If something comes to mind, feel free to put a message in a chat or speak up during a transition period and we'll see about adding it in. Okay, so announcements of cloud native network function seminar at open source summit is on August 28 in the afternoon in Vancouver. So if you haven't registered and you're intending to attend, space is limited, so the sooner the better. And Tom had a great point earlier as well. He wanted to attend the seminar, but was not as interested in attending the full summit. And it seems to have found the compromise to paying the full cost of the summit, which I think is $1,000 or close to it. And that is to create to join in with a hall pass, which is 150. And then you can sign up for the for the network function seminar as part of that. So that may be a way around paying the full amount if you live nearby and don't want to have to pay the full full quantity. Okay, special. One, one thing to keep in mind there and I did want to make this point very clear, when you do register, there is a special box that you click to indicate that you are also registering for that seminar. And in the event that room gets too full, it's important to have clicked that box. Folks, I think today's the deadline and the rates go up in case you do want the full registration. I'm not sure if the rates will also go up for the hall pass or not. That's an excellent point and I don't know the details behind that but yeah, they're really the sooner the better because as they as they specifically stated, they're even asking people if they're not going to contribute to the seminar actively that that's they consider not not attending. So, like, they actually put that in the, in the next to the checkbox. So, so we need people who are knowledgeable who want to want to speak up and so on. So, you know, definitely check that box. Okay, so special announcements. Network Service Mesh was listed as the first highlighted session talk in the Linux Foundation's PR Blast about the ONS Amsterdam speaker schedule being announced. So they had a list of keynotes that that they were presenting and then they said highlighted sessions include and Network Service Mesh is listed as the first one. So, pretty, pretty happy with that. The link, if you wanted to see it or show it to people is is in the meeting notes and a bit of a of an interesting thing that we found through that we found as well is at the same time that the cloud native function seminar is going on VM world is having a CTO panel that discuss that they're going to have Network Service Mesh on the agenda. So I'm not sure how they, how they found Network Service Mesh or so on because we haven't been as proactive on the marketing side yet, but we're starting to we're starting to get noticed and people are starting to talk about us so I have some background. I have some background on that. I think I know how they found out about us. So, so in addition to VM world VMware runs this future net conference they've done for the last two years, and they're doing it. Again, it's kind of a smaller, like invite only, you know, networking conference. I gave a talk at this a few years ago so this year I actually, I tried to get a talk at future net submitted now they moved it so it's only one day this year, instead of two so they, they were pretty selective. So, so I think that's how they heard about network service mesh because I was trying to get get us get something on the agenda at that. But, but I'll still be attending that so I plan to kind of talk about network service mesh on the hallway track for that as well. I can put a, I can put a link to that in there to actually maybe I should do that that might not be a bad idea. Okay, cool. Let's see. Yeah, that'd be good to add a link. Oh, forgot to ask. Can somebody share the agenda as well. That way that just make sure everyone can see it. I can do that just a second. So I've seen is not with us today. She did it last time. So I'm the poor substitute, but I'll do my best here just a second here. I'm slow.  Cool. Thank you very much. Well, and. Okay, so agenda items that we are tracking. So things that some of the highlights that we've gotten done. Include the, the getting started guide that. Thomas Herbert is put together. So it's, it's quite detailed. We need people to give it a try. And then we can make, make recommendations on areas that they can be improved in it. Overall, I think the document is, is great, but there's also areas where. Where we can definitely get some, some additional input. So I believe like the focus was primarily on said to us. So someone needs to fill out the two sections and, and so on. And then we've also added a ability to capture stack traces in, in our, on our errors plugin. So now when you, when I, when you run log risk, you can put the log risk plugin that we have that we can, you can add in dot with stack with stack trace dot error. And you put in whatever your error is. And it will automatically inject into the logging mechanism. And then you can add in the stack trace of, of the, of the error. So definitely, definitely going to be useful. Tied to that is we're going to move our errors from our actual error handling itself to, to be two parts. One of them is actually reporting is going to be through log risk. There's a project that we're bringing into the fold, which is called go errors, which is an error system. Quick, quick comment. Tom, we can see when the email you're composing. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I wanted to make sure you were aware. Sorry to interrupt. Please go ahead. No, no. That's important. Good point. Okay. So thanks. So, so we're moving over to a project called go errors. Go errors are effectively a better, a better package for manipulating and managing managing errors. And that go errors is ultimately will pass what manages the stack traces for us. So it's a integration of the two between go errors and, and log risk. Okay. So we also have had some, some improvements on our SRILV path. So I'll let Sergey talk a little bit about some of the work he's been doing with SRILV. Right. So there were a couple of, couple of directions. So the first direction was to develop a tool, which would scan a host and detect all VFs defined or existing on that host and then put together a config map where all required information for, for the controller will be placed. And then there's a, basically to, since the tool cannot really understand if this VF belongs to this specific network service, then there's an intermediary step where a user needs to edit the config map and map each VF to a desired network service name. So once it's done, then this map will be instantiated.  And then the controller detects the, that's the second part, the controller detects instantiation of the config map and it create and advertise these resources to the Kublet. Once it's done, a port can request SRAV VF or multiple VFs by referring to the network service in the resource section of the port spec. Let's say you want to say resource and then network SRAV and then you provide the network service name. Let's say one, two, three, and then you end up in the, the port with four VFIO devices, which you can use at your pleasure. So that's, I mean the first part, it's pretty much completed, it's ready to be merged. The controller part, it's almost done. VFIO device, which is in the container is operational. Jan provided a nice testing tool. And I'm working on some cleanup and to add the lead and update functionality. So when the config map gets updated, then the controller will detect it and react accordingly, removing or adding some advertisement for VFs. So that's pretty much. This is actually really important because there's a segment of folks who are looking, who have use cases that our service mesh is seeking to solve, where they have use cases where being able to attach a pod that needs a network service to a SRAV VF that is going to provide that service is a really, really important use case. So this is a really important thing to be able to do. I know that people are using SRAV now in containers. Currently, I don't know how they're orchestrating, I think through the CNF. But certainly there is, there is a lot of interest in giving people a migration path to more portability with other data planes as well, perhaps all within the container and NSM context. I think it's great. Yeah, there's another problem to solve that's actually really kind of critical. One of the problems that people are trying to figure out right now with getting SRAV VF into a container is, not all SRAV VFs are created equal. They have different characteristics, they connect to different things, et cetera. And so there's a group of people right now who are actually trying to add the, effectively the SRAV VF information directly into the pod spec, which is kind of ugly and messy. So you literally name a particular VF on a particular host, and that's kind of ugly. This is nice because it measures well with how the current Kubernetes scheduling works. And it also allows you to address the VF as a network service, which is a logical entity.  