Welcome to The Advocate on Plus TV Africa, where your panelists discussed provoking topics in an atmosphere of seriousness, decisiveness and laughter. Here we call a spade a spade, and like we say here, no holds barred. Today I'm picking up from where Delac will stop last week on the issue of startups and I'm talking about how more socio-capital is needed. Salman, who makes his debut today is talking about the need to close the data literacy gap. Ruth speaks on the growing sarcher economy and finally, Elijah continues with his leadership series and he terms this the sabotage leadership. Stay with us, we'll be right back. Startup founders need more social capital. There's a lot of flaws and buzz around the world capital when starting a business. Early stage founders are always on the hunt looking for financial capital to throw in their ideas and solutions. Why I agree that money is critical to early stage founders starting a business is also a deeply underrated form of capital, which is the social capital. I personally believe that it's important for early stage founders to invest massively and aggressively into building relationships. This is one way to make deposits into their social capital bank account, which can be withdrawn later on when they need it. The next morning we're looking for to scale your business or your life, the hands of someone. The money you seek in exchange for your product lies in the hands of people. One introduction can take your business to the next level. The quality of your finances has a deep connection to the quality of your relationships. So the big businesses and companies we see today were built by people investing early into social capital. What we've seen with this type of capital is that it works in an impute-output dynamics. It is what you put in that you get out eventually. Early stage founders can quickly ramp up on what they are building if they can make that paradigm shift and pivot into growing their social capital bank accounts by connecting with people and building more meaningful relationships. Alright, so what are your thoughts? I actually like this topic. I like the fact that you made mention of social capital. When you think about it, you realize that most people are focused on raising financial capital, but you realize that the cheapest form of credit or cheapest form of capital you can get is actually social capital.  If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go people. So you realize that that also applies even in whatever sector you are, especially as an entrepreneur. So you need to really work and develop the social capital as a person. Well, Victor, I love this. Let me just come from this way. It's great treasure lies in human personality. We all know that it's sacred. Now, if you want to drill that human personality, the resource, the drilling process has to do with relationship building. You now get the resources in there. The resources could be in the form of physical cash. One you call normal currency, fiat or whatever currency, or the inputs. In terms of tech, service, resources, knowledge also. You just need to build a relationship with people because the world is beyond just normal money. If you are looking for money, people are looking for money to start on their phone, but then you neglect having good relationships with people. You need to be in circles where you learn from people and appreciate them for what they are. You learn not to be selfish, manage yourself and try to be good to other people. And then that has to build your network. After all they say your network is your network. Your network is your network. So even I can add to that, most of the things that you have in cash is like the permanent thing. But there are some services you can get literally for free. Like when I'm building some of my products, I reach out to my friends who have those skills. So they just help me like with marketing, help me out with marketing, help me out with designs. Those are things I can get for free because I have that relationship. I think people are the highest form of money. I've literally embodied this where I've literally built things from ground up, utilizing the people in my life. That's why I'm very intentional about connecting, making very valuable relationships. Again, how to build relationships is really intentional. It's organic. So you don't wake up thinking that someone is going to give you money. Someone was telling me that if you want to get to the VP, you just want to contact with the VP. For some people, they are like 100 contacts away, depending on how you... So I think it's about when you meet someone, you are not investing in people because of what you can get from them. But you're investing in people, like it's a natural process where you're thinking about what can I give to this person because the truth is, the more you're doing that, the more you're depositing. So it's like an unseen process, it's abstract. You are depositing to your bank account. And maybe tomorrow you need to do something. Oh, I know someone. Oh, I know a graphic designer. Oh, I know a web developer. Oh, I know this UI you're expressing. And that person comes on board on your project. I think someone says something that when money or cash finishes in your life, it's not money that's finished. It is people, right? It is that when you don't have access to people. So I think that all founders have to pay attention to... Again, Ruth is in finance and maybe raising money and all of that. But even to raise money, you need people. You need access to the investors and all of that. So we're paying attention so much to who have this massive idea. I'm going to give Mark a run for his money. I'm looking for money. I need money. But we're not thinking about what about the people? We've not exhausted the relationships that are... I think it's really important when you're building something at that early stage because you don't even have access to cash, but you have access to people that can get things done. Again, it's just like if someone says, I want to get a car. So I ask someone that once I'm looking for money to buy a car. So I ask them, do you need a car? Do you need money or do you need a car? Well, I need both. No, you need a car. So what if I give you the car? What you need is the car, not money. So oftentimes, I'm looking for 10 million. What do you need money for? Exactly. So I need to get an office space for my business. What if I connect with someone that gives you the office space? I like what everyone has said around this topic. I think one question that I always like to ask is and it's the challenge that I had when I started on my career because everyone tells you build social capital, build a network and then you go for networking events and you realize that you are either lost or the connections you make doesn't translate into anything. I mean sometimes you exchange cards, you do everything and you realize that it just ends there. So the question is, how can a young person build a social capital? Practical way actually. If I'm going to respond to that personally, let me use my safe way. For example, I've been opportune to attend local and international events. When I go for international events, I don't joke with it. I'm always intentional in reaching out to people from different countries not just for the glory of it, but for the strategically. What is strategically? You know what you want. If you go to somewhere, a networking event, just like you said and you don't have where you are going to, you don't have a clear direction of where you are going to when you get there, you'll be lost. Any tundical area will meet you and end up wasting your time. First things first is that number one, you are genuinely interested in people. You want to give back to people. You just want to genuinely help. You're not being selfish. Then secondly, again, you have to be strategic. That's in that order. You'll be strategic in the sense that you have a project in mind you are trying to do or you have something in your mind you are thinking either long-term or short-term. In the process of having genuine conversation with people, you'll find out about who they are and the reason. And then you keep in touch. After the process, after that opportunity, there's what we call posts. Conference management. You have to intentionally call them. Keep up with conversation. No, there's some people who are weird and you say you don't call them. You say, I don't call them. I don't like calling them. Stop all those nonsense. Stop it. If you want to build network, learn to call. If it's okay with the person you are communicating with or at least send messages. Keep up with conversation. Emails and all these things. Technology has made this thing easy. If you start with first-level relationship, first-level conversation, emails and correspondence and then eventually if you guys are or you people are building that exclusion, exclusion in relationship, you can decide to transcend beyond that. They have phone calls, then video calls, video chatting. Good things can happen from there.  So just add to what Elijah said. Like I said earlier, it's about being organic with it. I see people go to events and they want to talk to a bunch of 1,000 people. They just want to talk to everybody. Hey, hi, hi. You don't do that. So for me, I identify three persons I'm going to speak to, write, exchange contact, learn about them. And like he said, when I get back, I'm going to follow up and keep up. Oh, hi, I'm Victor. We met at this conference. I'm an entrepreneur. I do this, you know, just following up. If there's something to do together, you know, and then we just keep up with that, right?  So it's about targeting. Targeted, you know, because building is strategic, like he said. I mean, when you're trying to build the house, right? You get the architecture to drop the plans and then you're not plastering and then you're doing foundation. It's not possible. So you start with foundation, then you get to window level, lintier, then you start. Nobody paints a house with that beauty. You don't do that. So it's strategic and it's organic. So you don't want to meet 100 people at the same time. When you get home, you just realize, I don't even know what I'm doing. So you take it one step at a time or I went to this place. I want to meet one person or two persons or three persons.  When I'm done, I'm going to go back and follow. But I think that the larger work is the consistency of keeping on with that relationship because the more I get to talk to you, the more I get to know, okay, so Rook is in there. So Rook does this. Elijah does that. But when you make it a one-off and we think that we're going to come back after one year. Oh, let me go back and talk to this lady she's doing this. No. That's going to be parasitic. So it has to be same biotech where you're talking to them and then they're talking to you or cultivating that. I think that's one thing that really works for me. Let me quickly, yeah. This has no business with the environment because I hear a lot of y'all who say to me, I'm an extrovert or I'm an introvert. I do not talk network. My friends, if you really want to gain things in life, good things of life, you want to learn to make genuine friends with people. That's it. Forget about chasing money alone. Money alone, we're not just going to say money, wealth is in people and wealth is beyond money. Awesome. And some mistakes some people do during their talking, they start by selling services. Yeah, you start genuinely by knowing the person. Get to know the person. I think I was going to even add try to find something like a common ground if it's probably we went to school together. You try to find something that interests both people and then you can kick off from there. Yeah. All right. Up next is Solomon. Do say to me.