Anthony Fauci, when politics trumped science, by William L. Anderson, an audio-mesis wire narrated by Million Quinteros. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States became a very public event, the one phase that has become most familiar to Americans is that of Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and perhaps the second most polarizing figure in the crisis next to Donald Trump. To progressives and those at least on the moderate left, Fauci is the great hero, the man who has struggled mightily against the wiles of the deranged Trump in order to save Americans from the scourge known as the coronavirus. Watch CNN or MSNBC or read The New York Times, and the portrayals of Fauci are that of nearly a god who came down for this purpose. Conservatives and libertarians have another picture of Fauci, one of a deep state operative who actively is working to undermine the president and help elect Joe Biden in November. Outfits like The New York Times and the leftist Buzzfeed of course see such accusations as ridiculous paranoia, something one would expect from the right, which almost to a person does not recognize the mortal danger that COVID-19 presents. This article is not an attempt to paint Fauci as neither a hero nor a villain, or at least a villain in league with Democrats operating with an ulterior political agenda aimed at bringing down the president. No doubt Fauci would love to see a Democrat in the White House, and one can be sure that he would help bring down Trump, but only if such actions fell in the category of his work. His fawning tweets celebrating Hillary Clinton after her disastrous testimony to Congress on the Benghazi fiasco should dispel any doubts about his political leanings. People like Fauci however do not see themselves as political hacks or operatives, instead thinking themselves above the fray because they are public health professionals, and in their world there can be no higher calling. Progressives believe that people like Fauci should have more authority, something completely understandable to the Fauci class and government. After all they are experts, and at the core of progressive ideology is the belief that experts should be given governing power, not bumbling politicians, and certainly not bumbling politicians like Donald Trump. To understand Anthony Fauci, one must understand progressive ideology, and in order to best understand progressive ideology, one needs to read Ludwig von Mises' book, Bureaucracy. The book itself is not about progressivism, indeed Mises doesn't mention such a philosophy in his book, but it does explain the decision making processes that dominate bureaucracies and guide bureaucrats like Fauci. And Fauci is nothing but the consummate bureaucrat, albeit one that can speak in front of a television camera. Progressives share the belief that markets, although they are good at producing useless goods such as the too many deodorants that Bernie Sanders denounced on the campaign trail, simply cannot lead a great nation, are cumbersome and have no mechanism by which to meet the real needs of people in society. Experts are needed to guide people in what they should have, from food to clothing to transportation to medical care, and then to lay out the plan for how people should obtain these things. Mises writes that bureaucracies exist to carry out the directives of those in political power and not to engage in policy making themselves. However, after more than a century of progressive rule, the bureaucracies themselves have become the chief instruments of government power. As men like Fauci, with their anti-capitalist mentalities and their single-minded approaches to life, are calling the shots. Although most people instinctively understand risks and trade-offs, public health bureaucrats like Fauci tend to believe that the only thing that matters is the eradication of whatever is coming no matter the cost. Fauci embraces media narrative in order to bypass scientific inquiry. Fauci, as well as any public health bureaucrat in U.S. history, understands the power of media and of single-mindedness. In the mid-1980s, Fauci had a leading role in promoting AIDS research. Yet none of his predictions about the course AIDS would take came true. It did not infect vast stretches of Americans, and the vast pandemic that he and other AIDS researchers claimed would infect the USA never materialized. That did not stop government agencies from pouring a disproportionate amount of funding into AIDS research, bypassing diseases that lack the powerful political constituencies behind those victimized by AIDS. Researchers and public health bureaucrats like Fauci were declaring that the AIDS wolf was at the nation's door, while in reality they were crying wolf themselves. Second, Fauci learned through his work on HIV and AIDS that the road to success in public health is not necessarily harnessing the scientific method, at least not how it is traditionally done in medical research, but rather in finding ways to bypass things like scientific peer review and go to the media, and especially the New York Times. For example, the HIV AIDS thesis in 1984 clearly had not been established in medical research enough for the government to go full bore in that direction. But once Fauci and others convinced the editors of The Grey Lady that they had found the magic bullet, there was no stopping the narrative with or without scientific research to back it up. In a 1994 article in Reason, Charles A. Thomas, Carrie B. Mullis, 1993 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, and Philip E. Johnson wrote, The HIV establishment and its journalist allies have replied to various specific criticisms of the HIV theory without taking them seriously. They have never provided an authoritative paper that undertakes to prove that HIV really is the cause of AIDS, meaning a paper that does not start by assuming the poinett issue. The HIV theory was established as fact by Robert Gallo's official press conference in 1984, before any papers were published in American journals. Thereafter, the research agenda was set in concrete and skeptics were treated as enemies to be ignored or punished. As a result, the self-correcting processes of science have broken down and journalists have not known how to ask the hard questions. Indeed, others in academia, including historian Nancy McClain, in her truly awful Democracy in Chains and the contributors of The New York Times' 1619 Project, have learned that the way to avoid the kind of scrutiny that exists in the academic world is to convince a few influential journalists that their version of truth fits the progressive narrative, and then we are off to the races. Falsehoods become established truths and then recycled in radical university departments and finally make it into the mainstream. Fauci is one who has learned that lesson very well and managed in the process to receive the coveted Medal of Freedom when George W. Bush was president. The third and perhaps most important point to understand is that public health really is political health. Another way to put it is that the way for ambitious officials like Fauci to achieve stardom in the present media age is not by slugging it out in the quiet trenches of medical research and peer review, but rather by unearthing crisis after crisis, riding the media wave and very publicly plunging themselves into the pandemic arena, where both journalists and politicians bow to one's expertise, appealing to science while simultaneously undermining it. Once a crisis is identified, vast amounts of taxpayer dollars follow. As I noted earlier, progressives bow down to so-called experts and no one in the COVID-19 pandemic is seen by the media and political establishment as a greater expert on this subject than Anthony Fauci. Yet when one examines his record during this crisis, it is hard to find the reason why he is so revered in Washington. He has been all over the place with the models, and when news first hit of the spreading virus, he eagerly adopted the wildly inaccurate Imperial College model that predicted up to 2.2 million coronavirus deaths in the USA if authorities did absolutely nothing. Think the movie Animal House, in which the band is trying to march unsuccessfully through a brick wall at the end of an alley. In fact, none of the models Fauci and others have adopted have accurately predicted the COVID-19 death rate in this country, and instead have wildly exaggerated possible numbers of deaths. This failure to match models with reality is not a mere oversight, but a problem built into the entire mentality of public health. Organizations such as the National Institutes for Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control are seen as bastions of expertise staffed by brilliant public-spirited men and women who have all of the answers when a health crisis occurs. Yet as Sheikha Dalmia writes in Reason, these public health experts actually have failed America at every level. One of the few things the who did right was to send hundreds of thousands of tests to dozens of labs around the world within a few weeks. If the United States had done what South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany did, and allowed private and state labs to get these tests ready for mass production, we would have been able to conduct country-wide screening almost immediately. Instead, the CDC decided to reinvent the wheel and develop its own test. It ordered private labs to desist and told them to wait for its test, and when the agency finally rolled the test out, it didn't work. By the end of February, only 4,000 tests had been conducted, and the country had no idea how fast the virus was spreading. Meanwhile, the feds were bungling reporting procedures, causing even more waste and delay. In early March, when private testing had yet to come up to speed and public labs were the only game in town, the FDA issued a directive requiring the CDC to retest every positive coronavirus result by these labs before certifying it. This meant that for several crucial weeks, America's coronavirus tally was lagging, and everyone was underestimating how bad things were. Worse, it meant that lab resources and chemical agents, which have been an acutely short supply, couldn't be used for new tests. The FDA was apparently afraid that false positives would make the spread look worse than it was. Public health officials and epidemiologists like Fauci have a built-in problem in that their world views fundamentally are administrative. Like most progressives, they believe that an entire economy, and indeed an entire society, can be operated administratively. That is, with a top-down hierarchy. Mises dealt with this issue in bureaucracy, and he emphasized that although bureaucracies could successfully carry out orders in limited situations, the application of bureaucratic principles to an entire economy would be disastrous. Because their entire world view is administrative, people like Fauci simply cannot fathom a place for markets, since in their minds markets are slow, chaotic, and unfair. The idea of people acting in their own interest outside of progressive medical supervision is not a way to advance a civilization in the view of progressives, but rather a recipe for disaster. On the radical side of this thinking, Joe Biden's health advisor Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has called for the USA to be locked down for 18 months, as though there would be no enormous and lasting consequences for such a policy. Emanuel also has declared that no one over age 75 should be permitted to receive medical care. One supposes that he will make an exception for his 78-year-old boss. Although Fauci has not publicly sided with Emanuel, nonetheless his record in this crisis reflects his progressive administrative world view, in which the only thing that matters is eradication, or at least massive suppression of COVID-19. Something that cannot be done under the present medical regimes. We have to live with his problem, just as societies throughout history have lived with much worse, from the bubonic plague that roiled much of the world for centuries, to smallpox epidemics, to the measles, and polio epidemics of my childhood. I got measles and all of us were scared to death of catching polio, which ravaged one of my relatives, to the common flu of modern times. Thanks to capitalism. Yes, capitalism. We not only see fewer pandemics in the world, but are better able to stand up to them. One can surmise that Fauci would never understand the role that capitalism has played in eradicating not only diseases around the world, but also poverty and hunger. As a public health bureaucrat, all of his professional life, who sees the world in terms of budgets, spending and following orders. He simply cannot fathom how private enterprises make the world a healthier place. And so he cannot understand that one does not eradicate diseases by destroying an economy. And that not any alleged deep state activities make him unfit to be the face of fighting the coronavirus.


