Hi, everybody, I'm Erica Muller, your host of Vacation Runnels Are the Future. And we have some really interesting topics to talk about today, and I've got a really interesting guest as well, Alana Schroeder, who's joining us from California. But before we jump into everything with Alana, I wanna go into a little bit about the topic for tonight. And Vacation Runnels are on everybody's mind. Ever since COVID, they've just been all the rage as far as an investment goes. So we've been seeing this whole new wave of real estate investors jumping ship from long-term rentals to get into the short-term rental game. And what we've seen is just this whole new generation of investors, how they invest is different. What they're looking for in a short-term rental is different. Who stays at short-term rentals has changed over the last two years. We've seen a huge increase of remote workers and digital nomads that wanna just travel the world and work from anywhere. But short-term rentals have been around for over 20 years. This isn't something new, but a lot of people are just now hearing about it. So I brought Alana on today because not only has she been a short-term rental host and owner in Kauai for many years, she's also been in the short-term rental industry as a host for over 15 years. So she remembers what it was like back before short-term rentals became this commercialized investment that everybody wants to get their hands on. So we are gonna be talking to her a little bit today. Before we jump into that, I wanna go over some data with you. Here at Voleo, we do a lot of deep dive data insights on short-term rental investing for every market across the country. And we also have a dedicated marketplace. And Alana's property was in Princeville. And so I pulled up the data tonight on Princeville, which is in Kauai, just to look at where the numbers are landing right now as far as investments go and what the ROI looks like in Princeville. And Alana, I don't know what it looked like when you bought, but right now it looks like the market is mostly in Princeville made up of three, four and five single-family homes. And our data is bringing in really low cap rates for that right now, as low as under 1% and the highest being a 2% cap rate. So I don't know if you guys listening know what a cap rate is, but the cap rate is gonna be your ROI after all of your expenses are paid. But it does not include your mortgage. That would be different for everyone. That would be your cash on cash return. So we're looking at the ROI before your mortgage. And the best performing ones right now are five bedrooms, but they're coming in at an average sale price of 3.4 million. That doesn't seem like a purchase price that the normal investor getting into short-term rentals could afford.  So let's just start with, why did you go and buy and invest in Princeville? And we can kind of start there and hear about your experience. Yeah, well, first of all, thank you so much for having me, Erica. I really appreciate it. And Hawaii is just a really interesting market and so different pre-COVID and post-COVID. So we'll definitely touch on a lot of that tonight. But I really decided to invest in Hawaii because I had sold a property in the port of Long Beach, a commercial property and needed to reinvest the money. So I knew I loved Hawaii. I needed to invest the money in fairly short order. So I jumped on a plane, about six months pregnant, flew over there and the timing was just amazing. The market was in a definite low. I looked at a bunch of condos. I knew I wanted to be in a condo because I didn't want the hassle of having to take care of an actual house. I also knew that I wanted to be in a VA zone so that I knew that I was working with a legitimate vacation rental. So I went over there with some pretty specific requirements when I was looking, hired an agent that was very familiar with vacation rental properties. That's a great thing about Hawaii is that they've been in the vacation rental business, not only the municipalities, but investors and owners, probably longer than any other market that's out there. So everybody's like very familiar on what's going on out there and the regulations and what's legal and what isn't and the city and municipalities have been tracking that for a long time there. So the number one thing when purchasing a vacation rental in Hawaii is to make sure that it is a legal and licensed vacation rental property. So I went over, go ahead. Lizzie, are you finding that most agents know this in Hawaii? Because I know in other markets, a lot of agents are still new to short-term rental and they don't understand that, but you did mention that Hawaii's been doing short-term rentals probably as long as Orlando, right? So is that, it shouldn't be a problem to find agents in Hawaii that know that stuff. That's exactly right, but I would start with companies like Veroglio who have vetted agents who really understand the vacation rental business and can then take you and fast track you to a property that really is going to be a legitimate short-term rental because there are requirements in certain areas in Hawaii and certain complexes where it has a 30-day minimum and others have a one-night minimum. So it's not only important to look at the regulations in the area, it's also really important to look at the condo documents as well and a good agent in Hawaii is gonna know what that looks like. So that was like the number one thing I was looking for. Right, so when you bought Alana, you said you got a condo, right? I did, so I ended up with, there wasn't a lot of inventory out there when I was looking, although it was 2013, so it was definitely well into the low of the market from the 2008 crash and I was able to swoop in and for me, take a leap and I found a condo for $550,000 and that was about $100,000 above my price range, but I just figured I'm gonna take the leap of faith and I'll grow into it and it ended up being a great investment for me. I brought a property that needed a little bit of rehab, little painting and some work to it, just generally pretty minor stuff, maybe $15,000 worth of work, including new furniture, be able to salvage some of it and then I was just really able to transition it to my target market, which I knew was dual income, West Coast, California, Los Angeles Bay Area, Seattle families who were traveling with their kids and what I really wanted to give them was an experience that was very on par with boutique hotel where they could get that same sort of experience but having more amenities like a kitchen and a different and probably better price range. And over the years, my strategy seemed to work out really well there because there weren't a lot of five-star hotels in the area and the pool of hotel rooms in the area is very small, especially in Princeville. So as the city started cracking down on illegal vacation rentals, that was really a huge benefit for me and because I was one of the first owners to really model my vacation rental as a boutique hotel, I got a lot of recognition from that and a lot of renters and I was able to increase my rental rates. My gosh, I think that the previous owner was getting like 135 a night to like $200 a night for the holidays, I was able to boost that up too. By the time I left $300 a night and $1,500 a night on holidays. So I want to just jump in and say that these numbers that you're talking about that you were getting per night are still higher than the average nightly rate today. So I pulled the condos, the condo data for Princeville as you were talking and they do actually have slightly better cap rates than the single family homes. They're actually hitting right now around a two cap 2.3 which overall isn't a great return but compared to single family home it is but I'm looking at and how many bedrooms was yours too? I was a three bedroom, three bathroom. Yeah, because I'm looking at the threes right now and this is years later and they're only pulling in on average $231 per night and their average price now to get into those is 1.7. So what that brings me to is the opportunity when you bought was amazing and what happened was the rental rates didn't raise in proportion with the sale prices. Clearly the sale prices tripled since you bought there. So how can someone going into that market right now that wants to do the same strategy as you? How can they get those rates up even higher because they're gonna have to jump to almost four or 500 a night even just to make this viable, right? So I know you started to specialize long before a lot of people did in the whole boutique hotel experience and making your short-term rentals like that. Is that still a strategy you can take and apply today in the Kauai market or has it gotten so saturated with all of that that it's not even a viable option anymore? Well, the Kauai market, at least I can speak to Kauai, I don't know about all of Hawaii, but it's definitely saturated. So I think it would be a really tough market to reinvest in today. I think for me, if I were putting my dollars somewhere, it probably wouldn't be there. I think what's happening is you're competing with all the West posters who left during COVID and wanted a really great isolated place to stay and were able to go in and buy place for cash. And so you're competing with that plus people that just love Hawaii who are willing to pay crazy money for these vacation rentals and run it at a 1% return because that's what they want.  