Hello, good afternoon. As I said, my name is Josephine and for the past two and a half years I worked at the University of Birmingham, the Cat Bear Research Library and together with Yasmin I worked on a recent project that aimed to open up the University of Birmingham special collections department to non-academic audiences as well as achieving wider well-being and social impact goals. So in our presentation we want to talk a little bit about the background of the manuscript collection that inspired the project. It's part of a wider research and engagement project and I also want to give Yasmin a chance to introduce you to go Women Alliance, our community-based partner. We will then talk you through the different kind of workshops and steps we took on the project and we'll finish off by reflecting on the project outcomes and the lessons learned. So the project really focused on or was inspired by the Mingana collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts. It's one of the University of Birmingham's most significant cultural assets. It brings together over 3,000 manuscripts encompassing mainly Christian, Islamic and Jewish texts. There are written over 20 languages including Arabic, Syriac, Persian and date from the 7th century to the early 20th century and among the most notable manuscripts is a 7th century Hijazi Qur'an which is thought to have been one of the oldest written copies of the holy Muslim text as well as the example you see on the screen are sayings attributed to Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad. The Mingana collection itself has been designated as a collection of national international importance since 2007 but as part of the history really the collection is named after Alphonse Mingana who acquired the bulk of the collection on free journeys to the Middle East in the 1920s. The collecting trips and the acquisitions were funded by Edward Cadbury from the famous chocolate making family and Quaker philanthropist and his vision was really to build a world-class library of theological manuscripts in Birmingham and both of these gentlemen were really pioneers in their attempts to understand and make accessible the diverse languages and religions and cultures of the Middle East especially in this day and age a really important cause. And really this background of how the collection came to Birmingham was the inspiration for a wider project because we have a Quaker funding eastern theologian Alphonse Mingana who was born in the Ottoman Empire to go out and collect Muslim manuscripts in the 1920s. I mean how crazy is that? You would have a difficult term to argue in today. And then also the context about Birmingham today, one of the youngest cities in Europe and really Birmingham was shaped by faith diversity and the religious pluralism in the city was the driving force for the city's economic prosperity from the 18th century onwards. And the university on the other hand was founded in 1900 as England's first civic university and allowed students from all backgrounds and religions to be accepted on an equal basis. Today it's a super diverse city with an unprecedented variety of cultures, identities, faiths and languages. Yet local, national, international events have created increased tensions and feelings of insecurity, suspicion and anxiety. And such attitudes and perceptions are really a major threat to the future success of Birmingham and all its citizens, businesses and communities. So really what the university wanted to do is to bring together people from different cultural and religious backgrounds to create an environment that reflects the diversity of Birmingham and provides opportunities for everyone to excel. And we used the Mingana collection on this project called Spreading the World, which was generously funded by the Esmeralda Fairburn Collections Fund. And the idea was to use this manuscript collection to connect local people with their culture and religious heritage and also encourage pride and confidence in Birmingham's identity as a city shaped by faith diversity. And this was really based on the belief that the collection could not serve only as a source for research and teaching but also opportunities for discovery and enjoyment. And the idea was to bring together the manuscripts with people to instigate new conversations and new dialogues. And we tested and developed a number of new opportunities for learning and participatory activities, one of which was the project I worked on with Yasmin. So we could explain this very complicated relationship. I've written what Go Women Alliance is about on the slide and there's lots of text there, but I thought it'd be best if I explained how this partnership formed. About three years ago, although Go Women Alliance predominantly works with women in terms of developing language and enterprise, because we worked a lot predominantly with women and particularly with first generation immigrants. We came up with the programme and we got funding from Heritage Lottery to develop an oral histories programme capturing experiences of women, first generation immigrants coming particularly from South Asia. And we worked very closely with the Birmingham Archives to look at the gaps and so that we can develop very high quality content to archive for future generations to come. As part of that particular project, we got an opportunity to turn the oral history project into an exhibition at the Birmingham Museums Arts Gallery in the Community Gallery. We obviously were very delighted but never worked in that particular sector, so we worked very closely with the museum to develop that particular exhibition. Whilst working on that particular exhibition, we started developing a lot of collaborations and hence we met Josephine and colleagues who were working at that time on something called Gollum Exhibition. We got talking and Josephine and her colleague would want you to come and do some workshops with some of our ladies because obviously with the Arabic background. We did some work in collaboration with Josephine and colleagues and again some of the work got displayed as part of the Gollum Exhibition, hence opening new opportunities for the community that we were working in. We kept our collaboration going. Josephine moved on to another role but we got in touch again and with this particular exhibition and the work that Josephine was doing, she wanted to come back and work with some of our ladies to deliver fantastic workshops, trying to create them into different activities. Now to explain, as Josephine already explained in terms of Birmingham, the area that we predominantly work in has a very high ethnic minority make-up. Predominantly Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. We work predominantly with women and one of the biggest barriers that we have in engagement with them is normally, not themselves but normally their families, barriers that we came across when we were doing the Home Away from Home programme which was the Heritage Lottery Funding Project. But as we started engaging with the museum and collaborated with various partners, our ladies became very interested in the creative side and wanted to get involved. When Josephine approached us, we spoke to some of our groups, Dosti group, Dosti meaning friendship. It's a group that we set up mainly for what I call the seniors. I don't like to call them the older ladies, they get offended by that. The seniors in our community, basically to get them to come and as a social thing, meet up, discuss things, develop new skills. And also a parents forum at a centre that we predominantly work with is a children's centre that we actually work through. And with those two groups, we actually developed a subgroup of ladies who wanted to get involved in these particular workshops. So over the next six weeks, Josephine and colleagues and Josephine invited a number of experts in the area and you will see the photographs later to come and deliver these workshops. Now as part of that, our ladies had ended up producing some fantastic book binding diaries that got involved with actually from very beginning to do marbling all the way up to book binding. Again, for us as an organisation, this was a totally new experience. And we were very surprised as we moved along the programme how much they engage and how much they've enjoyed. And towards the end, I will explain about some of the legacies and some of the outcomes of this particular project. But that's how our relation developed with the museum and opened a lot of new doors for our sort of learners and our users of our services as well. Yeah, so to just chip in like a lot of other professionals in the room, I have moved around different institutions in the West Midlands and I will keep going to continue the good working relationships I developed. So yeah, I was a Birmingham Museum, then I was at the University of Birmingham and now I'm at the Black Country Living Museum. Okay, so the creative engagement project, as Yasmin said, focused on working with women in one of Birmingham's most deprived areas. And the idea was to explore different manuscript making techniques, give the ladies the chance to express themselves through creativity and develop self-confidence and vocational skills. These were kind of the out intended outcomes we set at the beginning. And the idea was to deliver about five sessions. And we hoped for kind of 10 participants or so who would kind of follow us through the project. And hopefully at the end have a creative artwork that was inspired by the collection. I won't spoil the ending, but we have been blown away by these, we got the outcomes and more. Okay, let's see what we did. The first session was bringing the ladies to the archives on the university campus and have a handling session. And like I think a lot of people in the room will know is you put people in front of original manuscripts and allow them to handle them. And it's just the magic happens. So they examined the original manuscript binding to kind of get ideas. I got them to take detailed photos for them that we kind of looked at throughout the process. They got to speak to my colleagues. On the photo is my colleague Marie, our paper conservator. So they're really intrigued to kind of learn about how we're looking after the documents. So it was a really kind of good kickoff session to start the project. We then started investigating four different kind of techniques that are involved in making manuscripts and making book bindings. And one of them is making recycled paper. So I made my own DIY mold and decal and used the kitchen blender to get some recycled paper. And we had varying results with it. For some strange reason, when I tested it at home, everything worked. And of course, when I taught it to the group, somehow we couldn't get the mold off the paper. Then we looked into paper marbling because a lot of the manuscript bindings had either the cover where was covered with marbled paper or the inside of them. It was a very popular kind of technique used for book binding in the Middle East. So we looked at marbling and kind of dotting the paper and then dotting the color on the thickened water and then taking it off. And you can see how proud, like surprising it is always to kind of then lift the paper up and see what you kind of produced. We then were lucky enough to work with an artist, Shaheen Khazmani, who's the lady in the turquoise hijab in the middle. She studied at the Prince of School of Traditional Arts in London and has a background in Islamic geometric design. So thanks to her, we got two sessions where we taught the ladies about how the geometric design is based. They got to work with the compass. And that was actually the only point where I noticed it's noticeable difference between the Dosti Group and the Parents Forum because most ladies in the Dosti Group hadn't gone through a formal education in the UK. So they were very insecure with using the compass where a lot of the ladies in the Parents Forum had been to school in England in the area and were more comfortable in kind of experimenting with that. And then finally, we brought it all together to produce our very own book binding and notebook. And again, I worked with a local book binder, Eloise Lee, who over two sessions we kind of first started with making the covers. And then we used a basic optic stitch technique to sew them the pages together. And you can see a bit like we used the marbled paper and we used the kind of geometric design we did in the beginning to bind it together. Towards the end of the project, I mean, where shall I start? So before, before Yasmin and I met, I think, and we discussed the project, we were kind of thinking, oh, well, if we have five or six ladies who kind of come constantly every week, I'm happy. And I know I've made a difference. I think I was blown away because they kept all almost every despite all the children sick or anything in the family that kept coming back. And it was, we had constantly about 12, 15, even 18, 20 ladies coming to these sessions. So it was almost triple the number we kind of had expected initially. And I knew that I was accepted by the group when they started feeding me. It's part, I mean, it's part of the hospitality thing. But I think in in kind of British Asian cultures, but it's like, I think session three, two or three, they started bringing in like rice dishes and lovely things. And I just felt like, yeah, it's going well. And then towards the end, suddenly people start to ask me, Oh, will we will we get a certificate? And I said, Yes, you can have a certificate. That's something I hadn't thought of. But basically, it was really like working with the group and in the moment that we kind of looked at, well, they really want certificates. So I designed them inspired by the little geometric designs we did.  