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Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. Today we are looking at a very different type of light. This is the Rotolight ANOVA Pro 2. Rotolight creates fixtures that I don't think anyone else does, which is dual-purpose film and photography lights that are circular and admit both constant light and flashlight. This is actually a pretty smart thing to do since photography and filmmaking are kind of converging. A lot of photographers become filmmakers, a lot of filmmakers want to take photos, and having a single unit that does both and does both well is a really interesting proposition. As the pro in the name gives away, these are not entry-level lights. These are very, very nicely made, very nicely packaged. A full set of features comes with a beautiful full, pelican-style hard case, comes with full steel barn doors, a bunch of different filters. Because the fixture has a V-mount battery plate built into it, it comes with a 98-watt hour V-mount battery and charger.  This is a bi-color light. It is not RGB. It goes from 3100 Kelvin to 6300 Kelvin, so daylight to tungsten. And you can further color the light with the diffusion and gels that come with it. Given that the light is this high quality, it's not surprising that it's extremely bright. This is 2%. I mated it at 3 feet at 5600 degrees Kelvin at 6300 lux, or about 600 foot candles. But the real place that this light shines is that if you put it in flash mode, you can get 250% more power for that, you know, 1,000th of a second that it emits the flash burst. But you can also use it as a constant lighting source, as a modeling light. So you can use the exposure of the constant LEDs to look at what your shot will look like.  Speaking of levels, this fixture has a variety of inbuilt features. It has a thing called true aperture dimming, where you can just set the light for distance, aperture, shutter speed, and it will calculate how bright the light needs to be to give you proper exposure at that level. So it sort of has a light meter built into the light. It also has a variety of cine effects that you see on higher end LEDs, like the SkyPanels. These include strobe, lightning, cycle, police, TV, spin, welding, neon, and even a gunshot filter. The unit has a built-in Ellen Chrome SkyPort receiver. So if your camera or your flash controller has Ellen Chrome SkyPort, you can trigger it without any receiver whatsoever. If you buy the $90 SkyPort transmitter from Amazon and put this on your camera, you can trigger this and adjust the brightness of it remotely as you're shooting. I got together with my friend Paula and we shot a whole bunch of shots with this light. They came out great. It's really fun to see how much you can do with a single light source, diffusing it, pushing it through gels, pushing it through diffusion. It was plenty bright for my little studio and the shots that I wanted to take. There is a softbox available for the light. It's not much bigger than the light. I think a lot of people that use this like it for its beauty dish form factor, but I did want it to do some larger portraits. I jerry-rigged an umbrella mount onto the mount of the light and I was able to add an umbrella pretty easily and get beautiful soft quality of light for a full-size portrait. I think that film and photography are both converging and changing really fast and this is the kind of light that if you only had to take one light somewhere to do both of those things, this is probably the one that you would choose. It can do what no constant LED can do, which is compete with the sun outside in the middle of the day because you have that addition to push up the flash and run it from battery. That is the Rotolight ANOVA Pro 2 flash and constant LED unit. Check out my Instagram for more of the photos we took and leave your questions in the comments. Links are in the description. I will see you next time.


Because she's closer to me, I'll bring in Javen first. Javen Hall, good to see you, Javen. Hi, how are you? It's been, we haven't had you up here. This is great. What does senior day mean to you? Everything, all the emotions that go into it and ultimately coming away with a big win, what was this day like for you? It was a little nostalgic. Just being able to start from day one with 11 other seniors, it's just really like, wow. It's already senior day, senior season. And I think COVID kind of also rushed that process as well.  And our underclassmen did a great job of putting on a great show for us. And the win topped it all off. Take me through that big trail check. MC and I were giving you all sorts of shout outs for it. You were determined there. I was, just pretty much the little things coach has been telling me all season to make myself more of a presence when I'm running in off a box. And I saw her hanging her stick and I was like, OK, let me just go for it. Yeah. That's the play that you got to make, right? Yeah. It's all about, Jaybin, this team lost a couple games start the season, started 0-3. You've won 10 out of your less 12 since that point. You've got a huge game coming up on Wednesday night. What has turned things around for this team and what's it going to take to beat a team as good as York on Wednesday? I think just from the start of the season and determining where we were, we did lose, like you said, we were 0-3. But from that point forward, we knew we wanted to win. We knew we were a great team. We just had to take the little steps and do what it takes to be a great team. And I think that's going to be the same for York. We're going back to the drawing board. We're coming off of a big win, but we're at practice Monday just as hard. So you know what? You don't rest on anything. You just keep it going. All right. Who do we need to give shout outs to? Who's somebody you need to say thank you to or hello to anything like that? OK. I'm going to do two shout outs. I'm going to shout out my entire team as well as the fellow seniors. Thank you to the underclassmen for putting on a great senior day as well as my fellow seniors. It's our last senior, well, our senior day. Like, it's great. And I also want to shout out my mom. So, hey, mom. That's what you're supposed to do. Nailed it. And now I want you to tell me something about this net, your teammate that we're bringing in right now. Tell me about something that makes her special. She had a heck of a day today. Sophie, yes. Sophie, I mean, it's Sophie. She always has a heck of a day. Sophie comes and clutches most of the games or she's always our saving greats and our rock behind us. You can always, she's always a presence on the field. And she's a great player on and off the field and a great teammate. Jaybin, congratulations. Thanks for coming up and hanging out with us. Thank you. It's Jaybin Hall. And now, indeed, let's bring in Steven Cingoli. Sophie Shikoski, what a day she had today from start to finish doing everything right. Sophie, I hear you don't love doing this part. I hear this isn't your favorite thing to do. No, not one bit. I appreciate you coming up and hanging out with us anyway. What a day this was today. Were you feeling something early on? Was there a special type of energy for you knowing this was senior day? Honestly, coming from UMBC in a horrible, not a great environment and coming to Steven Cingoli was such a welcoming, supporting, and encouragement. People, seniors especially, and just everyone. I've loved it here. And they've really made my time here and made me love LaCrosse again, which coming from UMBC I thought was over and impossible, but they brought it back and it was really, it was much needed and all those days in which I need pickups, they're always there and I know that and it's just an amazing environment to be in. That's awesome. That is so cool. All right, Sophie, the one I want to talk to you about was down here on this side of the field and I think it was number 15. And we joked, she was standing in the net when you made that save right there. You made a couple in close today, but that one in particular, how were you making these plays today? It was like you knew what somebody was doing before they were doing it. So we, Coach and I and Coach Taylor have been working a lot on punching out to the ball and like being aggressive to the ball, not just being like a defense goalie where I just kind of sit back and like come to me, but me really coming out to be aggressive. And for me personally, I've been really thinking about watching the ball coming out of the stick on the release, not just paying attention to every single duty of everyone else, but rather just my own. So just kind of putting everything together and just seeing that ball today. I just, it's been working all of those drills that we've added for me punching out to the ball. So. That's awesome. It was well on display today. There is no doubt about it. And we've learned some things about you this season.  