great news today. Every human is one decision away from receiving Jesus into their life. And we're so honored to be here today to share him with you. I'm Amy Schaefer. I'm here with Tom and Anna, and we are on Hope Today, Anna. We're bringing Hope. That's right. That's right. And we have a wonderful guest with us today. Her name is Shauna Pilgrim, and she wrote this book. It's called Translating Jesus. So we're going to be talking about the language of culture and the language of Christians. And you know, if you've been around for very long, you kind of get the sense that our languages can be a little bit different. Sometimes they can clash and be misunderstood. And so she's going to help us understand how to share our faith with non-believers in a way that does not turn them away, but draws them towards the heart of God. I love what's the teaching she did where she can really speak teenager really well. I mean, I don't know. Do you guys have teenagers right now? Do you really speak teenager well? This is going to be the lit. This show is lit. It's hype. It's all the rage. It's trending right now. This program is so like relevant and we're so authentic. And yes, we know the whole language of teenagers because we have teenagers. But here's the deal. We're Christians. We're believers and we actually want to be relevant and to the world. I mean, we can't be the weird people in our own hallelujah. Praise the Lord. They're like, what are you? Which God? Who are you praising? What are you talking about?  He wants us to draw people closer to him. So I think we're going to learn a lot today. I'm excited. I know. I think so too. The one thing that Shana talked about was how kindness just kindness towards people gets their attention and it can open doors to open a conversation. Yeah, absolutely. There's so many different ways and we just want to always remind you that we have prayer partners. Maybe you need to make a connection today. Maybe you need someone to pray with you. We believe in prayer. We believe that God wants to make that connection with you and we have prayer partners standing by that if you want to pray with someone today, they'll be glad to pray with you. You can give them a call there and get someone who that's their ministry. That's why they're here. That's why they want to pray with you. Well, right now, we're going to need prayer as we go into stump the host. Okay, so you know how it goes, right? Stump the host. The the the producers, the main producers here try to embarrass us on TV with questions that we may not know the answer to. And we need your help too. So we want you to play along. We have not seen these questions and we hope we know the answer. Here's the first one. What profit was sent as a missionary to the Ninevites? Jonah. Jonah. Yeah, there we go. Okay. Easy peasy with the first one. They started us off easy. Alright, yep. It is Jonah. It's a great story and it's also sound sight and sounds theater sometimes is where I saw it. Alright, second question. The belt and the armor of God represents what? Truth. Truth. Hey, you guys are good. The belt of truth, right? Which holds everything together. Yes. You know, I was struggling with that. You know, I don't know. I'm glad that you guys know. You were not. I was. I was I was starting to go through the the all the armor, you know, and it's like, yeah, it didn't just come right out. Yeah. Well, I just know that because it holds the whole armor together when it's the belt of truth, the word of God. Yeah, very good. Okay, here's the last one. What Athenian judge was converted under Paul's preaching? Here's another book of Acts one, which I think I have the book of Acts memorized and then they get every time you give me a book of Acts question, I can't convert it. I don't know that one. Oh, do we call our lifeline our guest? Oh, do we dare? Let's let's call it our guest. What Athenian judge? We're giving you the heart under Paul's preaching. Why is was Felix the judge? Who was he and Paul story? Felix was he was he was a Roman pro counsel or something. Roman, you know, like head of the Romans. I don't think it was Felix. We don't have any other guesses here. Can we have a hint? Can you give us the first letter? We're appealing to the producers now. First letter producers first letter. D. D. It's not helping us. Dumb and dumber. I think we're we're drawn to black. Dionysius. Oh, okay. Okay, that's easy to remember.  Anyway, thank you for playing along. We all right. Well, I do want to mention to you that you can go to hope today or our page at ctvn.org and go to our hope today page and see the answers, especially the one we didn't get. Yes, correct. All right. Well, our guest today, Shauna Pilgrim wrote a book called Translating Jesus. She joins us to share how we can share our faith in a language that our culture can understand. So Shauna along with her husband, Colleen Epic Church, a multi ethnic congregation in the heart of San Francisco. Shauna, welcome to today. Good morning. Today. Welcome to hope today. We do know the name of our show too. We may not know Dionysius, but we do know that I think I need that extra cup of coffee. But Shauna, I would love if you would start off by sharing with us a bit about the two different languages. You say there is the language of Christians and then there's the language of culture. Absolutely. Well, I think I just was proof there are all four of us were proof there as we were trying to figure out who was that judge and the in the book of Acts like there is a language of Christianity. It's rooted in scripture. That's where we get our knowledge. That's how we speak the language of Christ. But there's another language. And I think so often as Christians, we get so fixated on learning how to speak Christianity and how to connect with God and the people of God that we forget how to connect and relate to our culture. And just like you said, Anna, it's two different languages. And the way we learn culture is by paying attention. We never completely disconnect from the culture that we're actually moving about in every day, but we stay connected. We listen, we pay attention because that's how we get to speak the language of culture. And you call it being bilingual, right? Yes. Okay, you also talk about how the language of Jesus is prayer. So when we're talking about understanding these two languages, where does that language of prayer come in? Absolutely. And I know we're all learning. I don't know. I've never met a Christian that says I have figured prayer out. I'm an expert at this, rather just like prayer, we're constantly learning, we're growing in it as we connect with God. But prayer is not supposed to be something that we just keep to our prayer closets or we just keep at the table. But Jesus is with us, prayer brings Jesus into everything. So as we're moving throughout our day, we bring Jesus into every situation, every conversation with prayer. So the language of culture is paying attention. And the language of Christ is prayer. What happens when we bring these together, we begin to speak two languages. So a famous evangelist and pastor John Stott teaches the art of double listening. So double listening is this, it's me sitting or standing maybe I'm standing in a line at the grocery store. And I'm aware of the Holy Spirit. I'm aware of his voice. I'm connected to God that way. But at the same time, I'm connected and listening to the cashier telling me about our day or telling me about a sore arm. And so we're becoming bilingual as we're listening to both the Holy Spirit, listening to the person that we're engaging with in cultures so that we can better communicate God's love in a language that they understand. Yeah. And so you share a lot of great stories in your book and you break it into three places where Jesus spent time the gate, the cross and the table. So let's start with the gate. What is the gate and what's one of your favorite stories from the gate? Yes, and I love telling stories because stories just what it just brings me to a place where like we were all having these stories every single day. And I tell stories to say that this is contagious. The more you start bringing Jesus into conversations, like we all can do this we are I call it in the book we are every day evangelist every single day we have the opportunity to bring Jesus into conversations and nine times out of 10. I finished that conversation or a walk away from it. I could have done that differently or I feel like I could have done that better or I hope I get another opportunity to connect with that person. But at the gate, the gate represents the marketplace. It's where we're at every day. And we're all in a variety of places. And so and I can't remember if you said like to describe all three, but that's what the gate is. The cross is connecting with our Christian community, our church and people who believe what we believe. And then the table are those moments where we find ourselves. We're both culture and Christianity collide. And then when you're at the gate, you have this great story about Charleston, who you met in marshals of all places, which is one of my favorite stores. Can you tell us about Charleston? Yes, I sometimes I just pray that I'll get an opportunity to meet Charleston again. But he and I both just found ourselves in marshals, but we were there for two very different reasons. And I was between meetings, I had stepped into marshals and, you know, just a little bit of shop therapy going on. And while I'm going through the women's dress rack, Charleston, of course, I didn't know him at the time, but he bumps up to me. And Charleston, I realized is packing some of the store goods into his like several layers of clothes that he had on. And I freeze, because I realized like, well, I might be shopping for something, I'm completely distracted beside the man who is attempting to shop lift at marshals. And but at the same time, I think that God used this to get my attention. Like I believe wholeheartedly hindsight is everything. I was there for one reason, and God had something for me to tell Charleston. So when I say I froze, I mean, my feet would not move. My hands would not move. My brain stopped thinking about the dress that looked lovely on the rack. And I cannot do anything until I did what would felt so pressing on my heart. And it was to tell Charleston how much Jesus loved him.  But in that moment, I was convinced that Charleston needed to hear that. And so just loud enough for he and I to hear it, I said, sir, I don't know what you're going through. But I'm supposed to tell you that Jesus loves you. He loves you so much. And up to this point, I've only engaged with the backside of him. And he turned and looked at me and gave me the most sincere thank you I've ever received. And he just said, thank you. I needed to hear that. Thank you so much. And at that moment, I began to be able to move again. And my eye spot this beautiful gray velvet dress. So I take it off the rack. I head to the dressing room. And when I come out of the dressing room, by the way, the dress fit perfectly. But when I come out of the dressing room, he's standing right there. And I don't want you to think scary. I just want you to think that God was up to something. And he begins to tell me that he has not heard how much Jesus loves him for so many years. He remembers his grandmother telling him that as he grew up.  