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So this would be my spoiler free review for black Adam. I try to keep it a spoiler free as I can help it But this movie is starring Dwayne Johnson aka the rock as many of you know WWE fans out there who watch me No, I'm a WWE fan. We know him as the rock first and foremost He stars in the titular role as black Adam this movie revolves around that character nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods and in prison justice quickly Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world Now when it comes to this movie, I saw it last night. I believe it's coming out this week Today, I think I've seen screens showing as early as three o'clock this afternoon in my location But this movie black Adam Honestly was an action-packed mix bag of a movie on one hand You had some very cool themes being explored related to superhero moralities But that isn't necessarily breaking new ground either for this genre of films on the other hand those themes are lost Somewhere in a sea of endless action sequences that keep you entertained But they also wear you the hell out like black Adam. I would say is not a bad movie It's also just not that great the writing for the film can't be frustrating at times Especially I just found it to be frustrating for me when considering how many characters specifically related more so to the Justice Society Are underdeveloped one-dimensional for a big majority of the film these same characters are also The Justice Society that being they're the same these same characters are also what saved the film from its rocky start Which also makes it even more frustrating that They're here keeping this afloat and keeping it entertaining and engaging and they're so underdeveloped But that's what happens when you have a movie where everyone's sharing the screen constantly the movie was no time getting to the action and of course There should be over-the-top sequences spread throughout a superhero movie related to action But there is what there is where your problem lies the action sequences and black Adam are never ending I don't I didn't feel as though they were spread out with a story intertwined in them. Yes, there's a story Obviously, there's a conflict. There's a villain and there's going to be a solution It's just that everything felt like it was just jumbled all together in a blender of Nonsense mostly Thus with this your characters are hard to connect to which then weakens any emotional impact that certain deaths should have had At least the film gave black Adam the most compelling arc as it should Sadly the movie to my memory anyway had a desire to also convince you that black Adam is a dangerous threat going on a murderous rampage We know it had the anti-hero thing going on for it When I was watching the movie all I could think of is how cool it would be to see black Adam versus Hancock because I remember when I first saw Hancock back in today. That's the first person. I thought of I'm like this is like black Adam, but What's wrong with this messaging here that they're trying to push with black Adam? We see it in the trailers to it falls a little flat when you pay attention to the fact that all he's doing is Killing bad guys had a couple of innocents died at his hands Then the justice of society's ever to stop black Adam's ways would have been more impactful The exposition dumping at the start is pretty pointless too because the film features several flashbacks Related to the same unnecessary dumping that just happened at the start a lot of this movie is gonna feel like you're watching one of Those superhero movies from the early 2000s the film's villain is pretty lackluster too I cannot deny though that that third act was pretty fantastic compared to the rest of the movie Perhaps the biggest turnoff in the writing though will be the political messaging that can grow tiresome And it does seem like it's all over the movie. I didn't expect this movie to really be So heavy-handed in the messaging related to politics Dwayne I would say did do a great job as black Adam and every performance was solid Black Adam just felt so unoriginal in his presentation from the moment it started and it relied way too much on being a visual spectacle versus combining that with a Cast of characters that you want to root for that you care for Feel connected to they're just there because there's so much going on That's always taken away from any time you would have to spend with the characters and develop them flesh them out They're all again pretty much one-dimensional if it hasn't been made clear already pacing is a major problem with this movie Action sequences again go on and on and on but time with the characters is probably reduced to one to two minutes when the chances are there There are moments in the movie where there is tension and things that get you on the edge And I would also say that the score is pretty phenomenal Though I can also see many people praising the score because the score I would say keeps this movie alive at times where it would probably be dead because The act you see was is they're gonna drain you out. They sincerely are they're going to drain you out The thing about this though is that superhero movie fans like myself That is going to be enough to at least keep the movie entertaining But if that is all you care about then black Adam might be a movie you would consider to be good I myself though do not consider this to be a good movie. I also do not consider it to be a bad movie I consider it to be a movie that kind of highlights a lot of the things I thought we were stepping away from with superhero movies Considering how much of this movie did indeed again remind me of like superhero movies from the 2000s It reminded me of those and then it also again rely way too much on being a visual spectacle The story with the characters is pretty Meh when you sit back and recognize that all this movie is interested in is being a carnage highlight reel That is the problem with the movie. It's pacing the necessities It just feel be overly reliant on that and kind of just say hey, let's put together this Subpar story and let the rest do the do the work itself to me that keeps the movie entertaining But it what it does not do is then make black Adam It's something I will say is one of the best superhero movies that we've gotten this year because it's not it's probably one of the worst I Don't know if there's any other big major superhero movies They're supposed to come out this year, but black Adam to me so far has not been the best It's been one of the worst and I might be on I might be on this island alone My favorite superhero movie this year still has been that Dr. Strange movie that we got earlier this year But I might be again on that island alone by myself, but in comparing it to black Adam I would think that's more superior because black Adam again it really is hurting itself by how little it decided to flesh out its characters and Just let that narrative breathe the more it's so reliant on the action It's way too relying on the action if I were going to rate this out of 10 I feel like I'm probably being too harsh, but I'm going to give it a 5.5 out of 10 It's a movie that I would say is all right. It's something that I think could have been much better Had it not have relied so much on being this larger than life spectacle, which in and of itself with the CGI It's not really the best thing out there. It's also not the worst. I just know that with all these great performances You could have focused more on the story to give me a reason to care about the characters that are on my screen Because most of the time I did not let me know what you guys think about all this down the comment section below If you haven't already of course make sure you subscribe turn on post notifications that you never miss a video in the description I will have links on my social media accounts. I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course to let me know if there are any movies news or reviews You'll let me cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


And I'm here to talk about Grafana, some history, some current state, and a little bit about the future. For those of you who don't know Grafana, I think it is somewhere... Why is that? Okay, nice. Grafana is a dashboarding tool for visualizing time series data. It's not a database, and it's not a collector's, so it only visualizes data. And in the latest release, we also alert on data. I'm not sure if the lighting is... Okay, this is going to be fun. So yeah, the most common use cases for Grafana are visualizing home automation in... Visualizing metrics in home automation, application metrics as what is users doing, not what is the service doing, Internet of Things, industrial sensors, and also infrastructure monitoring. The intention of Grafana was not infrastructure monitoring, but that's the most common use case by far. A small disclaimer, I was not a part of the project from day one, but I worked with Torkel Ödergård, who is the creator of the project at the same company when he made this, and I joined about a year after he decided to leave that company. So I can't take credit for everything. The reason he created Grafana was that we didn't have any good metrics dashboard at our former company. The former company's infrastructure started to look something like this. We had a process of splitting a big monolith into smaller services. I don't want to say microservices because this was like five years ago, so it wasn't made up yet. And also, there wasn't super, super tiny. We had around 65 or 70 deployable units on a bunch of different servers, but there's nothing compared to the madness of today. Anyway, to get an overview of the system once we have split it up so much was very, very hard, and logs just didn't cut it anymore. We started using the Elkstack for logs, and we liked that for logs, but still it's not possible to get the complete overview of what your users are doing right now. So we started using graphite for user data, not anything regarding servers. We still had our proprietary monitoring system doing checks on all the servers. I don't want to mention the name of the service, but that wasn't the main use case. User metrics was the main use case. So that's why we developed Grafana in a certain way from the beginning. And the initial version of Grafana was a front-end only application. It didn't have any backend. It was just a web application asking for JSON dashboards from Elasticsearch. And when you save them, you just send the dashboard as a JSON blob to Elasticsearch, and that's it. Kind of a simple start, which was good because it got a starting rather than doing everything perfect. Eventually, we got support for InfluxDB and OpenTSDB in Grafana 1.x. And we started having more panels. We got the single start panel and, of course, the graph panel. That was the main part of 1.x. In 2.x, Grafana got its own backend. Everything in Go, of course, because that's what you do. You write stuff in Go. And we decided to use our relational model database to store all the dashboards instead. And