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So without much delay, let us get into the first news article discussion. This text on context article explains about the 10th schedule of Indian constitution. See when the 10th schedule was constituted, it was believed that the provisions will be a panacea for the political corruption and horse trading. Here panacea is nothing but a solution for our problem. But sadly it opened a Pandora's box of issues. Here a Pandora's box is nothing but a metaphor for something that brings about misfortune. This phenomenon is reflected in various instances like biasness of speaker, merger of the party, resignation by legislators to circumvent the provisions and etc. This is what the article is talking about. So in this news article discussion, let us understand about anti-defection and the 10th schedule from exam perspective. So what is anti-defection law? See to have a better understanding about this topic, first you have to understand who is a defector. See a defector is a person who deserts one political party and moves on to another political party for any political gain or money. This attitude is called Aya Ram, Gaya Ram, culture of Indian politics. See in a parliamentary democracy like India, when the legislators are frequently defecting, then the stability of the government will be affected. So to prevent this practice only, the anti-defection laws were brought in. The anti-defection law punishes individual legislators to be specific MPs and MLAs for leaving one party for another. The Indian constitution initially did not have any provision to curb defection. But later, the 52nd constitution amendment act in 1985 introduced the 10th schedule. The 10th schedule has the provisions to curb defection and hence it is called the anti-defection law of India. The 10th schedule was mainly introduced to curb the party hopping and hard stating that was happening among the Indian legislators. To ensure anti-defection, the 10th schedule has various provisions for disqualification of elected members who defect from one political party to another. Let us see the provisions of disqualification one by one. Firstly, a legislator is disqualified if he voluntarily gives up the membership of the political party under whose ticket he came to power. Secondly, legislators can also be disqualified if he votes or abstain from voting in the house contrary to the direction of the whip of his political party. Thirdly, if the elected member who is not a part of any political party joins another political party after getting elected, then he will be disqualified. Fourthly, in the case of nominated members, if he joins a political party after the expiry of 6 months from the date on which he takes his seat, then he will be disqualified. So, these are some of the conditions for disqualification. Remember, there are also some exceptions to disqualification as well. First one is regarding merger of political parties. See, if a member voluntarily gives up the membership of the party as a result of his original party being merged with another party, then he will not be disqualified. Here, a merger is said to take place if two-third of the members of such a party have agreed to that merger. This is the first exception. The second exception is that if a member, after being elected as the presiding officer of the house, that is, Speaker of the Lok Sabha or Speaker of State Legislative Assembly, if they voluntarily give up the membership of their party and rejoins the party after they ceases to hold that office, in that situation, they cannot be disqualified. This exception has been provided in view of the dignity and impartiality of the office of presiding officer. Lastly, if the nominated member joins a political party before the expiry of six months, then he need not be disqualified. So, these are all some of the exceptions provided in anti-defection law. Finally, let us see who makes the decision regarding the disqualification of legislators under anti-defection law. See, any question regarding the disqualification arising out of defection will be decided by the presiding officer of the house. Originally, the act provided that the decision of the presiding officer is final and cannot be questioned in any court. But this was made unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Kihoto Holohan case of 1993. Apart from this, in Siddiq Ali vs. Election Commission of India 1971, the Supreme Court laid down the three test formula for determining which faction is to be recognized as the original political party by the Election Commission. Let me give a glance about the three test formula. Firstly, the aims and objective of the party. Secondly, whether they act as per the party's constitution and reflect their inner party democracy. Thirdly, majority in the legislative and organization wing of the party. So, this three test formula can be used to determine which faction is to be recognized as the original political party by the Election Commission of India. So, these are all certain very important facts that you have to remember about anti-defection law. In this news article discussion, we saw about who is the defector, what are all the provisions for defection, what are all the provisions for disqualification. Then we saw about the exceptions in the anti-defection law. And finally, we saw about who will decide upon the question of disqualification of legislators under anti-defection law. So, these learnt points and now let us move on to the next news article discussion. The successful completion of 150 years of existence of Indian Meteorological Department, IMD. Even though the department was started by British to understand Indian monsoon, it plays a key role in our meteorological predictions. Know that IMD makes a region-specific models for both the monsoons of India. Apart from this, it gives a comprehensive district-wise analyst on the monsoon. This erratic data alerts the policy makers of our country. So, it urges the necessity of region-specific plans to improve climate resilience of our country as well. This is the crux of the news article given here. So, in this news article discussion, let us learn about climate change and their impacts using our mains answer writing approach. Before that, the relevant syllabus to this topic is highlighted here. You can go through it. Now, let me read the question for you. What are the major impacts of climate change? Discuss the mitigation and adaptation strategy employed by our country to tackle it. See, this is one of the easiest structural question. Here, two parts of the question are demarcated clearly. So, our purpose for these type of questions is very simple. We just have to answer accordingly to the structure. So, in the first part of the answer, you have to write about the impacts of climate change. And in the second part, you have to write about the mitigation and adaptation strategies of India. Since the question primarily revolves around climate change, you can start the intro by explaining about climate change. You can write that climate change refers to a long-term change in the temperatures and weather patterns of the world, though it can be a natural phenomenon due to changes in the sun's activity or large volcanic eruptions. Our concern is regarding the anthropogenically induced climate change. Know that it poses a socio-economic threat to various developing countries including India. As India is placed between the dichotomy of development versus conservation, it becomes important for us to understand the impacts of climate change and the mitigation steps taken by the government. In this way, you can give a link to the body part of the answer. Now, coming to the body of the answer, as I said earlier, here you have to write about the impacts of climate change on India in the first half of the answer. Some of the impacts of climate change includes, firstly, its impact on health. According to World Health Organization between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year. This will be due to climate change induced heat stress and associated issues like malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and etc. See, this data may look like a bizarre correlation, but if you analyze keenly, climate change will affect the social and environmental determinants of health like clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter and etc. Also, it increases the risk of health infections like zoonotic diseases. For example, COVID-19. Due to all of these reasons, they will pose a huge risk to the health architecture of developing countries like India. Secondly, its impacts on agriculture. We know that the agriculture sector employs a significant portion of India's population that is almost 50%. They are particularly susceptible to climate change. Specifically, the extreme events like droughts, floods and pest infestations will hamper the crop yield resulting in loss of farmer's income and may lead to farmer's suicide. Apart from this, India's agriculture is largely rain-fed in nature. So, any