Now you can simply say, look, I need this resource, which is the radio network service, as a hardware resource, SRAV hardware resource, and get scheduled to a pod where one is available, the node where one is available, and get connected up with that. So I think this ends up being really, really good because it's so much simpler than having to track the names of the VFs on all the nodes, and try and schedule that way. Yeah, so, so in short, we're moving, we're getting some, some good traction with getting SRAV on board. So, pretty excited about that overall, about that overall path. Let's see, we've also, we've also have work being done to publish images on Docker Hub. Kyle's been focusing on that. Can you give an update? Yeah, so after a bit of a false start this week, I've got a pretty good path forward, especially after talking to Sergey today. So I think what I'm going to do is create kind of an NSM Docker Hub ID. And then in, in the Travis, in Travis CI in the control panel, we can actually, we can actually put the credentials for that there. And then we should be able to pull what we need to be able to push from Travis directly that way. After talking with Sergey today, he's, he said he's seen this done this way for a bunch of other different projects as well. So, so Frederick, it turns out the patch that I had that I closed the pull request, I should be able to reopen that, removing the hashed credentials from there and get this work in later this afternoon. Isaiah, so, so where exactly do the credentials end up living them? They end up being stored in the Travis, in the Travis UI. So, so they end up being stored that way. Okay. And apparently Travis does not dump these in logs anywhere from what I can tell. So, you know, it won't, it won't accidentally spittle those out that way. Yeah, my, my only concern with it is if it's passed into an environment variable or something similar, and it's run, and it runs through a commit. And that's, that's my concern as well. And that's the thing I need, I want to verify to make sure that, that somehow they, there's a way to ensure that we, that type of malicious behavior we can't, you know, that they don't allow. I know the Travis has mechanisms for doing that. Effectively, for making sure the variable is only set when, when the job is run and, you know, for certain purposes in certain areas, you know, by certain users in certain ways. I, I remember looking into it at one point and being kind of impressed with how well they, but definitely something to check out and make sure we get right. Yeah. And that's the scenario. I think if we set it so that it's only on merge, merge a master or Merch, or merge to a specific branch, then I think we should be good. It's just, you know, we don't want arbitrary echoing of the password. Exactly. Yep. Totally agree. So I'll, I should be able to, you know, hopefully get that, verify all of this and, and figure that out and maybe get something pushed out this afternoon. Cool. Um, okay. Um, Ed, you have something called simple start to device plug in. Yeah. I'll let you discuss. Hang on. Let me take a quick look at it. Um, simple start to device plug in. Oh, yeah. So this is a work in progress.  Um, and I was in, we expect to use it in more. And so I was looking at, uh, factoring that device plugin. I factory the device plug in piece of the work for Kubernetes device plugin out into a reusable plugin that could be used other places. Um, this has the potential to be not only really good for us, but really good for a lot of people because right now when people write a device plugin, they go sort of hack it up by hand and having looked at quite a few device plugins, the quality of the device plugins, the quality of the device plugins, the quality of the device plugins, the quality of the device plugins in terms of their handling of the standard device plugin stuff varies wildly device plugin device, what, the device plugin. So hopefully this would make things relatively easy for people who need to write device plugins and not just for us. Are you muted Frederick? I am. Thank you very much. Um, great. So we, um, yeah, thanks for, thanks for the, the update on that. So definitely looking forward to, to seeing the, um, the pull requests. Um, okay. So we have a task that's set here for adding sidecar containers in a network service mesh and it shows, uh, uh, critique is being, uh, has being blocked. Uh, is there something that is, is there something that you're still blocked on? Yeah. So this is directly to the bug in mini queue. So once we move to packet where we are running the actual Kubernetes clusters, so there, we should not have any problem there, but, uh, as a worker on, I was thinking, I can comment on the CI CD, the CI part of the, of this pull request and the actual functionality can go in. And once we, either the mini queue bug gets resolved or we move to packet for Kubernetes cluster, then I can enable the CI. Okay. Um, yeah. If you, if you, if you, if you need any help or anything with that, uh, let, let us know and we'll, we'll jump in and do what, and do what we can. Um, yeah. We, right. Just, just for the, uh, for the overall epic. Um, when it, so we, we have the, we're working on publishing images to Docker hub. Once images are published. Uh, our Damon sets are pretty much all set up so that we should be able to pull from them. And that'll, that should make the overall path to testing on, on the packet C and CF cluster, uh, viable at that, at that point. So, so once we, once we get to that, then, uh, the pack, the C and CF cluster random package should become available for, for testing these kinds of things. So, so, shall I just keep it in this state or, uh, comment out the CI portion, the testing for now and let the PR go. My recommendation would be to get it in now. And the reason why is that, uh, if there's any refactoring, we, we would, uh, it's better to, to have this patch in and have it refactored with everything else, uh, rather than having to have you go back and do a lot of rework, because things have changed. So, uh, network service mesh, uh, mascot, um, I think Ed had some, some comments on this. Uh, I, I, I'm getting pretty good feedback on, uh, Ariande the spider, uh, which I think is good. At some point we'll have to get someone to redraw, um, Ariande the spider, because while we do have a legal right to use it, I got it properly from a stock photo site. Um, we don't have the, um, we don't currently have, we wouldn't be able to use it for a trademark thing. So we will eventually need to get it redrawn. So if folks know good artists, that would be a useful thing to know. Um, but people seem pretty happy with it.  I mean, I, I do know a good artist, but I'm curious if there are, I mean, if there are artists that want to be able to ask to do it, just to do it.  Yeah. So, I mean, that's one of the things we need to figure out over time as we mature a little bit. Uh, it kind of relates to, I think another item we have where we're exploring, becoming like a, when it is working group or something like that. And once we have some kind of a formal role in the CNCF, they will typically have some funding for the sort of thing. Um, but I think that's one of the things we need to figure out. Um, I think that would also give us access to Linux foundations, create a resource group if we would like to as well. But no, I'm, I'm, I'm all about not asking artists to go do work for free. Their work is of value. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Um, so we've already spoken on the, uh, SRV side. So, uh, do we want to talk more about, uh, the Kubernetes work group, uh, member process. Um, Yeah. So basically we're, we, we are trying to, so we've gotten feedback, um, from SIG networking about the coming of Kubernetes work, working group. Um, right now, I think the thing we're trying to do is to put together the, Hey, we'd like to be considered as a working group email. Um, and sort of trying to work out drafting that. Uh, and then we'll have to see how that goes. Um, the other thing is Tim Hawken, who's been a great supporter of ours. It's been out for the last few weeks. These are the beating back. So I expect to start turning the wheels on that shortly. Okay. Fantastic. So, um, see going down the line, uh, document infrastructure, there's no updates to, to that, uh, for those who were not present in the previous meeting on this, uh, basically we want to run our documentation with Hugo, uh, and basically generate some, uh, some nice and well laid out, uh, documentation for our users over time. So if anyone wants to help out with that, uh, any help is, um, is, uh, highly appreciated. Uh, I have a document that I'm writing up on how to get a, on how to gain a privilege container, uh, to an existing container. So this document effectively, effectively what it is is if you run a pod, the pod runs without privileges and privileges is, is effectively root on the system. And so in order to add capabilities. So for example, if you wanted to add an interface, you need to have access to at least some, at least a privilege like net admin in order to, in order to do so. And so I've, uh, I have a document that outlines, how do you spin up a new container that can bind to the pods, network name space and, uh, have net admin access so that these changes can be, can be made. Um, and made in a way that, uh, this, this is not where