Let's have a look at a teaching idea for the zero-conditional. A lot of teaching ideas that we're going to be looking at for conditionals can be used all the other conditionals as well. One of the beauties of conditionals is that they are interchangeable as far as teaching ideas goes. Let's have a look at a card game, commonly known as palmonism and often known as memory game. You very well know some other name as well. You have sentences cut into two. For example, when you cut yourself, you bleed. When you sleep, you dream. When you heat ice, it melts. When you boil water, you get steam. When you don't drink enough, you get thirsty. The way the game works is the students at first put the cards together in the correct manner, then they are turned over, mixed up. Then the students work in pairs or threes and take turns at trying to match the cards from memory. So, for example, I would turn over first. It says, when you don't drink enough, then the student has to remember how the sentence would finish or make up their own finish. So, when you don't drink enough, you get thirsty. Then, if I remember where the correct card was, you dream, that doesn't match. Turn cards back over again. The next student has a go. When you cut yourself, you bleed. When you cut yourself, you bleed. They match, so the student keeps that pair. And so it goes on, and the student with the most matches at the end of the game is the winner.


I'm really excited to be here and I want to welcome all of the Justin TV folks out there watching, okay? And we have Jerome LaCotte here, is here from Scality. So we have another executive here from the show floor, Scality, welcome to the Cube. Hi. I'm the CEO of Scality. Do you have a card actually so we can give it to our folks to- I gave it to- No, Ricky's all set. It's all set. We got it. Jerome, so tell us how are things and what's up with Scality? What are you doing here? Tell us about the company. Still healthy on the third day of the show. Obviously didn't have any moment for lunch. Start having a smile. Do you have a camera here? Where's the camera? Hi, camera. Hi, everyone. Doing well. Okay. What can I answer? So tell us about Scality. So Scality is a storage system. We're a company doing an organic object-based cloud-style storage system for a very large deployment of unstructured objects. It's a growing market. Unstructured objects is the largest part of the storage growth, 70% growth a year according to IDC. And we're a real company with real customers, not just a slideware.  They hype up their stuff and don't have anything to deliver. They don't really exist. So you can actually meet our customers and they'll talk about what they do. So you get an object and I get cloud-style. We can talk more about what do you mean by organic? Organic, yeah. It's an interesting term. It has connotations associated with it. So what do you mean by organic? Well, actually I'm referring to this connotation. So it's obviously a metaphor that refers to the way living animals and humans are made out of organs, which themselves are made out of cells. And what's really interesting when you think about an organ in the living realm is that the organ will continue functioning and will function over years when the lifetime of the cell is actually a few months or a few years, but not as long. And what happens is the organ is not affected at all by cell attrition. So if there's a cell that died, it doesn't matter because the new cells are... Rejuvenate. Yeah, rejuvenate all the time. Also, after a few months, the complete organ has been changed, although it's still been functioning and it's a new cell, but it's the same organ. Okay, so the same way we're doing a storage system where it's distributed over many different components, typically x86 servers, very standard. And the way it's built, if any server dies or if any disk dies, it really doesn't matter. It's not going to impact the functioning of the system. Over a few years, you're going to have a complete technology refresh without having to go through any kind of migration. So it makes it much easier to deploy a system over a 10, 20 years lifespan without having to do heavy maintenance. So the business value of this organicity is no rip and replace ever, right? No disruption to the application ever. Yeah, we deployed our first customer in June 2010. So that's about nine months ago now. There's been absolutely no stop of the service, okay? And it's been really easy to maintain. Nothing really, I mean, it's not that the system maintains its integrity all the time. And through this time, since June 2010, we've done software upgrade. We've actually completely changed the architecture, the way we mounted the hard drive. Initially it was RAID 6. Now it's J-Bard. And all this with no service disruption, not even a scheduled maintenance. Interesting. All right, so Scality, tell us more about the company. The company was started, the project was started in 2008 when we went to see our customers of the time in a different company and asked them what they would like us to build and they basically said a new type of storage system that would be good for what people want to store, like their stuff, whether it's their email, their video files, their media files. So 2008 is the beginning of the development period. It was spun off out of a previous company, which was called Bizonga in February 2010 and it's an independent company since then. Okay, so when you spun out that provided the essentially the capital? The Scality. Yeah. So did you do a raise? Yeah, we raised $6 million at the time. We've raised another $7 million last month, so a total of $13 million. We still have the $7 million in the bank. We're pretty efficient on capital. We've got 18 months ahead of us and looking good. CEO, that's, you know, the C stands for, right? Cheap, cheap executive officer.  You can't overspend. But they say the secret of business is to don't run out of money, right? Yeah. It's really simple when you boil it down to that, isn't it? No one died out of little sales. People died of being out of cash. Yeah, exactly. So tell us what's the innovation going on right now in your mind about this show? Can you share with the folks out there kind of what you're seeing in the trends, independent of your company, just the mega trends that support your growth? Well, you know, obviously there's this whole hype about cloud. But if I look beyond the hype, beyond the word cloud, what it is, I see two things. I see enterprise users expecting to have the same kind of IT in the enterprises they have at home. You know, at home they have their iPad and their iPhone and everything works very well together. And it's just easy to go on Facebook. It's easy now to drive your TV from your iPhone. I mean, all this just works really well. And then they go to their enterprise and they still have pretty old software in terms of design. And it's just not easy. So that's one mega trend. It's the change on the demand from the IT user. Not necessarily the IT department yet, but this is going to push the IT department to change. Unhappy people. So essentially, yeah. It's complex. It's a crappy environment basically. A drive for simplicity. Yeah. Really basically. And this is going to drive a real shift in the way application are designed. You're going to see more and more business applications that look like Facebook.  They're going to be business application. But they'll look like this. And then the second thing is what I just alluded to earlier is just the immense growth of unstructured data. You know, more and more in businesses, people scan documents and store the scan or they produce PDF images of their bills and they don't ever send an actual paper bill to their consumers. You know, it's now considered not environmentally heavy to send paper bills. So people to comply with what consumers demand. They just give up on paper bills. And this drives a growth for more and more multimedia files being stored in enterprise world. And that's a complete revolution. It's just a very different problem to solve for storage companies. Yeah. And video. Absolutely. We know this problem. Yes. We have a scale problem. And soon you're going to be HD and then 3D HD. We did HD. We stopped doing it because the video files were too big. Well, okay. You can store them all. And also some of the internet connections at the places, although it's a good one. Maybe we should talk about business. I'm doing a barter deal. Okay. Some space for some promotion. In your world right now, okay, true or false? People are going to make a lot of money with cloud. True. Okay. True or false? Oracle's evil. False. True. True. Okay. Good answer. What CEO is going to say? We love Oracle. Except for EMC. Oracle will continue paying high price for companies. They have a good M&A department. They do evil, but they're not evil. They're not evil. They're not evil. Yeah. It's a Google joke. Don't do evil. So we talk a lot about Oracle. But the role of databases. Can you comment about databases? Sure. We talk about that all week long. Database are going to change. Okay. And Oracle will change as well, by the way. You know, the concept of relational database was invented about 30, 40 years ago now. It's a great concept. Okay. We'll learn this at school. It's a great concept. The more people deploy database, the more they realized, okay, relational is great. But if you really apply it strictly, it has some limitation. It's really complex. Like tables. And just the join and how many tables you need to join before you really have your vision. Good for what it did. For what, you know. Again, you know, invented 30, 40 years ago, did a great job. Some people will continue using this. But there are many applications who need something much more simple. They essentially need an Excel spreadsheet. They need multiple columns, multiple rows. They need to be able to add a full row, which is not always obvious with every node SQL database out there. Okay. So they still, most people, they don't want just one column. They want multiple column and to be able to add a full row. Okay. And we're actually going to introduce a distributed database technology on top of our storage technology by the end of this year. And what's the exciting part about that? The change in databases, especially the node SQL area. Because there's been a lot of debate around which approaches should be going there. I'll see. People talk about structure to unstructured. That's clear. But what's going on in the unstructured world? It's kind of like a silent little cold war going on. So.  You're seeing a lot more, you know, stuff happening. So terms are really funny. Okay. So people talk about unstructured data and they talk about no SQL database. Okay. First, the real problem about storing unstructured data is that there needs to be structure to the storage. Okay. If you have no structure, you have garbage. Okay.  