Welcome to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. This podcast was created to provide you the information and tools Doc Snipes gives her clients so that you too can start living happier. Our website, docsknipes.com, has even more resources, videos, and handouts, and even interactive sessions with Doc Snipes to help you apply what you learn. Go to docsknipes.com to learn more. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes, practical tools to improve your mood and quality of life. Today we're going to be talking about helping the type A person live happily. And to do this, we're going to look at 15 type A behaviors and ways you might be able to address them in order to reduce your stress and sense of helplessness, increase your sense of empowerment, and overall happiness. So the first thing that characterizes people with type A personalities is they're plagued by a sense of time urgency. Oftentimes they can be hostile and have misdirected anger because when things don't go well or don't go fast enough, it starts to really stress them out so they can snap at people. They often have poor organizational skills because they take on too many things. They just want to do everything all the time and have a tendency to take on multiple tasks simultaneously. They strive for perfection in everything, which often leads to doing many things poorly instead of a few things perfectly. And although they accomplish all of their goals and complete them with high quality, they often may neglect other areas of their life. People with type A personality hate the idea of wasting time, so they often do things the moment they come to mind. They think they always have too much to do and not enough time to do it. And you know, I'm guilty of this. I am probably in the definition of type A personality.  Of course that's what I start working on right then instead of saying, well, maybe two weeks from now when I finish these other projects or let's start another podcast, you know, you need to get the all the stuff ready on the back end so I can start doing that. And the people I work with can get a little bit frustrated with me because something comes to mind and I'm like, okay, let's do it now instead of slowing down and pacing things as much as I probably should. So in order to function well in an environment where there are not all type A personalities, it's important for type A's to figure out what must be done. You know, really look at the things that you think need to be done and say, which ones must be done or there's going to be really bad consequences. Where I work, you know, obviously in a clinic, when we see clients, we have to bill for services. If we don't bill for services, we don't get money, we don't get money, the doors don't stay open. Okay, so that's a big thing. You know, that must be done. Writing my book, yeah, I'd like to get to it, but if I don't start writing that book today, you know, nothing bad's going to happen. So it's important to really prioritize the things that must be done in order to, number one, not overload everybody else, but also not overload yourself. The other thing to start thinking about is why does this have to happen? What would actually happen? Actually happen if some things on your list didn't get done. And I've had a hard time kind of embracing that over the years and I've gotten a lot better. But, you know, I always have a list of things that need to be done and I feel like I have to be doing them. I have to be working on them. And in reality, okay, sometimes they're not going to get done. Last weekend, you know, on my list was getting out and digging the holes for the sweet potato slips that were supposed to be coming in. I didn't get to it. And you know what? It's okay. No big problems are going to arise from it.  Well, that's just a waste of energy. So take those shoulds and throw them out the window. What did you get done? Focus on the things that you accomplished and what's important to you.  They don't believe themselves necessarily to be exceptionally gifted but often believe that if you want it done right, you need to do it yourself. So a lot of this quote stupidity may come from viewing other people's perceptions and ways of doing things as incorrect because they're not your way. So it's important to look at that and think about, you know, what things can you delegate? You know, what things can you give to somebody else? And as long as they get done, it's good. You know, it may not be done the way you would do it. But as long as it gets done, it's okay. And be able to accept different definitions of completed.  That's not the same definition that my family has. So, you know, do I want to spend a whole lot of time doing it myself or nagging at them? Or am I going to accept their definition of clean as acceptable? And I've had to work kind of with that. So I can delegate and say, you know what? It's clean enough. And I have a hard time with that enough. But it releases a lot of stress interpersonally when I'm not nagging at people and when they don't feel like they're always going to be getting criticism. So it helps in relationships which can help improve your mood. The other thing to consider is when you delegate things, and when you let other people help and do it their way, what is the worst thing that is going to happen if it doesn't get done the way you want it done? You know, there are a lot of different ways to achieve the same goal. It may not be your way. And you know, maybe you'll have a chance to do it your way at some other point. But what's the worst thing that's going to happen? You know, if my daughter cleans the house and she doesn't do it exactly the way that I would do it, what's the worst that's going to happen? Nothing because it's clean. It may just be different than how I would have done it. Type A personalities often become passionate about things they do. All of the things that they do. This is why they often start getting irritable. Everything's important and it's impossible to get everything done. So I'm passionate about my work. I'm passionate about my garden. I'm passionate about my kids.  Make a list of the things that are important in your life and prioritize them so you can have laser focus on one or two of your passions. And that's one of the things that I've learned over the years with animal rescue and gardening and working out, being a mother, teaching, I can't do it all at one time. So I have to prioritize. The spring is generally, you know, the late winter, early spring is generally when there's puppy and kitten season, when there's a lot more orphan animals that need to be rescued. Well, that's great because that's also the same time that I can't get out into my garden. Too cold to plant anything. So I can't do the gardening and the animal rescue at the same time. So I focus my attention on the animals. Then when we start getting into late spring and summer, that's when I focus on my gardening and I back off on my animal rescue as much and so on and so forth. I have work every day, you know, that's just one of those things. But on my, during the times when I'm not at work, you know, figuring out how to prioritize those other things I'm passionate about are really, really important. That way I don't run myself ragged because if I'm running myself ragged and then I'm no good to anybody and I'm generally not too pleasant to be around. Because they're so passionate and because true success takes patience, any sort of early failure may easily discourage the type A personality. So two things come here.  Whenever I used to take a new position at the company I used to work at, my colleagues would regularly say, this is a marathon, not a sprint, pace yourself because I would get in there and I would be so passionate and I'd be working 16 hour days and really wanting to get things the way I wanted them sound kind of type A ish to you. Yeah. Anyhow, you know, and the clinic had been running fine, you know, okay, up until that point. Yes, I had some work to do, but it wasn't like we were going to have to shut our doors if I work didn't work 16 hour days. I took it upon myself. I was excited. I was passionate. So it's important to figure out how to pace yourself because life is a marathon. It's not a sprint.  So pace yourself. What has to be done now? The other thing to look at is how can you deal with failure in a way that helps you grow and be even more successful at a task? So when you try to do something and you fail, even if you're passionate at it, you know, how can you deal with this in a way that helps you learn? Animal rescue is an example. Well, that's a sad example. So I'll use gardening for the past two years. My zucchini plants do great in the spring and, you know, they grow and they produce zucchini.  And that's not what's supposed to happen. They're supposed to continue to produce. And that's frustrating. So, you know, three years ago, my garden didn't produce pedidally squat. And I had put a bunch of time into it and I felt very disheartened about it. So I was tempted to go, you know what? The heck with it. I'm not going to do this anymore. But then the logical side kicked in and said, no, learn from this. The frugal side kicked in and said, no, you put way too much money in this to give up it now. But going out and figuring out, okay, what went wrong? What could be causing this? So it's important to think about failure as an opportunity to learn how to do it better. Type A's are prone to stressing and being irritable. They do their best to see into the future and can't shake the fact that things can always go wrong. Because they're passionate about what they do. This makes them dread the ever possible and always looming crappy outcome. I used to be this way in college when I had a paper due. If the paper was due on Friday, I would print it out and have it done on Tuesday. Why on Tuesday? Because if on Tuesday when I went to print it out, the printer died or was out of ink or something, I wanted to make sure that I had plenty of days to be able to figure out how to get it printed. So I was always considering what possibly could happen to get in my way. When you start worrying about the future, you're tying energy up in the future. Energy you could be using right now. And you're tying it up on things that may not even happen. Oftentimes probably won't even happen. So why are you worrying? So identify what you're worried about. The facts foreign against the belief. If you're worried that the printer is going to be out of ink, what are the facts foreign against that? How many times have you tried to print something out that it's been out of ink? When was the last time you changed the printer cartridge? If it was last week, then you're probably good to go. And is this outcome likely and probable or one in a million? Now my printer being out of ink is a little more common than one in a million. But if