This is the Meet the Fed panel, it's the Meet the Fed, Meet the X-Fed, Meet the TV feds. So, you know, on the panel we've got David McCallum from TV Show NCIS, okay? And Leon Carroll, the technical advisor to the TV Show NCIS, a retired NCIS. And what we're going to do is, before everybody else gets introduced, we're going to play Spot the Lamer like we do every year. So, priest, if you would, we've got the first three contestants to give me about three or four more. Absolutely. Should I talk about these contestants? Sure, absolutely. So, I get a nutshell for the back row. So, we have, would you like to introduce you or shall I introduce you? Okay. I've known her since she was this tall. She's actually the daughter of one of the panelists. These are her two boyfriends. Who she met at Khan. This one asked me to repeatedly hit him in the nuts. I don't know why. We have it on film. Okay.  So, you guys are going to vote, and then we all have gifts for the winner. So, we've got to take this stuff seriously. This crew is definitely uglier than the first crew you brought up here, priest. We just have to juggle this. This thing spins like that. There's no way of fixing it. One more? We good? Okay, got it. That's good. All right. So, we're going to go down the line and ask questions, and so the first question that we're going to, I get the first one. Okay, we'll stay with the standard. Where do you store your porn? Okay, David. Where do your boyfriends store their porn? Dropbox. Do you keep for them? Does your father know? He does now. Why are you turning red, Mark? Because I put it all on Dropbox. Father-daughter bonding, you know. Father-daughter bondage, what? My question is for the gentleman in the Irish green on the end there. Have you ever bragged about the speed of your processor and the size of your RAM? Yes. Would you get to elaborate on that? No. Another boyfriend.  For number three right here. So have you ever bought virtual things with real money? Only with bitcoins. He can tell you about his 23rd level palette if you'd like. My question is for the young lady standing right in front of me.  If the computer is the gaming console, does that count? If the computer is the gaming console, does that count? Doesn't count. Doesn't count. Computer. That was pretty boring. There's no such thing as a girl gamer. It's a myth. Marcus. I'll leave her boyfriend alone. You, sir. On the Big Bang Theory.  If one thing shows up in the opening scene of every episode, what is that one thing? The atom. Nope. How about Penny's boobs? What? Wait a minute, what? Do you have like special access or something? Okay, I'm going to have to go slow down every time now. I'm going to have to frame by frame. Okay, right down here. In the movie War Games, when Broderick hacked the school's computer, what was the password? Pencil. Pencil. She's a little young for that, by the way. I was this tall. You were born. About as wide as you are. Jerry. Don't tease, dear. She asked me if I wanted to play a game. I'll take the guy with the hat down here. The guy with the hat on crooked. Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty? That would be you, sir.  You know what, do I have to pick? I like both. Remember her father's up there, so look smart. The one, uh, Call of Duty. Zombies. You say that like a question, sir. You're not winning points. Lips are pursed. You know, he worked for the president. Uh, what? The response was I, uh, what? Say Mass Effect, sir. Mass Effect, sir. Say herpes. Okay, I'm going to go with the Jolly Green here. No, I'm Jolly Green. Oh, sorry. Do you void warranties? Yes. Regularly. Yes. Michelle. I'll go with contestant number two. God, it's basically not easy. Which of the following are your favorite foods? Your mother's meatloaf. Taco Bell. Brownies made by priests. How about your brownies? I don't actually make brownies, but I do an awesome lobster. I've got the sauce that... Priest, priest, you... Oh no, it's really good. Priest, you pick one. I pick one? Yeah, I pick one. This is an ecumenical question. It'll applaud everyone. Hmm. How about the dude in the water? How about the dude in the wife beater's shirt? The wife beater? Well, there are two dudes in the wife beater's shirt. The one who's trying to hide from me, bobbing his head. This one right here? Yeah, that one. He's dancing, I guess. See, it's just super tight. He can see what's underneath. I already said I'd say he sees what's underneath. He's still holding over. The place for glistening, listening, yeah. What is your definition or your explanation of doing a dude? If someone invites you to do a dude, what does that mean? Not do a dude, sir, you're safe. Do a dude. Do the dude. Do the dude. Slamming back Mountain Dew followed by tons and tons of alcohol.  It's all about the Jolt Cola, man. What's the matter with you? Somebody gave him that answer, I'm sure. No, sir, I did not. For the contestant on the And in Green. They love you for some reason. Because I'm old like them. I'm old like them, that's why. In that case, do you believe that Area 51 exists and if so, where? It is 1 to 50. As your attorney did not answer that question. There's a helicopter on the roof. Well, they're all out there in the Nellis facility, so yes, they do all exist. Pass the microphone down, please. You have some guys in red shirts to come get them. We'll take care of it. We promise no extreme additions unless absolutely necessary and you deserve it. So, the gentleman in the black t-shirt here, towards you, right there. So, have you viewed more videos on YouTube or RedTube? Neither. Create my own. Okay, now we're going to vote.  Contestant number one. Let me try that again. Contestant number one. Okay, you can have a seat.  You failed miserably. Contestant number two. Contestant number three. Contestant number two, you can sit down. Contestant number four. That's kind of a tie. Contestant number five. Raise your hand, please. Okay, you're down. Six. Right, you guys are out here. You guys are gone. The last one down. Raise your hand. One last time. Raise your hand. Last guy down. Right, you can sit down. Up here. We have the coveted meet the fed t-shirt. We have a DoD cyber crime response team t-shirt. Put the camera. You got your SNL. And if you would go down, we have presents for you. Here's a bag. So we've got an NSA mouse pad and a really cool NSA translucent cup. You can't even see the microphone in it.  A card for the coveted Ninja badge. Have a mint. Have a bottle opener. This is a very specially designed and coveted old fashioned glass. I assume you're old enough to drink whiskey, not just like beer anymore. This is etched. It's a collector's item. It's heirloom. I'm sure it's one that you want to pass on to your children. And because it's from NSA, you'll never lose it. Get a famous meet the fed flag. And a book of brain ticklers. We also, we have a special surprise. We have a free vacation. And the other dude... I love that. All right, what we're going to do now is we're going to let the panelists introduce themselves, tell you what they do for a living or not. And then we're going to open it up for questions, so line up for the questions. David. It's always difficult when half the audience has already heard everything you've said once, but I've been with NCIS now for nine years, the television program, not the real guys, but I've also had a lot of time with the real people down in Washington with director Klukey and his wife Mona and seen everything that the real NCIS does. And as part of that, I've met with Jim here, who I thank profusely for inviting me here today. But at the same time, I also had the pleasure of going down to Atlanta and going to the Cyber Crying Conference.  And they're very, very, very good. And I try so hard to keep everything that I do, particularly in autopsy, to be as real and as accurate as possible. So I spend a great deal of time now making notes, taking them back, sitting down, being with the writers. This year I was on the carrier wasp. I was given an entire tour by Admiral Skolanski. I've been aboard the Reagan and met the skipper back then. I've just done so much with the Navy and the Marine Corps. My wife here is on the board of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and they've raised $70 million to send the kids of Marines to college, which is quite amazing. So it's quite extraordinary that someone a week head from Glasgow, as I'm known as back home, managed to sort of climb up here and I'm on panels. And at the 50th anniversary of the Marine Corps Scholarship Ball, I was the emcee. I never dreamt in my life that I would do things like that, but it is such a pleasure to have that involvement. And as I said earlier, to be able to give something back, because I get so much from my life right now. Thank you. I'm Rob Joyce. I'm the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate. I've been with NSA for 23 years, and my organization is responsible for the protection of national security systems, which are anything that carries classified information, handles military command and control, or supports intelligence. So we do everything from developing equipment to finding vulnerabilities and consulting with departments, agencies, and those in need. Thanks. I'm Leon Carroll. I'm the technical advisor on the TV show that I get to work with Mr. David McCallum all the time. And I am a former Marine officer and 23-year veteran with NCIS.  I try to keep our stories and what we do, whatever the investigative genre. He's from Scotland. Scotch. Actually, we do this on the show quite a bit, so no problem. Actually, every year we have a great tequila bar just before Christmas, and there are a lot of people after we say wrap that stick around and eat tacos and drink tequila shots. Anyway, it's my pleasure to be here. I thank Jim for inviting both David and I representing the show. I work with a great cast, and we have a bunch of great people in our crew, and thank goodness we're the number one drama on TV. I don't know who these guys are, but I love them. So you guys are going to save some of that for the questions, too, right? Nami, if we get good questions, you guys are going to help out the audience. So good afternoon, Hackers. I'm Mark Sox. I'm a retired Army officer. I did 20 years as a Corps of Engineers guy, jumped out of airplanes, blew things up. We built targets for the artillery. That's what engineers do. But along the way, I had a passion for computers and networks and things that talked to each other, and Uncle Sam figured out I knew probably more about computers than I knew about blowing things up. So I wound up running 18th Airborne Corps networks back in the mid-90s, 4th Infantry Division's networks in the late 90s, and was summoned to Washington in 1998 after a series of intrusions that scared the living crap out of the Pentagon, and we stood up the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense. We were the first group to really take on this problem of what happens in cyberspace when people are attacking DOD and others. That group is today, the D&A of it lives on in U.S. Cyber Command, and a lot of good things have happened since then. When I retired from the military at the end of 2001, September 11, had just happened. I was summoned by the White House to be an appointee working for George Bush, actually underneath Condi Rice's staff from the National Security Council, where I spent a year and a half at a policy level, but I was a geek in the White House, and I tell you what, that is one cool experience, because everybody else there is political appointees. There are one or two people that have the technical skills, and it is fascinating to work at that level. I would really