We made it, it's a new season of programming at the library, so glad to have you here. I'm Michelle Singer, I'm the adult programs coordinator, and um... You guys are matching. Well, we did that on her video, really. She's in the shoes. Tiny bit of housekeeping, you know there's a restroom in the back, there's also some water in the back if you need it. Thank you to Orca for taking us tonight. We're so happy to have Jane down here with us tonight for to read from her book, All Time is King. It's so cool to hear that you have such a history with the Kelly-Covered Library. Welcome. Actually, I think it was my grandmother who was president of the library and then my father was president of the library for many years. Well, welcome to the Kelly-Covered Library warranty. What can I say? Anyway, as I was telling Michelle, my father gave me a key to the library and I used to come in on Sunday afternoons by myself when I was in high school. Don't tell anybody. Anyway, thanks everybody for coming. And I'm... I thought I'd see all kinds of people I knew given that I grew up here, but I'm the journalist. Do I think you're the only one who knows? I think. Anyway, thanks for coming. This Alzheimer's Canyon was actually written by a co-author with my husband, Skye Yardley. He had dementia and he chose to write about it. When he was diagnosed in 2016, he was 66 years old in an otherwise perfect health and it came out of the blue, no family history, and he just dove into this instead of being in denial like so many people are who have dementia. He wanted to know everything about it. He read every book that the Burlington Library had and we were living in Burlington at the time. He talked to people about it. It's a tiny picture on the back of the book, but I knitted it in his brain hat and he would wear it and people would say, oh, I really like your hat. I should have brought it. Anyway, he'd say, well, let me tell you about my hat. I have Alzheimer's and people would say, oh, okay, goodbye.  And then he just dove into writing and we had a blog and the second year after his diagnosis, we went on a nationwide speaking tour speaking at 25 Unitarian and UCC congregations and doing workshops and sermons until he wasn't able to anymore. He just wanted to be out and he wanted to find his people and he was so honored that at almost every congregation somebody came out and said they had dementia whereas they hadn't felt comfortable telling anyone before that. So he was very proud of the work he did and then as his illness escalated, I found I was unable to take care of him. I had been, my first career was as a registered nurse and I had worked in a memory care facility so I was like, yep, I can do this, no problem. Except he started having hallucinations 24 hours a day and he really liked to wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me about them. They were generally happy hallucinations. He was, in the daytime especially, he communed with nature. The trees had names and they talked to him. He writes about it in the book, the flowers. I mean, it was like, it was really amazing but he would wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me something and then he would go back to sleep and I wouldn't and I got so, I wasn't getting any sleep and we were living in a duplex in Burlington with our son and his partner and Sear, our son said, you know, I'll tag team with you and we can switch nights and it just escalated and Sear finally said it. You know, I thought taking care of Skye would be all right but I didn't realize it would involve not sleeping. So we knew the Arbers in Shelburne which is a memory care facility has a respite program where people can stay for two weeks to two months to give the family a break and Skye and I had gone on a tour of the Arbers when he was early diagnosed but we went back for another tour, spent a day, he went to activities, we had lunch and he said, sure, you know, I'll do this so you can get some sleep. You know, I'll go for a couple of weeks and I was like, thank you. I'm going to lay on a beach and read novels and drink cocktails and get some sleep and he went into the Arbers on March 10th, 2020 and you all know what happened after that. So not only did he stay there for the rest of his life I wasn't even allowed to see him until the end of June and that was six feet apart outside Mastin Gant and you tried doing that with somebody with dementia, it doesn't go over well. So the last year was hard. He died in February of 2021 and I was allowed to be with him the last three days when he was dying but the pandemic kind of screwed things up but Skye was extraordinarily happy at the Arbers because he wanted to find his people and there were his people and the staff loved him and he loved it there. He never asked to come home. He never tried to escape. He just settled in and at that point he didn't know our home was our home so he was lying there because he never, you know, that was home all of a sudden and the staff told me a wonderful story that so at the point he was at the Arbers besides all the hallucinations he had reached the point where he physically couldn't take care of himself. He couldn't dress himself. He couldn't beat himself. He was in diapers. He walked with a shuffle with his head down but if he felt a staff member was agitated or upset he would walk up to them, stand next to them calmly and then turn and say, okay, can I help you? And they were like, this is the most amazing thing ever that he could sense that even though he couldn't do all those other things and they felt like they learned from him that they took up doing that with the residents who were getting agitated so it was like, oh, Skye did it. Good things for the world. So anyway, after he died I organized the blog stuff and myself a publisher at Woodstock and that was great and they had a wonderful graphic designer my daughter Dana and Dana's good friend Marisa was my editor it was very exciting, it was a great process and it's called Alzheimer's Canyon that was Skye's metaphor one way in and no way out and he wrote 11 episodes of the Alzheimer's Canyon parable about this guy that finds himself being flagged off the highway so I'm going to read that first episode of Alzheimer's Canyon and there's some salty language just to warn you Alzheimer's Canyon, the arrival WTF, this redded off-ramp isn't on the map or the GPS either and actually there's no choice the huge reflective barrier informs me that the highway ahead is closed road ends this grubby detour is my only way out of here sure enough, there's Dr. P wearing a highway patrol outfit directing traffic making sure I get off the interstate now kind of a pain in the ass because I've been making good time up on the four lane across the high country the driving has been easy spectacular at times road and country, maces, buttes, purple mountain majesty you know all that stuff the road signs out here tell you the altitude when you enter the next town and I've been enjoying how I've been effortlessly climbing up and up without any perceptible strain on the vehicle nice but now this detour, WTF indeed I mean planning my trip I knew that Alzheimer's Canyon was in the area but I just wasn't all that interested it's an old person destination, right? and whatever else I am I sure don't see myself as elderly but again, there's no choice I know Dr. P isn't going to let me camp here on the interstate exit he's got to keep the traffic flowing Dr. P gives me a friendly but authoritative wave as I pass by it's only as I'm gaining speed on the narrow bumpy pathetic excuse for an off-ramp that I notice that the other highway signs say one way, no U-turns approaching Alzheimer's Canyon drive with care watch for slow-moving vehicles I checked and this road I'm on isn't even on my fold-up map the canyon itself is on the map though and if I read it right the thing is phenomenally huge especially compared to the skinny track I'm on to get there this approach road is pleasant enough if a little lonesome good thing is posted for one-way traffic because there really isn't room for anyone finally a huge billboard lets me know that the Alzheimer's Canyon Visitors Interactive Center is just ahead also parking lots one through 275 good afternoon how can we help you ask the smiling AmeriCorps worker behind the counter well I guess I could use a map or a guide or something I respond of course we have these guides to the canyon itself also accommodations will you be camping in your RV I don't have an RV just my own little car I only got here because of a detour on the interstate well yes we have options here for you for instance you could try the homeless encampment in area B past the dumpsters they may have room for you under a piece of plastic they're always getting new sheets in over there or if you prefer the hotel they have a spot is $12,000 a month or maybe there's a waiting list I really don't know well actually I was trying to work some of the interactive exhibits over there and I think they might be broken or maybe I'm not running them right oh you're fine they don't do anything unless you're a caregiver the attendant grins unless you've got grandma out there in your RV I don't guess you're a caregiver so since you aren't I guess you're a sufferer and we really don't have anything for sufferers but I don't have an RV well if you're in the market we have a good selection of generally used motorhomes right now in area E well can I just look at the canyon while I'm here of course that's what this guide is all about oh yeah I saw that one I couldn't make any sense of it the only English words on it said start here exactly it tells you everything you need to know start here sure sir but where right where you are but wait how did I find the overlook the vista whatever don't worry you already found