So I've been playing around a little bit with my Shell Prompt. I've been playing around a little bit with the Starship Prompt. You guys know I've been using Starship for a couple of years. I made a video about the Starship Prompt two or three years back. Starship is a Cross Shell Prompt, meaning it works on multiple shells. It works on all of the popular shells available on Linux. So I'm talking about Bash Fish, ZSH, New Shell, Power Shell, Ion. It works on everything. And the fact that Starship works on so many different shells is the main reason I use it is because I'm often using multiple shells. I switch between Bash and Fish and ZSH all the time. And it's nice that I have the same prompt that looks exactly the same in every shell regardless. That being said, I've never really configured the Starship Prompt. I've never really spent a lot of time hacking on Starship because by default the Starship Prompt is really good. So I really haven't played a lot with the configuration, but that's what I'm going to do today. Let me switch over to my desktop here. I've got a terminal open. We're in the Fish Shell, but again the Prompt, the Starship Prompt will look the same whether I'm in Fish or Bash or ZSH. So it really doesn't matter what shell I'm in. You can see the standard Starship Prompt is nice because it's minimal. We get the working directory. So I'm in home. Obviously the Tilda symbol signifies my home directory. And then the prompt itself is this right-pointing chevron, the greater than sign, right? But basically a right-pointing arrow. And that is my prompt. And of course the prompt will change a little bit depending on what kind of directory I'm in by CD into my Qtile directory, which Qtile is a window manager written in Python. You can see now we get a little more information. Once again, we get the working directory and then it says via and then the snake symbol. The snake symbol signifies I'm in a Python project basically. Then we get the version of Python. And once again, we get the right-pointing arrow for our prompt. And of course that right-pointing arrow that is green, that is the standard prompt. There's a different prompt for errors. So if I enter something that's not a real command, I get an error. For example, this command here, ddd, not a real command, right? If I hit Enter, you can see the prompt now is again a right-pointing arrow. But now it's orange rather than that blue color that it was before, letting me know, hey, that last command you just tried was an error. Now again, this default prompt is good. I really have never felt the need to change it. But if I switch workspaces here and go to my browser, I could go look at the documentation on how to customize the prompt a little bit. If you go to starship.rs, that is the website for this starship cross-shell prompt. And if you go into configuration, you will find this massive configuration page. And I mean it is absolutely massive. Basically, this is all the values, all the variables, all the settings that you can add to your starship config file. So your starship config file in your home directory slash .config slash starship.toml. That's the file, right? That's going to be your config file that tells you the very first line here of the configuration page exactly where to place this config file. So let me show you this config file. Let me open up a doom emacs here. And if I look up my starship.toml here, and I'll zoom in here, this is what my starship.toml looks like. There's nothing in it really. I mean, this is really, I have a starship.toml, I guess just to have one because I haven't added any custom configurations. Pretty much I'm just using all of the default settings. But what I could do, I could go out there on the internet and I could go find somebody's starship.toml. You know, typically that's what we often do when we're exploring new things, whether it be new window managers or whatever it happens to be.  But there's also some preset configuration files. So if you go here in the configuration page, if you scroll down there is presets here. So there's not a lot of presets here for the configuration. You have this nerd font symbols configuration, which I believe is the default. It just gives you these fancy nerd font Unicode characters. I believe that's what the default prompt just defaults to. You have bracketed segments and where it looks like each section of the prompt is wrapped in brackets. And if you wanted to see how easy it is to change these, I just click on bracketed segments preset and it will give you a command. This right here starship preset bracketed segments and then a redirect symbol, right? So that's a greater than sign and it redirects into starship.toml. It overwrites your starship.toml. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy that. I'm going to go back to this workspace where I had a terminal CD back into the home directory. It doesn't matter what directory we're in when we run this command though. It's going to take that bracketed segments configuration, one of the default configurations that's available and it's going to overwrite your existing starship.toml. If I hit enter, we're actually using that new bracketed segments starship prompt, but there's no sections to bracket, right? We don't have any sections yet. But let me cd into .config slash qtl and you can see now the information about python in the version is bracketed. So that's the only difference there. And if I go back to some of the other presets here, let me back up a page other than the bracketed segments. We have plain text symbols.  You also have a no runtime version and then you have pure prompt, which this emulates the look and behavior of pure, which is another prompt, a popular prompt available. And you have pastel power line. Now that could be interesting. A lot of people like the power line look. I don't mind power line and things like Vim or even in my panels for my window managers, but power line at the shell, I'm not a huge fan of, but let's try it out. So I'm going to once again, click on the power line preset and then get the starship preset command. Go back to the terminal and let's paste that to do the pastel power line preset. And that actually is a pretty cool prompt. Looks like it's slightly wonky here at the beginning, but I'm zoomed in pretty far here. I bet if I zoom back out, the prompt might correct itself. Yeah, it looks fine at a normal font size, but when I zoom way in that very first rounded cliff is just a little weird, but that's, that's a very minor gripe on that. I actually quite like that prompt. So what I typically do when I want to see somebody's pre existing configs, I want to borrow somebody's dot files, whether it be a window manager or a terminal emulator or in this case, the shell prompt, I type in the name of the config file I'm searching for starship.toml space, GitHub, because GitHub, of course, is the largest get hosting platform. So I found this existing starship.toml on GitHub.  I grabbed this one just because it was one of the first ones I clicked on. And it's rather lengthy. It's not terribly long, but it's got a lot of stuff in it gives me some idea of some of the options I can play with. So I copied this basically, and then I put this in my starship.toml. And now that I've pasted this into the starship.toml, let me write that. Let me go back to the workspace where I have my terminal open. And if I do a clear, you know, we'll get our new prompt here.  There's some things I like about it. There's also some things I'm not crazy about. One thing I'm not crazy about DT, which is my username on hostname, but his hostname, I guess he just hard coded it to always be MacBook Pro 14. I'm not on a MacBook Pro, right? I would actually want that to be the actual hostname of my computer. Then we've got the working directory. He italicized the font for the working directory. I think that's a nice touch via and then he's using the Python logo for the Python symbol rather than a snake. And then Python, the version of Python and then took 116 milliseconds. So he's also adding the time it took to execute the command as part of the prompt. And then the prompt is not on the same line as all of that. He actually has a new line. And then this arrow, this Unicode arrow, which I'm not crazy about that particular Unicode character because it's kind of smallish, right? I'm typically used to some of the bigger Unicode stuff like that right pointing arrow that I was using as the fault prompt. It's almost like it's more than a standard space character, right? Because it's a little bigger, it's a little easier. So I may change that as well. So I'm going to get back into this config. And the first thing I'm going to do is this section here, hostname, where he actually just hardcodes the hostname to be MacBook Pro 14. I actually want that to actually be the output of the hostname command. So let me colon W to write that. Let's get back to the terminal, clear the screen. And now you can see I actually get the real hostname of my computer. The hostname of this computer is Arco Linux, so DT on Arco Linux. So that is good. Now let me see if I can fix this arrow because I would rather this arrow be something different. And that's actually the next section of the config. We have this comment, replace the greater than symbol. And he's replacing it with an arrow, but he's not replacing it with this arrow. But I like that arrow because it's a bigger Unicode symbol. So what I'm going to do is, you know what, I'm just going to yank that. So I'm going to get into a visual block mode here. So if I do control V in evil mode here in EMAX or in film, you could do the same thing. I'm in visual mode here. I'm just going to do a wide and yank, right? And then I'm going to go down to where he has this symbol here. And I'm just going to paste the new arrow and get rid of the old. And now colon W to write, let me get back to the terminal and clear the screen and see if I like this new prompt. Yes, I like that arrow much better. Yeah, that's a lot easier to read because it's a little thicker, you know, it stands out a little more. So let me get back to the config and see what else I want to play with here. I noticed in his config at the very top, he has this commented section here, format equals and then user system project command all on their own separate lines. It looks like he experimented with this particular format, but then he decided against it and he commented it out. So let me actually uncomment this and actually see what this format would do. So let's write that. I doubt I'm going to like this because I don't like multi-line prompts. I don't mind the two line prompt that we're working with here, but when you're getting in three lines or four lines is what his look like it was going to be. You know, that's a little bit too much. I like fancy prompts, but that thing, well, yeah, I don't hate it though. I like user and the user's DT system and it points to the host name, right? Project and it points to our working directory. And then in command, it points to what should be the command we enter. That's not a bad prompt actually. That could grow on me, but it's a little bit too much bling for me. So I'm going to comment that back out. And you can see, you know, you have sections for various things, username, for example, and you could set the color and the font style, whether it be bold or tall, like same thing with the host name. Do you want the