Live from Dublin, Ireland, it's theCUBE, covering Hadoop Summit Europe 2016, brought to you by Hortonworks. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back. And when we are here live in Dublin, Ireland for the Cube's European edition of Hadoop Summit, sponsored by Hortonworks, Yahoo, the school of other industry leaders, bringing the Hadoop Summit show to Europe, really with a big data gain, certainly as elevated as well as it is in the States. The governance is secured at the top of the list. I'm John Furrier with my co-host Dave Vellante, it's theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal noise, our next guest is Sean Connolly, VP of strategy of Hortonworks, filling in for Rob Bearden, who had to take the jet back to the States. Welcome back to theCUBE, good to see you. Thanks for having me. Yeah, no concord, he's got to take, you know. A five foot eight right hander. He's still going in. So how's it going? Obviously, we were at Big Data SV, that's part of Big Data, where we have our event, Big Data Silicon Valley, and then there's the other event at Duke World going on. A lot of talk about the cloud. We saw your messaging, that was on, we had way on early during that show, but there's a new emerging aspect of Hortonworks. You have a whole emerging products group. Seems to be, you've got your blocking and tackling groups, and there's kind of a speed team, going after the new IoT, whole new sets of opportunities that you guys have to be very agile on. Is that kind of the strategy? Is that by design? Is that reacting to market pressures? Talk about the strategy. Well, it's how you evolve, from an open source business, there's various ways that you can scale the business. One is to broaden and deepen the portfolio, right? So I think towards the tail end of last year, we started making the transformation from a single product platform company to a multi product and solutions company. And that's where we have our emerging products team focused. I'm in the areas of data and motion, in particular in the internet of things area, whether it's related to cybersecurity, connected car and some of the emerging use cases. And so we have a targeted team of really passionate folks. We made the acquisition of Anyara last August.  It's like a FedEx system for data delivery. It's kind of how I like to look at it. And that's sort of the foundation of that team when managing data, getting to the data where it needs to be. So talk about the dynamics going on in the industry right now because you guys have seen the transformation you've lived, I saw Arun's keynote, the journey, my journey with Hadoop was awesome, but 2006 today, but the world's changed. And you guys have interesting positioning in this new connecting the data. Because when you look at it, we found out at our last event that it's pretty clear that the existing data warehouse business tells us, I'm going to have a nice little coexistence piece. It's not about ripping and replacing those guys. You'll have big MPP databases out there from the verticals of the world. And so you have an integration message and with the cloud powering at all, you're seeing IoT emerge. So IoT integration, what is this connected data platform that you guys talk about? At the heart of it, besides the messaging and the marketing of it, where did that come from? How's that tie into the execution on the product side? Yeah, so in our mind, it's a world of connected data platforms and those platforms need to reside wherever they are. You may have it as close to the edge to do real time edge analytics. It may be in the cloud to do machine learning and exploration and discovery in an agile way. It may be on-prem data lakes, where you have a lot of data at rest. And the key is, is how do you create an architecture to actually very actively orchestrate the data and get it to where it needs to be in a secure way, in a transparent way, in a way where you can actually influence the edge. And basically say, you're giving me these 50 data points, stop sending 10, send me these other five because I need to reshape the data that I'm getting based off of the analytics and I'm driving out of it. So it winds up being a really closed loop system that's very adaptive, if you will. And so it's really, it's an architecture sentiment, if you will, of connected data platforms, some of which are ours, some of which are our partners. Many are in cloud, many are on-prem, right? So that's today's reality. So, we go to a lot of events, marketing always leads the real adoption of technology. So I wonder if you can help us sort of level set here. We heard this morning, Rob Bearden emphasizing business impact over technology, which we talked about a lot for the last five or six years at shows like this. And he gave a couple examples, a retail company and an insurance company that wanted a 360 degree view of their business. I talked to John earlier about, they probably wanted that same 360 degree view back in Y2K and they weren't able to deliver on it. So now we're talking about Hadoop and big data delivering on that. But we tend to get distracted with IoT and some of these new things. Now, are they related or what gives you confidence that you and your ecosystem can deliver on that promise where the traditional vendors weren't able to do so back in 10 years ago, 15 years ago? You know, I basically say we've gone through a variety of ages, the age of a relational database, the age of web, right? And you have Salesforce and others that were born out of that and Apache, web server at the time played a key role, Linux played a role, we're in the age of data. And to your point is, is before we've arrived where we are, in many cases, the systems have been siloed and highly structured. And I think that's what's different these days is you can deal with almost any form factor of data, big or small. That wasn't the case five, 10, 15 years ago, right? So your 360 degree view winds up being not just about the structured world, it winds up being about all of that contextual data that surrounds those transactions. You now have the economics and the ability to actually capture that