us we're all set now she's grinning again but I'm getting irritated with this whole Alice in Wonderland routine look have you even got a guide in English sir of course it's in English you read it yourself no no no no you've got a big pile of typos here young lady see it says start here and the rest of the map is blank no trails no landmarks nothing I can't even use my compass it's totally useless sir if you're anxious I'll get you a prescription in the meantime you may want to get started started doing fucking what man I'm ready to be out of this place well sir everyone's path is different we can't predict what yours will be like except that it's all downhill from here so anyway it goes on to have so many adventures and I'm sorry that you know the muse stopped at episode 11 but it really in retrospect it followed his path even though he wrote it early on in his first year after diagnosis so anyway let's see what else can I offer did he write all the chapters up to a point he wrote most of it in the beginning I wrote maybe the first year I wrote two or three things you know from my perspective as his paths and he wrote until a year and three months before he died and at that point he wasn't able to dress himself or bathe himself or get into bed by himself but he could still write it was pretty amazing it took him a while but he could do that writing or dictating or how was he doing that typing on his computer the last couple ones were dictated well there was the one when I asked him questions and that was dictated but the very last one he wrote he wrote himself yeah here's a and some people who have early stage all summers have read this and said Sky nailed it according to their experience that he really described it well so this is a little short funny one Sky and I both are avid gardeners we've gardened our whole adult life so this is what happened when he tried to garden it's called Demented Logic a couple of weeks or so ago I decided to plant some fall spinach in the garden I had some space and the weather was still good so after checking with Jane I bought some seeds and prepared a place for them because I remembered being forgetful lately exclamation point I carefully followed the planting directions on the packet including marking the area with good sized steaks and then I waited and I waited some more and more these brand new seeds were just not coming up despite frequent watering I think and good wishes not a single one but I remember I was so careful making my rows laying the seeds in there just like the package said to do now thanks Sky read those neurons up what exactly do I remember doing getting out the seed packet yes pulling out the rows yes placing the seeds at the proper depth yes covering the seeds mmm no now wait maybe I did plant those seeds I mean it would make sense if I did after all I did all the other steps I think but it would also make sense that I didn't after all there was not a single spinach plant to show for it the memory trace for that short activity does not seem to still be available if it ever was if I try hard call it up no well maybe perhaps common sense a cognitive skill now slowly but steadily dwindling away can help it used to when I was faced with puzzles and mysteries the first step in applying common sense is to gather reliable data paying particular attention to new or unusual or odd information in the case of the missing spinach the fact that not even one of the seeds germinated might be important what else well I seem to remember several of the key parts of the story numbers one through three I have a continuing set of thoughts I will call remembering quote these activities and number four complete blank and watering that wasn't even on the list again so what it felt like maybe I could trust my perceptions my little memory of this little event or more exactly my non-memory of a non-event I sure wanted it to all make sense logically it could make some sense maybe especially in a demented world spani coped up anyone? he's very funny he's very funny he did he had a great sense of humor did you figure out what happened? with the spinach? yeah I think he just didn't plant seeds I don't know or he could do like bird seeds things like spinach seeds I don't know you know whatever it's like whatever we had no spinach that's okay we lived with that but you had to you know what I learned was that you had to be prepared for anything to happen because you didn't know anyway he didn't have a tendency to wonder if that was not one of his thank god no only once I caught him going out the door in the middle of the night he was worried we were in this duplex in Burlington with our son and his partner and he was worried about Emma he wanted to go find her and he was headed out the door in the winter at 3am he was dressed though that was when he could still dress himself but no he didn't wonder thank god but he did eventually he always loved riding his bike riding his bike brought him a lot of peace and Burlington has great bike paths so he spent a lot of time hanging out by the lake and riding his bike and it was really tough when he was unable to ride he didn't have the strength to ride his bike anymore so he took up going on walks and one time he went out for a walk and he was gone for a really long time and I was like what has happened and I got a phone call from our dentist's office and he was lost but he recognized the sign at the dentist's office that was the last time he took a walk by himself but that was only about a month or so before he went to the harbors so yeah he loved the he loved the natural world so he died when he was 68 he was 70 and it turns out on autopsy that he had both Louis Body Dementia and Alzheimer's Dementia because they can't really they can only they can't give an official diagnosis until they do an autopsy and so that was the explanation for the hallucinations that came from the Louis Body side as opposed to the Alzheimer's side he was always cheerful then my brother he was oh thank god he was he didn't get a lot of people get angry or anxious he got anxious and this was well Carolyn you knew Sky but Sky never had an anxious day in his life until this happened I relied on him to keep me calm because he was a very calm person and that was the hardest part for him getting anxious because he didn't know how to deal with that so what kind of work did he do he was a family mediator and I think that's that still was with him at the Argers that he knew he could read people and help with conflicts solving conflicts he was really good at that thank goodness it helps to have somebody in the family that does that one that I wrote so I took up writing more the last couple of years this is called night time shenanigans last night in the middle of the night Sky reached over and padded me then abruptly drew his hand away oh I'm sorry he said I thought you were Jane I am Jane oh good he said and went back to sleep night times are always an adventure around here these days and preparing for bed has become a new experience Sky no longer remembers how to get ready for bed so I've made him a written checklist brush teeth pee take melatonin take off clothes get into bed take off glasses put glasses in glasses case put glasses case in bedside stand drawer I haven't yet had to supervise teeth brushing and peeing but once those tasks are done I do have to escort Sky to his side of the bed he often can't remember where and how to get into bed actually the get into bed activity is much more than that I have to direct Sky something like this sit on the side of the bed swing your legs up onto the bed sometimes that's in the wrong direction so I have to be ready scoot your butt down and I point toward the bottom of the bed when he's far enough to lie down I no longer tell him to lie down because then he continues to scoot his butt down I've learned to say now lie back once his head hits the pillow I cover him up remove his glasses and stow them safely away he no longer trusts himself to do this step and I hope he goes to sleep and stays asleep I never know the melatonin has decreased his nighttime physical agitation and attacking and some nights he sleeps through the night and wakes up at a reasonable hour then there are the other nights two nights ago he woke me up at 4 a.m. to tell me we had to go outside and dig up the water line but it's still dark we can't do that now but we have to the water main is broken there's a tree down on it whatever it's dark we can't work in the dark I'm trying to play along but we have to if he insists check all the faucets I get up turn on all the faucets the sound of running water does not seem to soothe him the water is fine no no we have to fix the water line I try something new we're in a city public works will take care of it we're in a city? yep and on and on we went Skye get more and more agitated about the broken water line and despite me holding him speaking to him soothingly either playing along or giving him facts nothing worked I gave up how about some coffee I asked that sounds great Skye and at 4.30 we were up for the day coffee in hand the lights on and me reading from the online New York Times finally soothed him even though the story was about Iran in our almost-war he had his first nap at 8.45 and mine was at 11 expect, be unexpected I'm curious have you found like playing along is the way to go or debating is the way to go no playing along is the first the topic is to play along playing along unless it's something dangerous and then you need to divert the person like when he was going out the door because something was wrong with Emma I had to tell him that Emma was okay and lead him back to bed but yeah, no you play along I'm glad I have a theater background it's all about improv really you know that's a common trait or experience with