It's like big data. It's a hype term. But it's a categorical term. Really. I mean, when we think about our software, when we think about development and, you know, long term, it's all a question. How do you achieve efficient structure for what people want to do? And database are not the efficient structure for a larger amount of multimedia files. Okay. But you still need indexes. You still need functionalities like being able to do search through the whole data. I believe that in 10 years time, it's going to be normal to do a scene selection automatically in a video. I'll be able to go through your video file and say, bring me all the videos of Jerome Lacade and not, you know, looking at the fact that you tagged it well. But actually, the software will look at the video, do face recognition, bring me the pieces I want. We could use that technology yesterday. Yeah. It's not quite ready yet. That's the kind of thing we're building. We literally transcript our videos so that we have that capability. It's a very brute force, but it works. There's nothing else. We have no other choice. Yeah. So that would be a good bar to do. Have you tried doing voice recognition on the videos? Not yet. We are talking to a cool startup in San Francisco, though, about that. And we've used voice recognition for the transcription. Okay. So, indirectly. Yeah. You know, these are the tech challenges, like these new use cases are not necessarily new to the sense of how people have done business in the past. Just from a technology standpoint, these things need to be cataloged because there's need for the new data types. We call them unstructured. We call them, you know, web app, needs email address and pandal, which might be one major data source they need, versus the old model, which was tabular, you know, my secret databases, relational. And, you know, what keeps me motivated every morning is the fact that we can bring this to the industry. What else is going on in your world?  I mean, how many employees do you guys have? Oh, from a company standpoint, sorry. I was still thinking industry standpoint. Okay. I'm getting those slows into the day. We've been two days hours of interviews. We've got Rob Pegler coming on and Rob is like rapid fire. Oh, okay. No, I actually don't. So how many employees do you have? What's going on with the company? We were 20 at the beginning of the year. We're 30 now. We're going to be 40 at the end of the year. So it's a fast-paced growing company. We've just opened an office in New York for U.S. sales. We have recruited people for customer services based on the East Coast as well. So we've essentially staffed off the U.S. West Coast? East Coast. Anything out here? Yeah, absolutely. I'm here. CEO is here. And we run the finance and marketing from here. So the company is really run from here. Originally, we put the U.S. sales here in San Francisco. And we realized that our guys were on plane absolutely every week because most are customers on the East Coast. So we've just moved the office over there. So it's in New York. We also have R&D in Paris, offices in Germany for the German market. And we cover the European market from Paris and Germany. And we have a master distributor in Japan. So still relatively small but very global business. Very global for that size. And that's the nature of the world today. It's a global business. How many customers do you have? We have a dozen customers. They're all service providers. So a very large contract for each customer. Another very large number of customers. We're focusing solely on service providers for this year because they are higher maturity. And essentially what that means is they have higher pain. And they've got some money. They've got a business to run. Enterprise has money too. But enterprise basically can still get by with San and NAS technology. Service providers are getting to a point where it's not profitable for them to run some of their services. When you see the whole object piece is really being adopted and the service providers first, they're sort of demanding it. More so than the enterprises, right? The enterprises are not screaming for object storage, right? It's not as urgent. It's not as painful. So they can still get by. They will get there. They will have to get there just because the same laws of the amount of object in the store will happen. I mean, the problem when you reach about a billion objects, any kind of fast system technology becomes very cumbersome to manage. You need to associate volumes to some number of objects or you need to have some global namespace technology. Anyway, it's cumbersome to manage. We bring simplicity to that world. What do you think? I mean, let's talk about the object store landscape for a minute. Sure. You've got EMC Atmos. Okay. Any thoughts there? You've got Cleversafe. It's an interesting job. You've got Neronix in the cloud. Mm-hmm. You've got Bycast, now part of NetApp. Yep. You've sort of got a bunch of public cloud guys. I'm sure I'm missing a few prominent ones. Okay. So we need to differentiate here those who provide the service like Neronix Yeah. and those who provide technology like Atmos. Yes. So let's talk about the technology because that's really what you guys do. That's what we do exactly. I mean, our customers provide service. Yeah. So on the technology side, Atmos doesn't seem to have so much steam in the market. And all I can say about Atmos is that we have never run into a scenario where we have to compete against Atmos. Really? So they seem to be selling, but I don't know where. Yeah, they have more than 12 customers. I mean, but they're EMC, so they better have more than 12 customers. So that's about Atmos. About Cleversafe and OptiData, we think that these are awesome technologies. They're really great for long-term storage of large piece of data. And they're great. Okay. They're not good for primary storage, especially if you have a mixed match of small piece of data and big piece of data. So we're actually considering partnering with them for the long-term storage, because they really have some very nice features. Yeah, they really do. But as a primary storage, which is where we... Chris is really smart. Chris Glenn. Absolutely. And he's been in this industry for like seven years. He's a legend. He knows it inside out. And seriously, their software, their design is super good. No question asked. It's just a different focus. Yeah, you're right. I mean, they're not a performance-oriented store. We can guarantee that, in average, we bring object back in 40 milliseconds. Yeah, okay. That's not their deal. Their deal is longer-term archiving. And of course, the way in which they've built inherent security is quite interesting. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, okay, good. So that's a partnership opportunity. So that helps us clarify sort of where you guys fit. That's good. All right, Jerome. Well, listen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It was a pleasure learning about scalability. And I appreciate you being on here. Thank you very much


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Thank you everyone for coming. If you were expecting the postgres talk, that was the one before, so you might need to watch the video stream. Yes, so Ansible best practices. I thought about calling it Ansible my best practices, so just warning ahead, this is things I stumbled on using Ansible for the last two three years and those are like very specific things I found that work very well for me. Yeah, about me, I do also freelance work, do a lot of Ansible in there. I'm also the Debian maintainer for Ansible with Harlan Libawan, so yeah, if there are any bugs in the package, you know, just report them. Yes, so the talk will be roughly divided into four parts. The first part will be about why you actually want to use config management and why you specifically want to use Ansible. So if you're still SSH-ing into machines and editing config files, you're probably a good candidate for using Ansible. Then the second part will be about good role and playbook patterns that I have found that work really well for me and the third chapter will be about typical anti-patterns I've stumbled upon either in my work with other people using Ansible or over the ISC support channel, for example. And the fourth part will be like advanced tips and tricks you can use like fun things you can do with Ansible. So a quick elevator pitch, what makes config management good, it actually also serves as documentation of changes on your servers over time. So if you just put the whole config management in a git repo and just regularly commit, you will actually be able to say, why doesn't this work? It used to work a year ago. You can actually check why. Also, most config management tools have a lot better error reporting than your self-written bash scripts that do whatever. And usually you have a very good reproducibility with config management and also idiom potency, meaning that if you run, for example, a playbook several times, you will always get the same result. Also, it's great if you work in a small team or you admin main time in the company and you have some people working on a few things too. It makes teamwork a lot easier. And you will save a lot of time actually debugging things when things break, in my opinion. So what makes Ansible good? Comparing it to Chef or Puppet, for example, it's really easy to set up. You start with two config files, you have it installed and you're ready to go. It's also agentless, so whatever machines you actually want to control, the only thing they really need to have is an SSH daemon and Python 2.6 or upwards. So that's virtually any daemon machine you have installed and that is still supported anyway. Ansible also supports configuration of very many things like networking equipment or even Windows machines. They don't need SSH, but they use the when I am. But Ansible came a bit late to the game, so Ansible is still not as good in coverage like for example Puppet, which literally you can configure any machine on the planet with it as long as it has a CPU. Yeah, next up, I will talk about good role patterns. So if you've never worked with Ansible before, this is the point when you watch the video stream that you pause it and start working a few weeks with it and then unpause the actual video. So a good role should ideally have the following layout. So in the role directory, you have the name of the role and the tasks, the main yaml, you have the following rough layout. At the beginning of the role, you check for various conditions. For example, using the assert task to, for example, check that certain variables are defined, things are set, that it's maybe part of a group, things like that you actually want to check. Then usually you install packages, you can use apps or on CentOS machines, a yaml, or you can do a git checkout or whatever. Then usually you do some templating of files where you have certain abstraction and variables are actually put into the template and make the actual config file. There's also good to point out that the template module actually has a validate parameter. That means you can actually use a command to check your config file for syntax errors and if that fails, your playbook will fail before actually deploying that config file. So you can, for example, use Apache with the right parameters to actually do a check on the syntax of the file. That way you never end up with a state where there's a broken config or something. In the end, usually when you change things, you trigger the handlers to restart any device. If you use variables, I recommend putting sensible defaults in defaults main yaml and then you only have to override those variables on specific cases. Ideally you should have sensible defaults you want to have to get whatever thing that you want to have running. When you start working with it and do that a bit more, you notice a few things and that is your role should ideally run in check mode. Ansible playbook has a minus minus check that basically is just a dry run of your complete playbook and with minus minus diff it will actually show you, for example, file changes or file mode changes stuff like that and won't actually change anything. So if you end up editing a lot of stuff, you can use that as a check and I'll later get to some anti-patterns that actually break that thing. Ideally, the way you change files and config and state, you should make sure that when the actual changes are deployed and you run it a second time, Ansible doesn't report any changes because if you end up writing your roles fairly sloppy, you end up having a lot of changes and then in the end of the report, you have like 20 changes reported and you kind of then know those 18, they're always there and you kind