All right, hello, everybody. Thanks for having us. I'm Mary Parsons. I'm basically the head of DevX at Dish Wireless. And I have my partner here, Watson, presentation partner. And we're going to talk to you about crawling the CNFs. So who are we? I'm going to take a first couple of minutes to tell you about Dish. So I think most people who know Dish know of us as a satellite TV provider, right? So developing CSP technologies in the US. What a lot of people don't know and are just now starting to learn is that we've spent the last decade building a portfolio of spectrum holdings in support of building out a wireless network. So for the last two to three years, our deployment teams have been architecting, building and deploying sites across the United States. Thousands and thousands of them, which you can see on this map, which basically are all edge nodes of a network, right? And this is our 5G cloud native O-RAN network. It's not a telco. It's not a cloud. This is a fully virtualized cloud native ecosystem that was architected by developers for developers. So this is a game changer, right? The idea is that any developer in telco space or otherwise can configure and program the network to achieve their requirements in their space. With the intentions of, we've heard this word a lot today, speed, fast, improve the velocity of development, and then also open. We fully support O-RAN. We're very committed to O-RAN. We're very committed to an open environment and supporting multiple vendors. So I mentioned by developers for developers. This is one of our internal development teams. Just FYI, I am their talking head today. This is their work. I didn't take part in any of this. So if any of your technical questions aren't answered today, come talk to me afterwards, and I'm happy to connect you with these brilliant developers so you can get your questions answered or you can have more information. So this is what we're calling a net blocks project, short for network blocks. And they took on the task of coming up with architecturally unique testing environments that can support multiple applications and test multiple applications at once. That's Dash. Just a show of hands as everyone here, who all here has used the CNF test suite or is familiar with the CNF certification? So a few of you. Okay. So the CNCF CNF test suite is a community is amalgamation of service providers vendor partners and CNCF hosted project contributors who are interested in focusing on the properties of high quality CNFs. And so why are we using the CNCF test suite? So as I mentioned, our network of networks as we're calling it, our developer ecosystem is inherently cloud native. So I won't go through all of these with you. You can read more about our 14 principles on our website, but number 12 here is what I'll draw your attention to. So each CNF should be accompanied by test cases to validate the functionality and load test it using automated tools. We want better CNFs. We want the velocity to be able to modify CNFs. We want more CNFs. And so that, you know, at its baseline requires repeatable testing with reliable outputs that developers can compare against. Okay. So a little bit about the origins of the CNF test suite. Several years ago, the service providers and vendor partners got together and said, hey, we want to have our DNFs work in Kubernetes at right about that same time, the CNCF had a very successful test suite for certifying Kubernetes and the CNCF decided to create a test suite for enabling or verifying vendors interoperability for CNFs. So a little bit about. So if you notice this visual on the left, if you know what that is, I'm sorry. This is the old way. We're moving to this brilliant new way, right? So summary of what Nutblocks did. They went from slow to fast. It used to take months to spin up these testing environments that you can test your one application in. Nutblocks is doing it in 35 minutes. They're spinning up a testing environment in 35 minutes that can test more than one CNF at a time. And then when the test is completed, it's destroyed. So slow to fast. Keep hearing about speed of innovation, right? Here you go. Manual to automated. It would take multiple teams, multiple resources, hands-on processes, handoffs, dependencies. We're using CICD automation. It's repeatable. It's scalable. It's flexible depending upon the CNF being tested. Restricted to open. So again, you were held hostage by what your vendor was providing you. Now we can have multiple vendors in one space. They were going from running approximately 10,000 tests today to the world's oyster. It's unlimited. You can have as many environments as you want that are scaling to your CNF and you can test as many applications in one environment as you would like. How many tests can you do a day? You tell me, right? Let's see what that limit is for us. So common themes, right? Slow to fast. We're increasing, completely increasing the velocity at which developers can do their tests, get their results, and then therefore do their development work and we're automating everything in this open environment. Okay, so as far as our process or the dish process and really any onboarding process of new CNFs for a service provider or anyone that's consuming CNFs, you're first going to have to go ahead