Now, as gunshots echo across the windswept snow-covered reaches of the Wild Northwest, Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice, the breakfast cereal shot from guns, present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the Northwest, blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. And King, won, you huskies! Gold, gold, discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches, back to the days of the Gold Rush, with Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog, Yukon King, as they meet the challenge of the Yukon. There goes another mighty tree for those rugged lumberjacks to haul down Sergeant Preston's Yukon trail. Just think, if you were a lumberjack, what stamina would take? What good nourishing breakfast you'd eat? Start now to build up your stamina with breakfast that always include a heaping bowl full of Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice topped with milk or cream and fruit. Remember, wheat or rice shot from guns gives you added food values of restored natural grain amounts of vitamin B1, niacin and iron. And delicious, taste them. You just can't beat Quaker Puffed Rice or Quaker Puffed Wheat. Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police entered the Mounted Headquarters with the great dog Yukon King at his heels. Well, hello, Sergeant. When did you get into Dawson from Forty Mile? About an hour ago, Jim.  Yes, the thought came just about the time I left up there, having an early spring this year. I'll be glad to get back in the saddle for a change. Is Inspector in his office? Yes, he's been waiting for you. Must be something important. He went to telegraph you. Right, I'll go on in. Wait here, King. Come in. Morning, Inspector. Good morning. Good time, Sergeant. Sit down. Thank you, sir. Your message said to hurry back for a special assignment. That's right. I want you to start for Selkirk at once, Sergeant. Yes, sir. There have been several robberies in and around Selkirk. The most recent was a robbery at the express office, resulting in the murder of the night express clerk. I see. Constable Collins' report from Selkirk states that a small gang is responsible, but he's made no headway in running them down. He's asked for help, and particularly requested that you be sent. I'll leave for Selkirk within the hour, Inspector. Good. You'll take King with you, of course. Well, that's right. I'd have a hard time getting away without him, I'm afraid. I wouldn't want to be the one to try to hold him while you rode away. I'll telegraph the possible that you're on the way, Sergeant. I'll make the best time possible on the trip, sir. I'm sure you will, and I hope I won't have to wait long to hear that the guilty men have been taken into custody. Goodbye, and good luck, Sergeant. Goodbye, Inspector. The ride to Selkirk from Dawson City was a long and tedious one, since the condition of the trail following the thaw was slushy and tended to hold the Mounties' horse to a slow pace. But finally, Sergeant Preston reigned to a halt in front of the Constable's office. Oh, Blanky. Steady, fella. Come along, King. Go on in, boy. Sergeant Preston! Hey, I'm sure glad to see you again. Hello, Tom. We're glad to get here. Trail's better now, but it was a rather bad condition when we started. I can imagine.  Trouble's right. About a month ago, a traffic came to town. Got cash for his furs and set out for Whitehorse. He hadn't gone far when he was overtaken by another dog sled. So he stopped alongside. He barely had time to notice that one of them rode the runners while there were two riding the sled. Because of their parka hoods and bandanas covering part of their faces, all I could see were their eyes. He was startled to see guns in the hands of the two on the sled. Hold up, eh?  When they came to, they were gone and so was his cash. Came back here, reported the robbery. Meantime, it began to snow and the trade of the crooks was covered. It was a bad break, Tom. In a short time later, a prospector was in town after he'd made a strike at his claim. Carried quite a bit of gold and talked freely of having more at his cabin. At night, just as he entered his cabin, he was struck down in the dark. Got any clues that time? Said his cabin was a shambles inside and all his gold gone. Now went out there, but others had traveled the trail that morning and it wasn't possible to pick up the trail of the crooks. What makes you think there was more than one crook that time? There were three sets of footprints along the side of the cabin to the window. That's how they got in. It could have been the same three. That's right. Then, just before the thaw came, the express office was raw. They got a payroll shipment that was to go out the next morning to Beaver Creek Mining Company. They shot the clerk. The inspector told me the night express crook had been murdered. Why did anything that might help? I did find something, but it's no help. You see, the clerk summed over his desk when he was shot. I guess the crooks left him for dead. Evidently after they'd gone, he had enough life in him to try to print a message. I have it here. Letters are mighty shaky looking. It's easy to make out the words he managed to put down. What's it say? It says three of them. The leader may be. That's as far as he got. Three of them, the later may be. Let me see that, will you? Sure, here it is. Thanks. Letters sort of run together toward the end. Yes. I guess he was failing fast, poor chap. Evidently, he thought he recognized the leader. Too bad he didn't get a chance to put down the name he had in mind. I'll keep this a while, Tom. I want to study it. That's all right. I've stared at it until I'm blue in the face, almost. This note's the only clue? Yes. Crime wasn't discovered for hours. Many trail he might have left in the street was wiped out by people going back and forth. I wish we'd been here when it happened. Can't you have picked up their scent? I know. And of course, a lot of people have gone in and out of the express office since then. Let's go to the cafe. Jim Hollis, the owner, may recall some strangers that were here doing those robberies. Jim Hollis sold out after you left for Dawson last fall, sergeant. Oh? The new owner's mighty friendly. Give us any help she can. She? Yeah, she's a widow. Mrs. Evans, about 30 or so. Rather rough-mannered, but not bad-looking. Very pleasant to talk to. All right then, let's go talk to Mrs. Evans. Come on, King. A short time later, the two Maltese and King entered the cafe. Constable led the way to the owner's office at the back and knocked. Constable Collins! Come on, Sergeant. Come along, King. Constable, where'd you get that fine-looking dog? Not to mention a mighty fine-looking Maldi, too. Mrs. Evans, this is Sergeant Preston. And his dog, King. Glad to meet you, Sergeant. Thank you, Mrs. Evans. The Constable told me you'd be willing to help us for some information. Sure, help you if I can.  Oh, thank you. Sergeant, we're surprised to hear you taken over the cafe. Oh, nothing surprising in that far as I can see. My husband ran a cafe in El Paso, Texas for a while. And then we went to Frisco and he opened one there. When he was killed in a gun brawl, I sold out and come up here. I see. Maybe you can tell me if there have been any strangers around town during the past month or so. Well, now I reckon I've seen a few who made overnight stops in town, but none have stayed around. We're not interested in men who are just passing through. What are the... strangers your husband look like, Sergeant? I can't say. You mean you won't say? Oh, never mind. I'm not the curious type. Sergeant's here to help me find the three men who killed the express clerk, among other things. How do you know there were three? Well, the clerk lived long enough to print a note saying... That's, uh, wouldn't interest Mrs. Evans, Constable. Well, I suppose not. Just forget what I said, Mrs. Evans. Sure thing, Constable. How long are you gonna be in cell, Kirk, Sergeant? I'll be around for a while, yeah? Oh, good.  I'm not married, Mrs. Evans. Oh. You know, since I have a feeling we're gonna be friends, you needn't be so formal with that Mrs. stuff. You can call me Maybell, Sergeant. Oh? Sergeant, that's a privilege no other man in town's been given. That's right. Really? Well, frankly, I'm glad you told me your first name. How's it spelled? Maybell used to be two names. May, after my ma, and Belle, after her sister. But now I just run them together under one name. Maybell, eh? Hasn't anyone in town ever heard your first name? Well, sure. I reckon everybody knows it, but, uh, I'm particular who uses it. Oh. I'm pleased to have you call me that, Sergeant. Mighty please. Well, thank you for the compliment. Well, Tom, we'd better be moving along. Well, goodbye. As soon as the two Mounties had gone from the building, Mrs. Evans went from her office to a secluded table in the back of the cafe. Two men looked up as she sat down. You saw the two Mounties? Yeah, we saw them all right, Maybell. You said me were wondering what they wanted here. Yeah. What did they want? Constable brought in that Sergeant to meet me and get my help, so they said. That Sergeant didn't just come here to pass the time of day meeting you, Maybell. He's Preston. Him and that dog are famous for solving crimes. Oh. But he acts suspicious at all, Maybell. Oh, but he asked about strangers being in town. Of course, like you and Sid aren't strangers here. That's right. We aren't. If that Mountie gets any kind of clue, he don't give up. Well, there is one thing, boys. Uh, a certain nombre scrawled some sort of note before he died. Constable was blurting it out, but Preston stopped him quick. Hold him back for me. Sit down, Sid. Take it easy. You don't see me getting excited, do you? You don't reckon anything upset you? Instead of letting anything upset me, I'd do something about it, Pronto. Yeah? So what do we do? Oh, look, I figure if that note pointed at anybody, that tall Sergeant would act right away. But he did. He came direct to see you. No, he didn't. Constable Collins brought him and just to meet me, hoping to get help. That young Constable is susceptible to easy talk and nice smiles from a woman. But the Sergeant, uh, gone him isn't. Sounds like you were getting sweet about him. Forget it. Uh, he's sure some number, huh? Mate, help. Pete, stop worrying, will you? I know he's dynamite tall of us. Now, one of them has that note, and we gotta get it. Even if it means doing away with the one who's carrying it around. Even if it's Sergeant Preston himself. We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. You know, fellas and girls, now that April's here, it's getting to feel sort of springy. And I was thinking, say, as a matter of fact, let's open the window and enjoy that balmy breeze, huh? Oh, good heavens, look what just flew in. It has wings, but it isn't a bird. It's a little creature. A sprightly-looking little fellow. You hear it right. I'm a wood sprite. Well, you must be the fellow that goes around in the spring opening the leaf buds and spring flowers. But what are you doing here? I had an idea about Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice. Oh, you're interested in the breakfast cereal shot from guns. You bet I would. Say, Mr. Wood Sprite, you must go for wheat or rice shot from guns. Nothing better. Sleep for a busy fella like me. You mean because Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice are nourishing and furnish extra food values of restored natural grain amounts of vitamin B1, niacin, and iron. Right. Say, what was that idea of yours? It's a spring breakfast treat. You put Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice together a cereal dish. Separate the two with fruit, add milk or cream, and mm-hmm.   