the only reason for that was to make it really simple for people to get started. So by default, Grafana uses SQLite, but you can switch it to MySQL or Postgres or something like that. We really wanted an easy start experience for new users. Grafana also got an API at this age for automation and so on. We introduced users, permissions and so on. And this was also about when I decided to quit my former company and start working full-time with Grafana. In Grafana 2.x, we have three new data sources. Prometheus, Elastic and CloudWatch. And we also had a new panel called TablePanel. And around this point, we started thinking more and more about the plugin system. Because we had a rough plugin system in 1.x for data sources. But now we kind of realize that we also needed plugin system for panels. And we also know that everyone was creating time series databases. Every start-up strategy included time series databases at this point. And we also added the coloring, amazing. Added support for mixed panels so you can mix different data sources in one panel. And we found this really useful when one of you infrastructure data with user data and even business data, because they tended to be stored in different databases. So we had some information in Elastic, some information in Graphite, and some information in, no, that was it, in other system that we had custom-built data sources for. And mixing them was really important for us, because it gives much better overview when you have them in the same graph rather than two panels side-to-side. And I will catch stuff that, you can't just catch stuff without, it's so much easier to see stuff and find a problem rather than trying to find a problem by scrolling and comparing panels side-by-side. Graphana 3x. Yeah, but we need them for the camera. So, Graphana 3x. So anyway, Graphana 3x. We rewrote a lot of the UX to make it much, much, much more prettier. Graphana 2x was kind of rough, we didn't really like the design, and UX is important for us, because having people adopt Graphana is one of the key strengths we think at least. Compared to other dashboard tools, we think this is the most beautiful one, and it's the easiest one to get started with. We know it's kind of rough in the edge at some time, but compared to others, it's still much easier and inclusive. We created a... Nice! So, we also created a companion site for Graphana called Graphana.net, where you can host plugins and dashboards, so you can upload your data sources and you can upload panels and so on. And this was a major rewrite from our part, because we had to stabilize the API for a long period to enable the plugin system, but there was no big feature release for the end user per se. But plugins should enable end users to do more stuff. We also created a CLI for managing the plugins. And that was kind of enough history, I think. It was the major changes, and this is the current state of Graphana. So these numbers are public on PlayGraphana.org. I don't think you can read that URL, but in the slides later. And every day, every Graphana server sends some statistics about user count, dashboards, and so on. There's no sensitive information in that home feature. It's very important for us that people can feel safe about using it. But it gives us so much nice data, like versions and so on, so we can see new features taking off or don't take off, or stuff like that. So it's very important for us. The Graph panel is like the bread and butter of Graphana. I'm not going to go too deep into it, but I'm going to give you some important highlights. So the Graph panel is by default displayed with lines, but you can also display it with dots instead of lines. If you find that useful, I usually find this way too intrusive, but in some cases it's much better, because it's easier to locate the time stamp rather than with the lines. You can also use bars. If you use bars, you might want to stack them, because otherwise the big bars will block the lower bars in some cases, depending on the serial name override. We also have a new feature for displaying the series on the x-axis instead of time. So you can do bars on aggregate. So you can calculate the total of each area and display like this. And whenever you create your dashboard, I think it's important that you try to fine tune it to make it beautiful, because that will make adoption much, much likely. And two of my favorite ways of doing this is the series override. So in this example, which shows percentiles, I've changed the draw mode for the 95 percentile to use dots, because the 95 percentile usually is very volatile, while the other percentiles are kind of steady. So using dots for the 95 percentile makes it less inclusive, but it's still there. And the other one is if you have an average of something, you could also draw the mean and max and fill the gap between them. So you will see what the average is calculated by, because sometimes the average will hide information for you, depending on how big the gap is. And this is a small and simple way of making sure you would catch that information as well. And you can do that by displaying series overriding the display tab, and then you specify a name of a series or a reggit, and then you can apply overrides from the settings you currently have in the panel. This is something I love to do, because nice panels is so much, much, much better. Another caution about the graph panel is when people use legends. If you have mean, max, and average, and a query containing aggregation, like mean, then the mean will not be the raw mean, it will be the mean of the averages. And this is very common and confusing because people are expecting to see the real mean value, but that's never the case, because Grafana will only see the average value, because I don't think there's any time series database that returns the average or max value in the query for the series as well. That would be awesome, but I don't think anyone does that. The other panel that's very common people use is Stingerstat, and you can use a few different settings for it. The default one, you can have a sparkline to get some kind of sense about the graph in the background, you can have the gauge, and you can also map a number range to a string, and that might make it very easy to get a feeling for what the status is. So in this case, you can map it to unicodes. So of course, you should have a smile for your service status. A bit caution about the support for unicodes in your database. Grafana support it, but your database might not, so check it before. The third popular panel is the table panel. So this is a way to display time series as table data, and you can either display them with a timestamp per row, or you can do aggregation per series, and you can do coloring with thresholds and so on. I think this also serves a good purpose in overview dashboards where you might want to get a last status of some series, and is it up, is it down, or something like that. A very powerful feature in Grafana is the templating feature, which allows you to add template variables, which you can control from the dashboard, and by modifying them, you will modify all the panel queries at the same time. You can also use all and that kind of stuff to get all the queries. Templating has a few different types. First, there's the custom one, which allows you to pre-define values that you can then later replace in the queries, and you can also have queries that will send queries, in this case, to Graphite asking for server variables that you will find here, and you can have template variables that depends on other template variables. You can also have data sources as template variables, in which case you have to specify which type of database, and Grafana will suggest the data sources you have. This makes it easy to have one Grafana for different environments, so you can have production and test and staging in from one Grafana and reuse to the dashboard. Annotation is a way of highlighting events in the time series, and by default they are added to all the graphs in the dashboard. You can give them tags, and you can also have links in the details. So if you want to link to some systems with more information about the ploys or something happening to the system, it's really important to get that in the timeline as well, I think. A cool feature, which was one of my first big features in Grafana, is the playlist one. So you can create new playlists, and then you can add the dashboard to them, either by name, or you can use tags, and then you say them, and when you start a playlist, you can either press one of these buttons, or you can go to the URL like this. And since you can start a playlist from the URL, it's very easy to set up a smaller computer like Raspberry or something back on a TV, put it in the lobby, and then you can control whatever dashboards are shown in the lobby from Grafana itself. Because every full cycle, it will load the playlist from the data source.  I don't think you see any one of them. The most important one is if you stand over a panel and press E, you go to edit mode directly instead of having to click the title, which is super nice for speed. You can also share the dashboard, and if you have internal Grafana, you might want to share it publicly. And public Grafana instances means most of the case that anyone who can access the Grafana instance can access your time series database. And that's not a good idea because it's kind of easy to overload a time series database. So instead of hosting Grafana publicly, you should create snapshots with the data you want to show. GitLab had a maintenance problem last week, and they did a really honorable way of publishing a lot of data, queued us to them. It was kind of sad to see that Grafana servers went bonkers in the same second they published it. Using shell snapshots instead would have been no problem because when you publish them, you can publish them to the Grafana instance you're currently running, or you can publish them to our Grafana, and we will publish them behind a CDN. In the latest version of Grafana, we also added support for multi-tooltip. So if you enable it in Hovra, Syria, you get a tooltip for every Syria. And this is also very nice when you want to debug stuff, you want to get a lot of data in the same dashboard and drill down. And whenever you zoom or changes, it will just follow. It's a small performance impact, so you might not want to have it on by default, but it's only in your browser anyway. So we also recently added alerting, and that was a... It's been a really, really, really long-standing issue in Grafana. I think this is our third iteration on alerting. And one of the first problems is that Grafana's data sources is in the front end. So we created queries in JavaScript. With alerting, we can't do that because alerting has to run in the background. So we had a few different strategies for solving this, and the first we tried was to execute JavaScript in the good back end. And we just said that we don't want to maintain this code. It's possible, but we don't want to maintain it, and it's complex, and it's hairy, and we don't want our alerting code to be in any way complex. So simplicity was really important for us, which meant that we have to reimplement all data sources in the back end, which limits plugins, so plugins cannot have alerting right now. We have plans for adding plugins support in the back end in the future, because Ghoulang is going to release that soon, but it's not