Okay, next talk is up. Please give me a hand in welcoming Joshua and talk about what you need to see. Thank you and thanks for staying late. It's getting pretty late and I think mine is still... Is it the last talk in this room? No, there will be one after it seems. Okay, so thanks again. My name is Joshua and I will tell you something about the project called Deep Sea and especially which new features we have. I will start with explaining what Deep Sea actually is, how does it work and then I will come to the features. And so Deep Sea is a project developed at SUSE where I work. I'm one of the main developers for this project and it was created to deploy and manage CEP and it's based on salt, so we use salt to actually make it work. I will just explain in a second what salt actually is and this is a follow-up talk which was given by Jan which is also the organizer of the SDS rooms or thanks Jan. And yes, so as promised the salt is a configuration and remote execution configuration management remote execution engine which is highly extensible with Python so you can write your own modules and you can use Jinja as a templating system. As I said, it's here to deploy and manage CEP. Since you're in the software defined storage room you basically should know what CEP is but I will just give you a very brief introduction. So it's a free, it's basically copy paste from Wikipedia so you can read that up as well. It's a free software storage platform and it implements object storage in a single distributor cluster and it provides interfaces for all the major things like object, block and file. So how does deep-sea work? For that to understand we basically just need to get some salt concepts so just to be on the same page I will make it very quick. Basically we have to know about states, that's what salt uses to do certain things on a machine which for example like installing a package, configuring whatever service and there are orchestrations which allows you to group these states and so let's say you want to install very different set of services and want to apply them or whatever you can just group them. It's a very abstracted way to look at things and that comes in pretty handy for creating such a system. That was wrong, right. So we use that level of orchestration to make concepts of stages. So this concept of stages is something that deep-sea invents and it's just a way to look at certain operations and make them more approachable. So we split up a complete, let's say, so we use this kind of concept of stages to group these states or to group operations by topic and so we have five or at least we have six stages to be fair. The last one is a bit optional because that actually moves stuff and so these stages do certain things like stage zero, does setup of a cluster, it installs all the necessary packages and all that stuff. The second one, the first one does discovery and configuring but that's not really important, it's just for the record. We should just jump in right into a demo just for you to see how things work. This is obviously prerecorded because I don't want to face the demo gods, just always, it goes bad. That is sped up by times three. So in this demo, I will run the just stage zero just for demoing purposes. They kind of look the same, they just do different things. Here the stage zero, as I said, is the preparation phase. It takes care of installing everything. And you can see, we are parsing and I will go into what's actually happening here in a second. So here you can see that we also do validations and stuff so this is how it actually looks like when you deploy a self cluster with DPC. We have warnings or when something is green and then it just goes over and does stuff. As I said, it's times three. So I think you get the idea, right? Here it's installing packages, it's syncing, it's pushing files back to Armenian, it monitors processes and stuff like that. Right. And that brings me already to the features and you just saw in this demo, you just saw the first feature. So usually salt isn't very verbose. It's actually very terse in what it's actually showing you. When you, so who of you know salt? Who of you has worked with salt? Not that many people. So when you trigger a command with salt, it doesn't return you anything until it's done. When it's done, it gives you a nice output and it has like colors in it and it's all good and it gives you a pretty good report. But until that time, it's just showing you nothing and if the operation is bigger, which it is in a big cluster, then it might be that you wait for like 10 minutes and think that it's maybe stuck or then you will abort it and stuff goes wrong. So there is something like the salt event bus, which you can attach to and then look which events gets emitted and which states are finished, which modules have been executed and which modules have been successful and whatnot. So those events and so the event bus is basically, it's nice to look at when you know what's going on but when you're not really sure, it's super cluttered and you just can't really read it. So what we did, we wrote a wrapper, actually Ricardo wrote wrapper, he's sitting here, and we evaluate the files. So we pre-render all the states because we need to pre-render because it's YAML files templated by GINJA and then we can, where we get an idea of what the states will execute when we actually run them and then we attach to the event bus and then we just match the states that we just executed with the state that is being sent to the event bus and that's where we get this representation. So with this, we can actually check or give you a better feedback when things actually completed or if they failed right at the moment when they were executed and not 10 minutes after. Ceph has different services and those services are usually installed on different nodes so it's kind of natural to think in a role-based approach. Those roles are self-specific. So there are monitors, there are OSDs. Since two versions, there are also managers and there's a Radius Gateway, an MDS for CephFS exposure, ISCA-Z, NFS-Gnacia, and there was OpenAddict, which is the management framework which uses Grafana and Prometheus, but I will get to that in a second. So that's a concept that Deep-C implements and allows you to specify these roles which then later gets installed. As I just said, there are this OpenAddict role which also implements the monitoring side of things, but we actually want to split that out because there is the Ceph Manager dashboard, which is now built into Ceph itself and that's where the data is actually represented and we just scrape it with Prometheus profile. We also do, obviously, operations because it's not only there to deploy, but it's also there to manage stuff. So that's not a new feature. We have always been able to install various packages, obviously do various basic configurations, add new OSD, which is like the object storage team and we're there as being processed and decommission the same thing, like on an OSD level, on an node level. This is basic stuff that you just need to have when you want to manage a cluster. And we always did updates. So when your distribution just sends in new updates, on iteration over these stages, you get new updates applied and we also did automated restarts if there is a new kernel. So if it actually is required. So we still do updates. Well, it's, yeah, we still do it. It's obvious, but we do it a bit more sophisticated now. So when there are pending updates, we not only just apply them, we also look at them and then we apply them and then we flag certain roles. So for example, if there is an update for one specific service, then we flag the service in the next iteration of one of the stages. Only this service will be restarted if it's required. So we, for example, look at the list of open files and when there is deleted, then we just restart the daemon to not run into very bad situations when you restart the daemon after you just apply three major software updates. What we also do, we do, so we, Ceph has a configuration and there is only one big configuration and we internally split that up. So every daemon gets his own configuration that allows us to track configuration changes. So we compute checksums and then when somebody changes something in the configuration file, we compute the checksums and then compare them and restart only the corresponding services on the next stage in location. So just to be a bit more fine-grained and don't restart everything all the time even though it's not necessary. What we also added are health checks. So the thing is that salt is very good to run things in parallel. That's nice. When you want to spin up a cluster, when you're just going from zero to a running cluster, you can be really fast, you can just execute everything at the same time but when you're operating on a live cluster, you don't really want to execute everything at the same time because bad, bad things can happen when you, for example, have a bad update in your channel and then you