Hey everybody, so thanks for coming. Sorry for the technical difficulties there. Thank you for waiting. So I'm Zach, I'm one of the original engineers on the Istio project back at Google. These days I work at a company called Tetrate, helping bring service mesh to enterprise everywhere. I also help write the security standards for microservice security for the US federal government. So a couple different hats. So first off, Craig already mentioned, but hey, some exciting news for the conference. Istio will finally be part of the CNC up very soon, we hope. We're going through the submission process, we have a sponsor, so that's kind of progressing on. We're super, super excited as a community, so that's kind of the first thing. And so it's not quite as boring over here as it's been in Linker D land. So one of the things that I kind of want to talk about is something that was kind of core to why we started Tetrate, which is I want the service mesh everywhere. Everywhere, everywhere. So obviously we're focusing on Kubernetes today, it is KubeCon, the service mesh was built there, it's Kubernetes native, and that's where we see a lot of bread and butter usage of the mesh. But that's not the totality of our infrastructure, and in fact for most of the people that I talk to, the most important applications that they run in their infrastructure isn't even being run on Kubernetes yet. They want it to be, but we're not there, right? And so for that reason, we think it's really, really important for the service mesh to be able to go back into traditional environments like VMs and bare metal Linux hosts, and really just everywhere that we start to run our applications, right? And we even want to go into kind of new territory where we haven't been traditionally running these kinds of technologies, pushing functionality in the mesh out to the edge, right? Stuff like partnering with ARM to provide ARM builds of Istio and Envoy to help enable this. But the big question is why, right? So like, sir, we have ways to do traffic management and security and observability in our traditional infrastructure. We have the service mesh to do it in our modern infrastructure. So why does it really matter if we start to bring the service mesh everywhere, right? And this is something that I talk about a lot in some of the papers that I help write with the government. And the idea is basically that we want to start to be able to build a platform that provides a consistent security baseline for all of our applications. And the service mesh is an incredibly powerful tool for doing that. And so if we can push the mesh to more places, we can get a more consistent security baseline for our applications in more places. And it becomes easier and more consistent for us to operate our infrastructure safely and securely. So I want to just real quick leave you with a couple of kind of key ideas that I use for thinking about the service mesh that kind of bring in this security background, right? So one is this idea that Envoy and the Sidecar generally can become this general policy enforcement point. And when I say policy, that can be traffic, that can be rate limiting, that can be security things, right? But the goal is that we have this policy enforcement point everywhere, ubiquitously. With that, the service mesh can become our security kernel. This is the kernel from the 1970s security literature. That's the kernel that we get the operating system kernel from, right? It becomes the modern kernel for our distributed systems providing critical runtime security for them. And we want that, again, to be across the entire infrastructure, not only in Kubernetes. And finally, it enables us cross cutting change. Hopefully the folks that are here have at least played with the mesh some. And one of the most powerful features is the fact that we can go and implement far ranging changes with simple configuration across the entire infrastructure. And this is key, key, key. And if we do all of that, if we push the service mesh everywhere, if we start to use it as the strong security baseline, as a policy enforcement point, as the security kernel, then I believe the outcome is that we get a more safe, efficient, reliable infrastructure for us to all operate on. And I think at the end of the day, that's exactly what we want. I think William summed it up very well, right? We want it to be simple. We want things to be easy to operate and normal. And I think the service mesh is an incredibly powerful tool to be able to do that. And that's all I got for you today. I didn't do any, I didn't have any karaoke unlike Mr. Box, but I'm looking forward to his renditions tomorrow. Alrighty, thanks everybody. Thank you.


On today's episode, we're going to be talking about Fena, Pirate Princess, and my overall impressions on this show. Hey everybody, welcome back to Awaking Geekdom, Geo here, and yeah, Fena, Pirate Princess, one of the latest shows from production IG, directed by Kasuto Nakazawa, and interestingly enough, it is a co-production between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim. So this anime aired back in August, all the way to October of 2021, and it essentially tells the story of Fena Houtman, a young orphan girl who lives in a fantastic alternate history version of the 18th century. Fena has been raised on an island where there is no hope of escaping the dark destiny forced upon her by her captors to be used and discarded by the soldiers of the British Empire. But Fena is more than just another powerless orphan. When her mysterious past comes knocking, Fena will break the chains of her oppressors. Her goal, escape her captors, forge a new identity, and search for a place where she can truly belong, and find out the true mystery behind the key word Eden. It's a story of the adventure of a lifetime, she and her crew of misfits and unlikely allies will have in pursuit of her goals. I do love historical fiction, and I do like that aspect of this show a lot. Now, it's only a 12 episode series, and from a production standpoint, this is easily one of the best looking shows of 2021. If I were to make a list on just the artistry alone, this is one of the top 10, maybe even top 5 of the year, honestly. Everything about this show just oozes personality. It's so beautiful, there's so much eye candy, the wonderful character designs, the expression on the eyes and mouths and just the facial expressions alone on the characters is top tier in my honest opinion. Beautiful renderings of oceans and backgrounds and amazing scenery from different countries because this is essentially a globetrotting adventure. So yeah, honestly, just Production ID just knocked it out of the bar. I was so excited when I heard it was a show done by them, I was really pumped up for that, and it definitely met my expectations or exceeded them actually. I really enjoyed the character designs for the goblin knights and Fena and all these wonderful kooky characters. Fena has just this striking appearance, she's an 18 year old girl, she's pale scanned with white blonde hair, and you don't see that too often in shows. And the fact that it's supposed to be in this alternate take on the 18th century makes it a little bit more richer, I guess. So like I mentioned, the main character Fena, she is extremely outgoing and just a bundle of energy. She's a wonderful character and main protagonist that you really want to root for. She is so expressive and just curious about everything and her relationship with the other characters is a real joy to watch. One of my favorite things about this series is seeing the Samurai 7, this elite goblin knight force and how they interact with Fena and the other characters. If it wasn't for that, I don't think I would have been as invested in Pirate Princess as I was. There's something about it. I think it comes down to production IG and what they were able to do because the way these characters behaved, their facial structure and their mannerisms is unlike other shows where, you know, you gotta cut corners and not everything's going to be as smooth. It's not going to have this movie quality to it, but you get that here. And it's really nice. It's awesome and beautiful