ready yet. But if you're in the graph panel, you've got a new option for alerting, and if you decide to create an alert, you get all these options, otherwise it's just a button asking you to create an alert. And the way it works is that you refer to a metric query in the Metrics tab. You give it a time range, five minutes to now, and you give it a reducer, and a reducer is a way to get a final number from a time series. So in this case, we would calculate the average of each time series returned by this query, and then we would compare it to this number, and then you can slide the threshold up and down and all that kind of nifty stuff. When everyone alert is triggered, there's a few different alert notification channels, Slack, of course, which will take a screenshot of the graph where it's alerting. It will give you all the series names that violated the threshold, and some alerting descriptions and so on. And this is the model for the alert. So alert contains conditions, and this can be an array of conditions, and whenever one of these conditions are met, well, you can have all statements or end statements. It depends on how you create your query. But if the result of these somehow triggers, we will send you an alert. It might be simple compared to other solutions, but we want it to be really simple. Our aim is not for 100%, 100% of all business cases. We really want to satisfy the beginner-to-medium complex users. Grafana.net, as I mentioned earlier, is our companion site. We're going to rename it Grafana.com eventually. The reasoning why we pick Grafana.net is strange even for us in hindsight, where you can find plugins, both data sources and panels, and you can also find dashboards. And a few plugins that I really like are the first one is the World Map, which allows you to map time series data to your point of location or countercodes, which can be kind of nice to see if you have multi-data centers or you can see where customers are coming from or stuff like that. The second favorite one is the diagram panel, which allows you to draw diagrams like this and connect the boxes to a time series. So it's not a weather map, but it's something more simple. And you create these diagrams by Markdown, not Markdown, but DSL called Mermid.js. And the last one is the custom JSON data source, which allows you to integrate any old legacy system to Grafana. It's mainly a way for Grafana to send away requests and expect your custom web app to respond with time series. And the custom web app can also suggest queries and so on. Because there's always going to be some old system that you want to graph, and you're never going to just have one system for monitoring. So this is a possibility to always keep moving and get everything into Grafana. Dashboard was also introduced in 3.0, but it's been growing steadily. So if you work on a project like Prometheus Exporter or some framework work that exposes metrics, you can create a dashboard, upload it to Grafana.net, and others will see that and can download the dashboard from Grafana.net. And this makes it much, much, much easier to get started with your product. And it's a way of sharing and contributing to open source without having to code in Grafana. If you want to import a dashboard, you just have to click the import button. You can enter a URL to Grafana.net and it will import it for you. And then you have to select some properties like data sources and all. And as I said earlier, sharing dashboard is a good, good way of contributing back to the community and making sure everyone can consume and visualize metrics. This is our first poster we created for Grafana. And I think the dashboard thing we added very much aligns with this, making everyone able to view the dashboard metrics. We also recently introduced host to Grafana.  You just give it a name and the cloud will take care of the rest. So that's enough about the present state. Let's talk about the future. So the future contains four things that I want to mention. I don't want to give a clear roadmap because so far we have been changing our goals a lot and that's still our goal to do because we all want to work on the thing that currently is the most powerful. So the first thing I know we're going to do in the upcoming year is iterate on alerting. We're going to add silencing. We're going to add alert groups. We don't support high availability right now or there's no clear way of doing that. That's something we want to solve. The second one is dashboard folders. So many people started using organizations for teams. That was never the intention of organizations. Organizations what meant for hosting provider basically, having different company using the same Grafana. By introducing dashboard folders, we hope to make it easier for people to have one Grafana organization with different teams connected to one folder. Folders will also include permissions and so on, which all that kind of stuff that goes along with arranging and structuring dashboard. The third one is backend plugins. Right now we see a few different use cases. First is alert notifications. We currently support 8, I think, but there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to support endless amounts. Databases would also be great to have in the backend so people can add the custom databases and have alerting on them really simply in Grafana. Authentication would also be a good fit for plugins. The fourth one is automation. That includes dashboard revisioning, some way of making sure that when this Grafana instance boots, it has these data sources, it has these dashboards, it has these users, et cetera, et cetera. We created the API for that use case, but that's a stateful solution. We want to add a configurable solution instead. Not sure how to do that yet, but that's something we really, really want to address without sacrificing startup speed. That's about it for me. I also have a bunch of Grafana t-shirts that I can't tag back with me because I don't check language. And if you contributed to Grafana, I will give you a special one. So any questions? So I have one question. If I want to implement a simple Grafana solution, say at my company, we want to graph how long a certain process runs every day, and I'm currently drowning in options with regards to time series database, backends and so on, what would I need? What would be a quick start to implement such a demo? So the first thing I would suggest is to just get started with one time series database. If you can't decide, just pick one and get started, and once you see the value, you can pick the right one for you. Because I do agree, there's so many right now, it's hard to choose. Exactly, but just choose one and you'll get started, and then you will see the value, and then you can spend time and money deciding which one suits your use case. We support a lot of different data sources, and all will return time series numbers, so we will graph them all. My question is a little bit strange. I'm trying to integrate Grafana with basic authentication, basically hiding behind an internal server, and somehow the basic authentication is not picked up. We can look at that afterwards instead. That's our kind of specific question. If that's okay for you. Any other question? I'm leaving tomorrow. I'll stick around. Very simple question. We've seen that we can now import dashboards. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? We've seen that we can import dashboards as JSONs. Is it possible now to export them to JSONs without uploading them to... Either you can view your JSON, or you can export them to the format for importing. You can export them, and you get a variable selection for data sources and so on. Is there a plan to allow full-text search? Is there a plan to allow full-text search, like I would say in Kibana, so to support elastic search, full-text search engine? In Kibana, there is a free text field, and it would be really awesome to have that in Grafana. Is there a plan to have that? That's something we've been considering, but since panels are supposed to act by themselves in Grafana, it's kind of tricky to introduce, but it would be possible. You could use template variables for that. You can just type whatever in the template variable. You can just type whatever. But we should add a template variable just for that. Thank you. Next question. On the roadmap, you didn't mention templating. Do you hear me? On the roadmap, you didn't mention templating, like arrays as template variables and stuff. Is that something you're looking at? Sorry, I can't catch it. Arrays as template variables? I'm not sure, but we've been thinking about adding tuples. You can have hidden value and display value. Is that what you're asking for? Not yet. Not yet. Now the roadmap is too wide for that feature. Any other questions? Regarding the last question, I can show you how to do custom JSON for the custom JSON data source for that. Any other questions? Pope me via email, Slack, Twitter, some way. IRC, Grafana channel. When we scale Grafana to multiple servers, how would the alerting work with that? Alerting on multiple servers. It happens in the backend and it runs on one server. If we would run Grafana multiple servers behind proxy, would it... Oops, sorry. It would cross multiple servers redundancy. If Grafana runs on multiple servers at the same time, would it generate alerts from those multiple servers or how do you keep them in sync? Every server would generate alerts. You would have to disable alerting on... You should only enable alerting on one server, and that's the HR issue that you want to address somehow. Any more questions? I wanted to use the organizations for teams, and the issue I went into is that data sources are not global, but per organization. So I made a patch to support global organizations, and I was actually working on getting it proper so I could do progress, but you're probably not going to merge it because of the folders which you just spoke. Yeah, we don't intend to do... make organization sharing in any way. So I should not have spent time in it. I'm sorry. No, it's good stuff. Thanks. We have another question over here. So does your data need to reside always somewhere in a time series database, or can I build, for example, a dashboard where a value comes from a REST API call at that moment to watch like a website or a Twitter account or whatever? The way you would do that is to implement our custom application that returns time series. That's the easiest one. You could also create a plugin in Grafana that reads from any API. Any other questions? We have time. This is really kind of nipping, but is there any way to get the playlist feature to wait with displaying the new dashboard until it's fully rendered in the browser? No, not that known. Okay. Please file a feature request. Any other questions? That's a good feature request. Going once. There's one on the end. For annotations, you said that by default are visible on all panels. Can we turn it off? You can only enable it for a per dashboard. We added support in the code to have it per panel, but that's not configurable or ready for merge yet. In alerting, it would only be per panel. See, if you have alert for a graph panel and the alert triggers, we will create an annotation and that would only be rendered in that panel. But so far, we haven't added the UX support for working with annotations that way. Any more questions? Going once. Going twice. Colin, thank you, Carl. The next talk is in 25 minutes.