apply it like on all your nodes at the same time and yeah, I think you know the bad stories of that one or you just push the configuration, mist up the syntax and then everything blows up and you have outage, all your clients get disconnected and it's just the same with kernel crashes and there is a longer list of things that can go wrong if you do everything at the same time. That's why we actually moved over to a sequential approach with intermediate health checks. So we check for things like is the node up and running after you, for example, did a reboot when you restarted the service, did it come up again? Are the amounts present? Is the system D unit in a proper state? Is, of course, self-health OK because when you restart multiple nodes, it can't complain and if some of these conditions are not met, we abort the operation, the stage and then you as an administrator can interfere. I just talked about monitoring. This is just for the record. We use Prometheus to scrape the data and Grafana is a time-serious database with neat little dashboards. You can just look at this. There is one more feature which was tough and it's still tough. It's migration and for those who know SAF a bit better, there is and was Filestore which was the de-factor standard for a long, long time on this format but the recommendations change over time. So right now it's BlueStore and eventually in the future it will be something different. In order to get the new, latest and coolest on this format you kind of have to redeploy your cluster because there is no direct migration path offered from SAF. So we also try to find a way to make this less painful redeploying something. So this is why we use this kind of controlled way of killing an OSD and bringing it back up with the new format and in between applying checks and all that stuff so that we try to be very user-friendly. We have also different modes like the more aggressive one which goes up per host operation or a bit more careful which goes on a per OSD basis. We also do upgrades like from one release of your operating system currently only open SUSE and SUSE, sorry and also of the SAF version to the next. Also here we leverage our approach of sequentially going over each node and being super, super careful of not breaking things by applying basically the health checks after each operation. Also a neat little feature which basically sounds horrible in the first place which is a staged shutdown but if you want for example to have a data center move from one place to another there is actually a recommended order in which you should shut down your services and that's why this feature is there. We also apply app armor profiles by default tuned D, not enabled by default but we at least shipped the profiles. Oh yeah. And so that's a feature that's a bit crazy and it was never fun but so there's this engulf feature and we took the name engulf because this project called Deepsea and it's, it deploys SAF and we tried to be a bit more in this maritime kind of type and so this feature was implemented to make a non Deepsea cluster which was deployed by whatever SAF deploy or even manually or SAF Ansible or whatever and then make it a Deepsea controlled cluster. The tricky part was that everybody put his configuration files wherever he wants and everything was a total mess and it kind of works now and it's always worth a try if you want to switch over to Deepsea we have a method of doing so but take it with a grain of salt it's pun intended but this feature is special so you should take it with care. We also, you also can do benchmarks when you spin up your cluster and you just bought new hardware you also want to benchmark it you can do a baseline benchmark leveraging SAF Bench you can do RBD benchmarks with FIO SAF is also with FIO One thing that we added too late were unit tests this project evolved out of a prototype and we were kind of late in writing unit tests but we caught up pretty fast now but the more important part is that we now have not only unit tests but also integration on smoke testing and that is actually implemented in SAF's own testing framework called Toothology so we have an easy way to define certain parameters let's say this distribution X number of amount of nodes this kind of services that we want to have and we expect this and this to happen and then it just installs and it's super cool you should definitely have a look at Toothology if you want to learn more about SAF we can do purging that's nice if you have a proof of concept cluster when you go to a user, customer, whatever you just want to show something, tear it down you mess something up, you buy new hardware then you want to test it again you spin it up, purge it down and why Deepsea is also great for proof of concepting is because that it actually requires almost no human intervention because we always try to get very sane defaults there's only one step where you have to interfere and this is step two before stage two where you actually assign host names to certain roles and that's what you kind of have to do because we can't really tell or we can't find out what you want to have that's just, you always have to do that but otherwise you can just run through them and after depending on the size and depending on the speed of your nodes like 10 minutes later you have an up and running SAF cluster but we, as I said, we rely on sane defaults but also at the same time we use salt which is highly customizable and highly configurable so you can basically do everything on your own you can even swap out even your own states and just messing with it it's not really recommended but you can do it you can do it, it's, the framework is there for it so that was basically the end of the features first of all I want to thank my employer for sending me here and also for supporting the Deepsea project which is upstream also want to thank the team Eric Jackson who was the original creator Jan, Tim, Ricardo and Nathan which is the guy that mainly was helping us with pathology and the ORT mode for those who don't know the ORT mode is a pretty neat little thing of organizing tasks and you can write in ORT mode a presentation and export it as a reveal.js presentation which this presentation is so, and you can find it here all the links, the links to the Deepsea it's under the SUSE namespace my slides and my github, email address and with that, thanks for your attention and I'm done so the question is if we have more plans to add more sophisticated features like crush map manipulation that's not the scope of this project I would say there is a crush map editor or will be a crush map editor in the self-manager dashboard if I'm not mistaken maybe eventually there will be one but that won't be probably not Deepsea's land I think right now there's a separation of using Deepsea to deploy the extra cluster and then use the dashboard for it right, good, thank you


Hello, everyone. I'm here alongside Julia Viglietta. I'm just, so for the night, Julia, your offensive, your first set, excuse me, the offense, you guys played extremely well. You outscored them 25-9 in the first set. What contributions, not first from yourself, but other players on this team led to the high scoring that you guys put up? Yeah, I think we served really well. We got them out of system a lot, and that allowed our defense to be set up. And our setters and our hitters were connecting really well, which also contributed a lot to that. And yeah, I think from the service line, that was the biggest thing, is getting them out of system and allowing us to score points. And in that second set, at the very start of it, it was very back and forth. How are you guys able to pull away late in that second set? Yeah, I think, honestly, we have a lot of great leadership this year. A lot of the upperclassmen are really the pillars of this team. And I think they do a good job of, in situations where it's back and forth like that, they do a good job of grounding the team, just making sure that we're not in our heads, we're still being steady and just pushing out of those divots, I guess. And what was that message in the last, in the third set in the last time out? Yeah, so we really just wanted to score as many points as possible. We obviously switched some things in our lineup to get some of the younger players in, which was really great. I think it was definitely a team win. And so yeah, he just, Trumbo just wanted everybody to contribute and I think we did that, so. And lastly, you have two very important road matchups, this weekend and next week, against Elizabeth Town and Messiah. What are you expecting from those teams? Yeah, so Elizabeth Town has been great in the past. We played them here last year, so now we're traveling to them. So we're definitely expecting, you know, it's their home court, so they're gonna be coming for us. And the same with Messiah, we're going to Messiah. So I think we are just preparing to be mentally tough and play in a really tough environment, so. All right, I appreciate it. Thank you so much.