and read the documentation obviously and locate how to install those CNFs. So that's hopefully within helm charts or some in-band type installation process. You're also going to have to locate how are the install parameters in order to figure out how to completely install everything. So for dish, their process now includes Lambda Functions. So they're going to take from the initial onboarding process, they're going to take the information they got about the CNFs and inject that into the Lambda Function. What we went ahead and did was create an example CNF that we're going to talk a little bit about more later. We used Open 5GS and the UE Ransom in order to validate the dish environment. So they also use EC2 and EKS for their Kubernetes. So after they go through and do their configuration of the Lambda Functions, for this process we'll talk a little bit more about later but then they go ahead and review the output. So why even use Lambda Functions? Lambda Functions are pretty easy to set up and tear down and you don't have any lingering resources hanging around just to show a hands, who all here has used Lambda Functions before? So it's you. Okay, cool. So really the Lambda Functions in this use case, they really just replaced the jump box for calling the CNF test suite. So one of the most often repeated questions is what's tested within the CNF test suite? So here are the categories. We have configuration that's declarative configuration. So making sure that the CNF, the CNF's configuration is all declarative. So using config maps, operators and declarative interfaces, so on and so forth. All of these categories are pointed towards upstream projects within the CNCF. So as far as compatibility, we make sure that the CNF works with certified Kubernetes. So it's just broadly compatible and or interoperable and then also uses what we call in-band deployment tools instead of like bash scripts. So using something like Helm or CAPT or something like that. Then as far as microservices, we essentially just make sure that the CNF is not a tightly coupled monolithic application.  As far as state, we really try to shun CNFs that use local storage. So we promote using or managing state with custom resource definitions and also just separate databases. And then you have reliability. We heard the lightning talk earlier from the litmus chaos people. We essentially use them for testing, doing chaos testing for resilience. Then as far as observability, we try to make sure that the CNF externalizes its internal state so that it can be captured with metrics logging and tracing. Hopefully in a way that's compatible with open telemetry standards. And then we have security. So just like an example of security would be making sure that the CNFs are isolated from one another in the host. Some of the projects that we use that are upstream would be a curverno, cubes escape and maybe Falco. So that's really that there. As far as the example CNF that we used, it's open 5G S as a 5G core. And then the UA ran sim to send traffic to the 5G core. We went ahead and open sourced the configuration for the helm charts. And we also created a GitHub action script. So if any of you want to see how to test the 5G core simple one like this within GitHub actions, spinning up a kind cluster and everything there, it's all in one place. Back to the link at the bottom. And just your usual subjects here as far as our suspects here, as far as containers and pods, all of these are inside of the Kubernetes cluster. If you wanna spin something up and take a look, it's out there. And then now for the demo, essentially as we, let's see. As I'm trying to get this going. So essentially before I run this, there's really three components that are used within the dish process. It's really an early process. We have the event bridge, the Lambda screen and the system manager screen. And this is gonna be a really rough demo created by harsh. Let's see if we can get this going. So on the event bridge, there's a rule that at this point in time just essentially schedules the Lambda function. That's the CNF trigger there. And that Lambda function, there's a CI CD pipeline that makes sure that the EC2 and EKS resources are already started. That's all supposed to be composable. Here we have the Lambda function. They have to excuse the blurring. There were some email addresses and stuff on there, but essentially just the screen, it's just the Lambda function. It's just calling directly the really three commands for calling the test suite. You go ahead and start it by clicking the test there and then you'll be running the test suite. This would be scheduled. So within the test suite, this is the system manager screen. Essentially, this is where you would see the output. One thing to note about the system manager screen, there's a 48K limit with that 48K limit for the CNF test suite. That's a week ago a little bit further than that, but you can see the output here. This would be something that you can, if you're using AWS pipelines, you can go ahead and compose this with a bunch of different pipelines. Here's the output. And then you can also download the output so you can get the full output. And I'll just show that here in a second. This is essentially, would just look like something like this. If you're