12 years yes okay and the most active addiction I would describe that as the point at the time where you are heavily addicted to a drug or a substance or even a habit so basically it was for me it was alcohol for 12 years and the events that led me to go to rehab I didn't want to go to rehab because one I didn't have a problem I was in denial so I didn't know had a problem but one morning I woke up with conversions and my wife got scared so at my workplace there is there's a program to help people who are addicted so she actually called at workplace and when I was to report to work the next morning I was directed to a counselor's office and I would say the rest is history because when I went to talk to the counselor she asked me a few questions and then she called another person who happened to be a psychiatrist and then I was referred to a treatment center for detox but all that time when I was doing that I was doing it because I wanted to please people to tell them I'm trying to get help but in me I didn't I didn't think I had a problem I was okay I was drinking and going to work so I'm fine so that is what they say it's denial it's called denial because I didn't see the problem passing and I didn't see how it affected me and other people around me so it's basically it was basically a very selfish 12 years yeah it was about me me me me now it took some time for me to actually accept that there's a problem you think over a month over a month yes because I was in rehab for three months so the first for the first month you were still like no I don't have a problem yeah I was I was fighting everybody and telling them no I don't have a problem in all that yeah but slowly there are a lot of counseling a lot of psychotherapy education and all that I started seeing things from a different perspective of course yeah so you accepted what was happening and you then went into active treatment yeah now back to our counseling psychologists your expertise opinion when it comes to mental health and addiction in the sense that you had mentioned earlier that sometimes mental health could be the underlying root and then people self medicaid with addictive substances I'd like to know and then you also touched on the issue that mental health actually know that alcoholism and addiction is actually a part of a mental health condition I think that most Kenyans we have what we call a drinking culture and that's what I'd like to you know think and we you know every weekend people go out have their beers then Yama and do whatever they have to do you know I think we have very much a drinking culture but at the same time those that consider it just a drinking culture I don't think know that if I drink certain number of times doing a week that simply just means I'm an alcoholic number one and then number two if I'm addicted to something that means I have a mental health condition could you kindly explain why alcoholism is an addiction is a mental health condition because we have such a bad stigma in Kenya when it comes to mental health you have no idea when but actually you do have an idea when Mburu was discussing what he has gone through when he opened up that he had ADHD there's such a stigma negative stigma when it comes to mental health but when people learn that oh my gosh drinking being an alcoholic being an addict to any particular thing is a mental health condition in itself I think that we could remove that stigma when it comes to other areas of mental health could you kindly discuss this when when when you find that you're drinking more than your peers your buddies when you think when you find that you're usually the first one to the pub and the last one to leave when you find that you're starting to have debts in your local in your locals and they know you by name and by your drink and you can drink any day of the week when you walk in they know what to serve you they don't have to come and ask your your trending on dangerous grounds okay but now to back to basics addiction is simply a combination of three things yeah there is an obsession with a drink so you continuously thinking about the positive effects of the drink continuously yeah there is a compulsion which is what we call the irresistible large right they call it tacky tacky q yeah and when that tacky comes you will give your 30,000 phone and tell them give me drinks I'll when I get money I'll come back for the phone that's that's crazy that's that's not normal yeah and then finally there is a loss of control yeah simply means that I usually like putting it in so the two of you can't coexist you can't go and take two beers and live yeah once you start you you have the inability to stop you can't stop you can't stop yeah when you find that you're continuously having negative effects due to your use we are talking about booze here when you find that your drink your drinking is causing problems at work your drinking is causing problems at school your drinking is causing problems at the home front then there is a problem right all these people cannot be wrong you're the only one who is right of course but now unfortunately like Edwin alludes to one of the biggest symptoms of alcoholism is that denial we are always fighting that tag we are always thinking we're in control even when it's very clear that we've lost control yeah now to the mental health angle we need to understand that alcohol acts on the brain yeah brain imaging shows that when compared between somebody who does not drink and somebody who drinks heavily and is in alcoholism you'll find that we may have a condition that's called a wet brain a wet brain yes what is a wet brain now a wet brain occurs when alcohol has affected your brain to the extent that when imaging is done you you find there beats and pieces of holes in the brain actual actual holes wow caused by excessive cost by excess remember when alcohol is taken in excess it becomes a poison to the brain yeah so even physical physically you'll find that it has a star affecting the brain once the brain has started being affected it becomes a mental health challenge yeah of course so there is there is a reputable proof that alcoholism the DSM diagnostic statistical manual which is what psychiatrists used to distinguish between the different mental disorders classifies alcoholism as a mental disease simply because it affects the brain it affects the brain it's that simple it's that simple yeah yeah so and the saddest and again I like the way Edwin puts it the alcoholic is usually the last person to know that they have a disorder yeah I usually say alcohol is in is is one of the saddest disease because everybody around you can see that there is a problem except the person who is suffering from the disease yeah so everybody everybody will be constantly continuously telling you you need to change you need to stop you need to and most people deep down they know when they cross the line they know we have a problem deep down deep down you just know within yourself yeah and they will continuously try to address the problem they will try to cut down they will try to switch drugs are drinks they will try to do whatever it takes they will switch to wine they will think it's it's a whiskeys that are problem are switched to beers it's beers that are problem are switched to and all that but unfortunately for most people unless you seek treatment those self remedies do not work and when it comes to someone who's undergone living with addiction and you've come out on the other end sober for three years nine months and 12 days that's amazing I know that there are people who maybe drink every day at the end of the day like by their Kazi and I don't know if they see what could be happening or where their life could be spiraling to because at the same time they keep telling themselves I'm just having one beer at the end of work and I go home but for you I'd like to know how it's spiraled out of control number one and number two our counselling psychologist James Maudi he said that