Hey, Bolo Buddies. Thanks for watching. My name is Courtney, also known as Bolo Buddies, and I sell things that you walk past. Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. It's from my little pony. Amazing, right? All right. Let's get started. In this video, we're going to talk about my bread and butter Bolo's items I sold on eBay for $35 or less that I picked up cheap at thrift stores, estate sales, garage sales, you name it, the Goodwill bins, just anywhere and everywhere. I source low and I sell for a profit, and that's what I do for a living, and I love my job. So in this video, I'm going to tell you where I got it, what I paid for it and what it sold for. And I would love for you to let me know in the comments if you sell these types of items or if maybe some of the items I've picked up in this video have maybe given you some ideas of things that you may want to try and source in the future. Let's get started. The first item I sold is this Boyd's Bear, and I'm going to tell you right now, this thing was listed for a very, very, very long time. I do pick up Boyd's Bear plush. Now, a lot of people do not pick these up. If you can find the Boyd's Bears minis with the little sweatshirts that say things, those can sometimes sell for over $100. Those are definitely a bolo. The regular-sized Boyd's Bear, they don't go for as much, but they are great bread and butter. If I can get them for $1 or less, I am going to pick it up. I am patient, and I will wait for the right buyer to come along for something like this. This came from a garage sale.  I went into the garage sale. I said, how much for all of them? So my cost of goods was less than $1 each. They were all in fantastic condition, and some of them sold super fast for $30, $35. So that was great. I made my money back very, very quickly. This one was long-tailed, took a long time to sell, but I still flipped it for a profit. This is Little Red Riding Hood. I sold this for $12.39 and the buyer paid shipping. The next item is this dollhouse wood bendable toy figures. I could not identify these. I just knew that they would sell. I just had a feeling and they ended up selling really quickly. The condition was fair, not great. Some of them had condition issues from being played with. I picked these up at a thrift store for $1 and I sold these for $27.90 plus shipping, and that was unbranded and they still sold. This car right here, I got this out of a thrift store mystery box and it's from 1980. It did take a long time to sell. I don't even know why I listed it. This is not my type of thing. I usually bundle cars up because I don't want to take the time to research it, but for some reason I listed this one. I ended up selling it for $9.30 plus shipping. It did take a long time to sell. I got this over the summer. No, it was last summer. Let me see. I can tell you. Let's look and see when I listed this. I listed this in November of 2022. I guess I bought it. That's a weird time to go to a garage sale. Maybe I let it sit. Maybe it sat in my money pile. That's probably what happened. That would not surprise me. I think this sat in my garage for a while. November, that's not too bad. I got this at a garage sale. I paid $5 for it. The reason I paid $5 for it, that's paying up a little bit for me. I usually like to be around $3 for stuff like this, but it was in the original box. It had all of the information. It was numbered and I was like, all right, I'll give you $5. I ended up selling this for a best offer of $34 plus shipping. It's a vintage Star Wars Episode 1 Queen Amilda. I don't know how to say that. Miniature applause, 1999 first edition figurine. That's what it looks like. These brass butterflies took a really, really, really long time to sell. They were heavy. I don't know if they're paper weights or just decor, but they're really, really cool. But they were long tail. I got them at a thrift store for $3 and I sold them for a best offer of $25 plus shipping. I may have just had them priced a little bit too high.  Why am I showing you this? Because it's clothing and I don't do a lot of clothing anymore, but what I like about when I did do clothing is I would buy things in quantity and I could list it and forget it. Oh, they changed how this looks. This looks different to me. So eBay is definitely making some changes right now. So I have sold six of these and I have six available. I do have them listed low. I think I paid less than a dollar each for these. Now here's the problem. They look black, but they're really this color, which is kind of a weird color. I don't even know how to describe this color, but if you look at the original photo, they look black and I have them listed at $5 and 26 cents. Best offer. I take best offer. So what did I sell these for? These ended up selling for, oh, they must have bought more than one, $8 and 49 cents plus shipping. So they bought probably two pair. Vintage plush elephant mom and baby stuffed animal from 1997, got this at the Goodwill Bend, sold this for $13 plus shipping. This is a vintage Florensa bobble head turtle bobbing nodder with red velvet pin cushion. Look how stinking cute this is. This came out of a Dibble box that I got from Donatella Bottolino that was purchased for me from I Buy Chit. That's C-H-I-T. It's just a play on words. He's super awesome. And he said send her a box from me. So if you want to see that unboxing, it is on my channel. Lots of great vintage, really cool items in that box. A Dibble box is a Dibble bit of this and a Dibble bit of that. Donatella is mostly over on what not now selling, but she is still doing the Dibble boxes over there. So if you guys are not on what not and you are interested in a Dibble box, here's what you need to do. Go down, join what not with my referral link. You're going to get $15 of free money. Then you can go follow Donatella, but don't forget to follow me because I'm selling over there too, but follow Donatella. It's just her first name on what not. And when you go into her live show, ask her if she has any Dibble boxes. And sometimes she puts those in the buy it now. So that is what she is currently doing. So that's just a little update. You used to get them on her YouTube channel. Now she's selling them on what not. All right. The next item I sold is this Eric Carlisle Plush Bear Lovey. And I knew that this was going to sell quick because it is Eric Carlisle. He is a book writer and very, very popular. And this is Stinkin Adorable. I got this at the Goodwill Benz and I sold this for a best offer of $19 plus shipping and it sold pretty quickly. Loveys sell good. Some of them are big money. Some of them are bread and butter, but there is always somebody looking for them and you always get the nicest notes with them. So I love selling Loveys. Another person who loves selling Loveys as the rebel reseller goes sub up my friend Rebel. I will link her down below along with Donatella Bottolino. So this next item is a Melrose and Market Black Sun Hat. This one I got at the Goodwill Benz. I think this was a part of my scavenger hunt with the dumpster diva. I could be wrong, but I think if you missed that, you can definitely check it out and also go follow the dumpster diva. She is incredible. I will link her down below as well. This hat I probably paid less than a dollar for by weight. If you don't know, the Goodwill Benz is by weight. So you fill your card up and they weigh it and they charge you by the pound. It is awesome and I have videos of me digging through the Benz. So if you