Hello everyone welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial and this one I'm an After Effects 2021 and I'm going to show you how to add in some camera movement or camera shake using a second clip and tracking motion and a few other cool things so let me just start you off here I've got a very short picture or video here part of me of this little popper I got it just off Pexels it was free and I'm just going to do a quick preview to show you what we're starting with here all right here comes a vicious little weenie dog holy smokes he's in a big fight oh yeah big big scary boy very cute dog we got a cute little popper there and what I'm actually what I do now is I want to make this have some motion so the next step once you've got some footage in here is I've got something called backup footage it's called production ID which is a silly name but really it's just footage from Pexels as well I'm going to double click on it I'm going to show you what I got here so when they double click on it it's going to go into the footage monitor and then I am going to go ahead and just basically scrub through it so you can see you'll see here that the video the camera really moves up it moves down it moves a little left a little to the right it's just this nice attractive lady bouncing and running through a field okay what I want to do though is I want to take that camera motion in from this video and I want to apply it to the other video so that's kind of what I'm trying to go for so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take this video and I'm actually going to cut it to three seconds and I'll show you why let me go back to the first one you'll see here that when I get to the end here it says the video length is three seconds long so I've got three seconds of the puppy dog doing puppy dog things so I'm going to double click again on the production ID video this one where we've got the camera movement and I'm going to set the end point right here I'm going to left click set end point to current time which is where that little dude Eddie is and then I'm going to move it forward and I'm going to set the out point to three seconds this I'm going to set the out point so what I've done is I've clipped off a small piece of this which is the beginning piece and I'm going to use that for the motion tracking now I'm going to go ahead and take this footage and I'm going to slide it underneath video mp4 so it still doesn't show up here as you can see but when I'm clicked on video mp4 well there we go we've still got the puppy dog on top but we've got the other footage underneath it so the next step I'm going to do is I am going to take this footage and I'm going to scale it up and I'm going to make an assumption here but let's go here I'm going to go to transform and I'm going to take the scale and I'm going to go to about 120 percent the reason why or yeah let's go to 125 just in case the reason why I'm doing this is because when we take the camera shake from the bottom footage it's going to move the top up and down and if it moves to the side and up and down there's no footage outside of the boundaries so it's going to get a black bar and I don't want that so I want to just go ahead and test it with this so we've increased the scale across the whole shot good now the next step is you go to the production ID or the bottom one in this case and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to close preview and I'm going to go to tracker now there's a chance tracker is not open on your on your automatically you can't see it if you can't see it go to window drop it down and make sure there's a check mark beside tracker when we go to tracker making sure you're selected on the bottom footage we're going to go ahead and left click on track motion when we do that you're going to see that it's created some track points okay so we've got a tracker we've got a track point and now I'm going to analyze it so we've set the track we hit track and now we're going to analyze it I'm going to left click on analyze forward here so click the little play button and bang it's now doing its analysis this isn't uh this could take a few seconds let's see what's going on here how's it going there we go now it's off and running this is very cpu intensive so you'll see here that we've got a track point it's basically tracking the motion in the shot and we're going to take that motion and we're going to next apply it to the top frame or to the top video so let's finish that up and presto it looks like it's done and you can see if I zoom in a little bit that it has the tracking here so it's not a very big amount of motion but you know what we're showing you that we'll just want to show you the technique so we've gone ahead and tracked the motion I'm going to go back to the composition now I'm going to click on the top video which is the one with the puppy dog and I'm going to go ahead and now under tracker I'm going to select motion source and I'm going to go instead of selecting the top one I'm going to select production ID which is our bottom footage when I do that you'll see here that it takes us back into the layer I'm going to left click on apply and I'm going to apply the dimensions x and y so it's going to move up and it's going to move sideways I'm going to hit okay and now when we go back to the composition it's going to start thinking about what we just did here I'm going to drag and drop the time head the the bit to the beginning come on Curtis the time matter the time player what I'm going to call it and now when I hit the preview button which is up at the top here it's going to have the motion tracking applied so I'm going to go ahead and left click on this and watch what happens it now has some camera movement it's not a lot and I'm running it in full maybe I'll run it in yeah I can run it in full so you guys it's not a huge amount of motion but we've introduced camera motion into the top footage using just a couple of different techniques now I will note there are other ways to do this you can do this using different features and functions and stuff like that but this is an easy way to do it adds a little bit of organic motion into the video as you can see here the it's moving side to side back and forth puppy looks like it's not quite on a tripod anymore guys that's how you do adding in tracking you're adding in motion I hope you enjoyed this tutorial I have a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned


Hello everyone, my name is Yin Zhenghao, and I'm a Distributed Storage Engineer at Dayton Lord. Thank you for joining me today for this presentation on the topic Chaos Engineering Testing and Analysis of X-Line. This presentation aims to provide an overview of application and analysis of Jepsen tests on Distributed KV Store X-Line. To begin, let's start with a brief introduction to Jepsen. I'm sure some of you may already be familiar with it, and we will explore how to apply Jepsen tests to X-Line. We will also dive into the testing results and analysis in our system. And finally, we will discuss the lessons learned and future work of Chaos Engineering on X-Line. Now, let's familiarize ourselves with the Jepsen framework. As many of you may know, Jepsen is a powerful library used in Chaos Engineering. A Jepsen test is a closure program which uses the Jepsen library to set up a distributed system, run a bunch of operations against that system, and verify that the history of those operations makes sense. Jepsen consists of several components, including a database for testing, a generator to generate operations, a model to check for correctness, and nemesis components for failure injection. I'm sure some of you are wondering how Jepsen works exactly. Well, the most important part of Jepsen is the checkers. NOSOS is one of the checkers in Jepsen that verifies if the operation histories are linearizable. On the other hand, L checks for transactional consistency or serializability. With this due combined, we can verify various types of databases that provide different consistency guarantees. In our testing, we specifically target strict serializability, which requires both linearizability and serializability attributes. If you take a look at an image, you can see that transactions not only appear in real-time order, but each transaction also reads the modification made by previous transactions. Now, let's talk about the nemesis component. Nemesis offers fault injection capabilities, allowing us to simulate real-world application scenarios.  Except for this, you can also write your own nemesis that tailored your system. To give you a better understanding of how nemesis work, let's take a look at this video example of the partition nemesis. It computation the cluster into a majority-minority paradigm. And it can also create a ring network that may result in multiple majorities if the system design is flawed. Now, let's move on to the setup of Jepsen for X-Line. Before we do, let me provide you with some background information about X-Line. Currently, X-Line is a sandbox project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, providing KB storage for metadata management. X-Line uses the Curve Consensus Protocol, which is geo-distributed friendly. It also offers an AdCD-compatible API. Similar to AdCD, X-Line provides strict civilizable reads, writes, and transactions across the entire system, along with functions like watch and distributed logs. X-Line provides an AdCD-compatible API. This allows us to reuse Jepsen tests for AdCD. And to improve performance, a native client is bundled with X-Line. So what we need to implement are the DB part and the client part for Jepsen X-Line tests. Speaking of tests, let's discuss the ones we selected. We choose a few tests directly from the original AdCD tests. The first one is the register test, which checks for innerizability. The second one is set, which checks for still reads, and transactions. Lastly, we have append, which checks for strict civilizability. Most of these tests are based on a common operation called compare-and-set. Just like at CD, X-Line relies on predicate-based semantics in transactions and a global revision for each mutative operation. Let me demonstrate an example of a predicate-based compare-and-set operation with the guard function in the append test. This function ensures that a key is not modified by the time of the transaction. As you can see, it first fetches the value of the key through a get operation and then checks if the next modification revision of the value is the same as the current read revision. If the key is missing, the predicate will be that the next modification revision of the key will be less than the latest global revision observed by the previous get operation. Okay, let's move on to the analysis of the test results. Through the Japson test, we observed two main categories of issues in X-Line. The first category is asynchronous-possessed issues, which are caused by X-Line's original asynchronous IO design. The second category is revision-generation issues, which is caused by the at-cd-compatible revision generation. To elaborate on the asynchronous issues, unlike at-cd-synchronized-possessed approach, X-Line uses asynchronous methods to persist on log entries and kv-storage, which introduce extra complexity. One issue we identified is that the read state implementation is incorrect because the committed operation and the index barrier trigger operation happened asynchronously, and we initially ignored the potential gap between them. Additionally, kv-storage might be inconsistent with the logs due to the asynchronous persistence. Also, another problem is that one transaction might read different values for the same key, as other commands may be executed during the transaction, thereby violating atomic execution. The asynchronous IO introduced interleaving system states, making reasoning about them difficult. We found that synchronous IO, despite having some performance overhead, is simpler and ensures correctness. As a result, we decided to refactor X-Line to use synchronous IO. Moving on to the second major category of issues, revision-generation. X-Line uses the Kerb consensus protocol, which leverages command commutativity to achieve one round-trip consensus. On the other hand, SCD employs the roughed protocol and executes the commands sequentially. Our goal was to implement an SCD-compatible API for X-Line while maintaining the one round-trip performance. However, our analysis of the test revealed that this approach was not feasible. The Kerb protocol allows for concurrent execution of commands if they commute. Similar to the FastPaxels approach, this is different from the state-machine approach used by SCD, where commands are executed in a global order. In the Jepsen append test, we expect strict serializable execution histories. However, Kerb itself does not guarantee a global order of all commands. This means that the commands do not execute in a serial order, resulting in transactions that do not follow linearizability, thus violating the strict serializability constraint. Now, let's discuss the lesson we learned from debugging. When debugging a distributed system, understanding the event topology across multiple nodes can be challenging. However, based on my experience debugging X-Line, I would like to share some tips with you. Firstly, logs are crucial for debugging