host name to be bold yellow or whatever color? Actually, let me change this so you can see it. So clear the screen. So we'll get back to this prompt here and you can see host name, Arco Linux, right? That is the color. It's this orange-ish color right now. Well, we could change that. Go down to host name. You can see on host name, bold yellow. Well, I could change this to, you know, any color I wanted to. How about bold purple? Let's write that and then clear the screen and now Arco Linux should be, yeah, DT on Arco Linux. You see now we've changed the color. So it was real easy to play around with the style of the prompt here. And getting back to the section character here. So the character, of course, is the prompt. We changed the success symbol, the standard prompt to this arrow here. We did not change the error symbol, which he's using at x. And I like that because in the standard prompt, I was using a right-pointing chevron as both the success symbol and the error symbol. And the only difference was the color changed on an error. But now we're actually going to have a different symbol for the prompt if I enter something that's errors out. So this command here, once again, you can see now the prompt is an x, not an arrow. So kind of a neat little effect. You have the directory section here. And when a directory is read, only we get the little lock symbol here, which I believe is the standard for the default prompt as well. So I don't think he's doing anything fancy here. And I like that. That's very easy because I often get into read-only directories as the standard user. You go into the root directory, and it's really easy to realize, hey, I don't have privileges to do something in this directory because it has that lock symbol as part of the prompt. And then you have this massive section here where you get fancy symbols for directories, depending on what kind of project they are. So you can see stuff about AWS and Kanda, Dart, Docker, you know, various programming languages, the Nix shell, got the little snowflake for that. If you were doing like Nix packages, I guess, PHP, Python, he changed the Python prompt from being the Python symbol or the snake to this here. I don't know what that is, a disc stacked on each other. I actually quite like the snake symbol. So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to copy this from my old config because I want the snake symbol back. Let's verify that actually works. So clear the screen. We're already in my Qtile config. So, yeah, we get the snake symbol back now. And while I'm thinking about it, let's actually check and see because I do so much with Xmonad and Haskell stuff. Do we get a Haskell logo? We get a Lambda symbol. Okay. So there was no Haskell section here. So that's just what it defaults to. But if you wanted to, you could change it to anything. I actually could create a section here. You know, I could make a Haskell section here and have the symbol be anything by default. It defaults to a Lambda, which makes sense. That's the symbol for Haskell, right? But if you wanted to change it to something else, of course, you could. And that's the thing with the Starship prompt. You can customize this thing. You can basically change every aspect of the prompt. So I'm actually pretty happy with this prompt. What I got from this guy's GitHub, I basically stole his config, right? I made three or four very minor changes. For example, the host name, which didn't make any sense for me to have my host name as MacBook Pro, made some color changes as well, and made one minor change to the logo for Python. But it's essentially his prompt. So that's just a little bit of what you can do with the Starship prompt config file. And of course, I borrowed this guy's config off of GitHub. That's the great thing about GitHub, GitLab, and people sharing their configs, their .files, free and open source software, right? I can take what this guy is doing. I can take his config. I can tweak it to my needs. What I'm going to do is I'm going to push my Starship .toml to my GitLab over on my .files repository. You guys can take the config that I pass along as well. You can change what you want. Again, tweak it to your needs. It's what makes the free and open source software community so great. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. 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Good afternoon, and welcome to our prerecorded informational webinar on preserving black on the preserving black churches program. I'm Leslie Kanan senior manager for preserving black churches, a project of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund here at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I'm joined today by Alaska McGinnis, the director of the National Grants Program for the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund here at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Hi everyone. In the course of this webinar, we will cover the following items and provide information to you all. This will include an overview of preserving black churches and specifically discuss the grant process. We will discuss details of the eligibility criteria for applicants and projects grant guidelines and funding categories. We will also give guidance on how to apply for a grant using the National Trust grant system and to receive assistance with your application. We will go over the narrative application questions and talk about what we are trying to learn from them. Lastly, we will talk about frequently asked questions. As this is a prerecorded webinar, you of course can't ask questions. We are setting up two live Q&A sessions on July 24 and 25 so that you can ask questions. We will be releasing, releasing registration details on our website, so stay tuned. Let's get started with our overview of preserving black churches project. We're extremely excited to receive a $20 million gift from the Lilly Endowment to support the preservation of historic black churches across the country. In his book, The Black Church, Dr. Henry Lewis Gates Jr. says, no pillar of the African American community has been more central to its journey identity and social justice vision than the black church. They are the oldest institutions created and controlled by African Americans. And historic buildings that house these congregations are living testament to the achievements and resiliency of generations in the face of a racialized and inequitable society. These places continue to inform and shape black identity today and are foundational to black religious, political, economic and social life. They serve as houses of worship, safe havens, social centers and cultural repositories. They provide all manner of vital services in space for community programs that uplift the broader social, economic and cultural health of their community. So does with this spirit preserving black churches with conceived, it is intended to work to ensure this legacy is maintained. With the support of the Lilly Endowment, preserving black churches is a three year pilot project to advance preservation strategies that model and strengthen stewardship, asset management, interpretation, programming and fundraising activities of historic black churches. Specifically, the project established a national grant fund to direct funding to historic black churches. We will discuss this grant fund in more detail during this webinar. We know that last year we were able to give 35 churches $4 million in funding through this grant program. For more information on these projects, you should check out our website. A rapid response and emergency grant fund to address imminent threats to black churches was established through this program we have already helped churches like St. James and me in Kentucky. We are hoping to help more churches moving forward that have similar emergencies caused by imminent threats. We will provide targeted technical assistance and support to black churches, serving as sites of social justice and sites of civil rights. These are the churches that represent resilience and agency in the face of historical racial violence, such as Chicago's Robert Temple Church of God and Christ, the site of Emmett Till's 1955 extended visitation and funeral. The goal for this work is to maximize the economic value of heritage environments, foster safe spaces for healing and truth telling and create greater potential for increased philanthropic investments and earned income. We are working with the church in Los Angeles to assess their needs. In the early 1960s, Alabama and in particular its cities of Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma were the epicenter of the civil rights movement. In order to preserve this legacy. We are working with partners and stakeholders in Alabama to model innovative stewardship strategies and build preservation capacity for Alabama's historic civil rights churches to ensure they can continue to serve. The social, political and spiritual needs of their surrounding communities. We will have our first stewardship cohort in the fall. Lastly, we are working to amplify historic black churches through digital documentation, storytelling and media relations. This work is supported by our marketing teams and our existing African American cultural heritage action fund fellows program. I want to share that preserving black churches joins a strong foundation of the work of the national trust have done in support of churches and religious institutions across this country. It joins existing programs, such as the National Fund for Sacred Places and the preservation fund as another strong resource available to support historic churches congregations and places of worship across the country. Now, let's talk specifically about the different components of the national grant program. The overall purpose of grants from preserving black churches is to preserve historic black houses of worship, either with active or non active congregations. The grants are intended to advance ongoing preservation activities while strengthening the capacity for historic congregations and preservation and community organizations to steward manage and better utilize their historic structures. The grants are available to entities representing historic black churches. This includes either the historic black church itself. The church does not have to be a 501C3 entity, but will need to provide a federal tax ID number to apply 501C3 nonprofit organizations that includes organizations directly connected to a historic black church, such as a preservation foundation, friends group, societies, as well as community organizations, public agencies, this includes municipalities, public colleges or universities, state and state governments. Grant awards will range from 50 to $200,000. Eligible projects must fall under one of these five funding categories, which include capital projects, endowment and financial sustainability, organizational capacity and operations, programming and interpretation and project planning. The maximum grant award will depend on the funding category applied, which eligible applicants is applying for the funding and the current use of the historic black church building by an active or non active congregation. For eligible applicants, also note if you've received previous national trust grants, you are eligible to apply for preserving black churches provided all grant requirements are current. This also includes previous