familiar with the test suite, essentially tells you all of the tests and what pass would fail and then you get a summary at the end. And I'm just gonna add in that essentially, the CNF test suite, as far as the reason why you would use it is it's really intertwined, intermingled, with the upstream projects within the CNCF. So, what we do at KubeCon is go out into the vendor room, go out to all the CNCF projects and try to get, and we're also attending the working groups and try to get the best practices from the CNCF project. So from the stateful working group, to the CNI working group, to the all these different upstream project security and so on and so forth. And we try to integrate those directly into the CNF test suite. We'll be back up the presentation as well. Yeah. I just want to point out, our way to spiralize our developer teams do have a get-hug up also for all of our ongoing cloud native work. So I have that link on the last page, as well as some other links to dish wireless resources. For those of you who aren't familiar with the work that we're doing on our network of networks on this developer space, please visit those to learn more. That's all we got. Okay. Thanks. I got news for the audience. We got the audio setup for a Q&A. Now, I'll ask my final question and then we'll improvise a bit more. We got time for that. I'm interested in the net blocks. I couldn't quite figure out what that exactly is. Is it the framework? Is it the product? I tried to Google it briefly, but no trace of it. Sorry about that. So it's essentially the development of those testing environments. So that is the net blocks project. Are those testing environments that can be spun up and down on demand in an eight hour lifespan, basically. And so the team did a lot of work into not just how to develop those environments, but also the automation involved and then ensuring that the CNF test suite was being used in a reproducible standard way. So the net blocks term, the project in and of itself is the development of those testing environments. Thank you very much. So please still stay there. As I said, I'm going to try to improvise. We got some time and we got the mics and the speakers. So we could organize taking the questions from the audience, but since we missed it for the first three presentations, I would like to invite whoever of the presenters from the previous presentations is in there in the room to come on stage and we'll try to do a Q&A round. So if Tom, you are there and then Josh, I don't know if he's around. Come over and Roman Dorian. So we have now opportunity to ask anybody of the initial, or from the presenters in the presentation block, the questions, hopefully you saw the presentations and you have some questions. So I can hand out the mic if you're interested in anything. My name is Evan Anderson. I had a question about this most recent dish testing stuff. I noticed that you're using AWS Lambda and EventBridge and so forth to orchestrate all of the testing. Is that configuration open source and available? Or is that kind of dish network secret sauce? I don't think it is on the GitHub open source yet. I would say stay tuned on that one. We are very committed to not having a whole lot of secret sauce in terms of the development work that's going on and we are very committed to giving back to the community. And so this is, as you can tell, a work in progress. And like I said, unfortunately the team couldn't be here with me today, but I would just say stay tuned to that GitHub and to a lot of our other online resources and perhaps you will see it. Thanks for that question. More questions? Hi, thank you for the presentations. My name is Yuval and I have a quick with regard, quick one for with regards to the testing. If I take it a little bit for the direction of 5G, what is the method with regards to different elements? I don't know what the deployment within dish, but in case that you're taking an open run deployment and not a G node B, so the validation of the layer two and layer one is very problematic to do it in a cut environment. So what is your solution for this? Meaning for the RU and the DU elements within 5G network, how do you make sure that everything, you have a full blown off flow work that starts with the five level to the layer three within your solution and not just one element or you take it into the G node B and then the question about acceleration, any kind of proprietary that needs to be part of this kind of deployment? Right now, yeah, right now we don't have a lot of 5G testing. So that's something that we're supposed to be concentrating on this year. Definitely anything, the way that we prioritize, we look at what the community wants and then we can implement that. So if there are things that you think should be higher priority than others, then we can definitely get on that. Thank you, we have another question over here. It's possible to ask question to any of the previous presenters, not only the last one. I will actually. Thank you, I have a question for the Swisscom guys and also the photo phone guys here in the room. Thank you for the presentations first of all. And both you stated that you need to connect to your backbone network. Do you have software defined networking in place and IPAM solutions which