How's it? How's it? Today we're looking at exposures. And what is a correct exposure? Well, if you ask 10 different photographers, you're going to get probably 10 different answers. A lot of those answers are going to be somewhere around talking about the zone system, about having, you know, a wide range of detail within your negative that you can use, you know, later on, if needs be, when you are dodging and burning and making the final print, either in a, you know, wet dark on a computer, but I find that's a limiting way of thinking about exposures. And yes, it is helpful when you are a beginner to know what a good base exposure is. And a base exposure is basically what the light meter is giving you. So if you're using one of these, this is an internet light meter, it's going to reduce everything that's hidden in this little MacGuffity thing here into a range of gray in this thing, you know, sort of mid gray tone. And that's what your light meter is doing in your camera as well, that is giving you an average of the scene in front of you. But we don't always want average. There's nothing wrong with going and deciding that the scene in front of you doesn't necessarily have to have all the detail within it, just in case you need it later on to save the image. And this is why you should shoot raw so you can, you know, fix any problems later on. But when you are confident with how exposure works and when you have that base exposure that you can then go off-piste with it a little bit, you can make the image contrastier if you want to. You can make it flatter if you wanted to. You can do all sorts of things because no longer are you a slave to the, you know, the electronic thing. And this is, of course, also electronic and so is the camera, you know, the meter inside your camera and they're making decisions for you. This is not going to be the correct exposure. It's going to be the right starting point. But this doesn't know what I want to create from the image.  And sometimes I want the image to be a little bit more dramatic to feel a little bit more like it's less of just an average thing. And we can see that's the word average has come up again. A correct exposure is often, I think, mistaken for a average exposure. And I don't know about you, but I don't want my photographs to be average. I want them to be as best as I can possibly be. So rather than getting hung up on what is the correct exposure, understand that so long as you get a proper starting point that you can then manipulate that to give you the effects that you want. And if you are looking to sort of free yourself a little bit from, you know, the inbuilt camera meters, either you can buy something like this. This is a Sconic FlashMate L308S, which I used to use in the studio.  So this will help you also with your white balances. So, you know, double win there. But it's going to take you off being reliant on something else, doing the thinking for you. I want to all of these these episodes, all of these talking about, you know, the five minute photo score is not to give you a roadmap specifically to say, look, you must go this direction. You must do this. And this is how you get there. These are prompts to get you to start being confident about being out there in the wilds and stuff when you're out taking photographs to find your own answers, to find your own path through that jungle of photography because you are then confident that you're understanding how things work rather than saying you need to go from point A to point B. I know you can do it. Even if you have been, you know, shooting on on P for professional, you know, aperture priority or shutter priority, whichever one or, you know, you have never even thought about exposures is to take the plunge, to find that base exposure, to think about how when you change an f-stop, does that change the exposure? But if you want to keep the exposure the same, you know, you then need to move the shutter speed in different ways. So everything kind of just links together. And if you are interested in finding out a bit more about the zone system, because it is actually a very useful system to help you get to grips with the idea of, you know, exposure and good base exposures, then I have put together a video about Ansel Adams and this very wonderful way of taking your print and black and white print and taking them from this kind of grey, splodgy, blemage kind of feel to these wonderful sumptuous, awesome looking black and white prints, which I know that you would love to put upon the wall. Click on the video over here and I will see you again soon. Thanks for watching.


salut an al chio jeni vu dí ví diyó kaj jinok dè mi devas flustri protíyo ke ciui famliyaanoi jam estas en la litoidó yess mi simp le devas flustri ke mí filmos ti o malfruer protíyo ke mí simp le estas pigra kaj prakrasdis ti o multe mí simp le espektis filmo indé fəmligai che mí a kompoteelodum joro al plí ki pos ti o mi dídes al mi memm Fek! I need to film. I forgot about that. Family Guy is so funny. So yes, now I decided that I just want to give you an update about what will happen in the next weeks. Because they are very good. I have a two-week holiday. And during my two-week holiday, I will fly to Indonesia for a part to take the three-land Esperanto congress. That one. That one? Yes, I suppose that one. And I just want to give you a more complex idea of what I will do because I have already said that in previous films. So now I will fly to Bali. And Bali is a tourist island in Indonesia. It is small but many Australians like to frequent it. So I will fly there and I will stay there for two weeks. And I will stay near the sea. So I can swim and do other things with my wife. Of course, I will film everything for you. And after that I will fly to Bali to Bandung. And Bandung is the congress island. And when I will be there, of course, I will take part in the congress. And I will present my channel. Esperantly I will be able to find new viewers. Because I heard that 70 and 100 people have already attended or attended the congress. So it seems that there are enough people who will go. So I am very excited about that. So I will present my channel. And after that I will fly back to Bali to Bandung, the name of the island. No, from Indonesia itself to Bandung to Bali. I don't know the name of the island where Bandung is located. In fact, that is interesting. Because Indonesia is just an island area. So I just fly from one island to the other. But the other one is bigger. And I don't know if it really is the chief island. It will probably be the chief island there. But I don't know why I'm talking about it. So yes, I will go there and film everything. But I don't know if I will have an interest whenever I am there. So if I can't go there for a few days, I won't just go there and say, Ah, why is there an island there? Probably it will die. A phone call to the Australian ambassador. We have to inform them because I won't die. I simply can't go there to film. So that is almost everything I want to say. No, it's one other thing. So I just finished filming in the English to my English channel. Which is called IWDLanguages. And you can find the link to the main page of this channel. Well, in fact, I just put the link in the description below. So if you are English-speaking and you want to improve your Esperanto, maybe you are a Muslim-speaking person, I created a very long film for you where I just read a page on the book, I put it in Tibet and I clarified everything in the text in English. So go there and watch it and that's it. So if you liked this film, like it, share it, subscribe to my channel if you are not subscribed yet, and I will see you in the next film. And if you are not there, I will not create films for my trip to Indonesia for you. And as always, I want to thank my subscribers for Patreon. Because without them, I can't download this channel. They are the best of this channel. And I am just now a subscriber. In three times, I would recommend Chris Perdue, Craig Robertson, GB Ante, www.finefine.it www.finefine.it www.finefine.it


Well, maybe I'll just do this without slides because my slides actually are not that important. They are. They're online. So, yeah, you can walk along with it and my slides are somewhat content-free because I really took it seriously that when I presented this topic that it would be a discussion. I saw that there was this nice, shorter thing where you could get input from everybody. So, while I do have some ideas I want to present to you, I'm really hoping to get your opinion on some of the things that I'm going to talk about. So, the first thing I want to do is introduce myself. Some of you guys know me, but a lot of you don't. My name is Kristin Acardi and I work for Intel's Open Source Technology Center. And I have worked in the kernel for almost 20 years now. It's been all over the place. I started out networking and then I changed over to various other subsystems over the years. What's notably lacking from my previous experience in the kernel is security. So, this is my first try at security. The previous five years I've been working on power management. And the thing that's really exciting about working on security is that it shares a lot of similarities with working on power management in that it's a system level problem, that it takes user space and kernel cooperation in order to solve. And also, we had a lot of the same issues with having to make tradeoffs that most of the time people would decide they didn't want your feature because it impacted performance or you'd put it in and somebody wouldn't turn it on. So, I'm very familiar with a lot of the issues here. The other thing that's very exciting is now that I've joined the security team, I have lots of people who are really excited to help me review my slides. So, when you're going through them, you can see that they've had a lot of attention put to them. So, when I started on the security team in February, it was not entirely clear what I was going to work on. One thing that was clear though was that the world was going to be changing a little bit for the next few years. We had recently had the Spectre and Meltdown attacks made public and the theory is that these attacks are now very exciting and new and are going to be something that we're going to be hearing a lot of at least for the next few years. So, I think that CPU micro architectural side channel attacks are going to be something that researchers are going to continue to work on. So, we as a kernel community need to sort of anticipate that they're going to keep coming. So, what can we do to get ourselves out of this cycle where we're constantly trying to fight the latest thing? How can we move to a place where side channel attacks are not quite as destructive as they might be? So, that's where I come in. As they went through the Spectre and Meltdown mitigation work last year, which started over the summer, they came up with all kinds of ideas for things that they wish had been done better, but they didn't have time to work on it, right? When you're in the middle of working on a mitigation for a specific exploit, you don't have time to go back and do some long term stuff. So, this is really what my mission is. My mission is to try to find how we can be more proactive about preventing future side channel attacks and harden the kernel against other potential exploits. It's really important to note, not just because legal wants me to say this, but also because it's true, we're not trying to address specific CVEs or security gaps. What we're trying to do, and this is important because we don't expect anything that we're working on to be a 100% solution to any sort of problem. What we're really trying to do are create speed bumps, things that will slow attackers down, so it's not going to be perfect security. There is a lot of overlap as a result with the work that Kase is doing on KSPPP because what we're really a lot of the things that we came up with that would make these side channel attacks harder are just general kernel hardening things. So, what I'm going to do today is I want to walk through some of the project ideas that came out of the Spectre work last year and that are now at the top of the priority list for my team. I should let you know that we're a very small team, including myself. There's two and