encourage anybody who has these opportunities. If you can serve your country at that level, please do so. It's an experience that... Just like these guys are serving their country. Yeah, just like these guys. So today, I am at Verizon, so this is why I get free Verizon swag. And if I get a good question, if somebody comes up and tells me how much they've hacked AT&T this afternoon, I will happily give them some more Verizon swag. There's your first question. Good afternoon, Mark Weatherford. Like Mark Sox, I am a retired naval officer. I spent 20 years as a cryptologist in the Navy. Since I left the Navy, I've done a number of things. I'm currently the Deputy Undersecretary for Cyber Security at the Department of Homeland Security. I was appointed by Secretary Napolitano about seven months ago. Prior to DHS, I was the Chief Information... Chief Security Officer and Vice President at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, where I worked with the electric utilities across North America, helping them put in the policies and programs to secure their environments. Prior to that, I worked for Governor Schwarzenegger. I was the Chief Security Officer for the State of California for a couple of years. And then prior to that, I was in DHS, I was the Chief Security Officer there for a couple of years. At DHS, we have quite a growing responsibility for cybersecurity. We have three major functions. We protect the dot-gov environment. So all of the federal civilian agencies were responsible for working with all of them to make sure that they have not only the policies in place, but the controls in place and that they're able to secure their different environments. We also work with the private sector, primarily with the critical infrastructures, helping them and helping them respond to incidents and intrusions into their environments. A lot of control system work there. We also respond to incidents of national significance. So when anything really big happens, we put teams on the ground working with private sector and government organizations to help mitigate and respond to those. So and like Mark said, DHS is a great place to be. I don't know if any of you heard my speech yesterday, but we are always actively recruiting and we're recruiting for people who can think outside the typical government, federal government way of thinking. So that's why I love the con because I get to meet a lot of people and I've actually picked up very interesting resumes for people that want to come and participate in what we're doing in the government. Good afternoon. So first off, I'd like to recognize any fellow combat veterans or veterans if you just stand up real quick if we have any veterans out there. Thanks again for serving. Name's Jerry Dixon. I was the former director of the National Cyber Security Division at DHS, ran USR, worked at everybody's favorite agency, the IRS. I ran the incident response team there. But prior to that, I ran security for Marriott International. And so, you know, now I'm with a group called Team Cymruy, a not-for-profit security research group. If you get a chance, yeah. Go out to the Cymruy website. There's tools that we give back to the community. C-Y-M-R-U. So if you're not familiar with it. But we have tools like the Mauer hash tool. We provide a lot of things. We try to give back to the internet community at large. We also have research that we're always looking for researchers to help out. Basically being able to take a look at our insight and basically find other ways to develop tools to help a lot of different organizations. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Riley Repco. And first off, I want to thank Jim and all of you participants. And thank DEF CON. I mean, it's all inspiring to me every time I come out here to see more and more of these young wizards that are here. I recently left an executive position at the Department of Air Force D. What an opportunity of being able to serve with some of the finest 18th century minds around. All right. I came from the private sector. My role there was to kind of build the bridge between our needs and your solutions. Kind of identify the seekers and the solvers. And as Mike Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and NSA used to say, he said, God made the four natural domains, air, land, space and sea. Man made the cyber domain. God has done a better job. I'm glad to be here and look forward to answering any questions you may have. Hi, I'm Michelle Kwan. And I just want to start off by thanking those folks at DEF CON for bringing this panel back. This is my 10th con. Happy to be here. I was, let's start back in those days, I was in 2004 winner of the most innovative antenna, the Wi-Fi shoot out. I then moved on to be the director of wireless at the Department of Justice. I then moved to be the deputy CISO at the Department of Justice where I built the Justice Security Operations Center and from there I moved to be the director of U.S. CERT. And we specialize in security operations centers. I'm Rich Marshall. I feel like a badger at an AKC registered dog show with everybody that's so bright on the panel. I'm a lawyer by training and I'm very proud of the fact that I do information warfare law. I've had a checkered past. I got involved in electronics in the Southeast Asian war games in an F-105 where we were chum waiting for the missiles to come up at us so we could take them out and protect the rest of the aircraft that came in. We were first in, last out. And I learned early on how important electronic warfare could be because you've got your life on the line. I later became a lawyer in the Air Force and had a successful career there and then I moved on to the National Security Agency where I was the associate general counsel for information assurance. Worked for four different gentlemen who happened to lead in that particular position. My proudest accomplishment when I was in that position was being the legal architect for eligible receiver 97 because I demonstrated to the national leadership that information warfare was real. It also gave me an opportunity to learn a couple of very important leadership lessons. When I briefed the general counsel of NSA and my boss, my line boss on what we could do they said well you need to brief the DOD general counsel you have to go up the food chain. I said fine let's arrange joint schedules and they said no you go by yourself. I briefed the DOD general counsel and I think you were in on that briefing at that time and once again it was great job you need to brief the attorney general now I said yes ma'am I'll arrange our schedules and she said no you go by yourself. The life lesson there is whenever you're doing anything without a safety net you always go by yourself because then they have plausible deniability but ER 97 was so successful venture it has a thousand fathers failure is born illegitimate but that was an absolutely awesome experience I subsequently moved on worked at the White House with Mark and then later came back to NSA and did legislative liaison which was just absolutely a fascinating opportunity and then I subsequently had an opportunity to go down to the Department of Homeland Security and I was the director of global cybersecurity management another fascinating opportunity and I retired from NSA on the 15th of December which was a Friday and then the following Monday I moved to a startup that lasted three and a half months I'm suing them part of my DNA and now like Michelle I run a consulting company and really enjoy what I'm doing and I'm just very happy to be here this is my 11th one Thanks, Rich. For those of you who don't know about Ella's receiver 97 I highly recommend it and then the follow on Solar Sunrise, real world event set the course for a large part of where at least DOD is today in cybersecurity My name is Lynn Wells I'm career Navy I then spent 16 years in the office secretary of defense including a couple years as DOD chief information officer some years ago I was speaker here at DEF CON I've been promoted I'm a goon and so things are looking up right now I'm over at national defense university had a small center called the center of technology and national security policy and from this I'd like to ask the audience two questions we did a conference about a year ago on the trajectory of revolutions looking at the Arab Spring and how are things going to work out and one of the most articulate spokespeople in the conference was a White House producer for Al Jazeera English and she was 26 and talked about how Al Jazeera used Facebook and Twitter and blogosphere and other social media to alert the correspondence to the emerging issues and so at the end of the conference I said what's the next big thing and her answer at 26 was I'm too old as the young people so there are a lot of you young people out here and part of the problem is we have usually in our conferences I ask how many people are under 35 and get single digit hands so one of the great values for me at least of coming here is to get your opinions and really value your thoughts on how five years now you would vector people to better source of information the last point is that we're working with DARPA on a project called social media strategic communication and one of the things that my center's been asked to do is look at the risk posed by social media and not just to leak the wrong stuff but that are we raising a generation of things 140 character sound bites and how do you put checks and balances into a governance system where the velocity of information is so enormous again if any of you are interested in working on that I would love to talk to you so I just had to close by saying last month I had the privilege of beginning a company and every morning I wake up and say wow what really interesting thing is going to happen today and if any of you are interested in careers of government I cannot commend it to you hardly enough thanks wow almost time for a golden anniversary then huh? so I'm Rod Beckstrom I've spent most of my life in Silicon Valley doing high tech companies but had the great honor to work for the federal government for a while so I wanted to share that story to those of you who haven't had the privilege to work for the government yet to consider doing that I fell in love with computers when I learned to program in Fortran when I was a teenager and started my first software company when I was in graduate school age 24 in my garage apartment in Palo Alto I got very lucky because we built something that people seemed to actually need in trading derivatives around the world and that company grew to be a global company and went public on Nasdaq and I got to run that and build a company from scratch to a public entity and run that for five years which was a great experience and then got to work with a lot of other good startups in Silicon Valley and helped start a number of companies I was in New York on 9-11 and my life changed like many of our lives changed and was called to a form of service and worked on track 2 diplomacy in war zones around the world that network spread in a viral fashion and we decided to model it on Al Qaeda and by modeling on Al Qaeda we had to then understand it and decode it and that led to a book called the starfish and the spider the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations which describes decentralized movements and networks including Al Qaeda and many other networks like this community because of that book I got incredibly fortunate and Admiral McConnell the director of national intelligence who is an amazing man was very kind and recruited me to be on his senior advisory group and the books were quite