You are, do you still ride horses? Occasionally at my aunt, but no, I don't show them anymore. You don't do that anymore, but you are so like, where did your love of animals come from? Why is it something that's so important to you? Honestly, I guess just being exposed to them my entire life, having cats, dogs, horses, goats, everything. I've just, animals are the purity of the earth and they just make me feel something that no one else can because it's just a everlasting love and they'll like, they'll always be there for you and they'll never leave you. And it's just, I'm very passionate about it to the point where like, I personally want to have my own animal sanctuary when I get older. It's gonna take a lot of money and some steps, but yeah, I think people need to start having the voice for the animals who can't and I wanna be one of them. That's so cool. Sophie, I know you've already done a lot of work in that department, that's a really cool thing. All right, who do we need to shout out? Who do you wanna say hello to? Who do you wanna say thanks to? Anything like that. Well, the first one will be a very special guy in my life. He's passed away, but he was the person who got me into the goalie gear and got me into the position. Mike Perkna, I miss him dearly, but every day, every game, every practice, he's always there with me and I can feel it. And other than that, just my family, they're always supporting me and encouraging me even on those days that I might struggle. They're like, you got it and got the next one, which really pushes me to be better, so. That's all your parents downstairs today. I know they were fired up for this one. I can only imagine what it means to them and to everybody to see how well you played the day. Sophie, congratulations on a great game and awesome senior day. We'll see you back here on Wednesday for York, all right? All right, sounds good, but one thing. I think I have one good luck charm that I started wearing for these past couple games. I don't know how to show you, but my Harry Potter socks. We gotta get everybody some Harry Potter socks now. Ever since we've been coming up with these big wins against the big teams, I've been wearing these Harry Potter socks, so. Javen, we all gotta get a Harry Potter socks on Wednesday, all right, MC? We're all wearing Harry Potter socks. Sophie, that's awesome. That's awesome. Thank you for coming up and hanging out with us. Of course, thank you so much. That's Sophie Shikosky. I'm Glenn Clark. This has been Go Mustang Sports.tv.


Well, it's that time again. It's been a while since I went on to Ali Express I actually was not planning on making this video right now today I was just kind of bored as I'm recording this just to put a date on it horizon forbidden West Launches tomorrow, and I'm waiting the midnight to play it And I was like I guess I'll just peruse the internet and I found a few things I wanted to buy and I figured I would film it and we'd try and find more to start I found a carrying case. Oh, and it comes with a charging stand hold on this might actually be Sick, I also saw this which I'm not gonna buy but you guys remember We did an Etsy with accessory buying video, and I actually unearthed this BMO unit that someone made on Etsy And after I made a video about this it blew up online on tiktok YouTube everywhere. Sadly It wasn't my video that blew up That doesn't matter what matters is it looks like Ali Express also saw that blow up and thought well We could make that it looks like they're marketing it to babies What baby is like playing the switch on this thing going? Yeah, you know what? I wasn't going to buy it, but now I kind of want to see how they made it. Oh No, now we have to buy it these videos get so expensive This video is sponsored by Tokyo treat and Sakurako both of these are monthly Japanese subscription boxes Tokyo treat is filled with Exclusive and seasonal flavored Japanese snacks such as Japan exclusives like Kit Kat ramen and much more So this month's box is Sakura theme. This thing is good. I don't know what it is It tastes like it's been fried. Do you have a guess what it might be? No, and if you're wondering what anything is that you get there's little booklets that come with it that tell you Exactly what you're eating what's in it what it tastes like and more. Yeah, it's sure Okay, that's why oh, it's kind of yeah, they call it like a donut bar. Yeah, so yeah It's a donut. It's like a donut Sakura Kou is filled with traditional Japanese snacks from Japan's local artisan snack makers But they're both delivered straight to your door from Japan every month is a different theme to keep things exciting and fresh What's your little dinnerware thing? Oh, yeah We a little plate we're collecting. I know you've got a plate and a cup. We got a plate. We got a little glass and this time We got a bowl. Oh That's really cute the fan to taste like peach yogurt The pocky was in shapes of little hearts and tasted like cherry So if you want to try either of these boxes click one of the links below and use code beat em ups to get $5 off your first box. This is the best Both yes, I've liked everything. I've tried. I'm gonna get fat What I've no you don't want it click the link below I also found genuine Pokemon toy set toy pocket monster Pikachu Charmander Mewtwo loonal and scroll action figure anime model children's toy, but apparently they're genuine. They're like Transforming Pokemon toys like look at this Mewtwo. He's so buff. I guess we'll get the Charizard next I've just been wanting to buy these for the longest time. They sell Pokemon cards on Ali express a whole Booster boxes, but they sell them for like $15 a box. So, you know, they're not real They have pictures of all these different, you know, X and Y shiny face But then what you're in the option is to buy now that is so dodgy I don't know what is going to arrive from that. I found these cute poor Joy-cons. Oh, it's a silicone skin. Oh, that's not as exciting. Maybe Kim will like them Oh, maybe I'll like this caught my eye Sion me switch dock TV dock for Nintendo switch portable docking station USB-C 4k HDMI compatible USB 3.0 hub for MacBook but back book. What sorry Macbook Pro What caught my eye though is just that it's a little mini doc So I guess we'll see if that actually even works, but that's everything I found So let's see what else we can find. They've made a carry case for the ring fit. What is that image? Oh my god They've taken pictures of the item and they photoshopped the flat images into their case I'm not buying it wood. You're not buying it. Oh God dang it. Oh those clever bastards I don't know if you guys have seen this going around but that weird poppy plastic stuff It's like therapeutic and addictive. It's like the new fidget spinner. The kids are going around pit-puppin all the time Someone had the brilliant the actual brilliant idea of turning that into a switch case. I do actually like that It looks so weird when you cover up everything other than the screen. All right. I'm gonna grab one Hey, I zoned out and went into a coma where I was just talking to my editor. I found a few things Let's take a look at them. I found a grip. That's not a satisfied grip So it already sucks, but it has a fan built into it I've never seen that before we've had a look at fans that like stick on to the back of the console But none that are built in to the grip. Wait, don't tell me it's a waterproof switch Do I dunk it in water switch like game console cover case DIY transparent protective? Oh, yeah It's just a transparent shell, but it can't be waterproof. How can a shell be waterproof? God dang it giant case that you can apparently stand on it's forty four dollars though I'm going to tentatively put it into my car. It might get removed. This does say Specifically for the OLED. I don't think it matters though. I think it would fit any switch I mean, I actually think it's kind of stylish I can actually see me walking around Brooklyn hanging out with Bob with one of these like a little Lego switch Whoa, so the TV alone is a hundred and forty pieces and it's twelve dollars and then that It's seventy dollars. How big is it six hundred and thirty three pieces? So like that's an example of a six hundred piece. Maybe if I go to the store, they'll have a cheaper option. Oh Okay, that's not as bad Boy, it better be a one-for-one replica. I think that's good We have a lot to look forward to an estimated late March probably later. Do you guys soon? It's here wait, sorry, I mean do you guys soon? It's here. I think that was funny, but see you guys soon Okay, now I've clicked like four times. I delete all of this Zach We're gonna start with this one that's left on the table because this is the little Charizard that we got. I'm so excited. Oh Okay, it's already not the best quality, but we haven't got to the Charizard yet. Oh Look at that looks like a tangerine now. We go to work Wait, where's his head? Mine's got no head. All right. Where's these instructions? Oh, he's got like a whole head Where is it hiding? So this was nine dollars, which is not bad for a Pokemon toy After a great start his back opens. I was never good at transformers when I was a kid. Well, you know what? It's actually really good. I mean as advertised. I don't know what to tell you It doesn't feel like bad quality at all. It does what it says it does You can even kind of sit in it as a little display piece. That's nine dollars well spent. Good job, Ellie Express. I never doubted you for a second. I Lied I did doubt them these are the Pokemon cards that we bought and there is no way that these are real $15 for a Booster box shining fates didn't have a booster box. So the picture on the website is a fake Well, now I'm just very confused. Wait. This looks so real Obviously, it's fake right and obviously I mean obviously it is I just dropped it. Dang it. The effort that went into this is actually pretty cool. I mean as cool as being scammed get oh These are so fake So I've actually been waiting to crack this on a live stream because I stream card openings on twitch Follow me on twitch at twitch.tv before slash beat them up But for the sake of this video, I think we have to get a pack out to compare I might get a mixed up now I don't know which is which even to the untrained eye one of these is clearly fake Which one do you think is real and which one is the fakey-daky? Oh? They just like printed these out on their computer. They feel laminated. Oh The shiny Paul rates. We got a shiny indeedy and a shiny cinderace and a shiny Toxicity toxicity toxic toxic toxicity. I never know how to say that name lots all young ma or a shiny Rilla boom the Pokemon Opener in me wants to go through more of these but maybe I'll save them for stream actually So we're one for one here Ali Express.  