So I have a little free time this morning. I was gonna walk to church, but it's raining so much So I think I'm gonna skip it out today But I figured I might as well put it to a little bit of use by writing some modules for my status bar Now I'm gonna do that, but that's gonna involve well Let me tell you what the modules I want are gonna be I want to have a memory module and that shows me the used memory on my computer as a proportion of the whole memory and I want to be able to click on that and I want it to show me the 10 most memory intensive processes and then on the other side I also want a CPU module that shows CPU temperature and if I click on that it shows me the most intensive CPU processes So that's my goal in this video, but even if you don't have a status bar Or you know you can still follow along because I actually want to go through the different commands to produce this kind of output How do you actually find memory? You know in most intensive processes and stuff like that It's relatively simple. Some of you might already know But we can go through it. So again, here's my wish list I'm gonna show All of the memory like a proportion of the used memory and total memory on my computer I'm gonna show CPU temperature one command to generate CPU temperature And I want to be able to show the most the 10 most memory intensive or CPU intensive processes That's what I want. And so I'm gonna do that I'm gonna Find four commands for those four different things and then I'm gonna create a status bar module Which is gonna be specific the eye to i3 blocks, but it'll be similar if you have some other kind of status bar Because but i3 blocks is the one I'm using So let's go ahead and start out the first one. I'll do is this show memory used over total Okay, so I want if I have eight gigs of RAM. I want it to show, you know Maybe I'm using 200 megs over eight gigs. That's what I want the output to look like now in order to do that It's relative. This is actually Relatively simple. You can really just use the free command now if you run free This will actually show you your memory used of course you can see it's not in human readable format But it's relatively easy to get it that way We can just do free with the option of H and you'll see that we pretty much already have what we want here We have our total memory here and our use memory here These these can be relevant as well But I'm just gonna take the use memory and total memory as well and that's it So in order to get this in the format we want if we want it to be used Slash total we really just need an awk command to do this. I'm gonna pipe this output Into awk now the first thing I really only want this line So I'm gonna say to awk only give me the line that starts with mim That's all I want But I want what I want you to do with that is I want you to print it out in the following format So this thing here is the third element So I'm gonna say first print out the third element then give me a slash and then give me the second element Which is going to be this thing here, of course close that print command close that awk and That produces the exact output we want so whenever I run this command It's gonna show me use memory out of total memory of course we can run it a couple times It's not really changing that much because my memory amount is pretty much the same But we can take this command actually I'll I'll copy this out And I'm gonna put it over here in our wish list because that's we already have one of the commands We want okay, so I'm gonna keep that and I'll make my status bar with it later Now the next thing I want to do is I want to do CPU temperature So how do I get CPU temperature now? This actually requires a program. Well, you probably already have it. It's LM sensors I think If I just run that yeah, so this is already installed on my computer It's probably actually installed on your computer because it's pulled as a dependency for a lot of things But LM sensors gives you yet another very simple command just sensors So if I run that If I run that you'll see that it gives me Basically, whatever temperature module or temperature Monitors there on your machine it shows you what values they have so you'll see right here here is ours are basically our temperature that we're looking for It's 63 degrees Celsius, so we can get that out. We can awk this out in the same way Now you can check the options of sensors if you want I mean if you really insist in your you know your CPU temperature being in Fahrenheit for example You can give the f option, but I feel like even Americans refer to CPU temperature and Celsius That's just how it is. But anyway, so we can do the same thing with this We did with the last option we can just pipe it in the awk and we only want the line that says CPU or Temperature one or that starts with that so we can go temp One that's what we're looking for and find that line and print out the second element because well This is the first one. This is the second one nice and simple close that off and there is our our degrees Celsius that's all we need one again one another little simple command I'm gonna copy this out and I'm gonna put it in here so now we have our CPU temperature command and the last two things are Maybe a little more difficult. I don't want to say more difficult But they involve slightly more complicated of a command and that is show the most Memory intensive processes and show the most CPU intensive processes. Now. These are gonna be similar commands as we'll see Now the program we're going to use for this is PS so if you don't know what PS is It's really just a Command that shows you the kind of processes you have and Different information about them and it can show how much memory one is using or how much CPU Usage it has or something like that now PS I encourage you to look at the manual because there's a lot you can do with this command Just because it has so many options now. I'm gonna give PS a couple options I was sort of racking my brain as for which ones I should best give to it before I turn this video on but the ones I've decided on our AX and C Now AX let me just run PS AX You'll usually see people running this and this will in effect I mean you can check the documentation on the A option and the X option yourself It really has to do with you know, what's a user process with the case of of a or not not really user Well, just read read the manual. I don't it's not important what they do here But PS AX is gonna basically print out what we think of as being processes, you know, so you have bash You have ST you have different stuff going on here. You even have well show that in a second So you have the different process of processes. I also want to give it the C option And what C does is well, maybe I should compare them So if you don't give the C option, it's gonna give some full paths to some things like user bin pulse audio But if I just give C, it's just gonna show pulse audio. So that's a little more intuitive I want the user interface to be cleaner. I don't want all that junk and I'm also gonna give it the H option Gonna give it the H option, which will get rid of the header at the very top because we're gonna be using We're gonna be messing around with this kind of stuff and the next thing I want to do So my goal here, this prints out a bunch of information, but I want it specifically Let's do the memory first. We want it specifically to show us how much memory is used by a process And what we can do here, and we make this just a little bigger You can give it the O option or whatever and then Set some kind of specific output So the output that I want is I'm gonna say command and then percent mem And this pretty much does exactly what you expect It's gonna list out the command and the percentage of memory used So now we have all of these commands and we have them sorted by or not sorted, but you have the memory percentage Uh memory percent of each one of them. You can also give ps options like sort So I can say specifically I want you to sort this and I want you to sort this by percentage of memory So now we have all of these you'll notice that the biggest ones are at the very bottom Ffmpeg is the most intensive process running that of course is recording this video An mpv that's the thing that's generating my head right here, but you know, that's what we