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All right, the NFL legal tampering period began at noon and the Patriots, they did have an early agreement as they reportedly came to terms with running back Antonio Gibson. Three-year deal, 11-2-5 million. It includes just over 5 million fully guaranteed. Gibson breaking a thousand yards rushing two seasons ago, but has had limited production ever since. Meanwhile, Patriots also reportedly informed Devonte Parker he will be released on Wednesday when the league year begins. Parker now has permission to speak with other clubs on a new deal. His dead cap number is just under $5 million. And we got more. The Patriots and Jaguars reportedly the team's most interested in signing wide receiver Calvin Ridley. Ridley is widely regarded as the top free agent wide receiver on the market. And taking a look at some notable signings from today. Kurt Cousins four years, $180 million with the Falcons. Christian Wilkins four years, $110 million as he signs with the Raiders. Saquon Barkley three years, $37, almost $38 million with the Eagles and Josh Jacobs four years, $48 million with the Green Bay Packers. And that's all the news we got. Well, not all of it. We got two here. We're going to get to it. I promise Tommy Kern, Phil Perry for free with you. Tom Giles here about the early edition. And we also want to know from everyone else out there, how would you grade the Patriots so far in the first six hours of free agency? You can join the conversation. Vote in our poll. Why is Burt left all right? Because free agency starts tomorrow. Especially early edition. But it for all intents and purposes. But they're all on board with that one grade there. Started today. We might be needing a few more votes to come in. So you can scan the QR and you can vote in the poll. How should we feel so far? I can't speak for you and I can't speak for him or him or anybody else out there. How do you feel? How do I feel? I feel like until the Patriots address the three greatest positions of need. Offensive line. Preferably tackle. Either by signing their own free agent Mike on Wenu or somebody outside like Jonah Williams to tackle from Cincinnati. Then it's incomplete. Additionally, it's incomplete until we find out what's going to happen with Calvin Ripley. The wide receiver position has to be addressed. And then finally, you have to look at the quarterback position and your veteran because you have moved on from Mack Jones, who was at the very least a placeholder who could take snaps from you. So you're announcing we're going to do something free agency. Haven't seen any of that. But again, free agency hasn't really started. So at least we know that the hook seemed to be in the water. I'm okay with where they're at for the reasons Tom mentions. And you still have a lot of big names that are still out there that could help the Patriots at those positions. Tyron Smith still available at tackle. Michael Wenu is still out there. Jonah Williams from Cincinnati at receiver. Calvin Ridley is still available in the Jaguars signed to receivers today. So how heavy are they going to be in on resigning Calvin Ridley? And then Jacobi Berset, the guy that I have felt now for about a month or more, is the best fit for what the Patriots need right now at that position. He's out there too. So no need to hit the panic button because it has been a relatively slow developing, especially at these positions that we're talking about, Bert, free agency period so far. I'm okay with it in an environment where Robert Hunt, the guard from the Dolphins, is going to get $20 million a year from the Panthers in an environment where Jonah Jackson, the guard from the Lions is going to get $17 million a year from the Rams. I'm okay with being cautious and tapping the brakes. I don't think this is a great free agent class to begin with. And so I think the idea for the Patriots going in should have been just try to get competent in every position. And I think, you know, going and getting Kendrick Bourne signed, getting Hunter Henry signed, getting a core floor from the Steelers, it gets you closer to a place where you're not going to have to press needs in the draft. And to me, they're not in a position to be worried about over-the-top moves, like go and get this one guy to put you over the top. The draft's the most important thing. And I think they should be using free agency to build towards the draft, which is what I think they're doing. So, you know, some of the positions that we will get to are, you know, offensive line, wide receiver, but before we get to those, the one guy who they did sign that was not a part of this organization before was Antonio Gibson. So what does he kind of bring to the table? I know you kind of compared them to, you know, size-wise, Remandre Stevenson. Absolutely. Build-wise, he's 6'2", 220, so he's going to be, basically, the same type of ability that you'll see from an Ezekiel Elliott, a Remandre Stevenson style back. That's fine. If this X is out, the possibility of Ezekiel Elliott returning, I think that's too bad because I thought he was a very valuable player. I wouldn't say that it does. That's a good downfield. You're not going to really see Zeke run a downfield route. So there you go with the Antonio Gibson downfield route. But to me, it's okay. It's, you know, hey, honey, I got a new throw pillow. Great.  I love that. Space back. I just picture him with an astronaut helmet on just floating around out there. He's going to do more than that. He is going to be able to run some real routes. This is a guy who played receiver in college at Memphis and has caught 40 passes at least each of the last three seasons. He caught five passes alone against the Patriots back in week nine. And he is a bigger body. So he has the ability to stand in there and pass protect. He's pretty capable in that regard as well. So I like the signing. It's pretty low investment, Bert. And it's a role that you really need to fill. You need somebody who can play on third down so that Remandre Stevenson isn't asked to do everything. Yeah. I think it's just going to be a matter of like what you ask him to do. His vision isn't great. He's had some ball security issues. So like I do think like the idea of you look at it.  That guy looks like he should be able to go between the tackles. That's not really what he is. Like Tom said, he's more of a guy you're going to use in space and on third down. And really that's a role as we've talked about that they have not filled since losing James White. Does that eliminate then Ezekiel Elliott? Or not really. There's not enough overlap even though there are similar builds. Zeke being heavier. Is he faced back? Yeah. I think it might. I think it might. Like I think like I think you bring back Zeke at the right price because Stevenson has, you know, you have some durability concerns. You don't want to run him into the ground. I think it'd be a bad idea to have Zeke, but I think it would shift Zeke's role a little bit from what it was last year. And amateur scout James White. I did get in touch with him after they made the signing. He said he likes it. He says he could tell that he has that receiver background just by watching him play. Is that natural feel for the passing game? All right. Speaking of the passing game and those guys who have the natural feel for catching the football. Here's the receiver news. Calvin Ridley, Ivante Parker. He told us about that off the top of the show. It's also worth mentioning that Bengals receiver T Higgins. He has requested to trade out of Cincinnati. He was franchise tagged this off season. The Patriots also agreed to a three-year, $19.5 million deal with Kendrick Bourne on Sunday. That deal occurred in Bourne up to $33 million over the course of the deal. And of course, Kendrick Bourne coming off an ACL injury about halfway through last season. So timeline, curious really what that's going to look like. And the money there seems shorter compared to all these other guys. But let's just start with the Devante Parker news, because I think that was one that that's what stuck out the most is when they announced that they're just flat out releasing him after not being able to do anything else. Yeah. And I had just finished a story talking about how both Juju Smith Schuster's contract and Devante Parker's comprised basically a cheese ball in the ventricle of the Patriots circulatory system, because you get nothing from them. They combined for I believe 62 catches last year, one touchdowns. Kobe Myers by himself had 72 catches and eight touchdowns. And you're paying $16 million as you kept Parker. You're going to save some money on him. But again, when you dip into free agency or you make trades to bring guys in, you're giving something up or paying a premium. So to segue from that to Calvin Ridley and T Higgins, especially Higgins, is the Patriots, the Patriots and organizations should be giving up draft picks in order to bring guys in who need a massive contract. And he was a Belichick's trade. That was Bill that drove. That Bill was the one who wanted him. And I think that part of it is that Parker doesn't have the support in the building with Belichick. He's not very good either. Right. I think that's the big one. Well, it was a Bill's disease of like, this guy did this against me. So I love him. You know what I mean? Like it was another one of these guys who performed really well against Patriots and maybe was overrated internally by Bill. But I just don't think they're releasing him to rebuff Bill. They're releasing. No, no, no, that's what it is. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like he doesn't have support in the building anymore because Bill's gone. So what about Calvin Ridley? What's the price tag looking like for Calvin Ridley and how realistic is it? Because he's been kind of the apple of your eye fill as we've gone through this. He has. Yeah, because I think he's the most talented receiver that's available in free agency. And even I, even though I think he's talented, would say that he's probably not a true number one, but he's probably somewhere in the top 30-ish receivers in the game. And I think you just have to use him the right way. I think Jacksonville felt as though he was their only real boundary option. And so they used him like an X, like a true number one. If you can use him in some different ways and really leverage his versatility, I think that would make him really valuable. And I've spoken to some people across the league that feel as though somewhere in the 16, maybe $17 million a year range might be his market. The Patriots have plenty of money to do it. Even if he's not a one, he definitely would be an upgrade, Bert. I like it because he's got experience being a one. And like, I don't think he's as good a player as T Higgins, but T Higgins doesn't have experience being the number one guy. In Atlanta, when Julio got hurt, Ridley was the number one guy. And then in Jacksonville, he was asked to be the number one guy. So I think his experience doing that is a factor that he's had coverage, his gear to stop him before. And then on top of that, I think it's just an investment in your young quarterback. If you are indeed going to take one-third overall. And I don't think that there's, I don't mind paying a premium if it's about getting the right environment for the young quarterback. And he's a three and 55 projected guy in terms of contract three years, 55 million, $32 million guaranteed. It's not insane. He's a better player than Jacobi Myers. Is he twice a player? Not necessarily, but he would represent something. But again, I think the Patriots might have to pay a premium unless it is reportedly or at least rumored that it's down to them in Jacksonville. Jacksonville has poured out a ton of money, which could help the Patriots. I think they've signed two wide receivers already today. Gabe Davis and David Duvernay as well. Which is almost acknowledging we're probably going to lose this kid. Yeah. I mean, well, hey, if the Patriots can get him for 18 million, I'd feel comfortable about that. Kendrick Bourne real quick, bringing back KB. I think it just helps you round out the receiver room. I don't know if you'd be depending on him to start even for you this year. He's not even a full year removed from his surgery until mid-season this season. So what you get from him is great. If you get anything from him, they did commit to him about $4 million fully guaranteed and a signing bonus. So he's going to be on the roster. He's going to be with the team. I think it's just a question of when he'll be able to fully participate. If he's a guy, if he's a three for you, tip your cap. He gets the same contract in essence that he got three years ago. So it's not like he's getting a raise. It's basically the same contract, maybe a little cost of living increase. So same thing.


