Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today is Rosa White, Chief Financial Officer at DR Fortress. Rosa, welcome to JSA TV. Oh, thank you. I'd be here. For those who don't already know, please tell our viewers about DR Fortress. Oh, DR Fortress is the largest data center in Hawaii. We're a carrier neutral facility with about 50,000 square feet and about 500 racks right now. And we service most of the largest enterprises here in Hawaii, including financial institutions, hospitals, airlines, in addition to all of the carriers that are located in Hawaii. We provide data center services and also cloud services either via white label or through our partners. I understand that DR Fortress has some exciting news to share at ITW this year. Can you tell us about it? Yeah, we're really excited. We are announcing yet another expansion here in Hawaii. We're going to be adding about 130 racks into our facility. We've started all the design and the permitting and ordered a lot of the infrastructure equipment with COVID-19. We're seeing a little bit of delay in both the equipment being shipped to Hawaii, so we wanted to make sure that we planned ahead and had the facility ready to go in Q4. The reason for the expansion is really servicing a lot of the requests that we've been getting from carriers wanting to deploy their 5G network, a lot of our cloud providers needing more space for their services. We needed to be ready and stay ahead of the demand. Exciting expansion and growth news for DR Fortress. In addition, it's hurricane season. We can't forget about that. It's here and top of mind for folks in Hawaii. Can you tell us how DR Fortress is protecting mission critical data at its world-class data facility? Sure. It's kind of crazy. We are ahead of the planning schedule this year. With COVID-19, we had to make special precautions and put in extra safety measures for our employees and our customers. The normal exercise that we take in June, we've kind of already pre-started, but typically what we do is we retrain our staff every year and we go through a hurricane scenario or any sort of other natural disaster that could happen. The staff gets trained and we have a primary secondary and tertiary in every single department and every single person has a checklist of what they need to do. I won't go through the details. We're talking about two to three pages per department, but we go through that and walk through and make sure that in the event, the storm is coming 48 hours, 36 hours, 24 hours. We know specific steps that we're supposed to do and in the event that the primary team cannot handle that responsibility, then we have our secondary teams come in and take over. We just have to be prepared for anything. I mean, this is the reason why customers come to DR Fortress is to handle any sort of natural disaster that hits the islands. So we need to be ready to go and prepare for this. So what we've done this year is something a little different. We've got so many requests from customers and that we usually send them snippets of our checklist or just give them kind of references that we use. So this year we're actually launching a hurricane preparedness e-book and that will be available on our site and we'll be sending that out to customers. And so we wanted to share kind of what we do to make sure that it's various businesses can have the proper steps in place. I mean, a lot of it's common sense. We have customers that have vehicle fleets and so what to do with their vehicle fleets or inventory. And then, of course, we have customers that are purely professional service providers that have hosted equipment and provide services to customers. So they have special needs as well. So we try to make the e-book just as consolidated as possible for the various businesses and hopefully it kind of is a nice checklist for everyone to say, okay, this is what we need to do and just get everybody ready. DR Fortress being a partner for the community for sure with that hurricane preparedness e-book. So Rosa, where can our viewers go to learn more about the DR Fortress data center, services, e-book and more? Oh yeah, you can go to our website, which is www.drfortress.com. That's all one word. And there you'll see kind of a picture gallery of our facility. You can download the e-book that we just talked about and see kind of our press releases and the events that we've been doing. And in addition, if you wanted to come see our site, you can just request a tour and one of our sales folks can take you for a tour. We are still under COVID-19 precautionary measures here in Hawaii. However, we are allowing customers to come in to handle their services. So with our tours, we need to kind of follow special steps, but we can certainly handle those. Okay, go check out DR Fortress, reach Rosa and our team and they'll be happy to help you. Appreciate your time here Rosa. Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, thank you for having me. Appreciate it. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking.


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Next question is from Hades Gray. What exercise should we and shouldn't we do when we are doing low reps? Okay, so technically any exercise can be done with low reps, but some exercises just lend themselves better to low reps and others not so much. Typically, generally speaking, it's the single joint isolation exercises that tend to not be so, you know, done so well with low reps and it's the compound lifts that tend to work better with low reps. Now, why is that? Well, when you're doing a single joint exercise like a side lateral, let's use that as an example, right? That's for the shoulders, right? When I'm doing low, when I'm doing, first of all, when I'm doing that exercise, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to really isolate the lateral head of my shoulder. I'm trying to really feel it in my shoulder. If I wanted to, I could lift more weight by utilizing the muscles of my upper back and my traps and momentum. And so it just becomes so... Now that takes away from the intent. Yes, and it becomes like such a struggle to do like four heavy reps of side laterals and that turn it into, you know, an upper back exercise. This is very, very difficult. Now with squats or deadlifts or bench press, it's much easier to maintain good form and go low reps, but those isolation exercises, they can be a bit tough with a low rep. So it's okay to do lower reps typically with the isolation stuff, but I don't like to go below like eight reps with that kind of stuff because I've just found even with myself, my form starts to go up. Well, that's the biggest thing for me. And I've seen this in the gym and the side laterals. A great example of when you see somebody like that and they add a little English to it. It's like now they're getting, you know, this momentum that they're kind of thrust in their hips into it.  You know, they're incorporating their upper back muscles. They're just a lot more things have to happen to move that heavier weight up versus like really just honing in and doing what your intention is to really try to activate more specifically, you know, your deltoids in this. Now we've answered this question several times in the show over the last, you know, five, six years.  This question is presented and shouldn't and should and it's not, it's not a shouldn't and should. It's not black or white. Exactly. It's not black or white. And nobody in here is saying that I've never done three reps of bicep curls. Yes, I have done three reps of bicep curls before. It's just they don't lend themselves well to your point. So I just want to make that clear because I know we'll get some knucklehead that will find that will feel the need to defend low reps on a lateral raise or low reps on a bicep curl and say it's, you know, been the best thing for them or whatever. It's just it's not ideal. It doesn't mean you can't do it and there's not some value to it. Cause I definitely, I did this not that long ago where I grabbed really heavy weight and did three reps of bicep curls, really slow and controlled. So, but, but also the tempo of it. So I was not using English on it. I was still was trying to control and have good form. It was just, I couldn't get more than three reps out of it. So it doesn't mean that it's, it's worthless. It doesn't mean that you can't do it. We just always come from a trainer's perspective and when I think of We know what tends to happen. That's right. And when I think of 99% of my clientele, you're right. I would never do heavy lateral raises. I would never do concentration curls that where we would do less than six reps. So for the maturity, we're not speaking to the exceptions. Yes. We're trying to give information that like most people benefit from us.


Hi, my name is John Ray and behind us is our 2011 Volkswagen Polo Proto that we built this year in our shop. Body shell came in from Daikou in Poland, there's a body shell on a roll cage and my fabricator works in the shop, him and I spent three and a half months chopping and cutting and making the changes we wanted to make. It runs an EVO-10 engine, transmission and diffs and suspension, super shock out of Australia, Holland's a six-speed sequential out of Australia and our first trouble so we had a bit of bad luck and for the first prologue we ran a little bit lean and we lost our engine so it was a 460 horsepower engine and the wheels gone and dusted so we managed to find a stock engine in Auckland, our boys worked furiously to put it in. We missed all of Tuesday but we've got it running but we're down 200 horsepower so it's pretty tame to drive, it's our first time on a four-wheel drive car on a tarmac rally so the whole idea is to learn, don't erase ourselves and bring it home each day.


