She lures you. She reels you in.  It's the borderline. How does she do this? How does she succeed to override all your rational defences, lifelong experience, better judgement, advice from friends and family? How does she succeed to render herself irresistible? My name is Sam Bakni. I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited, and I'm a professor of psychology, and I have a long first-hand experience with this delectable variant of humanity, the woman with borderline personality disorder. And yes, before I am attacked by third wave, second wave, first wave, and fourth tsunami feminists, half of all borderlines are male men. But this video is dedicated to this enchanted creature, the borderline woman. Nothing like her. Thank God. Okay, Shoshanim. Let's delve right in. The borderline woman is multifarious. She is ephemeral, shimmering, a shimmering mirage, like Fatam Organa. She is like a kaleidoscope. You can never pin her down. She is always ethereal, floating around like a beautiful butterfly in the sun. So the borderline, creative as she is, has numerous strategies to keep you pegged, to keep you in her ambit and vicinity to make sure that you never let go and she never lets you go. Our life expectancy is limited, alas, so I cannot review all the strategies and tactics and strategies and subterfuges that are typical of the average borderline, let alone the intelligent one. I will focus today on eight of them. Eight probably out of eight thousand. Why is the borderline so irresistible? What makes her the thing, the person, the entity that you can't live without? The compliment to you, your other half, the twin flame, the soulmate, the missing part. What makes her complete you?  Start with the drama. Borderline personality disorder is a cluster B personality disorder and therefore belongs to the dramatic or erratic cluster of personality disorders and drama is the hallmark, the hallmark in trade of the borderline. She's all the time dramatic. Everything is exaggerated. Everything is emphasized.  Now if there's anything that characterizes modern existence, it's boredom. Boredom? Anxiety. People are bored out of their minds, ask Netflix, and they're anxious. Borderline's drama caters to your envy. She's there to make your life different, to imbue your existence with color, with the unexpected, with the forbidden, with the unpredictable. She provides you with entertainment, 60, 24, 7, every second of every minute, of every day. You never know what's coming and you don't want to know what's coming. The only thing you can be sure of is that something is coming.  She challenges and undermines the very tenets that hold your belief system together. She is there and not there, maddeningly and tantalizingly, out of reach. And yet, right there in your bed, if you're lucky. So she allays and alleviates and mitigates the routine, the mundane, the pedestrian.  She makes you feel a bit like an actor who had succeeded in an audition with a very, very special and demanding director. And of course you have no time for anxiety and no time for depression because you're too busy coping with her ups and downs, her vicissitudes and her crazy-making. The second strategy that the borderline uses to get you essentially addicted to her presence in your life is approach avoidance. Approach avoidance is a form of repetition, compassion, but not in her case. In her case, the approach avoidance has to do with the twin anxieties, abandonment anxiety on the one hand, which makes her approach and engulfment or enmeshment anxiety on the other hand, which makes her avoid you. On the one hand, she wants you to be her intimate partner, the regulator of her emotions, cognitions, effects and moods. She wants you to take over her inner landscape, her mind and then make sure that it's all rock solid.  But then when you do fulfill these roles faithfully and lovingly, she feels suffocated.  She feels that you're hijacking her very existence, her very being. And she feels engulfed, assimilated, enmeshed, subsumed and she wants out, hence the avoidance. Now this creates, as far as you are concerned, a form of intermittent reinforcement, which is a major hallmark and a main strategy of abuse. You feel that you are being abused, hot and cold, here and there, now and never, present and absent. It's very difficult to cope with this and it conditions you.  And on the other hand, she creates a lot of adrenaline with her acting out, decompensation, recklessness, defiance and secondary psychopathic behavior. So she generates in you cascades of hormones which get you addicted, get you in hook to her behavior. She's the only one who holds the key. And in a way, while you thought that you were regulating her moods and her emotions, she ends up regulating yours. She frequently also, as part of her drama, she frequently also threatens suicide.  So when she threatens with suicide, it is terrifying because she might just carry through with it, go through with it, you know, she might just do it. So her suicide threats are intended to keep you on your toes. You begin to walk on actions. You're terrified to trigger her. You begin to modify your behavior, even the way you think. And you begin to self-censor the things you don't say. You avoid conflict, you become conflict averse.  And in a way, she controls you the way people control their pets. The borderline's neediness and clinging and helplessness cater to your grandiosity. She's a fan fatale on the one hand, but on the other hand, she's nothing but a child, or at best a pure isle, pure isle adolescent, prepubescent entity. And so you feel that you are a mother figure or a parental figure, feel like her father. You tend to cater to her psychological needs. You tend to preempt on her wishes and desires. She needs you. She clings to you. She's helpless without you. She can't survive without you. This is such a great feeling. It elevates your sense of masculinity, self-esteem, it regulates the sense of self-worth. You feel a lot more confident. That's the secret source of living with the borderline. The feeling that you're godlike, that you're omnipotent and omniscient, standing next to her, you're seven feet tall as a minimum. And you are capable of anything. She drives you into the territory of unlimited possibilities. When you're with a borderline, you feel that everything is possible. The world is open. All potentialities can self-actualize. All fantasies can and do come true. With a borderline, you're both in a shared fantasy and you're in a dreamlike state. And she accomplishes this by consistently and repeatedly adhering to you, like an adhesive, adhering to you. Sucking out of you, every ounce of energy and force allow Vital the force of life. Her neediness and clinging and helplessness are parasitic, symbiotic, vampiric, but you love it. You love to be needed. You love to be adulate. You can't survive anymore without these doses and dollops of greatness.  You're her leader, her guru. You're her mentor and tutor. You're her father and mother. You are infallible.  You are the focus of her laser attention. You are the center of the world, of her world. You're the pivot and the axis around which she revolves. You're the sun. She is earth.  She is the moon. You are. She is your reflection. You are the source of light and enlightenment and happiness. And this is very reminiscent of the relationship between a parent and a very, very young child. And it creates bonding, which is much more typical of parental bonding or parental commitment. You begin to love her as you would have loved one of your own children. The next tool, the next instrument in the borderline's toolkit is idealization. Not only does she need you, not only does she cling to you, not only does she react horribly to any hint of being ignored, being rejected or being abandoned, but she also idealizes.  Again, this caters to your grandiosity and gratifies it. And you can't let go.  The borderline offers you as proof of her allegiance. As a demonstration of her idealization of you, she offers you unboundary sex. There is no sex better than the sex that the borderline offers. Sex with the borderline is a technicolor, surrealistic, psychedelic, kinky experience. It is everything you've ever fantasized in more. The borderline offers you a theme park, a sexual Disneyland, free of charge, as you think. It's actually her way of getting you hooked, getting you addicted, making sure that you return, making it clear that there is a trade here. She will do anything you want in bed and outside it. You will be there for her and only for her every second of every minute of every day. Her sex is transactional. It's not about you. It's a currency. It's the coinage of the realm. It's the coinage of the currency of the relationship. Unboundary sex is embedded very deeply and intimately and integrated with fantasies and lies. Part of the borderline's drama and crazy making is constant repeated prevarication, reframing reality, minimizing misbehavior and misconduct, fantasizing. All these things are intended to subtly and even, I would say inadvertently, gaslighting. The borderline is not like the psychopath. She is not cunning and scheming. She is not manipulative because she is evil or malevolent or malicious. There's no intention of deliberation there. She does it because that's who she is. And she creates an environment which is detached from reality, a bubble which both of you inhabit, a bubble of fantasies, a bubble of confabulations, a bubble of imagination. Inside this bubble, you're like two children holding hands in a dark and dangerous and frightening forest. You are each other's comfort. You reach others' certainty and safety. You begin to feel that without the borderline, your life is not a life and that something ominous may happen. This causes you to behave in obsessive compulsive ways. The major compulsion is to stay with the borderline. The borderline's ability to impair your reality testing is essentially unlimited. You want to gratify her. You want to keep her in your life.  So you become a slave. You become subservient and submissive, obedient and following every mood and every lead and every demand. Fulfilling all her wishes and making her preferences and priorities yours. And finally, the most overt and egregious strategy borderline is engaging is triangulation which would go all the way to actual sex. The borderline uses other men to get a rise out of you to provoke your anxiety and jealousy.  She would immediately exit the diet and find a rescuer, an alternative and she will demonstrate to you and sometimes go into graphic details for example of sex she had in order to get you back. The idea is that your possessiveness and your jealousy will take the better of you and will force you to return to the relationship on her terms and conditions. There's nothing more devastating to the borderline when you find your agency autonomy and independence and tell her to f off. She is utterly shattered. She can't believe that she had lost her power over you. Some borderlines become vindictive and dangerous from a fatal attraction in the movie. Other borderlines simply sulk and go into deep depression and anxiety. The borderline assumes, takes you for granted, she assumes her power over you is unlimited and she thinks that she can use other men as pawns in a never-ending chess game with you on the board of your relationships. When that fails and you beat her farewell because she had misbehaved, she is shattered. She is disbelieving. She thinks it's a stratagem. She thinks it's a gambit. She thinks you're faking it. She thinks you're just testing her or it's a power play and you want to emerge victorious and triumphant. She simply can't digest the fact that her misconduct is unacceptable and that she had crossed the boundary and that she had forced you away. These are eight of the strategies of borderlines. There are hundreds, literally hundreds. I can go on and on and on. But the day is young and you're younger and I don't want to usurp your life just for the sake of getting better acquainted with the borderline. The borderline is a fairy tale. It's an enchantment. It's what the ancient used to call magic. It's a spell. It's something bordering on the supernatural. When you attach to the borderline, when you resonate with her, when you alchemically react with her, you're both transmuted like the Philosopher's Stone and what comes out is not gold regrettably. Relationships with borderlines are exceedingly destructive for both parties, not only to you. Borderline also suffers.  Exactly like using a razor or using a lit cigarette to burn your skin. You are committing suicide by borderline. You feel alive because the borderline hurts you and pain awakens. And you also drown your internal turmoil and tumult, the emptiness, the void that is inside you. Many, many narcissists and partners of borderline believe that the shape of the empty schizoid core matches perfectly their borderline partner. They have a borderline-shaped empty core and they need to feel it. And the only way to feel it is with a borderline. Good luck with that.


