Greg told us about this metaphysical tree on Siesta Key Beach. We all met up here. It's totally pitch dark and we don't have any equipment, so we're going to make the best of what we got. We have the lighting man over here, it's Steve. Hello! Can't see me. I'm here. I'm here. Greg's here. I'm here. And we were talking and he was telling me how he loved this song by Yvanya, our friend from Tasmania that we opened up the shows with when she comes on. And he, being an accomplished guitarist, put a piece down, a track over, a lead. So we're going to play that and we're going to just share that with you. All right? All right. Here it is. Right on. I'm a golden son, born into creation, with love as my witness and human, holy father, synchronized, I'm a child of the sun. You're born yourself. Awesome. All the unfurling through the shadows of cell has led me back home. Yeah, I rolled the dragons and I came to the lions, looked in the mirror till it shattered and fell. Took the fool's journey. Nothing, nothing but love in my garden. Your pillar upon this plane, rebirth divine. Through the shadows of cell just led me back home. I rolled the dragons and I looked in the mirror till they shattered and fell. Nothing, nothing but love in my garden. From the holy, from the golden sun. Born into creation, with love as my witness. I'm a child here to co-create. That was crazy. Hello, Yvanya. Yeah, thank you. Yvanya is here. She said, all right. All right. So we'll be back a little bit. Yes. We're something different. We don't know what it is. Say hi to Steve, the cameraman. Hello. All right. Awesome. Yeah, that was cool. Kusamakashi, Kusamakashi. We have Julia doing light language here. Kusamakashi. I never do this, but. Kusamakashi. Kusamakashi. Kusamakashi. Kusamakashi. Don't worry, it's going to be okay. Everything, everything's moving okay. We're going to play, dance, and have fun and celebrate. Yeah. Thank you. Kusamakashi. I love you. Yes. Kusamakashi. She's got so much energy. Kusamakashi. Kusamakashi. I love you. I love you. So everybody, I'm sorry if you didn't want to talk to me for a minute. I love you. So everybody, I'm sorry if you didn't want to talk to me for a minute. She is so, so number. I love you. So everybody, I'm sorry if you didn't want to talk to me for a minute. This is the state's country when it comes to the focus of value. So thank you. So Ashyamamaki. Kusamakashi. I love you, thank you for being my family. Thank you so much for bringing Heaven to earth. So we have another person that's going to bring some language for us. We have Carrie here. She's done this a few times with me, but so whatever you're ready, you can't see anything Well, hi, I'm Carrie Ann. I'm in the city of Sarasota and the Marine Island. I'm too local. More so the message that I've been receiving as of late has been to connect with the dragon line. So we're going to be the volcanic lines in the inner earth. And so transcending myself, connecting to the crystal core within the earth herself. And visioning yourself moving. There we go. We got some light. Thanks. And vision yourself moving through the core, right? Ignited your whole light body. Ignited and moving through the core, cleansing it, breathing that lineage free from within and igniting the five five D vibration from within yourself and the dragon lines. Okay. And so in this journey, just visualizing the helix or, you know, the DNA strand, you know, weaving through the body, open up through the crown, connecting to the higher chakras, the higher dimensions of realms and bringing in your higher source self into the body. Right. Anchoring that in to these dragon lay lines of volcanic lines, which is our lineage. So we're here to ascend all ancient lineage that clears it for the future. Wow. That we're creating. We have to start from fresh. Let me see. All right. So with this, I'm going to call in our celestial, our ancestral cosmic elemental spirit, omnipresence, source self, energy and frequency to be here in this now moment. Now here now, within all of us, within every cell, every atom of the body. That into the heart. And exhale. Be that vibration. Again, as the divine source lies, I bring in the higher code frequencies, activations and alignments within the bones, within the lava, within the molten core structure, crystalline core of Gaia Tara Earth from all dimensions of clear source, light frequency, undisturbed vibration of love, purity and grace. As the divine source lies within us all, so it is. So it is? So it is. That was incredible. Thank you. I was feeling so much energy. That was awesome. Combosions over here. So better. Yeah. That's my life. Like sanded like dragon. So I'm live on my, right now, on my Facebook page. We got a bunch of people here. Just want to say hi to everyone that's joining us. On my personal Facebook page and everybody that is friends with Todd from Sology and Morgan as well. We got her here. Put the camera on her. Yeah. Put the camera on her. Say hi to everybody. Hello. All right. Your turn. Hello, everybody. No, no, no. You got to put the light on you. Yeah. There's Todd. Yeah. Yeah.  So anything you want to say to everybody in Facebook land? It's just cool to get together with a lot of people. We've got 15 people here. It's pitch dark out here. And I don't know what's going on, but it feels good. Yeah. And we're just going to keep making it up as we go and keep broadcasting. Yeah. Yeah. So we're bouncing back and forth between Todd's Facebook page and my Facebook page. So if you haven't followed Todd, be sure to do so. And vice versa. I guess I got to turn that around. What I'm doing is I'm filming everybody else instead of myself. That's so typical of me. Yeah. I'd much rather do that. Let's do that. All right. We're going to start right here. Yes. Here's our lighting department right here. Say hi. Hello. We have Steve and. Flika. Flika. Laura. And Laura. Tracy. Tracy. Somebody's running off. Julia. And you saw her do the light language earlier. Light language sporadic. Yes. Well, you didn't see her because we didn't have the lights out, but you heard her. Oh, yes. Yes. And uh. Erick. Drove all the way from Wesley's Chapel. An hour and a half, two hours. And what's your nickname? What do you go by? I go by E-Dog. There you go. E-Dog. Or Erick. Yes. One of the other. Yes. He's a G, man. And we know. Here. Carrie Ann. Yeah. Hi. Thanks for joining us. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. What a cool, uh, gathering we have here. So, yeah, I kind of. Whoops. Whoops. Where? Where? Where? Oh, this. Yes. Say, say hi. She's. This is our introvert apparently. No. No, okay. Good. Yeah. I like that. Me too. Yeah. That's why I'm shining on you guys instead of myself. I don't even know how to turn the picture around, honestly, but yeah. So I'm, I'm going to leave it off right there. So, um, I want to thank everyone just for joining us. Wish you could see a little bit more here. Maybe we'll have another reunion here in the daylight at some point. But, um, yeah, thanks for joining us. Might check in later. So stay tuned. Namaste. Bye. Bye.


Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Aloha. Welcome again to another edition of Think Tech, where we are here today, obviously, to go into another episode of our Tourism 101. Today, I'm very, very happy to bring to you a presentation, I should say, part of a presentation that we at the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association heard at our annual meeting, and that is the importance of our native Hawaiian culture and how it relates to our hospitality industry. That's what Hawaii has been known for through the years, but it's also something that we cannot afford to take for granted. And here with me today are two of our three guests that we had there. One, of course, was Robert Casamaro, and then two kumahula, outstanding kumahula in our community have done a wonderful job through the years, and they have an exciting project too that we'll talk about in the second part of our show. We have here Vicky Ho Takamine and Michael Pillipay. Aloha. Now, both of you are noted throughout the community. Everybody talks about the importance of hula halau, the importance of our native Hawaiian culture. Whenever that subject comes up, inevitably, your name's always come up here. So, Vicky, tell us a little bit about your passion for the native Hawaiian culture. You've been very active, not just in being a kumahula, but you've also taken up several causes, and it really brought that out so that many of us can appreciate the importance of our culture. Well, my passion for hula started with my mother, Kalei Holt. She danced for many years with the alama sisters, and I used to watch her. For those of you old people, you know, the Lucky Luck TV show.  And I always wanted to dance hula, and she just said, no, you're too young. You're going to quit after one year. I was like, no, but I really would. So, when I was 12, and my sister was 10, my sister Charlene, she sent us to Maiki Aiu Lake. And she was my first kumu, my only kumu. I studied with her for many, many years until I was unique as a kumahula. But it was Auntie Maiki that got me started in the tourism business. She gave me my first job at the old Queen's Surf Luao show with the MC was Kaupen Awong, the performers were Lena Aala Haile. Mo Kalei was a musician. So I got my feet wet there in the Queen's Surf Luao show. And she also sent me, when I was still in high school, to dance for Uncle Bill Ali Iloa Lincoln, greeting all the boats that arrived, the Mattsin, the Lerlene, and then greeting all the airplanes with Auntie Loyal Garner. Talk about your hula hula. Not Auntie, her mother, Loyal Garner's mother, Auntie Alice Keavikani Garner. Talk about your hula hulao because you've certainly taken your hula all around the world, and certainly are very busy here at home. I note lots of festivals, lots of events where you're involved with. Yeah. So I studied with Auntie Maiki until 1975, when I was fortunate to uniki, graduate through the rituals of hula, as a kumu hula, and I opened my halau in 1977, two years later. And so we're celebrating 41 years of teaching hula. This is started when you were two then. Yeah, no, you know, this is getting up there in those years. Yeah, all of us are. But it's been a really good life for me. You know, I was able to work in Waikiki with people like Zulu. I have a Kinimaka, Melvin lead. And then I was running my halau, so teaching them the skills of hula, and teaching them as much as I could about it. And we just had our couple of uniki. I had two uniki, and I uniki my first two kumu hula in 2007. And in 2017, after 40 years of hula, I had another graduation. So the perpetuation of the halau, we performed in many different places in Japan. Naturally, there's a lot of interest in Japan. Absolutely. And I ran a Luau show. I ran Paradise Cove Luau show. In fact, started Paradise Cove Luau show and ran it. But then also started another Luau type show in Ibusuki, ran that for about four years. And performed in Lamama Theater in New York City with my friends, Michael and Robert Casimo. Speaking of Michael Pili, I've heard you speak many times very fondly of Auntie Maikeayu Lake. Why don't you talk about how you developed your passion? I started hula when I was in grade school. I went to Merino grade school. And there was a hula person that came in. She was a student of Auntie Maikeay. She was one of Auntie Maikey's gracious ladies. And she was also one of the women from Auntie Maikey's first uniki class. So Kealoha Wong was teaching classes. And I was in a middle school, seventh and eighth grade. After that, she said, you know, you should just go to Maikey.  So just go there. What I had transferred to St. Louis, and then eventually I ended up with Auntie Maikey. By the time I got to Auntie Maikey, she was in Waikiki, the Waikiki shopping plaza on the fifth floor, where she had created this amazing cultural center. It had five rooms, a showroom that fit 300 people. People came in during the day. It was a living museum. It was a library, a kahiko room where we just learned kahiko. There was a monarchy room where we learned all the things about our alleys, a music room, and then an awana room where we learned awana, gift shops. And it was a learning center for me. It wasn't just that I learned everything about hula there. I learned everything about the tourism, where we had to bring people upstairs. We had to explain to them what all these cultures were all about. So Auntie Maikey's created just this wonderful whole scenario for us to learn. It wasn't just coming to hula to a class. It was a living, greeting place. We survived about a year and a half there before the cost was too much for her. And we had to move out of there. But it didn't just create a way of dance. It created a place of learning and sharing. We became family. Uncle Kay, her husband, became Maikey's father. We became this family that nurtured not just your hula, but who you are as an individual. Would you tell us about the fact that I know you have two hula halal, one basically here operates out of all, and then of course Hawaii Island. Talk about that. Well, I graduated as an Ola for 1979 from Auntie Maikey. I went away to college, came back home, and in 1985 I went again as a kumu hula. Auntie Maikey passed away in 1984. So May Kamamalu Clyde, who's Auntie Maikey's co-coal at that time, took me over and I finished as an Ola kumu hula. I moved to the big island thinking, well, I can start something new. I didn't have to work in a hotel. I didn't have to work in a restaurant, which my family did in Waikiki. And I thought I didn't have to do this. Well, by the time I got to the big island, I ended up doing that, working in hotels, which was fine. I started the halal, and I had met some wonderful people there in the halal. I was quite young. I was 22. I started the halal. It was not really heard of, but people trusted me, and that was the best part. They trusted me. It allowed me to grow. I met a woman named Virginia Pfaff, who was the manager of the Kahilu Theater, and she came up with the idea of, gave me an option, you want to do competitions, or do you want to do performances on the road. And we took the road trip. And we performed somewhere between six to eight weeks a year, traveling throughout the USA, Canada, east coast, west coast, at universities and colleges, creating a really strong opportunity to present hula, to present what we have in Hawaii. I was also very fortunate, like I said, I worked in the hotels, and every place I went, they supported my hula in my life. The Monolani, the hide was a big one that supported me. Okay, speaking of hotels, and let's talk about some of the themes that you first had to address at our general membership meeting. What do we in the hospitality industry need to do better, or do more of, in terms of making sure that we perpetuate and preserve the native Hawaiian culture, so that when people come here, they have an authentic experience? I think one of the major things that we need to do is, if you want an authentic experience, you need to hire Hawaiians, or people that are cultural practitioners. Having other people talk about our culture doesn't make it authentic, and actually participating in it. So, you know, some of my favorite locations, I think, are like what John Morgan is doing out at Kualoa Ranch. You know, he's got a cultural specialist that creates programs not just for the tourists, but for his employees. So, everybody takes language classes, so they learn how to pronounce the Hawaiian words correctly. So, when you say it's not kalakaua, you know, it's kalakaua. And you can share those experiences with them, or having a Hawaiian language introduction to a Hawaiian language class for your guests when they come in. Have a location where you have somebody that's actually teaching them how to pronounce the place names that they're going to, what are the street names that they're going to have to drive along, or what are the place names that they're going to see? Waimea, so they know how to correctly pronounce the words that they're going to be visiting. I think that's one way to really integrate the language into your hotel. And if you have rooms in your hotel, or locations in your hotel that are named Paoa Kalani, how do you say Paoa Kalani? So, those kinds of pronounce the pronunciation would be very helpful, and I think of interest to our visitors. Billy, you were the director of the mayor's office of culture, and I was under a certain mayor. Yes. So, I want you to talk about your perspective with respect to the community. What can we do, whether it's in our schools, whether it's in our everyday activities, to ensure that, you know, the Hawaiian culture is alive and well here in Hawaii? You know, I think we're very lucky that we're living in a time today. You know, there was a time where the culture was, we're losing some of the culture. You know, we're almost like three generations, generations away from there, where young Hawaiians are learning the language, they're learning their culture. I think that we need to bridge between the community and some of the industry, hotel industry, the sense that it is a living culture. It is a daily living culture. We have poi pounders that are still making pa'i ai. We have kapa makers that are still making kapa. These are not prehistoric cultural activities. These are modern day activities and it's a living, breathing culture. And, you know, in the community, it's not just our Hawaii, our Hawaiians. We have many in our, in sitting in the city, city's office. I had to look at all the different ethnic cultures that we have here. And in Hawaii, we have a diverse community, but we have a community that comes together. You know, we borrow and we trade to create things better. You know, we have our lomi salmon. It was not Hawaiian, right? We have our But it's a staple in our luau. It's a staple now. And same thing with our long rice. They made us for that. So, you know, we have all these things that we've merged together. Hawaiians, Chinese people, they have their mana puan, right? Only in Hawaii you have mana puan. Chicken long rice. Chicken long rice. Okay. It's a staple at the luau. Right? But I wanted to go back because what you said is that we're demonstrating, it's not just demonstration, we're poipounding for eat. You know, it's like we're living, it's a living culture. So, we're not just poipounding for demonstration, we're poipounding for consumption. Vicki, you also mentioned that the Kanapali Beach Hotel over at Maui. I love that hotel. General Manager Mike White was also the former chair of the Maui County Council. Yes. Talk about what you admire, what they're doing. You know, so again, Mike White has hired a Hawaiian cultural specialist that greets all of their guests when they come into their hotel.    This is a big thing for them. It builds loyalty, it builds pride, but they come back and they're very proud to wear their kukui nutlay. They have five or six that tells them that they've been there seven times because they have six.  