And guests who's back by Moses, it's by morning, social media platform for why in the morning for Queens Wednesday, and representing for the Kings on this particular Queens Wednesday. So remember, we are on social media, as always, they're always right there below the screen. And before I introduce the segment and the name of my guests, I'd like to send a major shout out to Gouda Kayesu and Calami Val for always starting our Wednesdays on a laughing note with those breaking views. So if you happen to interact with videos that might break the views, I send them away on our social media handles, and I'll say it again, right below the screen. So we have some people already on our Facebook who are sending their comments away, and we really, really, really appreciate that. So keep them coming so we can sample them towards the end of the show right there. So yes, it's time for Strength of a Woman. And my Strength of a Woman of the Day goes by the name Carol Samor, and she's a consumer specialist. Carol-san. Thank you. Your camera is number four. And I've been looking forward to this for some reason, because this title right here, I think it's the first time I'm interacting with it. Interesting. Yes, so your camera is number four. You can introduce yourself if I missed anything. Qua Credential, Zaku Pali. I'll give you a chance, My name is Carol Mbola-Samal. I'm a customer, I take care of the customer, I'll say that, but majorly my title is Key Account Manager. I'm also in sales and marketing, and a customer service professional. In these, I mean, it's just basically in the sales process, you interact with the customer right from the time they buy their product, half delivery point, you make sure that the process is seamless. You take through the customer, the entire process of the sales, until they buy the product from you, even to after sales follow-ups, and make sure that the entire process is seamless. That's what I do. So customer service specialist is your title, and you had to do a lot to get to this point, but we are going to get to that. So I'd like to know in this line of work, customer service professional, as a customer service professional, is it industry specific or a customer service professional can work, can cut across industries? I work for Can General, so that means I take care of the Can General customers. My work basically is, majorly the water measured in is on the Key Accounts, but it doesn't mean that you ignore the other general customers, you are serving customer that works in the showroom. But obviously, there has to be the Key Accounts. Correct.  Right from our consumer products, that is the TVS, the border, border, up to the customer who is buying the equipment, that is the doosan equipment. So you must have all the customers with what we call co-values.  The concept is the same. All right, so when I walk into, say, Can General, and I get excellent service, these things are all premeditated, it doesn't happen by chance. These things are all planned. Well, as an organization, we live by the co-values, that is our key value, even when you work at the reception, you will see that it's a same return, making customers smile. So once you work in the showroom, you have to work the talk. Right from the cleaner, right from the personal sales, right from even the boss. So our co-values have put us in a way that once you come in the showroom or you're having a presentation from a client point of view, you embosses on the co-values, that's making customers smile and for me to take quality. I mean, we have a franchise of consumer products, that is both on TVS and that is the two-wheelers and also the Piaggio, which is the three-wheeler, normally called the two-wheeler. That's what is known in the market. In a scale of one to ten, how much do you think you love cars? Or know about cars? I'll say eight. Eight? Yes, I do. All right, would you always know or love cars or it happened when you interacted with this show? Once agent is a management trainee, that was way back in 2010. The knowledge that you are being given, usually was just on accounting, but I found my way to the sales function where you find the automotives and where the customer is. I found that will be that function that means bringing revenue to the company. That's what I wanted to be associated with right from the beginning. So I could start learning, like a field where men are dominated, you find that most of the riders of men, you find that I want to know the CC, I want to know the horsepower. I'm curious to know if a client comes for the first service, what is it that is changed? Is it a filter? I need to know so that in a perspective where they see I'm a woman, I'm able to tell them, look, I know the filter is this much, we love to change the filter, the engine oil and all.  Questions pertaining to sex, hold them for towards the end. I'd like to know, what did it take you to get to this particular point? What did you have to do? Let's start with your primary school. Right from our age for full system, it's changed by now. I'll say education is a pillar, but now getting from the school and also going through my university level, once you come from a school, to be honest, you don't have the application, the job level, so my job training, in job training is a management training, that's when I learned that I have this passion of maybe not only following on my JD, I'll go out of my way and get to know something else different. If you're given just to do customer inquiries, and the person will do the follow-ups a week, before the boss comes, I've already done the follow-ups, so you find, hide these interesting. Initiative. Correct. So you studied commerce in campus? Yes, I've done a Bachelor of Commerce marketing option, and my MBA specialized in Strategic Management. Strategic Management. All right, so between you attaining your degree, or studying Bachelors of Commerce, and going in for the master's degree program, I'm going to do the follow-ups. Are you working? Yes, I remember, I applied for Bachelors, now HAPSA, which is HAPSA, I applied for just a normal Direction Representative with Sales Agents, who could go and create accounts for customers, so, but I didn't stay there for long, just want to understand what is it that, from my initial, I'll say, beginning of the job career, I just wanted to involve myself in the sales process, so you could go prospecting, just the normal prospecting, are you qualified, are you banking with any bank? So my work was creation of accounts, I worked for Bachelors, I also moved to consumer, business that was in standard, then now I can't generalize the management training. I was trying to find myself. You were trying to find yourself? Yes. All right, I'd like to take you back to when you were in campus, specializing in marketing, and right now, working at... Cardenter. What are some of the things that have changed when it comes to marketing? Marketing has evolved, obviously. What are some of the things that surprise you in marketing right now that didn't exist when you were doing your final year in the University of Nairobi? Today's customer is tech-sav, that means, even for us as marketers and people who are given the responsibility to sell these products, you need to be aware of the dynamics in their market. For example, I'll give you an example of customer works in the showroom. A normal border border, today, we refer them to as just a border border, but this client is, because of the digital era that you're living in, is using the application. He's new, but if you want to get a safe border, you have to use the application. So, as marketers, what we're trying to do is become innovative. Again, innovation is one of our key values, whereby we come up with products that match the trends in the market, understanding the customer journey because digital era is here to stay. So, we find that most of our, I'll say the border border bikes, the HLX series, now we have it with a charging port so that you don't lose power. I mean, you are using the application all day to get your client to get your next ride. So, you don't lose power, so we are putting the charging port on these units and also you have the fuel gauge together. So, we have to move the trends of, just journey with the customer. I mean, technology is here, so even the products, even as marketers, you need to sharpen the, so I'll say you need to equate yourself with what is happening in the environment so that you'll be at par with the client. All right. Yes. And I'm glad today I have a guest who's part of the system, part of Corporate Nairobi, Corporate Kenya, Corporate Africa. And I had a conversation with a lady who's so passionate about the feminist movement and she was telling me the Corporate Africa, Corporate Nairobi does not love women, it does not provide the same opportunities for women and I was of the idea that the moment you start discriminating people, discriminating against people on any other aspect, apart from what's in the heads, you're bound to feel. That is like signing your death warrant as a corporate. Am I right or is she right? To some extent, I'll say it's right because we have the perception that in the corporate world, 100% of the senior level management must be banned. But I'm seeing that all of women have shifted recently. If you check around even in Kenyan perspective, in the commercial industries, you have Tabidaka Rancher with the CEO that steers your woman can lead. Check even the energy sector, we have Kenyan, we have Rebecca, me and always leading. The cabinet is... That means that it's actually in the mind, it's doable. It's doable. So what I encourage young women out there is just whatever you're given to do, I'll say one thing, make, there's a writer who says, John Hooden mentioned that make each day your masterpiece. Wake up every day knowing that, well, I'm not a woman, we're just being given the same responsibilities. At the end of the day, we need to meet the same target. So you're telling me that women have opportunities out here? Opportunities are there, it has to keep constantly looking for them. Keep looking for them. Correct. Wonderful. All right, all the queens who are watching right now, there's opportunities for women in the corporate world, in Nairobi and in Africa as well. Yes. All right, so something that people don't really know about you is that when you're not working with consumers or customers, you like to farm on the side? Yes, true. I do a side asset, I call it so. We do pig farming in some small ranch in Konza. We put a small kind of a pig business, a population of 40 just began. Yeah, and it's so fascinating. You seem to be working with some partners there. You have a farm manager on site, and basically on pigs not really, once you get the expenses correct, and you have the farm manager in control of the vaccination, especially the first 21 days, it's not all, and then you have a supplier in terms of feeds, and there's constant water supply. What is the market value of a fully grown