Our first caller is Maddie from Maryland. Maddie, what's up, man? How can we help you? Hey, how's it going? First of all, I just want to thank you guys for being the best fitness podcast out there. Thank you guys so much. A little bit of a background about myself. I started working out around when I was 16 years old. I was pretty morbidly obese. I was like 280 pounds. And I dropped weight pretty quickly. Like in a year, I got to like 220. But ever since then, I've been fluctuating between being, I think, at the lowest 215 to 280, up and down. You guys know like the cliche story of basically someone who just does a lot of hit training, does a lot of high intensity workouts. I did, I did, at certain periods of my life, train for strength. But I never, until doing maps in a bollock, which was, I did, I started my first phase, I started my first run of maps in a bollock about six months ago. Up until that point, I never did like one structured program. I took programs online, like free, free programs. And I made some of my own programs, but I never had like a particular program. But I did lots of hit training. I did some strength training here and there, but nothing consistently. Now at the current set, I am now about 510, 250 pounds when I first started maps. Actually, when I first started maps, I was 228 pounds. But after listening to the podcast, I thought maybe I should bulk up a little bit to get my metabolism up. Because at that point, I wasn't dropping weight lower. And I was eating consistently around like 2,300 calories a day. And I wasn't dropping weight. So then for the first time doing maps, like all the phases, I was in a bulk. And I was just using my Fitbit to gauge where my calories should be. Whatever my Fitbit set up around that day, I was just eating that much food. And I got up to 250 pounds. Then after I finished maps for the first time, I started it again. And I guess about after the first phase, I went from 250 to about where I am now. No, I went from 250 to 244.  I don't know if you saw, but basically from the from the end of the first phase of maps to where I am a couple of weeks ago, I dropped about 5% body fat, and I gained about five pounds of muscle. But my question is, right now I'm eating about 2,300 calories to 2,600 calories, give or take.  My biggest goal is to get to a healthy body fat range, which for me, like I think I want to be like 15% body fat, maintain that. But I feel like I'm worried that because of my past experience, I'm worried that I'm going to drop calories too low and go crazy there. Or I'm just going to be eating too much and be in a perpetual bulk. I just want to know where I should be with my eating in terms of my long term goal, which is getting to like 15% body fat. There's a lot there to help you with. Yeah. So, Marty, you, let me get this straight. You went from 215 to 250 during that first bulk. Are you talking about when I started maps? Yeah. No, no, no, no. I went from like 230, 230, 240 to 250. Okay. Which one is a 230 or 240? Because that's because a 20 pound bulk over the course of three months and a reverse diet is a lot. Unless you gain 20 pounds of muscle, which I don't. He gained five. That wasn't 20 pounds of muscle. I think it was like, I think it was like 238, 240. I mean, like my weight fluctuates a lot every day, so that's like the range I could give. Okay. Cause there's a couple of things here. First off, when you're trying to do a bulk in order to speed up the metabolism, you do want to do it slowly. So that's why I asked you that question. And if it was just like aggressive weight gain, then what that screams to me is you weren't tracking your reverse diet or your bulk. Well, he was, but he was going by his Fitbit, which I wouldn't recommend doing. Yeah.  And because it kind of gives them a little bit of, you know, looseness and they end up going too far. So, okay. So now we're, we're out of position here. We're eating 2,300 calories.  And it's going to be the same thing. I'm going to recommend that you do a slow bulk. And I think you should do a slow bulk on a pretty consistent basis, but interrupt it with a week here and there of a maintenance or even a slight deficit. So it would be something like three or four weeks of a, you know, 400 calorie surplus. And then maybe a week of maintenance or a 100 calorie deficit and just kind of stay on that path and let your metabolism slowly build up. And it might take some time because of what you've done in the past with your body and kind of the tendencies that you're moving to. MAPS and Ebola is a great program for this. MAPS aesthetic, if you can handle more volume, would also be a great program for this. But that's where I would go. I would, I would, I would constantly and consistently with again, those interruptions of maybe a slight deficit work towards getting your metabolism to kind of speed up and give it some time. Don't do an aggressive bulk. Don't allow your weight to go up or fluctuate so heavily, but do it in a kind of a slow, comfortable pace and allow things to, to reverse out. I'll be even more specific. So I think we have enough information from where you were, where you're at right now, kind of what you did. And by the way, you didn't do a bad job. I think you were kind of close to be honest with you.  Cause those things, those things, by the way, I love tools like that. So I use them like crazy. I used them all through competing. I think they're a great, another piece of data you can use to help kind of guide you. But if you use it as your true North, you can get in a little bit of trouble. And it sounds like that's what we did. It sounds like you allowed it to dictate your calories and you probably did a little more than you needed to. So yeah, so where you're at, this is what I would like to see. I'd like to see you at 2,500 calories a day for three weeks pretty consistently every, every fourth week, a week in a deficit to 2,100 calories. So that's only a 200 calorie surplus with a 200 calorie deficit for a week. And you're doing, you, the month average out is, I think, a better surplus for you. It's going to get you closer to what kind of salad is alluding to with the, you know, less of a calorie surplus and just focusing on, on bulking. So I think you had the right mindset. I think you were doing a pretty good job. I think you just kind of overshot it. It doesn't take that many extra calories. And one of the best ways to ensure that you don't continue to stay on that path of over consuming is by interrupting it. Like Sal was saying, I'd interrupt it for a full week in that week, I would keep myself in about a 200, 300 calorie deficit for that whole week, and then go back to the bulk. Every time you go back to the bulk, my goal for you, if I was, you were my client, would to see if I can inch you up a little bit more. So let's say the first three weeks, I say, okay, Marty, I want you to be at 2,500 calories. Let's hopefully kind of maintain your weight. I don't want to see a big fluctuation. A couple pounds up, I'm not worried. But if I see you moving up pretty fast, I might pull back a little bit. But I'd like to see you kind of stay with your weight around where you're at right now, while also knowing that I have you in a little bit of a surplus. I'd like to keep you there at 2,500 for three weeks. Then I put you in that deficit for one week. And then when we go back to the surplus again, I might go to a 2,550 or 2,600. And then and that would be the goal is to just kind of give you an extra 50 to 100 calories, you know, every fourth week until I can get you up to a place where you're like 2,800 or 3,000. And I know you said on your, I don't you didn't say it to the audience, but you wrote it in your thing that you feel good. You're comfortable at 2,300 calories. So that tells me a lot as a coach that, okay, he likes eating around here. So my goal is to probably get you up to 28 to 3,000 so I could then pull you back down to 23 to where you're eating comfortably, but then your body is nice, consistently losing weight. Now, did you say