and drive analytics out of that. That work's been playing out over the past five years. I actually have been in the cloud space for a while and I really am excited about how cloud architectures are now further drive and accelerate that those types of use cases where you can act on any type of form factor, no matter where it may be born and where it lands on-prem or off-prem. But you need an architecture that joins it all together cleanly, right? We need a vibrant way of getting the data so you can have that 360 degree view. Okay, and is your sense that we're starting to get there, I guess is the claim, we're there in some cases. Fraud detection was another use case we heard about this morning. That's something we can all relate to. Years ago, fraud detection was sampling. Six months later, you'd get a maybe something happen. Exactly. Fraud detection sort of 12 months ago and I want to understand your perspective on whether or not that's changing and how fast that changing was not quite real time. It was very close. Hey, a transaction just occurred with a lot of false positives. Feels like many of those are being eliminated in the last 12, 15 months. Is that true? Why is that true? Well, I think a lot of these waves build on each other, and so deep learning is a facet of that, but ultimately when you pair deep learning, which is the full historical view with stream, being able to actually interact with data as it's flowing, you get adaptive systems, adaptive learning systems, and I would say right now it's exciting. The technologies are increasingly available to create those types of systems. I saw in your crowd chat where you were asking, where are the packaged apps and those types of things? Where are the packaged applications? And I think you and I have had this offline before where I think companies are born as software as a service solutions. The company is the application. Gone are the days where you're creating shrink wrap software, perpetual license, install it on prem, right? It's in this world of the connected world and the applications are effectively companies, right? And that is the customer, that is the build, the commercial app. For example of that, you look at what Zuckerberger now says to their 10 year roadmap. It's all apps, companies, what's app? Exactly. Instagram, Messenger. And what's under the hood? Data. All right, those businesses are based off of data. And so this vision of connected data platforms is it's a data-first way of looking at the architecture. I'm a big fan of containers, that'll move compute, but at the end of the day it really needs to be how do you connect your data for these applications? Because you're not going to move it. And you need to make sure you interact with it where it is, right? I think you bring up a great point. That's why I like your marketing around connected data platform. All the apps that are now companies, really, that's the explosion. That's the renaissance that we're seeing.  It's not some new software package. It's the company. And in many cases, the technology is swipe your credit card and you can have it booted up almost immediately. So our new head of research, Peter Burris, who's on our team, I think you've met him. He and I talk about this and this is key to his thesis is that context is everything, right? That's why Facebook couldn't be successful in these other apps because the context was friends on Facebook. The other context, what's app was doing? So each app has context, whether it's a certain application. That's the data value. Each app has different contexts. That's the value of the data connected platform. Can you allow, do you agree? I'm sure you agree. And two, can you elaborate what that means for a practitioner saying, okay, how do I figure this out? Yep, and that gets to the point of the single view is your point is a lot of these applications have the context. The power becomes when you can actually blend that context across these different applications to actually derive that single view. And that was that credit fraud example. In the smart car wave, it's very similar is data's coming from manufacturing line as much as it is from driving habits, right? And these auto companies are really getting a highly contextual insight into the driving behavior of the people in the car. You mentioned CrowdChat, go to crowdchat.net slash HS16 Dublin. And one of the questions I did put on there last now is, to what extent does Hortonworks see native services from cloud vendors as competition? We were talking on our intro, with the cloud being the power source for this accelerated explosion of context and apps and more data. Exactly. You're seeing IoT. This is a developer dream. Developers love Amazon. So naturally you look at that and say, well, I got Kinesis, I got Redshift, I got Lambda for all those other stuff. So how do you guys view that? How do you intersect with that? What's your coexistence? And since our beginning, our approach has been, how do you integrate the tech in the initial waves it's been? How do you integrate it with data warehouse, data marts and things like that, typically on-prem? In the cloud world, this connected data platforms cuts at the heart of exactly your point is, you want to be able to easily get data into the services. Like if you need to get it in a big query or Redshift or what have you, it's not dissimilar to an on-prem architecture except it's a cloud service. And you need to connect the data platform architecture to factor those services in. It isn't just about Hortonworks platforms and technologies. It's how can we be that connective tissue to drive that architecture? You're connector-centric. And you'll get a connector as a service to a cloud. And it's connecting the data from it, I think will be great at getting it from virtually almost at the source and getting it from on-prem. And if it needs to get in cloud in specific form factors, we can get it there secure in a way where you get traceability, provenance, governance and things like that. So you guys embrace the cloud if the customers want to go Amazon or on-prem? Yeah, it's more use cases. It drives more consumption of data and the need for our technology. So one of the things the big cloud guys are doing, Amazon in particular, and I presume Microsoft to a certain extent Google, is they're making it really easy to construct the data pipeline. How is Hortonworks and your ecosystem, your partners, how are you sort of replicating that simplicity in that data pipeline? Yeah, I'll use Microsoft as an example because it's a good one, it's a cloud-based example. I'm going to bring that up in my next question. So Azure HD Insight is effectively Hadoop as a service, where Microsoft's data platform powers that service. But if you just look at it in isolation, it's interesting, you can do it, you can get started very quickly.  