haven't checked out those videos, go check them out. What an experience it is. I absolutely love it. Sold this hat for a best offer of $18 plus shipping. The next item are these Magic Tracks Replacement Green Car and Fire Truck. And I sold this for $13 and the buyer paid shipping. Those also came out of the Goodwill Benz. This is Disney Pixar Incredibles 2 Jack-Jack Attacks Replacement Raccoon. It is just the raccoon. I got this out of a thrift store mystery box and I sold this guy for $14 and 30 cents plus shipping. This is a Bucilla Christmas Felt Holiday Ornament Kit. It is open. I think it's complete, but not 100% sure. So I just put that information there and I ran it on auction. Got it for about a buck at a garage sale. Sold it for $10 and 50 cents plus shipping. The next item I sold is this Lama Dog Toy. And it squeaks and it has really bright colors. It's really fun and cool. It did not appear to have ever been used, but I was not sure, so I marked it as used. I got this at, where did I get this? I got this at the Goodwill Benz and I sold this for a best offer of $10 plus shipping. The next item here is this Vintage Barbie Tropical Splash Kira Doll. And I got her at the Goodwill Benz as well. And I took a best offer of, no, I'm sorry, she sold for my sale price of $12 and 40 cents plus shipping. And she came from the Benz. The next item I sold is this Barbie Club Chelsea Replacement Piece part. It's the pink, I put pink. I think that's purple. I should have put purple there. I probably did sell similar, but it's the purple and brown bear. These are replacements. And I got these out of a mystery box from a viewer. A viewer sent me a mystery box and I do have that over on my channel. And you can see everything I got, but it was a huge box of awesome, fun stuff that I parted out. And this is one of the items. I sold this for $13 plus shipping. And that concludes this video. Thank you guys. I've got jewelry for my what not show falling on the ground. I do have a jewelry show coming up. Lots and lots of jewelry shows coming your way. So I hope you guys will follow me on what not. Got side tracked by the jewelry falling on the floor. Thank you for being here. Let me know which item was your favorite. If you're new here, let me know how you found the channel. I also sell on Poshmark and Mercari and what not. So those are my platforms. eBay is my main platform. I start my items on eBay and I cross post them with list perfectly to Mercari and Poshmark. And list perfectly is awesome. It's a cross posting service. And oh my goodness, it speeds things up so much. As I always say, more platforms, more eyes on your items. I do have a demo video down below if you want to check that out. It's going to walk you through exactly how to use list perfectly. And you can either use the catalog or you can do it how I do it and just cross post directly from one platform to another. It's completely up to you. There's lots and lots of options and no one set way you have to do things. You do what works best for you. Check out that video. And if you think it's something you would like to try, you can use coupon referral code Bolo Buddies, all one word. And that will get you 30% off your first month. Also down below, if you haven't ordered your bubble wrap, if you're already using American Bubble Boy and it's time to reorder, I do have a link down below. I do get credit when you guys use my link. So I appreciate that. I've got some other affiliates down there. These are things, products that I use. And most of the time you guys get something if you use my link. So check out those links down below. You might find something that interests you. Let's see what else is down there. Worth points down there. You don't get anything for using that, but it does help me. So I appreciate it if you decide to use that. I do have videos on how to use worth point and how it has helped me make more money with my business. I put off worth point forever and ever and ever because I'm like, I am not paying that. And then I got it. And I was like, I should have got this long time ago because I have lost money by not having it. So I do have videos that kind of explains that. Is it pricey? Yes. Is it for everyone? No. Check out the videos I talk about who it's probably good for and who it's not. I don't know if it's good for clothing. If anybody knows, let me know in the comments. I don't use the marks, markings. I'm not really sure how that works. If you use the markings and you guys want to explain that in the comments, that would be awesome how it benefits you. If you think it's worth the extra money, it does cost more to get that. I think that's for like jewelry and pottery and stuff like that. I'm just bringing my jewelry to whatnot and saying, this is what it looks like. This is what it says. This is the mark it has on it. So I'm not really worried about marks anymore. I really struggle with jewelry as far as selling it on the regular platforms because I don't know how to describe stuff. I'm not good at it. I don't know what stones are. I bought one of those Presidium gemstone testers and it's great if you know what stones are, but I don't. And usually it goes into a margin of like three different stones and it'll fall. The little thing will fall into that area and I'm like, this does not help me at all. I have a video on me using it. Go check it out. It's a really, really old video. It probably says Presidium tester and you guys can see exactly what I mean. My husband on the other hand, he uses it just kind of to see if things are diamonds and stuff like that. So I'm glad I got it. I don't regret buying it, but I'm just not very good at it. So I'd rather bring it to what not, hold it up, show it to you guys and let you guys decide what it's worth. And sometimes I'm going to lose money that way, but that's okay because you're going to get a good deal and you're going to make a profit and I'm good with that. So check me out on what not. That's down below. If you're not on Mercari and Poshmark, I do have links down below for that. Also Poshmark, you get $10 to shop if you use my link and Mercari, you get $10 to shop when you join with my link down below. These are all referral links and $10 when you join with it and then another $20 when you sell $100 worth of stuff. So I like selling on Poshmark and Mercari. I was on Etsy. I have not listed on Etsy in so long, but if you're thinking about getting on Etsy, one thing that I will tell you, I was super, super intimidated by Etsy because I felt like all of the things that you had to fill in were really tricky and just confusing. And when I go from eBay to Etsy using Lisp perfectly, it simplifies that process. So in the future, maybe I will get more items on Etsy right now. I'm focusing on what not and just trying to keep up with a video a day and what I have going on with eBay, Poshmark and Mercari. So Etsy is kind of just sitting there hanging out right now. Now, will I use it more in the future? Quite possibly, but if you guys sell vintage items, it is definitely a great platform. So think about if you're on eBay only and you have vintage items, think about getting them on Etsy. So yeah, Lisp perfectly is great for that. All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching. If you're new here, let me know how you found the channel. Let me know which item was your favorite, which one you would have walked past and now you're not going to walk past it. And thanks for watching. Be sure to subscribe, like, comment and share.