to behold in my honest opinion. Like I mentioned, the Samurai 7 are a group of elite Samurai yet they kind of behave like ninjas and it's kind of weird, but you just gotta go with it. They are trying to help, they're trying to rescue the character of Fena Houtman and when they find out about her connection thanks to her dad and the word Eden, there's this mystery that forms about what exactly that is, that key word like I mentioned earlier from the plot synopsis and essentially they team up the character Fena with the Samurai 7. Now when she was set adrift 10 years prior to the story, it was by a younger character Yukimaru who promised to find her and now he is the one, the leader I guess of the Samurai 7, he's sort of this introverted Samurai who isn't really good at expressing his feelings and that's played to comedic effects at times and honestly the relationship between Yukimaru and Fena takes a while to grow but it's really wholesome and pretty to see happen. So that I guess in a nutshell is the story. There are some adversaries including the Rumble Rose which is led a group of pirates I should say, led by Grace O'Malley and I probably butchered that along with other characters and again the character designs are really good in this and you see the pirates and they're all so different, the hairs and the body types and just the artistry behind it is really awesome and I really enjoyed seeing the contrast between all the characters. The Samurai characters are very, they're in a specific style and you have the pirates which are much looser in their depiction and I really got a kick out of that. You also have the Royal Navy with the I guess you could say the main antagonistic force in Abel Bluefield. This mysterious lord was after Fena for his own reasons. You later find out that she kind of bears a resemblance to somebody that Abel knows and you don't really know or don't really get his story until much later in the plot and it was nice and tragic and interesting but it didn't really hold the weight as I thought it would. I don't know, I mean this show is 12 episodes but this is definitely one of those series that really needed another batch of 12 episodes to truly flesh out the world and the characters and all the exposition dumps that happen and all the terminology and because you get some of that but it's just so abrupt and sudden that you don't really have a moment to, you do understand it but there's no weight to it.  I think with more episodes this could have been a much richer experience, a better plotted series in my opinion. I love that it's an original series, it's not based on a light novel, it's not based on a manga. I really do enjoy that and like I said artistically this is a plus material but the plot could use some work. I mean the character motivations are there but there's no looming threat, there's no sense of danger. When Fena, when something happens to her it is immediately resolved and the danger sort of dissolves and it's not until much later when something else happens and that gets resolved as well. So there's no continuing threat. I never felt during my watch of the show that these characters are in a constant anxiety inducing danger, something's gonna happen. I was just pretty choked because they're on a globetrotting quest to figure out about the word Eden and how it could relate to mythical, mystical, esoteric things that I'm not going to reveal. So that was really fun but I don't know, not much of a bad guy or not much of a antagonistic force in this show. There is some towards the end but I think it's so abrupt and sudden that I just felt indifferent towards it. The main reveal of what actually happens towards the end of the show is really interesting but compared to the pacing and the story beats of how they structured the 12 episodes, it just comes out of nowhere and I particularly did not care too much because of the end result. Not gonna spoil it, don't worry but the end result is what I kind of expected and it really didn't surprise me all too much. Still some interesting concepts, I just think it needed more time to develop the characters and the world building and all that stuff, I don't know. But yeah those are some of my thoughts, kind of spoiler free for you guys. It's still worth watching, I do recommend it just on an artistic merit alone. Just maybe set your expectations a little low because the plot's, it's alright. But what about you guys? Have you seen Fena Pirate Princess? Let me know in the comment section down below and if you haven't, what are some of your favorite pirates in manga and anime? Very interested in finding out. Guys as always thank you so much for liking, commenting, subscribing and being a part of a week in Geekdom. It truly does mean a whole lot. Thank you so much, I've got to go.


जास्याईhyungघना  PJinyedana, solutions  בת купed या ण्राहा, या धिलट़ा अयौन आश्विए टाध आस्वोग़रा ॄती णौझ hasta buying आ� 小 भाजाता of what you think if you ask me one thing that UPSC is testing is your personality nothing else in terms of your commitment for development your ability to interlink things your personality in terms of your strategic planning your critical thinking skills because if UPSC was testing your knowledge alone they would have gone to the best college of India and taken the purpose from there good loyala college, the top 10 ranks make them a yes good presidency college, the top 10 ranks good variety is top 10 ranks none why are they putting you through the process writing and everything why is the thing of essays so whatever personality tests they could not do they say now take up essays and essays are topics you could not have anticipated the topics you could not have prepared for at all they are saying not right spontaneously let's see how you mind things because if I give a topic to you and you know they can ask you you get prepared for it, no simple thing essays are designed to surprise you and now give me your write up on this and they are doing this in GS papers also by asking surprise questions link tectonics and isostasy I mean it's impossible to think about the question let's see what you do you might give me a poor answer but if it's logical I'll take it let's see what you think about it you need desk there so L3 question I say is your personality thing so when you are preparing for the examination you have developed that development sensitivity I mean I wish I had more time I would have taken up an article in current affairs and I would discuss with you how an article should be read what to pick up from the article not simply mining facts mining facts is what your YouTube channel guys are doing what content you are getting is doing but thinking on the questions is this level of preparation at least be aware of this how to do it I mean God willing if I get a chance and the systems allow us we can think about it be aware that this is what they are doing so the typical approach we really have is you prepare from base to what stop my approach is you must do this but also start developing like this this is what we call as I give a content to memorize and you add down this is an analytical approach the why approach the vision approach I am trying to establish the fact why you have to go beyond the foundation course and this applies as said for everything that you are doing your GS work your optional work whatever I am saying you are doing the beginnings can be level 1 answers level 2 answers you ultimately must graduate towards this that is the approach I would recommend I have found an acronym for this it is entirely my indigenous creation I call this as the uva approach uva is in you always understand the topic v is the vision the vision of India's development the vision of what is liberty the vision of what is democracy and a is the approach that applied aspect what can you do about it and you as in I mean your personality if this idea gets ingrained in you that UPSC preparation is not syllabus completion that is the easiest thing you can do UPSC preparation is not current affairs coverage it is not simply newspaper reading it is something much more where you must elevate your personality itself and I am telling you 100% I have interviewed