climate change can induce irregularities like El Nino, change in climate pattern, change in sea surface temperature and etc. All these factors can affect the monsoon of India, which is our lifeline. Thirdly, its influence on inflation. See, it may look new, but climate change is increasingly affecting the macroeconomic politics of the country. Let us see how firstly, erratic monsoon, extreme weather events and rising temperatures will disrupt the agriculture productivity of the country. This may lead to supply-side shocks and subsequent inflationary pressures on our economy. For example, inflation in onion prices shoot up to 327% in December 2020 due to unseasonal rains. We would have not forget about the tomato prices which went over 168% in June 2022 due to heat waves and cyclone-led crop damage. Now, the inflationary impact of these disruptions will reflect in the entire sector of economy. For example, an estimate of RBI says that up to 4.5% of India's GDP could be at risk by 2030, owing to lost labour hearts from extreme heat and humidity. Fourthly, its influence on infrastructure. See, physical infrastructure like bridges, roads, ports, electric grids and communication systems are the lifeline of our country. They play a very vital role in a country's development. But sadly, climate change-induced extreme weather events like heavy rain, floods, snow or temperature changes can destroy the existing structures and facilities of the country. For example, nearly 40% of the United States population lives in coastal area. This is the same with India as well as major economic cities over in the coast. They will be heavily affected by sea level rise and another issue is the urban floods. We all know about the urban floods in Chennai, Mumbai. They are a recurrent phenomenon which is affecting the economic activity and assets of the city. Finally, their influence on poverty and migration. See, climate change will increase the factors that led to poverty. The events like urban floods will damage the slum, destroys houses and livelihoods of urban poor. It also affects their livelihood as extreme heat wave can make it difficult for the poor to work in outdoor jobs. Note that the UNHCR data shows that over the past decade, that is between 2010 to 2019, weather-related events displaced and estimated 23.1 million people on average each year. This is leaving many more vulnerable to poverty. Now you can write these points in the first half of the answer. Now in the second half of the answer, we have to write about the mitigation and adaptation strategy followed by India. For example, you can write that. Firstly, with respect to the National Action Plan on Climate Change, NAPCC, this action plan identifies eight core national missions to work on various sectors like solar energy, enhanced energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water, sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, Green India and etc. This is the comprehensive plan of India in combating the various aspects of climate change. Secondly, India took various initiatives like International Solar Alliance, Mission Life and etc. They are the global mass movement which aims to nudge individual and collective action to prevent the environment. Thirdly, India is regularly meeting the INDC targets set by itself. And in recent COP, India has presented the following five elements of India's climate action. This is popularly known as Panchamurthy strategy. The five pillars of the strategy is given here. You can go through it. Fourthly, India is a pioneer in taking steps which are reducing fossil fuel emissions. For example, it has taken steps like enforcing Bharat Standard Norm 4, promoting EV through FAME program, then implementing odd event rules for vehicles and etc. You can write these points in the second part of the answer. Now coming to the conclusion part, here you can write that scientific evidence of climate change is clear. It is a reality and we should fight it. The impacts of climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet. India, being a responsible and aspiring country should play a key role in coordinating the activities of climate change. As given in the recent report of IPCC, any further delay in global action will miss the closing window to secure a livable future to our next generation. This way you can complete the answer for this question. So in this news article discussion, we saw about the 150-year celebration of IMD. Then we saw about what is climate change, their impacts on different aspects. And then we saw the mitigation and adaptation strategy followed by India. So with these learnt points, now let us move on to the next news article discussion. This news article talks about disinvestment by government. As per the article, the government's earnings from disinvestment may reach around 15,000 crore rupees this year. But this number is much lower than the 51,000 crore rupees target set in the 2023 budget. So a survey conducted by care-edge ratings suggests that the disinvestment goal for the year 2024-25 might be reduced to 40,000 crore rupees. This is the crux of the news article given here. So in this news article discussion, let us understand about disinvestment in problems perspective. See as you all know, investment refers to the conversion of money or cash into securities, debentures, bonds or any other claims on money. Disinvestment is an exact opposite term to investment. Disinvestment involves the conversion of money claims or securities into cash or money. It typically includes the sale or liquidation of assets or subsidiaries of an organization or government. Remember, disinvestment can be done both partially or fully. And here comes the question why disinvestment is done. See, a company or a government organization will typically disinvest an asset. Either as a strategic move for the company or for raising resources to meet general or specific needs. So if a company or an organization or government requires capital, it undergoes a process called disinvestment. Now, depending upon the approaches to disinvestment, it can be classified into three major types. It includes minority disinvestment, majority disinvestment and complete privatization. Minority disinvestment happens when government tries to preserve the majority stake in the company which is around 51%. So it sells out only the minus stake and retains the majority with the government itself. Since it has the majority stake, it also have the power to control the management of the organization. Similarly, when it comes to majority disinvestment, the government gives up the majority stake in the government-held company. And when it comes to privatization, the company's entire ownership is transferred to a buyer. As a result, 100% control of the company is passed on to the buyer. So these are all the different types of approaches to disinvestment from the government's perspective. Now, let us see the benefits of disinvestment one by one. Firstly, it helps in raising valuable resources for the government. Secondly, the government can focus more on core activities like infrastructure, defence, education, healthcare and law and order. Thirdly, it will result in a leaner government with reduction in the number of ministries and bureaucrats. This can be attributed to the slogan of the current government, which is minimum government and maximum governance. Apart from this, it also benefits the markets and economy by bringing about greater efficiencies for the economy and markets as a whole. Then it benefits the taxpayers too. See, letting go of these assets is best in the long-term interest of the taxpayers as the current yield on these investments is abysmally low. So what are all the drawbacks of disinvestments? See, the first one is loss of public interest. To put it in simple words, we know that the PSUs or resources of the nation, they belong to the people. By selling them to private company, government is seriously affecting the people's welfare. Second is the fear of foreign control over the disinvested assets. Third is the issue with workers. For example, jobs for lakhs of workers in the PSUs will fall in danger by privatisation. Finally, is the less number of bidders for the stake. That is, even though government plans to disinvest, there are actually less number of people willing to participate. So these are all some of the important points I have to remember about disinvestment, why it is done, some of its positives and negatives. With these learnt points, now let us move on to the next news article discussion. This news article talks about Project Starlink of SpaceX. Remember, SpaceX is a Elon Musk's company. The news is that Project Starlink is likely to receive government approval next week. This approval would allow Starlink to provide broadband internet services to users through satellite technology. Already, Geo satellite communications led by Mukesh Ambani and Bharati Enterprises led by Sunil Bharati have received similar licenses from the government to offer satellite-based internet