a half people. If you count Kasey as half a person. So we don't have a lot of people on our team. If any of these projects sound super-duper exciting and you think, hey, I wish I could work on that, then you can come meet me and maybe we can hook up. And the other thing, as I'm going through this list, if any of these projects seem totally ridiculous, I would really like to know about it, especially some of the longer-term ones, because I certainly don't want to spend a year of my life on some of these things only to get a resounding no way in hell. All right. So the first project I want to talk to you about is kernel address randomization. So right now, we have KSLR implemented in the kernel. It's a little bit weak as it is, and some of the side-channel exploits that we had would take advantage of being able to easily get a kernel address. The other problem we have with the existing implementation is that you find one and you find everything. So one idea that's been thrown out, and this is kind of, I guess this is the scariest thing on my list from my point of view, is the idea that maybe every time you boot the kernel, you should rearrange it. And so basically what this is going to do is relink the kernel on every boot. And the way we would do that is by incorporating a linker inside the kernel. And this isn't as weird as it sounds in that we sort of already have a linker in the kernel in the module loader. It's a pretty brain-dead linker, and it doesn't do what we would need it to do in order to achieve this. But you could use it as a foundation for doing this work. So the idea would be that we break the kernel up into effectively modules, but they're not really... I mean, I guess modules are really just relocatable object files with a little bit of gunk thrown in there to make it easier to load them as a module. So you could modify the module loader to be able to just take .o-files. We may be able to leverage any kind of Vmalloc allocation algorithms that we could write that would be more random. And we might be able to basically take all of these .o-files and create a new section in the binary. Now, right now when the kernel boots up, it takes the compressed binary and it uncompresses it and then it does its loading. So what we would do is insert into that process a step where we take the kernel binary and we read the special section that we've added. We take all of our .o-files. We rearrange them according to a random algorithm and then we load them up into different places in memory. So that's kind of the idea that we have it now. It has some benefits, obviously, otherwise we wouldn't be considering it. It really does increase the difficulty on side channel attacks in that now when you find one address, that's all you really get. You're not going to be able to get a second address. And also this is going to strengthen what we've already got as far as KSLR. The challenges to this is that even fine-grained KSLR can be worked around and it might be sufficient to have a single info leak in order to find the rest of the kernel. And this certainly is going to increase the complexity of the kernel. It's going to make it harder to reproduce bugs because now you might have issues where your kernel is arranged in a certain fashion and you only have a bug that happens when it's laid out in that particular way. We would have to probably make some allowances and maybe have a seed that we could export or whatever to try to reproduce images. But the big thing would be customers of distros are going to be running different kernel images, all of them. So now instead of everybody running the same Ubuntu image or Fedora image, they've got the code but it's all rearranged. So it's going to make it a little bit difficult for distros to be able to assume that they know exactly what the customers got. So this project is still in the research phase. So I'm interested if anybody has any opinions. There's an opinion over there. Do we have a microphone?  Because there are a number of environments that really rely on that for rolling out emergency bug fixes, especially when they're security related. I have wondered about live patching. It just seems to me this might make life much more difficult. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would. I wasn't actually sure how prevalent it was to actually use live patching because when I was researching it, it seemed that many people considered this to be still fairly out there as far as what people do. I think I am not an expert. I do not speak for Red Hat on this, but I think when it happens, it's really important. And it doesn't happen very often, but when it does, you really, really want to make it happen. So putting huge roadblocks in its way without sorting that out and I know we're not the only vendor to do it, is likely to be an issue. Okay, so don't break live patching. Yeah, I think it's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem. People don't adopt live patching because there are things that break it really badly. There's one right over there. So I wanted to ask about, because we are randomising things at boot time, so I wanted to ask about entropy because this is something that can be a problem at boot time and especially when it comes from what I remember of virtual machines and things like that. So, I mean, you currently have issues with entropy already because you have to be able to... I mean, there's currently requirements that you have a certain amount of entropy when you boot a VM, for example. And I think that at the moment, we would have to rely on the existing entropy sources for what we're trying to do. That's a good question, though. I should be taking notes since no one can see what I'm doing. So, more of a meta comment. But OpenBSD implemented something along these lines a number of years ago. They called it Kernel Address Randomized Link, or K-A-R-L. Carl, yes. I know all about Carl. So the main difference between what we're doing and Carl is that what Carl does is it actually recompiles the entire kernel at boot time. And so it will boot into a little mini user space, recompile the kernel, and then boot to that. I actually considered this while we were looking at the architecture for this. And it seemed to me that this was more complex. I know that sounds weird because I'm talking about adding a linker into the kernel, but it did sound more complex than trying to do it without the user space portion. So the other thing was just as far as adoption, I felt like it would be really hard to coordinate. I think you'd have to sort of coordinate the image part, the mini user space and everything with distros, and that just seemed hard. Does it impact the signature validation measurements? The signature validation measurements. Since you're relocating the... For secure boot? I don't know. I guess it would depend on what we wound up actually implementing and where you put those measurements. I'm going to write that down, though. What about secure boot? I wonder if, in your research, if you found any precedence for this in any microkernel approaches where you might have a much smaller footprint, you may still have the same problem at the core, but at least you pushed everything out of the core itself, and then your recompiles much smaller surface area. Did you come across anything similar at all as far as with microkernels? No, I can't say that I looked at any microkernel implementations. I did consider what is the difference between what we're doing and just really trying to strip the kernel down to a really core thing and then build everything else as a module. I think it's very similar to what I'm proposing is very similar to that idea with the difference being that you don't have all the dependencies between modules because you're really still making a static monolithic binary at the end of the day once you load it up into memory so you don't have quite the same environment and also not the dependency on file system. Okay, so no one was throwing tomatoes too bad, I guess. I guess you're waiting for the first patch. Well, that'll take a while. Okay, so next project. This one's easier to talk about because it's in progress already and also it was conceptually less scary. The idea here is that we wanted to apply randomization not just to the kernel text section but also to the module text section. So these patches have already been posted on the mailing list. Some of you guys might have seen it but I'll just sort of run through the design for this. What we want to do here, currently the module text range is a gigabyte-ish and so we've apparently had proposals for doing this in the past and people were concerned about fragmentation of the memory area. So we try to solve this by basically splitting the existing module text range into two sections. And the first section is going to be where randomized text goes and then the second section is going to be linearly allocated. So if you fail to find a sufficiently large space inside the randomized section, then you can go and use the old way of doing it in the linear section. In practice, we found that it takes loading a large number of modules before you ever touch the randomized, I mean the linear section and I don't have the numbers with me on how many it takes but Rick has done a lot of testing now after he was given his first round of feedback and it's looking pretty good. And sort of a side effect to this is this new algorithm is actually a lot faster than linearly allocated because now you're basically bisecting the space and you're sort of randomly fitting. So your module load time actually improves with this algorithm. The other benefit to this is we've increased randomization now we get about 17 bits of entropy and you can now link, you can now leak an address in one module and you don't automatically know where all the other modules are. This one has the same sort of challenges as the other project does in that it still might not be good enough. One address leak could still be sufficient. We have slightly increased memory usage due to the increase in page table entries that we have to have. And again, we wind up with increased complexity just because now you don't know where modules might be. But at the same time, this is to me anyway, somewhat of a no-brainer thing to do. So if you do have severe issues with this one, I guess you can still comment on the mailing list since we're not merged. Or if you have any comments you want to tell me right now about it. But I feel like this one's somewhat non-controversial. Just correct me if I'm wrong. Nope, okay. But that, are you guys realizing that lunchtime is in five minutes? Yeah. Okay. Here's another idea. This is a POC that we have. It's under development. So we're pretty excited about this one to the point where we've actually got things that we're working on. So the idea is that we need to start protecting pages that have secrets in them. And so our thought was we should allow user space to be able to tell the kernel that a page contains a secret that needs special protection. So we think that maybe you could add a new flag to the Mlock 2 system call. And this flag would be used in order to apply mitigations to the memory area and also maybe the process that's mapping it. And these mitigations might include things like making this page not dumpable, making it so that you don't copy or fork it, or even disabling caching on that particular page. So in this one the only downside that I see is of course we're adding a new system call that comes with all of the maintenance overhead of that, but I wasn't seeing any downsides to this one. I'm curious what people think. There's a comment back there. If you have any problems when you share pages with other processes, you might trick them into accessing a page which has properties which they might not expect and then you might have side channel attacks that you actually create with the system call instead of fixing them. Could you repeat that? I'm not sure. You're now potentially changing the properties of user space page tables and so now if you somehow find a way to trick another process you might effectively create new issues rather than fix side channel attacks with visual visual. I see what you're saying. Thank you. I'm writing it down. Okay. I think this will be the last one since it looks like we're almost out of