Realize I should probably comment a bit on the attitude I have towards education Some people here on YouTube over Twitter I've definitely pointed out that I seem rather Quick to anger on the subject and I that's that's not an inaccurate description of me. That's definitely true And since I'm figuring out what to Do about the whole using situation is but basically serves as something to get my mind up That and I sort of mess in here right now because Redoing the whole network. It's fun. I don't like networking Ran like 200 feet of ethernet cable not happy about it, but To cover the entirety of why I don't like school it They're gonna be a lot to that so this is gonna be broken up into multiple parts To make it, you know more easily digestible, but also Easier to upload the internet speeds here aren't great Working on it, but they're not great So it'd be better to upload this in chunks It makes it easier for me to edit it, but also because YouTube doesn't seem to get it It does sort of game their their stats It's always the thing when you do metrics you can you can gain anything Uh, granted, that's obviously not my intention. I've knowingly put out videos that Can be up for weeks and have less than 10 views and I'm okay with that By no means my intention to Deliverately game stuff because then you'd see me do You know regular regular call-out pieces stuff like that. I I'll call out somebody who directly criticizes me But I'm not gonna do random call-out videos or anything like that You know, I can cover scientific literature by covering the actual literature and not by like Calling out somebody who's wrong about it stuff like that but Yeah, I guess Sorry for the introduction to college. I won't If I get into anything from high school specifically it'll be after but Getting it get into the college stuff When I first went off it was to get a psychology degree At the time I thought psychology was a brilliant field Find people very interesting. I've always found people very interesting and I think that might have to do a little bit with Sort of came up in the window. It's filling out the stack overflow survey. I Am on the autism spectrum fairly fairly high up a bit of more than just aspergers would be But not full-blown it is still fairly high functioning, but People can pick up on it for a bit. I can still hold out in a conversation and stuff, but there's Things people definitely pick up on tendencies to walk away mid conversation a lot of trouble making eye contact although I Literally just view that as a just a Or predators Well, I like to think about it that way, but The single biggest indicator of that is our eyes are in the front of her face not facing off to the side that's the Predators Physiology is like my dog here's a great example Eyes are oriented the same way as ours. I can dig up research for that if anybody's interested But that's been shown Predators eyes are reliably from facing So I'll disagree with that one totally over the day I died but There's other there's plenty of other things and I think it's sort of this back Back looking back. I think it was sort of this backwards approach to to try to get better because I definitely Not not good at that by any means Eventually figured out how to deal with things rather than Well, I get when people bring up things like that as a way Some bullshit claim that people should make special accommodations for them I'll go into more depth about that in another time, but Yeah, so psychology My grades at a high school were meh that I didn't really like to do the homework Fucking hate homework actually My test grades were great though and they were high enough that it was able to get into the Not only an advanced placement in college because they don't really have that but sort of like a Specialized fast-track thing Essentially if I stayed with the program I would complete the degree within three years rather than four years Sort of like these opt-out tests things To speed through it a bit quicker. That's cool Sort of glad it That that happened because I got to see a bit of the realities of things quicker You know ultimately waste less money than Had I learned a bit slower, you know actually I'm gonna cover some of the more not not the specifics of school itself yet. I'll wait I'll wait for the follow-up to this what I want Why I definitely want to cover at least right now Some of the attitudes that were held about different parts of who I am and what I've done and what skills I had That I have only ever encountered in school In college specifically the things that I have hadn't encountered in Elementary or high middle school or high school things that I've never encountered in the workplace and And Yeah, really anywhere else this is attitudes That I'd only encountered in college that I would think these people should know better supposed to be people of reason and Critical thinking not Not the kind of shit that I Witness, that's the question that is which do I want to do first? Now this is overwhelming a programming channel, so just get that one out of the way real quick Attitude towards somebody who programs like what the frickin do same it as Anybody who's interested in biology or anything else like you did just another student like that's your field. That's okay Literally nothing to comment on there When people would find out I so that was one of the that was one of the starts of things being interesting Quite interesting So the other students the ones who didn't stick around the ones who left not because the grades were bad Or anything like that, but just because they clearly wanted to pursue different avenues in life They were totally fine of it Like cool good. That's you know nice to see that you know how to do something for yourself That was the end of it That's it Which I'm totally okay with I don't want to be glorified for it or anything It's literally just a skill. It's something. I know how it happened to know how to do Also know how to happen and know how to cut wood didn't Fix some basic stuff with my car. I'm not great with cars some basic stuff It's just skill don't make it something it's not at least people did That quickly got turned into how Uh, it definitely meant that I was gay Which I'm not I've never even been remotely sexually attracted to a man I have no problem with people who do my best friend in college was bisexual guy who Overwhelmingly preferred dudes. I have no problem with that. Just like any buddy specific fetish What you're into genital wise is just what you're into You can't really have a discussion about that Because it's It's the same kind of thing with like what what you think taste good. That's just what you like That's the end of it but I was weird thing with a lot of them where The fact that I so Met I must be gay I mean it is bizarre thinking and Essentially a sort of Stereotyping going on There's the the stereotype usually goes that gay person probably very into fashion So there's a good chance you could see she's would so the thinking here is sort of the opposite, but It still definitely fits with the stereotype for that because so is he's probably into fashion It's probably gay. Meanwhile.  I have no problem admitting that Dress up for work or whatever, but overwhelming majority of the time.  I'm not into fashion Not But I got more bizarre than that and If I would try to explain that like I'm not Gay, why are you why are you coming to this conclusion?   I don't want anybody to give a shit about my preferences either Just what I like the idea that Me Sewing and being straight makes me homophobic I thought these were supposed to be critical thinkers people who highly valued Evidence and the scientific method the analytical method different approaches to determining The likelihood of something being factual they got my ideas on on this and uh I'm ultimately not certain. I'll flat out say that I am not certain about exactly what what what the hell was going on there, but um I think I was witnessing the start of What we now basically know as the uh social justice warrior movement like I said, I I don't have any hardcore concrete proof of that that's Literally just my feeling Uh regardless the The definite thing That I didn't think like these people At least in regard to that Well, this kind of stuff didn't didn't stop there the other Uh blatant case of stereotyping that I would see um I'm from a very rural area um I I Even though it's very small and it would be easy to find me. I really don't have any problem with people knowing where I'm from um partially because In all reality, I don't really expect anything to happen uh partially because I am in such a rural area that What the hell is really going to travel out here anyways? and partially because uh I live where there stand your ground laws and I also live where there's a few rather large animals and I've Bought and off a few of those because I'm a avid hiker and these kinds of things have to wind up happening I'm a lot more afraid of Say a bobcat or an angry black bear That doesn't happen very often to be fair, but the A lot more afraid of those than I am of some Pissed off person for whatever fucking reason, you know um but Um from a really real rural area and when they would learn about this the immediate assumptions Assumptions so we're going to cover a few of these Was that I absolutely must be of lower intelligence um Something I see in movies a lot as well and I really don't like watching movies for that reason The best business school in the country By most metrics Clarkson university is not too far from here and I actually worked there Not employed by them, but uh worked at the facility like still staff card and everything just not they weren't my employer um So they're they're close for me to have been working there. They're close and uh Yeah Are also a great engineering school It's not one of the big names because it is a smaller school, but St. Lawrence