you're running Maps Anabolic? And is that the program you run right now? Yeah, I'm running Maps Anabolic. Basically what I do because the gym is so packed whenever I get off work, I usually run it two to three days a week. But what I do is some days, depending on how packed the gym is, I'll split the workouts in half. So I do like half of day one on Monday and then the other half on Tuesday and then go to work out number two, etc. That's fine. Okay. Yeah, I like that. What do you guys think about like tracking progress though? Because the thing is, is like, I do want to drop the weight, but like I understand that the muscle mass is what's really important. I feel good whenever I have more muscle, but the thing is whenever your body fat percentage is so high, it's hard to see like that reflection in the mirror. Should I just continue to get body fat scans? I know that they're not the most relaxed out there. They're not, but if you're using the same one and you're consistent like every month, it actually will be a great gauge. You'll see the trend. Yeah, you'll see a trend. So don't get don't get so hung up on if it says 25% or 12%. It doesn't matter what the percentage is so much. It's okay, you have a baseline wherever it's at right now. And then as a coach, if I give you this instruction to now increase your calories, and we follow exactly what I said on that one month mark, I'm going to want you to retest. And the only thing we're looking at is the difference of where you were when I told you to do the calorie surplus and to follow what I said and where you're at body fat percentage. And if I did my job really well, you've added muscle and lost a little bit of fat and really haven't moved that much on the scale. And if I see a major fluctuation south or north, I'm going to adjust as a coach. So if I see at a month that your body fat percentage went up, okay, well, we added too many calories. I should have only added a little bit, like maybe 50 calories and I'd go the other direction. Now, if I noticed that you didn't really move very much at all, I might go the other direction.   And if you're not in the forum already, we'll put you in the forum so you can kind of check in with us. So do you have the forum yet? I do not. Okay, so I'll have Doug get you access to the forum and then when you hit that one month mark, give us a screenshot of the before three weeks ago, four weeks ago, excuse me, body fat test to now and then the guys and I could really easily adjust you from there. You could throw and also monitor your strength. If your strength is going up, that's a good sign. You can also use circumference, that's another one.  I mean, that's it. If you got strength or circumference of your waist, the consistent body fat test, you'll have a really good idea of the trend of the direction you're going. I like strength though the most because if your strength is going up and your weight is staying the same or it's going down, there's a good chance you're building muscle and burning body fat. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. I just want to thank you guys so much because literally other programs, you just feel, I feel so tired and depleted and I know this is probably compared to the past. This is the time where I'm eating at a slight deficit and I'm just getting so much stronger and it's just like what am I, what is this program? It's really fun. I just really appreciate it. Thank you guys so much for what you do. It's magic for sure. Thanks for calling in. Thanks, Marty. Of course, thank you. Yeah, when you're dealing with somebody who's been really heavy in the past and then they're trying to reverse out, it can be a slow process and it can be really challenging to stay consistent with that.  So again, I think I like the Fitbit the most out of all of us, but I'm very careful to not, that's not my end. I never used it for like that, like telling me what I should do. Yeah, really what it is, is the more metrics you have, the clearer the picture. If it's just one metric, it's not trends. Yeah, like if it's just body weight, I mean, that doesn't tell you a whole lot body weight plus body fat percentage. Now you know more body fat percentage weight and circumference. Okay, now we're starting to see a clear picture. Now what about your strength? Now we see the whole thing. That's right. And that's the, that's the key because if you just go off one met, I mean, if like if it's just weight on the scale, I mean, that's, I can manipulate that seven pounds in one day, you know, and same thing with those body scans. So when you look at all of them, you get a much clearer picture. And what you want to do is look at the trend, not necessarily stressing over the fact that it went up a half percent or whatever over the last two weeks, but rather over the last three months, which direction is this moving?


I think the discontent is a minority but quite a vocal minority and so I don't listen to it. The Labour Party members are not backward at coming forward, it's a general rule. So I don't believe that the criticism that I'm getting is any way representative of what's out there and so it's one of the reasons I don't read blogs, I just disregard it. It's almost with the doing worst part of our social welfare burden, if you like. One simple, but to the greatest, I don't think there will be too much effort to tell people what we're needing to focus on. No, I believe that this year has been a difficult year, absolutely, it's been a tough year.


So, this is basically a tool I made some time back, it's like JS Fiddle where, yes, I made this tool, one second, the internet is a bit slow, it's a lot like JS Fiddle, you can write code and it renders in real time in the real time preview, the pane, so and then something like let's say, it supports Zen coding too and then you can save it, so it saves there, now on the homepage you can see lots of cool stuff made by different people, I mean these have been contributed by the community, you can do the same, if you can create something cool with CSS3, HTML5 and so on and it has few other cool features too, let me show you, one is this CodeCast thing, the CodeCast feature is basically like if you write some code in those HTML, CSS and JS tabs, the boxes, when you write something there, the environment is going to record it and save it in the server and other people can then play it back, so for example, let's play this one, so you can see it, the guy who made this, he just typed all the code just like that and it got recorded and then there's this player where you can play it back, you can fast forward it, you can rewind it, play at different speeds too, let me take it a bit further, as you can see this piece of code, this is getting typed, so you can actually see things getting built in real time and then they get rendered on the pane and this is, I think this is a good way of learning HTML, CSS, JS, if you want you can create CodeCasts and I can just review them and add it to the homepage, I can feature them and there's one more feature I would like to talk about, you can also create private bins so that no one can see, you get a unique private URL and one more thing, it also supports real time collaboration, so multiple people can code and chat in real time, there may be some bugs or quirks, you can always use this feedback form on the right side of the button, click it, it will show you a form in a model and you can send me feedbacks, I just opened the same bin page in two tabs, you can see under the collaborators list, you can see me twice but if 10 different people they join in, you will be able to watch them, I mean they'll get listed in that collaborators list and then there's this chat, you can use the chat and you can also code, it will get emitted to all the nodes in real time, so that's it and if you would like to contact me, there's this about, you can find my details on that about and contact page, one of the URLs is to my Twitter account and the other is to my blog that has the contact form, so that's it, thank you, thank you.