it affects family it affects even your work how did it affect you at work and also your wife because you said she did call in and say maybe my husband needs help or something but it there could be more negative effects than what you went through in a different home it could be a wife who's breaking down because she doesn't understand why her husband is drinking so much she doesn't know where to call she doesn't know where to go to look for help but she's just watching her husband go down this drain or vice versa because it happens to women as well which is what we'll discuss next please could you touch on how it's affected your personal life in terms of family and relationships in terms of family you know the process is gradual right you don't get addicted on day one so as I con as I continued using people started pointing it out that I'm doing it too much they pointed it out yeah and when they do you automatically become my enemy because I want to drink okay I cut ties I can't come to your place when you call me I can't pick up so those ties started getting severed slowly and by the time I was I was going to rehab some of them are nonexistent because people had you know when you see somebody with potential somebody who is young and is can thrive in whatever it is that they are doing and is drawing all that away and he can't see it or she can't see it even new as a person you just let it be because there's only so much at times people can do and now for my wife was just concerned she didn't know actually what to do and she had seen it by that time had been married for about four years so she had seen it she had suffered through it my parents and my siblings also had seen it to the point that they were like he is our son but there's only so much you can we can do and at the end of it all they were like if you they actually told my wife if you need to leave this guy we would support you because P.S.E.C. I'm a Tushinda is only so much we can do and we don't want you to suffer so and I wasn't violent physically or verbally I was just never there I would go for three four days but I'm going to work but I'm not going home and when it came to work you find that at times I would be late consistently and I always convinced the bosses that I had a genuine issue and addicts people who are in active addiction they are very convincing they are very manipulative so I always head away of turning things around so that you can look at it from my own view not from your own view so I am late and I passed by about I left the bar at 2 or at 5 in the morning but I'll come to work at 10 or 9 and I'll convince you that something actually had happened and you will believe it. I believe you hey wow that's interesting so you've touched on the fact that addicts can be very controlling manipulative and they're very good at convincing people but when it comes to that I'd like for people to know because then again we've already discussed about Kenya being a culture of drinking it's just something we see and we can't label everybody as an alcoholic because we don't know what they're doing during the week we might see what they're doing during the weekend but we don't know what they're up to during the week so we might not be able to label all of us as alcoholics but let's now go to the issue of gender this is also an issue where the stigma is so bad when it comes to females it's a it's a point where it's rare to see a lady sit at a bar you know maybe having her glass of wine or whatever it is without people thinking she's a prostitute it's just that simple and so when you find women who are alcoholics or who are addicts or women who have ended up in rehab there's that stigma for if you're truly a lady I don't see why you should even be in rehab if you're a lady why do you have a drinking problem if you're a lady why do you have an addiction problem this is something only for men but that's not true and I'd like to hear your expertise on this please it's good that you touch on the ladies because currently we are trying to formulate a program for women only okay reason being like you rightly put it there's a lot of stigma on women who pick up an addiction or the other society has not been kind on the woman that's very true woman is considered to be the homemaker she should be on top of things and we think the men are allowed to fall around the roadside and everything but not women yeah all this is doing is the women who have issues are not taking help exactly they are going under and the more they go under the worse the addiction becomes and and you find that apart from the alcohol they start picking other things I know I've had women who are addicted to cough syrup yeah so she always has cough syrup in the bag nobody will suspect yeah so every time but we've had cases where people women are getting into big huge deaths because of cough syrup because in a day she's doing 12 bottles 12 bottles yeah yeah because it's a chemical in there there is the code that alleviates your mind there is the codein that that creates that high basi feeling and she needs 12 to get that high exactly because consistently throughout the day and she doesn't want the smell of alcohol yeah yeah so there's there's a lot of stigma when it comes around to women but what we need to understand is that again coming from what you point out about the culture that we have we are going more towards the western way of doing things where a woman and and and self empowerment and all that a woman is working and we'll want to unwind at the end of the day so she will pass by the pub and take a bottle or two and go home but then again I've heard Boru say it does not start on day one you do not become addicted the day you touch booze it takes a while right the same way that a man would get into addiction is the same way that a lady will get into addiction right there's no discrimination there's no there's in fact studies are showing that the woman is likely to become an addict faster than a man right yeah so studies have shown that women are actually getting a chance to become an addict more than men exactly chances are higher exactly right but then the inverse is women seek treatment less because of the stigma and and again it's it's I think the African culture no father wants to say my daughter is in rehab he'd rather say my son is in rehab it's considered manly to drink yeah and and bragging rights than a woman so women we have a problem we have a problem we have a problem and we need to address that issue so that women can feel comfortable enough to come out and fight for their life and fight for you know a new beginning because so many women I know are going through no not I know but so many women are just going through addiction I know that they won't speak out they will not go to rehab they won't even see a psychologist they won't tell a friend they're not gonna tell even even their best friend is not gonna know this is something they're probably doing the house by themselves let me let me give you a flip side on the on the woman the woman is more emotional than the man okay because of the hormonal imbalances during menses and all this yeah so the woman by nature is more hormonal is more emotional going back to the beat of self-medicating it's easier for woman to train self-medicate against these up and down moods than a man yeah now when this happens and then that's why we are saying women are likely to be to develop addictions than men it's because of all the hormonal issues yeah look at the postpartum depression that comes along with childbirth right that men never experience yeah so there's this woman who has just given birth she feels the man is not supportive enough the man is out in the pub drinking with his buddies because he's just got an a son or a daughter yeah the woman is at home feeling helpless crying and all that again it's tired exactly tired and so it's easier for women because of the hormonal imbalance it's easier for women to pick up self-medicating right so as as