Like for me, that's not where I would be investing my money today because it's not just that issue, it's like a supply chain issue that's going to continue on in Hawaii. Let me just give you an example. When I bought my place there in 2013, free bedroom, free bathroom condo, I spent $8,000 painting my vacation rental on the inside of it. Today, that might be $11,000. I know we'll touch on this a little bit later, but I just bought a four bedroom, four bathroom condo in Mexico and I spent $1,000 painting it. Just see the differential. Also, the thing about running a vacation rental in Hawaii or Kauai right now is that a lot of the service providers left during COVID and they weren't able to come back because they basically shut down vacation rental business for 10 months. I was fortunate enough to get a long-term tenant in there who stayed at my place for 10 months and I took a hit on rental rates, but I had somebody in there paying income, so it was amazing, but all the service providers ended up leaving the island and by the time they had the opportunity to come back, it was so expensive they weren't able to. So there's a huge shortage in labor on the island. When I sold in December, the restaurant weren't even open five days a week because they couldn't even get staff to run them. Oh, wow. So it sounds like right now, the opportunity is not really an opportunity for investors anymore. I mean, our numbers are telling us that, but just hearing it from you as well about the supply chain issues and the labor issues, it sounds like the people that are buying there, like you said, they're just dedicated and they love this market and they wanna buy a place that pays for itself in the long run and the rest of this is irrelevant and that does make it hard to compete if you're in there for a profit. So I understand then what we're gonna come to next is to why you sold. I'd love to talk to you a little bit more about what was the decision behind selling your property in Kauai that was very successful that you got at a great price. Nobody can duplicate that right now with these prices and you bought in Mexico and Puerto Vallarta, I think, or right around that area. So let's talk a little bit about that. Yeah, so I decided last year that I needed a change, a good old fashioned change. So I ended up making the decision to sell my vacation rental, but it wasn't just about the change. It was the fact that I always try and keep an eye on what's happening in the market there. So the long-term runner that I had at my vacation rental, he ended up buying a place in the same complex, a three bedroom bathroom. I wanna say that was in like September or October and he'd call me and ask me a bunch of questions about vacation running, et cetera, et cetera. So I knew that when he purchased his place, it was around $800,000 for a two bedroom, two bathroom. I paid $550 for mine. So I was like, okay, it is what it is. Next thing I know, like three months later, three bedroom, three bathroom condos in the area are selling for $1.1 million. And so that really got my attention. And the supply chain had gotten really difficult. It was just difficult to have guests. It was difficult to get things done. I mean, luckily my guests were also patient, which was wonderful and totally understood the supply chain issues where we're having there, but it was really hard to get people in to do work in your vacation rental or schedule cleaning. I mean, I had a wonderful pit crew out there, but just little things were getting more and more difficult to deal with. So just with needing a change, I decided and seeing the pricing, it was time for me to make a change. So I did and I was super lucky. I mean, I probably could have waited a little longer and taken more of a profit, but you know what? I was happy. I basically doubled, my place doubled in price and I was time to just take the profits and go do something else. So I sold it in December of last year and kind of took my time deciding what I was going to do. Thankfully didn't invest that money in the stock market, thankfully. And I was down in Porta Vallarta with some friends and went up to Punta Mita for a couple of days, went home and thought, that might be a fun place for a vacation rental after I swore I was never going to get back into this business. And a few months later, contacted agents, flew down in March and decided I was going to look at a few places and it just so happens my agent knew another agent, he had a place coming on the market, wasn't on the market yet, four bedroom, four bathroom, condo in Sayulita with an incredible ocean view. And went home, thought about it, put a full price offer in on that and I closed on July 25th. And it's been interesting, it's definitely a bigger rehab project than I had before, but labor is plentiful in Mexico and getting things done there has just been unbelievably easy. I can't believe how much I've done in the last 30 days. Oh wow, so it sounds like compared to Hawaii, it's just a totally different experience onboarding your short-term rental and preparing it for rent, which is huge because when you buy one of these, you don't wanna just sitting too long because you're paying a mortgage on that, right? And you need profitability, so getting it going is important. Now, do you feel like anybody can just do this? Cause Mexico has different laws than the US about ownership. And I know a lot of people ask me this, like, well, should I buy in Mexico? Cause there's really great profit margins of Mexico right now. I'm not gonna lie, like they look really attractive, but a lot of people are concerned about the government policies and home ownership there. Can you talk a little bit to that as to what you learned about buying there and maybe what some things people should look out for when buying in Mexico? Yeah, I definitely can because some of it is a little bit of a leap of faith. I don't speak Spanish, so you're relying pretty heavily on your agent and then also like when you're closing on property there, you have an attorney involved. So it's attorney in Mexico who's worked with the agent many times, so they're assisting along the way. And so that gave me some confidence there, but properties along the coast in Mexico can only be bought in a truck because they don't want anybody from a foreign country owning a big portion of the coast. But if you're a certain way is away from the coast, you can hold title as a foreigner's property is what I found out. So I'm on the coast, so I had to buy in a bank trust, which actually in hindsight, I really appreciated because then I also have a bank looking over all the legal documents in addition to my attorney, in addition to my agent. And so for someone who doesn't speak or read Spanish, that was actually ended up being a very nice to have when I was purchasing my property. So yeah, there were times that I was like as this, like what am I doing? Like, I can't understand the language, but sometimes you just have to take that leap of faith because like you said, if you're chasing return, like I am, you sometimes have to take those risks. And I think with the right crew, that can really be beneficial. Yeah, and I firmly believe it's all about the team, right? If any market you move into, if you don't have the right team behind you to help execute this strategy, I don't care how good of a market is, your chances of success are gonna be lower. So let me ask you this, like what is your strategy? Are you gonna hire a management company?  