Hello, everybody. Andrew Maesky here with dental ill tutoring. So let's talk about board exam prep, specifically the last few days that you have left to study for the board exam. So you might be taking the board exam next week in two weeks even. But I have a lot of students right now that are taking the board exam in two days. And I'm getting a lot of messages, a lot of emails saying, OK, what can I do to prepare for this board exam? What should I study? What should I not study? Because in two days, you clearly don't have time to read the whole textbook and study for everything, right? So let me go through a couple of main topics, a couple of main questions that I want you guys to know for the board exam. But first of all, keep studying. OK, what I tell my students is study for six hours maximum a day. So you could do two hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon, two hours in the evening. But let's say you do have to work as well. So that can depend. If you have time to study three hours in the morning before work and then three three hours when you get home from work, that's a good idea, too. So it really depends on your life. If you have kids, it might be harder to study, say, three hours at a time. You might have to do 20 minutes at a time, but added up to six hours a day. I don't want anybody to be studying for 20 hours a day or I don't want anybody to be studying for half an hour because that's not going to do too much either. So let's talk about studying. I want everybody to keep on studying for the board exam. Don't study until 2 a.m. because you need your sleep. If you're trying to study and you're half asleep, trust me, that's not going to help anybody. Now, topics you probably all want to talk about topics, right? So and I should mention, sorry, you guys, this is specifically for the dental hygiene board exam. I teach dental assistance as well online, and but I will do that for another video. Even if you're not a student of mine, that's OK, this will still be a good sort of overall review for the board exam for you. Now, if you are a student of mine, the best thing to do, honestly, you guys, is put away your textbooks, put away the textbooks, log inside your course that that you have purchased and look through the mock exam power points. Look through all of those mock exams because mock mock exams are the best way to study at this point because you might think you know what you know, but you really don't know what you know. I know, sounds confusing, but you won't know until you take mock exam questions and study that way. You might think you know everything about perio, but you do a mock exam questions on perio that are inside your module, inside the course. And you might go, oh, shoot, when the question is being asked that way, I actually don't know it. So then that tells you to restudy perio. So you get the idea. If you're not a student of mine, then the best thing to do is actually to open up a textbook and go through your chapter. So let me tell you what I want you guys to go through first. So I'm just going to look on my other monitor here, you guys, because I took some notes for myself. OK, so let's just talk about perio first. So I want you guys to know about perio and gingivitis. Make sure you understand the basics as simple as that might sound, but understand the basics. Know the differences between perio and gingivitis. Know that as soon as there is just one four millimeter pocket in the mouth, that is perio. That is localized perio. It's not generalized. It's localized. But the patient does have perio. OK. Think about perio being attachment loss. Perio is when they do start to lose the bone support around the teeth. At four millimeters, though, you're probably not losing the bone support yet. But at five millimeters, that's something to think about because that's automatically moderate perio. And what do we know about moderate perio? We know that can start to lead to bone loss. Do you remember how you check for bone loss? You would check for bone loss in radiographs. So you might have an idea doing your periodontal probe, like, oh, there's generalized five millimeter pockets in there. Oh, there might be some bone loss. You can only tell bone loss for sure on an x-ray, but also keep in mind, early signs of bone loss do not show up on an x-ray. So I hope I'm not confusing everybody. I'm trying to give you guys as much info as I possibly can. If anything does sound confusing, I can help you guys log inside the course. Look under that module. OK. So now I'm talking about gingivitis. Gingivitis is a gingival condition only. So if the gums are bleeding everywhere, they have gingivitis. Now, this is where a lot of students might get a little bit confused. Do they have early gingivitis? Do they have moderate gingivitis? Do they have severe gingivitis? If you see heavy bleeding everywhere, I would consider that severe gingivitis. If there is a little bit of bleeding here, a little bit of bleeding there when you're doing the teeth cleaning. OK, you might say light localized gingivitis. So it kind of depends on a couple of things, but that's just sort of a nutshell. If you need more help with that, you guys, log inside your course under PERIO and gingivitis. There are hours of like mock exams to do. Make sure to look at our previously recorded sessions online. You will see that in the private Facebook group that I have for students only. OK. What else, you guys? So, yes, so PERIO, gingivitis, please make sure to know that. I could talk about this forever, but I'm trying to give you guys kind of a good ballpark on everything. A quick side note, though, know the difference between chronic and acute. Somebody would have acute gingivitis. If let's say they have a popcorn kernel stuck, but it is the gum around that is puffy, sore, inflamed. Yes, they have gingivitis because it's puffy, sore and inflamed, but that would be more acute, not chronic. Chronic is when somebody hasn't had their teeth cleaned in two years. They brush maybe twice a day, but still, you know, the gums are puffy, red and swollen. So definitely know the difference.  Know the different types of fluoride on the board exam. A fluoride varnish is everything. If you don't know the answer, the answer is probably fluoride varnish. OK, they love that. There are there's neutral fluoride. There is a cedulated phosphate fluoride. There is stannous fluoride and there is sodium fluoride. So let me explain that a little bit. I hope I'm not boring you guys too much. This will probably be a longer video, but I know it's going to help. So a cedulated phosphate fluoride is typically in foam, OK? That is when you need to make sure that the patient doesn't have any composites, any amalgams, any restorations, anything like that. That would typically be put in those trays and then in the patient's mouth. I don't use that anymore in my practice, but there are probably some offices that still do. The neutral fluoride is typically in a rinse form or a gel form, OK? Or a mouthwash form, even neutral fluoride, even. I'm just kind of looking at the mouthwash that I have here. I have a neutral sodium fluoride, same thing. So it is just more of a neutral, better for everybody, that type of thing. Oh, the cedulated phosphate fluoride. Sorry, let me put a step back here. That is one point two, three percent, typically. Whereas if you're looking at a neutral fluoride, actually, it actually says here, you can get one for zero point two percent or zero point zero five percent, OK? Remember, zero point two is a higher concentration of fluoride, so that's technically better. But we do have lesser amounts as well. But then if you're looking at fluoride varnish, which I actually do happen to have here, that was not on purpose. You can get a two point five percent sodium fluoride varnish. Sorry, it's not really focusing here. My apologies. Two point five percent sodium fluoride or a five percent sodium fluoride varnish, which you have probably seen more of. That is used as a varnish to paint on. Great for sensitivities. Great for a gingival recession. And if a patient gets cavities, I am pro all the way. I love fluoride. I don't care if you're four years old, if you're 60 years old, if you're 20, everybody, mostly everybody, needs fluoride. But they love to ask about that on the board exam because they want you to know all about fluoride. So definitely know the different types. Fluoride varnish is everything simply because it sticks to the teeth better. There is better uptake with enamel, that kind of thing. A little side note, also know that fluoride helps to remineralize enamel. OK, when you have a cavity, when you have sugars, that demineralizes enamel. So the fluoride helps to bring all of that back to remineralize enamel. So far, so good, you guys. OK, let me check my notes. Make sure to know pharmacology, of course. Know, you know, the more common medications. OK, know the differences between, oh, this is a medication typically given to cancer patients. This is a medication typically given to people who have bipolar disorder, such as lithium. This medication is a typical antidepressant. This medication is for high blood pressure. Know those types of things. Now, I could do a whole video on pharmacology, so that would just take up too much time. But, you know, feel free to stop the video right now and study pharmacology. OK, that is something that you guys have to know. There are simple facts, which you might not think to study for. But brushing twice a day is good enough. You would never tell a patient to brush five times a day. That's not better than twice a day because a patient is not going to brush five times a day. So we don't want to scare them and say to have a perfect mouth. You need to brush five, five times a day, right? That kind of thing. Brush twice a day, floss once a day. That is the golden standard using a mouthwash isn't for everybody, but that's even better adding a mouthwash in there. OK, there are many things we can do. I'm just actually bringing over a slide quickly. I want to show you guys some oral pathology. OK, actually, my apologies. I opened up the wrong slide, but that's OK. I can still talk about oral pathology. And this way, if you don't know the answer, since I just don't have the slides handy, you can look it up, right? No oral pathology. Think of things like macules, papules, pustules, and nodules. Know the difference. Quickly, a macule is a freckle. A papule is like a mole. A pustule is like a pimple. So there's something inside of there. That type of thing. OK, you guys know that. Know the common oral pathology, normal lesions, such as linea elba. Know lucho edema. Know I'm drawing a blank. Know lingual varicositis. Know angular chelitis. Know kind of drawing a blank here, guys. I apologize. Know the basics of oral pathology. Even I probably have a video on YouTube. Feel free to do a search for oral pathology inside my YouTube channel. You will you will probably find a video for you to help you. If you are a student of mine, all you have to do is log in to your course, go under oral pathology. You will find what you have to know for the board exam on oral pathology. Don't read the whole textbook. There's no time for that. Just look inside my course and I have that there for you. OK, a quick side note again. If you do have a couple of weeks or even a month to study for the for the board exam and you're kind of thinking, oh, I kind of need Andrea's help, but I don't have that much time. I do now have something called an express board exam prep course. So that is specifically for those people who just want a review of what they have to know for the board exam. So you would log into your course. You see PowerPoints, you see mock exams, you see case studies and you see videos of me teaching you, you know, what you have to know. Not, you know, hundreds and thousands of PowerPoints, but just what you have to know for for the exam. So that is an option. I can leave the link for you guys on the bottom if you're not a student and you are considering that because that is ninety nine dollars. Totally worth it. You you get so much for