that's going on she's slowly getting depressed at home and she's self-medicating at home without the knowledge of the husband without the knowledge of the husband for women again because of the stigma people discover when they are deep in it when they are already too deep in it when you look at the statistics in rehabs very few women seek treatment and the women who come in what are the statistics for women that come into rehab probably if I give a ratio of men to women it's about seven to one for every seven male who come in one woman yeah but again unfortunately that's not the case on the ground yeah especially with today's culture like you say I would say women are drinking as hard as their male counterparts wow females are drinking as hard as a male counterparts this is something not hard if not harder females actually drinking as hard as a male counterparts if not harder yes wow we know the more we give out these statistics the more people understand that look this is something that does not discriminate genders this you know addiction and mental health as a whole does not know how this is a woman or this is a man it doesn't know it's just circumstances in life that will lead you to you know the path of mental health or addiction and I'm bored lastly and very shortly I'd like for you to give a chance on maybe for someone who is struggling with alcoholism who right now is watching the show and they need a word of encouragement that things can get better that they can't stay sober for three years nine months and 12 years just like you and even more could you give short word of encouragement please and what I would like to say is addiction is a disease and just like any other disease it can be addressed and treated it can be addressed and managed I've been able to manage mine for three years heading on to four get so these I know there's a lot of stigma about it but rise above it seek help they are people who you can talk to just like I said last time know your support system when things get tough look for that one person tell them I think I have up because deep down we all know there's something wrong you will know I knew I had a problem but I didn't want to it was easier for me to drink than to come and tell somebody I need help but what I've come to realize is these help help is there a lot of it support groups are there there is a a alcoholic anonymity is in Kenya right go for meetings I do I go for meetings okay that is a support system in itself and it helps so many people get sober so these help right yeah and it's a disease just like in here right yeah right wow there is hope and before we close down the show I'd like to for addiction maybe a couple weeks from now we'll touch on other sorts of addictions when it comes to drugs hardcore addiction and how we can help our youths to that I'll come out come out of that excuse me thank you so much for staying in thank you for tuning in to help on Monday it has been wonderful to talk to you guys and we've seen some of the questions and suggestions that you guys had we shall get back to you on those but we didn't have enough time to do that but what I can suggest is continue to interact with us the hashtag is help on Monday and why hashtag why in the morning my name is John Machache this has been help on Monday please remember that we shall be discussing hardcore addiction in the maybe couple weeks to come so if you have anyone that's suffering with this or you yourself you're suffering with that please continue to tune in thank you


In this video I'm going to explain proportion problems type of example, so in a previous video I had talked about percent problems and percent problems had a nice little formula that we used, not really a formula, but anyway we'll call it a formula for now, for lack of a better term.  On the other hand, proportion problems are not that simple. We still use proportions, but it's just a little bit different. So as we go through this problem I'm going to solve this with proportions. Alright, Ryan ran 600 meters and counted 482 strides. How long is Ryan's stride in inches? And then here at the end it tells us that 1 meter is 39.37 inches. So what we have to do is not only do we have to find how long Ryan's stride is, but we have to find it in inches. But at the very beginning Ryan ran 600 meters, so we got to convert everything from meters to inches. So there's a lot of steps that we have to do for this problem. A good example of where these problems are used in the real world. Just recently my wife got a step counter and she had to figure out how long her strides are. So we actually did not exactly this, but something very similar to this. We actually didn't do 600 meters, we only did 400, but anyway. 600 meters, that's a time and a half around a typical high school track. And what you can do is you can figure out how long your strides are now. Why do you need to know how long your stride is?  And it's much, much more accurate because it's using your own body measurements. And so this is a type of problem that you will see in the real world if you want to be one of those healthy individuals, if you ever get a step counter or something like that, my wife actually got it through her work, she's kind of nice, she gets points and all sorts of different stuff like that. But anyway, if you ever get one of those step counters and want to be one of those healthy individuals, this is some type of mathematics that you're going to have to do. Alright, so again, reading through the problem, Ryan ran 600 meters and counted 482 strides. How long is Ryan's stride in inches? Alright, so the first thing we want to do is we want to set up our proportion. So we're going to have a fraction equal to a fraction, there's our proportion. So now in this proportion I have four empty spots, four empty spots and I'm going to fill about three of them, not about, I'm going to feel exactly three of them, okay? So the thing is, as I look through the problem, I have to find three different numbers from this problem. Some of them might be in there that are quite obvious, some of them are not. Okay, the first thing I see is 600 meters, there's a quite obvious number, 482 strides, there's another obvious number, but I don't see another one. This one here at the end, one meter is equal to 39.37 inches, that's a conversion, that's not part of the initial problem. Okay, so as I look at this, I need to find another number, I need three numbers to put in those four spots. Okay, Ryan ran 600 meters and counted 482 strides, how long is Ryan's stride in inches? Okay, now as I read that last sentence, I actually figure out what that last number is. How long is Ryan's stride, as in one stride? So it might not be quite obvious where all the numbers are at, sometimes you kind of have to read the problem and figure it out for yourself what the other number is going to be, okay? So Ryan ran 600 meters and counted 482 strides, how long is one of Ryan's stride in inches? Okay, so now as I, I'm going to take those three numbers, I'm going to plug them into, into these spots, here in my proportion, I've got to figure out where they go. The do they go on top, on bottom, left, right, where, where do they kind of go? Now as we go through this, we've got to realize that actually the labeling at the end of the problem is going to give us a hint on how to set this up. So Ryan ran 600 meters and counted 482 strides, how long is Ryan's stride in inches? We're looking for how long his, his stride is, okay? So when we have a, when we have a percentage like this, this is really nice because the English language actually helps us with this. We want to know the distance per stride, distance per stride. Ryan's distance per one of his stride. Okay, now as I say that over and over again, that actually gives us a hint on what's going to go on top, what's going to go on bottom. Distance per stride, distance per stride, that per word kind of gives us an idea of where the fraction bar is going to be. That tells us