in older adults, there's something called allostatic load.  We realize that because of allostatic load in most people, and sometimes this could show up as early as 30, right? When Jenny earlier was talking about it, his friends were starting to get really conservative at 30. There's reasons for that neurobiologically, why that happens, but that constriction that starts to show up are challenge skills, but especially for things that we're scared about, like park skiing, it's down to like 1%.  So here's what we did just with park skiing and snowboarding, then we talked about otherwise, but we didn't teach anybody, it wasn't about learning new tricks, right? It was park riding for skiers with snowboarders. There are eight foundational movements. There is it, you have to know how to jump, you have to know how to crouch, you have to know how to slash, you have to know how to grind, you have to know how to throw a 180, a 360, and a shifty. Those are the foundational movements. Our goal wasn't to teach people how to do tricks, it was to teach them the foundational movements so that they could start with one of those that they already knew how to do and could execute with zero fear and no conscious interference, and build on that one micromovement at a time. So here's the other thing, even everybody who's ever been on skis or a snowboard, if you've made it to advanced beginner, you know how to do a hockey stop, how to turn your skis or your snowboard sideways, that, now if I take a hockey stop and I do it on a slightly diagonal, that's a grind or a slash, depending on which way you turn your body into it. So I knew going in, myself included, but everybody else, we've all got a basic movement that we can start with, because everybody has, you have to know how to do this to get in the gateway of the sport. So start there and build one at a time. Creativity is a flow trigger, pattern recognition. When you see a small hill, you're skiing through, like what would people look at the train park and they see like the big jump and they don't notice that it's on a roller hill known as a knuckle and you can do all kinds of tricks on the knuckle without ever leaving the ground or this is just shapes of snow. You can move your body in creative ways. So we wanted to teach people how to use their body in new ways with these foundational motions because that's creativity and creativity produces pattern recognition and pattern recognition drives dopamine and dopamine drives flow and flow amplifies learning. So start with these really basic movements, go one at a time, do something totally safe and don't try to learn tricks. When let the flow state take care of that, you'll do more in the flow, right? Your job is just to creatively interpret train features in novel ways and like playful ways.  We played follow the leader games. I would follow Ryan, I would do what he did. We didn't talk. So flow requires the prefrontal cortex to stay quiet meaning you don't want your ego involved at all. So you don't ever want to talk about yourself. You don't want to talk about world events. Like anything you can be scared or whatever. The R rule was we could make each other laugh.  That was our rule, right? Like those were, and when we ran the experiment that was the rule and I will say people were shocked by it and there was some resistance at the beginning and like we were shushing people on the chair like but after like two hours of it, everybody got it. We was like, oh, wow, this is really important. It's the same reason, by the way why if you're like, you don't want to check social media between tasks, if you can avoid it because it like gets your emotions all stirred up and it'll break your focus and pull you out of flow. It's a bad distractor, you know what I mean? Whereas like two minutes of exercise is probably a little bit better if you just like want to break up the task because same reason you want to keep that prefrontal cortex turned off to keep yourself in flow if you can especially when your tasks switching.


I mean, I know you know his game well, but just your assessment of James Harden in his debut is first game of the team and how he looked. Man, it was incredible. You could see him trying to figure out the best way to play early on. I felt like we all were overpassing, trying to make everybody comfortable. And then he just got into his mode of being aggressive to score and that opened up the whole game for all of us. So, you know, glad he got his feet up under him. He's got to keep plugging away, keep being better each day. Is there an increase? I know he's new and of course, you're going to be a lot of talk in there, but kind of increased communication across the board with the team so that you guys are locked in at the test.  I think all of us, you know, on the same page and communicating what we need from each other on the defensive side of the ball, especially on offense. I think we're moving and flowing a little bit on offense, you know, based off our communication, you know, we didn't have a play coming across half and guys were talking guys through actions and same on the defensive side of the ball. So we're only going to get better at that. And, you know, it was going to take some time for us to build up that consistency of, you know, how we want to play on both ends. But, you know, it was a good step. Greg Logan with Newstay. KD, during his introductory press conference, James was asked what part of his game he needed to improve or emphasize or whatever. He said playmaking. And he, in Houston, he kind of pounded the ball. But tonight, he moved the ball and there were moments where when you and he and Harris were moving the ball, the defense was paralyzed. What do you think this kind of debut does for him? What message does it send in terms of sacrifice and how he's willing to play and yet be able to still step up in school? Yeah, I mean, James, he played the same way. He always played, to be honest. I mean, he played the same way he was playing in Houston, you know, having the basketball, being a pass first guard, trying to get his guys good looks. You know, he played the same way. And, you know, of course, put him at the point. I think that's his natural position, to be honest, and his point and, you know, off guard, you know, combo guard and, you know, for him to come out and get 14 assists, 12 rebounds for us at the point guard was key. Ryan Lewis with the New York Post. Kevin, you and James have, I guess, seven scoring titles between you and Cod probably hit the most iconic shot in the last 10 years. I mean, when you have three guys that are so accustomed to leading teams, getting late buckets, big, big shots, what's the biggest key to making sure that all three of you can be as good or as dominant as you're accustomed to being, but still keep the main thing, the main thing? Well, understand as more than just us three on this basketball team, you know, we gonna need Joe Harris, the Coutinho knockdown shots, TLC, we gonna need De'Andre to roll to the rim hard and our bigs to come in and help set screens and rebound it. So I think it's a group effort and that's gonna open up the floor for all of us. And it's having high IQ guys who are unselfish who wanna make the extra passes. We'll see how it plays out. Each game is different. I think we wanna approach each game with that attitude to just all of us being who we are and being aggressive, but being on one string and we'll see how it goes. Alex Schiffer with the athletic. Hey, Kevin, obviously you and James have kept in touch and worked out together over the years, but it's been a while since you two were in an official NBA game together. Does the rapport you two have with each other kind of translate pretty quickly given your ties or did it take a couple of sessions for that to really get in the full swing? No, I mean, like I said, having veteran guys and being in the league for so long, you didn't work on so many different schemes and offensive actions. You kind of know how to play the game. And you know, it's not just me and James, Jeff's the same way, DJ's the same way, Kyrie's the same way, you know, guys that've been in the league for almost 10 plus years where, you know, we could just, sometimes we don't even have to speak to know what we're thinking.  So the IQ was just there, you know, it's only gonna get better.