And you obviously have more experience than a lot of people just getting into this. So you could do it either way, but what's the approach here to get it to profitability? Yeah, okay, so interesting question. I always have a strategy. Well, first of all, I wanna be in a beach city. I love the beach. And so that was always a requirement no matter where I invest my dollars because I also wanna go and enjoy my vacation rental home. So for me, it's not purely investment. I also love small towns. So Princeville was a small town where there are barriers to entry. So where my place is in Sayulita, the condo complex I'm in has 24-hour security. It is a five-minute walk to the beach and the closest bar. And then from there, it's another five-minute walk along the beach into the small town. And it's kind of on a little peninsula. So it's fully built out. So there's not really gonna be any more new buildings built in that area that are going to compete with me. It's kind of like, what's there right now is there. There may be a few redevelopments here or there, but nothing major, I guess is what I'm saying. So I really liked that and Kauai was a lot like that too. And there's not a lot of huge hotels there. So if you build a better mousetrap than everybody else, you're gonna benefit. So the first thing I did was hire a designer because I know that people are coming from California and Texas and dual income. And they're looking for places that are like boutique hotels. And so I'm completely redesigning this place to be like a boutique hotel. So I'm going in, I painted it, I'm putting in new solar panels because like Hawaii electricity is super expensive there. So I'll be able to take my electrical bill from like $700 a month to $25 a month. So the payback period on the solar is about a year. And then there was a hot tub on the deck. I took that out. Everybody can fight me about that, but water doesn't belong on the third floor. The particular unit I got has a commercial size elevator. It goes up to the penthouse. So I can have multi-generational families at my place and the ADA access like that. So I really like that. So really my strategy is going to buy places that maybe haven't been very well maintained. Maybe I'm putting like 20 or 30 grand into doing like the basics there. And then of course, design is a whole other budget. But just I bought my place there for $7.95. Hire in places that are well done that are four bedroom, four bath are selling for about 1.1. That may change a little bit. I still think that there's a lot of value to add. I don't think Mexico prices have seen the increase that we've seen like in places like Hawaii because I think people are still looking at it as an up and coming market, but I think we're getting there. And I think people are looking for alternative ways to invest their money where there's still some upside. Right. And so talking about that, what kind of advice would you give somebody just getting into the short-term rental industry? Because again, you and I have been doing this for 15 years. We've been around short-term rentals for a long time before Airbnb was even out there, but there's a whole new wave of investors getting into this. And there's a lot of coaches out there. There's a lot of information out there and a lot of it's mixed information. And I do want to talk to you about the Distinguished Guest, which is your company and what you do because I think that's a huge value add for anybody that wants to buy. But what is like a solid piece of advice you give the new investor of this generation that's just finding out about short-term rentals? If you could say like, whatever you do, just listen to this, that's what we're looking for. Yeah. I mean, I would say if I were giving somebody that advice, it would be to just really tap into someone who's gone down this path before because it can be really, really tricky. Whether it's like hiring a consultant to like help you through the process, someone in the area who's done it before because you do want to make sure you're running your numbers and you're looking and pricing things out.  So I knew all of that up front. So, you know, I mean, everybody says how passive and easy this business is, but actually it's not that easy if you want to do it right. And doing it right is the most important thing because if you do it right, you're going to be able to squeeze every last cent out of your nightly rate and that's the most important thing. And as we know from an exit strategy, right, those numbers are going to be capped and that's going to get you a higher sales price at the end of the day. And so really that's the game.  But you know, hiring a manager for your first vacation rental, it could be important to you. If you don't have the time to do it, if you want to learn to do it yourself, tap into contacts and resources and hire a coach. I love hiring coaches for projects that I work on. I'm like, for example, I learned WordPress because I hired a WordPress coach to teach me, right? Same thing applies to vacation rentals. I promise you like that investment will be a great return on its own because you will get higher rental rates and you know, higher occupancy if you work with somebody who's been down this path before. And I'm a big proponent too on data because that's what we do at Berlio. I'm in data all day long looking at markets across the country. And I like to tell people and that's really all staged by Solana and I agree with all of that. I just want to add, I think people should also start getting, getting used to paying attention to data and not speculation and hype because what I've seen happening in the last two years since prices kind of went crazy is again, there has been a lot of like gurus to hit the scene and some of them know what they're talking about. Some of them are just kind of riding this wave. And if people don't know how to look at the data that's out there or find the right data and put it together in models, they're probably going to end up with something that they thought was going to be profitable but they over, are they underestimated the expenses or they underestimated the ease of how easy it would be to do this. These are people with full-time jobs and they say, oh, we'll just self-manage. I don't think they even understand what self-manage entails. But we're running out of time. So I want to talk about the distinguished Gastolana because you have done amazing things with your short-term rentals.  And you have such a gift for design and finding only the best pieces for the interior, the best mattresses, the best bedding, all of that. Can you talk a little bit about why that's so important and what you do and how you can help owners and buyers coming into this market? Yeah, I mean, thanks, Erica. That's super sweet of you. I guess what I'll say is for me, like when I go to look for a vacation around or when I'm traveling, I always look for design first. I just didn't expect it by my environment, my living environment, even if it's on vacation. So I really want to have a nice environment to be in. So that's always important to me. So I'm like, if that's important to me, that's probably gonna be important to a lot of other people too. And I love staying in hotels, but not everybody has the benefit of doing that. So having a vacation rental that has the best of both worlds is amazing. And so, yeah, so that's where I have decided to really create that differentiation between myself and other owners. And yeah, the distinguished guest, I created a course and it's really a platform to get new owners on board and creating a good platform at their vacation rental properties. Yeah, and you really are a great coach when it comes to this.  You've already been through all the struggles that these new investors are gonna go through. And like you said earlier, hiring a coach is so important. So I definitely urge anyone out there that's thinking about getting into this, just book some time with Alana if you can catch her because she's a great resource and her program is all online. It's easy to take and it's highly recommended. Alana, last thing, what is your opinion on bedding and mattresses? Because I know that's like kind of part of all this. And then we'll wrap it up in 20 seconds. Yeah, so I'm a real huge proponent of commercial linens and sheets and towels just because you could buy the same product over and over and over again. So it's gonna extend your inventory beyond going to like a bed, bath and beyond buying retail and then two years later, they switch up the design so you can't buy it anymore and then you'll have to throw everything away and start over. So I always recommend that my vendors use commercial distributors to help get linen so that they can come up with an entire linen program for their vacation rentals. And I'll be doing the same thing at my place in Mexico. Perfect, great. Well, thank you so much, Alana. We've had Alana Schroeder on today with a distinguished guest, 15-year short-term rental owner, so full of knowledge. And if you wanna learn more about data-driven decisions and short-term rentals, you can reach me at advisoratforolio.com. Thanks for joining us on Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at Think Tech Hawaii.com. Mahalo.