Today, we would continue with another interesting dimension of the human adjustment process, where we would be talking about the general nature of the adjusted behavior. These things are too common sensically you all know it, but we are trying to know put everything in place, so that we understand the whole dynamics of the human adjustment. All human reactions are supposed to be holistic in nature, so you do not give fragmented responses when you encounter a situation rather it has to be a complete a wholesome response. Second important characteristics is that all the reactions are supposed to be economical you try your best to save as much as you can in terms of giving your behavior. Some of the reactions could be automatic some of the responses could be well planned. Then the reactions also have certain emotional components for example, if you are frustrated it is bound to elicit anger. If you have a perception of danger then it might trigger fear, if you have a perception of threat it might elicit anxiety. Little later when we come to aggressive behavior we will discuss it at length there we would once again look at this frustration aggression hypothesis, where basically it is told that anger is always triggered by certain sense of frustration. The moment you realize that you are helpless things are going beyond your control this is the last option of having control over the situation. And then reactions may either be task oriented or it might be defense oriented, so task oriented reaction would mean you remember when we were talking about that example where we took the whole range of reactions possible in one given situation. So task oriented reactions would be that you have the task at hand you break it into multiple components as many parts as you can and then for each of the constituent element of the problem you identify your solution a way of handling it you execute it. That could be one way if the task you know is too simple and there is no need to split it into multiple components then in the wholesome fashion you just know face it head on and then you try to resolve it. The other set of reaction would be defense oriented reaction where the idea is not to confront the situation and resolve it but the idea is to safeguard one's own ego. Task oriented reaction patterns and defense oriented reaction patterns little later in the same sequence of slides will come to them at length. Another important characteristics of healthy development are that one should have an adequate frame of reference. What actually frame of reference means is that with it would be you know take an example of say a photo frame. So you have a picture and accordingly you try to know have a frame of a proportionate size wherein that picture can be fitted in. The choice is yours what type of frame you choose but then the size of the frame you do not choose size of the frame is defined by the photograph. So similarly in our life when you encounter several type of situations gradually what happens that you start defining life and the way things are in this world in certain order and that starts now making a boundary within which you try to explain worldly occurrences. So this becomes a frame of reference now. So actually your accurate reality possibility and value assumptions these three things will come little later once again concerning yourself or the world they actually know get fitted into this frame of reference. Now frame of reference has a very interesting thing to do we will take a example of example say somebody who has overall by and large not so restricted life experience. Means you are the only child in the family you belong to an affluent background you ask your parents for certain things you get them very easily you go to a school where you are taken care of school tries to provide you the best facilities it can you can demand certain things from your school and the school will try to give you those things. You have found friends who by and large will surrender their own choices to yours and therefore by and large you have experience life as if I can get what I want my feelings my desires my way of thinking should supersede the others. If this is how you have been grown up gradually what happens you start looking world this way. So later on if you experience a situation where your choices are not being accepted your demands are not being fulfilled it becomes extremely difficult for you to adjust. And one of the primary responsibility lies with the fact that you have your own way of looking at things because you have never seen the life from the perspective of others. Let us take some real life examples I would not name but when the government of India suggested once that most of their ministers they should you know try to cut on their expenses and therefore they should fly economy class one of the minister even tweeted stating that economy class he compared it to cattle class this was the word that he had used. We do not take names here now so but you know who the person was we are not interested in who the person was or whether he was x or y in his capacity in his official capacity. But this shows the frame of reference you know because you have been born and brought up in a different situation for 30 years you have been at a very different place where you have not experienced life this way. Imagine economy class of air carrier in India to a general compartment of a train then it is equivalent to hell then if this is cattle class then what is the general compartment of a local train there are many many remote localities in our country where you know you have one or two buses connecting them from the cities and that too in a very bad shape it is all full of passengers. If you just go to the archives of some of these print media when two three years back when there was this flood in Koshy river in Bihar and you see the images and very interestingly you would realize that people are struggling for their own life but at the same time they are not ditching their kettles the goats, buffaloes, cows they would carry all of them goats and goats know many a times you would realize that on the shoulder you have a human maybe and you have a goat and then the person is swimming completely submerged in the water is trying to get out of that flooded area. Compare that type of cultural background somebody who has experienced life like that and you say that this is a cattle class there is a complete disharmony between the perception of the two individual. Somebody who thinks that saving life of my son is as important as saving life of the goat which I have with me. Somebody who says oh fine three passengers are made to sit very close to each other and there is a very narrow leg space and therefore it is equivalent to cattle class that reflects the frame of mind. Frame of mind what happens gradually is that with little experience you are still trying to draw the lines. Once you realize that you have experienced life sufficient and therefore you have drawn this line then you start evaluating all worldly affairs with respect to your frame of reference. So it is like the earlier example that we took that you take a photograph and then try to put it in a frame. You select a frame which will suit this size of the photograph but in life with reference to frame of reference that does not happen. You develop your frame of reference first based on certain life experiences and then all life experiences you try to fit into that frame. What is little demanding and also it makes excessive demand from an adjustment view point is that the moment you realize that your x life experience that you are trying to fit into your frame of reference does not fit you consider that there is something improper with the situation. You do not consider that my frame of reference needs to be revised. Say for example if I ask you that visualize when you hear certain words just visualize that word and tell me what type of image do you have. I will do that exercise here. Instructor of a course here in IIT visualize the moment you hear no instructor of a course what type of image comes to your mind. Now I will ask some of you tell me what type of image came to your mind. Person with respect.  So that is the image that comes to his mind you tell me what is the image that came to your mind. Someone who is very interactive. Someone who is very interactive. Yes you tell me what was the image that came to your mind. My image we had seen each other earlier but still that image came to your mind. Oh great it is not to please me sure. Yes somebody from the second you tell me what image came to your mind. Forty fifty year old person. Forty fifty year old person with specs. Color of the specs also came. Thickness of the glass usually it happens. This is how we visualize. Anybody else who had some peculiarity in the visualization compared to what you are. So by and large you had similar type of thing. Usually you think of gray hairs. So the more gray you are in terms of your hair the more knowledgeable you are. If you are bald very good. Spec should be little thicker. Shouldn't be stylish.  