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Well, hello, my friends, and welcome back to my channel. Today, we are gonna be doing a really fun video sharing some of the new products from Erin Condren. First things first, I wanna say thank you to the Erin Condren team for allowing me to pick out some of their new products and share them on my channel. So, without further ado, let's get into this. Actually, no. Let's zoom in on my hand really quick because I wanna show you guys something which has like totally nothing to do with this video. So, this is the first video, like hand video that I have filmed since I got my new tattoo. So, I know people are gonna be like, that's a cat and it clearly kinda looks like a cat, but this is for Doyle. And yeah, I just wanted to show you guys that because you're gonna like see my hands moving and be like, what is that? What is that mark on your hand? That's what it is. It's just on the inside. So, you can kinda see it, but you kinda can't. So, anyway, moving forward, this is what it is. And I shared it in a recent vlog if you guys wanna check that out. But anyway, okay, let's get into the Aaron Condron products. First things first, I wanted to share these folios. Sorry, I keep zooming in and out, guys, but I can't like get my zoom right today. So, these come in a really nice kinda linen-y white bag with the asterisks on them. And to be honest, I haven't even opened them yet. So, yay, oh, this is so pretty. This is like a really pretty like champagne. And I'm hoping this comes off on camera, which it looks looking like it is, but it's kinda like just an embossed asterisks right here. And this is the on-the-go folio. And it has three little, I think these are called, I don't know, jump bands or bands. I'm not like really into the folio world. So forgive me if I'm saying things that are like not proper or correct because I just don't know. So anyways, they have two different colors currently. So they have this like gold champagne. And then I also got this other one. Let's see what this one looks like. And I believe this one was called charcoal or gray. I cannot remember. But this is more of a matte finish. Still has that asterisks right there. Has the matching bands. But this one has a little bit more of a sheen on it. You might be able to tell. I can kinda tell just from the camera viewfinder here. But this has a little bit of a sheen on it, where this one to me is completely matte. This is like a faux leather. And I was gonna say faux fur for a second, sorry. It's a faux leather. And it's like very like pliable. Like they're very, I don't know, movable, if you will. And it's got a little bit of hardware on the side there. And all the hardware, it looks like they're both silver. So anyway, I got these. And I'm kind of excited to check this out. These seem like a really, really good size. Just for a size comparison, I have my like regular planner out here right now. So for a size comparison, it's way smaller than the regular seven by nine Erin Conran life planner and not as thick. Well, I guess you could thicken this up with the guts of this if you wanted to. But you know, back in the day, I did take my planner, not everywhere, but a lot of places with me. And it's just so dang heavy. And the coil is like my problem on a day to day basis. So I kinda like that they came out with these folios. Just to appease some people that just really aren't into a full life planner, which is totally fine. So anyway, wanted to show you these. Let's move these over to the side and then we'll get into some of the other items. So I also got this monthly planner calendar. And so it has a colorful layout and it's the 2019 monthly calendar. I can't talk today. I don't know why I'm filming a video right now, but you know, we're just going with it. And I haven't looked inside of these yet. I have seen some of the sneak peeks that are out there. But yeah, so this says, dream it, believe it, achieve it. And let's see, let's kinda walk through this together. So it's the petite planner monthly and has all of the little months for 2019. And then we're right into January. Oh, look how cute those are. They're like so tiny. But yeah, I don't know, I like this. It feels like the same paper that's in the life planners. So it's just every single month. This would actually be perfect for kids that have tons of sports and recitals and lots of things like that or tracking doctor's appointments or work stuff or whatever. Just like your monthly glance. That's probably what I think I'm gonna use this for. And this even just on its own would be so much easier to just throw in your purse or your bag on a day to day basis. I know recently I've been scheduling lots of different like doctor's appointments and things like that and just making sure that it doesn't conflict with any like work things or whatever. And that's been kind of difficult to track since I have my own life planner at home. And I'm usually making these appointments during the day. That's all that's in there. And then are these all just lined pages? Oh, sweet. So these are all just lined pages. Okay, cool. But it's like over half of them are the lined pages. Oh, this is weird. Okay, whatever. And at the very back, as we all know and love, we get some really fun stickers. So I'm excited about that. And speaking of stickers, we should just talk about this now. I did get some extra sticker packs for the petite planner. The reason I got extras is because I wanted to, in this one right here, I wanted to track paydays and things like that. And sometimes you get paid three times a month and sometimes you get paid two times a month. And it's just nice to have extra stickers because clearly it's needed. And I totally forgot that they give you sticker packs at the very end. And these are all the matte stickers and they all have gold foil on them, which gold is one of my favorite things. You could just very easily put this in here. You always just want to find the middle thing. Mine's kind of messed up, but I think I can just trim that down a little bit, which isn't the biggest deal in the world. But yeah, you just find kind of the middle of it and I don't know, just kind of put it in here. Kind of like that. And then this little guy goes over that. So clearly there's only one in here right now, but we're gonna make it bigger. All right, and then this one is the goal setting journal. And let's open this up. I watched Jodi from Life's Organized Chaos review these just recently. And she was really loving the colors and the colors are really nice, but like she was kind of mildly obsessed with this. This kind of colorway, which I thought was kind of cool. Oh, and I did get the stickers that go along with this one. I believe that there's gonna be stickers in the back as well, but we will see. So this is like a goal setting situation and it looks like they really want you to focus on like why you have whatever specific goal you have, whether it's related to like family, health, fitness, work stuff, whatever. And to be honest, I didn't really look at this before I purchased it. I just kind of thought that this would be a really interesting thing to take a look at.  It also has three other like blank categories. So if something's really not fitting your bill right here, you can definitely put them in. But I just thought this would be interesting things just kind of like walk through. Oh wow, you gotta like give your signature. Oh my gosh, just like, this is legit guys. But yeah, I mean sometimes when you just write down a goal to take those tangible steps to make it come to life is sometimes a little bit more difficult. So I can see why this would be like really important for some people to deal with. Okay, so then you have a vision board for your goal and it says strive for progress over perfection. Ain't that the truth? All right, so then you break down your goal, steps towards the goal, the small steps. Very cool. And then just check in. So like you could probably check in like once a week or every day or you know, just depending on what type of a goal it is. I like this that stop wishing and start doing. I need that more in my life. So there's a lot of goal check in pages and then more of the breaking down the goal. So it looks like you could have like several different goals in here that could work for you or you could just have one big goal and then just keep using the pages. Just kind of depending on what it is. Oh wow, cool. All right, and then there is like a little piece of paper. Oh, these are tips on how to goal set. All right, cool. Oh, and then these are those stickers that were in here that I put in my cart separately because I thought, hey, this is kind of cool. And don't we all need some encouragement sometimes because I know I do. So this is another petite planner that would go in the new folios. If you wanted them to, you don't have to put anything in the folios that you don't want to. I also got one of these and this is the one of the oh joy prints and this is one of the jot your thought journals. And I just thought that it would be nice to have just a piece of paper, like just not a piece of paper, like a journal with just paper in it. So I didn't have to feel like I was taking up pages in the monthly or anything like that. So this is the inside and it's just lined. I know that there are other ones that are coming out. I want to say because I did look at some of the sneak peeks from some of the other people that were given some sneak peek things that had different covers and things like that, but I did not get any of those because at the time that I ordered, they were not available online. So we can put this in here as well. I can kind of put this in here. Here we go. Kind of just find the center and plop this one in too. That's a weird word, plop. That's weird. Okay, anyways. And then lastly for the journals, I got the 2019 Daily Planners and I got the set of four. There was a little bit of discount if you got the full set versus buying them individually. So I decided to go for the full set. All right, so I'm just gonna open up the first one, but these are what they look like. So this one is October through December, July through September, April and June, and then January and March. So this would be the first one that I would dip into in 2019, but you know, they're all gonna be the same. So this is kind of like more of a coraly pink color with some foiling on there that matches. So let's take a peek and see. All right, let's open up this bad boy again. So in the monthly planner, I just wanna like look for size comparison if it's like the same or what, yeah. So this is the monthly one that's already in my folio. They're exactly the same on the month side at least. So you do get a monthly page, which is nice. If you want that, and then it breaks down your days and then it coincides with the color theme of that specific month. And at this point, I don't believe that they have any neutrals. So if you guys are looking for neutral, I don't believe that these come in a neutral yet. Maybe they will, maybe they won't, I'm not sure, but they all come in the colorful colorway. So we've got January 2nd, so that's like a Wednesday. And then you've got a full spread of January right here, which I don't know, to me kind of doesn't make any sense. I mean kind of, but like when I can just flip back to this, I don't know, I mean, it seems maybe a little