Happy Friday everybody and hello to Hackensack Meridian Health. It is great to connect with all of you on our first virtual town hall for 2021. I can't believe that it's almost three months into 2021. Talk about a year that's gone quick. It's just amazing. We have a great lineup for today's town hall meeting. We'll cover the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll talk about our vaccination efforts, women's history month, and our strategy to reimagine HMH. I'm excited to lead a discussion with some of our very own team members about our initiative to reimagine Hackensack Meridian. It's so important that we hear directly from the front lines. Later in the town hall I'll have a conversation with Mark Sparta, the president of Hackensack University Medical Center. Mark will share some of his reflections on this past year's events from a leadership perspective. It's hard to believe that it was just a year ago this month that we treated New Jersey's first COVID patient at Hackensack University Medical Center. Dealing with this global pandemic really tested us as individuals and as an organization. Think about it. In the first six weeks of this pandemic over 2,000 patients flooded our hospitals. It was just grueling. Yet your commitment and connection to purpose continues to amaze me. I'm so honored to work with all of you. There's no question this pandemic has changed all of us and it's changed our organization, but we are Jersey strong. We've talked a lot about resilience this last year, but I want everyone to know we must also take care of ourselves. I encourage everyone to take advantage of the resources available at HMH to support your own healing. I'm really optimistic that we will emerge stronger than ever before and I'm proud of where we're headed as an organization. This month is filled with several milestones. Beyond remembering the start of the pandemic, we are celebrating Women's History Month and all the amazing women leaders and team members throughout our network. We're welcoming spring with open arms. I don't know about all of you, but I have never been happier to see sunny days and warmer weather. To me, spring is a season of growth and of hope. It reminds me of our vaccination efforts and our desire to see the end of this pandemic. I'm proud to report that as of today, we have administered more than 309,000 vaccines and vaccinated nearly 22,000 Hackensack Meridian team members. That's quite amazing. And there's no stopping there. We will continue vaccinating our team members and the community. Someone who has been leading our vaccination efforts is Regina Foley. Regina will be joining us in a few moments for our reimagining HMH discussion. Regina is really a shining example of the amazing women leaders we have here at Hackensack Meridian Health. She's a nurse who came up through the ranks and earned a PhD. She's deeply committed to her teams and the success of our organization, Hackensack Meridian. Throughout the month, I've been enjoying reading the features in one about several of our women leaders and our team members. Thank you to all of our amazing female leaders and team members for everything you do to make us successful. Now I'd like to turn to the next topic of today's virtual town hall meeting. Everyone should be familiar with our mission to transform healthcare and to be the leaders of positive change. I'm confident we are living our mission, which is the key to our success. In order to transform healthcare, we must continuously reimagine ourselves, which is why I'm excited to introduce reimagining HMH. Our communities have more choices than ever. They seek greater access to care and more affordable options. They crave convenience. And while technology is offering us advances in care delivery and in treatment, people still want that human touch. So my message to all of you today is simple. Help us build on our extraordinary success. I've never been more proud of our team. Together, we have created a network that is a national leader. So how do we continue to transform our organization in these very challenging times? We have to change the way we work, just as much as we change the structure of our organization. We do this by working together and taking new paths. We will continue to build a stronger network to thrive for future generations. So I invite all of you to join me in reimagining HMH. Let's now take a look at a video that tells the story of this very important strategy. At Hackensack Meridian Health, we are united by our purpose to care for our patients, our communities, and each other. On the front lines of a pandemic that is reshaping the world, we continue to show up, jersey strong, resilient, and committed to uncompromising excellence. Our team members exemplify care delivered with courage, creativity, compassion, collaboration, and connectedness. With grit and grace, we make tough decisions in real time, move and pivot quickly and support one another and those who depend on us. Because of this, our reputation for providing the highest quality patient care and our leadership position in the market are unrivaled. But now, significant shifts in the healthcare landscape demand continuous innovation. We know innovation is not a destination, but an inspiring journey of becoming who we want to be as leaders of positive change. These shifts, starting with the impacts to the most vulnerable in our communities, are transforming the way our world experiences health and wellness. Patients today are offered an abundance of choices, but are overwhelmed by disconnected provider experiences. They seek greater access to care, but are hindered by rising costs. They desire seamless, convenient care enhanced by technology, while seeking the warmth of a more human, more personalized experience. That is why we must accelerate the transformation of our network, leveraging our breadth and depth across the region and our greatest strength, our team members, to meet patients where they are and provide the very best care. The time is now to become who we aspire to be. We are transforming ourselves in order to transform Hackensack Meridian Health. As individuals, we are embracing and enabling more patient focused care through better access and technology. We are learning to be better collaborators in order to form the kind of partnerships that spur breakthrough research and change lives. And we are tapping into the agility we relied on to maneuver through this pandemic to speed the changes that will ultimately improve the patient experience and quality outcomes. We will do this by embracing the power of positivity and the possibility of our people. Despite pandemic fatigue, we are digging deep to keep getting better for our patients and one another. Let's lean into the passionate pursuit of our purpose. Together, we're reimagining Hackensack Meridian Health. What a great video. I got to give a little shout out to A.J. Sherman from Hackensack Meridian who puts together these videos. He does just an amazing job and that video really says it perfectly. Now, I'm wearing this mask because we have our joined by this panel to help us further understand this approach about reimagining HMH. And I'm joined by three incredible HMH team members. We have Dr. Sulin Bokri who's the medical director of ambulatory quality.  I get to hear Sulin report at our clinically integrated network board meetings. And I can tell everybody here that's watching this today that she is just so passionate about quality and about improving quality. And the great news is we're making some amazing practice. But I thank you for joining us today and for sharing your views from the front lines being a primary care physician. So, welcome. Thank you so much. We also have Regina Foley who's the senior vice president for care integration and transformation and vaccine coordinator. Regina is a registered nurse and was also the chief hospital executive at Bayshore and at Southern Ocean Medical Centers. And I want to just say that Regina, you know, and, you know, I just can't give you enough credit for how you've led Hackensack Meridian's efforts on the vaccine front. I mean, whether it's vaccinating our team members or being out there running New Jersey's largest mega site, mega center for vaccinations and really getting New Jersey's residents vaccinated, really making history and could not be more proud of the work that you're doing. So, welcome and congratulations on everything that you've been able to accomplish. Thanks, Bob. It's been a privilege. It's great. We also have Richie Clergé who works in the emergency department at Hackensack University Medical Center. Richie is a clerical associate. Richie, welcome aboard. And I do want to say that I was really, you know, really moved when I read an article that was written about Richie recently in the Bergen record. And I was kidding Richie before we started that he's telling me he's getting a lot of calls and a lot of inquiries since this article was written. I told him he's going to need an agent very soon. And I can do that for you. But I do want to share something because this was very, very special in terms of what Richie does and how he represents Hackensack Meridian so well. The story that was in the Bergen record, I don't have the whole article in front of me right now, but basically there was a woman who came into the emergency department at Hackensack, Mrs. Alemo. And she had lost her husband during the first part of COVID. I think it was back in April of 2020. But she had to be hospitalized herself. She came into the emergency department. It was a busy night, as it usually is at the Hackensack emergency department. And it was a little overwhelming for her. And she had never really been to too many things without her husband, let alone, you know, a busy emergency department. And she was really very much frightened. And she was having even a hard time breathing because she was just so nervous. And she met Richie. He had come over and introduced himself. And then she, as they were having a conversation, she got a cell phone call. So they never completed their conversation. So Richie took the time to, you know, while she was on the phone to write her a note. And she, and the article was about how she cherished this note and how it's really turned her life around. So I do want to read, I think it's really important that everybody understands because this is just so beautiful. The note that Richie wrote to Mrs. Alamo that evening that she was in the emergency department. Heaven can be found in the most unlikely places. Sometimes I believe we can find that in love. All endings are also beginnings. It's hard to notice during our hard times.  A life does end, but love doesn't. You reminded me that the world is full of different stories, but the human spirit and all lives at some time converge. Thank you for sharing your story to a stranger. I'll remember how powerful love is. I hope you have a speedy recovery, Richie. Richie, thank you for doing that. That was unbelievably beautiful. And I understand Richie does this with other patients too on a routine basis. It's amazing and it just shows the power of Hackensack Meridian and the folks that are on the front lines really representing it so well. So let me get into some questions for our distinguished panel today. So I'm going to start with you, Dr. Bokri. COVID-19 has changed the way we interact with patients with many visits now, virtual. So how has that impacted you directly? So thank you for that, Bob. So COVID definitely has changed the way that we view medicine and it's really launched us into a new era. When I think of the time during the pandemic, I mean we're still going through it, but three things come to mind. First is we had to be so agile in this atrocity and we had to be agile in Pivotin, all the physicians to this new platform, you mentioned telehealth. And not only that, a lot of us who hadn't practiced in the hospital had to go in and to do that.  