The Pikeville, Giovanni's location held their grand reopening on Friday, March 8th after moving locations from South Mayo Trail to Hamley Boulevard. Yeah, we're celebrating a great moment for Giovanni's and for our community as we have just relocated to the downtown community and getting back to being able to offer dine-in for our great customers in the Pikeville area. Northern Eye Center in Pikeville, your local vision experts, experienced doctors using state-of-the-art technology. Choose from top designer frames from Oakley, Ray Ban, Nike and more. We accept Medicaid and Medicare, plus most insurances are accepted. Northern Eye Center in Pikeville, next to Tractor Supply. Many came out to celebrate the reopening of the beloved pizza joint where they received not only pizza but also coupons, free popcorn and the chance to win a free meal. Holmes says that this new location will be better and more convenient for those living in downtown Pikeville seeking a nice place to eat. Well, we saw the opportunity with this facility to be in proximity to U-Pike and student housing and all of the medical offices and different office buildings that are here in a way to provide another dining option and lunch option to all of the people that are in and out in downtown on a daily basis. The new Pikeville Giovanni's is located off the side of Hamley Boulevard in the building that used to house the Eastern Kentucky Dream Center. For Mountaintop News, I'm Kelcey Fidell.


Thousands of people hit the streets all across India on Wednesday the 28th of June in protests against the increasing incidents of lynching of minorities by communal mobs. The campaign that led to the protests was launched in the backdrop of the murder of 15-year-old Junaid in a Delhi-Madhura local train on the 22nd of June. Indian citizens whose lives have increasingly come under the shadow of criminal mobs participated in the not-in-my-name protests that took place across India while their anguish resonated in protests held in London, Toronto and Boston as well. We believe in democracy and we believe in the Indian constitution. The campaign has been signed and it is for that reason that we are here. So that is the strategy to scare everybody, to create an environment where people forget protesting. My name is Mohamad in it, for that matter, Ahmed in it or Khan in Khan for that matter. They're coming up to me and they're just trying to lynch me. That's the whole point of me coming here. They're saying, yes, we are doing wrong. We have to become IAS and IPS. We can't become IAS in this environment. We can't go to service. We can't do our work in this environment. I used to live in Delhi. But I don't attack murder. People are killing people. But for the betterment of the village, they are alive and happy. You're not doing anything for them. Yes, we are target Muslims today. But the people who think they will be saved won't be saved. The more people will understand that there is no murder of a Junaid. This is the murder of our rights to speak and to live. It is only for the Prime Minister to go abroad.  There are many who are going to run the government. And for this, the Prime Minister must come and say openly that what is his stand, whether he is there with the lynching mob or for the citizens of this country. We had very high hopes from our Prime Minister and we were hoping that the moment he takes a position on this there will be very immediate impact on this. He did speak about this issue, by the way. He called these people, the Gaurakshaks, goons as well at some point. But what we have seen is that there has been no response. And this is now a kind of a separate situation. If people don't leave this situation on the streets, then the situation... I mean, even after leaving, will the situation get better or not? We can't say anything about this. But at least we have to leave. And this is a small gesture. Very important. But this will not suffice. We have to go beyond this.


HP booth with Larry Mahoney and Jeff Wood, both from HP. And you got some crazy stuff to show us here today. What is this? So this is HP Sprout. It's our immersive computer platform that was announced in October. It's a consumer product, and we're launching it in the commercial channel this month as well. It's a high performance all-in-one PC running, Windows 8.1, with the addition of a touch sensitive mat as well as a projector and cameras. And it allows you to do a whole host of different things. This is just one application called a virtual DJ app. Hang on one quick second, this is audio and video, so I'm going to kind of explain what we're looking at. What we see as a mat looks like a big place mat that's got color graphics and he's touching it and moving the controls with his finger on the mat. That's being projected onto it from a projector up above what looks to be the PC monitor. That's right, exactly right. And it is a touch sensitive mat, 20 points of touch down here, 20 more up here. This is just one application of what we feel like is an environment that lets us develop a lot of different applications in a lot of different commercial areas. And this is one example. I can show you some others if you want. So as a DJ, you're doing that DJ stuff where you scratch and all back and forth on there. I've seen those kids today doing. You could do that on a physical turntable or there are other devices. What's the advantage of doing it on the mat like that? This would be easier to transport. That's one. Also, you could change the configuration of this with the program. There's things I can do here like effects. I can switch the functions by tapping a button here from mixtures to effects, for example. Let me show you another, oops, another example. So he's quitting the DJ application. He's again touching just on the mat. So I'll bring up what's called the create app and this gives you an idea of the rich multimedia capability of the product. I'm just gonna take some 2D captures and let's say we're concept... That's the printer cartridges and some PCBs on here sitting on the mat. That's right. And let's say we're conceptualizing a kind of a new portable printer device. I'm gonna tap on the camera icon there and then start a 2D snapshot. Uses the projector to illuminate the objects and then it creates five separate images that go into the gallery and can be used and rearranged. It's now captured though. Oh my gosh. Now the screen has exactly what we were looking at it. It doesn't look like photos, it looks like models. Well, they're actually 2D. I can capture in 3D as well. These are five independent images and I can... Striking them on screen with his fingers on the mat. And I can now annotate them and for example say that the yellow one connects to that one and the blue ink cartridge connects to there and the red one connects here. And rearrange, I gotta get out of that mode. I can rearrange and rotate and pinch and zoom. Wow, that is incredibly fast too. What he's done. I want to interact with a coworker about a document and the fan. I can go back and touch that again and it'll pick up those two objects. Take that picture and drop them in. Okay, for the audio listeners you're gonna have to see this. This is amazing. And accept that image, those captures. And now I got two more objects in the gallery that I can... It's still on the same background with the PCB and the other ink cartridges. Yeah, they're all still. And if I had another sprout here I could demonstrate with that collaborate button that two people, two to four people can interact simultaneously on the same design from anywhere in the world and have video and share video of them on this screen and they'd all see this creation and simultaneously edit it with each other. So it's a very powerful creation and collaboration platform. Wow, so sprout is, this entire thing together is called sprout. The camera, the projector, the display and the mat down below. And you said it's commercially available now? That's right, Best Buy 1899. Wow. The other thing to show you is if you got a second is 3D capture. Yeah, you keep going, keep going. I'm loving this. And I'll turn on 3D snapshot. Are you gonna do my head now? Well, so the idea here is you have a product idea for a mouse, a computer mouse that looks like a part of a coffee cup. And I wanna show this concept to my coworker, Joanne in London. So I'm gonna create a 3D capture of this concept and the scanner will now again use the projector to put in this case, striped line, a pattern of lines on the object. It will capture, it'll create 3D geometry to take a picture of the texture and add that, map that onto the 3D geometry. So now it's creating that 3D model. And let's see what it does here. And there it is. He just finished taking a picture of the partial coffee cup and now he's got a 3D model of the coffee cup on the mat that he's dragging around with his finger and rotating. Wow. So now I can interact. I can actually turn on collaboration if I had two sprouts I could demonstrate and we could be looking at this remotely from anywhere in the world. Very cool. Now is there a reason you did it with a paper coffee cup and not say with that fan? You can do it with the fan. It's just a, it does a good job of showing the 3D shape. Just the better way to show it off. Wow, I can't believe this is available to commercially today. That's very, very cool. Now, should we keep moving? Sure. So, we're moving down to a different device here. The best thing to capture here is probably for the camera that you can split your time between the two, but that shows you what you see with these 3D glasses. And this is the HP