redundant to have both. I don't know, just like my own personal opinion. And then having a full page of breaking down whatever you wanna do, maybe just like a list of to-dos or maybe your grocery list or something like that. So they've got a full page of that. And then Saturday and Sunday are only half pages, which, okay, here's a criticism because I'm a person that works a normal, like kind of more nine to five-ish job. I mean, I set my own hours, but I work Monday through Friday. And Saturday and Sunday is really when I get the bulk of my things like tasks done. So in my mind, it would actually make more sense to have a full page on Saturday and Sunday and not like Monday through Friday, because most people, I mean, I don't know, I'm just generalizing with my own experience. But most people work Monday through Friday or they have a flexing schedule where, say, they work Mondays and then have Tuesdays off and then work Wednesday through Saturday and then have Sunday off. Or people have different types of schedules. So yeah, but definitely Saturday and Sunday, I would have really loved a full day to kind of break down like, this is what I wanna achieve in the morning, the afternoon and the evening and kind of like my running to-do list of the weekend. Like this could be my Saturday and then my Sunday could be on this side and just, you know, or like basically like Saturday and Sunday and then just kind of have those two like flex together. Like, hey, I have to like do laundry and I gotta go grocery shopping and I gotta like wrap a present for a birthday party and I've gotta do all these other things and upload videos and edit and film and do all the things that I have to do. But a lot of times, you know, like on Friday, I would probably get home from work and maybe do a little bit of laundry and edit, like so this would be kind of like pretty sparse for me, but that's just my own opinion. I mean, clearly I am a person that has no children and no spouse and the majority of the people that watch my videos that are female, well, maybe males too, I'm not sure, but most have children and have spouses. So I can imagine that your Saturdays and Sundays are pretty jam-packed as well, but you know, again, my own opinion. Okay, so it's got Monday through Friday on full pages and then Saturdays and Sundays on one page combined and then, so it's got every day and then you get into February and then February one, then it goes into this, so very cool. Let me, I just wanna go all the way to the back and see if there's like any additional, like, I don't know, sometimes they put notes pages or something like that back there, but I'm not sure if they do that on these, so let's take a little peek here. Okay, it looks like there's one, two, just two line note pages, which is just fine and then also it has some of these great stickers, which is kinda nice, but these are now in the silver foil so it has like the happy birthday celebrate to do reminder, just some plain stickers and then also just some icons, which is pretty fab. So yeah, those are all of these. I can just kinda open these and just flip through them real quick. I just don't want this video to be like epically long, but I feel like anytime there's like a new launch, it's always really long. So anyway, this is the April through June, so I'm just gonna flip through it because it's gonna be basically the same as the other ones just in different colors, so the format is not changing at all and then also you have the stickers in the back and then we have the yellow one, which starts in July. If you guys wanna know the exact size of these, they are 5.7 inches this way and then this long way, it's 8.25 inches. So if you're trying to make this work with say a different folio or something else you have or you just wanna know if you could fit it in your handbag or your work bag or something like that, that's what size they are, but I'll leave a link below to everything. So anyway, so this is the July through September. So again, just still goes with the color vibes and color ways of those specific months for Erin Condren. So yeah, very cool. And then again, got those stickers. And then this is the very tail end of 2019. I kinda wish they would have made one just for the rest of this year for people to kinda like test out to see if they'd be into it. I'm like, clearly you can make it your own too and just change the dates on some of them if you really wanted to, but I kinda wish they did one for the last quarter of 2018. So anyway, so here's an October through December in the proper colors. And the stickers, which are the fun parts of it all. So those are all of these. All right, and I did get a couple of other things that aren't like super new, but I still wanna share them anyway because, you know, why not? So I got this, this is the plan for tomorrow celebrate today, 2019 Erin Condren calendar. I was a huge fan of the wall calendar that had the little spiral at the top. They haven't had that in about a year or so and I don't believe that they're bringing it back. I'm not really sure. But anyway, this is gonna have to kinda do for me. Sorry, this is like so difficult to see, but at the very top, it just has like a little quote and then underneath this, it has the month at a glance right here. Also on the very bottom, there is like a little pocket, which I think is kind of interesting.  You could like shove that in there. And then also it has like the previous month and the month that's upcoming as well right here. Also, so it has like all of these quotes and things like that. Oh, maybe I should like show you February as well. They didn't skip February, I just skipped. So, and then at the very back, so I can kinda just like walk through these real quick. I mean, it's a wall calendar guys. It's a wall calendar. But at the very back, it has 2020, which I think is awesome. And then it has important information right here. And look at this huge sheet of stickers. Like, look at that. That's insanity. I love it, I love it. Okay, but then also in the back, which I think is awesome, because I remember when I was growing up, my parents always had a wall calendar and had like 911 information and poison control and all of that stuff. So like we always knew what our address was. Like this was before we like could memorize it, I guess. And then phone numbers, like the phone number to my mom's work and my dad's work. And then contacts and emergency. And then also like your city or your townships information of where to go and things like that. So yeah, and then it's got like the little pocket right here. Sorry, it's so hard to see you guys. But yeah, I thought that this was really a nice little feature. And I also picked up two packs of these. These are the 2019 mini calendar sticker packs. I'm gonna be using these in my office for a different wall calendar that I got to utilize in my office. But I forgot to grab them at the time that I hit the checkout button. So if you guys are interested in watching that video, I might have, I think it's called my work essentials. I will link it up in a card wherever the heck the cards go in the corner if y'all want to watch that. So the calendar I got for that, I'm gonna be using those little stickers for. All right, so those are all of the things that I have to share with you guys today. So this is going to be my new on the go folio from Erin Condren. So I have decided that I definitely like this color. I love the sheen on it. It's kind of amazing. And I like the little bungee as well. Right now currently I just have the three planners in there. So I have the 2019 monthly planner and then I have got the just regular oh joy one with the lines. And then I have the goal setting one in here as well. And possibly as 2019 approaches, I might decide to put these in there as well. I'm just not 100% sure just yet. But I think these are so nice and compact and you could put more in there. It really goes for four but I know that you're able to sometimes put more things in there. I mean, I'm not actually how that works cause I'm like not a folio person, so I don't know. But yeah, so I just like how compact it is and I know it's gonna fit like really nicely in my purse. Also, you can customize these on their website and have your initials. I think you get up to two or three like line or not lines but like characters or whatever. So I decided not to do that cause y'all know me. I'm not like a big personalization fan in the first place so that made sense for me not to do that. So anyway, but this is gonna be mine that I am going to hopefully be taking with me all the time now and it's like not very heavy. Like it's not gonna add like a ton of weight to my handbag. So since I haven't done a giveaway in a long time, let's do a giveaway today. I am going to be giving away this planner folio. It doesn't have any customization on it. It is gonna be the gray one. And I also got a second pack of the 2019 daily planners for one of you guys. So this whole little bundle is what one of you will win. All of the information for the giveaway will be down below. I'll actually just have a link to my Facebook and I will give everything away on my Facebook page. Just a couple of rules. You will have to be over the age of 18 to enter. You will also have to have a US mailing address. You'll have to be subscribed to my YouTube channel as well as follow me on my Facebook page. And like I said, those links are gonna be down below but one of you will win all of this and all of the regular posting rules and when it ends and all of that I haven't decided as of filming this. So I will put that on my Facebook page which again will be linked down below if y'all are interested. And even if you don't want this for yourself this would be like a really great gift for the holidays because they're coming up sooner than we think y'all. So anyway, that is going to be it. Again, thank you to the Aaron Condren team for allowing me to pick out a couple of fun things to share with you guys today. If you have any questions feel free to post them down below. I will leave the Aaron Condren links down below as well. If you've never purchased from Aaron Condren there is a link especially for you to create an online profile. When you do that, Aaron Condren is going to send you a couple of different emails and one of them will actually be a unique code for $10 off of your first purchase. So when you decide to use that code you will get $10 off of your first purchase and then when your item shifts then I in turn get $10 towards my next purchase through Aaron Condren which also helps allow me to do giveaways and things like that as well. So thank you to everybody that's used them as well as thank you to everyone that uses my other clickable link down below. It clearly says affiliate link. So if you check out using that link I get a small percentage of your sale but your item prices do not go up because you hit that link. It just lets the Aaron Condren team know that I'm the one that sent you to their website and that's how affiliate links work. So anyway, I'm gonna jet. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today. Make sure to enter the giveaway on Facebook. Again, the links are down below. Make sure to thumbs up the video. If you liked it, feel free to subscribe and I'll see y'all in the next one. Bye guys. Well folks, it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel cool. Give it to me baby.