And don't forget, Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice are shot from guns to make them crisp and tender. Yes, these king-size premium grains are actually exploded up to eight times normal size to make them bigger and better tasting. Ask mom right now to order delicious, nourishing Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice. The original crisp, fresh, wheat or rice shot from guns comes only in the big Quaker Red and Blue package with a seal in lining in order to doubly protect the flavor and Christmas until it hits your table. That's why Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice is never sold in bags or bulk. Ask mom to please get both delicious kinds pronto. Now to continue. Sergeant Preston and the Constable walk back toward the Constable's office. Darkness was approaching, and as they reached the hitch-rack where Preston's horse Blackie stood waiting, the sergeant spoke. Tom was a tearing trip from Dawson. If you don't mind, I'll go to your cabin instead of coming to the office. Blackie and King could both deal with food and rest, and so could I. Oh, sure. You go ahead, Sergeant. Make yourself at home. After you have a few hours' sleep, we'll have another discussion. Meantime, I'll finish up some reports at the office. All right. You know, what's the idea about the meaning of this note, Tom? Maybe because I'm so tired, I'm just reaching for a quick solution, but I'll tell you about it later. So long. Steady, fella. See you in a few hours, Sergeant. All right. Let's go, King. Get up, Blackie. The Constable's cabin was set off by itself at the edge of town. After taking care of his horse and feeding King, Preston flopped down on one of the two carts and fell into a deep sleep. Because of the stuffiness indoors, King stayed out in the shed with Blackie. For a while, the great dog dozed, and then he suddenly raised his head and listened as he heard the distant wailing cry of a lone timber wolf coming from the wooded area behind the shed. King got to his feet and stood for a moment listening, and then with another low growl, he trotted off to investigate. A short time later, suspicious figures moved to the window of the cabin. By the light of a lamp on the table inside, they could see Sergeant Preston sleeping on the cot. He's in there sleeping, Buck. I don't see that dog around. I'll cover the money. You'll be ready to plug the dog the minute you see him. Right. Let's get to the door. Slowly and carefully, Sid tried the door and found it unlocked. He eased it open. He sound asleep. I'll stand at the head of the cot in case he wakes up. I'll show the pockets of his jacket and parka. Right. There's a jacket and parka hanging over there. Go search them. Okay. While Buck went to look for the note, Sid moved stealthily to the head of the cot and stood watching the sleeping Mowdy. A few moments later, Buck spoke out cautiously. I found it, Sid. Now I'll... What was that? As the Mowdy started to rise, Sid, lifting his gun, brought the butt of it down in a glancing blow on the back of Preston's head. Yeah, that put him out like a light. Very quick. Right. A short time later, Sid and Buck hurriedly entered Mrs. Evans' office at the cafe. How's it make out? We got the note. Give it to her, Buck. Yeah. Here it is. Did he get a look at either of you? No, he was sleeping. The dog wasn't there. I socked him with my gun, but as he woke up, he's out cold now. When the news gets out, I'll... I'll go to sympathize with him and offer my services as a nurse. Let's see what's printed in the note. Three of them. The leader may be... It doesn't make sense. That clerk couldn't have recognized you, my pal. Those men's clothes with the bandana to hide your face. That's right. He had an idea that maybe the leader was someone he knew. That's all. It's a good thing there are steps from this office to the upstairs. You won't have to go out front. Now, Bozy, you better go up to your room and stay there in case the constable comes asking questions in the cafe later. Yeah, one of us might make a slip. We're there in the cafe, and he does come in. I don't think the sergeant will be around for a day or two after Sarky goes. You didn't.  Don't think so. What if we didn't? Nobody could prove anything against us. Well, let's go, Buck. I'd stay up in the room the rest of the evening. About half an hour later, a sergeant Preston was aroused into consciousness by the sound of the great dog king barking and scratching at the door. Oh, my head. Slowly, the mountain sat up and then staggered to the door. King, where were you, boy? Somebody came into the cabin. Oh, I have to sit down a minute. There, that's better. Why'd you let anyone come in, fella? If that blow had landed solidly, I'd have been killed. Feel better now. I got some water and bandage after I rest a bit.  I never knew you'd let anyone prowl around before. Here comes Tom, King. Hey, Sergeant, what's the matter? How'd you get that cut on your head? I can't say, Tom. I was sound asleep. Something awakened me. The start of the get-up, I was hit. That's all I know. I can't figure out how they got past King. He was just outside. Hey, look over there. Your jacket and pocket are on the floor, and that chair's overturned. I don't know what woke me up. Bring that jacket and pocket here, will it, please? Sure. Here they are. Someone must have been searching for something, and pockets ripped. Oh. Note, Tom, it's gone. Why would anyone go to all this trouble to get that? Who knew about it? Nobody, but you and me.  Maybell Evans. Tom, that's the thought I've had before. That clerk might have been trying to write out the name Maybell. All he was able to get down was the M-A-Y-B-E, which we took to be the words May and B. Gosh. Doesn't seem possible that she could have... She was the only one who knew about that note outside of us. I'm convinced she's mixed up in this and in those other crimes. Help me manage my head and then we'll get busy. Right away, Sergeant. Constable quickly attended to Preston's wound, and then he spoke. Look, Sergeant, we can't accuse her or anyone else without... I'm calling on King to lead us to the person or persons who came here, Tom. Let's go outside and see if King can pick up the scent. Come on, King. Find them, King. Find the boy. The intelligent dog understood what was expected of him. He sniffed it along the ground in front of the cabin, and then catching a strong fresh scent he looked up and barked. He's got the scent, Tom. I'll get Blackie and then we'll see where King leads us. The great dog King followed the scent left by Sid and Bark directly to the cafe. Gosh, the trail leads right to the cafe, all right? Yes, we're going. Come along, King. King was momentarily puzzled by the many men in the cafe, but after sniffing around, he finally stopped at the office door and whined. Oh, Mr. Servant's office. Let's go in. What happened to your head, Sergeant? Can't you guess? Nope. Never was good at guessing. Hey, what's that dog standing at the foot of the stairs whining for? Maybe he's telling us we'll be interested in the upstairs, Maybell. We'll look around up there. Hold it, Maybell. Don't open that door. Oh, now, look here, Sergeant. Isn't right for you to go snooping into my private quarters. Well, I don't know what got into you. I thought maybe you came for a social visit and here you go. Here, King, come for behind the desk, Maybell, and sit in this chair. Great, Jay, what is this? Tom, I thought you were a good friend of mine. Why do you let this mountain pull a gun on me, me a lady? I said come and sit down, Maybell. I was sort of hoping you and me could become close friends, Sergeant. In fact... Save your breath, Maybell. What's your, King? Hey, don't let him hurt me. You'll be all right if you don't move or call out. Let's go, Tom. Be quiet going up the stairs. I hear voices in that room. For a moment, the two Mounties stood close to the door, listening. Two of them. Those are our men. Have your gun ready, Tom. I'm ready. Now let's go in. I'm fast. Hey, what's the idea? Reach, both of you. I'll feature for a button in here. Oh, you're not? Oh, my arm! Give me that gun. Get back there. Wait, Tom. This will do for you. You have no right, Father. This will bother you plenty. Good work, Sergeant. Thanks. Get up, you. No, wait. I've had enough. Bring the other one down, Tom. He's wounded in the arm. Let's go. Listen, Sergeant, I...  Keep going. Maybell, what's all this about? Don't worry. We have our lawful rights. They have nothing against either of you. Oh, yes, we have. Keep them covered, Tom. I'll look in this desk. Here's the note they took. Some pokes of gold. Also an empty canvas sack. Those are pokes of gold taken from the express office, all right, Sergeant. And each poke has the owner's name on it. That canvas sack's the one the mining money was in. Here are the members of the gang you were hunting, Tom. The note said there were three, and it started to name the leader as Maybell. Oh, wait a minute. You can't connect me to this. Outside of the constable and me, Maybell, you were the only other person to know that note. You sent these two men after it tonight. No, no. They worked on their own. I did mention the note to them, but they're the ones you want. They had access to this office and planted those pokes in my desk. She's lying. She knows it. She made all the plans. Help us pull each job. Oh, please, Sergeant, don't believe them. I'm a poor defender. Shed your tears for the clerk you helped murder, Maybell. I arrest the three of you in the name of the queen. This case is closed. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Wednesday's adventure. Listen, fellas and girls, think of the fun of having models of a real Yukon lumber camp. Well, don't waste a minute. They're yours at no extra cost on the special Yukon trail packages of delicious Quaker puffed wheat or Quaker puffed rice. Yes, there are eight different packages with exciting models of a lumber camp, plus Sergeant Preston's own cabin, his team of huskies. The White Horse Jail, and a Yukon riverboat with a paddle that actually turns. And even scenery, the Klondike mountain and forest. There are 59 larger, easier to build models in all. Why, it's like Sergeant Preston's Yukon trail appearing right before your eyes. So get going. Build your complete Yukon trail right away. 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Hi, I'm Peter Burris and welcome to another CUBE conversation from our studios in Palo Alto, California. Today, we're joined by Michael LeBeau, who's the Global Managing Director of Accenture Cloud and brings a great perspective on what is happening as customers try to move to the cloud, in part because you help direct Accenture's move to the cloud. Welcome to theCUBE, Michael. Thank you, great to be here, Peter. So Michael, tell us a little bit about yourself and what Accenture's Global Cloud Business Unit does. So, we've been at this for a long time now. I've personally been with Accenture for five years and we've been driving this transformation, not just in our industry, but for Accenture, as we pivot to cloud-enabled technologies and essentially creating, rotating to the new. And that is our focus. So how do you do that? Cloud is an enabler, it's a vehicle, it helps to create agility. We researched a whole bunch of enterprise customers not too long ago and found that every organization, like 90 odd percent, had a cloud strategy, but very few had a cloud strategy that was aligned to a business outcome. And so what I would posture is that where you have cloud aligned with business, you have cloud. Otherwise, you just have a paper exercise. Or just a new set of technologies as fail as easily as anything else that you might have. Well, like in a lab somewhere as a science experiment and not real business impact, where you're saving money or you're innovating or you're creating kind of the next, you're disrupting your industry. So where people are actually using cloud to change their business, that's where it gets exciting. And there are lots of industries across the globe where that's happening. Companies are adopting cloud. We're adopting cloud. We're now just declared 90% in the public cloud. And that's been a three, four year journey. And we figured, how do you sell this stuff if you don't use this stuff? Now I think it's a great point, Michael. So I want to use a metaphor to try to tease some of that out. So a legal scholar would say that there is constitutional law and statutory law. Statutory law guides day to day activities. So it's not unlike how you provision this or how you optimize that. And then there's constitutional law, which is basically the laws for how you change the laws. What we're talking about is two shifts going on at once within a lot of companies, and that's driving a significant amount of complexity and uncertainty. They are changing the statutory law as they think about moving to the cloud, but they're also changing the constitutional law or they're applying constitutional law. The rules of how they think about workloads, how they think about their business is changing. So let's start with some of the constitutional principles, if you will, of moving to the cloud. What did Accenture learn about the rules for changing the rules as you went to the cloud? And how are you using the historical discipline that Accenture brings to those kinds of questions and applying it to helping customers? So one of the things you learned very quickly is that your old policies, your rules, whatever regulations, laws were drafted for a bygone error, for legacy. And in the cloud, things are different. And so if you take those policies and kind of how you think about how you do things and you apply it to the cloud, then you're treating the cloud as just another data center. So right there, five years of learning, that's a huge mistake. So number one is don't treat the cloud as another data center. It's kind of that high level metal. Right, right. Because if you look at your policies and your security models, an organization would take the cloud and they would put it, the access to the cloud in a bunker in the basement, with no windows and no doors. And so you wouldn't have cloud. Cloud is democracy. It's about allowing all. So constitutionally, all people have access to the cloud and all the innovation is in the cloud. All the investment in the industry is in the cloud. We're looking at an unprecedented buildout of cloud capacity across the globe. They're opening new regions, new availability zones, all the time in new places. These are the big cloud providers. Yes, because I mean they're spending an aggregate $30 billion a year. No organization can match that. And that's just the top three. That's just Google. That's just the hyper three. Yeah, and we don't, you know, that doesn't include all the Babas doing and some of the other players elsewhere in the world. But they're not spending at the rate that the hyper three are. Got it. All right, so there's, you know, hyper three are spending about 10 billion a year each, you know, a little bit more, a little bit less. Anybody else? They're down around the single digit. One, two, maybe three. Got it. Alibaba's about, I think about three or four. All right, but everybody else is in that ones or twos. So rule number one is don't treat it as a data center. Rule number two is recognize that one of the beauties of the cloud model is that it gives you access to everybody. Yes. You guys have to determine how you want to provide that access as opposed to just the resources in your, inside your network or inside your organization. Well, so early days about the whole notion of service orientation was to publish services that can be consumed. So, you know, you want to abstract these services and you want to make them available broadly. All right. And so people talk about platforms. What's a platform? A platform is nothing without community. And so, so you're now able to do things that we've been talking about for decades. And that is, is huge. That's where all the innovation occurs. So now you're providing a level of access, level of capability, broadly speaking, it's, it's like the next revolution from the early days of the internet. And it's changing enterprise and it's changing it dramatically. And so it's not just the change, it's disruption. So now, you know, IT needs to think differently. It's probably the biggest, you know, shift, the paradigm shift that we've seen ever. And so, you know, the existing, your existing vendor stable and those relationships that you've built up over the year may not be helpful to you right now in terms of how much things are changing and how fast things are changing. And so, you know, do you have a cloud strategy? Is it aligned with business outcomes? And it's not just cost saving. It's about agility. It's about speed. It's about, you know, kind of creating an innovative culture. Do you have the right talent? These are all things that come into play in terms of your law analogy, right? That change the game. So now I need new laws.  So one of the things, not only if you think about cloud as an underpinning, so we're now 90% in the cloud, but if you look at our financials, you know, we've rotated to the new. So digital cloud security are now well over 50% of our revenues.  And now we're starting to think about the new new, which are things like machine learning and applied intelligence and whatnot, you know, blockchain, you know, new capabilities that you could do because now you have a cloud underpinning that helps you get there. I think it's a really important point because I've always argued, we've always argued at Wikibon that the cloud really in many respects is that network application development world that we've talked about.  Cloud really provides a whole notion of network or, you know, internet scale computing and how you developed that really is what you're getting when you move to the cloud, right? Is that accurate? No, I mean, it's absolutely because, you know, the notion then became about orchestration, all right? Standardization, self or shared services, automation. You know, these, when I think about what cloud is, those are the words that definitely, you know, the underpinning for Y cloud, you get all of that.   Now I can assemble stuff, all right, and make it available to you and I can change your business model overnight. All right, and so that's the kind of things that we're seeing. And so we're bringing our best people, you know, landing them at a client and saying, how do we transform? Cloud, you know, it's not just about cloud, it's not about selecting a provider. It's about a transformation of operating model. You know, it's about change. How do I educate, you know, re-skill your people, retrain them, refocus them? And it's about really just the technology platform for the future. And if you, well, I want to build on something you just said. So Accenture has moved 90% of the cloud. Maybe you have some more, I'm sure you have some more to go. And maybe that last 10% is going to be especially tricky. We'll see. But clearly you mentioned the global system integrators and you said that Accenture, your market, the way you're servicing your customers changing, how overall is the role of the GSI evolving as companies move to the cloud? Because it's, are you getting there once? Are you getting them there once and then they do everything themselves? Is there some sort of approach that you're taking to help them sustain that? Because the diffusion of knowledge about the cloud and how to get to the cloud is not evenly spread across the industry. So how is the role of the GSI changing in the mix of this transformation? So I can speak to Accenture, not the industry, for sure. So we embarked on something that we packaged as we call Journey to Cloud. J2C is our internal acronym. And Journey to Cloud has different components. It has kind of a strategy and assessment focus. It has a migration focus and a run. And that's your journey. And so we've basically codified, invested in, and hardened a set of assets and capabilities, skills, people around those three key elements so that any organization, if you just want a strategy or if you want us to take you through strategy to migration, get you to the cloud and then run that operation for you, we can do any and all. And so that really is the motion. And one of the good things about Accenture per se, I think we're probably number one in cloud, cloud services, but the point here is that we never did your mess for less. We never bought your assets, rebadged your people. There were other organizations that did that. So we weren't encumbered. And one of the things I liked about coming to Accenture is that it didn't have certain encumbrances that would kind of skew, just that culture, right? So the way we used to do things is not necessarily the way we will be doing things.  