ZVR display. It's a high performance 3D display. I am. What for the listeners, on the left side we've got a display with a pulsing heart that's definitely in 3D, but he's manipulating it with a pen in the air. Here's that camera. And he's just on the other display. You can see the heart has come out into space and he's holding it in his hand now. The other display is what I see directly in front of me. So, he's got on the 3D glasses so that he can see how he's moving this heart around. Right, and I can make parts of that heart transparent. So, if you imagine this was used perhaps for medical education, you can imagine the professor in front of the college classroom being able to turn these parts of the heart transparent and perhaps pick up that camera if I can do that and move it inside, and what's inside the heart is shown on that screen there, which I can also move and bring it out. This is impossible to explain in audio. See that, right there? Yeah. Right there. Yeah. That's what's seen on this camera. So, the camera that he's stuck inside the heart is now displaying that image out on the same display. That's right, so. And what is this called we're looking at? This is ZVR, HP ZVR display. Can you tell us a little bit about how this is created? I see these red lights here. I assume that's triangulating your position in 3D space. Those sensors are actually tracking the glasses that I'm wearing so that the image is actually changing depending on, I can actually look around to the side of that house. When I move my head, it redraws it so that I see what's around the outside of that house if that makes sense to you. Yeah, when we're done recording, you gotta let me wear the glasses. All right, I will. So I dropped this house in here and I can now interact with the house, different levels. And I can put a camera path through the house. Well, okay. And then I pick up the camera, I gotta get back to the picker tool, put the camera on that path and it will follow that path and display it on that screen. So, it's a very rich environment. Yeah, because you have too much fun stuff to show. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks. If people wanna know more about this, where can they see these products? So, Best Buy, they can see Sprout and HP ZVR, they would wanna go to hp.com. Great, thank you very much. You're welcome, thanks. Thanks.


Hi everybody, welcome to another edition of the open source calm weekly top five This is where I share the best articles from the past week with you from open source calm First a couple of notes my kitty cat cannonball is joining me for the video today. I thought you might enjoy seeing him He's a great little kitty. Very lazy And my colleague Alex Sanchez who has been joining me for the past couple of videos is out on vacation this week So he will be joining me again when he gets back Also want to give a shout out to city camp city camp in sea is a free and open to the public unconference that gets citizens together from the city to create some really great ideas To help solve some of the problems that we have some of the issues that we have not all problems But just you know kind of things that go along with being a city and being a growing city in Raleigh at that So check it out. It's a really great initiative and it's also something that you can take Bring into your city if you're interested in civic hacking and government We also have a great series on open source calm right now about open government and open data And you can get to that collection of articles about that from the home page All right, now let's jump in to the top to the top five Subha explains more about the new Indian government policy in the number five article this week about how they will promote and adopt open standards open source and open technologies at Number four Ben Nuttall tells us what open education looks like at the Raspberry Pi Foundation Including our of code parse down and creative comments At number three you can hear the story of why and a bunch who developer team moved their portal to the open source content management system to Django CMS from Michael Hall Think a balance of simplicity flexibility and power At number two Natesh Tewari shares the project page Source code and license for eight open source data visualization tools Including details on how they work and the kind of user. They are best suited for Finally at number one this week Phil Shapiro shares how he relates to the experience of immigrating to the US Because he did two once and seeing that same Uncertainty and fear in the eyes of young kids new to America that have arrived at the library where he works and shares open source and Linux Phil decided to give them the one treasure. He knows best a Linux computer You can read more about this touching story and all the rest from the top five on open source calm Thanks for joining me and I will see you next time


guess who finished the sew together challenge on time this month? That's me! I am so excited to share with you all the things about this pattern, the fabric, how it came together, and some tips and tricks that I discovered along the way. If you're new here, hello! I am Lindsay. I sew all my own clothes and I am glad you found me. Be sure to introduce yourself in the comments so that I can give you a formal welcome. And for everyone watching, be sure to like this video so that other people will see it. Videos highlighting my makes and sewing pattern reviews go up every week. I already have dozens for you to watch if you want a little binge. Check out the playlist in the top right corner of your screen. It opens in a new tab so you don't lose your place here. Alright let's get into this make. This is the Love Notions Tranquil Night Set. For the Sew Together Challenge, my Instagram followers are presented with four patterns within the same category and they vote on the one we will all be making for the month. For February, the theme was pajama slash loungewear and the tranquil pattern won the vote by a landslide. Honestly, it's really easy to see why. This pattern has four patterns and one has a top, a dress, pants, and shorts. And the top has two sleeve options, short and long. The top dress and pants also have this really sweet crossover detail highlighted with either little rubber elastic, pico trim, or binding. As you can see, I made the short sleeve top and shorts combo and opted for the contrast binding for the trim. I usually use stash fabric for the Sew Together Challenge, but I didn't really have anything in my stash that was perfect for this make. The pattern calls for lightweight knits with drape and since I was also making the top and shorts, I needed a pretty decent amount of yardage. So instead of using my stash, I went shopping. I ended up checking out Jun and Lou, a new to me online fabric shop. Turns out they've only been around for about a year so I'm not that late to the party. Their selection is really beautiful. They specialize in European fabrics, have a ton of organic options, and everything seems to be mostly natural fibers, which I think is really important whenever you're making pajamas. And this doesn't necessarily apply to this make, but one thing that I noticed that they do that I love is that they offer ribbing that perfectly matches their French Terry selection. And they indicate this in the listing of the French Terry. So you can see exactly what you need to get that perfect sweatshirt where the body matches the neckband and wristbands and him bands. Exactly. They also for every fabric indicate which Gooderman thread colors matches the fabric as well. So it's just one less thing that you have to worry about finding a matching thread. Some other things I love that they do is they include the weight of each fabric in the listing so you can get a better idea of how it might perform. Again, not super important for this make, but if you're going to make jackets or anything like that, I think it would be really helpful to know the weight of each fabric. And that's not something that all online retailers do. So I like to see that. And something I don't think I've ever seen before, but they also indicate how much the fabric is expected to shrink when you wash it. So you know if you need to buy a little extra or not. I love that. For my pajamas, I wanted to try some print mixing. Since June and Lou makes it so easy to match up fabrics, I first decided I need to narrow down the selection by fabric type of the options they had. I chose to go with Jersey knit. I knew it being mostly cotton would give me that comfy t-shirt feel be cool enough to sleep in and would hold up to lots of washing and wearing. For the prints, I had a really hard time with this. I initially wanted to go with the clouds because like clouds dreaming sleep, you get the idea. But I was worried that the color wouldn't be my favorite that like, I don't know, tan background. So instead, I decided on the lily print as kind of like one of my main prints. Then from there, I knew I wanted one of the seed prints. I was just thinking like florals and dots and they would be a good contrast. And ultimately decided on the rose color to call out the pink and the lilies as well. And finally, I threw in some of this solid green just for the binding. I had no idea how I was going to use each fabric when I ordered them. So I just ordered enough of each to give me some yardage to play around with. When I got them, I realized pretty quickly that I wanted the main part of the top to be the floral and the shorts to be the dots. From there, it was just a matter of cutting the accent pieces and the sleeves and the binding