Welcome to EMC World. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We're going to go out to the events, I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANG. I'm John with Dave Vellante, my co-host for the next three days, SiliconANGL and Wikibon will be on the ground for our fourth consecutive EMC World. And we're excited to bring you all the action on the ground floor. We're right outside the Buzz Center, EMC TV, on the ground floor, looking at an amazing, huge event from EMC as they transform the enterprise and transform their company to a new modern era of computing in the data center, private cloud, and it's been exciting. We're going to have three days of PAC coverage. We had great interviews lined up from all the thought leaders, executives, startups, entrepreneurs, industry analysts, and then of the like, and we're going to hear from them. What their take is on EMC, EMC's ecosystem, their partners, executives, and of course some notable interviews. We have Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of VMware, David Goulden, who's the president of EMC, heir apparent, apparently to Joe Tucci. Some people are saying he'll be on the queue for the second straight year, and of course we're going to have, for the first time on theCUBE, Paul Moritz on Wednesday afternoon here on SiliconANGLE TV, theCUBE. Dave Vellante, Dave, we've been here four years now. It's our fourth year at EMC World, and in our first year we said storage was sexy, and now it's evolved, and the journey to the private cloud, which was their original messaging in 2010, has evolved to big data meets cloud, now you got security, trust, the data center is up for grabs, software-defined networking has set the tone for software-defined everything, or as we've been saying, software-led infrastructure. Dave, what's your thoughts as we kick off EMC World? Well John, this is where it all started. You and I, for our first ever Cube gig together, so it's actually quite a great memory for me, and so this is our fourth year here, as you said, and EMC just keeps getting bigger and bigger and more interesting. When we started this, you know, you basically had EMC and the big message was VMware. VMware has obviously exploded since then, EMC has really super glued itself to VMware and has tried to do a better job than anybody of integrating with VMware. Of course it's got the inside track to doing that, and I think it successfully did that, but, and so both companies have risen in value, and now we've got this new federated model where you have EMC and VMware with Pat Gelsinger in charge and Paul Moritz moving over to the Pivotal Initiative, and you're going to hear a lot about that this week, but the other thing, John, is this is EMC's big show, so all the product groups, this is their big opportunity to meet with customers, to showcase their wares, to make big announcements, and so you're seeing a lot from the existing product groups, like the high end, we're going to have Brian Gallagher on, like the unified division, we're going to have Rich Napolitano on. These are the bread and butter products that drive the cash flow of EMC as well as its services business, and then you've got some new players, John. You've got the software-defined storage group under Amitabh Sravastava, and you've got Extreme I.O., by the way, Amitabh's coming on. You've got Extreme I.O. with Zahid Hussein, who's going to be coming on theCUBE. Each of these new entities is a division within the EMC core group, and they're out showing their wares. I was just in a session, John, with the executives of the Backup and Recovery Division and seeing what they had for division, so every one of EMC's product groups, this is their big show of the year, and we're going to hear a lot from them this week. Dave, one of the things that I get excited about is when you see big players making big moves, it always gets your attention, but I think what's interesting is about EMC, and I've always said this about EMC, is that EMC has evolved from 2010 as storage vendor, storage company, and completely has transformed their business, and I think the messaging we're going to hear today is software-defined storage, which sets the tone for what we've been saying about software-led infrastructure, and EMC is turning into, reminds me of watching IBM, when IBM really started transforming themselves into a massive computer company, EMC is turning into a massive computer player. It's not just storage anymore, it's software, we've heard that in the past, we've heard about applications, and with the recent Pat Gelsinger transition to VMware, and then with VMware spinning out Pivotal with Paul Moritz, who's a tools guy from Microsoft. We originally called it the wind-tail, but that relationship between Pat Gelsinger and Paul Moritz in the old days was Intel and Microsoft. Now, a completely new economy is building on the backs of open source, scale out. You see Amazon making a dent, making a hard run to the enterprise. You're seeing things like OpenStack, you're seeing software, where this is going to change the data center, and we've always said cloud computing is going to be the big utility, we're all going to have meters on the side of our data centers, and this is transformative, and I want to get your take on that, because EMC, as they enter into this next chapter, and we're going to hear about it here at EMC World, Dave, the next chapter is about transformation, so I want to get your thoughts. What is that transformation? Is the data center, you have the cloud, you have consumerization of IT, all the stuff's happening, and I want to get your thoughts on that. Well, I want to answer your question, John, with both a tactical and a strategic view. So, tactically speaking, you are absolutely right. EMC is now a story of diversity. Now, the stock has been very volatile lately, as has VMware. In the last quarter, you saw EMC tell the world that basically they were going to have a back-loaded year. Now, what's happening here, John, is they have a very tough comparison with the first quarter of 2012, so they blew it out in 2012, 2013, little softness. Stock took a little bit of a hit, but then they announced the whole Pivotal initiative. That gave the stock a little boost, and then GE invested in Pivotal, $105 million. That gave the stock a little boost, so you're seeing a little ebb and flow in what frankly is an upmarket that EMC hasn't been able to participate in earnest, but what you're seeing here is a story of diversity. EMC's core storage business grew only 3% last quarter.  So, John, this is the old legacy business that's supposed to be dying. It grew 10%. The IIG business grew 7%, 7%. The RSA business grew double digits and 12%. These are the businesses, John, that used to be the drag on EMC's financials, and now they're propping it up. On the flip side, you've got the unified business that's going through a product transition that's flat to down. The BRS is transforming, so you have a story of diversity. The other thing that you have is greater margin contribution from software because of VMware. So that's driving EMC's gross margins and operating margins up. So that's the tactical piece. Strategically, as I say, John, this is a company in transition to your point. It's a highly diverse portfolio, kind of IBM-like in that regard, much smaller, but nonetheless, on a similar path where they're playing in infrastructure, they're playing in middleware, they're playing in software, they've got application development, a few applications, that's really not their game, but really in services, really driving an ecosystem. And EMC is in a position to create value throughout that ecosystem. Well, look at SiliconAngle.com for the reference point, and tech innovation is always at sight, it's continuing to grow. We're really proud of the progress we've made, but here at the show, we'll be putting out a lot of blog posts, a lot of commentary, we have a full team here. In addition to theCUBE, we have our Studio B, which will be capturing footage, and we'll be checking in with folks all around the floor, from practitioners, CIOs, to other companies in the ecosystem, and of course, go to wikibond.org for all the free research. Again, we have free content, wikibond.org is free research, and it's all free, no paywall. So go there, check it out, but more importantly, we're going to dissect the moves here today from all the players, and we really want to look at this through the lens, Dave, of the competition. EMC is going after, it's not so much other companies about a market space. I want to ask you about the competition, and what you expect to hear from EMC, vis-a-vis the competition, because on one hand, you got little players like Cloudera out there that they're targeting, and on the other side, you got IBM, HP, and NetApp, amongst others, who are out there competing for the same space, software-led infrastructure. What is your take, Dave, on that? So my answer might surprise you a little bit, John. I'm not going to start with NetApp or IBM or HP or Tachi, I'm going to start with Amazon. Amazon has essentially turned the data center into an API, connect through the API, and you get a bevy of data center services. I believe that is driving the storage business and the infrastructure business. We are entering an API economy, and that is something that you're going to hear a lot about indirectly today from EMC, big announcement with software-defined storage. Essentially what they're doing is they're separating the control plane from the data plane. In other words, the parts that control the storage and manage the storage, provision the storage, from the pieces that actually place the data. And so what they're doing by separating that out is they're beginning to look like these hyperscale giants, John, that we've talked about all the time. You've made the point a number of times. If you want to see the future in the enterprise, look at what's happening today within Google and Microsoft, or Google and Facebook and Amazon, certainly Microsoft from the Azure side. That's five years later, you're starting to see the EMCs of the world start to deliver what we call Wikibon software-led infrastructure, essentially allowing you to run their rich functional software on anybody's storage, on anybody's Intel-based servers, or their