Hey there. Today, I'd like to tell you about one of the hardest things I've ever done, which is learning how to do experimental product development in an industry where failure can be a matter of life or death. Another way I'd like to talk about this is how to move fast and not break things. I quickly introduce myself. My name is Tom Ultiman, and I'm on the product team at Asana. But I actually spent most of my career at startups and particularly in the construction industry. I fell in love with construction back in 2015 when I joined a company called Plangrid. Our founders were the first to see the form factors of the iPhone and iPad and how it could truly revolutionize how work got done on construction sites. They taught us to focus on building beautifully designed apps that construction workers would fall in love with. We had the highest rate in the construction app in the App Store, and at the time I left, we were being used by over 1.5 million projects across 100 countries. In 2018, we were acquired by Autodesk for $875 million. Now, while we always went deep in understanding our customers' needs, we had a challenge that may be familiar to many of you, and that's how to ship great products quickly when they have to work perfectly first time. Honestly, this slide is just an excuse to share my favorite gift of all time. Now, I'm sure that all, if not many of you have read this book, The Lean Startup by Eric Rees. If not, I strongly recommend that you do. It's really defined the last 10 years of how we build products and companies. Now, in it, Eric talks about getting things to market fast using experimentation, but the key tenant being fail fast, succeed faster. You may have also seen this quote from Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn. You are not embarrassed by the first version of your product you've launched too late. There's also Facebook's perhaps infamous mantra of move fast and break things, with the idea that it's okay to break occasionally as long as you innovate and execute on a vision. Now, a lot of these ideas really resonated with me, but another one also came to mind. And that was, I'm building tools for these people. They don't want to hear about anything failing ever. Their safety and livelihoods depend on the tools at their disposal being 100% reliable and dependable. Now, this is long been a challenging construction. Any change can be incredibly risky. So people prefer to try and stick to tried and tested methods, even if incredibly inefficient. Now, this was a world which we as a relatively scrappy startup were trying to build new tools to help them get their work done faster, easier, and safer. Now, you're probably not working in construction, but I'm sure you're working on software that your customers rely on using every day, and they never want to feel like guinea pigs for any of your experiments. If that's the case, this talk is for you. Now, I'm sure you're all paying incredibly close attention, but for those of you who have as bad an attention span as I do, let me give you a quick upfront TLVR of this talk. If you want to do experimentation in zero failure environments, build a cross-functional team that truly cares about the customer. As a team, learn about that problem you're trying to solve together. Treat everything as an experiment, not just the product itself, but the processes you're going to follow and even the roles you're going to play. Do the least amount of work needed to test your most important hypothesis. In other words, be as lazy as you can quickly. And crucially, when failure is not an option, use humans to power the first functional MVP of your product. So to elaborate further, I'm going to tell you two stories about how we learned these lessons whilst building a mission-critical product for construction. These stories revolve around an absolutely insane part of the construction process called submittals. What are submittals? In the United States, you need to get approval from the architect for every product and method you're going to use to build a building. This means every type of brick, the wood, doors, down to the actual nuts and bolts need to get sent to the architect and approved before work can continue. This can mean thousands of documents that need to be collected, reviewed, approved on time and corrected. That sounds crazy, it's because it absolutely is. Now there are two things to remember about this process. The first is that nobody likes it. It's hard, it's tedious, it's stressful for everyone involved. You're filling out spreadsheets for days, you're keeping track of a million emails, the paperwork is endless. If one of these is missed or late, the work will be delayed and can cost your company hundreds of thousands of dollars and that's the best-case scenario. The second thing is that it's important to get submittals right or very bad things can happen. The worst-case scenario is that buildings fall down and people die. That's not an exaggeration. This little diagram here shows a single bracket that was built incorrectly in a hotel in the 70s which caused a walkway to collapse killing 114 people. All of that because no one spotted the seemingly tiny mistake on one page of a 100-page document in a submittal. It's an important process. So the mission we were given was how to fix this process or at least make it not suck as much. Obviously this couldn't fail fast or at all. Now no one will be surprised that as a scrappy startup we had some very fun constraints. The solution needs to be something that could be built by four engineers in less than six months. Oh and obviously two of those engineers are free right now, the others will find for you soon. Oh also the future of the business is dependent on this being a success so you know don't mess it up. So with those constraints this required us to rethink how we were going to build this product. This is where we started getting experimental. The first stage was learning about that problem together. We needed to deeply understand the process to figure out how to tackle it. We did this with interviews, site visits, shadowing. Everybody on the team spent time with the users and we really mean everyone. This is a photo of us on one of those visits and it includes engineers, research, product, design. Even QA was there. We really got to know them. What are the days like? Well the boring parts. A lot of the submittals process takes place in spreadsheets and emails. Now our users thought it was really weird that we wanted to sit behind them and watch them do paperwork all day but we learned so much from even the mundane bits of their day. Now as we went we built up a picture of the process and the pain points. And after each conversation we would list all the questions we still had. We'd vote on them and then change our script for the next set of conversations until we felt we truly were confident that we understood the problem well enough to propose a solution. This is how we built a cross-functional team that cared about the customer. An important thing about this step is that everyone needs to be bought in and focus on that customer problem.  And we thought this was so important that we decided it was better to be understaffed than under-focused. One of those engineers who was incredibly talented was more interested in doing systems work than being on a specific problem so he left to do great work elsewhere in the company. It was more important for us that everyone was bought in even if that meant being down an engineer for a while. So we understood the problem and we built a team that cared about the users. This helped us flesh out our initial hypothesis of what a great Simil's process could look like. Now we need to test whether we were right. So you're all probably familiar with the standard iterative loop of product development.  Now we had an idea but we didn't have time for the build bit. We needed a way to shortcut directly to learning so we could iterate faster. We needed experiments. So we had these hypotheses from all of our research. So we used a framework called assumptions tracking. We sat down as a team, we listed out all the assumptions we had, and we ranked them by risk. What's the likelihood that this product will fail if we're wrong? Once we had that list, we thought about the cheapest way to taste each of them. The mindset here was be lazy. Don't do any work that doesn't help us de-risk an assumption. Now sometimes the test was simple. You could do a survey. Some things we could validate traditionally with a clickable prototype or concept tests or part and parcel of the work that we do every day. In the end, we were left with the hardest thing to test. Who would we build something that replaces spreadsheets and emails? Everyone's process was a little different and dummy data in prototypes wasn't resonating. At some point, we realized that the only way we were going to learn more was by actually giving users a version of idea to use with real projects and real data. This led us to the third stage, which was building out a concierge MVP. We needed to learn if our hypothesis was correct, we needed to use real data, and we needed 100% reliability. No buildings falling down. And we needed to do this quickly. So how do you validate a fully functioning product without building the machinery behind it? Now, for those of you who've seen Futurama, do you remember Bender the Robot and how he refers to humans? Well, we would be the machinery. This was project meat bag. We would sub in humans for the technical part of the product and test it without writing any code. Our plan was to slowly replace the people in this process with code over time, as we validated the ideas and built the product in parallel. So we found five customers that represented our target audience and we sent them a pitch about this great new submittals tool. It was going to effortlessly handle their submittals process. It will track the input and give them a report every week. Of course, we were the tool. Each of us took one user project and did all the data entry and processing. Users would send us existing spreadsheets and forward us all the email responses and files that came in. So here was V1 of our product. It was a Google sheet set up for each user, mirroring the system we wanted to build and populated manually. We moved all their data into the template. We kept track of everything that came through email and we looked through the files to figure out status. There was some basic automation here. You can see some colors and highlights. And then we just continued to automate things as we learned from what the users needed, starting building conditional formatting, automatic dates, data validation, effectively building our database for the end product, and really just finding anything that could reduce our workload. But by and large, it's still a spreadsheet maintained by one of our team. The critical thing here is that for our users, it's functioning like a product and a fairly magical one at that. They sent us data. It appeared in here. They didn't have to do any of the things we knew were pain points in our existing process. We then set up a dashboard driven by that spreadsheet to provide insights and next steps.  