Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Walter Mathaw. You will enter the continent of Europe and in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces. This was without a doubt the most difficult assignment ever given to one man. The brilliance with which he answered this awesome challenge marks him as one of our greatest soldiers. Mr. Raymond Massey, the distinguished actor, now brings you some of the finest moments in our history. The story of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1945. The occasion? The return to his homeland of a war hero whose stature has seldom been matched to the esteem of his countryman. The European phase of the greatest war America ever fought is over. And part of the warmth with which the people of Abilene, Kansas, greet General Dwight D. Eisenhower, reflects the deep joy of a nation approaching peace again. Some of it is the kind of welcome any hometown might give a favorite son who has done a good job. But more than anything else, it is a tribute. A gratitude felt in every corner of the Allied world, no less than in Abilene, toward the man who stewarded a crusade to its victory. It was a crusade with many battles and many triumphs, but it found its symbol in one day above all others. June the 6th, 1944. The occasion of Fortress Europe was one of the greatest military adventures of all town. From the outcome of this bold adventure hung the fate of war and freedom. It was because so much of man's hope had been bound up in the success of this adventure that the architect of that success found the hearts of the people open to him from Europe to the town of his boyhood, where the adventure of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man, began. Abilene, Kansas, today. A busy and proud town of almost 7,000 people living in the heart of the western wheatland is typical of the kind of town that comes to mind with the phrase, grassroots America. The mark of the past is on it, but it does not live in the past. Its streets and its buildings bear testimony to a living and growing America. One of its newest and proudest buildings is the Eisenhower Museum, which carries forth the spirit and the history of the Eisenhower family of Abilene. It is visited daily by citizens from all parts of the country, ranging from dignitary to schoolboy. Inside the museum, the life of Dwight Eisenhower, boy and man, is depicted in a series of murals. From infancy, that life had the flavor of grassroots America about it. Eisenhower was born in 1890 in Denison, Texas, of parents whose families had migrated to Pennsylvania from Europe and then to the American Midwest. Young Eisenhower's parents had lived in Abilene before his birth, and it was to Abilene, once the wild town at the end of the Chisholm Trail, now a peaceful village of the plains, that they returned when he was an infant. And it was here that he grew to maturity through a childhood that was active, eager and happy. An experience shared with devoted parents and spirited brothers. A childhood as rich in the important things of life as ever graced the development of any man. It was an active boyhood in which sports played an important part. He excelled at baseball, both in school and on a vacant lot next to his home. But football was his first love, and his high school coach called him the most outstanding tackle in the valley. The active life was important, but the greatest single staple of the Eisenhower family life was religious observance. The family home in Abilene shows the influence of that serious religious conviction. The Bible was the guide of family life, and it's chronicler as well. On the wall of the bedroom, shared by Dwight and his brother Edgar, still hangs this simple testament of faith. Thy will be done. It was a home of patriotism as well as faith, and of respect for things of the mind. Constant and hard work was also a staple of the family routine. The creamery where young Eisenhower worked during his spare time while he was in school is still one of Abilene's light industries. In this way, and by these standards, young Dwight Eisenhower grew to a manhood the world would one day know well. He was 20 when he left Abilene for the Military Academy at West Point. Many a great American has begun his march into history as a cadet on the plane at West Point. Eisenhower was graduated from the Military Academy in 1915 and commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry. The phase of life was beginning. In the summer of 1916, as a newly promoted first lieutenant stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he married Mamie Geneva Doud of Denver. Events in Europe were forging a new phase of life for the entire world. World War I gave many a future general his first experience with combat. But young Eisenhower was not among them. World War I brought him instead command of a tank training center at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he prepared troops of the new tank corps for overseas duty. His performance won for him the distinguished service medal, but before he was able to get to Europe, the war ended. In the late 1920s, after graduation from the command and general staff school, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower was assigned to France to prepare a guidebook on American battlefields in Europe. It was his first direct experience with that continent. With the 30s came other assignments, climaxed by service under General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. For four years he worked with MacArthur, who was commander-in-chief of the Philippine Army, to help the Commonwealth government work out a plan for its military defense. But it back to the States in December 1939, Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower went to Fort Lewis, Washington, as executive officer of the 15th Infantry Regiment. In the dark spring of 1940, German armored divisions were crashing through Holland and Belgium. MacArthur was streaking its destruction through Europe's skies. France was prospering and beleaguered Britain was standing awry. The United States had passed the Selective Service Act to prepare for what inevitably lay ahead.  Late in 1940, he was made Chief of Staff of the Third Division, where his staff work brought him assignment as Chief of Staff of the Ninth Corps. In the summer of 1941, Colonel Eisenhower became Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, whose newly organized Third Army was preparing to participate in the most realistic war maneuvers yet held by American troops. In these maneuvers over the Louisiana countryside, as America fought for the time to train its growing army of citizen soldiers, Eisenhower's task was to work out a plan of defense against an invading mechanized force. Soon after the maneuvers were over, Eisenhower's promoted to Brigadier General and within a matter of days came the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Almost this moment on, the fate of the nation and the fate of General Dwight D. Eisenhower would be inextricably bound together. Called to Washington in the first weeks after the war began, Eisenhower went to work in the War Plans Office of the War Department. Among the plans formulated during this time was the Central Strategic Determination to make an eventual attack across the English Channel, the principal Allied offensive effort. General, covering the west wall of the Eisenhower Museum, dramatizes the high spots of the next great sequence in the adventure involving the nation and the man, whose ability to rise to grave responsibilities brought him rapid promotions. Because an all-out channel invasion would be impossible before 1944 and because the need for offensive action was immediate in 1942, the Allies undertook, as a combined operation, under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the invasion of North Africa. The minimum objective of this maneuver was to seize the main ports between Casablanca and Algiers. With African coast, troops were ashore in late November, encountering resistance ranging for miles at Algiers to surprisingly stiff at Casablanca. The commander's hope was to push quickly east along the Mediterranean and take the important posts of Bizet and Tunis. A group of unfavorable circumstances including treacherous weather conditions prompted the commander to hold off on this vital assault. The troops of Omar Bradley's second corps were able to take Bizet and at the same time Tunis fell to the British First Army. And with these victories came the end of the Axis Empire in Africa. The leaders and the men who had fought under them proudly commemorated their victory. One of the greatest products of this victory in the words of the commander himself was the progress achieved in the welding of Allied unity and the establishment of a combat team that was already showing the effects of a growing confidence and trust among all its members. The successful end of the campaign brought personal recognition of Eisenhower throughout the world as a great leader. But the commander himself interpreted this recognition as proof that free men can find in unity the way to victory even against seemingly invincible odds. The next big campaign, The Invasion of Sicily brought further demonstration of this basic truth. Allied troops took this vital rock in the summer of 1943. The effect of Sicily's fall was electric. Italy surrendered, the first of the Axis partners to capitulate. And now the Allies prepared for what was to be the most fiercely fought battle of the Mediterranean War. Invasion of Italy itself at Salerno. Courage and tenacity, troops of General Mark Clark's Fifth Army established a beachhead against overwhelming German odds and went on to take Salerno in the vital port of Naples. With these victories, although heavy fighting and important battles lay ahead, the first major objectives of the Italian campaign were accomplished. Allied forces were on European soil and would be able to pin down German troops far from the scene of the cross-channel invasion planned for the following year. President Roosevelt visited the combat area with General Eisenhower when he came over for the Cairo and Tehran conferences where agreement was once again established that the principal Allied effort would be the invasion of Europe. Shortly afterward, the man who would command this awesome undertaking was named General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom people throughout the free world were now calling the Man of the Hour. On the opposite wall of the museum, another mural depicts some of the major episodes in the Great Crusade which liberated Europe. The Supreme Commander's orders from the combined chiefs of staff were quite simple to land on the coast of France and thereafter to destroy the German ground forces. Between the order and its execution lay an agony of effort. Across the channel, the heavy fortifications lining the coast of France bespoke the Nazis' belief that they could push the invading armies back into the sea. In France alone, 58 German divisions were waiting. Preparing for the invasion was a job without let up. Incessant and realistic training was of paramount importance. The challenges of morale, the myriad details of coordination on every level, all these were overwhelming. But through those tense months in the early part of 1944, the preparations continued. And finally, after being postponed one day because of weather conditions, the eve of the day of decision was at hand. The commander visited the airborne troops who would lead the invasion. I found the men in fine fetal, he wrote later, joshingly admonishing me that I had no cause for worry. D-Day, with the fate of the war hanging in the balance. Back by millions more, faced outward across the stormy sea. In beaches that dotted the French coast of the channel, British, Canadian and American troops touched shore. And Allied troops were holding on French soil. One week after the landings, the commander was able to say to the vast armies under him, your accomplishments in the last seven days of this campaign have exceeded my highest hopes. Less than two months after the invasion, the Allied force broke out of the beachhead perimeter, in the hedgerow country around St. Louis. Exploitation of the breakout was the next step. And now there began the dramatic pursuit, spearheaded by General George S. Patton's armored force across the heart of