That will welcome the Congress Party who are on the stage, leaders of the Congress Party who are in the crowd, Congress Party workers, and most important, my brothers and sisters from Kerala, I'd like to welcome all of you here today. The idea between Bharat Jor, the idea behind the Yatra is to bring India's people together. The idea behind the Yatra is to bring India's people together. In a sense, to build a bridge between all the people of India. In other words, the idea behind the Yatra is to bring India's people together. To build a bridge between different religions, communities, different languages, different people, different dreams. To build a bridge between different religions, different communities, different languages, different people, different technologies. It's to create a channel of the Yatra. Today, there are two visions of this country. And India defends itself by connecting with itself. The RSS and the BJP do not view India as a bridge. RSS and BJP, they view India as a fort. And a fort that is controlled by the RSS. A fort that is controlled by the RSS. Let me give you some examples of how Kerala has acted as a bridge. So I can show you the power of what happens when you build a bridge between people, between ideas. A superb example is Kallamandalam. Now that is the centre of art. Now imagine if you said that in this centre of art, we will only allow one type of person. Imagine if you said that in this centre of art, we will only allow one type of people. The vast majority of people will not be allowed in. One type of person who has one type of idea will be allowed. Imagine if you said that in this centre of art, we will only allow one type of person. If you did this, would you be able to spread the culture of this beautiful state to the rest of the world? Would people from America, from Europe, from the rest of the world come to this great institution? Not a single person would come because they would say this is not for us.   I will give you another example. And a very powerful example. India got independence. We were ruled by the British. We sent the British home. When India became independent, the British said that they do not want you here. But did we ban English? In fact, we promoted English. The entire BJP leadership, including Mr. Vajpayee, wanted to ban English. So the long speeches about English and how it should be banned. Suppose India had banned English in 1947, would there be an IT industry in India? Would there be people who would be going to the United States? Would there be people who would be building a bridge between the industry of the United States and India? Would there be people who would be building a bridge between India and India? That is a small example. Another example, a great example of a bridge that the people of Kerala have built. I would like to ask you, how many of you have heard of the bridge? I want to ask you how many of you have heard of Dubai? Who has built Dubai? Who built Dubai? I can't hear. Who built Dubai? No, you built Dubai. The people of Kerala have built Dubai. Your family has built Dubai. Your family has built Dubai. The fancy buildings in Dubai, the metro in Dubai. The success of Dubai, the success of UAE. This is because you have built a bridge between India and Dubai and the UAE. The reason behind the victory of Dubai and the UAE is because you have built a bridge between India and the UAE. This is the idea of India. This is the idea that the BJP RSS is attacking. They do not want India to be connected to each other. They don't want to give the space that say Malayalam. Malayalam and Tamil deserve. They want to build a bridge between Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra, Telangana, Mizoram, Nagaland. We want to build a bridge between Tamil Nadu, Malayalam, Nagaland and Maharashtra. We have built a bridge between Tamil Nadu and Malayalam, We have built a bridge between Tamil Nadu and lessover Tamil Nadu. We want new bridge between Malayalam and Tamil Nadu. All the people in the bridge want to attack Tamil Nadu. on the sides of the road it is like a river they want to attack the idea of Malayalam they want to attack the idea of Kerala after all what is the idea of Kerala I have been here now walking on your streets for 10-12 days on the sides of the road it is like a river This road is like a river. When you see the train, this is full of rivers. This is a river. There is no Hindu or Muslim. They are all the same. There is no Hindu or Muslim or Sikh or Serb. So this is the idea of Kerala. This is the idea of Narayana Guru. And they come here. The RSS people come here. And they talk about Narayana Guru Ji.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands.  They fold their hands. And this is the idea that the BJP and RSS is attacking, now you will ask me the next question, but why are they attacking this idea? This is such a beautiful idea, this idea of India being like a river where everybody is equal. Why you would ask me is the RSS intent on attacking this idea? Because they work for a few people who want to own India. They do not work for the large mass of Indian people. For them India is a place to be ruled. For us India is a voice to be heard. That is the difference between us India. That is why we are walking 3500 km. We are not walking 3500 km to cause ourselves pain. We are walking 3500 km because we believe in your voice. We understand that you are wise. We understand that you are the source of knowledge. And we want to listen to your voice. Look at how the Yatra is designed. We get up at 6 o'clock in the morning. And we walk 25 km throughout the day. We do not give speeches during that time. We do not tell you what we think. We listen to what you say. If a child comes to us, we do not tell the child what we think. We do not tell the child what we think. If a labourer comes, we do not say what you should do. If a labourer comes, we do not say what you should do. If we meet the owner of MaxMobile, we do not tell him what he should do. We ask him what he should do and what he should struggle with. If we see a MaxMobile, we ask him how he should do business. We have to listen to you from 6 in the morning till 8 in the evening. Then we tell you 15 minutes of what we think. So 14 hours of your difficulty and 15 to 20 minutes of what we think. So 14 hours of your difficulty and 15 to 20 minutes of what we think. Has the Prime Minister ever asked you what you think? Has the Prime Minister ever asked you what you think? Impossible because he thinks you don't know anything. There is a confusion that he has. He thinks power is the same thing as knowledge. He thinks power is the same thing as understanding. But they are not the same thing. They come from the same source. From the people of India. But they are not the same thing. So you have a Prime Minister who confuses understanding with power. Who confuses knowledge with power. And the result is you have a disaster in the country. The highest level of unemployment India has ever faced. Why? Because the Prime Minister thinks knowledge is power. The highest prices that we have faced we face today. A young student in Kerala simply cannot get a job. It is impossible to get a job in Kerala. You will not get a job in Kerala. You will have to go outside to another country to get a job. You will not get a job in Kerala. Is this what the people of Kerala desire? The sons and daughters of this great state is that what they deserve? I don't think so. I think this is an insult to the people of India and the people of Kerala. The country I know as India is humble, compassionate, gentle and loving. It is like this river that I mentioned where everybody talks to each other with respect and affection. Imagine this huge river that we have that is walking with us. Imagine if everybody in this river was fighting. Imagine if everybody was slapping each other. Imagine if everybody was slapping each other. Imagine if everybody was trapping each other. Could we ever achieve anything? That is what the Prime Minister and the RSS and the BJP are doing to the country.  And what are the tools, what are the instruments they are using? Hated between community, gst, gst, 5 different taxis, 5 different taxis, purposely aim to destroy the lives of millions and millions and millions of people. After this meeting, go to MaxMobiles over there and ask the owner, what he thinks of GST? He will tell you what he thinks of GST. He will tell you GST is a way of stealing from me. And after that go and ask him, what do you think of demonetization?  Then ask him, who benefited from demonetization and GST? And he will tell you, the two or three biggest businesses in India benefit from GST and demonetization.   So what is this Yatra about? This Yatra is to remind India that it is like this river.   