so many of them and many of them touch would have been part of my classes those who qualify they are a very very different personality very different from the regular students who otherwise have some other type of issues so be aware of this thing yes initially your focus has to be course completion do the notes diligently memorize the facts wherever you can you have to read the basic books that is the base content on that you develop a personality that is why I always say this the preparation actually is very easy preparation you know why because most people are not able to transit on this side most of you get trapped at the base level itself if you know some small tricks how to elevate yourself the game is over others can't keep match so the examination looks very tough in some ways but if you know that nuance the technique you can elevate yourself to the next level it is a very easy examination it is difficult not to get a rank if you are aware of that next level so anyways I have found an acronym that works for me and I am focusing on this aspect so your advanced course gets into this one your enrichment content is about this vision approach where you are applying whatever you have read having said this now this I think is whatever I told you till now that is part of appreciating examination in terms of what is required now this I think is a very important part of setting a process right so I will share something you decide whether it works for you or not now this is I think I hope you all can read this can you I will read out if you have because I know it is a bit too small for most of us okay so you a timeline in terms of months the years 24 25 and this is what you should do and I am talking about geography for now because that is my mandate okay some other session may be GS so you are now here geography foundation 6 months will take me 6 months from August up to January end okay or maybe early step 6 months this is not enough there is a part called a geography advanced course okay and if you are giving a prelims the time between prelims and the mains you know how many days is that anybody knows how many days come on you should be knowing your fingertips so approximately 90 or days if generous maybe 100 but 90 approximately may end examination June, July, August and mid-semptom is examination okay effectively it is less than 90 days because after giving a prelims you all will go through at least 20 days of trauma whether qualified or not qualified according to Shankarayis answers according to XYZ answers I am there I am not there one month less you are always bargaining there you will definitely waste 25 days there and examination 10 days before that you all will go crazy you will not know what to do if you are really a good student and working hard you will go absolutely nuts so I say your effective days are essentially month of July and August because June you will spend debating whether qualified or not if not qualified you will have another one month of morning and if unfortunately you go unfortunately because you have lost one month now the effectively have month of July month of August so if I look at actual study days it is just about 70 odd days in 70 odd days can you learn answer writing in 70 days can you learn answer writing can you learn essays writing can you finish the higher level content you cannot do that right that is one question second question I am asking all of you is before prelims how much time should devote only for prelims any ideas 4 months 3 months 5 months somebody said how much time do you need for prelims exclusive preparation 3 months 4 months so if the month of May is examination at least march onwards so I will say start from feb itself feb march april whatever may you have right so if you start prelims preparation from feb onwards and after prelims you have 70 days for main readiness when should you finish your main preparation got the logic all of you here you cannot afford to leave the main preparation for after prelims after prelims is memorise revision memorise gift test memorise that is all see if you are giving your prelims in the month of May 24 when should your course get over then latest correct all of you and which course foundation or advanced course advanced course not foundation you have it is like on first of feb you have your main again I am on my main you require that level of proficiency if you delay this even if you clear the prelims what will you do with it that is my common question if you clear the prelims and you are not main study it is waste right and it is a criminal waste because prelims clearing itself is a huge task you know you spend months together some of the years together practising and praying and qualifying and then qualify what a sheer waste so if you are giving a prelims the approach has to be I will give the prelims when my main is ready not the thing about main when the prelims are over you don't have time for that if you start now then advance is done and you have got Feb, March, April what I call as prelims program what are we doing main revision program main revision whatever you couldn't do do it now so your method depends on you knowing your timeline properly so just have some jottings on this I just put that month and now it is august 23 you must finish off your main readiness not later by january okay then get into your prelims study what I call as prelims program whatever it is and then of course you can get into your interview preparation that's the cycle that you need if your main scores is going on up till March, April not years attempt is over you have no chance when I say main study I mean both I mean foundation and I mean advance and so writing test proper and advance concepts of healthy level my intention and not what I am doing here with your mind my intention is not to scare you or confuse you my intention is tell you what the reality should be then you go back and plan what is to be done how you will manage how many hours you will study and then your main follows after that so if you are doing a GS also same approach you must finish GS by jan I think you guys are having 5 hours of class most of you is required you have got no other way out and do it that way fine can I move on from here now so you wrote it down may I give you that paper if you want take it from there also that is my recommendation that we have now the cohort that you are if you think i must wait and do this then do it it has to be your conscious choice as institutes we have not supported but what works best for you think on that talk to your teachers, talk to your mentors and make a wise decision okay, nevertheless i said there are 2 of you who are there 24 attempts and 25 attempts now my recommendation is this if you are a 24 attempt student and you are starting okay, you are optional now or maybe it began a month ago then you have no time for that once course what you should do is do the foundation course in january apparently you are doing GS course according to doing from january, shut geography and after privilege you join the main support program which will be a very fast program okay to finish and get ready for the main examination in geography it will be tough but you have got no other option i will not recommend that you join foundation and advance together right now because the timings are different and you end up having 2 classes here and you are doing 2 classes in GS that's a crazy planning if you ask me you should not be doing more than 2 classes a day remaining timings go back and read revise books, memories, make your notes okay, so if you join geography with GS and you are planning for 24 examination then please don't join advance course in geography GS, your institute will help you what to do for geography do the foundation give your prelims examination then these 2-2 and half months we will do what is best possible but then give the examination light to work clearly in UPSC i don't believe in trial attempts it's absolutely nonsense no trial required you want trial take the prelims on your own because no matter how bad a preparation if you give the examination there will be an expectation there and no matter what if you don't