I'm Shirley Mark and I work at the Tisch College of Civic Life. I'm pleased to be your emcee for tonight. Our first speaker who will welcome everyone is Nadine Arbri. Provost Arbri is Tufts Provost and Senior Vice President. And she is a member of President Monaco's senior leadership team. Along with her many other responsibilities overlooking Tufts 8 schools and a number of interdisciplinary centers, the Office of the Chief Diversity Officers of Tufts are integral members of the Office of the Provost. Prior to Tufts, Dr. Arbri was Dean of the College of Engineering at Northeastern University for seven years. Before Northeastern, Dr. Arbri was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Arbri is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics to name just a few. Welcome Provost. Thank you so much, Charlie, for this very humbling introduction. So good afternoon and welcome everybody. Thank you so much for joining us for today's Tufts table as we continue to work together on making our institution Tufts a more inclusive, just and equitable place. As part of bridging differences Tufts table is our signature program that promotes dialogue across divergent perspectives among faculty, students and staff across the university. The goal of such discussions is to advance understanding and communication through effective programming and to enable all members of the Tufts community to experience a sense of belonging. Today's Tufts table is the second part of a series of two events related to the important work on anti racism taking place across our institution, and focus on a topic that is at this time more pertinent than ever.  This event is entitled anti Asian hate and systematic and systemic racism, sorry, breaking the cycle sponsored jointly by the Office of the Provost, and the bridging differences initiative. I would like to thank Aaron Parano, director of the Tufts Asian American Center will give introductory remarks, and all involved in the organization of this event, particularly our associate provost and chief diversity offices. Rob Mack, and Joe Saki. It is now my pleasure to introduce Joyce, who will say a few words to you. Thank you again. Thank you for the short introduction for Dr. Saki. Dr. Joyce Saki is associate provost and chief diversity officer for Tufts Health Sciences schools, and she heads the newly formed bias education and resource team for the same campuses. At the university's academic and provost councils, she works closely with leadership to fulfill the goals for diversity and inclusion among the schools and centers on the Boston and Grafton campuses. In the School of Medicine, Dr. Saki is the Dr. Jane Murphy, go and Professor and Dean for multicultural affairs and global health. She co chairs the bridging differences initiative. Welcome Dr. Saki. Thank you so much Shirley, and really appreciate that warm introduction.  I'm delighted to welcome you to Tufts table and as you heard from Provost Albury, Tufts table is one of our signature events as part of the provost office and also bridging differences. I might just share a couple of words about how we've previously done Tufts table just to pick your interest and hopefully give you a taste of what we should all be looking forward to. So Tufts table the reason is called Tufts table was intended to be an occasion for breaking bread and engaging in difficult conversations it always goes a little easier when there's food around when you're discussing difficult topics. We have previously done several Tufts table events, co sponsored by various schools and units over dinner. And so, fortunately tonight you're we're not going to be able to serve you dinner but we do hope that you have some dinner prepared after this. And the goal as you heard from Provost Albury is for us to really begin to engage in perspectives that are different from our perspective, and to learn from one another. And so this topic for today is absolutely fitting and appropriate, not only in terms of what Tufts table is about or what bridging differences about and and also really fits into anti racism initiative. So it gives me great delight as many of you who attended last week's presentation from Erica Lee, she really set a stage for us to engage in this conversation so I hope that many of you were there last week. And I'm looking forward to really delving more deeply into some of the concepts that she raised last time. So thank you again for coming in and I appreciate the opportunity to speak. I'll turn things back over to Shirley. Thank you. Thank you so much for your words. Next, I would like to introduce Aaron Pirano. Aaron is the director of the Asian American Center, which is one of six identity centers within the division of student diversity and inclusion. A graduate of Boston College where he earned both his bachelor's degree and a master's degree in higher education administration. Aaron has spent his career supporting Asian American students and advocating for the community. He is currently a doctoral student studying higher education. Welcome Aaron. Thank you Shirley. And thank you to Provost Aubrey the bridges bridging differences planning team and everyone attendance. Last week, Dr. Eric Lee shared with us a brief history connecting what continues to happen in the country Asian Americans to a history of violence linked to white supremacy capitalism and colonialism to name a few structures. While she was speaking, you know, the verdict for the Derek Chauvin trial is also waiting to be announced. Connecting the issues now and broader movements for solidarity, like linking the work between the CDO's office and what's been happening for the division for student diversity and inclusion is important. Well, yes, some of the statistics that were, you know, mentioned the email for the event, like how the impacts of violence have increased in the Asian American community statistics also show that this is still not to the same history that impacts that the black American community faces. This is not to put trauma into a competition, but instead implicate the correct structures that place black and brown bodies at risk. Well, yes, all oppression is connected. Our liberation is also connected as well. And that separate violence happening in the Asian American community from the violence that's happening in black communities in the LGBT community or the Latinx and other marginalized communities. This is a great report by Janelle Long and Karthik Ramakrishnan from AAPI data. Did a report on this, looking at statistics of how violence has impacted communities of color since the start of the pandemic and, you know, what are the important takeaways from, you know, what's being reported. Yes, it is important to recognize the violence that's happening to communities, especially to our elders. It is also important to recognize that this violence has been ongoing, and it's only now that there's been attention paid to this. You know, connecting this to what's happening on our campus, it's important to emphasize that most anti-racist practices that this university has implemented has not considered Asian and Asian American students, faculty and staff. There have been violent events in Atlanta where eight lives were taken, six being Asian American women, to the violence in Indianapolis where Sikh Americans were targeted to on our own campus this week, where students were being targeted for their race. The university's response has been to ask those who look like the victims to reach out to be the ones that teach you how to remedy the situation. We're facing the solutions of remedying racism on those who are experiencing its impacts. The university and higher education generally operates under a scarcity model of equity, that there's only enough resources around to remedy certain issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Where we saw that this year that resources can be mobilized to solve issues such as they arise, like a global pandemic. Critical race theory reminds us that racism is persistent and permanent, and that our actions to dismantle these racist structures must also be as persistent and permanent. Reliance on models like the model minority myth, how Asian Americans have been de-racialized and used as a racial wedge in politicking have impacted the community in a way that renders the Asian and Asian American community invisible and issues of equity and inclusion. Even on the understanding of who is Asian kind of emphasizes this as well. Oftentimes, the face of Asian America is one that focuses on East Asian ethno hegemony. Violence has been happening in our communities, but why is it only now that folks are choosing to pay attention? I think it's important to say what we mean and what we say when we're saying that there is violence in our communities. Often the phrase of late has been to stop AAPI hate when community leaders in our Pacific Islander communities have been important to emphasize that this is not an issue that is broadly impacting Pacific Islander communities. That this is an issue that is broadly impacting mostly Asian American communities. And that certain aspects in certain communities within the Asian American umbrella have been consistently facing violence like our South Asian community has been since 9-11. It must be in systemic and state of, I mean, sorry, if the university is committed to stopping AAPI hate and AAPI violence, then this needs to be looked at beyond the interpersonal acts. It is also be looked at in systemic and state sponsored acts as well. How are we responding to what is happening in our AAPI undocumented communities? How are we stopping the participation in our own erasure of Boston Chinatown? Yes, we must stop Asian hate, but to use a phrase that absolves the white supremacist structures without interrogating this hate will lead us to not break the cycle if that's what we're looking to do. If that's why we're all here at this tough table is to break the cycle of hate. What work needs to be done now is that there needs to be a greater emphasis on ethnic studies, including Asian American studies, but not only for the people that would more directly benefit from those classes, but everyone. I think everyone here has it in the capacity to involve themselves in local politics and their school boards to demand that ethnic studies be emphasized in K-12 curriculum. We need to disaggregate our own data on our campuses to see who our Asian American students are and what ways can we serve them better, knowing that there are educational disparities amongst Southeast Asian, South Asian, East Asian, and Pacific Islander communities. We need to look at the demands from students. We need to be a student-centered university that centers those needs of our community. But also look at where the work is already being done. Look at the work like the Tufts Action Group, which has been doing amazing work to really transform this university into truly being an anti-racist institution. But lastly, you know, I'm going to say this selfishly, invest in the work that we're doing. The colleagues that I have in the Division for Student Diversity and Inclusion are working and have been working to not look at just Band-Aid solutions, but solutions for systemic problems. So if we're all committed to doing this work, we can't just attend this one event and event last week and consider ourselves absolved. We need to continue to do this work and have a commitment to not only solving anti-Asian racism, but solving issues of racism across the board. And with that, I would like to make sure that the students have time to really emphasize their own experiences and, you know, things that we all can do to serve them better. Thanks. Thank you so much, Erin, for your wise and insightful words. I want to introduce the two students who will speak next. Matthew Kim is a senior in the School of Arts and Sciences, studying computer science. He's the media chair for the Korean Students Association, and his interests include Asian representation in media and telling stories through music and film. June Park is a first generation immigrant student from South Korea with a passion for social justice and equity in healthcare access and quality. He is a senior in the School of Arts and Sciences, studying community health and sociology, and he will be pursuing a master's degree in public health at the Yale School of Public Health this coming fall. June is also treasurer for the Tufts Korean Students Association. Welcome, Matthew and June. Thank you for that introduction. So, as Erin said, we're here to talk about our perspectives as Asian students, as well as represent the perspectives of some of our peers. First, we want to address the assumption that Asian students at Tufts don't face any type of serious racism. And we'd like to start by bringing awareness to two incidents that happened just this past week to some of our friends. On Sunday, a group of Asian students was walking on Professor's Row, when a truck filled with white males pulled up and began threatening them with derogatory and racist remarks, some of which are listed here.  