I know that I just changed the cartridge a week ago, then I can be pretty confident that everything's going to be fine and it's going to print out just fine. Once you've done everything you need to do to be prepared, then you've got to just kind of let things go out as they may. So if I have a paper due, I try to print it on my own printer if for some reason it didn't work. I always have a drop-back-and-punt plan and I can go to Kinko's or somewhere and get it printed out. So that helps quell the worry so I'm not worrying about, oh my gosh, am I going to be able to print it out? Am I going to be able to turn it in? It's important to think about what things you can do to make sure that you've done everything you can to ensure your success on the task. If you're getting ready to go into a job interview, have you prepared? Well, if so, okay, well then go do it. Once you've done everything you can to prepare, there's nothing more you can do. People who worry about tornadoes, for example, well, they're going to happen. That's just the way the weather is. So do you have a shelter? Did you, when the tornado warning happened, did you get everybody down into that sheltering area? Once you've done that, there's not much more you can do. You can't make the tornado turn around. So worrying about it isn't going to do any good. Although they know they should take more time to relax, they don't find it appealing. Plus, when they want to relax, they just can't find the time. They often feel most at home working and doing their thing, and it's difficult for them to appreciate getting away and slowing down. And I can totally relate to this. I enjoy what I do. I'm passionate about what I do. I love what I do. So it's hard for me to say, well, I need to step back from that for a little while. And it takes a lot of cajoling often to get me to step back. So try and experiment for a month. Pick a day each week to relax and unwind. Try to do a whole day, but if you can't manage it, do eight hours. But one day where you're not working on any of those projects that you're quote, passionate about, you are just letting your body relax. You can do something fun with friends or even just veg out with a good book. Write in your journal how you felt at the end of that day. Also write in your journal how you felt the next day. Usually when I take a day off from the gym, for example, I love going to the gym, but sometimes I need to do other stuff or I just take a day off and let my body rest and recharge. But since I've had a break from it, I'm that much more eager to get back into it the next day. So a lot of times taking a break and forcing yourself to slow down allows your body to rebalance and recharge. And you have more creativity, enthusiasm, and all that kind of stuff. The next time you approach the task.  They often have trouble stopping their thoughts from racing when they try to lay down and go to sleep. So one of the first things that I tell people is it's important to have a sleep routine. And there's a whole section in my book on tips for dealing with depression that goes over sleep routines. You can also find a video on our YouTube channel. But when you have a sleep routine, then you're training your brain to start winding down. Part of a sleep routine is also cutting out caffeine sometime before you try to start winding down. But we need to train our brains to start winding down. Incorporate 30 minutes or an hour of non-work, non-past related activity that can help you get out of the traffic of your mind. So when I go home and I start my wind down routine, I play Scrabble, Words with Friends, whatever you want to call it, on my mobile device. Or I'll watch television and crochet.  I am thinking about something that is relaxing. When you notice your mind start to race, because it occasionally will, write down what you're thinking about on a notepad so you can think about it the next day. If you get caught with a thought and you go, oh, I've got to follow that. Most of the time, you don't have to. You're choosing to. So when that thought comes, write it down because you can handle it tomorrow, most likely. And try to avoid naps. A lot of times, because you're exhausted, because you're not sleeping well, you may want to nap. But naps will disrupt your circadian rhythms. So if you must nap during the day, keep it to 10 to 20 minutes. You don't want to fall into a deep sleep. You don't want your brain to think that it's sleepy time and start making melatonin. So take a brief little power nap, if you will, if you absolutely have to. But ideally, avoid them all together. Train your body that it needs to be up from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. or whatever your schedule is. And then it can sleep during the other hours. For type A's, things always need to be done. They're able to focus intently and block out the rest of reality, calling it getting in their zone. If you're a type A, you're going, yep, that's me. Unfortunately, when somebody dares interrupt the zone, they're usually in for a tongue lashing, which can cause problems in relationships. And I'm guilty of this. When I'm working on something and I'm in my zone and somebody interrupts me, I'm like, ah, really? So I have to kind of check myself. When I used to work in the clinic, if I were going to go into my zone, so to speak, I would shut the door and put a note on it that says, do not disturb. And if it was a true emergency, obviously, they would disturb me. But that let people know that I was kind of going into my focus zone for a little while. When I'm running, when I'm at the gym, I put on my headphones. I have my headphones on to be in my zone. And when people start trying to talk to me, I find it a little annoying. That's my type A. So it's important for me to kind of keep that in check and recognize they're not trying to be rude. Some people don't mind interruptions. So it's important to let people know that you're in your zone and not to be disturbed, however you can. But also, again, like at the gym, some people are very well-meaning and you want to respect that. How can you schedule your in-the-zone times to mesh with the schedules of other people in your household? So when I was working on my dissertation and I like my schedules on the Myers-Briggs, I'm like off the chart on the J section. I love structure. And I had it scheduled. So I was working on my dissertation and doing my schoolwork while my husband was sleeping because he was on night shift. And then when he woke up, I was generally close to being done with my work. Now, if he got up, woke up early, that usually threw a monkey wrench into it, which I didn't handle the best because my schedule said I was working until two. And if I got disturbed before two, I tended to be a little bit cranky. Once I had kids, all of that rigidity kind of flew out the window. For type A's, doing things efficiently is their first priority, spending as little time, getting as much quality work done as humanly possible. Well, efficiency is great. I love being efficient. When I take over new programs, I always look for more efficient ways to do things. But when you're so busy being efficient, you often miss a lot of things. What happens if you took a more relaxed pace? So for example, when I'm driving home from work or to work, if I'm being efficient, I can be returning phone calls or thinking about what I need to get done that day and making my little mental list of what needs to be done. And I can be very, very occupied, but I miss a lot of things. I miss the birds on the power line and the sunrises and all that kind of stuff. So what would happen if you took a more relaxed pace? For me, there are no negative consequences. If I take a more relaxed pace and just say, you know what, during my time on the drive to the office and from the office, that is my time to connect spiritually with my higher power. And that's what I do. And it's a little bit slower. Yes, I'm still multitasking. I'm driving and connecting. But I am taking stock of the things that are going well and doing that sort of thing. And it feels more relaxed to me. What things do you miss when you're multitasking and trying to be as efficient as possible? You know, think about your kids growing up. It's so easy to miss things because they grow so quickly. So if you are too busy being efficient in other areas of your life, you may miss things that you can't ever get back. Type A's are perfectionists. It's not that they're trying to be perfect, but blemishes, mistakes and inconsistencies frustrate them and they find them ugly and appalling. Okay, so what does it mean if you're not perfect? I know when I go through the first book that I published, I still can go through and find the occasional typographical error. And it just kind of is like fingernails down a blackboard to me. It is what it is and it's out there. What does it mean that I'm not perfect? Well, in reality, it means that I'm human because none of us is perfect. So we wanna really look at why do we feel as Type A people we have to be perfect? What happens if we're not? How do we feel as Type A people about other people who aren't perfect?  That means you accept them as human and you may get frustrated with them occasionally but do you love them any less? Does it make them any less wonderful of a person? Hopefully not. We also need to remember as perfectionist there is a point of diminishing returns. The difference between an A and an A plus on a paper isn't gonna make a difference in your GPA most of the time. Some things you want to be completely perfect when I do woodworking, which is why I don't do woodworking, honestly because it needs to be perfect. That's also why I don't paint. My grandfather was a professional painter and he always taught me that you have to have crisp lines and I can't do crisp lines to save my life. So I just don't even do it. There's a point of diminishing returns, worrying about getting the line perfectly crisp or getting the spaghetti sauce to taste exactly perfect, you know? There are gonna be some varieties, there's some variation but you know what, that's okay because a lot of times the time you spend getting something from really awesome to perfect, there's, it takes a lot of time and energy and the reward for that amount of time and energy is negligible if it even exists. It's a lot of times the reward is only in your own head. So you only have so much time. Continue to ask yourself when you start thinking I need to re-proof this report for the seventh time, is it worth it? Is anything you find at this point going to make a significant enough difference that it's gonna have an impact? And the chances are you're gonna say no. So once you've done a good job and you feel proud about your work, be willing to let it go even if it's not perfect. Cause remember the person who graduates medical school with a C average is still called