If you have little more wrinkles it suits profession. So something like this. Now when I ask you to visualize and you visualize things this way this means that say there is your visualization is driven by a frame of reference. Instructor should be like this. I am excluding his example. Now look at your earlier experiences right in the beginning of the semester. When you saw couple of instructors entering the room for certain set of courses that you have credited. And you realize oh I thought something else and the instructor is now grossly different from what I had visualized. This type of mismatch is many a time occurs in our life. The world doesn't behave the way we want the world to behave.  But this acceptance will come with due difficulties. It is not easy to accept it my frame of reference as an error. All instructors should be below this size no without specs completely black hairs or mixed hairs. Can have a specs but rarely uses it stuffs like this. Now if you extend it to certain things like say religious tolerance for example. Here you don't have a choice whether you like me or not. We have to face each other for the entire semester. But say for example when you have the choice of practicing one set of belief and rejecting the other practice it is much more simpler. You accept one way of life and you condemn all other ways which doesn't fit into your frame of reference. So in many situations you have to adjust in certain situations you can take the liberty of rejecting things to the maximum possible extent. Frame of reference gradually starts accepting your belief system what to believe and what not to believe. It starts coloring your entire perception. So all types of value oriented judgments start getting defined by the frame of reference. It gets colored because of the frame of reference and when you make certain assumptions your assumptions are also guided by the frame of reference. So by and large your frame of reference plays a very very important role when it comes to adjusting with the new life experiences. I am deviating a bit but if you are interested there are good amount of studies suggesting that achievement in certain domains of knowledge has a correlation with the age of the person. This is with respect to intelligence and creativity. So in with that respect there are based on research findings it has been proposed that in certain areas you excel because you are above a certain age. In certain areas you achieve because you are below certain age. For example major breakthroughs in philosophy has been seen when the person has crossed certain age. So you are above certain age maybe I don't exactly remember but perhaps 60 plus or so. When you can come forward with much refined versions of your thought and compare it with say a path breaking type of an idea in physics for example which will require you to be below if I remember correctly it is 28 or 25. This means that more and more information you receive in life. Your frame of reference starts becoming more and more brittle. So you want things to fit into the earlier frame and therefore you cannot come forward with a path breaking research. Path breaking research would mean that you do not accept any boundary that the earlier theories have proposed. And you can still imagine that although these theories have been proved they have proven this but there could be a possibility of completely negating this and going beyond it. So with more and more rigid frame of reference you start you know complying to the earlier versions and therefore you do not come forward with path breaking findings but that has to do with creativity and intelligence. Then we come to the other characteristics of healthy development that is essential competencies. You feel that there is a need to master certain physical, intellectual, emotional and social skills which are needed you know and that has to do with basically your age and it also has to do with your culture. So there are age specific norms in all the culture with respect to how much you should be capable of performing with respect to your physical abilities with respect to your intellectual capability with respect to your emotional stability with respect to your social competence. So say for example in terms of physical growth up to certain age the baby is you know pampered to crawl to you know suck thumbs to defecate urinate at the any place there is no bar on that. But gradually you realize that you know even in pediatric clinics will find that there are growth charts that by this age your baby should be able to hold objects and stand. And if you say that the baby is under performing means the baby has achieved that age physically but is not able to hold objects and stand firmly then the doctor says that there might be something wrong with the baby your baby requires medical attention. Now these are you know interesting things because there is a scientifically guided socially accepted protocol of physical growth. Now we will again do the same exercise know that you try to you know draw a line and then look at both the ends what would be the possibility. Now imagine a situation that you have come to a age where you are supposed to hold objects and stand firmly and you are not capable of doing that. Parents are worried society feels concerned about your pattern of growth but after a delayed period you are capable of doing that which is fine. Imagine a situation that you are still continuously growing chronologically but you are still not able to do that.  Now even though you are not capable of doing that you have been identified with one or the other physical handicap situation or you are able to come forward with a delayed response to it society accepts. Both the versions of it are completely acceptable only the care giving pattern now changes. Similarly say after certain age people will expect you that fine you should be bellwilled but then everybody is not supposed to be a body builder. Imagine somebody know building muscles and somebody know still remaining slim and sleek not at all getting involved into physical activities which is fine both the versions are acceptable. But then there are certain age appropriate norms which you should certainly be able to achieve. So if you should be able to know put on your clothes if you are able to put off your clothes if you are able to know eat play walk without errors fine you have achieved certain level of competencies. But these competencies does not stop there only know usually the medically prescribed pattern of growth. There are certain social expectations that goes little beyond this where the society will expect that know if you are physically capable in certain types of situation you should also be know willing to or know you should be generous enough to get involved in such type of acts which requires your involvement of your physical capability which usually the medical growth chart will not demand you that. The social situations the social expectation will seek such a certain type of help from you. Intellectual capability once again you know all psychological clinics have this again growth pattern that there are certain age specific requirements know that you should be able to grow intellectually up to this level depending on your chronological growth. Again if you overachieve fine you are bright child there is a word used in psychology called gifted children. Gifted children are those who know usually achieve things before the chronological benchmark that has been otherwise put forth. The other possibility could be that you are still incapable of know handling things and you are you cannot come forward with a desired intellectual outcome.  