university is another big name in colleges in this country and They're not far from here either in fact St. Lawrence university is one town over from where Clarkson university is located Similarly, and I I've tried to dig up research through this um You know widely online's library uh google scholar semantic scholar Plenty of other of other uh either databases or search tools or research I've tried to find evidence and maybe somebody has it but on any type of even if it just correlation any type of uh data on intelligence levels and uh region of habitat And it doesn't seem to be anything which is unsurprising this should sound like an obviously Uh prejudicial attitude to have that somebody who lives in a specific area that would be a lesson a lesson or intelligence something you would at least I thought going in there that that collegiate pound people should know better But they were the only ones I've ever encountered in my life that were like that Well them and for that specific thing the lesser intelligence thing them and uh Hollywood because that must be pretty lawless Uh pretty reckless Sort of fuck the police attitude similar similar stuff like that um This is something that's going to vary immensely because it's largely a political view But the attitude around here uh for the most part again not entirely Tons of different attitudes Tons of different attitudes, but around here the attitude is generally just that Police aren't always necessary It's better to have them But there's a lot of things that people can handle better themselves Bring the police in when it's a bigger problem That should sound okay to most people Should also not sound like total lawlessness to most people another college around here that uh Quite a lot of criminal justice people come out of they'll then go move throughout the entire country A lot of them are border patrol, but There's cops and the like as well Uh like a disproportionate amount way more um Per capita than you would expect way more per capita than the the national average Hardly what I would consider lawless To go on with that And this is again something I can gather stats for if anybody really wants to see it Because I don't have the stats right in front of me. I'm gonna refrain from giving an exact number, but the uh the crime rate In this area so that is it's usually measured Uh the amount of crime per thousand people In an area The crime rate Here is considerably lower than the national average again something that would contribute something that definitely is not anti-law and um So this wound up being yet another thing that I had looked into and um This was something that The more I looked into it the more I realized that uh It tends to be cities that have the bigger crime problem And of course the immediate cop out to that was At all while there's more people in cities. So of course there's going to be more crime in cities But that's not the same thing as the crime rate being higher As remember we're talking about the instance of a crime per a thousand people So if you have say one murder in a town of thousand people every year That's one in a thousand if you have ten murders In a town of ten thousand people every year That's still a rate of one in a thousand You have a hundred murders In a town of a hundred thousand people That's still a rate of a hundred one in a thousand This continues on For the rate to be higher That means instead of the hundred murders in a town of a hundred thousand people You might be looking at something like a hundred and fifty murders in a town of a hundred thousand people If you then scale that back down to the lower population You're now looking at 15 murders in a town of One thousand sorry ten fifteen murders in a town of ten thousand people Or one and a half murders per year so one one year and two the other year In a town of one thousand people An increase in rate Cannot just be dismissed away by a larger population count Those stats can easily be gotten from the Department of Justice the United States Department of Justice Or any of the specific states departments of justices They will not necessarily be That way across the board It's going to depend on a lot of specific factors The federal ones at least the last time I've checked which was 2015 Were that way But also it wasn't very strongly that way I'd be curious to see the actual Calculation of statistical significance and see how Whether it was even within statistical significance or if it wasn't how Or sorry If it was statistical significant and if if it was how How much it was Um another thing Was when the whole oh, you must be a racist card got pulled Literally not nothing about me nothing about my beliefs or anything else like that just Immediately you're from a rural area. You must be a racist I was always fun to defend and I will quickly learn not to because any attempt at trying To even ask how They had come to that conclusion let alone defend against it Was just dismissed as oh all small towns are racists No source No anything else just All small towns must be racist Now I'd ultimately went to two different colleges and it was bizarre when in one of them It was a small town and the professors were saying this I don't know if they Like lived in the area, but never socialized with the people of the area, but this claim was Insane does racism happen. Yeah everywhere. It's unfortunate But if you're going to make a claim like that that small towns are racist you better You better have some evidence to back that up That some something government statistics peer reviewed research something To back up That small towns on average I'll even accept a minor little amount say 51 percent to 49 percent to back up That that's the case I'm not going to make the claim that say big cities are Overrun with Then all hipsters Because I have no evidence for something like that Are there more hipsters in cities than in the countryside?  I've literally never been able to even come Close to a satisfactory answer for why any of this has happened. Ah, here was a definitely a good one This was something that I would only encounter in The social science social sciences Uh, really not keen on calling them sciences Uh, that doesn't mean they're not evidence-based practices. Okay. I want to be clear about that I will not call engineering a science either Because engineering proper engineering follows a different method of determining its evidence Because it is different in nature And engineers more concerned with say comparing which Different approaches are going to be most satisfactory for a given outcome Whereas scientists are more concerned with why a given outcome occurs Those different things to determine involve a different process So in no way am I bashing the social sciences social sciences By doing the whole sarcastic air quote about the sciences I'm not saying they're not evidence-based practices. Just that I'm not willing to call them sciences It's in the same way that I'm there's total plenty of things they get called engineering that I'm not okay with being called engineering That doesn't validate them. That just means it's not really the right term for it Okay but I would see this all too often in the social sciences the narrative I won't even say the narrative because it wasn't just one but narratives about the american aborigines the american indians the Native americans whatever you want to call them Really, there's no good name for them because there's tons of different tribes And those tribes Really barely had any good common descendant to use on like But the the claim Out of these people It was basically that there was this large-scale harmony And that everything was wonderful until the white man came And any attempt to question that meant you were racist Where I live is literally one town over from the ganja ke haga reservation of aquasasne the mohawks Their name for themselves is ganja ke haga, but you'd never hear that in college. It was always the mohawks Just like it was always the Iroquois not the Haudenosaunee among these people. Mind you, most of them have assimilated the word as Sort of own it and it doesn't become racist anymore, but The exact origins of Iroquois are slightly debated the two two of the more common theories about the origins of the word are either from a french slur or an algonquin slur Either way, it's it's a slur And it's not the best way to refer to these people definitely not a respectful way to refer to these people Now i'm not about to get all social justice warrior on the professor's asses Hopefully they didn't know better I'm not gonna freak out, you know, maybe I wind up writing a paper just all use Haudenosaunee and ganja ke haga throughout the entire thing, but You know, I grew up around these people to the extent that I was actually adopted into a ganja ke haga family My grandpa is one of the few people An estimated like 2100 of them remaining that can actually speak the language fluently Use mohawk and Iroquois all the time. So i'm definitely not going to get butthurt about it Especially not on their behalf if they're not going to get butthurt about it I have no business getting butthurt about it But it was just sort of interesting noticing that But now back to what I was saying they If you dared question that narrative at all You were racist Because everything was fine and dandy until the white people came along Paying almost no attention to the large-scale clashes that occurred between them You may have Put two and two together when I mentioned the possibility of Iroquois being an Algonquin slur The various Haudenosaunee tribes and the Algonquin tribes Really did not get along together And you saw that manifest with the Seven Years War over here Mostly known as the French and Indian War The French with the Algonquin Versus Some of the Americans with the Haudenosaunee And it's it's much more than that but unlike these people.