First thing is, there is no trick. The problem is in the transmission, the way it is transmitted.  When I find you don't know how to hold a flower, there are people like this, I give them a flower, they will grab it like this.  So then, what to do? Then we will give you a plastic flower. Now you have a piece of plastic which you think is flower, so this is what is happening to yoga. Without the subjectivity, just the instructions are going. So you have a still birth, isn't it better not to get pregnant than to have a still birth? So if fitness is what you are looking for, please go swim in the Yellow River. Play tennis, climb a mountain, do something for fitness. Yoga definitely gives you fitness, not just physical fitness, it gives you fitness on all levels. But that is not the reason why you practice it. You practice yoga because you want to become one with everything. So in the transmission, there must be subjectivity. Right now we have become slaves of objectivity because we are not using any other form of intelligence within us except the intellect. If you use only the intellect, is it true that intellect is useful only if it's sharp like a knife? You want a dull intellect or a sharp intellect? Sharp. So it's a knife. Now you use a knife to stitch. You will only tear it further. Knife is not an appropriate instrument to stitch. If you want to stitch, you need something else, but now you're using a knife to stitch, it's not going to work. So yoga unfortunately is going through this face around the world that only the physical aspect, a stillborn child is being delivered. It still looks like a baby of course, but it's not alive, it's not going to grow. If you have a plastic flower, it's not going to blossom, isn't it? So this is not going to blossom. Maybe you will get abs if you stretch and turn enough, but you are strengthening the wall instead of opening up the wall. How it is transmitted is vital, but how you receive it is also important. How you practice it is also important.  With this you may get physical fitness, but that is like using an airplane like a bullock cart.


London plans to introduce this new weapon into its army by 2027. But its prototypes may end up in Ukraine even earlier, said British defence minister Grant Schaffs. The Telegraph Midoya outlet reported this. Currently there is a living conflict in Europe, to resolve which we have unique modern weapons that may be useful, Schaffs added.A feature of Dragonfire is its low cost, the stated cost is £10 per shot. I've come down to speed up the production of the Dragonfire laser system because I think given that there's two big conflicts on, one sea-based, one in Europe, this could have huge ramifications to have a weapon capable particularly of taking down drones, Schaffs said at the Porton Down Military Research Hub in Salisbury. And so what I want to do is speed up what would usually be a very lengthy development procurement process, possibly up to 10 years, based on my conversations this morning, to a much shorter timeframe to get it deployed, potentially on ships, incoming drones, and potentially on land. Again, incoming drones, but it doesn't take much imagination to see how that could be helpful in Ukraine for example, he added.Laser directed energy weapons use an intense beam of light to cut through their target. Pentagon chief advises Ukraine to attack other targets instead of oil refineries in Russia. US defence secretary Lloyd Austin believes that Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries could have consequences for the global energy situation. He considers that it is better to attack other targets, according to Bloomberg. Those attacks could have a knock-on effect in terms of the global energy situation, said Austin during the Senate Armed Services Committee meeting. Ukraine is better served in going after tactical and operational targets that can directly influence the current fight. This statement was immediately criticised by Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who stated that the administration of US President Joe Biden is hindering Ukraine's active actions for political reasons. It sounds to me that the Biden administration doesn't want gas prices to go up in an election year. Cotton said, Austin's testimony is further confirmation of reports that the US had asked Ukraine to stop with the refinery attacks. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that Washington's reaction was not positive. However, there is no sign that Kiev is willing to obey Washington on this issue. Earlier this week, Ukraine's military intelligence announced that strikes on oil refineries in Russia would expand. Recently, explosions at Russian oil refineries have become increasingly frequent. Russians complain about drone attacks. As repeatedly reported, Ukrainian defenders are behind these strikes. They have already attacked refineries in several regions, including Tatarstan, which is over a thousand kilometers from Ukraine's border. A NATO representative in a comment to journalists revealed that such attacks could disable over 15% of Russia's oil refining capacity. He also clarified that repairing Russian refineries after strikes could take significant time. Using captured German leopard tanks and US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, Russia is developing new anti-tank ammunition. Army Recognition Media outlet reports this. It is noted that by studying these war trophies, Russia's state arms manufacturer, Rostec, has announced the development of a new line of upgraded tank shells based on the analysis of captured Western armored vehicles. Russia preparing also a hypothetical escalation in the Ukrainian theater. Bekhan Osdoev, the industrial director of the Russian state corporation Rostec, overseeing conventional weapons, ammunition and special chemistry, announced that the company is developing a new range of upgraded tank shells based on an extensive study of captured Western armored vehicles as reported by TASS. He further stated that Rostec would produce new ammunition whenever Russia's adversaries develop new tanks with improved protection. Rostec will create new ammunition, multiplying their efforts by zero. This development follows Russia's success in destroying three US origin Ukrainian Abrams tanks in under a week last month. One of these tanks was disabled by a single shot from a Russian T-72B3. The Russians argue that this validates their theory that these Western tanks are merely empty tin cans. While Moscow's forces haven't captured any Abrams tanks yet, footage released last year showed captured German origin Leopard 2 tanks and US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, according to Army Recognition. Military analysts noted that the captured adversary platforms are used for reverse engineering and studying military secrets. As Rostec's chief noted, capturing cutting-edge war machines from the west enables Russians to develop tank shells capable of piercing through these tanks and armored vehicles when deployed by adversaries. However, since decoding rival defence technology takes years, there's a good chance it will take several years before these shells are ready for Russian forces. In addition to efforts to develop tank shells that could neutralise Western origin vehicles, Russia has been working on controlled detonation shells for its terminator BMPT tank support vehicle. Rostec State Corporation has completed tests of controlled detonation shells and a remote control system for their detonation time for the terminator BMPT, said Bekan Ozdoev.