When children are abused in the early formative years of childhood, some of them react by developing pathological narcissism. Pathological narcissism is a clinical condition of course, clinical diagnostic entity, but it's also a form of private religion, a faith with one Godhead and one worshipper. The Godhead is the false self, and the worshipper is the budding young narcissist. My name is Sam Baklin, and I'm the author of Malignant Self Love, Narcissism Revisited. And today, we are going to try to discuss narcissism in completely new terms, as a religion, a new faith. When the child's boundaries are not recognized, when the child is not seen by the parents or caregivers as a separate entity with its own limitations or limits, with its own unbridgeable, inviolable rights, preferences, wishes, priorities, emotions in a landscape and in a world, when the child is therefore not allowed to separate from the parent, to separate from the caregiver and to individually, to become an individual, we call these set of conditions abuse. Abuse can be classical, sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, psychological abuse. These are the types of abuse everyone is writing about, everyone is analyzing and everyone is chastising and castigating. But there are other forms of abuse, putting the child on a pedestal, treating the child as an extension of the parent. Using the child as a tool or an instrument to realize the parent's unfulfilled wishes and dreams to mitigate the parent's frustrations with life itself. Whenever the child is not seen as a separate entity in its own right, we are talking about a condition of abuse. When children react to the pain of not being seen by developing a piece of fiction, a concoction, a confabulation called the false self. The false self is everything the child is not. The child is helpless and small. The false self is omnipotent, all powerful. The child can never guess, can never predict the parent's future moves because they are unpredictable, capricious and arbitrary. The false self is omniscient. It knows everything. It's all knowing. The child is being told by his parents that he is unworthy of their love because he did not perform, or that he is a bad object, or that he deserves punishment. The false self is perfect and brilliant always. And so on, when we write down the attributes, the traits, the features of the false self, it is very clear that the false self is godlike. It's a deity. Indeed, pathological narcissism can be easily described and summarily comprehended as a form of private religion, a private faith where the false self is the divinity, is the god, and the child who has developed the false self, who has offered the false self, becomes the adherent, becomes the worshipper, becomes a member of this religion, the sole member of this religion.   The false self is infallible, can never make mistakes, never does make mistakes, never owes. So the child feels safe and confident. Gradually, the false self becomes a combination of comfort zone, the equivalent of a church, and a godhead, and then the child offers human sacrifice to this god. Exactly like the ancients who used to offer their children to the Moloch, to the idols, narcissism is a form of idolatry, where the child is offering the only human sacrifice he can offer, the only human he has access to, himself. The child sacrifices his true self to the Moloch, to the idol, to the godhead of the false self. The child strikes a Faustian deal with this demonic or devilish compulsion.    I will sacrifice myself to you, I hereby undertake to suppress, repress, and to the best of my ability, annihilate, eliminate my true self.  I don't need him, I can allow him to atrophy, I can allow him to decay and to die. I will sacrifice this child to you on condition that you never forsake me, never abandon me. A kind of inverted or reverse Jesus story. And so narcissism can be easily described as a form of private religion with human sacrifice. What happens when narcissism becomes a societal phenomenon, a cultural phenomenon? What happens when it exits the realm of the individual? What happens when it emerges from the nuclear family and begins to characterize whole societies, whole civilizations, and whole entire cultures? And this is a state we are in today. Our civilization, culture and society, which used to be western civilization and now is global civilization, our civilization is narcissistic. In this sense, we are witnessing the emergence of a new faith, a new religion, the religion of narcissism. The religion of narcissism comprises erstwhile strands, it comprises consumerism, it comprises materialism, it includes other elements, the spectacle, worship of the image, networking and so on. All these social trends and technologically empowered practices, all these converged to form a new church, a new faith, a new city on the hill, and that is narcissism. While narcissism as a private religion has one adherent and one godhead, when it emerges into the public sphere, when it becomes public domain, it remains exactly the same. Narcissism is the first distributed religion, distributed faith in human history. It is a faith where all the worshippers are gods. Each and every member, each and every adherent, each and every parishioner, each and every believer, and each and every follower of the narcissistic religion is a god. Each and every narcissist is a false self, and this false self is godlike. So we have the first religion of first faith in human history where we have a distributed god, a god of the network. Each node in the network is god himself. God is everywhere finally. God is in all of us finally. God is us finally, and we are God finally. We have reached the inevitable culmination of a logical process that started 2000 years ago when we were told that God is inside us and that we are a part of God. We took these edicts, we took these maxims, and we extrapolated them to the logical conclusion. The logical conclusion is, if God is inside me and if I am a part of God, I am God. And it reminds me of a very old science fiction story where scientists connected thousands of computers together. All the computers in the world connected them in a network, and then he asked, who are you? And the network of computers answered, I am God. Indeed, millions and later billions of narcissists put together our God, and each and every one of them is an idol, or a god, or a godhead, or a divinity, or a deity. This is an amazing development in both the history of faith and in the history of social organization. It's a new form of interacting with power, with ability. It's a new way of corresponding to the environment, of resonating with it. As a God, the narcissist subsumes everything, his nearest and nearest, his workplace, society at large, the nation. The narcissist becomes one with everything, because the narcissist is everything, and everything is the narcissist and at the service of the narcissist, which is where entitlement comes in. The narcissistic faith is a faith of entitlement. It's a faith of me. It's a faith of you or me. It's a faith of I should be treated the best. It's a faith of I am the best, et cetera, et cetera, but make no mistake about it. It's a church. It's a church of the network. Every religion in human history used technological metaphors. Every religion in human history leveraged the contemporaneous technologies and ways of thinking about technology that were extant and prevalent at the time of its emergence. So we find very ancient or primitive religions which worshipped the woods or the forests, because that was the source of technology at the time. Later on, we find faiths and religions that emerge in cities, because cities became the latest in human organization and in civilization. Religions are embedded in their background, in historical background, in the context. No religion is out of context. The current new religion that is emerging, the religion of narcissism, is similarly embedded in the computer metaphor or more precisely in the network metaphor. It builds upon network effects. It derives its power from the number of worshippers and adherents that team up together, sometimes in ad-hoc networks, sometimes in self-assembled networks to achieve goals. So we have this shape-shifting religion which includes, does not include at any given time the very same people, but always maintains the same principles. And of course, this is a perfect reflection and scenery to the human brain. That's precisely how the human brain works. The human brain creates neural pathways, most of them ad-hoc, most of them are reactive to the environment, most of them are contextual. Some of them survive forever. They are called memory. Most of them don't. And so the human brain, human civilization, narcissism, artificial intelligence, they are all converging finally. And we're going to witness the first technological religion, technological faith, which empowers individuals to become godlike, puts at their fingertips the ability to change the world, to change genetic material, to change the universe, to terraform alien planets, to tamper with and interfere in creation. We have become gods, and the parallel inevitable consequence is narcissism. It is the new faith. And exactly like medieval Christianity reacted to Islam, many of us are reacting to this new religion. When Islam emerged in the 7th century, medieval authors, religious authors, most of them, reacted to Islam by demonizing it. Islam was described as a religion of the devil. Similarly, we are reacting today to narcissism, this new faith, this new religion that is emerging. We are reacting to it by demonizing it. We are saying that narcissists are demons, that they are evil. Some people go as far as to say that they are possessed, which is of course a metaphorical way of discussing narcissism. But the reactions are very religious as well. We are mythologizing, mythologizing narcissists. We treat narcissism as a force of nature. We no longer deal with narcissism in the strictest sense of a clinical entity buried in page 767 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. It's no longer a book-like configuration. It's no longer a scholarly pursuit or scholarly interest. No, we are all heavily into it. We all debate. We are all terrified. We all develop strategies. We all compete with each other. We all try somehow to understand narcissism in our lives, because narcissism is everywhere. Narcissism has penetrated our families. Narcissism has infested our workplaces. Narcissism has infected our politics. Why? Because it's a new faith, a new organizing principle. It is an explanatory principle. It helps us to imbue life, civilization, culture, the human species and its future. We imbue all of these with a meaning. And what is religion about? If not about giving us a meaningful life. We may reject the meaning offered by narcissism, but it is right now a very serious contender among other religions. I think in 50 years most people will be narcissists, clinically and or culturally and socially. And I think most of them will consider themselves godlike. And I think the irony is that technology will allow them to be godlike, will enable them, will make them godlike. And then what? Once we are all gods, who will walk the earth?