So Excel scripts were really the first code written for our product. And this is where our first product breakthrough revealed itself and showed that we were delivering something really valuable. A lot of our users were shocked at the number of overdue or stall submittals they had. So much so they thought it must be wrong. A lot of submittals were two months overdue. Some we saw were even six months overdue stalling that project. Most users, we realized, had never seen an accurate snapshot of the whole process before. On top of that, we generated a weekly report based on that dashboard, which they used to sync up with the architect and the owner for the project. We put their logo on it and it gave them a really polished and professional way to share out the status with the stakeholders. So these three things, the spreadsheet, the dashboard, the report, were the pillars of the solution we wanted to build. Throughout this process, we met with users every week to see how things were going and get feedback. Because those are all manual, we were able to take that feedback and immediately iterate the format and the data, creating a really tight loop of idea to learning that we were looking for. Now, the careful thing here is obviously people are going to love it if you do their work for them. But we need to turn this into a software product, not a concierge product. So we set very strict ground rules that we were only going to do things in a standard way for all customers that we knew that we could automate and code later. So how did it work out? The outcome of this process was over 600 submittals tracked across five projects over four months. The project included this half a billion-dollar highway interchange in California, which saved them literally millions in cost savings, all down to the spreadsheet, dashboard, and report. Now, this was way more we thought we would do in the process, and we learned so much. We were able to validate our product solution and quickly iterate whilst real customers were using it. This meant that before the first line of code was written, we knew exactly what needed to be built and how it should work for it to deliver magic to our customers. It also built the deep customer knowledge and empathy on the team that we were looking for, which meant that everyone was really focused on the details of the problem. Now, only was that crucial to getting the product out quickly, but it also allowed us to discover a whole new product area we weren't even considering when we started. During our customer discovery process, one of our engineers bought an opportunity that was way beyond our plan scope. And this is my second story, so let me tell you that one very quickly. That's something to know about people in construction, like Ahmed here, is that if you ask him what he hates about his job, he'll say, nothing really, I love my job. They are wildly accommodating people. That's because Ahmed has just walked us through one of the most terrible admin processes that you've ever seen that he has to endure every day. So after a bit of experimentation of figuring out how to get him to reveal where true pain points were, we landed on a question that was really effective. We'd ask, if you could clone yourself and convince that clone to do the part of your job you liked the least, what would you have that clone do? Now this opened the floodgates and helped us see what we should really focus on to improve their lives. Next time you're trying to figure out how to improve someone's productivity, I really recommend asking this question. Almost unanimously, they mentioned something that we've not even thought about. At the start of the new construction project, someone gets the incredibly crappy job of having to read through a 3,000 page specification document and type into a spreadsheet every single submittal required, creating what's called a submittalogue. This is incredibly tedious but vitally important. On average, it takes two weeks of someone's life to complete. It's a task so hated, it's often given to the person who annoyed the boss the most on the previous project. Once we heard this a couple of times, one of the engineers said, hey, so it's like a pretty solvable machine learning problem. Not sure it would be that hard to do, but we had a challenge because we had no ML expertise on the team and a crazily tight deadline to meet as it was. This felt like a huge risk, but also a massive opportunity. So we wondered and we test whether customers will find this valuable. And luckily, we'd already worked out a process to answer that question. Enter the meatbags. I sat down with the engineers and wrote out a human readable set of instructions for how to extract submittals from a specification doc. We set the constraint that these instructions had to be simple enough to be followed by anyone without any prior knowledge of construction and must be easily replicated by a simple machine learning algorithm. And we reached out to a bunch of customers and said, hey, we have this fantastic new tool that extracts all of your submittals for you.  Oh, still an early stage product, so it might take a couple of days to get back to you. At this point, we hired data entry contractors to do the work. We were all busy with the other meetback processes. This was pretty cheap. A couple of people at $20 an hour that were simply picking up specs sent to an email address and responding with the spreadsheets of their results. The result was fantastic. We heard literal shrieks of joy when people saw the results and realized they just got two weeks of their life back. Not only did this validate the idea, but we also learned incredibly valuable insights on things such as precision versus recall. It turned out that people were okay with us listing way more things than maybe were needed as long as they could filter them out quickly. But we could never risk missing any important items. The other great thing was that we were actually building the label training data that we needed for our machine learning algorithm. So we were getting the vital insights that made the product faster to build and more confident that we had something the market wanted and were willing to pay for. So these two things combined, with only four engineers, we were able to learn, experiment, and launch a production-ready solution in six months. This was a paid add-on to our core solution that from day one accounted for a large increase in company revenue, evidence that we built something that our customers really needed. One of my favorite things was that our product was featured in a list of the most interesting advances in construction technology that year alongside this robot that builds walls. What I love about this is that this robot was an incredibly complicated piece of technology, solving a relatively simple problem for humans. We'd built some relatively simple technology to solve a very complex problem, and initially, we powered it using humans imitating machines. So that made us feel very smug. Now, this was not all sunshine and rainbows, so I wanted to share some of the mistakes that we made that you can hopefully learn from. We didn't have an exit strategy from those concierge MVPs. The idea is that we'd start tracking some bills manually and quickly replace ourselves with code as the engineers got up and running, maybe one, two months max. Then things got delayed, and we were left hand-cranking this process almost for months. Now, we didn't want to leave our customers in alert, so these were mission-critical processes, and we promised the customers that we'd support them, so we ended up having two jobs for that time. If you're going to do this process, think about what the exit strategy is if things get delayed or you decide not to pursue this product. How can you do right by yourselves and the customers? We did a great job of having the engineers involved in the research, but once the concierge MVPs started, we decided that they should be focused on writing code, and we'll just share the knowledge. At this point, we could already see the cracks starting to form in the terms of customer empathy. There were mistakes that we made that could have been caught sooner if the engineering team had had at least a little bit of first-hand experience of managing those signals. If we could do this again, we would have had engineers spend at least a couple of weeks actually being the human in the loop for those concierge MVPs. We also only brought in marketing and sales at the very end of the process, which meant that it took much longer than it should have for them to understand their value proposition and therefore had a position and sell it to the market. Having at least a product marketing manager involved in that discovery and experimentation would have saved us a huge amount of coordination effort and rewrites when it was time to take it to market. So to recap, if you want to do experimentation in zero failure environments, build a cross-functional team that cares about the customer. Learn about that problem together. Treat everything as an experiment, not just the product, but the processes you're going to follow and the roles that you're going to play on that team. Do the least amount of work needed to test your hypothesis and use humans to power the first functional MVP if failure is not an option. The last point I'll leave you with is experiments come in many shapes and sizes. You can do this at any stage of development. Be it a new idea or something that's been in the market for a while. I just encourage you to think about what is the next most important thing you're trying to learn and what's the least amount of work you can do to learn it. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions, comments, or if you'd like tips on how to implement this process. I'm also currently offering free coaching sessions to people starting out or looking to transition to product careers, as I know how hard that can be. If that's of interest to you, feel free to reach out by email, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Thank you so much for your time.


Hi, my name is Fernando and I'm a technical marketing manager here at GitLab and today I'm going to show you some of the new security features in GitLab 14.6. The first thing I wanted to go over is that the GitLab agent's activity information is now recorded. You can monitor your cluster's activity to help you detect and troubleshoot faulty events and rest assured when they succeed. In order to do this, we go to Infrastructure, Kubernetes Clusters. Here we see a list of our active agents within the project. We click on one and we can see the activity for that particular agent. Another cool feature is that we've added SAS support for .NET 6. This is done through an update to the .NET SAS Analyzer security code scan which we've updated to support the .NET 6 version. Here we have a pipeline on a .NET project with SAS enabled. When we click on the Security tab, we can see that vulnerabilities were detected. This one is a weak random number generator. We can click on the file and see exactly what's causing this vulnerability. Or we can click on the identifier to get more detailed information on the vulnerability. Container scanning results can now be seen in the dependency list. You'll be able to see your container dependencies as well as any issues which may be present within them. To see this, go to Security Compliance and click on Dependency List. Here you can see the list of dependencies as well as their location which may be one of your containers. When you click on it, you'll see vulnerabilities sorted from critical to low and when you click on one, you'll get a full description of the vulnerability. We've also introduced SAS to scan execution policies. Users can now require SAS scans to run on a regular schedule or as part of a project CI pipeline, independent of the .GitLab CI YAML. This enables even more separation of duties, not allowing developers to change the configuration and allowing security teams to manage what scans are run. Now let's create and enforce a SAS policy. We can go to Security and Compliance and click on Policies. Then click on New Policy. We can change the policies type to Scan Execution. And here, let's edit a few fields in order to enable SAS scanning. Make sure to set enable to true as well as making the scan action type SAS. Then just click on the Create Merger quest and you'll have an MR with a SAS Execution Policy. And as always, you can see that the static analysis analyzers have been updated. We've updated spot bugs, PMD, SAMGREP, and GOSAC within this iteration. This is part of our effort to continuously update all the open source tools we use and maintain them within our infrastructure. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed it. For more information on the 14.6 release, please check out the links in the description. There will also be a link to this particular blog post.


