So I look forward to spending the day with you. Thank you all for coming. My name is John Hammery I'm the president here at CSS and I'm delighted to welcome all of you for this conference and Very very happy that the Vice Foreign Minister could join us today He you know, you know, the old tradition is you had to get permission from the emperor to leave Tokyo You know and and I think that's still a custom that happens And so he had to get special permission from the government to be able to come and we're delighted that Kishi-san is with us today and thank you for being here. He is going to say some words of welcome to all of us He's a well-known figure to Americans who have expertise in Japan But he doesn't spend enough time in Washington himself So we're grateful that he's here today and is going to be sharing a few words with us special Thanks to Charles Rivkin who's going to be our keynote speaker And I've just my first opportunity to meet him and I can now tell understand why he has such a dynamic reputation in the State Department This is kind of a little bit of an artificial conference topic, you know looking to the past, you know this in 1964 1964 was in some sense a very pivotal year here in America, but my heavens what a Really was a kind of a remarkable coming out period in Japan. It was Japan became a member of the OECD a very Significant acknowledgment within only 20 years to have Japan become one of the leading club members of the developed nations Japan had introduced to the world stage the Shinkansen This was 50 years ago. Interesting. Now. I think if you were to take I think there are like 300 Shinkansen trains a day Been operating for 50 years If you take all of the time that a Shinkansen the entire fleet for 50 years has shown up late It was less than my train trip back from New York last week I mean I took me two hours to get to Washington two hours late I think the entire fleet for 50 years has not been an hour late All together so a remarkable story and it's still one of the leading technologies in the world and And it's 50 years ago it was you know, it was also 50 years ago that Japan hosted the Olympics and Japan is preparing to host again the Olympics and it's again one of these signal Statements that this remarkable country is able to pull together in such a wonderful way And it was a milestone at that time. And so we're looking back not to Not to dig out the nuances of history But to pull out the themes of the future and I think that's what today is going to be about this is about Japan now rediscovering itself the last several years have not been so good It's not because of the foundation in Japan has been flawed. It's not it still has a remarkable workforce a tremendous sense of cohesion in society Sense of shared purpose those of you that have visited Japan after Fukushima You know a country that was already the most energy efficient country in the world and was able to accommodate a contraction of Electricity production by 25 percent and life still proceeded normally is a remarkable. This is an absolutely remarkable country Its politics hasn't always been so supportive of this great country But we're seeing this change now and the energy that's coming forth out of the Abe administration Is really the foundation and the reason for this conference. So even though we're going to use the reference of The past which really to be a focus for our future and how we're thinking about this remarkable country and its role So we're delighted to have you here Matt. Do you do I say for the words of introduction? I think Well, I I don't think I would be a diminishment if I tried to prolong any longer your hearing from Senior Vice Foreign Minister Kishi son He is a familiar figure. He has been working with us for many years And we're delighted that someone of his reputation and standing was willing to come So would you with your applause? Please welcome and greet Vice Foreign Senior Vice Foreign Minister Kishi son Good morning, ladies and gentlemen Thank you. Dr. Hamre for your kind of interaction. I'm delighted to be here Before I start Let me express my deep condolences over the passing of Ambassador Howard Baker Ambassador Baker was the United States ambassador to Japan when we reached the 150th anniversary of Japan-U.S. Relationship to milestone He contributed profoundly to the enhancement of Japan-U.S. Alliance and the friendship and goodwill among the peoples of two countries. I renew my sincere respect for the achievement of Ambassador Baker and pray that he may rest in peace 50 years ago in 1964 Japan hit a large turning point. In that year Japan joined the OSVD. The first Shinkansen line opened and Tokyo hosted the Olympic Games. At the time I was only five years old But still I remember what happened on the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Everybody, every Japanese, 100 million people of Japanese All celebrated the Olympic Games. Of course my family did. My family went out to attend the opening ceremony Left me home alone So still I remember that But anyway after that the large growth in Japan's economy was palpable and that year 1964 Japan was still a poor country, but thanks to financing from the World Bank We were able to build advanced infrastructure such as the Tokaido Shinkansen and extensive highway system This board investment Created the grand work for Japan's jump and the economic growth Well, it is said that deflation caused the Japanese economy in to stagnate these past 15 years It is my belief that we Japanese statesmen should bring Japan back to full vitality In the same way that a stronger United States is benefited to Japanese Stronger Japan is beneficial to the US as well This was only the most important point my brother Prime Minister Abe and President Obama Discussed during their meeting shortly after the inauguration February last year With this understanding Prime Minister Abe began efforts to strengthen defense capabilities and vitalize Japan Bringing back Japanese Japan's energy and thus strengthening the Japan-US alliance In terms of the economy Prime Minister Abe forged a ban on mix He vowed that no vested interest will remain immune from my drill Sending a clear message On June 24th a new Japan growth strategy with concrete plans was released by the cabinet The Abe administration strongly believes that Reaching an agreement on TPP is the key link to the economic strategy This bold economic strategy presents a great opportunity for American cooperation as well in the midst of all these efforts We encourage we are encouraged by the fact that this Back to the future seminar on Japan is held in the United States Particularly at the famous and influential CSIS It is extremely significant that we are sharing our views today into Japan's past 50 years and Envisioning Japan's 50 years from now my mission for the coming 50 years is to help Japan grow stronger and Together with the United States help bring about the Help bring about a better world. I Believe that all of you who have gathered here today Share in this conviction I'm honored to have all of your support for the future. Thank you very much Thank you very much Vice Minister Kishi. We're honored that you came and joined us today And we were very pleased to have your comments which helped to frame this this conference And so I'm very grateful personally. My name is Matthew Goodman I hold the Simon chair here at CSIS and let me join John Hamery and welcoming you to CSIS on a very hot day apologize for that also Recognize our online viewers. We have a good following always online and we we give them a a warm welcome as well And you can follow us on Twitter at the at CSIS and at CSIS Simon chair so And let me also thank the Embassy of Japan and Central Japan Railway for making this this event possible today So I am going to save my own thoughts about Japan 1964 for the first panel which I will be moderating so I wouldn't want to just skip straight to introducing our first keynote speaker I have the honor of introducing Assistant Secretary Charles Rifkin who is Assistant Secretary of State for economic and business affairs You have the biographical information about Assistant Secretary Rivkin in your packet, so I won't Go through all of it here But what comes through to me is not only that he's had an impressive career both in business and in government But he sure knows how to land a dream job It's it's not enough that he worked in television for 20 years and ran the Jim Henson Company, which is you all know created the Muppets but he also served as ambassador to France and That's about as nice a job as you can land I think but a very important one What's not in his biography is that he was the first ambassador to France to jump out of an airplane Which he did to commemorate the the D-Day landings in 2012 and I think he also landed an F-18 if I'm not mistaken So that's great So he obviously brings a lot of energy to everything he does and we certainly hope that he's doing that at the State Department Which he joined about three or four months ago Running economic affairs, which is critically important And it's something if I can just quickly shamelessly advertise a project that we're doing in the Simon chair We're going to be issuing a report in a few weeks about economic state craft And about how the State Department can Can do an even better job at economic state craft And so we we look forward to giving that and sharing that with you as Secretary Rivkin, but with no further ado Let me introduce this is Secretary Rivkin Thank You Matt John I Appreciate the kind introduction it's true. I did jump out of an airplane It wasn't in the job description and and it's true I did land on a carrier in F-18 Super Hornet and those are both examples Sometimes of how it's it's better not to ask permission from Washington when you're abroad because I don't think they would have said yes to either of those Activities a little bit harder when you're at state no more jumping, but I really appreciate you Inviting me here today. It's an honor to be here and my greetings to all the participants who Are going to be part of today's events including senior vice minister Kishi Ambassador Sasai and other representatives of the Japanese government Japanese private sector including JR central chairman Kasai So as was mentioned by Matt The