experience the transformations and the healing and the shifts in a very profound level with it, unless you start using. And we've been using it in clinic for just a couple of weeks, but I would say that while it's useful in clinic, it's also, I would say, really great for home use. I mean, I know for us, we're always looking for how people can, you know, solve more problems at home and not be so dependent upon coming to a clinic and in long term, you know, because they're going to find new ways to create new toxins and new burdens for us. And our job is we live in these beautiful homes that are protecting us from all the elements yet. Maybe we're inside too much, I would conjecture, and that the nature of the human being needs to have access to more of the nature outside. You know, I live in the Northeast. There's plenty of months. I'm not into hanging on outside because of the weather, whereas things such as the cheek oil can replicate or even magnify what nature has.


No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. Okay. So first up. First up, we have a revision for e-ink displays. You'll see, you know, we're going to be doing revisions every week or two because in the industry certain chip sets are just continued to replace with other chip sets. So this is the 2.13 inch e-ink monochrome feather wing. It was using an SSD 1675 chip set is now using an SSD 1680 chip set. What's the difference? Not much really. It actually pretty much acts the same. I think it's maybe a little bit faster. The display looks the same. It's the same resolution. However, it is a different chip set. And so you'll have to update your code. We are library supports both. So you'll have to change it from SSD 1675 when you include the header file to 1680. Otherwise, it'll work just fine. All right. Next up, we've got some more Molex picoblade cables, compatible cables. These are 1.25 millimeter pitch cables. This is a two pin cable. And you can see it's got two connectors, one on each end. And they're symmetric. So it's like if you connect one end around, they're the same on both end. Pin one connects to pin one on the other one. We also have all their sizes. We have three pin. We have four pin, five pin, six pin, seven pin, eight pin, nine pin. I think 10 pin. We've got a lot of pins. Each one has on the end a 1.25 millimeter Molex picoblade compatible pitch. This is great when you don't need to carry amps. It's good for maybe a half amp or so. They're not terribly long. They're about 20 centimeters, but they're very compact. You can get a lot of pins in a small connector, but you could still kind of hand solder the connectors, SMT or through-hole onto your PCB. We see picoblade compatible cables a lot. They're very cute. So maybe I'll show one on the overhead real fast. So this one is the seven pin. So let's just demonstrate it again. They're all going to be the same except for more pins. So this one, you can see black is pin one. So it goes black, red, white, yellow, green, blue, and then the same over here. So you can flip these back and forth. We'll take them whatever in there. They're the same cable on both sides. And then we've got the four pin one. So pick whichever one you like. Of course, you can cut these in half and have two pigtails if you like. But it is kind of nice to have two cables, two ended cables. And again, we've used picoblades quite a bit. We use them for speakers when a JST SH even is or a pH is too big. And we like the compactness of the JST, sorry, of the Molex picoblades. So we've seen these in robotics and drones use these a lot as well. Okay, next up. Next up. Okay. So we've got an update to a very popular board, which you might find familiar. It's the MCP 9808, which we are going to still stock in the original version. Which has been terrorizing space, apparently. Apparently. We have it now in STEMI QT format. This is one of the few boards in which we're going to actually carry both versions, both the STEMI QT and non-STEMI QT. Because a lot of people were using the previous one ahead of the address pins broken out. And so I was like, well, I think it's worth it to carry both for a bit. And then we'll see if people really want to just move from one to the other. I think we also have a demo. Is this the current part of the next one? Oh, this is the next one. Sorry. The next product is, it looks so similar. It's the HEU 31, which we showed on a previous INFPI, I don't know if you remember. This is from TE. And they have made wonderful sensors. The HEU 21D is a very common temperature and humidity sensor. This one's great too. It's got the same 2% relative humidity, accuracy. This one has much. Oh, is this the star of the show? This is the star of the show. Oh, the star of the show tonight besides you, Lady Eda, and our entire team is this. Yeah. I'm sorry. Because it looks so similar. Yeah. Since Glenn's got great temperature accuracy, it's 0.2 degrees C plus or minus. And I've got a little demo to show it off here. We've got Arduino and Circuit Python code for this. This is very, very zoomed in. Okay. So I've got it here on my feather. It's got the StemicUT connector for quick plugging in to my feather board. I've got OLED just showing off this demo. For this version, one of the things I did is you can see I have a little cutout. That gives it a little bit of a thermal isolation. So if you are using it with a couple other boards that's nearby, the heating of those boards won't affect the sensor as much. That said, what's nice is that this one's from 2 to 5 volts on its own. So there's no regulator on this board. Just needs a couple pull-ups and capacitors. It's got a reset pin, which I like, a hardware reset pin. I always like that. You can always get the sensor into a good state if it gets confused. It's got an address pin. So you can have two of these on one I squared C bus, address 40 or 41 hex. The data that comes out of it has CRC. So you can make sure, like a lot of sensors, they don't give you CRC data. The data you read is data you read. It's a high noise environment, or maybe you don't trust that maybe the data you're getting hasn't been tampered with or has noise or some other feedback or something that is causing it to add or drop a bit. The CRC means you can make sure that the data you're getting is correct. And it's also got a little self-heater. So you can use that to burn off any condensation, especially when you get to high humidity or if there's a wetness that splashes on it, you can kind of evaporate that off and then get true gas humidity sensing. So this is quite good. I mean, like it's a little warm because it's been sitting under these lights. But the humidity is pretty accurate. And then, you know, when I hold it, you can see it reacts very quickly as well. So it's a very quick to react sensor. People really like the TE-HTU-21. So if you did, you're like this. It's basically the same price or less and even more accurate.