So, this is the first public workshop open to the UBC community to come and learn about the various Indigenous Strategic Plan Toolkits. And if you are being hosted this morning by the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives or acronym OISI, and our office has developed this set of tools which individual units or faculties or initiatives can use to help situate themselves in relation to Indigenous engagement and to begin aligning your own work with the Indigenous Strategic Plan. And joining us this morning for the workshop, we have my colleague, Adrienne Badan, who's Senior Advisor to the Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal on Indigenous Affairs in the Okanagan. We also have Vicki George, Associate Director with the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives and Jesse Penner, Administrative Coordinator with the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives. Now the ISP is intended to be our guide at UBC for meaningful reconciliation to help make meaningful reconciliation a priority for all of us, students, faculty and staff. And it is our document that provides core guidance to the entire institution, all areas of the university on our Indigenous engagement for the coming years. And to the best of our knowledge, we are the first university in North America and actually most of the world to make explicit commitments to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. And what the toolkit and the Action Plan do is help move that commitment to implementation because that is actually where the importance and the immense importance of the ISP Action Plan takes hold. So what we're going for and aiming for is that all Indigenous students, faculty, staff across the institution will meet an environment here where they feel valued, respected, and in which they have an opportunity to thrive. Now we could spend an entire hour just on this slide about the positioning of the UN Declaration with the Indigenous Strategic Plan, but I want to go just over a couple key background points very quickly. So the question is, why do we ground the ISP in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? Quite simply, we do this for a couple of reasons. The UN Declaration is the bare minimum international standard of Indigenous Peoples' human rights. It's a global consensus document that was negotiated for over two decades between Indigenous Peoples' representatives and UN member states. Here in Canada, when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report in June of 2015, which included its 94 calls to action, it positioned adoption and implementation of the UN Declaration explicitly as the framework to meaningful reconciliation in Canada. The ISP, the Indigenous Strategic Plan, is the translation of those international Indigenous human rights into our everyday lives and work in post-secondary space. So a few core principles, rules of thumb as it were, that can guide our work in putting the UN Declaration into daily practice in our lives and our work include the following, acknowledging and supporting Indigenous self-determination, creating an atmosphere of mutual respect, reciprocity, collaboration, co-development, and co-governance wherever possible, and maintaining relational approaches grounded in ongoing discussion and negotiations. And at this point, I'm going to turn over to my colleague, Adrienne Badan, who will take over the next slide. Hello and good day, everyone. I'm joining you today from the Okanagan campus, which is located in the traditional ancestral and unceded territory of the Sioux people. It's really exciting to think of the new network model that has been created for ISP implementation. And this implementation structure is relational and distributed to allow for collective response and responsibility across both campuses, as well as accountability at all levels. Everyone is responsible for implementing the ISP. This model has an Indigenous-led advisory and implementation committees with Indigenous faculty, students, and staff at decision-making tables from across both campuses. And through these two new committees that have been created, the ISP Executive Advisory Committee and ISP Coordinating Committee. Indigenous people are at decision-making tables, which hasn't happened before through committee structures at UBC. It's also really exciting to know that units and portfolios from both campuses are engaging with the ISP toolkit. And from the Okanagan campus, this includes the ADP students, school of social work, and the graduate student advisory council, and more. I'll now pass it over to Vicky George, who's going to provide a background of the ISP. Thanks, Adrienne. Okay, so the ISP background, that's our acronym short for Indigenous Strategic Plan, the ISP background. It actually started back when I was an undergrad student around those years of 2009, I'll say that. And we came up with the ISP framework. And it was the input of Indigenous students at that time, and also faculty and staff, about our realities on campus here at Devin Cooper. Since this time, there have been significant philosophical shifts and national awakening to the critical work of the reconciliation. This includes the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, the Truth and Right Consoliation Commission Report, and the 94 Calls to Action, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry Report, and its 231 Calls for Justice. Around October 2017 to June 2018, the updated ISP framework developed. In June 2019, Board of Governors adopts the vision and mission statements in the Indigenous Strategic Plan. September 2019, the UBC Okanagan introduced their Declaration of Truth and Reconciliation Commitments, committing to five recommended actions towards reconciliation. And then, for those of you that might have been lucky enough to see this live, virtually during a pandemic, the ISP launched in September 2020, and this was the UBC's response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report, and Vancouver's response to the TRC. This plan is the result of more than 2,500 unique engagements. And yes, I was around those engagement tables for each one, and it was an honour and privilege hearing the voices of Indigenous students, faculty and staff. And also over 15,000 ideas, opinions and comments shared by Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals across both campuses and with our Indigenous community partners. The feedback received was collated and analysed and ultimately culminated in the eight goals and 43 actions. And I will pass this over to Jesse. Thanks, Vicky. So this diagram is a starting point and just a snapshot of the vast network of relationships. It is crucial that UBC recognises and attends to each one of our relationships within this network in purposeful and meaningful ways. Our nearest relationships and responsibilities are with our host nations of Musqueam and the Okanagan Nation Alliance, or ONA, with whom we have a deepening and formalised relationship as expressed through a memorandum of affiliation with Musqueam and a memorandum of understanding with the ONA. Again, this is just a snapshot, and our relationships are always growing and are very important to us. And as our principals, it's important that we continue building relationships and not keeping these. I'm going to move on to talk about the ISP implementation model. This is a new innovative network model for ISP implementation support, as my colleague Adrienne did mention. The model has embed Indigenous-led advisory and implementation committees and inserted Indigenous people at the decision-making tables, where they have historically been excluded from. And this has been done through the creation of two new committees, the Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee and the Indigenous Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee. Both committees have begun their work and are well underway in advancing the ISP. We want to emphasise that everyone has a shared responsibility for advancing the ISP. It's not just the responsibility of those working on the Indigenous portfolio any longer to do this work at UBC. Our implementation model is both dialogical and relational. It's not expected that units, sorry, it's expected that units respect these principals. The model is not a box-ticking exercise, nor is it prescriptive. Each portfolio, faculty and unit will align with the ISP in their own individual ways. Units do not need to include every ISP goal and action, but should rather focus on where the unit can have the most impact. Thanks, Jesse. For the ISP implementation advice, there are numerous points across both campuses where units can seek advice on the ISP implementation. We have the Indigenous Advisory Committee at the Okanagan. It considers the current state of Indigenous activities on UBC's Okanagan campus, identifies priority areas of focus for the future, and helps implement strategies to advance these initiatives. The Indigenous Strategic Plan Implementation Committee at the Vancouver campus devises and monitors implementation strategies and advises administration on the allocation of resources pulled off from the Indigenous portal. You can look at the Indigenous portal for more information about the ISP committee. The Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives, or what we call ourselves OISI, was created in February 2021 to coordinate the implementation of UBC's 2020 Indigenous Strategic Plan across Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. The Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee identifies ISP priorities, reviews, implementation, progress, and provides recommendations on funding priorities, projects, and programs, and is made up of Indigenous and non-Indigenous UBC staff, faculty, and students across both campuses. I will move on to the visual representation of the ISP guiding network. You can find on our ISP website. Through this graphic, we seek to demonstrate the accountability across all levels that the ISP is to be implemented through. At the bottom of the graphic, we begin with the various faculties, departments, and units at UBC that collect data, implement day-to-day happenings, and make decisions. Above this, we have three committees, ISPIC, IAC, and at the Vancouver campus and the IAC of the Okanagan campus, who collect data, provide recommendations and advice on the UBC Indigenous portfolios. Both of these committees also feed updates into ISPIC, which has representatives from across both campuses. ISPIC advises reviews and provides recommendations on ISP priorities and progression. Going a level above, we have the Indigenous Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee, or the ISPCC, which has representatives from the executive leadership, including President Santa Ono and our senior advisors on the Indigenous affairs. ISPCC is the decision-making body centric on the ISP priority goals, actions, and funding. Their decisions are made centered on the input of ISPIC and the information provided to them. The ISPCC is accountable to our Board of Governors, and noting the Board Indigenous Engagement Committee, who has the role of ensuring that the university pursues the goal set forward in the Indigenous Strategic Plan, and in that adequate resources are directed towards its fulfillment. The ISPCC also feeds up to the Senate as well. Together, the Board and Senate have oversight resource allocation and academic and policy direction on the ISP. This is an important slide. We get asked quite a bit about what the similarities and differences are between the ISP and equity diversity and inclusion. This is a very important question that's asked, and I'm actually pleased that people are wanting to understand this better. The implementation of the ISP seeks to amplify Indigenous voices to bring about structural and innovative change that remedy the colonial experience in Canada. For instance, there's no other group in Canada that has the Indian Act from 1876 to the present day. As such, meaningful reconciliation moves beyond EDI work and requires the acknowledgement of Indigenous people's distinctive histories, experiences, and lived realities associated with and impacted by colonialism, and as an example, the Indian Act. We are moving in the same direction. ISP implementation emphasizes collaboration, collectivity, and coordination. Thanks Vicki. I will chat about the implementation toolkit and workshops. So the next