doctor. Think on that for a minute. Type A's make plans. We make lots of plans. We love to plan. Unfortunately making plans isn't always efficient because it takes a lot of time to create plans and often even the best laid plans need to be adjusted or just totally scrapped. So all that time you spent making the plans out the window. Since type A is like plans and structure when things don't go as planned it greatly increases their stress. If you're a type A, you're saying yep. Yeah, that's how I feel. So before doing something, think about what you want the end goal to be. And I'm gonna use a sports metaphor here. You know, when a football team goes out to play the end goal is they want to win. And they may have a plan for how they're gonna do it. How they're going to manage their defense. What they're gonna do in their offense. If they're gonna do a running game or a passing game. And that's their plan going into it. But then they get into the game and they realize our plans aren't working. So then they have to metaphorically drop back and punt. They have to change their strategy cause they want to win the game. But at this point doing it the way they've been doing it isn't working. So they need to adjust. Getting upset because that beautiful plan you had laid out isn't working just drains your energy. There's no function to it. Use that energy to figure out, okay. I still want to win the game. So what do I need to do to get us back on the right track to improve the next moment? So let those plans go. Don't be insistent on holding on to them with white knuckles. Be willing to let them go and say, okay. Well, let's try something new. Type A's have a tendency to cut others off in conversation. Not to be rude, but to be right. What's the point of letting somebody yammer on with some nonsense when you can just tell them the way it really is and then you can both move on with your lives, right? Well, no, wrong. It's important for type A's to practice active listening. We need to slow down cause remember that efficiency thing? We want to go fast. We want to get to the point, get the conversation over with, move on to the next topic. We need to slow down. We need to practice active listening. So we hear everything the person says before we start formulating a response. That's really hard for a lot of type A people to do, but we need to practice. We need to try to think while we're listening instead of what our response is, we need to try to think about how could they also be right? Maybe they have a different way of doing it or a different point of view, but how could they also be right from their point of view? Remember, assertive communication means recognizing that everyone's thoughts and feelings can be valid. So maybe you're talking about some scientific study and finding. And you have very solid beliefs one way about this scientific finding. And somebody else is talking in a way and has a belief that's contradictory. They say, no, it has to be this way. How can you both be right? Well, one way to think about it is what research do you both have? Maybe that person read different articles than you did. So the research that you were reading, both of you got the important points of it and it's a matter of figuring out how that research fits together. Type A's always have a plan for the worst case scenario, it's a necessity.  Losing your job, your dog getting run over by a car, cancer, Armageddon, Type A's, we've got plans for that. So as Type A's, we need to practice mindfulness. We need to focus on what we have in the present, not all the things that could go wrong. So instead of worrying about Armageddon, it could happen, be happy with what we have right now. Instead of worrying about if a tornado is gonna come during the next tornado season, be happy with what we have right now and make sure we've got a plan in place. Identify which parts we have control over. So if we're worried about Armageddon or EMPs or whatever. Okay, so do you have supplies that could help you survive for two weeks or a month if for some reason all the power everywhere went out? Whatever you're thinking. Okay, that part you have control over. You can't control whether it happens or not, but you can control whether you're prepared for it. Use your energy purposefully to protect and care for what's most important to you. And then once you've done your part, it's up to the powers that be. So in our house, cause we live in Tornado Alley, we have a plan. We know where we go during a tornado warning. We know who we're gonna take down there. We've gotta corral all the animals and get everybody in there. We know what supplies we need to have in there. And then after that, we just have to turn it over and be okay with whatever happens. Type A's walk fast and with a purpose, doing all they can to avoid lines of any sort. To them, walking is getting from point A to point B in order to do what needs to be done at point B as soon as possible and as efficiently as possible. So they can move on to point C. We don't see an end, we just see stops along the way. It's important for type A's to slow down. When you're walking, focus your senses to notice what's going on around you.  Do you see cute squirrels playing tag or feel a cool breeze on your skin? What is it that makes you happy? You know, those things are what make me happy. I love watching squirrels. And I love the smell of spring. I love opening my windows after a long winter and smelling that crisp air. One song by George Strait says, it isn't about the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away. So just kind of sit with that for a minute. We can take a lot of breaths, we can do a lot of stuff. But if we don't feel a sense of awe and wonder and just have our breath taken away occasionally, at the end of the road, we may start going, well, what was the point? Why did I keep doing that? Because it wasn't bringing me joy. There's always gonna be more stuff on your to-do list. So realistically, think about in what ways will slowing down cause you harm? And I think you're gonna be hard-pressed to figure out a lot of ways. Realistically, most of us, type A people, could slow down and there wouldn't be significant harm. Now, does that mean sitting on the couch for weeks on end? No. But we can slow down one day a week. We can take time when we're walking to our car to appreciate what's going on. We can take time, for example, when I pick my kids up from Martial Arts to hang out and talk with my friends who are the other parents instead of going, okay, everybody in the car, chop, chop, we need to get home, we got stuff to do. Yes, we've got stuff to do. But if I take 15 minutes to talk with a friend, that's gonna make me feel happy. And that's gonna be one of those moments that takes my breath away, so to speak. More so than making sure that we get home 15 minutes sooner to put the animals away. To overcome the type A time management style, people have to first look for the motivations behind their behavior. Why do we feel we have to be super human or perfect? Who's saying that you need to be perfect, that you need to do more, that you need to? A lot of times it's coming from our own head. Sometimes it may come from people from our past that held us to this high standard, but most of the time, it's self-imposed. Oftentimes, we're seeking approval from somebody, maybe your parents or you're trying to prove somebody in your past who said you would never amount to anything, you're trying to prove them wrong. Or we may be running from some other source of anxiety or frustration. We may be afraid that people will reject us and abandon us if we're not perfect. So the next step in dealing with, living with a type A personality, is to begin dealing with the fears and anxiety underlying the hostility. So when things don't go our way, when we're not completely in control, we may start feeling, fearing rejection. If we're not doing everything all the time, we may start feeling rejection. Why is that scary? And then looking at who accepts us and do we accept ourselves? Because a lot of times again, we are the ones rejecting ourselves and saying, well, you should be doing this. Take that word should out of your vocabulary. We may feel fear failure. So developing a love relationship with failure, embracing it as an opportunity to learn and not fearing rejection if we fail. Think about all your friends. Have they failed at things? Do you reject them because they failed at things? No, sometimes you will fail and get rejected. If you have a bad job interview or you apply for a job and you do poorly at it, you may not get the job. But is that job crucial and pivotal in your life? That one particular job? Yeah, we need to have a job. But maybe that one job was not a good fit for you. Who else do you have and what else do you have in your life that shows that you succeeded at things and that you're accepted? And why do you fear the unknown and loss of control? Why do you have to hold on to everything so tightly all the time? What happens if you let other people take charge?  Okay, it's reasonable to be cautious. So, slowly develop trust where you can delegate things to people and be willing to accept a little bit of ambiguity because sometimes it produces unexpected awesome results. I hope you enjoyed this podcast and I will talk to you next week. Thanks for tuning into Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. Our mission is to make practical tools for living the happiest life, affordable and accessible to everyone. We record the podcast during a Facebook live broadcast each week. Join us free at docsnipes.com slash Facebook or subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast player. And remember docsnipes.com has even more resources, members only videos, handouts and workbooks to help you apply what you learn. If you like this podcast and want to support the work we are doing for as little as 399 per month, you can become a supporter at docsnipes.com slash join. Again, thank you for joining us and let us know how we can help you.


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My name is Natalie Justice. I am a facial plastic surgeon in the Department of Otolaryngology. I'm an assistant professor here at University of Maryland. I take care of a wide variety of different types of patients. I do both plastic and reconstructive procedures, although here I do majority reconstructive procedures.  I do rhinoplasties and other nasal reconstructions. I take some facial trauma call here at Shock Trauma. So I do all different types of midface and mandible and other fractures. And then just a variety of different lumps, bumps, scars, things that help people feel better. I want my patients to understand their options. I want them to feel comfortable that they're making the right decision for themselves. And I want them to feel like I have their best interests at heart.