أنا now standing in the holy lands بين الحرامين between the two kings أبي عبدالله الحسين and أبو فضل عباس peace and blessings be upon them both on one of the holiest nights during the year, the night of power خير من الفشاه this night is greater than a thousand months and as you can hear the lovers of the Ahlul Bayt the Shia of Ali بين الحرامين reciting دعاء جوشن الكبير which the dua recommended on this night so insha'Allah we will be able to join them later on and Alhamdulillah we are blessed to be here in the holiest of lands on the holiest of nights as you can see the atmosphere is very vibrant here بين الحرامين the men, the women all reciting دعاء for the hastening of their appearance of our 12th Imam and also remembering the orphans of أمير المؤمنين as these are the days after the martyr أمير المؤمنين and we can only imagine what the children of أمير المؤمنين went through زيناب أمام الحسن أمام الحسين أبو فضل the pain that they were going through in these nights after the martyr so as we are praying we can also try to feel the rituals of عزاء for the people of the house


Hello, guys. This is Wukasz Lutka from MVP Masterclass and this is Researchers in the Spotlight, where we want to bring more attention to researchers who work with subtitling. And today I'm joined by Sharon Black. Hello, Sharon. Hello. Hi, Wukasz. Great to have you here. And Sharon is a lecturer in interpreting and translation at the University of East Anglia. It does in the UK and her principal research interest lies in the area of audiovisual translation, in particular the reception and cognitive processing of translated audiovisual content. And Sharon has carried out a lot of research herself on how audiovisual translation is received by children. Sharon is also the president of the European Association for Studies in Screen translation. Sharon, we are recording this just before Christmas. Are you looking forward to Christmas and what are you planning to do? Yes. And first of all, thank you so much for inviting me to join you today. I'm delighted to join you to have a chat about, you know, AVT on all things related to subtitling for children. Yes. So for Christmas, I'm really looking forward to going home to Ireland to spend time with friends and family. And also, I'm trying to finish reading the His Dark Materials trilogy in time for the new BBC series. The series three is coming out for Christmas. So that's my Christmas TV viewing sorted. Now that you mentioned the series, there's this very well-known series of Netflix called Dairy Girls, right? And I was told that you have, some people believe you have a London Dairy accent yourself. Is that correct? Well, some people do ask me whether I have, you know, whether my accent is from Dairy. I do live very close to the border. When I say I live as a child, I lived close to the border with the county of Dairy, but I would say, no, I don't really have a Dairy accent. I do love watching Dairy Girls. When you watch Dairy Girls, when you were going to watch His Dark Materials over Christmas, are you going to turn on subtitles in English or do you just watch it with original audio? That's it. That's a really good question because the answer is I always turn on the subtitles. I really do not like watching TV or movies without subtitles these days. I prefer to read the programme or the film that I'm watching at the same time as watching it. I find that I don't want to miss out on the dialogue or have to make too much effort to understand what's being said. And I feel that it helps me to enjoy the TV programme or the film more fully. Also, if my snacks are a bit noisy, I really don't want to miss out on anything and have to have to go back and listen again. So as you can see, subtitles can help you with snacks.


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I mean, just wide open, just wide, just freezing it. Just freezing it flat.  But what is up with these guys? Super bummer, dude. I think Carl got too much tenacity for Ward. Like, if you want to list tenacity, I don't think Ward got it, to be honest. Nah, bro. It's not that, I don't think, I don't think like, I think Ward could probably fight better, maybe, but just like pure aggression and tenacity, I got to give it to Carl.  And my yellow zone just bales on me.  Pick somebody, come on, man. Intentional grounding.  Oh, pick. Why is my flat zone chasing? Come on, man, be better.    Just can't stop Henry. Just bail him out with the Henry.   Oh my God, man. That's great, just great effort, man. Just no huddles, snap, snap, snap. Three fourth downs. 15 play drive. I'll take the defense. I'll take it. I'll take the defense, dude. I will take that defense every day of the week there, boys. I don't know what he did on defense there. I have no idea. I had no idea. I was just trying to go to running back and we just were never able to. How do we get this bag right there, boys?  Did you drop that shit? Come on, man. There's just no way we're dropping that. Just call Henry. Love to see it. Love that's what Henry does. That's why he has him. That's why I had him. All right, now we gotta kind of play aggressive here because nine plays, I mean, wasn't the best drive. I had a fourth down. Hmm. Oh, that's gotta be a hit to pick right there. Come on, man.  Oh my God, four for 10. This is just miserable. Come on, there's just no way. Like, where is the yellow zone at that you can throw that pass like that's miserable? Oh my God, how do we not hit stick him right there? Like, oh my God, that's on you. Like, Warner, where are you at?  That was a great goal line against RPO. Can't stop RPO and goal line right now. God, dude. Oh, that's what I had to do.  Just two seams, seam seam. I don't know what my yellows are doing now, boys. My hook's not hooking right now. Oh my God. Yo, Tony G, if you weren't just in my way, we might have to highlight it a year right there. But you know, that was a bad call to fall down there.  Big time, boys, big time. Professional, man. Just simply professional player, me.   And you wasted a play with Derek Henry, that's tough. It's even tougher. Because Derek Henry's gonna be not blowing in the second half here, that's big. That's huge. I got zone drops on, I got zone drops on, zone drops, zone drops. Pay attention, though, we pay attention.  I'm kind of prepared for everything, but my yellows don't give up too many plays that last drive, too many easy ones. Prime time. I mean, come on, 78, that was brutal, man. Oh my God, he was manned up for a mile away, and just, I mean, I'm not saying much, just playing. Come on, boys. Like, we gotta get, we gotta be better right there. Nice. Let's get a turnover here, boys.  I'm Henry's not blinking. That's a win for the boys. No, that's not a knock.  There's no way that was a knockout. Like, no way that wasn't a knockout, dude.  Swap back in, good defense there, come on. This is bad defense. Oh, mid zone, let's go, come on. Let me quick snaps right here. I mean, just wide open.      I think I just didn't base, I just unbased the line. I didn't man align.  Just nothing else you could throw right there, and literally nothing else. I don't even know where my zones were. I think this is a terrible insect. I don't even know where my zones were, honestly. Don't even know where we were right there on that play. That was miserable, man. Oh my God, man. That was just so bad defense right there, man. I'll take a touchdown, I can't lie to you. I don't think this guy's that good on offense.   I didn't want to fumble right there. That's why I didn't just slot run. I didn't want to fumble. That was the, and I got to fumble, and I fumbled it? Doug, what? That was the best disengage on a three man rush in the history of Madden. And then on top of that, we fumbled the ball. Like, how insane was that? How actually insane was that, dude? Oh my God.   I almost thought I was on aggressive. I don't like, bro, I don't know what happened right there. I mean, he just bagged Michael Vick. GGs? I mean, Carmichael just bagged Michael Vick right there, dude, just bagged him. Bad throw. That was my fault. That was a bad throw. That was a bad throw.   Fuck, dude.  And we didn't play around at anything. What did we play around?   We played around.  We played around, dude.   Yeah, I sure played around, all right, dude. Definitely.  When did I have a TD? What are we talking?  I can't.  When in the world did I have a touchdown and didn't take a touchdown? It ran backwards.  I went from the 15-yard line to the 25-yard line.  I didn't have a touchdown. Gun squad. Watch out for gun squad.


