This is stock number 9683. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Remember, we are the guys with the trucks on 41. Today we are taking a look at this ultra-clean 2015 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box. This truck has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel. From this HD video, you will be able to tell that this truck is exceptionally clean inside and out. Black clear coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. It has a nice set of Weston chrome step bars. It has 20-inch Moto Metal painted and polished aluminum rims, and it has Falcon Wild Peak LT3055R20 tires. These tires have right around 70% of the tread left, and you can see just how clean the frame and underbody is on this truck, and it is like that all the way underneath. 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Welcome to Looking to the East. I'm your host, Steve Zercher. I'm a professor and dean at Kansai Gaida University in Osaka, Japan, where I'm located today. The last few shows that I've done, unfortunately I've covered kind of depressing topics over the last two years or so, the world has seemed to be filled with bad news, COVID, the Ukraine situation, the recent assassination of one of the most important political figures in Japan, that's former Prime Minister Abe. But today we're gonna focus on something that's much more positive. It starts out of a bad situation out of the Ukraine war, but this is a story, a very positive story, very upbeat story about how a small group of people with a very focused interest in supporting Ukrainian students have been able to work with the Japanese government and work with Japanese universities to bring in Ukrainian students and they'll be starting to study in Japan at various universities in just a few weeks. So I'm very honored and very pleased to have Paul Hastings with us today. So Paul, thank you so much for doing this for us. I really appreciate it. Paul is the CEO of the Japan ICU Foundation and that's the key group that's put together this initiative. There are other partners involved and we'll get into that as we discuss this in more detail. But first, Paul, I wanna find out a little bit about you. So this is a very interesting position that you're in. So can you tell me what led to this? Did you study this type of thing, nonprofit organizations or international support organizations as a student or tell me how you got to become the president and CEO of the Japan ICU Foundation? Great, well, thank you Steve for having me today. So I'm gonna give the short version because there's a longer version and we don't have time for that. The short version is that I grew up in Japan for most of my childhood. So I had a connection to Japan already and then my passion was sort of spurred by studying abroad but not studying abroad. So I went to college in the United States to Bowdoin College and while I was there, I studied abroad in Sri Lanka and that experience really opened my eyes to the world, to different cultures, different religions, different ways of living to the extreme inequalities in the world and to all of the amazing experiences also amazing people out there. So I felt very connected and interested in international education after that experience. And so I pursued a master's degree at Teachers College at Columbia University in international education. And I started working at a relatively young age at the Japan ICU Foundation and sort of worked my way up through the ranks. So when you graduated from your master's degree, you went directly into the Japan ICU Foundation? I was actually already working at the Japan ICU Foundation whose offices are right next door to Columbia University on Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City. And so I had a chance to pursue a master's and then continue with my professional journey. Why don't you describe what the Japan ICU Foundation is for? My Japanese viewers, of course, you've heard of the International Christian University ICU. It's one of the better private universities in Japan but you worked for their foundation. So why don't you describe the history of that briefly? How was that set up? And why has that group become interested in supporting refugee? Sure, so the Japan ICU Foundation is based in New York City. We are independent of ICU and we were founded actually one year before ICU was founded to help raise funds in the United States to establish ICU. Now ICU was founded in 1949 in West Tokyo, Mitaka, Tokyo. And it was a project of reconciliation. So ICU was a liberal arts college, firmly committed to global citizenship and to a bilingual education in English and Japanese. And so the Japan ICU Foundation was founded in the US at that time. Now fast forward 65, 70 years. Our mission currently is to nurture global citizenship in Japan and beyond. And we do that in partnership still with ICU but also now with other institutions in Japan. Wonderful. And how long have you been with the Japan ICU now? Now it's been 16 years. Oh my goodness. Wow, okay. Just as a plug to young people who might be watching this, I think most people move jobs quite a lot, especially right after college. I did have a couple of jobs before this but I've been now at the Japan ICU Foundation for 16 years and I think there's something to say about staying put and growing within an organization. So don't forget about that possibility as well when you are pursuing your career. And it has led to this very interesting project that you and others in your foundation plus other organizations I know have created for Ukrainian students. So why don't we talk about that? Now you and I met several months ago when you were still originating how this would all work. So as I recall, your foundation has a history of working with refugees in the past. So this is not, it's new for Ukraine but not necessarily new in terms of helping refugee students come into Japan, is that correct? That's right, Steve. So we started supporting refugee students in 2017 in a formal way. We had supported scholarships for refugee students in the past but sort of on an ad hoc basis. And in 2017 in response to the Syrian Civil War we launched a program called the Syrian Scholars Initiative and it was in collaboration with the Japan Association for Refugees Jar which is based in Tokyo and is one of the largest independent nonprofit organizations focused on refugees in Japan. And so we had this history of supporting Syrian students and when we started that program we didn't really know very much about the world of refugee higher education. And indeed we didn't even know the term complimentary education pathways which I'd love to explain a little bit more about today because that's what this Ukraine program is. But basically a complimentary education pathway is an opportunity for a refugee to travel from their country of asylum, a first asylum to a third country to pursue higher education. So this is part of UNHCR's education strategy. It's called the 2030 education strategy. And they have a goal of increasing the number of refugees who are able to pursue education from the current percentage which is 5% of refugees to 15% by 2030. And the way that they're doing this is by promoting what they call education pathways. It's complimentary to resettlement which is the more traditional way that refugees are resettled from one country to another country. I think most people are familiar with that. Right, so one of the amazing things that you and I have talked about this several times is that Japan historically has been very reluctant, very is not the right term, extremely reluctant to allow any refugees into this country. And that would be an interesting topic for a show in and of itself. But historically, I remember reading that the number of refugees that were accepted by Japan was less than 10 per year. It's really a small number historically. But in this instance, Japan official response, government response to the Ukrainian situation is completely different. So let's talk then about how this all got started. So you had the experience with the Syrian placement program and complimentary education. And then was it early this year that you thought, hey, there's gonna be a ton of Ukrainian students that are gonna be displaced obviously by what's going on there. So why don't we open up the program for them? Is that how this got started? Yeah, basically. So Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th and the reaction from the international community, from universities, from civil society was in sort of the quote unquote Western world was very supportive, of course, of Ukraine. And I was myself and my colleagues who we work with at Pathways Japan and my team at the Japan ICU Foundation, we were all seeing these kind of statements being put out by people. We, companies and corporations and universities, et cetera, about how they support Ukraine, stand with Ukraine, which is fantastic and it's great to have that type of support. But we felt like, well, we shouldn't just say something here, we need to do something. So we thought, well, okay, just like you said, there will be a lot of young people who are impacted by the war, whose educations are disrupted. And might there be an opportunity here to try to do something to create a program for Ukrainian students to travel to Japan. So what we did, the first step in all of this is sort of gathering more information. And so we very quickly networked with Ukrainian universities that have Japanese language programs. And we connected with some professors at these institutions and we asked them, do you have students who are being displaced and whose schooling is disrupted and who might be interested in going to Japan? Of course, that's a natural group of students who already have an interest in Japan, already studying the Japanese language. And the response we got was, yes, like we think that there would be quite a lot of interest in this. So we put together an application and a website and we started to advertise the opportunity through this network. So directly to the students themselves? Directly to the students themselves. I mean, of course, the other thing we did is that our partner ICU, who we worked really closely with, they said we would also, we would be interested in taking students. Very quickly, the president of ICU, Shoichi Iwakiri, he put out a statement and in conversations I had with him, he made it clear that ICU is very interested in supporting these students. So we had an interested university, we had the demand or the need. You're doing basic business analysis here. As a professor, I have to step in and I'm giving you an A so far. And you're assessing demand and you're looking at supply and trying to match those two things, that's great. Yeah, so we went forward and kind of created a pilot program and we were able to recruit five students very quickly who traveled to Japan in early May in to attend ICU as non-degree students initially. And then we started to have conversations with other universities. That's when we first met and we first spoke about the possibility of Kansai Gaidae taking students and through to that. I want to disclose that we are accepting two students in a few weeks here at Kansai Gaidae. We're a part of this program. But Paul, how did you know or how did you create the conditions for the Japanese government to allow Ukrainian students because as we talked about before, historically the Japanese government has been very reluctant to allow refugees in. And you're bringing them in under a quasi refugee status. Of course we have, our school has exchange programs. That's a normal way of doing things and the students, I get a visa that's hosted by the university. But in this case, that didn't apply to the Ukrainian situation because it was all such, it was last minute and I don't know how many Japanese universities had a connection with Ukrainian schools. We don't. So how was that handled? Were you guys involved in that? Or did you go to the government and say, look, this is what we're trying to do and in order to make this a success because we feel there's a lot of students who would like to do this. Will you allow whatever number of students in? How did that happen? It's a good question. So it was not all our doing by any stretch of the imagination. I think that to give credit where credit's due, Prime Minister Kishida and various different ministries within Japan very quickly responded to the Ukraine crisis and basically let it be known that Japan is