provocative about networks, cyber security and social networks and so it was my great honor to serve on that group with him and other leaders from the intelligence community as well as four other members from the private sector and then I was asked to run the national cyber security center which was created by a presidential directive and Admiral McConnell and Secretary Chertoff and sec def and the attorney general asked me to come and stand up for that organization which is a startup so I'm a startup guy, this is a startup in government which was completely different and I was lucky to work with many of the great people at this table we got the concept of operations approved we created the 21st component of DHS the first component was the Coast Guard created in 1790 that then got merged subsequently I think into the organization that Mark's running now and Michelle and I worked together as well on these issues anyway so I was able for the Obama administration left and had the good fortune to be asked to lead ICANN the multi-stakeholder body this time in the federal government gave me the tools that I needed to work at ICANN and to understand not just the private sector but the public sector and how incredibly challenging and important the work are that everybody in the government does and just gave me a tremendous appreciation for the people who do public service some day I'll probably go back and certainly I have the passion for the importance of governance institution be they governmental or multi-stakeholder so I encourage each of you to really consider it in your lives and it's great for the country that we have people like Len serving for 49 years and others so thank you I'm just honored to be here among the giants at this table thank you I'm Jim Christie I'm with the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center just want to talk a little bit about what we do we have one of our business areas is we have the world's largest accredited digital forensics lab so we have about 110 digital forensic examiners working all kinds of cases from terrorism, espionage child pornography fraud you know you name the homicides you name it we also have a training academy where we train all the criminal and counterintelligence investigators in the Department of Defense on how to conduct a cyber crime investigation and how to do digital forensics there's several other business areas one of the initiatives that we have is the Center for Digital Forensics Academic Excellence the problem we have is we can't find qualified people that can pass our tests so they can work on digital forensics on real life criminal cases so what we've done we've created a partnership with academia to create standards for digital forensic examiners and we're in a pilot phase right now with about 9, 2, 4 year and graduate level universities and we're opening it up to other universities everybody else come September another initiative we have is the DC3 digital forensics challenge so anybody out there taking the challenge alright now we have about 945 teams from 51 countries participating and I would encourage you to get either yourself or your staff or your kids involved in participating in digital forensics course we need good people in the government and we're always hiring one of the other things that we have is the digital crime scene challenge and what we did was we brought we have three suites set up upstairs and all the DEF CON kids are scheduled to go through and process a digital crime scene in 15 minutes and come up with the evidence so kind of fun so if you get a chance if you have kids here bring them through another initiative is an online self assessment on cyber crime investigations and digital forensics so if you go to our website dc3.mil and all the links are there take the self assessment tell us what you think if you guys I would really love to get questions for you guys to add to our self assessment to make it a little more difficult so at that point I want to thank our panel and now we're going to open it up to questions from the floor my question is for Rob and Rich are really any of the three letters do you see a shift in your recruitment to move away from more of the standard of having a four year degree and have the exception based upon experience so NSA is certainly a very talent based organization so to come in and be a technical person in NSA you absolutely do not have to have a technical degree so the recognition of past accomplishments your current work portfolio and things absolutely can get you in the door I think you know one of the big things we look for is that audacity that's one of the reasons we're here at DEF CON you look at hackers often know the networks they're penetrating better than the system administrators know them themselves so we're looking for people with that kind of mentality that really want to dig into the details understand the technology and apply it so that's what we're looking for let me let me add an observation oh go ahead let me go first Rich do you mind? you used to be in my balls I got to say yes you take his turn he's going to sue your ass wait go ahead Rich no that is absolutely right and I talked about this a little bit yesterday in my remarks I know that there's a perception and we talk a lot about the different programs we have that we're supporting at the universities and colleges around the country but you know some of the smartest people I know do not have a college degree some of the smartest people that are working for us right now some of the smartest people that I had working for me in the private sector and I think we as a government and I can it's a little bit of a challenge sometimes for us but we have to encourage that you can have that equivalent experience without a four-year degree and the way I like that and the way one of my really smart friends put it to me is I spent four years with my hands on a keyboard well a lot of other people were spending four years in college and I would like to point out Dr. Dan Mansons right up here in front he's a professor at Cal Poly in Pomona and he has an incredible program there they just ran a cyber camp last week and they had a 60 year old dude in there in that cyber camp and competing in the CTF last Friday so you know there is no age limit and there's no there's no educational qualifications like real experience in my mind the Olympics are taking place in London I don't think this is a news flash for anyone but everyone who was participating as an athlete in that event started out extremely young in their particular sport being trained most of them don't have college degrees I do not like the word hacker your vulnerability researchers that's the way you should present yourself number one number two we need more emphasis on STEM education science technology engineering and math and I realize that plays well but I've long been an advocate of recruiting at DEF CON and I got some push back from some entities that said we're not going to recruit criminals and I said they're not criminals until they're prosecuted so give them an opportunity to get out of their mother's basement and earn a living don't sit down yet one other comment vulnerability researchers in my mind are today's artists when you look at the great painters in the past none of them had a college degree they learned it themselves through experimentation and that's what vulnerability researchers are known to do so view yourself as an artist you've got to have technical skills those painters develop their technical skills as well but they had a fascinating imagination and in their mind's eye they were able to create art so as you're doing your vulnerability research make some great art really loud please so we talk about education and there's more to you know being a vulnerability researcher to just what you know right we have a mindset I mean the brightest people we don't have degrees we don't have certifications we don't need them but we're forbidden also from teaching the next generation I mean a lot of you know these four year universities a lot of us could really teach people now it's not impossible I've found other ways around it but it would be something that not only to get jobs for the future of the people but we need a way to teach and I look back here I see a lot of potential teachers and not just the jobs but the future now specifically to the NCIS staff I would ask would it be I don't watch TV because I want to do stuff for the kids right exactly would it be possible to have an episode where you had maybe even a season where you know there's a big security crime this you guys say this guy was the guy that found it you know and you go back his life about how he got there not just the end point and make a big deal that he was the person that was able to actually find a crime but how he actually you know became his life so you kind of you know how we grow into being vulnerability researchers so I ask if you guys could pass that on as a potential plot the writers are very much open to suggestions and I try to take things back to them what you're really saying is the background to something that's already happened which is always the hardest thing for them to do because you either do it in a flashback or some people talk about it neither of which is instant neither of which is really very exciting on television but it is something you're when you say the background you mean I mean I'm much more fascinated about what you're saying when you say that you can't teach because you don't have university degrees therefore you don't have what we call in England the poem of education and everything well it goes to a point that people have problems there are people that are hackers they don't or vulnerability researchers they don't even know that they know kids that know stuff and can do stuff on computers that nobody can do but they don't have any role models they can base off of right it's very very hard there's no way to measure yourself versus what you know versus what you don't know we need sports athletes and stuff we broadcast that shit all over the place right they know if they want to be an athlete we don't have a way for them to say you know what you're doing the right kind of stuff you just don't know it it's something that we need some kind of role model not only the end point that they fixed a crime or something but so they can identify with who they are well it's definitely an episode that involves McGee who is our computer vulnerability investigator so I think that it's an idea that I can definitely and will put to the right thank you we only have four minutes left so short questions my questions half for the incident response teams and about half for the NCIS crew about like how does are you seeing the CSI effect in regards to your specific discipline because I know that's still a big problem and for the incident response people is that something that's being mitigated with education and then for the for NCIS is that something that you guys try and handle realistically on the show do you deal with it do you have to like shoot down ideas by just saying okay that's just the CSI effect what are you seeing really quick I was on jury duty when the show first started and the attorneys and the judge made a point of instructing the jury that what they would hear in that courtroom would not replicate anything that's done on a one hour TV show 43 minutes and believe it or not NCIS was the show that they used I'll turn it over to the policy guys here but that is something that obviously we look at as well but we're here to entertain and so in 43 minutes of film or whatever you know we're going to show you know a lot of things that