that we're going to have distance on top and we're going to have strides on bottom. Distance per stride. And now that's going to work for both the left and the right side here. I'm going to put my distances on top and I'll put my strides on the bottom. Okay, now you've got to make sure that distances and strides, they kind of have to go together. So Ryan ran 600 meters and counted 482 strides. So the 600 and the 482 have to go on the same side. It doesn't matter what side, just as long as they're on the same side. So those ones came first, I'll put them over here on the left, 600 meters and out of 482 strides. Okay, 600 meters over 482 strides, okay? How long is Ryan's one stride? How long is his one stride? That's a one, not a seven. One stride, how long is that stride? Now notice I put meters there, I didn't put inches. We have to do all of our math in meters first and then we have to convert all that to inches. Okay, so Ryan ran 600 meters in 482 strides. How many meters is one of his stride? Now see the logic behind setting this up. 600 meters took him 482 strides. How many meters for one stride? See the logic of setting that up. Okay, now instead of a question mark, I'm actually going to put a variable there. It doesn't really matter what variable we use, let's use capital R, capital R for Ryan. It doesn't really matter what we use as long as we know what R means. In this case, R is going to be the length of Ryan's stride. The length of Ryan's stride. All right, now for the math. This is a proportion problem, so we're going to use cross product to solve this. 600 times one is just 600 equals 482 times R, 482 times R. And then from there, what I'm going to do is I'm going to divide by 482. Divide by 482. It's going to give me about 1.2448. That's approximately what that is. Okay, now if you plug that into your calculator, you get a long repeating decimal. Yeah, I'm only going to round to about four decimal places. It makes it a little bit easier to work with. Okay, now in a problem like this, make sure you round to four, five, six, seven different decimal places. Don't round to one decimal place. That's really not going to help you. That's not going to give you an accurate measurement. Try to round to, I would say four or five decimal places that will give you a pretty accurate description of what we're working with. So again, when we chose what the variable meant, R was the length of Ryan's stride. So R is about 1.2448 meters. So Ryan, when he's running, his stride is about 1.2448 meters. So let's call it 1.2 meters. Now if you have an idea of how long a meter is, a meter in our standard system is about, it's about 39 inches, a little bit more than 39 inches as we see here. Okay, so it's a little bit more than three feet. So his stride, when he's running, is a little bit more than three feet. I would say about 40, maybe like 42 inches, something like that, if I was to guess. Because it's one meter plus a little bit of a fraction, a little bit of a decimal. Okay, well we want to find out exactly what that is. How do we do that? Well what we're going to do is we are going to use, now I call this railroad conversion. This is actually a type of conversion that I learned in my chemistry class. I actually didn't learn this in math class when I was in high school. But this is one way of converting. We know that one meter is 39.37 inches. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this answer that I got down here. I'm going to write it as 1.2448 meters over one, just as a normal fraction. That doesn't really change. I mean you can put any number over one, doesn't change it.  So I'm going to multiply times something. Now I'm going to think of this meter label. I'm going to think of it kind of almost like a variable. I want to get rid of that meters. Now if I have fractions to get rid of something, it's going to be on the bottom of the fraction. So I'm going to have meters on the bottom here. Now this is the conversion that is going to go right here in this fraction. So I know that one meter is equal to 39.37 inches. One meter is 39.37 inches. It looks backwards. It looks upside down. But the reason that we're doing this is notice what's going to happen is that we have meters on top, meters on bottom. They cancel. And so the only label that I have left is inches. So what I'm doing is I'm converting from meters to inches. And this is how I do it. A lot of time when you're converting numbers back and forth, you don't know whether to multiply or divide by it. Well, in this case, we're going to multiply by 39.37. And this tells us right here, 1.2448 times 39.37. So we know for certain that we're going to multiply this. Now some of you that are really good with conversions, you pick this up very quickly. You know you're supposed to multiply by 39.37. Those of you who don't do conversions very well, this is a handy tool to use. This is the handy strategy to use to figure out whether or not you're supposed to multiply or divide by 39.37. But anyway, now to actually multiply those numbers together, you get about 49.0083, rounding just a little bit. But the thing is that number, 49.0083 inches, that is how long Ryan's stride is. So the thing is, after doing all this math, make sure that you write down the answer. Circling that, that's not what the answer is. You actually have to explain yourself. Ryan's stride is 49 inches long. There we go. OK, now notice the .0083, I didn't use that. I'm not going to use .0083, four inches. That's too small of an inch to really use. So I'm not going to worry about that very much. Anyway, Ryan's stride is 49 inches long. That's how you figure out how long his stride is when he's running 600 meters. All right, that's one way of doing those proportion problems. There are a couple of different ways, but that's just one of them. So the first thing that we did is we set up a proportion. Make sure we have the same label on top. We had meters on top, and we had strides on bottom. We used cross product to solve it. Now once we had Ryan's stride in meters, we had to take meters and convert it to inches, meters to inches. 49 inches is the length of Ryan's stride. OK, so that is one way of solving proportion problems. The biggest thing to remember here is make sure when you've initially set up your proportion, make sure that you have the same label on top and the same label on bottom so that everything is kind of equivalent. It's nice to use proportions because that's how you set up. It's just one label on top, in this case meters on top, and then strides on bottom. So it's very straightforward on how to set up proportion problems. Second thing, make sure that you look through the problem and identify all your numbers.  Sometimes you'll have to try to come up with your own numbers that logically work with the problem. Like we had to come up with this one here, which logically works because we want Ryan's stride, which is just one of them. All right, and that is how you solve proportion problems.


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That's pretty sweet I might have it in my cart now It's a lot better I literally just said in the vaughn ID 49 of 99 for the saints The Rutledge Morgots make a strong comeback You're gonna see it. I'm like those top 10 movers of the week to be Josh Rutledge. It's up 500% Got a downtown anthony brown 99 of 99 for the Ravens. He started multiple games for the Ravens lecture. Is that gotta be his only rookie auto? No, he's in contenders as well. This is this is his nicest rookie auto for sure But yeah, I can't say there's too many downtown anthony grounds that are uh Surfacing you like him or Huntley Huntley that's probably a quarterback power hunt 12 of 99 we've got a Uh, uh, Henry Ellard. I saw in there 12 of 99 Player worn revive his market single-handedly That's just for the love of the game. There are no investing in uh And Josh Rutledge Nice one there. There's no way something right for a 49 that it's gonna be a zamir white crossover rpa This team killed it This team killed it Going to rich v again. How about 225? That is breeze hall three colored rpa Congrats on that again rich to go with your sauce Hey, that's nasty.  Yeah, that's a very good break right there Especially for the last team that was available Oh empty That was a good case too. That's a very good case overall. That was a really good case. Yeah Uh, all right, so jerseys. We've got mr.  Wow. That's a really good case Good lord. Uh, tyquan thorton 249 We had a barice hall three of 25 We had erin rogers that is to 25th A kenny picket horizontal rpa to 99 And then how about a midnight 20 of 20 sauce gardener The jets I'll do it for the break everybody. Thanks again for the fill coming up next is going to be number 30