They said, no, I've been here seven. The first one was a brown lay, so the number of times they visited, so those kinds of things. And they do a makahiki every year, an annual makahiki, where their entire board, all of the departments get together and create something for makahiki. We're having a lively discussion here with Vicky Ho Takamine and Michael Peely-Pang on the importance of our native Hawaiian culture. And coming up next, after we take a pause for the cause, is a wonderful festival that's coming to our shores here in the year 2020. It's the 13th annual Festival of Arts and Culture of the Pacific, and Vicky Ho Takamine is the driving force behind it. She's recruited folks like Michael Peely-Pang to assist in this effort, Robert Casemaro. She's going to tell us all about that. He'll also say how we can get involved as a community to make this what is considered the Olympics of culture and arts ahead of smashing success. We'll be right back. I'm Jay Fiedel, ThinkTech. ThinkTech loves energy. I'm the host of Mina, Marco, and me, which is Mina Morita, former chair of the PUC, former legislator, and Energy Dynamics, a consulting organization in energy. Marco Mangelsdorf is the CEO of Provision Solar in Hilo. Every two weeks, we talk about energy, everything about energy. Come around and watch us. We're on at noon on Mondays every two weeks on ThinkTech. Aloha. Aloha again, everybody. Welcome to another edition here of our Tourism 101. And today, it's all about the native Hawaiian culture. And we're going to focus our attention now on a wonderful festival that's coming to Hawaii in 2020, largely based on Vicky Ho Takamine and Michael Pilley Pan's lobbying efforts to bring it here. Talk about what it took to bring a festival of this magnitude here to Hawaii. Michael and I have been working on this for many, many years. In fact, in 2004, for the Palau Festival, Michael and I drafted up a proposal to host the festival here in Hawaii. Michael participated in... 1980. 1980. He was just a baby. Only 40 years in 2020 since the last festival. So for our viewers here, talk about what this festival is all about. I described it as the Olympics, the Festival of Pacific Culture and Arts in the Pacific. But talk a little bit more about the who comes, where these countries that are participating. The festival hosts 28 nations, including Taiwan, from all throughout the Pacific. They bring the best of their culture with them. It's not just performances. Today it is literary. It is poetry. It is film. It is fashion. It's everything that their living culture, which we just discussed in the last section, is all about. And they bring it here and they show off the very best. Some of them actually have competitions as to who will be coming and representing their island nation. And so it brings in people with them that follow them throughout the years. Like I said, I went in 1980 and I speak with some of the professors at university that say, oh, we have pictures of you in 1980 because we were there taking photos at that time. So we have a lot of people that follow this festival as academics. But now it's becoming bigger as a very cultural based opportunity for people to see. It's cultural tourism. It's a huge cultural tourism event. So Michael went in 80. It was supposed to be in 84 in New Caledonia because of they transferred it in 85 in French Polynesia. So I went to Tahiti in 85. And then we went back in 2004 to submit the bid to host. But 28 island nations bring their best culture. So that's Samoa, Donna, Fiji, Atearoa. Yes, every nation. So the three regions I'll rotate to host. New Caledonia, you've got Rapa Nui coming, you've got all of, you look at that map of Oceania and there's representation from all of the Pacific regions in Oceania. So Vicki, as the executive director, why don't you walk us through? Yeah, so we're going to start, you know, well I think the economic benefits, what do we want to say? You know, because this is a tourism event, we know that there will be many, many tourists that are going to come. I know that we can look at that first slide. Yes, let's bring up the slides. Yeah, so we'll host Hawaii. We'll host from June 10th through the 20th in 2020. We expect to host most of the delegates in the dorms at the University of Hawaii. And then, so to give room for the visitors, because we know in Guam. That's where the last festival was held. Yeah, and we can switch, I don't know if they can, yeah. So Guam invested $8.5 million into a FestPak 2016, but the economic benefits for that, there was a 19% increase in the visitor arrivals, 40,000 visitor nights, 125,590,710 dollars direct and indirect and induce impact to Guam's economy just on Guam and supported 1,500 jobs. So we know that we can, the community benefits for Guam, they created a Chamorro Village that the, the festival, one of the requirements is that we, we create a village. The festival village was turned into a Chamorro Village that is now sharing cultural arts for visitors to Guam. They renovated their Paseo Stadium where they had the opening and the closing ceremonies, and they built a museum for Guam, because they didn't have it. Where are we thinking of doing our opening ceremony? So our opening ceremonies, I would love to have it at Eolani Palace, and I think if we go to the next slide, we'll kind of talk about what are, and we'll just keep scrolling. Oh, I know what culture that is. Yeah, I thought this is such a wonderful sharing of Samoan culture. They bring, they bring their best. So, next slide. This is Rapa Nui. Then we'll go on. Next. So the festival theme is a Tu Ita Hoi Uli. It takes, it's from a chant that was shared with all of us. It says, take hold of the steering paddle and steer your own course. Nice. Next. First pack is organized to stem the erosion of traditional cultural practices and to establish deeper understanding and friendships between the countries. So we were finding that much of our traditional culture, because all of our countries had been, all of our island nations had been colonized by others in Western Europe, as well as the United States, we were losing our cultural practices. So this was an attempt to revive and to stem that erosion of traditional cultural practices. Next. And we can go, go, this was, the first festival was held in Suva, Fiji in 1972. So we'll open with the arrival of the canoes. You know, Hokulea has gone all over the world to share the Polynesian navigating. And we're inviting those that have created navigating kalooas to come. So the arrivals will be at Alamoana Magic Island on June 10th, 2020. And followed by a tribute at Ilani Palace. Thursday 11th, our opening ceremonies will be on the grounds of Ilani Palace. If our monarchy was still here, where would we be hosting them? Where would be would we welcome dignitaries? We would welcome them at our palace. So we felt that this is the most appropriate place to, to hold our opening ceremonies. Next. Laidraping at Kamehameha statue and the opening of the festival village. We're hoping that we can partner with the city to use Kakaako Makai Parks as a festival village area to create opportunities, you know, for us to share. Every nation that participates will have a hale, some kind of, whether it's, depending on how much money we all raise together, okay, whether it's a hale pili, which is my first preference, or a tent. But we're trying to get the community to come in and help us build hale pili. We'll teach you how. You can help us gather. Thanks. And then the, one of our most favorite events, the Kamehameha Day celebration happens on Saturday, June 13th. Combining both. Combining. So this is a tradition that was started in the kingdom by Kamehameha the Fifth Prince Lot, who we celebrate every year in June. And so we tailored our festival events to come and celebrate with, around those activities. We don't have to create that, but I thought being part of the FESPEC Parade of Nations, being part of Kamehameha Day really brings back that celebration of the Kingdom Times, of the times during Kamehameha the Fifth. Ecumenical services. Can you imagine every country singing a hymn in their own language? What a wonderful choral festival that would be and part of the ecumenical services. Our venues will be all around Oahu, Ala Moana, Bishop Museum, the Kakaako Parks, the State Art Museum, the Convention Center, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Waikiki Shell. Next. The Kapiolani Park Bandstand, Woodward Community College. And we're so hoping that we can get some of our neighbor islanders involved. So getting some of our delegation over to the neighbor islands. You want to share about our special events? We have some great events scheduled. And these are unique to just Hawaii, which is, we do our wearable art show. Our mama art show has been a tradition for the last 10 years here, and we're going to put this as part of this FESPEC. We came up with an idea of what can we do with all the different nations and children and participating with community. We thought traditional kite flying, we'll get people to learn how to do kites, and then we're going to go to Kakaako Park and let everybody go fly a kite. Literally. Yeah, literally. And again, that choral singing in Kauai Hau Church would be wonderful. Our Youth Ambassador Program is something that's unique also for this particular festival. We want our kids to be our hosts. We want them to be with every delegate group, working with them, speaking with them, sharing what Hawaii is all about. So we'll be training those kids on that. Our Pacific Island queen pageant is an idea that Vicky came up with that many times we have people who are that travel with the group. They are the hairdressers. They are the makeup artists. They are the people who make everything so beautiful, but they never get a chance to be on stage. This is their opportunity to be a part of it. And of course, the culinary, I mean, all Pacific islands is all about food. Let's do a cook off with the umu, the imu. Let's see how other cousins cook. And let's just have a great time with this one. So if someone is listening and they want to get involved, give us some information on that. Yeah. So we, you can contact us through our website, festpack-hawaii2020.org. Volunteer for helping. We need lots of volunteers. You can figure out how many people and we are hosting 3,000 delegates from 28 countries. We expect 100,000 people, visitors will be coming. We will have events and activities throughout the island of Oahu and hopefully we can get some of them to the neighbor islands. So we're going to need a lot of volunteers every single day. We want to teach people how to be responsible and sustainable. So one of our key projects is how to take care of the trash that 100,000 people are going to give, you know, bring. Recycle. I'm going to need people to help and teach people how to recycle. And uh, especially not to Kisan Joe, the head of the Prince hotels who heard your presentation and then he hosted a welcoming reception. Yes. Many of our leaders are there. I attended. Nainoa Thompson was there. Many of our legislators who support you're going to need for funding for this. Right. So Mufi, thank you so much for allowing us to present to the whole Elaging Tourism gathering a few weeks ago. And we presented about FestPak. Before he left, before I left, Kisan Joe walked up to me and said, how can I help? I want to host a delegation. I was like, yes, that's what we need. Somebody that's going to be a partner with us. So we hosted our FestPak launch party at the Prince Waikiki. It was a wonderful party. It was. Thank you so much to Kisan Joe and the Prince Waikiki staff. Well, I want to thank both of you for being here and to sharing with us this wonderful festival. You're going to hear more about it as we delve into 2019. It's coming in 2020. It's just around the corner. And once again, this is a great event. I participated as what the other part is, the every game they call the South Pacific Games. And I went as a member of American Samoa. So I saw it from an athletic standpoint, but here's an opportunity to see it from a culture in arts. Thank you again for joining us. This is Movie Adam and say, mele klikimaka.