are abbreviated for instance Abby can't get the DNA in real life as fast as she does on television or David certainly couldn't do an autopsy as quickly as he does it on TV so I have seen you guys address like I think Abby's called out to one point I'm not I'm not the CSI people I don't work that fast so I know it's been touched on but I'm wondering like behind the scenes but I think for the folks that work I mean I worked in the real world beforehand and when CSI first came out I'm sure it did have an impact to the point that when you go to a courtroom and these folks can attest to that that they're instructed that what you see in real life or the DNA effect going back to the OJ trial actually is not how it really happens in the real world so I'll pass that to somebody that does it you know the biggest problem we faced is the show 24 how can Jack go 24 hours with no recharge on his cell phone magic well I'll say that it's definitely an issue but it probably in a little bit different way than you'd think it's particularly an issue with executives and up the chain in getting approval and a lot of that comes from the difficulty in educating up and for technical people to be able to talk in the language that executives can understand and hear and embrace and we also have issues with our user community not understanding that every cute device they find isn't going to be attached to the network but I would definitely say that we have a bit of a PR problem part of what we should learn along with the great technical things we can do is how to talk up so just real quick to add to that I think obviously media plays a role in expectations of leadership or management just to Mark's example about 24 there's an unrealistic expectation that you can contain a particular incident you can do the forensics in a matter of hours when realistically a lot of cases are things that you work on take sometimes can take months if you've got to look at a terabyte of log data process that you've got to go through so there is an effect to those that are not practitioners but more to the management side unfortunately the goons have said we're out of time so what the panels are going to do is go across the hall for additional questions and answers and priest has a men and women in black panel following this immediately thanks for coming thanks for good


run yesterday a two run shot today to give the team the go ahead to give the team the lead is it when you're able to start the season off on such a positive note offensively yeah I mean anything I can't help us win I got put a good barrel on the ball and he Rizzo really injects some life into the team in the first inning yesterday another home run for him this afternoon what can an entire year of Anthony Rizzo mean for this team awesome awesome it's fun to watch on the circle and he was a good joke for us today and yesterday when you look at this lineup one through nine what stands out no break no break we're wearing that guy down one through nine and even off the bench so just be as difficult as possible on the other on the other guys you knew it was gonna be a storyline coming in with starters not being stretched out but what can you say about the way your bullpen has pitched to start the season awesome executing getting the job done low pitch counts too so it's been good got to be going John Carla thanks for the time thank you


Hi, I'm David Clinky, associate professor at West Virginia University, and what I'd like to do is introduce a new paper that's going to come out in an upcoming issue of biotechnology and bioengineering entitled Inferring Alterations in Cell-to-Cell Communication in Her Two Positive Breast Cancer Using Secretome Profiling of Three Cell Models. Now before we get into the summary of the paper, I'd like to introduce two concepts. The first concept is related to how we think of tissues as dynamic systems, and the second one is related to thinking of cancer as an evolutionary process. Using the mammary gland as an example, tissues are typically made up of multiple cell types. As shown in this picture, the milk duct includes luminal epithelial cells, which respond to female hormones, and myoepithelial cells that express smooth muscle contractile proteins. During lactation, the luminal epithelial cells produce milk, and the myoepithelial cells aid in milk release. While this figure presents a static picture, the mammary gland, like other reproductive organs, is also a dynamic structure. During the ovarian cycle, endocrine hormones coordinate the remodeling of the organs in preparation for reproduction, as shown in the top two graphs. The bottom two graphs illustrate how these hormone changes correspond to ovulation and preparation of the uterus for implantation of a fertilized egg. The middle graph illustrates the remodeling of the mammary gland, which undergoes a cycle of cell proliferation, followed by cell differentiation, and finally, an involution phase that involves programmed cell death at the end of the cycle. To summarize these dynamics, we can think of this process controlled by global triggers in the form of endocrine hormones and local control mechanisms for cell-to-cell communication that help maintain the overall structure and function as new cells join this system. Understanding how these local cues help maintain the integrity of this dynamic system remains a central challenge, and we're going to use proteomics to sort of eavesdrop on basal levels of communication between different cell types that arise in these different tissues. So when we think about this dynamic tissue, it may be helpful to have maybe an appropriate mental model for which we're more familiar, and that mental model may be one of team sports. When we think of teams are made up of a bunch of individuals, you know, we're all kind of similar, but on a team we play different roles, and ultimately its communication among members of the team determines the success of the team in a competition. The second concept is related to evolution, and when we talk about evolution, we can't help but think about Charles Darwin and his trip to the Galapagos Islands. So this trip and subsequent studies really laid the foundation with what we understand now about our views of evolutionary biology. In the intervening years, we've established a couple of key traits associated with Darwinian evolution, specifically we know that genetic alterations, which are created through sexual reproduction, can create variants that dominate a population based on their ability to survive and reproduce. The spatial influence of the environment on survival is thought of in terms of its apology, and we express this in the terms that we use are a fitness landscape. So we also know that the majority of genetic alterations have a neutral effect on the survival of the individual while detrimental variants are lost. Similarly, a mental model for Darwinian evolution may be the survival across generations of humans in a hostile environment like the Alaskan wilderness. In the field of cancer biology, there's really been a resurgence in thinking about cancer as an evolutionary process. In part, this is driven by some interesting results that have come about by sequencing cancer genomes. In a commentary published in conjunction with five studies that sequenced breast cancer genomes, Joe Gray and Brian Drucker noted that these studies show that individual breast cancers typically have a few consistent and functionally characterized abnormalities, along with tens to thousands of other changes that are rare or unique to the individual tumor about which little is known. This quote highlights a couple of points. First, the prevalence of advantageous versus neutral mutations in breast cancer is consistent with an evolutionary process. Second, there are a few genes that we understand why they happen, but for many genes we don't. So if we think about cancer from a Darwinian evolution perspective, the emphasis really is on the individual, which in this case is the cell. And most of these well-characterized alterations impart some sort of intrinsic advantage to the cell, like the ability to survive in a nutrient-poor environment, a reluctance to respond to cues that initiate programmed cell death, or a cell proliferation program that is stuck on. We collectively know a lot about how these intrinsic properties change in cancer cells as embodied in the hallmarks of cancer shown here. Though given the importance of cell communication within a tissue, we know much less about how cells' cell communication is changed during oncogenesis. To address this last point, let's review some of the key differences between Darwinian evolution and somatic evolution. As summarized here, Darwinian and somatic evolution differ in terms of the source of genetic variation and the dynamics of evolutionary change. This dynamics of change are really related to the time to reproduce, which for humans is on the order of decades and for cells is the order of days. But one of the biggest differences is the fitness landscape. In Darwinian evolution, the environment is much larger than the individual, and the individual's actions have a limited effect on the shape of this fitness landscape. In contrast, the fitness landscape in somatic evolution includes an intracellular component that helps maintain the genomic integrity of the cell, and also the local environment in terms of the interactions among components of that system. And these interactions can ultimately influence this fitness landscape. So there's a bi-directional interaction between components. In short, the objective of this paper is to test whether cell-to-cell communication is an important component of the fitness landscape that gets manipulated during oncogenesis. And we can sort of represent two alternative hypotheses graphically, as sort of shown here. So the first hypothesis we can think of as a null hypothesis is that cell-to-cell communication is not part of the fitness landscape. So the fitness landscape is essentially flat. This is shown on the left. At the center of this figure, the red dot represents a normal tissue, and the wiggly red lines represent the evolution of malignant clones. Given the random nature of mutation and the flat fitness landscape, we would expect the secretome of the malignant clones to diverge from a normal cell. On the right, the fitness landscape suggests that there is a particular way in which cell-to-cell communication should be altered for a malignant cell to survive in that system. Therefore, the different malignant clones should exhibit the same secretome and be different from the normal cell. In summary, the results of the paper suggests that cell-to-cell communication is an important component of the fitness landscape that becomes altered in breast cancer. Specifically in this paper, we used a proteomics workflow to compare the secretomes of two HER2 positive cell lines against the normal human mammary epithelial cell line. A subset of the identified proteins were validated by Western blot. Then, in comparing the inferred protein-protein interaction networks and enriched pathways, the secretomes from the two HER2 positive cell lines were similar but distinct from the normal mammary epithelial cell line. The protein-protein interaction networks suggested that the secretome contained exosomes, which we confirmed by scanning electron microscopy. Pathway enrichment results suggest that the exosomes play a role in antigen presentation and may transfer metabolic enzymes that increase glycolysis. These pathways are related to emerging hallmarks of cancer. We encourage you to delve into the details presented in the paper and wish you happy reading. Thank you.