Hello everyone. In this video, we are going to learn Arialist in Collections, okay? I am Professor Dattadri Gandmal from Vulture Institute of Technology, Sallapur. Let us start with this video. What will be the learning outcome in this particular video? Students will be able to describe Arialist along with various methods. They are also able to write a program using Arialist. That's an important part of this video. You will be able to write your own program. Now coming to description of Arialist, these are some of the important points in Arialist that need to be noted. First, Arialist can contain duplicate elements. Duplicate elements in Arialist is allowed. Let's say you are entering Sachin twice into an Arialist, it's allowed, okay? And it can maintain the insertion order. It is going to maintain the insertion. Like first you have entered Sachin, then you have entered Raul. So first Sachin will be stored, then Raul will be stored. Likewise, the sequence of insertion is taken care of. And it is non-synchronized. So Arialist is also non-synchronized. And also in Arialist, random access can be done, okay? If I want to access a particular location in Arialist, that can be done. Manipulation is a bit slower in Arialist, but that can be overcome in Linklist because we need to have shifting kind of things, okay? Linklist doesn't have any shifting. In Arialist, we need to shift all the elements. That is taken care by Java, but still time is going to be killed in that particular case. And one more important thing, Arialist uses a dynamic array, okay? That means its size is going to get increased and decreased as per the need. So they are dynamic in nature, which takes place at runtime. How you create an Arialist? These are the steps that need to be taken care of. It can be constructed like this. Arialist AL equal to new Arialist or it can be created with some capacity. Arialist AL equal to new Arialist 20. But capacity is not going to play an important role over here. Let's say you know like, okay, my Arialist won't be more than 20 elements. In that case, you can initiate it, but it is immaterial, okay? Even you give it, you doesn't give it, Java will take care of that. Collections will take care of that. Arialist by passing some another collections into it. So it can also be done. Arialist AL equal to new Arialist and passing some collections, some other collections object over here. You can pass the object directly. So whatever collections you have in this some collection object will be directly copied into this collection object AL. Everything will be copied. Okay? Now let us start with a simple program in Eclipse on Arialist. So we'll come to Eclipse. Now how to start with Eclipse? File, new, Java project. Okay, here we are going to give it as collection demo, okay? And just finish it. Now in collection demo, explore this package on a source, right click, go to new, class file. Here in class file, you're going to name the class file. Well let us give it as array demo, okay? You want public study requirement? Yes, I want. You can click over here and finish it. So this code will come by default. And as I said, Arialist or all collections fall under the package util, java.util, okay? Here in Eclipse, the editor itself will take care of that. Arialist AL equal to new, Arialist, okay? Here it is giving me this red line means there is some error. You click here, okay? It will tell you how it can be resolved. Import Arialist, import Arialist. Arialist has been important. That's how easy it is, okay? If you want for a specific case, this Arialist, you can even do that. So here if I can do that string, so this becomes generic and non-generic type. So Arialist now is of, let me close this, okay? Let me minimize this, okay? Arialist AL equal to new Arialist. For what type of data you're going to store here? String data you're going to store over here. How you're going to add the elements? AL.add. AL.add is going to add the element, okay? Let's say I want to add Sachin. Sachin will be added to my Arialist. AL.add. So this method will come in Eclipse. It will give you the possible method that can be used. AL.add, let's say Zahir. I'll take one more AL.add. You can take any number of elements over here. We'll take Virat. So now four elements have been added to my Arialist. Oh, sorry. It should be add, not add all, okay? Now, if I want to display, I want to check whether these elements are stored properly or not. I can use a for loop, for each loop. I'll use a for each loop in I in which AL.add. In I in AL is going to display all the elements of AL. AL is of type string, so I cannot take your int. It should be string. Therefore, it is giving me an error. int I in, or we can take int S in AL, okay? It says out control tab, sorry, control space. You'll get this system.out.println. Here I want to print what? I want to print all the elements of my Arialist, which is S. So this for each loop is going to run incrementally as I explained in my previous video. Okay, let us see by executing this. You can click on this button. You'll be getting this output. Sachin Raul, Zahir Virat. Here you can note that everything, whatever output you are getting is in the order, the way you have inserted it. So the insertion order and the output order is same. That means in Arialist, everything will be inserted in that particular order only. There is one more way of displaying elements of Arialist. Okay, what is that way? We have an iterator iterator for string it equal to AL.iterator. Okay, then we can use a while loop while it.asnext, we are going to run a while loop. While it.asnext says out it.next element, print the next element. I'll tell you how exactly this while loop is going to work. Let us try to run it. So again you are getting Sachin Raul, Zahir. Okay, let me remove this part for loop, for each loop. Because it will create an ambiguity over here. Now here, how iterator is going to work? What is the difference between for each and iterator? In iterator, you create an object of iterator. Iterator is going to work like similar to a for loop. Okay, it is going to move its position one by one by the methods which you are using. Iterator as the name says it is going to iterate in your collection. It is going to iterate. Okay, now iterator of what type of type string because I have created a type string. AL.iterator on what collection on AL object collection, therefore it is AL.iterator. Now, once this iterator starts pointing to this array location, this array list AL, then I can use methods inside iterator to process it or to display it. Mostly iterator are used for displaying purpose. Therefore, there is a method called as as next. As next is as the name says it is going to return a boolean value, true or false. High t dot as next, agar next element, raha. Take if there is a next element, then it is going to return true. If there is no next element, it is going to return false. Whenever it is false, it is going to come out of this value. Okay, so here inside it system.out.println, what we are going to print, how we are going to move to the next location, it is it.next. So, first iterator is going to point to Sachin, it.next, Sachin will be printed. Okay, then it.next, Raul will be printed as next. Yes, it is there. Zair will be printed as next. Yes, it is there. Virat will be printed after that as next. After Virat, there is no element. So, here while loop is going to get a false statement. Once it is false, it is going to come out of this. So, this is how iterator is going to work in case of collections. Fine. So, you can see if I execute it once again, you will get the output. Sachin, Raul, Zair, that's it. If you want to remove a particular element, you can remove it. AL.remove. AL.remove, I can give an index number or I can give the element also. I want to remove Zair. I have to keep all the batsmen into my team. So, run it once again. Okay. No, there is no Zair over here. Okay. If you want to run it once again, if you want to remove, say, check, you can do it after displaying also. I will remove from here and we will have iterator once again after this removing. This time let's say, let us say we have IT1, IT1, IT1. Okay. Run it. We have Sachin, Raul, Zair, Virat. First time. Second time we have removed Zair. Therefore, it is Sachin, Raul and Virat only. Fine. Now, coming to this part. So, how many ways we can initiate collections? You can pause here and rewind the video and check it. The answer is three ways. Fine. These are various methods available in ArrayList. Likewise, I have used ADD, CLEAR. Okay. E is empty. Contains. There are way in number of methods available in ArrayList. You can pause here and take note of this particular slide. These are some of the references that I have used. Okay. Even if you come here, even if you do AL dot, you can see all the methods which are available in collections. These are all methods you can use. Okay. Thank you.


Hi everybody, my name is Sheridan. I work at the Long Beach Public Library and I'm here today to talk to you about gems and crystals and how they form underground, along with show you how to make some rock candy from stuff that you already probably have at home. If you haven't signed up for summer reading just yet, be sure to sign up. Go to longbeach.beanstack.org and create an account and then that way you can start earning prizes for reading all summer long. If you've already signed up, be sure to enter the code pirate into the activities tab of your challenge to be able to get points for watching this video, okay? So here we go. First and foremost, crystals and gems are formed from solutions underground and what a solution is, is a liquid filled with little bits of a solid and so the solid gets solved within that liquid and then later on as the liquid dries up or hardens, those little bits of solid end up forming together into crystals. So I'll tell you what I mean. So for crystallization to happen, it needs five ingredients. The first one is minerals, those little bits of solid. The second one is temperature. Most gems and crystals form at really, really, really high temperatures. The third one is pressure. Oftentimes underground, there's tons and tons and tons of dirt and rock above those solutions that are pressing down and forcing those minerals together to form gems and crystals. The fourth thing that they need is time. It takes a super long time for crystals and gems to form underground and you'll also see that it takes a little bit of time for our sugar crystals to form as well. And the fifth thing that they need is space. When a magma and the crust interact, it forms little cracks and the magma flows in there and that space is where the crystals and the gems are gonna form. So crystals and gemstones are formed from a solution of minerals suspended in molten rock. As molten rock cools, crystals begin to form. So for example, here we have this thermometer, right? At the very, very tight corundum will form with a pretty high temperature. In between that or next to that, we've got topaz. Topaz forms at sort of like middle temperatures and then forming at the very lower temperatures, we have the crystals quartz. So you can see that different crystals form at different temperatures depending on their own chemical properties. Gems crystallize underground at super high pressure and very high temperatures. Where the crust meets magma, the motion and pressure creates these little cavities and fractures in the crust. And what ends up happening is that the magma flows into those cavities and fractures and then as it cools begins to form crystals and gems. Sometimes crystals are interrupted while they're forming. And what ends up happening there is that we have these interesting different patterns. So I don't know if you can see on this, but you'll see that the very top of this crystal is kind of greenish. The middle is a little bit more on the yellow side and then