Live from New York, it's The Cube, covering Riverbed Disrupt, brought to you by Riverbed. Here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. We're back at Riverbed Disrupt here in New York City. Paul Monford is here as the Chief Sales Officer at Riverbed. Paul, thanks for coming to The Cube. Good to see you. Yeah, welcome. Good to be here. So, great event, very intimate, awesome venue. How does it feel? It's great.  And it's a really good venue. I think, you know, venues can be too big these days and people get lost in it all. And I like this one. It's just the right size and we've got some really key players here this week. Yeah, so tell us, what's going on in the market? You joined Riverbed when it was still a public company and you've seen it go private and you're going through now a transformation not under the spotlight of the 90-day shot clock, which has got to feel good. And you're really expanding your portfolio. Tell us about that. So, you know, first and foremost, you know, when Jerry bought me into the business, the idea was, you know, we're likely to go private because that was on the cards at the time. So, you know, can you help us, you know, rebuild the gutter market strategy and how we need to get there? This is what our plans and ambitions are. I was attracted to it because it's, you know, I knew of Riverbed anyway from my previous company and you know, the great opportunity there was at Riverbed to take some of the assets it had and really sort of get some volume behind them because they had some great assets that if I'd had them in previous jobs, I would have loved to have had. So, that's what we've been doing. We've been building that and we went through all of that. We've been very successful. You know, our quarters have been great. I still have a nine, my boss still runs me to 90 days, by the way, as much as we're not under Wall Street any longer. We still run a 90-day cycle. But it gives you the latitude to make decisions that you might not make if you were a public company. Isn't that true? It allows the company to make investment decisions and acquisitions and bring them in and give them realistic time for them to flourish rather than put them under the hammer straight away, which is what happens in a public company. And believe me, I was, you know, a big public company. So, you know, running through that, they can't make long-term decisions. It's really difficult. So, we've been able to do that and that's, we're going to come out very nicely from that. So, as a WAN optimization company, highly focused, solving a very particular problem around latency. Now, as you expand your portfolio, how does that change your go-to-market, your, the sales talent that you're attracting, the partnerships? Talk about that a little bit. How long have we got? That's a big question. Look, I mean, the fact is, we built the company on the back of WAN optimization. WAN optimization is relevant, if not more now than it was way back then, because way back then, you know, lots of people had challenges of connectivity, right? Bandwidth today is cheap. But there's still, the physics of distance and the physics of distance is even more exaggerated by cloud and SaaS models because you don't know where your data is. I mean, so the point is, you still need to have WAN optimization. The question is, will customers want to absorb it in the way they've always done it? And, you know, we have customers that want specialized WAN optimization, which we've been the leader in for years, and people who want the new way of adopting it as a virtual service that they can put on their network. So, we're providing and giving customers choice on that. But the exciting thing that I like is, you know, what we're doing now, next generation application defined networking. That's the cool thing, right? Because what we've learned as a company is applications and how applications perform. And application performance is business performance. You know, it's somewhat different to the network. The network is kind of a, almost like a utility that supports that, but the application performance has to be fantastic. Especially as we walk into the world of digitization where every company is now selling their own revenue streams down to their customers through applications on their network. So, you know, we're perfectly positioned for that and hence disrupt this week, and you know, they're still connect launch and everything else which is there. So Paul, for decades we've talked about the enterprise buyer buys on risk. Especially, you know, networking is one of those things. They're slow to change. You know, can you talk about both from a company standpoint? You know, is there uncertainty that the customers have? You know, going private, what does that mean for kind of my relationship?  It sounds like a lot of people are, you know, embracing it and you know, looking to gain advantage through some of these new, you know, cloud deployments going digital and the like. You know, what's changing in the customer environment that you see? I think the real answer is, and first of all, the private public thing. We've never even seen a blip. In fact, we came straight out of going private, hitting every one of our quarters and growing the company, right? From actually being flat to negative. So, our companies flourish through being private. And I don't, I've not had a single customer that's even questioned, you know, private versus public, what does that really mean to us? I mean, it varies to our shareholders, of course, and our shareholders are very different these days, but it doesn't really impact the customer. As far as what's going on at the customer, I think customers, look, I don't, I think they're sick and tired of this industry, using them as a beta test for new technology.  He said to me, Paul, we are unlikely to be hiring more people in IT. I currently cannot, through the complexity of the business and how it's growing and the compliance, there's no way I can do all this internally. I need to take SaaS and I need to take CloudMoles and we're going to go cloud first as much SaaS as we possibly can. And you can understand it in the business model of that particular company, that's the right move forward for them. Simplicity, ease of use, so the people that's held to the SLA, not his own team any longer. When a line of business leader in his company wants something for the business, he doesn't have to wait 18 months for the CIO to turn it on because of the limitation of resources. He can bring it straight into the company. And all the decision is, am I happy to raise my apex? So, you know, I think we have two lots of customers. We have customers that say, Paul, we've got lots of cash. We don't need to worry about that thing. And by the way, we've got a team that can build this. So therefore, give it me in the old model, please. Because we have cash. We'll sweat the asset over seven years. Make it easier for us to implement it, but we're happy like that. Then we have a new set of customers who are saying, don't want that anymore. It's cloud first. We want everything on the cloud. We want everything to come through a consumption model. So our plan is to provide both things to our customer base so they can do things. And they