the users themselves don't have access necessarily, but more, uh, just from the network service mesh side in order to protect the, uh, security of the, of the cluster. Uh, Frederick, I have a question. I mean, uh, based on the past discussions we had, uh, like I added myself, it seems that the direction was, uh, that the NSM runs kind of a privileged container and does all the plumbing on behalf of the client. In this case, client basically doesn't need any privilege to, um, and no need to create any, any interfaces. NSM will be doing that for the client, uh, based on the requested services. So, uh, we're kind of a direction change since, I mean, you're talking now about the client doing some, some interface related work. Uh, let me, let me clarify. So the client itself doesn't do, doesn't do the work. Uh, so it's still be ran and owned by network service mesh, uh, infrastructure itself. So, so that hasn't changed. Uh, what is in the long run, uh, it would be, it would be best to reduce the total number of quantitative security, uh, mechanisms that, um, that the demon has access to. So for example, if for some reason the demon was compromised, uh, we can minimize the, the impact. And so one way to do that is to reduce the overall set of, of privileges. And it's also, it also may end up simplifying certain, certain tasks like we want to add an interface instead of having that the network service mesh and bind temporarily to that namespace or running commands that have to, or manage what namespace it's, it's, uh, manipulating. Uh, it can spin up a pod that has net admin that is capable of running the command on behalf of network service mesh, or not, not a pod, but a container. Uh, but it would be fully owned and controlled by, by network service mesh itself. So the, the pod and client would not have any privileged, uh, access at all. So it's, it's more about like refining the current, the current path a little bit more. And if it makes sense to, to move off in this direction, then that'll be helpful. And there's also another benefit as well, where if you're developing, uh, a, uh, if you're developing a, a VF or CNF for, for, for this, and you want it to experiment, it also helps a lot in the experimentation side, because you can add routes manually. You can delete routes. You can add interfaces and wire things up. So it, so it helps, uh, it helps with ad respect as well. Okay. Got it. Thank you. All right. Uh, so there was also a NSM enhancement proposal, uh, that was, uh, that was added. Uh, and, uh, do you want to, do you want to say anything on, on that particular topic? I think so the proposal reads about being a CNCF project, uh, which is certainly among the formal options that are available to us. I think at this time, uh, the recommendation from seeing networking has been pretty strong that they would like to see us as a Kubernetes working group. Um, or as a fallback as a Kubernetes sub project under seeing networking. Um, you know, but with a strong preference for Kubernetes working groups. So, um, my guess is that we will proceed as a Kubernetes working group unless something goes awry there. Uh, do folks have other thoughts or opinions or feelings on the subject? Actually ring into the, uh, get into the GitHub issue. It's, uh, something a bit different. So this was actually from the Volk, uh, group, uh, talking about the writeup of how NSM could help with CNCF, CNF project. So my apologies. Uh, I apologize. I didn't. I don't see Taylor on the call, but I do see Watson on the call and, um, Watson, is this something that you can, uh, that you can discuss? Or should we just punt it till next, uh, next meeting? Probably want to wait till, uh, Taylor and you see you back. Um, on that. Okay. We will, uh, we will wait on that then. Thank you very much. And, um, so there was also a new, uh, a new issue that was added about separating out the concerns for audiences of NSM to make it accessible. Uh, by Dune Hammer. Um, are you on the call? So we do seem to be. John. Yeah. Yeah. We just seem to be missing him. I think it's a good point though. Uh, Fred, um, do you want me to scroll down to the action items from, from, uh, last week? There's, I think you're actually reviewing them and it's a huge list. I'm still looking at this. There's a link. There's a link in the agenda to a, a project board that he's actually reading from. Oh, okay. Okay. It'll actually share the board that we're walking down progressively. Yeah. Where the hell is that? Yeah. Lucita was going to organize that for us and oh my God, is it better? Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. That would be better, but I've actually never. It's, uh, it's brand new. So, um, it's the first item under action item tracking where there's a link to the project sport. Oh yeah. Okay. Sure. Um, anyways, it's, um, we have about 20 minutes left on the call. So, um, my recommendation is that's talk about onboarding, um, uh, let's talk about onboarding OSS and ONS, uh, uh, newcomers and work out how we can best, um, help new people who are looking at the project to understand what network service mesh is and how they can, um, how they can contribute in various ways. Um, so one suggestion that, uh, that had had was we add a landing page that we can, that we can direct people to you want to, do you want to discuss? Yeah. So one of the things that's kind of about it is, um, I've been asked to present about 20 minutes on network service measure at the seminar. And one of the things that you can do that I like to do with your slides is you can put QR codes on them for links so that people can, well, there's their camera phones and take pictures. Um, and the QR code automatically gets working. Um, so if we have a landing page, it actually is, is sort of tailored for that audience. Um, you know, and this sort of gets to the separate out concerns for audiences of NSM, that audience is going to be very, very focused on NFE, which is an important use case for us, but it's not the only use case for us. Um, you know, basically that gives us the opportunity to have a place with them to land and to, um, sort of proceed from there. And we might think about what other things we might want to do to help capture the interest of the audience from that landing page. I think something else that we should add into it as well is if we hear certain ideas or concerns come up during the talk, even if they're not answered in the talk themselves, we can use that landing page as a way to engage, uh, people afterwards and, um, and answer questions or correct misperception. Yeah, I know I think that's actually probably a good idea. Um, my experience, I tend to give incredibly conversational talks in my experience is you learn more from the audience than the audience learns from you about how they, how they are understanding what you were saying and the kinds of this conceptions that arise and that makes it easier to communicate in the future. Um, and so particularly if we could get somebody who is there in the audience who'd be willing to do sort of blow by blow, live update of the page, that's also really amazingly compelling in terms of people feeling like the community is engaged with the audience. So we'll have to add that as an action item to work out, um, uh, who's going to be there and out of who's going to be there, who's willing to take on that role. Are we looking to do that, to do that now? I mean, I, I'm planning, I'll be there on Tuesday for that session as well. Um, yeah. So I mean, that, that might actually be, you know, I think just having a couple of folks in the audience who can, you know, push, quickly push, review and merge PRs as we get the questions that can provide big, you know, basic answers to them. Um, like I said, that that shows a really strong commitment to engaging with your audience at that point, which I think will actually make us look extremely collaborative. Yep, definitely agree. So another, um, another thing that I think we should be prepared for, like we don't have to flush, we don't have to, to get a full set up now. But if we start talking about, like the entire, the entire open source, uh, CNF thing is talking about what is a, a CNF and it's, it's pretty the vocal group at the moment is, um, is not here at the moment because I think that this would be a really great topic for them. And I'll make sure to bring this up with them later on. Um, but one of the things that really helped on the Kubernetes side for app developers is they had this set of heuristics that they call 12 factor apps. And if you follow the heuristics of a tool factor app, ideally you'll end up with something that can scale horizontally and fits very well within the Kubernetes model. And what, one of the things that I think we can do is we can do something similar on the CNF side and say, like, you know, I have 12 factor apps, maybe we have 10 factor CNFs or something similar to that. Uh, there are basically a set of heuristics that, um, that help people build scalable CNFs on, um, on their clusters or, uh, that their clusters can be controlled, uh, that their CNFs can be controlled by. And so, um, so I think that, like that particular conversation, you know, start thinking about what type, like what does it mean to be, to be a