perspective that I bring to you today is informed by many experiences as the CEO of a of a media company in California where I Often found myself in Japan working to expand our business and our collaboration As a former US ambassador to France Where I understood and got to know the power of the US Embassy abroad and what an embassy can and can't do on behalf of the US government and currently as assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs as The newly appointed assistant secretary. I haven't been in the job long I now have the chance to see opportunities more than just business to business I can see it on a much bigger scale of course and this and this means between our two countries and I'm looking forward to the forthcoming trip that I will be taking to To Japan and China and Singapore later this fall, but in advance of that I'm delighted to have the opportunity to talk about the enduring and important relationship between our two countries and The bright future that I am confident Japan is well positioned to realize today's theme is Is an excellent way as was said in a few minutes ago for all of us to take stock of Japan in the watershed year of 1964 and The Japan of today And to someone who has worked in the entertainment sector it speaks to me in a very specific and Particular way for me the key word is story Now in the creative industry, especially Hollywood that word carries a lot of weight It's what that industry does Whether we're talking about video games or television shows for children or action movies But story is not that industry's exclusive domain For one thing it's central. It's a central component in history and as I've come to realize in my in my new capacity It's central to our understanding of economics all too often I Believe we tend to think of economics in a dry and theoretical way the flow of money the cycles of boom and bust and so forth But on a more engaging and significant level It's about real people and the decisions they make based on their resources values beliefs opportunities So as we look back at Japan in the year 1964 I think of the story of the Japanese people's willingness to embrace the future in 1964 Japan had just re-emerged as a developed nation it adjoined the organization for economic cooperation and development or OECD It's latest inventions like the bullet train its electronic calculators and sophisticated timekeeping devices used at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics were wonders of the modern world And as host of these Olympics Japan for the first time broadcast the spectacle via satellite and in color The world recognized the story Japan had become an innovative leader the very epitome of modernity a whole nation had embraced the future at every level of society From its political leaders to its electronic inventors from its business leaders to its consumers Eager to buy those color TVs and get on those bullet trains 50 years later today Japan and the agent in the Asian region as well as the United States face a distinctly 21st century set of choices the challenge for all of us now is not industrial modernization but globalization in 1964 the key to growth was technology and capital today in 2014 Technology is still critical, but the key question is no longer how to pay for it, but how to use it The economies of the future stress innovation entrepreneurship and global openness to goods services and ideas Thinking in particular about Japan My hope is that it will consider a balance between preserving its underlying social fabric and embracing reforms that can move the economy to the next level and Allow it to once again act as the leading influence on the global stage I believe that Japan's influence will be determined primarily through private sector innovation But it is also important to consider the role Japan will play in global standards and rule structure Like the World Trade Organization APEC and the OECD as Japan embraces and steps forward as a global leader It will find a reliable and committed partner in the United States of America Japan and the United States help shape and build the Asian economy economic Miracle together, and I expect that we will continue to be an effective team in the future The most encouraging signs of all are visible in Japan itself Like in 1964 it's on the rise again and as part of its revitalization It's asking the difficult questions For example, Prime Minister Abe's third arrow Includes the recognition of three vibrant segments of the potential workforce Ready to bring a new vigor to the economy As everyone here knows these are women young people and foreign workers Prime Minister Abe is called for at least 30% representation for women in the private and public sectors in leadership positions And we fully applaud this ambitious benchmark Which would greatly contribute to Japan's economic growth And I'm pleased to hear that Japan following the Prime Minister's commitment at Unga last year Will host the world assembly on women in September to discuss women empowerment Many young people in Japan are eager to contribute to Japan's innovative economy But the seniority system in many companies Keeps them waiting in the wings By giving them opportunity Those companies will not only benefit from having more innovators, but greater profitability Foreign workers are also poised to contribute By joining the Japanese economy They would help to meet the needs of many businesses which may not be able to survive without them These are culturally and politically sensitive matters, I understand and not only in Japan But many friends of Japan believe that it's demographics and potential for looming labor shortages That require consideration of new and innovative responses A second component is the powerful and enduring partnership between our two countries Japan is a treaty ally and the cornerstone of our rebalance to Asia And for that reason we consider Japan's economic rejuvenation to be a critical U.S. national security priority We want to see a vibrant economically confident Japan as a trading partner As a source of technology as well as a leader in a positive role model for all of Asia That's why we're working hard to take this partnership to yet another level Through the successful completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP Both Japan and the United States are deeply engaged in negotiations to bring the agreement to a successful conclusion Knowing that the benefits an ambitious agreement can bring to all parties involved are enormous TPP will open markets Create new opportunities support job creation and greatly support Japan's efforts to increase economic growth Just as the 1964 Olympics provided a catalyst for Japan's growth development It can provide a critical boost to the government's proposed reforms The Trans-Pacific Partnership will help build a new architecture of high standard rules for trade and investment Further deepen our engagement and create a level playing field not just between our two countries But all the other countries and TPP members They currently number 10 But more countries are expressing their interest in joining and as more of them agree to sign up to its ambitious commitments TPP will serve as a platform for broader regional economic integration That in turn would serve as an important model for other trade agreements in the region and throughout the world TPP was one of the main topics that President Obama Discussed with Prime Minister Abe in Tokyo in April and our TPP Negotiations continue to build on the progress that was made in those meetings in Japan Like all the TPP parties were committed to achieving a comprehensive high standard 21st century outcome because we recognize that this is how you generate the greatest economic benefits and do the most to achieve true regional economic integration By working together to create a high standard TPP the United States and Japan Can chart a future course that fosters prosperity security and welfare for the citizens of both nations and The Asia Pacific as a whole As Prime Minister Abe said and I quote I Believe that future historians will write that TPP Open the Asia Pacific Century Japan he said Must be at the center of the Asia Pacific Century in the year 2014 This is still a story in mid-process The obvious question is how is it going to turn out? We will continue to provide our part in the ultimate answer through our many joint efforts to build a set of rules for trade and investment that are open free transparent and fair Through the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and our partners in the State Department and across various U.S. Government agencies we support Japan's efforts to go to the next level Our commercial and business affairs office has worked with our embassy in Tokyo Japan's Ministry of Economy trade and industry and the private sector to explore ways to promote more innovation and entrepreneurship in Japan and with encouraging response On my upcoming visit to Japan I I'll be seeking ways to support these and other efforts and to do my part to help build on the two-way Foreign Direct Investment relationship the strong relationship that exists between our two countries We are also preparing for the next internet economy dialogue which reflects our evolving joint interests in a new economy being created and shaped by technology and connectivity and We strongly support a trusted travel and traveler partnership with Japan that would yield great benefits, especially for business travelers We are as many here know pursuing even greater opportunities in the aviation sector Which is a direct responsibility of mine in the Economic Bureau Including the further opening of Haneda Airport and that's another issue that I intend to discuss on my upcoming trip But ultimately the answer to that question. How does it turn out is going to come from stakeholders on both sides? Chief among them are Japan's government private sector and its 127 million Japanese consumers There are critical years ahead perhaps None more so than the year 2020 That is the year that Prime Minister Abe has set for his 30 percent representation goal for women and also for making Japan The world's most IT advanced nation But it is the year that our two countries are working as global partners to advanced a post 2020 international agreement on