So these incidents have been reported and we're still waiting to hear more information about whether the perpetrators are part of the Tufts community or not. But we're also aware of several other incidents that happened this past year, both on the SMFA campus and Tufts campus with more that we're probably unaware of. I also want to repeat and emphasize that this is, again, nothing new this there's a long history of racism against the Asians at Tufts that reflects the even longer history of racism against Asians in the rest of the country. In 1982, the Zeta sigh fraternity crowded around the Asian house chanting derogatory remarks and insults such as the gooks. In April 2009, a freshman started a fight and assaulted several members of the Tufts Korean Student Association, as they were practicing for a cultural show. As you can see the same type of language has been used over the past 30 years to threaten Asian students at Tufts. And these are just two examples not including instance that reported or micro aggressions in between. Oh, I don't know what happened one second. So, one second. So, I'll just have to do without the PowerPoint screen but between March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021, there has been a total of 3795 incidents that were reported to stop API hate which is a nationwide organization that is devoted to making sure that the rising trends of Asian American violence and xenophobia and hatred against Asian Americans are being publicized and made aware to general public. So it shows, and it proves Aaron's point or made earlier that this is an ongoing trend is it hasn't just begun with the Atlanta shootings or the massacre at Indianapolis it has been ongoing for years and years. And so we'd like to talk more about Tufts response to these hate crimes from the perspective of the students. In December 4 2020. Tufts hosted an event called voices from Chinatown, which was an event planned by Aaron along with the other directors of diversity and inclusion health science campuses, and the International Center and we appreciate your, your efforts in creating that event. But by February we had yet to see a statement from Tufts condemning the violence. And overall it really just felt like not enough. All the API culture clubs felt like the university really wasn't doing anything to work against or at least condemn the the existence of hate crimes against API on campus and beyond. Whereas we saw where other universities pledge concrete action and we're quick to condemn these these threats. So we as the API culture clubs issued a statement to be administration demanding action and a statement from the university. President Monaco replied a week later, saying that they plan to take an action oriented response which mainly focused on an event that the office of the I would plan which is this event, but there didn't seem to be a promise of him making a statement. So after meeting with Aaron Emily and Andy we learned that for sure a statement wouldn't be coming from the office of the president, which was, you know, disappointing for us to hear. But we as all the culture clubs decided to move forward with other actions on our own, such as fundraisers and speaker events. Then finally, on March 18 after the Atlanta massacre President Monaco decided to send us the announcement to the entire school. The question remains, why did it take so long for President Monaco and other members of the university administration to condemn violence and xenophobia against API. First, we would like to acknowledge and thank DOSA DNI and the Asian American Center for issuing a statement condemning these violence and xenophobia. But we have to recognize that this method that this letter was only targeted towards undergraduate students, faculty, staff and parents, not to the general tops community. We hoped that a letter from President Monaco from the Office of President would be delivered to the entire top community Grafton met for Somerville Fenway and Boston. So that the entire top community knows how dedicated the university is towards this violence that they are willing to condemn these violence and work towards resolving it in our community.  Matt and I admit the, these violences against Asian Americans, it wasn't, it wasn't widely recognized until very recently. It wasn't on CNN, it wasn't on MSNBC, it wasn't on the New York Times, but that doesn't relieve the University of its responsibility to its Asian American students and other students of color. So it's the university cherry picking which issues to stand by, is it only standing by issues that are public and will recognize by the American public. So in other words, is this all for a show, or are we all actually dedicated towards the commitment to be an anti racist institution. And on a more practical matter, Matt and I as representatives of a culture club on campus, we have this question of who do we contact when we experience a hate crime on campus. According to Aaron current protocol is to call to PD, or to submit an anonymous complaint to ethics point which at that point will be delivered to DOSA and OEO. We have to think about these option reporting options. We have to be concerned about under reporting. We have to recognize that there are some students were privileged enough to know that when they call to PD that they will be protected by the police that they will not experience police brutality or any incidents that we hope that will not have to any students or faculty or staff members. There are students on campus, there are faculty members or staff, there are people in our community who do not want to call the police who fear calling the police. We say the, the only options to report hate crimes on campus is to call to PD. Are we concerned about under reporting. And on another note, Matt and I have received. Incidences of hate crime through our social media through messages from students. We are not sure if they have reported them to the university administration in the first place, which brings up another important question. Are students aware of who to call, of who to contact when they experience a hate crime on campus. Is there even a resource that they can centralize resource that they could contact with everything so decentralized at this point. What are the statistics, how many hate crimes have happened on campus this year, our university administrators aware of the numbers. I remember that the lack of transparency and the lack of knowledge in the number of these bias incidents undermines the issue that's happening at our community. It doesn't allow us to realize the importance of how many of how frequent these incidents are happening and remember, last week there were two incidents to target towards Asian American students. I want to echo what Aaron said. One, we really just can't focus on just one event and call it quits because there's so much other work to be done. And two, we can't really just focus on hate crimes are interpersonal issues. While ignoring the largest systemic issues that affect not only us but other other communities of color and other communities that are underrepresented. So if you truly want to support Asian students at Tufts. Discussions like these will only go so far if they don't need to actual change, we reached out to some of our peers and these are just some of the responses on how to help Asian students. One example was great diversity and required first year classes, students felt like in white dominated classes it was hard to speak up as minorities, as other students would be very little room for their opinions. And that would be awareness of micro aggressions where students have to face the load of, you know, defending an entire people from drug or comments, just a few examples that we've heard our, our comments like if the US had not intervened in South Korea, we would have ended up starving like North Koreans, and K pop men are gross for wearing makeup. Like, what do you say to that. It's, it's, it's wild. That students and faculty really shouldn't be imposing on Asian students their opinions on how we should process trauma. Finally, and definitely most importantly, possibly most importantly is easier access to resources. This is something that affects all vulnerable groups first gen and international students, especially but students that we heard from could rarely find this information on Tufts websites and constantly had to send emails to find out more. Through multiple ways, like Aaron said, said, funding through, you know, the Asian American Center and student groups as well as directly from other university offices is definitely a great place to start. And, you know, these are comments that we've heard from our students in one day so I hope that as we move forward students and the administration can work together to make these changes happen in an ongoing dialogue. And on a final note, Matt and I are graduating this year so our time on campus is limited. But that doesn't mean that our efforts to encourage to urge Tufts to be an anti racist institution and to protect defend all students of color is going to end. As soon to be alumni we look forward to hearing more about the university's continued commitments as an anti racist institution. We look forward to hearing from our students are faculty members are and staff members to hear about what Tufts is helps has been doing to be more anti racist and to protect defend and advocate for Asian American students for LGBTQ students and other students of color. And with that, we would like to thank everyone for giving us the opportunity to talk today and we look forward to engaging in conversation today and beyond. Thank you. Thank you, Matthew and June for sharing your perspectives and other students perspectives and congratulations on your upcoming graduation. Next, everyone is going to go into small group breakout groups. Everyone's going to be assigned, and you'll be in your breakout group that is will be facilitated until 530pm so there's about half an hour. And when we reconvene associate provost and chief diversity officer Rob Mack will facilitate the report backs. Thank you. Wait for your assignment. All right, welcome back. Welcome back everyone. I hope that you had an excellent discussion with your groups and I know it's hard to join these group larger discussions and I get to hear from everyone. But oftentimes the smaller groups really allow to hear more voices and have more