African American cultural heritage action fund national grant grantees. However, action fund grantee can only apply under a different funding category than previously awarded. For example, a national grant program recipient of capital projects funding is not eligible to apply to preserving black churches for capital projects grant and should apply through a new funding category, such as project planning. As mentioned, the purpose of the grants for preserving black churches is to preserve historic black houses of worship. So the first consideration to determine eligibility is whether the proposed project involves a historic black church. For the purpose of this program, a historic black church is defined as you see and hear on the screen. Religious buildings erected by black congregations continuously occupied by active black congregations congregations. Religious buildings designed and are constructed by black architects, builders and currently occupied by black congregations are repurposed for arts, cultures, community and social justice programs. Religious buildings not originally built by or for black congregations but continuously occupied by an active black congregation for at least 50 years. Active historic black congregations that are part of historic black religion, religious denominations, such as African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Baptist Church, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Church of God in Christ and so on. Active historic black congregations that are part of religious denominations such as the Baptist Church, Episcopal Church, Lutheran Church, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Catholic Church and non-denominational church. Next, here are some of the criteria and guidelines that should be considered when developing a proposal. First, matching funds are not required to apply for preserving black churches in the following funding categories. Capital projects, project planning, program and interpretation and organizational capacity building and operations. However, projects leveraging additional investments are strongly preferred. This could include both cash and in-kind support. Matching funds are required for endowment and financial sustainability projects. I will discuss this in detail shortly in the next section of the webinar. As mentioned earlier, grants from preserving black churches can't be used to match grants received from the Action Fund National Grant Program or the National Fund for Sacred Places. Please be aware of what is ineligible to receiving funding through preserving black churches. In addition to standard non-fundable activities, the items you see here specific to churches are not eligible for funding. I want to highlight projects involving the interior sanctuary. A rehabilitation project focuses on the interior sanctuary is eligible to receive funding. However, singular projects focused on sanctuary elements meant to enhance the worship experience are not eligible. For example, a proposal for restoration of the pews or altar would not be eligible for funding. However, if the applicant is undertaking a full comprehensive rehabilitation project of the sanctuary and removal and reinstallation of the pews is required as part of the scope of work, the full project would be eligible. Lastly, when preparing an application, the following criteria should be considered. As you complete the application, it is important to demonstrate the historic and cultural significance of the church. Leadership support for preservation and capacity to manage the project and funding. Also, regardless of the project, it is important to show that the appropriate planning and pre-development steps have been taken to determine the project's needs and goals, particularly for capital projects. I have provided an overview of the guidelines and criteria. However, more details can be found on the grants guidelines page. I are encouraged to review them for additional information and guidance. The page can be accessed by visiting www.savingplaces.org backslash black churches. Now, I'm going to discuss the funding categories which eligible projects should fall under. In developing your project and assessing which category is eligible, please review the guidelines and pay attention to which type of applicant is eligible to apply for each category. The amount of funding allowed to be requested and what type of projects are eligible under the category. Grants from preserving black churches are offered under the following categories. Capital projects, endowment and financial sustainability, organizational capacity and operations, programming and interpretation, and project planning. Eligible applicants can submit multiple applications, but only one under each funding category. If you are invited to submit an application, only one application will be selected and only one type of grant will be awarded to each organization. I will say that again, you can always submit an application in each funding category, but each organization will only be funded for one grant. Cemetery restoration projects are not eligible under the capital projects category. Eligible applicants under this category are historic black churches with active congregations and they can apply for up to $200,000. Not for profit organizations and public agencies can apply for funding up to $100,000. This is intended for churches no longer with active congregations and the building is being repurposed for community programmatic use. Other 501c3 and other nonprofit organizations established by or affiliated with active congregations with a mission to preserve a historic black church with an active congregation are also eligible to apply on behalf of the active congregation and can receive funding up to $200,000. If you are applying and developing your proposal, scope of work and budget, no more than 15% of awarded grant funds for developing any needed construction and planning and documents can be used. If you are awarded funds, all planning documents and plans will have to be approved by the national trust staff before funds are dispersed and planning work can begin. Matching funds are not required for this category, though leveraging funds of funds is encouraged. Projects that develop plans for cemetery conservation and restoration are eligible under project planning. This includes the development of planning documents guides and the assessment studies. The cemetery must be owned by and continuously and contiguously connected to a historic black church. All eligible applicants of this program can apply for funding up to $100,000 matching funds are not required. But again, projects that leverage dollars are encouraged. This is a category to consider if you are needing time to develop an understanding of the capital needs of a historic black church prior to seeking capital dollars programming and interpretation projects under this category are meant to elevate the significance of the historic black church legacy and contributions to the community, and that advances new approaches to storytelling and public education. All eligible applicants of the program can apply for funding up to $100,000 matching funds are not required, but again projects that leverage dollars are encouraged organizational capacity building and operations. The preservation of new full time staff or promotion part time volunteers staff to full time positions which directly support the preservation and stewardship of historic black churches or structures. Staff positions should be occupied but by those with experience and in preservation planning project management construction management or interpretation. All eligible applicants include historic black churches with active congregations. They can apply for funding up to $150,000 501 C3 not for profit organizations and public agencies can apply for funding up to $100,000 grant funds are intended to sustain positions for two years. The clergy and religious ministry staff positions are ineligible matching funds are not required, but leveraging of dollars is encouraged. Additionally, proposal should include plans for sustaining position past the grant period if needed. Endowment and financial sustainability. Endowment and financial sustainability is a new category for the action fund, and it's only included in preserving black churches. The purpose of this category is to invest in the legacy preservation of historic black churches, allowing continued stewardship of these facilities, following comprehensive rehabilitation projects. Eligible activities under this category include increasing existing or establishing new preservation endowments for store black churches buildings with active congregations to support activities such as cyclical maintenance of the building and grounds. And search insurance services and other activities related to the perpetual stewardship of the structure. Only active congregations, or 501 C3 organizations established with the sole purpose of preserving a historic black church are eligible to apply. Non profits must have an organizational mission and leadership role in stewardship of a historic black church. To apply for funding up to $200,000. Eligible applicants should have completed a comprehensive restoration or rehabilitation of historic church building within the last 10 years or advancing an active restoration or rehabilitation project to be completed within the next two years at the time of application. A one on one, a one to one match is required for new endowments the match can be funds to be raised, or for existing endowments principal funds currently investing investment equal to a greater than the requested grant funds. awarded grant funds will not be provided until proof of a one to one match is secured. Lastly, grants received from other national trust grants programs cannot be used as a match. Grant funds cannot be used for active capital projects, planning programs, programming and direct support or operational needs. Again, more detailed guidelines on the funding categories and what is eligible can be found online via saving places.org blacks backslash black churches. I will now turn it over to Alaska, who will give an overview on on how to submit your application using our grant system. Alaska. Hello everyone it is a pleasure to share this information with you and to walk me through the process that we have in place in order to get these applications in process and awardees notified. Before we go off we'll discuss some upcoming dates that are really important, but initially is important to know that all applications must be submitted through the National Trust online grant application system by the deadline or they will not be reviewed. The mailed applications are not eligible and will not be reviewed so please note that we won't be able to accept any other forms of application. Coming in coming from different organizations that are not based in found it. We will be providing direct technical assistance. During the final stage of review. In the meantime, National Trust staff members will be engaging with prospective grantees during the application stage to answer specific questions applicants may have about their projects. We will be utilizing the Microsoft Microsoft bookings app that allows grantees to schedule 30 minute meetings with respective staff to have their questions answered. If you have specific questions about your proposed projects, please