pig? Interesting, on suppliers like Farmer's Choice, they come for the young ones, those are the ones that are meant for slaughter. That is between six months, they are the ones that come for slaughter on the same. So for that... That is what makes our bacon and smoothies and so on. Interesting. I regret them, the grade one, grade two, the pigs for export, there's so much pork for export, the ones that has to be used and thrown away. So you can't eat on your own because you don't have the facilities. But I would say it's an interesting venture to come up with. Price base is around 15,000. All right, wow. That's good money. I'm thinking of getting into that as well. All right, the reason I bring this up is because not so many people of your generation are interested in farming. Let's say our generation, going down, would think about investing in farming, especially the ladies, because the glam, the obsession with glam now is skyrocketing. So I'd like to know, what would you tell some of the youths out there about this farming thing? Basically, many people are waiting to be employed and one, if you get the chance to be employed, give it your best. If you can get away to grow any opportunity that you get, please give it your best. If not, try to venture out. Diplomas are making it out there. Farming, farming, there's a lot of opportunity terms of you can do pig farming, you can do poultry, you see guys, exhaling poultry for example. You can even venture in farming. However, growing, with plants. Yeah, you can grow the plants, but start small. Start small, start small. Don't, a dream starts small. Start up here, you've not gotten experience at expenses or nothing. Just to run a simple kind of a business. Start small. And what would you tell people employed? And that is the only source of income they have. My thinking is different. You need to diversify. Again, if you diversify means that today, you've seen so many, because of our distress kind of economy, companies are laying off. So I think that job is not there today. And then tomorrow, watch next for you. So that should always be the thinking? Option number two. Option number two is correct. All right, I feel that. So how can they find your social media and how can they get a hold of your services as well? All right, I'll say that. My Facebook page is Carole Samb. Follow me on my Facebook page is Carole Samb. As mentioned, beginning work for Can General, Canine, Popin, I will look on our products, right from consumer products up to equipment business, including the after sales, such as the HMRF, the lubricants and all that, yes. Including the after sales? Yes. You cover people, killer, killer pun. We do, we take care of what we sell in terms of spare parts and the service. All right, do you have hobbies, by the way? Because you seem to be working so hard. When you're not working with the consumers or you're with the customers. I do. Or doing your customer service thing. You are farming.  At times, I love football. Conceal it to watch many ladies do it. We lost last night to buy and... Please, oh my. I know they did, I know they did. I'm sorry, my, I'm sorry. It's fine, it's fine. So, football is one of them. What other thing gets your mind off things? Seri? What other thing gets your mind off a crazy day at work? When I'm not at work?  Me, I come to football. Something you do for leisure. Oh, for leisure. At times, I travel much. I love networking. Our nature of job is really I have to connect so many clients, networking and meeting new people. That is it. I have to be outgoing. Thank you very much for sharing. Thank you very much for coming. And we appreciate you so much. I appreciate too. Your last remarks to the queens who are watching you right now because I'm pretty sure they are inspired by the strength. Thank you. Mine is to encourage you.  Anything is possible. Actually, the sky is on the limit. Get out there. We mentioned that make every day a masterpiece. Do something that is out of your way. If a JD is in terms of this, just become proactive. Our purpose, put in commitment and some discipline. And the results will be amazing. Commitment, discipline, initiative. Correct. Commitment, discipline, initiative. Three keywords. Thank you very much, Ms. Garong. We appreciate you. Yes, we have come to the end of Strength of a Woman for today. 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You want to start with an intro? OK. Welcome, everybody, to the firewall talk. My name is Kamanaik Berger from HP Helion, soon to be known as HPE. I am Vishwana Jayaraman from Rokate. And I'm Sridhar from Cisco. Been working on F4s for a while now. Anyway, so let's get things started. I mean, I think a couple of things that we wanted to really do is that I think first off, to say, why are we here today? I mean, F4s, as some of you who are following it know, was started in Havana. And from that point, there have been some changes. But at some point, I think possibly as we came out of the summit in Vancouver, there were some concerns that were expressed in terms of the API, the applicability of it. And then it was probably in August when Kyle, the then PTL of Neutron called a few of us and said, hey, I mean, we are serious about F4s. And we really wanted to jumpstart this and get this going. And let's kind of take a fresh look at requirements. Let's see what we need to change and get that moving. And that's kind of where we landed up over here. And as a team, I mean, we are kind of a collection of people with different affiliations. I mean, in some sense, the contributors are mostly vendors in some form. We do have, German is from HP. We have some kind of operators. And I think today what we really want to do is that we want to get give you guys a feel of where we are, where we are going. And we really want to encourage some conversation with users to make sure that whatever we are doing with this restart, we are building something that with user input and we land up in a good place finally over next couple releases. So that's kind of the motivation. And for today, really, what we are covering is, yes, I mean, this is not a talk where we come and tell you that we have done these things and there is no demo that we have to give. I mean, we're kind of starting things off. Doesn't mean that we're throwing away the existing code, but we're trying to adapt that to see what we need to change in terms of the API. And that's kind of, and then layout sort of a roadmap as to where we are going. So that's kind of the outline for what we want to present today. And where FOS is today, essentially what FOS is doing is that it supports North-South perimeter firewalling. And we have issues with DVR interactions on East-West flows. And so this is one issue that we have. And the other thing is that FOS, when it started off, it didn't really have a place where you associate a firewall. The firewall was associated with a tenant and essentially was applied to all routers in the tenant. And from that over kilo, we moved that along to a model wherein it is associated with a specific router list. And in talking more and thinking more about this, it seems that it's more applicable maybe at a router interface level than putting it on a router. That seems a bit too nebulous. So that's definitely one of the issues that we have been seeing. And even as we added support for the router, we always had that mentality that maybe we do need to keep the port as an option, which seems to make more sense than putting it on a router. And the other big drawback is that FOS is kind of very router specific. Even if we did bring it out and say, let's put it on the ports, it's essentially very router specific. And we are getting a lot of interest and people talking to us and saying that, hey, how do we solve the VM to VM traffic firewall use cases? And so that's something that we really, there is a lot of interest in that. And then that immediately kind of leads to, OK, so now what is the intersect with security groups and what is security groups, what is FOS? Some of the discussions has been that with security groups. I mean, it's an established API, and there is some reticence to kind of go out and change that API for compatibility reasons with AWS migration and things like that. So in some sense, we are kind of hitting a little bit of muddy waters in terms of how we coalesce these things to exist together. But this is one of the things that we want to go after right now. And the other thing is with service chains, containers, I mean, there is a lot of interest, especially for vendor firewalls to plug in. I mean, today, there isn't, while as vendors, we do support our firewalls, but there isn't a fantastic way to plug in kind of an appliance. And that's something that with the evolution of service chains, and that's something that we also want to get to. So the big thing right now, as I kind of alluded to, is the evolution of the API. And I mean, right now, we're kind of throwing some ideas around to see what the API should look like. Things that kind of, what we really see is that we definitely, we see this need to go to a port-based model as opposed to a router-based model. And when we say port-based, we also want to make it more generic so that we are not kind of very router-centric. We wanted to address the VM use cases as well. So this is one of the major things that we are working on. And the other aspect kind of related here is that in terms of roles and how you deploy firewalls, and in a tenant environment, you may have someone like a tenant admin that might want to enforce a particular firewall policy that is enforced tenant-wide. And there might be users, kind of like the security group model, where app guys may want to put in their own firewalls. And how do you kind of coexist these things? So this is another aspect that we are trying to see what we can capture onto the API. And the other generic things is like, how do we do some kind of grouping mechanisms? I mean, we have had a blueprint out way back where we talked about address groups. Now, if you want to think in terms of from grouping mechanisms that you can use in rules, as well as grouping mechanisms that you might say where you apply a firewall. A firewall is applied on a set of ports. A firewall is applied on all VM ports on a tenant. So we are kind of looking at some of these kind of grouping mechanisms in terms of how you apply the firewall. And then kind of the other thing is how do we interplay with the security groups? And this is going to be like a big discussion in terms of how we actually affect that. German is going to kind of lay out some of the plans and how we move forward with some of those aspects. The other area where things were broken was on East West Firewalling with DVR. We have had discussions with the DVR folks. And I mean, there are some ideas around that, but this is not a very straightforward, simple problem to solve because DVR kind of introduces an asymmetric model with respect to routing. And F was inherently because