The Great Search, brought to you by Digikey and Ada Frut. Lady Ada uses her power of engineering. She'll be able to find the things you need on digikey.com. Every single lady Ada wants a great search this week. OK. This week, I saw this person. They have a GPU board, and they have some damaged connectors. And they're like, I need to find this six-pin terminal, this power connector. Looks like something kind of went wrong with their power connection, but that's OK. Let's take a closer look at this. And then somebody's like, Digikey probably has it, but it's hard to search it. Well, we're going to find it for you. So let's open this up in a new tab so we can really zoom in. Too much zoom. Enhance. So this isn't interesting, because last week, we showed how to search for a connector that we had on hand and we used calipers to measure the pitch and the sizing and everything. This time we're going to do a connector, a power connector match, but we're going to do it by photo. So the one thing we notice is that this is 2 by 3, and it's a right angle connector. And you see that there's these little notches here, but not on this one. This is a keyed connector. Not only is there a notch here, but there is a key here, but there's notches on the contacts themselves. But these are pins. And one thing we don't know what the pitch is. However, this looks like 0.1 inch. So this is like 0.16, 0.2, like 3.5 millimeter. It's not 0.1. It's bigger than 0.1. I can tell you that. It's not like 0.3. It's somewhere in between. So we don't know that. But I think based on this, we can figure out what the connector is. So let's go to the key and let's search for, it's not technically a pin header, but it'll get us to the rectangular connector's zone. So we want a rectangular connector. And there's similar stuff here. So we know we're in the right zone. It's this right angle connector. So let's do the things that we do know for sure. So one, we know there's two rows. And we know that there are six total positions, two by three. And let's just go with active because we want something that you can buy now that's compatible. All right. So it took us for a half a million down to at least 9,000 point search. And then positions loaded. I'm going to guess all of them. I can't really see. But I'm going to guess that all positions are loaded. So I'm going to select six dash and all to make sure that I get all of them. And then, OK, yeah, we're getting close. But these are all straight connectors. We want right angle. So let's look for that next. So panel mount, no. Board straddle, no. Through hole, right angle. That's what we want. We want coming out the side. So let's apply now we're down to 1,600. OK, now we're not actually kind of, this looks pretty, this won't actually be it. But let's even get a little closer even. So next up, we want to get that pitch. So again, we don't know what the pitch is exactly. But it's more than 0.1 inch. And it's less than 0.3. So it's like this. It's between 0.1 and 2. Maybe I'll say 2 as well. So like that. OK, so let's apply this. Next, we can do some things like we can do the insulation color, which is like clear or white or transparent, not beige or black or blue. So I'd say natural or white. See if that helps. And then row spacing is also going to be not 0.1. It's definitely bigger than 0.1. OK, so now we're down to like 60 options. So that's really good. We really, we really cut it down. Fastening type, I don't know, ramp, glow wire. OK, so let's look at our options. OK, so like I said, some things are like very, very familiar. So it looks like this is actually kind of a generic connector because it looks like this and this have that same. You know what I'm looking for is that like square and then notched contact. See, it's like notched, square, square, square, notched, notched. So it looks like there's actually a couple different options. Some of these have board locks, which I can't see. I'm going to assume that there's no board locking. Like the board lock is that pin in the middle that plugs into the into the board. I don't see that here, so I can't guess on whether it has it or not. Locking, ramp, contact shape. Yeah, these say board lock. And this one, sorry, which board lock? I mean, if you have board lock, you know, great. But I don't I don't know that we do. I'm going to say let's not get a board lock. So no no extra features. And then, you know, I think that these two are definitely going to these look pretty good to me. So this T.E. connector, you know, it's got it's got all the the details looking correctly. Look like there's a couple options as well. Use some nicer photos of it. But yeah, I think that this is this wire character is probably it. Looks good up to 600 up to nine amps. So that's, you know, makes sense. It's a power connector. All right, cool. Well, I think that this is going to be my pick. So if you have a GPU board and you actually cut it on fire, good news for about 60, 50 cents, 60 cents, you can fix it yourself using a little solder and maybe some diagonal cutters. Check it out. So my pick for the great search. I was going to search.


There Why made oh the blind grenade the S-Fans Invitational I'm calling it the S-Fan Invitational because it sounds better than open even though it's technically an open will begin shortly once I go to the bathroom and come back Look, I gotta look at my consumes. Okay consumes in game consumes in real Wait, wait, what? What? How did you Greg a list? What what what I'm going to the bathroom Report him no What okay send me that macro Greg a list send me the macro just give it to me on discord I don't know how you figure that out, but send me the macro here's what we're going to do chat Wow, there's a lot of people lined up here for Shadowlands beta keys I have approximately 1 million beta keys available. Yes 1 million. Okay, so let me explain the rules Okay, this is typical backyard. Okay backyard dueling rules. What does that mean? That means? You don't have your world buffs. Okay, we're going no world buffs no buffs from anybody else no potions like No health pots no mana pots no faps or lips No faps no lips. Hey, I'm sorry. Okay.  If you're paladin you can land hands no pre totems. Yeah, sure no pre totems This will tears a road requirement. This will team my nuts. Okay, no keyboard no mouse. Okay. Yeah You can't use your keyboard. You can't use your mouse.  Okay, here we go first duel chat. Oh God Can he do it can Thomas the tank engine miss?   Thank you, dude. Am I making it up? Who's that? He's got the spinal reaper. I got the last stick of the deep wounds Good dual will be good dual dual sir. We have another warrior here. Hmm. Let's do this actually Okay, let's go any Dodgers any Dodgers No crits yet the life-giving gem Is that a health pot or a life-giving gem? Great, but no this will tea. Hey, how about it's my beta keys and I say what I want to say It's my rules my beta keys my rules. Here's that here's the actual real reason behind it It's because it is a cooking thing for rogues only right It's a benefit that only rogues can get from cooking whereas engineering is something that everybody can get and engineering is designed in a Way to be able to fill the gaps in your class just like despite whatever class you play right the frickin tank warriors Okay, you know what this might have to be the battle of thunderfuries Phase to 16 damage the hell is that 22 damage actual tank One come on.  What a frickin beast military grade tank guys good dual dude Okay, this will be a good test here because look my hit chance isn't seven percent. It should be okay Mortal strike seven six five four Three oh retail. Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna I should have stepped out first Good do a good little rag on I should have tongueed out the mortal strike better hunters hunters very difficult He's gonna be a very tough one chat ranked 14 hunter moonshine. Let me make sure this gear is right We're gonna try for the best. I would say my hardest matchups. Druid hunter mage Good do I got lucky with the crits and I didn't miss at all Usually it's hundreds avoidance is usually what gets me good. Do I'm very good. Do I got lucky there Which honestly like kind of who cares, right? If you're if anybody is not completing a raid in classic wow Because it was close Okay, so I'm gonna heal Then I break that out.  Who's that? Oh? Oh, I'm not swinging I'm on the ropes Chat this might be the first one miss.  Oh good. Oh, I had to dude I had to lay on hands of the mortal strike on me, which is like that's the key dude And good warriors are so tough dude. Yeah, well, yeah, dude Well, you did really good at having like if mortal strike stays up like my lay on hands Isn't even as good as a life-giving gem if you have a mortal strike on me. Thank you, Billy I gotta be smart Sammy threes tux became a next fan lock out good dual sir. Okay, let's go Very oh, oh, that's scary. There's a lot of damage. Oh the sapper Good do actually very good do a very good do a very good do so he's sappered there XT sappered there.  Yeah, it actually doesn't make sense. There's so many you think you'll lose too I mean, I'm doing people. I thought I was too hunter mage dread. I'm just I'm just doing people as they come up Did Gregorus is popping off with a one-hander dodge Dodge duck dive dip diving dodge the cooldowns Okay, hold on that was my fault because that was my fault. We're not gonna redo. It's fine. I should have had the right the right one Is this it? Did I make a great mistake chat? I did good dual Gregorus good dual good dual Gregorus I forgot to switch characters good dual very good dual. Yeah, I didn't have my I didn't have my good bubble That's my fault here Gregorus message me on discord. We're gonna get something special. I give them a shadowlands beta key We got a rogue hands up the rogue chat. You ready? Hands up the road.  How come I can do like how to help in damage while he's feared and it doesn't break We're gonna do a boom-boom. Okay chat. Am I gonna get one shot here chat? What if you think I'm gonna get if you think I'm gonna get one shot do you guys the rules? Here we go What shot? I was trying to type it out to the last second All right, boom-boom. Hey boom-boom message me on discord. That was hilarious. I was trying to wait to the last second That's hilarious. I just love how like the way elemental mastery works the reason why shamans are broken isn't just like natural It's because they get one of their talents is twice as strong They get two guaranteed crits so he ends up getting a guaranteed like he did 4k damage to me like guaranteed Because all I have to do is he hits his cooldown. It's two guaranteed crits So that that's what makes them like they're strong on their own But what makes them like ridiculous is that but I was just waiting till the last second I should have just been smart about it. I guess like bold early Is it too late to start classic? No Resist the stun. Oh, no, I resist of the freaking reflector, dude Resist again. Oh Please I need a big damage. Give me a big damage. Please please. Oh So close. Oh, that was so scary. Good. Dole a second. Oh, so scary undead mage pre I gotta play that you just copy over. I think this one's over chat And it's a rip It's a rip chat quick good dole very good dole very good dole free message me on the discord I'll give you a beta key. Okay. Very good. This is a really good dole This guy's good. I'm gonna try to make became an S fan. He has like he has the same gear I do do accept better weapon. I do have a hundred for you though X1 Mac 1x invested 300 red coin into the stream have you considered the repercussions of playing borders get you have too much hair One thing the universe could be destroyed by the paradox. That's not what the Baldur's gate is daddy It's the way on hands good play Okay, I'm hoping for this kind of man a battle, okay, so I'm gonna try not to attack as much as possible and I Should have but I got no land hands. He does come on Please I need to see like a mad block I didn't have the hands up good. Dole. I just need a little bit more damn it. I barely miss it. Good. Dole very good. Dole, sir