others or that's a new topic yes and that's what the professionals are being taught now is don't ever argue with somebody just go along with it unless I say it's a safety issue great, thank you the last year at the Arbor's he would call me frequently but he was always traveling and he was calling to tell me where he was and what he was doing and he was in Paris or he was in Ontario he was in New Orleans he was in White River and he was about to get on the train and come home and he was always so happy just tell me about where you are he loved to travel it was something he did a lot he could easily call you yes, because of the pandemic that was how the staff was handling family and contact so the staff had a phone for the residents and so they would call me he didn't dial he had lost his ability to use his phone or his computer a year before that and it sounds like I'm just thinking where my mother is they locked everybody in the room they could not leave the room for a year all the meals were brought after the COVID the Arbor's had people could move around freely but nobody could come in they could leave your room the Arbor's has two wings and they did people had to stay in one wing or the other wing I have to give them a lot of credit because they were so used to the families coming in every day to help them and then it was just the staff and luckily nobody ever got COVID there it was incredible does he talk about in the book how we first noticed that things were starting to change I talked about that I think it's something we all worry about right and I described this in the book he started worrying about his memory in 2012 but you can go online and take these tests and he would take it and he would do fine and all the recommendations about eating well and exercise and blah blah blah and he already did all those things so he just chalked it up to maybe he wasn't really paying attention and it wasn't until 2015 when I realized he had lost his spatial abilities and we were avocational carpenters at that point we had built five houses and we volunteered in New Orleans after Katrina helping people rebuild and this was happened at Dana's house this guy and Dana were laying flooring and I could hear Dana I was in the other room painting and I could hear Dana saying sky that's not how it goes this is not how it goes and I thought sky doesn't know how to lay flooring like he's laid a lot of flooring and at that point he was encouraging him to get tested Dana started encouraging him to get tested he lost his sense of direction he couldn't back the car up it was just really weird and it wasn't until we were renovating with duplex in Burlington with our son and his partner and we were doing all the carpentry work and sky realized he couldn't do carpentry work anymore and he's like okay I'll get tested because that was something he had done for 40 years and it was all mental inability not physical he would take a measurement and he would write it down and he'd go out to the saw horses with the lumber and he'd pick up the skill saw and he would have no idea what to do yeah in 2018 we managed to build a house I was the brains and he was the brawn basically carpentry work and he carried lumber and helped push up walls and we managed to do it and we'll need to talk about the progression a little bit say more my brother has dimension and I'm thinking about him because he's in Mexico you know how it progressed with him possibly well everybody's different and with sky he seemed pretty much himself except for you know losing short term memory he's still a long term memory do you have anything to offer about how it went I mean that you guys used to play cards a lot and then he couldn't play cards and you go hiking but then he couldn't go hiking I think it's surprising how many things we do in our lives are mental activities so like the act of hiking he was physically strong enough to do it but was just like there's a rock and another rock and I'm supposed to figure out where to put my feet around these rocks that's too hard to do I can't move my feet because my brain can't figure out how to navigate the trail and I'm like oh hiking is a purely physical activity but no it's also mental so I don't know I think I mean I think it goes back to uh she just did some sermons and she just wrote the follow up dementia sermon about how you retain yourself like yourself self who you are until the end and that seems to be true that like this ability to mediate conflict and to tune into feelings and like I visited with sky two days before he died and we like sang songs together because he and I have done that for forever and those things stayed but like reading maps and losing the spatial awareness and how to play games and I think yeah I don't know I think it was those more practical but he don't even really care about practical things like this was a man who had to feed himself on a piece of bread and cheese and an orange just and like wander around and meet people like that was more interesting dealing with finances or like logistics or like you didn't care about logistics I don't know and more and more anxiety I think the progression of that too he knew he knew us till the end which I think is very unusual but I was certainly very grateful yeah yeah he did you think the anxiety comes from I'll say therapy unknown if you're losing your sense of memory that you're concerned you don't you're afraid I would be afraid of what I don't know that I used to know but you get anxious yeah yeah he would and like Dana said like hiking wasn't just hiking like all of a sudden you know and once he started having hallucinations he started having double vision which made that worse and he blesses heart once he was diagnosed he no longer wanted to drive long distance he was still driving down in Burlington and we had talked about that like you know when is it going to not be safe for you to drive anymore and there's a thing I don't know if I maybe I have time to read it where he had a hallucination while he was driving here I'll read it voluntary driving ban has it finally arrived sorry the end of 53 year driving career and is career the right word? yes I think so I'm having no trouble at all remembering the excitement of the year I was 15 the year I came eligible to take the test for my learner's permit for some reason teenagers in Massachusetts had to wait not until 17 not until 16 15 and a half was good enough the waiting was interminable in my case and besides it felt like there was some kind of magic going on okay I was too young to drive and the next day it was okay I just had to take a multiple choice written test and a vision test and then I could climb behind the wheel of the family Chevy Impala a tank of a vehicle if there ever was one is this really fair to the other drivers on the road? I mean the ones who knew what they were doing I had collected a lot of semi-useless book knowledge about cars and motors I was all over my two magazine subscriptions popular mechanics and mad back then I was able to identify every American car by its radiator and could tell you more than you needed to know about the evolution of tail fin design and placement and hood ornaments fascination, fair or not fair the process of getting behind the wheel rocked and split open my world I remember realizing I remember realizing that my driveway was intimately connected to virtually another road in all of North and South America I just needed to make the correct turns and keep behind gas suddenly my traveling options seemed boundless realistically though I wasn't going to buy all that gas and I didn't even have a car but that didn't stop my horizons from expanding then I stumbled upon a most elegant solution to the gas and car limitations hitchhiking you know this is late 60s early 70s unfortunately I can't remember my first ride but it was the first of many hundreds of encounters that served to consistently define how I understood and appreciated this American world, amazing world I was the American boy taking off in a car to find himself it took over a decade for me to afford my own vehicle but I got there eventually parlaying my love of the roads and unpredictable adventures into paying work sorry this is the part that gets emotional that involved a weekly round-trip truck route from northern Vermont to Boston and points in between best of all those roads led me to Jane my amazing life partner an out-care partner I had a restaurant and he delivered my produce fine romance anywhere making the transition to not driving should have been easier though I haven't noticed hood ornaments in decades a car is no longer the key to enable access to a more wonderful world a car is a car but have I mentioned the hallucinations and how about the double vision it doesn't happen all the time but enough to get my attention the last time I drove I slowed down for a pedestrian making her way across the city street I tried to make eye contact as we met but in the literal blink of an eye she smiled and vanished when I got home I told Jane that was my last time behind the wheel as time goes on the hallucinations and double vision come more often here's an example sitting safely in the passenger seat I noticed two tractor trailers right in front of me they're shouldering side to side into each other and I can't understand how they can keep this up without one of them at least going into the ditch sure enough the one on the right suddenly lurches rightward and plows through the woods without slowing a bit the truck on the left is bashing and crashing into whatever there is to crash into on the interstate I tense and dreading myself for a fireball of disaster which never materializes these experiences and others like them make it clear that my driving days are done besides Jane became the principal driver