France. And then the Grand Triumphant March, through Paris, which was freed by French troops and soldiers of the U.S. Fifth Corps. In Paris lay the liberation of Belgium, and the yard by yard struggle across the German border. Hucking the steady pursuit of victory lay the Nazi counteroffensive in the Ardennes sector, known as the Battle of the Bulge. Through a grim and bleak period of several weeks, the enemy, supported by the most devastating of weather conditions, isolated and assaulted Allied forces. General Eisenhower called upon all troops to rise to new heights of courage and effort. The brave men of the beleaguered forces held, and steadily began pressing the enemy back. And from that moment onward, the supreme commander countered on weakened Nazi resistance. The bridge at Remargin across the Rhine, one of the sturdiest symbols of the war. With his crossing in March 1945, the heart of the enemy's defenses was cracked. There remained the substantial task of mopping up what was left of the enemy west of the Rhine, accepting his surrender in the droves that began to appear. The great cities of the enemy's fatherland were rubble, as Allied troops moved through them in the last stages of the enemy's defeat. And the NGI were able to find the exaltation that comes when victory is close. Victory came finally with the German surrender in a schoolhouse at Rantz on May the 7th, 1945. The return to peace was signaled by the supreme commander. I have the proud privilege of speaking for a victorious army of almost five million fighting men. They and the women who have so ably assisted them, constitute the Allied expeditionary forces that have liberated Western Europe. They have captured or destroyed enemy armies totaling more than their own strength. Merely to name my principal subordinates in the Canadian, French, American and British forces is to present a picture of the utmost inefficiency, skill, loyalty and devotion to duty. The United Nations will gratefully remember Tether, Montgomery, Spots, Bradley, Delac, Creer and many others. But all these agree with me in the selection of the truly heroic figure of this war. He is G.I. Joe and his counterpart in the air, the Navy and the Merchant Marine of every one of the United Nations.  He has surmounted charges into desperately defended beaches. He has fought his tedious patient way through the ultimately fortified zones. He has endured cold, hunger, fatigue. His companion has been danger. Death has dodged his footsteps. He and his platoon commanders have given us an example of loyalty, devotion to duty and indomitable courage that will live in our hearts as long as we admire those qualities in men. Now the long and happy road home. For Dwight Eisenhower, that road was paved with the cheers of the people of the Allied countries. In his own homeland, the heroes welcome a way to drink. America's greeting for a favorite son. Here the story of Dwight D. Eisenhower might well have ended on this note of triumph and decline for a job so splendidly done. But America had other tasks waiting for its favorite soldier. Eisenhower succeeded General Marshall as the Army's first post-war chief of staff. He expressed the belief that one of the greatest pillars of world peace is a strong United States. He visited troops stationed in various parts of the world to show America's growing sense of global responsibility. We must remain, he said, the first champions of those who seek to lead their own lives in peace with their neighbors. Finally, on February the 7th, 1948, the general from Aberdeen after 36 years of service to his country left active military assignment but not active participation in the life of his nation. He accepted an invitation from Columbia University to serve as president of that great institution enabling him, so he thought at the time, to devote the remainder of his useful life to the challenges of education. But events of the post-war world dictated otherwise. The urgent necessity for unity in the free world brought into being the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And it was evident that only one man could make that vital and complicated organization work from the outset. Dwight D. Eisenhower. At the end of 1950, he answered his country's call once more. And once more, he was on European soil to assume supreme command of the land, the sea, and the air forces of a grand defensive alliance. Against the new threat rising from the Soviets who had once been his nation's ally, he had to create in the war weary European soul the will to defend itself so that freedom so dearly bought would not be lost. For more than a year, he labored diligently at his task of coalition. When he turned over the reins of command to General Matthew Ridgeway, the structure of military unity among free nations, on which rested the hope for continued peace, was established. Once again, with the accomplishment of substantial victory behind him, this might well have been the end of his public career. And in a sense it was. The closing chapter in the story of Eisenhower the soldier. History is recording today the story of Eisenhower the statesman. The stories may be separate, but soldier and statesman, they are the same man. Dwight D. Eisenhower, citizen of the United States, spokesman for and symbol of the free world, and son of Abilene. As rich a study as this nation has produced of the capacity for greatness which lies at its grassroots.


Hi, my name and I'll be presenting my personal data project for business data literacy. For this research, I use the Vote NSA data set from the US data package available in our studio and pulled from the open interest stat website. The first step was to take a look at the rows and columns within the data set. Vote NSA contains 434 rows and five columns of variables including name, party, state, money and their vote for or against mass surveillance. Two variables that were of interest to me were party whether Democrat or Republican and the voters preference for or against continuing mass surveillance. I was interested in whether a voter's party and how they voted would pass a test for independence. After removing the rows of non-voters, I visualized a proportion of voters who want to continue mass surveillance. It appears the difference in vote by party is statistically significant, so I will test the independence. My research statement is the data provides strong evidence that the proportion of Democrats who vote to continue mass surveillance is different than that of Republicans. The null hypothesis is the probability that a Democrat will vote to continue mass surveillance is the same as the probability that a Republican will vote to continue mass surveillance. The alternative hypothesis is these probabilities are different. The first step in the downy and fur process is to calculate a sample statistic or Delta. In this code chunk, you can see I use the Vote NSA data set and I specified party and phone spy vote. The success factor was D for Democrat and I'm looking for the sample statistic. The chi-squared sample statistic in this test is 10.1. The next step in the downy and fur process is to calculate the null distribution. Here you can see I use the same factors, the Vote NSA data set, the party and phone spy vote results. Now we can observe the sample statistic in the null distribution. As you can see, the sample statistic is far outside the null distribution and we will calculate the p-value and validate our results. The significance level for our test was set at 5%. Our calculated p-value was far below the significance level at 0.15%. Given that our level of significance is 5%, our p-value of 0.15% is much smaller and therefore we do have sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis. Based on this sample, we have sufficient evidence that whether a voter is Democrat or Republican and their vote to continue mass surveillance are not independent variables.


This is a fun question if we were actors looking for jobs What would be like the like number one show you'd want to be casted for? Put me in Barry. Just give me like give me one scene in Barry like what's what show do you want to be in? Nika, what about you? I'm thinking this is an obvious choice, but I can't help it. I love the show Abba elementary Let me be a science teacher. There you go. That's a good one. You would be such a good science teacher I know right and I'm very quirky and like oh my god. I can do the steering the camera thing Yeah, that's what I'm doing. And I feel like all your students would love you. I Want to I want to do a voice on bobsburgers Okay, like like one of the teachers, you know, yeah, okay. Yeah again teacher right different so no live action for Tom Just voice. Oh, yeah, I don't think anyone wants to look at me. I Would want to be You're wonderful to look at. Thank you at any Star Trek. I would I would take Roger Star Trek is a good one. I want to be the negative guy who constantly punctures everyone's idea. Oh, so you don't want to act. I Mean I'm playing to type That Apple plans to introduce merch for its TV shows into the Apple store Hmm It seems a little low rent for Apple to sell something that's $20. Is it gonna be higher quality merch that ends up in the Apple store then, right? I mean, I mean if I see a gildan Apple store t-shirt, I'll be very upset is all I'm saying like that Imagine fitting rooms at an Apple store according to Bloomberg source retail stores would promote a QR code that directed shoppers to the new collection And even then I feel like it would be We Like like that's who knows how big that QR code is gonna be if tech news were sports radio This would be every other Thursday without news No way Steve Jobs does this, right? That's like that is such a sports talk right now There's no way Al Davis does this if he's alive I Jobs allows a t-shirt in an Apple store. Oh no hangers hangers in an Apple Even the imagination of a hanger. No, it was the Joan Crawford of tech. Come on Who do we think the new Twitter CEO is going? I don't know. It's a lady. Do we know anyone? Musk said she so yes, but you have to assume it would be a female Marissa mare and Cheryl Sandberg I see you know thrown around by lots of people and other people being like are you kidding? I can't think of anybody though.  I mean it's really hard to find these Also kind of you know, that's important see that's why I'm like CEO role not for me Because I just might not be tired should we do like a fun lunch? Today, I'll do that. So you're not mad at me anymore. Yeah, I get pizza and make this place Yeah, and then I'd run into the ground within a week. So yeah Spoiler it's not me it would be an amazing week though Sarah. It would be an amazing week It would be so much lunch. I'm just happy people well napped Oh, yeah, so the look musk brought a sink you could bring a I don't know a kitchen or a Pizza or something to every musk sink. I will bring a kitchen. That's right vote Sarah for CEO Now that I think about it yeah now that you've got capable time to think yeah


German-made Gepard systems proved to be best at shooting down drones. German-made Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft systems have shown the best results in shooting down Russian drones in terms of cost-effectiveness. Yuri Inat Spokesman of Ukraine's Air Force said this. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of assets that will be rational for shooting down UAVs. Today, Gepard is the best in this regard in terms of cost-effectiveness. But it also has a limited range, 4.5 km to shoot down, using ground-based projectiles. Therefore, we need more of them. Both Gepard systems and their analogues, he added. He also said that from 9 September 2022 to 12 March 2023, of attacks on the energy facilities, Ukraine shut down 750 cruise missiles while about 1,100 were launched. Inat added that Russia currently has 870 of Kinzel hypersonic missiles and both types of Iskander missiles as well as Kh-22 caliber, Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles. Gepard anti-aircraft weapon is currently in service with Germany, Brazil, Chile, Jordan, Romania and the Netherlands. In 2022, Germany delivered 30 of these anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine in order to defend against the Russian invasion. In 2023, another 4 units were delivered to Ukraine. Furthermore, Germany announced delivery of another 45 units by the end of 2023.