All right, what's up everybody here? We just sold out this bowman platinum Baseball blaster one box break random teams number eight guys and again Give it away six spots in our Jaspie repack MLB dual case break and tonight only guys really really good deal Give away ten free spots in this filler. So instead of something 30.  We're gonna give away at the end So we'll randomize the names first pasting the ten winners And I'll do the names and the teams for the break and at the end we'll have the original list of the winners We'll randomize that at the end and we'll give away those spots in the repack guys So let's roll up Three hundred four seven times. Good luck. One two three four five six seven So seven times seven Eugene Allen Eugene Allen Eugene Allen And actually it's been all my to Allen Eugene Allen at to a Eugene Nicole There you go Action-free spots for you guys One two three four five six seven eight nine Ten all right seven times here now one two three four five six seven Allen down to Allen seven here one two three four five six Angels down the Marlins. All right, so there's your names guys for the break There were no trading a little blaster So I'll let you see your teams really quick. Let's do the filler here Guys, let's see what we got here Lindor we got a Corbin Kerr-Ricky reowned Judge we got a rally green. All right. There we go guys Now let's switch scenes and let's do the giveaway Which of course is Six spots in the repack guys roll it four hundred three seven times One two three four five six and seven Seven times seven seven and I believe it's gonna be top six, right?  Thank you


Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video, I am going to share with you how to make this easy detox lentil soup. Wait till you taste it. It is absolutely delicious, full of flavor and very hearty and also very light at the same time. It's great for the winter, perfect for one of those cold days where you just want something warm in your belly. I'm gonna show you step-by-step how to make this recipe and I'll be sure to list all the ingredients and the amounts for this recipe down in the description box below this video. But look how beautiful the ingredients are. They are exceptionally clean and good for the healing process. So let's get started on making this beautiful soup. So I've got my trusty 360 cookware. This is my soup stock pot. I absolutely love it. If you haven't taken a look at the 360 cookware yet, you really should. I have a link down in the description box where you can get a 25% off discount for this cookware. The discount code is WCE25 and I will also link two videos that I did reviewing this cookware. So we're gonna start off by adding the water to the pot and then we're gonna start adding the vegetables so we can get them going. We're gonna start off with the onions. I used yellow onions, but you can use red onions, white onions, whatever kind of onions you want or whatever you have on hand. So I am a garlic lover. So this is about six cloves of garlic. You can use less, you can leave it out. You can use more. I absolutely love garlic and sometimes I will over garlic my food, but that's okay. So next I'm going to add the carrots. I love carrots. If you're not a carrot fan, you can pick whatever other vegetable you want for this dish. So next we're gonna add the vegetable stock. What you want is either a vegetable broth or a vegetable stock, but make sure it's clean and it doesn't have any junk in it. So that means read the ingredients label.  You just might have to increase your seasonings for the soup. And then next what we're going to do is add our rinsed lentils. And you can use whatever lentils you have on hand. I just chose the red lentils because I felt like it would be the prettiest in the soup, but if you have brown lentils, green lentils, whatever you want to use, feel free. And then you want to stir the vegetable mixture, make sure the lentils are all broken up and spread throughout the pot.  Okay, so we've got this up to a simmer so those lentils can cook. And then I'm adding my zucchini squash. You can use whatever kind of vegetable you would like. I'm sorry about the condensation on the camera, but I'm doing the best that I can. So next we're going to add the butternut squash. I love butternut squash. This is I think what makes this soup feel hearty. So next we're going to add our herbs and spices and the list of what you should put in this soup is down below. But if you want to increase the spices, feel free to do it, do it to your taste. I also added some lemon juice. The lemon juice just pulls all the flavors together. And then stir and make sure that you get the spices and the lemon juice well combined in the soup. Then put the lid on the soup and let it simmer for as long as it takes for your lentils to get soft, which for me was about 10 minutes. So I added the broccoli and I forgot to record that part. So add your broccoli and then take your immersion blender and start blending this chunks in the soup. And what this does is it makes the soup nice and creamy. And you also want to fish out that bay leaf. And I actually forgot to do that. But you don't want to keep the bay leaf in the soup. So blend, blend, blend until it's the consistency in which you like. And if you don't have an immersion blender, all you do is just take part of the soup and put it in your actual blender, blend it up and then add it back to the pot. So any chance I get to add greens, you know I'm going to add them. So I just took a huge handful of greens and added them to the soup. And what I'm going to do is just stir them in to the soup until they wilt. And that gives me a chance to get some greens in for the day. And all you have to do is just stir them in until they're well combined. At this point, you can turn the heat off because the soup is definitely done and the heat from the soup being hot is what will wilt down the spinach. And if you don't like spinach, use kale, use chard, use collard greens, use whatever greens you like. And if you don't want greens in the soup, you don't have to use them at all. So now for the garnish, those lemon slices. Oh my goodness, they added so much flavor to the soup. I don't think I've ever done this before, but I'm going to start doing it because it just pulls all the flavors together. I really wonder what this would taste like if I used lime instead of lemon. One day I'm going to try that. So there you have it, this beautiful, easy detox lentil soup. Just serve yourself up a big, huge bowl of this. This pot makes four huge servings. So you don't have to feel like you're being deprived by eating this way because you can eat as much as you want. I hope you enjoyed this video. If no one told you that they love you today, Chelsea in North Carolina loves you very much, and I will talk to you all soon. Lots of love.


Hi everyone and welcome to Guide Dogs Victoria's very first International Guide Dog Day virtual award presentation. Really a sign of the times in terms of what we're living with right now and I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are coping as best you can during this COVID-19 pandemic. In these unprecedented and challenging times I believe we could have been forgiven for letting International Guide Dog Day pass without notice or fanfare and I certainly acknowledge that there are many people out there who are dealing with tremendous anxiety or even great loss at the moment who may not feel that there is much to celebrate. That's why I guess I felt it was very important that we do celebrate what we can, when we can and to allow joyful moments to brighten those otherwise dark days. Moreover that we also take the opportunity to honour those who ensure that the most vulnerable members of our community are supported in the good times and in times of crisis just like we're dealing with right now. And on International Guide Dogs they want better place to start than with our extraordinary beautiful guide dogs whose boundless love, intelligence and companionship contribute to the lives of so many people every day. Of course our guide dogs wouldn't be the incredible animals that they are without the support of our community and people just like yourselves which brings me to our very first award for the year the independence award for 2020 and as in previous years there are two independence awards one for a volunteer to Guide Dogs Victoria and one for one of our valued employees. This is to recognise their outstanding contribution to Guide Dogs Victoria and this year I'm thrilled to announce that the independence award for 2020 for our volunteer will go to Val Riseborough.  There's absolutely no doubt Val is an integral part of the Guide Dogs Victoria family and the lives of our precious pups and our wonderful clients. Congratulations Val and thank you for everything that you do for Guide Dogs Victoria. Our second independence award goes to Guide Dogs Victoria Orientation and Mobility Instructor Jenny Black. Congratulations Jenny such a well-deserved award as well. For over 30 years Jenny has worked with clients of all ages to find the right tools to help them independently and safely navigate their way through their environment and has led the way in developing best practice programs to support clients with low vision or blindness particularly related to those people with an acquired brain injury. You know I believe one of Jenny's magnificent clients said it the best of all attributing a large part of her recovery from an acquired brain injury to Jenny's support and care. This amazing woman now refers to Jenny quite simply as an angel. Congratulations Jenny, thank you so much for all that you've done over the 30 years with Guide Dogs Victoria not only with our clients but also the contribution that you've made to our wonderful organization. Next we have our Freedom Award and this award is in recognition of providing an outstanding contribution to Guide Dogs Victoria. This year's award is awarded to Richie's Stores. Since they're in section of the Community Benefit Program in 1993 the strength of the Richie's brand and the generosity of the Richie's community has funded the training for 12 of our puppies to become skilled Guide Dogs. The independence and companionship that these splendid dogs have gone on to provide for 12 of our clients is truly priceless. I'd also like to take the opportunity to wish the team at Richie's a very happy 50th birthday on behalf of all of us here at Guide Dogs Victoria. What a monumental milestone that is. So congratulations Richie's. Thank you so much for everything that you've done for Guide Dogs Victoria over many many years together with the contribution that you make more broadly to the broader community. Thank you Richie's for all that you do. Our next award recognises those who enhance independent outcomes for people who are blind or living with low vision. The Inspiration Award goes to a wonderful organisation the Shine On Foundation. Over the past four years the foundation has supported numerous Guide Dogs Victoria programs. These include the establishment of our social enterprise