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And believe me, I was gonna throw away the sales slip and not return the merchandise once it got to my house. That's why I nearly went nuts every evening waiting for her to come out of the building where she worked. She was always the last one out, and this particular evening she was later than usual. It got dark, the street lights came on, and the rush hour was over before she put in an appearance. Kenny? Oh gee, Kenny, I'm sorry, you've been waiting long? Oh no, no, I just nearly got run in for picketing the place, that's all. I hurried all I could, please don't be mad at me, Kenny.  Why do you always have to be the last one out? Oh, it's only for another week. Come on, let's go. I gotta deliver this package on the way home for his nibs. But you're not going home, we're going to Philharmonic Thursday, remember? No, it won't take any time at all, honey. Just around the corner, 415 Martin Street. Okay. But that guy nerves me up making you play messenger girl after hours. Let's not talk about Mr. Hessen, Kenny. Talk about us. You been counting the days? All day. 13 left. And a half, don't forget the half if it's to be a new wedding. Why all the fuss about the half? I don't like 13 by itself. I'll be glad when it's tomorrow and only 12 days left. So you're cute. The more I know you, the cuter you get. I bet you won't say that a year from now. You'll be calling me your old lady then. You'll always be Steffie to me. Just Steffie. Not even Stephanie? No, too sophisticated, too foreign sounding. Steffie, that's you. Hey, what number are you supposed to deliver that package to? 415. Well, this must be it. What a dump. Your boss have many customers and dumps like this? I don't know. Hold a match for me, will you? Can't see the names. There, that better? Yeah, but I still don't see... Well, what was the name? Muller, apartment 4B. Here it is, here it is. Name cards falling out of the slit and gotten lost. No wonder I couldn't find it. Maybe they're not home. I'll ring it again. There it is. I don't like those automatic door latches. They never know who's up there. Oh, don't be silly. Wait here, honey. I won't take a minute... I never timed a cigarette. I suppose they take around five minutes. This one seemed to take longer, but then... Look who I was waiting for. I punched it out with my foot and let another. I thought, won't take a minute. Yeah, might've known it. I thought, what's she doing? Staying to tea up there? I counted my change just to give myself something to do. I took off my hat and looked at it like I'd never seen it before. Five cigarettes later, she still hadn't come back. Things happened. Nothing much. Little things that were to last so long. A stout lady in a ratty-looking fur coat came in, holding some candy in one hand and a little boy by the other. After they'd gone, more waiting started in. I commenced tracing patterns with my feet. Circles. Diagnose. Maltese crosses. Finally I got fed up. I stepped over to the bell panel, picked out 4B and nearly sent the button through to the other side of the wall. I could hear it ringing way off somewhere. Quiet house. Too quiet. I leaned on the bell till my thumb joint got all white down to my wrist. And something did happen. I heard the door of the automatic elevator open. I waited. Now she won't like filing my fingernails. I thought I'd play a little hurt when she arrived. I could see it was her all right walking toward me. She opened the door and then walked past me like she never saw me before. I let her go on. I figured she'd turn around by the time she got to the door. But no. Hey, Steffi. Hey, Steffi, wait. Steffi. Hey, Steffi, what's the big... I beg your pardon. Oh. Oh, I thought you were...  I would advise you to be sure to whom you are talking before you go to grab a strange girl by the collar. No kidding. You look a lot like her, even the clothes. That little tam and the red shoes. Really? I don't find this amusing. Okay, sister. Pardon me for living. Next time, make sure it's one of the girls that live here. That was a shock. I didn't like the looks of the place from the beginning. Up to then, I was just sore. Now, I began to get scared. Maybe there's some guy up there trying to get funny with her, I thought. I better get up there fast and find out what this is. So I laid my hand flat over all the bells in the place so somebody'd open up. Open up in there. Open up or I'll bust the door down. Do you hear me? Steffi. Are you in there, honey? Baby, why don't you say something? What's this? What's this? What's this? Oh, that's what I want to know. Who are you? Building superintendent. You got a pass key to this flat? I have? What do you want here? My girl, she took a package up. I've been waiting for her downstairs. I don't know how long. She never came down again. Now they won't answer the bell. Well, no, wait a minute, young fella. She couldn't be in this flat. Well, don't try to tell me. And don't you try to tell me? I say she couldn't be. Why? I'll show you why. Hey. No, you see why? What's empty? It's empty. Well, nobody lives here. But there was someone here a while ago. She rang the bell and they let her in. Mister, this place ain't been rented for six months. Listen, she came in here. I tell you. Now, maybe you and the girl had a little quarrel. Maybe she figured to play a little joke on you. Give you the slip. We never had any quarrel. We're going to get married.  You'll probably find her there.  I was there at the door the whole time. What about the back way? Is there a back way out? Not a back way. There's a delivery entrance, but it goes right past my quarters. Nobody went out that way. Muller. The name was Muller. If he doesn't live in 4B, where does he live? Muller. We never had anyone by that name in the whole 12 years I've been working here. For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Mr. Lee Bowman, in I Won't Take a Minute. 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That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Lee Bowman as Kenny in Cornell Woolrich's story of a vanishing lady, I won't take a minute. A play well calculated to keep you in suspense. The cop on the beat was a nice guy. He rang every bell and every flat of the building and questioned the occupants. No one had heard anything. No one had seen her. Finally, a single plain clothesman was dropped off at the door. Lieutenant Gilman. He kept calling me bud. He looked around the empty flat and then he looked at me. But there's nothing to show that this girl or anyone else came in here. I tell you, she rang the bell of this flat and someone released the door catch for her from up here. All right, all right. Assuming she got in here, how'd she get out? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe the fire is... Look at those windows. Look at the dust on these frames. Why a person can't move in a place like this without showing it? Listen, don't do this to me, will you? You make it sound like she didn't come here with me at all. Well, that's what it sounds like, bud. Look, I was taking her to the concert tonight. We go every Thursday. Here's our tickets. I think we better build this thing from the ground up and see what we got now. What was this girl's name? Stephanie. Stephanie Risker. Address? 120 Farragut. What's she look like? Well, she... she comes up to about here next to me. Blonde. Little curls close to her head. Blue eyes. I'm no good at descriptions. Ah, don't let her get you, bud. I'm not scared because she's gone. I'm scared because she's gone in such a crazy way. I can't get a grip on her. You say you met her at 6.15 outside the Bailey Goodwin Building with a package to be delivered here. Now, who'd she work for? A press clipping service. The Green Star, it's called. It's operated by a guy named Hesson. Big outfit? Just him and a secretary and an office boy. She was getting 22 a week. All right, bud. You've given me something definite. Now we'll do some checking. But, uh, first of all, we go back to the place she worked. What a telephone booth. She told me the place was small, but I never figured on this. Not even a window. All right, all right. Let's have a look around. A desk. A filing cabinet. Uh-huh. Yeah, clippings. Well, so far, your story checks. Except for one thing. What's that? There's no file for anyone named Muller. Oh. This must be your desk. Yeah. Hmm. Cheers, glue, clips. Hmm. Not much of a personal touch here. Not even a hairpin. Uh-huh. Find something? Uh, nothing special. Well, you found something. I saw you dropping an envelope and sticking it in your pocket. Look, bud. Who's running this investigation? You or me? Sorry. You, I guess. Okay, let's keep it that way, huh? Our next stop was one of those bungalow-type places in the outskirts. That was where Hessin lived, a guy she worked for. Good evening. You were Mr. Hessin? That's right. I'm from police headquarters. May I come in? Why, uh, certainly.  