So, it could be one type of mental handicapped situation it could be learning disability it could be autism spectrum it could be at any type of the problem that does not allow you to perform intellectually the way other children of your age are able to. Then comes emotional competence once again know in child psychology people are you know taught these things we would not go into the details of it, but Jean Piaget was the psychologist who talked about the you know growth pattern of human children and he talked about physical growth he talked about emotional growth also he talked about intellectual growth also. Basically if you developmental theorists and after Jean Piaget also few theories have come and all these you know theorists basically talk about once again know that there are age specific emotional maturity that you should be able to display. So, everything has to do with you know certain pattern of growth and development. So, if you are know if you have difficulty expressing your emotions then also it is a cause of concern. If you have difficulty in terms of containing your feelings and it is also an issue of to be thought about if you have difficulty you know in certain cultures if you have inability in terms of neutralizing your negative feelings that is also cause of concern. Once again what you realize is you have chronological age that you are gradually achieving you are chronologically increasing every second of your life. There are certain say psychological expectations that by this age a human child should certainly achieve this level of emotional maturity. There are culture specific norms which you are supposed to comply to and that helps you know stay in harmony with your environment. Say for example, there is a psychological problem called Alexei Daimia. Alexei Daimia is a situation where you are not able to understand certain types of emotions expressed by others. So, say for example, you have the choice usually in psychology research shows that we have certain basic emotions and then we have a large set of composite emotions say happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust. These are the feelings which are considered to be basic emotions. Now, two emotions can fuse together to give another set of emotion what is called as composite emotions. Now, out of the basic emotions if I have inability understanding or expressing certain types of emotions it is a great cause of concern. Say imagine a situation you are sad and I am not able to perceive that you are in the state of sadness. There will be a gross mismatch between you and me. In Alexei Daimia this is what happens. Think of cultural norms for example, in our culture India the usual social expectation is that the negative emotion has to be masked. Masked means even if you are say you have extreme negative feeling for me you do not express it rather you cover it with another set of emotion. So, say for example, you have been invited to somebody's house for a party and you are given something to eat which is completely distasteful. You take the first bite and the host asks you so how is it and our cultural norms does not allow you to say I am sorry it is extremely bad. You cannot say so and you say it is good and that goodness does not actually represent your inner feeling but it complies to the social norms. You invite me on your birthday party I bring a gift which you already have in your house.  But then I and then I ask you so how is the gift and you say very good very good I did not have it. This is what the cultural expectation is compare our culture with the Japanese culture where the social protocol demands you to neutralize the feeling. Same situation no you did not like the food but how is the food and you have a very blank face. In our case we will put a smile it is good in their case you neutralize the emotion. Different social norms demand certain things from you that even if you are in this situation adhere to the social norm. I remember an interesting situation German colleague of mine at one point in time he had his birthday most probably and a friend brought a gift for him he just opened it up and said I did not like it so you can take it back. In our culture if you do that it will be a great insult to the person who has brought the gift. He will never ever come to your party and he will say that how displaced you are in terms of your intellectual and emotional capabilities. This is a great disrespect that you showed to a guest and later on I asked him that is it okay or is it something very peculiar that you had and he said it is perfectly okay. We have this liberty if I do not like the gift I can give you back so that you return it to the shop and that is the end of the matter. One place where people do not take it as an offense in one place in our situation it will be the greatest offense that can break the relationship forever. So that type of an emotional competence you are you know with growing age you are supposed to know behave like that and then the social competencies know. There are large set of social norms there are certain set of social skills that you are certainly supposed to display okay. Let me take a very straightforward example and then I will try to complicate it a bit. I am sure all of you are carrying a mobile phone right now true. Now you are told by the academic office there is a mail that comes to all of you that fine you should not be using your mobile phone in the academic area okay or if you are carrying it you should not be putting it on a ring tone mode put it on a silent mode okay. I do not know how many of you have put your phones on silent mode every day we hear one or the other ring tone here. There is certain degree of I remember another example no I went for one of these IIT based examinations to one of the areas nearby and I was sitting in that very place where as institute representative I had to talk to the instructors there and the director there of the examination which was supposed to be conducted the next day. So at the end I did ask the presiding officer who happens to be the head of that institution that what is the arrangement that has been made for those who candidates who would be willing to deposit their mobile phones and would like to collect it back after the examination ends okay and somebody made a comment that this is no one of the bad jobs that we have to perform in terms of collecting mobile phones retaining it for 3 hours and then returning it back and then the principal said a very interesting thing he said that one of his daughter had recently gone to Delhi for education and she was in one of those private hostels and in one hostel they got admitted okay they got the room but then left it within one day and moved to the other hostel because the hostel in charge said that mobile phones are not allowed in this hostel okay whereas the mother of this girl said that every day we will you know at least we will talk once. So you definitely want a place where mobile phone should be round the clock available to your child okay you decide to quit a hostel for which you had paid the money simply because they do not allow your daughter to keep the mobile phone okay now here was presenting officer the principal of the institution who says that very recently I myself have experienced one such situation and I have tried to allow my child carry it and therefore shifted the hostel itself all together I have changed the hostel the other person who is going to know act as an individualator says that it is a great discomfort to us because we have to you know hold it for 3 hours and then match it whose mobile phone is this and then accordingly distributed it is a another headache for which we are not being paid okay now imagine other types of situations will mobile phone and you remain constant the situations will now keep varying come to another situation where you are sitting in the class it has happened several times here okay and suddenly you receive a call the moment you receive a call everybody starts looking at you and because everybody starts looking at you therefore you feel in the state of discomfort the discomfort did not come out of the fact that the phone suddenly you know your phone started ringing but discomfort came because others started looking at you. So you were under scrutiny your social competence is cut it okay you must have seen people know who would know still receive the call and very you know slowly they will whisper yes I mean that means this phone has to be attained a phone call cannot know you cannot disconnect it it has to be attained one situation other situation you just cut it later on you call back and say I was in the class here therefore I could not call you the third situation you cut the phone but immediately type of message in the class will call you later send variable possibilities know all of them reflecting one or the other type of social competence now let us take a weird example this is something that we have been doing in this we will be continuing doing this now in throughout the semester take a weird example a situation where you are told that somebody has died okay and you should go there to pay attribute to the person who has expired you go there okay and while you go before the dead body and you sit quietly you receive a SMS joke situation demands you to be very sad joke demands you to laugh okay it invokes certain degree of laughter in you what do you do okay great degree of social competence is needed so you feel laughing and you say so how did he die your laughter now gets know you deliberately you have a control over your orofacial muscles to contain your laughter and then you ask no as if this was there was an itching here and I didn't say how did he die the other could be no and then you say so how did he die you just close about as if you are in a great pain no and in between you smile okay or you are really very pained and this joke doesn't make you smile at all there could be all types