And I just connected with him. I pointed him to where our church was, which is actually across the street from Marshall's invited him to come. And as I go to pay for the dress, I find myself checking out with a cashier. And this cashier is the one who I knew had talked to Charleston earlier. And she told me what you told him, calls him to take everything that he was shoving in his jacket, and put it in the basket and walk away. And the cashier ended up being the store manager.  And so my favorite moment of that day is that the store manager, Maggie, myself and Charleston were all three at the gate, doing three various different things. But God used myself and Maggie to convey one simple truth to Charleston. And I'm just going to believe by faith that it's changed his life, those three simple words, Jesus loves you. Wow. I mean, how simple and how wonderful. I love that story. I I've heard another story of yours about your Lyft driver when you you took a Lyft one time. And could you just share that one? I think his name was Aaron. Yes, that's what I call them in the book. Tom, it was, I mean, I can't think of how many people have ride share stories. Because I don't know of another place that's happening in society right now where two people, two strangers, enter into a ride share for a little bit of time and have an opportunity to talk. But at the same time, this can also happen when you're getting your hair cut, or maybe not so much at the dentist. But these opportunities happen all day long, where you get to chat with strangers, we get to chat with strangers. Well, on this particular day, living in the city, we had one car and my husband and the kids had already taken the car to church. So I call a Lyft and Aaron picks me up in his Camry. And he asked me where I'm headed and I tell him to church. And so we went, we went there both in conversation and in directions.  And I began to tell him that it's because of my faith. That's how we are raising our kids in the city. And that God is at the center of everything we do. Well, we just continue to share things that we have in common. He's from the Middle East, and we both were just talking about how we've just are very much against anyone that's practicing evil in the name of religion. And immediately the conversation shifted as we passed by an Airbnb billboard in our city. And at the time, the billboard said, help or support Afghan refugees. And he pointed to that sign before we exited off the freeway. And he said, that's where my family's from. And he's doing everything he can with the paperwork to get them out of there. And I could just tell, I could tell he was very heavy hearted. And I said, Hey, Aaron, do you mind if I just pray with you? And he offered for me to do that. And so I just told him the only thing is that he had to keep his eyes open while we continued the drive to the to my church. And I just began to pray to God because I knew he believed in a God. So I prayed to God that he would give Aaron peace, that he would protect his family. And I prayed in the name of Jesus. And as he pulled over to the side to let me out, he told me one, no one had ever prayed for him in the car before. And then two, he said he had an overwhelming sense of peace. Well, Tom, you and I know that that peace only comes from Jesus Christ. But that day in the lift, Aaron got to experience the peace of Jesus Christ. Now I didn't tell him my salvation story. He didn't find a parking spot and get out and come into church. But I do believe that I got to speak his language, a language that he was comfortable with. And all of that came from and this is what's so amazing about who God is all that comes from what happens in our lives as we connect to God through prayer and through his word. It's not intended to stay inside. It's intended to come out. And again, not perfectly, but it's amazing what is inside every believer. And God wants to use that perfectly and perfectly just as we are and with who he puts in our path. Shauna, the one powerful theme to that I see coming out of both of those stories is that as a believer, you took time to see the person that was near you, whether you were in the store, whether you were in a car and with an Uber driver, you took time to see them and listen to them.  And when we get to see them, we have that opportunity to hear what God is saying and how to speak into their lives. So can you talk a little bit too about the place of the cross? Why is that important for us?  I just believe that this eye muscle, this attentive muscle grows on the daily. And so it's not that we have to reach everyone in a given day, but I really do believe that the more we pay attention, the more God shows us and more conversations he puts us in. But the place at the cross and what I love so much about who Jesus is for every single one of us, the place at the cross, it's a place that we keep going back and forth to. I know, yes, we came to the cross for salvation, but I believe that repentant people are receptive people that we have to keep coming to the cross on a daily basis. And so it's not that we come to the cross for salvation, we're done, we never have to go back, our sins are forgiven, but rather it's a place that we get to continue to come to God, connect with him. And I believe this speaks so powerfully to someone that is curious, that's skeptic, that's not quite sure that Jesus can love them. I think as Christians, we get to model this to the world that, hey, I continually have to come to God. I continually have to come to God for forgiveness, for repentance. And again, like I said, I think repentant people are receptive people. So it's just coming to the cross daily and it's not this linear path between, okay, I meet people at the gate, I go to the cross and then I go to the table, but it's this back and forth, a nonlinear path that we're taking between the gate, the cross and the table on a daily basis. Shauna, what do you think happens to Christians and believers that do not share Jesus? Like ever. They don't care about it, they get in and out of the Uber car, they go in and out of lows, they and they don't think to stop and tell about Jesus. What do you think is happening there? That's a good question and I think it can vary for everyone, but when we are connected, if you have connected with Jesus today, just even thanking him for the air you breathe, for his word that we get to have here in the United States of America that feed our soul, that convict us, that tell us how to live. If we are connected with him, his Holy Spirit in us is going to prompt our hearts to connect with other people. So I don't know if we're connected with him, if we're not seeing others around us through the lens of Christ. So my encouragement to anyone who feels like I don't have this conviction, I don't have this prompting, I don't have this loving care for my neighbor. I would say remember your story, remember what Jesus has done for you and if he's made a way for you, for your sins to be forgiven and for you to have a relationship with him, that alone should compel you and remind you of the love he has for you to tell that to someone else. So I would say to anyone who says like, I don't have that love for someone else, I would say remember what Jesus has done for you and if you've never had that connection with Jesus and what he's done for you on the cross, start there. Shadda, we're just so thankful for the encouragement that you give to us as believers to share our faith in very practical, relevant ways with those that we meet every day. So thank you so much for your book. Again, it is called Translating Jesus, How to Share Your Faith in Language Today's Culture Can Understand. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you, Anna. It's fantastic. Fantastic. So good. You know, just that, I love that organic kind of nature of just living our lives and walking with Christ and bringing Christ to others. In fact, we have a scripture about that right now. We want to share with you. It's Colossians 4 verses 5 and 6 and it says this, Be wise in the way you act towards outsiders. Make the most of every opportunity.  Season with salt so that you may know how to answer everyone. Amy, how's that verse strike you? Well, I love it, you know, in the amplified translation where it says that you're pleasant and winsome. So there's got to be something about your conversations that is winsome to the person listening.  It's like there's something likeable about you that people just want to talk to you about whatever. Last night we had church service, okay? And we're teaching, you know, on the Holy Spirit and I didn't know this, but there was a guy in church that somebody had talked to in a Home Depot in the lumber department a year ago and said, you really should go to church. You know, Jesus loves you and he said, I've got a great church you should go to. He said, for one year I've been thinking, I need to show up at that church and he came last night.  Just say, Lord, give me a divine connection today so that I can share the love of Jesus with people. It's honestly, it's part of our responsibility as Christians.  That's what you are in Christ because you're supposed to give it away. It's not just all for you. Yeah, that's right. I think that's a key thing you said to, to ask the Lord for a divine connection while you go out in the day. I love the concept of just seeing people when we are out and about. Let's try to stay off our phones. Let's just be aware of those around us. Let's take time to look into their faces because the truth is so many are searching. So many are struggling and they're trying things that don't fulfill. They don't satisfy. And as believers, we know what fully satisfies. And that is the love of Christ. Our lives are hidden in him. So when we have the opportunity and the privilege to tell somebody that Jesus loves them or to just smile and be friendly and gosh, if we get the opportunity to hear what they're going through and then say, can I pray for you? What an awesome privilege that we have as believers of God. Absolutely. And I would just say that while it isn't always the easiest thing, it is something and you may even say, well, I'm not a minister. I don't know what to say. Well, just saying Jesus loves you. My goodness, that is the easiest thing to say and God will give you ways to enter in and say that in a way that is effective in touching their life. But anything that you can do to show love and show Christ is a good thing. And Shauna in her book said every human is one decision away from receiving Christ. So you just never know. And so I'm going to ask that you get uncomfortable this week that God just shakes you up, gives you like let's love what he loves. Let's be passionate about what he's passionate about. He loves people. He is passionate about people. Jesus loves you and we want you to know that today and then we want you to take it to the streets. 