CNF and like, how can we get that horizontal, horizontal scalability? Because, and just to drive the point, um, if you look at like why we're, why we're here, one of the reasons is you start looking at the scalability, scalability issues of trying to drive through the monolithic DNFs. And, uh, how, how is that going to scale when we started to hit 5g edge, internet of things, based traffic and having a system that is capable of horizontally scaling becomes very, very compelling. And so we're going to have to have, uh, re-architecture or re-writes of DNFs to CNFs. And this particular crowd, um, absolutely fantastic when it comes to understanding the network side and, and how things traversed through there. But a lot of that expertise and how do you build horizontally scalable apps is, is more in the enterprise, is more in the enterprise side and, uh, and app developers. So we can take some of our knowledge from the app developer side and help, help avoid mistakes that, um, uh, that they made and learned from, uh, while we're developing CNFs. So, um, so in essence, I, what I'm proposing is that we, is that we start coming up with a set of heuristics to help drive what, what does it really, what does it really mean to be a, to be a CNF? And we try to draw in other groups and organizations who can, who can help with that. Uh, does, does that make sense? Totally. Yeah, I think that's actually a really great idea because I, I kind of feel like that type of guidance and, and what you're suggesting is going to be broadly useful. Um, so if we can, if we can have something like that to, to, to frame that discussion, I think it's going to be really useful in, at that Tuesday session. Yeah. And, and this is, this is going to be a little bit more difficult than the toll factor app approach, uh, because the toll factor app, uh, how do you, how do you horizontally scale a system? Uh, a, a web app was already relatively well understood. Uh, it was just a matter of, you know, getting this message out for people to, uh, to head in that direction. Uh, we're, we're going to have a more interesting time with this because we're talking instead of just one group of people that we're targeting, it's like app developers where we're targeting multiple, multiple groups and from multiple industries, we'll have intertwined interests and intertwined, uh, uh, requirements. Um, but are certainly different enough that one set of heuristics may not work for, for everyone. So, so we have to think carefully on, on this type of guidance, but I think this type of guidance is going to be, uh, is going to be something that is absolutely necessary to, to help progress the industry forward at a faster, at a faster pace. Yeah. I mean, this is actually a really crucial point because cognitive asked everybody to rethink. Um, so when you went from, from physical boxes to the cloud one. Um, it was a lift and shift mentality. Right. You slept to be in front of all the existing things that are where you went. Um, cloud native asked everybody to actually think again for the first time in decades about how you actually write and deploy applications because there was a new space of possibility that it was not previously there. Um, I think what we're going to find as we go to cloud native NFV, um, with, you know, writing proper CNFs and that kind of with network service mesh is that it is going to require thinking about things differently than we thought when they were just physical boxes.  And, and so good crisp guidance on, on how to rethink things is going to be something that's going to be helpful. It's also going to be a much more interesting process. I think of the 12 factor act guys, because 12 factor app basically is a codification of things that people figured out by experience. And we're going to have a lot of collaboration with early adopters and we're going to be figuring a lot of this out by experience themselves. Um, and, and so we'll be naturally a bit more fluid. Um, the 12 factor apps was, because 12 factor app was apps was mostly putting structure around what we're already well understood good practices. And we're actually going to have to collaborate together as a community to figure out what those practices look like. Yeah, the interesting side thing to that ed is and Fred is, uh, people thinking about microservices and, and, um, and, and network functions being part of a microservice mesh, people start to get worried that the microservices mean that we're going to be forwarding packets back and forth, little slow, uh, things that will slow down the actual network. And that's not necessarily the case. There's one thing is the orchestration plan that will allow us to take a network function and perhaps scale it in bits. But, but the app, but it will have to be written in such a way that we, we don't accidentally funnel some kind of, um, you know, funnel the actual data playing packets through, um, through, uh, an interface that they shouldn't go through, so that, which will, uh, in effect, slow the functionality down. But I think those are challenges in the future. Yeah. One, uh, one example I've been using, uh, for this exact, uh, point is you start looking at IoT devices with radios in them, where they're communicating to some central controller. Um, and if that communication is managed and controlled by, uh, a network service mesh, uh, one option that we have is if the, if you have two IoT devices that are, that are located close to each other, then we could direct both devices to go direct with each other over the radio for a certain period of time so that they can get, um, uh, as quick as possible to eliminate, you know, point to point with each other. And once the, once they're done or their lease expires and they come back to network service mesh and continue to coordinate their, their network. And, uh, when you start looking at some of the challenges that are involved with that, you know, it's like, how do you pick which frequency they should, they should communicate with? How do you, uh, what happens if you have interference and, and, uh, or one of them moves away. And so we start looking from, from that perspective, there's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of things that we can help solve, uh, within that particular data plane. And one of the nice things about it is, is it drives the point that those, uh, those connections, those IoT devices don't have to go through a container through Kubernetes cluster, but they can still be managed by a network service mesh and still be part of a larger picture. And so, uh, I think that's a fantastic point that, uh, that you've brought up that we, we have to, we have to drive the point that we, we can go, we can be part of the data plane in terms of the CNFs to join up, but we don't, but network service mesh itself is, is not part of the data plane.  Um, is there any other ideas that people can, uh, that people can think of in terms of onboarding, uh, OS, OSS and, uh, and ONS newcomers? Okay. Well, I'm going to add a couple, uh, a couple of items onto the, uh, onto the agenda so we can track them later on. So we need to continue our improvements on, uh, documentation and making sure that we can, uh, make sure everything's up to date. Uh, cold things that are not, uh, they're not up to date, uh, or, or update them. Uh, and, um, just to give, I could break in here and show them my, my skills. Uh, we, uh, we had discussed that before and I was just looking, I just had the, uh, the board up, uh, with the issues on the, uh, the network service mesh board and we really probably, why don't you specifically say, right up an issue for those, for those two things, improvements with documentation and also refactoring, getting started guide with a, with a real true quick start. Those are really related, but, but different issues and I'll, I'll be happy to write up the, both issues on those to track them. I was supposed to do that, but I haven't yet. I'm sorry. I said too much words. No worries. And, thank you very much for helping on this. Like, uh, the, this, this type of work is going to be invaluable. Like once we start getting these people looking at it. So, you know, any, any improvement we have on here is, is going to, is going to help drive, drive the community. Okay. Well, um, is there, is there anything else that, uh, that anyone would like to bring up on this topic or any other topics? Okay. Um, I have one last request as well. Um, if you, if you intend to, uh, to work with network service mesh, um, and, and, and you're willing to give a presentation at cube con. Uh, the, the deadline, I believe is on August 12th. So, so get your, get your abstracts in if that's something you're interested in. So I know that we've had some interest with, uh, with some of the open daylight people who have wanted to, who are talking about putting together a, a, uh, presentation. Uh, it'd be fantastic to have others join in as well and talk about your, your use cases or, uh, or where you want to go. So, and with that, I don't have anything else on the agenda. So thank you everyone for your time and, uh, feel free to join us on network service mesh on IRC and, um, have a great rest of your day. Thanks. Thanks everyone. Bye. Thank you. Bye everybody. Thanks.