kind of like that. And in the latter model, when you have a senior executive say to you, Paul, I need simplicity. We're going cloud. How do you respond and why Riverbed versus the competition? Well, I think, you know, first of all, I don't think anybody, there's been one company that's held the network space for many years, right? And I know I worked for them for 16 years, right? So that's never really been challenged. And there's never really been an alternative. I think today there is. We're not the only company, but I would say that we're probably in a great position because we are not a starter. We're a billion dollar plus company. We have G2000 customer base and those G2000 customers trust us. They trust us in terms of supporting critical factions of their IT and they trust us to do the right thing in the relationship and deliver on what we say we're going to do. And I think that's a nice strength to have in the market because you know, you can go to the big Leviathans in the industry who are going to be very slow to move away from their legacy and you're going to go to the young startups, they're going to tell them they can do everything they want. You just say what you want, we can do it, but they don't have the backup. They don't have the pedigree. We sit in the middle of that being able to have pedigree and be able to implement quickly new technology. Well, it's interesting. We've observed a lot on theCUBE. I mean, other than Microsoft and Intel that have a binary compatibility lock in, Cisco's really the only company that's been able to achieve a vastly dominant market share. We've always wondered sort of how and why is that sustainable and is it starting to crack? It appears that way. It sounds like you believe that. Well, I mean, if you look at, you know, it's not, first of all, I have a lot of respect for that company, you know, because I was there. You got to respect what John Chambers and the team built there and Chuck's taken over and they're trying to pull it forward. But you know, the thing is, it doesn't matter how brilliant the people are, you know, the issue is what's your base and where you're trying to get to. And if you've got a massive base of traditional market with conventional routers sitting out in the network and you've got all the maintenance costs, you've got all the implementation costs and the operational costs, you need CCIEs to implement the network and administer the network. That's an old model. And you know, Cisco, I think, are struggling in that space in terms of their growth. They're doing very well with their Meraki technology, but that's a cloud-based model and sometimes in conflict with their core base. So it's going to be a very interesting time for them as they struggle between the surrogical and hide type of thing that's going on in the market. So your advantage is speed, innovation, agility. Well, you know, we don't have a router market, we don't have a switch market, we don't have a firewall market. You know, we can go in brand new, do what the customers want to do and by the way, upsell from our one optimization into the new platform. So people can adopt a simple orchestrated, very easy to do, straight on. You don't need a CCIE to do it.  You can disrupt. We can disrupt. Exactly. There you go. So Paul, I'm wondering if you can help. Here we should change seats. Unpack a little bit so that change and go to market because well, you know, Wayne Optimization was more than just a box. In many ways, you're moving from a primarily appliance model to software and even in cloud models. You know, how does that impact kind of your skill set for your team and your partners? I don't think it impacts the skill set because the technology is something we're very familiar with. I think what it changes is the business model, how your revenues get generated and how your margins get generated is different. And you know, if you're going from taking the full value of a project you do, the customer upfront, which is what is the traditional model versus spinning it over five years, that makes a dramatic impact to you. Oh, but then we're not a public company. What's the most exciting thing you hear from customers that really gets your juices flowing, that you take back to whatever, the engineering team or senior management here and say, you know, let's charge forward. This is our opportunity. Tailwind's behind us, let's go.  Never thought Riverbed had anything like this, you know, this is fantastic. And our visibility platform, I mean, we've been talking about sort of, you know, software defined networking, application defined networking. But our, you know, our visibility platform means that you can go, and this is what I had a customer last night talk to me about it. Paul, we want to understand right through the business process, right from the end user, all the way through up through our business process that you can monitor that, not just across it. So, you know, you can look across our network and all our applications and tell us what's working, what isn't working and suggest to us how we can get better performance out of it off a single portal, beautiful. No one else does that. The industry's full of siloed little tools in visibility, right? We've got a full portal solution for our customers. But now we've got end user experience which says, if I'm a power user on mobility, I'm on the cloud, I'm on SaaS, I can see into Amazon, I can see into Azure, I can see into the big cloud providers. I can tell you how things are working and how the user's productivity is working. And, you know, to me, that's like critical because if you have that, it means that no matter what service you as a customer introduce to your customer base, you can read back and know exactly how it's performing on the benchmark. So it's a whole new opportunity for you, a whole new pricing model, I presume, right? So that brings the level of complexity for your sales teams and your distribution channel. Yes. How are you managing that transition? Lots of training, I'm sure. Well, yeah, there's a lot of effort in that, you're right. So there's quite a lot of, but don't forget, you know, most of our partner base is used to this model already because they have other companies that are also doing the similar things. And people are getting used to that, I think. And then partnering with Azure and partnering with Amazon, you know, as part of what they do and all these different things. So it's just different as to where the money's going to come from and who gets recognized for what and where, and that's the kind of, that's the labyrinth that everybody's trying to work through. But in terms of our approach, I think that part is quite different. So instead of us saying, well, okay, that's our cloud service and we'll give you a commission on it, we're saying, host it, make it your cloud service if you want. Put your badge on it. White label it. Yeah. And that means they have much more higher profitability than, you know, just taking a sales commission. And I think a lot of partners are worried about some of the big players in the market who do have these cloud offers, where they are getting paid these commissions because those customers are going onto those suppliers, OEMs systems. And you know, at some point, you've got to ask the question, is somebody going to pull a plug on that and say, well, okay, I don't need these, why do I need these intermediaries? Right? What we're trying to do is build out that space. And get scale into the market through our partners and allow them to host themselves if they want to. And help them go from sort of a box seller mentality. Yeah, to a hosted service, right? Higher value added. That is disruptive. We are disruptive on theCUBE. Paul, thanks very much for coming on. I really appreciate it. That was great to see you. Thank you. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest right after this. We're live from New York City. This is Disrupt. Right back. My name is Dave Vellante and I'm...