utilize the email black churches at saving places.org. Please note the grant process timeline and schedule here will have a live Q&A on July 23 and 24. This is where we will be able to hear directly from you. After hopefully you taken in this webinar and maybe you have some additional questions that weren't covered here. This will be the opportunity for folks to join us and ask us questions so that we can go ahead and have those answered for you. We will have the applications due on July 23. And we will from there go on to have a technical assistance period in which grantee will potential grantees will be assigned to staff, and we will work with them more intensely in October of 2023. And also the time at the end of October beginning of November folks will start to get notifications and learn more about their status in the application process so please note to be looking out for your emails. In terms of updates there. Also an important note here that I'll add the folks that you will want to have as the main contacts for Foundant when you're setting up the system should be the person that you'll be that will be engaging with the administration of this grant the most. Some folks are more inclined to say indicate the most senior members of the staff who sometimes may not have the capacity to keep track of inquiries and requests. Can you please we ask that you make sure that the folks who are associated with the accounts and managing the emails, have the information that they need. And are entered have the information that we would need entered into the Foundant our grant management system. From there we will have an announcement of the grantees in January of 2024. And here I just wanted to give you a quick view of the booking system, this is what you would see when you're looking to book your meeting. These will be set up like I said for 30 minutes. And on the left you'll see an option to select the date that you are available, and there will be times that will be made available please note that if you don't see the time that maybe you need. I said there's just not availability within our staff. So please feel free to select a different date. These links will be sent out via just based on need and based on availability in engagement with our staff at black churches at saving places. We've made sure it's pretty user friendly. And if you have any trouble please let us know but this is what we're using to make sure that we're tracking the need for direct assistance and connecting staff as well. And here we have the section where you'll provide us with some additional information. So please have yourself take a look at the frequently asked questions page at saving places.org backslash black churches dash FAQ. There's a lot of information there and a lot of information just in terms of general grant criteria that we really would like for you to make this appointment. A lot of questions that may come up have typically been addressed in these frequently asked questions so please make sure that you're familiar with that information. From there we will ask if you started or submitted your application just so we can make sure that we know exactly where you are in the process and take a look at what's been submitted or saved. And then we will ask what project category you're applying for specifically. And from there, we would like you to provide us with more detail on exactly what you'd like to know. And what you need some help on in terms of this particular meeting from there, you would just hit book and we would be notified internally. And then we would schedule a meeting for us so that we can go ahead and connect with you at a later date. Please note that we need at least at minimum 24 hours notice for these meetings, and you can book your meeting out at roughly three weeks out from from the Next I will be going over found that specifically found that is our grant management system is what we utilize to manage these, these opportunities. And when you go to the system and when you are access the link from our guidelines page, you will see this screen. If you have a account you would simply log in as you have for previous opportunities. If you do not have account you would select the create new account button, but this is where you would start for all applications coming into the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Please note that if you get an EIN warning it means that someone in your organization has established an account so you may want to reach out to us so we can determine if a new account is needed, or not, or if we need to reset a password and get you all set in that way. After you've logged in, you will come to a new screen which is essentially the applications page. If you have all the information available for the current open applications at the trust, you would then preview the application should you want to take a look at all of the questions and prepare ahead of time. If you are ready to go ahead and start the application you would hit the start eligibility quiz option at the bottom of the page. Please note that you do not need an access code as you would see at the top of the screen that's not required in order to apply. And you would also need to make sure again that you are logged in to properly view this page. Now at the applications page you would see the information that you would need after you've completed the eligibility quiz assuming that the eligibility has been confirmed. You would be able to select apply at the bottom of the page next to the preserving black churches grant fund. Tips to remember it is essential that you make sure that these three emails action fund grants at saving places.org black churches at saving places.org and administrator at grant interface.com are saved in your address books to ensure that this information doesn't doesn't become routed to your junk emails. We've had a lot of folks that have had some feedback for us regarding missing emails and things they've not received so please make sure that these are saved so that you can get all notifications coming from our system and or our staff. Please note as you're actually looking at the application that there are care character counts and spaces do count in that number so there are limits to most questions on the actual applications. And for those that require text spaces do count in that character count. Please ensure as I mentioned earlier that the main contact for the grant process is the contact in slash applicant in the system. Please be aware if you need to review this information and you have any trouble that we can work with you if you have any issues in terms of logging in and getting set up as I mentioned. Also note if you see an asterisk nest to a question in the system it is a required question so you may not skip any questions that have asterisk they're really important and so they are required questions in the system. And if you have any questions about submitting your application, please reach out to us at the action fund grants at saving places.org email and note that applications are due at 1159 local time. Thank you Alaska. I would like to get started with going through the application. I'm going to go through each each question and explain what we are looking to learn from you. I will also give you some tips about what to avoid based on some Apple applications from last year. I would note that I'm going to go through the narrative questions and not every single question on question on the application. So let's start with the project. So the project name is pretty straightforward. And but what you want to do is make sure to actually include both what you're doing and the name of your church. So for instance you'd want to put something like cane and church for for the director. Next, you want to put a brief project description. This helps us understand a little bit more about what you're asking for strictly focus on the project and describe exactly what you're requesting the funds for. And just a few sentences. An example is the port is requested to repair the siding of the siding roof and windows at Canaan Church damaged by Hurricane Ida and 2020. The amount requested. Here you will indicate the amount you're requesting. Remember, the amount you can request is based on your project type and what type of organization you are. If you have questions, consult the guidelines. There will be a direct link to the guidelines in the application. Next we have estimated project costs. This is the total cost of the project. Some of you may have multiple projects or phases of project. We are only looking for the cost of the project you are seeking funding for. Remember that these project costs can't be for work that has already happened. It can only be for work that will occur after you receive an award letter and to 2024. Next we have project partnerships. We are looking to understand the type of support and collaborations you have with the project you are seeking funding for. Partnerships could include consultants, vendors, contractors, supporting the project, local preservation organizations, historical societies, funders, municipal governments, those types of partnerships. For overall partnerships, we are more focused on the organizations you collaborate with on a regular basis for your mission driven work or your programming. For your case for support, we are looking for you to describe why your proposal aligns with the goals of preserving black churches and as a strong fit. What we want you to do is read over the criteria and the guidelines and eligibility section and think about how your church or organization and your project might meet some of those criteria. Think about why this is the right time now. Think about how funding of this project will lead to a positive impact on the preservation of the building or a positive impact on the community the building serves. Next, I want to talk about on the section that talks about congregation information. Here, we want you to talk about the history and significance of your congregation, whether that significance is local regional or national. We want to know who founded your congregation and how they related to the community. What we don't want is a list of every head of every head clergy person that existed from the founding till now. Remember you have a limit on your characters and you want to touch upon multiple things in this section. Remember this is not a question about the mission, your mission or faith. In this section, there are some prompts to help you answer this question. Let those guide you. If this is for a building without an active congregation, you'll be answering about the congregation that used to reside in this building. We also want to understand the process of approval based on the on the denomination. And for us to understand if permissions have been secured, who needs to review it, and how long those permissions take. Next, I want to talk about building information. Now, again, we ask about history and significance, but this time we're talking specifically about the building. We're looking for you to give us information on the building. First we want to know, is it on any local state or national register. It's okay if it's not. But think about how it might be connected to the local regional or national history, even if it's not on a register. Think about how the building has been used and how it is related to African American history. It's