once Dr. Alzheimer came on the scene really this change is another example of a practical sensible adjustment to a permanent new reality still it hurts sometimes it was not easy being the driver when he would like to hang out with me about these trucks about to have an accident there were no trucks on the road it was just us so that was you know the hallucinations and double vision he couldn't play the piano anymore because of the double vision which was really hard for him because he loved playing the piano so he just had a great attitude he had a fabulous attitude thank god for small favors this was hard enough to handle if he had a bad attitude I hate to think I know you said what was the span of time when it really became an issue 21 into the long two years? he was diagnosed in the summer of 2016 and he went to the Arbers in March of 2020 and died a year later yeah did he write was it just blown away that he could write and have a sense of humor like did he do a lot of writing before he was diagnosed people a lot of people ask me that he was a really good writer but he he went to Amherst for college dropped out with a semester to go via therapy like people did in 1972 and I think he was right that he was channeling his Amherst professors that people were going to criticize him and I remember when he took up because before this he didn't really like if we went on a trip he might keep a little journal or send people emails he wrote a few sermons but he really took up writing seriously like he and his girlfriend at the time lived in Iceland for a year in 1976 77 and he you know wrote a whole memoir thing you know about I've got to write this stuff you know what I still remember anyway but he wrote really well and I'm glad he finally got to do it because he really loved with an amazing sense of humor a complete amazing sense of humor yeah no it's you'll laugh and you'll cry just like me other questions was it a solace or therapeutic to you to go through this process with him of writing well see I'm the writer this is my fourth book so writing comes, it's one of my joys it comes easily to me and I've kept a journal since I was 16 and you know writing is what I do so I was really glad that he wanted to and so I held back you know so that it was his work so his name is on the front of that strange way now it's both of us co-authors not just me was there any family history other relatives you know not really but both his parents had neurological diseases his father had MS his mother had narcolepsy and his sister has MS and so I just wondered if there was a neurological weakness though nothing in the other generations you know his aunt died in 20 when she died 2017 and she was 92 and she died from being old oh so yeah no it was a complete mystery and his doctor at the Arbors the Arbors had their own doctor and she was fabulous after the autopsy we had a long conversation but it was like nobody knows why this happens it's a mystery yes in the first thing that you already talked about Dr. P who was that that was Dr. Pettilbury yeah I'm wondering for people who are just learning or maybe getting into this year's book a good kind of a user's guy if you will hey here are some things to prepare for well I like to think so and I did and I did write a sort of Jane this guy's helpful hints about how to deal with dementia diagnosis it's a pretty good list of like what to do and what to expect like getting financial affairs in order talking with doctors about all your care directives I like that the book is the personal experience but then at the end there were like those like practical things to do too right you know I learned a lot from this email I'm a publisher I didn't even know that hallucinations were part of the disease and so just hearing about that but not only learning about that but then reading his actual experiences with the whole chapter where he describes the garden gnomes that he's talking to it's just it's like this you know beautiful sad thing yeah he was so frustrated that the rest of us couldn't see all the garden gnomes I want to talk about your garden gnomes I was like really yes garden gnomes I love them were they good or are they mischievous no both mischievous yes it really makes me wonder though what is this disease you know it's attacking your brain but are there other worlds that you're holding like he was in a different reality he was in a different reality where is that reality it's really quite an interesting trip I sometimes wonder if folks with dementia in previous times we've already had this language were classified as shamans or mystics or spiritual leaders of some kind who were accessing other planes in some way I guess so but I'm experiencing Alzheimer's with my mother and I'm just so in awe of the writing and my mother was such an avid reader and she can't read I mean she can read but she can't pertain and she doesn't understand meaning and yes guys it was so so painful for him when he couldn't read anymore because he loved reading yeah when he mentioned he would comment about the traveling somewhere was it in reference to past travels or this was completely fabricated like he's never been to Germany he traveled extensively so most of it made some kind of sense but when he told me he was like in Northern Ontario I don't think you've ever been to Northern Ontario I've been to Northern Ontario it's not a recall of an actual experience it is a dream state it was something like we spent a lot of time in France and so one of the calls was he was at Charles de Gaulle airport and he lost his passport but I get him a new passport it was like sure right after he got diagnosed we went to France on a long planned trip and because he lost his spacial reasoning he couldn't read a map he couldn't figure out how to use his metro ticket but he was fluent in French and he could still talk to everybody in French you know like that retained whereas my French is terrible and that's so interesting how somebody's brain that still works really well and other parts just go away and you don't ever know from person to person how that's going to manifest my brother was like that he spoke five different languages and we went out to breakfast with him and there was a Greek with a waitress and he started speaking Greek out of the blue there you go the brain is a mysterious thing completely what's the financial aspect of it that was pretty uncomfortable the financial aspects the harvest cost $10,000 a month and that's just the room fee you know medications, diapers other stuff is on top of that and one of the things I said in the helpful hints I mean as soon as he got diagnosed I started a special savings account because I knew someday it was either going to be home care or placement somewhere and that was going to cost money you know if you're poor you can it'll be covered by Medicaid but if you're not poor you're going to cop it up and he was really at one of the phone calls he called me and said I'm trying to figure out how to do some kind of like barter thing here to cover the cost of me staying here some kind of volunteer work he said you know because it costs $300 a month to stay here if only he was nothing wrong with him out of the blue he just turned 66 and you know we were busy having a life traveling and we were spending winters in New Orleans still helping there in summers in France and I was like oh wait we don't get to do that anymore now any support groups that you guys were a part of excellent question no I asked Dr. P I was hoping that was in the book it is I'll tell you briefly what happened I I asked Dr. P at the visit point and what services do you have at the memory clinic I don't know he said this is a man who had run the memory clinic for 25 years he said maybe you should get an appointment with a social worker I'm like okay you can get an appointment with a social worker which took six months because they had one social worker for 800 families and she apologized once we got to see her no we don't have any support groups here so we found a support group for couples except they it was five couples and they had been together for five years and we weren't accepted as new people and so we started our own support group and we we did that for four months but it wasn't successful because the people with dementia didn't want to talk about it the families wanted to talk about it and Skye just was desperate to meet other people with dementia to talk about it so we finally gave up that and he and I both ended up on zoom support groups of people across the country there's a program called dementia mentors and so he was on a weekly zoom until he didn't really understand zoom so he didn't do it for that long and he found it a little it was more like a social club and he really wanted to talk about hey we're dying and actually he wanted I went through several therapists and I didn't find anybody I liked I found a therapist for him who said she specialized in elder care and dementia and he wanted to talk about dying and she said I'm going to talk about your life you're going to have while you're still living and he's like I want to talk about dying and she wouldn't go there so that was unsuccessful but I was in a wonderful caregiver support group that met on zoom we met once a month and that was a lifeline for me and then it's other retired ministers who were caring for somebody not necessarily with dementia but cancer or purposes and as I say some of us have graduated and we started a grief support group for the people whose spouses have died there's also a lifeline that's once a month on zoom it's really great to be with other people who lost their spouses there's so much in common even if people died from different kinds of diseases and situations so yeah hopefully I know there's a new support group that's run this is