time. So the last project that I wanted to talk to you about today is removing basically cache breadcrumbs data that might be left behind in system calls. So this one's not addressing a particular attack per se. I don't know of an exploit that does this, but just sort of thinking about it. If you call a system call and you don't really have permission to do what you ask the system call to do, you might still impact the cache by doing this. There might be things left behind as a result even though eventually you got an eno perm or whatever. So the thought was that in an error path it's likely not performance critical. And so what if every time we would return an error we sort of randomly perturbed the cache a bit before returning back to user space. So for example any error that's not sort of a fake error like try again or something like that you might rewrite the cache. There's also a new MSR that you can use on Intel processors thanks to the L1TF issue. We now have an MSR that we can use to wipe out parts of the cache. Otherwise you can do it the old fashion way just by reading random junk into it. So this would definitely impact performance in the error path but it's really easy to implement. It's very simple to understand. It also would definitely make cache contents harder to guess on errors. It would have increased at least with the POC that I've done so far when you're not able to use the MSR it does come with increased memory consumption because of the junk that you have to put into the POC. I currently implemented it with sort of like a per CPU data area that's just twice as big as my L1 cache and just sort of randomly go out and touch it and mess things up and I do mess things up pretty good. So anyway I'm curious what people think about this idea. It seems like a good idea to me especially given that many of the cache probing attacks involve sending some wildly out of bounds index into some system call.  I think this is along the lines of possibly being able to do some sort of intrusion detection by monitoring the error rates of system calls on processes, right? So there's probably I think a lot of exploration that could be done there. Yeah, so to sort of be more intelligent about applying it. If you know that you're going to be generating this is going to be slowing things down could you use it as attack as well? If you know that this is going to generate a performance hit could you possibly be using this as an attack? An attack. Dos attack, yeah. Oh, a dos attack. The performance hit is not that bad. I'd be curious to see to get numbers on how much it affected the existing cache attacks, like the side channels with meltdown for example actually take this mitigation and apply it to an unmitigated CPU that's vulnerable to meltdown and see what it does to it and try to change I imagine it would break all of the existing reproducers, but if you can try to update the reproducer to say okay to bypass this we need to sample it a thousand times more or a million times more to sort of gauge how much this would affect it because I guess if you clear all of the cache then you have no signal but if you're doing the random updates then trying to get a sense of how much it would affect something. Yeah, that's the part I haven't got sorted out yet. Right now in my POC I just clear the entire cache but I feel like that's probably overkill that you don't really need to do that. Sometime ago I've heard about Intel cache allocation technology but maybe we can think not about supporting the cache but about separating, isolating caches for various groups of processes. So the cache allocation technology it's not my area of expertise but my understanding is that it applies to L3 cache and not L1 cache so I think we still have some issues. I would want to ask about the implementation of such modifications of cache because to me it seems that it would require basically a lot of manual work because for example when we have something like IOControl then we have a lot of sometimes we have a lot of return error, this return error that so is there a plan for some kind of implementation of this that would not require thousands of repetitive code insertions, some macro or something like that. So we have the MSR that they have in microcode that can be used on Intel platforms. I don't know what's available on other architecture so I have been doing it the hard way in that case when that MSR is not supported. So cache probing techniques like probe and flush and reload typically rely on knowing something about the cache geometries, you're probing a particular cache line or an aliasing cache line so applying random cache perturbation is probably not might lower the signal to noise ratio on those but it's there is still probably going to be a reasonable signal to noise ratio left over for those style of techniques. So you advocate wiping the entire cache. I think if you were trying to do this wiping the entire cache would be what you would have to do otherwise you're just lowering the signal to noise ratio and I suspect that these things are quite resilient to random perturbation there are lots of papers on how they're resilient to timing perturbation. I guess it would depend on how random you are, right? I suspect the thing that it's critically dependent on is how many samples you can make over time and how many of these things have been to timing perturbation in the past. I would strongly suspect they would be resilient to random cache maintenance. Well, it's certainly easier to just blow everything away. Okay. Thank you very much if you want to talk about any of this further. I'm here.


Hey beauties, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today, and today is Foundation Friday. Now before I get into the foundation that we were reviewing today, let's just go ahead and address the elephant in the room. Yes, my hair is in braids for the very first time. My curls are currently in my A, but if this is new information for you, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and follow me on Instagram and Snapchat because this is old news, boo-boo. This is old news. Let's just go ahead and handle that right now. My Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat is at MsBianca Renee. Go ahead and follow me so you're always the first to know what I'm going to be reviewing next, what I'm looking like, what products I like, where I'm going. It's just a very entertaining place to be. But don't worry, I will be doing a full video on these braids, on how to maintain them, hairstyles, all that jazz this Sunday because I post new hair videos every Sunday. So hit that subscribe button and the bell so you're notified as soon as it goes live. Now back to our regularly-scheduled programming. Foundation Friday. Today I'll be reviewing the Lancome Taint & Dole Ultra Wear 24-Hour Foundation. Everybody has been hyping up this foundation. I am definitely late to the game. Lancome sent me this foundation to review and they didn't even ask me what color I am. They didn't send me multiple options. They were just like, hey, this is your color. And they were actually right. I'm very impressed. I'm currently wearing the color 430 Bisc C. The C stands for cool undertone. Just also W for warm and N for neutral. And they have 40, get this, 40 different shades to choose from. And I absolutely love that. I am 430 and there's 13 different shades darker than my skin tone, which is really great.  And or there's maybe two shades darker than me. So the fact that there's multiple colors past me like there should be, I'm very happy about. Not only does this foundation supposed to last for 24 hours, which is a very huge claim. It also has SPF 15, it's oil-free, and it's supposed to be transfer-resistant. And according to the website, it says that it contains perlite and silica to ensure that excessive oils are absorbed, leaving behind a shine-free, velvety matte complexion. That's exactly what I look for in a foundation. I have very oily skin, so I really want my foundations to keep me matte, absorb the oils, and last all day long. The Lancome Ultraware Foundation is $47. So it's more of a high-end foundation, available at Macy's, Nordstrom's, Neiman Marcus, Sephora, Ulta, or the Lancome website. So without further ado, let me show you exactly how I applied the Lancome Tainte Idol Ultraware 24-Hour Foundation to my face.  I hope I said that right.  This is their Diffusion Continue Dehydration Continuous Infusing Moisturizer. Now for my primer lately, I've been using this primer by Koola. This is their Daydream Mineral Primer and has SPF 30. So this has been great for the summer. Now it's time to apply the foundation. It does have a little pump, which is what I prefer. And I'm going to pump it right on to my Beauty Blender. Let's see how this color goes.  Fingers crossed. Oh, that actually works nicely. I was so worried that my tan was going to mess this up, but they actually did a very good job by guessing my foundation shade. So you do get some nice coverage. It's not extremely full coverage, so my guess would be that it's very buildable. It's not too... It's not like a thick cream either, but it's not too liquidy. It's a nice happy medium. Now I look with just the foundation all on its own. I'm very happy with the color. I think it matches my skin perfectly. It feels very lightweight. I'm getting some good coverage. It's not feeling cakey or heavy. I like it so far. But now I'm going to finish the rest of my face. And we're back. So here we are. I really like the finished result. I am extremely matte right now. This is great. I don't want to start off with any shine or doing this, especially if you're someone that has oily scans. This is looking real promising right now, but it is currently 1 p.m. So I'm going to come back at the end of the day and show you exactly how well this foundation holds up throughout the day on my oily skin. And I'm back. It is now 10 p.m. So I've had this foundation for a total of nine hours. Not even close to the 24 mark, but I mean nine is a pretty long, full work day. So we kind of see what we're working with here. So here we are. This is how shiny, matte I am. So let's get a closer look here, shall we? It held up pretty nicely. I feel like other foundations have definitely made me more shiny. So I do think it's kind of keeping me a little bit more mattified than I'm used to. But at this point, I usually always use an oil absorbing sheet. But get this. I actually ran out. I just looked through every single person I own, and I cannot find one blotting sheet. I didn't know running out was even possible. But the only thing I could find is this Baladarazi, which is by Beauty Blender. So it's actually like Beauty Blender material, but it's like a reusable little cushion. So I'm going to use this to blot my face today. So take one last look. This is how I look after nine hours of wear. And now I'm going to blot my skin with the Baladarazi. And this should only pick up the oils and leave the makeup. This makeup does claim to be transfer-proof. So let's see about that. Alright, so I don't know if you can really tell. There is a little bit of brown on here. So I don't know if it's completely transfer-proof. I mean, granted, I am pushing it on there. It could be my concealer or my powder. But now I think it looks very, very good. So overall, I'm very happy with the Lancome Tainte Edoll Ultra Wear Foundation. I think it did a really good job for nine hours, and I did go outside today where it was like 90 degrees, and I was sweating. Like it was really, really hot. So for me to be out in very hot weather during the summer, it has SPF, and I look like this after nine hours, I'm with it. But I want to know what you think of this final look of the foundation. Do you think it looks nice? Do you think it looks worn out after nine hours? Have you tried this foundation before? Leave me a comment and let me know how well it worked for you and your skin type. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week, foundation reviews on Fridays and hair videos on Sunday. And if you want to know about these braids, that is the next video coming soon. If you want to take our friendship to the next level, make sure you follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat at MsBiancaRenae. I'll see you guys next week. Thanks for watching BiancaRenae today.