own stuff. And of course there'll be some added value if you're running it on the EMC full stack. Of course theCUBE is our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract a signal from the noise. We're going to be here for three full days, wall-to-wall coverage. We're going to be broadcasting all day for the next three days. And tweet us your questions. I am at Furrier, F-U-R-R-I-E-R, and Dave is at at D-Volante, D-V-E-L-L-A-N-T-E. Of course at Silicon Angle or at Wikibon. Tweet us your questions, because we are going to unpack what's important to the enterprise, what's important to cloud service providers because of this new architecture is being developed in real time. All the big players are retooling from a platform level all the way up to the top and you're going to see massive moves. We're going to look at that. We're going to talk about APIs into the private cloud to the architectural fidelity of the platforms. And then we're going to want to hear about their answers to some of the tough questions. Like, what are you doing for customer? We want to get the meat on the bone. Not just the sizzle, Dave, we want the steak. And that's our job here at ScytheCubus, extract that signal. And of course, go to SiliconAngle.com and check all the blog posts and go to Wikibon.org for all the data. And I just want to make one more addition to the comments that we were talking about in competition. John, to me, it's going to come down to openness, open source, flexibility. So I'm really interested in talking to the EMC execs about how they define open, how open is it? How open are those APIs? Who can actually get to them? Is Amazon S3 going to be included in that vision? All questions that we're going to get the answer to, John.   We haven't seen this kind of inflection point since the mini computer and the PC revolution combined. And we've been saying that as well. So we believe that. So check the box, no problem. We are living in an inflection point where cloud mobile and social and data driven economy is changing how people are building their infrastructure and ultimately servicing their customers. Okay, that being said, Dave, back in the heyday during those other inflection points, the word multi-vendor was a very big conversation. You had to be multi-vendor. You had to support multiple vendors' boxes. Now we're living in an era where the same conversations are happening, except Dave, they're not talking about multi-vendor. They're talking about open. So one of the themes that we're going to extract here at EMC World is what does open mean? Is open the new multi-vendor? I think it is. I think you're going to hear the same kind of conversations around multi-vendor support back in the 80s and 90s. And this modern era is about openness, API support. What APIs can I use? Data fabric separated from the control plane. All these new conversations are going to change the tone. What does open mean? Does that just mean choice? Does that mean lock-in? These are questions that are on everyone's mind. I don't want to be locked in. I want free choice. But Dave, what does open mean? Those are the questions we're going to ask. Yeah, and so I think that's going to be the new defining factor in the infrastructure businesses. Infrastructure is a platform, this notion of an API economy, which many folks are beginning to talk about. And say, we're covering it here. So you're going to see big SDS, we're going to have Pat Gelsinger on, we're going to have Paul Moritz on. Today we're going to have the new CIO of EMC on. We're going to have some Microsoft practitioners within EMC, we've got customers coming on, we've got Tom Roeloff, a big lineup today. Yeah, and also for the folks out there on the SiliconANGLE team that are watching, make sure all the blog posts have the pound EMC world and the title of the blog posts. And if you want to tweet to us, make sure you put the hashtag pound EMC world because we are tracking all the conversations on our proprietary technology. We want to harvest all those technologies. We want your questions, be interactive, feel free to tweet us and comment to us on the feed. We're happy to answer those questions. Dave, anything else you want to share about what you expect here at EMC world? Well as I was saying earlier, it's the opportunity for EMC product groups to share their vision, their technology, their direction and essentially lock in the remaining of the years. They said this is a second half story financially for EMC. So they've really got to line up some customer action and some traction. So I think you're going to hear a lot of new products. You're going to hear a lot of innovation and you're going to hear a lot about this new EMC, this new federation. I'm actually quite excited about that from a business model standpoint. I think it's quite innovative. EMC is becoming one of the smartest companies in the world in terms of acquiring organizations and towards acquiring IP. What's your take on all this, John? Well we have, in the last couple of minutes, I think I'll just share my point of view is that what I'm expecting to hear is I expect EMC to start laying down the crown work and setting the table for their next five to 10 year mission. And that is going to be complete transformation to a storage-centric model to a completely open and software-driven infrastructure. And this is going to be a real big challenge for EMC because EMC traditionally has not had success organically doing that in the company. In the past they had to buy their way with big acquisitions, billion dollar acquisitions to take down big market spaces. So what I'm interested in seeing is that organic transformation. And I will say that since Jeremy Burton's been on board with Pat Gelsinger going back to when Pat was here, Dave, we've had them on theCUBE, you've seen EMC turn up the heat on organic product development. And you're starting to see that with the flash. Yeah, they made some acquisitions, but I think you're going to see them take a much more internal, build it out mode. So I think EMC clearly wants to be more like IBM, less like the old EMC. Here's the difference that I think you'll see. And I think you'll hear a lot about this this week is that partner ecosystem. Obviously IBM talks about partners, but EMC really recognizes that it can't do it alone. Jiu Jitsu always makes the point as a services company, we're not going to compete with our services partners. EMC is going to put a big push on the channel. You're going to hear a lot about the channel, a lot about service provider partnerships. How can EMC help foster an ecosystem that can compete with Amazon? I think you're going to hear a lot about that today. EMC has a partner summit, Joe Tucci and the senior executives, Moretz, Gelsinger are speaking at that partner summit this morning, so they're putting a lot of emphasis on the partners. And I'm actually going to be in there this afternoon. Alex Wilcox and I, gathering intelligence from that partner summit, finding out can EMC foster an ecosystem that can compete effectively with Amazon and keep pace? We're going to have our team on the ground. This is Silicon Angles, The Cube, our flagship program, got some great names. Tom Rollos coming on today with the CIO from EMC. Going to talk about what they're doing.  They do a lot of things internally. We want to hear about virtualization. We want to hear about how they're using data, the data-driven enterprise. We see what they have to say. And of course, Zahid Hussein, who's the senior VP and GM of the Flash products division. Flash is core to EMC. And we expect them to have some announcements around that. Again, software defined, everything is what we're hearing. We've been saying it on The Cube. And you know, I'm interested Dave in hearing how they respond to some of the big pressures from the public cloud guys who are vectoring in on the private cloud. You see Amazon, OpenStack, and some of these alternatives. So Cloud Mobile and Social, our editorial mission from day one in 2009 is still mainstream. And we're going to expand on that. I see big data, software-led infrastructure. Again, core sweet spot. So storage is sexy. The storage angle will be here all three days as well as the angle for all the news and breaking analysis here on The Cube. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We'll be right back with our next guest. We'll be broadcasting all day for three days here on SiliconANGLE.com and keep stay with us for all the analysis and commentary.


Long story short, I was adopted and I didn't find out to myself more years of college. Damn. Damn. And so the hurt, one from that. So growing up, one, like me and my mother had a relationship, even coming through school growing up. You know a lot of me, I know a lot of you. Black boy, tell me how you really feel. I just want to build with you. In today's community conversation, our Jane Robelo introduces us to Young Brothers Academy, mentors who are out to change the narrative for young African American men. The mission of Young Brothers Academy is to empower young men 8th grade through 12th through the three E's. Those three E's are education, empowerment and exposure. And Justice Cox is the director of this program. What influenced you to begin this? Yes ma'am, as you stated, the goal of YBA is to aid in the mental, physical and spiritual development of the young men we lead. Since 2018, we've worked with over 30 young men and we just had our first graduate and our first group of 8th graders are now 11th graders getting ready to make that step to college as well. Wow. I know you feel like a proud dad in many ways. Not a man here who can sense me. I'm on the pier, Elohim with the energy. Black boy, tell me how you really feel. I just want to build with you. What are you seeing in these boys that are like, if they had a father, if they had a role model or now that they have a role model, is different or would be different? Just so for the women who are thinking along the lines of fathers are optional, just to really give it to them, this is really what it is. So man, I don't think you can really understand that unless you're somebody without a father. You know what I'm saying? I mean, people who had a father, they probably could think about or imagine what would happen if that was removed or perhaps what it's showing up like he's supposed to. Even the image that just came to my head, because you hear it all the time, you probably knew your daddy. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't anything, but you still was out there sitting on the steps waiting for him to come. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, it's a wound, it's a scar, you know what I'm saying? It's a void, it's a missing piece. I do believe fathers are critical, but I also have witnessed, you know, my mother making sure a man was in my life. Did it feel that void? No, you know what I'm saying? Because that hurt was still there, but was it a placeholder that kind of I was able to hop over a little bit? Yes. And I feel like we talk about COVID and the reflection state that a lot of us was in. Bro, I was still crying out for my father as a grown man. You know what I'm saying? And a lot of people I talk to, father in the house or not, they long for that relationship with them. But I'm not, I would never knock a woman for feeling like, you know, that's the best route to go. Like I said, just you got to stand on it and understand what it's your son and daughter's going to have to deal with, you know, as they grow up and as they get older, because they're going to have questions, you know what I'm saying? They're going to see their friends, daddy coming to pick them up from school or something and wonder, you know, where is mine at? Because I was in a very similar situation, long story short, I was adopted. And I didn't find out until my sophomore year of college. Damn. Never. Damn. And so the hurt, one from that. Yeah. So growing up, when, like me and my mother had a relationship, even coming through school growing up, you don't lie to me, I don't lie to you.  You're adopted. So my adopted mother. Okay. Okay. This is how we rocked. And she basically believed whatever happened because of your actions, that's going to be your consequence. You know what I'm saying? So that's how I was raised. And I ain't, I probably told three lies that I can remember to this day that I told to my mother. Wow. Because that's just how it was. Yeah. And so finding that out, bro, it was, it was devastating, it was a blow, bro. It was crushing. It really was. I remember, she said I didn't talk to her for months when I found out. And now you don't imagine how much stuff you block out when you're really dealing with stuff, but anywho.  But then that traumatic experience, because it was traumatic. It really gave purpose to my life on the flip side because she started telling me the process of my adoption.  And you start listening, bro. Listen. So you start, you start seeing how your life has developed and what's happened as a single mother, the things I experienced, the things I've seen and a woman of faith, that if it was heavy, I didn't see it. Like if it was heavy on my mother, I didn't know. You know what I'm saying? Because she, her faith was so strong that we didn't mean my sister didn't feel it. And so she said, she long story short, my mother's first husband, my sister's dad was shot and killed.  No. My adopted mother. And so her first husband was shot and killed and it's my sister's pops. And so she was like, she wanted a son to be there for her, for my sister just in case something happened to her. And so she prayed, you know, guys will be done. And she was like, she wasn't going to have no baby with anybody. And she was like, she so what about to remarry again. And she was like adoption came to her and she said she went through the adoption process and long story short, it failed. And so she said five years later, she got a call from a lady of my case and your son has been born. Like her even telling me this story since she is now my body, but I'm telling you something so traumatic, gave purpose to my life. Because one, you understand, even what I realized in Africa is that we're here because of the prayers of others.  But then someone I was older, somebody was like, why would you praise this man? You don't know and not give thanks to the people who are paved the way and pray for you to be here today. And that really became real in that moment because my mother prayed for me at one point and it didn't come around until five years later. You know what I'm saying? And so I understand that I'm here because of the prayers of other people because of the prayers of her. And it just gave a sense of purpose, you know, to my life is that I'm supposed to be here. And it's a reason. While I was in Ghana, I had an opportunity to have dinner with the African chief. And his whole message was, there's no such thing as coincidence. And he was like, when you get out to play with Delta, do you take the plane with you? And he was like, you'll be crazy to think so. And he was like, your parents' only job is to get you here. And he was like, it doesn't matter. You know what I'm saying? How you get here is the fact that you're here. And now that you've been given that responsibility of life, you know, what are you going to do with it? People blame mom or blame daddy for whatever may be happening.  You know what I'm saying? But what am I going to do with it? You know what I'm saying? And I love the idea of performing. You know, when we talk about manure and how to use manure to produce better crop and it's like how we in life, you know, when shit happens, how we really can use it to either stay in it or use it for something better. You know what I'm saying? And now when I tell my story, I tell that story proudly because of what it did for me. And so I say all that to say that fathers are critical. Yes. But a woman choosing that route isn't the end of the road because I'm sure there's purpose somewhere in it. But I do feel it. It will leave a gap, you know, and that and that void and that hurt. You know what I'm saying? I'm not having it because I definitely felt it. Damn. Talk to me about the current state of our community. You know, and how you're seeing that play out with the young boys. So I give you an example, for instance, right? You're seeing a lot of Gen Z young boys, like they're saying they're not even. They're not even going to talk to black girls no more. And a lot of times, and this is what I've been trying to translate to women, a lot of times those boys are coming from toxic relationships with mothers. Toxic relationships as far as like cousins, sisters, maybe even being molested by aunties and different things like that. So talk to me about how the current state of our communities affecting young black boys. Man, we don't have a hub. Like we was talking about off camera back in the 60s, when we really were starting to come together. You know, the church was our hub and we can talk about how the church and our misuse, their power and things like that. But we don't we don't have a sense of unity and belonging. And when you don't have a sense of unity, you really don't have a community and you don't have people instilling.  You know what I'm saying?  But when you don't have those things, now you got kids running around without direction.   Sure.  They're OK, mama may not be. But friends, I got a homeboy, man. Like he for I can't say where he from because it'll give it away. But he from the country. Yeah. And he he day white girl.   So in his mind, I'm gravitating to what I guess appeases me more. You know what I'm saying? He's a deal with you. Right. And so it wasn't that going back to that sense of community. It wasn't that he wasn't exposed to it because when he when he was exposed to a sister changed his life, you know what I'm saying? It didn't work out. But it he was open his eyes. Open his eyes. That's what I thought it was. Like they say, you know, he was only going off of what he was around. You know what I'm saying? And I am in today, man. Social media raising them. That's it. Social media raising them. And it's like that's that's their community. And so they they they gravitate in every which way because they don't have anybody in their life to direct them. Mama working or mama not trying to deal with it. Daddy it pops there. He not really trying to have real conversations. You know, with his with his son. But I really feel like we lack in a sense of community and true unity where we have these, you know, hubs and we can have these real conversations that they can hear. That's what YBA, man, we keep it we keep it real. You know what I'm saying from from every which way things we talk about because you can't you can't cover up, you know, real. And that's one thing with the church. You know, I'm saying that that's one thing I call out.   You know, I'm saying it is just like you get mixed messages and kids now they expose so much information. You know, I'm saying it is like you saying one thing but boom, you saying college is the only way. But boom, you saying I got to if I go to college, I'm going to make this. But boom, he a YouTuber, he doing this. You know what I'm saying? It's like it's confusion. And like our men, we asked them, we do this thing called one word. And I asked them, I was like, what is one word to describe, you know, the feelings of today's youth, but the consensus was lost.  The consensus was lost. We heard things like confused and it's just like they want it. You know what I'm saying? Like we've had a young man talking about he want to be successful. You know what I'm saying? But he don't he don't know which way to go. You know, he want to make money. You know what I'm saying? But he don't really his passion. They ain't been connected to a career field yet. You know what I'm saying? It's things like that that I feel like having a true community or true hub will help change, man. Because we, like I say, but I keep saying the only way we ever made it was together. And so we ain't got no direction, man.  You know what I'm saying?  That's what I really support. Mental organizations for women on flight. That's my lane, but they need that guidance too. And that hug, you know what I'm saying? So that they can identify characteristics and men not saying they don't get the right and perfect, you know what I'm saying? But so they can have that radar. You know, I need to lead this brother alone, you know what I'm saying? Even though, you know, this is real talk. You know what I'm saying? We're about to get it to it. That's what we're talking about, man.