I flipped it or maybe one of the cats got a hold of it So if you're looking to keep it protected this probably isn't a bad little idea and then this charging base I love this. That's actually really nice for displaying it too because it tilts it forward only $16 I love Ali Express obviously this is also a charger or is it not maybe it's just a stand I swear it called it a charge stand What got me I didn't read it thoroughly which I feel like is by design But it shows the car going on the base and a charge cord coming in towards and it says for more Convenient charging which I assumed meant Charging that's really convenient. I'm not even sure how it's more convenient But finally we have the actual case that all these fun accessories came in. Oh, dude. The actual case is a car I love this. I love this. It actually feels really quality There's even grips on the bottom at the stand to keep it from slippy sliding. That's really cool I don't think this is official Nintendo. I mean they spelt accessories wrong on the label It kind of lied to me, but I guess not really so for what it said it did 10 out of 10. Good job Ali Express You're crushing it today. Oh, I've been really looking forward to this. It's the silicone case with our poppy bubbles I really hope that this works. Oh It feels really weird I think I talked about this when I was buying it, but I kind of hate how small the screen looks now It's kind of hideous. Now the real test does it pop? I mean kind of because the switch backs in the way it just kind of presses in on itself and then slowly Rises out. It's not what I wanted, but it's a different kind of satisfying. I'm kind of about it I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10. I mean, it's really good. What did I get that's so tall? Oh? It's the portable switch dock I kind of like that I have this because uh No, I couldn't really think of a reason but we'll try it out and see never recommend ever Recommend using a third-party dock, but here I go. I guess all right. It's throwing So there you go. Yeah, I mean it works. I'm not really even feeling any delay It actually looks pretty dang good in a pinch going to a friend's house Not wanting to take a whole dock this little thing. This is actually pretty good I mean, I don't know about any long-term effect. So I can't really recommend it But I mean off the rip and it's a 10 out of 10. Like it's actually really good Aliexpress has nailed it with everything this time This guy so for $20 we bought aliexpress's version of this b-mote Which again somebody made on edsie and 3d printed and it blew up and then I guess aliexpress thought well We could do that. It's going to be interesting to compare the quality. I assume theirs wasn't 3d printed It was not I also want to say I'm assuming that's the order around that this went Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this was first and someone else thought I can 3d print that Okay, one thing I'm noticing right off the bat this one didn't come with the faceplate So when the switch isn't in here, you have no option but to just have it be empty That said and I hate to say this I do kind of like the aliexpress one more which sucks I feel bad. I mean this one is 3d printed. This one's actually been machine made with plastic So it just inherently to me it feels more official Even though it's very clearly not and we bought it from aliexpress, but there's a couple other reasons why I like it It's much thinner and also a little bit taller But the reason why I like that is even this opening here is thinner on the 3d printed one There's a lot of wiggle room and I never really loved that. Sadly. I'm actually impressed. What is this? Oh, wow, this is cool. I don't remember buying a big Ow, okay, so I did buy it and it cost $55. So this might be the most expensive thing in the video This is actually really nice. Oh, wow. Oh, it's so quality. Oh, that smells nice So this would slot. Oh, that is nice and then it gets a nice soft padding on top Oh my god. Oh, this is for switch carts So you can put switch carts all in here and you can even put joy cons in here with the dog bone Oh, yeah, they said you could stand on it I'm not wearing socks. So don't get creepy about this I'm standing on it And I'm spinning Yeah, that's tough That ain't breaking. Yeah, they're actually uh, they're not lying there I mean, I think it's worth 50 bucks if that's what you're trying to get out of it I think it's worth it Replacement shell I didn't order a replacement shell I know that changing the shell for a switch light is so hard That was too long of a project to slot in the middle of this video That was a waste Oh Yeah The iPlay charging and cooling service grip. Oh, I like this beat them up satisfied grip move aside This is actually a beast It's really big. This was 23 dollars. It does barely fit the slightly larger OLED model Anything that helps the joy cons get a bit more grip is way better than just using the joy cons But they're not positioned in the best way. They shoot down really low low. What do my accent just do low I would still say it's more comfortable than not having anything that said this has Rippled the weight of the switch, but it does come with a charge cord. So let me try turning it on. Okay There is one thing that just happened that made this quite a bit cooler Punnot intended if I press on the fan comes on But it doesn't charge the switch if I press it again It's charging the switch right now and the fan is still on and then I press it again Everything turns off. It doesn't need to be plugged in which does make this infinitely more cooler And it does explain why it's so freaking heavy. The only thing I would say is kind of pointless is as always It's not necessary. My switch is never overheated. I've never been playing my switch touch the back and gone That has happened in here. It has a really crappy Flimsy stand that is definitely going to get broken eventually But it does theoretically work kind of a cool little product But zero out of 10 don't buy it go to satisfied.com and buy one of their grips Now I've been putting off this one because I've been staring at it wondering why I bought it. What did I expect? It was going to be 20 dollars. Apparently I'm made of money and can just throw it away Oh, this also smells really nice.  Zach leave this in This is normally something Zach cuts when I go on tangent Zach. I need this when you were a kid Did you ever yeah, I mean it's a whoa. I mean why not I guess but they've added these strips to put switch cuts in When you were a kid, did you ever have those giant phone puzzle pieces that you like build them an entire Playmat out of and I think they even had letters in them. Do you remember the smell of them for some reason? I do the nostalgic smell that as soon as I smell I get transported back to being seven years old God, that's a good smell You could put 26 games in here. Oh Huh, so you can put the dock in here the controller in here the wristband in here And then the leg strap in here and then the ring fit around it Maybe you're doing group ring fit with a friend.  That's actually kind of cute that I'm sure Nobody has done. I've been really excited for this Oh, I don't remember buying any of this stuff We had the backpack that I was very excited about and then we have catpaw themed silicone joy con grips I'm not sure if it's gonna fit because the OLED is slightly bigger. Come on Give me on ever so slightly wrong and of course this for the OLED is irrelevant. That's so cute I actually really like this. I mean, it's not for me. I would definitely not Personally rock this on my switch. I can totally see someone having this. I like it a lot. Honestly. Yeah, no problems I could play games like this the little paw print handles actually at a really nice and comfortable group This is really good. This is good. Yeah Yeah, this is so cool. It's just a really cool little backpack.  The only thing that was bad was the pokemon cards and we knew those were going to be fake from the get-go Oh, where's the lego? Oh, no, the lego never showed up. It says the lego is stuck at the customs border.  I was excited for that these videos take a while to edit if the lego shows up before the video goes out I will add something in with that. All right kim I know we've sat down to film a video, but we're not filming that video yet We're gonna warm up. It's an etsy video get ready for it by opening this Which is technically for the last video Which is the video that they're still watching, but you don't know about it the lego finally came But i'm just gonna open it now before we film the other video Oh, wow, this is how it came. This is the packaging There's no photo of it. Oh Oh god, I thought there was a complete figure out on your own. Okay, there's a qr code I don't know if i'm doing this ever. I'll do it. You will? Yeah Okay All right kim still thinks that she's going to make this lego before the video goes up Oh, I don't think I know it's been days in case that doesn't happen I wanted to at least see What the instruction process looked like I just scanned the qr code mock building It's like a whole website of honestly not bad looking fakey-daky lego designs Was the qr code just for their websites? Yeah buy more This son of a gun really came with no instructions Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Our building instructions is pdf file. Please contact us and tell us your How do we not read this we can send you the instructions in time. Well, there's no email address It came without a box came without packaging came without instructions You have to request the instructions, but you can scan a qr code to buy more things that presumably will also not have instructions For fun, I want to open one more pack of fake pokemon cards at the end Rowlet another amazing rare another shiny in That's like almost exactly the same as the first pack These videos are easily some of my favorites to make for the channel If you enjoy them and you want me to buy more stupid weird and apparently actually cool stuff Make sure to hit the like button subscribe hit the bell even there are so many of you still not subscribed And you're watching the whole way through this video clearly you'll want to be here Bye