few slides are going to take us through ISP implementation toolkits, which OIC developed to guide units and faculties in the implementation of the ISP in their own individual contexts. The first step of our toolkit is the ISP self-assessment tool. The self-assessment tool provides a space for your unit or faculty to have conversations about Indigenous engagement and reconciliation with specific focus on where your unit is currently doing well and where your opportunities are for improvement. It's a chance for your unit to collectively reflect on the systems of colonialism at UBC and situate yourselves in relation to the ISP. The tool is broken into 35 questions across five thematic areas, understanding people, culture and systems, relationships and partners, and teaching, learning, and research. The first four thematic areas are for all units and faculties, no matter their role at UBC. And the final area, the teaching, learning, and research area is just for academic units and faculties. The ISP implementation toolkit provides an opportunity for units to slow down and reflect. As such, the self-assessment tool will take a number of sessions to get through, but the results will be extremely useful for both a general understanding in your unit, as well as the next steps in the ISP implementation process. The results of the tool are for your unit's use only. It's not a reporting mechanism for external use. Just going to change slides here. So further talking about the toolkit, between ISP touchpoints and the use of both toolkits, OISI has reached upwards of 1200 plus individuals across UBC so far. The self-assessment and intent to action toolkits have been conducted with various offices across UBC, including UBC Sustainability, the AVP students at the Okanagan campus, the School of Public Policy, and the President's Office, just to highlight a few. We have impact stories on the new ISP website, where you can see where we showcase successes and lessons learned from various departments on their journeys implementing the ISP and their experiences with the ISP toolkits. As you may know, the new Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund has recently launched, and for Streams 1 and 2, the applicants must do the self-assessment tool before applying to slow down and reflect on how their ideas relate to the ISP goals and actions. To read more about other units' experiences with the toolkits, please visit isp.ubc.ca and view impact stories. We host stories from units that have successfully gone through the toolkits, including one from USI up right now, and they were one of the first units to do both the self-assessment toolkit and the intent to action toolkit. And if you have conducted the toolkit and want to share your experience, please reach out to oise.admin.ubc.ca if you'd like to share a story. And we'll move on to the intent to action toolkit, which is the second toolkit. This tool picks up from where the ISP self-assessment tool takes you and starts to take you on your lessons learned and transform them into action in your unit. So you must complete the self-assessment tool to then move on to the intent to action. This tool provides a logic framework for breaking down the ISP goals and actions and mapping them onto your unit's specific mission, vision, values, and strategies. There are three workshops as part of the intent to action toolkit. The first two focus on a core planning team and the final one opens up to unit-wide engagement. By the end of the three workshops, your unit will have a plan of action as to how to implement the specific ISP specific goals and actions into your own context. It's not expected that you will choose all eight goals and 43 actions of the ISP, of course, but rather the tool helps you focus on where your unit can have the greatest impact. So we also have another tool called our sample performance measurement framework. This is the third tool. This PMF provides just a sample of outputs, ink, outcomes, and performance measures for each of the 43 actions in the ISP. These can be used by units and faculties to evaluate ISP-related projects and initiatives. These outputs, outcomes, and performance measures are really just for guidance to provide units with the examples of how progress can be measured. Units are free to use whichever indicators they feel are most appropriate to their own context. So again, this is not prescriptive. This is just to give you a general idea. So I'm going to hand it off to Vicki for our overview. Thanks, Jesse. The Indigenous Strategic Plan is a path-breaking plan, first of its kind in North America. Faculties and units can align with the plan where they see the opportunity for greatest impact. Therefore, we understand that you're not going to get all of the eight goals and 43 action items done in the first year. This is a long game and it's going to take time. And those goals and actions you can utilize and figure out after you've done the toolkit, both sections of them, the self-assessment tool and the intent to action tool, will better be able to show you how effective you can be in your unit or faculty with the specific goals and actions that pertain to your particular experience. There are multiple points across both campuses where advice on ISP implementation can be sought. Toolkit focuses on process rather than outputs. Let me say that again. The toolkit focuses on process rather than outputs. Slow down. This is an opportunity when you go through the toolkit where you can have discussion and dialogue that has never happened at UBC before. This is the opportunity. And frankly, I've been in the ISP toolkit sessions with folks and the slowing down happens organically because folks share their experiences, feedback, and answers when they go through the toolkit. Pushback is inevitable. Yes, that might happen. But thoughtful and meaningful reconciliation takes time. And in closing, we often get asked, what can we do? Well, this is the start, the Indigenous Strategic Plan and the implementation toolkit. The ISP toolkit is based upon ISP's three foundational documents. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report and its 94 calls to action. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Coral Report and its 231 calls for justice and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. We created and worked on the toolkits for you. This is a good place to start. By reading and reviewing the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan in its entirety and the ISP toolkit that includes the self-assessment tool and the intent to action tool, these will provide your faculty or unit with the guidance to implement the ISP that's unique to your faculty and unit needs. This work may be tough at times, but it is necessary. If you think about why there's 94 actions from the TRC report and why there's 231 actions from the NCOR report, and then let that sink in about why there's so many actions that are specifically directed towards Indigenous people and why we need a human rights recognized and affirmed via the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, then this is proof of the urgency of this work. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives at oiC.admin.ubc.ca. Thank you.


A lot of people have lucid dreams simply because they watched one of my videos and I suddenly realised this the other day when I had all these comments and messages and it just occurred to me that I do every now and then I'll get a comment or a message from somebody saying hey I saw one of your videos and as a result I was lucid that night. It suddenly occurred to me that actually you can become lucid just because you're trying to learn about the topic you know say if you read a book like for example when I was when I was first learning I would have the exploring the world of lucid dreams book you know that little blue one by I think Stephen LaBurge wrote it and every time I would see that book I would ask myself if I was dreaming it became like a reality check in and of itself and eventually it got to the point where I was actually I would dream about that book and as a result I would become lucid just by thinking about it just by thinking about the book because I knew it was linked to lucid dreaming and I've had a few conversations with people where they've said that they've become lucid they've seen me in their dream signs or whatever I guess because I'm talking about lucid dreaming and because I'm getting the ideas out there making videos writing articles about it it makes it more likely that you're going to actually do it because there's always that chance that you're for example see one of my videos and then that will trigger you to do a reality check or that will trigger you to start reading or watching more about lucid dreaming and that sort of thing so in that way I'm very glad that that in some way I was helpful or that you know watching one of my videos has led to you having a lucid dream that's what I would hope anyway so what I want to do is I want to issue a challenge every time you see one of my videos pop up on YouTube click on it and do a reality check just literally just ask yourself am I dreaming is this real but when you do it really look around and just question the details of the world around you don't just do it half-heartedly you know really try and think about whether you're dreaming or not you can also leave a comment if you're feeling particularly generous that would be quite useful for my engagement rate but it's entirely up to you you know you can just you can turn anything really into a reality check trigger I guess another thing you could do is what I do quite often is I'll have these little stickers you see the sticker behind me it just says basically are you dreaming I've got those all around my house you know there's some on my on my door there's some on my windows on the mirror and they basically just remind me to do reality checks I know it sounds really simple right and you're probably thinking well I don't really need to remember to do them because they happen anyway or you know maybe you have a timer or something but if you the more times you remind yourself to just test your reality just think about whether you're actually awake or not the more likely it is that you're going to lose a dream that I don't know what a weird noise is by the way it's probably this clicking thing I'm just doing this hand strength thing twice I want to get back into climbing anyway anyway here's what I want to do with this video leave a comment letting me know what your most effective reality check is what is the most the thing that you do the most often that leads to the most lucid dreams if you don't have any lucid dreams that's fine too but leave a comment letting me know why you don't think you're having any because I really want to try and I really want to try and answer more of your questions and basically help you lucid dream I want to figure out what it is that's stopping you lucid dreaming and then we can work on that directly I can make videos answering those questions and we can sort of improve together going forwards thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my patreon followers please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description you'll find links to various lucid dream products articles techniques and tutorials if you did enjoy this video please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time why are you still watching this you should have clicked one of my related videos by now right or subscribed or gone onto my website or something like that


Hello, this is Dr. Sarper Diller. I'm the president of Myeloma Patients Europe. We are a number of law organizations of multiple Myeloma patient groups across large Europe. Our mission is to provide education, information and support for our members to increase their capacities to be able to better advocate at European and local levels. Our main objectives are to encourage research and development, new safe and effective treatments in multiple Myeloma and to help shape health-related policies and initiatives at different levels. In Myeloma Patients Europe, we are committed to work very hard for the benefit of Myeloma community, all this for a very common goal, to extend patient lives and improve quality of life. So stay tuned to MPE in order to get informed and updated. Get in contact with Myeloma groups in your region and meet your root mate in Myeloma journey. Thank you.