The other piece of it is embracing technological advancement is something that we definitely have to embrace. The second bit of it is a big focus on access. It really sparked a lot of thought about something that has been an issue not just for patients in New Jersey, but really it's a national problem with patient access. And we do have to think outside of the box and really envision how we're going to not only provide the usual consultative type visits, but how to do whole health for these patients where we're meeting their needs, where they are, when they need it, and at a time that's convenient for them. And then the third part of it got me thinking about this methodology, if you may, of creative design thinking. And design thinking is thinking of not just of yourself, but the world as products. And in so doing, you're always thinking how can you make yourself better in doing that? It helps us to be better leaders. And there are some other things around design thinking that are truly innovative. So how we present to other people in a way that they can understand and that they want to receive information. Also with how we prototype ideas, not just products. And so just to summarize that all, it's the impact on me has been just reflective and thinking through how to really meet the needs of the patients in a very highly reliable way. And I use what we call the six dimensions of healthcare quality, which is providing care that is safe and timely, effective, efficacious, equitable, and of course patient centered. So that is how it's transformed me. That's how it's affected me, Bob. It's really a lot going on here and how we can really be better at patient care. That's great. And a couple of things struck me. You mentioned access, you mentioned agility. I think those are going to be cornerstones to our reimagining HMH initiative. So that's those are I think two words that everybody should keep in mind. Do you think telehealth is here to stay? Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. As I mentioned, people want things where they are at a time that's convenient for them. And they want it now. And you know, oftentimes when people come into the office, that's great. And that has a beautiful place.  So that isn't it should never go away. And it and that is that has its place. But telehealth is is another way of reaching people. It's another way of creating better access. And we do have to think more around how else do people want to get care, not just, you know, maybe it's with meds, maybe it's with how they get your physical therapy or, you know, their other other parts of their health care. You know, sometimes it takes a crisis for us to really advance technology. And this is a great example. So I agree with you. I think it's here to stay. And I'm happy for that. I think, you know, like you said, wherever we can expand access to to the people that we serve, we should we should be really embracing it. So thank you for that. So let me turn to Regina next. Regina, you know, you're obviously playing a huge role in leading our network today. And I just wondered, from your perspective, why do you think it's important for us to keep transforming? So I mean, it's means vital to our success. You know, you mentioned in our mission about being a health care leader. And and we are certainly in the state of New Jersey. So from from our team members in our community, you know, the expectation is that we stay in the clinical forefront of what's happening. We're guiding and providing direction for what is happening certainly in the state, if not nationally. So that only happens when you continue to evolve and stay current and have edge to what how we roll essentially every day. So I look at it as that the transformation just as innovations in our DNA transformations in our DNA, we've got to continue to transform. Therefore, we're leading what is happening here, certainly in New Jersey, if not the country. Yeah, I always think about that, you know, I think whether it's a health care organization or any organization out there, you know, those that have been most successful, those that have sustained are those that can continually transform and be innovative, right? Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. It makes a big difference. Thank you. So let me turn to Richie and, you know, Richie, reimagining Hackensack Meridian, you know, is about the small things and the large things that we do every day, you know, to transform the patient experience. You know, the article in the record really, and as I said before, really inspired me in terms of and, you know, I wouldn't call that a small thing you did. I would call that a big thing.  You know, so how do you feel that about how your actions are transforming the patient experience? Well, I feel that I have to understand, I understand that the business model is about self-service and selflessness. So once you understand that, you can tackle that head on. My mission is not only to, to change the patient experience, but the human experience, right? So there's always going to be an abundance amount of money out there, but the service that you give is what's really key in your selflessness, right? So the other day I was in Ambulance Triage and two paramedics came by and they said, you know, this is what happens when you do a good deed. And I just caught on to it. I was like, wow, like that's, that's, that's incredible that I heard that. But to them, I want to say, yes, I want every patient out there to come to Hackerside University Medical Center because we're doing something right. We're getting something right and we're showing people that, hey, we care about you and we're here for you. And we're understanding that human beings are operating on two frequencies, which is love and hate. Hate, which is, if you break it down, which is fear, anxiety, depression and love, joy, happiness, et cetera. You can understand that, you know what, let me just flip the script and put myself in their shoes and understand this, that selflessness is key. That's great. And I think, you know, one of my takeaways from what you just said was, you know, it's about the human experience and not the patient experience, because I think we have to think about that each and every day.  And, you know, if we, you know, traditionally, I think healthcare just thought about patients as patients, meaning their medical record and what's in, what's in their chart, but they are human beings. They have feelings, like you said, there's love, there's hate, there's a lot of different emotions going on. So I love that notion and maybe we can get that out there as a theme that we, you know, we are, we're in the human business here. We're talking about human beings. We're not talking about just patients. That's great. Thank you. Thank you for that. So, you know, I think this was a, this was a really good discussion. I'm going to ask each of you maybe just to maybe make a couple comments about transformation going forward in terms of, you know, if, if there's any advice or any, any last thoughts that you would have that you would like to share with your, your colleagues about transformation. Again, it doesn't have to be big. It could be very, very small, but let's, let's just do a quick, you know, go around here. We'll start maybe here on the side with Regina. So my thought is what, what we need to be able to, I guess, mobilize among our 36,000 strong, right, is our team, including team members and medical staff. They're the idea generators, right? It's boots on the ground. Those are the front line. And so I would, I would ask the, you know, as we move to reimagining HMH, it's your ideas and opinions are welcomed and appreciated. Quite honestly, we need them. We need them to continue to stay strong and to focus on things that are truly meaningful where we want to make an impact. So I would just ask the team members to be involved and contribute to the planning and the, and the idea generation that is stimulated from the site, because I think that's where we'll get the most traction. I think I think innovation is everybody's, everybody's job. Absolutely. It's not the next person's, it's everybody. Absolutely. That's great. That's great. Dr. Bokri? Yeah. So I like this idea of being employers and, and the mindset of people in an organization individually to be employers rather than employees. And once you start framing that here, it's, it becomes so impactful because everything that you touch, everything that you do, you're part of it. You're part of that. You want to make it better. And as to, you know, Regina's point, it's whatever you're thinking in terms of design ideations, whatever the action is going to be, the way you communicate and the execution. So really it's, it's, it's so important for us to be maybe changing maybe some of that mindset to be an employers.  I like that. I like that change of mindset for the employers. Yeah. That's great. Thank you. Richie? Well, the advice that I have is there's a story that an Afghanistan old man told me and he said, there's a friend that went to another friend's house and he knocked on the door and he answered, well, the friend on the other side of the door said, who is it? And the other friend on the other side of the door said, it is I. It's me, your friend. And he said, I don't know who that is. Get out of here. So the friend goes on this journey for about a year or two, comes back and knocks on the door again. And he says, who is it? He says, it is you at the door. So that to me is a phenomenal story. So once you disclaimer here, it's still a stranger danger. I'm not telling anybody to open the door. I'm telling everybody to open the door for someone on the other side saying it is you, you know, it's kind of weird. But in a sense, what that story means is that you have to look at patients to as you, it is you on the other side of that door. We're not that far different from each other. And just as I said before, we're getting it right. So I want every patient at University Medical Center coming, because that means we're doing something right. So that's the advice that I give is the unison and that we're all one. Look at patients as you. I like that. That's a great story. I'm serious, you do need an agent. Well, I want to thank the three of you really for your insights for joining me today and for sharing your thoughts with your colleagues out there. So I thank you all and have a great weekend, everybody. Thank you. So it feels great to look ahead, as you just heard. I think the whole reimagined efforts going to be amazing for us as we look ahead to see what is possible. But I'd be remiss if we didn't take a few moments to reflect on what this month represents. At the beginning of our meeting, I touched on our shared experience this past year. When I reflect on this year, there are countless acts of kindness, courage, and compassion that come to mind. I think of our doctors and our nurses holding up iPads so families could say goodbye to loved ones and crying with family members. I think of the nurse traveling up to Hackensack University Medical Center from the Jersey Shore to help with the surge of patients day after day. I remember calling families of our fallen team members and literally crying with them. As a leader, you often need to carry out difficult tasks, but making those phone calls was the hardest thing I have ever done. We'll never forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice. And in all of this, we really came together as a family. We have so much to be proud of. We were there for our communities when they needed it most. This is where the resolve and commitment of our team really stands out. We treated more patients than any other network in the state of New Jersey. And we continue to deliver high