expect Um, but I actually actually now that I think about it, we really want Minus memory because we want the most intensive process Processes to be at the top, right? So if uh, well, maybe I should rerun that So if I go up here to the very top, you'll see that that's where they are Because this allows us to let's say Pipe it into to head or something like that I know we talked about using said 11q in the last video, but we'll just do something normal and use head Um, so if you pipe this in the head, you'll actually get What in effect is our 10 most memory intensive processes sorted with the memory percentage But I want to change this command a little more first off if I you know, again as I said I want my module to print out these um, I wanted to print out these values if I click on them But I don't I don't like this these big spaces here So luckily we can in this uh output format we can actually specifically say I want the command to only be 15 pixels Or 15 pixels uh 15 spaces or whatever it is Um The what's the word for it totally. Yeah, definitely not 15 pixels But anyway, so if I give it a 15 here, it's only going to have you know a width of 15 characters Um, and that's going to be it. So that's sort of like what I want here So I'm going to take this command. I don't think there's anything else I need in this I'm going to copy it over again to this little document where I'm keeping all of these commands And actually the cpu temperature Um is going to be pretty much the same thing We can actually take all of this but I'm going to replace memory With cpu and ps will give us the exact same stuff. So now we're looking at the most I won't look at this ffmpeg that that's how how much uh memory or not memory how intensive You know some kind of process like this can be so you can sort you know by cpu percentage and now we have that So I'm going to take this command copy it I'm going to take it over here. So now we have all the commands we really want Oops did not copy all of this So now we have all of the commands that we want and um We can go ahead and start building our i3 blocks modules now.  So I have this other window in On my other workspace and this is the general format of an i3 blocks module Now this is I'm going to start out. I think I've named this file i3 mim because this is going to be the memory Module now by default. I want it to just print out the Percentage of memory or the the ratio of memory used. So I'm going to put in this command that says Uh, you know that prints out the used memory over the total memory now I'm going to go to my i3 blocks config Which is in i3 blocks config and I'm going to set let's say A new module for memory.  So I don't have to worry about that the interval Let's say I want it every 30 seconds and You can also give it a label. That's going to be like a decorative You know logo or something I'm going to choose a brain because it's about memory So I'm going to put this in I'm going to save both of these documents And I'm going to restart i3 blocks and you'll see up here I have I now have a brain icon and it has the used memory over the total memory And that's pretty much exactly what I want. Now. Additionally, as I said, I want to be able to click on this Um and for it to show the um, what was I about to say the the most intensive processes Now I actually already have this case statement Up here. I'm going to uncomment all this now in i3 blocks again This is going to be i3 blocks specific But in i3 blocks when you have a script that you're running as your You know, you're the the script for your module or whatever When you click on it, it automatically gives it a block button Variable you'll see I just clicked on it and it printed out left click action because When I clicked on that it set block button equal to one and then it ran this command here So what we wanted to do is I wanted to print out I'm going to have it print out a pop-up that has the most intensive processes on it. So I'm going to get rid of this now. I'm going to be using notify send Um, just as an example So notify send is the little command that prints out some kind of notification Just to show you that this thing works if I click on this you'll see that I have I printed out this text right here But I wanted to print out this little command. So I'm going to take this command most intensive memory most intensive memory Processes so I'm going to have it print That Make it to put it all on the line. So it's pretty I think that this should just work. Let's see Okay. Yeah, great. So that prints out all of our processes And it shows the percentage of memory usage of each. That's exactly what we want So I'm going to leave it at this. I might add in some other things in a second just to make it A little more specific what we're looking at. You could say for example, let's say you know most memory well, let's say biggest memory hogs Put that on a new line. So print out print that out and it'll print. Uh, oops, probably I guess put in another. Oh, no I'm going to tab it over. That's what it is because it's sensitive to white space Um, yeah, so that prints that out. So that's pretty much what what we want So I'm going to leave it at that. I'll I'll put some this is going to be on my github But I'll probably add some other stuff in before I actually push it But pretty much the same thing would be Let's make our cpu module. So I'm going to open up actually maybe I'm not quite sure what directory I'm in I'm going to go to Uh, my status bar I'm going to create i3 cpu and that's going to be my new script Um Then I am going to copy and paste pretty much everything from here into this script I'm going to make it executable. Probably should have done this before the Video is on. You'll notice that I'm Craining my head. That's because I have my microphone in the way. I don't know why I just don't move that Um, anyway, I should probably edit that out but I'm too lazy Okay, so now that we have all that we can make a cpu module. I'm going to set that up in i3 blocks command i3 cpu Interval let's say I want that maybe every 15 seconds and the label I'm going to give it Maybe I'll give it some kind of I don't know computer Of a laptop computer. It doesn't really matter I'll put that in And if I let's see if I run this yeah, so that'll pop up now We just have to change the commands to the things we want So our cpu temperature is this command. So I'm going to go in here and replace The memory command with that. So now it will show cpu. Oops. It'll show cpu So 61 degrees Celsius and now I will take instead of that memory command Actually, I don't need a paste that I can just replace mem with cpu And that will give us our most intensive cpu processes. So And I will biggest cpu pods So now redo that reload i3 blocks and if I click on this it'll show me biggest cpu hogs again ffmpeg just steals today look at all that But yeah, so that's pretty much all we want. I guess so anyway So this has been sort of I guess just a real life implementation of something I'm going to toy around with these scripts a little more maybe add some bells and whistles Usually what I do is I if you like right click on a module I want it to show some information about it. So I'll probably add those as well You can just put them in this block Actually just undo this and that'll be your right click action Um, so anyway, you can check these out on my github. If you have any questions recommendations Ask or put them in the comments or something like that. But anyway, that's going to be pretty much it and I'll see you guys next time


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Okay, now real quick, before you, now real quick, before you get eight, now after you get him out of the packaging, you'll see that he comes with a sheet of instructions, but you're not going to use these anyway, anyway, god damn fuck, now that we have eight face in jet mode, we can take a look at his headmaster partner, Spasma. Now he's not called Spasma anywhere with this brand new figure, it's not in the instructions, it's not on the box, but Spasma, fuck.  In robot mode, if you play with him in jet mode or gorilla mode, he just doesn't stay tabbed together and it's not real fun, plus I'm always dropping the gun, and I'm afraid I'm going to lose it and then was he going to have it.  Now that looks cool, but I think I'm going to, fuck.