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My name is Julia Wester, and I'm an improvement coach at Lean Kit, and what I want to talk to you today is kicking chaos-driven delivery, or CDD, to the curb by looking at the things around us and seeing what we can learn. So when I think about teams, especially ops teams, I think about a lot of people struggling really hard to manage the very demands on their time, and without a defined approach to doing that, we can often fall prey to the highest-paid person's opinion or the loudest voice in the room. So I had an idea that ops teams deal with systems all the time that have these same challenges, but they handle them effectively, and so what can we learn? How can we look at those and find something to take back to our context? So I started with the operating system, and the reason that I did that is because it gets varied types of requests at unpredictable intervals, and that's just what we're trying to solve. But yet it manages to do it quite effectively, so I wanted to look at how it did that and see is there anything we can take there and apply to ourselves. But first, I want to talk about the fallacy of multitasking. So from what I understand, an operating system can only process one job per quarter time, just like we can only have one thought at a time, but the OS does want you as a user to think it's doing all the things. So we fool ourselves about that a lot too, and in reality what we're doing is rapidly task switching, taking chunks of one thing and interspersing it with others, and incurring a lot of transaction costs, and that might not be so great. So how does an operating system choose how it's going to schedule the work and how it's going to decide what to take on from context switching, and the creator has to know that there's some explicit policies it's going to have to put in to let it handle that chaos and manage it effectively, and the first is first come first served, so it's simple, low overhead, fair, but cycle times are long, and it doesn't account for priority or size, so it's really best for homogenous work, and that's not us usually. The second is putting short jobs in front of long jobs so they don't get stuck behind these monoliths, but the problem is that we're really bad at estimating most of the time, and often we don't have a lot of information about duration, so we're just shooting in the dark. That's really not feasible for us. The third is more familiar and comforting. It's scheduling by priority, so that means giving everything a priority, and working from the highest party down, but the problem is that if you have a lot of high-party work all the time, some lower but more important work may not get done, so the fourth is a round robin concept, and that's saying I'm going to work a certain time chunk on every job in a sequence and then do the cycle again, and hopefully we'll finish some stuff, and here though nothing really gets ignored. So I've been talking about the concept of job starvation, and everything but round robin has that concept. There's a high probability that something, some type of work or priority of work may never get started. That's not great. I don't think our customers would like that. They don't want to experience death by waiting. So a way an operating system might handle that is to take chunks of dedicated resource and apply it to different priorities or work classes. So that's an idea that we can do and we can learn from. So if you can't tell, there's no perfect method for anything, much less scheduling. So that doesn't mean though that we can't learn from what's there. And I think that the best way that we can handle it is to blend a few methods together, we look at what's out there, take a couple, look at the pros and cons, realize that every con is a trade-off just like an architecture, and put together a combination that has a balanced set of trade-offs that fit your context. So one common blend that you might see out is the priority plus the round robin. So that's working with our familiar high priority down, but then doing each one in chunks so that everything's getting some love. But there's a key to doing that right, and it's breaking things down into small but valuable pieces. At Lean Kit, we have a concept of Fizzgood. And if we were gonna do a round robin, we would try to deliver something small but valuable in each cycle. That's really important to do a round robin properly. Then we might go a step farther, like the operating system might and say, hey, we're gonna take some dedicated people and assign them to certain types of work or priorities of work. But I'm not gonna forget the need that I might want some generalists or flex staff to help smooth out the rough edges or the extra demand. So the takeaways are first and foremost is really to look at your environment, see what's out there that you can pull from it and apply to your own context. Because we're not solving these problems for the first time. Second is to consider the implications of any solution and make sure they're okay for your context. And then finally, make your work Fizzgood and don't let anything starve. Thanks so much for listening. Thank you.


They work by gathering data, information about us. And that's an aspect that we're not going to change. That's a fact of life. The real question is who owns and controls these technologies and the data and the insight that is being gathered about us. Now, if we can answer that question with we do as individuals, there's no problem here. We have individual sovereignty. We own and control them, and we are getting smarter about ourselves. So that's where the smart comes in. But if the answer is that corporations own and control these technologies and this data, then they are getting smarter about us. And by extension, if this data is available to governments, as we know that it is from the Snowden revelations, then we're talking about a very different type of social system that we're living in. We're talking about a corporatocracy. We're talking about what Shoshana Zuboff would call surveillance capitalism. And that is the problem today because we're not sleepwalking into this. We are there today. So the first thing that we have to do is acknowledge where we are so that we know where to move away from. And that is part of our remit with what we're doing with the seventh pillar here. So there are, you said, what are the most urgent things we should be doing? Well, there are some fires we need to put out very urgently. In Europe, for example, there is an e-privacy proposal that is now at the parliament. And the e, I believe, stands for erosion of privacy because there are, for example, some of the provisions that are in there, they all sound positive. But if you actually interpret them, they're quite negative. So smart cities, if you are in a smart city and just by having a phone with you as you're walking around, you're being surveilled via Wi-Fi and via your Bluetooth, all the city has to do, or all the people that are doing that have to do, is to put a sign up there saying you're being watched. And it's like, OK, oh, thank you for telling me. How do I not be watched? Oh, turn off your phone. Unacceptable. So we're granting internet service providers the same rights as Google and Facebook to monetize our data. And all they have to do is ask for our quote unquote consent. However, if we don't give our consent, they don't give us access to their services. So it's not consent. It's a very predatorial to borrow a term form of consent. So there are fires that we need to fight. The e-privacy directive is the proposal is one of them. Strong encryption and end-to-end encryption is under threat. In the UK, they actually passed the IP Act, which grants the government the right to ask for backdoors on all surveillance technologies. Ask someone from England or from the UK whether they know about this. And more than likely, they'll say, I've never heard of it. And so that's something we need to fight. Net neutrality, everyone having equal access to the internet is under threat right now. So these are fires we need to fight in the very, very short term that we can. If we're looking into the medium term and the longer term, we need to regulate effectively. We can't regulate these companies effectively when they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby the European Commission because we are institutionally corrupt. We have lobbying. We have revolving doors. The very people at the European Commission today who should actually be protecting our rights as citizens may, in two or three years' time, be working for the companies that they should be regulating. This is corruption. We have public-private partnerships where public institutions work with private institutions but which constitute really a de facto privatization of our most intimate data. In Italy, the full, entire medical records of 61 million people are in the process of being sold to IBM. In the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, all of the license plate information has been given to Google in real time so that Google can tell the city and the citizens when there are free car park spaces, but they also know where everyone is. So in the medium term, we really need to regulate, but we can't regulate. No matter what our policies are, if we don't battle institutional corruption, if we don't remove the influence of corporate finance in public policymaking, then we're not going to be able to regulate effectively. And then let's think about what we can do in the long term. Because criticizing, understanding this is important where we are, but we need a compelling inspirational counter-narrative to Silicon Valley because they have tools that work today. They come to Europe and they say the only way to do technology is the way we do technology. And we have to be able to say, bullshit, no, this is not true. We know that we can build decentralized, free and open, interoperable technologies from the commons. I want you to imagine an internet of people, because that is our goal here, to build an internet of people. Imagine an internet where starting in Europe, every European citizen has ownership and control of their own space on the internet. And then when we're talking about these smart things, all of our smart things can then connect to this place that we own and we control. And this is not a system that will require you to have technical knowledge to use. This is an interoperable system. So any organization, lots of organizations hopefully, will host these for us in an interoperable system. And because the core of this is something that should be a human right, we should be supporting it and funding it from the commons. But then we can, because it's free and open, anyone can build and expand upon it and then share that back to the commons. So what we're building really with an internet of people is an ethical core on which we can build an economy and we can build an alternative, a counter narrative, one that is based on ethics, one that is based on a core that is compatible with democracy. And I think that we have a unique opportunity with DM. We have a unique opportunity here in Europe to make this vision, this dream a reality. And that is what we're here to do today with you and together with you. And I think that that is what we can achieve with DM. Thank you.