important that we know when the building was constructed. And remember, we are talking about the building for which you are seeking funding for. This should be the date for the, the, it should be the date to focus on that you're focused on the grant application. If the date is unknown, or if it's only an estimate, please let us know this. We want to find out who the building architect or builder is. Many of you won't know that, and that's okay. Let us know what additions have been made to your current building and when they were made. It's important for us to know how the building has changed over time, and whether there have been any alterations or additions. It would also be good to know if there are any auxiliary buildings this year, unlike last year, we will be allowing for auxiliary buildings to be eligible for funding. So it's important to know if there are any auxiliary buildings. It's important for us to understand when your move in date is. If the building is currently being used by an active current active congregation, when did they move in. For those churches that were not originally black churches is important that we understand exactly when the congregation will then so that we can verify that you meet the requirements of being considered a historic black church. Next, I want to talk about architectural significance. This is a question that people often find hard to answer. If you don't know who the architect is you might find that this is a problem but it's not. First, there will be guiding questions in the application to help you. Second, think about checking out some resources from your local library on religious architecture. This might be helpful. Think about reaching out for help to partners who, who for those who might know about architecture, if you don't have those resources in your congregation or on your team. There are resources out there that can help you learn more about the type of building that you're in, even if it isn't specifically about your church. Next, I want to talk about the community and congregational view of your building. We are trying to understand how the community and or the congregation views this building is this building an important part of its history. Can you find a way to show how the community or the congregation expresses this opinion. This helps us understand just how important this building is to the community and the congregation. We want to understand how your building is being used, is it just being used for worship services, or does it have multiple purposes. Is it a building that's just used by the congregation or does the community use it to outline that for us in the application. You want to understand how your organization or congregation engages with the community. Is there programming? Do you have relationships? Do you share your space? Talk about that in your application. Next, I want to talk a little bit about endowment and financial sustainability. Actually, before we get to endowment and financial sustainability, we're going to start with capital projects. While you briefly described your project in another section, we are looking for you to give us more details about the project you are seeking funding for. We are looking for a detailed scope of work. Walk us through your project. What are the components? Think about if you had the funding and we're asking someone to do the work for you. What list would you give them? What is the list that you should, that is the list that you should give us so that we can understand what you want funding for. We need to understand what the outcome of the projects of your project is. What do you want to accomplish? We need to understand if you are ready to proceed with a capital project. Some planning has to be done before you are ready. Examples of planning work include building our site studies, evaluations and our assessments such as historic structures report, preservation plan, engineering study, architectural drawings, conditions assessments, engineering studies and assessments, cost estimates. In this section you should detail what planning work has been done and when it was done. Let us know if it has been completed or if it is underway and who completed the work. We want to understand how your project is solving a preservation issue. How will this funding contribute to preserving parts of parts or the entire historic building. Identify what the preservation is. For example, it could be that water infiltration is causing deterioration and damage of the interior walls. The proposed roof replacement, the proposed roof replacement will stop the water infiltration and therefore stop the damage from worsening. What this means is this project part of a larger rehabilitation or capital project. If so, then describe for us what those phases and objectives are. Let us know what the estimated cost are and the funders and the timeline. We need to understand how this existing what you're proposing now will lead to these future plans. With the project planning process, we're trying to understand, we're trying to learn why this particular project is a priority now. Walk us through your decision making process for picking this project for a funding ask. Was this based on planning and is it an emergency? Did you consult a preservation expert? Walk us through that. What is the project urgency? It's important for us to understand that. Is this a project that needs to be done now or can it wait? Is this an emergency? Make sure to talk about that. Talk about your preservation capacity. What has been done in this building over the last or to the site over the last 10 years? Talk to us about what you've been able to do and why you haven't been able to do it. Talk to us about your preservation challenges. Think about and this could be multiple. This doesn't have to be one answer. There could be multiple answers. Think about as many as you can. What have been the challenges you've had preserving this building? Now we get to endowment and financial sustainability. So one thing that we need to know are your annual maintenance costs. Now, a lot of churches don't necessarily, all churches have annual maintenance costs, but they don't necessarily think about what those are or how they get covered. So really think about what your annual maintenance costs are and really walk us through how those get covered because it's really important if you're going to set up an endowment that you really think about and walk us through what your annual maintenance costs are and how they actually get covered. And then we have the capital work description. Really describe for us the capital project, including that you completed, including when it was completed, how it was funded. It's really important that you walk us through the preservation aspects of it. What were the issues? What preservation issues did you have? What preservation issues did it resolve? If the work is not yet completed, it's important that you walk us through the timeline for when you expect for it to be completed. And remember that the rehabilitation project must be completed within the next two years. So really walk us through that capital project that's associated with this endowment request. Now let's talk about planned management plans. For proposed endowments, have you consulted or identified a financial management firm to invest awarded funds? And describe when and how this process will be completed. Now this is only for people who do not have an existing endowment. It's really important that you really, we need to really need to have an understanding of making sure that this is going to be an appropriate management firm. So make sure you really walk us through who the financial firm is and how this process is going to be, how and when this process is going to be completed. If you already have an existing endowment, you really want to understand when it was established, who established it and what the purpose is, where is the endowment currently invested and how is it managed. It's really important for us to understand exactly what's going on with your existing endowment. So we make sure that it aligns with the type of endowment that we're looking to match, fundraising. Now, other than the fact that you need a one to one match, we need to make sure that you have a plan to actually match it. So it's important for you to walk us through what your plan is to actually match this grant. So walk us through that or do you have money plan pledged, anticipated and hand. Do you have potential for money? Walk us through how you plan on doing that fundraising. And also walk us through what the timeline for that is. You do have some time, but make sure that in your application, you're indicating that you do in fact have some donors or you're working with a consultant that there is in fact a strategy for coming up with the money that you're asking for. Next, I want to talk about organizational capacity building and operations. Here, you really want to talk about, you really want to describe what your existing, the first thing you want to do is really talk about what your current organizational needs are. What are the priorities and what are the needs and what are your needs. And the other thing you want to do. The other thing that I would ask is, if you need information on what the eligible expenses are. Please check out our guidelines and remember that positions related to religious and spiritual mission of the church are not eligible. When we look at the applicants current preservation work, please provide details on how the proposed use of the grant funds will advance your organization's mission and ability to manage preservation priorities. That's really important. When we look at organizational capacity position description. Please describe the project you are seeking funding for, including existing operational needs and preservation priorities and there's some prompts that are in the application that will help you answer this question. Some of those prompts include, is this a new position? How will this position support preservation stewardship? What are the qualifications of the roles? What are the qualifications role and duties of the position? But I think the most important thing, again, that we are looking for is what are the current needs of your organization from a preservation point of view and for you to show us through these descriptions. How this particular role that you're asking for will really fill that position and improve the organizational capacity from a preservation point of view. We want to understand the compensation in terms of what are you and what is the proposed salary and compensation. We want to understand what the main preservation challenges of your organization are and really talk to us about, again, how is this role going to help you with those preservation challenges because we want to make sure that if we're helping with organizational capacity that it's actually going to help with your preservation challenges. The other question is about the future of this position. Is this position intended to extend past the grant period? If it is, then do you have a strategy for being able to fund past this grant period? Walk us through that. Next, we have programming and interpretation. The first thing is project description. Really, with project description, I know, again, that you have in another section talked about a project description, but again, in more detail, walk