Doesn't ask before picking him up, what language do you speak? What religion are you from? What caste are you? Are you a man or a woman? No. Does not ask these questions. Before picking up a person from the river, there is no question about whether he is a demonetizer, a demonetizer, a demonetizer or a demonetizer. Simply picks the person up and says you are Indian, I am with you. That is what it means brothers and sisters to respect the Indian flag. To respect the Indian flag means to respect every single Indian. To respect the Indian flag means to respect every single being that lives in India. It means to be compassionate to other Indian people. It is no point me saluting the Indian flag and then attacking my own brother. What is the point? Salute the Indian flag and then insult women. Salute the Indian flag and then insult your brother. Look what has happened in Uttarakhand. What has happened in Uttarakhand? Hotel owner, BJP leader. Hotel owner BJP leader, a girl has been found murdered. Hotel owner BJP leader, a girl has been found murdered. Had they taken any action? Had they taken any action? Had they taken any action? Had they taken any action? Had he taken any action? Had he taken any action? We were told to go and visit the hor roup It is not video it is footage. If parol my Indian nhakasha you salute the Indian flag and the price of a cylinder has gone from 400 to 1,000 rupees. India cannot cope with this anymore. you are saluting the Indian flag but forgetting the Indian women. so that is what this yatra is about. bringing India together once again. ending this hatred, this violence, this arrogance that is being spread in the country. telling the government of India that we will not accept unemployment. we are not responding to the Indian government. Prime Minister said, what did the congress do in 70 years? I will tell you, the congress never gave this level of unemployment to anyone. this is a gift that the prime minister of India has given to India. and let me tell you, he has no understanding of these things. so this is not going to get resolved. small and medium businesses will continue to get destroyed. max mobiles, thousands and thousands of shops like this are going to close. I hope he doesn't close. because there is a connection. but there is a connection between hatred and unemployment and price rise. and this is the central message of the yatra. we will not accept a hateful India. we will not accept an unemployed India. and we will not accept an unfair India where a few people own the whole country. I would like to thank all of you for walking with us. and giving us so much affection. now we are finishing the yatra in future. so I would like to thank everybody who walk with us, who give us their energy. I would like to end by saying from my side, now I have been walking for so many days with you. I have been walking with you for many days. and I walk with you, I get up in the morning. and normally when you get up in the morning, the first step is easy because you are fresh. but since I have been walking in God's own country, a very strange thing is happening. first few days I was very confused. why is it that the first step you take in the morning and the last step you take in the evening, why is it that the last step is easier than the first step? in fact today one of the congress people was walking with us just now. he was saying also that you know it strange that in the evening he is not feeling tired. so he is only walking one day. so I asked him what do you think it is? so he said he thinks it is adrenaline. I did not say anything but it is not adrenaline, it is the love of the people. it is the love of the people of Kerala that makes the last step of the day easier than the first step of the day. so I am forever in debt to you. I am in debt to you for the wisdom that you show me. for the love and affection that you give me. and for the tremendous effort that you are putting in walking with me. this is not an ordinary debt, this is a normal bank loan. that you give me 100 rupees and I give you 100 rupees back. this is the debt that I can never repay ever in my life. no matter what I do, no matter how much I work, how hard I work, I will never be able to pay this debt. so I have to accept that I am in debt to you. Thank you.


Good Josh the boy Ross back again with another video. So we're gonna check out. Oh my god wrestling highlights part number man part number four if you know why I I have a I feel a certain type of way when the number four is brought up then you've been subscribed Today in the clutch page for quite a while. So you know the reference, but yeah Oh my god wrestling highlights part number four. This should be a good one I've been enjoying this series by none other than BD WJ forever. He's uh, he's highlight click commentary Most of consist of independent wrestling companies and they are insane every time my mind is blown watching these So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all love and support you guys have been showing on the channel for almost at 70,000 subscribers. So thank you so much for that keep running up to likes keep running up to subscriptions Let's get into this thing There's tracks thrown off into the corner Amazing red is able to avoid those kicks also.   Oh He just said that Good God Oh Okay Right now, they're still pretty impressive That exchange is pretty nice one in this match, okay, he's got to get it together Takes him down. How do you navigate a man that sighs? Oh, there's her bearer. Oh I'm not his own partner What is this CZW oh That was cool. That was that was cool. I like that Oh my god, that was pretty cool. Didn't see that one coming. Well, he didn't see that one Strength on that Damn that looks like to muscle Oh my anything barbed wire related just makes me cringe. Oh, no Bro, that is do job That actually makes it was dropped Taking the hardcore. Oh my god. Oh, wow. That was pretty cool. That was pretty cool, man That's a term of greatness Yes, you're about to spear somebody. Oh, that was a nice spear. That was a nice spear Oh Oh boy That's a lot of strength too It'll be close to 500 pounds and that is as you said putting a lot of pressure On that knee joint on to the jump itch. All right. Let's fight. I'm not oh wait. Are those thumb tacks. No, no I did not know Do drop was extreme because they make her look like a goddamn Joke in my opinion on the main rush. She is extreme Wow.  Oh Casey, you don't want to be there. Oh Well, I am really that's crazy That is crazy In these type of matches That's that's insane So though by grace it's hogan into the ropes ducks down Sunset flip grace rolls through folding press Muscles are up power bomb perspective Wait, what the josh kid kid this is for the title.  Hang your opponent match.  This is extreme.  Oh, he gained a lot of speed. Oh god damn. He gained a lot of speed Still going but that was that was impressive That was impressive That whole exchange Was ridiculous. Oh Oh, oh that was the muscle. Oh, she caught her.  Oh my god. What is going on these clips have intensified Definitely indefinitely. Oh Kicked out at one. Oh, bro.  I got all over the canvas. No, no, no, no No, bro. What is this? Damn That was a nice move because of the ozone that was a smooth move Oh, that is impressive. That's impressive Oh, that's that's pretty cool one two, that should be it. Oh my god. Wow How is that not the end of the match?  Oh Uh-oh. Is she a squirrel lady? Like what's going on here? What's happening?  No Oh, oh Hell did I just see That definitely was dew drop that looked like dew drop that's in wwe right now.  That was uh, I have nothing else to say, but holy You know what? That's crazy, bro that It it it it goes to show That I love compilations like these because I can see wrestlers. I see in wwe that may not be doing too well I can't buy until they can be in wwe But to see their previous work in other companies and you're just like, holy shit. They were portrayed as a badass there That's I would have never thought in a million years. She was actually in some hardcore matches like that Comment down below. Let me know if y'all knew that because I didn't that insane I don't even know what to say. Usually I'm kind of speechless after the end of these videos these are just ridiculous I don't know what to say comment down below. Let me know.  I'm speechless, but I appreciate all love and support Road to 70k. Appreciate y'all kicking it with me. I'll see y'all in our next one. Peace