In this video, we trace what happens to human sewage. More than a third of the world's population does not have access to toilets that ensures human waste is kept separate from human contact. In consequence, millions of people die every year from water-borne diseases. Where they do have access to toilets, most people have adopted the flush system where clean purified water is used to carry human feces and urine away for treatment. Before we examine what happens at these treatment works, let's look at a more sensible way of building a toilet, which does not waste so much water, but still returns the nutrients back to the soil, but without any harmful pathogens. That's microorganisms which cause disease. A composting toilet does just this. Currently, they're used where there is no water supply or sewage disposal, but if they replaced the flush system worldwide, huge amounts of energy in water would be saved. They work with aerobic bacteria, that is those that need oxygen, and you end up with the fertilizer that is pathogen-free and ready to be returned to the soil. In flush toilets, the human waste is mixed with fresh water and sent down the sewers to the sewage works. The main task is to separate out the waste and the pathogens from the water, so clean water can enter the river again. Here are the stages. First of all, screens take out large objects that may have fallen into the sewers. Then the sewage flows slowly to allow grit and gravel to settle. The solids suspended in the water, mostly feces, settle out in sedimentation tanks, and are pumped into anaerobic digesters, where bacteria turn some of the carbon into methane, which is burnt to provide electricity to drive the pumps and the machinery. Remaining sludge is dried and normally can be used as a valuable fertilizer. However, if industrial waste is diverted into the domestic sewers, the sludge may be contaminated by heavy metals and other pollutants, and this valuable fertilizer has to be dumped in landfill. The water is still full of pathogenic bacteria and needs further treatment. First air is bubbled through the water, promoting the growth of aerobic bacteria. Then the water trickles over stones, where other animals feed on the bacteria. Further sediment tanks capture more sludge, and finally, the water passes slowly through reed beds, where any remaining pathogens are killed by the oxidizing conditions, and the water rejoins the river, or is pumped out to sea. So, to summarize, less than two-thirds of people on this planet have access to a safe toilet. Most of these use the flush system, which is very wasteful of water. This water has to be purified at the sewage works before it can be put back into the rivers, and the human waste, now free of pathogens, can be used to fertilize the land, as long as it has not been contaminated by industrial waste.


Hey Virgo. Welcome back. Welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new Splash, Splash, Splash that like button and do subscribe if you enjoy the reading. Keep in mind you guys, this is a general love reading. Some messages may not be for you. This is a channel for Virgos, Sun, Moon, Rising, and Venus, but all signs are welcome and a personal reading link and anything else you might need is in the description box below this video. Okay Virgos, let's get into this reading. This is going to be your love reading for June 2023 and I'm going to do a little bit different. I'm going to take a look at, well, it's not really all that different. I'm going to take a look at your energy and then the other person coming towards you. Okay, so let's get into this. Hello everyone in the chat and welcome to all my new members. Okay, so Virgo, you've got cassette, outdated thinking, conditioning, replaying events over in your head. Okay Virgo, so you might be in this constant loop, feed, cycle loop, replaying some past memories. Think about the past, you know, even maybe the 80s, maybe the 90s. Think about what life was like when you were younger or how things were easier. Okay, some of you might just be like, oh look it, I still have all my old cassette tapes. That is so very, so very okay. And the other person who's coming towards you is seduction, attraction, flirting, dating, hooking up, temptation, third party interference. Okay, okay, one more, Virgo, I just want to, okay. Okay, you also have paradise, happiness, expansion, joy, playfulness, oh, oneness, enjoying each other friends. So yeah, Virgo, it's like, I feel like your energy is kind of like, man, things are so much easier back in the day.  I feel like Virgo in June, you're going to just be reminiscing about the good times, right, the good times. But you've got somebody here. I don't know if this person's in already in your life or coming towards you, but I don't like it. So there is somebody external to you who's kind of like being a real big flirt, okay, having fun, seduction, girl talk, talking to a lot of females, talking to a lot of guys. Okay, what do these two have to do with each other? Let's see.  And you can define what that means for you. All right, let me see here. Okay, Virgo, so chemistry, strong magnetic attraction sitting on your end. So yeah, I kind of feel like Virgo, yeah, you're heavily in June. I don't know, it's just going to be hitting you heavily in June, like really being inundated with past memories and thinking about the good times and that kind of stuff, you know. I don't know, Virgo. Okay. And whoever's external to you here is kind of like they're flirting with their friends. I don't know. You know what? I don't know what's going on here with this person, but it just feels like maybe you're reminiscing about all the good times with another person and the relationships ended.   Well, okay, I don't blame you. I see here. If that hurts you, I'm sorry. I feel like there's somebody external to you also who is like asking their friends, something must have ended. And there's someone external to you like talking to their friends like, hey, can you help me talk to somebody or asking their friends to help them meet somebody else? Okay, no, it's not going to be for all of you, but let's take a look at you, Virgo. Okay. Yeah, Virgo, you're sitting here with this three of swords. What is going on? Like you're, are you feeling heartbroken about something? Something ended. You ended something and there was some separation. And I feel like maybe you're just in this place now where you're just reminiscing about the good times. It doesn't mean that you're trying to get back with anybody. Okay, it's just an energy of like, you know, thinking back on, I guess I want to say like the silver lining just only having the good memories. All right, what's going on with this other person here? Oh, yeah, they got the tower. Wow. Okay. This is somebody who I feel if a relationship ended like they're in desperation. This person is in desperation. They're trying to like hook up. This is how they're kind of like dealing with some shocking revelation that something's over. This is not someone who is healing before dealing. This is someone who is scrambling. They are like scrambling like some scrambled eggs trying to get that toss in and turn in trying to get that hook up trying to talk to other people because they can't. There's some kind like, I don't know, this high, this high tower.  This tower is like a huge ending and it's like a shock. This person's in shock about something that's ended. And they're they're trying, they're going to do the rebound thing Virgo. They're doing that. Like they're going to get them like, oh, and I feel like you're over here like, yeah, you know, we had some good times and, you know, thinking back on the good times. But you're also in a happy place as well.  But this person, like even with this tower card, this can be a very physical orgasmic kind of card as well. You know, and I feel like someone's like trying to get some stimulation on the tip. So, yeah, yep. Readings over. See you later. You're good, Virg. You're good. Okay.  Sucks. Something ended. We did have some good chemistry, but, you know, we weren't compatible. You know, there were some times of the relationship that was like paradise and, you know, we had a lot of things that weren't good and common. You know, we might have had like the same music tastes or things like that. But I don't know, Virgo. Let me see. Okay. Hmm.  So some of you like ended this relationship with someone because they were trying to be 901D. You know what I mean? Someone who was just like, there's a lot of passion. Definitely. I feel like some of you ended the relationship because maybe that's all there really was.  And I see you here with the 901s and you're just kind of like, yo, Stella got her groove back. I'm, yeah, something's over. I can look back on it and say, well, it is what it is. You know, it was what it was. And yeah, it was kind of heartbreaking or there was like an argument or some kind of divorce or some loss. Maybe you went through a little period of depression or something.   And I feel like you're in go getter mode. You know what I mean? I feel like you're kind of like, at least you will be in June in this like free spirited getting real creative with things in your life. You know, being very active. Maybe there's some new project or creative ideas you're going after, you know, feeling like the lust for life, confident, charming, courageous. Okay. Yeah. This person over here, five swords, like, they're in a bad, bad way. Okay. Major Akana is the tower. So some of you could be Mars energy. Well, it is Mars energy. It could be Aries or Scorpio, the other person. But even with that five of swords, yeah, I mean, for some it could be an Aquarius. But I feel like with the five of swords, this person is like, they're reactive because they got like some kind of cut off, hard core, straight.  And they're acting out and they're being very like abusive in relationships. You know, like I feel like this person is just like, you know what? No, I'm not going to heal. I'm not going to go and, you know, talk to counselor.  No, I'm going to go out in F and I'm just going to like put notches on my belt as many as I can. Male or female, this is the energy. And this time I'm going to deal with it and I'm not getting into any relationships.  That's my goal because F Virgo. Yeah, that's kind of like, nobody puts baby in a quarter.  And nobody does that to me because I'm amazing.  Like you go through heartbreak and something ended.   Like, what do I need to change now? This MF first, like, no, I'm just going to rack them up, rack them up. Let me get all them phone numbers. Let me start texting people. Let me start flirting, talking to their friends. Hey, do you have anyone that you know is available and like crazy? Like that's, that is so honestly, this, this person that you have a connection with is acting like an 18 year old, like seriously.  I don't know. Maybe we should lower it and say, yo man, like you're, what are you, what are you six? So somebody's just basically going out there and with this three swords, you see this, you see this person here holding the three swords? You know, hurt people hurt people, right? So three swords over here, something ended, there's a breakup.  Who is this? Virgo. Who is this person to you? And this is what, this is what I feel like is going on. And you're over here with the Knight of Pentacles. You know, like I'm good. Like I'm, you know, I'm steady. I'm stable. Virgo looks that way to me with the Knight of Pentacles.  