of connection tracking, we kind of have to see where you apply the firewall. You have to see both sides of the traffic. And DVR kind of breaks that assumption. So there are ways to solve this. And now what is the optimal way to solve it? And maybe as we move towards a VM port model, maybe this is less of a problem. So that's some of the things that we are thinking about as well. So yes, we are trying to kind of go through the API and come up with this. What would be ideal is to say that, oh yes, we've kind of gone through this whole API model. And here is this complete lay of the land and what the API looks like. And then we start working on it. But really what we are saying is that that's probably in terms of velocity that's probably going to hurt us. So the approach that we are taking is that we are working to getting crystallization on the API as a long-term objective. And as some things fall out and we have clarity, we want to kind of attack those things in the M-cycle itself. So I mean the router interfaces, I think we seem to be kind of fairly unanimous on that aspect. The VM ports, yes, I think we absolutely want to do it. There are some challenges with VM ports, especially with how you interplay with security groups. We do want to see if we can pull that in with respect to Mitaka. And service groups is another notion wherein you have a grouping mechanism for protocol and ports so that on a rule, on a specific endpoint, you could specify a whole bunch of protocol or port kind of grouping. So this is something that's happened in the past. I mean, the reviews have been out for a while. So maybe we might kind of pull this in. And then zones is another thing that's a long ask for as a basic firewall feature. Let me hand it off to Wish to talk more about that. So what I'm going to talk about is in zones is actually just give you guys an overview. It's not about what we're going to be implementing. This is probably what it will look like, but I just want to introduce the concept of zone-based firewalls that we think will implement in the upcoming cycle. So in general, most of you must be aware that ordinary firewalls, when applied to a parent, or it's a rule set applied on a per interface basis, which means any traffic coming to the interface, you actually do some packet filtering at that point of time. So if you want to take it to the next level wherein you can actually group interfaces so that those interfaces become part of a, where the same security policies applied to those group of interfaces, which will be the zone. And they'll all share the same security zone. So here, the packet filtering will be applied at the zone or the group of interfaces level. That is what the zone firewall would be. And any traffic flowing between the same interfaces as part of the zone, there won't be any filtering happening there.  Additionally, next slide. There are other things, key things as well, some criteria, but we may not get to everything. This is again, just introducing the concept and saying what could be part of the upcoming release. Other key features, other key things you might want to be aware of in a zone-based firewall is that, well, any traffic coming into the router and going out of the router may not be filtered, right? That's the other thing. And other constraints would be that if you have a interface that's part of a zone, it cannot be part of another zone. So it can only be part of one single zone. And you, any, if you actually have any interfaces that are not part of any zone and if you don't have any rules that apply to the interface, any traffic can flow unfiltered. And any traffic between interfaces within the same zone will be unfiltered. So this is the kind of thing we want to use and sort of think about how we apply in the upcoming release. So this is one thing we are identifying, but there are other things also we are looking for in tactically and also that's where German is actually, German is actually going to go through what we can do tactically and what we also have a long-term roadmap. I'll hand it over to German. Thanks. Okay, so for in the next cycle, let me talk about a couple of generic cleanup things that are needed. So to basically deal with current pain points. So the L3 agent, how firewall is going into is pretty messy. So we need to fix that and add it to the observer hierarchy to have a much more cleaner insertion. So just to move forward. The other thing is the test coverage. So tests have been changed in Neutron and we basically need to move our tests in three now. And as we want to increase our test coverage, basically to get earlier with the box and everything. And right now our automatic tests are not very good. So we need to set up an automatic gate. So every time we check something in it gets basically tested. So the whole testing thing needs a lot of improvement. Now I want to talk about what we did during the Liberty Cycles. So we got together in Seattle for a mid-cycle and we encouraged the community beforehand. So when we were in Vancouver, I said let's collect all the use cases or your requirements, what you expect from firewalls and also what you expect from security groups. So we can basically understand what does community want out of this API and what makes sense to move it forward. So we collected all of them and we sorted them into a Trello board.  What needs to be added to the firewall API if we would leave it today, how would need to be evolved to basically to have all the things the user wants and then as a gap switch where both in the Security Group API and the firewall API and then we decided a few things which we felt were out of scope for either the firewall API or the Security Group API because they were just not something we felt should be done there and then there were things which are okay, it won't fix you. Guys, all this happens to stuff we felt we shouldn't even cover at all. Out of scope means more we might want to do it in the future and won't fix, probably it's more than the thing of never. And then we basically flagged them all and sorted them all which is a good guiding for us and then we now go and develop a new API and develop improvements then we have all those requirements and can see around them against our API can actually do those things with this API we are proposing. That's the next slide. So this is a rough component design probably will look different when it's realized but one thing we learned early on when we started working on it is the Security Group API is laughed. People really want to retain that they can't really deprecate it and so what we are trying to do is we are trying to do this kind of dual thing. We want to have the Security Group API API we want to have our new API the Firewall as a service API rebooted with lots of lots of new features but we want them all go to the same back end so there's one source of truth because the current thing which annoys me as a developer is I might open a port on Security Group API but it still doesn't work because someone in the Firewall API somebody blocked that and so what I really want is this one back end where people then one source of truth so I can see in both APIs what's being blocked and what's available. Of course, so basically if you're a fan of Security Group and nothing will change you can use it like you do today will all be the same but if you then start touching a rule you might have created a Security Group API with the more enhanced API then of course you will basically then switch to read only and you can't touch it again because the other one has much more features that are not replicated there and so over time we hope that people will migrate over to the new API but that's one of our hopes. On the other things at the bottom but another thing we learned is the Firewall space is just a very small picture small piece of much bigger security parcel and we need to be very adaptable very blockable to basically allow for those complex scenarios people might want to do. So you want to have a firewall insertion plug-in because you might want to use IP tables to put it in as our thing. And a firewall insertion plug-in you might want to use a service chain to do that or might be another way to do it with OVN or OVS or whatever you have there. A packet capture is something which got a lot of ass by people locking out packages and then maybe shipping that to analysis software which looks for anomalies in your network traffic and then makes decisions. So you want to enable that or maybe tap into a tab as a service but make it blockable so we can block in whatever makes sense there and the hard piece of firewall is packet filtering. We also want to make that blockable because you might want to use the IP tables you probably go for reference implementation but you might want to do an SDN thing to drop things like we have seen that thing OVS they now have security groups implemented there so we want to make it blockable and flexible enough that all those things can be covered with our design. So the other thing what we did in Liberty we basically deprecated the firewall as a service API. It has been experimental for a while and never gained enough traction that people didn't really use it the way it was supposed to and so we decided to kind of deprecate it so we can move on. It doesn't mean that it's going away immediately so we don't have a new API so we don't want people to be without firewalls in Liberty and so I think it's not going away immediately but we want to make sure that everybody understands you shouldn't bet your farm on that you shouldn't make now the biggest firewall plugin ever for it or make the biggest automation ever for it because it's going away and what's important for us and I learned at the hardware I did load balancing V1 to V2 and we didn't do any backward compatibility and we learned at the hardware that it's not how it's supposed to work and I'm saying the API might not be backward compatible but we need to include the vendors so it's not always that vendors want to make the step from the current drivers to the new API and so we need to make sure that we kind of are backward compatible enough that the driver which right now works in the old firewall API continues to work in whatever we develop either by getting those vendors engaged that they kind of make the adapter drivers or that we kind of add to the compatibility layers so they can basically run the old drivers might not have the full functionality but it still works so customers or operators or users are invested in those appliances they are not suddenly discovering if you upgrade to Mitaka or N or whatever you can throw this device away you don't want that so we came up with a road map and we want to enhance the test coverage it's very important and the reason we want to do that is we want to do test-driven development for API redesign so as we develop the new API we want to develop the test to basically immediately test that and when we look at our API redesign we absolutely want to go