Lives for campers is very stressful. What lives the life of a camper if you're just out camping all the time It's very very stressful.  I'm rocking car. Stop it. I have to gotten hooked animals Rim What we're doing stand up the said it's called marital rape all i heard i heard mary little rape it's like okay what merit this is a stand-up routine entitled marital rape i thought it was strange as well there's two words i'm assuming it's not going to be making light of marital rape i'm assuming it's going to be talking about the issues uh like the marital rape in india we talked about it in the first few episodes of delhi crime about how even if you're married it's still considered you know no is no but what this reminded me of there's two things like scott will say this when he i ran into him at the store oh did you really was he taking pictures of you again the stalker no anyway he will he said there's like two things you should never joke about so if he's with people he trusts just to say something ridiculous he'll say rape am i right and he like he knows it's totally inappropriate and you don't want to say it with like close people same thing was like the holocaust am i right because no one would ever in a million years do that but here we go a stand-up routine about john his name wow daniel frenadies yeah uh this was i believe so by so i'm assuming it's gonna have a positive i hope it's gonna have enough because obviously it's i'm assuming i would not get sent something somebody's like ha ha marital rape no right clearly he's going to be laughing at the fact that this is even uh uh someone that anyway anyway let's let's let's let's see let's see you guys notice um recently the government of india said that they cannot criminalize marital rape and we started talking about it right there was a lot of discussion people were saying things like that's how little we knew about marital rape and until the government brought it up a lot of people didn't know it existed you know and of course every time the government decides not to do something they always give us a logical explanation like even this time they said bro we cannot criminalize marital rape because marriage is a sacred institution you know hashtag customs values indian culture it was one of them somebody now says indian culture i feel like throwing up like i was out uh with some friends last week and uh someone said it and i got rushed to the hospital you know you didn't need to know about marital rape right it's a very confusing concept right especially for indian men indian men understand marital rape the same way indian women understand the offside rule in football in both cases it's all about a line that should not be crossed yeah i know i know that joe course sexist and confusing but it was funny i just like speak to any indian man about marital rape and more often than not you see something like but if you're married how it is lived we love each other i'm a husband she's my property how like if i if i use my car it's called a drive not grand theft auto how it is i was not just a guy even women are confused about this this is shocking i spoke to a married friend of mine the other day and she said Daniel isn't 80% of all sex in the marriage rape i immediately called her husband i went and then i asked her and she said here's the thing is why you don't always want to have sex with the husband you know but the husband's keep convince them to do it but we didn't really want to do it so you know the men are panicking right now you know this guy these guys especially right guys there is a thing like this is not marital rape right i checked i spoke to a couple of lawyers just in case and and this is what they said to me right there's a law about this according to section 69 we see the law states that after six months of marriage the husband needs to put in effort to move the wife which makes sense right because indian men have no game our idea of hope is a dinner how it works you know you gotta be a little romantic you gotta be a little charming but work you're gonna like hey there is the bed i think the discussion the more important conversation you're the more important question is what is the difference between marital rape and rape exactly you know and there is it there's no difference it's the same thing right if there's no consent if you're forcing yourself on your wife it's rape it's the same thing except that here she probably does so that death will do you part in fact i think marital rape is worse because not only are you sexually violated you have to wake up the next morning and make your rapist a sandwich you have to make him breakfast and pretend like everything is okay that is horrible okay you don't benefit to marital rape if you're looking for one is that here you can't blame it on xiaomin mobile phones you know exactly where the fault lies that's the rapist officer the father of my kids the man who promised to love me and take care of me never hurt me he raped me that's how simple it is you know and i know i was wondering okay if marital rape is such a big deal what are the countries in the world doing about it well i'll tell you hashtag research over a hundred countries in the world have criminalized marital rape because apparently in over a hundred languages no means the same thing yeah so here in russia has criminalized marital rape like you know you're falling behind in life when russia is making more progressive decisions than you are guys who came up with the original chart water vodka okay and even there when bro do not force yourself on your wife come let us go to boa and ruin it wow there's no discussion right now it's about you know marital rape and and should be criminalized or not and just so you know there are some of the other countries who haven't criminalized marital rape right saudi arabia iran pakistan yeah when it comes to making our women feel special we're in the company of saudi arabia iran and the folks who took away sanya mirza very dark and because of this discussion everybody is now saying it should be criminalized should it not be criminalized i personally think it should be criminalized what do you guys think it should be criminalized yes it should it's a step in the right direction it won't change anything nothing's gonna happen because indian law is not exactly user friendly is it indian law is like apple maps shit have you tried using apple maps according to apple maps matunga is underwater in india that's true well it should be but still the indian justice system takes so long man i mean even if you were to criminalize the marital rape what would you do right what would you do right you take your husband to court then you take 13 years to get a verdict and then your husband will be out on bail in two hours and then 48 hours later his conviction will get suspended and then family dinners will get really awkward don't worry i'm not afraid to do this joke because i don't sleep on a pavement oh i'm safe because it's really hard to drive an suv all the way up to the seventh floor you know but illegal or not and criminalizing it or not you know it's not going to go away madrid is going to be here for a while you know but let's be honest about this because we like a couple of months ago we banned beef people are still having steak and it's not like indian men are going to change right right guys are we going to change no more right we're lazy we're not going to change because we have it good in this country right we have this nice patriarchal sexist society that we live in it's good for us right guys we're not going to change if anybody's going to change it has to be the women now right right ladies yes yeah finally we really pushed them right we really pushed them so far and this is that part of the movie whether hero has that moment of self-accuratization and saves the day that's where indian women are today right that's where they are very soon they're going to take situations into their own hands right ladies you gotta do that might women be bold be strong do the right thing and kill your husband this is going to change just we have to start killing indian men now it will come to that right if your husband is abusive anyway in any way kill it like i know you probably want to take the easy way out and get a divorce you know that becomes a very unequished situation because now you have to split your assets then his mother will interfere death is quicker death is amazing it's so pure 100 percent profit come on i have some of you thinking about it right come on go for it bring out your inner salman go like you know i think you should try to kill your husband this is not like you have to jump on his funeral pyre yeah there you go lady like because a couple of years ago right not jumping on your husband's burning body you would be considered very rude and against indian culture but not now we have progressed as a society right now you get to stand there and watch him burn and instagram that shit i think the faster indian men start dying because they don't know how to treat their women right the faster all these problems will go away right go for it ladies kill them i don't want worry about getting caught you know what i said right 13 years 13 years will lie in court you can go on a holiday and take his ashes with you yeah you always wanted to go to france right it's not that simple you know because to do this you have to be really rich because only rich people get away with stuff like this right correct yeah don't worry hdfc has you covered yeah very soon they will have a quick bail insurance plan for moments when you murder someone possibly run over them and don't have a driver to blame it on just saying guys i'm just saying guys be careful i mean we've done we've really pushed it so far right just be careful i mean it's okay if she says no so what yeah she was okay if she says no i mean why do you think fishing is very popular with married men you think they want to spend nine hours on a boat holding a stick that's way longer than they are the problem is indian men can't handle rejection that's the thing we can't handle rejection which is i don't know because that's the one thing we should be good at even whenever i now talk to a girl like always begin my