Hey guys, welcome back to my channel today. I'll be showing you how to make your very own grapefruit oil There it is Ladies and gentlemen The grapefruit oil now I have shared how to make your own lavender oil in previous videos Which are linked in the cards above and I love you commented back saying that it wasn't essential oil and you are right It's in lavender infused oil same with this This is a grapefruit infused oil and it's basically the home version of making essential oils because essential oils are just concentrated extracts of like a flower herb fruit of some kind and it's usually Drawn out using a distilling method. So they'll have a distilled distillation kind of equipment and that will help to separate the oil From the water like the flower water or the herb water or the fruit water So that's how you get that essential oil the proper the true the real essential oil So if you want that you have to get the equipment for it that is The little downside to be like you'll need to get that but you can get it at many different places I'm looking at getting my own distilling machine eventually to make real true essential oils So excited save so much money in the long run But if you want to make just a simple home made essential oil like version, this is the way to do it to infuse a Certain fruit herbal flower in with a certain oil and that draws out the properties of that Herbal flower or fruit into the oil and you can use it for many different things So today's one we've been making is grapefruit Now the reason why I chose grapefruit is because I love grapefruit essential oil Mmm. It's one of my favorites that and lavender and I'm just the list has grown. I just love basically all the essential oils They smell amazing. I'm always like just smelling them all So some of the benefits of grapefruit essential oil is that it helps to promote hair growth So you can put it in your shampoos You can put it in the oily oily hair shampoos that I've shared in previous videos again a link in the cards above In homemade shampoos you can even put it in DIY hair serums in our hair masks Which just rub it on straight as is now it doesn't make your hair go early So I'd prefer to do hair like oils pop it in leave it on for a few hours, and then I'll go and wash it out It's kind of remove that oily hair look it also encourages healthy skin healthy glowing skin You're not with things like acne due to its potent anti-oxidant and antibacterial properties So you can rub it on skin now I'm going to start doing that because I'm getting a little bit of breakouts happening on my face So that's what I'll be using it for just to use as like an oil You can mix it in with your oil cleansing that like if you do oil cleansing to mix it in with those oils And it can be just add beneficial properties for that and it may also help to balance out your mood It has a lot of calming properties just like lavender when you smell grapefruit essential oil it like just really relaxes you then kind of Sends positive vibes as a really basic form of explaining it to the brain and helps to relax you So you can like kind of smell it like have it diffusing Overnight and it can help with anxiety can help with sleep just help to relax and calm you down Now the grapefruit oil we were making today is a little less concentrated compared to your true essential oils But it still does hold the wonderful beneficial properties within and still smells really sweet like citrusy, too Smells a grapefruit. I love it. So to get started All you're going to need is about a quarter cup of organic minced Grapefruit peel making sure that you use only the peel and avoid the white under skin and A word to the wise you want to use organic grapefruit because you don't want those pesticides Like soaking into the oil because you will just be putting that on your skin or on your body And you don't want that so really opt for organic grapefruit Then you're going to need about two cups of a carrier oil like sweet almond oil It's a really good one or grape seed oil. That's another good option as well I'm using sweet almond oil today And I also use a little less of the quantities because I only want to make a small portion of grapefruit essential oil So I just used a few tablespoons of the rind and then combined maybe a few tablespoons of the oil Just to make sure it just covered over the rind and then that was enough for me And then I just ate the grapefruit afterwards. It was amazing. So to make the essential oil You want to select a grapefruit that has a moderately thick rind to make your wheel with and also again Organic and then you want to wash the whole grapefruit thoroughly to ensure that there's no sort of Like chemicals or anything on the outside Then you want to peel the grapefruit scraping the white pith from the inside of the rind Using the edge of a spoon and then you can just compost the pith or you can just use a kitchen grater Which is what I used that has a very small grating Zesting option and you want to grate the rinds over that Grating is more ideal to peeling since you can remove just the rinds and leave the pith behind Next you want to spread the grapefruit rind or zest on a plate Placing it in a warm area with good air circulation to dry Now the smaller the pieces are the quicker they'll dry and they'll generally dry within a couple of days You just want to test it every few days and just feel with your hands how dry it is and make sure that there's no moisture left In the rind is really important to wait until it's completely dry to ensure your oil doesn't go rancid later on due to excess moisture Now from here there are a couple different methods you can use to make your grapefruit essential oil You can do the solar infused oil method or the heat infused oil method I will link in the description below my blog post which shares a full description of both But today I'll just be doing the solar infused oil method which basically involves just using the heat of the Sun to infuse The grapefruit and the oil together So the solar infused method will take a few weeks to complete around two weeks or so and it just like I said uses the natural Sunlight to infuse the oil together with the grapefruit This method often produces a better quality oil Compared to just the heat infused method which takes around 8 to 12 hours So to infuse the oil simply fill a mason jar with the grapefruit rind or zest and add in the almond oil until it Just covers the top of the rind Again, you want to avoid using too much oil or you'll weaken and dilute the oil too much Then just cover and allow the jar to sit on the sunny windowsill for two weeks or so Once it's infused you can pour the oil from the mason jar into a bowl lined with four or five layers of cheese cloth Or you can do what I did and just use a nut milk bag and just gather the edges of the cheese cloth or nut milk bag And squeeze as much of the oil as you can into the bowl from the rind Now squeezing the rind helps to extract the remaining oils within then you can pour the oil into a small dark colored bottle It's important that it's dark and has an amber outside coating because will help protect the properties within the oil and prevent deterioration As sunlight can deteriorate the properties within the oil Then just seal with a lid and store your oil in a cool dry place But do not refrigerate the oil can be kept at room temperature for around six months or so Now if you want a stronger oil you can press the rind inside the cheesecloth or nut milk bag and keep it pressed between two Plates so you place the cheesecloth on one plate and put another plate on top And then you can just position a couple of heavy books on top of the plate And let it sit for a day or two and this will allow the weight of the plates to press the remaining oils from the grapefruit Into the oil below and you'll have a more concentrated oil and that is how you make your own grapefruit oil So excited. I've been waiting to share this video for so long So I'm so excited to share this today You let me know if you make it or you've made other oils before even your own essential oils If you have a cool distillation machine, do let me know otherwise. Thank you so much for watching I really hope you enjoyed today's video and I hope to see you again. Hopefully in my next video. Bye


Good morning, YouTube. How you doing? All right Trying out my new watch the Sun 2 Ambit 3 peak right here. Uh-huh. I'm excited about this now We're gonna keep this blog extra short and concise because I need to edit tonight because in t-minus 22 hours and 51 minutes I'm gonna be running up a 14,000 foot peak which is not really out of the ordinary except it's A race the pike speak ascent is happening tomorrow morning.  All right one more shake out run get the legs feeling good about three miles and then maybe a few strides just to loosen up get a little loosey-goosey and the way we go Back from work listening to If you ever are wondering what I'm listening to when I got my headphones in it's you know, I'll admit it I'll admit it. It's usually sports talk. I love sports. I must say I do love sports, but uh, You got to be careful. You don't want to waste your time Engaging in too much media that centers around sports, but I do love sports. All right Cooking a bagel Mm-hmm Okay, hold on Getting little Seth some water You go buddy. I'm gonna open it Got it. It's the other way. So we're just hydrating fueling up races in 16 hours ish And so we're just one tip of the day if you are getting ready for an athletic event Is to stay out of the heat out of especially if it's humid Humid heat can really suck your energy out of you So I'm staying inside for the rest of the day not going back out for work Just chilling.  I'm gonna put the camera away But always a good idea to lay out your clothing the night before a race The night before any big event really whether you're getting ready for a big business meeting or something, you know So this is all the running stuff for tomorrow down here. You got our Warm-up shoes here racing shoes there racing socks shorts singlet hat sunglasses warm-up shirt Nutrition although what's really nice is I have to carry zero water and I'm gonna carry some shop locks in my pocket And that's it. So very lightweight Because there's gonna be at least six aid stations over the course of 14 miles, which is plenty of aid stations So don't have to carry nutrition, which is really really a big bonus I think I'm gonna call it and then here over here is a drop bag in here are warm Warm clothes that I will send to the top in the shuttle And so when I get done running on the top of bikes peak, you know, it's it could be it could be snowing up there for all We know it's not supposed to tomorrow, but it could be no debt. No joke. No joke. So anyway. Oh, yeah, and my watch So very excited to use this. All right. See you on Strava, everybody if you Want to know the results? I'll post them on tomorrow's blog as well, but Thanks for coming along the training journey for this race. It's gonna be fun My brother ran it last year took nine out of 2,000 runners So very good and I ran it seven years ago. I think I took 17 So not too shabby, but I want to definitely do better this year. All right. See beauty work hard Run some mountains or walk or just admire them. That's cool, too