opportunity for people to engage so we hope that there was a good experience and the opportunities to learn from one another was present. So we're going to do a what we're going to call lightning round of report backs, because we had about 10 groups, and we want to definitely hear the highlights from each group. And we're going to call on, I'm going to call upon the facilitators to do a quick report back on their highlights groups and we will, you know, bring this to a close so we're going to start with hope Freeman. I know you were going to call me first. So my name is so Freeman you she heard hers for my pronouns. Our group had a really great discussion just around how talking about how a lot of these kind of hate like folks have been a lot more brazen during this time around like hate and attacks and things, and how that's definitely intensified a lot around this time and then just having political or public figures exacerbating it has been really challenging. And one of the things that we talked about was the role of the model minority myth and what it how it plays. And some of the folks in the group says it plays a lot into hate crimes, especially when thinking about how Asian Americans are API folks are seen as meek or seen as quiet, and the quiet ones won't resist that's a direct quote from someone in the group. And as a result, folks will definitely be a lot more or try to do a lot more harm. Also talked about the other end around like folks being really smart, really successful and as a result people don't need like mentorship, or folks are like well what are you complaining about because you're smart you get more money you do all of these things. And so talking about how that's really harmful, especially when we're thinking about how folks are just interacting in general. A lot of things we also talked about was someone in our group brought up around faculty evaluation so faculty finding ways to intervene or think about how they can intervene when these things happen and bringing it up more in conversation. We talked about there being way more resources if we're thinking about education for Asian American and Asian studies, as well as like degree studies, so this idea that it builds up to something instead of it just being like an add on, and also talk about how we develop in curiosity when students come into Tufts around how I can take these classes or have a different major, or even get a better framing of Tufts anti racist approaches. I think that was it. We had a really good conversation so I wanted to thank my group for that. Thank you so much for the lighting round otherwise I would ask folks if they want to add but I appreciate that thank you so much hope. Next we'll call on Steve. Yes, thank you Rob. In the spirit of the lightning round. I will say that in an effort to center student voices we began with the students in our group. We picked up on the experiences that Matthew June and Aaron spoke to that language is important when the leadership at the head of the nation uses very lent hate speech, and communicates a message to the public that this is really a huge part of the problem that too bad, we don't have leadership where leaders are able to take responsibility for their own actions and support others. It was also observed that this sort of gathering is preaching to the choir, and the people who make the kinds of comments that Matthew and June spoke about are not on the call. That being said, I also want to add that in the spirit of a lightning round. I was so impressed with the genuineness and authenticity and emotional aliveness of the members of my group and what they had to say. We didn't get past the first question. And the whole issue of opening up these spaces and the time urgency that we all live with is such a quandary. We don't have a solution, but we could have spoken for hours on this. The simplicity, the feeling the immediacy is there. These issues are so central to the well being in life of our community. I just hope we can find other ways to continue to deepen this process. Thank you. That's great. Thank you, Steve and appreciate those notes. Next Adriana. Hi everyone. I'm Adriana Black. I use the she series. I really want to give a huge shout out to my group everyone present spoke and shared something which I value so much. And we talked a lot about kind of, I think we talked a lot about history we talked a lot about present and we talked a lot about the future. I think that centering on the history. One of the things that we discussed is the fact that history just continues to repeat itself, and giving a huge shout out to Eric Ali who discussed the historical perspective of racism and hate and the API community, and how we need to know that and realize that so much of that is still alive and well today, which brings us to the present, where we talked about really being able to be able to do things as a community we need to build that community. And we know that the Tufts Health Sciences campus is located in Boston, and the fact that that is in Chinatown, and being able to work with communities in Chinatown to be able to not assume, but to ask what it is that they need, and how we can support one another. And then really looking towards the future, we discussed the reality of various systems, as well as interpersonal relationships that are at play that perpetuate the systems of oppression and this hatred and this white supremacy culture, and that we really need to in the future to ensure that we're focusing on all various aspects of oppression to be able to unite and move against the common foe, and ensure that that's not something that that we're not dividing ourselves and that we're really building coalitions together. Thank you. Thanks so much Adriana. Next, Marin.  And there's a lot of frustration around that. And so we talked a little bit about sort of where that comes from, whether that be not perceiving Asian and Asian American members of our communities as, you know, racialized. It has to do with just a number of different issues. But these issues go unaddressed and one of the bigger concerns that was raised during our discussion was really talking about how do we address these, you know, these instances of hate and hate crimes at Tufts. There needs to be greater education across the board. For faculty, staff and students on things like the model minority myth on things like anti Asian racism, frequency, and, you know, the presence of it on college campuses. Schools have to a few schools in our group, we have some wonderful folks from the dental and veterinary school who shared with us that they're doing some programming with Asian American and Asian students to try to mitigate some of the impact of this on their, you know, day to day studies. But really there needs to be a major cultural shift to share stories about a PI people, ones that break down stereotypes, ones that create sort of, you know, opportunities to challenge tropes. And then there really need to be more concerted efforts to assist students on campus before an event happens and to be proactive, as well as, you know, provide education in terms of events like these to to ensure that the university is developing collectively a base level of knowledge that's needed in order to engage effectively with their peers. That's all. That was a lot. Thank you, Mary. Let's go to Kelly. Hi, I'm Kelly a burn. And thank you to my group as well we had great discussion. I think we started with just the general surprise and and shock at what goes on at the university that we may not be aware of. And the fact that everyone being remote, we don't, we feel even maybe more disconnected to events that are going on. We also talked a lot about, you know, the concern for students and how to support best support our students, removing those obstacles that, you know, they need to feel safe and to move forward. And we also talked about it, just that whole theme of what actions, can we, can we take, and you know, maybe feeling like we haven't, you know, necessarily taken enough action in the past. And what resources can we provide when, you know, we're faced with people or people in our groups our schools, our teams that are struggling with things. Who should we go to. And it's also about the model minority and that this, this is still happening, even to our younger generations, coming out of public school or schools, high schools, elementary schools. There's this, even though this generation was raised with more inclusive education, it's still existing. We talked a little bit about how to take action when you witness some of these things happening, but how that can also be difficult and especially difficult for the particular group that is targeted if you will.  And, you know, when, when to speak up and when not to and what factors influence that. I think there's a little bit about art in how art plays into this as well. So using art for the good to educate to showcase, and then also how do you deal with, you know, potential issues and art that can be triggering. But yeah, could potentially start good discussion. So, I think I think I summed up. Oh, and that we're lucky to be at a university at least that is taking time to address this as well. Next Monday. Yeah. So I will try to keep it brief. But we spent a lot of our time in our group talking about how the model minority myth really manifests throughout the institution right so not just as people may often first think in a classroom space or in with students but also as it reverberates through faculty and in the ways that they feel like they can and cannot show up for each other we spent a lot of time also talking about, you know, how, how to transition to community oriented political action, right and also creating coalitions across different identity groups to to sort of combat white supremacy right overall and recognizing that that's where we really need to be focusing attention. And, and then finally we did take a little time at the end just to think about to focus on the joy right. We had a person sort of say that in our group that said that it often feels like you're sort of in a black hole with the power inundated with all of these really difficult pieces and to also think about the places of connection that people have been able to make in community and on campus and hold that in balance as we move towards making change. So, I will stop there. Really appreciate that. Next Katrina. Oh my gosh I almost hit the leave button. It's been a long day. I had a really great conversation with our group and we, we had a lot of really great sharing and talked a lot about not just the, there was sharing around experiences that people have had either on campus or off and what's happening we had someone who is working at a hospital in in Kittery main and the experiences that they are having just trying to do their job actually. But the main focus of our conversation was around the meaning of white supremacy and what, how that plays into all of the things that that are happening across the country on Tufts campus. How that is the foundation and the root of how this country was built and how that manifests itself in the things that are happening because I think that there was someone who said that being Asian doesn't really count or ingrained attitudes that that that perpetuate the notion that white is baseline and everything else is other. And until we are really willing to grapple with how white supremacy and systemic racism works and plays out. We will not be able to make the necessary changes that will need to be made to be able to move from having wonderful conversations like this but into having actionable things change to help us to make change. I'm really hoping that this Tufts table will be the start of us being able to do