clear, you feel very bad about it and as the attempts increase you always will have a guilt oh my god, i wasted that time so don't give any trial attempts please give the prelims like you want to qualify like i'm jumping out of a building clear the gap and land on the other side it can't be a trial jump what's the point here because the examination is not that easy i'm a stress artist i'm switching between rows i don't have a trial jump there trial jump to another level okay but in the performance you must jump to clear it then your effort makes sense so your planning now would be i will definitely clear the prelims accordingly i'll study i cannot do the entire foundation of the optional whatever optional you have and then because of your plan whatever is time remaining between prelims and main will go intense on this and you'll get ready for the main it is not the perfect method but this is the best method as students if you come to know i won't advance course also i'll sell it to you but my recommendation to the teacher is don't do that you only mess up the preparation it will impact the attempts in the next year that's a 24 recommendation for those who are preparing for 25 what i'll say do geography foundation right now with us do your GS along with madam you are doing then the advance course and everything to join from next year's august september month because what happen is in 3-4 months you'll consolidate your proper geography you'd have read all the books the GS in command you have when i start the advance in the august month or september next year when you be with me because what process and for you guys for 25 25 should be a definite year to qualify when you give the prelim goes in 24th try your best try your best if you want to qualify be pragmatic be wise there and accordingly study is it okay all of you any questions here yes so i'm repeating geography we have two stages here and i explain why you need two stages and the timing is important when you must start off with what stage any questions you want to clarify offline online any questions you want me to ask you want me to clarify answer fine so i think if you have let me know eventually okay so i've explained this to you so when i start the conversation and my suggestion is don't look for the easy way out easy way out is fooling yourself easy way out is conning yourself you are cheating yourself there is a process to it there is a scientific method to it and people who qualify they are capable of doing that and one of my students told that to me and i appreciate that i'm sharing with all of you in a class there are two type of students one who we call as rankers they'll work hard different way and they will clear it the underground students who we call as bankers they are for making helping me make money you decide where you want to be every ecosystem earns like that as teachers my job is my job is to convert you into a ranker but to do that use your mind your understanding to be a mind blind student one thing i repeat in the class every time if you want thinking students aspirants who can think understand the process so all of this is to help you understand the process take a leap and dummy so no easy way out be rational you think you choose and hang on there is no shortcut there is a process you can't bypass that there is a method to it do it properly you'll qualify first, maximum second edin maybe and my recommendation all of you will be when you enter the UPS preparation be willing give 2-3 years of your life it takes time because partly because our school systems are not really up there in terms of UPS demands another reason our IT entrance is at another level schools are not there that's why we need a gap preparation called as your coaching institutes the reality is the level is high type of mathematics you are taught reasoning you are taught cat examination another level the reality don't creep about it UPSC in some ways is a method of all examinations requirement is really very high and I have seen people qualify people coming from very regular baggage in fact the paper sometimes qualify because it requires a persistence it requires commitment there be willing to give 2-3 years of life it's never a waste trust me I have no cell begging on the streets today UPSC carrier is giving lot of money also in terms of salary crazy money the starting salary is institutes can be as high as 1 lakh, 2 lakh, 3 lakhs also if we give one interview in Delhi it's a crazy salary you get and I am happy why because it attracts good talent to them don't be scared about ok if I don't qualify what ok life will give you a chance but do it properly 1-2 cognizant of fact that this is a very long process in a long process you have to get 3 things right your approach has to be right you have to have realistic timelines for yourself and third the support system must be right it's like you know if there is a small half degree difference here by the time I am launching my rocket I will end up in mass ok small distance a small error I can rectify but long distance may a small error here can take you somewhere else UPSC is that long distance marathon I use this at age that when you are running very very fast and very very sincerely make sure you are running in that direction if a direction is wrong you will end up in wrong place faster so get a process right get your timelines right and make sure you have people and support systems one small mistake here you will end up messing up your preparation not that your life will get become bad but the preparation will be destroyed and UPSC it difficult to come back and start again because it's a tedious thing so always nice to start in the right way from day 1 itself course could wherever possible that's one recommendation to all of you and third spend time studying the previous questions ok studying the right sources I am a big fan of studying from the books because notes alone will never suffice it is in mind and you are on now last conversation before I wind up it's almost time there are issues about how to teach when I was invited I have been very excited like I said it's a new geography I am exploring whether I can teach beyond daily or not when Shankara is reached out and madam reached out more than happy there but the problem is I cannot be physically present here to teach you it's not possible so what we are thinking is a type of hybrid model where you must study life I am not a great fan of recordings every time recordings if it doesn't work out be part of life classes so I think we are thinking on the screen teaching and live interactions you can ask your doubts to me and I will come down with me and my team there are 3 teachers I take almost 70% of the classes and then we have 2 other teachers the dimple madam is there something else also supported by the mentors we will come down here couple of days in a month and put your process properly it's a willing to study with me with our team with the collaboration we are more than happy to be there it is an exciting thing for us but this was a limitation it's impossible for me to come here and teach here every day I would love to do that but I think technology has ensured that we can do otherwise also that's one and the second problem is the timing thing I am told you have got classes 30 classes at 12 o clock till 2 to 30 and I give the second half for the enrichment sessions it's not that the same slot will have the enrichment classes or advanced classes so we run 2 sessions the 2 sessions will run concurrently if you join them together otherwise you can do foundation right now and join the advance later on and those who have done the foundation already you should join the advance course immediately starting off I think September end and October start the advance course but for that I need your foundation must be strong that's 2 realities we must confront with having said talk to the institute you can reach out to us also whatever queries you have you can ask us we will try to clarify that and my wishes to all of you irrespective of where you study study well give it a best shot we are in very exciting times where for India suddenly lot of prospects have opened up we definitely