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For everyone who gets to watch this video, who has regular access to the internet, for you, I believe it's important to create content consistently. And in this video, I'm going to give you 10 reasons why it's important. And I want you to listen to each reasons, and I invite you to write down which one resonates with you. In fact, I'd love to know if you want to comment below which reason resonates most for you. So these reasons are in no particular order. So the first one I'll share with you is it's important to create content for you to clarify your message and your style. Some people think I've got to figure myself out. I've got to figure out my message before I can then share my content, before I can write articles, do videos, etc. But what I have discovered over seven years of creating content is that the process of creating content is actually a proven way to explore and to practice your real voice, whatever that is. And that's, again, through discovery, through the process of content creation, it comes out. And when I say your real voice, I don't necessarily mean your physical voice. It could mean that, but it's also your inner voice. For some people, actually, they even experience that when they create content, they channel a higher voice through them. They sometimes go back, and I've experienced this occasionally, I go back and go, wow, I didn't know I could write that, or I didn't know I could say that in that way. And so, in essence, reason number one is you practice allowing your genius to come through when you create content consistently. So as an example, last year, I embarked on this project to make 100 videos. And this is more videos than I would have made in the past five years in a single year. And by doing these 100 videos, I got so practiced at allowing my authentic style and my higher voice, my smartest ideas to come through in a more flow type of fashion. So that's reason number one is to clarify your message and your authentic voice. The other thing, actually, part of clarifying the message is that it's really good for your clients to do so. And actually, I would say that that's the second reason for creating content is to organize your knowledge to benefit your clients. So if you already have been helping clients, maybe you're good at helping your clients, but have you organized your ideas and your modalities and your processes in a concisely recorded way that your clients can keep going back to it to benefit from it. And even those who are not your clients can benefit from it and maybe one day become your clients. So this is especially useful if you find yourself saying the same thing to different clients. You explain the same idea or you teach the same process. Well, what if you recorded that down into a video or wrote an article so that instead of having to say the same thing over and over again, you can share that piece of content with your clients. And then when they come and work with you, you can then work with them to customize that idea specifically for them, for their life, for their style. However, it's in other words, you can do deeper work with your clients instead of having to keep regurgitating the same thing. So that's reason number two is to organize your knowledge base so that you can do deeper work for your clients. The third reason is to when you create content consistently, you get smarter and you get more effective in your field. Last year when I made a hundred videos, most of them were about business and about marketing. I felt like I got smarter and got better ideas about business and marketing than I had in the past five years. That's the power of committing to consistent content creation. So getting smarter and more effective in your field. The next reason is that creating content consistently allows the search engines like Google to pick up your ideas and to share them with the world so that your prospective clients can find you. And also the people who could refer you to many prospective clients, they can then more easily find you through the search engines online. This is especially if you put your content out in a way that the search engines can index. So blogging on your website or putting it on social media sites like medium.com or even linkedin.com and YouTube as well will allow the search engines like Google to pick it up much more easily. The next reason to create content consistently is to build trust and credibility with the people who do find you. So when someone first comes across you, comes across your website, they might think you're pretty impressive or they might think, wow, this person might be right to serve me, to help me, to teach me. But if you don't have any content, how will they really get to know you and trust you enough to contact you about something further?  It would be too much to do, right? And so by using content, by sharing it generously, you filter out the people who are not meant for you. You filter in and build trust with the people who are meant for you. So that's an important reason for creating content consistently. And the more consistent and abundant your content is, the easier it is for people to build their trust and credibility with you because there's so much they can choose from to receive. Now there is a balance between quantity and quality, so I can talk about that in a future video if there's interest. The next reason for creating content consistently is that you get to engage with your audience and as a result, you get to better understand them. And marketing is so much about continually getting to better understand your audience. And the only way to be able to better understand them is to engage with them, is to see what they really like from what you're sharing. Notice of all the content you're sharing, which ones are getting the most positive comments? Which ones are getting the most shares? What questions are coming through that you can then create additional content to answer? So without content, how can you engage with your audience unless you do it one-to-one? And you may be doing some of that, and that's a really good thing. But then creating content allows you to engage with many people all at once to get the questions in one place and to be able to understand them in aggregate. It's easier to recognize the patterns of who your audience are when you can see many of them at once. Okay, next reason for creating content consistently is to be top of mind for your perspective clients and for your referral sources. So when they follow you on social media, so if they follow you, your postings on LinkedIn or on Facebook or on Twitter or on YouTube or other places, medium.com, if they don't ever see you, then they're going to be thinking about other people that they're following, other content they're reading. But if they see you on an occasional basis, same thing with email newsletters, if they never see an email newsletter from you, how are they going to remember you? How will they remember you when they need you, when they need to hire you? Or how will they remember you when they have someone, a friend of their colleagues, who can really use your service, right? So to be top of mind is a great reason to create content consistently. Another great reason is to lead your ideal perspective clients to the next step of working with you. So if you imagine your ideal client, they're on a journey with you. They first discover you, and then you need to lead them towards being able to trust you, but they kind of get to sense your expertise through your content. And then what's the next step after that? The next step is to understand your content even more, or to understand your story even more, to understand your framework even more, and then eventually you can invite them into working with you. And content is a great way to invite people to work with you. So you might, for example, share a very valuable article or share a video like this, and at the end you could say, hey, if you're looking for more customized help, if you're looking for a deeper experience of what I've just talked about, or for me to work with you directly, you know, contact me, et cetera. So content is a great way to ease into that invitation, okay? And the next reason, very important reason for sharing content consistently, is that it is a great way to generously serve the world.  I encourage you to think of it as you're sharing it out there to try to help as many people as you can, and then some of them, the more people you help, in fact, okay? If you only helped 10 people with your content, okay, maybe one of them might decide to work with you as a client. If you helped 100 people with your content, okay, maybe 7 to 10 instead of 1, it's now 7 to 10 who will want to work with you. If you helped 1,000 people with your content, right, now it's more like maybe 50 to 100 may want to work with you. But I've already talked about that, these reasons for perspective plans. Finding, I want you to now think about all the hundreds of people who are helped by you whom you didn't even know. And I really believe in the idea of karma, okay, what comes around goes around. If you serve all these people, eventually all that benefit will accrue to you, either in this life or more likely in future lives. It's kind of like when you put money into the account, the longer you're willing to wait, the greater the interest builds and the more benefit you have. But regardless of the benefit, if you do this from a heart of giving, you will receive those emotional benefits now to say, wow, I can only imagine how many people are being helped by this, right? And finally, a great way to create content consistently is to find your calling. From all these reasons I've listed above, you will discover more and more what you are meant to do when you share content consistently. Try it and I believe you'll see that to be true. So which one of these reasons most inspires you, I'd love to know, and I hope that this inspires you to create content consistently and share all that you've got out there. It can only benefit you.