of miss the two that are important that actually broke your system. So if you want to do it really well, you make sure that it doesn't report any changes when you run it twice in a row. Also, a thing to consider is you can define variables in the defaults folder and also in the vals folder but if you look up how variables get inherited, you'll notice that the vals folder is really hard to actually override. So you want to avoid that as much as possible. The much larger section will be about typical anti-patterns I've noticed and I'll come to the first one now is the shell or command module. When people start using Ansible, that's like the first thing they go is like, oh, well, I know how to use WGet or I know AppGet install and then they end up using the shell module to do just that. If you use the shell module or the command module, you usually don't want to use that. That's for several reasons. There's currently, I think, 1,300 different modules in Ansible, so there's likely a big chance that whatever you want to do, there's already a module for that that just does that thing. But those two modules also have several problems and that is the shell module of course gets interpreted by your actual shell. So if you have any special variables in there, you'd actually also have to take care of any variables you interpret in the shell string. Then one of the biggest problems is if you run your playbook in check mode, the shell and the command module won't get run. So if you're actually doing anything with that, they just get skipped and that might not, that will cause that your actual check mode and sort of the real mode, they all start diverging if you use a lot of shell module. And the worst, also a bad part about this is that those two modules, they'll always report back changed.  And so to get the reporting right on that module, you'd actually have to define for yourself when this is actually changed or not. So you'd have to probably get the outputs and then check, for example, if there's something on standard error or something to report an actual error or change. Then I'll get to the actual examples. On the left is a bad example for using the shell module. I've seen that a lot. It's basically, oh, yeah, I actually want this file. So I'll just use cat's path to file and I'll use the register parameter to get the output. This is, do you see anything? It's here. So the actual output goes into the shell command and then we want to copy it to some other file somewhere else. And so we use the Ginger double squirrely brackets to define the actual content of the file and then put it into that destination file. And that is problematic because, well, first of all, if you run it in check mode, this gets skipped. And then this variable is undefined and Ansible will fail with an error. So you won't be able to actually run that in check mode. And the other problem is this will always report back changed. So you'd probably have to, the most sensible thing would probably be to say just changed when false and just acknowledge that that shell command won't change anything on your system. So the good example would be to use the actual slope module that will just slope the whole file and base 64 encoded. And you can access the actual content with path file.contents and you then just base 64 decoded and write in there. And the nice thing is slope will never return any change. So it won't say changed and it also works great in check mode. Here's another quick example. The example on the left, oh, yeah, wget. Here's the problem is every time your playbook runs, this file will get downloaded. And of course, if the file can't be retrieved from that URL, it'll throw an error and that will happen all the time. And the right example is a more clean example using the uremodule. You define a URL to retrieve a file from. You define where you want to write it to. And you use the create parameter to say, well, just skip the whole thing if the file is already there. Set facts. That's my pet peeve. Set facts is a module that allows you to define variables during your playbook run. So you can say set facts and then this variable equals that variable plus the third variable or whatever. You can do things with that. It's very problematic, though, because you end up having your variables change during the playbook run. And that is a problem when you use the minus, minus start out parameter from ansible playbook. Because this parameter allows you to skip forward to a certain task in the role. So it skips everything until that point and then continues running there. And that's really great for debugging. But if you define a variable with set facts and you skip over it, that variable will just not be defined. So if you heavily use set facts, that makes prototyping really horrible. Another point is that you can use ansible minus msetup and then the host name to check what variables are actually defined for specific host. And everything set with set facts is just not there. So in summary, avoid the shell module, avoid the command module, avoid set facts as much as you can. And don't hide changes with changed when. So the clean approach is always to use one task to check something and then a second task to actually execute something, for example. And also a bad idea, in my opinion, is when people say, well, it's not important if this throws an error or not. I'll just say it fails when falls. That might work sometimes. But the problem there is if something really breaks, you'll never find out. Advanced topics. So this is about the templating. So the usual approach, for example, for postfix role would be to do the following templating. You would define certain variables in, for example, the group vans postfix servers. So any host in that group would inherit these variables. So this is sort of a list of parameters for SMTP recipient restrictions. And this is just the SMTP healer we're required. So the usual approach would be you define variables in the host vans or group vans, or even in the defaults. And then you have a template where you just check every single variable if it exists. And if it exists, you actually sort of put the actual value there in place. So here I check if this variable is set true. And if yes, I put the string there. And for example, SMTP recipient restrictions, I just iterate over this array and just outputs those values in order in that list. So the problem here is that every time upstream defines a new variable, you'll end up having to touch the actual template file and touch the actual variables. So I thought, well, you actually have keys and values and strings and arrays and hashes on the one side. And actually, a config file is nothing else than that just in a different format. So I came up with the fact, well, the fact with Jinder 2 is you can also define functions. So I'll have to cut short a little bit on explaining it, but basically up here, function is defined and it's called here in the bottom. And basically what it just does, it iterates over the whole dictionary defined here, postfix main. And it just goes, well, it iterates over all the keys and values. And it goes, well, if the value is a string, I'll just put key equals value. And if it's an array, I just iterate over it and put it there in the format that postfix actually wants. And basically you can do the same, for example, for HA proxy and you can just deserialize all the variables you actually define. So the advantages of this is your template file just stays the same and it doesn't get messy if you start adding things.  Usually if you edit stuff, you kind of get an extra new line in there and that changes the template files for all machines. You have all the settings in alphabetical order.  And if you get the syntax on the template file right, you don't have to touch it after that and you also don't get any syntax errors by editing that. So that follows to the next one. You can actually set hash behavior merge in the Ansible config. And that allows you to do the following. On the left here, you define, for example, a dictionary and this is like in a group and then in a specific machine you define other setting in this dictionary. If you wouldn't use merge, the second setting would just override the first one and you'd end up with that. But if you actually do the merge, it does a deep merge of the hash. So the previous thing I showed would actually benefit from that. So the combination of both is really good. Then I'll skip that. Yeah, further resources. Ansible has just a really good documentation. Check that. There's the ISC and there's also DevOps, which is a project that is specific to Debian and derivatives. So, yeah. That's it. Thank you very much.


All right, next we have Andrew Nicholson as a film scout He's made a living out of getting into people's homes and places of business to take pictures He's worked on Hollywood film and television productions for over six years His most recent credits include the black lightning pilot and the 2018 dynasty reboot So look forward to Andrew hacking Hollywood Thank you very much. Hey guys. How y'all doing tonight? So for six years my job basically consisted of getting a script from a producer or a director and Then going out and finding a house business Whatever and then convincing them to let me bring a crew of about a hundred people in there to make a TV show It's a little bit hard a little bit easy If I am Walking up to your house, and I'm trying to get you to let me film inside of there I've got maybe 30 seconds maybe a minute at most Through the door to get you Disarmed and to let me inside and take some pictures and the first thing I'm going to tell you is that I'm not here to sell you anything and When I say that most people, you know, you knock on the door.  Well, hi, I'm a film scout. I find TV places to film You've got a beautiful house. Have you ever been approached about running out your property for filming before and? Usually with this statement, I've got them Based on how they respond to that I'm I know exactly how I'm going to proceed if they've never been approached about filming before then I get to Control the the information that I give them and I'm going to give them information. That's going to get me a yes We'll ignore the bad stuff until later. We kind of ease them into it as we go along If they say yes, and they have had filming not a problem We're usually good to go if they have been approached about filming and they say no I'm going to ask why I'm going to address their apprehensions Maybe the person that approached them beforehand wanted to make a rap video. Maybe it was a horror film Whatever that is, I'm going to find it out and I'm going to address it I'm going to alleviate their concerns so I can get inside So if they are not home First off, I'm going to act like I'm being watched at all times. You will not believe the amount of times I've left one of these letters at a house, and I'm five minutes down the road. I get a phone call and I Say wait you were home. Oh, yeah, we were inside.  