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Hello everyone and welcome to the third episode of our in conversation series about material methods. For anyone not yet familiar with this series, Sophie Woodward and me are co-leading the series for the National Center for Research Methods and we're inviting different colleagues in different very diverse disciplines to talk about their ways how they develop and apply material methods in their work. So today I am delighted to be hosting Leonie Hannon, who is the senior lecturer in 18th century history at Queen's University Belfast with a background working in museums and heritage. Your research mainly, Leonie, is about the practices of atypical intellectuals in the 18th century and you make a case for the home as an important material site of enquiry. So that's very interesting. I understand this is your latest book project, so could you just say a few words about the house as this kind of site for material enquiry? Yeah, thank you. Thanks very much for having me, Natasha. This is a really fascinating area of material methods and I think we'll get to a few different threads of that as we go through. Yeah, the thing I'm really working on most at the moment amongst other diverse projects is this idea of the home, the early modern home as a site of enquiry. I started off very much looking at women and women's intellectual lives and that's what led me to the home because of course they had all of their kind of learning and exploration or a lot of it would happen at home. I started to see the spaces are not one exactly of a kind of closed space of kind of work and drudgery and childcare and nothing else, but to start to think of it as a space which could allow for more interesting things. So one of the things I was really interested in thinking about is the materials and mentions of the home. Now we live in an age of hoovers and electric ovens and all sorts of technology, right? But in the early modern home, lots and lots of things were produced from scratch and so there were a series of complex material processes to produce just the basic things that the household needed to survive on whether that was bread or whether that was cheese or whether that was beer, right? And you start to get a glimpse from account books and recipe books from this period of just a huge amount of material knowledge these people have and whether that was servants or people who owned homes and organised servants work. And they had, you know, quite a decent material literacy and one that and then a lot of these processes were ones that allowed for a form of experimentation. You know, how exactly do you get the best, well, you might adjust some parts of that long process, that long material process to get there. So I suppose what I wanted to do is look at how the specific material dimensions and affordances of home actually actively encouraged intellectual inquiry in this period for people who we may not have heard of, you know, people who are not fellows of the Royal Society at this time. Yes, that is fascinating. So I'm thinking about the material culture in general and the material culture in the particular period. So how would you define material culture methods that you do perhaps, you know, in your discipline. But also I am, I do know that you see yourself as an interdisciplinary researcher and academic. So would you tell us how we, you know, how we go understand, you know, material culture methods in your view. Yes. Yeah, you're right. It's just totally interdisciplinary. So from a historian's point of view, the way that we have learned to do material culture history, we sometimes sometimes call that it's really by pulling things in from outside, right. Our discipline is incredibly, in its traditional sense, our discipline is incredibly textual. Now this isn't quite true of people who do ancient history and it's a medievalist because where the textual record gets thinner people historians have reached for objects and artifacts to try and explain the past. So for people working on the kind of period I'm in, so from the early modern period on through to the modern period, it's, it's been text, text, text and our training is incredibly textual. So we've had to look to anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, curators, museum professionals, we've had to look to all of these people to pull in ideas about how you actually work with material culture. Within history, I would say, largely speaking, material culture history is often very textual. So questions may be driven to some extent by interest in the material world of the past. And they may use material cultures one part of many different kinds of material. But we're still often looking at the subject of materiality and material world through paper through textual sources and a lot of my work is like that. Having said that I have worked much more with kind of object analysis in very of my career, and myself and Sarah Longer wrote a book aimed at historians and students of history, trying to talk about history through material culture, acknowledging that you can do a lot of material culture history by by engaging with books and recipe books and all sorts of kind of textual sources. But you but but trying to push people to think about the intellectual benefits of direct object analysis and what that can bring to your thinking that is different from perhaps methods that we're more familiar with we're more comfortable with. So material methods for historians don't necessarily mean objects analysis, but it certainly can do. And I think increasingly that is the case or part of the picture anyway. Yes, and that is exactly what you have done so would you say that you work with so different tags and archives, but also you combine that with objects based observation or you know objects, objects based methods. What is object based methodology and also object based learning because I know, you know, in your extensive work in in museums and their collections, and you have explored objects with interdisciplinary with an interdisciplinary team. And you also have engaged in object based learning. So that's very interesting in the ceiling. Yeah, so there's two sort of wings I would say to my interest in this kind of direct objects handling one of them is object based learning, which I can explain and talk a little bit about. The other side of it is, is an approach myself and Kate Smith at the University of Birmingham took when we were both working at UCL, where we took a bunch of researchers and from a real wide range of disciplines and put them in front of objects and prioritise and emphasise that that relationship with that object. And then we work collaboratively, you know, we each had an object and we work collaboratively collaboratively together to think through material methods really and experiments and provocations around around how we how we look at objects how we can look at objects how we can learn from objects. So there are these two slightly different things but they're actually very roughly the same thing so I can give you a bit more of an idea about the object based learning if you like to start with. In some cases the basis, you know all researchers, you know we often artificially separate the idea of research and then teaching and learning. And actually of course we're all learning aren't we like researchers are just trying to learn stuff. So, so I think this is why object based learning is really at the heart of a lot of this. Now I can no longer claim to work directly on object based learning by spending a good number of years working with brilliant colleagues at UCL who are still very much at the forefront of this field. So Professor Helen Chatterjee, and also Linda Thompson who's a psychologist, Helen Chatterjee is actually a biologist and a zoologist, so she came at objects from a completely different kind of disciplinary perspective to myself. So now Thomas Cador who's an archaeologist, which again gives a different perspective on artifacts. So these guys have really pioneered the evidence base for object handling as a route to better understanding within adult learners and specifically in a higher education context. So the backdrop to this, of course, but anyone who knows about education studies that they've been actually loads of work done on active and experiential learning for school-age children right and young people and there was a real sense that these people needed it. This was very much based and linked to ideas about learning styles which have gone slightly in and out of fashion and been kind of changed over time how people think and understand learning styles. But you know this notion that not everyone learns brilliantly and it's not always a brilliant learning experience to just be told things right and then to try and absorb them. And that actually engaging your senses, engaging your own meaning making, making those connections by doing things and talking about those processes with your peers can be a much better form of learning. So ditch the lecture into the kind of workshops scenario. And we were making the case that this is very much true for adults as well as kids. And I think it's very much true of researchers as well. So with object-based learning we would often put students in front of objects. Sometimes that would have a subject link. But you know Helen had come through her training and her engagement with object-based learning came from putting her students in front of skeletons so