Forecast number eight from Hollywood, California. The Columbia Broadcasting System presents hop along Cassidy Great Western character created by Clarence E. Mulford and brought to the screen for paramount release by Harry Sherman This is another new CBS program plainly marked for future reference A Roven cowboy like a knight riding out of the West a lone figure gallops through the prairies and mountains of the land Lending a hand to those who need him solving problems in his own way the greatest of all cowboys in fact or fancy The foreman of the famous bar 20 ranch here. He comes hop along Cassidy Look out there. Hello, happy. What's up? Hop along Cassidy everywhere in the West that name is feared by lawbreakers Hurry up your birds change them brands. Let's get this her moving boss. Who's that coming? Holy smoke get moving every man for himself. Let's hop along What up boys going gunning for hop along Cassidy Well, Cassidy it looks like I've got you where I want you at last careful bending Don't go for that gun. Oh You ought to know better than to try and out to a hop along Cassidy Wherever folks are in trouble hop along Cassidy is the man to fix it Hop along Cassidy Whole West is hop along Cassidy's range But hoppy and his pals are happiest when they're at home on the bar 20 the famous Buck Peters ranch in Arizona Where hoppy is foreman and where the top hands in the West gathering the buck house at the end of the day It's Johnny hop alongs protege who is speaking hoppy. I found a break in the drift fence down on that West pasture And so I'll send one of the boys down tomorrow. Okay, right now. I'd like to hear some music How about a song boys sure hoppy skinny's guitar just got here dick brought it up from town of the mail sure is pretty too hoppy Here comes buck I wonder what he wants don't know Guess I'll go outside and see boy sound pretty happy tonight. Yes, buck Roundups over they're celebrating. That's fine. Good fun Hoppy I got a little job for you red corners can run the place. Oh, well, you're again What's up? You remember judge Marlin from down Twin Forksway. Oh, sure went up into Utah for his wife's health. That's right Well, I had a letter from him today His wife passed on the judge ain't as young as he used to be Sadness letter that he's having trouble. Hmm. That's too bad My hunch is that the judges haven't plenty of trouble hoppy. I Thought it might be a good idea if you'd kind of drift up that way might be mind if I take Johnny and California long take anybody you want good and by the way Let's just say that that's a cattle buying trip. Good idea and give my best to the judge I'll do that I didn't I saw you to put us up in your own home judge Well, I sure felt put out if you'd gone anywhere else hoppy dad has told me so much about your mr. Cassidy We've been hoping for a long time. You might visit us We'd been hoping to if we'd known about your good cook and miss Myron or if we'd have known that judge had such a pretty daughter Oh Visitors a bot this is hop along Cassidy and two of his boys in the bar 20 Johnny Nelson in California My nephew Bart Collins. How do you do? Sorry? I couldn't get back for dinner. I had Crandall looking over the spread again He sure is it's in the buy it you selling your ranch judge. Well, I don't want to hoppy, but It looks like a might have to we've been losing too many cattle lately. I had a fine big herd at one time hoppy but somebody's been running them off a few at a time and Getting to the point where we don't know what to do. Have you done anything about it judge all that we can But every time we trail a herd we wind up in the same place They leave a plain trail over to Silver Creek Then they just disappear. I've tried everything. I tell you whoever's taking these cattle is plenty smart Hoppy it's got me licked I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take Crandall's offer And me with the best water rights in the country but dad I don't trust Crandall now look my right I don't trust Crandall either. He's a bad actor But still he's offering you and Uncle Dan a chance to get some money out of the place if you can make a go of it Some money is right. That's about enough to pay what we owe on the place and leave us with nothing There's no use being bitter about it. Myra. That's the chance every cattleman takes But I hate the idea of selling the Crandall. We all feel the same way about Crandall in his way of doing business Every honest man in that country hates the name of Clark Crandall Crandall I wonder if he's the same one we know hoppy. Yeah, same one we ran out of Twin Forks Johnny I knew we was here Judge no one Crandall as I do I like to have you hold up the sale until I get a chance to look things over now Wait a minute Cassidy. We don't want to spoil the only offer. We've got to the place I think mr. Cassidy is right Bart if Crandall's so anxious to buy he'll wait a few days more Well, it's up to you and Uncle Dan Myra. I want to do what's best for you Hoppy you've always been a good troubleshooter in cases like this Will you help us out? I'll be glad to judge Boys and I will follow the trail of those missing herds the first thing in the morning. That's fine Maybe we can find something that's been overlooked before You want to come with us Bart? Oh, yes. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'm gonna be pretty busy with Crandall coming up and everything But I'm sure I can find time to ride with you By the way Bart I put mr. Cassidy in California in your room.  That's all right with me I could sleep anywhere, but I'll be getting the bed turning in Cassidy. Yeah, I think I will I did a lot of riding today Come on California. Johnny. You can share my room with me. You ready to turn in. No, I'm not sleepy judge I think I'll just sit here for a while with my rash.  Don't bother Johnny's just him stood and looking at one member Thanks judge good night See you in the morning Bart. Oh wait a minute Cassidy. I didn't want to say anything in front of my room the judge But clock Crandall's gunning for you He knows you're here. He's been gunning for me for a long time. I know But he means business Take my tip and be on your guard every minute As long as you're here Well, thanks, Pa Good night. Come on, California. Good night Hey, that's Bart's pretty nice fellow hoppy. Yeah, we never should have let Crandall out of Twin Forks Oh, yeah, bad penny always turns up again somewhere Here we are You got a match hoppy. No, wait a minute stand over there. What sir? Where's the lamp here? I can't see a thing Oh, here it is. I'll put it on the table there Now get over by the wall. What's this all about hoppy?  Let's see what happens There's a light Anybody's watching they can see what's going on in here. Well, who'd be a watch out that light? Just what I thought Come on, California. Get Johnny and the horses. We're gonna trail that bushwhacker Go down boys ride into town easy. Sure. Just like we're moseying along and coming in to see the site Copy. I heard this is a tough town. Don't look like it to me. Was you ever in a tough town, California? Why is that why I was in tombstone when it was booming. Now there was a tough town I saw four shootings there just well as time up my horse have to blast a couple armors myself They come up to me spoiling for five. That's just too much. California's dreaming again. Hoppy What are we gonna do with them? Just let him keep on bragging about how tough he is, Johnny Somebody'll make him prove it. Let's see him try it. Why'd you Hey engines, run for your lives. Oh, hold on, California. That's just a shooting gallery, California Shooting gallery in a tough town like this Did you see him start running hoppy? Step right up and hit the bullseye. Well, I remember down in tombstone I'll never mind old timer. Let's tie our horses here There by saloon, huh? Shores lit up. It's like the hottest spot in town. Yeah, I reckon the trail leads right in there boys Remember now, California. Not too many drinks.  Well, I'll have a sarsaparilla all around That's right. That's a very refreshing drink, California. Let's sit down here at this table and listen to the music That was my pretty yeah, but we're here on business hoppy look who's coming over it's Crandall He's our business like old times from the stony creek Cassidy. I heard how well you were doing here Crandall Thought I'd drop in see you. Yeah, I sure appreciate that But I guess you'll be moving on in the morning. Won't you maybe I? Know how it is on these cattle buying trips. You have to keep moving sometimes There's a lot of fine stock up in grass Valley a lot of fine cattle here, too All the wars till the rustlers moved in here Too bad ain't it? I think it is I'm going to do something about it.  I've always made a habit of riding where I wanted to Crandall things are different here than they were in Twin Forks This time I'm in the saddle. I'm warning you to keep your hands off Sorry Crandall I'm not taking your advice You got any more to say you can find me a judge Marlon's ranch Come on boy Get up Looks like we got the place to ourselves happy. I don't think we want it. Come on. Yeah, let's go outside I've been for California. Who's limping you are already nothing one of the environments kicked me in the shins I'm very sorry though. Wait a minute. Who's this coming right Cassidy? It's barred. Sure. We're all right Why well you gotta wait in the house in an awful hurry. I heard the shop and by the time I got out of the house You fellas were riding away. Yeah, we failed a bushwhacker into town. Did you find him? I don't know but we had to talk with Crandall. Yeah, and we had a lot of fun, too You cleaned out the paradise alone. I ought to see me eight men. You're lucky Cassidy that Crandall is a dangerous man Frankly, he's got me worried. Maybe we can worry him some after we look over the ranch in the morning Thousand head of my cattle have been driven up this stream hoppy Russell's always bring them this way. Yeah when they get a little farther up that just disappeared right at show Shokie Falls Barts trailed them time after time. Yeah, I don't know what to make of it cattle can't just fly away Well, they walked this far plenty of signs of them along the banks here Say right pretty spot isn't that romantic miss Myra you come in California Yep, what's the idea right in the middle of the creek cuz hoppy says so come on. All right. Let's right up on the bank here So this is where the trail ends right by the waterfall Yep Ends right here hoppy right here with no place to go. We've scouted both ways from here for miles and not a sign of a trade Well, I'd say there's only one answer to that What do you mean hoppy cattle don't climb the cliffs and they don't stay here So the only place for them to go is right through that water ball On the other side of the water ball. Hi horses. Let's go on in that cut some torches from that dead tree boys Cassidy and water a pound you to pieces it doesn't pound the cattle to pieces box Besides the little legs that feeds in there from the side.  Are you gonna climb along that lake there and go in right behind it Doesn't look very safe to me. Cassidy. We can get through all right and judge. I'll lead the way you stay close to my You go ahead California. I'll bring up the rear Man Say, let me see it bar and all now don't worry about me.  I'll be all right to take it back Are you sure you're all right sure? Just help me up the bank.  We've got to find out what's behind those falls too bad you can't go with us bar Well, come on folks. Let's see where those cattle have been going Right this way hold on to me. I don't want to slip. I will jump to that water now. Oh Too much water for me now now over that rock Dark gone. We're in I didn't think we'd make it. Well, there's the answer to your disappearing cattle judge Looks like you hit it right on the head. I'll be with you.  