conversation by saying i know you're going to say no but i mean only time an indian guy is not rejected is when he's born it's not that complicated you know not that way i mean not that way i mean i mean don't do it but it's simple to understand when you remember that just because she said i do doesn't mean you never have to ask again that is a ballsy subject to take on in a stand-up yeah session yeah because obviously that's up there with some of the stuff you don't you don't joke about well especially do a whole set about right because people feel uncomfortable laughing but that was his whole thing he was doing a whole tongue-in-cheek exactly dick like what what do we have to worry about right right and that's where he was getting he was hoping to get the laughs from right or he just wanted the oh that's almost a satisfying sometimes for a comedian yes the uncomfortableness of the truth he was saying yes right right absolutely and he you know thankfully obviously from the very beginning of it you know he's gonna be he's coming from a place where it's it's kind of obvious that marital rape is not okay yeah and he's accentuating that and pointing those things out in a way to not to make light of the subject matter yeah but to make light of the idiocy behind anybody who doesn't see that rape is rape yeah yeah uh and yeah that's a that's i'm i would be interested to know um what caused him to want to do it and what it felt like doing that and how many times what his responses have been so yeah i just for for for me there wasn't anything particularly that i found that was hilarious about it i think primarily because i couldn't get away from the fact that i can't believe that we live in a world where there are literally millions of men who believe that a woman is their property and is just a life support system for a vagina and that there's millions of men who think um all a woman is needed for is to be the receptacle for my penis and i don't need to do things to please her and you know that that just and and the stereotype as well like when he said the line from the woman about 80 percent of women have sex when they really don't want to and it's like i know that that occurs and it sucks that it does that should never be that way but the generalization of no that's not that it's that's not true and actually that shouldn't be the norm you remember that comment that we got though from a patron on one of the episodes of deli crimes she said what you have to remember is in india oftentimes sex is looked at for men as something they're entitled to right and for a woman it's something that they are required required to to provide to provide yes right uh versus it being a mutual expression of love for each other exactly traction uh which is unfortunate and hopefully one day we'll get to a place where that is not a thing and that happens that happens here oh yeah it does that happens here it's not obviously at the level that it happens culturally with stuff in india and marital rape happens here oh hundred percent it is criminalized i mean rape is rape here no is no but um the legal system is also a thing here it takes forever forever and then often they don't believe the woman correct um and so it's it's it's unfortunately around the world um but i do want to applaud the guy though that is a ballsy thing that's my favorite thing about this is that that was ballsy very ballsy and and i think it's the whole point wasn't to be the most hilarious said ever it was no to bring a forward information and to make you uncomfortable with the reality of it and to talk about it because i know that that subject matter anywhere would be kind of taboo would be especially taboo uh in in many circles in india where you just don't talk about that subject matter so yeah what it lacks in the hilarity i don't think it needed the hilarity i didn't need to be laughing at this standard routine it's very weird that you say that where it's like yeah i saw the standard routine that it didn't make me laugh very much but i'm really thankful it exists it actually was very similar to i feel like veer das would do something like this yeah he would cover the subject matter it would cover the subject matter yeah um like that but i it was very funny uh and very and i'm hoping it was insightful for a lot of people um but i would like to see more from him i don't know if this is like his normal stick if like this is like hard-hitting subjects or if it was just this i don't know please let us know other stand up we should react to down below


My name's Hannah Mead and I've been organising the programme here at CDA9, but I've also had the privilege of managing the ecosystem-based adaptation session today, together with Elizabeth Kaka from UNED. As speakers, we had Keith Alberson from UNED, two members of the Maasai community in Kenya, Salat and Olte Dututu and Stephen Oleg Kusotu, William Atu, Lily Illeva from Practical Action Latin America, Paul and Teza from UNDP Uganda and Rosemary Makasa bringing a global perspective from the United Nations Environmental Assembly. The key challenge is emerging from the EVA session related to the participation of local communities in the process. I think people in the room realised that donors had reporting requirements and needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of why they should invest in these approaches as opposed to others, but people in the room were very insistent that any indicators were selected, needed to be relevant for the community and it was very important to reconcile those donor needs, the needs of the community as well, when it came to measuring effectiveness. Communities themselves on the ground know what's working and what's not working and how to measure that. We need to speak with them. Another key challenge came out from Paul and Teza's speech where he described the challenges associated with mainstreaming EVA measurement work into government. He's had experience of this as part of the Mountain EVA program that he's been working on and he's been doing that in district level in a number of countries such as Peru. Two questions were particularly interesting. One was a short question. How do we measure the effectiveness of system activities? It's very difficult. A second question related to this issue of how to do measurement in a more holistic way and Christina Sviderska from IAD suggested the biocultural heritage approach that she's developed in the Andes could provide some solutions there because it considers all aspects of local, environmental, social, cultural and indigenous knowledge in measuring and evaluation systems. There was some disagreement about the issue of quantifying ecosystem based adaptation. Keith Alderson was very clear that cost benefit analysis and other efforts to really quantify the benefits of ecosystem based approaches were a waste of time largely because they weren't capturing all of the wider scale costs and benefits that are experienced by the narrow kind of economic and analytical approaches that are normally used. But Edward Perry from Birdlife challenged that and said that if we don't measure these benefits coming from ecosystem based adaptation approaches it's going to be very hard to justify investing in those approaches to adaptation as opposed to other approaches. At the end of the session I asked on my panelist to provide us with a key issue or a key statement that they wanted people to take away with them from the session. Rose Mimucasa from Nuneir reminded us that local is global and global is local which I thought was a key message coming out of the session. Our Maasai colleagues also had two wonderful quotes that I'd like to share with you now. Stephen said that if we don't look after the environment we are in effect ecological terrorists destroying our own future and Salaton said that in our community we believe we are one system, one stem with a lot of branches.


Hey guys, this week in the rundown, we're taking a look at the DOD's upcoming new retirement system and there's an active duty fund drive that needs your contributions. Signed into law last November, the Fiscal Year 16 National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA created a new military retirement system for service members. The new blended retirement plan goes into effect January 1st, 2018 and will modernize DOD's retirement system. For those of us serving today, don't worry, you will be grandfather in the current system. For those who joined after January 1st, 2006, you will have the choice to enroll in the blended retirement system or keep the one you have now. However, those who joined the Navy after January 1st, 2018 will be automatically enrolled in the new retirement plan. The three parts of the blended retirement system will consist of automatic and matching contributions to TSP accounts, continuation pay after 12 years of service, and a pay annuity for those who complete 20 years of military service. Stay tuned for the force-wide training this summer which will provide financial literacy training to help you make fiscal decisions like how much to pay to allocate to retirement savings accounts and where to invest it. To read more on the new system, you can visit militarypay.defense.gov. On their website, they have a graphic that you can download which breaks down how the new system will work and provides the effective dates. Finally, the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society, or NMCRS, is conducting its annual active duty fund drive to help raise funds to benefit our shipmates and marines. The campaign's theme this year is buy our own for our own. Your contributions will help the NMCRS continue to provide support for our service members in a time of need or during a crisis. Last year, the NMCRS provided relief for nearly 60,000 sailors and marines and their families and provided more than $45 million in financial assistance. To give back or to find out more on the relief society, visit their website at www.nmcrs.org. You can also find more details on the active duty fund drive by reading navadmin 027-16 on NPC. Well, that's all for this week. If you have any questions, you can send us a message at usnpeople.com. For the Chief of Naval Personnel, I'm M.C.2 L.J. Brilson. Thanks for watching.