When you pair it with Azure Machine Learning for doing machine learning around the data you've gotten into the cloud platform, when you share the data downstream into some of the SQL and data warehouse technologies, then you wind up building a really interesting, holistic solution to get to that 360-degree view. So it's a much of an integration and getting data in the right form factor. As we've had on-prem, but the nature of the services change in the cloud. So Microsoft Relationship, any update there? Any new developments, extensions? We continue to roll out. I know just past couple weeks ago, the latest version of Spark has been available in HD Insight, seeing a lot of uptake there, a lot of excitement. They bring even more tools in that service. The Zeppelin Data Science Notebook is one of the ones that's in the Hadoop ecosystem for doing Spark development. But the Jupyter Python Notebook is also available in HDI as well as the R community. So it speaks multi-language.  So I got to ask you the question. We saw the hands go up when Herb was out in the keynote and asked everyone three questions. Who's new to Hadoop? Still, a lot of people onboarding to the Hadoop ecosystem, either from a vector of I want to use Hadoop and or, I'm interested in using it in conjunction with existing stuff. So a new migration continues onboard new people. Okay, so that's cool. So I got to ask you, what's the message to those folks who want to look at how to get involved? And specifically, they want to know, and we have the same issue with our writers we hire, Hortonworks Cloudera always is being discussed. How do you still talk about the Cloudera versus Hortonworks Equation today? Because you got a lot of things going on. You got Spark, a lot of people talking about stuff. How do you guys compare versus Hortonworks? I mean, Cloudera. Yeah, so when I look at the next wave of onboard, and I'm a technologist by background, but those who are successful focus on the use cases and there's a lot of repeatable use cases in around active archive and single view and data exploration and data science or even predictive applications. And there's a journey to that. I think even in the keynote that you saw in that credit fraud, there was a journey to assemble your single view before you get to predictive. That's what we focus on with new folks are we're in the customer success business being an open source subscription model. Even if it's in the cloud, how you succeed is you drive more usage. So you focus on the use cases. You enable those use cases and you bring technology to bear on those use cases. I happen to think that we productize Apache technology into consumable products on primer in the cloud, the best in the business. I think we have, our engineers are just fantastic at bringing that together in a consumable way. Sean, I want to ask you about security. Shift gears a little bit. I want to ask a business question before we geek out about Metron. So it seems like CXOs have a choice when they go to their boards. The threat matrix now is so big. They can either say, hey, everything's cool, we got this, or they can say, listen, chances are we're going to get hacked, we're going to get compromised. We need a response plan and I can lead that. Are you seeing that? What does the board need to know at this day and age about security? How are you advising your customers, senior executives to communicate to their board of directors? And this gets back to the whole data driven thing and the data motion data at rest is the nature of solving that problem has fundamentally changed from how it's been done in the past. It's been a variety of stovepipe solutions that just do one piece of the security puzzle and it gets back to that single view problem but as it relates to security. So when we talk to chief information security officers, they can't inundate a single person with 10,000 events and expect them to respond in a timely fashion. The nature of the approach to that problem has to change. You need it automated, you need advanced machine learning to underpin that and you need it to bring the five needles out of the giant haystack of things they could potentially react to. And so that's where you see technologies like Apache Metron that are of keen interest to the chief information security officer. And particularly with our customer base, that term data lake has been thrown around a lot. We see enterprise data lake but we see security data lakes and in many respects it's a fine tuned security data lake to solve that problem, to get the network packets captured as well as a lot of these new forms of threats and enrich their algorithms with really being able to respond to the new emerging advanced threats immediately, right? Not after the fact.  