Let's get back to those balls. I Sure is big in here. I got soap coming through there, but it's worth it Where do we go from here? Happy the key just cut us off and all in turn. Well, that's easy, California There's the trail the cattle left leading right up that creek What do you suppose all that water comes from hoppy? It's way below the river that makes those falls. We'll soon find out This stream comes from the place. We're going to Satisfied those are your brands. That's right hoppy Every heady cattle. It's been stolen from me is right here a lot others too What a set up with those cliffs on all sides Nobody can get into this canyon or out of it without going through the cave And there's plenty of feed and water That's the creek that flows through the cave and if I ever take up rustling. I'm going to find me a place just like this Yeah, sure is ideal for that But we'd better be getting out again. We've been here for a long time box waiting for us outside All right, don't worry too much. I don't think it was hurt very bad Hoppy, I wonder if there could be another trail out of this canyon if there is judge We haven't got time to look for it. We'll go back the way we came already. Let's go Take my arm my now hold on to you with one hand Johnny and onto to hoppy with the other Somebody shoot from that clip You'll never hit him with a cold of that range Johnny everybody into the cave Well, we're safe from that fella. Yeah, here's a bum shot anyhow. I remember Come on. We got a hurry. What's up? Must have been one of Crandall's men. Now that we found their hideout, there's no time to lose. I don't understand This is our only way out. We'd better get out before they get round by that waterfall. We go this way down this tunnel No, no, we don't we follow the stream this way Here's where we left the torches and get them lighted again All right, we've got a long way to go before we get to that waterfall Near them miss Mara, I hope we're in time Don't you worry Mara? We've been in worse places than this with hoppy and we've always come out Reminds me the time when I was trapped in a mine down Arizona, but we're not past California. Well, neither was I I got out All right, in fact a rabbit dug me out California has blown another soap bubble I'm California.  Oh, I'm not three days. I was in there Oh, and then I see this rabbit coming digging down through the ceiling Kind of wings at me and we start digging together and the first thing you know, we're out on top Oh, I sure was grateful to that rabbit that kept him for a pet fed him on carrots He grew so big and tough on him. He just chased coyotes right off the ranch California I don't believe that what's the difference Johnny at least his yarns tear us up. There's the entrance way up ahead Isn't that a man crouching down wait a minute. Well, I must be bought a bar That's funny. He ran this kid up there. Oh, something's gone wrong here. Get back all of you Poor for fast top that's been pouring in from the canyon You think we can make it back to the canyon another chance at low place in the tunnels plumb full of water by now Oh steady Myra. This is mighty serious. Hoppy. What do we do? Well, it may still be a way out judge. It will work fast. How something you said a while back gave me an idea Hmm, what did you say the name of these falls was so shokie falls? Why that's a shoshone Indian name, isn't it? I guess so lots of shoshone's in these pots Shokie they must have meant that it was near the fall somewhere. What do you mean hoppy? Never mind. Let's get going But which way that's easy see the smoke from these torches Yeah, yeah, that's coming from the canyon can't get out down at the falls But it's getting out some way because that smoke's moving and we're moving with it Hasn't been a pile of broken rock clear to the ceiling. We'll never get out of here. Easy Myra. Come on Johnny, California We're gonna clear this rock out my hand. I start right up top. All right. Get out of here. I'll never go through another water, Paul Yeah, tell me with this big Hundreds of cut right in the rock and going up the fresh air Let me out of there Hoppy, did you know we find it? Well, I wasn't sure But in the shoshone language the word shoshokie means long steps But we're going up. Come on. Just but hoppy. I don't understand. I'm sorry I'll show you something when we get upstairs Johnny, California. You stay there and see that we're not disturbed I can hear him talking. Oh, so I could buy the rent. My deal with you was washed up. Crandal Oh, no, it isn't I still want that rent You might have had a chance of getting a candle to be finished Cassidy when you had your chance last night You missed the chance first. You had a shot at him yourself last night through the winter I got him today up there in the cave and I got everything else I needed to with a judge in my right of the way the ranch belongs to me And I don't need my deal with you the ranch and cattle illegally mine now look here youngster. I Don't care what you did to your family and Cassidy's outfit But I do know that nobody's running out on Clark Crandall My men are here the back way you Thing you forgot no man ever lived to get trade shots with hop along Cassidy sure sorry to see you boys go You helped us plenty. We're sorry to go to judge especially Johnny Sorry Johnny, but I like it here. Hoppy says Arizona's the greatest place in the country if hoppy would tell me that himself It might be different. Oh I see come on Johnny. Let's be right. Okay, Hoppy. Goodbye Johnny Well Johnny California Let's hit the bar 20 been listening to hop along Cassidy as presented for your approval in Columbia's forecast series This cowboy hero favorite of screen-going millions can be seen at your local theater now in his latest picture Wide-open town this famous Westerner has not until tonight been brought before the radio audience Like class of 41 which you heard earlier and like all other programs which forecast presents This was a sample broadcast intended to suggest the possibilities of a series based on an idea if you enjoyed hop along Cassidy and Would like to hear his adventures on the air regularly as a weekly half hour of entertainment We should appreciate hearing from you by card or letter to your CBS station Tonight's production was written and directed by Paul Pierce with music by Wilbur Hatch Next Monday in a complete full-hour presentation from Hollywood You will hear forecast number nine country lawyer an unusual dramatic show based on the famous Bellamy Partridge book of the same name and starring the distinguished stage and screen star Raymond Massey Mr. Massey and this character plays against the varied background of life in a small town since the turn of the century Coming into contact with the problems that confront the country lawyer in his community Problems that deal with circus barkers and with murder trials with love stories and with swindlers with marriages and mortgages Mail order frauds and malpractices Carrying with him through them all the good humor and philosophy of the American way of life Until next Monday then at forecast time. 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Is this guy an Arab? You'd think so if you looked superficially at what you were seeing. He definitely isn't one. There are many telltale signs that contradict your first impression. Hence, that without a belonging to the culture would be unknowingly dismissed. Unfortunately, the media haven't really helped in revealing the true essence of how Arab men, and more specifically, Arabian Gulf national male dress, is actually adorned. The numerous times that sheikhs or Arab antagonists in some action movie or political thriller series have been misrepresented by a very lazy attempt to reflect a Middle Eastern identity is very common. And so, let's take an opportunity to explain how this national dress that has developed over so many centuries has led to a very intricate expression that is more informative and telling than you can imagine. First, let's clarify that the term national dress used is intentional. Others would want to define such attire as a national costume, but this term wouldn't be applicable for our discussion because in the Arabian Gulf, more than anywhere else in the Middle East, these outfits are worn daily and not an outfit that is only proudly dawned on special occasion. The elements that make up the national male dress are as follows. Depending on which country you're in, the long robe is called a thaw, and is the main individually tailored item of clothing that covers the body from neck down to toe with sleeves reaching the wrists. The next element is the gafia, a tight fitting cap made of woven cotton that is rarely seen, as it is generally hidden under the next main item, the pitra, or headscarf. A square fabric folded in half as a triangle and placed accurately covering the head just above the face. The pitra comes in various sizes to accommodate the various people in terms of heights and breadth. The pitra can also be adorned in many different styles from the very casual to the very formal. The agal, the weighted black woven woolen tubular rope that is folded into two to achieve a double loop shape, is placed gently on top of the pitra to secure its position. The agal also comes in many variations in diameters, thicknesses, and textures. The final element is the bishd, a looser semi-transparent robe worn above the toe that is made of camel hair and goat's wool that is decorated with gold-thread ornamentation around the collar area. This garment is reserved for more formal occasions such as official government business or social events. All Arabian country national dress is more or less composed of these five elements. Yet there are many iterations and intricacies for each element that makes an attire easily identifiable as one belonging to one gulf nation or another. The saudi though is almost always made of a white fabric, year round and has a more fitted look to it. The saudi though's sure color used to be a mainstay of the garment but is now slowly fading away. The headdress is generally the white and red patterned shmalk, a thicker version of a pitra. And lastly, Saudi men typically have cuffs at the end of their sleeves. Kuwait shdashas have a casual fit that is neither slim nor loose. The main identifier of Kuwaiti's robe is through their collar, a band collar with either one or two exposed buttons. Kuwaitis also have a right chest pocket and tend to introduce many more seasonal variants of the fabric fused for their djdashas. Certain styles of wearing the qatra can easily identify Kuwaitis from other gulf nationals. Bahrainis are very similar in their national dress when compared to Kuwaitis and in fact these two nations are closest cultural traditionally. Consequently, telling them apart is the most difficult. Two main elements distinctly represent the qatari nationals, the agal and the thoob. Starting with the agal, it is the only nation that has kept a long black tassel at the rear working as a counterbalance to its forward tilt. The other main element to the qatari variation is the strong collar of the thoob that is a very firm and hard look about it, very similar to a western classic shirt collar. The Emirati nationals have the largest range of national dress with a colorless kandura, the robe, as well as a decorative braided tassel that hangs off the collar. The kandura is typically loosely fitted and can also have lighter color variants throughout the season. In addition, UAE nationals also wear their qatra as a amama when the fabric is wrapped numerous times around the circumference of the head. Finally, Aman, where there is no qatra nor it's accompanying agal worn as head dress. The qatra is actually used on occasion as a belt that carries a ceremonial dagger. The local thoob is very similar to that of the Emiratis. The main difference is that the local headdress comes in two variations. The amama, same as the one worn in the UAE and second, an item of headwear called akumar, a mid height decorative cap. When seeing things that seem so similar from a certain context or position, one can miss a tremendous amount of information for Gulf eras. Although dressed in more or less the same elements of kutur, they can tell the difference of nationality from the first glance. In some cases, they can even tell from what regional part of a nation wears of national dress originate from. Richness of culture comes from the subtleties, from appreciating the nuances between one people and another. And for the Arabian Gulf men, how they dress, although on the surface and to the uneducated and unexposed appears identical has a protection of information that is undeniable. A diverse range of personal expression that is beautiful and a collective belonging that is prideful.