services. So in this context, let us understand about Starlink project, how it works, who are all the beneficiaries and their advantages. Firstly, know that the simple idea behind Starlink is that governments or companies would send up small satellites into space that would be high-speed internet to users with the help of ground stations or terminals back on Earth. These small satellites will be built into a broadband network with a cluster of orbiting spacecrafts. So the primary objective of Starlink is to offer global internet coverage, especially in areas where traditional internet infrastructure is challenging to implement or available. The project has the potential to bring high-speed internet to rural and remote areas and it will bridge the digital divide and enhance connectivity in regions where traditional internet infrastructure is not feasible. So the entire project is nothing but building a broadband network with a cluster of orbiting spacecrafts that would beam high-speed internet to users with the help of ground station or terminals that operate in Earth. Now let us see how this Starlink works. See Starlink utilizes advanced technologies including phased array antennas on the ground to communicate with the satellite constellation. The use of these technologies aims to provide users with a more reliable and high-performance internet connection. Talking about the advantages, firstly it will provide reduced latency between sender and receiver as the satellites are placed in low-Earth orbit. Here latency is nothing but the amount of time it takes for a data packet to go from one place to another. Secondly, as I already said it can deliver internet to remote part of the world, especially in areas where traditional ways that is using fiber optic cables has failed to deliver internet. But still the project has certain concerns. Firstly, since the satellites are smaller with lower height, their signal cover only a relatively small area. As a result, many more satellites are needed in order to reach signals to every part of the world. Secondly, it increases the number of satellites in space and thereby it increases space debris and increases the risk of collusion. Thirdly, the development and deployment of satellite constellation like Starlink raises various commercial and regulatory considerations including spectrum management, space debris mitigation and international cooperation. So these are all certain important facts that you have to remember about Starlink. It is a very important project, so make a note of it. With these learnt points, now let us move on to the next news article discussion. This text and context article talks about the working principles of LED lights and their importance. So in our news article discussion today, let us see the significance of LED lights. Firstly, know that LED or the liquid emitting diode or semiconductor devices that emit light when an electric current is supplied. LEDs operate based on the principle of electro luminescence. When an electric current passes through a semiconductor material, it releases energy in the form of light. That is what the word electro luminescence means, luminescence that is light produced electrically when an voltage is applied. So what is the difference between LED and fluorescent bulbs? See basically light emitting diodes produce light by electro luminescence which I said earlier. But the fluorescent bulbs they produce light by emitting mercury vapor. This vapor then emit ultraviolet light that stimulates a phosphor coating on the inside of the bulb thereby producing visible light. This is the very basic difference between the fluorescent bulbs and LEDs. Now let us see the advantages of LEDs over the light bulbs. Firstly, energy efficiency. See LED lights are highly energy efficient. They can convert a higher percentage of electrical energy into visible light. This efficiency helps in reducing electricity consumption and lowering energy bills. Secondly, longevity. LED have a significantly longer lifespan compared to traditional lightning sources. They can last 10 of thousands of hours reducing the frequency of replacements and maintenance cost. Third is instantaneous illumination. LED's light up instantly when powered on without any warm up time. This characteristic is especially beneficial in applications where immediate and consistent illumination is required. Fourthly, durability. LED's are solid state lights that track fragile components like filaments or glass bulbs. This makes them more durable and resistant to shocks, vibrations and external impacts. Lastly, color range. See, LEDs are available in a wide range of colors and their color output can be controlled more precisely than traditional lighting sources. This flexibility is particularly useful in applications by specific color temperature or effects or desired. Finally, the most important thing is that the environmental impacts of LEDs is generally lower than traditional lighting sources. They are mercury-free and contribute to energy saving and helps in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. So, these are all certain important facts that you have to remember about like emitting diode with these learnt points. Now, let us move on to the next part of the news article discussion, which is the preliminary practice question discussion. Now, look at this first question, which government agency in India is primarily responsible for overseeing the disinvestment process and strategic sale of public sector assets? See, the correct answer here is option D, Ministry of Finance. Actually, Department of Investment and Public Assert Management. DIPIM and the Ministry of Finance, they deal with all matters related to management of central government investments in equity including disinvestment of equity in central public sector undertakings. So, the correct answer here is option D, Ministry of Finance. Moving on, which of the following semiconductor material is commonly utilized in the fabrication of light emitting diode LEDs? See, the correct answer here is gallium arsenide. Moving on, what is the purpose of Starlink project initiated by SpaceX led by Elon Musk? The correct answer here is option D, Global Internet Courage. Moving on, this question is about anti-defection law. Two statements are given and you have to find which statement given here is overall correct. First statement says the law specifies that a nominated legislator cannot join any political party within six months of being appointed to the house. This statement is wrong. He can join any political party within six months. But after the expiry of the first six months, if he or she is joining a political party, then he will be a defector. Now, the second statement says the law does not provide any time frame within which the presiding officer has to decide a defection case. This statement is correct. So, the correct answer for the question is option B, 2 only. So, with this, we came to the end of the news article discussion. If you like the video, hit like, do comment and don't forget to subscribe to Shankar IAS Academy YouTube channel. Now, thank you so much for listening.


Live from Vancouver, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering OpenStack Summit North America 2018, brought to you by Red Hat, the OpenStack Foundation, and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back. This is theCUBE's exclusive coverage of OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver. I'm Stu Miniman with my co-host, John Troyer. Happy to welcome back to the program two CUBE alums. We have Alan Clark who's the board chair of the OpenStack Foundation, and in the CTO office of SUSE. Thanks for joining us again. It's been a few years. It's been a while.  