climate change and It's the year when Japan once again post the Olympic and Paralympic Games The 2020 Olympics in Japan will be a fascinating bookend to 1964 Giving Japan the opportunity to show the world that it did address the tough questions that it did take those decisive steps When I attended the OECD ministerial council meeting in May I Heard Prime Minister Abe call for an international economic order of fair and impartial rules for competition He also called for a forward-leaning economic reforms including workplace opportunity for women and a new era of innovative economic growth in his own country and he said and I quote again The vigorous economy that was once brimming with vitality as the engine of the world growth Has returned once again We'll be all watching Japan's progress with great hope and support Knowing that in the global architecture in which we all live Success is no longer confined within borders. It's shared beyond them If Japan embraces the future that it aspires to We will all be carried along Thank you very much Thank you as a secretary Rufkin that was really a terrific speech that not only focused on our theme of Japan then and now and Japan next But also put this in the context of what Japan of Japan's importance and significance to the world In the economic realm and in other realms, so we really appreciate that that opening Presentation Assistant Secretary Rufkin has agreed to take a few questions So if you have a question, please raise your hand wait for the microphone and please identify yourself Do we have questions? Yes, sir. Can you just wait for one second? Thank you My name is John from ECCO. I'm yesterday We have seen some media reports about the TPP negotiation between the United States and Japan Media reports said that the US Japan has just Tutu Restored or restarted some kind of negotiation in particular in five areas of market access Do you have any comments about this kind of reports? Thank you Well, I do have comments and our bureau at the State Department is working very very closely with USTR on TPP Which as you know is a huge priority for President Obama and before discussing any individual Issues, I just think it's important to remind ourselves again and publicly that this partnership accounts for 40% if we pull it off 40% of global GDP and Around 30% of world trade It represents a region of 800 million consumers and it's home to some of the largest and fastest-growing Companies in the world which I'm told will contribute almost one half One half of future global GDP growth in the coming decades and when you think about those stakes I think it's important that we think about those stakes because We have to we can't get stuck on any one issue. They're complex And they're tough, but the stakes are enormous and it's important for the world that we see this through so to answer your question the last three days actually there have been intense negotiations between our parties our countries and They've been they're focusing on the key issues which are agricultural access and and autos and The sincere hope of our negotiators is to build on the momentum that was created during the President's trip to To Japan and you know, they're tough issues, but we really are making progress There have been as you mentioned detailed discussions on the five sensitive product areas And it's not for me to discuss exactly where those stand. I'll leave that to USTR because the truth is that There's gonna be a chief negotiators meeting in Ottawa next week So but I believe and I've been told by representatives both at state and USTR that we are making Progress and there certainly is a will on both sides to try to find solutions to these complex issues Because the stakes are so large Hugh Patrick When will fast-track authority be renewed it seems to me we talked a lot about the negotiations But on on the American side We have to also get our act together that that's my sense of this and and I'm sure that's one of your major new challenges What is your thinking about how we're going to proceed? Well, sir, of course, that's a critical question and fast-track authority or otherwise known as TPA Is a high priority for our administration? it's it's key to our over-recognize overall economic and strategic objectives and and But in our opinion and the opinion of ambassador from and it is not required in order to close this deal And it is a little bit chicken and egg in that When we're able to resolve the issues and we're able to present Congress with a real deal It'll be a lot easier for Congress to discuss TPA because right now they don't really you know, they're being informed But they need something more concrete with with which to act. That's my personal opinion But I can tell you that USTR and the State Department They are constantly briefing members of Congress and we are constantly working on a dual track during this negotiation We're negotiating a deal and we're also talking to Congress and keeping them apprised so that we can achieve TPA I don't know if you saw but our president Suggested that the steel could be closed by the end of the year And I just read a report that the Japanese Embassy indicated maybe even by the end of November so That implies that we have great momentum, but certainly the TPA is not going to get in the way of this happening Maybe one more question. Okay, Jeannie Thank you, Secretary. My name is Jeannie Wendwood voice of Vietnamese Americans. Thank you for your work with Japan Talking about economy Would you talk about the energy the connectivity freedom of navigation and freedom of aviation a between Japan US and the Southeast Asia and in particular Partnership with Vietnam. Thank you. I'm sorry freedom of Energy connectivity freedom of navigation freedom of aviation Between Japan and Southeast Asia Yeah, and in particular with Vietnam Yeah, I am I don't have Anything specific to to be able to share with you I just know that these are all issues that we care deeply about or are working closely with our partners both in Vietnam and Japan and throughout the region I I don't have any any specific issues to confront I will I will say that that What you raise is so interesting to me because John Kerry When he came to office secretary Kerry said that economic policy is Foreign policy and foreign policy is economic policy And it is why he hired a whole team of people myself included inside the economic bureau to advance our economic ties with our friends In Vietnam and in Japan and elsewhere and our allies and the impact on politics the impact on foreign policy is evident So it is the closer we we we bond with our friends the more we Address and discuss any frictions that exist between our economies the better allies we are on a global strategic and security basis I don't have anything specific to add But I I hear your your your question and I and I know it's important to the US government these ongoing talks continue and Ladies and gentlemen, I'm terribly sorry, but I have to I have to get going But I really appreciate the chance to speak to you today, and I look forward to talking to a number of you When I get back from Japan for the first trip the first of many trips And I certainly hope that during my time as assistant secretary We will continue to advance even further the important strategic and economic relationship between our two great countries So thank you so much for this chance. Thank you


Hello everybody. Happy Sunday Funday or day 20 of our shadow work challenge because it's day 20 and because this is a 30-day challenge, you are now two-thirds of the way through the channel. You are literally so close to the finish line.  Yesterday, of course, we did self-study Saturday with the practice of Reiki and of course with this we are combining the practice of Reiki with the study of the chakra system you did last Saturday and the doshu system you did the Saturday before that, the first Saturday. So I'm hoping that all of these self-study Saturdays are giving you more of an idea of the subtle body and the power of the subtle body because once you become in touch with a subtle body, the more you're able to align yourself with your own intuition and your own gut feelings and you start to understand and deconstruct that false sense of self, which is the crux of man's suffering anyway. And so let's go ahead and look at the challenge board for today and this upcoming and Monday and tomorrow for this upcoming week because we do have a pretty big week ahead of us because we have Thanksgiving here in the United States. And if you saw the video yesterday, I'm inviting all of our friends in other countries to participate in Thanksgiving with us. Even if you can't participate in Thanksgiving with us this Thursday, I hope that you will use this opportunity to observe how to handle a holiday when you're doing shadow work. Because shadow work as you guys know, it's even though I said you're two thirds of the way through this, this is really like a whole life practice, right? Maybe just not as intense when you're actually in a challenge, but it's a whole life practice. So here we are on Sunday, November 20th. You are two thirds of the way through your challenge. The hardest part is finished. You got this. The hardest part is starting. The hardest part is always the beginning. It's always starting. Again, you didn't come this far to only come this far. Please note that for the Americans, we are coming up on a week of Thanksgiving. There will be some changes in the regular challenges due to the holiday. This is a great practice and flexibility in life and a great practice in getting back to work once the holiday is passed. For those who are not Americans, I invite you to participate in Thanksgiving with us. If you're not an American, find a friend or two to have dinner with on Thursday night, November 24th. Either invite them over to your house for dinner or find a restaurant to go to with them. Make this Thursday a day of enjoyment and fellowship. Make your bed up. Your last meal should be between 5 and 7 p.m. No snacking after 7 p.m. This allows you your digestive system at least 12 hours of rest between dinner and breakfast, Sunday, Monday. You're back to dancing with sweating to the oldies with Richard Simmons. Again, yesterday on Saturday, we talked a lot about Richard Simmons. Oh, excuse me. That's