We won't take up much of your time, sir. First of all, uh, do you know anyone named Muller at 415 Martin Street? No, I don't think I know anyone but that name. I think we have a Miller, a Mrs. Elsie Miller on our list who, uh, divorces and marries quite frequently. Well, that do. She owes us $29. You didn't send a package over to Muller, apartment 4B, 415 Martin Street, at 615 this evening? No, I'm sure I didn't. Uh, but wait. It's easy enough to confirm that. Oh, uh, Stephanie. Stephanie. Did you call me, Mr. Hessin? Uh, yes, my dear. This is my assistant, gentlemen, Mr. Stephanie Riska. That isn't Stephanie. He's calling somebody else by her name. My dear young man. I don't understand. She came out of that building while I was waiting. I spoke to her. We'll discuss that later, bud. Uh, now then, miss, how long have you been working for, Mr. Hessin? Since October of last year, about eight months now. And your name is Stephanie Riska? Why, yes, of course. Have you any identification with me, please? I don't know. Maybe there is something here in my handbag. Do you mind if I look? It's all right, Stephanie. He's from the police. Oh. Oh, well, in that case. Thank you. Listen, I don't know what these two are trying to pull, but she's not Stephanie. You've got to believe me. She came out of that building dressed like Stephanie. The way Stephanie was dressed when she went in. Ah, stop that, will you? Uh, thank you, miss Riska. I'm sorry to inconvenience you. It's quite all right. I, uh, I noticed you had quite a supply of chewing gum there. That, uh, that's hard to get these days. I make a hobby of it. Have some. Oh, thanks. My mouth's kind of dry. Well, Mr. Hessin, I... No, it's quite all right. I don't know what this young man has got himself mixed up in, but, uh, if we were able to help...  I've got some more checking to do, and this time it's on you. Okay, now, bud, stop talking. Come on, spill it. What's your pitch? I told you the truth. That girl wasn't Stephanie. I never saw her before. Was the man Hessin? Well, you look just like him. This, uh, girl of yours, what kind of gum did she chew? She didn't chew gum. She hated it.  Well, here's what it was. A water gum stuck under the edge of the desk. That girl back there at Hessin's place belongs in that office, bud. She had her letter addressed to herself in that handbag and her initials on the outside of it. It wasn't a new one, and it wasn't faked. Now, come on. What's your racket, bud?  Or did you do something to some little blond blue-eyed number? And now you're trying to pass a buck before we even found out about it? I don't know. Maybe I am nuts. Things like this... Well, things like this just don't happen. They can't. One minute she walks into a building... Yeah, I produced a single person all evening long that actually laid eyes on this girl of yours. Where's her folks? Where'd she come from? Wisconsin, I think. Her folks are all dead. I thought so. Well, I'll give you one more spin for your money, bud. Your stand or fall by the place you said she lived.  Yes. Could you describe it? Okay. Sticking in the mirror of the dresser, she's got a litho of the Holy Mother. On the radiator, she's got a rag doll. I won four at Coney Island. On a little shelf against the wall, she's got a gas ring with a tube running up to the jet. From the light fixture to the jet, there's a string attached. She'll have stockings hanging there to dry. Are you listening?  Will you remember these things? Yeah, but we'll see. Now listen, bud, get this straight. I don't want one word out of you the whole time we're here. Do you hear? I won't say a word. So help me. Yes? You got a girl named Stephanie Risker living here. Second floor, front. She ain't home now. I'm from the police. I think you'd better let us in. Oh, well, certainly. Let's see her room, please. Follow me. She's a nice, clean rumor. I'd hate to lose her. I hope she's not in any trouble. No trouble. Now, Gilman, right over there. Hey, it's changed. They've changed it all around. That app. Has she always had it fixed this way, ma'am? Well, since the first day she's here, only one thing I got to complain about. Yes, there it is again. Chewing gum, leaves it all over. Let's see that. Ah, yeah, I thought so. Exhibit C, bud. The same as the other two. She belongs in that office and she belongs in this room. Oh, look out. You better hold your friend. Ah, let him fold. That isn't anything to the falls he's going to be taking five or ten minutes from now. What did he do? Murder her? Not her, but I got a good hunch he murdered someone and picked the wrong name out of her hat. I didn't hear any more, they said, while we were going down the stairs, there was a lot of bubbles in the place where we were doing funny things, turning red and spinning around in spirals. It was still on my feet, but not so as you'd notice it. The spinning didn't stop until we got to the foot of the stairs. The thing that stopped it was an umbrella stand beside the front door. It had a naughty walking stick jutting up out of it. I grabbed it in my free hand as he walked past it. Watch out, Lieutenant. He's going to... Hey, you! I didn't stop to investigate whether I'd kill him or only knock him out. I made for the Martin Street flat, that was instinctive. The place I last seen her calling me back. When I got there, I ganged up on the janitor's bell and waited a thousand years. Well, what is it? Didn't you find him yet? What happened to that detective fella that was with you? He sent me back to take another look. You don't have to come up, just give me the pass key. All right, son, come on in. My head was still spinning when I let myself in at the door of apartment 4B. I don't know what I was looking for. Some clue, I guess. Some magic clue that would pop up and give her back to me. I tested the walls for secret panels.  In a 50-buck a month flat, I dug out plaster with my bare nails, cased the cracks between the floorboards. I'd been there about 10 minutes when I heard steps coming up the hall. I held my breath. Hands up when I come in there shooting. Give me a minute, please. One minute. Maybe I'll find it. Find what? Get out of there by the time I count 10. I'm coming in shooting. Do you hear me? Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I didn't stop to think. I crossed the room and threw up in the window, the one that opened the fire escape. Down looked too far, so I started climbing. I didn't yell back at him. I was sailing my breath. Come on, after him. Keep that light on him. On the roof, I took a quick look both directions. There was about a yard-high partition wall dividing it from the next roof over. But before I could get to it, I think I busted my leg. Yeah, let's see. Nah, you just barked your shin up a little. Wait till I finish with you wise guy. What are you waiting for? Go ahead. You promised me a beating. Go ahead. Don't you work? Hey, where did that come from? What? That package there beside you. Package? Package? That's it. The package you took inside with it. Hold that light steady. What's in it? What is it? Newspapers. It's a dummy. Look, those papers. They've had stuff clipped out of them. That proves they came from Hesson's clipping agency. Well, doesn't it? Someone did bring a package here tonight, bud.  I've been thinking about that room. She was never in that room. I was right about that. They must have grabbed her in the hall, taken her straight up here to the roof through the skylight. But why? I don't know why. Maybe that steel-plated landlady knows where she is. All right, Grandma. Come on, spill it. You can't scare me. I've got bigger men than you on my side. What do you mean, your side? Wouldn't you like to know? All I have to do is make one telephone call. I have the number right here. I see that number. Take it and call it yourself. Who gave you this number? Ask me no questions. I'll tell you no lies. I said, who gave you this number? The FBI man who was here. Now you know who I'm working for. What did this FBI man look like, Grandma? All right, I'll tell you all you have to do is say yes and no. The guy's about my height. Bald wears pince glasses, right? Maybe. He got you to work with him so this woman he described as one of his agents could step into the identity of this Stephanie Risker, right? You seem to know all about it. I know more than that. He wasn't an FBI man and the girl who took Stephanie Risker's place was not a federal agent. Then who was he? I'm not sure, Grandma, but I've got a hunch. Get out of this place. Keep it spot until we get there. Gelman, do you think she's all right? Keep your fingers crossed, bud, and pray. I'm going to keep this house covered. Gone. Nobody here. Yeah, yeah. That's it, right. That's it. Turn back against the wall. Somebody's coming. Gelman, you in here? Calhoun, what's the big idea? I told you to keep this place spotted. Now they're gone. I tailed them. They piled into a car, locked up the house and lit. Where to? Here's 7 North River. They were shoved off in less than a quarter of an hour. I tried to reach her to head. Was the other girl with them? No, two men in a stringy blonde. They called Auger. That's all. Too late. We're too late. Well, we could pull them off at quarantine and I'll make them talk.  Stinks, don't it? Yeah. Smells like they had to place fumigate or something. Hey. Yeah, what's the matter? That smell. That's gasoline. Gasoline? I hear something. A cloth girl. The basement. Come on. Yeah, she's down here all right. Go back upstairs.  