in Chintin County like I don't know what happens in the rest of Vermont but the social worker from the Arbor's has started a support group outside of the Arbor's separate from the Arbor's it's something assessed really needed completely I did an event yesterday in Palmford and they said that there's a really good support group down there at one of the nursing homes down there yeah you mentioned earlier something I learned tonight the two different types of Alzheimer's there's different kinds of dementia Alzheimer's is one kind it's the most common kind of dementia Lewy body dementia is another kind that's not as common and Sky had both which is highly unusual with the other there's also frontotemporal lobe dementia vascular dementia and then people with Parkinson's and ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease also develop dementia yeah the differences are in how it affects your memory and in what parts of the brain it attacks and how it affects in the brain the biological changes in the brain yeah after any medicine that was derailed there are a couple medications that may delay things in some people and Sky tried one of those and it made him mildly ill so that lasted a week and he said no more and he kind coming up with more stuff but nothing really has been shown to really work he was and well it reminded me of for those of you in this room who have been pregnant it reminded me of the first trimester of just queasy all the time and whatever new you're going to grow up and feeling exhausted so we're like yeah, there's no more of this sure bear upon bear thank you bear upon


Like when you look at this outing, what do you take away from it? You know, I felt like I was throwing a lot of strikes. I was tacking the zone Got to do a better job about getting out one in the innings I felt like I was pitching out of the stretch a lot You know, I got to do a better job of limiting the damage on some of those innings Kind of got to two strikes a lot with guys and couldn't get that put away pitch really so getting that you know moving forward just continue to refine that and making sure that Executing the pitch with two strikes. You mentioned the put away pitch Just how frustrating is that to get ahead in the count and time to not be able to retire guys? Yeah, I mean it's definitely tough I think you know you look at the outing. It's you know, you strike out a good bit But it's you still leave some guy, you know when there was runners in scoring position You had two strikes. You got to do a better job about the didn't the put away pitch And so moving forward that's gonna be definitely a focus. I thought you know overall the command was really good And you just can't let those pitches get away from you But this appointment when you're when you're facing a team like the A's and you're only able to take two games No, I don't I mean We're the New York Yankees We we kind of expect to to go out there and perform every night and make sure that we're competing every night and hopefully get No win, you know, it's you know, it's major league baseball It's you're not taken away from anything from any team because any given night somebody can win So and you saw that to this weekend.


I think and it started on the defensive end It is easier to say but I think in that second half we're able to get stops get deflections and You know run down the other and like it was you going downhill and just gains and momentum and It was infectious throughout the whole group So I think that you know, we're showing good signs Here and there of the quality of Defense that we can produce and we can play and I think as we go down this road and we start to get better as a group It's how can we do that for more of the 48 minutes? But the potential is there and and you know, we we can we can see it. We've done it We can show it but just you know start, you know, keep keep improving on those small things With so many guys out and other guys had to step up as a teammate out Good was it to see shots fallen for James Johnson and Jevon Carter getting some shots to go down too Yeah, for sure, you know and and those players do so much for our team that you know won't show up on the on the Stat sheet You know, but but it's so great for the the group the way that they're able to Be professional and and go about their business So that when their their number is called they come in and they're able to You know do something for the betterment of the team that might not show up on here So, you know great effort from you know from from all those guys tonight James Johnson being able to come in and you know be Be disruptive on both ends of the floor Even be able to get the ball defensive rebounds and quarterback Create that flow But but I think there's you know starting to build that trust You know through everyone on on the list because because we are deep and I think tonight was an example of it


okay you guys are back playstation fans xbox fans and you know the last time i made a video like this i said this and yes it's true xbox is one and before that i also said this i still believe the xbox series s is better than the playstation 5 now if you're a playstation fan you're here to fight because the title says xbox game pass dominates playstation plus premium yeah i mean yeah that's the title but there's a reason i make this videos it's because i like competition and i want sony to deliver something that really is enticing now i think sony has come up with something that's quite interesting with brand new playstation plus it's got three new tiers plus it's got uh extra and it's got premium going against xbox game pass pc console and game pass ultimate so how do they actually fare in terms of performance but before we do that we're going to be showcasing games on this video and also just the whole idea on a gaming projector this is the benq x 3000 i gaming projector it's a 4k gaming projector does 4k 60 1080p 120 hdr projector with two hdmi ports so i connected both my consoles to it i was able to game that is actually pretty cool i love this projector because it does up to 100 feet and i am using the vivid storm projector screen which is automated i can retract and i can drop down you can also mount it by getting the mounted version great i'll leave the links for both of them below honestly it was a fun gaming experience but without even wasting more time let's go ahead and check out what playstation plus the new playstation plus has to offer so playstation plus has three plans and let's compare and see what those plans actually look like so we have the premium extra and essentials now all three plans have some basic features that are there and those basic features are monthly games online multiplayer playstation plus collection exclusive discounts exclusive packs cloud storage game help and shareplay with the extras though you do have the games catalog so you have some of the game catalog not the whole thing now premium which is what i have that also includes cloud streaming game trials and the classic catalog so let's go into playstation plus premium which is what i have and let's see what we have for some of the services so there is the classic catalog that shows you a lot of the classic games you see last of us here we also have charted is some games which you're allowed to stream uh or download depending on what it is then you also have just the game catalog itself now this also includes playstation five games so games like spider-man mouse moralis which i purchased um assassin's queen valhalla uh demon demon uh demon souls so you have that ability there we move over to game trials now this is very straightforward you can actually try the games you want to play so that is also quite interesting uh you can go ahead to say cyberpunk download the trials or you can buy the game and then finally of course the main big thing of course is cloud streaming as well and you can view the games there that you want to actually go ahead and stream and play so you've got death stranding you can download or stream so some of these games have download capabilities but you can also stream it as well if you look at the amount of games here i'm scrolling through it's a pretty large catalog for streaming games as well so playstation does have a lot of games to stream maybe not all the games you want but they do have a lot of games to stream here on the playstation five itself so again a large catalog of games to actually stream seeing uh what playstation plus premier brings to the table and how does it compare to xbox game path so take a look at game pass here we can go in and we can see all the games we actually want to play so it shows all games go ahead and do that and this shows you all the different games and it tells you where it's coming from xbox 360 also ea play or game pass depending on which partner they're using uh and it also shows you if it's uh xbox sues s or s compatible like you see with origami 2 there or if it hasn't been updated yet so you do have that showcasing for all the games that you can scroll through you can see all the games available on game pass all the way down still quite a few games quite a lot of games there so that is something pretty straightforward to see if you go to your full library you have this simple breakdown of saying xbox game plus 100 plus games uh ea play 92 now it's more than 100 plus games now you're probably thinking well playstation says they have about 700 games downloadable uh to stream which is quite impressive but you can see here you also have ea games as well so there are a lot of ea games you can actually go ahead and download or play uh via streaming which is quite interesting so you've got battlefield one which you can play or stream it's pretty straightforward here now what are the differences and what do we think