that price. And that's for people who have like a month, maybe even a week or two to study for the board exam and you just want to do what you have to do to pass, right? That's what we all want to do. But anyways, you guys OK, so make sure to know your oral pathology, pharmacology, know your medical emergency situation. So what does it look like if a patient is about to faint? How can you avoid that? How can you prevent that? What does it look like if somebody is having a stroke? How do you prevent that? That type of thing. High blood pressure. What do you do if a patient is having a heart attack? Perfect example. If somebody is having pain in their chest, they could be having an angina attack, which could lead to a heart attack. Who knows? But they could be having an angina attack. They need nitroglycerin, a pill or a spray under the tongue, under the tongue, because that's the quickest way that it goes through the body three times at the most. So give them a spray or the pill. Wait five minutes. If it hasn't helped, do it again. Wait five minutes. If it hasn't helped, do it again. Wait, wait, like five minutes. But then you have to do something. You can only do it three times. They're probably having a heart attack. If it hasn't helped the men, then they obviously have to go to the hospital. Okay. So something to make note of, something to remember. Make sure to know your blood pressure chart. So know what is high blood pressure? What is hypertension? When should they go to the hospital ASAP? That kind of thing. Know those types of things, you guys. I'm just looking through this quickly. Know your special needs patients. Know seniors. Know if they have a health condition. Know those types of things. Okay. They want you to know that. A quick side note for seniors and for children. So talking about, you would probably have this in your ethics section under abuse. For children and seniors, we need to report abuse. For adults, we can't necessarily report it. That adult has to come forward. I could go on like about this forever, but same thing, you guys, I'm trying to keep this short and sweet for you just to give you an idea of what to study for. Okay. Know your plaque and tartar as silly as that sounds. Know you will have the acquired pellicle first and then plaque forms. Plaque forms. And then if plaque isn't removed, obviously, hopefully, you know that much by brushing and flossing then calculus forms. Calculus is calcified deposits can only be taken off using your instruments. Okay. So know that. Also know when you should bring a patient back in three months, in six months, in nine months. It all depends on their pocket levels. Depends on bleeding. It depends on their oral hygiene. So know the differences. I have a couple of videos on that too. So definitely have a look. Know the difference between class one occlusion, class two and class three. Know those. Know Black's classification as well. Please know that. What else can I tell you guys? Sorry, guys. I'm just kind of looking through a couple of things. Those are, I know it's not everything, but that's a pretty good start, right? Actually, let me pause the video. I just want to log into my course for a second and just kind of give you guys a little help that way. So one second. Okay, guys. Sorry. So I just have to refresh my memory here. So no x-rays, no processing errors. They want you to know manual and digital processing errors, which is super annoying because we don't really do manual anymore, but some offices probably still are. So know that. Know your panoramic x-ray landmarks. Please and thank you. Very important, of course. Let's see, guys. Know your instrumentation techniques. It's kind of going through a couple of things here. Know infection control and sterilization. Know things like what you need inside the package, what you need outside the package. Definitely know that. Community. Now that is something. Please don't laugh too hard. But I tell people don't study it too much because you will end up studying community for eight hours today and then you will feel like you know nothing. And then on the board exam, they will have questions that you didn't even study for. In my opinion, in my expert opinion, I've been doing this for almost 16 years. I have been teaching for almost 16 years as well. Community, you really can't study for a while because they will ask you questions on the board exam that you just couldn't have studied for. Of course, you guys, I'm not saying not to study for it, but if you're taking the exam, say in two days, I would study for other things. For community indices, I would study that, which if you guys are a student, log in to your course. There's a PowerPoint labeled indices under community. Study that and that's a pretty good start because I don't want you to get stressed out trying to study for community when it's very, very difficult. Anesthetic. Know the injection techniques and the injection sites. Even here in Ontario, we, well, depending on where you are, a lot of hygienists can't give the needle, can't give the injection, but we still have to know it. So know the injection sites, patterns, which injections freeze, which teeth, know all of that. Just kind of browsing through. Know your oral facial anatomy, so the different teeth, the different landmarks. I know, hopefully I'm not stressing you out too much, but I just kind of wanted to give you guys a good overall ballpark of what you still need to look at. OK, let me know if you guys have any questions. Thank you guys so much for watching. Good luck on the exam.  OK, you guys, good luck, good luck and good luck. OK, guys, bye.


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reviewed that the Atlantic hurricane season is poised to deliver another round of above normal storms in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. Noyes administrator Rick Spearant at a news conference in New York said that the prediction reveals an above normal 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which will make this year the seventh consecutive above normal season. Noyes focused his estimate 14 to 21 named storms 6 to 10 of which will become hurricanes and 3 to 6 of those that will develop into major hurricanes during the June 1st to November 30th season. Noyes is predicting an above normal 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which would make this year the seventh consecutive above normal season. Specifically, there is a 65 percent chance of an above normal season, a 25 percent chance of a near normal season, and just a 10 percent chance of a below normal season. For the range of storms expected, Noyes calls for a 70 percent probability of the following ranges. So when it comes to coastal storms, hurricanes and floods, preparation is everything. And today this announcement is allowing all of our agencies and New Yorkers to be prepared. That's why we are here today with partners from NOAA, FEMA and the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. It's going to take real partnership for us to combat these unprecedented levels of storms that we are seeing in our city and in our entire country. So my question to the public today is, are you ready? We must not forget that just last year, Hurricane Ida made a nine state destructive trek across the United States. It affected coastal, urban and suburban communities. This shows me that no one is immune from the effects of these tropical storms. So FEMA has an urgent call to everyone, a call to action for everybody that lives in these areas. The time to get ready is now.


Well, in this module, we will be discussing reproduction in birds. So birds, they have retained the important adaptation for life on land and that evolved in early reptiles. These are the same, these are the same adaptations in the reptiles. Or over here, we see that they are continuing in birds. With little, as you can see, changes, little, rather additional changes.  So this is an intrametant organ which is used to introduce, to introduce sperms into the female. Now, males simply deposit semen against the cloaca for internal fertilization. They can, as a birds be, just they meet their cloaca and introduce the sperms into the female. But there are certain animals which have this organ, the penis, which is used to introduce the sperms into the female. Now, the sperms then migrate. When these sperms, they enter the body of the female. Now these sperms, they travel up, they travel up, up to the point. It's a very convoluted ovidot and up to the point where they very close the ovary. And the egg released at that time, that is just in the form of a yolk. That is a yolk which is surrounded by a membrane, which is the vitiline membrane. And then the shell formation is after fertilization. After that, as the fertilized egg moves down along the ovidot, then the remaining part of the egg, like the albumin or the cloaca, or the cloaca is the spirals, the proteinaceous albuminus. And after that, the egg is membrane. And then lastly, the shell egg is developed by the shell glands on it. And when the egg is laid down, this is a complete well-protected house in which there is further development. Now all birds are oviparous and the eggshells are much thicker than those of the reptiles. Because the calcium in it is more brittle as compared to the egg shell or egg of the birds. Now thicker shells permit birds to sit on their eggs and warm them. This is processes called incubation. So these birds build nests, which is a very comfortable bed, and then they lay down on the eggs in that place. And then they provide warmth by sitting on to the egg. That is why their shells are harder as compared to those of the reptiles. Because reptiles do not incubate the eggs. They do not sit on the eggs. They do not provide warmth to the eggs. Now the boosting, the brooding, the brooding or incubation is Sun's early development. The winter-side feathers are also removed and it becomes a brooding patch which gives it a moist environment, a humid environment and a temperate environment. And that is the most appropriate, the best environment for the development of the egg. Now when many young birds hatch, they are incapable of surviving by their own. Because when the young bird comes out of the egg, this process is called as incubation of the egg. This is hatching of the egg. Now extensive parental care, when the young one comes out of the egg shell, then the parents provide feed. You must have seen that chirping is their sound. And that is a call for the parents to bring food. And then they introduce open beaks to the parents. So the extensive parental care, this is what is called a parental care. So in the beginning, it protects the young ones under its wings and provides warmth. So the young ones are common among birds, then fishes, amphibians and reptiles. And these three groups of animals, the protection of the birds is maximum. So in this diagram, we are seeing that these are the eggs and this chick has come out. And in the beginning, this chick does not look like this, its feathers are wet. But in a few hours, it becomes fluffy. And at this point, it is a one day chick. And after that, this is another bird. And these are the young ones and the mother is feeding them. In both cases, both the parents feed the young ones. And their growth at this point is very rapid. It seems that the output of their development is much higher as compared to the input, the food, the energy which is moving. So it is just, it is no doubt, it is something marvelous. It is inborn. It is something that they do not have to do. This is the process of feeding. The parents have to do it. The nature of their brain is kept quiet. This is what is being translated in this form. So in this way, we can call this protection in birds. It is much better as compared to its previous group, that is the reptiles. So in this, after development, after its so-called birth and its hatching, even after that, they nurse the parents, the young ones. And they keep nursing until they can grow their wings. And they cannot fly. And they cannot get their own feed. So this is all about reproduction in birds.