quality, compassionate care every single day. We also adopted to the crisis with a swift, robust, and coordinated response. You know, I always think there are only two jobs in healthcare in a crisis. Frontline, those folks that are on the front line have one job and the rest of us who support those people on the front line. Our clinical teams worked miracles. Our supply teams sourced the globe for PPE. The crisis also sealed our reputation as a hub of innovation and discovery. We just spoke about that a little bit. We delivered the first commercial test in New Jersey, which reduced wait times from days, maybe even weeks to hours. We were delivering convalescent plasma therapy and other life-saving treatments. We supported vaccine production. We participated in vaccine trials, and we are now operating the mega site at the metal lands, the largest in the entire state. We learned so much. We improved so much, and we embraced the future with new knowledge and experience to continue to transform healthcare. When all this began last March, we didn't have a playbook or an idea of what was to come. What we had was the absolute best team, a strong network, solid shared beliefs, and great leaders to unite us. With that, I'd like to welcome one of our great leaders, Mark Sparta, the president of Hackensack University Medical Center, to share a brief reflection on his perspective as we mark one year. Mark, welcome. Bob, thank you. Thanks for having me. Good to see you. Good to see you too. Thanks for coming in on a Friday. You bet. So Mark Hackensack has really been the epicenter of the COVID pandemic from the beginning. HUMC saw the first COVID-19 patient. Sadly, we also witnessed the first COVID-19 patient to fall to the virus. In fact, Hackensack has had more COVID patients than any other hospital in the state of New Jersey. So this past year has really been filled with emotion, moments, and experiences like anything that we've seen before. So as you reflect on this past year, what's the top of mind? What are some of the moments or experiences that you will carry with you going forward? So Bob, I first want to thank you for having me here. Having the opportunity to reflect on the past year is actually very therapeutic. This pandemic has changed all of us. None of us will ever be the same again. However, for us to heal, I think we need to talk about our experiences and share them with each other. And I think that in some way that honors the memory of all those that have been lost from the pandemic. So there's so many images that are burned into my mind. And honestly, they really run the spectrum of emotions from deep sadness and despair to feelings of incredible pride and inspiration and triumph. And those will really stay with me and many of us forever. You know, when I think about those images, I just can't get past the compassion that was exhibited by our war technician who, against all odds with bodies that were stacked in refrigerated trailers, honoring those lives by putting daffodils on each of the bodies. That was an amazing, really an amazing act. And we had her at one of the virtual town hall meetings and just got so, I got so emotional hearing that story. And it's, you know, it's folks like that who have these random acts of humanity, folks like Richie, you know, across Hackensack Meridian, I talk to my colleagues and there's countless, countless experiences of those happening. And I think, honestly, that's what makes Hackensack Meridian different. Our front line team members, they get it, they understand why we're here, and they really take the five C's to heart. But you know, other things that I think about, I remember on the evening of Wednesday, March 4th, when the testing came back from the state and late in the evening, we were all on the phone because we knew we were first and we knew what that meant. I remember after I got the phone call, I think I might have been from you and I had this pit in my stomach after that. It was unbelievable because you just, everything we were hearing in Italy and China and other places now was here. It was here. And I don't think that evening we could have ever predicted what we were going to experience. But you know, for all the challenges we had and all the devastation, I have to tell you, the strength and the resilience of our team, I'm in such deep gratitude to them because they inspired me to come in every day. You know, we rounded on those patient care units every day, sometimes twice a day. And to see folks that, you know, we've been working with for 20 and 30 years, unfortunately, some of them were in those beds. And it was a very, very emotional experience. But then we had the creativity of Hackensack Rody and Health. And you know, the team at Hackensack gathered and we knew we were going to be reaching our capacity very soon. And we said, what else can we do? And you know, the night that we were on a Thursday night in late March, we were in the cafeteria laying painters tape on the floor so that we could figure out how many beds we could fit in there. And then six or seven days later, we had a full patient caring unit with medical gases and monitoring. I mean, the teams just don't do that. Hackensack Rody and teams do that. And then the happiness, the sense of triumph and success when we were able to discharge one of our own, our 1000th patient. And then, you know, the clapouts, how inspiring were they? All of my colleagues across the network had those experiences with local fire departments and EMS and police departments, you know, doing the drive-thrus with the lights and sirens.  And I think what really capped it off was the first day that we administered the vaccines in December. That gave us that sense of hope and the fact that we had something now to battle this virus and we were going to win.  They came back every day. And, you know, without regard for their families and, you know, the fact that they were caring for very, very sick patients with a communicable disease that we didn't know a whole lot about. Just amazing.  Really, you know, I think that's a really good way to put it because there were so many acts of triumph. You talked about the vaccines and how that was kind of a turning point. So how would you characterize your team now today? Are they, what, you know, obviously they've been at this for over a year. I know there's been exhaustion. I know there's been a lot of pain. How are they doing now? You know, they're healing. I think we're all still healing, but they're so hopeful. And again, you know, the focus has shifted from a response to a recovery and a transformation focus. And everyone looks forward to the warm weather coming, the vaccines really taking effect with hopefully herd immunity not far away from us. And the fact that we'll get back to some sense of normal because they love the work that they do. We all have challenges on a daily basis. But by and large, they love the work that they do. And I think that we're also fortunate to be able to have been involved in this experience. And I really think that it makes us all stronger. I agree. And it's good to hear that they're doing, they're doing better. And certainly we got a lot of resources to help support them at HMH. Mark, I want to thank you for your leadership. I have one more question. You know, a true test of leadership is really how you lead during a crisis. So can you share from a leadership perspective some, some lessons learned that you, that you experienced? Absolutely. You know, I think we all, before this talked about how important it was to have a team and to work as a team. But honestly, we could not have made it through this past 12 months if we had not worked as a team. And it really, really pushed us and showed us the strength of a team. And you know, I learned that leadership is not really about having all the answers. It's about really having the courage and the willingness to rely on your team's experience and expertise and trust your own gut and make decisions. Yeah, that's great. I think it really is about the team and that's a great lesson learned. The other thing I heard, I think it was just yesterday on another Zoom meeting was the crisis kind of taught us that sometimes you just have to act. You know, in healthcare we want to get all the data before we make decisions. We want to get this and that and you know, and evaluate the pros and cons. And you know, sometimes it's just good to act. And if you have to kind of tweak it a little bit as you go along, you tweak it. But I think it's a, it's a good lesson learned, right?   Yeah, exactly, exactly. Exactly. Well, Mark, thank you again for, for joining me today. Thank you for your leadership. And it's been, it's been quite a year, but really the, you know, your team up at Hackensack, along with your colleagues around the network really have done just an amazing, amazing job. It was good to, good to reflect. I think it's healthy for all of us. Absolutely. Thank you. So it's interesting how it all comes together, you know, our shared experience, our look toward the future. When you really think about it, it's all about living our mission to transform healthcare and to be the leaders of positive change. Amid the pandemic, we reimagined how we were providing care and came up with fast innovations, like turning the cafeteria, as Mark just said, into a COVID unit for COVID-19 patients, and finding ways to connect patients and family members when they couldn't physically be there. Looking ahead, we will continue to transform healthcare, reimagining care, how we work together, and how we support our patients. Tapping into our personal why and individual strengths, working together as one great network and one strong family. And that's a great segue. As we wrap up today's virtual town hall meeting, we should all embrace reimagining Hackensack Meridian Health to make us even stronger in the future to serve our communities the best we can. And we should always remember what we went through together as one team this past year. In many ways, it was our finest hour. I'd like to end by congratulating each and every one of you, congratulating you because Hackensack Meridian Health was once again certified as a great place to work, which is really amazing. And that's a great honor for the entire team. Why does it mean so much? Because it's all of you that make us a great place to work. I want to thank you for everything that you do each and every day. I look forward to seeing many of you as I round throughout the network. Until next time, have a great weekend, everybody.


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U.S. names main need of Ukrainians on battlefield. Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense, said that currently Ukraine needs air defense, long-range weapons and arm and vehicles for the most and F-16 at this stage of the war will not help the Ukrainians. Austin said it during a hearing at the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. Now the main need of the Ukrainians is air defense. This is a critical need on the battlefield. They also need long-range weapons and armored vehicles and we provide them with a significant package of such opportunities. We also train them and guarantee the provision of the weapons regarding the F-16 fighters. If such a decision is made it will take approximately 18 months to provide these capabilities but this will not help the Ukrainians at this stage of the war. Can Ukrainians get fighter jets in the future? We all believe in it. Potentially it could be either the F-16 or other fourth generation aircraft. So we will continue to work with our partners to make sure that Ukraine has exactly what it needs. Austin added. Austin believes that Ukraine has a very good chance of launching a successful counteroffensive in the spring of 2023 due to the significant depletion of Russian forces and Western weapons.