You know, totally solid, practical in June, just like being patient.   But you're also having fun and going after your hopes, wishes and dreams. Now, let me get one more card for this person and then I'm going to go into a different set of realities here.  Oh, okay. Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. Like this story with this person is the same. Okay. They're just, they're flirting, they're having fun, party time. Okay. That's what's going on with them. Okay. And, you know, does that mean they're actually making those physical connections? I don't know. I definitely feel like they're trying, you know, this is how they're dealing with their hurt and their pain. Okay. So, hold on a second. All right. What's coming towards Virgo in June? That's what I want to ask. What's coming towards Virgo in June? Okay. Oh, wow. You got the Wheel of Fortune just like yesterday's four leaf clovers. I mean, major shift in change happening for you. You're going to get very lucky in June. I said that yesterday and things going in your favor, Virgo.  Definitely. There's a turning point happening here.  You take some chances for sure and you wind up getting lucky. I mean, I just feel, Virgo, like you're going to be so good in June and like the rest of June. Just very lucky. Like things are going to work out in your favor. And I just, I feel like like you've turned, you're turning this corner in June. If you haven't already started that, you'll be turning this corner in June and things are just going to start moving heading in the right direction for you. Let me just take a look. Look at that. Wow. You got the Ten of Cups, Virgo. Happily ever after. I mean, I don't know, Virgo. If you like we're in some kind of situation with someone that I don't know why something ended here. You know, I feel like you're looking back on a past relationship and like going into June, like your triggers are going to start going away and you're going to be able to like accept and just be like, you know, it was what it was and these were the good aspects and these were the not so great aspects and but it wasn't going to work out and you know, making that decision to move forward and you know, walking into bliss, walking into your blessing is what's going on here and especially in June and moving and going forward with the wheel into that Ten of Cups. I mean, come on, like total contentment, getting that love and support that you've always wanted or you've always needed, giving it as well. You know, just being in this like, I don't know, it sounds so very fairy tale-ish but I just feel like this happily ever after energy. They just kept telling me like karmic justice and you know, if the justice card shows up then maybe but I just keep, I don't, I don't know, like I feel like that's just an energetic thing. I don't feel like you're in a place of like, or at least going in forward in June. I don't feel like you're in the place of like, oh, I'm going to take revenge or do anything. I feel like you're just kind of accepting things and moving on with your life in June while this other person, I mean, I don't know, they seem like they just, the way they're dealing with their hurt and pain is very unhealthy. It's very toxic and yeah, they're coming in with this magician energy. Oh my gosh, you know, the magician in general, you know, can be very manipulative. Do you know what I mean? So this is Gemini energy here. The magician general can be very, well, it's Mercury, so it could be Virgo or Gemini. But this person is like trying to get their needs met. They're manipulating at this time to try to get their needs met. So in other words, like they're hurting, they're in pain and the way they're getting their needs met is by manipulating people, places and things to kind of have some kind of outcome so that they don't have to deal with the shock of something ending here, of something, you know, an argument or a breakup or a divorce. Okay, yeah, because something ended here, the death card. So we have Scorpio energy again. They're trying to have a new beginning, but I feel like the way they're trying to have a new beginning in their life is they're going about it all the wrong way because they're going to rebound, going to backfire on them and they're going to be worse off than they were right before this happened.  They're throwing punches. They're trying to, you know, they're dealing before they're healing. That's what they're doing and that's just the outcome of that. It's going to be no good. So Virgo, it looks like the two of you are dealing very differently with your decisions and your choices. Like Virgo, I feel like you're taking the path in June of healing before you're dealing and I feel like this person's choosing the path to deal before the heal. Okay, and the thing is that when that happens, when one person heals first before they, you know, engage in romantic affairs going forward, they have a better outcome because they've healed up all their trauma and their issues. But when the other person deals first with people, they not only leave a trail of destruction, broken hearts with other people, but when it's time for them, like when they get tired of it and then they finally are like, okay, I need to heal and then they've lost all this time. Virgo is long gone. Virgo is long gone. Okay, so let me see. What's going to be the outcome here for this relationship? Because I feel like, Virgo, I don't know, I just kind of feel like for you, the main thing here was just trying to get yourself free so you could like just be happy. That's something. Okay. The outcome is strength and unconditional love, Virgo. All right, so, okay. Yeah, so, I mean, I do feel like you're going to get an apology from this person over here. And I feel like, so the courage to make an apology to you, that's on the table, and there's also the courage to accept one. I don't really feel like, Virgo, some of you are just probably don't even need that. I mean, if anything may be okay, great to hear, but I don't really feel like you need some kind of an apology because I feel like you've already accepted and you're just like, you know, whatever, it's done. You know, if you haven't accepted things, then you would be seeking an apology, okay, to help you accept it. But for some of you, I feel like, I don't need it because I've already accepted it. Like, it's whatever, it's done. It's good. But I do feel like this person is going to kind of reach out and try to... They're scrambling. I'm telling you, I keep seeing scrambling eggs. This person's definitely going to reach out and try to, like, apologize to you because they feel like going forward, they're going to come to the end of this charade that they're doing and start going through this healing process as well because the death card represents big changes, endings, and transforming, okay? So as they're... I mean, some of you, like, you may have had a breakup with this person a long time ago, okay?  People are like, oh, I need to go out with my friends, and, you know... Yeah, there's definitely going to be, like, an apology. Why would you need courage to accept an apology? Okay. All right, for some of you, it's not necessarily courage to accept the apology. It's more like, you know, okay, I mean, thanks, but I've already moved on. And I feel like this person... Yeah, this person is going to try and... They're coming in to apologize and try to fix things, talk about things, get back on the same page and start over. Okay, so Virgo, I don't know. Like, the Eight of Cups can be a card of temporary separation. And Virgo, I mean, you're, like, on this journey of self-conditional love, right? Like, you're kind of unconditional love for self. Excuse me. You're kind of, like... I don't know, Virgo. You, like, bypass some serious stuff.  You know? And I do see two people, you know, I feel like this person is going to try to, like, either respond to an apology that's offered or try to offer one in return or accept an apology that's offered or offer you one in the hopes that you'll respond. Now, either to come together as just friends or to, you know, put things, make it neutral or try to have a new romantic love start again. Yeah. But I don't know, Virgo, I just kind of feel like you're, like, well, you know, questioning. You know? I don't see you seeing... I don't see you, like, jumping at the home there and be like, oh, yeah, definitely, let's just do it. No, I don't feel like that's your energy. I feel like, Virgo, you're more like, hmm, I don't know.  You might accept. You might talk to the person, try to bring harmony, peace, balance.   I don't know if I want to do that. Do I want to do that? I don't know. Virgo, I kind of feel like right now, you know, or at least for a while, this person's been just all over the map, all over the map trying to deal with their stuff, having a hard time coping, you know, are they going to heal? I mean, there's definitely transformation with the death card and trying to manifest a new start or a new beginning within themselves, yes.  I don't see that you're definitely, like, either one of you are definitely going to be together, and I don't see that you're not.  It's like being tempered. It's like being strong. You know what I mean? Like, trying to think of a way that I need to explain this. It's like self-control and moderation, you know, non-explosive, I'm just hearing. Something about this relationship must have been very explosive in the past. There was some, some explosive, something, it just kept giving me, like, an explosion, like some kind of explosion, you know, like a, like a tempered volcano would be one that's just kind of simmering, but it's not intended to explode. You know, it's just kind of there, and it's just even keel. But there was something explosive about this connection. And I don't know, maybe you exploded on this person, or this person exploded on you. I don't know. There was just this energy of, like, ignition, igniting each other in the relationship. And then to be able to kind of, like, come back where there's harmony and peace. I mean, that's definitely something here to be questioned or to be talked about. Okay, argue at peace.  Have you tempered things? Have you gotten a handle on things? Okay. Maybe you ended something because of somebody's, I don't know. There was maybe some communication problems, but, you know, just a lot of back and forth of that. Like somebody keeps throwing, like, gasoline cans into the fire, you know, both of you tossing them in there. So, yeah, I feel like Virgo, yeah, they're not just, they're just not, I mean, there is a possibility. I do feel like this person does want to kind of just get back to a really good spot with you and try to, like, make peace and have both of you come together in union here and harmony with healing. I do see that. I don't know, Virgo. You might kind of just delay it and be like, look, right now I'm still trying to, like, sort things that I don't know.  I got you at a maybe. I got you at a maybe. Hold on a sec. Okay. That was upright in my deck, so I felt like that needed to be looked at. Friendship that could lead to more. Yeah, so this feels to me like, you're maybe, or both, I don't know, Virgo, I feel like you kind of have a, I feel like you're pulling the strings in this relationship for some reason, but I feel like most of you are going to be like, you know, maybe we should try to be friends first and then see if we can build on that, you know, and not have such high expectations of each other. Yeah, I definitely feel you guys come together with this energy, but now that you know that this person's, like, out doing what they're doing, you might want to get, like, a blood test done too.  