want to become the best country we should be there in some way or the other and you can be part of that nation building so exciting time invest time into it and I am sure life will come out eventually much better that's from my side unless you have some questions to ask me online students I am interacted with you as much right now if you have some questions ask me and I will answer so thanks for my side I will wait for your queries if you have any I hope I did not I was not a drag on you guys we sat through started around 3-40-45 maybe and it's now 5-10 by my watch 1.5 hours approximately there is no question there when the foundation goes start when the foundation goes start so what we do in my institute is we run a relay race so we take admissions every second month so right now it's like in a topic a b c d e topic we can start from a and finish till z we can start from b the a will come end may we start from f the f a b c d will be done later on so in our institute we are starting from monday from tuesday rather we are starting off the climatology so if you guys are ok you can join and see how it works out for you guys so foundations course starts from and 6 months wherever you start you will be given 6 months to finish off so we are starting from today is sunday we will have one session tomorrow orientation and then we will have the proper class from tuesday 12 or 2 clock anybody else the next entry point will be i think but after next you have no chance for 24 attempt is already we tight the next admission will be probably in the month of october or november may be when i start off with your population geography the 3 entry points that we have in geography anything else any questions so what we require do not interact i could see some of you smiling but in general you are very serious serious i am not a serious man i always say we do not want serious we want sincere students laugh have fun enjoy the process ok and be sincere in terms of the commitments yeah thank you thank you so much anybody else in equations for the 20 or 24 attempts we joined both courses jth foundation and androence courses then again we want to join an enrichment program we do not need to do this twice one is enough but generally i say you must revise enrichment every second year if you have got 1 year of gap or 2 years of gap maybe 25 if you are joining then you should join again otherwise do it once you do not need to do it twice join advance program when is your when is the attempt 24 then do not join advance course right now you cannot handle it do too much for you then you join the foundation you are doing GS course here isn't it do the GS properly because it 4 class in a day is mad it is not a right target at all see if you join it is good for me i make money there but that is not wise you join foundation course and after prelims the 2 and half must we have will do whatever it takes it will not be a perfect preparation but good enough to qualify it will be touch and go but do not join advance now with GS going on parallelly you cannot handle it it will be too much for you you want you to be alive we do not want you dead in the month of January my recommendation is do not do that anybody else yes then you can join yes in 1 day 2 class is ok enrichment will start from September and October absolutely but make sure your foundation concepts are very strong all the revision is done command is there on that i will not teach foundation anymore i will take you next level entirely then you must join if you are planning for 24 you can join anybody else ladies do not ask here ladies are all over isro is all real ladies boys you have got tough race rank also of first 4, 5, 6 ranks the girls are taking it ok so we can see a clear difference one lady who is decided here otherwise is it deliberate or it is virtuous girls on one side boys on other side no i cannot deliberate it happens it is called as instinct i know it is a bit stronger south india i know that when i was in chinnai i was in the bus and the bus was empty types and i was tired i went and sat on the ladies seat and i was tired so badly by so many people i got down next stop itself i said probably i will get lynched by the time i reach then i realized the lines are very very strong here ok so i am alive any questions ladies nothing either i was too good or you guys are too smart to understand everything you have got no doubts online in equations there is one question there what was that schedule of the course what do you want exactly schedule you want the day wise so we have that you can check up our website and maybe i will share it with the Shankar academy also i will give the schedule to you no worries ok i cannot mention right now but we have a schedule free structure bad question to ask me ok so free structure is next department and the teacher will come and teach you ok so that is the next question we will handle afterwards anybody else yes tell me yes life courses are 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Let's see some penguins! Oh my god! Hi, I'm Lavi. And I'm Oli. And this is our hero, Bumblebee. Together, we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Join us for season 3, here in South America. Holy divine. She's a chef, top class. First class. I'm so local now. And what is this you're drinking? Ah, Matete. Do you say tea? No, no, Matetino, mate. Big mistake. Mate. Mate. It's delicious. We need our own cups. Hello. This is... The name is Chinchimoshe. Chinchimoshe. Chinchimoshe. Nice. Good morning world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 244 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We are here in the town of Puerto Madrin in Patagonia, Argentina. Yes, we spent the last few days here at this nice Airbnb with some chickens and some doggies. And our hosts are really friendly too. But let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here in Puerto Madrin. And today we are going to be making our way down the Ruta Nacional 3 and then coming off around here. Hello.  Coming off around here to make our way across to the reserve natural touristica, Punta Tombo. Punta Tombo is another incredibly special place here on the Patagonian coast because it's home to the largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world. Super, super crazy. I'm really excited to see them. So we have about 120 miles, which is about 200 kilometers to get there. And it's already nine o'clock, so better hit the road. Let's go. Let's do it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Gracias. Gracias. We see you. Yes, yes. Thank you. Chao chao. Okay, concentration. Yeah. So we've got a couple of dirt roads in these little suburb areas to get out of. And then we'll be making our way back to the Ruta 3. Yes, and then we have about 100 miles of nice tarmac road and the last 20 kilometers are dirt road as well. Yeah, to get to the Punta Tombo. Exactly. But yeah, I can't wait. So this whole area that we're in now is a brand new suburb of Puerto Madrin.  