And it's going to slow you down, right? And it's going to cause whatever internal friction between the old and the new. And so you have those types of issues that go on in a lot of organizations. I mean, people love their data centers. They love the blinking lights. They like their vendors. I mean, that's inertia. You know, and so in order to move, you have to free yourself of some of these encumbrances and think differently about your new operating environment. So we've said that the difference between business and digital business is that a digital business acknowledges and explicitly acknowledges the role that data plays in their business, data as an asset. And that you can measure digital business transformation based on the degree to which a business has re-institutionalized work and organized work and organized its resources around data as an asset. It sounds as though you can do, your suggestion can do the same type of thing, thinking about cloud, where the migration to the cloud or the transition to the cloud or transformation to the cloud is how deeply have you really re-institutionalized your work around that new operating model that the cloud suggests? Is that accurate? Yeah, no, there's new roles and new capabilities that have to be thought through. There's new workflows.  And if you have to embrace that, think through that and then have a change program to get you from where you are to this new place. And now, people have said by modal, right? There's this old mode and this new mode, whatever, right? But the fact of the matter is is that there's a gap between the old and the new. And so how do you bridge that gap? Now, I run a platform and so we acknowledge the legacy. So our goal is to get you from legacy to cloud. And so we have to manage the policies, the security model, the governance between the old and the new. And so how do you do that? Well, yes, it's an abstraction, but it's a control plane. And so you have to tool for it. You have to tool for the change management and for the transformation. And then you have to have an underpinning that allows you to move from legacy through virtual, private maybe to public. And that's your spectrum. And so we've invested significantly in creating that platform so that we can help organizations. Now, not everything is fully automated end to end. That would be kind of foolish, right? But you have to be able to think through how your kind of legacy IT operations approach and your new cloud operations approach, how they connect. Well, as you said, you can assess, migrate and run. And the migration is not just migrating hardware or data or workloads, it's migrating the operating model. How you think about what your business is going to operate in a digital context as part of the run process. So two quick questions, and then, well, two quick questions. Number one is that when, that there is this hump. This migrate is a hump. It's a hump from a risk standpoint. It's a hump from a cost standpoint. It's a hump from a management standpoint. Some of the dislocations might be required. I'm going to ask you to take us through that a little bit, how it worked at Accenture and how you think it's going to work elsewhere. And then finally, you've kind of described what the run relationship would be with a company like Accenture. But I want to be a little bit more explicit about that. But let's start with that hump. What is a client going to face when they look at that hump? So, that migration hump. No, no, no. The word you used and it's the right word is risk. And so how do you de-risk the risk? How do you approach this so that you understand one, you know, your cost model. Model organizations don't have an understanding. From a technology standpoint. They don't have a clear line of sight to what that cost model is. They might have bits and pieces, but they haven't really pulled it all together into a common view because they haven't had to. You know, if you think about, you know, where the cost was centered, it wasn't at a project level or an application. It was at a senior level and they bought a data center and then they depreciated it. So now, and they didn't do showback. Forget about chargeback. So now you're trying to give view in that assessment phase as to what your costs are.  Because that's the, that underwrites your migration. So we can bring clarity to that, number one. Number two, we do migration at scale. So we have factories and we have run books and we have tooling end to end. So we can discover what's not in your CMDB and we can take you from, you know, kind of your current situation to the cloud and we can do it quickly because speed is everything. So give me a year, give me a month. I've taken people out of data centers in a month. You know, we can do that because we've hardened these processes and we've built the factories in order to be able to scale that. And then once we get you there because you know, you looked at the business case but now you know, you're not just moving to an environment of continuous integration or continuous improvement or continuous deployment. You're looking at a new environment of continuous optimization. And so you have to structure the operating model so that you know at any given moment, we're moving to, you know, the ability to bill by the day.  So that, you know, this is a whole- Whole resources. Yes. I think of them as assets, right? But you're right. It's about resource management and you're consuming these resources literally by the second.  They've just refreshed their entire estate overnight. Other organizations are sitting there with assets depreciating on cement and they're refreshing every seven years. So it's a whole new, you know, kind of environment to be able to be able to think through that. They have DR facilities that are seeing their idol that, you know, are sucking tons of cash out of the balance sheet. What do you do with that? If you free that up and think about not just DR in the cloud, but, you know, active, active implementations of applications that are scaling up and down. So you're not buying to the peak. You're buying to a valley. You know, your whole operating style dramatically different, right? And the optimization, if I'm looking at your cost profile, I'm looking at it daily. I can see, you know, you used to over provision machines because you weren't ever sure you were going to get another one, right? So you'd buy big. Now you buy small, right?  Yeah, I'm buying for the moment, right? I mean, if I spot buy, I could buy 10,000 instances and, you know, for an hour and then get rid of it. So, you know, the whole kind of construct here in terms of how you think about, you know, consumption is dramatically different. All right, so last question. And, you know, as you think about a client's relationship after this, during the run phase, very quickly, what is the difference in their relationship with an Accenture versus what was their relationship with an Accenture 10 years ago? How is it different? How is an Accenture a cloud company? So that's 10 years ago. It's kind of hard, you know, because I think about traditional outsourcing and Accenture never really got into the market. You know, it was never your mess for less and people were locked in, they weren't happy with the level of service. It took six months to provision new hardware. So that was 10 years ago.  But Accenture has a management platform to that sustains that relationship. Well, so what Accenture wanted to do was to figure out how do we add value in this new world? All right, and so we created a management plane above, you know, multiple clouds. We said, you know, it's highly likely that there will be more than one single provider. There will be three, we bet, you know, which three long time ago. And then we built fidelity around those three and we said, well, you know, how do we, how do we add value around that? Well, you know, multi-cloud. So I just got a patent, my first patent of any on, you know, multi-cloud tagging. So it allows us to tag resources across clouds. Okay, now what does that do for you? Well, that allows you to enforce policy. So policy's not paper, policy is dynamic. So now I can govern how people use things and I can tag resources across different providers. And what does that allow me to do? Well, not only can I govern that, I can analyze that. And so the, you know, it's not data as an asset, it's data as a service. So now I have insight into what people are doing, how they're, you know, these tagged resources, how they're using them, right? Are they consistent with policy? So I can scan my entire environment every 10 minutes and I can ensure a level of compliance. So now I'm more secure, I'm more confident that not only are we, you know, governing the usage of these resources, but they're being used, you know, within policy and they're secure. And then the last thing is cost. I can look at cost.  Were you allowed to do that? All right. Is that within, you know, budget? So in many respects, Accenture participates in the governance process of resources as part of the ongoing- Securely and within costs. Excellent. So to provide those controls. Got it. But it's a level of freedom because you as a developer, I want you to go native. I want to coexist. And so I'll discover what you're doing, but you go straight to that console because that's the most robot. You know, they just launched a thousand new services whomever, right? You know, use them. Right. Leverage them, right? That's part of the whole, the cloud gives you access to more than you had before. Right. In 10 years ago, it was contained. Got it.  It took whatever latency, whatever process to get that service request approved. And this new age, you know, you need to be able to move fast. You need to be able to respond to whatever market demand. And so you need to like enable this community to leverage those things, not go around you. All right. But for you to support them, but ensure that it's within policy, that it's secure, and that it's, you know, cost managed. And within that whole construct, Accenture hopes to be able to help sustain those relationships, transaction costs low, so that all the richness of cloud can be bought to bear in a company's business. Very well put. All right. So Michael LeBeau, global director or global manager. Managing director. Managing director of, global managing director of Accenture's cloud platform. Thank you very much for being on theCUBE, Michael. Great conversation. Yeah, terrific. Once again, this is Peter Burris. You've been watching a CUBE conversation. Till next time.