I think that what I want to tell you is if you know that to be a fact, Virgo, if you know that to be a fact, if you find out through the grapevine or something comes to light and there's evidence that that's what your person is doing, okay, but I don't want you to apply this to your person if you don't know that that's true. The energy that I'm picking up, like I said, I don't necessarily see that this person is actually, it seems more like flirting and trying to meet people, but I don't know, there's something that tells me that they're not actually making physical contact with other people. Now, if you happen to know that they are, okay, that's your story. But I don't necessarily, I mean, it could be some online stuff where there's just chit, there's chatter online and maybe some something going on there, but I don't feel like there's an actual thing in what I'm seeing here.   I kind of feel like I'm prying and peeking into somebody's personal stuff here and I feel really bad about that because someone's journey, like if you guys get back together, like this person needs to kind of clue you in.  I don't know. I lost my mind and, you know, I was just acting the way I was. I was acting out a character for me and, you know, but then again, sometimes it's not necessary to say those things if you guys are like complete not talking just to not hurt anybody going forward by saying those things. Okay. So wait, the timing is not quite right. So yeah, this is like a slow rebuild here between you and another person. Okay. And if that's something that you want, Virgo, that's fine. If you just want to be like, you know, we'll just be civil. No, you know, water in the bridge. Just let it go. Forgiveness. Forget about it. Moving on. And we'll just be civil with each other. It's perfectly fine. It's completely your choice. Some of you just might be like, nah, I don't even want to be friends and I'm moving on. Like, that's what I said. You're kind of in this maybe. I see you in a not so sure. No absolutes, no definites. Okay. Yeah. Got healing. Old wounds and childhood issues need revisiting. And some of you might be like, well, I don't know if about getting back together. I mean how much healing have you done?  But there's definitely a healing that needs to happen. And I do feel like this person's kind of starting off with well, I'm healing in other ways. I'm healing in very unorthodox ways and I don't know if Virgo's kind of like well, you do what you gotta do. Whatever. Virgo's on a good path. That's what I see. All right, let me see. Okay. Direct, honest, female. Okay. So Virgo, there's someone in your life very direct, very honest. This could be you getting direct and honest with yourself or there's somebody else who's coming forward in your life who's going to be direct and honest with you. And for some of you, this can be like someone who does come forward this person.  Okay. This person. Yeah, I just, you know, I don't know Virgo. Wealth, health and abundance. Okay. So you definitely have this person is going to try to they want to please you. Definitely. I feel like somebody's definitely learned their lesson and you have two Virgo. It's not just one person. There's a lot of learning experiences you're having as well. And it's good. So it does kind of feel a little bit balanced. I mean, everybody deals with things differently and I feel like some of you Virgos maybe you did kind of do like the roles could be reversed. Maybe Virgo, you were the one who went out and was like, if that person I'm going to just make myself available and just go on a rampage of like dating all kinds of different people. Like somebody might have done that. One of you Virgos might have done that and like got something out of your system and that was just kind of like an ego thing for some of you. Either way, you know, you feel like it's so crazy. I was just looking at this card here. You see, it's WHA. I kind of feel like you're going to get some kind of an apology or message or something from someone where it's like wha wha and it wasn't about my reading yesterday. It was, wait, what? Yeah, that energy still, it kind of like rolls into the next reading sometimes. I just get a sense where somebody is going to I feel like it's going to be unexpected too where they just come in and they just want to talk to you and try to work things out and, you know, try to get to a good place with you and maybe even apologize for things that they didn't feel that you never thought they would, you know, or try to like make peace with you about some stuff that happened or things that you didn't even know.  I don't want that lifestyle. I don't want to go back to that. What we had was great. You know, I don't want to go back to it and I just reacted and the way I did when I was younger and I don't, it's boring and there's nothing there for me and it didn't serve any purpose.   Yeah, I gotta be at work.  I'll talk to you later.  Chinese signs, okay Virgo you and this person hola rat we've got a rat in the house Jimmy Fink rat, alright Virgo, or whatever rat, Chinese sign, year of the rat okay, year of the ox year of the pig year of the rooster year of the horse pig again year of the snake year of the dog year of the dragon okay Virgo let us get into your names and other randoms and then do your dice and then your charms and then we shall go on to tomorrow's video which will be your weekend love reading and I am staying in the house for the next 3 days because I am in Jersey near Philly area and we have got smoke like nobody's business I'm like did I go to a campfire and I didn't realize it so you know I'm outside of come in my shirt smells like smoke it's hazy it's hard to breathe and any of you who are, cause we have some wild we have a couple of wildfires here in the state and then all that smoke coming down from those Canadian fires so anybody that's in that path I feel ya the house be well failure I heard somebody say she takes her she runs hot water in the house all the steam gets into the house you know like hot water from the tub or whatever the steam pushes the smoke down I guess there's something like that she was saying that she's in California and that's what they do and they have those fires out there I don't know we never have to do that here in Jersey because we don't ever have these issues but anyway yeah it's been horrible and I said it yesterday in the chat and today it's even worse like it's like a code red y'all it's code red you go outside and it's all hazy and it's turning orange and like you can't like it just so those poor animals up in Canada and everywhere so sad so be safe if you're that's happening to you be safe if you're up in New York and up in the northeast and it's heading south a bit there so be careful New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Boston Delaware Washington DC, Virginia down into the Carolinas I think it's going okay somebody has a infinity symbol tattoo or symbol somewhere around them maybe it's maybe they're driving infinity there's a symbol infinity symbol I'm picking up okay oh and then we got someone so one of you I don't know who it is somebody writes JK all the time like just kidding I'm just kidding I'm joking remember yesterday we had somebody says you crack me up now today we have someone's like JK JK just kidding joking just joking somebody says that a lot again I'm seeing Zelinsky again why why is Zelinsky showing up here I don't know I guess they're trying to tell you like that whole political thing stunt that I gave you with Zelinsky in the war and all that was I don't know a couple days ago a few days ago that reading still ringing true and I'm seeing someone here is really into makeup cosmetics like really like maybe you have a cosmetic business or someone has a cosmetic business or a makeup business does tutorials or videos or works in that industry like really heavily I mean right now you can be listening to this and going through your makeup and seeing what you got or you're shopping for it or just kind of I'm just picking up like I'm seeing makeup powders, blushes, creams lipsticks, eyeliners all of that if you're planning on starting a business in the cosmetic field or industry of somewhat or getting involved in that I see that paying off very well definitely go for it queen cosmetics queen makeup something like that even you guys getting into the makeup cosmetic industry cosmotology, something along those lines okay all right they're just giving this strange name manares manares they're saying is it manares disease? I think that's something with ear something to do with the ears somebody's having an issue with the ears and they're saying manares okay and just get two more not getting any names I am picking up getting a lot of 10s here oh and they just gave me the the word maize maize or maize or maize that the word significant for someone one more one more maize, blaze maize trapped in a blaze maize I don't know what that means okay now pez you know the little pez candy pez candies so I don't know if you see that somewhere you eat that you see somebody with pez candy that's significant for something and I'm also picking up 10 pence um why am I getting that is that even a thing anymore? I'm not in the UK but I think they're all euros aren't they? or maybe they're not anymore I don't know it doesn't matter I don't need to justify it I just see a 10 pent coin it could be 10 cents as well which we have American currencies a dime here but 10 pence so I don't know is Europe UK's not part of the euro anymore right? pretty sure anyway I should keep up with my current events but yeah whatever maybe you have a coin an old coin or maybe you actually have one or something along those lines and trapped in a blaze maize and there's a lot of haze that's what I'm hearing I see a blaze, maize and a lot of haze and that go figure picking up that fire so I'm seeing a new fire in Phoenix a fire starter very small in Phoenix and I'm also picking up this is strange like a new eruption in the Philippines I guess it's a volcano like a new or fire volcano eruption in the Philippines and a small fire starting in Pennsylvania somewhere in the up north by up towards New York okay I don't know what the climate is like up there isn't it very dense and wet I think there's going to be something like that okay I know these weren't even related to the reading but what came out came out so alright so cancer, Leo Aries is here Capricorn September 4th the 12th, September 3rd September 1970 someone's born 1970 okay September 1st the 16th, the 8th and the 7th alright okay you guys hold on someone's born 1985 1952 1990 area code 717 area code 717 we have 905 doesn't have to be area code it could be streets 717 we also have 310 252 someone is 48 and also 34 and someone was also born in 1984 that was a good year that was a teenager just getting ready to get into high school okay 777 hello lucky 7s lucky 7s I told you you were going to be lucky in June you better go play pay to play okay so we've got 561 and 470 alright let me get a couple of charms and let's see what's