the very bottom is pink. That's called color zoning. And what happens there is that this top crystal started to form, the earth moved a little bit or more magma flowed in with a different mineral and it attached to that first one. But because it was a different mineral, it has a different color. Another thing that can happen is inclusions. Now inclusions are when a crystal begins to form but then the crust moves or more magma flows in and then a whole another crystal forms around that original crystal. So if you can see on this one, there's a dark spot in the middle there. That's an inclusion of one mineral within another mineral. That's another thing that can happen. And sometimes crystals don't form underground at all. For example, during a volcanic eruption, when all the magma flows up and becomes lava, there's these little gas bubbles that are formed. And depending on the mineral content of the lava or the magma, things like hercimer diamonds can form. And hercimer diamonds are really well known for their clarity, but also for the fact that because they form in a gas bubble, they don't have to attach to any surrounding rock. So they end up with these really cool, sort of like double ends. So those are hercimer diamonds, just some of the different things that can happen while crystals are formed. All right, and if you wanna learn more, check out books through LBPL to go or read some articles on our databases online at LBPL.org, okay? Next up, I'm gonna show you how to make some sugar crystals and we'll go from there, okay? Okay, everybody, so now I'm gonna show you how to make your very own sugar crystals with things that you already have at home, okay? You're gonna need some of these bamboo skewers. You can also use popsicle sticks or even just like some dowels that you might have. You can even use string as well. Just make sure that it's clean because if you wanna eat them later, you don't want a dirty string, right? You're gonna need a few of these, a plate, some like a measuring cup that you can throw in the microwave that'll hold up to heat and make sure that it has a handle because the stuff that's gonna get inside is gonna be really hot. You're gonna need a cup of water and three cups of sugar, some containers to grow your crystals, some coffee filters to keep dust and bugs out of the solution as it dries and if you wanna get fancy, you can even do some food coloring to be able to give your crystals a nice color, okay? Oh, and you'll also need some clothespins to hold the sticks. So the first thing that we're gonna do is we are going to dip our sticks or string if you're using string in some water to wet them a little bit. And what this is gonna do is it's gonna produce a surface onto which the sugar solution can actually attach. They call them kind of like seed crystals. So now that they're wet, we're gonna take a little bit of this sugar and kind of spread it out on the plate. Just like that, you don't need too, too much. And taking that bamboo skewer that you earlier wet, you're gonna kind of roll it around in the sugar so that you end up with some sugar on the end of the stick if you can see that. And what that's gonna do is it's as the solution swirls around it, when we pour it later, those little sugar molecules are gonna stick to those crystals and then form bigger and bigger crystals as time goes on. So you're gonna do this for all the sticks that you have. You don't need too, too much. And then what you're gonna do is you're gonna set these bad boys aside because they need to dry completely before you actually pour the sugar solution on top of them. So we'll set those aside so that they can dry. And now we're gonna start working on our solution. So I'm gonna take my big measuring cup and I'm gonna pour in the one cup of water that I had. And for this solution, you're looking for a one to three ratio, which means that since we have one cup of water, we're gonna need three cups of sugar. I know it's a lot. So first thing I'm gonna do is pour or measure out one cup of sugar and I'm gonna mix this in with the water at room temperature. I use one of these sticks here just to mix it up. And you wanna mix this so that it becomes dissolved and the solution becomes clear. All right, so I've mixed that up and you can see that there's still plenty of sugar in there. But what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna throw it in the microwave for a couple of minutes to start heating up the water. When the water gets hotter, it becomes able to dissolve more and more volumes of sugar. And then what we're looking for is a super saturated solution, which means that the water cannot dissolve any more sugar in it, okay? So we're gonna throw this in the microwave for two minutes. It's probably best to get some help from an adult with this just because the solution inside the microwave is gonna start getting really, really hot and we wouldn't want you to burn yourself. So help, get some grown up, get some grown up help. You might need one of these bad boys. And yeah, two minutes. Okay, so it's been two minutes. I'm gonna pull this out and be really, really careful because it's pretty hot. But you can see that the sugar has begun to dissolve a little bit, right? So now the solution is more clear. I'm gonna keep stirring this just to help it dissolve a little bit more. There's still some crystals at the bottom that you can see. And when stirring this, you wanna stir nice and gently so that you don't splash any water or solution up at the top because you could burn yourself. All right, so it looks like that's pretty well dissolved. But remember, we needed a one to three ratio. We've only put in one cup of sugar, so we still need two more. So I'm gonna measure out another one cup of sugar. I'm using CNH. It's America's favorite sugar. And it now has an easy pour spout. So, pretty cool. Mix in here. We're gonna keep mixing. You can mix with a spoon or with a spatula. I'm just using this little bamboo stick for now. And you can see that now that the water is hot, it's actually dissolving a lot faster. Heat tends to dissolve crystals and other solvents. And then I think even at this point, we can put in our third cup of sugar. Measure out another cup here. It's gonna feel kind of sticky at this point because there's a lot of sugar in ratio to the water. But we're gonna stir it up a little more and we're gonna toss this in the microwave for another two minutes, okay? Be careful as you're putting it in or have your grown-up help. So it's been another couple minutes. At this point, be sure to have your grown-up pull the solution out of the microwave because it's really, really hot right now, okay? I'm gonna do it very, very carefully. So you can see that the solution is now a little bit more of a yellowish color. There's some bubbles at the top because it boiled in the microwave and that's what you're looking for. If when you're making your solution, you pull it out and you notice that it didn't boil. Throw it in for another couple minutes and it should boil then, okay? So we're gonna stir this up to make sure that the rest of the sugar is dissolved in the solution. And like I said before, stir gently so that you don't splash any out and accidentally burn yourself or make a mess on the counter. And then you wanna check to see because you can see here that there's undissolved sugar crystals. So I might throw this in for another minute or so in the microwave, okay? It takes a lot of make this. All right, so it's been another minute. Our solution has definitely boiled. You can see a bunch of bubbles in the solution now, which means that it's boiled. That's what we're looking for. And we're gonna give it another quick stir just to make sure that there is no lingering undissolved sugar crystals in here. All right, perfect. So I think we're good to go. Now with this, we're gonna let it cool for a good 30 minutes, okay? So I'm gonna put it over here. And thankfully for us all, I had prepared some earlier that's already been cooling for a while. So now what we're gonna do is we're actually gonna assemble our crystals. I've got here three little jars. You can use a tall glass, really whatever you've got, but make sure that it's heat resistant so that the hot solution doesn't crack the glass and then it ends up spilling all over the place. I had also prepared a couple of those little sticks with sugar crystals earlier. These are our seed crystals. So we're actually gonna use these in these three jars to set up our rock candy, okay? What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna put a couple of drops of food coloring in the bottom of the jars so that that way when we stir in the solution, it'll pick up the color of that food coloring and we'll have some rock candy of different colors. I'm gonna use this teal, maybe some pink. You only need one or two drops. If you really, really want bright colors, you can even do three, but I wouldn't do more than that, okay? Next up, you're gonna carefully pour the solution since it'll still be pretty hot. Get your grown-up to do this into the jars. I'm gonna start off with a cup in each of the jars and then anything that I have left over, I'll just fill up the jars as we go, okay? So we've got here another cup and you can see the food coloring start to dissolve within the solution as well and produce some pretty cool colors. Got the third cup there, pretty cool. And now since I have some left over, I'll just kinda pour it into the rest of the jars as well so there isn't any left. Pretty cool. I'm gonna take that same stick that I was using to stir earlier and I'm just gonna stir this around a little bit to evenly distribute the color within each of the solutions, okay? There might be some color mixing happening. You can always rinse off the spoon or the stick in between colors just to avoid that, but now you can see that the different colors are really evenly distributed in the solution and I think we're done with that part. Next up, what we're gonna do is we are going to poke a hole in the coffee filters. Now, the coffee filters we're gonna use to cover the tops of the jars so that dust and bugs and other stuff can't get into your rock candy, okay? So I'm gonna use one of these sticks here and I'm just gonna poke a hole right in the middle, just like that. It doesn't have to be perfect. We're really just trying to get a hole to be in there so that we can get our sticks through the top of the hole, okay? And now we're gonna need those sticks that we prepared earlier and at this point should be completely dry. We're gonna put them through the top of the coffee filter and then we're gonna put a clothes hanger on top just like that. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna sort of eyeball it so that the very bottom of this stick doesn't touch the bottom of the jar and then that'll leave room for the crystals to grow around it, okay? So you just wanna be kind of... And so I think that should seem a lot of right. And then put that there. And as you can see, the very bottom of that stick is not touching the bottom of the jar. And what that's gonna do is that's gonna allow all the crystals to grow around the stick. And then you wanna put this aside for a good five to seven days. It takes a while, I know. So I'm gonna prep these other two jars and I'll put these aside for a minute. Do this, I have another stick, another clothes pin. I'm just writing another stick, top of the coffee filter, another clothes pin and right on top. And so now that we've got these three set up, you're gonna put them aside somewhere where they are not gonna get a lot of traffic or a lot of noise and just kind of let them sit for a week or so. You can come and look at them every day to see if there's more crystals forming all around and then at the very end of the week, you're gonna pull these out and you'll have some rock candy. I'm gonna shoot another segment of this video in a few days and then that way you'll see the finished products of these three jars, okay? So I'll see you guys then, bye. Hey guys, so we're back. It's been about eight days since we put in our rock candy, our gems and crystals into the jars. So I'm gonna show you real quick how to pull them out and then what to do after that, okay? So as you can see, I've got this one here, which we poured last time, I believe. And then I had made one at home as well, so I've got this one here as well. These are some pretty big jars and then I've got the little ones that I made as well.  