Well, without any further ado, let's begin with the presentations. I would like to call the first group, which will be presenting on the topic, advance concepts of containerization using Docker and their implementation on Sunbird and IIT Bombay X platforms. A huge round of applause for them. Good morning everyone. My name is Pratik Khaas and my teammate name is Visragh Upta. We are here to present our summer internship project. Our project title is advance concept of containerization using Docker and their implementation on Sunbird and IIT Bombay X platform. Docker is a tool to develop, create, run and deploy application using containers. What are the motivations for this project? We like IIT Bombay X and Sunbird software are using Docker. When other teams are developing software on Sunbirds, so they have to run Docker. They have to face some road blocks like the right-listed on PPT. First is running is a big step. Means when you create application in Docker, you have to interact with Docker using command line interface. You don't have any GUI tool and there are also complications with container networks. You have to connect them properly for working applications. We are not used to containerize application architecture. We are comfortable in making application in a single machine with all services on a single machine. But we are not used to deploy application using the services on running on different containers. Docker itself is using some because Docker is in active development. So some developers may argue that if they develop an application in Docker and Docker might stop the support for previous version they implemented. So our objective is to get people to use the Docker. There are some advantages of using Docker. First one is application of Docker. Applications of Docker have significant variety. You can set up your environment, Python, Django, Node, JS and try out what is the best choice for you. Second, some features are unique to Docker. Like Docker have a Docker compose. So you can deploy your application using service in a single machine, Docker swarm. You can make a cluster of different virtual machines or computers and deploy application on that. Third, development, deployment, cycle can be optimized. You can add a continuous integration, continuous deployment using Docker. You just have to build the image from a Docker file and approach the Docker hub and directly run on a production or development environment. We studied, analyzed that case, Conrad University case study that used to occur for their solving problems. So we restart some problems they are facing and we find out how they solve their problem. First is they use Java and we just stop releasing update. Devourment testing and production environment are not seen. They cannot keep up with development and release their product in production development as fast as in Devourm. As you can see last project update for confidence they took 6 months. Original developers and engineers are not available. So they have to read all documents and configuration files and so for update a application. After using Docker, they can implement a continuous into CI and CD pipeline. So all things are gets automated. So project update takes only couple of weeks now. Then automatic build and deploy containers to Devourment testing because we build a Docker image on a Devourment and we directly run on a production. We do not have to worry about our dependency issues in production environment. This also decrease time splatter on issues with the environments. We also studied another case study, General Electric. They also have some issues and they solve using Docker. They have to spend every 6 weeks to move from Devourment to production environment. They have lots of regressive code to migrate to crowd. So they need some tools to manage that microservices architecture they are planning to move. They are using VMware. But in VMware they only deploy one application per VM. So using container, using Docker you can deploy up to 14 applications per VM. Automation with Puppet has a poor adoption rate because Puppet has its own automation language you have to write in. So Docker they use Docker based on automation software using Voyager. And also decreases the time of production to Devourment to production. And up to 60% of code migrated in just 4 months of fix. We study some use case of Docker network. Docker network is a component provided in Docker to communication between the Docker containers. So there are some driver options are ever in a Docker. There are bridge driver over the host network. We use them and study how Docker developer can use in different conditions and when they can use this type of network drivers. So first one is bridge network. It is used for container communication on the same Docker host. So when you are developing application which is running on a single Docker host machine. So what you can do is suppose you have front end porter and back end porter. So you run a front end service and back end service and connect them using some worker service. So you can manage your data flow and everything from worker service. And there is a over end network. This is used for connect multiple container, multiple Docker demons on running on different Docker host and another communication between them. Docker swam also uses this over a network to connect to two other clusters of nodes. Third one is a host network. So when you do not want to isolate your network stack from a host network.  Then you host network stack. So you want to your host network stack to provided also in a container. Because container runs always on an isolated environment. Using host network you can do that. MacViren you can allow container to appear as a physical device on a network. So what is advantage of this is you do not have to use the Docker swarm in MacViren. You can directly connect any available network host through directly connected to it. You do not have to connect to a Docker swarm. Because it act as a physical device. We also find out some use cases of a Docker storage. Docker storage it provides a persistent storage for using and storing data beyond container because when container gets stopped it is right over here got destroyed and we do not have access to the data. So we can use Docker storage for that. There are different options available for that. We can use bind moutes. Advantage of using bind moutes is sharing source code build artifacts between development environment on Docker or standard container like we use this type of bind mout. We dockerize sunbar port. So we use this type of mount in a sunbar port. In that we just change code in a host directory and all changes get reflected in the container. We can use a volume also. It is managed by Docker and Docker is when you do use that. When you do not have a specific given directory structure means in bind mout you have a home home directory type of thing but when you deploy in a cluster it might not have that directory structure and not different machine. So you can use Docker volume it is managed by Docker. You can use any file structure you want but in bind mout you have to use host file structure. There are also tempfs. It is very unique to Docker. It is storing all data into a RAM. So we can take advantage of that RAM. We can use the tempfs mount in a testing or write heavy application like database integration testing. So we can test a database so we can improve or read and write speed because we are storing data on a RAM. So now I would like to hand over to my friend to present it next part in a PPT. So as my friend was talking about Docker so it is a very good tool and it is very flexible and very performant but when you scale the app to multiple applications the problem rises of managing multiple Docker and here Docker some helps because it helps it basically helps you to manage clusters. So if multiple machines are connected to Docker and many applications are running on them you can basically declare what you want to do. So like I want five applications of my front end, two applications of my back end, three applications of database so it provides a declarative service model so that you can declare what you have to provide and you can just go on with it. And then it provides service discovery and load balancing. So service discovery like when you are running, when you are deploying the application having front end and back end and back end can contain a MongoDB database so you do not have to worry about if it is a single MongoDB database or it is a cluster of MongoDB. So in the front end app you can just write MongoDB and it will get connected to that application. Load balancing like when you are running front end application and you are running five applications of it. So Docker swarm what it will do is like it will in round robin fashion it will send a request to all the applications so that the load is balanced between all the containers. Then Kubernetes it is a more mature form of Docker swarm and it is developed by Google so it provides much more features as compared to Docker swarm like automatic bin packing. So what it means is like when container is deployed on a host machine and there are like ten machines. So it will automatically decide where the load is less or where we can deploy the container so that the service is highly available and it also provides a feature of self-filling. So when a container goes down it can automatically reprovision it and start the container from that state so that the service is not blocked. Then it is very flexible in terms of storage and networking. So it is like a Lego game so you can the main is Kubernetes and you can add much more storage plugins and much more networking plugins to it. So like you can back your container on AWS or Google Cloud and or Digital Ocean and it provides many more features of networking so that it is useful for your application. So this is a typical production deployment pipeline and so you know the first part is basically control integration and second part is container deployment. So what happens like when a developer pushes code on GitHub the code get pulled by Jenkins server. So Jenkins is basically a container integration tool. So the code get pushed code get pulled by Jenkins server it is built into an image and it is deployed into a Docker containers they are tested and then when the testing is complete and then Rancher what it will does is it will deploy the application to AWS or Digital Ocean and these. So what is the like advantage of Docker is you can dispose of like you can start a Docker in seconds and you can dispose of in a second. So it will help in decreasing the time from development to production. So this is main architecture of edX. What we have we have looked at how edX works and how edX has they have dockerized most of the architecture for local development. So we have looked at how they have dockerized their applications how they have used Docker storage and Docker networking to handle that communication. There was a position system which edX was using MongoDB. So we have created a MongoDB Sharded Cluster so that we can understand how we can set up our own Sharded Cluster from scratch. So in our application sample application which we have developed we have created three shards having two replica each. So the data will be divided into three parts according to hashing function and each shard has a primary replica and a secondary replica and it also has a cluster of conflict server and one query router. So what it will do is like it will query the incoming request depending on where it is stored and in case of sunbird what you have done is that we have installed the sunbird on local machine to understand how it works so that we can dockerize it and initially some of the services like player content and access services of sunbird are already dockerized. But we have found out that why they have not dockerized Cassandra Posty SQL Elastic Search. And then at the end we have dockerized sunbird portal and keyclaw service. So in conclusion what we have done till now is that we have learnt about how docker can be useful in different use cases. We have deployed sample application ranging from simple hello world application to a complex application like MongoDB Sharded Cluster or Hadoop or Cassandra Cluster. We have also looked at how sunbird works and how it can be dockerized. Thank you. I appreciate you finishing in time. Started 15 minutes late but will delay the lunch break. Some quick questions. Here you had VMs to work with.  If you want to use this wonderful facility how could you use it? For example if you have a local server available to you let's say in your final project would you be able to create VMs there and deploy this? Yes we can deploy it if you don't want actually a VM you can also deploy it on a normal system. So you can just start using docker as is. Incidentally Nagesh the later architecture with Jenkins that is where you wanted to put that Selenium automation and everything right? A couple more questions on your part this sharding just remember one thing this concept of sharding and all emerged when conventional storage was being used which did not have any intrinsic reliability. But if you look at our cloud the OpenV storage automatically does this distribution. So sharding is implied replication is implied you don't have to do absolutely anything of that sort. Now when you don't have to do this how would you deploy Mongo for scalability for example. So you don't have to do any sharding or anything but you may run multiple Mongo applications each one having its own storage. What is guaranteed in such cloud environment is that the storage already has inbuilt replication inbuilt sharding. So you don't have to do anything at all there. And one last point I wanted to make was this automatic load balancing that you mentioned round robin is what you said that is deployed. But is round robin the best policy always? So is there any provision for you to introduce your own load balancing algorithms or it's fixed by the way? Like Engines is a reverse voxel load balancing server so you can deploy Engines on a Docker container and you can manage all the services from there. In fact this was the question because NGNX is a far better load balancer mechanism than the conventional one. Thank you. Good work.