And Lou Tucker, the vice chair of the OpenStack Foundation and vice president of CTO with Cisco. Lou, it's been weeks. Exactly right. All right, so it's like I'm a regular here. Yeah, absolutely. So first of all, John Furrier sent his regards. He wishes he was here. John's always like, come on, Lou and I and everybody. We were talking about when this Kubernetes thing started and all the conferences. So it's been a pleasure for us to be here six years now at this show as well as some of the remote days and other things there. It's been fun to watch the progression. Isn't it amazing how far we've come? Yeah, absolutely. So there it's, here's my first question for you Alan. On the one hand, I want you to talk about how far we've gone, but the other thing is people, when they learn about something, whenever they first learn about it, it tends to fossilize in their head. This is what it is and always will be. So I think most people know that this isn't the Amazon killer or it's free VMware that we talked about years ago. So bring us a little bit of that journey. Well, so it started with the basic compute storage, right? And as we've watched open source grow and adoption of open source grow, the demands on services grow, right? We're in this transformation period where everything's growing and changing very rapidly. Open source is driving that. Open stack could not stay static. So when it started, it solved the need, but the needs continue to grow and continue to change. So it's not surprising at all that open stack has grown and changed and will continue to grow and change. Yeah. So Lou, it's been fascinating for me. You know, I've worked with and all these things with Cisco and various pieces for my entire career. You're here, we're in the open stack at Cisco. Sure. That's right. And Cisco's journey really through that digital transformation themselves. When I talked to Rowan at Cisco Live Barcelona, the future of Cisco is as a software company. So helps that open stack into that kind of broader picture for us. Well, I think one of the aspects of that is that we're seeing now it is becoming this multi-cloud world and that we see all of our customers are running in the public cloud. They have their own private data centers. And what they're looking for is that they want their whole development model and everything else to now become targeted towards that multi-cloud world. They're going to use services in the public cloud. They still have the private data center. Open stack is the place for they to actually meet and run all those services. Because now you can build your environment within your data center that makes it look very much like your public cloud. So your developers don't have two completely different minds that say of the same one, it's, you know, it's abstracted resources on demand. And now when we're putting on top of that other newer technology that's coming such as Kubernetes, we've got a real consistency between those environments. Yeah, please. And as I said, it enables you to leverage your existing infrastructure. So you don't want to make them, particularly with SUSE's customers, they don't want us to come in and say, throw everything away, start afresh, right? But at the same time, you got to be able to embrace what's new and what's coming. So, you know, we've talked about, we're talking about many new technologies here in open the stack summit today, right? Containers and all sorts of stuff. A lot of those things are still very new to our customers. And they're preparing for that. And as Lou said, we're building that infrastructure. Yeah, well, one of the things as I'm thinking about it, some people look at, they look at Cota containers and some of these pieces outside of the open stack project. They're like, what's the foundation doing? But I believe it should be framed and please, please love your insight on this in that multi-cloud discussion. Because this is, it can't just be, well, this is how you build private. It needs to be, this is how you live in this multi-cloud environment. That's why I think you're beginning to see us talk about open infrastructure. And this is using open source software to use software to manage your infrastructure and build it out.  We want software and automation to do all that. So, open stack is one of the cloud platforms for other, but these other projects are now coming into the foundation which also expand that notion of open infrastructure. And that's why we're seeing these projects expand. And lose exactly right. And it goes beyond that. Back in 2017, early 2017, we recognized as a board that it's not going to be just about the projects with an open stack. We have to embrace our adjacent communities and embrace those technologies. So that's why you're hearing a lot about Kubernetes and containers and networking and all sorts of projects that are not necessarily being done within open stack, but you're seeing how we're collaborating with all those other communities. And Cata is a perfect example of that. So Cata containers, you know, came out of Intel's clear containers. And it's now combining the best of both worlds because now you get the speed of containers bringing up, but you get the security and isolation of virtual machines. That's important in the open stack community in our world because that's what we want out of our clouds. You both have just mentioned community a few times, right? And one thing coming into this conference, I'm so impressed by the prominence of community. It's up on stage from the first minutes of the first keynote, right? People, the call to action, the please for the folks of us that some of us have been here for years and years for the new folks, please come meet us, right? That's really inviting. It's very clear that this is a community. Yeah, I was surprised actually could be sawed when we were asked from stage, how many people here for the first time? More than half the audience was here. I was surprised by that as well. That was the real surprise. And at the same time we're seeing increasingly users of open stack coming in as opposed to the people who are in core projects. So that we're seeing progressive insurance coming in. We're seeing Adobe marketing cloud having over 100,000 cores running open stack. That's in addition to what we've had with Walmart and others. So the real users are coming to our communities, not just the developers, but the users of open stack and the operators. That's always an interesting tension for an open source project, right? You have the open source contributors and then you have the users and operators. But here at the show too, right? All these different technology tracks, part of community is identity. And so as the technical work has been split off, right? And it's actually at another event, another event. These are the users, but it does with all this other technology conversations, I wonder what the core identity of I'm an open stack member. Like what does that end up meaning in a world of open infrastructure? If the projects, if the open stack itself is more mature and as we get up the letters of the alphabet towards Z. How do you all want to steer what it means to be a member of the open stack community? So we met on Sunday as a joint leadership, right? So we had, it wasn't just a board meeting. It was a meeting with the technical committee and it was a meeting with the user community. So we're very much pushing to make sure we have those high interactions that the use cases are getting translated into requirements and getting translated into blueprints and so forth. We're very, very working very, very hard to make sure we have that communication open. And I think one of the things that sets the open stack community apart is what we call our four opens. We base everything on our four opens and one of those is communication, transparency and communication. And that's what people are finding and ticing. And one of the big reasons is I think they're coming to open stack to do that innovation and collaboration. We've seen the same thing with Linux for example. Linux is no longer just the operating system when people think about the Linux community. The Linux community is the operating system and then all of these other projects associated with it. That's the same thing that we're seeing with open stack. That's why we're continuing to see wherever there's a need as people are deploying open stack and operating it and running it, all of these other open source components are coming into it because that's what they really are running, that conglomerate of projects around it. Certainly the hype cycle, Linux went through its own hype cycle right back today and I'm from Silicon Valley. I think the hype cycle outside the community and what's actually happening on the ground here actually aren't meshed quite well, right? What I saw this week, like you said, real users, big users, infrastructure built into every bank, transport, telecom in the world, right? That's a global necessary part of the infrastructure of our planet. Outside, you know, investment, things like that. It's a little harder. I hope you can help us get the message out. Because that is a major thing that we see and we experience here at the company. People who are not here, they still then maybe look at OpenStack the way it was maybe four years ago and it was difficult to deploy and people were struggling with it and there was a lot of innovation happening at a very, very fast rate. Well, now it's proven, it's sort of industrial grade, it's being deployed at very large scale across many, many industries. Well, it's interesting. I think back to, remember when we talked about like Ethernet fabrics? You know, when we talk about somebody, you know, SDN and some of these big things, well, look, sometimes these things are overhyped. It's like, well, there's a certain class of the market absolutely needs this. If I'm a telco and I sat here a couple of years ago and was like, okay, is it 20 or 50 companies of the world that it is going to be absolutely majorly transformative of them and that's hugely important. If I'm a mid-sized enterprise, I'm still not sure how much I'm caring about what's happening here in New Offense. I'd love to hear some points there, but what it is and what it is and who it targets, absolutely, they're massive, massive clouds. You know, you go to China, absolutely hear