And that's a common term and the chief information security officer typically owns that. There's a lot of compliance around that and that's why I like that NIFI technology is important. As many cases your enterprise data lake wants some of those same security logs so you should be able to fork that, you should have a connected data platforms architecture where you can fork that stream, get the enterprise data lake team that feed but also get the security team what they need to solve their problem to protect the business and protect their customers, right? What's the conversation difference between the state's show and here in Europe? Officer, we're in Dublin. Can you share? Obviously it's different geographies, different issues but what are those conversations here that are different from the conversations in the state? Yeah, before I was coming on in October I spent the better part of the month in Europe mostly in London and I toured around and I'll be heading back to London after this event. I would say London on the UK in particular is probably on par with the South Central in the US when their adoption of the tech, the sophistication of the use cases, the business value propositions. Some of the other countries are a little further behind but this isn't an 18 months behind thing. There are really great single view where GPS location winds up being the pivot point not just the customer because you have properties that are under insurance and you need to enrich it with global event data to figure out what your risk exposure is. That's a really fantastic problem that these technologies can actually help you solve, right? And the availability of public data sets that you can enrich to solve those problems. There are people in the UK doing those types of use cases. What about governance, topics like governance and more or less, what's rising? Security and governance are of extreme importance particularly in Europe. That's why I think it's top of mind for this. More than the US, less than the US team? I would say the more conservative middle of the US and East Coast US, it's a higher priority. I think the West Coast doesn't mean that it isn't a priority but there's just a lot of wave of innovation that tends to emanate out of there. So extracting the signal from the noise sometimes is a little bit harder there but when you go into Chicago and when you go into more of the, I'm from the filly area from one of the blue collar practitioner states it's security is clearly and governance are clearly top of mind, right? It comes with different mandates too, right? So it's another issue here. Exactly. I think one of the examples I think Arun alluded to when he was talking about some of the tech directions was how do you marry metadata and tag based authorization policies? If you tag your data by location, let's say you log in in the US and you're allowed to have access to data while you're in the United States but if you're traveling abroad and you log in from somewhere in Europe you may not allowed to have access to data and now you can actually do those types of scenarios in the data lake where based off of that tag in your location, you'll be prohibited access. It's a very sophisticated security, credential and authorization notion that applies well to data lake architectures. Sean, thanks for sharing your insight inside theCUBE. Appreciate it. Great to see you here in Europe. This is theCUBE on this European kickoff tour. Thanks to Hortonworks support. Appreciate all your support and... Thanks for hosting again. Hopefully you'll get a lot of people on. It's theCUBE. We're live here in Dublin, Ireland. We're home of Guinness as Dave allowed his favorite beer and many of the tech community has to get some big keynote plug on the front stage from Rob Beard. So we'll be right back with more live coverage here at Hadoop Summit Dublin 2016 after this short break.


A collaboration agreement for youth violence prevention in select communities in St. Lucia has been signed between the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports and Developmental Alternative International Global DAI, a United States Agency for International Development USAID contractor headquartered in Maryland, USA. DAI is implementing a program with USAID funds entitled Youth Resilience Inclusion and Empowerment Wyrie. Rohan Lubbo is the director of youth development. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports has a national responsibility to coordinate, guide and monitor the development and delivery of quality youth development outcomes for young people between the ages of 15 and 29 across St. Lucia. DAI and the Ministry's outcomes share a common focus for youth to lead productive lives, develop their innate talents to benefit themselves and society and achieve safer, more stable, resilient youth and community environments with reduced crime and violence. Acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, Mary Wilfred, signed on behalf of the ministry and described the program as being very strategic in encouraging youth workers to build capacity and be seen and respected as professionals. We believe that our young people through our interventions, our programs and activities, we can assist in leading, in helping them to lead the productive lives that we desire, to help them to develop their talents that would benefit the society themselves. We of course aim for a safer, stable society where we can see crime reduction and reduction in violence as well. We are excited in this symbolic year declared by the Commonwealth Heads of Government as Year of Youth that we can meet here in goal 17 in our sustainable development goals. We speak of partnership in achieving some of our outcomes at the heart of positive youth development. Signing on behalf of DAI Global, was Chief of Party, Phelps Feely. This collaboration agreement builds on the Ministry and YREES partnership initiatives over the past year and looks forward to continuing to support youth development and youth empowerment with a specific focus on supporting youth who face deep challenges, who often slip through the cracks, who are often harder to reach. And in that vein, YREES will provide technical assistance that aims to strengthen the ministry's capacity to provide risk-informed, evidence-based services, programs, and policy decisions. The Ministry and YREES share a commitment to reaching all youth, a commitment to positive youth development outcomes, a commitment to building youth agency and resilience. And in collaboration, we are contributing to a safer St. Lucia and the promise and potential of this country. The parties entered into the agreement to complement their own separate and unique missions, mandates, and responsibilities. From the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.