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And it's over to you. Thank you, Eileen. Hey, thank you so much. Well, it is a gorgeous morning.  So at least it's a nice cool start. And you know what? It'll be in the 90s later today. If you get under one of these tents here, you'll be just fine. Well, obviously, emergency services has been on the forefront of everyone's mind. I know we're enjoying the day today out here, but our friends in Napa right now are still picking up the pieces from the earthquake nearly two weeks ago. There's a lot of work to be done. And it really was, and I hate to use this term over and over, but is a wake-up call that all of us here in California and northern California are susceptible to major natural disasters. It's only a matter of time before another quake hits. It's only a matter of time before the big flood comes through Sacramento. I know drought is on the forefront of our minds, but it really is just a matter of time before we get a big flood here again in the Sacramento region. Of course, drought still is something that concerns us. The wildfires, dozens of them this year impacting thousands of people. So again, emergency preparedness is huge. It is key. And if you're out here with your family today, this is really the time to maybe go home, chat about it on the way back out of here from old Sacramento, and say, what's our plan? Because nearly half or fewer of our families around northern California don't have any kind of emergency preparedness plan. Where are you going to go? Who are you going to contact? What are you going to take with you? Where are you going to, where are your belongings? All of those questions need to be answered of what your plan is. Should the big one hit, whether that be a flood, whether that be a natural disaster like wildfire or an earthquake, just like we saw nearly two weeks ago. So first up, I'd like to introduce Mark, who was sort of introduced before. Yes, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services Director. Love to introduce him, Mark Yoduchi. And here you go, Mark. Great. Thanks, Lain. Just sick. These are... Well, good morning, everyone. And Eileen, thank you very much for hosting today. And thanks to all of you for coming out today and doing something for yourself that really is going to help when a crisis occurs. You know, we live in arguably the most beautiful, fantastic state in the United States, California. But that, yeah, let's hear it for California. We're lucky enough to live here and we enjoy a great state. But also that comes with some risk. California is disaster-prone. We all know we've seen the wildfires. Two weeks ago, we saw an earthquake in Napa and we know that the scientists have told us that we're going to see a larger earthquake and the bigger faults in the metropolitan areas. Certainly the Sacramento area is at risk of flood. And of course, we're in a pretty major drought that's going on right now. And it's been going on and we're all feeling that each and every one of us in our homes. And I have to tell you that we are just approaching the 20th and 25th year of the Northridge and Loma pre-earthquakes, respectively. That's coming up this month, 20 and 25 years.  You never know, you never know when an earthquake is going to hit. We focus on fires. We do have a lot of weather kind of situations, but you never know when the earthquake is going to hit. So being prepared, it empowers you. Having a family plan empowers you. Knowing how to communicate with the members of your family and your friends. Knowing what to do when an earthquake hits to duck cover and hold. How to turn your gas off. How do you get into the emergency services system to be able to get assistance when you need it? And most importantly, understand that in a disaster, really how you act, how you are prepared, empowers you. Because really, it's not like you normally every day call 911 and you're going to get a lot of resources. In a big disaster, that may not come for a while. So being prepared for up to 72 hours is really critical. So today, our effort here in this preparedness sphere is to really partner with all of you. Partner with all of our agencies that are here. Both public and private. The utilities coming together. These are the same folks of people that respond. The public safety agencies that respond to come and help when an emergency disaster hits. We plan together. We train together. And so the idea is that it's seamless. But from the public standpoint, really you shouldn't care what patch or what color uniform. You just need to know that we're going to respond. But it can't be just a government solution. It has to be a public, private, non-governmental citizen solution. That's how we build resiliency and sustainability in our communities. The more you do for yourself and your family, the stronger you will be as a community. So today, I'm very, very happy to announce that Governor Brown has issued a proclamation, which I would like to read to you all. Governor's proclamation says that history shows that disasters often strike without warning and that preparedness on the part of individuals, businesses, and communities can do much to mitigate the devastating effects of such events. This year marks the 20th and 25th anniversaries of the Northridge and Loma Praetor earthquakes, respectively. And in less than a week, we will commemorate the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that hit on September 11th. These historic disasters, as well as the recent South Napa earthquake and the wildfires, flash floods, and the drought conditions we have experienced this year alone, should serve as reminders to all of us that we must always be prepared. Beginning a decade ago, as part of an effort to encourage personal preparedness for emergencies, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, proclaimed September as National Preparedness Month. Since then, my agency, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, who works for Governor Brown, other state agencies, many of them that are here today, local agencies represented today, the business community and utilities that are represented today in California, have joined in the effort to promote personal, employee, and community preparedness by conducting preparedness fairs and other events during the month of September. So today, I, Governor Brown, urge all Californians to continue their vigilance and increase their effort to make our families, communities, state, and our nation prepared for future disasters. And anybody who would like to see this proclamation will be up here, but it's signed by the Governor. So from the local level to all the way the federal level in your government, and I ask all of you, be prepared, think about this, take home all the information you learned today, engage it in your family discussions around the dinner table, make a plan, have a kit, and really be prepared. Thank you for being here today. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Mark, so much. Next up, we're going to hear from PG&E, one of the marquee sponsors. One thing I did learn when we had the Napa Quake is our coverage on KCRA3 quickly ramped up and we were asking some of the viewers and people who were out there during the quake, what was the first thing you did when the quake happened? They said, well, I ran out with my cell phone. It's like, no, no, they didn't touch their gas. They didn't turn off the gas. They did so many steps that probably today you'll learn more about steps you need to take if there is a big emergency like a quake. So I'd like to have up our PG&E Vice President Barry Anderson to give us a couple of comments this morning. Hey, Barry, you're right behind me. There you go. We're really delighted here today to be part, not only the sponsorship, but also to have many of our PG&E team here. We've got about a couple dozen people with a lot of different boosts and activities and I encourage everyone here to visit those today and learn more about what you can do to protect your family and protect your safety after an earthquake or wildfire. Probably the timing of this couldn't be better. Two weeks, almost two weeks ago, we had a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Napa. And we saw how important preparedness was from our company's perspective, making sure that our employees are prepared on what to do. Utilizing new technologies, you'll see a machine called the Pacaro gas leak detection machine. That type of technology allows us to rapidly assess gas leaks and it's something that we've only had employees for the last year and a half. Another key area is how we practice and prepare with first responders. And we have real tight alignment over the past few years in regards to understanding what police and fire are going to do right after an event to make sure that our teams align with them. Our real goal is making sure the public's safe and that we restore our customers so communities can come back up and function. The pieces out here we have today, we've got an electric demo and we've got a lineman back there that can walk you through those demos and explain electricity to you. So any question that you've ever had or were afraid to ask, somebody from our electric team, we also have someone from our gas team to talk about that. You can understand how your gas meter works and how the riser connects. We also have a bucket truck back there with an FPL with a PG&E lineman that will give you some real tips on down wires and also our mobile command vehicle that we use to when we arrive at an incident that we set up and coordinate an incident command post with the local first responders. One other area I want to mention is Hydro as well and we've got a booth for that too. So as Eileen and Mark have both mentioned, personal preparedness is so important. I encourage you to have a family plan, a communications plan. Just think about if we had an earthquake right now, you'd be concerned where your loved ones were and so you've got to have that plan. You've got to be able to survive three to five days with the right medicines and waters and it's so important. So I thank you for coming here. It's all, it's not the plan, it's planning and I look at everyone out here today is really planning and that's what's most important. So get your plan together and stay safe. Thank you so much, Barry. Yeah, and of course you see a lot of folks walking around with the orange buckets. Home Depot is here, one of the sponsors too.  