a distributed multi-node system. Make sure they provide identical information for tracing purpose. Avoid unnecessary messages, and especially avoid logging large objects, which will generate a huge amount of noise, making the debugging even harder. Starting to debug from small symbols is also important. Begin with a small, easy-to-understand symbol. As you can see from the Jepsen test result examples, the upper graph is challenging to understand, but the bottom one looks much more clear for humans. Sometimes it may require running the test multiple times to find a suitable symbol. Lastly, if developing a distributed system, I strongly recommend integrating KL's engineering methods early on. Humans are not good at analyzing complex systems, and traditional tests often lack sufficient coverage. By incorporating KL's testing, you can significantly increase test coverage and uncover bugs that may not be revealed in traditional tests. For the final part, let's discuss the future work we have planned for KL's engineering. Analyzing logs can already be a tedious experience, especially when the need for additional tracing logs arises. In such cases, you often have to add the necessary code and essentially restart the entire debugging process. The non-deterministic nature of Jepsen tests further adds to the debugging time. It becomes challenging to read about the system state based solely on a single log file. To address this, we plan to migrate some of the Jepsen features, such as generators, checkers, and nemesis, to MedSIM. MedSIM is a deterministic simulation framework. This will allow us to conduct Jepsen-like tests when maintaining test determinism. It is expected to greatly improve debugging efficiency as we can reproduce the same results deterministically. Additionally, integrating MedSIM into a CR environment will be more convenient as it runs locally on a single machine, unlike Jepsen, which requires running tests separately on multiple machines. That's all for today's presentation. I hope you find it helpful in understanding KL's testing and debugging distributed systems. For more information, please visit our websites or feel free to reach out to us directly. Thank you.


Now, one of the things that I struggled with the most when I first started in business was how do I explain what I do to the people around me? And so I'm sure you've had it happen where someone calls you up or they want to do business with you, and they just launch into this monologue about how awesome they are, what results you can see, and it's just like, blah, and you just want to run away, you just want to escape. Well, we have a lot of really bad examples of how to introduce yourself to other people. I'm sure all of us can think of times when someone either tried to pick us up with an offensive or cheesy pickup line, or when we tried to do that to someone else, I'm sure we can think of times when we tried to introduce ourselves to a new friend, you know, and get out there and make those connections. And maybe it went well, maybe it was a disaster. But in all of these situations, and especially in the business world, where we're trying to network, trying to grow our connections, the way we introduce ourselves is crucial. And that is why I have brought in one of the best experts on elevator pitches to help you figure out how you can introduce yourself and get the best results. Joining me today with Zoom in the studio is Alicia Greer. Hi, Alicia, how are you? Hi, great to be here. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited you can make it. So I'm going to give you a chance. Would you be willing to give your elevator pitch to our audience and just introduce yourself and what you do? Sure, sure. And so understand, I'm going to process this, that the elevator pitch is something that is molded to each situation. And so it changes every time. So an example of an elevator pitch that I might give goes something like this. Hi, my name is Alicia, and I love speaking about leadership and I love making people better versions of themselves. That's really my passion. And I'm a graduate of West Point and I spent time in the military and I deployed both to Afghanistan and Iraq. I earned my MBA. I was an operations manager and a vice president at Goldman Sachs. And I'm currently the director of operations at a firm based in Washington, D.C. My passion, like I said before, is in spreading joy to people by making them better versions of themselves. And I find that I have so much experience through leadership based on all of the things that I've done previously that I'm actually pretty good at it and it makes me feel good inside. All right. Thank you. That's very helpful. I'm wondering if you could tell us some of the biggest problems that people face when it comes time to craft that perfect new elevator pitch. What do they struggle with? Well, I see a lot of people that want to put so much information into their elevator pitch and then they run out of time. So time is very limited, especially in conversation. And so you never know when the person that you're speaking to is going to have to get up and walk away or take a phone call or be interrupted. And so often people will start a conversation and want to tell you about themselves, but they can't get all of the information out that they want.  And it seems like it's not necessarily what you think is important about yourself. It's about what you think will be important to them. Is that right? Yeah, that's a great point. And one of the other things that sometimes people struggle with is they create a list and when I've worked with people developing their own elevator pitches, they create a list of the things that they, their qualities, their best qualities that they feel, the things that they think are important for other people to know about them. But when you deliver an elevator pitch, you really want it to be relatable to the person that you're talking to. You want to capture your audience. And the way to do that is to connect with them in some way. So you have to understand what your strengths are, but at the same time you have to be able to communicate how those strengths are relevant to the person that you're speaking to. And that's not always easy to do, but it's something that I think comes with practice and comes with listening and understanding who your audience is. I'm pretty curious about that, about how communicating your strengths in the way that matters to the person you're talking to. Would you be willing to dive into that a little bit more? Sure. So elevator pitches, like I mentioned earlier, are tailored to your audience. So if you are walking into an environment and potentially you are looking