Good afternoon. It's House Agriculture and Forestry Committee. It is February 9th, 2022 and it is the afternoon, just after lunch and we are going to hear about food security and we have with us to folks from the agency of agriculture food and markets and we're going to start out with Diane Botfeld. So Diane, why don't you introduce yourself and take it away. Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Diane Botfeld, Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets, Director of Administrative Services and Dairy Policy. Here today to talk about the report that we were was requested last year and Act 47 regarding food security in the state as well as our emergency annexes how we how we address food and local food within our emergency activities for the state. I'm going to concentrate there and Abby will give you an overview of other activities that are going on. So it's kind of split on what occurs during an emergency, and then all the ongoing work around food security in the state. Emergency is, you know, could be a weather emergency. The state emergency operations center the SCOC is activated that pulls in many facets of state government agency of agriculture is certainly one of those but almost every agency and state government has a role at the emergency operations center. The roles are defined, but not tightly defined because what's the emergency what's happened. Is it a weather emergency is it a issue with, you know, we have we have gotten down into the weeds of somebody sprayed anthrax on State Street month or what what happens that so there's all these different potential emergencies out there. And currently the state emergency operations center is active, dealing with COVID, but they can also activate different agencies to the agency of agriculture is not activated in the current situation with we don't have the skill set they need. So at this point we're not active earlier on in 2020, the agency was activated and assisted with resources that we could bring the bear to help and, you know, this was a very terrible time and tremendous concerns but we were asked to find potential school cold storage if mortalities were so high that we didn't have mortuary to take care of the mortalities and so finding agricultural activities that would have large cold storage was part of our role so we get involved in some pretty interesting and wild stuff. Most of our activities are around animals produce. And the things that we regulate on a regular basis but the areas that we would have authority and are usually what we're involved in. So this was an addition to our emergency annexes and if you look at those documents that Linda has working on scanning and you can take a look but our our annex document is long and has a lot of things in it, besides the huge food security. So we have put together a document we made of three changes to that and they're pretty broad, but also give some direction of what we would do. And that is on page two of the report that we provided and Linda can give you the heads up of when those are available as, as we get checked out of what we provided to you for document security but one of the things that we will do in our emergency annex around food security and trying to get more local food products into emergency operations would be to appoint and maintain a permanent representative to the state emergency operations center mass feeding group. So we think about mass feeding what's mass feeding during an emergency. If you think about a flood situation and people have to be evacuated from some part of a town. So we looked at Barry downtown Barry or even downtown Montpelier with the river can certainly flood. If you had to evacuate people from Montpelier you would put them up in some high point maybe you take them up to Vermont college on top of the hill. That's where they're going to evacuate to they can you know be safe there out of the floodway. But if you're asking people to evacuate and go to an emergency shelter, you need to feed them. You don't want them going somewhere else to go find food and putting themselves at risk. So those would be a mass feeding situation of people have been asked to evacuate there an emergency shelter and they need to be fed. So the agency of agriculture won't be cooking soup and grilled cheese sandwiches that's not our role. Red Cross has tremendous resources the Department of Health buildings in general services there are a lot of other people that have a lot more skills in this than the agency of agriculture. What the agency of agriculture could and will do would be the potential of getting cabbage cheese into those grilled cheese sandwiches or apples from some of our local orchards or other products that can be located and provided but it is it is it has to be quite broad because where's the emergency and what's the impact. So in our response to this type of emergency in our document we have put in coordination with the SEOC mass feeding group. The agency will work to integrate Vermont grown food into emergency mass feeding response, when possible and appropriate by providing contact information for local growers, producers and processors in the state. So we would come forward. We're going to have apples in the mass feeding event at the emergency shelter. We would come forth with names of people who would have potential that many apples where they're located and who that contact is. There's a total logistics group in the operation center that they would do the rest. The agency might make that first phone call and say, hey, Apple Grower and Grand Isle. We need apples in Montpelier we need 20 cases. You're going to hear from the National Guard that's going to send a truck and get them can you do that and here's the price. Or maybe we know the price maybe we don't the rest goes off to logistics and the agency's done, but we can't say it's always going to be Grand Isle because maybe the roads are flooded and you can't get the apples out of Grand Isle you have to get them from Addison County and Portland County so all these variables are in there so it's very hard to be much more specific than that, but we will try to