Okay, great, but at any rate if they're not home. I'm leaving a letter that looks just like that I'm taking a picture of their house, and I'm writing down the address So when they call me back I can be like well, which house was it? You know, I only left about five of those letters and When I say that They're gonna I'm gonna be able to call back specific details about their house It had yellow trim who I really like the brick work And so that letter got me that house that is Not the original house that they did the pilot with dynasty We actually came in and found that after the fact the original team had about three months They only found 20 houses that would agree to a film crew of about a hundred people coming in every couple of times a month and filming My team had a month and we found 35 houses. So That's how we did that When and also another thing is when people call me back After getting one of these letters It's almost always a yes because they've had the time to digest the information to research who I am and They know that they want to deal with me If I'm at the property if I'm at someone's fence and I'm peering through in the cops pull up and they go excuse me Sir, can we help you? Absolutely, they can absolutely help me. I am so-and-so. I'm trying to do this Do you know how to get in touch with this person and that works? They're usually like, oh, yeah I know so-and-so and they'll call them up and before you know it I'm having a conversation with the person that owns that house Um Skip the hedge here a little bit Right, so being honest so you can like wait my slides are right. So when I do this When I do this job, I'm not trespassing I'm not breaking the law in any way because ultimately I'm representing a film network Like Netflix or CBS Warner Brothers. I've worked for all of them and I'm doing absolutely nothing that is going to get us In trouble. I'm following the law or the law to the letter.  I'm going to say things to you like You know, I could get in a lot of trouble for telling you this but the producers really like your house I'm going to really You know and it's not a lie to them, but when I lie, it's usually to my bosses um My bosses will ask me to do things that they don't recognize that I have a relationship with the homeowner or the city planner or the mayor and They might ask me to do something that compromises that and so I'm going to lie to my boss But that's but that's the thing is I'm going to tell the truth so much I'm going to be so candid with you that when I lie you will have no reason to trust me or not to trust me You're not going to have you're not going to have any and you're also not going to have any way to verify that I'm lying to you because that's privileged information that I'm lying about So Getting into other places if it's not a private house Then these places are probably going to have someone to facilitate getting into and you just kind of got to know the right person to look to Government buildings depending on the size of the town there was the TV show Goliath anyone ever heard that Anyways, I was tasked with finding a small town to film Goliath then and I called all the small towns in the metro Atlanta area And one town they were like oh filming. Oh you should talk to the mayor about that. I'm like them the mayor really Okay, talk to the mayor. He's like, oh, yeah, you guys want to come up here and film a TV show Yeah, go for it. Okay. Well, do we need a permit or? Fees he's like no, no, just come up here and tell us what you want to do and we'll make it happen. I'm like, oh, okay But yeah, so so each place will have their own place if it's a mansion. They're gonna have a tear caretaker You know universities will have campus relation managers To facilitate all that kind of stuff, but as a film scout you can get into places That most people can't and that's what really attracted me to the job There's like a dream come true So this is this is one of the places I can get into that you guys can't this is the Guardian Center It used to be a secret military base that they installed right around the height of the Cuban missile crisis And it actually had some nukes on grounds, which you can see the old bunker there in the bottom left-hand corner One of those bunkers actually the radiation level was still too high to let me go in but Company called the Guardian Center took it over and converted it into disaster preparation this training grounds for FEMA and other facilities and These guys reached out they actually reached out to my boss through a county official because they had about two or three months of downtime when FEMA's FEMA's not it's hurricane season. No one's there training. So they needed some way of bringing revenue the fifth element or no the fifth wave film there, so yeah, and This is the lab from stranger things It's about a mile from my house. This was actually scouted before the stranger things TV show came around I was scouting it for a show called containment And it was actually it used to be a former mental health facility Until it was taken over by AT&T and then emery took it over So it's campus owned and the thing is is this this building is filled with asbestos They can't do anything with it. It just sits there empty And there's a loophole which allows for filming because there's OSHA standards that say that If a building has asbestos you can do short-term work in it for anywhere between 10 to 14 days So it's kind of this beautiful thing because it would cost them three million dollars to tear down that building But stranger things has a relationship with them now and they can go and film there. So that's pretty awesome When I scouted it, they didn't really have an infrastructure set up. They just sent an intern with a key ring and You know most of these places You know that was that was great for me because he would literally take me anywhere in the building I wanted to go to and then the places I wasn't allowed to go into he would tell me so And I now know I can't go on to the seventh floor of that building Churches universities and neighborhoods so a Places like this are usually gonna have a board approval process and it's gonna slow us down Because we're doing a really fast turnaround and these guys have you know, they're dealing with weeks Oh, you know, we have a meeting next next month and we're like no, that's that's just way too slow for us but they also want script approval which studios are not willing to give up because With script approval a place can say yes or no to you filming there and ask you to rewrite a scene If they don't like the way that their place is being portrayed There was a scene in dynasty the reboot it was a gay sex scene that we had to film inside of a church and My co-worker was in charge of finding that building. He almost had a heart attack The way we were able to make it happen was we actually found one of the first churches in Atlanta that were allowed to They actually started doing lgbt Q services and they were more than thrilled to work with us So you can get creative you can find common goals that will help you meet your ends Yeah, and then my favorite are property managers If you get a good property manager, they are going to fill your day by showing you different properties they are going to devote significant resources to to getting you exactly what you want because They recognize a good look a good property manager will recognize that they can make in a matter of days What it might take them a month to make if they're working with a Hollywood film scout But at the same time these guys are busy. They're really busy And so you're gonna see them doing things like they're gonna use the address as a gatecode or an alarm combination Which is one of the things I wanted to address don't do that um Moving on so It's not too common, but this space has the ability to attract a lot of Malicious and bad actors Some might see it as a way to case a property for theft But more often than not you're gonna see third parties that will come in and want to act as intermediaries This is usually a money grab and if you're a film studio, you're just gonna walk away from the property They'll say thanks, but no thanks You know, it's it's better just to take a letter wait Yeah, it's if you are being approached by a film industry person I say don't don't open the door take their letter Verify that information on your own make sure it's someone that is actually legit and you can call the county The county has a film liaison office and most film scouts Should be registered or at least have their contact info with the county liaison So that's something that I highly recommend people to do because IMDB pages can be faked I have an office support staff when I go out and do this So if people want to verify my identity, they have a number they can call that can be faked The the county liaison is really the best thing to do and again do not use your address Your birthday or or you know, or in or even the year as a gate combo. I see that all the time I ask for references if you're working if you're truly working with a Good high-end production company. They are gonna have references. There are places that I wanted to film at 20 $50,000 a day places They wouldn't even look at you if you unless you can provide three letters of reference from other places that you have filmed that can Say that you do a good job Coming to town so once we've picked a location We need to build a support network and I also need to do a permit I'm following up on each of these individual elements And it may seem like a lot of work But again, I'm gonna have an entire team behind me and we can really accomplish most of this stuff in about three to five days where it gets really overwhelming is when you layer four or five locations on top of each other because a typical 42-minute TV show is going to take about eight days to film and The norm for that is about two to five filming locations depending on on how extensive your set is So while I'm permitting location, I'm out finding parking and I'm reaching out to your neighbors and I'm gonna put them on my payroll I have a few tricks that I'm gonna use to get this done If it's just a piece of property that I'm going after I'm going to switch over to plat records I'm going to use property tax information and maps and Ocent to find out you and I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna make you an offer. You can't refuse I might recruit your neighbors to talk to you if you don't want to work with me I'll get someone to come over and do that Some people do not want to accept film studio money. This is especially true working in the Bible Belt Some people view it as lewd. They view it as crass Indecent and so if I get that kind of pushback, I'm gonna come to you and be like, oh, well, what's your favorite charity? How about I donate five thousand dollars to your favorite charity and then you might want to work with us?   