It's only six years old, this entire area. So all of these buildings and this whole area is pretty much brand new and they haven't yet done the roads. As you can see, this bay next to Puerto Madrin is famous for seeing the southern right whale. During a lot of the year, this is where they're, they have the young, they're nursing their babies, carving their young. So apparently you can see them here off the coast of this town during the certain times of the year. You can see them literally right off the beach. Not the right season for us. No, we have to come back. I think we have to do the whole trip again in a different time of the year to see all the things we haven't seen. We just did a little turnaround to stop and have a view. You can see over there a cruise ship or they say in the season time they have more than 80 cruise ships coming here. Like it's really, really busy town for tourism. Apparently from the high rises along the coast there at the back, you can see the whales just in front of their balconies. Pretty cool place, eh? Yeah, very cool. It's super windy out here on the open plains. This time of year in this region is just every day wind, wind, wind, wind, wind, wind coming down from the Andes Mountains and bringing across us over to the coast. It's a real crosswind. The wind is quite uncomfortable. And to be honest, it might continue like this all the way down the coast for the next 1,000 miles. Oh my God. You'll see. Awesome. Look at that. We've got a giant dinosaur at the entrance of this town, Treleo. And he's coming your way. Hurry up. Look at the size of this dinosaur. Oh my goodness. Whoa, look. We can actually stand underneath it. And this dinosaur actually is here for a reason because this dinosaur represents the skeleton of the largest dinosaur ever discovered. Was here in this area meet the largest dinosaur of the world in Treleo. Cool. Hola. Grande. Grande. So we are just coming into this town here called Gaiman. What's special about this town? Well, you can get a clue here in that under Bienvenidos is written Croeso. Well, Croeso is welcome in Welsh. So Gaiman is actually a town of Welsh origin. They have actually quite a lot of Welsh towns in Argentina. I mean where we were before Puerto Madrin and where we were with the big dinosaur Treleo and this place and many other towns across this region were actually settled by the Welsh in the 1800s. But we decided to come in and have a little stop in this town Gaiman because apparently here they have traditional Welsh tea houses. So it's actually very coincidental actually because here is a region where you can see whales and people from whales. There we go. The connection is made. There we go. Look at this. Historical. This is probably the main street. Oh maybe this is Loch Ness there. Oh no, Loch Ness was Scotland. Sorry. Look at this building. That definitely looks like something out of Wales. It says Tea Craig. It really looks like it's been plucked out of the Welsh countryside. Look here. It says Croeso and there's a big dragon. Cool. Yeah that is nice. And there's even a Welsh flag on the side of the building. Yes. Nice. So we've tried to check out a couple of tea houses in town. They are just serving in the afternoon. They're not open in the morning. I suppose it is called afternoon tea isn't it? That makes sense. You can see here the Welsh language name. Yeah, pretty interesting. So no tea and scones for us today then. They've got a Welsh flag on the way out as well. So we're just leaving Gaiman without a tea. And so now we are going to be making our way along to our main mission for the day which is to see a lot of penguins. Here we go. Here is the entrance to Punta Tombo. This is also where the the dirt road starts. So we've got 13 miles to get down to Punta Tombo. Yeah, I think we will stop and let our tire pressure down. Yeah. It's a good idea. And maybe have a small snack as well. And let's have a snack as well. Because it's already. Oh no. Look how deep that was. Oh man. I pulled off to the side. I thought it would be all right but it's like sand here. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Hola. Okay. Okay. Okay. Inglaterra, Alemania. Yeah, see. This is 20 kilometers. 20 kilometers. Okay. Not here. Thank you. Well, there we go. We get immediately on the dirt road and I'm just like, oh okay there we go. That's it. Okay, let's have a little break. I made some pasta two days ago and we have still some leftovers. So since two days we just eat for lunch and for dinner the same pasta. 500 grams of pasta goes a long way. Pasta for lunch. Pasta for dinner. Pasta for dinner. To make it a little bit more exciting because the spaghetti are cold we will make a cheese spaghetti roll. It's like a spring roll. But different. I hope everyone is proud of us because we have some fruits. We're also just hiding behind the bike from the wind. Break time over. Yeah, it's time to ride Bumblebee out of this mess that we're in. See if we can get out of here. Yep, yep, yep. We're going. Beautiful, there we go. Okay, we'll take it nice and easy. But it looks like the main part of this road is not that deep. Just the sides we have to avoid. Man, this is quite actually quite a deep gravel road to be honest. It's not too great but maybe I just have to get used to it a little bit. Okay, this bit is a little bit nicer. Yeah. It looks like the tour bus is already returning. We're a little bit late, hey. We're a little bit late to the party. Okay, this line looks good actually. Yeah, this line looks good. But you can't go right or left because I know, but I got the wind blowing me. The wind blowing me to the side. Yeah, you can see there's like piles of gravel on the left and on the right. We're just on this like narrow strip in the middle. Anyway, it's only 13 miles to reach the penguins. Yes, let's see some penguins. I've lost my line now. Yeah, I think there's no line. Now it's just gravel all the way. Yeah, it's a little bit soft. Here we go. Yeah, just follow the arrows. Oh yeah, we conquered another dirt road. Oh man. But this one was way, way worse than the other one. The gravel on this one. Oh my goodness. It's not that cool. But anyway, we made it. That's good. Yep. There we go. Some of the bike is here. Cool. Bumblebee. But you know what is super crazy that the other biker, he did the gravel road but with his tire like that. If we think that Bumblebee's tread on the tire is over, I mean, this one has like zero tread. Pretty crazy. We've got our tickets and there's only one thing left to do. See some penguins. There's Aquatico just next to the trail. Give them along this beach. Beautiful penguin home. Yeah, there we go. Penguin paradise. Yeah, it was absolutely amazing. Yeah, I know we'd already seen a smaller penguin colony on the Valdez peninsula, but the sheer scale of that place was just incredible. Just nests as far as the eyes could see. The beaches were just full of them.  Yeah, and we saw some babies as well and some little chicks. Super cute really. What a place. We've picked a place on Ioverlander. It's another petrol station one, hey? Yes, exactly. Another beautiful petrol station stop for the night. Yes, we have to see how we feel and if we can camp there I don't really know. We will find out. But yeah, we have probably another good three hours to ride now. And it's already five o'clock. Oh my god, five o'clock as well. I think we'll be able to make it there before dark. Yes, we will get there. Looks like that's the end of the dirt road. Yeah, awesome. Happy and alive. No, this is at the end, sweetheart. Okay, yeah, all right, tire pressure up. I'm just going to pull over over here. Perfect. We're back on the Brutern National 3 now and the wind is back a building. And I think that is our spot. It feels like 15 degrees or something. It's that wind, isn't it? It's getting all in our jackets and everywhere. Yeah, my neck too. Just pushing against the wind all the time. Oh my god, it's so tough, really. There's a neck workout. All right, I think we'll just feel up a little bit, shall we? Just saying we're having to do it tomorrow. Yeah, that's a good idea. Okay. Hello. Okay. Okay. Hello. How are you? Super, yes. Thank you. Thank you. 1050. Where are you from? England. Germany. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bye. You said it was okay? Yes, yes, really friendly. He just said, yeah, no worries. I didn't really understand, but he was smiling and saying yes. Okay. I think he just stayed over there. Maybe we can just put you up between the trees over there. Okay, I'll ride round. Okay. Yeah? Good evening guys. We made it. Happy and alive and exhausted. We're here at this little petrol station and they said it was absolutely fine for us to pitch our tent right right there. It was a really, really amazing day to see all these penguins walking around and being just in their natural habitat. It was absolutely amazing. Yeah, Punta Tompa was super impressive. But now it's time for us to go to bed. We did at the end 270 miles. It was really windy. Tough going actually. And that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the episode. If so, please give us a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Share the video with your friends and family. Comment below and we will see you next time. We're here in the town of Puerto Madrin in Patagonia, Alaska. Alaska. Alaska. Alaska. Alaska. Yes.