us through that. Include step by step what your scope of work is and your desired outcomes. So go through those guidelines and make sure that you are putting what the eligible expenses are. That's really important. We really need to understand one thing that's a little bit different about programming and interpretation because like the other categories, it's the same thing in terms of really having a robust set of scope of work. It's the same thing of a list that you can bring to someone and say, this is what I need. This is what I need help with. And that person could take that list and go to work. But with programming and interpretation, you need to think about some other things. You need to think about who your audience is. We need to understand who will benefit from this project. It's really important. Who's going to benefit? How many people will it serve? Who's your target audience? How many people, you know, how will it expand your existing audience if you have one? How will it increase the public's understanding of the church and its cultural heritage? This is a really important section that in the past people have not given us enough information on. And so really think about taking your time in this section to really walk us through who benefits from your programming and interpretation and who it serves, and make sure you're taking your time in this section to walk us through. There are some questions that help prompt you to take your time and walk us through this. Talk about your past programming work. If you have some, talk about that work and whether it's been successful or not. When did it occur? How many people did it impact? And describe that for us. That helps us understand if you've had, if you have some experience in that. So describe that for us. But that would be my advice for programming interpretation is, who does it impact? Do you have experience doing this before and walk us through that? Next, I want to talk about project planning. Same thing as with the other categories is you're going to talk about your project description. You're going to expand on what you did in a previous section. You're going to really in detail, you know, give us that proposed scope of work where you're going to, you know, bullet point if you want to tell us exactly the type of work that you want to do. You're going to make sure that you check in with the guidelines to make sure that the work that you're asking for is eligible. You're going to make sure to look at what the preservation issues are and talk to us about how, what the planning that you're doing is working to solve a preservation issue. So what the, so what kind of planning are you doing that will help either preserve the building either in part or in whole? How does it do that? So what is, what is the issue that you are trying to solve with your planning and how will the planning that you're doing ultimately work towards that? Are you working towards a capital project? What are you doing? So an example is that you believe that your building has serious issues, but you're not quite sure what they are. So you decide to get a building assessment to figure out what all the issues are so that you can work towards saving the building. So you've identified what the preservation issue is and you've identified that you're going to get planning so that you can work towards solving that issue. Talk about project urgency. Why, why is it needed now? How will it help preserve the building? Talk about that. Make sure that you really work as walk us through that. Implementation. Talk about whether, whether once you get the planning done, whether you have the ability to actually implement the suggestions that are in the document. Walk us through that. Talk about any preservation capacity that you have. What work has your organization or church been able to do in the last 10 years, whether that be preservation work, planning work, capital work. Walk us through that. There are some questions in the application that help you answer that some prompts that help you answer that question. Let's talk about what the preservation challenges are. Again, this is one of those things where there's not, there doesn't have to be just one answer. There can be multiple answers for this. So, let us know what those are. Sorry about that. Yes, I want to talk about the budget. So the budget is a very important document, but one that people often have a hard time with. Budget is really important for us to understand exactly what you're asking for, and what you're bringing to the table, what you're asking for, and what your project costs. So one of the budget also involves a budget narrative. And what the budget narrative is, is it basically explains each item in your budget, and it explains in greater detail, exactly what it's for. So for instance, you might have a line item in your detailed expenses, which you see it, you'll see an arrow that goes to the right hand side that says detailed expenses. You might have a line item in your detailed expenses that might say, you know, contractor, you know, expenses and you might have an amount. In your budget narrative. There might be a note there that further explains exactly what those contractor expenses are for, which helps us better understand exactly what that expenses for, which is helpful to us when we're trying to make decisions on all these projects because remember, you're all going to submit amazing projects, and it's going to be very difficult for us to make decisions on all of these things. And so it's important that we understand all of, you know, all of your expenses to help us, you know, make decisions. So make sure to talk about that in your in your budget narrative. But in looking at the sheet, what you're going to have on the right hand side is you're going to put in all of your detailed expenses. These are the different costs that are associated with your scope of work. You're going to break down those as as much as possible so instead of just putting large numbers here in terms of, you know, roofing $150,000, you're going to want to break those down into a small numbers as possible.  On the left hand side, you're going to put your different income sources. These are some of the sources of income that you're going to bring to the table. These can be ones that could be grants, other grants that you're applying for. And some of those might be ones that are anticipated. You're not quite sure if you're going to, you know, you've applied for them but you haven't heard back yet. Some of those could be services that are donated. Those could be in kind services. It could be, you know, a staff member is donating their services, put all of that in there. If you, if you're doing a fundraiser and you're putting dollars there, if you're doing in kind services, if you secured money already, that all goes on the left hand side. And then in the middle, where it says grant amount requested, that's going to be where you're going to put the money that you're requesting from the trust. So you're going to total those amounts and the amount on the left hand side and the right hand side asked to match. Make sure those match. Otherwise, then you're not doing the budget right. Now we can always help with that. If you get stuck that, you know, as a reason to reach out. But remember that detailed expenses. Make sure you break those down. And that's, you know, the different expenses of the project that you are asking for funding for. And then on the left hand side are the different sources of income that you have to add to the budget or to the project rather. Okay, I'm going to go over some frequently asked questions and you can we have more frequently asked questions that are available on our website. So first, does my church need to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places or designated as a landmark to apply. The answer is no. Our only historic black churches eligible to apply. The answer is yes, only historic black church buildings as defined early in the presentation are eligible to receive grants in all funding categories. Historic cemeteries owned by historic black church are only eligible under the project planning category, funding for capital projects for historic cemeteries is available through the African American cultural heritage action fund national grant program. Okay, what is an active congregation for the purposes of preserving black churches active congregations are those which hold regular worship services and or conduct public programming from historic black church building before can we apply for the preserving black churches in the African American cultural heritage action fund grant program. Yes. I think one of the African American cultural heritage action fund national grant program are eligible to apply for a grant from preserving black churches. However, the existing African American cultural heritage action fund grantee must submit the application under a different funding category than previously awarded. For example, an African American cultural heritage action fund grant recipient of capital projects funding is not eligible to apply to preserving black churches for capital projects grant to apply through a new funding category such as project planning. Next, can we apply for preserving black churches and the national fund of safe for sacred places. Yes, eligible applicants can apply to national fund for sacred places and preserving black churches how our funding received from other national trust programs, including the African American cultural heritage action funds preserving black churches and the national grant program cannot be used to match grants from the national fund for sacred places. Next, can get grant funds be used for staffing and techno tech technology needs. Yes, grant funds can be used to support tech not technological needs associated with non religious programming and historic interpretation. The applying for technology for this purpose and application should be submitted under organizational capacity building and operations funding category. The ADA accessibility projects eligible for preserving black churches. Yes, projects to improve accessibility of historic black churches buildings are eligible projects seeking capital funding should have completed all necessary planning. Engineering and architectural prior to the middle of an application. If planning is not complete applicants are encouraged to apply for project funding. And last, our percentages and access and education buildings eligible for preserving black churches funding. Yes, the building must be located directly adjacent to the historic black church. Please email black churches at saving places for guidance prior to submitting an application. As we're closing, just a few tips to remember access to the grant guidelines FAQ and application can be found via saving places.org black backslash black churches. On July 24 and 25, we will have a webinar for live Q&A sessions about our preserving black churches grant and application and process. If you have any questions about a specific project project, please email black churches at saving places.org. If you have questions about the grant system and accessing an application, email action fund grants at saving places.org. Applications are due August 23 and must be submitted via our grant system. Thank you so much for watching our webinar and we look forward to seeing you and hearing from you soon.