Now, don't wait until you get her. Yeah, she's alive.  I better wear that bomb. Come back here, Calhoun. You'll never make it.  Yeah, she'll be around in a second or two. How's Calhoun? Burned pretty bad. It was an incendiary. Kenny? Baby, it's okay. Sure. Everything's okay now, Steffi. Who are you? This is Lieutenant Gilman. We owe a lot to him, Steffi. I had to be conked over the head before I got wise to what was going on. And even then, I didn't figure it right.  Well, weren't they? Well, Hessen became an American citizen in 1929 and up to now, his record is absolutely clean. Oh, gee, I'm glad of that. I'd hate to be working for a spy. But I don't get it. Why did they want Steffi out of the way? That was Olga's doing. The girl who was impersonating you, Steffi. You see, she's Hessen's sister. She's a fugitive from a couple of war crimes and figured the least her brother could do for her was to furnish her with a nice, clean nationality. Their original plan was to bump Steffi off in that empty flat and leave her there without anything to identify her. Only they figured on it coming there alone. There was no time to work out a plan on the spot, so they scrammed over the roof, taking Steffi with them. Hey, Gilman, we're through at headquarters. You coming? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right away, right away. Well, I gotta go now. Thanks, Gilman. Thanks for everything. Ah, I'm glad to help you out. And another thing you weren't lying about, Bud, No hard feelings? I mean about me hitting you over the head? Oh, boy, I almost forgot. Something I meant to give you before we say goodnight. Oh, you've done enough. That's what you think. It was a while before I knew what hit me. It felt like a cement mixer. When my head cleared, Steffi and I had changed roles. She was the one bending over me. Annie said to tell you no hard feelings, but when anyone socks Dick Gilman with a walking stick, they get socked back even if they're the best of friends. He said that, did he? Does it still hurt? I'm still seeing stars. Oh, gee, Kenny, I'm sorry. Oh, I don't care. I'm seeing you, too. Listen. Listen, it's midnight. Yeah, only 12 days to the wedding now, baby. We licked the 13th.  I won't take a minute. 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Gang, today is September 24th. Today and tomorrow we're gonna do book readings. excerpts from books that we're gonna pick out here. Okay, let me give you a little rundown of what we got. Okay, Speedy Gonzales and I put the numbers there's 21 books. Okay, a couple of times. I find the lyric a bit disturbing. I got the numbers here. No, how's that gonna work? It's not gonna work. Anyway, one to 21. Okay, we'll fold these guys up and put the numbers into the hat. My hat. And we'll pick them out and we'll do readings, right? First book on the list, number 21. Let's throw it in the hat. Let's throw it in the hat. Point is, no, it doesn't have a thing. The complete, the complete Golden Dawn system of magic. This is the 1990 version. 1990 version. I haven't read anything from no, no, I've read a page or two from this. I had friends, I have friends or have friends that wanted to get rid of this. And I went, what? I'll take it. They were gonna throw it away or donate it. And I said, please donate it to me. Thank you very much. I'll grab this baby. Okay, so that's book number 21. I'm familiar with this fan. Nice. Nice. Nice. And he's salt triple crepe on that. Salt triple crepe. I don't know that. What you're doing? Dark weed co cobra salutations. First time chat. Welcome to our live stream. We're going to read books or excerpts from books. I got 21 books picked out here. I'm both I'm showing you what the books are right now. Okay. Yeah, yeah. All the God we saw that you posed.  Very cool. Very cool. Gang. Do not forget. Do not forget. Very important. Free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange published in journals that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we desperately need in our societies. For more information, see wikilease.org, defend dot wikilease.org or countless resources available on free speech platforms. Salute gang. Meta man, sir, says my first lodge in Barcelona was full of golden dawn guys really. Coco crack. How are you doing? Happy Sunday. Happy Sunday. Cheryl is busy tonight, so probably won't make it. The other guy says no worries. She's allowed to be busy every Sunday every now and then. Since we showed this, let me show you a couple other books. I'm going out of order. Should we go out of order? No, no, no, let's stay in order. Okay. Three books by C. S. Lewis. Three books by C. S. Lewis. He is the author that I've read the most of. I might have more of his books handy. I've read way more books from C. S. Lewis than these three, but these are the three that I could find. C. S. Lewis, Fern, Seed and Elephants. These are essays, a handful of essays that he wrote. Okay. Fantastic read. Fantastic read. We got C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. I've read that one in entirety. I've read this one Mere Christianity. C. S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters. I've read this one as well. There's some books here that I haven't read. Okay. So Screwtape Letters. So that's number one, two, three. Let's put these in here. Obviously, these are permanent stickies that I put on here because we're not going to mess it up. So we're going to put one, two, and three. Fold them up. Throw them in. All right. One, two, three. Oink, doink, doink. One, two, three. Throw them in the hat. Throw them in the hat. Book number four and number five. Frank Herbert's Dune. Okay. And Dragon Wing by First Book. Thank you very much for the sub. Hazy. One, two, three. Salutations, salutations. Salut, salut, salut. Margaret Wise and Tracy Hickman. This is a seven issue series. I've read the whole series. Fantastic read. I just figured this is book one, by the way. Okay. So four and five. We're going to put in here. Four and five. Number four, number five. Throw them in the hat. Throw them in the hat. I just bought Dune Yugo Max. Yugo XM. Yugo Max, maybe? I just bought Dune from my Opik books in Chicago, Wicker Park. Nice. Nice. Uncharted day. Salutations. How are you doing? Hey, Chico. And chat. Haven't caught a stream in a while. Hope all is well. Where are you? Wherever you are, I'm assuming. Hazy. One, two, three. Just come back from a week in Istanbul. And the first thing I do is switch on some Chico. Awesome, awesome, awesome. This book I found pretty cool. I've taken some of these. I've taken notes. This is God's Equation by Amir de Axel. Okay. It basically goes through sort of historical account of how Einstein came up with his theory on the electrodynamics, his paper on electrodynamics on moving bodies and relativity and stuff like this. It was a good read. It was a good read. So that's number six. And here, let's put number six on there. Book six. And then number seven. Come on. Number seven is one of the most important political books you can read. Gore Vidal. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. That's number seven. Okay. I've read this as well. Great read, great read. Important read. Number seven. I'm just going to throw in the half gang.  You look older than... You look older than 34 when you are you are running for president, huh? All the guys. C.S. Lewis actually died. The day JFK was assassinated. Oh, they? I didn't know that. You know, did we lose a number? What did we put in? We put in seven, I think. Yeah, there's number eight. So number eight. I haven't read this book. Alexander Solzin... I don't know how to pronounce this. We never make mistakes. Okay. I haven't read this. Number eight. You can hear an ice cream truck outside gang. Number eight. Number nine. I just bought this book. I got two copies. Or we got two copies. The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I read a little bit of it online. Couple pages. Two or three, four pages online. Important book. Very historical. Very important. Did I say that? Right? Burn it. Okay. Number nine. I haven't read it. Just a couple of pages. Number nine. Sure is. Ice cream, ice cream. Or was going to burn the ice cream truck. Elder God says he doesn't deserve publicity. Robert F. Kennedy? Wow. Robert F. Kennedy. I think burning it is... Robert F. Kennedy is trying to get Anthony Fauci in jail. Right? Gee, how are you doing? Any snacks today? I got some eggs. Hard boiled eggs. I felt like good protein. Good protein. Elder God will appreciate this. I've already had a little bit. Right? Warm and loose. Yo, how are you doing? I like eggs. I eat a lot of eggs. Pre-paper actually. Eggs with good protein. On good fat. Salad. Okay. Hold on. Let me put number 10. I'm going to put number 10 in there. I want to show you number 10. This is jarred demal beyond the green zone. This patches from an unembedded journalist in Occupied Iraq. Okay. Forget about the forward by Amy Goodman.  She's been a clown ever since Russia Gate. Right? 