a lot of self reflection a lot of education. And I'm hoping that as much as we can about how the country really operates and and how we dismantle the fact that it was not built for us to succeed. Also, thank you Katrina. Hi everyone I'm Abigail and wonderful to be filled in with the group today I wanted to share something that weren't said yet by the other groups. My group really talked about, you know the need for all members of the Tufts community to not just those who are experiencing incidents of violence to really lean into the discomfort of having these challenging conversations regarding race and oppression and violence and really having students experiences in deciding next steps. And one thing that was brought up in my group was the need for, you know, diversity, equity and inclusion and justice education to being a requirement for all students but also all faculty whether that be through disciplines and classes and training for all that are really a part of the university, because there are gaps in education as we talked about in those questions and it is the institution of Tufts is obligation to address those gaps as best as it can. And also really paying attention to that the university cannot pick and choose what acts of hate are responded to because that only feeds into this model minority myth that just because racism might look differently depending on the group that's affected it doesn't mean that it's not there and it doesn't mean that all members of Tufts community should feel supported and addressed when incidents or acts of violence either are happening or extremely visible or if they aren't as visible and under reported like the students before shared with us so bravely and confidently and yeah wonderful discussion today and hoping for many more dialogues and conversations like this. Thank you. I appreciate that next Jared Smith. Yeah, so we had a lot of great themes I'm just going to try and quickly like bullet point them. So number one, we talked about the eraser of, you know, impact and presence in this nation for as long as it's been around. We talked about the power of language and how its youth has either vilified or impacted the way that folks within this country view and understand politics globally so specifically in the realms of Asian countries. And we also talked about how the statistics that we were describing also don'ting are not the full picture. So like the internal ramifications of racism and white supremacy have an impact that we will never be able to quantify and the, the realm of the impact that we were having. In addition, we also talked about how the model minority myth will never save any person from the impacts of racism and white supremacy, and how there is a in a sense of double consciousness of the bootstrap politics of like I've succeeded hard while also having, you know, the, the, the conflict of if I don't adhere to this form of expectations and what does that mean and how do I navigate those systems as an individual. And then one resource was shared that I really wanted to share with the rest of the group, which was a book I wrote Asian American achievement parent of the Asian American achievement paradox as a resource that very much worth reading. So I'll be taking a look at it. And thank you to my group for a great conversation. Great. Thank you, Jared. And to our last group, the unknown facilitator in room number eight. Well, our facilitator is Nancy Thompson but she had to leave early so I'm, I'm substitute Nancy for right now Kevin Kraft from Student Affairs. So really quickly. You know, probably the things that are most useful from our conversation to report out are the action items that we talked about so we spent a little bit of time thinking about, you know, what are the kind of things that, that tops could do that we could do to try and make improvements and we started with listening to the things that were asked for by the students in the presentation before the breakout room. And we talked about a couple of things, you know, one is this idea that we really need to think about the first year experience at Tufts, both from, you know, right from first year orientation, all the way through the rest of the first year experience you know how are people assigned to rooms how do we help people develop empathy for each other, you during this process you know it's the curriculum requirement also part of this you know we've talked about reorienting the world civilization which is something that would address this a little more directly and I think there was an idea that that could be supportive and part of that experience. A second big one that I think people were thinking about that was responsive to what was shared was this idea of transparency. Both in terms of, you know, there were there were fairly straightforward calls for just information and data that were shared at the beginning and it seems like it'd be reasonably easy to put that information together. And to to think about how do we use that information to create timely responses, you know, and also ultimately to get to proactive responses and not just sort of responding and after things have happened but to really kind of reorient the idea of what the university is doing to think about how do we proactively address these things. And then we did talk about a couple of things on the on the reactive side after something has happened. You know how do you feel seen and how do you know what to do after you have a report after something's happened to you that you want to report. So we talked about a couple ideas with that. So I'll for the lighting round I'll stop it. Thanks to all the facilitators for both facilitating and reporting back and doing so in a speed round so we can finish our program on time so many thanks to all of you. Certainly don't like to bring a program of such importance with such important dialogue happening to an end but on behalf of Provost Aubrey joy Saki and myself and the bridging differences committee we really appreciate all of you for attending. The words today by Aaron Matthew and June were humbling and I felt that a lot of the conversations from the report back really reflected the power of their words and that opportunity. We have to move forward as a university collectively we must look at the systems and we must look at our actions and we must look at our responsibilities to be reflective in this work. I think all that has really been highlighted here and really greatly appreciate everyone as a community coming together to join us for this Tufts table event. We are excited that we were able to provide it but we know it is just one program and lots of real work and action needs to take place and that is not lost on us. So with that, I think all the organizers all the behind the scenes people and everyone else who contributed in a way that made this a positive experience. Have a very good night.


Hey everyone! Welcome back to another vlog! If you're new here, my name is Sepi. This is Sol and in the back is Saina! If you guys are new to my vlogs then you won't know but these are my sisters and you guys always tell me that you love seeing us together. So we are on our way out. Sol literally went inside for like eight minutes to find my vlog camera because she was like you always vlog us when we look hideous. Me all the time when I have no makeup. Sorry, like I go on my vlogs looking like this. She literally always vlogs me even when I'm eating, when I have no makeup on, when I have no makeup on and I'm eating. That's me all the time. This is why I tell you guys I'm honest on my vlogs. How come she doesn't record herself when she does? All the time. But she just looks good.  My hair looks lovely. Your hair does look lovely. I'm actually quite sick but they still force me to come out. But these are the nights. It's the weekend with any visiting. She lives in Sheffield. I swear it's Sheffield. Everyone keeps telling me you live in Yorkshire. All I know is that Sol doesn't live with me. Sol doesn't live with me either so we basically see each other on the weekends and it's Friday night so we are gonna go out. You know how you do this in all my vlogs? Because it's Friday! You literally say that. Why do you go quiet as soon as my vlog came on? There's a big camera in your face. Cameras in our face all the time. Having chai because my throat really hurts and I want anti-biotics. I love it. We didn't use to drink tea until we met. So, these lot are taking the piss. Signed a copy. She's wearing my jumper over her shoulders. If you don't believe me, watch my vlog with Kim. I think it's vlog 8. I'm wearing that exact jumper over my shoulders. She's not copying me when I do that all the time. Whenever they copy me, I would say I love how you love to copy me. It's cute. Whatever. Copy the younger one. No one did this before you came. Paters will hate. I'm wearing trousers because I'm copying sickly. I'm leaving because I didn't use to breathe until now. This is the kind of stuff I get when they copy me. They try to make themselves feel better. They'll just try to make a big deal out of it. Comment below if you think. Comment below who's the team you're on. It's vlog 8. If you're surprised, I get more comments. You do know how to hold it. You hold it and it's half your face. I don't know how to hold it. You know how to hold it. Anyway, basically, it's up to you. Hence the bamboo behind us. If your mum doesn't call to check to see if you're okay. And that you're home on time. Good morning. Show my vlog what you have for breakfast. This is bread for one. I'm not even joking. Wait, they can't see. You have to open it. Look at that honey. My uncle Farshad, you might have seen him in my Tehran vlog. He's from a city where they have this really fresh. My dad loves this honey. This is his breakfast. It is currently Sunday morning. If you watch this vlog the day I upload it, it is today. I've got really bad skin all of a sudden. Not really bad. I have a little bluish here. Really big. Just a little around my forehead. Just thought you should know that even I don't have perfect skin. But I do know how to clear up these blemishes. If you guys want a little skincare thing in one of my videos then just let me know. Today I've literally just got my laptop out. I have to find my school bag. Yeah, it's not here. I'm basically going to do some studying. It's 10.30. I'm going to study till about 1.30 and then I have Jim with Andy. We're going to work out and after that I need to go and get a dress for an event I'm going to on Tuesday. You guys will see what the event is on when I upload the vlog from Tuesday. Probably by Thursday you guys will know what the event is. But I'm really excited about that and I kind of need something formal to wear. If you guys can think of formal but still sexy dresses let me know in the comments because I've still got time to go and buy. I'm hoping to go buy today but if I don't find anything I'm going to be going after Jim to either Central if I have time or Brent Cross to get a dress. I usually kick off my days with a Starbucks but today I made my own Nespresso.  