Good morning, Hank! It's Tuesday! Today is the ninth day of Pizzamas, so to celebrate today's video comes to you in nine very special parts. That was part one, the intro. Part two, the unabashed promotion of saleable goods. So there are only a few days left to order all your Pizzamas stuff from DFTBA.com. All these beautiful Pizza John shirts and the Pizza John PJs and everything else is only available till the end of Pizzamas. Part three, good news. So I don't want to minimize or ignore the torrent of bad news currently washing over the world, but I did want to call your attention to one piece of extraordinarily good news that I think has gone under-reported. It's just been announced that global carbon emissions are expected to be nearly flat in 2016, marking the third straight year of no carbon emission growth. That's really good news. Unfortunately, it's not good enough news because emissions are still far too high to limit post-industrial warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. But it's important because it underscores that humanity can reach its other goals without increasing emissions, like the global economy grew by about 3% this year and both poverty and disease burden were reduced. Part three, bad news. The UN has just reported that 2016 will almost certainly be the hottest year in recorded human history. And worrisomely, that record will likely only stand until 2017. Climate change is real, humans are causing it, and the people of the future will judge us on how we dealt with it. Part five, more good news. AFC Wimbledon, the fan-owned English soccer team who wear DFTBA on their shorts, have had an astonishingly successful first season in the third tier of English football. Seventeen games into the season, they are just three points from a playoff spot, while the franchise currently playing in Milton Keynes is in the relegation zone. All of this is just further proof that we are living in the best sports timeline of the entire multiverse, and also the worst everything else timeline. Part six, unabashed promotion of salable goods. While you're over at dftba.com picking up this comfortable and fashionable pizza John hoodie, why not buy an AFC Wimbledon nerdfighteria scarf? All proceeds go to the club, and maybe if we sell enough scarves, they will make it back to the playoffs, and I will get to go to Wembley and feel like this again. Part seven, more bad news. So Hank, one of my favorite songwriters, Leonard Cohen, died last week. He was everything I want to be when I grow up, empathetic and smart, without ever being condescending or cold. And he also gave me one of the central ideas in my book Paper Towns. I'm gonna put a link to some of my favorite Leonard Cohen songs in the doobly-doo below for you to enjoy. Part eight, more good news. Amid loss, there is still great art being made in the world. Quick side story, when I was 15, I wrote this extremely sincere and terrible paper for English about how there could never be another great work of fiction because Dostoevsky was dead.  Anyway, 20 years later, Dostoevsky is still dead, and there are still truly great books being written. Most recently, I have been completely astonished by this book, what is not yours is not yours. But I'll have many more book recommendations in my forthcoming holiday gift book roundup. In the meantime, if there are books that you would suggest to me, please do so in comments. Thanks. Part nine, The Outro. So I think I'm gonna close out my part of Pizzamas on Thursday with an old-fashioned question Tuesday because you know, what better day to do it? So please leave your questions, ideally brief ones, in the comment section below. And I thought I'd leave you today with some of my favorite Leonard Cohen lines. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. And screen. Oh look, it's that book that I liked in Pizzamas Merchant, a couple of my favorite Leonard Cohen songs, and perhaps most importantly, a bunny from Rosiana. Self-care bunny is here to remind you to take care of yourself because there is only one of you and the world is lucky to have you.


Okay, hello everyone and thank you for coming, my name is Ayal Shenitzky and I'm a software engineer at Reddit on the Ovid storage team. Hi, I'm Daniel Ares, an engineer at Reddit and a contributor of Ovid project. Okay, so thank you for coming and today we're going to talk about back to the future and how we can do an incremental backup using Ovid. So the agenda for our time journey today, we'll start reviewing the old supported backup APIs in Ovid, then we'll see the new supported incremental backup API, then we'll dive into Dolorean hood and see how it works underneath, and we'll show how to use it using the engine and image IO backup API. So let's start. So how many of you used Ovid or know about Ovid? Can you please raise your hands? Okay, to see most of you, which is fine, great, thank you. So this is Ovid from 10,000 meters above. We decided to show here only the main components that related to backup. So we have the engine, which is the management application, the Java application, and underneath it we have the hypervisor, the host that runs virtual machines, and of course we have the virtual machines disk. Also we have an external application, a backup application that is an external application for Ovid and wants to backup those VMs, especially the disks. So how it can be done? So the old supported backup APIs, let's review them. We go back in time. The oldest solution is the backup appliance. The year is 2014, even before I was born. The backup applications runs actually inside Proxy VM. How it's going to be? The flow will be to take a VM snapshot, and then you will attach that specific snapshot to a backup VM. Once you attach the snapshot to a backup VM inside that Proxy or backup VM, you will copy the entire disk, and detach when you are done the disk snapshot from the backup VM, and remove the snapshot. Fine, let's move forward in time. We have a newer way, we have the image transfer API. If some of you were in the BaroS presentation, they are using this as their backup solution. So the year is 2017. You can now download and upload snapshot using the image.io, rest API image.io is a subproject in Ovid to communicate with the engine and download and upload disks from Ovid engine to your environment, and it was presented since Ovid 4.0. So how the flow is going to look like? You just, of course, need to take a snapshot. When the snapshot is ready, you will download the snapshot as a Q-code disk. Once you're done, you can remove the old snapshot. So in order to restore the backup that you've taken, you can prepare the disk for restore. It will be in the backup application. For example, if you have a chain of snapshots, you will be re-based all those snapshots, one on top of another, or any kind of preparation you need to do. Once you're done, you can upload the disk or the chain of snapshots using grow or Q-code 2 format, and create a VM from the uploaded disk. So those were the supported backup APIs. So now, Daniel will present to you about the new incremental backup API. Okay, let's see the incremental backup API. So first on your seatbelts, we're going to jump to the future. Okay, so the year is next year. We are still working on it. It's not done yet. So it will be an intake preview in Ovid 4.4. It will require upstream LiveVirt and QMO 4.2, and the ITs incremental backup via change block tracking and using the NBT protocol. So let's see the full backup flow in a very high level. First, we start the backup with a simple API for that. Second, download the disks in raw format. We don't care about the source format, we get it in raw. And last, stop the backup. And there is no step 4. Simple API, simple flow. Ovid does all the everything behind the hood. And actually, LiveVirt and QMO does everything, but Ovid manages all of it. Okay, let's go for the incremental backup flow. Very similar. First, we start the incremental backup. Second, download the change blocks. Again, in raw format, we don't care about the source. And third step, stop the backup. So again, very simple. Now, let's see how we do restore from incremental backup flow. First, we need to prepare the disk for restore. The backup application needs to create a single file in raw format. Then we upload the disk again. And then, simply attach the disk to the new VM and we can use the VM as it was before. Now, let's see the advantages of incremental backup. We have quite a few of them. First, copy change blocks. And this speed up incremental backup or actually enables incremental backup by copying only the change blocks since the less backup. Next, extends API. For full backup, we have a new extends API for exposing data extents and zero extents so we can skip the zero extents and download only the data extents. Next, we are snapshot free now. No need to create or delete a snapshot. So all the complex operation of managing a snapshot, which can be quite complex as we know, no need for it anymore. Next, raw guest data. We can download the data in raw format as the guest sees it. We can convert it later if you want, but raw is supporting streaming easily so this is more efficient. And then last but not least, we have an improved image error client which is a library that enables us to upload, download, disks in both formats, even including the backing files. Now, let's see the limitations. First, we're supporting only QR code disks. We need the features of QR code to get the extents. Next, it's available only for running VMs now. We can support it later on for non-running VMs but this is current location. Unless the extents API is not useful for raw preallocated disks. Since for raw disks, we get only a single extents so we can really do incremental. Now, Erl will show us under the hood. Okay, great. Thank you, Daniel. So we saw how the incremental backup is going to work in the higher level site. So let's dive into the Lorent hood and see how Libreth and QMO actually doing those operations. So in the base of incremental backup, we have checkpoints. You can imagine a checkpoint like a lightweight snapshot. When the user is selected to create a backup, a checkpoint is created in the Libreth layer. Actually, checkpoints tracks the metadata inside this specific backup. For example, you can see here that the user created the backup in January 1st and this checkpoint was created for that backup. You can see the backup that this checkpoint belongs to and which disks are participated in the specific backup. So time moves forward. This is the first backup in the chain. The user, in the day after, selects to create a new checkpoint. So now a new backup and a new checkpoint was created underneath it and now this checkpoint has a parent which is the first checkpoint and same disks participate in the specific backup. Fine. Day after, the user is selected to create another backup and another checkpoint was created and now we have a chain. The chain of checkpoints will be persisted on the host as long as the VM is alive. In case the VM goes down or crashes or something happens to him, we need to redefine those checkpoints because Libreth is not aware of them. So we persist all this information in the engine database. Again, the engine will redefine those checkpoints and the VM will be aware of what happened. So we have checkpoints. We know how it works in Libreth site but checkpoints actually just track the metadata. What actually gives us the ability to know the difference between the bits that changes. So this is done by dirty bitmaps. As we said earlier, for each backup we are creating a checkpoint in Libreth and also for each checkpoint we are creating dirty bitmaps on the QMO level. So as you can see here we have a disk SDA and the user creates a backup. Also Libreth creates a checkpoint for that backup and a dirty bitmap was created for the disk. Each entry in the bitmap is marks a specific cluster in the disk. In the example here we can see that the disk is clean. Now that was written by the guest so the bitmap is also clean. No bits got turned on and no changes were made from the guests. So time's moved on. Guest writes data to the second cluster.  