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you. That's you, Rodrigo Smith, Zapata, you too, both of you, John and Becky Johnston, Chris Benito, not leaving you out. And everybody, welcome in our new patrons, Michael and Maher Noodles. Delicious. On this episode of DTNS, why I message on Android is a bad idea. Apple CEO Tim Cook has a succession plan and Robert Herron's here with gift ideas for home theater fans. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from studio thinking about Thanksgiving already. I'm Sarah Lane. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang, home theater and TV calibration expert, Robert Herron. Welcome back to the show. Hey, thank you so much. Always a pleasure. Thank you for coming on a holiday week in the US, too. It couldn't be better timing. Honestly, I love this time of the year. It's really nice. Almost like this is the week when a lot of people just mysteriously stopped responding. So it's always good to get the work done early. It's nothing that Black Friday is an entire month. It's not even a single day. It's good to have true that. All right, let's start with the quick hits. As we wait for yet more open AI news, here's what we've learned since yesterday's DTNS. The information reported that in an attempt to sway anthropic CEO, Dario Amodi, to become CEO of Open AI, the board of Open AI proposed a possible merger between the two companies. Amodi declined. The information also says that the Open AI board offered the position to Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft owned GitHub and also Alex Wang, co-founder and CEO of Scale AI, both declined. The financial time says that the percentage of staff who have signed on to leave Open AI for Microsoft, unless the board resigns, has grown to 97% of all employees. Meanwhile, while Open AI decides what to do with itself, Anthropic released Cloud 2.1, its chat GPT competitor. Cloud 2.1 can pay attention to more information at once than chat GPT with 200,000 tokens. It also promises better accuracy and can use apps and APIs. Ex-Chairman Elon Musk has filed his lawsuit against Media Matters, an organization that issued a report last week that alleged corporate advertisements have also been appearing on pro-Hitler, Holocaust denial, white nationalist, pro-violence and neo-Nazi accounts. After the lawsuit was filed, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he also is opening an investigation into Media Matters. Both Musk and Paxton claim Media Matters created an account that only followed major advertisers and extreme content and then refreshed the feed in order to make the ads show up and imply that it was a common occurrence. Musk filed the lawsuit in Texas where it will not be subject to rules that prevent retaliation over reporting like California's anti-slap laws. Although bipartisan calls for a ban on TikTok have quieted as of late, US concerns about issues over privacy and social media and the matter involving TikTok is not yet resolved. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNBC, quote, we do have concerns about the potential issues with privacy and social media. She also added she can't discuss TikTok specifically, citing pending legal action that prevents US regulators from acting. No, we're ramping that one up again. Okay, play the hits. Firefox users have been reporting that some YouTube videos will take around five seconds to load, whereas on Chrome those same users with those same videos see them load right away. Some folks on Hacker News and Reddit dug into the code and found some snippets that indicate the delay might be because of an anti-ad blocker routine. It's unclear exactly what the code does and the problem is not easily replicated just because you have Firefox and YouTube with an ad blocker doesn't mean it's always causing that same delay. Google told Android authority that some users with ad blockers installed, quote, may experience suboptimal viewing. Amazon launched its free AI ready program with the goal of training at least 2 million people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills. The training is centered on eight online courses that focus on generative AI and catered to both beginners and those who have a little bit more experience in this realm. The courses are free for all to access online through the Amazon learning website. All right. Oh, we talked previously about nothing trying to bring you an app powered by Sunbird that would let you access iMessage on an Android phone. If you recall, it worked the way Beeper works and there are other services that do this by putting Macs in the cloud that you then log into remotely and it would forward those messages to you. Following nothing removing that chat app based on Sunbird that we mentioned yesterday, Sunbird has now removed its own app from the Google Play Store. Both of them are removed because of security questions. Here's what we know. Both nine to five Google and text.com found multiple security problems with Sunbird's implementation, such as Sunbird was logging and storing messages in plain text in its error reporting software century and in a Firebase database. The tokens used to secure message delivery were sent over HTTP, not HTTPS which made those tokens easy to intercept. Messages were not encrypted at rest in the Firebase database until the client read them, leaving them vulnerable to interception before they are read. So text.com was able to intercept one of those tokens and then use it to subscribe to the Firebase real time database which would notify them every time a message was entered into the database making it trivial for them to access and read almost every message before they were encrypted after somebody attempted to read them. All of this of course, in violation of Sunbird's promise that all your messages are secure and decrypted. Nine to five Google also looked into this and found that all the documents sent through Sunbird remained public because they were links to documents that were on a server that was public. I think, you know, there's always a good side and a bad side to a story, Sarah, except maybe in this case. Yeah, I can't. This just seems like a bad side. Can't find the silver lining here. When we first reported on the story, I was like, this is great. I mean, not for everybody but it's certainly an interesting solution for a lot of people who- Yeah, the idea of it, right? Yeah. Exactly, yeah. I want to get over that kind of blue versus green bubble thing which is really quite silly to be honest but hey, some people really care. And at the time, I remember seeing some chirping around the internet of like, I don't know. How are they doing this? How is this being implemented? Ars Technica noted in its article about nothing saying, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore that in their frequently asked questions on the website, at least as of this recording, they still explain how everything end up encrypted and you as a user should have absolutely no issue or any privacy concerns because nothing has taken care of. Now, obviously, well, not obviously but I'm going to suppose that the company believed that was true and just did not do their own due diligence. I don't think this is in some way supposed to be some like crazy and a farious way to see everybody's chats and ruin the company's reputation going forward. It's still a pretty big blunder though. I believe companies like this, like Sunbird and Beeper can make this work securely but it requires a lot of assurance and a lot of trust. I tried Beeper and then immediately revoked its token because I just didn't feel comfortable having my Apple ID logged in on a terminal that I was not in charge of and I still don't feel comfortable and I have nothing against Beeper. I'm not even saying I don't trust them. I'm just saying, you know what? I just feel uncomfortable doing that. I was feeling the same way about Sunbird, right? Yeah, it was one step beyond and then someone goes poking around in Sunbird like how good is their security and we find out it doesn't exist. It's just not implemented. Robert, I know you were telling me before the show that Signal was talking about just how expensive security is. Totally, they had a wonderful article that detailed that their estimated cost per year right now is about $50 million in order to make their entire ecosystem work for everyone around the world and that includes end-to-end encryption, including file transfers and they even have a built-in money transfer system as well within their application. Granted, if the color of the chat bubble is what is driving into these applications, then something like Signal may not appeal to you but it's almost a proven at this point, overly proven technology in terms of how well it's implemented in terms of personal security and if that's the most important thing to you, that's where you really have to take a look at what these services are doing and maybe not jump on the bandwagon for the absolute latest one until it's proven it's worth, especially if your communications are critical in terms of keeping them private between you and whoever you are communicating with. That's one thing Signal does very, very well and they have proven time and again that if there's a problem, it's not their protocol, it's not their backend, they are experts practically in that field, pioneers, so to speak. And others are, they'd like to just say they're doing that and doing it right but it really does take a critical eye on the whole ecosystem to make sure it's all end to end and done properly. Yeah. But it's that green versus blue, the chat bubble thing though, that amazes me that how important that is to so many people. Apple implementing RCS will help with some of this but it's still gonna be green bubble, blue bubble. So there's still gonna be that psychology. All right Sarah, I'm levitating at our next story. I bet you are. Tim Cook appeared on Dua Lipa's at your service podcast for BBC Sounds. Now Cook sitting down, they talked about a lot of things but Cook told the singer at Dua Lipa, if you're not familiar, she's just lovely, great, a lot of hits. Tim Cook said, we're a company that believes in working on succession plans. So we have a very detailed succession plan because something unpredictable can always happen. I could step off the wrong curb tomorrow. Hopefully that doesn't happen. I pray that it doesn't. Now, when Dua Lipa asked Cook who was next in line, he said, well, I can't say that, but I would say that my job is to prepare several people for the ability to succeed. And I really want the person to come from within Apple, the next CEO. So that's my role, that there's several for the board to pick from. If I were Tim Cook, I would have answered this differently. I would have said, don't start now, I've got new rules on who's gonna succeed me in case I do a Houdini. Yeah, it should have been you that she was interviewing, obviously, Tom, but since it was Tim Cook, I don't know. Nothing about this, I think you could jump to a conclusion like, is Tim Cook about to retire? Or is he sick? Or all sorts of, that's kind of, I'm not saying that's not true. What I think is, whether he's going to be at Apple for another 25 years or another year or somewhere in between the two, of course, when you're Apple, you're going to have a plan B, C, D, E, F and who even knows. I mean, there's no way that the company is like, well, if Tim goes, we're really screwed, nobody will have any direction and we'll just shut down the spaceship and that'll be the end of that. Of course, a company is going to have succession plans. I mean, ha ha, anybody who's seen the series succession knows that that can get kind of messy, but I don't really feel like Tim Cook is a Logan Roy in the situation, I think he's probably like, yeah, I mean, if it's not going to be me, who is it going to be? Just the same way that Steve Jobs pinpointed Tim Cook as his successor quite some years before Tim Cook actually became the successor. It makes me wonder if either of you have an idea of why address this, right? Cause these interviews, a lot of times, the list of questions is vetted ahead of time. The question she asked was not, do you have a succession plan but how long do you think you'll continue working? You're 63 years old, Tim, it's a fair question. And he took it