Now this still has a lot of the syrup on it, so what you wanna do is put it aside so it actually starts to dry. Here, what I've got on the table is parchment paper. I just put out a lot of it so that it doesn't get all over the table. But if you've got aluminum foil or saran wrap, even some wax paper, that'll work. You just wanna put it down so that the table doesn't get super sticky. I'm gonna pull this out, let it drain for a tiny bit and then I'm just gonna lay it down on that parchment paper. I'm gonna put this aside. As you can see that there's a lot of crystallization at the bottom here, but most of the syrup is still in the jar. I'll put it aside for now and I'll cover it with our coffee filter so that no bugs and stuff can get inside. I'm gonna pull out the second one now. Same process, just take off the clothespin.  And then pull out your rock candy crystal. And so what's been happening for seven or eight days, really however long you leave it, is that the minerals in the solution, which are the water, have been floating around and attaching themselves to the seed crystals, which were the sugar, on our bamboo stick. Remember that crystals need time, so that was about seven or eight days. They need space, which was the space around the rock candy. They need temperature. When we poured this, it was still pretty hot, right? But as it went cooling down, things started to crystallize. They need pressure. And here there isn't a ton of pressure, but underground, there's tons and tons of pressure from the rock and the soil. And so they formed this crystal. So these are some pretty big rock candies, right? These I left in there for a little bit longer. And then I did these a couple of days ago to show you what they look like when they're all dry. What I did with these is after I pulled them out of the candy jars, I actually put them back into a jar that I had pulled the candy solution out of with more clothespins and another coffee filter to let them drip dry, okay? So I'm gonna pull these out by pulling off the clothespins, pulling off the coffee filter. And as you can see, these are dry and ready to enjoy. You can stir a drink with these to sweeten it up. You can eat them just like this, but don't be careful of your teeth. Or you can just kinda look at them too. Look how pretty they are. Pretty cool, huh? So these are done. As you can see, I didn't put in a ton, a ton of watercolor in here, so they're a little bit paler. And then these, once they dry for a few hours, will also be ready to go. What I might do with these is drain this jar into another jar and then hang them in there. If you really, really wanted to, you could actually reuse this solution as well by taking another bamboo stick, rolling it in some sugar, waiting for it to dry, and then doing the process all over again to get a second stick of rock candy. I wouldn't do that too many more times though, because it starts to get kinda funky, okay? And so as you can see, we've got our rock candy pretty much ready to go. If you decide to do this at home, feel free to share it with us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, and have a sweet summer, everybody. See you later.


Yes, welcome back we still carry on with your fix of entertainment special thanks to Hilda with ify and Kala Mival for that amazing segment to get a Wednesday starting on a laughing note as I always say if you happen to interact with the video that you think might break the views send it to us on WhiteFive 4 channel on Twitter WhiteFive 4 underscore channel on Instagram and WhiteFive 4 on Facebook it's time for my favorite segment of the week it's time for strength of a woman representing for the Queen's out here is Miss Tourism Meru County, Karibu Sana. Alright your camera is number four so just introduce yourself I'd like to give people a chance to introduce themselves so they can list all the things they have done. Okay my name is Fred Agashiri and my stage name most people names me as boss model as per the name state I'm a model I love modeling I appreciate beauty and modeling defines me I'm the current Miss Tourism Kenya in Meru County I am representing the Green Gold County the only country the Green Gold of course when you hear of Green Gold what comes in my mind it's Mira of course yes I have no background all right and besides that I'm a writer I write a lot articles and mostly I write poetry you can check my part in my website that is Fred Agashiri crown cause I've written so many articles there but professionally I'm a journalist I've done mass media communications broadcasts and electronics to be specific that's why I had to let you introduce yourself that is a lot of things you've done and I'm focused on the writing part what do you write about I write about daily occurrences and life generally life life generally yes is it your life or the life of the people you see around you life for the people and how the things are happening in life for example I've written about it's about tribalism whereby I'm encouraging people to stop tribalism it's a very very bad vice that should be shut yes so do you think you've interacted with tribalism in your in your line of duty or work um not really but to some extent I've seen people who when you are me pti or any she's an economy learning visually cool and be able to watch watch and so these are some of the topics you touch on all right when did you start this modeling thing or when did you figure out you can walk the runway and just do something great with your body and your looks I started back in 2014 when I was in campus Mount Canyon University I started in charge I started as contesting for miss MKUICS that is young chrisen student but at first I didn't make it but that did not stop you from me from going for what I wanted I I tried and then when I failed I went back and tried again and I made it I became a miss MKUICS 2016 2017 and then from there it was a church event and from there I contested for miss talent mania and from there I trained now for miss tourism Kenya and here I am a queen all right so you're a queen right here right so one thing I'd like to understand what is the role of these what are they called pageants beauty pageants right so uh sometimes the the the girls who can't get to to the stage or get to walk the runway sometimes they feel like they they feel lesser for lack of better words because they feel like the winner is more beautiful the winner has it all what is the role of these things is it to segregate from beautiful and the people are not considered beautiful in the streets standard wise that's really everybody is beautiful you are beautiful in your own ways god created us in his own image and we are all beautiful may it be your light skin may it be your your dark skin we are all beautiful in our own ways and in modeling that's why we can see nowadays not that's only less skin win or dark skin wins yes I was not really focused on the skin color I was just focused on that most of the people they have that perception that only the beautiful ones who wins but you are beautiful in your own ways you are perfectly made by god so you should have courage maybe they have their self-esteem they don't want to come out to show the people here I am they need to have that confidence to show people that so confidence is one thing confidence is one thing you have to believe in yourself you see before even people tell you that you are beautiful you have to tell yourself and believe and convince yourself that you look in the mirror in the morning and say I'm good look at the mirror and say oh yes I'm yummy yeah all right I like that I like your perspective on it so what is your role as miss tourism Kenya Meru County okay miss tourism in me in tourism we have so many pillars we have in fact we have six around six pillars of tourism the first pillar is tourist attractions it like in Meru County we have so many tourist attractions there for example we have the Meru national park it's a very very beautiful park that I would encourage people here in Kenya to visit because you're already doing your work promoting tourism in my country I would encourage people to visit because we have the big five animals there we have a nice lodges like the alba the the al sasa kobe lodge which is a very and it's written among the best lodges that we have in the country and in fact in east Africa it's a very nice lodge for you to go and relax during your holidays we also have another site like for example the mount Kenya the beautiful mount Kenya we are on the widower side of the mount Kenya you can organize the picnics go there for mountain hiking and all that it's a very perfect beauty site for you which is the pride of the country there's an interesting picture right here on screen and this is a shoot you did after taking the crown yeah yes all right uh huh so who styled you here I see you have the canyon flag rocking uh huh who styled you on this particular shoot thank you uh in styling alex style uh and class style and class and when it comes to styling since telly speaking I style myself even my makeup I do my makeup so this dress was made by you uh this one was made by this girl she's called Jackie and fashions yes or Jackie fashions shout out to Jackie fashions for this amazing dress right here this was post uh winning uh your your crown all right uh when was this held the the contest last year last year october last year october so this year october we are going to be having a different miss tourism kanya meru that's really miss tourism Kenya uh we usually ring for two years for to give someone a uh chance to to deliver you see it's not all about just coming then showing that you are a queen and that that is it there are a lot of things there are projects that we are working on that's where we are always given two years now the next miss will be 2020 all right so uh so you're going to be raining for two years you're going to be having a crown for two years what are some of your plans in this uh two years apart from promoting tourism in meru which is a very beautiful county uh with the view of mount kanya what are some of the things you have planned in your manifesto thank you I have so many things in mind for me that I'm planning right now uh like last year december I hand a charity event at Tory Children's Home whereby I was helping those kids we I encourage people and we went there thank you everybody who really showed up for the event it was really amazing we helped the less fortunate also in the society and also I'm planning for an event come next month about the keeper girl child in school at an initiative whereby we will be giving or supporting the girl child at cadela primary school in meru county we'll be encouraging the girls and also helping them to stay in school by giving them the sanitary pants to help them to stay in school without much trouble so you're very passionate about the girl child yes i'm dedicating the girl child i'm very passionate in girl child all right so what were some of the things that uh that it took for you to win this what were some of the things they were looking at okay the categories you had to go through to win or to carry the crown I think it's brains because brains was one of the things it's the main thing because there's nothing physical at all they look at it's not that much it's