The guest writes data to it. Let's move forward the guest writes data to the fourth and the fifth cluster. We can see that even though the fourth cluster is not fully changed we are still marked as dirty on the dirty bitmaps. Fine. We can create a new backup. So a new checkpoint was created and a new bitmap was created in QMO a dirty bitmap. The first bitmap of the first checkpoint is now deactivated and we can see here that no changes was made to the disk. So the checkpoint, the dirty bitmap of the checkpoint is still clean. Once the user will want to download the backup in that stage you will get the data that was traced from the first checkpoint. Okay. So now QMO can report us on a specific disk cluster that's got dirty. So if we want we can get a map of the disk, of the extents and we can see that QMO will report us which extents got dirty or which cluster.  So this is the section that we need to actually download. So we know it works. Let's see how we can use it using the overt backup API. The example here using the Python SDK that is layered on top of the REST API of Overt. In order to start a full backup you just need to fetch the VM service using the Python SDK and inside the specific VM service we have the backup service. So we just need to create a new backup using the add method and specify the specific disks that's going to be included inside that backup. Once we've done that we get a backup object we will wait for the status of the backup to be ready. Once the backup is ready we can move on and if you remember for each backup checkpoint was created underneath it in Livid so we need to fetch this specific checkpoint ID in order to provide it later since when we are tracking the difference. So we fetched the backup ID the checkpoint ID from the backup and we can start a transfer session with ImageIO. So we are creating a new transfer using the image transfer and we specify the specific disk that we want to download and of course the direction of the download. Since this disk is part of a backup we need to specify which specific backup it is and the format must be raw. Okay once we initiated the transfer we will wait for the transfer session to be ready and when the transfer is ready we can fetch the transfer URL. This URL give you the direction specific to the host to the demon so the transfer and the download will be more efficient and you can download actually the backup disk Daniel will elaborate more about this later on. So we have the backup the full backup in our backup application we can finalize the transfer and finalize the backup session. Fine. So we have a full backup we can do an incremental one, right? But before that we need to filter the disks. Only QCAU2 disks are supported for incremental backup and the user must mark the specific disk that you want to participate in an incremental backup. So this will be marked by a disk backup dot incremental so we filter the disk that supports an incremental backup that we want to download and we can start a new backup but now it's been an incremental backup. Okay. So we provide the disk that we filtered before and we provide the from checkpoint ID that we fetched from the full backup that we done earlier and the same goes on again. So now Daniel will show you how you can interact with ImageIO backup API in order to download the backup disk. Okay. So how to download the disk without any data but it's not very efficient. We need to find a better solution and we have one. So how do we do this? First we send the options request to the server demon on an actual resource and we get an example response we see that this resource supports the extents API 0 flash we can optimize the connection we want to use multiple connections Now let's say we want to download 100 gigabytes image How many gigabytes are 100? Well, we don't really know it can contain as much zeros but we don't really care about the zeros so we don't need to download them So how do we do it? First we get the zero extents with a get request again on the resource and simply specify context zero an example for response we can see that the first request is zero so we don't need to download it we can simply skip it and the second one isn't zero so we shouldn't skip it Now which blocks change since the less backup for incremental backup we can tell it by getting the dirty extents So for getting the dirty extents we send a get request to the resource again extents just now with context dirty this is for incremental So this example we can see that the first extents is dirty so we should backup it download it and then the second one isn't dirty so we shouldn't download it So getting the data How do we get the data extents? We use HTTP range request Again invoke a get request on the resource and specify a range there with offset and length Okay, so now how do we speed up the restore Can we speed up? We simply upload only the data extents How do we do it? We send a put request on the resource and specify content range offset, length and size and we simply need to send single request for each extents Okay, now for the zeros What about the zeros extents? We can use the zero feature to zero the extents on storage So how do we do it? We send the page request on the resource with operation zero specify offset and size and that's it So finally flashing is my data is really on storage Well, we don't know We need to flash it first to ensure it This will under the root invoke fsync command So how do we do it? Send a page request on the resource with operation flash It will invoke the fsync command under the root And this is done synchronously Okay, was all of it too complicated? Well, probably but luckily we have a much better solution the client library So what's the cool kids are doing these days? Apparently building overboards and using our amazing client library So what is the image.io client library? It's basically a way to write your own time machine Easy It can be a reference implementation for using image.io with the API You can build your own backup solution and it's good for testing your backup APIs We have lots of examples of it in the codebase in the Python SDK Okay, let's see the pipeline You basically interact with the client the image.io client So for the download for upload the image.io client rates the data extents using QMMPD from the disk sends the extents to the image.io demon again QMMPD for download it's simply the other way around the image.io demon rates data from the source with QMMPD sends it to the client and stores it in the destination So we have QMMPD all the way Okay, so let's see how to do full backup with the client We invoke the download API specify the transfer URL and the name of the file If it's default is a QCAR format just because it's more efficient Okay, so for incremental backup we just need to specify incremental equals true and that's it Okay, how do we prepare the disk for restore we need to rebus the images one on top of the other to have a single image to upload we incrementally re-basid it up the last full backup Okay, how do we use the client we invoke the upload API again with the image that we've created and the transfer URL Okay, do you have some time for a demo? Yes, okay, so thank you we can see a short demo for how we can do a full backup using the Python SDK and using the client library so in the example here we have one VM if we do a 30 VM for the beginning we just mark the disk as enabling incremental backup so we can use it for backup we open a console just to create a directory that will illustrate that this directory will be when we download the disk after the backup will start we create another one that will be in the downloaded disk we are using the Python script that we prepare for you as an example and we are starting a full backup for the specific VM ID the backup was started we open a console again to create a new directory that directory, the after directory will not be included in the downloaded disk because it was created after the backup was started so we created the backup it was ready we can create and start an image transfer the transfer session is ready now so we can start downloading the disk this is the URL of the transfer that goes directly to the demon and the image will be stored in the following path that we provided using one of the arguments to the script the backup disk was downloaded the backup was successfully done we can see here we have the disk we are just creating another QCOP layer on top of it in order to not destroy the data and we can start a QMO on top of it so we have Fedora 30 VM we log in and we can see that we have only the first directory not the second one that was created during the backup okay great, so that was it for more information you have a following links here for the image.io and also image.io client the SDK example page in Ovid and in QMO and of course for the Ovid site if you want to investigate it about it more you can visit here thank you so we have a little bit time for questions if you have yes? yes the question was when we started the backup process does QMU run some backup sweep or something to QMU guest agent QMU guest agent yes so we need QMU guest agent but we also freeze the VM on our side using the hypervisor the VDSM so we'll make sure that the data will be consistent and now how it will be made and of course when the backup is done we are just the backup operation which is quite short more questions? okay fine I guess that's it thank you very much


Overdue versus overdue these two terms are often confused due to their similar pronunciation. Let's take a closer look The word overdue is used when speaking about doing something to an excessive degree For example, don't overdo the salt in this recipe or it will taste bad Overdue is spelled with u e at the end However refers to something that is past a due date or past a scheduled time for example I need to pay all my overdue bills to avoid a late fee So think about whether you are referring to something that is done in excess or a delay beyond an appointed time That's it for today. See you next time