Thank you. I thought somebody asked me, is this an Australian company? Viada's in California, but it's Australia Day, so I put it on the slide. Thank you very much. I got into virtualized networking by accident. Viada makes a Linux distribution that is used for software routing, and our customers decided it was wonderful to put it on a VM. So everybody started putting Viada on, VMware, Zen, KVM, and then one of the customers, people on our community said, I want to put it on Microsoft Hyper-V. I said, hmm, do you support the drivers? I went looking around, I downloaded the drivers, and I looked and said, there's one problem here, big binary set of x86 code in there. We can't put that in our distribution. So I went to Greg, who works for Novell, and Novell has the back door into Microsoft. I said, Greg, could you go fix this? And I went away, and I expect nothing to happen. And then about a year later, all of a sudden the news hits, like, Microsoft open source is the Hyper-V drivers. And my name's out there, and like, okay, I guess I got to do something with these now. So I helped the guys get it, put the stuff in the staging tree and worked on it. And now we go to say, well, I think we should release with the Hyper-V drivers. And I said, okay, I really haven't actually played with the performance on this stuff. I think I ought to do a little investigation. So I started a little investigation. To get started with, I'm not doing enterprise level benchmarks. I don't have IBM level machines. I've got a single workstation. It's got eight, four cores, two threads, gigabit networking. And just to give you a baseline what you see on these kind of machines, you see, I get 12 gig.  And if you do forwarding tests, I got about one million packets per second per core forwarding. So that's sort of the baseline rule of thumb talk. So before I went into looking at the virtualized networking interface, I said, well, all of these virtualization environments have a legacy network interface. Legacy network interfaces pretend to be something else. In the case of Hyper-V, it pretends to be an old decked tulip driver. For VMware, it pretends to be a PCNet32 card. And KVM has, you can choose whatever, E1000. This is not a benchmark. You know why this isn't a benchmark? It's against the rules to do benchmarks. But the real reason is those are three different machines. So I don't think that, I don't want people going away from here saying, oh no, one's faster than the other. The left one is my old Windows box, Panium. The middle one's my laptop. And the right one is my work station. So there's three different sets of hardware here. But the point is that also, oh, by the way, in the Southern Hemisphere, I decided the graph's upside down.  So this one is 100 megabits. It's getting 100 megabits out of a gigabit network. And KVM is getting about half the performance when it runs legacy. And what this test is, is I'm running a guest, I'm saying how fast can I transmit data from the guest and how fast can I receive data in the guest? The simplest kind of guest environment in a hypervisor. So obviously, the next step is, well, how well does this run with virtual NIC? If it runs with the virtual NIC, which is the recommended way, I don't think anybody should run the legacy NIC unless they have to. We do much better. KVM, there's no borrower there in receipt because I'm getting 100% of the network. That means that the hypervisor is not the bottleneck, the network's the bottleneck. And this is VMware work station in Hyper-V. Now, I should mention on VMware, I'm running VMware work station. There's VMware server. They have two different virtual NICs. So the performance is very different on the server version. So optimizing networks is a well-known problem. There's a very good book. I recommend students to take classes, study the book, rule front page of the book. It's got 15 rules on how to optimize your network. If you look at all the things I talk about later in this talk, each one of them has some corresponding law in there. And if people want to improve things, just go to the book. Choose the next rule that hasn't been applied yet. Each virtual NIC has a different set of characteristics. But look at the Hyper-V one. It's in the staging tree. It has no real offload. It basically copies every packet and checksums it before it sends it off the network. Likewise, coming back. The VMware one, the version that's in the server version, the VMware three, has a full set of offload features. Pretty much like any 10 gig card has now. And Zen and KVM both support transmit offload. They don't do any fancy VLANs or multi-Q. You'll notice that each one of these has a different maximum packet size you can use. Hyper-V is basically back where you were with Ethernet. The server version of VMware supports jumbo frames and both these two support as big as you possibly can get with IP networking. Now I started to say, okay, does this offload make any difference? Now if you remember back to the earlier slide when I did KVM tests, I was pretty much saturating the net. I was going as fast as my actual physical network could go. So for this test, I said, what about between two guests? In this case, I would expect if I was doing well, I should be able to get 10 gigabits a second. If I was not doing so well, it would be worse. So if I have everything turned on, which is a default, I get about 4,500, 4.5 gig a second. So half of, less than half of what I can do in loopback. And if I turn off the offload features, I get down to just a gig of it. So really what that says to me is the bigger packets that I'm able to get with TSO are what gives me that big performance benefit. VM implements another thing called large receive offload. What large receive offload does is it aggregates multiple received packets together and then passes them up as a unit. This works really well for an application. It does not work so well in our environment when we're trying to act as a router. Because what happens is the packets come in, they get aggregated all together into one big packet, then our router VM runs and it has to break them up all again into separate packets. So one of the first things we discovered, we get customer complaints on VM where they're saying, why am I only getting 10 megabits a second through your router? And the answer was because large receive offload was on and it was basically jamming everything together, splitting it back apart.  But not all offload is always a good idea. The next possible way to jack up the performance is why don't we just use bigger packets? I mean if you have the slip from the research network here, research networks for years have used bigger packets. So I did some tests on well why don't I try different packet sizes between guests. And the bar here is 1500 because that's the one everybody day to day runs with. And you see you start out with five gig here and you end up getting pretty close to what the maximum I was getting with loop back as you go up to full side packets. This is a log scale because it made the graph come out better and shows you more information. So I was feeling this looks really pretty good. The problem is that when you do virtual networks, you kind of want to get outside the door. You kind of want to get past your machine. And the way you connect virtual networks together is with bridging. Bridging is a layer two protocol. Layer two protocols do not fragment. They do not look at packets. If you try to put a 10 pound packet in a five pound pipe, it drops it on the floor. So you're basically stuck. The world is stuck back here at 1500 MTU unless you're doing some bulk backup between VMs or you have a private research network that supports bigger packet sizes. So there are multiple ways to hook up virtual networks. Up till now I've been playing with the standard. If you use Vert Manager and KVM or use the GUIs in VMware, they give you basically a NAT network. They give you a private network. They translate the addresses and they send them outside. You could also with a few more command line options set up a bridge network. I tested the two to see whether it made much difference going to and from the hypervisor between guests. The bridge gives you a significant boost. But the other thing that KVM offers now is you could actually use, instead of being just a device, you can use tap with pages where it basically passes pages between the VMs. And that gave a massive performance boost. The problem with that is you give up all your GUI environment. So you no longer have the ability to set up networks, manage them easily. You're typing, you're basically building shell scripts that have set up this network with this device and these options. Now, this is a temporary situation. I'm sure the Vert Manager guys will get to it, but it's one of those things where as developers, we leave the charge and the users get stuck way farther behind. The next thing I tried was, single processor guests interesting, but what happens if I have an SMP guest? What if I tried using multiple queues and receive scaling? These are new options we put into Linux where some hardware has multiple received queues, so a packet comes in, they have a hardware flow classifier, and they spread it out and we have one of those per core or we also have it from Google. We've got code now that takes a hash of the packet and spreads it out among cores and software, so we have ways to basically use the cores we have to execute network code in parallel, and hopefully we'd be able to have VMs that have multiple SMP VMs, but the packets would just pass right through and, but turns out that all the virtual next we have today, except for the KVM one especially, is single queue. So go around the same test we had before. Only this time I said, let's switch from looking at actual throughput to really what would stress cores more. Let's do a transaction test. So on my A core machine I said, eight way SMP guest and I ran eight processes all trying to do a transaction test and took the sum. You'd think, oh well, the blue ones are the big SMP.  The UP guest was doing fine getting about 1,600, 1,600 packets, transactions a second. I turned on packets steering, which is the software version of direction, flow steering, or I have an Intel multi-Q NIC and it was, you know, we weren't getting any real benefit out of it, but really more depressing is if you turn out and use an SMP guest, we are getting hammered. That virtual NIC not having multi-Q, not having any, basically being a single bottle NIC makes that the SMP performance terrible. Now there are patches for both Zen and KVM to do multi-Q NIC. They aren't in yet, they're still under discussion, but this is the point. This is why this is important. So that's my summary of what I've seen in virtual networking. I would say the glass is half full and that we've got the offload. We're doing pretty well, but glass is half empty that we really haven't addressed the multi-Q things and really hitting the levels we need, especially when we get to 10 gigabit networks. So I have plenty of time for questions. I ran a little quick, so thank you very much. Stephen, can you go back to the page with the numbers for the tap, the bridge and the NAT? Yes. Okay, so notice that your bridge numbers are pretty much identical to NAT numbers, which makes me suspect that you haven't disabled bridge net filter. I don't run bridge net filter, so... You do know that if you happen to, if it's enabled, even if you don't have any rules, it still runs contract on every single packet and that totally kills performance. That would explain that. So from my numbers, what I've observed is the bridge numbers are typically the same as tap numbers. There's essentially no overhead unless you turn on contract, which is a big security hole, by the way. If an entity is running virtualization, you must disable bridge net filter, otherwise your different guests' packets will intermingle in there because the bridge net filter only has one namespace for packet reassembly and the connection tracking, so it's not a good thing. One other thing I want to mention is that we should try to make things directed so that you've heard brought that up indirectly. Things should default to the good behavior for people? Yeah, well... Jens. Hi. The reason I'm asking this is because at work we run large scale voice servers and we want to pump our packets as fast as possible, and in the past we have never been successful in using VM because with physical servers we can go up to 150, 120,000 packets per second, really tiny packets, but VM we get stuck by 20,000, 10,000 packets per second. So do you think it's possible and how can we get there with VM? How can we achieve similar numbers? The problem is that VM is basically an application to the hypervisor, so you're doing that many context switches. You basically have that many more context switches, so it's basically a context switch test. I mean you go back to the rules on how to optimize and some of the things about aggregating and doing multiple things at once will help that. I wouldn't say get you an order of magnitude, but you'll incrementally get closer. More questions? We've got plenty of time. Has there been any testing with the very high-end NICs that where the vendors are now claiming full offload capabilities largely for VMware? Say you're Chelsea as your solar... I don't have those, so I haven't tested them. I'm sure they've tested them. Talk to me later. With Intel's new virtualization technology you can actually hand a NIC directly to a virtual machine and have it bypass the hypervisor. And actually with FlowDirector you can even send part of the traffic to a virtual machine. So this kind of flow classifier in hardware can actually be to the beat. You can get this queue out of the way and get right over to the virtual machine. Just on that topic of these hardware devices, SROV and similar technologies, yes they will improve performance, but they do come with a cost. I mean part of the advantages of virtualization is it gives you features such as live migration and the ability to actually have that flexibility in your system setup. Having those sort of technology hardware actually having a piece of hardware injected into a gist does take away some of that flexibility. So there is a cost and the other thing is that even with a software and resolution we can actually recapture most of the performance that's gained by technologies like SROV. So if we can do that at all it's usually more attractive to do it with software if it's possible. But if you're in an environment where every last percentage of your hardware performance matters then yes SROV will make sense for you. Any other questions? If not we may finish early then. Please put your hands together for our speaker.