Live from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, it's The Cube at AWS Summit 2015. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live inside The Cube in San Francisco at Moscone North, John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. It's The Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the cinnamon noise. My co is Mark Farley. Distinguished guests this week and substitutes for Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. You're doing great. You're doing better than both Dave and Stu combined. Yeah, well, everybody send in your ballots now, right? It's fun being the virtual Stu. You're doing great. Our next guest is Sherup Sairam with Intel Security. Welcome to The Cube. Hey, John. Great to see you guys. So Intel, obviously, big banner.  So congratulations. Thank you. Getting the word out. You got some stuff that you're launching. You also got Intel inside for us old school generation. It's good business for you to have more and more features and computing. So what are you guys announcing here? So today, what we've done is we put together a new solution called PCS, which stands for MacAfee Public Cloud Server Security. And we made it available on the AWS marketplace. And to describe it in like one sentence, it is another security tools that someone needs to secure their AWS EC2 instances. So what's the bottom line from Intel's perspective on security? Obviously, RSA is coming up around the corner. Okay. The perimeter is no longer. Virtualization is exploding. We were talking earlier, Mark and I, about the impact of virtualization of the storage, server-defined storage. You're getting down to the root levels. New startups that are busting out, doing new paradigm security. What is the right way to do security in this new cloud environment where it's always agile, it's lower costs, it's adaptive, all this stuff's happening? What's going on? The workloads are driving it. What should people be doing? So you're absolutely right that in the public cloud and AWS and Azure and those kind of clouds, the perimeter has effectively disappeared. I mean, sometimes you do have a perimeter when you have the VPC. But then we have a ton of these customers who are designing for the cloud and they're setting up auto-scaling environments. And when you have an auto-scaling environment, you don't really have a perimeter. So the security is shifting from the perimeter to the host, right? So now, typically people used to rely on a network IPS, a network firewall at the perimeter. And in a traditional data center, nobody invested much in server security, right? The security was at the perimeter. But now once you go to AWS, the focus is back on each one of the servers itself rather than the perimeter. So what you need is antivirus or firewall and IPS and encryption solutions all in your host. And that way you get the most out of your cloud usage. So is this at the instance? Yes, security right at your windows and Linux EC2 instances. So the applications are driving. We've heard a couple of things that got my attention. You mentioned McAfee gets me thinking about, okay, application security. We were talking about perimeters in the network earlier. You got VDI on stage mentioned. The third of the cost of the VDI, I think what is Jassy said, implying WorkSpaces is doing pretty well, right? So okay, so do I secure the app? And so what is the strategy?  So I think in the WorkSpaces context, which is desktop as a service, I think the security model remains similar to, you know, securing your PC that you have in front of you. So, you know, it is like securing any other desktop. But when you're talking about your server environment, your virtual servers, you know, the focus is more at the infrastructure security level.  But within the OS, you know, the customer owns the security, right? The data and, you know, the security responsibility of within the server, the customer has to take ownership of that. And that's why you see a ton of security vendors out here, providing solutions for that.  But there's no one general purpose security solution anymore because we heard from Splunk. People are using data to be adaptive and flexible to have security policies based upon the workloads. That's right. And then now you've got network policy in me, Mark. And storage, we were talking about earlier, what's your take on all of this?  Oh, security is really interesting. You know, in the storage space, people seldom do it because the performance hit, right? So you just assume that you just hope and pray that somebody else somewhere is doing it because the storage, you start to see, you start to see security coming in now with dataware storage. You listen to Paula Lawn from Data Gravity Talk, you know, they talk about the things that they can do with that are more audit oriented. Who's accessing data and when. But that's sort of kind of like, you know, what's the difference between what you're doing and cloud trail, right? So I guess, Mike, I'm going to answer your question by turning it back over to the room and say, look at the view for some help. Yeah, I am looking for help. The security always makes me look for help. So how do you play with or alongside or do you use cloud trail and what you're doing or? Sure. Yeah, cloud trail is a great security framework that AWS offers. But you know, there needs to be an analytics layer which consumes the information from cloud trail. And identifies security incidents or threats which, you know, are at a macro level, right? So we have a product called McAfee ESM, Enterprise Security Manager. It is a SIM solution. It consumes log information from, you know, the endpoint from network devices and a lot of security events. And that consumes the cloud trail feed as well, right? And now you have information from so many different directions and you correlate all of that and you're able to identify macro security trends, right? Because if you're just looking at cloud trail alone out of context from the other events, you will not be able to identify those macro trends. So how close to real time can somebody be aware that there may be a breach going on? Or how, I mean, that's the idea, right? Is to identify a breach as soon as possible. Realistically, what can you do? But how soon can you identify something? It's a very good question. So, you know, there's been an emergence of a new category called ETDR. It stands for End Point Threat Detection and Response. And I'd seen the past 12 months or so, this category's become very popular, where, you know, everyone assumes that you've already been breached, right? Now that you've been breached, how do you identify where your breach is? How do you see where it's been spread? And how do you remediate all of that, right?  Active Response. That's great. So the idea of Active Response is, you know, we'll be able to query all your systems instantaneously, discover value of breaches, and take action. So where's this information coming from? Is it coming from servers, storage, networks? It is coming from each one of the servers, yeah. Okay. The EC2 instances. Okay. So on the security thing I said earlier, we don't need any help with security because it's so broken. There's no help anyone could have. That is what you said. You said it was, it was so effed up. Effed up, I mean, that's a word. So we are hearing security being broken everywhere and you know, the guys at Illumio, which is a startup in our area, are taking a different attack. There's all kinds of different philosophies, but bottom line is the perimeter kind of models dead. That's the general security practice. So now the philosophies are changing. So I want to get your take on RSA coming up. What you think is going to be the top themes there because this is the big conversation because the hacking is here. The White House just got recently hacked. I mean, this is a serious issue right now.  And it's being re-architected in real time. So no one really has that blueprint yet. There's a variety of approaches. I want to get your take. What you think needs to be done. Thoughts, ideas, vision. And then what's going to happen at RSA this year? So John, I mean, I agree with you that security is kind of broken. And the reason is, it's mostly point solutions. Paloalto provides great network security. Symantec provides great endpoint security. Splunk provides great analytics. But then now you're working with three different vendors which are not necessarily connected with each other. So in McAfee, we believe in the security connected strategy where we try to connect it. That's right. And we actually have a technology called DXL Data exchange layer where the different pieces of security they work with each other. So the old adage goes one plus one equals three. That's the value proposition that we keep pushing. So, and like I was telling Mark as well, there is this new category of solutions called threat detection and response is, yeah, you're going to get breached anyways. Now that you got breached, how do you find what your damage is and how do you fix it?  And what about RSA? What's the bloodbath going to look like at RSA?  Are users a revolt? And certainly what's going to happen at RSA in your opinion? You know what? I think the industry is kind of matured is what I'm seeing. It's not like them fighting against each other. So in fact, even Obama's created this security telco body and a lot of the top security vendors are part of the board. So I think Palo Alto Networks, CEO is the chairman and Intel's president, Brenia James, she's the vice chairman and the different security vendors are coming together and they are actually working as an alliance, right?  You work well with each other's solutions.  So I would guess that they're, that Intel is working on integrating security technology and with the chips that they're building. Are there things that you can talk about that are going on there? I can talk about a bit. So not the future stuff, but stuff that is public information. So, you know, Intel's AS&I has been out there for a long time, which makes encryption like pretty, you know, native speed encryption, right? So that's been a, you know, promising chip feature which has helped the security industry. And then there's been the TXT and TPM technology, which helps measure the trust and the attestation involved in your stack once it boots up because your infrastructure stack includes the physical, you know, chip, the hypervisor, and then the guest operating system. There's so many layers in the infrastructure and you need to measure whether any one of them have been tampered, right? So Intel has great technology for that. And then the next technology which Intel has publicized is something called SGX. It stands for software guard extensions and it's a secure enclave. And, you know, that's a place in the chip where you can store secure information, do secure operations. And we think it will be a game changer for, you know, cloud security. All right, well, we appreciate you coming on theCUBE. We're getting the hook here, getting towards the end of the day. Thanks so much for joining us on theCUBE and sharing your insight. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much. It's my pleasure. Thank you. Okay, we are live here in San Francisco. This is theCUBE. John Furrier with Mark Farley. We'll be back after this short break with our next guest.


This video will talk about solving systems of equations applications. Simple interest. So it's the amount invested multiplied by the interest rate. This is simple interest, as simple as it gets. And remember your rate is going to be as a decimal. So for example, we have a thousand dollars invested at six and a half percent. It would be a thousand dollars and if we take the six and a half percent remember you move the decimal two places. So it would be .065 and A would be when I multiply 65. So the amount of interest earned on a thousand dollars at six and a half percent for one year is going to be 65. There should probably be a T in here for time, how long it's going to be, but we're just going to use one year. So how much is being invested in this problem? Let's see. Ian is retiring and has 225,000 to invest in two accounts. So he's investing 225,000. Would like to earn $7,900 and he's going to do that, an account paying three percent and one and doing four percent and those are simple interest.  Well, he's investing the 225,000. Assigned a variable so the amounts invested in each, we're going to say that he has x at three percent and we're going to say that he has y at four percent. Using the two variables that represents the total amount invested. Remember x is an amount and y is an amount. So this is really just going to be x plus y is equal to the 225,000. So let's go on. How much did he need to earn? If you go back and look at the problem, it said that he had $7,900 that he wanted to earn. So how would you represent the amount of interest Ian makes? On the first variables invested amount, he had x dollars at three percent. We can call that 0.03x. And for the second amount, he had y dollars that he was investing at four percent. So we're going to call that 1.04y. So to write the equation using the two amounts that he earns for each, we're going to have 0.03x plus 0.04y. This is an interest, this is an interest, $7,900 is an interest. So interest is equal to interest plus interest. All right. So we want to solve the system. And here's our two equations that we found. Where x is the amount at three percent, and y is the amount at four percent. When you look at the system, this one looks like it would be very nice to use substitution either solving for x or solving for y. I'm just going to solve for x. I'm going to say x is equal to 225,000 minus the y. And then I'm going to substitute that in for the x in the bottom equation. So I have 7,900 is equal to 0.03 times my x, which is 225,000 minus y, and then plus the 0.04y. 7,900 then is equal to when I distribute here, I get 6,750. When I distribute here, I get minus 0.03y, and then plus 0.04y. 7,900 is equal to the 6,750 plus 0.01y when I combine my light terms. Subtracting the 6,750, I'm going to have 1150, 1,150 is equal to 0.01y. Y is going to be equal to 115,000 dollars. That's the y. We have to find the x. But if I take this y value and plug it in here for this y, then I'm going to be able to find x. X is equal to 225,000 minus my 115,000. So x is equal to 110,000 dollars at 3%, and 115,000 is at 4%.