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Hello everybody and welcome back to another Ethan journal video. So today's video is a Different type of video. I guess you could say it's not a tutorial It's more on the side of a review in my first impressions of an app that I found now It's not really an app It's more of a toolkit as you will soon see but today we're gonna be checking out orca toolkit from max stadium Let's head over to the web browser so I can kind of show you what I'm talking about So this is max stadium they provide Cloud-based Mac, so like if you need a Mac For something running Mac OS for some server application or app and you don't you don't want to buy a Mac But you still want to have that they can give you basically a virtualized Mac mini in the cloud Kind of like what you would get with a Linux server through the node or AWS I've loved their stuff. I love their team. They do some amazing things and I didn't realize this But apparently they have something called orca toolkit If I can find it I forgot where I grabbed it from Maybe I have to search for it But yeah, they have this thing called orca toolkit which basically allows you to take your own Mac device Virtualized Mac OS on that an entirely contained environment So kind of like virtual box, but it's completely plug-and-play it downloads a legitimate copy of Mac OS from Apple Installs the whole thing for you inside of a virtual machine So I've already gone ahead and downloaded it and if I go ahead and I open up orca toolkit And I pull it over It's really simple the first screen you get like system information and stuff You can edit how you want to configure your devices. I always I kind of experimented with what I think would work I have an M1 Mac mini with an M1 processor, which has eight cores and 16 gigabytes of RAM so with that in mind I went ahead and gave it half of my CPU and 8 gigabytes of memory so half of both of those as well as 50 gigabytes of storage doing this I went ahead and I installed the first virtual machine and It was really quick and simple if I go in to create a new one here And I'm just gonna name this demo Mac And I go in and let's go download the latest That's basically going to go ahead and download the latest copy of Mac OS venture and install that on this Mac mini Virtualized Mac mini in this case set that up you choose your screen resolution where you want it to be stored and click install I've already done that for us, so I'm going to close out of that But I will go ahead and start up this version right here so doing this you'll notice it'll take a second to open up the window and Forget where it's going to open itself up in oh it did a full screen window one second. I got to pull it up over here Here we go, so here is what it renders. It's literally just a regular window box here and Just like you would have a normal Mac as you can see I've already made an account If I log in boom, it will literally be a virtualized Mac mini here If I go into about this Mac like I wouldn't normally on a regular Mac. It actually says Apple Virtual Machine 1 And then it says Apple M1 Virtual 8 gigabytes It comes up with a serial number that is completely different than a regular Mac mini serial number I don't know how it does that but it's pretty neat and of course it's running Mac OS Ventura So it's basically a cleanest dull of Mac OS Ventura. Everything works as it normally would So I can go ahead and let's say I want to download Firefox. I can head over to Firefox Dot-com and it'll bring me over to Missile like normally would can download that it has full access to their internet through the computer You're virtualizing it with I was experimenting a little bit with trying to get it to run some addition of Like a web server to try and see if I could virtualize this in some way and make it like a cloud server on my Mac mini I might even try and get this thing to become a crypto mining machine and then they can have like four virtualized Mac minis all Mining crypto at the same time. I think that'd be kind of a cool idea either way It's just a really neat system and the fact that it's free is also really neat, too Now if I actually go back to Mac stadium and we look at something like this and of course they have They have their pricing for what their virtualized Mac stuff is You can get a Mac mini 2018 and for $89 a month. So that's still an Intel But if you go with the same one I have right here, it's $99 a month now I bought this computer once at $1,200 with the education discount back in 2020 when it came out So if we do the math on that We go $1,200 divided by let's see they were doing $99 a month Basically in about a year worth of Virtualizing a server on my Mac mini. I would have paid off this Mac mini rather than using in the cloud I don't know what that analogy is for it just popped up in my head But either way that kind of goes to show now I Under my understanding the reason that this app exists is for testing out software Developers can use it to experiment with programs. They might be building Yeah, and if you go over to their page and looking at it again Yeah, it is for mainly testing and quality assurance testing out. I'm assuming different versions of stuff Get started with work a toolkit and stuff like that. So yeah, if you have a Mac, honestly, it's really neat It's really modern. It works great. I'm not sponsored by Mac Stadium in any way I just kind of saw this on Twitter from one of their administrators and it's really neat like I actually kind of like it and Virtualizing M1 stuff right now isn't the best like I have this program pop back over to the desktop now on my actual Mac I have a program called UTM Which is how you can virtualize stuff with Mac M1 because it has the ability to emulate different CPU architectures Um, and I have used it. It's just really slow like running a really simple Ubuntu server instance It's slower than my 2005 Server that I have in the other room that hosts like five websites at the same time And this is on an emulated M1 Running an emulation of x86 So that kind of just goes to show that it isn't the best It's very power intensive too. Like it's super slow in the emulation But it's also like really really power intensive like my my mac mini. I have a little menu bar item that lets me see What the heat inside of my machine is defaults like 33 degrees celsius when I boot this thing up It goes straight up to 70 degrees celsius which for an M1 equipped Mac is really high and Anything any resources that aren't being used by other apps in my mac mini that thing just takes them all at the same time And I had zero percent idling Which is kind of strange, but again, it's a it's a beta app as far as I know and utm runs Some virtual ethan find it when you're editing this It runs that a virtualizing program that you can access from the terminal and apparently doing it that way Is a lot faster than using this front-facing app of utm But either way, um, there's all those options out there. I'll leave both Orca toolkit in the description And utm if you want to try that out Um, basically I just kind of wanted to showcase some M1 virtualization I can go more in depth than another video if you guys want that But until then I hope you guys enjoyed be sure to subscribe if you like the video and see y'all next time. Bye. Bye


Yeah, our team goals for this year are to win the Mac again. And then that advances us to the NCAAs and the team wants to make it back to the final four. In the last year we were in the top eight. So that's a realistic goal I think for these guys. So those are the two main goals, you know, win the Mac, get to the final four and then we have some statistical goals where we don't want to ever lose a fifth set and out block the opponent and out hit and efficiency wise. But primarily just everything focuses on that winning the Mac conference because then after that everything kind of falls into place.  I've seen him play since I've coached here and land in. So Jason's been really strong in the offensive position, you know, hitting back row and land in was the best in the country in serving aces. So I need those two guys to, you know, really lead the team. And then my middle positions, you know, we lost Klunk in the middle who was a captain. So I'm expecting and I'm seeing it already that Bosco and Bossy are really going to fight it out for that other middle position with Reynolds to nothing's given to any of these guys. Yeah, I have to earn it, but but that junior class to with Bosco and Bossy and Derek is a captain also. He's like a junior captain, you can learn from the three seniors. So Derek, my libero. So I think we're going to be, I mean, this is a really good year for us with that senior leadership and guys having made it to the final eight last year and having won the Mac last year. Although it's going to be stronger with the teams, you know, a lot of those teams are just starting out. So it'd be tough for this year. That's the way I like to train them anyway. Like my middle blockers to be able to set, like my liberos to be able to spike.  So I try to, I try to do that anyway, have everybody learn all the skills and so forth. But yeah, I do have a few versatile players that can play pretty much any position. So really good group of guys. I mean, they, we have that going for us. I think they gel well together. They've been working hard in practice. So they can, some luck, you know, they can attain, you know, what their goals right there and getting to the final four.