Peter Mungo-Jup has an interesting article in Thomas Short where he tells that writing in the 18th century, he chronicled the many calamities that decimated mankind over 4,000 years. Wait till you hear this. Plagues, earthquakes, drought, pestilence and incredible floods, as you read through Short's curious book, you're struck by the appearance of bright comets and numbers unmatched by modern experiences. And he writes that comets are invariably connected to major disasters. Up until the 1800s, many sources resonate with the fear that humanity held for the comet. Chinese records show the many forms a comet may take. And did they have a reason to show us? And when the age of reason arrived, curiously the number of visible comets visiting the Earth fell dramatically. And eventually, by the end of the 20th century, it became scientific dogma that comets were nothing more than harmless, dusty snowballs. And then two stunning events occurred that forced a reappraisal of this B-9 scenario. Astronomers have witnessed five massive explosions on the planet Jupiter as fragments from the shoemaker Levy collided with the planet. Larger explosions are expected later this week. They called it the biggest explosion in the solar system for hundreds of years. Half an hour after the first comet fragment went in, the impact was still visible. The cloud of debris spread out for thousands of miles and was over a thousand miles high. The astronomers were jubilant. We're going to see things and we're going to learn a lot. That's the good news tonight. In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 split into 23 pieces. And one by one, the 23 pieces flash discharged well above the surface of the giant planet Jupiter. And the results were devastating. Each discharge area was the size of the Earth, with the destructive imprints persisting for well over a year. And this was the first time modern man had been shown how ruthless the innocent comet could be. And the second eye opener was the observation by modern instruments of comets diving into the Sun. Immediately afterwards, giant coronal mass ejections were seen blossoming out of the opposite side of the Sun. An Electric Universe advocate, Wal Thornhill, believes this is an indication that the Sun is electrical in nature, pointing to the fact that the resulting coronal mass ejections were even larger than the Sun itself. How could such a puny object like a comet be so violently powerful? Wal Thornhill states, we don't really understand comets or their origins however. New instruments have enabled scientists to question many of the previous notions about comets. First of all, they are not dusty snowballs. Being solid bodies, they are more similar to asterisks than first fought. And as Wal Thornhill explains, the comets are negatively charged and they are racing towards a positively charged Sun. And as they get closer, they begin to discharge and what Wal Thornhill believes is a cold discharge. However, he also notes that early man documented the earliest appearance of a comet, the protoplanet Venus. Hesed writing in about 700 BC notes that it sprang from the head of Jupiter. We may never know the truth behind such notions in our time, however, there is no doubt that Venus was described as a mighty comet. Many ancient chroniclers note the features such as its beard that are classically ascribed to cometary bodies. In that mode, it wreaked tremendous damage to the human race. And much of this evidence is presented by the fiercely denigrated Emmanuel Velikovsky, who claimed that Venus was once an erratic comet. The chaos described by Velikovsky resulted in electrical discharges between the planetary bodies, including the Earth. Velikovsky cites chapters out of Homer's Iliad as an example of such battles between Venus, Mars and other planetary bodies. And whether we concur with Velikovsky's ideas or not, there is no doubt that tremendous upheavals occurred on Earth at these times. Egyptian sources such as the Papyrus Harris testify to these destructive eras. Modern day evidence comes from such archaeologists as Claude Schieffer, who showed that six destruction layers separated civilizations from the Bronze Age down to the Iron Age. Those destructions he believes were worldwide and points to the Uselo horizon as overwhelming evidence. These caused earthquakes, famine, plagues and mass migrations of human beings hell-bent on survival, and this sudden and dramatic collapse of the early Bronze Age civilizations has puzzled many an archaeologist, with many highly respected academics pondering over these unexplained phenomena, and the consensus of academic opinion notes that not only was it sudden and dramatic, but it was widespread from Europe, across Asia Minor to the Indus Valley civilizations and beyond to China. Further evidence of Velikovsky's destructive scenario comes from archaeologist Amos Noor, who scientifically measured those tumultuous times that were replete with earthquakes, soil deposition, famine, ash deposits, desertification and site abandonment, and the echoes of such cosmic interference continued down through Roman and Greek times. Numerous devastating earthquakes are noted, beginning with Thucydides, citing the destruction of Athens by earthquake and plague. If, as Wal Thornhill believes, earthquakes are an underground electrical storm, then perhaps a comet has the ability to excite the telluric currents beneath the Earth, and the appearance of comets and subsequent deadly earthquakes is often touched upon in Thomas Short's chronicles. Finally, we have come to the evidence provided by the rock carvings known as petroglyphs. The shapes of these carvings, such as the squatter-man figure, resemble plasma physicist Anthony Parat's plasma tube instabilities and computer simulations, and Anthony Parat's have revolutionised petroglyph interpretation. Since electrical phenomena are scalable, Parat surmised that they were drawn in by the admiration of huge plasma instabilities in the sky. Precisely what caused those impressive instabilities can only be conjectured for now. Was it Venus? Was it the result of a comet's interference? Was it the result of electrical phenomena that we haven't witnessed in centuries? We can't be sure, but the realisation that electrical effects are cosmically scalable provides a basis for constructing theories that are rooted in fact and not imaginary dusty snowballs.


Hey, everyone. So my name's Adrian. I'm the CEO of Remax in Southern Africa, and I was asked to talk to you a little bit about Buying, you know the steps to buying the good the bad and the ugly So let's unpack that just a little bit so we can park the bad and the ugly to one side And you can have a great experience when purchasing your home So for me it starts with why but why are you doing it? Why are you wanting to get into this and I think it's a deep-rooted question But one that you or you and your spouse and family should really answer, you know Is it because like for Vicky and I in our previous home? We wanted to buy this particular home because it was within 500 meters of a school that we wanted to send our kids to so we were planning in advance They were still lighties and we we wanted to send them to this particular school because the school had a great name and great Education and good principles and so forth So that was our reason, but it may not be your reason In fact, we've subsequently moved because now that the kids are older You know, we wanted a little bit more elbow room and the distance to school Wasn't as important for us, but for you it may be completely different. Maybe it's transport related Maybe you need an apartment and not a house that has got all the high-tech stuff in it right Wi-Fi and fiber and all sorts and you know fridges that order food on its own Whatever it is for you. Okay, so and or maybe maybe you're just starting out And maybe you don't have have a kid yet, but you got a Jack Russell and you know Jack Russell's needs space Okay, I got lots of energy. So anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that each of you has different reasons So identify what those are so that when you start the search process You start searching for something that makes sense to the needs that you're looking for and in these times We find ourselves in right now in corona It's going to be interesting to see what the purchasing patterns look like over the next 18 months I mean already you having people move out of the urban Areas like the metro areas more into suburbia Because a lot of people are working from home and may continue to work from home for 75% of the time. So Again first determine why it is you're doing what you're doing So here's the thing and a real estate agent will always tell you when asked a question When's the right time to buy they'll always say now and I can tell you that that's the wrong answer because the best time to buy a home is always five years ago I mean that's how this game works. It works in cycles You have highs and lows in 2008 we had a financial crash And there was a bit of a dip and then the market picked up again And now we have a pandemic and who knows where the curve is going to bounce or whether it's going to do But I can tell you that it operates in waves But those waves continue to operate in an upward trend. So over a period of time You will Net a good return If you make a sound investment and if you buy smart and I guess that's what we're talking about here How do I know that? History shows it. History shows from 95 to 2015 an average house price that had increased and yes While they're a little in fact there aren't many dips here But while if you had to to zoom in to one one or two years, you'll see a couple of little dips again I spoke about 2008. It was a little dip, but over an extended period of time Buying a home and owning a home will net you a return and in our current environment That we find ourselves in now for many It's become affordable to buy a home In fact, even more affordable to purchase a home than to rent with interest rates having come down Significantly over the last just a few months and certainly over the last couple of years I would definitely start looking at whether this is something you want to To participate in and get your foot in the game get your foot in the door rather So let's talk about some of the steps to buying your first home And I'm going to run through these With you and hopefully you make some notes and you can pick up some tips if it if it's too quick for you I'm sure you can replay this Later when they make it available or otherwise hop on to our remax website go to ask Dot remax dot co dot z a and you can find all sorts of information on there or ask us some questions And we'll engage with you directly but steps to buying your first home one and I'll definitely start with this one What can I afford? Okay, to the search when you start looking for the actual property three Using a trusted advisor and why that's important then Making the offer and how to go about that and how to put yourself in a position of strength five Show me the money in other words. You're gonna have to go and get the loan Okay, what's the best way to approach that and then six? Yay, everything sorted and it's moving day although that has its stresses as well So maybe I'll have one or two tips for you on that so let's start at the beginning step one. What can I afford? Now it has to start there because what you don't want to do is Go through the search process and go through the motions and find what in your mind is a dream home And then find out that you can't afford it And I mean that in the nicest way what I mean by that is the bank isn't willing to loan you an amount based on your profile So I would start with this, okay? You can hop on to some websites. We use an originator at the bottom of the slide You'll see better bond they can help to get you pre-qualified or you can just hop on their website and go and fill in the affordability Calculator it's a very simplistic calculator, but it'll give you an idea of What the banks will be willing to lend you from a home loan perspective if you want a more accurate estimate Engage with better, but it's a free service By the way, they don't charge for any of this even when you get the home loan They don't charge for it. Okay at all. So it's a it's a free service And I would recommend you do it because when you have that pre-qualification