Adele Laurie Blue-Adkins is an English singer-songwriter. After graduating from the Brit School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards Critics' Choice Award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll. Her debut album, 19 was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Adele released her second studio album, 21 in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2012, among them a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK, and is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and is certified Diamond. The album has sold over 31 million copies worldwide. The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records. She is the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top ten singles as a lead artist, and the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 202 singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. 21 is the longest-running number-one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US album charts. In 2012, she released Skyfall, which she wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Brit Award for British Single of the Year. After taking a three-year break, Adele released her third studio album, 25 in 2015. It became the year's best-selling album and broke first-week sales records in the UK and US. 25 was her second album to be certified Diamond in the US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The lead single, Hello!, became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert tour, Adele Live 2016, visited Europe, North America and Oceania, and will conclude with four finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in mid-2017. In 2011, 2012 and 2016, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, she was listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2011 to A&D 2016. With sales of more than 100 million records, Adele is one of the best-selling recording artists in the world. Early Life Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on May 5, 1988 in Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins and a Welsh father, Mark Evans. Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her. She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. Growing up, Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading, the last book she read was Rolled Dolls Matilda when she was six years old. In 1997, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult learning activities organizer, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England. In 1999, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London, first to Brixton, and then to neighbouring district West Norwood, in south London. West Norwood is the subject of Adele's first record, Hometown Glory, which she wrote and composed in 2004, when she was 16. Adele graduated from the Brit School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jesse J. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into Andar and hoped to launch other people's careers. Career 2006-2010, Beginnings and 19 Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and given it to a friend.The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting. Nick Huggat, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickens at September Management, and in June 2006, Dickens became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T. at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Huggat then signed Adele to XL in September 2006.Adele provided vocals for Jack Panate's song, My Ivan, for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbas, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, 19, and tracks on 21. In June 2007, Adele made her television debut, performing Daydreamer on the BBC's Later, with Joles Holland. Adele's breakthrough song, Hometown Glory, was released in October 2007. By 2008, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damian Rice. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, sound of 2008. The album 19, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. The Times Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 19 an essential blue-eyed soul recording. She released her second single, Chasing Pavements, on January 14, 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 19. The song reached number two on the UK chart, and stayed there for four weeks. Adele was nominated for a 2008 Mercury Prize Award for 19. She also won an Urban Music Award for Best Jazz Act. She also received AQ Awards nomination in the Category of Breakthrough Act and a Music of Black Origin nomination in the Category of Best UK Female. In March 2008, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month and 19 was released in the US in June. Billboard magazine stated of it, Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation. The An Evening with Adele World Tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009. She later cancelled the 2008 US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend.She said in Nylon magazine in June 2009, I'm like, I can't believe I did that. It seems so ungrateful. I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, well, I'll just cancel my stuff then. She referred to this period as her early life crisis.She is also known for her dislike of flying and bouts of homesickness when away from her native London.By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed. But then she was booked as the musical guest on October 18, 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live the episode, which included an expected appearance by the US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 14 years with 17 and NBSP, million viewers. Adele performed Chasing Pavements and Cold Shoulder, and the following day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number 5 at Amazon.com while Chasing Pavements rose into the top 25. The album reached number 11 on the Billboard 200 as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week. In November 2008 Adele moved to Notting Hill, London after leaving her mother's house, a move that prompted her to give up drinking. The album was certified gold in February 2009 by the RIAA. By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 and NBSP, million copies worldwide. At the 51st annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Chasing Pavements, which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Adele performed Chasing Pavements at the ceremony in a duet with Jennifer Nettles. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Hometown Glory. In April her song MySame entered the German singles chart after it had been performed by Lena Mayerlandra in the talent show contest Unser Star für Oslo, or Our Star für Oslo, in which the German entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was determined. In late September, after being featured on The X Factor, Adele's version of Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love re-entered the UK singles chart at number 4. During the 2010 CMT Artists of the Year special, Adele performed a widely publicised duet of Lady Antebellums Need You Now with Darius Rucker. This performance was later nominated for a CMT Music Award. 2011-2014, 21 Worldwide Recognition in Hiatus Adele released her second studio album, 21, on January 24, 2011 in the UK and February 22 in the US. She said that the album was inspired by the break-up with her former partner.The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. The change in sound from her first album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she was touring the American South, and the title reflected the growth she had experienced in the prior two years. Adele told Spin magazine it was really exciting for me because I never grew up around that music. 21 hit number 1 in more than 26 countries, including the UK and the US. An emotional performance of Someone Like You at the 2011 Brit Awards on February 15 propelled the song to number 1 in the UK. Her first album, 19, re-entered the UK album chart alongside 21, while first and second singles rolling in the deep and Someone Like You were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adele the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top 5 hits in both the official singles chart and the official albums chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964. Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performance records. Following her performance of Someone Like You at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adele's second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. By December 2011, 21 sold over 3.4 and NBSP, million copies in the UK, and became the biggest selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, with Adele becoming the first artist ever to sell 3 million albums in the UK in one calendar year. Set fire to the rain became Adele's third number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as Adele became the first artist ever to have an album, 21, hold the number one position on the Billboard 200 concurrently with three number one singles. To promote the album, Adele embarked upon the Adele Live tour, which sold out its North American leg. In October 2011, Adele was forced to cancel two tours because of a vocal cord hemorrhage. She released a statement saying she needed an extended period of rest to avoid permanent damage to her voice. In the first week of November 2011 Stephen M. Ziedels, director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, performed laser micro surgery on Adele's vocal cords to remove a benign polyp. A recording of her tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, was released in November 2011, debuting at number one in the US with 96,000 copies sold, the highest one-week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of 2011. Adele is the first artist in Nielsen's sound-skin history to have the year's number one album, 21 number one single, rolling in the deep, and number one music video. At the 2011 American Music Awards on November 20, Adele won three awards, favorite pop-slash-rock female artist, favorite adult contemporary artist, and favorite pop-slash-rock album for 21. On December 9, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year, Billboard 200 Album of the Year, 21 and the Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Year, rolling in the deep, becoming the first woman ever to top all three categories. Following the throat micro-surgery, she made her live comeback at the 2012 Grammy Awards in February. She won in all six categories for which she was nominated, making her the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyonce, to win that many categories in a single night. Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen's sound-skin began tracking data in 1991. Adele received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, and British Album of the Year presented to her by George Michael. Following the Brit Awards, 21 reached number one for the 21st non-consecutive week in the UK. The album has sold over 4.5 and NBSP, million copies in the UK where it is the fourth best-selling album of all time. In October, the album sales surpassed 4.5 and NBSP, million in the UK, and in November 10 million in the US Dottas of 2014, the album has sold 30 million copies worldwide. She has sold an estimated 40 million albums and 50 and NBSP, million singles worldwide. Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA Diamond certification for a one-disc album in less than two years. In October 2012, Adele confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond film. The song Skyfall, written and composed in collaboration with producer Paul Epworth, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and features orchestrations by J. A. C. Redford. Adele stated recording Skyfall was one of the proudest moments of my life. On October 14, Skyfall rose to No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and Skyfall entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days. This tied Skyfall with Duran Duran save you to a kill as the highest charting James Bond theme song on the UK Singles Chart, a record surpassed in 2015 by Sam Smith's writings on the wall. Skyfall has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide and earned Adele the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In December 2012, Adele was named Billboard Artist of the Year, and 21 was named Album of the Year, making her the first artist to receive both accolades two years in a row. Adele was also named top female artist.The Associated Press named Adele Entertainer of the Year for 2012. The 2013 Grammy Awards saw Adele's live version of set fire to the rain when the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, bringing her total wins to nine. On April 3, 2012, Adele confirmed that her third album would likely be at least two years away, stating, I have to take time and live a little bit. There were a good two years between my first and second albums, so it'll be the same this time. She stated that she would continue writing and composing her own material. At the 2013 Grammy Awards, she confirmed that she was in the very early stages of her third album. She also stated that she will most likely work with Paul Epworth again. In September 2013, Wiz Khalifa confirmed that he and Adele had collaborated on a song for his upcoming fifth studio album, Black Hollywood, though the collaboration did not make the final track listing. In January 2014, Adele received her 10th Grammy Award with Skyfall winning Best Song written for visual media at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. On the eve of her 26th birthday in May 2014, Adele posted a cryptic message via her Twitter account which prompted media discussion about her next album. The message, by by 25. See you again later in the year, was interpreted by some in the media, including the Daily Mail and Capital FM, as meaning that her next album would be titled 25 and released later in the year. In 2014, Adele was nominated for nine World Music Awards. In early August, Paul Moss suggested that an album would be released in 2014 or 2015. However, in the October 2014 accounts filed with Companies House by XL Recordings, they ruled out a 2014 release. 2015–present, 25 and Adele Live 2016. On August 27, 2015, Billboard reported that Adele's label, XL Recordings, had intentions of releasing her third studio album sometime in November 2015.DangerMouse has contributed a song, while Tobias Gesso Jr. has written a track, and Ryan Teter is back in the mix after producing and co-writing RumorHesit on 21. At the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in early September 2015, SIA announced that her new single Alive was co-written by Adele, and had originally been intended for Adele's third album. On October 18, a 32nd clip of new material from Adele was shown on UK television during a commercial break on The X Factor. The commercial teases a snippet from a new song from her third album, with viewers hearing a voice singing accompanied by lyrics on a black screen. In a statement released three days later she confirmed that the album is titled 25 with Adele stating, �My last record was a break-up record, and if I had to label this one, I would call it a make-up record.� Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did. 25 is about getting to know who I've become without realizing. And I'm sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened. Adele also believes 25 will be her last album with her age as its title, believing that 25 would be the end to a trilogy. On October 22, Adele confirmed that 25 would be released on November 20, while the lead single from the album, Hello would be released on October 23rd. The song was first played on Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 breakfast show on the BBC on the morning of October 23rd with Adele interviewed Liv. The video of Hello, released on October 22, was viewed over 27.7 and NBSP, million times on YouTube in its first 24 hours, breaking the Vivo record for the most views in a day, surpassing the 20.1 and NBSP, million views for Bad Blood by Taylor Swift. On October 28, news outlets, including BBC News, reported that Hello was being viewed on YouTube an average one million times an hour. Hello went on to become the fastest video to hit one billion views on YouTube, which it achieved after 88 days. The song debuted at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart on October 30, with first week sales of 330,000 copies, making it the biggest selling No. 1 single in three years. Hello also debuted at No. 1 in many countries around the world, including Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Germany, and on November 2, the song debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first song in the US to sell at least one million downloads in a week, setting the record at 1.11 and NBSP, million. By the end of 2015, it had sold 12.3 million units globally and was the year's 7th best-selling single. On October 27, BBC One announced plans for Adele at the BBC, a one-hour special presented by Graham Norton, in which Adele talks about her new album and performs new songs. This was her first television appearance since performing at the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, and the show was recorded before a live audience on November 2 for broadcast on November 20, coinciding with the release of 25. On October 27 it was also announced that the singer would make an appearance on the US Entertainment Series Saturday Night Live on November 21. On October 30, Adele confirmed that she would be performing a one-night-only concert titled Adele Live in New York City at the Radio City Music Hall on November 17. Subsequently, NBC aired the concert special on December 14. On November 27, 25 debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history with over 800,000 copies sold in its first week. The album debuted at number one in the US where it sold a record-breaking 3.38 million copies in its first week, the largest single sales week for an album since Nielsen began monitoring sales in 1991. 25 also broke first week sales records in Canada and New Zealand. 25 became the best-selling album of 2015 in a number of countries, including Australia, the UK and the US, where it spent seven consecutive weeks at number one in each country, before being displaced by David Bowie's black star. It was the year's best-selling album worldwide with 17.4 million copies sold in 2015 alone and has since sold 20 million copies globally. Adele's seven weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart took her total to 31 weeks at number one in the UK with her three albums, surpassing Madonna's previous record of most weeks at number one for a female act ever in the UK. In November 2015, Adele's 2000 and 16 tour was announced, her first tour since 2011. Beginning in Europe, Adele Live 2016 included four dates at the Manchester Arena in March 2016, eight dates at the O2 Arena, London, with further dates in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands among others. Her North American tour began in July, with the opening concert in St Paul, Minnesota on July 5. At the 2016 Brit Awards in London on February 24, Adele received the awards for British Female Solo Artist, British Album of the Year 425, British Single of the Year 4 Hello, and British Global Success, bringing her Brit Award wins to eight. She closed the ceremony by performing When We Were Young, the second single from 25.2 more singles from 25 were relacied in 2016, Send My Love, To Your New Lover, and Water Under the Bridge. While on stage at London's O2 Arena on March 17, Adele announced that she would be headlining on the pyramid stage at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival, which was later confirmed by the festival's organisers. She appeared for a 90 minute 15 song set at the festival on June 25, and described the experience as by far, the best moment of my life so far. As part of her world tour in February and March 2017, Adele will perform in Australia for the first time, playing outdoor stadiums around the country. Adele will complete her world tour with four concerts, dubbed the Finale, at Wembley Stadium, London on 28, June 29 and 1, July 2, 2017. She announced the shows at the home of football by singing the England Football Team's Three Lions Anthem and also the theme song to the BBC's weekly Premier League football show Match of the Day. She added the June 28 and July 2 dates after the first two dates sold out. At the end of 2016, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year for the third time, with the top Billboard 200 album. 25 was the best-selling album for a second consecutive year in the US. With 140 million views Adele's carpool karaoke through the streets of London with James Corden, a sketch which featured on Corden's talk show The Late Late Show with James Corden in January 2016, was the biggest YouTube viral video of 2016. At the 59th annual Grammy Awards, Adele won all five of her nominations, bringing her to 15. She won awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for 25 and Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for Hello. She also performed a tribute to the late George Michael singing the rendition of his song Fast Love, due to technical difficulties which occurred during the performance Adele decided to stop and restart, explaining I can't mess this up for him. Artistry Influences and Favourite Musicians Adele has cited the Spice Girls as a major influence in regard to her love and passion for music, stating that they made me what I am today. Adele impersonated the Spice Girls at dinner parties as a young girl. She stated she was left heartbroken when her favourite Spice Girl, Jerry Halliwell aka Ginger Spice, left the group. She has also stated that growing up, she listened to Sinead O'Connor, The Cure, Dusty Springfield, Celine Dion and Annie Lennox. One of Adele's earliest influences was Gabrielle, who Adele has admired since the age of five.  