dialogue in the dark, the orientation of mobility graduate scholarship program, many of our children's mobility camps and most recently the establishment of Guide Dogs Victoria's early childhood intervention service. A program that we've been wanting to get off the ground for such a long time but we really needed to raise the funds to be able to do that. Now because of the Shine On Foundation this program will become a reality to support these children and their families. In addition to this the Shine On team are also very very proud puppy sponsors having supported the journeys of five of our splendid dogs. Huge thank you to everybody at the Shine On Foundation. We enjoy a wonderful partnership with you with you all. We look forward to continuing that partnership and to making a difference in the lives of so many people that you do. And last but by no means least the winners of the Community Access Award for 2020. Recognising those who go above and beyond in access, inclusion and customer service for people with low vision or blindness. This year's award goes to the Culture Group. In 2019 after a two year run our social enterprise dialogue in the dark season ended under the guidance of Guide Dogs Victoria. And you know without hesitation the Culture Group stepped in and employed most of the dialogue in the dark guides all of whom are blind or have low vision as well as most are valued clients of Guide Dogs Victoria. You know this is just one example of the Culture Group's generosity of spirit that all stems from the huge heartedness of company directors Nadine Castle and Joe Anagrat Gason. Huge thank you Nadine, Joe and the rest of the Culture Group team. Really appreciate everything you've done and particularly that the dialogue in the dark enterprise continues to deliver a great service to the community thanks to your work. That brings us to the end of the 2020 International Guide Dog Day virtual awards. I am so very very proud to call all of our award recipients a part of the Guide Dogs Victoria family as well as all of you who are tuned in today to help us honour them. Without your ongoing support we absolutely would not be able to continue to do the work that we do and make the difference in the lives of the thousands of people that we do every year. But as I close off I'm reminded of the wonderful lessons that we can learn from our beautiful Guide Dogs. Our Guide Dogs are taught to be present in the present to only focus on the immediate task at hand and to not get distracted. Our Guide Dogs sets the behaviours the feelings and the energy of those around them and lean in when comfort is needed. For a dog every morning is the start of an absolutely wonderful day and every walk of course is the very best walk. Every meal of course is the very best meal and every interaction with the ones they love is the absolutely best interaction. So I'd ask you all to learn from the from the behaviours of our beautiful dogs and rejoice at this time in life's simplest moments by taking time to celebrate the many simple gifts that can be found in our daily lives even in the darkest of times. I know that we can get through any challenge life can may deliver. Thank you all again these are very trying times but I wholeheartedly believe we have the opportunity to gain some valuable insights from the weeks and the months ahead. I'm confident that by banding together we will all emerge from these uncertain times stronger, wiser and ready to take on what I'm absolutely sure will be a very exciting and very rewarding future for all of us. So I'll ask you all as I close to stay safe, take care of yourselves and of those around you and know that Guide to Victoria will be here supporting our community every step of the way just like we have for the last 62 years and we will well into the future. My best wishes to you all, all please take care.


Weight loss and low carb does not need to be complicated nor does it mean need a million books Programs manuals and diet plans. Let's talk about it Hey there njroot22.com here again with another low carb keto carnivore chat It's a little bit repetitive from last week But I need to say it again, you know, you don't have to make your diet Complicated simple do not raise your blood sugar. That's why we drink low carb alcohol We some of our previous broad blogs Vlogs to understand that you know, we don't really think alcohol makes a difference anymore. We tried Quitting we tried drinking like nothing nothing made sense I think just a little moderate physical activity if you don't feel like going to the gym Getting out and moving your body is all you need along with your low-carb keto I forget keto low carb or carnivore diet and a Lot of things that have you know, we talked about last week We talked about our 10 year then and now and all the things that that We talked about saying you know all you can have a little bit of sugar and You know, don't don't spike your blood sugar and like I remember some of the earlier books I read so it don't eat more than 50 grams of carbs per meal. Holy crap Maybe you know 150 grams of carbs a day for somebody who's like insanely Active I'm talking insanely active like somebody who runs for a living or something like that That's just way too much Our personal experience based on our body weight, which is you know around 200 pounds is much less than that's usually Under 20 grams per sitting probably even less than that under 10 single-digit carbs usually And I'm telling you it doesn't matter even if I eat 10 grams in and if I eat a meal 20 grams of carbs for some reason I'm absolutely guaranteed. I notice the hunger more than when I just eat plain meat or zero absolute zero net Not even net carbs just zero carbs no fake sugars or whatever those things are fiber fiber makes me feel funny, too Don't fibers overrated look that up Yeah, and and those breads pastas and fruits It they just man you can feel it when you've been zero carb for a long time You feel it it's like injecting like morphin like like adrenaline in somebody's body. It's really crazy but one thing That's that's getting me a little bit these days is fruits So I remember there was I was zero car for like six straight months and I tried an apple half an apple I we went some apple picking place and like I'll let me let me have this for the experience my heart like beat out of my chest and That's stuck with me because Nowadays we have three young kids and when you give them apples It's not even like crackers or candy like we don't give them any of that stuff too much One small trial-size Milky Way at at Halloween and nothing really bad happens when you give them apples like you tend to over give them apples One kid made a whole apple and I swear that it it goes it makes them nuts. They turn into little maniacs and It's like Dr. Frankenstein, you know, it's like oh my creation has come alive except it's not good And that's just based on personal experience and I you can witness it it happens every time you give them an apple They go nuts. Why is that?  I remember I did that the first couple weeks of my low carb ten years ago I'm like, oh man.  It won't take too much from it But you'll see I mean you want you experiment and you realize what works and you can repeat that experiment with success It's it's amazing, but I Need to elaborate here a little bit that I'm talking about don't raise your blood sugar and that's so simple If you can follow it, I mean a human nature is that you will Wanted to to you know bring back your old foods and and you're gonna make mistakes And I think it's kind of okay to make mistakes You almost need to make mistakes. So you get like your own data not just data you read you get physical data It's like your own computer database inside your body in your brain. I don't know I think when you experience failure and you can correct it and you want to correct it on your own It lasts a lot longer than reading in the book and following it because it's hardcore at that point It's a rock solid. So if you have any questions this email is njrude22 at gmail.com or comment in the in the Comment section here on YouTube or go to my blog njrude22.com And that's it if you liked the video hit the bell the subscribe and all that nonsense and I'll see you next video


పఫ్బినిక్న్నిష్మికేరిగతిస్నాంిసికే. పనంచతి తికిమివినిసి- పనినాంటూటడిక్న, దినిన్నిషినిక్నినినిసి. What is your score on this? And what can you advise? Look, if you want to rate the UPN government, you have to say to yourself, what did they promise? I mean the best guy that we have ever had so far in this country is a kid. Because he himself said things voluntarily. So nobody is misquoting him. So he is a very nice guy to that extent to evaluate. He said, when I win the election and I am sworn in, the same day the quarter is going to appreciate. So let's start by giving him that score. He won the election. He was sworn in six months down the road. He found the quarter at fifteen, six months down the road. The quarter is in the neighborhood of 18 to a dollar or 19. So what is the score? Zero out of five. Here is a man who said, I am going to give bazaris to all tertiary students, colleges and universities. Again, he himself went to the University of Zambia and told the students, when I come into government, make sure that I give you bazaris. How do you rate him out of five? Zero out of five. He hasn't delivered. Here is a man who said to the Zambian people, there is going to be free education from primary school to the university. Again, going on this previous point that I made, zero out of five. He hasn't delivered. What he has delivered is segmented free education. So let me finish. So if you are vulnerable, you will be given a bazari. If you are not vulnerable, you won't be given a bazari. The man can even go to the Vatican to try to lecture Pope Francis on free education. Forgetting that the Catholics have been running free schools on the principle of free education in this country for years. And they understand the definition of free education. And the man flies all the way from here to Brazil, from Brazil to Rome and says to Pope Francis, let me tell you the free education that he has put in place in Zambia.  And when he walked away, they must have said to themselves, oh my God, what has Zambia landed itself in? The man is taking small definitions to the Vatican. Which institution in this world would match the Vatican in terms of running schools, in terms of free education? None. Not even Denmark, not even the Scandinavian countries. So again, zero out of five. Okay? Fight against corruption, zero out of five. Few prices, zero out of five. Where a church has scored is in the administrative arena. And I'll tell you what I mean by that in the administrative arena. Paying off retirees, that's not a policy issue. That's a demonstration. That's what we call it. It's a demonstration. You don't even have to think.  