So in today's video I went ahead and bought the D brand real tan leather skin for my Macbook Pro the M3 2023 model and this is how it looks. Now I really caught eye of this when I was watching one of Marques's videos and he has this exact same skin on his Macbook so I wanted to try it out and put it onto mine and see how easy it is to put it on. What is the material actually like does it cause a lot of scratches on it and overall if I'm actually happy with it. Now this comes in at $70 the link is in the description. Let's go ahead and start putting it on to my Macbook Pro and see how good this actually is. Okay so one thing to note is that when you do order this tan leather skin you only get the top part. You don't get any other parts for the bottom the insides around the keyboard or anything like that. It will just be to cover the top of your base and that is what essentially you'll be paying for. Now you'll see there's a little white border for the adhesive backing on this skin that's because this doesn't go directly edge to edge. Dbrandt always mentioned on their installation videos that they need to leave a tiny bit of a gap around there just like a little border for it to expand out by itself. So let's go ahead it comes with this nice little microfiber cloth also in a tan color. Give your Macbook a good clean make sure there's no dust on there no fingerprints and it should be a very straightforward process to install. So I would suggest just taking off the backing from the top like so and then working your way down. So I'll give it about that much and then we should be able to start putting it on. Make sure you leave a tiny border but if you do go wrong then you can take this back off again. Now you can see as I'm pressing this on it does cause a bit of tear and lines on the actual leather itself and you start pulling back. So the Apple logo is perfectly aligned which is good and actually the leather skin is much easier to put on than their traditional vinyl skins just because it's a little bit more thicker it's less susceptible to bubbles and then almost finished. There you go first time round everything went great there we have it and to be honest I feel like this is going to get a lot more scratches onto this MacBook Pro skin just because of the material and you can see just by putting it on all these little scratches you can see that are embedded onto the leather are now very visible. So over time me putting this into my backpack taking it in and out carrying it into different rooms taking it with me wherever I go I can see it getting a lot of scratches even within like just the first month of using it like that and I feel like it's going to be in a situation where I feel like I would want to take it off after a while and for me that's not great to have that quality material and in the packaging I don't know if you can see there's a little mark a dirt mark just there that actually came with the packaging of the skin this I can't take off if I try to scratch it off there's going to be a big mark right there and I don't think that's something I want to do so quality wise it's not so great let's just take a closer look you can see that so in my honest opinion I feel like the tan leather skins on the D brand website are probably not as great as most people would assume obviously they're a little bit more expensive because of the material but I'm going to try it out and I will keep in touch with everyone on my Instagram on how the progress has gone and what this looks like after a month of usage and hopefully you guys can get a good idea if this is also something that you would consider buying from the D brand website so the only reason I really wanted to try out the tan leather skin from D brand is because I was going for this kind of brown themed for my Apple devices I have the Torpei fine-woven case for my iPhone I have the Torpei fine with a magnetic strap for my Apple watch and I was just a fan of this type of color theme of these like light brown colors so I just wanted to do all of these matching but over time even if you see the official Apple MagSafe Torpei case you can see how it's degraded in color along the edges it's a lot darker you can't really see that clearly on the camera but just putting it in and out my pocket multiple times the actual material on this is not basically lasted that long and I hope that's not the case for this leather skin from a MacBook but let's see over time and I'll keep you updated on my Instagram so that's it the D brand leather tan skin my very initial thoughts on just unpacking it and putting it on for the first time if it is value for money my answer would be no I just feel like this is already started to get scratches and I've barely even touched it or even used it at all so that's my take let me know what you guys think if you do have the leather skins maybe in a different color drop your comments down below let everyone else know your experiences with it make sure to like this video and subscribe and I will catch you all at the next one take care


Hello, my name is Greg Sutherland. I'm a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sydney into brain diseases and as part of Brain Awareness Week in 2022. I'd like to talk to you about the mystery of Alzheimer's disease. So a little bit of background about myself before we start. I first trained as a veterinarian and I worked in equine practice for around about 10 years. I came across to Australia in 2003 and I'm now housed in a very impressive building called the Charles Perkins Centre on the Campedown campus at the University of Sydney. The CPC was built to look at diseases that are associated with metabolic syndromes like obesity and diabetes. And dementia interestingly is a brain disease that has quite a few risk factors in common with those types of diseases. My laboratory is housed up right on the top of the sixth floor, almost as far away as you can see from the front of the building that I face up towards the RPA Hospital. So one of the interesting things that you might not be aware of is that dementia, which includes Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's disease, Americans tend to refer to it as is the second leading cause of death in Australia. And if we look at female persons, it's actually the leading cause of death. And it's the first time in the statistics taken in 2018 that any disease has not a coronary heart disease from the most common cause of death in Australia. The reason why dementia is becoming so common is really our ageing population. And it's magnified by the fact that we don't have any useful treatments at the moment that can slow or stop the disease. But why don't we talk about Alzheimer's disease as being a great mystery or perhaps world's greatest detective story? A couple of the factors that contribute to this is, well, one, it involves the brain and that there's any organ system that we know as least about and then it is the human brain. The disease only manifests in the eighth or ninth decade with most people getting the disease at roundabout in the mid-80s. It's really, it really has a genetic cause. And what we call a pro-drain or the pre-symptomatic stage of the disease is probably longer than about 30 years. So all of this adds up to that a very subtle process could be operating over a long period of time to induce this disease and finding subtle processes is not what we're put at. Just on the right-hand side, we have a picture of our Alzheimer's with whom the disease was named after. In fact, it was named after by a general called Kregling who was in charge of Alzheimer's in some of his forms of years in medicine. And his first patient in which he described some of the brain pathology was a lady called Auguste Dieter and it would turn out many years later when genotyping technologies were more advanced that this lady had a mutation. So she was one of these rare genetic cases. And as you can see by her lifespan, she actually died very young for someone with Alzheimer's disease, which is consistent with her having a mutation. My job as a scientist or a neuropathology scientist is to try to understand how the features of this disease and the features within the brain relate to the development of the disease and to try and find treatment targets for that disease. So here on the left-hand side are some of the features that we see in Alzheimer's disease. So we are to remove at all topsy or post-mortem examination the brain of someone with Alzheimer's disease. We will notice that their brain is very much shrunken from someone who is normal for that age and gender. And when we talk about shrinkage, what we're talking about is these little gaps between the various parts of the brain called solcopy.  Whereas in someone that's lost a lot of their brain tissue, these solci or gaps between the two gyri expand considerably. Similarly, within the middle of our brain are fluid filled cavities called ventricles and these become very much enlarged. The other thing that we see and how we identify someone is actually having Alzheimer's disease is they develop two, what we call patho pneumonic or disease hallmarks. One of them is intra neuronal tangles. This is an example of a tangle here. And the other thing is extracellular or extra neuronal plaques. And you may have heard of this term and sometimes people call them neurotic plaques or senile plaques. This is an example of a plaque. These are in the parenchyma or they're extracellular whereas the tangles, the other feature of the disease are actually within the neurons until the neurons actually die. Now, once these tangles form in neurons over a period of time, eventually the neuron dies and we are left with just the tangle.  So when the neurons die, they cannot be replaced. Neuronal loss as you might be aware is permanent. And because it's permanent, by the time the disease reaches this tangled stage and the neurons are starting to be lost, even if we were able to intercept the disease at that stage, we would still leave the person with a permanent disability or their symptoms could not. So the thing that we really need to get is pre-symptomatic treatments. We need to work out what is the earliest problems that this disease causes on the neurons and try and stop the neurons from dying in the first place. On the right-hand side here, we have a sort of graph which gives you an idea of this prodrone or pre-symptomatic period that I talked about. So there is the disease and particularly something called amyloid beta accumulation. Amyloid beta is what makes up these plaques. This is happening probably up to around about 30 years before the disease actually shows symptoms. And when the disease shows symptoms, we have one stage called mild cognitive impairment and then people go on to be more severely affected and that's when they start developing dementia. So we have certain both imaging and also blood biomarkers that we can look at and get a fair idea that someone might go on and develop dementia. What we then need to find is a treatment target where we can tie the person in this pre-clinical phase. So that we can maintain their cognitive function and this is what we refer to as pre-symptomatic treatments. So what do we know about Alzheimer's disease and what do we think happens at the moment? In 1992 and then again this has been updated, probably updated almost every 10 years but first updated in 2002 was this amyloid cascade hypothesis. And what this proposes is that amyloid and amyloid is produced as a proteolytic or protein degradation product of a protein called APP. Now for some reason this amyloid, excuse me, for some reason the ABTA which we use the abbreviation AB here wants to stick to itself and it starts forming firstly oligomers. And then those oligomers form five fibrils and those fibrils ultimately turn into these neurotic plaques and become quite toxic to the cells. And particularly the neurons and it's thought