for the channel and we say for Hotel getaway for our anniversary and things that because we've been gazelle intense for 18 months or however long long it was 15 months Yeah, we wrote we wanted to to Dubai and we wanted to build up our emergency fun So anyway, we I feel like this was like the most epic year financially for us ever We got out of debt we saved up a lot of money Yeah, we saved up a lot of money and paid in cash for all the fun stuff we did for the whole year That's why we're always kind of showing cash on the camera Yeah, it's not the flaunt is to show you that instead of using the credit card, you know Which can you can get in trouble pretty quick? Yeah You get your envelope to put your cash inside and then you know that's how much you have to spend that month So that's why we do that for a date night and everything else and I mean we even had one for like Painting the house and still in progress, but we paid for it all yeah all sorts of stuff that we wanted to do but We didn't allow ourselves to do it until all the dollars were saved in that particular envelope So I feel like we crushed it. Basically. Basically from a year ago. I mean We're talking night and day Yeah, as far as anxiety in the heart and like having anxiety around money because that's You guys know like when you have a medical bill that pops up or your car breaks down And you're like that can send you right into debt and so there it's night and day 365 days ago, right so that video even though it was pretty Positive video there was you know, we're still on kind of walking on eggshells, right? It was very I think I was like March the first week in March is when we got out of debt January for me So there was yeah, at least more months and another thing we did But this might tip I before I forget is this year when we made our budget every month We make a budget we zero out our dollars. So however much dollars we know we're coming in We zeroed them all out So he's paid on the last day of the month and then that money pays for the upcoming months bills So we can do that we can zero it all out and I always I did it on Excel And I just add it or I print it off or I would do paper Whatever I would add if there was something that came up that we didn't know for instance We registered our joke for kindergarten for school and that was 40 bucks to register him And we knew it was gonna be something and I think we had put 60 because I was overshooting it But it was like it's like little things like that that you might not remember or you didn't actually know about so anytime There was extra either extra income or extra expenses I would write it on the actual budget and then I kept that budget so this year for 2018 when I go through I know What things cost what and just because we're out of debt doesn't mean that we're like whoo-hoo like spending like crazy for Christmas so fun. You may have seen this floating around the YouTube recently of vlogmas Oh, what is that? Christmas put them together. So people are making videos on the YouTube all about Christmas Advent, but they do it's called vlogmas. Oh, so cute. What is our budget? And this is you know, we discussed this ahead of time We decided to tell everyone just to be open and you know just to be open Yes, what are we spending this year on Christmas total for Christmas presents for our children our siblings parents and Maybe a few neighbors and then the Christmas tree and then our Christmas cards, which I can tell you how we got a good deal on that Total $300.  What was it? Oh, it's much less like 60 Because we know we're slowly moving up But now keep in mind we do we do still shop for the children at Goodwill. Yeah, we're not afraid Total what I spent on them for Christmas with $14. So and garage sales this past summer. Yeah, that's true And we do have generous and when it's so like they are also getting our children presents And also we don't think our children need a ton of presents, but yeah, they're gonna get some new things Vlogmas Christmas 2017 Financial update in the books. Thanks for watching and we're off to a party. Yeah, we are part day I think we should have them if you have any tips. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry or question of the day Yeah, if you have any financial tips of how your family budgets or saves money or gets ahead I was just reading this book the other day. I was talking about playing good defense So, you know, never painful price for something that's like when we go on our date That's always having a coupon by one get one or whatever it might be. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy life But so anyway, all these little tips leave them down below and I never thought of a Christmas card I would only ever just do Shutterfly or minted with a coupon and then be like I'm winning But we just took a step further. We're like, no, I bet we can find it even cheaper than that So that was a good tip. I thought I you know, we're friends. Yeah, just think of that one But so anyway, if you have any tips, we'd love to hear them because it's the more defense you can play the more you can You know, I'm right later. Thrive later and give later. And we have so many dreams of when we're like 60 of how we can like Yeah, give back or take care of people in ways that you know, we'd love to we'd love to get there So help us help us get there. What are your tips? Oh? Drop your mic. Let's do some V-roll. Okay. Oh, yeah, I'll do some V-roll and