they could understand morphology and evolution and all sorts of those concepts. And I can much more from a kind of trying to learn history through looking at heritage or historical artefacts. But we would also try and use, or when I was working around this, I would try and use unusual combinations. They put in humanity students in front of a science type of, you know, mixing things around because I also felt, and this is where there's the link to the research project that Kate and I, Kate Smith and I, and I ran called The Hundred Hours Project, that I felt that objects can be provocative, they can create unusual disjunctures in your thinking. They can create a kind of barrier sometimes and that needs, that if you bother, if you take the time to work through, you can get somewhere quite different. So my sense was that text is often linear, not linear but very narrative oriented. And then of course our whole process as academics and researchers is to write things up into a narrative, beginning and middle and an end. And, you know, Sarah Longer, who I wrote the research guide with, was very firmly, she's someone who spent a long time working in education at the British Museum, she's an academic now at Lincoln, and she firmly believed, and I agree, that objects send you out in all these different directions. So the thought of that process of turning our research into this nice narrative, they don't send you off in one direction, they send you off in ten, and those ten directions maybe completely feel very unrelated. But I think in terms of challenging yourself to think differently about a subject, they can be so powerful. And so there is this process of just meaning making for yourself through tactile and multi-sensory engagement, and so this element of provocation I think you get with objects, that is something special and can really help people really of all ages engaging with a given subject. Absolutely, and I can relate to that through my research because what I have done is the research looking at graphic methods that link to material methods, because, you know, images and graphic representations, they can capture and show different elements, you know, of the material environment, and then we can use them to inquire concepts, different concepts in different disciplines or create and create new knowledge, develop knowledge on a topic or around a particular challenge or problem when you combine methods or a methodological approach that is more textual or language-wise and more kind of material or visual.   So the most intensive best of objects analysis, in a way, was through the 100 hours project, because the process that we put people through there, there were 12 of us in total, so Kate and I led the project and we drew in 10 other researchers and there were curators, art historians, historians of science, anthropologists, artists, so we had a real range of people, right, and we, everyone chose an object from the UCL collections and I chose a plaster cast of a child's foot from the pathology collections and it showed talipers, which is, I mean, sometimes known as clubfoot, so it's a, it's a, but now there would be various operations that you could do to, to correct that, but anyways, so it's this little cast and it was a number, it was one of a number of casts in the collection of childhood pathologies and now I, the process we put people through and I went through was that we would return again and again to the object. And the idea was that we would, that as we went on, we would gain a familiarity with that object and we would, and through that insight may come now this prompted a number of sources of reflections that within the group. So I would say for, for many of us, not all of us, and for many of us, research really means extensive source based research, so we go to lots and lots of different places to try and gather this and we try and put it together to create a larger whole. Now some, some disciplines don't work exactly like that and literary scholarship would be a good example of a discipline where returning to a text time and again is something that is considered to be fruitful to your analysis of it that you can refresh, you can with a new perspective, you may see something different. And so there was so we were trying to apply some of those, those techniques but what was interesting was because people felt strongly that they wanted to push their engagement with the material and slightly a shoe they perhaps usual urge to run to the archive to try and contextualize this object. Many sat again and again with this object and trying to just pull meaning from it from its material presence and with little recourse to those kind of contextual angles. And so that was really, really interesting because at times people talked about a familiarity, you know, really deep. There was very, very strong feelings in the end about some of these objects and I felt the same about about my one and to experiment with refusing some of our normal kinds of approaches, I guess. In the end, these, these studies, these became really, they became a reflection on methodology and method. Now, we wouldn't suggest that just returning to an object and and over and over again is necessarily the best route to answering any given research question, but what it did do is it pushed us into directions we wouldn't normally go to. So we had a scholar and historian of colonialism and colonial collecting of objects around the world with a dodo skeleton, holding the weight of bones in her hands and trying to infer things about her interest from that. And, you know, these were deeply, deeply challenging kind of engagements. But yeah, in the end, the group, and we certainly found things out about our objects, many of us did in the end return to the archive to try and find out more. We flushed them out, we made them into a source of collection of their own 12 objects that became associated with each other in a new way in a way they hadn't been before. In general, the conclusions and the thought processes that came out of that were about approaches about material methods about the importance of engagement with the material, I think, as well as as well as the textual, not to not to, not to say otherwise, but yeah. Brilliant. So, so basically it sounds that the methods, you know, the kind of methods like object based inquiry or object based learning is all about a different way of thinking about no lateral thinking thinking outside the box that actually can bring really something new to your knowledge about an area or your own discipline or or a concept so that that's really fascinating because it can be transformative, you know, for the person doing the inquire but also for the entire group, you know, when you do it together. Yeah, so that is, that is fantastic, really, really fascinating and thank you so much for your time when they do just want to finish this recording this conversation with the little reflection short reflection about what, you know, the future calls for for material culture methods in your opinion. Yeah, it's a really interesting moment to ask that question, isn't it. I mean, I'm obviously very invested in this as something that I hope will will have a long term effect on the sort of discipline I work in and the disciplines I work with. And, and I think it is really interesting moment because of course the museum sector right now is completely absorbed with digital manifestations of objects. So it's always been a great defense and a correct defense of the need for in person and often tactile engagement with objects museums are brilliant at facilitating and allowing that right. And so that and look back to that that looking directly at something that in front of you right because even if it's behind glass, but right now, of course, is museums have been shut. And I think it's a time because suddenly touches like we can't touch other things. We can't even be close to other people so in this moment of pandemic and it throws in the air some of the things exactly some of the things that we would have absolutely champion. I think it's a really interesting juncture but for me, where the digital comes in and you may find this yourself with in terms of interesting in graphics and visual culture is where digital comes in I think it isn't too. I feel that the two were much more than than we might think so often people have who have been who've been the people who've driven forward like digital methods of engagement with artifacts, for example, and not the same people who are running object classes, but I think increasingly that we have to see the synergy between these two halves, and that in a world where we're increasingly living our worlds, living our lives through screens and through, through computers effectively, and there will be that that that obvious urge to make to do to touch to engage with the mechanics and the materiality of things will will only grow and I think we can see that popular culture basis, you know, endless sourdough base, and you know we can see it coming through in our culture. So for me and for me people concerned with collections. I think, I think these two, we have been thinking about material methods and digital methods is two halves of the same process. And yeah, yes, yes, I think I think that is definitely the way forward and how we connect our now very much, you know, digitalized interactions and the digital world that it's you know we are inhabiting right now. And, and, you know, the tactile nature of our lives and and and that is definitely something to be impact in the future. So thank you very much. I'm sure that we have sparked an interest in material culture methods, you know, among our viewers and also that they will check your work. Thank you very much for your time and for sharing your insights and I'm just saying bye to everyone watching the video and enjoy.