So, first, I'd like to thank the organizers for this nice conference, and I hope I'll be fast so everybody can go for lunch. But so I'll talk, now you're going to change to classical long-hanging interactions again. So I'll talk about topological approach to micro-economical thermodynamics and phase transition on interacting classical speeds. So I don't have a hobing hood in my place, but I would want to use 10 seconds to advertise so the university is coming from. And the first plot I want to show is the temperature plot, so it has function of time, that it's between 22 and 34 along the year. And I want to say that because we now have six positions open, so then maybe someone is interested in doing nice physics and being in a nice place as well. So the thing that I'm talking about today, it was simply submitted to archives like two weeks ago and has to do with this work, but it's now under evaluation. But I want to give a very short introduction. So this work has to do with previous works from like Lapu, Cassetti, Mikhail, Kastan and other researchers that are now here as well. But I would say that the first work on this topic comes from 1997 when like starting the dynamics of some classical systems. So it was conjectured that maybe non-ality cities in like critical points related to phase transitions were due to proper change in the topology of configuration many folds, like in that potential many folds. So then there was a quite exciting period because there were many works on this feature and there were many examples on that. But for now, for today, I will talk about only for the Hamiltonian infield model. I think maybe one in three talks are about this model today. So basically, so then I want to remember this work as well. So basically for that model, it was shown that a topological change in that potential many folds like associated to the Hamiltonian were like the kind of the origin of phase transition in that model. And at that time, there was a so-called topological hypothesis that maybe a phase transition would directly connected to a topology change in the configuration space. So and then like most of the work, it's based at least the technicalities is based in this work 2003 from Lapu and Petin and Cohen. And I want to remark as well that in 2004 there was like a theorem that stated like this theorem is not for long-range models, but it's a necessity theorem which claims that under certain conditions you may have a necessity condition that a phase transition is related to a topology change in the configuration space. So that is a really short review of it. And just the thing that I want to focus today is the topological invariant because that was the first among many topological invariants that was the topological invariant that people focus in. So basically, if you remember like basic high school, you see that in like convex polyadure, you know that like vertex minus edges plus phase is a constant equals to true for like convex polyadure and then you can generalize this definition for any dimensions and then you can compute this for your like Hamiltonian like a potential surface and stuff like that. And in that work that I just mentioned, so that was the first time like at least I know that was introduced in this context. It was shown that there was a huge topological change in at the critical energy level like at the phase transition for the Hamiltonian mean field model. So I can give more details or you can go to the reference, but basically most of the critical points are very, very close to the phase transition. There is a huge like attachment of critical points in that level. And then we can, so we found a one-one relation between the critical energy and topological change in the critical point, but then maybe we can have a question because so if you assume that the topological change in a potential manifold is associated to a phase transition and also think about connection with other ensembles or with thermodynamics because when you are in micro canonical ensembles, a simple derivative of our entropy gives us the temperature. So then I will focus today in how we could, if you assume that you can study like systems that way, how we could find a critical temperature using these methods. So basically the first thing we would guess, okay, if you think that this quantity represents some sort of topological entropy or Euler entropy, we would like to try to make kind of the derivative of this quantity and then we would try to find temperature with that. So then if you try to do that, we are not so happy with these results. So this is just the derivative, like if you try numerical derivative of this curve because this quantity is an integral number. So we cannot define properly how to do this numerical derivative because of these fluctuations in this quantity. So then I would like to use all the tools from applied topology to construct a new or not appropriate definition for this derivative. And then we may connect this derivative with the phase transition and the critical point and things like that. So just to make clear how we like this kind of concept emerges from this historical review. At some point in 2003, it was conjectured also that at least around, so I just took this sentence from that paper in 2003. So at least around the transition, the entropy should behave like similarly to the Euler characteries in the sense that the entropy could be split in two parts, one analytical part and one non-analytical part. And so the non-analytics could be found through the Euler characteries or through this topological invariance. And then that motivates us to search for this kind of topological derivative. And then later we had new results, we include lots of dynamics in this approach. So there is an outstanding result from Michael Casten in 2008 that he basically, and he's collaborated to develop the necessity condition so we could verify that there is a phase transition after computing some geometrical quantities, like I call now density of Jacobian's critical points. So I want you to remember that curve for the infinite range xy model because so basically if you find a divergence in this quantity at the critical point, so this is a necessity condition to find a phase transition but not sufficient. So I want you to remember this result because since this is a not sufficient condition we may can ask you what are the conditions of when this divergence happens, not only at the phase transition. So and then until 2008 I would recommend a review in these three, kind of three papers like by Lap with collaborators and Casten in the book by Petini. But so it's not always a bed of rows so because that was a kind of a trial to do a general theory that could describe topology in terms, so statistical mechanics in terms of topology of configuration space and things like that. But then after this many years of research it was found a contract sampler of this theorem that I just showed to you two minutes ago and basically for the 5.4 model it was shown that this hypothesis does not work well so and then made this made the error to be a bit calm so that because there was not this like search for universality was not at all a question anymore but so I'm aware that there is a new work on archives that may want to circumvent this topic but I don't have technical like I cannot judge the technicality of this work but I'm aware of this like kind of extension of the topological approach so that may fix or extend this theorem or not but this is still an open question but anyway so that's how science evolves and we cannot do a universal theory but I would like to discuss so if you assume that this approach works what can we do what can we find so could we find also temperature like like we do with micro-conon ensemble and find a connection with like a non-conon ensemble things like that so then that's what I want to address so there was also some not contra-examples but model season that the necessity condition that I just show you also don't work that that one about the paper in 2008 it's like just to see the next example that it's on an audience as well like the paper by Tasizio 2011 also shows that this dynamic approach for like to study the stationary points of energy landscape also don't does not work at all like has a sufficient condition so just a necessity criteria but so that's how science evolves so from now after this introduction I will make strong assumptions that I could be comfortable that I could do something with topology okay so then that's why I want like a warning so we are we are assuming now that like the distance between critical points approach zero so that in the thermodynamic limit the other interval of energy that you are interested in in study like is dense and basically technical it means that I we are restricting our hypothesis in that this topological approach works and then we are going to put together these ideas with some modern ideas for applied topology so I would recommend this book to see the idea that we are going to discuss now and basically I want to answer in this context two questions so it's possible to derive thermodynamic quantities by using information by the only topological invariants like in particular the only characteristics or since the only characteristics is a discrete quantity how could you perform this discrete derivation with respect the only characteristics so is it possible like so at least do the best of my knowledge how could you define a topological derivative in the context of most theory and this approach then we have some hints for an applied topology usually physicists are more like fasting using maths to do science but in that moment like I think engineers are doing faster than us but basically because like in 88 in 8 there was an interesting paper that you could actually do like integral calculus using this topological invariants so we could do integral calculus based on all the characters this is at least for physicists for me it was a bit a true advance in terms of technicalities but if you go to this book in applied topology you can understand how it this definition works and basically these two guys from Bell Labs they developed a tool to do enumeration and do target like in networks like kind of an application for robotics using this kind of integral so then that's why there was these two