I've got an espresso. It tastes really good and I use the Starbucks coffee bean thing so you know you can basically buy the Starbucks coffee beans from Starbucks. It's not coffee beans, what am I going to buy? Pods. You know the pods for the Nescafe machine. So I filmed another video and I was going to upload it. I was umming and eyeing but I decided not to but I thought I'd tell you guys a brief version of that video because I was crying in it and I just don't want that kind of energy on my channel because it's kind of sad. But basically I wanted to talk about the fact that on my pediatrics placement I've seen kids who are you know they've got like chronic illnesses or if they've got something like cancer and at first it was really really difficult for me to deal with like I literally I just came home and I was in the worst mood with everyone in my family and no one knew why and then I filmed this YouTube video explaining what I felt sad and then I was just crying the whole video so you guys literally can't even tell what I'm saying but I just want to say that you know you're going to see things that are sad but you have to bear in mind that as you're going to have like for example if you're thinking of becoming a doctor or you want to know the insight of someone who is becoming a doctor I see things that are sad but the thing that gets me through it is a the morale of the patients especially kids that are always so happy and joyful and even when they know kind of what's going on they're like they could be 10 or 11 and they could know what's going on they still choose to see the positive side of things and that is something that I want to pick up from in my life and learn from these children and the second thing is that prognosis which is like the outcome of the illness is so much better in children it's amazing and you know so many of these kids go on to get better and obviously I know the flip side that there are some kids who don't but I just try and focus on the positive side of things because that's all I can do right all I can do is learn my best, study my hardest and focus on the good the good that can come out of what I'm doing so yeah I just thought I'd tell you guys that because I'm not going to upload the video but I do want you guys to know that I do have like down days when I can come home and be upset from what I've seen but this is the first time that it's ever happened in four years well my fourth year of studying medicine so it's not like it's that often so don't feel like you know we're always just heartened by what we see I guess it kind of just has to do with what kind of line of medicine you go into as well so yeah so I'm running really late to the gym wearing this top from pineapple and forever 21 leggings you guys so basically no my beauty blender and my bronzer brush and my makeup is so grossly cakey I cannot even tell you how disgusting it is let me just grab some socks so just wanted to tell you guys like I haven't used a foundation brush to do my makeup in centuries and beauty blender is a game changer I can't find socks yeah beauty blender is a game changer make sure you only use beauty blender to blend your makeup in because otherwise it's just going to look so cakey and I'm still on a mission to try and find socks my mum has washed like a million oh here we are of course you're going to vlog me here you deserve me to vlog you when you have no makeup because she always vlogs me literally when I look she stole my beauty blender she stole my beauty blender and my bronzer brush so my makeup looks so cakey and gross so you deserve it just go we're so late she literally faps around so much I can't even tell you I've been waiting 40 minutes she was getting ready I already had my makeup so I'm not allowed to say she's chatting she's on camera she was chatting can I say she was chatting gore don't say that don't put it up I'm going to put it up every time I tell her not to put something up she puts it up like don't do this don't do that is that a police thank you no the guy's just got something why would you drive around with like a high biz jacket on that's all I've got to say in your car how was your night last night sir one of my very close friends wedding I was using night last night she was invited she was invited and she can't crop this out this is not fair I want to do a shout out I was invited but I'm on antibiotics because I'm not 100% well and you can't not go to Indian wedding you can't go to Indian wedding I was like I'm just going to be the Debbie down there if I go to a wedding so I chose not to go to a wedding because you have to always be drinking to cheers the bride and groom every two seconds right to health cheers kids cheers to a long life together cheers oh you breathed cheers I love the way you move cheers thanks for everyone who came tonight cheers basically the whole night you're just cheersing alright we're going breakfast now because I need an outfit like I told you guys for an event I'm going to on Tuesday which you guys will see in probably Thursdays before so these people in front of us are like parking and they're looking at me holding a camera and like stinking to oh wait go here go here why I'm parking here you can't park here sonny you're blocking someone else's car go go go go quick this is a box I'm in a box so I know you're actually making up a parking space and someone took it just watch I parked here before me watch out we're not in a parking space you guys I just want to say something she has to record that we are in a box when we get out of this car just to prove to her that the amount of time she keeps saying I'm the one who's right and you're wrong have you realized in this vlog that Sina has a lot of issues with the fact that I'm always right I swear just I can't wait till you guys see this box just watch this box and then you'll see it because one parking box will prove that I'm wrong about that oh yeah she is in a box I just made Sina take an outfit pic of me and Rafa and she's taking the mic like literally people are going to see us and they're going to be like look at these lots standing behind the background pretending this is their house it's because I can't take all my pics at home even though it would be so much easier but then it's always the same background so when you see a picture on Instagram and the background is like comment down below just right right comment Sina comment Sina if you watched the vlog and then you went to see the picture okay the picture is going to be Sefi's dress which is wearing now and a horsey background a picture of a horse just in the background that's going to be her I don't like that for me the school I don't like it she's cute she wants anything so it's like cute I think she should just make a rave store so we will be right back oh my god saying to the vlog what caught your eye kids clothes this is H&M how nice it is so I really cannot eat all of this I can't really get through like but I'm at Tomelli's which is like right in the middle why? this is like um and this is Greek salad I'm basically I just had lunch yeah I just had Nanda's like two hours ago I literally had to put the heated seat thing on it is so cold you know I feel like you know when you're a kid and your parents tell you like take a coat with you and you're like no I don't want to take one I literally wanted a coat but then I couldn't bother to go upstairs and get one but it is cold guys don't need the house without your coats Sine and I just left Brent Cross I got a dress for this event it's kind of cute casual whatevs so you guys will probably see an outfit picture and on Thursday's vlog like on Thursday's vlog I will have gone to the event I've seen what I wore and what it was like and everything but I'm going to end the vlog here I hope that you guys have enjoyed it on the way here you didn't have these sunglasses on she's telling me to re-film the whole thing she's telling me to re-film my whole outro because she didn't have the sunglasses no you're so evil Sipi I've said just this one part because I was stretching my back let me say bye to everyone I hope that you guys enjoyed this vlog of me spending time with my family this weekend basically what we always do couldn't go out this weekend because I wasn't well so I was like limited on my outings and stuff but still nonetheless I hope you enjoyed it if you do like these vlogs with me and my family then make sure you give this video a 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From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS re-invent 2020 sponsored by Intel, AWS and our community partners. Hey, it's Keith Townsend, Principal at CTO Advisor and you're watching theCUBE Virtual coverage of AWS re-invent 2020. I'm really excited. Whenever we get to talk to actual end users, builders, the conversation is dynamic. This is no exception. Back on the show, Avanesh Despande, Head of Architecture at Logitech. Avanesh, welcome back to the show. Thanks Keith, good to be here. And on the other side of my screen or depending on how you're looking at it is Anthony Brooks Williams, CEO of HVR. Anthony, welcome back to theCUBE. I know you're kind of tired of seeing us but the conversation is going to be good, I promise. Thanks very much. Look forward to being here. And great, as you said, to talk about a use case for the customer in the real world. So, let's start off by talking about Logitech. What are you guys doing in AWS in general? I mean, I know every company has public cloud but Logitech and AWS and public cloud doesn't naturally come to mind? Help educate the audience. What are you guys doing? Sure, so traditionally, audience knows Logitech as the mice and keyboard company but we do have a lot of brands which are co-brands of Logitech. If you know about gaming, Logitech G is a huge brand for us. We are in video collaboration space. We compete with the likes of Cisco's of the world where we have hardware that goes and works with Zoom, Google, as well as Microsoft ecosystems that has been a huge success in a B2B world for us. We are in music industry, gaming as in Astro gaming, Jay Bird, headphones for athletes. We are also in security system space. And on top of that, we are also in the collaboration space of streaming as in Streamlabs. So, as you can see, Logitech has grown to where a lot of use cases apart from just peri-fedals is out there. We've connected devices. So, we were also looking to move towards a cloud ecosystem where we could be in on our tools to provision information and make sure we are competing to the best of the world. So, we are in AWS. We do a lot more in AWS now compared to what we used to do in the past. Last five years has seen a change and a shift towards more cloud, public cloud usage, pure SaaS environments in AWS as well and we provision data for analysis and it's essentially as a data-driven enterprise now, more so as we move towards more future. And Anthony, talk to me about not necessarily just Logitech, but the larger market. How are you seeing companies such as Logitech take advantage of AWS and public cloud? Yeah, what I think you mean, ultimately we've seen it accelerated this year. I mean, Custle's just looking for a better way to connect with their prospects and leverage data in doing so. And we've seen this driver around digital transformation and that's just been spared up this year given what we've seen around COVID. And so a lot more companies have really pushed forward in adopting the infrastructure and availability of systems and solutions that you find in a platform such as AWS. And that's where we've seen great reduction from our side of customers doing that. We provide the most efficient way for customers to move data to a platform such as AWS and that's where we've seen a big uptake this year. So let's focus the conversation around data, data, the new oil, we've heard the taglines. Let's put some meat on the bone, so to speak, and talk through how are you at Logitech using real-time data in the public cloud? Sure. Yeah, I mean, traditionally if you looked at it, Logitech would sell in hardware and hope it works. For the end consumer, we would not necessarily have an insight into how that product is being used. I think come fast forward today's world, it's a connected devices environment. You want to make sure when you sell something that is working for that consumer, you would want them to be happy about that product, ensuring a