a lot about OpenStack here. Coming across the U.S., I don't hear a lot about it. We've known that for years, but I've talked to, you know, cloud provider in Australia, we've talked to Europeans that, you know, the app mail who's the provider for emails, for like service providers around the world. It's like, so it's kind of like, okay, what part of the market and how do we make sure we target that? Because otherwise it's this, right, this megaphone of, yeah, OpenStack, well, I'm not sure if that was for me, so, yeah. So we're seeing a huge variety of implementations, right? Users that are deploying OpenStack. And yeah, we always think about the great big ones, right? I love CERN, right? We love the Walmart, we love ChinaMobiles because they're huge, great examples. But I have to say, we're actually seeing a whole range of deployments. They don't get the visibility because they're small, right? Everybody goes, oh, you're running on three machines or 10 machines? Okay, right? Talk to me when you're the size of CERN. But that's not the case. We're seeing this whole range of deployments. And they probably don't get as much visibility, but they're just as important. So there's tons of use cases out there. There's tons of use cases published out there. And we're seeing it. Yeah, so I'd love, you know, one of the interest use cases with a different scale has been that edge discussion. Right. I need a very small- In fact, that's a very poignant example because they've had a ton of discussion because of that variety of needs, right?  It's open-stack sitting at the bottom of a telephone pole. You know, on a little blade and something embedded. But then it's also in a retail store. It's in a retail store. Or in a coffee shop. Yeah. So this is really where we're recognizing over and over again we go through these transitions that it used to be even fixed devices out at the edge. You know, then to change that, you have to replace that device. We, instead, we want automation. We want software to do it. So that's why open-stack is moving to the edge where you can, it's just a smaller device, much more capability, but still compute storage and networking. And you want to have virtual applications there so you can upgrade that. You can add new services without sending a truck out to replace that. Moving forward, do we expect to see more interaction between the foundation itself and other foundations and open-source projects? Yes. And how might that look like? It depends on the community. It really does. We definitely have communications from at the board level, from board to board between adjacent communities. It happens at the grassroots level, right? From what we call SIGs or work groups with SIGs and work groups from those adjacent communities. Yeah, I happen to sit on three boards, which is the open-stack board, the CNCF board, Cloud Foundry. And so what we're also seeing though now, for example, running Kubernetes, we just have now the cloud provider, which is open-stack being a cloud provider for Kubernetes, similar in a very way that Amazon has a cloud provider for Kubernetes, or Google is a cloud provider. So then now we're seeing the communities working together, because that's what our customers want. And that was all driven by SIGs. The special interest groups. On both sides, getting together and saying, how do we make this happen? How do we make this happen? All right, so one of the things you look at, there's a lot going on at the show. There's the open dev activity. There's a container track. There's an edge track.  It's like, let's talk about all the adjacencies. Wait, what about the core? Love to get kind of your final takeaways, key things you've seen at the show, takeaways you want people to have, when they think about open-stack the show and open-stack the foundation. From my point of view, it actually is back to where we sort of started the conversation is these users that are now coming out and saying, I've been running open-stack for the last three years, now we're up to 100,000 cores or 200,000 cores. That shows the real adoption. And those are the new operators. You don't think of Walmart or Progressive as being a service provider, but they are delivering their service through the internet. And they need a cloud platform in which to do that. So that's one part that I find particularly exciting. I totally agree with Lou. And the one piece I would add is, I think we've proven that it's the right infrastructure for the technology of the future, right? That's why we're able to have these additional discussions around Edge and additional container technologies and Zool with continuous testing and deployment. It fits right in. So it's not a distraction, it's an addition to our infrastructure. I think the idea around, and that's why we actually broke up into these different tracks and had different sort of keynotes around containers and around Edge because those are primary use cases now. Two years ago when I think we were talking here is like NFV and all the telcos were, and now that has succeeded because almost all the NFV deployments now are based on open stack. Now we're seeing it going to containers in Edge, which are much more application-specific deployments. You just, I'd love you to connect the dots for us from the NFV stuff we were talking about a couple years ago to kind of the breadth of Edge and we talk, you know, there is no Edge, it depends who you are as to what the Edge is, kind of like cloud was a few years ago. Well, we've always had some, one of the best, I mean, we actually have a white paper if you go to openstack.org and or just Google open stack Edge white paper. I think that you'll see that there are a variety of cases from that are from manufacturing, retail, telco.  It's where latency really matters. So that we know that cloud computing is the fastest way to deploy and maintain, upgrade new applications, virtualized applications on a cloud. It's unfortunately too far away from many of the places that have much more real-time characteristics. So if you're under like 40 milliseconds or whatever, or you want to get something done in a VR environment or whatever, under five milliseconds, you can't go back to the cloud. It also, if you have an application, for example, a security monitoring application, whatever, 99% of the time, those video frames are the same and they're not interesting. Don't push all that information back into the central cloud. Cross it locally. Now when you see frames that are changing, whatever, you only use the bandwidth and the storage in the central cloud. So we're seeing this relationship between, what do you want computed at the edge and how much computing can you do as we get more powerful there and then what do you want back in the centralized data centers? While you simplify the management. And you, exactly right. But you still need to be automated. You still need to be automated. You need it to be virtualized. You need it to be managed in that way so you can upgrade it. Yeah. All right, well. Alan Clark, Lou Tucker. Always a pleasure to catch up. Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, it's good to be here. John Troyer and I will be back with lots more coverage from OpenStack Summit 2018 here in Vancouver. Thanks for watching theCUBE.


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First we had the poor slim pipe pump. We then had the hex and rain firestorm But step aside peasants we have some newcomers. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and today I bring you my top five must get grenades post hex and firestorm nerf If you guys do enjoy the video and would like to leave a thumbs up I'd very much appreciate that also subscribe if you want to see more Borderlands again every week I give away copies of this game to win one for yourself or a friend simply subscribe and make sure you have notifications turned on Drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below Okay, so grenades are massive part of 95% of player builds. We have seen some beasts in the past Mainly the pipe bomb capable of auto destruction The hex variants and the firestorm variants these have all since been nerfed though Now I will state the pipe bomb was clearly broke that needed a nerf the hex and firestorm were nerfed But not completely taken out a mix. I mean both are still great viable grenades And to be honest could easily make this list, but I wanted to do something new Everyone's top five grenades consist of hex and firestorms take these out of the equation And that's what today's list is all about people So let's get into it at a spot You'll see me use here obviously for demonstration purposes only I use said grenades for said instances So firstly, we have a grenade which has been here from the get go and I believe is a popular one It's called the storm front that is grenade. I will state isn't really one I would consider a DPS grenade. This is one I would use like a tether or an assist grenade as the way it works you throw the grenade It splits using that merv addition. This spawns additional