2016. It was horrendous what democracy now has done. Right? But Darjumal. Fantastic. I videotaped. I have the videos online. Right? I videotaped Darjumal giving a presentation in 2006, maybe, 7, 8, maybe. I can't remember of him doing a book promo for this. He was the only independent journalist in Iraq American that went there and reported. Okay. Incredible account. I haven't read this. I've read parts. Darjumal read a few pages that I recorded. It's available online. Okay. Important book. Number 11. Tamara Litch. Hold the line. Canadian hero. Metis grandmother. One of the organizers for the peaceful trucker rally convoys. Resisting Canadian government's tyranny. Okay. Fantastic. Number 11. Let's put number 11 in there. I haven't read that. We just read a few pages when I showed you guys the signing and that book is signed for the Chichoyan Chichoyan community. We've read a few pages of this. The Essential Psychedelic Guide by D. M. Turner. Loose pages. I'm reading the one that's Loose Pages reader copy. Right? We've already read a few pages. We'll read more. We'll read more. One day we'll read it from front to cover. Maybe we'll just keep on reading excerpts. Right? Number 12. We lost the number here. Number 12. Let's throw that in there. It's not 21. It's 12. No, wait a second. Yeah, that's number 12. Number 13. Black holes in baby universes by Stephen Hawking. I've read this. It was a good read. No, this is asking have I read Malcolm Axe's autobiography? I haven't. I haven't. I've read a fair bit. A fair bit about Malcolm Axe. I've watched some documentaries, but I've never read his book. I need to... I definitely do need to read it.  Also, Lonely Piggy Pickled Eggs are one of... one way to step up hard boiled eggs and they're so good. They're so good. They're so good. Gee, why does food look so much tastier when it's nicely presented? I don't know because it's nicely presented. We're visual creatures, right? Number... Oh, we lost number 13. Let's put number 13 back on here. It's number 15. Number 14. The Tao of the Yi Qing. Ways of Deminition by Zhu Suang Hua. This is... He's a Tai Chi master that only got into Tai Chi. I believe he was around 55 when he got into Tai Chi and within a short few years he became a Tai Chi master. He's considered to be one of the greats and I've read this book. It's fantastic. I've taken a fair bit of notes on it. So, not bad. Oh my god, that I have definitely read. Nice. Number 14. Okay. One of my friends that's done a lot of martial arts, done martial arts for like three decades now. He recommended it. I look out and met Stephen Hawkins. Biden is running the music. Allerious. It's really too bad how how far democracy now has fallen. Yeah, indeed crack. So... actually so vomit-inducing. So vomit-inducing. Oh, I put it in the wrong place. Number 14. Number 15. Robert Anton Wilson. Wilhelm Reich in Hell. Great read. Heavy metal musical about the life of Wilhelm Reich by Robert Anton Wilson. Lucifer salutations. Lucifer. Hello sir. Hi chats. How are you doing? Hey, do you see this? Lucifer? The complete golden law... golden dawn system of magic. That might be one of the books we read a little bit of. All right. Number 15. I gotta put number 15 in there. Number 15. Ice cream, man, followed by sliders. Number 16. Lucifer. We got the bible. All right. We got the bible. We got the bible. Number 16. Let's put number 16 in there. 30 minutes used warning. 30 minutes used warning. Well, if we got the bible, might as well get the Quran as well. Right? The final testament. Quran number 18. Number 18. I gotta show you number 17. Actually, I'm gonna switch this up. I'm gonna put the bible and so I'm gonna put make make the Quran. The bible is number 16. The Quran is number 17. Okay. Let's put number 17 in there. There's number 17 in the hat. Number 18. I haven't read this one. Magic, mysticism and modern medicine. Journal of a family physician. Irving oil. I don't know this book. No, I don't have the Talmud. My partner might have the Talmud. Spencer Reisman or my partner's family. She's Jewish, so. And I was raised Christian. A fantastic book that at a time when I tried to read it, I figured out I was too dumb to read it. So I started reading a lot more. Gudel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstetter. Right? I've read some of the Quran, Lucifer. Main reason I read it because the number 19 appears a lot in there. It's a foundation of it, from what I understand. So I read some of it. Okay. Gudel Escher Bach, number 19. Oh, I got to put number 18 in there. Number 18. That was magic. Number 19. That was Gudel Escher Bach. And number 20 goes in our hat. Number 20. And number 20 is, I might as well, Time and the Technosphere by Jose Arguelles. Talks about the Mayan calendar and stuff like this. Great read. I don't agree with all of it, but good read. Okay, fun read. Oh, I can feel this cozy vibe here. Nice Lucifer. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Rania, I've seen this before. Hello, Ciccio in chat. I started reading Emotional Intelligence. Cool. I don't know the book, but cool. Alice, what do you think of it? I already got a quote. And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know it. Zut, how are you doing? Salutations. You showed up on our Gilded and you found your way to the live stream. Salut! Salut to Zut and to another man. We're gonna read excerpts from books. I just showed 21 books. Okay, from spiritual to magic to political to esoteric to just fantasy to sci-fi to Tai Chi. Okay, bang bro's user. And then I've numbered them, put the numbers in a hat. We're gonna mix it up. We're gonna pick a book and you guys tell us what pages you want read, right? Bang bro's user just clocked out and jumped into the whip. Let's get it, Ciccio. Nice bang bro. I wish Ciccio watched American football. Metamanser. After these readings, we will, we all will be in another dimension. Maybe, maybe, maybe. I miss some Kabbalahov. Some myths and magic. It is interesting, it is interesting. Yang, should I pick a number? I'm gonna pick a number.


Hi, welcome to our channel, I'm Shiva and today we have with us XGMine's 4K projector. It is called the Horizon Pro, with a decent brightness right up to 2200A. It has a 2 built-in speaker by Harman Kardon and by the size of it you would think it doesn't sound that good but it's really impressive. So the projector runs on Android TV 10 and I've been using this for the past couple of weeks and I've been really blown away with the performance and it's one of the best 4K projectors I ever used. It comes with a remote control, same as a typical remote for Android TV, it has a microphone, the button here is for Google Assistant and here we have a button dedicated to focusing the projector. The outside material here is made out of metal, it's a premium top-end finish to it, no complaints at all. Anywhere from 30 inch to 300 inches it is what it can project. This right here is a little camera and there's a sensor in there too, that is for the auto focus. There are two HDMI and a USB port each and an Ethernet port on the back of the projector. Slownessly blending into the design, the top of the projector, this here is plastic and we have a power button and then media controls over here. Horizon Pro has two Harman Kardon sound systems which gives a very different effect while watching any movie or video. It also has an option to plug an external speaker. The bottom is made out of plastic, we have four solid rubber feet and a tripod mount. It's enough for an Android 10 projector right here that everything loads up quick, as fast as my TV would load this up. I see no problems over here and so just getting into the Amazon Prime that works here in full HD. As you can see, everything is running very smoothly in Prime videos. We'll go into just a few things with settings now, a very standard settings that you'll find on most projectors under brightness. Right now, I've set this to standard, you can even increase the brightness to maximum which helps in performance while gaming to reduce the delay you're going to be seeing in that. The next in projector settings is Keystone correction. It's automatic or manually focused adjustment settings. So on start up, you can get it to auto focus itself. And after that, you'll find focus setting and then the projector placement. And in projector settings, you'll find where you want to project your screen, front, front ceiling, rear and rear ceiling. The other settings you'll find here is HDMI control settings and then focus calibration and keystone calibration and this can be done over here if you need to do so. Now I don't have to touch this but imagine you're having 50p shoes or whatever, you could run this to get it to recalibrate itself. So here we go with our image quality now. I must say it looks spectacular and this is from a YouTube channel called 8K Video Ultra HD. So the image quality is super sharp. So now let's check what it looks like if I was to turn on the light or open the blinds now with plenty of ambient light at the moment here. It's still perfectly watchable to me, thanks to 2200 ANSI lumens, it looks great. I would not be worried at all. So the only con I feel is the price point for the Indian market but leaving that apart, the performance of the device is at a very different level itself. You'll have a very unique experience while watching movies, TV shows or consuming any other content. Thank you for watching this video, stay tuned for new videos.