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And a social cultural group in Owera Ima State Dozier-Merzier Association of Owera Indigents worldwide has condemned a brutal attack and various degrees of injury meted on the precedent of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Agero in Owera by police in Thugs, loyal to the governor of the state Hope Uzodema. The group speaking through its precedent, Harry O'Para in Abu Jarun Saturday, says the Labour leader's life was spared only because of the quick intervention of the National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu. Nigerian Labour Congress said this, that it was the NSC himself that intervened in this situation. That was what saved our brother, Mr Joe Agero, from possible death at the house of the assailants. Initially the government of Ima State claimed that they had no hands in that attack, but on Thursday at a panic with journalists at the state house here in Abu Jam. The Ima State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodema claimed responsibility for the attack, where he accused Joe Agero of interfering with local politics. And that as the Chief Secretary of the state, that he has taken action. The group also issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Hope Uzodema, the governor of the state of faith, the wrath of people of Ima State in general. I say people who want to suppress our under, are the deadly attack. I say people who want to suppress our under, are the deadly attack. On a warrior song in a warrior land. And to express this, deep this appointment and the reckless manner the governor accepted responsibility of this brutal and brutish attack. We call on Governor Hope Uzodema to issue appropriate apology to Joe Agero and the warrior people in general for this brutal assault on Mr Joe Agero and deep disrespect of warrior people. We are giving the governor 48 hours to tender this apology. I say people who want to suppress our under.


Hi, guys. So today we're going to talk about the brain. Before we dive into the structure and function of the brain, which is extremely complex, I want to do a quick overview, a reminder of the big picture of the nervous system as a whole so that we don't get lost in the details of the brain. You remember that in the last section we actually talked about the brain and the spinal cord as being part of the central nervous system. So I'm just going to repeat. Here's my spinal cord. Whoa. Sure thing. Totally looks like a spinal cord. Just to remind us about, dude, why are we here? Why are we doing this? What is the brain? Why, what is its overarching role in the nervous system? Remember our little drawings that we made that included the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. And remember how we had sensory little receptors receiving sensory information from the environment and they actually transmitted that information to the spinal cord. Do you remember that? And then remember that, you know, we have different flavors of sensory information, but then ultimately we have some sort of action that can be carried out. And we have different flavors of efferent pathways. We have different ways that we can, we have different types of efferent pathways. But the bottom line is that somehow sensory information can come in, it can be processed in the central nervous system and it can then send a message out to make something happen. For example, to make you contract a skeletal muscle. Today our primary task is to look at who bridges the gap between the sensory information coming in and the action that happens as a result of that sensory information. Sometimes, sometimes it's, sometimes the central nervous system really doesn't do much. Sometimes it literally does nothing. Sometimes you can actually have a sensory neuron synapse with a somatic motor neuron and you would actually end up with some kind of a reflex where there is no processing in the central nervous system, there is no integration, it's actually automatic. That's not the norm, that's not the most common. We are going to talk about some reflexes in the next lecture, but for right now we're going to focus on, okay, information comes in, but now we're going to hop on to one of our tracks in the spinal cord, one of our white columns in the white matter and we're going to head up to the brain and we're going to send a message to some part of the brain where the brain will then decide, okay, this is what we think should happen and send the message back down. Now's a great time to whack somebody upside the temporal bone with your electronon and then your skeletal muscles to carry out that task.  How does our brain actually carry that out? That's the topic of today's lecture.


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Good morning! Today is Sunday for us. I thought I filmed today because Jose and I are going shopping, so I thought I'd take you along with me. We woke up so late. I am not a person who sleeps in. I always naturally rise at like eight or nine. I woke up at 10.30 almost this morning, which was very out of character for me, but I went to bed a little later last night than I normally do, like one because I was up watching Bridger's hymn. Even when I stay up late though, I find my body pretty much always wakes up at like nine or eight. But not this morning. I slept in. Jose slept in. But we do have plans of going to the mall today. We got a order of groceries. I want to clean like mop and all of that stuff. So yeah, I actually have a pretty busy Sunday, but in a good busy way. Like it's stuff I'm excited to do. Our plan today, we're going to a new mall. So if you're from the Miami area, we went to a Ventura mall. Is that what it's called? Amazing mall, by the way. Super awesome. So we're going to Dolphin Mall today, which I think is supposed to be smaller. I don't know. We're just checking out the retail areas around us. Well, Jose, we need some work clothes. So we're going to pick those up. And then I also saw they have a coach outlet. So I saw a person online that I like. So I want to check that out. And then I think we might do Cheesecake Factory for lunch. I saw that they had one unless they have something better. Cause they also have a P.F. Changs, but I'm also in the battle of, I love to try new places to eat since we're in this new city. But you know what? When you come across a familiar restaurant, it's super tempting. So I'm doing my makeup right now. The palette that I'm testing today, I can't believe I haven't used this yet, is the Sydney Grace Be Mine Palette. I mean, I just knew it was going to be amazing. So I didn't feel like I need to test it, but I used mostly the middle row today, then the black eyeshadow for eyeliner. Gonna pop on some liner and lashes. But yeah, I am in the middle of watching Bridgerton. I think I've watched the first five episodes. So I have three episodes left. And I absolutely love the first season. Love the Pat McGrath collection. So I was really looking forward to the second season. I read the book for the second season earlier in the month, just to compare, I guess. And yeah, I'm not really digging the second season as much. It's like a little, I don't know, corny for some reason to me. And Anthony or Antony? I just don't like him. I don't. And I think that's why I don't enjoy the second season as much, because I don't like the main character of the second season. He's a little too intense for me. You know, he's not the Duke, okay? Who didn't love the Duke, okay? Anthony hates the way that he stares at Kate and just like so serious. It's like, aren't we supposed to love the main character? And he stares creepily at her and so intense and like shakes. And it's just not to me a love story that seems realistic, just, I don't know. I just don't like it. I'm not relating to it at all. I don't feel too much compassion towards the characters. And Nina kind of annoys me. I do like Kate though. I think she's a good character. But still, the love to hate relationship that they're featuring, I just don't feel like they're depicting it well. Like it's just not believable, you know? But that's my opinion. So yeah, I think it's a little corny. Definitely not as good as the first season, but I'm still enjoying it though. It's so pretty to look at. I love the outfits. I love the ball scenes. I don't think the music is as good either. If you've watched it or you're watching it, let me know your thoughts. But I'm not feeling it, no. I'm gonna finish getting ready. Then Jose and I are going to make some breakfast and head out. Like how pretty my makeup looks today. The Sydney Grace Remind is stunning. Let me show you. In case you haven't seen it. It's a fairly new palette from them. So they have like a more neutral row, a soft mobby row and like a deep smoky row. I mostly used the mobby row today. And I mean, Sydney Grace's shadow are really some of the best of the best. Very happy with my makeup today. It feels good to play with makeup again. I stopped it for a while, but now I'm getting back into my groove of really thoroughly testing things. And it feels so good. So this is what I'm gonna be wearing. The dress is from Abercrombie. I love to get my dresses from Abercrombie because they offer a short and you guys know I'm only four 10. So the proportions on the dresses are actually really good. They fit me really good. So I don't know that I like this dress, but I felt like wearing it. It's always the cold in indoor places here. So I like to have sleeves.  And then here's my purse. Isn't she gorgeous? This is an old Louis Vuitton that I stole from my mom. I remember she bought this at least 15 years ago. And it's just in such good condition. All things considered. And yeah, she never wore it anymore. So I like snatched it. And I just think it's so beautiful. So this is the purse that I'm gonna be carrying today. And jewelry. I'm wearing this simple heart necklace. I made this one. And then these simple gold hoops are from C-O-X-I-O. And yep, that's all that I'm wearing today. I'm doing a voiceover because the music was so loud. I would be copyrighted, but I went to the Bloomingdale's outlet and I tried on this dress. I didn't like this one. It was too big on me. As you can see, I'm on a flowy dress kick.  