today. That wasn't yesterday. Yesterday was Reiki. Getting my days mixed up. All right. So after you do the sweating to the oldies, you're going to do some Reiki meditations with Emmy from her channel. All right. So you got your food journal. And then for today, again, did you know that Richard Simmons was born with a foot deformity? With that being said, he went on to be one of the most influential people in the exercise industry. He had every excuse not to embark on the life he embarked on, but he continued anyway. He changed so many people's lives by helping them help themselves. What are your thoughts on that? Is there a health issue you've struggled with and perhaps uses an excuse not to exercise? Has your perception on yourself changed since starting this journey? How do you view exercise now? How do you view your body now? Can you take a moment to thank your body for the gifts it's given you, including the hard stuff? How has the hard stuff in your body allowed you to grow? Do you notice changes in your body? Are you stronger? Does your skin look better? Do you have more confidence? What has surprised you the most in the last 20 days of this journey? What was the one thing you thought you would hate but now love? So far, what is your favorite exercise program and why? How has not eating after 7 p.m. affected you? Are you sleeping better? Are you noticing a deep, deep, a better digestive system? How do you feel in the morning when you wake up after fasting for 12 hours more energy? And so I really want to focus this with Richard Simmons because that's one of the reasons why I picked him. I have heard literally every excuse under the sun. I mean literally every excuse under the sun and there is literally no excuse. There is zero excuse to not be using exercises and modality for changing your body if you're on your period or if you have a fever. And so hoping by looking at Richard Simmons you're going to see that if you're using your health issues as an excuse not to exercise and you're kind of missing the point of what these health issues are. They're just resistance in your body for you to work through. They're just opportunities for you to heal certain about a certain something about your psyche. And so I'm hoping that throughout this challenge you've kind of noticed that health issues are not, you're not a victim to your health. Your health is something that your soul designed for you to have that resistance to have that friction. And it's something that can be healed by you. And so I'm hoping that by understanding that Richard Simmons was born with a foot deformity and ended up becoming like a jazzercise exercise teacher, an aerobic exercise teacher. Wow! That's so inspirational, right? And if he can do it, anyone can do it. If I can do it, anyone can do it, right? All right. So coming into Monday, November 21st, make your bed up. Your last meal should be between 5 and 7 p.m., no snacking after 7 p.m. This allows, again, your digestive system at least 12 hours of rest between dinner and breakfast. For two days' exercise, you pick from all the exercise videos we've done up to this point. You get to pick between bar, yoga, kickboxing, and dance. Is there one that you really like? How about the one that is really hard for you, but you want to try again anyway? So as I keep saying, the one that triggers you the most, the one that pisses you off the most, that's the one you should be doing. All right. Okay. You have the five-minute cold shower on meditation, food journal, and then your journal for tomorrow. What exercise did you pick? Why? What about this particular exercise video really resonates with you? What are you learning about yourself in this particular video? List five things you like about yourself. List five things you are grateful for today. How are you processing all the heavy work from the week before? Is new stuff coming up for you? If so, what is it? Are you finding it easier to lean into uncomfortable feelings? How does pain, emotion, or physical bring us to a place of honesty and healing? How is pain necessary for us to grow? Describe in your own words the concept of descending in order to ascend. So we talk about that a lot. So are you starting to understand the idea of descending into yourself before you can ever ascend? Are you starting to have more revelations about why that is true? You can't ascend. You absolutely cannot ascend unless you descend first. Okay. Look through people in the eyes and smile. And then once again, you're turning off all your electronics one hour before bed. Instead, read a book or write more in your journal. Go to bed before 10 p.m. All right. Typical evening routines. All right. And once again, we are coming up to Thanksgiving week and you're going to see as we get into the week the changes that I've made and tweaked to accommodate Thanksgiving. And I do hope that our friends in other countries will join us in celebrating this Thanksgiving.  I also want to ask for the Americans out there, are you triggered by Thanksgiving? Are you stressing out about Thanksgiving? Is there something about Thanksgiving that triggers you? Are you worried about sitting around at dinner table with family that maybe doesn't doesn't share your same views for everybody else who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving? Are you starting to worry about Christmas?  And can you see these triggers? Not as necessarily bad things, but as opportunities. There are opportunities for you to learn more about yourself as Ram Dass says. If you think you're so enlightened, go spend a week with your family. All right, guys, let me know how you're doing down in the comment section below. Also, later today at two o'clock Eastern time, we're going to be doing our first Yoga Online Intensive with the group that's doing it this time. I'm so excited. I can't wait to meet you guys on the Zoom and work with you guys through the Yoga. Starting tomorrow, our website will be updated. So the next Yoga Online Intensive will start on January the 8th, and you will be able to book that starting tomorrow, Monday, November 21st. All right, you guys, I'll talk to you soon. Bye.


Individualism, a reader, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore, narrated by James Foster. 6. From the City of God, St. Augustine of Hippo Concerning the City of God against the Pagans, translated by Curtis Tate, 2014. St. Augustine, 354-428, was one of the most influential philosophers in the history of the Western world. His passage from his most famous book, The City of God, is an early expression of the belief that individuals are the ultimate units of societies and states. I want to first inquire a little into that reason and sensibility which exists in wishing for the glory of empire on account of its girth and continuance, when you cannot demonstrate felicity of the men who withered in the ruins of war wrapped in horror and bloody desire, always in blood, foreign and domestic, yet still human. The result is a flickering joy akin to glass and its fragility, to which is attributed the terrible anxiety that it could suddenly shatter. That this might more easily be adjudicated let us not vanish beneath the fluid void of boasting and not blunt the sharp edge of our purpose when we hear lofty talk of peoples, kingdoms and provinces. Instead let us imagine two men. For a single man is like one word in a sermon, thus he is an element of a city or kingdom, whatever its scope in the occupation of spacious lands. Of the two men, one is impoverished, even middle class rather, and the other we shall think is extravagantly rich. The rich man is laden with terrors, melting under sorrow, emblazoned with aspirations, never is he secure, always he is restless and out of breath in the perpetual contentions of his enemies. Truly he makes a lot with the miseries of his inheritance and yet with those profits he amasses caustic worries in his immense form. The poorer man is at ease with his family and what little he has, he is most dear to his own.  I do not think anyone so irrational that he would dare to doubt which man is preferable. Therefore as it is with these two men, thus it is in two families, two peoples and in two kingdoms, what with the basic principle of justice having been summoned correctly if our purpose is set right, we will easily see where emptiness and happiness reside. This has been Individualism, a Reader, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore, narrated by James Foster. Copyright 2015 by the Cato Institute. Production copyright 2015 by the Cato Institute.


Well, there was a part of the garden which was a mound with the moat surrounding it very kind of secretive part And then my childhood fantasy. I think I was probably about five six seven to that point this God figure lived and I used to have kind of mystical experiences with him I think a lot of children slip in and out of mystical like experiences much more easily than we think kind of thing And so I was always fascinated by the mystical experience. It was always my passion


It was quarter-final round action today from Whitaker Bank ballpark in Lexington as the Johnson Central Golden Eagles matched up with the McCracken County Mustangs. Eagles coming into this with a 10-game win streak while McCracken County hasn't suffered a loss since April 14th. The Mustangs worked the Johnson Central pitchers today picking up eight total hits for the game but the Eagles put up a fight. Left-fielder Trevor May picked up two spectacular catches to help take some relief off of the pitchers. But come the sixth inning, Tate Mead will retire off the mound after pitching a strong game. And first up it's Jacob Patton who steps up to the plate that was unable to get the job done loading the bases. And within the sixth inning there will be three pitching changes as Gabe Burrell took a hit off the foot and the senior Josh Hitchcock will finish it off for the Golden Eagles. But the damage was already done as the Mustangs batted in four runs and the Eagles couldn't get one to plate until the top of the seventh inning after a pass ball as they take the 4-1 loss to McCracken County in quarter-final round action. The Mustangs become the first Region 1 baseball team to advance to the semifinals since St. Mary in 1980. Reporting in Lexington for EKB News, I'm McKay LaCauley.