miums, there's a column that says benefit actuarial value. It is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven columns in. That benefit actuarial value is capturing the impact of any benefit changes that are taking place. So there is a premium offset that is implicitly included that you're going to price it back that a member would have to pay for it at the pocket. Yep, bad debt. And the 0.4, that's quite a bit higher than what's to be looked for by your other major competitor in the marketplace. And just, you know, it's double. So looking at a 0.4 percent, a couple things. One is you're talking specifically about consumers who do pay for premiums and then have claims against those. Is there any way for you to marry those up in some fashion?  I'm not an expert on the policy, but there is a grace period that exists where even if a member doesn't pay their premium, we do have to cover their claims. And there is, to the best of my knowledge, there is any recourse that we can take to the extent that a member has exceeded the grace period and isn't paying their premiums. Then that's where we will intervene and do a review to ensure that we're not driving up costs unnecessarily for members that are actually paying their premiums. So, within the grace period, there isn't any recourse that we can take for those members.  And do you guys have a estimate of what you think is out there for fraud and waste? I have never gotten an exact figure of that and did have a conversation with our SIU lead on last week just discussing some of the programs that they, from place they are doing. They've improved the staff, they've increased the staffing and they've actually, through that, done a lot more analytics and data mining. So they're trying to identify the regular practice pattern to work fraud or waste may exist in the system. To put an actual number on what they estimate as a percent and your total dollar amount, that wasn't something that we discussed. But I do know that we are increasing our efforts to try to proactively identify what are some of the items that we can address before it actually gets into a litigation case or having to address it after the fact so we can set up our systems to automatically identify some of these regular patterns to keep more proactive about it. So you don't have a percentage of what the estimate might be? I do not. We talked about the cost savings and then gave some sort of examples of telemedicine and things like that. How much do you think these have benefited year over year? I remember you speaking to me like the cost impact. So while utilization is increasing, substantially when you look at telemedicine in isolation, it's a very small percent of our overall utilization. To the extent that there's growth, we will capture that in our refinements in the telemedicine benefit. But it isn't enough to really move the needle at this point. I would just, I advocate for it. I think it's a really effective tool to utilize. But I think there's a lot of education that goes along with that. Well, we've identified, we've analyzed segments of our population and who's actually utilizing telemedicine benefit the most. And what we've identified is that self-insured clients that we have are utilizing telemedicine more than large employers, but they're utilizing it more than the small groups and the individual employers. And the reason why we think ASO clients or self-insured clients are utilizing those benefits is because there's a direct cost that the client is experiencing. So they recognize that there is a savings opportunity that exists and they're putting a lot more marketing materials forth, a lot more member education or employee education to utilize those benefits. We do try to educate members on that benefit through our member welcome packet or on our website. But there isn't a way for us to just kind of pick up the phone and call people directly and tell them you should utilize telemedicine benefit in this instance outside of potentially whether we have those programs in place like the ER, the high-utilizer of the ER program program. But do you invent anything within work cost in the beginning, whether that is moving people out of the ER into a partner care specialist? What we're capturing right now is the experience that we've had in 2018. Our utilization trends were volatile so we don't have a utilization trend and we're not building in anything for additional utilization of something like telemedicine or reduction in ER. And then looking at the L&E recommendations, several of them because there's new information that we have, whether the risk adjustment, things like that. But on the medical utilization, which the bulls used to be released by like 5% of the breed, so what would happen if Melanie didn't find that? We would have continued with operating under the assumption that we didn't have enough data to quantify what we, a utilization trend of maybe other than 0%. Now because utilization trend is skinning the entire market and providing practice patterns, it is helpful for L&E to have the entire market scan and actually be able to analyze both competitors' data to provide an estimate because we do think that is a more appropriate approach to quantify utilization trends. I do have a lot of question on confidential information so how do you think of that? So this is a public meeting we're going to have to go into in the next session. Or can I refer to it and not say the numbers or? I love the question calls for those numbers. Which document we're talking about? I'm talking about tab three. After chair finishes this question, before we take it away, do we direct and then take break? Okay. Is that it? Yeah. I would rather take a break after the board finishes, please. It's been a long morning. I'm going to take a break now. Stay with the question after that. Does that work? No. I don't think so. Just a half. So we'll recess to be back in 10 minutes.


Reporting from suburban Chicago, I'm Bill Brough. Calcium pills may pose a heart risk. People who take calcium supplements could be increasing their risk of having a heart attack according to researchers in Germany. Calciums often taken by older people to strengthen bones and prevent fractures. Experts believe it should be taken with caution. They say promoting a balanced diet, including calcium, would be a better strategy. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg followed nearly 24,000 people for more than a decade. They compared the number of heart attacks in people who were taking calcium with those who did not. They found that people taking calcium supplements were 86% more likely to have had a heart attack. In other news, stress and depression may affect cancer survival.  Several recent studies underscore how critically important it is for those fighting illness to learn how to combat stress. A team of researchers at the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that symptoms of depression among a group of patients with late-stage renal cell carcinoma were associated with an increased risk of death.