You're live inside theCUBE for exclusive SiliconANGLE, Wikibon coverage of EMC World Day 2, wall-to-wall coverage. This is a check-in segment. We're going to be checking in here with our social program check-in with Bill Schmarzo, the dean of Big Data. You've been on theCUBE so many times, I can't even count. But you really hit it out of the park a couple of years ago at EMC World. We know each other. We both live in Palo Alto together. You're inside at EMC with the Big Data. You've seen the progression. And we calling you the term dean of Big Data. Now it's fast data. Are you faster now or bigger? I'm definitely getting bigger. So what's the update? Give us the update. Well, here's the thing that's interesting, John, over the last few months, and I'm not sure if this is a pattern or not, but the business users care. The business users care. I mean, in the last couple of months, I have had more meetings with the business side of our clients than I've ever had in the past. And in fact, next week, I am meeting with the CEO of a major organization to help them think through Big Data, not as an IT initiative, but Big Data as a business transformation initiative. To me, we've been talking about this. I've been out there pontificating and pounding on the table, taking my shoes off and doing the cruise jet sort of thing. And now people are taking notice on the business side. So it's transitioning from speeds to fees to business. What are the key conversations that you're having there? So the conversations in the most part about companies trying to get additional insights about their customers, what they're doing, their customer behaviors, for example, talking to cell phone companies about how their subscribers are using their apps, what apps are using and what situation and how that relates to churn, how that relates to upsell opportunities. People looking at movement through a movie theater, movement through a retail store and trying to figure out what people are doing in the store. And then from a fast data perspective, how do I leverage my mobile device that they've got in their pocket in their hand to really have an engaging interaction with them at the point of customer engagement, leveraging everything I know about them. Great, so what's the update with EMC service? We had Tom Rolloff on, we had all the leaders from EMC, what's going on there? Well, we continue to build out in our big data capabilities, bringing on board more data scientists, big focus on Hadoop skills. So we've always had a pretty strong traditional EIM capabilities, no MDM data governance, data warehousing, data fabric. We're expanding our data science at Hadoop skills, we're expanding our data virtualization, looking at data federation and things like that. And obviously, on top of what's going on at Pivotal, because that's going to be a new platform for us to deliver business solutions to our clients. Is there confusion out there with Pivotal with your clients? I think they want to know more what's going on. They understand the Green Plum message, they understand the Gemfire, Sequelfire message. They don't understand yet how it all comes together. And I think that's part of the challenge that Paul and team has over the next several months is to help our customers, not only the IT folks, but the business side helped them to envision what that's going to do from a business perspective. Okay, we're checking in with Bill Schmarz with the Dean of Big Data, EMC employee. Good friend of the queue has been on multiple times, tech athlete, as we say here. I'll give you the final word. Share with the folks out there the vibe of EMC world this year.  Some people are seeing on Twitter more confident EMC, EMC's growing. And just tell the folks what's the vibe here, what's the key vibe from the show? I would say engaged. I have a lot more people engaged. I'm having a lot more conversations with people about not about theoretical things, but very pragmatic discussions about what do we do today? Here's our situation, here's where we want to go, what can we do today? And so the conversations have become much more focused on action and very pragmatic versus theoretical. Okay, this is the queue. This is a check in with Bill Schmarzo. You're going to hear more about this check in program and consist of lightweight, get the data. Thanks for sharing, Bill. We'll be right back with our next guest, the CTO of EMC, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer here inside the queue, we'll be right back.


Thank you. OK, my paper, the title of my paper is Ethnic-based Politics and Class Solidarity in Ethiopia, The Missing Link of Political Relations in Contemporary Ethiopia. This is a working paper written as I was traveling from Addis to outside of Addis, and I encountered a certain political conditions. So based on that, I tried to write this paper wondering how emancipatory politics such as ethnicity failed to bring horizontal solidarity in Ethiopia. So my aim as a paper is more theoretical and also it's historical. It is a conversation between history, ethnography, and theory. So let me go to my ethnographic entry point. Aren't you gone yet, it says? Aren't you gone yet? Was a regular question a young Shushain boy in one of the towns of into Ethiopia encountered from politically-mobilated youth whom they call themselves natives by calling him and other underclass workers Shushain boys, porters, and et cetera, as a non-native. I met this young boy in 2017 when I was traveling outside of Addis Ababa, where this is a southern part of the country. I do want to mention the town because this is an encounter in many towns of Ethiopia. So it is better to silence the place because it's a similar situation is happening in many places in Ethiopia. So aren't you gone yet outside of this town? This is a point in which I convinced myself I should write something about this because I felt it. So in this town, I was crossing. I met this Shushain boy working at the gate of one of the hotels where long distance travelers stopped by for lunch. I had a conversation about this, his livelihood. He narrated how he came from one of the rural areas with his elder brother and other older boys for work and alternative livelihood in the town. He and his friends found a small town suitable for their survival. It has been more than four years since he started life in this town. He attends evening class while working at the daytime as a Shushain boy at the gate of the hotel. He also serves the hotel as a porter. He is grateful for the town which he calls it a home and a working place. The only problem he recently facing is the use of the town began to hustle him and always giving him an ultimate attempt to leave the town as soon as possible. Aren't you gone yet was a regular question he was hearing from the youth. He knew he does not want to leave the back to rural village. He was not interested to go to another town or a big city such as Addis Ababa. He sees the town as his universe, not just a place but a home. This has become a normalized news of many towns and cities in Ethiopia where a federal structure is designed and implemented to resolve what is known in the country the national question or the nationalist question through identity based demarcation of regions. So we see if you travel to many places outside of Addis even in Addis also people are being labeled as non-native and become victimized by these politics. This I encountered this since in 2017 but since then we see we hear a lot of news about this occurrence between the meeting place of people called the natives and non-natives is becoming a political category. So I have to talk something about Ethiopia federalism. I think most of you know the Ethiopia Federation is a response to the nationality questions or the questions of nationality which was one of the popular question during the Ethiopian revolution in 1970s. So the question that challenged the project of national state building based on the Westphalian model which aimed building one Ethiopian nation out of different ethereal linguistic groups otherwise known as nationalities. The nationality question in Ethiopia preceded in the 1970s revolution. Even articulate long before the Ethiopian student movement usually we see it is the beginning of the nationality question is Ethiopian student movement but it is not because only in the late 1960s that Ethiopian student consider the nationality question the question of nationality as a major concern of their movement. The question preceded the peasant movement or the peasant rebellion of the 1940s and the 1960s. I'm not doing genoa here, you know as a search for the origin but I want to share with you that there is important work by one of the scholars of early 90s, early 20th century. And before the first decade of the 20th century a scholar called Gabriel Baikadai from the Tigray region wrote two books, important books which many people made and share. So Gabriel is one of the pioneers intellectuals who traveled to Europe and come back and wrote theories, histories and politics in Hamarik in the local language. So I see the national question in the articulation of the nationality question and his work which is published in the first decade of the 20th century. Gabriel critics emperor Manilik for marginalization of his home region Tigray which become battleground for shifters and lords. So he disproved many rumors about Manilik's involvement in that intra-regional conflict but he also critic Manilik for his reluctance to stop the conflict and create condition for development in Tigray region. It is a similar situation, he studies repeating itself in his work. Today also the federal government is also, there is a tension polarization between the federal and the Tigray region which for Gabriel is marginalizing the Tigray region or the delinking between the Tigray and the federal, as the central state is a wrong politically. So he advised the central government to engage the Tigray region politically. So it's a very, it's a kind of history is repeating itself today where I'm not saying the central government is marginaling but the politics seems similar at least a polarization. So in Gabriel's work clearly shows that the hegemon of the Shor region, the city of Addis geographical situation as a center of the present the Addis Ababa and surrounding sociologically dominated by Amhara and Orumu population. As his imagined state is symbolized through association, he expects the leadership of the association to be inclusive of all its parties. A nationality question for Gabriel was the quest to have an inclusive and non-part partial state apparatus. The configuration of the political is defined to make it more inclusive and participatory to the extent limit the power of the king in that time. So limiting the power of the central government and in making itself, making it democratic and a nationality question for Gabriel in that time. So he used the concept of association and democratizing the state of Penn State and making it more representative of nationalities and region was his prescription. So this was Gabriel Tvaikari writing in the beginning of the first as a 20th century, 90 or 506. So then what happened is after that long in 1960s and 70s we have witnessed the Ethiopian student movement, a journal of Ethiopian student movement called The Challenge published articles particularly written about what most writer term is a nationality question or regionalism in that time or national question. Andreas Scherte, Hagos, Gabrielsos, Malasai Ali, Alen Mouhab