You don't even need to be intelligent. You don't even need to be an economist to know that the exe worked for this money and they must be paid. Now the question on that one people may say they, he has scored and the government has scored. It's administrative. Yes. But still you have to say there's the government. Why was it that the previous government did not utilize... The administration was bad. The administration was bad. Because this is about managing the contributions of workers and the contributions of employers. So the administration in the past was bad. But this is not a policy issue. That's a distinction I'm creating. This is not a policy issue. Okay. It's not a policy issue and it is administrative. We have an administrative question here which has been in my mind. And I wanted to hear it from you. What are your comments on the creation of four positions of permanent secretary special duties which is also administrative? You know that to be honest with you is more embarrassing than anything else. Okay. I worked myself in local government for many years. I worked in the open civil service when I became minister. I remember very well. I'd already started working during the Unipi days. I have never heard of a position of permanent secretary special duties at the cabinet office. It's the first time that I'm hearing of this position. Okay. Special duties. There are no special duties to be performed at cabinet office because every position at cabinet office has a job description. Every position at cabinet office has a job description. Okay. So if every job has a job description at cabinet office what is the job description of a PS in charge of special duties? What is the job description of a PS for special duties? Certainly none. So all that is happening is that against the criticism we had against the PAF that PAF was running a bloated civil service he is doing exactly the same if not worse by simply looking at faces of the people that he likes and offering them jobs. Even when those jobs are not even there to perform there is nothing. Two days ago, if I may extend this argument I saw his press assistant appearing on some TV channel being interviewed and making policy statements that's not the job of special assistant for press. Okay. All that if you are experienced in government just shows you that this is confusion at its most. I worked myself, I was already in local government myself and I saw that KK is the press assistant you know he was a press assistant nothing at all was a press assistant a doctor the lead from the investment was a press assistant their job was not to go out and issue policy statements to be interviewed on policy that's the job of a minister so there is a lot of things that are going wrong by HH he thinks that is how government is run it is not run like that and there is only one way chico of running government their conventions, their practices their general orders and you must operate within the framework of all those principles


graduating it's fantastic feeling I can't even describe it finally done four years just done wow this is a dream coming from Peru and Peru they don't allow women really to become anthropologists so that dream had been in my heart all my life a lot more people were kind of like oh my gosh it's over whereas I kind of feel like just turning the next page ready for the next adventure I was the last person on stage so it was just kind of nice to be the last person and just end it all my grandma made a lot of this and my partner made a couple days and so it's a really big deal for us the greatest part of going to Cal and getting world-renowned internationally recognized education I think it's kind of the tight-knit community where you can really find your niche come all the way here and to receive open arms it was it said I live a miracle this is a miracle it was challenging I think that's something I really appreciated about it that it really pushed me to my limits as to who I thought I was to become more than what I thought I could become I'm an international student from Hong Kong and then I'm a transfer so I don't know much many student year so I have to work very hard to be assimilate into this culture to learn about it and then to be graduating it was just so many good memories I can never give up this campus and always be a cow-bear forever the game-changing moment for me was going on an outreach trip to high school and so working with other youth and getting like trying to get them into college was really like the thing for me and it was really the thing that started to get me into education and so anthropology was all about understanding where they come from and helping them to get into school based on like what they need and understanding their situations I went to a class and the professor started speaking something that really this is what I was looking for she's teaching really what I wanted that was the moment I say this meant that I mean to be here sophomore year I joined the club on campus called theater ice it was a performance group an Asian American performance group on campus and being being Latino immersing myself entirely in a different culture in a different group it taught me how to be a better leader better speaker have a I like to think slightly more charismatic self I like how the professor teaches is the way is special they guide us to think critically which is I couldn't find it in Hong Kong and then there is no right or wrong answer I've definitely brought in my horizons both academically personally professionally spiritually I thought I could be anything to begin with and then coming to Berkeley dealing with all these people I just realized that I can be more I can help people I want to work in education as an administrator I want to make sure that it's more accessible for students of all backgrounds and especially people who are underrepresented on campus and just making sure that they can be able to come to college and have those resources I want to volunteer in some developing countries maybe first starting from China which is near to Hong Kong and then maybe go around the world that's my dream I want to be a teacher I want to help change the community especially low-income ones I come from one very low-income community I want to help influence the next generations I plan to head off to law school I start this fall hopefully to go into energy policy work or environmental law as inspired through my coursework here at Cal it's a good day where my dream comes come through


Hey everybody, welcome back. Good afternoon. Lisa Martin here with John Furrier live into Detroit, Michigan. We are at KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2022 North America. John, this is nearing the end of our second day of coverage. And one of the things that has been breaking all day on this show is news. We have more news to break back. This next segment is a company we've been following. They got some news we're going to get into. Managing Kubernetes' life cycle has been a huge challenge when you've got large organizations whether you're spinning up and scaling. Scale is the big story. Kubernetes is the center of the conversation. This next segment is going to be great. It is. We've got two guests from Spectre Cloud here. Please welcome its CEO, Chen Rui Fu, a co-founder. And it's CTO, a co-founder, Stad Malik. Guys, great to have you on the program. Thank you for having us. My pleasure. So, Chen Rui, what's going on? What's the big news? Yeah, so we just announced our Palace 3.0 this morning. So we add a bunch of new functionality. So first of all, we have a nested cluster. So enable enterprise to easily provide Kubernetes service even on top of the existing clusters. And secondly, we also support seamless migration for the existing cluster. We enable them to be able to migrate their cluster into our CNCF upstream Kubernetes distro called Palette Extended Kubernetes PXK without any downtime. And lastly, we also add a lot of focus on developer experience. Those additional capability enable developer to easily onboard and deploy the application for DevTest and troubleshooting without they have to have a steep Kubernetes landing code. So big breaking news this morning, Palette 3.0. So you got the product. This is a big theme here. Developer productivity, ease of use is the top story here as developers are going to increase their code velocity because they're under a lot of pressure. This infrastructure is getting smarter. This is a big part of managing it. So the toil is now moving to the ops teams. They're now dev teams, security. You got to enable faster deployment of apps and code. This is what you guys saw while you're getting this right. That take us through that specific value proposition. What's the, one of the key things in this news release? Yeah, exactly right. So we basically provide our solution to platform engineering team so that they can use our platform to enable Kubernetes service to serve their developers and their application team. And then in the meantime, the developers will be able to easily use Kubernetes or without they have to learn a lot of Kubernetes specific things. So maybe you can get into something. Yeah, an option. So the detail about it is there's a big separation between what operations team does and development team that are using the actual capability. The development teams don't necessarily to know the internals of Kubernetes. There's so much complexity when it comes into it. How do I do things like deployments, pause, manifest, just too much? So what our platform does, it makes it really simple for them to say, I have a containerized application. I want to be able to model it. It's a really simple profile. And from there, be able to say, I have a database service I want to attach to it. I have a specific service. Go run it. Behind the scenes, does it run inside of a nested cluster which we'll talk a little bit. Does it run in the host cluster? Those are happening transparently for the developers. You know what I love about this what you guys are doing in the news? It really points out what I love about DevOps. Because cloud, let's face it, cloud early adopters were all the hardcore cloud folks. As it goes mainstream with Kubernetes, you start to see like words like platform engineering. And I love that term. That means there's a platform. It's been around for a while for people who are building their own stuff. That means it's going to scale and enable people to enable value, build on top of it, move faster. This platform engineering is becoming now a standard in enterprises. It wasn't like that before. What's your eyes for reactors? How do you see that evolving faster? Or do you believe that? Or what's your take on it? Yeah, so I think it's starting from the DevOps team, like that every application team, they all try to deploy and manage their application under their own Kubernetes infrastructure. But very soon, each application team, they start realize they have to repetitively do the same thing. So these will need to have a platform engineering team to basically bring some of the common practice to that. And some people call them SREs, like that's really platform engineering. It is, it is. If you think about like SREs, the ability to deploy your applications at scale and monitoring observability, I think what platform engineering does is codify all those best practices. Everything when it comes about how do you monitor the actual applications, how do you do the CI CD, your backups, instead of now having every single individual development team figuring out how to do themselves, platform engineering is saying, why don't we actually build policies that we can provide as a service to different development teams so that they can operate their own applications at scale? So launching Pellet3.0 today, you also had a launch in September, so just a few weeks ago. Talk about what these two announcements mean from Spectre Cloud's perspective in terms of proof points, what you're delivering to the end users and the value that they're getting from it. Yeah, so our goal is really to help enterprise to deploy and around Kubernetes anyway. Whether it's in cloud data center or even at edge locations. So in September, we also announced our 8V2 capabilities which enable very easy deployment of edge Kubernetes at any location like a retail stores, restaurant, so on and so forth. So as you know, at edge location, there's no cloud endpoint there. It's not easy to directly deploy and manage Kubernetes. And also at edge location, it's not as secure as cloud data center environment. So how to make the end-to-end system more secure, that it's tempo-proof, that is also very, very important. Right, great take there. Thanks for explaining that. I got to ask, cause I'm curious, what's the secret sauce? Is it nested clusters? What's the core under the hood here on 3.0 that people should know about? It's news, it's hot, what's the most important? To be honest, it's about enabling developer velocity. Now how do you enable developer velocity? It's going to be able for them to think about deploying applications without worrying about Kubernetes, being able to build these application profiles. This nested cluster that we're talking about enables them to get access to a complete cluster within seconds. They're essentially having access to be able to add any operations, any capabilities without having the ability to provision a cluster inside an infrastructure, whether it's Amazon, Google or on-prem. And you have the Dev Engine too, right? That's a self-service provisioning for environments, is that? Yeah, so the Dev Engine itself are the capabilities that we offer to developers so that they can build these application profiles.  