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Good morning and welcome to the weekly market update with me David badden today's date is monday of the 11th of November 2019 and the time is just gone just gone 1140 GMT and It's been a fairly negative start to the European trend session I was seeing equities here in the UK and over in mainland Europe All push push lower on the day. There's a number of things going on. The big story is is there's been renewed concerns about the The kind of unrest that we've seen in Hong Kong after markets in Asia lost a lot of ground overnight We've seen a particular fortunately a particular uptake increase Regular increase uptake in the in the kind of unrest and violence witness on streets of Hong Kong That's obviously weighing on market sentiment in that part of the world as is a slightly kind of Cooling in relation to US China trade relations at the back of the last week things are looking quite positive. There was talked up When if when China the US side in the phase one of the trade agreement next month, there was talk That both sides were looking to reverse the tariffs that were imposed It's a timber now. We are involved back in the back in the Friday and also today We will begin we've heard that that may not necessarily be the case President Trump said, you know He didn't agree to a full rollback, but he kind of left the door open to a partial rollback Also weekend President Trump reiterated the old you that the China wanted what a deal much more badly than he does And he's he's willing to do a deal, but only if it's the right year for the US So it's a kind of alliance. He's he's rolled off before And it just nonetheless gives the impression that he's not Exceptionally eager to strike a deal as soon as possible There's always been a lot of two and throwing with this She's this situation given the fact that we saw record highs in the US indices last week Accidentment around where it was very bullish last week set a major surprise We've now seen a slight kind of cooling in the relationship between the US and China And then in turn that's added to the kind of push to the downside in stocks Also this morning from the terms of UK economic reports The UK preliminary third quarter GDP numbers came in at 0.3% Which is an improvement on the on the decline of 0.2% posted in the second quarter, but keep mind economy's worth but it increases 0.4% so Slightly cooler than expected, but at least the UK avoided a technical recession, which is most which is the most important thing So they're the kind of big headlines of actually what we begin seeing This this trend day on Monday. I'll take a quick look now at the weekend article And then we move on to some individual markets So the weekend article can be found on a website if you go to see if the markets calm and under insights You'll put on a new analysis. You'll find the article So looking head to tomorrow. We have UK employment and average earnings we have first quarter figures from Jenny with the spoon on Wednesday, which I apologize, which is on third which is on Wednesday also Wednesday We have first quarter figures from Cisco systems on Thursday. We have a number of reports out of China industrial production and retail sales On Thursday, we've third quarter figures from Germany GDP That's gonna be close to watch seeing as Germany's gonna this talk that Germany is teaching a recession That's gonna be close to watch on Thursday We have first-high figures from Burberry here in the UK and on Thursday We have third quarter figures from Nvidia, which are who are listed over in the US So as I mentioned, if you see the sell-off in the global equity markets, and the footsie has been particularly particularly hurt this morning a combination of heavy expo heavy weightings on the same HSBC and potential a big big exposure it on puts with hundreds They're weight weighing on the market as is the UK about puts you 100 has a pretty sizable Representation of oil and gas and mining companies, which are under pressure today So we can see here that for a month 200 has been pressing higher. In fact only last week We hit a level last seen since early October, but the last couple days particularly today We've had a fairly move pretty seismic move to the downside We're pretty much hovering in around the truly moving average this red line here This blue line here is a fitting movie average So we had a pretty sizable movie the downside But if you hold above this blue line here the fifth movie average, which comes to play at 72 79 I would just south of them all, but if you can get back above it and hold above it It's likely we could see the kind of muddle on upward move continue And if that is the case if you're trying to press on higher from here We could be looking at retesting the early November highs. I think I'll be on that. We could be looking at toward this zone here The highs of early of late September in around 7440 there they're about up to this line here this area of previous sport in around 7470 so if the wider trend does continue keep an eye for 7,400 they'll up to kind of 7470 zone up around here If in the other hand if market does continue to press on lower from here However, besides the break below the fifth of the movie average that potentially could become new resistance Connected at previously a support and if you press on lower from here We could have a back down toward the 7200 zone that area we saw a fair bit of consolidation in that area in Tra on October so the possibility of that area could act as support to any further downsides Take a look at what's going on over in Germany in the Dax so the back in the last week That was in quite good shape at the back in the last week the Dax at level last seen Last seen since January 2018 so giving the indication of how strong the Dax and the Dax was Back last week, so the market's been in very much of our trend All things considered given how much ground the market has moved to the upside in early October And that I say five or five or six weeks the market hasn't really moved a whole lot lower in the last couple of sessions So the upper trend is very much intact. So if we do manage to kind of press on higher from here We could be looking at a pressing on that target targeting around say 13,600 Over the kill if you know a kind of medium-term view should be going to continue to press on higher from here But given you know, we've had a bit of uncertainty what's going on Over in the Far East and also it's going on between the US and China I would be surprised if we have a bit of a drift north in the near term of the downside Continuation of you know, recent sell-off. I should that be the case We could head back down toward the psychology potent 13,000 mark or this area here in 12,000 980 circular the zone was a 30,000 980 could potentially act to support sure we lose further ground from here And even if you do you have a fairly decent break below that We could be like head toward this area here in around 12,800 and if you go below that you can be head back down towards this over here down around 12,660 and to be honest Given how much market moved to the upside since mid-August At the last few months, it's only really if you go below this line here this blue line here the fifth movie average 12,520 so really go below that could then we get the kind of become a bit scary I think as you know, what maybe it's full of trend over the last few months as they come to an end That's what's going on in Europe things are in better shape in the US as I mentioned, you know It's very strong with record highs over the US last week so we can see that we've seen a bit of a bit of a loss but across on Friday It's a bit of ground on the dark futures today We're still looking into get a very much up for trend I respect that our jobs open in around 27,560 at the moment if you can continue the press I'm higher from here I should have wider up for a trend continue We could be looking at retesting last week's highs in around 27,000 27,775 there thereabouts and if you go beyond that you know turns looking towards 27,800 900 and the psychology important 28,000 itself If you do manage to drift a bit lower from here, I would by possible given that Sentiment appears to be a bit sour. I would have that a decent You know moving kind of retracement in a while support could be found from this zone here in around 27,400 or potentially down toward this area here 27,000 So these are the areas potentially we could see some buyers enter the fold And if you do have a fairly decent pullback Support group found from this blue line here the fifth movie average I would also kind of coincide the late October low And that comes to play in around 26,924 Take a look at what's going on with the S&P 500 It's a fairly similar situation to be honest with I only the back end the last week We have fresh record highs you come back ever so slightly off those levels We're currently speculating the S&P 500 to open 3081 so after wide record track continues, we could be looking at tackling 3090 and then beyond that 3100 And he moves to the downside could find some support from this area here in around 2000 sorry 3066 there thereabouts and even if you go below that you could be looking any back down toward this zone 3040 to 3025 second a 15 point zone might ask active support Should he move lower and even if you get even if you go below that the kind of psychological important 3000 area an area which we saw a bit of Resistance and support and consolidation all around the kind of late October period So keep on for those areas should we see a fairly moved to the downside? But you know the overall upper trend is very much attacked I'll take a look now at some of the major currencies starting off with the euro versus the US dollar So the wider view has been very much to the downside in the euro dollar But we did have a fairly decent rally our correction between early October and Late October, but it would appear at the market You know highs of early November really failed to take out the highs of mid October Now the markets began to kind of turn lower on itself or back below the 50 movie average So this could be a beginning Because this could be the sign that The markets moving lower is a steady increase in negative momentum on an active histogram back to indicator This could be the side, you know what we've had the video Then you know the the medium term pullback But it could be a sign that they can a wider negative trend on your dollar is coming back at the force So we could be looking at a back down towards the one spot ten area I should we have a decent size