willing to take Ukrainian refugees. It's not just students, but other students. And indeed, there was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs flight that was even chartered and bringing back Ukrainians very early on, if you recall. Yeah, I do remember that. Yeah. So I guess the answer to your question is that our close working partners, Pathways Japan, which is a sister organization of JAR, the Japan Association for Refugees that I mentioned earlier. So Pathways Japan was only founded last year with the specific function of supporting education pathways and other complimentary pathways for refugees to come to Japan. And so they were sort of in the right position at the right time. And they also have very good contacts with the government, with different ministries and the government with the immigration services agency, ISA and so they, yeah, you have to have those connections. And so they went to them and they spoke with them and they said, if we were to create this program, would you be willing to basically grant visas to the students? Because in the end, what differentiates I think an education pathways program from just a refugee traveling on their own or something to a country that it's a legal pathway. So this is a pathway that where there are visas in place, there is a sort of durable solution for the long term that's been thought through for the students. So the response by the Japanese government has been and the Japanese people has been really phenomenal. I mean, it's been really encouraging from my perspective to see this response. So it's been amazing. It's not just the government, the Nippon Foundation, they also have created a program, a very large program to provide financial assistance to Ukrainians who are coming to Japan. Universities have waived tuition for students, have agreed to cover dormitory fees or waived dormitory fees, there's been just a really great cooperative effort I think. Yeah, well, that's wonderful. So tell us what this has led to, how many universities are involved with this program now for the coming fall semester, which starts in a few weeks for us, and I think for most universities and how many students in total are coming in? What are the results as you see them today? So there are 12 universities participating taking students and 56 students have been placed. There is also another program that we're, that our partners Pathways Japan are running in parallel to the University Pathways Program, which is a language school pathways program. So these are Japanese language schools around the country that are accepting Ukrainian students. And for a two year language program as well. So for that program, there are 26 language schools participating and 50 students are being placed. So if you combine these two efforts, no 106 or so students from Ukraine are gonna be participating in this program. I think I'd like to also mention that there are other universities in Japan that have decided to take or accept Ukrainian students on their own independently of our program. Maybe they had a sister relationship with a Ukrainian university. Exactly, typically that's the case. But Todai also has, which I don't think Todai had a close sister exchange partnership, but they are also taking some Ukrainian students as well. Yeah, Todai for those that don't know is the University of Tokyo, which is the number one school in the country. And they're not current with their latest figures, but historically the number of international students at Todai is quite low. Yes. Something they're not happy with, but unfortunately it's like one or two percent. So this will help them grow that number, I guess. Now, you've met with the students, right? Yeah, so tell me about that. I mean, I'm looking forward to having our students show up in a few weeks here, but they must be overjoyed. Out of this terrible circumstance where they were looking at not completing their undergraduate degree, potentially, to now coming to Japan, which I'm sure for many of them was unimaginable before.  And they're coming to this wonderful country, Japan, which you know and I know they're gonna have an incredible experience. So what's been your impression of the students so far and how is that aspect of it going? Well, that's the best part of this type of work is being able to get to know students and see their sort of how they can grow and the reactions that they have to these experiences. So I met the five students that I mentioned earlier who were part of that pilot. When they came to Japan in May, I happened to be in Japan for my first business trip to Japan since the pandemic. I was finally able to visit Japan and I met them on their first day on the ICU campus. So that interaction was, for them I think was very overwhelming because they had just arrived on campus. You know, they were talkative, but they were clearly a bit overwhelmed. That's just a general response of any exchange student. You know, that was my response when I came to Japan for the first time as exchange student. I was like, wow, this is so interesting. So I did have a chance to interview a lot of the candidates when we had the major, the larger application period. And that was really fascinating. We were targeting students who had some interest in Japan. We didn't require that they had studied Japanese before, but some of the universities that we were replacing the students did have some kind of language requirement and some didn't. And regardless, we were looking at like, is this a genuine interest in studying in Japan or how much do you know about Japan? They didn't have to have a long background in Japan, but they had to have some kind of interest that they could articulate. And that was just a fascinating experience. We conducted 99 interviews in total over Zoom, 20 minute interviews. And these students were in Ukraine, some of them were outside of Ukraine already. Many of them were internally displaced. Some of them were in the western part of the country, which is relatively safe compared to the eastern part of the country. So it really ran the gamut. Some had been, some had lost family members, some had lost their homes, others were almost kind of going along normally in some ways, though it really ran the gamut. But I think it's just going to, I'm really excited about what's going to happen 10 years from now from this group of students who have this experience of studying in Japan. Yeah. So I'm an example, I guess you're an example in a way. Those of us that develop a love of Japan through our educational exchange, we end up developing careers having to do with, in my case, international business and now with international education. So I've been here 11 years, it's probably of our normal students that are coming in and the Ukrainian students may be even more focused on developing careers after they graduate. But it's usually 20 to 30% that end up staying in this country. You're falling in love, that's one thing with a spouse or your partner or just the country itself or seeing the best career opportunities in this country as opposed to the home country or other locations. So I fully agree with you that it'll be interesting where this first cohort of students end up going as they develop their careers because they're getting this Japanese exposure right now and are going to graduate from a Japanese university. While we're running out of time, I knew this was going to happen because there's so many interesting things to talk about. So obviously what's going on in Ukraine and unfortunately it's continuing. It just seems like this back and forth war and both sides are hardened now. So I think when we first talked, there was the expectation that the war would be resolved and the situation would settle down and maybe normal life would return but that doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately. So in terms of the foundation and pathways and jar these other organizations, are you guys beginning to plan for next year as well? So I mentioned 12 universities are taking students. There are actually 18 universities that had expressed an interest in the program but we weren't able to place some students at certain institutions, partly because of the higher Japanese language requirements of those institutions. So as I mentioned, there's this program for Ukrainian students to study at Japanese language schools in Japan. A lot of those students are going to want to go to university after they finish their language school. And so we are planning a kind of a second round of the application for next year. We don't know the details yet but basically the idea is that there will be students who are eager to participate. And like you said, unfortunately it seems like this conflict is going to be drawn out and it likely will not end soon. So I think the need will still be there. So we do want to continue this program. I also want to say just very quickly that we definitely want to expand the nationalities of students as well who can participate in these programs. So there are refugees from lots of different countries and the need is there. It's not just Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria continues to have a huge number of refugees, Myanmar. So we hope that Japan and the Japanese government and Japanese institutions will start to see the value in these programs because it's really positive for the long-term I think that you're helping to develop a cohort of students who will, like you said, they're going to be contributing to Japanese society for a long time to come. Right, exactly. So you think that perhaps this experience now with the Japanese government being more positive about supporting refugees, at least from Ukraine, may open up the door for other people to take advantage of the programs that have been developed and the goodwill that's developed through the Ukraine placement program, through your work and others. I certainly hope so. Yeah, all right, well that'll be interesting to see and of course, we'll be on an official basis or a business basis and kinds of guide it would be interested in those students as well. Thank you, Steve. All right, Paul, well, the half hour went by so quickly. Thank you very much for your clear description of how this program has evolved and congratulations on your great success. You mentioned you've been in this position now for many, many years, but I would imagine this particular experience has got to be the greatest one so far for you. Absolutely, yes. And thank you for having me on the show. Oh, it's my pleasure. All right, well, that's a wrap then. Thank you so much, everyone, for tuning in to Looking to the East and learning about this particular story of Japan and the Ukrainian students and the good work that Paul and his foundation and others have invested in getting these students to come to Japanese universities and just a few weeks they'll be starting. So very, very nice, very wonderful story. So thanks again, Paul. We'll be back on again in two weeks with another topic. Maybe we'll talk about baseball next time, trying to keep it more positive flow. We're looking to the East at least for the month of August. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Hello, I am Anne Whiteside, Assistant Dean for Information Services at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I am joined here by my colleagues Stephen Abrams, Head of Digital Preservation in Harvard Library, and Sarah Rogers, Digital Archivist at Loeb Library. We are pleased and excited to share with you information about this project. Building for Tomorrow, Collaborative Development of Sustainable Infrastructure for Architectural Design Documentation was an IMLS awarded grant, and we are grateful to IMLS for supporting the work of the grant to further the area of digital design preservation, as it is a particularly thorny issue of digital preservation that is only now beginning to be addressed and in only a few institutions. We will each provide information about the work of the grant, share the outcomes of our work, and highlight some of the larger issues still to be addressed in order to move this work forward. The use of 2D and 3D CAD and building information modeling software is now routine in architecture and design firms. The challenge is that the number of data files created for each design project can be enormous. The resulting data files become obsolete very quickly due to continuous upgrading of software. For designers and for architectural archives and museums, the ability to preserve the data files and make them continually accessible and usable as originally created data is therefore a huge challenge. The timing of this presentation coincides with the recent digital preservation coalition report on the 2021 Global List of Digitally Endangered Species, in which 3D CAD for design and engineering is listed at the top of the list. Work on preservation of these types of data files has been ongoing for more than a decade and this grant work is part of a larger picture of work that needs to be done collaboratively due to the size and scope of the problem. Because the scope of the problem is so large, the Building for Tomorrow grant was conceived to identify collaborative ways to address the preservation of this content. In April 2018, a national forum was held in conjunction with the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, where stakeholders including architects, architectural historians, archivists, librarians, technologists and digital preservationists met to frame a collaborative infrastructure to support the long-term preservation of digital design data. The outcome was a plan of action that is really a strategic plan in nature, a multifaceted list of projects and associated tasks. In 2019, the Harvard team engaged a portion of the CAD software vendor community to a series of interviews. The interviews covered questions related to the software development, interoperability, exportability, use of free readers of the software, archiving of software and the vendor's future views of software products. The interviews allowed us to understand the perspective of the vendors to identify where we might be able to find common places to connect vendors, designers and archivists. We also began pilot projects with the Sasaki design firm and the Howler & Neune architecture firm, both Boston-based firms, working with them on in-process design projects. The first part of the work was learning about how designers work on projects and with their colleagues, especially around the generation and sharing of the data files they produce, which helped us to understand how we would need to think about preservation and the intellectual property issues that rise to the surface. In 2020 and 2021, the focus has been on developing preservation recommendations that address the preservation of the original files and the ability to experience those files appropriately to the software from which they are created and investigation into the intellectual property issues and collections of design records and the impact on eventual collecting institutions. A white paper produced in June 2021 includes further recommendations on many different aspects of the work involved in archiving digital design files. In November 2020, we hosted a virtual meeting of a broad spectrum of stakeholder communities and worked with the group through the spring of 2021. Stakeholder groups included representatives from the software industry, standards, archival institutions, national memory institutions, archival systems, historians, design firms and facilities managers. The goals of the meeting were to identify key impediments to the effective and sustainable long-term preservation of architectural and design assets and to offer concrete recommendations for best practices, to strengthen understandings between stakeholders regarding their different perspectives and their goals, to identify and refine concrete activities the stakeholders will engage in to forward the general preservation aims and the specific recommendations we are providing. The outcomes of the meeting included agreement on principles for preservation of digital architectural and design assets including a clear focus on the preservation of meaningful experiences of architectural design information which implicitly encompasses concern for both authentic digital assets and the intermediating software necessary for use and reuse of those assets, an action plan for encouraging and supporting adoption across stakeholder communities and concrete recommendations for best practices. The meeting resulted in the formation of four subgroups that focused on work that would support the emerging recommendations. One subgroup focused on identifying ISO and other informal standards that support the work of designers through the design lifecycle and have impact on the archiving of the digital data in the future. A second subgroup worked to establish a set of file transfer guidelines and resources to facilitate preparation of content to transfer from a designer to an archive. A third subgroup worked on developing a resource list of recommended principles to guide implementation and document a spectrum of practices and software tools and platforms for small or low resourced archives, federal or other very specific or regimented archives and broader more highly resourced archives. A fourth subgroup was identified to focus on access and due to time constraints was not pursued and is identified as a topic requiring further work. I am now turning this over to Steven to share deeper level information about our recommendations. Thank you. Over the past two years we've worked on guidance based on long-standing archival principles and practices including various standards for records management, preservation systems and trusted repositories. These provide a comprehensive framework for the technical and programmatic aspects of archival processing and long-term preservation. Much of our work has been in particularizing these general precepts to the specific case of architectural design data. For that purpose we look back on prior research findings such as the MIT facade project and the Library of Congress's architecture design and engineering summit as well as extensive new stakeholder consultation with architectural practitioners, historians and scholars, faculty and students, facilities managers, archivists and technologists through both individual interviews as well as the forum activities previously described. The building for tomorrow recommendations for long-term preservation arose from consideration of three key questions. First, what is it that we can and should do in order to capture and protect digital design heritage? Second, what curatorial and technical capabilities and capacities are essential for performing those activities? And third, what intellectual property rights do we need to acquire so that those activities comply with legal and policy obligations without compromising legitimate archival and scholarly needs? This led to over 50 recommendations organized into a number of broad categories applicable to the full preservation lifecycle. All is described in the white paper. Here's a quick summary of some of the more significant. To begin with, it is important to recognize the nature of archival design as a process, typically encompassing a large number of exploratory, conceptual and pragmatic iterations. Thus, it is critical to capture design artifacts at a number of significant stages along the way. These include the initial creative brief setting out client directions, the design party, that is the initial creative response to that brief, then the major conceptual design iterations, the construction bid representing the final design and because almost nothing is ever actually realized entirely as designed, the post construction as built state. Contemporary design routinely employs all manner of digital forms. The evolution away from viewing architectural data as static digital blueprints to complex database driven building information models enables many new opportunities. These models are often accompanied by highly dynamic and immersive visualization. The diversity and proprietary nature of these forms complicates subsequent preservation. Thus, while it remains important to capture original native forms, these should be accompanied by a variety of derivatives in standardized formats. While transcoding may incur some loss of detail or function, capturing a heterogeneous set of representations bolsters confidence that the underlying design data will remain viable in some form in future. Because many forms are dependent on specialized software for rendering or manipulation, it is important to have a strategy for preservation of that software. This could take a number of avenues such as permanent low or no cost licensing, the use of third party escrow of non-DRM encumbered software and reliance on emerging technologies for software emulation and preservation, such as Yale's easy emulation as a service infrastructure platform. Lastly, we work with colleagues at the Software Preservation Network and Harvard Law School to augment existing AIA contracts to articulate an explicit intention to submit materials for archival management accompanied by assignment of necessary perpetual non-exclusive rights to acquire, copy, and manipulate as necessary to ensure the ongoing viability and future usability for scholarly purposes. Similar language was developed for applicability to archival donor agreements. We'll now end our presentation with an outline of Project Next Steps. Thanks, Steven. In completing our work on the grant and the white paper, we outlined several next steps for both the Building for Tomorrow team and for the larger community invested in the preservation of digital design data. We have pulled out a few to share with you all today, but for a more comprehensive list of next steps, please reference the white paper. To start, we will continue to share an encouraged discussion around the white paper at events and conferences like this one. We are hoping to hear from as many people as possible in order to continue to expand on the recommendations Steven outlined and that are discussed in more depth in the white paper. We welcome any feedback or suggestions related to these recommendations. Next, we will continue to have conversations with the American Institute of Architects around the draft contract created during this grant work. The proposed draft contract and donor agreement will also be shared with our stakeholder community for feedback. If the AIA decides to incorporate the proposed contract language add an addendum, we will work closely with them on designing educational programming and outreach around the contracts. As a result of our conversations with firms and our work as part of an academic library that supports a design school, we have identified a need and an opportunity to collaborate with faculty on the creation of instructional sessions related to data management for design students. Working with colleagues from other academic institutions, the objectives of these sessions center around providing students with foundational data management skills and introducing them to concepts around the preservation of their own digital files. The community responsible for preserving digital design data continues to grow as cultural heritage institutions, federal institutions, facilities departments, and design firms are having to manage an increasing number of born digital files related to the built environment. The Society of American Archivists Design Records section and their Digital Design Records Task Force has been a space where archivists can work on sharing ideas and developing guidelines to address shared concerns. Toward that end, we are hoping to continue to work with our colleagues on areas that were identified during the November 2020 stakeholder meeting and in subsequent meetings with members of the task force. In particular, we are hoping to work on sharing information with digital preservation software developers to inform future product development and to continue to explore issues related to access. Finally, one of the most meaningful outcomes of this project was having the opportunity to bring together and facilitate conversation between practitioners, historians, digital preservationists, developers, archivists, and librarians. We are hoping to continue to be able to bring this growing community together in meaningful ways to address digital preservation concerns around digital design data and to advocate for standards, strategies, tools, and workflows to help prevent or reduce the loss of vital information in the future. So this concludes our presentation. We thank you so much for watching and hope you will visit the link listed on this slide and read the Building for Tomorrow white paper. Please feel free to reach out to Ann, Steven, or myself if you have any questions or comments or would just like to learn how to get involved. Thank you.