This is a game that came down the stretch extra over time. Played just what was it in that overtime frame that allowed you guys to close it out and what did you guys focus in on? Yeah, just getting stops at the end, getting stops and then, you know, just getting the sets on the offensive end, getting good shots, good shots, quality shots, make or miss. We got good shots. Them took a good shot every time we went down over time. So make or miss, so we'll just live with that. And then at the end of the day, we just got stops, forcing them into tough shots, make or miss, just forcing them to tough shots. And we just got to live with it. They make it. Good thing in overtime, they didn't make them, so it was good. When you look at your stat line at this point, I'm used to seeing numbers like this, but it's the seven assists, one block, one steal. What impressed you about your game and what you were able to showcase tonight? Nothing really, just really just reading the game, just taking what defense give me. It's been an emphasis for me this year since teams are keying in on me more. So I got to learn how to attack the NBA defense differently. You know, that was in some defenses, but just reading the game and just getting my guy shots, make or miss, we got to live with it, a wide open. So best shot we can get on that possession is a wide open three or a wide open dunk, whatever. So it's been good so far. When Keio was talking about you bringing the ball up more and assuming more point guard responsibilities, how much do you take that on and say as a new challenge for you to just show that while you can score the ball, you have kind of grown as a passer this season? Yeah, I really say I've grown as a passer because I'm playing more. Playing more, I mean, anybody, if anybody don't really play much and they get in for a few spurs, I mean, there's be real nobody's looking to pass when they first get in, they look to get some buckets. So, you know, I'd probably say to really just me playing more, just know I have more opportunity to find the guys, you know, instead of like the first two years, I'll probably play the game and don't play for the next five and then play again. But this year, just getting the reps playing, read different coverages, deep teams are throwing at me.  So that's really it. Do you see it as kind of like maybe a maturity in the way of your game? Just to be like, now that you're on the court, you are able to say, I can pass besides just get 30 like this. Yeah, of course, obviously, you know, growing, I'm only, like I always say, I'm only 22. I'm still figuring it out on the fly, only 22. I mean, I know it feels like I've been here a while, but I'm only 22, but it's just still learning. Only in year three, still learning the different nuances of different coverages, teams are throwing at me, how to attack certain stuff, just looking at the family and all that stuff, seeing where I can get the guys open shots.  Hit clacks a few times on the lives, got them wide open lives, throw. So really just finding the guys, I hit though, you know, he didn't make them tonight, but it made a great shot wide open, you know, we'll live it all day. So just really reading, just reading in, just, just making the right play.


Now, there are several properties of addition that we're used to. For example, we are used to having associativity and commutativity. We should prove these. And while that makes for a good research plan, the problem does arise how? And importantly, in what order? And since we're genetically programmed from birth to know exactly how to proceed in any question in mathematics, it's easy to...what? Oh, wait, sorry, wrong speech. We don't know what order and how we're going to prove this, but the important thing is take the first step and see where it takes you. So let's try to prove, I don't know, commutativity seems useful. So let's try to prove A plus B is equal to B plus A. And here's a useful idea to keep in mind. Try to prove something simple. And proving A plus B is equal to B plus A, well, that actually turns out to be too hard. So, well, let's see. Our definition of addition tells us what happens when we add 0. So let's try to prove A plus 0 is equal to 0 plus A. And that also turns out to be a little too hard. So let's try something easy. Let's try to prove that 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1. This is a specific case. And as we saw, it might be possible to generalize from the proof of a single instance. So let's try to prove 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1. So again, you can always write down one side of inequality. So let's write down 1 plus 0 equals. Definitions are the whole of mathematics. All else is commentary. So let's pull in our definition of addition. And based on our definition, we know what 1 plus 0 is equal to. And we'd like to say that 0 plus 1 is equal to 1, but we can't. Our definition of addition doesn't tell us what happens if 0 is the first sum and. Well, couldn't we just use commutativity of addition? Well, that's the problem. We don't yet have commutativity of addition. So instead, we have to proceed differently. 0 plus 1, well, that's the same as 0 plus the successor of 0. Or the successor of 0 plus 0. We do know what happens when we add 0. So that's the successor of 0 or 1. And since 1 plus 0 is equal to 1 and 0 plus 1 is equal to 1, we can conclude that 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1. And here's a useful strategy when studying mathematics, especially proofs. Prove it again. Proof is a study technique. It makes you recall what you should already know. So our proof can start the same way. 1 plus 0 is equal to 1, which follows directly from the definition of addition. And we wanted to find what 0 plus 1 was. Well, remember, we already showed that n plus 1 is the successor of n. So we know that 0 plus 1 is the successor of 0, which is 1, and the rest of the proof goes the same way. And so we've shown that 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1. From this, it's easy to prove that a plus b is equal to b plus a eventually. But let's take a smaller step. Let's try to prove that 0 commutes. n plus 0 is equal to 0 plus n. So let's think about this. If we want to prove this, this is really the same as proving 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1, and also 2 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 2, and also 3 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 3, and 4 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 4, and so on. And here's a useful idea to keep in mind. Any time you're trying to prove an infinite but orderly sequence of statements, consider induction. So remember, a proof by induction requires two things. First, we have to show that our statement holds for the first thing. So we have to prove that 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1. That's the base step. And we just did that. The second thing we have to show for a proof by induction is that if our statement is true for n, then it's also true for the successor of n. So remember, since we're trying to prove a conditional, we can always assume the antecedent. So suppose n plus 0 is equal to 0 plus n. So let's consider the successor of n plus 0 and 0 plus the successor of n. Definitions are the whole of mathematics. All else is commentary. Our definition of addition gives us, well, if I add 0, I get the same thing I started with. So that's n star. Our definition of addition also tells us what happens when we find 0 plus n star. It's the successor of 0 plus n. But remember, we assumed n plus 0 is the same as 0 plus n. So this term inside the parentheses, well, that's really n plus 0 successor. n plus 0 is just n. And so this is the successor of n.  And so we have our conclusion n star plus 0 is the same as 0 plus n star. And let's summarize what we have. Since 1 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 1, then we know that this is state and it's going to be true for the successor of 1. So we know that 2 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 2. But wait, since 2 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 2, then the statement also holds for the successor of 2. So we know that 3 plus 0 is equal to 0 plus 3. But since our statement is true for 3, it's true for the successor of 3 and so on. And so all of our dominoes fall over and we get the theorem for any natural number n plus 0 is equal to 0 plus n.


Hi, I'm Alan Levine and today I'm going to talk to you about the basic rules for non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements under Section 49A of the Internal Revenue Code. An understanding of Section 49A is critical for designing and administering many types of compensation arrangements. These include plain vanilla deferred compensation programs, severance arrangements, incentive compensation programs, and retention bonus plans.