I'm not sure I turned the camera on yet today, but we spent the morning just puttering around the house.  Not that I'm finished with the one I'm working on yet or anything and don't have another one lined up after that already, but you know. I paid bills. He paid bills. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to go drop off an Amazon return and if I can, I'm going to talk him into stopping by the yarn shop and pick up a couple miniskains to add to my collection and just kind of putter around and go find some place to go get some steps in and then later on we'll be headed over heading over to the airport late tonight, later tonight to go pick up my father and there's a configuration convention of people at the end of the street. I'm a configuration convention. I don't know. Anyway, we'll be back. So we stopped at Four Yarnsake.  I will link their website down below. They do have one and they do do mail order. They have pretty good deals on natural fiber yarns and I just went in to get some miniskains. These were eight dollars and twenty five cents each and they are by dream and color and these are smooshy minis and they're 100 yards each and they're 50. Let's see. I don't know my reading glasses on. I know I'm not smart. 85 percent Superwash, Merino and 15 percent nylon and they're really fun to work with. They are on the thin side for crocheters but I do usually pair them up with something else and I got these ones. So it's within the budget right now to add to the collection. So I did, you know, like when I first bought a lot of my watercolor paints. I had a budget and I would go in with like 20 dollars or 30 dollars to the art supply store and sometimes only come out with two tubes of paint but that's how I added to my collection. So this is what we have at the moment. Obviously, I was into the greens today. I don't know why but anyway we're going to go stop at the mall and not because we need to buy anything but just to walk around and see what we can see and all of that stuff. Get some steps in. So anyway, all right that's it for the minute and yeah we're in the truck because we like driving the truck. Why wouldn't we? I'll be back. Guys it is Monday afternoon. I haven't vlogged before now because just because dad went home this morning after breakfast and he got home just fine. He's probably on the way to Seattle airport right now because one of my nieces and her wife went with him to Italy and my sister and her and her husband and like all that stuff and they are flying in tonight. I think they land at like 430 or something which is like an hour and a half anyway because it's just before three. I've been crocheting all day and working on my sweater coming along very nicely. I also got the 2024 calendar for downstairs set up and that's ready to go. I am now getting ready to edit the vlog because that's gotta be done and we all know how much I love editing yeah. Anyway let's get to it. It's not gonna do itself. I'll be back. The vlog is edited and saving at the moment and as soon as that's done I'll get it uploaded and I'm gonna go back to watching YouTube and crocheting while that's happening. It's a computer. Anyway so yeah it's all good. I'll be back. So it's with. Hey guys I've got my blanket coat I made a few months back on. I've got some reflective straps on. We call them the squish me straps as in please don't squish me while I'm walking in the dark. Mr. Bob's got his on too. We're gonna go for a quick walk before we have dinner and yeah my arms are sore not from crocheting my shoulders from picking up junior. I think he's like 20 I say 25 pounds but I actually think he weighs more than that. His dad said something like 27 pounds so anyway yeah all right I'll be back. Good morning everybody it is Wednesday I almost said September. I think it's the 8th of November and it is 11 20 a.m. I'm like an hour or so behind leaving the house to get Erin's run than anticipated. You know stuff happens sometimes right and I'm of an age that you know sometimes the best thing I can do for myself in the morning is not rush sit have my coffee take some Tylenol arthritis and let it kick in before I leave the house especially after a day where I've been babysitting little junior and yeah so anyway this morning I woke up and my hip joints were bothering me so Tylenol arthritis yes anyway I don't like to take pain pills fun fact I really don't take them often at all and I usually live with the pain unless it's bad enough that I just can't so yeah anyway if it inhibits me from getting up into the art room that's an I just can't so I take a pill anyway that was a joke anyway we're going to go get some gas and then we're going to run some errands I've got to check the PO box by the way if y'all want to send me some happy mail or products to try or anything else I do have a PO box the address is down in the video description so yeah anyway I'm going to go check it and I'm going to go pick up some things for family dinner night I think I'm going to just do it today rather than having to go out again on Friday I'm running low on oat milk again so I'm going to go get some of that yeah so everybody has discovered I have oat milk in fridge all the time my dad's lactose intolerance so when he's down he'll try oat milk and like his oatmeal and stuff and Jenny adopted daughter Jenny will have it in her coffee when she's in town or at my house and yeah so just plus I'd like to drink coffee and when Bob was gone I drank too much coffee so yeah so I need just about 6 30 p.m and when I was out earlier today running errands I had no idea we were having extra company for dinner on Friday so we are adopted son Brian's dad and his partner are going to be here great but we need a couple extra things for that so the rest of my day was spent as you can hear doing chores working on the last load of laundry dishes are working and working on my sweater and so my goal is to finish the ribbing around the bottom tonight and then hopefully sometime between tonight and Friday night I can fit I can get the sleeves done that would be amazing or at least by Monday yeah because I'd like to start on the next thing but I'd also like to wear the sweater so there's that anyway and I don't think I told you guys that I was looking for a denim dress to add to my wardrobe and I just really didn't want to buy anything new I thought I must be able to thrift something it might be the wrong time of year for that but I did stop at Goodwill and Value Village on the way out and I found something right away at Goodwill it's going to need some altering it's a couple sizes too big for me but I don't want it super tight anyway but yeah it's going to work out just great when it's done so anyway Mr Bob and I are going to go run to Safeway and I'll be back in my closet again because this is where the good full length mirror is but I'm working on my sweater tonight after junior went home we babysat a kill horse again today and family dinner is tomorrow so I wasn't sure when I was going to have time to work on the sweater and my goal is really to get it done if I can get it done tonight I will and I might be able to do that Mr's at his Masonic Lodge meeting and yeah so and I'm so excited I got one sleeve done you guys I just have one more sleeve to go it is so cute oh my gosh I love this pattern so much I'm going to be making myself more sweaters out of it this is sweater number two but anyway hang on let me turn the oh excuse me wow a chill let me turn the camera around so that you can get a better shot hold on here we go this is the next version of this sweater oops round yoke sweater pattern helps if I actually show you the picture I'm just so happy with the sweater and how it's turning out I am again doing it with short sleeves I am making notes this time because obviously I'm going to use this pattern again I really do like the short sleeves that doesn't mean I won't ever make it with long but I like the short and yeah so cute what do you all think all right I'll be back so happy without coming out I said that already haven't I um okay so time to not leave it in here in the bedroom sorry lights are out um and finish the other sleeve while I watch weird YouTube I don't I just put things on in the background podcast or something and I just listen stuff I can listen to while I concentrate on this all right let's get to it it's about 10 30 a little echoey because we're in the bathroom in my the master bathroom anyway um it's about 10 30 ish Bob is on his way home from his meeting it's done yay I'm so happy I like it so much okay hold on let me put it on what do you think I really like it now I just have my babysitting pants on and babysitting hair but this is cute so moved on its own I swear I didn't touch it anyway I really like this yes I will be making more of them what do you all think hey guys um it is 3 39 p.m Friday November 10th don't get excited the iPad's in front of me spent the morning catching up on some chores and relaxing because my arthritis is bothering me of course I'm of an age I have arthritis all over the place funny enough not my hands my hands aren't bothering me my hips my knee my back um partly arthritis partly babysitting junior so you know