Good evening, friend. This is your host to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Come on in. Say, getting worry wrinkles over inflation, anybody.  As a matter of fact, living down under is one way of trimming your clothing budget down to bare essentials. All you need for the longest while is one wooden shoe. Tonight's inner sanctum mystery, Mark My Grave, was written by John Robert and stars Lawson's Irby in the role of Colby with Santa's Ortega as Gabby. Tonight we intend to prove that when a live wire meets a dead head, not a spark of sanity remains. We're in Christenberry, an ancient American village founded during the reign of Queen Anne.  A story that has long terrified the timid and baffled men of logical mind. The story of the Brenda Ghosts. In a close, airless room of the Brenda home, a man is strapped down on an iron bed. His face is youthful, but his hair is white as if bleached by shock. He stares blindly at an older man hovering anxiously over him. Gabby. Yeah? It's me. I've got everything under control. Untie me, Gabby. I can't breathe. I can't untie you, kid.  You just touch yourself. I've sent for a doctor. Able to talk about it a little? Talk about it? Sure. Only if you're able to. Ghosts. Ghosts were a big joke to us. The assignment was going to be a gag. Pictures done to give the newspaper comic relief. That day, you called me. Hey, Colby. Yeah? There's a wire coming in. Eight state search for missing hitchhiker couple. And what about it? Just two more missing Americans as a medium. John Alfred Parker have been missing for 14 days. Well, I've seen entering the village of Christenberry. They were seen entering, but nobody saw them leave. Christenberry is the village famous for the Brenda Ghost. You want to buy a bed sheet, boss? No. I do want to buy a circulation booster. You're not assigning me to interview the Brenda Ghost. And all the other branders with pictures. Brought yourself over to Christenberry with a flash gun and photograph everything that moves. What if the Ghost is camera shy? Christenberry was a village a man starts talking to himself in. A handful of bearded old timers are stared at newcomers, then scurried away like frightened Jagrabbit. The population on the ground was less than 100. The population underground was an easy 20,000. Now, before tackling the Brenda's, I did some reconnoitering. If you're a man of caution, Mr. Colby, you're not go poking your nose. How did Luther Brenda die? He was found killed over in his study one black night, murdered. Somebody took an axe to him. Just somebody. The hatchet man was never caught? No. Did the police ever figure out a motive for the murder? Robbery, they said. But it was hate that killed old Luther if you ask me. Well, driving into town, I saw posters tacked onto telephone poles, advertising a public auction of the Brenda house and grounds tomorrow at 10 a.m. Uh, what's it mean? County supervisors orders. Ain't a penny in tax has been paid since old Luther Brenda died. Good riddance to Luther's brood, I say. If you're set to go into the devil's roost, you'll be wanting a powerful charm on your person. Wear this around your neck and you'll come to no harm.  A luxury I'm the ward-off demon. Now you really sold yourself on the Brenda ghost story, huh? I've seen old Luther Brenda.  Where? Right where you're standing. Look! He called the devil and he's come. Come, what do you mean come? Look to the window. I followed her pointing finger. There, staring at us through her window was a face. It's old Luther Brenda. It glowed like a mass coated with phosphorus. In a moment, the face was gone. Vanished. I left and drove onto the Brenda place, trying to throw off the spell. It was a perfect setting for a ghost.  A dimly lit gabled house high up on a hill. Barking dogs somewhere. I was picking my way slowly with my camera slung over my shoulder, working my flashlight. When I got the first proofs that I really needed a charm bag around my... Oh! The rifle shot. Somebody had shot the flashlight out of my hand. Are you shot? Nah, you just ruined a new flashlight. Who are you? David Brenda. You? Colby, a reporter. You always welcome guests with a blast of rifle fire. I mistook you for all Luther. All Luther's on the prowl tonight. Shooting at your father's ghost, huh? What makes you think the old fellow's on the prowl tonight? He's been in his casket. You checked to see? I did. You dug him up and pried open his coffin and checked? Nope. There was no need to do that. We ain't ever buried old Luther. We put him in the family crypt like he wanted to be put. And you say he's not there now? Yep. Well, any objections to showing me? Nope. I followed David Brenda into a small field stone house sitting on the edge of a weed-choke meadow less than 50 feet from the big gable house, sort of primitively built mausoleum. In the center of it was a heavy old coffin tool with steel fittings. Raising the lid with a job for Hercules, I watched David Brenda's face purple in the effort. I'm showing you. Now, look for yourself. I looked. The casket was empty. I said old Luther was on the prowl.  Got up to keep his promise. What promise? To take the Brenda's back to his keeping. First Walter, then Polly, then me, he said. Walter's first because he's the oldest.  Yep. And you believe it? Listen. Hear that? Organ music. Some cheerful Joe's playing an organ over at your house. The piece old Luther always played. Only Luther can play the organ. I still say show me. Come on. When he started for the main house to the accompaniment of a ghostly funeral march, it seemed to hang in the night air like a weight. Halfway across the lawn, the organ stopped.  It's Walter.  Walter, because he was the oldest. And then me. I'm next. You're Polly Brenda? I'm Polly Brenda. Didn't father play beautifully, Daisy?  Standing behind Polly, riding furiously into a palm-sized notebook, was another Quilligan duck. The kind of guy you imagine running through the fields with a butterfly in that. Who's the note-taker, David? Mr. Lortrick. He's a lord. Sir Oliver Lortrick. And your name is what? Are we rival reporters? Indeed not. Well, then what's all that note-taking about? My own spot investigation into supernatural phenomena. The Brenda's were kind enough to extend an invitation to him. For $500 for his kids. And a silk dress for me. What research society do you represent, sir Oliver? My own. My independent research will become a book. A really revolutionary book, I would say. You've seen the Brenda Ghost. I have. My findings here have been truly remarkable. You gotta show me. Bodies disappear, sure. But not under their own steam. Oh, Luther was missing from his casket. Sure, but where is he? Do you know where he is, Polly? I'm back in the coffin. He always goes back to rest. After he plays the organ. We hiked back to the mausoleum, all of us. I watched David Brenda make like Hercules again, raising a heavy old lid. I'm showing you. I looked. Oh, Luther Brenda was back in his casket. And it was the same face I'd seen pressed against the window. Of all Lady Hawkins' house. The mines are a funny thing, Gabby.  Suddenly your mind's developed a small crack.   You don't dare believe it because if you do, you'll never stop screaming. I didn't try to figure it out too much. I photographed everything in sight. Talked a while with the overstuffed researcher, Sir Oliver. Then holed up in the ground floor bedroom, David Brenda assigned me to. It won't be comfortable, but it's a bed. I hadn't even closed one eye when the dogs outside set up a holler that raised goose pimples all over me. It was the kind of holler you hear from the bloodhounds when they reached the end of the chase. I went to the window. Something, something was pulling me. Something, like a combination. There were the dogs on a lawn under the moon. Root masts for them and snapping something in their jaws. Been tossing it into the air. I concentrated on whatever the gadgets were. Fearing for the winter glass until my eyes almost dropped out of their sockets. For a while I made the gadgets out. They were articles of clothing. A shoe, a man's hat. A lady's handbag. I found the place the dogs had come from. It wasn't hard. I just followed the dog tracks to a ravine behind the meadow. I found them side by side. Deader than just dead. Pamela and Alfred Parker.  All lutes have killed them. Great. Having a ghost around that walks. And David, you can make him the explanation for everything. All lutes have killed them. Listen. The organ's going again. It's all lutes' favorite piece.  Waldo was the first and now it's Polly's turn. Busy night for a dead man. The idea is that Luther Brenda's up there at the organ, huh? Yep. Up there playing a prelude to Mardi. Out of his casket and up there in the watch tower. Yep. I'm going back for a double take at that casket. I played Hercules with the lid myself this time. Here's a double take, 20 times over. The casket was empty. I sprinted for the main house with David Brenda. Puffing at my heels and a funeral march pacing me. Spring got me within a foot of the front door when the music stopped. Next, after Walter, all lute is keeping his promise.  Same place. On the floor in the watch tower at the foot of the organ. Same kind of death.  Walter and Polly, he said. I'm the youngest. I'm last. On my feet felt steady enough. I went to see if Luther Brenda had settled back in his casket. I went to see just as a matter of routine. I'd find him there, I was sure of it. I'd find him there because there wasn't an organ going. That's how I'd begun to think. I wasn't your boy anymore, Gabby. I was practically your Brenda. I never reached the mausoleum. Out there in the dark, I saw Luther Brenda. I stood knee deep in the weeds and watched Luther Brenda walk past me and head straight as an arrow for the mausoleum. That dead man was returning to his casket. I took his picture, her rear profile view. My hands worked the camera automatically from habit. I didn't start screaming until the mausoleum door closed behind him. And then I couldn't... Feeling better for the sleep, kid? Yeah. I feel okay. 10 a.m. Doc gave you something to quiet you down. Anybody get up? Sure. Should I make any sense to you early this morning? Sure. But we're not talking about it, Corby. Sergeant Conley's around the premises now figuring things out. I had public auction starting in a minute. They're going ahead with the sale of this place. When a family are done, we can watch it. Gentlemen, your attention please. The sale is about to commence. By authority vested in me by the Board of Supervisors of the Incorporated Township of Cristenberry, I now offer you tax warrants, file number 126015 at public sale. Great public sale. Not a soul game. Nobody wants a place. Luther Brinder goes with it. That boy over there. See Sir Oliver? That's David Brinder. What keeps him out of a padded cell? The tax warrants amount to $3,000 gentlemen. The minimum bid I am empowered to accept is $3,000. Bid lively gentlemen. Looks like no takers, Corby. Mr. Auctioneer. Yes? In the absence of bids, I bid exactly $3,000. Sold. Sold to your name please. Lautrec. Sir Oliver Lautrec. Come on, Corby. That's all I wanted to hear. Sir Oliver, what's here that's worth $3,000? Must I answer that question? You'd better in pronto. And don't tell me you've gotten attached to a walking dead man. My work prompted me to make that bid. The $3,000 enables me to pursue my research. I'd been advised that the county planned to raise the house to the ground if no bid was forthcoming. That would be a pity. Irreparable loss to the study of supernatural phenomena. But more of a loss to you, eh? A loss of say, $100,000? You're making no sense at all to me. And that, eh? There's a cop here, utility and basic English.  