port-based and basically I interpret that as a neutron port because everything is going to a neutron port service chaining is connected to neutron ports we have Korea which exposes containers as a neutron port so this is I think the right integration point for the firewall to integrate into neutron the other thing we want to do we want to augment security groups so people who want to try us out and right now today use security groups they can go over and have similar or the same functionality maybe even more so it's worthwhile for them we want to make an IP table space reference implementation because without a reference implementation you can't really do anything in OpenStack and we also want to work on service groups which is a grouping mechanism grouping is very important to make it easier for users we don't want them to write millions of source destination we want them to have higher level constructs than that then so that's our goal for Mitaka and depending on how many people we work on then we might get it done, less done maybe more done, never know but going further on in N we want to improve our reference implementation so going port-based introduces one important question is so right now we have routers and people have far less routers than they have ports in their installations so going port we will basically need to get better scalability we need to basically figure out ways to more efficiently push updates to our firewall because we have now much, much more insertion points we have to update, we have to manipulate and so scalability is a topic then for N to make it actually work for bigger clouds not just DevStack and then HA that can be really used figure out how we can do HA the other important thing which talked about is zones we'd love to have them much, much earlier but one fear we have we really want to get the API out in M in Mitaka so we put zones into N but if we have enough room in Mitaka that things go even faster than we thought that we have more contributors and there's lots of excitement so we talked to a lot of people and it seems engineers are coming from everywhere to help us so maybe zones are making it into Mitaka but we are hoping have them for sure in N then for O we want to integrate with a lot of things which are currently developing the community there's the service function chaining so we think it will be mature enough in O that we can fully integrate with that and kind of leverage them for our service insertions and also be a part of their use cases because when you look at their presentations there's always the word firewall in there and so we want to beat that firewall so we want to do that in O but an exciting thing happening in the community is the common glass fires want to leverage them want to be compatible with them we think they will be mature enough that we can integrate with them and the other thing we want to have finished there's the common back end for security groups and firewalls that doesn't mean that we haven't developed it yet but our goal is that in O that we have shown enough development, we have shown enough functionality we have proven ourselves enough that basically in the O release that we will be there right in the box with firewall as a service and have the common back end as basically the backwards compatibility for security groups because what's happening is security groups are they are right in the box whereas people have to install us as an extra and we hope by O we have proven enough that we can convince people to put us in the box and then kind of become the default way of doing this security firewall-ish security in an open stack and of course by then we will have lots of tech debt we have to pay off okay let me talk about how you can help so we have a channel called OpenStack Firewall as a service where we all congregate and join that channel, say hello and then we will say hello back and so we can start contributing the other thing we have is we have weekly IRC meetings right now they are Wednesdays on 1830 UTC for the North American Europe bunch and then we have one on first days it's a zero UTC where we encourage Asia Pacific but we probably gonna change that a bit because we kind of picked up a bunch of people out of Bangalore and that's not convenient for them so that might change but right now that's where we are and we always try to publish the agenda so people know what they expect not a great way for you to contribute is if you see that something is missing or a very mistake then you can file a bug on RFE for your idea and you can add it to your agenda and you can talk to it and so then we can collect that and then sort of project manage that in launch pad and if you get serious about helping us then you need to sign the contributors license agreement or whatever else will replace it and then you can start helping us in Garrett can code review we are always looking for code reviewers and that's actually the best way to get started in OpenStack is reviewing code to see how things are programmed, how things are written and so yeah, a lot of code reviewing can write code, it's a good thing, we like that can write documentation documentation is very important for us so some projects are more like an afterthought but we wanna really have good documentation because we really count on that this thing has a right adoption if you don't document it right people won't know how to use it and then they won't use it so documentation is really the corner piece of our strategy get people use it and so we need documentation and of course you can help if people ask questions in the ISE channel know the answer, be sure to jump in and the other thing we wanna do is we wanna do a mid cycles very likely sometime in January, February, next year in Seattle, so if you like Seattle you should plan on coming and yeah, invite everybody, questions. IP tables, reference model and I have a question different update in the reference imprimary station supported? Say it again. Is there supported or different update IP tables?  Is that your question? I'm not. IPv6 and IPv4, IPT was... You can do IPv6 and IPv4? Yeah, we do support V6, even today. Yeah, we do support V6. IPT is known as an OVS, it's a part of our strategy. So it is on the line, technology has some space problem in the approach table. Have you considered providing the API a part of our service to mark, to give them your opportunity to mark the project and then act on that? I mean, I think, yeah, so marking is probably a little bit out of our, you know, our actions are more of permit deny, but there is a QoS project which I'm not sure what, if they've gone beyond limiting, but probably marking is in their roadmap. Yeah, so I think one thing is with DPI or any classification scheme, we hope that in neutron, we get to a point where you have a common way of classification and that might be something that might feed into a QoS mark action or a firewall action. Hopefully we'll kind of lead to that eventually, but today we are not there yet. We are not there. Yeah, we want to do common classifiers later and also in O, so that's when we want to think more about marking. Is there some call to action for helping with this new API, especially when you're moving to ports and zones? This is a call to action. That's the call to action, yeah. So basically, you know, everybody has to start giving their use cases and beating up on that API, I think. Yeah, so I think one thing that we also should do is that I think we'll make sure that we kind of link all our ether pads and all these things into our OpenStack FOS wiki. So that way it'll be easy for you to, I mean, today everything is not linked, but just give us a couple of days and then hopefully just a Google OpenStack FOS wiki will get you to the wiki page and we make sure that we kind of have everything linked and you guys can jump in there. And we'll definitely start with a set of OpenStack pauses and wide specs for all those things. We encourage everybody to look through the specs, make sure that we can review them and everything. So yeah. Can you elaborate a bit more on the service groups? Because I'm thinking from a device technology, it looks like address books and application sets. Yeah, it's very much like an address group. The service group terminology is more to talk about, you know, to have a collection of, you know, protocol and ports and you can, so instead of, I mean, the motivation for coming up with it, of course, this came up like about three cycles ago. The motivation was rather than having multiple rules, I mean, with the rules looking like, you know, source IPA to test IPP, you know. Port 80.  So that's the whole idea with service groups. As I have this documentation, you can call it like HTTP server and then you'll have it on something and then you know, that's all the things for you. I think it's also gonna help, right?  The same rule, I mean, so now, the way at least the FOS is structured is that the policy is reusable. You can take a policy and apply it on different, at, you know, different points. The rule is bound to a policy though. Question. Where's the firewall function deployed in a network, a network known as OVM or OVS or DVR? Where? So I think that's one of the things that we want to solve here in that today it's deployed only on the router but we wanna kind of make that change so that our binding is more with a neutron port or a collection of ports. So then it could be on a router interface, it could be on a VM port as well. Now OVS or, I mean, there I think we kind of hinge on where, when it comes to VM ports today, you know, security groups are, you know, put in a Linux bridge sitting in front of your VM and our implementation will probably go that route but as Garmin mentioned, if you look at OVN, OVN is trying to put security groups into OVS and which means that, you know, if that happens in neutron, so we will take that from this one. Yeah, we wanna be as blockable as possible so that you could have an OVN driver which then kind of takes our model, takes the stuff the user created for API and kind of puts it into OVN. So that's why we wanna be as flexible and as blockable because things always change and there's lots of technologies wanna support but we wanna be the API for them. Yeah, and I think the other thing is we'd love to hear from users and that would be the, you know, that was kind of one of the motivations for doing this so that we can at least connect with some people that can help us drive some use cases and, you know. Yeah, absolutely. It's still too, I think it's still too early to know how we wanna achieve the scalability goal. There are some things service groups that get more scalable, we wanna study that and understand how it all worked but we wanna first see how the implementation looks like, how we get to the ports and how the agents look like, we put out there and then when we have that figured out then we are gonna scalability in more detail. Got it, that's it. All right, thank you. Thank you for attending.