from all the options and kind of throwing them on my dress form to see which one I liked best. You can see here the three options that I had. Ultimately, I'm so glad I went through this extra step because if I hadn't, I'm not sure I would have thought to cut each sleeve out of a different fabric. The asymmetry that that creates is just so unique. Certainly not something you would see in ready to wear. And the whole section of the bodice that's the dot print really ties in nicely with the shorts. I used my fast fit worksheet to determine sizing as always. I knew I'd be playing around with the sizes a little since I chose a more stable fabric. The jersey from Jun and Lou is so soft and holds its shape with just the right amount of drape. But I didn't want my night set to turn out too boxy. So I figured I'd be a little bit flexible with the wearing ease. The pattern calls for three inches of ease in the bust, four inches of ease in the waist and three and a half inches in the hip. I knew I'd need less ease in the top all together and that I could make it a little bit more fitted. My measurements also fell in between sizes pretty much all the way down bust, waist and hip. So I was pretty comfortable sizing down in the bust and the waist. I ended up sizing down one size in the bust and also one size in the waist for the top and then I sized down two sizes in the hip of the top. The top doesn't actually extend all the way to my full hip. So I was really basing that off my high hip measurement. For the shorts though, I ended up cutting the size that corresponded to my measurements with the full amount of ease and then I just graded to the next smallest size for the waist knowing I could make the waist of the shorts a little bit smaller with the elastic if I needed to. As you can see the bust is very fitted but the waist and hip of the top are nice and relaxed while also not being too boxy and the waist of the shorts fits comfortably while the leg opening is just roomy enough. Now if I'm gonna be picky, I'm gonna say that there are some fitting issues with the shorts. There are some drag lines pointing to my seat apex meaning the hip is still a little bit too small and there's also some extra fabric at the front crotch but considering that these are pajamas, I'm okay with these small fitting issues. I also want to point out that the bicep of this pattern is pretty close fitting. They do provide finished garment measurements for the bicep so if you don't like things to fit super close on your arm, especially when sleeping, be sure to double check this against your own bicep measurement. You can do a full bicep adjustment. They're really easy to do, do not be intimidated by them at all. As for the actual construction of this pattern, it comes together super quickly and easily which is no surprise since love notion patterns are always so well put together but I do have some thoughts about a few things. First, pay close attention to how many of each piece you need. The main bodice, for example, you only need to cut one of those unless you are not sewing the accent in which case you need two mirror images. Now with that, I'm also going to say I cannot imagine the bodice with two layers of fabric. Maybe if I had made it out of something like bamboo rayon but two layers of most any fabric is going to be too much for sleeping. So I'd suggest always using the accent piece and if you don't want it to be contrast just cut it out of the the same fabric as the rest of your bodice. The binding was really straightforward to sew but if you've ever cut a narrow piece of jersey before you know the raw edges like to curl up which makes it really hard to manage. I found a new product and decided this was the perfect time to give it a try. I'll be back with another video soon to talk more about it and kind of show you guys how it works but I used the spray and bond fabric stiffener. It got the fabric to lay flat and hold its shape which made sewing the binding so much easier. This is also really important if you're worried about your neckline stretching out. I think that this product would help prevent that as well. Did you notice that there aren't any side seams on the shorts? I love that. It's especially nice when you're sewing with stripes or directional fabrics since you won't have to worry about matching anything along that side seam. After making this version I have enough of the solid green to make another pair of shorts. I also have enough of the lilies to make another top so it's very likely I'll have two identical sets of these pajamas but that's perfectly fine by me. The pattern is easy to sew fits me well and the fabric is an absolute dream no pun intended to wear.  So awesome. I've got a ton of links in the description box. The pattern with a coupon code that's good until the end of February. The exact fabrics that I use, the fabric stiffener, and the fast fit worksheet. Be sure to give that space a glance before you go but I've also linked to my most recent Sew Together make the Style Arc Freya so if you haven't seen that video yet click on the bottom right corner of your screen and it'll take you right there but that is going to do it for me today y'all from me and honey and biscuit thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon. Bye!


She did a great job of waking y'all up. I'll make sure y'all go back to sleep. So I need some help. How do I change the slides? Is this it? Yeah? Okay. So when I was asked to, actually, what I'm going to do today is, I'm just going to share a few slides. I think there is a lot of conversation that I keep hearing just a little bit about myself. Before I started spring in 2019, I spent about 16 years at Lintas. I last served as the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Lowe Lintas. I was fortunate enough to have worked with brands from Unilever to Google, to Flipkart, to launching Hotstar in India. So it's just been very, very fortunate my journey. I've seen this debate play out for many, many years and this whole thing of with the advent of digital, this constant chatter about, okay, is this relevant? Is this going away? Is this what's going to happen to television advertising? So I'm just going to present a point of view, which kind of factors in some practical stuff. So I think everybody talks about the future of 30-seconders. In my view, it's actually 20-seconders now. I don't know how many of you, and which parts of the media business you all stem from, but all the conversation in the room now, especially if you're talking about advertising on television is, is all about saying, okay, listen, 30-seconders have gotten too expensive. We have to find a way to get to 20, 15, and then of course the Facebooks of the world come and say, 15, six-seconders is what works, and then they put out seven-minute ad films for themselves, which is quite contradictory. So I think it is 20-seconders, but the bigger, the real question for me, that this is not about duration. We keep discussing duration. For me, it's about the relevance. The relevance of, does the 20-seconder, 30-seconder matter in a digital first world? Actually, this is the question which at least I keep introspecting on, and a lot of times I have realized that, yes, it is relevant. We are in a digital first world, but it's not like the 20-seconder, 30-seconder has left the room. It's not like it's completely relevant because so many people spending so many dollars, it can't be without effect. So I wanna just walk you all through this, through my learnings, through this brand called WakeFit. I don't know how many of y'all are aware of this brand. It's a Bangalore-based startup which we've been working with for the last four years, and it was a small company when we began working with them. This was back in Jan 2019. We had just opened our doors. WakeFit was one of the first brands that we interacted with. There were just two founders. They had been through multiple startups, and then they had, and some of them failed, and then they began this small little company where they came and told us that, listen, we just make some mattresses, and then we sell them online. And then when we kind of started spending time with them, and there is this great brand in the UK, it's called Casper, they had modeled themselves on Casper, and it's fascinating. I don't know how, does anybody use any WakeFit product at home? Just one, two, and three. And how many people are aware of the brand? That's a sizable amount. Now, that is very reassuring because it's only about four or five months since the company has spent any money on television. Everything the company has done has only been on the digital platform. And given the room, it is very reassuring to know that. So actually when we started work with them, one of the biggest things we did was we told, we realized that they're not just a mattress company, but they're actually a sleep solutions company. And the purpose of the company became, how can we bring sleep into the consciousness and conversations of people? Now, there is context to this. We are obviously living in a world where Netflix comes and says, sleep is my enemy. Our honorable Prime Minister, actually in interviews has said that how little he sleeps. And obviously the country is very inspired by him and obviously we think that sleeping is overrated. But here is a brand that is selling mattresses, takes a higher ground and decides to bring sleep into the consciousness and conversations of people because on one hand, we say too much sleep is not good. On the other hand, we've had enough instances of people, very healthy people who have lost their lives. And a lot of times, the reason given is that there wasn't enough sleep in their life. So this is the dichotomy that existed and the brand decided to bring sleep into the consciousness and conversations of people.  