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Hello, welcome to this session in the course on computer programming. In the last session, we looked at the evolution of networks and what we call network protocols. In particular, we looked at the exciting short history of how the worldwide web has evolved. We did mention HTTP as a main protocol and HTML or hypertext markup language as an important language using which we can construct web pages. In this lecture, we shall introduce ourselves to HTML. In particular, we will look at simple HTML tags. For any more information as I mentioned last time, please do look at this reference which contains a very useful description of hypertext markup language. It is an open source material, so you can download, copy, print and read at your leisure. To begin with, let me show you a page that we wish to create. Look at what it says, simple HTML page, but it is in red color and it has a particular size of font. Hello world is the next sentence here. This is in the smaller font in blue color. You will notice this is our first HTML page. Again, it has some text, but it appears differently. Color is still blue, but some part the entire sentence is in italics and some part is underlined. Here is another sentence which appears in green. Note that I can create a text document using all these texts, but now I have to somehow inform the browser that when you display this text, please display it in such a fashion that the first sentence is read, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. This is where the hypertext markup language helps us through the various tags that it permits us to use. Please remember that marking up is a old copy editing term which people use when they were given a printout to be proofedited and there they marked up portions of the text to say that this particular portion of the text should look like this or should appear as bold, etcetera, etcetera. They use special tags to specify fonts, margins, paragraph breaks and the same terminology has been used by HTML. Please remember that HTML is about describing the look of a particular text material on the page or what is related to rendering of our text on computer screens. There are explicit formatting commands which are embedded within the document itself. The browser is incidentally an interpreter. As I mentioned, you have a C plus plus compiler which understands your C plus plus programs and executes them. Similarly, browser is an interpreter which understands all HTML tags. It can interpret those tags, can handle tables formally. There are advanced type sheets which we will look at briefly later. A pair of tags affect the contents which are enclosed. So, if I write any text here, how that text will appear will be defined by this pair of tag. A tag enclosed in less than greater than sign begins that particular effect and a slash tag again enclosed in less than greater than sign ends that effect. So, this is how any tag pair is written. The entire document is written enclosed within a special pair of tags called HTML slash HTML. There are two parts to an HTML document head and body. The head typically has title where I might write any text as title slash title as we saw closes this title and slash head closes this head. So, please note that you might have the pairs of tags within other pairs of tags and the interpretation done by the browser is then appropriately. First it will interpret this, then it will interpret the outer tag pair, etcetera, etcetera. Generally, the head is followed by body. The structure of an HTML page is typically like this. Please note that you can create all of this including the markup tags using a simple editor. In fact, the most popular editor used by people is a notepad on Windows machine or an equivalent G edit or something on Ubuntu. Anything which can permit you to edit text. You start the page by saying HTML, then you have a head is followed by a title. You have the text which will appear as the title of the page. This signifies end of that title. So, this is the second part of the pair of the tag. Similarly, slash head means head as ended. Body means body has started. You would have variety of text here as part of the body. Slash body will end the body and slash HTML will end the entire page. Please note that this indentation is primarily for the benefit of readers like us. The interpreter which is the browser does not care for this indentation unless indentation is part of a pre-formatted text as we shall see later. Tags may or may not have attributes, but if you want to specify some more information about a tag, then you can give an attribute which can contain a value. The typical method of describing a value for an attribute is to say tag name of the attribute equal to value. Then whatever text you want that particular value to be applied to and then slash tag. We shall see now how we can use all of this information to create the page that we decide to write in the first instance. But first let us look at various HTML tags which are specified. The tag pair h n slash h n defines the header. So, any text written here will appear as header. There are six levels of headers obviously related to the size of the font that is applied to the text that you write here. b and slash b contain text which will be shown as a bold face. Any text which you want in italic should be enclosed between i and slash i. Any text that you want to underline should be enclosed between the pair u and slash u. If you want to display some text in a different color, then you say div style equal to color colon red and then slash div. So, this is a component of your body which you want to be shown in red color. If you want blue, you can write blue here. If you want black, you can write black here. When you write text, the text may appear continuously in the displayed page which is interpreted by the browser. If you want to show a line break, you can just say b r slash. Incidentally, b r slash is a standalone tag. It is not a part of a pair. So, wherever you write b r slash in between any text, the subsequent text after this b r slash will appear on the next line. If you want to put some text in a separate paragraph, you will typically say p and slash p. Let us apply whatever we have seen so far to create a simple h t m l page. So, I have the h t m l page with a head title. I just say title. There is a body in body. In red color, I say simple h t m l page. Please note h 1 slash h 1 is the tag pair which contains all of this including the value of the attribute color and that is given in style. So, style color color red means the appearance of the simple h t m l page should be in red color. Deep style color color blue means the subsequent material should appear in blue. So, the word hello world will appear in blue color. Not only that, b and slash b makes it bold and there is a line break after this. This is our first h t m l page is the text that we want to appear. All of this is our will appear using the previously defined style, but because I have enclosed first in between i and slash i, all of this will appear in italic. Further, h t m l page is another component which is enclosed between u and slash u. That means h t m l page will appear as underlined. Since the entire thing is enclosed in i and slash i, the whole thing will appear as italic and slash do will end this entire component. Subsequently, I have some more text which I want to appear in green. So, I say deep style color colon green and then with all these attributes, I say hope this session gets you going. Based on our knowledge of the meaning of different tags, you can very easily interpret how all these nested tags will translate into a specific appearance and presto you get this page.  You just give the saved file name an extension dot h t m l and open it any browser. You will not see this text, but what you will see is this and that is because browser is capable of interpreting all these tags and rendering the text in the desired fashion. So, see how simple h t m l programming is. In fact, there is no programming. It is just that you are meticulously defining how different parts of your text should appear on a page. In summary, we introduced ourselves to h t m l and we examined some basic tags. Once again, I remind you for more information on the hypertext markup language, please refer to the open source resource which is part of the wiki books. Thank you for attending this session.


Hi everybody it's Sam here, thank you for watching today. So I'm going to make this, still don't know what I'm going to call this, obviously it'll be in the title of this video by the time you see it but at this point I am still unsure but basically you have a six by six front here and then you open it up and you have this, it's a concertina, it's a multi-step, it's a cordian, it's got a bit of everything in it and you can actually add this section inside a card when you open it either as a top fold or a side fold and I'll talk through that through this tutorial but this is how I put this one together and this is how I made this from a Facebook live that I did so you can see there's a real nice what I would call a showstopper card and then on the back here you have your space to be able to write your message and I've got these gorgeous little butterflies can you see they're kind of just like almost like flying I'm just going to pop that one back there there we go kind of just like almost flapping where they catch the the light there so I've used the butterfly kisses from dovecraft to make this card it's very easy to do don't be worried with all these different kind of layers there's actually only a few cut lines that you make the rest of just folds so let me show you how to make it the first of all I'm going to talk you through this template I would suggest maybe making a template first I think templates are great because it helps you have more of an understanding of how the cards are going to work so to make this template just get yourself a piece of maybe a scrap piece of 12 by 6 cardstock or you know a color that you maybe aren't too fond of I'm going to go straight in and make mine but I'm going to talk you through like I said make yours as your template first so that you have something that looks like mine so first of all you want to cut yourself your piece of 12 by 6 cardstock and we're going to do our score lines so or you'll be marking with a pencil and just drawing these as pencil lines the black lines will be your score lines the red lines are your cut lines if you just want to go straight in and make the card like I'm doing you can do that as well so first of all you want to score at one and three quarters at two and a half at three and a half at four and seven eighths and six which will be your halfway marker now if you wanted to you could just flip the card and repeat those same score lines that I've given you if you are using 11 length card or a four length card that is what I would suggest you do so you will start off with your middle point so if it's an 11 inches long then you will score at five and a half and then do those four score lines that I just mentioned so the one and three quarter the two and a half the three and a half and the four and seven eighths and then you would have your five and a half marker you'd then flip your card and do the same score lines again what it will just mean is that you will have a smaller area here yours will be thinner same as it is 11 and three quarters the halfway point would be five and seven eighths so do your five and seven eighth score line and then just do those first score lines again and in fact anything I do on each half you would do on each half of those sizes that you have all it will mean is your middle score line will be slightly different therefore your