I'm just taking it easy today it is family dinner night tonight um I am working on a hat with some of the leftover yarn for my sweater I finished yesterday and I've paired it with some white wool uh let's see the colored yarn is by Madeline Tosh and the color is what's up beach and they have it in twist light and also um superwash merino and I have happened to have that color in both so I did the sweater in the twist light because that is a it's at one yarn it's very thin and it's got nylon and it's not a hundred percent wool um because it's probably supposed to be for socks it's not what I made with it um but it would be really good on a sweater because nice and stretchy right but I do have one ball of the merino so I'm making myself a really cute hat with it and I paired it up to bulk it up because it also is a thin yarn I paired it with cascade 220 which is a before I say yep 100 percent Peruvian Highland wool and um I love it and the two together look great and I'm almost done with the hat so um yeah so anyway I'm gonna just um spend a little bit more time up here working on this and then I do need to manage my way down the stairs and go start getting ready for dinner so you know I'll be back I'm always back all right I'll be back good morning it's about 9 15 a.m on Saturday November 11th I think um Bob is off at the Masonic Center here in Oregon and he's helping with some repairs and um I'm not sure if he's doing electrical or they're painting or I don't know anyway I have most of the data myself so although it is stormy and windy outside I am going to go around a couple of crafty errands so I need some yarn for some particular projects and I want to make myself a pair of gloves I need some more white wool though and also I want to work on a project for Christmas for somebody so I need yarn for that um it does require it going to two different places to get the best deal but that's okay and um I do have a coupon for the thrift store but I'm not sure I'm going to go there or not so we'll see anyway let's get some shoes on and let's get to it I'll be back we're back um so I went to um Joanne's fabrics and I went to the one a little bit farther away of Beaverton um because I knew they were having yarn on sale I knew I wanted to get some special yarn for a Christmas gift I did walk out with extra yarn but not too much um they had Lion Brown yarn buy two get one free I think it was what the sale was so I got three skeins of Fisherman's wool and this really pretty like tan color and then three skeins of wool ease in that color it's not pretty that's for the Christmas gift and then um it was you know doing really well I thought controlling myself then I went to craft warehouse because I needed one skein of um yarn to finish a project I'm working on for myself I needed some can't cascade 220 wool and I got this super wash just because it's a similar color wool to the regular 220 on the hank um similar thickness I'm gonna pair it up with something else so if it's it is a little bit thinner but it's not going to make any difference um but I don't have to wind it in a ball I'm lazy anyway it's a really good thing I I only came out with one because I didn't even know until I was checking out that it was 40% off it was so hard not to go back and buy more wool but I didn't anyway we are home now and I am going to sort out some of the leftovers from last night and put some of the meat extra meat in the freezer and I need to empty the dishwasher you know do chores before I sit down and work on projects I'll be back done for the day I've been crushing all afternoon um when we went out today I um I did you know y'all know I went to Joanne's first and I specifically wanted to get some yarn for a Christmas gift we're doing secret sannas this year and um the girl's all exchanged names and the boy's all exchanged names so the girl I got I wanted to make her something so I found uh Lion Brand Woolies Ferrile I have to tell you all I am kind of in love with this yarn I love the colorway um I got three of them in the same this one you can see the blue is not buried in the middle there's a little tiny bit of blue reminds me of like cloudy stormy sky days um and I already finished this is what's left over out of ball two I did get three because they were buy two get one free I probably have enough to make myself a beanie or a scarf or something so not mad about that but the gift is done um and I also picked up a yarn I've been hearing about and I've known about it but I haven't picked it up but I got some now I got enough to do probably a sweater Lion Brand Fisherman's wool I haven't gotten it before now because I just thought it just only came in you know the standard cream colored sheep color um but I found this tan color that I really liked it doesn't come in a lot of colors but this one was pretty nice it would be a nice yarn to do uh maybe try some fancy stitches I'm not great at that but maybe I also realized I probably have just enough blanket yarn to do a bee for adopted daughter Jenny she really loves my giant bee on the garumi downstairs so she would like one so I'm gonna make her one uh and let's go look at the Christmas gift because it's done it's called a mood snood and I will link it down below I have made it once before for myself and it's a really great circular scarf and the person I made it more I think four I think is gonna really like it and the colors let me take it off I'll show you what the colors look like I mean what's my hair gonna get messy or hello but the colors in that yarn that ferret look at that I didn't do anything special with it that's just how it came out the only thing I did was when I had to join the second ball to the first ball I made sure that the end I picked had the same colors in it as the ending ball first ball so that the kind of stripey thing would keep going we wouldn't look weird and confused because I look like that without being without trying anyway I love this yarn yeah I can see getting more of it I'm gonna have to go to the lion brand website and see what other colors it comes in it wasn't super expensive I only went to Joanne's to buy it because it was on sale I would yarn as pricey you guys I would definitely buy it when it's on sale now I did also get I needed some white wool that I used to make the hat that I showed yesterday I want to make a pair gloves so I needed some more I didn't have enough for the gloves and that yarns pricey too but it's probably a good thing I didn't know it was on sale until I was checking out because it was 40% off you guys the little ball of yarns normally like 12 dollars 12 95 something like that and I got it for six something yeah probably is a good thing I didn't know that because I would have filled up a basket of yarn I don't really need but yeah that's a craft warehouse there's not a lot of them they're in the Pacific Northwest but if you have one near you they do have a really nice selection of yarns they don't have a ton but what they have is nice so anyway I'm praying outside all right I'm going to go downstairs and have lunch and this is one of our guest rooms by the way artwork by me lots of artwork for sale so if you want some go to my business Facebook page there's yeah listings anyway I hope you guys have had a great week Bob is back from helping out with some repairs at his masonic lodge building and we are going to just sit and have some dinner I'm going to rest I've been resting my hip because you know the arthritis has been acting up and today I didn't have to take any pain pills or anything it's still twitchy but it's still you know you know still yeah it's not good but it's a lot better than it was and um it's getting better so give me a couple more days I'll be fine anyway that's it for the minute we are baby sitting tomorrow afternoon while the kids go out with some of their friends and yeah it ought to be a lot of fun but that's for next week's vlog please don't forget to like share and subscribe check the video description for relevant links I do have a patreon I appreciate the content to um appreciate the support um it enables me to give you guys this free content here on youtube and I sure would appreciate that I am trying to save off save up to pay pay off a couple of bills and I do need a new camera um but I can't afford that right now but I am trying to save up for that so um and a couple of other things so patreon I would love if you join and I also always have stuff for sale at the moment my Etsy store is still open um there's not a lot in it thinking about closing it but I haven't done that yet but there is like I said some stuff for sale listings pinned to the top on my facebook business page and you know if you've seen something on social media that you might want to buy send me a private message my email is down in the video description along with my happy email address if you want to send me a happy mail I sure would appreciate that um yeah and that's it like share and subscribe and you know the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it go buy yourself a ball of yarn if you want a ball of yarn or for god's sake have a donut because life's too short all right I'll be back see you next week bye guys