of possibilities now so social competence would basically mean that whatever is the context specific requirement you fulfill it if the situation demands you to laugh okay even though you have not understood the job because everybody else is laughing therefore you also laugh so that you are not made an order man out okay second situation everybody is in under pain everybody is no showing grief you cannot have a smile on your face it reminds me of a very interesting story usually media houses they prepare certain no special segments when they know that somebody is about to die for example say if you have a novel laureate here or if you have a celebrated politician okay somebody who is very popular among the mass and you know that this is is in the hospital is in the critical state will might die in the coming days okay so what happens if he dies and then therefore you start making you make a 10 minute capsule 15 minute program half an hour program that those certain things are done in anticipation so this is a story related to one such situation where one of popular political leader was on the deathbed one had people were expecting that today or tomorrow he might die and therefore the news readers at that time they used to and those were the days when these many channels were not there no so the news reader would bring a white shirt or a Saudi okay so that in case you know the news has to be aired that X has died I can know very quickly put a white shirt or a white Saudi and then sit in front of the camera to give this news now I know the situation that many people used to come with you know the white clothes with them so that it's a in our culture it's considered to be a significant color when you have to mourn now this person who finally got this chance okay before he was on duty and this news had to be aired and he had put the he had changed his cloth had put the white one sat in front of the camera to read the news but they are also expected know that you make a sad face and they say that you know this is to inform you and then you read out the news okay but while he was reading the news it was a like now if 10 of us are the impaneled news readers and all of us are struggling with white cloth each okay that I'll get this chance I'll get this chance finally X gets the chance okay and this whole feeling of winning know that I have won over the remaining nine okay was visible on the face okay so you are supposed to know read a news in the state of grief you have to put sadness on the face okay or you have to modulate your voice accordingly and then read out this news but while you read the news know you have a little twist on the side of your lips suggesting that you were actually happy getting this chance okay now now you see know there is one level of professional expectation from you there is one level of social expectation from you and there is one level of personal feeling that you had experienced all three combines together okay so in terms of know characteristics of healthy development what is expected is that you have an adequate frame of reference you also have essential competencies with you then you should also be somebody who is know self-directed okay so you know who you are so you have an adequate self-identity you have you have no independence from social influence okay which is rare to achieve okay sudden degree of social influence by default will always remain with us but then you should be able to know overcome that influence at most of the time especially when the social influence doesn't allow you the full opportunity of growth and development and you should also be able to manage your stress okay so as to provide a meaningful direction to your own trajectory of life okay now having a complete sense of self-identity who am I would also mean that I also know who I am not what are my strength and I also know what are my weaknesses I know who am I and I also know that I cannot be like x y and z okay that would actually reflect the adequate self-identity by default we are social creatures and that to know people belonging to collectivist culture will have more and more of social influence but then there could be situations where you realize that the social influence needs to be bypassed okay you need to surpass it completely okay simply because it doesn't allow you the opportunity to grow properly and then you also know that life does invite certain stress but then you should be able to manage it properly so that you are finally able to move in a direction which you find meaningful you remember when we were looking at the maintenance need okay the last need was hope okay that you are able and the second last was value and meaning no that you are always able to provide a meaning to the act in the life that you are engaged in okay and then the other characteristics of the development is personal growth and self actualization where okay you tend to finally achieve the capability that you have so you achieve your full potential okay and you have that sense of fulfillment no that I had this I aspired for this I walked hard and finally this is what I achieved by a large in life for majority of the people would be that you achieve little less than what you actually thought of so you start you know trying to achieve say level 10 but finally you achieve only level 8 but then adjustment would mean that you are happy even achieving level 8 okay and although you still have appreciation for all those who attained the 10th level you are happy that fine I could attain level 8 but then you also know that this is not end of achievement this is one phase of achievement the second phase of achievement will continue okay so this whole sense of personal growth and actualization also plays an important role and this is also an important denominator of human adjustment process.


top five overseas Air Force base locations. Now these are going to be completely subjective to my opinion because there's a lot of factors that can go into what makes a place your favorite. I'm just picking places that I think would be really awesome to travel to. So number five is going to be Lake and Heath which is in England in the UK and you can travel to London which is really awesome. You can also travel to Scotland and Wales and it's pretty close to Ireland which is somewhere that I've always wanted to go and there are castle ruins so why not. Now before we get into the next ones I want to mention the sponsor of today's video Sandbox. If you have not gone to BMT yet make sure you check out Sandbox and tell your friends and family because they simplify the way you can send and receive mail at BMT and it makes things so much easier. Highly recommend checking them out. Also they can help you book your travel to see your loved one graduate and they have so many resources to help your friends and family navigate your military career. For more information be sure to check them out at Sandbox.us. Okay so number four is going to be Ramstein which is in Germany. The landscape looks absolutely beautiful there. There are so many castles and you can easily travel to other countries. France is literally right next door so you can take a four-hour train ride and go visit Paris. Number three would be Anderson which is on the island of Guam. Now I personally love the tropical weather and the beaches so I absolutely would take the island life. I have had a lot of friends who have been stationed in Guam and they have absolutely loved it so I think it would be a dream to travel there. Now keeping with the island theme number two is going to be Kadina Air Base in Okinawa Japan. Now I am a little bit biased because my husband and I were actually stationed there when he was in the Air Force and we loved it so much. Okinawa is a gorgeous tropical island. The culture there, the people are so amazing. We loved going to the beaches and adventuring all the time and we even took the opportunity to go travel to some other Asian countries like Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia so we definitely would go back and I would recommend it to anybody. So my number one overseas Air Force Base location is going to be Aviano Italy. Now this is a place that I have always wanted to travel to ever since before I left Ohio. They have beautiful beaches, beautiful architecture and unfortunately I still haven't been there yet. I will make it there one day but because of all of that, because it's been the number one place I have always wanted to travel to that is why it is number one on my list of overseas Air Force bases. So I would love to hear from you all down below. Let me know what you all think your top overseas Air Force bases are or if you have been to any of them, share your experience down below. That way you can help others know what it's going to be like if they ever have the chance to go there. Thank you for watching. Be sure to subscribe and I'll see you in another video.