I have to flick some boogers at single mommies because Anthony really wanted me to. I'm not gonna do it myself this time. Last year's video, you can check it out. But do not LTR a single mommy. Play them, that's it. Don't date them, don't LTR. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you some opportunities to check out some comments from some people that have commented in my most popular video or one of my most popular videos. There's like, I don't know, 10,000 comments. So I pulled a few out. We'll just highlight a few of them. This guy over here, the ability to appreciate anything I do for them. If I am in the middle of doing something for them, they are sweet.  It's tough. 100% correct, was with a single mom for 17 years and it was a constant battle and I was never right and she basically wouldn't cooperate with me on anything and always chose her son's bad behavior over me. I gave it my all and it made no difference.  This guy, there's some cold heart truth right over here. Simon says, seriously, if anybody here needs another reason not to date a single mom, hear this, dude, you're racing somebody else's kid.  Your genes will go extinct. Your name will disappear while the dude's genes and name will continue on. Just thinking about that drives me crazy. This one over here. This one hurt me when I broke up with my single mommy. After the relationship ended, I swore that I would never date a woman with kids again. Worst thing was, I got really attached to her kids, after, sorry, her girls and after we broke up, you never see them again. They're not your kids. You're just an accessory. Do not LTR or marry a single mom. Single mothers, I'm gonna hit on single mothers for a bit because not a lot of people talk about it. I came out of a three year relationship with a single mother last couple years. This is a meme that somebody sent me that I kind of chuckle that but I'm not gonna read it off. You can see it there for yourself. We'll leave it up for a sec. But there's truth in every joke, okay? When you see these stand up comics up on stage telling their jokes, the reason why they're funny is because there's elements of truth in them, okay? So when you see stuff like that, you gotta think about it. The thing about single moms is, you're gonna end up with double triple quadruple to heartbreak.  You'll never see them again. And even though they might have driven you absolutely nuts, you have like double or triple the heartbreak when you deal with somebody like that. It's also very easy for them to end the relationship because I've done it once. At my age, I was dating mostly divorce women. Seven out of seven or eight out of 10 women are divorced because they initiate the divorces. So it's very easy for them to move along and just slide into the next relationship. They have questionable judgment skills. You talk to single moms that have been divorced. You'll hear all kinds of stories from them about why they got married, the children, why they made all these decisions and choices and after a while, you'll start to ask yourself, that's pretty questionable and I don't see you taking a lot of ownership on whatever it was that you contributed to that. You'll never be a priority. You'll come in behind the kids, the cat, the dog, the extracurriculars, the parent student nights. You're like fifth or sixth. You know, the tree that needs to get removed in the backyard sort of thing.  You know, save yourself for somebody else that has the capacity of the time. They think the world is gonna revolve around her and her kids. She's emotionally unavailable.  Well, single moms have kids. They're gonna take up a lot of the time and resources. Most single moms have custody of their children more than the men, okay? So they're gonna have to deal with a lot of parenting issues. Mothers tend to doad over their children more than men do. Men are kind of more of like, let me teach you how to deal with this sort of thing.   Are you eating well? And all this sort of stuff. I'm in my 40s. My mom still mothers me. They eat up a lot of time and resources. You can even ask married men in this room what it's like to be married. And you'll start to recognize after a while that a lot of energy and resources, even in married couples where they have the children together, is eaten up with a mother spending time with the kids. They're not yours. Emotionally unavailable, her kids will work against you. They're not intentionally trying to do this, but even your presence in that relationship, you're pissing on the flame of reconciliation between the two parents, whether they choose to acknowledge it or not, okay? Even if you're a stand-up virtuous guy, you can bend over backwards and do everything under the sun for them. You're still, your presence is still pissing on the flame of reconciliation the way they see it, depending on what their age is, especially if they're younger. They have a distorted self-image.  See, single moms in there, they think they're a 10 when they're like a six. Everybody's had that experience, I'm sure. They don't take a lot of ownership for the mistakes that happen in their life. And it's 100% investment with 0% ROI. At least with my own daughter, what I invest in her, I get something back. I'm invested in my own lineage, okay? You don't get anything back invested in some other man's children. Lesson number nine.


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Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm filming an in-depth morning routine. This video is inspired by one of my greatest friends and favorite people in the world, Danielle Carolyn. I will have her video linked down below. I just thought it was such a good idea. So anyways, I wake up probably around seven. It depends on the day. Oh my gosh. All of my bedding is from a target actually right now. My matching pajamas are skims, slippers or uggs, um, rovis skims. Anyways, I wake up around seven and I go downstairs. I read and I journal and I drink coffee. Fitz actually thinks that this chair is his bed. He sleeps in here all the time. He just loves it. I'm starting off and brushing my teeth. I have a brush, if you know, you know. I give myself about like 30 minutes in the morning to do my morning pages. I need a little bit before because I don't like wasting my skincare and doing it twice. I just put on a moisturizer because I'm going to work out. So I'll eventually like shower it off. This is just the guilless peptide moisturizer. I love the guilless. Their skincare is so expensive. This moisture is probably $10. My other eye acid is like seven. Next, I'm just putting on my Laneige lip mask, which I'm almost out of. It's way too much. This is so good. All right, so I grab my Kindle and my journal and I head it downstairs. Here is the look. I always have candles burning in my house. This is the volcano candle from Anthropology. If you don't know, it's the one they burn in Anthro and that's why it smells so good. So I pretty much always have this candle going. Currently doing dishes. So I have like nothing left over. Look at these cute little espresso shot glasses. I have. I'm gonna take this one. That is one of my dolly mugs. So cute. I have the Nespresso. I think this is the next or it's the Virtua. I can never remember. Um, I like it. I normally just drink my coffee black. I'm not really like ever making lattes with this or anything, but I do like it. When I have my coffee, I'm going to go to my little chair over there and do morning pages. And do a little bit of reading. Morning pages is where I write for three pages straight. Gets everything out of my head. It helps someone with anxiety. I just love it. It's like the best way to start up my day. And then in the morning, I'll read a little bit of like a nonfiction book that I'm reading. Right now I'm reading The Go-Giver. Don't you guys just love my mug? So cute. Who else loves dolly? But also I'm just so cozy. I used to wake up and immediately change in the workout stuff So that I wouldn't have to go back from stairs and change or whatever But just giving myself this like 45 minutes to be cozy in my house Love it. I normally sit over here. It just changes by the day I pretty much never finished my entire cup of coffee drink. Maybe One third of it. I've been really bad about it in the morning. Okay, the notebook that I have is from Allswell I actually really like it. Um, I got this when I went to Malibu with my management I have two pins in here.  One of your favorite pens. I'm definitely very picky I like this journal because it's lined and then it's also non unlined. It's too early Also sometimes I like a graph notebook like graph paper. That's also great. Um, and then for my Kindle I have the Kindle Oasis. I've answered questions about this a million times I have an entire post on Instagram about reading in my Kindle and stuff. If you guys want to go back to it This is the Kindle Oasis. I don't have Wi-Fi. Um, I don't find that I need it. It's the more expensive Kindle It's unnecessary. I read so often that I was like, I want to get the nicer one Just because I literally read 100 bucks last year as of now. It's unnecessary I definitely like it better than the paper white though I will say like going from this and then reading paper whites because I gift them to people a lot Um, I do like this one better But it's also because this is what I'm used to unless reading is like one of your biggest things in life Um, get the paper white. I love my Kindle best part just have ever made truly I just love starting my day off like that. Now I will read and drink my coffee a little bit of it out of my dolly mug I'm currently reading The Go-Giver, which um, I think Justin Anderson recommended it on a podcast and I just think it is Such a good business book because it's about the like secrets to success and the way it's told is so interesting It's a very short read and it's essentially about like giving more than your Giving you know getting no it's about giving more than you're giving. Um, and I just love the book. So It is now 7 40. I'm gonna leave for Pilates in about 30 minutes I haven't even been playing music in my house in the mornings. I really just like to sit And obviously I don't talk to anyone but just be still and be quiet I used to always have jazz music playing in my house like constantly Frank Sinatra Whatever that's kind of what I grew up on but I also grew up listening to country music in my house And so recently I've been playing like Texas country throughout my house because it's just so Relaxing and it's listen to a playlist that I haven't modified. It's made by Spotify. I think it's like Texas country now So relaxing so I play that later, but not before I also try to not get on my phone Really until I at least do morning journals. It's typically like when I drive to Pilates I'm in the middle of doing my dishes and doing laundry So I feel really out of whack and I'm not gonna have a cute