The killer left the jewels behind him for safekeeping. Because he was wanted in 12 states, he was hotter than a firecracker. I knew he'd never crash through roadblocks, set up to trap him. My theory is that the jewels are bricked in somewhere as a part of the Brenda dwelling. Isn't that why you bought the house, Sir Oliver? To be free to take a wall down at your leisure and pocket a bank full of jewels? It's a preposterous theory. In my opinion, gentlemen, your surroundings here have affected your minds.  Ah, that gimmick. Give them the rest of it, Sergeant. The corpse that gets up and plays the organ. That's you, La Trek. Now don't waste your breath denying it. Among other items of proof, we've got photographic evidence. That wraps up the ghost story, Colby. Sir Oliver was caught on that roadblock 10 years ago. He served his time and came right back to Cristenberry in his jewel cash. Photographic evidence, Conley said. What did he mean? That picture you took of Luther Brenda walking back into the mausoleum. We developed it and blew it up. It was Sir Oliver wearing a plastic mask. It was a close copy of Luther Brenda's features. He found the mask in his luggage. But the casket was actually empty. Twice. Another La Trek operation. That on it. Pickin' your brains. It's all ABC open and shut. Everything fits logically. Everything ends up. But they were sitting on the floor with their hands clasped around their knees. Walter and Polly like children listening to music. Colby, I'm beggin' you.  Dead men don't sit down and play the organ. Don't they, Gabby? Listen.  It's all Luther Brenda. Up there in the watchtower playing his favorite piece. He's out of his casket. And at the organ, David's on the floor like a child. Listening to his father play. Colby, quit it. It's David's turn now. After Walter came Polly. David's last because he's the youngest. It's his turn now to go back to his father's keeping. Soon the music will stop and David will scream. Listen, Gabby. See, Gabby? David sits like the others on the floor. Dead. Is he dead, Sergeant? Yeah. Can't pin this one on Lord Trek. Then what killed David Brenda? Oh, Luther Brenda killed him, Gabby. David was last to go because he was the youngest. Ah, shut up, Colby. You were saying, Sergeant? No visible injury. Our fan, I'd say, was frightened to death. Brought a seizure on himself. Oh, sure, that makes sense. They frightened himself to death. Does it make sense, Gabby? David Brenda played an organ solo for David Brenda. He shattered the organ, pumping the pedals, and shot on the floor at the same time. Sure, it makes sense. It got to make sense. He played a funeral march and died listening to it. One man in two places at the same time. So the Brenda's are back together again. Now there's one gang that believes in the family ties that bind. Some cynic whispers, straight jaggers. Ah, that's all of a nice guy to venture addict to. I'm told he's using himself as a basis for research now. He's bringing his notebook and pencil into the hot seat where they expect to record impressions that will electrify nobody but himself. I'd say, if you ever run into a walking corpse, Mr. Blow the whistle on yourself.  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.


All right guys, welcome back to the channel if you're new man was Bobby guys You really thought I forgot about you of course not today We're going to continue with the Prophet series the title today is Ibrahim Alayhi salam in Palestine and Mecca the story of Ismail alayhi salam and Ishak Alayhi salam my inbox has been flooded my comment section has been flooded every single day you guys write me and tell me please Continue with the Prophet series guys to my own defense here this video is over 40 minutes long And this is why I've been postponing it usually a rake to 10 minute videos 15 minute videos 20 minutes is already pushing it guys and this video as I said is over 40 minutes long So this will take me multiple hours Therefore we will have to split this video even into further parts guys I know that you want to watch the Prophet series However, if you truly want me to continue, please support the channel like the videos subscribe to the channel share the videos and Support further via the links in the description box below and now with no further ado. Let's have a look When Ibrahim alayhi salam realized that the Egypt is not the place to stay in he migrated from Egypt to Palestine All right That's when he leaves Egypt open the doors of blessings to Ibrahim alayhi salam Allahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa minwala amma ba'ad And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Will open to him His gates of wealth. They had lots of Baraka and blessings in their business He had so much sheep and he had so much in terms of wealth and he became quite a wealthy person But there was one thing missing in Ibrahim's life Sayyidina Ibrahim alaihi salatu wa salam is married to our mother Zitsara One year of marriage she can't give me children and there is no child and the Khalil of Allah turns to Allah and begs Allah a rabbi habli minna saliheen this story by the way is identical in Christianity Judaism Allah, I beg you. Give me a pious son two years of marriage pass and there is no child and said Ibrahim alaihi salam makes this door. Oh, Allah. Give me a pious son Give me a righteous son five years of marriage pass and there is still no child And Ibrahim is still making do our rabbi habli minna saliheen Ten years of marriage pass and there is still no child and Ibrahim is still making the door Rabbi habli minna saliheen 50 how old is Ibrahim at this point?  Allah is not answering the door of Sayyidina Ibrahim Islam keeps on bowing Ibrahim alaihi salam keeps on crying Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam keeps on asking. He keeps on making do our rabbi habli minna saliheen as every day passes Sayyidina Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam is becoming older as every day passes Sayyidina Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam is becoming weaker Slowly but surely the color of his hair are changing our mother as it's a radi Allah as a Sara has now Got to an age in which women normally do not give birth But look at the level of Iman of the Khalil of Allah when it came to say the Ibrahim alaihi salam There was no such thing as despairing. Why should say the Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam despair Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam knew one that loses hope in the mercy of Allah This individual is a loser in the dunya and this individual is a loser in the Akhirah Why should you lose hope in the mercy of Allah Ibrahim? This is what I truly love about Islam the emphasis on Ibrahim on Abraham no other religion puts the emphasis on Abraham like Islam does because Islam identifies who Ibrahim truly was the first real monotheist that we know About the father of all the prophets taking Dua to the Allah that is the load of the heavens and the earth The Allah that is the load of the Arshan Kursi that Allah that is the load of the entire universe The Allah that is the Al-Qadir that has the power to do as he pleases whenever he pleases He was making Dua to the Allah that can make the impossible possible when he's at the age of 80 Allah reveals a whole set of laws a whole Sharia Ibrahim is told in this set of laws He is given the Abrahamic covenant that all true followers of Abraham are told to fulfill He is told to circumcise He's the only believer there is no other believer that can circumcise him and so at the age of 80 Our prophet Muhammad says them tells us as an 80 year old man when the laws come down He circumcises himself So that pain man so and felt Ibrahim Is laughing to have a child this 84 he's old and The unfortunate thing is Ibrahim didn't have a child because Sarah Was barren she doesn't give birth Yeah, so Sarah that is the harsh reality that feminists do not want to accept a man can produce a child Even on his deathbed a woman on the other hand once hitting menopause It is all over and even before that it becomes very very complicated in her thirties This is the reality of biology and we learn it through Islam in Islam We don't have this arbitrary age for marriage. No when you hit puberty you become fertile and from now on You can get married. This is sensical. This is logical. This is based in reality Hazar a present to Ibrahim He's Hazar or Ibrahim take her she is yours now get married to her have children from her My Allah bless you and her and us Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with all due respect it all happened the way that it had to happen However for us men we have to realize that we cannot wait for our wife to tell us 35 years later that now it is okay to take a second wife We as men have to make the decision right away once we see that our wife is not fertile What happened and Ibrahim alaihi salam to accepted hazard and then married her Then one day my young friend at the age of 86 the Dua of Ibrahim was accepted at the age of 86 the Dua of Ibrahim was accepted and who was Ibrahim the Khalil of Allah The Khalil of Allah the near and dear friend of Allah Allah befriended him and his Dua has been accepted at the age of 86 The child is now born and The name of this child is Ismael my young friends Ismael alaihi salam has come into the world Sarah Now when she saw Ibrahim spending a lot of time with Ismael and he's the mother of Ismael Hazar and the attention now is taken away from Sarah to Ismael and Hazar jealousy start to play Women so jealous that she could not even stand Hazar or the son of Hazar Ismael and then the order of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will come to Ibrahim Allah Azza wa Jalla already Ibrahim alaihi salam to take Hazar and his new baby boy Ismael in a mirror of a valley by the name of Makkah where there's nothing there I'll leave him alone and come back to you Sarah Now Makkah my young friends wasn't like what Makkah is today Makkah was a barren desert There was nothing in Makkah no houses no trees no Buildings nothing no water nothing the only thing that you would find in Makkah in those days was Burning heat scorching heat Burning Sun and mountains that have become black