seamless experience. So customer experience is big. You might want to see a repeat customer come about, right? So the intent is to have a lot of it is a connected experience where you could provision a feedback loop to the engineering team to ensure stability of the product, but also enhancements around that product in terms of usage patterns. And we play a big role with hardware in virtual gaming, for example. And as you can see that whole industry is growing to where everything is connected, probably people do not buy anything which is a static disk, the same thing. It's all online gaming. So we want to ensure that we don't add latency in the hardware that we have, ensuring a successful experience and repeat customers, right? So essentially intent is at the end of the day to have success with what you sell because there's obviously other options on the market and we want to make sure our customers are happy with the hardware. They are investing more in that hardware platform and adding different peripherals along with it. So that seamless experience is where we want to make sure it's connected devices to get that insight. We also look at what people are saying about our products in terms of reviews on apps or on retail portals to ensure we hear the voice of customer and channel out that energy in a positive way to improve the products as well as trying to figure out if there are marketing opportunities where you could go cross sell and upsell. So that's essentially driving business towards that success and at the end of it, that would essentially come up with a revenue generation model for us. So Anthony, talk to me about how HVR fits into this because when I look at cloud big, that can be a bit overbearing. Mike, where's the starting point? For us, the starting point to answer your question is around acquiring the data. Data is generated in many places across organizations in many different platforms and many systems. And so we have the ability to have a very efficient technique and the way we go acquire data, the way we capture data through this technique called CVC, change data capture, where you're feeding incremental updates of that data across the network. That's the most efficient way to move this data firstly across a wide area network. The cloud is an endpoint of that. And so firstly, we specialize in supporting many different source systems. And so we can acquire that data very efficiently, put it into our very scalable, flexible architecture that we have that's a great fit for this model world, a great fit for the cloud. So not only can we capture data from many different source systems, their complexities and a lot of these type of departments that customers have. And we can take the data and move it very efficiently across that network at scale, because we know, as you've said, data is a new order, that's the lifeblood of organizations today. So we can move that data efficiently at scale across the network and then put it into a system such as Snowflake running in AWS, like we do for Avi and Logitech. And so that's really where we fit. I mean, we support data taken from many sources to many different target systems. We make sure that data is highly accurate when we move that data across that it matches what was in the source to matches what's in the target system. And we do that in this particular use case and what we see predominantly today, the source systems are capturing the data typically today still generated on-prem, could be data that's sitting in an SAP environment, unpack that data, decode that data, it's to be complex to get out and understand it and move it across and put it in that target system that predominantly is sitting in the cloud for all the benefits that we see that the cloud brings around elasticity and efficiency and operational costs and those type of things. And that's probably where we fit into this picture. You know, I think Keith, if I add a little bit there, right? So to Anthony's point, for us, we generate a lot of data. We were looking at billions of rows a day from the edge where people like you and I are using Logitech devices. And we also have a lot of ERP transactions that go in. So the three V's typically that they call about big data is like the variety of data, volume of data and at velocity that you want to consume it. So the intent is, if you want it to be data driven, the data should be available for business consumption as it is being generated, very near real time. And that the intent for some of these platforms like HVR is how efficiently could you move that data, whether it's on-prem or a different cloud into AWS and giving it for business consumption of business analysis in near real time. So, you know, we strive to be in real time, whether it's data from China in our factory on the shop floor, whether it's being generated from people like you and I playing a game for eight hours and generating so many events, we want to ensure all that data is being available for business analysis and gone are the days where we would load that data once a day and in the hope that we do a weekly analysis, right? Today we do analysis and make business decisions on that data as the data is being generated. And that's the key to success with such platforms where we want to make sure we also look at build versus buy rather than us doing all that code and trying to ingest that data, we obviously partner with HVR in certain application platforms to ensure stability of it. And they have proven with their experience, the IP or the knowledge around how to build those platforms, which even if we go build it, we might need bigger teams to build that. I would rather rely on partners for that capability and I bring more business value by enabling and implementing such solutions. So let's go a little color around that skill. Whenever I talk to CDOs, chief data officers, data architects, one of the biggest problems that they have in these massive systems, you're talking about getting data from ERP, internet of things, devices, et cetera, simple data transformation, ETL, data scientists spend a good majority of their time, maybe sometimes 80% of their time on that data transformation process, that slows down the ability to get answers to critical business analytic questions. How is HVR assisted you guys in curling down at time for ETL? Absolutely, so we went to cloud about five years back and the methodology that you talk about ETL is sort of a point term back in the day when you would do maybe couple of times a day ingestion. So it's like in the transition of the pipeline, as you are ingesting data, you would transform and massage the data and enhance the data and provision it for business consumption. Today, we do ELT, we extract, load it into target and natively transform it as needed from business consumption. So we look at HVR, for example, is we'll be replicating all of our ERP data into snowflake in the cloud for real-time ingestion and consumption. If you do all of this analysis on Oracle site to it, typically you would have a processing where you would put in a job to get that data out and the analysis comes back to you in a couple of hours. Out here, you could be slicing and dicing the data as needed and it's all self-serve and provisioning. We do not build analysis for end users. Neither do we do a lot of the data science, but we wanna make sure when business is using that data, they can act on that as it's available. And the example is we had a processing back in the day with demand forecasting, which we do for every product of Logitech for 52 weeks looking ahead for every week, right? And it would run for a couple of days that processing. Today with such platforms and in public cloud, we do that in an hour's time, right? And that's critical for business success because you wanna know the methodology is if you need to fail or have challenges, you probably wanna have them now rather than wait couple of days for that processing to show up and then you do not have enough time to adjust the parameters or bring in back some other business process to augment it. So that's what we look at. The return on investment for such investment are essentially ensuring business continuity and success upfront and faster time to deliver. So, Anthony, this seems like this would really change the conversation within enterprises. The target customer or audience really changes from kind of this IT centric movement to more strategic movement. Talk to me about the conversations you've had with customers and how this has transformed their business. Yeah, a few things don't pack there. One, I mean, obviously customers wanna make decisions on the freshest data. And so they've typically relied on in the past on these batch orientated top data movement techniques which are we touched on then, how are we able to reduce that time window, let them make decisions on the freshest data. Where that takes you to is into other parts of organizations because as we said already, I mean, we know data is the lifeblood of them. There was many, I would say typically IT savvy, but let's call it data savvy people sitting in the business side of organizations if not more than used to sit in the legacy IT side. They want access to this data. They want to be able to access that data easy. And so one, these cloud based system, SaaS based systems have made that a lot easier for them. And the conversations we have are very much driven from not only the chief data officers but the CEOs now. They know in order to get the advantage to win, to survive in today's times, they need to be data driven organizations. And it sounds cliche, and we hear these digital transformation stories of data driven taglines that get thrown out there. But what we've seen is where it's really, it's been put to task this year, it is happening. Projects that would happen nine, 12 months have been given two month windows to happen because it's a matter of survival. And so that's what's really driven. And then you've also had the companies that have benefited as well. You mean, we are fortunate that we are able to as a company globally with Impose on a World to work from home very efficiently, but then support customers like Arby's who are providing these work from home technology systems that can enable a lot of this. And that's where it's really moved. It's driven down from being purely IT driven to it's CEO, CIO, CDO driven because it's what they've got to do. It's no longer just table stakes. I think the lines are great, right? We roll up into CIO, and like I worked for the CIO at Logitech, but we strive to be more service oriented than support. So IT was traditionally looked at as a support R, right? But we obviously are enabling the enterprise to be data driven. So we strive to be better at what we do and how we position ourselves as more of a service org connected to business problem. We understand the business problem and the challenge that they have and ensuring we could find solutions and solution architectures around that problem to ensure success for that, right? And that's the key to it, whether we build versus buy, it's all about ensuring business doesn't have to find stopgap solutions to be successful in finding a solution for their problem. Avi, Anthony, I really appreciate you guys taking the time to peel back the layers and help the audience understand how to take these really abstract terms and make them real for getting answers on real time data and kind of blowing away these concepts of ETL and data transformations and how to really put data to work using public cloud resources against their real time data assets. Thank you for joining us on this installment of theCUBE virtual as we cover AWS re-event. Make sure to check out the portal and see more great coverage of this exciting area of data and data analysis.