I wish it didn't exist because otherwise I would have loved this dress. So did not get this. I did pick up this one though. You can see it's kind of see-through though, but it's very rare for me to find a maxi dress. That's such a great length. And I honestly found the shape really, really flattering. So I couldn't help myself. And then I wanted something fancier. So imagine this with like a nice pair of heels, really dressed up, styled properly. I love this. The H&M Spring Collection is so cute. I love the color palette. Oh my goodness. The powder blues and the lavenders. I almost got that, but then I realized I didn't like it. And I wanted this, but it's too oversized for me because I'm petite. This is on my wish list, Jose. I like this one. Had to check out the CCO. You guys, this is their 75% off clearance shelf. Look at all of these Tom Ford goodies. Of course, they had all of the other SD brands, but I can't believe the Tom Ford prices. And then this is their regular line that they have for 50% off. The best palette selection I've ever seen at a CCO. If you are in Miami, go to the Dolphin Mall. Check out their CCO. Nothing like the Cheesecake Factory to overwhelm us. We have no clue what to get. It's like a book long. If you've never been here before, their menu is a book long and everything sounds delicious. Hey, here is my delicious shrimp tacos and what they literally make in my mouth, water. Cinnabon Swirl Cheesecake. I also got one to go. Red Velvet Cheesecake, classic. Jose, take the first bite. I need to see your face. Is it good? Good? Good? Oh my gosh. That might be my new favorite Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake. I think I like it better than the Red Velvet, which is what I always get. Bonne Cheesecake. Okay, the best part of a shopping vlog is coming home and showing you what I picked up. I think the most exciting line for me today was the cosmetic company store, what I got. So if you are in the Miami area, Dolphin Mall has the best Tom Ford Palette selection. It's not the biggest cosmetic company store that I've been to, but they had the best palette selection. I'll show you right here. You can pause. You'll see all of the names. They even had First Frost, which sold out really quickly when it first launched and sold out at Loon, which from Holiday, I believe, one to two years ago, that one sold out really fast. So they had some good popular ones. A lot of ones like Sue Sable, Ella Creme, Pretty Baby, so many that are actually still available for price. Definitely check out to see if you have a cosmetic company store is what it's called near you and check out their Tom Ford section before you buy any palettes from Tom Ford, because you can get them for 50% off, you guys. I couldn't help myself now. I've tried all of these palettes before. These were in my mom's collection and obviously when I moved, we split up some of the palettes that we had. So I picked up the ones that I really loved, that I left behind that they had at that store. So the first one that I got was Suspicion. This one is so pretty. So these were $45 each, which honestly is a really good price for Tom Ford and it's definitely what they're actually worth in my opinion, not $89. I will buy the newer palettes to review for you guys at full price, but that's only to review. If I were not a reviewer, I would not pay full price for those and hence I didn't pay full price for these, but for $45, I'm excited. I really love Suspicion. It's like a subtle, pretty gold palette. I also picked up Honeymoon. This one is pretty wearable as well, but it's more reddish burgundy tones. I'm sorry, I know the lighting is super exposed right now, but Honeymoon is more warmer tones, really excited about that. And this one, I'm pumped because this was hard to get a hold of. It was one of the first from this collection that sold out and you couldn't find it. So I couldn't believe they have this. This is Sola Elune. So this came out a couple of years ago for holiday, but it's so pretty you guys. It's super icy. You have a bluish shade, a slate gray, a peach and a white and it's just a perfect winter palette. So I never thought I'd be able to get my hands on this. I thought I had lost out on it since it was my mom's collection. I was sad about that, but oh my gosh, they had it there. I couldn't believe it. It's crazy. I can't believe I spent $150 on more Tom Ford palettes, but replenishing my collection. I'm really excited. The selection was phenomenal. I had to stop myself from getting more. I also got a free gift with purchase. It's this Smashbox travel size set and we have a vitamin glow primer, a photo finish primer and then my favorite, Primerizer. So hey, this was free. So that's awesome. Great trip to the cosmetic company store and then the rest of the items that I got were clothes. I mostly went so that Jose could get some clothes for her, but I of course found more things for myself. So I went to the Bloomingdale's outlet. I've never been to a Bloomingdale's outlet shop before. I got this reddish maroon satin dress. I'll show you the looks. I'm not trying them on today, but I'm saving that for a different day when I do tap cheesecake in my belly. But how gorgeous is this? It's by BB, I believe, yeah. And it was $30. I thought it was a really good deal. And being in Miami now, I feel like I've already been invited to more events and I don't know, maybe Jose and I might go to a really fancy dinner. So I wanted something a little bit fancier because I definitely, I was a PE teacher before this, you guys. I only have super casual clothes in my closet. So this I'm only for nine. It goes down to like my calves. And with a pair of really pretty heels, I think this will be really nice. I thought it was pretty flattering. And for kind of a satin, you fancy dress like this, I thought $30 was really good. But for this kind of material, it looks really nice. For a lot of the cheaper dresses or shirts that have this material, you can tell it's cheap. This to me looks pretty expensive. So I thought that that was a good deal. And then I got this dress by Ava and Esme in a size small. It says it's originally $128. I don't think that's true. I bought it for 50, which is probably more than it was worth. But I'm only four 10, like I said. So it's really hard for me to find maxi dresses that are the perfect length. So when I find one, I kind of gotta jump on it. And I ended up with this one. So it's got a gingham pattern on it and it's pink. And the only thing I don't like, which I think is why I don't believe it's actually $128. And why it's probably not even worth 50s because it's a little see-through. So I need to wear a slip. But like I said, it was a really flattering shape on me and length. It kind of reminds me of like a mermaid dress because of the bottom and it's, I don't know, the fit was super duper flattering. It's unfortunate that it's a little see-through, but I really like it. I love, love, love maxi dresses and flowy dresses. They're so easy to throw on. You don't have to think about what you're wearing. So I got that. I couldn't help myself. And then H&M had some good deals too. Jose and I got a lot. I think we got like 10 things for literally $100. Jose got a bunch of D-shirts for himself. And I just love H&M, not everything. Like you need to try your H&M stuff out, but the first thing, I got this in two different colors because when I like something, I buy multiple colors. Got everything in a small, so these are $9.99 and they're just cute little colored crop tops to wear with like skirts or jeans. For me, I envisioned these with skirts because I have some skirts that I feel like would look cute with this. So I got a yellowish because I thought it'd be pretty for the summer. And then I also got it in white because white goes with everything. The white's a little bit safer, so make sure you wear a nude bra with it. But I'll see if I can find these online because they're super cheap, really easy to throw on. And then these, I can't believe are $9.99. And I got them in neutral colors. No, I just got one color. I picked up a cream as well, but I have so many cream tops that are kind of this style. So I wanted one that was actually like more neutrally brown. So I got this, it's a square neckline. Again, it looked really cute with like white jeans or something I was thinking. I like these kind of tops to wear in my videos as well. They look really cute. And then surprisingly, H&M Denim is really hit or miss and more so miss than hit for my body's type. But I got, I don't even know what they are. They're like paper bags, pants and a tan color. I don't have pants this color. And something about this is still casual. And I actually liked the fit on these. These are a looser fit for sure. I got them in a size two. Usually H&M pants don't fit me in a size two. So these run definitely big. I was debating between the two and the four, but the four was so big on my legs that I went with this. But I think they're super cute and casual to wear with some flip flops and easy crop top. That's all I got today. I showed you guys some clips in Coach. I have gotten into Coach lately. I love love purses. I don't buy them too often, but my problem was I fell into Purse YouTube, okay? I've always been into purses. I would pick them up periodically, look through the websites, but it was a totally healthy relationship. Ever since I discovered Purse YouTube, now it's like my new obsession. So I went into Coach and there's a Purse. I was looking for a different Purse to see what it looked like in person. They didn't have the color that I wanted, but I came across this Purse. And this Purse is on my wish list. It is so cute. I would get the smallest size. They sell them in different sizes, but me being so petite, I really like really small purses. So that was super duper cute. I love Coach outlet. I tend to buy most of my purses from the outlet stores because they're just cheaper. They're still high quality, in my opinion, but more affordable. You missed it yesterday. This is not from today, but if you follow me on Instagram, I was talking about how I was looking for a work tote bag. So something that I could carry like my planner and my laptop around, but have it not be too big because I am so small. So just the right size that was cute, but still casual. So I ended up picking up. I went to the Mark Jacobs store in the design district and I picked up the tote bag in this color. It is so beautiful. I didn't even see this color online when I was looking. I was gonna get the green shade that they had that's like really popular and you find it everywhere. But when I went in store, I saw this and I absolutely loved the black trim. And I definitely wanted canvas because I can see myself bringing this to like the pool and stuff. So I wanted it to be casual. I didn't want a leather one. And I like how there's not too much contrast between the letters and the actual canvas because I feel like it could look a little tacky, not in a bad way. I like all of them, but I just like that there's not as much contrast. And some people wear it like this to where you can't see the actual letters, but I'm super happy with it. It doesn't look ginormous against my body. I love how it holds its own structure. So it makes it look a little bit more clean. It makes you look more put together.  It does also come with this strap right here that you can take off. And then the inside, I had somebody ask me on Instagram, this is what the inside looks like. And then you have this flap here, which has a couple of slits and then a zipper for you to put your stuff in. So this is my newest bag, which is the only reason why I didn't pick up that coach purse that I really wanted because I literally just bought it back yesterday. We'll see how hard I'm thinking about it. I might pick that up. I'll keep you guys updated. So anyways, I only figured out last year that coach outlet had their own website. I would always go in person to the outlet store. Kate Spade is my weakness. Kate Spade has a chokehold on me, but I didn't know they had their own outlet websites. If you didn't know that, now you know. But anyways, I'm gonna close off this shopping vlog. I need to get myself together for the week. It is already almost seven o'clock. Oh my goodness, I need to mop. I need to do stuff.  I will try to put all that I can find online and link everything that I showed you guys today. And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.