What is up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreaks.com. We just sold out a R&B for the Panthers and Ravens in 2023 in Packable Football. And again guys, three spots being given away guys. And like I said, you'll get a piece of those teams in this three box case there. Now of course, if any hits pop out for these teams, they'll be distributed via the serial number. So everybody gets a random number assigned to them. From zero through nine, there's your examples there. Remember, any null redemptions go automatically to spot zero. Any non-numbered cards will be randomized back to the group. And like I said, we'll randomize the names first, give away those three spots, top three names. Top three spots get free spots and then we'll paste you in and then we'll randomize the names and the numbers. All right, here we go, dice roll. Five out of six, 11 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Boom, 11, six out of five, or five out of six, 11. Top three names, Sportport, AA Ron and Robert Ronkel. There you go, boom. All right, now we're gonna go 11 times down the names and numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. 11 times, 11, 11. Ronkel down to Sportport and 11 here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Eight down to six. All right, 11 times, 11 times. Robert with eight and two, Sportport with nine, AA Ron with zero, Glossier with one, Jeremy with five, AA Ron with three, Sportport with four, seven, and six. There you go, guys. So again, coming up next now in a separate video is gonna be the group break itself. Good luck, everybody. We'll pull some nice hits for you, guys.


Ukraine managed to make 17,000 Russian soldiers desert. Thanks to its information operations, Ukraine managed to make 17,000 Russian soldiers desert without firing a single shot, according to the head of the US Army Special Operations Command, Jonathan Braga. News agency Business Insider notes, rapid progress in communication technologies and the use of media and social networks have made it easier to access information. This allowed Ukraine to promote its interests to a broad audience and undermine the positions of its competitors. According to the American commander, Ukraine employed propaganda methods that convinced thousands of Russians to abandon their positions. Messaging has played a huge role just in the tactical and operational sense in Ukraine. We've supported our Ukrainian partners there. You've had 17,000 Russians desert. That's 17,000 soldiers you didn't have to blow up on the battlefield or destroy. That has weakened the defensive mechanisms, Braga said. Using social media, military and intelligence services can gather detailed information about the enemy, their equipment and personnel. This data is used for attacks and undermining morale. The article adds that the Kremlin is trying to counter the consequences of Ukrainian psychological operations. This includes punishments, including executing soldiers. American military personnel against the backdrop of a potential confrontation with China or Russia called for increased investment in information operations so they could shape the information battlefield before, during and after military actions.


What's going on everyone Sam here with latent sports guards? We are doing 2021 22 penini one-on-one Ten box full case break number 42 pick your team style gonna read off the names and teams Andre K Hawks Bob H Pelicans Chang S Sons Chun YW magic Harper B Mavs Lakers Grizzlies hang why heat Jason L Nick's Jefferson S Spurs Josh L Blazers Kenny T with the Celtics and Sixers Chris L Wizards Lance S Raptors Lee M Hornets Long J Clippers Mark a calves Matthew X Bucks Michael T bulls Peyton P with the Kings Ronald R Timberwolves Rory W Rockets Pistons Ryan C Warriors Ryan L nets Tommy L jazz Virgilio M with the thunder Y Sue L with the nuggets and you show L with the Pacers. Good luck here everybody Is that you card new with the spurs? Let's hope that'd be awesome. Stop. We've got going to the Blazers. That's gonna be a Greg Brown numbered 72 out of 99 on the base that is not magged correctly I will send you an empty box and wrapper. I apologize there Blazers. You could see it's way off on the right side So we'll send you an empty box and wrapper Yeah, like the mags not even fully closed. Sorry about that Josh. Yeah, my bad man You'll get this this wrapper and then this box Then we've got a Zire Williams rookie Jersey Auto to 99 going to the Grizzlies congrats Grizzlies No Nick. That's awful All right box to sorry about that again Josh I'm gonna pull you that and pretty Simon's timeless moments now for that One of one We've got Nice for the Rockets 11 out of 15 a key in the dream Nice one there for the Rockets. That's true. Thank you JB. Nice. I keep and we've got redemption Dual Jersey autograph purple number 19 Rudy go bear. There you go. You talk congrats on that one jazz Nice Rudy go bear Very cool. That's gonna be awesome game. You stop too. Nice Congrats on the Rudy. We've got RJ Barrett for the Knicks four out of 30 Nice one there and why and then followed by a timeless No way infrany Simon boo-hoo 92 out of 99 No way Josh Congrats man Dude, that's awesome. Oh, this is so cool too He's got the T-Mac Jersey on and all in the dunk contest Heck yeah, congrats, man That's so sick Congrats Dude, so alright, so this will go with the Blazers right here Because this was not magged correctly. That's Greg Brown and Josh was in chat who has the Blazers Oh my god, we got to pull you the infrany Simon's timeless moments now. No way. Yep. There it is. It's awesome That's so sick. Congrats Josh. That's awesome, man. And then This is a jazz the redemption Rudy go bear You got it. No problem Josh. No, no way dude. That's wild Right, we've got Keldon Johnson to 99 for the Spurs we've got for the Thunder Josh Giddy to 99 giddy up, baby Absolutely 82 out of 99 nice one there Really that sucks one Congrats on that one there Thunder. I don't know Randy to be honest probably relatively soon What was his injury again, was it me we've got Christophe's for Zingis that's going to the Wizards 13 out of 25. I'll ankle. That's what it was Nice one there And then we've got another timeless Oh Not pulled this one yet. Go in a Harper B Let's go 36 out of 49 Dude, what a picture they use for that one too God, that's so awesome. Heck. Yeah, congrats Harper That's awesome, dude So awesome Hey, what's up, Jonathan? meant to say hi, but Sean walked in I had to explain that whole story to us. Stop Jonathan. Thanks for jumping in on that man That's gonna be fun dude.  We've got a little mellow to 99 100% Scott Green rookie Jersey Auto Kings Davion Mitchell to 99 nice one there Using those 10% codes like a madman there you go Oh Nah, hi, he's going to the clipper sneaker spotlight Kawaii Leonard There you go, LA Long J. Congrats, buddy 38 out of 99 on the Kawaii Who they play it? And we've got rookie for the Sixers Charles Bassie 67 out of 99 nice one there. Hope they pulverize them Hey No, absolutely not There's Jeremiah Robinson Earl to 99 For the Thunder and then Thunder again Trayman this time two out of 99 Thunder box You got it. No problem long Summer Homes versus T-Law in person last Sunday. That's awesome. That's so cool. That's awesome Jonathan. I'm jealous Yeah Same there's still bias Harris three out of 15 for the Sixers on the red Got rookie for the Kings again Davion Mitchell two out of ten this time nice one there Congrats on that John when you catch up.  I think you're a little behind John box guys Okay, yeah, we're Jalen Browns in 99 Celtics Timberwolves that's gonna be Jamal Crawford four out of 35 J crossover Nice one there. There you go Max. All right, that'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the field Next up another case of one-on-one