Come on up here, Larry Snyder with Home Depot. Thank you Eileen. It's great to be out here today and it's an honor for the Home Depot to be in partnership with the governor's office of emergency services to bring some additional awareness to both the drought, water conservation and then also today some emergency preparedness things we can do in our homes to help us with disasters. We are participating in several events like this throughout the state this month and within these events the Home Depot has committed to give out 30,000 water conservation kits to the citizens of California. In these kits, we have a water saving shower head for your bathroom, some aerators for your faucets to help you conserve water, some leak detection kits for your toilets, nozzles for your hoses and everybody's favorite the iconic orange homer bucket to help you fill up with that shower water and water your plants with it so it doesn't go down the drain. We have over a thousand of these kits over here today to give out to you and we also have a lot of great innovative water conservation products that we have in the stores to just help all of us be able to conserve water as we try to weather this drought that we're dealing with. So I encourage you all to please come by talk to some of our great associates we have out here today pick up your drought kit and let's just spend some time talking about what you guys can do in your homes to help conserve water. So thank you again.  Awesome. My two year old will love playing in this bucket with very little water. I promise you another thing today as you and your family walk around here there are a couple of many exhibits you should really hit obviously one thing that really is going to be a big draw today is the simulation quake cottage. You can simulate a 6.0 Napa earthquake that we just had and see what it really felt like for them. And then more importantly you can talk to your first responders. These are the people in your community that are going to help to save you and your family should a disaster come our way. We have the Dart team out here. We have safely out sac metro fire Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Police Department. I would really encourage you to talk to your first responders on how things work. They are your friends. They are there for your information here and they can show you what a lot of this equipment will do is that if there is an emergency or if your family is in need of saving. I'd like to call up the director executive director for 911 for kids Elise Kim. She's going to have more on a special award today. Thank you so much, Eileen. Let me just get organized here is for those of you just don't be misled that it says for kids because 911 for kids is for all people of all ages. And it is the official public education and color training program for the United States, Canada and the Grand Caymans. And why those countries because those are all countries that use 911 as their universal emergency response number. And our mission is to educate and empower youth with a systematic knowledge to make critical decisions when faced with an emergency or disaster situation. And just so you know 911 is the foundation, foundational education and what we need to know when we're dealing with any kind of emergency or disaster situation. And the key message points that we teach is when and when not to call, how to dial and what to say to the dispatchers. And seemingly that would be very simple, but in California alone, there are over, I believe director is over 25 million calls that go to over 450 911 centers throughout the 58 counties. And over 50% of those are not 911 emergencies. So just remember boys and girls make you got to have to teach the adults how to use 911, right? You only call when you have an immediate emergency and you need law enforcement, fire or emergency medical response. And it's now my pleasure to reintroduce our director of the office of emergency services. Mark, could you help me with this? Mark, do you cheat? Okay, great. Thanks, Elise. Okay, you want to grab that stuff there? Oh, thanks. Thank you. Okay, well, again, good morning, everyone. And it's really exciting. You know, Cal OES, the office of emergency services, oversees the 911 communications network in California. As Elise said, there are over 450 911 centers that handle over 25 million or so calls of all different sorts. And as we all know, being able to with confidence and reliability dial those three numbers and get somebody on the other side of the phone that knows what to do and guide you through it is absolutely critical when you're in an emergency situation. So we are very honored at OES to host this particular event which we believe brings great attention to the 911 system and the incredible, selfless, really in most cases, really hardworking, behind-the-scenes heroes that answer our 911 calls each and every day. These are unsung heroes, folks. We don't normally know about all the great work. When you see police and fire and EMS responding to the scene, there is somebody on the other side of their radio networks guiding them to the scene, giving them information, while at the same time being on the phone with the people who are actually having the emergency. They are truly the bridge, that conduit that comes together that makes a crisis situation a successful outcome. So they are very, very critical. So today we are going to honor an incredible dispatch hero, a 911 dispatch hero. This individual both worked bravely and calmly together in the face of emergency crisis situations and ultimately helped save the lives of individuals during the call. So a couple of things before we're going to... I'm going to actually let you listen to the call because it's very interesting and to help me do that, I want to introduce and take the privilege of introducing the official 911 mascot because he helps me get through all this. He's our wireless 911, a wireless ambassador. Please join me in welcoming Red E. Fox right here. Right here, buddy. All right, there he is. All right, so make sure you take a picture with Red E. Fox because he is ready to go. Okay. So here is the situation of why this award is being presented today. 15-year-old Luke Owen called 911 to report a burglary in progress at his residence. He and a 12-year-old sister were the only ones in the home at the time of the incident. His calm demeanor and description of the incident gave the dispatcher the necessary information to pass along to patrol deputies. The deputies arrived within three minutes, but the suspects had fled the scenes. There is no doubt that Luke's quick action and calm demeanor brought this incident to a swift resolution without the loss of property or injury to him and his sister. And if I could, could we listen to the call? Could the engineer put that on? All right, what's the address? What was it? It was in 109 Regardway. Do you know these people? No. Okay, can you see what they look like? I would, but I don't want to let them know we're here. Okay. What did you hear? They're kicking and banging on the door. They haven't said anything. Okay, front door, back door. Front door. Can you tell how many? Two of them. Okay. You don't know if they're males or females or anything? Two males. Okay. Do you think you're trying to kick it in? Yes. Okay, all that time that discussion is going on, the dispatcher is typing in the computer, which is going to patrol officers that are responding to the scene, getting that critical information, that link between what's happening on the scene at the incident at the time from a very arguably very, very calm and collected young man being able to share information at a time that it was probably pretty scare. So today, are we going to do the young man? No. So today we are going to provide an award to Carla Lewis, Carla is the dispatcher that took that call, and Carla is the dispatcher that takes many calls, 34 years of experience. Her loyalty and her desire to help people of Sacramento in their time of need truly qualifies her for this year's 911 Hero Award. With the Sacramento County Sheriff's 911 Center, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome 911 dispatcher hero Carla Lewis from the Sheriff's Department. Congratulations. So we're going to have Director Ghiralucci present the Medal of Honor right now to Carla, and Director, if you could please present the Commendation Award here to Carla also. Okay. Thank you very much. And I'm going to turn it back over to, I know, I don't, sorry, I have to pay for work. It's okay, Mark. So just kind of a rundown of the rest of the day. The day is great if you're here with your family. Folks from UC Davis are here. They're going to be, they have a nice spread there to show you kind of the California plants that you really should be planting in your yard to face this drought. The rescue dogs are here. The CARTA, the CA Rescue Dogs Association, with their search and rescue performances. They do a scent demo. It's great. Also, life jacket competition. The kids who can put on a life jacket, the fastest wins a life jacket. And you know, the kids can learn how to use a fire extinguisher. Again, PG&E is here also with many displays and their experts are here as well. And so we'd love for you to kind of stick around as much as you can today. Learn as much as you can about first response and all of the things going on in California that we need to be aware of from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. And right now, actually, down at the river, we'd love for you to see. They are doing the Sac Sheriff's Office, along with the Dart team, the Dive team, will be putting on quite a display. The Boat and Swift Water Rescue Team will be doing rescue demos on the river right now. So we'd love for you to join us down by the river and have a wonderful day. All right, would you like to say anything else? Well, I certainly wanted to thank you, Eileen. Thank you very much. I'm about to get the hook. I am. Not these guys. I am. But anyway, we wanted to thank you for coming out here as well. Yeah, and coming up here really in just a few minutes, like she said, the Sac County Sheriff's Drowning Accident Rescue Team, they're going to be right down here by the river in a van down by the river. Remember that a little bit? All right, but anyway, seriously, we wanted to thank everyone for being here, especially all the first responders. Let's give a round of applause for all these folks up here, please. They're what they do for our community in California is just amazing. And so thank you to the first responders. Thank you to PG&E for helping sponsor this and Home Depot and to all our volunteers. Thank you for coming out here and enjoy the rest of the day. And remember, prepare. All right, thank you.