because even they cut tolerated the heat the order of Allah came and that's enough He took them when Hazar did not know what the plan was when they reached the middle of the desert Which is where Makkah is today Right near the Kaaba which built today. There was nothing there, but They settled down with a bit of water and bit of food Suddenly Ibrahim alaihi salam stood up turned his back and began to walk the other way Hajar walked up to him and said yeah, Ibrahim he didn't reply Ibrahim he didn't reply kept walking. She knew something was wrong. She said are you leaving us? He kept walking Ibrahim alaihi salam did not answer. He kept looking to the ground not even looking at him walking straight ahead and Hajar calls out. Oh Ibrahim. Where are you going? Oh Ibrahim? Where have you left us? There is nobody here There's no food. There's no water and Ibrahim. Can you imagine every father amongst us? He hears his son crying. He hears his wife begging and pleading. He has been told by his Lord to leave them He continues walking and Hajar understands that this tender man yet again I'm absolutely fascinated with the story of Ibrahim him as the archetype of the prophets him as the prototype of The pure monotheist yet again You don't have that in any other religion and I have to repeat this and make this very very clear for the non-muslims watching Which other religion has a red threat? Which other religion tells you what religion even is because if you look at Christianity, they claim that Christianity is the truth However, then they talk about Abraham they talk about Moses and we know that those people were not Christians then you see the Jews and the Jews will talk about Abraham as well But they know very well that Abraham was not a Jew either. So how does this work? How can we claim that Judaism or Christianity are the true religions? However, the prophets within those religions were not Christians or Jews. It is only Islam that identifies Abraham Ibrahim was a pure monotheist Somebody that submitted his will to God to God alone. This is what Ibrahim did This is what a Muslim does and this is what Islam is and therefore, Alhamdulillah, we are Muslim Never do this. No other religion does it. His Lord has told him and so Hajar asks him Well, Ibrahim has a lot told you to do this Finally, Sayyidina Ibrahim alaihi salam responded and said yes Hajar Ali Allah when has said then Allah subhanat Allah will not neglect us. That's it She didn't talk with him further Allah subhanat Allah told you to do this. Yes Allah subhanat Allah will take care of us. He will not neglect us This is the iman.  This is her iman He continues to walk And when he gets to a place Where she can no longer see him and Ismail can no longer see him Sayyidina Ibrahim alaihi salam turns to Allah O Allah, I've left my only child O Allah, I've left my wife in this barren land O Allah, there's nothing here. Nothing grows here. There's not even water In the baytikal Muharram right next to your sacred house. Why so that they establish Salah O Allah, I beg you fill the heart of some from amongst men with love towards them O Allah, give them Samarab, give them fruits so that they may be grateful The hearts of believers are pulled over. Why do Ibrahim alaihi salam? Ya Allah turn the hearts of the people to them And he left them there Then he went back to his other wife back in sham And some ulama they say he came back after 10 years 10 years Text messages Skype What even a letter? A 10 years no contact And her husband is leaving her alone We're so spoiled nowadays a little anecdote of my grandfather back then when he was still in Yugoslavia A man came to him and told him that there is work in Germany. He didn't even know what Germany is He just knew it is a foreign country and they offer good money. So my grandfather asked the man What do I need to come to Germany with you the man answered you just need your passport and a small fee No worries my grandfather said and he ran back to his house. However, nobody was home My grandma was at work and the children were at school my father my aunt my uncle They were all at school my grandfather on the other hand He forgot his key, but he really needed his passport So therefore in his ambition my grandfather looked around and he found a huge stone Smashed in his own window just to get the passport out wrote a quick letter Wife, I am gone to a foreign country. I will be back soon and left my grandmother my father They didn't hear for months off my grandfather. He went to Germany and started working over there saving up So one day he can take his family over to Germany during this time My grandmother just continued business as usual taking care of the children going to work Nowadays if you pull something like that and you don't respond to your whatsapp message After two hours or so your wife probably will cheat on you


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Well, it's always nice to see that people came to your session because you never really know, you know, with all these multiple tracks So I'm really glad to see you all here I'm Kamala Desika and I work on the product team focusing on the cloud platform and ecosystem at Pivotal The product specifically being Pivotal Cloud Foundry Pivotal Cloud Foundry has been at the center of many enterprise digital transformation projects where we've worked and helped our customers with the technology piece the cloud platform and sometimes they want us to work with them a little bit more on Changing the culture and the practice and the way they deliver their Software within the organization And so in these kinds of engagements, we often work together with other partners really great partners like Dynatrace Where we together join forces to increase the impact that we have on the overall For overall for the customer and make that digital transformation project just a little bit easier on them So Michael you want to introduce yourself? Yeah, so I'm Mike villager. Obviously as Kamala mentioned I work for Dynatrace I have the unique role inside of Dynatrace and that I'm focused explicitly on working with Cloud Foundry And more specifically working very closely with with Pivotal on a regular basis both in terms of you know internal Inside of Dynatrace evangelizing the values of Cloud Foundry and some of the things that Pivotal talks about As well as then a customer focus as well helping my customers implement Dynatrace on on top of Cloud Foundry deployments All right, so this session is about to refactor or not and how to systematically Modernize your applications if you have decided that you actually want to do that Refactoring so before we get into the actual process of how we start to do that Let's talk a little bit about the goals right since we've worked a lot with our enterprises What is it that they're really going after now the context for a lot of changes has been that enterprises really want to get from a delivery model that kind of looks like this where they're delivering this monolithic application in a fairly linear and sequential manner Where all of the changes that they're making in feature productions into the application at one time And they're probably deploying it to something like a virtual machine and they're doing it sparingly at very specific windows because this might actually require You know restarting the application possibly downtime for the end user And so all of the surrounding activities are sort of planned around that one deployment event And there's an entire team and a host of people that are involved in all the day-to operations You know keeping the application secure patchable resilient and all that other really non trivial engineering tasks, right? And they want to get from this process to something that looks like this where they're deploying Composed applications where they have these individual microservices that are essentially decoupled from each other They have their own lifecycle and therefore their Cycles can essentially be shorter have more iterations bring the customer feedback into the Service and the product features into the microservice more frequently and From a developer perspective, no one really wants to deploy or think about Servers anymore. They really want to think about things just in terms of applications and their backing services and Pivotal cloud foundry or cloud foundry in general Does a really great job of doing exactly that where you have everything from the application down to the operating system? Treated as a single version controlled unit and what that lets you do is great, you know, it's a great way to do horizontal scale it's also a great way to Roll your features out without too much consequence because you can always roll back blue green deployments are extremely easy to do With with this kind of an environment and therefore you're ready for production at any given point of time because you've de-risked Your your your delivery, right and of course the operations team are in a position where they're no longer managing Servers and they're in a position where they're looking at the overall picture of managing services Now that's really great because you get a ton of advantages from an enterprise perspective and so a lot of them for new initiatives, this has kind of been a no-brainer, right and It's a good place for a lot of enterprises to start resetting their technical debt Problem is most modern enterprises actually have very heterogeneous workloads where they run the gamut of you know technology stacks inside of their walls and More and more of them really want to start seeing these kinds of benefits for Applications that are currently in their portfolio already, you know take advantage of things like more automation more resiliency More visibility and speed at which they're able to deliver features to their customers So now that we have the goals in mind we can start talking about the process a little bit more So when you have these large set of applications In the enterprise portfolio the first thing that you can start to do is to do some affinity mapping right and get a Group together your applications based on things like technology characteristics Business functions and things like that and then you can just do like these very simple prioritization as I think this is the group that I'm Going to attack first Now within a particular group for each application you can start to apply filters that have you know business Economic and technical attributes that you will start to score So for example is part of your business framework you can look at things like Does this application have a really deep backlog, right? So that means it's an application that potentially really benefits from having that fast feature release Does the application is the application actually even business critical to begin with does the application have? Customers how many customers does it have? Is it a revenue-generating application and sometimes you might make a decision based on things that you might not really