Hello, hello writers. I'm Christine Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources And you are listening to the well-sturried podcast where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life Always in 30 minutes or less so you can get back to writing of course. Ready for the show? Let's get talking Welcome or welcome back to another episode of the well-sturied podcast writers Today is Friday, January 10th, and this is our first podcast episode of the new year I had fully intended to publish today's article and podcast episode for you last Friday But man between the holiday season and the book launch last week the launch of build your best writing life I was exhausted and I never quite got around to finishing today's episode. So today here we have it Here it is. We are talking about how to build your best writing life in 2020 if you would like to read along as you listen in you can head on over to well-sturied calm slash best writing life All right, let's dive in Are you ready to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be in your writing life? Last week I published build your best writing life my first full-length book for writers This book breaks down each of the essential strategies that have helped me slowly But surely work to become the writer. I want to be over the past five years Strategies that are continuing to help me achieve this aim today With the new year upon us. It's time. We start taking action to turn our resolutions into realities If it's your goal to build a writing life you love in 2020 or if you're listening in from the future in any year or at any time Then I'd love to break down the foundational strategies. I share in my new book with you today The process of building a writing life you love rests on four cornerstone endeavors Honing a healthy creative mindset Building a writing practice you can sustain working with intention to improve your writing skills and Developing your roadmap to personal writing success Why is each of these endeavors so important and what can you do to achieve them in the year to come? Let's dig into all four of these foundational strategies together writer a First strategy number one hone a healthy creative mindset Do you struggle to put pen to paper and finish your projects despite wanting so desperately to write? Then you've encountered resistance The internal force that weaponizes your doubts Fears and limiting beliefs against you in an attempt to keep you from taking difficult action Make no mistake Writing is difficult work There's no writer in this world who doesn't struggle to put words on the page from time to time or Most of the time for that matter But just because writing isn't often easy doesn't mean it can't be joyous and fulfilling To access these positive feelings you must lean into the difficulty of the writing life You must pick up the pen and do the hard work But how can you do so when resistance comes to call? To oppose the pool of resistance You must first recognize that doubt isn't your creative enemy Doubt is merely indicative of uncertainty and you can always take action to resolve Uncertainty in your writing life no matter how big or small For example doubt is that line not quite right? Action restructure the sentence and analyze your word choice Doubt is my writing good enough to land a book deal action Seek constructive criticism on your manuscript to ensure it is the best that it can be before you query Taking action to resolve doubt isn't always easy But the alternative is to allow resistance to twist your doubts into limiting beliefs such as That line sounds so dumb. I'm a terrible writer or I can't compete with other authors. No publishing house will ever offer me a deal Can you see how quickly limiting beliefs can derail your creative confidence? If you're already struggling with these or other limiting beliefs Concerning your skills or stories, then it's time to give yourself a pep talk Listen to your thoughts the next time you tell yourself something negative about your writing life Counter that limiting belief with a positive affirmation I'm a terrible writer can become I'm as good a writer as I work to be so I'm going to work hard to improve my skills I can't compete with other writers can become Writing isn't a competition. There's room enough for every writer and every story When you counteract your limiting beliefs with words of truth and take action to resolve your doubts You seize the high ground in the battle against resistance You learn to cultivate the healthy creative mindset you need to build a writing life you love strategy number two build a writing practice you can sustain If you wait for inspiration to strike before putting pen to paper You will forever struggle to become the writer you want to be Inspiration is a powerful source of creative energy, but it's also fleeting Had it on the other hand can provide the consistency you need to make steady progress in Forming your writing dreams into realities When building a writing habit or practice as I often prefer to call consistent creative effort You must set boundaries you can sustain for months or years to come Often this involves prioritizing progress over productivity Stephen King might write 2,000 words a day, but if this goal isn't feasible for you Or if it would result in writing burnout Then it isn't a practice you can sustain More often than not the most sustainable writing habits focus on input rather than output Can you devote 15 minutes a day to writing? Or three hours over the course of a week? Big writing gains be damned Slow, but steady progress is the key to long-term writing success Additionally the more consistency you can build into your writing practice the better Work to create this consistency where you can Can you write in the same place every time you pick up the pen? Or at the same hour? Can you listen to the same instrumental soundtrack or drink the same cup of tea? These conditions might seem trivial, but they can trigger your brain to dive deep into the Write frame of mind Strategy number three work with intention to improve your writing skills No one crafts incredible stories or perfect prose the first time they sit down to write Like painting or playing an instrument writing is a craft that can and must be learned Each time you put words on the page you naturally become a better writer through practice But you can improve in your writing more quickly if you work with intention to hone your skills To achieve the same you can take several helpful approaches First you can study the craft Learning how to develop well-rounded characters Structure your stories weave themes through your narrative and more You can also read critically Analyzing the stories you consume to see how other writers craft or fail to craft compelling stories Another essential way to improve in your craft is to seek feedback from editors beta readers and or critique partners Often you're simply too close to your writing to recognize some of the areas in which it needs improvement Receiving constructive criticism can help you bridge this gap But to intentionally improve your writing and storytelling skills most effectively It's important that you first define your strengths and weaknesses in the craft Knowing where you would most benefit from improvement Can help you work with greater intention to become the writer you want to be And finally strategy number four Develop your roadmap to writing success There is no right way to be a writer Though many writers dream of publishing a bestseller or building a career as a full-time author These dreams don't have to be your dreams To build your best writing life. You must identify what writing success means to you Outside of all the external influences that work to convince you that you can only be a Real writer if you achieve x y or z So tell me writer What do you want from your writing life? It's okay to dream big Stake your claim on every wild fantasy you hold for your work But take time to also consider your honest writing ambition What you want from your writing life that is largely within your realm of control to achieve Winning the newberry medal or having your book adapted for film are possibilities But you can't make an action plan to achieve these goals However, you can create a plan to land an agent Build a thriving career as an indie author or travel the world writing short stories in every country you visit To develop such a plan a roadmap to personal writing success Consider the first major goal you'll need to achieve If you want to build a thriving career as an indie author, for example, you must first publish your debut novel From there repeatedly break your goal down into smaller tasks Until you reach a simple action step you can take every day or week Then place your focus on taking that action step alone This is how you avoid overwhelm and slowly but surely turn your writing dreams into realities Write for 30 minutes every day and you'll one day finish the first draft of your book Repeat this process to revise your novel then spend time each week thereafter completing at least one publishing task Before you know it you'll be celebrating the release of your first book From there simply recreate your writing roadmap with your next big goal in mind Creating your writing roadmap can provide the clarity and focus you need to achieve your personal definition of writing success But at the end of the day know that your best writing life isn't waiting just over the horizon It's here It's now Your best writing life lives in your commitment to the craft In the fulfillment you feel in wrapping up a difficult writing session And in the joy of realizing that you're a better writer today than you were yesterday It's in the privilege to pursue work you love And the courage you exhibit in seizing that opportunity In picking up the pen In the simple act of writing If you enjoyed today's episode of the podcast I think you would enjoy my brand new book for writers build your best writing life If there is a gap between where you are and where you want to be in your writing life Then this is the book for you By the end of build your best writing life You'll know how to harness the simple techniques that can help you win your inner creative battles Finish projects you can be proud to share with the world And work with focus to turn your writing dreams into reality To grab your copy of build your best writing life today Simply visit well-storied.com slash b y b w l That link will be for you in today's episode description as well Now let's make 2020 our best year in writing yet friends Happy writing Thank you for listening to today's episode of the podcast writer I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey If so, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a new episode And to give the podcast a quick rating and review Doing so goes a long way toward helping the podcast reach new writers And lets me know that you're enjoying what i'm creating You can also give me a shout out directly on twitter at christen underscore keeper For additional guidance as you work to craft sensational novels and build your best writing life Be sure to head on over to www.well-storied.com Where I share blog posts, workbooks, e-courses and other helpful resources for writers Again, that's w-e-l-l-s-t-o-r-i-e-d.com Thank you again for tuning in to today's episode my friend until next time Happy writing