Hi, this is your host up in Bhartiya and welcome to a special edition of Tifa. Let's talk We are here at Kewkaneeo in Amsterdam and today we have with us once again Ian Riepel Chief customer officer at slim.ai Ian is great to have you on the show. Thanks. I mean yeah So tell us a bit about you know What has been your experience at the show from the perspective of what you folks announced here What kind of crowd you saw what what questions you heard from them so that you know Just just give you a kind of you know What you heard and saw here. Yeah, so There's been a lot of interest in what we're doing. So the the show has been incredibly well attended And what's interesting is everyone's trying to find a solution to this container security hardening challenge and so With our announcement around is having an automatic way to actually integrate into your CI and ship more secure slimmer containers We've had a lot of interest a lot of people coming by to learn more about it and Happy to work with them and that's what I think you folks also announced automated container hardening you know talking a bit about what it is and Of course, you talked about it. There is a kind of you know Desire for container hardening, but I think container security has been you know ever since the Docker and containers came into existence So so talk a bit about why is it's still a problem which led to the the launch of this This product or service and how does it work? Yeah, so Today from an industry perspective, right our best practice is to start with a pre-hardened container something like an alpine or something like that and then you iterate on that and you develop on top of it and You know do your best practices from a vulnerability scan perspective and ship at the end of the day a container that has As few vulnerabilities as possible at that moment of time What we're seeing though is over time. There's a dramatic uptick in the number of vulnerabilities As you're even continuing to patch the containers and future versions So very very rarely do the when the fixes come out for maybe a vulnerability if there is one Then when you apply that fix and you re-release the container that may fix the problem in the short term But now your container size has maybe increased by 10 20% And so there's this constant growth that's taking place in our pursuit to trying to chase down vulnerabilities Even though we're starting with this minimize base image our approach is the opposite We say let your developers develop on whatever they want You can start with a minimized image or you can start with basic Debian latest whatever you'd like and go through that process and At the very end just before you're going to do your EDE before you're going to put it into staging that's when you should really be focusing on coming up with a minimized hardened container and what we find is when you take a Someone that goes kind of through that traditional best practice flow versus our flow We will almost always have a smaller container More secure container with less vulnerabilities not just today But also tomorrow and next month and the month after because there's a less attack surface there to be used Is it a product in the project and service? What is it? Yeah, so it's a SaaS based solution that will actually integrate with your pipeline and Our platform will work with your registry and with your CICD to Automatically reduce the number of vulnerabilities and reduce the container sizes and if you look at the whole container world You know, there are a lot of projects. There are a lot of solutions there that do work towards hardening So talk about what is the what is the benefit that? This you know automated container hardening is bringing to the whole ecosystem. How's it different or what value it adds on top of? Yeah, so, you know, when we think about the space is evolving so quickly so when we think about Vulnerability detection within containers that was an area that got really noisy really quick So now everyone's starting to talk about okay. Well, you have all these vulnerabilities now Let's determine which ones are real which ones are exploitable We're saying Why go through all that process when you don't actually need 50 60 70 80 percent of the code that's actually in that container You still are gonna have to go through cycles of justifying or having mitigations in place for the vulnerabilities that are surfacing Let's just take it all out and never have to talk about them at all and so it's a much more simple approach not just from a developer standpoint, but also from a security and Management perspective security is often, you know kind of slows developer down So talk about you know that with this automated container hardening service How it helps developer maintain their velocity and you know also last time we also talked about developer experience Yeah, so this is one of the things that makes me really excited about the solution Because we're born out of kind of a developer centric project Addressing a need of that impacting everyone on the cyber side we're able to Make lives a lot easier and allow them to be a lot more creative And by shifting I don't want to say we're still left But we're shifting more to the right within to the left within the left So instead of us instead of making all these problems From the base image on a developer problem from us to make sure that they're doing best practices around security we're saying let them develop and be creative and Produce the best features and functions and code that they can and want to And then let's do security as the final step because at the end of the day the deliverable is better than Tying their hands earlier in the process when you are here at coupon Of course everybody likes to talk about security, but you know what you're doing about it is more important than no Yes, we want security. So what you're seeing there, you know, where is security when you look at all these players developers? Sorry, yes. Yeah, so it's interesting because we see a couple of different Couple of different camps we have the folks that are very aware of Security their security posture what they need to deliver Especially if they're delivering to regulated industries to government critical infrastructure and they tend to be very aware and Are trying to do the right thing and have made huge investments in this kind of start with a base golden image and kind of build from there and Or we have the other side, which is I like to just say that YOLO They create it and they create their containers and they ship it out And if they get feedback that there's a concern or security issue then they'll then they'll kind of go patch it or try to fix it after the fact What we're saying is Your more people are going to be put into the camp of where they're going to have to be more proactive about this and we're Already seeing some large organizations and government entities actually in the US There's a mandate that goes into an executive order that goes into effect that any Container producer that ships code that is utilized by the US federal government or Company that supports the US federal government. So there's a flowdown effect. We'll have to ship an S-bomb With their code and actually burn down their vulnerabilities over time So like it or not there is some more regulation that's gonna be coming into this space here in the very near future It's gonna be very relevant and thank you so much for taking time out today And not only give us an update on you know what slim the AI is doing sharing about the automated Container harming and also the wider picture in how the security landscape is evolving and changing Thanks for all those insights and as usual, I'd love to have you back on the show. Thank you. Thank you


Hi, we're back. This is Dave Vellante with Paul Gillin. This is theCUBE, Silicon Angles, continuous production of the MIT Information Quality Symposium. Tony D'Onofrio is here as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Technology at Truven Healthcare. Tony, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So start by telling us a little bit about Truven, and then we'll get into your role. We're going to geek out a little bit here. We haven't in the last two days. That's rare for us on theCUBE, but tell us about Truven. Well, at Truven Health Analytics, we deliver healthcare analytic databases and healthcare reference data to every stakeholder in the healthcare community. We deliver solutions for consumers of healthcare so that they can manage their selections of healthcare plans and manage episodes of healthcare. We deliver applications for providers of healthcare, both at the clinical point of care that provide critical information for making decisions on caregiving, and we provide applications to payers of healthcare, both government, Medicare and Medicaid, as well as commercial health plans and large employers who want to understand how to best deliver efficient quality care to consumers of healthcare. And talk a little bit about your role as a CTO. Is it a visionary role, strategy role? Get involved in actual implementation, R&D decisions, all of the above? Yeah, I'd say all of the above. We're what might be called a mid-sized organization, and we're at about 2,100 Truvenites, and we have to manage the development of our software and our tools and our analytic methods, and we have to deliver those. And that's a lot of work because we provide many products across the spectrum of product lines to those communities. But we also have to get ahead of the curve, and that's an important part of my job, is to look at what are the opportunities that technology affords the healthcare community, and how can we extend and evolve our services so that we can offer, or enable, I should say, the healthcare, all of the healthcare stakeholders, the ability to provide higher quality care to more people in a more efficient manner. Okay, so you're an independent software vendor, essentially, in the healthcare business. You've got a, sounds like quite a portfolio of applications. We do. Consumers, docs, and payers. Absolutely. So are these largely bespoke applications, or sort of grouped in suites by each of those constituents? Yeah, they're grouped in suites. We have product lines around what we call care management, which would be things like our care discovery product, which is for the providers of care to look at the clinical quality of their care, and to improve that over time, using data collections of their own data with benchmarks that we apply to it, and analytics that we apply to it, to give them key information to make those decisions of improving clear. We also provide, in the area of care management, operational applications like Action OI, that allows the folks and provider organizations who are managing the efficiency of the overall operation as an enterprise, using financial data and other operational data to understand the improvement of theirs, using benches and comparing to each other, and so on and so forth. And then on the clinical side and the point of care side, we offer solutions like Micromedics, which has a suite of important data referential information such as toxicology and drug interaction information and things of that nature that allows, when used at the point of care, allows clinicians at the point of care to make better decisions and make well-informed evidence-based decisions on giving care. And finally, for payers, we offer what we'll often consider risk management solutions like Advantage Suite that provides analytically ready data over populations regarding the cost of their care and the efficiency of their plans to provide that care. One of the things about analytics that I think is interesting is companies, organizations often find unexpected benefits. So they go in thinking that they're going to increase revenue and, in fact, they find that their biggest pay-off is in operational efficiencies. Are there any stories that you can tell of your customers where they have seen perhaps unexpected windfalls from applying analytics to their business?  