of renderings of different architectural potential plans that could have been built on the property. And this is part of a prospectus or a sort of a promotional brochure that my great-uncle had that he commissioned by Belt Collins and Associates, which was an engineering firm, published in 1958. And this presumably was intended to be given to potential serious buyers of the property. And as we have heard from our friend Ron Lindgren formerly also, sometimes do projects like this where they just drew speculative drawings of sites that were never going to be built just to make them more saleable or to attract buyers. And that's what this is. And it shows being built in the Hawaiian Islands at that time in the late 1950s. And this really looks like some of the hotels, small hotels in Waikiki, or even so, the Coco Palms Hotel, which was built at that time, including this very dramatic A-frame lobby. Yeah, and that's our other main hospitality king, Mr. Pete Wimbley, and you're referring to his sort of Polynesian top space. Oh, absolutely. Obviously. And it's interesting to see now how differently, yet also equally sensitively it has actually been accomplished to the next slide. And let's look at the gentleman that looks familiar to us. Well, that familiar-looking skinny man on the right is me in the early 1980s. And that's my brother, Alan. And in the background, although it's hard to see, the actual Honolani Hotel is under construction. And this is associated with development. My great-uncle, he was, again, as I said, the hotel under construction. Although you mostly can't see it. You can go to the next picture- Well, the next picture we can see more, yeah. Yeah, because in the next picture we can see, here's the entrance of the hotel. And he ended up working in Honolani after it opened because he was living on the big island. Here's the basic structure, although, of course, his uncle was invited to attend the other right, my brother on the left. And the lady is one of our cousins, sister-in-law, Rob here, the atri. Well, let's go to the next slide. And that actually illustrates that you guys could have met each other because this is the same event of the opening. And, Gary, you're on the very left. The fingers that was able to make these intricate little models. And you're talking and talking about that. And your wonderful wife Collette next to you and then also described to some of the other people that their function is the project. Yeah, they were sort of next to my wife would be Tokyo Land Company, Asakura and Usaki. And then the gentleman in the white jacket was Yoshio Tamaka, who was kind of the, he was the CEO at the Hawaiian region and the go-between, between the Tokyo company and the hotel development, the people that put the criteria together as far as number of rooms, all rooms, meeting space and so on. And then the Reverend Akaka, Nick Klotz and Patrick Bragg on the extreme right. Nick Klotz was also working with Yoshio Tamaka who was kind of instrumental in putting the hotel program together. So that's yeah, when it does the founding fathers. And this was a sort of special project for me because in 79, when I first started on the project and through several iterations to come up with the initial concept, Sherman Gordo, once we had the approval of the Hawaiian region, managers presentation with the, in Tokyo on December 23rd. So we planned our Christmas vacation in Tokyo and we carried a model of the concept and stayed almost true to identical to the model that was built back then. Anyway, early 14th, 1980, my wife and I were married and spent our hunting moon on the beach and we had built a tower and set up the wind machine at the views and then three years later, same date of the report beat. We had to develop it so it's always been a special place for us. And let's go to the next slide that gives us an overview and you were explaining to us that originally everyone was more, or you guys have been thinking about an all cottage concept, right? But then tell us why that changed and how it's now looking. Thank you, Chairman Gordo was very much in favor of the all cottage concept. The actual hotel operators who had been operating in the land region knew what the servicing costs for main servants and maintenance of having 350 rooms spread out on that site of how that would impact the economy to the project so they quickly got us in the direction of a more centralized building rather than... And we knew in order to do that we had to be in the six story realm. And then also we see the shape of the beach front portion of the hotel takes it safe from the existing beach. We also had a wind machine set up, arranged the different dining facilities where we had the best protection from the wind. So it was a process that happened through the design development or the layout. And again with respect to the site to integrate the beautiful fish ponds and the whole aspect of being at the special site bringing that into the hotel area. And if we go to the next slide here we see at the very bottom we see that iconic front end sort of being a ziggurat and basically wedged pyramid. At the very top left I threw in because J. Feidel charged me when we were talking about the project we were developing with his students which we called cargo, courtyard clustered which is basically a shipping container stacked naturally, forming as a pyramid. And he said it reminds me of the Kona Hilton and Kona Hilton is the one left of that and that's another Pete Wimbley project. So interesting would be great for another sort of table, panel discussion about these kind of synergies between you probably better save that for another show so that you can keep that in mind. If we go to the next slide Larry here and again to the left is our facility environment mandatory biochromatic check which we always do with every building and no surprise to us because just like the other appealing to a project they're very well balanced with the elements. If you look at the north area there's hardly any facade that really implies a sun and if it is the facade is basically shaped in a way that you can see at the very right picture and also everything is single loaded corridors so it's very easy breezy as we like to call it. The picture I have a little contribution to show too because the picture you see here I took when I was first experiencing a new building Larry that was soon after I arrived in Hawaii when our former dean had a advisory council meeting there in February 2013 and shame on me and please students don't do that what your professor did wrong I didn't do my homework I didn't familiarize myself who the architect was but I think in this case to the rule I wasn't biased I was able to actually fully experiencing without thinking about the ownership the authorship so here you can really see how you culture the facade using the sun as a co-designer so that's very impressive and the next slide is another picture I was