and said, well, I hope to keep working for a long time, which is the answer you expect and turned it into the succession issues. So are there people out there concerned about this? And he wants to get the word out to say, hey folks, don't worry, we, you know, I'm not going anywhere, but we've got a plan in case, you know, I just wonder what caused him to want to address this publicly. I agree with Sarah in the sense that he's stating the obvious for a trillion dollar company. They are obviously well-prepared for any eventuality. I'm sure they have a playbook written down where if Tim just straight up loses his mind one day or just decides to, that's it, I'm running out of the building and never coming back, that company would function just perfectly and quickly and what to do exactly if and when that ever happens. Chances are that is not going to happen. Chances are it will be a very, very detailed and smooth transition for their next leader of the company, but Tim is still doing a fantastic job. I think according to anybody who follows that company, there is no rush in it, but maybe he has indicated within the company itself that hey, you know what? I would like to get this ball rolling and make sure we're ready to go because I would like to retire and enjoy a very successful end of this career and go do whatever the hell I want to do. That all makes sense and within Apple, I would have no question about that. Why tell Dua Lipa though is my question. Like why make a point, you know what I mean? Like why make a point of saying, okay, I'm going to say this, it's going to make headlines. The only thing I can think of is he's 63 and is getting ahead of it and says, you know what? As I get closer to 65, a bunch of people are going to start asking this question. So let me just answer it before it starts getting asked. Well, especially because he went to the extent to say, and I really want that person to come from Apple itself. Yeah. Now Apple can change their mind. Sure. That he say whatever he wants. Or he can do whatever he wants, right? But assuming that. Ask Sam Waldman. Yeah, right. Assuming that it would actually come from inside Apple to lay that foundation of, I mean, I don't know. Is it any cute? Like whoever it could be that makes the most sense from within Apple to get everyone used to the idea of Tim Cook, you know, handing over the reins and maybe somebody taking on a little bit more of those CEO rules over the next few years. That just makes especially the stock market chill out a little bit. Yeah. And then there will be a seed planting function within the company itself just to make sure there's like, hey, be aware this will happen sooner than later and think about it. Let's start taking it seriously. Yeah. Well, folks, if you're like, enough Apple already is your iMessage thing and your Tim Cook thing. Why can't you talk about Android more? Well, we can and we will. And we have an entire show devoted to it as well called Android Faithful. This week our friends, Ron Richards and Huan Tui Dao and a lot of their friends bring you the latest Android news and information. You can watch it live, tune in Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific or subscribe to the feed and enjoy it whenever you like at androidfaithful.com. Well, on last Friday's show, Will Smith shared a great selection of gift suggestions for the holiday shopping season with an emphasis on the geek in your life. This week we're getting electronically specific because it's a great time to see what the best deals are for home theater shoppers and gifters this season. Robert Herron, nobody is better to talk about this than you. You always bring the knowledge. So where do we begin on the gift guide? I want to buy somebody a TV. Where do I start? Let's start with the very best in iCandy for 2023. And that really has become the OLED displays that are available right now. The organic light emitting diodes. These TVs deliver that perfect black, that incredible contrast that makes color pop, beautiful viewing angles. And there really is nothing better out there. Companies like LG, Samsung and Sony make the very best models. If the budget permits and you just want to go right to the head of the line in terms of what it is, what is the best thing I could buy right now, that's the short story for that. Now, if you want to save a little bit of money. How much budget are you talking about there? Like what is the average price of those? It depends on the screen size. Say for a typical 55 inch screen, you're talking about $1,500, maybe a little bit cheaper when it really gets down to the Black Friday pricing. On up to a solid five figures if you want to go all the way up to say the 90 plus inch screen sizes, which are now available, which is kind of crazy. That is something to keep in mind. Let's bring it back down to Earth then. They are beautiful screens though. In terms of iCandy, that's where you go. Oh, do I have to not send you that 90 inch screen, Tom? That's what, it was gonna be your thanks to me.  Yeah, you might turn it on a wall or two. Now, for good value at good prices, LCD is still the workhorse of the TV industry. And I was helping a friend shop for a sub $500 55 inch TV recently. We came across a wonderful LG that was available at our local Costco, the R8000. This has turned out to be a fantastically reviewed unit for currently at about $350, which is a wonderful price for that kind of a 4K screen at that price point. It fit their budget and their needs perfectly. However, if you had a little bit more money to spend something closer to that $500 budget or maybe just slightly above, High Sense and TCL are the ones I love the most. High Sense in terms of their UAK, that's literally their flagship. That is competitive with even the very best LCDs out there today. They also have a step down version, the U6, which is almost as good. And it will still provide that bright punchy picture. And likewise with TCL, they have the QM8, which is just fantastic. I had previewed this at CES last January. It is an amazingly bright and detailed display with wicked contrast. I mean, just very, very good. And then they also have a step down version called the Q7 that provides good value in terms of picture performance and screen size options. Again, up to 90 plus inches if you really need something super-sized. Now with Google TV operating system on these listings here, which is interesting to see that instead of Roku more often. That is a choice. Granted, generally speaking, the more expensive TVs usually have better processors built into them and they will provide a better app experience overall. I think Google TV is an okay app experience. I think Samsung's version of their Tizen operating system or their TVs is an okay option. I think LG does a pretty good job with their WebOS option for that built-in app experience as well. And we'll get into some additional streaming options here in a second. But one thing I wanted to mention is with all of these flat-panel TVs is that the need for a good audio experience, period. Soundbars are the simple way to do it. They're very popular and they're very easy to do. And a couple of companies that are really worth mentioning are the ones I love the most. And number one I would put up there is Sonos in particular. I have done work for Sonos in the past and I have given them lots of critical feedback on their products. That is just one of the easiest to use setups I've enjoyed. I love the sound quality. It's not exactly the cheapest option out there but what you pay for, I think you really get a good value in terms of just audio performance, room correction features if you're an iOS user and other features like that that just, I love their products in general. However, if you wanna save a little money and you just need something to help your current TV sound better, period. Roku of all people makes a wonderful streaming bar. They're Streambar Pro products. Good prices, good performance for what it is and it integrates their streaming products which are fantastic. And it's available at even very, very affordable pricing. That's also a Streambar or I should say a Soundbar product. I would even be comfortable using outdoors just for temporary use or semi-permanent anyway. Now, if the budget is really kind of like, okay, I want the absolute best. What is the craziest thing I could buy right now that's gonna drive a large room? Check out Nakamichi and what they're doing with the Nakamichi Dragon. This is a custom made system. They make a few of these every month and they are well reviewed. Everyone seems to love them who gets their ears on them. It's kind of the ultimate high-end.  Nakamichi is kind of doing that all in one with that particular product and it's just... 38 bucks is a lot but it's not sky-high really. No and it incorporates wireless quote-unquote products. Generally you have to plug these into a wall somewhere but you don't need to connect them with individual wires for transmitting the sound to each speaker which is really nice. Now likewise, I was talking about streaming products. There are really only two that I recommend and one would be Roku and they're streaming products. The Roku Express 4K Plus is my low-cost recommendation. They have an express version, just regular that isn't the 4K Plus. I do not recommend that one. The 4K Plus adds an actual power button and a volume control which the regular and granted cheaper express version doesn't. And if you're trying to just have that all-in-one experience where it's like, hey, I don't wanna use two remotes at the same time, stick with that 4K Plus. That's a great way to do an inexpensive upgrade on a TV you may already have and you just wanna make sure that it's gonna provide a good streaming experience with any service currently available. Now likewise, if you are an Apple user, IOS user and that is your product, the Apple TV 4K, 4K Plus in particular is, or I think it's just the 4K. That is the one to get. If you already are in the Apple ecosystem, stick with that product and it is something that you will just learn. It will integrate seamlessly with everything you use. It provides terrific performance. It is built like a tank. It'll last for years. And it's right up there with any of the very best streaming products currently. And they're not huge anymore either. They're getting to be hockey puck size. They're not as small as the Roco Express, of course, but you know, they're- Totally. Yeah, they hide pretty well on a small console or even behind the TV itself. I've been purchasing a bunch of these products recently. I helped a relative basically ditch cable television service. Their bill was over 300 bucks a month for cable and internet service. And they were paying for hardware they no longer even had. And there's a tip. If I could just give one is take a look at your bills. If you're a longtime cable or satellite subscriber, you'd be surprised at what they've been billing you for over the years and they will never tell you. It's like, oh, by the way, you don't need this anymore or here's a better option for less money. They'll never do that. And that's just something to keep in mind when you do that. Also, for any of the TVs I just mentioned, they're all internet enabled.  But for ease of use, have it connect to the TV or have it connect to your internet service automatically and do all those upgrades and firmware updates automatically. And that will make it so that every time you turn it on, the apps are ready to go. The TV is less buggy than it may have been when it first shipped. And I think for any product out there, even things like your streaming products, they provide regular updates as well. And it's good just to keep that kind of stuff updated. And finally, when you're shopping through the holiday season with either Black Friday coming up or any throughout the rest of the year, just realize that this is a good time to take a look at what the cheapest prices will be and realize those prices will come around again before soon if you can't buy right now.  