Okay, everybody got that? Who wanted it? No one's screaming knows. I take that as a yes Okay, so we'll get started This is the automated open stack deployment comparison talk. You'll find My email address at the bottom of the slide here. My name is Florian. I run has tech So we're a professional services company that provides consulting and training services around open stack among other things You'll find my personal Twitter handle there You find the company Twitter Twitter handle there if you Look for hidden meaning or any code in either you will fail. There is none. So there's one thing. I'd like to get out of the way first and foremost If you were ever under the delusion that it's a great idea to deploy open stack manually from packages and then hacking them by Hand just don't do so. Please just don't don't do that. Whatever you do You want to deploy open stack in an automated and repeatable fashion? Another thing I want to get out of the way is that contrary to what some salespeople might like to tell you There is no one true way to deploy open stack There is no one way that every one in the community and outside this community has agreed on This is the key way or the the standard way of deploying open stack. There are several In fact, because in the open-stack community We have a relatively unique situation that pretty much every vendor ships the same code as far as the platform itself is concerned So vendors have a really hard time differentiating on code alone If you're a software company and you're not able to differentiate on the code you ship That is something that shareholders tend not to like so therefore and this is not a bad thing by the way and therefore You're gonna have to expect your open-stack vendors to Differentiate in another way if they can't actually differentiate on the base of the code they ship then they're gonna differentiate in a different way and in open-stacks case it's deployment automation that is actually a key differentiator for open-stack vendors and What that means is that Very few open-stack vendors actually ship a deployment Automation scheme that is identical to that of the next vendor over and that for you as an open-stack user as an open-stack Deployer as an open-stack administrator means that you must yourself you must ask yourself two questions Specific to your use case and your organization First one is which is your preferred distro vendor? Do you already have one? Do you have a working relationship with a specific distro vendor that you're happy with and you'd like to maintain And keep that that relationship if that is the case Then that is something that is going to influence your choice of open-stack product And as such is going to influence your choice of deployment automation Or you might look at it from a different perspective, which is what's your preferred deployment automation system?  Which of these is the one that is preferred? And if you're very much locked in on one of these systems Then that is probably also going to define your choice of open-stack vendor or at least limit your available choices of open-stack vendors And it's also entirely up to you or up to your organization which of these two takes precedence So if you have a very good working relationship with say red hat, but you're a 100% puppet shop Then you're simply going to have to make a decision whether you want to go with something that is based on puppet Or you want to go with red hats product and that's not a decision that anyone can make for you It's something that you have to make in your organization and on your team Another thing that I want to mention for this talk is the fact that this talk is an overview And it is not a technical deep dive. You'll find plenty of technical deep dives in this conference But this is not one of them this is intended to give you an overview of the options that you have available and and discuss the pros and cons of each and Finally a bit of a warning a strong opinions ahead So I'm not going to worry too much about you know not taking anyone off I'm trying to give us Frank and an opinion About sort of the various topics that I'm talking about so with that we're going to get rolling and the first Vendor that I'm going to talk about relatively randomly the first vendor that I'm going to talk about is red hat And when we talk about red hats deployment automation or the deployment of open stack based on red hat products It's a bit of a never-ending story because If we look at the history of red hats Open stack deployment automation if you look back a few years it was like okay. We've got this thing called pack stack This is what we're going to use It's based on puppet wonderful, and that's how you're going to deploy open stack and then actually no Back up a bit and backs pack stack was always just a proof of concept, and we're going to do something completely different So then and this was around the relos p6 time frame It was all Foreman and puppet So now you would go from the sort of agent-less puppet operation that packs that was to something that was not only also puppet-based but also included bare metal automation multi-node orchestration that sort of thing except They came up with something else This is where we are now and the default deployment stack for Relos p7 It's called OSP director based on rto manager and that in turn uses triple O and ironic for deployment and also bare metal orchestration and so forth so This is the final word in Red Hat open stack deployment Perhaps because Right, so we'll simply see whether we're in for another iteration of of open stack deployment on red hat With that said a very quick overview of sort of the general process of how you deploy Open stack on relos p7 that is to say the currently available The currently available product so relos p7 uses this concept called OSP director And your general process there is you first bootstrap everything by installing your director node So that is basically your seed node your core node that you use for deploying everything else On that thing you have to create a director user. You have to create Image and template directories you register the system with red hat subscription manager that enables all of the open stack Repos or that makes them available to you you then enable them and then you install your director packages Now one thing that's interesting here And that's actually sort of a bit of a difference between red hat and the other products that I'm going to talk about is This stuff actually plugs itself into the unified open stack client as a plug-in, which is relatively neat So they don't actually ship their own. They're completely own Freestanding stuff they did they ship something that is that integrates itself with the open stack client So that's actually fairly neat what you then do remember This is triple O triple O is open stack on open stack And what you're defining is effectively two layers of open stack sitting on one another the bottom layer is called the under cloud and The under cloud you effectively configure on your director node That's the stuff that then of course manages your images your templates and so forth for the bare metal deployment of Your nodes in order to do that of course you have to fetch and install images for what then become What then becomes your over cloud and that's basically your second step The next thing that you install is in effect your over cloud. I should say that Red Hat deserves massive kudos for the quality of their documentation. The documentation is extremely extensive and very detailed And it doesn't only include, you know, helpful overviews like this one Which is a very nice, you know graphical explanation of what they expect your network to look like But it also has very very good detailed step-by-step Documentation for how you actually deploy this stuff So that's that's a real, you know, nice positive note there you have several options for actually installing your over cloud and Some of them or actually one of them is GUI driven and the other options are CLI driven You have the option to deploy what Red Hat calls a test over cloud and that Enables you to actually run the entire installation through a web UI and the web UI is essentially tusker now However, the Red Hat themselves say well actually that is something that you should only be using for testing and For proper use you would either deploy a basic over cloud using CLI tools and the CLI that you use is obviously either ironic or if you prefer the open stack The open stack integrated or unified client that will be open stack bare metal and Then you can also do what what Red Hat calls the advanced over cloud That's another thing that you can only deploy with CLI tools, but that includes handy features like Ceph storage better HA support and and so forth Now it remains to be seen How this progresses in the future because what you would of course want to have is Features to deploy basic and advanced over clouds with a UI as well We'll see whether they're going to expand on the path that they are now Or go back to square one and rewrite everything in Ansible We will see That much for Red Hat another vendor that I want to talk about is Ubuntu and Ubuntu open stack their default deployment stack consists of juju for application orchestration mass for bare metal deployment and then landscape as sort of an overarching uber management that is web based There your deployment checklist or your deployment walkthrough looks remarkably similar You're going to find that what I'm talking about here basically step by step in Concept actually is very similar from vendor to vendor the first thing that you do there is you install your mass server and mass is effectively equivalent to what in Red Hat is the director node what in SUSE is the admin node what in Mirantis is the fuel master node So that's the first thing you do basically what you That's a very simple package install more or less So you add a few repositories and you install the mass package What you can then do is you can wire up mass to talk to landscape landscape being a web-based server management environment and There is an open stack installer you can basically plug that into landscape as you go and then you can use landscape itself to deploy open stack to actually install your open stack environment Right, and then that basically gives you sort of this this web-based interface Which you can use for deploying and managing your open stack nodes if you don't like landscape which is entirely fine if you don't like the idea of Working with the web-based management interface, but you and instead you want sort of everything to talk locally to stick within Stay within your firewall. There is also the ability to use the open stack multi-installer or multi-system installer There's also a single system option, but which doesn't require mass, but that basically Assumes that everything runs on the same node in Lexi containers If you don't if you for some reason you don't like a mass either Then you can actually use juju in a manual mode as well Which is you basically manually add nodes to your to your juju environment and effectively getting juju up and running is a very very simple thing you basically run juju bootstrap and Then you juju deploy your charms as you go along now one thing that I like personally about juju deployment and that's a concept that you're also going to see in in Rackspace private cloud a concept that is also emerging in fuel is The ability to deploy any server any charm that any juju charm that you wish to a container to an LXC container and effectively what that enables you to do is you can run say for example a Three-node high availability cluster so three three physical nodes that you use for your open stack control nodes and Then every single charm every single service will on each of those three nodes Deploy one container that basically forms one third of the cluster And this is something that actually works really really beautifully I'll be it with a few limitations. So one such limitation is in Up until very recently up until mass 1.8 and before the before mass 1.9 All of what Ubuntu did there considered itself very very little with network management That is changing. So you had very little ability to Manage, you know bonds VLANs routes and so forth and as a result There was also very little such support in the juju And if you think about it one thing that you might want to be able to do is if you for example deploy Cinder to LXC containers if that LXC container only has a single network interface That's generally fine. But if you are deploying say for example in conjunction with Ceph, which this also supports very beautifully Then you might want to actually bridge your Cinder LXC container with like one leg into your Ceph storage network. That would be helpful, right? But that's coming and that's that's evolving as it as it goes