through a number of processes although these are all to some extent debatable. You get the tangle formation which is a tangle down here and eventually that tangle formation ends up in strangling the neurons and leading to their death and that's how we get the symptoms. So this is still the main idea of how Alzheimer's disease works. However, since around about, just after the turn of the millennium and then more so from around about 2010 there have been a number of treatments that have been used in clinical trials to try to remove amyloid. And they have successfully removed amyloid, these drugs we call an ABTA modified drugs. But the problem is when they've looked at the imaging, yes, the amyloid which is shown in yellow and particularly in red here moves away from these patients but there is no change in their cognitive decline. And this has been a real problem for the amyloid cascade hypothesis. Now you may have heard on the news that a company called Biogen very recently actually got approved to use one of these ABTA modifying drugs called Etihil, also known as a eju-canimab by the FDA. Now FDA is the American equivalent of our TGA here in Australia. And there's a lot of people who felt that this was a rash or overly rushed decision. At the moment Etihil is not available in Australia and even then they think it's only going to be useful in the early stages of the disease. So whether Etihil can help by reducing the amyloid remains very, very contentious. So what it's meant is that researchers like myself have looked in other way, other areas, including the buildup of tau to try to find other processes that might serve as a suitable target for these pre-symptomatic treatments. One of the ones that we're spending a lot of our time looking at is this development of inflammation. There are two types of cells in the human brain. One is called microglia and the other is called astrocytes. And both these cells can become involved in inflammatory processes. And we think that if we can manipulate those inflammatory processes, then we are in a good position to try to slow or even stop Alzheimer's disease. Typically with any disease, the real workhorses of medical research and we can call this pre-clinical medical research or sometimes called basic science, mice and rats. That is because they are mammalian species. They have all the other same organs as what we do as humans. But one issue with using mice as model systems is that their brain relative to say their heart or their guts or any other particular organ is quite different to the human brain. And what a lot of people have found is that they have been able to cure models of Alzheimer's disease and these mice. But when they bring drugs into from these pre-clinical studies into clinical trials, they are often unsuccessful and almost everyone is unsuccessful in clinical trials. And so many of the larger drug companies in the world you recognize fires are here with their recent COVID vaccines that actually stopped in your own science programs. And what we believe at the University of Sydney and in my lab is that there is another way of trying to model this disease. And it might seem a little bit odd, but we suggest that we can actually use donated brains for Alzheimer's disease research. And I wanted to lastly talk a little bit about how we think that this can be done because it does seem given a post-mortem brain tissue is inherently retrospective. It would be very difficult to find early clues to the disease. But what we think is possible was that when AD develops in an individual, it starts in areas such as the hippocampus, which is very deep in the brain and is actually very old evolutionary old part of the human brain and then tends to move out from there. So at post-mortem, there are areas of the brain that are relatively unaffected by the disease. And we think that some of these areas could be used as a proxy for those severely affected areas 20 or 30 years earlier in the disease course. And so almost by reversing the disease course, we can use these particular areas to say, hey, maybe these have the same processes going on as what would have been happening in the hippocampus 30 years earlier. IE we can use these belatedly affected areas at all top C of the AD brain as proxies for areas like the hippocampus many, many, many years earlier. Now, using this model, our research goes on to do two particular things. And I've called it sort of a brain of two halves. And that's because when we get a brain donated, we divide the brain in half and one half of it is fixed. And we use that to look at the structure of the brain we call these type of studies, immunohistochemistry. And then the other half of the brain is frozen. So it's cut up into what we call blocks and then those blocks are frozen down. And that allows us to do molecular studies. And it's by combining information that we get spatially with information that we get molecularly that we think that the areas like that I pointed to earlier. In some cases, one area would be the primary visual cortex. For example, we can use those areas in these combination of techniques to work out what's happening early on in Alzheimer's disease. I have been recently working with a fantastic group at the University of Washington in St. Louis over in America. And they have been using a very new technique called single cell RNA sequencing to work out what all the cells in an area of the brain. And when I talk about all the cells, I'll mention close to 100,000 different cells where all of those cells are expressing. Now, as you might imagine, that type of molecular analysis gives us a massive amount of data. And particularly when we do it over a large number of brains from both people with the disease and those people without. The data is extremely complex and very, very dense. So what my lab does, and this is some work that a former student of my Julia Lim does, is to go through these areas of the brain on the fixed side and quantify the amount of tau, the amount of amyloid in those areas, and also the amount of neurons that are left. And therefore, we were able to divide that very complex data that I referred to just previously. We can divide it up into not only pathways that are different between people with the disease or not, but we can also divide them up into pathways that seem to be tau-related, amyloid-related, or maybe unrelated to those two hallmark pathologies that I spoke about earlier. The plaques that are made up of amyloid beta and the tingles that are made up of tau. And so again, by combining these two halves of the information gain from these two halves of the brain, that's how we go about digging into this complex data to find these potential therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease. And then once those are put together, we use the term sort of a mirror atlas of AD. Here is a chart of basically showing you exactly what we do, summarizing what I just said. So on a fixed part of the brain, we use very sophisticated microscopy to take lots of images of those particular brain areas, and we quantify all the pathology and all the cells that are in that area. And then from the opposite side of the brain, we get dense molecular data. And then we use what we know about the spatial brain and how many different types of cells there are to make more sense of this very complex and dense data that we're now able to generate with our biological studies. And just lastly, as I've seen, we've used two sides of the brain up to this point. But on the horizon is a technique called spatial transcriptomics where we can actually do the both experiments, the molecular and the spatial at the exact same time on the same side of the brain. And that's a very important thing. It means we are only doing one type of the experiment. And we think that this is going to be the future of our work where we can relate in one go some very complex information about what abnormal cells in an AD brain are expressing and how other cells are relating to that as at the same time of capturing those cells in situ. And I think this is going to be a major step forward towards realising our goal of finding those pre-symptomatic therapeutic targets. Of course, it would be a miss of me not to mention the most important people in this story. And that is the patients. 10 years ago, also, I lost a very dear friend who'd been a mentor of mine, a fellow veterinary surgeon called John. John, like many people without Simon's disease, had the disease over 10 years and slowly lost his cognitive abilities. It's a very sad process, but he put up a great fight and he was a lovely old man. Just in the background, the hoist, people with this disease in the last few years of it are immobile and have to be moved around during sleeping and also moved around their house. And it's a great imposition on caregivers and often those caregivers are a direct member of the family. In John's case, it was his wife. And so there is a lot of indirect effects of Alzheimer's disease as well as on the patients themselves. And lastly, just a few of my colleagues and collaborators would work with people all around the world. It looks like a very busy page and it is. But importantly, I just want again to thank the patients and those patients who make the very kind decision to donate their brain after their lives and, of course, the next that can allow that process to happen. Thank you very much. If you have any interest in Alzheimer's disease or anything that I've talked about today, please don't hesitate to contact me with the University of Sydney, g.sutherland at Sydney.edu.au.


you have been putting in work this offseason take me through your schedule because you've been no stranger to this facility in Tampa. Yeah I've been coming here since before Christmas. Come on Sundays or Mondays leave for the weekend and I've done that since like I said before before Christmas so I've been here for two months and a half now. Now I know you expressed your frustration last year not being able to be on the field all the time have you changed anything about your routine to try to ensure that you stay healthy throughout the course of the season? As far as the offseason I wanted to come here and make sure that I checked every box with the trainers with the strength coaches make sure I was doing every exercise right every rep right so no better place to do it here with the team and I'm happy where I'm at right now and I feel like I'm in a good place. What tells you you're in a good place right now? I threw my fourth live yesterday I'm recovering real well no issues throwing those lives I'm building up properly so I feel like I'm in a good spot. What are your expectations for this season personally? 30 starts that's that's a go obviously for any starting pitcher but as far as for me I know in 22 I made 28 and last year was supposed to be a big year for me and I couldn't show up so this year is a pretty big one for me. What do you think about the rotation this year obviously the addition of Strowman a big one? Yeah it's solid all around obviously with Clark having a really good second half last year. Gary obviously doing his job and hopefully Miro down bounce back to to power this rotation and and go go somewhere we haven't been in in a really long time. Before I let you go congratulations you got married this offseason but I need to go inside the wedding best part of the wedding. Best part of the wedding probably after everything where we started taking a lot of a lot of shots and party got a little wild after that but obviously the ceremony all that was beautiful so happy. Best answer on the Yankees that was there? Yeah I think we had a lot of Yankees there we had about eight or nine Yankees and I'm really grateful for them showing up.  Nester thank you I appreciate it best of luck this spring in this season. Thank you so much Meredith.


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