to get hired for a specific job, if I was walking to an environment where I wanted to showcase my ability to handle Excel spreadsheets, I would focus probably on my technical background and deliver that type of information that's relevant to being able to handle numbers and to handle structure and things like that. If I wanted to walk in and talk to somebody about delivering elevator pitches, I would talk about things like this, connecting with people, things about my background that connected me with other people or showed how I could reach in and understand personalities. All right, that makes sense. So I'm wondering if you could even tell us how you got started in elevator pitches. How did all of this get started for you? So this is a great story. And elevator pitches to me was one of those things that I just didn't believe in. I thought it was hokey and it was just a term that was coined and I wasn't really sure the relevance of it. But I had my own personal experience that shed light on this and has made me a true believer of the elevator pitch. So I was getting my MBA after I had gotten out of the military and we had a mandatory Saturday morning class and it was about two hours. And when you're in school, you don't ever want to have to go to a class on a weekend. So a Saturday morning mandatory class was not something that we all wanted to do. And I can probably say comfortably that me as well as some of my other classmates were there because it was mandatory and we were going through the motions and we were doing what we're supposed to do. So I went through, created my elevator pitch. Didn't think that I would ever use it. And when it came time two months later, two or three months later when I was looking for a job and I went on an interview at a Fortune 500 company that I was targeting that I really, really wanted to go work for and I went through a series of at the time I was in Georgia, the interviews were in New York and so I went and went through a series of speed interviews two days and speed interviews are when you go about 30 minutes per interview and I just went from office to office to office and was getting all of my interviews completed before I returned back to Georgia. And the last interview of the day was with the head of operations and the individual that asked me to come that recruited me came to me and stopped me before I went into his office and said, Hey, look, I'm sorry, but this the head of operations has gotten called pulled away to a meeting. So he's not going to be able to interview today. So I was a little bit disappointed, but I understood obviously there's nothing that I could do about it. So he proceeded to walk me over to the elevator. Ironically and that the head of operations was there and so the recruiter said to me, Oh, well, here's the head of operations right here. Listen, you're going to meet with him later. We're not going to go through the interview today. Just wanted to let you know. Great to have you out here. Thank you so much. And the recruiter walked away instead of walking me down and out the building. And so he left me at the elevator with that head of operations. So I got into the elevator on the 16th floor with the head of operations and it was just the two of us in the elevator complete silence as the door is closed and I thought to myself, you know what? I've got from the 16th floor to the first floor to either make an impression or to do absolutely nothing. And so low and behold, I spit out that elevator pitch, which at the time was very different than it is now, but I spit out the elevator pitch that I had practiced and the head of operations turned to me when we got down to the bottom floor and he said, Nice to meet you. Thank you very much. And I'll see you later. And he walked out. He left and I thought, Oh, well, whatever, you know, it is what it is. And I walked out and didn't think too much more of it. But then several months later when I was offered the job at that particular company and offered several other jobs as well. I realized that the job offer from that particular company came in lower than my other offers. And I called the recruiter back up and I said, Listen, I really want to come work for this company. But the salary gap is a little bit too much for me to ignore. Is there anything that we can do about it? And so the recruiter went back and said, Okay, let me see if I can talk to somebody and see what we can do. He called me back the next day and he said, Alicia, I don't know what you said the head of operations in that elevator, but whatever you said worked and he told me to give you what you want. And so there you have it. And I thought, Wow, what did I say in the elevator? And so that elevator pitch became very relevant to me at that point. All right. That's a really cool story. And I can just bet when you tell that on stage, it really helps your audience to recognize the importance of the elevator pitch. So I'm wondering if you can, you know, just in a couple of minutes, tell us about some of the biggest mistakes you've seen in elevator pitches that keep people from being successful. A lot of times people when we talked about one or ready, which is being relatable and making sure that you relate and make your yourself relevant to the person that you're speaking to. One of the other things that I find is difficult for some people to communicate is that they tend to lift all of their accolades and you can't you it's almost boring. It's almost like, Well, I did, you know, I did this, I did this, I'm really good at this and I'm really good at that. And there's no passion in it. There's no heart in it.   When I talk about earning my MBA or becoming a vice president at Goldman Sachs, I really feel that from the inside. So when I coach people with their elevator pitches, I try to remind them that these are things that they should be proud of. And when they're talking to people about themselves, you want to communicate that inner feeling that you have with those words. So elevator pitches are so concise and so short that you want to take out all of the fluff. You don't want to use words like, I really, really enjoyed my service in the military. You don't want to say really, really, but you can communicate those really, really enjoyed type of things through your expression, through your body language, through your gestures, and how you deliver your elevator pitch. The delivery is really important. It's important to get a concise statement out, but the delivery is also really important. And so the follow on question, I think that you might ask is, well, how do you, how do you get that delivery? How do you perfect that delivery? That is a great question. And so viewers, we will be right back. And when we do get back, we'll let Alicia answer that question. See you in a minute. Hello, everyone. 