So I'll say, okay, we'll do a contract for zero dollars and zero cents Love it By the time I walk on to your street to film, I'm gonna know as much About the street as possible I'm gonna try to know everyone on that street by a first name basis and I'm also gonna have a map of your street That has who lives at what address their contact information How much we paid them and what we paid them for and my entire team is gonna have that information So you can't really do the the he or she he said she said thing because we'll know So this is a visualization of the hierarchy of a film production set You see the flow of communication It's gonna go across at the top and then down you're not seeing a lot of cross at the bottom levels And and these people are talking to each other, but it's not it's not that often. It's it's more in a friendly capacity It's not in a professional Kind of way, but you also see that my department over there location manager on the far far right side We're very loosely associated to the director because we're gonna have more affiliation with the unit production manager and the line producer Those are the guys that control the money the director might love a property But if it costs five times then any of the other options we have the line producers gonna step in and they're gonna quash that so now That we're on a film set. So if you can get on to a film set and you can get a call sheet That's probably the best thing in the world It's gonna have most of the information that you would need to form a pretext Like the previous speaker was saying you get on a call sheet Go to the bathroom study that you're gonna have pretty much everything you need To navigate around like I said the people that you saw in the bottom part of that hierarchy aren't talking to each other Play off of that you can say oh Well, yeah, I'm so and so they called me in from darada and though the other guy's not gonna know in my experience These call sheets are giving out like candy by PAs, which I think is insanely dangerous I Person I'd like to see them Signed out and then signed back in at the end of the day. I've been on a few film sets where they do that But everything is a little bit different from film set to film set. So some might make you sign it out. Some might not Continuing on the set. This is a turnkey industry. So people are used to working a job two three months and then they go on to the next job and They expect things for the most part to stay the same from job to job As a result, they're often using their personal email for work This includes scripts. It includes dailies all sorts of confidential information that studios are entrusting To people's personal email. They're not getting security training. They're not getting any type of multifactor Authentication on their emails trust me. I've tried to talk my co-workers into this It doesn't work so That's something that can be exploited and I don't want to see it happen Getting on to a film set the most common thing I'm gonna see when people try to sneak onto film sets because I've built this set and now I'm in charge of keeping people off Of it is when people try to act as extras It's not gonna last very long They're usually gonna see how far they can write it out Bogies I have part two parts The unintentional bogey is gonna be someone that's just standing on the street watching something and then the next thing he knows there's a film crew around him and He's just gonna be too scared to do anything else So he'll probably just kind of sit there and wait until someone asks to leave no big deal Bogey number two knows exactly what they're doing They're gonna walk right onto the film set and see how long they can stay on that film set until someone takes them off Malicious extras is When you get in someone that might get a job on a film set as an extra Legitimately and then when someone's not looking they're gonna use that opportunity as steal from other people Extras aren't allowed to bring their own personal goods or their own Purses luggage any of that kind of stuff onto a film set they have to leave it in a common area And so what you take someone that makes eight nine dollars an hour and put them in a room with two hundred purses Yeah, things are gonna go bad And then you've got the universal uniform which is what I think that most of you guys would probably use if y'all are Trying to sneak onto a film set if you don't know what that is a universal uniform is it's a radio a headset and usually a fluorescent traffic vest But the thing you don't know about that is unless you have some type of specific gear that tells me if you're a grip or an Electrician, I'm just gonna think you're a PA or one of my people and I'm gonna find out who you are and kick you off harm that can occur so Leaks and pictures that show we have weak security are probably my least favorite thing because it perpetuates the notion Of sneaking on this film sets for fun or sport these are all things that can occur and I Recognize that they lower our stock But I'm most concerned about the people that are getting onto a film set to case it for later in the night When perhaps the security guards asleep and they come back with a pickup truck and steal Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cable Yeah So now it's my job to kick you off of a film set bogies Usually their behavior will give them away because once they get onto a film set They don't know how to behave they don't realize that certain people are allowed to do some things and certain people aren't allowed to Do other things extras aren't allowed to drink coffee If I see someone looks like a normal person drinking a coffee. It's gonna give you away Extras aren't allowed to take bathroom breaks except for its certain times They have to be supervised.  I'm like are you with production? Yeah Oh, yeah, I'm an extra. Oh, no, you're not an extra. Yeah, I am. No, you're not Well, why well because they were wearing a bright pink shirt The DP would never sign off on that it throws off the color temperature. It throws off the camera settings They're gonna go with light colors So that's that's another thing we can do and universal uniform I think I went over that unless you're really varying it up and getting specific with what job you have on that film set You're just gonna look like a PA So good bad These are some steps we took to secure our sets You're often gonna find on a film set that the security is at the perimeters. They're not actually on the set They're out by the trucks. They're by the equipment. They're at the perimeters to keep people off But once they get past the security Most of those people the people you see on the film set, they're not talking to each other They all assume that if you get on to that film set that you're supposed to be there and So what do we do? Well At nighttime We started doubling our security because we were finding our security guards were falling asleep So instead we double all up now we have an accountability system where one person has to keep the other person awake Those security guards I talked about that were on the outside perimeter of the of the set I'm gonna put a security guard right in the middle of the set and I've had producers come to me and go Why is the security guard right here on the middle of the set? I want them on there because I Find that when you have a security guard Right next to the other crew members working with the other crew members if they don't recognize someone that's not supposed to be there They're gonna be a lot more Eager or willing to go up to that security guard and be like hey I don't know this guy also that security guard that is used to being on set with the employees every day Is going to be one of the first people to come up and say hey I don't recognize this guy. Um, do you know him and then we're gonna find him? We're gonna kick him off The thing I talked about earlier with malicious extras. I'm gonna hire a security guard I'm gonna put them there purely to watch extras equipment Purses bags, it's all gonna be safe because we're gonna have a security guard there dedicated to that And another thing so when we do this you find that people want to work with us more because We have security guards watching out for other people's property. It's not just the equipment. It's it's also the employees When We have PAs I had a PA one time and it was either him working with me or another film production company And he chose to work with us because the other film production company wanted to hire him as a security guard No, you don't hire a film student as a security guard for nine dollars an hour. That's that's insane That's how people get robbed and shot So Steps that production can take The thing I talked about employees using their personal email moving from job to job No, at least give them training on how to have safer emails safer passwords Don't skimp on security. Don't hire PAs to use as security guards get actual security guards for crying out loud Have a crew list Like when when people are parking Have a security guard check their name off before they get on the bus And then when they arrive at the crew the film set have as another security guard check them again And then share security breaches I'm a lot of these breaches and things that I was telling you about I only know about because of rumors That other film managers tell me it's not the studios talking to each other It's not studios Sharing information about their faults and their hazards because that's the last thing they want to do if I was Still working in the industry. I would not be allowed to be up here talking about this right now probably And then custom bracelets. I love this. I see this like a badge You can fake a badge. You can go to kinkos and fake a badge It's a little bit harder to fake a custom Bracelet that people have to wear that indicate their roles on sets and then finally in force social media practices You're not allowed to take pictures on set It still happens if you go on to if you go on to Instagram and search a number of hashtags You're gonna get photos of people on set now. What happens? I used to have co-workers that would post pictures of them on set. They get a phone call a couple hours later What do you mean my alarm's going off? Someone's broken in my house. The first thing the cop asks them is Did you post your location and where you were today on social media? They're like, well, yeah I was working on the lake, you know, I posted office for the day. This is my you know thing This took just just an example. This took me about 10 minutes. I went on to Instagram and I found some some people use some some common hashtags Filmmaking hashtag first-day shooting and now I know some people that aren't going to be home for 12 hours today So I think studio should really really step up in enforcing their social media policies and making sure that They're because this protects their employees also it's not just about the IPs It's about the employees Because these guys are getting robbed while they're working for the studios because the studios aren't enforcing the social media policy Anyways, thank you guys very much. It's been a pleasure speaking with y'all and have a great night


So, let us now you know look at our you know key study today and the context is critical here because it is CRP of Jawan's who are actually going on a long operation into deep forest and they are supposed to filter available water from Nala's or from water bodies or from the rain and drink that water. So, what is this whole story will go one by one and see how the context addressed every aspect of the design and innovation journey. We at IIT Bombay have this center for excellence in internal security. This was set up by government of India and around 10 professors were actually you know roped in into the center to work for technologies for the armed forces. We have so much of technologies strength over here and so this center supposed to bridge this gap. My colleagues from Aeronautical Professor Hemindra Arya went for this trip and he came back and said it was very intriguing to watch the type of hardships our Jawan's face when they are in the field and you know we have to do something for them you know. So let me just quickly take you to the video of Professor Arya. I am core faculty in the center which deals with the internal security. In this regard some CRP of officers visited and they gave the requirements for various issues which are related to internal security. They explained me about the need for a water bottle which can help them in having a clean water when they are in operation and typically they have to carry around 7-8 liters of water. So keeping this in view I asked them what are the requirements. So you just look at the cause coming in Professor Arya's tone they are you know starving they are starving for water when they are in long operation. These are operations last more than the duration which they planned for. So they have to look for local water sources they have to you know go drink those water. So this is like we get a lot of these interesting insights when you talk to the users. And the commandant officer he said that I need to take these professors to the remotest areas where there is the most hostile environmental factors because in design innovation remember when you do your you know context and cause and your data collection you have to look at the worst condition for your study. If you look at the good condition is not going to get good ideas and good designs. So they took us to the very very tough situations remote operations as we say.