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Okay, this is a panel discussion about public Cloud Foundry platforms in Europe, and it's really intended to be useful if you are thinking about using public Cloud Foundry, public Cloud Foundry, or you are operating your own Cloud Foundry and you would like to learn from some of the people that do it at scale. So before we start, can you put up your hands if you are already using y public Cloud Foundry Paz. Take note, panellist, so you can respond appropriately to the audience. Can you put up your hand if you don't use one, but you operate your own Cloud Foundry instead? I'm going to ask the panellist to introduce themselves, but before that I'm just going to make a special mention for the ones who couldn't make it. Holly Cummings from Brumix Garage, sadly couldn't be here. Bridget from Pivotal and Rebecca from Noe Anthony from CenturyLink couldn't come, so look forward to having them on a future panel. My name's Dan Young. I work at a Cloud Foundry consultancy called Engineer Better, and I have used a number of different public Cloud Foundry providers, so I have opinions of my own. I will now let the panel introduce themselves. Hello, I'm Jonathan Matthews. Despite what it might say in your apps and your schedule, I do not represent any large UK retailer here today. I'm an independent Cloud Foundry integrator. I've used all of the people on this panel, so I've used products provided by all of the people on this panel today and have opinions about all of them and some of the people on this panel as well, but I'm sure we'll not come on to those today. I am, if you like, the slight voice of a customer in this scenario. Thank you. I'm Julian Fisher, CEO of any9s, and we started as a platform and now also do consultancy around Cloud Foundry. I'm Colin Humphries. I'm CTO for Cloud at Pivotal. We don't have a public European pass at the moment, but we're giving it a lot of thought. We do have a public pass that operates out of the US. My name is Mark Oxtraser. I'm running the Cloud Development in Swisscom. Swisscom is a Swiss service provider, and we run a public offering of Cloud Foundry, as well as a couple of enterprise offerings around that. Hi, I'm Dominic Harrys. I work at the Bluemix garage in London for IBM, and I'm slightly on the user side, I guess, of the public cloud using Bluemix with customers to run projects. If I was to look at... My first question is going to be operations-related, I think. If I was to look at all the different API versions, CloudControl API versions, if you go to cfapi.buemix.net, somebody's written an app that shows you these, they're all different. That would imply that there may be some challenges in deploying Cloud Foundry at scale. Why are they different? Who would like to have the first question? Why is yours different? You mean the platform? The versions of the APIs that are being used on your platform. If you compare that with Pivotal and with Bluemix, they're all different. They're all slightly different versions. The only thing that's different on our platform is the data services. Despite of that, it's just the regular Cloud Foundry. That's the answer to the question. I was just looking... What challenges might you have when deploying Cloud Foundry means that you can't always just run the latest version? You all appear to have different cadences of deployment and upgrade. I'm wondering if that possibly, as a consumer, I'd be interested in understanding why you have the particular cadence that you have, providers. Oh, I see. One thing I'd like to see around the Cloud Foundry community is to organise, let's say, a delivery cadence and maybe a release management that makes it easier to do that, because as an offering based on open source Cloud Foundry, you have to manage that yourself. Of course, you have to provide a CI pipeline, go through testing all the components you want to apply to a certain version and see whether it works with all the other components you might have other providers don't have. For example, our billing system that takes usage data and translates it into something that we can generate invoices from. So, yes, that's something that would be desirable. Of course, it is a certain burden because you have to organise that and consumes resources that could actually be shared with other Cloud Foundry providers as well. Pivotal web services runs the latest version, the bleeding edge. I haven't looked at the other APIs. Last time I did check, Pivotal web services was ahead of all the other providers. We're running the latest versions. We test it before it goes to Pivotal web services, but then it runs as a service in Pivotal web services before it goes into PCF, which is our product that you install on-prem. You have that additional layer of testing with thousands of users before it becomes part of the on-prem product. Yes, so we do it almost the same. We run roughly two to four weeks behind the official release, which is roughly second or third after PWAsco's life, and we try to be very, very at-hawke. For various reasons, there are CVEs, there are security issues, so you need to be very much on the release, which is heavy for the users, because sometimes API switches, you just need to switch, as Julie mentioned, so you have challenges there, but I think we really focused on having a system to really upgrade very fast, because I think this is our duty to be on track. It's an obvious product. We will find bugs, we will find security issues. We need to be very, very much on track, and this is very focused on. So Bluemix is massive. I think it's got more users than any other public cloud platform, so we have to do a bunch of scalability. 1,000 users a week? There's a lot of scalability testing and that kind of thing, and I know there's a bunch of custom security stuff and other integration things that go in. The other interesting thing about Bluemix is that we have single tenant environments and local environments that we manage for our customers, and so then they get a bit of choice about when they upgrade, so there's a specific event or a specific load that they need at a certain time of year. They can postpone the upgrade just to make sure everything stays. So there's a window that customers get to choose where they upgrade in. OK. I don't need to keep running over that, because I've got my turn here, haven't I? So what feature do you not have that you wish you had as a provider in Cloud Foundry? What is it that you... It might be something that is coming down the road, but isn't here yet, or something that is not even conceived of yet. What would completely change your ability to operate at that sort of scale? Or would help the business? I think... So this is something that's coming. The ability to have seamless deployment to multiple availability zones. So we have patterns to do that, which require a bit of manual work. We have some services in beta. There's a CDN service in beta and that kind of thing, which helped developers to do that. But having kind of a single CF push and magically everything just works would be great. Obviously it's very difficult. I think, as we talk about public Cloud Foundries, I think it's also important to see the essence. Why do we need public providers in Europe? Why is Cloud Foundry worthwhile to run publicly? And I think it's important for our customers to move workload around to select which country they want to save the data if they need to. And this is obviously why we build it up in Switzerland. There are certain customers who want to have it there. And what is missing there and what I think we can really leverage ourselves as a group. I mean, we are competitors to a certain kind. But I think the next level we should aim and what I'm really missing is that we heavily share our services and our service marketplaces. That we heavily go forward and say okay, you can get all the whatever services in this cloud and in this cloud and we just share it together to give the customer the full experience of a public mesh of Cloud Foundries in Europe. I think this is the biggest miss I see. I think the biggest feature I think coming down the pipeline is going to be the isolation segments. If somebody in the talk earlier on asked me to run apps on a separate set of infrastructure so I could see for public cloud providers you could have a customer who is using Cloud Foundry quite happily and then has some apps that need to be essentially on their own set of infrastructure. So you could then allow a customer to burst out to their own infrastructure for a particular app. So it gives you the isolation of a set of runtime components but it means that the customer doesn't have to pay for all of the control plane and it should benefit of being able to isolate particular work loads as required. So I think that's going to be useful for public pass providers. So I totally agree that multi-data centre awareness is something that should be part of Cloud Foundry at some day as it is a motivation for many Cloud