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Okay, welcome to theCUBE. We're live in San Francisco. This is theCUBE at the GE Industrial Cloud Event, hashtag Industrial Cloud. Tweet us if you have any questions. I'm John Furrier. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the ceiling from the noise, and I'm joined by my co-hosts. I'm Dave Vellante, wikibon.org. Paul Daugherty is here, he's the CTO of Accenture. Paul, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. We think Accenture, thanks for making some time. So we think Accenture, we think deep industry expertise, deep knowledge, hands-on, like-hard problems. So this is a big, chewy, deep expertise problem. Talk about, first of all, what you do at Accenture, and then we'll get into the whole relationship with GE and the opportunity that you guys are going after. Yeah, sure, yeah, good question. So I've got the role of chief technology officer within Accenture. So what I'm responsible for is our technology labs looking ahead to the next generation of technology and how we use our technology labs and our research and development to bring that back into our business. I'm also responsible for the emerging businesses that we start up in areas like cloud, like mobility, like big data, like social, so those areas report to me and as we look to integrate those into our core business. So are you kind of like a chef looking at the best ingredients out there? You guys don't, well, I guess you do make some technologies, but you're not a software player.  I mean, you do compete on the services side, but you're not tinkering and developing tech per se for mass distribution. So are you more like a chef looking at the best technologies out there or are you guys increasingly developing your own tech? It's a little bit of both. So our position in the market would characterize as independent with a point of view. So we work with the technologies that are going to deliver the best value for our clients and that involves a number of vendors, a number of tech companies, and it varies by industry, varies by company based on what they want to use. So we have to be ready to work with whatever technology is right for the company, but then within certain industries, within certain segments, within certain geographies, we can see the patterns and see what's going to add most value to the customer. So we'll have a point of view that if you're trying to solve this problem, then this kind of technology is going to help you do it most effectively and we'll then invest in the architectures, accelerators, toolkits, training for our people, et cetera, to deliver more value to our clients around those particular technology platforms. So, CTO, you do a lot of strategy. You probably do a lot of due diligence. And as you say, you put together those architectures so that you can actually develop solutions because that's what your clients care about. So take us back to when you first started investigating this so-called industrial internet. What were some of the texts that you were looking at? What's your vision? And then what's the platform that ultimately you guys are building out? Yeah, the good question. So what led us to GE and industrial internet and the discussions we're having was a broader phenomenon we're seeing happen around digital business that I talked a little bit about during the session. And we are really seeing this big momentum shift toward digital business across industries. And it started in retail and industries that are more consumer oriented with companies shifting their model. They're shifting to digital marketing, digital commerce, et cetera. But when you look at how to apply that and when our clients look at how to squeeze the digital value out of other parts of their business or capitalized in digital opportunities, they're impeded by the fact that they're manufacturing the physical part of the business that they run is often outside the scope of their IT systems. It's not connected, it's not online, et cetera. So we looked at how to deliver value and how to achieve that digital vision for companies that operate physical types of industries or B2B types of industries. That led us to this notion of industrial technology and the convergence of industrial and operations technology with information technology. So it's IT plus OT come together with information technology. So we've been looking at that for a while. We acquired a company a number of years ago that was in the industrial technology area that was in refinery automation. And we explored that and built a business around that. We built a connected vehicle platform that we've used with a number of the automotive companies to help them build their connected car and infotainment and navigation services and those types of things in the car. So we've got a number of steps into the industrial world through those, you know, by working in some of those early adopting industries. So the real-time nature of this opportunity is somewhat unique. I mean, everybody talks about real-time and in the mainstream world, but this has really got to be real-time, machines making decisions to figure out how machines should operate, how hard you should push a turbine and how to optimize that over time. So, but at the same time, you've got all this historical data we heard about, you know, the sort of time machine that we heard about today. So how do you marry those two? What kind of requirements, unique requirements, does that real-time entity put on architectures and how you guys behave? Well, it's a stretch, I think, for a lot of the, certainly a stretch for the architectures that our clients operate today, which is why I think there's a big opportunity to look at how the industrial internet evolves and what kinds of new technologies, new platforms that approaches our clients will need. The reality is there's not one answer. There's not one data schema. There's not one data architecture that's going to solve medical equipment problems in the health industry and refineries, automation and drilling problems and transportation, et cetera. So the challenge will be about having a flexible platform and understanding the data historian types of technologies for time series data, real-time machine-to-machine communications for data, smaller data that you need to get very quickly and Hadoop and technologies like that that can process massive amounts of data in memory technology, all the different tools that are available to assemble the right architecture in a given industry for a given company to solve the problem. So when we think about the platform and think about the industrial internet, it's about coming up with the right architectures and the smart engineering to solve specific problems for clients and it needs to be, you know, one size fits all platform, but a platform that allows the blending and engineering of different techniques. I mean, that's the challenge that we see too is, I mean, it's really, it's a conflict.  So how do you look at the developer environment? Because the developers are going to be building the apps and obviously, Marissa's got an interest in there with Pivotal and as well as EMC and VMware. You got AWS has been very successful with the developer community on the consumer side. So how do you look at that app developer, the operations productivity or the industrial productivity and then the infrastructure? Because you can flatten the infrastructure out and use virtualization, then as you start moving up into operations, how do you create that horizontal foundation technically? And what do the stacks look like? And this is what people, you know, the geeks want to know is, okay, if I go vertically integrate, am I going to be foreclosing an interoperable opportunity in another way with the data? So is that the data fabric that's open? So these are the kinds of things I want to get your thoughts on that vision. I know it's not baked out yet in the industry, but how do you look at that challenge? Yeah, I think one of the things we share amongst the partners that we're up on stage today, if you look across Accenture, Pivotal, Amazon, GE, is a view of how the stack needs to work in this environment. So I think the stack question is a very important one. So when you look at the stack at the cloud level, Amazon provides great capability to public cloud, everything that the Verner Vogels talked about. But clients are going to choose different solutions. Some of our clients will want hybrid clouds, some will want private clouds and other types of technology. So there's a cloud layer, but then there needs to be a layer above the cloud to say how do we move things across different platforms so I can do what makes sense in Amazon and Amazon, I can do what makes sense in my private cloud and my private cloud. So there's an abstraction layer above the cloud, and that's where technology that Palmer, it's in Pivotal has gets interesting in terms of managing that environment, as well as something we're bringing to the table called Accenture Cloud Platform, which is our management orchestration layer above the cloud to help clients manage and orchestrate. And the process of the whole environment. Is that where your versatility comes from? Is that where you guys are looking at saying, hey, I'll create an orchestration layer so that if someone in oil and gas wants to do something innovative, they can program away. And if someone over here in telematics wants to do something. You know what I'm saying? So it's like. It needs to be at that cloud level, you need some of that interoperability, and even for one client at one point in time, they're going to have multiple, for one application, they're likely going to have some things on a public cloud, some in a private cloud, some behind a traditional firewall. So it's managing a hybrid environment for one process in real time. That's the kind of problem we're focused on, the architecture for that. Then I think when you get to the other layers to your question on skills and tools and such, the data integration layer is a very important layer. And one thing we're looking at with the platform and the way we assemble it is how we bring in machine to machine communication and the right integration platforms to ingest and standardize the data in the right way. So one of the things we're working with as part, or we're bringing in and working with on this partnership is our Accenture Mobility Managed Services Platform, which manages machine to machine and data ingestion across a variety of platforms. So that gets into a standard data environment and there's a certain standardization across different technologies that you need there to help developers. And then the other layer where a number of technologies come together is a common analytics platform. So you can use the multiple data sources that have come together and come up with analytical models that span across the different technology, the different source data that you've got. And allow data scientists to learn from others models and advance them and deliver better outcomes for companies based on the evolution of better analytic models. And so that's the highest level of tooling and standardization that sees that ability to create those models. And that's a vision that Pivotal's embarking on with their data fabric and the way that they're creating their vision, which is one of the things that's interesting about the partnership and how it comes together. Is it reasonable to expect that those standards will emerge across industries or will we have like PACs? Industry-specific standards, data standards that emerge? I think there's some standards that will evolve based on certain domains and certain industries and there's some