and move below that It could then be looking at retesting the early October lows in it just in south of one spot Oh nine. We really want to be going to take an out This area here Just north busy busy combination, which is a mixture of the kind of early November highs We'd also the highs of mid October in around the kind of one spot 1170 once about 1175 area in around here We'd really need to be taking those levels out before we could then think you know what The kind of the upper trend from early October is actually in play And if you go black beyond that you can look at it towards 112 and move beyond beyond 112 Could put the early August high in a one spot 12 49 back into play I took a look at the pound versus the US dollar so between From early September onwards, you've had a good remark of a move to the upside in the in the British pound versus the US dollar Only at the end of October we had a level last year in May So we had five month high in May. We've managed to kind of drift a bit lower But by and large, you know, we've held on to most of the ground that was gained in the last few months We're comfortable above this red line here the true they move me average So they so the outlook for a pound dollar is still quite positive So if you could continue this up for a trend that we're in we could make a retesting this area here in it Just north of 130 one spot 3012 and if you go beyond that you could make a testing this area here The early May high in at one spot 3178 If you do manage to drift to the downside support could be found from this red line here in a one in a one spot 27 one spot 27 05 and if you go beyond below that this is zone here in around one spot 26 might act as a support So I've been a consolidation market to give a bit of a breather there in the middle of October So it might act as support in the in the near term Moving on now to currencies. So last week on Back in the last week gold dropped to a three-month low Bit of it and moved up to the upside in the US dollar Also, you know given up strong stocks were traded were very much in risk on sentiment So it's a gold so for the small bit so we can see your Friday Gold took out the lows in Friday to bring up the lows of early October So I fell back to a level last seen in August. So We've been broadly speaking kind of moving to the downside on the gold market We're not she back below the water to move the average which comes in the play at 1477 So while we hold below that we could be looking at a seeing We could look at giving up further ground We could take a factor toward this zone here in a 1430 1440 down on this area here I thought it really to get it back about 1500 at the very least actually because they would be the begin to think you know what maybe we're actually gonna Continue on in kind of wider upper trend. That's been in play for many many months, but It would appear that I were kind of been eating lower on the gold market. So keep an eye out for 1430 1440 1430 I took like now what's going on on the all on the oil market starting off with Brent So the Draw low between the lows of early October and along here We get this trend line along here as you can see you've respected Respected that time on a number of occasions. So while we hold above it It's like the near-term upward trend is going to continue That is to be the case. We could be looking at retesting this red line here Which is the journey with the average and that comes to play in at 64 spot 83 And a movie on the on that could take us towards the zone here in at 65 spots 79 So if we do much, you're gonna drift a bit lower retest the trend line could take us back to in around Just north of $61 barrel in around kind of 61 spot 10 and even if you drop below that Support could be found from potentially from the psychology port in the area of 60 bucks per barrel So that is Brent finally take a look at WTI It's a fairly similar chart to be perfectly honest price action It's actually more bullish on WTI because WTI is actually further away from its respective trend line So we draw a low between because you know that the lows of early October and mid October we get this trend line here Notice how the market has been gonna Edging higher higher highs and higher lows along the way We're comfortable above the this this trend line here So if you can press on higher from here, we can really can retesting this zone here in around $58 a barrel And if you go beyond that you can really get targeting the psychology port in 60 bucks per barrel So it's only really have a decent movie the downside Support can be found from this blue line here 50 movie average, which comes to play at 55 spot 56 And even if you go below that you can really get any back down towards the trend line Would you come into play south of 54 somewhere in a region around 53 spot 75 there there abouts Well, that's all for me this week. Thank you for listening and please tune in next week Thank you very much


Hello, this is Buona from Buona.TV and today I want to talk more about Dota Auto Chess, Dota Overlords, Underlords, some other Lords, and then Team Fight Tactics insert Auto Chess game number here. This is our fourth video in a series of tutorial videos where we kind of go over how to play this game and how to get started. If you haven't checked out my previous videos, I've done three prior to this one. A very basic video and then we did a video on loot rounds, items and passives and the third video we did was on buying and selling and scouting. Now this video here is going to be pretty advanced in nature. It's going to start to dabble into meta and what's the going strats going around in different auto chess games and we're going to be talking about economy. Economy and economy is going to consist of managing your gold and when to buy and sell and motivational things that will make you buy, motivational things that will make you sell, motivational things that will make you go for win streaks or lose streaks. So interest is the big deal here. In auto chess, depending what's going on, you get bonus gold. For every 10 gold that you own, now write this down, for every 10 gold that you have in your possession, you will earn one gold interest and that maxes out at plus five. So the going meta and what you're going to be hearing on every auto chess video out there is that your goal is to get an economy of 50 gold, 50 or more gold. You want to be able to hang on to 50 gold all the time towards the middle and late game so that you can earn the maximum amount of interest. So that's when people say interest in this game, that's what they're talking about. You can also earn bonus gold by winning a match. You get plus one gold by just simply winning a match. But you also earn gold by having win streaks and lose streaks. This is a very interesting part of auto chess because it leads to some interesting strategies. Naturally, the thing that you want to happen is a win streak. For every three to five rounds, you earn one gold. So if you win three to five rounds, you earn one gold. And these are the numbers as of Dota auto chess. So it may differ in Dota underlores and probably in team fight tactics, there may be some different calculations here. So if you have a win streak or a lose streak of three to five rounds, you earn plus one gold bonus. If you have a win streak or a lose streak of six to eight rounds, you earn plus two gold. And if you have a win or loss streak of nine plus rounds, you earn plus three gold. So they show you these screens between rounds on Dota underlores. And auto chess actually has a much more informative screen if you hover over your money. It shows you all the things and all the money that will be calculated and it gives you a good rundown. So you want to have various strats. You want to go on a win streak. You want to go on a lose streak. Or there's a third option called an open forth where you don't field any units and you just try to build up your economy to 50 as quickly as possible. Again, this is dabbling into many, many different types of methods out there and strategies that people are forming. It's really cool to get into. This is something that I'm currently struggling with as a player. I'm trying to wrap my arms around the whole economy idea. If you see me play, you notice that I don't follow these rules very well, but I'm getting better at it. I'm definitely getting better at it. And I think this is an advanced, definitely an advanced topic because you talk about the idea of early game, mid game and late game. Early game consisting of, I think rounds one through 10 are considered early game. And then 10 plus you get into mid game and then the higher you go up, you get into late game. And you want to reach that 50 gold economy somewhere in the mid game. So if you're struggling early, that's okay.  It's a really fine line in all these different strategies, but it's very interesting. So that's how the economy works. And it gives you a lot of options. You can probably, if you've been following my tutorials, you probably see that this is a pretty big jump in difficulty and concepts. We went from basic stuff to buying and selling. And now we're talking about how much gold we can earn per round based on what we're doing and what our goals are for early game, mid game and late game. So this kind of changes the way you look at the game. So when you consider economy, you don't want to spend a lot of money early on re-rolling. I talked about that in our re-rolling and our buying and selling and scouting video. You don't want to re-roll early. What you do want to do is you want to focus on strong units and you want to try to get two stars and three star units or strong units. And you want to win. You want to go for a win streak without spending too much money. So that's the balance. And that's, I think that's when the addiction grabs you. When you see this balance of economy and units and R&G, it brings you to the world of auto chess. This is one from 1.TV. I'm going to keep this short because these videos can easily go to 30, 40 minutes, even an hour. But this is your introduction to the economy of auto chess and all that it entails and how you can manage your gold to make the best team possible. Have a good day.


The name of this operation is Odyssey Lightning. My responsibilities as a team member are to sway down the bomb, make sure that the bomb is ready to go to be put on the aircraft. You have a team leader telling you exactly what to do, and then you have four people actually lifting the bomb.  After the bomb is up, you have to sway it down. I think it's benefited my Marines specifically because Marines have that saying that we train like we fight, and we fight like we train. At Cherry Point, we can't do live ordinance. Being here, you get more training than you've ever had, and we can take everything that we do fear and we take it back home with us, and that when we go back to the rear, the other Marines, they didn't come along with us, so we don't rewind here.