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Even Miss America can't even talk about stuff like that anymore. We got it nailed down here. So we'll see you on Friday at noon with Stan Energyman. Aloha. Welcome back to Out of the Comfort Zone. I'm your host, Arby Kelly, here with Alicia Greer. And we were just talking about elevator pitches. Specifically, how you can make sure your delivery of the elevator pitch is really getting your message across. So, Alicia, what kind of things do you teach people to help them maximize their delivery? So I really try to encourage people to connect with the words that they're using. Make sure that the words have value to themselves. But really, you've got to practice and you've not just practice, you know, reading it or writing it down and memorizing it. I actually prefer people don't memorize it. I actually prefer that people memorize the components, the pieces of it. Okay, I'm going to start with my name and I do actually tell people to memorize starting with your name because getting the first sentence out is always the hardest. So usually once you get that first sentence out and you can get rolling, then everything else comes a little bit more naturally and you can kind of get into the flow. But I ask people to make sure that they smile when they deliver their elevator pitch because you can hear a smile in somebody's voice. You know, as people have said that when you're talking on the phone on sales calls that you should smile because you can hear that smile through the phone even though they can't see it. But I encourage people to sit up straight and have an open posture because that's just more inviting. Come listen to me in what I have to say as opposed to turning sideways or being slouched over or taking a closed posture which kind of may give a defensive message. I also ask people to try to be as natural when they speak as possible. And that's got to come, I think, from not memorizing the exact words and the order that you're going to say them in but understanding and memorizing the components of your elevator pitch and then just talking about them. That's very interesting. I noticed you talk a lot about smile which is a gesture of likability, approachability, friendliness and you also talk about standing up straight and that is something that comes across specifically as being more confident, competent, authoritative. So it's really interesting you bring this up because when you meet people they sort you into one of four categories and they sort you in those categories really quick and once you're in those categories it's really hard to get out. So for example, the first category is the friend category. If you've ever met someone and instantly just liked them that's a pretty good cue that your brain has sorted them into that friend category which it sounds like from your elevator pitch that's exactly what happened and that's what you teach your clients to do. So we don't have to get into the other three categories but I think that's really interesting that that's what you help your clients to do right away. Yeah and I think that the reason why that is because when you deliver an elevator pitch you want to call back. You want that person to feel comfortable reaching back out to you. That's usually the purpose. Elevator pitches are not usually delivered just because you want people to know about you and that's it and you know there's nothing else that there's not a relationship that you want to build. You want to build that relationship. You want it to continue and it's usually with somebody that doesn't know you in another environment or doesn't know you or doesn't know the service that you offer which is another thing. Elevator pitches are not necessarily only about you. Sometimes you can deliver an elevator pitch about your business or about the service that you're offering. So it doesn't have to be just a personal thing. It can also be a business that you're delivering an elevator pitch for. That makes sense. And so it sounds like the process you take people through as they build their elevator pitch is one write down what you've done and what you do get this whole big long list get it out on paper and then you start putting those pieces into your elevator pitch and it's maybe just a few sentences long but you put those pieces together. So I used to do this. I currently do this. I'm proud of this and you just put those pieces together until they make sense and they're relevant for the person you think you'll be talking to.  So it's smooth natural friendly and open so that they stand out in people's minds not just for what they've said but just for that like physical first impression that they make. Is that right. Yeah absolutely. And the components the components are important and I think that a lot of people get lost in drowned in the component especially when somebody has 30 to 40 years of experience you know a work experience or just experience in general and they want to fill everything in there. Well I like to do this but I'm good at this and so I really try to narrow down that the components the three things when I'm talking to people and the first one and it turns out that this is a really big one and a colleague of mine kind of opened my eyes to how big the first component is and I tapped on it earlier but it's your name. Your name makes a big difference because if if somebody pulled away after your first sentence and all they have left is your name and when today is day and age they go and say oh yeah remember I talked to that girl Alicia Greer and I really want to see I didn't get to hear what she did but I want to see what she did and they'll go to Google and they'll type in Alicia Greer and they'll see what comes up and it just so happens that with my name what comes up is a woman who just deceased she's no longer alive and that's a horrible thing I'm not laughing because of the situation I'm laughing because that's not what I want people to associate with me so I really need to know how to differentiate my name so actually in elevator pitches I tend to deliver my name is Alicia Chingrear because when you Google search Alicia Chingrear which includes my maiden name in there then I pop up and that's what I want people to see so that's an important component along with that I can see sometimes when people Google me they will Google RB Kelly body language and what comes up is a rap song so I should take that into account but what's the next component the next component is what service you're providing so immediately you want to relate to that