But they were so immensely proud to take these certificates back home with their finished products. You can see the books we did here on the table. And we had a little kind of ceremony at the end where we kind of handed out the certificates. And we had some lovely food. And it was just kind of seeing them walking out of the rooms with their finished product, going a couple of houses up the street, and then showing it to their family. It was for me the the moment where I realized, yes, it had such an important impact to them. Right, quickly moving along, we had amazing feedback from individuals from very simple things like, I, you know, I can do a lot more work with my children to I'm more determined to learn other activities. So something that started off as a very creative thing for us to engage what's already been described as hard to reach. And that's the group that we actually work with. It gave them a new opportunity to explore new creativity, something that they were good at, something that they can actually then inspire their young children to take forward. So overall, I think we saw, so we had, we have an external evaluator for the for the project. And she did some kind of evaluating, but it hasn't been finished. So we don't can't show you yet lovely graphs or anything. But really, the outcomes were really that we had an increased confidence in for the ladies to participate in the arts in the in the in the widest sense. They showed a continued enthusiasm for the different workshops and were re and they were really proud to share their work with family and friends, which was really key, I think, for them. And over the two or two and a half three years, we work together. It's something you can't show in one individual project. But now we have worked for a number of years on different kind of things together. It's in the beginning, they were really scared to walk through the museum door and just go in. And then I think last Christmas, you told me that when they went to the Christmas, German Christmas Market in Birmingham, they actually asked, Yeah, can we go in? We want to go in. And they went from themselves. So it's kind of we always talk about this abstract way of breaking down barrier and encouraging them. And often it's not easily done in a six or 10 week project. But kind of, we've seen the kind of impact over over the years. And we hopefully also have some important legacy of the project left. I was going to say, I will end with what our key speaker today said, which really resonated with me, true reflection of how good a project's been. It's about the sustainability and in terms of partnerships that you form. And in terms of long term sustainability and impact of this work that we've been doing, Josephine is what the women are continuing to do. They're now creating their own cards, knitting scarves, I've actually got a herb garden going. And they're now actually raising money themselves to be able to continue the program and the project to continue. And we will obviously carry on working with Josephine, carry on doing creative workshops with them. And that is the true impact for projects such as these. Okay, thank you very much.


Hey guys, I should straighten myself out a little bit I Wanted to come in here and tell you that what what's been going on in my life I feel like I've been disconnected from you guys. I used to make a lot of really honest content Honest about what I was going through and like real real and I feel like I Feel like though. I'm happy with the stuff. I'm putting out I've lost that element to what I'm making and I guess this is a perfect opportunity for me to be honest with you guys About what's been going on I'm just I'm kind of burnt out and I'm kind of getting to the other side of it now and I didn't make this video last week because I wanted to I wanted to be true to Stepping away and for those of you who follows me follow me on other social media platforms You know that I kind of put out a little bit of a statement saying that I kind of felt like I was losing myself that I was like so caught up in busy-ness that It just it just muddles everything and for me this is my like life's passion like you guys got to understand that This is like the this consumes so much of my thoughts throughout the day and and just It's never off for me. It's always like go go go go next thing next thing and because of that I find so much Identity in it and I know I know we always say look and I say too don't find your identity or your self-worth in these things Because that's found in Christ and who Christ says you are and I'm like yes I'm with you and yet. I don't know how to do that and so So so often when I'm caught up in busy-ness That's when it gets worse when I'm making so much content and and over the last like six months I've been putting out so much more content than I ever have before and I'm so excited about it and there was so much growth and it was so Wonderful to see something that I've been working on for so long finally quote-unquote work But that's the issue isn't it? It's that that idea of something finally working is a misguided standard anyway this idea that it was only worth it or is only meaningful when It finally I finally got the views that I wanted or it finally got to reach enough people That was misguided in itself But that's kind of when my disordered thinking kicks and when I'm when I'm so distracted when my eyes aren't on the mission Aren't on Jesus. They sway to comparison.  Look what God did. This is so amazing and then the fear kicks in What what happens if it all fades away and all those anxieties and insecurities that were maybe They're really present with me and those of you who followed me for a long time I've verbalized these things for a long time and all of a sudden those things are kind of covered up temporarily by this by this this success by this this working of what you you wanted to happen and now You're not so worried about those things anymore and now you're just working really hard because it's it's working and and and Your dreams are coming true Yet and yet you know underneath the surface you know underneath the surface that it's not real that there's a big part of you that's just ready to collapse the second it falls away because Because you find yourself in it Instead of in where what where you should be looking towards what you should be doing is is towards Christ And and I don't want to give off this idea that oh man I think all my content is just about getting views or anything like I don't believe that for a second But I'm saying in me I want to give you guys the inner workings of what's going on in my in my mind in my heart because maybe you're experiencing something like it I Feel so much of myself Just falling apart Even at the the smallest The smallest breaking of what has been built to me explain I guess that doesn't make any sense I Have a real hard time looking at YouTube analytics they give me a lot of anxiety and even as Things have grown there have been months where I was really excited to see the growth and and oh my goodness It's it's finally Happening and and so many people are watching so many people are hearing the gospel and and And then as time goes on maybe you get less views than you did or maybe you're not getting as many more Multiplications is a you know all of a sudden it doubles the month and then it doubles again And then the next month it's kind of the same and then you you fear Maybe it's all falling apart and so I don't like to go to that space and I don't like to look at My patrons like that my patreon app it gives me a lot of anxiety because I Feel like it it testifies to me what I'm worth and how I'm doing and my future and God's approval of me and God's love for me and My whether I'm a failure or a success And I don't want to feel this way and I'm not saying I feel this way all the time I don't thankfully like I'm thankful for that But I've been feeling more of that way recently and that's kind of when it come to it came to a head Where I was like I need to I Need to stop this Not stop the mission. I know I'm called to this but Take a step back for as long as it takes for me to Reorient my focus back on to Where my identity truly is? It's not in my work. It's not in my productivity. It And my life can't revolve around me continually Striving to ease the guilt that says I need to do more that what I've done isn't enough that I will never be enough Because in reality nothing I could ever produce Will be enough to save me Will be enough to make me whole To be enough to ease that that shame or that guilt's lingering in the back of my head It's only Christ I Don't make this video because I Want you guys and you know, I'm trying to get all the advice that I can and and you know Because I want you guys to try to fix me or anything like that Like I got plenty of people in my life that I'm working through this with I Share this with you to ask for your prayers and To let you know To let you know that That you're That thing that you're looking towards that goal that dream that you're like once I once I reach this or once I hit that Then I'll be happy then I'll be satisfied then I'll be whole it's a lie and anytime our our focus shifts off of Christ and the mission on to The metrics We're going to be Always disappointed. We're always going to be left broken because When we're building our kingdom, I my pastor talked about this this week and it really it really hit me when we're focused on building our kingdom We're also perpetually anxious about it falling apart But when we build Christ's kingdom, we can have the assurance that his kingdom will never fall apart So where does that leave me? That leaves me with the desire to create not out of anxiety fear a sense of trying to gain worth or Or identity from this but rather out of the love and acceptance and joy that I have already received through Christ seeking to build his kingdom and not my own Because his kingdom will never fail His kingdom will never fade so even when I feel like All the stuff that I've put my life's work into begins to fade away or isn't growing as fast as I would like It doesn't it doesn't need to It doesn't need to keep going that thing doesn't have to quote-unquote work Because this is where God has placed me and as long as I'm seeking his kingdom That's enough. I feel like I Feel like I so often enter this cycle of like this endless guilt and shame and needing to work and be productive And doing as much as I can and then being burnt out And then letting that take over again And I don't want to enter that cycle again. I want to do this for the long term I Have I'm so excited for 2022 and and just beginning to plan out what that's gonna look like because of your guy's support and because of the Where the channel has gone and just everything