are API driven? Or is it all IPLDs I saw with the Swisscom which is steadily configured? So if I had the question right, you were asking about automation of the software defined networking and the IPAM and the kind of underlying infrastructure. Yeah, that was the topic for another talk that I think was on the wait list that I was gonna do. But one thing we're doing is very similar to what was described by Swisscom is using automation playbooks to control those automation layers. Cause most of those systems, the software defined networks, the IPAM solutions, they'll have APIs that can be used and controlled to get information, to put information, et cetera, et cetera. So we use a very similar approach that Swisscom described and try and build that out across all our markets to automate that layer. Yeah, maybe in regards to our pipeline, we are really now working on exactly getting also this more external configuration fully automated. So one example is to do all the firewall changes throughout the Swisscom network. So there we have basically already the tool which is tough in which provides such a capability. So it's really now on us to implement there the automation in the back to be able to dynamically based on the templates, we have to automatically order everything in the background. And for Yastian there we have the open daylight which is doing the cloud part, but also we are now working to do the whole transport capability. Also there, there is not something we can use out of the box, but we have an API we can start to use, but we need now to work on implementing there the logic behind we need to be able to deploy our telco workload and basically then send the configuration to the different nodes which need this in the end. So we are really working there to get really to a level where basically you just need to enter the parameters in this repository and then from there it gets pushed to wherever it's needed in the end. But this needs a lot of work that basically you are able to do this really declarative and intent based. Thank you. We got the time for one or two more questions. Anybody? Okay, if not, thank you very much once again. It's nice photo, I took it, I'll share it with you. Thanks again, give them a full round of applause.


We all do what we do Moments like this make us pause Smile in gratitude and perhaps for us some more So this is the sixth year. I'm on the list and each year is As joyful as each year is so thank you. Thank you very much for this honor be more compassionate Empathize So and I've said this often enough There are perhaps far more pressure on the female gender than the male gender in the society in our industry as well So a little more leeway with no apologies Compassion would help


Hey, welcome to Wing Chun workouts episode number two today We're gonna show you some very simple arm conditioning and Wing Chun techniques that you can do at home right now 20-minute Wing Chun workout and exercises. I'm gonna show you five authentic Wing Chun techniques You don't need any equipment. You don't need a lot of space get stronger get faster and feel great So are you ready? Here we go And by the way if you like this video you want more Wing Chun exercises Support this channel and hit the subscribe button comment and like on this video. So are you ready?  We're gonna do straight punches chain punches Put your fist together in the line and punch one two three vertical fists Like this keep going this space Fist over fist do not punch in two different spots punch just one spot in front of you at the chest level Like this one two at this speed Don't rotate your body keep your shoulders square Give your hands relaxed Keep your fists half closed at this point Give your shoulders relaxed and when you pull back the fist pull back the fist under the hand that goes out Your fish should go back to about two inches from your chest and when you punch out Punch out to about 95% extension Do not extend your arms completely and do not lock out your elbows Okay, now I want you to do double time one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Count as you go Count them to ten every ten. I want you to count one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Keep your arms loose Keep your knees bent Now I want you to punch higher Imagine a person is Six feet tall and you want to punch his head punch chin use the same technique and punch upwards Keep going one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Keep counting now.  Do not bend backwards. Make sure that you are still standing straight now punch forward again I want you to speed up even more one two three four five six seven eight nine ten faster Triple speed make sure you're breathing breathe in and out one two breathe out Breathe in Breathe in every four hits breathe out every four hits or six hits, whatever you feel comfortable with Okay, keep going. I Want you to punch as fast as you can for ten seconds ten nine eight seven six five four three Two one good good take a break Shake your arms relax Shake your feet flex your wrists Shake it off exercise number two Get into the same stance Now we're gonna do palms so one palm over palm two three four five six seven eight nine ten Keep your shoulders down Do not raise your shoulders when you palm make sure