Tu, Alen Limakon and many of them wrote and debated about the nationality question before the coming of the revolution then even after it during the revolution. So the debate between these students of the nationality question was articulated articulation of historical contradiction born with the fore-motion and the constellation of the Ethiopian modern state that is the last 90th century. The national question is fundamental for them central sacred and delicate issue of Ethiopian people's movement. The most dialectical of all questions I said during in the literature. So from this debate, I can't summarize the debate here but to share with you what I have read from them is most writers, most writers of the student movement uses a nationality question rejecting most tribe in the nation as a concept they call it nationality question or the question of nationality. So they first clarify the conceptual and theoretical standard. Most also argues that the nationality question is subordinate to class struggle and self-determination must be exercised with anti-feudal, anti-perilist outlook as well as with the political imagination of socialist construction. And in resolving the nationality question mainly in regional form, all rights such as equality, self-rule autonomy and democratic participation in the political space must also consider the right of minorities anywhere in the country above all self-determination as a resolution of nationality question is the role towards building democratic, egalitarian, secular national state out of the empire of the Ethiopian. What Gabriel articulated 50 years before or at the beginning of the century is similar with what Marcus is the radicalized student imagine the sort of the language of different. Few organized only behind the nationality question and the standard solution of self-determination after the session, the guerrilla fighting then we see a socialist movement which history also favors them defeating the dirt and numerous resistance movement mobilized against the dirt behind the nationality question. I think now when I understand it retrospectively disregarding the class question. So the federal system is a response as a policy side identity nationality created homelands for selected majority communities otherwise known as nation nationality in the peoples. Some national mother state is created for linguistic groups such as the Tigray, Amhara, Harari, Oromo, Somali and Afar while mixing two or three in Gambila and Ben-Sham. The exception in this federalism is the southern nation nationality peoples which is now become the hub of many types of questions created one region comprising more than 50 communities with their own language. Therefore by granting at least to the major ethnic groups their own mother or sub national states and to others to the right of self-administration at local government level, the federal system tries to enhance a regional autonomy and also answers a question of inclusiveness, the avoid exclusion and democratize the state in a certain way, at least you're at it. These mother states created an assuming a homogenous group in everything that defined territory connecting culture and territory. Federalism, federalism, regionalism for granted take regionalism for granted and it also creates where never existed. So this is what's happening. So it took for granted the national, the region, regionalism, create identity and the territory together. So now it is trying to reproducing itself in multiple ways. These regions and local states become homelands as a mother state for those who know linguistic groups. So other states who don't have mother states they want a mother state now. So Ethiopia is now full of these type of questions. It is not about self-administration. It's about ownership of the land, ownership of a home which where nobody will say, aren't you yet gone? This historical reading of disregard territories inhabited by Ethiopia and heterogeneous heterolinguistic groups who often become marginalized minorities, non-native, non-indigenous subjects of the Ethiopian Federation. The ruling party PRD for the last three decades tries to use other measures to unite, to calm down these type of questions through one party system, through developmental state, through developmental discourse, it united this, it silenced this type of question. It divided communities, essentially through state power, through a party system, a centralist physical system, the developmental state. All these tries to depoliticize the mass, tries to silence the mass from asking similar question for the last three, 20 years. But now, with the popular protest and the political... Thank you. Popular protest and a political transition. So Ethiopian experiment federal system for the last almost three decades. But for the last four or five years, we have witnessed popular protest that intensified for the last five years. It checked the federal system. It checked the EPR, the whole deal of decentralization and centralization. Decentralization one way and centralization the other way. This in turn result in the, brought a transformational politics, reform politics opening up in the recent moment. A new reformist group with an EPR, they've emerged out of the ruling party and mainly from the two largest communities, the Oromo and Zahmara, that lead the transformational priorities from the above and also from below, from the popular use from the two regions, Oromo and Zahmara. I'm not saying other elites and other popular forces are not participating, we're not participating in the protest. Protest has been widespread in Ethiopia, any different overt and hidden maze. So the protest symbolize communities determination to resist depoliticization, which I was talking about. It began the self repoliticization while transformational period signaled the re-beginning of politics in post-protest Ethiopia. The protest also signaled the polisibility of trans ethno-linguistic solidarity when the Oromo and Zahmara communities act in concert under the motto of Amaroma. However, such solidarity appears tactical and accompanied by essentialist assumptions like brotherhood, eternal friendship, and so on. So it's not a solidarity, it was a tactical alliance to defeat the Ethiopian Tigrian ruling party. So the issue of solidarity is one origin of all Ethiopians mainly from Amaroma and the Oromo, they had one unity and so one origin. And during the protests, and however, this didn't avoid violence after the post, in the post, in the protest, it was very successful. But in the post-protest, and in the politics of transformation, transition, we see, we witness violence, and this tactical alliance is no more existence at least in the popular arena. The mobilization of native and non-native become a trend in the contemporary Ethiopia and many parts of Ethiopia. Despite foraging reform process, democratization and the beginning of politics are accompanied by the discourse of what we call the Mademma from the ruling party or the leader of the prime minister which is solidarity, unity, synergy, harmony, and italy conflicts erupted causing large number of internally displaced people in the country. Many people were told to leave the town, the city, the place they were inhabiting. Aren't you yet gone is a question which many people faced and they were forced to go out from the different people, from the place they used to live. The federal structure which set out to answer to the national equations gave birth to the native question. Nationality question without class solidarity led to native question and horizontal competition, polarization and conflict in many parts of Ethiopia. Class blindly deployment of the national equation produce the native and non-native category of political subjects and the question appears to be native question which defined non-native as the other if not as an enemy. So what is a missing link? This is my, I don't know. I like history, I like ethnograph but this is the core part of my thesis of the presentation. This is a product of the missing link between the nationality equation and the class consciousness. It is a pitfalls of national and class consciousness in Ethiopia today. The student movement or Gabriel Baikadan articulated how they should democratize Ethiopian state without horizontal conflict at least without horizontal conflict. But the student movement also articulated class solidarity is important to protect the people of Ethiopia from class, from capitalist, global capitalism. Otherwise it will be creating a bourgeoisie state or it's creating a lot of political elites in different parts of Ethiopia. Even if the session is possible it is creating the bourgeoisie state that doesn't help the Ethiopian people. So class consciousness, so the pitfall today is both national and class. So my point there is about the missing the absence of class consciousness in Ethiopia despite the inequality despite many people share the leverage in similar level they are not targeting the ruling class. They are not articulating the ruling class is manipulating the politics, controlling the politics. So self-determination in Ethiopia today is translated as determination about nativeness of a community. The claiming of a territory according to accordingly to make a mother state or homeland. The native question is a quest for sub national state construction based on nativity with no articulation on the nature of the national state domestically or its role is a global capitalist. Maybe it is a way capitalists is penetrating in the global south of the moment in which by creating a lot of fragmentation polarization capitalism is penetrating the globalist. I don't know that is a very straight reading. The question has completely forsaken class analysis as a national question, the native question. For second class analysis the issue of self-determination is articulated only as a means of resolving the native question by forming a regional state or district or local state in the name of a nativity or a cultural autonomy attached to a territory called homeland today or Killing or Waredah or so on. The land question which was inseparable from the nationality question in Ethiopia is reduced to demarcating the native homeland irrespective of the nature of land relation and that historically emerging in the country. With no relevant debate on the role of the nationality within the global capitalism, anti-capitalist emancipatory politics state to be absent in Ethiopia today. Even in the context of global capitalist crisis today there is no discussion or the opportunity to exploit the global context with the leadership of the national state. Even the development of state project with its catching up project face the challenge with domino effect widespread of the quest for motherland to the nationality than as to the natives or nationalities. Moreover, while the nationality question was articulated towards democratizing the Ethiopian state, the tendency now is to create a perhaps the most decentralized despotism with its double authoritarian future. Manifested both at the national level, state level against the popular masses or at the local level against the native minorities. So a kind of decentralized despotism is emerging in Ethiopia today. At local level or at the Zola level or at the regional level power is dispersant but despotism together dispersant. So democracy is compromised at the national level or so at local level and the class question is absent and that is where the political pre-comment in Ethiopia. Thank you very much.