going on with your charms fair go wow okay good alright this is comical so first I want to show you and this is like I put all my charms back but we again have another four leaf clover so this is a continuation message like I said you're going to get lucky in June some of you you're going to get very lucky in love two of hearts two hearts that beat as one remember that song anybody Bueller two hearts here very good lucky in love two hearts coming together entwined and some of you like this is just a really basic message okay your cat be sticking its starfish up in your face you know how you wake up in the morning and your cat's there trying to like paw on you and then they stick their butt in your face like massive starfish attack I don't have a cat but I had a cat and he used to do that all the time so I mean if that's happening to you right now your cat you're just like rubbing your cat's spine and then all of a sudden they're like none damn things twerking in your face and whatever it's okay fair go it's alright I just need you to know now also that's a kangaroo so it could be I don't know maybe you live in an area where there's kangaroos and starfish it could be somewhere I don't know where a kangaroo is at aren't they in like Australia and are they on a beach are there such things kangaroos on a beach what the hell do I know I've never been there maybe I should go okay strange messages as always house of ergo drama all the time we always have some interesting things going on so I'm gonna leave your reading there and yeah I hope you enjoyed that come back here tomorrow for your weekend reading and don't forget become a member of my channel and you can sit here with me alive on Sunday at 1pm Eastern and we actually can interact cause I'm actually live on Sunday and you can like I'll pull some cards ask some questions but all you gotta do is join my channel become a member for 33 cents a day you can pop in on Sundays okay so yeah have a great evening be safe make good choices love each other be happy I'll see you back here tomorrow later


This is Orson Welles speaking from London a repository of death Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide Where everyday objects a pin a garden hose a handbag all are touched by murder Here's a car tire There were three others all attached to a sedan. They were removed Great Scotland specter for those vandals they've stripped the car of everything even the four tires There's nothing left except evidence Now today one of those tires the one that became a vital clue in the case Can be seen in the black museum? All of the criminal investigation department of the London police We bring you the dramatic stories of the crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards gallery of death the black museum Well, here we are in the black museum Scotland Yards Museum of murder rise death on the shelves around the walls death in many disguises Here's a length of electric wiring The protective insulation has been stripped away Ma'am touched it. He died Jury found it was murder. Here's a card Invitational party the invitation was accepted death was the end of that. I here's the tire It's an ordinary car tire once it belonged to a sedan that stood in a garage at south end On a certain night some years ago two men entered the garage quietly After first forcing the lock There we are Good work, Harry. Look at a Ben spocking you and she's ours once we get her out of the garage All right quietly does it I'll take up the break Right, we'll push her out in the street and down the road a bit Okay, I'm ready. The object of this stealthy midnight visit was a new car The two men pushed the automobile down the slope of the road jumping in when the car began to gather speed All right, I get in get a Scotty did right We got away with it. I was easy by morning. We'll have everything we want off this car tires Airpods the seat and then we'll ditch what's left. Hey, we'll make our fortune this way out of my boy Sounds easy money. It is come on. I'll show you what this car can do flat out fast along the road eastwood It's twin lights cutting beans in the darkness of the night The policeman cycling home. What's that up there? Hey, what a man in the center of the road? Oh wait till our lights pick him up clearly It's a it's a cop. Oh, he's got his hand up signal unless to stop okay You don't think what the words got out this car has been pinched not a chance And what's this copper doing? Oh might want to lift down. You never know There's his bike at the side of the road Ted, I don't like take it easy will you bluff our way out if he makes trouble like an Go easy on using that guy leave it to me Good evening constable anything the matter I'll have to ask you not to speed like that along this road sir. Were we speeding? Well, I think you know you were saying that there's been a number of serious Accidents around here lately. Oh dear and now may I see your license mark my license. Oh, yes You know funny thing. I'm fed. I don't have it on me constable. They know I'll have to request some other means of identification, sir Well, I yeah You know, I haven't done anything on me at all. Well, where are you going sir, and where do you come from? Well, we uh We're just driving Is the car yours? No constable the car belongs to me. Oh, I see sir. Then Would you tell me his number? It's on the front of the car if you want to see it. I know the numbers, but do you look? Well, no not all fans as I thought sir This is a stolen car. You know you'll both better get out. Oh, come on.  Say your prayers copper. Give me that gun. Don't let him take it Yes, I won't don't buddy. You ask for trouble couple.  Oh, you won't find much crime Yeah, what's the matter with your dog? Found something it's not like him to get that excited. What's the matter with him? Yeah, wait a minute George Unless I'm mistaken. It ain't only in the morning papers. You'll find crime. What do you mean? Well ahead there? Over by the side of the road. It looks like a man Come on. Why? It's Charlie Acker He's dead running Scotland Yard was represented the scene of the crime by Inspector Clancy and Detective Sergeant Reading He was shot three times reading nasty business up. Oh, here's a notebook lying on the ground presiding Yes, and he was holding a pencil in his right hand. Well, that seems fairly straightforward So he was about to take down some particulars from a person or persons who meet myth Evidence suggests that sergeant wait a minute inspector is torches here in his pocket Is it and there's no street lighting nearby? How could you have been writing? By the light of a vehicle presumably of course Either the headlights or the interior lighting of a car or a truck more likely the interior lighting Don't you think inspector? Well, we'll work on that assumption first, which means it was a car There are some tracks here. You can see the skid marks now They might be caused by a car starting fairly fast. I want those tracks photographs the photographs would Julie sent to certain experts It's Scotland Yard and a report came back to Inspector Clancy Report from the arts.  We'll see if there was an Evans amongst them There were two one was found Inspector Clancy interviewed the owner of the other Yes, it was taken the night before last inspector Some bounder picked the lock of my garage and got away with the car. I'll get a full description from you, sir Yes, certainly. Yeah, but I say I say never the Scotland Yard doesn't usually go the chasing stolen cars Does it not usually a car no Pinterest? Oh, there's something else behind it. Is that? Hello Yes, yes, yes, just a moment. It's for you inspector. Thank you, sir Hello Yes, reading At Rayleigh I See Yes, yes, I'll come down right away Mm-hmm. There's something happen Inspector an Evans cars being found sir abandoned in a ditch outside Rayleigh a new Evans index mark TW 6120 But but that's mine by Joe, and you'd better come along sir They found the car the police going over it for fingerprints Curious crowd gathered around it. There's a vastly different car from the one Colonel Finchers had locked in his garage two nights earlier Great Inspector those vandals they've stripped the car of everything even the four tires There's nothing except evidence What do you mean inspector? This was the car concerned in the murder of Constable hacker on Eastwood Road my car Concerned in that killing come with me a colonel. I'll show you the evidence to prove it That car is the first link in the long chain at the end of which is the murderer And a further link is the missing four tires One of which became the vital clue in the case That tire can be seen today in the black museum Abandoned in a ditch outside Rayleigh You can see for yourself colonel ventures on the running board. Yeah, I mean a dark stain there It's blood. Yes, it's blood and see this Yeah, oh a spent cartridge case. It was found on the floor of the car Then my car was concerned in that poor fellow's murder. We'll make Confirmatory tests, of course the blood stain will be checked against the constable's grouping and the cartridge case will go to ballistics These routine checks must be carried out But colonel ventures and you and inspector cramps in you But the driver of the stolen car taken part in the policemen's murder and knowing this Inspector was able to reconstruct the crime We don't know why constable hacker pulled the car up sergeant He was cycling home. Perhaps the evidence car was speeding Well, whatever the reason he called on it to halt and in the process of questioning He came to realize the car was stolen he'd have brought out his notebook and pencil to take down some particular, sir And for doing that he was killed The picture of the crime was clear, but now how to find the driver of the car Nothing was known about it. There were no eyewitnesses One man had seen the driver and he was dead Why would they begin searching? We'll begin right here at the car sergeant It's funny about those tires, sir very funny, but not only the tires are missing No, the toolkits been taken and the jack and most of the spare parts the windscreen wipe has been removed So the headlamps and the car radio colonel ventures had installed Vandalism sir. Well, if it was vandalism, it was well planned sergeant. Yeah, no There are a lot of tracks over there The stuff was loaded on and driven away Car stealing sir for spare parts and tires a very profitable pastime What was taken out of this car would probably be worth from Two three hundred pounds on the second-hand market black market sir for the tires I wonder who handles second-hand parts and tires around this district Come on. We're doing spectacular the nearest garage They found a garage less than half a mile away The proprietor reassured that he was not under suspicion proved to be helpful Spare parts and tires quite a few places around here who handles them inspector I could you list them for us, sir? Certainly coming to the office. There were six names on that list Six visits to make Sergeant redding made them posing as a driver in search of new tires Oh, good morning. I need four new tires for an evans car. Can you help me out? Williams and sons were sorry they hadn't had any tires to sell for months past Field and company said the same thing. So did Hammond and Barton Kennedy and sons Then sergeant redding paid his last visits The sixth name on the list a small motor workshop on the road out of