Foundry users or adopters to go for multi-region strategies. That's true. I also agree to Marker's opinion that data services are important to have a certain set of common data services so that users can develop against the Cloud Foundry platform and that there's ensured that you can just take this application and run it somewhere else as well. And yes, that's basically my thoughts on this. Could I have a go at answering this question from a... Well, I was about to ask you what's the best thing and the worst thing from the user perspective about using public Cloud Foundry? Could I touch on that question previously, which is the biggest missing thing as a consumer of public CF in Europe is we have, I think, four providers here, only two of whom are actually technically if you want to get your lawyers involved in the EU. I believe to what it's called, you're not strictly in the EU from a... How does it look like the EU? It's like Europe. The world should be very specific. So... And it's called... I mean, let's talk about Britain. Yes, yes. That's another one that I don't really want to anticipate to taking a good couple of years off at the point that that happens. It's only Julian who's left then. So long story short, from a consumer perspective, the thing I want is more. More EU providers who I can point out and go, this is definitely in scope for things like PCI, this is definitely in scope for personal data, things where I don't have to cross any potentially what's the difference between EU and Europe boundaries, things like that. And then I've forgotten the question you actually asked me. I said what was the best, what is the best thing and the worst thing about depending on a public cloud boundary provider for your, instead of operating your own... Simply the best thing is I'm not running any service. That I'm sure everyone who consumes public CF is aware of that as being a huge win. The worst thing I think is mitigating the difference in support and the difference in transparency that you get from different providers in the case of problems happening. Perhaps not intentional difference in transparency but just the effect of how their support works and the way that they communicate that with the public. That has been a significant issue for the organisations that I work with. Can I jump back to a previous point? I realise we sound like we're in furious agreement at the moment on this panel. I just noticed something I wanted to pick up on. Maybe a little bit contentious. So we're talking about services, the different services on the providers. Julian and Marco mentioned how they think we should have a common range of services. And also pivotal sales pitch. The pivotal services you can deploy from PCF, you can deploy them to any IS provider that you want so you have this kind of data service down wherever you want. But I wouldn't want to sit on this panel and look to use IBM of trying to differentiate by their services and lock you into IBM's paths by providing the services that are behind there. I wouldn't want to say that. But if that was said, how would IBM respond to that? So I would say, I don't know what you're talking about, if you're talking about Cloudant, if you're talking about Cloudant, that runs on AWS and Azure. If you're talking about compose.io, that runs on, not today, but stay tuned. I did want to touch on the motivations of the different providers for being in the market because I think it helps users to understand that so they can make better decisions. So I think Colin might have alluded there to some other motivations allegedly that IBM would have which is, you know, we've got this big marketplace of middleware services and the past is kind of a way of reaching that. But Pivotal obviously are using the very latest code in PWS and John, what did we discover yesterday in the training? Things were a little bit wobbly of these sometimes? Yes, I can absolutely see the... Can I keep it here? Yes, I can absolutely see the benefits of doing dog fooding the product on before big enterprise customers get the code coming down, but we certainly couldn't see any signs of the slight wobblyness yesterday being recognised anywhere. Although to be fair that was a relative outlier. I'm purely talking about PWS there. We don't generally see that as a problem but we definitely did see we didn't get information coming forward about that that I'm sure you would get if you were paying big, big enterprise bucks but it was definitely interesting an interesting day yesterday given the context that we were sitting in. It was... I can... I wasn't there the training yesterday. Obviously PWS as I mentioned earlier does run the latest and greatest code. We put it through extensive testing via concourse. Heavily tested before it goes out but we do have... bugs will emerge. I can say I've been a pivotal for seven months prior to that I used PWS extensively as a customer and in my experience it was the most stable public cloud foundry. We're looking potentially at bringing it to Europe running PWS in Europe but as I said earlier that means if you're paying for PCF you get something that's far more heavily tested has gone through far more in terms of has all the security fixes everything else we can possibly get into there to make it as good as possible. So obviously as PWS PCF is our focus PWS is something we use to make PCF better. So yeah the message there is that it's not it's not meant to be a profit making venture. It's a very useful service but it also helps pivotal actually develop their commercial products. It gives you a great try before you buy and it's fantastic for really all the code we ship we run as a service before you run it as a service but our focus is PCF. So one of the customers that I've been working with had an incredible statistic where they said it was their Christmas food ordering website and they had moved from a situation where they were spending $1,000 on hardware just for that short three month period of the year and then they'd moved to a public cloud found your provider in Europe and they're now spending $200. So my question would be how is anyone making any money out of that? What kind of scale do you need to be running at for that to be a viable business? So I've been through the belly of darkness with public offering at any nines. So we started at a listed v-sphere cluster and moved to a self-hosted open stack which was the most horrific thing I've ever done. And calculating prices against Heroku the largest competitor two challenges are when offering a cloud found platform with no domain specific differentiator such as being an IoT platform or something which is first when Heroku came up it was seven years ago I think then there was a wave or there's this something new everybody looked at it just like the hype around Docker is today and you will not get this second wave so you have to find your self a marketing that has more you know other points of attraction and the second is infrastructure so infrastructure in general is a very hard topic and our value proposition used to be 100% European currently our target sits on AWS because we were unable to find a trustworthy infrastructure provider being entirely operated in Europe not being held by a US holding company that offers us infrastructure as a service so we can build a platform on top of it. The calculation from a cost perspective with a self-hosted open stack allowed us to be competitive with Heroku from day one even at a very small scale so from an economical point of view I'd say it is possible that let's say smaller data centers use infrastructure as a service and put a cloud from you on top of it and make a viable business out of it in case they are entirely focused on that we've been distracted by consulting business also and if they manage to get the infrastructure stable maybe chewing on your first point we are happy to help you with the infrastructure we are a non-U country but in Europe like every UK provider so maybe let me know we also run an open stack which obviously helps us bring the cost down it was not easy a lot of people here in the room probably think of these days right now it was hard but I think it's worthwhile the public offering was especially in the beginning it was clearly intended to be a business card to show that we are a cloud provider that we have passed in the market and also to push the cloud foundry message our main market was at the enterprise offerings where we have dedicated cloud foundries fully virtual private where we encapsulate network and all that this was our target what we saw in the last six months is that our public environment really grew and we are on a stage where we said it's way bigger than we ever thought it will be and also the revenue economics really work and we also see quite a lot of non-swiss customers you know for whatever reason put their data in non-U countries but it's fine we're happy to get it I'd say the kind of cost per hour is one cost that you'll have on public a lot of IBM's