out there already. I think there's going to be a lot of problems that need to be solved on an industry basis. So the way you're going to get patient care data for a collaborative care and a healthcare environment is going to be very different than the way that you're going to get drilling data or mining data from those other industries. So I think there need to be multiple models in terms of how to pull together, which is why that data platform is very important because it needs to be very modular and pluggable so you can plug in new data sources from as you have different needs and different industries. When you say data platform, you're talking about like a Pivotal data platform or you're talking about something that you actually develop for clients. I think a data architecture. I think it's more of it. It's a data architecture. I think there's tools and architectures like Pivotal that are very important in that. But I think there's other capabilities that you need then as you look at how do you, what's the meta model look like in terms of the different source data you need? How do you integrate that in the right way and pull together? So I think there's some other master data and other metadata challenge that we saw. So the source data, the type of data, the metadata that you need to capture, the outcome that you're trying to achieve, that's really where you guys shine. Yeah, and the other area that I think is important, yeah, that's right. The other area that I'd add to that is the API layer of how you connect things together, which is an area where there's a lot of great innovation happening around the industry now in terms of different API and APIs as service models. And I think that API layer is going to be very important in this, that you can have a standardized common way of plugging things together at multiple levels in the stack rather than every time you have to solve a problem, doing the one-off point-to-point integration. And when you say that, Paul, you're talking about the API that a, for example, a Pivotal or some other open stack publishes, correct? Or are you talking about ones that you actually promulgate? I think there's multiple layers of APIs. There's the APIs going down into the stack and then there's APIs across application platforms. How do you connect your machine-to-machine data coming from a smart machine back to your SAP data, if that's what you need to do as one example? So the APIs across that layer of application technology will be very important. And that latter example is one that Accenture would actually develop or not necessarily? Yeah, we would develop the kind of end-to-end view of that working with some of the other partners and working with the industry that's being created around these API platforms. The API could connect the APIs. It's not complicated, is it? Yeah, well, you're connecting a lot of pieces together. So I think there's no equivalent. I think if you look back at prior generations of technology in the enterprise, with a back office you had a Waltz-Walt ERP, which simplified the environment for a lot of companies and they moved toward that. There's not that equivalent really out there in this area because it's more complex. There's more components you have, physical devices. It's not just a server and a data center. You guys love complexity. Well, we love making things simple for our clients. What our business is about is how do we make, create an outcome for a client that's simple for them to achieve? I mean, you guys have a track record of doing that. And that's one of the questions we were asking at earlier. Dave and I were talking on our intro, was managing complexity. You're talking about event processing, complex events. You're talking about network management. And these are things that were kicked around during the early wireless days. And if you go further back in history, in client server, network management, LAN, interoperability, internet working, TCPIP and moving packets around. So in a way that world was kind of stream-based event processing. So given that, what do you point to here, this industrial era that we're in, that they're talking here in San Francisco, the industrial cloud is really a new era. It's really a new thing that's happening. But what can you point to from the previous generations of IT that you've been involved in or technology saying, it's a little bit of network management mixed in with wireless packet management or orchestration software that's a middleware. I mean, you've got a kind of a cobble-together kind of paradigm here, right? It's a little bit of software engineering, you've got infrastructure. What does it look like? And what can you point to saying, we've seen this before? Yeah, I'd point to, in the seen it before category, we've thought about that. And I'd point to client server technology back in about 1991 when we're having lots of debates. Is it going to be LU62 or TCPIP? And is it Ethernet or Token Ring? Is it going to be CyBase or Informix? Is it going to be Fat Client or Thin Client? And that feels like where we are with the technology right now. And eventually, some choices became clear in terms of how you architected. Some different models became clear. And then technology standardized around that. You had packages that standardized and solutions that standardized throughout the stack. And I think what GE is trying to drive here with the ecosystem is accelerate that from the point of, you know, 1991 and client server to fast forward a little bit so we have the ability to do more standardized solutions. So I think it is, as you said, it's a lot of complexity right now. It's probably two, it's a lot more complex, I think that it'll be several years from now, some of the standards sort out. We get some of the base platforms in place. And that's why I think it's an interesting area. I think it's got a lot of expansion. It's uncertain too. And it's uncertain. Dave always talks about this and we always harp on it in that the practitioners make more money than the actual people supplying the technology. And we've seen that movie before in client server that for every dollar of SAP or Oracle, you'd see an X multiple distribution or just delivery. ERP, right? If you could have figured out who was going to apply ERP you could have made a lot of money. So with that context, we were building the foundation for the industrial internet and industrial things in the cloud.   You're becoming a software provider because by default that's the delivery requirement to simplify. So what's that going to look like to delivery? Who's the user? Who's deploying? What's the economics look like? Can you share any insight in there? Well, I think what we want to do for our clients again is we want to simplify the business outcome for them. How do we get them to their moment of business value quicker? And as you think about what cloud is, I think training the market to do is by based on outcomes and to buy more as a service. I think the way this looks at the end of the day is more clients buying the outcome. I think Bill, Bill Root talked about that in terms of how he sees the business model evolving. Clients will want more effective, more effective airline operations, intelligent airline operations. They'll buy outcomes around that. That's what we see it going as well. We talk a lot about everything as a service and clients increasingly buying an outcome based capability as a service. For us, we need to package the technology efficiently and package the solution efficiently so we can deliver it to our client on that basis. So I think that's the world we're moving into, I think. I think it's a good world from our perspective and from the customer's perspective because they get the outcomes they want. And from our perspective, we can solve a problem for them over a longer time horizon. It's not just about implementing technology. It's about helping them achieve the business model. And the big data piece is critical because you can actually measure the outcome and saying, did I achieve it? Yeah, right. It's like performance based solutions. It's transparency and accountability. You can see what happens. Well, thanks for coming on theCUBE. We really appreciate it. Paul Daugherty, the CTO of Accenture. Thanks for coming on. Great presentation. You guys are probably one of the most effective panels I've seen. I mean, I love the mojo of the industrial internet and the industrial cloud. It's got that futuristic, there's some tech involved that's evolving and dynamic. But also, you guys are talking about business operations and business value. And that's a conversation we want to hear more of. So thank you for coming on theCUBE. We really appreciate it. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break. This is theCUBE SiliconANGLE's flagship program. Throughout the events, extract the season. I'm John Furrier of SiliconANGLE with Dave Vellante, Wikibon.org. We'll be right back.


It is well known that viruses, bacteria and other organisms that cause poultry disease are capable of pitching a ride on footwear. This fact has been proven time and time again over the last 50 years in outbreaks that have affected both livestock and poultry. People do not often pay much attention to their shoes. The average backyard flock owner goes about their daily routine without giving a second thought to their footwear, where it has been and how clean it is. You can deny germs access to your flock by using a foot bath.  Dedicated footwear still needs to be cleaned weekly, but that step can be eliminated if you use a foot bath. Using a foot bath in combination with dedicated footwear is considered among the very best in biosecurity. Where should you put your foot bath on your property? Well, think about locations where everyone passes through on a regular basis. It may be a bottleneck in the layout of the space, or you may have a gate that leads to the chicken yard. Do you always start your routine at a feed room? These often traveled routes or bottlenecks in the space are great places to put a foot bath so that you can ensure everyone uses it. Place your foot bath on flat ground. Cover the space with pavers to keep dirt and mud out of your foot bath, or you render it ineffective. By using pavers or placing your foot bath on wooden, plastic or concrete surfaces, you will find the whole area much easier to clean. You may need to have a hose nearby so you can spray off your footwear before using the foot bath. Sweep the space regularly to keep dirt and leaves out of your foot bath. To start building your foot bath, you will need either an open tray or a lidded container. An open tray can be as simple as a dishpan, kitty litter pan, busboy tray, or masonry mixing tray. A lidded container can be a plastic bin with low sides and a lid that snaps closed. Choose a lid that can be secured against wind and rain events. Lids are preferred in order to keep pets and birds from drinking the disinfectant as well as helping to prevent evaporation. Choose a long handle brush and save your bag while scrubbing your footwear. If cleaning your footwear is not easy to do, then you will not do it. So use this piece of equipment to your advantage. A plastic mat with bristles provides a bristly, scrubby surface that works on the bottom of your shoes in the foot bath. And the plastic is easy to clean and dry later on. Keep a hose nearby in case you need to make more disinfectant mix, clean debris off your shoes, or clean the foot bath. Your choice of disinfectant can play a big role in how effective you are in shutting down germ access to your flock. Getting a gallon size disinfectant means that you will be effective against germ invaders for a year or more depending on how often you