not that much but there's something physical about it definitely because you must know how to work with his confidence how to talk because now like you have those projects you got to go and tell people I have these for for you to present them you must have that courage to go and tell people I have this project like right now there's an event a project I'm really working on here in Kenya it about advocating for the right of the KDF soldiers who lost their limbs and arms when they were fighting for the for us in Somalia they were fighting with Alshabab and I feel some extent we as Kenyans we have forgotten these people and we owe them we owe them a lot they were fighting for our rights they lost their limbs and arms and I have not seen anyone coming out to support them which is very bad I'm going to play the role I told you I'm a journalist I will play the role of an advocacy journalist to advocate for the right of these people with my title as Miss Tourism Kenya so that they can at least get the artificial limbs the artificial limbs if possible limbs and arms so that they can feel I was fighting for these people and yet they have come back to show that oh they have come to show us the support because I feel to some extent we have really forgotten them I know it's not easy to do such a project because it requires a lot but I'm going to you know I always believe it's always going to try than never to try it's always going to try so something you're passionate about be sure to find out on Instagram maybe you can project Instagram or scheme be sure to find out on Instagram as Frida Gashiri Frida underscore Gashiri all right maybe we can look down your Instagram this is how you get to know what somebody is about nowadays all right uh huh so this is an event that you tourism can national national final or the national finals that happened this year all right maybe we can go down these are some of the contestants you are competing against mm-hmm where is this this is a limaxuit at a nice hotel in cambo a teenage ruby cambo road for with junction very nice hotel yes I like that let's go let's go I see you're passionate about animals as well uh what what is happening here and these are the almas that are most of them are in Meru national park those are the animals that you will see when you come to Meru national park all right so the big fiver there for real all right I like that I would design this particular outfit I like it uh that's only it was really made I bought it like you bought it really made all right so be sure to find out on Instagram how can they find you on Instagram your camera is number four on my Instagram page of course it's Frida Gashiri Facebook it's Frida Gashiri on Twitter is Miss Tourism Kenya Frida Gashiri and also don't forget to check my website that is Frida Gashiri crown cause to stay updated on the points and more articles about the life of currencies all right so apart from this beauty thing that you're doing you also work with the Chinese department of commerce in Kenya yes I'm really so grateful because within my crown the county government was able to secure to me a job and Kenya Chinese Chamber of Commerce and a company called Texas Africa Kenya travel agency this is Africa Kenya travel agency is a very nice agency it owned by the Chinese and we most of the things that we do of course it's a tourist company or rather a travel agency we do the hotel reservations we do the visa application for the visitors who are coming in Kenya and also for the ones who are willing to travel maybe to China if you are planning for a trip to China we are the best people for you come to us at this is Africa travel agency we are located in B7 we plaza Galana Ronde Kiliman Nairobi Kenya come we deliver to the maximum maximum and we assure you that your experience rather or your travel to all the places that you want me to be in China or rather in different tourist attractions here in Kenya your experience will remain to be rememberable we speak your language welcome to this Africa I see you've affected this art of marketing your product so well right is this and this is something you apply in marketing Meru as a county and as a tourist destination right do you work hand in hand with the elected officials in Meru County to do whatever needs to be done for the tourism industry fine you see like the job that I have to do I secure and for marketing this is Africa Kenya travel agency they are the ones who look for me that job and they are really supporting talent Meru County is really supporting talent and I can see they are really good people yeah all right so you're working hand in hand with the elected officials in Meru County to promote tourism to Meru County yes all right you have an event coming up yes next month yes what is this event all about it's a keeper girl child in school it's a mentorship or rather an empowerment program whether we will be encouraged or rather empowering the girl child in the school at Cadela primary school Meru County we're going to central to be specific all right what are we expecting to see at the event at the event we will be encouraging the girl child you see there are so many challenges that the girl child is facing right now in Kenya like the the sanitary we will be giving out the sanitary funds to them to promote them you see some of them since they come from their village girls they don't know or rather they can't afford these things so we'll be giving out to them we empower them so that they can stay at school without much struggle also we'll be giving some talk to them we'll be telling them about their future and what lies ahead of them apart from being in primary school you see they are they have a long way to go there is secondary school there is university so i'll be encouraging them to study or rather to work smart not hard always encourage them to work smart there is a big difference they can work hard but not smart so always encourage them to work smart to be smart in everything that they do be confident yes to be confident and to be to have a target on what they want in life and to expect anything of course in life because life has positive and negative things so i always encourage them to have c-cubed wherever i go i tell them they see cubed in life for you to succeed you must have c-cubed the first c break this down the first c is for the challenges you see everywhere you go there is there must be a challenge for you to succeed you must go there must be ups and downs and for you to succeed it would depend on the second c comes with choices what you choose from the challenges that you face as an individual what even as a company there must be challenges but what you choose from those challenges determines now the down to c is the consequences or rather the result the effects the outcome of what you choose from those challenges that's how it comes as a c-cubed the challenges what you choose from the challenges the choice and then the consequences what's the effects so choices have consequences you need to understand the choices have consequences choices are as a result of the challenges that you are going to face so what you choose may it be positive for a negative expect the result to be the same way so always stay positive what you give in is what you get out exactly wise words from miss tourism kenya miru county right here in studio with us miss frida c-cubed is a secret challenges choices and consequences yes interact with us on white five four channel on twitter white five four underscore channel on instagram and white five four on facebook don't forget to tell us where you're watching us from and especially if you're watching us from miru county you're represented on why in the morning right so uh you went to the national competition where we had uh 47 representatives uh for the 47 counties well let me say 46 because you are represented your own all right so you uh who won the the national one well uh west park odd she's called sarah kiaj sarah kiaj yes all right uh my the reason i ask is do you still coordinate with the rest of the representatives of the counties miss tourism we always work as a team we are working together in order to you see there are so many things that besides the project that i am doing as miss tourism miru county there are some projects that we are doing as miss tourism kenya remember it's miss tourism kenya then miru comes then mr pokots and others so there are some projects that you are doing um as a whole like now we handle um we are the piece also abbas does we are also we have we had also an event about planting of the trees we do it together we work together with the national secretariat for miss tourism in order to make or rather you see if you know i cannot say now i miss tourism miru county i'm going to do my own things no there is a national secretaries that does all this and it's awesome we work together all right so you work together uh to promote tourism in the country in the country and your own initiatives all right so people don't uh really understand some people don't really understand what this tourism thing is all about people assume it's all about national parks and hotels maybe you can expound on the pillars of tourism so people can understand that even where you're watching us from however however much dry it is however attack on our name you can still attract tourists yes all as i stated earlier tourism we have six pillars of tourism and the one is the tourist attractions that i have mentioned about their national parks and all that and then we have the culture cultural diversity which involves our culture you know in kenya we are very diverse in culture we have so many cultures that we have massai culture we have the miru culture in miru culture we have the people like jorin cheke who are the our council of elders they help they help us to solve the dispute that arise in our community which we don't have we are very very peaceful all right yes we have peace and unity in tourism peace and unity it comes in whereby we promote peace in our country we see for there to be we have also the investment opportunities investment rather like in miru country we have so many investment opportunities for for the investors who are willing and ready to come to invest in our county like we have now miru i welcome all the visitors miru is a tourist attraction for real a very big tourist it's a great gold and everybody likes gold yes especially all the foreigners have met in in kenya they they ask they always ask about this particular drug and it's a very now good opportunity for them to come and invest with us to so that's the we can process this mirror to choose why yes it's a very big investment opportunities to convert it to a juice that we can drink and order yes we also pick up the supermarket yes all right so that you don't have to chew it sorry all right so this is something that you is is underway it's something that you're planning yes yes sure sure to convert this thing into a juice yes all right my focus is though that even in the county where we don't have national parks they can still attract tourists through their culture through their culture through their investment opportunities through hospitality you see when you talk of hospitality is like hotels like in miru we have so beautiful hotels for you we have the alba hotel we have the beautiful classy heritage hotel with very delicious and tasty phones oh okay so where is a place to be you know you've been told by miss tourism kanya miru county she goes by the name freda you can find out on instagram us freda gashiri on facebook at freda gashiri and on twitter is freda gashiri don't forget freda gashiri chronicles all right somebody by the name martin says you yourself you're a tourist attraction so as i'm saying anyway thank you very much freda for coming remind them your website uh and other social media handles that she didn't mention i've