So we have looked at these 3 so far, we have looked at inflation fraction, we have looked at the atmospheric pressure and the super pressure. Now the next thing to look at will be the ambient air temperature, other things remaining same when the ambient air temperature changes and changes slowly, this is the first expression. So when it changes slowly, you are giving enough time for the thermal equilibrium, we know that if you give enough time, there will be a conduction. So when TA changes or the ambient air temperature changes, the temperature of the lifting gas and the balloon air, they also change but they take time to change. However, there are 2 things, one is that both helium and hydrogen which are commonly used LTA gases, they are excellent in thermal conductivity. So they will quickly help in the temperature equilibrium to be reached. And when the TA changes slowly, then the super heat that is created because of change in the ambient air temperature can be ignored because super heat basically means when there is temperature which has not been absorbed or which has not been equalized over a period of time. That is why that is what is the super heat. So we recall that the lifting, the net lift is basically given by this expression which we have seen so many times. If I put E equal to 0, it becomes PS by TA into KV. Therefore the gross lift change will be just because of TA2 and TA1. So it will be 1 by TA2 minus 1 by TA1 into KV and PS can be taken out as common. Now also recall that the balloon air weight difference, we saw it last time is PS plus delta PSP into 1 minus I2 upon the temperature at 2 minus the same thing at 1 into KV.  So to make things simple, because remember we are looking at changes in one parameter but others are not changing. Either they are not changing or we are ignoring the minor changes. So we knock off delta PSP in this expression. So you put delta PSP equal to 0, you will get as PS times 1 minus I2 minus PS times 1 minus I1 upon the temperature which is going to be A2 and A1 plus the superheat. Now suppose we assume that PS is constant, PSH is constant because we are looking at only change in the TA now. So other things remaining constant, we can show that I2 by I1 which was basically P2 by P1, P2 by T1, T2 by P1, T1 by, thank you. So those pressures will get cancelled out because pressures are same, PS is same, PSH is same. So the pressure terms will get cancelled out, the only thing will be the temperature terms. And now if you see with this you can say this I2, you can replace for I2 here and replace for I1 here and you will find or if you just do cross multiply the terms inside, you can show that they will cancel out and ultimately you will get a need expression which will say that the change in the balloon air is going to be only PS times 1 upon the temperature at 2 including the superheat minus 1 upon temperature at 1 including superheat times K into V. So this is only because we have ignored the superheat contribution, we are allowing it to slowly equalize. Later on we will see what happens if you do not allow this to happen when it is sudden. So I am just copying and pasting the 2 expressions from the previous slide and the net lift is the difference between the gross weight and the balloon air. So all of them are not neatly in terms of only the temperatures and the superheats.  0. So if TSH is 0, delta TSH is 0 then there is no net lift increase, there is a direct compensation. So if you change TSH slowly the net lift will not change. You allow an airship to stand. So there is an airship which is standing outside. The temperature of the ambient air changes. If this temperature is conveyed beautifully inside the system and if both the LTA gas and the gas in the balloon air and the balloon air get to the same temperature, there will be no net lift change because there will be a cancellation of the increase. And if you look at only the LTA gas, weight, only the balloon air weight there may be differences but the net lift will remain the same and that is what matters to you. So we have looked at all these factors. The next one we look at is superheat. Everything else remaining same. We just look at now the effect of superheat. So just like super pressure, the same expressions you will only change delta TSH and you will ignore changes in T. So if you have superheat, what is superheat? Temperature increase because of exposure to high temperature. So both the balloon air and the gas inside are going to expand because of the increase in the temperature. So interestingly balloon air weight will reduce because the balloon air gas will be expanded but WLG will remain the same, the weight of the lifting gas will be, gas is not being thrown out. So its weight will remain the same, weight of the balloon air will reduce but weight of the lifting gas will remain the same, outside volume remains the same, the only differences are in the temperatures. So since we are not displacing heavier or lighter air therefore gross lift will remain the same. So net lift will change. Now many people they have this impression that the net lift changes because you are pushing the air out from the balloon air. Therefore there is more volume available for the LTA gas. Same mass of LTA gas occupies more volume. So there is a density decrease and because of this the difference in the density between the ambient air and the density inside increases and hence the lift increases. This is a fallacy. This is something which many people assume. The mechanism is not this and I will show you in the next slide. So once again I will repeat the fallacy so that you can understand. You will see these in books also and this confused me a lot in the beginning. This is what I also believed that you have an airship and you have a balloon and now you have superheat. So the lifting gas inside is going to expand and hence it will push the balloon air out. So the volume available for the LTA gas increases, the mass remains same, density reduces. So rho A minus rho G, difference increases, net lift increases. No, we will see the mechanism is a bit different. We just copied the formula from the last time. The weight of the balloon air is the difference of the 1 by temperature terms into PS into KV and the net lift is equal to gross lift minus the change in the balloon air. So the net lift will be equal to PS, the same expression that you saw. And here what we are doing now is simplifying it. If you simplify it, you will get delta T SH2 minus delta T SH1 is a numerator upon T A plus T SH1 and T A plus T SH2 in the denominator. Now if you look at the relative value of T A and delta T SH1 and also T A and delta T SH2, you can actually ignore. Just to get the order of magnitude analysis, you can ignore. So if you do that, you can approximate this value as just the change in the superheat divided by square of the ambient air temperature. And between the perm on the middle and on the right, the difference because of this ignoring is not more than 3 percent. So if you are happy with 3 percent error in general, the number will change depending on PS and all that, but generally there is around 3 percent. So therefore, without much loss of accuracy, we can get an expression for net lift change. Now let us look at the fallacy. Let us look at why there is a mistake. So we recall that the net lift is basically because of the 3 terms are there. First term is the gross lift which is rho A into VG. What is this? This is the weight of the air displaced. So because you brought the airship from somewhere to this place, air of density rho A, ambient air density times the V and this G is just for the units. So the first term rho into VG is the gross lift. The second term minus rho LGI into VG is the weight of the lifting gas which has been put in the space created by bringing the airship, correct? You brought the airship, along with the airship you got what?  So you are getting in lifting gas in the envelope and you are getting air in the balloon air. So rho LGI into I is why I into V is the volume occupied by the lifting gas, into the lifting gas density rho LGI, it will subtract from the gross lift. Then 1 minus I into V is the volume occupied by the balloon air, balloon air also has some gas air inside which has got density that is rho B A, rho of balloon air. In general you cannot assume it to be same as air density, we do not know. It may be same as rho A but we do not know right now. So we give it a term as rho B A, density of the balloon air. So with this you get the net lift but this is not payload. Net lift is what is the vertical force you get, now you subtract the rate of the system blah, blah, blah then you will get the payload, is this point clear to everybody? Now what is the contribution of the lifting gas? The lifting gas contribution is the first part or the middle part sorry which is negative contribution. It is actually a weight. So it is not giving you lift, it is taking away from some lift. So that contribution is negative rho LGI times I into VG. Now as the value of TSH1 approaches TSH2, so we know that the inflation fraction depends on pressure and temperature. So as the value of TSH1 approaches TSH2, the inflation fraction I1 will approach I2 value. So now what will be the lift, what will be the gross lift difference? It will be the difference between the inflation fraction I2 and I1. So when I change TSH, there will be a change in the lifting gas density. It will become rho LGI2 from rho LGI1, therefore the inflation fraction will become I2 from I1 and the difference in the lifting gross lift, gross lift will change only because of the difference between the gas. Now rho LGI is the density of the lifting gas that is equal to mass upon volume. So therefore rho LGI1 will be mass upon I1 V and rho LGI2 will be mass upon I2 V where I1 and I2 are the inflation fractions as the two conditions 1 and 2. Mass of the gas unions constant, you are not throwing out gas. So put the value of rho LGI1 and rho LGI2 in this expression. You will get M upon I1 sorry M upon I2 V into I2, I2 I2 will cancel and you will get M upon I1 V into I1, I1 I1 will cancel. So therefore delta LGI will be 0 because they will just cancel out each other. If delta LGI is 0 then the lifting gas contribution to that delta LGI is 0. So lifting gas does not contribute anything to the net lift when there is a change in the superheat because it undergoes a change in the density and through that it simply cancels out. So therefore change of the lifting gas is irrelevant. So when people say that density of the lifting gas has reduced it is actually irrelevant because we have seen here that the density of the lifting gas, its change is not going to play any role in the net lift calculation. Now we come to the next point. What is left now? Yes. No, you are looking only at a change in TSH. See do not make a system suddenly open and suddenly closed and then expect to have the same relationships valid. We are looking at only the contribution of the lifting gas. So yes, I is changing from I1 to I2, I is changing. It was I1 earlier it became I2. But while becoming I2 the density also has accordingly, so that is what we are trying to say the change in the inflation fraction will take care of the density change. Therefore density change is not the mechanism of generating the net lift. We need to figure out why the net lift is changing.