outfit today. So Um, don't worry about that. I honestly wish I got up even earlier just because I love this time And I will especially love it once I redo the furniture in this living room I am really just waiting and waiting and waiting Then I come over here Honestly, I like to have my stuff set out the night before it's like literally coming out I have so many but I haven't done that. It's because I have so much laundry to do Okay, so it's cold out So I need like actual leggings. I'm just at one of those points where Nothing matches. I have so many matching sets And we're out Of everything matching. Do you ever just put off doing your laundry for like so long? Okay. I have this set active set I love the leggings. This bra just like doesn't give that much coverage, but I'm just going to Pilates It's gonna be annoying or try not to wear this as much. I love the box cut bra So those are the ones I need to stick with they're the most flattering on me as well Oh, wait, you know what? Nope. Just kidding. I found this pink ear of our set. I've worn this A good amount. I love it. I love these leggings. I forget what they're called I wear a size medium And then I have this top as well. I love like a box cut type of sports bra So I'll wear this. Um, I'm gonna change into this and then I also have this coat I got this long puffer from asos that I've been wearing non-stop. It's perfect for In the mornings when you're throwing things on over your workout clothes to go to Pilates Because it's like really cold, but you're not there that long and it's just really cute Especially if you're wearing this and you wear like sweatpants and crew neck this Cute socks sneakers things like that like I just think it's really cute. So Anyways off to get ready. My face is like a lot paler than normal. Also this bathroom washes me out Hot pilates is my favorite workout and go to shine hot pilates In dallas you guys can actually use code join kenzie and you get your first class For free the only thing that's actually hot pilates like all around is that you sweat so much So like your hair is just Gross so I have certain things I'll do if I'm trying to not wash it every day It's gonna feel so bad for your hair, but I'm going to wash it today So I actually don't really care about it Getting gross because today's a hair washing day anyway. So normally I would like pull it up Out of my face or something but today I'm just gonna pull it back like this because it's not a big deal So here's my set as you can see it has these little like cross-downs that ari blew up on tiktok But your parts actually started it anyways, I love the workout stuff. It is like the best quality It's always this is a grab floor and I'm gonna pick any workout line It would be your arms and then it would be a set here.  Yeah, it's like really scary. Okay. So for deodorants I'm just using degree But that's because that's all that could be delivered to me that day because I ran out I love native but my subscription On amazon at least or whatever. I don't know where it would happen to it. Maybe I need to renew it Um, so I was out. I love a good aluminum frame and honestly I spray perfume before workout Okay, I have my right out mojave ghost. I mean Like I just think there's never about time to smell really good. You know, all right So it is 752. I'm gonna leave her my 810 and see the dogs out Um, this is what I'll take them to a little like yard situation and they'll run around for a little bit My dog walking schedule kind of changes in the cold will typically go more like throughout the day or the afternoon for like a longer walk Um, but in the morning fit just kind of like running around anyway. So I'm excited. I love my morning routine I also used to have a really complicated one and I feel like I've just made it a lot more simple Um, when we get back though, I'll show you like all the products that I use and everything that I do with that I think I'm gonna blow on my hair with my dyson, which is Ooh, really something. All right. So this is the look you have are set obviously Prada slippers aso's puffer. I will try to link everything below Come on bub. Good boy. Good boy fits. I have the dishwasher going right now But I have this water bottle that I love. I got it. Um, because they toss it on the skinny confidential, but It is so good. It's also really big. So I fill this up throughout the day. I basically choose a water bottle in the morning This is like my go-to I'm telling you this is the best water bottle and it makes me drink A lot more water. So this is also when I feed the dogs I'm not able to give dog rec or dog food recs right now because we are changing it up with their vet But I like to feed them. They're on a pretty good schedule So, oh, oops, sorry guys. I'll feed them before I leave for Pilates. So then They're ready to go outside whenever I get back. Now I'm ready for Pilates. I mean I really love the park. So now it is time for me to choose a podcast to listen to I'm feeling okay sis this morning. All right, great. I made it to Pilates 10 minutes. Oh Early always I need to get there early.  So your form isn't going to get messed up It's just the best around this time though is when I normally check my text from my editor Who runs the podcast Instagram? Okay, and I have a strong opinion on something.  Come on boy I'm home. I've laid out my outfit I'm going to wear these pants again guys. This is what I'm throwing together because All of my clothes are currently in the laundry and it's put them in the dryer But this is from earthsia this vest is from h&m and ever since I bought it I haven't been able to find the exact one. I'll link a similar But it was like 30 bucks and it's the best best ever I have these pants that are actually are also from h&m And then I have this body suit and guess I want to wear it But I think I want to go with the crew and then I'm just going to wear some sneakers with it Call it a day. That's the look I'm about to shower. So I'm listening to a podcast again on my amazon alexa I'm out of the shower. I made another skims robe This is what I used to wash my hair today. I don't always use this, but it's a purple shampoo to keep it more blonde This is finola As you can see, I just use them. So they're really messy for like body wash I've been loving this above the city soap shower oil It is so hydrating That's what I'm looking for at all times when especially in the winter and this isn't oatmeal honey Anything oatmeal honey is like exactly what I was for shower. I grew up with like all oatmeal honey products So it's just really comforting Um, this stuff is so good.  I've ever ever ever used It has hyaluronic acid which I love you guys will see in a second It's just beautiful.  It lasts a long time. There's a lot of products in here and you don't need a ton So moving on to my skincare. I use my hyaluronic acid. This is from the inky list legit seven dollars You know what else I'm gonna do today. I'm not sure if it's self tanner drops in. I normally only do this At night, but my face is really pale right now.  It's luxem filter. It's the savanna elis self tanner I love it. She also has a body lotion. It's like a gradual tanner. Um, I need to wash my hands.  Oh my god. It is my favorite face oil. I've ever used and I'm way more looking oil girl um, it's just everything I've ever needed. I think this is probably my number one holy grail product the super goop glow screen This is spf 40. It's the product that made me start wearing spf every night Which I know I will be so grateful for later on but it also just blurs out your skin a little bit So if you're not wearing like face makeup It just makes your skin almost as a qr wearing makeup and like the most natural way possible It is like Really just incredible. Next we're going to hair. So I don't always wash my hair This obviously adds like probably 30 minutes to my routine. I'm starting off with the way my rito Um leaving conditioner and this stuff Is so good. I spray it Throughout my hair before I brush it out Then I brush it out with a wet brush. I've used a wet brush for years I also like having my skin hair like really soak into my skin So I try not to do my makeup right after skincare Which is why I'll start doing my hair and then in a second I'll make breakfast But I just find that my makeup sits and looks a lot better If I give it a little bit of time Last I go on with the olapax body oil. Just get a little bit of this Rub it in my hands And then I just go through the ends of my hair I actually really need a haircut right now, but so now while my hair is drying a little bit my skincare is soaking in I put on normally like a podcast Typically it's the morning toast, but I love a good video podcast. Honestly bfs podcast. That's what we'll do I'm starving. I normally make one of these breakfast, but honestly today I'm making both so I can show you guys So I'm making a bacon sauerkraut hash. This is so good I don't know where my coconut oil went. You do need that Maybe I'll just use olive oil And then just avocado toast the real winner is the glaze. This is what I'm making for breakfast But honestly, I've never really had them together. It's a lot of work So first I cook the bacon I'll eventually add in a sauerkraut And then I currently have my toast toasting and my airfare toast drop-in thing This thing is so convenient. It looks way better And it does so many different things So I'll link it below if you guys are needing something for your place your apartment You're moving you don't know what to ask for for a birthday. This is such a good thing to have All right, so now I'm just taking a jar of sauerkraut You want a lot of it and putting the rest in here. It'll all cook together. It is just so good Um Here's my beautiful toast. It tastes incredible.   I don't I don't think that these even came in the original kit I think these are like added accessories because they're different size So these are the two that I always use I'm trying to actually do my hair in the morning because it makes me feel like so put together I just start curling it when it's like barely wet still. That's what holds best for me The way I use my Dyson is not here to use it. Um, so don't take this as a tutorial, but this is just what I do All right, so I'm gonna hairspray it I like my hair to be like messy and kind of like effortless looking By the way, a Dyson air app is so worth that. I've had mine for probably a year and a half now Nothing makes your hair look better. I have a lot of hair, but I'm really fine here So my hair is super thick you maybe can't tell but it's just there's a lot of hair So it takes forever to dry it. Why does it never do it? Anyways, I'll eventually let comb through it, but I'll let it sit for a second It cuts my time of doing my hair in half. It's crazy. Okay, so moving on to my makeup I really tried to do a very simple makeup look during the week because wanting to start only at the time And two is don't feel like it. I am shooting today though. So maybe I'll do a little bit more than I would normally do Um, okay, we're starting off with the milk hydra gel. This stuff is so good and it keeps your face Hydrated and future makeup on all day. It's a primer typically I'll just throw on some cream products and some powders, but since I'm shooting today I think I'm gonna just a little bit more. I don't want like a full Um, dude, okay, maybe I'll do the coarsest oil. I've never put this on with a brush It's basically like your skin's a better. I've never applied it with a brush though So this product is super natural and dewy.   