Hello. In this video, I'll talk about Sigma protocols for MQ, PKP and SIS and fishy signature schemes. This paper is available on e-print with number 2019-490. So let's get started. The main contribution of this paper is the construction of zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge for three problems. The first of these problems is called the multivariate quadratic problem, and here we are given a multivariate quadratic map F, which is a list of M quadratic equations in N variables. And the goal is to find a vector S such that F of S is equal to zero. So really, we're just trying to find a solution to a list of multivariate quadratic equations. And the goal of this paper is to be able to prove in zero-knowledge that you know such a vector S. This means you want to prove that you know such a vector without revealing anything about the vector itself. The second problem is called the permutative kernel problem, and here we are given a white matrix A, which is a matrix that has more columns than rows, and we're also given a vector V. And the goal is to find a permutation of this vector V. There's a new vector whose entries are a permutation of the entries of V, such that this permuted vector sits in a kernel of A. And again, the goal of the paper is to prove that we know such a vector without revealing anything about the vector itself. And finally, we have the short integer solution problem, which is probably the most well-known of these three problems, where we are again given a white matrix, and again we want to find a vector in the kernel of this matrix, but now the constraint is that we have to find a vector whose L2 norm is bounded by some given bound. The zero-knowledge proofs in this video are examples of sigma protocols. Sigma protocols are protocols with a three-round structure that are started by the prover who sends a commitment to the verifier, then the verifier sends a challenge back to the prover, and finally the prover sends a response back to the verifier, and then the verifier will either accept the proof or reject the proof. There exist sigma protocols for the three problems that we are interested in. For example, there's psychomotor-adults protocol for MQ, there's Shamir's protocol for PKP, and there's Stern's protocol for SIS. However, a common problem with these three protocols is that they have a soundless error of two-thirds. This means that even if a prover does not know a solution, he can still convince the verifier that he knows a solution to probability 2 out of 3. To solve this problem, you can repeat the protocol a large number of times because the probability that the prover will be able to successfully convince the verifier in each iteration gets very low if you have more iterations. For example, if the soundless error is two-thirds and you repeat it 2 to the 90 times, then you get a soundless error that is lower than 2 to the minus 128. One of the reasons why sigma protocols are so useful is because they can be transformed into signature schemes with the Fiat-Shamir transform. As long as you start from a sigma protocol for a computationally hard problem, you will end up with a secure signature scheme. Since the MQ problem and the PKP problem are believed to be computationally hard, even against quantum adversaries, we have reason to believe that if you apply the Fiat-Shamir transform to a sigma protocol for MQ or for PKP, you will end up with a post-quantum secure signal. However, since we need to repeat the sigma protocols a large number of times in order to get soundness, the signature schemes will not be very efficient. For example, if you need to repeat the sigma protocols 290 times, then the size of your signature will be 290 times bigger, and also the time to verify your signature will be 290 times slower. In this graph, we show two signature schemes that are derived from the Fiat-Shamir transform. In red, we have MQ-DSS, which is based on the MQ problem, and which is one of the round two candidates from the NIST post-quantum competition. In blue, we have PKP-DSS, which is based on a primitive kernel problem, which is a finalist from a Chinese post-quantum competition. For both these signature schemes, the signature size is relatively large. For example, at the NIST level 1 security level, the MQ-DSS signature schemes have signature size of 28 kilobytes, and PKP-DSS has a signature size of 20. In this work, we make sigma protocols which have a lower soundness error, and therefore they have to repeat it a lower number of times in order to get soundness, which will eventually result in more efficient signature schemes. As a first step towards a more efficient sigma protocol, we will first relax the definition of a sigma protocol a little bit. We will introduce a trusted third party called the helper, which will start in the beginning of the protocol by running a computation and sending the result of this computation to the verifier as some auxiliary information, and it will send the seed that I used to seed this computation to the prover. And from then on, the sigma protocol is just like a normal sigma protocol with a commitment, a challenge, and a response. It's not surprising that if you have the help of this trusted third party, you can come up with more efficient protocols. In the case of MQ and PKP, we can come up with protocols that have a knowledge error of only one divided by Q prime, where Q prime is any integer between one and Q, the size of the finite field in the MQ problem and the PKP problem. So this is a nice observation, but at first sight, it doesn't look like this is something very useful because trusted third parties are hard to come by, and even if you had a trusted third party, there's no point of doing a sigma protocol anyway because you can just send your solution to the trusted third party and the trusted third party will tell the verifier if the solution is correct or not without revealing anything. However, it turns out that there's a simple procedure that allows you to remove the helper from the protocol and get back to a normal sigma protocol where there's no trusted third parties. The overhead in doing this is dominated by the prover building a merkle tree with Q prime leaves, so the prover times goes up by an amount that's linear in Q prime, and the prover also needs to include a path in his merkle tree in the response, so the proof size goes up by an amount that is lower rhythmic in Q prime. So at first, we win some efficiency by introducing the helper, and later we lose some of that efficiency because we have to do this transformation that gets rid of the helper again. But overall, it's still a net improvement