Hey, yo, what's up? My name is Nolly. Welcome to a new vlog. Life has been so freaking crazy. And I feel like right now I'm bombarding you guys with so many vlogs because I was vlogging for a while. I just did not have any time to edit. So I'm trying to post all these vlogs. But life has just been crazy in the best way possible and it's about to get even crazier because I got invited on my first ever brand trip. Like this has been something on my manifestations list for so long. I've known for about like two weeks and I just didn't really wanna say anything because I didn't know if it was like really real. Like I didn't wanna jinx anything. But we are going on a brand trip and I'm gonna share more in the next vlog. I'll probably share more on Instagram and TikTok first. So if you guys wanna know who I'm going with and where I'm going, you can follow me on Instagram and TikTok at so underscore gnarly without the g. Today is Saturday and we are gonna go do something so fun. We are going to the Austin rodeo, just pretty much like the fairgrounds. I don't think we're going into the rodeo because you have to buy separate tickets. I'm like, I've seen it. We went to the one in Fort Worth, like at the stockyards and that was kind of fun. But I think I'm just like wanting to just walk around the fair and like get a turkey leg, get a funnel cake. But I still wanna address like super cute. And one of my packages just came in literally perfect timing because there was cowboy boots in there. Here's the outfit of the night. I'm actually obsessed with it. So the boots and skirt are the things that just came in the mail. I ordered from this site called Strativarius. You guys have to check it out. It is apparently the sister company Dezara and I had no idea. I did buy a few of their maxi denim skirts. They're still on the way. So that sucks because I literally placed that order before this one and this one got here way faster. But I think the other order was like a bigger order. So I don't know, maybe that had something to do with it. But I love the skirt. I've actually been like trying to search for a mini skirt that is a line and doesn't like hug the stomach because this is like my biggest insecurity and I don't really want it to be like tight around there. I did get another one of these in the second order, just a different color. And then the boots. Look at these freaking cute cowboy boots. I really was wanting black boots recently. Nothing really caught my eye, but I really liked these boots. My calves are so big. So I feel like nothing's big enough, but hopefully they'll stretch out cause they are really stretchy and super comfortable. But they have a little design and they're this like leather kind of material. Lastly, the top is being rented on rent runway and I've been meaning to tell you guys this. I really feel like doing rent runway has kind of like leveled up my style. And I've been doing fashion pass for like, you know, maybe a handful of months, but I really feel like rent runway is a little bit better because it has like really cool designers and fashion pass has like show me your Mew Mew and like still cool designers, like more revolved brands, but rent the runway just has like a little bit more mature like designers that are like really funky and cool. I'm also on day six hair and it's disgusting. And I did these little cute braids. I had the busiest day. I had a grad shoot in the morning. Then we got our house cleaned or apartment, but still, oh my God, it's so worth it. I got it done by Urban Company. I've been hearing a lot about them on Instagram and I wanted to give them a try. This guy was so thorough. Like I don't know if all of them are thorough, but holy crap, it is so worth the money. Cause I'm like, wow, it feels like I'm on vacation. I feel like I'm in a hotel because like things are actually clean. The floor is clean. I obviously have a vacuum and a mop, but like it's such a luxurious feeling to like actually get your apartment cleaned. And I'm actually thinking about doing it like maybe not monthly, maybe like every two months. Cause right now we're doing it every, like maybe year, once a year. So yeah, I'm definitely gonna do this more often cause I feel amazing with my house clean. When I was home, I uploaded photos, did a little work on my phone. Then I went to photograph a baby shower and it was like the most lit baby shower ever. It was a whole white party. I'll definitely be posting a lot of photos from that on my productions account. So it's just Snolly Productions. And if you guys are new here, I'm also a photographer in Austin. Hey to the rodeos. I'm like so curious where are they like, look this. I'm glad it's not that far away. I would think it was like in Round Rock or something, but I think it's like East Boston, right? Nice. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out. I'm back out.  We're pulling in. Oh my gosh, so exciting. Look at this Tesla. It's like cow printed. And it says grass fed. Ryan and I's favorite ride together is the ski lift. Like we would go to the coming fair every year in college. Like I would go home just to go to the coming fair every fall and all we would ride was a ski lift. We literally got the unlimited passes just to ride the day on ski lift. So I'm really hoping there's one here. If not, we'll just have to settle for the Ferris wheel, but what food are we gonna get? Definitely a funnel cake. Turkey leg. You don't like that. It's chicken tendies, honey muskies. We're at the fair, Ryan. Can't just get chicken tendies at the fair. Turkey leg, it's also not eating one of our day. It's like burnt, nasty. Remember, did you show it to me? Yeah, it was black, but you know, maybe it'll be better today. I don't know, we'll see. Okay, I'm gonna have a blog on my phone and my other camera, but we'll see you in there. It's the tilt roll. I used to love this. I don't do t-shirts, but I do a tilt roll. I don't know why, they're very similar. And should we choose? This is up next, but this is the line.  You wanna cry, baby?  Yeah, I know, I know. I feel the weight, like, come out of the chair, and I was like, I don't even trust this, like, skips me a little. It's so scary. A funnel cake and Ryan got fried Reese's cups. I've eaten many melted Reese's in my life. Kind of just the same, with a little bit of breading on it. It just, like, wasn't cutting it. I feel like that's probably, no offense, the worst funnel cake we've ever had. I didn't know if a funnel cake could be bad. What? If I'd work. Really? Like, burn, force, and doughy. Ooh, it's burning funnel cakes. I'm proud of you. Well, yeah, so that kind of just made me, and we just needed real food. So we found this, it's like the other side, the north side, did I say north side?  There was, like, shrimp fried rice right there. So do you wanna share a food, or do you want to do this? Exercise, cheeseburger. It is Monday, day before I leave for my trip. I don't even know if I told you guys about it yet, so I'm gonna sit down and talk about it. But first, chai. We have a lot to get done today, and it's already been such a freaking busy day. It's 2.30, and I need to submit two brand sponsorships. One, I still need to film. And then the second, I just need to, like, get all the tags on the Instagram stories and all that kind of stuff. But tomorrow, we leave for our brand trip. I honestly cannot remember if I even told you guys about it, because it was on, when did we go to the fair Saturday that I started this vlog? So I have no idea if I told you guys, but if I didn't, I'm going on my first brand trip with Amazon. It's actually the Amazon Influencer program and they're flying me out to LA. And we're gonna be staying in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Like, so iconic. Are you kidding me? The itinerary is actually insane. I cannot wait to share with you guys. So I'm gonna be posting definitely real-time content on Instagram and hopefully TikTok. I feel like whenever I go to these, like, brand events, like, during South by, I had so much content that I was filming and had no time to edit it all. So I feel like I'm gonna be a little overwhelmed there, but I'm hoping to find some pockets of peace throughout the day so I can, like, just sit and edit. When I tell you guys that this is on my manifestation list, like, oh my goodness, it was at the top of my list and goals for just my career in general, because not only, like, is it an honor to be invited on a trip like this, but it's an amazing networking opportunity. So I'm so, so, like, nervous for it and very excited, obviously. And my mom's side of the family lives in Orange County. So I asked them if they could just, like, extend my dates or just, like, fly me back a little bit later so I could go see them in Irvine. So I'm gonna go right after the brand trip. It is from Tuesday to Thursday. I think they still have some events on Thursday.  I took Ryan to meet the family about two years ago. I think it was about two years ago now. And that was actually his first time in California. He loved it and we definitely wanna go back to Laguna Beach and we're really, really hoping for some, like, warmer weather and just, like, some beach weather. But I don't know, it looks a little bit cold there. It looks like there's some rain so we're just gonna have to manifest some good weather. Night is bachelor finale and I actually invited my friends over, which, now looking back on it, I probably shouldn't have done because I'm going to be such a stress ball and I need to start packing now but I still have to film that one sponsorship and, like, submit all of that stuff. And honestly, just, like, the little edits and, like, copy and stuff takes a lot longer than you would expect. I always try to time block my calendar, like, daily, but I always underestimate the time it takes to, like, film. I feel like this is already giving me energy that I need to go film. Just, like, the motivation because I feel like I'm hitting that midday slump. I just had butter chicken for lunch. Ryan found this really, really good Indian restaurant. I think he, like, found it on Yelp or something last night and the butter chicken was perfect, perfect. I'm gonna put the name of the restaurant here in case you were in Austin and you were looking for a good, like, Indian food butter chicken. We got that mango lassi. Ryan got some, like, low-may noodles. I think it might be an Asian fusion. I'm not really sure. He also got the chicken 65 which wasn't, like, fried and dry. It was, like, more of a wet chicken 65. I didn't, like, really care for it but the butter chicken guys and the garlic non, oh my God, so good. We've been waiting on this specific package for at least three months, right? It's December, right? I don't know. It was January. January, yeah. Ryan sent me this hat on Instagram and, of course, I bought it three seconds later for him. You say hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot. Hoot, hoot, hoot. You need me to get a snap bag? Oh my gosh. Cute. Yay. Your dog? Sophie's been looking very cute. She's been looking very cute lately and we have to leave her tomorrow. Sophie, sit. Very good girl. Can you say hi to the peoples?  Or you don't know yet?  