now that we've actually seen all this together okay that was a lot of stuff but how do they stack up together now we've seen what they actually bring to the table and let's go through category by category start off with first with games this one is pretty clear and actually surprising for some people out there playstation plus premium by the way premium has more games than xbox game pass ultimate yes playstation sport premium has up to 700 games game pass ultimate about 300 to 400 games in there so they're just more games here but here's the caveat playstation plus premium has more older games ps3 ps4 games ps2 games while xbox game pass ultimate has more newer games from series x and s but down to the last generation xbox so more newer games on game pass more older games on playstation plus premium now when it comes to playstation plus extra and playstation plus um regular or essential essential has no extra so honestly i would just say don't get that at all playstation plus extra does have all the games to play if you're looking for all the catalog but playstation plus premium is the way to go now the other thing to look at of course is accessibility right playstation plus premium allows you to download your games and stream the games which is great and it's very clear it tells you which games you're downloaded which games you own which games you can stream all pretty clear on the interface i do like that aspect about it but here's the caveat though xbox game pass also does the same thing you can do that on your console but xbox game pass can do much more we know that you can play on your pc we know you can play on your smartphone whether it's your android smartphone your iphone you can play in your ipad a tablet and of course starting really soon your 2022 samsung tv so you've got more options to actually game on which makes it more accessible and a better buy and you do not need a console for xbox game pass ultimate while you do need a console for playstation plus premium so there's an extra cost to that that's an extra $500 just to play uh playstation plus premium remember that what about first party titles this is where i have mixed feelings because i think sony can do much more and i'm going to give them some advice as well so we know very well with xbox game pass you're going to get all microsoft first party games straightforward you're going to get all microsoft first party games that includes your halos your gears of war your forces as well as also everything from professor whether it's dishonored whether it's prey whether it's doom whether it's duke nuke series um whether it's um you know starfield is coming out tons of games and all the previous games they have on their right available plus you do have ea access as well so you do have access to ea games including the newer ea games on there so that's a big plus and microsoft just announced a partnership to bring in riot games as well so you have that there and don't forget we do have that acquisition of activision coming in so there's so much value baked into that price point that you see with xbox game pass as opposed to playstation where there are a lot of all the third party games all the playstation games but in terms of first party new playstation games we don't not have a lot right now i'm not saying they won't be just not a lot right now this miles moralists there's no eternal in there or we have assassin's creed we'll be soft displaying friendly with everybody you have assassin's creed as well on there uh playstation with the xbox game pass as well but not a lot of those first party gamers we love now this is my advice to playstation you should do two things i'm going to say one of two things but just do two things here one just make sure every first party sony game is on playstation plus simple make at uh a standard playstation 12 treatment you can put it on premium for all i care but make sure they're all there day one that day one cell is such a huge thing it means that look when forza comes out i don't have to buy it i just pick up my controller i start gaming that is huge the second thing is also your remastered games put that on playstation premium now if you don't have premium you can buy the games for 70 dollars but if you have premium you can stream it that should be a given and also you can buy it separately if you want to but i think that will be an added additive and i think finally i'm adding a third one yes it too look just put all fantasy final fantasy on playstation plus premium we know that look that is just a huge thing that's one of your big partners put the final fantasy games on there because that will bring people in simple straightforward sony has brought something to compete there is really solid competition if you look at the price points here playstation plus premium is 1799 a month 120 dollars a year compared to xbox game pass ultimate that is 45 to three months and 184 a year yes you can get a cheaper at around 22 23 dollars so that pricing actually changes and brings it closer to around 160 or so but still it is a cheaper option with more games but less accessibility and less um you know first party games or top tier games you want to play that is the difference playstation which you can fix and bring over but the big hurdle and i'm going to repeat this again is for you to use xbox game pass all you need is game pass a controller and whatever device you have and for you to use playstation plus premium all you need is playstation plus premium your controller and of course your playstation 5 so it's going to cost you more money to play and play all the games you want to than it will with xbox game pass so to me say hate to say xbox game pass still dominates i'm not saying that playstation premium is bad i'm just saying that right now they're behind but they're also look this is just the early stages and i think they can do more and i can't wait to see more from playstation so i'm going to leave it there i'm going to talk quickly about that projector again because i really like it just to give you some more things about it while was gaming on projector played my my games on game pass on playstation plus premium on there the games played really well it does have built-in speakers it's not portable so which means you have to plug it in it's kind of heavy but you want something that's really bright like this can do in daytime or nighttime really solid so you can actually access all your games and play all your games effectively be it playstation plus premium or of course xbox game pass so guys let me know what you think do you think sony's actually come to compete and maybe leave one you think i'm wrong or do you think xbox still holds the crown as having the best game streaming service leave your thoughts down below don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy entertainment


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Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE, covering EMC World 2015, brought to you by EMC, Brocade and VCE. Welcome back to EMC World, everybody. I'm Dave Vellante with wikibon.com, wikibon.org, Silicon Angles, theCUBE, we go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise. Jonathan Siegel is here, along with Peter Smales, there with the product marketing group, within the core technologies group at EMC, we just heard from Steven Manley. Jonathan, Peter, welcome to theCUBE. It's great to be here. It's great to be here. So Jonathan, I was saying we were just talking to Steven about architectures and the like, so what's going on at the core technologies group? A lot, obviously. I tweeted out today, it's the biggest division, it's the most profitable division of EMC, it's where the bread and butter, the bread is buttered. So give us the update. Absolutely, so really what, it's a division, but I think more importantly, it's a division with products that are integrated, right? And so I think the power of the portfolio is something you're going to hear time and time again, I think, over the course of the next couple of years. And that's because what Guy Churchwood has done is he's brought products together for a purpose, right? And so for example, at the end of the day, what we're helping customers do is really simplify and automate their existing applications so they can start to transfer a lot of their time, if you will, right, and their investment on future applications. And so what we've done is, by leveraging some of the existing investments we had today, for example, VMAX, we've put together with products like Extreme I.O., and I'll get into that in a moment. Wow, there's actually great integration there to help our customers. We've also taken data protection and ensure that no matter where the data is, whether it's on-prem or off-prem, it's protected, right? And we're also making sure that there's always a path to the cloud, right? So regardless of the primary platform that customers are using today, whether it's VMAX or VMAX or Extreme I.O., we're investing to make sure that there's a path to the cloud. And by doing that, we're leveraging recent investments that we've made, for example, with Maginadix, as well as other products like Cloud Array from Trent Strato. So it's taking products together for a purpose to help our customers solve the most critical problems as they're transitioning from platform two to really platform 2.5. So, Peter, that's a good high-level overview. Can you take us through sort of the products, take it down to the product level? What should people be paying attention to here at EMC World? Sure, a couple things. And I'll walk across the board and then I'll turn back over to you. You can double-click on some of the primary stuff. I can double-click on some of the data protection, but pick up on John's point. Sort of three key themes, simplify and