think of for example there are some Applications that have staff that have a very specific skill set that may have left the company and So these orphan applications are perfect candidates is essentially for for refactoring. So sometimes staffing decisions will drive You know this this kind of changes Other things that you would look at our economic in nature for example licensing costs of the middleware and all of the other software That you need in order to run the application there are time-to-market implications The costs of the infrastructure itself that that you're running your application on There are things like operational costs. You know, are you spending a ton on? staff that is You know trying to meet specific SLAs or maybe you're missing SLAs and paying a ton of penalties because you've done that, right? So these are all the consideration you would put down the scores for This kind of Analysis and then the last bit is the on the technical side Your worksheet would have things that you're looking at the application the nature of the application itself Does the app accept inbound connections? Is the app actually very tightly coupled with the application server? Is it very highly dependent on a particular operating system that maybe is not supported in in Cloud Foundry? What are some of the services and service integrations that you need in order for the app to function? Properly does it have a need to do persistent storage? Are you storing HTTP sessions and some of these I think are Are things that are familiar to you as what does it really take to bring an application in? Conformity to 12 factor or 15 factor applications. Now. Those are all the things that you would score here you can further narrow it down by saying if you still have a large number of applications you're dealing with you further narrow it down by Picking applications that currently already have a little bit of automation Associated with them. Are they running on some group them by CI systems that you have in place there? Now the anti-goal of all this really is Analysis paralysis a lot of this information really should take you know It should be a snap judgment and kind of get to get to this information in a couple of hours Not necessarily, you know days and days where you're delivering this giant deck to management and trying to get funding for it, right? So at this point, I'm going to hand off to Michael to show us the techniques on How you can arrive at some of the data so you can get the the appropriate information for the app? Thanks Kamala, so Obviously Kamala walked through a couple of techniques here in terms of you know determining some sort of score to Start prioritizing applications for the replatforming effort Now what I'm looking to talk about here is you know some unique applications of APM technology and more specifically What Donna Trace is capable of doing very rapidly in an environment? to start Attempting to use some of the information from the APM tooling to build out that score for you And I like to kind of look at things through through a couple of different lenses and the first lens that I like to help people utilize is user experience and behavioral analytics so because Donna Trace is looking at the entire stack from the user all the way through the technical details If we start with the user experience We can slice and dice the data in a couple of different ways to to you know, maybe come up with our Refactoring candidates. So the first thing that we can look at is the frequency of actions So what that means is how often is a specific piece of functionality being accessed? Right, is it something that's being accessed very frequently, you know on the order of you know dozens If not hundreds of times per second And then you can take the inverse of that as well. You can take a look at things that Maybe are very infrequently accessed I've had customers that have have taken both of these approaches and really the idea here is you know, do you want to try and take that? Giant business critical piece of functionality and replat from that first for that huge win that is going to you know basically You know really justify a lot of the the efforts or do you want to take the the low-risk approach and and maybe take something that is You know very very infrequently accessed and and move that over first All right, so then the other thing that we can look at as well then would be you know Once again looking at that user experience But looking at transactions that take a long time right things that are very poorly performing these are generally going to be really complex transactions typically given the amount of time that they take and and something like this is You know sometimes a prime factor for a prime candidate for refactoring just due to the complexity of these types of transactions and Then there's another measure That combines the two right so it's a it's a multiplication of the response time as well as the Action rate and and that results in kind of an overall user experience consumption value Right, so you know really it's kind of looking at things through that user experience lens To try and figure out what might be a good candidate for refactoring The second lens is to look at things from a topology perspective Right, so understanding at a service interaction level What components you know even when we're dealing with monoliths? It's extremely unlikely that the monolith is completely existing in isolation, right? So sometimes you have multiple monoliths that are talking to each other So we want to understand where in the scope of a user-facing transaction the amount of time and the frequency in which the services interact with each other and then you know you also Want to utilize tooling that's gonna quickly map out the environment. This is actually like a pretty key Like generic cloud migration use case right in utilizing something like Donna trace We've often had customers Identify interactions that they were not even aware of You know because there's there's you know environments that have been in place for so long That they didn't even realize that you know service a is actually calling service B and service a is actually Interfacing directly with the database that maybe it wasn't even supposed to be talking to right So it's important to be able to quickly Deploy some tooling to help you slice and dice that data to to really uncover some of these candidates for refactoring and then you know, we want to kind of take a look at things from a resource consumption perspective Right, so we want to take a take a look at resource consumption at the hypervisor level At the virtual machine level, you know, are we are we looking at you know? Some really really bloated monoliths where you know There might be some cost savings involved in trying to maybe spread that out a little bit so that we don't have to You know try and run a bunch of you know 64 gig virtual machines or something like that and Then taking that into the process level, you know once again, is it something that has? You know particularly poorly performing garbage collection or something like that and then obviously taking a look at that that service level Which represents the you know the actual user experience of that service So it's kind of taking a look at things once again From the user experience level to really understand how frequently Services are being interacted with and then to take a look at things from You know the bottom-up infrastructure type of perspective as well And back to you come on. All right. Thanks Mike So this next bit actually now that you know coming back to the the model that you're scoring and you have a List of applications essentially that have bubbled to the top where You have relatively low amount of investment that you would need to do in order to get a higher degree of business gain, right? So this next bit is a little bit like cooking where you know someone else's recipe isn't necessarily going to work out the same way in your own kitchen But you'll make some tweaks and eventually you'll make the recipe your own so so far You have projects like we've done have really fallen into these two buckets here So going back to like the technical score that you guys that you've all arrived at You can see that applications that fall into the quadrant where you have a Low amount of effort that require you know, but high degree of return will fall into the replatforming area and that You know examples of those would be things like your spring boots Spring applications that currently running on Tomcat or if there are ear files that are easily Split into spring boot fat jars that you can deploy and just something simple like just go ahead and do it like push it onto the cloud foundry See what fails and write a test for everything that failed and work on your application until that test passes So what you're doing here is trying to address the lowest level of the maturity model So what exactly would I mean by maturity model? A lot of our customers have these staged processes with which they measure their success and you know at Pivotal we have Let's say our three stages would be something like you know runs on Pivotal cloud foundry Runs well on Pivotal cloud foundry runs great on Pivotal cloud foundry so at this first stage what you're trying to do is just address what are the minimum set of things that you need to Have the application run you don't necessarily have to address all of the 12 factors or the 15 factors That you need to get your application running And I think this is a good way to start showing early results and sometimes you may just want to move You know your application and leave it at that first stage Maybe it's not a candidate for taking it all the way to Running well or running great on cloud foundry and the second bucket we have the Modernization now these are those applications that are high value, but take a lot of effort in order to get on Pivotal cloud foundry So the go-to approach here has been using techniques like domain driven design Where you're identifying some of these natural seams within the application That you can slice off into their your own microservices at these you know, this is kind of where your science meets art and and communications at this point and Yeah, the mod you can just take some of the more Objective information that you retrieve from this whether it's through static code analysis where you're figuring out You know how the code code interacts How the transactions are bounded and you can take the information from your monitoring tools where you have the the baseline of the performance metrics of your application You can capture the flow of events that are happening with the within the application and take all of that Other techniques that you can apply together with this information is things like Conway's law. Everybody knows what Conway's lies All right with some hands all right So Conway's law essentially states that the structure of your application mirrors