taking off the lobby and the lobby just looked like again the facade of the lobby looked like the exterior facade of this area everything feels outside in and inside out very impressive so if we go to the next slide I remember from the literature Larry the original budget was like something 70 million and just recently a renovation has been completed that was budgeted for 100 million and we read and we read it ended up being $200 million and that's been completed and to the next slide for the next couple of slides they're from you Larry because you once again in your tradition you were there again for the reopening so please walk us through the pictures and share with us your impressions about how it has been remodeled in regards to the original so this is the view from the lobby looking out over the pool area and the nice thing that's happened is over the 30 years the landscaping had taken over and we lost a lot of the view to the ocean and so with this new pool area that openness has been brought back and I think that really something that overgrowing of the landscaping was lost and so it's very refreshing to have this view back and I think the only document that I mentioned we originally had a snack bar under that large beehive tree in the center and it kept the exchange in the manager because people always enjoy eating at the ocean side the the kitchen grew bigger the seating got to be bigger the more of a structure they had a total of facilities out there just got to walk a lot of the view so I think we're back to more of what was there originally okay let's go to the next slide and I'll turn towards the building and share with us your feelings about that big open dining Lanai Lanai was always there I think they maybe got a little heavy handed with the wool climbing because we didn't look as heavy with the white concrete post and beams so that it goes with the new wood suits and wood flooring they've added to the interior so they are kept some continuity I'm a little bit concerned about how well that will leather but we shall see on your problem to deal with Larry isn't somebody else's problem to deal with we should yeah and let's go to the next slide and thanks for shipping that in this photo because we have to say as you guys which always have the most respect that you guys for half a century trade stay true to your philosophy and through very sort of turbulent times of here we're talking the myth of post modernist you guys stay modern all the way through you guys work from the original partners and then through you guys so that's very impressive so and we see here and that's the entrance to share that you just showed us in the construction and here it still looks the same just a little bit and a little less heavy hand it touched up here with these three that's more touched lightly in this case I think the only thing we've lost there were moving the planter and the board on the beam that went through the workers there so again it's a maintenance item that we decided not to to continue with as in the interior of the atrium and third level were for planters with building vines coming down and a lot of that was required some maintenance that they just didn't feel was necessary yeah and that is actually a mention that because that's one of the very iconic feeling for signature elements is like the integrated planter of troughs that we always admire and we encourage all the clients to not be lazy and you know you guys designed it so and there's projects and not projects that we pointed out that they are still able to do it so we were encouraged to this hotel team especially when they spend so much money right they should be able to pull that extra mile really good point Larry let's go to the next slide with us a little bit of your impressions about the kind of processional you know towards the entrance of the hotel yeah I think the thing that was lost was the beautiful blue tile that we had to work for share all the way into the atrium to the base of the lobby but again it's a new a new approach to the inside and they were consistent with that team I think the bones still show too and things still still work we did have in the old design we did have some cori ponds and fish ponds on either side of the walkway to the entrance so it's been deleted so and let's revisit that in the second half of the show next time because these are things that were not mentioned there worth revisiting so let's go to the next slide which is actually a night impression of that so what you're saying it's very sort of blatant right it tries to show off it tries to your architecture was always very restrained and very humble very elegant and here they put some that we think and we will the next project you're going to show us is actually a project where you have very very cleverly perfectly done with the beautiful integrated aligning into the architecture but that's for later so let's go to the next slide and almost close on that one because we're almost out of time but this is a rendering here from the projection from when the project was still on the drafting board and in the marketing and so this is a computer rendering and next slide is pretty much the execution and share with us very quickly because we only have a minute left your emotions and feelings about what they made out of it you know I think a lot of the animation of the space was lost there where there could be a wide easier to see area where it was more animated with people and also again the fish farm so you can teach a lot of the fish in the hammerhead shark in the water but again it's a new a new look I guess so and let's contemplate more about that when we come back with a volume about Larry's tricker and his Mamalani hotel and until then thank you very much Larry for having been with us and introducing us thank you to Soto so you guys all stay safe and sound and say happy birthday from us Soto oh yes I will and until then please stay safe and sound and as tropical and tropical as rock


Here we go. Yes, you got a Vitamix. Okay. Can I really quick? Can I just make suggestions of what you should make first make these things first a green smoothie frozen mango greens? So easy so good next make green juice. It's a little different than a green smoothie. Yes You can make juice in your Vitamix. This is what we make our spicy green juice every morning every other morning The best Okay, now that you've mastered green smoothie green juice you need to make hot soup So make a tomato soup. It's Handful of ingredients turn it on for six minutes start to finish burning hot soup in your Vitamix tomato soup Dip will cover kind of sandwich you want in it Okay, next thing Give a nut butter to try to make it really easy on yourself Go into the nuts section of the grocery store and get a pack of Roasted peanuts don't make your Vitamix use the tamper push them down in the blade It's gonna take a minute a minute to two minutes.  We'll see you in the next one