Bitcoin finally closed for the first time above $50,000 over the weekend. This puts us on track to hit our price target of around $55,000. Ethereum has also been on the tear, hitting $4,000 for the first time since May's drop last week. We are now only 11% away from the previous all-time highs set in April. And Bitcoin is only around 25% away from those same all-time highs. So let's go ahead and dive into today's analysis. Hey, what's up, Jay here, and welcome to Bitcoin Daily bringing you guys the best tips, tutorials, and ideas to help you guys become profitable and successful investors. The goal of this channel is to empower you guys, the community, with the knowledge and resources to take your wealth up to that next level. So if you guys are new here, don't forget to subscribe. And if you enjoy this video or any of the videos on this channel, make sure to smash that like button. Let's go ahead and jump into today's video. So with another month in the books, you can see that in August, we had another green month, guys. We were up around 13.5% for Bitcoin. And so far, we've had a good start to the month of September, even though historical data suggests that September is usually the worst performing months, not just for crypto, but for the markets overall. So far in Bitcoin, we're up about 9.5% as we're actually hitting 52,000 right now. If we zoom out to the weeklies, you can see that basically since mid July, we have been green. We had one, two, three, four, five green candles in a row. And we had a basically a flat week where we really didn't go anywhere. And then last week, we closed up another 5.5% and and then so far today, you know, not much movement as of yet today is a holiday in the United States. So there's not going to be a lot of volume from the US today, maybe tomorrow, when everyone's back into the markets, we'll see a lot more volume, but I don't expect too much volume today. All right. Now, looking at the daily, you will see that we are still writing this channel here, guys. You see that this ascending channel ascending support here, we've been able to use it to bounce off of it and continue this bullish price action to the upside. You'll see that we continuously just kind of rode up that ascending support there and popped up over this Fibonacci level and the $50,000 level and a lot of different resistance levels that we had there. So now we're pretty much, if we can get above 52, 52 is that next minor resistance. We're pretty much have free reign up to about 54 to $55,000. You will also notice that we are almost about to get this golden cross. So remember, the golden cross is when the 250-day moving averages cross and you can see that they're getting closer and closer. At this point, it is only a matter of time. If we kind of draw a continuation of the direction that the two moving crosses are heading in, you'll see that it gives us about a four days. It basically is saying that this week we will get that cross and the cross right now just with this prediction that we drew, it gives us the 10th of this month as the day that we could potentially where they might meet. So we would get the cross basically maybe the next day. So basically the projection right now for this golden cross, which is of course a very bullish signal is for around September 10th or so. So it's definitely it would be at the end of this week. So that's something that we will, of course, be watching as that is always a very, very bullish signal. If we pull up the volume shelves here, you will see that across this, like we've been speaking about, you know, once we get above this 50K, this, the interest just drops. There's a gap in open interest here. So that's why we're expecting very similar to when we saw this gap right here that we just kind of grind it up over the next few weeks. We're kind of expecting the same thing here where we will inevitably grind through this rather quickly and get up to that 55 to $56,000 range. The big resistance, the next big resistance after 55 is going to be 58. And then after 58, there is a drop off. But remember, there's a lot of resistance at $60,000 where we've been rejected multiple times there. So currently, what we're watching here is we just want $50,000 level to hold, right? We just want this level to hold as long as that holds, you know, we have a lot of support there. So remember, 50,000 is now flipped from resistance into support. It's a big psychological level overall. We have the Fibonacci retracement level here. We have the ascending support here as well. So we have a lot of support in this area here at 50,000. I don't think we go below it, but there could be, you know, maybe a one time wick off below it to kind of stop people out before getting the next leg up. You know, Bitcoin loves to do that. So in the event that we go below it, that will be the reason that I believe we go below it. But, you know, unless there's some very bearish news, I don't see a reason why we would drop back down below that level at this point in time. Moving forward this week, I'm expecting the prices to continue to grind up and potentially we see the top of this channel here at some point soon. So the top of that channel was currently right around. It would be right around that $58,000 level, which is another resistance level after we get through 52 and 55. So remember, currently, the minor resistance is at 52, a break above 52 should lead us up to around that 55 range where we could kind of bounce around a little bit before a continuation up to 58, the 58 to 60,000 levels. And then a break above 60, you know, pretty much we can see that previous all time high being tested at that point. So we're very close to that. I'm not going to say it's going to happen this week because we still do need to get through a lot of areas here of interest, but we're only 25 percent, a 25 percent move away. It is a potential to see that happen this month, or at least half of that around a 12 and a half percent move further up this month. And then in the fourth quarter in October, then have that, you know, start shooting for that previous all time high. And I believe we set, if we continue in this trajectory, we set new all time highs October, November, December. What those prices are, who knows, it could be anywhere between seventy, seventy five thousand dollars, potentially a hundred thousand will be the higher the top end of that move. So, you know, it's still a toss up on where that could take us that leg up that next leg up. But that's currently what we're watching as of now. And as more develops, we have, we could have a better idea of what to expect. In a theorem, we've seen this massive, massive move since the 20th of July. So in the in the last about month and a half, we've had a move of around one hundred and thirty five percent, guys. So you more than doubled your money if you were buying at the at the Lowe's here in July, even if you bought at the Lowe's back in June or at the Lowe's back in May. So if you were buying the dip, guys, all those entries there have already doubled up. That's why we continue to tell you guys throughout that time to buy the dip. So if you bought the dip, congratulations, guys. You see here that we finally broke that level that we spoke about. Remember, we spoke about thirty five hundred as our favorite level for that next entry while we got that break. You guys can see why it was a level that we're watching, right? As soon as we broke through that, we got a eleven percent candle to the upside and we've just been grinding up. So we broke through thirty five hundred and we basically went straight to four thousand dollars. We hit a high of four thousand thirty five dollars. And we've been consolidating ever since. And I expect a continuation once we break above four thousand. I'm expecting the prices to retest those previous all-time highs. I'm definitely very bullish on Ethereum. I expected to continue up and set up new all-time highs. Remember that Ethereum coins are now being burned daily. Hourly every minute, really. So that scarcity is starting to come into play. There's still that next update, Ethereum 2.0 coming next year. It's only a matter of time for Ethereum to just take off and and, you know, possibly hit that ten thousand and beyond prices. Now that we've broken through this level here, you can see that this next price range is the bottom of the range of the trading range. Here's thirty five hundred. The top of the range is going to be that forty four hundred previous all-time high. So guys, it's only a matter of time here before we break those all-time highs. It's, you know, it's basically a ten percent move away. Ethereum does that in one day, usually. So don't be surprised, guys, if we get look at this move here. This move was eleven percent. Don't be surprised that we see a test of that all-time high, you know, on that next leg up. We spoke about this on Monday's video, guys. We we we called Monday's video, Ethereum's next leg up. And that's exactly what we got here as soon as right after that. Let me see the thirty first was on Tuesday. So we posted the video on the thirty first. You can see that we tested thirty five hundred.  We got the next leg up here that we spoke about on Monday's video. So hopefully you guys watch that video, paid attention and, you know, just made some trades here because if you guys did very easy profits, you could have definitely done about two hundred percent on that move or so because we had a six percent move and eleven percent move. So easy two hundred percent trade there. If you guys use ten X leverage, right? All right, guys, so let's go ahead. And now that we've analyzed both Bitcoin and Ethereum, let's take a look at some possible trade setups that we're going to be watching this week to make some profits. If you guys watched Monday's videos, you guys made profits on our trade setups. So our trade setups on Monday's video was a break above fifty thousand dollars. You guys can see we're at fifty one seven and we hit a high of fifty two seventy one. So yeah, guys, we that was a massive move up from Monday's video on that trade setup. So let's talk about today's trade setup in Bitcoin. If you guys are enjoying this video, don't forget to smash that like button. If you guys are new to the channel, then subscribe and turn on the notification bell so that you guys are notified as soon as we post these new videos with new analysis, new trade setups and tutorials that we post all the time. So don't forget to do that. So let's go ahead and talk about the trade setup that we're watching this week. So the main trade setup that we're watching here is that break above fifty two hundred. You can see that it already broke fifty two hundred here, but it got rejected. So we got pushed back down. We're going to continue to play that level, guys, above fifty two hundred. We want to take trades there because there's the potential for it to ride out to fifty four to fifty five thousand dollars, which is our price target here. And then that next target is going to be fifty eight thousand. So big potential there. The same way there is potential for the fifty thousand dollar break to hit fifty two. Now that fifty two break, there's potential work to hit fifty five thousand dollars. So that's the trade we're looking for. If there's any pullbacks here, then of course, the level that we're going to be playing is fifty thousand dollars.  So that's where we will be looking for some bounce entries in a theorem. Right now, the level that we're going to play is pretty simple, guys. Four thousand dollars. The break above four thousand could lead us all the way back to the previous all time highs at forty four hundred dollars. So that's the breakout entries that we're looking at. If there's any pullbacks, the first pullback entry is going to be down here at thirty eight hundred dollars. That next one will probably be around thirty five to thirty six hundred dollars. So those are the two pullback entries that we're looking at. And then the breakout, of course, above four thousand. And we're going to just try to ride it out to the top here, our target of forty four hundred and beyond. That is pretty much it, guys. We've covered everything that we wanted to talk about in today's video. And we gave you guys a trade set up for this week. So hopefully you guys watch the entire video and wrote down those trade setups, set those trades up, those entries up so that if they hit, you can make some profits with us. Thank you guys so much. I will see you guys all on the next video. Have a great week, guys. As always, peace and love.