Today's video is brought to you by Pickmonic. Today I'm going to break down two steps that if you do today, you'll start to see better grades and less time. These are the same steps and techniques that I show my one-on-one coaching students and exactly how students like Tanya went from bombing her very virginetic exam to getting A's on her next two while doing it with less time. Hey friends, welcome to the channel. In case you're new here, my name is Lakshman, internal medicine physician, and I'm absolutely a huge geek about making videos on how to make your journey as a student so much better with less stress. That includes tips on studying, productivity, you name it. So if you're new here, definitely consider hitting that like and subscribe button on YouTube. If you're listening to this on an audio version as a podcast, definitely consider hitting that subscribe or follow on your favorite platform. But today I'm going to be jumping straight into my computer, kind of breaking down the strategy of how I teach students to basically become better learners, but really doing less and not necessarily more. And after that episode, if you are interested in learning more about either the one-on-one programs or the group coaching programs and trying to see how some of our students have gotten better grades, some of them in just a few weeks, then go ahead and click the link down below in the description. OK, so we're at my computer, so we're going to get right into the first two tips, as well as a bonus tip if you guys choose to stay to the very end. But it's important to kind of break down with the most optimal situation. And that's that you go from learning to retaining and essentially repeat this process over and over again. A nice analogy that I sometimes like to give my students is think of your learning in the form of like a bucket or a water bottle. In this setting, we would draw a box and the more and more information you learn than the more and more full your bucket essentially gets. But as you're exposed to more and more information, you tend to have a hole in your knowledge base. And this is typically where information you previously knew is no longer a part of your bucket. And so ultimately, you end up with a steady state where the information that comes in is just about as equal as information that goes out. And this is the most frustrating point for any student because you feel like you're putting in the hard work, but the information and the retention is not quite there. So that's why whenever we coach students on how to study better, one, we actually focus on how to minimize some of this. And so the information that we leak out is not as excessive. And then we try to focus on how to quickly go to the process where information tends to come in much quicker or at least stays in the bucket longer. And so when you get to your test, you tend to have a more full bucket and that equals better grades and better confidence. So this sounds like something you want. Then let's go into the first two steps. And remember, you can always look into the coaching programs down below in case you want our individual help to help you do that on your own personal medical journey. But step number one is to really simplify your information pipeline. You think about, again, your learning and this is your bucket. A lot of times we rely on so many different resources, whether it be your syllabus, whether it be lectures, whether it be resource number one that you really are super fond of and your classmates are using. But then you also want to use resource number two. You essentially have a lot of different areas where you're trying to fill this bucket up with. But it makes it stressful, if anything, of how to dedicate equals amount of time to all of these because you're hoping that all of them together is going to actually cumulate your knowledge base. But really what they're doing is getting in each other's way. And so a lot of times when I'm working with a student one on one, I simply ask them, have all these resources you're using, which one gives you the biggest bang for your buck? Which would you use if the test was in an hour? And so they may say, oh, I love using my slides and my syllabus, but things like lectures, not so much. And I haven't really been able to use resource number two. But if I really had to choose, then I'd go ahead and choose my slides and maybe I would choose resource number one because they explain some things better than my own lectures do. And so what that allows you to do is already start picturing your optimal schedule where you can essentially take these extra resources away and take this resource away and this resource. And then you would end up with a system where you're minimizing where your information or the pipeline of where the information is coming from. And so in this scenario, a student would get their information from the class slides and the resources, but they necessarily wouldn't go to lecture because it's not really helping them very much. And the reason this helps is that if you think about your day to day schedule, so this is, let's just say your day starts at 8 a.m. And it ends at 9 p.m. You could easily be scheduling three hours a day in the middle for lectures, but if you take it out, you can now dedicate that time to doing any of these two. You can either be using it for resource number one or slides. And when I do this with a lot of my 101 students, they're like, mind blown. Now I have three hours to spend on a resource or a technique that works so much better than what I'm currently doing. And a lot of times what I find is that when students replace their times with more effective resources, they're actually able to save themselves more time because instead of saving themselves three hours, they can actually use one of those more useful resources, let's just say resource number one. And instead of spending three hours, they may just have to spend like two. And so now they have an extra hour that they can spend on another technique, another strategy, more repetition or more free time for themselves. If you're a student who is finding yourself using a lot of different resources because you don't really want to miss out, to be quite honest, if you're not getting the grades that you want, an extra resource won't be able to fill up that gap. Find the best resource for you at the moment and really hone in on making that the most useful thing. Instead of trying to get a percentage or another point here and there, you're actually able to increase your chances of getting those Bs and As by using the resources that seem to be most congruent with your quizzes and exam based on your prior experience, as well as resources that nicely compliment your own learning style. Now, typically I will challenge and push my students to try to come to just one resource. And the reason is, is that if I can push you to push you to just choose one, then really forces you to ask yourself, okay, do I really need this one? Because sometimes we say things are helpful because we just think that they are. But to be quite honest, somebody could easily say, oh, this is actually not as helpful as just the slides alone. Sometimes I do have students who do actually enjoy using both, and that's fine. If I can push you to the brinks and you still decide these are both needed, then that's okay. But if you do realize that if I just did the slides, I would likely have gotten a majority of the questions on the last exam or quiz correct. Maybe I don't need resource number one. Maybe I could just review the slides and then focus on learning those concepts. If you can do that, you save yourself even more time and then get into step number two. Now, step number two is to automate your review. If we go back to the most optimal form of learning, then it goes from learning to review and then repeat. But the problem that most students have is they don't do this aspect of it consistently. Some students run into a situation where they get behind, so they may not even review a lecture or if they do review it, they review it so much for they're in the future from when the information was presented. And it's almost like if they were learning it for the first time. But if you can create a system where you're like, if I learn something, my rules for most of my students is if you learn it today, review it today. And number two is to have a system for your weekends. And so typically we'll have students do is on Saturdays, they will review Monday through Wednesdays. And then on Sundays, they will review all the lectures from Thursdays to Fridays. And this is a form of an automated review where you know, okay, given the extra bit of time that I saved myself through step number one, I'm going to force myself on that evening before whatever time I want to be done to learn the material. So if you needed to review your lectures or your slides, then you have to do your form of automated review and we'll get into a second of what those kinds of techniques can be. And then the same thing on the weekend. On Saturdays, you would do whatever technique you did here. You just repeat it again, but you would do it for Mondays and Wednesdays lectures. But if you've already done one repetition, so it'll become a little bit quicker and faster to do three days worth. And on Sunday, you would do two days worth and then prepare for your Mondays lectures. But if you already do a system like this, you've already done yourself two repetitions before the quizzes or exams come around. You feel more confident of your approach. And again, your pipeline is simple because you've learned the material, you reviewed it the same day, and you have a schedule of when you'll repeat it. Now, some of the techniques that I like to have students use for the former reviews include things like Anki. So if you guys are interested in my Anki methods that I like to teach a lot of my students, I'll link down below a video, our most popular video that we have on YouTube, which will be down for you. Other techniques that I really enjoy using are things like Excel methods or just essentially using a Word doc or an Excel and