This is the milk makeup one I love it. Also, this is the Sephora 70 brush and then sometimes I'll add just a little bit more right here And then I'll take a little bit less of a product and put it on my eyes Next I go in with the rare beauty and blush. It's Mars fair blush and I loved it So I purchased it for myself. I used it when she's at my house I apply this with a brush just because I find it's a lot easier. This is the pro foundation 64 brush I love this for foundation But for whatever reason become my blush brush, so All right, so next I'm gonna go in with my hourglass bronzer Here we go and just kind of buff it out moving on. I have an hourglass brush Um, just sweeping it on I have this Charlotte Tilbury powder, so I'm gonna sweep this over my face and then um Set with the hourglass like dim light powder Hourglass dim light powder. Also one of my holy girls forever for my brows. I use Ecosas brow gel I love this sorry for cocoa I'm really in a rush today because it's decided to Get his paws very muddy. So I had to call to give him to the groomer I had to clean up a lot. So we're running back or I use the ilia Mascara and then I'll put on some lip product and you guys will see all right So now I just finger comb through my hair a little bit. I added a lipstick. My camera was dying This is my current lip combo. I use the pillow talk lip sheet lip liner The hourglass velvet teddy and hint It is um like a liquid lipstick But it stays all day and then I just throw on like a clear lip gloss on top of it And this is the look it's really easy very simple Okay, this is my outfit not my best yet. Um, like I said, I have no clean clothes. They're all on the laundry It's really easy and cozy. I'm actually shooting later today. So I'll end up changing a few times But that is the look and now my hair over time It'll fall and it ends up looking so Much better. Also, I added some hoops to my outfit. I wear these every single day They're from jennifer fisher. I always forget what time they are. So I'll put them on the screen We're gonna make my real coffee of the day. I have to have an iced coffee and that's the only thing that gives me energy but guys red bunny housewife tumblr, I was the trucker tumblr with a new collection dropping Including this I believe february 10th. So mark your calendars. It's very very soon But I use this every day. So this is the iced coffee. I have right now I typically always have califia. Honestly, this is the unsweetened medium roast I really just get whatever is available though Um, I definitely prefer like califia coffee. It is so much iced coffee. It just Really makes my world go round next. We have nut pods. I love nut pods. This is just the french vanilla Um, I'm a simple gal. I'm a basic gal if you will nut pods by far my favorite creamer There we go I also love this tumblr because it can completely close Which is so nice when you're driving or you can throw something in a bag It just makes me feel better. But anyways, this is my coffee for the day. How cute All right guys, that is it for my in-depth morning routine I'm now off to do the rest of my day and start working. Hope you guys enjoyed today's video I got a specific as I could and I added a bunch of stuff So I love you guys so much and I will see you soon. Bye I have to diagnose somebody in order for them to sit in my chair And so there were some executives that would want to work with me But they didn't struggle with the textbook depression the textbook anxiety. They didn't struggle with that stuff


This is kind of like a weird angle. I'm talking through my mirror, but this is how I set my camera up for today. So, hi. I'm getting ready right now. Just putting makeup on because I'm going over Joan's house today to film ABG transformation, the Asian baby girl transformation. I've been seeing the video a lot on YouTube and Joan asked me to film it with her. I'm just putting on basic makeup for now, just foundation and my eyebrows and I'll be doing the rest later. I also have to look for and pack some things that I'm going to need for the transformation like my contact lenses and fake eyelashes and some of my makeup. I'm thinking of making a video with Joan for my channel as well, but I'm not quite sure what exactly to make yet. If you guys have any ideas for us, please let me know in the comment section below. It'd be really, really helpful. These days I've been using this cushion by Vidi Vici. I really like it because the coverage is really good and it doesn't come off that much because you know these days you have to wear masks and your makeup always comes off on the inside of your mask, but this I find that it doesn't come off as much. I like messed up my eyebrows recently because I was trying to make them straighter because I didn't like the really sharp arch I had on the top so I like shaved it off with my eyebrow knife. Can I like give up on my brows? I'm low-key worried about doing the ABG transformation because I'm not too good at makeup, especially like heavy makeup, so it'll kind of be like an experiment for me. Are eyebrows kind of supposed to be different for ABG? Like are they supposed to be a little thinner? Does it make a lot of difference?  Okay, gotta get rid of them. We feel like they're gonna be bugs soon. Now I just have to look for my contact lenses and fake eyelashes.  It's just so messy. I might have thrown them out. Okay, I must have thrown it out while I was moving because I can't seem to find it anywhere, but I did find the lash glue and the nose ring.  It's okay. I'll just stop by Olive Young before I go to Joan's house and I'll also stop by Olens to buy some contact lenses because I only have like dark brown ones and I want kind of like bright gray or light hazel ones because I feel like that just fits the ABG look better. So yeah, I have one more thing to do before I go over. Okay, done getting ready. I have packed my jewelry like this inside of the tank top I'm gonna wear. The biggest hoop earrings I could find were gold so I decided to go with gold today. ABG, they said the look is kind of like monochromatic and kind of simple so just gonna wear a black tank top on top and I don't think our bottom is gonna show that much anyway so I gotta go out buy contacts, fake eyelashes and then I'm off to Joan's house. I've been wanting those for a really long time and finally decided to get it when I saw them on sale. So they have a lot of different kinds but I think for the Asian baby girl transformation I should get the thickest and the longest one so this one. Okay I'm now at Joan's house we're gonna film the ABG transformation so go check it out on her channel on Joan's day. If it's up. I just got to radio. It was a very productive day but it's not over yet. Happy birthday to you. Welcome back guys, our first message today is from Thomas from Singapore and he says dear Ashley good evening, good evening to you too. Hope you had a good day. Today I was busy with work. Jennifer from Australia says hi there Ash, how was your day? Mine was alright but I have an update on my non- existent love life. Cisco from Indonesia says good evening pretty Ashley, happy Thursday. I also have a confession to make guys. I got a new tattoo today and it's there. It is huge looking at your comments right now. It's a flower I got like half a sleeve.  What design is that? That's huge. You got some new ink. It's something that I should get my OMG. What design is that? That's a bold one. Totally tricked them. So yeah I have something to confess to you guys. My tattoo actually isn't real. Surprise, surprise. Iris is like Kay leaving. I'm sorry. I didn't know you guys would really fall for it. Wow you guys think I'm really bad. Bad, bad. Oh Maury says I feel robbed. Tiny Maples said we got clowned. They're so mad at me. My heart hurts. Play bad girl by ladies code. Heartbroken. Tiny Maples that I thought you were so badass. Maury says but it looks so good. Oh thank you. I have to go to hour two now. Thanks for watching this part of the vlog. See you guys soon. Hey guys today I'm in Hanneumdong. I'm going to have brunch at Summer Lane with my friend Jane who is back in Korea from DC. I'm wearing a Spice Girls t-shirt. Love it. Here. Let's go eat some Australian brunch. I got the smashed aval with bacon. We got the bacon egg Benedict. Yeah. We're done with Jane. She's going back to DC in like a week and she's coming back for good. Well not for like a year. Because her school semester is probably gonna be closed. I like the plants in the back. I want it so much. It's so nice. Let's go to a cafe. Yep. Okay we're going to come in. This is their specialty with this orange cream on top. It matches with your hat. This is like Secret Garden kiss. It's so good. Isn't it too bitter though? The coffee bar is bitter of course because it's black but the orange is cream. I know this place is so cool. Wait what's the name of your fans on YouTube? I don't know. How did you make one? I don't know what to make it. Pit something. Shining.  Yeah. So Jane and I actually met at Arinam. She was an intern while I was working as an emcee for Stylecast. Stylecast. That was in 2017. So yeah it's been like a little more than three years since we've met. She's such a sweetheart and super smart. Let's go walk around the eye shop. I mean it's nice but this has 14 songs and it has all the hits. This one's 33. This is 33. Yeah this is also 33. It's a limited edition though. Exactly. I guess you should get this then.  Yeah. You think I should get this? Yeah. I just finished vacuuming and cleaning a little and I'm about to enjoy my lunch and today's lunch is ice-faked sweet potato and a cup of black coffee.  This is still kind of hard right now so I'm going to have to wait a little bit more but yeah I ordered this online and it's just convenient because you don't have to worry about the sweet potato going bad or like rotting. So yeah I'm going to enjoy this while watching some Netflix. Hi guys I quickly wanted to show you guys some of the pictures that I developed from the two films that you saw in the last vlog. I really like the way they came out. One roll was black and white and another roll was I forgot what it was but I love how the tones are overall very on the cool side and I think you really emphasize the blueness of all the pictures.