integrate more Vermont agricultural products into that mass feeding event. The next area that we changed in our, our emergency annex was the way there's a checklist that's used at the state emergency operations center of who does what that's easy for the, the person in charge of the state emergency operations center to see who does what so it's just a checklist. We added to that that we would assist the mass feeding group to locate and access Vermont food and farm products during mass feeding events as available and appropriate. So quite broad, but also that flexibility is there for us to be able to take part, have a representative and do that work to try to get more Vermont products into those mass feeding events. So that's the emergency aspect of it. And so I will stop and let questions begin if, if an Abbey will talk about the more non emergency or the work that went into we did bring groups together to get to this point, but I would let Abbey talk about that more than the actual operations of a of the state emergency operations center. Thanks Diane questions from the committee. Can I, this is Heather, this might be whimsical but I'm fine with that for myself. We talked about wanting to reach out to local growers and Vermont growers in order to have that capacity to know who we can reach out to in the moment of emergency. But do we talk about wanting to grow certain storage crops for those moments like beans or wheat or corn to grind for those instances to and I wonder if we ever think about reserving land for those purposes of food security to on a grander scale because those last also. Yeah, I think that's an important aspect and I think that may be more suited to where Abbey will go in the in the further discussion of food security for the whole, the whole state and what's going on regionally. I think it's a being cautious of, oh please grow corn in case we have an emergency isn't where we want to go, we want people to have a market, and you know, have some because maybe an emergency never happens and what do you do. We're not proposing that the agency of agriculture or any else anyone else in state government purchase products to hold in a warehouse just in case, because that we don't know and that's in a way potentially wasting food. You know we bought all this corn and held it or these beans and held it and they do last a long time but then when they do reach their date of no longer being viable what do we do with it if there was no emergency so it's more of a just in activity than a build a warehouse hold all this food in case there's an emergency at some point. Sure, and I guess that is a good point to think about to, I guess additionally, I'm sure you could find a place for that food if it was grown on like an annual basis of preparation or something along those lines of of donating it or using it to feed communities instead of holding on to it but. Absolutely I hear that point too. All right, any other questions for Diane. That sounds good. I am glad that you know we're sort of shifted our attention on this topic and. And so why don't we move on to Abby Abby, thanks for coming. Thank you Diane for your time. Thank you and I'll I'll hang in until close to 130 and then exit to go talk to Senate appropriations thank you very much. Hi, Abby Willard from my agency of agriculture food and markets. So representative super not I'm happy to kind of address your question and I and I think. What Diane just described was a relatively simple addition to the agency's emergency annex that we were able to do to just ensure that food security was captured under the agency's responsibilities and therefore as Diane said we would be activated in an emergency that required some feeding. In the conversations that we had around making these very simple modifications to our emergency annex we recognize that there is this greater statewide need and effort already underway around establishing a food security plan and that we really intentionally decided to hold that effort. Aside and teach and treat these as two separate initiatives. So when the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund and the agency collaborated on the creation of the agriculture and food system strategic plan. About a year ago, one of the goals was. It reads Vermont's food system is resilient and able to provide adequate and accessible healthy local food in the face of emergencies including climate related natural disasters. One of the objectives was that we would update the agency's annex but the other objective is that Vermont would establish a statewide food security plan. And so that effort is underway led by the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund and Farm to Plate. They're thinking of this as a two plus year process that really focuses on preparing for the next emergency and creating a statewide security, a statewide food security plan for for Vermont. And that plan is where I think some of that thinking ahead of land production and storage crops and storage locations would really come into play. As you were as you were discussing and proposing the plan that is underway is really focused on looking at long term food security for the state and food access for our most vulnerable populations. And doing that during a time of emergency so it is designed to be normal day food security ensuring that we have less food insecure individuals in the state, but also figuring out how we respond during time of emergencies. That process is going to have a really robust stakeholder engagement process so engaging with the impacted individuals and communities to understand what they need what would work for them. What efforts would be kind of most desired and hopefully many of those aspects being captured in the food security plan. And the interplay that we've talked about is that the state's emergency operations center mass feeding group, and the agency of agriculture's annex would really be embedded efforts within this statewide food security plan as to how the state of Vermont government entity responds when we face an emergency that includes some food security concerns. So if it's helpful I could share and