being able to put your notes in the form of question to answer, where one column would be the questions that you would learn, and then another column would be the answers or the evidence. And then you would just go ahead and review one side to another and see if you can answer it instead of having a basic note. In a similar fashion, I love using Q&A notes, and there's a video that I'll link below and put a thumbnail on the corner. But basically, Q&A notes are, instead of just taking notes that are just out in complete sentences, you're essentially asking yourself a question, and then everything below it will be bullet points that essentially are evidence or answers to the question. So if you can come back to your notes and say, okay, I'm gonna review my notes, my Q&A notes, and I'm gonna do all of my notes from today and make sure I can answer all these questions and be okay with all the evidence or all the bullet points, then you've done. And then you come back on the weekends and you do it again. These are just three techniques that I love using. We share a lot of other techniques with our one-on-one students, depending on their personal learning style. So again, if you're interested, the links will be down below. We have both the group and the one-on-one, depending on what level of help you may need. So those links will always be available for you. But I would recommend, in addition to just keeping your system of how you learn simple, to also just go ahead and choose just one technique. So I have some students who love Anki. I have some students who love using Q&A notes. But then when they ask me, could I switch to something else? I say, no, just that's working, like stick to that. Because now you have a system where you're like, I love doing slides and resource number one. I love doing Q&A notes. And now I have a system of when I should study, how I should study, what type of things I definitely need to do today and on the weekend. And then you already have something so much better than what you had before. And again, this is not me telling you, this is how you study. This is just saying, this is the approach.  But things just become a little bit more natural. Now remember, I promised a bonus step for all of you guys that made it to this part of the video. Before we get into the bonus step, it's a great place to go ahead and introduce today's sponsor, which is Picmonic. In case you're not familiar with Picmonic, it is a great all-in-one resource for anyone on the medical journey because they essentially have videos for any topic that you may want, whether it be anatomy, cardiology, hematology, and also nicely go ahead and lines up with very important exams like step one and step two. So you can go ahead and find your favorite resource, see the exact page, and then relevant videos that come to it. And then you can come to any type of video. So here we have a chess x-ray video. I can watch their very entertaining and memorable videos because they essentially use visual mnemonics and pictures and images to be able to make things stick to you. And then I can essentially review and do quizzes to make sure that information truly did stick. So if you're on your medical journey and you haven't just quite found that resource, it just clicks and makes things so much easier, definitely consider giving Picmonic a try because there was likely a video for whatever topic you're learning for right now on your medical journey. And if you go ahead and use the link down below and use the code MDJourney, you also get a really sweet 20% discount thanks to our friends at Picmonic. So thanks to Picmonic for being the sponsor of today's video. Now onto the bonus step, which I tend to keep for a lot of my coaching students, but I will share it for you guys in case you're interested. Now one of the biggest issues from this is that you can imagine if we go back to our analogy with a bucket is that there is going to be times with a review that as I do more and more review, there is going to be certain topics that I tend to just have weaker topics about. And so those tend to be where I have my kind of holes in my knowledge. And those are going to be the same weaknesses that I just don't actually get. And they may make the difference of whether I get a C to a B or a B to an A. And so often what I'll have a lot of our students do is to create a weakness list. Now remember the main goal that we're trying to do is essentially plug in all of these holes or as many of them as possible. And so what a weakness list is, and this can be really any form or format of something like this, is having a Word doc or an Excel sheet of all those topics that you just aren't quite mastering. So imagine every time you do one of these repetitions or reviews right here, you're realizing, oh, I'm not getting HIV or I'm not getting a technique in cardiology. I'm not understanding a rhythm or hypertension. You'd essentially add this to your Excel sheet or a Word doc. And then on your weekends, when you're here on Saturdays and Sundays, you may dedicate an hour or two specifically from topics in that weakness list because really what you're doing is not trying to learn more information, but you're trying to increase your chances that those holes are as plugged up as much as possible.  If you have this growing list of topics that you never really come to and you always feel kind of uneasy about and if it shows up on a test, you're like, pimp. Like I just wish it wasn't on there and I could easily have spent some time watching YouTube videos or like looking back on my slides to truly understand it. Having a list of that that you can come back to not on like the weekdays where you're busy but on the weekends where you're just saying, during my Saturdays, this hour chunk is my weakness time. And then you can go down that list. If something has gone from hard to master, take it off the list. Something is gone from hard to still hard then you can go ahead and do it in the future or maybe a great opportunity to ask your classmates or your professors of like, okay, how do you truly understand this? Because it's still not making sense to me. But when you close those holes, it gives you a nice kind of boost of confidence as you're going into tests. But keep in mind that the key difference between what other students do, which is they kind of hyper focus on these small bits of details, is that here we're actually dedicating a separate amount of time but only of two of the seven days that you might be studying. Instead of making yourself do it every day, you're going to do your typical reviews but you'll have this weakness list that's growing but also dedicated time to make sure you're kind of knocking things out. So again, you're closing your bottle and keeping it as full as possible. So to review, the first thing you need to do is to really simplify your information pipeline. Really break it down to just one resource they can truly kind of rely on and imagine if the quiz or the test was like an hour from now. Like what would you go to? Like what would be your technique that you would go to? Once you find that, see if you can take away all the other resources. Again, you can always add those things back in when you become more refined but right now, things are likely a mess if you're watching this video. So that's probably step number one. Step number two is to now automate your reviews and the schedule that I gave is what I tend to give a lot of my coaching students. But again, feel free to use whatever you want as long as you know this lecture is going to preview you on this day. I really am a big proponent on reviewing things the day that you learn it or at the very least the next morning. So if I learned something on a late Monday, I may review it Tuesday morning if I don't really have that time but I want to make sure within a 24 to 48 hour window that I'm covering that material so I can still use whatever I did to learn it as like onto my advantage. And then finally come back to it on the weekend. And then step number three is a bonus step is to have a weakness list that you can constantly add to and reflect every time you're doing your Anki or your Q&A method or Excel method or however you want to learn a whiteboard session, a group setting and have a growing list and then coming on back to it on a structured interval on the weekends and then nipping those in a button essentially filling up your bucket one step at a time. Hopefully guys, you guys can see how this method can make your setting feel a little bit more natural. It's still personalized. You are doing all the things that matter to you and I'm not telling you this is how you should study but those techniques and this approach is essentially what we make all of our coaching students do in the MediConnect program. So if you're interested again in learning anything about it we have tons and tons of reviews and testimonials from our students within just a week of working with us. So those will be linked down below. If the one-on-one approach may just not be right now what you're looking for then maybe consider out the Med Elite Academy which includes group coaching calls with me for life for the existence of the program and I'll go ahead and jump on calls with our students twice a month and answer really any question you have. So if you want some coaching and guidance and mentorship throughout your medical journey and don't just want it for a few weeks at a time but essentially for the duration that you're on the journey for the Med Elite Academy is a great opportunity for. Both of the links will be down below as well as reviews from our past and current students. So if you got interested those will be linked down below. If you like the approach of videos like this then definitely consider checking out the study rehab course it's absolutely free but I get into more kind of techniques on things like how to increase the amount of free time and guarantee that you'll be done by a certain time every single day. Then that will be in those videos again those are absolutely free that will be linked down below. 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