I am Vijayanan, so I am the Chief Cyborg at CIVILA, so today I am going to talk about capacity planning. So the first question is, so why do you need to plan for capacity, thank you. So any answers on why you need capacity planning, why you need to plan for capacity scaling? So if you do not do any capacity planning, I am sure you are going to end up like that. So what is the capacity? So we build web apps every day, so each web app has a different purpose. So the capacity is not universal for each web app. So if you take a blog, the capacity of that blog is the number of page views or the number of comments it can serve per hour or per day. And if you take a forum, the number of pages, the number of posts, the numbers can post or the number of registrations can handle. That is the capacity for a forum and if you take an e-commerce application, so the number of searches, the number of orders it can handle per hour. That is the capacity for that e-commerce application.  So each action will contain like a couple of user actions like visiting a page, adding some items to their cart or clicking some buttons that will generate more page views. So for each action, you need to define the performance threshold. It should be completed within like 10 seconds or 20 seconds. Then to simulate the real load, you have to take a combination of these actions. Then plan for that one. So Scribbox is one of our clients.  The main flow for Scribbox is the signup flow. The flow contains generally like 1, 2, 3 landing pages, the 1, 2, 3 landing page views and a 3-step signup process, the entire signup process has like some 40 fields to fill. So I just have taken the threshold for completing the signup as 20 seconds and the capacity I am planning to support is around like 50 user signing up concurrently. So this is the methodology I am going to follow. First I have taken an initial deployment architecture. Then I simulate the actions of the users using Capybara. Then I calculate the number of concurrent users. This architecture is supporting. Then if I have not reached the goal, again unless the data I have collected, I will find the bottleneck and I redeploy with a new deployment architecture which rectifies the problem in the first architecture. Then again perform the same similar actions and iterate till we reach the goal. So why Capybara? Why not? You can still benchmark your applications or plan for capacity using Apache Bench. So if you take Apache Bench, it can only simulate get request but generally raise applications as more posts request like many of the users are going to submit forms on your interact with the website. So it will generate not only get request, it will have also many adjusts and other type of request like put request. So also the Apache Bench, we are going to assume it only hits a single URL and it is going to hit it repeatedly. So when a user loads a page, that page is going to load assets, all the images and everything. So Capybara actually puts the near real scenario load on the web server, on the whole system. So this is the measurement setup I have taken. So there is the master control. This is our web application which will be sending commands to the RabbitMQ which in terms relates these commands to the Capybara process. This process will be running in a distillation nodes or you can run it on any other high memory server. So once master control sends these commands to Capybara node to suppose similarly sign a process on the web application. Then we have the production setup of the actual live website. This will be set up in another kind of instance. And the Capybara process actually runs the signup process and push back the test results like what is the total time taken for this signup process again back to our master server. And in the production server it is going to send us, publish its CPU usage, memory usage and the distas along with the breakdown of the CPU usage and memory usage for each process. So generally we use Capybara for acceptance testing. It actually runs on the local RAG server which is booted by the Capybara. So this we have to configure to run on a remote host instead of a local one. So we have to give our measurement host where our production environment is set up. Then we have to tell it not to start a boot of the RAG server. And after including the Capybara DSL to run that test, so if you are writing an acceptance test you can almost take the specs from that acceptance test with minor modifications. You can just put it here and you simulate your user actions. Then after simulating it and publishing your results back to the master, you have to reset your session and cache. So this will actually simulate a new user. So first we start with one Capybara process. We give a command to one of the nodes to start simulating sign up. So once it has done the 10 sign ups we issue another command for another process to run simultaneously. So after 10 sign ups we have two Capybara processes running the sign up process. So like that we continue increasing the load at regular intervals until we see that the service is resets are maxed out or if you have very long sign up times. The initial deployment architecture I have chosen is the single machine architecture where we have all the Apache, the delayed jobs and the MySQL process and everything is in the same box, the same machine and we collect data about what is the CPU usage of each process. So if you take a look at that the average sign up completion time for each sign up is around like 90 seconds and we have eight concurrent Capybara nodes running. So after we have added the ninth node if you see the total sign up completion time goes on increasing. So we are taking the eight until eight node is optimal after the eight node the sign up time increases. So for our calculations for users to have the optimum what you call the best experience the maximum concurrent Capybara process can support is around eight. So the entire sign up process has around like six page views. So now user comes to scriptbox.com they just go to three pages and just start filling the sign up form. Between these performing two actions on the website there will be something called thinking time. They will be thinking, they will be reading some content or they will be thinking what to fill up in this form field. So that is what I am calling as a think time. So on an average the think time for between two actions that will generate the next page view is around like 10 seconds. So between six page views we have around like five think times which will have more like 50 seconds. So the total time taken for a normal human visitor to complete the sign up process would be around 69 seconds. So if you just convert this hour how many concurrent users it can support it's around like 29 users. That is a concurrent users signing up at the same time. So our goal is to support 50 users but it's still you know we have not reached our goal. So now if you take a look at this graph the green one is the passenger CPU usage. The passenger is taking the highest load. So we are going to scale the passenger service in the next architecture. So I have taken a new architecture we have a load balancer as NGNX which will be passing all the request to the two passenger servers which in turn you know talk with the MySQL server. So we again repeat the same experiment on it and we just you know graph the whole data. So now it is for the same 90 second completion time it is supporting up to 14th node. So in this architecture we can support up to 14th node for that minimum average time of 90 seconds. After 14th node the sign up completion time you know increases continuously. So this is the memory usage if you just take a look at that the passenger servers are maxing out on the memory of like 8th node after this stays constant but still up to 14th node they are still able to you know serve the optimal time. We just convert the same you know the same type of processing to the concurrent users the concurrent human users so we get you know 5th one up 5th one users approximately. So we have reached our goal. If you take a look at the graphs the passenger server is still you know maxing out there on the memory. So we might have to increase the passenger what you call the resource of the passenger systems to support more passenger processes. And if you take a look at the MySQL memory usage it grows continuously as we know increase the load. So it still has not reached the 100% memory usage but I think you know after once you scale passengers then the MySQL surely will be you know hitting the its bottlenecks. So that is recap so what you have done so we have taken a single machine architecture then we simulated the you know sign up actions we have not reached our goal.  And then we reached our goal of 50 years. These are the references there is this local acceptance they have the you know the methodology on how you can calculate the concurrent users and these are some of them I have used this for the data visualization and the RabbitMQ server for you know messaging between this cabibran nodes between these two between the different process you know running on different servers okay and for the system metrics you know collection I have run the you know the command called PID stat which actually breaks down the system research users for each process. So you can give a time interval of 10 seconds or 1 minute I have collected it for like 10 seconds which I found it is a little bit too much sampling you should I think maybe you can increase that time to 60 seconds. So for every minute you can just collect the you know resources for each process then actually calculate which process actually taking more resources and scale that is it. Any questions? Thank you.