I just finished reading this and I believe it's the first Frank Herbert book I've ever read. The story is about a government agent who is trying to catch a wealthy eccentric woman whose activities are threatening to crash the system of warp gates that everyone uses, which obviously would be a disaster. The text of this book is almost entirely dialogue. It's like reading a script of an episode of Dragnet or CSI near the end that started to get rushed and kind of a mess.


Abstract entropy, AE, is a quantitative measure used to analyse the structural characteristics of complex molecules with low structural symmetry and high diversity. AE can be calculated by analysing the topological indices of a network, such as degree and degree sum parameters, which are then used to compare different types of networks. Two popular frameworks, Zeolite's BCT and DFD, were studied and their AE was computed using these topological indices. It was found that Zeolite BCT had higher AE than Zeolite DFD, indicating that it has more structural disorder. Additionally, a comparison of the AE of both frameworks showed that Zeolite BCT had higher AE than Zeolite DFD, suggesting that it has a greater level of structural disorder. This article was authored by Michael Aurochiraj, Daniel Poole, Mohamed Usman Ghani and others.


Hey Nestor, this team has played in a ton of close games this year. Can you just describe what it's like watching this team late in games as they try to get over the hump? Uh, yeah, it's been fun, um, you know, like you said, we've been in close games and we're always in it, uh, no matter if we're one run or two runs in, uh, out, um, you know, just watching these guys compete and, uh, and taking, and taking these, uh, these, uh, abats, uh, are really important. Do you think that can help a team when you're in a lot of close games at level of intensity as you go through September here? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, it's, it's part of the game. You're going to be in close games and, and, uh, with this lineup, you know, it's, we're always going to come out on top.  Um, how'd you feel as your stuff was? Uh, I felt like myself was pretty good. Uh, Gary called a great game back there. Um, I stayed in my lanes for the most part, you know, throughout the night and made some, some big pitches, got out of some jams and, and, you know, all I hoped for was to let my team, uh, in a good position to, to win the game. Go next to Justin Shackle. Hey, Nestor, what is Chuck Carlos standing bet to this team over the last several weeks? Yeah, I mean, he's, he's, he's hot right now. You know, um, he's scary when he comes up to play. Everybody knows it. The whole world knows it.


Have you got a certification because you needed to get one to get the job interview but when it came to actually doing the work you felt out of your depth or perhaps you've hired certified scrum masters but when they've started work you realize that they barely know what scrum is let alone how to be a great scrum master. I've been teaching and coaching and supporting scrum masters for over 20 years and I've noticed one significant pattern. A two-day class even classes that people describe as game-changing or the best training I've ever had or sometimes even life-changing they're not enough to actually set people up for success in their day-to-day work over time and through my work I've noticed without doubt that those scrum masters who combined their classroom training with real-time support and coaching and follow things up with deeper training in time they tended to fly when you compare them to those people who just attended a single two-day introductory class and were then left to figure things out on their own and that's why I've created the scrum mastery pathway. So what is the scrum mastery pathway? Well did you know that less than 2% of certified scrum masters go on past that introductory level certification? Now as someone who deeply cares about mastery and giving people the support and space to become great at their jobs that is a huge source of frustration and disappointment for me and that's why I created the scrum mastery pathway. It's a long-term development program for scrum masters and it's going to set those people up for success in that crucial servant leadership role compared to the current option which is pretty much a two-day introductory class. The scrum mastery pathway is what I call a multi-modal approach because it's made up of in-person workshops, group supervision, coaching, reading, videos, smartphone media and an ad hoc real-time community. The pathway is a commitment to learning and development over at least six months with resources that last a lifetime. It starts with an in-person workshop now that could be face-to-face or online and that workshop will cover every aspect of my retrained model to help people develop the skills and characteristics necessary to become effective scrum masters. You'll learn how to become more respected, more enabling of others, more tactful, more resourceful, more alternative, more inspiring, more nurturing, empathetic and disruptive and then after that workshop you'll get back together with your guide and your classmates, your cohort every month to go through the real challenges that you're facing when applying that theory to practice. You'll also have lifetime access to the video versions of the modules of the workshop that you've been through so you can access them at any time. You'll have a free copy of my book, you'll have a huge bundle of digital coaching cards in my Agile Coaching Cards smartphone app and a dedicated community forum where you can discuss challenges, share experiences in real-time and then six months after your first in-person workshop you'll all get together again for your second in-person workshop where you'll go deeper into the theory and insight into each of the characteristics of great scrum masters. Now over the last 20 years this for me has proven to be a much more effective way for people to learn, apply and retain information when learning new skills. So as well as getting a licensed certification from the Agile Mastery Institute after each level of learning you will more importantly have deep skills and confidence to be a great scrum master. This is a paradigm shifting moment for scrum training around the world. It's going to really separate out the badge hunters from those who are really serious about their craft. I'm excited about what it could become and the impact that it can have not just for those people in what I still believe is a challenging but crucial role but also the teams and the organizations that they're serving. So if you want to really become a great scrum master then come and join me or one of my licensed trainers around the world on the scrum mastery pathway.


My name is Justin Davis. I'm currently assigned as a background investigator for Kent Police Department here in Kent, Washington. My current role is to basically limit liability for the city. And I do that by vetting the candidates who come in and want to apply to be a police officer here. For years and years we've been hanging our hats on the polygraph. As far as hiring and as being the only real truth verification out there. So naturally I was very skeptical with the eye detect. Truthfully, when we first got the eye detect, I was still not convinced about it. We tried about 20 candidates up front. Of those 20 candidates, those that didn't pass eye detect also didn't pass polygraphs. And soon learned that the technology eye detect uses was on par and very accurate along with the polygraph. And that kind of sealed my belief system in this technology. So using eye detect, it has really streamlined our hiring process. When I used the polygraph, those first candidates that I sent directly to polygraph, regardless of what the results were from the eye, from eye detect. I sent them to polygraph. And I got that baseline where everybody who scores at a certain point and below 100% of those candidates would fail the polygraph as well. So I started using that as our failure point. Anybody who scores below that point, I don't waste any more time on it. Instead of spending 20, 30 hours on a candidate who will not pass the polygraph, who is not truthful, I can spend three or four hours with them initially going through their personal history statement and doing the eye detect, which is a savings of many, many man hours, which equates to dollars, you know, for the city. So far in our process, the amount of time that has been saved has been mind blowing to me. We've been using eye detect since approximately, well really realistically, January 2017 is when we really got on using eye detect with our candidates. Since that time, to date, we've done 68 candidates through using eye detect. Of those candidates, 43% of those are deceptive, which equates to, like I was saying, man hours, right? Right now, eye detect has paid for itself for the city of Kent. Our annual cost of savings, I guess you would say, would be probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 to $70,000. In this day and age, we hear from all over the country when you talk to other cops, they're doing more with less, right? That's the tagline, if you will. Well, we really are at this stage doing more with less. We're leaning more on technology and trying to pave the way. This technology, there's no bias there. It doesn't care one way or the other. It doesn't care gender, it doesn't care color, it doesn't care about any of that. All it cares about is truthfulness. And to base that, to base our decision on truthfulness, I don't think you could go wrong. I hear candidates all the time rave that because Kent PDE is using the newest technology out there, there were an agency that they want to come work for. In this day and age of technology, these young men and women want to come work for an agency who is on the tip of the spear, if you will, of using technology and using it to our advantage. This instrument is phenomenal in that.