nice papers very recently using this method so in basically if you come across to this idea of integration you work with statistical physics okay if I can integrate I can define a volume I can define a proper entropy and I can see what happens at least like that's what they make very naively just let's see what happens if you use this measure and we can maybe find some information about this topic so basically then we define using that like analogy with the papers that I showed I showed you that we can have all the integration which means that basically instead of integrating like summing up like a normal Riemann sum for every level that you integrate we compute the weights according to to the topological invariant like the MOSI index so that if you integrate a constant function we have the the Euler characters and then we can do an analogy so this like between Boltzmann and Euler like entropy so that I don't want to create an any new entropy and actually that was proposed by Clape 10 years a few years ago but just I want to compute what's the topological contribution for for the entropy and how we can find this critical temperature so and then you can define average and everything so basically the only question is how could you define a proper derivative and then I can ask to Euler and they basically there is interesting results called MOSBOT theorem or non-critical net theorem basically if you have many critical levels if you if you want to see which topological change happens in your manifold if you observe like an energy interval that is less is lower than two critical levels we don't see anything it's not see any topological change if you if you look for a huge interval you see too much so basically we choose exactly the distance between two critical points to compute this derivative but that is a bit tricky because you should change your like delta E with like time or with energy because you always have to track distance between two critical levels so then if you do this kind of derivative you find a smooth curve instead of that one I showed you before so basically then we want to apply these ideas to this do the Hamiltonian field model and I want to show that we could find actually analogous results using only topological arguments to this to this model at least so then then we'd solve it this model with in a field so I am not aware about proper solution in a field in equilibrium because that most focus in this model is on dynamics and stuff like that so then we we may we use this normal set of point method but we include a field in the system and basically what you have to do it's just like to track all the instabilities and stuff like that like in this set of point solution and then we can find a proper classical mean field diagram for for us I spin system in the presence of a field that has like this kind of magnetization or like a phase transition for zero field and then we can find like canonical diagrams and micro canonical diagrams and also you can find instabilities and so I can find find this spin of the outcores like that that are related to instabilities so I want to remark here that the instabilities are in the interval zero and one for field because that will be useful to some topological interpretation and then we can find proper entropy so the continuous lines are like stable entropy the dashed lines are like unstable entropy is associated to this one of our loops that I just show you and then we start to try to connect this with the topology of the configuration space the first idea okay I can try to plot a small configuration space only with two spins then we can see that through this diagram that basically all the instabilities that we draw for a large system also holds for this tool the like systems in the sense that the instabilities I show you evolves with the field and then with the field is which the the maximum value to the stability we don't have any stability anymore like you can see that this maximum approaching and matching for few this equal to one and here you have the entropy and things like that so then we do the same analogy to compute and do the same topological approach so in the sense that we compute the index and we found the same behave we found force for this interval of fields between zero and one we found kind of stability lines that has to do with the van der Waal loops as well so we can complete and find a curve that is analogous in the shape for the for the entropy so that's what I want to show you now basically and then if you go back to that result I show you from Kassner we can find also relation in this divergence in that quantity that not only diverged for for the phase transition diverse for the whole interval that we find van der Waal loops and then we can characterize like topologically this van der Waal loops as well so then we can conclude that the singularities in this Jacobian dance that I just mentioned corresponds to van der Waal loops and then remarkably like this may has to do with the Augustus shape talk that he gave like few days ago because we basically the defining like an ansatz another measuring and he mentioned that can be several like equivalence between measures we basically found that at least for this model I don't we don't know what happens for the other models but if you compute magnetization use the order average and then both magnetization we found same magnetization and if you try to do analytically you can also find critical temperature only using these these definitions so basically that was the the main result that we found it's very technical but I tried to summarize we can also compare this with all the proposals like terms of energy energy landscapes and past works that was done like in this paper in 2003 by Lapu and Petin and Cohen and basically if you do this if you try to understand using that quantity you may have the nearly same results but when you try to find this loop of this kind of topological contribution for the entropy the correct slopes come from the other characteristics it's they differ really slightly but when you try to find this loop it it's it's like like that so the this loop that gives you the critical temperature for phase transitions is like embedded in the other characteristics at the critical point and basically for that model we also have like results for short range model in the x5 1d model actually but CCA by lack of time and the focus on these conferences on long-range interaction so we I want to stop here and conclude that we propose a topological approach that may allow established connections between thermodynamics and topology of configuration space and we found evidence that the information embedded in the other characteristics at least in the more in this model suffice to describe the magnetization and and the canonical microconon pardon sorry and at the critical temperature and I would like to say that so we started the other classical season and related context like the contents of energy landscape and things like that are very very visible so that's that was what we did


Hi, let's do a really creepy vlog. Yes! There's dog in the background. It's 8.43 in the evening. I am kind of getting ready for bed at the moment and I was uploading a video. I went downstairs, had dinner, all that stuff. And now I'm back upstairs and I'm just putting the final touches on that. But today I didn't vlog at all because I worked from home today. Had a really bad headache this morning and took my migraine pills which means I can't drive for about six hours afterwards. So because they make you kind of... anyway. So did that and basically I just have like a perpetual headache because of all the acid blocker things that I'm taking. So I have a vlog going up tomorrow morning which is great. I kind of like this evening got caught up on vlogs so tomorrow I'm going to be up to date which is great. And then I am also gonna be posting tomorrow evening or like late afternoon. This one's gonna be in the afternoon. My Simply Guilded subscription box. So I'm gonna do that. Let's see here. I just need to throw a couple little things in there. Oh and of course my battery is stopping everything. Yay. Oh goodness. You know sometimes it's just not meant to be. And my end screen. Like I can upload everything that I need to upload except for the end screen and monetization things. You know while I'm actually loading the video. Like all the descriptions and stuff like that.  And I do.  Doyle's mad because he already got his cheese with his pills. So he's ready to go to bed. And I am not. So all right I got one more thing to do and save and I'm all done. Yay. Okay perfect. So this is done. Hold on. Come with me. Oh it's gonna be extra creepy. Sorry it's super creepy. Yeah I had a really really short vlog yesterday and I'm gonna have a really really short vlog today as well because my battery light is flashing so I don't know when it's gonna stop. But you know at some point it will. Hi buddy. What's going on? Yeah you want to talk to your friends? I'll just also here and hang out. Doyle, Doyle dog. He's a dog. His name is Doyle dog. Oh Doyle. You're so weird bud.  This isn't my bed. This is his bed. That's what he thinks. Oh I know. I know. By the way Doyle looks so different if you just push his ears down like what's up with that. Oh there he goes. There's a Doyle dog again. Anyway well I am gonna jet because I Doyle. Anyway because I probably have about like three seconds left on this battery and it's time for me to start getting right for bed anyways. So thanks for hanging out with me. Hopefully tomorrow is more interesting because I will be going to work. Hopefully fingers crossed no migraine and apparently I am going to sit here for a while and scratch Doyle's tummy because that is what he needs in his life. Right buddy? Wow. Doyle's life is so hard. Look at that guy. Look at that guy.  Just Doyle. That's it. No me. Just Doyle dog vlog. Doyle dog vlog. But you don't have any thumbs bud. Oh no. How is that gonna work? Okay. All right. Well I'm really gonna go this time. I thank you guys for hanging out. Feel free to subscribe. Follow me on Instagram because that's where Doyle lives on the Instagram and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.  Bye guys. Boop. Well folks it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel cool. Give it to me baby.