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Since beginning this channel, the questions which I am most frequently confronted with regarding philosophy are undoubtedly these. Where do I begin? Who should I read first? And how should I go about approaching something as ambiguous as philosophy? These are understandable questions to which even the esteemed professors of philosophy can relate. Something fantastic and one of the great things about philosophy is that it is open to all human beings as human beings. The knowledge offered to us so lavishly by our predecessors is offered equally to anyone willing to sit down for a while and listen. Even without access to a curriculum or spending $100,000 you can rise to those heights through your own dedication and stand beside giants. Let us proceed first with a question to yourself. What do you hope to gain from this endeavor into philosophy? And what are you willing to give? Some outspoken friends or family will undoubtedly inform you with all their wisdom of the uselessness of philosophy. We should not take this personally as most think in terms of financial gain. But my guess is that riches are not your reason for your interest. If they are then I regret to inform you that while some material gain may come in later years as a result of your studies it should not be expected. In most cases I would guess it is truth that you seek, simply an answer to your questions. To find some order and semblance in this maelstrom which we call life. Whether or not this is something you will gain varies from person to person. Some claim to have found it while others seem to find more perplexities than truth. What I can promise is that while on this journey you will gain the joy that comes with understanding and perhaps even calm in the face of the inevitable. You may run into hurdles here and there but press on and you will find yourself a little greater than you were before. Philosophy will not cost you significant amounts of money but what you will be required to exchange is your time which in most cases is worth more than any currency. Are you willing each day to give an hour or two to give your undivided attention to some long past sage? If you have met this prerequisite then I will give my method. First if I can echo the great 20th century philosopher George Santiana I would tell you to let others clean better if they can the windows of their soul that the variety and beauty of the prospect may spread more brightly before them. By this I mean claiming philosophical supremacy over another is a vain and trifle thing. Move to the rhythm of your own tune but let others enjoy that privilege as well. Some may wish like myself to light their candle at every torch while others may prefer a more solitary path. Whichever you choose be sure to not just read and study the philosophies but also the philosophers who generously left them behind. Read actively and consider if what you have read relates to your own life experiences. Not all that you come across will be worthy of archiving but being able to separate what is important to you and what is not is a valuable tool to acquire. There are countless books and individuals to choose from all of which I think have something of value to offer us. I will give my recommendations but remember if you find one of interest or of which you feel better suit your own path then do not hesitate to follow it. Where it takes you may be of better use to your own life goals. I would also add that this path is a continuous one philosophy deals with the inexact which means that the finish line may be only an illusion. You may find that you have more questions the further down you go. This I hope will not be an exhaustive list only a few recommendations to help you along until you find your own philosophic path. Let us begin. Start by sitting down a while and engaging in dialectic conversation with Plato. Here you will be introduced to metaphysics, theology, ethics, theory of education, theory of statesmanship, and theory of art. Once you have wholly or at least partly absorbed the radiating passion of Plato move on to the sobering Stoics, Xeno, Chrysippus, Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, Rufus, or Marcus Aurelius. All of these men will heed your call and all will help you to withstand the prose of life. If we forget to mention a few of the eastern sages then what kind of list would this be? So invite Laozi to sit with you. The old master would lovingly welcome another student to study in the way. So seek out Confucius, a man who has helped shape an entire nation's culture will certainly, with his golden rule, help to shape your own ethical ideals. Move on to the Middle Ages and immerse yourself in the Italian Renaissance. Here you will discover Machiavelli. What he offers us is a political philosophy which will focus upon how individuals of the ruling class actually behave, not how we think they should behave. Once you have had your fill of the Italian Renaissance, try your hand at that of France. Here the guerrillas Montaigne has left behind his essays, which is one of the greatest works of the age. Do you wish to converse with one of the greatest minds history is bore? Replete with endless wit. Then pick up a copy of Voltaire's Candide or Zedig. I would rank these among the best fictional philosophical writings which have been pinned by the hand of man. Take your leave from the French and spend some time with the Germans. Things may become slightly confusing here, so when you come across Kant, you may feel yourself lost among the metaphysical clouds. In this case, enlist some help from William Wallace, the philosopher, not the revolutionary. Perhaps the most popular of history's philosophers, at least if we pull those in our time, Friedrich Nietzsche, also hails from Germany. Here is genius so prominent that it drove the man insane. Adding a copy of Beyond Good and Evil and thus baits Zarathustra to your library will sit well among the other names which I have given. I'd be ashamed if I didn't add my personal favorite philosopher to this list, so when you are ready, join Spinoza in ferreting out the ultimate nature of things. When you read his ethics, make sure to read it in small portions. You will at first bring confusion, but after some time and repetition, I think you will find yourself amply satisfied. Finally, season your philosophy with the lessons of history. By reading history as well as philosophy, we allow ourselves the ability to humanize our knowledge, the ability to compare our thoughts to the way that history has behaved time and time again. There are so many who can deliver these great lessons to you, but the one who I owe the most to is without question, Will Durand. When someone spends half a century writing an 11 volume history of civilization, there is no question he will have many valuable lessons to share. Now I would ask the listener to, if they can, add a name to my list in the comments below. Who knows, there may be some that will benefit from your recommendation. Many of the names I have spoken about here in this video are covered in brief videos on my channel. Check in the description below if you are interested in learning more about these philosophic giants. If you are interested in entering the world of philosophy, then consider subscribing to my channel. Here, my goal is the illumination and exaltation of history's greatest philosophic minds and ideas. As always, thank you for talking philosophy with me. Until next time.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with a 2021 upper-deck Skybox Metal Universe Champions, random letter break number 28, going by the first letter of their first name, PMGs, Jumbalize, a lot of fun stuff in here, all card ship, there are the letters right there. It's also an early bird special, if you're one of the first 10 spots purchased, you got a chance at some extra spots. So that's our first dice roll, one and a four, five times, one, two, three, four, and five. After four and a one, there's the top four right there, Sasha, Steve, Sasha and Steve. A little buy one, get one scenario for both of you, we'll put that rooftop next to your name so you know that those are your extra spots, there are the letters once again. Now second dice roll, let's roll it, randomize it, three and a five, eight times for names and letters, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Three and a five, eight times for the letters, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, C down to A. All right, Steve with all these letters, C, K, E, G, H, V, M, L, Sasha with T, S, C with J, R, Sasha, Z, all other letters not on this list and P, Petro, B, N, Steve with D, W, and Sasha with A. Let's sort alphabetically. And while you're considering trades, let's see which box we're going to do. We've got one, two, three, four, five, we'll go one, two, three, four, five on the dice roll and if I roll a six, we'll just roll again. Two, and we trade, probably not right, we're trading, letter trades, pretty rare. So let's just move on, TWC, trade window closed and let's just print and rip. Here's the list again, hot off the presses. Next box in the store right now, be an early bird, try to win some extra spots. Every once in a while, we'll find an autograph in here so we can look out for that. All card ship, good seeing a different variety of players, it's a multi-sport break. Musicians in here as well, some other non-sport related peeps. Good luck, Ang. And there's the PMG, that's Sarah Winter, model. She was named Miss Canada in 2020 and she finished runner up in the Miss World Canada competition, native of Duncan, British Columbia wanted to compete at the Miss Grand International in March 2021. It's 99 out of 150 and Sasha with the letter S, 510, just tall, 2. All right, what else can we find in here? LeBron James, card for letter L, that will be for Steve, and that looked a little different. There's Allen Iverson and a Michael Jordan, so the Michael Jordan goes to Steve and the letter M. The Allen Iverson is a numbered card, 75 out of 150, the answer, going to Sasha and the letter A. Nice, Grizzlebees, hello. Tiger Woods, insert, Sasha with the letter T, another Tiger Woods here, I don't know what these base cards are going for, but I don't see a lot of Tiger Woods cards in general so I think that'd be worth something, right?  I'm Joe for JaspeysCaseRates.com, that was letter break number 28, I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one, bye bye.