grenades and you're kind of like tether a center target or they surround a target And you can do this while you're doing damage above the weapons And as you will see for this mob controller though, it's fairly decent compared to others I will feature today You will see a big difference. I will admit my version does have a low item score But even still in my opinion the storm front isn't a DPS grenade It's one like I said you use for assisting you in killing or damaging a target Now the best place to farm this grenade is Captain Tron to pun Athena's So if this grenade looks to be something that fits your build be sure to try it out as I do recommend it Okay, so next up we have a grenade. I actually don't think I've seen anyone cover Now with the epicenter as we know it's a decent grenade mainly seen used by anointed enemies and this variant I have seen a couple of videos on but I've never seen any videos and upgraded version in a spring epicenter And what this does is it basically doubles up and those balls spawned and although this is definitely an instance only grenade Not capable of usage in certain scenarios, but for what I need these are I forced to be reckoned with So this is a world drop grenade definitely one to keep your eyes open for Next up we have an epic variant of a grenade now There are many variants of this exploder and they can vary massively This is one of two on this list due to the other one being very unique in its own way So this grenade the amplified rapture exploder this grenade as you can see spawns three more of grenades Has the benefit of a link also and also has that nuke Which let me tell you guys is absolutely crazy and the damage she steals is wow after scale So how this works is as you can see on screen now with this you throw a single grenade It then explodes causing a mini nuke and then spawns three more additional grenades Murphs these again explode causing mini nukes and while the damage this is capable of is absolutely amazing Now it does consume two grenades per use, but it increases its damage up to 50% from each explosion So this is an amazing grenade for clearing mobs of enemies and will be insane for grenade spamming builds Now this grenade may be a world drop I am certain on that by always see different variants of inventing machines Especially the one within slaughter shaft another very similar grenade to this one is the amplified mega vision exploder This also doing great crazy damage in fact even more than the amplified rapture exploder on paper But the lack of nerves which cause additional damage means its DPS is slightly lower To we have a collection of three epic grenades which are Incredible guys and these are well they could fit any build out there These are the same variant to the last one we covered But in my opinion have the edge the cluster effects broader variants are just super fun to watch in action As you will see now as the hex is the favorite grenade to many this works in kind of a similar way Just without the homing and the hex addition But as you guys will see the grenade truly gets to work Seemingly spawning endless grenades due to that Murph stat spawning in 14 individual grenades all doing great damage now I have three different elemental types of these trial radiation and corrosive and as you will see they're actually game breaking Still got it But I'm a serious note these variants are a super powerful means of taking out masses of ads I truly recommend you trying to find these again Vending machines seem to be your best bet in getting them Now if one was out there with a homing on it that I would believe would be a whole new level of craziness Okay, so in at number one and the best grenade in a game in my opinion right now And is a musket and you have until December 5th to get your hands on it is the gas cool Now the gas cool as far as I've seen comes in four variants the standard gas cool the loaded gas cool The cloning gas cool and the vindicator gas cool Which takes the benefits of both the loaded and cloning applies them to one giving you the split into two upon throwing it And a 20% additional damage this I don't have yet But I do have the cloning and I can 100% guarantee you guys from using this alone that the vindicator is the best in the game These are musket grenades people they really are now these to me at like the hex in many many ways splitting upon throwing them Then homing then all that destruction they cause the gas cool then seemingly spawns additional ghosts up to 10 I've seen per grenade throw and they all hunt down that enemy causing massive damage These are insane for enemy control and bus fights too now This grenade is only available during this bloody harvest event and drops from Captain haunt and loot ghosts So I'll make the most out of them while you can people so yes The best grenade in the game in my opinion right now is the gas cool exclusive to the bloody harvest event Now people if I were to make this a top seven grenades adding in the firestorm and the hex grenades I'd still give the crown to that gas cool But in the hex and firestorm near the top the hex at two meaning the cluster explorer gets pushed back to three And I'll put the firestorm in that form meaning the amplified gets knocked down to five They're presented down to six and it's a storm front down to seven This is how great all top level grenades the hex in my opinion still being a seriously viable option though In fact all grenades feature today hit the right spot one way or another So yeah guys, these are my top five or seven must have grenades There's one you recommend I try out you let me know in that comment section down 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Aloha, welcome to Keys to Success, which is live on the ThinkTech livestreaming network series weekly on Thursdays at 11am. We are your hosts. My name is Danilia, D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo, John Newman. Welcome to the show. The goal of this show is to provide professional and personal development tools and profound insights on how to achieve success in life, career and or business. We are very grateful for all the positive feedback we have received from viewers. Comments like every time I watch this show I either learn something new or I'm reminded of what I need to refocus on in my life and business. You, our viewers, are our motivation. Dr. Tony O'Bagby, Acting Director of the Veteran Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System, was our guest on our last show and her words of wisdom can be accessed on Newman Consulting Services website, which is NewmanConsultingServices.com or our landing page, Danilia .org. Our theme for today is embracing change and overcoming fear. Joining us in the studio today, as are our guests, is Adrian Alfonso, the owner of Aesthetic Dental Designs. Mahalo for joining us today, Adrian. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you here. Thanks. Okay, we're going to jump right in on this and ask you some wicked questions, okay? Bring it on. All right. Share with us, I guess.  I was introduced into the industry at an early age of 15. I grew up with my aunt and uncle here in Hawaii and my uncle in the laboratory. So as soon as I was old enough to work, back then I think it was 16, you got your workers permit. Yeah. That's where he put me. Put you to work. Family business. Keep me out of trouble. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Yeah. And after high school, I moved to the mainland in Nevada and Los Angeles and I found jobs doing the same thing, kind of advanced my skills there and eventually I moved back home to run my uncle's business because he was in Air Force Reserves and he took a position as an active reserve, I think it's called, that made him full-time there for a few years and he needed someone to run his laboratory and that's when I was here running it for him for a few years and his position became a civilian job. He's a program analyst for the Pacific Air Force and at the time he didn't want the lab anymore so he was Adrian, you know, I'm going to close a lab. You can either find a lab to work at or you can buy my assets and start your own laboratory and I opted for my own adventure. Yeah. Okay, opportunity, huh? Yeah, that's right. You took advantage of it. Tried to. Yeah. So when did you take over with your own business with that? 2009. May of 2009 is when we officially started on our own. So was there any other considerations in your mind at that point? Did you experience any fear taking over the business or were you just really comfortable and just knew that was the right thing to do? It was the only thing I knew how to do, to be honest. When it was presented to me there was, I think I went through every single emotion there was. Right, from going to, for working for people to becoming your own boss, it sounds great but there's so much responsibility that comes with that. Absolutely, yeah. We understand that. There was a lot of fear of course. It was, fear is not really the right word, I think it's more concern because now I'm in charge of my own success. Right. And you start to doubt yourself a little bit. Yeah, it's so true. It's hard in the beginning but to overcome that I surrounded myself with good people. I joined, there's a local association of mostly dental laboratory owners and I connected with them and they were reassuring that everything's hard in the beginning. They've all been there. Just like I was fortunate to be your neighbors, right?  