customers obviously enter into more comprehensive agreements around what they're providing around support, around services all that kind of thing which I think allows that basic cost per hour to be very competitive but also partly as a calling card to maybe a single tenant environment or that kind of thing but also as just something which opens you up to services that may be chargeable or support that may be chargeable as well So of those 20,000 new users a week what proportion of those are startups because obviously Blue Mix is quite focused on startups That's a good question and if I had the numbers I don't even know I'd be able to tell you but we work in the biggest I think the biggest startup co-location environment in the world and we work in Moorgate and we've had some really great successes with startups coming along using the platform it's very easy to get started with the built-in DevOps and things like the Watson services which allow you to spend pennies for stuff that you would have had to have a massive contract with a big supplier for before I guess the same question to the others the other providers here are you seeing more enterprises starting to say we don't need to run our own cloud boundaries? So we see both but we see more enterprise and we see actually more enterprise developers which are kind of stick with the internal IT situation and then move into our cloud so for instance two months after we launched our public cloud one CEO of a bank in Switzerland called me to ask me if we can shut down the organization which some of his team did that we should stop his team pushing apps to our cloud because they're not allowed to this was a very nice conversation I should have recorded it but I think we have quite a lot of organizations which are really big organizations where some developers really try to have an easy way still deployance with some but have a very easy way to use cloud so we see but it's I would say half half right I think we found it quite interesting how a lot of our big enterprise customers they have VMware or OpenStack on-prem they buy PCF to deploy onto it and then interestingly quite often they either hit capacity limits with what they can have on-prem or some of the reason they can't to scale anymore and then they'll just put Cloud Foundry on Amazon they'll just scale it out and that's where we see huge amounts of value where all of a sudden they were used to hitting some kind of a capacity limit and now they can just be like oh we'll put PCF on AWS we'll scale that out the apps run exactly the same the data services run exactly the same so we've removed that friction between being able to take workloads from one infrastructure and put it down on another one we haven't seen a lot of people to running their own Cloud Foundry on AWS to then starting to use a public cloud provider as well I haven't seen a huge amount of that but maybe that's because that's not really been our focus I think it's more gone the other way people will try out Cloud Foundry on PWS enjoy it and then like to install PCF either on-prem or on AWS so I'd say that the size of Cloud Foundry makes sense to be on-premise you know how big should a company be so that it makes sense to use your own Cloud Foundry I'd say that it's it's surprisingly small so you can make use of a Cloud Foundry in a certain circumstances being dedicated however the cloud is about sharing so when you look at at Amazon at a certain time they just open up their infrastructure to be used by others so what's the big value in using Amazon has a let's say unlimited capacity from our perspective as a small organisation I'm running a 50 people company here like the way the smallest company represented on the board I guess so for us Amazon is unbelievably big where our infrastructure had around let's say 2 terabyte of RAM so when a customer own boards a small platform your question is how much of elasticity do you actually need and the same thing is when you run dedicated cloud phone within your data centres how big is your infrastructure how much of that infrastructure is taken by your Cloud Foundry and how much elasticity do you need within the runtime and within the infrastructure part of your infrastructure so with that the question it could be that you have to order new hardware because you hit a boundary because there was user growth and you did it unexpectedly so in that case on Amazon you'd possibly be able to just use more resources because they just have more free space and that's a calculation everybody has to do are you big enough to make use and to benefit from the platform within that boundaries of your data centre or your core location is there any audience questions before we reach the end I should really check who's got burning questions for the panel because we've got the microphone anyone at all Alex do you have one you did safe harbour yeah so I think the question was does pivotal plan to offer the services from PCF on PWS is that correct yes we do we're looking at that we're making them incrementally more and more available to customers so we're very much doing that but that's taken a while I admit but that's definitely happening now I think the question was are we also going to run the tiles from other companies on PWS I think that's maybe happening but I don't want to make a commitment right now we're agile it's certainly something we'll learn from running our other PCF tiles on PWS and then if that's successful we'll then look maybe with our partners to bring their offerings as well that's a great question and it does play towards the title of the tour which is what can we do next how can we really improve this marketplace maybe just touching on what Marco said that positive sun game aspect of working together as a community to improve things I think that more visibility about how one can transparently or easily migrate across different public providers would be from a consumer's perspective really useful there are currently a couple of some challenges that we face so I think that would probably be a good thing for the whole community of public consumers to be able to say we can take a bit of service here and a bit of service there and not have to hugely care about the distinction between them outside of the services later I totally agree so taking the perspective of the Cloud Foundry end user I want to set up as a Cloud Foundry CLI on my computer I want to set the target, deploy an app and I want to do the same thing by just changing the target that's my desire and I don't want to care about the versions or whatever when I have a manifest file specifying the dependency tree of my app I don't want to worry about anything else that's the main motivation why I use a public pass and currently there's so much heterogeneity that there's so many differences between the platforms that this isn't possible right away and I think that is improved that will be a benefit for the end user I'm probably going to answer this subtly differently so what I would love to see happen within a year would be some large European companies take part in Cloud Foundry dojos have more core committers to Cloud Foundry from Europe and bring in platinum members gold members to the foundation of Cloud Foundry from European companies I know we've got a few, I'd love to see more of them I'd love to see far more other companies getting involved far more core committers Cloud Foundry is ours so let's invest more in it as people, let's put more people onto it let's just help it grow I think also it goes in the direction of growth but I think we just need more providers as well I know a couple of providers which will probably one will probably launch already this year and maybe one other I know next year, early next year so this is cool but I think we need more so it's a good business to be in if there's anyone who wants to start at Cloud Foundry you recommend it I think we should make it very easy for service providers in Europe which are dedicated in countries to launch something like Cloud Foundry and this also goes in the direction how small does Cloud Foundry need to be to run it by yourself it can be very small but it's very hard to run it it's very hard to run it you need very good engineers you need people who know how the upstream works you need very fast cycles and security updates you need to have your hands on that stuff and I think this is very important so size is not the only thing PCF helps with all of that in case you were wondering okay that's it, we're finished unless there's any more questions I think we're probably keeping everyone from their coffee so Dom did you have something else to add? I would just say along a similar line I think the seamless transition so that if you have some stuff ready in AWS or some stuff you want in public cloud some stuff you want in a single tenant cloud or on premise just a good story for how you can easily connect those things and work with what people already have okay great thank you very much to our panellists