Welcome back to face to face. I'm Kelsey Conway. He's Dave Archer and we haven't talked to you guys in a while arch It's been a few weeks since the Falcon season is over, but No shortage of news on the Falcons and obviously the Falcons wrapped up coach NGM search hiring Arthur Smith as head coach And Terry font know as general manager and we're gonna get right to exactly what we can expect from Arthur Smith as head coach And what we should be keeping an eye on with Terry font know as the free agency and draft process heats up So arch let's just start it off with Arthur Smith and talk about what exactly fans can expect from Arthur Smith's offense Obviously, he spent the last two years in Tennessee as the offensive coordinator But success seems to follow him where he goes So just what what are your first impressions of the hire and what are you most looking forward to with Arthur Smith's offense? No, I love the fact. He's a roll your sleeves up kind of guy, right? He doesn't come in a lot of fanfare there was some people that were talking to him around the league that were interested in him coming in as As their head football coach Atlanta obviously secures his his duties or his services to be your head football coach And now what do you get you get an offensive line guy and hey, that's where I that's where the bread How long have we been complaining about the offensive line and what they are aren't this guy said from jump one of his first things He said was we are gonna be solid up front That's music to my ears Matt Ryan's ears whoever's squeezing the trigger for the Falcons a quarterback You got to love the fact that you've got a guy that your offensive coordinator head football coach and he cut his teeth in The offensive line tight end area So he knows what it takes to play up front and think about the guys Kels that were up front on that Tennessee Titan team He lost Taylor Wanda a knee injury the number one draft pick He had three different offensive tackles play on that side of the ball Here's your laundry list of guys David Quisenberry never heard of him He was a six-round backpick for Houston back in 2013 been with two teams Roger Saffol They got him in a trade from the St. Louis Rams way back in the day. He comes in. He is it He's an unmet the free agent. He's been with teams Ben Jones the former Georgia Bulldog the center. He's been with two teams He started with Houston Jamil Douglas Yeah, I don't know either. He was with two teams. He was a five teams. Okay, he played in Miami first He was an undrafted free agent and then you got Dennis Kelly who was in Philly. He's been with two What the reason I'm getting to all this is is because he had to mix and match guys And when you look up, this was the number two total offense in the National Football League It was the number two rushing offense in the National Football League They were number five on third down and you're going to get to an area that they really need to be good in this year Here because it was a struggle here They were very good in it several other areas in fact in the gold the goal area was pretty good as well But I'll let you you talk about red zone Phenomenal higher I think to dress up because on this team is the offensive line Yeah, and speaking of the offensive line those games last weekend on NFC and AFC championship game Tom Brady is having this success He is in Tampa because of that Tampa offensive line Of course those weapons he has are no joke, but he never it seems like he never gets hit So like you just said we've been talking about from the last four years the Falcons need to improve the offensive line. They've obviously Dedicated some of their resources to doing that, but there still seems like it hasn't really been missing And we'll have the whole off-season to talk about what exactly needs to be changed But you got to love that the guy that's coming in one of his biggest areas of Strengths is the offensive line because of course he was a guard in college, but you just led me into what I was Gonna talk about I I'm so excited for what Arthur Smith is gonna do in the red zone Let's put these numbers into perspective last year with Arthur Smith as offensive Coordinator of the Tennessee Titans the Titans ranked number two and red zone scoring 74% of their chips to the red area the Falcons on the other end ranked number 26 scoring on just 53% To jump their tips to the red zone And I know we talked about it a lot on the show during the season But my gosh, it was super frustrating sometimes to watch such a promising drive Just go nowhere or have who come on and attempt to field goal And it and if there's two things that we can definitely count on from Arthur Smith Of course gotta give him some time to get the right players and players Act me back to the team, but I'm excited to watch the way he draws up plays for guys like Julio Who's not really been a factor in the red zone for the last couple of years? Calvin Ridley and of course Hayden Hurst It should be fun to see the Falcons offense in the red zone once again, which I know we both can't wait to see right Yeah, think about how much different this team or this season would have gone for the Falcons if you'd scored one more touchdown per game When you got in the red zone, I mean, what were we two and eight in one score games? Think about one more touchdown per game. What would the scenario be? But he certainly showed his prowess in that in and let's go even further into what you were talking about Okay, they were number one in the league in goal to goal situations 94% of the time when they had got in the goal to go they scored now. Yes, I get it They had a six foot five two hundred fifty pound running back named Derek Henry You got to go find a guy that could do some of those things But a lot of it had to do with the offensive line and the scheming you're talking about Kels about getting the weapons The football he's got in my opinion more weapons on this team on the perimeter than he had in Tennessee I Tweeted during the Packers box game. I can't wait to watch Arthur Smith draw out plays to get Julio Jones Freed up in the end zone like Matt LaFleur does for Devontae Adams because it seems like every game He's the number one or get it I haven't seen that from Julio. So hopefully we're seeing more Julio Jones next year Moving on with the argument came the other coordinators that he hired because of course he can't do it all himself He made a big splash Higher in getting Dean Pease to come out of retirement again The established defensive coordinator for many years in the NFL to come over and run his defense And I love the hire Simply because if you look at when the Rams went to the Super Bowl, how about this Dean Pease is 71 He's gonna be running the defense for the Falcons when the Rams went To the Super Bowl with Wade Phillips as defensive coordinator with Sean McBae was 33 or something Wade Phillips is 71 so But but the point there I'm making is Arthur Smith in his first year He's gonna be so focused on the offense. Although he said I'm gonna have to coach the whole team But we know how that goes. He's gonna be calling the players on the offense He's gonna be so plugged in on what they're doing. He has a defensive coordinator who and you're gonna get into this He has seen Everything there is no coverage or no offensive play that Dean Pease hasn't seen and I think for Arthur Smith getting a veteran coach Like peas and it's not just a veteran coach who's been a position coach. He's been a coordinator at three different places He's a proven winner everywhere. He goes they play tough They take away the ball and they get sacks and those are three areas where I think the Falcons defense is really really Really going to enjoy having Dean Pease as their coordinator. So for you Why do you think Dean Pease is the right guy for the job in Atlanta? Well, I think the the thing that jumps off the page to me about peas as you mentioned three different places He's been a coordinator and not just the just hey, he's the coordinator They've been elite at all three places new england baltimore, Tennessee All have been very good on the defensive side of the football with a variety of different personnel So you think okay. Well, they're a lead up front Well, they were a lead here upright. No, he had he had a mix and match You start looking at when you look at the players in new england that defense They were ranked sixth in the league. They were ranked fourth in the league They're ranked tenth in the league. They ranked 11th league. Those are the four years. He was it in new england Okay, he had the school fork up front He had Mike Vrabel who wasn't a dominant edge rusher But he was the guy coming off the edge asante samuel in the back end He had harrison a rodney harrison in the back end. Okay, let's shift gears and go to baltimore Now, listen, he's got an elite defensive front He's got sugs and he's got Arthur jones coming off the edge And halote not in the middle. So you had a really good defensive front. He built it around that He gets to tennessee He doesn't really have an edge rusher now. It's about the linebackers. It's about brown It's about westley woodyard and then it's about the back end. They go draft the dory jackson They've got byard the safety who's led the list That was pretty good What the point i'm getting to is that he can mix and match his system to the personnel he's got and Make those guys elite and the reason I say how are they elite nine of the 12 seasons? He's been a coordinator his defenses have allowed 20 points or less in nine of the 12 seasons And that's across three different teams that does not just thought with one team Yeah, I'm excited about this guy. I'm excited what he brings it by the way He was lured out of retirement for a second time. Mike vrabel lured him out After he'd retired after his baltimore days said hey, i'm done I've had great defensive through vrabel brings him out to tennessee and now here arthur smith is saying Hey, oh man, I need your help a little bit one more time Come help me out and he's not too old to get it done now arthur You just mentioned the the synergy right there with wade phillips and him I think it's going to be tremendous and it really is nice From a piece of mind standpoint. I'm running the offense. I've got a guy I can really depend on the defensive side of the ball and I think the thing I like most about d&p's is He coached with bill balachuk. He coached with don harbaugh and he coached with Mike rabel and if I asked you what how would you define all three of those coaches? You'd probably say tough coaches who demands Demand excellence from their players and I don't think there's going to be any shortcuts allowed at practice in the meeting rooms And I think this falcons defense. We saw a lot of promise There's there's a lot of room for growth and they have some talent So I think if you get the right guy in there like d&p's to get it out of them I think things definitely look promising on that side of the ball and we've talked about the coaches a lot but before we Close out the show. I think we should talk about the other big hire the falcons made and we'll be back Breaking out free agency drafts like you guys have seen us before But the guy that's going to be running the show terry faun. No, I know we're both pretty pumped up about that hire For me it's simply because he was so Mental and bringing those key free agents from new orleans They've been phenomenal for the last five years and it's because of the players that they've stacked that roster with And terry faun. No is a huge part in that and everybody that I've talked to I've talked to a number of people who worked with terry played For the saints or worked in the building with him They say he's been long overdue for this job and the falcons get the guy that they want So i'm excited about what he's going to do and and we're going to start talking about bp a best player available He made that very very aware of it everybody let everybody know hey We're going to take the best player available in the draft and that's exciting And certainly music to the years a lot of the falcon fans real quickly You talked about free agent signings in the last five years. Let me give you a couple larry warford He was four years late spent four years in detroit comes to norleans Three state seasons. It is a probable offensive guard for the new for the new orleans saints demario davis comes over from the jets He leads his team in tackles. Here's the tack. Here's the numbers demario davis brought with him That he that he's assembled in new orleans in another great get by terry fontanou and his pro side staff 304 Two tackles for loss and 13 sacks for demario davis. That's a guy they went and got malcolm jinkins comes over play safety In the back in instrumental 91 tackles this year three interceptions And how about a manual sanders to add to the weapon the weaponry that the quarterbacks had in new orleans Those are just some guys just a couple guys that he has been instrumental in in the pro side being the pro personnel director That's his that's his baby right. He goes out and finds those guys. I think his plan is spectacular I love the fact of what he said kelson. I'll close with this on this my last thing Is he was he's been asked a couple times on interviews? Hey, what do you think about this roster? He says, you know what? I'm not gonna talk about our roster. He says we're gonna zip it up We're gonna let the other 31 teams talk about their rosters and we're gonna glean information from them Who don't they like who do they like they're gonna tell us who they like and who they are And we're not gonna tell anybody who we are we can figure that on our own and we're not gonna tell anybody else I just thought that was one little little wrinkled to what he brings to the table about knocking not talking about his Own guys and maybe Just one thing that I think that terry font knows brings to the table and there's a ton of stuff that you and I are Going to get to over the next several weeks Yeah, I can't wait, but we had to jump on here and give you guys our reaction to the big coaching news But don't worry arch and I will be back to break down all the falcons news regarding free agency draft season Just like we were there for you guys last year and we've got some big exciting ideas for you Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you next time on falcons face to face