what a pre-qualification means is that you can You can take your offer to a seller Confidently knowing that as soon as you thereafter go and apply at the bank for a loan It's a ninety nine point nine percent chance that that loan is going to be granted now Imagine the confidence that you'll have when making that offer in front of the seller You'll also put yourself at the front of the queue with respect to all the other buyers Assuming of course that there isn't someone else offering a cash offer So step one determine what it is you can afford use a bond originator to help you to get a pre-qualification in this market right now More than 50% of home purchases right now are first-time buyers Do not miss this opportunity that exists at the moment step 2 Search well eventually you've got to go and look for the property right and where you're gonna start You're gonna start in the newspapers No, you're not you're not gonna start in the newspaper. Let me tell you those days are gone Okay, by the time one of our agents or any agents advertised in the newspaper that properties already at least a week If not older, okay, and many of these properties are a lot older than that There's no ways that remax can put its 58,000 listings in the newspaper week in week out So this is what you do and I'm sure you know this already I'm preaching to the converted here, but you're gonna go on to some of the property sites You're possibly gonna hop on to our remax.co.za website Then you're gonna go and do a search and you're gonna narrow it down or you're gonna hop on to private property Where they aggregate all the listings and you're gonna put in an area You're gonna put in some criteria, obviously, you know within a range that you can afford Or maybe it's the features like beds, baths and beyonds and you're gonna put that in and it's gonna bring up a search list He has a tip for you You may want to register on some of these sites because new listings come on every single day and Unless you're one of those that hops on to the site every day you can register yourself and The site will actually alert you to any new listings in your price range and in your featured list range So it'll narrow it down. It'll save you a whole bunch of time and I recommend that you do that So that's the search portion. You may also and I would recommend actually Registering yourself a one to a better term or contacting. Maybe I should say that Contacting a real estate agent putting your name down and giving them the criteria of the home you're looking for why? Because when the market is hot when homes are selling and in these last two months remax has sold a Ton of property. We've had two record months in these last two months So if that's the case, I would recommend that you put your name down with an agent so that when they take a listing Even before it hits the website, which you think is the which most people see for the first time They can contact you directly set up an appointment and get you to see the home So get your foot in the door before the masses do. Okay, so there's my tip on search Three use a trusted advisor Note, I didn't say just use a real estate agent because there's real estate agents And there's real estate agents use a trusted advisor A referral is always best someone that has used a real estate agent before had a great experience. Maybe it's a friend of yours Generally those referrals are the best source I'm obviously going to promote remax here and if you hop onto our remax website You'll find a whole lot of trusted advisors, but generally you're going to get From a referral the best source, right? So now you're working with someone and they're taking you through the different homes Be honest with them Okay, when you're going to say look, I'm looking for a whatever three bed two bath home in a particular suburb And they're going to start to take you to house one and to house two and to house three and to house four Obviously after narrowing your search and every time a new listing comes up They're going to take you to another home when you walk through that home Be honest with them If it sucks Tell them and be specific Tell them you don't like the way the the lounge looks. You don't like that. There's not enough lighting You don't like that. It's not north facing. You don't tell them the things that you don't like Don't feel bad. It's not their house. Okay, so tell them why Because otherwise they're going to take you to other suckier houses that look just like that one so Make your life easy when you go through the homes Let them know even though it's three bed two bath and has the features Let them know the things you like about the home that you saw and more specifically the things you didn't like So that they don't continue to take you to homes that may look similar So that's my tip when it comes to uh when you start the actual process of house hunting and using a trusted advisor Because if you don't You know, then you're not going to end up with the dream home That you'd hoped for okay, uh, or you're not going to find it because they're going to keep taking you to the same homes Right, so hopefully you you go through this process. You've got your Uh, pre-qualification certificate. You've done your search. You've now checked the whole bunch of houses And you've narrowed it down to something that you like and you actually want to put an offer in Remember and you can now put an offer in with confidence because you've got your pre-qualification You don't first have to run to the bank So the offer can be complicated. Okay, that's why they have conveyancing attorneys that assist in this process But before we get to the actual offer to purchase There are some determining factors to know when putting in the offer Try and determine and you'll know because you've been searching now for a while And if not talk to agent whether this is a buyer's market or a seller's market You know when there's lots of properties on the market for sale Well, generally it's going to be a buyer's market In other words, the more properties there are the more competition between those properties Which means the prices are usually pegged down the less properties that are on the market meaning The aunt is mainly available Means those sellers can probably push their price up And that's why you have this fluctuation in real estate on a on a continuous basis So determine what it is so that you can be realistic when you put your offer in And that's why I say using a trusted advisor is great because they can help you With determining what a realistic offer on a property actually is Again, know that someone with cash Nine out of ten times wins the race Simply because a seller lacks the certainty So the if you can't offer cash on a home specifically if you're a first-time buyer Get a pre-qualification because it's almost as good. So that would be my advice Then it comes to the actual contract itself Again can be complicated And that's why I say convincing attorneys can definitely help you and a trusted advisor That real estate agent who knows what they're doing will will refer you to one If you don't have someone that you already use because things that are going to get thrown at you are terms that you may not have heard before Like suspense of conditions and occupational rent and and the fixtures and the fittings and the contract and levies and and There's a whole bunch of stuff in that contract Which needs to be read needs to be understood and needs to be explained in order for you to understand Don't just enter into contracts and sign blank at the bottom. Make sure you know what you're signing That's why you work with someone that you can trust a convincing attorney that can assist and or The trusted advisor that I spoke of Step five show me the money So step five is getting access to the finance right now all of a sudden the seller goes. Yes, I'm happy with the offer Let's move ahead Now what well now you've already got that pre-qualification. This should be a fairly simple process But this is where I'm going to punt an originator again And I want to show you a practical example on the screen behind me So let's take joe blogs. Okay, joe blog just put that offer in and now Better bond is going to take that offer with the pre-qualification that they've got for you and they're going to go and shop around But joe blog says listen. I'm going to try and first go to my own bank directly So joe goes to his own bank. The loan he's looking for is 1.2 million rand Okay, it's a 20 year loan term And he goes to his own bank and this is a real life example And don't read into the colors of the percentages that don't represent any any particular bank But he goes to his own bank and the bank says to him listen We can give you that loan and the interest rate is going to be 10.56 percent based on your profile joe Now if joe had stopped there, joe would have missed out But fortunately joe took his offer to purchase to better bond and what better bond did was then took that same offer And shopped it around at the different Home loan banks and bank a said well Joe we can offer you 10 percent bank b said 11.25. So that's not a great deal Because it's more than what his own bank was offering bank c said 10.15 Still better But you know what's interesting is that better bond also goes to joe's own bank And his own bank through better bond came back with a rate of 9.75 percent It doesn't sound like a big number the difference between 10.56 and 9.75 seems minuscule But work that out over 20 years and joe would have saved 155,000 rand over a 20-year period you can buy a car with 155,000 rand You can take the whole family around the world or to disney world on 155,000 rand and that's just on a loan of 1.2 million That's why it's so crucial to shop around for a home loan And you may as well use an originator like better bond who does that for you For free their service is for free. So a really important step here where you can save a whole lot of money And then there's step six the bank comes back with a With that offer with a grant they say we're ready to finance you joe and joe is now Becoming and has become the owner of the home There's a whole bunch of technical things that happen in between and municipal rates clearances and beetle and electrical and etc So you still need that trusted advisor to help you, right? And there's still a conveyance that holds your hand through that whole process But at some point the house gets registered in your name and it's time to move So schedule that move and there's a bit of planning that has to happen behind that for those that haven't moved before If you hop onto our site again, it's on askremax.co.z. There's actually a checklist of things To check off when moving so like for example for me what was important. I want to make sure when I get to the other side That the beer fridge is on and the tv is working the other stuff can sort itself out But I for me i'm just kidding or am I i'm not sure if i'm really kidding But there are a few things that have to get ticked off right is the water connected is the dstv connected Have I ticked all the boxes literally of the boxes that i'm going to move When is moving day i've I scheduled it again go on to remax.co.z. There's a checklist like that That will at least get you started on your journey excuse the pun So I hope that made sense for you. I hope that some of those steps will assist you I hope that some of the things I've shared with you will help to To make the experience of purchasing is purchasing a home a great experience for you Again, if there's any questions that you have or anything else that you'd like to find out we have a Ream of information sitting on ask.remax.co.z from blogs and videos and explainer videos Down to a form that you can fill in where we'll we'll contact you with any direct questions that you may have I hope that was useful and I look forward to uh, I look forward to enjoying the rest of this conference And I hope you enjoy it too. Cheers you


I'm Ethan Black, the executive producer at CTV and assistant director at the Santa Cruz Film Festival. On February 6th at the tannery, we're having a special meeting to see how you, the public, can join us in the Santa Cruz Film Festival to volunteer, help us walk people down the aisle, check out the bands, see where the movies are, just help everyone and help yourself. Come on down and experience the experience.