Sunny Lee, we're so happy that you're here and took the step to share your amazing testimony. Can you just tell us briefly of what was your life like before you came to Jesus Christ? Well, I was in gangs. Very violent. I had a lustful mind. I didn't really care whether I lived or died. But I also went to church when I was doing all that, and I didn't really take church seriously. I played with it until I met my girl. Her family was kind of on fire for God, and I got to see a little bit of them, but I still didn't take them serious. Not until Wednesday during the whole youth service or the teen service, I was in my room actually trying to smoke weed, and she was in the living room praising God. And I felt his presence in my house, and it was the first time I felt like he was actually physically there. And then I felt disrespectful, and then I was like, you know, I need to put this down and go in the living room and see what's going on. I went and sat on my couch, and then I like literally was overcame with emotion. I didn't, never in my life have I cried like that before. But I was very emotional, and then I decided, you know, after this I want to go to church. My wife wanted to go to Dan's class with her sister. She asked me three times, are you sure? And I was like, well, yes, I really do want to go. I want to feel his presence. This is not enough. And in that moment, I felt him literally speaking to me, and I was like, you know what, I want to get rid of all my drugs. I want to get rid of all my pipes. I destroyed them in a garbage can, and then I was like, let's go. We came here, and I actually got saved that day for the first time in my life. That's absolutely powerful. That is amazing. That's incredible.  How are you doing now? Well, I feel like I'm changing every day. Like, I'm getting better at him. I'm learning more of him. I watched a lot of Jesus Christ movies and shows. I didn't used to do that before. I find myself not easily angered anymore. I find myself more joyful, more easier to tell people who are angry, God bless you, instead of trying to fight with them. But he's actually really blessed me in a lot of ways. My brother came down from Yakima, and I was able to pray for him. He was a knucklehead like I was. He didn't want to come to church, but he was like, pray for me. And when I prayed for him, he literally tripped out. He was like, I heard a whisper. I've never heard that before. Are you working magic? I said, no, this is God. This is not me. He actually made it easier for me to get married to my wife, which is happening six days from now. Before then, I probably wouldn't have gotten married because I was too busy using my money for drugs, and not really paying attention to bills and stuff like that. At me, it's easier to keep my home. I'm actually happy because he's locked me into a good job. He's given me good positivity. It's beautiful. Amen, sorry. And can you tell us, you got baptized? Yeah? Yes, the baptism was wonderful. It was a beautiful thing. I felt renewed. Definitely renewed. Sunny, this is a powerful testimony. For those that are watching, those that are here, maybe are contemplating, they want to take the step, and there's a hindrance or a fear. What would you advise them? What would be your encouragement for them? To basically just forget about what you think or what anybody else thinks. It's not about any of us. It's not even about ourselves when we come here. Just keep your eyes on God and walk forward. Don't be like Peter and look down on the water and sink. Just keep walking forward in faith. He'll touch you. Amen. Thank you for watching this content. I hope this was a blessing to you. If you're like me and you like to click on things, click on this, subscribe to our channel, and the content will come to you every time we post it. And remember, the best is yet to come.


Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review This is for the 2006 film behind the mask the rise of Leslie Vernon Which is currently streaming on the shutter streaming service for horror all things horror If you don't have shutter at the moment, please drop everything and go get shutter Not because they're paying me or anything because they're not I just really like it and it's cheap for what you're getting to be honest But this is about behind the mask the rise of Leslie Vernon now. This is a 2006 film Like I said, I believe that I saw it not long after it originally came out I am pretty sure it never got a theatrical release. It was just a 2 DVD at that point and I think it has a blue blue blue ray release now, although I don't have it currently I just have it on DVD, but I was able to watch it on shutter so better quality, which was nice So it was written and directed by a man by the name of Scott Glosserman who actually hasn't done a whole lot else film-wise The biggest name in this film obviously is Robert England who has a relatively substantial role Substantial ish role for a big name in a small film like this. I will say Kane Hatter shows up briefly I forget her name at the moment the but the woman who is in Poltergeist who has the very distinctive voice since she's short I'm pretty sure she's not alive anymore. I think she passed away some years ago, but she's in that as well and does a good job Excuse me geez Um, I thought Robert England was pretty solid in his role He didn't have a ton of speaking lines, but what he did in the film I thought was cool also just to have him in it because this is a film that's about slasher's It's it's kind of a meta slasher film in a sense But I'll get more into that in a little bit the film is actually supposed to have taken place in Maryland the events of it I actually live in Maryland So I was like oh cool and then I found out actually the whole thing was shot in Oregon So I was like oh well Why couldn't you just shoot it in Maryland if it's supposed to be in Maryland as opposed to Oregon? My assumption would have to do with price of Filming that that's what I'm guessing or where people live that could also be it Locations were not secured before filming for this So some of them actually ended up changing apparently which ended up Meaning that some of the change there were some changes that were actually done to the script Really on the fly now watching the film. I'm not sure if you if you keep that in mind I don't know if you'd really be able to pick up on much Much of anything not feeling like it fits because everything feels like it fits So when I found that information I was kind of surprised because everything seems intentional It all seems like it flows. It goes together properly and all that. I'm sorry my collar is a little messed up Came from work. Anyway, so Um, yeah, I was surprised. So the fact that they had to make changes on the fly But it doesn't feel like that when you watch the film Excellent job. That just shows that they're really good at adapting Uh, a sequel was actually in the works. Uh, actually, I believe it was completely Finished by glosserman the script that is But he abandoned it because he believed the script is too outdated now Due to a bunch of trends that have happened within Horror so basically he wrote the script finished it by the time he got it done He looked at the horror film pantheon or what was going well not pantheon because that'd be the past He looked at what was going on in horror films at that time and he kind of looked at the script and he was like It's not current for what it should be if i'm releasing it in the current horror climate So I would have to go back and update it and from what I was reading. He's basically said I don't feel like updating it. So there is not going to be a sequel even though for years It was said there's gonna be a sequel there's gonna be a sequel because there was because he was legitimately working on it So I was pretty bummed to read that he basically just was just like I quit Um To be honest like I think you should just make the film though Like if he has the funding if he can secure that funding He should just make that film no matter how outdated the script is because people don't really care that much Especially if it's going to go straight to like video on demand or if it's going to end up with Um just a blu-ray release whatever like it doesn't have to go theatrical just release it people will People will like it no matter what there are plenty of films that are done now They're supposed to feel like they're older That's a fine thing I feel like this is where maybe shutter should step in and approach glosserman and be like Look, we're streaming behind the mask. We would We know a lot of people who are who are very much interested in a sequel to this Let's work together. Let's make this happen and just put it directly on shutter. Make it a shutter original. Let's do this No, I don't know. Okay. We'll find out. Let's do it. I would like that Okay, so I like that they start with the with the particular scene that they do The main reason being that uh being that the scene Kind of gets peaks your interest and you're kind of like what's going on This seems like a very typical kind of slasher ish thing going on Which is obviously intentional and then the cool thing is you get to see that scene later Not all that much later, but you get to see it later From a different