in efficiency. With this ID, we create two new signature schemes, one based on the MQ problem and one based on the PKP problem. The one based on the MQ problem, we call the multivariate quadratic Fiat-Charmier scheme or MATF for short. We see that compared to MQ DSS, the candidate in the NIST competition, we have signatures that are half as big, and with our implementation, the signing algorithm is also two times faster. From a geometric perspective, you can think of each role of the matrix in a primitive kernel problem as defining a hyperplane, and then the problem is to find a permutation of a vector that lies in all these hyperplanes. Therefore, we call our new signature scheme a shuffled solution in hyperplanes Fiat-Charmier scheme or SushiFish for short. In this graph, we show three instantiations of SushiFish with different values of Q prime. This gives a trade-off between signature size and signing time. Compared to PKP DSS, the candidate from the Chinese postcompetition, we see that with our implementation, the signing time is slower, but the signature size is significantly smaller. So far, I've given a broad overview of the paper. For the remainder of this video, I'll talk about three more things. First, I'll explain the Sigma protocol with helper for the primitive kernel problem. Then, I'll show how we can remove the helper from the protocol to get a normal Sigma protocol again. And then finally, I'll say something about how we can use this work to improve the zero-knowledge proofs for the SIS problem. So first, the Sigma protocol with helper for the primitive kernel problem. First, I'll give a Sigma protocol that is totally not secure, and then I'll show how we can fix it by introducing a helper that makes the protocol secure. So for now, we have a protocol between two parties. On the one hand, we have the prover, who knows the matrix A and the vector V, and the solution pile so that if you permit V with pile, you get the vector in the kernel of A. And on the other hand, we have the verifier who knows A and V, but who doesn't know a solution. The prover starts the protocol by sampling a random permutation Sigma and a random vector R. Then, he mask his solution pile with the inverse of Sigma to compute a permutation row, and he computes Y as A times R, permuted with row. Then, he sends these values to the verifier, who picks a random challenge in the challenge space and sends it back to the prover. The prover then computes his response as R plus Alpha times V, permuted with Sigma, and he sends his response to the verifier. To verify the proof, the verifier just checks whether Y is equal to A times X, permuted with row. If both parties stick to the protocol, and if pile is a solution to the PKP problem, then this check will always pass. This is because if you write out what A times X, permuted with row is, it is equal to Y plus Alpha times A times V, permuted with Pi. Therefore, if Pi is a solution to the permitted kernel problem, that A times Alpha times V, permuted with Pi part will drop out and the equality holds. It's easy to see that this is a zero-knowledge protocol, because a prover only sends a uniformly random permutation row and a uniformly random vector X, so this does not leak any information about Pi, and it also sends the vector Y, but Y can be computed from X and row, so this does not carry any additional information either. The protocol almost has special soundness, but not quite. An almost prover, if you're given two different challenges, Alpha 1 and Alpha 2, it will return two different axes, X1, which is equal to R plus Alpha 1 times V, permuted with Sigma, and X2, which is R plus Alpha 2 multiplied by V, permuted with Sigma. This is a problem that we have to solve in order to recover the permutation Pi. Since the size of the challenge space is Q prime, this would mean that the protocol has a soundness error of 1 divided by Q. The problem with this argument is, of course, that the cheating prover does not have to be A, honestly, so nobody forces him to return X1 and X2 that allow us to extract the permutation Pi. To solve this problem, we are going to use the trusted third party. The real Sigma protocol with helper. In the beginning of the protocol, the helper samples a Sigma and R as before, and is going to compute all the commitments that the prover might have to send to the verifier.  This is only possible because there are only polynomially many elements in the challenge space. Then the helper sends a root of the Merkle tree to the verifier, and he sends a randomness to see this computation to the prover. Then the protocol proceeds as before, except that now when the prover has to send his response, he can no longer respond how he wants, but he has to open one of the commitments that was created by the helper. And to do this, he needs to include a path in the Merkle tree to prove that his commitment was correct. This way, we are convinced that the prover sticks to the protocol, and we get a sound Sigma protocol with helper with sound as error 1 divided by Q prime. Now I'm going to show how to transform the Sigma protocol with helper into a normal Sigma protocol that does not need the help of an additional party. The idea is very simple. Since there's no helper anymore, we're going to make the prover do the work of the helper. But we have to make sure that the prover doesn't cheat, so we're going to make him do the work of the helper K times to make K setups, and then we allow the verifier to pick one of these setups to do the protocol with, and we allow it to verify if the other K-1 setups are generated correctly. The prover starts the protocol by running the job of the helper K times to produce K sets of auxiliary information which he sends to the verifier. He also runs the first phase of the Sigma protocol for each of these setups to come up with K commitments which he sends to the verifier. The verifier will pick one of the setups for which he wants to continue the protocol and it will pick a challenge for this execution. Then the prover responds to this