your shoulders are nice and low as you do the palm one two three four this is the same technique same Technique and exercise as a straight punch instead now you are using your palm instead of using your fists Six make sure that you bring in your palms straight in front of your chest Now I want to do it double time again one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Keep your knees bent Check your stance Make sure your knees are bent Your feet are slightly wider than shoulder width And your feet are pointing inwards and not pointing outwards the same way now. I want to palm high Imagine the person that's six feet tall Or even taller and Palm higher One two three four five six seven eight nine ten that's feet Okay, arms getting tired keep going now palm lower imagine the person is Ducking and you're palming downwards Make sure you're breathing now go back to center and triple speed one two three four five six seven eight nine ten like that Keep your elbows Nice and low Make sure you do not flare your elbows Elbows are low pointing downwards Make sure you're palming hand over hand and you notice that my hands are going in the circular motion And extending out to the target Now I want you to palm as fast as you can for 10 seconds one nine eight seven six five four three Two one good job. Are you ready for exercise number three?  All right, so continue At this space one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Now I want you to go up Imagine you are chopping somebody's neck That's taller than you Same technique Now I want you to go down Do not go do it too close to your body Do it out at a 45 degree angle Great now. I want you to double time going straight one two three four five six Try to keep contact as much as possible Because you're going faster. You might have less contact. I just make sure your arms are relaxed And you're doing this in a smooth way Keep going Now I want you to do as fast as you can for ten seconds one two seven six five four three two One good job. Here we go. The fourth exercise is fox out, which means whisking hand Get in your position again, and then get into your ready position now. What I want you to do is to Chop your hand sideways towards the eye level and then as you bring this in the back Into a wu style, which is protecting hand with the other one up Don't look that way. Just whisk without looking and keep looking straight So if you put it together, it's going to be look like this Okay, so follow me. We're going to whisk to the left and right just like that And one hand is whisking one direction make sure the hand the other hand is placed in the center Resets back to in front of your chest in the center in a wu style position. So the fingers are pointing up Elbows pointing down and then the palm is completely flat when you look straight Don't stiffen your hand too much And when you make a spade with your hand your thumbs need to be tucked in slightly Don't let them come up like this fingers are together And they make is a nice round Surface here don't extend your hands out too much if you see it's cupped Slightly, but don't cut this much just like a very slight curved straight line a curved straight line Right, so keep going Try to move them at the same time don't go one two one two one two same time So both move same time Okay, now we're gonna speed it up double speed Once again, don't extend your elbows completely otherwise you lock all your elbow and they injure your elbow So only standing up to 95% of the way, right now. I want you to do a double whisking hand like this but now When you come back make sure that your hands are together like a rectangle and your knuckles are touching your elbow Or at the same line as your elbow as we come back you go from left to right right over left Left over right right over left.  This is the elbow exercise.  So just one elbow When you reset just bring the fits back to here.  Okay, go at this speed one two three four five six seven eight nine ten one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Notice that my hands are twisting in opposite directions When one is pulling back the other one is twisting the other direction with the elbow Make sure you make a nice big parking motion with the elbow. Okay, one's got a hang of this We're going to speed it up double speed one two three four five six seven eight nine ten two three four five six seven eight nine ten One two three four five six seven eight nine ten Now I want you to do as fast as you can While keeping the technique Don't go so fast that you lose the technique As fast as you can relax while keeping the technique Keeping your structure keeping your stance You're going 10 seconds one nine eight seven six five four three two One all right. Good job. You completed the Wing Chun workout episode number two And also what you can do as a progression of this Exercise and this workout is to add stepping with it. So all those five exercises that we did we did the straight punch straight palm to sell fox out and Then the guai zhang all can be done with stepping so with stepping all you need to do Is to do the stepping exercise we did in episode number two like this straight punch Or with the front right foot in front Okay, so alternate left foot in front going in direction And when you turn this way