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Jonny and welcome to day one of Security Breach Week. Nine deep analysis videos on the upcoming FNAF title being made by Steel Studios FNAF again, Security Breach. Today the topic at hand is one that some may think is pretty underwhelming, but I personally find this topic one of the most intriguing pieces of the game that we have yet to fully understand. And that's kind of the whole point of Security Breach Week, taking a simple topic and going more in-depth with it. So for today, the first day, I want to take a look at the Fazbear wristwatch being worn by Gregory. Because I feel like it's a piece of the game that a lot of people took a look at, thought about it for a little bit, and then kind of left it in the dust. Well again, I think the wristwatch is a great way to look at some of the new mechanics being introduced in the new game. So let's not waste any more time. First off, let's have a look at the wristwatch itself. So as you can see in several shots, most notably the close-up shot where we are in the cameras tab, we'll get to that in a little bit. The wristwatch is very obviously themed around our main man, Freddy Fazbear. We can also see the Freddy Fazbear-themed wristwatch advertised in a West Arcade poster that shows a breakdown of some of the inner walkings and mechanics of the watch itself. I think it's pretty safe to say that this wristwatch is most likely a quick nod to Disney's Magic Band wristwatch, which grants guests access to the entirety of the Disneyland theme park. So I think when Gregory arrived at the Pizza Plex, almost every single guest is given this band. Because this isn't the only parallel to Disney in FNAF Security Breach, if you don't know, the underground corridors are called the Utilidors, which is a real thing in Disneyland used by employees dressed up as the mascots to move quickly from one part of the map to the other. So while I think the watch itself has a very big mechanical role in the game, it could also be a souvenir or, again, something that people use to access the entirety of the Pizza Plex. I think it could have a lot deeper of a meaning than just a mechanic for the new game. I mean, think about it. There's a lot of attractions here. You got a salon. You got a raceway. You got mini golf. So I think in order to play all of these attractions, guests of the Pizza Plex need to buy this Freddy Fazbear-themed watch. Now why the watches would have cameras built in? I got no freaking clue. Instead of the guests, it could be used for the staff members of the Pizza Plex. Then that would make sense why there are cameras on the watch, though it also wouldn't make sense exactly why they would be advertised in the West Hall to the arcade. Anyways, going back to the watch itself, there was a time of 12.09 AM displayed at the top. Based off of that, and also based off of Vanessa's voice line of We have to get you out by morning. In the gameplay trailer, I think it's pretty safe to say that the main game of security breach will happen over one very long night in the Pizza Plex. I mean, think about it. If Gregory got lost at night in the giant mall, the giant Pizza Plex, why would he want to stay there for five nights? It doesn't make sense. I also believe that this is the first time in the entire franchise that the minutes are displayed on the timer, on the clock. So that could hint towards the nights being a lot longer, therefore us needing to constantly check exactly what time it is instead of just 1 AM. We don't know if it's 101 or if it's 159. As to how long each hour is going to be, I don't know. Some people guess that it's going to be one hour equals one real life hour. I don't think so. I feel like that would make for a very long game, but at the same time, if this only does take place over one night, you gotta stretch out that, you know, that run time for the entire day of the game. Moving on to the tabs. We have the cameras, the map, the inventory, and the logs. Starting off with the cameras, we can see that there are at least six cameras when we are inside Monty's Gate of Golf. As we can see in the screenshot, it is one of the greens on Monty's Golf Course. It appears that we can switch between the cameras on this tab, but only the ones that are in close proximity to us on the minimap. We can also increase and decrease the zoom on the cameras using the L stick on the PlayStation. And it also seems like the cameras are able to pan. There's also an eye icon, presumably to turn on and off a night vision feature. Though I think it is pretty safe to say that that will be a night mode feature. We can see that the eye is kind of grayed out, meaning that when the daytime, and we do know that the building goes into a nighttime mode because we see moon drop emerging when it is nighttime. So I think when the building goes into nighttime mode, I think we can click on the icon of the eye, activate it, it'll turn white or something, and then we can use night vision. There's a lot of boxes in the cameras. I don't know why. I believe the white and great boxes that you see on the watch are most likely just placeholder images, placeholder, you know, locations for buttons. You can see that the L stick near the zoom where you zoom in and out for the cameras is also in one of these boxes. And we know that this footage from the gameplay trailer is kind of old. So I'm just taking a guess here and say that still at that time of development didn't have those icons built into the game just yet. Moving on to the map tab. We don't actually see this one nor do we see the inventory nor the logs tab, but we can definitely take a guess of what they are. I think the map is probably one of the easiest ones to take a stab at. It's most likely a much larger zoomed out version of the mini map that we see on the cameras tab. Presumably it'll display the entirety of the room, maybe the floor, maybe even the entirety of the mall. The inventory is also kind of simple. I'm guessing in this new FNAF game, we're able to pick up items such as keys, key cards, maybe even the flashlight that Vanessa gives us. We do know that she gives us a flashlight. We can also assume that she gives us a walkie-talkie. So this could emphasize the idea that the watch is for staff members only and that she gave us this watch. The logs, I'm not quite sure. If I had to take a guess, I'm guessing it's going to be lower elements like documents, blueprints, audio logs or any other lower heavy items. I think basic items such as again, keys, key cards, flashlight, whatever, we'll go in the inventory slot. And then anything related to lower will go in the log section. And then we have some icons down at the bottom of the watch. Starting off with what is probably the most simple to understand icon on the watch, the flashlight battery. Whether this is a battery for the flashlight that we have physically in our hands or the night vision flashlight, I'm not sure. Unless there is some form of link between the flashlight we hold as Gregory and the watch, I am assuming that this is the night vision battery. Though to be fair, it could very well just be the flashlight battery for the physical flashlight that we hold. And then we have a blue Freddie icon with a lightning bolt in it. And it's at 100% charge. I see this as being one of two things, either the battery for the watch itself. Since the watch is themed around Freddie Fazbear, it could be the charge in the battery for the watch itself or it could be the charge for Glamrock Freddie himself. As we all know by now, Glamrock Freddie is actually going to be helping us throughout the entirety of this game. We'll go further in depth with Glamrock Freddie in a little bit, but this could be the battery for the animatronic of Glamrock Freddie himself. It would be weird if these guys ran on battery though. I will say, so that's the only flaw I can really think of with this idea. And then we have an attention icon with the number eight displayed in it. This one kind of stumped me. I have a few ideas though. It could be the number of times we can call Glamrock Freddie to help us. It could be the number of times we have to call Glamrock Freddie before his battery runs out or it could be the number of threats in the area. The only problem I see with that, however, is that the time is only 12.09 a.m. Based off of basic FNAF knowledge, nine minutes into the night, I don't think we're going to have eight threats on us already. So this one definitely has me a bit stumped. Leave me your theories down below. What do you think this attention icon could mean? And then we have an icon for two tickets. I feel like this is another self-explanatory icon. We most likely get tickets after we successfully complete a minigame or an attraction in the Pizza Plex, such as Monty's golf course or Roxanne's Raceway. And I'm guessing we can spend these tickets at either an ATM since we do see a lot of ATMs sprinkled throughout the map. So I assume they're not pointless this time around. Or simply, we could just collect them at the gameplay chairless collectible counter or the Phaser Blast counter, which we saw in one of Darko's charity screenshots. Now moving on to the Glamrock Freddy icon. This is very similar to the official icon for the game FNAF Security Breach, which I think is very intentional. I think this icon is what we press when we want to call over Glamrock Freddy to help us out with anything, whether it obstacles blocking our path and animatronic is blocking our path or Vanessa herself is blocking our path. I wouldn't be surprised if the number eight icon in the triangle, the attention triangle is how many more presses we have of that Glamrock Freddy icon button. Since combining the two, they do create the official icon, the logo for the game Security Breach. And now I'm going to finish off with some other subtle details I see on the watch. On the right side, we can see four holes in the wrist watch. If I had to take a guess, I'm guessing that this is a speaker or more likely a walkie-talkie. Like I brought up earlier, we know that Vanessa has a walkie-talkie, a radio on her. So I wouldn't be surprised if we get this watch from her and it has a built-in radio. And either the two big green buttons on the side of the wrist watch on the left or the big red button on the bottom left is how we talk back to her. Not like shouted her swears, but like communicate, you know, respond to her. And that is my deep dive into Gregory's Freddy Fazbear themed wrist watch. What did you think? I know not the most enticing, the most exciting thing to start off Security Breach week with, but trust me, I want to talk a lot about this game because I really do believe it's going to be good. I really hope it's going to be good. And usually in FNAF news videos or in screenshot analysis videos, I just don't have the time to talk about everything I want to talk about.  So SB Week is going to start off kind of slow, kind of boring, you could say with some of the topics. Really? A watch? What are you going to talk about next? The freaking mall tomorrow? Yes. Yes, so tomorrow I want to talk about the rooms and the mall itself. What purpose it serves in the game and the story and what's going to happen to it at the end of the game. So tell me your theories. What do you think about the watch and what do you think is going to happen to the building at the end of the game? And if you don't want to miss day two of SB Week or heck the entire rest of it, subscribe. Also, if you made it to the end of the video, clearly you liked it. So hit that like button. And again, tell me your theories on Security Breach in the comments down below. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all tomorrow for the map. Goodbye.