already made a facebook it's freda gashiri on instagram is freda gashiri on twitter is miss tourism kanya freda gashiri and my website is freda gashiri chronicles all right and from here they can find all your articles all your poems all your pictures and all your projects that you're planning to do all right thank you very much for coming through to i in the morning thank you very much for being our strength woman of the day you're much 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Hello everybody. I would like to greet you everybody here on Cloud Foundry Summit. And today I will be talking about the latest features and technologies emerged in Cloud Foundry ecosystem for the last year. I will be talking about their good parts and their bad parts. Also, I will try to share some stories from my personal experience with these technologies and from experience of my colleagues with these technologies. Let me introduce myself. My name is Alex Zalesov and I'm a Cloud Foundry engineer at Alteros. During the last two years, I do Cloud Foundry deployments. I do design of Cloud Foundry deployments and also I do the implementation and operation. After the deployment is complete, I often go to the trainings to educate our clients better about the operations of Cloud Foundry and best use of past solutions in their daily work. Previous to Cloud Foundry, I built management systems for traditional infrastructures like enterprise server systems, like telecom systems. So I know different types of infrastructures from physical servers to the cloud infrastructures we see now. The first feature I want to talk about is a cloud config. A cloud config is a way to extract ER-specific configuration from your manifest. Typically, you have pretty much information that describes your cloud and it is the same across all the deployments. One example is availability zones. Typically, you use the same availability zone separation for your services for Cloud Foundry. The next type is networks. In reference Cloud Foundry architecture, you have networks for elastic runtime and you have service network that is used by all your services, like MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL. And in some types of clouds, like AWS, you have predefined VM types. You can't change these. But for example, in open stack deployments, which we do when customer requires Cloud Foundry deployment in the private data center, you can define your own virtual machine types called flavors. So this information is a good candidate for sharing across all the deployments. And when you extract it with the cloud config, you don't repeat yourself defining it in each manifest you have for deploying your systems. It reduces there and allows you to have deployment portability. So if you have, for example, two deployments in AWS of Cloud Foundry, you maintain two manifests and two separate cloud configs. And these manifests can be pretty similar or identical. As far as you know, before provisioning Bosch... Is this something wrong? Okay. Before provisioning Bosch, you need to create some kind of server infrastructure, like networks, defined security groups and so on. We typically use Terraform for this purpose. Terraform is an awesome tool. You define the configuration in your cloud using JSON file. And then you can check it to version control system. You can defeat and Terraform is smart enough to apply these differences to your infrastructure in a resilient manner. Before Bosch bootloader, we got outputs from this Terraform script that contained network IDs, subnet names, and so on. And we needed to put these information inside of our Bosch manifest, and then Bosch understand where it is deployed and it is ready to deploy other software. Bosch bootloader automates the workflow when you create infrastructure with Terraform script, and then it automatically inserts the information about your particular cloud into the cloud config. And you will get Bosch already ready to deploy your software. I like this technology because it saves my time in two ways. First of all, I can just start the deployment and it will proceed unattended, and in 40 minutes I will get the Bosch deployment. And the second is as it is fully automated, it can be tested, and I don't need to verify the infrastructure after the deployment. Before I need to do the verification in case I had some typos when copying, pasting these values from the Terraform output to the manifest. Now it is limited to AWS and Google Cloud platforms, but it is rapidly developing and I think soon you will be able to deploy Bosch on this sphere and OpenStack with Bosch bootloader too. I would like to say that the technologies in Cloud Foundry ecosystem are dependent on each other. For example, Bosch links is a service discovery mechanism and it allows you to utilize other technology. I have talked about the cloud config more effectively. If you have IPs in your manifest, you can't truly separate networking configuration from the system. And you can't truly use cloud config. With Bosch links, you can reference one job from another in manifest, and then Bosch does all the job of making these jobs to speak to each other. So it is a static service discovery mechanism. We use this technology to replace all the static IPs from our releases that we maintain. For example, Elasticsearch one and some releases that are already migrated to this technology like concourse. We can deploy them using cloud config and using Bosch links and not doing these static IPs rewriting. Now something about security. Components of Cloud Foundry installation, I think majority of them now, can talk to each other using TLS encryption. So nobody except these two instances can understand their traffic. And it is a big deal when you want to deploy your Cloud Foundry infrastructure inside of public cloud. In private cloud, you can have a rack and a switch in it, and you can physically secure access to your network. But in public cloud like AWS, you have your network shared between several instances, and you can't guarantee that somebody else is tapping into your traffic. I have a story of a customer who had a main installation of Cloud Foundry on OpenStack in private data center and wanted to add AWS installation for elasticity. Because when you have installation in private data center, it is elastic only on application level. On hardware level, you still need to buy new hardware and to manually install it to the data center. In AWS, you can buy resources on demand and then freeze them. And because we have no such feature at that time, it was about a year or two ago, we could only move the testing to this environment, to the AWS environment. It was pretty elastic, you run tests and then you can tear down this environment. And it doesn't work with the customer data, so it has pretty loose security restrictions. But now it is possible. Oh, this is my favorite one. This is Bosch 2CLI, that is written in Go. When I first read about it, I thought, okay, what is the big deal of rewriting Bosch CLI from Ruby to Go? But when I do hands-on with this technology, I understood that it is completely right with a separate set of features. It allows you to substitute tools for managing manifest like spiff and spruce with native CLI, so you don't need a separate tool to merge several parts of manifest together. It can generate default secrets for you. Cloud Foundry uses a lot of secrets inside. For example, it uses a secret that is shared between Go Router and Nuts Server, and they use this secret to talk together. As an operator, I don't care about how my router is talking to Nuts Server since it is secure.  But internal certificates between the Cloud Foundry components can be self-generated, and while they are managed correctly, I don't care what they are. Before Bosch 2CLI was available to do TLS encryption of traffic in Cloud Foundry, you need to generate certificates manually and then insert them to the manifest. And the manifest became huge. I think I saw about 5,000 lines manifest in the practice, and they were very hard to manage. Now you can generate these secrets, and they will be stored locally in your file. Current Hub Project moves this technology even further. It automates credential generation storage and lifecycle management, but it adds another feature. When you do local credential management, it is good when you are the only person that operates this deployment, but when you have a team of developed engineers, you need a secure way to distribute credentials between them and to maintain these credentials in a consistent way. You can use GitHub to collaborate on configuration, but for credentials, the best possible solution was something like passing this YAML file between these developed engineers. Current Hub provides you with the centralized server where you can upload these credentials, and you can extract these credentials from your Bosch manifest. So the Bosch manifest becomes easy to manage. You can just put them into your GitHub account, and don't worry that some of AWS access keys leak to the bad place. I want to share my personal story with Bosch manifests. When I just started working with Cloud Foundry, I deployed some stuff with Bosch, and I wanted to share manifest with other people to ask for help. I applauded it to the GitHub guest and didn't delete my AWS credentials. Then I discovered that there are two kinds of bots constantly searching through the GitHub for the keys. One kind of bots are the good bots. They will tell you that your credentials are compromised when they find your key, and the other bots are bad bots. So they will spawn about 500 VMs in AWS account and start mining Bitcoins. I was lucky. I received the emails that my credentials were compromised, and I quickly recycled them, but it was not a pleasant experience. So I think KredHub will make this credential management for the future generations of DevOps engineers in Cloud Foundry less painful. Sorry. Sorry, how much time do I have? Ten minutes. So then we have ten minutes. I will leave five minutes for answers, for questions and answers. And in the last five minutes, I will talk about two other interesting technologies. First is CF deployment. It is the way of deploying Cloud Foundry using many of previously mentioned technologies. 