After moving to South London, she became interested in Rand B artists such as Alia, Destiny's Child and Mary J. Bleige. Adele says that one of the most defining moments in her life was when she watched Pink perform at Brixton Academy in London. She states, It was the misundestued record, so I was about 13 or 14. I had never heard, being in the room, someone sing like that live, I remember sort of feeling like I was in a wind tunnel, her voice just hitting me. It was incredible. In 2002, aged 14, Adele discovered Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald as she stumbled on the artist's CDs in the jazz section of her local music store. She was struck by their appearance on the album covers.Adele states she then started listening to Etta James every night for an hour, and in the process was getting to know my own voice. Adele credits Amy Winehouse and her 2003 album Frank for inspiring her to take up the guitar, stating, If it wasn't for Amy and Frank, 100% I wouldn't have picked up a guitar, I wouldn't have written Daydreamer or Hometown Glory and I wrote someone like you on the guitar too. She also states that her mother, who is very close to her, exposed her to the music of Aaliyah, Lauren Hill, Mary J. Bleach, and Alicia Keys, all of whom inspired her as well. She is also a fan of Lana Del Rey, Grimes, Chvrches, FKA Twigs, Alabama Shakes, Kanye West, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, Stevie Nicks, and Beyonce. In 2017, she described Beyonce as a particular inspiration, calling her album Lemonade so monumental. She said Beyonce was my artist of my life and added the other artists who mean that much to me are all dead. Adele cited Madonna's album Rey of Light as a chief inspiration behind her album 25. Musical Style and Vocals Adele's first album, 19 is of the soul genre, with lyrics describing heartbreak and relationship. Her success occurred simultaneously with several other British female soul singers, with the British press dubbing her a new Amy Winehouse.This was described as a third British musical invasion of the US.However, Adele called the comparisons between her and other female soul singers lazy, noting were a gender, not a genre.LL Music wrote that Adele is simply too magical to compare her to anyone. Her second album, 21 shares the folk and soul influences of her debut album, but was further inspired by the American country and southern blues music to which she had been exposed during her 2008-09 North American tour an evening with Adele. Composed in the aftermath of the singer's separation from her partner, the album typifies the near-dormant tradition of the confessional singer-songwriter in its exploration of heartbreak, self-examination, and forgiveness. Having referred to 21 as a break-up record, Adele labeled her third studio album, 25a Makeup Record, adding it was about making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did. Her yearning for her old self, her nostalgia and melancholy about the passage of time, is a feature of 25 with Adele stating, I've had a lot of regrets since I turned 25. And sadness hits me in different ways than it used to. There's a lot of things I don't think I'll ever get round to doing. Adele possesses a contralto vocal range. Rolling Stone reported that following throat surgery her voice had become palpably bigger and purer toned, and that she had added a further four notes to the top of her range.Initially, critics suggested that her vocals were more developed and intriguing than her songwriter, a sentiment with which Adele agreed. She has stated, I taught myself how to sing by listening to Ella Fitzgerald for acrobatics and scales, Etta James for passion and Roberta Flack for control. Her voice has received acclaim from critics. In a review of 19 the observer said, the way she stretched the vowels, her wonderful soulful phrasing, the sheer unadulterated pleasure of her voice, stood out all the more, little doubt that she's a rare singer. BBC Music wrote, her melodies exude warmth, her singing is occasionally stunning and, she has tracks that make Lily Allen and Kate Nash sound every bit as ordinary as they are. For their reviews of 21 the New York Times chief music critic John Perrell's commended the singer's emotive timber, comparing her to Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Annie Lennox, Adele can seeth, sob, rasp, swoop, lilt and belt, in ways that draw more attention to the song than to the singer. Ryan Reed of Paced magazine regarded her voice as a raspy, aged beyond its ears thing of full-blooded beauty, while MSN Music's Tom Townsend declared her the finest singer of our generation. Personal life and other ventures. It was reported in January 2012 that Adele had been dating charity entrepreneur and old Etonian Simon Konecki since the summer of 2011. In June 2012, Adele announced that she and Konecki were expecting a baby. Their son was born on October 19, 2012. On the topic of becoming a parent, Adele has since observed that she felt like she was truly living. I had a purpose, where before I didn't. Adele and Konecki brought a privacy case against a UK-based photo agency that published paparazzi images of their son taken during family outings in 2013. Lawyers working on their behalf accepted damages from the company in July 2014. In early 2017, tabloids started speculating that Adele and Konecki had secretly got married when they were spotted wearing matching rings on their ring fingers. During her acceptance speech at the 59th annual Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Adele confirmed their marriage by calling Konecki her husband when thanking him. Born in Tottenham, North London and raised in West Norwood, South London, Adele has a working-class London accent that Rolling Stone magazine says has only softened slightly over the years.Politically she is a supporter of the Labour Party, stating in 2011 that she was a Labour girl through and through. In May 2011, she advocated a lower tax rate for high-income earners, a view counter to that of the Labour Party. In 2015, Adele stated I'm a feminist, I believe that everyone should be treated the same, including race and sexuality. She is regarded as an icon for the LGBT community. On June 12, 2016 an emotional Adele dedicated her show in Antwerp, Belgium to the victims of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, earlier that day, adding the LGBTQ community, they're like my soulmates since I was really young, so I'm very moved by it. Philanthropy Adele has performed in numerous charity concerts throughout her career. In 2007 and 2008 she performed at the Little Noise Sessions held at London's Union Chapel, with proceeds from the concerts donated to Mencap which works with people with learning disabilities. In July and November 2008, Adele performed at the Keep a Child a Live Blackball in London and New York City respectively. On September 17, 2009 she performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for the VH-1 Divas event, a concert to raise money for the Save the Music Foundation charity. On December 6, Adele opened with a 40-minute set at John Mayer's second annual holiday charity review held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2011, Adele gave a free concert for Pride London, a registered charity which arranges LGBT events in London. Adele has been a major contributor to Moosey Cares, a charity organisation founded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for musicians in need. In February 2009, Adele performed at the 2009 Moosey Cares charity concert in Los Angeles. In 2011 and 2012, Adele donated autographed items for auctions to support Moosey Cares. When on tour, Adele requires all backstage visitors to donate a minimum charitable contribution of US$20 for the UK Charity Sands, an organisation dedicated to supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby and promoting research to reduce the loss of baby's lives. During the UK and European leg of her Adele live tour, she collected US$13,000 for the charity. Awards and Achievements At the 51st annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele won awards in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She was also nominated in the categories of Record of the Year and Song of the Year. That same year, Adele was also nominated for three Brit Awards in the categories of Best British Female, Best British Single and Best British Breakthrough Act. Then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a thank-you letter to Adele that stated with the troubles that the countries in financially, you're a light at the end of the tunnel. With 21 non-consecutive weeks at number one in the US, Adele broke the record for the longest number one album by a woman in Billboard history, beating the record formerly held by Whitney Houston's soundtrack The Bodyguard. 21 spent its 23rd week at number one in March 2012, making it the longest-running album at number one since 1985, and it became the fourth best-selling album of the past 10 years in the US. The best-selling album in the UK of the 21st century, 21 is also the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time, while 25 is currently ranked 26th all time. Both 21 and 25 have been certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA. In February 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. In April 2012, American magazine Time named Adele one of the 100 most influential people in the world. People named her one of 2012 most beautiful at every age. On April 30, 2012, a tribute to Adele was held at New York City's, LE, Poisson Rouge called Broadway Sings Adele, starring various Broadway actors such as Matt Doyle. In July 2012, Adele was listed at number six in Forbes list of the world's highest-paid celebrities under the age of 30, having earned £23 and NBSP, million between May 2011 and May 2012. On the week-ending March 3, 2012, Adele became the first solo female artist to have three singles in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 202 singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. Adele topped the 2012 Sunday Times-rich list of musicians in the UK under 30 and made the top ten of Billboard magazine's top 40 money-makers. Billboard also announced the same day that Adele's Rolling in the Deep is the biggest crossover hit of the past 25 years, topping pop, adult pop and adult contemporary charts and that Adele is one of four female artists to have an album chart at number one for more than 13 weeks, the other three artists being Judy Garland, Carol King and Whitney Houston. On March 6, 2021 reached 30 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Australian ARIA chart, making it the longest-running number one album in Australia in the 21st century, and the second longest-running number one ever. At the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards in May, Adele was named songwriter of the year, and Rolling in the Deep won the award for most performed work of 2011. At the 2012 BMI Awards held in London in October, Adele won song of the year, four Rolling in the Deep, in recognition of the song being the most played on US television and radio in 2011. In 2013, Adele won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the James Bond theme Skyfall. This is the first James Bond song to win and only the fifth to be nominated, after For Your Eyes Only, 1981, Nobody Does It Better, 1977, Live and Let Die, 1973, and The Look of Love, 1967. Skyfall won the Brit Award for Best British Single at the 2013 Brit Awards. In June 2013, Adele was appointed a MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for Services to Music, and she received the award from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on December 19, 2013. In February 2013, she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. In April 2016, Adele appeared for the second time on the Time 100 list of most influential people. In 2014, Adele was already being regarded as a British cultural icon, with young adults from abroad naming her among a group of people that they most associated with UK culture, which included William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, J.K. Rowling, The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin and Elton John.