the structure of the communication within your organization So the team structure sometimes Helps you identify what the seams are inside of your application another way that Conway's law actually helps you is When you currently have broken off your vertical slices for For creating your microservice the bounded context that arise from this may not necessarily match the existing team structure within your organization And that doesn't really bode well for the success of the microservice once you actually have it deployed So trying to blend the data across those two Those two data points is actually a really good way to kick off your your team and kind of get that communication flowing within the organization We've got a ton of material that we've written on the subject actually my colleague Rohit Kilipur has done a lot of these kinds of projects and if you guys are interested in Learning more or reading more material on domain-driven design and these kinds of replatforming efforts Please go to our website pivotal.io and look at the replatforming section and you can get a lot more detail on that So ultimately what we're trying to do or accomplish here within these modernization efforts is Reduce the amount of cohesion and coupling that exists within the application What do I mean by that? That is how badly is a change in one part of the application? Going to impact another part of the application. So last year at CF summit I saw this example by Mike Gehard, which I thought was a really simple and great way To to to demonstrate exactly what we mean by this so on the left side you can see Let's take for example orders. There are actually three places if you change orders There are three places where you have to make that change But if you look on the right side, which is a more well-formed application Making a change to order is really just the one place, right? So what you're trying to do here is group things and things that change together should be together, right? And so Mike I'm going to hand off to you so he'll talk a little bit more about the implications Sure of what that looks like so obviously, you know one of the things that that we've done here is it's kind of like the almost step one of the replatforming effort to take you know an existing monolith and transform that monolith into a well-formed monolith and When we take a look at that well-formed monolith it'll allow us to Model the behaviors of how that Application might function once you've carved out a piece of that functionality to a microservice So as you might take that order piece that we that we talked about and actually carve that out of the monolith Into into a microservice so once we've got that well-structured monolith we can take our monitoring tooling and Understand how that's going to operate When that transition has taken place so you know, we're still in the contact You know, we're still bound by a single JVM. We still exist as a monolith But we're able to transform the visibility from from this relatively simplified view to a More complex view where we're seeing what things would look like if this was in fact a monolith and that visibility is going to allow You to you know ensure that You know the architecture is validated that tears aren't you know inadvertently crossing boundaries and so on So, you know, then you want to continue to utilize that service flow information that that's captured on a every Transaction basis to continue to perform that architectural validation As you're going through your replatforming efforts Right because we really want to make sure that we've identified those those bounding context the bounded context That that actually represent that the way that we're slicing and dicing our monolith and you know this kind of transitions into What in my mind is a key topic and that is as we're going through these efforts To carve up our existing monoliths. It's it's unlikely that we're doing this in isolation It's it's unlikely that we're gonna be presented with an opportunity to do the whole thing I'll you know to basically do it all and Not have the users interacting with it as we've gone through and made some of these changes So it's important that you have a monitoring Strategy in place to ensure that the changes that you're making have had the desired impact right we want to make sure that You know, we haven't resulted in a degradation and user experience And we want to ensure that you know our regressions that that might have been identified can quickly be rolled back You know, maybe by taking advantage of functionality like blue-green deployments and a lot of the other pieces that Make the Cloud Foundry platform wonderful for operating these services And then, you know once again as we talk about user experience, there's two lenses to user experience, right? There's the the you know the the hard values of things like response time But user experience also incorporates business metrics as well, right? So you want to ensure that you know if you've taken that Well-structured monolith and split the orders piece out of it that you haven't somehow resulted in a loss of conversions Right you want to make sure that that your technical changes haven't had a negative impact on the business and once again, obviously As we continue to do this. It's important to Understand and quickly identify regression so that we can roll them back quickly and back to you Kamal Well, thank you So what we're trying to say here is that it is possible and it is actually relatively easy to move new workloads onto cloud foundries And a lot of these if you if we do them well enough and if we show ROI well enough The funds that you save from that can actually find you know fund new initiatives within Cloud Foundry and tools within the platform itself make it much easier to run your newly re-platformed applications use technologies like spring boot and spring cloud services as you go through these Applications for 30% less code than JBoss so you can reset your technical debt there work You know you use it to transform your enterprise to delivering code quickly get your features out to your customers quickly If you wanted to play with this some more Mike awesome. All right, so final summary slide here So, you know, there's a couple of different things that you can take a look at here So we release our full stack add-on, which is what allows you to have this visibility Either, you know in your existing environment as well as your you know net new cloud native environments We provide a add-on that's distributed via pivnet for for pivotal customers as well as you know Elsewhere if you happen to be you know utilizing a different flavor of cloud foundry and if you're interested in taking a free trial of Donna trace we've got a Code there pivotal 17 that allows you to have significantly more credits in your trial than you than you might have had otherwise And if you're and if you're interested in learning more about this we actually have the spring one platform That's coming up in December. We hope to see some of you there And we will talk a lot more about the subject a lot more deep dives code examples and snippets that we will do over there That's all we have for you. We're here for questions. Yeah, any questions? Nothing Everybody awake Very last session that you had a question. Yeah, so the question was about you know kind of the the the cultural ramifications of You know running commercial software in an environment that is you know, maybe primarily free or open source software, right? So it that that's actually a really interesting question because that's all that's a it's a very philosophical one right, so I've always been under the of the impression that There is no free lunch. So you're you're you're there are a finite amount of There's there's a certain amount of costs that are going to be incurred You know in in utilizing software, right? So the question is do you pay a vendor or do you pay your team? right So so that's kind of like the fundamental business driver there is you know one way or another Somebody is is is going to be collecting some sort of funds for that, right? That doesn't necessarily address the the more philosophical area where you know, am I only going to use open source software? that that that's like a trickier topic that you know, I've personally followed since like the early days of Linux in the mid 90s and you know Reading all of rms's papers and so on and so forth. So that's kind of a little bit that that one's a little bit trickier but often in In our opinion what kind of like what we see at Donna trace is okay So certain elements of the stack might be open source But when you really want to ensure that? the users are having a great experience on Your platform right whether you be a bank an e-commerce shop, whatever you might be That tends to be a great platform to invest in in commercial software because Quite frankly there isn't a lot of open source APM solutions out there It's it's not something that's really well addressed in the free and open source market right now Does that answer the question at least reasonably well So I mean that is a that is a pretty frequent issue that I run into is that the what can be called not invented here syndrome? I've kind of actually seen it referred to that elsewhere and it quite frankly tackling a issue like this is generally, you know, not something that Can be taken lightly and you know, you see some of the the pivotal folks will will you know basically release Some quotes like was it the one that like it was a tweet or something like that like you know Thanks for thanks for building a new DNS system said no CEO ever, right? You know the one that I'm talking about That was there was something that was in one of the pivotal presentations at one point in time so so yes, there are Philosophical differences to the approach But APM is actually a market that's not very well served by open source solutions right now So it you are part of the the cloud foundry foundation aren't you mm-hmm. Yeah, so they do support I mean, so we've in a different way I guess we invest in the success of cloud foundry both in terms of helping our customers operate cloud foundry as well as investing in the foundation So any other questions while we're here Yeah, Conway's law Yes, they do and that's actually a big part of why you know Pivotal works with a lot of our customers at least the initial few to help them kind of come up with the right roles and Team structures to help them that and actually it's actually a great team optimization mechanism Where you're co-locating your team because microservices it's a very different paradigm than when you're developing monoliths And so yes to answer your question the team structure does change Any others all right well, I hope everybody has you know pleasant travels back to wherever they came from and And have a pleasant evening. Yes. Think of something else Give us you know tweet us at our handles. They're here on the on the slide. Thanks everyone