behind it. It's just so amazing and so exciting But I do not I do not want to continue on my own terms I've experienced once again coming to the end of what I can offer Feeling the stress of needing to come up with more ideas than I can think of The stress of needing to make more content than I can do on my own the stress and the anxiety of not having enough time to do Everything that I feel like I should do the guilt and the shame of not feeling like I'm measuring up to where I should be I've experienced all of that But it was all a means to get me to look back at Christ and say God, I want to do this with you once again I've I've I've let the busyness consume me. I let the I let the content consume me and I want to look back at you and say God, let's let's go. Let's walk. Let's walk together So often we think of God is like a destination like when I work work hard enough and And do well enough then that I reach God But the truth is is that he's walking with us that his power and presence is there with us when we ask when we humble ourselves and So that's where I'm at Well, why I'm crying Yeah, I'm gonna be making I'm gonna be I'm gonna be what am I gonna be doing You'll see videos coming out a lot of videos still daily videos because I have a lot of stockpile videos But just know behind the scenes that I'm working stuff some stuff out that I'm so thankful for each one of you who Decides to support me in any way whether that's walk watching videos or you know being a supporter on patreon or any of those things like I said I'm so excited for 2022 and I just want to get in the right headspace to do that I'm still gonna make some videos this year and And you know I'm gonna do that with more rest and and thought not necessarily thoughtfulness because I do think I put a lot of thoughtfulness in every piece of content that I create but it's like Yeah, I don't know I don't know exactly but I'm gonna be more intentional about taking that space in that time To make sure I do this in a healthy and sustainable way and so like I said, you'll still see more content from me You know and and I'm so you know, I wouldn't be releasing it I didn't think it was gonna be fun and good and entertaining and interesting I'm really proud of the content that that's gonna be coming out But this was just an opportunity for me to open up to you guys about some of the things that I'm doing that This is not easy that I do not have this Together I don't know what I'm doing But I'm so thankful for each one of you and and I want to be more relaxed with with on the channel Sometimes and so if you're in favor, I think I'm gonna be popping in like this from time to time Yeah, appreciate your prayers appreciate your comments I'm not gonna be responding to too many in the comments. Just because too many, you know comments I'm just because I part of my thing is stepping away and taking some time and For my own sanity so When the time comes I'll read them and I appreciate you guys so much We'll see you tomorrow. God bless


Okay, I know it's pretty early now. So we appreciate that you get up early and come to this talk So my name is Peter and I'm gonna talk about our work that we did at the Shanghai blockchain research Institute And what we did was we investigated how hard it would be to execute transactions in parallel on the EVM as you might know the EVM is Designed in a sequential manner. Usually you execute all transactions in a block one by one So the question is can we paralyze that what we found and what I want to talk about today is Two challenges that we identified and the first of those is transaction dependencies you're probably all familiar with How Ethereum works basically we have a global share state, which is the state tree Theoretically a transaction could access any point any entry in the state tree That is whether it can access a slot or not. That's defined by the contract code so for instance if you have two transactions from two different accounts and Both of them call the same contract and that's contract reads or writes the same entry Then these transactions will have a conflict or a dependency On Ethereum, this is not a problem now because we execute transactions sequentially But if you paralyze them then this will become a problem because you cannot concurrently execute such transactions. So we did some Evaluations basically what we did is we collected some storage traces for a few hundred thousands of blocks from you know historical data on Ethereum and we did some simulations with some OCC scheduler and what we found is that the theoretical maximum speedup is as little as four times So even if you have eight threads or sixteen threads at least on the VM level if you don't consider storage You cannot do much much better than four times and that's kind of an underwhelming result So some examples some simple examples of these dependencies for instance if you have two transactions to the same ERC 20 token if they send from the same sender or to the same receiver then they will conflict on the Balances mapping or if you have two transactions swapping tokens and uni swap Swapping the same token pair then both of them will modify the reserve variables So that's also another kind of conflict or if two transactions are minting an NFT Then for instance they can conflict on total supply if the contract is keeping track of that We identified this and this is an issue I think this severely limits the parallelizability of EVM transactions as they are today And we have some suggestions how we could improve this this kind of early just some ideas to to throw in there The first idea is to use a sharded counter. So from the examples before you saw that many of these conflicts are conflicts on a single storage slot, which is like an integer or some counter and Yeah, two transactions read and write the same slot So the idea would be to shard it into multiple slots. So one int is represented by three five seven slots And then we could route transactions based on some heuristic to different slots Let's say we take the last byte of the hash of the sender address so two transactions from different senders would probably With a higher probability, they would modify different slots in the contract and the second idea that we came up with is Lazy add opcodes. So for in this example, we have a very simple function.  So to concurrent transactions We'll have a conflict on this like concurrent storage load storage store operations and You know, we cannot parallelize them The idea here is to maybe introduce a new kind of semantics for addition lazy add or commutative add and that would be evaluated lazily so these transactions can execute in Parallel and then we basically batch those two updates together into a single update at the end and that could be Executed at the end of the block for instance. The second challenge that we identified is that of determinism. So as you might know in parallel execution, there's You know, there's a lot of non-determinism and we can make sure that two transactions have the same result or two executions But there are other types of non-determinism for instance here We have two executions of three times three different transactions. Let's say transaction two Depends on transaction one. So in this case on node a one and two are executed concurrently So two has to abort and be re-executed because there's an update that it could not see and on node B They're executed sequentially. So node transaction two can commit directly Our idea is that if we have parallel execution at some point We have to introduce some incentives because if you can trigger some abort that kind of opens up The door for some denial of service attacks And if we do associate some incentives with abort then to these two executions in the example They will yield a difference final state. So that is gonna be an issue two nodes will diverge So for this we kind of came up with a new scheduling framework called Optimistic concurrency control with deterministic aborts and the idea is very simple instead of Deciding these aborts commit decisions during runtime you make this decision prior to running the transactions in a deterministic way so the these decisions will be Deterministically, you know the same on all nodes and this way even if you attach incentives to these decisions The final states that different nodes will arrive on will be the same So this is the OCCDA framework. I just summarized kind of the takeaway from this talk So it's pretty hard to get Paralysation done on the EVM because it was not designed with this in mind But I think it's gonna be worth it For instance, if you manage to scale a theorem on layer one or layer two with a higher transaction load Paralexecution will have a very big impact on the overall Yeah, efficiency of the system. So if you're interested in this, you know, research direction I would encourage you to you know, read up on it think about it and we actually have a Publication about this topic. So if you're interested in a much detailed discussion about the ideas that I talked about here You can go ahead and scan the QR code and read the preprint that kind of concludes my talk today. Thank you very much for coming Thank you very much Peter. We have time for one quick question I was wondering what your thoughts are on Parallelizing just balance transfers Which are much simpler Still contract stuff just like Ethereum balance transfers like certain transaction types are radically simpler than Contract execution and I wonder if you had any thoughts on that Yeah, that's a good question. So here we only considered Contract storage conflicts, but actually there are different kind of conflicts, you know Another part of the state trees the account with the nonce and the balance So, yeah, simple transfers are expected to be much easier to paralyze and even with contracts with access lists You get much more information That you can use to paralyze But I'm not sure the majority of transactions. I think our contract calls So I'm not sure about the impact of this, but I think that's certainly something to look into Thanks again. Okay. Thank you very much Peter and applause for Peter, please


Hi, this is Alison Sheridan of the NoCellicast podcast, a technology podcast with an ever-so-slight Macintosh bias. Today I'm here to demonstrate to you an application called MultiCam, which runs on the iPad from a company called Ricoh Live. My trusty assistant producer, Steve, well he's actually my producer but he's also my assistant, is running the application MultiCam on the iPad. He's going to be switching between three different cameras. Right now you're looking at my Logitech C920 that's mounted above my Apple Cinema display. We're also going to be showing my Apple Cinema display itself, the desktop basically, of my Macintosh, and the third camera is my iPhone, which is also broadcasting live video over to MultiCam on the iPad. So Steve, let's go ahead and take a look at the iPhone camera next. I'm going to do just a, let's pretend I'm doing a product demo here explaining this is my Nikon D5100 camera that my trusty camera I've had for many years that I really, really enjoy, but I've decided that I'm going to go mirrorless. So next up Steve, let's switch over to the spreadsheet that I created that's up on my desktop. This is showing the different cameras that I considered and you can see the different criteria that I measured and how I chose the Olympus OMD E-M10. Now I'm going to ask Steve to get really tricky here. We're going to do picture and picture and the two pictures I want are the iPhone camera and my video. So with any luck, he has switched us. So one is big and one is little and we're now looking at my Nikon D5100 compared to the E-M10 that I bought from Olympus. So you can see the different sizes of these two cameras that it's dramatically different. It's a little hard to hold cameras in front of an iPhone and look at it at the same time to see your angle, but you can see that the video is broadcasting now from my iPhone, from my iSight, or I'm sorry from my Logitech C920, and also from my desktop. This has been a demonstration of Ricoh Live's Multicam and it's available for $5 in the App Store, believe it or not. If you'd like to see more reviews like this, head on over to podfeed.com and check out the NoSyllaCast Mac podcast.