person this is what I can do for you or this is what I would like to do for you and then the final one is the credibility around around you and why you can deliver that service so I think that those are really the most important things now there are just three things but they can also end up being an entire page long of stuff so that's why you write it all out and then you start to really condense it and you start to take words out that words like really or very or that the fluff words you take those out and you make it a concise statement that's simple but effective alright so backtracking really quick we have the first piece is our name the second piece is what we can do for them so not what we do but what we can do for them what they would want us to do for them and then we start bringing in our authority our credibility as proof that we could actually follow through right and it's important to note that as we're saying what can we do for you that you're not you're not contriving something you're not saying oh well I can deliver this service to you I'm not at all saying to try to deliver something that you can't deliver but you know it's again why that credibility piece comes in is because you should be passionate about it you should this should be something that you can do that you know that you're confident about it and and then you mentioned the body language piece after that but yeah you want if people walk away from you and they don't hear because you know these elevator pitches they can occur at any time you can be in a bar and you could meet somebody you can be in the Starbucks line and you can meet somebody that you want to deliver an elevator pitch to and it could be really noisy and it could be that they hear just these blips and just these little pieces of your elevator pitch but they remember you because you were so friendly or because you were so animated I don't know and it is good to be memorable that is memorable right right and that that brings up an interesting point I've talked about the four categories that people might sort you into and so the category we're shooting for is friend but most people fall into this last category which is where job interviews business deals pickup lines everything goes to die and that's the indifferent category so if you've ever met someone and forgotten their name forgotten their face forgotten what they do it's a sign they've fallen into that indifferent category and like you said Alicia you've got to stand out because if people forget you you can't get the job so you've got to find some way to be memorable so that when so that people do walk away remembering you thinking about you being curious about you yeah that's absolutely right and that's exactly what we try to communicate you're kind of you're kind of attacking from all angles here right you're giving the delivery through words so you're getting the audible but you're also giving the delivery through visual and then of course through connection right and so that the only way that I can describe connecting is that if you connect with your elevator pitch if you connect with those words people will feel that and if you're if you're delivering the words empty and you don't really believe in them yourself they're not going to believe in you either so it's about creating connections and creating a memorable experience through multiple avenues of delivery alright now this has been a very informative very helpful interview so I'm so glad you've come on but we've we've only got about two minutes left and I'm sure a viewer still have more questions so where can people go to learn more and even to get your help with their interview with their pitch so the best place to reach me is to go through a site called diligentplans.com it's exactly as it sounds diligentplans.com with an S and there's a list of speakers on that website and I'm listed as one of them and that's the best way to reach me alright so it sounds like you not only do coaching you don't just do coaching with people individually you also work as a speaker so you can target multiple groups at the same time yes I love to share just my leadership experience and in what I've learned as a leader through all of these different experiences both in the military and in the corporate world and also as a mom I'm a mother of four and I got to tell you that there's a lot of challenges in that arena as well and so I just I really I love connecting with people and I love making them better versions of themselves in very impactful ways and so I find that doing that through speaking and doing that through coaching is very gratifying to me alright I think we've got one last minute here what is the last piece of advice or the last important thing that you would want to give to our audience before you end the show today I would just say that when you are talking to somebody enjoy it you have an opportunity to connect with somebody connect and if you don't like talking to people which some people don't then it makes a little bit more challenging but understand that that we are humans and we live through connection and there's always something that we can learn from each other it's always a mutual kind of relationship and so when you're out there even beyond the delivery of an elevator pitch just connect with people it's important for your for your well-being alright well thank you Alicia thank you for coming on to the show today thank you for connecting with us and I really appreciate your time thank you alright viewers I hope you enjoyed this episode of out of the comfort zone and remember we'll be bringing on more experts for every episode to make sure you have everything you need to make your life better I'll see you next Tuesday bye


Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today I thought we'd look at my massive Star Wars collection. I do have a massive Star Wars collection or at least I think I do. I think I do. And you probably see some of it, you know, in the background here. It's been featured in some of my videos. And usually when that happens, we're in my office. Okay, I have stuff on display. I don't know why that wasn't quotes. I have stuff on display in my office. And so these are things that are actually out on pedestals. There's little vignettes set up, you know, there's characters in spaceships, things like that. That's going to be the beautiful stuff to show you. That's going to be the stuff that you'll see and you'll go, but then I'm going to take you home with me. And I'm going to show you the stuff I've got back there. A lot of that stuff is not on display because I have a family and my wife doesn't want it all over the house, which you can probably understand. So I have a closet. I have a closet where I have some stuff out and you'll see that. And then I have like a trunk. And the stuff that's in my trunk is mostly just kind of thrown in mishmash and hodgepodge and in plastic bags. And a lot of that stuff I'll probably go through really quickly. So I'm not going to take everything out of bags. It's stuff that needs to, it would need to be set up and reassembled. I'll just briefly scan it and show it to you. And then I'm going to show you my action figures that they end. I mean, you've seen all the vintage figures and that's really what I'm going to show you too. They're just in plastic bags. Again, they're not out on display. But we'll close with that and I'll kind of narrate everything as I go. And if as we're going, I scan by something and it's too fast, you're like, oh, what was that? What was that? Just leave a comment below and say, Hey, what was that white R2-D2 thing? You know, just ask and then I'll see if I can't remember what it was because I pretty much save anything that says Star Wars on it. And so yeah, you're going to see a lot of that. Pretty excited. Let's get into it. All right, here we go. We're going to start in my office and this is just, you know, it's random stuff. So there's some really old vintage books back there, a vintage coloring book.  You're going to see some of like different action figures from different years. You're going to see vintage stuff like those books way in the back. You're going to see like Burger King or McDonald's toys like right here in the front. There's a couple of different Yodas and there's a really tall Qui-Gon. He's like a hollow plastic thing. There's some Pez dispensers back there. There's a really awful Star Wars book that I couldn't stand back You're going to see a lot of Boba Fett stuff. Tons of Boba Fett stuff because I'm a big huge fan. Mr. Potato Head, of course, my staff is missing a gun and still bugs me. Yeah, big dogs from way back in the 80s. You're going to see a lot of do-backs too because I am just heavily into do-backs. I love do-backs. Anything that's do-back, I will get. So some more action or some more Happy Meal toys. Again, vintage books, vintage kids books. Like I said, I collect anything. That's a VHS cassette, I think, of Return of the Jedi. More Happy Meal toys. Those are Wocky Talkies over there in the corner. A bunch of Happy Meal toys. Star Wars Aftermath. I did not like that book either. Did you like that book? I didn't. I don't know. I got that book because I thought it was going to be like great. All right, so vintage toys. So vintage TIE Fighter, vintage action figures too. So all of this is vintage and I have duplicates. These are duplicate figures. These are beater figures that I stick because I want figures in all my ships. There's a book my wife got me for my birthday. It's pretty cool. I like that book. And all this stuff was purchased in my adulthood, like later in life. I consider these action figures. I wanted to get the Jabba and his whole set. I know that Princess Leia doesn't go with it, but that's where she fits best. So that's a box for a puzzle back there. The Rancor actually had to get a figure for him too. Had to get a figure for my do-back. He doesn't have reins yet because I can't find good reins. There's some of my vintage books back in the background, my novels from and I bought all those later too. I used to have those when I was a kid and then I re-bought them again later in life because I wanted them. But that scout right there, I've had that since my youth. Captain Tresma Cup. That's a cup, a mug. I got that at the race in Walt Disney World. Here's some more vintage ships. My vintage Millennium Falcon completely restored 100% together. That's a Yoda mask down there. Not a melted Yoda. My ATST, which I used to have when I was a kid, but then I had to buy later in life. And then I've got a series of Yoda stuff. Of course, vintage Snow Speeder. And then here's all the Yoda things and then some Darth Vader stuff. So I've got Darth Vader Bank. I've got a Darth Vader helmet. That's a candy dispenser in the front. I can't remember even what that thing is. Yeah, that's a mask. That's a mask. I think one's a cookie jar. It's a ceramic cookie jar. So got all my Darth Vader heads. And there's another kid's book. This is a pop-up book. It has action-packed flaps. It's a pop-up book. Vintage Y-Wing that I restored. Again, there's a figure inside and that R2 is also vintage. Those are all Jango Fett figures from that series. And then there's a full-size Jango Fett in the background. Of course, my Slave I, which has only had two owners in its whole life, the original guy and then me. So I'm still taking care of it if you're watching. And then big, huge action figures from Empire. And then this right here is an automated bank and it's covered in dust. But it's sitting on my top shelf. And my three pop figures that I've collected. I don't have a whole lot, but I like them. That's not right there. That's a candy dispenser. See that little fan thing? It's a candy dispenser, but I saved it. Some of the new action figures here, and they're way tucked in the back. You can't even really see them from where they stand. But they're there. And here's my big doo-back that I love, love, love. And I had to sense to get rid of the box because the box ended up falling apart. A little play school doo-back here in the front and then way in the back. The Galactic Heroes one. This doo-back I kind of put together myself. I got the doo-back I think in China and then bought the figure separately about putting them together. And then this guy is a really cool doo-back set that I love. And then right next to that is my Black Series speeder bike, which is pretty awesome. Again, random things that are around my house.  Here's all my novels that I've been going through and reviewing. For you, if you don't know, I'm going through all the vintage books and reviewing them in order and kind of seeing whether if they're still considered to be good books. Here's my vintage AT-AT that I've restored. And of course, there's beater figures in there as well because, you know, the ships need figures.   