How's it going guys? Welcome back to another GHR view and welcome back to another gotcha video. And of course, I don't just have one I have two different gotcha bags and this is kind of from I wouldn't say it's a retro show, but it's like a 2011 I believe release it is Disney's Gravity Falls and I'm a really big fan of the show I actually really enjoyed it as an adult who watches cartoons. It really Kind of put me back into like the nostalgic like I want to see what the next episode is kind of thing It had a really good a good writing staff, and I think it was really nice and we'll put together. So Let's go ahead and open this up, but first let's take a look at the packaging So this is dipper, which is the main character We have some other characters on here as well, I can't remember his name and then we have the main characters Cousin yeah, I can't remember names We got a plane flying over. Oh, it's Mabel. How could I forget Mabel? Mabel and Ford pines dipper pines and then Seuss Probably my favorite. I would love to get him. That would be that would be great and Then you can actually kind of clamp these guys together apparently we have Wendy And we have two different Ford pines, or that's just the top one and then Grunky Stan Grunkle Stan. I can't read But yeah, let's go ahead and open this guy up and then let's kind of see what we got Alright, let's pull this off and it's wrapped Inside of this as well to make it even more mysterious And are you guys ready? We got Ford pines Actually not my favorite one that I was kind of hoping to get but it's actually still pretty cool He's not my least favorite character, but it would have been cool to get the Seuss Here's a zoom in of the character Pretty decent amount of detailing It's kind of interesting that those aren't actual glasses It's just kind of an extension of his flesh to the front side of the glasses rim And his eyeballs are just painted on and it's slightly a lighter color, so it's a little off-putting But that's okay Standing on some kind of rock And then if we zoom out a little bit we can get a good view of the base and this is where they're supposed to connect with each other Interesting let's go ahead and open the next one All right, and let's hope that we get a different one. Let's open it up. Yes This is exactly the one that I wanted This is Zeus. I am so happy that I got this one. I Was really hoping to How cool is that? I love it when you get the ones that you want. Let's go ahead and zoom in on that Says sub dog pretty cool design And I like that they're in these little kind of domes because like you can't really take them off and They'll stay good for a really long time. You're not gonna get them all kind of scratched up Let's see about stacking them though because they have these little kind of things on here. Let's zoom in and that's it Doesn't fall off pretty cool stuff very neat and Great way to collect things because you can clamp them together on the side too So you can make a stack of them and then maybe just put them against your wall So that's actually a really good feature Kind of keeps the clutter away, but also makes it to where you can have a decent amount of collectibles a Huge shout out to my patreon's. Thank you guys so much for your support.  Let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed this video Don't forget to comment rate and subscribe and as always I'll see you in The next video


Great. Okay. As Lars says, my name is George Dunlap and I work for Citrix on the open source Zen team. And I've been the release coordinator for 4.3 and also been volunteering for that for 4.4. So I'm going to be giving an update on the development stuff and what's been going on. So to begin with, we have a lot of new people to the community. And just from interacting on the list and face-to-face in a couple of the last things, I think it's been, it would be good to go over again what the development principles are for the open source project and how we run it and why. Not only for the new people, but also just kind of a good reminder for the people who have been here a while to make sure that we're on the right track. So we're going to start by going over some principles of OSub development in kind of a high level. And then we're going to look at the, how those, how we try to apply those into the Zen development process, what the actual specific kind of standard operating procedures that we use. And then we're going to have a review of the 4.3 development process and how that went. And we're going to go into 4.4. And then we're finally going to have a number of project updates for individual projects. So these will include EFI, network drivers, free BSD, liver integration, NUMMA. And one thing that's missing here is also the, a short update on the block drivers. Okay. So to begin with, one of the things I think is economically great about open source from a business perspective, apart from just the fun of actually working with other cool developers and things like that, is there's a force multiplier, right? So all the people that we use then, we could separately hire people to implement our own separate hypervisors, but there would be a huge waste of time. And the result wouldn't be nearly as good as with always working together. So Citrix is one of the, one of the largest contributors to Zen.org. And we only contribute, I think, maybe about a third of the total code or less, right? I mean, if you include Linux and Zen, then it's less than a third of the total code. And what that means is that Citrix is hiring N number of people, but they're getting 3N amount of developer, total developer effort out of contributing to open source project. And this is one of the things I think from a business perspective is great about Zen. But there's one thing that will limit that, and that is trust. So whenever anyone comes to any kind of a project, trust is a fundamental thing factor about all relationships. But in particular with open source, because if you're coming and you're going to invest a lot of time in contributing code, the other as an individual or as a company contributing code, contributing your time to help people on a mailing list or promote Zen or anything like that in building infrastructure on Zen, there's a risk, of course, that something will happen that you have invested all this time and then it's not going to pay off, right? The direction that the project may take a strategic direction that doesn't include you. And now you've spent this time and it's not going to, it's not going to pay off, right? And so you can't get rid of all risks in life. I mean, life is inherently a risk, but we can do things to try and reduce that risk. So one of the goals that we have for the Zen project is we want it to be meritocracy. We want as much as possible for your ability to influence the project to depend on, one, how good your contributions are, how good your code is, or how good your ideas are for the project as a whole, and two, how much you have contributed to the project yourself or as a company. So we want it to be the case that if you invest a lot of time and energy given to the project, no matter who you are, no matter what company you're from, then you can expect that your desires and your needs will be taken into consideration when we make strategic decisions about the project, okay? So this thing about having a meritocracy in order to increase the trust so that more people can contribute to Zen, if you're comfortable contributing to Zen, knowing that they're going to get a payoff, is the underlying thing that underlies a lot of the kind of the day-to-day things and ways in which we run the project. So how that comes into practice and code development is this. So all patches that go to Zen have to be posted to the list, no matter who you are from, no matter what company you're from, okay? And then on the list we have a discussion, and the ideal for Zen is that all discussion should end in a consensus. So everyone on the list comes to a consensus and says, this is fine, therefore this code is okay to be checked in. And sometimes a consensus, if it's a really obvious patch or a really small thing, it's a really bug fix and no one has any objections, a consensus can just be, meh, looks good to me, right, the end. And if no one objects, then we have consensus, right? Now we have a small number of people who are committers, and the committers have an official kind of elected position. There's a particular role in which you can, there's a path where anyone can become a committer. I mean, it's a long path because it's a very high, important position and a thing, but it's not only about being this company or that company, okay? And the committers essentially act as referees. So they're there to determine when consensus has happened about a patch, a piece of code. And if a consensus is not achieved, sometimes it's just not possible to achieve, then it's the goal of the job of the committers to make a decision which is in the best interest of the community as a whole, okay? So that's how code, and even if you're a committer, you still have to submit your own patch to the list and have them subjected to the same peer review process and the same consensus making process. Yeah. Well, so in the case of, so this is about code, right? So it's not actually infrequent that one person says, I think we should do it this way. Another person says, I think we should do it that way. And it's just sometimes usually it's just a matter of, okay, someone has to make a decision, so we're just going to do it this way, okay?  And everyone can say that, and then we can all happily still get along for the most part. But because we have the committers and they're in charge eventually of just saying, you know, we're just going to do it this way, then, yeah, there's not a terrible amount of politicking and things like that. Okay, so this is about the code development. And in practice, for bigger decisions about the direction of the project, the process is actually fairly similar, kind of the same basic idea writ large, okay? So obviously we have individual discussions on one to one basis or things like that. But ultimately, all the major decisions that have to affect the project as a whole have to happen on the mailing list. And our goal for those is that there should be a consensus. Okay, so anyone, if you have an idea, if you think you have an idea for the best way that the project should be run, you can come and you can contribute to that discussion. And if you have a good, if your ideas are good, and you're able to convince people, then you can have influence over the project. And if you have contributed a lot to the project, you can expect that your desires and your needs will be taken into account when we make those decisions. And so we're going to aim for a consensus. But if in the case that we can't get a consensus, then we have a process to fall back to, and that's just the committers. And it's the job of the committers to try and make a decision which is good for the project as a whole. And so the reason we have all these different rules like this is, again, so that you can trust, to help you to trust the system, to make it you more comfortable contributing to it. Right. So when it comes to releases, okay, so now switching gears a bit, we started this kind of release management process. We're not big process people. We don't really like to have lots of little things that go on. But we found that not having a process at all led to some kind of problem. So for Zen 4.2, it was about a year and