I won't name any client cases yet. However, we do, we have in the area where we do risk management, we have many cases where our surveillance and payment integrity solutions have delivered information that has allowed payer organizations to recover well into the tens of millions of dollars per period of reimbursement. So the benchmarking piece is interesting. So how did that come about? I mean, obviously you have the chicken and egg problem there, right? So you had to have enough, you know, data to be able to even offer those benchmarks. There's also the, you know, the confidentiality and privacy issues. You can talk about that a little bit, how you came up with that product and have successfully delivered it. Yeah, that's actually a great question because, you know, depth and breadth of data is really important when you're providing analytics. And we're fortunate because, you know, having been around while as an organization, we've been able to pool large collections of data in such a way that allows us to look at individual consumers, individual patients, if you will, over longitudinally over a long period of time. And to your point about privacy, the reason and the way that we're able to do that is by pooling those data and de-identifying those data. So the important attributes about the episodes of care for those communities and all of the information that we have is de-identified and is pooled in a way that allows these benches to be created without providing individual, you know, personal identifiable information. So, but nonetheless, well, even though you're anonymizing it, did you have to sort of work with the providers of that information and say, okay, we're gonna do this or did you just kind of do it and ask forgiveness or? Yeah, that's a good point. Data rights management is a critical capability for us. We actually consider it, you know, we call it supply chain management, the way a manufacturing organization would. We work and those arrangements can be complex. We have, there are variations on the theme, but long story short, with large portions of the communities that we serve, we're able to make value arrangements with them whereby they allow us to utilize these data for benching and for aggregation and pooling. And that benefits, you know, the whole community, but including, you know, the direct participants in those arrangements by getting the benefits of those broader benches. So what will I see? I'll see myself in context to a larger pool and then there's presumably some granularity of that pool, some categorization, is that right? Yeah, you know, what you would see, depending on your, you know, your use and in which, you know, what application you're using and what you're looking for, you know, what your role is. If you were, if you're an individual consumer using one of our consumer products, for example, for instance, you could look at the list of actual, you know, episodes, claims, if you will, that you've incurred over the period that you've participated or your employer has participated in providing this application. Or you could see information that aggregates that and gives you some suggestions and analytical information about how you might approach, you know, that condition. So you would see both in that case. If you were the plan provider, you would not see granular data about the individual user, but you would see summary information about your population and summary cost and care information about that population. What about the payer? That's sort of the most interesting to me is, I wanna know, how do I stack up against my competition, essentially? So okay, you're not gonna do a head-to-head for me. Right. But what can you tell me? Yeah, payer-to-payer comparisons are less rich, you know, at this point. Sorry. Yeah, it's difficult. You know, we do have a view on it because we're providing services to each of the payers. We have a white paper on your website. You have a white paper on your website calling for price transparency. Right, and we believe that that's critical. It's fair to say that certain stakeholders in the process, especially on the payers side are currently, they feel they're disincented to provide price transparency. However, if you look at it in the midst of long-term, I think the pressure will be there to do that in order to enrich their plans and attract the most, you know, the best mix of consumers. Gas stations have to do it, but the insurance companies don't. Yes, that's right. The, I wanted to ask you about it, as far as that Bustashari was on from Health and Human Services earlier, he was talking about his vision of a world in which every interaction between doctor and patient becomes part of a bigger database that contributes to the body of knowledge. It furthers our ability to make smarter medical decisions. Now, part of that depends upon companies like yours being forthcoming, I guess, with that information, anonymized, aggregated, however, but is there, do you see in the future that you will be sharing the kind of information that you collect with other companies like yours in the pursuit of the greater good? Yes, I do. I think that as the industry develops and as capabilities and technology and data interchange move forward, that will be more of the case than not. I think in the very long term, what we'll see is what one of my colleagues, Donald George, and I were talking about and I like his term earlier, as said, is information as a service. And the key to unlocking, providing information as a service will be managing that privacy in a public way, managing that level of access so that only aggregated or anonymized data can be accessed in public setting, but data can be privately drilled down on if the right access makes sense to grant. That will require a standardization, a massive standardization initiative because companies like yours and like insurance companies will need to actually have a consistent set of data standards to permit this interchange. Is that right? Yeah, and the interesting thing about that is that the standards do exist today. There are very mature and continually improving standards for data encoding, data semantics. So on the admin data side or the claims data side, if you will, we have ICD-9, going to ICD-10. On the clinical side, we have HL-7 in various releases. The real challenge there and what's going to evolve rapidly, I believe, given the need to become more efficient is the quality standards in those data and the implementation standards. So that certain, for example, certain attributes absolutely must be present in all cases and won't be allowed to be fudged by putting certain data in a text field because within the confines of your system that works for you in that context. Easier to standardize the fields than what people put in the fields, right? Exactly, it's a good way of putting it. Now, you deliver your service or your software as a service. Is it on-prem, both? How does that work? It's both, but mostly and increasingly, it's software as a service. We offer all the products that I mentioned earlier and services around those where we provide analytic consulting and the data management for the individual participants. We provide that as a service and we host those. That's actually very efficient for our customers and for us. It's easy for us to manage the secure. It's easier for us to manage privacy and protocols around the data if we manage it and host it as opposed to doing it within the context and the confines of a customer or a customer partner's infrastructure. But we do that as well. So I wonder if you could talk about the database behind it. I said we haven't really talked tech, but when you look at the delivery of software as a service, three companies come to mind. You got Salesforce, who just did a monster deal with Oracle as the back end. You got Workday, who I believe does a homegrown glio. And ServiceNow is another really interesting one. They got a single CMDB running on MySQL. I think they're moving to either, I think they're going to Cassandra. But anyway, regardless, talk about your database architecture. Yeah, that's a, I'm glad you asked that because we're a little bit interesting that way. We are not software as a service in the same way that you would see Salesforce and ServiceNow, but in some ways we are, in some ways we're not, I should say. So the way to think about the way we manage those data is in a couple of ways. One is we instantiate individual data warehouses or data marts, given these are business intelligence applications where you're doing analytic reporting over analytically ready data. We instantiate individual marts for customer's scope of data. And that's typical for the risk management type products like Advantage Suite and Count Group Reporting and things that really there is a need from the customer perspective to have their drill down data and their data collection isolated. We do that in a shared tenant way over shared infrastructure or in dedicated infrastructure depending upon the customer's policy. But we instantiate in the same way, it's just there would be another instance. The other thing, as opposed to, if you look at Salesforce within a large instance of the infrastructure, they have multi-tenancy on an application layer within the database. So they have table sets that are. Which also of course hammers them on, but now maybe they're going to a new model now. Right, so we have segregation. And workday is probably similar, I don't know for sure. I think they are, I'm not sure either. And so we use Salesforce and we use ServiceNow by the way. And ServiceNow is awesome as it is. Great tool, great tool. And we feel our tools are great too. And in the, but that's the way we instantiate databases. We use commercial platform components like Oracle Exadata in some instances as well as IBM's Cognos. And we have integrating software and optimization software and custom reporting software around that. In addition, we have custom tools to do the data acquisition, management, and delivery to those analytically ready data models. And how about all this, for all this unstructured data? Are you using, starting to dabble in Hadoop? Are you moving in that direction aggressively? We're moving in that direction aggressively, but we believe firmly that it, as with all new storage and retrieval paradigms or data management paradigms, it will coexist with relational database management with other database management approaches for quite some time to come. Kind of like PCs coexisted with mainframes or a little more equilibrium? No, I think kind of like, kind of like relational databases coexisted with file system access and flat file data. You know, it never really replaced that. It did replace, but inappropriately so. In a lot of ways, because it became a paradigm lock. It did replace hierarchical databases, inverted list databases, things like that. Probably shouldn't have for a lot of applications. It became the only way to do things. But Hadoop, in that way, won't replace relational database storage. Where we're applying Hadoop to be specific about that is in the space where, and this is critical for the development of healthcare quality and cost going forward is, where we're advancing our capabilities in integrating clinical data with claims and admin data to provide richer analytics and more near real-time analytics, we're employing Hadoop because in that, because the nature of the clinical data is much less long cycle adjudicated data. It's very lumpy, very volatile streams of those data in terms of time to come in. And we basically feel that the distributed file system approach that Hadoop gives us gives us the ability to basically create piles of those data in very efficient ways and pull piles of those data and apply analytics to them in a much more efficient way. And what database are you using there? We're using the Hortonworks distribution. Apache, so Hortonworks distribution and HBase? Yes, and we are, our view on Hadoop and distributed files is that we feel it should be a lean until we see otherwise with the Cloudera and Oracle Big Data Appliance approaches until we see otherwise or we get to that scale and we understand exactly where and how we're gonna apply it and at what scale we're gonna stay lean with our Hadoop distribution, roll our own using Hortonworks. We do see a future where it very probably would coexist where we would deploy the Cloudera or Oracle Big Data appliance where it made sense. But right now it's something that, a lean and mean