Hi, welcome everyone. This is the first demo for the today. My name is Murali Balcha. I'm the CEO of Trilio Data. We specialize in providing the backup and recovery solutions for OpenStack Clouds. Our offering is the first backup and recovery solution for OpenStack that is built on the same principles of the OpenStack built for the OpenStack. So in order for you to appreciate what we are doing, I'll play some scenario here. So we have Tom here. He's an IT director. I think we all can associate with him very well, right?  So he is passionate about the cloud. So in his IT, he designed a great OpenStack Cloud. It runs great. It scales very well, obviously. And as with any cloud, it is self-provisioning and multi-tenant. And it has multiple regions, right? And he sold the value prop of the cloud to his business units. And life is good, right? As long as it works, life is good. But then, especially when you are running this kind of initiative within your company, that basically spans across multiple business units. Each business unit may have different data management requirements, data retention requirements. Let's take a look at Sam now. So Sam is the DevOps engineer, right? You want to make sure that all the applications are running well and perform well. So if something goes wrong with the production, he should be able to troubleshoot any issues that are happening in the production without causing any outage, without basically bringing down any of the applications. So his need is, hey, can I take a backup of the production and somehow spin that production back up into a different availability zone or onto a different network without interfering with the production and do the troubleshooting do whatever he needed, right? That was his need. And Sam and Tom thinks, wow, that's an interesting scenario. Because when you look at the traditionally how people do, so I talked to my IT friend there. So he manages SAP. So he has SAP running on VMware. And so I asked him, how do you basically verify that your backup is up and running and it is in a restartable state? He says, yeah, that's a good question. So for compliance reasons, we definitely need to do that. So we plan that kind of validation of the backup for six months ahead. So they basically plan an outage for three days or four days. And then what they do is basically they set up an identical system. And then they basically take the backup and then restore all the data into that SAP system, the standby system. And they have to basically make sure that the SAP is in a recoverable state. So this is a real world scenario. But the business requirement, the compliance needs, is not going to go away with the cloud. But it's going to take a different shape. But those guys, they still need to meet those compliance requirements. But with the cloud deployments, with the different technologies that are available, we could be able to do it much more efficiently than planning six months ahead and planning a couple of days of downtime. And then look at Tony. Tony comes from e-commerce department. He has built this awesome application with all the latest technologies in the world, with all the scale, with all the replication that is needed. But he still need to take a backup. He need to basically retain the backups for six, two days. And his need is he has this complex backup that he's built, application that is built. And it spans multiple VMs. It has a lot of sender volumes that are mapped to. It has some security groups that are mapped to this application. So he need to go and basically take a backup on a regular basis of this application. So he always has a way to go back to a point in time in case something goes bad. Well, Tony has this, Tom has this dilemma. There are awesome applications out there, backup applications that supports VMware and the bare metal. They've been doing it for a long time. But they don't just fit into the OpenStack. OpenStack is a multi-tenant environment. So it's not like we have one central administrator who can basically go and backup everything in the cloud. So it should be kind of more like empowering the tenant, basically give the right tools so that your tenant, so the tenant can basically take care of their backups. So none of the traditional backups can really do that. So the next one is Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith from the corporate. So he understands the technology. He understands awesome power that the cloud brings into his IT. But then he still need to basically make sure that all the applications has certain RTO and the RTO to meet to, right? So there should be a proven process that he can basically check mark on that so his back is saved. So TrilliaWalt, this is from TrilliaData. So we offer a true backup and recovery solution for OpenStack. Ours is an add-on service to your OpenStack cloud, just like your compute node, just like your networking, just like Cinder, which is self-serviceable, scalable, all the awesome things that each of the service provides for the cloud. Ours is an add-on service to your OpenStack cloud. Once you install, it becomes part of your OpenStack cloud. And just like any other service, it is a multi-tenant self-serviceable. And one good thing about our solution is it is non-destructive. So whether you are basically deploying an 100-node OpenStack cloud or a thousand-node OpenStack cloud, it can be completely automated with the DevUptils. So we shape a playbooks for managing our deployment and upgrade. So you can integrate with your playbooks, like Ansible playbooks. And you can automate end-to-end deployment of our offering with your cloud. So what do we do? We are the first native solution for OpenStack cloud. I kept telling this, OK, we are multi-tenant. And the important thing is we are agentless. So we don't run any agents within your guest. So this service is provided at the infrastructure level. But we also work with the QEMU agents that are running in your VM if you want to take applications consistent backup. And more importantly, we are one-click backup and one-click recovery.  We identify, we basically go through all the resources that are mapped to each of the VM. We take the right backup. And we support full-end incremental backups. So what I'll do is in this demo, it's around 10 minutes demo, I'm going to talk about how a tenant can create a backup. And then we also go through three scenarios, how they can restore a particular backup, whether a full backup, which basically takes a particular point in time and then restore or rewind your production back into a particular point in time. The next one is how they can use our restore operation to recreate our backup onto a different availability zone or onto a different network, onto a different region. And the third one is sometimes the backups tend to be pretty large, like depending on the application. Some of them may be 10 gig or 20 gig. So if you accidentally deleted a file and then you realize two days later that, well, I lost that file. Somehow I need to recover that file from your backup image. You don't have to restore the whole thing. So in that case, we support a file level restore, no matter what your size of your backup job is. So I'll also demo how the file level restore works. So when the product is installed, we add our own panels to your dashboards, one for the tenant dashboard, and that is for the tenant to manage your backups. And then we also add a panel to your admin dashboard. So admin dashboard is purely for administrative purposes. It provides overview of how our solution is performing in the open stack, how various backups are performed. So I'm going to demo all these aspects in this short video that I have. So this is the admin panel that I was talking about. So in the admin panel, the user has three VMs, Cassandra VM, MySQL VM, and then maybe a Tomcat, maybe some kind of web application that this tenant is running. So he wanted to set up a backup for this entire application. So we have a wizard there. And the wizard lets you basically identify what VMs that make up that application. This one is similar to when you create an instance, Instant has its own wizard, how to create it. It's similar to that. You basically set up the scheduling policy, how frequently you want to take a backup. And then you also specify how many snapshots that you want to retain. So ours is a forever incremental backup technology. So that means once you take a full backup, you never have to take a full backup again. In the back end, we synthesize your full backup from the incremental backups. So creating a backup job, creating the definition of backup job is pretty straightforward. And then once you have a backup job, it basically shows you the details and what VMs make up that backup job. You can leave it there so that the job scheduler regularly take the backups of your VMs on-demand basis. You can take a backup. We figure out whether it needs to be a full backup or an incremental backup. You don't have to basically specify what you need to take. And the other thing is, since you remember, we identified three VMs as part of the backup. So we also take a look at everything that is mapped to your VM. So for example, between two backups, if you added a new sender volume or you basically went and changed some network settings or security groups, in the next backup, we capture. So our snapshots are comprehensive snapshots. It includes your data and also metadata that is associated with our application. So when we restore, basically, we re-orchestrate the whole backup job back into the production. So here we are taking a couple of backups. So I like to run this one for a day. So it has a bunch of backup jobs created over the period of time. Now I want to go back and restore that particular point in time because something bad happened on the production. So this is a one-click restore. So you don't have to basically do any guesswork. So with a one-click, you can go and restore your entire backup job back to the production. So during that restore, we create all the VMs. If it even lost your glance image, we restore those glance images. We connect to the same networks. We assign the same IP addresses. We create the sender volumes. We map the sender volumes. So at the end of the restore, you have your application pretty much up and running. So what we don't do is we don't assign the floating IP addresses. But once you assign the floating IP addresses, your restore is done. So that is the full restore. The second part of it is the incremental restore. So sorry, not the incremental restore. So incremental to a sandbox. So you have your production. You want to let it run that production without interfering with that. But you want to restore to a different sandbox, maybe different availability zone, or different network. So this wizard will help you define what that sandbox is. Once you define what that sandbox is, and then we go and restore your backup job onto a different sandbox. So the use case here is again, if you want to do some testing, you want to validate that your backups are working all right. So you can leverage this feature to restore a point in time of backup to make sure that your backups are in a recoverable state. So during the selector restore, I chose a different volume type because I was backing up from the CIF. But while restoring, I chose LVM volume type. I'm just clicking on that volume tab. It's taking a little while. But you can see that all the volumes are restored, but now all the volumes are LVM volume types, not the CIF volume types. So this is the single file or single directory restored from your backup job. So as I mentioned, your backup job may be 100 gigs.  