a half in production. And part of that was because there was just no one in charge to say, hey, let's, you know, make a release now. And when a year had passed and we said, okay, maybe it's time for release, then we looked at the things that said, actually, this is in no state to be released. Because no one had been tracking and saying, what do we actually need to make the release? How far are we away? And it was yet another six months of cleaning up and getting to the point where we wanted to be able to release before we could actually do the release. So what we want from the release process is a visibility into the work that's going on. Okay. So a lot of, there's a huge number of people we're actually working on Zen in different ways. But often we don't see each other because we don't see each other face to face. It's not clear that there actually is that work going on, right? And until so and post the patch series. And so if you post the patch and it takes six months or nine months or a year to get the basic thing out, you just don't see that and you can't see that anyone else is working on it. So we want a visibility into work that's going on so that we can kind of see each other and be encouraged. So the other people outside the project can see what's going on. And also to make sure that we are working together, that no one is duplicating effort. We want to be able to have a clear picture of a state that everything is in so that we can make a good decision about where to spend our time and effort and when a release is a good time to do a release. And we also want to have a keep a roadmap of important features. There's always a million good things that it would be good to do. Much more than we can have a developer time to do right now. And it's always that case. That's a really good thing. You have a growing project. So we want to be able to keep track of all the features that we think are good so that at any given time we can kind of look at the whole picture and say, are we right now doing the most important thing that we can be doing? And so that other people coming to the project and they say, hey I want to contribute, what can I do? We have a big list here we can say, well this is something that we've been wanting to do for a while. It seems like it's pretty bite-sized, why don't you take a stab at it? And we also of course want good releases. And a good release is defined by three factors. One, it should be bug-free. Two, it should be awesome for whatever awesome means, right? So having good features fast, all the things that make a Zen awesome. And thirdly, it's important, but less important than the two, it should be on time. So this is the order in which we sort of evaluate things. First of all it should be bug-free. Second of all it should be awesome. Third it should be on time and it really doesn't totally matter. So the mechanism by which we kind of do this is we keep a list about standing features and bugs. The release coordinator does that so I do that. These are things that are actively working on in the moment and the things that we think would be good to work on. And then every few weeks I just send the list to this list of things to the mailing list. If there's updates that I see that have seen in the development process then I add that in. And other people as they're doing updates will respond to that and say this is where I am in the project, I'm still working on it, it's done, it's almost done and so on. And we have a mirror on the wiki and I haven't had time today to make sure this is in sync but I think this should be within in sync with the most recent one. Yes. So release phases, we begin with when we open the development, anything can be checked in. Okay if it's if the maintainer thing that is ready you can submit to the patch and it can be checked in. At some point we would do a feature freeze and that means no new features which have not been discussed before will be accepted. And the idea here is that if you submit a patch before the feature freeze but there are a handful of comments you know about tweaking yet or changing it then you still have some time to actually get cleaned up and get in before the actual feature freeze. So there's three weeks of no new features and after that we have something called code freezing point and at this point is when we begin rejecting features. And this is we start to try and do a cost-benefits analysis right. So every time we accept a new feature there's a risk that we may find a bug in it which will cause it to slip the release making us not have an on-time release. And there's a risk that we won't find the bug that there will be a bug that we won't find and then we'll release a buggy project. So we have to balance the how much better does this is make Zen versus where is the risk of slipping the release or having bugs. And then it becomes more and more strict for the next three weeks and then we begin doing release candidates. And once you the first release candidate is actually candidates. So if we discover that there were actually no bugs in RC0 or RC1 then we can just release that. In practice that almost never happens and typically it takes us about six weeks to reach a point where we think we can release a project. And again near the end of that near the beginning of the RCs any bug fix will probably be accepted. Near the end of it we again begin doing the cost-benefits analysis so that if the fix is a fix of a relatively minor bug and it's very invasive in a way that it may cause other bugs then we may reject it even though it is a bug fix to make sure that the project that the ultimate release is as good as we can make it. Okay. So this is a very long talk. So I thought I would break it up a little bit by adding a few things in here. So I'm going to try telling a joke. So there were two ducks. This is a joke that I actually read in French but it translates very well to any language. So there were two ducks and they're swimming down the river. And the one duck says quack quack. And the other duck says dang I was just going to say that. Okay. Right. You can laugh at me. Okay. Right. So how did 4.3 go? Right. So our goal was to have a nine month release cycle. This the scheduled release would have been June 2013. As it turned out the actual release is in July 2013. So we slept by about three weeks I think. And the reason for that the main reason for that was that there were some security issues that we found where the disclosure was going to be July early July. And we thought it would be silly to like release you know at the end of June and then one week later or two weeks later say oh by the way there was a bunch of bugs in that one. Here take this update. So we started to slip the release. And then after that we slipped another release for basically marketing reasons. So I think overall we did a very good job with the release. And there were no sort of howlers no really terrible awful bugs that I'm aware of. So overall I think that as far as the release thing things went pretty well. Now as far as sort of looking into the future I'm not sure why you know I thought this would be different for me right but like you sort of had the temptation when you start doing this stuff to say to make predictions and say I have this crystal ball. And so we looked at all the things that we were doing. And I kind of had this a big list of things that I started up here last year. And I said these are all these amazing things that I think we could probably get done in the next nine months. And you can see I'm not going to go through them here but in January I kind of did a mid thing evaluation. I posted a blog and said well you know so some of the things that PV Audio blocked out three a couple of those things we're probably not going to get to. But most everything else I think we're going to get to it should be really good. And in addition we have these other things that were not on the original list but turns out people were working on right. And so I made this prediction that we're going to have this amazing release with all these features of it. And of course when the release came there's a huge number of things that you know didn't make it. There are very large number of things that didn't make it so that you know that is great. But I mean the ultimate thing is I've learned as a million people have also learned that you just don't try and predict exactly what's going to happen for when things going to be done for software. Nonetheless so for 4.4 we have we've decided to try and have experiment with a shorter release cycle. So we're going to try a six month release cycle. The feature freeze has just passed. The scheduled feature freeze would be the 18th of October. The code freeze originally was scheduled for about three weeks after that so early November. But we have a fairly large number of items that are on the list that we think probably could be accepted if we slip the code freeze a bit. And so we have decided to slip the code freeze by a few weeks to hope that we can get those things in. And then we're hoping to have the original release was planned for late January. So it may be late January or early February. But we have the next release. Okay so things that look likely. There's a couple things that are done. Multi vector MSI improves spy support. So I don't know if the guy's been working on spy. Is he here? No? Okay anyway there's a guy been working on spy support. It's been really good. This potential will have pvh for DOM use or perhaps still an experimental form. One important feature is non Udev scripts for driver domains. And this sounds like a kind of a complicated feature. But what it allows you to have is Udev is what we use to set up a lot of the connections and stuff. But it's Linux only. And so right now driver domains can only be, you can only have Linux driver domains even if you have the NetBSD or FreeBSD DOM 0. And so having the non Udev scripts for driver domains allows you to have any other VM to be able to be a driver domain. We've got a ton of fixes from the Qvary reports as Laura's mentioned. We should be able to have NUMA per vcpu affinity checked in. And hopefully, I'm still hoping for this one, USB hot plug for Linux out. But we'll see what happens. Again, these are predictions. These are things we kind of hope, but I'm not going to say with any confidence that he's actually going to get in. Okay. So now let's go to the per project updates. So EFI, if you're not familiar with it, it's a new kind of replacement for BIOS. BIOS was written back in the DOS days I think. And so this is kind of rewrite of it. It includes a boot loader like functionality. So in theory you could boot several different things without having to install a boot loader like grub. There it provides boot time services similar to BIOS calls. And it also provides secure boot services. And this has been a big thing. I'm not going to go into detail about this, but you can look at Matthew Garrett's blog and some other things like that that will tell you about secure boot and Zen and the different issues with it. Sorry, not Zen, but Linux and the different issues with it. So this is an update from Daniel Kuiper who's been working on this stuff from Oracle. So the basic EFI support was introduced in Zen 4.2. At the moment, you can only boot Zen. And so again, as Lars mentioned, these are slides that were sent to me. So if there's something on here or I'm interpreting something wrong or something is said that's wrong, please raise your hand and correct it. So I'm kind of, yeah. So right now