We're trying on outfits for the trip. I'm too lazy. I didn't put these on right, but I just got them in for Manzan. They're green and I've been wanting kind of like a pop of color for just like simple outfits like this. I am renting a couple of outfits on Run-The-Runway, especially for like the cocktail nights and like the more nicer events. So this is one of the options. What do we think? I wish it didn't have like the shoulder pads, but like I feel like it's a nice silhouette. There are a lot of strings I'll have to like make sure they don't pop out, but option one. I didn't realize how similar these two dresses were with like the cutouts right here, but I love this one so much more. And I have been seeing this designer called Sim-Kai on Run-The-Runway and I've been getting a lot of this stuff lately and I'm obsessed with just like the fit of everything. It all just looks really flattering. And I think this is going to be night one. I'm not really sure what night two is gonna be because it's like a sunset soirée. So I feel like I should dress colorful, but I don't know. I have two people here. I think like a good amount of girls are coming tonight, which I feel like we've kind of dropped the ball on this bachelor thing, but that's okay. What? More girls? Yeah, I think so. And we kind of, well, we know of Zach, the bachelor, but it's like the one season that we're not consistently watching. Yeah, I want it in the last season. Isn't that funny?  I literally tell them like, I don't even care to watch the show. I just want to like hang out with you guys on the weekdays. Seriously. I'm happy. Just the reason I hang out. And me and Maddie both have olipops. The orange ones. Cheers. Cheers. It's 12.15. I just took off my makeup and I need to put on moisturizer to ease up. My skin is currently drying out. It's been like two seconds. I've started pulling outfits, but I haven't really like packed anything in the suitcase and our flight leaves are like 12.50 tomorrow. So I do have some time in the morning to like get things together, which is nice. But we're gonna drop Sophie to the docks that are like 8.30 I think. But I do kind of want to just start batting on my toiletries. I have so many of these like little pouches. Recently my makeup wipes have not been taking off like in the creases, you know, the makeup in the creases. It's gross. So I'm just gonna pack some like toner. Just have a couple of these pads. Obviously I need my Luna oil. And how cute they have like a little travel baby size one. I've also been obsessed with this serum is the double serum by Clarins. I literally have a bottle that is like, there's like one more drop. Actually I'm gonna put some of this on.  I don't know what's in this shit, but it does something to my skin and I love it. There we go. When I traveled recently to Nashville, I forgot to bring like a mist spray, just like any kind of spritzer spray. So this time I'm not leaving without it. I'm gonna pack this Glow Recipe watermelon glow mist. Cause I feel like if I spray it after I do my makeup it just like really melts in to my face. So it looks better, not as cakey. I'm gonna take this as my moisturizer, CEO Afterglow from Sunday Riley of course. Growing up I used to go to California every single summer and my face or like even just skin in general would just like break out into like these rashes. There's bumps, I get eczema just cause like the climates are like well different from Georgia I guess. So maybe it's not that much different than Texas, but just in case I need a little bit more extra moisture, I'm gonna bring these drunk elephant marula facial oil. Cannot forget my favorite perfume. I'm not a perfume girl, but I have actually used almost all of this. It's the Ariana Grande cloud perfume and I know it's basic, but it smells so good. So packing that, I'm gonna bring a face mask in case I want to do one. I always feel like I'm forgetting things. I'm like I just want to pack it all, but we can't, unfortunately. I have no idea where I talked about this. It might have been on TikTok, it might have been on a blog, but I have been really liking this milk lip gloss, milk makeup lip gloss and I have not been able to find it for the past two days and it's literally eating me live, but not enough to actually go and drive to the domain and get more. So hopefully maybe in California, I'll be by a Sephora or something because that lip gloss is so good and I really, really want it. It's like tingly and moisturizing and all the things in the color are so good too. Like I'll just wear a brown lip liner and the lip gloss on top and it's perfection. So I really need to find that lip gloss or just find the one.  So none of Brian's, Ryan's already packed, of course, but I'm actually very excited for some of my outfits. I think they're gonna be so freaking cute. I do feel like I'm gonna be very cold though because like here it's 80 degrees in Austin and there it's gonna be like 50, 60 degrees and maybe raining, hopefully not though. The bed is calling my name. I need to go to sleep. I'll just like finish packing in the morning. I feel like I got majority done. Like majority of my outfits are picked. I just have one night outfit that I cannot figure out. It's cocktail casual and I don't know what that means. So I think I'm gonna go on TikTok and do a little research but if you guys are not already following me on Instagram and TikTok, go ahead and do so. I know I'm like really behind on vlogs so I think this vlog might be going up after the whole brand trip is over but I'm so freaking excited and I'm gonna vlog everything. So definitely subscribe if you guys are not already and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.


Today is the 9th of December Sunday and we've just finished the marathon last session of COP 18 in Doha It finished 24 hours Later than it was supposed to and after two marathon all night sessions. We now have what is termed the Doha Climate Gateway in the sense that it's a gateway to The 2015 agreement that everybody is now going to work towards The three major crunch issues that held up the negotiations until the very end Were firstly to do with the Kyoto protocol in the second commitment period, which we now have From the European Union and a few other countries Despite the fact that Russia and the Ukraine tried to hold it up and in fact tried to hold up the whole Doha package and until the president gaveled it through That was a crunch issue the second major crunch issue was finance of which we have not got much Just a few countries have offered some finance between 2013 and 2020 others including the US have just said they're going to do their best, but they haven't offered any numbers This is probably the biggest failure of the Doha COP is the fact that there is very little finance on the table between 2013 and 2020 and The third crunch issue which was almost a make-or-break Was a new issue called loss and damage which the island countries in particular Supported by the other vulnerable countries the least developed countries had held up in the negotiations because they wanted an international mechanism And finally they got an agreement to look at the possibility of international mechanism By COP 19 next year, which will be in Warsaw, Poland a year from now This was against very fierce resistance From the annex one countries particularly the US who didn't want to open this up because in their view it opened up the potential for Unlimited compensation and they knew that but in the end they did compromise and allow it to get through a Number of other things were less controversial and we had agreement on them including red including the national adaptation plans The technology committee and the technology center which has been awarded to the UN environment program and in fact another contentious issue which got through quite easily which was the issue of equity which is now Built-in and we will have workshops and discussions on equity Something that India had been pressing for for a long time against the wishes of the US But there is a compromise text on taking that forward So though how all in all is quite a disappointment But it is at least keeping the show on the road and all eyes now and all work now is going to go towards getting a deal in 2015 in COP 21 We have three more years to go a lot of negotiations to go a lot of Awareness raising to go in a lot of political action and advocacy to go if we really want to get an ambitious deal Doha was nowhere near the level of ambition either on the mitigation all on the or on the finance front But hopefully we have a few years to get that in 2015


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here We're gonna be talking about scream 7 in his video here today and once again Pointing the finger at the character of Sydney Prescott as the title suggests We're gonna go over how the franchise can end with Sydney Prescott and how we can quite literally ensure that it does or at least Make it make it a more possible reality But scream 7 is unlikely to be the final film in this franchise We're just gonna pretend that it is the narrative that I know that is popular among fans like myself who grew up with Sydney Prescott story in the og trilogy before 2008 came along and paved the way for where we are today is that this Franchise needed to end with Sydney Prescott We aren't going to be discussing how we creatively make that happen because I've done that countless times We're just gonna examine how we literally outside of creative can 100% Make it a more likely possibility and it's a very simple thing We did it in 2011 according to dimension films with screen for so a few of you already know what I'm getting at I even put out a tweet about this as much as you want the series to end with Sydney Prescott The biggest way for us to make that a reality would be to simply just not show up to theaters for screen 7 What do I mean? Well, I think any informed person that has studied what leads to these franchises growing Are there is their successful box offices if you show up in watch screen 7 in theaters You are actively making sure that scream as a franchise does not end with Sydney Prescott likely Halloween didn't end with Lori strolled We have a TV show on the way and more Michael Myers is going to keep kicking without Jamie Lee Curtis But the argument with scream is that Sydney is the draw and not ghost face I would say that's just a deeply emotionally charged and misguided opinion Ghost face is just as much of a draw to the IP as the characters we know and love I'm sure I'm not the only one who grew up hearing ghost face referred to as scream That alone speaks volumes about the costumes influence related to this IP being profitable You have child's play that still exists even though the story has drifted away from Andy Barkley Yes, it's circled back to Andy Barkley, but the fact of the matter is it's remained upright without Andy Barkley Why can't scream do the same thing without Sydney Prescott? If Sydney Prescott never returned ghost face would be enough to warrant a crowd showing up Just as long as those involved put together a killer marketing campaign that appeals to the general public in short like I stated If you believe scream 7 or that scream as a franchise needs to end with Sydney Prescott Do not watch scream 7 in theaters if she's back I know her being back is gonna make you want to go out and see it and yes I myself creatively can understand and agree that it should end with Sydney Prescott But to me that was movies ago. That was opportunity We had several opportunities to do that in the past and now what they keep demonstrating is that they want this IP? To exist beyond her but you have a fandom or at least members of the fandom that are fighting against that They're saying oh, no, don't do that. Don't don't tell us stories about Sam Carpenter or anybody else that's new Just tell us stories about Sydney over and over and over and over again. That's not how this IP is gonna remain Profitable, it's just not what's gonna happen over time is that Sydney as a character is gonna grow very dull She's gonna grow very uneventful and it's just gonna be predictable movie after predictable movie after predictable movie because she's gonna have Unlimited plot armor and then you're gonna end up with a situation where if they finally do kill her You're gonna have that section of fans that say oh, I can't believe they finally killed her They shouldn't have done that That's one of the worst creative decisions in the history of the horror genre Meanwhile, you couldn't learn your lesson and learn to just let her right off into the sunset the character again I've stated in many videos was not created to be a punching bag for ghost face There was a clear arc that was laid out for her on a path to peace Why can't she get that? Why does she have to have that in the in the sense of the franchise needing to end with it? If they're clearly demonstrating they don't want the franchise to end by constantly making movies It's time to close the door on some of these characters Sydney Prescott's at the top of the list because she served her purpose Ghost face itself within the world has grown beyond Sydney Prescott Which leaves the door open and leaves opportunities for the world and the franchise that it exists in To explore stories that don't have to do with Sydney Prescott Now as someone who again is not divorced from reality I understand that millions are going to show up for scream 7 and Sydney Prescott's involvement would appeal to casual fans That would love to see her back.  