along This has been so juju has Provided actually a remarkable degree of stability In terms of actually sticking to a single tool The same thing by the way is true for Susan Again, we're talking about a completely different deployment stack. So we talked about OSP director in triple-O. We talked about Maz and juju and in Suzy it happens to be crowbar and chef um Remember crowbar originally came out of Dell has the unique distinction of being the software project with the scariest mascot on earth and That's basically a bare metal deployment facility and that hooks in with chef for actual service and application automation again a relatively similar approach to the one that we saw in red hat and in And in Ubuntu, which is One thing that you need is you basically need your seed node that you then deploy everything else from and in chef parlance That's called the admin node So this is something that you know if you're familiar with Suzy you're going to expect All of this stuff to be configurable from Yast and of course this is and You basically go through a few steps there and then you run a script called install Suzy cloud and then off you go And at the end you have your dashboard One thing one specific Concept that Suzy caters to that the others that I've previously talked about don't is what if you don't like Actually deploying to the bare metal. What if you don't like actually bootstrapping your nodes like pretty much from scratch What if you already have your existing management and deployment interface and whatnot and what you would instead like to do is You might want to actually use an Existing machine and then deploy that and you also have a facility for that with crowbar register If you which is basically a shell script that crowbar generates for you that you can then run If you don't like just installing You know the whole works of your of your admin node There's another thing that's very helpful that you can do and that's Suzy studio for those of you who are not familiar Suzy studio is a very very handy way of building in an automated fashion effectively appliance images and then Basically being able to tweak them for whether you want to run them on bare metal on VMware on KVM on OpenStack on whatever and it's a very very simple and handy tool for that And it also allows you to define effectively or use virtual appliances that are available in a gallery and Of course as it happens There is also a Suzy OpenStack cloud 5 admin node that you can use there And that's basically you know you can if you want to deploy this to the bare metal You know you can put this into a USB image that you then IPM I mount and then boot it up or whatever you'd like If you want to test this in a virtual environment, then you can do that With an image from there and so forth. So that was the first part installing the the cloud admin node The the second is actually installing your your cloud nodes and Here we have Obviously the ability to do auto discovery. That's something that the others that I've mentioned up to this point can do as well and Then what you can do is you can effectively define individual node roles to specific nodes And then of course, you know, you can you can tweak individual services and so forth if You get sick of doing the same thing over and over again for different nodes There's also a bulk edit mode, which is quite helpful. And then in the end, hopefully what you'll get is you get a nicely deployed OpenStack environment One thing that Suzy got got going for for themselves is a very very handy way of deploying OpenStack services in a highly available fashion That's something that every vendor solves slightly differently in juju For example, what you do is this is effectively expressed as a juju relation with an HA cluster charm that you can then Through that relation linked to any other charm in the in the system And what you can do in Suzy is you basically can pull and drag services on to something that you have previously defined as a cluster and It will just magically reconfigure itself to become a highly available service as opposed to when you just drag it onto a node Then it will deploy itself as a non highly available system And the other thing that I've already mentioned is the ability to use crowbar register And crowbar register is effectively a shell script that crowbar generates for you that allows you to register Previously existing and previously installed Nodes effectively SLEZ nodes that are already installed and configured and register those for Suzy cloud deployment And then finally of course the last thing is you deploy your OpenStack services Again, it's basically it's a pretty nice drag-and-drop interface that you can that you can get there and the individual items here in Juju parlance are called charms in crowbar parlance. They're called bar clamps and And here's such an example of where so here previously you had individual bar clamps deployed to individual nodes And here's another example where Rather than deploying to individual nodes. You're actually deploying to clusters Basically using the same kind of drag-and-drop method which is really kind of handy and the fourth vendor that I want To talk about is Rackspace specifically Rackspace Private cloud or I think as they call it now Rackspace private cloud powered by OpenStack because that just kind of rolls off the tongue better And They again use a different deployment model and that deployment stack is Ansible and Rackspace deserve Commendation for the fact that they're basically doing all of their stuff all of their development on this upstream it used to be on Stackforge until Stackforge got retired so now it's under the OpenStack namespace and What Rackspace don't concern themselves with at all is actual bare metal deployment so everything that osa the OpenStack Ansible deployment expects is there is an installed Ubuntu 14.04 and How you get there is effectively, you know your problem But again, what you will typically do is you will install a deployment host Installing the deployment host is a relatively straightforward process of effectively get cloning a single repo Changing into that repo and then running a bootstrap Script so for those of you familiar with Ansible, you might ask Well, why can't I do that on like my own laptop? I mean, I already have Ansible on there All I need to run is effectively secure shell to be able to connect to my hosts Well, as he's unfortunately relatively common among many projects that use Ansible This thing relies on a specific minimal version of Ansible and a relatively recent one, I believe it's one nine one four if I remember correctly and What the bootstrap Ansible thing will do for you is it will actually install that Ansible for you right like that or not, I'm not particularly fond of of That approach but well That's what it is Then what you want to do is you want to configure your target hosts That's effectively describing your topology in YAML right this by the way now is not too dissimilar from Red Hat where you can effectively describe your overcloud in a YAML file and In SUSE, you also have the ability to describe effectively your topology in YAML and then batch automate your deployment that way And then finally what you effectively do is you run your Ansible playbooks And and off you go There are three in total one is called the foundation playbook, then there is the infrastructure playbook and the infrastructure playbook that's an interesting one because What the infrastructure playbook does for you it deploys all of the services that OpenStack relies on that are not OpenStack such as MySql with Galera for high availability such as RabbitMQ such as a decent SysLock configuration such as memcashd and Rackspace were the first ones that also gave you the automated ability to install Elk so elastic search lockstash cabana Directly and fully integrated with OpenStack and and and configured for that There's other vendors that are that are doing this now. So apparently Morantis are now shipping a fuel plug-in for that purpose And I don't exactly know what Red Hat's plans are in that department And then finally you actually run your OpenStack playbook And that's just called setupopenstack.yaml and that's your financeable playbook that you run and then you hopefully have a Working a working OpenStack environment So So that's basically my my my overview here if You want to use these slides at any time you can certainly do so you can grab them from here The top one are is just the the rendered presentation and the bottom one are the actual sources And this stuff is all under a Creative Commons license. So if you feel like reusing it Then please do so And of course, you know if you grab the QR code earlier, it's gonna lead you to this as well And if you're curious about What our company does about OpenStack, then of course you can also take a look at our website We have a landing page on OpenStack, and so do take a look there so When I first did this talk Which was a few months back The first question I got was well Okay, so you're now you're talking about OpenStack deployment, right and that's fine for Getting a feel for how easy it is to get up and running on a specific with a specific OpenStack environment But that's not the end of it right you want to be able to maintain and upgrade your stuff as well So I decided to Tech on a few a few slides for that so the problem is we want to keep abreast of OpenStack releases as they go if we first deployed our OpenStack cloud on Icehouse then Maybe would like to skip Juno and then go to Kilo or maybe we want to do actually every single release upgrade And so forth. So we need a way of doing upgrades Again, I'm going to take this in the same order. I'm going to start with with Red Hat. So Red Hat's upgrade story basically getting you from from OpenStack Icehouse to Juno to Kilo to Liberty to whatever we'll see in the well, I'm not going to say what we'll see in the next few releases But what it's been up to this point is It's basically oh well You don't really need to worry about upgrades because by the time a new OpenStack releases out We've just completely changed our deployment methodology and therefore you're going to have to re-spin from scratch anyway Which isn't very enterprise-y I might add Although of course, you know, there's there's there's people that say that the definition of enterprise is running outdated software and paying a lot of You know support for it. That's not the definition that I like But right now That's an issue. It is not an easy task getting From say for example, it was kind of sort of okay to go within Icehouse from Rel 6 to rel 7 or Centos 6 Centos 7 that was kind of sort of okay, but if you deployed your stuff with With the rel OSP installer on rel OSP 7 With Icehouse Not a good thing. I mean you're not in a very pretty situation if you deployed with form and puppet and That's what you built your processes around so well Ubuntu Actually does remarkably well in that department because upgrades are a means of effectively changing one juju variable And you can do that basically on the fly with juju set or you can you can also define effectively a yaml configuration of your whole thing or you can even deploy a juju bundle which is basically extensive yaml describing your entire infrastructure and The the process is almost fully automatic by just setting basically a single variable Which is available on all the juju open stack charms. It's called open stack origin Normally you would do so from yuka from the Ubuntu cloud archive Recently there has have also been additions to juju that enable you to actually deploy from git The reason I say it's almost fully automatic is that in prior releases There have always been sort of minor tweaks that you then still had to do But what's really nice is that this does enable you to run effectively staggered service Updates so that means that you can go through basically charm by charm along effectively defined lists that I think we all owe gratitude to Cern for because they found out what basically the best the best sequence of service updates is With open stack to cause the least blood sweat or tears And you what you can do effectively with juju is you can upgrade, you know every single service separately and also It's it's it's a very very easy task to upgrade the charms themselves. So the stuff that actually deploys the services for you So that's actually pretty neat With with Susan Susan opens that cloud also does have full support for upgrades You effectively run a script called Susan cloud upgrade This has one downside, which is it's effectively a stop the world type upgrade At least that's what it was from Susan cloud 4 to Susan open stack cloud 5 We'll see how they do in their in their next release What that meant from going from Susan cloud 4 to 5 is all your instances had to be suspended the API services were