And do check other sources. It doesn't even matter what the product category is. I was shopping for Chromebooks recently and I realized that Best Buy had much better pricing for some of the devices I was looking for than Amazon or anyone else. And the same could be said for something like Walmart. Amazon isn't the be all end all. They're convenient as can be, no doubt. But look around when you're gonna make the decision on what to buy. And then your sources like Costco too or your subscription or membership clubs, those things are wonderful for a reason in their own way. And they provide either- Yeah, it sounds like it makes a lot of sense to figure out the model you want, then do a little price comparison rather than just see what one place like Amazon is going to offer you as their Black Friday deal. I agree 100% and I'm always looking for like, what's my favorite TV of the year? What will be the lowest price on that and when? And if right now through the holiday season isn't really gonna do it for you. I'm thinking TV specific. Think about when say like the Super Bowl rolls around in February, I guarantee you there'll be another big sale and it will match very closely with the current prices. Don't ever feel like you have to do it now. There's not gonna be another opportunity again at this price point. It will always come around again. Don't fall for the panic. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, take your time and get what you want and save some money. Don't pay full price, wow. Well, thank you, Robert. These are fantastic tips and good day internet folks stick around. You're gonna get some more. But before that, let's check out the mail bag. This one comes in from Alison Sheridan who was on the show last week. She mentioned on Thursday's episode of DTNS.  Tom made the point that all of the carriers support RCS. Alison says, what I'd like to add, it wasn't until very recently that all three of the big carriers had full support for the advanced features in RCS. For example, AT&T didn't switch to RCS for its default Android messaging until just a few months ago in June of this year. Yeah, I think a lot of people will probably notice this same thing that Alison pointed out. It's not exactly right that AT&T didn't switch to RCS for Android. It supported RCS on Android as far back as 2015. But what Alison said, that's a good point, is full featured. And particularly the date, June of 2023, is when AT&T switched to supporting Google's messages implementation of RCS, which is the one that gave you all the features, including end-to-end encryption and everything. So they've supported RCS for a long time, for eight years now, but they was kind of slowly bringing along the features and expanding the support. And it really wasn't until Google started pushing it in its default messaging app that everybody kind of collapsed into saying, okay, we're gonna support it on this one default app for everything. So it's, yes, they've supported RCS for a long time, but Alison makes a good point that it's only recently that it became easy to be able to take advantage of RCS on Android. Well, thanks to Alison for the mailbag and thanks to everybody who emails us and gives us feedback in a variety of different ways. I really appreciate it. We also appreciate you, Robert Herron. This is, even though I'm not really in the market for a TV, I want to be. It's just my favorite conversation ever. So thanks for bringing some knowledge and giving people some gift ideas. Where can they find out more about what you do? You can check out my website, herranfidelity.com, and I'm also on Twitter occasionally and also Blue Sky. I've started using that more and more I find, and I like that a lot. So I'm available, ping me, shoot me an email, contact me however, I'm easy. Hey, Teran, stick around. We're gonna talk to more with Robert Herron about home theater recommendations. We've got some projectors to talk about, stuff like that. Stick around for that. Just a reminder, we do the show live Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. Eastern, 2100 UTC, and you can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live, and we're back tomorrow and we're gonna be live again with Scott Johnson joining us. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. 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Yeah, a couple more keynotes to get started here. The first one is from Mark Shulloworth, who is the founder of Canonical. Some of you may have seen the skydiver who did the skydive from space on Sunday, I think it was. Well, I think Mark is probably the only person here who has actually been to space. I was talking to him earlier and he said I could introduce him as a space cadet. Which I don't know that that's completely an appropriate description of him. If you've talked with him, you know that it's a lot more than a space cadet. But we're really excited to have Mark Shulloworth here to give us our keynote. Mark, thanks. Well, hello everybody. Let me see if I can get this live. We're all good, looks great. Okay, nothing like a live demo. So I come from the Ubuntu community, which is probably the largest open source community in the world. And one of the things that we do is we pride ourselves on drawing contributions from all over the world, but more importantly, all different kinds of contributions. And this morning I went to open up my presentation, which under Ubuntu I can do just by searching for it. So I can just go this. And there's my presentation. But I was also delighted to see from these very helpful Amazon suggestions, not one, but two books about OpenStack. So if I go in over here, is Kevin Jackson in the house? Yeah, give him a cheer, everybody. And is Ken Peppel in the house? Well, give him a cheer anyway. The mark of a great community is the diversity and quality of contributions. And this has, I think, all of the hallmarks of a phenomenal community. So six months ago I did some magic on stage at the Design Summit, bringing up from scratch from bare metal a full OpenStack cloud in 18 minutes. And I say magic not because there was any trickery, but because the tool that we use to do that is called juju. And just like Ubuntu means people, juju means magic. And today I'd like to do something perhaps a little more daunting to show you just some of what's been achieved in the OpenStack community in the last six months. My theme for this talk is OpenStack and production. So those of you who have run large, scary systems in production may have some inkling of what we're going to try and do. We have supported OpenStack development for some years. Four releases of Ubuntu, including this week's, have included OpenStack. But increasingly we're also supporting production deployments of OpenStack from a variety of different companies. And it's lessons and learnings and insights from those production deployments that I wanted to share with you today. So these are some of the companies that engage commercially with Canonical for a variety of different things. And on the cloud front I would call out two different groups. There are the service providers, people who are investing in OpenStack as a line of business. So Telcos, hosting companies, ISPs, service providers. And then there are private companies who are building internal clouds, typically in media, tech or finance, insurance. And what they really want to do there is accelerate their developer productivity. When we talk to them they aspire to a bunch of different things, these six things really sort of rounded out. And I'm gonna focus just on agility and scale as the two key things that are drivers of the current dynamic of production use of OpenStack. So on private clouds, the goal that's winning, the thing that people are really getting from OpenStack today is developer agility. When we go into companies and ask what their developers are doing, we find that they are spinning up lots of complex deployments. So they focused on an app, but today the app lives inside this complex world, right? Lots of services all interconnected. Does this look vaguely familiar to anybody who's spinning stuff up on the cloud, right?  And that's all scaled out. Now, the complexity of that is what's killing app developers in these large institutions because they have to build this framework in development, then they have to build it again in test, then they have to build it in production and every time they roll out again, they have to redeploy all of that. And it turns out that the tool that we used on stage to deploy OpenStack, JuJu, was born on the cloud and it was built to make this kind of complex deployment really easy to do. So JuJu distills everything that you need to know, everything that the internet knows about how you deploy one of those pieces, be it Node or Mongo or Tomcat or MediaWiki, down into a charm. And that charm has all of the intelligence that you need to spin up, configure, connect, tear down, scale out, scale back, that service in the cloud on OpenStack. Inside that charm can be anything you like, can be puppet, can be chef. There's no conflict between the service orchestration, stuff that JuJu does and the config management stuff that those tools specialize in. And because this is all being accelerated in the Ubuntu community, there's already a long list of these charms that people can use off the shelf that essentially let you spin up with very little effort, complex webs of these services. We did this with OpenStack itself, so all of the core components of OpenStack have been charmed, but from a production use from a guest point of view, these are the sorts of things that people want to spin up. And the productivity improvements, the velocity improvements for developers inside companies when they get a private cloud and OpenStack private cloud and they start to use this kind of service orchestration are dramatic. So one part of that is say a node app behind a load balancing proxy talking to Mongo. That comes down to five commands, right? Literally deploying each of the services, connecting them, and one of those services I told to scale out. So JuJu makes things really, really easy. But as we've taken that into production and we're working more and more with company developers to spend most of their time in Visual Studio or Eclipse, we kept getting asked whether JuJu could have a GUI. And we noticed that people had all these whiteboards where they'd drawn out the service diagrams that they wanted. So we thought, wouldn't it be fantastic if JuJu had a GUI that let you just draw what you wanted and deployed it onto OpenStack? And so today I'm really delighted to show you for the first time in public, the HTML5 open source GUI for JuJu. So this is running live on the very excellent HP public cloud which is built on OpenStack and Ubuntu. And this is deployed with off-the-shelf charms. So in celebration of the folks here from MediaWiki, we've got a MediaWiki instance talking to MySQL. And this is now up and running. I can, you know, it doesn't do very much. If I wanted to, I could go in and take a look at some of its settings. One of the settings is the title of the wiki. So we can do a little bit of this. And in due course, I'll be able to reload the wiki. And there we go. So that's live. That's running in production on HP cloud. Say I was happy with this and I wanted to improve performance a bit. I might want to go and add a bit of Memcache D. So it's as simple as going and saying I want Memcache D. That's a pretty simple thing. I don't really need any special config. So I'm just gonna say that. I might also want a sticker. Let's just put that over here. I might also want to stick HA proxy in front of it. So I just go and find HA proxy. There's a collection of charms all up in the cloud, curated within the broader Ubuntu community. So you've got professional sysadmins and volunteers in the Ubuntu community, essentially crowdsourcing the goodness of that. So here we've got these pieces and I just want to connect them up. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna unexpose MediaWiki. And I was gonna pull it back. I don't want people connecting to the MediaWiki service directly. So I'm gonna do that. Now I'm going to go in here and connect Memcache D and in a perfect world, I could connect HA proxy as well. So that is live and running in production and each of those changes gets orchestrated. The changes are dynamically applied and things like scale out, scale back all happen very naturally. So I think that's pretty awesome and maybe worth a round of applause. Okay, so in the last six months in that world, the focus has really been focus on developers bringing up the frameworks that developers are using every day. So essentially these are the top developer frameworks, Tomcat, Node, Grails, Django, PHP, and then the top data stores. And the idea with Juju is to be able to make it that you can pick any combination of those things that you like. So this is almost like a lightweight kind of pass and it's very agile. Instead of there being a sort of central pass where somebody else has decided what the database will be and what the languages will be and so on, you as a developer get to choose the parts that you want with no ops really, glue them together and then deploy them onto any OpenStack cloud. So it's a new kind of pass, a new approach to pass. Works across all of these different environments in your laptop and memory on the cloud, but also on physical metal. Remember, we used Juju to deploy OpenStack on physical metal, on bare metal. And I'll show you some more about that later. Okay, so what are we really doing? We're looking at the economics of corporate IT and recognizing that the budget generally is the budget and that gets eaten away by four things. It gets eaten away by the cost of your compute and storage, your hardware, operating systems costs, your app costs, whether you are building your own or buying them, and operations. And operations are everything from the electrons to the time that you spent configuring and reconfiguring services. And so by compressing the cost of the operating system, Ubuntu even fully commercially supported is a more cost-effective platform option and accelerating operation. So you're spending less time and less money redeploying things. We open up the budget for hardware, the physical ingredients of compute and storage and for app development or software acquisition. So that generally makes hardware companies happy. It makes IT managers happy. It makes developers very happy indeed. So when we talk to people who are looking to deploy private clouds, we often get a lot of questions that start like this. When will OpenSnack support blah? Blah could be almost anything, right? It could be live migration of Windows eight guests on Zen between diverse clusters. And the answer of course is someday and probably quite soon. This is the most awesome community in action right now in open source. The pace of change, the pace of improvement is phenomenal. And so we can very confidently say that anything that really is a top priority feature for people will make its way into the OpenSnack code base. But there's no real reason. This kind of question can be a blocker to deployment. And in fact, what we see amongst the sharper, smarter IT guys is a different question. They're saying is, okay, OpenSnack is amazing today. How do I get the most bang for the buck? How do I get OpenSnack up and running in the way that is going to essentially let me ride that wave of innovation? And we would generally advise a couple of key things. First, stay close to upstream. If there's a specific feature that you think is really important, you will really regret if you invest a huge amount of that behind the scenes. You want to bring that feature idea here. You want to bring your developers here. You want to participate here. And then you want to consume that once it's been through the OpenSnack community process, by and large. Second, focus on the things that work right now. Third, limit your integration scope. So a lot of people start out saying, well, it has to work with our company, single sign-on, it has to work with our backup system, it has to work with all of these systems that we have in place. And in fact, what you really want to be doing in a private cloud environment is taking your best and brightest, most agile development teams and unleashing them on an OpenSnack cloud. It could be a production cloud. It could also just be a sandpit. And the point is that that team will develop the tools and the processes and the culture that you can then spread within the company as OpenSnack meets more and more of your production requirements. And lastly, we would say that a key thing to focus on is how easily you can upgrade from one version of OpenSnack to the next. Because with this size community, the amount of value that you'll get in the next version of OpenSnack vastly exceeds the amount of value that you can add through your own internal development in four to six months. So you know that Ubuntu puts out a release every six months and OpenSnack dovetails perfectly with that so that one way to get the next version of OpenSnack is to upgrade from version of Ubuntu to successive version of Ubuntu. But for people now in production, upgrading your operating system just to get the new version of OpenSnack is a scary proposition. So at the last ODS, I made the commitment that we would deliver successive OpenSnack releases as optional upgrades on the LTS release of Ubuntu. So we put out every two years a release that's an LTS release. It's the release that gets certified by more hardware. It's maintained for a much longer period of time. It's the release that typically gets deployed in production environments. And we said that what we would do is ship 12.04 with Essex, then we'd deliver as updates, as optional updates, Folsom, Grizzly, H. Before, of course, 14.04 LTS kicks in and then there's an upgrade path to I and the whole process can repeat itself. And so today, this week, we'll ship 12.10, Ubuntu 12.10 with Folsom, but we also have the Folsom upgrade path on 1204 ready. And so to make good on that promise and to make myself a little nervous, we're going to do a live upgrade of a running production cloud with services running on top of it and see if it works. So this is the MAS. This is the Metal as a Service layer. It's a very simple provisioning layer, which we use. You can use any provisioning system with Juju to deploy your cloud. But what this is essentially telling you is there are 14 nodes in a cluster somewhere. Nine of them are deployed. That's actually what's running OpenStack right now. Five of them are available if I wanted to scale that out. We'll see how much time there is at the end. I can give you a Juju view of that same picture. So this is the service graph essentially showing you OpenStack that's running on that cluster. So this is what we did on the command line six months ago. Only now you have a beautiful gooey view and you can see a bunch of things. You can see what's connected to what, what services the different pieces provide to each other. If I go into a particular service, I can show you all of the config settings that I might want to provide for that service. I can do things like this. So we use landscape. Landscape is a commercial professional management and monitoring solution from Canonical for Ubuntu infrastructure where there's servers, desktops. And so I've got a landscape charm here. And what I can do is connect up, let's do this one over here. So now you can see that landscape client is connected up to those services. So what's happening behind the scenes is that service is getting hooked into landscape into the management service. So maybe later I can show you a management view of what's actually happening on those machines. So to upgrade, before I do that, so what's running on here just for fun. This is the dashboard. This is horizon. You can see those of you who know the subtle details can see this is Essex. And there are some instances running. Ooh, have I lost network? No idea what happened. I think I just lost the VPN briefly. So you can see there's a bunch of instances running on there. And in fact what those are are that's a WordPress installation. So here we have a couple of instances running on this cloud. Now to upgrade it, I'm gonna go to Keystone. And essentially I'm just gonna change a piece of Juju config in this story here. So instead of saying just pull it from the distro, in other words these are standard open stack packages from Ubuntu that have been deployed. I'm gonna say pull it from the cloud archive. And we're on precise, but we want fulsome and we, feeling brave, so we'll take the latest proposed packages over there. And with a bit of luck that kicks in. Now, so what Juju's doing now is it's telling Keystone so update is config, Keystone charms then essentially go and open up to the new set of packages from that contained fulsome and they start the upgrade process. I just need to do that gooey process at the moment on each of those services which I'm not gonna do here. In fact, my anonymous but very glamorous assistant in the audience is going to run a command line script because all of this can be scripted to do exactly what I just did. Change that one setting on each of the services. The upgrade, how long do you think the upgrade takes from Essex to fulsome? Weeks, says somebody who's been trying to do that in production, I suspect. Three minutes, so in three minutes, we should have upgraded that running cloud from Essex to fulsome. What could we do in three minutes? Well, in three minutes. So that's the WordPress instance that's actually running. I think it's still running. So this is landscape and I showed you earlier that this is the, I mentioned earlier that this is the management interface that we would use in a production environment. So here, for example, you can see an extra computer showed up. So I dragged that link, right? So essentially what I said is register that computer with landscape. So I can go in over here. There's the extra one that I just added. I can just go and accept those. So essentially now that computer is being fully managed by landscape which is also running in the cloud. Let's go and see what we can do over here. These are all the machines. So I'm just gonna check them up and then let's have a look at what's going. And we've got a whole set of monitoring capabilities here. So you can see there's a bit of a load spike on one of the machines but you've got a complete monitoring picture essentially of all of those hosts which are running in production. They'll be a little bit busy for the next three minutes. What else could I show? So for example, in terms of reports, one of the key things that people use landscape for is compliance management. So they want to know, for example, of all of the Ubuntu machines that they're managing what is the typical time to patch a machine. This is all very fresh. That cloud deployed very fast. So you can see that we've got a very clean bill of health on this set of cloud hosts over here. Okay, so clean upgrades. And that's been done. So for private clouds, the focus is developer agility. For public clouds, for service providers, the challenges really are scale and managing your upgrades, right? In a production environment. Also time to market leadership. OpenStack is now something that