distribution to allow us to figure out where we're gonna take it is the best thing. So using Apache distribution which is open source and free, are you actually engaging with the Hortonworks on a subscription basis at this point? Yeah, what we're doing with Hortonworks which you're a customer of Hortonworks. We're a customer of Hortonworks and the good thing about that is it takes off the tape. When you're rolling your own and dealing with the open source distribution and so on and so forth and you're maturing your organization's operational and software development capability and using the tools, it really helps to have a partner who give you a hand to hold who's been there for just both development issues where how do you optimize your implementation as well as bite and chew issues like what's the best way to deploy and extend your deployment on your physical platform. It's great to have that hand to hold. It's gonna do that. Yeah, those guys know what they're doing. Hortonworks, for those of you who don't know, spin out from Yahoo and guys like Arun Murthy who are serious committers to Apache Hadoop and what they're doing with Yarn is very interesting. All right, so we're really getting into it now and these guys are giving me the high sign. So all right, Tony, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, really a pleasure meeting you and sharing your perspectives. I really appreciate it. Thank you, it's been a pleasure to be here. Keep it right there, everybody. Paul Gillan and I will be right back after this. This is theCUBE. We're live from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Question is from just walk around it. What are some ways to improve the mind muscle connection? Oh, number one, focus on the squeeze. The squeeze part of a lift is where you're going to, you're most likely to connect and feel a muscle. If there's a muscle that you have that you feel like you can't really connect to or feel, pick an exercise that allows you to have resistance in the squeeze portion, the shortened portion of the rep. Do that exercise and hold the squeeze for like one, two, three seconds. It's that peak contraction part of the rep where you're gonna start to feel and be able to connect to the muscle. And the other part is to slow down. Slow your reps way down, go real slow, get to the squeeze, hold it, squeeze it for two or three seconds, then get back into the rep and then go back through it, squeeze it, hold it for a couple of seconds and repeat. I totally agree, like I was immediately thinking of isometrics and ways of like holding it within the rep where I feel like I didn't have as much access. So I know there are certain movements that if you pay attention enough and you know your body enough, you're gonna find that like, wow, I don't really feel my muscle in this part of the range of motion. And to really stop right there and to then do what Sal is saying and like I wanna actively squeeze into that and really like gain that access through that makes a massive difference. Also like single joint exercises. This is where I would definitely kind of steer somebody more to then kind of slow down like with the compound lifts for a bit, kind of concentrate on a joint by joint type of exercise. So that way I can then really concentrate on each muscle. Doug, can you make a note for this for YouTube for me to do a video on this? This actually just reminded me of something that. That would be a great YouTube. Well, you know, I just, the great question because it got us discussing something that I haven't thought about in a long time and this was a cue that I used to consistently try and get clients. One of the things that I started to figure out with clients, they would really struggle with the eccentric portion of the exercise, the negative of an exercise. It wasn't that hard to get someone to understand when you do a bicep curl to fill it in your bicep. Like a couple of times of doing that, they would get that. But the natural tendencies of the body when you go to a negative is to just let gravity take care of it and relax. And, you know, the eccentric portion of the exercise is one of the most important. All of the portions are important, but it's one of the most neglected. And it also focusing on that portion does incredible things for working on the mind-muscle connection. So when I would do an exercise with somebody, I would be talking to them on the concentric portion to why they're flexing the muscle. Like Sal saying, focus on the squeeze. And then not only that is after I tell them to squeeze, I would tell them, resist the way down, resist the way down, think about that muscle that I just had you squeeze. Think about that muscle, I just had you squeeze. Resist the way down with that muscle and keeping them focused on resisting with that muscle because it's really easy for them to relax that one and go to the antagonist muscle to let it do the deceleration of the exercise. So that was something that I remember having to cue a lot. And once a client, that light, and you could see it when that light bulb goes off of another example, really, and this is probably what I would use is like the tricep pushdown. People would do a tricep pushdown and they would feel, of course, they flexed and they feel it in their tricep. And then when they let the cable come up, a lot of times what's resisting that on the way up is the bicep. You know, they let the bicep kind of slow it back down and getting them to understand to flex the tricep, keep it flexed, and then resist it with the tricep on the way back. Boy, getting that down will really help that mind muscle connection. If you can feel a muscle on the negative, then you've connected. Because that's the harder part to connect, for sure.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick, right now we are at the national conference for a special session of the parliament on agrarian crisis organised by the nation of farmers. This is to discuss the agrarian crisis especially in light of the most recent farmers protest from Nasik to Mumbai that shook the entire country. Today is the start of a three day session that will discuss the onslaught and attack faced by youth, workers, farmers and women today. Let's take a look at some of the key issues that were discussed here ahead of this special session. Welcome to the nation for farmers conference and convention. Before the neoliberal reform started, before trade openness started, why did you not hear of debt induced farmers' use sides? It was because our agriculture was protected. It was protected from free inflow and outflow of global commodities. I agree and we should all put our demands that we should come out of this neoliberal framework, reverse the economic reforms, bring back all the protective mechanisms including policies, laws and institutional arrangements, it revives them and also enhance support mechanisms. This is the point I want to make. But I think the second point is that even if we are not able to do this immediately, at least we can revive the institutions and protective mechanisms that we used to operate earlier. After 20-30 years of atomization and self-centered hedonism, the middle classes have come out in a big way to participate in the marches of farmers and farm laborers. And that has happened from Punjab to Tamil Nadu. And that is such a significant, such a significant development. So the most important thing that was brought about by this whole farmers' effort and I think to the nation for farmers' effort, the idea to add to that, the Kisan movement will set the agenda. We really require a special session of parliament for minimum three weeks where all these issues will be discussed, solutions will be found and one of the important things that must be discussed in such a special session of parliament is the National Commission on Farmers Report. The National Commission which was headed by Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, the report was submitted in all five parts by 2006. Today it is 2019, last 13 years parliament has not spent even one minute discussing this very crucial report of the Swaminathan Commission which is not limited only to the recommendation of remunerative prices of one and half times the cost of production. But it has a number of other recommendations which are very valuable, which require to be discussed threadbare and in detail. Apart from this, there are four or five very, very major issues which require to be really dealt with absolutely frontally today if the agrarian crisis is to be resolved. Actually we are not demanding it as something like arms over there at all, we are demanding this as a right because these farmers have been looted by the government and by the market over the last several years. In fact several decades ever since independence, we are very much aware that just a loan waiver will not solve the problems of agriculture nor will it solve the problems of farmers on a long term basis simply because if the current policies continue, the same kind of loan and indebtedness is going to afflict farmers very soon again. Not only this, if the Swaminathan Commission itself said simply declaring MSP at one and half times the cost of production is not enough, the government must set up a machinery at every Monday level to be able to buy the agricultural produce of the peasantry at that price. Today more than half the country is reeling under drought, Kerala was reeling under very bad floods the worst in a century, Assam, Bihar, etcetera we are having floods or drought. So therefore, in case of natural calamities there has to be a really pro-farmers comprehensive crop insurance scheme which is in place not the Pradhan Mantri, Fasal Bhima, Yojana which is a farce which is meant not to help farmers but to help insurance companies make tremendous profits. This kind of a crop insurance scheme is not at all what we have in mind, we must have a comprehensive crop insurance scheme which will actually help farmers in distress as a result of natural calamities. The fourth important thing that we have to struggle all over the country is regarding agricultural workers that is a huge section today landless having to just work on agriculture for just sustaining themselves and as a result we have a situation where in 2005-6 the Manarega National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was actually promulgated passed by parliament and we have seen in the last 5 years every attempt has been made to undermine this very important lifeline for the agricultural workers of India and as a result of this we are seeing that the agricultural workers what they had promised in the act 100 days per work they are not even getting 20 days per work on an average as a result of the fact that the government is not giving the outlay required for making this Manarega scheme a success. The fifth important point concerns issues of land rights and land acquisition. We have just seen the Supreme Court judgment on the 20th of February where they asked for eviction of tribals who are not made eligible under the Forest Rights Act. It was a completely unfortunate and insensitive judgment putting the owners on the Adivasi farmers whereas the owners should be on the central and state government for not having implemented the Forest Rights Act in the spirit in which they should have done that. It is a welcome thing that the Supreme Court has today reviewed its own judgment and has taken back the eviction clause today which is a good thing but at the same time the Forest Rights Act needs to be implemented in a large way all over the country. The sixth and the last thing which I would like to say regarding social services and the entire question of social welfare. This is a very important aspect of the agrarian crisis today and this is being totally watered down by successive governments as a result of the neoliberal policies. So, issues like education, issues like employment, issues such as health, issues of the Dalits, of the Adivasis, of very important section farmer women. These are all issues which come under the category of social welfare, under the category of social justice and I think that these all issues also are extremely vital and they need to be really resolved on a war footing if some kind of a equality is to be achieved.