middle sections will be smaller hopefully that's helped anybody that maybe doesn't have 12 inch length like I said I've got the 12 here so I'm going to continue now and you then want to score at seven and one eighth then at eight and a half then nine and a half and then ten and a quarter next what we want to do is pop the card stock like so and you're going to fold over your one and three quarter score line like so so you will have that half so I'm going to do it with this one so I'm folding over that first score line I'm just going to burnish I'm just going to keep that down like so so what you're going to do is you're going to come in one and a half inches and then you're just going to score down to that first score line which will be three quarters of the way so you see I'm just joining this score line here I'm then going to score again at four and a half which is one and a half in from this side again just down to that first score line so this is what we've done I'm then going to flip it around fold over that same section and just do the same again so at one and a half just come down and at four and a half like so and then you're going to cut that so you're going to cut down each of those lines and again at this end nice and neat because this is all going to be on display let's see that I've just cut that so now when I open it up you'll have these sections what you then want to do I'm going to open up this one because we now need to make a score line between these two cut lines here so if you see at the end here we need to put a score line now to connect this so it can fold out so I'm just going to lay it back in here and you just want to hover your stylus kind of up to that cut and it'll be at the one inch marker and then you'll find your track and just join that up and again just flip it around find that one inch track and join those up so now you'll see I've added that score line and that's going to make it much easier for us to be able to pop that out in a moment next we want to now create these cut lines so you're going to fold over your three and a half score line so you have all of that now on the back so the best way to just double check is lay it in the scoreboard like this I can see where my three and a half score line is so that's the one that I want to fold over and now this one here you're going to come in one inch and you're going to come down one inch but you won't have a score line to meet you need to just kind of eyeball it like I said if you're making your you know your template first then you can mark that all in but I can see my one inch here and I'm just going to bring my stylus down and score down to one inch here now if you don't have any markers on the side just grab your ruler and pop it in here and then I can see the one inch and I'm just going to score down like so and again I'm going to score one inch into a bit of five inches down one inch and then again I'm going to fold over that three and a half score line just burnish and again come down one open up and then that you'll see again so there's the score lines that we've just created here so you can see it joins this score line here so that's fine but you'll see here there won't be a score line connecting these two just like when we've done this section so we need to again join up those score lines and the track that you'll be following will be the four and a half so again hover your stylus and then just find that track and join them up a half just join that up fold it back in half and we're going to cut those so you can either cut them first and then join up the score line or um do it after and again just very neatly and again just fold that one over and just cut down and we'll open it up and that is the same now as what you've got on here so if you've done this on like I said some scrap paper first what you could now do is go over all of these score lines in black like I have you can you know put all the score lines there and then pop some red marker for the cut lines and then you've got that there you know to use for future cards next what we want to do is some folding so we'll start at the end here so you want to pop this out so that this score line here is a valley okay and as you pull that out this score line here will become a valley naturally because that's just the way it wants to go and you'll see now already you've got that first corner of our card you then want to pop this out so these will naturally become now mountains and this is going to come out these will become valleys okay so you can see now we've got the two coming out there and then this long score line here needs to be a mountain basically if you make sure your center score line so whether it's your five and a half your five and seven eights or your six make sure that's a valley you can burnish all these in a minute and then that one next to it either side will become a mountain and you don't want to rip your card like I've just done there I'm just going to by the time I put the pattern paper on that it should be okay okay but if I just fold that now flat you can go in and just burnish you do it from this side you can get into those ones just burnish all those score lines I'm going to hold this up so you can freeze you know pause the video but that is what you want to have on one side of your card and that's that center six inch score line okay so both of these pieces will pop out so I kind of keep it like that then you want to do the same so I'm going to I am going to go through it all again on this side so pull this piece out first so that you create this score line as a valley fold and then just kind of bring that up okay and then again pop out this one and all the rest will kind of just you know go where they they need to go I'm just going to pinch those there okay my middle one is already the valley so this one here is going to become a mountain again I'm just going to fold all that down then you should be able to fold it all up like so now when I open it you'll see you've got that really cool shape now the next part I want to show you two ways of putting this together so with your scoreboard if you get yourself another piece of 12 by 6 or it would be 11 by 5.5 or it would be 11 and 3 quarters which is the a4 length by 5 and 7 8 7 inch what you're going to do first of all here now if you want to do it the way I showed you at the beginning then you will just want to cut yourself two pieces of six by six or two pieces of five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths or two pieces of five and a half by five and a half okay I'm trying to give you the three styles here and that we're basically going to add these pieces on to this piece but you might also want to add it inside a card so going back to what I just said before whether you're going to have those three sizes just mark your halfway point just dependent on what you have fold it in half so I've just now got a six by six card blank and what you can now do is you can add a glue all around this end here and all around this end here and you can stick this into your card and it will give you a pop out like so and you can have this as a top fold or as a side fold so you can decorate all this with the same size of mats and layers I'm going to give you in a moment but I just wanted to show you that you can create you know two kind of very different cards here but the one I want to show you today is this longer kind of showstopper so although I have scored that I'm now actually going to cut this in half so I have my two pieces of they're just going to be under six by six because I'm going to remove the score line but yeah just make sure you have the squares to match the size of the the card that you're doing next I'm going to stick this onto here but you need to make sure that when you lay this down you see you get these pieces hanging out so although you have that section we need to make sure that these are concealed so when we stick this in we're only going to add the glue onto the very end section we need to bring it in just slightly so I'm just going to run some of my liquid glue there I get so many questions about the glue I use this is the Kalao multi-purpose clear solvent-based glue in a beacon three-in-one bottle and the beacon three-in-one is the same kind of solvent-based glue which is I think easier for people state side and also like in the place like Australia and stuff you can get that I think easier I use this because it is like a cement so it's really good for card making because it just makes them so strong and it keeps them straight it doesn't walk the card because there's no water so now I've added that there onto that side I'm going to fold it all flat and I'm going to pop it on here making sure that these bits that hang out run flush with the card like so so now when we open up the card this is one side now if you've got anything overhanging which I've got a little bit there I'm just going to snip use my bigger scissors here I'm just going to snip that off because I actually think the card stop was cut a little bit crooked there we go then you want to do the same on the opposite side so I'm going to glue again pop it on that section and then you're going to lay this all flat and just sit this over the top so it lines up with the piece on the bottom so there is your card now already to decorate so that's how it will go into a box envelope and then open up like so and then you will pop your message on the back so all the mats and layers so I have used the butterfly kisses which I am literally down to a few pages so I've definitely be getting another one and then there's the decoupage kit because I'm thinking this one I've just taken the butterflies off because I need to um restick those again rather than having the happy birthday which I have already gone ahead and heat embossed and it's lovely so I've done it in the silver which is what I did say I may have done during the live so I still may use it but I want to play around this is from my it's one of my favorite stamp sets this is the Sentiments A5 stamp set from my own collection I'll link everything as always in the description box but that's how it looks in the silver it's really really nice so I'm thinking of having that at the end and when I actually lay this over the top I think the silver does go better because it pulls out the silver that's in the decoupage this purple I had was not quite the same purple the purple in this collection is more of a pinky purple so yeah so I may go for that otherwise I may do a topper at each end so I have one of the toppers here which is from the decoupage kit I've got all these already made up now but I was thinking about having one at each side so you can see how lovely that looks as well but first of all we're going to do these two sections here and you'll see they're like a C shape so I've done them all as one if you would rather have a separate piece here and here and then a strip you can do that what you want to do is cut yourself two pieces that are five and three quarters by one and a half and just mark with a pencil one and a quarter in from each side so just there okay and then come in three quarters of an inch so I'm just going to it's quite easy for me to line up on this grid paper but I'm just going to draw a line coming in three quarters of an inch so then I'm just going to join up that pencil line and you're going to remove all of this okay like so I'm then going to sit it over the top of this one because it's only a thin paper and I'm going to cut them at the same time so I'm just going to cut down each side there now if you have a directional paper I would make sure you pop one that way so the sides are touching and the patterns on the outside because that way you'll get your shape the right way this is non-directional so I don't need to worry