How's it going everybody? I'm Joe for JaspysCaseRakes.com. Coming at you with a brand new release here on hump day, Wednesday, 2022, Panini Elements Football. Six box, half case, pick your team number three. Big thanks everybody who sold this out straight up. Chad with that triple last bot mojo, got the Browns, got the Rams, and got the Buccaneers all at once to close out the break. I appreciate it. Next break, second half of this is already in single digits. I think there's only like six or seven teams left, so check it out. JaspysCaseRakes.com will be the second half of that case right there. So let's pop this open. Let's see which six we're going to do. And if you're watching live, we just loaded up another fresh case. So if you missed out on picking your teams the first time, don't miss out next time. I guess, here's how we'll do this. We're going to just take the, take six, shave six right off the top right there. So we'll go one, two, three for the left side or four, five, six for the right side. Good luck. One left side. So this side we will save for next time for break four, which I don't think anything's sold out after this. So we can, again, if you're watching live, you can just just run it back. We marked all of those four. You can kind of see there. Marked all those four so you know that they're from the same case. All right, so what can we, what are we looking for here? Looking for two autographs, one memorabilia, nice five cards per box. Let's see what we got. Good luck everybody. We will is on the cover. It's just a one pack, one box situation here. Let's use this blank card with the Jaspie sticker on it. Let's slow play some of the hits. So is that the autograph on the bottom? Yeah, that's an autograph on the bottom. Okay. Love this stuff. The metal stuff is pretty cool, I think. All right, we got Matt Ryan. Tungsten. This is definitely one of the players that just looks weird in his new uniform. Going from like a dark color team to the, to a light color team. That is for Ronnie from the Colts. Next up is Russell Wilson. Americean. Going to Denver. That'll be for Chase. This should be the Relic. Fusion Swatches. DK Metcalf. Going to Justin and the Seahawks. Autograph one is Trayvon Walker, 68 out of 99. Nice rookie auto for the Jags. That'll be for Christopher. Little cat team mojo. Probably one of the big reasons why the Jags have been pretty successful this season. And we have RPS rookie steel signatures. Drake London. Ooh, that is sharp. That silver ink right on the metal right there. I like it. That's Brody with the Falcons. Nice. It's 45 of 79. That's pretty cool. All right, good start. Next box. Oh, we do not. We gave it a shot. It wasn't for us. We were on there for a little while. All right, we got Davis Mills for Houston. That'll be for Riley. There's CD Lamb. Yeah, kind of. It just wasn't for us. But we do have, Adam, we do have a, if you're looking for singles, we do have an eBay account where we're starting to sell singles now. We just fire that up the last few weeks. So I think we should have a decent stock of singles on there. If you just searched Jasper's breaks, I want to say on eBay, you should be able to find this. Travis Kelsey. Kansas City Chiefs. That'll be for Michael. And there's Arnold, Ebi KTA. Ebi KTA. Rookie Autograph. 24 out of 50 Falcons. That'll be for Brody. And we've got a Jalen Tolbert. Rookie Steel Signatures. Dallas. That's going to be for Jason. 153 out of 199. But, you know, there's really no right or wrong way to collect. If you still want to support Jasper's, you can take a look at our singles there. All right, next one. You got Tray Lantz. Poor Tray Lantz. That'll be for the Niners. That'll be for Victor. Devonta Smith. Tungsten for the Fly Eagles Fly. Michael with the Eagles. 27 out of 74. We got a Justin Jefferson Relic. Brandon with the Vikings. That is 18 out of 27. These cards are pretty cool. And we've got an easy E. I like the rookie neon signs here. Got the jersey underneath, his autograph right on that window there. That's for the Dolphins. That's going to go to Serenity. And Miami. There you go. 86 out of 99. That's Eric. Azuka. Azukama. Kanma is what I'm going to go with. Or easy E for short. All right. And this one here, Steel Signatures. Derrick Mason. The other Derrick for the Titans. That's going to be for Jason in Tennessee. There you go. I got a good blend of current rookies, vets, retired players, old school guys. Next box. So this is a pick your team three, half case from a fresh case. Pick your team four is down to six teams left. We can run that back right after this in a different video if you want to. There's Chase Young. Derwin with the commanders. 54 out of 199. We got Xenon. There's easy E again. 8 out of 54 for Serenity and the Finns. I got Jerry Judy. Two color Relic for Chase and the Broncos. 17 out of 47. Catches the light really well too. The autograph is Nick Bosa. 11 out of 20. It's brother Joey Bosa going on the IR. But Nick for the Niners and it'll be for Victor. And the plate is Velis Jones Jr. RPS Rookie Steel signatures. Nice. For Dub Bears, Allen Murdock with Chicago. 2 out of 6. Nice. Kind of town Chicago is. You know that's a good card. I don't know if grading plates are as common, but I suppose you can, you can still, that's still a corner, I guess. You can still say, hey, you can still do that. I'll bet the surface grades may not be as favorable. Earth element right there. Crystal Lave going to the Saints. That'll be for Ronnie. Next up is Jonathan Taylor. 69 out of 74. Tungsten. Yeah, we should have a Pick Your Element break, Mike. Maybe the next run of cases we'll get, maybe we'll do that. Ronnie with the Colts. There's Electric Relic, Jerry Judy going to Chase and Denver. We got Rookie Neon Signs, Alec Pierce. That's really nice. That gold ink right above the blue of the Colts jersey. Who's got the blue horseshoes? That's going to be Ronnie with the Colts. Nice. And that's 86 out of 99. And Steel signatures. That's Brent Sellick. For the Fly Eagles Fly. That's for Michael and the Eagles. Yeah, I don't know how they would handle the cards that have the protective surface sticker or, you know, cover plastic over it. Now, would you take that off before you grade it? Is that part of the grading? I don't think too many people are grading these plates, though. All right, last box of this half case break, second half in the store, jaspyscasebreaks.com. There's Cooper Cup. 77 out of 199. That'll be for Chad and the Rams. You know what kind of does, right? Rick pointing out that Alec Pierce's autograph sort of looks like, sort of looks like Andrew Luck's autograph. There's Terry McLaurin. Derwin, Commanders. There's Fusion Swatches. 11 out of 47. Devonta Smith. Another Eagle. For Michael. Michael Gels. Two Michael G's in the spirit. The two autographs. We got a train whistle. Three out of five. Darius Slaton. For the New York football giants. That's for Jerry. Jerry. All aboard. The Big Hit Express. And back here is David Bell. Rookie Steel signatures for the Browns. Last spot, Mojo. Chad, we got you on the board. At least it was one of those teams. Appreciate you getting in. That's 24 out of 27. Cleveland, this is for you. Nice. I like that. They look really nice on that medal. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. 2022 Panini Elements Football. Six box, half case. Pick your team number three in the books from jaspyscasebrakes.com. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Anyways, let's try this one. It says the radius of a tin atom is 1.41 times 10 to the negative 8 centimeters. What is the radius of the tin atom in nanometers? So you're going to have to remember some conversion factors for this one. I like to go all the way back up to meter, so 1 nanometer is 1 times 10 to the negative 9 meters. And 100 centimeters is 1 meter. So we've got it in centimeters and we want to convert it to nanometers. So we can convert from centimeters to meters, right? And then from meters to nanometers. Everybody see that? So that's the way I like it. You can actually, if you knew the conversion between centimeters and nanometers in your head, you can do that too. Since we're introductory chemistry, let's just do it this way. 1 centimeter, 1 meter, and what happens? Cancel, cancel, right? So we're on meters now. We don't want meters, we want nanometers. So what are we going to do? 1 times 10 to the negative 9 meters is 1 nanometer. Cancel, cancel, like that, right? So what are we in now, units? A couple meters, right? So the radius of the 10 atom is going to be, let's try it together. So 1, 1.41 e negative 8, divide that number by 100, and then divide that number by 1e negative 9. We should get a more reasonable number, 0.141 nanometers. So the radius of atoms are kind of on that scale, the nanometer, actually angstrom scale, but are there any questions on this one? It's effectively a conversion factor, metric to metric conversions.