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I've always been your host, Lauren Siler, and on this television program today, we will talk about overdosing sports and steroids and many other things in regards to that. And also today, this month, Overdose Prevention Month, or Overdose Prevention Day. With me to discuss, with us, to discuss this important topic is Ron Rondon of Ron Rondon. It's most of a Ron Rondon. Road trip with Ron Rondon from Brooklyn Free Speech TV and Free Speech One. Welcome, Ron, to Ableton on Air. Let's get back to it anyway. Okay, so let's talk about the first thing we want to mention and talk about, there's a lot of things around overdosing and steroids and that kind of thing. The most recent case with the Women's National Basketball Association, WMBA, is with Brittany Yvette Griner from one of the best women's basketball teams in the league. She was caught in Russia with hemp oil and marijuana due to a medical doctor's card. If you have a medical doctor's card, you should be able to carry. But she's dealing with that and she's in prison at this point. She's an American, according to Wikipedia, she's an American professional basketball player with the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She's currently in prison in Russia and she plays college basketball. She played college basketball for the Baylor Lady Bears in Waco, Texas. She's the only NBA national NCAA basketball player to both score 2,000 points and block 500 shots. In 2012, the three-time All-American was named AP Player of the Year and the most outstanding player of the finals. Griner is one of 11 women to receive an Olympic gold medal and an NCAA championship and a FIBA, F-I-B-A, World Cup gold medal and a WNBA championship. In 2009, Griner was named the nation's number one high school women's basketball player by Rivals.com. She was selected in the 2009 Phoenix Mercury All-American basketball team and she received the Best Female Athlete SB Award by ESPN in 2013, 2012, 2013 and she also signed an endorsement deal with Nike and she stands 6 feet 9 inches and wears a US size 17 shoe. That's quite tall. Your thoughts on women's basketball, Ron. Go ahead. I've been following this before. Griner's problem was, I know the United States has illegal stuff but in Russia, I don't understand why... According to the internet here and sources, she was in Russian customs after cartridges containing less than a gram less than a gram of hashish oil was found in her luggage and later she was arrested on drug charges. She's been entering... She had entered Russia to play the Russian Premier League during the WNBA all season and her trial was July 1st. She pled guilty to charges on August 4th and you know... Ron, can you stop that rustling, please? Yeah. Yeah, boy, that is so much harsh. That is so much harsh. But this is what it says. According to... This is what it says. The defendant doesn't do... So they need to bring her home quickly instead of keeping her there nine years. And that is not the way they ought to do but they have to do it in crazier and crazier houses but this is going to be a tough challenge. Yeah, hold on. Stop tape for two seconds. Need your help? Technical problem, please. Hold on two seconds. Okay. Okay, thank you. Okay, great. Sorry about that. Can we continue? Yeah. All right, cool. Sorry about the technical difficulties here. That will be edited out. In terms of... and Arlene, if you want to jump in here...  I think it's not right. If you do have a doctor's... card... Ron, Ron, can you stop the rustling? To take what you... what the doctor has ordered. And they show who knows what's going to happen and they don't believe her. And I don't know what's in the problem here. But they have to meet doctor's orders in order to bring that to Russia. Now, according to professional sports... Ron, the speaker is picking up that. Yeah? What are you doing there? The speaker is picking up that. Okay, so... steroids is a man-made version. According to the definition. Steroids is a man-made version of hormones. Can you move away from that noise? Okay, so... all right, steroids is a man-made... version of hormones... normally produced by adrenal glands, which are two small glands found above the kidneys. When taken in dosage, higher than the amount your body normally produces, steroids also can reduce redness and inflammation. But according to sports, if you take... and a bottle of steroids, it is a problem when you're dealing with... trying to bulk up. And a lot of people don't want you to use steroids, especially in professional sports, because they're known as a drug and there have been... huh? Yeah, yeah. Ron, do you know any professional... I know there was a couple of professional sports people that have taken steroids in the past. Do you know of any? Steroids in 2005 were banned by the Major League Baseball Organization with HGH, and because of its usage in 2011. St. Vincent is actually on record stating that Congress has a list of illegal substances that include steroids and it must be obtained via a prescription. So it was banned in 2005. Now the difference... let's talk about doping, okay? Over the course of Major League Baseball history, steroids and steroid testing was not a major... was not a major issue, but in 1991, Commissioner Faye Vincent sent a memo to all teams stating that steroid use was against the rules and there was no official change. Vincent had sent a memo that was intended to be a moral statement that players... players that are rather than a legal one that was the only way of making a change and through collective bargaining. So steroids was banned from MLB in 2005 and in 2011 when Congress made it illegal. So... Yeah. So let's talk... since we're on the topic of Major League Baseball, go ahead if you want to mention and let's talk about the Yankees. Yankees and the Met, so far because they were getting close to the most important September because they will say... they were leading in first place, they were first place leading and then they've blown most of the losses of all baseball teams. But people are citizen. Before we get back to the issue at hand and overdosing in sports, coronavirus and sports, I know that in 2020 there was a big issue in reference to the stands. Are all games now allowed to be played in the stadiums like with baseball or football and everything? It was cardboard cutouts. Yeah. You know, cardboard cutouts or like one or two people in the stands. That was about it. Yeah. And another thing that's happened you know, when Fox Sports virtual reality crowd right there and they came back with a crowd after the last year, what this was going to be? Arlene, since we got you on the phone did you want to say anything in reference to drug overdosing or anything of that nature in sports? Go ahead. Yes, some of these... I'm with the athletes. Yeah. Yeah. They get all... between... They kind of do them all with those. Even spending people do it. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. They get all this money. Yeah. No, well, in terms of sports. They get all this money, guys. Mm-hmm. But they... They get all this money and they don't know what to do with it. This is... This is the problem. They ruin... They ruin sports. They ruin the game when the game is supposed to be played cleanly. Look, in November 2005, okay, MLB owners and players approved even tougher penalties for positive tests. Under new rules, under new rules, the first positive test would be... would result in a 50 game suspension. A second pot... Yeah. In... In... A second positive test, Ron, are you there? Yes, I'm still there. A second positive test of steroids or drugs would result in a 100 game suspension. And a third positive test would result in lifetime suspension from Major League Baseball. And in March 20... In March... On March 28, 2014, the players and owners announced that these were the penalties for a positive test and they would increase to an 80 game suspension for the first defense and then escalate to 162 game suspension for a second defense and lifetime ban from the sport for a third. So, and, you know, Barry Bond's trial was even worse.  