so just make sure just bear that in mind before you cut into it and then I'm just going to cut up here okay so now I have those two pieces which you'll see will fit in there perfectly so I'm going to get them stuck down okay next I've got these two strips which are going to go in the middle sections here so because that was one and seven eighths wide this is a slightly yeah this is seven eighths wide by five or three quarters so I'm going to stick those two in the middle next I've got these four pieces which are going to go on these two sections here and these measure three quarters of an inch by three and three quarters so I'm going to stick one there one there one there and one there and I've got these four pieces which are going to go on these sides here and these measure half an inch by two and three quarters and I've got these four pieces which are going to go on these four sides here and these measure one and one eighth by three quarters of an inch and I've got these four pieces here and these measure three quarters of an inch squared and they're going to go in these ones here we then need four pieces that are half an inch by one and a quarter and they're going to go on these little kind of side pieces or corners so I'll get those down and then I also cut myself two very small strips to go in this section here which is optional it does look nice without but I did want to fill this and these are one eighth of an inch by three and three quarters so lots of little pieces but it's a great one for using up your scraps so I've got you know these are my scraps from this collection I just kept them all in this bag so that's all I've used to do all of this which has been great then for the sides so you'll want two pieces of three and three quarters by five and three quarters so now I can lay this down here and I can really see how that's going to look actually I do really like the silver so I think I will keep that one but also you know you've got your pattern paper either side and then you know one of these toppers how lovely does that look as well although I do really like it I'm cerebral when it comes to decoration I'm just going to pop that one and then I think I'm going to have the just for you once I get my pattern paper there as well we'll see you'll see at the end if I change my mind again you'll also want to cut yourself a piece of five and three quarters square and you can use that to decorate the front and then I'm going to pop the especially for you on the front again the same as I've done on the other one because I just think that sentiment works really well so yeah I'm going to get all that stuck down I've also cut this piece here which is four by four which you will stick once you've got your pattern paper here stick that on top and that's just space to write your message and they still get to see some nice pattern paper as well okay so that's everything stuck down I've got one of the butterflies there which are from this set now they come with the sticker but I like to pull the top off and then you've got all those stickers to use you know in like planners and things like that or another card making paper craft projects so you almost get double but I'm now out of the top one so I'm going to order some more of these and I'll pop another one there when that arrives we'll just keep the one you don't have to have two and then you'll see here I've got those gorgeous faceted glitter gems and they're here so I'm going to add just a few of those around this section here and then on the back I've used the puffy stickers which also come in the collection so you'll see this one says with love I'm hoping that mark's going to come away I might have to get creative with some embellishments there as well but for this one here I think I'm going to have fest wishes because I've got especially for you happy birthday just for you so let's have fest wishes on the back of course you don't have to you can just have it blank and you know pop whatever you want there but I always like to go over the top so there's that one there so that is everything I'm just going to finish with these little gemstones I'm out of the smaller ones but it still looks nice with those there just love the sparkle you get when they catch the light okay so there you have it I'll just bring it up so like I said I still don't know what to really call this one some kind of accordion multi-step card I think but I like that you can change it and stick it inside the card like I showed earlier on to give a completely different look and then it does all fold up really nicely there and the nice thing is as far that you can have things kind of you know stuck popping out of these because they have you see when it folds flat in that space you've got all this area so you can have things on acetate like maybe the butterfly you know on some wire so it really does look like it's popping out but I just think it looks really nice and it's very unexpected it's quite different for someone to receive that you know take it out of the box and already it's got the spring so they know it's just going to open up and yeah it's a great one for any work colleagues as well because you've got lots of space to be able to you know add the signatures and so on so I'll bring that one in again as well so there you have it two show stopper cards really enjoyed these ones using the butterfly kisses collection as always I will link everything in the description box below and I'll be back very soon with more fun tutorials thanks for watching bye


In the studio, my name is Jeff Shaw, and with me today, we are honored to have members of the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble with us today, Gabby Patista and Sidney Schwint. You guys are both employees at the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble, and welcome, thanks for coming in today and talk to us about your crazy busy summer, you guys are always doing something. I think Davis is lucky to have a Shakespeare Ensemble, it's kind of rare for communities to have such a thing. So when I know when it was first started, it was sort of made a big splash, and it seems like you've continued that work over the years. So anyway, yeah, the summer is going to be a big, big production. Why don't you tell me about some of the shows that are going on this season that you guys are preparing for before we talk about some of the other things that you guys are doing. Oh, great. Well, thanks for having us. First of all, it's awesome to be here. Well, our shows this summer, we're going along the theme of Summer of Adventure. So we have two shows in Repertory, they're going on at the same time, every other night is a different show. So the two shows we have are Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein, and The Three Musketeers. And so what does that mean real quick for those of us who are not, what does in Repertory mean exactly? So we have five shows a weekend and every show switches. So Thursday night might be Three Musketeers, then Friday night will be Wonderful Town. So we have to, our crew comes in, they change up the set and everything. And is that just to make it totally crazy for yourself? They're like, what is the idea behind that exactly as far as set and everything? A little bit. I mean, it's definitely crazy, but I think it's one, it's exciting for our artists that a lot of them get to be in two shows. So it's a challenge for an artist, but it's also for the community. You're going to see these people living in different parts. And so we usually pair our shows up on a theme as our adventure theme this year. There's something going through each of the shows that lines up with each other. They're meant to be seen together. There's some interesting parallels every time we do a Rep show. For instance, there's a character in Three Musketeers who's Carnal Richelieu and he's the evil character. And he has a scene where he's painting a masterpiece. And then he is a populous in Wonderful Town and he's the landlord, but he's also a painter as well. So it's funny when you line up these characters and you go, wait, you paint in both plays? It's really interesting. Were those coincidence planned or sort of just these themes run in a lot of plays? Some of the characters are planned just in terms of character arc. For instance, my sister and I play sisters in Wonderful Town and we play rivals in Three Musketeers. And there's a couple, the love interest in Three Musketeers play a couple of Wonderful Towns. So there are some that we partner with, but then there's those little surprises that come up that are really fun. Like the painting. Interesting for us and we find new discoveries in that. Sure, and I'm sure the feedback from attendees is great too. So this runs June 22nd through August 6th, those two. And then after that, what's happening at the end of the summer? We've got a Midsummer Night's Dream. So we extended our festival last year for the first time to coincide with the school year in the fall. And so our Midsummer Night's Dream this year is actually really exciting because it's our little give back to Davis. It's celebrating the Davis Centennial. So it's actually set in Davis and there's going to be many bicycles. So when you say school year, you mean UC Davis or you mean the school district? Both. But mainly for the school district because with our fall production, we started offering student matinees. So we've been working hand in hand with different schools in the area that they come in and they'll see their own special production of a Midsummer Night's Dream where the actors stay afterwards and there's a talk back with them. Okay. And so that's September 20th and the fall end to the October 15th. They said it's Davis centric and how is that again? So it's going to be set in Davis. Oh, okay. And so when the lovers go into the forest, they're going into the Davis Arboretum. Okay. Yeah. Very cool. So work on that already happening then I assume or how is that? Not quite yet. So rehearsals for that don't start till August. So we give ourselves a little break between the craziness of the repertoire and then we pop into the... Designing will be, I think we're in the process of designing the show. Okay. Yeah. So that's the beginning stages of putting a show together. So the design has been bicycles and setting it in Davis and our graphic designer Evan Claibor is putting together the graphics for the show and for the poster. So we already have our poster and it's got a water tower in the back. Yeah. So it's the Davis water tower. So yeah, we're getting started and we're generating more ideas. And it seems like you pull a lot from the local community as far as getting artists involved. You mentioned Evan's name and I know he's a local artist who has involved in lots of different projects. Yes. So your roles at the company, give me... I know you have an official title but what is your... What will be your role in these productions as well? And I guess we'll start with you, Gaby. Sure. So as the community outreach coordinator director, I am looking to find more ways to partner with businesses in Davis, especially in the summer season. It can be slow for some businesses. UC students are gone and the town fills with the families that are coming out for the summer. So it would be great to continue to improve strengthening our partnerships with different businesses in Davis. So we have right now the co-op is sponsoring us this summer, which is an amazing partnership. We did patio takeover. We got to perform on the patio. Very cool. We also have a partnership with... We've had past partnerships with Devere's and we have sub work here. So I'm looking to expand in that direction. Also looking for ads and just finding ways that we could help other businesses too. We could promote them and they can promote us. And it would be so fun to create a grander festival every year just to slowly increase it with beer pouring or even food trucks. Half people have lunch in the park in between a two-show day. So really trying to expand on that image and idea, especially with the vets and having such a pretty view of the park. Yeah. And I'm glad to hear that Davis is supportive of the arts. And then what is your role in the production itself as far as... Sorry. There's two parts to it. There's a lot of hats we put on. So that's that hat and the other hat. In wonderful town I play Eileen Sherwood. She is... She and her sister Ruth Sherwood, who's my sister, Gia Batista. They are characters from... They come from Ohio and they're moving to New York to make it big. Eileen wants to go into the theater and Ruth wants to be a writer. And it is rocky to begin with. So they get an apartment and it's not that great. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's a shack under a subway and they're basically outside. And then in Three Musketeers I'm playing Sabine. So she's another adventurous character. She's a Dirtanian sister. Yes. And Cindy, how about you? What is your official title with the company? And then what role are you doing or what are you doing for these productions? So my official title is I'm Education Director. So we'll get into that a little bit later talking about our different education programs. But for the summer festival I'm Fight Director for Three Musketeers. Which is crazy because there are over 18 pieces of violence in that show alone. So our actors are running around the stage learning how to fight with swords. There's knives. There's muskets. There's all sorts of different things we've got to do. Wow. And do you have a lot of background in knives and muskets? No. Yeah, actually. Wow, awesome. Yeah, so I've been personally studying stage combat since I was 14. Okay. Something I fell into in summer camp and fell in love with and have been working towards them. And so which production can have 18 pieces of violence? Three musketeers. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, lots and lots of sword fighting. And so your job is to, what is the title for that again? Fight Director. Fight Director. Excellent. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's definitely crazy. Dirtanianism, almost every fight. So he's got so much choreography to memorize. Yes. Well, since you mentioned it, let's talk a little bit about Camp Shakespeare in Shakespeare School. So what is that exactly? And I know this is done each summer though. Yes, we're about to enter our seventh summer of Camp Shakespeare. Yeah, so every summer we've got several different camps that happen in the Davis Arboretum. Okay, right. And our first camp session is July 10th through July 21st. All right. Which is 8 to 13. And there our kids get to delve into Shakespeare. We do scenes from our summer, so they'll be doing some mid-summer night's dream. They'll also be doing a little bit of three musketeers, even though it's not Shakespeare. Sure. And from there they learn some Elizabethan dances. We teach some sword fighting. I was just going to ask, are they doing sword fighting? They are, definitely. They actually get to make their own swords. Okay. Which is really fun because our kids, they design swords out of cardboard.  And then we teach them sword fighting through that. Very cool. Yeah. So they put on their own production at the end of the two weeks. In the Arboretum? Mm-hmm. Okay. And I've seen their parents. Yep. We fill up. Tons of parents come and family. And these camps put in all summer or couple? Couple. So we've got session one is, as I said, July 10th through July 21st. And then we've got session two, which is July 24th through August 4th. And that also at the same time is that we have Teen Camp. Oh. So Teen Camp actually happens at the Vets Memorial Theater. Okay. So it's a little bit more serious there. They go into, they've got movement classes, some voice and speech. They get a little bit more hands-on with learning about Shakespeare's history. So we go into Will and the World there. And then they as well put on their own production, having done some monologue studies. And I assume that's for ages after 13? Yeah. 14 through 17 or whatever? 14 through 17 about. Excellent. And they're open to boys and girls at both camps, I assume. Cool. Tell me a little bit about Shakespearean school. I assume that happens when school's inside. Yeah. So that's with our Midsummer Night's Dream. So that's our student matinee program. So this year we've got three student matinee productions. I believe they're September 28th, October 5th, and October 12th. Impressive. At 10 a.m. Okay. Yeah. So what those are is we just started this last year. I'm particularly excited about this program because we've had schools from all over the region start contacting us. Yeah. So they come to Davis. Okay. So they'll come to Davis to the vets and see 10 a.m. matinee production of the show with the talk-back session. And there is the option for a school to hire on an additional preliminary workshop. Beforehand, so two of our actors will come to their school and give a little introduction to Shakespeare and the plot. Yeah. And that was, last year we did it with Romeo and Julia, and it was just really exciting to see these kids so excited about Shakespeare. Right. And then having this personal interaction with the characters, I know the gentlemen who played Romeo and they went to several schools. And there's a certain age of kids just get really excited about that stuff. Yeah. I think I'm not hitting them at that age, but sort of exposing them to that at that age I think is a good way to get them. Well, it's also to them not to be afraid of Shakespeare that it is English and you can understand it. And it's just a story that you should enjoy. Yes, exactly. And so without that fear that someone's told them they're not going to understand it, they learn to love it and then they don't fear the classics or other things. If someone tells them they're not going to understand it, they know, oh, I can understand it. I get Shakespeare. This will be easy. Well, I think that speaks to your guys' larger mission in general, the Davis Shakespeare Ensembles, exposing people to that and getting over their fear of Shakespeare. Yeah. Well, we're running out of time, so it's a quick interview, but I'm glad we were able to touch bases on so many different things that you guys are working on.  And I know that they're very popular with the Davis kids and parents. We have, again, the Camp Shakespeare. We have Shakespeare since school in the fall. And then to remind us again, we have Wonderful Town in Musketeers running June 22nd through August 6th, right? And then starting September 20th. It's a mid-summer night's dream, right? That's correct. So where do they get, where do people go for more information if they, if they want to get more information on your, what's your website? It's www.ShakespeareDavis.org. Okay, ShakespeareDavis.org. We've been talking to Gaby Patista and Sidney Schwint of the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble. And thanks for tuning in and tune in next time for In the Studio. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for coming in.


Scott Gennaro. How are you, sir? Good to see you now. C.E.O. of Nirvana. formerly with Q-Logic, veteran of the Cube.  You're on the leaderboard list of some of the top most prominent Cube interviews. Pat Gelsinger, you are. Yeah, you've been on several times.  We had you on an EMC world last year. You'd make a good blogger, actually, because you have that leaderboard mentality. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. I'm only kidding, you're doing great as a C.E.O. Congratulations, by the way, on the new role. So Nirvana, you guys are rocking and rolling. We've been seeing a lot of you guys in the news lately. We've had you on the Cube, obviously, in Palo Alto. The press coverage of you guys have been fantastic. You've had the most amazing phenomenon happen over the past month. Obviously, the crisis in Japan has been a catastrophe. You guys put out the olive branch of essentially saying, hey, we have a value proposition with moving stuff around in data centers. You guys put out this offer and had this most amazing response. Could you just talk quickly about that latest trend, and this is the C.E.O. of Nirvana, that's got you in the room. So you guys know, I used to work at Atachi Data Systems. So I have a lot of friends in Japan, right? And so we were watching that pretty closely. On the weekend, I was sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, wow, our data center is actually 250 miles away from anything that's going on. That's an Equinox data center. So in that sense, we had no concerns whatsoever in the sense of disaster recovery, but they did talk about, they were going to be rolling blackouts, you know. Equinox basically told us, hey, no concerns, we're working with the government. But we never know. We never know, right? You never know, and this is people's data and it's the most critical stuff for them right in their business. So we sat in a room with our engineering and I said, hey, I'd like to go out and offer to all of our people or all of our customers in our Japanese location. The option to potentially move out temporarily, right? And so we actually decided to go do that. So we offered them to move out of the Japan location temporarily. We offered them two options. One is keep it in Japan because of performance reasons and do a second copy so they had a disaster recovery situation. So there's guys who only do one copy and they did two. And then we basically offered just to move them out completely. You know, once again, surprisingly, we had a handful of customers who actually took us up on it. And you didn't charge them? We didn't charge them for anything, no. We thought it was the right thing to do. The other thing I thought was interesting is that this technology really created an interesting dynamic because we did it because we wanted to help our customers. It got a lot of press and the press that it really got was this fact of how cloud technology allows you to do this kind of stuff, right? So kind of a afterthought, if you want to call it. We had a lot of interviews of people saying, wow, you know, we never really thought of cloud as an enable tool to be able to do this with customers, right? Which is able to quickly allow them to move their data outside of a location that could have a potential regional disaster. And so- So a gesture of massively great will, and honestly, you need it because you know that market situation there turned into a business opportunity for you? Is it like a- Because that's not your primary business, is it? I mean, it's just a function of your technology, right? Yeah, just so we're clear, I mean, we didn't make any money on any of this stuff. Yeah, this is totally cool. This came out more around the fact that all of a sudden people were sitting in a room going, wow, we never really thought about if we put our data in a cloud that you could quickly move the data out. So if somebody was had a traditional storage product in their data center in Japan, they'd have to back it up the tape and hopefully move that off. And you know, as you saw some of the roads there and stuff, it wasn't pretty. The airport was closed for a while a little bit, right? So how do you get it out? By putting the data in the cloud and being able to move the data off very quickly to anywhere in the US or in Europe, it just, I think it created a lot of buzz around, wow, we never thought about cloud in that sense for kind of a disaster recovery or a contingency for a regional disaster. Well, congratulations. It's great leadership on your part to do the right thing. And I'm really psyched that you got a lot of visibility on that, so good job. You guys are getting a lot of confirmation of the messaging that we've heard coming out in Nervonix, right? Particularly the Enterprise Class Cloud. You're seeing here at this event. I mean, I just got here, but I was been reading earlier and I said a lot of talk about true cloud, Enterprise Class Cloud. You've been banging that drum. Certainly, since you came on Nervonix is that's the heritage of Nervonix. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, so, you know, it's interesting and I think the big thing that we've changed over the last, you know, called six months is we repositioned the company. And the big reposition was, when most people said Nervonix, if they knew who we were, they would probably have said public cloud. You know, and public is very important to us. We have our data centers and, you know, seven locations and, you know, roughly still about 90% of my customers are in the public cloud. One of the, I was on a panel earlier and the big discussion that we came up with was this conversation around, was anyone really using enterprise type data in the cloud? And I said, well, let me go down the list, right?  I said, these are big name customers. Can you share some of those with us?  Do they have enterprise data?  Well, they're huge enterprises. The data is in the eye of the beholder, but go ahead. Exactly, and then, you know, the other discussion we got into a lot was, are people using cloud, public cloud for, you know, primary data, and it was interesting, and Mike from EMC, what's Mike's last name? He runs their cloud. Mike Feinberg. Yeah, so Mike, you know, Mike and I were actually on the same page as that. How we defined primary data 10 years ago is probably not the right way to define primary data today. I have a lot of customers who use our cloud for what, you know, those companies consider primary, you know, tier one data. The difference is that when we think of primary tier one data, a lot of times we think of Oracle online databases. We think of, you know, transactional databases. The new companies that are emerging and the new applications that are emerging aren't built that way, right? You know, so they're not online applications. Give me an example. Well, an example would be, you know, there's a lot of web 2.0 companies, right? You know, and how they pull data. We've got a lot of people who actually use their... Financial services too, would that be an example? Which one? Financial services. Yeah, financial services is another one. But we have a lot of customers who, you know, have their websites and they use our cloud for their websites. Now you would probably say, oh my God, how did they do that? You think it would be too slow? But it's not, you know, because they design the product.   And they're pulling it down. The moment you hit a button and say, I'm interested in that person, it comes down right away. That's the new normal as people are calling it. That's the new application. That's primary data to them, right? That is real live primary data to them. It's not backup archive. And so we have a lot of customers doing that type of stuff. But you know, but backup archive is a good use case. I mean, those two use cases for the cloud, right? It's huge. When I talk to the Wikibon members, I would say two thirds of the data in their enterprise is tier three or tier four. 90% of the data doesn't get touched after 90 days. And if you look at recovery, most of the recoveries are done on data that's 24 hours old. And then after that, it's a very steep exponential curve and it shouldn't be there. It should be just in the cloud somewhere. It's essentially stale data that you're never gonna touch. Why do I want that on premise? Right, so 65% or greater. Data that's being created today is kind of this low performance, unstructured, large blocks of data, right? Yeah. You know, and going back to your point is, is that a lot of it is very low performance. And so you back it up, you put it in the cloud. You know, I'll give you a good example is that we have a lot of customers who are doing snaps, right? Snaps are big. If you're a NetApp customer, you're doing snaps, right? Right.  Well, snapshots are backups, right? You know, most of the time you're not gonna use it. So where do they store that stuff? They store it on tier one storage most of the time. They do a snap on NetApp and they back it up to a NetApp box, right? They do a snap in VMWare and they're backing up to an EMC or a NetApp box. Those are backups. They should be off into the cloud. So we're seeing a lot more companies now writing interfaces to back that stuff into the cloud. So, but backup and archive is still one of our biggest areas. The other one is data collaboration, right? We see a lot of companies, you know, wanting to share data globally and the cloud allows you to do that. So, you know, when I look at it today, every time I walk into a new customer and I've probably been in front of 60 customers in the last, you know, 75 to 90 days, I've never walked out of a meeting where either there was a follow-up meeting scheduled or there was a proof of concept starting. So, you know, the cloud is here. You never walked out where that didn't happen. That didn't happen, yeah. I mean, cloud is here. The enterprise customers are interested in it. And I think the cool thing that we've done, which is uniquely different than anyone else, is that first of all, I want to make sure I'm clear about something. When I talk about cloud, I talk about usage-based cloud. A lot of people don't, you know, and we've talked about that before. You talk about pay-as-you-go. Pay-as-you-go with, you know, I'm not selling you. What I call true cloud. Yeah, exactly. And it's not semantics, right? It's, well, no, it's not, but you know, the point is, is that, you know. If you pay-as-you-go, it's cloud, right? I mean, that's what you're saying. Right, but there's a lot of companies out there and we've talked about this before and the EMC is one of them. Cloud washing. They talk a lot about, you know. Pat Kelsen might disagree with you. He's actually used the word cloud washing. Well, I don't know if he would disagree, we should ask him. Yeah, the point is, is that, they don't charge usage-based. Now they'll say they're enabling customers. Yeah, but they can't, right? How can they charge usage-based?  That's VMware. VMware. What was that about? Hey, that's a whole thing, that's a whole thing. And another 15 minutes on the end of the panel. That's true cloud. Yeah, exactly. They don't charge for it, though. But that's just a lot. Yeah, it's free usage. But going back to the point is that, and where customers do have concerns about security and putting stuff in the public cloud, we offer a hybrid and we offer a private cloud, right? So we're the only company out there today that will actually do usage-based public, private, and hybrid in a customer's environment. And no one else does that. And so what I do now is I actually walk into customers, and this is getting a lot of traction, and customers say, I want cloud. They're like, great, what does that mean? So we go through the big discussion about what does that mean? Every time they say I want usage-based, that's not an option, right? Customers want usage-based for their cloud. Now they'll say, I don't know if I can get my auditors to agree on putting it into one of your data centers. I say, great. What if I put it in your data center and charge a usage-based? Can you do that? Oh my God, if you can do that, that sounds great, right?  What's, what's? Well, I think there's a couple reasons. One of it is our business model. I mean, there's no question about it. I mean, we have a business model that allows us to do it. As you said very clearly, you know, and I say this all the time because I was at one of those big storage companies, right? You know, on the high-end storage, you know, probably 50% of the data is on the wrong storage. I mean, it's on high-expensive storage, right? Which means it needs to come off then. Only 20, 25% of most data should be on that tier one type storage. I never heard you complaining about that when you were going to talk to your data assistant. I know, I know you, I'm coming out right here. So the second one, I'm, you know, they were all the bones of Barry. Do you know how many customers I've talked to where I've said, jeez, that tier three type environment, you know, 40% utilization, they almost laugh and say it that high, right? They always say it that high. So the point is, is that, you know, so if you believe that to be true, and I think if you've ever sat in a room with a customer over a beer who doesn't want to admit it publicly would probably agree with what I just said.  They're going to drive their revenue. They're going to drive their margins down to nothing. You know what I mean? And that's going to be a fundamental problem. That's the dilemma there. And so the technology we're talking about is very disruptive. Now, my software, you know, my file system allows me to do a lot of this stuff too, right? You know, it gives me the capability of doing the provisioning and the billing and then, you know, the web interfaces and a lot of the stuff we're talking about. And the other thing too, which I think is really critical is that we do billions of files, not millions of files. And so we have a huge amount of scalability that the other guys don't have. Are you seeing people that can't scale and that are claiming they can? Is that unique? We're in a lot of issues around some of our competitors' environments where they can't scale. Really?  Does that hurt you? I mean, does that, in other words, that say, I mean, a large established company is not able to scale, but is there a sort of a negative halo effect not necessarily on us? Because, I mean, they can scale with us, right? But it- And you can demonstrate that. And we can demonstrate it. But it could create a potential, somebody sitting at a user group like this, saying, hey, I've got, you know, EMC Atmos installed and I can't get it to scale and blah, blah, blah, so cloud's not ready and they kind of do a blanket. But in most of those environments, if we heard that we'd go in and we'd have a conversation and we'd show them why we can scale better than them.  Scott, final question for you because we're behind a little bit on time, apologize, but congratulations on a lot of stuff. What's next for you guys? What's happening now? What's the action for Nervonix? You guys have done really well. You've taken over at the helm. You got the funding. You guys are fully funded, great customer traction. What's happening right now and what's around the corner for Nervonix? I think a couple things, right? I mean, one is, is that, you know, our plan now, because the market's ready, is really to go in what we call this hyper growth, right? We're investing pretty aggressively in sales. We're investing more in engineering to come out with the following product. We are in our second generation of product. We're about to come out with our third generation of product. Everyone else is in alpha, beta, early stuff, that. And then we're aggressively going after the channel. You're gonna see a big play for us to go after the channel. We're gonna productize the cloud and put it in the channel. And being able to look out for a couple more OEM agreements, so. All right, Nervonix is on the roll and Nervonix is rolling strong with Scott Gennaro to helm. Channel plan coming around the corner. Third generation product, clearly a good lead. And everyone else, congratulations and great stuff in Japan on that gesture. I thought it was fantastic, congratulations. Thanks for coming on theCUBE again. Scott, always a pleasure.