you can only load EFI from, you can only boot Zen from the EFI loader. You can't boot Zen directly from Grub 2 with EFI. However, there is a work around. Apparently you can use the EFI loader to boot Grub 2 and Grub 2 to boot fake BIOS and fake BIOS to do the chain load and the trade loader can then use Zen.EFI. But they are working on Grub 2 support. And there's actually been a big discussion on the mailing list recently. So if you want to see what the state of that is, you can go to the Zen mailing list. And secure boot for, one of the issues would be whether Zen and DomZero can use secure boot from using Grub 2. And to begin with, they're just going to be able to boot from Grub 2 and later they're going to have to make some changes to allow Zen to run the secure boot. So as far as DomZero kernel support. Yes. Okay. With a couple of, of course, as we all know, patches on top of the upstream Grub 2. Okay. So... These are all not really accurate. Things that prevent things from working. Okay. So you're saying that with a few patches on Grub 2, then you can boot Zen on the Grub 2 with EFI and have access to the secure boot functionality. Is that right? With the, with the Zuzer kernel. Oh, sure. Sure. Okay. Okay. Okay. Right. So that's an update on that. So as far as, so Zen booting under EFI is one thing. And the next thing is whether the DomZero kernel can access the EFI, the EFI functionality, particularly the secure boot functionality. So Zuzer, the Zennified Zuzer kernel has had full support for EFI for some time now. The upstream Linux kernel doesn't have EFI support for DomZero when running under Zen. And unfortunately, it looks like that began to be worked on, but there's no one working on it at the moment. And there's no, as far as, as I'm reading this, there's no ETA on when it might happen. And then, so what sounds related, but it's actually a very, from a code perspective, it's a completely different issue. And that is EFI guest support. So the open virtual machine firmware, or VMF, or also known as TianaCore, was tracked into Zen some time ago. But as of, I believe as a 4.3, there were some changes and it doesn't actually, as a 4.3, didn't compile. Now these were sent to me again by Daniel Kuiper. And in the meantime, Wei Lu, at Citrix, has started working on TianaCore and gotten it to boot again. Is Wei here? Can he correct me on that? Oh, right. Is this correct? OK. However, there is still an outstanding issue having to do with frame buffers. I won't go into the details of that. But at the moment, it doesn't quite work with a full functionality, but Wei has been working on that. And so we'll see whether that can be sorted out for 4.4 or not. OK. Are there any questions about, I think that the last bit about EFI. Is there any questions about EFI guest support before we move on to the next thing? OK. So network updates. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to talk with Wei about exactly what some of these things meant. So these are kind of copied from a set of slides he gave me. So one of the first features is that rather than having one thread per VCPU, we now have one thread per VIF. So this is a lot more scalable and a lot more flexible. Split event channels. Oh, right. So one event channel for send and one event channel for receive. OK. The feature is currently being worked on. IPv6 packet offload. New features planned. Multi-Q support and multi-page ring support, which should allow a deeper pipeline and so on. OK. And I guess if you have more questions about what these things mean, talk to Wei there on the back. Right. OK. For BSD, there's been a lot of really cool things going on for BSD. So in the 10.0 release, which should be released by the end of November, there's been a lot of technical work to enable more of the PV and PVH features. So I'll kind of let you skim these. Using the PV event timers, PV APIs, allowing live migration for PVHVM guests, better support for block front stuff and now full support for the generic kernel. So then instead of having to recompile free BSD for to run on Xen, now the same kernel can be run, both on bare metal and on Xen. And a lot of bug fixes for a bunch of different things. And this is sort of got kind of got cut off there a bit. So there's been work done in conjunction with Spectralogic and Citrix. Stuff that's coming up with that. So Roger has been working on the PVH guest support. So as soon as PVH is available in Xen, it should also be available in free BSD and also for PVH Dom Zero support. So as soon as we get Dom Zero support for PVH, which is one of the big things that were called McKessher been working on, then that should very quickly allow free BSD to run as a Dom Zero, which is pretty exciting. Block improvements. We have persistent grants, which is a performance improvement allows you to rather than unmapping and unmapping things or copying to allow the same to keep pages mapped. That's a performance improvement and indirect descriptors. What was this? More segments instead of each request. Right. OK. All right. OK. OK. So is it similar to a scatter gather kind of idea? So we have a pointer to other things. OK. Right. So it's again a performance improvement allows a deeper pipeline. Libvert. So this is an update from Dario. So the basic VM workflow, a lot of these things work.  Migration and PCI pass through, allegedly are coming soon. As far as advanced VM manipulation, a lot of the things actually are supported in Libvert. So scheduling, updating the memory, vCPUs, block attach, and so on. A number of other advanced things are not yet working. So vCPU pinning, NUMA known affinity, and so on. So there's still work that can be done improving the Libvert support. And some specific things for Libvert, which are not yet supported. So hosting, guest configuration and statistics apparently are not supported. And the block and network performance tuning and control are also missing. So if you are interested in using Libvert, I'm sure there's lots of lots of good things to do to help out. NUMA, we've got a lot of stuff going on with NUMA. So first of all, there's NUMA automatic aware placement. So Zen has known about being able to know somewhat about NUMA for quite a while. As a 4.2, we added code to allow you to automatically kind of take a look at how big your VM was and what the memory replacement system was and automatically try and put your place your your VM so that the memory was all co-located in one smaller area. OK, in either one node or two nodes to maximize the performance you could have. As a 4.3, we'll improve the scheduler, the credit one scheduler, to know about NUMA. And so that you can say, so before that you had to do pinning, so you could say, only run it on this node. So now you can say, well, this VM's memory is all on this node or one of these nodes. So if you can, try and run it on this node. But if you can't, that node is just too busy. It's OK to run on a different node. OK, so that's been there for 4.3. And something coming up for 4.4, hopefully, again, is the per-VCPU NUMA we're scheduling. So in 4.3, the NUMA affinity is based on its entire domain. And 4.4, we were allowed to have the NUMA affinity for individual VCPUs. And this is important for virtual NUMA. So we want to be able to tell the guest, look, you have two nodes and these VCPUs are close to this node. These VCPUs are close to this node. And so then we want to be able to tell Xen the same thing. OK, so this VM has memory across two nodes. Please run these VCPUs close to on this node. Please run these VCPUs on this node, if possible. Other things coming up, as we said, virtual NUMA topology for the guests. So this is something that Elena Ufunseva has been working on. So we've had an intern from the GNOME outreach program for WEM. And this is a fairly large project, but it involves having a virtualized way to tell the guest about NUMA topology. And we're targeting that for 4.4. Again, who knows what it's going to get in, but it looks possible, probable. The last thing we want to be able to look at, so right now, once you've placed a VM and the memory is there, it's basically stuck there for the rest of the thing. And the only way to actually change it is to move it, migrate it to a completely different host and then migrate it back, right? And so we are looking at code which allows you to move the memory of a VM from one NUMA node to another so that as VMs are created and destroyed and moved around, you can say, you know what, when I created this, I needed to have this memory across two nodes. But right now, I can actually consolidate this so all the memory can be on one node and then this VM can have better performance. So Dari has been working on that, but as we said, the status tentative. So we'll see when that gets there. OK, so that's all I have. Are there any questions? No questions at all. Neil? Do we need to turn that off? I can try and repeat too. But do you know how they're being adopted in Amazon and Ratspace and so on? We can start using them on public cloud infrastructure. Right, so the question was, we have a lot of new protocol improvement in the net front and block front. And do I know when those things are going to be available on public cloud infrastructure? And I don't. Does anyone want to answer that? If there's anyone else here. Yeah, so it'll get there. I guess. Yes, in the back. That's the support. Right, so. Oh, he was supposed to send me some slides. Anyway, so from my man. Sorry, is there anyone here from Intel who can answer that question authoritatively? No, sorry. Well, yeah, so one thing is it's heavily dependent on the. So it's implemented completely differently. It's a complete set of different set of code for SVM AMD versus Intel. So AMD, I think, was the first one to have their stuff in. But they haven't been able to work in development as much recently. Whereas the Intel does have some people that are consistently working on improving it. And so as of recently, there have been significant improvements in the Intel code recently since the 4.3 release. And in particular, the guys started testing the Windows 7 XP compatibility mode, which is one thing that many people want to be able to do for desktops. So I think it's getting better. I'm not sure we have a way of saying exactly when this can move from sort of experimental tech preview feature into now this is an officially supported feature. But it's definitely getting much better. And as Jan said, we had backported quite a number of the improvements from recently back into 4.1, 4.3.1. Does that answer your question? Yeah. The red axis, the digital cards, and so on. So how's this red axis working in the same? If the PCI pass through is just coming sooner, maybe something else? So this is, sorry, just to make sure. So Libvert is a project not run by Zen. It's actually developed by Red Hat. And in theory, what Libvert is supposed to do is to be a generic library that can access any back end virtualization thing. So it has back ends for, I think it has back ends for Hyper-V, for VMware, for plain QMU, for things like that. But in practice, because almost the entirety of Libvert is developed by Red Hat. And Red Hat's focus is on KVM. Basically, Libvert is very, very, very focused. Just by, just because of that, there was sort of the forces that way things work on KVM. So Libvert works, and Libvert is actually used in Overt and a number of the other Red Hat technologies. So Libvert is on the critical path for Red Hat for KVM. So it is, but Zen is slightly different. Most people using Zen use either sort of, we have a separate tool stack that's focused on Zen. So Excel, the older one, is ZenD, or if you're using Zen server or something like that, you can use Zappi, right? So as far as, so PCI passed through for Zen, using the Zen tool stack has been around for a long time, and it's already supported. Does that make sense? And actually the, and Zen server has had certain level support for PCI passed it for a while, and they have a lot of things with the NVIDIA graphics pass through and things like that. That's a feature that's coming up in the Zen server one. So what this is about is allowing PCI pass through to go through Libvert. So if you want to use Libvert for some reason, or if you want to use any of the, there's a lot of number of graphical frontends that use Libvert, then at the moment you can't use PCI pass through via Libvert, but soon you should be able to. And one of the things that Libvert supported should be helpful with, OpenStack, for instance, would prefer you to use Libvert rather than having a separate library for Zen support. Also, there's a number of graphical frontends that are sort of nice to use. And if we can get better Libvert support, that means we can send, people come to us and say, you know, I want to use Zen, but I would like one of these graphical frontends or something like this. We can say, well, here's what you do. You download this graphical frontend and use Libvert, and you can use Zen for that. That's why Libvert is important. Does that answer your question? OK. Absolutely, it's a small comment. Yeah. Oh, right, right, right. OK. This is something to do. Libvert for LibXL. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. OK. I must have filtered that out. Sorry, I'm saying the exact same thing. So the last time I looked at LibXL directly, is that all getting consolidated into a different library now, or is it just another one backed up? Yeah. The effort we're going on is to put it on as good as possible, shape the LibXL driver. That's the new boot stock, the one we moved for a time in the process of moving and getting rid of the old one. And so I'm not sure the work going on is on the LibXL driver. Right, but it's slightly confusing because the old V, I say V, old single LibXL, LibVert driver is actually in LibVert, a collection of LibVert drivers that have used different things. So there's a Zend drive and a Zend store driver and a Zend driver and so on and so on. Yeah. The LibXL driver in LibVert is completely separate and its own thing and does not use any of those other drivers as it is intended to become complete. Yeah, cool. You actually have to stop X and D in order to start using the LibXL driver. I mean, usually it's like a chance to do a stack and then X and D can start it and then LibVert decides to kind of find out that X and D is not running and then we'll get all the other the LibXL driver. That's probably a good thing to talk about. You know, that... Yeah. Okay. Or maybe having a blog post on it at some point, so. I guess, I mean, while we're at Zend, one thing we have been discussing and for a long time we've been discussing removing Zend from the tree. So there are a number of things which have been identified, we kind of have a list now of things which are in Zend, they're not in LibXL or not supported well with LibXL that need to be addressed and we say when we have knocked all these things off then we will consider removing Zend from the tree. So if you are currently using Zend or relying on Zend, I encourage you to try Excel. For the most part, it should be just a drop-in replacement. You just change XM commands into Excel commands and it should all work. If it doesn't work, please let us know so that we can try and add the things you need to our list of things to get implemented before we remove Zend. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you.


So, have you ever wondered what's the right amount of communication to have in a relationship? I've had this question asked of me before in particular when two people are dating. How often should they communicate with each other? And also when two people are in a relationship, how often should they communicate with each other? And I thought that's an interesting question because for each person this is going to be different. So there isn't a one size fits all. Let me just say this. So let's differentiate.  So let's differentiate between dating and relationship. Dating is that period of time you're getting to know each other to decide if you're going to be in a relationship with one another. So in this particular case, you know, oftentimes when you meet someone for the first time it's not really a date, it's really a meeting because they're most of the time a stranger. So and then dating happens when you decided you want to start seeing each other on a regular basis. That's kind of what I think of as dating. In other words, you're making plans to see each other on a regular basis and as some people date multiple people at a time, I believe when you start seeing one person regularly then leave it as to one person at a time. So how often should you communicate? Well, this is really tricky because I think ultimately one of the challenges in the dating and in relationship is a sense of feeling trust with another person, feeling safe with another person. And because we oftentimes geographically don't live literally right across the street like it might have been back in the 50s when you met someone in a small town and everybody knew each other, there was a sense of community safety going on. Here we live in a gigantic melting pot and if you're not physically seeing the person on a regular basis, you can might feel emotionally unsafe. But because somebody is doing anything disingenuous, it's just the nature of the dynamic that we live in today. So there's a lot of pressure, a lot of women claim that they're upset with men. This is what I hear. I should say they're upset with men because they're not checking in at night. But I wonder if that's being needy, if that's being dependent on that person for validation and yet at the same time, I can understand why is that because it's still an unsafe dynamic in the dating process.  It can feel rather uncomfortable because let's face, a lot of relationships don't work out and most people don't want to enter into a relationship that's going to fizzle out and fade. So I think what's most important in the dating process is to have regular check-ins with each other as it's begin. But I'm also a big proponent that if you're dating each other, there should be some intentionality, especially if you're having sex with one another, to say that we're going to explore an exclusively committed relationship that has some teeth to it. So I'm a big proponent of radical honesty, putting the cards on the table very early on in the dating process because what's the point if you're not going to explore a relationship with one another? I know it for many people it's like don't interrogate someone, just have a good time, it's all about having a good time. You can have a good time all you want, but if you have a good time with one person, another person, another person, another person, all of a sudden you start become disillusioned because it's all about having a good time. Okay, so I want to encourage two people to have conversations with one another about communication. And this is even more important when you're in a relationship with someone. I think it's imperative to get a sense of what the person wants and not from an expectation perspective, from an agreement perspective, both discussing this and having some dialogue. Now, I know a lot of men are less reluctant to want to talk on the phone. I told you this before, men are not necessarily, they don't really bond through the telephone the same way they do doing social activities, hobbies, mutual interests and physical touch, both sexual and just regular physical touch. So, and a lot of men don't want to feel the pressure of having to validate someone's safety, but at the same time, I think it's a very valid thing to want, especially if people, again, are people live far apart, people don't see each other on a regular basis. I think it's important to keep those lines of communication open. But I think the real challenge that happens is most people aren't having deep conversations, real radical honesty and deep conversations. And that's why it creates so much uncertainty that requires this need for constant communication and constant validation. So it's kind of a double-edged sword because they're not having deep conversations from the get-go. These are surface conversations. There's a greater need for continuous communication and validation. And imagine if you can have deeper, rooted conversations right from the get-go, then you're not as dependent upon that constant need for validation and communication. So what's the solution? Well, listen, I've just been laying it out to you. I said, for those of us in midlife, we don't have time to mess around. I think it's time to start. There's a new term called hardballing. And it's just laying your cards on the table, being radically honest with one other. So radical honesty is about going, this is what I want. What do you want? What does commitment look like for you? How do you envision a relationship? Because oftentimes, men aren't thinking about these things. You have every right to ask these questions. And honestly, you're going to see a lot of guys fall by the wayside very quickly because they haven't really given thought. Because if a man genuinely likes you, he genuinely wants to get to know you, he's going to have conversations with you about this. This is why I continually recommend purchasing some of the books I talk about, like eight dates and having the first conversation around commitment before you're physically intimate with someone. These are just some suggestions and recommendations. So you don't find yourself investing in the wrong person or a person who's going to peter out and flake out. Because the reality is, we have a very dysfunctional single population. Now we have a dysfunctional population in general. But a lot of singles are rather dysfunctional and are rather help you weed out those people sooner, rather than later. That's what my private coaching is all about. I think you get the gist of where I'm going.  Here's the bottom line. You have to do what's right for you. And more importantly, you have to speak up rather than make assumptions. I mean, ladies, you oftentimes just assume because you want men to be the leaders of the relationship, and then you don't like the way they do it. So you take charge of your destiny by speaking up and asking for what you want, having some agreement, having some dialogue, and seeing if you're on the same page. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating with you? Please let me know. Listen, I'd like to hear your thoughts post a comment below if you have something to add. I'd like to hear about it. As always, if you find value in the group, please tell your friends about Midlife Love Mastery. Send them to my website, jonathanasley.com. Have them click the Group Coaching button so they can join our fantastic group. And I'm going to sign up this video as I always do.  I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's OK. I'm going to ask you to turn to someone, that teddy bear pillow, and give Iter them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it. We could all use more love in our lives. I want to thank you. Have a great day. Bye now.