automate, right? Paths to the cloud, data protection everywhere. If you look at what we talked about on the primary side from a simplify and automate, all about VMAX, you can double-click on that. But it's all about not only best-of-reach storage with Extreme I.O. for all flash, with VMAX, with VNX, it's also the software-inherent capabilities of being a data services platform to automate that. Path to the cloud, news to the cloud array, as well as with cloud boost, and we can double-click on both of those. And then from a data protection everywhere standpoint, big news with the 9500, with the new DD9500, but really more on secret sauce or on software on data protection. So that's at 30,000 feet, and we can kind of take that in whatever direction we want to go. Well, let's unpack that, because as Stephen said, you can't do a four-hour keynote. We can't do a four-hour CUBE interview, but we can go for 2025. Whatever you want, I love you, we're available. Well, let's start at the top. Yeah, we can. Let's start with VMAX. All right, we've got two cubes. Let's just keep going all day. Three days of coverage with the CTD. So let's start at the top. VMAX, it sounds like VMAX, you're making VMAX sort of this asset play where you can deliver storage services through VMAX, any storage services, if that's what the customer wants to do. Jonathan, maybe you could take us through that strategy. Yeah, we'll put. So when we introduced the VMAX 3 last year, last fall, it was the first, and still is, Enterprise Data Service Platform, okay? And what that means essentially, I think is really important, is that we've separated the Enterprise Data Services software, right, if you will, from the underlying platform. So just like you said there, so that enables us, it really sets us up for today's announcement, was the ability to actually extend the trusted data services of VMAX, for example, SRDF, Synchronous Replication, the ability to manage my service level objective, protect point, right, direct backup to data domain. Those are data services, right, that VMAX that can run. And with today's announcement, which is called fast.x, it's the next generation of tiering. What that allows us to do is actually start to take those data services that are on top, and make those available to other platforms, other classes of storage underneath. It could be, for example, ExtremeIO, it could be other EMC products, it could be the cloud. And so that's really exciting, right? So that gives us customers a whole new way to think about how they can hyper consolidate their existing tier 2.5 infrastructure. So if I love VMAX, my processes are hardened around VMAX, I can now bring in other services, surround them with the VMAX code base, reliability, availability, serviceability, and carry on. That's sort of the strategy there, right? Exactly right. What about the customers as I? Sounds good, but I want to go in a different direction. What options does that customer? We have a lot of customers, we have a lot of options here. So again, so it's really about leveraging the trust, if you will, of the trusted data services of VMAX 3 and extending them out. So customers have a lot of choices. They can run VMAX 3 standalone. They can also, in announcing today, integration with Extreme I.O. You could actually take, so Extreme I.O.s of all flash array is extremely good at inline data reduction, right? So customers may have workloads that benefit highly from data reduction, inline data reduction. You could actually run that Extreme I.O. as a diamond tier within the VMAX 3 system, right? And manage it as a service. That's what's really important here is that what we're giving customers, and one of that I think really the key differentiators and customer values of VMAX 3 is enabling customers to manage essentially IT in their infrastructure as a service, right? Ensuring that we can meet the performance levels and meet the data protection levels, meet the availability levels of the workloads that are running behind it. Okay, and then on the data protection side, you've got a new product we heard today. It was, I think it was, Jeremy or somebody said, just think of it as double everything. Maybe it was David Goulden. Double everything. So let's double click into double everything. Yeah, it's actually better than that. That's double everything versus our own previous stuff. Relative to the competition, it's even better. So, very brief context. This notion of data protection everywhere. What is data protection everywhere? You'll hear us talk about that a lot. What it means is customers deploy and consume data and applications in a variety of different ways. Traditional on premise. They run virtualized infrastructure. They run in hybrid cloud environments. They have applications and data in the cloud. We have to deliver solutions to provide data protection across that entire. That sounds good. People want to know, is that feasible? Absolutely, and I'll talk about the proof points right behind that. The second point is that around SLAs. They have to be able to deliver SLAs across all of those from availability through archiving. So what do we announce today? Hardware always gets sort of the top billing. So we announced the new DD9500, which is our next gen. Resets the bar from a performance and scalability standpoint. You heard David talk about sort of double everything from a competitive standpoint. It's 1.6x the performance. It's 4x the scalability of our closest competitors. We reset the bar from a purpose-built backup appliance. But the real news, the important message is really the secret sauce is all around software. So the box always gets the headlines, but the secret sauce of everything we're doing with data protection is about software. So we've been a number of announcements on that front as well. DDOS 5.6, 16% performance boost across the entire portfolio. Expanded ecosystem of applications with big data for Hadoop and NoSQL deployments. That's within the traditional backup. Beyond that, we introduced ProtectPoint, the next rev of ProtectPoint, expanding our ecosystem of support around Oracle, SAP, and DB2 support. So direct integration from primary to protection storage. That's all powered by software. As well, Project Falcon. Project Falcon is a preview of a software-only version of data domain. That is monumental. And that's why we're previewing it, because think down the road, software-only deployments of DD, rapid deployment of remote office, branch office support, cloud service providers being able to deploy, cloud bursting for data protection, all enabled through data domain software. So Falcon is your software-defined version of data protection? Correct, it's a preview of the software-only version of data domain. And the concept is run it on the so-called commodity hardware? Check. That's exactly right. Because you're tracking the functionality out of the data domain that's been locked in the box and then saying, okay, that's the statement of direction that you're... That's exactly right. Because we want to unlock more rapid deployments, new use cases, different price points. It gives customers a whole new different way of looking at this, and back to the whole data protection everywhere. That touches across, we've got on-prem, covered pretty well. You go into virtual environments, you can see a software-only DD in that environment, absolutely.  So I want to come back to the customer challenges, Jonathan. When you talk to EMC customers, they say, love EMC, great service, great products. We just got a lot of them. And I've heard you guys talk about integration. And it's right at the heart of the core technologies groups. You got a, Joe Tucci says it best. It's better to have overlap than it is to have gaps. Well, you got some overlap. So it sounds like a big theme is integration. What problems are you trying to solve with that integration? And what's the sort of journey look like? As a customer, what can I expect if I'm a customer of, say, VMAX, VNX, I got data domain, should I be thinking about Vplex? Help me sort of squint through that complexity. Sure. So one thing just to pick up where Peter just was too, is the software defined. So actually we announced today the next step of Project Liberty. Project Liberty is it was a virtualized- I'm sorry, Project what? Project Liberty from last year. Yeah, so- Freedom. Freedom, right? Free the software from the hardware. Is it really the concept? So we announced today the availability of VVNX, virtualized version of VNX Community Edition. It's available today for free on EMC.com. Very similar to Project Falcon. This is available today to our existing customers or any prospects or even sales folks that want to use it. And what it allows customers to do for non-production purposes, the ability to actually spin up virtualized versions of VNX, right? And run it on any, they don't need purpose-built hardware, if you will. And this has been really popular already with our existing beta customers that have been using this. This allows them, for test dev purposes, to basically spin up virtualized versions to really speed applications to the cycles, for example, right? Application development cycles. For example, one customer I talked to last week, they actually, this guy wanted to make sure that every one of his developers had his own virtualized version of VNX to ensure that they could actually test out the replication with the same user experience that customers- that the application would have later on to speed the application development cycle. And then once the product, once their application's ready to go in production, they can move it into a production version of a VNX, for example. So just getting back to simplify and automate, we're really giving our customers what they've been asking for, was the ability to actually