Good morning everybody. It's Saturday and it's cold. I don't like being cold. I like warm weather Come on, son You can do it How you feeling you sleep well? The mosquitoes found us so we're hanging out in the tent eating breakfast the breakfast of champions So we had these RV neighbors that pulled in at midnight last night And you know, we didn't know who they were and then all of a sudden his head pops out this guy Matt He's like, hey, do you want a hot shower? And we said no, we don't need a hot shower, but then he's like we got porridge and I was like, okay We'll do the porridge for sure. So thank you guys Kind of love advice would you would you share with with us your new friends be very patient very very patient It's easier to bite your tongue and then wait until the right time to say something How did things change when there is a third rod in? Everything's slower Everything's a lot slower We've still continues to do things I think like when I married him I knew that benches would be in his life forever So you've still done you can't even And So you've continued to do those things and I've I still like when he goes into this venture I tend to just catch up with friends What do you think about America? How's this trip treating you? How do you find a small town America? Oh, it's unbelievable. Like you have the most amazing country that you really really do We've been really impressed like the And the landscape has been far better than we imagined and the people have been really friendly And you don't meet that many American people around the world like I haven't I don't know many American people So it's been really nice to chat to people and get to know them and yeah, and yeah Because of what outside of the US we just get like the press So we you don't get any idea and like but somebody said to me once like you have to remember the America's same size of Europe and you can find how many diverse like people are there in Europe You know you can all way down to like Greece and then we're like, okay, so that's the same in the US So when we got here like like we've gone to New York and then you New Orleans like the difference. It's just so crazy Rolling into the town of Dubois Dubois, however you say it supposed to be a cute little cowboy town I'd never heard of it before this trip, but here we go Well, we were stopping for some groceries in Dubois and we ran into Robin the grocery store Or you actually saw us like bye. I stopped driving down the road. I noticed the white The white arms and it's like slam on the brakes turn around Well, we are very happy that you said hello This is such an awesome moment to actually see people who watch our videos Okay, now to the important stuff love advice You know, I think a lot of it is just luck Actually, so for the two of us like we have similar interests and I love to do things together And we've been married 13 years Five days ago Together 16 years Right, you know that the difficult thing to tell you is for us, it's pretty easy It's not that typical like a lot of work There's struggles and that's So enjoy each other and have fun together and like How freaking cool was that moment? We're just walking through the grocery store this guy's like, don't you guys want ice cream? I'm like How does he know we want ice cream? I'm from Phoenix In New York City at a journalism camp and we're like well we have to fit in so like she gave me her belt her cowboy belt And it says Jillian and like I've got my like fake Zara cowboy hat and like we have like our own language And we have like What's the best way to show somebody that you love them For us like There's a theory of love languages. Yeah, and there's five different ones. There's like quality time gifts words of affirmation physical touch physical touch for us It's more like quality time and you have your own language Can I ask what what you call it in your language call it a been Kona ship been Kona ship because been Kona meets friend and Icelandic and so It's sort of it's I don't even know how to describe it means like feminine friend. Yeah. Yeah, it does but we've like created a new meaning for just like wrote Like life partner life partner You know, I've never been to this part of Wyoming And it looks a lot like Utah and Utah the canyon lands area is one of my favorite landscapes in the world And this is just bringing me right back to that area We have left the nice and cool alpine world And it's hot now It's like high desert where we are still 6,000 feet, but it is warm. It's definitely the warmest day so far We are not in the land of campsites every 10 to 15 miles anymore We're kind of middle of nowhere Wyoming and we rolled up on this rest stop and talked to the woman Caretaker Jennifer and she said yeah, you can totally camp here if you want no problem Just watch out because the sprinklers come on at night time. So here we are. We're gonna sit and chill. We've ridden 60 miles It's Saturday night Time to time to party We're a little weak on bodies of water near this rest stop, so we're about a half a mile away and we found this Canal I'm gonna call it but it's water and it's wet and it's 93 degrees out today, so I'm gonna swim in it. I don't care It's not glamorous, but it's doing the job definitely cool me off Are you getting cleaner? Do you think I do think I'm getting cleaner moderately so This water is not dirty jump in alleys going in the canal It's like the lazy river a water world So what my sister sent me was a message of 20 words no 10 words 20 letters that said If it is to be It is up to me And that's the advice I find I like that. So I'm kind of an activist in About climate change and I helped to recover wolves in Yellowstone to place them there And so I'm kind of a green What's the key to a long lasting relationship? Do things together cross-country ski together and Yeah, that's what we're going to go do in the medicine boats is I think the only Thing that makes it makes us able to do what we can do today Is that we just keep that Every other day we're usually out hiking.  There you go. Thank you so much One of the dangers of camping in nice green grass is that there are sprinklers that come up And the grounds guy just said the sprinklers turn on an eight get a bunch of rocks and put them on top of the sprinklers But in the morning remember to move the rocks. I just hope that we didn't put our tent On top of a little sprinkler head. I don't think we have but they're really small and hard to find What's for dinner tonight? Oh, I bet you can guess Beans This one has avocado. That's pretty that's pretty deluxe. Yeah, this is a fancy Being marita. This is actually a very cozy place to have dinner. We have a picnic table. We have plenty of food We have bathrooms nearby. We have water. We have a beautiful sunset This is great. Oh crap the sprinklers right next to our tent Alley Oh, we've just been scrambling around stomping on sprinklers This one's gonna go off next and there has to be another one down there and over here that we just have not found yet So I think we should find them. We need more rocks Oh, yeah, look at you made a little care and stopping that one. Oh boy adventures in bike touring This is kind of ridiculous. This is how we're spending our saturday night Finding big enough rock to stamp out the sprinklers turns out our plan didn't work The water is just all under where the tent was We've retreated sprinklers one humans zero Good morning. It's sunday. Happy sunday Ah So this was a great place to sleep last night except this super duper tanker pulled up at like 10 30 And it's been idling its engine ever since it's so loud It would would have been nice and quiet here if it weren't for that guy, but hey We got the camp here for free so you can't complain How's your breakfast crepe? Hmm. It's delicious. Here we have huckleberry honey from Idaho From nutella also from Idaho and peanut butter probably not from Idaho But this is a really classic and limited edition combination No flaties No ammies. No crashies Ali has found new flowers on the side of the road Looking good. I'm wearing my sunday best Looks good there like other side looks great All right, it is a freaking beautiful sunday morning nice and warm We're on a quiet road big shoulder smooth pavement Ali's got flowers in her hair Yeah It's gonna be a good day. Happy sunday You know, it's the little things in life that make you happy on a bike tour like a smooth flat piece of road with nice just silky smooth asphalt You don't think about these things in day-to-day life, but when you're on a bike tour. Yeah, it makes a big difference What is all this green stuff? Beak greens cilantro and garlic Yeah, Matt and I were talking about tomatoes and he mentioned he had a hundred pounds Beak greens And nobody wanted though. I was like, well, beak greens are my favorite So here we have some Going to play It's nice and light. Yeah Look at all this health food. This is way better than ice cream in Nutella This is the best gas station food that we've gotten so far Oh man, we will for sure That Matt guy back in Keneer was one of the sweetest humans I've met in a long time Ali's in the store talking to him and he's like you want some beet greens And then we sit there talking to him for a while. He's telling us about his dogs and How he tries to sell really healthy food to the Restaurants around here in the farmers markets, but nobody will buy them Because they want to buy the cheap stuff and Wow fascinating. I'm so glad we met him We have here we have a cartoon theater. We've never heard one of one of those this town has like three businesses gas station Pizza place and a cartoon theater. What do you think a cartoon theater is? I have no idea There's only one way to find out and that's to push this button Do it This Place is fascinating. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into at all from the outside It's just looked like an old warehouse It's a house of wonder feels like we've walked into somebody's dream and they just You know spent years Gathering this stuff collecting it and then creating this this facility was built in 1906 by ch king Who is the original grandfather of our own president? forward This was originally a warehouse for the storage or supplies of a lumber store and wool facility That brought in traffic in and out for the railroad the owner of this facility in my boss is an artist He has uh been tattooing for over 15 years Every single tattoo that you will see in this facility. He has done on a person from coast to coast He has collected a lot of these things from yard sales and auctions that he has attended I absolutely love places like this ever since I watched pee weas Big adventure when I was a little kid I wanted to have a house with all sorts of weird trinkets and fun stuff And this is essentially that somebody made it come true Look at this Let's go watch the cartoon Little weird, it's a little spooky You wonder why this place exists in a teeny teeny town in wyoming and you're just like You're like I love humans. I love that a human thought of this idea And made it happen in the middle of nowhere. This is like some Blair witch stuff going on here Look at this This basement is super weird. It's nice and cold and musty and there's a cartoon playing and Yeah, where are we is essentially the question What's the ultimate goal with this place Uh, he wants to turn it into an animation studio and theater something that in some states Yeah, they have something similar to or something just like it, but not in this area I'm a fan of the bathroom here. This guy has some style. Oh, I feel like this is second stepping back into like my high school girlfriends Um Their bedrooms like would be plastered their walls would plaster like this Bye guys. Happy gift money. Be careful That door is heavy Whoa, whoa, where did we just go? Where did we just go now? We're back on the streets of shoshone There's nothing in this town like nothing in this town Just to give you an idea of shoshone really quick This is pretty much all of shoshone and most of the businesses are all boarded up And there's just not much going on here and today it's like 100 degrees.