a theme party, and basically good-looking, some of the nice and good-looking people of San Francisco. Fashion show featuring local designers, having Joe Shells, and beautiful models. He designed this entire collection, and he's going to tell us about his inspiration and what it took to get these girls looking as fine as they do tonight. My fall 2014 collection is called Love to Death, and it's really love to death. It shows the story of her life, from when she has her funeral for her husband, from when she finds her daughter in a forest, from when she finally finds peace with herself. She's all white. She's serene. And if you could imagine your models playing any board game, what board game would they be playing? A board game my models will be playing probably would be monopoly, because she likes to take over everything. Part about modeling, I guess just portraying different characters and kind of working with different people. I love to get inspired. I'm such an artist like all around, so I think just getting inspired and like just meeting new people is probably my favorite. We also have Larkin Street Youth Services on board, so we'd like to be to those local charities, you know, contribute to the community. I'm with Linda and Heather from Larkin Street Youth Services, and they're going to tell us about how this event helps their organization. Yeah, so we work with a lot of homeless youth in San Francisco, so this event is really great to get the name out, and to get people to know more about the work that we do with the homeless youth. I think we have a lot of groundbreaking models such as restorative practices, and we really


Most people know this man in the familiar everyday jobs that are routine on an army post. Often the routines might take him a long way from home, like Alaska or the tropics. Some of his assignments may be less familiar, such as harbor security, that is the safeguarding of valuable army cargo. He is trained to fight as an infantryman when the need arises, or he may be privileged to be a member of an honor guard, paying tribute to men who have served their country with distinction. Sometimes he lends a helping hand to some very important people. You might say he has many things to many people. He's an MP, a military policeman, in the United States Army. What's it like being a military policeman in today's army? Well, to begin with, it takes a lot of preparation. It all starts here in the training brigade at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where they learn the ABCs of being an MP. They've got to be ready to meet all of the old challenges that go with the job, and a lot of new ones. In the MPs, readiness begins with physical fitness. Two basic throws that are utilized in all these centers are taught at Fort Gordon. The first basic throw you'll see will be the basic shoulder throw. At normal speed, it looks like this. Recover. I will break this technique down by the numbers and show you how it is executed. You'll note my demonstration. On the count of one, man executing a technique will step with his right foot directly toward his opponent's right foot, leaving four to five inches. Reach out with the left hand, grab the thumb, and bump the right elbow. You'll drop slightly knees for speed and balance. This is count one, take two. Per one. The official title of the course is Unarmed Defense. Actually, it's a combination of judo, karate, and a sharp eye for what your opponent might come up with. All policemen have to be prepared to protect themselves against personal attack. They get intensive training in this arc through the entire eight-week training program in the brigade. Whether it's a roundhouse right that's coming at you or a strong left jab, you can stop it cold if you've studied your lessons. You nail more of a pivot than your hand below your chin. Then you break it slightly to your side. Until he begins classes in traffic control, an MP trainee never realizes what a problem the traffic cop faces. In the Army, control of traffic is a key assignment, whether the job is in keeping cars moving through the streets of a military post or directing the flow of vehicles in a combat area. A training maize provides the MP with a chance to put his instruction into practice. And as you can see, your local expressway is a breeze compared to this. But on these roads, there are no traffic tie-ups, thanks to students and supervisors who know how to keep things moving. Each man gets a chance at directing traffic. While the others operate the vehicles. Whether you're in the vehicles or at the corner giving the signals, it's valuable training and busy traffic maneuvers. Better not count on buying anything in this store or in any of the others in this town. These are dummy buildings, and this street doesn't lead anywhere. It's all part of a training exercise called MP City. The idea is to provide a realistic setting for trainees to get acquainted with some of the actual problems they might run up against in their job as a military policeman. Gentlemen, we have already discussed in class the basic freedoms and rights As military policemen, they must know how to handle large crowds. A lawful demonstration by protesting citizens may change quickly into a riot. A group of orderly citizens into an unruly mob. MPs may be called upon to disperse such a mob if it endangers the life and property of other citizens. Two squads forming the wage and two squads in general support. Control of unlawful gatherings calls for carefully developed plans to avoid hurting anyone unnecessarily. The trainee learns pretty early in the game to use only as much force as he has to in order to do his security job. This is another situation which he must know how to handle. Yes! Not only can anything happen in MP City, it's made to happen. You might call this a training exercise in how to break up a bar room brawl. It's one situation where that training in the judo pit may come in handy. A critique follows all exercises in MP City. This lets the trainee know what he did right and what mistakes he made. Divided into groups for the various MP City exercises, each member of the brigade gets a turn at military police duties. It's hard to tell the practice military police station from the real thing. Trainees are graded for attitude, accuracy of observation, proper procedure and other principles of good police work. One of the things he has to be sure of is that no accusations are made against anyone without sufficient proof. In the practical training program at MP City, the trainee learns how to handle a great variety of situations similar to ones he might have to deal with in army installations anywhere in the United States. As a military placement, you must always be outstanding in your parents' while on duty, either on a gate or on patrol.  In addition to their role in law enforcement, they've got to know how to cooperate with the civilian community near army installations. The army tries to be a good neighbor. Many problems faced in living side by side involve both soldiers and civilians. The MP is given thorough instruction on community relations and the importance of assisting local authorities when required. Law enforcement personnel are capable, hardworking, conscientious and honest men. The chief of police is a capable professional man with many years of experience in dealing with people, law enforcement and their problems. Military police must have a cooperation with these people because you're the people that's going to be on patrols. In these areas, you must know their problems also. The program marshal works very close in coordinating with the civilian authorities in a given town. Permanently arranged recs or crash scenes are used for training him and reporting accidents. In MP city, training is adapted to suit each individual's ability to learn. During the week of practical exercises here, they become familiar with the details of military police assignments. They learn to move fast, observe accurately and handle each situation according to its needs. Military maneuvers involving hundreds or thousands of troops must be planned and executed carefully if they are to be effective. Commanders must know exactly the location of their forces through the maneuvers. As a truck convoy reaches a military police checkpoint, its progress is reported. Charlie Papa Bravo, this is Bright Tory, over. Bright Tory, this is Charlie Papa Bravo. Request permission for the convoy to enter the TAC area. This is Bright Tory, you want to resist, grant it over. That is affirmative. Charlie Papa Bravo, Roger, out. This is Bright Tory, Roger, out. Clearance is given for the convoy to proceed. In order to qualify for the Corps, a trainee must pass a series of military police field tests relating both to the service and combat support missions of the MP Corps. Basically, today's MP is a professional soldier policeman who has to be ready to go into action in many types of situations. The assignment could be the occupation of a command post area, a tactical motor march, operation of a field communication center in a combat area, an exercise in techniques against enemy ambush. Whatever the job is, they work as individuals. They work as a team. They work as a unit of many teams. For most, it adds up to a feeling of deep personal commitment to the MP and to the nation he serves. Sonogad is a motion detection device. The sound you hear when I first turned it on is running at about 6,000 Hz per second, well within the human hearing range. The device I showed you previously, the ultrasonic, working at 19... An important course at the military police school deals with physical security. Large army and army-related facilities, such as defense plants, offer a ready target for the professional saboteur and pilfer and for political action groups. We have a fence line around a special weapon storage area. Each one of these little boxes will contain a mercury switch. We place one of these at approximately every third fence post. When the device is activated, anyone trying to climb the fence would cross-shake the pole and give a warning to the God for us that some type of movement is taking place. Building five, for example, being our communication center. Here we have movement probably 24 hours a day. Through the use of a model of a typical city complex, which may contain key installations such as an army depot, a communication center, or a weapons center, MPs learn the sensitive areas which may pose security problems. They learn the likely places where bombs may be concealed, how to handle a bomb-threat telephone call, and how to clear the area. Recording the scene of a crime just as it was first observed by the investigator is a vital part of military police work. A class in the criminal investigation course at the Military Police School emphasizes the role of investigative photography in crime detection. Modern police techniques call for a high degree of precision in detection procedures. Very often the successful prosecution of a criminal case will depend entirely upon clues and evidence collected at the scene of the crime. In an automobile accident, for example, this may include the position of the vehicle, the type and extent of damage, the position and condition of the driver, and the location and characteristics of tire tracks. Students are taught how to use cameras to make a photographic record of physical evidence. The casting and molding of footprints and tire tracks, and similar evidence, are taught in a specialized course at the school. The professional investigator must be skilled in a great variety of processes and methods which are essential parts of criminal investigation. Another highly specialized class at the school studies the marijuana plant and various microscopic and chemical tests for identifying it. Classes are broken down into small working groups for instruction purposes. The use of the equipment is explained, and all students get an opportunity to perform laboratory experiments for the positive identification of marijuana. A unique program at the MP School trains specially selected dogs to assist the military policeman in discovering hidden marijuana or any derivatives of the plant. Once the dog has become familiar with the scent, he is given a series of practical problems in searching out the plant. An MP who has taken the specialized marijuana training works with the dog and its handler in retrieving the unlawful material. A constant alert is kept by the military police for the presence of narcotics in camps, military warehouses, or army-related industrial facilities. Attached to U.S. Army military police installations around the world are criminal investigation laboratories. They process physical evidence needed in court in the investigation of criminal offenses concerning military personnel and U.S. government property. Fort Gordon's crime lab, staffed by experts, is provided with the most advanced training and scientific aids. At the firearms laboratory, weapons and ammunition are studied for identification purposes in criminal investigations. In the chemistry division of the crime lab, blood samples on clothing or other articles are analyzed. The highly sophisticated detection methods used in army criminal investigations demand an equally high capability on the part of the military policeman. All MPs will not become criminal investigators, but all are provided with the basic fundamentals of criminal investigation and a knowledge of the expertise they can call upon when needed. Hunting down the perpetrator of unlawful acts or thwarting the would-be criminal on government property is often accomplished by the combination of a military policeman and a dog. Like their counterparts who search out marijuana, the sentry dog is trained in a very special way to go after his objective. Training programs at various army bases develop strict coordination between the dog and his handler. The use of the sentry dog in conjunction with the military police guard has proved a successful protective measure of the best installations, both at home and abroad. We're going to use students. One student will act as counselor, the other as a prisoner. Each episode will be TV... An increasingly important activity of today's military police is the correctional treatment of military offenders. The purpose of the program is to return as many military prisoners as possible to active duty with improved attitudes and motivation toward honorable service. These men at the military police school are receiving training as correctional specialists. When they have completed their course of instruction, they may be assigned to correctional duties at any of the army's correctional facilities. How would you conduct yourself under these circumstances? 