down for the upgrade and Then you would actually run it and then everything would magically come back up and you would resume your your VMs on the ansible side Also support for upgrades. There is effectively a fully automatic upgrade script and The expectation there is you have effectively no impact on your VMs What you will need to take into consideration is that you're always going to have brief API outages So for a short period of time, you know, your neutron is going to be unavailable your nova is going to be unavailable and And so forth, but you're not impacting actual running VMs, which is what people are are typically most interested in another thing that I should actually mention about about OpenStack ansible and the stuff that largely came out a rack space which we're beginning to see as sort of a pattern is This stuff just deploys into containers by default. So in juju, that's an option This stuff just does it by default. We'll see whether that is going to become sort of an accepted best practice of deploying open stack services just a single isolated container for every for every open stack service Preferably in high availability configurations such that you can always throw one container away Rebuild throw the next container away rebuild and never actually break API availability Okay, so with that I am 34 minutes and 30 seconds into my talk Which leaves me five minutes and 30 seconds for questions So I'd like to open it up now for that. So please fire away and I do have a Q&A mic Which is not open right now Here we go. That's much better. And what I'll do is I'm just gonna Throw this to the first person You have a question When is the right time to dirty the hands with the actual configuration files in auto open stack? What when is the right time to do what to dirty the hands with the actual configuration files? When should you actually get your hands dirty on configuration files that is to install it initially manually? We get a chance to learn the inner so yeah So so if I if I paraphrase your question correctly What is the right time to actually get your hands dirty by hacking configuration files if it's actual open stack configuration files? That time is never But while operating and issues do come and you do need to troubleshoot While operating the cloud Various kind of issues come up. Yes. They might demand actual knowledge into the configuration files Yes, looking into the logs and yes, then please contribute to the tool that you're using and send a patch for that Or work with people Who will who will you know troubleshoot and debug the issue for you or with you? Yeah, but yeah Yes Any particular is another question any particular reason you did not mention fuel from Mirantis Excellent question. So what about Mirantis? You can collect your check later. Thank you Okay So the only reason I didn't I didn't include Mirantis here was that I basically had to cut the line somewhere And and this talk is only 40 minutes, but I did I did put together a little bit of information about how Mirantis fits into this whole thing Okay, so what is there? What is their default deployment stack? Mirantis happens to be as per red hat going to OSP director the only major vendor that still backs puppet It's gonna be very interesting what that means for puppet and open stack upstream development and particularly for really large shops that rely on on Puppet to deploy but that's what they use so fuel is effectively a glorified puppet front end and effectively you're using puppet for For deployment the deployment checklist or the deployment progression is effectively the same or very similar to everything else that we've seen You start out with installing a fuel masternode That fuel masternode you actually deployed to the bare metal you effectively download an ISO image And then something resembling an old-style PC BIOS comes up you Use you you make your your appropriate settings interestingly Some of the fuel documentation or the fuel documentation says about some of these settings that you're supposed to never change them during the entire life cycle of the cluster I'm just gonna take them on their word for that. I've never tried that out I just don't know what happens there But I'm sure there's plenty of maranthus people who could explain that to us in the hallway Then you boot what maranthus calls or it fuel calls the node servers. That's fuel lingo for open stack nodes They effectively pixie boot they install Ubuntu 14.04 for you and then maranthus open stack on top of that In fuel 6 1 there was still support for running Centos 6 on the open stack nodes or on the node servers that support has apparently been removed in the fuel 7 Then you get a nice and handy And and shiny web interface that you can use to to deploy your stuff as pre-flight check and so forth one thing that's somewhat Unusual or peculiar perhaps about fuel is that there is a bunch of functionality That is not sort of in fuel core, but this is made available through plugins Now some of these plugins you generally would expect them to be third-party plugins like for example support for metonet support for Juniper contrail support for solid fire and so forth so stuff that actually comes from a third-party vendor and That where that vendor actually writes the plugin but there are other services such as VPN as a service Firewall as a service that some people actually consider relatively core to open stack that are implemented as a fuel Plug-in. There's also fuel plugins for sri ov support for melanox connect x3 dry HCA's infinity band HCA's there is a fuel plug-in for elk elastic search lock-stash cabana and So forth and as far as upgrades are concerned for Morantis, yes, you can do that the upgrade process is generally such that suppose you're starting out on fuel six one Apply all the available upgrades you want to now go updates up to that point. You now want to go to fuel seven That's what falls is a little weird You basically download a tar ball an upgrade tar ball, which you then need to manually unpack Then that runs an upgrade shell script, which depending on your hardware will take something like 30 minutes or so You're going to have a brief API outages during the upgrade run, but after the upgrade is done is done what it then Provides to you is basically the newly released open stack Version that you can then deploy Services for So so that's the brief update story for Morantis, okay? I'm afraid I'm out of time. Thank you very much for coming Sorry for the for the room situation and have a great rest of the conference Hi, oh, thank you Thank you


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Hey, welcome back to the channel. So recently I started diving back into LinkedIn to get new clients and new partners for a service offering that I just launched at Growth Response. So I want to show you in this video how I optimized my profile for going out and getting clients for this new service offering on LinkedIn. Now as many of you probably know, I started on LinkedIn back in 2017 when I first started Growth Response. I used it both to get clients for Growth Response and also we offered it as a done for you service for other companies. So we would manage their LinkedIn accounts and we would manage their cold email accounts and we would generate them new appointments and new clients for their business. And we were working with mainly companies in the B2B SaaS and the agency space. In 2020, I stopped taking on new clients for the done for you LinkedIn service that we had and I stopped using LinkedIn for about a year. So I haven't used LinkedIn for a while. Right when COVID started, that's when I kind of stopped and moved away from it. But now that I have this new service offering at Growth Response, I'm going back to LinkedIn. I need new clients and new partners again. So now I'm back on the platform and I'm showing you in this video how I've optimized my profile for getting clients again and what's changed since I last used it. So I'm actually going to break my whole client acquisition strategy on LinkedIn down in a few different videos, kind of like a mini series, I guess. But this video is going to be focused on the profile and what I did to optimize my profile to attract the right people that I want to work with. Now I've only been back on LinkedIn for about a week and in that timeframe of reaching out to new people and optimizing my profile, I've generated 11 calls for people who are interested in this new service offering who are also qualified. So that's what I'm going to show you in this video. Again, is what I did to optimize my profile to get these calls being booked and to get people interested in this new service offering that I have. Now before we begin, make sure you hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon so you get updates to all my future videos. Doing that lets me know that you're enjoying the videos and it also helps to show it to other people who can benefit from these videos as well. So if you're getting value out of this, make sure you subscribe and hit the bell icon so you don't miss any of my future videos and we can share it to other people who can benefit from this as well. So that said, let's dive into my computer now and I'm going to show you how to optimize your LinkedIn profile the way that I did. That has gotten me 11 booked calls in just seven days. So let's jump in now. So here I am on my LinkedIn profile. If you guys want to connect with me, go to SeanY.Anthony and you're going to see my profile here. My URL is it's SeanAnthony. So if you go there on LinkedIn, you should be able to find me and this is my picture on the platform if you're wondering if it's really me and my profile or not. So I'll go into the areas that I've optimized on this in just a second. Real quick proof that people are interested based on my profile. You can see here this morning alone, like we have this guy Grant, he's interested in having a chat with me. He wants to connect for a product or a course launch. This guy Richard is wanting to connect as well. We've got this guy here who runs, I think this is a SaaS company. He wants to schedule a call on the 23rd. This guy Aaron is well interesting. Hasn't asked for a call yet, but he wants to hear more. And then we have a few other people here as well that are interested in having a conversation. Not everybody here is booked on the phone yet. I like to do a little bit of qualification but there's a lot of interest in the service offering and a lot of it has to do with what I did to optimize my profile. So I'm going to jump back into here and I want to walk through the areas that I optimized on my profile that I believe is helping me get these responses and get interested people who want to talk to me about this new service offering that I have. So that said, let's start the first area of your profile that is so easy to optimize but I see so many people not doing this. So that is your profile picture, right? It all starts with your profile photo. And the main thing here is you just want to have something that makes you look professional, presentable. And this is especially important on LinkedIn. Mine is just a picture of me smiling. There's some gradient colored background and they use the same photo on my YouTube channel and also my Twitter account. So it's not some crazy $2,000 headshot. Doesn't need to be very expensive at all. I think I just took this in my apartment and I had Jackie take it of me and I just popped on this gradient colored background in Canva, which is a free tool that you can use. So it doesn't have to be crazy but I have an old profile on LinkedIn and it was a little grainier. The picture wasn't as clear and it looked a little older. So I wanted something that popped a little more and this is gonna get attention, right? If you can imagine my picture down here, you can probably see it if I go to home. This is gonna stick out, right? Because there's a colored background and it's a picture of me smiling and it looks presentable, right? I'm just smiling, it's clear, you can see my face. I'm not drinking or doing anything weird in the background. So it's very presentable and clear and clean. So that's what you want. And that's the first step is to optimize your profile photo here to make it look clean and presentable and a headshot of you, okay? So real simple, step one is to, or the area number one is your profile photo. The second area is your banner or your cover photo and you can just see right here, this guy, Bo, just responded back and he wants to have a conversation. So that's another one, that's proof for you. So the banner here, I'm gonna minimize this so we don't get distracted. The banner here can do a few different things. I used to have pictures of me speaking and I had a picture of me with a couple of different influencers in the entrepreneurial space and I just switched into this yesterday, actually, which talks about who I am and who I help and how I help them, right? So all it says here, email rainmaker, that's kind of like my branded term that I use in my Facebook group and a lot of my emails. And I have a little tagline under here that says helping online business owners and creators sell more with email. So very clear what I help people do and if they wanna check out my website or they wanna check out more about what I do and read about my story, they can go to SeanAnthony.co, right? So links to my website here. At the bottom of that, it says email or DM me to see how I can help, right? And that's why some people are starting to DM me like I'm guessing Bo here probably read my banner or he read my headline and wanted to see what I'm about or what I can do for him. So that is the banner, right? That's the second area and two different ways that you can do that. Number one, you can have pictures of you speaking or if there's anything authority building, you can add that in your cover photo, your banner or you can just put a statement here very similar to what I did.  