right foot becomes the one in front same thing to do with your palms Okay, same thing you do this back and forth. You don't need a lot of space Then the next one is the two-cell same thing add stepping You can do the same exercise with stepping so I coordinated your feet and your hands And then the other one fox out Fox out with stepping is like like this kind of like the It's kind of like the two-cell except one hand goes back to your center the other one By John same thing Okay, you can do it slower so you can get the technique You can step every time You do it in attack So that's the Wing Chun workout and exercises you can do at home I hope you love this video. Make sure you subscribe to this channel If you have any questions make sure you comment in the comment section Click the like button and share this with your friends practices at least two or three times a week See you soon in the next workout video


I still remember my first day as a freshman in aerospace engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology. It was orientation day and as I was going up the stairway, I saw the words aerospace engineering is not for women written on the walls. There were upper class men, all male, hanging around, waiting to get a reaction from me. I was the mid 70s in India and there were not many women in the field. I just took out a handkerchief, erased the letter W and the letter O from the word women and went on my way to attend the orientation meeting. Nobody bothered me anymore after that. Throughout my career, I have encountered a great deal of resistance, gotten a lot of no's. I just haven't taken no for an answer. The big question that interests me is how and why structures fail and how that failure is linked to the deformation of the material even at that domestic scale. This led me to different disciplines, uncharted territories, but had I stayed in my lane and taken the path of list resistance, I probably would not have been able to make the contribution that I have made so far. It is only through my interactions with different disciplines that I've been able to get a more holistic understanding of why materials fail, how damage initiates and how they can be detected and diagnosed. Venturing into these uncharted territories has helped my team design and develop novel multifunctional nano engineered materials with unprecedented properties such as self sensing, self healing, as well as increased resistance to damage and they provide early warning signals to impending damage in the form of changes in electrical conductivity, changes in thermal signature or even color. Only by looking at these materials and then observing its impact in a real application such as an aircraft wing or a satellite structure can we really optimize their properties for specific applications. This leads to truly smart integrated adaptive structures and systems with improved properties that can also monitor, assess and control damage and degradation in service life. So interdisciplinary connectivity is vital to my work and I've tried to pass this idea on to my students. There is no preset boundary in research. Now they're trying to solve challenging problems by looking outside their field of expertise. They're learning new things, they're pushing boundaries and they're challenging convention. Just as I had refused to accept who belongs to aerospace engineering all those years ago, they're refusing to accept the prevailing perception of what research in aerospace engineering is. They're redefining the field, they're pulling in new influences and they're refusing to take no for an answer.


In today's video, we are going to talk about some interesting facts and myths about British Shorthairs. As its name suggests, the British Shorthair cat is as traditionally English as tea and scones. Here are 9 facts about the stocky feline, whose chubby face, easy going demeanor, and short, plush firmated America's fifth most popular pedigreed cat in 2014. 1. They're descended from the cats of ancient Rome. The British Shorthair bears the proud distinction of being one of the world's oldest cat breeds. Experts think that the feline is descended from cats imported to Rome from ancient Egypt. When the Romans invaded Great Britain in 43 CE, they took the cats with them. 2. The father of cat fancy, loved British Shorthairs. British Shorthairs existed as street cats and barn mousers until Harrison Weir, a 19th century animal lover known as the father of cat fancy, began breeding exemplary examples of the country's native cats. He showcased the breed at London's Crystal Palace in 1871, in an event that's considered by many to be the world's first cat show. The show was filled with exotic imported cats, including Persians and Siamese like cats. However, we're preferred his country's native breed. My first love will always be for the short-haired domestic cat, where Rodin his book about various cat breeds, are cats and all about them, 1889. 3. The British Shorthair nearly one extinct. By the early 20th century, long-haired breeds had eclipsed the British Shorthair in popularity. Adding injury to insult, cat fanciers stopped breeding the British Shorthair during World Wars I and II, and it nearly one extinct. To ensure the breed's survival, British Shorthair aficionados crossbred their cats with Persians and other felines. The British Shorthair stuck around, and in 1980, the Cat Fanciers Association recognized the feline as an official breed in America. 