Full-size Boa Fett cardboard standup. The thing about his neck is a poster tube carrier. Here's the troop transport that I restored also. Full-size vintage Death Star that I restored, but the gun's broken. I wish I had a better gun. Here's some mounted posters. It's a signed David Prouse poster there. Burger King glasses that I used to have when I was a kid. The actual vinyl record of Star Wars. Black Series Boa Fett deck of cards. This Boa Fett figure right here in the front, my brother got that for me for my birthday, which is probably one of the best presents I've ever got. Gold Boa Fett back there and the lunch pail from Celebration. Here's some more stuff that's sitting up on a shelf. Just random Boa Fett stuff just hanging out. Little squishy toys my kids no longer play with, but there's Star Wars. There's a costume back there. That old, that blue box. That's a old vintage costume. Another full-size Boa Fett. Well, not full-size. Okay, so here's the box full of plastic stuff. So a lot of these are micro-machines. These are all like the diecast micro-machines, the heavy ones. And then this is that little dice game that came with the action figures a long time ago, the Galactic Battle series. Here's my 12-inch vintage Boa Fett. This is original from when I was a kid, so only one owner. That's me. I got the gun and all these parts, but they're somewhere else. Little beat-up tie fighters, some pens. See, I collect everything. It's got Star Wars on it. Big huge pile of micro-machines. These are the bigger size ones. All the big ships and I keep them in bags. This is a box of just randomness. Like, you know, it's Pez dispensers. It's a little tiny action figures. It's a stuffed animal. Okay, so here's my class. See, I'm going really fast. Here's my classic figures. So this is my A New Hope figure set collection. And you'll notice that I keep them all together with their weapon. So I don't have stands yet for them. So, but if they have capes or if they have weapons or if they have accessories, it's all wrapped together in a plastic bag. Oh, Luke's lightsaber's bent. This is a reproduction, obviously, of the Rocket Fighting Boa Fett. I don't have the real one, but you know, I have to have something. So there's, I have a repro. And here's my Empire Strikes Back action figure collection set. And again, all parts and accessories are in the plastic bags with the guys. That's an extra Chewbacca because he needs to carry T3PO. I mean, one day it'd be great to have all these on stands and have them out with their weapons and, you know, in an office, but I'll have to wait until kids are out of the house, probably. And I have more space to myself to do that with. And the return of the Jedi action figures. This was a weird set because, like, nobody had guns. Everybody has sticks. Stick, stick. Okay, he has a gun. He had a hard gun to find. Man, that gun was hard. That gun. That gun was hard to find, too. Stick, stick. They all have just poles. Stick, stick, stick, stick, bow and arrow. They're the worst weapons. And then, by pride and joy, my one carded figure. I have Endor Han on a card back. And the guy who sold it to me was super nice and really gracious. So that's it. That's all my stuff. All right. So that was my Star Wars collection. I think it's massive. I think it's massive. Or at least my family does, right? And it's growing all the time. And obviously, I didn't show you everything.   I got coffee mugs, right? I'm not going to go through my coffee mug collection, or go through my Christmas decorations, right? I have Christmas decorations, too. So there's lots of stuff that kind of, like, is left around the house in key places. I'm not going to go through all of that.  Star Wars all over your house. And so, yeah. Thanks for sticking with me. May the Force be with you. I'll see you guys next time. Bye.


Hi everyone! Welcome to Saturday's Stitch Explorers tutorial. This week's stitch is called the Lotus Bud Stitch. This is a stitch that my friend Lily over at Lilianette Crochet came up with. It's super beautiful, oops sorry, and it has a great little like ridge to it. I'll show it up closer a little bit. It's very similar to the Peak Stitch, which is one we did a couple weeks ago in the Stitch tutorial series, but it's just slightly different. And she's offering up a 25% coupon for a spa set that she did with this stitch plus a few other techniques that you'll learn if you get the pattern. It's 25% off. You can use the coupon code LotusBudLove and I'll put all those links down in the description below and a link to her pattern shop and all that. So what I did to start the stitch, I'm using a boy hook for 4 millimeter G hook and I'm using I Love This Cotton, which is a thin kind of a light worsted so you can see the stitch better. I started off with a foundation single crochet row because it stretches. I worked up a one with just a chain and even with the foundation row this stitch here kind of bunches it up a little bit. So you want to use a foundation single crochet and I'll put the link down below. However, if you want to use a chain you're welcome to do that too. I chained 20 or I worked up 20 foundation single crochet for this. So go ahead and work up your 20, pause the video and come back and then I'll show you how to do this beautiful stitch. Alright, so to start off we're going to pretend that this is our foundation row or our chain. Of course if you're working a chain you're going to work into the third chain from the hook. You don't have to worry about multiples with this stitch because eat there's no you can do as many multiples odd or even it doesn't matter because there's one stitch per stitch basically. So for our second row we're going to chain two turn and I'm going to get just a little bit closer. So here's our first stitch here we're going to yarn over first, insert your hook into the stitch, grab a loop and pull up so you'll have three loops on your hook, yarn over pull through two of those loops then you're going to wrap around again insert into the same stitch you just worked pull up a loop you'll have four and then your yarn over and pull through all four on your hook super easy. So we're going to work another one into the next stitch so yarn over first insert your hook into the stitch pull up a loop pull through two yarn over insert your hook into the same stitch pull up a loop you'll have four yarn over and pull through all four and that's how the entire stitch works that's the lotus bud stitch so super simple I'll work a few more so you can get the hang of it. I'm working outside today so if you hear a bunch of noise planes trains cars and automobiles I hope you don't mind I just like sitting outside it's so pretty today it's beautiful all right so there's your lotus bud stitch it really makes a beautiful fabric well I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial leave any questions or comments below and go ahead and subscribe to that channel put the little bell button so you can get notified for all our status stitch tutorials and more tongue twisters just kidding so and I'll leave all the links below so you can get see what Lilanette has in her shop and the 25% coupon. Thanks guys happy crocheting have a great day and happy Easter