challenge and he also sends a seed for the other executions for which they didn't finish the protocol. This allows the verifier to check if these K-1 setups were generated correctly. The soundest error of this protocol is the maximum of 1 over K and 1 over Q prime. This is so because either the prover cheats in one of his K setups, in which case it will be caught probably 1 minus 1 over K, or if it's honest in all his K setups, then the soundest of the underlying Sigma protocol with helper kicks in and we know that the soundest error is at most 1 divided by Q prime. This transformation increases the runtime of the protocol by a factor which is linear in K because the prover has to do the setup K times. It also looks like the proof size will increase by an amount that is linear in K because the prover has to send K sets of auxiliary information and K commitments. But this can be optimized away and the proof size can be increased by an amount that is lower in K. In the last part of the video we will talk about how we can use our work as a more efficient alternative to Stern's protocol for SIS and many other lattice-based relations. A common strategy for ZNR's proofs for many lattice-based relations is to first transform the lattice problem into a problem of the following form. Given a matrix A, a vector V, and a target vector T, the problem is to find a permutation such that if you permute V with this permutation, then A times the permutative vector is equal to the target vector. This problem is very similar to the permutative kernel problem except that now on the right-hand side we have a non-zero target instead of zero. Sometimes there is an additional constraint that demands that the permutation pi lies in some subgroup of the permutation group. Then the next step is to prove that you know a solution to this problem with Stern's protocol. For an example of how we can transform a lattice problem into a pKp-like problem we can look at the binary SIS problem. In the binary SIS problem we are given a matrix A and the problem is to find the binary vector such that A times this vector is equal to zero. It is equivalent to a pKp-like problem where the matrix is twice as long as A where the first half is A itself and the second half is just a matrix full of zeros. And we define a vector V where the first half is equal to zero and the second half consists of all ones. Then the problem is to find the permutation of this vector V such that our extended matrix times the permutative vector is equal to zero. It is easy to see that these two problems are the same because if you have a solution for the binary SIS problem then you can transform it into a solution for the pKp problem and the other way around also. This idea can be generalized to more complex lattice based relations such as SIS with arbitrary bounds, algebra E or proofs of the equation and so on. This idea that a particular protocol can prove is so close to the pKp relation we can just plug in our pKp-sigma protocol instead of string protocol and get a big decrease in proof size. As a concrete example we will look at LWE. We take a modulus of 32 bits at dimension 1024 and the entries of the secrets and the error terms are minus one zero or one. Then the problem of finding an S and an E can be reformulated as a pKp-like problem where the dimension is 496. Then if we use our sigma protocol to prove this pKp problem then it takes only 233 kilobytes. In contrast if we were to use string protocol then the proof size would be 2.3 megabytes which is 10 times larger. If you want a more detailed comparison between our protocol, string protocol and other proof systems for user-based relations please have a look at the paper. In conclusion in the paper we show that if you have the help of a helper party that does a trusted setup for you every time you are going to execute a protocol then you can use this to construct more efficient sigma protocols for MQ and pKp. Moreover we show that removing this helper from the protocol again can be done in a relatively cheap way. This results in sigma protocols that are more efficient than existing sigma protocols for MQ and pKp. If you apply the Fiat-Charmier transfer to these new sigma protocols we end up with new post quantum signatures which we call mudfish and sushifish. Mudfish and sushifish are more efficient than existing signatures that rely only on the hardness of MQ and pKp. And finally we saw that we can use our pKp sigma protocol as a more efficient alternative to string protocol for many last days. That's all. Thanks for watching.


Ready What's wrong it's bright you ready to go You think I'm gonna get one today or not? I hope so You squeeze the trigger and shoot what are you shooting 20 gauge you just detox all the way here. Why are you quiet now? We're gonna be in a pit today with Miss violet ten years old will be 11 in April Yeah, but what 24 24, okay, I want to say a big thank you to ellie and Harrison and Rob for letting us come out here for violet to come on this junior hot We're really excited not much of a breeze maybe a little bit of the southeast something like that So pretty excited and by that's gonna be shooting my 28 gauge with a cylinder choke So kind of open so let's see how we do all right by that. You ready? At the 28 gauge ready to go and she practice throwing it up So she'd be good for all face pin it up and birds where he landed in decoys, huh? this is why that's first official hunt with the gun and she really did good practice and was Hitting hitting the paper with the duck on it every single time So we're hoping we can get something to land in the water, but if not, I think she can still shoot out there She's quick enough, so we'll see Good luck Remember I said don't put your feet on the trip.  But don't put your hair in the chair That's right. That was close. You barely missed them right shot right under my sink Almost a good shot. Good try Get ready. Shoot if you want. Oh My goodness. I thought you're gonna hit it. You're getting close You're gonna get one I guarantee if you keep shooting like that, huh? Do you want to have two?  