You know, they pay a lot of money for these seats and there's no reason for these players to mess up their lives because of overdosing on drugs, alcohol, doping, etc. You know, so, no, we don't want that. Any football things going on yet? Did they start practicing? You said Special Olympics New Jersey, right? Big shout out to Rutgers University for helping Special Olympics out and for all they do for the community. Okay, so why don't we talk about before we get back to the topic at hand, why don't we mention a little bit about Road Trip? Go ahead. Special thanks to Art Kurtz and his television program out in Brooklyn, which is the game show Black Party. And, you know, we thank Art for giving a lot to the community as he has for many, many years. You know, so it's... And also to his five... Oh, Happy 500 Shorts. Yep. Okay, so getting back to sports, go ahead, Ron. Basti, which will hold me for a never-seen-in, and already Glastier's Champion is the Los Angeles Grand, but I'm looking for a great season. Why don't we do this? We would like to promote Vermont's while we're in the interim because we only have a little while left and then we'll get back to Arlene. We are promoting the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference which will take... which will turn around and take place in Killington, Vermont which is... which is October 12th this year in Killington, Vermont. Let me get the information here. And and hold on one second. I'm gonna get the information. This is... Let me hold on a second. I'm getting it. One second. Let me just get all the information here so I can promote this. One second. Oh, here we go. We got it. It is the 34th annual... One second. Here we go. Excuse me. We're gonna have to re-edit this. October 12th, 2022 the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Vermont. The location and we'll put the flyer up. The location is Killington, Vermont which we will let you know and stay up to date and information. You can go to the following website. You can go to the following website at www. Give Guys, guys. The noise in the background. You can go to www. Classy.org That is www. Give Classy.org BIA VT Conference 2022. Save the day. October 12th, 2022 the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Vermont with the help of Green Mountain Support Services. We will be there Abled and On Air will be there. It will be a recorded event for Abled and On Air and we thank this organization for letting us come and speak and this is October 12th, 2022 at the Killington Grand Resort in Vermont. You can register for the conference at www. Give Classy.org forward slash BIA VT Conference 2022 Brain Injury Association of Vermont. And we thank them for that. And also before we get to the people then on air, you can go to www.OrcaMedia.net Go ahead Arlene, did you want to say anything else about sports and steroids or anything? And who is that? I put that in the black woman. Ron, do you know who that was? I have no idea. Okay. Well Okay. Really quick again. We would like to thank Ron Rondon for joining us on Abled and On Air and please check out his show Road Trip with Ron Rondon at Brooklyn Free Speech One and they can be their website is www.Go ahead, Ron, if you want to mention the website. It's your plate before your party. Who knows? 1130. And the last time for this show today, I got the correct situation. The Brain Injury Association of Vermont, which is located at 1 Derby Lane in Waterbury, they are having again the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference on Wednesday October 12th at the Killington Grand Hotel in Vermont, the heart of the province. By the way, we're having a flower here. This day we'll have in-person vendors, speakers lunch and a silent auction. This year's keynote speaker is survivor and mental health blogger Ariel Johnson. Speakers include Barb Absin, director of caregiver support for the Central Vermont Council on Aging, and it also will have John Raphael who is a social worker with the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals and other professionals who live work and who have Brain Injury in the community right here in Vermont. They will have other speakers including myself, Lawrence Seiler of Ableton On Air and we will be there focusing on Ableton On Air and speaking about what is it like living with challenges and myself being a journalist for 30 years. For more information on that conference please visit the Brain Injury Association website at www.bivt.org or find the Brain Injury Association of Vermont on Facebook and support them at support at bivt.org that's bivt.org and if you want to sign up for the conference you can go to www.give.classy.org give.classy.org forward slash bivt conference 2022 that's give.classy.org forward slash bivt conference 2022 This show today was about overdose prevention and sports and steroids and also please watch tonight at 5pm orca media will be at I know this is going to be taped but orca media will be at the state house Vermont state house taping the overdose prevention day speeches at the state house so please come out and support people that have been affected by overdosing and drugs we here at Ableton wish everybody well and we wish everybody much recovery when it comes to overdosing on drugs especially the horrible drug of fentanyl and we want all of Vermonters to get the help that they need especially from agencies such as the brain injury association and other agencies that do support these causes Ableton on air is sponsored by Green Mountain support services Washington County mental health and many others including the partners of the brain injury association of Vermont and the Green Mountain support services and many others also including the association for the blind and visually impaired the division for the blind and visually impaired and thank you to the partners of road trip with Ron Rondon from Brooklyn free speech one for coming on today's Ableton on air thank you so much okay I'm Lauren Seiler see you next time major sponsors for Ableton on air include Green Mountain support services empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community Washington County mental health where hope and support come together media sponsors for Ableton on air include Park Chester Times Muslim community report www this is the Bronx dot info Associated Press media editors New York powered online newspaper U.S. press corps domestic and international anchor FM and Spotify partners for Ableton on air include Yachad of New York and New England where everyone belongs the orthodox union the division for the blind and visually impaired the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired Center Vermont Habitat for Humanity and Montpelier Sustainable Coalition Montefiore Medical Center of the Bronx Rose of Kennedy Center of Bronx New York Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Bronx Ableton on air has been seen in the following publications Park Chester Times www this is the Bronx dot com New York powered online newspaper Muslim community report www dot H dot com and the Montpelier Bridge Ableton on air is part of the following organizations the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists


Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Christian Hughes. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry, and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the reeds of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt that gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Karen Savage. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the reeds of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt that gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Leanne Howlett. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the reeds of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Lucy Burgoyne. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the rifts of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Michael Sirwa in Houston, Texas. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the rifts of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Mary Mack. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the rifts of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Michael Rees. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its mounted snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the wreaths of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Mark Smith. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its bounded snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the wreaths of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Peter Yersley. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its bounded snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the wreaths of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Peter Yersley. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its bounded snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, in blue and crimson gleams the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the wreaths of incense like ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Nippon, by Alfred Neuers, read for LibriVarx.org by Rika Yachuk. Last night I dreamed of Nippon. I saw a cloud of white drifting before the sunset on seas of opal light. Beyond the wide Pacific I saw its bounded snow miraculously changing in that deep evening glow. To rosy rifts and hillocks, to orchards that I knew, the snows of peach and cherry, and feathers of bamboo. I saw on twisted bridges, in blue and crimson gleams, the lanterns of the fissures along the brook of dreams. I saw the wreaths of incense like little ghosts arise from temples under Fuji, from Fuji to the skies. I saw that fairy mountain. I watched it form and fade. No doubt the gods were smiling when Nippon Isle was made. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.