angle. It's the same things happening But you see a different side of what's going on and I think that's a really cool way to open things up Show it the one way How it is as a normal kind of slasher and then show the other side of it a little bit later when it's revealed What this is which is a mockumentary style film it's no big surprise with this film because it's in the synopsis that uh it is Um a film that focuses on a mockumentary that's following a guy who's a serial killer who's basically trying to create A mythological killer kind of like a jace vorhees a michael miers So on and so on so um Mockumentary style where they're following them and you would wonder You know going into it if you before seeing this film or seeing any other films that are kind of mockumentary that are horror Which I don't really know of that many Put some comments down here people. Uh, if you know other mockumentary horror films put it down there I feel like mockumentary Within horror is kind of a bit close to found footage But there's a big difference where I feel like the pacing is usually a lot better with the mockumentary because it's assumed That whoever's filming it is then editing it to put it together and additionally there's a lot more um Like less shaky cam and stuff like that because it's not someone like running around with the camera Although in this they do kind of run with a camera from like here and there, but um, I just feel like overall for me personally I like the mockumentary style more than the found footage so You know just a little side tangent there, but But yeah, so I like how they started out the humor. I think is at a pretty much perfect level That's for the style of film as well as the actual story of it One of the things I like the most is that the person in this Film who's playing leslie vernan the guy who's supposed to be this mythological or supernatural killer um, he's Funny, he's quirky and he doesn't at all at least initially seem Sinister or menacing or dangerous at all like he just seems like a fun nice quirky energetic dude who makes a lot of jokes and I think that really adds to The charm of this film because because it like pulls you in Kind of like it's pulling the people who are doing the documentary in to this false sense of uh comfort in a sense because It it makes you like you know who the guy is but through his actions and how he talks and jokes around and everything you start to Not feel like that's who he is as it goes on Which is this false sense of safety for the audience and people involved in the film So I just like how they played that they did a really good job with it Plus his character being like that is just funny because it's this juxtaposition of he's this hardcore terrible killer Who's trying to murder many many people? But look how he is when he doesn't step into that persona basically. He's just like this funny fun loving Uh good guy. So it's weird. It's like how do you reconcile these two things? Which you know with actual killers in real life a lot of times they have two sides You know You'll it'll be revealed who these people were and then people will come out of the woodwork and be like How is that even possible the way I knew this person was they were like this Dennis raider the btk killer was a perfect example of that. He was considered to be like a pillar of his community yet. He was Murdering a lot of people. Um, so you kind of always have that so a lot of things in this film actually feel true to life But even More importantly, they feel true to the slasher genre Uh touches on a bunch of like slasher commonalities slasher trope set slasher symbolism And it rolls it in but it also makes fun of it at the same time And then also tries to twist it around as well, which is one of the things I really like about this film I feel like for that reason it's kind of inventive. It's new. It's kind of doing its own thing And that's one of the things I like about this film So, uh, yeah, um already talked about that These are the types of great. What if story ideas that true horror fans come up with? So I just feel like So many times when I'm watching a film a horror film in particular I'll start looking at the premise in the story and and other what if like scenarios will pop out of my head And I'm like, well, what if I take this story and this happens instead? Or what if with this style of horror film?  He was like, uh, you know What if we did this or what if things were like this and I just really like that because it feels Horror fan ask, you know, it feels like the film the script All of it is is from the heart of a true horror fan And it just oozes of that and that's one of the other things that I feel like gives it so much charm And maybe why a lot of people do like it because I know a lot of people who do like it who have seen it Um, so all the aspects of well-known slashers come up in this like I was talking about Uh, and being seen from a different angle Is actually very satisfying with that like I was saying, you know It has the tropes the symbolism the commonalities of a lot of slasher films But then it tries to do its own thing, but it's also looking at it from a different Um perspective. It's kind of more of What happens if Um, these supernatural killers weren't actually supernatural But people believed them to be how would that get pulled off? Like what's the behind the scenes is why it's called behind the mask And it's just a cool fresh take on a film like this and it works really well and it's really fun I already talked about the personality mismatch. Uh, there's some good commentary about the simplicity of causing fear In the past and how it gets more complicated over time basically. So there's um There's a portion where they kind of reminisce one of the characters reminisces about how You know the supernatural killers used to be which It really is just talking about horror in general the horror genre in general how it used to be and how it used to be A lot more simplistic of stories and a lot easier to scare people and up the fear factor And as time goes on they're always coming up with new ways to do things and make it a lot more complicated There's so much more planning involved as they kind of say And this this person kind of opines for the olden days of just simple Ratching up fear and doing it in a very easy But kind of primal way and I thought that was cool That's a little bit of a commentary on the fact that people always feel like you have to keep like ratcheting and ratcheting and ratcheting up Horror and changing it which you know this character is basically saying you don't really have to do Why can't we leave things the way they were some people like that some people don't you know So there's a mix of actually the documentary style or mockumentary style footage with actual kind of theatrical shooting which When you think about the concept of putting those two things together in a film like this it really shouldn't work But it does work. It actually ends up being a little bit seamless Like you do notice that the style of the camera changes But within the story it just fits and you just kind of go with it It does work, which I think is a pretty good accomplishment to be honest The film explaining. Okay. I already talked about the the The slasher tropes and symbolism, but what I didn't say about it is that it actually explains a lot So if you're a person going into this film watching behind the mask and you've watched a lot of slashers But you don't sit there and really think about it think about the symbolism and tropes and everything like that This movie actually outright will talk about in interpretation of how you should watch A slasher film and break it down, which is kind of funny because It makes it a very meta film. So it's meta about itself. It's basically explaining itself Which is really weird if any other film done in a different way Would do that it probably wouldn't work and people would roll their eyes at it But the way it's done here it really works Um, and then the last thing I have to say about it is that the end is great um, there there's kind of Twist-ish thing that happens that I think is really good, especially within the context of The story as it's been created and how it plays out Um, so yeah, uh, I quite like this film if you can't tell it is quite good. It's not, you know, a perfect film It's not the best thing ever, but I really enjoy it. I think it's For its time for 2006 it's pretty groundbreaking for what it was doing I know it wasn't super successful then, but I don't think it took a whole lot of time for it to kind of Uh build a cult following Because I feel like it does have that correct me if I'm wrong put a comment down there, but okay, so thinking about this I'm between two numbers on this because I do my five star rating with half stars in play Um, I'm gonna go ahead and give it a four star rating I don't think I'm between a four and a four and a half But I don't think it quite makes it to that four and a half mark it is quite a good film, but it's not like Four and a half quality. I'm gonna give it a four really good rating.  So Yeah, really recommend it catch it on shutter worlds there right now Anyway, if you could really help me out just hit that subscribe. 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