Hey, did you aim that time? Did you forget it looked like you were just gonna go like this Yeah, you didn't look on the same It's okay Here comes to write those. Do you want to try those? Do you want to shoot those? It's too late. You gotta do it earlier if you're gonna try it. You got him, baby. Oh You got both. Good job here bud. That's it up.  Come on You got both in one shot. I don't know. I think they're cinnamon's no way if there's some here bud here I think those are sneaking cinnamon's leave back. No, they're greenlings back Violet you did it, babe. Oh My goodness that was only like your sixth try. Good boy here here bud I hope that was recording. Yeah, just hold on. Oh my word Here Good boy here leave. No, it's fine No, you know good good boy.  Oh My goodness. I don't know what to do right now Violet you did it on your stinking like six shots She just scotch-doubled.  Drake dreaming and a hand-grooming on her like literally fifth shot. She did it. I wish I can't believe it You got two in one shot Awesome Good job Unbelievable you took your time right there.  You put it in front of them put it right on Shoot again. Okay. I think you're behind them a little bit. That's right I guess I thought you're gonna hit him. Let me see your shoulder again. Yeah, you're doing good It's hard to hit ducks. Ducks ain't easy. Big adults can't hit ducks. Oh man. Those are canvas backs Good try No, that's means it's off safe means it's ready fire fire red dead What's on here? Get it off safety get off safety shoot. Let me take a look. Okay. Go ahead Shoot again. Oh, I can't tear. Yeah, I look like it. Yeah. All right. We're gonna call that a wrap Violet's ready for Granny's Pantry Don't forget to support California waterfowl and HMC Farm services Harrison and thank you and Ellie pretty proud of you Good job, I can't believe you did that right out the gate like that. That was awesome.  This is 2023 end of the 20 to 23 season junior hunt Proud of her Vivian's been a cold times proud of her too.  All right guys I hope you enjoyed this video why that's ready to get some breakfast doesn't hurt my feelings either I could go for it. This is one thing. I love video for it That is to preserve this memory. She'll look back when she's 30 years old Say look how cute I was Rocky oh boy. Oh chap. He's been breathing down my neck the whole time.


Tell us your thoughts on today's game Well, she surprised me with her opening choice, but I remember there was some games I remember it was game Vojtašek, Van Gjou in Dortmund And I was a bit afraid that maybe okay, the competitors maybe she knew something Because I remember Van Gjou had a good position, but then he lost But I went for it and after Rukes Rensink I have good position and Not easy to play with white, but what she did was I think very risky, you know She allowed me this bishop to Rukes F3.  You know, it's not like only moves Yeah, but and I had one moment of patient to give up everything try to you know Play like tall play like tall like dingley reigning last year like okay morphe and Anderson, but then okay I Found it's not so clear. So I simply won a game. Yeah, which is also good achievement Do you think Queen D2 was a critical mistake allowing Rukes F3 sacrifice? No, okay Bishop F6 is committed to it's two moves are connected But after Rukes Rishisot for a while and I think why black has already I would dare to say better And now going into the last two rounds, what are your thoughts on the way the tournament has gone so far for you? Well, you know, I missed a lot of possibilities this tournament. Okay, like many many many games but Okay, it's plus four. It's a good position. Yes, so Now I have to go to rest and try to play well to last rounds. Yeah, that what counts in open tournaments Yeah, now bars today you were playing against vengeance.  How is it to play against her and to play against such a strong female player? Well, I played already third strong female parents this tournament So I'm getting experience and last year I played against Antoinette Stefanova Okay, you play like against Ron Grandmaster. You don't think about it's a man of women Of course, everyone has its style. You look at the game But even okay, let's say two female players from China. I played in the students. They play totally different chess. So you just prepare to Concrete opponent right and are you looking forward to playing anyone specific in the next two rounds? No, no, I want to play a good game. Okay. I don't think about whom I play You know, I go to sleep in the morning. I check who my player prepare and then So a beautiful game from you today and we look forward to more of that. Thank you Thank you very much. And you know you today was kind of inspired because When I went for lunch and I was returned back and met monkey in the scene right next to a hotel Oh, wow, so you had a little encounter. Yeah, no, no, no, no, she ran away somehow. I don't know why normally I don't know but just next to bus stop It's really I was really shocked. So that inspired you to go for some attacking Monkey tricks. No, what inspired me is that she allowed me to play Rook F3. I played normal game and the key game You need a two to tango. Yeah, you know You may be in any mood, but okay, if your opponent doesn't give you the chance You wouldn't get a go for it and if On the other point of view if you get it, you have to take on F3. It's no Absolutely. Thank you for such a beautiful game. Thank you. Thank you