you know Ellen Taylor is really the lead and the vision behind this food security plan they have. So Ellen I think in her staff could offer additional details but my understanding of this food security planning process is that the farm to plate network has established a food security group. The agency of agriculture has a representative on as too many others. They've hired a food security project manager, her name is Becca Warren, and she's leading the conversations and the development of how this food security plan would come into place. Some of the first steps are both assembling the group, but also aggregating research on the causes and contributing factors to food insecurity in Vermont. And then acknowledging that probably throughout the process but also in the latter part of the plan development would be this robust stakeholder engagement process that's really designed to help determine what the critical components of the plan would be and how it should be implemented. So that efforts underway. And I hope that that sort of describes how it interplays with what's happening with the mass feeding group and the inter connection between what our annex will do in the time of an emergency and our role as an agency in this statewide planning process. So representative super not did that address kind of your thoughts around where where those planning efforts might take place. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. All right, Abby, do you want to tell us more about this food security planning situation. I'm not sure that I have a lot of other details to provide those questions. All right, Tom. Abby. Just from from the citizens point of view. The hurricane hits tomorrow night. And it's, it's threatening my home and my family. What do I do. Who do I call. What's, what's the point on this. I can, I will try to address that representative the, if you're in that emergency situation and you're worried of flooding or wind damage or those kind of things the first the first call is to local. The, the town the local sheriff, depending on where you're at what do you got what do you what's in your town. They would not be calling the agency of agriculture if the floodwaters are rising and they need help. There's an outline number for the state emergency operations center who would also potentially dispatch, you know, swift water rescue or, you know, there's a lot of resources there. And everybody, it's really, it's extremely prescribed. This is your lane and you stay in it. You know agriculture isn't supposed to go, you know, moving over into other areas so the, the example of Irene when the towns of Rochester were cut off and hand cock the roads were just decimated and you couldn't get there. We got in a little bit of trouble. Lots of food was going in there and the National Guard was utilizing helicopters and moving product and we heard that people needed dog food and pet food and so we organized that and got it already. And the, the pallet got onto the helicopter and then we got really scolded of how to do that well, our resourceful folks and we're at the SEO seat and got it all done, but they were really focusing on human food and we're not happy that we, you know, got that pallet of dog food even though, you know, it was needed. But so everybody has a lane and they really are to stay in their lane so if you are in trouble during one of these weather type emergencies, it is your local assistance, then not potentially the hotline into the state emergency operations 911, etc. But then the resources come at you from the SEOC back out if it's a farmer that's calling in saying the floodwaters are rising and my cows are in trouble and you know I'm stuck and I think that it does come to the agency because it's agriculture, and we would work. Some of the examples I guess from Irene again we're, you know, what can we get to those animals that were isolated in Rochester when Irene flooded everything out. The agency of agriculture really comes in and the emergency aspect after the, the holy moly or there's other words for that, the holy crap moments that things that people are in extreme danger, it is dangerous out there that those are not our skill set at the agency of agriculture, but the rain has stopped, the flooding waters keep rising we got to get these cows out of here, the agency would utilize its contacts with the license. The stock dealers we have, is there anybody in the area can we get farmers to bring their their trailers can we get those cows out of there you know that's that's where our skills start to come in and that kind of example so it, it really is a stay in your lane kind of activity at the SEOC. And there are tremendous number of resources to be allocated, and it is it is a, if at some point if you could ever go there when it isn't full activation it is very impressive of how that is managed and operated and and done statewide, if you ever get a chance. But that would mean things are in a very bad place and maybe you don't want to go there because you can't get there from here. And that I would add to Diane's example is it again using Irene time where the agency of agriculture gets involved is around adulterated food so if food gets flooded and then the farmer has a question as to whether that product is suitable for sale or suitable for human consumption. So again, you know it's either dealing with their, their livestock and their animals and barns but also the food that then they might want to engage in the marketplace. And currently there, if you haven't seen the news today there is a outbreak of avian influenza in a commercial turkey farm in Indiana. And so the, the state emergency operations center could be operate could be brought into operation just for an agricultural industry, which if we had avian influenza in any of our commercial flocks here in Vermont or even on a few farm with the few chickens that would probably the agency would be highly involved. We would have to have the Department of Public Service Police sheriffs and probably a and r potentially of high mortality of how do we get rid of lots of dead chickens and turkeys but those. There are ways that