3-3-1-4-0-7-7-1-6. This problem, mine, is my car. It's back in the company area. Wait a minute. Let's finish this form here first. It's been a while. I'm having to take the model wheels. Well, as soon as this is done, will you take care of my problem? We'll get to it. Now hold it right there. Consider the first step in our model. What did the counselor do wrong? Specialist McBride, you are now the counselor. How are you today, PFC Young? My name is Specialist McBride, and I'm the correctional counselor at this facility. Short-term prisoners usually receive correctional treatment in facilities located on military installations, such as this one at Fort Lewis in the state of Washington. More serious offenders are confined at the United States disciplinary barracks Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Here, military prisoners receive more intensive academic and vocational education. A staff of highly trained correctional personnel, many of them graduates of the military police school, provide guidance and instruction, aimed at strengthening confidence and character. Paroles are selected on the basis of exceptional attitude and conduct. It is the highest status that can be achieved as a prisoner, and is a goal for all prisoners. At Fort Riley, Kansas, the Army, through the office of the U.S. Army Provo Marshall General, has developed a highly successful correctional training program. Eligible prisoners are transferred here from installation confinement and from the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks. Absent from active military training for a length of time, they now receive intensive training directed at improving military skills and attitudes and developing confidence in the individual prior to his return to a regular military unit. Music Discussions on social and legal services and other areas of concern to the prisoners help restore hope for another chance. A number of morale-building activities are arranged, as the men progress toward the goal of once again becoming useful members of society. Music Counselors are available to help the men solve personal problems, to answer questions concerning their future in the Army, and to assist them in adjusting to their new place in the Army team. A continuous evaluation of MP concepts keeps the military policemen abreast of latest developments in equipment, doctrine, and technology. Material required by the Military Police Corps is under constant study for possible improvement. Music In their new and expanded combat support role, the MPs must plan equipment and systems suitable for complex field operations. Under study is a Mobile Police Information Storage and Retrieval Center. In this van, tape banks will record a variety of combat intelligence, which will help the military police in carrying out their security mission in the combat area. Some items, already in the equipment inventory, will undergo rigorous testing under field conditions to determine the need for any improvement. As a means of swift military police deployment, the armored car has already proved itself to be useful in Vietnam combat operations. MPs must move by water as well as by land and air if they are to perform their many new duties for combat security actions. Whatever his needs, the military policeman can be certain that he will have the best possible support to help him do his job efficiently. That job may take him wherever United States troops are maintaining political stability. Wherever he may be sent, he is trained and ready to handle the assignment, whether it be patrolling a road on the lookout for enemy ambush or engaging the enemy in a firefight to ensure the safe passage of a convoy. While he has always been a soldier prepared for combat, the MP is now recognized as a member of a combat support element and an integral part of the U.S. Army combined arms team. Though his role as soldier policeman has widened the scope of his activities, today's MP carries on in the tradition of a distinguished corps. His forebearers perform security assignments in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and World War I. World War II challenged his skill and stamina as never before, as he helped bring a massive army of men and vehicles safely to battle. In the Korean conflict, an important assignment was processing and guarding prisoners of war and patrolling the demilitarized zone. The Berlin crisis of the early 1960s called for a critical U.S. Army alert on the east-west border. Again, the military police filled a vital security role. The United States mission in Vietnam posed new and complex security problems. In a war with constantly shifting battle fronts, no one knows where the enemy may strike. Military policemen in Vietnam sharpen their skills in detecting the presence of hostile forces and guarding against sabotage. Today as never before, the United States military policeman faces new challenges. The Army, in cooperation with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, has assured him the best training, equipment, and motivation to meet these challenges in the finest traditions of the soldier policeman.


The question has come up, how do human rights function for the dead? The legal rights of the living do not automatically transfer over to the dead because a dead body is not a person, but it is still human. It is quite possible to understand the dead as retaining some level of humanness that does indeed still have a right. So when we die, we lose our legal rights as persons, which is a legal construct, but we are still human because we are biologically human. Arguments have been made that there is a dignity that is extended to both the living and the dead so that legally, even though you may cease to be a person, you still have a right to a dignified burial or final disposition. A dead person doesn't have a right to a trial in the subject sense because it would be impossible for the opposing council to question you if you're dead. It becomes a question of, for example, how next of kin have been affected by what was done to your dead body or what happened to you in terms of death, but it's never the dead person making the case. After you're dead, there is this notion of respecting your wishes. There are cases where individuals have been cremated when they wanted to be buried, and so there have been lawsuits filed that say that the dead's wishes weren't followed, but if what people are wondering is, well, geez, how do I make sure my wishes are followed, get them written down in writing and legally agreed? The real question I think is, do you have a right to be dead online? And I think the answer really kind of is no, so far that once you die, there's just no way to erase everything that is about you online. If you give your family or next of kin your password, by and large, almost entirely will always be a violation of the terms and conditions for that company, and that to let anybody else use it would be a violation of you saying you are who you say you are. It's also why when families go to the companies and ask for the password and the company will say no, we can't give it to you, because our agreement is with that user that user is now dead, as such, that's it. This would be one thing I would ask everyone to think about is making sure you've made your wishes clear for how you want to die. The more you can get that documented and written down, the better. But at a minimum, you need to talk about it.


And a non-governmental organization championed the cause of peasants living with disability in the arts and creative sector, as calling on the federal government to set aside 5% of the fund for peasants with disabilities in the investment in digital and creative enterprises. The call was made during the conclusion of a three-day creative boot camp for peasants with disabilities in a boot camp, plus the V-Manuale H&M complex to start. Creative Director, Potter's Gallery Initiative, Donald Unanka, together with older stakeholders amongst peasants with disabilities, arts and creative sector are calling on the federal government to set aside 5% of the $680 million investment in digital and creative enterprises project, launched by the federal government on the 14th of March this year. He says this demand is in line with an existing disability law which stipulates 5% of appointments, jobs and opportunities in every sector be reserved for PWDs. The disability law stipulates that 5% of appointments, jobs and opportunities in every sector be reserved for peasants with disabilities. I want to use this medium to call on government to ensure that peasants with disabilities are actively included in the arts project. This will create over 120,000 jobs for peasants with disabilities in the art and the creative industries. This is in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Peasants with Disabilities, the disability law and other international instruments. He commanded the media for being a worthy partner in educating Nigerians on the plight of peasants with disabilities in the country, while assuring that Potter's Gallery is ready to provide technical assistance to PWDs who eventually benefit from the IDICE project fund. I want to use the occasion of the creative bootcamp to sincerely thank the media for their support in providing coverage for issues of peasants with disabilities in the arts and creative industry ecosystem in Nigeria. It is very important to note that without the media, it will be very difficult to understand issues of peasants with disabilities in this space. Stakeholders at the event also supported as they called for more government funding for PWDs. This is not the first time a grant or law is being released for job in this country. Some three years ago, some funds were released to give MSME and peasants with disabilities. MSME had 4.7 billion. Peasants with disabilities had 2.5 billion. But we couldn't get them money. We are appealing to government to place carriers along in this new money that is released so that we benefit out of it. We have a very challenging situation even as normal people that have no physical challenges. Because of movement, because of living is so high, then when you put this together and look at the conditions of people with disabilities, it is a situation that calls for immediate government interventions in different ways. The boot camp is a yearly event where participants are given opportunities to showcase their talents before a large audience in an atmosphere of friendship and love.


And I think we'll all agree that many of these changes are here to stay. So the workplace is and will be a mosaic of hazards. Because of all of these different factors I just mentioned changes in work the workforce and workplace and they bring with them new hazards and risks that come at a time where we still haven't fully controlled older more traditional if you will. And at times deadly hazards and risks, and a lot of this is also modulated by phenomena they're outside the workplace, of which for example climate change is becoming it's becoming increasingly evident that things like climate change are affecting workforces, putting some workers at greater risk than others. And so all of this needs to be taken into account and the point where our colleagues at NIOSH and the University of Texas have been trying to make over these last three years is we're making a push for a transition the transition from our traditional way of approaching occupational safety and health not minimizing it but quite the to the contrary building on it. This traditional approach that recognize hazards in the workplace and have the mission of eliminated associated risk towards moving transitioning as I was saying towards a more comprehensive view the burden of work and work related adverse effects. The clear is that work related burden is much more than just hazards in the workplace so that there are multiple domains of this burden that are reflected in characteristics inherent to individual workers. And they're immediate surroundings, both inside and outside the workplace, including their family their community obviously their employers and society and general this brings us to the need to adopt a broader view of work relatedness of disease and injury distinguishing between what we have traditionally referred to as occupational injury and illness having is injured illness that it arises, causally from the workplace to a broader concept of work related injury and illness that allows for illness and injury to be work related or not work related but nonetheless reciprocally related to the workplace or having consequences with that. It's also becoming evident that our working life over it was also changing where we're moving from an era of possibly a few long stable jobs to one s worker may go through many many jobs by the time they reach the age of retirement on average anywhere from 12 to 15. And there's got to be a consequence to these periods of employment unemployment differences and hazards depending on the job that one has probably cumulatively and so there's an increased need for emphasizing the impact of all of these exposures over the entire working life to continue on. And as it starts on the traditional cornerstone of occupational safety and health. And beginning with that traditional setting or foundation we describe a need for occupational health safety and health to expand in two dimensions, first of all, horizontally to reflect the various work and non work the role and impact of work. In many ways, stopping having occupational safety and health stop at the factory fence is a bit reductionist and it's also artificial, because many of the most prevalent significant health conditions workers are not solely by workplace hazards. There are many stress related conditions that arise outside the workplace but nonetheless have an impact on work and so separation of work.