Everything else has been through content. And we've managed to generate word of mouth, educate, build knowledge, always on content, right? There have been, we've created about 600 pieces of content for this brand alone. And I'm gonna take you all through some of it. But before that, I think what's important in this digital world according to us is that you don't just simply create content, brands have to behave like content creators. Like, you know, there is a, every content creator kind of has an understanding of her or his style, what connects with people and then generates content from there. It's not very, it's not very different for brands. Brands have to do the same thing. And this is the first piece of content that we put out. This was, this is called sleep internship. It's on its third season now. The amount of money, media money that's gone behind this in three years has been a little over a crore. That's how much money is being spent behind this. But it's generated crazy amount of word of mouth for the brand. And that's the media. We do it. Basically every year we call for entries, people send in entries, then they send in videos of why they qualify to be sleep interns. We get it. This year we got entries from about 37 countries. It's been covered in the press in television media across the world. In fact, there's a joke. There was a local television channel in the US which covered it and said that there is this mattress company from Indiana. They didn't even realize that it's a company based in India. They thought it's based in Indiana. And that kind of coverage it got. And we're on the third season, like I said, this year has been about six and a half lakh entries from 37 countries. So that's the power of content there. You can go Google it and then all this shows up. So there are the numbers. And then it leads to further content, user-generated content that gets created. So degree, civil services, wake, fit, sleep, internship. I've got people who are very famous, who have a lot of money in their life, have actually asked me saying can we also apply because it's just about sleeping, which we anyways got to do. So that's the kind of power it has. We also, as a brand, over the last four years we leverage moments. And I think that's super critical. One of the things is, as this was happening, you know, I don't know how many of you all saw Bhartan Dholiye, which was again something that went seriously viral. IKEA launched, we welcomed them with a Swedish ad in the newspaper. Omnikron, Omikron, Omikron. This COVID-19, Manus! He left the house in 2020. And he sat in fear in 2021. Last year, Bhartan Dholiye's hand slipped and this year, his face was covered in a mask.  Life has become virtual from the real. He's been sitting at home for a year now. The relationship between blood and blood has become the surface of my wake-fit. I've been sticking to him like a Velcro. When I wake up, I can hear the sound. I've been sitting in fear for a year now. That fear. Will COVID-19 end or not? So, this was very evident at that point. This was very evident at that point. This was very evident at that point. This was very evident at that point. Shameless? The easiest party of the year. I'm just running through. I have a timer in front of me. So, I think one of the important things to think about is that you have to find ways to engage people where they are. And I think that's one thing. And not to take away. I'll come back to the point on television. I know this is about the future of 30-seconders, but I'm just talking about how you can build a digital-first brand. There was a podcast on Spotify. So, we tied up and the brand, we said, okay, we need a celebrity now. So, we said, okay, who's a sleep fluencer? So, we actually, we created Kumbhakaran, the sleep specialist. And Kumbhakaran actually has a LinkedIn page, which has a lot of followers. He's called the Cheap Sleep Officer at Wakefit. My relationship with him is very big. Because, so, my passion is very important. But the old mattress had a lullaby of sleep. After three months of sleep, I came to know that the memory phone mattress from Wakefit.co came to my house. The joke is amazing. Come on, see you tomorrow in six months. So, we won't sleep by putting people to sleep, right? So, and the point that I really want to make is that this is another initiative which happened just when COVID got over and the world was opening up. And a lot of us had gotten used to sleeping after lunch, like it's very visible here. So, a lot of us had gotten used to it. So, we actually created this movement called Dos Ed Hai Sone De Bhai, which was, which really traveled a lot. Everybody's, it got covered in the economic times, two times in the front page saying, this is what companies are doing these days. So, that's the kind of noise it created. Yet, I think all of this created awareness, but that alone didn't move the needle. I think we must acknowledge the country we live in. It is a very, very large country. Digital is making its inroads everywhere, but knowing about a brand and buying a brand are two completely different things.  There is huge amount of trust that does get generated and the brand got a lot of awareness and that was, it's evident in the room, about 40 people in the room knew the brand, three people have bought it and that's the point I'm trying to make is that knowing something because of its digital presence and actually acting on what you know about because of television, that's the reality of the country that we live in and at some point in time, once we had kind of exhausted the digital audience, the brand didn't have a choice but to go on television and when you're going on television, while this is the avatar of the brand in the digital medium, you have to have a compelling argument for why somebody should buy you and that's where you enter with 20 seconders. We signed up a brand ambassador and we must admit we are a country that's obsessed with cricket and film stars. We can't take away from that the kind of reach that these two mediums, I wouldn't even call film a medium but the kind of love that cricket and films generate in this country is unparalleled and finally when you want to build consideration and deep consideration within a large part of India, we believe that television is your place and that's when we went with Rashmika, we created these two spots. Madam, your wake fit orthopedic memory foam mattress is ready. Wow! Try it for 100 days. Return it if you don't like it. Refund it for 100%. Buy and try. But why? Are you fly? You'll do it in the showroom for 2 minutes.  Did you hear that? Buy and try. Super boy! Try your wake fit mattress. Try it for 100 days. If you don't like it, tell me bye-bye. Order now at wakefit.co. So this kind of... It's in Telugu because it first ran in the Andhra market and then went on to run nationally. But we had to have a compelling argument because finally, and I'm sure all of you all have done this at some point in time, we all go into a mattress shop, we sit on the mattress, behave like experts for 20 seconds of bouncing on it and then say, yes, this is the one for me. We said that's not the way to buy a mattress. You actually take it home, try it for 100 days and return it if you want to. And that's the cash-on delivery equivalent of Flipkart back in the day, right? So it kind of builds trust in people that you can and it's a fabulous mattress whoever hasn't bought it should buy it. But that's the final point that I wanted to make. Wakefit's so fun. Chae and Dubai. 100 days, good. Chae and Dubai. Sorry. The learning is the world may be digital first, but that doesn't make the 22nd or second. I think long live the 22nd or if you want to create reach, if you want to go deep into this country, as of today, it still is the medium.  That's the larger point that I wanted to make. I am over time by one minute, 29 seconds. So I assume there are no questions and you all have thoroughly enjoyed this session and you all can clap now. Thank you very much.


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Russia, Finland joining NATO, fraught with conflict between nuclear powers. Finland's decision to join NATO is a strategic mistake as such policy is fraught with the risk of a direct confrontation between nuclear powers. Alexander Tokovinin, Russian ambassador to Belgium said, This course towards whipping up confrontation with our country has been adopted by all of NATO's European countries. This is a strategic mistake, a policy which regrettably adds to the threat of a direct conflict between nuclear powers. And naturally any talk about enhancing security is out of the question, he said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television channel. He stressed that building security in Europe, not together with Russia, but against it is a tragic strategic mistake. As history has shown us, such policies have never yielded success, he added. Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in May 2022, but their bids were blocked by Turkey, which demanded that the Nordic countries declare Kurdish organisations as terroristic as well as extradite individuals accused of terrorism or having participated in the attempted coup d'etat in Turkey in 2016. On March the 30th, the Turkish parliament ratified a protocol on Finland's joining the alliance and Helsinki was officially admitted as the 31st member of the alliance on April 4th.