That's the best way to ensure that it will end with her Project X entertainment has also made it clear. This is last year They could have had some shake-ups after this Melissa the backill But Project X entertainment already made it clear that they have plans to keep ghost phase around as long as this IP is profitable So simply don't watch it if you watch scream 7 wait for it to come out on digital or something But showing up at the box office if Sydney Prescott and if Campbell is back and you believe it should end with her You're on the you're on the end of the stick that is helping ensure that that's not the reality Because if it's profitable You're gonna get a scream 8 you're gonna get a scream 9 you're gonna get a lot of screen movies Just how it's just how the cookie crumbles look at Transformers. I think Transformers is one of the worst Franchises we have right now in the modern era after that first movie Well, I can say that I find most of them entertaining and watchable if I'm gonna sit down and review them There's only a there's only one or two Maybe three that I would sit down and say are good movies You're gonna end up in that situation would scream at some point and it's just not gonna include Sydney Prescott at some point Quantity is gonna be put over quality. That's just how that's gonna go That seems to be the natural prop the natural process for a lot of these franchises. Unfortunately, they start valuing Quantity over quality then when it starts hurting their pockets, then they want to shift focus back to the quality At some point Sydney Prescott is just gonna be gone. She's gonna be gone from this franchise She's not the only story that can be told She's just the preferred story for nostalgic reasons and because that's what we are comfortable with and while the fandom keeps going back And forth over whether Sydney should be in this franchise anymore or not The general public is gonna keep on showing up for scream 9 through 12 or whatever number it is at that point Which doesn't include Sydney Prescott because the general public isn't that obsessed with the character as we are a lot of people Themselves and the thinking that they are and they're not yeah They can be they can be fans of the character the way we are But they're not sitting around on Twitter making posts about her like how I do and how some of you do and a lot of people do and Showing this love and admiration for her day in and day out. They have a life They have things that they're doing that don't revolve around Sydney Prescott. They have other interests They don't care about her like that. They're gonna say oh nev Campbell's not back Oh, oh well two tickets to scream 9 please because the trailer or whatever it was that attracted them to it made them Interested and yeah, that's gonna be a a blow but not a killing blow to their interest because they just don't care as much as we do But a lot of people they don't see that they don't understand that and that's why at some point Maybe the sad truth is we need to stop running from the fact that this franchise can and will exist without Sydney Prescott As long as it remains profitable Just fasten your seatbelt and get ready for those screen movies where she's not present because they're coming Let me know you guys think about this down in the comments action below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification numbers video in the description. I'll have links to all my social media accounts I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there to let me know if there's any movies news or reviews Let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


Professor and Heads Villaging Department, Valchiyan Institute of Technology, Sulapur. So today I'm going to discuss on numeric, I'm going to take a numerical example on analysis and design of TOSLAB for a cantilever retaining wall. Learning outcomes, at the end of the session, learners will be able to analyze and design a TOSLAB of a cantilever retaining wall. Example, design TOSLAB of a cantilever retaining wall to retain an earth embankment with a horizontal top 3.5 meter above the ground level, density of earth, 18 kilonewton per cubic meter, angle of internal friction, 30 degree, SBC of soil, 200 kilonewton per meter square, take a coefficient of friction between the soil and concrete 0.5, adopt M20 grade concrete and Fe415 steel. The preliminary dimensions of the retaining wall are as shown in figure one. See, first of all, we have to assume the preliminary dimensions. These are assumed prism preliminary dimensions based on some thumb rules. So top width is assumed as minimum 150 mm. Now we have assumed 200 mm here, 0.2 meter. And here this is taken as H by 12 where H is this 4.75 meter.  So that is given by SBC divided by the density of soil into coefficient of active earth pressure square. So then we can determine what is the actual height of stem, then further what is the total height up to the base of this particular retaining wall. So which is to be used for stability analysis of this particular structure. So without stability analysis, we cannot go for the design. So therefore, please before viewing this particular video, see my own video on stability analysis of retaining, cantilever retaining wall. Now this is analysis of TOSLAB. The TOSLAB act as a cantilever of length L1. Here you can find this is length L1. This is a TOSLAB up to the face of stem stem, right? L1 as shown in figure number two. Now this is subjected to a pressure varying pressure P1 here and at this phase it is P3 and at this here it is P2. Now we are interested in only TOSLAB. Therefore we will see only P1 and P3. So P3 is the pressure ordinate at the face of stem. Now where will be the maximum bending moment in the TOSLAB? Can you guess? So please see TOSLAB is a cantilever which is subjected to a trapezoidal pressure P1 on this side and P3 over here. So the maximum bending moment in the TOSLAB will be at the face of the stem. So that will be at this location. This is the location where we find maximum bending moment. It's a cantilever of length L1. So therefore at this particular phase we'll get the maximum bending moment. So for determining the maximum bending moment following data is required which are determined by considering one meter length of retaining ball. We consider usually one meter length of retaining ball. First we calculate what is the eccentricity? So eccentricity of the loads which are coming down and the lateral pressure. So here we take moment about the end of tone and we find out what are the stabilizing moments and what are destabilizing moments or overturning moment. Overturning moment is only moment created by the soil pressure or horizontal pressure of soil and stabilizing moment is the moment created by all weights. So weight of stem slab, then weight of base slab, then weight of soil on the earth. So which I have discussed in my previous video of stability analysis of retaining ball. So here B by two, it is 2.5 meter is B. So therefore B by two. So this is the sum of stabilizing moments and this is the destabilizing moment. The difference between these two divided by total weight downward load. So that will give us eccentricity. So P1 is the pressure at one end of the, at two end of the retaining wall. It is sigma W divided by B into one plus six E by B. So this should be in a bracket. So therefore this is 163.33 sigma W divided by B is 2.5. One plus six into E is 0.335 divided by 2.5. So this was sort to be 117.86 kilo Newton per meter. So similarly P2 it is sigma W divided by B into one minus six E by B. So that is again what's out to be 12.8 kilo Newton per meter. So all these forces are shown P1 is here, P2 is here. Then next we have to determine P3. P3 is at the face of the stem. So it is P2 plus. So I will just show you in the figure. It is up to here it is P2, right? P2 plus this particular variation. So what is this remaining portion? Up to P2 it is P2 UDL, right? Then the remaining portion, remaining portion we have to calculate by similar triangles. P2 plus P1 minus P2 divided by B into B into L1. So this is 12.8 plus 117.86 minus 12.8 divided by 2.5 into B is 2.5 minus 0.75 U is your L1. So it was sort to be 86.35 kilo Newton per meter. So P4 is the triangular load. So here you will find in the figure, this is P4. So P4 is nothing but half L1 into this particular ordinate. So that is what we have written. Half L1 into P1 minus P3. So that was sort to be 11.81 kilo Newton per meter. So bending moment M at the face of the stem is given by P3 into L1 square by 2 plus P4 into 2 third L1. So that is what sort to be 30.19 kilo Newton meter. So MU is 1.5 times M. So this completes analysis of TOSLAB. Next is design of TOSLAB. So by equating MU to MU limit, the effective depth D of the TOSLAB required is determined and compared with D provided, which shall be equal or more than D required. Now this is our maximum moment 45.285 kilo Newton meter to convert it into Newton mm multiplied by 10 to the power of six. So 0.138 FCK BD square. B is always one meter thousand, FCK is 20. So we have determined D, it was sort to be 128.09 mm, which is less than 350 mm, which is we have provided in preliminary dimension by taking 50 mm effective depth. Hence it is safe. Therefore it is under reinforcement and area of steel is determined by using G.1.1B equation of IS456 2000. Now this is MU. This is 0.87 FY AST D into one minus AST F upon FCK. A BD FCK that we have substitute, we have calculated AST, it is 366 mm square. So AST minimum is 0.12% because it's a slab, cantilever slab. So it is 0.12 by 100 into 1000 into 400. It is 480 mm square. So minimum steel can be placed on both sides or it can be placed on same side of the, only one side of the base slab. Since AST required is less than AST minimum, provide AST minimum in both directions because AST required is less. It is 366 mm square, AST minimum is 480. So therefore AST minimum I will provide in both directions at the bottom. Using 12 mm bars, the spacing of the bars is given by area of one bar divided by area of steel in 2000 that is 230 mm. Provide 12 mm bars at 300 mm centered center in both directions. The detailed arrangement of the reinforcement is as shown in figure two. So here main steel, 12 mm diameter, 200 center to center, distribution steel, 12 mm diameter, 200 center to center so that it will take care of everything. Now these are the references used for the creation of this video. Thank you one and all.