eastwood A car was being overhauled by a mechanic A lorry stood on the vacant block of land beside the workshop A sign at the front of the building said Randolph and burns motor engineers and spare parts Yes, sir. Oh, I need four new tires for an evans car. Can you help me out? An evans You own an evans car Don't me charm now much for the governor. I've been everywhere trying to get these tires Well You know I might be able to set you up Of course they're in short supply We'll pay whatever you ask for them. Okay Okay What is it Fellow here wants to buy some evans tires. Huh? Show her aren't you mate? Yeah, that's right Well, you can set him up. Can't we? No, we can't But tell you'll pay the right. I tell you we can't we can't set him Now can we when we haven't seen an evans tire in months? People just don't bring us second-hand tires anymore, mister. Sorry The sergeant went out went back to where inspector Clancy was waiting for his report Something had seen deep in the eyes of the man called Ted Told him the search was at an end I don't know what spoiled it inspector. Perhaps he recognized me. Perhaps he was just being cautious You say the other man was ready to sell you the tires ready and willing sir I think the other ones we won't find more most sure of it All right, we'll make some further inquiries about them both Now first of all their business registration. We'll get their full names from that The business records office holds many secrets The directors of england's leading companies the balance of power and mighty industrial concerns It also lists the many thousands of small businesses company's partnerships sole traders Their trade and management personnel Uh, here we are sergeant Randolph and burns Motor engineers eastward partner zed woodburn. That'll be a friend Ted and Harold Randolph Probably the other man I spoke to well take a note of their names. We'll see if the method index section doesn't The method index section at scotland yard That's a vast room of records The walls are lined solidly with filing cabinets Here are the details of all the crimes from murder to petty theft Here are the names and the aliases of all the criminals ever convicted in any english court Filed and cross-filed for easy checking Those two men you asked me to check inspector clancy find anything on them severs. There's no record for Harold Randolph What about the other one burns? Yes, we know him ted burns motor mechanic four convictions The first uh from my hometown funnily enough oxford city police court their child as stealing a motor car And what were the other three charges severs all connected with motor theft sir One was for removing spare parts from parked vehicles Another time he was convicted for selling a stolen car. That's all I want. Thank you severs Inspector clancy and sergeant redding drove back to eastwood on the road They're about 50 yards from the motor workshop. They waited They saw two mechanics leave at 5 30 on their way home Then a few minutes later The obvious inspector that's harry randolph and is alone Was a very peaceful scene The casual passerby would have noticed a dark sedan slowing down beside a thick set man and over Mr. Randolph. Yeah Oh, it's you Still after them tires. I in a manner of speaking sir. This is inspector clancy From scottland yard scottland yard get in mr. Randolph. Not me inspector I have got nothing against me on the contrary. We have a great deal against you get in Randolph was defiant at first But when the advantages of turning king's evidence were pointed out to him he became almost verbose It wasn't me who thought of the scheme. I I was talked into it By him the scheme being to steal cars Sell their spare parts and tires and abandon them. Yeah Ted said we couldn't get enough parts and cars to stay in business. Otherwise He taught me into helping him to pinch the evidence. We're gone Well, everything was sweet and then on the way back to eastwood the cop signals us to stop Tills as we were speeding He'd have got our names and all so you shot him dead I didn't do it Ted shot him The guns hidden in the desk down at our works His fingerprints will be on it I told him not to shoot he wouldn't listen We took the lorry down and got everything we could from the car and brought it back And where is that stuff now? Some of it we sold and three of the tires went off late the day I would have sold a lot of the copper here, but Ted was wise to him. He can smell copper three were sold Then one tire is left on the premises. Yeah, but listen, won't you? I might have helped a pinch to go but I've nothing to do with the murder Ted did that He's got a cop there A report on the tire we found on the premises, sir It comes from an evan's car all right and matches the tracks near constable hackers body Then our case is complete sergeant The gun was found the fingerprints on the wheel rims belong to Randall from burns And now the tire and I'll give you one more chance to help us Where's burns Come on. You must have some idea right But you gotta look after me. I'm not promising anything Where's burns He's trying to get away overseas I I think he was in for Liverpool He was always talking about a pal of his who was a ship's mate. Can you remember the name of the ship? Oh, I think it was called the briar rose To believe your name is Ted Burns Ted what? You got the wrong man jam. I don't think so, mr. Burns I have here a warrant for your arrest on a charge of murder Hey, you've got nothing on me You've got no evidence. Oh, yes, we have mr. Burns All the evidence we need And today that tire occupies a place in the black museum Orson Welles will be back with you in just a moment the murder of constable hacker On the lonely eastward road was solved by the patient methods of scotland yard And by the talking of harry randoff whose verbosity put him behind bars for many years to come and brought his unholy friend Ted Burns to the last walk on the end of a rope One morning at eight o'clock a crooks plan misfired into murder And either burns nor randoff had the talent for outwitting the men of the yard So it wasn't another chapter of murder was closed Another record added to the method index section And another exhibit the car time Was added to the black museum And now until we meet next time in the same place and I tell you another story about the black museum I remain as always obediently yours


everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and today I just wanted to talk to you briefly about gaps. A lot of people probably don't know exactly what I do every day, but the only thing that I do and exactly what I do and I don't do anything else is I get up in the morning and I look at stocks that are gapping. Now, what is a gap? A gap is the difference between the close and the open. I'm very good at reading gaps and I'm very good at predicting where a stock is going to go based on the gap. What do I mean? Is it going to move higher or lower? If you know a stock is going to move higher and you go long and then buy it before the move happens when it moves up, you can make money. If you know a stock is going to get sold off or move lower, then you can short it and you can make money on the drop. So it's very advantageous to know the direction that a stock is going to go, whether up or down, before the move happens. And so that's why I'm looking at the gap and rating the gap in the method that I do, which is looking at 26 points in the daily chart, is advantageous because it is like giving me a window into the future where the stock is going to go. And it's very interesting. I was talking about this with Gyro, who's my assistant in the trading room today, because I was frustrated about something today that didn't go right out of the gate that I wanted it to. And when we got into a whole conversation about it, but it ended up going then the right way that I wanted it to later in the day. And I thought to myself, you know, if I could take full positions, you know, full cash positions, not on margin overnight positions in every single solitary thing that I've ever, ever done, not options where I have to worry about the timing, not day trades where I have to be out flat by the end of the day. Just if I just swing traded, bought and sold every single thing, a cash, you know, that I ever rated ever, you know, my win ratio is probably like 99.9% or it might even be 100%. But, you know, I have to think of my risk assessment. I have to think of, you know, my timing. There is timing associated with options. And obviously there's timing associated with day trades because I've got to be flat by four. But it's very interesting. Like the percentage of win ratio that I probably have, again, I've never gone back and tracked it because this isn't how I trade. I don't do swing trades every day and everything I do. But if I did, it probably is very close to 100% or as perfect as anyone could get. So, you know, we had this whole conversation because of a stock that we were looking at this morning in the gap. So, you know, it's extremely, extremely advantageous to know where something's going to go. The tricky part is getting the timing right, too. I do get the timing right a lot in my day trades and options. But sometimes things don't work in the exact time that I want. And I might have to do what's called a retake, okay? A retake is you take a trade, you take a stop, and then you retake it. And that is what I do sometimes, but you have to do it with the same risks. For example, if you take a trade and you risk $500 and you get stopped and you lose $500, you have to take the next trade and a retake if you want to do it with the same risk of $500. So, you can cover the loss from the first trade and then make money on the second trade. Anyways, getting back to what I was saying about what I do with gaps and everything else, it's just so interesting to me.  But one of these months, I'm just going to do it. I'm just going to do it for a week or a month, just to see, because I usually don't go back to look at anything from the prior day. Whether I wanted it lost today, I usually don't go back in time to look at it. And I'm really thinking that I should do that for a period of time. Again, whether it's one month or two months or two weeks, I really have to block out the time of my life because my reigning system is so accurate, is such a high, high level of accuracy that I really would be interested to know what it really would be if I just took every position as it is, as just a full position, you know. It's something definitely for me to think about for myself long term and also for long term investing and swing trading and really just for wealth building, you know, into the future. So, that's one of the reasons why I've read the market so well, particularly, particularly even this year in 2021 is because I'm reading the gaps in the market. And when I say the market, I mean the spy and the QQQs, those are the two that I watched, those are the two that I've been watching. I sometimes look at the diamonds, which is a DIA for the symbol, but not all the time because there's not that many stocks in that. And I think Boeing affects that too much. Anyways, it's been an interesting period. Email me if you're interested in the class. My email is Melissa at thestockswish.com. Again, I teach people my method on rating gaps. And if you're interested in more questions, shoot me an email or call me at 929-3200GAP. Have a good day.