customers are asking for service providers, rightly want to get early stage offers out there so that their best customers can get access to OpenStack and maintain their, expand their relationships with them around OpenStack. And so the challenge really is how to help telcos service providers deploy OpenStack in that crisp, clean way that will let them ride the, surf the curve of innovation inside OpenStack. So this is the architecture that I've been describing. So we use metal as a service as a base layer. And again, you don't have to do that. You can use any provisioning system. But MAS has cloud-like properties. So for example, when you, when you put a machine into MAS, it gets a hardware inventory taken. And so you can then say stuff like, okay, do you deploy Swift onto another machine that has at least three hard drives? Or do you deploy another compute node onto a machine that has two sockets or N cores or any other measure that you want of RAM or other characteristics? Or do you deploy this component onto something that has say an NVIDIA graphics accelerator because we want to do some high-end compute onto that? We then deploy OpenStack and deploy services on top of OpenStack like that. So MAS is kind of a critical piece of infrastructure and the key change between 1204 and 12010 was to expand MAS so that it could handle multiple clusters. So what the MAS server is doing, when you add a server to MAS, is essentially figuring out how to drive that over IPMI or Pixi. It handles, MAS handles all of DNS, DHCP, and so on. It does the net boot of the machine so you can do a hardware inventory of it. It then essentially puts that machine into a queue and when the machine is required, it's MAS that feeds it the operating system image that's been selected, the services that are required, and so on. So there's quite a lot of interaction between MAS and machines. And that meant that from a scalability point of view, the number of machines you could attach to MAS would ultimately become a limit. So the multi-cluster approach allows us to scale to clusters of hundreds of machines and hundreds of clusters of hundreds of machines. So you can have thousands of nodes now in an OpenStack cloud that's deployed using this infrastructure. There are limitations inside various pieces as folk who are scaling OpenStack are finding, but that is the key focus now of OpenStack, of many of the OpenStack contributors, right, is identifying those bottlenecks and knocking them off patch by patch. So I'm told that the upgrade is good, so let's go and have a look. So with a little bit of good luck, this should change. What was that again? Thank you. I feel my brain expanding. So here we go. So this doesn't look very different, but this is now running, Folsom. So again, to the folks who made this possible, both in the community of OpenStack and Ubuntu and Juju, I just want to say thank you very much. That's pretty extraordinary. So it does look slightly different. So the horizon is up, and you can see those instances are still up, but I'm not sure. Yep, and WordPress is still up. So we did an upgrade from Essex to Folsom. Overcloud running live with production services on top of it and the services stayed up. I think that's pretty awesome for OpenStack, and I'm not sure that I believe what Gartner says when they say it might not yet be ready for interesting use. So on the telco front, a key set of issues for telco service providers, of course, is billing and metering. So Canonical has been leading something called Solometer, which is an effort to create a standardized framework for metering inside OpenStack. Those of you who are here who are looking at, essentially, either internal accounting or external billing around OpenStack should check out the Solometer sessions or come and see us at the Canonical booth. So once you have your cloud up and running, there's a key set of questions about the user experience of the cloud. And users now have the choice of multiple OpenStack clouds that they can go to. And so we started looking at those clouds, engaging with them and benchmarking some of the elements of user experience. Some of them are qualitative, some of them quantitative. So here are four famous but anonymous clouds, and we're just looking at the time to boot and refresh images on those clouds. You can see there's a really dramatic difference, a factor of 15 difference between those clouds. So in our engagements with telco service providers, we work, if they want to offer Ubuntu, we have a program where we engage with them and do a round of tuning, certification, optimization. And we support essentially the Ubuntu experience on those clouds. We engage sometimes just at the guest level, essentially. If you want to have Ubuntu on your cloud, then that needs to be done as part of the program so that the end user experience when they download Ubuntu or whether they get it on a cloud is certified as the same starting point so that all apps will deploy or services will deploy. And we sometimes engage with those cloud providers at a host and guest level. So we'll essentially help them design and build the cloud at the host and then that includes the ability for them to publish Ubuntu in that public cloud. We work today with hardware from a variety of different companies. I was delighted to announce that HP was certifying Ubuntu at the last OpenStack Summit. And there are now nearly 50 pro-line servers certified by HP and actively being used to build clouds. We saw an announcement recently of OpenStack on Ubuntu on Cisco clouds and OpenStack is also in use on Ubuntu on Quanta hardware in telco environments as well. So this is what we're about.  They're designing and building, addressing mission critical issues, things do go wrong and providing escalation paths for that. Working with a growing network of partners worldwide who are themselves running OpenStack in production so that when an issue occurs, they have immediate visibility on whether other people have seen that issue. If something goes wrong in an OpenStack public cloud, it reflects on OpenStack. And so I think we all have an interest in seeing that issue addressed, having the fix for that issue submitted to trunk, but also having it flow as quickly as possible to everybody else who can get that fix in production so that the reputation of OpenStack continues to improve. So in summary, this is what it's all about at the moment. Crisp, clean deployments of OpenStack, using tools like JuJu for developer agility. I mean, that's the real win for enterprises who are doing private clouds today, starting to get their smartest teams on board with new processes, more cloud-like agile thinking in the data center as opposed to just out there on the cloud. Full management solutions so that people can deploy at scale and manage that infrastructure and making sure that the guest experience on OpenStack Clouds is great so that the body of OpenStack Clouds becomes a real force in public cloud computing. So that's everything. I wanted to say thank you very much and have a great design stomach. Thank you.


I've always been interested in the latest technology and kind of electric cars are kind of the latest gadget, just a very big, fun gadget. The Home Controller app is able to control the landscape lights in addition to the ponds and other things. So we can just go into the screen and click it on and off just like that. Those kind of dim on. And when you're charging your car, you can see when the car starts and how much energy it's drawing. We charge both cars at home. We installed a level two charger in our garage. I think of EVs more like a smartphone where every night you go home and you plug it in. It's just natural. You plug it in, in the morning you're ready to go. You take it off the charger and you go to work. A gallon of gas holds 33 kilowatts of power approximately. But the battery in our smart car holds about 17 or 18 kilowatts. So you're driving 70 miles unequivalent to half a gallon of gas, which is pretty amazing, I think, in terms of efficiency. A gas car has about 2,000 moving parts. Where an electric car has about 18 moving parts that need maintenance. Your reliability is much better an electric car. I think part of why my thinking has changed to sustainable and electric cars is just the whole business model of recycling and sustainability. That has really influenced my thinking. So for other people it might be about the cost savings, the savings and maintenance, the quiet cabin, or maybe the comfort where there's a single speed transmission and you don't get that jerky feel when you're driving it. For me it's about the latest coolest technology and the sustainable life cycle message. We're never going to buy a gas car again, ever.


Hey guys, so it's been a little while since I've done one of these, but I've got some posters to review. Now admittedly, this is actually from the Vancouver Fan Expo that just passed, but I was really late on the ball for doing a video in correlation with that, so I'm just gonna name this something else. Either way, I have three different posters for you. The first one is one I got for free. This is for Fire Engine Red. This is a guy who's doing a Kickstarter for a comic series, which passed by the way He reached his goal, so congratulations to him. Anyways, he had a different bunch of posters that were kind of reminiscent of the 90s and the 80s posters.  It's kind of a similar story in the sense that this girl is a firefighter and she's going in to kind of rescue her boyfriend. There's all these kind of amages to movies from the 80s and the 90s, so it was really cool to see this one. He was just giving a few of these for free and again, congratulations on him passing his Kickstarter, really happy for it, and it's cool print. I actually like it. Now the second one is a sad one, but it's a funny one at the same time. This is from Colt Classic Posters. This guy I've actually bought from him several times. I have a Freddie Mercury who wants to live forever one, the Leon the professional one, which is right here. That one was from him, and now I've got a new one, the Leahy.  That Leahy ever set. All in the background there.  But otherwise, this is awesome. I'm very happy for this. Again, it's very sad. It's been a year now since the actor died, but I'm very happy to have this, so I'll have a link for that. The last one is also from someone who I've gotten from before. Sean of the Dead's just drowned here. You can't see it really. This is from Fable Creative. This is husband and wife team out of Toronto, and this is what I got from them. I love this. This is Dead Space and the Thing put together. I love when media's can cross platform and art, and this is one of my favorites because this is a fantastic blend of the Thing poster with Isaac Clarke in his Dead Space 3 costume. Now, am I a little bit in the Dead Space 3? To be honest, not that much. I did enjoy that game. Obviously not as much as the other two, but still, this is a fantastic print. I very much like this. I'm having a little issue trying to find a link to it on their website, but I will link their website as well as all the other ones here. But yeah, this is a great print. I'm loving this. This is gonna go in my game wall prints here, but yeah, this is a fantastic print, and I'm very happy with this. I hope you enjoyed this little video. I got links to either the prints themselves or the people who make these prints in the description below, so if you guys want to check out their work and maybe order from them, that's gonna be an awesome time. These guys were great. There were so many really good artists that I actually wanted to talk to, but mainly my thing was to go to talk to Kevin Conroy, which I'll be talking about in another video probably soon. Anyways, that's all from me. See you guys next time.