All right. Well, it's been a very long day. And I really appreciate your patience with all of our processes. And I hope that you got a lot out of today and heard from a lot of different folks. I really appreciate Andre coming and talking about his truly what I consider born in the cloud, cloud native application. I think this is really emblematic of where people in startups are starting to go and the same processes and innovation labs and the same technologies are all available to you, not just by going to open innovation labs, but by using the tools that you've heard about today.  You've been doing a very good job of that. Have some beers, keep connected through the commons community, and we'll hopefully get you on the same path here too. Let's see if we can. So I think as I keep saying, and you'll hear me say every time, I'm doing one of my briefings, is that what the key piece for us is that we're collaborating across all of these communities. There's lots of different communities that you've heard of. There's new ones being added to the CNCF every month almost these days. So look forward to some of the announcements that are coming. From our perspective, we do sit in the middle of all of this. We're taking the stuff in from Kubernetes, from the container side. There's a lot going on for the next two days that I'd really encourage you to look at what we're doing. One of the things that we like to say is that you don't have to just listen to us at Red Hat. You can listen to your peers. You can listen to the analysts if you want to. There's a lot of good documentation out there about the ROI of taking advantage of these new platforms and these new techniques for developing applications. What we're really trying to do at OpenShift is make Kubernetes Enterprise Ready for you. You've heard from Clayton about making sure that 3.5 is a hardened version of Kubernetes 1.5. We are really dedicated to making the most secure Enterprise Ready deployment and distribution of Kubernetes that you can find. There's lots of people that are using it. A lot of you are using it. Probably about 50% of you, though, I think are in POC and Discovery mode. So we really want to make sure that you feel comfortable, that there are other people out there who are using it. We have a Slack channel, so if you go to OpenShiftCommonsLack.com or something like that, or find me, I will add you to the Slack channel. There's some good conversations going on there. We have lots of SIGs. We tried to get you guys talking in SIG groups at lunchtime by that kind of worked a little bit. We are adding a new automotive SIG, which did meet upstairs. And so there'll be a lot more around the automotive. There are a lot of Deutsche Borses here, a lot of banking and finance folks are here, too. So I think there's a rich culture of using OpenShift in the financial services sector. And so what we'll probably be doing is rolling out SIGs and having virtual SIG meetings over the next coming months between now and Austin, the next KubeCon. And we're going to just keep going here. So one thing is we know they might be a unicorn, and we're not all unicorns. And we do like the idea, though, that you can take as enterprises the advantage of these tools and techniques. There are a lot of people who think that CloudNative is just for the new startups. But I think we can learn a lot from each other, from the enterprises that have got years of experience using all kinds of legacy applications and real-world experience to the folks that are doing this startup. And if we have those conversations, and we continue to have them together, we're all going to make a significant leap in the next coming days and months. So this little sign here, I'll have to say, when we gave it to the printers, they took only the high-quality logos that I gave them, the high-res ones. And so this was kind of random, I think, except for the NASA one, because everybody loves NASA. But there are already over 250 organizations that are part of the OpenShift Commons. I really highly encourage you. There is no cost or fee. This is not a foundation. This is about networking with your peers. And so if you come and see me or you go to commons.openshift.org and click on the Join form. Join, it'll probably take me a day or two to get you enrolled, and it's quite easy.  You can share your expertise with others and just continue these conversations through the rest of this week and through the rest of this year. And that brings us to beer, which is always a very good thing. And I really appreciate you guys coming today. The last time we did this in Seattle, there were 175 folks.  But it's really just a pleasure to see this much interest in OpenShift and in Kubernetes and in all the related projects that we're working on. And this doesn't happen if you don't come and if you don't participate. And it's really not about Red Hat. It's not about OpenShift. It's about the conversations that you guys are gonna have over the next couple of days. And hopefully we've prepped you so you can go in prepared for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon and ask all the right questions and really get a lot out of the next two days. So thank you very much for your patience and the beer is out the back door. Follow the footsteps to where you had lunch. Thank you.


So, we all know that Novak Djokovic currently is staying at the hotel in Melbourne waiting for his hearing to happen on Monday and that's happening at 10am on Monday. But there has been some interesting news over the last couple of hours and a couple of days I should say. And I thought we'd put a video to kind of do a massive update. Let's start back in December. Djokovic is on the entry list for the Australian Open. So everyone was like, hey, he's playing the Australian Open. He's entered the tournament. This is brand new information. He got COVID as well around that same time period in December. Let's start talking about day to day in January. On the 4th of January, Djokovic made his way to Australia with a medical exemption. He posted on Instagram, I'm coming to Australia during that time when Djokovic was on the plane. The Prime Minister of Australia came out and said that he was very, they were going to be very tough on Djokovic when he got here and he better have his papers ready to go. He better have all the information. Then he arrived at the airport at about midnight on the 5th of January and the border force, the Australian border force, which is a government body, they took him aside and they put him in an interrogation room as they went through all the papers. And after pretty much, I think it was about 10 hours all night being at the airport, Djokovic, they separated from his team and then they cancelled his visa and they asked him to leave the country by the end of the day. Then Djokovic appealed the cancellation of his visa and as soon as that happened he was sent to a detainment hotel until Monday at 10am. So the case was heard but the verdict was adjourned or the appeal was pushed until Monday at 10am where it was going to be revealed which is only in a couple of days time or nearly 24 hours time. So then on the 7th of January we had two more people who had the same medical exemptions of Djokovic not get them reversed including a player, Renata Vorichova, the player, a doubles player who is now in the same hotel as Djokovic and another player that, another person I think who was an official but they were asked to leave and they just left voluntarily. They're like, alright, I'll just leave. They're not in the same hotel as they left. By the way, and then also yesterday we had Tennis Australia, Victorian Government and the Federal Government three different bodies of people I guess, pointing fingers saying it was Tennis Australia's fault, the Victorian Government's fault. The Federal Government should have known what to do. And everyone's pointing the finger on who made this mistake because the mistake made was actually that the medical exemption that Djokovic received was having COVID, if you're unvaccinated having COVID in the last six months didn't warrant a medical exemption. Now who gave the medical exemption? Who gave the ticker of approval? That's where the fingers are being pointed. It's been a very crazy situation and then of course today was when we found out that Djokovic got the medical exemption because he had COVID in December. That's sort of where we're at at the moment. Djokovic put a message out on social media saying thanking the fans as well. So that came out as well today. So Djokovic, he's still in the hotel but let me know down in the comments below or in the chat. What do you think? Do you think Djokovic is going to play? I think he's like a 5% chance at this point and the appeal I feel is more than just him going about, you know, him going against the, you know, getting his visa cancelled. I think it's more about not being deported and not having that on his permanent record.