I'm Sam Blaknin, and I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. For her traumatic wounds to heal, the victim of abuse requires closure, one final interaction with her tormentor in which he, hopefully, will acknowledge his misbehavior and even tender an apology. Fair chance. Few abusers, especially if they are narcissistic, are amenable to such weak-link pleasantries. More often, the abuse are left to wallow in a poisonous stew of misery, self-pity, and self-recrimination. Depending on the severity, duration, and nature of the abuse, there are three forms of effective closure. There is conceptual closure. This is the most common variant. It involves a frank discussion of the abusive relationship. The parties meet to analyze what went wrong, to allocate blame and guilt, to derive lessons, and to part ways cathartically cleansed. In such an exchange, a compassionate offender, quite the oxymoron admittedly, offers his prey the chance to rid herself of accumulating resentment. He also disabuses her of the notion that she, in any way, was guilty or responsible for her maltreatment, that it was all her fault, that she deserves to be punished, and that she could have saved the relationship. I call it malignant optimism. With this burden gone, the victim is ready to resume her life and to seek companionship all out elsewhere. Then there is retributive closure. When the abuse had been gratuitous, sadistic, repeated, and protracted, conceptual closure is not enough, retribution is called for, an element of vengeance, of restorative justice, and a restored balance. When hinges on punishing the delinquent and merciless party, the penal intervention of the law is often therapeutic to the abused. Some victims delude themselves into believing that their abuser is experiencing guilt and conscience pangs, which rarely is the case.  Incredibly, the victim's understandable emotions often lead to abusive and illegal acts on the victim's part. Many of the tormented stalk their erstwhile abusers and take the law into their own hands. Abuse tends to breed abuse all around, in both prey and predator. Finally, there is dissociative closure. Upsent, the other two forms of closure, the conceptual and the retributive, victims of egregious and prolonged mistreatment tend to repress their painful memories. In extremis, they dissociate. The dissociative identity disorder, known formally as multiple personality disorder, is thought to be such a reaction to abuse. The harrowing experiences are sliced off, they are tucked away and they are attributed to another person of personality. As the victim assimilates his or her tormentor, and even openly and consciously identifies with him and emulates him, this is the narcissistic defense. In his own anguished mind, the victim becomes omnipotent, and therefore invulnerable. He or she develops a false self. The true self is thus shielded from further harm and injury by the false self. The false self is omnipotent, omniscient, nothing can hurt or pain the false self. According to psychodynamic theories of psychopathology, repressed content rendered unconscious is the cause of all manner of mental health disorders and even psychosomatic disorders. The victim thus pays a hefty price for avoiding and evading his or her predicament. We will discuss coping with various forms of stalking in one of our future videos. Stay tuned.


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Okay, so thank you everyone for coming to the session. As Raric mentioned, we wanted to walk through a new feature that helps Thanos not only become faster at queer execution, but also helps us with just general interoperability with the rest of the ecosystem. I'm just briefly short round of intros. My name is Philip. I am a production engineer at Shopify. I work on everything related to metrics on our metrics stack. I've also been a maintainer for a couple of years now, and I'm currently based in Germany, in Munich. And we also have Max today with us. Hello everybody. My name is Hamoud Amin. I also go by Max. I'm very excited to be here. This is actually my first ever talk at a conference. A little bit about me. I'm a software engineer at Google. I was an open source mentor on a couple of projects. You can find me at GitHub at Max Amin's and I'm based at New York. All right. So I just wanted to kind of build a bit of context for people that maybe have missed the first couple of talks or not very familiar with Thanos. So by now, I would expect everyone to, or maybe most people to be familiar with Prometheus, which is this standalone monitoring server that we drop closed applications. Prometheus then scrapes applications directly stores the data on this and has a very flexible and interesting query language called PromQL, which is going to be important for what we're gonna be talking about today. And so Prometheus kind of shines at this use case where we have to monitor a single environment. The problem we typically see with Prometheus is that when we go beyond a single environment, as we've seen a couple of times today, it becomes hard to kind of deploy these Prometheus instances, but also gets hard to have a global overview of the data. It becomes hard to retain that data for a long time and so on. So Prometheus gets kind of intentionally left this gap, never intended to solve this problem. And for this reason, we have multiple projects today, many open source projects, trying to kind of solve this problem of having a highly available set up of Prometheus that allows us to also retain data for a long time. So Thanos obviously being one of them, but we also have in the same space, Cortex, Namir, Victoria Metrix. And what's also very exciting and interesting is that if we take a look at the big three cloud providers, all of them have a managed Prometheus offering today. So we can send data to all three cloud providers via remote write and all of them allow us to also query that data using PromQL. And so even though this is a good development for the ecosystem, it's very nice to see various competing solutions. I would say it also creates a bit of a fragmentation where we kind of have to commit to one solution fully and it's hard to use multiple solutions in a single system at the same time. So what I mean by that is we typically don't hear people use both Thanos and Cortex or Thanos and Namir as part of the same solution today. And it kind of puts us in a bad spot where we have to fragment our data. In addition to that, cloud providers, for example, will give you some metrics for free. If you use Google Cloud or Amazon, you will get metrics for their services and you might even be able to query those metrics with PromQL, but as soon as you want to combine the metrics with some local data that you have in Prometheus or Thanos, it's gonna be hard to put the data in a single query. So we still have to maintain, sorry, two different systems at the same time. And so what we would ultimately want is to be able to consolidate data across all of the systems using PromQL because all of them, as a matter of fact, support PromQL. And so Thanos, if you take a look at how Thanos works, Thanos already does federation at some level. So Thanos, the Thanos quaterer can query multiple data stores, multiple store APIs. It can query Prometheus through the sidecar, can get data from object storage through the store gateway and so on. So then the question is, is solving this problem just a matter of implementing a custom store component that's going to act as a proxy to the various systems that you wanna query. Now that is a kind of possible solution. So the way that we execute queries today is we would take, for example, this particular expression. As an example, we break it down into what we call query fragments. The query execution flows from top to bottom, and then so the sum operations gonna ask data from the rate, which asks data from the selector. And once we get to the selector, we kinda have to fan out to all of these different store components that we're connected to. Unfortunately, what we typically see is that in this process, the actual data retrieval part is the most expensive part of the query. As I think Colin mentioned, latency can be a pretty big bottleneck there, but it's also the fact that Thanos cannot execute queries in a multi-threaded way. We can use multiple cores to execute queries. So we have much more opportunities to shrink this blue bar, whereas for the green bar, we don't have that many options. So this is typically how we visualize time series data, and as this data set grows vertically, which means as we add personality or horizontally, as we extend the range, that green bar is also going to extend. But there's also another problem, which is certain cloud providers are not going to give you data in the format that the query expects. A lot of these data is kinda locked behind in the cloud, and this is not a problem that we can just solve engineering. So to conclude, writing kind of a custom store component is a possibility, but I would say it's not a very practical solution. So before we take a look at what is a good solution, I want to talk about a very exciting feature that's just merged and made available on the main branch. We'll be coming up in the next release. And as the name says, distributed query execution allows us to execute queries, not only using multiple cores, but also using multiple machines at the same time. So we can use multiple machines to execute a single query. And what we have here is a setup where we have a physical partitioning of the data. So we have, you know, this can be an example of one region running Prometheus Store Gateway and another region running the same setup, both of which have queries connected. We would just connect them using the standard flags that we use today. And now up to now, I would say if we connected the third querier on the top, that querier would have to request raw data from all of the downstream stores. With distributed execution, we can tell that querier to actually decompose queries into separate fragments, delegate those fragments to the lower level queriers, which are actually going to do the work, not only faster, because they're working on a smaller dataset, but they're also closer to the actual data. They're going to kind of crunch this aggregation only on their part, return upwards the result of that aggregation and that aggregation will be then completed by the root querier. So very similar to kind of a MAC-produced framework. And the reason why this is so powerful is because most aggregations in PromQL today can be broken down, in fact, in this way. Even something as expensive as top K can be done as a top K over top Ks. Account can be done as a sum of accounts and so on. We can also use this mechanism or this technique if you have