What's going on infinite fam welcome back to another video if you guys are new to the channel Make sure you guys hit that subscribe button turn on your post notification But leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a wha But chance to win a shout out in the next video that is right guys now I'm just staring at tail lights right now in the parkway. I kind of just want to start walking to our destination I hate traffic so much and we're not even in New York And we literally like just got on the highway and then boom like literally the cars are not moving at all It's bumper to bumper traffic Look at this ridiculousness out here literally not moving look over there even like no one's moving I don't know what happened an accident must have just occurred Well, they got to get them cars out of the way because I got go So if you guys haven't already guessed what we're going because of the title or whatever We are actually on our way right now to Rissa and Kwan's baby shower It's gonna be so fun We didn't record when we went to the gender reveal, but it was like super super lit And I'm hoping for like a round two. I think it's gonna be a little more subtle this time I think so too because before it was kind of just like a huge Like celebration and now I feel like it's just like a nice like elegance kind of like I got so oh my god.   I know what I said But yo, it was super lit both they families know how to throw down and I'm kind of hoping for like a round two I'm not gonna lie. I know it was so much fun and I'm like super excited to have fun Obviously, I had surgery so like I can't get up and dance. I'm so upset I'm gonna have to like sit this one out, but I'll be dancing in my chair like bro If we even get there like come on bro this traffic All right guys, so we are just going to head on over to New York City And then we will catch you guys when we get to our hotel Made it to our hotel peep the view of Times Square. This is lit. Babe. What do you think? You and I love the view like if you guys know I wanted to go to college in New York City So this is like everything for me right now. So we're gonna give you guys a little room tour real quick So here we have nothing. What do you even call this? What is this an ottoman? All right, so we got an autumn. I see I'm getting better with stuff see ottoman little a garbage can a recycle can Little desk fancy chair. I'm liking this. I might take this home with me What why yeah I'm really bra I brought it here. What do you mean? I bring it on all my trips I gotta stay comfy. Yeah, we got the lamp. All right laptops gonna be set there nice flat screen TV with a bunch of drawers This is what would you call this a coffee table? Yeah? I'm getting good with this stuff, huh? All right, we call it whatever we want. All right. We got some nice artwork again with the Picasso All right, this was a strictly brought here for us, right?  It looks comfy. Haven't sat on it yet We got the big gift for us and quans baby shower nice standing lamp. I really like that peep the design on it It looks like a like lightning right yeah, that's cool Yeah, I don't know Yeah, and then we got the nice big king-size bed nightstand nightstand babe looking beautiful on it as always Nice little what do you call this the headboard right? Yes? I was getting better with this man I can't stress it enough. All right, so yeah, don't mind this. You've always bought an iron some clothes for tonight Nice mirror. How you doing little closet where we can hang our stuff and then this is probably my favorite part This is the nice bathroom this guy's this is like really really nice peep the stuff like the shampoo conditioner and shower Jelly have it hanging all you gotta do is squirt right babe. Are you gonna do a squirt?  Thank you. Oh, I love you All right, get me get me. Okay. All right Look at that out.  I feel good. It's not a simple, you know black white black white little chain You know make it pop a little bit But I feel like we could have did better but being that you were in recovery We have time to shop like yeah We couldn't shop for anything and I literally couldn't fit into anything because pressure on my stomach So yeah, but I feel like we look good enough to go show our face I feel like we look nice. I agree, but infinite family let us know comment down below How you guys think we look right our outfits right here one to ten right me one to ten and let's see what the better fit tonight So now let me give you guys the fit check We are actually waiting on trish and camera now they are above us So we have to wait on them We're gonna go take a Uber together to the spot and then at that point. Let's I don't know man You can't I can't you can't you can get a little bit. No, I can't No, you can't drink or anything like that, but there's music playing you'd be like You do a little I can't I can't move anything from here down. Maybe just like I guess we'll see you guys when we get to the baby shower spot made it to the spot It is honestly beautiful. You guys have to see how it looks downstairs We are also with trish and came they haven't been in one of our videos in a long time, but we had to catch up with the gang Yeah, guys, it's like a rooftop kind of thing going on here a beautiful view of like Manhattan.  We're gonna get situated and I guess we'll catch up with you guys What time is it? It's like almost midnight. It's 12.04. It's midnight man. The night just getting started. This is when the club is open It's fun today. Honestly. Thank you to Marissa and Pawn for inviting us Always know how to get down. This was like a more like elegant kind of like Event that's what I'm a little tipsy. I'm sorry This was like a little more elegant event kind of things always a little more chill than like the gender reveal But as you guys saw they get just as lit. They know how to turn up everywhere and your boy turned up They were taking us out.  I'm like, bro. I just got started But yeah, guys, we love you or some con so much we wish so many blessings on baby Roberts We are so excited for that baby to be born and off my goodness. I just I'm just so happy for them I had fun. I have to do a fun. I had fun. I couldn't do much literally the last like 10 minutes I was like, you know, I have to get up and have to push myself I'm just gonna try to dance just a little bit because dancing is literally my life So I had to get up really quickly and dance, but That is it for today's video in front of them I hope you enjoyed it if you guys didn't don't forget to smash that like button also come today's post notification shout out today's post Certification shout out goes out to Julia Amin. 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