little bit about this proposal for the parking meters. Okay at the last council meeting we presented a recommendation to city council just some information for them to digest of some changes that could happen in parking this was really in response to a one of our hospitality districts asking for some changes so we just took a look at what our parking rules are city-wide and looked at some opportunities to maybe bring consistency across the city so that's what the conversation was last week and that's one of the options and we're really looking to pilot that right now in the five points district as everyone in Columbia knows and a lot of our visitors that's the district that has a lot of activity day and night time and managing the parking at night may be beneficial to the district so they asked us to look at that proposal so a lot of times I'm this has been a conversation for years in different districts is how to better manage the supply demand of parking so it's not unusual for a business or a hospitality district to reach out and just ask us to consider changes for instance several years ago we implemented Saturday enforcement in five points to help control the supply demand and and the reason for that is we want to make sure that patrons have a place to park when they try to go into the businesses and if you're not enforcing sometimes people who are not patronizing the businesses are taking up the spaces so we're looking to control that so they really reached out this is part of a bigger plan not just parking we've got a commercial corridor plan that you've probably seen we've rolled out and we've been talking with our council over the last few months about this is one component of a commercial corridor plan that really will start in five points looking at five points and how to incentivize development how to attract new development and really revive the five points area parking is just simply one component of that so likely the whole commercial corridor plan there will we will be rolling out different components of that start in January 1st we're already talking about all of the components of that plan but we as staff are preparing for some implementations early January not sure yet about when the parking changes would take place so so that's yet to be determined and that's conversations we need not only with our council but with the five points district well and unfortunately you can't ever get a situation where everybody agrees so we will try to do the best we can with managing the supply demand and making it beneficial to the community as a whole our council will certainly have more conversations I don't they don't necessarily have to take the vote on it they do have to support it staff implements the directive will given by our council so certainly they set the policy and we implement it is in a work session last week and it was agreed upon but it wasn't voted on like you said right so will it ever be voted on or like you said we'll just be a conversation there will be additional meetings before anything's implemented additional conversations there is not currently the requirement for it to be voted on council can certainly decide they want to vote on it so so I don't have a exact answer to that it will not happen until there's other public meetings going on though with our council there's potential that is not something we're looking to do immediately it would be a pilot in five points I don't have a time frame of how long that pilot would last but certainly we're looking with with any service we provide or any activity we provide we want to know what the community needs as a whole it's easier for our customers and the parking community if there's consistency across the city we do get some complaints sometimes from people who get tickets on Saturday and five points that they didn't realize they needed to feed the meter so consistency is important but also listening to our communities important and we have a lot of different needs across the city so we're going to listen to those needs absolutely we network again not only parking related with any service we provide we look at our comparable communities we have good relationships across South Carolina and across the country with other entities similar in nature and even some not so similar even the private industry we like to know what they're doing that doesn't mean we're going to do it but we still need to be aware of it so certainly it's not unique across the country to have extended hours enforcement again I do want to stress this is not driven by revenues I think that's some of the fear is this is a revenue driven concept and it's not as a supply demand if the meters are the spaces are taken up by people who are not patronizing the businesses that's not good for the businesses we want to make sure they're available the meters are short-term parking our garages are more long-term parking we want to make sure people who want to go patronize the restaurants the retail all of the activities going on have a place to park so it's easy for them to get to those locations it stays in the parking fund so we do have a parking fund and it's reinvested in the parking system so for instance our meters are fairly old we'd love to see a replacement from those meters to pay stations on blocks maybe credit card meters just innovative technology that makes it easier for the customer but also more efficient to manage so we would reinvest our garages are another example you'll see we've been implementing some new hardware and software throughout four of our garages within the last year that is parking funds that get reinvested in our system to help us maintain it absolutely we there are stickers on all of our meters and and when we do get complaints that people didn't know they needed to pay the meters actually do say that already is for Saturdays and five points you have to pay we would certainly replace all the meters with whatever the updated hours are we would post information on our website use social media work with the five points association to push information we actually want people to know when you have to pay and when you don't have to pay so are you referring to the entire commercial corridor plan or parking in general the whole so parking is a situation that a lot of the challenges in five points as nighttime parking it is people who are coming after your typical business hours that have a hard time finding a place to park so managing that parking to prevent students who may not be patronizing the businesses from just leaving their cars they are overnight because they don't have anywhere else to park if they have friends come into town and you know there they're where they live doesn't have enough parking we want to make sure they're not taking up a meter that a business needs for their patron also employees of businesses street meters are not intended to be the employee parking for businesses we need to get them a little farther off of the street so that the patrons have a place to park so this would help manage that as well so fortunately the city just bought the building at 2221 divine we have 315 spaces that we are looking to enhance the connectivity between that that's why it is actually a two-level deck to make sure that people know that is also a parking option for five points and we're excited about that opportunity excited about what that means to bring more parking to five points we also have three surface lights we have a divine street surface light a pavilion street surface light and on Hardin Street the old Exxon station is public parking we're looking to better promote those better utilize those day and night time we absolutely listen to all input we receive and we digest that information our council sets the policy so we certainly share that with them and yes I believe we as a city are very responsive to our citizens and our customers and they say it's revenue generated one more time we've heard that concern again I want to stress this was in response to a request the city received this was not driven by staff this was us responding to a request from the five-point stakeholders who again it's not parking in isolation this is an entire commercial corridor plan of how to revitalize five points we're excited to be part of that this is not city staff driven this is a community driven initiative we certainly will listen and respond it is hard sometimes to balance the needs of all stakeholders but but we do try to do that well we have revenues and expenses from five points so you know enforcing meters in general takes money improving the connectivity between the property we bought at 2221 divine and five points we need better street lighting we need more cameras we we need a lot of other assets to make that facility feel comfortable to park in so yes it will be reinvested in five points as revenues across the city are reinvested in all areas of the city so that's certainly a concern we have heard expressed we do not believe our parking rates would deter anyone from coming downtown we're certainly sensitive to that though and we will feel we will filter that into our conversation and try to make sure that that's not a barrier to people coming downtown because we certainly won't as many people as we can get to come downtown to Vista Main Street five points Divine Street Rosewood North Main we want our city to be lively and we're excited about what's happening and we are not trying to be a deterrent to that so so staff implements policy council sets there is nothing today in our code that will require a council action it is likely our city manager will make a decision that we would want to vote on before we actually set forth on the pilot program but council did give they were receptive to trying a pilot in five points pilots are just that they can be retracted if it's not going well and you know there's a lot of anxiety or a lot of negative results from a pilot but but if you don't do one to start you know you never know so in other cities across the country I don't know if y'all researched that that we're behind the scale as far as how other cities are trying to manage parking well into the evening it's a good problem to have we have people downtown at night we just need to manage making sure the spaces are available for the businesses now in Chicago I moved from Chicago not long ago one thing they did was actually sold the parking meters and absolutely I think everybody in parking across the country knows that story I don't see us the model that was used in Chicago no I don't see the city looking at that kind of model we certainly every day not only in parking with every service we provide look for efficiencies and if it's more efficient to have certain activities performed by contractors then we certainly are open to that we we need to look at that hard and close and make sure that we're doing what's right not only for short-term for long-term no I don't see us ever selling our parking system I don't see that day coming we we start you may see us outsourcing some of the activities but not selling the system and that's not even on the radar right right now