I think the Sustainable Development Goals are important as norm setting, setting standards to which everybody should aspire, to which everybody should adhere. These Sustainable Development Goals in some ways are even more important because they apply not just to developing countries, but to the developed countries. One of the important points of the SDGs is to say, no, there's a much broader agenda out there. GDP is not an end in itself, it's a means to an end. And if GDP goes up, and most people with standard living goes down, something is wrong, our economy is not performing. That sense, I've been saying very explicitly, the American economy is a failure because for a majority, a vast majority, there have been no increases in standard living. The idea that there have been so many goals and so many targets has been criticized because it detracts from a sense of focus. I'm not so concerned the SDGs are meant not just for governments, very clearly they're meant for our society as a whole. Each corporation can say, well, here's a list of things that we ought to be thinking about. Some corporations, almost all corporations ought to be thinking about the environmental goals. They also ought to be thinking, are they treating their workers fairly? There were many other goals that other people wanted to put into the list. The fact that so many people wanted to have what they were worrying about on this list is testimony to the potential influence of these goals because it will play an important role in norm setting in both the developing and the developed world.


Coach, good to see you. Appreciate your time. I guess Riley Gate, for me, I want to ask about Declan. Named the team captain yesterday. Just how happy were you to see that? And just what have you seen his growth since you've been with the team? You know what, it was awesome. I mean, we got a lot of guys on this team and on this defense that could have been voted captain. Mike always talks about just because you're not a captain doesn't mean that you can be or that you're not a leader. And I think since I've been here, Declan has been one of the leaders, but it's a good accomplishment and opportunity for him that captain is football team. So it's kind of been more deserving guys. So I'm fired up for him. And I want to ask you about Clowney as well, who will be used, I'm sure, all over the defense. Just when you see a guy like that and you've seen him over the years, just how much has he helped the team and how much would he maybe help guys around them? Yeah, I mean, we're glad he's here. He makes guys better. And it's awesome when you see a guy like that walking around the building. So we'll look forward to getting him out there and working with our other guys. But we're really excited the whole football team is to have them. And last thing for me, I guess one of the benefits of the Zoom is we'll get to see inside your office. I see a poster of Muhammad Ali. And I also see some boxing gloves behind you. What, how much, is that just part of the mindset that you preach or and does that go into some of your coaching philosophy, just those two things themselves? Yeah, and you also see a picture of my son back there too. I think you glossed over that one. No, it's just kind of, you know, we're fighters, so we fight. I mean, that's what our position is about. So that's kind of what that picture and those gloves are about. How old is your son? My son is eight. OK, appreciate it, coach. Kyle. And coach, I just wondered a little bit about the interplay. How much interplay is there with a guy like Simmons and Clowney? How much can they help each other make life easier for each other? And maybe who gets the most benefit out of that relationship? Well, when you're talking about past rushers in general, usually the quarterback picks who sacks the guy. I think when you've got multiple guys that are able to get pressure, I think it helps everybody that's in a rush and it helps the cover guy. So, you know, it's having two or three or four, five, six, however many guys we got that can rush and play good, run defense, it can only make us better. And that's sort of a follow-up on Jeffrey. Mike said he's had a great camp. He gave a couple of examples. For you, what has been the moment this camp that you could really see the leap that you feel like maybe he's about to make? Yeah, I would say that, I mean, there was one player early on where he took off and ran about 40 yards and chased the back down in training camp and said, OK, we kind of got something there. But he's been good. He's been, you know, physical doing the things that we're asking him to do in the run game and affecting the quarterback. So excited. Terry? Coach, how much can adding a guy like Clowney create more one-on-one match-ups up and down the line and allow other guys to be able to get to the quarterback without having to blitz as often maybe as you did last year? Yeah, it's, you know, any time you got a guy where the offense got account for whether they're putting, you know, sliding the center to him or helping, using a tight end to chip or a back to the chip. That means there's fewer guys out on the route. So I think that's going to make us all better.  So we're excited to get him out there. I'm good. Joe? Hey, Trell, thanks for doing this. Another Clowney question for you. I just wondered, what room is he in? Like, do you guys fight over him? I mean, how does it work in terms of, you know, because obviously you can move around and play both of us and things like that. How will that all work out? Yeah, he's on defense. That's all I can tell you.  He's just a defensive football player. So we're all excited to have him, you know. So he may be with the DBs, maybe with the inside linebackers, maybe with the outside linebackers, maybe with the D line.  We're just looking forward to getting him out there. Buck? Coach, I apologize if you've already answered this. But with Jeffrey, we've talked to him before about looking to develop more as an interior pass rusher, but not, you know, not sacrificing technique to make sure these, you know, not, for lack of a better term, not trying to do too much. Are you seeing that kind of growth and development from him so far through camp? I know, obviously, he hasn't had really any opportunity to be able to test those abilities out with live reps. Yeah, I would say that he's done well and he's developing an identity. I think when you look at good rushers in this league, whether they're an interior rusher or an outside rusher, all of them have an identity. And I would say that Jeff's doing a good job along with all of our guys we're working on their identity and he's developing an identity. What, I guess, is the identity trending towards, if you could be a little more specific? Yeah, I would say it's trending towards violence. Like that's what he's gonna be. He'll be a violent football player. Thanks, Coach. John? Yeah, Coach, when you look at Ad and Connie, I apologize if it has been asked, but I'm curious as far as how that impacts a guy like Jeffrey Simmons, what you guys like to do with stunts and those type of things. Yeah, again, I think it impacts the entire defense. Not just Jeff, but all the other guys. I mean, again, you got an impact player that can do a lot of things, play a lot of multiple positions. You can move them around. And that's important to Mike and John as far as having guys that have position flexibility. It's important to all of us. And I think this player brings that to our football team. So we're excited to have them. John? Hey, Coach Williams, looking at Denver, obviously you're very familiar with Jarell Casey. Wondering what you think his level of motivation is and will his familiarity with the team help the Broncos at all?  I'm more concerned about us and what we're doing here. I mean, I love Casey and continue to love him, but my focus is on my group and what we have to do here to try to go out there and play good football on Monday night. Jim? Coach, I'm diving back in. I guess Jack Crawford got started late, but seemed like he really kind of picked up momentum during camp. Did you see that and you feel good about where he is at the start? Yeah, I feel really good about Jack. Again, he's another guy that adds position flexibility, can do a lot of things, move them up and down the line and we're excited that he's here. He works hard, he's bought in our culture here and we're excited to continue to work with him. And as far as Mack and Dickerson go, were they able to make the progress that you wanted to see in camp and maybe what do they need to continue to work on as the season goes on? Just getting better and understanding what their roles are and what we need them to do day in and day out and practice on the field, off the field and in game. So both of those guys have worked really hard and trained in camp. So again, we're just looking forward to getting out there and continuing to get better. Are you a motivator during the course of the week or I know every player's different and you probably know certain guys have buttons you've got to push, but how much do you spend your week or maybe game day and getting in a guy's mind to try to get more out of them? Yeah, I'm a truth teller. So if that motivates them then so be it. But I think they all want to hear the truth. So I tell them this is what you got to get better at. This is what you do well and this we're not gonna accept. So if being truthful is motivation then so be it. But that's kind of been my way. I've operated over my years of coaching in this league and college football is just being as honest as you can with football players. And obviously there's certain guys that you've got to push certain buttons. But I think the key is a coach is just knowing your players and kind of knowing what each individual needs. And some guys need more love. Some guys need a more foot up there, you know what? So you just got to figure out as a coach what each individual needs.