You are the king and the ruler of this nation, father with surrender, whatever we have with surrender, and I ask you that you brought me up here at such a time as this, when other men were better, they could have been here, but you brought me lord in order to proclaim your name as our god. If you were born in an African home, you would definitely remember this name, Chipolo Polo. I loved that name when I was a kid, and I can't believe that I'm in Lusaka. And guess where I am? I'm actually behind a beautiful stadium which got so much history. Like, do you know I still can't believe that I'm here? Welcome to Zambia, my brother. Welcome to Zambia. Welcome to Zambia, but I still don't believe like I'm in Zambia. Listen brother, when I was a kid, also when I heard this story, and coming here makes me feel so emotional. I used to hear something, now I'm here. I would love to tell them the story, but it's all about Africa to the world. Telling our own story, you've been a Zambian born and raised. What is the history behind this beautiful stadium? Welcome to Zambia, I am Maya. Alright, let's get on with it. This is the story behind the stadiums. So, while we're standing, it's not just one stadium. What you see behind us, that's a recent stadium. It was built between 2011 and 2014. It was completed in 2014 and officially opened. So, there are two names that were suggested before it was named the Hero Stadium. Two names? Yes. The initial name was supposed to be Gabon Air Disaster Stadium. It was suggested by a minister of sports then, Chimba Kambili. Now, it's in the opposition, it's no longer part of the government. So, at the time that he was a minister of sports, he suggested to name it Gabon Air Disaster Stadium. And then there was Public Apro. But I feel like using that name is kind of disrespectful to the people who died during that time. That is exactly what the reaction from the public was. You cannot name a stadium after that. We've grown past the grieving stage. We've grieved for years and accepted that. So, what's the point of naming a stadium after such a... So, what is the new name right now? Exactly. So, after Public Apro, the name was suggested by the public to say it's supposed to be named Hero Stadium. That's the power of social media. There was a social media campaign, most of the young people said no. The name that we want is Hero Stadium. Hero Stadium? Yes. If someone is watching this video right now, people don't know why the name Hero Stadium. Yes. Why the name Hero Stadium? Thank you. So, this is a 60-city capacity stadium. And it's named Hero Stadium because of the Gabon Air Disaster. The one that was mentioned, the name that was suggested. So, in 1993, players Lechipolo Polo were going for a match in Gabon and using an air plane. Zaaf is like the Zambia Air Force plane, which crashed in Gabon and all the 85 players and the technical team that was part of it died. So, that's where Hero Stadium comes from. So, that's the heroes now, they are heroes, right? So, they use the name Hero. But I'm seeing another stadium right behind us. This was the stadium that you guys have before this one? Yes. So, the area mentioned, the entire area is surrounded by two stadiums. So, what you see behind us is what is called the Independence Stadium. The Independence Stadium represents our independence when Zambia became independent from Britain, which is 1964. So, this is the stadium that you see behind us. So, later on after becoming a deployable stadium, they said instead of renovating the same stadium, they decided to build the Hero Stadium, the one that we had mentioned. Yes. So, this is the graveyard where they buried the 25 players including the technical team. Yes. So, this is just right opposite Independence Stadium and a few meters behind Hero Stadium. So, what you see besides us, this is a grave site. So, all the players that died in that plane crash in 1993 are buried here. Not only the players but also the technical team that is the doctors that I involved in the 25 in Toto. And then, one other important story that is worth noting is that one player survived Great Kahlu. I don't know if you've come across that name. He's a very good player for Zambia. So, the time that his friends were on board this flight, he wasn't available to get on the flight. So, he missed the flight and that's how he survived. He missed the flight and survived. God really loves him. I know, right? But is there any special day that the entire country celebrated these heroes? Yes. So, there are two different days. I told you our independence we obtained it in 1964, right? Yeah. And then in 1993, I mean, that's when this gentleman passed on. So, because we changed it from a grumi moment and mourning moment into a celebration, we said, let us honor this gentleman on our independence day when we celebrate our independence. So, that's the day that has been picked, when we commemorate their lives, when we bring the families together, the families that are left behind. Most of these gentlemen are very young kids the time that they had passed on because they are in their prime, they are not very old at the time. So, they are left very young kids, some of them were left in months, some of them were left not yet born as pregnancies. So, when you get to meet the families that are behind those names, that's when the effect comes in, you get the idea, right? It's quite easy for a nation to say, no, we are celebrating this gentleman because you don't see the faces that are really affected by their loss. So, when we celebrate them on independence day, when you get to see the families where there are no proper facts to this story. You say, okay, this is exactly what caused the plane to crash and there are some rumours to say some of the parts that are buried in these graves are simply plane parts, not in the body parts. So, all those misconceptions and stories around the thing, now you can imagine that's been talked about like that. So, yeah. Wow. And I can see that zambians are not mourning anymore but rather celebrating them. Yes. I don't know any streets, any schools, hospitals, these heroes because in Ghana definitely we named these people without treating all the stuff. One thing that is very common about Africans is that our mindset is not very different. We are pretty much the same people. You get the idea, right? So, the names of these heroes that you see there, when you go across the nation, you find either a road, a street, some stadium, some small pitch named after this gentleman here. So, pretty much everyone of them is honored in that regard because we decided to move from that mourning state because we mourned for a while. There's footage all over online where you can see even the president, when he was acknowledging to say he lost this, he couldn't hold himself, his composure, this assumption to say as the president you're not supposed to show emotions and stuff like that. He could not hold it, he cried like a baby if you see that the president at the time that is president Fredrik Chilova. It's also late may he saw rest in place. You know what? Being here, I can imagine how people felt in the year 1993. I just saw the moment. You can't hold the tears that were in that stadium, the independent stadium. As we get closer, in West Africa we have a tradition. Oh really?  That's the West African tradition. To pay respect. On behalf of myself, the entire YouTube subscribers, anyone watching this video for the first time, let's pay respect to that. Yes indeed. You are gone, but not forgotten. May your soul rest in internal peace. If you wanna see anything about Zambia, he's the best guy to show you around. Go subscribe to his YouTube channel, go support him. Ya, this is how we do it. It's all about Africa to the world. He will represent Africa to the world. Here in Lusaka. That's right.


Guidelines to Write a Lesson Plan A lesson plan has many important attributes which most definitely will assist the teacher in teaching, even though there have been theories about lesson planning arguing that it might not be flexible for the students. There is no doubt that coming to class prepared is essential whether with a lesson plan or without. It is very helpful for inexperienced teachers especially those who may lack direction. Guidelines to Write a Plan There are three functions for writing a lesson plan, a need to planning, a working document, and a record. Visually writing down the expectation and achievement planned for the students can aid the teacher to think logically about available time in relation to stages. A working document is very useful to refer to in class not only that but it also shows the students that you have planned for them and visually shows them the teacher had put time into the lesson, like doing homework. And finally, keeping a record of all the classes means they are able to look back six months prior and see what they have taught the students in exact. These three functions are very important attributes for the use of lesson planning. General Suggestions When it comes to writing the lesson, there is no rule about how to go with it, some teachers like to write formally, while some only write notes and someone log details into class notes. A teacher may write on the lesson plan however they desire but there are basic principle guidelines for teachers to consider. A couple of guidelines are that teachers should keep it simple with just outlines of instructions and no big paragraphs. It should remain flexible and adaptable to the needs of the students, for example, if students were enjoying picturing or participating, even the shy students are weaker students, so it would be wise to lengthen the game. Anticipated time for each stage and activity is essential as time can run out very quickly and the teacher might not have covered all the important vocabulary yet etc structure the plan and try to maintain that throughout the lesson, and also try to balance receptive skills and teaching productive skills to make sure you cover all the parts. What to include There are many things a teacher could include in a lesson plan when writing it down. The list begins with learner objective, this is what you want the students to achieve by the end of the class. Personal aims which should what the teacher wishes to achieve by the end of the class. Language point shows the lessons theme around which the teacher has a lesson based on and how the current lesson fits with past or planned future lessons. Teaching aids is where you write down any materials you need for the class such cassette layer etc anticipated problems or difficulties you reckon the students will face during the lesson, now keeping mind it is for both students and teacher, as it would be a good idea to remind the teacher themselves what they might need to watch out for. There should be a massive section for the procedure section as here all activities will be written down for you to visually see for the whole period. There would usually be three extra columns next to the procedure column to help identify the following, phase, engage, study, activate, timing, for each activity, and interaction, teacher to student or student to student. The class level could also be included to pinpoint the level of ability the class has with the English language. It is always a good idea to know how many students are attending the class. Depending on whether the class has an even or odd number can help with grouping students. The two most common things teachers should always remember to write is the date and time. This is very important as it helps put the lesson into a timeline of progress on anything and everything you can observe. Are you ready to teach English abroad? In conclusion, every teacher can do what they prefer. Having a lesson plan doesn't necessarily mean that you need to have a lesson plan sheet but I find that visually jotting down, in moderate detail, what the goals, achievements, and improvements are significantly helpful to teachers teaching development and experience gain. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Hello everyone and welcome to 2020 in this video I would like to talk about 2019 and how important a year it was for us at Metabolism of cities 2019 was a great year with so many projects and so many things that happened that It's actually very difficult to remember and that's why I have noted them all down here on my computer I'll try to go piece by piece to try to explain what we've been through And where we're going in 2020 The first significant thing that happened in 2019 was the redesign of our website and of our logo That was a very hard process for us to decide amongst all of us. What is the best design we could get? Not only for the logo, but also for the website We had to restructure many of the previous aspects, but we also added many new things You can now find an updated List of projects list of articles list of authors We had to rethink everything in our minds, but also we have a very exciting new feature Which is called multiplicity multiplicity is now Something that we have in our website, which is an urban metabolism dashboard. So any of you can Sign up Add your data sets there and visualize them for any city in the world Another very exciting project we have been doing over the 2019 was the global seminar on urban metabolism In this seminar series that took place in three places in the planet, so Cape Town, Beijing and Brussels It was a one-day seminar and every time we tried to have Urban metabolism meets policy and practice. We wanted to know how This academic, mostly academic field can benefit and can be implemented in policy and practice So we had three very different contexts in three very different seminars with different audiences as well We're extremely happy for instance to go in Cape Town and to figure out how the city has multiple crises where You might know the water crisis. Well, it's very much connected with the waste crisis We also went to Beijing where we figured out that It's actually very hard to talk about urban metabolism in these extremely Growing cities and you have to think about all of the challenges simultaneously And then we went back to Brussels where we had the last of the three seminars Where Brussels, let's say it's a more Mature case study where there has been a lot of work on urban metabolism We wanted to reflect whether urban metabolism has contributed to any change and also how it has been used in policy and practice Another exciting development was the launch of the metabolism of islands website. Well, it's been in the works for since 2018 where we collaborated with Simran Singh an associate professor and at the University of Waterloo in New Canada and We are actually just changing the scale because islands are actually extremely relevant as laboratories for Metabolism studies because they have a physical boundary and so we have Developed a sister website, which is now available called metabolism of islands With another community that is behind it in our dreams for 2020. We're continuing with Something else that's called platform you Which is very much focused on companies So we'd like to do this metabolism of companies and who knows perhaps metabolism of countries or regions In order to have all of them the scales that we could somehow nest and have data flowing in every direction Perhaps last but definitely not least the biggest project that we have Actually carried out and are carrying out right now is the city loops project So it's a EU H2020 funded project where we will be developing a sector-wide and urban-wide circularity assessment method for the sector of Construction and biomass for seven cities Seven European cities. So Roskilde, Hayotostrup, Micheli, Bodo, Sevilla, Appledorm and Porto We will be developing this method in order for these cities to To assess by themselves. So we want to build capacity with these cities to Learn how to assess their own sectors and their own cities in order to develop a circular economy strategy So we're extremely excited about this project. It started in October. So not so long ago We started with three months of literature review. What are the methods that are actually accounting? Material flows and material stocks. We will be publishing that very soon in our website But also in the website of the projects And this will last for four years. So you'll see plenty of New updates on this topic on urban circularity, but also on sector-wide circularity. So That's this is a great adventure for us And we hope we're gonna learn a lot and we're gonna also share our experiences with you on the team side Well three new members also joined in 2019. So a very warm welcome to them Even if it's been already a year Guille Hermet from Lisbon Carlos from Glasgow and George from Milford in the US. So We have a growing community of team members, but also of contributors a lot of contributors are now Contributing to our multiplicity platform this urban metabolism dashboard And we have almost a hundred contributors In putting that about also helping us on developing New methods and adding publications in our website. So a very big. Thank you to all other than that in social media in general we continue to have a we try to have a Strong presence to continue to share as many insights articles and results that we find in the urban metabolism world We try to continue also to post all of the videos from the seminars on our YouTube channel So just subscribe there if you want more urban metabolism videos in general And also, please try to you know, give us any of your feedback if you want if you have any questions If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see included in this platform Please tell us and also please contribute and be part of this growing community For 2020 there are many things that we have in our heads Actually, so many things happening in 2019 that we have big dreams and hopes for 2020 We hope that We're gonna go to the next phase of multiplicity. So right now. It's more of a data harvesting platform We hope it's gonna be a data analysis platform Or are you gonna see crazy? Sankey diagrams and and more analytical aspects and not just visualization aspects We are also co-organizing another conference called actionable science for urban sustainability ask us Together with the International Society of Industrial Ecology, it will be on the third to fifth June 2020 we are co-organizing this and we try to have a very virtual Component to this conference. So have a look as well on our website and on the ask us conference page That's it for now. We it's already we're already in the middle of 2020. So we hope we're gonna Have more regular updates and fill you in with all of the great work we're doing. Thanks so much and see you soon


Hello everybody, Andrea Trosky here with Dental Health Tutoring. So if you're a new dental hygienist or a new dental assistant, you might be wondering, okay, I want to look for a job, but how do I get started? And I always thought that this was common sense. I just always thought that, well, if you need a job, you would look for one. You would look for one everywhere. But a lot of people just don't really know how to start. But the nice thing is that these days it is so easy to look online. Because when I was getting started 13 years ago, 13, 14 years ago, you looked in the paper and that was it. There was no other options to find something. They started posting jobs online, but it was not many. So I'm pretty sure that I found my first jobs in the paper. Nowadays, they're online. They're on social media. They might still be in the paper who knows, but I haven't really heard of anything being in the paper these days. So it's pretty simple to look for something. Now I suggest actually taking a step further and actually looking on the internet and seeing all of the dental offices that are near you, all of them. You might have 10. You might have 20. You might have 30. You might have more. Who knows, right? But I suggest looking at that office's website and either calling them and sending them an email. Now I prefer to send an email, so then that way I can send them my cover letter and resume at the same time. Whereas if you call them, depending on who you talk to, if you ask them if they're hiring, they may say no and that's it, right? But if you email them, you can send a message such as hello there. I came across your office. I'm not sure if you're hiring at the moment, but just so you are aware. I am a dental assistant. I'm a dental hygienist. I am happy to work evenings and weekends. Please take the time to look at my cover letter and resume that I have attached. That's it. Easy, right? And that way, if the office gets the email, they can choose to look at it or not. But if they ever need a dental assistant or a dental hygienist, they will say, oh wait, that person did send us an email a week ago or a month ago. How about we call them instead of posting an ad in the paper online or whatever, right? So they can call you instead of somebody else. So it's just kind of taking it a step ahead. But so I do think that it is a good idea to contact the offices even before they are hiring because you never know if they are or not, or even if, say, they have a hygienist or an assistant who's off sick for a week, you know, and they need someone who they can call you and then you can get experience that way. Or if they know they're taking holidays for two weeks and they need to find somebody like now, well, they can call you or they can email you and then there you go. So that's what I would do and that's what I have done in the past, but of course, also look online and just see if anybody's hiring. Do not be afraid to just send them your cover letter, resume easy. I do suggest calling as well, but again, it depends on who you talk to. They may not have time for you and then you might be thinking, okay, well what was the point of calling them because they didn't really give me the time of day. So I do find email just helps or even if you're in the area to just sort of walk in and give them your resume and cover letter so at least they can see who you are. They can see you're interested and then hopefully you will get something after that. So I hope this helps. If you guys need any help, let me know. I do help with resumes and cover letters if you need help. So I am happy to help. Hopefully for the resumes and cover letters, it's about a two-week turnaround time. But if you guys need help, just let me know and good luck with everything.