So this is a 3-VM backup again. Now you can go to a particular point in time. We support some operation called snapshot mount operation. And you click that one. So in that list of VMs that I mentioned, what we ship is, remember, this is all tenant driven. There is no administrator involved. This is a tenant panel, and tenant is managing their backups and restores. So we want to make sure that, obviously, the backup data, only you can access because that's your backup data. So in order to facilitate that, we also ship a small VM image that has some file manager, web-based file manager up and running. So you need to create a VM. And then during the snapshot mount operation, you need to identify that VM. So during the snapshot mount operation, it takes less than one minute, no matter what your size of your backup is. It basically goes and calculates what are your backup images. And then maps all those backup images to that VM you chose. And then it rescans any LVM volumes that you have, any file system that you have. And then it mounts all the file systems and then spins up the web application. And at the end of this mount operation, you have a URL. You can access your floating point IP of that VM, go to your web browser, and you get a list of all the files. So where you can basically download any directory or the file from that listing. So mount operation is complete. It took less than one minute. So that is the floating point URL of the VM where we mounted all the backup images. So you go to the web browser and type in that IP address. Now you have a list of all the files that were at that point in time. And you can drill down that, and then you can download any files. So this is visually appealing. But if you want to doing a bulk transfer of the files, you can do ESCP command to copy the data from that VM to wherever you want to restore to. So that we covered the tenant aspect of it. So tenant is fully empowered to take their backups. What about the admin? So admin has to make sure that the entire backup is up and running, the service is up and running. It's not causing any bottlenecks to your open stack. So we integrated into the administration panel. So in the admin panel, it gives you all the list of backups that your tenant has ever created, including a lot of performance metrics, including how many backups are scheduled, how many backups were there, and how much data that each tenant is backing up, and how much time is taking. And when they are scheduled, if they are staggered evenly or if they're staggered too closely. So it gives you all the information about our solution to the administrator. So one of the important aspect we surface is the storage panel. And in the storage panel, it gives you all the NFS shares that were configured to basically take the backup. So you can configure multiple NFS shares in order to scale the capacity of the NFS shares. We aggregate all the capacity that is added.  So the administrator need not worry about it. Tenant need not worry about it. And it has different stats on how the storage is used by various tenants. So this can be also used to charge back your tenants if you have a charge back mechanism in place. So that's the end of the demo. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to another video here on me plus you is us it's always and always good to have you here so Elaine and I decided to document one full day together to give you guys an inside look on how we usually spend our weekend the weekend is our favorite time of the week as I'm sure it is for most of you because that is when you get to unwind and rejuvenate for the new we all have our routines and rituals and we usually can't wait to indulge in those said activities as they bring us peace of mind my new job requires me to do a COVID test because I'm going to Nigeria by Monday so we're going to do the PCR and then we're going to get some foofoo for Kwame and some rice balls for me so let's go for us one of our Sunday rituals is going out to eat foofoo and drink some beer which some of our friends find strange not for the meal combo by the time we have that meal foofoo on Sundays is our brunch meal and when we've had our good foofoo it could last us all the way till supper time topping after foofoo is usually something that we look forward to and since we decided to create content together as a couple weekends are the only times we can record our usual vlogs if we're not doing one on travel or some adventure somewhere outside a crowd Sunday evenings are also great for walks and we often go to Lagoon Campers because of the scenic route and the peaceful nature of it all yeah your torso show up your torso yes because you've been doing your challenge late evenings after supper we watch TV together and chill for a few hours before we call it a night we hope you've enjoyed spending the day with us happy new month to you all make it worth your while


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stocks. What should I take a look at here at Apple into the three o'clock period? It did break out above the high today, which was nice. So let's take a look at this here. Again, 117.74 didn't quite make it over 118. Let's quick look at the market. Market looks amazing. Did we get over? We didn't. Wow, the market looks like it's going to gap up tomorrow. And Apple too. So one of the things that I wanted to talk about today is understanding risk. And I'm in this trade. I reviewed it on a previous video, in fact, a couple videos, that I took this trade. And when I took the trade, I put the money on that I took for the risk without any guarantee. Without any guarantee, the trade would ever become profitable without knowing that I'd win in it or lose, without having any idea at all, except I have a system. I apply the system, and that is called calculated risk. When you have calculated risk, you're willing to take the risk knowing that the outcome would be better than just keeping your money and not doing anything with it. What would be the outcome? What would be better? You'd be able to take the money that you have and turn it into real dollars and cents and more money. And that's how you get ahead. That's how you get ahead when you're trading in the market. The more that you risk, the more that you have the potential to make. When people come to me and they ask me about my class, about my Golden Gap course, it costs $4,999. It's a two-day course. People sometimes ask me for guarantees. I do not give guarantees. Why? Because when you choose to trade and you decide to trade the stock market, you should not be expecting a guarantee in any trade you take or any class. And anyone that offers such a thing doesn't understand how the market works and doesn't have the mentality, like I do, of a professional trader. Any professional trader will tell you that there's no guarantees in the market and there's no guarantees in anything you do in life that can really put you ahead of the pack. And my Golden Gap rating system, which is the 26 points that I teach in the class, it works. And so the risk is that you pay the $5,000 for the class, not knowing the information ahead of time for the potential that you'd be able to use it to make money in the market. You don't know. There's no guarantees. Just like when I risked the money I risked an apple, there was no guarantee the trade would work. It would go on to be a huge winner, break even, loss, small winner, small loss, full loss. I didn't know when I took it. Now as it turns out, I'm still in the trade and I could have gotten out with a profit of over $5,000 back here in this day. I held it through, I'm still in the position. Actually, I added and now I'm in two positions in this out till Friday. And I don't know where I'm getting out of this yet. I'm gonna decide in the next 24 hours. The point is that I still have all my risk on, full on risk without any guarantees, without knowing what it's doing and I have to make a decision. And I'm fully aware of the fact that whatever decision I make requires no guarantees and taking risk. If you wanna get ahead in life and you wanna trade the market, you have to understand in order to make money, you must be willing to take risk. If you ask someone for a guarantee, then chances are you don't understand how to make it as a trader and you're not gonna ever get paid and you won't make hundreds of thousands of dollars, let alone millions of dollars in the market if you don't understand that and get it. And you kind of have to want to be willing to take the risk in order to trade or take a class. You have to actually desire to get ahead so much that the positive outcome of the risk that you're going to take is worth it rather than keeping your life in the same place by doing nothing where you're at right now, not knowing how to trade, having absolutely no idea how to be successful as a trader, you have to weigh the risk to reward and know it, not having any guarantees just like I did with Apple, okay? So the upside is you take my class, you learn how to make money in the market trading gaps and you have potential then to make hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars for the rest of your life. And the upside for me in Apple is I took the risk, I risked $8,700 and the potential for the upside is huge for me if I hold this into the earnings or at least until tomorrow to see how it rallies into the earnings into four o'clock. So I'll decide what I'm gonna do tonight in this but I have no guarantee, you have no guarantee and you have to understand risk when you take a class and also when you trade. If you're willing to do that, you have a huge, huge possibility for success to be a professional trader. I think many people don't understand that, say they're willing to take risk but they're really not and those people therefore then will never learn what I know in the market and be able to apply it to make a lot of money. So that's the lesson for today about understanding risk. If you have any questions, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. The next golden gap class is November 5th and 6th. Have a great day everyone.