Hey guys, what's up? It is Drew here from Lone Fox and I have a room makeover for you guys today I am so freakin excited about this makeover. I'm already done with it And it's gonna be actually a two-part series so part one and part two I'm gonna keep this intro super super short and sweet because this video is jam packed with so much This is going to be the first part of the makeover I'm also doing three full DIY projects at the end of this video Just as kind of like an add-on because I wanted to add a couple of personalized elements to their space as well So definitely stay tuned throughout the video to see those DIY projects But a little background on this makeover my roommate Marie actually has a childhood friend Her name is Nicolette and she lives here in Los Angeles with her roommate Abby and they have moved into an apartment together But the living space is kind of a challenge. It's like a living space mixed with a kitchen It's just a very very hard It kind of almost feels like a studio vibe But it's a two bedroom apartment and they've had a challenge kind of like designing that space for a while now And so I was talking to them they came over the other day And I was like why don't we do a little makeover on your guys's space because they actually told me they were going to Joshua Tree at this past weekend So they were gone Saturday Sunday and Monday They didn't have to work for President's Day and it was just the perfect timing to do kind of like a surprise living room kitchen dining area transformation and I'm also extremely excited because today's video is actually in partnership with Desenio Which is one of my favorite brands to work with ever you guys have seen me work with them multiple times And I'll touch on that a little bit later in the video So you guys can check out all those art prints but stay tuned because there's a lot in this video And there's three projects at the end that you are not gonna want to miss because they are super super cute But let me share with you guys the before of the apartment and we can get started already guys So I'm gonna share with you a before of the apartment. I just got here, but first of all look at this cat Oh my gosh, apparently this cat is from the same cat that breeds Taylor Swift's cats and this is a famous cat So basically this is the room that we're gonna be making over it is a living room and kitchen Compacted into one so this is kind of gonna be a little bit of a challenge because It's honestly not the biggest space ever and they want to maximize the functionality of it But also make it cute and also make sure that the kitchen is useful And there's also a fireplace in here a lot of the walls in this living room area are taken up So we really only have this one large wall here So I'm really excited to see what I can do in this kind of small space makeover So I think we should just honestly get started. What do you think Corby? Should we get started? We're just starting to paint So the first thing I want to do here is actually paint that wall because that's gonna kind of be the focal point of this entire space And the paint that I'm actually using is from Glidden and it is called Night Watch. It is such a pretty color It looks like this and then I also pick this up I tend to always get this whenever I'm doing a little like painting job because I think this is like $9 or $12 or something has everything you need in there And then I also got some a frog tape because this is great to just tape up any of the baseboards or doors or anything like that So I'm gonna start off by taping and then we're gonna get to painting So good, I feel like I sound like that girl from Cinderella stories like the cookies are so moist So since this paint was on the darker side it did require three full coats Which was totally fine since we only did one accent wall It didn't take too long, but it did require three coats And I just wanted to let you guys know that in case you want to use a paint like this So we just added a third coat here and then we kind of took the couch that they already had and Flipped it to see how it would look in the space coming kind of going this way And I actually like it a lot because I feel like it kind of consolidates this area living area And then this area as the kitchen space and I was also thinking about possibly getting like a really really small table here with like two chairs You guys look what just arrived at the apartment It's all the decennial artwork and the frames which I am so excited about because they are the sponsor of today's video Which is super exciting So let me go ahead and open this because I cannot wait to see what these frames look like I got gold ones Which I've never gotten before so let me open this It is always an amazing day when a decennial box arrives on your doorstep because you know There's gonna be amazing stuff inside I actually got five posters and five frames and I absolutely love the posters I ended up getting I got kind of like a Minimal monochromatic color scheme with a little bit of green to match that green wall But I wanted it to be bold and graphic but not too insane So I really like the selects that I got and I will link the exact ones below for you guys But if you've never heard of this any oh before you are definitely missing out They are a affordable Scandinavian poster company and they shipped to the US within five days, which is crazy I literally got my prints and posters within three days of ordering and they have such a wide selection of posters and frames to Really suit everyone's style like I swear you guys can find Absolutely anything to suit your style on their site So I actually opted for the gold frames because I thought the gold would look so so stunning against that kind of dark greenish Wall that we painted So I basically just quickly assembled all of the prints which is super easy to pop them in the frames And of course Corby loves them as well as you could see he is just living for these prints as much as I am But it is time to hang the frames which I was super excited about I knew they were gonna have a TV in front of it So I kind of wanted to do almost this like 3d layered look So I had some of the frames kind of peeking out from behind the TV But also on the right and left side of the TV as well Just to make it look like this whole section of the apartment was one Cohesive piece if that makes sense as opposed to scattering everything around because there isn't much space to work with So I wanted to consolidate this space as much as possible and to Seneo Honestly was truly amazing with giving me a coupon code for you guys And it is for 30% off of posters if you use the code drew at checkout I'll put it on the screen for you guys. This is going to be valid from February 21st to the 24th So make sure to mark your calendars also remind you guys on social media and such So definitely take advantage of this 30% off offer and use code drew at checkout And I'll make sure to link to Seneo's site below with all the selects that I got in case you are curious. Oh My gosh, you guys I am so excited because the article furniture pieces were delivered You can actually kind of see this one and this chair over here, which is just super exciting I'm very very thankful because article actually gifted me these pieces for this makeover, which is amazing And the reason I reached out to article because I absolutely love working with them I've done so many videos in the past featuring article pieces is because you guys this was a super quick turnaround on this project I literally ordered these pieces on Tuesday and they had them delivered and fully assembled on Friday Which is crazy all orders over 999 dollars actually ship for free And then anything underneath it actually ships for just 49 dollars flat rate Which is great and then even smaller items because they have like some decorative objects as well Ship for only 19 dollars You can also add on affordable upgrade options such as in room delivery and assembly Which I always choose the assembly option because they come in and they build it and put it all together And place it where you want it, which is amazing And lastly article also offers a 30 day money back Satisfaction guarantee so if you are not satisfied with your items, which I swear you're gonna be because I don't know why you wouldn't be But if you're not satisfied, you can actually refund the items They'll come and they'll pick them up from you It take them away And then you're only going to be charged with like the basic 49 dollar delivery fee Which is not that crazy for them coming all the way back and picking up the items So keep that in mind as well as easy to try things out And you're not going to lose a lot on like return shipping or anything like that I want to share with you guys the four pieces of furniture I got because they are so cute and you guys are going to love these They are perfect for this space. So the first largest item I got is the sofa and this is the nirvana sofa in dakota tan It is such a pretty color. This is almost the same exact sofa. I have in my living room Mine's actually the timber