use it. Not everyone understands what a foot bath is. Place signs next to your foot bath to tell people who visit how to use the foot bath and that it is required because your flock's health is valuable to you. When setting up your foot bath for the first time, you will need to prepare the ground if it is not flat. You may need to set out pavers in order to give yourself enough space to work in. Place your chosen container on the pavers and cut the bristly mat so that it fits inside the container. Tin snips work well for cutting through thicker mats, but you can use a box cutter or scissors if you have them. Not all mats are going to fit, so be prepared to cut yours down so that you have a good fit. Hang the long handled brush just within reach of your foot bath. A small nail or hook is all that you need or you can cut and shape a wire coat hanger so that it hangs on a nearby fence to hold your brush. Always read the label and follow the instruction on your chosen disinfectant. If you make the solution too strong, you may damage your equipment, your footwear, or harm the environment. Add this mixture to the foot bath slowly so you avoid splashing the mixture onto you or the ground. Which disinfectant should you use? There are many types of disinfectants out there, some of which vary in their ability to kill bacteria and viruses. Your goal is to choose a disinfectant that works against the worst viruses like avian influenza or newcastle disease. Read the label or visit the manufacturer's website to see what the capability is for the different disinfectants. You can expect a disinfectant to work if you do not follow the directions on the label. Some disinfectants are inactivated by sunlight. Weak disinfectants such as bleach are useless against dirt, droppings or mud from dirty shoes entering the foot bath, but work fine on perfectly clean footwear. You can purchase your disinfectants online or sometimes at a local feed store. Keep in mind that some disinfectants cost more to ship than others due to their chemical designation in minimum order quantities. In the case of bleach, it may be purchased at a local grocery store. Here are some familiar names in the battle against poultry germs, but you are not restricted to these names only. Now that you know what you are looking for and what questions to ask when searching for your disinfectant. Learning the routine of using a foot bath means that you need to understand all the steps. First of all, pay attention to what you wear in the foot bath. Even though it is hot in the summer, flip-flops and sandals should not be worn in the foot bath. Expensive footwear should also not be placed in the foot bath. We will talk about alternatives to using a foot bath in these instances in just a moment. Your dedicated footwear should include tennis shoes or boots that will protect your feet. Keep them in a small container by the back door and change into them when it is time to care for your flock. Place your footwear back into the container when you are done caring for your flock. You usually clean footwear weekly unless you use a foot bath every day. The rule of thumb around your foot bath is that you clean first and disinfect second. Most disinfectants don't work correctly on filthy footwear. Disinfectants are not used as a replacement for cleaning well.  Step into your foot bath and scrub the bottom of the soles on the plastic mat. Scrub the sides of your shoes or boots with the long handle brush, being sure to get both sides, the back, as well as the top of your footwear. Step out of the foot bath and leave the disinfectant on your shoes to do its work.  A foot bath is not a fixed once and forget about it kind of biosecurity measure. You do have to clean your foot bath periodically. Usually this means once it gets dirty.  Nobody wants to deal with that. If you keep things clean then you can count on cleaning and refreshing your foot bath weekly. Dumping and cleaning your foot bath right next to your pavers can lead to a mud hole which means tracking mud into your foot bath and that creates a vicious cleaning cycle that takes all the fun out of keeping chickens. Clean your foot bath a few feet away. Read the label of your disinfectant container and follow all instructions for proper disposal. You do not want to kill plants by dumping out your disinfectant nor do you want to contaminate local water sources.  Rinse all the parts thoroughly and shake off excess water. Hang up your foot bath in the sun so it will dry. Next reassemble your foot bath. Make a new batch of disinfectant and away you go. What does it cost to put together a simple foot bath for your flocks protection? The tray or lidded container can run anywhere from $4.50 to $10 each. A long handled brush is usually between $5.50 and $6. A mat can be found easily in the spring and summer for less but online they can be between $9 and $15. The big expense is for the gallon of disinfectant and that can run anywhere from $27 to $37 a gallon. But remember that can last you almost a year or more depending on how much you use. Some disinfectants may be sold in quantities smaller than a gallon which will reduce your costs. So in total you're going to pay anywhere from $46 to $64 for a foot bath that should last you a year or more if it is kept in good shape. Foot bath containers should last longer but keep in mind that mats may need to be replaced and the disinfectant will be refreshed weekly. Some people are not physically able to manage walking through a foot bath or may not be wearing the right footwear for walking through a foot bath. Remember earlier when we talked about flip flops, sandals and expensive shoes? Now let's talk about alternatives to using a water-based foot bath. Disposable plastic boots or booties come in a variety of styles and are about a dollar a pair. Some have thicker walls than others while others have elastic tops to help keep them on your feet. These are great disposable options for people who absolutely must come into contact with your flock but cannot use the foot bath. A foam foot bath may suit your needs. They hold the disinfectant within a foam pad that can be placed anywhere on the farm. The bottom and sides are made of a waterproof material so that the disinfectant stays put. They are light, portable and only need to be stepped on in order to get the disinfectant to contact the bottom part of your footwear.  On the downside they are expensive but they will not freeze or evaporate. They last for two to three weeks before they need changing and are immediately effective against bacteria and viruses. The active ingredient can vary per product from chlorine to quaternary ammonium. The mixture contains the active ingredient zeolite clay and deodorizers. By placing this product in a lidded container it will help keep it away from pets and animals. Foot baths have been proven to work on behalf of animal owners for decades. Using one on your property is in the best interest of your flock and for yourself to keep diseases out. Foot baths are a good biosecurity habit to have and should be taught to younger flock owners as soon as they are able to safely use the foot bath. Keep your flock healthy by using a foot bath and they will thank you for many years to come.


So how do you connect your computer to the internet? Normally, you plug it in or you connect it via Wi-Fi and some kind of DHCP kicks in and your home router will assign it an IP address from your network and You're gonna go working and see little kittens from the internet How do you do the same stuff in the data center in the data center? you have all your servers and connect them to the expensive switch that you bought and you assign all the IP addresses one by one manually and Assign a default gateway and then you're happy and all your machines are running So of course your expensive switch in the data center You also have some I call them risks and other call them features You use port channels and aggregations probably for more redundancy of your servers And you're using VLANs to separate traffic a little bit. You're using spanning tree Anyone had an autage because of a spanning tree reconverges in the middle of the night or so So that's the reason why I call them risks and if you take away these risks you see it seems like you put making out of your expensive switch just a dump CP device in the data center and and Welcome to my talk operating open-stake on an IP fabric. My name is Jan Walzer. I'm a cloud architect for a novo cloud and I will tell you why your switch expensive switches can do much more better So a little agenda. What is an IP a fabric? Why are we doing that? How do we deploy this stuff? What is does operations mean for such a thing and why we are using comalus networks? So to recap a little bit That's the setup normally You have your servers and in your network and what every server gets Assigned an IP address from the same IP network and you are Configuring as I showed before a default gateway What the traffic goes through the default gateway and we are happy Can we do better than that? There's a thing called routing And we decided to leave all these layer two features out of the setup because we are using And essentially an IP fabric What we are doing is we are using two routers and connect each server to this router and With small subnets Terminology for that is we call these links Transfer networks as you can see and we have a so-called canonical IP the important stuff on that is These transfer networks are only small IP networks. They only have two IP addresses Available because we only knew we only need two IP addresses in these networks because they only need to push packets from one node to the other node and These IP addresses will never be used for any service in the network that's That's the reason why we have this so-called canonical IP That's the IP address we use for addressing a service on that server and How do packets arrive at the server in the end? We are using the Protocol called BGP. That's the protocol that the internet runs on and We decided to have this protocol also running on every device in our network so the servers and the switches are running BGP demons and They exchange all the routing informations between the devices This means That the Routers learn how they can reach the canonical IP of the server and The server learns how to get out of the network or to other nodes. So If we add another node you can see that the routing table is growing This means the other machine learns About the canonical IP of the new server and the new server Learns also the route to the other server and this can grow quite large. We can Connect all our servers in in the racks that way So what we are currently going for is that we deploy blocks of two racks full with two a unit servers, which means in the end around 40 servers in two racks which matches exactly our Switches that we are using because they have 48 Ports we can put in every rack one of the switches and cross connect all the servers to both switches and Have one block completely and all the information how packets have to go through the network Are learned by this BGP protocol So if we want to scale a bit larger if we need more racks than two we just put them next to each other and put some Other switches atop of that and they all again while running BGP They all learn from each other which IPs are where in the network and how they can reach it what we built here is a so-called spine leaf architecture and This has some some really nice properties It gives us consistent performance between all the racks consistent subscription ratios and Latency latency is really important. It's someone else called it before the last Boundary that we have still in it because