Whether it's elite magnet, whether it's to your site, whether it's to send you a message, you wanna have that call to action in your banner as well, okay? So that's the second area is your LinkedIn banner, your cover photo, optimize it to either build some authority of you speaking and presenting or it could direct somebody to go to a certain area or resource that you have, which is what I'm doing here. Now the third area that I optimized was and this is probably the most important piece for the responses that I'm getting right now is my headline here. So I use a very simple framework or formula, whatever you wanna call it for the headline and that is helping specific type of person to get a specific result through or using how you do it, right? Or how you get that result, right? So let's walk through this, helping these specific types of people, Info product, online education, e-learning companies to get a specific result, which is add 50K to 100K a month to their sales and how I do it with 100% funded and managed sales campaigns. No upfront fees, explain your video at growthresponse.io which is my site and has a video of me explaining how the service works, okay? So if someone reads this, right? And you can see it in the messages, right? Like if you go to my message inbox here and you look at this, it shows up right here, okay? It shows up in this where it says founder and CEO. It's gonna show that helping Info product companies, online education companies to add 50K to 100K a month to their sales. That's where it's gonna show up, right? It's gonna show up everywhere. So if I go to my homepage here, you can also see it over here, right? This is where my headlines gonna show up. So no matter where I am, whether it's in the news feed or messaging or on my profile, people are going to see that headline.  So what you wanna do here, you can follow that same framework or formula, but the stronger your offer is, the more responsive your market's gonna be, right? If I said something here that wasn't, that didn't take risk off the table, right? If there was upfront fees, if there was a $5,000 or $10,000 a month upfront retainer that people had to pay, right? If I wasn't 100% funding and managing these sales campaigns, probably wouldn't be getting the same response, right? Not saying I wouldn't get any response, but the better and stronger and more, no brainer your offer is, the more responses that you're gonna get, okay? So this is a very important piece of why I think people are responding so much. And so at such a high rate is because of this irresistible no-brainer offer in my headline, okay? So that's the third area, is your headline and instead of putting your job title, like a lot of these people here, just digital marketing specialist, founder and CEO, CEO, that doesn't really tell me anything, right? That's not an offer. I like to put an offer in the headline that speaks to who I am, the specific types of people I'm helping, the result I help them get and how I help them get that result, right? That is what's gonna get people interested in wanting to learn more, whether that's clicking over to growth response, whether that's sending me a message or responding back to my connection campaigns, okay? So that's a third area, your headline, make sure you have an irresistible or no-brainer offer and they're using the same formula. So the fourth area that I optimize on my profile is my profile summary section or the about section, whatever you wanna call it. Now this section is more of just an expansion of the offer that I already talked about in my headline here, right? So someone reads this, they're interested. The first thing they're gonna do is click over to my profile and scroll down and try to read more or get any more information about what that means, right? So they're gonna go down here and you can see here it's the same message, it's just expanded. So attention, info product, online education, e-learning companies, are you doing seven figures a year in your business? Would you like to get this result? Add this amount to your sales in 30 days with no upfront fees. I 100% fund and manage sales campaigns for seven figure businesses and you only cut me a check from the revenue I bring you. How is that for an irresistible offer? If you'd like to get this result in 30 days without investing anything upfront or spending any time managing anything, watch the demo here and then shoot me a message to chat. And I direct them to my site and I'd say, I'd be thrilled to help you. For all inquiries, please email me here, okay? So real simple, I'm just, I used to actually make this a lot longer but I think this offer is so good that I don't really need to do too much explaining other than that, right? And I'm getting by proof, like a lot of responses of people who are interested. Let me minimize this here. What I'm also doing in my summary is I'm linking to this info product that I have which is around writing emails that sell seven days super fast sales email challenge, right? And I have a link here if they wanna grab that. And then I also have links to my free content. So I have my newsletter here, my email newsletter if they wanna join that with 7,000 other entrepreneurs. I have my YouTube channel which they can go and subscribe to or watch my videos. And I also have my Twitter account here, okay? So this profile summary, doing a few things, right? Expanding on the offer from the headline, if someone wants more information, it's linking to an info product or digital product that I want people to buy. And I'm also linking to my free content that people can watch or read or view without having to pay anything. Now one more area that I optimized here that isn't in my profile summary, but I guess you could loop this in with your, my profile summary is the featured section here. So this featured section is the same thing as this here that's highlighted. It's just a direct link to this product. So if they click on this, it's gonna take them directly to my super fast sales email challenge which they can check out and buy right here. And there's different packages that they can pick up depending on what they want. And it's linked from this featured section here.  It could also be like your free newsletter opt-in, right? Make sure that you have some kind of lead magnet to entice people to wanna join your email list if you have one there. And yeah, that's the fourth area, is this profile summary and I'm looping this featured section in with that since it's so short there. But that's the fourth section is the profile summary or the about section. Now the fifth and final area that I optimized in my LinkedIn profile is my content feed. And this is more of an ongoing thing. So if I scroll up here and go to see all activity, I've never been too heavy on LinkedIn content, but now that I'm posting on Twitter, which I'll show you in a second, I'm using a tool that's helping me post both to Twitter and LinkedIn at the same time repurposing my content. But if you go here to the activity tab and I go to posts, I'm now posting at least once per day, usually in the morning around 6.30 around that time. So I think it's 6.05 AM. But you can see here, I just started posting again about a week ago and just starting to post. So I don't have too much traction here yet, but there is a few posts that are doing better than others. I think I had one that had like 1,000 or something views and here we go 1,145 views, 24 likes and six comments on this. And this was five days ago. So what I'm using for this is a tool called height theory. And you can see here, there's like a little LinkedIn, this is a tool to schedule out tweets, but you can also use it. They have a premium plan that you can use to repurpose your tweets to LinkedIn. So if I go to here, this post here and click edit post, if I go to advanced, you can see there's this little post on LinkedIn checkbox here and I can make it post to LinkedIn. And then I can also like edit the format if I want, like I can, you know, change the spacing if I need to or I think you can add characters as well. So pretty cool. I already write tweets and I schedule those out. So I thought, why not repurpose that content to LinkedIn and use that to help me nurture and grow my audience there as well. So that's what I'm doing. It costs a little more to do that. I think it's about 490 bucks a year. I'll put a link below this video. If you guys wanna sign up for height theory and use it to schedule out your tweets, if you're on Twitter and your LinkedIn post, if you're there or on both platforms. So that is what I use and that is the fifth and final area that I optimized my profile is figuring out a time to post every day on LinkedIn. And the advantage for me is I can just, you know, I can just click this button here in height theory and have my tweet automatically go to 6.03 AM, automatically go to LinkedIn as well. Okay, so that's the fifth area is this content feed and I'm making it a habit to post at least once per day, which is going to, I guess, nurture the people that are in my LinkedIn network right now. That's 3,946 people here. So that's exactly how I optimize my LinkedIn profile for getting new clients for this new service offering that I have at growth response. Then so far it's getting a pretty good response rate. I think a lot of the heavy lifting comes down to the offer itself. It's an irresistible no-brainer offer for the right company. And there's no reason a seven to eight-figure business who wants more sales risk-free wouldn't respond to that. So I think the offer has a lot to do with it, but if you optimize these five areas on your LinkedIn profile, you're gonna have a lot higher of a chance of getting a response, a positive response, which leads to hopefully a client for you down the road. So go ahead and optimize these areas on your LinkedIn profile if you haven't already. In the next video, I'm gonna talk more about the messaging strategy that I'm using to reach out to people and get them interested in having a phone call with me about this service offering that I have. So stay tuned for that in the next video. And a few other announcements or things I wanna share. First, if you run a seven to eight-figure business and you want to learn more about the service offering that I've talked about in this video, just go to growthresponse.io, watch that short video. I'm not taking on anyone new until September, but if you watch that video, there should be a button there below the video to enter a wait list, and you'll be the first one to be notified when we have open slots for the service. If you're someone who wants to learn how to write emails that sell, which is part of the service offering, go to my free group, go to emailrainmaker.com, that's gonna take you to my free Facebook group where you can join, and you can also enter your email address to get a free report around subject lines. So go to emailrainmaker.com, that's gonna take you to my free group, and you can join without paying anything and learn more about how to write emails that sell. Also, one more thing, go to LinkedIn and type in SeanY.anthony and send me a connection request and just mention that you watched this video, I'd be happy to connect with you on LinkedIn if we haven't already connected, but make sure you mention this video, I don't accept everybody, unless you show me that you've watched something or give me a reason to connect with you. So just mention in the notes that you watched this YouTube video, you enjoyed it, and you wanna connect with me on the platform. So that's it for this video, hope you guys got value out of this, give it a like if you did, and let me know in the comments which of these tips was most valuable to you, and I'll see you in the next one, take it easy.