Our next caller is Zach from New Jersey. Hey, what's up, Zach? How can we help you? Hey, guys. Um, wow. This is amazing. I can't believe I'm talking to you. Uh... But, um, I'm calling today because I unfortunately suffered an injury about a month ago, and I'm gonna walk you through exactly what happened on the day of my injury. But before that, I feel like I should explain what I do for a living. I am a professional musician, and the instrument that I play is the bassoon. Cool. Um, and the bassoon I brought it here with me, it's a woodwind instrument, and it's in the low family of the woodwinds, mostly orchestral.  Um, and the opening creates resistance through a reed. Now, so that's what I do constantly. Um, on the day of my injury, though, I'll rewind it a bit. Um, I was at the gym, and I was deadlifting heavy. Now, I probably was deadlifting a little too much, but I had lifted heavier prior to this, and everything fell fine. I was lifting 305, and I weigh 170 pounds, so I don't know if that makes a difference. And everything fell fine. I felt no pain, no discomfort. My form was good, but I did that, and I might have deadlifted. I went down and weight after that. Then I did some barbell rows. Again, lighter weight, really focusing on form. And after that, I did some kettlebell swings to end the workout. And I felt fine, didn't feel any discomfort. Then I went home, and I started practicing my bassoon. And after about an hour of practicing, I felt pain down in my abdominals, like in my lower ab, and a little bit near possibly my inner thigh. And so my first thought was that, oh no, I have a hernia. And I freaked out. So for about a week, I was depressed. I was like, no, I have a hernia. So I went to the doctor. The doctor checked me. He said, you don't have a hernia, which is a relief, but I strained my abs, which was kind of surprising to me. I didn't even know that I would be able to do something like that. And I'm basically asking you, do you have experience with abdominal strains? And is it, I have not lifted weights for about four weeks. I haven't touched a weight, which is sad. But I'm trying to heal. But also, could I be bracing incorrectly? What do you think? This is actually more common than you think. It's actually, okay. So first off, two questions. Hold on. I want to find out what you call yourself if you play bassoon. Are you basuner or bassoonist? I accept both. Bassoonist? I accept both for short. Cool instrument, by the way. Yeah. It's just, yeah, random. Very, very cool instrument. Okay. So here's a question, two questions. One, who said it was an ab injury? Was it your primary care physician? Yes. Okay. It's probably, I mean, he may be right. He or she may be right. It's probably a deeper core muscle because you pulled it while bracing and blowing. And so a lot of people might not know, but you're playing an instrument like the bassoon. You have to create a tremendous amount of pressure in your diaphragm and the pelvic floor muscles. Which is all part of your core. They all have to stabilize to push this air through. It's highly unlikely that you pulled your abs. It's much more likely that you pulled a deeper core muscle. Okay. So that makes a difference in terms of, you know, kind of how we'll handle this. Here's the second question. Did you buy any chance, do you wear a weight belt when you lift deadlift and row and do exercises in the gym? I do not. Okay. Good. Okay. So weight belt would be terrible for someone like you because it teaches the muscle recruitment pattern of you pushing out against the belt, which is the opposite of what you do when you play the bassoon where you brace your core. It's probably a deep core muscle. And, you know, I hate to tell you this, but the best possible thing you can do right now, and it's a good thing it's not a hernia. Just rest it, recover. Yeah, it's just to rest it. And I would do light bracing exercises, light twisting and stretching exercises just to keep movement going on. But oftentimes when those deep core muscles get strained, they can take a little while to heal, but it's not super uncommon. I mean, it's not uncommon, actually.  I mean, that was a lot of stuff that... Yeah, it involves those muscles. Yeah, that involves those muscles and you just overdid it. You strained it. And the best thing that we can do right now is to let it completely recover and heal. And then when you get back into training, I would actually incorporate some like very specific core training exercises, like drawn maneuvers and stomach vacuums and exercises. Quadruped. Yeah, specific to that. And then knowing that this is your profession and you require so much of this core strength is kind of being aware of that, hey, if this is a day where I'm going to be practicing for an hour on the bassoon, it's probably not a good day to also be doing my kettlebell swings, my 350-pound deadlift and really getting after it.  You're going to be playing the bassoon. Let's not do 300 pounds of deadlifting today and your kettlebell swings. Let's do stuff to prepare you for your show tonight and make sure that you're strong and healthy. So I think you just overdid it. Also, I can tell you didn't follow any of our programs because rarely will we put deadlifts, rows, and kettlebell swings in the same workout. That's a lot of lumbar stabilization required in one workout. If I'm in a deadlift, I almost, depending on the client, but for most people, I don't also do lots of swings in that same workout. So pick one or the other. Rows can sometimes be okay after deadlifts, but even then I often do a supported row. Well, explain what he's saying. I think it's more layman's turn. You have a heavy loaded hip hinge movement, so you're going to fatigue that, and then you go to an explosive. You're asking for a potential injury right there. That would be like doing really heavy squats and then following it up with some ice skaters or explosive jump boxes. Well, anytime you do anything explosive under fatigue, if you've already pre-fatigued, that muscle group, it exposes a potential for straining or some type of further injury to occur. Here's a couple of movements that I think might be okay for you to try. You can try pelvic tilts on the floor just to start to engage the pelvis and start to get some movement. That's a very easy exercise.  You'll have a natural curve in the low back. Then just tilt your pelvis so that your back, your low back flattens against the floor and then let it arch and then flatten and then let it arch. Another exercise would be quadruped where you're on your hands and knees. You extend your left arm out and your right leg back. We have YouTube videos on all these, by the way, so we'll make sure we link these in the show. So quadruped would be another good exercise. And then lastly, and again, test all these out before you go and work them. The ones I'm recommending, they still might not be appropriate for you if they don't feel right, but the other exercise I would try with you is the rotation exercise. So you can get a resistance band, anchor it to something, stand up tall, hold the band close to your body.  You're not twisting or anything, you're just resisting a little bit of the rotation. I think Justin and I did a video on that. Let's put them on a program. I think when you're feeling better and healthy, mass performance sounds like with the direction of the movements you guys are training him in, Zach, have you followed any of our programs before? You know, I have maps aesthetic, but I purchased it before I really knew about the right order of things. So I haven't followed it completely yet. Okay. All right. Mass performance would be actually, Adam, that was a great recommendation. So once you're able to get back into training, I would go on more maps performance and be very careful with exercise order. I mean, if you follow our program, you'll be okay for the most part, but always be very careful. I know sometimes people, they don't understand the nuances of exercise programming. Like I said, I almost never would have someone do a kettlebell swing and a deadlift in the same workout. There are exceptions to that, but almost never would I do that with the average person. Well, then he went on to go play the bassoon all night long, too.  I mean, the fact that you train the bassoon and you probably train core more than the average person, you probably handled it better than most people would have. It could have been really bad for somebody who... Dude, can we just get like a little taste? Oh, absolutely. I want something. I want to hear you play.  Yeah, yeah. I hope the audio is okay with this, but... Can you play something like Metallica or something? No, Metallica. Adam has a bong I do. Except Adam's bong is bigger to be honest. Yeah, we've all hit it. Let's see. This is what it sounds like. All right, let's hear it. All right. That's great, man. That sounds good. I like that tone. Is that the instrument that's played a lot for that kind of ominous music in like movies and scary movies and stuff like that? Is that what do you think they use? Definitely. Yeah, right? It sounds like... Jaws. That's awesome, Zach. Thanks, man. We're going to send you overmaps performance, okay? Thank you so much, guys. No problem, man. Yeah, I will say this. Justin probably knows certain instruments, especially some of the classical instruments, they actually require a tremendous amount of muscle control and... A lot of breath work. It's pretty demanding. Well, isn't that pretty in all, like, what would read instruments, right?  Like, yeah, Ethan plays trumpet and yeah, it requires just a whole lot of pressure. Oh, yeah, I played the trumpet and I remember that, but you know what? It's almost all instruments. Even the guitar. Like, if you've ever... I literally practiced the guitar for like a week and I remember my fingers were ruined from it. You got to build calluses, yeah. It's totally its own skill. Yeah, I mean, great... I mean, I think it was you, Sal, who pointed it out.  Rose and then kettlebell swings.  And then it could have been okay but then he pressed it even further with the bassooning all night long. This is just highlights that... The importance of exercise order. Exercise order and programming. I know some people are like, what's the difference and it's all the same exercise. No, it makes a huge difference. This is the difference between an effective work out and one that is not effective. Oftentimes they have the same exercises in them and you look at them and you go, well, this one has squats. This one has squats. They must be the same. No, they're not. The programming makes a huge difference. You know, this is actually kind of cool that we got such a unique question like this because we always get questions about, could you guys explain how you write your programs? And this is why it's so difficult to explain because it's not like we go, oh, there might be a bassoon guy It's just that there's some general rules You wouldn't want to put those things back to back. It doesn't mean you couldn't. It doesn't mean that it's wrong necessarily but this is where the experience thing comes in as you think about stuff where, man, I don't know if I want to fatigue this muscle and then do this and then go follow that. So we take into consideration all that stuff when we put the exercises in the programming. So there's little nuance things like that that are hard to explain when you're talking in general but when you get a very specific question it's such a great point. It's exactly how you know right away. You didn't follow our programs because that wouldn't happen. I would never write one like that.


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I'm not going to talk to my ricer because I don't talk to inanimate objects, but I do love this thing. My one thing is making the fluffiest mashed potatoes and the way that I get them to be super fluffy is my ricer. So what I'm going to do is I've already boiled these mashed potatoes. You'll notice that they still have their skins on them. One of the reasons why I love my ricer is because you don't have to peel your potatoes before you mash them. So these are russets. They're still a little bit hot. Russets are flowery and they make extra fluffy mashed potatoes because they don't have extra liquid in them that like glues your potatoes together. So I always use the russets. I make my mashed potatoes with a lot of butter. Cream, you can use milk and I put a bay leaf in there. This is heating up. I'm going to cut them in half. I'm going to crush this clove of garlic. I crush it with the skin on because I'm incredibly lazy and it's just easy and I'm going to put it in whole. This is going to melt. The difference between a really creamy rich and delicious mashed potato and one that's like an everyday mashed potato is just to use extra butter. This is already salted but I'm going to taste it to see whether it's good. All right, I'm going to take this out just because it's going to be easier than fishing it out of a bowl of mashed potatoes. Okay, and this is how easy it is. Put this in with the flesh down and it's going to be just coming through these holes like rice. That's why it's called a ricer because it looks like rice. And the skin if you're lucky sticks to the top so you don't even have to clean it out. So what happens as it's coming out of these holes is it's basically mashing itself already. So by the time it ends up in this bowl of incredibly delicious, rich cream and butter, it's already basically done. The other secret to super fluffy mashed potatoes that are not gluey or gummy is really just barely touch them. Just barely, barely stir this all together until it just barely comes together and they are done. All right, these potatoes are so fluffy. They're so creamy. There's no lumps. It's all thanks to the ricer and it took so little time. If you like this video, check out more one thing videos at thespruceats.com.