Good evening, everybody. This is Brian. I wanted to wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving. This is just kind of a Status of you know, what's Brian been doing and just kind of checking in It's Thanksgiving. So this is the season to be thankful for things my sense of humor is still pretty dark and twisted. There's big bird Also today is a hallmark drew hook away one of our administrators just welcomed our 1,000th member into the voidrums Facebook group. I'm just amazed at how this group is growing. We've got a thousand programmers in there That's just insane. This whole thing started is just me making videos for my daughter And I thought it'd be like me and maybe like two other dudes halfway across the planet talking about programming, but wow No, it's actually kind of grown so Haven't made a lot of videos because I've been really working on the C10k problem My phone's blowing up who's messaging me the C10k problem. If you don't know what it is. It's computers have come a long way, right? Back in the day When you had thousand megahertz machines with two gigs of RAM, these were like, you know, $1,200, $1,500 And they couldn't really handle a whole lot, but technology's changed computers have changed So I'm really interested in socket perk. I may always have been so when I get kind of down in a rut I get sick of all my side projects because I usually have too many projects going on I always kind of come back to this and I haven't been making videos because I've been working on this so I've showed this showed I've shown this code before it's a little structure different a little differently Forgive me. I have got turkey belly going on. I'm waiting for my stomach to just burst. I ate like an obscene amount of food today So in short, I'm trying to figure out a good project structure here, so I've got just TCP server and This is all run off the Q thread pool So you've got the server with a runnable and then the connections So the server obviously the incoming connections come into the server the runnable spins up the connections The connection is just a wrapper class that wraps the socket functions Pretty simple pretty easy to understand and then through inheritance. I just did a pretty very basic HTTP servers you get the server and the connection notice how we're not inheriting the runnable There's really no need to it just kind of works in the background so The server itself is very simple just inherits the TCP server and then overloads the isn't right overloads overrides My brain's just fried. Like I said, I ate too much food. It's been a long week Overload the accept function the accept you just have a handle which is the socket descriptor and then the runnable The connection itself is just you know the TCP connection So let's flip in here switch header and source and you see what's going on in the accept is we're just saying you know a Couple Qt bugs and then we're saying a new connection Equals, you know a new connection and then if you can't create a connection do something and then we're just gonna make connecting And what that does is that connects everything together? The super short of it is Let's run this It can run in single mode pulled mode or threaded mode I've shown this in other videos where single all connections one run on one thread It's not entirely accurate. It's one runnable that runnable represents one thread Then pulled you have a bunch of pulled connections that run in the thread pool or threaded meaning every connection gets its own unique thread It's also kind of not true every connection gets its own runnable Q thread pool does things in the background that just boggles my mind. So I'm just gonna run a test here We run it and pulled because why not? We're gonna actually say this can handle 20,000 connections Just an absurd amount of connections that will never ever really need We have an idle timeout. This is new from the last video Because sometimes when I test the sockets will get stuck in a connected state even though Siege the program I'm using the test is already closed So it's just going to idly or idly it's gonna check those sockets for idle timeout and we are now running that Let me pop open a few things here Should note to do this you have to change your your upper file limit. So if we go you limit What is it? Soft number you can see that I put 65,000 for my soft number and I think the hard number is probably also 65,000 If you don't do that, this will crap out on you around a thousand to two thousand connection I actually think it's like 1200 or something because you have what's called a file limit a soft limit So you want to definitely make sure you can increase that and a quick Google will show you how to do that I actually think it's in Cat at sea Security cash, I'm going off memory here, and I'm getting old. I've eaten a lot of food security Limits config yeah, there it is and I just at the very end of the file you just put in the The hard and soft limits and then you log out log back in and then boom you've got your limits So that's kind of where we are here Anyways, enough of that. We're gonna load up Siege The problem with the testing this is it's very difficult to actually test We're gonna do 10,000 connections in Siege and see what happens And as this thing is just churning away We're gonna go. I'm still not used to mint here I'm used to typing everything in so menus kind of mess me up Here's our system monitor. Once the metrics start loading. You'll see Q thread pool. This is why you use Q thread pool. It's balancing across multiple CPUs Your memory and swaps fine that we're handling, you know, 10,000 incoming connections Not entirely true because of the way Siege works internally and you see all right We're getting some warnings in Siege here. We're getting some alert timeouts and things like that So we're gonna go ahead and stop Siege And we had 3400 or 3048 failed connections, which is weird. You can see I have some idle sockets because there's some cleanup that Siege didn't properly handle And it's going ahead and clearing those out Not sure entirely if it's Siege because as you can see Siege has stopped or if it's the operating system It's having a problem and you can see the CPU usage and memory scaling down as there's no more connections going in there concurrency concurrency is a Approximate numbers at average. So on average we handled about 3183 connections simultaneously Across 42,000 hits. So the program is actually getting better We're not at the 10k yet And I'm not sure if it's a limitation with my software the operating system or Siege the program I'm using to test so I may have to write an entire test suite just so I see what's going on under the hood The failed transactions that's interesting to me because my program didn't have any errors There's zero error handling in here, and I didn't see any errors, but was also weapon by really fast. I did notice in testing The Siege has a hard limit boom 15,000 connections that says unable to allocate memory for 15,000 simultaneous browsers That's interesting because I have 32 gigs of RAM So there's probably some Tweaks that I need to do within the operating system because this isn't a server based operating system a desktop based etc So this is really what's been occupying a lot of my time, which is really pathetic when you think about it, but So let's just do Whoops 5,000 connections and see what happens here and Notice how I didn't stop and restart the server like you'll see some other folks do in their videos I'm just making sure all the memory handling is done correctly We can see our system resources have spun up as soon as we did this We're actually maxing out a couple of those CPUs And you'll see how it kind of balances the CPUs out That's really what Q thread pulls doing under the hood for us and our network usage spiked up as well And we're starting to get some errors here alert timeout sockets Just gonna let this churn away and churn away and churn away And let's go ahead and it looks like it's starting to die When I say it's starting to die. I'm not sure if this is Siege or something else So if you guys know of a better Web server testing tool than Siege to keep me from writing one. Yeah, I think Siege is dying Let's go and stop Siege Yeah, see this time it only handled 1900 simultaneous connections We had 1300 failed transactions So I'm really looking for at this point just a better testing suite because if I do just a thousand connections You can see it goes much smoother much better in Siege My program is just churning away and stop it zero failed transaction it handled 400 connections simultaneously So that's kind of the crux of what I've been working on. I've been getting a lot of email saying what are you doing? Why aren't you making videos? Well, that's why Went through a breakup had to move. It's been a lot of time with my kid. I think that's actually her messaging me right now Nope, it's not her. Um, she's supposed to come over in a few minutes And just hanging out with friends and live in life, but I wanted to Wish everybody happy Thanksgiving If you haven't already joined the void rooms Facebook group, I really look forward to seeing this grow It's an amazing resource. I ask questions in there all the time and people jump in and answer And sometimes people get frustrated because I ask a question and no one will answer them I Would just say if that's happening don't get frustrated just you know ask the question again Maybe worded a little different. Maybe people don't understand the problem Or they're looking at you go and have you have you heard about Google Google is an awesome resource But anyways, that's it. I'm babbling. I've got food coma going on. I'll talk to you guys later