sofa also from article But the sofa has incredibly soft down filled cushions and it is upholstered in a buttery soft leather It is so so pretty and it actually kind of distresses and patinas over time So the more you sit on it and the more you use it it kind of gets that worn in look It already has it but it's not too crazy and it's just going to get better over time Which I love the next item I got is actually the chair that you can kind of see right here This is the audio lounge chair in mist gray and it is such a stunning chair I'm actually thinking about getting two of these from my apartment And it is just a angled solid wood frame as you can see right here And then it has these really pretty kind of like cushiony cushions. I love how thick these are They're really nice quality and amazing It's just like very very comfortable chair and it actually comes in both fabric and leather options So you can actually pick the textile that you want. I feel like it's like a statement piece But at the same time it also just blends really nicely with the other items I got like as you could see this darker wood console here Kind of coordinates back to the wood in the chair So I love that about it But I do think that my favorite piece I got is the sideboard here This is going to be used as a media console and this is the seno 71 inch console in walnut It is so pretty look at this color of wood. I'm typically not the biggest fan of dark wood But when it's done like this, it looks amazing, especially with the green wall that I did I'm very very excited about this and each cabinet actually has one adjustable shelf inside Which is amazing and the drawers are also soft to close so you don't have to worry about them like slamming shut It is constructed from solid wood and veneer But it also has like a tapered mid-century style leg which is something I really wanted in this apartment I really liked the look of mid-century especially with that wall color I chose and last but not least we have the narrow side table in brass This is the most beautiful side table I've ever seen It has a really really kind of like chunky smooth marble base on the bottom And then it has a brass sort of pull and then a brass top to it It's just really pretty and this is the perfect table to tuck into small spaces for sure And again, it has that really really nice Heavy marble base, which is great because it's going to make sure that your table is nice and anchored to the floor And nothing's moving, but you guys definitely have to check out article I'm going to put them in the description box below for you guys. They are amazing I'll link all the pieces I got as well from them Just a company that I've been using and loving for a long time And I highly suggest them if you are looking for any furniture pieces So jumping into project number one I wanted to create a couple of magnets because their fridge is kind of another focal point of the kitchen It's just really bold and just right there since it is in the middle of everything as well So I wanted to create some diy magnets just to accent the fridge So what I did was I got some Sculpey clay, which is just your basic generic clay And I rolled it out to about a quarter inch thick that way It still had a nice thickness to it And I used this set of circle cookie cutters that I've had in my stash for a long time to cut out three I would say probably like one and a half inch two inch circles And then I cut out two smaller circles because I wanted to create some half circle shapes and also some moon shapes Which I will show you how I did right now So how I did this was I took a smaller circle cookie cutter And I just punched out kind of like the side of the smaller circles to create this moon shape And then for the larger circles I just used a knife to cut them directly in half because I really love the look of half circles When they're on top and bottom of something whether you use it as like a wall decor piece Or as a magnet or as a wall hook whatever it might be I feel like it's just a very chic look and you're going to bake those according to the instructions And I picked up these magnets. I burnt these guys. I burnt them good, but they kind of look pretty burnt I completely forgot they were in the oven and I crisped them So we're gonna paint them though. So it doesn't really matter It didn't really do anything to the actual like appearance or anything. So I'm gonna paint over it I added the magnets to the backside with some hot glue and I used the carbon black Paint from golden, which is just the best black paint. Like I don't know how I can stress this enough like Look how easy this does it one full coat and you have an opaque black like paint job It looks amazing So I painted all of these black because I just wanted them to pop on the fridge Originally I was going to do brass, but I just felt like the brass and silver might clash a little So those were my finished magnets The sex project is one that I actually found on pinterest and it was looked it looked like this when I found it And I was completely obsessed with it. It is actually by a blogger Her name is bliss makes and I'm going to link below her original post because this is 100 her idea But I wanted to recreate it because I thought it was Super cute and what I did was I grabbed four different colors of clay from the craft store And I just rolled them and the way I suggest rolling them is to kind of do it as I'm showing here Where you roll it against the surface and kind of stretch both of your hands left and right while you're rolling That way you can get a thin little strip of clay So I did this with all four colors and tried to create the most consistent Kind of quarter inch tube and next what I did was I rolled my first one in half Which was going to be the darkest color then I went into the tan color And when I first started doing this I actually cut each individual color But I realized after the fact that you can kind of just create the shape first and then cut the end So they're all cohesive then I added the pink and last but not least I finished it off with the white Cut it all and that creates your little rainbow of clay This was actually another color way I did but I didn't like it as much So I referred back to my first color way and just repeated that process Going from darkest on the inside to lightest on the outside and as you can see Kind of as I went on and created more I actually just created the shape and then cut it all at once to create all of our little rainbow shapes For the base of our planter. I'm actually using this faux plant I got at target for the room makeover, but I'm spicing it up with our baked little rainbows So I pulled them out of the oven and I just used some hot glue to secure them onto the front Now if you're wondering why the color is a little bit different that is because they too kind of burned But it wasn't anything crazy to where I couldn't use them They just look a little bit darker than they originally were but I think it still looks super super cute So I glued them in a sporadic pattern similar to how the bliss make blogger did and I just love the outcome of this project So our last and final project was also one inspired by bliss makes as well I saw this on pinterest and wanted to create my own version So I found this little line drawing face as well on pinterest and kind of Replicated the look of it and how I did this was I just used some white clay and I roll it out to be a very very thin And long strip which I was then going to put on top of the pot and kind of emulate the face shape And basically it's like a one line face But it really wouldn't stick on the pot So I actually ended up just creating it on a little piece of parchment paper As shown here and I just tried to create a similar shape To the one that I had found I created a little eyeball as well And then I also created some lips which were just going to be added into the center Once that was done, I actually ended up cutting out the Parchment paper so that I was able to pull the shape away from the base And then I laid it on top of the pot and used a little bit of tape Just to secure the parchment around and this actually Like let the clay kind of sit on top of it very nicely And I baked it just sitting straight up according to the instructions And then once it was baked everything was actually pretty hard and not Flimsy at all so I was actually able to pull it off And then used hot glue to secure it and some of like the most crucial points You would want to secure this in so just wherever it was able to be secured I used hot glue to make sure to bond that to the pot I also added on the eyeball and of course the lips as well Which I think just kind of finish off the look of this And this is just such a cute little minimal planter that I'm really excited to use in the apartment Two one Oh my god


And that's to the wall, and you can see the space. Now we're going to take those concepts and turn them into reality. One foam and one plastic. But then I found out that if you use two plastic, it will actually be colder. To test and evaluate the playground as it is.