Keshosiko job, Nikulala Reji suko job, yes? No Sorry, mi keshosiko job Nikulala, hohoho Anyway, you'll listen to the baddest DJ in... I don't know I'm confused because I'm going to meet a few other DJs after this So I have to, you know Be composed, but umeni afektu customer Umeni chok Ameni sa foket Hashtag is social Friday So if you find us on Facebook, White Fife Channel, on Twitter Hashtag is social Friday We're still asking what Gingitun song has got you in feelings But nanzukwana maybe perhaps it might not be the actual song Maybe it might be the vixen in the song We have a beautiful vixen on set Hashtag is social Friday And we have an amazing talk talk Very smooth, very very smooth and very charming And I am honestly just quite, I don't know Blown away by both of them So, yeah So would you like to reintroduce yourself in case they have just watched a show Please tell us your name and how we can get you And then it's game time Karma underscore Tatiana Yeah Kind, sorry Tuniskayna on TikTok, Tuniskayna on Instagram Tuniskayna on Facebook Okay, ready for this game Okay, we need to reintroduce ourselves So nanzukwana, boom boom boom Okay, let's practice Let's practice Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, okay, you ready? Okay, who wants to start? I am biased Let's play this first Definitely Yeah, yeah, yeah We just have a coin Let's just have a coin then Okay, so anyway It's a surprise so I don't know what game it is Okay, so I'll go first Okay, I'm just gonna ask you a couple of questions They're not too many, they're 15 15 That is not divisible by two But I will add an extra one to be a bonus for me So I'll ask you questions And then you must answer as fast as you can No thinking about thinking Oh, CG world peace No, okay All right, so are you ready? Are you ready? I'm ready I'm so excited Masai, thank you All right, so number one Okay, let's go What should they teach in school but don't? Come on Come on The first thing that comes to your mind The first thing Give me an answer I'm coming back to you Give me an answer Give me an answer, Shari Come on, come on They teach everything in it Okay, I will use this as a practice question So my answer would possibly be What should they teach in school but don't? I think it's First of all, paying tax They don't teach us how to pay tax Kare is just going to come and harass you just randomly from nowhere as you grow up They don't teach us how to file taxes They don't teach us how to love ourselves They don't teach us a lot of things that I really think should be in the curriculum They don't teach us about the constitution We are here, baby, in left, right and center They don't teach us But I think they should Okay, fine Kwa na mwa kenya sasa Like off Okay Maskiya kuleza swali U mepone ya rana? U mepone ya? Okay Tony, is it okay to sacrifice one life to save 10? Yes, no, yes, no No Yes, no, okay No How useful would you be in a zombie apocalypse? Very useful How would you bring it to the table? In a zombie apocalypse Oh, God This is a tough one Okay, to me, I honestly don't know it Possibly too Hant? Come with a gun But even hant is a problem I don't know what I would do Alright, so next is Which celebrity would... I'm going to ask both of you this Which celebrity would you most like to sit next to on the SDR and why? Otile Brown You? Why, why, why, why? Let me say why Okay, why? Sorry, why? He featured my balloon video from TikTok on his video this month So yeah, Otile Brown Which Augusta That's so mad How did he get it? No, yeah, yeah from TikTok Definitely Oh, it's like that Like the way they say Make videos and then they compile them Yeah, something like that Are you? Yeah What are you? Why? I watched a film before He's a very humble person And he's also a very sweet person We need to meet both of them Okay, what are the two things you should know how to do but don't? One is Bake Baking Let me just say Bake teaspoons, I wish I knew but I don't Do you have a sweet tooth? Very Okay, second thing I wish I knew but I don't Oh man Wish you could dance? Yes You're welcome Thank you You're in my mind as you're eating You're welcome Alright, thank you That would be a fasting move What are two things that you should know how to but don't know how to? Since I'm a dancer, I think I should know how to do 180 But I don't, I've always tried to do it But I think I've not started flexible That's something I expected So I'm sure you'll be able to do it at some point And second thing I wish I knew but I don't I will forgive you and ask you the next question What is something you've done that you wish you could undo? There's a deep one Can I give you a hint?  Not one Don't tell me the same thing You cannot take her answer Give me something that you wish you would have You did you wish you could undo So many Just one First one pops into your mind I can't remember any such much The answer is not here The answer is in here It's there I will come back to you To soon in Mewachi Thank you Next one What do most people think about you That is absolutely not true I go first Okay People What do people think Oh yeah Come on Don't be shy Tell me When people are Do you think I don't know what you mean I don't know what you mean I don't know what you mean I want to go back to being a child No, please Okay, it all fairness which It all fairness I will possibly try to answer them Men But your question is there No, no You didn't expect it Yeah No wonder you are still at the game What do most people think about me That is not absolute It's absolutely not true When I'm not working I am very shy When I'm not on camera When I'm not on the ground When I'm not representing a brand Or my own brand I'm very shy Very Like no blush Like I don't think pink a bit So what is Something that people think about you That is absolutely not true Oh, you're so sweet I think it's from The real culture in the south The real culture in the south I've known you for like three minutes You're so sweet Okay, all right Okay, next one You have 10k to burn All your friends are busy And you have a whole day to yourself What do you do 10k Custom house I definitely get Sweet things I shop at it And 10k 10k I just buy myself stuff Spoil myself Go to the movies Go to the movies I discovered I like very nice things I'm expensive Sometimes I cannot afford myself What would you do with 10k And all your friends are busy Okay, absolutely last question Because now It's not the game that is over It's time It's not the game It's time And I want to ask you The weirdest question here Are you ready If animals could talk Which would be the rudest Animals could talk Which would be the rudest Would see the rudest The snake If a gali was turning to pizza Would you eat it That's a wrap


What if the lockdown was all a big mistake? By Ron Paul, an audio Mises wire narrated by Million Quinteros. From California to New Jersey, Americans are protesting in the streets. They are demanding an end to house arrest orders given by government officials over a virus outbreak that even according to the latest U.S. government numbers will claim fewer lives than the seasonal flu outbreak of 2017 and 2018. Across the U.S., millions of businesses have been shut down by executive order, and the unemployment rate has skyrocketed to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Americans who have seen their real wages decline thanks to Federal Reserve monetary malpractice are finding themselves thrust into poverty and standing in breadlines. It's like a horror movie, but it's real. Last week, the U.N. Secretary General warned that a global recession resulting from the worldwide coronavirus lockdown could cause hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths per year. As of this writing, less than 170,000 have been reported to have died from the coronavirus worldwide. Many Americans have also died this past month because they were not able to get the medical care they needed. Cancer treatments have been indefinitely postponed. Surgeoning surgeries have been put off to make room for coronavirus cases.  What if the cure is worse than the disease? Countries like Sweden that did not lock down their economy and placed the population under house arrest are faring no worse than countries that did. Citizens' deaths per million from coronavirus is lower than that of many lockdown countries. Likewise, U.S. states that did not arrest citizens for merely walking on the beach are not doing worse than those that did. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said last week, we've been able to keep our businesses open and allow people to take on some personal responsibility. South Dakota has recorded a total of seven coronavirus deaths. Kentucky, a strict lockdown state, is five times more populated than South Dakota, yet it has some 20 times more coronavirus deaths. If lockdown and house arrests are the answer, shouldn't those numbers be reversed, with South Dakota seeing mass death while Kentucky dodges the coronavirus bullet? When Anthony Fauci first warned that 2 million would die, there was a race among federal, state and local officials to see who could rip up the Constitution fastest. Then Fauci told us if we did what he said, only a quarter of a million would die. They locked America down even harder. Then with little more than a shrug of the shoulders, they announced that a maximum of 60,000 would die, but maybe less. That is certainly terrible, but it's just a high average flu season. Even if we had used even a fraction of the resources spent to lock down the entire population and focused on providing assistance and protection to the most vulnerable, the elderly and those with serious medical conditions, we could have protected these people and still had an economy to go back to when the virus had run its course. And it wouldn't have cost us $6 trillion either. Governments have no right or authority to tell us what business or other activity is essential. Only in totalitarian states does the government claim this authority.  They should not be able to get away with this. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.