a logical partitioning of the data. So with the Thanos receiver, we can have a multi-tenant setup. So the receiver can accept data from multiple clusters. For example, it's gonna assign each cluster its own label. And then we can connect, let's say, a querier on the left-hand side and ask it to only query data whose external label cluster starts with this. On the right-hand side, we can do the same with this querier. We can ask it to query data whose cluster label starts with this. And then we can connect this distributor query on the top that's going to start delegating queries into these lower-level queriers that only work on a subset of the data. So just to kind of illustrate the impact of this feature, internally in our team, we track five or six queries that we run constantly. We track them as SLIs, basically. And this kind of graph tries to visualize what has happened to the latencies of those queries once we've moved to distributed execution, which is also kind of expected. So since we are able to evaluate queries closer to the data and also partition them across machines, the latency for certain queries has dropped. In some cases, even up to 10 times. So with that being said, I'm going to head off to Max now to tell us how, using this feature, we can kind of get to this interoperability story that we initially talked about. So now we reach the part of our talk where we talk about connecting Thanos queries to our external components, or as our title of our talk says, connecting Thanos to the outer run. So, Phillip highlighted all the advantages of distributed queries and it allows you to have a much more scalable Thanos architecture. So what's next? So this presents us an opportunity to do something amazing because there's a lot of data sources out there that have promql support. So what if we leverage the existing Thanos carrier engine and apply its other data sources? This would mean you could theoretically query all of these data sources with your Thanos carrier and you could review them in a single view, revolutionizing how you view your metrics. So one of these data sources that we'll focus on is Google Cloud Manager Service for Prometheus, or GMP for short. So a quick overview of GMP, it's just a managed Prometheus experience, it deploys the Prometheus instances and it scales with it and it just injects your metrics and stores it in Cloud Monarch. But the thing we care about, the best part is it allows you to query all your metrics via global promql endpoint, which is exactly what we're looking for in this case. So yeah, that's why we built Thanos promql connector. As the name suggests, it connects Thanos carrier to a promql endpoint and it just lives in the middle between your Thanos carrier and a promql endpoint and it converts requests between the two. And it's open source, it's a couple hundred lines of codes, very lightweight. So feel free to test it out and play with it, make it your own, add new features to it. Contributions are welcome. So what is required to use it? You just need a promql endpoint to point to that and maybe you need some auth credentials. So in GMP's case, for Google Cloud, you just need your project ID and your service account key and you could just plug that into your Docker compose if you already use that and it should just start working immediately with all your other queries. So this is the view Philip shared. Distributed queries and all their advantages of pushing them down. And now you can add another data source for example GMP and you could delegate all your metrics to it and the promql connector is viewed by the query the same way it views every other query and your promql queries will be distributed to it the same exact way and you get the results in a single view. All right, let me show you guys a demo. Let me just mirror my display. So the first thing I'm gonna show you guys is actually Google Cloud. I'm gonna show you guys a metric in Google Cloud that you can only view in Google Cloud and this is a Google Cloud storage.  It has like an S shape. As you can see, it's like 156 megabytes. So you can copy that same query and you can put it in your Thanos query and then let's extend the dates. I think I put two days on the Google Cloud. Yeah, so you have the same S shape and 156, 57. So for the first time ever you can see your Google Cloud metrics in Thanos query. All right, let's talk about the next thing which is the flow I just showed you. So here you can see like our Thanos query is connected to two different Prometheuses and also over here you can see it's connected to our GMP query. So you could query all three at the same time. So let's query, for example, up. So you can see I have one GMP cluster and one, two Prometheuses. So let's just sum it up by cluster. So yeah, you can see all three. So you're connected to a remote endpoint for GMP and then you have two local Prometheus instances. Let's look at a more interesting metric. Let's look at HTTP requests and let's look at a rate and let's sum it by cluster. So yeah, oops. You can see all your HTTP requests from all your clusters and the cool part is you can actually remove by cluster right here and you can have a global view of what all your HTTP requests look like across all your servers. And then you could use that to analyze like, for example, like error codes to see which servers are giving you error codes from a high level overview. So next thing I wanna show you guys is this explain tab. So you can click the explain and it shows you how the queries are delegated. So you could see there are three different queries that were delegated, two to our local Prometheus clusters and one to our GMP endpoint in Google Cloud. And obviously in the future, some improvements will be to replace remote X with exactly the remote endpoint it was sent to. The next thing you can do is you can click analyze and it shows you like how long each of your queries took. So you can use it as a like an SRE for top-down view to see like, which remote endpoints that you have or are kind of struggling are not performing as expected. Yeah, that's it for the demo. Let me show you guys the conclusion. All right, so yeah, now we reached the end of our talk. Real quick, I'm gonna summarize everything we went over. So you can query all your data in a uniform way. Like you have like a global view of all your data from all your different instances, data sources. You have more control over your data and this is available to use today. So feel free to try it out and test it. Let us know if you find any bugs and feel free to contribute to it. And as the image here eludes, this could be the future of Thanos Queer. You can have many different data sources. You could use many different data sources and be like a data source agnostic, for example. Thank you guys for coming to our talk. Really appreciated. If you have any questions, let us know. Feel free to stop us in the hall if you have any questions. Thank you. I think we should have time for a few questions. I might have missed this, but is there a external label setable for these other endpoints that you can control fan out? Yeah, so in the connector, I think we'll want to add external labels so that you can, as I mentioned, control the fan out. And also in the distributed query mode, we already take into account external labels so that will also work, yeah. Thank you for your presentation.  So while you are migrating to the distributed mode, I know we have a bunch of tests, but maybe you did some extra correctness tests or how to call them, whether the results still return the correct response or not, like with distributed mode and whether it's turned off. Yeah, so obviously in the beginning, there were some, I would say subtle issues, subtle bugs, but by now we kind of use it in production for a long time. We haven't seen any problems. Today, I think we should have kind of squashed out even the most complicated bugs, but obviously there can always be something that we haven't taken into account. So this is why in the UI, you can choose between the Prometheus and Thanos engine and if you suspect that the query is not showing you what you want, you can try it out with the Prometheus engine which is going to do the standard fan out. Amazing, all right, we have another question. Thank you for the presentation. Is it possible to avoid that service account key file, I mean to connect to GCP using our Cloud Identity, for example? Maybe you should move the answer for this. So is your question, is it possible to avoid using a service account to query Google Cloud? Service account key file, the G1 one. Yeah, I think you need for, I think as far as I know, you need a key file for Google Cloud. But if you're using other data sources, you can... Yeah, I want to avoid using, for example, Barcloth Identity. Can you repeat, for example, Open Engine? Okay, I can answer this. Yeah, so essentially there is this way of like Workflow Identity where you're just, if deploy, for example, Thanos from QL Connector in Google Cloud, like on GKE, there is a way to automatically authenticate with this default kind of, yeah, like permission to write to metrics. So it's like open source, you know, a simple proxy right now, so it's not possible now, but we might contribute it. So please feel free to add the issue on top of this project that you want that, and we can definitely do that for Google. But we want to have this proxy also available for other cloud providers, right, to use and to connect Thanos to multiple things. So also we'll probably, I mean, we'll for sure accept contributions to add authorizations for those vendors as well. So it's a good question. Like, yeah, it can be more automatic. Maybe last question. You talk about a lot of operations that are sort of homomorphic. You can express a sum as a sum of sums. What happens to operations where you can't do that? Like an average can't be expressed as an average of an average. So there's the average we transform that into a sum of a count. So the sum is done globally, the count is done globally, and then we divide those. The only operation where we cannot do it is quantile because for quantile you need to get the data in one central place. And yeah, there we have to kind of pay the cost of still kind of centralizing data. But if you apply an aggregation before applying quantile, then that aggregation's gonna get distributed. So if you do a quantile over a sum, then the sum will get distributed and the quantile will be done centrally. Nice, you want to catch us, right? On some bugs, yeah. So I think it's part of this promql engine work where you kind of like really construct the query into ST3 and yeah, we thought about those edge cases. So it's a good question. Okay, thank you so much for speakers.


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