just agriculture gets involved and others, not many others would be involved, but so there's there's lots of potential there. So, lots of activities. All right, thank you. Other questions from the committee. I know that you all support the governor's budget. But I do understand that there is a request. I suppose that Ellen is making not you for $150,000 to go toward food security effort. And I'm wondering if you can say something about what that effort might be. If the money was forthcoming. So yes, Chairperson Partridge we do support the governor's budget as proposed but I would let Abby state more clearly what if money were to be found. Of course not us asking for it but what would that be useful. Yeah, right. So there's always that that tricky piece. I think we're really fortunate to have the Vermont sustainable jobs fund and the farm to plate network taking the lead on the development of this statewide food security plan. I think some of the steps that I outlined earlier about standing up the working group, hiring the food security project manager, working on aggregating the data on the root causes of food insecurity, and then that stakeholder process would all be I would imagine components over the next two years that those resources would be critical for. So my understanding from from Ellen is that there have been some dollars committed and obligated to the creation of this plan, but that they may not have the full budget for the two two and a half year process required for the creation of the food security plan. I really, you know from my perspective on the plan being led by farm to plate feels like the appropriate place to me, especially since this plan will be robust and utilized if it has lots of public engagement. I think they are well equipped and situated to lead a really kind of engaging public participation process and I think that'll be really essential to a plan that will then be implementable and and that people will have confidence in relying upon or taking response various responsibilities for different goals and objectives within the plan if if they've had a hand in its development. Anyway, I'm very grateful that they've taken this responsibility there's always that that burden that accompanies the responsibility is figuring out how to pay for it and finding the staff capacity within their team to lead it and then kind of gathering all the voices and all the research to to put together a really meaningful document. Great. Thanks, Abby. Any questions, comments for Abby. All right. Abby, did you want to add anything. I don't think so it's nice to see you all. I feel like we can chat about a myriad of other topics, but I think this is what we have today for food security planning. Well, thank you.


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Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today. We are on episode 94 of the completionist crafters series Today we are crafting the myth wand from kalos here the level 30 myth wand as always everything you need is on the screen Lovely lovely lovely and let's go to the equipment crafting station And see how this works. See what we need. Let's go over here. Hello and for this You need to get the area spear of Valor, which is from any of the bosses in Mount Olympus I recommend the first one you need six donate power TCs. I got these from the bazaar 20 crystal vials you can go to any of the reagent or not any but most of the reagent vendors. I went to Celestia black pearls you can get them from black lotuses Transmute them or you can use my video to find it in the Athenaeum or you can go to the shadow palace Water lilies, I would recommend transmuting black not like lotus cat tails. I know what I'm doing Blood moss you can get from pink dandelions and red mandrake I just found a few in aerial shore and the imperia. Let's create that lovely lovely lovely now This wand would not recommend would definitely recommend you more to Use the scar and huster which gives 10 damage But if you want to use this one that gives 2% with accuracy 3% with damage and a pip So yeah, I would recommend the scar and huster, but hey, that is a level 30 moth only anyway, that is all for today Thank you for watching remember to leave a like and subscribe if you're subscribed press the little bells So you know exactly when I post another video and remember to craft outside the box


Conceptually, people get that for us to be a thriving society, it requires all of us being able to achieve our fullest potential, whatever that may mean. Unfortunately, there is a large swath of people who are not able to achieve that due to systems, policy, laws, practices that systematically oppress them and keep them from engaging with mainstream society. And so I think that people, when confronted with how to engage with racial equity, it's around definitions, it's around approach, and it's also around guilt. And I think that's a big barrier. Racial equity doesn't mean that all of a sudden you have to finance all the black and brown and the women and all of that. No, it really is about the lens and understanding who is benefiting and who isn't from the system.   Each one of us has an obligation to this work.  All of us have our participants in this system. Don't ask people of color to do this work for you. Do it in partnership. That's the only way this is going to be meaningful and the only way that it'll last. And that's why I love SoCab. It's okay. I don't need to have all the answers and it's kind of funny. None of us do. I don't have the answers. You know, some of the people I respect in this field don't have all the answers. But I think what the difference is is really taking that, not having the answers and being curious. The way that SoCab has curated these conversations and they themselves being vulnerable and asking questions. They don't know the answers to. And they have really stood out among a lot of the other conferences as a great entryway by introducing new approaches to practices. These are the folks that are actually going to help and implement and those that we hope will scale into practices that are adopted by more of the private markets.