4. The British Shorthair may have inspired Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat. Historians think that Lewis Carroll may have based his Cheshire Cat illustrations and Alice's adventures in Wonderland off a tabby British Shorthair. Who could forget that creepy feline grin? 5. A British Shorthair helped spawn the Akanes cheeseburger. Meme Empire. A British Shorthair was featured in the original Akanes cheeseburger. The viral internet phenomenon can be traced back to 2007, when a Hawaiian blogger named Eric Nakagawa saw a picture of a happy-looking British Shorthair on online message board. It was captioned with the now-famous Akanes cheeseburger. Line, inspiring Nakagawa to register a website with the same name and share the image. Nakagawa began posting more cat pictures, and he eventually turned his blog into a monetized website. It was acquired for $2 million in 2007, and became the basis for the cheeseburger network, a network of social humor websites. 6. Not all British Shorthairs are grey. Speaking of Akanes cheeseburger. Some people think that all British Shorthairs are silvery grey with copper eyes, like the cat in the meme. That particular type of cat is called the British Blue. While the British Blue is a popular variation of the breed, it's not the only one. British Shorthair cats come in white, black, red, gold, and silver, among other fur colors. You'll also spot British Shorthairs with color point, tortoise shell, bicolor, and tabby patterns. As for their eye colors, they range from gold to copper to blue-green. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out beemixpets.com. Use coupon code Kittenlife to get 20% off. 7. They can get chunky and strong. Mature British Shorthairs tend to weigh 9-17 lbs, and mature females average 7-12 lbs. However, the solid-framed breed has a tendency toward obesity, and can easily tip the scales at a higher weight, pet-n-d recently listed the British Shorthair as one of its top 10 fat cats. British Shorthair owners are advised to provide their kitties with healthy food and plenty of exercise, since overweight kitties face an increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and other conditions. As a powerful cat, all components of this breed should be well-developed. The British Shorthair has a broad chest, muscular neck, strong jaws and a well-developed muzzle. The legs are thick and strong. The breed looks like what she originally was, a cat that was to keep rodents out of the barn and the house. The coat of the British is thick and dense. It becomes much longer and thicker during the winter. The texture of the coat is relatively hard, as it is meant as protection for the cat. When you pick up a British, you should always support her back end. British should not have their hind end drag down their abdomen, as this can make them uncomfortable and insecure. 8. British Shorthairs Are Magnets For Weird News British Shorthair cats have appeared in several bizarre international news stories. In late 2014, state debt collectors in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, tried to force a man to pay 12,000 rubles in unpaid taxes. Since the debtor didn't own any valuable material possessions, the collectors threatened to confiscate his British Shorthair cat and its three kittens. Because the animals are pedigree and expensive, the representative of the law decided to place the cat brood under arrest, the region's court-martial service said in a statement. Needless to say, the man ended up paying his taxes, and he got to keep his cats. Also in Russia, an easily-trained British Shorthair cat named Duceus Skyrocketed to fame and fortune by starring in photoshoots, TV productions, and a commercial for a Russian telephone operator. As of March 2015, Duceus had earned around 2,000 pounds, more than what most Russians make in a year, according to AOL Money. In 2015, an Eastern European gang catnapped Maggie, a one-year-old British Shorthair that lived with her wealthy owners in a London mansion. The thieves demanded a ransom of 5,000 pounds. Maggie's owners agreed to shell out the cash, and they participated in an exchange in a public park to get their beloved cat back. 9. A British Shorthair once had the world's loudest per. In 2011, a 12-year-old British Shorthair cat named Smoky was declared to have the world's loudest per. His vocal rumblings measured 67.7 dB, and were reportedly as noisy as a lawnmower. Sadly, Smoky died from kidney failure in 2014. He was immortalized in the Guinness World Records until another cat, Merlin, broke his ear-splitting record in 2015 with a 67.8 dB per. 10.  The British Shorthair is a very pleasant cat to have as a companion. She is easy-going and placid. The British is a fiercely loyal, loving cat and will attach herself to every one of her family members. While the British loves to play, she doesn't need hourly attention. If she is in the mood to play, she will find someone and bring a toy to that person. The British also plays well by herself, and thus is a good companion for single people. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.