The Oklahoma newspaper, The Oklahoma, would publish a story on June 28, 1969, titled, It's a Cracked Buzzel. Subsequently pulled from their archives, some astute researchers, however, have managed to track down this amazing article, detailing an impossible discovery. It pertains to the excavation of an ancient floor, a tiled area which covered a truly vast distance, as if it was once the highly finished floor of an enormous structure. What is astonishing regarding this floor, however, is the date that countless specialists have concluded upon. The age of these tiles is simply baffling. According to the modern dating techniques used, this floor was laid well over 200,000 years ago, using a tiling mortar containing currently unknown elements. Delbert Smith, president of the Oklahoma Seismograph Company, and past president of the Oklahoma City Geophysical Society, accompanied Derwood Pate, an independent petroleum geologist in an exploration of the site. They finished their studies by stating that they were both very satisfied that it is not a natural earth formation, and that it is, indeed, man-made. Smith and Pate even took core samples to make a microscopic investigation of the material makeup. The discovery of two holes through the rock strata heightened interests, and when measurements revealed that two holes to be exactly sixteen and a half feet apart, or precisely one rod, they were convinced it was a deliberate, artificial placement. The stone tiles were found to have been made from Permian limestone, laced with quartz grains. Geologists who focused their attention on the unusual flooring were all at a loss to explain the origin of the formation. John M. Ware, an Oklahoma City geologist, said, It simply cannot be explained within the field of geology. We need an archaeologist to give a final opinion. However, its age and origin may remain a mystery, unless an archaeologist can be persuaded to take on the project soon. Just 20 days after these astonishing finds and subsequent realizations, construction workers moved in on the area, quickly demolishing the enormously ancient and vastly important floor, building a foodstuffs warehouse in its place. Pate said that the formation, 100 feet by 60 feet in area, was rapidly becoming a tourist attraction. People began flocking there and taking pieces of the rock away, he said. Just who built this ancient floor? Why did they build it? And was it really over 200,000 years old? Judging by the way this discovery was buried, it is certainly a possibility. In 1996, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo di Michel spotted an unusual yellow-green gem within one of Tutankhamen's necklaces. The jewel was tested and found to be made of a type of glass known as Libyan Desert Glass. The interesting thing regarding this, however, is its origins. To this day, no one seems to be able to explain how it formed, no trace of a crater has ever been discovered. An ancient meteorite, or indeed outer space object, scorching across the skies of Egypt, is the basis for many religious teachings within this one's amazing ancient civilization. They associated the objects and the flaming tails during such events with that of a phoenix and the collected items, presumably nearly always meteorites, were then hammered down into wares. Nine small beads stored at the University College London's Petrie Museum, dated to around 3,200 BC, were founded necklaces along with exotic terrestrial minerals such as lapis lazuli, agate, and gold. They are some of the earliest iron artifacts ever found, and archaeologists have confirmed that they came from outer space. Meteoric iron is much harder and more brittle than copper. Quote, they were rolled and hammered into shape. This is a very different technology from the usual stone bead drilling, and shows quite an advanced understanding, showing the metalsmiths know exactly how to work this rather difficult material, said Thilo Rarin, a University College London Professor of Archaeology. When American geophysicist John Wasson was consulted regarding King Tut's strange gem, he curiously linked the event with one within an extremely remote forest of Siberia, an event we have covered before. Quote, when the thought came to me that this required a hot sky, I thought immediately of the Tunguska event, he told Horizon. In 1908, a massive explosion flattened 80 million trees in Tunguska, Siberia, and whatever landed there over a century ago is still there, and it kills any living organism which settles above it. And what is most interesting surrounding all of this is the ancient Egyptian accounts of what they did with a rather peculiar, rather special type of object that was at one point retrieved from the glassy sands of Libya, a particularly different object which they called a phoenix egg. That hieroglyph state was secreted away within a secret chamber deep within the Great Pyramid. We have covered before the hypothesis that these stories etched in hieroglyphics may be far older than the Egyptian culture which may have preceded it, yet the question is clear. What could this phoenix egg be? We recently covered the astonishing archaeological discoveries located within the modern-day Turkey. We discussed the unexplained ancient ruins of Gobleki Tepe, clearly a remnant of a far more ancient, far more advanced civilization than academia would ever allow contemplation of. Additionally, and the focus of the last video, the other ancient gem known as Norsen Tepe, a highly complex, thus highly advanced ancient temple, whose contents indicated no less than 40 additional re-inhabitations of the structure after the original construction, now conveniently hidden under several meters of water, submerged during a dam-building operation. Why this operation was undertaken, or indeed why this site in particular was chosen for flooding, may become apparent with our next place of interest. It seems that some of the sites within Turkey have revealed some extremely well-preserved, seemingly ancient artifacts, left by numerous as yet unknown civilizations. And although these finds have seemingly been concealed from mankind, fate is seemingly on our side. Ironically, a site of complete opposite characteristics, having not been touched or re-inhabited for untold millennia, has also been unearthed within Turkey. Alacahoyak, a site on the surface perceived to have been a primitive archaeological ruin, dating back to 2350 to 2150 BC, over 4,000 years ago. And yet, upon deeper exploration, an analysis seemingly undertaken too late for academia's dating has shown that the site possesses evidence of the same lost technology, or more specifically, advanced knowledge of stone construction, found at many other ancient unexplained sites around the earth. Like Saxa Huaman, a site we also covered previously, it must be clear to everyone that academia's dating of these sites is not accidental. Was the dating too hastily concluded? We would assume that a dating of over 4,000 years is now difficult to accompany with such advanced knowledge of stone carving and construction. Just how old is Alacahoyak? And the same question as always, based on the unexplainable knowledge involved in its creation, who could have built it? We have recently covered many of the amazing archaeological ruins, which can be found within modern-day Turkey. And it would be foolish of us not to devote a small fraction of our investigative minds on what is probably the most enigmatic of them all. Placed high atop a rather suspiciously shaped mountain known as Nimrut, someone, at some time, within our very distant past, went to tremendous efforts to create what academia have concluded was some sort of tomb. This, however, absence of any king or queen remains to date, or indeed any other form of evidence to support such claims. Said to have been constructed by the Kamagini Kingdom some 5,000 years ago, the enormous stone statues are placed at a height of 2,230 meters above sea level. Because of the site's clearly tremendous antiquity, coupled with the astonishing achievements involved in creating it, many people attribute the site as the eighth wonder of the world. Furthermore, and perhaps most intriguing regarding the ruins, is the fact that Mount Nimrut Da is one of the only places on Earth where a number of sunrises and sunsets can be observed. Every year, thousands of local and foreign tourists come to Nimrut Da to watch the sunrise and sunset. Was this particular anomaly found at this specific location a factor in the decision to place this mysterious structure at the top of Mount Nimrut? And if so, how did a culture more than 5,000 years ago understand this? The name Nimrut is a relatively modern one, dating back only to the Middle Ages. In Armenian legend, Haik defeated the Biblical king Nimrod and buried him in these mountains, meaning the real name of the mountain at the time of the monumental structure's construction remains unknown. According to academia, quote, the tumulus, or ceremonial mound at the site, which is 49 meters tall and 152 meters in diameter, was possibly built to protect a tomb from tomb robbers since any excavation would quickly fill with loose rock. The statues appear to have Greek-style facial features, but Armenian clothing and hairstyling, end quote. We find it interesting that academics would happily mention the amazing characteristics included in the build. The hidden chambers beneath being booby trapped with multiple tons of loose gravel placed atop to quickly fill any tomb robbers attempted burrowing tunnels, stifling their attempts to loot the site. Yet say with their second breath that the site was somehow looted sometime within antiquity. The site was excavated in 1881 by Carl Sester, a German engineer assessing transport routes for the Ottomans. However, his claim of a tomb have never been validated. Subsequent excavations have failed to reveal the tomb of Antiochus, the supposed character who resides here. This, however, has not deterred academia to continue to strongly argue that the site is indeed his burial site. Who built the ancient monumental structure high atop this mountain within Turkey? Why did they build it? Was it indeed constructed, like Alajahoyuk, by a far more advanced civilization than we are led to believe? The more we learn regarding these ancient sites, the more such a proposition becomes a real possibility.


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