Okay, we're back, this is Dave Vellante and I'm with Stu Miniman, we're with Wikibon.org and this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of Dell Storage Forum. This is our second Dell Storage Forum. Last year we were down in Orlando, really the second Dell Storage Forum where they brought together the equal logic customer bases, the compelling customer bases and of course Dell's own very large install base and we're here with Bob Fine who's the director of your product, marketing for the compelling side of Dell, Bob, welcome to theCUBE. Great, thank you, glad to be here. It's great to see you again. Always good. A lot of good action going on at Dell Storage Forum. A lot of the messaging are things that we've heard in the past from compelling, but they're refined. I mean fluid data architecture, right, that one comes to mind. Sure. How much of that is just sort of, hey, we got this great messaging, let's just bolt it on to Dell versus some kind of fundamental underpinning that is new. So the fluid data, it's not just a message. We have products that meet that objective. We've been doing it for, excuse me, quite a while. For example, some of the technology that we have are data progression is one of those technologies. It's been proven in the market and it does help our customers put the data at the right place, at the right time, at the right cost. Fluid data is more than a marketing message. It's real, it's there. Customers use it today and they use it not just to move data, to move it for the sake of moving. It's really all about lowering cost. When our customers move their data, they're moving it from costly storage to lower cost from a tier one to a tier three. The beauty of this fluid data architecture is that we can do that in the background without impacting performance. In fact, the opposite is true. In most cases, it improves performance because we can free up that expensive tier one resource by putting all that inactive data on tier three. So if costs go down, performance goes up. That's what fluid data is all about, and we do it without the user touching it. I remember the first time we ever had Phil Soren on the cube was at VMworld 2010. Sure. And he was very simple. He said, look, we're just trying to basically bring features that were associated with mainframe class storage down to the regular, everyday, small, medium-sized business. And that's really what Component did. You were the first really to do that. In an architecture that worked solid, people use it, they love it, why did it take the rest of the industry, do you think, so long to come up with a similar concept? A couple reasons. The first and foremost, a lot of the other vendors had an architecture already in place, and it's really difficult when you've got an architecture that's been in place for a while to add that capability. So Component started new from the ground up, and what we did was we built into our code a little bit of extra intelligence, basically using metadata, data about the data. And because we had a ground up architecture, we could build that intelligence into the platform at day one, so we didn't have to go back and try to figure out how to modify it, which would have been really hard. That's why when Component came out of the chute, we had this intelligence, and we could do this right out of the gate and work for customers first time, every time. Now, was that a fundamental design criterion, that whole data progression? Or did it come out of the fact that you guys had some other features that allowed you to do that? You know what I mean? Sure.  Waffle enables some other capabilities, sort of ripple effect. Was it, did you guys set out to say, okay, we need to have this data compression, so let's design an architecture that can support that, or was it more of a, hey, we have this great, you know, virtualized system and we can do this? First, just to clarify its data progression, I think you said compression. No, no. I said progression. Okay. Just checking. We recognize that we wanted to do a lot of different things that other customer, other vendors couldn't do. In order to do that, you needed more intelligence. So when we first started looking at what are those things we could do to add intelligence, we designed that architecture from the beginning and that enabled data progression. It also enabled us to do snapshots in a different way, also to replicate in a different way. So that extra intelligence gave us the ability to build on a whole set of additional features that came from that initial design. So Bob, talk about that new architecture for tiering and we see even everyone follow on. The next wave appears to be flash. You started to see flash permeating into some of the existing systems. You've also seen new architectures come out with all flash arrays. Sure. I wonder if you can speak to, you know, where Dell sees flash fitting into your existing architecture and is there a need for an all flash architecture? And would that be, you know, an acquisition or a pivot on what you have today? So it's an interesting question. All flash I think is really an indicator that customers are looking for ways to optimize their system. As far as customer demand and all flash, we haven't seen that much. Customers are asking something where we hear from the press or analysts. Now that being said, the technology that we spoke of a few minutes ago, the data progression, it has the intelligence where we could do it. That being said, Dell has made an acquisition, RNA networks, something that's publicly known. And RNA networks does have some very sophisticated software and hardware to enable host caching, to put, effectively, a solid-state drive in the server closer to where the data originally came in. So we have that now part of the Dell technology umbrella. And you will hear from Dell and Dell storage ways to roll out some very, very intelligent ways to leverage host cache in the server. And most likely, you'll see that integrated with other technologies from Compellant. What those are and how we'll do that, that's a future topic. So take us back, you know, five, 10 years ago, where customers saying, hey, we want this ability to progress our data from, you know, expensive disk to less expensive disk. Were they telling you that? Absolutely, customers were faced with just increasing amount of storage. And they said, you know what, I bought all these drives. And the drives they had to buy were very expensive, 15K, tier one, pretty pricey drives. And after the data would sit on those drives for a couple weeks, 30 days, 60 days, they said, no, wait a minute. I had to buy those drives to meet my initial requirement to bring the data in. But now that it sits there, I'm not using it anymore. Why do I have to keep paying those high-speed costs as I expand my system to add more capacity, but I really don't need the performance? Compellant, there's got to be a better way to do it. And that was really the impetus for data progression. So you really were sort of using a mental model of a classical tier one mainframe storage and saying, all right, let's bring this down to the masses. Now, Flash, does it change everything? Or does it just sort of fit right in? In other words, you're starting to see a lot of granularity in the Flash hierarchy. You've got extended memory that's persistent. You've got, Stu mentioned all Flash arrays. You've got the stuff you guys did from RNA, which is this distributed coherent Flash down into the hybrid arrays. So your management system controls the array, right? Is there a higher level of abstraction that has to control that whole entire hierarchy? Interesting question. By using a solid state device or any other new type of drive, it fits the architecture that we have. So we can keep the metadata that we talked about before. And that applies to really any drive technology. We first started shipping solid state drives about two years ago. And one of the ways that we could use them differently at Compellant, we could really divide up the volume and only keep individual blocks that needed to be on the SSD. But the rest of the volume can sit on cheaper disks. So we made it cheaper from the start. And as SSDs evolve and Flash evolves, it's all part of the existing Compellant architecture. We don't see it as very different. It's a natural evolution to our existing architecture. So Bob, you hear a lot of talk in the industry about unified storage. A lot of it comes from the vendor community. Are customers asking you for that? And what's your play there? Customers are looking for unified storage. There's no question. Customers want one platform for both block and file. And a while ago, just over a year ago, Dell purchased Exynet, which is a great file system. And that file system has been implemented on the Power Vault lines. And it is available on the Equalogic line. And over time, you'll see that on the Compellant portfolio as well. OK, so that's a real requirement. That's just not a checkbox. Absolutely. Customers want one system to manage, or not manage, one platform for high performance. And that could be a Compellant today with Flash. Yeah, even you look at virtualization environments. There's lots of cases where there's some pieces of my data that I want on file and others that I need on block. Speaking of virtualization, we've known Compellant since before the acquisition. Pretty early on. And we really saw an acceleration in kind of a tightness of how the Compellant stuff can work with VMware after the acquisition. Can you speak a little bit to the VMware relationship on the Compellant side? Sure, a couple things. The first part is that we are already virtualizing all the storage. So part of Compellant's DNA, if you will, was really to virtualize. So all of the drives in the Compellant architecture, they're all virtualized together. We virtualize other things, such as in our controller, the ports that come in from the server or the ports that go to the drives. All those ports are virtualized. Customers can change from iSCSI to fiber channel, and they'll keep all their logical definitions to the volume. So everything is virtualized. So because we already had that as part of our background, part of our DNA, our legacy, it was pretty intuitive to go into a virtualized operating system. So both for Microsoft and for VMware, we've had a longstanding relationship as part of Compellant. And now through Dell, we were able to extend that. Dell, before Compellant, part of the Equalogic team, had a great relationship with VMware, and that's helped Compellant. So at Compellant, we've been supporting VMware as a partner. Compellant has offered capabilities for SRM, so Recovery Manager. And we also have capabilities for the VAI interface as well. So we're fully certified, fully compatible. And we have a great relationship with VMware as a company and the Alliance team. When you came to Dell, you guys obviously had a big channel presence, all channel. All channel all the time. Which really wasn't Dell's DNA, although they certainly started that transformation. What did you teach Dell about the