I predicted this from the 100 page mark. Thoughts about this book? I had them? Welcome back. It's another episode of Wrapped Up. Wrapped Up. Wrapped Up.  I filmed a lot today and it's so hot and I'm feeling a little bit like, stir crazy. So apologies if I'm not quite like, far all cylinders. If you don't know Wrapped Up is a series on my channel where I wrapped up some of my books and we unwrap them and we read them in a reading vlog. I wrapped these books up last Christmas and it's through us unwrapping them and whatever. It's dwindled down to not many. This was originally like my whole TBR and now it's like a seventh of my TBR. But we're gonna like try and keep going with this selection until Christmas, like until actually December this year and then we'll rethink and we'll re-innovate basically. Wrapped Up will be really bad. I have been letting myself unwrap too and choose between them because I am kind to myself and I love myself. I don't know if we're gonna do that today. Also like, these are cut falling apart. I mean look at this like they're just they've just been ruined for me dropping them on the floor a lot. I'll unwrap one and then if I'm like not like overjoyed we'll unwrap another one. Let's unwrap this one. I've just grabbed it because it was near the top. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay, so this is educated by Tara Restover which if you watched a video I did a while back of the oldest books on my TBR, this was on there. This is one of the oldest books on my TBR. It is a memoir of this woman who like grew up. Her family were paying for the end of days so she never went to school, she didn't learn, she was uneducated and then when she's an adult she educates herself. Now I don't know if I'm in a mood for this. Gonna be honest, gonna be honest.  It's gonna be hot next couple of days. I think I want something a bit lighter. Now granted we probably won't find that but I'm gonna unwrap another one. I don't know if I'm choosing right. Should I unwrap a different one? No okay we're gonna unwrap this. I always try and look at the thing so I don't we're reading this. Ladies and gentlemen we're reading this. That's what we've been waiting for. It's what we wanted all along. Oh my god I have been waiting. I have been waiting to read this book. I've been waiting the whole time and wrapped up to read this book so this is when no one is watching Violetta Cole.  That's what I really know. I've heard really great reviews. I have been so excited to read this ever since I bought it and I just haven't like found a chance so this is exactly what I need. I just need a thriller I can fly through. I'm so excited.  That's how excited I am to read it. It's almost up there as a five star prediction. Good ish pages into when no one is watching and you guys I'm really enjoying it. Pretty legendary if you ask me. I love it. I'm really enjoying it. This is such a good thriller so basically we're following two perspectives. We're following Sydney who is a black woman who has grown up in this Brooklyn neighborhood and we're following Theo. He's kind of like the sub character. Sydney's the star of the show but Theo we do follow his perspective as well and he has just he's a white man who's just moved to the neighborhood with his well he moved with his girlfriend but they've kind of since split up and they're tied up in this house they've bought together in the neighborhood and black people who are like mainstays in the neighborhood are moving out. They're leaving like mattresses turn up on the curb one day moving down the next and there's all these companies trying to get you know Sydney and the other black people still left in the area to sell their homes. I think it's like basically going to be like gentrification and murder. It's going to be an analogy for how gentrification is murder. It is paced so well it's starting to get creepy and it's built so well over the first 100 pages we start off with this kind of mundane almost blinkered attitude thoughts going on because Sydney is is suffering with quite a severe depression so she's very like insular and we're starting to so slowly open our eyes to what is going on.  He wasn't fully aware of what was going on basically that he was very confused the man that attacked him and Sydney was trapped in a car by this Uber driver and he was like lecturing her about like resisting the change because basically another thing that's happening is this big pharmaceutical company of some sort is moving into the old hospital there and that's a big reason as to why so many people are moving to the area so many white people move into the area but I really like Alyssa Cole's writing. Listen I don't read romance but like this has me tempted to pick up one of her romance books. I never read romance but like hasn't she written some historical romance? Oh yeah maybe I should give it a go. Yeah maybe I'll just like not vlog it but like I feel like that's the kind of thing I'd like to read on like the Kindle app maybe I don't have a Kindle. Play the violin. I'm really just loving the writing so it makes me want to check out more of Alyssa Cole's stuff. Oh and also there is this app called our hood where like they can all all the neighbors can chat to each other and like these white people be so racist so the white people in this apart from Theo, Theo's like kind of pitched as like this clueless white dude who just has good intentions whatever. I don't know if we can fully trust him yet but all the other white people are like get out of here. I'm really enjoying it. I'm having a lot of fun reading it. I think it's a great thriller so far. I'm really intrigued to see how it's gonna build. I thought quickly whilst we were here we can unbox my fairy loot box that has arrived. Let me turn it the right way up. You guys know I love fairy loot. They very kindly send me these boxes but I love them so much. I love fairy loot. This is the June box. I get so excited to open it. Okay so oh yeah I remember this and I couldn't figure out what book this was gonna be. So the theme is animal companions. First we've got something for our Sarah J Maas stands in the house. We have got a Crescent City ceramic pot. That's cute isn't it? Oh I love the gold on it. That is cute. Oh I just love how it arrives. I love how it's all like packaged up. Oh my god it's a metal bookmark. I love it. I love it and it gives me that buzz. It feeds exactly what I want to do. No I love their metal bookmarks are one of my favorite things that they do. I've had till already. I lost one under the sofa like yesterday. I need to go find it. Oh do you see why I love these? Oh my god it's I think it's inspired by a pair of the orange tree which I really want to read it is and it's got like this stencil design of this fire dragon on it. Oh my god I love it. I love their metal bookmarks. I love metal bookmarks. I if I look at the tassel as well I love a good tassel. There's nothing more joyous than seeing a tassel sticking out of your book. It's very strange. Oh a clinic standee kingdom of the wicked. You can like have my guy on your desk or like on your bookshelf. It's gonna be the pin. Oh we've got the pin of the month. It's a cat. I love cats. Hang on. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.  It's an enamel pin of the cat from Kiki's delivery service. GGG. Oh my god. Look isn't that so cute. I love her and then oh my goodness. We've got some pillow cases. Can you see I'm in shock. I feel like fairly genuinely the best out there in terms of quality of their items and quantity. Like you always get a lot of items and their amazing quality. Oh the raven cycle for one that says the heart is all fire and then we have got one that says the head is too wise. Aren't they so cute. This is what I mean. Great quality and you get so many items. I genuinely have no idea what this month's book is. Fire with fire by destiny. Oh my god. What is this. I think this is like a sister book. Sister fantasy. Oh we've got. I love what they do this. A gorgeous stencil on the hardcover on the sleeve as well. There's always some gorgeous art as well. So that was the fairy loot box for this month. I'm gonna look into this book and see like more about the plot. I'll leave their website linked down below. They are just like the coolest. I love all their stuff. As you can see it's absolutely like an amazing selection of stuff. So I recommend you go check it out. I am gonna go continue reading when no one is watching and I'll update you in a bit. I'm gonna be completely honest. I read up to this point last night. I read loads last night and now this morning I'm like thoughts about this book. I had them. I don't remember love. I don't remember at all. I really don't. Was that not for a long time ago? Not in a bad way. It's just you guys it's so hot today and it was hotter yesterday but it didn't affect me. Like I didn't feel the heat but today I filmed a video and I tell you I'm just exhausted. Like I feel like all of the life has been zapped out of me. But I am still really enjoying when no one is watching. I'm loving it in fact. Like I'm having so much fun. It's just getting slowly more and more sinister. The way that people are like disappearing, like people in this book are disappearing is so like quiet and you don't necessarily realise for a long time that they're gone and that's scarier to me than like it being a big hoo-ha every time someone goes. Like it's scarier and more insidious for it to be completely hidden. You know to be completely masked. Kim? Her name's Kim right. Theo's girlfriend, ex-girlfriend. In my theory, my current theory, she's an evil mastermind behind it all.  She makes my blood boil. I just, I don't want to rip her hair off.    Horrible person.  It has a good contrast between two types of scenes. So basically Sydney is doing this like tour of the neighbourhood with the black history behind it. And so there's like a scene usually where her and Theo go and interview people from around the neighbourhood and they kind of give their experiences of black history and life they've lived and their thoughts on like the history that came before them. And then there's a scene where it's like insidious horror film building the tension. And we're kind of flipping back and forth between them. And I think it gives the book a good level of like, I don't want to say education but like showing the issue of the erasing of black history in these neighbourhoods and then the kind of like thriller version of it, if that makes sense, like the allegory version of it. And they come up like playing off one another, which I think is working really well. But I'm really enjoying it. I'm really, really loving it. And I'm really intrigued to see where it's gonna go. I think I'm just gonna finish it tonight. I'm just gonna like, oh my god. Ah, it's gonna get, it's gonna get so bad. It's gonna get so bad. And I might cry. I finished when I was watching. And the fault with this is that the ending is the strongest part, but it happens too rushed. But I am tapped out. Done. Goodbye.  And it's been so slow up to that point, so drawn out, like not much happening, only a few very sporadic tension building moments that when it goes like ball to ball at the end, it's just a complete shift of pace that I don't think really worked. You know, I love like so many aspects of this book, how it looks at gentrification and the effects of it. I think it's a great example and like putting that into a thriller context. But it just wasn't paced well towards the end. Like it just like shifted off the hand when I was like, I would have liked maybe a bit more of it throughout rather than it just being at the end. Also, I'm gonna have to cut some of this video out. I've already edited up until this point. I'm gonna have to cut it out because I predicted this from the 100 page mark. I was like in the clip. I can't share it to you because I like spoiled the whole book, but I'm like, this is what's happening. This is what's happening.  I'm never right when it comes to thrillers.  