You would always just tell me, that's how it is, young man. So things like that really helped. Yeah, it was, it was fine.  What is it that you want to accomplish in your business, what are your goals? For me there's business goals and there's personal goals. Business goals, we fabricate dental prosthetics, fixed prosthetics, implants, bridges, anything restorative for a patient. That's the ultimate goal, right, is treating these patients and for a patient that has no teeth or they want cosmetic work done, you know, we partner with dentists. We don't work directly with patients, we work through the dentist and I'm, you know, creating that team to really help the patient and the best possible outcome is for them to love what they have in aesthetics and in function. My own personal goals is, of course, stability for my family, right, and preparing for the future, right? Isn't that always the driving force? I think for a lot, you know, it's interesting to see how we go through different phases of our life.   Thank you.  Absolutely. Well, having no teeth is just like, I mean, that's a big thing, you know.  You know. So, yeah, that's great. Okay. Well, you recently moved into a bigger space. Yes. And so, why did you move into a bigger space? What was your purpose for doing that? And also, how did you know that was the right move? Yeah, we moved into a larger office in April of this year. It's something we've been talking about for a few years. We loved our location. We never wanted to leave our location, the building that we're in, and we've actually been looking for a few years, but the opportunity came up where the space opened up, and just one day I was like, Lisa, my wife, I was like, do you want to look at the space just, just for fun? Let's look at it. And as soon as we saw it, we fell in love with it. One of the main reasons for me was to open up, have a space that we can dedicate for education. I've done educational events on my old lab, but those were just chairs set up in the midst of the rest of the laboratory, and this one I wanted a proper place, because I'm inviting dentists there. Right? They need to look professional. They need to know that I'm serious. Our model that we've kind of been going by was encourage communication through education. There's a big disconnect. I've experienced it between laboratories and technicians. That's a tweetable quote. Say that again. Encourage communication through education. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. You better watch out. She's taking it. Okay. So you wanted to have more communication going on in that area? More communication. There's, you know, a doctor fills out a prescription and sends it to us. We're recreating a restoration for our patient, but not everyone is the same. There's a lot of communication that needs to be had, especially with implants and, you know, fully indenturalists, meaning like a patient with no teeth, if we're restoring a full arch, right, now we need to be on the same page as far as function, patient expectations, things like that. The education more is to educate, but more to share stories, right? If I'm working with the dentist and we go through these troubles and it took us 10 steps to get there, well, the next times I work with, I want to be able to share that experience and get us there in five steps. So that's really the main focus of it. But you know, when you go, I mean, we were in the same situation when we first came here to Hawaii years ago, 25 years ago, and we started with a little room, you know, and then within six months, we expanded into the space that you see now, which is much larger, and about two years ago, we expanded that as well. But I guess, you know, one of the questions I wanted to ask you is, you know, what comes with bigger space is extra overhead, extra expenses. And how do you deal with that? How did you mentally deal with that? Was there no question about it? You didn't even think about it, or was that a factor? Of course it was a factor. We nearly tripled our space, which means our rent just about tripled. It was a big concern. Lisa and I, we do make it a point to have one thing, it's just my wife and I, Lisa and I, running there, but she handles the finances. But it's so important for us to be on the same page. And we talked about it, and we knew that if we wanted to grow our business, this was a move that we needed to take. And it's part of it was having faith that the opportunities were going to come. Another part of it was believing in our business plan. Yeah, so did we know, we have a number that we have done that we have to hit every month, and of course that number grew. And really, just mainly believing in our business that we can do it was, that's how we've tackled everything. And believing in yourself, you know, it's interesting because when we first moved into our office space, we didn't really need to have a training room. But they offered a, this training room was in a unique situation, location. So they offered to give us the training room for a very reasonable price. And I'm like, I don't know, John, you know, it's the 600 square foot training room, that's a lot of experts. And John's like, baby, we need to do it. We need to do this because, you know, there'll be a, we will utilize it. There'll be a reason for it. And here now, you know, we can sit 20 people in it. We have laptops, we have tables, and we're doing trainings. And it's just fantastic, you know, all from believing in it. And a little bit before I moved, you guys even expanded more. Yes, that's true. And the thing is, you have a goal. And as you said, you work to achieve your goal.  So if you know where you want to be, then put yourself there.  We kind of face them and get through it and believe in yourself and, you know. Yeah, because, because having a business is a challenging, but actually fantastic experience. Because while you're going through all the obstacles, it's very difficult. But like you said, having, you know, that communication going is very important. Knowing where you are in your business, having belief that it's all going to be OK. Is, is like one of the top priorities is believing, believing, believing, believing. Never, ever, ever give up on yourself, ever. That's great. Adrian, statistics show that out of a hundred new businesses, 70 actually fade away in the first two years. And 25% survive for 15. Now, you've been in business since 2009. So you're in the top 50% of success rate. So what do you attribute your success to? For one, I think it's the trade I'm in. I'll have to be honest about that. It's it's a business that should be around. Statistically, they are around for a very long time. It's a specialty. Oh, yes. Right, right. I think one of one of our big success, one of the reasons for success now is, is how we've adapted digital technology, right? Digital, digital is kind of it's a has a huge influence in demo right now. And that goes back to the start of digital x-ray, digital charts. You guys are familiar with this with that, right?   And they're such a, sorry, there's there's a huge learning curve for that. For Dennis and for laboratories, for me, I naturally caught on. It came easy to me. And I've become I've become a resource for for local supply companies. Like they ask me, they ask me to speak, they ask me to train. That's great. Relations. Thank you. That's great. And yeah, I mean, that that that opens up a lot of opportunities there because now these companies are saying, Hey, there's this guy, Adrian, none of the designs. Call him for help. That's great. Yeah. Let's come back to that in just a moment, because that's a really, really good thing that you're saying. We're going to take a short break. This is keys to success on the Think Tech live streaming network series. We're talking with Adrian Alfonso, owner of aesthetic dental designs regarding our theme today, embracing change and overcoming fear. My name is Danilia, D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm another half of the duo, John Newman. We'll be back in a minute. So please stay tuned for more keys to success. 