They define that entire structure inside of it. From there, they can choose to say, I want to deploy this. The target environment, whether it becomes an actual host cluster or a nested cluster itself, is irrelevant to them. For them, it's completely transparent. So transparency, enabling developer velocity, what's been some of the feedback so far? Oh, all the developers love that. And also, same for all the ops teams. If it's easy and goes faster, it reduces the steps. Because the ops teams, they need a consistency, they need a governance, they need visibility, but in the meantime, developers, they need a flexibility, they need the views without a steep learning curve. So it's really a win-win process. So I hear a lot of people say, I got a lot of sprawl, cluster sprawl. Let's get out of hand. Does that solve that? How do you guys solve that problem? Yeah, so the nested cluster is a perfect answer for that. So before using nested cluster, for a lot of enterprise to serving developers, they have to either create a very large, coordinated cluster and then isolated by namespace, which not ideal for a lot of situations because namespace is not a hard isolation. And also a lot of global resource like CRD and Operator does not work in namespace. But the other way is you give each developer a separate Kubernetes cluster. But that very quickly become too costly because not every developer is working 24-7. And half of the time, your cluster is a city idle and that costs a lot of money. So using nested cluster, you will be able to basically do all these inside the hosting cluster, bring the efficiency there. That is huge. It saves a lot of time, reduces the steps it takes. So I take a minute, my last question to you is to explain, what's in it for the developer? If they work with Spectre Cloud, what is your value for, what's the pitch? Not the sales pitch, but like, what's the value pitch that you give them? Yeah, and the value for us is again, there are a number of different services and teams people are using today are so many. There are so many different languages, there are so many different libraries, there's so many different capabilities. It's too hard for developers to have to understand not only the internal development tools, but also the Kubernetes, the containers, the technologies, there's too much for it. Our value prop is making it really easy for them to get access to all these different integrations and tooling without having to learn it. And then being able to very easily say, I wanted to pull this into a cluster, again, whether it's a nested cluster or a host cluster, but the next layer on top of that is how do we also share those abilities with other teams? If I build my application profile, developing an application, I should be able to share with my team members with Tenri saying, hey Tenri, why don't you also take a look at my app profile and let's build and collaborate together on that. So it's about collaboration and be able to move really fast. I mean more developers got to be more productive. That's number one hit here, great job. Exactly, last question before we run out of time, is this GA now? Can folks get their hands on it, where? Yes, yeah, it is GA and available both as a sauce and also the oncoming storm. Awesome guys, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations on the announcement and the momentum that Spectre Cloud is powering itself with. We appreciate your insights and your time. Thank you so much. Thank you for having us. For our guests and John Furrier, Lisa Martin here live in Michigan at KubeCon CloudNativeCon 22. Our next guests join us in just a minute, so stick around.


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what's the people manner here coming to you with the video this time we're going to be showing you how to clean your glass kettle or a steel kettle that has a little bit of calcium deposit on the bottom i purposefully left this one go normally i clean it a lot but i wanted to show you what you can do to get rid of the calcium right now you cannot see steel all you can see is the so step on what we need to do is we need to empty the water and we need to fill it to the maximum level once we have done that all we need to do is take some distilled white vinegar and we need one third cup of it once you toss it in close the top and turn it on and i'm going to do this real time that way you can see how it cleans as you can see right out of the back there are some bubbles forming it's not because the water is bubbling it's just because the vinegar has started to go in and take the calcium out trying to get you a better angle and you can already see the steel on that side has started to show and keep an eye on this section this gray area section camera is auto focusing and as you can see the water is not boiling just yet but it is starting to get more clear you can see the steel coming back up and once the water does start running that's when the real clarity will take place and i've just put the vinegar in i've not moved it i've not shaken it now here comes the roar and as you can see the deposit that was there has started to lift up the water is going to become slightly murky which is okay five minutes now this is when the magic happens the agitation of the water cleans up the entire remainder and voila just like that the entire kettle has gone from being dirty and dingy on the bottom to being completely clean just take the water just take the water dump it into the dump it into the sink and if necessary you can use a soft spatula silicone spatula and just go in and just stir the thing up carefully not to burn yourself that we can clean the sides also my personal opinion this is the best way to clean a glass kettle or a steel kettle and to get the vinegar flavor out that way it doesn't transfer into your tea or coffee just rinse it with water and let the water come to a boil and then dump that water it'll take care of everything as always thank you so much for watching and i will see you guys and girls on the next video take care people bye


Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. Happy Pizzamas! Underneath my Pizza John sweatshirt, I've got my Pizza John Galaxy!  But anyway, Hank, I have breaking news! In the comments from my last video, Nerdfighter Matt wrote, I haven't liked your beard for years. I like it now. Which came right on the heels of you texting me, Hank. Good video. And I finally like your beard. Hank, all of this can only mean one thing. It's time to shave the beard. Movie! Magic! It's a pizza, Ms. Miracle! Hank, my mustache is back! Alright, Hank, time to move on to the serious business of today's video. But first, I must ask you not to make fun of me. You know, this is a gift for you. Today's video comes to you in four parts. Part one, Hank, yesterday you said that the Project for Awesome begins at midnight on December 11th. That was a lie. In fact, it begins at noon Eastern time on December 11th. That's when the Project for Awesome livestream will begin. It's also when you should upload your Project for Awesome videos. Nerdfighters, remember, your Project for Awesome videos could raise money for your favorite charities. For those who don't know, the Project for Awesome is an annual charity event organized by Nerdfighter. Actually, Hank talked about it in his last video, and you should just watch that because it's very funny. And also, he's got some dance moves in it that are equal to, or maybe slightly better than, Drake's. Part two, in addition to all these Pizza John t-shirts only being available for pre-order during Pizzamas, there's lots of other Pizza John gear that's only available during Pizzamas, including shoestrings. Also, a travel mug and many other items. I can't decide what is my favorite, but I think it might be the-the pizza shirt. This is leaning. It's a leaning face of pizza. Part three, a story from my recent past. So, Hank, I don't like to drop names or anything, but after I got meningitis last year, Bill Gates sent me a Get Well Soon orchid. It was a really thoughtful gesture, and I really appreciated it. So, anyway, recently, we had a dinner party at our house, and someone said, I love your orchid, and I said, I know it's beautiful, right? Not to name-dropper anything, but Bill Gates gave it to me. And everyone was like, oh, that's very impressive of Bill Gates orchid, except Sarah was looking at me kind of funny, so I was like, what? And she was like, oh, it's nothing. And I was like, what? And she was like, well, I mean, that's not Bill Gates's orchid. And I was like, what do you mean it's not Bill Gates's orchid? And she was like, Bill Gates's orchid died. We got this orchid at Trader Joe's. So, it was a little bit embarrassed, but you know, I'm not a particularly observant person when it comes to orchids. So, anyway, flash forward a couple weeks. My friend Stuart, seen here with his wife Ann Marie, and the orchid in question brings me a gift, and I unwrap it. And it's a little plaque for my orchid to remind me, you know, that's not Bill Gates's orchid. Anyway, Hank, what I'm saying is that I have great friends. This is a double bragging story, because first I'm bragging about the Bill Gates orchid, and then I'm bragging about how great my friends are. But my point is that Stuart and Ann Marie were part of an art assignment we just did, which was also a dinner party. You can watch that video over at the art assignment. Part four, sometimes I glance at myself in the viewfinder, and I cannot believe that I'm going to upload this to YouTube. That is not part four. I have to say, the mustache is kind of growing on me, actually, Hank, both literally and figuratively. This video is just descended into a series of dad jokes. Part four is that I'm going to do a question Tuesday on Thursday, because it seems like the right time to do it, Hank. So nerdfighters, I need your questions, preferably brief ones in comments. Hank, I must say the resemblance is uncanny. Happy Pizzamas. I will see you tomorrow. P.S. I just went upstairs and saw Alice, and she looked at me for a long time, and then said, Daddy, what on your face? And I said, oh, it's a mustache. And she said, a mustache? And I said, I actually already made that joke.