more cost-effective, you deploy EMC's data services and products, to help them speed the delivery of their applications. So we should think of this portfolio as coming together. And I mean, I'm sure it's not going to happen all at once, but help us take me through the journey of us customer. What should I expect in the next, let's say, six, 12, 18 months in terms of that integration? Convince me that I should stay with these products and you're going to put me on that journey, if you would. I think in any customer environment today, you're going to have a lot of workloads, right? And I think, as I was mentioning earlier, and those workloads need to be, they have a number of requirements in terms of performance, availability, cost effectiveness to manage, et cetera. And so what we've done is, and again, the power of the portfolio, we're helping our customers. If they're smaller customers, for example, they might use a VNX, right, to run their mixed workloads. Larger customers might start to look at leveraging pairs of VMAX or Stream.io or the combination of the two to essentially deliver on the best performance at the lowest possible cost. And we're able to, and I think very importantly, we're able to automate and manage all of that, right? All integrated with Viper. We haven't mentioned Viper here, but Viper is the user interface, if you will, the service catalog. So as an application developer or DBA wants to ensure that they have the right level of service for their application they want to bring online, our systems, for example, can make sure that that service level could be met and then monitored to ensure it's met, regardless of the underlying infrastructure. So we're really trying to make it transparent what's behind those applications. So whether it's VMAX or, go ahead. No, I was just going to expand on you. I mean, if you kind of net that out, to your question, you look at the integration. I mean, at the end of the day there's no silver bullet, right? There's no magic bullet from an application workload standpoint, whether it's data protection, whether it's primary storage. At the end of the day, you've got to have a best-of-breed portfolio strategy. We've got that. Okay, that's not going to change. Extreme, VMAX, VNX, right on down the line. We've got a great best-of-breed strategy. The key is then around all the automation that John was talking about. We've got proof points to speak to that today. So back to proof points to the customer. We've got those today. On the data protection side, same thing. It's all about tighter integration with protection and infrastructure. So we introduced protect point today. You'll see that ecosystem expand. You heard about Extreme.io. One of the key differentiators there is around replication. That's powered by RecoverPoint. So another good example of the short-term integration. So I think what you'll see directly the journey is you're going to continue to see us have a best-of-breed portfolio and you're going to continue to see us build more and more leverage, which ultimately is driving that simplification of the infrastructure. Asset leverage for the customer. Right, exactly.  We haven't even touched on, we barely touched on Viper. We didn't talk about Vplex, RecoverPoint, protect point. Then you've got VMware, you've got OpenStack, you've got Hyper-V. We've got Cloud. We've got Cloud. We've got Cloud. All kinds of integrations that you've got to support. Massive portfolio, substantial R&D effort. Yes. To make all this stuff work. Great job building competitive products. We're getting the hook. I'm sorry. Getting the hook, all right. Jonathan, Peter, thanks very much. Well, thanks for the time. We really appreciate it. We appreciate it. We're having a appreciate it. Keep right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. We're live from EMC World. This is Dave Vellante. I'll be back with John Furrier right after this break.


So we've created a bunch of algebraic structures and found a lot of properties, so let's try and summarize what we've found. Now if you have an amorphous blob like a magma, there's not a lot we can do, so let's talk about monoids. A monoid with the Latin square property has closure, identity, associativity, and if finite, inverses. Now the Latin square property is a useful way to analyze algebraic structures as long as there aren't too many elements. But it's tedious to verify, and so the question we've got to ask ourselves is, can we use a different property? So let's think about that. Suppose g star is a monoid where every element a has an inverse a inverse. Now suppose a star x is equal to a star y, then since a has an inverse, we can left multiply by a inverse. Since g stars are monoid, we have associativity. Since a inverse is the inverse, then a inverse star a is the identity, and since it's the identity e star x is x, and e star y is y. And what this means is that in the Cayley table, no two products in the row of a can be the same. Since in order for the products to be the same, the second factor must also be the same. And by a similar argument, no two products in the column of a can be the same. And so this means that if g star is a monoid where every element has an inverse, then g star satisfies the Latin square property. And there's one important thing to notice here. Previously we've had to require that g have a finite number of elements, but notice that we don't need to assume g has a finite number of elements anymore. And so this leads to the following observation. Having the Latin square property and a finite number of elements gives us inverses. But having inverses gives us the Latin square property whether or not we have a finite number of elements. And since the inverse is easier to check, we'll use it as the defining property of a new algebraic structure. And so we define a group. Let g be a set and star a binary operation where g is closed under star. So that gives us a magma. Star is associative. That gives us a semi-group. There is an identity element e where for any a and g, a star e is e star a is a itself, which gives us a monoid.   Then we say that g star is a group. Now really the group idea is a culmination of the different things that we've developed. And we've already proven, but you should actually try to prove these from the group definition. So in the following results. The identity element of a group is unique. The inverse of an element in a group is unique. And groups satisfy the Latin square property. And let's put everything together. Remember we want to be able to solve equations. A group is the simplest structure where the equation a star x equals b always has a solution. And the solution is unique. So in some sense a group is the simplest structure we can do algebra with. So let's do some algebra.


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Well, my dear students, the course is Labour Policy Pakistan and the topic is Elimination of Exploitation, Article 3 of the Constitution of Pakistan. Elimination of Exploitation is a distinct portion of the Constitution or Elimination of Exploitation We are living in a state where people live, where socio-economic activity is taking place, where business is taking place, where factors of production are being used, where the economy is running, the purpose of living in a state is that economic activity is in the country and those who participate in it cannot do any other activity. Economic activity cannot be done. In this way, the constitution says that the state shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation. It is the responsibility of the state to eliminate all forms of exploitation in the country and the gradual fulfilment of the fundamental principles from each according to his ability to each according to his work. So here exploitation is ending and the responsibility of the state is that each according to his ability to each according to his ability to each according to his work My dear students, the meaning of exploitation is misuse, abuse or mistreatment. Here on the slide you are seeing that it is written that employers who take service of their employees without payment of salary to them for services rendered by them would be violating principles of policy contained in the chapter 2 part 2 of the constitution of Pakistan 1973. It is said that employers who take service of their employees without payment of salary to them for services rendered by them would be violating principles of policy contained in the constitution. If you do any work and if you do not get a reward for it then it will be useless. So the constitution of Pakistan is not ready to accept uselessness. Here it is said that there action would be in violation of Article 3. If an employer takes service of their employees without payment of salary to them then it is exploitation and it is against Article 3. So this principle, each according to ability, each according to work, this principle, this fundamental principle is implemented in the socio-economic setup of Pakistan. In Ziman we are going to discuss power of high court. Constitution do not permit any kind of exploitation. Therefore the high court is bound to protect any person from being exploited. If a person is exploited by his employers in Ziman then the constitution can be used against the high court. And the high court is bound to protect it. So my dear students, it is the duty of the high court under the constitution. If an employer exploits an employee then the high court is bound to protect it. Let's go a little further. Here you will see Labour without wages is useless. If an employer takes work from an employee and does not give reward, compensation, wages or salary in return then it will be useless and it is against the spirit of the constitution. Hope you have understood the topic. Thank you very much.