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We encourage you to call our hotline at<PHONE_NUMBER> to join our conversation or tweet us at thinktechhibm any questions or comments. We've been talking with Adrian Alfonso, owner of aesthetic dental designs regarding our theme today, embracing change and overcoming fear. My name is Danelia D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo, John Newman. Welcome back. So Adrian, before the break you were talking about the fact that now you're teaching and you've been asked to give presentations and so forth. Yes. Great. Yeah, follow up on that if you will. So the main company that I'm an advocate for is DenseBly Serona. For the clinician side, which is the dentist side, they have Sarek. Sarek is just the dentist's ability to do a chair side restoration. I don't know if you've heard a lot of same-day restorations. Oh, right. I'm glad you explained that because we have no idea what you're talking about. That's kind of what they push. Okay, great. Yeah. I also, so I've become a resource for them. Oh, great. Supporting them in digital, whether it's designing or just figuring out the program itself. It's software. There's a huge learning curve in software. So what's interesting through this conversation is that it's very clear that in your heart, you're doing the work that you're supposed to be doing. Yes. Right? I mean, that's obvious. That's really come out. And I think that's really important for people to understand that in your business, whatever you do in life, as far as work or donating time or whatever it is, that you do what you love to do because you know in your heart, you're meant to do that. That's really critical. Yeah. And that wasn't always clear to me. In fact, our first year in business, I probably spent a year looking for a second job. Yeah. No joke. Yeah.  You know, I was born into it. That was everything. And you became passionate about it. Yes. And we can see it in the way you are answering these questions and sharing with us. And that's a wonderful thing. That's a blessing. Well, you know, it's interesting because I think we all go through that in business. I mean, I know other business people, same thing. You know, they come in, they talk to us and we're like, look, just don't give up because I did the same thing. Okay. We had our business for a while and it was just so, it's just seven, seven days a week, you know, 24 hours a day virtually. And it was just so exhausting and you're going through all these challenges. And I said, you know, I said to John, I said, I think I'm just going to get a job. And I got a job for like three months and I was miserable. And I was crying every day. He's like, what's going on? You know, I said, you know, I realize now that I'm meant to, we are meant to have a business that we're meant to do this. And I've never looked back. We've never looked back since. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Adrian, change is a main constant in life. We know that. Embracing change is a key element in growing and improving. So share with us. How have you learned to embrace change? To embrace change. How I've learned to embrace change. It was going back to, to the change in our industry. Right. It was if, if, if digital technology and dentistry were gone today, I would be fine. I was raised in the traditional laboratory. I can make things by hand and start to finish. That's not the direction the industry was heading. So that's why I embraced it by first investing in it. Right. That was, that was the single most difficult decision we had to make because there's, for us, there was initial investment into it. But then it was just getting yourself out there. There's people that want to teach you how to do things correctly. How to do things easier. Right. It's just, it's connecting with the right people and networking with the right people. Finding people that inspire or was a big part of it. Yes. Right. Because there's a lot of naysayers. Yes. Not to ignore them. Right. They have something, you know, that, that can help you still. But finding people that would motivate you to be successful. You know, that's interesting because that's one of the subjects that people keep bringing up on the show is that you've got to surround yourself with people who support you and are positive influences in your life and have mentors. Yes. You know, that's extremely important. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful. So what do you, what do you feel are your top three success habits? Top three success habits, I think about this all night. Right. The first one, see now I got to think about this. That's exactly what we want you to do. I was surprised you didn't have any paper with you. You see us. I take your time and think about it. Because you're speaking from the heart and it's felt by the heart. Yeah. Yeah. First one is personal sacrifice. Yes. You know, one of my years, I've been in business 2009, one of the years, I think I took about five Sundays off the whole year. And this was before I had my daughter, of course. But, but it was no question. If I was working until 3 a.m. going to sleep for a few hours, waking up at 5 a.m. at the office and going right back to work, it was, it wasn't even, not that it wasn't a concern, it was just in my head is I have to do it. Right. Personal sacrifice. Right. I'm not doing those hours anymore. Yeah, that's great. The biggest change was because we have Taylor, our daughter, she's almost two now. And I want to be in her life, not the other way around, not married to the laboratory. Right. But another sacrifice is just helping people, right? I've been lucky to be surrounded by other technicians helping me. So there are local laboratories here who have technology or who need help. And some people, they ask me, why do you help them? They're competitors. And I always say, well, I'm not good at this because it came after. I'm good at it because someone taught me. Right. And if I can be a resource to my competitor here, then just have a good heart. Absolutely. Because what you give comes back to you too. That's exactly right. Yeah. Very, very. My second one would probably be, so personal sacrifice was the first one. Right. Second one would be clear conscience. Okay. Most of the decisions I make are based on me having a clear conscience. As a business person, it's easy to take advantage of somebody. But all of those decisions are based on that. Third one would be to have humility. I see this, when I started the business, I was 25. You're still 25, right? 24 now. All right. I don't know how it works. I'm 33 though. TMI. But having humility, I was doing cold calls going to dental offices. In their eyes, here's this kid saying, hey, I can do this for you. I can do that. Now, I had to learn to accept criticism because I was learning so much. I see it a lot with younger generations. I'm millennials, right? I'm right on that edge of millennial or generation X. Oh, okay. Right? So I can be a millennial before I would be offended by that. Now I'm trying to own up to it. Oh, good. Because we did have that conversation we recall. Yeah. Great. But I'd find the younger generation, they always feel their feelings are hurt or they feel underappreciated. But really, you got to be able to take constructive criticism. Yes. And for me, that's humility. Yes. And being able to accept that is one of the things that in my head as a business owner is like, I'm always learning. Like, that's always in my head. Someone always has something to teach me. And I think that's important to being successful is being able to listen. And you've got to be willing to accept. Oh, yeah. That's the key.  Point. And they continue to grow. And so it's really important to listen to more seasoned individuals who have businesses for many, many years because they have so much to offer. Now, you still do your own thing, but, you know, their experience really helps to guide you sometimes with decisions that you have to make. Honestly, I'll have this mindset for the next 50 years. Yeah. And that's the only mindset to have. That's right. That's one of the things we teach in our classes. Yeah. Learn to listen. Yeah. You'll be surprised what you hear. Yeah, that's right. So true. Okay, Adrian. Okay. So what is the best advice you can give our viewers and listeners regarding keys to success? I thought about this one hard also. And there's always my grandmother. Before I lived with my aunt and uncle through high school, I was mainly raised by my grandma. And she raised me and my sisters by herself. And she would always say, just live within your means. Yeah. Yeah. So does that apply to personal? Yeah. But when I think about it more, that applies to business also. Yes. Right? Today, can my business operate successfully with what I have? Mm-hmm. And I can. Of course, we always want more. Right. But just operating and living within our means is something that I always find myself saying silently to myself. Yeah. Thank you so much, Adrian. Well, we're out of time. We'll have to wrap it up. Adrian's Words of Wisdom with regards to keys to success can be found on Newman Consulting Services webpage, which is newmanconsultingservices.com and landingpagedenilia.org. Thank you to you, our viewers and listeners for tuning in. Thanks to our broadcast engineers, Zuri Bender, our floor manager, Nick Sexton, and to Jay Fudele, our executive producer who puts it all together. Thank you so much, Adrian, for joining us today and sharing your insights to success. 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