Hello guys, thank you for being with us, so we are, yeah, I think so, let's go, so we are VH Cloud, I'm with Xavier Nicole, who is the Public Cloud Infrastructure Director. Ok, so, let's go. Xavier Nicole, who is the Public Cloud Infrastructure Director, not easy, master of the universe for public cloud. And Antoine, who is helping us, he's the hiring officer, so I hope you will have a huge success. And myself, I'm the product manager for our public cloud, infrastructure layer of the public cloud. And today we'll talk about SRE, but not only. First we'll talk about the way we do the cloud, and then focus on how we maintain the quality of service at scale. Ok, so let's go. Maybe everything here is something you know, I'm not sure about that, and maybe all the information I will share, you heard it already, but it's always very necessary to know where we come from, to better understand where we want to go. So, our journey started in 1999 in the North of France, and let's say we quickly showed that there is not only one way to do the cloud. Ok, so we've been initially motivated by efficiency and I would say sustainability as well. And so we showed that we could do basically the cloud an alternative way. We started to build our data centers, and yeah, going out of the standard sort of legacy coming from on-premises era. Ok, so building our own data centers, this is not only about the way we use the space or we rack the hosts, but also about the way we cool the infrastructure, no AC, everything is water cooled. So we, I mean, this is the model we have since the beginning, this is the model we still have. I'm not up to date on the number of patents we have around water cooling technology, but it's huge. All our infrastructure is water cooled, and a lot of water. Last year of rage power usage effectiveness is around 1.1, which is quite good. And so, I mean, if you got that, like efficiency along with sustainability, this is what drives our way to create and operate the cloud at scale. And this is what made us a sort of industrial, I mean, in this cloud market, ok. And I can testify as well that, I mean, if, I mean, the visit of an OVH cloud data center is something like really a part, ok. Since 2002, I mean, really quick, I mean, in our story, we started to design and build as well our servers. We basically, I mean, create our acts out of sheets of metal, metal sheets, and assemble ourselves, I mean, all the components necessary to get our servers. Now, we have two factories, one in Roubaix, which, I mean, croix now, which delivers, yeah, which delivers, that's in the North of France. Deliver everything we need for Europe, and one other factory in Bois-Arnois, which delivers everything we need for the America continent. We're in a deep control at all the, you know, the steps of the chain, let's say, in a full integrated model, and from the data center to the server.  And this is just a consequence, ok. And we have this parallel as well with the network, like, we invested a lot in our network, I mean, we own our backbone, and this is, for example, why the egress is still included in the price of the computer in OVH cloud. Yeah, some figures about the scale, because size matters sometimes. We have more than, yeah, 450K instances running, more than 360 petabytes of physical space used, I mean, currently, and more than 7.8 billion of requests per month. So, I mean, that's really impressive, and given the number of open stack regions, I mean, the scale is becoming totally crazy, ok.  And now let's talk about, I mean, how to be in control at that level of scale, about the, I mean, in control of the quality of service for end customers. I think so. Ok. So, again, I take it from here. Hello everyone. So, as we said, we run like nearly half a million instances that represent, we're going to soon be in the club of the million core cluster. We run about 40 regions all over the world. That means we needed to find a operation model that allow us to grow, keep growing, and maintain, and improve the quality of service for our customer the right way, and keeping developing new features. So, about 3-4 years ago, we decided to implement and adopt the SRE methodology, let's say that, in the infrastructure and in the team. So, main secret, know what's going on in your infrastructure. So, we start a large project of observability, and we gather billions of SLI on infrastructure to know what's going on live, and be able to, or self-field infrastructure, or lead what's going to be the work from some squads in our teams that develop and improve the system. So, we are basically SLO driven in our infrastructure, meaning that today, I mean, let's go back in time, just before the pandemic, the team that I had a chance to lead today, we're about 30 people to manage this, and we're about to double the size of this team during the pandemic, which was a very big challenge. We were able to do that, we were about 60 people running this. It's not a lot of person, and we need to be very focused on the quality of service, and at the same time, trying to develop new features, maintaining with the version, I mean, upgrading the cluster, and being as close as we can from the last version of OpenStack, which is not easy for us sometimes. So, how we did that? Today, we are 60%. We are organized by squads, meaning that our team that are very spread all over the world, because there's people from India, from Poland, from UK, from France, from Canada, from US, and we all work together in the same team on the same project, with the same goal. So, people are able to work on the specific technology, or part they are more interested to, and we allow all the team to be able to move and change from one squad to another, as soon as they want to work on a specific topic. The goal is here to always improve, and it's what we, we have all in mind improved the quality of service we deliver to our customers. So, this organization allows us to, as I said, doing some rolling upgrade of the infrastructure. We have tens of thousands of computers, as you can imagine, and we are able to upgrade those regions on a monthly basis, right now, and be able to reach as much as we can the last version of every module, which is, again, another challenge. Something, to improve this process, a few, I mean, now, two years ago, we started a project to run OpenStack on the top of Kubernetes, meaning that we have to deliver a Kubernetes cluster running on bare metal servers to run OpenStack infrastructure that allow us to run Kubernetes cluster for customers on the top of it. So, that's one of the big challenge we have today, and that's going to allow us to improve, and update, and fix the infrastructure faster. We were able to have a very important, I mean, to achieve some goals in the sale feeling of the infrastructure, again, you're going to deep dive fast in one of them. When you run that amount of compute host, you always have hardware failure every day, and we need to manage that automatically. So, we are able today to detect in advance migrate VMs, switch, I mean, get off production, the instance that, I mean, the compute host that's not working well. Then we have people in data centers managing them, and all this is automatic on our side. So, there's no intervention of human OS series in this. The guys in data centers fix the server, if we know exactly what's wrong in the server, we tell them and they fix even faster, but that's how we work today. So, we have achieved a level of automatization in the sale feeling that allow us to run a very large cluster automatically, and with not a lot of human intervention on the cluster. As I was saying that we are 16 in the team today, and we allow us to have only one person 24-7, so, in average, to be in charge of managing all arts manually, the rest is fully automatic, and that's the biggest achievement we had for the last years that allow us to, again, focus then on new features. And in the new features we're going to have, it's mostly right now, I have some notes because many things, sorry. Yeah, we have today in alpha and beta version for our customers, some Octavia service, a lot balance out of the service, it's going to be available generically in that fall, running with Barbican, because we need it, of course, for SSL Certificate, and second big project is we're running Ironic, and it's going to be the bridge between the main business of OVH for the last 20 years, to be able to start bare metal servers on CloudWay, in OpenStack, with OpenStack APIs. I'm going to just go a bit on the big picture here, around the OpenStack, I have two minutes left, around the OpenStack ecosystem, OVH has acquired two companies for the last years, around storage, so an object storage company in OpenIO, and block storage company in Extend, that run block storage and VME, sorry, of a fabric. So we're working very hard to have this product live, we already have, correct, the high performance one for object storage, and standard in beta, and we're going to have next year the high performance, I mean, we speak of millions of IAPs per block storage, on the block storage part, we are very involved in the OpenStack community, and the open source community, sorry, for this, because we want to open source those two technologies as soon as they're going to be ready. On another side, we are working and developing some services around data management, we develop services around database service, some machine learning, and some AI process for our customer to have it as a service. So as a short conclusion, if you want to be part of a team that run one of the biggest public cloud cluster on OpenStack, and if wherever you are in the world, I want to say that is again, we are very spread, and it's not an issue wherever you are, contact Antoine or myself, come to speak with us, we will be very welcome, we will be, we will welcome you a lot, I mean, we are hiring right now, and we need to grow fast. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have a few minutes for Q&A? Or is it just again? Sorry? One minute? Okay, so does anyone have question regarding well our technological stack or our company culture, and how we implemented a SRE model in OVH cloud? Yeah, you have a microphone over there if you want, just there in the front, in the front over there. You said about achieving higher variability of virtual machines and automation of, in failover of compute nodes and virtual machines, so my question is how do you achieve this, and if you are using maybe masakari with something else? I'm not sure to get your question, I mean, about the availability of one instances? Failover, automation of failover of virtual machines. I mean, the automation is about the self-filling when I was explaining, so when we detect that a server gonna fail, because you can see that in advance most of the time, we are évacuating the server, moving it to another instance alive. You do it manually? No, it's automatic, fully, and we have some Mral workflow managing that. Yeah, Mral for running it, and detecting it, it's all observability system based on... Sorry? By monitoring, but are you using a masakari project? No, no, no, we are running observability, runs on prometheus and otanos, and then we engage some workflow with Mral if we need to. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.