we can't We can't go a Low enough with latency so also we can scale this performance and latency Because we just put more switches or more links to the setup and it will scale and This is an architecture that's made for Current data centers where we have the Whole east-west traffic where servers talk to each other and not the old fashion where all the servers had to go out to The internet or someone else where we had just north south traffic nowadays. We have mostly east-west traffic This thing is called it's called a class network after Charles Kloss who studied these networks in the range of telco networking in around 1952 and There's a really nice article in Wikipedia. You can read about that stuff so That what that's an IP fabric and what we are doing, but why are we doing that? There are three main Points for us that make this important. That's the operational flexibility the redundancy and resilience and scalability and What do I mean with operational flexibility? With these feature of BGP and learning which IP is where in the network Every IP that we are using for a service can be moved to every other point in our whole cluster and set up instantly If you want to move an IP or a service over to a different data center, you normally have problems You get the penalty because you don't have the same IP subnet over there Or you have a layer to connectivity between data centers and this will get you in completely different troubles So we have the flexibility we have also Redundancy and resilience because we are avoiding all the layer two issues. I mentioned at the beginning and If we have some issues at layer two These issues are isolated Because these faults are isolated because our layer two segment is only between a host and a switch or between two switches We don't have large layer two networks. That's really an important point what we also get Automatically is multipathing multipathing in this case equal cost multipathing is given because the routers Can do the the switching The routing of the packets packet wise or flow-based and automatically will use all the available capacities and paths between the nodes and What we also get as a gift is is any cast any cast means that I can Bring up one IP address at multiple points in the same cluster In parallel Which means if I put these IPs or these services strategically over my data centers over my racks I can do load balancing because Because the rotors will try to deliver the packets to the nearest node that has these IP address So that's what CDNs do a globally scale at a global scale We can do that in the data center and if one let's say a DNS server in my data center fails Does that means our the IP goes down for that service and the packet the packet will also Instantly go to a different DNS server and get replied there So any cast is a really cool feature. It does a load balancing in the data center without having a load balancer and As I already mentioned scalability the Disdesign of the leaf and spine architecture will stay the same I Can just add more links or more switches or more racks or more data centers as I needed The design of the whole fabric stays the same. That's a really important point on that So, how do we deploy that? We are using mainly Two tools for that we have and very important for that set up an IP management solution Because we need one source of truth and we have the the paradigm of infrastructure as code and For the IP management, we know use the software net box And it's configured with all the important data that we need to know so IP addresses networks that are allocated Service IPs the transfer IP networks the hosts themselves with Classification so we can tell a net box Which service will happen on what host and how to configure it later because the configuration for us works with Ansible And Ansible playbooks which allows us to roll out all the changes without manual interaction these playbooks are Are stored for us in a get lab so managing them with git and CI toolchain checks for errors in the configuration and What's the important thing here We have server conflicts and switch conflicts Are the same because we are running cumulus linux on our switches cumulus linux The guys are sitting over there at the booth. They are providing a linux Distribute a linux distribution for your switches, which is debian based So you can log in to your switch and do a troubleshooting like you normally would on your server You can roll out the same playbooks from your Ansible. You can do the same monitoring. You can do the same login configuration It's simply the same and that's a real Improvement because we don't have to manage so much special stuff How does the operation for this whole thing work We have the paradigm of everything is a metric and we are doing metric based Monitoring logging and alerting The logging stuff you probably know elastic search and and kibana. So everything we get on logs Flows into the elastic search database and we have the front end of kibana for that. That's nothing special for monitoring we are using the Duality of of Prometheus and Grafana Prometheus a really great Time series database and and querying a tool so we have millions of of time series with a high granularity to To store them and we have Grafana as as a tool for for dashboards that can show us What's the issue currently and how to look at the Services how they and the alerting then of course happens with Prometheus and the alert manager component of that So the matrix generate events the events get can create alerts and these alerts are handled then And you can send them to two different targets if you need to alert you can send out as MS You can send out a select channel notification if something is happening or you can Make it a call you late in the night if something is really broken. We try to avoid that because We only want to get notified or called out at night if something is really broken and not for some small notifications Because as showed our network for example is completely resilient if one switch goes down if a port goes down That's no issue for us. We can leave the technicians at their well-deserved sleep and Just alert it the morning then there's something to do So coming back to cumulus What makes cumulus linux so special for us I think I mentioned it, but I have to put a really good slide on that It's just a normal linux server based on debian linux. It looks like a server with lots of network interfaces and nothing more deployment and configuration can be done With the same tools and you have for troubleshooting a regular linux environment like your servers and Also the tools for monitoring logging and and promissors and elastic search That's the same as you would work with a server And so the special thing on cumulus for us is the routers are nothing special anymore. They are just servers. That's That's the thing I want to take want you to take home and Thank you. Are there questions one question my talk was about OpenStack. I Didn't mention anything because OpenStack just works. It's just a server. We deploy on the network. It's Deployed the same way as you would with your normal network that you have already, but we have a faster network for that Everything in the underlay our storage solution. We are using Seth for that All the OpenStack services just get configured with other IPs Then normally but these can connect each other find themselves and the service works. So OpenStack is nothing special Thank you Excuse me Yes Do we have a mic? Do we have a mic? I guess it's on. So by IP fabric you mean close Excuse me by IP fabric you mean close. Yes, they are using interchangeably Not not really close is a little bit more than that a close network But the idea of having multiple stages where your packets traverse through a point-to-point Network is the idea of what close studied So it's not completely interchangeable. I would stay with the term IP fabric for that If I understand your question Excuse me Spine leaf is also a kind of technology that says we have different hierarchies And what we are doing is that in the spine leaf you can do spine leaf also with layer 2 networking But we are doing it completely on layer 3 So that's why we call it IP fabric and not a network fabric or a spine leaf architecture alone So it's not exactly the same but they are going in the same direction So they are also stacked like in spine leaf IP fabric It also means a stack of routers like in IP fabric, right? IP fabric means that you are doing everything with on layer 3 with IPs the routing and the Leaf spine architecture between the switches So this fine architecture between the switches, but the layer 3. Yes. Okay. Thank you. No problem other questions Yes, wait for the macro My question is is that you have an overlay Transport a what overlay like an overlay network. Yes, of course, of course That's the that's the point why it works so well what we are losing with these IP fabric is Broadcast functionality to be honest, but nowadays I see no reason to have where I would need and Broadcast domain like we did in layer 2 networking So all the layer 2 stuff that's of course happening in the VM networks And they are on an overlay network currently we are using the the plain open v-switch Which means that all the nodes or the VM the nodes care for that the VMs can reach each other by building VXLan tunnels between the nodes and from the outside or from the view of our of hyperic These are just UDP connections between two Server nodes, but inside it. It's a layer 2 network and All the VXLan tunnels can be joined together. So that's nothing Nothing a problem for us. It just works the overlay network takes care that all the VMs that are in 1 slash 24 network Can reach each other and they that thing is Doing the broadcast stuff But you don't see that in the underlay and that makes it possible that VMs in different data centers Can look at each other and have the feeling they are in the same layer 2 network But from the bottom side it looks to us just a VP an IP connection between Two server nodes last question So a lot of deployment tools use VLANs for separating We don't use we don't use VLANs. No, but many do yes And so you might have a VLAN for your tenant network traffic tunnels might have one for API traffic Yes, there is traffic, so you don't have any separation. No So, how do you do you have any way of securing or Segregating traffic between those different types of traffic. So why would I need that? So that's there's one point of truth in that Of course the management traffic for the hosts himself IPMI traffic and so on this goes through a separate network but every other traffic we have is in the class of management traffic for Managing the service itself. We call it the underlay and We have enough capacity there do not care to care about overloading We are running this with metanox stuff at two times 25 gig for every node so not even our seven outs can currently saturate this and all the other stuff is Inside VMs or virtualized networks and these are encapsulated. They are one layer higher In the overlay so there is no traffic flow between the underlay and the overlay if the overlay needs to go out to the Internet we have separate nodes dedicated nodes that have on the one side the Access to the underlay where it gets the traffic from the VX LAN tunnels and it has dedicated network interfaces to our Outside and border router where the traffic to the internet goes out. So there is currently no Way of traffic from the overlay passing into the underlay and that's our kind of separating Okay, and the the routing is completely flat. You can get from it. Yes. Yes All right. Thank you Thank you


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