channel? What did you learn from Dell? Wow, great question. Dell taught us a lot about scale. And at Compellant, we had a great relationship with the channel. In fact, the original DSF, which is C-Drive, started out as a channel event. So we knew a lot there. We knew how to manage a high touch relationship with the channel, deal registration, channel resources, a portal, a configurator, not screwing them. Compellant, never. But anyway. It's happened. Maybe by your other vendor. Yeah, absolutely. You don't have to talk about the channel head fake. It does happen. Well, and in what some storage vendors would do, they would tell the channel, you're my favorite partner. And then if the deal got real big, or if it was at the end of the corner. I'm my favorite partner. It changed. Suddenly the rules changed. Whereas Compellant, we never did that. And so those are some of the things we learned as Compellant that we brought to Dell. But again, Dell really taught us about scale. An event of this size, we never could have done that as Compellant. And to extend the reach that Dell has around the world, again, we never could have done that as Compellant. So it's been great bi-directionally. We've learned, and they've learned from us. So Bob, you participated in probably one of the greatest wealth creations within storage ever. When you look at Ecologic, Left Hand, Data Domain, 3-par, Compellant, Isilon. All massive acquisitions. Yes. And do you feel like, and all around, not all, but many around virtualization. Certainly you guys and some of the others. Do you feel that the flash marketplace will be as exciting? Or do you think that it's over-hyped? Again, Dave, guys, great, great questions. So whether customers want an all-flash array today is really not the question. But what we've seen over the years in the disk drive industry, where we've been part of for many, many years is our hair shows. Things change, and things change really quite fast. Yeah, they sure do. So it used to be a big drive 10, 15 years ago. Today is nothing. And flash has that potential. But I think we'll always see a mix of flash and rotating media. Flash is a high performance, relatively low capacity, as a tier one, tier zero. And then we'll see rotating media for deep archives, high capacity, low cost. I think the tool always exists. But absolutely, we are in the dawn of something new now, where flash will have a bigger and bigger role over the next few years. It certainly feels that way. So given that, our belief is that it's going to be more of a software intensive requirement from an innovation standpoint to manage that extending. So again, I'm asking, really Bob finds opinion, not necessarily representation of Dell, because you've seen a lot of changes in the storage business. Absolutely. Do you think that there's an opportunity for somebody to emerge and say the veritas of flash? You know what I mean by that? So somebody who manages that whole software stack and brings a level of heterogeneity to the table, but rich function. Or will it be more of a sort of appliance-centric, device-centric model? Yeah, Dave, and if I can just add on that, you talk about how much capacity is flashed. This is changing. I mean, I just got a note. A terabyte of SSD in a MacBook Pro now. So I've heard applications. Fusion IO is putting VDI in the server. And if I can have a terabyte, my MacBook, I'm going to have that much in my phone soon. So it's absolutely changing and changing quickly. How fast and who wins is to be determined. I think we've got a better economy right now in an economic environment that will foster startups and VCs. We went through that wave. You mentioned some of the great innovators that were acquired. And we're looking forward to seeing the next wave of innovators come to market. But that aside from an end-user standpoint, they don't want individual point products. They're still going to want a solution. And we'll just have to look at how that works together between point solutions and vendors like Dell that can put all those pieces together. Looking forward to see how that rolls out over the next few years. What's happening in the Minneapolis scene these days, the Minnesota scene, right? I mean, Phil used to always say, oh, it's actually an advantage for us because we can get talent. There's a former CDC, IBM, DNA. What's happening? Give us an update on the region. So the region is still pretty hot, so to speak, not temperature-wise. This time of year. For 60 days. Well, yes, it was warm. But that was about it. Tomorrow's going to be in the 40s, which is interesting. But anyway, the talent pool in Minneapolis has been great with file system companies that came out of there. Silicon Graphics developed their file system. Sun had a file system. Companies like Storage Tech, Network Systems. Wasn't Cray out of there, too? Cray was out of the area, so it's been a great, great talent pool, and it's really helped the Dell team grow. We've grown significantly in the Minnesota area, and we look forward to continuing to growing even further. Excellent. All right, so break out the telescope, or maybe just the binoculars. What do you see for the future of storage and the future of Dell storage? From a Dell storage perspective, we've recently brought in quite a bit of outside IP to the Dell mix. And our goal over the next few years is to bring those together. The customer problems really haven't changed. They're dealing with data growth and complexity, and as their business grows. And actually, if anything, what's changed is their environments are more cost constrained. They have fewer IT resources. They need something simpler, more scalable, more automatic, something that's more flexible and dynamic that they can work with that solves all their needs. They don't want vendor A storage to do one solution. Vendor B, vendor C, et cetera. They want something that spans all their problems, and that's where we can help at Dell by bringing in the technology that we've already acquired, integrating it, continuing to evolve. We'll succeed at Dell when we can do that successfully, and that's part of our plan. How do you approach the cloud? What's your bumper sticker or angle in the cloud? Cloud is real. Cloud is absolutely real. A couple years ago, if I went to a storage conference, I would have been skeptical of the cloud. I thought it's just another name for a network. But it's true, customers are, like I said a moment ago, customers are looking to simplify. And if the cloud helps them offload storage or offload resources, then it's a great way to do that. Dell is part of that. Dell has a number of different ways that we help our customers with the cloud. We have data centers in Iraq that have been part of our existing programs. Dell also has- That's in a rack. Yes, in a rack, in the Middle East. Not a country, no. To say, new outsourcing trends. You heard it here first on theCUBE. We're not allowed to sell there, as far as I can tell. We'd have to cut this off if I was. The other kind of in a rack, not- Anyway, you get the idea. But it is completely together in a system. How about that? Well, let's not use the rack word. But anyway, that is part of our solution. We also have channel partners that are trained on the cloud. We have other solutions to archive and provide data to the cloud, a variety of resources. So the cloud is real, and it will continue to grow. So what is the storage for the cloud?  There's file storage in the cloud? There's object in the storage in the cloud? You guys have all of the above? So the answer is yes. Dell has storage for the cloud. Different environments are looking for different ways to implement that together. Some of them will want flash, object, block, file, et cetera, et cetera. And we have solutions across the full portfolio. So again, the cloud is almost a euphemism for I want easier to manage, easier to scale, lower cost storage. And that's what the cloud's all about. We were talking about unified before. And you mentioned some futures around the exonet coming in and bringing that unifying capability. Do you see object as being part of that, or is object so different that it sort of needs to be treated differently? The use cases for object are slightly different. Customer is looking for a slightly different type of application, a little bit outside the normal block or file like you said. Archiving maybe? Exactly, exactly. Dell's had a number of products for object. We have a platform in that area, and it's been very, very popular. We made some significant announcements six months ago with that platform where we included compression and Ddupe from the Ocarina technology. Some great software partners that are in that area. So yes, that applies as well. All right, we'll give you the last word. Anything else you want to leave us with here? Dell Storage Forum. You guys got a lot of action going on this week. You just gave a super secret, double secret presentation. Triple secret. Triple secret. We talked about the Middle East, all together. Is there a connection? None that I'm aware of. So I guess to wrap it up by saying the, because you asked a lot about directional questions from the past relative to the future, being in an event like this is really quite different. The first event like this, it used to be called C Drive, where we had maybe 30, 40 partners there, total people, not a number of partners each with multiple people. So if you look at that change over the last five, six years, the change has been quite dynamic and pretty significant. To see an event this large is pretty exciting as well, and it shows what's going on in the storage space. If you're a vendor, which we are, that can bring in technologies that customers want, that it's affordable, that it's easy to use, that helps them solve their business problems, those vendors will succeed. And when they succeed, you get great events like this and opportunities to talk live like this. It's great. Awesome. Well, Bob, thanks for coming on. We couldn't be here without the generous support of Dell and really appreciate you guys having us here. Glad to be part of it. And of course, our other sponsor, Legal Seafood. I don't know if you've been to legal. Not yet, but I will now. Fantastic, right? There's new Legal Seafood just crossed the way. Let's go. Lunch. Legal Harborside, three floors, quite amazing. Father's Day's coming up. I'll come back. So shop.legal.com. They do delivery now over the internet, the gift bags. So can we send? Boston Classic. So a quick setting note to my family in Minnesota. They could send a gift certificate while I'm here and I could get some too. There you go. Or you could bring Lobster's back. Can we take care of that? Lobster's at JR Hook. Yeah, okay.  I brought it back live.  You should try Legals. Sounds good. All right. Okay, keep it right there. Bob, thanks very much for coming on. Absolutely, guys. It was a pleasure. Really good. Thanks. Update, congratulations on all the progress that you guys are making. Thank you. All right, this is theCUBE. Keep it right there. We'll be back with more from Dell Storage Forum live from Boston.