I never predict anything, but I tell you the whole plot. Like I tell you the ending. I'm like Scooby and Shaggy. I'm solving a mystery. When I'm 100 pages in and in it I say like, I'm not gonna cut this out. I'm, you know, it's not a spoiler because I haven't read it. Like girl, that's the whole plot. So yeah, I feel like it's a bit predictable. Now, I feel like in some ways it's meant to be predictable. Like you're supposed to know what's going on. For me, it was the only possibility as to what could be going on. But I feel like to get it dead on, like to every detail, what is happening at the like 90-100 page mark isn't that great for a thriller. Like I feel like there should be a few more twists and turns. So I went and I read like a few reviews like to see what other people thought because I was like, is it just me? But I read Cindy's review and Cindy mentioned how like the baddies in this are like almost caricature. Like yes, there are people in life who are this racist and like who are this on the nose. But I feel like I agree with Cindy and that perhaps some of it should have been a bit more insidious because they're literally like evil movie villains, especially towards the end when it kind of goes a bit crazy. So I just felt it, I just felt it kind of went into the kind of like ridiculous a bit at the end when it had been so like slow and eerie and building like this tension. And then I felt like that kind of went out the window at the end. So I've been struggling to pick a rating. I think I'm going to give it 3.5 and I think I am going to round it up to a 4 on Goodreads. I still want to read some of Alyssa Cole's other writing though because I really liked the kind of like contemporary elements of this. So I still want to give some of Alyssa Cole's writing ago. I would love to read more thrillers from Alyssa Cole because I loved a lot of the atmosphere of this and a lot of the kind of ideas behind it. But the ending was just like, but yeah, I hope you enjoyed this video. I'm very glad I finally read this book because it's been one I have wanted to read for so, so long. Let me know if you have read any of Alyssa Cole's like romances and what you thought of them. And if you've gotten to the end of this video, comment a door emoji if you've gotten to the end. And yeah, I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


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Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okitaya of JSA here at ITW 2019 in Atlanta. Joining me today, my good friend, Mr. Travis Noble, he is the Senior Vice President of Sales for UPN Fiber. Good morning, Travis. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. Exciting day here, day three of ITW. And you've got some important news to announce, but before we get to it, can you tell our viewers who might not already know a little bit about UPN Fiber? Yeah, sure. So United Private Networks, we're a fiber-based company, customer-focused. We're out of Kansas City, Missouri, and we've been in business for about 20 years. We share kind of a customer-for-life philosophy. We've got about 8,500 miles of fiber. We've got 6,500 on-net buildings. And, you know, we build private networks for those customers and we want to keep them for as long as we can. And our normal customers stay around on an average of 8 or 9 years. I love that. I love that. That customer retention clearly a sign that you guys are doing something right there. And talking about UPN doing something right, you just announced a new API this week. Tell our viewers more. Yeah, so we wanted to work with our carrier partners. And in order to do that, we needed to provide better pricing, more consistent pricing for them. And so we put together a customer portal so that they can go in and see where our pricing is, where our buildings, our near-net and our on-net buildings are located, and be able to get pricing automatically and be able to get those customers of theirs installed within a certain period of time. Yeah, you can see how that would play back into your customer for life philosophy for sure. Also, you recently expanded into Denton, Texas. Is that right? Why Denton? So, I think more than anything else, some of our sales representatives just found a need. They were out talking to customers, talking to our partners in the data center space. And we found that the Denton area didn't have a lot of competition and therefore customers couldn't get the bandwidth and the services that they rely on to run their businesses. And so we decided to expand up there, and it's going very, very well. And we're finding actually a lot more business, especially in the high bandwidth area than we thought. I love that story, you know, going to those underserved regions and giving them connectivity, making businesses be able to run no matter where they're located throughout Texas. I love that story. So, that kind of begs the next question. Are there any further expansions on the horizon? So, you know, this question gets asked a lot when we do company events. And our CEO or president of our company, somebody asks this question every single time. And the normal answer really is that, you know, through M&A or something else that we're working on that we can't talk about, you never know. But we won a school district in San Antonio a year ago, and then we won some cell towers in the San Antonio area as well. So, we're going to be kicking off some enterprise business in San Antonio. I'm not exactly sure when that will happen, but probably roughly a year from now, maybe a little bit longer. Wow, exciting news, not just for you guys, but San Antonio. Folks that being educated there and folks running their businesses there, love that. And where can our viewers go who want to learn more? So, our website is UnitePrivateNetworks.com. The great thing about our website is that if you go to that site, you can get maps to all of our fiber networks across the country, and that will save you some time because if you're looking for something, say, in New York, you'll see that we don't have anything there. But if you're looking for something, center of the country, which is where most of our network is, you can go in there and if you have a need, give us a call or connect with us through our UnitePrivateNetworks.com website, and we'd be happy to have a conversation with you. Awesome, Travis. Yes, UnitePrivateNetworks.com. You can see it right here. Definitely check out those network maps and definitely contact Travis and team. So, thank you so much for joining us so early this morning. We appreciate you coming out. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV here at ITW. Happy networking.