1150? Yeah. Okay, that's great. One moment. It uses many of the previously mentioned technologies. Bosch Links Cloud Config. It separates releases of individual Cloud Foundry components to separate entities, and you build deployment out of these many releases either from the single monolith CF release. We use this deployment for our proof-of-concept deployment now, and we also use it for the training purposes. For example, yesterday my colleagues gave a training here on Bosch, and they utilized this CF deployment and Bosch to CLI to install Cloud Foundry. It is not production yet, already yet, because there is no way to migrate deployment from CF release to the CF deployment release yet, and it is not necessarily a good experience upgrading one CF deployment to another. You may want to delete it and start from scratch, but it is very promising, and what I love about this technology is that it makes the deployment process of Cloud Foundry understandable. It is a big deal when you speak with students in the training to make them understand how the Cloud Foundry is deployed and to make them understand this fast without diving into specifics of speak manifest generation, into specifics of deploying networking stuff in the ERs. This can be dozens of steps, dozens of separate steps for provisioning infrastructure in the OpenStack or AWS. There can be a lot of steps, merging manifest together and then adding Diego runtime inside of them. And with CF deployment, you can do pretty diagrams and actually follow this process, and it will consist of three or four steps. And the manifests that you get using the CF deployment are pretty small, so you can just go through these manifests with your students and they will understand each line of the deployment manifest. So it's cool. On the top of your CF deployment, you can put container networking. What is it? It is a policy server and add-on to Garden RunC. Before container networking, if one of your applications want to talk to another applications, it needs to go through Gorotor. On OpenStack, it was even worse because Gorotor typically has a floating IP, and it is a separate VLAN, and you have a lot of traffic between the physical machines and on different levels. The reason was that policies were enforced on Gorotor level, and it was hard to put container networking. Now the policies are enforced on Diego cell level, and your containers can talk to each other without going through Gorotor. It will decrease the amount of traffic going through Gorotor, so you need possibly less VMs, and it will decrease the latency of your microservices communications. So sometimes you have a pretty deep stack when a client requests his or her first microservices, and it funds out to other levels, and these microservices reply back, and the final answer goes to the client. Now this latency is lower. Another story was a performance story. One day we discovered that our client has time-out problems. So engineers tried to push applications to Cloud Foundry and they time-outed, and we looked in this deployment and found out that ETCD was about 100% busy. It was busy on this keyword, and this deployment was on pretty slow HDD drives. We tried to tune ETCD to be faster, but it turns out that the possible solution was just to replace HDD with SDDs. It doesn't suit us. We did a hack like we created a RAM disk and make ETCD write to this RAM disk instead of actual hard drive disk to go this problem, but it was an nasty hack and I didn't like it. Sometimes later Diego was able to store his data on a relational databases like Postgres, like MySQL, and we moved to Postgres, and now we have now this problem. This is the last technology I want to speak about, and I wish I would have had this technology one year ago. These are isolation segments. The isolation segments allow you to define group of applications that run on a particular set of hardware so you can efficiently separate different environments, not only on the container level, but on the VM level. Combined with routing groups, you can separate traffic from these isolation segments to separate go-rotors. Typically clients want to separate their environments like production, staging, development, and before, we used to deploy several Cloud Foundry instances for these purposes, but it resulted in increased effort required to maintain these instances of Cloud Foundry. These required more resources because you are duplicating stuff like Cloud Controller, UIA, and everything else that can be pretty easily shared. Now this technology is generally available. We haven't used it in our projects yet, but we are looking forward to do some proof-of-concepts with it and to make future deployments use this technology. This is just a small part of the technologies that were matched in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem during the last year. When I did research for this talk, I outlined about 50 separate technologies. If you want to talk to me about other technologies or share your stories of operating them, please come to our booth, to Alteros booth that is in the hall. Now it is time for the questions. Question about mutual TLS. Okay. Is it the TLS between Bosch components or it is between Bosch and other deployments, for example, CF? This is TLS between... Within the Bosch director? No, no, no. I'm speaking about TLS between Cloud Foundry components like EDCD and Diego. Like GoRouter and Nuts. Got you. Is there any additional functionality? Because I think in the current deployment, we do have certificates. For example, EDCD has its own CA and certificates, similarly Council. Just wanted to understand what's the new functionality that we're bringing using the mutual TLS? Here I speak about the previous deployments when you don't put certificates on your VMs, so they talk using unencrypted traffic. And it was pretty easy to debug, for example, because you can capture packets. And now you put certificates to the VMs, to the different VMs deployed by Bosch. And when they communicate, you can't more see this traffic flowing. Makes sense. We have time for another question. The isolation segments that you mentioned last. What are the criteria you can use to segment your apps? Can you do it by org, by space? Do you have any information on that? You have to define your isolation segments in two places. First, you define them in your Bosch deployment, where you mark the cells that are from one segment or another segment, and then you can bind your isolation segment to your organization. We have one more. I guess you can do space-level isolation. Thank you very much, Alex. I appreciate it. Thank you.


referral m Kenya kisha misнимini valна Or not. clues token about the prizes and maybe I'm tempted to ask for an event. How much do you charge per event? If it's a wedding, it has 3 packages. 3 package. I listen to clients very well. We are not blessed with the same amount of money in the same way. So I just listen to the client, it tells me I have these, and then I give them 3 packages, quotations. We have the medium quotation and then the classic. So the classic is the lowest standard that I can do. So if I give you a quotation of 50,000, 80,000 and 100,000, now it's upon you to pick the package that suits your pocket. I don't limit my client when it comes to that. So is photography a paying job? Would you say or recommend somebody to be a photographer as you are? Photography is a well-paid job, but it's very tricky.  Because you can go in a field with a group of like four people, you do photography, then all the hard disk that carries the data crashes, and it's a wedding. You cannot start telling the client we are going to repeat, we are going to shoot, we are going to do this. What happens in those kind of cases? Okay, it happens like the storage, it's affected by a virus maybe, it can crash. Yes, and every photo that you've taken maybe is deleted? How do you regain the photos? Okay, we have experts who are data recovery companies who do the data recovery, but at the same time it's very costly, it's very expensive to do that. So what happens here, if the client accepts that you can repeat the same process of recovering the data, that's the better. But if the client don't understand anything to do with the computer, my friend, you are going to suffer. That's a police case. Just go there. No, we want our data. So for instance, you've shot my wedding and I can't find the photos.  What do you tell them? Okay, the first thing, if I know there's a mistake somewhere and I know that I can rectify the mistake before I approach my client because I cannot allow myself direct to the client, they are committing, someone who is closer to them, I call that person, we discuss, I ask him what he can do about it, then he can advise me or she can advise me. So that's what I normally do, but it has never happened to me in such a way that I lose completely the data to a client. But it happened to me, my disk fell down and then it crashed. Alright. So what mistakes do we usually make as clients as far as taking perfect pictures is concerned? One, clients should understand this is a job and then they should pay well so that you can get a quality photo. Exactly. Yeah, most of the clients will come to you, ah, I have just 200 shillings, I need one photo, 10000, are you going to pay? No, I just want a photo. You just take the photo because of money, but I don't build myself on that. I just explain to the client then they accept and I show them the samples of the jobs that I'm doing. So that's what we expect from clients and that's what clients expect from us, quality jobs and then we expect good money from our clients. Alright, apart from that, what other challenges have you faced in this line of business? Okay, we offer restrictions, especially there are some places that we cannot fly the drones and then you cannot fly a drone without a license. You have to pay for that license and it's very expensive. And then that drone, you buy it at a higher price and then it can crash on the hair at the same time. So these machines are very expensive to purchase. Like starting a small studio you need over 600,000 to build up a studio. So it's very expensive as a photographer. That's why you see most of the photographers in Kenya are freelancers. Just have a laptop and then one camera. Yes. That's one of the challenges that we are facing in the industry of the photography. Alright, now let us do away with the challenges. What motivates you daily as you carry out your photography practices? Okay, I have a vendor. My vendors are, okay, I just see how those people do the developed countries, how do they, the way they do their photos, especially the US, India, then Australia. Those people are very good in photography. So I just watch on their tutorials. Sometimes I check the photos that they are taking and the photos that I'm taking and I try to adjust to see whether I can reach their levels. So that's the first thing that motivates me in photography. The other thing, it's a well-paying job. Yeah, it's a well-paying job. Most of the clients pay well. Alright. So tell us a bit of the videography part. Videography, now directing. Yeah. It reached a time that I was doing secular music and then I needed models with a big sense. And then a model would come and talk to you. Jared, I want to be a video big sense in a video. And then at the end of the day you find that you have not followed the background of this kid, so you'll find that the background is Christian and they don't like this sexual stuff. Exactly. Then that the parent will come to you. I want that video pulled down. That's one problem that I'm facing in the video part of it. So what happens, I just pull down the video and then I use my budget because all I talk to the client who brought the model to be the videovix and not that particular song. That's one challenge on the video. The other thing, I cannot do video alone. I need a team. Yeah. Writing team. We need the sound team. I need the camera work team. And then the props, the models, the makeup artist. So it's broad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you so much, Jared, for such great insights. But before we wind up, maybe you can just give someone a word of advice. Those that want to get involved with this line of business, those that want to make money out of it, out of that particular business and they are waiting for you to give them one word and it totally changes them. Yeah. To my fellow photographers, we need to start this business. It's very easy. You can use this camera. Okay. Yeah. So what I can advise them is that one, you need to build trust on yourself. No client will give you a job to do if you're not trustworthy. There are some people who normally go out there and do photography.  That's not good. Build trust to your client. The other thing, this is just easy. You can start somewhere. Tell your friend that I need to hire your camera.  Then return the camera in good condition. That's how you grow. With that, you're going to make the money that you can buy your own equipment and start photography. That's what I can advise them. Thank you so much for coming through. That has been Jared Joseph. And of course many thanks to our ladies, Janet and Anna. Thank you so much for coming through. We really love this insight and at least let us get something to do. Thank you so much for finding time and joining us tonight. My name is Yvonne Anula. Enjoy the rest of your viewing. Coming up next is the buzz.


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